{"id":6019,"date":"2015-10-27T13:11:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2015-10-27T13:11:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:11:28","slug":"ov-wright-eight-men-four-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6019","title":{"rendered":"OV Wright – Eight Men, Four Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – OV Wright – Eight Men, Four Women MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

As regular visitors well know, I dig me some deep, deep soul ballads (see several mixes in the archive), and one of the finest creators of said sounds, was the mighty O.V. Wright.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been a fan of Wright\u2019s since my earliest days of soul collecting, having picked up \u2018Love the Way You Love\u2019 (which quicky became a favorite) more than 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

Wright was one of the truly great southern soul singers, with a flexible, raspy voice that was as adept delivering upbeat, danceable fare, as it was songs like today\u2019s selection.<\/p>\n

\u2018Eight Men, Four Women\u2019 is one of those songs that seems almost impossibly slow, sorrowful and deep, yet it was a Top 5 R&B hit in 1967*.<\/p>\n

Wright is pushed along by a tight lead guitar, subtle, almost churchy organ, and a saxophone that sounds like the player was wandering in and out of the studio unpredictably.<\/p>\n

The female backing chorus has a looseness that sounds to my ears like a moonlighting gospel group, and you can almost picture Wright, perched on the edge of the stage, delivering his tale of woe.<\/p>\n

The song is credited to Don Robey\u2019s \u2018D. Malone\u2019<\/strong> pseudonym, and I for one would love to know who really wrote it (Robey apparently had a habit of taking copyright for himself, sometimes at the point of a gun).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a very solid number, and if you\u2019re not already down with O.V. Wright, it should provide a gateway to appreciating a truly great singer.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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*I compare this to records like \u2018Heart Full of Love\u2019 by the Invincibles and \u2018Crying In the Street\u2019 by George Perkins and the Silver Stars as songs that were big hits in the 1960s that would probably be excluded from the charts today by virtue of their rawness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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