{"id":6812,"date":"2016-11-27T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T17:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2016-11-27T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T17:24:05","slug":"the-queen-meets-the-king-aka-happy-birthday-jimi-hendrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6812","title":{"rendered":"The Queen Meets the King aka Happy Birthday Jimi Hendrix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Queen and the King: Richard and Jimi, on stage<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Little Richard – I Don’t Know What You’ve Got, But It’s Got Me Pt1 MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – Little Richard – I Don’t Know What You’ve Got, But It’s Got Me Pt2 MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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It occurred to me that today (11\/27) was the birthday of none other than Jimi Hendrix.<\/p>\n

Though I have always been a huge fan of Jimi’s post-Blue Flames work (i.e. Experience\/Band of Gypsys), this being the Funky16Corners blog, we have dedicated ourselves to the soulful side of things, and Jimi had himself some experience (pun intended) on that side of the stylistic fence as well.<\/p>\n

So much so, that I dedicated an entire episode of the Funky16Corners Radio Show to Jimi’s early work (and his influence on the soul and funk world) this June.<\/p>\n

Of the early records included in that broadcast, my favorite – because it represents an intersection of two of the great musical forces of the second half of the 20th century – is Little Richard’s 1965 ‘I Don’t Know What You’ve Got, But It’s Got Me Pts 1&2’.<\/p>\n

Recorded in a NYC session with Hendrix, Don Covay (the author of the tune), Billy Preston, and Bernard Purdie,\u00a0‘I Don’t Know What You’ve Got, But It’s Got Me’ is a beautiful, gospel-inflected slice of deep soul, showing a side of Little Richard you don’t get to hear too often.<\/p>\n

Little Richard represents something deeper than mere music for me. He is an elemental force, tying together rock, soul, R&B and gospel and his cultural impact was immeasurable.<\/p>\n

He is best known as a screamer and a shouter (of which there were none better), but to hear him open up and get deep like he does in\u00a0‘I Don’t Know What You’ve Got, But It’s Got Me’ is something special indeed.<\/p>\n

Though Hendrix plays on the tune, this is in no way a guitar tour de force, which is cool because he would do plenty of that later on, but the way the guitar winds in and out of the fairly spare mix, and the almost funereal horn section is wonderful.<\/p>\n

Richard spends the first half of the record delivering a straight up ballad (with someone, maybe Covay, singing backup deep in the mix). The second half opens with a monologue by Richard, which gets melodramatic, and edges right up to the border of hysterical, yet gets reined in before dropping back into the song.<\/p>\n

It’s another one of those records that demands repeated listens.<\/p>\n

I love it.<\/p>\n

I’m also including the link to the entire episode, where there are a number of other early \u00a045s where you can hear Jimi clearly.<\/p>\n

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Show #319. Originally broadcast 06\/10\/2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Soul Roots of Jimi Hendrix<\/b><\/p>\n

Don Covay \u2013 Mercy Mercy (Rosemart)<\/strong>
\nIsley Brothers \u2013 Testify Pts 1&2 (T-Neck)<\/strong>
\nLittle Richard \u2013 Dance a Go Go (Vee Jay)<\/strong>
\nLittle Richard \u2013 I Don\u2019t Know What You\u2019ve Got (But It\u2019s Got Me) Pts 1&2 (Vee Jay)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ray Sharpe \u2013 Help Me (Get The Feeling) Pts 1&2 (Atco)<\/strong>
\nBilly LaMont \u2013 Sweet Thang (20th Century Fox)<\/strong>
\nLonnie Youngblood \u2013 Go Go Shoes\/Go Go Place (Fairmount)<\/strong>
\nLonnie Youngblood \u2013 Soul Food (That\u2019s What I Like) (Fairmount)<\/strong>
\nLonnie Youngblood \u2013 Goodbye Bessie Mae (Fairmount)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johnny Jones and the King Casuals \u2013 Purple Haze (Brunswick)<\/strong>
\nBooker T and the MGs \u2013 Foxy Lady (Stax)<\/strong>
\nKossie Gardner \u2013 Fire (Dot)<\/strong>
\nPhil Upchurch \u2013 Crosstown Traffic (Cadet)<\/strong>
\nRotary Connection \u2013 Burning of the Midnight Lamp (Cadet Concept)<\/strong>
\nEllen McIlwaine \u2013 Up From the Skies (Polydor)<\/strong>
\nIdris Muhammad \u2013 The Power of Soul (Kudu)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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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":"

The Queen and the King: Richard and Jimi, on stage Listen\/Download – Little Richard – I Don’t Know What You’ve Got, But It’s Got Me Pt1 MP3 Listen\/Download – Little Richard – I Don’t Know What You’ve Got, But It’s Got Me Pt2 MP3 Greetings all.   It occurred to me that today (11\/27) was […]<\/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":[145,14,15,221,222,64,12,18],"tags":[166,173,164],"class_list":["post-6812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-soul","category-funky16corners","category-funky16corners-radio","category-jimi-hendrix","category-little-richard","category-rb","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-rb","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1LS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812","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=6812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}