WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from August 30, 2017

Listener comments!
	10:02pm Gary: Larry!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Gary!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Welcome!
	10:03pm Gary: Groovy opener
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Thanks!
	10:04pm cupcakejenny: Is this chat room only for -ary named people or can anyone join?
	10:04pm geezerette: Velvet Fog! versatile! Howdy!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Sure thing, if this is Jennifer-ary
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey G!
	10:05pm cupcakejenny: It is! Doesn't my mom call us Jerry sometimes?
	10:06pm TristaC.HerLadyCaveBrat: NOM!!
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Of course. We are one.
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hi Trista!
	10:06pm Jeff Ash: Bob Seger is playing here tonight. He's not going to play any of the good old stuff, so here I am.
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Good choice!
	10:07pm hyde: can't stay long, but here for a bit. sounds great.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Hyde! Welcome!
	10:09pm geezerette: Damn, love Miss Simone.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Me too
	10:17pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and all
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: Greetinsg C!
	10:18pm Funky16Corners: I mean GREETINGS!
	10:22pm geezerette: Lot of great surprises tonight.
	10:23pm Funky16Corners: I'm glad you're digging it! Lots more to come!
	10:24pm geezerette: !!! :D
	10:26pm Parq: I have that Velvet Fog track on an album of his mono hits that I bought -- well, of course -- at the FMU Record Fair.
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: It's an all time classic. Big fave with the early mods.
	10:29pm geezerette: When they're good they're good! These artists could do ANYTHING! Pretty breathtaking. And great arranging!
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: i can't help but wonder if Ella knew what savoy truffle was about when she sang that.
	10:31pm Parq: You should title this week's show "The Golden Age of A&R Men".
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, lots of jazzers were digging into contemporary stuff with gusto. Some better than others, but these are all great.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Wait'll you hear what's coming in the next sets.
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: i need a recipe for a gin gimlet, quick
	10:33pm geezerette: Coel, betting she did. :)
	10:34pm hyde: ooh, i love a gin gimlet
	10:35pm geezerette: Let's all have a gin gimlet. Cheers.
	10:36pm coelacanth∅: i've had a gin gimlet (with cucumber) just once and i have little clue as to how she made it...but it seems like a drink from the era and scene represented in that set.
	10:37pm geezerette: Sinatra couldn't pull it off.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: Hey! Where's my gin?
	10:40pm coelacanth∅: g @10.33 i don't know. many people (especially people not from england, where those chocolates were from) didn't know what that song meant until years later.
	10:40pm geezerette: Gin with cucumber sounds great. Cool...it was nearly 100 here today.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: I didn't know it was about candy for years, either
	10:41pm hyde: gimlets are easy. it's like 2 oz gin (supposed to be London Dry, I think), 1 oz lime juice, 1/2 oz Roses' Lime Cordial. or along those lines. my classic cocktail book is packed!
	10:41pm coelacanth∅: oops! here's your gin. and here, i made you a gin gimlet.
	10:41pm Parq: I've got a nice Rosé. It's too late to start with the mixology. Those of you in other time zones (or less bourgeois sensibility), go to it.
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: That's OK. I'm good with my caffeine free cola for now.
	10:42pm hyde: ok music mavens, time for bed. adios.
	10:43pm geezerette: g'night, Hyde.
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: Nite Hyde!
	10:44pm coelacanth∅: 'night hyde - and hoping the move goes smoothly.
	10:45pm coelacanth∅: (...and Thanks for the recipe!)
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: 'love the background vox
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: This is a really nice album
	10:52pm geezerette: Beautiful.
	10:52pm Parq: You guys are gonna say "There goes Parq with his screwy jokes again" but I swear this is true. Elton's "Benny" crossed over a little and cracked the R&B charts for a couple of weeks in the mid 70s, and -- yes -- they had him on Soul Train.
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: That clip of him on Soul Train is great!
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: The Billboard R&B Chart book is a bible of mine, and there are bunch of interesting examples of pop artists crossing over into the R&B charts in unexpected ways
	10:57pm geezerette: Just reminded me of "Electric Mudd", which I like a lot.
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: The Isleys have a ton of cool covers like this
	10:59pm Parq: Yeah, their take on the Seals & Croft hit "Summer Breeze" is a killer.
	10:59pm geezerette: Ha, actually prefer to original.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: I'm torn. but I dig them both
	11:02pm Funky16Corners: BTW James Taylor CANNOT have this song back.
	11:02pm geezerette: Ha!
	11:05pm coelacanth∅: yeh this is way better than the original.
	11:08pm coelacanth∅: "love the one you're with" may be my favorite cover the Isleys did...and i have no complaints about the original.
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, they dipped into the Stills and Young songbooks
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: hahaha! this is great!
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: Isn't it?
	11:13pm coelacanth∅: again -no complaints about the original!. i still pull out my Melanie 45s sometimes.
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: I love Melanie!
	11:17pm coelacanth∅: the flip of "lay down (candles in the rain)" is "candles in the rain", which is also good (though not the masterpiece the a side has on it); but the album does not have it included and it seems unavailable on anything. - my 45 is pretty scratchy.
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: I only have the album. I'll have to look for that
	11:22pm coelacanth∅: (the album does have that song, but it's shorter.)
	11:24pm Doug Schulkind: Home from the library. ROCK IT, GROGAN!
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug!
	11:28pm Parq: Doug! Back on the books. Mrs. Parq, who teaches non-matriculation ESL courses at a local Community College, wraps her summer session tomorrow night.
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: My wife teaches ESL!
	11:32pm Parq: Going back a bit (I've been eating dinner and downing the Rosé), the version of Love the One You're With for me is Aretha's, on her Fillmore album. Great version of "I Want to Make It With YOu" on the same side. And I dug Melanie as a person more than I dug her songs (sound strange, I know, can't explain it any better).
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: That Aretha Live album is fantastic. Great band. Melanie Just played some dates in the city. I heard good things.
	11:34pm Parq: Larry, no kidding! I am on the off-ramp of my career, and Mrs. Parq is just starting this one, so it's a great process for me to follow what she's doing. She is fairly fluent with Spanish (it was her first language) and most of her student population is Latino, so that is a plus.
	11:35pm Parq: Larry, dig up the CD re-release; it has the unedited Ray solo. Bliss.
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: My wife teaches mainly kindergarten kids, so she gets them at a good time. Even though a lot of the kids come from homes where the nuclear family includes a lot of non-English speakers, they are primed to learn.
	11:40pm northguineahills: I love Fat Albert Rotunda. This has been great cleaning music, thanks, Larry!
	11:40pm Funky16Corners: You're quite welcome!
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: I love the mid-period Herbie stuff that bridges the post-bop with the funky stuff
	11:48pm northguineahills: I also love his "ambient jazz" period.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, Herbie is a deeply talented man
	11:50pm Parq: Oh man, I love this Meters version of Stormy.
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, very spare and dark compared to the rest of the album
	11:53pm geezerette: Terrific show, Larry! Good night all.
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: Thanks! Have a good night!
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: Parq @11.32 for me, the highlight of that Aretha album was "don't play that song"...about 35 years ago! likely my preferences have changed since then. even though i liked rnb as a child (being -and that helping me to be- the black sheep of my family) i didn't (& still don't) like Aretha Franklin that much. my record club sent me that album by mistake when i was about 12 and probably ordered a led zeppelin album. i was pissed but i decided to keep it - and play it fairly frequently.....but i haven't listened to it in many years.
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: 'night, g
	11:56pm geezerette: 'night,coel
	11:57pm Parq: Coales, if you're still here, I was actually just thinking about that -- that incredible walk-off that caps the first side of the original LP. I'd give a lot for a time machine that would enable me to be at that show.
	11:58pm Funky16Corners: Nite all! Thanks again for taking the time to listen!
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: Parq was that her guest, Mr. Ray Charles, getting pissed at the audience? i'm having trouble remembering.
	12:00am Parq: Uh, I don't remember that, C, and I've listened to that album quite a lot. Possibly at that, I just missed it.
	12:00am coelacanth∅: ...i have to dig that record out and give it a (new) spin. - Thanks Larry! good night all
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Nite guys!
	12:01am Parq: Larry, ass-kicking show! Gonna go watch the original Hawaii 5-0 with Mrs. Parq. now.
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks Parq!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from August 30, 2017

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August 30, 2017: Jazzers With Soul, Black Gold & Bedtime Stories

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3
Mel Torme	Coming Home Baby "Coming Home Baby" by "Mel Torme"	45RPM Single	Atlantic	1962	45
Nina Simone	Seeline Woman "Seeline Woman" by "Nina Simone"	45RPM Single	Philips	1965	45
Nina Simone	Save Me "Save Me" by "Nina Simone"	45RPM Single	RCA	1969	45
Eddie Jefferson	Freedom Jazz Dance	Things Are Getting Better	Muse	1974	LP
Frank D'Rone	I Think I Will "I Think I Will" by "Frank D'Rone"	Brand New Morning	Cadet	1968	LP
Marlena Shaw	California Soul "California Soul" by "Marlena Shaw"	45RPM Single	Cadet	1968	45
Ella Fitzgerald	Sunshine of Your Love	Sunshine of Your Love	Prestige/MPS	1968	LP
Ella Fitzgerald	These Boots Are Made For Walking	45RPM Single	Salle	1966	45
Ella Fitzgerald	Savoy Truffle "Savoy Truffle" by "Ella Fitzgerald"	45RPM Single	Reprise	1969	45
Joe Williams and the Jazz Orchestra	Get Out Of My Life Woman	45RPM Single	Solid State	1966	45
Funky16Corners	All Around the World With GTDR	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3

Ralfi Pagan	Make It With You "Make It With You" by "Ralfi Pagan"	45RPM Single	Fania	1971	45
Margie Joseph	Baby I'm a Want You	Sweet Surrender	Atlantic	1974	LP
Margie Joseph	My Love "My Love" by "Margie Joseph"	Sweet Surrender	Atlantic	1974	LP
Master Plan	Benny and the Jets "Benny and the Jets" by "Master Plan"	45RPM Single	De Lite	1975	45
Isley Brothers	It's Too Late "It's Too Late" by "Isley Brothers"	Brother Brother Brother	T-Neck	1972	LP
Isley Brothers	Fire and Rain "Fire and Rain" by "Isley Brothers"	Givin' It Back	T-Neck	1971	LP
New Birth	It's Impossible "It's Impossible" by "New Birth"	45RPM Single	RCA	1971	45
Four Of a Kind	Brand New Key "Brand New Key" by "Four Of a Kind"	45RPM Single	Toy	1972	45
Odia Coates	Showdown "Showdown" by "Odia Coates"	45RPM Single	United Artists	1974	45

Johnny Lytle	You've Got To Love The World	45RPM Single	Solid State	1968	45
Freddy McCoy	Salem Soul Song "Salem Soul Song" by "Freddy McCoy"	Soul Yogi	Prestige	1968	LP
Grant Green	Cease the Bombing "Cease the Bombing" by "Grant Green"	Carryin' On	Blue Note	1970	LP
Herbie Hancock	Tell Me a Bedtime Story	Fat Albert Rotunda	Warner Brothers	1969	LP
John Klemmer	Rose Petals "Rose Petals" by "John Klemmer"	Eruptions	Cadet Concept	1970	LP
The Meters	Stormy "Stormy" by "The Meters"	The Meters	Josie	1969	LP
Merl Saunders Trio and Big Band	Ode To Billie Joe	Soul Grooving	Galaxy	1968	LP

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45

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Listener comments!
	10:02pm Gary: Larry!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Gary!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Welcome!
	10:03pm Gary: Groovy opener
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Thanks!
	10:04pm cupcakejenny: Is this chat room only for -ary named people or can anyone join?
	10:04pm geezerette: Velvet Fog! versatile! Howdy!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Sure thing, if this is Jennifer-ary
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey G!
	10:05pm cupcakejenny: It is! Doesn't my mom call us Jerry sometimes?
	10:06pm TristaC.HerLadyCaveBrat: NOM!!
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Of course. We are one.
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hi Trista!
	10:06pm Jeff Ash: Bob Seger is playing here tonight. He's not going to play any of the good old stuff, so here I am.
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Good choice!
	10:07pm hyde: can't stay long, but here for a bit. sounds great.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Hyde! Welcome!
	10:09pm geezerette: Damn, love Miss Simone.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Me too
	10:17pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and all
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: Greetinsg C!
	10:18pm Funky16Corners: I mean GREETINGS!
	10:22pm geezerette: Lot of great surprises tonight.
	10:23pm Funky16Corners: I'm glad you're digging it! Lots more to come!
	10:24pm geezerette: !!! :D
	10:26pm Parq: I have that Velvet Fog track on an album of his mono hits that I bought -- well, of course -- at the FMU Record Fair.
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: It's an all time classic. Big fave with the early mods.
	10:29pm geezerette: When they're good they're good! These artists could do ANYTHING! Pretty breathtaking. And great arranging!
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: i can't help but wonder if Ella knew what savoy truffle was about when she sang that.
	10:31pm Parq: You should title this week's show "The Golden Age of A&R Men".
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, lots of jazzers were digging into contemporary stuff with gusto. Some better than others, but these are all great.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Wait'll you hear what's coming in the next sets.
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: i need a recipe for a gin gimlet, quick
	10:33pm geezerette: Coel, betting she did. :)
	10:34pm hyde: ooh, i love a gin gimlet
	10:35pm geezerette: Let's all have a gin gimlet. Cheers.
	10:36pm coelacanth∅: i've had a gin gimlet (with cucumber) just once and i have little clue as to how she made it...but it seems like a drink from the era and scene represented in that set.
	10:37pm geezerette: Sinatra couldn't pull it off.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: Hey! Where's my gin?
	10:40pm coelacanth∅: g @10.33 i don't know. many people (especially people not from england, where those chocolates were from) didn't know what that song meant until years later.
	10:40pm geezerette: Gin with cucumber sounds great. Cool...it was nearly 100 here today.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: I didn't know it was about candy for years, either
	10:41pm hyde: gimlets are easy. it's like 2 oz gin (supposed to be London Dry, I think), 1 oz lime juice, 1/2 oz Roses' Lime Cordial. or along those lines. my classic cocktail book is packed!
	10:41pm coelacanth∅: oops! here's your gin. and here, i made you a gin gimlet.
	10:41pm Parq: I've got a nice Rosé. It's too late to start with the mixology. Those of you in other time zones (or less bourgeois sensibility), go to it.
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: That's OK. I'm good with my caffeine free cola for now.
	10:42pm hyde: ok music mavens, time for bed. adios.
	10:43pm geezerette: g'night, Hyde.
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: Nite Hyde!
	10:44pm coelacanth∅: 'night hyde - and hoping the move goes smoothly.
	10:45pm coelacanth∅: (...and Thanks for the recipe!)
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: 'love the background vox
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: This is a really nice album
	10:52pm geezerette: Beautiful.
	10:52pm Parq: You guys are gonna say "There goes Parq with his screwy jokes again" but I swear this is true. Elton's "Benny" crossed over a little and cracked the R&B charts for a couple of weeks in the mid 70s, and -- yes -- they had him on Soul Train.
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: That clip of him on Soul Train is great!
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: The Billboard R&B Chart book is a bible of mine, and there are bunch of interesting examples of pop artists crossing over into the R&B charts in unexpected ways
	10:57pm geezerette: Just reminded me of "Electric Mudd", which I like a lot.
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: The Isleys have a ton of cool covers like this
	10:59pm Parq: Yeah, their take on the Seals & Croft hit "Summer Breeze" is a killer.
	10:59pm geezerette: Ha, actually prefer to original.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: I'm torn. but I dig them both
	11:02pm Funky16Corners: BTW James Taylor CANNOT have this song back.
	11:02pm geezerette: Ha!
	11:05pm coelacanth∅: yeh this is way better than the original.
	11:08pm coelacanth∅: "love the one you're with" may be my favorite cover the Isleys did...and i have no complaints about the original.
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, they dipped into the Stills and Young songbooks
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: hahaha! this is great!
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: Isn't it?
	11:13pm coelacanth∅: again -no complaints about the original!. i still pull out my Melanie 45s sometimes.
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: I love Melanie!
	11:17pm coelacanth∅: the flip of "lay down (candles in the rain)" is "candles in the rain", which is also good (though not the masterpiece the a side has on it); but the album does not have it included and it seems unavailable on anything. - my 45 is pretty scratchy.
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: I only have the album. I'll have to look for that
	11:22pm coelacanth∅: (the album does have that song, but it's shorter.)
	11:24pm Doug Schulkind: Home from the library. ROCK IT, GROGAN!
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug!
	11:28pm Parq: Doug! Back on the books. Mrs. Parq, who teaches non-matriculation ESL courses at a local Community College, wraps her summer session tomorrow night.
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: My wife teaches ESL!
	11:32pm Parq: Going back a bit (I've been eating dinner and downing the Rosé), the version of Love the One You're With for me is Aretha's, on her Fillmore album. Great version of "I Want to Make It With YOu" on the same side. And I dug Melanie as a person more than I dug her songs (sound strange, I know, can't explain it any better).
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: That Aretha Live album is fantastic. Great band. Melanie Just played some dates in the city. I heard good things.
	11:34pm Parq: Larry, no kidding! I am on the off-ramp of my career, and Mrs. Parq is just starting this one, so it's a great process for me to follow what she's doing. She is fairly fluent with Spanish (it was her first language) and most of her student population is Latino, so that is a plus.
	11:35pm Parq: Larry, dig up the CD re-release; it has the unedited Ray solo. Bliss.
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: My wife teaches mainly kindergarten kids, so she gets them at a good time. Even though a lot of the kids come from homes where the nuclear family includes a lot of non-English speakers, they are primed to learn.
	11:40pm northguineahills: I love Fat Albert Rotunda. This has been great cleaning music, thanks, Larry!
	11:40pm Funky16Corners: You're quite welcome!
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: I love the mid-period Herbie stuff that bridges the post-bop with the funky stuff
	11:48pm northguineahills: I also love his "ambient jazz" period.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, Herbie is a deeply talented man
	11:50pm Parq: Oh man, I love this Meters version of Stormy.
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, very spare and dark compared to the rest of the album
	11:53pm geezerette: Terrific show, Larry! Good night all.
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: Thanks! Have a good night!
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: Parq @11.32 for me, the highlight of that Aretha album was "don't play that song"...about 35 years ago! likely my preferences have changed since then. even though i liked rnb as a child (being -and that helping me to be- the black sheep of my family) i didn't (& still don't) like Aretha Franklin that much. my record club sent me that album by mistake when i was about 12 and probably ordered a led zeppelin album. i was pissed but i decided to keep it - and play it fairly frequently.....but i haven't listened to it in many years.
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: 'night, g
	11:56pm geezerette: 'night,coel
	11:57pm Parq: Coales, if you're still here, I was actually just thinking about that -- that incredible walk-off that caps the first side of the original LP. I'd give a lot for a time machine that would enable me to be at that show.
	11:58pm Funky16Corners: Nite all! Thanks again for taking the time to listen!
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: Parq was that her guest, Mr. Ray Charles, getting pissed at the audience? i'm having trouble remembering.
	12:00am Parq: Uh, I don't remember that, C, and I've listened to that album quite a lot. Possibly at that, I just missed it.
	12:00am coelacanth∅: ...i have to dig that record out and give it a (new) spin. - Thanks Larry! good night all
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Nite guys!
	12:01am Parq: Larry, ass-kicking show! Gonna go watch the original Hawaii 5-0 with Mrs. Parq. now.
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks Parq!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from August 30, 2017

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