WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 15, 2017

Listener comments!
	10:01pm Gary: Yay!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Gary!
	10:06pm northguineahills: Just found an article that showed an Indiana white supremacist works at a tattoo parlor w/in 500 m of my parents (they live in a gated community). He randomly shot an African-American HS girl in a drive-by and was also jailed for pederasty. Apparently there are a next of Nazis in my hometown. I saw a few unsavory characters when there recently, but I just assumed they were just ignorant rednecks that I was used to as a youth, not full blown Nazis.
	10:07pm northguineahills: next=nest
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Ugh...my sister went to IU and she said the area outside of the cities is rife with his ilk
	10:08pm northguineahills: Yeah, it was outside Bloomingdale.
	10:08pm hyde: the briefest of hellos!
	10:08pm Uncle Michael: The Klan once ran Indiana.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Hyde, Unk!
	10:09pm doctorjazz: Crazy stuff goin' on these days (not new, was really big about 20 years, but seemed to have gone mostly underground, now back in the light.
	10:09pm Uncle Michael: Larry! Friends of Testify!
	10:09pm northguineahills: (where the crime happened), my parents live outside Jacksonville, FL.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:10pm doctorjazz: Hey, Larry!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Oh. when you mentioned Indiana...now Florida...
	10:10pm northguineahills: Yeah, the Indiana Klan actually included Catholics in the 20s, something unheard of in the South. They ran IN for a good 8 years.
	10:11pm northguineahills: The guy was from IN, shot the girl near Bloomingdale, served 11 of 30 years in the IN State Penitentiary, and when he got out, moved to FL.
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: Because Florida is the storm drain of the nation?
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: And I only say that as someone aware that half the state is refugees from NJ...
	10:16pm northguineahills: Yep, I'm luckier then a Jack of Diamonds to find a cultural oasis in the middle of derp. It's about more liberal here then Brooklyn.
	10:17pm cupcakejenny: Hello everyone
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: Hi Jenny!
	10:17pm northguineahills: Now I want cupcakes!
	10:18pm Funky16Corners: This one is mine!
	10:18pm Uncle Michael: This is groovy, Larry.
	10:19pm northguineahills: I can't eat simple carbohydrates anyways. Sweets don't agree w/ me.
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, great album. Motown concertmaster and Funk Bros
	10:20pm northguineahills: When my coworkers brought in Halloween candy into the office, my evenings were filled w/ woe.
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: I mean it's my wife (she is very sweet, though)
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: I think we finally tapped out the Halloween candy vein in our house
	10:21pm Jeff Ash: Never seen that Gordon Staples record or heard of it. Solid!
	10:22pm northguineahills: mi esposa está a 2800 km afuera.
	10:23pm Jeff Ash: Of course, never seeing a cool record like that in Wisconsin, outside of Milwaukee and Madison, isn't much of a surprise.
	10:23pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff! It is available in US and Canadian pressings (the one I have). Not terrible expensive.
	10:25pm Uncle Michael: Some Gordon Staples stuff is included on the Complete Motown Singles comps.
	10:27pm Uncle Michael: Are we on the Richard Evans tip now, Larry?
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: Yes, I think both of the tunes I played are available on 45 (at a higher price than the album)
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: Phil Upchurch on guitar
	10:29pm Uncle Michael: so great
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, some of the best sounding records to come out of Chicago in the 60s
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Cream of the Chess/Cadet house band
	10:32pm northguineahills: I actually have a few Soulful Strings LPs. (few as in two).
	10:32pm Uncle Michael: Gotta be Evans on bass on Chocolate Candy.
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: I have the whole run, which were surprisingly hard to come by.
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: @UM - Almost certainly
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: Credits are very spotty on the Soulful Strings albums
	10:35pm Uncle Michael: Zambezi has a Meters thing going on.
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: Covered a couple of times, too, once by the Salsoul Orchestra
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: BTW I think that's Donny Hathaway scatting
	10:38pm Funky16Corners: Echoes of Soul Serenade
	10:39pm Parq: Larry, anything on tap from the Provocative Percussion series? That was part of my growing up with my dad's pride-and-joy stereo console.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: Nothing tonight, but lots of Project 3/Command stuff
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: I hope you'll be pleased and surprised by some of the selections!
	10:41pm Parq: No doubt I will.
	10:47pm Uncle Michael: I picked up a Command Ray Charles Singers album last month in North Carolina.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: Everyone strap on your vinyl go go boots!
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: I always stop to look at that stuff, especially is there are some unusual covers
	10:48pm Uncle Michael: As with many Command LPs, I boght it for the cover.
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, Enoch Light had a banging art department
	10:49pm Uncle Michael: I have high hopes for the Hawaiian War Chant on this album.
	10:49pm Parq: I second Uncle Michael, by the way -- ga-roovy.
	10:49pm still b/p: I was seeing a TV variety show production number for Pow Pow...dancers in the boots.
	10:50pm Uncle Michael: ooh, more library music, please!
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: Lots of library-adjacent coming up
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: Listen to that Alan Hawkshaw organ!
	10:52pm geezerette: easy grooving...is that a category? ...& howdy!
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: Hey Geezerette! It is if you say so!
	10:53pm Uncle Michael: pushing back the keyboard. keep the now sounds coming.. thanks and goodnight!
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: Nite UM!
	10:59pm still b/p: Now if I'm going to stage a number I can't decide whether to use Pow Pow or Di Gue Ding Ding.
	11:00pm Jeff Ash: Doc Severinsen was really the first concert I ever saw. Summer of 1973 at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, I think.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: There are some cool vintage French TV videos of dance numbers staged to some of the Michel Legrand tracks
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Did he do Soul Makossa??
	11:02pm Jeff Ash: No idea. I remember almost nothing about the show other than it was hotter than hell in there and his grapefruit-colored silk shirt was soaked.
	11:04pm northguineahills: Yeah, I found Enoch Light via the album covers.
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: I was lucky enough to have a local record store years ago that had a huge stash of Project 3 and Command albums (may of which I bought)
	11:09pm northguineahills: This movie is so much fun w/ Peter Sellers (even w/ brown face), and this sndrk is sampled very often.
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: And 'Birdie num nums..."
	11:10pm Funky16Corners: My copy of this record (and two others by the maestro) came from the Mancini estate
	11:14pm Parq: "Don't make waves-- male love!" I can remember hearing ads on the radio for that movie.
	11:15pm still b/p: Sellers complications....I was just explaining to someone tonight how I was mistaken in telling him his wigged look for a historical piece of production made him look like Sellers in Magic Christian. But that wasn't it -- all wrong. My mental image was instead a conflated recall of his long-hair looks from What's New Pussycat and I Love You Alice B. Toklas.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: I think that's the same wig!
	11:17pm Parq: Sellers in his brown-face, eastern-accent guise is what the TV Tropes people call value dissonance. It made all kinds of sense at the time. I offer that as an explnation, not as a defense.
	11:17pm Jeff Ash: Didn't have the playlist page up, but heard the latest cuts and thought it sounded like Vic Mizzy. Lo and behold! Should I be worried that I recognize Vic Mizzy on the fly?
	11:18pm Parq: ... "explanation",sorry. I hit post when I meant to hit edit.
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: Not at all! If you watched TV from the 1960s he's ingrained into the sound!
	11:19pm Parq: I'm on my fourth glass of wine.
	11:19pm Funky16Corners: I had to explain that dilemma to my sons, who both love the movie Short Circuit which contains one of the most offensive pieces of brownface ever
	11:21pm still b/p: Toklas/Pussycat... same wig that showed up a lot in 60s flicks and TV when some youngsters were supposed to look Beatley/British Invasiony. In the current cultural moment, Sellers couldn't do the South Asian thing without trouble, but there still probably wouldn't be much upset, if any, about a Strangelove-style nationality shtick.
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: I prefer Sellers as the nebbish in Toklas. I love that movie, from the Twin Cantors, to the pot brownies.
	11:23pm northguineahills: Hey, I like kites!
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: And Bubbles!
	11:25pm coelacanth∅: hello
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: Hi C!
	11:25pm still b/p: Nearly running next to the car while the would've-been wife is anxiously holding onto his necklace through the window..."Joyce...My beads..."
	11:25pm coelacanth∅: are kites fun? i've always wondered.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: When they're driving around with the coffin in the hippie mobile looking for the cemetery
	11:26pm coelacanth∅: see-saws were pretty fun.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: @C- They are an absolute RIOT.
	11:26pm northguineahills: It's not the Free Design, or bed music, my brain is discombobulated, where's UM? I'm jumping in about 10 mins, thanks Larry!
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: Thanks NGH! Have a good night!
	11:27pm still b/p: I think night-kiting -- with thin glow-sticks and super-mini LEDs figuring into the kite construction -- should be a thing.
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: Except it would likely result in an epidemic of broken legs
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: we never flew kites, but my aunt gave us a long box-kite she scored from "red china" (we still don't know how she got into all those forbidden countries back then) but none of us ever tried to fly it. then it disappeared.
	11:29pm still b/p: I'd like to watch the originating band faces upon their first listen to this version.
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: The Moody Blues?
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: @C - I used to love box kites, the poor neglected cousin of the kite family
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: Kind of the connoisseur's choice
	11:33pm still b/p: Yah MB. "Warning: Prairie dog colony area -- No Night Kiting!" From a Martha's Vineyard beach 43 years ago (no prairie dogs) on a good brisk wind day in April, we flew tandem kites. Get one way up and out, attach another to that line and send it up. It worked -- was based on something I saw someone pull off in a comic book.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: That sounds cool!
	11:34pm Parq: Mrs. Parq wants to watch -- wait for it -- The Twilight Zone. Peace out. Or something.
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: If only we spent more time doing things we saw in comic books
	11:34pm coelacanth∅: yeah, one day when i was probably like 17 years old i decided my friends and i should try to fly that thing, but it was gone. when i was little my parents never got us into things like kites and skates. i had to demand to be taught to ride a bicycle when i was 7.
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: Nite Parq!
	11:36pm still b/p: When it was time to leave, we just set 'em free. Don't know if they came down on Jackie O's expansive property nearby, dropped in Nantucket Sound or Buzzards Bay, or cruised all the way to the Canadian Maritimes.
	11:36pm coelacanth∅: enjoy twilight zone. i'm a little envious.
	11:42pm coelacanth∅: i have a few of those Enoch Light 35mm albums. they sound quite bright and the stereo separation is almost "extreme", but i never thought there was anything about them that couldn't have been accomplished via equalization.
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: I think you're right, but those records do sound great
	11:44pm coelacanth∅: definitely.
	11:44pm Jeff Ash: Just as you love Soul Makossa covers, I love Theme From Shaft covers. Don't have this one, though.
	11:45pm still b/p: Some people around here make and fly fantastic giant kite designs and figures by the harbor. What else was Bond St. used in....seems like heard it as incidental show music or bg music for sketches with no spoken lines...? Heard a clip today with Tony Bennet talking about Pearl Bailey punching a girl in the on-stage ensemble -- knocked her out -- when she was mouthing off and getting personal in ragging about Pearl, I think during a rehearsal.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: Bond Street is from Casino Royale. I don't know of it being used anywhere else. I believe Pearl Bailey could/would knock someone on their ass
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - I have a few cool reggae versions of Shaft
	11:46pm coelacanth∅: i remember an album my father had on camden records i could curl in one hand (as a c.11-year-old) until the 2 opposite edges touched.
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: As a kid I had a Dr Seuss story album on Camden
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: those records didn't scratch or break but were going to inevitably warp.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: DYNAGROOVE!
	11:50pm coelacanth∅: haha that's right!
	11:52pm coelacanth∅: nice. more moody blues versions?
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: Not tonight, but I have a version of Nights In White Satin by the Brooklyn Bridge that you simply must hear!
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to do an all-covers show and include it, along with the Four Freshmen doing Hurdy Gurdy Man
	11:53pm coelacanth∅: am i mistaken? i thought this was a song from "nights of future passed". i guess not.
	11:54pm Funky16Corners: No, a Turtles song, written by Gene Clark of the Byrds
	11:55pm coelacanth∅: ah-ha. thanks
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: (der, i meant "days of future passed"!)
	12:00am Jeff Ash: Good one tonight, Larry. Thanks!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff!
	12:04am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! tchau
	12:04am Funky16Corners: Thanks C!
	12:04am still b/p: First chop show! Thanks!
	12:04am Funky16Corners: Thanks SBP!
	9:09am Cal Zone!: This was an exceptional show! Listened to it last night on a long drive. The music was intense, and your commentary was very informative! More like this!
	9:11am Funky16Corners: High praise indeed! Thanks!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 15, 2017

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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
The San Remo Golden Strings	I'm Satisfied	45RPM Single	Ric Tic	1966	45
Luther Ingram Orchestra	Exus Trek	45RPM Single	HIB	1966	45
Robert Walker and the Soul Strings	Stick To Me	45RPM Single	RCA	1967	45
Soul Strings and a Funky Horn	Yesterlove	Soul Strings and a Funky Horn	Solid State	1968	LP

Gordon Staples and the String Thing	Strung Out	Strung Out	Tamla	1970	LP
Gordon Staples and the String Thing	Get Down	Strung Out	Tamla	1970	LP
Soulful Strings	Burning Spear "Burning Spear" by "Soulful Strings"	45RPM Single	Cadet	1967	45
Soulful Strings	Soul Message "Soul Message" by "Soulful Strings"	Another Exposure	Cadet	1968	LP
Soulful Strings	Chocolate Candy "Chocolate Candy" by "Soulful Strings"	String Fever	Cadet	1969	LP
Soulful Strings	Zambezi "Zambezi" by "Soulful Strings"	String Fever	Cadet	1969	LP
Soft Summer Soul Strings	Theme For Soul Strings	45RPM Single	Columbia	1969	45
South Suburban Electric Strings	(Pisces) Sign of the Zodiac	45RPM Single	Nickel	1969	45

Andre Brasseur	Pow Pow "Pow Pow" by "Andre Brasseur"	45RPM Single	Palette	1968	45
Alan Hawkshaw and Keith Mansfield	Funky Fanfare	Beat Incidental	KPM	1969	LP
Keith Mansfield	Boogaloo "Boogaloo" by "Keith Mansfield"	45RPM Single	Epic	1969	45
Doc Severinson	Soul Makossa "Soul Makossa" by "Doc Severinson"	Rhapsody For Now	RCA	1970	LP
Michel Legrand	Dig Gue Ding Ding "Dig Gue Ding Ding" by "Michel Legrand"	Plays For Dancers	Philips	1964	LP
Michel Legrand	Come Ray and Come Charles	Plays for Dancers	Philips	1964	LP
Orchestra	Pompeii Club (Rich Man's Frug)	Sweet Charity OST	Decca	1969	LP

Henry Mancini	The Party (Instrumental Version)	The Party OST	RCA	1968	LP
Living Guitars	Out and About "Out and About" by "Living Guitars"	San Franciscan Nights	Camden	1968	LP
Vic Mizzy	Vox Box "Vox Box" by "Vic Mizzy"	Don't Make Waves OST	MGM	1967	LP
Vic Mizzy	Daybreak at Malibu "Daybreak at Malibu" by "Vic Mizzy"	Don't Make Waves OST	MGM	1967	LP
Louis Bellson	The Eel "The Eel" by "Louis Bellson"	Breakthrough	Project 3	1968	LP
Herb Larsen	Dizzy "Dizzy" by "Herb Larsen"	Sax Appeal	Command	1969	LP
Tony Mottola	Kites are Fun "Kites are Fun" by "Tony Mottola"	Warm Wild and Wonderful	Project 3	1969	LP
Ronnie Aldrich and His Two Pianos, With the London Symphony Orchestra	Ride My Seesaw	It's Happening Now	London	1969	LP
Herbie Mann	Our Man Flint "Our Man Flint" by "Herbie Mann"	Our Man Flute	Atlantic	1966	LP
Enoch Light	Over Under Sideways Down	It's Happening - So Let's Dance	Project 3 Total Sound	1967	LP
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade	Bond Street	Spaced Out	Project 3	1969	LP

101 Strings	Theme From Shaft "Theme From Shaft" by "101 Strings"	Million Sellers From the Movies	Alshire	1972	LP
Frank Chacksfield	Come Together "Come Together" by "Frank Chacksfield"	chacksfield plays the beatles songbook	London	1970	LP
Enoch Light and the Glittering Guitars	You Showed Me	Patterns In Sound Vol6 The Now Scene	Project 3 Total Sound	1969	LP
Billy Vaughn	Time of the Season "Time of the Season" by "Billy Vaughn"	Windmills of Your Mind	Dot	1969	LP
Dave Grusin	Ascension To Virginity	Candy OST	ABC	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!
	10:01pm Gary: Yay!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Gary!
	10:06pm northguineahills: Just found an article that showed an Indiana white supremacist works at a tattoo parlor w/in 500 m of my parents (they live in a gated community). He randomly shot an African-American HS girl in a drive-by and was also jailed for pederasty. Apparently there are a next of Nazis in my hometown. I saw a few unsavory characters when there recently, but I just assumed they were just ignorant rednecks that I was used to as a youth, not full blown Nazis.
	10:07pm northguineahills: next=nest
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Ugh...my sister went to IU and she said the area outside of the cities is rife with his ilk
	10:08pm northguineahills: Yeah, it was outside Bloomingdale.
	10:08pm hyde: the briefest of hellos!
	10:08pm Uncle Michael: The Klan once ran Indiana.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Hyde, Unk!
	10:09pm doctorjazz: Crazy stuff goin' on these days (not new, was really big about 20 years, but seemed to have gone mostly underground, now back in the light.
	10:09pm Uncle Michael: Larry! Friends of Testify!
	10:09pm northguineahills: (where the crime happened), my parents live outside Jacksonville, FL.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:10pm doctorjazz: Hey, Larry!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Oh. when you mentioned Indiana...now Florida...
	10:10pm northguineahills: Yeah, the Indiana Klan actually included Catholics in the 20s, something unheard of in the South. They ran IN for a good 8 years.
	10:11pm northguineahills: The guy was from IN, shot the girl near Bloomingdale, served 11 of 30 years in the IN State Penitentiary, and when he got out, moved to FL.
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: Because Florida is the storm drain of the nation?
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: And I only say that as someone aware that half the state is refugees from NJ...
	10:16pm northguineahills: Yep, I'm luckier then a Jack of Diamonds to find a cultural oasis in the middle of derp. It's about more liberal here then Brooklyn.
	10:17pm cupcakejenny: Hello everyone
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: Hi Jenny!
	10:17pm northguineahills: Now I want cupcakes!
	10:18pm Funky16Corners: This one is mine!
	10:18pm Uncle Michael: This is groovy, Larry.
	10:19pm northguineahills: I can't eat simple carbohydrates anyways. Sweets don't agree w/ me.
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, great album. Motown concertmaster and Funk Bros
	10:20pm northguineahills: When my coworkers brought in Halloween candy into the office, my evenings were filled w/ woe.
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: I mean it's my wife (she is very sweet, though)
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: I think we finally tapped out the Halloween candy vein in our house
	10:21pm Jeff Ash: Never seen that Gordon Staples record or heard of it. Solid!
	10:22pm northguineahills: mi esposa está a 2800 km afuera.
	10:23pm Jeff Ash: Of course, never seeing a cool record like that in Wisconsin, outside of Milwaukee and Madison, isn't much of a surprise.
	10:23pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff! It is available in US and Canadian pressings (the one I have). Not terrible expensive.
	10:25pm Uncle Michael: Some Gordon Staples stuff is included on the Complete Motown Singles comps.
	10:27pm Uncle Michael: Are we on the Richard Evans tip now, Larry?
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: Yes, I think both of the tunes I played are available on 45 (at a higher price than the album)
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: Phil Upchurch on guitar
	10:29pm Uncle Michael: so great
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, some of the best sounding records to come out of Chicago in the 60s
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Cream of the Chess/Cadet house band
	10:32pm northguineahills: I actually have a few Soulful Strings LPs. (few as in two).
	10:32pm Uncle Michael: Gotta be Evans on bass on Chocolate Candy.
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: I have the whole run, which were surprisingly hard to come by.
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: @UM - Almost certainly
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: Credits are very spotty on the Soulful Strings albums
	10:35pm Uncle Michael: Zambezi has a Meters thing going on.
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: Covered a couple of times, too, once by the Salsoul Orchestra
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: BTW I think that's Donny Hathaway scatting
	10:38pm Funky16Corners: Echoes of Soul Serenade
	10:39pm Parq: Larry, anything on tap from the Provocative Percussion series? That was part of my growing up with my dad's pride-and-joy stereo console.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: Nothing tonight, but lots of Project 3/Command stuff
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: I hope you'll be pleased and surprised by some of the selections!
	10:41pm Parq: No doubt I will.
	10:47pm Uncle Michael: I picked up a Command Ray Charles Singers album last month in North Carolina.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: Everyone strap on your vinyl go go boots!
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: I always stop to look at that stuff, especially is there are some unusual covers
	10:48pm Uncle Michael: As with many Command LPs, I boght it for the cover.
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, Enoch Light had a banging art department
	10:49pm Uncle Michael: I have high hopes for the Hawaiian War Chant on this album.
	10:49pm Parq: I second Uncle Michael, by the way -- ga-roovy.
	10:49pm still b/p: I was seeing a TV variety show production number for Pow Pow...dancers in the boots.
	10:50pm Uncle Michael: ooh, more library music, please!
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: Lots of library-adjacent coming up
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: Listen to that Alan Hawkshaw organ!
	10:52pm geezerette: easy grooving...is that a category? ...& howdy!
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: Hey Geezerette! It is if you say so!
	10:53pm Uncle Michael: pushing back the keyboard. keep the now sounds coming.. thanks and goodnight!
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: Nite UM!
	10:59pm still b/p: Now if I'm going to stage a number I can't decide whether to use Pow Pow or Di Gue Ding Ding.
	11:00pm Jeff Ash: Doc Severinsen was really the first concert I ever saw. Summer of 1973 at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, I think.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: There are some cool vintage French TV videos of dance numbers staged to some of the Michel Legrand tracks
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Did he do Soul Makossa??
	11:02pm Jeff Ash: No idea. I remember almost nothing about the show other than it was hotter than hell in there and his grapefruit-colored silk shirt was soaked.
	11:04pm northguineahills: Yeah, I found Enoch Light via the album covers.
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: I was lucky enough to have a local record store years ago that had a huge stash of Project 3 and Command albums (may of which I bought)
	11:09pm northguineahills: This movie is so much fun w/ Peter Sellers (even w/ brown face), and this sndrk is sampled very often.
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: And 'Birdie num nums..."
	11:10pm Funky16Corners: My copy of this record (and two others by the maestro) came from the Mancini estate
	11:14pm Parq: "Don't make waves-- male love!" I can remember hearing ads on the radio for that movie.
	11:15pm still b/p: Sellers complications....I was just explaining to someone tonight how I was mistaken in telling him his wigged look for a historical piece of production made him look like Sellers in Magic Christian. But that wasn't it -- all wrong. My mental image was instead a conflated recall of his long-hair looks from What's New Pussycat and I Love You Alice B. Toklas.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: I think that's the same wig!
	11:17pm Parq: Sellers in his brown-face, eastern-accent guise is what the TV Tropes people call value dissonance. It made all kinds of sense at the time. I offer that as an explnation, not as a defense.
	11:17pm Jeff Ash: Didn't have the playlist page up, but heard the latest cuts and thought it sounded like Vic Mizzy. Lo and behold! Should I be worried that I recognize Vic Mizzy on the fly?
	11:18pm Parq: ... "explanation",sorry. I hit post when I meant to hit edit.
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: Not at all! If you watched TV from the 1960s he's ingrained into the sound!
	11:19pm Parq: I'm on my fourth glass of wine.
	11:19pm Funky16Corners: I had to explain that dilemma to my sons, who both love the movie Short Circuit which contains one of the most offensive pieces of brownface ever
	11:21pm still b/p: Toklas/Pussycat... same wig that showed up a lot in 60s flicks and TV when some youngsters were supposed to look Beatley/British Invasiony. In the current cultural moment, Sellers couldn't do the South Asian thing without trouble, but there still probably wouldn't be much upset, if any, about a Strangelove-style nationality shtick.
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: I prefer Sellers as the nebbish in Toklas. I love that movie, from the Twin Cantors, to the pot brownies.
	11:23pm northguineahills: Hey, I like kites!
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: And Bubbles!
	11:25pm coelacanth∅: hello
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: Hi C!
	11:25pm still b/p: Nearly running next to the car while the would've-been wife is anxiously holding onto his necklace through the window..."Joyce...My beads..."
	11:25pm coelacanth∅: are kites fun? i've always wondered.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: When they're driving around with the coffin in the hippie mobile looking for the cemetery
	11:26pm coelacanth∅: see-saws were pretty fun.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: @C- They are an absolute RIOT.
	11:26pm northguineahills: It's not the Free Design, or bed music, my brain is discombobulated, where's UM? I'm jumping in about 10 mins, thanks Larry!
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: Thanks NGH! Have a good night!
	11:27pm still b/p: I think night-kiting -- with thin glow-sticks and super-mini LEDs figuring into the kite construction -- should be a thing.
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: Except it would likely result in an epidemic of broken legs
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: we never flew kites, but my aunt gave us a long box-kite she scored from "red china" (we still don't know how she got into all those forbidden countries back then) but none of us ever tried to fly it. then it disappeared.
	11:29pm still b/p: I'd like to watch the originating band faces upon their first listen to this version.
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: The Moody Blues?
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: @C - I used to love box kites, the poor neglected cousin of the kite family
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: Kind of the connoisseur's choice
	11:33pm still b/p: Yah MB. "Warning: Prairie dog colony area -- No Night Kiting!" From a Martha's Vineyard beach 43 years ago (no prairie dogs) on a good brisk wind day in April, we flew tandem kites. Get one way up and out, attach another to that line and send it up. It worked -- was based on something I saw someone pull off in a comic book.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: That sounds cool!
	11:34pm Parq: Mrs. Parq wants to watch -- wait for it -- The Twilight Zone. Peace out. Or something.
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: If only we spent more time doing things we saw in comic books
	11:34pm coelacanth∅: yeah, one day when i was probably like 17 years old i decided my friends and i should try to fly that thing, but it was gone. when i was little my parents never got us into things like kites and skates. i had to demand to be taught to ride a bicycle when i was 7.
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: Nite Parq!
	11:36pm still b/p: When it was time to leave, we just set 'em free. Don't know if they came down on Jackie O's expansive property nearby, dropped in Nantucket Sound or Buzzards Bay, or cruised all the way to the Canadian Maritimes.
	11:36pm coelacanth∅: enjoy twilight zone. i'm a little envious.
	11:42pm coelacanth∅: i have a few of those Enoch Light 35mm albums. they sound quite bright and the stereo separation is almost "extreme", but i never thought there was anything about them that couldn't have been accomplished via equalization.
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: I think you're right, but those records do sound great
	11:44pm coelacanth∅: definitely.
	11:44pm Jeff Ash: Just as you love Soul Makossa covers, I love Theme From Shaft covers. Don't have this one, though.
	11:45pm still b/p: Some people around here make and fly fantastic giant kite designs and figures by the harbor. What else was Bond St. used in....seems like heard it as incidental show music or bg music for sketches with no spoken lines...? Heard a clip today with Tony Bennet talking about Pearl Bailey punching a girl in the on-stage ensemble -- knocked her out -- when she was mouthing off and getting personal in ragging about Pearl, I think during a rehearsal.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: Bond Street is from Casino Royale. I don't know of it being used anywhere else. I believe Pearl Bailey could/would knock someone on their ass
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - I have a few cool reggae versions of Shaft
	11:46pm coelacanth∅: i remember an album my father had on camden records i could curl in one hand (as a c.11-year-old) until the 2 opposite edges touched.
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: As a kid I had a Dr Seuss story album on Camden
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: those records didn't scratch or break but were going to inevitably warp.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: DYNAGROOVE!
	11:50pm coelacanth∅: haha that's right!
	11:52pm coelacanth∅: nice. more moody blues versions?
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: Not tonight, but I have a version of Nights In White Satin by the Brooklyn Bridge that you simply must hear!
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to do an all-covers show and include it, along with the Four Freshmen doing Hurdy Gurdy Man
	11:53pm coelacanth∅: am i mistaken? i thought this was a song from "nights of future passed". i guess not.
	11:54pm Funky16Corners: No, a Turtles song, written by Gene Clark of the Byrds
	11:55pm coelacanth∅: ah-ha. thanks
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: (der, i meant "days of future passed"!)
	12:00am Jeff Ash: Good one tonight, Larry. Thanks!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff!
	12:04am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! tchau
	12:04am Funky16Corners: Thanks C!
	12:04am still b/p: First chop show! Thanks!
	12:04am Funky16Corners: Thanks SBP!
	9:09am Cal Zone!: This was an exceptional show! Listened to it last night on a long drive. The music was intense, and your commentary was very informative! More like this!
	9:11am Funky16Corners: High praise indeed! Thanks!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 15, 2017

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