And The Beat Goes On
December 7, 2008 at 1:39 pm
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don’t wear her.
~ Mary Quant
” Sunday Groove ”
01. Richard Groove Holmes - Grooving with Mr. G
Comin’ On Home (1971)
02. David Axelrod - Holy Thursday
Holy Thursday/Song Of Innocence (Stateside, 1968)
03. Buddy Rich Orchestra - The Beat Goes On
The Beat Goes On [7"] (Pacific Jazz Records, 1967)
04. Herbie Hancock - Bring Down the Birds
Blow-Up (The Original Soundtrack Album) (1966)
05. Reuben Wilson - Orange Peel
Blue Breakbeats (1969)
06. John Densmore - Light My Fire
Light My Fire (1969)
07. Banbara - Shack Up
Make It Funky (1993)
note: Nostalgia, fun and strangely classy. I like groove. If there is any difficult street beat that can work anywhere if blend carefully, it’s groove. It can hide, behind melody, it can thump in the foreground or it can simply be. It’s untamed wild soul that sneaked up on you. All you have to do is generate beat in your head and start bopping. Anyway …a little change of tune while everybody is doing final. MdM is in slight comatose at the moment, everybody is busy or away. Will try to keep the beat on ….
see also: Groove (wiki)
image: Mary Quant store, London
Buddy Rich Orchestra’s version is actually Sonny and Cher cover.
lyrics:
CHORUS:
The beat goes on, the beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da
Charleston was once the rage, uh huh
History has turned the page, uh huh
The mini skirts the current thing, uh huh
Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh
Chorus
The grocery store’s the super mart, uh huh
Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh
And men still keep on marching off to war
Electrically they keep a baseball score
Chorus
Grandmas sit in chairs and reminisce
Boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss
The cars keep going faster all the time
Bums still cry “hey buddy, have you got a dime”
Chorus
love the banbara track xxx
nice sunny mix, esp. since its so damn cold around here.
my dad loved this sort of laid back sound when i was a little girl, so it’s pretty nostalgic. but i can’t help but feel a little numb to it, musically, because it’s so often used as background music in movies.
it’s a shame when a certain sound is heard only in certain contexts, so you become so conditioned to hearing it that way. you can’t appreciate it “raw”, for its own personal merit, but instead think of it only as a supplement to something else.
maybe it’s just me though.
but the last track is crazy, i love it. love funk.
>> hanui said, December 7, 2008 @ 2:47 pm ·
love the banbara track xxx
ha.. yeah. I don’t think they play anything interesting or off beat on radio anymore. I think in that regard blog is much better scene for music because nobody is in charge and a lot of things can be said.
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>> andrea said, December 7, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
it’s a shame when a certain sound is heard only in certain contexts, so you become so conditioned to hearing it that way. you can’t appreciate it “raw”, for its own personal merit, but instead think of it only as a supplement to something else.
It’s from 2 decades ago. I think nobody hasn’t heard groove, it doesn’t have novelty value. But if there are things that MdM really like it’s groove and bossa. Sharp, crisp and multi layered rhythm. Break beat is even better. Groove beat flow goes to funk, rap and hip-hop…and it gives flavor to ambient. It also serves as posting trick, like punctuation with a spark. … it jolts the front page every now and then. :D . In the early day, things sort of drifting, so we created little device to tighten sound every once in a while. Otherwise the sound will really drift to total dream land and become unlistenable… (it becomes easy listening central.)
In term of tracks, I think a lot of what get posted are the type that feels “dry”, sort of like beat or texture template for sound theme. They are ones that make you itch turning tracks into samples… To me at least they work like a new temporary pointer for next series of larger sound theme …
… and it’s fun to reprogram’s Moka’s head with beat. lol…
also. Most of Beastie Boys work are pure funk and groove. And those are popular.
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btw, was too lazy to look for better picture. Was more thinking of something symbolic of 70’s mod/ retro mod.
La de Holy Thursday está sampleada en Dr. Carter de Lil’ Wayne.
Me gustó la música de este post.
I like your mixes, you might like some of mine (especially the most recent one) - http://www.sleepysatellite.com. If you like what you hear I’d love to be listed on your blogroll.
that’s fair. it is refreshing, the list, so it’s all good :) easy listening central, makes sense.
Squashed - thank you very much for putting the list together, been way too long since I’ve been a regular on the site and this was a fantastic reintroduction to Moka!
I love the post’s title track, have it on a blue note compilation. Sounds sweet on headphones, I meant to do a post with it almost a year ago and completely forgot about it. Marlene Shaw’s ‘woman of the ghetto’ was on that playlist as well, I recall.
Regarding the ‘light my fire’ cover I’m more of a fan of Julie London’s version, Have you heard it before?
light my fire is sung here by the great shirley bassey, possibly even the jazzed up masters at work version?
wow. just what i needed. thanks.
Perhaps your best post. I’m . .. I’m .. . stunned …
Patricia Barber recorded The Beat Goes On in a very slow slinky jazzy version. The best one I’ve heard. The Buddy Rich cut is good, the vocals are just a little shaky.
there’s another ’shake up’, from A Certain Ratio, but this ’shake up’ is more jazzy and easy listening I think.
thanks…