WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from December 20, 2017

Listener comments!
	10:01pm Jeff Ash: Season's greetings from Green Bay, Larry!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:02pm Jeff Ash: Seeing Darlene Love sing this live a couple of years ago in Milwaukee was tremendous!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, what a voice!
	10:07pm Parq: Ass-kicking opener. (Okay, technically, Darlene was the opener, but still.)
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq!
	10:08pm Parq: The Darlene is an old favorite but the Mavis/Blind cut is a revelation.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, one of my favorite Christmas songs from the gospel tradition
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: Mavis Staples recordings, 40 years apart
	10:16pm Funky16Corners: This is various and sundry Turtles, Gram Parsons and Linda Ronstadt (among others)
	10:20pm Parq: I bought an album almost 15 years ago with the Monkees version of "Christmas is My", and never heard the Turtles Etc. version until this year, and now I've heard it twice.
	10:21pm Funky16Corners: It's a great 45. I'll play the other side later in the show
	10:23pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and all
	10:23pm JtotheK: hi F16C, hi everyone.
	10:23pm Parq: Oh man, I just love this Honey and the Bees.
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey C, J!
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: @Parq, a great Christmas record that's also a great soul record
	10:24pm JtotheK: @Jeff Ash -- green bay, huh? are there still record shows there are few times a year - and if so, are they decent for soul 45s?
	10:27pm Jeff Ash: We have two record shows, in the spring and the fall. Not many soul records turn up here.
	10:28pm coelacanth∅: I was out of the room...is that "merry christmas baby" the Charles Brown song?
	10:28pm northguineahills: 2017 has been the worst, and possibly one of the best years of my life. I have optimism personally, and limited optimism worldly.
	10:28pm Uncle Michael: I'm heading to bed, but I wanted to pop into the comments to wish you happy holidays, Larry.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Hey Unk!
	10:31pm JtotheK: thanks for the info, jeff.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH, I feel you. This year has been unrelenting. Hard to stay positive, but stay positive we must
	10:32pm northguineahills: UM, you're back a few time zones, yet, you go to sleep early some nights (and others are out as late as I am).
	10:33pm Uncle Michael: I'm one time zone away and I crash anywhere from 9:30 to 11:00...but I start heading that way earlier. I also keep the usic playing.
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: If I wasn't on the air I'd be relaxing in bed, too
	10:34pm still b/p: So McKean and Lander of Credibility Gap became....Lenny and Squiggy. That familiar odd story & journey....people with a presumably sharp satirical sense shift over to the worst lowbrow whitebread kind of entertainment. Yes, I know McKean went on to other smarter material later.
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: I hope Lenny and Squiggy fattened their bank accounts
	10:36pm Uncle Michael: The Lenny & the Squigtones album had a long life in the cutout bins.
	10:37pm Funky16Corners: Featuring a young Nigel Tufnel?
	10:38pm Uncle Michael: In his teddy boy period.
	10:38pm northguineahills: Surprisingly G rated for Clarence Carter!
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: Not if you have a dirty enough mind!
	10:40pm JtotheK: @NGH, yeah - for some reason "strokin" never took off as a holiday airplay tune...
	10:40pm Jeff Ash: Amen, brother. "Back Door Santa" is filthy.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: I'll be there's a spicy live version out there somewhere
	10:41pm JtotheK: i have a treacherous 3 holiday 45, recommended.
	10:41pm Jeff Ash: !!!!!!!!!
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to look for that!
	10:41pm Jeff Ash: "Christmas In Hollis" has become a classic over the last 30 years.
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: It certainly has. I still remember the video
	10:42pm Uncle Michael: ok, I'm outta here...
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: Nite UM!
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: back door Santa is pretty thinly veiled, even by Clarence's standards. ...my 2 possibly favorite Clarence Carter songs are both rated g. (road of love; I'd rather go blind)
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: night UM
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: Clarence is underrated
	10:51pm DJ Pat K: Testify!! Great show tonight!
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Pat!
	10:52pm coelacanth∅: not in my world. i've done my little bit to help - in the pub, via jukebox.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: Then you are doing good work!
	11:06pm Funky16Corners: That's no brownie! That's the Attorney General!!
	11:11pm still b/p: Oh, we listened to this Allan Sherman when it was newish. The Japanese transistor radio is the only listed gift I actually remembered though.
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: I love Allan Sherman.
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: My 4th Grade teacher Mrs Teller used to play his records for us
	11:13pm still b/p: Last week I watched a clip of him doing a medley of his stuff with Dean Martin and Vic Damone.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: He was hilarious, especially so if you grew up around Jewish people. You get a lot more of the jokes.
	11:20pm still b/p: In a different version of the path I was talking about earlier, the suits wanted him to go for broader appeal and be less....ethnic.
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: That's a shame. His NY/Jewish flavor was one of the reasons he was so good. His medley of Irish songs turned Jewish is one of the best things he ever did (Switching out HARRIGAN for HOROWITZ)
	11:26pm Jeff Ash: Satchmo. Yesssssssss.
	11:27pm Parq: Larry, you are KILLING it! What a great mix of my faves (you shoulda seen me drunkenly tagging key words to the Stan Frieberg track) and stuff I don't know. If Mrs. Funky 16 and the kiddums ever head to the inlaws and leave you behind, you are so welcome at our house for Christmas. You would fit right in.
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: I love the way he does this
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Parq! High praise indeed!
	11:28pm still b/p: If Thurl Ravenscroft hadn't been available for that iconic rendition of You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch, it's fun to imagine a Louis take on it.
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: Louis gets extra credit for saying DONDER and not DONNER!
	11:29pm Parq: It's worth adding that I had one of those Japanese transistor radios. One of the best Christmas presents I've had in my whole sexagenarian life.
	11:29pm Funky16Corners: I wonder if there are other recordings of the Grinch out there that predate the TV special?
	11:30pm Parq: Oh, Still, I'm going to be up all night imagining that.
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: I was recently regaling my son with tales of my multi-band portable radio that I got as a gift when I was 10 or 11. HUGELY important to my musical development
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: A JOIK!!
	11:32pm northguineahills: Thanks for this Satchmo!
	11:32pm Parq: Larry, there's an extra on the Grinch DVD in which Thurl explains that he showed up to do the job on the "Welcome Christmas" session and then the composer approached him and asked him to try his hand at another song he wrote for the production The rest, as they say, is --- well, you know.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: Thurl is such a part of our childhood, but I'd bet most people never heard his name.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: Tony the Tiger!
	11:34pm Parq: Speaking of Thurl, for those of you who don't know about it: blog.wfmu.org...
	11:34pm still b/p: A photo line-up of every transistor radio I owned as a kid would be great. One was the Sunoco gas pump model, which a friend gave me for a birthday (11th?), and he discourteously told me before presenting it, like it was a grudging sacrifice he'd made, "I paid four bucks for it."
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - My Pleasure!
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: SBP - In our house we have the legend of my Pop's Montgomery Ward model that got left on the dashboard one hot, summer day. The back of teh case melted over the insides, yet it continued to work for years
	11:44pm coelacanth∅: Santa somebody apparently put a little transistor radio in each of our stockings when I was maybe 7-8. that was big. I remember doing a lot more walking around with no destination after that, just to walk around with that radio.
	11:44pm Jeff Ash: Touching all the bases tonight! John Fahey. Sweet.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: This is a great album
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: @C - Kids today (cough, cough...) have no idea how important those things were
	11:46pm northguineahills: John Fahey (jumps an awkward happy dance). I have Fahey xmas albums, but not this one, Yes, happy laddy am I. Going to hit the hay after midnight, thanks LD and all of our fine folks! (uggh, I sound like I live in the South)
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: Fahey was such a brilliant guitarist, and almost as troubled as he was gifted
	11:48pm northguineahills: In one of Christian Marclay's Xmas parties (where DJ Olive was a guest), I saw Christian scratch up (in a good way) a Fahey Xmas record. It was a good night.
	11:49pm northguineahills: Yeah, Fahey is finger pickin' good!
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: Larry @11.45 ugh, don't get me started! (take liberties adding an accent to that)
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: Did you read his biography?
	11:51pm northguineahills: (which [fahey] one?)
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Brutal
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: Yes, Fahey
	11:53pm northguineahills: Crap, most of my books are still boxed.
	11:54pm Funky16Corners: It was interesting, and well written, but so much of his later life was an utter disaster that it was a little painful to read
	11:55pm still b/p: Make the day after Christmas unBoxing Day.
	11:57pm Funky16Corners: Good idea!
	11:57pm JtotheK: thanks for the tunes, Larry - all the best to you and yours! i hope to be around for your fill in tomorrow, cheers everyone!
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: at the pub, about a month ago already, somehow the charlie brown christmas special came on, instead of the usual horribleness. i hadn't seen that in years, and it was a huge thing in our household. others were enjoying it too. then someone (a friend) who's always sneaking behind the bar to change the station to some sports thing, did that -right at the climax near the end, and people started yelling! fucking funny! I got right up and grabbed the remote to change it back, but nobody knew what station it was on. so we missed the end.
	11:57pm Dean: Dance of death : the life of John Fahey, American guitarist / Steve Lowenthal.
	11:57pm Funky16Corners: Night J!
	11:58pm Funky16Corners: @C - That is a good story. I hope he wasn't beaten too badly by the crowd.
	11:58pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - Thanks, that's the one
	12:00am coelacanth∅: ha never! but I never saw him try to look small before that!
	12:01am still b/p: Thanks and good night.
	12:03am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry merry everything to you - all. tchau
	12:03am Funky16Corners: Nite guys! Merry/Happy Everything!
	12:04am Parq: Superb. Merry Christmas, Larry. Have a great weekend and a fine week.
	12:04am Funky16Corners: Thanks Parq!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from December 20, 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
Darlene Love	Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)	45RPM Single	Philles	1963	45
Mavis Staples and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama	Children Go Where I Send Thee	Go Tell It On the Mountain	Real World	2003	CD
Staple Singers	There Was a Star "There Was a Star" by "Staple Singers"	45RPM Single	Riverside	1962	45
Otis Redding	Merry Christmas Baby	45RPM Single	Atco	1968	45
The Christmas Spirit	Christmas Is My Time of Year	45RPM Single	White Whale	1968	45
The Credibility Gap	Something For Mary	45RPM Single	Warner Brothers	1973	45
Honey and the Bees	Jing Jing a Ling	45RPM Single	Chess	1969	45

Bobby Hollaway	Funky Little Drummer Boy	45RPM Single	Smash	1967	45
Albert King	Santa CLaus Wants Some Lovin'	45RPM Single	Stax	1974	45
Clarence Carter	Back Door Santa "Back Door Santa" by "Clarence Carter"	Clarence Carter's Greatest Hits	Atlantic	1968	LP
Run DMC	Christmas In Hollis "Christmas In Hollis" by "Run DMC"	45RPM Single	London	1987	45
J Hines and the Boys	A Funky X-Mas To You	45RPM Single	Nation Wide	1968	45
Count Sidney and His Dukes	Soul Christmas	45RPM Single	Goldband	1967	45
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings	8 Days (Of Hanukkah)	45RPM Single	Daptone	2015	45
Garth and Kat	Hanukkah Album "Hanukkah Album" by "Garth and Kat"	SNL	Bootleg	2016	MP3
Woody Guthrie	Hanukkah Songs "Hanukkah Songs" by "Woody Guthrie"	Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Volume 3	Folkways	1998	MP3

James Brown	Santa Claus Go Straight To the Ghetto	45RPM Single	King	1968	45
Stan Freberg	Christmas Dragnet (Yulenet)	45RPM Single	Capitol	1955	45
Allan Sherman	12 Gifts of Christmas	45RPM Single	Warner Brothers	1965	45
Homer and Jethro	(All I Want For Christmas Is) My Upper Plate	45RPM Single	RCA	1953	45
Harvey Averne Band	Let's Get It Together This Christmas	45RPM Single	Fania	1970	45
Canned Heat	Christmas Blues "Christmas Blues" by "Canned Heat"	45RPM Single	Liberty	1969	45
Baby Washington	White Christmas "White Christmas" by "Baby Washington"	45RPM Single	Sue	1966	45
Ike and Tina Turner	Merry Christmas Baby	45RPM Single	Warner Brothers	1965	45

Louis Armstrong	Twas The Night Before Christmas	45RPM Single	Continental Production Company	1971	45
Dee Irwin and Mamie Galore	All I Want For Christmas Is Your Love	45RPM Single	Imperial	1968	45
Johnny and jon	Christmas In Vietnam	45RPM Single	Jewel	1965	45
Lenox Ave	Little Drummer Boy "Little Drummer Boy" by "Lenox Ave"	45RPM Single	Chess	1970	45
Johnny Lytle	Chanukah "Chanukah" by "Johnny Lytle"	New and Groovy	Tuba	1967	LP
John Fahey	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	The New Possibility	Takoma	1968	CD
The Christmas Spirit	Will You Still Believe In Me	45RPM Single	White Whale	1968	45
Vince Guaraldi	Christmastime Is Here	A Charlie Brown Christmas	Fantasy	1965	CD
Charles Brown	Merry Christmas Baby	45RPM Single	Jewel	1970	45
The Soulful Strings	Merry Christmas Baby	The Magic of Christmas	Cadet	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 Jeff Ash: Season's greetings from Green Bay, Larry!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:02pm Jeff Ash: Seeing Darlene Love sing this live a couple of years ago in Milwaukee was tremendous!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, what a voice!
	10:07pm Parq: Ass-kicking opener. (Okay, technically, Darlene was the opener, but still.)
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq!
	10:08pm Parq: The Darlene is an old favorite but the Mavis/Blind cut is a revelation.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, one of my favorite Christmas songs from the gospel tradition
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: Mavis Staples recordings, 40 years apart
	10:16pm Funky16Corners: This is various and sundry Turtles, Gram Parsons and Linda Ronstadt (among others)
	10:20pm Parq: I bought an album almost 15 years ago with the Monkees version of "Christmas is My", and never heard the Turtles Etc. version until this year, and now I've heard it twice.
	10:21pm Funky16Corners: It's a great 45. I'll play the other side later in the show
	10:23pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and all
	10:23pm JtotheK: hi F16C, hi everyone.
	10:23pm Parq: Oh man, I just love this Honey and the Bees.
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey C, J!
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: @Parq, a great Christmas record that's also a great soul record
	10:24pm JtotheK: @Jeff Ash -- green bay, huh? are there still record shows there are few times a year - and if so, are they decent for soul 45s?
	10:27pm Jeff Ash: We have two record shows, in the spring and the fall. Not many soul records turn up here.
	10:28pm coelacanth∅: I was out of the room...is that "merry christmas baby" the Charles Brown song?
	10:28pm northguineahills: 2017 has been the worst, and possibly one of the best years of my life. I have optimism personally, and limited optimism worldly.
	10:28pm Uncle Michael: I'm heading to bed, but I wanted to pop into the comments to wish you happy holidays, Larry.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Hey Unk!
	10:31pm JtotheK: thanks for the info, jeff.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH, I feel you. This year has been unrelenting. Hard to stay positive, but stay positive we must
	10:32pm northguineahills: UM, you're back a few time zones, yet, you go to sleep early some nights (and others are out as late as I am).
	10:33pm Uncle Michael: I'm one time zone away and I crash anywhere from 9:30 to 11:00...but I start heading that way earlier. I also keep the usic playing.
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: If I wasn't on the air I'd be relaxing in bed, too
	10:34pm still b/p: So McKean and Lander of Credibility Gap became....Lenny and Squiggy. That familiar odd story & journey....people with a presumably sharp satirical sense shift over to the worst lowbrow whitebread kind of entertainment. Yes, I know McKean went on to other smarter material later.
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: I hope Lenny and Squiggy fattened their bank accounts
	10:36pm Uncle Michael: The Lenny & the Squigtones album had a long life in the cutout bins.
	10:37pm Funky16Corners: Featuring a young Nigel Tufnel?
	10:38pm Uncle Michael: In his teddy boy period.
	10:38pm northguineahills: Surprisingly G rated for Clarence Carter!
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: Not if you have a dirty enough mind!
	10:40pm JtotheK: @NGH, yeah - for some reason "strokin" never took off as a holiday airplay tune...
	10:40pm Jeff Ash: Amen, brother. "Back Door Santa" is filthy.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: I'll be there's a spicy live version out there somewhere
	10:41pm JtotheK: i have a treacherous 3 holiday 45, recommended.
	10:41pm Jeff Ash: !!!!!!!!!
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to look for that!
	10:41pm Jeff Ash: "Christmas In Hollis" has become a classic over the last 30 years.
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: It certainly has. I still remember the video
	10:42pm Uncle Michael: ok, I'm outta here...
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: Nite UM!
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: back door Santa is pretty thinly veiled, even by Clarence's standards. ...my 2 possibly favorite Clarence Carter songs are both rated g. (road of love; I'd rather go blind)
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: night UM
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: Clarence is underrated
	10:51pm DJ Pat K: Testify!! Great show tonight!
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Pat!
	10:52pm coelacanth∅: not in my world. i've done my little bit to help - in the pub, via jukebox.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: Then you are doing good work!
	11:06pm Funky16Corners: That's no brownie! That's the Attorney General!!
	11:11pm still b/p: Oh, we listened to this Allan Sherman when it was newish. The Japanese transistor radio is the only listed gift I actually remembered though.
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: I love Allan Sherman.
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: My 4th Grade teacher Mrs Teller used to play his records for us
	11:13pm still b/p: Last week I watched a clip of him doing a medley of his stuff with Dean Martin and Vic Damone.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: He was hilarious, especially so if you grew up around Jewish people. You get a lot more of the jokes.
	11:20pm still b/p: In a different version of the path I was talking about earlier, the suits wanted him to go for broader appeal and be less....ethnic.
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: That's a shame. His NY/Jewish flavor was one of the reasons he was so good. His medley of Irish songs turned Jewish is one of the best things he ever did (Switching out HARRIGAN for HOROWITZ)
	11:26pm Jeff Ash: Satchmo. Yesssssssss.
	11:27pm Parq: Larry, you are KILLING it! What a great mix of my faves (you shoulda seen me drunkenly tagging key words to the Stan Frieberg track) and stuff I don't know. If Mrs. Funky 16 and the kiddums ever head to the inlaws and leave you behind, you are so welcome at our house for Christmas. You would fit right in.
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: I love the way he does this
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Parq! High praise indeed!
	11:28pm still b/p: If Thurl Ravenscroft hadn't been available for that iconic rendition of You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch, it's fun to imagine a Louis take on it.
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: Louis gets extra credit for saying DONDER and not DONNER!
	11:29pm Parq: It's worth adding that I had one of those Japanese transistor radios. One of the best Christmas presents I've had in my whole sexagenarian life.
	11:29pm Funky16Corners: I wonder if there are other recordings of the Grinch out there that predate the TV special?
	11:30pm Parq: Oh, Still, I'm going to be up all night imagining that.
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: I was recently regaling my son with tales of my multi-band portable radio that I got as a gift when I was 10 or 11. HUGELY important to my musical development
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: A JOIK!!
	11:32pm northguineahills: Thanks for this Satchmo!
	11:32pm Parq: Larry, there's an extra on the Grinch DVD in which Thurl explains that he showed up to do the job on the "Welcome Christmas" session and then the composer approached him and asked him to try his hand at another song he wrote for the production The rest, as they say, is --- well, you know.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: Thurl is such a part of our childhood, but I'd bet most people never heard his name.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: Tony the Tiger!
	11:34pm Parq: Speaking of Thurl, for those of you who don't know about it: blog.wfmu.org...
	11:34pm still b/p: A photo line-up of every transistor radio I owned as a kid would be great. One was the Sunoco gas pump model, which a friend gave me for a birthday (11th?), and he discourteously told me before presenting it, like it was a grudging sacrifice he'd made, "I paid four bucks for it."
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - My Pleasure!
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: SBP - In our house we have the legend of my Pop's Montgomery Ward model that got left on the dashboard one hot, summer day. The back of teh case melted over the insides, yet it continued to work for years
	11:44pm coelacanth∅: Santa somebody apparently put a little transistor radio in each of our stockings when I was maybe 7-8. that was big. I remember doing a lot more walking around with no destination after that, just to walk around with that radio.
	11:44pm Jeff Ash: Touching all the bases tonight! John Fahey. Sweet.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: This is a great album
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: @C - Kids today (cough, cough...) have no idea how important those things were
	11:46pm northguineahills: John Fahey (jumps an awkward happy dance). I have Fahey xmas albums, but not this one, Yes, happy laddy am I. Going to hit the hay after midnight, thanks LD and all of our fine folks! (uggh, I sound like I live in the South)
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: Fahey was such a brilliant guitarist, and almost as troubled as he was gifted
	11:48pm northguineahills: In one of Christian Marclay's Xmas parties (where DJ Olive was a guest), I saw Christian scratch up (in a good way) a Fahey Xmas record. It was a good night.
	11:49pm northguineahills: Yeah, Fahey is finger pickin' good!
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: Larry @11.45 ugh, don't get me started! (take liberties adding an accent to that)
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: Did you read his biography?
	11:51pm northguineahills: (which [fahey] one?)
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Brutal
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: Yes, Fahey
	11:53pm northguineahills: Crap, most of my books are still boxed.
	11:54pm Funky16Corners: It was interesting, and well written, but so much of his later life was an utter disaster that it was a little painful to read
	11:55pm still b/p: Make the day after Christmas unBoxing Day.
	11:57pm Funky16Corners: Good idea!
	11:57pm JtotheK: thanks for the tunes, Larry - all the best to you and yours! i hope to be around for your fill in tomorrow, cheers everyone!
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: at the pub, about a month ago already, somehow the charlie brown christmas special came on, instead of the usual horribleness. i hadn't seen that in years, and it was a huge thing in our household. others were enjoying it too. then someone (a friend) who's always sneaking behind the bar to change the station to some sports thing, did that -right at the climax near the end, and people started yelling! fucking funny! I got right up and grabbed the remote to change it back, but nobody knew what station it was on. so we missed the end.
	11:57pm Dean: Dance of death : the life of John Fahey, American guitarist / Steve Lowenthal.
	11:57pm Funky16Corners: Night J!
	11:58pm Funky16Corners: @C - That is a good story. I hope he wasn't beaten too badly by the crowd.
	11:58pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - Thanks, that's the one
	12:00am coelacanth∅: ha never! but I never saw him try to look small before that!
	12:01am still b/p: Thanks and good night.
	12:03am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry merry everything to you - all. tchau
	12:03am Funky16Corners: Nite guys! Merry/Happy Everything!
	12:04am Parq: Superb. Merry Christmas, Larry. Have a great weekend and a fine week.
	12:04am Funky16Corners: Thanks Parq!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from December 20, 2017

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