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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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Favoriting May 9, 2024: Testify! - The Songs and Sounds of Spanky and Our Gang

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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)
The Buffoons  Sunday Will Never Be The Same   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Imperial  1968  45  0:01:27 (Pop-up)
Tinkerbell's Fairydust  Lazy Day   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Decca  1967  45  0:04:15 (Pop-up)
Chad Mitchell  Love (Webster's Definition)   Favoriting Love, A Feeling Of  WB  1967  LP  0:07:07 (Pop-up)
Chad Mitchell  Without Rhyme or Reason   Favoriting Love, A Feeling Of  WB  1967  LP  0:10:26 (Pop-up)
Julie London  Sunday Morning   Favoriting Yummy, Yummy, Yummy  Liberty  1968  LP  0:13:00 (Pop-up)
Julie London  Like To Get To Know You   Favoriting Yummy, Yummy, Yummy  Liberty  1968  LP  0:16:02 (Pop-up)
John Andrews Tartaglia  Like To Get To Know You   Favoriting Tartaglian Theorem  Capitol  1968  LP  0:18:45 (Pop-up)
Four Freshmen  Not Necessarily Byrd Ave   Favoriting A Today Kind of Thing  Liberty  1968  LP  0:23:21 (Pop-up)
Cashman, Pistilli and West  Sunday Will Never Be The Same   Favoriting Bound To Happen  ABC  1968  LP  0:25:25 (Pop-up)
 
Spanky and Our Gang  And Your Bird Can Sing   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mercury  1966  45  0:33:29 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Sealed With a Kiss   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mercury  1966  45  0:35:13 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Lazy Day   Favoriting Spanky and Our Gang  Mercury  1967  LP  0:37:19 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  It Ain't Necessarily Byrd Avenue   Favoriting Spanky and Our Gang  Mercury  1967  LP  0:42:54 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Sunday Will Never Be The Same   Favoriting Spanky and Our Gang  Mercury  1967  LP  0:43:06 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Commercial   Favoriting Spanky and Our Gang  Mercury  1967  LP  0:45:53 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Making Every Minute Count   Favoriting Spanky and Our Gang  Mercury  1967  LP  0:47:17 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  5 Definitions of Love   Favoriting Spanky and Our Gang  Mercury  1967  LP  0:49:47 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Leaving On a Jet Plane   Favoriting Spanky and Our Gang  Mercury  1967  LP  0:52:09 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  My Bill   Favoriting Like To Get To Know You  Mercury  1968  LP  0:55:42 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Sunday Morning   Favoriting Like To Get To Know You  Mercury  1968  LP  0:58:09 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Echoes (Everybody's Talkin')   Favoriting Like To Get To Know You  Mercury  1968  LP  1:01:50 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Suzanne   Favoriting Like To Get To Know You  Mercury  1968  LP  1:05:03 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Like To Get To Know You   Favoriting Like To Get To Know You  Mercury  1968  LP  1:08:47 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Stardust/Coda   Favoriting Like To Get To Know You  Mercury  1968  LP  1:11:08 (Pop-up)
 
Spanky and Our Gang  Anything You Choose   Favoriting Anything You Choose b/w Without Rhyme Or Reason  Mercury  1969  LP  1:23:43 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  And She's Mine   Favoriting Anything You Choose b/w Without Rhyme Or Reason  Mercury  1969  LP  1:26:32 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Yesterday's Rain   Favoriting Anything You Choose b/w Without Rhyme Or Reason  Mercury  1969  LP  1:29:13 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Hong Kong Blues   Favoriting Anything You Choose b/w Without Rhyme Or Reason  Mercury  1969  LP  1:32:37 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Give a Damn   Favoriting Anything You Choose b/w Without Rhyme Or Reason  Mercury  1969  LP  1:36:23 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Leopard Skin Phones   Favoriting Anything You Choose b/w Without Rhyme Or Reason  Mercury  1969  LP  1:39:59 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  1-3-5-8 (Pedagogal Round #2)   Favoriting Anything You Choose b/w Without Rhyme Or Reason  Mercury  1969  LP  1:42:54 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Nagasaki   Favoriting Live  Mercury  1970  LP  1:44:06 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  Brother Can You Spare a Dime   Favoriting LIve  Mercury  1970  LP  1:45:43 (Pop-up)
Spanky and Our Gang  That's What You Get for Loving Me   Favoriting Live  Mercury  1970  LP  1:50:15 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:56:15 (Pop-up)

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Funky16Corners:

Where's everybody at?
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:01
Right here Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:02
Hi Erica!
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David The Splatter:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:01
I'm at work, waiting for this print to finish. But here!
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Power Papi:

Present and accounted for!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David The Splatter @3:02
Hi David!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Power Papi @3:02
Greetings Power Papi!
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Yvang:

Hiya Larry! Testifyers!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Yvang @3:04
Yvang!
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Sem:

Reverend Larry, pewsters, all: hellos!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @3:05
Hey Sem!
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doctorjazz:

Hi Larry and streamers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:08pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:07
Hi Doc!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:01
You didn't have a live Drummer Stream show before yours, took a minute to get from the Mothership back to some Drumming...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:08
Yes, That's always weird
Avatar 3:11pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

I made it... and it looks like I'm about to buy the Buffoons 45 that I missed lol...
good afternoon one and all :)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:11
Hey Vincent!
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love2laf:

Late, I was in the archives, apologies for the tardiness DJ Larry! Hello everyone here to Testify!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:22pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ love2laf @3:22
Hi love2laf!
  3:22pm
Andrew in Toronto:

Hi there, Larry, and all other liste erst!
Avatar 3:23pm
Erica:

↳ Song: "Like To Get To Know You" by "John Andrews Tartaglia"
This is the most off path version of this song I've ever heard.
  3:23pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ doctorjazz @3:07
Hey, doc!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:23pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:23
It incorporates part of 'Give a Damn' as well
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:23pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:22
Hi Andrew!
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Erica:

By which I mean it doesn't stick to the main melody.
  3:23pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Yvang @3:04
Hey, Yvang!
  3:24pm
Andrew in Toronto:

Howdy, Sem!
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WR:

Hello Larry and Our Gang
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @3:33
Hey WR!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:39pm
Funky16Corners:

This was written by George Fischoff and Tony Powers who wrote 98.6 for Keith
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Jeff Ash:

Late to the party, but greetings to all from Wisconsin!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Jeff Ash @3:39
Hi Jeff!
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Erica:

Hiya Jeff. I hope you like Spanky and Our Gang (and I don't mean the Little Rascals either).
Avatar 3:43pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

I admit to having three copies of this album... did I mention that I absolutely adore this group lol?
Hey Jeff...
Avatar 3:46pm
Erica:

The garbage man can.
Avatar 3:47pm
Erica:

↳ Song: "Commercial" by "Spanky and Our Gang"
Sounds like Alice's Restaurant.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:47pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:47
That and Byrd Ave were both written by a guy nmed Mike Smith, who wrote a lot of idiosyncratic/unusual stuff for folk artists
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:51pm
Jeff Ash:

This show is a flashback for me to the TV variety shows of the late '60s. Spanky and Our Gang was a TV-friendly act, something for the kids that the older folks also would like.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Jeff Ash @3:51
I've seen clips of them on Ed Sullivan, Smothers Brothers, Hollywood Palace etc
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:53pm
Funky16Corners:

They were also - with the exception of Spanky - a pretty square-looking bunch, like a bunch of refugee college English professors
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Vincent The Soul Chef:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:53
Ha! That's pretty accurate, now that I think about it... real talk, those vocal arrangements are devastating.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:55pm
Jeff Ash:

There you go, Larry. Exactly.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:55
Among the tightest harmonies of the time
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Funky16Corners:

Maybe 20 years back I got to see Bob Dorough a bunch of times in different settings. One time he had a bunch of CDs for sale, which I had never seen anywhere else, so I bought them. One of them had his demo versions of many of the songs covered by S&OG
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Vincent The Soul Chef:

Man, who takes the time to create a six part harmony though... just lovely. Thank you for this, Larry :)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:02
My pleasure! You know I live for this sound.
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Sem:

↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:02
^what Vincent said.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @4:04
Thanks, Sem
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Vincent The Soul Chef:

↳ Song: "Like To Get To Know You" by "Spanky and Our Gang"
I must say, the first time I heard this song sometime in 1991, I was literally reduced to a puddle on the floor.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:10
It's a beautiful arrangement
  4:23pm
Erica:

What was that?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:24pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @4:23
I miscued the song (started replaying 'And Your Bird Can Sing')
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:24
Oh my. I somehow got signed out and had to sign back in, in case you wonder.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:29pm
Funky16Corners:

This is a pretty incredible album and they were all but broken up by the time it was released (due to Malcolm Hale's death)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:31pm
Funky16Corners:

I just saw that Dennis Thompson, the last remaining member of the MC5 has died.
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love2laf:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:31
Thanks for the heads up, his music will live on in our hearts and ears.
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Funky16Corners:

They finally got into the Hall of Fame andnow none of them are left
Avatar 4:36pm
Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:34
Oh man. :(
Avatar 4:48pm
David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Like To Get To Know You" by "Spanky and Our Gang"
They preluded their performance of this on the Ed Sullivan Show with a brief dramatization set at a cocktail party.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:48pm
Funky16Corners:

Make sure to stay tuned for Kip and Discotech Underground at 5PM: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:49pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @4:48
Hi David! Yeah, that's cool, with the band superimposed on them as the party goers
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love2laf:

Thank you Larry, been a lovely afternoon of music. Cheers everyone!
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doctorjazz:

Cool set (cool show), Thanks Larry!
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Erica:

Thanks Larry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:54pm
WR:

Many thanks for the Spanky & Our Gang feature. Laters.
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Yvang:

Thanks Larry!
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Vincent The Soul Chef:

Thank you again... i've already pulled out my records to keep it going.
Avatar 4:56pm
Erica:

Until next time guys.
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Funky16Corners:

Thank you all for listening!
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Brian in UK:

Ooops, this looks like a beauty. Bring on the archives.
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