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By Larry, August 29, 2013 9:22 am

Listen/Download The Ordells – Sippin’ a Cup of Coffee

Greetings all

The grand finale of the week is approaching, which means that it’s Funky16Corners Radio Show time again.

I come to you each and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio with the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl.

If you can’t be there at airtime, you can always subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, or grab and MP3 here at the blog.

The tune I bring you this fine day is a long time favorite and a very, very deep selection.

I first grabbed my copy of the Ordells ‘Sippin’ a Cup of Coffee’ many years ago.

What brought me to it – aside from Philly soul completism – was the grooving, organ/guitar instro ‘Big Dom’ on the flip.

It wasn’t until it had been in my crates for more than a year that I finally flipped the disc over and had my mind blown.

There, hidden on the other side of the 45, was one of the most epic pieces of sweet soul I had ever heard.

Simply referring to it as sweet soul does ‘Sippin’ a Cup of Coffee’ a disservice, since it is for more than that.

Produced by Bob Finiz and arranged by Richie Rome, the tune is a stunning piece of atmospheric, otherworldly soul.

The instrumental track is layered with piano, tremolo guitar (verging on the psychedelic) and surging waves of strings, all wrapped in beautiful harmonies.

You often see the term “lost classic’ tossed about, but in this case it is entirely fitting.

‘Sippin’ a Cup of Coffee’ isn’t some wild outlier (see the Twilights ‘Shipwreck’). It is sublimely written, produced and performed, and would – in a just world – have been a huge hit.

Yet it doesn’t appear to have even charted in Philadelphia.

The Dionn label only released 13 45s (eight of which were by their biggest hitmakers Brenda and the Tabulations) and one LP (also B & the Ts) between 1966 and 1968.

The Ordells 45 was released in 1967 and as far as I can tell they never recorded another note. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to discover that they had nothing at all to do with the instrumental, which leaves us with one, absolutely incredible performance, committed to vinyl and then largely forgotten.

I have seen several references that indicate that ‘Sippin’ a Cup of Coffee’ has similarly affected many others, and that it may have something of a lowrider following, but aside from that, it remains the property of soul collectors.

As far as I know it has never been reissued (or at least not currently), which is damn shame, since this is a record that people need to hear.

I hope you dig it, and that you have yourselves a great weekend.

See you on Monday

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 27, 2013 11:07 am

Junior Brantley

Listen/Download Junior and the Classics – Wise Up

Listen/Download Junior and the Classics – Mix Up (A Go Go)

Greetings all, and welcome to the middle of the week.

I cannot remember when or where I picked up the 45 I bring you this fine day, but I suspect I did grab it because it was on the Magic Touch label (and how in all honesty could I pass on a record called ‘Mix Up a Go Go’???)

Magic Touch was a Milwaukee, WI based imprint operated by a cat named Lenny LaCour. Between the mid-60s and the 80s Magic Touch released a variety of sounds by groups like Harvey Scales and the Seven Sounds (the Magic Touch 45s I already had) and Marvelle and the Blue Match, in addition to the occasional garage single.

Junior and the Classics had their first (and only) hit with a raving cover of Rufus Thomas’s ‘The Dog’ on the Groove label in 1964, which was a regional hit in Milwaukee.

They released three 45s on Magic Touch (with Wise Up appearing on two of them), with the last, the funky ‘Kill the Pain’ being picked up for national distribution by Atco.

The band was led by keyboardist Robert ‘Junior’ Brantley who went on to play and record with the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Roomful of Blues.

I haven’t been able to find any pictures of the band, but some cross-referencing (and their sound) suggests to me that they were an integrated outfit, racially and stylistically.

‘Wise Up’ (from 1966) is a swinging dancer with pounding bass and rhythm guitar, augmented by handclaps, drums, combo organ and a really interesting saxophone line.

The flip, ‘Mix Up (a Go Go)’, which opens with a groovy drumbreak is one of those great numbers where all the hot dances get namechecked. I really dig the chorus as well as the piano.

If you dig the sounds, and feel the need to file some Junior and the Classics in your record box, know that they fall into that grey area of not-too-expensive b/w not-too-cheap either, running in the $25 to $50 range (with the sought after ‘Kill the Pain’, the most expensive).

I hope you dig the tunes, and I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 25, 2013 12:59 pm

Listen/Download The Exotics – Boogaloo Investigators

Greetings all

I was recently digging through my own crates to pull out some stuff for the radio show (and the blog, natch).

When I almost flipped past the record you see before you, I just shook my head.

You see, the Exotics ‘Boogaloo Investigator’ is a long, LONG time favorite and a very “early days” funk 45.

Picked up many years ago, after (if memory serves) hearing it on a mix tape, and for not a lot of scratch (though it’s a lot more expensive now), the 45 was a perennial in my funk sets, and one of those records that always gets me to kick up the volume when it comes on in the car.

Oddly enough, after all these years, I had never found any information about the group, thanks in large part to the fact that the fine folks at Excello didn’t feel it was necessary to include composer or producer credits on either side of the 45.

Fortunately for all of us, while a-Googling, I happened upon some info on Sir Shambling’s Deep Soul Heaven site.

As it turns out, the Exotics were a South Carolina group that recorded two 45s for the Nashville-based Excello organization in 1967.

‘Boogaloo Investigator’, a JB-inspired workout with a touch of novelty (re Dragnet) is a mover and a groover.

Their second 45, ‘Let’s Try to Build a Love Affair’ (you can hear it over at Deep Soul Heaven) is one of the great Otis Redding sound-alikes (by vocalist John Riley) ever committed to vinyl.

I hope you dig the sounds, and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 22, 2013 4:10 pm

The Rivingtons Listen/Download The Rivingtons – Deep Water

The end of the week is at hand, and so is the Funky16Corners Radio Show, which rolls into your ears this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you can’t dig at the time of air, you can keep up with the sounds by subscribing to the show as a podcast in iTunes or grab an MP3 from the archive here at the blog.

The tune I bring you today is one of those surprising b-sides that we all love so much (at least I do). I had been on the lookout for a copy of the Rivingtons 1962 epic ‘Papa Oom Mow Mow’ (the ur document that wrought the Trashmen’s ‘Surfin’ Bird’) for a while, and was quite pleased when I finally filed a copy, my sons and I ‘Papa Oom Mow Mow’-ing all  over the house for at least a week.

So, anyway…I set to digimatizing and flip the platter over to check out the b-side, and get knocked right on my ass, and not in the way I expected. The Rivington’s stock in trade was wild R&B/soul madness, so when I dropped the needle on ‘Deep Water’ I was – as they say’ taken aback.

There, on the flipside of one of the funniest/fun-nest records ever put to wax, was a deep, deep, epic lament. ‘Deep Water’ – written by the group members – is a heart-wrenching bridge between classic group harmony and early soul, and the group vocal is without exaggeration, positively spellbinding.

Listening to the lyrics, one can imagine ‘Deep Water’ having started out as a tongue-in-cheek tale of woe, but in this case it’s all about the delivery, sounding here like a guy that’s made it all the way to the edge of hopelessness and is about to ask directions to suicide. No matter how many times you listen to it, the juxtaposition between ‘Deep Water’ and ‘Papa Oom Mow Mow’ never gets any less stark or shocking.

I love this record, and I hope you do too.

Have yourselves a great weekend, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 20, 2013 7:25 pm

Peaches and Herb

Listen/Download Peaches and Herb – I Need Your Love So Desperately

Greetings all

Welcome to the middle of the week here at the Corners.

The track I bring you today is one of those ‘I know the name but not the song’ numbers.

Outside of dedicated soulies. Most of you will only know Peaches and Herb via their 1970s hits like ‘Shake Your Groove Thing’ (R&B #4 1978) and ‘Reunited’(R&B and Pop #1 1979).

I wouldn’t discover until many years later, that the duo (with interchangeable Peaches-es) had a recording career that went back to the mid-60s.

Formed in Washington, DC by Herb Fame (nee Feemster) and Francine ‘Peaches’ Barker, the duo had their first hit with ‘Let’s Fall In Love’ in 1966.

The tune I bring you today appeared as the B-side to their 1967 R&B Top 10 hit ‘For Your Love’, a cover of Ed Townsend’s 1958 hit.

Though that tune has a late night slow dance/make out session appel to it, you really need to flip the disc over for a little high octane, Northern Soul dance floor heat.

‘I Need Your Love So Desperately’ is a fast moving, melodic feature with a propulsive horn section and great back and forth between Fame and Barker.

The duo went on to chart steadily through 1970 (with Marlene Mack replacing Barker in 1968) and then, with Linda Green in the ‘Peaches’ spot, started up again in 1977.

I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 18, 2013 2:46 pm

Effie Smith

Listen/Download Effie Smith – Teenage World Pts 1&2

Listen/Download Effie Smith – Harper Valley PTA Gossip

Greetings all

I hope the new week finds you well.

The tunes I bring you today are artifacts of (the end of) a time when an artist could settle themselves in a niche and ride it for all it was worth.

I picked up Effie Smith’s ‘Harper Valley PTA Gossip’ years ago (pre-portable) and when I got it home I was pleasantly surprised to discover a sassy old lady engaged in a telephone conversation. The rap was based (see title…) on Jeannie C Riley’s 1968 mega-hit ‘Harper Valley PTA’, and it was groovy in an ‘Aunt Esther goes funky’ way.

Flash forward about half a decade, and I’m down in DC spinning (and digging, natch) at a record show and what do I turn up but a whole album of Effie Smith telephone raps!

The thought of a performer working a gag so thoroughly hasn’t been in vogue since the crest of the Bill Seluga ‘You Can Call me Ray’ wave, and I had to admire her persistence.

As it turns out, Effie Smith had been working it out in the world of jazz and R&B since the 1930s (?!?), working with Lionel Hampton, Benny Carter and Johnny Otis.

It is important to note that Effie was also mother to the one and only producer/songwriter Fred Smith, a very familiar name to fans of LA soul.

The first track I bring you today will be familiar to those of you that listen to the Funky16Corners Radio Show, from my use of a drop from ‘Teenage World Pts 1&2’ (1965). The voice of the husband was provided by Effie’s real life spouse,  John Criner.

The second track is the aforementioned ‘Harper Valley PTA Gossip’, which grazed the R&B Top 40 in November of 1968.

Effie Smith passed away in 1977 at the age of 63.

I hope you dig the tracks, and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 15, 2013 11:37 am

Mr. Oscar Brown, Jr.

Listen/Download Oscar Brown, Jr. – Forty Acres and a Mule

Greetings all

The end of the week is here, and so I must remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show will once again take to the airwaves this Friday at 9PM on Viva Radio.

If you cannot be there at airtime, you can keep up with the sounds by subscribing to the show as a podcast in iTunes, or by grabbing an MP3 here at the blog.

I thought I’d end the week with something very cool and a bit unusual.

I would assume that the jazzers and the Mods among you might already be familiar with the name, and music of the mighty Oscar Brown, Jr.

Brown was the kind of multi-faceted talent, singer, poet, composer, political activist that you don’t see too much these days.

In a career that lasted from his teens until his death at the age of 78 in 2005, Brown worked as a soul jazz singer, composer of music and lyrics, social activist and teacher.

The tune I bring you today is a fantastic introduction for those of you that don’t know him, and a reminder for those of you that do of how great he was.

’40 Acres and a Mule’, recorded in 1964 (released in 1965 on the LP ‘Mr Oscar Brown Jr Goes to Washington’), is simultaneously swinging, humorous, cutting and incisive.

Brown, who was one of the earliest proponents of putting lyrics to jazz instrumentals (you probably know Nina Simone’s version of his lyrics to ‘Work Song’), also wrote ‘The Snake’, which became a Northern Soul favorite when recorded by Al Wilson.

He was a master whose body of work ought to be much better known.

I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 13, 2013 11:48 am

The Astors

Listen/Download The Astors – Candy

Greetings all

Hows about something for the middle of the week that is, to borrow a phrase from the mighty Emperor of Vout, Slim Gaillard, is mellow as a cello?

The Astors were a Memphis-based group that recorded several 45s for Stax between 1961 and 1967.

Formed as the Chips, the group included Curtis Johnson, Eliehue Stanback, Sam Jones, Richard Harris, and Richard Griffin. That line-up recorded one single for Stax as the Chips.

After Griffin left the group, they changed their name to the Astors.

‘Candy’ – which borrows part of its melody from Ferde Grofe’s  ‘On the Trail’ from his ‘Grand Canyon Suite’ – was the group’s only hit, almost making it into the R&B Top 10 in the summer of 1965.

Written by Steve Cropper and Isaac Hayes, and featuring sweet group harmonies and a hard-hitting Stax rhythm section (listen to those drums) ‘Candy’ has enough pop for the radio and more than enough heat for the dancers.

The flip side, ‘I Found Out’ is also very cool.

I hope you dig the cut, and I’ll see you all back here on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 11, 2013 3:32 pm

The Spencer Davis Group

Listen/Download The Spencer Davis Group – Trampoline

Greetings all

Welcome to another groovy week here at the Corners.

I thought I’d get things started this week by dipping into the Hammond crates for something cool.

Oddly enough, I dug up this German Fontana pressing of the Spencer Davis Group’s ‘Trampoline’ right around the corner from my crib here in Central NJ.

I was unfamiliar with either of the tunes on the 45, and since it was a dollar (and I really dig the SDG) I grabbed it and took it home.

Good thing too, because in addition to the cool ‘When I Come Home’ (co-written by Jackie Edwards and Stevie Winwood), you get the very swinging bit of Mod soul on the flip.

Released in 1966, ‘Trampoline’ sees our boy Stevie working it out on the organ and piano with enough groove grease for the dancers.

The 45 fell in between their big British hits ‘Somebody Help Me’ and ‘Gimme Some Lovin’ and grazed the UK Top 10.

I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 8, 2013 1:24 pm

The Popular Five

Listen/Download The Popular Five – I’m a Love Maker

Greetings all

The end of the week is here, and so is some more soul.

But first, I should remindyou that the Funky16Corners Radio Show will be on the air this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. You can also subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes or grab and MP3 from the archive here at the blog.

I grabbed the 45 you see before you today a while back at a record show.

Though I had never heard anything by the Popular Five, I had seen ‘I’m a Love Maker’ pop up on countless lists, and since I’m a sucker for Minit soul 45s, I grabbed it and took it home.

What I ended up with was a superb two-sider, with a hard-charging cover of Thurston Harris and the Sharps ‘Little Bitty Pretty One’ on the b-side (heard in one of my 2013 Allnighter mixes, Everybody Dance Now) and today’s selection on the topside.

As it turns out, the Popular Five, who released a number of 45s between 1967 and 1970 on labels like Rae Cox, Minit and Mr Chand had roots that went way back into the early days of doowop and one of that genres biggest hits.

Thanks to tenor singer Jimmy Keyes, the Popular Five are connected to the Chords, the Bronx, NY group that had a huge hit with ‘Sh-boom’ in 1954.

The group changed members (and names) over the years, and by 1967, when they made their first record as the Popular Five, the members were Warren Wilson, Keyes, Jessie Huddleston, Arthur Dicks and Demetrius Clare.

‘I’m a Love Maker’ is a great slice of funky soul (dig that bass line). The group’s harmony singing roots are evident in the solid wall of voices in the chorus.

As I mentioned before, the flipside is a killer, so make sure to check it out if you haven’t already.

As always, I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 6, 2013 7:42 pm

Ron Dunbar aka Ronnie Love

Listen/Download Ronnie Love – Chills and Fever

Greetings all

It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to the middle of another week here at Funky16Corners.

The tune I bring you today is one one of those cornerstones of the Mod R&B/soul “thing” that is not only in demand (got fifty smackers?) but twice as groovy as any money you have to fork over to get your own copy.

Ronnie Love*, was a pseudonymous appellation for the man that would go on to have a stellar songwriting career as Ron Dunbar (co-writing Band of Gold, Give Me Just a Little More Time, Patches among many others).

He laid down ‘Chills and Fever’ in 1960 and managed to make it to #15 R&B and #72 Pop.

‘Chills and Fever’ is one of those records with an undeniable, hard charging beat, a wall of saxophones, pounding piano and a very solid vocal by Love/Dunbar.

The tune was fired up again a few years later when the mighty Tom Jones (still in the grip of his R&Beat thing) laid into it towing a truck full of TNT (check out this live performance from 1965!).

As I alluded to in the beginning of the post, Ronnie Love’s ‘Chills and Fever’ is a huge fave with the Mod and Northern Soul crowds, and as a result is not cheap or easy to score.

It should also not be confused with Paul Kelly’s Northern fave of the same name, which is an entirely different song.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

*Chills and Fever was first issued as by ‘Johnny Love’ on the Startime label a few months earlier
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By Larry, August 4, 2013 1:10 pm

French picture sleeve

Listen/Download Bo Diddley – Wrecking My Love Life

Greetings all

Welcome to another week here in the land of vinyl.

The disc I bring you today is something I picked up while I was out digging last year.

You all know that I hold Bo Diddley in the highest possible esteem.

He was a gunslinger, surfer, scooter owner and general badass, as well as one of the architects of the one true rock and roll.

Though there are those that will boil him down to his essence, that being the famous “beat”, there are others (like me, for instance) who know what a truckload of manure that is.

Bo made a LOT of amazing music in his career (some of it beyond amazing, like cornerstone of modern music amazing) but unfortunately, outside of collectors of vinyl (on the deep side), much of his later catalog is not well known.

The track I bring you today is (believe your ears or not) from 1967, where it appeared on the flipside of the decidedly non-boogaloo-ish, ‘Boogaloo Before You Go’.

‘Wrecking My Love Life’ packs a metric ton of swagger into its two minutes and 47 seconds, with a thick, spicy bouillabaisse of echoey, reverbed guitar, harmonica, and female backing vocals.

The first time I heard this one, I had to go back to make sure that it wasn’t an earlier side being reissued because it sounds like 1962, holed up in a bunker where 1967 keeps a knockin’ but can’t get in.

The record stomps arounds like some kind of R&B kaiju, crushing buildings, cars and tanks under its massive feet.

Solid stuff from the master, and one I think you’ll want to play over and over again.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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