{"id":6284,"date":"2016-03-27T10:35:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2016-03-27T10:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:35:54","slug":"chuck-wood-seven-days-is-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6284","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Wood – Seven Days Is Too Long"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Chuck Wood – Seven Days Is Too Long MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

I thought we\u2019d get the week started with an honest to goodness Northern Soul anthem.<\/p>\n

Naturally, there\u2019s a story to go along with this one, which will stand as a testimony to my occasional obliviousness and the nature of luck.<\/p>\n

Many, many years ago, before my wife and I were blessed with our kids, she used to accompany on the occasional digging expedition.<\/p>\n

I would usually provide her with a basic criteria as to what kind of stuff I was looking for, and she would dig through the crates with me.<\/p>\n

Over the years she managed to pull a couple of real winners, and today\u2019s selection is one of them.<\/p>\n

Now when she saw the title \u2018Soul Shingaling\u2019 (the flipside of this 45), the alarms went off and she handed it to me. Though I\u2019d never heard of Chuck Wood<\/strong>, I couldn\u2019t in good conscience pass up a 45 with that title, so I put it in the keeper pile and gave it a home in my crates.<\/p>\n

Now, at the time, though I was a fan of the Northern Soul \u201csound\u201d, I didn\u2019t know much of the canon, so it was a few years until I flipped over \u2018Soul Shingaling\u2019 and discovered just how good \u2018Seven Days Is Too Long\u2019 is.<\/p>\n

Recorded in 1967, \u2018Seven Days Is Too Long\u2019 was actually a minor regional hit on the East Coast, especially in Philadelphia (I scored my copy on the outskirts of that city), but was pretty much all the success that Chuck Wood ever had.<\/p>\n

That was until the record was rediscovered by the UK soul crowd, who embraced the record, making it a huge Northern Soul hit, getting it reissued (it had seen an original 1967 pressing in the UK on the Big T label) twice, in 1971 on Mojo and then in 1975 on Pye.<\/p>\n

The record\u2019s Northern Soul popularity should come as no surprise, since its bright, poppy hooks and driving pace and anthemic chorus sound tailor-made for those dance floors.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not much in the way of information about Wood himself out there, which is odd considering the popularity of the record (I was lucky enough to find the picture above in a book on Northern Soul).<\/p>\n

The song was covered in 1980 by Dexys Midnight Runners.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fantastic record and I hope you dig it as much as I do.<\/p>\n

See you on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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