{"id":7495,"date":"2018-11-11T11:54:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2018-11-11T11:54:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:54:21","slug":"the-shirelles-look-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7495","title":{"rendered":"The Shirelles – Look Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Shirelles <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – The Shirelles – Look Away MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s selection is a groovy one from later years of the Shirelles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It also happens to be a great example of an prime Ashford\/Simpson\/Armstead<\/strong> composition.<\/p>\n

\u2018Look Away\u2019 was released as the b-side of \u2018Teasin\u2019 Me\u2019 in November of 1966.<\/p>\n

In the mid-60s, before any of them were having recording success of their own, Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson<\/strong> and Jo Armstead<\/strong> were penning outstanding music for some of the best singer around, including Ray Charles, Bettye Lavette, Chuck Jackson and Maxine Brown, Clara Ward, Jo Ann and Troy, Tina Britt<\/strong> and the Apollas,<\/strong> among others.<\/p>\n

\u2018Look Away\u2019 has a nice chugging beat, yet the overall feel of the song is laid back and introspective, even as it builds into the chorus.
\nThe interplay between the lead and backing vocals is spectacular, and the arrangement by Paul Griffin<\/strong> is great.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, \u2018Look Away\u2019 didn\u2019t chart at all, falling right in the middle of a 1964-1967 dry spell for the Shirelles that was only broken when \u2018Last Minute Miracle\u2019 hit.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a cool on and I hope you dig it.<\/p>\n

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The Shirelles Listen\/Download – The Shirelles – Look Away MP3 Greetings all. Today\u2019s selection is a groovy one from later years of the Shirelles. It also happens to be a great example of an prime Ashford\/Simpson\/Armstead composition. \u2018Look Away\u2019 was released as the b-side of \u2018Teasin\u2019 Me\u2019 in November of 1966. In the mid-60s, before […]<\/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":[14,12,18],"tags":[166,164],"class_list":["post-7495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky16corners","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1WT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495","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=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7496,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions\/7496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}