First in a continuing series of posts featuring classic soul/funk instrumentals, mixed with radio spot ads for vintage blaxploitation films.
The Oceanliners - Funky Pants
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Funky Crimes
Friday, June 1, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
James Brown Month - Last Minute Entry
I've been swamped with various nonsense this month, to the extent that I've been unable to participate in our celebration of James Brown. But I'm not going to let the month end without bringing you something... but you may wish that I hadn't after hearing this rare gem!
There's not a lot of information to be had about Ms. Farmer, but she lived with JB for a time in 1966-67 (one source suggests that she lived with him later, after he and his second wife Deirdre split up), and she only ever made one record, which debatably is one too many. This page on a seemingly-defunct message board has some anecdotes about her, and a batch of cool photos of James, from which I've stolen the photo below. Go check it out!
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| (L to R: "Jeannie" (last name unknown), Florence Farmer, JB, Terry Brown, Teddy Brown |
Rustic Rampage @ Fool's Paradise Twin !
THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY ONLY !
REDNECKS ! CRACKERS !! HILLBILLIES !!!
PEA-PICKERS !!!!
SO MANY COUSINS ! SO LITTLE TIME !!
TWO THOUSAND MANIACS
(1964, dir. Herschel Gordon Lewis)
B/W
HILLBILLY HOOKER
(aka HONEY BRITCHES)
(1971, dir. Donn Davison)
FULL SERVICE SNACK BAR
featuring:
featuring:
Tasty corndogs! Refreshing beverages! Savory BBQ!
...and - for this engagement only - Mr. Pibb on tap!
...and - for this engagement only - Mr. Pibb on tap!
*No Outside Food Or Drink*
THE FOOL'S PARADISE TWIN ACCEPTS
JAMES BROWN BLACK & BROWN STAMPS
Psychotronic Eats The New Yorker's Brain
It's getting strange out there. The latest issue of The New Yorker features "A Psychotronic Childhood," being a pocket autobiography by Colson Whitehead, one focusing on the author's lifelong affection for fleapit cinema. The Psychotronic Encyclopedia Of Film and its author, Michael Weldon, receive significant mention throughout. A thoughtful, non-ironic take on Ray Dennis Steckler's films and others of comparably Incredibly Strange persuasion is given significant column inches within the current issue of this bastion of snootiness. Go figure.
"What is real? Are you certain you know what reality is?" - The Wizard Of Gore
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
James Brown Month: James Brown Says It Loud pt. 3 - Tell Me That You Love Me
Wrapping up our series on the loudest, craziest, least-in-control James Brown numbers ever (which, as you may recall, I have designated a subgenre all its own, "Free James Brown"), we arrive at the top of the heap, the apex of insane, the single wildest track JB ever laid down on wax. It's the B-Side of "Don't Be a Drop Out", "Tell Me That You Love Me".
It's a live cut, and if you lop off the 10 second intro, it's about a minute and a half long. A wild two guitar duel opens the show, and then the band and James come in, playing as fast and screaming as loud as they can possibly muster. There is no structure, a sudden stop in the middle eats up another couple of seconds, and the track fades out on just about the craziest scream JB or anyone ever screamt, which I believe might just be a loop of the crazy scream he screams right before the stop. All in all, crazy.
Apparently cobbled together from some live tapes by Bud Hobgood, Teo Macero style, this track is guaranteed to clear the floor of all but your bravest dancers while everyone else runs away holding their ears in pain. SO GREAT.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
James Brown Month: Can I Get Some Help? - Give It Up or Turnit Loose
Here's a (to me) previously unknown, "Funky Drummer"-ish, instrumental version of "Give It Up Or Turnit Loose". I found it on an Iranian three song EP on the Top 4 label, and it's credited to the James Brown Band. The EP also has the standard versions of Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You Falettin' Me Be Mice Elf Again" and Bill Moss's "Sock It to Me Soul Brother", so I assume that it was a fairly standard licensing deal, if there was any deal at all, that resulted in this record's release. I have been unable to find any reference to it elsewhere. I don't, however, have absolute knowledge of every obscure Brown-involved cut ever recorded, and as far as I know this might just be tucked away on the corner of some obscure or not-so-obscure album or 45 I have overlooked, maybe under a different name. The sound on this is slightly dim, typical for a 45 with about six minutes on a side. Would love to find a fuller sounding version. Anyone out there know of this version's appearance on a record other than this one?
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