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Thursday, 18 May 2023

Rickey Calloway & The Tennessee Band [2023] - There Was A Time [Funk Night Records]


One of interest, perhaps, to the Northern Soul brigade is a new version of James Brown's "There Was A Time" by Rickey Calloway & The Tennessee BandAlthough, as Brown once said himself, it may be a case that 'It's Too Funky In Here'?

It was was big on Northern Soul dancefloors via Gene Chandler's 1968 cover. A few other versions exist including one by Marvin Holmes & The Uptights ("Ooh Ooh The Dragon And Other Monsters" LP) and a couple of instrumental versions by The Soulful Strings and Dee Felice Trio all in 1969. Prince did a psychedelic version on "Musicology Release Party".

Calloway is from Florida who released an album via Henry Stone in 2010. His journey goes back further than that though as he released a single way back in 1970 on Jayville which was reissued by Kenny Dope and Keb Darge's Jay-Dee label in 2004 in the latter part of  Keb's Deep Funk days. In fact Kenny Dope did a remix of Brown's version in 2008 on a compilation "Verve // Remixed⁴"

Another single appeared in 1984 and then a hiatus until the 2010s when he released a few singles which featured the Dap Kings followed by others with different backing bands such as The Soul Surfers, The Soul Motivators and now The Tennessee Band.

It's was released digitally yesterday (16 May) and more than likely to be on a "7 from Funk Knight shortly.

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Details
Rating: 8.5
Explicit: N
Genre/Style: Funk / Northern Soul
Format: Single
Media: Digital
Label: Funk Night Records
Cat No: None
Date: 16/05/2023
Key/BPM: 8B/132
Price: £1
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1 comment:

USMAN47 said...

We can listen to all these versions which are quite honorable, but no one can and will come close to James Brown, including the great Gene Chandler. Note a beautiful mid-tempo instrumental version by Dee Felice Trio.

Yves