WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from January 21, 2021

Listener comments!
	3:00pm SquigY0: ready to testify Larry and listeners!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: SquigY0!
	3:01pm SquigY0: Lawrence bows
	🥁 3:02pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry, this might be a test of my Testify.
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Brian!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: I think you'll be pleasantly surprised!
	🥁 3:03pm Yvang: Hello Larry and testifyers!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Yvang!
	3:03pm SquigY0: hi Brian, Yvang
	🥁 3:04pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry, and the herd!
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Theo!
	🥁 3:06pm Brian in UK: Hey SquigYO. Larry, I remember the Herd first appearing, the big deal was that Frampton was sixteen.
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: The Face of '68!
	3:07pm still b/p: Will we hear Sail Away? When I've described the song, others have NO idea what the hell I'm talking about. Among the anticipated throwback vibes here, that would be a particular period nostalgia nugget.
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP! Not today, but lots of Frampton-penned Humble Pie
	3:09pm Erica: Hey Larry!
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	3:11pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Larry! Tuning in!
	3:15pm Funky16Corners: Hey Candy-O!
	3:16pm still b/p: After the Comes Alive tsunami, which was fine except for the inescapability and saturation of it all, when he came out with I'm in You, I thought, "jesus, are you kiddin'...?" It felt so much like cashing in on thin mush-saccharine appeal to teens.
	3:17pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, not his best work, and then Sgt Pepper which was a pretty much unforgivable clusterfuck, yet the Bee Gees took all those lemons and made a lot of valuable lemonade
	3:20pm still b/p: "The Motion Picture Association of America has rated this film UC."
	3:20pm Funky16Corners: I think it bears mentioning that Frampton was too pretty for his own good. All of the people in charge fo merchandising rock and rollers couldn't help trying to sell him to the Tiger Beat crowd
	3:20pm Erica: You mean the Sgt Pepper movie Larry?
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: Yup.
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: Which, I suppose, isn't much worse than a lot of stuff that came out in the 70s, but the star power in it, not to mention all of those Beatles songs couldn't save it
	3:22pm Funky16Corners: That big sing-along crowd scene has some really crazy people in it
	3:22pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hey Larry & Testifiers. Presume that we're in a Guilt-Free Zone! Saw Mr Frampton at SUNY Albany during my college days, '75 or early '76, for the first time. Also at the Coney Island( Asser Levy Park) Thursday concerts in the "Aughts".Very impressive!
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kevin!
	3:24pm still b/p: From a description/review of the film "Carrie" - "Tommy is a tiger-beat dreamboat with Peter Frampton hair and bright eyes."
	3:24pm Sem: Jeez, that was great. Hiya, Larry, all.
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	3:25pm Funky16Corners: I remember getting the soundtrack album to that movie as a Christmas gift from my aunt, and I coudn't help making a face when I opened it. I felt so guilty. In the end it wasn't horrible. It had some good stuff on it.
	3:26pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - Is that William Katt?
	3:26pm still b/p: Yes.
	3:26pm listener Rey: hey Larry and testifiers. I like Frampton but he was not a good actor in that movie. Always thought it weird that BeeGees tried to out-Beatle the Beatles with Sgt Pepper movie esp. since they supposedly didn't like being compared to them
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: As I often say to my sons, when any 1970s artfuckery pops up, cocaine was a hell of a drug.
	3:28pm KevinfromBayRidge: He appeared on CBS's "Madame Secretary" a few years ago. Tia Leone regularly wore a Frampton T-shirt. Pretty Boy on Pretty Gal!
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to look for that!
	3:30pm prudy: Have been wanting to hear Frampton and the boys for a while...tuned in just in time...thanks Larry..
	3:31pm Mike Sin: What I always found interesting is that Frampton was placed in the Herd and you would think, "OK, let's just add some more 'pretty boy' aspect to this band," but the dude shows up with monster chops. He's a great guitar player. I wish he stuck around in Humble Pie a bit longer.
	3:31pm Funky16Corners: Hey prudy!
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mike! Yes, indeed! Frampton is a tasteful and talented guitar player, something that sets him apart from a great deal of his contemporaries.
	3:35pm prudy: I always thought Frampton had the chops...alot of people just dissed him for his looks...
	3:36pm Funky16Corners: He became an easy target after Comes Alive
	3:39pm Erica: Just next time you go to one of Frampton's concerts (after the pandemic is over), do NOT record his performance or he'll throw your phone away. Haha!
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: I know for a while he was selling his concerts on-demand after the shows. I have his Red Bank concert from the Frampton Comes Alive anniversary tour
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: BTW, this isn't the original, just an extra I thought I'd toss into the mix
	3:40pm prudy: i love Come Alive...and am "dissed" for it...whatever...to each his or her own...
	3:41pm Funky16Corners: I literally played my first copy of Comes Alive TO DEATH. Had to replace it.
	3:44pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry & all
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	3:44pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	3:45pm Mike Sin: It's funny, I remember the real "Frampton backlash" starting with "I'm in You" -- everyone looking for arrows to sling at the dude found it with that LP.
	3:46pm prudy: M Sin: agreed...that record was not of much interest to me...
	3:48pm coelacanth∅: wish i'd caught that humble pie set. i really haven't listened to it much, in all these years, and i've always thought i might be missing something ...but it never clicked
	3:49pm Erica: Baby I love your way...
	3:49pm still b/p: @ Mike Sin & prudy -- see arrow-lashy comment at 3:16.
	3:50pm prudy: Somethin's Happening and I Wanna Go to the Sun are my favorites from the live album...
	3:50pm SquigY0: let me know where you can even FIND a concert right now :D
	3:51pm coelacanth∅: school was abuzz about Frampton comes alive, and the radio was drowning in it, but i wasn't even slightly interested. it is landmark in it's sound quality though, for a live album.
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Well, right now, nowhere, but if you draw a graph of how often I was going to see live music when I was 25, and today when I'm 58, there's a giant canyon after about 30 or so...
	3:52pm coelacanth∅: i did recognise that at the time
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, it SOUNDS like a concert, which is one of the reasons I think it was so huge
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: @Prudy - I Wanna Go To the Sun was the real sleeper for me. When I discovered that one I played it a LOT
	3:55pm Mike Sin: "Frampton Comes Alive" had the same effect on me as "Wings Over America" -- so many of the original studio tracks sound a bit weird to me because I cranked up the live versions over and over like a mofo.. back when I was still using a Huffy bike as my main means of transport!
	3:56pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, you get attached to the versions you heard first. Whenever I hear the studio version of a song I end up inserting all of the ad libs from the love versions
	3:57pm doctorjazz: I remember not being able to escape Frampton Comes Alive, on the radio constantly, the backlash came from that. (He had a cute bit part on Madame Secretary)
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: One of the few studio songs that features the talkbox
	3:59pm Irene: I was a big fan pre-Comes Alive. I still have his two LPs post Humble Pie. Had a big post-high school crush on him. In 1975 I saw him in concert in at The Academy of Music, NYC, tripping on acid. Sadly, I got so turned off by the overexposure of the live album that I stopped listening to him. Your show today is a nice reminder of what I liked about him. A few years ago I got Frampton to sign my albums when he came in for an interview on Soundcheck. Really nice guy.
	4:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Irene! Yes, I've heard that he's very cool in real life.
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: Most of his early solo albums feature Rick Wills on bass, who would go on to join Foreigner later on. Mick Jones plays on at least one of them, too.
	4:05pm Mike Sin: What's interesting about the studio version of "Show me the Way" is how sparse the rhythm track is. just basically acoustic guitar, bass, and drums... I guess they were leaving a lot of room for the talk box before that overdub!
	4:07pm Funky16Corners: He was the producer on that album, too.
	4:09pm Funky16Corners: He produced all these albums! Comes Alive, too.
	4:16pm Funky16Corners: The third big hit from FCA
	4:16pm Erica: Here we go!
	4:18pm Candy-O'67: I was just a 8 years young when Baby I Love your Way came out. I remember years later in junior high skating to it at the skating rink. I only knew his hits growing up. Digging hearing the tunes I haven't heard before. :)
	4:19pm Funky16Corners: When I first got FCA I spent a lot of time bouncing back and forth between Show Me The Way and Do You Feel Like We Do. It was a while before I digested the whole thing.
	4:23pm Erica: I'm guessing everyone wanted FCA back in the mid 70s.
	4:25pm Funky16Corners: Oh yeah...It sold something like 8,000,000 copies
	4:25pm Phillippe Bastille: Howdy
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: Hey Phillippe!
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: Next week we're doing George Clinton as performer/songwriter 1966-1970
	4:29pm Erica: Can't wait for that show Larry.
	4:29pm SquigY0: funkay!
	4:29pm Erica: Hi Philippe.
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: Lots of Parliaments as well as tons of 45s he wrote/cowrote during that period.
	4:30pm prudy: damn...not going to be able to listen next week!
	4:30pm Funky16Corners: It'll be in the archives
	4:31pm Erica: How come Purdy?
	4:33pm Erica: Prudy? Sorry. Typo.
	4:34pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey Erica!
	4:37pm Erica: Rolling Stones cover eh?
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: Yes
	4:39pm StringOFperils: Frampton's early studio stuff as a solo act was some very nice stuff. Kind of unfortunate about the over-exposure of Comes Alive. Hope it made him ( and not just the record co) rich at least.
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: I wonder what his deal with A&M was like? When Springsteen hit with Born To Run and Top Petty with Damn the Torpedoes they were both in contractual turmoil.
	4:43pm StringOFperils: I don't really study that stuff too much, but hopefully his time with The Herd taught him self-preserving business skills...but he was so young.
	4:43pm StringOFperils: Truly beautiful musician though, in the sense of art, I mean.
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: I'd like to read his autobiography. What must it have been like to be the biggest thing in the world, even for a little while? It has to have been crazy.
	4:45pm StringOFperils: That's probably the right word. I'd get eaten alive in that business, myself. The way it was.
	4:54pm Erica: So it's a funk and soul show next week.
	4:56pm coelacanth∅: Micky Gallagher played with Ian Dury too, no?
	🥁 4:56pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!
	4:57pm coelacanth∅: interesting... but Johnny Winter did it best. better than the stones even!
	4:57pm Marci: Love the show and hearing Frampton
	4:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry!
	4:58pm SquigY0: thanks Larry. That was epic!!
	4:58pm Candy-O'67: Thanks, Larry! Enjoyed it!
	4:58pm Funky16Corners: @C - Yes, Gallagher played with Dury
	4:58pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry!
	4:58pm Erica: Thanks for another great show Larry!
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everybody!
	4:59pm StringOFperils: Saying"I wanna thank you." through the vox box, Larry!
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks String!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from January 21, 2021

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January 21, 2021: Testify! - Frampton Comes To Testify!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Herd	Understand Me "Understand Me" by "The Herd"	45RPM Single	Fontana	1967	45	0:01:27 (Pop-up)
The Herd	Our Fairytale "Our Fairytale" by "The Herd"	45RPM Single	Fontana	1968	45	0:03:56 (Pop-up)
The Herd	On My Way Home "On My Way Home" by "The Herd"	Lookin' Thru You	Fontana	1968	LP	0:06:31 (Pop-up)
The Herd	Beauty Queen "Beauty Queen" by "The Herd"	45RPM Single	Fontana	1969	45	0:08:29 (Pop-up)

Humble Pie	The Light "The Light" by "Humble Pie"	Rock On	A&M	1971	LP	0:14:26 (Pop-up)
Humble Pie	Earth and Water Song "Earth and Water Song" by "Humble Pie"	Humble Pie	A&M	1970	LP	0:17:29 (Pop-up)
Humble Pie	I'll Go Alone "I'll Go Alone" by "Humble Pie"	As Safe As Yesterday Is	Immediate	1969	LP	0:23:43 (Pop-up)
Humble Pie	Only You Can Say "Only You Can Say" by "Humble Pie"	Town And Country	Immediate	1969	LP	0:27:32 (Pop-up)
Humble Pie	Take Me Back "Take Me Back" by "Humble Pie"	Town and Country	Immediate	1969	LP	0:31:10 (Pop-up)
Humble Pie	Stick Shift "Stick Shift" by "Humble Pie"	As Safe As Yesterday Is	Immediate	1969	LP	0:36:00 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	Do You Feel Like We Do (Acoustic)	Acoustic Classics	Phenix Phonograph	2016	CD	0:38:20 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:	a song	FRAMPTON COMES IN THE STUDIO				0:50:21 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	(Baby) Somethin's Happening	Somethin's Happening	A&M	1974	LP	0:50:22 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	Doobie Wah "Doobie Wah" by "Peter Frampton"	Somethin's Happening	A&M	1974	LP	0:55:00 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	Show Me The Way "Show Me The Way" by "Peter Frampton"	Frampton	A&M	1975	LP	0:59:02 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	It's a Plain Shame	Wind of Change	A&M	1972	LP	1:02:57 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	All I Wanna Ba (Is By Your Side)	Wind of Change	A&M	1972	LP	1:06:09 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	Wind of Change "Wind of Change" by "Peter Frampton"	Win of Change	A&M	1972	LP	1:12:23 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	Baby I Love Your Way	Frampton	A&M	1975	LP	1:15:24 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	I Wanna Go To The Sun	Somethin's Happening	A&M	1974	LP	1:20:02 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	Penny For Your Thoughts	Frampton	A&M	1975	LP	1:27:26 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	(I'll Give You) Money	Frampton	A&M	1975	LP	1:28:50 (Pop-up)
Humble Pie	Shine On "Shine On" by "Humble Pie"	Rock On	A&M	1971	LP	1:33:19 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	Jumping Jack Flash	Wind of Change	A&M	1972	LP	1:36:19 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	Lines On My Face "Lines On My Face" by "Peter Frampton"	Frampton's Camel	A&M	1973	LP	1:41:30 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	Do You Feel Like We Do	Frampton's Camel	A&M	1973	LP	1:46:13 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:58:15 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:00pm SquigY0: ready to testify Larry and listeners!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: SquigY0!
	3:01pm SquigY0: Lawrence bows
	🥁 3:02pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry, this might be a test of my Testify.
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Brian!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: I think you'll be pleasantly surprised!
	🥁 3:03pm Yvang: Hello Larry and testifyers!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Yvang!
	3:03pm SquigY0: hi Brian, Yvang
	🥁 3:04pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry, and the herd!
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Theo!
	🥁 3:06pm Brian in UK: Hey SquigYO. Larry, I remember the Herd first appearing, the big deal was that Frampton was sixteen.
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: The Face of '68!
	3:07pm still b/p: Will we hear Sail Away? When I've described the song, others have NO idea what the hell I'm talking about. Among the anticipated throwback vibes here, that would be a particular period nostalgia nugget.
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP! Not today, but lots of Frampton-penned Humble Pie
	3:09pm Erica: Hey Larry!
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	3:11pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Larry! Tuning in!
	3:15pm Funky16Corners: Hey Candy-O!
	3:16pm still b/p: After the Comes Alive tsunami, which was fine except for the inescapability and saturation of it all, when he came out with I'm in You, I thought, "jesus, are you kiddin'...?" It felt so much like cashing in on thin mush-saccharine appeal to teens.
	3:17pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, not his best work, and then Sgt Pepper which was a pretty much unforgivable clusterfuck, yet the Bee Gees took all those lemons and made a lot of valuable lemonade
	3:20pm still b/p: "The Motion Picture Association of America has rated this film UC."
	3:20pm Funky16Corners: I think it bears mentioning that Frampton was too pretty for his own good. All of the people in charge fo merchandising rock and rollers couldn't help trying to sell him to the Tiger Beat crowd
	3:20pm Erica: You mean the Sgt Pepper movie Larry?
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: Yup.
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: Which, I suppose, isn't much worse than a lot of stuff that came out in the 70s, but the star power in it, not to mention all of those Beatles songs couldn't save it
	3:22pm Funky16Corners: That big sing-along crowd scene has some really crazy people in it
	3:22pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hey Larry & Testifiers. Presume that we're in a Guilt-Free Zone! Saw Mr Frampton at SUNY Albany during my college days, '75 or early '76, for the first time. Also at the Coney Island( Asser Levy Park) Thursday concerts in the "Aughts".Very impressive!
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kevin!
	3:24pm still b/p: From a description/review of the film "Carrie" - "Tommy is a tiger-beat dreamboat with Peter Frampton hair and bright eyes."
	3:24pm Sem: Jeez, that was great. Hiya, Larry, all.
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	3:25pm Funky16Corners: I remember getting the soundtrack album to that movie as a Christmas gift from my aunt, and I coudn't help making a face when I opened it. I felt so guilty. In the end it wasn't horrible. It had some good stuff on it.
	3:26pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - Is that William Katt?
	3:26pm still b/p: Yes.
	3:26pm listener Rey: hey Larry and testifiers. I like Frampton but he was not a good actor in that movie. Always thought it weird that BeeGees tried to out-Beatle the Beatles with Sgt Pepper movie esp. since they supposedly didn't like being compared to them
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: As I often say to my sons, when any 1970s artfuckery pops up, cocaine was a hell of a drug.
	3:28pm KevinfromBayRidge: He appeared on CBS's "Madame Secretary" a few years ago. Tia Leone regularly wore a Frampton T-shirt. Pretty Boy on Pretty Gal!
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to look for that!
	3:30pm prudy: Have been wanting to hear Frampton and the boys for a while...tuned in just in time...thanks Larry..
	3:31pm Mike Sin: What I always found interesting is that Frampton was placed in the Herd and you would think, "OK, let's just add some more 'pretty boy' aspect to this band," but the dude shows up with monster chops. He's a great guitar player. I wish he stuck around in Humble Pie a bit longer.
	3:31pm Funky16Corners: Hey prudy!
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mike! Yes, indeed! Frampton is a tasteful and talented guitar player, something that sets him apart from a great deal of his contemporaries.
	3:35pm prudy: I always thought Frampton had the chops...alot of people just dissed him for his looks...
	3:36pm Funky16Corners: He became an easy target after Comes Alive
	3:39pm Erica: Just next time you go to one of Frampton's concerts (after the pandemic is over), do NOT record his performance or he'll throw your phone away. Haha!
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: I know for a while he was selling his concerts on-demand after the shows. I have his Red Bank concert from the Frampton Comes Alive anniversary tour
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: BTW, this isn't the original, just an extra I thought I'd toss into the mix
	3:40pm prudy: i love Come Alive...and am "dissed" for it...whatever...to each his or her own...
	3:41pm Funky16Corners: I literally played my first copy of Comes Alive TO DEATH. Had to replace it.
	3:44pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry & all
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	3:44pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	3:45pm Mike Sin: It's funny, I remember the real "Frampton backlash" starting with "I'm in You" -- everyone looking for arrows to sling at the dude found it with that LP.
	3:46pm prudy: M Sin: agreed...that record was not of much interest to me...
	3:48pm coelacanth∅: wish i'd caught that humble pie set. i really haven't listened to it much, in all these years, and i've always thought i might be missing something ...but it never clicked
	3:49pm Erica: Baby I love your way...
	3:49pm still b/p: @ Mike Sin & prudy -- see arrow-lashy comment at 3:16.
	3:50pm prudy: Somethin's Happening and I Wanna Go to the Sun are my favorites from the live album...
	3:50pm SquigY0: let me know where you can even FIND a concert right now :D
	3:51pm coelacanth∅: school was abuzz about Frampton comes alive, and the radio was drowning in it, but i wasn't even slightly interested. it is landmark in it's sound quality though, for a live album.
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Well, right now, nowhere, but if you draw a graph of how often I was going to see live music when I was 25, and today when I'm 58, there's a giant canyon after about 30 or so...
	3:52pm coelacanth∅: i did recognise that at the time
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, it SOUNDS like a concert, which is one of the reasons I think it was so huge
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: @Prudy - I Wanna Go To the Sun was the real sleeper for me. When I discovered that one I played it a LOT
	3:55pm Mike Sin: "Frampton Comes Alive" had the same effect on me as "Wings Over America" -- so many of the original studio tracks sound a bit weird to me because I cranked up the live versions over and over like a mofo.. back when I was still using a Huffy bike as my main means of transport!
	3:56pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, you get attached to the versions you heard first. Whenever I hear the studio version of a song I end up inserting all of the ad libs from the love versions
	3:57pm doctorjazz: I remember not being able to escape Frampton Comes Alive, on the radio constantly, the backlash came from that. (He had a cute bit part on Madame Secretary)
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: One of the few studio songs that features the talkbox
	3:59pm Irene: I was a big fan pre-Comes Alive. I still have his two LPs post Humble Pie. Had a big post-high school crush on him. In 1975 I saw him in concert in at The Academy of Music, NYC, tripping on acid. Sadly, I got so turned off by the overexposure of the live album that I stopped listening to him. Your show today is a nice reminder of what I liked about him. A few years ago I got Frampton to sign my albums when he came in for an interview on Soundcheck. Really nice guy.
	4:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Irene! Yes, I've heard that he's very cool in real life.
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: Most of his early solo albums feature Rick Wills on bass, who would go on to join Foreigner later on. Mick Jones plays on at least one of them, too.
	4:05pm Mike Sin: What's interesting about the studio version of "Show me the Way" is how sparse the rhythm track is. just basically acoustic guitar, bass, and drums... I guess they were leaving a lot of room for the talk box before that overdub!
	4:07pm Funky16Corners: He was the producer on that album, too.
	4:09pm Funky16Corners: He produced all these albums! Comes Alive, too.
	4:16pm Funky16Corners: The third big hit from FCA
	4:16pm Erica: Here we go!
	4:18pm Candy-O'67: I was just a 8 years young when Baby I Love your Way came out. I remember years later in junior high skating to it at the skating rink. I only knew his hits growing up. Digging hearing the tunes I haven't heard before. :)
	4:19pm Funky16Corners: When I first got FCA I spent a lot of time bouncing back and forth between Show Me The Way and Do You Feel Like We Do. It was a while before I digested the whole thing.
	4:23pm Erica: I'm guessing everyone wanted FCA back in the mid 70s.
	4:25pm Funky16Corners: Oh yeah...It sold something like 8,000,000 copies
	4:25pm Phillippe Bastille: Howdy
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: Hey Phillippe!
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: Next week we're doing George Clinton as performer/songwriter 1966-1970
	4:29pm Erica: Can't wait for that show Larry.
	4:29pm SquigY0: funkay!
	4:29pm Erica: Hi Philippe.
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: Lots of Parliaments as well as tons of 45s he wrote/cowrote during that period.
	4:30pm prudy: damn...not going to be able to listen next week!
	4:30pm Funky16Corners: It'll be in the archives
	4:31pm Erica: How come Purdy?
	4:33pm Erica: Prudy? Sorry. Typo.
	4:34pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey Erica!
	4:37pm Erica: Rolling Stones cover eh?
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: Yes
	4:39pm StringOFperils: Frampton's early studio stuff as a solo act was some very nice stuff. Kind of unfortunate about the over-exposure of Comes Alive. Hope it made him ( and not just the record co) rich at least.
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: I wonder what his deal with A&M was like? When Springsteen hit with Born To Run and Top Petty with Damn the Torpedoes they were both in contractual turmoil.
	4:43pm StringOFperils: I don't really study that stuff too much, but hopefully his time with The Herd taught him self-preserving business skills...but he was so young.
	4:43pm StringOFperils: Truly beautiful musician though, in the sense of art, I mean.
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: I'd like to read his autobiography. What must it have been like to be the biggest thing in the world, even for a little while? It has to have been crazy.
	4:45pm StringOFperils: That's probably the right word. I'd get eaten alive in that business, myself. The way it was.
	4:54pm Erica: So it's a funk and soul show next week.
	4:56pm coelacanth∅: Micky Gallagher played with Ian Dury too, no?
	🥁 4:56pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!
	4:57pm coelacanth∅: interesting... but Johnny Winter did it best. better than the stones even!
	4:57pm Marci: Love the show and hearing Frampton
	4:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry!
	4:58pm SquigY0: thanks Larry. That was epic!!
	4:58pm Candy-O'67: Thanks, Larry! Enjoyed it!
	4:58pm Funky16Corners: @C - Yes, Gallagher played with Dury
	4:58pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry!
	4:58pm Erica: Thanks for another great show Larry!
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everybody!
	4:59pm StringOFperils: Saying"I wanna thank you." through the vox box, Larry!
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks String!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from January 21, 2021

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