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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Stooges  Down On the Street   Favoriting Funhouse  Elektra  1970  LP  0:01:13 (Pop-up)
Television  See No Evil   Favoriting Marquee Moon  Elektra  1977  LP  0:04:53 (Pop-up)
Beastie Boys  Jimmy James   Favoriting Check Your Head  Grand Royal  1992  CD  0:09:10 (Pop-up)
James Brown  Funky President (People it's Bad)   Favoriting 45RPM single  Polydor  1974  45  0:12:24 (Pop-up)
Judy Clay  Get Together   Favoriting 45RPM single  Atlantic  1969  45  0:19:37 (Pop-up)
 
Caetano Veloso  Tropicalia   Favoriting Caetano Veloso (1968)  Philips  1968  CD  0:25:27 (Pop-up)
Gilberto Gil  Bat Macumba   Favoriting Tropicália ou Panis et Circenses  Philips  1968  CD  0:28:35 (Pop-up)
Os Mutantes  Panis Et Circenses   Favoriting Os Mutantes  Philips  1968  CD  0:31:05 (Pop-up)
Gal Costa  Baby   Favoriting Gal Costa  Philips  1968  CD  0:34:39 (Pop-up)
Bebel Gilberto  Samba da Benca   Favoriting Tanto Tempo  Zuriguiboom  2000  CD  0:38:09 (Pop-up)
Grizzly Bear  Southern Point   Favoriting Veckatimest  Warp  2009  CD  0:42:49 (Pop-up)
 
Barbara Lynn  I'm a Good Woman   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Tribe  1966  45  0:52:33 (Pop-up)
Nolan Chance  Just Like the Weather   Favoriting The Golden Torch Story  Goldmine Soul Supply  1965  CD  0:54:21 (Pop-up)
Andy Butler  Take Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  TRC  1968  45  0:56:53 (Pop-up)
The Shells  When I'm Blue   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Conlo  1965  45  0:59:49 (Pop-up)
Ike and Tina Turner  You Must Believe Me   Favoriting Ike and Tina Turner Revue Live  Loma  1965  LP  1:01:45 (Pop-up)
Lavell Kamma and the Afro Soul Revue  Soft Soul   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Tupelo Sound  1972  45  1:04:34 (Pop-up)
Sunny and the Sunliners  My Dream   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Teardrop  1969  45  1:07:25 (Pop-up)
Darondo  Didn't I   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Music City  1972  45  1:10:17 (Pop-up)
 
Neil Young  Emperor Of Wyoming   Favoriting Neil Young  Reprise  1968  LP  1:18:50 (Pop-up)
Neil Young  The Loner   Favoriting Neil Young  Reprise  1968  LP  1:20:32 (Pop-up)
Brewer and Shipley  Pig's Head   Favoriting Weeds  Kama Sutra  1969  LP  1:24:13 (Pop-up)
Brewer and Shipley  Truly Right   Favoriting Down In LA  A&M  1968  LP  1:26:22 (Pop-up)
Andy Bey  River Man   Favoriting Shades of Bey  Evidence  1998  CD  1:29:09 (Pop-up)
Bobby Darin  Darling Be Home Soon   Favoriting Inside Out  Atlantic  1967  LP  1:33:20 (Pop-up)
Mama Cass  Talking To Your Toothbrush   Favoriting Dream a Little Dream  Dunhill  1968  LP  1:36:19 (Pop-up)
Velvet Underground  Here She Comes Now   Favoriting White Light White Heat  MGM  1968  LP  1:38:37 (Pop-up)
Velvet Underground  Candy Says   Favoriting Velvet Underground  MGM  1969  LP  1:40:39 (Pop-up)
Velvet Underground  Jesus   Favoriting Velvet Underground  MGM  1969  LP  1:44:37 (Pop-up)
Bruce Springsteen  Spirit In the Night   Favoriting Greetings From Asbury Park NJ  Columbia  1973  LP  1:47:55 (Pop-up)
Django Reinhardt  Nuages   Favoriting The Indispensable Django Reinhardt 1949-1950  RCA  1949  CD  1:52:51 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  2:01:27 (Pop-up)


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hyde:

hello
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Funky16Corners:

Hyde! What up?
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geezerette:

Hey!
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Funky16Corners:

Hi Geezerette!
  10:03pm
cupcakejenny:

Hello :)
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Gary:

Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Hi wife!
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hyde:

geezerette, outta the woodwork
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Gary!
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geezerette:

Hyde, you, or me?
  10:05pm
melgrog:

Here in the street in CO!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Mel!
  10:07pm
cupcakejenny:

Hi Mel!
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geezerette:

Gonna be dancin' for the next two hours so everything I type gonna be funky.
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Funky16Corners:

That's the way to do it!
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hyde:

haha geezerette, either/or. i just love the woodwork!

also love this Television tune.
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Gary:

Network!
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geezerette:

meee tooo, Patti Smith got her whole early act from them,singing style at least.
  10:11pm
melgrog:

Mad as hell!
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Funky16Corners:

Yes indeed. We get a little Funky16Corners Story Time in this first set.
  10:11pm
cupcakejenny:

That was awesome!
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geezerette:

mad as a hatter!
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hyde:

i love the Beastie Boys soooo much
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Me too, especially this one. It is - as the kids say - my jam.
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geezerette:

if you check your head,and lose the ticket,do you get your head back>
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geezerette:

...?
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Funky16Corners:

All heads will be returned promptly
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geezerette:

Larry,PERFECT!
  10:15pm
melgrog:

People it's bad!!
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Funky16Corners:

We got to get over before we go under.
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geezerette:

SO bad. (shaking returned head.)
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Funky16Corners:

Rap Godfather!
Avatar 10:17pm
geezerette:

I'd vote for him. Right now!
Avatar 10:19pm
geezerette:

Charlie! Look up Hannah!
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still b/p:

Godfather and Charlie ticket!
  10:21pm
melgrog:

Brutes... The word of the week
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geezerette:

:D yes,yes,yes. women too though.
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Funky16Corners:

Yes, man and womankind
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geezerette:

:)
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Gary:

I can't believe I've never seen The Great Dictator
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northguineahills:

Checking in, hopefully I'll have time and energy to get some furniture put together.

You must, Gary!
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Gary:

I know, I know!
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doctorjazz:

Hey!
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geezerette:

Gary, it's a great film. Try it, think you would dig.
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Funky16Corners:

I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen a couple of times when I was a teenager in the 70s
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Funky16Corners:

Hey DR!
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geezerette:

Hey, NGH & Doc!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey NGH!
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geezerette:

Not the same without large audience of course, but really impressed with and enjoying Filmstruck.com
Avatar 10:32pm
geezerette:

...and this music!!!
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Funky16Corners:

There are still a couple of the later Chaplin films I haven't seen yet
  10:33pm
melgrog:

Love the Brasileiros! My favorite language in song.
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Funky16Corners:

I love listening to Portuguese singing
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geezerette:

IMO the early ones are best. Love "The Kid" too. And "The Gold Rush". And "The Immigrant".
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Funky16Corners:

My boys loved Modern Times, I showed it to them when they were 10 and 8.
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hyde:

@geezerette can't wait until i can settle my life situation and set up either Filmstruck or cable with Turner Classic!
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Funky16Corners:

I can't live without TCM
  10:35pm
melgrog:

Like Sgt. Peppers plus Portuguese!
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still b/p:

I'm alive...barely...without TCM the last year or two.
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Funky16Corners:

That's what they were shooting for
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geezerette:

A lot of TCM content on Filmstruck, but I'd love to have both.
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Funky16Corners:

I'd watch TCM all day if I could
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geezerette:

Can't single out anything on show tonight cause I love it all!

Same here. :)
  10:39pm
melgrog:

Always loved this one.
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Funky16Corners:

Which, Bebel?
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geezerette:

ooh,lovely.
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah. this is a really great album
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hyde:

going back: the last year or so i have been TCM-less. it was always my go to. really trying to get back to that place.
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Funky16Corners:

You discover all kinds of crazy things. For a while my wife and I were hooked on these old Ann Sothern 'Maisie' movies they played on Saturday mornings
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still b/p:

In a conversation last evening, a friend and I were relating scenes from Palm Beach Story and insisting to another friend who's otherwise quite familiar with such things that he HAS to see it. And where did I see it, several times? Gimme a T...gimme a C...
  10:46pm
melgrog:

Thanks for the trip to Brazil! I was referring to Baby. But I loved the Bebel Gilberto.
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Funky16Corners:

Preston Sturges is my boy!
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geezerette:

They've played ancient silents I've never even heard of.
Lots of amazing pre -code too. Ted Turner is quite a character.
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Funky16Corners:

I miss Robert Osborne
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geezerette:

Yeah, Preston Sturges!
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Funky16Corners:

Miracle of Morgans Creek. Mad Wednesday, you name it
  10:49pm
Jay Wolf:

Where am I, man?!
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geezerette:

Haha, you have such good taste.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks!
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hyde:

aww, Robert Osborne. saw that guy intro so much stuff, Ben Mankewicz is at least a worthy successor.
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Funky16Corners:

Yes, I like him too
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geezerette:

Oops...Mr. Osborne is no longer with us?
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Funky16Corners:

Passed away a while back
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Funky16Corners:

In March
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geezerette:

I liked him too,but we weren't subscribers.
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geezerette:

So didn't watch him often.
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geezerette:

God,these records.
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Funky16Corners:

After he passed TCM ran some great tributes to him
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hyde:

hey music folks. time for bed for me. good night to the player and all the hangers on! farewell.
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Funky16Corners:

Nite Hyde!
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geezerette:

Seeya,Hyde. :)
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Funky16Corners:

Brace yourselves, this record is DEEP
  11:21pm
melgrog:

Would love to hear you do a show where you share your process of putting together a play list. I've never heard this Neil.
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Funky16Corners:

I could do that sometime.
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Funky16Corners:

That was the first track on his first solo album from 1968, the one that the Loner comes from
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geezerette:

Incredible.
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geezerette:

Much prefer solo work.
  11:25pm
melgrog:

Loner... I could read this multiple ways. Such a distinctive sound.
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Funky16Corners:

It's all kind of hippy dippy. I go through the stacks looking for something cool I haven't played/want to play, then think about what fits with it, thematically/sonically
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geezerette:

Nice!
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Funky16Corners:

I try to do it set by set though, so I have a couple of different kinds of sets in the show. I always try to make the last set kind of a "head" set
  11:27pm
melgrog:

I figured you let your encyclopedic music brain take you from stepping stone to stepping stone. :)
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Funky16Corners:

It's all kind of using my mental rolodex and following the vibe
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geezerette:

& stepping stoned.
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Funky16Corners:

Only spiritually (these days, anyway)...
  11:30pm
melgrog:

I feel a Monkees set in your future. :)
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geezerette:

Same thing. There's a sweetness and innocence in some of this music that suddenly seems necessary to me.
  11:31pm
cupcakejenny:

Haven't heard this in years!
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah, gotta find peace wherever it's hiding
  11:32pm
melgrog:

Never heard this nick drake cover.
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geezerette:

This is fireplace music. (haha)
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Funky16Corners:

Playing this for Jenny, we saw him do this live
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geezerette:

truly wow.
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Funky16Corners:

I'll have to play some Nick Drake soon
  11:34pm
cupcakejenny:

Xoxo
  11:36pm
cupcakejenny:

Watch out everyone...I might go down to the vault and smooch the dj so he can't be talkin!
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Funky16Corners:

Uh Oh!
  11:36pm
melgrog:

Wow, never heard Bobby Darin do this either. I only know the Lovin Spoonful and Joe Cocker versions.
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah, one of my favorite songs.
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Funky16Corners:

It's from his mid 60s folk rock albums
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geezerette:

So sweet.
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geezerette:

Who wrote this? I could swear we saw Richie Havens sing it.
(Be Home Soon)
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Funky16Corners:

John Sebastian
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Funky16Corners:

I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that Richie Havens covered it, too
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geezerette:

thanks!
great set.
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still b/p:

My whole life I don't know the "Darling Be Home Soon" lyrics said ..."you dawdled" and then "...I toddled." Could never hear what it was. Now I've looked it up and the audio blur is cleared up. One less mystery. Is that good or bad?
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Funky16Corners:

Good. I discover stuff like that all the time
  11:43pm
melgrog:

This is a very different candy says
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Funky16Corners:

This is the one by the VU
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Funky16Corners:

Is there an alternate take on one of the comps, or the boxed set?
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still b/p:

The good part is the unexpected. I didn't just say"oh, okay." I says, "dawdled/toddled...? No kiddin?! Huh!"
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Funky16Corners:

It's a great rhyme
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Funky16Corners:

Mel - these tracks were recorded from a weird 1970 Best of the VU that MGM put out, so it's possible there are different mixes than the LPs: www.discogs.com...
  11:47pm
melgrog:

Trying to find it now to see if I'm thinking of a different song or a different version
  11:49pm
melgrog:

Never heard this one either. Really beautiful sound
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Funky16Corners:

Jesus is my fave VU song
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geezerette:

Very,"Dancin' in the Moonlight".
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Funky16Corners:

Yes indeed. Love that early Bruce stuff
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geezerette:

this is great.
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Cubs Win:

good evening.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey boss!
  11:53pm
melgrog:

Sneaking in Bruce eh? Nice.
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geezerette:

Like his voice here.
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Funky16Corners:

This is what they call required NJ content, like on the Great White North, but NJ instead of Canada
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Uncle Michael:

I'm here for last call.
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geezerette:

UM! Go Cubs.
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Funky16Corners:

This round is on me!
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Uncle Michael:

JerCon
  11:55pm
melgrog:

I think I was thinking of Stephanie Says. My bad.
  11:56pm
melgrog:

I'll take a Manhattan with my Django.
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geezerette:

Thanks for gorgeous show! Happy week all.
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still b/p:

Do we all look prettier at closing time?
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks for coming Geezerette!
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northguineahills:

night, y'all!
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Funky16Corners:

Do I have to be the bad guy that turns on the house lights?
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Funky16Corners:

Nite NGH!
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Uncle Michael:

I'll stack the chairs.
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Uncle Michael:

You don't have to go home, but you an't stay here!
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still b/p:

I thought the Django melody was same as Jackie Gleason theme...but that has different name....but is the same, or has identical passages..? What...who...which?
  11:59pm
melgrog:

Thanks for an awesome musical journey! Happy trails!
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still b/p:

As Jackie said, "Goodnight, everybody!"
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Uncle Michael:

Gleason's was "Melancholy Serenade"
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still b/p:

Give 'em a side by side, though...
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Funky16Corners:

That was a good one, too. I should track it down
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Funky16Corners:

Nite Mel!
  12:01am
cupcakejenny:

Night everyone
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Funky16Corners:

There are def similarities between Nuage and Melancholy Serenade
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Funky16Corners:

Nite Jenny! See you in a few.
  12:03am
cupcakejenny:

Hurry on up!
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