{"id":5915,"date":"2015-09-08T14:34:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T19:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2015-09-08T14:34:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T19:34:47","slug":"the-soul-sisters-good-time-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5915","title":{"rendered":"The Soul Sisters &#8211; Good Time Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/pictures\/soulsisters_pic.jpg\" alt=\"Example\" width=\"600\" height=\"610\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Soul Sisters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/pictures\/soulsisters_45.jpg\" alt=\"Example\" width=\"600\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/sounds1\/funky16_current\/soulsisters_goodtimetonight.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Listen\/Download &#8211; The Soul Sisters &#8211; Good Time Tonight MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greetings all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The middle of the week is here, and to help us all get over the hump, I have a little stick of dynamite by the <strong>Soul Sisters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I picked up the 45 you see before you off of a friend\u2019s sale list, because how could I not grab a 45 by a group called the \u2018Soul Sisters\u2019 with songs called \u2018Good Time Tonight\u2019 and \u2018Some Soul Food\u2019 on it?<\/p>\n<p>It was a good thing I did too, since both sides \u2013 especially the one I bring you today \u2013 are smoking.<\/p>\n<p>The Soul Sisters were <strong>Theresa Cleveland<\/strong> and <strong>Ann Gissendanner<\/strong>. They had previously recorded as the <strong>Canjoes<\/strong> (with none other than<strong> Lou Johnson<\/strong>) before signing with Sue. They recorded a grip of 45s and an LP for the label between 1964 and 1965 as well as a later 45 for Veep.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Good Time Tonight\u2019, written by <strong>Smokey McAllister<\/strong> who also penned the oft-recorded \u2018I Can\u2019t Stand it\u2019 \u2013 is a stomping soul shouter with a great horn chart and a ringing piano making its way through the mix.<\/p>\n<p>The Soul Sisters voices (one high, one lower) complement each other and it\u2019s not hard to imagine this getting spun in many a jukebox back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The song was covered that same year by <strong>Ike and Tina Turner<\/strong> on \u2018The Ike and Tina Turner Show \u2013 Live\u2019 on Warner Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>I dig it a lot, and I hope you do, too.<\/p>\n<p>See you on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong>Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/helium.lunarpages.com\/%7Efunky4\/pictures\/new_funky16_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Example\" width=\"179\" height=\"181\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> <strong> \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also, the brand new Funky16Corners &#8216;Keep Calm and Stay Funky&#8217; stickers have arrived!<\/strong> <strong>The stickers are 4&#8243; x 3&#8243; and printed on high quality, glossy stock.<\/strong> <strong>They are $2.00 each, with free shipping in the US ($2.00 per order shipping outside of the US).<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?page_id=1109\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to go to the ordering page.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also, make sure that you check out the links below to the Be The Match Foundation and POAC (click on the logos for more info).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marrow.org\/Join\/Join_the_Registry.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/pictures\/bethematch_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Example\" width=\"417\" height=\"80\" \/><\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poacwalk.com\/faf\/donorReg\/donorPledge.asp?ievent=445040&amp;lis=0&amp;kntae445040=06F02A2514664ED5AF867AB9D4CA7071&amp;supId=323196696\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/pictures\/poac_logo_600.jpg\" alt=\"Example\" width=\"274\" height=\"83\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ironleg.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PS Head over to Iron Leg too.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soul Sisters Listen\/Download &#8211; The Soul Sisters &#8211; Good Time Tonight MP3 Greetings all. The middle of the week is here, and to help us all get over the hump, I have a little stick of dynamite by the Soul Sisters. I picked up the 45 you see before you off of a friend\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,12,18],"tags":[166,164],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky16corners","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1xp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}