{"id":867,"date":"2010-09-19T14:57:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=867"},"modified":"2012-08-03T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T20:50:22","slug":"two-by-the-masqueraders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Two by the Masqueraders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Masqueraders<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Masqueraders – I Don’t Want Nobody To Lead Me On <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – Masqueraders – Love Peace and Understanding <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

This is going to be a very busy week, with the real world moves mixed in with DJ gigs on Sunday in NYC (past) and next Sat and Sun in DC.<\/p>\n

However, your intrepid blogger will not be stayed from the swift completion of his appointed rounds,
\nThe two tunes I bring you today are by one of the more interesting soul groups that I\u2019ve come across.
\nI first came to the Masqueraders <\/strong>in a rather roundabout way, after discovering that one of my favorite tunes on the Dynamics<\/strong> \u2018First Landing\u2019 album was in fact a cover of a Masqueraders tune.<\/p>\n

This sent me a-Googling, and I discovered that the Masqueraders were the very definition of a journeyman soul group, having recorded for a wide variety of labels (under a few names) between the late 50s and the mid-70s, never having made a significant impact despite some very high quality records.<\/p>\n

Finding out about the group via the Dynamics connection, I set out in search of their 45s, keeping their name filed in the back of my mind.<\/p>\n

The basic framework of their story follows them from Texas, to Detroit, and then on to Memphis where they recorded a big chunk of their best stuff alongside the legendary Chips Moman<\/strong> and Tommy Cogbill<\/strong> (for a detailed look at their history check out these articles at The B-Side<\/a>, Solid Hit Soul<\/a><\/strong> and SoulExpress<\/strong><\/a>).
\nBoth of today\u2019s tunes were recorded during their late-60s Memphis period, and were both written by the group.<\/p>\n

\u2018I Don\u2019t Want Nobody To Lead Me On\u2019 (from 1967) was the Masqueraders tune I heard performed by the Dynamics. The tune was also covered by Rosey Grier<\/strong> (who also recorded for AGP) and a group called the Gentlemen Four<\/strong>. It\u2019s a great piece of rough harmony soul, with some great guitar work. The Masqueraders\u2019 version is (at least to my ears) far superior to the Dynamics (excellent) cover (I haven\u2019t heard the other two versions).<\/p>\n

1969\u2019s \u2018Love Peace and Understanding\u2019 is a fantastic, upbeat number with era-specific lyrics that reinforces the group\u2019s songwriting cred. Like \u2018I\u2019Don\u2019t Want Nobody\u2026\u2019 it sounds like a rougher, groovier take on the Detroit group sound of the time, like a funkier, more aggressive Four Tops.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Masqueraders hit the R&B charts a few times in the 60s, and again with a later version of the group in the 80s.<\/p>\n

Many of their best 60s and 70s records are included in the comp \u2018The Masqueraders Unmasked\u2019.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tunes and I\u2019ll be back on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Don’t forget, I’ll be heading down to Washington, DC for a weekend of fun. Saturday evening 9\/25 I will be spinning at Marvin<\/strong> with my man DJ Birdman, <\/strong>bringing the finest in funk, soul and disco to perk up your ears and move your feet. The following day I will be spinning a set at the DC Record Fair<\/strong>. Fall by and say howdy if you’re in the area.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/p>\n


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The Masqueraders Listen\/Download – Masqueraders – I Don’t Want Nobody To Lead Me On Listen\/Download – Masqueraders – Love Peace and Understanding   Greetings all. This is going to be a very busy week, with the real world moves mixed in with DJ gigs on Sunday in NYC (past) and next Sat and Sun in […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46,20,11,17,14,12,18],"tags":[163,166,164],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digging","category-dj-gigs","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-dZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3030,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}