{"id":7075,"date":"2017-05-14T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2017-05-14T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T14:45:29","slug":"dennis-and-the-supertones-superman-lover-bw-doin-the-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7075","title":{"rendered":"Dennis and the Supertones – Superman Lover b\/w Doin’ the Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Dennis and the Supertones – Superman Lover MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – Dennis and the Supertones – Doin’ the Superman MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Before we get started this week I have some important news.<\/p>\n

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Starting this Wednesday, 5\/17 from 10PM to 12,<\/strong> and every Wednesday going forward at that time I will be doing a new weekly show on the WFMU Give the Drummer Radio<\/strong> stream called Testify!<\/strong> This show (which had a couple of dry runs elsewhere, earlier on) will see yours truly in a more free-form bag, taking the worlds of Funky16Corners<\/strong> and Iron Leg<\/strong> and mashing them together, with soul, rock, funk, pop, garage, psyche, R&B, Now Sound, jazz and anything else I think sounds good. The show will originate live from the Funky16Corners Subterranean Blogcasting Nerve Center and Record Vault,<\/strong> and will be archived thereafter.<\/p>\n

So if your ears are free Wednesday night, turn them toward WFMU.org<\/strong>, click on the Give The Drummer stream and dig what it is that I am putting down.
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The tracks I bring you today are yet another small, but groovy chapter in the very interesting career of Ed Townsend.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Townsend got his start as a hit singer in his own right, with \u2018For Your Love\u2019 in 1958, went on to write songs for Theola Kilgore<\/strong> (For the Love of My Man), later co-wrote \u2018Let\u2019s Get It On\u2019 with Marvin Gaye<\/strong>, and in between was part of Perry and the Harmonics<\/strong>, and the group I bring you today, Dennis and the Supertones.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The group recorded only one 45 \u2013 \u2018Superman Lover\u2019 b\/w \u2018Doin\u2019 the Superman\u2019 \u2013 in 1963, and that, as they say, was that.<\/p>\n

Both tunes (which are separated by a hair’s breadth of originality) lean heavily in the direction of the mighty Rivingtons<\/strong> (the \u201cZOOM ZOOM ZOOMS\u201d<\/em> are right out of he Papa Oom Mow Mow playbook) and are a very cool slice of R&B-going into-soul.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, \u2018Superman Lover\u2019 was covered later that same year by a group called Andy and the Marglows<\/strong> (brothers Andy, Jimmy and Terry Huff<\/strong>) on Liberty.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the kind of party-starting stuff that I dig the most, and I hope you dig it, too.<\/p>\n

See you all on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

And, while you’re at it, make sure to follow Funky16Corners<\/strong> on Instagram<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

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Also, the brand new Funky16Corners ‘Keep Calm and Stay Funky’ stickers have arrived!<\/strong> The stickers are 4″ x 3″ and printed on high quality, glossy stock.<\/strong> They are $2.00 each, with free shipping in the US ($2.00 per order shipping outside of the US).<\/strong> Click here to go to the ordering page.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

PS Head over to Iron Leg too. <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listen\/Download – Dennis and the Supertones – Superman Lover MP3 Listen\/Download – Dennis and the Supertones – Doin’ the Superman MP3 Greetings all. Before we get started this week I have some important news. Starting this Wednesday, 5\/17 from 10PM to 12, and every Wednesday going forward at that time I will be doing a […]<\/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":[43,14,64,12,18],"tags":[171,166,173,164],"class_list":["post-7075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-soul","category-funky16corners","category-rb","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-chicago-soul","tag-funky16corners","tag-rb","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1Q7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075","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=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7142,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions\/7142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}