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Dig the first live broadcast of the Iron Leg Radio Show!

Posted by funky16corners on June 29, 2017
Posted in: Iron Leg Radio Show, Music, Uncategorized. Leave a comment

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Greetings all.

Just a quick note to let you know that the monthly live broadcasting of the Iron Leg Radio Show will commence this Saturday, 7/1 (and will continue on the first Saturday of every month going forward) at 9AM at Mixlr.com/Funky16Corners

You can tune in and join the chat, and the shows will all continue to be archived as a podcast in iTunes, TuneIn, Stitcher, Mixcloud and right here at Iron Leg.

So join me on Saturday!

Peace

Larry

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It’s time for the 2017 Funky16Corners Pledge Drive.

Since Iron Leg, and the Iron Leg Radio Show podcast are dependent of the continued health of Funky16Corners, and continue under the banner of the Funky16Corners Radio Network, it behooves me to post these links here, too.

The pledging will also take a slightly different form this year, moving to Patreon (click here or on the logo below to go to the Funky16Corners page) , where you will be able to spread your contributions out over the entire year, which will help cover the ongoing server/broadcast/hardware expenses. This year has seen the upgrade of a couple of crucial pieces of equipment, and any help you fine people can provide will keep the machinery moving here at Funky16Corners central. So please dig deep so we can continue to do the same!

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Tina Mason – Are You There

Posted by funky16corners on June 25, 2017
Posted in: Bacharach/David, cover versions, Culture, Iron Leg, Music, pop, Uncategorized. Leave a comment

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Tina Mason

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Listen/Download – Tina Mason – Are You There

Greetings all.

Before we get started this week …

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It’s time for the 2017 Funky16Corners Pledge Drive.

Since Iron Leg, and the Iron Leg Radio Show podcast are dependent of the continued health of Funky16Corners, and continue under the banner of the Funky16Corners Radio Network, it behooves me to post these links here, too.

The pledging will also take a slightly different form this year, moving to Patreon (click here or on the logo below to go to the Funky16Corners page) , where you will be able to spread your contributions out over the entire year, which will help cover the ongoing server/broadcast/hardware expenses. This year has seen the upgrade of a couple of crucial pieces of equipment, and any help you fine people can provide will keep the machinery moving here at Funky16Corners central. So please dig deep so we can continue to do the same!

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The record you see before you made its way into my crates a few years back via the inclusion of an early version of the the song ‘What’. That tune, written by HB Barnum was originally recorded by Judy Street and went on to become a Northern Soul classic.

The version by Tina Mason (recorded/released shortly after the Street 45) is a slightly slower, more stylish affair, but still cool.

Mason had a short but interesting recording career, first with Tina and the Mustangs on Capitol, then on her one full album.

She had a certain amount of Southern California success, having performed at Disneyland and then becoming a regular on ‘Where the Action Is’ (where she met her future husband, Phil ‘Fang’ Volk of Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Her 1967 album ‘Is Something Wonderful’ was produced by David Axelrod and arranged by HB Barnum (no doubt the reason she recorded ‘What’) and features a wide variety of sounds.

Mason’s stuff walked the line between girl-group and soul, as well as a certain kind of sophisticated pop.

Today’s selection is a great cover of the Bacharach/David ‘Are You There (With Another Girl)’ (title truncated on Mason’s album), which was a hit for Dionne Warwick in 1965.

Mason’s version is a great showcase for her voice, backed with a lush arrangement, sounding like a kinder, gentler wall of sound. There’s a booming bass, shimmering rhythm guitar and understated strings and brass, with a female chorus backing Mason’s lead vocal.

The production by Axelrod is typically first-rate, and it’s a wonderful take on a great song.

The LP is apparently pretty hard to find these days, but it was reissued (with bonus tracks) on CD in 2008 by Now Sounds.

I hope you dig the track, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Shotgun Express – Curtains

Posted by funky16corners on June 18, 2017
Posted in: 45s, British Beat, Culture, Hammond Organ, Instrumental, Iron Leg, Uncategorized. Leave a comment

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Shotgun Express

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Listen/Download – Shotgun Express – Curtains

Greetings all.

Before we get started this week …

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Make sure you check out my weekly show for WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio, Testify! . If you dig Funky16Corners and/or Iron Leg I think you’ll dig it. I’ll be on the air every Wednesday night from 10-12, live, so tune in when you get a chance!
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I come to you today with one of the grooviest mod Hammond 45s ever pressed into polyvinylplasticwhatever.

The Shotgun Express were a short lived sort-of-supergroup, featuring Rod Stewart, Beryl Marsden, Peter Bardens, John Mooreshead and Phil Sawyer (Bardens, Mooreshead and Sawyer all having made their way through the UK beat and beyond scenes).

The group only ever waxed two 45s (gathered in Europe on a single EP), only one of which was released here in the US, all in 1966.

Today’s selection is the flipside of the first Shotgun Express 45 (the topside of which was featured in the space previously).

‘Curtains’ is a hard charging, dance floor ready feature for organist Bardens, as well as some absolutely pounding bass and drums that muscle their way through the mix like a truck speeding down the street.

It is a superbly played and produced side, that manages to blend R&B and jazz expertly with enough verve to get the kids in the bespoke suits off their scooters and on to the floor grooving.

Big thanks go out – as always – to my man Mr Luther who first fed this one into my ears via mixtape decades ago.

I was lucky enough to finally score a copy of my own (the UK issue, with the US 45 on Uptown being even rarer) a few years ago, and it holds a place of honor in my crates.

I hope you dig it as much as I do, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Testify Episode #4

Posted by funky16corners on June 11, 2017
Posted in: 45s, Au Go Go, Baroque, Beatles-esque Sounds, Brill Building, British Beat, Bubblegum, Buffalo Springfield, Country Rock, cover versions, Culture, folk rock, garage punk, Iron Leg, Laurel Canyon, Leon Russell, Music, pop, psychedelia, Rock, Sunshine Pop, Testify!, Uncategorized. Leave a comment

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Testify Intro
Globetrotters – Globetrotters Theme (Kirshner)
Gil-Scott Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Flying Dutchman)
James Rivers – Fonky Flute (Kon-Ti)
Horace Andy – Show and Tell (Money Disc)
JJ Barnes – Don’t Bring Me No Bad News (Ric Tic)
Gloria Jones – Tainted Love (Champion)
Intruders – Every Day Is Like a Holiday (Gamble)

Gabor Szabo – Pretty Girl Why (Blue Thumb)
Gary Burton Quartet – Sweet Rain (RCA)
Nino Rota – Cimitero (RCA)
Grateful Dead – Dark Star (45 Edit) (Warner Brothers)
Grateful Dead – Doin’ That Rag (Alt) (Warner Brothers)
Neil Young – The Loner (Warner Brothers)
Kaleidoscope – Egyptian Gardens (Epic)
Kaleidoscope – Pulsating Dream (Epic)
Harumi – Talk About It (Verve)

Waylon Jennings – Love of the Common People (RCA)
Waylon Jennings – You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (RCA)
The Gosdin Brothers – Sound of Goodbye (Capitol)
Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers – So You Say You Lost Your Baby (Columbia)
Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers – I Found You (Columbia)
Everly Brothers – T for Texas (Warner Brothers)
Flying Burrito Brothers – Hot Burrito #2 (A&M)
Poco – Hurry Up (Epic)

Darelycks – Bad Trip (Fine)
Mouse and the Traps – Lie Beg Borrow and Steal (Fraternity)
The Choir – I’m Going Home (Roulette)
The New Yorkers – Mr Kirby (Scepter)
Them – One Two Brown Eyes (Parrot)
Terry Reid – Superlungs (Epic)

Colin Blunstone – Caroline Goodbye (Epic)
Four King Cousins – God Only Knows (Capitol)
Four King Cousins – I Fell (Capitol)
Paul Williams – Trust (A&M)
Al Wilson – The Dolphins (Soul City)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers – I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor) (Like)

Testify Episode #4. Originally broadcast 06/07/2017

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Now dig this!

Offered today for your delectation is the most recent episode of my show Testify! which sails out over the airwaves live, every Wednesday night from 10-12 on WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio.

Since it is at its heart as Iron Leggy as it is Funky16Cornered, I thought you might dig it.

I also bring you news, that being that the Iron Leg Radio Show will – as part of the Funky16Corners Radio Network – be going live as well, on a monthly basis.

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I will provide more details as the date of the first episode approaches.

Until then, dig Testify! (tune in on Wednesday night) and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #74

Posted by funky16corners on June 4, 2017
Posted in: 45s, acoustic, Au Go Go, Country Rock, cover versions, Culture, folk rock, Iron Leg, psychedelia, Rock. Leave a comment

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Why hello there!

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ILRS#74


John Fred and his Playboy Band – Miss Knocker (UNI)
Fever Tree – Come On In (Ampex)
Fever Tree – She Comes In Colors (Ampex)
Litter – For What It’s Worth (Probe)
Bob Theile, The New Happy Times Orchestra and Gabor Szabo , with the California Dreamers, Tom Scott and Bill Plummer– Fakin’ It (Impulse)
Bob Theile, The New Happy Times Orchestra and Gabor Szabo , with the California Dreamers, Tom Scott and Bill Plummer – Krishna (Impulse)
Ted Heath and His Music – Satisfaction (London)
Ted Heath and His Music – Dontcha Hear Me Calling To Ya (London)
Ted Heath and His Music – Spinning Wheel (London)
David McCallum – 1-2-3 (Warner Brothers)
Duane Eddy – Batman (Reprise)

Newbury Park – My God and I (Cream)
Bobbie Gentry – Apartment 21 (Capitol)
Kris Kristofferson – Blame It On the Stones (Monument)
Randy Horan – The Daydream (Hickory)
Odetta – My God and I (Polydor)

Phil Moore Jr – You Showed Me (Atco)
Unspoken Word – And It’s Gone (UA)
Unspoken Word – On a Beautiful Day (UA)
Lennon Sisters – Green Tambourine (Mercury)
Lennon Sisters – Everything That Touches You (Mercury)
CB Victoria – Any Time at All (GRT)
Any Trouble – Second Choice (Stiff)
Any Trouble – Growing Up (Stiff)
Any Trouble – The Name of the Game (Stiff)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #74 – 176MB/256kbps

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Greetings all.

Welcome to this month’s episode of the Iron Leg Radio Show.

We have lots of groovers for you this month, including lots of new arrivals, a set of cover versions of John Buck Wilkin songs and some old faves as well.

So pull down the ones and zeros, dig it and I’ll see you next week.

Make sure you subscribe to the podcast in iTunes!

Peace

Larry

 

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