{"id":983,"date":"2010-10-19T13:27:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T18:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=983"},"modified":"2012-08-03T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T20:38:06","slug":"mary-wells-cant-you-see-youre-losing-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Mary Wells – Can’t You See (You’re Losing Me)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe lovely Miss Mary Wells<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Mary Wells – Can’t You See (You’re Losing Me) <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Once again I\u2019m neck deep in a busy week, but what better time for an invigorating and restorative shot of soul?<\/p>\n

Like anyone who tuned into an oldies station in the 1970s (or 80s, 90s or 00s) Motown looms large.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately \u2013 and I\u2019ve spoken on this issue at length in the past \u2013 what you basically get in that format is the same dozen of so songs by the label\u2019s biggest artists, repeated ad infinitum to the point of nausea.<\/p>\n

It was just such a situation that turned me off to the wonders of Motown for a long time, until many years later, when the sounds of Northern Soul came into my life.<\/p>\n

Though the phrase Northern Soul, used as a descriptive can be unbelievably wide-ranging, were you to approach it from the broadest possible angle, what you\u2019re hearing is musicians and singers, in and out of Detroit making an effort to duplicate the soul sounds coming out of that city, in and out of Motown (and I say in and out because so many Motor City records on other labels were played by the same general group of musicians creating the magic for Berry Gordy<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

One of those oft-repeated songs was \u2018My Guy\u2019 by Mary Wells<\/strong>. A big hit in the Spring of 1964, that song cemented Mary Wells in the minds of a generation (and beyond).<\/p>\n

What a lot of folks don\u2019t know, is that Wells left Motown soon after, and spent the rest of the decade bouncing to 20th Century Fox, Atco and Jubilee, making a few minor dents in the charts but nothing like her time at Motown.<\/p>\n

Despite that fact, she continued to make great music, including today\u2019s track, recorded in 1966 for Atco.<\/p>\n

I first heard this tune via my man Agent 45<\/strong>, who had picked it up on a mispressed\/labeled 45. When I heard \u2018Cant\u2019 You See (You\u2019re Losing Me)\u2019 I flipped my wig.<\/p>\n

What a fucking stormer!<\/em><\/p>\n

Not only is the song a bit of Northern Soul genius (that honking baritone sax is the shit!), with a powerful, propulsive dancer\u2019s beat, but the song itself is a killer.<\/p>\n

Written by none other than Barrett Strong <\/strong>(another tie back to Motown), and recorded in Chicago with a brilliant arrangement by Sonny Sanders<\/strong>, another former Detroiter who had worked on a number of classics at the Golden World label, ‘Can’t You See (You’re Losing Me)’ is yet another example of a record that should have been a huge hit, yet only finds its reward in the hearts of soulies decades on.<\/p>\n

\u2018Can\u2019t You See (You\u2019re Losing Me)\u2019 has since become a staple of my Northern Soul box, and always brings someone up to the decks to see what\u2019s playing.<\/p>\n

Love, love, love this record.<\/p>\n

I hope you do too,<\/p>\n

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

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


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