WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 4, 2018

Listener comments!
	10:03pm geezerette: Hello Larry! Witnesses!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Geezerette!
	10:04pm still b/p: There was a Globetrotters Saturday cartoon show...that’s what the theme reminds me of.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP! That's the theme from the show!
	10:06pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry, geez, sb/p ...
	10:07pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Green Bay, where we have dug out from the record 8 inches of snow received yesterday.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey C! Hey Jeff! No snow here but CRAZY wind.
	10:09pm Jeff Ash: Yeah, we sent that your way.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: It was 65 this afternoon but got much colder.
	10:09pm Doctorjazz: I said a hey, hey hey, hey, yeah, all!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:11pm Scraps: missed Harlem Globetrotters theme. Is that “Sweet Georgia Brown”, or another song?
	10:12pm Funky16Corners: Hey Scraps! No, the theme from the cartoon show.
	10:14pm coelacanth∅: snow rain wind snow rain wind...today's the wind. a few days ago we got 5-6" of snow in the morning and it was pretty much gone by 2 pm. a few weeks ago the snow was so wet and heavy then it froze for days that i'll get at least 4 weeks of employment out of it. (at least) it still makes me sad...as if humans aren't (more directly) responsible for a serious deficiency of trees.
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: We lost a lot of cedar/pine etc during that wet snow
	10:21pm coelacanth∅: my sister did too, as well as hemlock, tamarack, plum, etc damage; ayoung eastern redbud that will live but now has a weird shape...and a giant, ancient crab apple that went from 4 major trunks down to one. it was a most amazing tree, with horizontal branches extending maybe 50'; now it's just a weird old thing waiting to die.
	10:23pm Funky16Corners: It's a shame. The last time we had this much damage was during Hurricane Sandy where one house lost five big cedars in a row. We were spare but have mainly oak and maple
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: our family used to gather around the tv once (or maybe twice) a year for those globetrotter specials where they played a serious team and ostensibly won by miles and flustered the refs to no end.
	10:25pm Scraps: Good god, the “Harlem Globetrotters Theme” for the animated show (which I watched; I was six) was written by Jeff Barry, who supervised the album, and got Neil Sedaka, etc, to write other songs.
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: I loved the Simpson's episode where Homer went to a Globetrotters game and bet on the Generals
	10:27pm coelacanth∅: ...my sister lost a few trees in the big hurricanes in the last 6 years, but all in all suffered more damage from this snow.
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: The township was coming around collecting brush and downed branches from the storm
	10:29pm coelacanth∅: i don't remember the cartoon so well. during those games they whistled sweet georgia brown the whole time! that shit stuck in my head for months!
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: There's a 45 of that credited to Brother Bones
	10:31pm coelacanth∅: i convinced my sister to buy a wood chipper a few years ago; one of the best investments she's made.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: The Common Pleas: funky16corners.com...
	10:32pm Scraps: “Sweet Georgia Brown” didn’t make it on the album, but it was a single listed as a non-album track.
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: Ross D Wyllie: funky16corners.com...
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: The Brother Bones version goes back to 1950: www.discogs.com...
	10:35pm still b/p: “Chika-chika-boom....Globetrotters...” was the only bit a buddy and I could recall from the song, and would amuse our junior high age selves by singing that bit lamely and randomly.
	10:35pm Scraps: Ben Bernie had the original five-week run at #1 in 1925. Old!
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: Ben Bernie who's trademark was 'Yowsah! Yowsah! Yowsah!'
	10:39pm Scraps: Borrowed by Chic in the disco era.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed! I first saw Bernie do it as a cartoon caricature in a Warner Brothers cartoon. My father had to explain it to me.
	10:40pm Parq: I had this Marty Thau album, but the version of Shadow Line I really remember is the one in Urrgh. (Urghh? I'm too lazy to look it up.) That was the only segment in the whole movie that was shot at CB.
	10:41pm coelacanth∅: slow down my brain has a regulator! it only accepts new information in a slow trickle; now there's a cue formed to admit at least 5 posts'worth of new information.
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: Parq - The Marty Thau version was the original, followed by a fuller version on Roman Gods
	10:43pm Parq: F16C, I love that "Ben Birdie" cartoon! They all float away at the end on a sea of Helen Kane's tears. "Coo-Coo Nuts Grove", wasn't it? That's where I got one of my pet expressions "Well, well and well!"
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: I think so. I'll have to dig out my WB DVDs and rewatch. I love some of the now-obscure caricatures.
	10:47pm Doctorjazz: DEL Shannon, huh? Would never have guessed.
	10:48pm Doctorjazz: He's screamed past his limit!
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, that is a rager of a 45, with suspect fidelity, but enough energy to kick ass into the middle of next week.
	10:50pm Scraps: Love “Shadow Line”, though otherwise I don't like the Fleshtones nearly so much as I ought, apparently.
	10:55pm Jeff Ash: I bought this Nat Stuckey LP after you wrote about it.
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: Cool!
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: @Scraps - Did you ever see the Fleshtones live?
	10:58pm northguineahills: Forgot to say hi! Counted my tomatoes and tomatillo fruits already growing. (one of the few advantages of living in FL). Haven't heard this version!
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	11:00pm northguineahills: I love gardening at night (and not just the REM song).
	11:00pm Parq: There's a bathroom on the right.
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: Hmmmm, I wonder why there weren't more country versions of 'In the Year 2525'?
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: this one was kinda asking for it
	11:03pm Funky16Corners: I love this version
	11:04pm Doctorjazz: CREEDENCE make for good country material.
	11:04pm Funky16Corners: You can actually understand all the words!
	11:05pm northguineahills: Green River, and underratedl late 80s/early 90s Seattle band.. (didn't hear of them until 95.
	11:05pm Funky16Corners: I wonder is there was ever a country tribute comp for Creedence?
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: well, he's changed many of the words.
	11:07pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, the reference to Commander Cody is kind of cool
	11:08pm coelacanth∅: ha i didn't even catch that!
	11:09pm coelacanth∅: that was jarring ...i think i got the drummer stream over here
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: What was?
	11:11pm coelacanth∅: - i had the volume WAYYY up because the levels have been so low. this is not your program i'm hearing
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: ...damn, i'd really like to hear a county version of "someday..." too!
	11:13pm Jeff Ash: Yeah, there's a glitch. Stream is playing Baloji.
	11:13pm northguineahills: Yeah, lost the stream and got some afro-francophone club-friendly pop diddy.
	11:13pm Parq: I'm getting the show on the stream okay.
	11:15pm Parq: Wait, no I'm not. This is definitely not "Someday We'll Be Together." Some sort of screamer rave up, segueing into an acoustic slide guitar blues song.
	11:16pm coelacanth∅: now we've got old country blues gospel.
	11:16pm Doctorjazz: Listening on FMU phone app with no problem.
	11:17pm Jeff Ash: Yep, Ralph Nielsen and the Chancellors on that rave-up, and now Lil McClintock on that old country gospel.
	11:17pm coelacanth∅: ...for a second i thought it was a country blues style cover of "country death song" by violent femmes!
	11:17pm Dean: I'm here, but listening to a Schumann recital CD, rather than 'FMU. Sounds fine.
	11:18pm Jeff Ash: Dang technical difficulties. So it goes.
	11:18pm northguineahills: It's working now. Met some folks from Seagirt, NJ that said they had to drive 15 miles north to pick up the 91.1 signal before they moved here. Active donors (that makes three people I've met here that actively donate).
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: Are you guys still getting a signal?
	11:18pm Doctorjazz: I'm getting country blues, think I'm on the stream now as well...
	11:18pm coelacanth∅: stream.
	11:19pm northguineahills: We are now!
	11:19pm northguineahills: Wait, are we, it's hard to tell, you're show mirror's Doug's stream.
	11:19pm Jeff Ash: Stream seems goobered up. Some other show cut into your stream.
	11:20pm coelacanth∅: (Doug's music, that is)
	11:20pm still b/p: Auto Drummer stream on the app here, not your show.
	11:20pm Funky16Corners: OK. I'm going to have to reboot, hang in there
	11:21pm Funky16corners: I should be back in a few
	11:22pm Jeff Ash: This is Margo Guryan for those listening to the outlaw stream. Before that was Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith.
	11:22pm coelacanth∅: most of Doug's collection is worthy; but i think i'll use this opportunity to relocate to the basement.
	11:23pm coelacanth∅: Jeff i was waiting for you! i dug that Arthur GB Smith.
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: I'm back, can you hear me??
	11:25pm still b/p: Gotcha agin!
	11:25pm Jeff Ash: Yep. Back on line!
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: That was weird, something glitched out and all transmission crapped out.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for hanging!
	11:26pm Jeff Ash: Paging Rosemary Woods.
	11:26pm northguineahills: Si, FunkyDiezySiesEsquina!
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: I have no earthly idea what happened, but the signal going out just dropped and stopped recording
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: i guess we're back? i don't know Tami Lynn so well - though this sounds like a Love affair suite.
	11:30pm geezerette: (sniffle...)
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: She was a New Orleans singer, made one great but neglected 45 in the mid 60s, sang backup on a lot of other people's records, then made this album in 1969. It was bold move to do a whole side like this. I think it's amazing
	11:31pm northguineahills: Brains stopped braining, thanks Larry!
	11:31pm still b/p: Solar flare, or stroke of butterfly wing on other side of earth.
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: I'm glad I was able to recuperate. I'll have some splicing to do tomorrow.
	11:32pm Funky16Corners: @Geezerette - Right? It's a heartbreaker.
	11:34pm geezerette: Seriously! I'm getting all weepy...in a good way.
	11:34pm coelacanth∅: i know the name (Tami Lynn) -maybe from album credits on someone else's release? i like this though. (& i've always liked "Love is here and...")
	11:34pm coelacanth∅: (despite that it was Diana Ross!)
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: She was on a bunch of Dr John albums: www.discogs.com...
	11:36pm geezerette: Beautiful voice, thanks for her story too.
	11:36pm coelacanth∅: That's where i know her from! Thank you
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, great, great singer
	11:37pm coelacanth∅: sun moon & herbs, definitely.
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: She had a 1966 single 'I'm Gonna Run Away From You' produced by Bert Berns that is a big Northern Soul record, it even entered the UK charts in 1972 or 1973. Oddly enough it's included on this album
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: You can tell that this part was produced and arranged by the same guy that did 'Mr Big Stuff' by Jean Knight.
	11:41pm still b/p: Waited til done as sort of a maybe-courtesy: Noticed the “and oh my darling” melody line in Love Is Here is similar to the second line of the Starry Starry Night verse, and then couldn’t stop hearing the near match, which I never noticed over the years of hearing hit version of Love.
	11:42pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, seriously
	11:44pm geezerette: Was wondering what happened/didn't happen to Yvonne Elliman in light of John Legend JCSS.
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: by starry starry night, "vincent"? i didn't catch that, but there's many influences there.
	11:48pm Jeff Ash: Peace, out. Thanks, Larry!
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: Nite Jeff!
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: spurred by a conversation about Satie, somehow, i just listened to most of this album a week ago.
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: I love this record. Nothing else like it in their catalog.
	11:51pm coelacanth∅: maybe Tami Lynn felt the time was right for an epic, side-long track because of the relative success of "hot buttered soul", and "by the time i get to phoenix"?
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: I think that's a valid theory. Why it didn't hit, and why they didn't follow it up (she didn't make another album until 1992) boggles the mind.
	11:55pm coelacanth∅: is she still among us? maybe she's got another one in her yet!
	11:57pm geezerette: Just lovely.
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: just looked. she is. 75 years young, maybe?
	11:57pm Funky16Corners: I think she's still around
	11:59pm Dean: Sang on EOMS?
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: why was i thinking Simon & Garfunkel used a Satie recording in one of their songs? (maybe because they used "silent night"?) ...but somebody did and it's frustrating to not remember!
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: What's that?
	12:00am geezerette: "Overs", I meant. :)
	12:00am Dean: Exile on Main Street
	12:00am coelacanth∅: (exile on main st)
	12:01am Funky16Corners: I don't see it in her credits but it's not out of the question
	12:02am Dean: Saw it in an article about her. Would like to believe it's so. I've been picking up Art G. LPs lately. I'm a sucker for 'em.
	12:02am Funky16Corners: I need to get more. I love his voice
	12:03am Dean: Yep, that's pretty much the draw.
	12:04am Funky16Corners: One of the funniest things at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was a wall devoted to some of Art Garfunkel's lyrics (only there because he's a close friend of Jann Wenner's)
	12:06am coelacanth∅: i have one of Art's albums and i thought he penned nothing on it.
	12:06am still b/p: Was Simon deep into engineering/production/design of all this back in the day? ...or was someone else’s hand strong in final product?
	12:08am geezerette: The lyrics are great.
	12:08am coelacanth∅: i thought this album was a long struggle for them because of writers block and friction between Paul & Art. maybe i'm thinking of a different album.
	12:09am Funky16Corners: Roy Hallee deserves a lot of credit for the sound
	12:09am geezerette: Loved the show Larry! Thanks!
	12:09am coelacanth∅: (...and mrs.robinson was commissioned, after all)
	12:10am Funky16Corners: Thanks Geezerette!
	12:10am Funky16Corners: The story behind their later work and the frictions between S&G with Garfunkels movie career really explains a lot.
	12:10am coelacanth∅: ...although i think Simon had the melody kicking around for a while.
	12:10am Scraps: Sorry, I was lying down. F16C, I did see the Fleshtones once, and they were disappointing. Phoning in it, I thought. Everybody in NY thought I was joking, but they weren’t there....
	12:11am Funky16Corners: Was it recently or 80s/90s, because back then they were amazing.
	12:11am coelacanth∅: Great program Larry Thanks!
	12:11am coelacanth∅: good night y'all
	12:12am Funky16Corners: Thanks C! Thanks everyone for sticking with me tonight!
	12:12am still b/p: Thanks for bestimony.
	12:12am Funky16Corners: Thanks SBP!
	12:12am Scraps: Late 80s
	12:13am Funky16Corners: Hmmmm. Off night, perhaps. Nite all!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 4, 2018

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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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April 4, 2018: Soul, funk, country covers and 50 year old Bookends.

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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
Globetrotters	Globetrotters Theme	The Harlem Globetrotters	Kirshner	1970	LP
Meadowlark Lemon	Shoot a Basket "Shoot a Basket" by "Meadowlark Lemon"	45RPM Single	RSVP	1966	45
Alvin Robinson	Let the Good Times Roll	45RPM Single	Blue Cat	1965	45
Gary US Bonds	New Orleans "New Orleans" by "Gary US Bonds"	45RPM Single	LeGrand	1960	45
Shirley Ellis	The Clapping Song "The Clapping Song" by "Shirley Ellis"	45RPM Single	Congress	1965	45
Eddy G Giles and the Jive Five	Eddy's Go Go Train	45RPM Single	Murco	1967	45
The Soul Sisters	Good Time Tonight	45RPM Single	Sue	1964	45

BW Souls	Marvin's Groove "Marvin's Groove" by "BW Souls"	45RPM Single	Round	1969	45
Clifton White and His Royal Knights	The Warm Up Pt1	45RPM Single	Anla	1968	45
Buddy McKnight	Every Time Pt1 "Every Time Pt1" by "Buddy McKnight"	45RPM Single	Renfro	1968	45
The Common Pleas	The Funky Judge "The Funky Judge" by "The Common Pleas"	45RPM Single	Crimson	1968	45
Ross D Wylie	Do the Uptight "Do the Uptight" by "Ross D Wylie"	45RPM Single	A&M	1969	45
Fleshtones	All Around the World "All Around the World" by "Fleshtones"	45RPM Single	IRS	1981	45
Fleshtones	Shadow Line "Shadow Line" by "Fleshtones"	Marty Thau Presents 2x5	Red Star	1980	LP
Fleshtones	The World Has Changed "The World Has Changed" by "Fleshtones"	45RPM Single	IRS	1981	45
Del Shannon	Move It On Over "Move It On Over" by "Del Shannon"	45RPM Single	Amy	1965	45
JJ Cale	After Midnight "After Midnight" by "JJ Cale"	45RPM Single	Liberty	1966	45

Nat Stuckey	Listen to the Band "Listen to the Band" by "Nat Stuckey"	New Country Roads	RCA	1969	LP
Nat Stuckey	Bad Moon Rising "Bad Moon Rising" by "Nat Stuckey"	New Country Roads	RCA	1969	LP
Nat Stuckey	In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)	New Country Roads	RCA	1969	LP
Mel Street	Green River "Green River" by "Mel Street"	45RPM Single	GRT	1974	45
Jack Ward	Treat Her Right "Treat Her Right" by "Jack Ward"	45RPM Single	Starday	1966	45
Bill Anderson and Jan Howard	Someday We'll Be Together	45RPM Single	Decca	1969	45
Tami Lynn	Love Affair Suite "Love Affair Suite" by "Tami Lynn"	Love Is Here and Now Your Gone	Cotillion	1970	LP

Simon and Garfunkel	Bookends Theme	Bookends	Columbia	1968	LP
Simon and Garfunkel	Save the Life of My Child	Bookends	Columbia	1968	LP
Simon and Garfunkel	America "America" by "Simon and Garfunkel"	Bookends	Columbia	1968	LP
Simon and Garfunkel	Overs "Overs" by "Simon and Garfunkel"	Bookends	Columbia	1968	LP
Simon and Garfunkel	Voices of Old People	Bookends	Columbia	1968	LP
Simon and Garfunkel	Old Friends "Old Friends" by "Simon and Garfunkel"	Bookends	Columbia	1968	LP
Simon and Garfunkel	Bookends Theme	Bookends	Columbia	1968	LP
Simon and Garfunkel	Fakin' It "Fakin' It" by "Simon and Garfunkel"	Bookends	Columbia	1968	LP

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Listener comments!
	10:03pm geezerette: Hello Larry! Witnesses!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Geezerette!
	10:04pm still b/p: There was a Globetrotters Saturday cartoon show...that’s what the theme reminds me of.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP! That's the theme from the show!
	10:06pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry, geez, sb/p ...
	10:07pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Green Bay, where we have dug out from the record 8 inches of snow received yesterday.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey C! Hey Jeff! No snow here but CRAZY wind.
	10:09pm Jeff Ash: Yeah, we sent that your way.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: It was 65 this afternoon but got much colder.
	10:09pm Doctorjazz: I said a hey, hey hey, hey, yeah, all!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:11pm Scraps: missed Harlem Globetrotters theme. Is that “Sweet Georgia Brown”, or another song?
	10:12pm Funky16Corners: Hey Scraps! No, the theme from the cartoon show.
	10:14pm coelacanth∅: snow rain wind snow rain wind...today's the wind. a few days ago we got 5-6" of snow in the morning and it was pretty much gone by 2 pm. a few weeks ago the snow was so wet and heavy then it froze for days that i'll get at least 4 weeks of employment out of it. (at least) it still makes me sad...as if humans aren't (more directly) responsible for a serious deficiency of trees.
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: We lost a lot of cedar/pine etc during that wet snow
	10:21pm coelacanth∅: my sister did too, as well as hemlock, tamarack, plum, etc damage; ayoung eastern redbud that will live but now has a weird shape...and a giant, ancient crab apple that went from 4 major trunks down to one. it was a most amazing tree, with horizontal branches extending maybe 50'; now it's just a weird old thing waiting to die.
	10:23pm Funky16Corners: It's a shame. The last time we had this much damage was during Hurricane Sandy where one house lost five big cedars in a row. We were spare but have mainly oak and maple
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: our family used to gather around the tv once (or maybe twice) a year for those globetrotter specials where they played a serious team and ostensibly won by miles and flustered the refs to no end.
	10:25pm Scraps: Good god, the “Harlem Globetrotters Theme” for the animated show (which I watched; I was six) was written by Jeff Barry, who supervised the album, and got Neil Sedaka, etc, to write other songs.
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: I loved the Simpson's episode where Homer went to a Globetrotters game and bet on the Generals
	10:27pm coelacanth∅: ...my sister lost a few trees in the big hurricanes in the last 6 years, but all in all suffered more damage from this snow.
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: The township was coming around collecting brush and downed branches from the storm
	10:29pm coelacanth∅: i don't remember the cartoon so well. during those games they whistled sweet georgia brown the whole time! that shit stuck in my head for months!
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: There's a 45 of that credited to Brother Bones
	10:31pm coelacanth∅: i convinced my sister to buy a wood chipper a few years ago; one of the best investments she's made.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: The Common Pleas: funky16corners.com...
	10:32pm Scraps: “Sweet Georgia Brown” didn’t make it on the album, but it was a single listed as a non-album track.
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: Ross D Wyllie: funky16corners.com...
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: The Brother Bones version goes back to 1950: www.discogs.com...
	10:35pm still b/p: “Chika-chika-boom....Globetrotters...” was the only bit a buddy and I could recall from the song, and would amuse our junior high age selves by singing that bit lamely and randomly.
	10:35pm Scraps: Ben Bernie had the original five-week run at #1 in 1925. Old!
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: Ben Bernie who's trademark was 'Yowsah! Yowsah! Yowsah!'
	10:39pm Scraps: Borrowed by Chic in the disco era.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed! I first saw Bernie do it as a cartoon caricature in a Warner Brothers cartoon. My father had to explain it to me.
	10:40pm Parq: I had this Marty Thau album, but the version of Shadow Line I really remember is the one in Urrgh. (Urghh? I'm too lazy to look it up.) That was the only segment in the whole movie that was shot at CB.
	10:41pm coelacanth∅: slow down my brain has a regulator! it only accepts new information in a slow trickle; now there's a cue formed to admit at least 5 posts'worth of new information.
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: Parq - The Marty Thau version was the original, followed by a fuller version on Roman Gods
	10:43pm Parq: F16C, I love that "Ben Birdie" cartoon! They all float away at the end on a sea of Helen Kane's tears. "Coo-Coo Nuts Grove", wasn't it? That's where I got one of my pet expressions "Well, well and well!"
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: I think so. I'll have to dig out my WB DVDs and rewatch. I love some of the now-obscure caricatures.
	10:47pm Doctorjazz: DEL Shannon, huh? Would never have guessed.
	10:48pm Doctorjazz: He's screamed past his limit!
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, that is a rager of a 45, with suspect fidelity, but enough energy to kick ass into the middle of next week.
	10:50pm Scraps: Love “Shadow Line”, though otherwise I don't like the Fleshtones nearly so much as I ought, apparently.
	10:55pm Jeff Ash: I bought this Nat Stuckey LP after you wrote about it.
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: Cool!
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: @Scraps - Did you ever see the Fleshtones live?
	10:58pm northguineahills: Forgot to say hi! Counted my tomatoes and tomatillo fruits already growing. (one of the few advantages of living in FL). Haven't heard this version!
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	11:00pm northguineahills: I love gardening at night (and not just the REM song).
	11:00pm Parq: There's a bathroom on the right.
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: Hmmmm, I wonder why there weren't more country versions of 'In the Year 2525'?
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: this one was kinda asking for it
	11:03pm Funky16Corners: I love this version
	11:04pm Doctorjazz: CREEDENCE make for good country material.
	11:04pm Funky16Corners: You can actually understand all the words!
	11:05pm northguineahills: Green River, and underratedl late 80s/early 90s Seattle band.. (didn't hear of them until 95.
	11:05pm Funky16Corners: I wonder is there was ever a country tribute comp for Creedence?
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: well, he's changed many of the words.
	11:07pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, the reference to Commander Cody is kind of cool
	11:08pm coelacanth∅: ha i didn't even catch that!
	11:09pm coelacanth∅: that was jarring ...i think i got the drummer stream over here
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: What was?
	11:11pm coelacanth∅: - i had the volume WAYYY up because the levels have been so low. this is not your program i'm hearing
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: ...damn, i'd really like to hear a county version of "someday..." too!
	11:13pm Jeff Ash: Yeah, there's a glitch. Stream is playing Baloji.
	11:13pm northguineahills: Yeah, lost the stream and got some afro-francophone club-friendly pop diddy.
	11:13pm Parq: I'm getting the show on the stream okay.
	11:15pm Parq: Wait, no I'm not. This is definitely not "Someday We'll Be Together." Some sort of screamer rave up, segueing into an acoustic slide guitar blues song.
	11:16pm coelacanth∅: now we've got old country blues gospel.
	11:16pm Doctorjazz: Listening on FMU phone app with no problem.
	11:17pm Jeff Ash: Yep, Ralph Nielsen and the Chancellors on that rave-up, and now Lil McClintock on that old country gospel.
	11:17pm coelacanth∅: ...for a second i thought it was a country blues style cover of "country death song" by violent femmes!
	11:17pm Dean: I'm here, but listening to a Schumann recital CD, rather than 'FMU. Sounds fine.
	11:18pm Jeff Ash: Dang technical difficulties. So it goes.
	11:18pm northguineahills: It's working now. Met some folks from Seagirt, NJ that said they had to drive 15 miles north to pick up the 91.1 signal before they moved here. Active donors (that makes three people I've met here that actively donate).
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: Are you guys still getting a signal?
	11:18pm Doctorjazz: I'm getting country blues, think I'm on the stream now as well...
	11:18pm coelacanth∅: stream.
	11:19pm northguineahills: We are now!
	11:19pm northguineahills: Wait, are we, it's hard to tell, you're show mirror's Doug's stream.
	11:19pm Jeff Ash: Stream seems goobered up. Some other show cut into your stream.
	11:20pm coelacanth∅: (Doug's music, that is)
	11:20pm still b/p: Auto Drummer stream on the app here, not your show.
	11:20pm Funky16Corners: OK. I'm going to have to reboot, hang in there
	11:21pm Funky16corners: I should be back in a few
	11:22pm Jeff Ash: This is Margo Guryan for those listening to the outlaw stream. Before that was Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith.
	11:22pm coelacanth∅: most of Doug's collection is worthy; but i think i'll use this opportunity to relocate to the basement.
	11:23pm coelacanth∅: Jeff i was waiting for you! i dug that Arthur GB Smith.
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: I'm back, can you hear me??
	11:25pm still b/p: Gotcha agin!
	11:25pm Jeff Ash: Yep. Back on line!
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: That was weird, something glitched out and all transmission crapped out.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for hanging!
	11:26pm Jeff Ash: Paging Rosemary Woods.
	11:26pm northguineahills: Si, FunkyDiezySiesEsquina!
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: I have no earthly idea what happened, but the signal going out just dropped and stopped recording
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: i guess we're back? i don't know Tami Lynn so well - though this sounds like a Love affair suite.
	11:30pm geezerette: (sniffle...)
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: She was a New Orleans singer, made one great but neglected 45 in the mid 60s, sang backup on a lot of other people's records, then made this album in 1969. It was bold move to do a whole side like this. I think it's amazing
	11:31pm northguineahills: Brains stopped braining, thanks Larry!
	11:31pm still b/p: Solar flare, or stroke of butterfly wing on other side of earth.
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: I'm glad I was able to recuperate. I'll have some splicing to do tomorrow.
	11:32pm Funky16Corners: @Geezerette - Right? It's a heartbreaker.
	11:34pm geezerette: Seriously! I'm getting all weepy...in a good way.
	11:34pm coelacanth∅: i know the name (Tami Lynn) -maybe from album credits on someone else's release? i like this though. (& i've always liked "Love is here and...")
	11:34pm coelacanth∅: (despite that it was Diana Ross!)
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: She was on a bunch of Dr John albums: www.discogs.com...
	11:36pm geezerette: Beautiful voice, thanks for her story too.
	11:36pm coelacanth∅: That's where i know her from! Thank you
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, great, great singer
	11:37pm coelacanth∅: sun moon & herbs, definitely.
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: She had a 1966 single 'I'm Gonna Run Away From You' produced by Bert Berns that is a big Northern Soul record, it even entered the UK charts in 1972 or 1973. Oddly enough it's included on this album
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: You can tell that this part was produced and arranged by the same guy that did 'Mr Big Stuff' by Jean Knight.
	11:41pm still b/p: Waited til done as sort of a maybe-courtesy: Noticed the “and oh my darling” melody line in Love Is Here is similar to the second line of the Starry Starry Night verse, and then couldn’t stop hearing the near match, which I never noticed over the years of hearing hit version of Love.
	11:42pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, seriously
	11:44pm geezerette: Was wondering what happened/didn't happen to Yvonne Elliman in light of John Legend JCSS.
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: by starry starry night, "vincent"? i didn't catch that, but there's many influences there.
	11:48pm Jeff Ash: Peace, out. Thanks, Larry!
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: Nite Jeff!
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: spurred by a conversation about Satie, somehow, i just listened to most of this album a week ago.
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: I love this record. Nothing else like it in their catalog.
	11:51pm coelacanth∅: maybe Tami Lynn felt the time was right for an epic, side-long track because of the relative success of "hot buttered soul", and "by the time i get to phoenix"?
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: I think that's a valid theory. Why it didn't hit, and why they didn't follow it up (she didn't make another album until 1992) boggles the mind.
	11:55pm coelacanth∅: is she still among us? maybe she's got another one in her yet!
	11:57pm geezerette: Just lovely.
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: just looked. she is. 75 years young, maybe?
	11:57pm Funky16Corners: I think she's still around
	11:59pm Dean: Sang on EOMS?
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: why was i thinking Simon & Garfunkel used a Satie recording in one of their songs? (maybe because they used "silent night"?) ...but somebody did and it's frustrating to not remember!
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: What's that?
	12:00am geezerette: "Overs", I meant. :)
	12:00am Dean: Exile on Main Street
	12:00am coelacanth∅: (exile on main st)
	12:01am Funky16Corners: I don't see it in her credits but it's not out of the question
	12:02am Dean: Saw it in an article about her. Would like to believe it's so. I've been picking up Art G. LPs lately. I'm a sucker for 'em.
	12:02am Funky16Corners: I need to get more. I love his voice
	12:03am Dean: Yep, that's pretty much the draw.
	12:04am Funky16Corners: One of the funniest things at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was a wall devoted to some of Art Garfunkel's lyrics (only there because he's a close friend of Jann Wenner's)
	12:06am coelacanth∅: i have one of Art's albums and i thought he penned nothing on it.
	12:06am still b/p: Was Simon deep into engineering/production/design of all this back in the day? ...or was someone else’s hand strong in final product?
	12:08am geezerette: The lyrics are great.
	12:08am coelacanth∅: i thought this album was a long struggle for them because of writers block and friction between Paul & Art. maybe i'm thinking of a different album.
	12:09am Funky16Corners: Roy Hallee deserves a lot of credit for the sound
	12:09am geezerette: Loved the show Larry! Thanks!
	12:09am coelacanth∅: (...and mrs.robinson was commissioned, after all)
	12:10am Funky16Corners: Thanks Geezerette!
	12:10am Funky16Corners: The story behind their later work and the frictions between S&G with Garfunkels movie career really explains a lot.
	12:10am coelacanth∅: ...although i think Simon had the melody kicking around for a while.
	12:10am Scraps: Sorry, I was lying down. F16C, I did see the Fleshtones once, and they were disappointing. Phoning in it, I thought. Everybody in NY thought I was joking, but they weren’t there....
	12:11am Funky16Corners: Was it recently or 80s/90s, because back then they were amazing.
	12:11am coelacanth∅: Great program Larry Thanks!
	12:11am coelacanth∅: good night y'all
	12:12am Funky16Corners: Thanks C! Thanks everyone for sticking with me tonight!
	12:12am still b/p: Thanks for bestimony.
	12:12am Funky16Corners: Thanks SBP!
	12:12am Scraps: Late 80s
	12:13am Funky16Corners: Hmmmm. Off night, perhaps. Nite all!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 4, 2018

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