{"id":5384,"date":"2015-02-22T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2015-02-22T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T17:03:11","slug":"clarence-frogman-henry-tore-up-over-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5384","title":{"rendered":"Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry – Tore Up Over You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry – Tore Up Over You <\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/div>\n

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

I hope the new week finds you all well.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite sidelines (and they are legion) is finding later records by artists that I had relegated to an earlier time. That these are discoveries to me is due in part to the fact that the later records are usually obscure, but also because of the \u2018blind spot\u2019 of R&B success.<\/p>\n

This \u2018blind spot\u2019 as it is manifests itself with R&B\/soul artists that had some degree of crossover success, and then seemingly faded from the limelight. What in fact happened many times, is that while they may have lost favor with pop audiences, many of these artists continued to place records on the R&B charts and black radio.<\/p>\n

Other times, they didn\u2019t even have that luxury, and were merely making a stab at a new\/more contemporary audience.<\/p>\n

Clarence \u2018Frogman\u2019 Henry<\/strong> is best known for his 1956 hit \u2018Ain\u2019t Got No Home\u2019, and \u2018But I Do\u2019 from 1961. He was a singer\/pianist and a New Orleans fixture, and while he may have left the charts after 1961, he continued to record through the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n

The record I bring you today is a very groovy 1965 cover of a song that Hank Ballard<\/strong> had recorded with the Midnighters<\/strong> in 1956.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tore Up Over You\u2019 takes the Midnighter\u2019s original and bumps up the tempo, tossing in some combo organ that sounds like it was borrowed from a Sir Douglas Quintet<\/strong> session. The bass and guitar push things along with an excellent vocal by Clarence and some female backing singers.<\/p>\n

I know I say this a lot, but this really is one of those records that should have been a hit. It\u2019s got plenty of kick to it, fits in very nicely with the 1965 musical zeitgeist and I wouldn\u2019t hesitate to drop it for a room full of dancers. As far as I can tell, it did absolutely nothing when it was released, relegating it to the \u2018to be rediscovered\u2019 file, from whence I bring it to you.<\/p>\n

So dig it, and I\u2019ll see you all on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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