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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Favoriting February 7, 2018: The Sound of the Sitar in Pop Music!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Ananda Shankar  Jumping Jack Flash   Favoriting Ananda Shankar  Reprise  1970  LP 
Dave Pike Set  Mathar   Favoriting 45RPM Single  MPS  1969  45 
Vinnie Bell  Newsreel   Favoriting Bootleg  Bootleg  1967  MP3 
Vinnie Bell  The Quiet Village   Favoriting Pop Goes the Electric Sitar  Decca  1967  LP 
101 Strings  Karma Sitar   Favoriting Sounds of Today  Alshire  1967  LP 
 
Lord Sitar  I Can See For Miles   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia  1968  45 
Alan Lorber Orchestra  Up Up and Away   Favoriting The Lotus Palace  Verve  1967  LP 
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade  Marrakesh Express   Favoriting Permissive Polyphonics  Project 3  1970  LP 
Folkswingers  Eight Miles High   Favoriting Raga Rock  World Pacific  1966  LP 
Folkswingers  Hey Joe   Favoriting Raga Rock  World Pacific  1966  LP 
Folkswingers  Grim Reaper of Love   Favoriting Raga Rock  World Pacific  1966  LP 
Holy Mackerel  Wildflowers   Favoriting Holy Mackerel  Reprise  1968  LP 
KPM/Steve Gray  Sitar Mobile   Favoriting Fusion  KPM  1973  LP 
The Virtues  Meditation of the Soul   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Andee  1969  45 
Don Sebesky  Dance the Night Away   Favoriting The Distant Galaxy  Verve  1968  LP 
Gabor Szabo  Paint It Black   Favoriting Jazz Raga  Impulse  1966  LP 
Moe Koffman  Dr Swahili   Favoriting Goes Electric  Jubilee  1968  LP 
 
The Turtles  Sound Asleep   Favoriting 45RPM Single  White Whale  1967  45 
Living Guitars  Baby You're Rich Man   Favoriting San Franciscan Nights  Camden  1967  LP 
Big Jim Sullivan  Tallyman   Favoriting Sitar a Go Go  Mercury  1967  LP 
Big Jim Sullivan  Sunshine Superman   Favoriting Sitar a Go Go  Mercury  1967  LP 
Big Jim Sullivan  Trans Love Airways (Fat Angel)   Favoriting Sitar a Go Go  Mercury  1967  LP 
Bobby Christian  Mooganga   Favoriting Vibe-brations  Ovation  1970  LP 
Ananda Shankar  Metamorphosis   Favoriting Ananda Shankar  Reprise  1970  LP 
Ananda Shankar  Light My Fire   Favoriting Ananda Shankar  Reprise  1970  LP 
Herb Larson  My Whole World Ended   Favoriting Sax Appeal  Command  1969  LP 
 
The Beatles  Love You Too   Favoriting Revolver  Parlophone  1966  LP 
The Beatles  Within You Without You   Favoriting Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 50th Anniversary  Apple  1967  LP 
Joe Harriot Double Quartet  Overture   Favoriting Indo Jazz Suite  Atlantic  1966  LP 
Rick Nelson  Marshmallow Skies   Favoriting Another Side of Rick  Decca  1968  LP 
Noel Harrison  Sign of the Queen   Favoriting Collage  Reprise  1967  LP 
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45 


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Listener comments!

Avatar 10:01pm
hyde:

hiya
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Hyde!
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Parq:

Oh yeahhhh.
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coelacanth∅:

baby baby baby!
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Funky16Corners:

Parq! C!
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coelacanth∅:

greetings
i'm excited for this! i have to switch to a shittier laptop though, while i make dinner.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Cool! Lots of good stuff ready to go!
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Parq:

Just a minute while I straighten my beaded curtains.
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Funky16Corners:

Light some incense while you're at it!
  10:07pm
Dean:

We in for Nikhil Banerjee's album of Herman's Hermits covers?
Avatar 10:07pm
northguineahills:

Oh boy, stealing Doug's auto-stream bed music!
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Funky16Corners:

NGH!
Avatar 10:08pm
northguineahills:

:p loving today's theme!
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Funky16Corners:

@Dean - Unknown to me, but it's going on the list
  10:08pm
Dean:

[Joke. Over the top joke.] But I love NB.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Considering some of the records I've seen, it's not out of the question
Avatar 10:12pm
still b/p:

College moment: playing Ravi Shankar in dorm room with door open. Neighbor stops on the way by and with semi-undulations and arm-waves, exclaims, “Oh, it’s the guru himself!” Don’t know if he meant me or the musician — he definitely knew nothing of Ravi.
  10:13pm
Dean:

We are going to hear Joe South, right?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Funky16Corners:

It's interesting how much even a few bars of sitar music became shorthand for a whole world
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - Not tonight, but as I'm a big fan, he'll probably get his own highlight sometime soon
  10:16pm
Dean:

South and Norman Greenbaum were likely my introduction to sitar pop, not counting the Beatles.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
coelacanth∅:

some bands made the sitar fairly routine, like shocking blue, and...damned if i can't think of another one i just learned of a few months ago. -i don't even think about it as novelty or exotic when i listen to some bands.
  10:17pm
Dean:

Later, Cornershop reminded me.
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Funky16Corners:

I was just thinking of Cornershop yesterday.
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coelacanth∅:

i'd think maybe you heard it in the rolling stones and traffic first - but maybe not.
Avatar 10:23pm
still b/p:

What was up with newsreel remarks about sitar being “easy” if you can play guitar? I’ve heard it described as damned hard.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Funky16Corners:

The electric sitar, maybe, which was set up with a reglar set of strings and a set of resonant strings. The regular sitar has always been described to me as VERY difficult to learn
  10:26pm
Dean:

Requisite allusion to Ravi Shankar's comments at the outset of the concert for Bangla Desh...
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Funky16Corners:

Where he had to ask or decorum an explain the purpose of the ragas
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Funky16Corners:

No wait, I'm thinking of Monterey Pop
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Funky16Corners:

What did he do at the Concert for Bangla Desh?
  10:27pm
Dean:

He had to distinguish tuning from playing.
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Funky16Corners:

Ahh.
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Parq:

Man, this set *really* makes me feel like Bobby, the protagonist in "Company".
  10:30pm
Dean:

Marrakesh, Mumbai...I'm so confused.
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Funky16Corners:

@Parq - How so?
Avatar 10:33pm
still b/p:

Friend of mine is playing the Ladies Who Lunch role currently.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Funky16Corners:

A matinee, a Pinter play,
Perhaps a piece of Mahler's.
I'll drink to that.
And one for Mahler!
  10:36pm
Dean:

Damn, I just realized that I'm a lady who lunches.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Parq:

The sixties, man! This sounds like exactly the sort of music that would accompany a swinging bachelor's pursuit of groovy chicks. Of course, the point of "Company" is that Bobby was past the sixties and past his twenties and starting to realize what an empty life all that was.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Funky16Corners:

I get it now. Yeah, a lot of this was engineered precisely as exotic background music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Parq:

still b/p, that's a challenge. There are certain roles where the original Broadway actor -- or more often, the actor in the movie version -- gave a performance so iconic that everyone will inevitably measure your performance against it. Try to imagine what it was like in the seventies or early eighties trying to play Stanley Kowallski without the creeping feeling that everyone in the audience was thinking "Brando". Elaine Stritch's rendering of "Ladies" is like that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Funky16Corners:

I saw Patti Lupone do it on a PBS special. She did a great job.
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Parq:

That said, Therese knocked it out of the park with a version of that song to open the Marathon Finale a few years back.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Funky16Corners:

It's a remarkable piece of music.
  10:41pm
Dean:

I have a contrary view, which I won't elaborate. I am very skeptical about "iconic" performances. 'nuff said.
Avatar 10:42pm
still b/p:

For a good while, a few sitar notes would be soundtrack cue in TV and movies for hippie far-out love-children scene, pad, lingo...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Funky16Corners:

I was watching an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies the other day where Mrs Drysdale fell under the spell of an unscrupulous guru, who then set his eyes on the Clampetts
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Funky16Corners:

Played of course by a white guy in brownface, much like Professor Irwin Corey as the Baba Zeba in How To Commit Marriage
Avatar 10:45pm
still b/p:

Tween you and me, my friend seems past the role’s age, but has character aspect and pipes perfect for it.
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Little Danny:

Heya Larry, all. Got my usual Wednesday night gig off so I'm stoked to be here live for once
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Little Danny:

"Dance the Night Away" is my fave track from Cream's psychedelic years
Avatar 10:49pm
still b/p:

Also, not sure how Stritch-familiar the particular audiences will be at the venue, aside from other theater people and deeper devotees.
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Parq:

F16C, well of course. That was the era of Indians (the American kind) played by Jewish comedians in make-up.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Danny! One of mine too.
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Funky16Corners:

@Parq - I think most of the indians on F-Troop were Jewish comedians from NYC
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Funky16Corners:

One day I went into IMDB and scrolled backward through the cast list for F-Troop and was amazed at some of the names.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Get ready for the trip!
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Little Danny:

Fave track from this Sullivan LP! Made it onto a psych-pop mix aeons ago. Do you know the Jeff Beck version, Larry? It's cool
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Funky16Corners:

I do indeed! I have a CD comp that contains all of Truth by the Jeff Beck Group as well as his solo 45s, including Tallyman.
Avatar 11:15pm
still b/p:

“Super Stereo Sound” is bigger than album title on Sitar A Go Go cover.
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Funky16Corners:

It's a great record. One you can actually listen to all the way through.
  11:22pm
Jeff g.:

Testifyin'!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff!
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Little Danny:

Larry, flipping through some LPs in my Now Sound section as I listen. Have you heard Jack Sheldon's "Nature Boy" from his Warm Sound LP? Really quite beautiful sitar-jazz track
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Little Danny:

Great set!
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Jeff Ash:

Al Caiola! Nice! Herb Larson. Nightmare fuel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Danny! I have the album after that. I'll have to look for it.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff!
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Funky16Corners:

I wonder if Sheldon had any personal experience with Eden Ahbez?
  11:45pm
Dean:

Revolver appeared in '66. I was born in '59. Now, almost 59 years old, I for the first time recognize the pun.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
Little Danny:

Seems possible, but I'd guess it was just more the ubiquity of "Nature Boy" in that time
Avatar 11:46pm
northguineahills:

Joe Harriot!, classic album. I'm afraid I'm fading. Thanks Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

@Dean - It took me a few years
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks NGH!
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Funky16Corners:

@Danny - From what i've seen of Sheldon, he seems like he might have been tuned in to the hipper side of SoCal, esp in the 50s when he was running with Chet Baker
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Little Danny:

Totally. Ahbez, despite being such an out-there cat, just didn't seem to hang much with '50s jazzbos as far as I know...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Funky16Corners:

I wonder if anyone has written about Ahbez in the long form. He seems like a real character
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Little Danny:

I agree. Just mostly some pieces on the Internet as far as I know. Still quite a mysterious background as well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
Funky16Corners:

He was apparently an early proponent of macrobiotics and such. He must have made a mint off of 'Nature Boy'. I wonder what he did with it?
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Little Danny:

Another obscure gem, this Harrison! Have the 45. Sounds great back to back with Lady Godiva's Operation.
  11:56pm
Dean:

See one of the chapters here: http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b23753280~S1
Avatar 11:56pm
still b/p:

We rise to thank the DJ.
“Everybody rise, everybody riiiiise...!”
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
Little Danny:

Agreed, "Nature Boy" must have treated him well, though I don't recall his lifestyle changing much
  11:58pm
Dean:

Have you heard Cheap Trick's traversal of Sgt. Pepper? Not bad, not bad. Zander, in particular, gives McCartney and Lennon a run for their vocal money.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
Little Danny:

Great show Larry! It's totally inspired me for my show tomorrow
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coelacanth∅:

Great program,Larry. i won't hold my breath to wait for a koto/guzheng in pop music program though
gnight y'all
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Danny!
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Funky16Corners:

@ DEan - I have not, but I dig Cheap Trick.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks C!
  12:02am
Dean:

See the chapter, "Nature Boy," in the book for which I dropped a link above for more about Ahbez.
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Funky16Corners:

@SBP at 11:56 - Thanks!
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Funky16Corners:

I'll have to scroll back and find that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05am
Funky16Corners:

That looks cool!
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