WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 29, 2021

Listener comments!
	3:01pm Jeff Ash: I am ready to testify! Greetings from Green Bay!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	🥁 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Larry! Ready for the madness! everytime!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Yvang!
	🥁 3:03pm Yvang: RIP Dusty Hill I love ZZ Top!
	3:03pm ifny en route: ZZRIPZZ
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed!
	3:03pm Jeff Ash: Swinging over from the all-day Summer of Soul programming on WXPN. Best of both worlds!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Whatup ifnyen route!
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - I didn't know about that. Sounds cool.
	3:04pm Moog1 Radio: I had this 45 growing up! Filed next to Hocus Pocus by Focus
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt! Hocus Pocus was a prominent drinking song among my set.
	🥁 3:05pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry! Shake your boogie chillen hips!
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Theo!
	3:06pm Jeff Ash: I played the bejeezus out of "Fandango" back in 1975. But I had forgotten that one side is live.
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: Very solid album, like all of the first seven or eight by them.
	3:07pm Erica: Hi guys! I take it Larry knows about Dusty Hill's death.
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica! That's why I'm playing these burners!
	3:08pm mauri: Yea!
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey mauri!
	3:09pm dreamyandseedy: greetings!
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: Dreamy!
	3:10pm listener Rey: Hi Larry. Those guys could really rock. The beards mighta been gimmicky or whatever but their chops are undisputed
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey! No doubt!
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: Just had a tornado watch pop up on my phone!
	3:13pm northguineahills: RIP Dusty Hill
	3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	3:15pm Funky16Corners: Dusty on lead vocals!
	3:19pm still b/p: All of Tush is imprinted in brain, but those closing notes are like third-level imprinted.
	3:20pm Jeff Ash: 60 years! Huzzah!
	3:22pm zzz: wow @F16C, what a lovely evocation of the sweetness and nostalgia of summer memories. with my own young kids now i’ve been grasping at that lately more than ever. beautifully said. thank you for that.
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: Thanks zzz!
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: Hey sbp!
	3:24pm northguineahills: Roy Ayers!
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - That means I'm just a little bit more than a year away from the 60 mark myself!
	3:24pm northguineahills: Saw him live at Ft Greene Park, once....
	3:25pm Funky16Corners: That must have been nice!
	3:27pm Erica: Nice elevator music Larry.
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: This ain't no elevator music! This is soul jazz!
	3:30pm Erica: Going up....boogie down...
	3:31pm still b/p: I pluck Never Can Say Goodbye out ham-fingeredly on two strings, and, hey, that happened to be in tune with where/how I do it on the guitar. God help the people riding in the same elevator with me.
	3:31pm zzz: being of i guess a younger generation, when i hear ‘Tush’ i immediately think of Dazed and Confused movie, killer soundtrack!
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - As someone who was the age that Wiley Wiggins character Mitch was in Dazed, I can attest to its accuracy.
	3:33pm zzz: haha, fantastic
	3:33pm northguineahills: I didn't know much about Roy Ayer's music beforehand, but a drummer friend dragged me to the show. I was then enlightened.
	3:33pm Funky16Corners: @sbp - Never Can Say... is one of my all time favorite songs. I could live in that elevator.
	3:36pm zzz: that was a cool Freddie Mccoy track, always wanting to explore him more, really haven’t heard anything else, but the name sticks out to me bc of the composer of the track One Cylinder on lou donaldson’s Alligator Bogaloo album, which every note and are etched in my brain (based in the groove of that tune I am assuming it’s the same Freddie McCoy)
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - Freddie McCoy (same guy) is one my fave soul jazz artists. Unfortunately very little of his work has seen reissue (none of his stuff as a leader, as far as I know) so you have to find the original records
	3:38pm Funky16Corners: Also, McCoy recorded One Cylinder on his own, too
	🥁 3:44pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & cool cats.
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	🥁 3:45pm Brian in UK: This Kool and for the next few years was tops.
	3:46pm Funky16Corners: One of the truly great R&B bands of the 70s
	3:49pm still b/p: I got both little speakers working, but that guitar solo was much in the background. Just me?
	3:51pm Funky16Corners: I have to talk to Doug about this. I keep hearing complaints about balance and it has to be the stream, I can see both channels going out evenly on this end.
	🥁 3:53pm Brian in UK: Was this the Rainbow concert in London?
	3:53pm northguineahills: Prolly my fave Kool & the Gang track.....
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Yes
	🥁 3:56pm Brian in UK: The Rainbow as a good gig, Zappa, Steely Dan & Weather Report, all wonderful shows.
	3:57pm Erica: Sorry. Was out eating.
	3:59pm Erica: Also this earlier version of Kool and the Gang were much jazzier than their 80s disco/R&B era stuff.
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Funkier, too. They did some instrumentals in the eary 70s that would rival the JBs
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: EARLY not eary
	4:04pm mauri: the eary bird catches the earworm
	4:06pm doctorjazz: Hi folks! Love Dr John, got to see him a bunch of times.
	4:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	4:06pm Moog1 Radio: The Sandie Shaw version of this is great!
	4:06pm Funky16Corners: I've never heard that! Gotta find it!
	4:08pm Moog1 Radio: There is a nice 2LP reissue of Sandie Shaw Reviewing The Situation you should check out
	4:09pm zzz: oooh yeah, i am def lintels easing nicely into this dr john -> little feat. can i have a beer yet?
	4:10pm Funky16Corners: Please do! I should tell my sons to bring me down a cold, frosty one!
	4:10pm zzz: *lintels = easing! ha
	🥁 4:10pm Brian in UK: I still enjoy Robert Palmer's versions, with most of Little Feat playing. Has a bit of heft to it.
	4:11pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Me too!
	4:11pm Little Danny: Hi Larry, all!
	4:12pm doctorjazz: Another great band-didn't get to see the original version with George, did see them once after.
	4:12pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	4:13pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - Its one of my great regrets that I didn't get to see Lowell George. I saw the later version of the group open for the Grateful Dead
	🥁 4:15pm Brian in UK: Back to the Rainbow; the Warners tour 1975 where the little known Little Feat blew all the other off the stage. Missed that and Kool. What was I doing!
	4:15pm still b/p: Many Little Feat fans have an enduring devotion and kinship.
	4:15pm Funky16Corners: I love the Fender Rhodes groove on this one,
	4:16pm zzz: little feat is so good
	4:16pm Funky16Corners: @sbp - I think they may be THE underrated American band of their time. They may have been too sophisticated for some folks to fully grasp. They had a good-time, boogie side, but there's a lot of jazzy stuff wandering around in the mix, too. I love everything they did with George.
	4:19pm Funky16Corners: Soul, too, and George was a BADASS slide guitar player
	4:20pm still b/p: A former boss sold me a laptop a couple years ago. There was still a disc...either in the slot or in the carry bag, I forget. Little Feat, signed by all including George.
	🥁 4:21pm WR: Hello Larry & Testifiers! I too regret that I didnt see Lowell George.
	4:21pm Funky16Corners: WOW!
	4:21pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR!
	4:21pm Discotech Underground: Welcome back, Larry!
	4:22pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Kip!
	🥁 4:23pm WR: Whoaa still b/p, did you you give the CD back? Or was some one other than your boss the previous owner?
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: Kip will be burning things up right after me today! wfmu.org...
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: YEW NORK NEW YORK!
	4:24pm Discotech Underground: Yeah, man! Thinking of subtitling my show "Radio In Your Underwear" because it's so warm you have to strip down to your skivvies to stay cool!
	4:25pm zzz: love you youtube clip of linda ronstadt performing willin’ from ‘77 or so and introducing it with story of meeting lowell george in a bar, him offer her a quaalude, them shacking up together, and then his wife knocking on her door a few weeks later.
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: That story is 1,000% believable
	4:26pm still b/p: Oh, I returned it to old boss. I knew him to be one of those devoted fans. I was never a particular or active fan, but the band's sound and standards give me nice airy recalls of 70s feels and currents.
	4:26pm Discotech Underground: Lowell was the man...played with Zappa, founded Little Feet and got to play with Linda Ronstadt!
	4:28pm Discotech Underground: PLUS he got to be on F-Troop!
	4:28pm Funky16Corners: Lowell played on tons of amazing stuff, though I don't know hy his work with The Factory isn't on this list: www.discogs.com...
	🥁 4:28pm Brian in UK: Thick end of fifty years later, the world is ready for Little Feat.
	4:28pm dreamyandseedy: really enjoying this little feat set!
	4:28pm Funky16Corners: @Kip - Yes! The Factory!
	🥁 4:28pm WR: Discotech Underground, I'm 100% gonna follow your advice. Getting comfortable. 100g cotton and chilling a mug in the freezer.
	4:29pm Discotech Underground: Not very much of the Factory stuff got released back in the day. The Emil Richards & The Factory single on UNI is fabulous, though!
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I read Lowell's bio and it's kind of disheartening how unsuccessful this music was in the commercial sense.
	4:29pm Discotech Underground: WR-The only way to chill during a heat wave!
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Dreamy - Thanks!
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: Speaking of Linda Ronstadt, the first version I ever heard of this song was by her
	🥁 4:32pm Brian in UK: Dare I say that they were on a par with The Band for the sheer enjoyment they put into the music and the genuine feeling that anything was possible.
	4:33pm Little Danny: I think I say this every time you play any Lowell George-related music, Larry, but Little Feat and Steely Dan are the two rock artists whose music I now love, but it took me decades to get there with each of 'em.
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: As much as I love The Ban, I think LF was more consistent over the long haul. Not a sour note on any of those 1970s albums
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - There's a lot of common threads between the sounds of those two bands, too
	4:35pm Little Danny: I agree Larry, I was just thinking about that. Both heavily and quite willingly intertwined with what was happening in studios in the 1970s.
	4:35pm Discotech Underground: I prefer Little Feat to The Band. LF was more intriguing and tended to "jam" more and I love that.
	🥁 4:36pm Brian in UK: The Band made two albums before they played live, so not quite the same. I remember the first time I heard Do It Again circa 73/74 fair turned my head.
	4:39pm Funky16Corners: I think The Band and Little Feat are really apples and oranges. The Band were more formalist, across the board, hailing back to rockabilly, blues, country etc. Little Feat were a more modern band. I love them both, though.
	🥁 4:40pm Brian in UK: Then seeing Steely Dan with TWO drummers, what is going on.
	4:40pm zzz: dr lonnie smith late career resurgence/reappraisal (??) is a beautiful thing, one of the best people
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: Absolutely.
	4:41pm Erica: Powerhouse I hear?
	4:41pm Funky16Corners: Catch those quotes from Raymond Scott and Gershwin?
	4:41pm Little Danny: Totally, Larry @4:39
	4:41pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Yes!
	🥁 4:42pm Brian in UK: The Last Waltz left a sour taste, they felt like a backing band for everyone else. Just my opinion.
	4:42pm zzz: is this melvin sparks on guitar? he always threw in those quotes, flinstones etc. another really sweet guy. RIP
	4:43pm still b/p: Have Becker's estate and Fagen sorted the disputey shit out yet?
	🥁 4:43pm Brian in UK: Larry, agree about apples & oranges. It was the potential for how high they could lift you.
	4:43pm Discotech Underground: Supposedly Steely Dan is going to tour soon. Although it seems more like The Donald Fagen band than SD proper.
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - No guitarist credited, which is weird
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, Fagen should not tour as "Steely Dan"
	4:46pm Discotech Underground: Most of the session musicians from those Steely Dan LP's are either gone, retired or too old to tour so he is the only remaining figure.
	4:47pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - I just found it, the guitarist is Doug Munro, who was also the producer
	4:47pm zzz: heard ‘everyone’s gone to the movies’ the other day, i think on wake and bake, for the first time i. ages. CREEPY SONG ALERT
	🥁 4:47pm Brian in UK: What price success for any of these three bands.
	4:48pm zzz: thanks @F16C, yeah makes sense this wah-wah kind of tone isn’t really melvin vibe.
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: Steely Dan had a lot of radio hits. They seem more obscure than they really were.
	4:49pm Discotech Underground: When I think of Steely Dan, I think of someone saying back in the day "Steely Dan LP's are what you use when you want to show off your stereo"!
	4:50pm still b/p: I put Katy Lied in the vehicle player from time to time, sing along loud and awful with Dr. Wu, and then Everyone's Gone To The Movies is next in the track order. 45 years of familiarity makes me sing along with that too, but I keep thinking, no, you couldn't release it today.
	4:51pm Discotech Underground: Steely Dan just so typifies "New York" from the 1970's.
	4:52pm Discotech Underground: Stick around for Discotech Underground next after Larry! wfmu.org...
	🥁 4:55pm Brian in UK: Is that the time. Thank you Larry.
	4:58pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry! Enjoy the big bash!
	4:58pm Little Danny: Thanks Larry!
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff! Danny! Brian!
	🥁 4:59pm Yvang: Thanks Larry! !
	5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Yvang!
	🥁 5:40pm WR: thank you Larry (took long hot shower so listened to the end but away from the screen)
	5:52pm Funky16Corners: Thanks WR!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 29, 2021

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July 29, 2021: Testify! Summer Madness

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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)
ZZ Top	La Grange "La Grange" by "ZZ Top"	Tres Hombres	London	1973	LP	0:01:27 (Pop-up)
ZZ Top	Heard It On the X "Heard It On the X" by "ZZ Top"	Fandango	London	1975	LP	0:05:11 (Pop-up)
ZZ Top	Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers	Tres Hombres	London	1973	LP	0:07:34 (Pop-up)
ZZ Top	Jesus Just Left Chicago "Jesus Just Left Chicago" by "ZZ Top"	Tres Hombres	London	1973	LP	0:10:54 (Pop-up)
ZZ Top	Tush "Tush" by "ZZ Top"	Fandango	London	1975	LP	0:14:18 (Pop-up)

Roy Ayers Ubiquity	Everybody Loves the Sunshine	Everybody Loves the Sunshine	Polydor	1976	LP	0:22:47 (Pop-up)
Cal Tjader	Never Can Say Goodbye "Never Can Say Goodbye" by "Cal Tjader"	Last Bolero In Berkeley	Fantasy	1973	LP	0:26:37 (Pop-up)
Freddie McCoy	Gimme Some "Gimme Some" by "Freddie McCoy"	Gimme Some	Cobblestone	1970	LP	0:29:41 (Pop-up)
Vince Guaraldi	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Vince Guaraldi"	The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi	Warner Brothers	1969	LP	0:32:24 (Pop-up)
Donovan	There Is a Mountain "There Is a Mountain" by "Donovan"	45RPM Single	Epic	1967	45	0:36:22 (Pop-up)
Grant Green	Ease Back "Ease Back" by "Grant Green"	Carryin' On	Blue Note	1970	LP	0:38:36 (Pop-up)
Kool and the Gang	Dujii "Dujii" by "Kool and the Gang"	Kool Jazz	Deelite	1973	LP	0:44:19 (Pop-up)
Kool and the Gang	Summer Madness (live)	Love and Understanding	Deelite	1976	LP	0:50:10 (Pop-up)

Dr John	Big Chief "Big Chief" by "Dr John"	Dr John's Gumbo	Atco	1972	LP	1:01:49 (Pop-up)
Dr John	Mama Roux "Mama Roux" by "Dr John"	Gris Gris	Atco	1968	LP	1:05:07 (Pop-up)
Little Feat	Sailin' Shoes "Sailin' Shoes" by "Little Feat"	Sailin' Shoes	Warner Brothers	1972	LP	1:07:59 (Pop-up)
Little Feat	Dixie Chicken "Dixie Chicken" by "Little Feat"	Dixie Chicken	Warner Brothers	1973	LP	1:10:52 (Pop-up)
Little Feat	Skin It Back "Skin It Back" by "Little Feat"	Feats Don't Fail Me Now	Warner Brothers	1974	LP	1:14:34 (Pop-up)
Little Feat	Fat Man In the Bathtub	Dixie Chicken	Warner Brothers	1973	LP	1:18:43 (Pop-up)
Little Feat	Tripe Face Boogie "Tripe Face Boogie" by "Little Feat"	Sailin' Shoes	Warner Brothers	1972	LP	1:23:07 (Pop-up)
Little Feat	Old Folks Boogie "Old Folks Boogie" by "Little Feat"	Time Loves a Hero	Warner Brothers	1977	LP	1:26:19 (Pop-up)
Little Feat	All That You Dream (Live)	Waiting For Columbus	Warner Brothers	1978	LP	1:29:45 (Pop-up)
Lonnie Smith	Mixed Bizness "Mixed Bizness" by "Lonnie Smith"	Boogaloo To Beck	Scufflin	2003	CD	1:34:14 (Pop-up)
Lonnie Smith	Where It's At "Where It's At" by "Lonnie Smith"	Boogaloo To Beck	Scufflin	2003	LP	1:42:29 (Pop-up)
Tamba 4	California Soul "California Soul" by "Tamba 4"	45RPM Single	A&M/CTI	1969	45	1:49:25 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin & the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:58:31 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:01pm Jeff Ash: I am ready to testify! Greetings from Green Bay!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	🥁 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Larry! Ready for the madness! everytime!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Yvang!
	🥁 3:03pm Yvang: RIP Dusty Hill I love ZZ Top!
	3:03pm ifny en route: ZZRIPZZ
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed!
	3:03pm Jeff Ash: Swinging over from the all-day Summer of Soul programming on WXPN. Best of both worlds!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Whatup ifnyen route!
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - I didn't know about that. Sounds cool.
	3:04pm Moog1 Radio: I had this 45 growing up! Filed next to Hocus Pocus by Focus
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt! Hocus Pocus was a prominent drinking song among my set.
	🥁 3:05pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry! Shake your boogie chillen hips!
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Theo!
	3:06pm Jeff Ash: I played the bejeezus out of "Fandango" back in 1975. But I had forgotten that one side is live.
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: Very solid album, like all of the first seven or eight by them.
	3:07pm Erica: Hi guys! I take it Larry knows about Dusty Hill's death.
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica! That's why I'm playing these burners!
	3:08pm mauri: Yea!
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey mauri!
	3:09pm dreamyandseedy: greetings!
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: Dreamy!
	3:10pm listener Rey: Hi Larry. Those guys could really rock. The beards mighta been gimmicky or whatever but their chops are undisputed
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey! No doubt!
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: Just had a tornado watch pop up on my phone!
	3:13pm northguineahills: RIP Dusty Hill
	3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	3:15pm Funky16Corners: Dusty on lead vocals!
	3:19pm still b/p: All of Tush is imprinted in brain, but those closing notes are like third-level imprinted.
	3:20pm Jeff Ash: 60 years! Huzzah!
	3:22pm zzz: wow @F16C, what a lovely evocation of the sweetness and nostalgia of summer memories. with my own young kids now i’ve been grasping at that lately more than ever. beautifully said. thank you for that.
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: Thanks zzz!
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: Hey sbp!
	3:24pm northguineahills: Roy Ayers!
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - That means I'm just a little bit more than a year away from the 60 mark myself!
	3:24pm northguineahills: Saw him live at Ft Greene Park, once....
	3:25pm Funky16Corners: That must have been nice!
	3:27pm Erica: Nice elevator music Larry.
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: This ain't no elevator music! This is soul jazz!
	3:30pm Erica: Going up....boogie down...
	3:31pm still b/p: I pluck Never Can Say Goodbye out ham-fingeredly on two strings, and, hey, that happened to be in tune with where/how I do it on the guitar. God help the people riding in the same elevator with me.
	3:31pm zzz: being of i guess a younger generation, when i hear ‘Tush’ i immediately think of Dazed and Confused movie, killer soundtrack!
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - As someone who was the age that Wiley Wiggins character Mitch was in Dazed, I can attest to its accuracy.
	3:33pm zzz: haha, fantastic
	3:33pm northguineahills: I didn't know much about Roy Ayer's music beforehand, but a drummer friend dragged me to the show. I was then enlightened.
	3:33pm Funky16Corners: @sbp - Never Can Say... is one of my all time favorite songs. I could live in that elevator.
	3:36pm zzz: that was a cool Freddie Mccoy track, always wanting to explore him more, really haven’t heard anything else, but the name sticks out to me bc of the composer of the track One Cylinder on lou donaldson’s Alligator Bogaloo album, which every note and are etched in my brain (based in the groove of that tune I am assuming it’s the same Freddie McCoy)
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - Freddie McCoy (same guy) is one my fave soul jazz artists. Unfortunately very little of his work has seen reissue (none of his stuff as a leader, as far as I know) so you have to find the original records
	3:38pm Funky16Corners: Also, McCoy recorded One Cylinder on his own, too
	🥁 3:44pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & cool cats.
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	🥁 3:45pm Brian in UK: This Kool and for the next few years was tops.
	3:46pm Funky16Corners: One of the truly great R&B bands of the 70s
	3:49pm still b/p: I got both little speakers working, but that guitar solo was much in the background. Just me?
	3:51pm Funky16Corners: I have to talk to Doug about this. I keep hearing complaints about balance and it has to be the stream, I can see both channels going out evenly on this end.
	🥁 3:53pm Brian in UK: Was this the Rainbow concert in London?
	3:53pm northguineahills: Prolly my fave Kool & the Gang track.....
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Yes
	🥁 3:56pm Brian in UK: The Rainbow as a good gig, Zappa, Steely Dan & Weather Report, all wonderful shows.
	3:57pm Erica: Sorry. Was out eating.
	3:59pm Erica: Also this earlier version of Kool and the Gang were much jazzier than their 80s disco/R&B era stuff.
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Funkier, too. They did some instrumentals in the eary 70s that would rival the JBs
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: EARLY not eary
	4:04pm mauri: the eary bird catches the earworm
	4:06pm doctorjazz: Hi folks! Love Dr John, got to see him a bunch of times.
	4:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	4:06pm Moog1 Radio: The Sandie Shaw version of this is great!
	4:06pm Funky16Corners: I've never heard that! Gotta find it!
	4:08pm Moog1 Radio: There is a nice 2LP reissue of Sandie Shaw Reviewing The Situation you should check out
	4:09pm zzz: oooh yeah, i am def lintels easing nicely into this dr john -> little feat. can i have a beer yet?
	4:10pm Funky16Corners: Please do! I should tell my sons to bring me down a cold, frosty one!
	4:10pm zzz: *lintels = easing! ha
	🥁 4:10pm Brian in UK: I still enjoy Robert Palmer's versions, with most of Little Feat playing. Has a bit of heft to it.
	4:11pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Me too!
	4:11pm Little Danny: Hi Larry, all!
	4:12pm doctorjazz: Another great band-didn't get to see the original version with George, did see them once after.
	4:12pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	4:13pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - Its one of my great regrets that I didn't get to see Lowell George. I saw the later version of the group open for the Grateful Dead
	🥁 4:15pm Brian in UK: Back to the Rainbow; the Warners tour 1975 where the little known Little Feat blew all the other off the stage. Missed that and Kool. What was I doing!
	4:15pm still b/p: Many Little Feat fans have an enduring devotion and kinship.
	4:15pm Funky16Corners: I love the Fender Rhodes groove on this one,
	4:16pm zzz: little feat is so good
	4:16pm Funky16Corners: @sbp - I think they may be THE underrated American band of their time. They may have been too sophisticated for some folks to fully grasp. They had a good-time, boogie side, but there's a lot of jazzy stuff wandering around in the mix, too. I love everything they did with George.
	4:19pm Funky16Corners: Soul, too, and George was a BADASS slide guitar player
	4:20pm still b/p: A former boss sold me a laptop a couple years ago. There was still a disc...either in the slot or in the carry bag, I forget. Little Feat, signed by all including George.
	🥁 4:21pm WR: Hello Larry & Testifiers! I too regret that I didnt see Lowell George.
	4:21pm Funky16Corners: WOW!
	4:21pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR!
	4:21pm Discotech Underground: Welcome back, Larry!
	4:22pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Kip!
	🥁 4:23pm WR: Whoaa still b/p, did you you give the CD back? Or was some one other than your boss the previous owner?
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: Kip will be burning things up right after me today! wfmu.org...
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: YEW NORK NEW YORK!
	4:24pm Discotech Underground: Yeah, man! Thinking of subtitling my show "Radio In Your Underwear" because it's so warm you have to strip down to your skivvies to stay cool!
	4:25pm zzz: love you youtube clip of linda ronstadt performing willin’ from ‘77 or so and introducing it with story of meeting lowell george in a bar, him offer her a quaalude, them shacking up together, and then his wife knocking on her door a few weeks later.
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: That story is 1,000% believable
	4:26pm still b/p: Oh, I returned it to old boss. I knew him to be one of those devoted fans. I was never a particular or active fan, but the band's sound and standards give me nice airy recalls of 70s feels and currents.
	4:26pm Discotech Underground: Lowell was the man...played with Zappa, founded Little Feet and got to play with Linda Ronstadt!
	4:28pm Discotech Underground: PLUS he got to be on F-Troop!
	4:28pm Funky16Corners: Lowell played on tons of amazing stuff, though I don't know hy his work with The Factory isn't on this list: www.discogs.com...
	🥁 4:28pm Brian in UK: Thick end of fifty years later, the world is ready for Little Feat.
	4:28pm dreamyandseedy: really enjoying this little feat set!
	4:28pm Funky16Corners: @Kip - Yes! The Factory!
	🥁 4:28pm WR: Discotech Underground, I'm 100% gonna follow your advice. Getting comfortable. 100g cotton and chilling a mug in the freezer.
	4:29pm Discotech Underground: Not very much of the Factory stuff got released back in the day. The Emil Richards & The Factory single on UNI is fabulous, though!
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I read Lowell's bio and it's kind of disheartening how unsuccessful this music was in the commercial sense.
	4:29pm Discotech Underground: WR-The only way to chill during a heat wave!
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Dreamy - Thanks!
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: Speaking of Linda Ronstadt, the first version I ever heard of this song was by her
	🥁 4:32pm Brian in UK: Dare I say that they were on a par with The Band for the sheer enjoyment they put into the music and the genuine feeling that anything was possible.
	4:33pm Little Danny: I think I say this every time you play any Lowell George-related music, Larry, but Little Feat and Steely Dan are the two rock artists whose music I now love, but it took me decades to get there with each of 'em.
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: As much as I love The Ban, I think LF was more consistent over the long haul. Not a sour note on any of those 1970s albums
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - There's a lot of common threads between the sounds of those two bands, too
	4:35pm Little Danny: I agree Larry, I was just thinking about that. Both heavily and quite willingly intertwined with what was happening in studios in the 1970s.
	4:35pm Discotech Underground: I prefer Little Feat to The Band. LF was more intriguing and tended to "jam" more and I love that.
	🥁 4:36pm Brian in UK: The Band made two albums before they played live, so not quite the same. I remember the first time I heard Do It Again circa 73/74 fair turned my head.
	4:39pm Funky16Corners: I think The Band and Little Feat are really apples and oranges. The Band were more formalist, across the board, hailing back to rockabilly, blues, country etc. Little Feat were a more modern band. I love them both, though.
	🥁 4:40pm Brian in UK: Then seeing Steely Dan with TWO drummers, what is going on.
	4:40pm zzz: dr lonnie smith late career resurgence/reappraisal (??) is a beautiful thing, one of the best people
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: Absolutely.
	4:41pm Erica: Powerhouse I hear?
	4:41pm Funky16Corners: Catch those quotes from Raymond Scott and Gershwin?
	4:41pm Little Danny: Totally, Larry @4:39
	4:41pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Yes!
	🥁 4:42pm Brian in UK: The Last Waltz left a sour taste, they felt like a backing band for everyone else. Just my opinion.
	4:42pm zzz: is this melvin sparks on guitar? he always threw in those quotes, flinstones etc. another really sweet guy. RIP
	4:43pm still b/p: Have Becker's estate and Fagen sorted the disputey shit out yet?
	🥁 4:43pm Brian in UK: Larry, agree about apples & oranges. It was the potential for how high they could lift you.
	4:43pm Discotech Underground: Supposedly Steely Dan is going to tour soon. Although it seems more like The Donald Fagen band than SD proper.
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - No guitarist credited, which is weird
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, Fagen should not tour as "Steely Dan"
	4:46pm Discotech Underground: Most of the session musicians from those Steely Dan LP's are either gone, retired or too old to tour so he is the only remaining figure.
	4:47pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - I just found it, the guitarist is Doug Munro, who was also the producer
	4:47pm zzz: heard ‘everyone’s gone to the movies’ the other day, i think on wake and bake, for the first time i. ages. CREEPY SONG ALERT
	🥁 4:47pm Brian in UK: What price success for any of these three bands.
	4:48pm zzz: thanks @F16C, yeah makes sense this wah-wah kind of tone isn’t really melvin vibe.
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: Steely Dan had a lot of radio hits. They seem more obscure than they really were.
	4:49pm Discotech Underground: When I think of Steely Dan, I think of someone saying back in the day "Steely Dan LP's are what you use when you want to show off your stereo"!
	4:50pm still b/p: I put Katy Lied in the vehicle player from time to time, sing along loud and awful with Dr. Wu, and then Everyone's Gone To The Movies is next in the track order. 45 years of familiarity makes me sing along with that too, but I keep thinking, no, you couldn't release it today.
	4:51pm Discotech Underground: Steely Dan just so typifies "New York" from the 1970's.
	4:52pm Discotech Underground: Stick around for Discotech Underground next after Larry! wfmu.org...
	🥁 4:55pm Brian in UK: Is that the time. Thank you Larry.
	4:58pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry! Enjoy the big bash!
	4:58pm Little Danny: Thanks Larry!
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff! Danny! Brian!
	🥁 4:59pm Yvang: Thanks Larry! !
	5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Yvang!
	🥁 5:40pm WR: thank you Larry (took long hot shower so listened to the end but away from the screen)
	5:52pm Funky16Corners: Thanks WR!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 29, 2021

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