WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 28, 2018

Listener comments!
	8:24am Uncle Michael: Good morning, Larry.
	8:25am Funky16Corners: Morning Unk!
	8:50am Cal Zone!: Howdy LG! Streaming live in my HS Library office as I catch up on paperwork....
	8:51am Funky16Corners: Morning Cal!
	8:51am Funky16Corners: I'm shoveling musical coal into the furnace as we speak to bring the beast up to speed for a 9AM Launch!
	8:52am Cal Zone!: How long is your set today?
	8:52am Funky16Corners: Three glorious hours!
	8:55am listener james from westwood: Early howdy, Larry and all!
	8:56am Funky16Corners: Morning James!
	8:57am Jeff Ash: Greetings from work, where it is almost 8 a.m. in the Central Time Zone.,
	8:58am Funky16Corners: Jeff!
	9:01am duke: Hola Larry
	9:02am Funky16Corners: Hi Duke!
	9:03am mauri: awerite!
	9:03am Funky16Corners: Hi Mauri!
	9:06am doctorjazz: Hey Larry and Testifiers! Listening from the office today .Like this Too Much to Dream version .
	9:06am Funky16Corners: Morning Doc!
	9:07am Sem: Good morning, Larry the G., mauri, duke, Jeff, Listener James, Cal Zone, and the usually sartorially correct UM.
	9:07am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning everyone
	9:08am Funky16Corners: Hi Sem, Phillippe!
	9:12am Cal Zone!: Love the Melvoin! Didn't know about Keys...' lp...but big fan of Plastic Cow...
	9:13am Funky16Corners: The Keys LP shouldn't be too hard to find.
	9:15am ausmanx: testify virgin logging on from sydney, good evening all
	9:16am Funky16Corners: G-day ausmanx!
	🥁 9:17am dutchtheo: howdy, funky16corners, groovycoverers, wayoutwesters and faroutjazzers
	9:18am Funky16Corners: Hey Theo!
	9:20am sinner: Who's got the coffee?
	🥁 9:20am Brian in UK: What's up and happening, man. mauri, you are really getting that American language today, swell and tanks earlier.
	🥁 9:21am Brian in UK: @sinner not me but I can offer an orange lolly.
	9:22am Funky16Corners: Hi Sinner, Brian! Diet Cherry Coke for me this morning (though I did have an iced cold brew after I got up at 5:30)
	🥁 9:24am Brian in UK: @ausmanx, hello and you will not regret testifying.
	9:26am sinner: You are a stronger man than I.
	9:27am ausmanx: yo, mr brian. drought seems to be breaking here, so we could do with that machine in your avatar
	🥁 9:30am Brian in UK: Ah the Howard 350. Stunningly unbalanced machine.
	9:32am Jeff Ash: Sweet rolls the size of your head have just arrived at work. That is all.
	9:32am Funky16Corners: Oooohhh sweet rolls.
	🥁 9:32am Brian in UK: Talking of gardening, just managed to get Testify on the mobile. So heading outdoorwards.
	9:33am Funky16Corners: Enjoy the fresh air (and the tunes)!
	9:34am Uncle Michael: This S&C track is SO "Sears Poncho."
	9:35am Funky16Corners: Big fave of mine!
	9:37am Cal Zone!: YEAH! NINO & APRIL!
	9:37am Funky16Corners: With the Guilloteens!
	9:38am Cal Zone!: I've heard the La De Dahs NZ band version of 'How is the Air', but never heard your version...btw
	9:39am Funky16Corners: The one I played is the original, written by the guys in the Changin' Times, Artie Kornfeld and Steve Duboff
	9:39am Uncle Michael: Sonny was all about trying to synthesize and commodify the sound of gestalt. He was like an ad man trying to sell audio toothpaste to people gazing at the countercultural foment with their noses pressed to the window. Anyway, that's my view of him.
	9:40am Funky16Corners: I agree with that view. He was also one of Phil Spector's best disciples. is work on the S&C and Cher solo albums was excellent
	9:45am Funky16Corners: Slap on your headphones for the guitar solo in this record. It's epic
	9:45am Uncle Michael: I think he had a meal ticket in Cher and some happy accidents. In the studio, I don't think he was in the same league as say, Jack Neitsche. I think he picked up enough here and there to make it all work. He was a hustler and that's certainly no crime. He amuses me. He deserves a measure of respect, but I think he's gotten more than he earned.
	9:46am Funky16Corners: Yeah, his post-Cher abandonment of music seems to indicate that he was along for the ride, but he did have talent
	9:49am Uncle Michael: I admire him for his chutzpah. He's an old-school show business hustler who grew his hair and put on the silly vest to make it in the business as it presented itself to him. He made it work. He was far savvier than a guy like Kim Fowley who was essentially cut from the same cloth.
	9:49am Funky16Corners: Case in point right here
	9:54am Uncle Michael: As for the abandonment, I think he's have been far happier having never to have become an artist behind the microphone or on camera. It's precisely his savvy as a show business hustler that led him to recognize that the juxtaposition of him and Cher was the salable gimmick. In my opinion, Cher never would have broken through as a solo act in the '60s. Her attributes were middling.
	9:55am Funky16Corners: I think you're selling her short. Her voice is the best and biggest instrument on those records
	9:56am Uncle Michael: Yes, it was...but far less impressive than dozens of her contemporaries.
	9:57am Funky16Corners: True, but there was a ton of star power behind that less than perfect instrument
	9:57am Brianingarden: Cher has new album of Abba covers out.
	9:57am Uncle Michael: "Big" is the least important attribute for a singing voice to my tastes. For example, I have almost no use for Linda Ronstadt.
	9:59am Uncle Michael: Sonny's nebbishness was the frame Cher's star power was presented in. He made her Keely to his Louis...and it worked brilliantly.
	10:04am Alex In Illinois: Is there some rumor that "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" is about Sonny Bono?
	10:05am Johnzon: digging your history lesson... you really make the story of the music as interesting as the music itself
	10:06am Funky16Corners: Hi Alex, Johnzon!
	10:07am Funky16Corners: @Alex - I have a vague memory about it being about someone else (less famous)
	10:07am Funky16Corners: @Johnzon - Thank you!
	10:10am Sem: Thoroughly enjoying your show from the kitchen, at a volume which may lead to some unpleasantness with the neighbours. So be it, I have to look at their babyshit brown house day after day.
	🥁 10:11am dutchtheo: The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man was a good-natured jibe at George Sherlock, the London Records promo man who accompanied us on our first American tour. The track is based on Buster Brown's 1960 hit, Fannie Mae, which also inspired the Beach Boys' Help Me Rhonda. - Bill Wyman, Rolling With The Stones (2002)
	10:12am northguineahills: I testiflurpled....
	10:13am Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	10:13am Funky16Corners: @THeo - Thanks for the info!
	10:15am βrian: Good friday to you.
	10:17am Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	10:29am Funky16Corners: Don't forget to tune in at noon for Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael! wfmu.org...
	10:30am Dominick: Totally enjoying this program!
	10:31am Funky16Corners: Thanks Dominick!
	🥁 10:33am dutchtheo: google wisdom; Associated Soul Group = Jerry Cole from the Wrecking Crew en.wikipedia.org... books.google.nl...
	10:42am Funky16Corners: Aha! So West Coast then!
	10:47am DF: Loving the show!
	10:47am Funky16Corners: Thanks DF!
	10:52am Uncle Michael: A Brian Auger album was my first second-hand LP. I don't remember how I came by it but then, the concept of acquiring records previously owned by someone else was utterly foreign to me. It was like this talisman that had some previously life I could never touch. I felt like a second husband. I think I was 13.
	10:56am Funky16Corners: I think most of my early purchases were used records, but I lived near a huge flea market that was overflowing with the stuff (and my limited budget was more stretchable buying used).
	10:57am Funky16Corners: And it's weird, but I don't think I hardly ever thought about where they'd been before, unless they were marked/written on by the previous owner.
	10:57am Funky16Corners: I should have, though
	11:01am Uncle Michael: I'm making chicken stock this afternoon...cool weather has me thinking matzoh balls.
	11:02am Funky16Corners: What a coincidence! I'll be making chicken and rice soup!
	11:03am Uncle Michael: Loving this soul-jazz set.
	11:03am Uncle Michael: Chicken stock in the pressure cooker has been a game changer.
	11:05am Funky16Corners: Thanks! Gonna have to try that.
	11:06am ?: Who's making chickens talk?
	11:06am Dean: ^Me. Bu-buck!
	11:10am Uncle Michael: Larry: www.seriouseats.com...
	11:10am Uncle Michael: Who else is going to Chickenstock?
	11:11am Funky16Corners: By the time we got to Chickenstock, we were half a million drumsticks strong
	🥁 11:13am dutchtheo: UM, more people should confess their youth sins; secondhand is like adopting outcasted children. fridaynoonbeertime here with the pumpkin soup simmering and loving the set as well
	11:14am Uncle Michael: I'd have gone with "half a bullion strong".
	11:14am Funky16Corners: Ohh, that's much better. Well played!
	11:15am Funky16Corners: I promised my sons that I'd make some squash soup next week. Maybe with some nice sausage thrown in.
	11:15am Uncle Michael: This Gabor is cherce.
	11:15am Uncle Michael: I'm slowly coming around on squash soup.
	11:16am Funky16Corners: Yes indeed. I have a 45 of Larry Coryell doing it from a few years later, but it's not as good
	11:23am Uncle Michael: Hey, I'm not gone this week. Please join me for Hinky Dinky Time at the top of the hour. www.wfmu.org...
	11:23am Funky16Corners: I wholeheartedly endorse the last comment.
	11:23am Uncle Michael: I have not watched the new Quincy Jones doc yet. Have any of you?
	11:24am Funky16Corners: I have not
	🥁 11:24am dutchtheo: read some good and bad things about the doc, to much family chatter...
	11:25am Uncle Michael: Day baseball today. Maybe I'll watch it tonight.
	11:26am βrian: @UM: Felling schmaltzy?
	11:27am Dean: Do you have one of those Instant Pots, @UM? A buddy of mine acquired one a few months ago and really digs it. I might take the plunge, but I have two concerns. First, it feels like cheating. More practically, I don't know if I have counter space for it.
	11:28am doctorjazz: Quite a band on thisQuincy Jones.. PEPPER eAdams, Freddy Hubbard, Toots Thielemans (who plays nice guitar here as well as harmonica, which is why I searched this), Herbie Hancock, Milt Jackson, and more. cool track!
	11:28am βrian: Yeah, I'm iffy about those, too. And I fiercely protect counter space. If it's not used at least once a week, off the counter it goes.
	11:29am Funky16Corners: @Doc - And Valerie Simpson on vocals, recorded right here in NJ at Van Gelder's!
	11:30am βrian: (Though microwaves are verboten by default.)
	11:30am Funky16Corners: FWIW my wife swears by the Instant Pot and I like what comes out of it, so there's that
	11:30am northguineahills: I may have a larger kitchen, but my counter space was larger in Brooklyn.
	11:30am Uncle Michael: I do not. I have a pretty nice, modern pressure cooker. An instant pot is only sort of a pressure cooker. It can't achieve the same pressure/temp as the unitasker. Admittedly, an instant pot is an attractive multitasker. Counter space is at a premium here, as well.
	11:33am βrian: I would like a pressure cooker. I have a monstrous pressure-canner, but that beast holds damn near a half bushel. Not practical for cooking.
	11:36am βrian: ... problem is, I'm susceptible to kitchen porn, so I'd probably end up buying some Swiss-made state of the art stainless steel cooker that cost more than a mortgage payment.
	11:37am Funky16Corners: So far I have stayed away from any kitchen machinery, aside from two food processors (one big, one small) that I use on the reg. I want to learn the Instant Pot but haven't had the time.
	11:37am Uncle Michael: I saw the Swiss one Serious Eats liked best then bought their second choice for a fraction...
	11:38am Doug Schulkind: Loving the show, Larry!! Been driving and grooooving. Thanks!
	11:39am Funky16Corners: Hey Doug!
	11:42am Dean: The founder of Serious Eats, Ed Levine, is the uncle of a woman with whose family my family shared a nanny from the late 2000s. Better, this same niece had another uncle who ran a high-end audio shop in Pasadena I frequented in the '80s when she was just a kid. She would hang out in the store. Odds are good our paths crossed there. It really is a small world. For all I know, there is only one niece, but of course at least two uncles.
	11:42am Dean: Er. make that at least three uncles...
	11:43am Uncle Michael: Hoosier Uncle?
	11:43am Uncle Michael: Serious Eats is the shizz, seriously.
	11:50am Dean: To illustrate how slow I can be, I left a blender on the counter, used it maybe monthly. Stored a toaster under the counter in a cupboard. Used it daily. Took me a good long while to figure I should switch places with the two devices.
	11:52am Uncle Michael: Shameful.
	11:52am Dean: Plus I gotta learn to write better.
	11:53am βrian: At a previous residence, we used to keep the blender in the dishwasher. Never ran that washer even once.
	11:53am Uncle Michael: That's what I was commenting on.
	11:54am Uncle Michael: Our dishwasher uses far less water than I'd use hand-washing.
	11:56am Uncle Michael: Phil Upchurch? Donny Hathaway?
	11:56am βrian: @UM: I believe it. Just haven't been able to make the jump.
	11:56am Dean: We keep all sorts of stuff in the not-once-used dishwasher. I know it uses less water, but only if I don't end up rewashing by hand. Too late, @UM. If only one of my elementary and secondary school teachers had written, "Shameful," on one of my papers, I'd have seen the light and changed my ways.
	11:57am rw: Good morning! Got here just in time for the groovy end.
	11:57am Uncle Michael: Thanks, Larry...see you all in the next room.
	🥁 11:57am dutchtheo: Thanks Larry, grooved way far out!
	11:58am Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everyone!
	11:58am listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Larry!! Delightful to hear these tunes in real time!
	11:58am David D: Signing in to say thanks, Larry!
	11:59am Funky16Corners: CHARLES STEPNEY!!!
	11:59am Funky16Corners: Thanks David!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 28, 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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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3
The Joyride	Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine	45RPM Single	World Pacific	1968	45
Electric Piano Playground	I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night	Psychedelic Seeds	Bell	1968	LP
Mike Melvoin	I Want To Tell You "I Want To Tell You" by "Mike Melvoin"	Keys To Your Mind	Liberty	1966	LP
Nobody's Children	I Can't Let Go "I Can't Let Go" by "Nobody's Children"	45RPM Single	Bullet	1967	45
Jackie and Roy	The Word "The Word" by "Jackie and Roy"	Changes	Verve	1966	LP
Sandy Nelson	Pandora's Golden Heebee Jeebees	Cheetah Beat	Imperial	1967	LP
The Pentangle	Sally Go Round the Roses	45RPM Single	Reprise	1969	45
Tom Northcott	Blackberry Way "Blackberry Way" by "Tom Northcott"	Upside Downside	Uni	1971	LP
The Unknown	All Over the World (La La)	45RPM Single	Cinema Intl	1967	45

Sonny and Cher	It's Gonna Rain "It's Gonna Rain" by "Sonny and Cher"	45RPM Single	Atlantic UK	1965	45
Changin' Times	How Is the Air Up There	45RPM Single	Philips	1965	45
Nino Tempo and April Stevens	I Love How You Love Me	45RPM Single	Atco	1965	45
Dino, Desi and Billy	Look Out Girls Here We Come	45RPM Single	Reprise	1966	45
Ernie and the Emperors	Got a Lot I Want To Say	45RPM Single	Reprise	1965	45
The Dillons	Simple Way of Living "Simple Way of Living" by "The Dillons"	45RPM Single	Impression	1965	45
The Gentle Soul	You Move Me "You Move Me" by "The Gentle Soul"	45RPM Single	Columbia	1967	45
Cher	The Pied Piper "The Pied Piper" by "Cher"	Cher	Inperial	1966	LP
Lamp of Childhood	You Can't Blame Me	45RPM Single	Dunhill	1966	45
Matthew Moore	Face In the Crowd "Face In the Crowd" by "Matthew Moore"	45RPM Single	Capitol	1966	45
Associated Soul Group	Don't Think Twice	Top Hits of Today	Contessa	1967	LP

Grady and Brady	The Star of the Show	45RPM Single	Planetary	1965	45
The Music Machine	Trouble "Trouble" by "The Music Machine"	Turn On the Music Machine	Original Sound	1966	LP
The Daily Flash	Queen Jane Approximately	45RPM Single	Parrot	1966	45
Suzy Wallis	Kisses On Paper "Kisses On Paper" by "Suzy Wallis"	45RPM Single	RCA	1966	45
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart	Sometimes She's a LIttle Girl	Test Patterns	A&M	1967	LP
Barry McGuire	Walking My Car Named Dog	World's Last Private Citizen	RCA	1968	LP
The Kaleidoscope	Pulsating Dream "Pulsating Dream" by "The Kaleidoscope"	Side Trips	Epic	1967	LP
The Poor	Feelin' Down "Feelin' Down" by "The Poor"	45RPM Single	Decca	1968	45
Baker Knight and the Knightmares	Hallucinations	45RPM Single	Reprise	1967	45
dRake	On the Road To Mexico "On the Road To Mexico" by "dRake"	45RPM Single	Parrot	1966	45
The Gordian Knot	If Only I Could Fly	45RPM Single	Verve	1968	45

Sonny Stitt	Heads or Tails "Heads or Tails" by "Sonny Stitt"	45RPM Single	Enterprise	1969	45
Phil Moore Jr	You Showed Me "You Showed Me" by "Phil Moore Jr"	Right On	Atco	1968	LP
Brian Auger and Oblivion Express	Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)	Closer To It	RCA	1973	LP
Neal Creque	Kenya "Kenya" by "Neal Creque"	Contrast	Cobblestone	1972	LP
Ulysses Crockett	Major Funky "Major Funky" by "Ulysses Crockett"	45RPM Single	Transverse	1970	45
Jackie Edwards and Soulmakers	Che Che	45RPM Single	Daran	1969	45
Dorothy Ashby	Soul Vibrations "Soul Vibrations" by "Dorothy Ashby"	45RPM Single	Cadet	1968	45
Eddie Harris	Silver Cycle "Silver Cycle" by "Eddie Harris"	Silver Cycles	Atlantic	1969	LP
Gabor Szabo	Gypsy Queen "Gypsy Queen" by "Gabor Szabo"	Spellbinder	Impulse	1966	LP
Quincy Jones	Gula Matari "Gula Matari" by "Quincy Jones"	Gula Matari	A&M/CTI	1970	LP
Quincy Jones	Walking In Space "Walking In Space" by "Quincy Jones"	Walking In Space	A&M/CTI	1969	LP
Gary Burton	Sweet Rain "Sweet Rain" by "Gary Burton"	Duster	RCA	1967	LP
Joe Zawinul	Soul of a Village "Soul of a Village" by "Joe Zawinul"	45RPM Single	Vortex	1968	45
Rumplestiltskin	Rumplestiltskin "Rumplestiltskin" by "Rumplestiltskin"	45RPM	Bell	1970	45

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!
	8:24am Uncle Michael: Good morning, Larry.
	8:25am Funky16Corners: Morning Unk!
	8:50am Cal Zone!: Howdy LG! Streaming live in my HS Library office as I catch up on paperwork....
	8:51am Funky16Corners: Morning Cal!
	8:51am Funky16Corners: I'm shoveling musical coal into the furnace as we speak to bring the beast up to speed for a 9AM Launch!
	8:52am Cal Zone!: How long is your set today?
	8:52am Funky16Corners: Three glorious hours!
	8:55am listener james from westwood: Early howdy, Larry and all!
	8:56am Funky16Corners: Morning James!
	8:57am Jeff Ash: Greetings from work, where it is almost 8 a.m. in the Central Time Zone.,
	8:58am Funky16Corners: Jeff!
	9:01am duke: Hola Larry
	9:02am Funky16Corners: Hi Duke!
	9:03am mauri: awerite!
	9:03am Funky16Corners: Hi Mauri!
	9:06am doctorjazz: Hey Larry and Testifiers! Listening from the office today .Like this Too Much to Dream version .
	9:06am Funky16Corners: Morning Doc!
	9:07am Sem: Good morning, Larry the G., mauri, duke, Jeff, Listener James, Cal Zone, and the usually sartorially correct UM.
	9:07am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning everyone
	9:08am Funky16Corners: Hi Sem, Phillippe!
	9:12am Cal Zone!: Love the Melvoin! Didn't know about Keys...' lp...but big fan of Plastic Cow...
	9:13am Funky16Corners: The Keys LP shouldn't be too hard to find.
	9:15am ausmanx: testify virgin logging on from sydney, good evening all
	9:16am Funky16Corners: G-day ausmanx!
	🥁 9:17am dutchtheo: howdy, funky16corners, groovycoverers, wayoutwesters and faroutjazzers
	9:18am Funky16Corners: Hey Theo!
	9:20am sinner: Who's got the coffee?
	🥁 9:20am Brian in UK: What's up and happening, man. mauri, you are really getting that American language today, swell and tanks earlier.
	🥁 9:21am Brian in UK: @sinner not me but I can offer an orange lolly.
	9:22am Funky16Corners: Hi Sinner, Brian! Diet Cherry Coke for me this morning (though I did have an iced cold brew after I got up at 5:30)
	🥁 9:24am Brian in UK: @ausmanx, hello and you will not regret testifying.
	9:26am sinner: You are a stronger man than I.
	9:27am ausmanx: yo, mr brian. drought seems to be breaking here, so we could do with that machine in your avatar
	🥁 9:30am Brian in UK: Ah the Howard 350. Stunningly unbalanced machine.
	9:32am Jeff Ash: Sweet rolls the size of your head have just arrived at work. That is all.
	9:32am Funky16Corners: Oooohhh sweet rolls.
	🥁 9:32am Brian in UK: Talking of gardening, just managed to get Testify on the mobile. So heading outdoorwards.
	9:33am Funky16Corners: Enjoy the fresh air (and the tunes)!
	9:34am Uncle Michael: This S&C track is SO "Sears Poncho."
	9:35am Funky16Corners: Big fave of mine!
	9:37am Cal Zone!: YEAH! NINO & APRIL!
	9:37am Funky16Corners: With the Guilloteens!
	9:38am Cal Zone!: I've heard the La De Dahs NZ band version of 'How is the Air', but never heard your version...btw
	9:39am Funky16Corners: The one I played is the original, written by the guys in the Changin' Times, Artie Kornfeld and Steve Duboff
	9:39am Uncle Michael: Sonny was all about trying to synthesize and commodify the sound of gestalt. He was like an ad man trying to sell audio toothpaste to people gazing at the countercultural foment with their noses pressed to the window. Anyway, that's my view of him.
	9:40am Funky16Corners: I agree with that view. He was also one of Phil Spector's best disciples. is work on the S&C and Cher solo albums was excellent
	9:45am Funky16Corners: Slap on your headphones for the guitar solo in this record. It's epic
	9:45am Uncle Michael: I think he had a meal ticket in Cher and some happy accidents. In the studio, I don't think he was in the same league as say, Jack Neitsche. I think he picked up enough here and there to make it all work. He was a hustler and that's certainly no crime. He amuses me. He deserves a measure of respect, but I think he's gotten more than he earned.
	9:46am Funky16Corners: Yeah, his post-Cher abandonment of music seems to indicate that he was along for the ride, but he did have talent
	9:49am Uncle Michael: I admire him for his chutzpah. He's an old-school show business hustler who grew his hair and put on the silly vest to make it in the business as it presented itself to him. He made it work. He was far savvier than a guy like Kim Fowley who was essentially cut from the same cloth.
	9:49am Funky16Corners: Case in point right here
	9:54am Uncle Michael: As for the abandonment, I think he's have been far happier having never to have become an artist behind the microphone or on camera. It's precisely his savvy as a show business hustler that led him to recognize that the juxtaposition of him and Cher was the salable gimmick. In my opinion, Cher never would have broken through as a solo act in the '60s. Her attributes were middling.
	9:55am Funky16Corners: I think you're selling her short. Her voice is the best and biggest instrument on those records
	9:56am Uncle Michael: Yes, it was...but far less impressive than dozens of her contemporaries.
	9:57am Funky16Corners: True, but there was a ton of star power behind that less than perfect instrument
	9:57am Brianingarden: Cher has new album of Abba covers out.
	9:57am Uncle Michael: "Big" is the least important attribute for a singing voice to my tastes. For example, I have almost no use for Linda Ronstadt.
	9:59am Uncle Michael: Sonny's nebbishness was the frame Cher's star power was presented in. He made her Keely to his Louis...and it worked brilliantly.
	10:04am Alex In Illinois: Is there some rumor that "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" is about Sonny Bono?
	10:05am Johnzon: digging your history lesson... you really make the story of the music as interesting as the music itself
	10:06am Funky16Corners: Hi Alex, Johnzon!
	10:07am Funky16Corners: @Alex - I have a vague memory about it being about someone else (less famous)
	10:07am Funky16Corners: @Johnzon - Thank you!
	10:10am Sem: Thoroughly enjoying your show from the kitchen, at a volume which may lead to some unpleasantness with the neighbours. So be it, I have to look at their babyshit brown house day after day.
	🥁 10:11am dutchtheo: The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man was a good-natured jibe at George Sherlock, the London Records promo man who accompanied us on our first American tour. The track is based on Buster Brown's 1960 hit, Fannie Mae, which also inspired the Beach Boys' Help Me Rhonda. - Bill Wyman, Rolling With The Stones (2002)
	10:12am northguineahills: I testiflurpled....
	10:13am Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	10:13am Funky16Corners: @THeo - Thanks for the info!
	10:15am βrian: Good friday to you.
	10:17am Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	10:29am Funky16Corners: Don't forget to tune in at noon for Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael! wfmu.org...
	10:30am Dominick: Totally enjoying this program!
	10:31am Funky16Corners: Thanks Dominick!
	🥁 10:33am dutchtheo: google wisdom; Associated Soul Group = Jerry Cole from the Wrecking Crew en.wikipedia.org... books.google.nl...
	10:42am Funky16Corners: Aha! So West Coast then!
	10:47am DF: Loving the show!
	10:47am Funky16Corners: Thanks DF!
	10:52am Uncle Michael: A Brian Auger album was my first second-hand LP. I don't remember how I came by it but then, the concept of acquiring records previously owned by someone else was utterly foreign to me. It was like this talisman that had some previously life I could never touch. I felt like a second husband. I think I was 13.
	10:56am Funky16Corners: I think most of my early purchases were used records, but I lived near a huge flea market that was overflowing with the stuff (and my limited budget was more stretchable buying used).
	10:57am Funky16Corners: And it's weird, but I don't think I hardly ever thought about where they'd been before, unless they were marked/written on by the previous owner.
	10:57am Funky16Corners: I should have, though
	11:01am Uncle Michael: I'm making chicken stock this afternoon...cool weather has me thinking matzoh balls.
	11:02am Funky16Corners: What a coincidence! I'll be making chicken and rice soup!
	11:03am Uncle Michael: Loving this soul-jazz set.
	11:03am Uncle Michael: Chicken stock in the pressure cooker has been a game changer.
	11:05am Funky16Corners: Thanks! Gonna have to try that.
	11:06am ?: Who's making chickens talk?
	11:06am Dean: ^Me. Bu-buck!
	11:10am Uncle Michael: Larry: www.seriouseats.com...
	11:10am Uncle Michael: Who else is going to Chickenstock?
	11:11am Funky16Corners: By the time we got to Chickenstock, we were half a million drumsticks strong
	🥁 11:13am dutchtheo: UM, more people should confess their youth sins; secondhand is like adopting outcasted children. fridaynoonbeertime here with the pumpkin soup simmering and loving the set as well
	11:14am Uncle Michael: I'd have gone with "half a bullion strong".
	11:14am Funky16Corners: Ohh, that's much better. Well played!
	11:15am Funky16Corners: I promised my sons that I'd make some squash soup next week. Maybe with some nice sausage thrown in.
	11:15am Uncle Michael: This Gabor is cherce.
	11:15am Uncle Michael: I'm slowly coming around on squash soup.
	11:16am Funky16Corners: Yes indeed. I have a 45 of Larry Coryell doing it from a few years later, but it's not as good
	11:23am Uncle Michael: Hey, I'm not gone this week. Please join me for Hinky Dinky Time at the top of the hour. www.wfmu.org...
	11:23am Funky16Corners: I wholeheartedly endorse the last comment.
	11:23am Uncle Michael: I have not watched the new Quincy Jones doc yet. Have any of you?
	11:24am Funky16Corners: I have not
	🥁 11:24am dutchtheo: read some good and bad things about the doc, to much family chatter...
	11:25am Uncle Michael: Day baseball today. Maybe I'll watch it tonight.
	11:26am βrian: @UM: Felling schmaltzy?
	11:27am Dean: Do you have one of those Instant Pots, @UM? A buddy of mine acquired one a few months ago and really digs it. I might take the plunge, but I have two concerns. First, it feels like cheating. More practically, I don't know if I have counter space for it.
	11:28am doctorjazz: Quite a band on thisQuincy Jones.. PEPPER eAdams, Freddy Hubbard, Toots Thielemans (who plays nice guitar here as well as harmonica, which is why I searched this), Herbie Hancock, Milt Jackson, and more. cool track!
	11:28am βrian: Yeah, I'm iffy about those, too. And I fiercely protect counter space. If it's not used at least once a week, off the counter it goes.
	11:29am Funky16Corners: @Doc - And Valerie Simpson on vocals, recorded right here in NJ at Van Gelder's!
	11:30am βrian: (Though microwaves are verboten by default.)
	11:30am Funky16Corners: FWIW my wife swears by the Instant Pot and I like what comes out of it, so there's that
	11:30am northguineahills: I may have a larger kitchen, but my counter space was larger in Brooklyn.
	11:30am Uncle Michael: I do not. I have a pretty nice, modern pressure cooker. An instant pot is only sort of a pressure cooker. It can't achieve the same pressure/temp as the unitasker. Admittedly, an instant pot is an attractive multitasker. Counter space is at a premium here, as well.
	11:33am βrian: I would like a pressure cooker. I have a monstrous pressure-canner, but that beast holds damn near a half bushel. Not practical for cooking.
	11:36am βrian: ... problem is, I'm susceptible to kitchen porn, so I'd probably end up buying some Swiss-made state of the art stainless steel cooker that cost more than a mortgage payment.
	11:37am Funky16Corners: So far I have stayed away from any kitchen machinery, aside from two food processors (one big, one small) that I use on the reg. I want to learn the Instant Pot but haven't had the time.
	11:37am Uncle Michael: I saw the Swiss one Serious Eats liked best then bought their second choice for a fraction...
	11:38am Doug Schulkind: Loving the show, Larry!! Been driving and grooooving. Thanks!
	11:39am Funky16Corners: Hey Doug!
	11:42am Dean: The founder of Serious Eats, Ed Levine, is the uncle of a woman with whose family my family shared a nanny from the late 2000s. Better, this same niece had another uncle who ran a high-end audio shop in Pasadena I frequented in the '80s when she was just a kid. She would hang out in the store. Odds are good our paths crossed there. It really is a small world. For all I know, there is only one niece, but of course at least two uncles.
	11:42am Dean: Er. make that at least three uncles...
	11:43am Uncle Michael: Hoosier Uncle?
	11:43am Uncle Michael: Serious Eats is the shizz, seriously.
	11:50am Dean: To illustrate how slow I can be, I left a blender on the counter, used it maybe monthly. Stored a toaster under the counter in a cupboard. Used it daily. Took me a good long while to figure I should switch places with the two devices.
	11:52am Uncle Michael: Shameful.
	11:52am Dean: Plus I gotta learn to write better.
	11:53am βrian: At a previous residence, we used to keep the blender in the dishwasher. Never ran that washer even once.
	11:53am Uncle Michael: That's what I was commenting on.
	11:54am Uncle Michael: Our dishwasher uses far less water than I'd use hand-washing.
	11:56am Uncle Michael: Phil Upchurch? Donny Hathaway?
	11:56am βrian: @UM: I believe it. Just haven't been able to make the jump.
	11:56am Dean: We keep all sorts of stuff in the not-once-used dishwasher. I know it uses less water, but only if I don't end up rewashing by hand. Too late, @UM. If only one of my elementary and secondary school teachers had written, "Shameful," on one of my papers, I'd have seen the light and changed my ways.
	11:57am rw: Good morning! Got here just in time for the groovy end.
	11:57am Uncle Michael: Thanks, Larry...see you all in the next room.
	🥁 11:57am dutchtheo: Thanks Larry, grooved way far out!
	11:58am Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everyone!
	11:58am listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Larry!! Delightful to hear these tunes in real time!
	11:58am David D: Signing in to say thanks, Larry!
	11:59am Funky16Corners: CHARLES STEPNEY!!!
	11:59am Funky16Corners: Thanks David!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 28, 2018

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