{"id":491,"date":"2010-05-13T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=491"},"modified":"2013-10-08T20:38:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T01:38:50","slug":"emperors-karate-boogaloo-bw-mumble-shingaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Emperors – Karate Boogaloo b\/w Mumble Shingaling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Emperors: Edgar Moore 2nd from right<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – The Emperors – Karate Boogaloo <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download -The Emperors – Mumble Shingaling <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Greetings all. <\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope the end of the week finds you all well.
\nA few days back I got word that Edgar Moore<\/strong>, one of the founding members of one of my favorite 60s soul groups, the Emperors<\/strong> had passed away.<\/a>
\nI’ve been a huge fan of the Emperors since I started digging up their 45s back in the day, from their sole chart hit ‘Karate’ (Top 40 in the Fall of 1966) , to their cover (which, depending on the day you ask me I may indicate to be the superior version) of Don Gardner’s<\/strong> ‘My Baby Likes To Boogaloo’.
\nYou can head over to the Funky16Corners web zine<\/strong><\/a> to check out a piece I wrote about the group many years ago, but suffice to say, over the course of the handful of 45s they recorded the Emperors laid down a fantastic take on the whole sock soul thing with the same garagey edge you hear on some of Chuck Edwards’ <\/strong>45s (was it something in the Pennsylvania water??<\/em>).
\nThe group formed in Harrisburg, PA but recorded all of their 45s in Philadelphia.
\nToday I bring you both sides of a 45 that I was unaware of for years, until I happened upon it at a record show. I had always assumed the Emperors three Mala 45s to be the entirety of their output, until I grabbed their sole Brunswick 45, ‘Karate Boogaloo’ b\/w ‘Mumble Shingaling’.
\nRecorded in 1967 and produced – like their earlier 45s – by Philly radio personality George Wilson<\/strong> – this is a funkier side of the Emperors, with the core of their original sound still present, but with a stripped down production style.
\n\u2018Karate Boogaloo\u2019 – which begins with some weird, clearly overdubbed crowd noise \u2013 includes some cool percussion, rhythm guitar and of course the Emperor\u2019s harmonies. ‘Mumble Shingaling’ features some great, shambolic guitar and organ. It’s the kind of record that makes you wonder what the Emperors – like so many groups that bumped up against the end of the era of pure soul into the sound of funk – might have done had they continued to make music.
\nThis is the last thing they did before the group broke up seeing a partial regrouping as Emperors Soul 69<\/strong> for the Futura label out of their home base of Harrisburg, PA.
\nAs has been the case for some years now, aside from digging up the original 45s (which a quick online search will reveal to be considerably more expensive than they used to be), your best bet is to grab the Philly Archives CD reissue which includes all of their best work.
\nI hope you dig the song, and that you raise a glass in memory of Edgar Moore.<\/p>\n

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\nSee you on Monday.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/p>\n


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