{"id":746,"date":"2010-07-22T12:13:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T17:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=746"},"modified":"2012-03-24T10:15:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T15:15:37","slug":"betty-lavette-i-feel-good-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Betty Lavette – I Feel Good (All Over)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Betty Lavette – I Feel Good (All Over) <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Greetings all. <\/strong>
\nI hope the end of the week finds you all well.
\nThere was no mid-week post, mainly so that the post honoring Gene Ludwig<\/strong> could remain in place.
\nI\u2019ll be featuring one of his rarer sides in the coming weeks.
\nThe tune I bring you today is one of those records that I chased for a long time.
\nI first heard Betty Lavette\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018I Feel Good (All Over)\u2019 in a most unexpected place, that being a European compilation album devoted to releases from the Pama label. I picked it up years ago to get my hands on a couple of Mohawks<\/strong> tracks (and some reggae) and was surprised when a number of the tracks turned out to be UK issues of US soul 45s, none of which I\u2019d heard before (this was maybe ten years ago).
\nThe one track that really flipped my wig was \u2018I Feel Good (All Over)\u2019.
\nOver the course of the last decade, on and off, I made several attempts to get myself a copy, being outbid every single time.
\nThis time, the copy in question had a poor grade, but since the opening bid was low, I figured I\u2019d try to grab it. It ended up going for around 20 bucks, but I thought that I could live with having spent a Jackson on a filler copy until I had an opportunity to mint up in the future. With any luck it wouldn\u2019t take another ten years.<\/em>
\nSo, the record shows up, and once again, the chance taken paid off in spades in that as soon as I played the record I realized that no upgrade would be necessary.
\nIf you haven\u2019t heard \u2018I Feel Good All Over\u2019 before, give it a spin and you\u2019ll see why I coveted it for so long.
\nIt is a rock solid, Detroit soul dancer with a dynamite vocal by Lavette and a blazing horn chart. This is 100%, guaranteed dance floor fire.
\nGive it a close listen, and once you get past Betty\u2019s amazing singing, check out that guitar running underneath things (especially near the beginning of the record). It\u2019s an ever so slightly rough, almost Southern touch to a slamming Motor City side (I\u2019d love to know who it is\u2026).
\nThe flipside, \u2018Only Your Love Can Save Me\u2019 is less aggressive, but also excellent.
\nLavette, a native Michigander recorded for a variety of labels during the 60s, releasing her first 45 in 1962 (on Atlantic) when she was just 16 years old. She went on (at some point changing the spelling of her first name to ‘Bettye’)\u00a0 to record for Calla, Karen, Silver Fox, SSS Intl, Atco and a few other labels into the mid-70s, when she took a break from recording.
\nShe recorded an album for Motown in 1982, after which she didn\u2019t go back into the studio until making a serious comeback in the 2000s.
\nHer most recent album, \u2018Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook\u2019 found her covering the Who, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Rolling Stones<\/strong> and Traffic<\/strong> among others.<\/p>\n

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\nI hope you dig this cut as much as I do, and I\u2019ll see you all on Monday.<\/p>\n

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