{"id":7616,"date":"2019-04-21T08:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T13:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7616"},"modified":"2019-04-21T08:02:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T13:02:55","slug":"ronnie-milsap-aint-no-soul-left-in-these-ole-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7616","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Milsap – Ain’t No Soul Left In These Ole Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Ronnie Milsap – Ain’t No Soul Left In These Ole Shoes MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s selection is one of my favorite versions of one of my favorite songs (great how is works out that way, n\u2019est ce pas?<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Ronnie Milsap<\/strong> was one of the biggest country stars of the 1970s and 1980s, but believe it or not he got his start as a soul singer.<\/p>\n

Milsap, who was born almost completely blind, learned how to play the piano, and though he was supposed to go to law school, he left his academic pursuits behind for a career in music.<\/p>\n

He was lucky enough to sign with Scepter records, and managed to score his first hit with the Ashford and Simpson<\/strong> tune \u2018Never Had It So Good\u2019 (backed with another of their songs \u2018Let\u2019s Go Get Stoned\u2019) in 1965.<\/p>\n

His follow up was the first recording of Artie Resnick and Joey Levine\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Ain\u2019t No Soul (Left In These Old Shoes), which would go on to be something of a 1960s soul standard with recordings by Major Lance, the Corvairs, Kenny Bernard, and Tami Lynn<\/strong> among others.<\/p>\n

Milsap\u2019s version is among the rawest of them all, starting out with a fuzzy combo organ, prominent drums and a wailing vocal by Milsap. The arrangement by Tommy Kaye<\/strong> is fantastic, with a great horn chart and a hard-charging tempo that made the record a huge fave on Northern Soul dance floors in later years.<\/p>\n

Milsap kept a bit of R&B flavor in his later successes, yet nothing as full on soulful as this.<\/p>\n

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

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Ronnie Milsap Listen\/Download – Ronnie Milsap – Ain’t No Soul Left In These Ole Shoes MP3 Greetings all. Today\u2019s selection is one of my favorite versions of one of my favorite songs (great how is works out that way, n\u2019est ce pas?). Ronnie Milsap was one of the biggest country stars of the 1970s 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":[37,14,24,69,12,18],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-7616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-eyed-soul","category-funky16corners","category-northern-soul","category-original-versions","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-45rpm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1YQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616","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=7616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7621,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions\/7621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}