{"id":6188,"date":"2016-01-21T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6188"},"modified":"2016-01-21T13:29:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:29:02","slug":"the-pop-ups-lurking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6188","title":{"rendered":"The Pop-Ups – Lurking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – The Pop-Ups – Lurking MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The end of the week is here, so I will remind you to tune into the Funky16Corners Radio Show Podcast<\/strong>, coming to you each and every Friday with the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, check it out on Mixcloud, or grab an MP3 right here at the blog.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today came as something of a pleasant surprise the first time I heard it.<\/p>\n

I already knew the music, but had only previously dug it as the backing on one of my favorite 45s, \u2018Golly! Zonk! It\u2019s Scatman\u2019 by Scatman Crothers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That particular 45 has been a fave for years and holds a place of honor in my playbox. Not only is it a very groovy 45, but i always like to whip it on people who oly know Scatman from 70s TV shows like \u2018Chico and the Man\u2019 and \u2018Hong Kong Phooey\u2019 (for whom Crothers provided the voice).<\/p>\n

Then, a few years back someone (I forget who, so forgive me\u2026<\/em>) turned me on to the 45 you see before you, \u2018Lurking\u2019 by the Pop-Ups.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My mind was good and blown. What you get is the basic instrumental track with Scatman removed, but the guitar and organ are bumped up in the mix, making \u2018Lurking\u2019 every bit as good for the dance floor as \u2018Golly! Zonk!\u2019 and then some.<\/p>\n

As fars as I can tell, the Pop Ups were a studio group. One of the writers of the tune is Larry Goldberg<\/strong> who was in charge of the rock\u2019n\u2019roll side of things at the famously diverse Hanna-Barbera Records<\/strong> label.<\/p>\n

The Pop Ups 45 was released before Scatman\u2019s, so my suspicion is that he was offered the existing track and laid his vocal (which sounds improvised, anyway) on top of it.<\/p>\n

The Pop Ups 45 is considerably harder to find than the Scatman version.<\/p>\n

Either way, it\u2019s a very cool track, and I hope you dig it.<\/p>\n

Have a great weekend, and I\u2019ll see you all next week.<\/p>\n

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

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

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Listen\/Download – The Pop-Ups – Lurking MP3 Greetings all. The end of the week is here, so I will remind you to tune into the Funky16Corners Radio Show Podcast, coming to you each and every Friday with the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the […]<\/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":[14,68,66,121,64,12,18],"tags":[166,164,165],"class_list":["post-6188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky16corners","category-hammond-grooves","category-instrumental","category-mod-soul","category-rb","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul","tag-soul-jazz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1BO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188","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=6188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}