WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from June 7, 2017

Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 9:57pm Gary: First?
	♥ 9:57pm Funky16Corners: Yes! Good evening!
	10:02pm geezerette: Praise the board!
	🥁 ♥ 10:02pm Gary: Ohhh yeah-eee-yeah!
	♥ 10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey guys!
	10:04pm still b/p: The Bumpus hounds of commitment stole the big juicy show time right off the table of my earlier evening! Now swearing big gibberish! I will happily eat some of what's being served here for a little while.
	♥ 10:04pm Funky16Corners: Enjoy the buffet!
	10:04pm hyde: hello!
	♥ 10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hello!
	♥ 10:06pm Funky16Corners: ENGELBERT HUMPERDINK!
	10:07pm hyde: i saw englebert humperdink live in las vegas
	♥ 10:08pm Funky16Corners: Long live the Hump!
	10:08pm hyde: i mean, an old humperdink
	♥ 10:08pm Funky16Corners: That sounds dangerous
	10:09pm still b/p: Engelbuddy, wave The Last Schmaltz for me!
	♥ 10:10pm Funky16Corners: The Last Schmaltz should be made into an epic documentary with a cast of easy listening stars
	🥁 ♥ 10:16pm Gary: How did I not know the Soft Cell was a cover?
	♥ 10:17pm Funky16Corners: The Gloria Jones is a HUGE Northern Soul record.
	10:20pm Parq: She and Marc Bolen had an encounter with a tree. The tree won.
	🥁 ♥ 10:21pm Gary: Ah, I'm guessing that's how SC first heard it?
	♥ 10:25pm Funky16Corners: I heard that Marc Almond was a soulie in his days before Soft Cell
	♥ 10:26pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq! She and Bolan had a son together I believe.
	🥁 ♥ 10:26pm Gary: I first heard that song in San Francisco in late 1983 or 84 and assumed it was (a) an original and (b) responding to the AIDS crisis
	10:28pm Parq: I remember the Marc Almond Band from the mid 70s, but they didn't make much of an impression on me.
	♥ 10:28pm Funky16Corners: Differnt guy. That was Mark Almond, Johnny Mark and I forget who Almond
	♥ 10:29pm Funky16Corners: Gary - I wonder if there was an intentional subtext in the SC cover?
	10:30pm Parq: Ohhh. Gary, now it's my turn to admit what I never knew.
	♥ 10:30pm Funky16Corners: Uh oh...
	10:30pm still b/p: The Soft Cell "official" video for Tainted Love....well, I just watched it...and....well....I feel a little tainted myself. And bemused. And making a gesture that says what the f and why the f. Ohhhh, them early burps of the video boom.
	♥ 10:33pm Funky16Corners: It's amazing having lived through that and come all the way out on the other side. I wonder what it all must look like to kids today?
	♥ 10:36pm Funky16Corners: Hey, somebody cues up the wrong song...cough
	🥁 ♥ 10:38pm Gary: I always thought there was, Larry, but I just looked it up and SC released their version in 1981, so I'm guessing not
	♥ 10:39pm Funky16Corners: It works that way though. Prescient?
	♥ 10:41pm Doug Schulkind: Hitting the spot like a mini-sledge to a roofing brad. Blammo blammo blammo goes Testify!
	♥ 10:41pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug!
	🥁 ♥ 10:43pm Gary: I mean, the single was that b/w "Where Did Our Love Go?" ... so, yes, totally
	10:51pm still b/p: Back to the vids: Once videos started to rise out of awful, all kinds of credit was bestowed, strangely. I know budgets matter, but still, they didn't have to be THAT awful. I wondered at the time why SO damn many were so damn goofy or so hamfisted, awkward and primitive in concepts and production approaches, aside from budget constraints. Simple attentions to examples from unhidden sources all around could've bumped up the class and creativity, eased the crudeness and cock-eyed conventions. This, this I would pontificate to the kids looking back today.
	10:52pm Parq: Is Larry breaking up or is it my player?
	🥁 ♥ 10:53pm Gary: Sounds okay here
	♥ 10:59pm Funky16Corners: As far as I can tell I've had a steady signal on this end
	11:02pm Parq: Must be on my end then. Never mind, time for a late dinner.
	♥ 11:03pm Funky16Corners: Enjoy!
	♥ 11:10pm Doug Schulkind: Love the hell out of this music.
	♥ 11:10pm Funky16Corners: Thanks!
	11:10pm geezerette: Psychedelic music brings back visions of kerosene lamps on crocheted lace table cloths, antique tables and chairs, crystal pendants hanging in stained glass windows, Moroccan leather wool lined coats and a widespread belief that you could live in the previous century simply by pretending, that things would be better there. I had a lot of older friends who lived in various canyons. They were glamorous and crazy in equal measure. I was never a hippy, but some of my best friends...
	♥ 11:11pm Funky16Corners: I mean, thank you on behalf of the Everly Brothers
	♥ 11:13pm Funky16Corners: Geezerette - There are so many varieties, and I love them all
	11:13pm geezerette: Me too. :)
	11:15pm still b/p: Love the boomp-boodoomp beat so strong in the Everly mix. Wonder if someone had to argue for it.
	♥ 11:15pm Funky16Corners: That's an amazing album
	♥ 11:18pm Doug Schulkind: Is that Hal Blaine boomp-boodoomping on drums with the Everlys? Dennis Diken just published a feature on Blaine and a terrific interview, both in Modern Drummer (online). Feature: www.moderndrummer.com... Interview: www.moderndrummer.com...
	♥ 11:19pm Funky16Corners: I wouldn't be at all surprised
	11:23pm still b/p: Paul Young. Was looking....I thought there was a much more familiar version when I heard Waylon...didn't know who, and still don't know. Not the Four Preps.
	11:26pm geezerette: Nudie's suits?
	♥ 11:26pm Funky16Corners: Yes, suits by Nudie Cohen, the great western tailor
	♥ 11:27pm Funky16Corners: www.nudiesrodeotailor.com
	♥ 11:28pm Funky16Corners: Cohn not Cohen
	11:33pm geezerette: After his shop closed his daughter opened a coffee shop decorated with photos of Nudie with stars proudly wearing clothes he'd made for them. I see it's moving to Nashville, started in North Hollywood's Valley Village. Thanks for link!
	♥ 11:34pm Funky16Corners: You're welcome!
	11:38pm still b/p: "Rodeo Tailor" surely should make a good song title/topic. I'm thinking someone surely shoulda....and someone did: Eddie Jo Downs.
	♥ 11:39pm Funky16Corners: A unique occupation!
	11:39pm geezerette: S B/P, gotta look that up! :)
	11:42pm geezerette: Larry, been smiling for nearly two hours solid. Great show man.
	♥ 11:44pm Funky16Corners: Thank you!
	11:50pm still b/p: A couple weeks ago, listened several times to original God Only Knows. If I'm going to sing it in private with a terrible weak falsetto, I finally wanted the notes of the darn sung melody line correct. Nudie born in Ukraine. Some of that colorful art influence seen in the designs?
	♥ 11:52pm Funky16Corners: That's very likely with Nudie. I'd never considered that!
	11:57pm geezerette: Yes, S B/P,,that really makes sense! Never made that connection either.
	♥ 11:59pm Doug Schulkind: Deeply magnif effort, Larry.
	12:00am geezerette: What Doug said.
	12:02am still b/p: Fine show every angle. Thanks!
	♥ 12:02am Funky16Corners: Thank you all for joining me!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from June 7, 2017

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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	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Globetrotters	Globetrotters Theme	Kirshner	1971	LP
Gil Scott Heron	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised	Flying Dutchman	1970	LP
James Rivers	Fonky Flute "Fonky Flute" by "James Rivers"	Kon-Ti	1969	45
Horace Andy	Show and Tell "Show and Tell" by "Horace Andy"	Money Disc	1973	45	0:01:10 (Pop-up)
JJ Barnes	Don't Bring Me No Bad New	Ric-Tic	1966	45	0:04:42 (Pop-up)
Gloria Jones	Tainted Love "Tainted Love" by "Gloria Jones"	Champion	1965	45	0:07:30 (Pop-up)
The Intruders	Every Day Is Like a Holiday	Gamble	1969	45	0:09:48 (Pop-up)

Gabor Szabo	Pretty Girl Why "Pretty Girl Why" by "Gabor Szabo"	Blue Thumb	1972	LP	0:16:23 (Pop-up)
Gary Burton Quartet	Sweet Rain "Sweet Rain" by "Gary Burton Quartet"	RCA	1967	LP	0:19:21 (Pop-up)
Nino Rota	Cimitero "Cimitero" by "Nino Rota"	RCA	1963	LP	0:23:38 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Dark Star (45) "Dark Star (45)" by "Grateful Dead"	Warner Brothers	1968	45	0:25:08 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Doin' That Rag (alt version)	Warner Brothers	1969	LP	0:28:20 (Pop-up)
Neil Young	The Loner "The Loner" by "Neil Young"	Warner Brothers	1968	LP	0:30:24 (Pop-up)
Kaleidoscope	Egyptian Gardens "Egyptian Gardens" by "Kaleidoscope"	Epic	1967	LP	0:34:01 (Pop-up)
Kaleidoscope	Pulsating Dream "Pulsating Dream" by "Kaleidoscope"	Epic	1967	LP	0:37:04 (Pop-up)
Harumi	Talk About It "Talk About It" by "Harumi"	Verve	1968	LP	0:38:54 (Pop-up)

Waylon Jennings	Love of the Common People	RCA	1967	LP	0:49:31 (Pop-up)
Waylon Jennings	You've Got To Hide Your Love Away	RCA	1967	LP	0:51:57 (Pop-up)
The Gosdin Brothers	The Sounds of Goodbye	Capitol	1968	45	0:54:12 (Pop-up)
Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers	So You Say You Lost Your Baby	Columbia	1967	LP	0:56:38 (Pop-up)
Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers	I Found You	Columbia	1967	LP	0:58:40 (Pop-up)
Everly Brothers	T for Texas "T for Texas" by "Everly Brothers"	Warner Brothers	1968	LP	1:01:29 (Pop-up)
Flying Burrito Brothers	Hot Burrito #2	A&M	1969	LP	1:05:07 (Pop-up)
Poco	Hurry Up "Hurry Up" by "Poco"	Epic	1970	LP	1:08:36 (Pop-up)

Darelycks	Bad Trip "Bad Trip" by "Darelycks"	Fine	1966	45	1:17:47 (Pop-up)
Mouse and the Traps	Lie Beg Borrow and Steal	Fraternity	1967	45	1:20:12 (Pop-up)
The Choir	I'm Going Home "I'm Going Home" by "The Choir"	Roulette	1966	45	1:22:38 (Pop-up)
The New Yorkers	Mr Kirby "Mr Kirby" by "The New Yorkers"	Scepter	1967	45	1:25:16 (Pop-up)
Them	One Two Brown Eyes "One Two Brown Eyes" by "Them"	Parrot	1965	LP	1:27:26 (Pop-up)
Terry Reid	Superlungs "Superlungs" by "Terry Reid"	Epic	1969	LP	1:30:15 (Pop-up)

Colin Blunstone	Caroline Goodbye "Caroline Goodbye" by "Colin Blunstone"	Epic	1971	45	1:36:25 (Pop-up)
The Four King Cousins	God Only Knows	Capitol	1968	LP	1:38:37 (Pop-up)
The Four King Cousins	I Fell "I Fell" by "The Four King Cousins"	Capitol	1968	LP	1:40:43 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams	Trust "Trust" by "Paul Williams"	A&M	1970	LP	1:43:11 (Pop-up)
Al Wilson	The Dolphins "The Dolphins" by "Al Wilson"	Soul City	1969	LP	1:45:52 (Pop-up)
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	Like	1966	45	1:54:25 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 9:57pm Gary: First?
	♥ 9:57pm Funky16Corners: Yes! Good evening!
	10:02pm geezerette: Praise the board!
	🥁 ♥ 10:02pm Gary: Ohhh yeah-eee-yeah!
	♥ 10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey guys!
	10:04pm still b/p: The Bumpus hounds of commitment stole the big juicy show time right off the table of my earlier evening! Now swearing big gibberish! I will happily eat some of what's being served here for a little while.
	♥ 10:04pm Funky16Corners: Enjoy the buffet!
	10:04pm hyde: hello!
	♥ 10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hello!
	♥ 10:06pm Funky16Corners: ENGELBERT HUMPERDINK!
	10:07pm hyde: i saw englebert humperdink live in las vegas
	♥ 10:08pm Funky16Corners: Long live the Hump!
	10:08pm hyde: i mean, an old humperdink
	♥ 10:08pm Funky16Corners: That sounds dangerous
	10:09pm still b/p: Engelbuddy, wave The Last Schmaltz for me!
	♥ 10:10pm Funky16Corners: The Last Schmaltz should be made into an epic documentary with a cast of easy listening stars
	🥁 ♥ 10:16pm Gary: How did I not know the Soft Cell was a cover?
	♥ 10:17pm Funky16Corners: The Gloria Jones is a HUGE Northern Soul record.
	10:20pm Parq: She and Marc Bolen had an encounter with a tree. The tree won.
	🥁 ♥ 10:21pm Gary: Ah, I'm guessing that's how SC first heard it?
	♥ 10:25pm Funky16Corners: I heard that Marc Almond was a soulie in his days before Soft Cell
	♥ 10:26pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq! She and Bolan had a son together I believe.
	🥁 ♥ 10:26pm Gary: I first heard that song in San Francisco in late 1983 or 84 and assumed it was (a) an original and (b) responding to the AIDS crisis
	10:28pm Parq: I remember the Marc Almond Band from the mid 70s, but they didn't make much of an impression on me.
	♥ 10:28pm Funky16Corners: Differnt guy. That was Mark Almond, Johnny Mark and I forget who Almond
	♥ 10:29pm Funky16Corners: Gary - I wonder if there was an intentional subtext in the SC cover?
	10:30pm Parq: Ohhh. Gary, now it's my turn to admit what I never knew.
	♥ 10:30pm Funky16Corners: Uh oh...
	10:30pm still b/p: The Soft Cell "official" video for Tainted Love....well, I just watched it...and....well....I feel a little tainted myself. And bemused. And making a gesture that says what the f and why the f. Ohhhh, them early burps of the video boom.
	♥ 10:33pm Funky16Corners: It's amazing having lived through that and come all the way out on the other side. I wonder what it all must look like to kids today?
	♥ 10:36pm Funky16Corners: Hey, somebody cues up the wrong song...cough
	🥁 ♥ 10:38pm Gary: I always thought there was, Larry, but I just looked it up and SC released their version in 1981, so I'm guessing not
	♥ 10:39pm Funky16Corners: It works that way though. Prescient?
	♥ 10:41pm Doug Schulkind: Hitting the spot like a mini-sledge to a roofing brad. Blammo blammo blammo goes Testify!
	♥ 10:41pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug!
	🥁 ♥ 10:43pm Gary: I mean, the single was that b/w "Where Did Our Love Go?" ... so, yes, totally
	10:51pm still b/p: Back to the vids: Once videos started to rise out of awful, all kinds of credit was bestowed, strangely. I know budgets matter, but still, they didn't have to be THAT awful. I wondered at the time why SO damn many were so damn goofy or so hamfisted, awkward and primitive in concepts and production approaches, aside from budget constraints. Simple attentions to examples from unhidden sources all around could've bumped up the class and creativity, eased the crudeness and cock-eyed conventions. This, this I would pontificate to the kids looking back today.
	10:52pm Parq: Is Larry breaking up or is it my player?
	🥁 ♥ 10:53pm Gary: Sounds okay here
	♥ 10:59pm Funky16Corners: As far as I can tell I've had a steady signal on this end
	11:02pm Parq: Must be on my end then. Never mind, time for a late dinner.
	♥ 11:03pm Funky16Corners: Enjoy!
	♥ 11:10pm Doug Schulkind: Love the hell out of this music.
	♥ 11:10pm Funky16Corners: Thanks!
	11:10pm geezerette: Psychedelic music brings back visions of kerosene lamps on crocheted lace table cloths, antique tables and chairs, crystal pendants hanging in stained glass windows, Moroccan leather wool lined coats and a widespread belief that you could live in the previous century simply by pretending, that things would be better there. I had a lot of older friends who lived in various canyons. They were glamorous and crazy in equal measure. I was never a hippy, but some of my best friends...
	♥ 11:11pm Funky16Corners: I mean, thank you on behalf of the Everly Brothers
	♥ 11:13pm Funky16Corners: Geezerette - There are so many varieties, and I love them all
	11:13pm geezerette: Me too. :)
	11:15pm still b/p: Love the boomp-boodoomp beat so strong in the Everly mix. Wonder if someone had to argue for it.
	♥ 11:15pm Funky16Corners: That's an amazing album
	♥ 11:18pm Doug Schulkind: Is that Hal Blaine boomp-boodoomping on drums with the Everlys? Dennis Diken just published a feature on Blaine and a terrific interview, both in Modern Drummer (online). Feature: www.moderndrummer.com... Interview: www.moderndrummer.com...
	♥ 11:19pm Funky16Corners: I wouldn't be at all surprised
	11:23pm still b/p: Paul Young. Was looking....I thought there was a much more familiar version when I heard Waylon...didn't know who, and still don't know. Not the Four Preps.
	11:26pm geezerette: Nudie's suits?
	♥ 11:26pm Funky16Corners: Yes, suits by Nudie Cohen, the great western tailor
	♥ 11:27pm Funky16Corners: www.nudiesrodeotailor.com
	♥ 11:28pm Funky16Corners: Cohn not Cohen
	11:33pm geezerette: After his shop closed his daughter opened a coffee shop decorated with photos of Nudie with stars proudly wearing clothes he'd made for them. I see it's moving to Nashville, started in North Hollywood's Valley Village. Thanks for link!
	♥ 11:34pm Funky16Corners: You're welcome!
	11:38pm still b/p: "Rodeo Tailor" surely should make a good song title/topic. I'm thinking someone surely shoulda....and someone did: Eddie Jo Downs.
	♥ 11:39pm Funky16Corners: A unique occupation!
	11:39pm geezerette: S B/P, gotta look that up! :)
	11:42pm geezerette: Larry, been smiling for nearly two hours solid. Great show man.
	♥ 11:44pm Funky16Corners: Thank you!
	11:50pm still b/p: A couple weeks ago, listened several times to original God Only Knows. If I'm going to sing it in private with a terrible weak falsetto, I finally wanted the notes of the darn sung melody line correct. Nudie born in Ukraine. Some of that colorful art influence seen in the designs?
	♥ 11:52pm Funky16Corners: That's very likely with Nudie. I'd never considered that!
	11:57pm geezerette: Yes, S B/P,,that really makes sense! Never made that connection either.
	♥ 11:59pm Doug Schulkind: Deeply magnif effort, Larry.
	12:00am geezerette: What Doug said.
	12:02am still b/p: Fine show every angle. Thanks!
	♥ 12:02am Funky16Corners: Thank you all for joining me!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from June 7, 2017

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