WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 5, 2023

Listener comments!
	♥ 2:59pm doctorjazz: Is this Testify? Not the Stream? hi Testifiers!
	♥ 3:00pm Funky16Corners: It is now!
	♥ 3:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @2:59 Hey Doc!
	♥ 3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Larry and all other listeners!
	♥ 3:01pm doctorjazz: I may have jumped the gun by a few seconds...
	♥ 3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @3:01 Hiya doc!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:01 Hey Andrew!
	3:02pm Vincent The Soul Chef: I've been feeling every word of this song for weeks... good afternoon everyone :)
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:02 Hey Vincent!
	3:03pm Erica: Hi Larry. I am "dying" to hear this week's show.
	3:03pm bradford: Greetings Larry & fellow Testifiers!
	♥ 3:04pm Sem: Preach it, man. Hello, Larry, Testifiers, just-looking and listening visitors.
	♥ 3:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:01 Hi Andrew!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:03 Hi Erica! I see what you did there.
	♥ 3:04pm Yvang: Hi Larry and spooky testifyers!
	3:04pm Erica: Had to make that pun
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @3:03 Hey bradford!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:04 Hiya Sem!
	♥ 3:04pm Sem: Hey, AiT!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:04 Hi Yvang!
	♥ 3:05pm dreamyandseedy: hello hello Larry and all!
	♥ 3:05pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sem @3:04 Hey Sem!
	♥ 3:05pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Yvang @3:04 Hi Yvang!
	♥ 3:05pm doctorjazz: What is going naturally, anyway, not getting shot? Reaching 120 years of age? Passing quietly in your sleep?
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dreamyandseedy @3:05 Hey dreamy!
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:05 I'll take the last option.
	♥ 3:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:06 Does seem most appealing (doesn't happen all that often, though)
	♥ 3:07pm doctorjazz: Seems this is going to be a creepy show...
	♥ 3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:06 True that,and you almost never get a choice
	♥ 3:07pm Yvang: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:05 Hi Andrew!
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:07 There are some surprisingly uplifting tunes coming
	♥ 3:13pm Sem: It's never summer until I hear this, somewhere.
	3:13pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Spirit in the Sky" by "Norman Greenbaum" I dig this one!
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:13 Talk about your genius One Hit Wonders
	3:15pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:14 I heard this one in a Star Wars parody video. Makes me laugh every time.
	♥ 3:17pm Sem: "In the late 1960s Norman Greenbaum was the leader and composer for Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band, which recorded the novelty hit "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago".[3] The group's psychedelic approach was too eccentric for mainstream show business; the group's name suggested a novelty or comedy act incorporating music. Greenbaum went solo as a folk artist and submitted an original song, "Spirit in the Sky", to Reprise Records. His demonstration recording was a simple folk rendition, with Greenbaum accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. Reprise handed Greenbaum to staff producer Erik Jacobsen, who radically rearranged the song for a new recording session. The updated version now had pulsing electric guitar, gospel-styled backup singers, and an insistent rhythm accompanying Greenbaum, whose vocal was now double-tracked. Reprise released the record in late 1969, and it skyrocketed to #1 in almost all worldwide markets. It sold two million copies in 1969 and 1970,[4] and received a gold disc from the RIAA. It has subsequently been used in many films, advertisements, and television shows." via wikithingy.
	♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: I have that Dr West album. Nothing on it to indicate that he had Spirit In the Sky in the on deck circle
	♥ 3:25pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "You're Dead" by "Norma Tanega" A nonchalant masterpiece.
	♥ 3:26pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:25 The whole album is pretty incredible
	♥ 3:35pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & cognizanti. Would that be a Gustave Dore engraving?
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: If I could play guitar like Mississippi John Hurt I'd never do anything else.
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:35 Hey Brian! It is, indeed!
	♥ 3:36pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "You'e Got to Die" by "Mississippi John Hurt" Loving these blues men!
	♥ 3:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:36 Death being a surprisingly frequent theme in old blues.
	♥ 3:39pm doctorjazz: I'm guessing we'll get to some version of Death Don't Have No Mercy.
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:39 Good guess.
	♥ 3:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed" by "Blind Willie John... Wotta Voice!!!!!
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:40 The greatest.
	♥ 3:40pm Sem: ↳ Brian in UK @3:35 G'day, Squire Brian.
	♥ 3:42pm Brian in UK: ↳ Sem @3:40 What ho, Sem. Trust all is well in & around the bay.
	♥ 3:44pm Sem: ↳ Brian in UK @3:42 Getting ready for a visit from Tropical Storm Phillipe, and digging around in the garden. Many, many pumpkins. Can I Fedex you a couple?
	♥ 3:46pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "In My Time of Dying" by "Led Zeppelin" thought this was The White Stripes for a second
	♥ 3:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dreamyandseedy @3:46 So does Jack White
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: The recording of the drums on this track is MIND BLOWING
	♥ 3:48pm Brian in UK: ↳ Sem @3:44 Very kind, maybe another time.
	♥ 3:50pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:47 another for the long list of reasons i listen to WFMU! i'm always learning something!
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: I listen to this song and I'm 13 again (at least in my headphones)
	♥ 3:51pm JB: ↳ Song: "In My Time of Dying" by "Led Zeppelin" Hell yeah Larry!!
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ JB @3:51 Hey JB!
	3:53pm Erica: ↳ Song: "In My Time of Dying" by "Led Zeppelin" Zeppelin Rules! - Ottoman.
	3:53pm Erica: Ottomann. Stupid autocorrect.
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:53 Otto is about as smart as a footstool
	♥ 3:54pm JB: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:51 Great show! Been listening, finally had to post. I love death stuff!
	♥ 3:55pm Funky16Corners: ↳ JB @3:54 Thank you!
	3:55pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Song: "Death Sound" by "Country Joe & the Fish" <3 <3 <3
	♥ 3:55pm Sem: ..and not Fixin' to Die Rag. Nice, Larry.
	♥ 3:56pm Funky16Corners: This is such a great album.
	♥ 3:56pm Sem: New to me, just a toddler in the late 60s.
	♥ 4:00pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Death Don't Have No Mercy" by "Grateful Dead" Jerry! Nice choice for this!
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:00 I thought I had the Rev Gary Davis version but I do not
	♥ 4:01pm JB: If you have 2 minutes, how about Misfits- Death Comes Ripping or Die Die My Darling?
	♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: ↳ JB @4:01 I don't own any Misfits stuff
	♥ 4:08pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "Already Dead" by "Beck" if you aren't careful this album can drag you right down into a black hole
	♥ 4:09pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "Already Dead" by "Beck" beautiful album though
	♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:08 I love this period of Beck
	♥ 4:10pm Yvang: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:08 Not if you alternate with Odelay.
	♥ 4:11pm patrick321: ↳ Yvang @4:10 I love Odelay.
	♥ 4:11pm JB: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:03 Ahh, OK, I'll let it slide... :)
	4:11pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Already Dead" by "Beck" Agreed. Beautiful song, much better than the overrated song "Loser"
	♥ 4:11pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:00 There's also Hot Tuna's version, pretty cool!
	♥ 4:12pm doctorjazz: (You could just play all Grateful Dead, and you'd be in the theme).
	♥ 4:13pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry, y'all
	♥ 4:15pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Yvang @4:10 i will give that a try! i wonder who out there heard Sea Change first before any other Beck song
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:13 Hey C!
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:11 Apparently Rev Gary Davis loved Jorma's playing on their version
	♥ 4:18pm Yvang: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:15 "Loser" is the one that conquered me first.
	♥ 4:19pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @4:18 I saw Beck when Mellow Gold came out at the Trocadero in Philly. When he started playing Loser people started bouncing around, the whole building was shaking
	♥ 4:21pm Yvang: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:19 Loser is one of the greatest songs of the nineties imho.
	♥ 4:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @4:21 Agreed
	♥ 4:24pm JB: ↳ Yvang @4:21 I've always preferred Devil's Haircut. Something about the tone of the guitar.
	♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: ↳ JB @4:24 Odelay is a great album
	♥ 4:25pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Already Dead" by "Beck" Sea Change, classic breakup album. Not a toe tapper like Odelay. Both essential.
	♥ 4:27pm Brian in UK: First hearing Bert sing this was sobering.
	♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:27 Oh yeah, his version is STARK
	♥ 4:41pm JB: ↳ Song: "The End" by "The Doors" WHOA MAMA!! That haunting intro
	4:41pm Fred R: Greetings Larry and all! Just in time for “The End”
	♥ 4:41pm JB: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:24 Sure is!
	♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Fred R @4:41 Hi Fred!
	4:42pm Erica: ↳ Song: "The End" by "The Doors" I can still hear Homer Simpson singing this.
	♥ 4:43pm JB: ↳ Erica @4:42 I'll be searching for this on the internets in a few minutes. I've seen a lot of Simpsons but don't remember!
	4:43pm Andrew in Toronto: What another great show! Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:43 Thanks, Andrew!
	♥ 4:44pm JB: The killer awoke before dawn. He put his boots on
	4:45pm Erica: ↳ JB @4:43 You should also check out the Homer Simpson Sugar Sugar meme. You will never hear that Archies song the same way again.
	♥ 4:45pm coelacanth∅: musically Brilliant and innovative; and so profoundly sad... - lost on so many who came to the doors via crap like hello i love you, stories about the part-time buffoon Jim Morrison, or stereotyping on dumb tv shows
	4:46pm Erica: ↳ Erica @4:45 The video I mean.
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:45 Some of the feedback I got when I did my Doors show illustrates how poisoned some people are by the PR and haven't really take the time to LISTEN to the records
	♥ 4:47pm Brian in UK: Father? Yes son. I want to tickle you.
	♥ 4:48pm JB: ↳ Erica @4:45 I will! I do remember him singing the Oscar Meyer bologna song My bologna has a first name, it's H-O-M-E-R My bologna has a second name, it's H-O-M-E-R
	♥ 4:49pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 maybe the only time WFMU isn't a safe space, when a DJ plays The Doors. i'm gonna bookmark that archive
	♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:49 The response during the show was respectful. I meant from friends outside of the WFMU atmosphere
	♥ 4:50pm JB: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 The Doors were brilliant, I still love listening to them. And what is this show you did? I'll scour your archives.
	♥ 4:50pm Discotech Underground: Hello Larry and the Testify gang! Stay tuned for me, "Discotech Underground" immediately following Larry's fabulous program! wfmu.org...
	4:50pm Erica: ↳ JB @4:48 Haha
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ JB @4:50 wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:50 Hey Kip!
	♥ 4:51pm JB: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:50 Thanks. Just clickey-starred it.
	♥ 4:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The End" by "The Doors" Did we reach the end of The End yet? Seems ENDless..
	♥ 4:52pm doctorjazz: Great show, Larry, thanks!
	♥ 4:52pm Brian in UK: Never really got past Waiting for the Sun. Good pop sounds.
	♥ 4:52pm Brian in UK: Good work as ever, Larry.
	♥ 4:53pm JB: ↳ Song: "The End" by "The Doors" My only critique of this song is, well, the ending. Maybe fade to silence? I don't know...
	4:53pm Vincent The Soul Chef: I still think Doors were goth before goth was cool... I love their whole catalog. Thanks for another great show.
	♥ 4:54pm JB: Larry to close with Slayer Angel of Death...
	♥ 4:56pm coelacanth∅: teenage me had a friend over. we went to the basement to do laundry. the door to the driveway outside was open, a middle-age woman (the next-door neighbor's aunt) was right on the the other side of the driveway doing something. so after putting the clothes in my friend & i started heading up the stairs, dialoging father yes son i want to kill you. mother... i want to... we knew what Jim was not saying but we just yelled...as we got outside and the neighbor said "you boys have some imagination"!
	4:56pm Erica: 2020? Seems more recent than that Larry. Years fly too fast for this show.
	4:57pm Erica: Anyway thanks Larry!
	4:57pm bradford: Thanks Larry
	♥ 4:57pm Yvang: Thanks Larry! So many great songs about death!
	♥ 4:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:57pm dreamyandseedy: thank you Larry!
	♥ 4:57pm JB: Thanks Larry, awesome show yet again. See you next time.
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everybody!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 5, 2023

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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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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)
Blood Sweat & Tears	And When I Die	45RPM Single	Columbia	1969	45	0:04:20 (Pop-up)
Fever Tree	Death is the Dancer "Death is the Dancer" by "Fever Tree"	Another Time Another Place	UNI	1968	LP	0:08:23 (Pop-up)
Kinks	Death of a Clown "Death of a Clown" by "Kinks"	Something Else By The Kinks	Pye	1967	LP	0:12:14 (Pop-up)
Norman Greenbaum	Spirit in the Sky	45RPM Single	Reprise	1969	45	0:15:22 (Pop-up)
Frankie Laine	I'm Gonna LIve Till I Die	45RPM Single	Mercury	1950	45	0:19:13 (Pop-up)

Norma Tanega	You're Dead "You're Dead" by "Norma Tanega"	Walking My Cat Named Dog	New Voice	1966	LP	0:26:26 (Pop-up)
Kaleidoscope	Oh Death "Oh Death" by "Kaleidoscope"	Side Trips	Epic	1967	LP	0:28:44 (Pop-up)
Son House	Death Letter "Death Letter" by "Son House"	Father of Folk Blues	Columbia	1965	LP	0:32:09 (Pop-up)
Mississippi John Hurt	You'e Got to Die	Last Sessions	Vanguard	1972	LP	0:36:24 (Pop-up)
Blind Lemon Jefferson	He Arose From the Dead	78RPM Single	Paramount	1928	78	0:39:49 (Pop-up)
Blind Willie Johnson	Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed	78RPM Single	Columbia	1928	78	0:42:44 (Pop-up)
Led Zeppelin	In My Time of Dying "In My Time of Dying" by "Led Zeppelin"	Physical Graffiti	Swan Song	1975	LP	0:45:45 (Pop-up)
Country Joe & the Fish	Death Sound	Electric Music For The Mind & Body	Vanguard	1967	LP	0:56:37 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Death Don't Have No Mercy	Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings	Warner Bros	1969	LP	1:00:57 (Pop-up)
Beck	Already Dead "Already Dead" by "Beck"	Sea Change	DGC	2002	CD	1:10:41 (Pop-up)

Bobbie Gentry	I Saw an Angel Die "I Saw an Angel Die" by "Bobbie Gentry"	Ode To Billie Joe	Capitol	1967	LP	1:19:52 (Pop-up)
Dave Van Ronk	Fixin' To Die "Fixin' To Die" by "Dave Van Ronk"	Folksinger	Prestige	1962	LP	1:22:38 (Pop-up)
Dave Van Ronk and Frankie Armstrong	Legend of the Dead Soldier	Let No One Deceive You - Songs of Bertolt Brecht	Aural Tradition	1989	CD	1:25:30 (Pop-up)
Kenny Rankin	Needle of Death "Needle of Death" by "Kenny Rankin"	Family	Mercury	1969	LP	1:29:02 (Pop-up)
Elysse	If Death Don't Overtake Me	Elysse	Tetragrammaton	1969	CD	1:33:09 (Pop-up)
13th Floor Elevators	The Kingdom of Heaven	The Psychedelic Sounds Of: The 13th Floor Elevators	International Artists	1966	LP	1:37:38 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Til I Die "Til I Die" by "The Beach Boys"	Surf's Up	Brother	1971	LP	1:40:50 (Pop-up)
The Doors	The End "The End" by "The Doors"	The Doors	Elektra	1966	LP	1:43:13 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	2:00:01 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 2:59pm doctorjazz: Is this Testify? Not the Stream? hi Testifiers!
	♥ 3:00pm Funky16Corners: It is now!
	♥ 3:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @2:59 Hey Doc!
	♥ 3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Larry and all other listeners!
	♥ 3:01pm doctorjazz: I may have jumped the gun by a few seconds...
	♥ 3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @3:01 Hiya doc!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:01 Hey Andrew!
	3:02pm Vincent The Soul Chef: I've been feeling every word of this song for weeks... good afternoon everyone :)
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:02 Hey Vincent!
	3:03pm Erica: Hi Larry. I am "dying" to hear this week's show.
	3:03pm bradford: Greetings Larry & fellow Testifiers!
	♥ 3:04pm Sem: Preach it, man. Hello, Larry, Testifiers, just-looking and listening visitors.
	♥ 3:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:01 Hi Andrew!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:03 Hi Erica! I see what you did there.
	♥ 3:04pm Yvang: Hi Larry and spooky testifyers!
	3:04pm Erica: Had to make that pun
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @3:03 Hey bradford!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:04 Hiya Sem!
	♥ 3:04pm Sem: Hey, AiT!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:04 Hi Yvang!
	♥ 3:05pm dreamyandseedy: hello hello Larry and all!
	♥ 3:05pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sem @3:04 Hey Sem!
	♥ 3:05pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Yvang @3:04 Hi Yvang!
	♥ 3:05pm doctorjazz: What is going naturally, anyway, not getting shot? Reaching 120 years of age? Passing quietly in your sleep?
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dreamyandseedy @3:05 Hey dreamy!
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:05 I'll take the last option.
	♥ 3:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:06 Does seem most appealing (doesn't happen all that often, though)
	♥ 3:07pm doctorjazz: Seems this is going to be a creepy show...
	♥ 3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:06 True that,and you almost never get a choice
	♥ 3:07pm Yvang: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:05 Hi Andrew!
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:07 There are some surprisingly uplifting tunes coming
	♥ 3:13pm Sem: It's never summer until I hear this, somewhere.
	3:13pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Spirit in the Sky" by "Norman Greenbaum" I dig this one!
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:13 Talk about your genius One Hit Wonders
	3:15pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:14 I heard this one in a Star Wars parody video. Makes me laugh every time.
	♥ 3:17pm Sem: "In the late 1960s Norman Greenbaum was the leader and composer for Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band, which recorded the novelty hit "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago".[3] The group's psychedelic approach was too eccentric for mainstream show business; the group's name suggested a novelty or comedy act incorporating music. Greenbaum went solo as a folk artist and submitted an original song, "Spirit in the Sky", to Reprise Records. His demonstration recording was a simple folk rendition, with Greenbaum accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. Reprise handed Greenbaum to staff producer Erik Jacobsen, who radically rearranged the song for a new recording session. The updated version now had pulsing electric guitar, gospel-styled backup singers, and an insistent rhythm accompanying Greenbaum, whose vocal was now double-tracked. Reprise released the record in late 1969, and it skyrocketed to #1 in almost all worldwide markets. It sold two million copies in 1969 and 1970,[4] and received a gold disc from the RIAA. It has subsequently been used in many films, advertisements, and television shows." via wikithingy.
	♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: I have that Dr West album. Nothing on it to indicate that he had Spirit In the Sky in the on deck circle
	♥ 3:25pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "You're Dead" by "Norma Tanega" A nonchalant masterpiece.
	♥ 3:26pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:25 The whole album is pretty incredible
	♥ 3:35pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & cognizanti. Would that be a Gustave Dore engraving?
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: If I could play guitar like Mississippi John Hurt I'd never do anything else.
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:35 Hey Brian! It is, indeed!
	♥ 3:36pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "You'e Got to Die" by "Mississippi John Hurt" Loving these blues men!
	♥ 3:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:36 Death being a surprisingly frequent theme in old blues.
	♥ 3:39pm doctorjazz: I'm guessing we'll get to some version of Death Don't Have No Mercy.
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:39 Good guess.
	♥ 3:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed" by "Blind Willie John... Wotta Voice!!!!!
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:40 The greatest.
	♥ 3:40pm Sem: ↳ Brian in UK @3:35 G'day, Squire Brian.
	♥ 3:42pm Brian in UK: ↳ Sem @3:40 What ho, Sem. Trust all is well in & around the bay.
	♥ 3:44pm Sem: ↳ Brian in UK @3:42 Getting ready for a visit from Tropical Storm Phillipe, and digging around in the garden. Many, many pumpkins. Can I Fedex you a couple?
	♥ 3:46pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "In My Time of Dying" by "Led Zeppelin" thought this was The White Stripes for a second
	♥ 3:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dreamyandseedy @3:46 So does Jack White
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: The recording of the drums on this track is MIND BLOWING
	♥ 3:48pm Brian in UK: ↳ Sem @3:44 Very kind, maybe another time.
	♥ 3:50pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:47 another for the long list of reasons i listen to WFMU! i'm always learning something!
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: I listen to this song and I'm 13 again (at least in my headphones)
	♥ 3:51pm JB: ↳ Song: "In My Time of Dying" by "Led Zeppelin" Hell yeah Larry!!
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ JB @3:51 Hey JB!
	3:53pm Erica: ↳ Song: "In My Time of Dying" by "Led Zeppelin" Zeppelin Rules! - Ottoman.
	3:53pm Erica: Ottomann. Stupid autocorrect.
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:53 Otto is about as smart as a footstool
	♥ 3:54pm JB: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:51 Great show! Been listening, finally had to post. I love death stuff!
	♥ 3:55pm Funky16Corners: ↳ JB @3:54 Thank you!
	3:55pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Song: "Death Sound" by "Country Joe & the Fish" <3 <3 <3
	♥ 3:55pm Sem: ..and not Fixin' to Die Rag. Nice, Larry.
	♥ 3:56pm Funky16Corners: This is such a great album.
	♥ 3:56pm Sem: New to me, just a toddler in the late 60s.
	♥ 4:00pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Death Don't Have No Mercy" by "Grateful Dead" Jerry! Nice choice for this!
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:00 I thought I had the Rev Gary Davis version but I do not
	♥ 4:01pm JB: If you have 2 minutes, how about Misfits- Death Comes Ripping or Die Die My Darling?
	♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: ↳ JB @4:01 I don't own any Misfits stuff
	♥ 4:08pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "Already Dead" by "Beck" if you aren't careful this album can drag you right down into a black hole
	♥ 4:09pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "Already Dead" by "Beck" beautiful album though
	♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:08 I love this period of Beck
	♥ 4:10pm Yvang: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:08 Not if you alternate with Odelay.
	♥ 4:11pm patrick321: ↳ Yvang @4:10 I love Odelay.
	♥ 4:11pm JB: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:03 Ahh, OK, I'll let it slide... :)
	4:11pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Already Dead" by "Beck" Agreed. Beautiful song, much better than the overrated song "Loser"
	♥ 4:11pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:00 There's also Hot Tuna's version, pretty cool!
	♥ 4:12pm doctorjazz: (You could just play all Grateful Dead, and you'd be in the theme).
	♥ 4:13pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry, y'all
	♥ 4:15pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Yvang @4:10 i will give that a try! i wonder who out there heard Sea Change first before any other Beck song
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:13 Hey C!
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:11 Apparently Rev Gary Davis loved Jorma's playing on their version
	♥ 4:18pm Yvang: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:15 "Loser" is the one that conquered me first.
	♥ 4:19pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @4:18 I saw Beck when Mellow Gold came out at the Trocadero in Philly. When he started playing Loser people started bouncing around, the whole building was shaking
	♥ 4:21pm Yvang: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:19 Loser is one of the greatest songs of the nineties imho.
	♥ 4:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @4:21 Agreed
	♥ 4:24pm JB: ↳ Yvang @4:21 I've always preferred Devil's Haircut. Something about the tone of the guitar.
	♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: ↳ JB @4:24 Odelay is a great album
	♥ 4:25pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Already Dead" by "Beck" Sea Change, classic breakup album. Not a toe tapper like Odelay. Both essential.
	♥ 4:27pm Brian in UK: First hearing Bert sing this was sobering.
	♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:27 Oh yeah, his version is STARK
	♥ 4:41pm JB: ↳ Song: "The End" by "The Doors" WHOA MAMA!! That haunting intro
	4:41pm Fred R: Greetings Larry and all! Just in time for “The End”
	♥ 4:41pm JB: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:24 Sure is!
	♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Fred R @4:41 Hi Fred!
	4:42pm Erica: ↳ Song: "The End" by "The Doors" I can still hear Homer Simpson singing this.
	♥ 4:43pm JB: ↳ Erica @4:42 I'll be searching for this on the internets in a few minutes. I've seen a lot of Simpsons but don't remember!
	4:43pm Andrew in Toronto: What another great show! Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:43 Thanks, Andrew!
	♥ 4:44pm JB: The killer awoke before dawn. He put his boots on
	4:45pm Erica: ↳ JB @4:43 You should also check out the Homer Simpson Sugar Sugar meme. You will never hear that Archies song the same way again.
	♥ 4:45pm coelacanth∅: musically Brilliant and innovative; and so profoundly sad... - lost on so many who came to the doors via crap like hello i love you, stories about the part-time buffoon Jim Morrison, or stereotyping on dumb tv shows
	4:46pm Erica: ↳ Erica @4:45 The video I mean.
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:45 Some of the feedback I got when I did my Doors show illustrates how poisoned some people are by the PR and haven't really take the time to LISTEN to the records
	♥ 4:47pm Brian in UK: Father? Yes son. I want to tickle you.
	♥ 4:48pm JB: ↳ Erica @4:45 I will! I do remember him singing the Oscar Meyer bologna song My bologna has a first name, it's H-O-M-E-R My bologna has a second name, it's H-O-M-E-R
	♥ 4:49pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 maybe the only time WFMU isn't a safe space, when a DJ plays The Doors. i'm gonna bookmark that archive
	♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dreamyandseedy @4:49 The response during the show was respectful. I meant from friends outside of the WFMU atmosphere
	♥ 4:50pm JB: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 The Doors were brilliant, I still love listening to them. And what is this show you did? I'll scour your archives.
	♥ 4:50pm Discotech Underground: Hello Larry and the Testify gang! Stay tuned for me, "Discotech Underground" immediately following Larry's fabulous program! wfmu.org...
	4:50pm Erica: ↳ JB @4:48 Haha
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ JB @4:50 wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:50 Hey Kip!
	♥ 4:51pm JB: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:50 Thanks. Just clickey-starred it.
	♥ 4:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The End" by "The Doors" Did we reach the end of The End yet? Seems ENDless..
	♥ 4:52pm doctorjazz: Great show, Larry, thanks!
	♥ 4:52pm Brian in UK: Never really got past Waiting for the Sun. Good pop sounds.
	♥ 4:52pm Brian in UK: Good work as ever, Larry.
	♥ 4:53pm JB: ↳ Song: "The End" by "The Doors" My only critique of this song is, well, the ending. Maybe fade to silence? I don't know...
	4:53pm Vincent The Soul Chef: I still think Doors were goth before goth was cool... I love their whole catalog. Thanks for another great show.
	♥ 4:54pm JB: Larry to close with Slayer Angel of Death...
	♥ 4:56pm coelacanth∅: teenage me had a friend over. we went to the basement to do laundry. the door to the driveway outside was open, a middle-age woman (the next-door neighbor's aunt) was right on the the other side of the driveway doing something. so after putting the clothes in my friend & i started heading up the stairs, dialoging father yes son i want to kill you. mother... i want to... we knew what Jim was not saying but we just yelled...as we got outside and the neighbor said "you boys have some imagination"!
	4:56pm Erica: 2020? Seems more recent than that Larry. Years fly too fast for this show.
	4:57pm Erica: Anyway thanks Larry!
	4:57pm bradford: Thanks Larry
	♥ 4:57pm Yvang: Thanks Larry! So many great songs about death!
	♥ 4:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:57pm dreamyandseedy: thank you Larry!
	♥ 4:57pm JB: Thanks Larry, awesome show yet again. See you next time.
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everybody!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 5, 2023

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