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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   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Murmaids  Paper Sun   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Liberty  1968  45  0:01:25 (Pop-up)
Mel Torme  Secret Agent Man   Favoriting Right Now!  Columbia  1966  LP  0:04:28 (Pop-up)
Sounds of Our Time  Come to the Sunshine   Favoriting Music of the Flower Children  Capitol  1967  LP  0:06:51 (Pop-up)
Ted Heath and His Music  ( I Can't Get No) Satisfaction   Favoriting The Big Ones  Decca  1969  LP  0:09:23 (Pop-up)
Sandy Nelson  Happenings Ten Years Time Ago   Favoriting Cheetah Beat  Imperial  1967  LP  0:13:14 (Pop-up)
 
101 Strings  Spinning Wheel   Favoriting More Million Selling Hits  Alshire  1971  LP  0:19:27 (Pop-up)
Ambrose Brazelton  The Beat Goes On   Favoriting The Beat Goes On For Physical Education  KES  1968  LP  0:21:50 (Pop-up)
Santo and Johnny  It's Wonderful   Favoriting Golden Guitars  Liberty  1968  LP  0:24:25 (Pop-up)
Don Sebesky & The Jazz-Rock Syndrome  I Dig Rock and Roll Music   Favoriting Don Sebesky and the Jazz Rock Syndrome  Verve  1968  LP  0:26:43 (Pop-up)
Emil Richards  Happy Together   Favoriting New Time Element  Uni  1967  LP  0:28:40 (Pop-up)
Electric Piano Playground  I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)   Favoriting Psychedelic Seeds  Bell  1967  LP  0:31:12 (Pop-up)
Foru Freshmen  Everyday People   Favoriting Different Strokes  Liberty  1969  LP  0:33:54 (Pop-up)
Lennon Sisters  Green Tambourine   Favoriting The Lennon Sisters Today!  Mercury  1968  LP  0:36:26 (Pop-up)
Sarah Vaughan  1-2-3   Favoriting The New Scene  Mercury  1966  LP  0:38:27 (Pop-up)
Liberace  Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)   Favoriting A Brand New Me  WB  1970  LP  0:41:04 (Pop-up)
Herb Larson  Mendocino   Favoriting Sax Appeal  Command  1969  LP  0:44:11 (Pop-up)
Mariano and the Unbelievables  Sunshine Superman   Favoriting Mariano and the Unbelievables  Capitol  1967  LP  0:47:22 (Pop-up)
Roslyn Kind  The Shape Of Things To Come   Favoriting Give Me You  RCA  1969  LP  0:50:26 (Pop-up)
Julie Budd  People Are Strange   Favoriting Child of Plenty  MGM  1968  LP  0:52:52 (Pop-up)
Ronnie Aldrich  Ride My Seesaw   Favoriting It's Happening Now  Decca  1969  LP  0:55:02 (Pop-up)
Dina Shore  Undun   Favoriting Once Upon a Summertime  Stanyan  1975  LP  0:58:43 (Pop-up)
 
Bob Theile and His New Happy Times Ochestra  Fakin' It   Favoriting Light My Fire  Impulse  1967  LP  1:10:05 (Pop-up)
Sound Symposium  Darling Be Home Soon   Favoriting Contemporary Composers Interpreted  Dot  1969  LP  1:15:58 (Pop-up)
Nat Stuckey  In the Year   Favoriting New Country Roads  RCA  1969  LP  1:18:38 (Pop-up)
Billy Vaughn  Time of the Season   Favoriting The Windmills Of Your Mind  Dot  1969  LP  1:21:53 (Pop-up)
Brooklyn Bridge  Nights in White Satin   Favoriting Brooklyn Bridge  Buddah  1970  LP  1:24:32 (Pop-up)
Della Reese  Solitary Woman   Favoriting 45RPM Single  ABC  1967  45  1:27:46 (Pop-up)
Gloria Loring  Darkness Darkness   Favoriting And Now We Come To Distances  Evolution  1969  LP  1:30:31 (Pop-up)
Shirley Bassey  Light My Fire   Favoriting Something  UA  1969  LP  1:35:12 (Pop-up)
Surf Symphony  The Warmth of the Sun   Favoriting Song of Summer  Capitol  1969  LP  1:38:34 (Pop-up)
Topanga Canyon Orchestra  Crimson and Clover   Favoriting Crimson and Clover  Uni  1968  LP  1:41:30 (Pop-up)
Doc Severinsen  In the Court of the Crimson King   Favoriting Doc Severinsen's Closet  Command  1970  LP  1:43:57 (Pop-up)
Louis Armstrong  Give Peace a Chance   Favoriting Louis Armstrong and His Friends  Flying Dutchman  1970  LP  1:51:15 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:58:44 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 2:45pm
WLSClark:

Dont know if I qualify for WOW! Generation? I turned 68 today. Am I IN the club?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @2:45
Happy Birthday Clark!
Avatar 🥁 2:54pm
WLSClark:

Thanks Larry! a buddy was emailing how he liked hearing I was 68 because his fave music year is 1968. I told him in 1968 on my birthday, Martin Luther King Jr died. For my birthday, I got the 5 month old "A Scratch in the Sky" album by the Cryan Shames and the 45 of "Summertime Blues" as well as a tiny radio transmitter that I could now send a signal that covered.....my whole BLOCK! I'd made it to radio royalty, or so I thought. haha. I was 12.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @2:54
Aside from MLK that sound slike an OK birthday
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Andrew in Toronto:

Hi there, Larry, and all other listeners!
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Michael 98145:

Howdy
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:00
Hey Andrew!
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Yvang:

Hi Larry! Ready to testify and to Wow!
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Brian in UK:

Hello Larry & Co.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ WLSClark @2:54
Hi, Clark!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Michael 98145 @3:01
Hi Michael!
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Michael 98145:

I have a '68 Mustang sedan resting in the garage
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Yvang @3:01
Yvang!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @3:01
Hey Brian!
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Sem:

Bend me, Shape me, WOW me, anytime.
Hello, Reverend Larry, pew warmers, and all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Wisconsin!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @3:02
Hey Sem!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Jeff Ash @3:02
Hiya Jeff!
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Erica:

↳ WLSClark @2:54
Wow that's interesting.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:03
Hi Erica!
Avatar 3:03pm
Erica:

Hi Larry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
doctorjazz:

Hello Larry and Streamers!
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Brian in UK:

↳ WLSClark @2:45
Happy Birthday Clark. 1968 was my year 15 going on 16. First concert, Byrds at the Royal Albert Hall. GP's last gig with them. And all that music going down. First time abroad, first motorcycle. You get the drift.
  3:05pm
Frank Talk About Humans:

Andy!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:04
Hey Doc!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Frank Talk About Humans @3:05
Hello Frank!
Avatar 🥁 3:06pm
WLSClark:

Hi Andrew, Michael, Yvang, Brian, Sem, Jeff, Erica, drJ, Brian and Frank. Thanks to all for Birthday wishes. Feel good, weather is sunny and nice. Life is good!
Avatar 3:06pm
Erica:

Anyway happy birthday WLS!
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doctorjazz:

↳ WLSClark @2:45
Happy Birthday Clark (you won't catch up to me, unless something bad happens to me, of course...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme"
Love this Mel Torme cover!
Avatar 🥁 3:07pm
WLSClark:

↳ Brian in UK @3:04
Ahh those good days too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Sem:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:00
Hello, AiT! All good there?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:06
Mel was doing some quality swinging in the late 60s!
Avatar 🥁 3:07pm
WLSClark:

↳ Erica @3:06
Erica, always fun reading your chat messages.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Sem @3:02
Hiya, Sem!
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Michael 98145:

Swingin' on the Riviera one day
And then layin' in the Bombay alley next day
Avatar 🥁 3:08pm
WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:07
I THINK Mel from Nebraska or lived here?
Avatar 3:08pm
Erica:

Aww.
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Yvang:

↳ WLSClark @3:06
Hi WLSC!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:08
Mel was from Chicago
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WTF_Chuck:

↳ Song: "Come to the Sunshine" by "Sounds of Our Time"
Whoa! Tuned in a few minutes late. Thought I had the wrong show ..FMU theme songs.
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Sem:

hahahahahaha.
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Funky16Corners:

Wait for the organ on this one...
Avatar 🥁 3:10pm
WLSClark:

I still have a tape of myself on my birthday with my little tiny microphone making my own top 10 mini countdown--Blue Cheer at #1. Still have the mic, which is hilarious to see nowadays.
Avatar 🥁 3:10pm
WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:08
Figures. Something made me think he had some time lived in Neb.
Avatar 🥁 3:11pm
David Shortell:

↳ Michael 98145 @3:08
Is there an episode of "Danger Man" where that actually happens to Drake?
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Michael 98145:

↳ David Shortell @3:11
=shrug=
Avatar 3:12pm
still b/p:

↳ WLSClark @3:10
Please transfer to digital and submit to FMU for sharing of excerpts by DJ deemed most likely to use.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @3:12
Hey SBP!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @3:11
Hi David!
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Brian in UK:

↳ still b/p @3:12
That will be Irwin.
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Brian in UK:

↳ Song: "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" by "Sandy Nelson"
Oh boy, there is no end to the madness!!!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @3:13
Sandy did some unusual covers. SoCal (like Texas and Florida) were hotbeds of Yardbirds fandom
Avatar 3:15pm
still b/p:

↳ Song: "( I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by "Ted Heath and...
Sax portion was iffy, but full team sound was vim, vigor aaaand with it.
Avatar 🥁 3:15pm
WLSClark:

↳ still b/p @3:12
Haha. Yes, I have it digitized, but pretty silly. I found that my voice most sounded like a DJ then by saying words in pretend raspy voice. So silly.
Avatar 🥁 3:15pm
WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:14
I think Bob Irwin has played some Sandy mid-60s on his show that was cool too.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Sem @3:07
Iy`s still good and wet!
We`ve had 2 solid days of rain,
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:15
His albums are full of great stuff.
Avatar 3:21pm
still b/p:

↳ Song: "Spinning Wheel" by "101 Strings"
Clean-living and square types hearing this mighta worried they'd been tabbed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @3:21
Yeah, this is prettyfar out for 101 Strings!
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Funky16Corners:

I LOVE the steel guitar on this version!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
listener 126464:

Boss show, Larry! Hello all.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ listener 126464 @3:25
Howdy!
Avatar 🥁 3:27pm
WLSClark:

↳ listener 126464 @3:25
SO, how do you KNOW you are 126464?
Avatar 3:32pm
still b/p:

↳ Song: "Happy Together" by "Emil Richards"
Man...time sig and games were knocking and knotting more than half a century of neural stability associated with the song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
Phillippe:

howdy
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Phillippe @3:32
Hey Phillippe!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Everyday People" by "Foru Freshmen"
Boy, does this take the edge off the original (could be a Coke commercial).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:36
Believe it or not, there's a nice version by Peggy Lee!
Avatar 🥁 3:37pm
WLSClark:

↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Lennon Sisters"
BUT did they sing this on Larry Welk show?
Avatar 3:38pm
Erica:

↳ doctorjazz @3:36
Too squeaky clean of a version I agree.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:38pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:37
Good question!
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listener 126464:

↳ WLSClark @3:27
That’s what the manager said.
Avatar 3:40pm
still b/p:

Saw a Lennon sister, in a later-day interview included after a Welk episode on PBS, describe having to miss out on midway fun when touring state fairs with Pat Boone because they were all too recognizable and would be mobbed. Took a disguised turn on ferris wheel until someone from their team outed them for a laugh, aaaand they were mobbed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" by "Liberace"
this is fun!
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Funky16Corners:

Spooner Pldham and Larry Collins are on this Liberace album
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:43
He does Suite Judy Blues Eyes on this album.
Avatar 🥁 3:45pm
WLSClark:

↳ listener 126464 @3:39
That's pretty cool. 162000 listeners since 1958?
That equates to 2400 listeners per year! haha
Avatar 🥁 3:47pm
WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:38
I wish you could check into why your arrows to previous post doesn't hilite the right comment. Only show I cannot tell is this one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
Michael 98145:

↳ still b/p @3:40
Lennon groupies?!? Lennonies?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Michael 98145 @3:47
They were a big deal. Lawrence Welk was on TV for like 30 years!
Avatar 🥁 3:48pm
WLSClark:

↳ Michael 98145 @3:47
careful, or they will make another "YESTERDAY" movie about the Lennon sisters!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Sunshine Superman" by "Mariano and the Unbelievab...
Also, ahem, Unbelievably fun!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:45
I wonder if any of the 1958 listeners still tune in?
Avatar 🥁 3:48pm
WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:48
Still on here in replays I think. 6 PM Saturday nights just like 60s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:48
They have two albums, both similarly cool
Avatar 🥁 3:49pm
WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:48
From what I have heard, the station has gone thru so many issues and changes that it is basically not hardly related to 1958 one except in call letters.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
WTF_Chuck:

Digging the show, Larry. I can imagine, maybe reality, maybe not, that some of these tracks would have been heard when I was a wee lad. Perhaps in the cool places that didn’t have Muzak? Perhaps TV? Pretty sure I saw some weird versions of pop songs on Lawrence Welk when I was at my grandparents back in the late 60s early 70s.
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listener 126464:

↳ WLSClark @2:54
Happy birthday! It’s my brother's also. He was born in 68.
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Yvang:

Love all these versions!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ WTF_Chuck @3:56
Hi Chuck! I remember similar things from my parents listeneing to WPAT which was the NY area "Beautiful Music" station
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Michael 98145:

↳ WTF_Chuck @3:56
Lotsa Myron Floren
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:58pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Ride My Seesaw" by "Ronnie Aldrich"
Nice treatment for Moodies (their stuff fits this)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
Sem:

Grew up in a one station town in the 60s, block programming, w/ contemporary music relegated to "Wee Willie and the Trendex Twenty" a few night a week, for an hour. Covers like the one's you're playing would be prime time fodder, for the over 19s. Love hearing those versions here, all that being said.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:01pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @3:59
When I was a kid, driving around with my parents, they NEVER played Top 40 radio, it was all "beautiful music" and Newsradio 88 (or maybe WNEW-AM which was kind of Adult Contemporary
Avatar 4:04pm
still b/p:

↳ Michael 98145 @3:57
When Myron AND Joann Castle -- who ripped and bounced and killed and smiled and winked in her own open-throttle piano numbers -- play accordion together, my happiness reaches a new level.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
Michael 98145:

↳ still b/p @4:04
=Glowing= smile !
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Erica:

↳ Song: "Undun" by "Dina Shore"
I truly dug that version of Undone. Can't believe it was from the mid 70s. Doesn't sound like a 70s recording.
Avatar 🥁 4:09pm
David Shortell:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:01
Sounds kind of like my own folks. My big brother told me that when Gary Busey's movie "The Buddy Holly Story" came out in 1978, they didn't know who Buddy was.
They frequently listened to the talk radio station WOR (710 AM), which seemingly came out of a time warp from decades before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:10pm
Funky16Corners:

Also Gabor Szabo on this one!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:11pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @4:09
Oddly enough, as a middle schooler, I spent a LOT of time listening to WOR in the afternoon and evenings, starting with Bob and Ray, then CBS MYstery Theater and then Jean Shepherd.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:12pm
Michael 98145:

I do know people who never listened to music and still don't. Quite a mystery to me, but ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:12pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Michael 98145 @4:12
I have also encountered this, and have been similarly baffled by it
  4:13pm
Fred R:

Afternoon Larry and everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:13pm
WTF_Chuck:

Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Dinah Shore - all names I remember and shows I would see when hanging out with my grandmother as a child on weekday afternoons.
Incidentally, she was a choral director at church and had a piano and organ I used to play (hack away) at as a small child. Whatever I learned from doing that paid dividends later when I took up guitar and several other instruments.
Anyhow, I’m sure all that Beautiful Music pop covers had an impact. TY.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:14pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Fred R @4:13
Hi Fred!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:14pm
Michael 98145:

On the left coast, we were lucky enough to hear Jean Shepherd tapes. On KRAB-fm.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Michael 98145 @4:14
I started listening in the mid-70s because my father was a fan. I think it might have been Shep's last stand on NY radio.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Sound Symposium"
I like this tune, but, admit it, it's a bit sappy. Extra sappification is not called for...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @4:17
One of my all time fave songs. I'll listen to pretty much any version.
Avatar 🥁 4:18pm
David Shortell:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:12
Maybe it's connected to the equally baffling phenomenon that some people can somehow listen to "work-radio" (i.e., robot radio stations that repeat a very small list of songs on shuffle) without going bonkers. Sometimes I almost envy them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
Michael 98145:

Some of those "work-radio" stations seem to be turning into country stations. Something to do with money.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @4:18
The year I started by first full time job (that I stayed at for nearly 25 years) it was on the overnight shift in a newspaper composing room, with the radio tuned to WNBC-AM, which played a 2-hour block of syndicated Wolfman Jack Top 40. I heard the same rotation of songs four times a shift.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
Michael 98145:

These covers are amazing. And i'm amazed you found them all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:21pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Michael 98145 @4:20
I spend a LOT of time looking for this stuff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:22pm
WTF_Chuck:

↳ Michael 98145 @4:20
Agreed! This show will be replayed for unsuspecting friends in the near future. Thanks Larry!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:23pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ WTF_Chuck @4:22
My pleasure! Glad you're digging it!
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WTF_Chuck:

↳ Song: "Nights in White Satin" by "Brooklyn Bridge"
We were the only high school band I knew of that played this song in 1982. Not this cool though..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:27pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ WTF_Chuck @4:26
This was their "rock" album. They also cover Neil Young and the Buffalo Springfield
Avatar 🥁 4:27pm
David Shortell:

↳ WTF_Chuck @4:13
Mike Douglas had some cool musical guests, such as the Rolling Stones during their first US min-tour in June 1964. They mimed to a couple of records and Mike chatted amicably with them.
In their other American TV appearance at that time, they played for real on "Hollywood Palace", but host Dean Martin rudely snubbed them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @4:27
There's great footage of Moby Grape on the Mike Douglas Show!
Avatar 4:31pm
still b/p:

Saw just a minute of Dean in "Airport" last night and was wondering if director said, "Now, Dean, for this one, you can't just, you know, phone it in and smirk and all that, like the Matt Helm bit. You gotta, you know, step it up a good degree. Okay...okay?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @4:31
He looks pickled through that entire movie
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Brian in UK:

Dean Martin. Why?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:32pm
WTF_Chuck:

↳ David Shortell @4:27
Cool. I’m a ‘65 vintage, so it was probably ‘69-‘73 timeframe that I would have been seeing those afternoon TV shows. I don’t remember anything specific. I would have been thrilled to see a Monkee at time. But maybe saw some Partridge Family or other relatable things. Don’t really remember, but even the stuff I “didn’t like” was an influence. No doubt about that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ WTF_Chuck @4:32
There are a lot of great guest spots from that period, Micky Dolenz on My Three Sons, Davy on the Brady Bunch etc
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StringOFperils:

So understated, all this stuff: A real panoply of reticence and quiet, tasteful reserve...like a day-glo plaid mohair suit at a funeral.
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Funky16Corners:

This Shirley Bassey is next level
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WTF_Chuck:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:33
I remember Davy on the Brady Bunch. I watched My 3 Sons in syndication, but don’t remember seeing Mickey.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WTF_Chuck @4:35
He shows up (surprisingly) as a rock star, interacting with Chip's band (I think)
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WTF_Chuck:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:35
I may be getting old, but I agree 100%%%%
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still b/p:

↳ Song: "Light My Fire" by "Shirley Bassey"
Shirley among the few who should have cosmic Permission To Do This.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @4:37
The arrangement on this is amazing. I think it's been sampled.
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Brian in UK:

Larry, a real ear opener. Nice one.
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Funky16Corners:

This is a great album, and I don't think it's ever been reissued.
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WTF_Chuck:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:36
So Chip Douglas, not Chip Douglas
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David Shortell:

↳ Brian in UK @4:32
Generation gap. He didn't like their long hair or their music.
On the back cover of "Another Side of Bob Dylan", Bob wrote “an dean martin should apologize t the rolling stones”.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WTF_Chuck @4:40
Steve Douglas's son, not the producer/bassist
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arlo:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:40
need to check!
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Michael 98145:

↳ Song: "Light My Fire" by "Shirley Bassey"
- wow -
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arlo:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:40
as in... i need to check it out!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ arlo @4:42
It's basically a Wrecking Crew session led by concertmaster Jan Rubini (who's son Michael was a member of the WC)
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WTF_Chuck:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:41
I’ll have to look that up. “WFMU - The Wiki for music nerds everywhere!”
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Sem:

Well, the Doc was always cooler than the show he led an orchestra on...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @4:44
Doc was hip!
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StringOFperils:

Speaking of day-glo suits, it's Doc!
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Sem:

↳ StringOFperils @4:45
Man could dress it up, alright.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @4:45
He's still around, well into his 90s
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David Shortell:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:28
Or "the Moby Grapes", as Mike introduced them on the clip I just looked up.
I'd like to see the whole episode because Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were on it.
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Discotech Underground:

Hey Larry! Fun show today, again full of things I had no idea even existed!

Stay tuned for Discotech Underground starring ME! Next on WFMU's Give The Drummer Radio!

wfmu.org...
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Sem:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:46
I'll say, 96. Ninety seven if he gets to July 7.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @4:46
When I was a kid Mike Douglas was on right after I got home from school. I used to love how he'd have a co-host for the entire week, and all kinds of great music and comedy
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:47
Hey Kip!
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WTF_Chuck:

↳ Song: "In the Court of the Crimson King" by "Doc Severin...
I wonder if Doc is appreciated these days. Another staple of my teen years - watching a tiny B&W tv in my bedroom late night. Only heard the intros and outros, of course. But cool dude and I didn’t realize at the time how great that Tonight Show band was.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @4:47
Peter Marshall of the Hollywood Squares just turned 98!?!?
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WLSClark:

Well, basically missed most of show talking to my bro. Sorry!
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Discotech Underground:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:47
My dad did road construction and he was off during the winter and he rarely missed Mike Douglas. He would be watching it when I would get home from school every day.
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Sem:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:48
I echo your "!?!?!"
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Michael 98145:

Next billboard -

"WFMU. Music You Didn't Know Existed."
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Michael 98145 @4:49
That's be a perfect motto!
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StringOFperils:

Yeah, the Mike Douglas Show booked some killer music acts, and often before they were widely known...he straddled the territory between being homespun and being hip
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Funky16Corners:

I don't know if you guys can hear the L-R panning of the drums
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Discotech Underground:

↳ Michael 98145 @4:49
That is actually a pretty effective sell line!
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Sem:

What a service, Reverend Larry. You know how to keep the parishioners coming back.
See you, and the congregation next time.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @4:51
Thanks Sem!
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WTF_Chuck:

↳ Sem @4:51
Amen
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Discotech Underground:

↳ Song: "Give Peace a Chance" by "Louis Armstrong"
I wonder what Scatman Crothers would have done with "Give Peace A Chance"...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:52
I'd pay to hear that.
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StringOFperils:

This involved a lot of weed
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still b/p:

Didn't know til much later that Peter Marshall was a big band singer and hobnobbed with entertainment celebs of a past period -- giving him pockets full of anecdote/name-drop material -- before Squares days. Was a DJ for "Music Of Your Life" syndicated format in post-Squares years and recorded a new album. I heard a bit of it. And...well, I heard it.
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Yvang:

↳ Song: "Give Peace a Chance" by "Louis Armstrong"
Wow! (I understand the title of the show now)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @4:53
He did a couple of good, in depth podcast interviews about his early years
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Andrew in Toronto:

What another great episode!
Thanks, Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:54
Thanks Andrew!
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arlo:

big thanks, Larry
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WTF_Chuck:

Thanks for the memories, Larry!
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still b/p:

Five-star show. Thanks.
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StringOFperils:

Kid Ory to hippies. Quite the arc. Wow!
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Erica:

All I'm saying is give Louis Armstrong a chance. Anyway great show Larry.
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doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry (Satch Rules)!
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Jeff Ash:

Good one! Thanks, Larry!
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WLSClark:

Thanks, Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
StringOFperils:

Another gold-mine Larry. Thanks!
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Yvang:

Thanks Larry!
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Erica:

Thanks Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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listener 126464:

Thank you, Larry.
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