{"id":6402,"date":"2016-05-12T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2016-05-12T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T16:23:50","slug":"sonny-cox-chocolate-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6402","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Cox – Chocolate Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Sonny Cox – Chocolate Candy MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The end of the week is here, and so is the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> podcast, which drops 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, dig it on Mixcloud, or grab an MP3 right here at Funky16Corners.com (and coming soon to Dirty Old Boston Radio<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

I have a very groovy one for you today.<\/p>\n

I was out scouting the hinterlands of the internet, on the prowl for records (you know, like always) and while perusing a sales list happened upon today\u2019s selection.<\/p>\n

Though I knew the name Sonny Cox<\/strong>, what grabbed me was the title \u2018Chocolate Candy\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Could this be the same \u2018Chocolate Candy\u2019 that the Soulful Strings recorded<\/em>?\u2019 I asked myself.<\/p>\n

A quick enlargement of the label, which revealed the writer as Phil Upchurch<\/strong> confirmed my suspicions, so I grabbed it.<\/p>\n

You all know that there probably isn\u2019t a bigger fan of Richard Evans<\/strong> and the Soulful Strings<\/strong> in the world than yours truly, and finding covers of their material is a rare event, indeed.<\/p>\n

\u2018Chocolate Candy\u2019 first appeared on the group\u2019s 1969 \u2018String Fever\u2019 album (their best, IMHO). Upchurch was the guitarist in the Chess\/Cadet house band, who also recorded a number of excellent records under his own name (though, as far as I can tell he never recorded \u2018Chocolate Candy\u2019 on his own).<\/p>\n

Sonny Cox was a sax player who formed the Three Souls<\/strong> and recorded with them for the Chess subsidiary Argo, eventually recording a solo album, \u2018The Wailer\u2019 for Cadet in 1966, which was arranged and produced by none other than Richard Evans.<\/p>\n

Cox recorded \u2018Chocolate Candy\u2019, again with Evans producing, for Bell in 1969. He lays down a dark, reverb-filled version of the song on what sounds like a Varitone electric saxophone, with some great guitar, heavy bass and organ and handclaps.<\/p>\n

The record didn\u2019t go anywhere (though the flipside, a cover of \u2018The Choking Kind\u2019 got some airplay in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

Cox seems to have retired in the early 70s, taking up a new career as a high school basketball coach in the Chicago area.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the sounds, and I\u2019ll see you all on Monday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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