{"id":7117,"date":"2017-05-16T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T18:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2017-05-16T13:02:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T18:02:43","slug":"keith-mansfield-and-his-orchestra-soul-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7117","title":{"rendered":"Keith Mansfield and His Orchestra – Soul Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Keith Mansfield (left) and Alan Hawkshaw<\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Keith Mansfield and His Orchestra – Soul Confusion MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Before we get started, just a reminder about 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 track I bring you today is an old favorite, the flipside of which (the amazing \u2018Boogaloo\u2019 appeared in the eareliest incarnation of the blog 12 years ago!<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I have no idea why I waited so long to serve up the flip, but here it is.<\/p>\n

Keith Mansfield<\/strong> was one of the great library masters on the UK scene, recording a grip of stuff for the storied KPM label as well as a number of mainstream releases under his own name.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s selection has kind of an odd history.<\/p>\n

\u2018Soul Confusion\u2019 is a 45-only track, and was only released in the for you see today here in the US on an Epic promo.<\/p>\n

In the UK the (same) track was billed under the name \u2018Sugar with the Keith Mansfield Orchestra<\/strong> (Sugar being the vocalist, Sugar Simone<\/strong> who does not appear on the track) under a different title altogether, \u201811AM Tuesday Morning Taxi\u2019 on CBS\/UK. I have no idea why.<\/p>\n

The other side of the US 45, \u2018Boogaloo\u2019 had appeared the year before on the excellent \u2018All You Need Is Keith Mansfield\u2019 LP, alongside the very groovy, breakbeat version of Mansfield\u2019s oft covered \u2018Soul Thing\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Soul Confusion\u2019, featuring (naturally) Hammond master Alan Hakshaw<\/strong>, is a funky, brassy groover with great rhythm guitar trading lines with the organ and hard hitting drums. There is a small drum break as well.<\/p>\n

The 45 has gone up in price considerably since I found my copy (in the field, and on the cheap, luckily). Decent copies pull in between 75 and 100 dollars.<\/p>\n

You can still get the LP (but no \u2018Soul Confusion\u2019, though the RPM\/Retrodisc reissue from 2008 includes the track) at a much more reasonable price.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the track, and I\u2019ll see you all on Friday.<\/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>
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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":"

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