{"id":6804,"date":"2017-01-01T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6804"},"modified":"2017-01-01T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T19:57:33","slug":"watts-103rd-st-rhythm-band-spreadin-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6804","title":{"rendered":"Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band – Spreadin’ Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band – Spreadin’ Honey MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Happy New Year everybody!<\/p>\n

I was grooving in the back alleys of my iPod the other day and hit on an old favorite, which I was surprised hadn\u2019t ever been written up here at Funky16Corners.<\/p>\n

Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band<\/strong> are a familiar sound to most folks that have even a passing familiarity with classic funk and soul, as well as the millions of others who have heard them sampled by NWA<\/strong> (among others) and used in commercials.<\/p>\n

The record you see before you is technically their first 45, from 1966.<\/p>\n

I use the qualifier \u201ctechnically\u201d because there is a fair amount of doubt that any of the players associated with the band\u2019s post-1968 run ever played on it.<\/p>\n

Release in 1966, written by LA soul scene movers\u00a0Fred Smith<\/strong> and Nat Nathan<\/strong>, \u2018Spreadin\u2019 Honey\u2019 grazed the R&B Top 40 in 1967 (with some regional Pop success).<\/p>\n

It is a pounding dancer with one of the great drum openings of all time, as well as some tasty piano and guitar.<\/p>\n

It seems likely that absent the later Watts 103 cats, and considering those involved in the writing and production, and most importantly the sound, that Leon Haywood<\/strong> was the piano player. I wouldn\u2019t venture a guess as to who else was in the studio, but I have seen some people suggesting that the guitarist might be Bobby Womack.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oddly enough, the track was recycled later in 1966 on the MoSoul label as being by the Soul Runners!<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was soon after the success of this record that Charles Wright<\/strong> and the rest of the band slipped into the name, and recorded a grip of heavy stuff for Warner Brothers between 1968 and 1971.<\/p>\n

It is a very solid groover, and I suggest you follow your hips, and get up and dance.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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Listen\/Download – Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band – Spreadin’ Honey MP3 Greetings all. Happy New Year everybody! I was grooving in the back alleys of my iPod the other day and hit on an old favorite, which I was surprised hadn\u2019t ever been written up here at Funky16Corners. Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street […]<\/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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[14,12,18],"tags":[166,164],"class_list":["post-6804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky16corners","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1LK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804","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=6804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6883,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions\/6883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}