{"id":5987,"date":"2015-10-20T11:44:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T16:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2015-10-20T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T16:44:01","slug":"homer-banks-a-lot-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5987","title":{"rendered":"Homer Banks – A Lot of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Homer Banks – A Lot of Love<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The track I bring to you today is like Monday\u2019s tune, a precursor to (if not an outright OG) of one of the big tunes of the British Invasion.<\/p>\n

Homer Banks<\/strong> was both a fine songwriter, and an excellent (if underappreciated) soul singer.<\/p>\n

Banks recorded a string of brilliant Memphis-based 45s for Minit between 1966 and 1968, all the while writing for other artists, many in the Stax organization.<\/p>\n

If you give a listen to any of the records that banks made under his own name, it leaves you shaking your head, wondering how he wasn\u2019t a success on his own (and why Jim Stewart<\/strong> never signed him to his own deal at Stax).<\/p>\n

Banks had a high, flexible tenor that reminds me of a lighter version of Sam Moore<\/strong> (which is interesting since Banks co-wrote \u2018I Can\u2019t Stand Up For Falling Down\u2019 for Sam and Dave<\/strong>), able to soar on ballads but with enough grit to deliver harder edged material.<\/p>\n

\u2018A Lot of Love\u2019 (co-written with Deanie Parker<\/strong>) was the A-side of Banks\u2019 first Minit 45 in 1966 (he had already recorded a pair of 45s for the small, Memphis-based Genie label) and while it wasn\u2019t a hit, it did make it over to the UK where a young cat by the name of Steve Winwood<\/strong> heard it and lifted its basic riff, reworking it into \u2018Gimme Some Lovin\u2019, a huge hit in the US and the UK, and ultimately a much better-known record than Banks OG.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m here to tell you (though your ears ought to be able to figure it out on their own) that while \u2018Gimme Some Lovin\u2019 is a classic, \u2018A Lot of Love\u2019 is in the end a much better record, with an outstanding lead vocal by Banks, and a fine arrangement with enough kick for the dance floor.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, Banks would be ripped off (by proxy) again, when Flavor<\/strong> (who may or may not have been aware of \u2018A Lot of Love\u2019) re-ripped the tune as \u2018Sally Had a Party\u2019, which is also an amazing record.<\/a><\/p>\n

Homer Banks went on to write\/cowrite a number of hits, including Luther Ingram\u2019s<\/strong> smash \u2018If Loving You is Wrong (I Don\u2019t Want To be Right)\u2019, and would hit the charts himself in a duo with Carl Hampton<\/strong> in 1977 with \u2018I\u2019m Gonna Have To Tell Her\u2019.<\/p>\n

Banks passed away in 2001 from cancer.<\/p>\n

All of Banks\u2019 Minit 45s are excellent and worth picking up when you can find them.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune, and I\u2019l see you all on Friday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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