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James & Bobby Purify

I Take What I Want / Sixteen Tons

1967 · Rhythm & Blues · Bell Records

US · BELL 680

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Credits

Written by
David Porter, Isaac Hayes, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, Merle Travis
Rhythm & Blues13 pressings →

Where it leads

Memphis Soul

Horn stabs, dragging backbeat, one take: the sound of a house band cutting hits in a converted cinema.

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D.C. Go-Go

Percussion that never stops: congas, cowbell and crowd chants holding one groove across a whole night.

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