{"id":7483,"date":"2018-10-21T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T15:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2018-10-21T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T15:13:12","slug":"sam-and-the-soul-walkers-soul-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7483","title":{"rendered":"Sam and the Soul Walkers – Soul Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Sam and the Soul Walkers – Soul Walk MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

Today\u2019s selection is one of only a handful of 45s issued by the Los Angeles-based Trans-American label (well known amongst funk collectors for the Village Crusaders<\/strong> \u2018Akiwawa\u2019 45).<\/p>\n

Sam and the Soul Walkers<\/strong> only released this one 45 in 1969. They were led by Samuel McWhorter aka Sam Russell<\/strong> who recorded several sides for the Playboy label in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, \u2018Soul Walk\u2019 is co-written (and produced) by singer\/actor Aki Aleong<\/strong>, who had a varied and interesting career in Hollywood, including scoring a hit with the 1961 record \u2018Tradewinds Tradewinds\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Soul Walk\u2019 is a hard-hitting funk number with solid drums and organ, and cool rhythm guitar buried in the mix.<\/p>\n

The song (and its flipside \u2018A Telephone Is Ringing\u2019) were rerecorded by a group called the Turnarounds<\/strong> and released on TRC the same year (I can vouch for the fact that the versions of \u2018Soul Walk\u2019 are definitely different recordings).<\/p>\n

If anyone knows the story behind that, please drop me a line.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune, and I\u2019ll see you all next week.<\/p>\n

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Aki Aleong Listen\/Download – Sam and the Soul Walkers – Soul Walk MP3 Greetings all. I hope the new week finds you well. Today\u2019s selection is one of only a handful of 45s issued by the Los Angeles-based Trans-American label (well known amongst funk collectors for the Village Crusaders \u2018Akiwawa\u2019 45). Sam and the Soul […]<\/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":[11,17,14,12],"tags":[163,166],"class_list":["post-7483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-soul","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1WH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483","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=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7493,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions\/7493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}