WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 18, 2018

Listener comments!
	10:02pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin!
	10:02pm chresti: It's kind of like Jersey here in LA
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff! Hey Chresti!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: How so, Chresti? Humid?
	10:04pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and sleepy, humid listeners
	10:04pm chresti: Yes and hot
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:05pm Erica: Greetings all!
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, it was blazing here today. I went out thsi afternoon and I thought I was gonna pass out.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica!
	10:06pm Sig: So far so good. I love the IP adresses
	10:06pm Erica: What's the theme this week?
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sig!
	10:07pm chresti: guess!
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - a couple of smaller, capsule 'themes'. Stay tuned.
	10:07pm Sig: Hi corners
	10:09pm chresti: heat related humidity
	10:10pm coelacanth∅: i had this song stuck in my head for a few weeks recently. (not this version!)
	10:10pm chresti: thank you for persuasions!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: The Dead's original?
	10:11pm Parq: Knew the Persuasions' 70s stuff, but this is a totally new one on me.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - You're welcome! I love this album. I still want to track down their early stuff.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq!
	10:12pm coelacanth∅: the original europe 72 version (was there a released version besides that? before all the inferior dicks picks versions complicated matters?!)
	10:13pm Funky16Corners: I don't think so
	10:15pm chresti: I have "We came to play"
	10:16pm chresti: I don't have "dick's picks"
	10:17pm coelacanth∅: i once worked at a cemetery (didn't i mention that recently?) and one of the guys used to sing loudly while he used the weed wacker. he usually sang the same song, and when i asked him what it was he said it was an a cappella group but i subsequently forgot the name - though i still kind of remember the song. i wonder if it was the persuasions.
	10:19pm northguineahills: What, you don't have all 85 Dick's Pick/s, chresti, you monster! Loved that Persuasions!
	10:19pm chresti: How did it go?@coel Oh my gosh!@Larry
	10:22pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, crazy, right? I wole up in the middle of last week with diminished hearing in my left ear. It got painful, and fortunately I didn't have to wait too long to see an ENT.
	10:23pm chresti: I used to sing this when I was 10
	10:23pm Funky16Corners: One of the eeriest, coolest records ever made.
	10:23pm coelacanth∅: i don't mind the dicks picks. i guess it's good for folks who obsess over some version that they were tripping to or whatever and therefore it's the best version to them. -and the previously hard to find best versions of "i know you rider" - pre-1967; pre-china cat sunflower have seen daylight again. ...it just clogs up jukeboxes and such, that's all; and they are inferior, in general. that's why they weren't released at the time.
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: I only have a few, one from the Shrine Auditorium in 1967 and one from the early 80s
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: chresti (@10.19) i'll sing it for you after a few drinks!
	10:26pm Erica: I'm guessing it's different versions of Ode to Billie Joe.
	10:27pm chresti: the only grateful dead I know is one my brother had, cripple creek(?)
	10:27pm Erica: So if you missed one version, you get another to make up for it.
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Just this set.
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: Though I'm sure I have enough versions to do a whole show
	10:28pm Erica: I know Larry
	10:29pm chresti: Versions Rule!
	10:29pm coelacanth∅: my introduction to the 'dead was "vintage dead". released without their permission, the band and the deadhead community generally pretended it didn't exist. aside from "san francisco's grateful dead" it's their best album, in my opinion. best versions of all songs on it. en.wikipedia.org... ...this is now available on a dicks picks from the avalon (sp?) ballroom from 1966.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: It really is one of the most heavily covered song of the 60s. I'm sur wherever Bobbie Gentry is, she's sitting on a mountain of 100 dollar bills
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: chresti cripple creek was "the band".
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: Vintage Dead is a cool set
	10:30pm hyde: hmmm, i somehow found myself on the July 20 playlist. the future is lonely
	10:30pm Parq: Bobbie Gentry was one of my first celeb crushes, and the first one I can distinctly remember. And this song is perfect, not to mention what a cultural rosetta stone it was in the late 60s.
	10:31pm coelacanth∅: hyde! live in the now!
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Then they made that awful movie with Robbie Benson,
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: hey Hyde!
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: (or as Leonard Cohen said,"i've seen the future, brother, it is murder")
	10:33pm chresti: Oh I think it was "american beauty" that my brother had
	10:33pm Parq: Nice change of sex by Tex.
	10:33pm Franco Twinkie: Any thing on Groove Merchant is worth buying, even if you don't know what the hell it is I have found. And yes, Larry, Vintage Dead is as good as anything for that raw '66 sound.
	10:34pm chresti: Franco is the dead head
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: I love the early, garagey Pigpen Dead
	10:34pm hyde: love this set
	10:35pm Erica: That Joe Tex version was too crackly to enjoy. Shame because I like the part where he says soul food lol.
	10:35pm Franco Twinkie: Among other things,yes.
	10:35pm Erica: Also hello hyde. I see your profile pic is a cat. I love cats too.
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: Sorry, sometimes vinyl carries the scars of age.
	10:36pm coelacanth∅: hells yeah, Pig Pen... and Weir's terrible singing wasn't as terrible then, before he unjustifiably got confident!
	10:36pm chresti: On many levels-you're a storehouse of things dead franco
	10:37pm Parq: The country was still in the throes of post-WWII resentment when Jerry Lewis, playing an interrogated Japanese POW on a late 60s variety show cried it "I tawk, I tawk, I even terr what Birry Joe thlew off the Tarrahachi Blidge!" Not everything about the 60s was Woodstock and MLK, folks.
	10:37pm hyde: @Erica hi! yeah, my profile pic is of my old one eyed cat Satu, who was the sweetest cat i ever owned
	10:38pm Erica: @hyde Aww
	10:38pm Franco Twinkie: Me too Larry, The stuff from Buena Vista is great and horrible at the same time! A contradiction? Not in my universe.
	10:39pm chresti: The ironing board with your foot on it looks like an eye from a distance, Franco
	10:40pm Franco Twinkie: It is,is,is.....is.
	10:40pm coelacanth∅: Parq, well jerry lee lewis was a douche anyway. i'm sure he felt totally righteous doing that.
	10:42pm Jeff Ash: I didn't mind the noise on the Joe Tex record. It wasn't too bad. That's one of the charms of old vinyl.
	10:42pm Erica: Wrong Jerry coel.
	10:43pm chresti: I missed that one, Parq
	10:43pm Erica: I don't get the charm Jeff. Sorry.
	10:43pm coelacanth∅: agreed Jeff. i like the warm crackle of loved vinyl.
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Yeah, soul of a different kind
	10:44pm coelacanth∅: ohhh! Jerry Lewis! oops. thank you Erica.
	10:45pm coelacanth∅: -and that's sad...though i really don't know much about jerry lewis - except that he wasn't very funny.
	10:45pm chresti: depends how it's mixed re: crackles, for me
	10:46pm Funky16Corners: RE Jerry Lewis - The biggest most diseased ego in Hollywood.
	10:46pm Franco Twinkie: Larry, my friend Bruce used to work with Harlan at the Los Angeles Free Press in 65-66. He said at the time, you couldn't stand to close to the guy because he never took a bath.
	10:47pm chresti: my ex used to work on the telethon years ago
	10:47pm coelacanth∅: i have some records that are beyond enjoyable because of thick crackles; but my tolerance is pretty high.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - The aroma of brilliance!
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: When you've spent as much time chasing down old records, sometimes you take what you can get, and that is often in questionable condition. But you wouldn't toss the Rosetta Stone because it was chipped. You dig the importance in the grooves and squint a little to get past the noise.
	10:50pm chresti: as long as they play...
	10:50pm Funky16Corners: Yup.
	10:51pm Erica: For me Larry, it's all about the music/audio is the best available condition possible. If I have to hear it on vinyl, it's because it was released on that format exclusively otherwise I prefer CDs and mp3s for convienient reasons.
	10:51pm Erica: Same goes for tape formats.
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: Best condition POSSIBLE being the operating principle
	10:52pm Erica: I don't buy into that whole charm, warmth, artwork and bells and whistles that vinyl lovers crave for.
	10:55pm coelacanth∅: i'll take all of the above, please! (well, i can't think of any album cover that had bells or whistles attached to it, but if there is one i'm all for it)
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: Too bad. Lots of charm there, but then again I'm talking about rare records. I'd love to hear some of my 45s in pristine condition, but there are only so many of them, only so much money in the wallet, and a lifetime of acclimation that allows me to enjoy them as they are.
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: @C - I'm sure some hippie somewhere released an album with atual bells and whistles attached. Someone once released and LP soaked in patchouli,
	10:57pm Erica: it's a figure of speech coel. I meant I don't go for the extra stuff.
	10:57pm chresti: is there one soaked in lsd?
	10:57pm Franco Twinkie: There was this show on KPFK in the 1970's that was a weekly summit meeting of all Sci-Fi weirdos in L.A. Harlan was on often. that was my introduction to him. Up util then, I was not aware of the term megalomaniac. There were others, but Harlan beat everyone else hands down. I never missed a show if I could help it. It was one of the best shows on the air back then.
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, he was a hard guy to love, but his writing made it all work (at least for me).
	10:58pm coelacanth∅: good sound and album art are not extras.
	10:59pm coelacanth∅: what album was it that was supposed to explode confetti out of it when it was first opened?
	11:00pm Erica: It IS distracting thought coel. And there was no confetti. You have a weird imagination. Haha!
	11:00pm Franco Twinkie: I forgot what a one man band he was.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: I don't remember that one. I love all the early to mid 70s albums with revolving die cut unfolding triptychs etc
	11:01pm Sig: Ethics.
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - He was (in his prime) extraordinarily prolific. Fiction and non-fiction.
	11:03pm Mike Sin: Was Harlan actually an employee of Disney for a short time?
	11:04pm coelacanth∅: @10.56 i once met a woman, a good bit my senior, who worked in a shop on the next block. she shopped in my store and with some frequency brought my mixtapes. they always smelled of patchouli and i grew to love the smell of patchouli, if it's quality oil and depending who's wearing it.
	11:04pm coelacanth∅: ("brought ME" mixtapes)
	11:04pm Franco Twinkie: No doubt, Larry. He was like a little lump of burning phosphorus sitting on your arm.
	11:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mike! I think I remember a story about him having a brief sojourn at Disney which he - as he often did - sabotaged bu standing on a table and blaspheming Walt or Mickey.
	11:06pm Mike Sin: Hi Larry -- i actually never heard of a Disney connection until reading all the recent obituaries/recollections.
	11:07pm Funky16Corners: I think he was the kind of writer that everyone wanted to hire, until they met him and realized what they were in for
	11:13pm Franco Twinkie: This is great! I love funked-up versions of hippie anthems. Recently I found a '45 of the Staple Singers doing For What It's Worth. Brilliant!
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: That's a great one!
	11:15pm Franco Twinkie: Also on Epic.
	11:16pm chresti: there had to be a confetti spewing album, and glitter!
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: The Staples Epic period is my favorite era of theirs
	11:17pm Franco Twinkie: Love 'um! Saw the open for The Ike And Tina Turner Review.
	11:19pm Funky16Corners: Wow! I'm jealous, two of my faves
	11:24pm Erica: Nice Youngbloods song.
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: Thanks. Yeah, great band.
	11:27pm Sig: Well I love the old fashioned radar depicting the world map, with all it's bleeps and dots. Once seen and always data stored. But I really don't know computer's. Just an autodidact who speaks
	11:35pm coelacanth∅: chresti probably more than one. there was one that i read about just within the past few months but i read about a lot of artists. apparently the record company vetoed it but some copies supposedly did get out. it's gonna bother me until i remember!
	11:37pm Erica: No offense but this is a pretty weak version of " A Whiter Shade of Pale.
	11:37pm chresti: I was thinking kind of pale rendition of pale
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: Wow, really disappointing you tonight?
	11:39pm Erica: Sorry Larry, just being honest.
	11:40pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for your honesty.
	11:40pm chresti: not at all! There was a weird longface quality-and I have a stick up my ....about the everlys
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: I love that album. They even get psychedelic on it.
	11:42pm chresti: oh yeah? I think they hit it sometimes
	11:43pm Erica: Yea but their later stuff isn't recognized too much because it wasn't as successful as their songs from the late 50s/early 60s.
	11:46pm chresti: coelcanth, right? where's Franco, he might know about glitter/confetti containing albums
	11:48pm Franco Twinkie: I know nothing of such nonsense! But I do know we need dish soap!
	11:48pm chresti: duly noted!
	11:49pm Erica: Haha Franko!
	11:49pm Erica: Franco sorry.
	11:50pm chresti: how about soap in an album?
	11:50pm Franco Twinkie: Sometimes the truth is funny.
	11:50pm coelacanth∅: i'm thinking it could've been Prince, but more likely much earlier than his career. 'trying to remember who i've researched the discography of in the last few months but i frequently erase my history.
	11:53pm chresti: Flo and Eddie gave out cocktail glasses with their faces on it, for a show at the Roxy
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: They had some great album covers
	11:53pm Franco Twinkie: I think Martin Mull tried putting soap in a record, Well, maybe not. But I know he had a bubble machine once when I saw him at The Troubador.
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: haha
	11:58pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you Larry. Lively and informative....as usual.
	11:58pm Sig: Well when one writes on a open source/platform for five years 1 don't know, RIGHT. Remember ladies and gentlemen read the finprint of private tab. And a very fine advice is put a piece of tape in front of the visual recording device.
	11:59pm Sig: White cap talking!
	11:59pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry, and good night! Catch you down the road!
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! 'night y'all
	11:59pm Sig: Ethics in life matter!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thank you Franco! Nite Jeff! Nite C!
	12:00am Erica: Well that's another show over.
	12:00am chresti: I learned RIGHT from a guy that worked at trader Joes
	12:00am Erica: Night guys!
	12:00am Dean: Here's a supposed US version of Bart's album: https://www.discogs.com/Lionel-Bart-Isnt-This-Where-We-Came-In/release/4033455
	12:00am chresti: thanks Larry!
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks Dean!
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Nite Chresti!
	12:01am chresti: right? requires a question mark
	12:02am chresti: goodnight!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 18, 2018

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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
Eddy Senay	Ain't No Sunshine "Ain't No Sunshine" by "Eddy Senay"	45RPM Single	Sussex	1972	45
Big John Hamilton	How Much Can a Man Take	45RPM Single	Minaret	1968	45
The Persuasions	He's Gone "He's Gone" by "The Persuasions"	Might As Well: The Persuasions Sing the Grateful Dead	Grateful Dead	2000	CD
Brook Benton	Nothing Takes the Place of You	45RPM Single	Cotillion	1969	45

Bobbie Gentry	Ode To Billie Joe "Ode To Billie Joe" by "Bobbie Gentry"	Ode to Billie Joe	Capitol	1967	LP
Jerome Richardson	Ode To Billie Joe	Groove Merchant	Verve	1967	LP
Joe Tex	Ode To Billie Joe "Ode To Billie Joe" by "Joe Tex"	Soul Country	Atlantic	1968	LP
Merl Saunders Trio and Big Band	Ode To Billie Joe	Soul Grooving	Galaxy	1968	LP

Harlan Ellison	Shatterday "Shatterday" by "Harlan Ellison"	Harlan! Harlan Ellison Reads Harlan Ellison	Harlan Ellison Record Club	1976	LP

Brenda Patterson	This Wheel's On Fire	Keep On Keeping On	Epic	1970	LP
Mama Cass	You Know Who I Am "You Know Who I Am" by "Mama Cass"	Dream a Little Dream	Dunhill	1968	LP
Mama Cass	What Was I Thinking Of "What Was I Thinking Of" by "Mama Cass"	Dream a Little Dream	Dunhill	1968	LP
The Youngbloods	Tears Are Falling	The Youngbloods	RCA	1967	LP
Jennifer Warnes	Be My Friend "Be My Friend" by "Jennifer Warnes"	Jennifer	Reprise	1972	LP
Jennifer Warnes	Magdeline (My Regal Zonophone)	Jennifer	Reprise	1972	LP
The Everly Brothers	A Whiter Shade of Pale	The Everly Brothers Sing	Warner Brothers	1967	LP
Antoine	Un Autre Autoroute "Un Autre Autoroute" by "Antoine"	Antoine	Vogue	1966	LP
Lionel Bart	Looking Glass Looking Glass	Isn't This Where We Come In	Deram	1968	LP
Neon Philharmonic	F Scott Fitzgerald and William Shakespeare	Neon Philharmonic	Warner Brothers	1969	LP
Neon Philharmonic	No One Is Going To Hurt You	Neon Philharmonic	Warner Brothers	1969	LP

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

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Listener comments!
	10:02pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin!
	10:02pm chresti: It's kind of like Jersey here in LA
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff! Hey Chresti!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: How so, Chresti? Humid?
	10:04pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and sleepy, humid listeners
	10:04pm chresti: Yes and hot
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:05pm Erica: Greetings all!
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, it was blazing here today. I went out thsi afternoon and I thought I was gonna pass out.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica!
	10:06pm Sig: So far so good. I love the IP adresses
	10:06pm Erica: What's the theme this week?
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sig!
	10:07pm chresti: guess!
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - a couple of smaller, capsule 'themes'. Stay tuned.
	10:07pm Sig: Hi corners
	10:09pm chresti: heat related humidity
	10:10pm coelacanth∅: i had this song stuck in my head for a few weeks recently. (not this version!)
	10:10pm chresti: thank you for persuasions!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: The Dead's original?
	10:11pm Parq: Knew the Persuasions' 70s stuff, but this is a totally new one on me.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - You're welcome! I love this album. I still want to track down their early stuff.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq!
	10:12pm coelacanth∅: the original europe 72 version (was there a released version besides that? before all the inferior dicks picks versions complicated matters?!)
	10:13pm Funky16Corners: I don't think so
	10:15pm chresti: I have "We came to play"
	10:16pm chresti: I don't have "dick's picks"
	10:17pm coelacanth∅: i once worked at a cemetery (didn't i mention that recently?) and one of the guys used to sing loudly while he used the weed wacker. he usually sang the same song, and when i asked him what it was he said it was an a cappella group but i subsequently forgot the name - though i still kind of remember the song. i wonder if it was the persuasions.
	10:19pm northguineahills: What, you don't have all 85 Dick's Pick/s, chresti, you monster! Loved that Persuasions!
	10:19pm chresti: How did it go?@coel Oh my gosh!@Larry
	10:22pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, crazy, right? I wole up in the middle of last week with diminished hearing in my left ear. It got painful, and fortunately I didn't have to wait too long to see an ENT.
	10:23pm chresti: I used to sing this when I was 10
	10:23pm Funky16Corners: One of the eeriest, coolest records ever made.
	10:23pm coelacanth∅: i don't mind the dicks picks. i guess it's good for folks who obsess over some version that they were tripping to or whatever and therefore it's the best version to them. -and the previously hard to find best versions of "i know you rider" - pre-1967; pre-china cat sunflower have seen daylight again. ...it just clogs up jukeboxes and such, that's all; and they are inferior, in general. that's why they weren't released at the time.
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: I only have a few, one from the Shrine Auditorium in 1967 and one from the early 80s
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: chresti (@10.19) i'll sing it for you after a few drinks!
	10:26pm Erica: I'm guessing it's different versions of Ode to Billie Joe.
	10:27pm chresti: the only grateful dead I know is one my brother had, cripple creek(?)
	10:27pm Erica: So if you missed one version, you get another to make up for it.
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Just this set.
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: Though I'm sure I have enough versions to do a whole show
	10:28pm Erica: I know Larry
	10:29pm chresti: Versions Rule!
	10:29pm coelacanth∅: my introduction to the 'dead was "vintage dead". released without their permission, the band and the deadhead community generally pretended it didn't exist. aside from "san francisco's grateful dead" it's their best album, in my opinion. best versions of all songs on it. en.wikipedia.org... ...this is now available on a dicks picks from the avalon (sp?) ballroom from 1966.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: It really is one of the most heavily covered song of the 60s. I'm sur wherever Bobbie Gentry is, she's sitting on a mountain of 100 dollar bills
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: chresti cripple creek was "the band".
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: Vintage Dead is a cool set
	10:30pm hyde: hmmm, i somehow found myself on the July 20 playlist. the future is lonely
	10:30pm Parq: Bobbie Gentry was one of my first celeb crushes, and the first one I can distinctly remember. And this song is perfect, not to mention what a cultural rosetta stone it was in the late 60s.
	10:31pm coelacanth∅: hyde! live in the now!
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Then they made that awful movie with Robbie Benson,
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: hey Hyde!
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: (or as Leonard Cohen said,"i've seen the future, brother, it is murder")
	10:33pm chresti: Oh I think it was "american beauty" that my brother had
	10:33pm Parq: Nice change of sex by Tex.
	10:33pm Franco Twinkie: Any thing on Groove Merchant is worth buying, even if you don't know what the hell it is I have found. And yes, Larry, Vintage Dead is as good as anything for that raw '66 sound.
	10:34pm chresti: Franco is the dead head
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: I love the early, garagey Pigpen Dead
	10:34pm hyde: love this set
	10:35pm Erica: That Joe Tex version was too crackly to enjoy. Shame because I like the part where he says soul food lol.
	10:35pm Franco Twinkie: Among other things,yes.
	10:35pm Erica: Also hello hyde. I see your profile pic is a cat. I love cats too.
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: Sorry, sometimes vinyl carries the scars of age.
	10:36pm coelacanth∅: hells yeah, Pig Pen... and Weir's terrible singing wasn't as terrible then, before he unjustifiably got confident!
	10:36pm chresti: On many levels-you're a storehouse of things dead franco
	10:37pm Parq: The country was still in the throes of post-WWII resentment when Jerry Lewis, playing an interrogated Japanese POW on a late 60s variety show cried it "I tawk, I tawk, I even terr what Birry Joe thlew off the Tarrahachi Blidge!" Not everything about the 60s was Woodstock and MLK, folks.
	10:37pm hyde: @Erica hi! yeah, my profile pic is of my old one eyed cat Satu, who was the sweetest cat i ever owned
	10:38pm Erica: @hyde Aww
	10:38pm Franco Twinkie: Me too Larry, The stuff from Buena Vista is great and horrible at the same time! A contradiction? Not in my universe.
	10:39pm chresti: The ironing board with your foot on it looks like an eye from a distance, Franco
	10:40pm Franco Twinkie: It is,is,is.....is.
	10:40pm coelacanth∅: Parq, well jerry lee lewis was a douche anyway. i'm sure he felt totally righteous doing that.
	10:42pm Jeff Ash: I didn't mind the noise on the Joe Tex record. It wasn't too bad. That's one of the charms of old vinyl.
	10:42pm Erica: Wrong Jerry coel.
	10:43pm chresti: I missed that one, Parq
	10:43pm Erica: I don't get the charm Jeff. Sorry.
	10:43pm coelacanth∅: agreed Jeff. i like the warm crackle of loved vinyl.
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Yeah, soul of a different kind
	10:44pm coelacanth∅: ohhh! Jerry Lewis! oops. thank you Erica.
	10:45pm coelacanth∅: -and that's sad...though i really don't know much about jerry lewis - except that he wasn't very funny.
	10:45pm chresti: depends how it's mixed re: crackles, for me
	10:46pm Funky16Corners: RE Jerry Lewis - The biggest most diseased ego in Hollywood.
	10:46pm Franco Twinkie: Larry, my friend Bruce used to work with Harlan at the Los Angeles Free Press in 65-66. He said at the time, you couldn't stand to close to the guy because he never took a bath.
	10:47pm chresti: my ex used to work on the telethon years ago
	10:47pm coelacanth∅: i have some records that are beyond enjoyable because of thick crackles; but my tolerance is pretty high.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - The aroma of brilliance!
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: When you've spent as much time chasing down old records, sometimes you take what you can get, and that is often in questionable condition. But you wouldn't toss the Rosetta Stone because it was chipped. You dig the importance in the grooves and squint a little to get past the noise.
	10:50pm chresti: as long as they play...
	10:50pm Funky16Corners: Yup.
	10:51pm Erica: For me Larry, it's all about the music/audio is the best available condition possible. If I have to hear it on vinyl, it's because it was released on that format exclusively otherwise I prefer CDs and mp3s for convienient reasons.
	10:51pm Erica: Same goes for tape formats.
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: Best condition POSSIBLE being the operating principle
	10:52pm Erica: I don't buy into that whole charm, warmth, artwork and bells and whistles that vinyl lovers crave for.
	10:55pm coelacanth∅: i'll take all of the above, please! (well, i can't think of any album cover that had bells or whistles attached to it, but if there is one i'm all for it)
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: Too bad. Lots of charm there, but then again I'm talking about rare records. I'd love to hear some of my 45s in pristine condition, but there are only so many of them, only so much money in the wallet, and a lifetime of acclimation that allows me to enjoy them as they are.
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: @C - I'm sure some hippie somewhere released an album with atual bells and whistles attached. Someone once released and LP soaked in patchouli,
	10:57pm Erica: it's a figure of speech coel. I meant I don't go for the extra stuff.
	10:57pm chresti: is there one soaked in lsd?
	10:57pm Franco Twinkie: There was this show on KPFK in the 1970's that was a weekly summit meeting of all Sci-Fi weirdos in L.A. Harlan was on often. that was my introduction to him. Up util then, I was not aware of the term megalomaniac. There were others, but Harlan beat everyone else hands down. I never missed a show if I could help it. It was one of the best shows on the air back then.
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, he was a hard guy to love, but his writing made it all work (at least for me).
	10:58pm coelacanth∅: good sound and album art are not extras.
	10:59pm coelacanth∅: what album was it that was supposed to explode confetti out of it when it was first opened?
	11:00pm Erica: It IS distracting thought coel. And there was no confetti. You have a weird imagination. Haha!
	11:00pm Franco Twinkie: I forgot what a one man band he was.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: I don't remember that one. I love all the early to mid 70s albums with revolving die cut unfolding triptychs etc
	11:01pm Sig: Ethics.
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - He was (in his prime) extraordinarily prolific. Fiction and non-fiction.
	11:03pm Mike Sin: Was Harlan actually an employee of Disney for a short time?
	11:04pm coelacanth∅: @10.56 i once met a woman, a good bit my senior, who worked in a shop on the next block. she shopped in my store and with some frequency brought my mixtapes. they always smelled of patchouli and i grew to love the smell of patchouli, if it's quality oil and depending who's wearing it.
	11:04pm coelacanth∅: ("brought ME" mixtapes)
	11:04pm Franco Twinkie: No doubt, Larry. He was like a little lump of burning phosphorus sitting on your arm.
	11:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mike! I think I remember a story about him having a brief sojourn at Disney which he - as he often did - sabotaged bu standing on a table and blaspheming Walt or Mickey.
	11:06pm Mike Sin: Hi Larry -- i actually never heard of a Disney connection until reading all the recent obituaries/recollections.
	11:07pm Funky16Corners: I think he was the kind of writer that everyone wanted to hire, until they met him and realized what they were in for
	11:13pm Franco Twinkie: This is great! I love funked-up versions of hippie anthems. Recently I found a '45 of the Staple Singers doing For What It's Worth. Brilliant!
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: That's a great one!
	11:15pm Franco Twinkie: Also on Epic.
	11:16pm chresti: there had to be a confetti spewing album, and glitter!
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: The Staples Epic period is my favorite era of theirs
	11:17pm Franco Twinkie: Love 'um! Saw the open for The Ike And Tina Turner Review.
	11:19pm Funky16Corners: Wow! I'm jealous, two of my faves
	11:24pm Erica: Nice Youngbloods song.
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: Thanks. Yeah, great band.
	11:27pm Sig: Well I love the old fashioned radar depicting the world map, with all it's bleeps and dots. Once seen and always data stored. But I really don't know computer's. Just an autodidact who speaks
	11:35pm coelacanth∅: chresti probably more than one. there was one that i read about just within the past few months but i read about a lot of artists. apparently the record company vetoed it but some copies supposedly did get out. it's gonna bother me until i remember!
	11:37pm Erica: No offense but this is a pretty weak version of " A Whiter Shade of Pale.
	11:37pm chresti: I was thinking kind of pale rendition of pale
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: Wow, really disappointing you tonight?
	11:39pm Erica: Sorry Larry, just being honest.
	11:40pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for your honesty.
	11:40pm chresti: not at all! There was a weird longface quality-and I have a stick up my ....about the everlys
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: I love that album. They even get psychedelic on it.
	11:42pm chresti: oh yeah? I think they hit it sometimes
	11:43pm Erica: Yea but their later stuff isn't recognized too much because it wasn't as successful as their songs from the late 50s/early 60s.
	11:46pm chresti: coelcanth, right? where's Franco, he might know about glitter/confetti containing albums
	11:48pm Franco Twinkie: I know nothing of such nonsense! But I do know we need dish soap!
	11:48pm chresti: duly noted!
	11:49pm Erica: Haha Franko!
	11:49pm Erica: Franco sorry.
	11:50pm chresti: how about soap in an album?
	11:50pm Franco Twinkie: Sometimes the truth is funny.
	11:50pm coelacanth∅: i'm thinking it could've been Prince, but more likely much earlier than his career. 'trying to remember who i've researched the discography of in the last few months but i frequently erase my history.
	11:53pm chresti: Flo and Eddie gave out cocktail glasses with their faces on it, for a show at the Roxy
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: They had some great album covers
	11:53pm Franco Twinkie: I think Martin Mull tried putting soap in a record, Well, maybe not. But I know he had a bubble machine once when I saw him at The Troubador.
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: haha
	11:58pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you Larry. Lively and informative....as usual.
	11:58pm Sig: Well when one writes on a open source/platform for five years 1 don't know, RIGHT. Remember ladies and gentlemen read the finprint of private tab. And a very fine advice is put a piece of tape in front of the visual recording device.
	11:59pm Sig: White cap talking!
	11:59pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry, and good night! Catch you down the road!
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! 'night y'all
	11:59pm Sig: Ethics in life matter!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thank you Franco! Nite Jeff! Nite C!
	12:00am Erica: Well that's another show over.
	12:00am chresti: I learned RIGHT from a guy that worked at trader Joes
	12:00am Erica: Night guys!
	12:00am Dean: Here's a supposed US version of Bart's album: https://www.discogs.com/Lionel-Bart-Isnt-This-Where-We-Came-In/release/4033455
	12:00am chresti: thanks Larry!
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks Dean!
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Nite Chresti!
	12:01am chresti: right? requires a question mark
	12:02am chresti: goodnight!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 18, 2018

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