{"id":6671,"date":"2016-10-06T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2016-10-06T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:00:20","slug":"troy-keyes-love-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6671","title":{"rendered":"Troy Keyes – Love Explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The High Keys featuring Troy Keyes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Troy Keyes – Love Explosions 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>, which drops a brand new episode each and every Friday with the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can subsribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via Stitcher and the TuneIn app, check it out on Mixcloud or grab a download out of the archive here at Funky16Corners.<\/p>\n

This week’s show is a very special edition of the podcast, about the New Orleans\/L.A. Connection<\/strong>, in which a bunch of NOLA expats, including Mac Rebennack, Jessie Hill, Harold Battiste, Alvin Robinson and King Floyd<\/strong> head out to California in the mid-60s and worked on a grip of amazing records. It’s almost two full hours of music and information, so make sure to check it out.<\/p>\n

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We end the week with a very groovy bit of stylish, Northern Soul by Troy Keyes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keyes is an interesting performer in that he goes back to the doowop era with the Velours<\/strong>, moves on into the classic soul era as the lead vocalist in the High Keys\/Keyes<\/strong> (\u2018Living a Lie\u2019 is a stone classic) who recorded for Atco and Verve between 1963 and 1966, and then went on to record under his own name.<\/p>\n

The High Keys managed to record with both the duo of Bob Crewe and Charlie Calello<\/strong> (famous for working with the Four Seasons<\/strong>) who produced the group\u2019s 1963 hit version of \u2018Que Sera Sera\u2019 and then George Kerr<\/strong> (who would also produce Troy Keyes solo 45s).<\/p>\n

Though it has East Coast fingerprints all over it (Kerr, Richard Tee<\/strong>) \u2018Love Explosions\u2019 has the sound of a Detroit joint (specifically something out of the Four Tops<\/strong> oeuvre).<\/p>\n

Opening with a female backing chorus, and waves of harp over a pulsing rhythm section, Keyes joins in, sounding like a more tightly wound Levi Stubbs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The song (written by Kerr and Gerald Harris<\/strong>) has enough push for the dance floor, and a great, anthemic chorus.<\/p>\n

Though the record made it into the Top 20 in a bunch of Mid-Atlantic\/Northeast markets, it didn\u2019t break through nationally.<\/p>\n

It did however catch on with the soulies in the UK, where it was issued in 1968 and the reissued a year later to satisfy demand.<\/p>\n

Keyes went on to have a local New York hit with \u2018If I Had My Way\u2019 in 1971, and has performed in the UK at Northern Soul shows.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the track, 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":"

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