{"id":5600,"date":"2015-04-05T09:40:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T14:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2015-04-05T09:40:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T14:40:16","slug":"marie-knight-cry-me-a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5600","title":{"rendered":"Marie Knight – Cry Me a River"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Marie Knight – Cry Me a River <\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Welcome to another swinging week here at the Corners.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have to send out thanks for today\u2019s selection to my friend Mike Schaefer<\/strong> who turned me on to this record a while back.<\/p>\n

Though I had a record of hers (a duet with Rex Garvin<\/strong>) I had no idea who Marie Knight<\/strong> was until I heard her epic 1965 version of the old standard \u2018Cry Me a River\u2019.<\/p>\n

Knight who started out as a gospel singer, touring with Sister Rosetta Tharpe<\/strong> among others, she moved into secular R&B and soul by the end of the 1950s (on the aforementioned \u2018Marie and Rex\u2019 45 \u2018I Can\u2019t Sit Down\u2019 which edged into the Pop Top 100).<\/p>\n

When Mike posted \u2018Cry Me a River\u2019 I was blown away by Knight\u2019s huge, powerful voice, and set out to find myself a copy of the record right away.<\/p>\n

What I soon discovered was that Knight also recorded the original version of one of my favorite Manfred Mann<\/strong> records, \u2018Come Tomorrow\u2019 for Okeh in 1961. That record \u2013 which took a lot longer and a lot more money to bag \u2013 will be featured sometime soon.<\/p>\n

\u2018Cry Me a River\u2019, which has been recorded countless times by all kinds of singers, was high on my list of tunes I never really needed to hear again\u2026until I heard Marie Knight sing it.<\/p>\n

The arrangement – by Bert Keyes<\/strong> \u2013 takes the song at a slow, but powerfully delivered pace, with lots of space for Knight to tear into the lyric.<\/p>\n

It majes sense that this record was a Top 40 hit in 1965, because I can\u2019t imagine it making the same impact a year later. It has the kind of sound that just about out the door by mid-decade.<\/p>\n

What makes it unique, aside from Knight\u2019s vocal, is the small touches, like the lead guitar that snakes in and out of the arrangement, and the chorus of backup singers that sounds like an actual church choir.<\/p>\n

It is a uniquely powerful recording, and a big fave of mine.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, too.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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