WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from August 12, 2021

Listener comments!
	♥ 2:33pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Does anyone cover the run off track at the end?
	♥ 2:33pm Funky16Corners: Not that I was able to find...
	♥ 2:36pm Aaron in Minneapolis: I heard if if you play the whole album backwards, it messes up your needle.
	♥ 2:37pm Funky16Corners: That sounds like it might be true. Probably foul up the record, too.
	♥ 3:00pm Yvang: Hi Larry and fellow lonely hearts !
	3:00pm Moog1 Radio: I'm right where I belong I'm right where I belong
	♥ 3:02pm Yvang: @Aaron : the needle and the damage done!
	♥ 3:04pm dreamyandseedy: greetings!
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Green Bay on another steamy, sultry summer afternoon. Stick that in your frozen tundra!
	3:05pm Erica: Hi Testifiers! I see the stereo of the stream has been fixed. Also Larry is talking before playing music now?
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: Hello Yvang! Kurt! Jeff! Erica! Dreamy!
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Just for this show because of how it's structured
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: I figured out the stereo issue over the weekend, and tested it this morning
	♥ 3:06pm listener Rey: Hi everybody. It's wonderful to be here
	♥ 3:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	♥ 3:08pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry and pepperheads!
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Theo!
	3:08pm Erica: By how it's structured, you mean the episode right?
	♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Yes. Intro - one whole run through Sgt Pepper - break - second run through Sgt Pepper
	3:09pm Moog1 Radio: Less focused on the Bargain Bin Stuffer... aka The Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Soundtrack I see...
	♥ 3:09pm listener Rey: i like how he vocal trombones that part
	♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: Nothing from the movie (which weirdly leans on Abbey Road)
	♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: This is an outtake from the LP he recorded in the UK in 1970/71
	3:11pm Moog1 Radio: Scratches off George Burns from his Testify Bingo Card
	♥ 3:11pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Larry and all! Didn't Sgt. Pepper's come out in '67?
	♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: Perhaps on a future episode. There'll be plenty of weirdness today.
	♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: Candy-O! Yes, 1967
	♥ 3:12pm Candy-O'67: Cool! The year I was born ;)
	♥ 3:14pm Candy-O'67: Bettye's version is killer!
	♥ 3:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Year of Fire Sheep ~ Goat ~ Ram Feb. 9, 1967 - Jan. 29, 1968
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Yes! Here early 45s are killer!
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rev!
	♥ 3:14pm listener Rey: Do you think this is the most covered song on the album?
	♥ 3:14pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Rev Rabbit! You are great with this kinda stuff! ;)
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Year of the Beatle, too!
	♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: @Rey - I'd say so
	♥ 3:16pm Funky16Corners: I have lots of Lucy's, too
	♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: Oddly enough, there aren't a lot of covers of the title track
	♥ 3:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I'd go to Hendrix doing it Live...
	♥ 3:19pm Funky16Corners: Though I have a couple of unusual ones coming up
	♥ 3:20pm Doug Schulkind: Bestify!
	♥ 3:20pm doctorjazz: Hi Funky one, and Funkateers!
	♥ 3:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I rather wonder how ProgRawk would've turned out without Pepper. What Ifs work better in Marvel Comix than for Musics generally...
	♥ 3:21pm listener Rey: Interesting that the Lorber take on LiSwD also came out in 67.
	♥ 3:21pm Funky16Corners: Doug! Doc!
	♥ 3:21pm Funky16Corners: @Rey - There are a bunch of 1967 tracks in this show
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: BTW this Little Jimmy Scott impersonator also leads the Tommy DeVito Orchestra
	3:22pm Erica: Just wondering, will we hear Joe Cocker's hit version of "With a Little Help From My Friends" aka the Wonder Years theme?
	♥ 3:22pm Doug Schulkind: Crikey, I thought this was Jimmy Scott at first.
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: We will not...
	♥ 3:22pm Doug Schulkind: Oh... I see.
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - Right?
	♥ 3:23pm Funky16Corners: This is Little Joey Pesci
	♥ 3:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I would guess JimmyScott without knowing different...
	3:23pm Erica: Ah well.
	♥ 3:24pm listener Rey: Wow, it is that Joe Pesci. I hear it now!
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: It was indeed! Circa 1968
	♥ 3:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: melmagazine.com...
	3:27pm Erica: 🤘 Cheap Trick! 🤘
	♥ 3:28pm listener Rey: a chorus of Torme harmonizing with himself would be fantastic
	♥ 3:29pm Funky16Corners: I'll bet he did that along the way somewhere
	♥ 3:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Apparently Mel's 'I'm Coming Home' influenced Lennon's 'She's So Heavy'.
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: I'd believe that. John had eclectic taste.
	♥ 3:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pepper is just shy of 40min.s - all TheBealtes' albums in the 60s there surprisingly short I think.
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: Yes, I was able to do a show devoted to covers of the White Album and fit them all in
	3:35pm Moog1 Radio: Pepper was the first Beatles LP that Capitol Records/Dave Dexter did not alter... I wonder if they had plans to do so?
	♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: I hadn't thought of that! I'll bet the Beatles would have fought it strenuously.
	3:38pm Hubig Pie: Based on the previous Capitol releases, it might be a challenge to imagine what would have made the cut and what wouldn't
	3:39pm Erica: I heard any instrumental version of "When I'm 64" on a Music Choice channel. It was by Nick Ingman and it's from the 80s.
	♥ 3:42pm Funky16Corners: There are LOTS of covers of When I'm 64, many by older, middle of the road types
	♥ 3:43pm listener Rey: Only the hippest elevators played this one
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: This is from an album that covers ALL of Sgt Pepper!
	3:44pm Marci: The best show of the summer right here right now!
	♥ 3:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Beatles were not happy with the Pre-Pepper U.S. Capitol reconfigurations. Wasn't gonna happen. I note tho' that whereas Pepper is oft critiqued as all Production & no Song (& putting that aside just one moment...) - it is framed in time by the PennyLane / StrawberryFields single before it - & 'All You Need Is Love' right after it... which is pretty mighty Single imho.
	♥ 3:44pm listener Rey: Another 67. Boy everybody jumped on that bandwagon quick
	♥ 3:45pm Funky16Corners: Hi Marci! Thanks!
	♥ 3:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Using George Martin's YellowSub soundtrack musics in the mash-up.
	♥ 3:46pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, this album is fantastic. I love well done mash-ups, cut and paste
	♥ 3:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They did it themselves for 'Love' the Cirque de Soleil production.
	3:47pm Erica: Cracked Pepper should be in a Stevie Wonder show Larry.
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: You heard what Stevie record they were sampling, right?
	3:49pm Moog1 Radio: I always assumed it was Lennon singing the "Ahhhhs" after the middle part of this song, but if you listen to the isolated vocals it becomes apparent that Macca is doing the "ahhhhhhhhs"...
	♥ 3:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: No ! HelterSkelter ? Frank O'Toole used to rawk some MashUps.
	3:52pm Erica: Are you quizzing me Larry? ;)
	3:55pm Erica: Cause I know it's "I Was Made to Love Her."
	🥁 ♥ 3:56pm Jeff Ash: 2007, the glory years of mashups.
	♥ 3:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: DavyGraham (anybody doesn't actually know) was the acoustic guitarist behind everybody, even Bert Jansch - the one who originally popularized Open Tunings, including the DADGAD that is now standard throughout Irish Trad - pioneer of International Music fusions - &tc.
	3:57pm Erica: The Beatles: the Video Game.
	♥ 3:58pm Funky16Corners: Super Beatle Brothers
	3:58pm Erica: @Jeff do these mashups include YouTube poops then yes I agree. 😂
	♥ 3:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Everybody owes it to themselves to get familiar with Gaylord's Fake Beatles Blog : blog.wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: This is a giant group of barbershop quartet singers at a convention, all dressed in Sgt Pepper uniforms. Surreal.
	♥ 4:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Way kewl. That many people tho' - they coulda vocalized every instrument... Too much arranging - not what Barbershop does...
	♥ 4:02pm Funky16Corners: Look them up on Youtube. It's impressive.
	♥ 4:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Friends' written mostly by Paul for Ringo's limited range. Amazing really.
	♥ 4:05pm Funky16Corners: I gotta say, despite his obvious technical limitations, Ringo did OK for himself in his solo career.
	♥ 4:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ringo was a Pro in ShowBiz before the others ! Haha...
	♥ 4:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& a bit of a Ted. They were scared of him. :D
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed! An entertainer!
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Those early, bearded pics of Ringo, circa Rory Storme are wild
	4:11pm Hubig Pie: A teddy boy ?
	♥ 4:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I really feel deprived of hearing & seeing the Hurricanes ! Yup a TeddyBoy. Ringo was the one who really had it rough - from the 'Dingle' in Liverpool...
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: davidabedford.com...
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: Look at the top pic in that article
	♥ 4:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: For TheBeatles' 1st album - you can see Ringo's DA / pompadour is still adjusting to the moptop...
	4:17pm northguineahills: Any Swingle Singers?
	4:18pm Moog1 Radio: Did you play Jackie and Roy on your Lovin Spoonful show? I have to find some stuff by them
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH! Not today.
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: @Kurt - I did, indeed
	♥ 4:19pm Funky16Corners: Look at the picture of the pre-Ringo Beatles at the top of this page: mccharmley.tumblr.com...
	♥ 4:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...so ...we got these 13ish short albums & that's it. TheBeatles were dedicated to the twin gawds of Excellence - & Change. Does Pepper deserve this dichotomy of Worship & Condemnation ?? I put it to you that Sgt.Pepper - is - after all - their only Sgt.Pepper. 'RubberSoul', Dec.'65, is the Maturity of their Pop Writing. Tim Riley observes that 'Revolver' is darkness with scattered light, & Pepper light with contrasting darkness... But - does Pepper deserve to branded as not having Songs - ?? Or are they just 1967 Songs? Or - are they in fact perfectly great Songs ??...
	♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: Ah, also, the archive at my WFMU page is a corrected, full stereo, no drop outs version of the Lovin Spoonful show
	♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: Pepper has GREAT songs!
	♥ 4:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Right ?!
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: I mean, there are a couple of experiments, but there are so many great songs. Like this one, for instance!
	♥ 4:22pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and all
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	♥ 4:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Leaving Home' is gonna be compared to 'Eleanor Rigby' cause strings. Yeah - Rigby is like a PopNovel in two minutes or something. But this girl here is someone completely different...
	4:25pm northguineahills: I have this Four Freshmen rekkid.
	♥ 4:25pm Funky16Corners: It's good one!
	♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: This Tom Scott/California Dreamers is part of the summer of amazing collaborations I covered in this show: wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cycle of Freshman key to BeachBoys - & PetSounds key to Pepper...
	♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: Yup, Hi-Los, too
	♥ 4:30pm Funky16Corners: This is a very hip version of Within You Without You from a very unhip looking record
	♥ 4:31pm coelacanth∅: i quite like this
	♥ 4:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: No fooling with the tabla. & they do what an Orchestra ought to do - Orchestrate.
	♥ 4:33pm Funky16Corners: Sounds like a REAL tabla player, not some studio guy
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: You can tell with the sitar too, whether it's someone that really knows how to play or a guitar player dabbling
	♥ 4:36pm listener Rey: definitely tabla dabbler here
	4:37pm Andres: Hi, Larry! Sounding great and looking forward to a replay on the archive!
	♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: Hey Andres!
	4:37pm Hubig Pie: Was Brian Jones a player or a dabbler ?
	♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: @Rey - I'm pretty sure Tartaglia was using regular studio guys
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: Brian was sadly a dabbler...
	♥ 4:38pm coelacanth∅: he got the job done though
	4:41pm Erica: Hey coel I didn't notice your new profile picture.
	♥ 4:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bob Brainen recently did a special on BrianJones. Put all together like that - it becomes apparent that Brian found magic that fit each track on all these instruments. When the Stones lost Brian they lost their rainbow - Bob puts it ! George was in quite a similar position in TheBeatles adding Timbres behind the two Songwriting biggies upfront. Someone observed that Brian's sitar on 'Paint It Black' was actually less derivative than George's straight Indian approach (tho' George went & studied it quite seriously for a time).
	♥ 4:43pm Woo: I have a 54-year old copy of Pepper. No skips, just some crackle. Just full of Paul is Dead clues.
	♥ 4:45pm Funky16Corners: But you see, it was The Rutles Dirk McQuickly that was dead the whole time...
	🥁 ♥ 4:45pm Jeff Ash: Good choice of this Micky Dolenz cover. I hear his covers LP of Mike Nesmith's songs is excellent.
	♥ 4:45pm Funky16Corners: Ooh, I'd like to hear that!
	♥ 4:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...werked a thrift store long time ...acquired a Mono Pepper on the Capitol label - with the swirly red paper sleeve that was all that remained of TheFool's original cover design...
	♥ 4:45pm Discotech Underground: Afternoon, Larry!
	♥ 4:46pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kip!
	♥ 4:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - Micky knew John. Hell - he was there for a Pepper session or two !
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: Stay tuned for Discothech Underground when I'm done! wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:48pm Woo: Kip, I'm here early so I would remember to listen to your show. I wrote it on a Post-It Note. They really work.
	♥ 4:49pm Discotech Underground: Great, Woo! Sometimes the old ways work the best! Nothing like Post It notes to help you remember! I'm old school and still use them myself!
	♥ 4:56pm Woo: One death clue that can't be denied is holding a mirror to the drum on the cover and it says ONE HE DIE. I love the Paul is Dead story.
	♥ 4:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Woo - don't know that one !! :O
	♥ 4:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...not seeing it Woo :) ...maybe I'm not tryin'...
	♥ 4:58pm dreamyandseedy: i did enjoy Bob Brainen's Brian Jones special! all should have a listen
	♥ 4:59pm Doug Schulkind: That was a masterclass, Larry.
	♥ 4:59pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!
	4:59pm Erica: Dug that show Larry.
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doug!
	♥ 4:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thank You DJ LG !
	5:00pm Erica: Until next week TestIfiers.
	♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thank you all for coming along for the ride!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from August 12, 2021

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August 12, 2021: Testify! - Sgt Pepper Twice! The Classic Beatles Album Covered Two Times!

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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)

Gilberto Gil	Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Gilberto Gil	Philips	1971	CD	0:04:24 (Pop-up)
Bettye Lavette	With A Little Help From My Friends	45RPM Single	Karen	1967	45	0:12:56 (Pop-up)
Alan Lorber Orchestra	Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds	The Lotus Palace	Verve	1967	LP	0:16:02 (Pop-up)
Davy Graham	Getting Better "Getting Better" by "Davy Graham"	Hat	Decca	1969	LP	0:18:22 (Pop-up)
Little Joe	Fixing a Hole "Fixing a Hole" by "Little Joe"	Little Joe Sure Can Sing	Brunswick	1968	LP	0:20:38 (Pop-up)
Mel Torme	She's Leaving Home "She's Leaving Home" by "Mel Torme"	A Time For Us	Columbia	1969	LP	0:23:19 (Pop-up)
Cheap Trick	Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite	Sgt Pepper Live	Big 3	2009	CD	0:26:29 (Pop-up)
Soulful Strings	Within You, Without You	Groovin' With The Soulful Strings	Cadet	1967	LP	0:29:06 (Pop-up)
Big Jim Sullivan	Within You, Without You	Sitar a Go Go	Mercury	1967	LP	0:33:27 (Pop-up)
Noel Harrison	When I'm 64 "When I'm 64" by "Noel Harrison"	Collage	Reprise	1967	LP	0:36:36 (Pop-up)
Fats Domino	Lovely Rita "Lovely Rita" by "Fats Domino"	Fats Is Back	Reprise	1968	LP	0:39:02 (Pop-up)
Peter Knight and His Orchestra	Good Morning Good Morning	Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Mercury	1967	LP	0:41:29 (Pop-up)
CCC-Ill Chemist	Cracked Pepper (Reprise)	Cracked Pepper	No Label	2007	MP3	0:44:17 (Pop-up)
Brian Auger and The Trinity	A Day In the Life	Definitely What	Atco	1967	LP	0:46:53 (Pop-up)

8Bit Beatles	Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	The Cloud	Youtube	2020	MP3	0:56:41 (Pop-up)
Alexandria Harmonizers	Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Live In Nashville 2016	Bootleg	2016	MP3	0:58:26 (Pop-up)
Sue Raney	With A Little Help From My Friends	With A Little Help From My Friends	Imperial	1968	LP	1:00:29 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo	Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds	More Sorcery	Impulse	1967	LP	1:03:07 (Pop-up)
Peter Knight and His Orchestra	Getting Better	Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Mercury	1967	LP	1:12:55 (Pop-up)
Jackie Cain and Roy Kral	Fixing a Hole	Grass	Capitol	1968	LP	1:15:17 (Pop-up)
The Four Freshmen	She's Leaving Home	A Today Kind of Thing	Liberty	1968	LP	1:20:45 (Pop-up)
Tom Scott and the California Dreamers	She's Leaving Home	The Honeysuckle Breeze	Impulse	1967	CD	1:24:07 (Pop-up)
Les Misérables Brass Band	Being For the Benefit of Mr Kite	Downtown Does The Beatles: Live at the Knitting Factory	Knitting Factory	1992	CD	1:26:19 (Pop-up)
Clebanoff Strings	Within You Without You	Once Upon a Summertime	Decca	1968	LP	1:28:55 (Pop-up)
Tartaglia	Within You Without You "Within You Without You" by "Tartaglia"	Good Morning Starshine	Capitol	1969	LP	1:33:21 (Pop-up)
Bernard Cribbins	When I'm 64 "When I'm 64" by "Bernard Cribbins"	45RPM Single	Capitol	1967	45	1:37:31 (Pop-up)
Roy Wood	Lovely Rita "Lovely Rita" by "Roy Wood"	All This and WW2	Warner Brothers	1976	LP	1:40:07 (Pop-up)
Peter Knight and His Orchestra	Lovely Rita	Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Mercury	1967	LP	1:41:11 (Pop-up)
Micky Dolenz	Good Morning Good Morning	Remember	Robo	2012	CD	1:43:10 (Pop-up)
Flaming Lips, Foxygen and Goldwasser	Sgt Pepper Reprise	With a Little Help From My Fwends	Warner Brothers	2012	CD	1:45:58 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers	A Day In the Life	Wind Sky and Diamonds	Impulse	1967	LP	1:51:16 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin & the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:58:59 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 2:33pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Does anyone cover the run off track at the end?
	♥ 2:33pm Funky16Corners: Not that I was able to find...
	♥ 2:36pm Aaron in Minneapolis: I heard if if you play the whole album backwards, it messes up your needle.
	♥ 2:37pm Funky16Corners: That sounds like it might be true. Probably foul up the record, too.
	♥ 3:00pm Yvang: Hi Larry and fellow lonely hearts !
	3:00pm Moog1 Radio: I'm right where I belong I'm right where I belong
	♥ 3:02pm Yvang: @Aaron : the needle and the damage done!
	♥ 3:04pm dreamyandseedy: greetings!
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Green Bay on another steamy, sultry summer afternoon. Stick that in your frozen tundra!
	3:05pm Erica: Hi Testifiers! I see the stereo of the stream has been fixed. Also Larry is talking before playing music now?
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: Hello Yvang! Kurt! Jeff! Erica! Dreamy!
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Just for this show because of how it's structured
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: I figured out the stereo issue over the weekend, and tested it this morning
	♥ 3:06pm listener Rey: Hi everybody. It's wonderful to be here
	♥ 3:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	♥ 3:08pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry and pepperheads!
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Theo!
	3:08pm Erica: By how it's structured, you mean the episode right?
	♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Yes. Intro - one whole run through Sgt Pepper - break - second run through Sgt Pepper
	3:09pm Moog1 Radio: Less focused on the Bargain Bin Stuffer... aka The Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Soundtrack I see...
	♥ 3:09pm listener Rey: i like how he vocal trombones that part
	♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: Nothing from the movie (which weirdly leans on Abbey Road)
	♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: This is an outtake from the LP he recorded in the UK in 1970/71
	3:11pm Moog1 Radio: Scratches off George Burns from his Testify Bingo Card
	♥ 3:11pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Larry and all! Didn't Sgt. Pepper's come out in '67?
	♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: Perhaps on a future episode. There'll be plenty of weirdness today.
	♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: Candy-O! Yes, 1967
	♥ 3:12pm Candy-O'67: Cool! The year I was born ;)
	♥ 3:14pm Candy-O'67: Bettye's version is killer!
	♥ 3:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Year of Fire Sheep ~ Goat ~ Ram Feb. 9, 1967 - Jan. 29, 1968
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Yes! Here early 45s are killer!
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rev!
	♥ 3:14pm listener Rey: Do you think this is the most covered song on the album?
	♥ 3:14pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Rev Rabbit! You are great with this kinda stuff! ;)
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Year of the Beatle, too!
	♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: @Rey - I'd say so
	♥ 3:16pm Funky16Corners: I have lots of Lucy's, too
	♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: Oddly enough, there aren't a lot of covers of the title track
	♥ 3:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I'd go to Hendrix doing it Live...
	♥ 3:19pm Funky16Corners: Though I have a couple of unusual ones coming up
	♥ 3:20pm Doug Schulkind: Bestify!
	♥ 3:20pm doctorjazz: Hi Funky one, and Funkateers!
	♥ 3:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I rather wonder how ProgRawk would've turned out without Pepper. What Ifs work better in Marvel Comix than for Musics generally...
	♥ 3:21pm listener Rey: Interesting that the Lorber take on LiSwD also came out in 67.
	♥ 3:21pm Funky16Corners: Doug! Doc!
	♥ 3:21pm Funky16Corners: @Rey - There are a bunch of 1967 tracks in this show
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: BTW this Little Jimmy Scott impersonator also leads the Tommy DeVito Orchestra
	3:22pm Erica: Just wondering, will we hear Joe Cocker's hit version of "With a Little Help From My Friends" aka the Wonder Years theme?
	♥ 3:22pm Doug Schulkind: Crikey, I thought this was Jimmy Scott at first.
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: We will not...
	♥ 3:22pm Doug Schulkind: Oh... I see.
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - Right?
	♥ 3:23pm Funky16Corners: This is Little Joey Pesci
	♥ 3:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I would guess JimmyScott without knowing different...
	3:23pm Erica: Ah well.
	♥ 3:24pm listener Rey: Wow, it is that Joe Pesci. I hear it now!
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: It was indeed! Circa 1968
	♥ 3:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: melmagazine.com...
	3:27pm Erica: 🤘 Cheap Trick! 🤘
	♥ 3:28pm listener Rey: a chorus of Torme harmonizing with himself would be fantastic
	♥ 3:29pm Funky16Corners: I'll bet he did that along the way somewhere
	♥ 3:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Apparently Mel's 'I'm Coming Home' influenced Lennon's 'She's So Heavy'.
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: I'd believe that. John had eclectic taste.
	♥ 3:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pepper is just shy of 40min.s - all TheBealtes' albums in the 60s there surprisingly short I think.
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: Yes, I was able to do a show devoted to covers of the White Album and fit them all in
	3:35pm Moog1 Radio: Pepper was the first Beatles LP that Capitol Records/Dave Dexter did not alter... I wonder if they had plans to do so?
	♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: I hadn't thought of that! I'll bet the Beatles would have fought it strenuously.
	3:38pm Hubig Pie: Based on the previous Capitol releases, it might be a challenge to imagine what would have made the cut and what wouldn't
	3:39pm Erica: I heard any instrumental version of "When I'm 64" on a Music Choice channel. It was by Nick Ingman and it's from the 80s.
	♥ 3:42pm Funky16Corners: There are LOTS of covers of When I'm 64, many by older, middle of the road types
	♥ 3:43pm listener Rey: Only the hippest elevators played this one
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: This is from an album that covers ALL of Sgt Pepper!
	3:44pm Marci: The best show of the summer right here right now!
	♥ 3:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Beatles were not happy with the Pre-Pepper U.S. Capitol reconfigurations. Wasn't gonna happen. I note tho' that whereas Pepper is oft critiqued as all Production & no Song (& putting that aside just one moment...) - it is framed in time by the PennyLane / StrawberryFields single before it - & 'All You Need Is Love' right after it... which is pretty mighty Single imho.
	♥ 3:44pm listener Rey: Another 67. Boy everybody jumped on that bandwagon quick
	♥ 3:45pm Funky16Corners: Hi Marci! Thanks!
	♥ 3:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Using George Martin's YellowSub soundtrack musics in the mash-up.
	♥ 3:46pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, this album is fantastic. I love well done mash-ups, cut and paste
	♥ 3:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They did it themselves for 'Love' the Cirque de Soleil production.
	3:47pm Erica: Cracked Pepper should be in a Stevie Wonder show Larry.
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: You heard what Stevie record they were sampling, right?
	3:49pm Moog1 Radio: I always assumed it was Lennon singing the "Ahhhhs" after the middle part of this song, but if you listen to the isolated vocals it becomes apparent that Macca is doing the "ahhhhhhhhs"...
	♥ 3:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: No ! HelterSkelter ? Frank O'Toole used to rawk some MashUps.
	3:52pm Erica: Are you quizzing me Larry? ;)
	3:55pm Erica: Cause I know it's "I Was Made to Love Her."
	🥁 ♥ 3:56pm Jeff Ash: 2007, the glory years of mashups.
	♥ 3:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: DavyGraham (anybody doesn't actually know) was the acoustic guitarist behind everybody, even Bert Jansch - the one who originally popularized Open Tunings, including the DADGAD that is now standard throughout Irish Trad - pioneer of International Music fusions - &tc.
	3:57pm Erica: The Beatles: the Video Game.
	♥ 3:58pm Funky16Corners: Super Beatle Brothers
	3:58pm Erica: @Jeff do these mashups include YouTube poops then yes I agree. 😂
	♥ 3:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Everybody owes it to themselves to get familiar with Gaylord's Fake Beatles Blog : blog.wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: This is a giant group of barbershop quartet singers at a convention, all dressed in Sgt Pepper uniforms. Surreal.
	♥ 4:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Way kewl. That many people tho' - they coulda vocalized every instrument... Too much arranging - not what Barbershop does...
	♥ 4:02pm Funky16Corners: Look them up on Youtube. It's impressive.
	♥ 4:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Friends' written mostly by Paul for Ringo's limited range. Amazing really.
	♥ 4:05pm Funky16Corners: I gotta say, despite his obvious technical limitations, Ringo did OK for himself in his solo career.
	♥ 4:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ringo was a Pro in ShowBiz before the others ! Haha...
	♥ 4:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& a bit of a Ted. They were scared of him. :D
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed! An entertainer!
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Those early, bearded pics of Ringo, circa Rory Storme are wild
	4:11pm Hubig Pie: A teddy boy ?
	♥ 4:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I really feel deprived of hearing & seeing the Hurricanes ! Yup a TeddyBoy. Ringo was the one who really had it rough - from the 'Dingle' in Liverpool...
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: davidabedford.com...
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: Look at the top pic in that article
	♥ 4:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: For TheBeatles' 1st album - you can see Ringo's DA / pompadour is still adjusting to the moptop...
	4:17pm northguineahills: Any Swingle Singers?
	4:18pm Moog1 Radio: Did you play Jackie and Roy on your Lovin Spoonful show? I have to find some stuff by them
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH! Not today.
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: @Kurt - I did, indeed
	♥ 4:19pm Funky16Corners: Look at the picture of the pre-Ringo Beatles at the top of this page: mccharmley.tumblr.com...
	♥ 4:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...so ...we got these 13ish short albums & that's it. TheBeatles were dedicated to the twin gawds of Excellence - & Change. Does Pepper deserve this dichotomy of Worship & Condemnation ?? I put it to you that Sgt.Pepper - is - after all - their only Sgt.Pepper. 'RubberSoul', Dec.'65, is the Maturity of their Pop Writing. Tim Riley observes that 'Revolver' is darkness with scattered light, & Pepper light with contrasting darkness... But - does Pepper deserve to branded as not having Songs - ?? Or are they just 1967 Songs? Or - are they in fact perfectly great Songs ??...
	♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: Ah, also, the archive at my WFMU page is a corrected, full stereo, no drop outs version of the Lovin Spoonful show
	♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: Pepper has GREAT songs!
	♥ 4:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Right ?!
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: I mean, there are a couple of experiments, but there are so many great songs. Like this one, for instance!
	♥ 4:22pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and all
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	♥ 4:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Leaving Home' is gonna be compared to 'Eleanor Rigby' cause strings. Yeah - Rigby is like a PopNovel in two minutes or something. But this girl here is someone completely different...
	4:25pm northguineahills: I have this Four Freshmen rekkid.
	♥ 4:25pm Funky16Corners: It's good one!
	♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: This Tom Scott/California Dreamers is part of the summer of amazing collaborations I covered in this show: wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cycle of Freshman key to BeachBoys - & PetSounds key to Pepper...
	♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: Yup, Hi-Los, too
	♥ 4:30pm Funky16Corners: This is a very hip version of Within You Without You from a very unhip looking record
	♥ 4:31pm coelacanth∅: i quite like this
	♥ 4:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: No fooling with the tabla. & they do what an Orchestra ought to do - Orchestrate.
	♥ 4:33pm Funky16Corners: Sounds like a REAL tabla player, not some studio guy
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: You can tell with the sitar too, whether it's someone that really knows how to play or a guitar player dabbling
	♥ 4:36pm listener Rey: definitely tabla dabbler here
	4:37pm Andres: Hi, Larry! Sounding great and looking forward to a replay on the archive!
	♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: Hey Andres!
	4:37pm Hubig Pie: Was Brian Jones a player or a dabbler ?
	♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: @Rey - I'm pretty sure Tartaglia was using regular studio guys
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: Brian was sadly a dabbler...
	♥ 4:38pm coelacanth∅: he got the job done though
	4:41pm Erica: Hey coel I didn't notice your new profile picture.
	♥ 4:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bob Brainen recently did a special on BrianJones. Put all together like that - it becomes apparent that Brian found magic that fit each track on all these instruments. When the Stones lost Brian they lost their rainbow - Bob puts it ! George was in quite a similar position in TheBeatles adding Timbres behind the two Songwriting biggies upfront. Someone observed that Brian's sitar on 'Paint It Black' was actually less derivative than George's straight Indian approach (tho' George went & studied it quite seriously for a time).
	♥ 4:43pm Woo: I have a 54-year old copy of Pepper. No skips, just some crackle. Just full of Paul is Dead clues.
	♥ 4:45pm Funky16Corners: But you see, it was The Rutles Dirk McQuickly that was dead the whole time...
	🥁 ♥ 4:45pm Jeff Ash: Good choice of this Micky Dolenz cover. I hear his covers LP of Mike Nesmith's songs is excellent.
	♥ 4:45pm Funky16Corners: Ooh, I'd like to hear that!
	♥ 4:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...werked a thrift store long time ...acquired a Mono Pepper on the Capitol label - with the swirly red paper sleeve that was all that remained of TheFool's original cover design...
	♥ 4:45pm Discotech Underground: Afternoon, Larry!
	♥ 4:46pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kip!
	♥ 4:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - Micky knew John. Hell - he was there for a Pepper session or two !
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: Stay tuned for Discothech Underground when I'm done! wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:48pm Woo: Kip, I'm here early so I would remember to listen to your show. I wrote it on a Post-It Note. They really work.
	♥ 4:49pm Discotech Underground: Great, Woo! Sometimes the old ways work the best! Nothing like Post It notes to help you remember! I'm old school and still use them myself!
	♥ 4:56pm Woo: One death clue that can't be denied is holding a mirror to the drum on the cover and it says ONE HE DIE. I love the Paul is Dead story.
	♥ 4:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Woo - don't know that one !! :O
	♥ 4:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...not seeing it Woo :) ...maybe I'm not tryin'...
	♥ 4:58pm dreamyandseedy: i did enjoy Bob Brainen's Brian Jones special! all should have a listen
	♥ 4:59pm Doug Schulkind: That was a masterclass, Larry.
	♥ 4:59pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!
	4:59pm Erica: Dug that show Larry.
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doug!
	♥ 4:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thank You DJ LG !
	5:00pm Erica: Until next week TestIfiers.
	♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thank you all for coming along for the ride!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from August 12, 2021

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