12/19/2023 0 Comments Lets git it on songChambers’ brother George played washtub bass and he played harmonica. That group had a few hit songs, including the track “Time Has Come Today.” It was in The Chambers Brothers that Chambers had begun to write the song “Let’s Get Funky.” In that band, too, he also experienced a number of difficult times. My son Dylan and I are so fortunate and blessed that Roger heard our voices and liked us.”ĭecades ago, Chambers was part of the band The Chambers Brothers. “Moonalice, to me,” says Chambers of the big 10-piece band, “is a blessing that I’ve been looking for forever. Now, he lives in the Bay Area and performs with Moonalice, a band that formed in 2007 and has embraced both Chambers and his son Dylan. His work has taken him all over the country, from Mississippi to Los Angeles to Connecticut and back to L.A. He was around 12 years old at the time, and he’s been writing ever since. But his practice of songwriting-like so many before and after him-came when he laid eyes on a “pretty girl.” Upon seeing the beauty, he went to his father who told him he had to write her a poem. It was then he knew exactly what he was going to do with his life, Chambers says. “And then you’d hear it go back ‘Okay-kay-kay-kay-kay.” This was before telephones and the neighbors would “holler” up to Chambers and his siblings. Together they got so good that people in the neighborhood would find them and ask if they’d sing some songs at evening get-togethers. He would sing, harmonizing with his sisters and brothers. In the fields of Mississippi, Chambers would “just holler sometimes.” Doing so, he says, you could sometimes hear the sound come back to you, three or four times. “I was always impressed with great harmonies,” he says. It was then that he made up his mind that he, too, would be a singer. He remembers listening to the Grand Ole Opry as a young person while in Mississippi. Daddy’s sittin’ there waiting, he wants to see what she’s got.Īs a kid, Chambers says he discovered music around six years old. The beginning of ‘Let’s Get Funky’ came right there.” Chambers begins to sing the song’s first line, Mama’s in her kitchen stirring pot. “When I wrote that song,” Chambers tells American Songwriter, “it was about memories of sitting in the living room and watching my mom and dad cook. And that career continues with Moonalice’s latest single, “Let’s Get Funky,” a song Chambers first began to write some 50 years ago and one that American Songwriter is premiering today in its latest form. In this way, Chambers’ voice has been echoing in real-time as long as anybody’s in music history. It was the time when his dream began-a dream that’s continued through today, into his ninth decade. Today, the 81-year-old frontman for the Bay Area-based band Moonalice looks back on those early years fondly. What’s more, he loved hearing that harmony echo. Of course, I also dislike the R-word as a slur.Growing up in Mississippi, the son of sharecroppers, Lester Chambers used to love to hear his voice in harmony. People should be able to consume media that was influential in its time. I feel the same way about streaming platforms removing the episode of The Simpsons that had involvement with Michael Jackson. (Again, it doesn’t matter whether you think they’re talented or not.) I have an issue with not allowing people to stream a part of U.S. Their catalogue, in my view, is a part of U.S. That being said, the Black Eyed Peas were a huge force in the 2000s, whether you like them or not. The clean version of the song is still available on all streaming platforms, whereas the original, generally regarded as “worse” which contains a slur has been removed. The clean version of the song, entitled “Let’s Get It Started” was incredibly popular and, according to most people I’ve ever spoken to about it, better than the original version.
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