{"id":6273,"date":"2016-03-13T11:39:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6273"},"modified":"2016-03-13T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:39:36","slug":"harvey-scales-whats-good-for-you-dont-have-to-be-good-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6273","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Scales – What’s Good For You (Don’t Have To Be Good To You)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Harvey Scales – What’s Good For You (Don’t Have To Be Good To You) MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

I hope the new week finds you all well.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is yet another tasty chapter in the long-running saga of Milwaukee, Wisconsin\u2019s own soul giant, the mighty Harvey Scales.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though his presence on the charts was limited to one fleeting instance in 1967 (with his 60s group, the Seven Sounds<\/strong>), he made a string of outstanding funk and soul records from the early 60s well into the disco era.<\/p>\n

His run of excellence started with the local Cuca and Magic Touch labels (1966\/67), moving on to Chess and Cadet (1969-1971), then Stax (1972\/73) the later in the 70s on Casablanca, the into the 90s for Earthtone and Kashgold.<\/p>\n

The record I bring you today was not, but clearly should have been a hit.<\/p>\n

\u2018What\u2019s Good For You (Don\u2019t Have to be Good To You)\u2019 was released in 1972, and it is a slice of funky soul perfection, fitting right in alongside the best of the Invictus\/Hotwax sound.<\/p>\n

Pushed along by a bubbling bass guitar and some party noises, \u2018What\u2019s Good For You..\u2019 is one of those records that you\u2019d swear was sampled (especially that repeating piano figure), yet never was. It has an extremely catchy chorus, and is prime dance floor material.<\/p>\n

Scales went on to co-write\u00a0Johnny Taylor\u2019s<\/strong> big hit, \u2018Disco Lady\u2019.<\/p>\n

Speaking of samples, Scales funky disco opus, \u2018Dancing Room Only\u2019 would go on to be sampled by the Beastie Boys<\/strong> (among others<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Scales still performs today, in and out of Milwaukee.<\/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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Harvey Scales Listen\/Download – Harvey Scales – What’s Good For You (Don’t Have To Be Good To You) MP3 Greetings all. I hope the new week finds you all well. The tune I bring you today is yet another tasty chapter in the long-running saga of Milwaukee, Wisconsin\u2019s own soul giant, the mighty Harvey Scales. […]<\/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":[11,17,14,12,18],"tags":[163,166],"class_list":["post-6273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1Db","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273","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=6273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6310,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273\/revisions\/6310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}