{"id":6492,"date":"2016-07-19T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T18:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2016-07-19T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T18:34:43","slug":"alley-pat-pats-rubber-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6492","title":{"rendered":"Alley Pat – Pat’s Rubber Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Alley Pat – Pat’s Rubber Band MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The record I bring you today found its way into my crates years ago via the advice of the mighty Agent45.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alley Pat<\/strong> was in fact James Patrick<\/strong>, a long time Atlanta radio fixture (and one time bail bondsman for civil rights figures!) who was nearing 60 when he made this record (is this senior citizen\u2019s week?).<\/p>\n

I originally picked up the 45 because I had assumed that it was tied in with the string of New Orleans\/Gulf Coast \u2018Rubber Band\u2019 records (Eddie Bo, Meters, Curley Moore and the Kool Ones<\/strong>) from 1970\/71.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, this \u2018rubber band\u2019 stretches several years into the future, closer to the Spinners<\/strong> \u2018Rubber Band Man\u2019 and Bootsy\u2019s Rubber Band<\/strong>, both from 1976.<\/p>\n

Though sitting right in the middle of the disco era, \u2018Pat\u2019s Rubber Band\u2019 is good and funky, with tight rhythm guitar, popping bass, electric piano, punchy horns and some sexy girls on the background vocals. The song was written by Alley Pat, along with Atlanta soul men Tommy Stewart<\/strong> and Calvin \u2018Funky Way\u2019 Arnold.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pat drops in here and there with some funny patter (I\u2019m not 100% sure but it sounds like he might reference \u2018Shelly\u2019s Rubber Band\u2019* which would connect this to the first round of \u2018rubber band\u2019 45s) no doubt polished by years of experience on the radio.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a groovy one, and a little harder to find and more expensive these days.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, and I\u2019ll see you all on Friday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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*”Shelly” , in Curly Moore and the Kool Ones ‘Shelly’s Rubber Band’ was another DJ, New Orleans radio man Shelly Pope<\/strong><\/p>\n

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