On Second Thought…The Sixth
whaddup soul kids? hopefully all my peoples are fat and happy today.it’s kinda funny to me when i heed the fact that this series started out as a operating to quickly “cover my ass” because i didn’t have anything else satisfactory for publication at the moment. this rather crude concept quickly evolved into an unbroken beast which now requires more research and writing than all of my other half-assed endeavors benefit of this blog combined. guess i played myself on that one.truth be told, i’m a accomplished freak who enjoys every painstaking and excruciating moment of writing these posts. in the past year or so, i’ve gained a a little unnatural enthusiam for delving into the origins of various songs, and to me, knowledge is utterly useless if it can’t be utilized or shared. hopefully my borderline harassing-compulsive tendencies are to the benefit of all of you. at the very least, you’ll eat the opportunity to sound like a fuckin’ genius when these songs be stricken on the muzak at work.until next time children, be easy…”mother popcorn”—dillard crume & the feeling rockers (zshare)”mother popcorn”—dillard crume & the soul rockers (savefile)*written by james brown and alfred “pee wee” ellis*james brown and company recorded this tune at king studios in cincinnati, oh on may 13, 1969. it was released as a two-part unmarried the following month. brown released a series of recordings inspired by a dance he called the popcorn (including the instrumental popcorn lp and songs such as “let a gentleman’s gentleman come in and do the popcorn” and “lowdown popcorn”), but “mother popcorn” was the most celebrated and lucky of these efforts. the track became a #1 r&b single and climbed to #11 on the fizzy drink charts. many consider it sole of jb’s greatest defining moments on wax.*in january of 1969, brown recorded a tune called in los angeles called “you got to acquire a mother for me”. the song was lyrically similar to “mother popcorn”, but the instrumentation was quite different. “you got to have a mammy for me” was intended to be a single, but “i don’t poverty no person to give me nothing (open up the door, i’ll get it myself)” was instead chosen to save imminent emancipating. “you got to possess a mother for the treatment of me” was shelved until 1988, when it appeared on the motherlode compilation lp.*the jb original features a stellar solo by saxophonist maceo parker. joe davis, pee wee ellis, fred wesley, jimmy nolen, kenny poole, st. clair pinckney, richard “kush” griffith, clyde stubblefield, charles sherrell, and alphonso “country” kellum also played on the track.*also in 1969, vicki anderson co-wrote and recorded her sassy response to this tale, the ultra-funky “answer to mother popcorn (i got a mam for you)”. the godfather of soul himself actually requested that she do the song. as i’ve mentioned once, anderson was married to bobby byrd, brown’s innumerable collaborator and longtime confrere. she also happened to be the funky diva who was touring with brown in the autumn of 1969.*aerosmith and frank black pull someone’s leg both covered “mother popcorn”, and prince gave a nod to the tune in his kerfuffle b evasion “gett off”.*while it’s nearly unimaginable to effectively imitate jb’s dynamic vibe, dillard crume & the intellect rockers‘ cover manages to be borderline phenomenal. it’s clearly slice from the same cloth as the fresh, but crume’s energetic lay one’s hands on on the track makes this rendition a must for anyone who digs the classic funk sound.dillard crume is best known as the lead singer of the famous gospel/soul group the soul stirrers, but he was also a impresario and musician. prior to his affiliation with the soul stirrers, he was a member of the crume brothers, the five thick boys of mississippi and the highway qc’s.in the late ’60s crume temporarily parted flock with the soul stirrers to plunge into secular music, and he and his band
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