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Funky 45's
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| Cher - I
Walk On Gilded Splinters (Atco) Say what you want about professional showbiz anomaly Cher, but this is a great record. Culled from her foray into Muscle Shoals '3614 Jackson Highway' (which also contains the breakbeat fave 'For What It's Worth') Cher puts her own spin on the Dr. John classic. A lot less spooky than the OG, but a little bit funkier. |
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| Otis
Clay - She's About A Mover (Cotillion) / Dottie Cambridge - He's About A
Mover (MGM) The Sir Douglas Quintet's 'She's About a Mover' is both one of my fave tunes ever, but also one of the great white-boy soul sides of the 60's. How cool is it then to hear the song redone in a "real" soul setting? Very cool as it turns out on these two discs. Soul/Blues shouter Clay does a fine version of the tune, playing it fairly close to the original arrangement. Dottie Cambridge cranks the energy up about 250% with some kinda funky combo organ sound and tears the roof off of the tune. Cambridge (who has sides that are popular with the Northern Soulies) had popped up in a reference as being a white singer. Further investigation (from better sources) seem to indicate that 'Dottie Cambridge" is actually none other than Southern soul hitmaker Dorothy Moore (who hit with 'Misty Blue' on Malaco). The Cambridge version appeared on the 'Pow City' comp. |
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Vontastics - Never Let Your Love Grow Cold (St Lawrence) Nothing makes me happier than finding a new record that kicks ass. In this case it was found for me by my pal Haim at www.longtallsimon.com. I previously only knew the Vontastics via their grooving cover of 'Day Tripper' (also on Chicago's St Lawrence label). 'Never Let Your Love Grow Cold' is a certified raver with a great guitar lick and that patented, high quality Monk Higgins production. |
| Jimmy Hicks - I'm Mr.
Big Stuff (Big Deal) Funky Nawlins drops in with an answer to Jean Knight's 'Mr. Big Stuff' (though I'm guessing this one sold about 4,990,000 fewer copies). Hicks and band drop things down and put a little more New Orleans street into the record, making things just a little bit funkier. |
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Armando Peraza -
Funky Broadway (Skye) Interesting latinized/jazzified take on the funky chestnut by a man that started out backing George Shearing and ended up backing Carlos Santana. The Skye label was a group effort of Gary McFarland and Gabor Szabo (among others) that also released discs by Grady Tate, Lena Horne as well as McFarland and Szabo themselves. |
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