{"id":5461,"date":"2015-02-05T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2015-02-05T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:12:32","slug":"the-flipsides-of-don-covay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5461","title":{"rendered":"The Flipside(s) of Don Covay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Don Covay – Please Don’t Let Me Know <\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/div>\n

Listen\/Download – The Soul Clan – That’s How It Feels<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The end of the week is nigh, so I will remind you once again that the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> rolls around this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio<\/strong><\/a>. If you cannot join me at airtime, you can always subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, or grab yourself an MP3 here at the blog.<\/p>\n

As promised on Wednesday, today we will be paying further tribute to the mighty Don Covay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As mentioned earlier, Covay was more influential than he was famous, having written a number of amazing songs, some he recorded first, others he passed on to singers like Aretha Franklin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Covay\u2019s discography, covering ground from the mid-50s to the early 80s is filled with high quality music.<\/p>\n

As I was pulling his 45s out of the crates over the past few days it occurred to me that most people had heard his more heavily covered material (like \u2018Mercy Mercy\u2019 and \u2018Take This Hurt Off Me\u2019), but there were a couple of excellent tunes hiding on some of his flipsides.<\/p>\n

The first of the two songs I chose to feature, \u2018Please Don\u2019t Let Me Know\u2019 appeared in 1964 on the b-side of \u2018Take This Hurt Off Me\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Please Don\u2019t Let Me Know\u2019 is one of those songs that came as a surprise when I finaly flipped over the 45 and played it. Though \u2018Take This Hurt Off Me\u2019 is cool, it the more you listen to it the more it seems to hew awfully close to the template of \u2018Mercy Mercy\u2019. \u2018Please Don\u2019t Let Me Know\u2019 is – like \u2018Long Tall Shorty\u2019, which Covay wrote for Tommy Tucker<\/strong> \u2013 one of those songs that starts deceptively slowly, picking up a significant amount of steam as it progresses. It features a great, pleading vocal by Covay, and some crazy, falsetto backing vocals toward the end.<\/p>\n

I really dig the end of the song where Covay switches up the refrain to \u2018Don\u2019t let Don know!\u2019.<\/p>\n

The second track is the flipside of the 1968, one-off 45 by the Soul Clan<\/strong>. Featuring Covay, Ben E. King, Solomon Burke, Arthur Conley<\/strong> and Joe Tex<\/strong>, and produced by Covay, the Soul Clan never really took off (for a variety of reasons). That said, their one 45 is outstanding, with the fast-moving dancer \u2018Soul Meeting\u2019 (penned by Covay, and a Top 40 R&B hit) on the A-side and the gospel-inflected \u2018That\u2019s How It Feels\u2019 on the flip.<\/p>\n

Co-written by Covay and Bobby Womack<\/strong>, \u2018That\u2019s How It Feels\u2019 is (at least in my opinion) right up there with the finest southern soul ballads of the era. Oddly enough, and I see this as yet another testament to Covay\u2019s talents, the members of the Soul Clan were never in the same studio, with Covay and Womack creating the backing track, and the individual singers adding their parts piecemeal in separate sessions.<\/p>\n

That said, it\u2019s a powerful record, and ought to be better known.<\/p>\n

The cool thing is, if you aren\u2019t a vinyl hound, you can get Don Covay\u2019s Atlantic, Mercury and Philadelphia International albums in iTunes (hell, you can even get the Soul Clan album!*), so there\u2019s no excuse not to dig in.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tunes, and keep your ears peeled for a Don Covay tribute on an upcoming episode of the Funky16Corners Radio Show.<\/p>\n

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

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

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*Note \u2013 \u2018Soul Meeting\u201d and \u2018That\u2019s How It Feels\u2019 are the only \u201ctrue\u201d Soul Clan tracks on the album, with the balance of the tracks made up by individual recordings by the separate members.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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