{"id":6972,"date":"2017-03-30T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2017-03-30T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:01:18","slug":"obie-plenty-beef-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6972","title":{"rendered":"Obie Plenty – Beef Stew"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Obie Plenty – Beef Stew MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The end of the week is upon us, and so it\u2019s Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> time again. We come to you each and every Friday with the best in soul, funk, 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 and Stitcher apps, dig it on Mixcloud, or granb yourself and MP3 right here at Funky16Corners.com<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is something of a mystery.<\/p>\n

]If you drag your ears over here on a regular basis, you know that I dig food songs, and funny songs, and funky songs as well, so when a funny, funky food song rolls along you know I\u2019m going to grab it for my playbox.<\/p>\n

Obie Plenty\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Beef Stew\u2019 was released in 1967, and as far as I can tell it ios the only 45 ever to come out under that name (which appears to be a play on the name of the character B.O. Plenty<\/strong> from the Dick Tracy<\/strong> comic strip.<\/p>\n

All signs point to \u2018Obie Plenty\u2019 being and alias of Harold Thomas<\/strong> of the Masqueraders<\/strong>, who is credited with writing and producing this single.<\/p>\n

\u2018Beef Stew\u2019 is a funky (dig that rolling bass line) novelty, with the singer going back and forth with his Mom about what\u2019s for breakfast, lunch and dinner (beef stew, natch<\/em>) and complaining about the repetition.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not much substance (certainly not as much as actual beef stew) but the tune is groovy, danceable, and lots of fun, and probably should have been more successful (as far as I can tell it charted briefly at one station in Connecticut before fading away into obscurity).<\/p>\n

If anyone knows the true identity of Obie Plenty, please make note in the comments.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune, and I\u2019ll see you all next week.<\/p>\n

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

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

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Listen\/Download – Obie Plenty – Beef Stew MP3 Greetings all. The end of the week is upon us, and so it\u2019s Funky16Corners Radio Show time again. We come to you each and every Friday with the best in soul, funk, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the show as […]<\/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_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":[11,17,14,12,18],"tags":[163,166,164],"class_list":["post-6972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1Os","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972","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=6972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7058,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions\/7058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}