{"id":6186,"date":"2016-01-19T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T17:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2016-01-19T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T17:03:40","slug":"ramsey-lewis-party-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6186","title":{"rendered":"Ramsey Lewis – Party Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ramsey Lewis (l), Ansil Collins and Dave Barker (r)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Ramsey Lewis – Party Time MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Welcome to the middle of the week.<\/p>\n

Nothing grooves me more than finding out the source of a sample\/cover, especially when I had no idea the record in question was a cover.<\/p>\n

Such was the case last year when someone dropped a Youtube clip of the record you see before you today, \u2018Party Time\u2019 by Ramsey Lewis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The \u2018cover\u2019 in question is one of the great skinhead reggae 45s of all time, Dave and Ansil Collins’<\/strong> \u2018Double Barrell\u2019.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of reggae\/ska tunes that borrow (a charitable assessment\u2026<\/em>) from US\/UK pop, jazz and soul, but I never knew that \u2018Double Barrel\u2019 (an all-time fave, of which I own at least three different copies) was one of them.<\/p>\n

\u2018Party Time\u2019 composed for Lewis by none other than the mighty Richard Evans<\/strong>, and arranged and produced by him for the 1967 \u2018Up Pops Ramsey\u2019 LP, is a groovy number with some punchy drums and upright bass setting the foundation for Lewis\u2019s piano soloing.<\/p>\n

The arrangement by Evans is first-rate, up there with the best of his Soulful Strings<\/strong> efforts.<\/p>\n

Dave and Ansil Collins either heard the LP or the 45 of \u2018Party Time\u2019, and with the addition of some toasting by Dave Barker<\/strong>, \u2018Double Barrel\u2019 took Evans melody and turned it into an island classic in 1969.<\/p>\n

\u2018Up Pops Ramsey\u2019 is also worth hearing in its entirety, packed with groovy covers and of course those Richard Evans arrangements.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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Ramsey Lewis (l), Ansil Collins and Dave Barker (r) Listen\/Download – Ramsey Lewis – Party Time MP3 Greetings all. Welcome to the middle of the week. Nothing grooves me more than finding out the source of a sample\/cover, especially when I had no idea the record in question was a cover. Such was the case […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[43,58,14,66,30,69,48,12,13],"tags":[171,166,172,164],"class_list":["post-6186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-soul","category-cover-songs","category-funky16corners","category-instrumental","category-lp-tracks","category-original-versions","category-reggae","category-soul","category-soul-jazz","tag-chicago-soul","tag-funky16corners","tag-reggae","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1BM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186","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=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6216,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}