{"id":6023,"date":"2015-11-01T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T18:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2015-11-01T13:50:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T18:50:43","slug":"robert-walker-the-soul-strings-stick-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6023","title":{"rendered":"Robert Walker & the Soul Strings – Stick To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Robert Walker and the Soul Strings – Stick To Me MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

How about we get the week started with some Detroit-manufactured Northern Soul?<\/p>\n

If you checked out the ‘Funky16Corners: All Strung Out\u2019<\/strong> mix a few years back you may already be familiar with today\u2019s selection.<\/p>\n

Robert Walker and the Soul Strings<\/strong> made exactly one 45, \u2018Stick to Me\u2019 b\/w \u2018The Blizzard\u2019 in 1967.<\/p>\n

Though I have no definitive information, all available clues (especially the presence of arranger Ernie Wilkins<\/strong>) point to this being a Motor City 45.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t been able to track down any information on Robert Walker.<\/strong> He may very well be the guy that did some writing for Motown, and I\u2019m guessing (due to the billing) that he may be the vocalist on \u2018The Blizzard\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Stick to Me\u2019, co-written by Walker and Flery Bursey<\/strong> (who recorded for the Sidra label), is one of those instrumentals that sounds like it was engineered specifically for Northern Soul dance floors (even though there were none when it was made<\/em>), from the dramatic, plucked bass (and periodic breaks throughout the record) and the storming, string-laden sections for the dancers.<\/p>\n

The record did become a favorite at the Wigan Casino<\/strong> (among other NS venues) and is still in demand today. It can be kind of pricey, but I grabbed mine on the cheap a few years back, so keep your eyes peeled for that.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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Listen\/Download – Robert Walker and the Soul Strings – Stick To Me MP3 Greetings all. How about we get the week started with some Detroit-manufactured Northern Soul? If you checked out the ‘Funky16Corners: All Strung Out\u2019 mix a few years back you may already be familiar with today\u2019s selection. Robert Walker and the Soul Strings […]<\/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":[137,14,66,24,12,18],"tags":[166,169,164],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detroit","category-funky16corners","category-instrumental","category-northern-soul","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-northern-soul","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1z9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","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=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6063,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}