{"id":7391,"date":"2018-03-25T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2018-03-25T13:52:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:52:03","slug":"mason-dixon-soul-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7391","title":{"rendered":"Mason & Dixon – Soul Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Mason and Dixon – Soul Power MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The track I bring you today is something I picked up while I was out digging on the strength of the song, that being a cover of Derek Martin\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Soul Power\u2019.<\/p>\n

I had never heard of Mason and Dixon<\/strong> before, and there\u2019s precious little information out there about them.<\/p>\n

Their names were Bobby Mason and Tony Dixon<\/strong>, and they appear to have fronted a showband that was based in and popular around New England from the late 60s into the late 70s.<\/p>\n

The recorded an album for Tower in 1969 and then singles for Buttercup and Metronome in the early 70s.<\/p>\n

The Buttercup connection is the most interesting.<\/p>\n

The label was owned by Teddy Randazzo<\/strong>, and was relatively short-lived, releasing only five singles between 1970 and 1971, two by Mason and Dixon, one by Sheila Anthony<\/strong>, and two by Derek Martin.<\/p>\n

Martin\u2019s Buttercup 45, \u2018The Moving Hands of Time\u2019 is a fantastic, moody piece of psych\/soul, which I will bring to you if I ever get my hands on a clean copy.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll assume that Mason and Dixon got their hands on \u2018Soul Power\u2019 (also written by Randazzo) because of the label\u2019s connection to Martin, who had recorded the song for the Detroit label Tuba, and then had it picked up by Volt in 1967.<\/p>\n

The Mason and Dixon version is very cool indeed, with funky bass, horns and a great dual vocal by the singers.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell none of their stuff met with any national success, with the flipside of this 45 (a medley of MacArthur Park and I Don\u2019t Want To Cry) charting at a single station in Missouri.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a groovy 45, and if anyone has any more info about the band, please drop me aline in the comments.<\/p>\n

Until next week<\/p>\n

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Mason and Dixon Listen\/Download – Mason and Dixon – Soul Power MP3 Greetings all. The track I bring you today is something I picked up while I was out digging on the strength of the song, that being a cover of Derek Martin\u2019s \u2018Soul Power\u2019. I had never heard of Mason and Dixon before, and […]<\/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":[58,14,12,18],"tags":[166,164],"class_list":["post-7391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-songs","category-funky16corners","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1Vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391","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=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7392,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions\/7392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}