{"id":506,"date":"2010-05-18T17:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=506"},"modified":"2013-07-08T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T14:59:23","slug":"albert-jones-vida-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Albert Jones – Vida Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nVida Blue (top), Albert Jones (bottom left), Choker Campbell (bottom right)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Albert Jones – Vida Blue <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

The tune I bring you today is something that found its way into my ears in a rather roundabout way.
\nA while back, my man DJ Prestige<\/strong><\/a> traveled over to the UK, and while he was there he did some digging (natch) and sat in with UK legend DJ Andy Smith<\/strong> on his radio show. It was during that show that he spun a couple of his UK finds, one of which was today\u2019s selection. I dug the tune a lot, so I set out in search of my own copy, and fortunately I turned one up rather quickly (and cheaply).
\nThe tune in question, \u2018Vida Blue\u2019 by Albert Jones <\/strong>(from 1971) is a stomping funk tribute to the early 70s Oakland A\u2019s hurler of the same name.
\nJones was a Detroit area singer who recorded for a number of labels including Tri City, Bump Shop, Kapp (one of the Kapp 45s duplicated material originally released on Tri City) and Candy Apple from the late 60s to the mid 70s. Much of his work was under the auspices of Walter \u2018Choker\u2019 Campbell,<\/strong> a saxophonist\/bandleader who recorded a number of records under his own name before going to work running the Motown road band, eventually recording for the label as well.
\nAfter Campbell left Motown, he started his own set of labels, including Tri City. Moonville, and Ultra City, with artists like Jones, Betty Renay, the Soul Merchants <\/strong>(I\u2019m not sure if this is the same group that recorded for the Stax subsidiary Weis Records) and Lee Moore.<\/strong>
\nAlbert Jones recorded four singles for Tri City, the last of which was \u2018Vida Blue\u2019.
\nOddly enough, the flip side of this 45 is a country version of the same song by a singer named Tom Newton<\/strong>. Since the single was released to capitalize on the popularity of the ball player, it seems likely that the genre switch on the flip was engineered to double the chances that the record might be a hit (though I can imagine most people \u2013 like myself \u2013 being surprised one way or the other when they flipped the record over).
\nThe Albert Jones side is tight, and to be honest, where else are you going to hear a funk 45 that namechecks Harmon Killebrew<\/strong> and Carl Yastrzemski?<\/strong>
\nJones would go on to record a full LP (\u2018The Facts of Life\u2019) for the Campbell and the Candy Apple label in 1977. One of the tracks from that LP, \u2018Mother Nature\u2019 was later sampled by Common<\/strong> for the song \u2018Be\u2019.
\nI hope you dig the tune, and I\u2019ll be back later in the week with something cool.<\/p>\n

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

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