Kris Holmes – Say You Love Me (A sweet soul primer)
Gene Chandler – River Of Tears
The Vanguards – Girl Go Away
Unnatural Funk Band – Living In the Past
Mike & The Censations – There Is Nothing I Can Do About It
The Kaldirons – To Love Someone
Darondo – Didn’t I
Timothy Wilson – Baby Baby Please
The Barons – Kid Stuff
Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr – You Can’t Blame Me
The Chi-Lites – Living In The Footsteps Of Another Man
Honey & The Bees – Please Have Mercy Baby
Wilmer & The Dukes – I Do Love You
Continental Four – Take A Little Time
The Emperors – I’ve Got To Have Her
The Miracles – Baby Don’t You Go
The Whispers – Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong
Jackie Ross – Change Your Ways
The Lovelites – Oh My Love
Myron & E – If I Gave You My Love
The Impressions – Say You Love Me
Listen/Download Funky16Corners Presents: Kris Holmes – Say You Love Me (A Sweet Soul Primer)
A Note From Kris Holmes: Dedicating this mix to the late Bob Abrahamian:
I woke up on Saturday morning & grasped for my phone, casually checking emails, facebook etc before dragging myself out of bed to make a coffee. Only to see posts from mutual friends saying that our friend Bob had passed away. It stopped me in my tracks & tears began to fall from my eyes.
I couldn’t believe it was true, some sort of stupid joke, but messages to friends confirmed it. I’m typing this only a few hours after hearing the news. I first got acquainted with Bob in the late 2000s and since then we have spent a lot of time talking/dealing/researching 45s & just chatting about stupid stuff (always with the stupid stuff). Living way down here in Auckland, well, it’s kinda miles away from anywhere and let’s face it, makes my hobby of researching vintage Soul 45s a little bit tricky.
I try to get to the US as much as possible, but I also tend to rely on record friends I trust when getting them to help with research. Bob was one of those friends I always turned to & he always came through. Whether he was trying to call some artist I thought I had a lead on, or sending me additions for my Greenville & Beyond website just because he’d found one I didn’t have or even just sending me a New Orleans 45 he’d bought but knew that I’d appreciate more than him & since he didn’t get that sound so much he thought I should have it. Bob was one of our scene’s good guys.
No doubt about it.
We would tease each other mercilessly about stuff, I would tell him to get the hell off Ebay & go get some sunlight. He would threaten to fly to Australia (not the same place as New Zealand for all you geographically challenged Americans) and kick my ass for playing the wrong (uptempo/funk) sides of my 45s. When he knew I was going through tough times with relationships his motto to me was always “just remember Kris, tell yourself, she’s a skeezer & move on, we’ll laugh about this next time you’re in Chicago”.
I have so many great memories of fun exchanges with the guy, it’s ridiculous, like the time I trolled him under a fake name on Soul Source & he got all riled up & then figured out it was me (there followed another “ok, you got me good this time, but I’m still gonna fly to Australia & kick your ass”).
Although it was plain to see that Bob had a ferocious appetite for almost every group soul 45, we also shared a love of early 70s raw blues 45s & would swap info on those too. The guy just knew so much, he was like an encyclopedia, not only of groups & labels & the inter-relatedness of such things but also he seemed to have a finger of the sounds other would dig. The care-packages of 45s he would send me from time to time were always guaranteed to contain a few killers (and of course they were always packaged & cleaned superbly). He was like the rain man of record packing & 45 cleaning.
I buy a lot of 45s, but Bob, he bought A LOT of 45s. He is (was, fuck) one of the few people who could call me a lightweight & back that up. Didn’t stop me calling him a lightweight back, but he took it on the chin, hehehe.
I remember some of the conversations we had & it was like 4am Chicago time & I’d say “dude what are you doing still up?” & he’d say “checking ebay, buying 45s”. A great anecdote was that in his apartment building, he got so many 45s in the mail from the mailman that whenever someone else in the neighborhood ordered 45s the mailman delivered them to Bob also. I guess the mailman just didn’t even look at the address, just saw like-packages & dropped them all for Bob!
He had a passion for food, movies & arcade games too but Group Soul 45s were what’s what. I know his Sitting in the Park radio show hipped me to so much stuff, the interviews & time he spent tracking down forgotten soul singers, jaw-dropping.
Today, I woke up to the news that my friend Bob is gone, I miss him, I wish I had said more in our last conversation (instead of just some throwaway chat about an obscure Cadet 45). When I recorded this Sweet Soul Primer Mix last month, I told him he’d be proud of me for finally playing the right side of the 45s for once (he said “finally”, but that he’d still kick my ass).
Rest in Peace my friend. I am gutted you won’t be there waiting for me in Chicago & I’m also gutted you will never get to fly to Australia & try to find me in Auckland there.
– Kris Holmes
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Kris is one of my favorite selectors, with a serious collection and outstanding taste. I always come away with new records added to my want list after listening to his radio show. I’m so happy that he was able to contribute a mix to the Allnighter this year.
See you tomorrow.
Larry
Greetings all
Welcome to the 2014 edition of the Funky16Corners Allnighter/Pledge Drive.
This is the ninth annual Pledge Drive, and the fifth Allnighter.
If you haven’t experienced the Allnighter/Pledge Drive, it can be explained as thus: once a year, the Funky16Corners Blog, your home for the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove vinyl for almost 10 years comes to you with hand outstretched, asking for donations to offset the operating expenses of the web site.
The Funky16Corners ‘operation’ (as it is) included the Funky16Corners and Iron Leg blogs, the mix archives for both (containing well over 200 mixes), and the Funky16Corners Radio Show/Podcast (another 200+ files available for download, or through subscription in iTunes).
The money raised during the pledge drive goes to pay for the server space and fees associated with hosting the whole megillah.
As has been attested to many times in the past, Funky16Corners has humble beginnings, starting out on the old (free) Blogger service, moving to WordPress, and then to self-hosted WordPress. The move to paid hosting was necessitated by increased bandwidth usage, as well as the need for a place to store all the mixes (and eventually the radio show episodes).
The Allnighter/Pledge Drive is a once-yearly occurrence, in which yours truly, and some of the finest selectors out there whip up new mixes for your delectation.
In past years, I have posted all of the mixes in a single post, and left it up for a week.
This year, the quality and quantity of the mixes spurred me on to try something a little different, i.e. posting a new mix each weekday for a period of just over two weeks. This way, each selector gets their moment in the spotlight, and the mixes get spaced out so that the listeners don’t suffer from mix-fatigue.
Each day, you’ll get a fantastic mix (there really are some amazing ones this year) from one of my favorite DJs, many of whom have participated in the Allnighter before, as well as a couple of great new contributors.
So, if you dig what we do here at Funky16Corners, click on the Paypal link and toss some cash into the barrel.
Contributors will receive a 2014 Allnighter badge, as well as some stickers from the archive (as long as they last).
This year I will also be drawing the names of contributors at random for groovy swag, including CDs and 45s from Cultures of Soul, and CDs from Light in the Attic and Secret Stash.
So, dig the sounds for the next couple of weeks, and make sure you stop back on a daily basis to pick up new mixes and contribute for a chance to win some cool stuff.
Thanks, and as always,
Keep the faith
Larry
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Also, the brand new Funky16Corners ‘Keep Calm and Stay Funky’ stickers have arrived! The stickers are 4″ x 3″ and printed on high quality, glossy stock. They are $2.00 each, with free shipping in the US ($2.00 per order shipping outside of the US). Click here to go to the ordering page.
Also, make sure that you check out the links below to the Be The Match Foundation and POAC (click on the logos for more info).
PS Head over to Iron Leg too.
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