{"id":7319,"date":"2017-12-10T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T17:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2017-12-10T12:17:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T17:17:01","slug":"el-chicano-coming-home-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7319","title":{"rendered":"El Chicano – Coming Home Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – El Chicano – Coming Home Baby MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

I hope the new week finds you all well.<\/p>\n

I have been digging-econo of late, and so when I dipped into a Discogs store and found a grip of interesting looking one-dollar 45s, I thought I\u2019d grab me some and see how it played out (if you will). Most of the things I picked up hardly amounted to \u2018taking a chance\u2019, seeing that they were either very cheap, or by reliably great artists (or both).<\/p>\n

One of those purchases sits before you today,\u00a0<\/strong>East LA giants El Chicano\u2019s<\/strong> smoking version of Bob Dorough<\/strong> and Ben Tucker\u2019s<\/strong> oft-recorded \u2018Coming Home Baby\u2019.<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s version of Gerald Wilson\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Viva Tirado\u2019 was a substantial hit in 1970, and though they continued to record\/release music for the next decade, they never really had another big hit.<\/p>\n

This is not to say that they weren\u2019t making good music, as today\u2019s selection will attest.<\/p>\n

\u2018Coming Home Baby\u2019 hit the charts a dozen different times between Mel Torme\u2019s<\/strong> brilliant version in 1962 and 1971.<\/p>\n

El Chicano\u2019s version, a blazing, overmodulated Hammond feature only charted very briefly in a few California markets, but it is among the finest versions I have heard.<\/p>\n

Cramming almost five and a half minutes onto one side of a 45, the El Chicano version has a hot, live sound with just enough Latin percussion in the mix to remind you who your listening to.<\/p>\n

In addition to the general hotness of this 45, it should serve as a reminder that El Chicano\u2019s stuff is uniformly excellent and as our friends in the UK are wont to say, \u2018cheap as chips\u2019, so go out and get you some.<\/p>\n

See you next week.<\/p>\n

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El Chicano Listen\/Download – El Chicano – Coming Home Baby MP3 Greetings all. I hope the new week finds you all well. I have been digging-econo of late, and so when I dipped into a Discogs store and found a grip of interesting looking one-dollar 45s, I thought I\u2019d grab me some and see how […]<\/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":[58,160,11,17,14,68,66,12,18],"tags":[163,166,27,164],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-songs","category-east-la","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-hammond-grooves","category-instrumental","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-hammond-organ","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1U3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","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=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7320,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}