{"id":6408,"date":"2016-07-07T10:43:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2016-07-07T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:43:58","slug":"little-joe-cook-and-the-thrillers-funky-hump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6408","title":{"rendered":"Little Joe Cook and the Thrillers – Funky Hump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download -Little Joe Cook and the Thrillers – Funky Hump MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The end of the week is near so I will remind you once again to check out the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong>, 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, check it out on Mixcloud or grab yourself an MP3 right here at Funky16Corners.com.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s selection is by another one of those groups with roots that lead back into the early days of R&B and doowop.<\/p>\n

Little Joe Cook<\/strong> was a Philly-based singer who got his start in gospel in the 1940s, moving into secular music and forming the Thrillers in the early 50s. Little Joe Cook and the Thrillers<\/strong> went on to have R&B hits for Okeh with \u2018Let\u2019s Do the Slop\u2019 in 1956 and then their biggest hit \u2018Peanuts\u2019 in 1957.<\/p>\n

Cook also managed his daughter\u2019s group the Sherrys<\/strong> who had a hit with \u2018Pop Pop Pop-Pie\u2019 in 1962.<\/p>\n

The Thrillers continued to release 45s for labels like 20th Century, Reprise, Fury and Loma through the 60s.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t been able to date today\u2019s selection definitively but it sounds like it would fall nicely sometime between 1969 and 1971. Released on the Philadelphia-based Soultown label (and as far as I can tell their only release) \u2018Funky Hump\u2019 sees Little Joe Cook and the Thrillers getting funky (of course…). The tune has a very groovy rhythm guitar figure repeated through the song, with a cool dance craze lyric delivered by Cook.<\/p>\n

Cook retired in 2007 and passed away in 2014 at the age of 91.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune, 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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PS Head over to Iron Leg too.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Little Joe Cook Listen\/Download -Little Joe Cook and the Thrillers – Funky Hump MP3 Greetings all. The end of the week is near so I will remind you once again to check out the Funky16Corners Radio Show, which drops each and every Friday with the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove, all on […]<\/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":[11,17,14,74,12,18],"tags":[163,166,25,164],"class_list":["post-6408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-philly-soul","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-philly-funk","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1Fm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408","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=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6529,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions\/6529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}