{"id":6206,"date":"2016-01-31T11:45:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T16:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6206"},"modified":"2016-01-31T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T16:45:36","slug":"the-monitors-number-one-in-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6206","title":{"rendered":"The Monitors – Number One In Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – The Monitors – Number One In Your Heart MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

This one\u2019ll get your heart started!<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago I was listening to my man Mr Finewine<\/strong> on the mighty Downtown Soulville<\/strong> radio show and he played today\u2019s selection, once again adding to the length of my want list.<\/p>\n

Previous to the occasion, I only knew of the Monitors in passing, having seen them listed in discographies of Motown\u2019s VIP subsidiary, alongside artists like Chris Clark<\/strong> and the Velvelettes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Monitors<\/strong> recorded a handful of 45s and an LP for VIP between 1965 and 1968, eventually moving on to Buddah for one more release.<\/p>\n

Featuring John Fagin, Sandra Fagin, Warren Harris<\/strong> and Richard Street<\/strong> (who would eventually go on to join the Temptations<\/strong>), the Monitors had a couple of minor R&B hits, making it into the Top 40 with \u2018Say You\u2019 in 1966, and the A-side of this particular 45, \u2018Greetings (This is Uncle Sam)\u2019 grazing the Top 20 later the same year.<\/p>\n

When I discovered that \u2018Greetings..\u2019 had charted I was shocked. It was certainly topical, and a novelty, but nowhere near as powerful as today\u2019s selection.<\/p>\n

\u2018Number One In Your Heart\u2019, written by Steve Mancha<\/strong> (under his real name, Clyde Wilson)<\/strong> and Wilbur Jackson,<\/strong> and produced by Harvey Fuqua<\/strong>, is a fast moving, hook-laden dance floor killer.<\/p>\n

The arrangement is fantastic, and it kind of blows my mind that it wasn\u2019t a hit.<\/p>\n

A version of the Monitors was reassembled by UK soul guru Ian Levine<\/strong> and recorded an LP in the late 80s.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune,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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The Monitors Listen\/Download – The Monitors – Number One In Your Heart MP3 Greetings all. This one\u2019ll get your heart started! A couple of years ago I was listening to my man Mr Finewine on the mighty Downtown Soulville radio show and he played today\u2019s selection, once again adding to the length of my want […]<\/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":[14,24,12,18],"tags":[166,169,164],"class_list":["post-6206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky16corners","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-1C6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206","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=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6237,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions\/6237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}