The Return of Funky16Corners Halloween!

Greetings all.
This is going to be a busy couple of weeks.
We have Halloween this Friday (thus the repost of last years Funky16Corners Radio Halloween Spooktacular), Election Day next Tuesday – for which I’ll be posting something cool – and then in the middle of next week the four year anniversary of the Funky16Corners Blog, for which I’m working on a special mix.
I have some personal committments toward the end of the week, so this maybe the last post until the election post on Sunday night.
If all goes as planned, the anniversary mix (Number 60!) will be up next Wednesday, after which the Funky16Corners fam will be hitting the road for a well deserved vacation.
I hope you dig the spooky stuff, and I’ll work on keeping the sounds coming.
Happy Halloween!
Peace
Larry

Originally posted 10/29/07

We Now Return to Blacula Meets Black Dracula!

Funky16Corners Radio Halloween Spooktacular!?!

Playlist

1. Lou Rawls – Season of the Witch (Capitol)
2. Souls Unlimited – The Raving Vampire Pt1 (Wig Wam)
3. Bill Doggett – The Worm (Columbia)
4. Clea Bradford – My Love’s a Monster (Cadet)
5. Fred Wesley & the JB’s – Doin’ It To Death (People)
6. King Coleman – The BooBoo Song Pt1 (King)
7. Roger & the Gypsies – Pass the Hatchet Pt1 (Seven B)
8. Fame Gang – Spooky (Atlantic)

To hear this mix, head on over to the Funky16Corners Radio Podcast Archive

BOO!!!!
Heh, heh, heh…
I mean…Greetings all.
Halloween is upon us, so I thought it only fitting that we here at Funky16Corners should brew something up for the holiday. In the spirit of Dr. Frankenstein, my monster is also made from recycled parts, as every track in this mix (except for the drops) has appeared here in the past, a couple of them are even single tracks from Halloweens past.
Though there is an underlying spirit of Halloween consolidation, presenting these great songs for people who may have gotten on the Funky16Corners bus a few stops down the line from the rest of you, I have to admit to a certain preoccupation with what some would call “real world moves“. In all honesty, family obligations have taken a step up in the past week and there are some important things that need to be addressed which prevented me from stealing a few hours to exhume, and digi-ma-tize some “new” old stuff for your delectation.
Rest assured that it will not always be thus, and give the mix (not the individual tracks, which I provide as a courtesy, as always) a listen as I’ve tracked down some interesting, seasonal drops that take some of these tunes – barely related to Halloween – and recasts them in a spooky light (you may have to use your imagination a little, but then again that’s what Halloween’s all about). There are appearances by Halloween luminaries such s Count Floyd, Criswell, Gomez & Morticia Addams, The Simpsons, the Kids In the Hall, Monty Python, and of course Casper the Friendly Ghost.
You get Lou Rawls souling up Donovan, funky bloodsuckers from the Carolinas, a rare meeting between Frank Herbert and Bill Doggett, the mighty Clea Bradford with a romantic Frankenstein’s monster of a kind, funky murder from Fred and the JB’s, a shocking turn by King Coleman, the Axe Murderers national anthem, and in closing, a slightly funky reworking of the Classics IV.
So, I hope you dig it and that you have an excellent Halloween.
I’m going to go trick or treating with my wife and sons, and we’re all going to watch ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown’ three or four times.
Peace
Larry

PS I got a rock…

PSS Don’t forget to check out this week’s mix at Iron Leg!

Merl Saunders RIP

Merl Saunders
1934 – 2008

Listen/Download – Merl Saunders – Soul Groovin – From Funky16Corners Radio v.35 – Soul Organs Pt2 – MP3

Listen/Download – Merl Saunders – Soul Roach Pt2 from Funky16Corners Radio v.55 Soul On – MP3

Listen/Download – Merl Saunders – Julia – from Funky16Corners Radio v.24.5 The Beat Goes On – MP3

Listen/Download – Merl Saunders & Heavy Turbulence – A Little Bit of Righteousness – from Funky16Corners Radio v.53 Ain’t It The Truth- MP3

Greetings all.
I had something entirely different already written up for the beginning of the week, but unfortunately I just heard that one of my fave organists, and one of the truly interesting lights of the Bay Area music scene, Merl Saunders, had passed away at the age of 74*.
Though I’m sure I knew of Saunders during the few years I was going to see the Grateful Dead – Saunders had recorded with various members of the band, especially Jerry Garcia – I didn’t really start to get into his music until I dug up one of his Galaxy label soul jazz sides.
Merl Saunders was born and raised in the Bay Area, and before he started grooving with the hippified element, he fronted a slamming organ combo, recording for a variety of west coast labels, including Galaxy and Early Bird.
Though I managed to find most of his early 45s over the years, it was only earlier this year that I finally scored a copy of the rare ‘Soul Grooving’ LP by the Merl Saunders Trio and Big Band.
Saunders had a fantastic touch on the Hammond, working soul jazz, funk and rock with equal facility. His organ stylings have been a repeated part of the Funky16Corners Radio experience, appearing in no less that four different mixes.
The tunes I’m posting today range from his earliest soul jazz efforts right through to some of his funkier sounds.
The first cut is my personal favorite, the cut ‘Soul Grooving’, which features Saunders on both organ and electric piano. Dig the thumping bass and groovy guitar solo on this one.
The second tune is the flip side of his 45 for the collectible Early Bird label, ‘Soul Roach Pt2’, which is as pure a piece of soul jazz organ shuffle as you’re likely to come across.
The third track is another fave, and very unusual in the Saunders catalog, a version of the theme from the Diahann Carroll TV series ‘Julia’, another cut on which he doubles on organ and piano. I love the electric piano solo on this one. Very groovy indeed.
The final cut is one side of the 1970 45 recorded by Saunders with the group Heavy Turbulence. I’ve heard that the funky ‘A Little Bit of Righteousness’ features none other than Mike Bloomfield of the Electric Flag on guitar. Saunders went on to record an album called ‘Heavy Turbulence’ in 1972 which featured both Garcia and Tom Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
In the 70s, Saunders went from working a soul groove to laying down a jamming groove as a part of the extended Grateful Dead family, recording with the Dead, and on solo albums by Garcia and Robert Hunter , and eventually recording the classic ‘Blues From The Rainforest’ LP.
He was felled by a stroke in 2002, and it was reportedly complications from that ailment that took his life this past week.
He will be missed.
Peace
Larry

*I know that the blog is starting to look like the soul/funk obituary page, but when someone of note passes, it’s important to honor their memory. I’ve always thought that the obit page was the last stop for many interesting people before passing on to the great beyond of their choice. With any luck, if you’ve never heard anything by Merl Saunders, and you dig what I posted, you’ll continue to investigate his work, keeping his music alive.

PS Make sure to head over to Iron Leg for a new edition of the Iron Leg Digital Trip Podcast devoted to 60s pop.

Sylvester – You Make Me Feel Mighty Real (and Epilogue)

Sylvester

“Listen – Sylvester – You Make Me Feel Mighty Real – MP3″

“Listen – Sylvester – You Make Me Feel Mighty Real (Epilogue) – MP3″

Greetings all.
I hope all is well, and that you’ve got your loins girded (or un-girded as the case may be) for the weekend.
I decided to bring the week to an end with one of my all time favorite disco tracks, and a tune that I’ve loved since it came out.
If you’ve followed the Funky16Corners blog, you’ll already know that despite the funk and soul-osity of this blog, my musical tastes range far and wide, and have evolved considerably over the years.
To go back to the statement (no doubt a paraphrase) generally credited to Duke Ellington, there are two basic kinds of music, good and bad, and despite the fact that there are many folks out there that would question my taste – this being a chaque’un a son gout monde, mon freres – I like to think that I get it right a lot of the time.
To those of you to whom the term disco is poison, I ask you to bear with me. To the rest of you, I request only that you make sure that your dancing shoes are on securely.
I’ve broached this particular subject before, but for the many who do not have the time or inclination to hang on my every word, I’ll recap briefly. Like many of my ilk and age group, I was loathe to like much disco, and double-extra-loathe to admit what I did like, through an unpleasant combination of teenage homophobia, warped suburban rockist class consciousness and a misguided longhair’s purism.
As the years have passed, and I have matured (somewhat anyway) I have shed most of the aforementioned stupidity in favor of what might be considered a somewhat more enlightened frame of mind.
As I have also related, back in my teens, when it was all but unheard of among my antisocial circle to like disco, let alone make mention of the fact, there were a couple of records that absolutely blew my mind. ‘You Make Me Feel Mighty Real’ by Sylvester is one of those.
Back in the day, when – despite the fact that there weren’t too many cartoons I was interested in on Saturday mornings – I still remained fastened securely to the couch, eyes glued to the television set, with substandard broadcast fare still a superior option to getting up and wandering out into the light of day.
One byproduct of the couch-potato-ness, was the fact that American Bandstand would pop on around noon. Now, as byproducts go, American Bandstand ranks right up there with the kind of things corrupt manufacturers use to stretch dog and cat food. However, in between the Shaun Cassidys, and the Leif Garretts there appeared the occasional gem, like the Fleshtones, and one boring Saturday morning, Sylvester.
Now, I was probably glued to the sofa with a bowl of soggy Captain Crunch, half paying attention, when the polyester form of Dick Clark introduced someone who I’d never heard of, the synths started pumping and Sylvester boogied out onto the stage. I’m not positive, but I’m pretty sure that the studio audience of California teens were as surprised as I was, when what looked like a great big woman (He did say ‘Sylvester’, right?) danced out on the stage and started to tear it up.
I was transfixed.
When I first heard ‘You Make Me Feel Mighty Real’, I was probably 20 years away from hearing the term Hi-NRG, but I think I grokked it anyway, because there is no better example of a genre that carried a name like that than this song.
Oddly enough, I already owned another (maybe the first) example of the genre, in the 45 of Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’, produced by Giorgio Moroder. Moroder created many hits with the Hi-NRG sound, using electronic keyboards and percussion, and his American counterpart was none other than Sylvester’s producer Patrick Cowley.
Sylvester James got his start in show business as part of the legendary drag troupe the Cockettes, and went on to record a couple of albums with the Hot Band for the Blue Thumb label in the early 70s. By the middle of the decade he had signed to the Fantasy label, and started making some of the most infectious records of the disco era.
‘You Make Me Feel Mighty Real’ appeared on his second LP ‘Step II’ in 1978. It made a minor mark on the pop charts, but held the Number One spot on the Billboard Dance chart for six week in the summer of that year. It went on to become an anthem of sorts, and was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in 2004.
Bottom line is that ‘You Make Me Feel Mighty Real’ is a hard driving record, not only as disco, but as soul. It’s often forgotten – since so much mainstream disco was so formulaic and awful – but there were a lot of great singers, songwriters and producers working in the genre (as well as the many DJs that helped to shape the sound), and Sylvester was in the first rank of vocalists. His singing in general, but especially on this record is a thing to behold, filled with joy and daring, his falsetto soaring over the pulsing beat. It’s hard to listen to ‘You Make Me Feel Mighty Real’ and keep from moving. Whether you shift surreptitiously on your seat, or leap up with your freak flag flying high, there is no denying the power of a record like this.
Sadly, Sylvester had a tough time of it, peaking just as the genre was beginning to decline, under pressure from his label to tone down his image, and most tragically succumbing to AIDS at the age of 40 in 1988.
Do yourselves a favor, rip this one to CD, take it out to your car, pop it into the player and drive around with the windows open, playing it at full volume (you’ll probably make the stiffs in your neighborhood a little uneasy, which is always a good thing). You’ll feel a lot better, and you’ll be sending a little Sylvester back out into the ether.
See you on Monday.
Peace
Larry

PS I’ve also included the Epilogue, which closes out the LP side that starts with ‘You Make Me Feel Mighty Real’.

PSS Don’t forget to head over to Iron Leg for some storming Irish R&Beat

PSSS Check out Paperback Rider as well (just updated).

Rudy Ray Moore (aka Dolemite) RIP

RUDY RAY MOORE
1927 – 2008

Greetings all.
I come to you today with the sad news that Rudy Ray Moore, better known far and wide as Dolemite has slipped the surly bonds of earth and passed on to a special, profane section of heaven, dedicated to providing eternal rest for the truly outrageous.
Moore wore a lot of very funky hats (literal and figurative) during his five decade long career, working as an R&B singer, pioneering stand-up comic, actor and all around provocateur.
He is best known for creating the fast-talking pimp Dolemite and portraying him in the films ‘Dolemite’ and ‘The Human Tornado’, as well as including the character on some of his comedy albums.
In remembrance of the great one I’m reposting the special guest mix I did for Jazz Syndicate Radio back in January.
There are several sound bites from Dolemite films, and the mix closes out with what I consider to the RRM’s finest musical effort, ‘Put Your Weight On It’, on which he is accompanied by the Fillmore Street Soul Rebellion.
I hope you dig it, and that you raise a glass in memory of one of the baddest motherfuckers ever to walk the earth.
See you on Friday.
Peace
Larry

To hear this mix, head on over to the Funky16Corners Radio Podcast Archive

Funky16Corners Meets Dolemite!
Special Mix for Jazz Syndicate Radio

Bill Blacks Combo – Shoo Be Doo Be Doo Be Do Dah Day (Hi)
Mighty Hannibal – Jerkin’ the Dog (Shurfine)
Kool & the Gang – The Gang’s Back Again (Dee Lite)
Rufus Thomas – Sister’s Got a Boyfriend (Stax)
Johnny Goode – Payback (Solid Hit)
Bill Cosby – Road Runner (WB)
Mr C & Funk Junction – Hot Butter’n’All (Hurdy Gurdy)
Della Reese – Compared to What (Avco)
Toby King – Mr Tuff Stuff (Federal)
Marva Whitney – It’s My Thing (King)
Triplett Twins – Get It (Thomas)
Joe Haywood – Sing Me A Cornbread Song (Decca)
Willie Mitchell – Pearl Time (Hi)
Rudy Ray Moore & the Fillmore St Soul Rebellion – Put Your Weight On It (Generation)

Greetings all.
I figured I’d finish out the week by posting the mix I put together for Tony C over at Jazz Syndicate Radio in the UK. The show will actually be rerun one more time (Friday morning 1/11 at 11AM EST) so if you’d like to experience the whole shebang (i.e. my mix surrounded by two excellent sets by Tony) then that’ll be your last chance since Jazz Syndicate Radio does not currently archive. This will be a quick one, and I’m sorry to say that there’s no ZIP file associated with this one (I never make them for the guest mixes I do), so you’re just going to have to listen to Dolemite laying it down between songs.
Some of the tunes herein will be familiar to longtime devotees of the Funky16Corners thang, as about half of them have appeared here over the years, but then we’re always picking up new visitors here, and since (as far as I can remember) I haven’t included any of these tunes in a mix before, the “experience” (as it is) ought to be fairly fresh (nice run-on sentence, huh?).
Things get started with a very groovy Stevie Wonder cover by Bill Black’s Combo (dig the electric piano and guitar on this one) and sail right on through one of my all-time faves (by anyone, maybe one of my Top 10) from the aptly named Mighty Hannibal. We move on to a tasty one from New Jersey’s own Kool & the Gang, head on to Memphis for a banger from Mr. Rufus Thomas, and then back on up to the Motor City for a classic by the great Sidney Barnes, working incognito under the nom de guerre ‘Johnny Goode’.
The next cut is another by the once funny, and occasionally musical Bill Cosby. Though the last tune I featured by Cos (his version of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’) drew some derisive hoots from the audience, I still ride for Cosby’s detours into the world of soul. Sure, his take on ‘Roadrunner’ isn’t going to make anyone forget Junior Walker, but I dig it anyway. Next up we flip over one of the truly brilliant funk 45s (Lou Courtney’s ‘Hot Butter’n’All’) for the instrumental version thereof, which bears the same title yet is credited to ‘Mr C and Funk Junction’ instead.
Fans of ‘Touched By an Angel’ might be shocked when they lend an ear to a funky side from Miss Della Reese. Here Della whips out a cover of Eugene McDaniel’s ‘Compared to What’ that – although she edits the lyrics a tad – is still smoking.
Things continue to smoke with Toby King’s contribution to the ‘Big Stuff’ wars of the early 70’s with his own answer, entitles ‘Mr Tuff Stuff’.
If that wasn’t hot enough for you, please fasten your seatbelts and put your seats in the upright position, because Miss Marva Whitney is about to bring the turbulence. Another “answer” record (though really a barely disguised cover), her ‘It’s My Thing’ is the very soul of intensity. How her vocal cords survived this session is a mystery.
I know little of the Triplett Twins other than they were from Chicago. I can only speculate on the fortuitous arrival of twins at the Triplett house (imagine, had they been triplets??).
Joe Haywood’s ‘Sing Me a Cornbread Song’ is – in the vernacular of the kids – HEAT. It resides on the border of Soulville and Funk City, and is as sweaty, heavy and groovy as they come. Dig that guitar!
The Master from Memphis, Willie Mitchell joins us with a cover of Andre Williams ‘Pearl Time’. It may lack the saucy je ne sais quois of the original, but – to paraphrase the mighty Lee Dorsey – EVERYTHING Willie Mitchell does is soulful, so…you know…dig it.
We arrive at last call with a musical contribution from the man who gave this mix its dramatic flavor, Mr. Rudy Ray Moore. There’s another – more Hammond-y – version of ‘Put Your Weight On It’ out there, but seriously, WHY would you want a Rudy Ray Moore record with less Rudy Ray Moore on it? Here, we meet (and exceed) USDA Rudy Ray Moore daily allowance. Put your weight on it INDEED.
Peace
Larry

Funky16Corners Radio v.59 – Hammond Madness!

Funky16Corners Radio v.59 – Hammond Madness!

Playlist

Dave Baby Cortez – Twine Time (Roulette)
Georgie Fame – The In Crowd (Imperial)
Jackie Ivory – Thank Heaven (Atco)
Mark 3 Trio – Mr G (Downhill)
Al Kooper – Soul Hoedown (UA)
Bill Doggett – Fingertips (Columbia)
Leon Haywood – A River’s Invitation (Convoy)
RD Stokes – Partying Groove (II Bros)
Art Jerry Miller – Mod Strut (Enterprise)
Doc Bagby – Mix It Up (VIM)
Gene Ludwig – Sticks and Stones Pt1 (Atlantic)
Hollis Floyd – Everything Is Everything (Silloh)
Keith Mansfield Orchestra – Moanin; (Pronit)
Richard Groove Holmes – 1-2-3 (Prestige)
David Rockingham – Little Davie (Dee Dee)
Odell Brown – Hard to Handle (Cadet)
Bobby Emmons – Blue Organ (Hi)

To hear this mix, head on over to the Funky16Corners Radio Podcast Archive

Greetings all.

I hope the new week finds you well, and ready to download, reload and grease up the joint with a steaming plate of Hammond.
The mix I bring you today is the tenth Hammond-theme edition of the Funky16Corners Radio Podcast. Since Funky16Corners Radio v.8 (Hammond Internationale) back in August of 2006, we’ve covered funk, soul, R&B, long players, and the Hammond stylings of James Brown (to date the only single-artist Hammond mix). If you don’t know by now, that I ride hard for some Hammond*, you haven’t been paying attention.
The mix we bring you today, F16Rv.59, has some unusual things by some old faves, a couple of rarities and as always, a surplus of groove.
Things get started with a smoking version of Alvin Cash’s ‘Twine Time’ by the great Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez. I wouldn’t say I’m a huge fan of DBC’s mid-period Roulette stuff, but it does contain some gems, and this track is a case in point.
Georgie Fame has appeared in this space many times before. Known best to fans of British Beat, Fame was a great Mose Allison/Jon Hendricks influenced vocalist as well as a killer organist. His albums always included a couple of instrumental workouts (including one of my all time faves ‘El Bandido’), and his version of Dobie Gray’s ‘The In Crowd’ is a great example.
I don’t know much about Jackie Ivory. I was first hepped to his playing via a mix sent to me by a friend, and eventually picked up a jukebox EP of his on the Atco label. His sound was a lot more jazz than soul, but groovy nonetheless.
The Mark 3 Trio is one of my personal Hammond ‘white whales’. As far as I can tell, there were probably two different organ trios working under that name. The first, recorded for IN, Atco and Wingate. The other (the one in this mix) recorded an extremely rare LP at (and released by) a ski lodge, and featured none other than a young Grover Washington Jr. on sax. The fidelity on the LP is very poor, so forgive any weakness in sound quality.
Al Kooper’s ‘Soul Hoedown’ is a track from his soundtrack to a very cool film, ‘The Landlord’. Though the tune is short, it does sport a drum break, and some great playing by Kooper.
Bill Doggett was one of the greatest masters of soul jazz organ, recording classic sides for many labels, including the crate diggers staple ‘Honky Tonk Popcorn’. He recorded a couple of LPs for Columbia, including 1963s ‘Fingertips’. The title track, a cover of the Little Stevie Wonder classic is a swinging killer. If you can find the album, grab it as it also includes ‘The Worm’.
Leon Haywood is best known as a singer of sweet soul like ‘It’s Got to Be Mellow’ but those in the know will tell you that he was also an organist, often placing instrumentals on the B-sides of his vocal 45s. Prior to his establishment as a vocalist, he recorded a number of instro-only 45s for a variety of labels. His cover of Percy Mayfield’s ‘River’s Invitation’ is one of the best.
I can’t tell you anything about R.D. Stokes, other than that he recorded two 45s, and that he’s my second favorite organist from Watts, following Labert Ellis. While ‘Partying Groove’ may lack the ferocious attack of ‘My Sandra’s Jump’ (which appeared in Funky16Corners Radio v.23.5, Old School Hammond) but it’s still very cool.
Art Jerry Miller is another one of those shadowy figures whose name pops up here and there on a number of Memphis recordings. He apparently worked with Willie Mitchell (he wrote the slamming ‘Up Hard’), prior to recording a 45 and an entire LP for the Stax subsidiary Enterprise, which included the track ‘Mod Strut’.
Doc Bagby was an old school Hammond player of the first order, laying down a long string of wax for many, many labels through the 50’s and 60’s. He never really made it into soul jazz (or out and out soul) but recorded some outstanding R&B, of which ‘Mix Up’ is my personal favorite. It’s one of those records that sound like its recording produced a strain on the equipment in the studio, needles in the red, vibes verily jumping from the grooves.
Gene Ludwig is the epitome of the Hammond aficionado’s favorite. Not well known to the rank and file, yet treasured by those in the know, Ludwig has been a master of the keyboard for six decades. He recorded for a number of small labels (and a few nationals like Mainstream and Atlantic). His version of Ray Charles ‘Sticks and Stones’ is ond of his finest.
Other than the fact that he hailed from Philly (like so many great organists), and got his start working alongside Philly legend Johnny Styles, I can’t tell you much about Hollis Floyd. Though I’m partial to his swinging cover of the Chi Lites ‘Have You Seen Her’, the tune in today’s mix, ‘Everything is Everything’ (the flip of the sought after ‘Black Poncho is Coming’) is excellent.
Keith Mansfield is one of the kings of the UK Library music field. His version of Bobby Timmons’ soul jazz standard ‘Moanin’ hails from the ‘All You Need Is Keith Mansfield’, which also included the original version of ‘Soul Thing’ (the one with the snappy break). I’m not positive, but I suspect the organist here is none other than Alan Hawkshaw (he of the Mohawks).
Richard Groove Holmes is another one of the accepted past masters of the soul jazz organ. His very groovy version of Len Barry’s ‘1-2-3’ has a nice, swinging Latin vibe that I dig very much.
David Rockingham recorded one of my all time fave organ sides – ‘Soulful Chant’ – one of several tunes he recorded for the Josie label. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find that he recorded sides for a few other labels, including the grinding ‘Little Davie’ for the Dee Dee imprint.
The great Odell Brown (and his Organizers) were the subject of an extended feature back at the old Funky16Corners web zine. Following his extended run with the group, he went on to record two albums under his own name, one for Cadet and one for Paula. His version of ‘Hard To Handle’ comes from the Cadet LP, a tribute to Otis Redding.
This edition of Funky16Corners Radio comes to a close with a track that has actually appeared here before – featured as a single track – Bobby Emmons’ ‘Blue Organ’. Emmons was a stalwart of the American Studios crew, playing keyboards on countless rock, soul and country sessions during the 60s and 70s. ‘Blue Organ’ is one of his more soulful efforts, and can be scooped up on either 45, or on the LP ‘Blues With a Beat With An Organ’ (great title, huh?).
That all said, I hope you dig the mix, and I’ll be back later in the week with something unusual. Stay tuned as well. The fourth anniversary of the Funky16Corners Blog is approaching rapidly, and it will coincide with the 60th Funky16Corners Radio Podcast. I have something very cool planned, so watch for that in a few weeks.

Peace
Larry

*I’m sure that somewhere in this mix, and definitely in a few earlier ones there have been more than a few organ sides that were created on some other make of organ, but since the vast majority are Hammond, I figured I’d go with that.

PS Make sure to stop by Iron Leg for some great UK R&Beat…

PSS Check out Paperback Rider as well