WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 7, 2021

Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin, everyone!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	♥ 3:02pm Yvang: Hi Larry !
	♥ 3:02pm StringOFperils: Hello from Gordonland!
	♥ 3:02pm dreamyandseedy: greetings!
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Yvang! String!
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dreamy!
	♥ 3:03pm dale: finally. some recognition for gord.
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey dale!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: This put some big fat checks in Gord's mailbox!
	♥ 3:06pm coelacanth∅: < is that Billy Lee Riley?? - somehow can't picture him singing flying saucer rock & roll!
	♥ 3:06pm coelacanth∅: oh, duh that's Gordon
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey C! He did some cool stuff later on in the 60s
	♥ 3:08pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry! i have a comp of his but i guess it cuts off at the r&r threshold
	♥ 3:08pm dale: i watched the doc 'if you could read my mind' on netflix or amazon. he's out there still and kinda crazy. i guess drugs do that.
	♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Great documentary! Gord looks 200 years old, but you can tell how revered he is in Canada.
	♥ 3:10pm dale: wow - neil diamondesque. or andy kim.
	♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: @C - Riley was even doing soul-adjacent stuff by the end of the 60s. I have a 45 with two Wilson Pickett covers on it
	3:10pm Erica: I'm here for the pledge drive show. Don't have money to donate this week but I will enjoy some good music.
	♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: @dale - Wait'll you hear who was behind this record!
	♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	♥ 3:13pm Funky16Corners: This is Nico BEFORE the Velvets!
	♥ 3:14pm coelacanth∅: nah Gordon don't look that bad! external-content.duckduckgo.com... ...for 80?
	♥ 3:16pm coelacanth∅: Larry i'd like to hear that later Billy Lee stuff. he was Red Hot in the day!
	♥ 3:16pm StringOFperils: It's like Raiders meets Lulu. Who knew that was in there?
	♥ 3:17pm Funky16Corners: I'll play it sometime!
	♥ 3:17pm dale: coelacanth - like an indian chief. i hope i make it to 80 plus though.
	♥ 3:17pm Funky16Corners: @String - Lindsay went mainstream pretty quickly post-Raiders
	♥ 3:19pm StringOFperils: I was thinking more about the song itself. Being Canadian, it's strange to hear all these covers.....inundated w the originals since forever.
	♥ 3:20pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	♥ 3:21pm StringOFperils: Hey, doctorjazz!
	♥ 3:24pm melinda: hi everyone
	3:24pm SquigY0: greetings Larry and everyone!
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: Doc! Melinda! SquigY0!
	3:27pm Moog1 Radio: Hello from the Chippewa on down!
	♥ 3:27pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt!
	3:28pm David Shortell: Did you mention that Jimmy Page produced and played guitar on that Nico track, Funky?
	♥ 3:28pm dale: the way i feel is my absolute favorite lightfoot song. i always hear it in my head in spring when i see a nest of baby robins.
	♥ 3:29pm Funky16Corners: I think I finally decided that this reminded me a lot of 'I'll Never Find Another You by the Seekers
	♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Rich Man's Spiritual, that is
	♥ 3:30pm dale: this is creepily prescient of 9/11 to me.
	♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Written by Hamilton Camp and later covered by Quicksilver Messenger Service
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry, and lightfootheads!
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: Theo!
	♥ 3:31pm StringOFperils: Lots of fallen empires out there in the sand. Fatalistic hip.
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: @David - I did!
	♥ 3:32pm dale: quicksilver messenger service's version is too bombastic.
	3:32pm David Shortell: I know Hamilton Camp as the short date from the first season of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. I didn't know he wrote songs.
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: @David - He recorded a couple of excellent albums in the mid-to-late 60s, one really good one produced by Felix Pappalardi
	♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: This is a great one: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: Spike Lee's father playing bass on this track
	♥ 3:39pm coelacanth∅: Spike Lee's father was cooler than Spike Lee
	♥ 3:39pm Funky16Corners: I'd go along with that assessment
	♥ 3:42pm dale: the unitedd artists two cd set of best of is essential if you like him. there's a 90s remix of this song on that that's pretty great.
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: The only thing that set omits (other than non-LP 45s) is his live album for UA, but it is otherwise essential
	♥ 3:45pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry. This fun raiser concentrates the mind.
	♥ 3:45pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	♥ 3:50pm Brian in UK: I went to see Gordon at the Royal Albert Hall, my girlfriend, later wife, liked him. I was neutral. I arrived late due to puncture on my motorcycle. He played about one hour. Maybe it was jet lag, who knows. I felt disappointed but his voice is still demanding of attention.
	♥ 3:50pm dale: i wonder if nick drake ever heard this.
	♥ 3:51pm StringOFperils: I'm sure Joe Boyd did.
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: @dale - It is definitely in that vein. I wish he'd done a whole album in that style
	♥ 3:51pm Brian in UK: dale who knows what Nick Drake heard. He marched to his own drum.
	♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - There was an article years ago about albums that were in his collection that were known to be favorites of his, one of which was The 5th Dimension's 'Magic Garden'!
	♥ 3:53pm Funky16Corners: He was also known to be very fond of the English composer Delius
	♥ 3:53pm StringOFperils: Hmmm. so is Kate Bush
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: Joe Boyd is on the record saying that the production on Five Leaves Left was inspired by Songs of Leonard Cohen
	♥ 3:55pm coelacanth∅: i hate to but have to go. (very late already) i always liked Gordon Lightfoot but there's so much i haven't heard. - archive. Thanks Larry! later on y'all
	♥ 3:55pm Funky16Corners: Bye C!
	♥ 3:56pm Funky16Corners: This is the first recording of the song he had a hit with in the 70s
	♥ 3:58pm Brian in UK: Delius is frightfully English. 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring' is worth a listen. Oh by the way did I say thanks Larry for all you do.
	♥ 3:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Brian! I love English romantics like Delius and Vaughn Williams (esp the latter)
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: Man, this is such a beautiful song.
	4:00pm Erica: Hi Brian.
	4:02pm Erica: Also "If You Could Read My Love" is one of the songs I think of when I think of Gordon Lightfoot. That and "Sundown".
	♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: Well, here you go!
	4:03pm Moog1 Radio: A karaoke favorite of mine!
	4:03pm CupcakeJenny: Did I make it?
	♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: You did!
	4:04pm CupcakeJenny: Lol
	4:04pm Erica: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:04pm melinda: I first heard Sundown on a mix tape while visiting a friend in northern Wisconsin in autumn and we were driving around in the woods, makes me think of the yellow leaved birch trees.
	♥ 4:05pm Funky16Corners: It is a supremely mellow song. One of those AM radio songs from my childhood that I love MORE now.
	♥ 4:06pm melinda: Oddly, the friend who made the tape didn't include artists' names, so I didn't know it was Gord for some time.
	♥ 4:07pm Funky16Corners: He has such a rich, amazing voice. It's a pleasure to listen to him sing, like Lou Rawls, or Scott Walker (as baritones go)
	♥ 4:09pm dale: that period when i was 14, 15 had a lot of songs like this and charlie riches' behind closed doors that bridged country and pop stations
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Get your slickers on...
	4:10pm CupcakeJenny: Get ready for the crying in the car LOL
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Pull over and weep.
	♥ 4:11pm Funky16Corners: I can't stress enough how shocked I was to discover that this disaster had happened only a few years before the song. I assumed it was something from the 1800s
	4:11pm CupcakeJenny: They would’ve been OK boo-hoo
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: If they'd only gotten a few more miles behind them...
	♥ 4:15pm Bryant in TO: I'll never forget walking to my apartment one night with fat cotton snowflakes blowing sideways from Lake Ontario. One of the house along my street had its window open and this song blasting out. Grim perfection
	♥ 4:15pm Funky16Corners: THAT is poetic. Fate.
	♥ 4:16pm dale: it went down end of 75, so he wrote the song pretty much just after it happened.
	4:23pm Erella: Have you played the Kenny Rankins version of Pussywillows Cattails? It is sweet and lovely
	♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erella! I have not, and I'll have to look for it. I love his stuff.
	4:25pm Erella: I have a funny Gordon Lightfoot/ Steve Earle story for you
	♥ 4:25pm dale: dandy warhols did a cover. and laura cantrell! secondhandsongs.com...
	♥ 4:25pm Funky16Corners: Tell it!
	♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: @dale - The Dandy Warhols is the one I heard. I like them, but not their cover. I'll look for the Laura Cantrell
	4:26pm Erella: I live in Toronto. We used to have a country radio station in town. They loved Steve Earle and invited him in for an interview (Late 80's maybe close to 1990)
	♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: Then what happened?
	4:27pm Erella: After the interview, asked to see the Gordon Lightfoot albums
	4:28pm Erella: (Sorry, I don't type so fast)
	♥ 4:28pm Brian in UK: Did Arlo Guthrie ever record Early Morning Rain?
	♥ 4:28pm Funky16Corners: That's OK. We have time!
	4:28pm Erella: He was caught putting ALL the lightfoot records into his bag. They told him to return them. He said that at least he would play them!
	♥ 4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I'm not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me. It really got around
	♥ 4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Erella - That's funny! Good taste!
	4:30pm Erella: CFGM was the station I think. They told him to keep the records, they could get them replaced. Steve told me the story and I had the Music Director at the station confirm it
	4:30pm Jay S: Hi-ho, Larry and everybody!
	♥ 4:30pm Funky16Corners: Hi Jay!
	4:30pm Jay S: OK, this Loudermilk song is marvelous. Thanks for this!
	♥ 4:31pm dale: tony rice would probably be the most faithful cover of fitgerald.
	♥ 4:31pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - SecondhandSongs lists 119 versions: secondhandsongs.com...
	♥ 4:31pm Funky16Corners: @Jay - I don't think Lightfoot ever recorded this
	4:32pm Erica: This cover reminds me of Johnny Cash or Alice's Restaurant.
	4:33pm Erica: Sorry to remind anyone about Thanksgiving before Halloween haha.
	♥ 4:33pm Funky16Corners: It has that talking blues vibe. Mmmm Thanksgiving!
	4:34pm Erella: This is a beautiful Lori Cullen (local amazing vocalist in toronto) version of Rainy Day People. youtu.be...
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: I have to say, it's shocking to me how seldom I come across Canadian 45s down here in the US. All the ones I have I got via mail order
	♥ 4:36pm Brian in UK: Belated hello Erica. Hope you are keeping well.
	♥ 4:36pm dale: this is pretty stunning.
	♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: The Phil Upchurch?
	4:37pm Erica: Trying to Brian. Thanks.
	♥ 4:38pm dale: this is pretty groovy.
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: Upchurch does two Lightfoot songs on this album
	♥ 4:41pm dale: i had no idea scott did this..
	♥ 4:42pm Funky16Corners: This period of his discography didn't come out here in the US at all (as far as I know).
	4:46pm Erica: Boogie Down.
	♥ 4:46pm melinda: This really works as a disco number
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: This was actually a pretty big disco hit. I don't know if it crossed over into the R&B or Pop charts
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: I first heard it on the soundtrack to '54'
	♥ 4:48pm dale: ooh - david hsselhoff did a recent version. secondhandsongs.com...
	♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: Though apparently it wasn't this version, but a rip-off by "Stars on 54"!?!
	♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: @dale - I will NOT click on that link!
	4:50pm Erica: 😁😂 Larry.
	♥ 4:50pm Brian in UK: Good songs will take many treatments. Thanks for the memories, Larry.
	♥ 4:51pm Funky16Corners: My pleasure, Brian!
	4:53pm Kitschy Mama: Hey Larry! Great Show!
	♥ 4:55pm melinda: it does transcend the disco
	♥ 4:55pm dale: thanks. enjoyed this immensely.
	♥ 4:56pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Kitschy Mama!
	♥ 4:56pm Funky16Corners: Thank you, dale!
	♥ 4:56pm Yvang: Thanks! This was beautiful!
	4:56pm Erica: That Gordon Lightfoot show was great Larry. I need to check out more of his stuff.
	♥ 4:56pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Yvang! Erica!
	♥ 5:00pm StringOFperils: Thank you, Larry!
	♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks String!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 7, 2021

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October 7, 2021: Testify! - The Songs and Sounds of Gordon Lightfoot

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Billy Lee Riley	Rich Man's Spiriitual	In Action!	GNP	1966	LP		0:01:16 (Pop-up)
Marty Robbins	Ribbon of Darkness "Ribbon of Darkness" by "Marty Robbins"	45RPM Single	Columbia	1965	45		0:03:56 (Pop-up)
Jim Valley	The Go Go Round "The Go Go Round" by "Jim Valley"	45RPM Single	Dunhill	1967	45		0:06:25 (Pop-up)
Flanagan	Spin Spin "Spin Spin" by "Flanagan"	45RPM Single	Smash	1969	45		0:08:58 (Pop-up)
Nico	I'm Not Sayin' "I'm Not Sayin'" by "Nico"	45RPM Single	Immediate	1965	45		0:11:52 (Pop-up)
Mark Lindsay	If You Could Read My Mind	You've Got a Friend	Columbia	1971	LP		0:14:28 (Pop-up)

Gordon Lightfoot	For Lovin' Me "For Lovin' Me" by "Gordon Lightfoot"	Lightfoot	UA	1966	LP		0:24:25 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Rich Man's Spiritual	Lightfoot	UA	1966	LP		0:26:43 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Pride of Man "Pride of Man" by "Gordon Lightfoot"	Lightfoot	UA	1966	LP	Written by Hamilton Camp	0:29:40 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	I'm Not Sayin' "I'm Not Sayin'" by "Gordon Lightfoot"	Lightfoot	UA	1966	LP		0:32:06 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Oh LInda "Oh LInda" by "Gordon Lightfoot"	Lightfoot	UA	1966	LP		0:34:32 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Spin Spin "Spin Spin" by "Gordon Lightfoot"	45RPM Single	UA	1966	45		0:37:41 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	The Way I Feel "The Way I Feel" by "Gordon Lightfoot"	The Way I Feel	UA	1967	LP		0:40:09 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Black Day In July	Did She Mention My Name	UA	1968	LP		0:43:50 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Pussywillows, Cat-Tails	Did She Mention My Name	UA	1968	LP		0:47:58 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	I Want To Hear It From You	Did She Mention My Name	UA	1968	LP		0:50:46 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Did She Mention My Name	Did She Mention My Name	UA	1968	LP		0:53:05 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	The Circle Is Small	Back Here On Earth	UA	1968	LP		0:55:31 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	If You Could Read My Mind	Sit Down Young Stranger (aka If You Could Read My Mind)	Reprise	1970	LP		0:59:01 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Sundown "Sundown" by "Gordon Lightfoot"	Sundown	Reprise	1974	LP		1:02:38 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Carefree Highway	Sundown	Reprise	1974	LP		1:06:15 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald	Summertime Dream	Reprise	1976	LP		1:09:51 (Pop-up)

Peter, Paul and Mary	For Lovin' Me	A Song Will Rise	Warner Brothers	1965	LP		1:23:16 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan	Early Mornin' Rain "Early Mornin' Rain" by "Bob Dylan"	Self Portrait	Columbia	1970	LP		1:26:24 (Pop-up)
JD Loudermilk	Talking Silver Cloud Blues	Sings A Bizarre Collection of the Most Unusual Songs	RCA	1966	LP		1:28:57 (Pop-up)
Ronnie Hawkins	Home From the Forest	45RPM Single	Yorkville	1967	45		1:32:43 (Pop-up)
Phil Upchurch	The Way I Feel "The Way I Feel" by "Phil Upchurch"	The Way I Feel	Cadet	1969	LP		1:36:38 (Pop-up)
Scott Walker	Sundown "Sundown" by "Scott Walker"	We Had It All	CBS	1974	LP		1:39:50 (Pop-up)
Viola Wills	If You Could Read My Mind	12" single	Ariola	1980	12"		1:44:35 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45		1:55:32 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin, everyone!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	♥ 3:02pm Yvang: Hi Larry !
	♥ 3:02pm StringOFperils: Hello from Gordonland!
	♥ 3:02pm dreamyandseedy: greetings!
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Yvang! String!
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dreamy!
	♥ 3:03pm dale: finally. some recognition for gord.
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey dale!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: This put some big fat checks in Gord's mailbox!
	♥ 3:06pm coelacanth∅: < is that Billy Lee Riley?? - somehow can't picture him singing flying saucer rock & roll!
	♥ 3:06pm coelacanth∅: oh, duh that's Gordon
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey C! He did some cool stuff later on in the 60s
	♥ 3:08pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry! i have a comp of his but i guess it cuts off at the r&r threshold
	♥ 3:08pm dale: i watched the doc 'if you could read my mind' on netflix or amazon. he's out there still and kinda crazy. i guess drugs do that.
	♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Great documentary! Gord looks 200 years old, but you can tell how revered he is in Canada.
	♥ 3:10pm dale: wow - neil diamondesque. or andy kim.
	♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: @C - Riley was even doing soul-adjacent stuff by the end of the 60s. I have a 45 with two Wilson Pickett covers on it
	3:10pm Erica: I'm here for the pledge drive show. Don't have money to donate this week but I will enjoy some good music.
	♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: @dale - Wait'll you hear who was behind this record!
	♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	♥ 3:13pm Funky16Corners: This is Nico BEFORE the Velvets!
	♥ 3:14pm coelacanth∅: nah Gordon don't look that bad! external-content.duckduckgo.com... ...for 80?
	♥ 3:16pm coelacanth∅: Larry i'd like to hear that later Billy Lee stuff. he was Red Hot in the day!
	♥ 3:16pm StringOFperils: It's like Raiders meets Lulu. Who knew that was in there?
	♥ 3:17pm Funky16Corners: I'll play it sometime!
	♥ 3:17pm dale: coelacanth - like an indian chief. i hope i make it to 80 plus though.
	♥ 3:17pm Funky16Corners: @String - Lindsay went mainstream pretty quickly post-Raiders
	♥ 3:19pm StringOFperils: I was thinking more about the song itself. Being Canadian, it's strange to hear all these covers.....inundated w the originals since forever.
	♥ 3:20pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	♥ 3:21pm StringOFperils: Hey, doctorjazz!
	♥ 3:24pm melinda: hi everyone
	3:24pm SquigY0: greetings Larry and everyone!
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: Doc! Melinda! SquigY0!
	3:27pm Moog1 Radio: Hello from the Chippewa on down!
	♥ 3:27pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt!
	3:28pm David Shortell: Did you mention that Jimmy Page produced and played guitar on that Nico track, Funky?
	♥ 3:28pm dale: the way i feel is my absolute favorite lightfoot song. i always hear it in my head in spring when i see a nest of baby robins.
	♥ 3:29pm Funky16Corners: I think I finally decided that this reminded me a lot of 'I'll Never Find Another You by the Seekers
	♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Rich Man's Spiritual, that is
	♥ 3:30pm dale: this is creepily prescient of 9/11 to me.
	♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Written by Hamilton Camp and later covered by Quicksilver Messenger Service
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry, and lightfootheads!
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: Theo!
	♥ 3:31pm StringOFperils: Lots of fallen empires out there in the sand. Fatalistic hip.
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: @David - I did!
	♥ 3:32pm dale: quicksilver messenger service's version is too bombastic.
	3:32pm David Shortell: I know Hamilton Camp as the short date from the first season of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. I didn't know he wrote songs.
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: @David - He recorded a couple of excellent albums in the mid-to-late 60s, one really good one produced by Felix Pappalardi
	♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: This is a great one: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: Spike Lee's father playing bass on this track
	♥ 3:39pm coelacanth∅: Spike Lee's father was cooler than Spike Lee
	♥ 3:39pm Funky16Corners: I'd go along with that assessment
	♥ 3:42pm dale: the unitedd artists two cd set of best of is essential if you like him. there's a 90s remix of this song on that that's pretty great.
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: The only thing that set omits (other than non-LP 45s) is his live album for UA, but it is otherwise essential
	♥ 3:45pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry. This fun raiser concentrates the mind.
	♥ 3:45pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	♥ 3:50pm Brian in UK: I went to see Gordon at the Royal Albert Hall, my girlfriend, later wife, liked him. I was neutral. I arrived late due to puncture on my motorcycle. He played about one hour. Maybe it was jet lag, who knows. I felt disappointed but his voice is still demanding of attention.
	♥ 3:50pm dale: i wonder if nick drake ever heard this.
	♥ 3:51pm StringOFperils: I'm sure Joe Boyd did.
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: @dale - It is definitely in that vein. I wish he'd done a whole album in that style
	♥ 3:51pm Brian in UK: dale who knows what Nick Drake heard. He marched to his own drum.
	♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - There was an article years ago about albums that were in his collection that were known to be favorites of his, one of which was The 5th Dimension's 'Magic Garden'!
	♥ 3:53pm Funky16Corners: He was also known to be very fond of the English composer Delius
	♥ 3:53pm StringOFperils: Hmmm. so is Kate Bush
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: Joe Boyd is on the record saying that the production on Five Leaves Left was inspired by Songs of Leonard Cohen
	♥ 3:55pm coelacanth∅: i hate to but have to go. (very late already) i always liked Gordon Lightfoot but there's so much i haven't heard. - archive. Thanks Larry! later on y'all
	♥ 3:55pm Funky16Corners: Bye C!
	♥ 3:56pm Funky16Corners: This is the first recording of the song he had a hit with in the 70s
	♥ 3:58pm Brian in UK: Delius is frightfully English. 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring' is worth a listen. Oh by the way did I say thanks Larry for all you do.
	♥ 3:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Brian! I love English romantics like Delius and Vaughn Williams (esp the latter)
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: Man, this is such a beautiful song.
	4:00pm Erica: Hi Brian.
	4:02pm Erica: Also "If You Could Read My Love" is one of the songs I think of when I think of Gordon Lightfoot. That and "Sundown".
	♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: Well, here you go!
	4:03pm Moog1 Radio: A karaoke favorite of mine!
	4:03pm CupcakeJenny: Did I make it?
	♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: You did!
	4:04pm CupcakeJenny: Lol
	4:04pm Erica: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:04pm melinda: I first heard Sundown on a mix tape while visiting a friend in northern Wisconsin in autumn and we were driving around in the woods, makes me think of the yellow leaved birch trees.
	♥ 4:05pm Funky16Corners: It is a supremely mellow song. One of those AM radio songs from my childhood that I love MORE now.
	♥ 4:06pm melinda: Oddly, the friend who made the tape didn't include artists' names, so I didn't know it was Gord for some time.
	♥ 4:07pm Funky16Corners: He has such a rich, amazing voice. It's a pleasure to listen to him sing, like Lou Rawls, or Scott Walker (as baritones go)
	♥ 4:09pm dale: that period when i was 14, 15 had a lot of songs like this and charlie riches' behind closed doors that bridged country and pop stations
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Get your slickers on...
	4:10pm CupcakeJenny: Get ready for the crying in the car LOL
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Pull over and weep.
	♥ 4:11pm Funky16Corners: I can't stress enough how shocked I was to discover that this disaster had happened only a few years before the song. I assumed it was something from the 1800s
	4:11pm CupcakeJenny: They would’ve been OK boo-hoo
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: If they'd only gotten a few more miles behind them...
	♥ 4:15pm Bryant in TO: I'll never forget walking to my apartment one night with fat cotton snowflakes blowing sideways from Lake Ontario. One of the house along my street had its window open and this song blasting out. Grim perfection
	♥ 4:15pm Funky16Corners: THAT is poetic. Fate.
	♥ 4:16pm dale: it went down end of 75, so he wrote the song pretty much just after it happened.
	4:23pm Erella: Have you played the Kenny Rankins version of Pussywillows Cattails? It is sweet and lovely
	♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erella! I have not, and I'll have to look for it. I love his stuff.
	4:25pm Erella: I have a funny Gordon Lightfoot/ Steve Earle story for you
	♥ 4:25pm dale: dandy warhols did a cover. and laura cantrell! secondhandsongs.com...
	♥ 4:25pm Funky16Corners: Tell it!
	♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: @dale - The Dandy Warhols is the one I heard. I like them, but not their cover. I'll look for the Laura Cantrell
	4:26pm Erella: I live in Toronto. We used to have a country radio station in town. They loved Steve Earle and invited him in for an interview (Late 80's maybe close to 1990)
	♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: Then what happened?
	4:27pm Erella: After the interview, asked to see the Gordon Lightfoot albums
	4:28pm Erella: (Sorry, I don't type so fast)
	♥ 4:28pm Brian in UK: Did Arlo Guthrie ever record Early Morning Rain?
	♥ 4:28pm Funky16Corners: That's OK. We have time!
	4:28pm Erella: He was caught putting ALL the lightfoot records into his bag. They told him to return them. He said that at least he would play them!
	♥ 4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I'm not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me. It really got around
	♥ 4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Erella - That's funny! Good taste!
	4:30pm Erella: CFGM was the station I think. They told him to keep the records, they could get them replaced. Steve told me the story and I had the Music Director at the station confirm it
	4:30pm Jay S: Hi-ho, Larry and everybody!
	♥ 4:30pm Funky16Corners: Hi Jay!
	4:30pm Jay S: OK, this Loudermilk song is marvelous. Thanks for this!
	♥ 4:31pm dale: tony rice would probably be the most faithful cover of fitgerald.
	♥ 4:31pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - SecondhandSongs lists 119 versions: secondhandsongs.com...
	♥ 4:31pm Funky16Corners: @Jay - I don't think Lightfoot ever recorded this
	4:32pm Erica: This cover reminds me of Johnny Cash or Alice's Restaurant.
	4:33pm Erica: Sorry to remind anyone about Thanksgiving before Halloween haha.
	♥ 4:33pm Funky16Corners: It has that talking blues vibe. Mmmm Thanksgiving!
	4:34pm Erella: This is a beautiful Lori Cullen (local amazing vocalist in toronto) version of Rainy Day People. youtu.be...
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: I have to say, it's shocking to me how seldom I come across Canadian 45s down here in the US. All the ones I have I got via mail order
	♥ 4:36pm Brian in UK: Belated hello Erica. Hope you are keeping well.
	♥ 4:36pm dale: this is pretty stunning.
	♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: The Phil Upchurch?
	4:37pm Erica: Trying to Brian. Thanks.
	♥ 4:38pm dale: this is pretty groovy.
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: Upchurch does two Lightfoot songs on this album
	♥ 4:41pm dale: i had no idea scott did this..
	♥ 4:42pm Funky16Corners: This period of his discography didn't come out here in the US at all (as far as I know).
	4:46pm Erica: Boogie Down.
	♥ 4:46pm melinda: This really works as a disco number
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: This was actually a pretty big disco hit. I don't know if it crossed over into the R&B or Pop charts
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: I first heard it on the soundtrack to '54'
	♥ 4:48pm dale: ooh - david hsselhoff did a recent version. secondhandsongs.com...
	♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: Though apparently it wasn't this version, but a rip-off by "Stars on 54"!?!
	♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: @dale - I will NOT click on that link!
	4:50pm Erica: 😁😂 Larry.
	♥ 4:50pm Brian in UK: Good songs will take many treatments. Thanks for the memories, Larry.
	♥ 4:51pm Funky16Corners: My pleasure, Brian!
	4:53pm Kitschy Mama: Hey Larry! Great Show!
	♥ 4:55pm melinda: it does transcend the disco
	♥ 4:55pm dale: thanks. enjoyed this immensely.
	♥ 4:56pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Kitschy Mama!
	♥ 4:56pm Funky16Corners: Thank you, dale!
	♥ 4:56pm Yvang: Thanks! This was beautiful!
	4:56pm Erica: That Gordon Lightfoot show was great Larry. I need to check out more of his stuff.
	♥ 4:56pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Yvang! Erica!
	♥ 5:00pm StringOFperils: Thank you, Larry!
	♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks String!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 7, 2021

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