Favoriting Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from December 27, 2017 Favoriting

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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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Favoriting December 27, 2017: Hammond Groovers, a Visit to the Loft and Something For Your Head

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Shotgun Express  Curtains   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia UK  1966  45 
The Pop Ups  Lurking   Favoriting 45RPM Single  HBR  1966  45 
Billy Larkin and the Delegates  Agent 00 Soul   Favoriting 45RPM Single  World Pacific  1965  45 
Billy Preston  Greazee Pt1   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Derby  1962  45 
Donald Seward  Studio B Funk   Favoriting Donald Seward a l'Orgue  Revolution  1969  LP 
Casey and the Pressure Group  Powerhouse   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Wizdom  1970  45 
 
Dorothy Morrison  Rain   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Elektra  1970  45 
Eddie Kendricks  Girl You Need a Change of Mind   Favoriting People Hold On  Tamla  1972  LP 
Booker T and the MGs  Melting Pot   Favoriting Melting Pot  Stax  1970  LP 
Babe Ruth  The Mexican   Favoriting First Base  Harvest  1972  LP 
Barrabas  Woman   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1972  45 
Titanic  Sultana   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Epic  1970  45 
Manu Dibango  New Bell   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atlantic  1972  45 
 
Bob Dylan  It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)   Favoriting Bringing It All Back Home  Columbia  1965  LP 
Beck  Bottle of Blues   Favoriting Mutations  DGC  1998  CD 
Edu Lobo  Zanzibar   Favoriting Cantiga de Longe  Elenco  1970  CD 
Jefferson Airplane  Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon   Favoriting After Bathing At Baxters  RCA  1967  LP 
Big Star  Thirteen   Favoriting #1 Record  Ardent  1972  LP 
Chris Bell  I Am the Cosmos   Favoriting I Am the Cosmos  Rykodisc  1992  CD 
Anouar Brahem  Raf Raf   Favoriting Barzakh  ECM  1991  CD 
Bobby Darin  Misty Roses   Favoriting If I Were a Carpenter  Atlantic  1966  CD 
Left Banke  Shadows Breaking Over My Head   Favoriting Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina  Smash  1967  LP 
Caetano Veloso  Eles   Favoriting Caetano Veloso  Philips  1968  LP 
Belle and Sebastian  The Stars of Track and Field   Favoriting If You're Feeling Sinister  Jeepster  1996  CD 
Biff Rose  Molly   Favoriting The Thorn In Mrs Rose's Side  Tetragrammaton  1968  LP 
Fairport Convention  The Ballad of Easy Rider   Favoriting Guitar/Vocal  Island  1976  LP 
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45 


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Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Gary:

Listening as I break down the set
  10:02pm
Cal Zone!:

TESTIFY, BABY!
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Funky16Corners:

Cal! Gary!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Jeff Ash:

It is 7 below zero with a wind chill of 10 to 15 below in Green Bay at this moment. I am counting on you to bring some heat.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff! I shall oblige!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Larry et al.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Uncle Michael:

Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Unk!
Avatar 10:07pm
still b/p:

Luz me some organ. This gonna be good.
2 degrees here, headed to five below, with wind chills to -22. So, yes, bring some heat, and some oil for the heat.
Avatar 10:08pm
geezerette:

Oh it's HOT baby! Hippiest on the strip.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey SBP! Mighty cold here but nothing like the midwest.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Geezerette! Full house! Please move to the rear of the car!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Watch your elbows people!
Avatar 10:09pm
geezerette:

I'm already there!
Avatar 10:10pm
geezerette:

Billy Preston! Billy Preston!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
coelacanth∅:

Yes! Yes!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Young Billy Preston!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
coelacanth∅:

this is the earliest Billy i've ever heard!
Avatar 10:11pm
still b/p:

I'm on NE coast. But the moderating effect of the ocean...where's THAT at this evenin'?!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - I'll have to do a whole set of early Billy some night.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
coelacanth∅:

i'm there!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
coelacanth∅:

("Little Billy Preston"?)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Funky16Corners:

He recorded quite a lot before hooking up with the Beatles and then having his hits with A&M, for Derby, Veejay and Capitol
  10:15pm
Cal Zone!:

LG's pulling out the BIG ORGAN wax!
Avatar 10:16pm
geezerette:

Those Beatles had taste.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
coelacanth∅:

honestly i never heard anything made before he was a beatle.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Gary:

I never got the Love Saves the Day = LSD connection, duh
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, if you watch The Deuce on HBO they do a little mini-tribute to Mancuso using this very song
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Funky16Corners:

There's a 45 edit of this track but you have to hear the full, LP version
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Uncle Michael:

Best falsetto? Eddie or Curtis?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Funky16Corners:

Eddie, though Curtis was a much fuller bench talent-wise, i.e. guitar, songwriter, producer, arranger
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Uncle Michael:

I'll endorse that view.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Funky16Corners:

I also like to think of Curtis's voice as kind of naturally high/sweet, less of an effort than a falsetto
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Jeff Ash:

Hm. I don't have this Eddie Kendricks LP. Makes note to get it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Uncle Michael:

I can hear that but it's definitely head-voice and not from the diaphragm.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - People Hold On is a must-have
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Funky16Corners:

@UM - I agree
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Funky16Corners:

This record often comes as a shock to folks that only know Green Onions
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Uncle Michael:

I thought this was a destination:OUT mic break.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Funky16Corners:

Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep groove
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm playing a track off the Melting Pot album this week.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Funky16Corners:

Chicken Pox???
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Uncle Michael:

That would be telling.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Funky16Corners:

Shhhhhhhh....
Avatar 10:38pm
still b/p:

The Soul Clap guy, DJ Jonathan Toubin, is doing a gig locally in a couple weeks. Listening to some of these Drummer stream shows in recent days, I'm thinking, "Soul Clap guy must be familiar with nearly everything, but has he got THIS? Hope so!"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Funky16Corners:

Toubin has good taste and deep crates
Avatar 10:41pm
geezerette:

Takes one to know one.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Funky16Corners:

Pshaw....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Jeff Ash:

Ah, "The Mexican." A staple of the old late-night free-form FM radio.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Funky16Corners:

I love this record! There's also a 45 edit with an extended version of the segment that interpolates 'For a Few Dollars More'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
northguineahills:

Here for Testify!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Funky16Corners:

NGH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:46pm
northguineahills:

I think Doug has played that Babe Ruth track before.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Funky16Corners:

It was part of the Loft playlists, and then a few year later Kool Herc made it a b-boy staple up in the Bronx.
Avatar 10:47pm
still b/p:

Heard something today that intersected with a few interesting notes from FMU discussions in last couple months: the male vocalist on Mah Na Mah Na also did the whistling bits in the spaghetti soundtracks for Leone..such as For A Few Dollars More.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm gonna get my beauty sleep. Heading for Kansas City at 8:00 AM for a round of unrepentant foodie shopping, getting my knives sharpened and maybe one record store...

Lullaby me, Larry.

Thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Funky16Corners:

Alessandro Alessandroni!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite Unk!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Funky16Corners:

We're traveling tomorrow as well
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Funky16Corners:

@SBP - Alessandroni was a guitarist, too
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Uncle Michael:

If you haven't seen the original film scene that gave the world Ma Na Ma Na, seek it on Youtube.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Uncle Michael:

Night all.
  10:50pm
Cal Zone!:

Long hairy set, Larry! Digging it!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Cal!
Avatar 10:51pm
still b/p:

I checked segments of "Svezia, inferno e paradiso," but don't think I saw the particular scene. Resolution for 2018.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
northguineahills:

@UM: Says guy that lives a few time zones west of myself and others (going to sleep soon too, the holidays didn't afford me any sleep).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Funky16Corners:

EVERYBODY DANCE!
Avatar 10:55pm
geezerette:

...On the drums like the Nicholas brothers...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Funky16Corners:

Drums, pots, pans, whatever makes the right kind of noise
Avatar 10:57pm
geezerette:

!!! :D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:09pm
coelacanth∅:

damn this song always transports me to specific time and scenario. ...lots of hash, sitting in a small rectangular room with only a red light bulb on the ceiling; talking about revolution when outside my friend's room disco and southern rock were the order of the day.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:10pm
Funky16Corners:

This album, almost moreso than Highway 61 is literary. Amazing songs filled with amazing words
Avatar 11:11pm
geezerette:

I always hear lines I've never heard before.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, indeed. It's densely layered
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
coelacanth∅:

my 2 favorite Dylan albums. glad i never had to choose one over the other.
Avatar 11:11pm
geezerette:

And they always sound like truth!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:12pm
Funky16Corners:

Mine too. I was only a little kid then, but it's now easy to see why people flipped over Dylan
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
northguineahills:

I was a late-comer to Dylan, but this song etched it in my sonic psychology. (I think I came to this song when I was 26, but I started to like Dylan when I was 24).

I just listened to Mutations in my car last Friday (been listening my cd in abc order, b/c hey, my new to me car has a cd player that plays 20 year old cdrs).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
Funky16Corners:

I love most prime-era Beck, but this album especially.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
Funky16Corners:

Saw him live twice, once when he was touring for Loser and then again for Odelay (with Yo La Tengo opening), both great shows
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
northguineahills:

Even Beck's crap is fun!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
coelacanth∅:

i heard an interesting version of "masters of war" recently by Charles Lloyd and the marvels...interesting because i wouldn't expect a horn-based version of a particularly stark Dylan song to be good.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Funky16Corners:

I'd like to hear that! Leon Russell did a cool version
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
northguineahills:

Yeah, i've seen Beck twice live as well. My wife, and my ex-gfs all had crushes on him. Still, the best Beck connected show I saw was Peanut Butter Wolf (Beck's dj for Odelay) play for 30 people in a coffee shop wearing a white leisure suit ready to yacht rock out, dj. He (literally) burned through vinyl and used/abused vinyl I hadn't seen this side of Marclay/Yoshihide.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:22pm
coelacanth∅:

(heh -Love Saves the Day)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:22pm
Funky16Corners:

@NGH - PBW is great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:24pm
coelacanth∅:

i think my favorite ja album, but maybe it's crown of creation.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25pm
northguineahills:

Might fade out, if so, danks vielmals, Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
Funky16Corners:

Severely underrated band. Damned by the omnipresence of Somebody To Love and White Rabbit. So much deeper. Also damned by We Built This City, but that is another thing entirely
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite NGH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
coelacanth∅:

yeah the really great songs never seem to make the rounds.
...i like somebody to Love and white rabbit too, but - i kind of can't stand Grace Slick!
-i've heard lots of shit for that opinion!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
coelacanth∅:

gnight ngh
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
Funky16Corners:

I prefer Grace when she's singing in tandem with Marty
Avatar 11:33pm
geezerette:

Well, it all sounds like mulled cider and mu tea at the Moonfire.
More I cannot say.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
Funky16Corners:

That sounds like a good thing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
coelacanth∅:

absolutely. Marty's voice was quite beautiful and she was subdued when they sang together. the 2 complimented each other.
...and maybe she pushed too hard when she had the full attention.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37pm
coelacanth∅:

i could go for some mulled cider
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:37pm
Funky16Corners:

I was craving a crisp, hard cider, but I never drink on show night
Avatar 11:40pm
geezerette:

It's a good winter drink,isn't it?

On the other hand, hard cider, mmm...

What a lovely set. Perfect winter night mood. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40pm
coelacanth∅:

i can count on one hand the times i've had a hard cider; but it sounds very good right now.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:40pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks G!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
Funky16Corners:

I LOVE hard cider. One of my Christmas gifts was freezable pint glasses. A Stringbow Orange Blossom cider in one of those is a little bit of heaven!
Avatar 11:41pm
geezerette:

Thank YOU, Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - Way back when, some friends led me astray into an Irish immigrant bar in Trenton, NJ where I was introduced to the wonders of cold cider on draft. It gace me the worst headache/hangover, but it tasted so good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
coelacanth∅:

there's an overpriced but not entirely un-worth it "wine bar" in town that has mulled wine when it's cold out and it's pretty special.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
Funky16Corners:

Mmmmmmmm
Avatar 11:43pm
geezerette:

That sounds great! Are actual orange blossoms ore peel used in brewing it?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
Funky16Corners:

I think so
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:44pm
Funky16Corners:

They make a ginger and a cherry variety, too. Great and not overpriced.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
coelacanth∅:

yeah i've never heard of that one. i know my usual pub has at least 2 brands of cider. i'm told one is not as sweet as the average cider. maybe tomorrow.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:47pm
Funky16Corners:

I like the sweeter ones, but a nice, dry cider hits the spot now and again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
coelacanth∅:

i think i'd like a sweet one, but i'm much more likely to get a headache from that.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
Funky16Corners:

The headache I got the first time I got drunk on cider felt like the grim reaper stepping on my head.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
Funky16Corners:

SOOOOOOOOOOO much sugar
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
coelacanth∅:

-oh, strongbow is from england; so i guess there's as much chance of me finding it here as you having it there.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
Funky16Corners:

I think it's shipped in from Belgium, but it's everywhere around here.I'm guessing some big conglomerate imports it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
coelacanth∅:

i'm looking for it. orange blossoms. the oil, known as neroli, is known in aromatherapy for anti-depressive action.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
Funky16Corners:

I'm a citrus nut, orange, lemon, lime flavors will always draw me in. My favorite drink in the world is the cool lime refresher at Starbucks. I could drink it all day long.
Avatar 11:57pm
geezerette:

Thanks for this show,Larry!
Good Night & Happpy New Year.
You too,Coel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
coelacanth∅:

i love oranges but somehow rarely eat them. the only fruit i eat often is lemon, and that's either in/on food or in water.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
coelacanth∅:

'night g
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry Excellent as usual!
good night
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02am
coelacanth∅:

(...actually neroli might be from a very specific type of orange. other citrus oils are known to be uplifting as well - esp. lemon, tangerine, orange)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks C!
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still b/p:

Thanks thanks. Great stuff.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks SBP!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:03am
Funky16Corners:

Nite all, and thanks for lending me your ears!
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