WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 10, 2018

Listener comments!
	10:02pm Gary: Larry!
	10:02pm chresti: Heylo!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Gary! Chresti!
	10:03pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from soggy Wisconsin!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:04pm Erica: Ironic to hear "Keep Looking" after the Testify! theme. At least I know one of the songs used in the theme's mix now.
	10:04pm Erica: Evening by the way.
	10:05pm chresti: I got to wind down for bedtime-so I'll be listening remotely, thanks, this is wonderful
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica!
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - I think you'll enjoy this one as you slip into sleep.
	10:09pm northguineahills: ack, lost connection, and now won't connect to the server.
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Ugh, the connection seems to be going through on this end. Can some of you hear the show?
	10:11pm Erica: My connection is fine Larry.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: OK, good
	10:12pm northguineahills: but, there are more then 264 ways to skin a cat, used a backdoor via iTunes and a 128 connection. Someone was having problems w/ the pop up earlier. I got it working now. Trial and error, how I learn (mostly through error).
	10:13pm chresti: The hound dog is wading in the water!
	10:15pm doctorjazz: Hi all !
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - Glad you're back on board!
	10:22pm northguineahills: good to get some cathartic religion, as opposed to the normal eldritch religion I experience..
	10:23pm doctorjazz: Love Ry Cooder's version of... Mainline, but this is amazing,
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: Skip James is amazing.
	10:24pm Erica: And big band stuff related to God Larry? Just wondering.
	10:25pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - Cathartic is the only way to roll
	10:25pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - There's some jazz later on, but smaller groups
	10:25pm Erica: Or classic country songs?
	10:26pm Erica: ...About God that is
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: There is one country song toward the end
	10:26pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all what up,god?
	10:26pm Erica: Cool Larry.
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: Skip James one of my earliest blues infatuations. (probably because i liked cream and he penned "i'm so glad")
	10:31pm chresti: Jesus sold records back in thee days
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: I made the same connection. Skip was heavy, both in his old stuff an his 1960s recordings
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - I think with some of these older performers, the Christian songs were just part of the general repertoire, though there are a bunch of blues players who rejected religious music completely.
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: chrest, he had a reputation as a fair dealer
	10:35pm Dean: Seems to me it's impossible to reject religious music. I mean, Muse.
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: I think you're right, even with musicians that say they have no connection. It worked its way in
	10:43pm Dean: Gospel music is so goddamn beautiful. I remember hearing the Gospelaires on a show in LA, c.1990. Never found their music until a few years ago, here in the Bay Area, two comps prepared by a dude who works at a local record store. Solid.
	10:44pm chresti: Love the blues set
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: Pure gospel harmony really goes right to your soul (as does any great harmony singing).
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Chresti!
	10:45pm Erica: Preach it brothah Larry. Haha!
	10:46pm Dean: Played Aretha's 1972 live gospel record yesterday. Love to recount the story from a year or so ago, when I played a record by Aretha, to which my then 11YO responded, "Wow, that woman can sing!"
	10:46pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, we really lost something otherworldly when we lost her voice. Unique and powerful.
	10:47pm Dean: Absolutely.
	10:47pm Erica: We may have lost the singer, but we haven't lost her songs. Her voice will live on in her music.
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed
	10:50pm doctorjazz: I never heard this version (original, I assume) Norman Greenbaum got nothing on this)
	10:50pm Dean: Yup, and it's the same for Bach and the rest. The "live on" part is religious, which is why I view (hear?) music as inherently religious.
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: Nope. Norman wrote it! This is a gospel cover!
	10:51pm doctorjazz: Cool!
	10:51pm coelacanth∅: this is okay but got nothing on the original
	10:52pm Erica: Ever heard of the version of Spirit in the Sky by Doctor and the Medics?
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: I have. I saw them do it live in 86 or 87 at the Ritz in NYC
	10:52pm coelacanth∅: oh, ha! sorry - not trying to be contrary doc!
	10:52pm Dean: Yeah, I enjoy Greenbaum's, too. One of those records I a-l-m-o-s-t bought many, many times when it was issued.
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: I love Norman's too, have since I was a kid. Never get sick of that guitar
	10:53pm Jeff Ash: Judy Clay sounds a little like Tina Turner.
	10:54pm coelacanth∅: like so many reggae songs, i love spirit in the sky so much but just wish the lyrics weren't so dumb!
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Yeah. same kind of voice. It's a shame she didn't get to record more
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: @C - That's that serious, hippie shit
	10:57pm coelacanth∅: haha!
	10:58pm doctorjazz: I love Greenbaum's too, partly because of the incongruousness (is that a word) of the ethnicity of his name and the Spirit of the song But it wss fun hearing it done by a gospel /soul voice
	10:59pm Funky16Corners: I'm surprised there weren't more gospel/religious covers
	10:59pm doctorjazz: I always took the lyric as part tongue in cheek..
	11:00pm Franco Twinkie: I knew there was a party going on, but I couldn't figure out where it was. Then I woke up. Is it okay if I come in wearing my bathrobe?
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Franco! Come on in!
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I always thought it tied into the whole hippie/Jesus freak zeitgeist
	11:01pm coelacanth∅: clothing optional,Franco. you wont need 'em where we're going.
	11:01pm Erica: Haha Franco.
	11:02pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Larry. I'll just hang out by the food table.
	11:02pm Dean: "Spirit in the sky" seems fairly generic to me. Spirit, sky, where I'm gonna go when I die...an ordinary trope.
	11:04pm Funky16Corners: From the Wiki:" "Spirit in the Sky" makes several references to Jesus, although Greenbaum is Jewish. In a 2006 interview with the New York Times, Greenbaum told a reporter he was inspired to write the song after watching Porter Wagoner singing a gospel song on TV. Greenbaum said: "I thought, 'Yeah, I could do that,' knowing nothing about gospel music, so I sat down and wrote my own gospel song. It came easy. I wrote the words in 15 minutes."
	11:04pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, Does that mean we're dead or is there going to be nude dancing later on?
	11:05pm Funky16Corners: You may dance nude whenever the spirit takes you.
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: it's the music...everything about the music (incl. the vocal arrangements and voices) - that makes spirit in the sky so great. you don't have to give a shit what they're carryin' on about; Norman and the background singers will carry you up
	11:06pm Dean: QED
	11:07pm coelacanth∅: Larry @11.04 and Jesus was jewish after all.
	11:08pm Funky16Corners: yes indeed. MOT all the way.
	11:09pm doctorjazz: So, yeah, I continue to hear it as tongue in cheek, enjoyable (to me) that way (the story in Wikipedia sounds like it was a mix of that and opportunism, and a talent to hook into the feeling without having any background in that area.
	11:09pm Franco Twinkie: I just saw Steve Cropper run out the front door with all the potato chips.
	11:10pm Funky16Corners: Considering Norman's previous work was 'The Eggplant That Ate Chicago', I'd be willing to attribute it to randomness
	11:11pm Dean: Fortunately, artistic intent isn't determinative.
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: www.discogs.com...
	11:11pm doctorjazz: Now THIS is the PERFECT cover!
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: Steve's just goofing. he'll be back with even More chips!
	11:12pm Erica: Never heard this version before.
	11:13pm Dean: Sorry, I have low tolerance for Paul Simon.
	11:13pm Franco Twinkie: Dr. West's Junk Pile Medicine Chest - wasn't that the name of Norman's band?
	11:15pm doctorjazz: Ah, this sent me to Discogs, I like Paul Simon (he's a distant cousin of my wife...the family has never forgiven him for not keeping touch, but I have no issues). And the Hummingbirds are just amazing!
	11:17pm Dean: Ten or fifteen dollar albums, to me, are not inexpensive. I'm really sick of this "market" shit.
	11:20pm Franco Twinkie: No kidding, Dean! I just had to cough up 20 bucks for Moby Grape '69. But now the set is complete.
	11:21pm doctorjazz: New vinyl now is $30-$50, and higher for some audiophile/collector albums. Ten bucks ain't bad (finding the great $2.99 bargain is a thing of the past).
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - You have to remember that I am a record collector of long standing and deep sickness, and my approximation of 10-15 as inexpensive makes me a piker in the eyes of the really deep cats.
	11:24pm chresti: Love this VU song
	11:24pm Franco Twinkie: Love this album. Some Velveteers I know make a sour face at this one. They put away the whips and put on nice sweaters.
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: I should also say that my shelves are filled with many more 1-5 dollar hollars than the expensive stuff. My 45s, not so much
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - This is my fave VU album
	11:26pm Dean: My main gripe is with myself: I sold a ton of stuff thirty years ago, some of which I wish I now had. But I don't buy the market. The joy of record collecting, c.'76, say, was finding rare stuff CHEAP. We did it then. You can do it now. Don't buy the economists' bullshit. My major regret regarding rare 45s is not having visited Wenzel's Music Town in Downey more often.
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: I'm DJing at the Keystone Northern Soul Weekender in November, and that room is filled with people that spend hundreds on 45s. I won't say that I never spent that kind of money, but it was very, very rare.
	11:29pm Franco Twinkie: I'd sooner fill my garage with crushed aluminum cans that worry about the market value of my records.
	11:29pm doctorjazz: If you have patience/energy, garage sales are the way to find stuff. Too old and tired, though. Even lost the patience to go through racks at used record stores. Used to spend whole days at Princeton Record Exchange and Tower Records-now Discogs, Amazon, and some other on line sites are the way I shop.
	11:29pm Funky16Corners: But I've also been collecting soul music for almost 40 years, and my incurable/insatiable curiousity has led me to find many things before they were valuable.
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - Princeton's new arrivals section used to be one of my favorite places to dig
	11:31pm Erica: JEEEESSSUUUSSS!
	11:31pm doctorjazz: Never actually priced the stuff I have. A good old friend, with a terrific classical collection had a heart attack and died. His wife is trying to figure out how to get some of the worth of it back.
	11:31pm Dean: I would love one day to get to Princeton Record Exchange! (I did make it to Cheapo Cheapo in London in '76. Joy!) I've spent entire weekends hitting all the Tower Record stores in LA. They often mispriced stuff, and I bought it!
	11:31pm Erica: Sorry but Turley's got a high falsetto there.
	11:32pm Franco Twinkie: If I could just find a 45 of There's A Ghost In My House by R. Dean Taylor I'd stop right now.
	11:33pm doctorjazz: I just LOVE this GRam Parsone!
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - That one will make an appearance on the Halloween show!
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - With Emmylou in the background
	11:34pm Dean: I definitely don't buy to sell. Once sold a Joy Division single I bought for five bucks for $150. Woo hoo.
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: I never sell. I have a trade box, but selling is a pain in the ass and I'm not a speculator
	11:35pm Erica: You can buy a lot of Joy Division singles for $150.
	11:35pm doctorjazz: In the prime of my record shopping, I had no clue about collecting. If I was at a used record store, and they had an original album, and a reissue as a two-fer of the same album, I'd always buy the two-fer, figuring I'd get twice the music for the same price. Boy, can kick myself for that sometimes...
	11:36pm Franco Twinkie: That's my angle Larry! The Fall will have to do this year.
	11:37pm Dean: No, doctorjazz. You were exactly right. So-called originals aren't necessarily higher quality, audio-wise. Sometimes (but sometimes not) the two-fers sounded at least as good, if not better.
	11:39pm doctorjazz: Ah, you know the audiophile dogma, early pressings are the best, of course.
	11:39pm Dean: Bullshit.
	11:40pm Dean: Though I'll confess that a first pressing of Yes's Close to the Edge surpassed Mobile Fidelity's remaster on a really good system.
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: As a die-hard collector, unless you're talking about music that is otherwise unhearable outside of the original pressing, it's largely about fetishism, i.e. I have to have the original to satisfy my need to connect to that thing.
	11:42pm doctorjazz: CHECK THE RECORD PLAYER (IS ANYONE ELSE HEARING THE BROKEN REPEATING RECORD?!)
	11:42pm Dean: Precisely. Which is why I admit that I don't like listening to music. I like playing records.
	11:43pm Franco Twinkie: When I found 7&7 Is by Love (my first 45- long lost) on the black and yellow label, I almost quit. Then I found another...so I kept going. I mean, what else am I suppose instead?
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - There are many worse ways to spend your time and money.
	11:43pm doctorjazz: Must have been something weird digital here. I disconnected and reconnected, and The Armstrong (is that Armstrong?) was playing fine.
	11:44pm Franco Twinkie: Leon Thomas?
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: I mean, if I hadn't spent my life chasing records, I might not be doing this.
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: Leon and Louis Armstrong
	11:44pm doctorjazz: There's the Loius-ism in the voice now...
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: Satchmo does a version of Give Peace a Chance on this record
	11:47pm Dean: There is no history unless we seek and capture and preserve material evidence of human expression. That's not fetishism per se. But it could be...
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: True that
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: I'm never JUST collecting records. I'm also collecting stories, and making connections
	11:50pm doctorjazz: Lovely version of this gorgeous Duke tune by Booker Ervin.
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Yes, Booker is one of my very favorite players
	11:51pm doctorjazz: He has a nice softness to his sound that fits perfectly with this song.
	11:54pm Dean: Three notes and I knew it was Hamza el Din. Heard him live in LA at McCabe's guitar shop. The best.
	11:54pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry! Catch you all next time!
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: I love the sound of the oud.
	11:55pm Franco Twinkie: On a day that's been like sandpaper on my face, this show has made me feel human again, Thank you Larry. I can take out the trash now.
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc! Singles Going Steady next week!
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Franco! High praise indeed!
	12:00am Erica: Thanks for the show Larry!
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks Erica!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 10, 2018

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October 10, 2018: The Sound of God

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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
Solomon Burke	Keep Looking "Keep Looking" by "Solomon Burke"	45RPM Single	Atlantic	1966	45
The Salem Travelers	With God's Love	45RPM Single	Checker	1968	45
Otis Redding	Amen "Amen" by "Otis Redding"	The Immortal Otis Redding	Atco	1968	LP
Big Mama Thornton	Wade In the Water	45RPM Single	Arhoolie	1968	45

Blind Willie Johnson	Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed	The Best of Blind Willie Johnson	Columbia	1928	78
Mississippi Fred McDowell	Jesus On the Mainline	I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll	Capitol	1969	LP
Skip James	Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader	Best of Skip James	Biograph	1931	78
Mississippi John Hurt	Nearer My God To Thee	The Immortal	Vanguard	1967	LP
Elizabeth Cotten	Medley - In the Sweet Bye and Bye/What a Friend We Have In Jesus	Folksongs and Instrumentals With Guitar	Folkways	1958	LP
Son House	Preachin' Blues "Preachin' Blues" by "Son House"	The Father of the Folk Blues	Columbia	1965	LP

Aretha Franklin	Save Me "Save Me" by "Aretha Franklin"	I Never Loved A Man the Way I Love You	Atlantic	1967	LP
Clara Ward	The Right Direction "The Right Direction" by "Clara Ward"	Hang Your Tears Out To Dry	Verve	1966	LP
Dorothy Morrison	Spirit In the Sky	45RPM Single	Buddah	1970	45
Judy Clay	Get Together "Get Together" by "Judy Clay"	45RPM Single	Atlantic	1969	45
Reverend Charles Taylor	Well Done	45RPM Single	HOB Is Gospel	1966	45
Salem Travelers	Give Me Liberty Or Death	45RPM Single	Checker	1968	45
Sam Cooke	A Change Is Gonna Come "A Change Is Gonna Come" by "Sam Cooke"	45RPM Single	RCA	1964	45
Staple Singers	I'm Coming Home "I'm Coming Home" by "Staple Singers"	45RPM Single	Veejay	1957	45
Andrae Crouch and the Disciples	Precious Lord Take My Hand	Take the Message Everywhere	Light	1968	LP
Majestic Choir and the Soul Stirrers	Why Am I Treated So Bad	45RPM Single	Checker	1968	45
Dixie Hummingbirds	Love Me Like a Rock	45RPM Single	Peacock	1973	45

The Velvet Underground	Jesus "Jesus" by "The Velvet Underground"	The Velvet Underground	Verve	1969	LP
Turley Richards	I Heard the Voice of Jesus	45RPM Single	Warner Brothers	1970	45
Gram Parsons	In My Hour of Darkness	Grievous Angel	Warner Brothers	1974	LP
John Buck Wilkin	My God and I "My God and I" by "John Buck Wilkin"	In Search of Food, Clothing, Shelter & Sex	Liberty	1970	LP
Davy Graham	Better Git It In Your Soul	Folk Blues and Beyond	Decca	1964	LP
Louis Armstrong	The Creator Has a Master Plan	And His Friends	Flying Dutchman	1970	LP
Booker Ervin	Come Sunday "Come Sunday" by "Booker Ervin"	The Song Book	Prestige	1964	LP
Hamza El Din	Fegir Nedan (Call to Worship)	Music of Nubia	Vanguard	1964	CD

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 Gary: Larry!
	10:02pm chresti: Heylo!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Gary! Chresti!
	10:03pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from soggy Wisconsin!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:04pm Erica: Ironic to hear "Keep Looking" after the Testify! theme. At least I know one of the songs used in the theme's mix now.
	10:04pm Erica: Evening by the way.
	10:05pm chresti: I got to wind down for bedtime-so I'll be listening remotely, thanks, this is wonderful
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica!
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - I think you'll enjoy this one as you slip into sleep.
	10:09pm northguineahills: ack, lost connection, and now won't connect to the server.
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Ugh, the connection seems to be going through on this end. Can some of you hear the show?
	10:11pm Erica: My connection is fine Larry.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: OK, good
	10:12pm northguineahills: but, there are more then 264 ways to skin a cat, used a backdoor via iTunes and a 128 connection. Someone was having problems w/ the pop up earlier. I got it working now. Trial and error, how I learn (mostly through error).
	10:13pm chresti: The hound dog is wading in the water!
	10:15pm doctorjazz: Hi all !
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - Glad you're back on board!
	10:22pm northguineahills: good to get some cathartic religion, as opposed to the normal eldritch religion I experience..
	10:23pm doctorjazz: Love Ry Cooder's version of... Mainline, but this is amazing,
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: Skip James is amazing.
	10:24pm Erica: And big band stuff related to God Larry? Just wondering.
	10:25pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - Cathartic is the only way to roll
	10:25pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - There's some jazz later on, but smaller groups
	10:25pm Erica: Or classic country songs?
	10:26pm Erica: ...About God that is
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: There is one country song toward the end
	10:26pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all what up,god?
	10:26pm Erica: Cool Larry.
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: Skip James one of my earliest blues infatuations. (probably because i liked cream and he penned "i'm so glad")
	10:31pm chresti: Jesus sold records back in thee days
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: I made the same connection. Skip was heavy, both in his old stuff an his 1960s recordings
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - I think with some of these older performers, the Christian songs were just part of the general repertoire, though there are a bunch of blues players who rejected religious music completely.
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: chrest, he had a reputation as a fair dealer
	10:35pm Dean: Seems to me it's impossible to reject religious music. I mean, Muse.
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: I think you're right, even with musicians that say they have no connection. It worked its way in
	10:43pm Dean: Gospel music is so goddamn beautiful. I remember hearing the Gospelaires on a show in LA, c.1990. Never found their music until a few years ago, here in the Bay Area, two comps prepared by a dude who works at a local record store. Solid.
	10:44pm chresti: Love the blues set
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: Pure gospel harmony really goes right to your soul (as does any great harmony singing).
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Chresti!
	10:45pm Erica: Preach it brothah Larry. Haha!
	10:46pm Dean: Played Aretha's 1972 live gospel record yesterday. Love to recount the story from a year or so ago, when I played a record by Aretha, to which my then 11YO responded, "Wow, that woman can sing!"
	10:46pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, we really lost something otherworldly when we lost her voice. Unique and powerful.
	10:47pm Dean: Absolutely.
	10:47pm Erica: We may have lost the singer, but we haven't lost her songs. Her voice will live on in her music.
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed
	10:50pm doctorjazz: I never heard this version (original, I assume) Norman Greenbaum got nothing on this)
	10:50pm Dean: Yup, and it's the same for Bach and the rest. The "live on" part is religious, which is why I view (hear?) music as inherently religious.
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: Nope. Norman wrote it! This is a gospel cover!
	10:51pm doctorjazz: Cool!
	10:51pm coelacanth∅: this is okay but got nothing on the original
	10:52pm Erica: Ever heard of the version of Spirit in the Sky by Doctor and the Medics?
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: I have. I saw them do it live in 86 or 87 at the Ritz in NYC
	10:52pm coelacanth∅: oh, ha! sorry - not trying to be contrary doc!
	10:52pm Dean: Yeah, I enjoy Greenbaum's, too. One of those records I a-l-m-o-s-t bought many, many times when it was issued.
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: I love Norman's too, have since I was a kid. Never get sick of that guitar
	10:53pm Jeff Ash: Judy Clay sounds a little like Tina Turner.
	10:54pm coelacanth∅: like so many reggae songs, i love spirit in the sky so much but just wish the lyrics weren't so dumb!
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Yeah. same kind of voice. It's a shame she didn't get to record more
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: @C - That's that serious, hippie shit
	10:57pm coelacanth∅: haha!
	10:58pm doctorjazz: I love Greenbaum's too, partly because of the incongruousness (is that a word) of the ethnicity of his name and the Spirit of the song But it wss fun hearing it done by a gospel /soul voice
	10:59pm Funky16Corners: I'm surprised there weren't more gospel/religious covers
	10:59pm doctorjazz: I always took the lyric as part tongue in cheek..
	11:00pm Franco Twinkie: I knew there was a party going on, but I couldn't figure out where it was. Then I woke up. Is it okay if I come in wearing my bathrobe?
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Franco! Come on in!
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I always thought it tied into the whole hippie/Jesus freak zeitgeist
	11:01pm coelacanth∅: clothing optional,Franco. you wont need 'em where we're going.
	11:01pm Erica: Haha Franco.
	11:02pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Larry. I'll just hang out by the food table.
	11:02pm Dean: "Spirit in the sky" seems fairly generic to me. Spirit, sky, where I'm gonna go when I die...an ordinary trope.
	11:04pm Funky16Corners: From the Wiki:" "Spirit in the Sky" makes several references to Jesus, although Greenbaum is Jewish. In a 2006 interview with the New York Times, Greenbaum told a reporter he was inspired to write the song after watching Porter Wagoner singing a gospel song on TV. Greenbaum said: "I thought, 'Yeah, I could do that,' knowing nothing about gospel music, so I sat down and wrote my own gospel song. It came easy. I wrote the words in 15 minutes."
	11:04pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, Does that mean we're dead or is there going to be nude dancing later on?
	11:05pm Funky16Corners: You may dance nude whenever the spirit takes you.
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: it's the music...everything about the music (incl. the vocal arrangements and voices) - that makes spirit in the sky so great. you don't have to give a shit what they're carryin' on about; Norman and the background singers will carry you up
	11:06pm Dean: QED
	11:07pm coelacanth∅: Larry @11.04 and Jesus was jewish after all.
	11:08pm Funky16Corners: yes indeed. MOT all the way.
	11:09pm doctorjazz: So, yeah, I continue to hear it as tongue in cheek, enjoyable (to me) that way (the story in Wikipedia sounds like it was a mix of that and opportunism, and a talent to hook into the feeling without having any background in that area.
	11:09pm Franco Twinkie: I just saw Steve Cropper run out the front door with all the potato chips.
	11:10pm Funky16Corners: Considering Norman's previous work was 'The Eggplant That Ate Chicago', I'd be willing to attribute it to randomness
	11:11pm Dean: Fortunately, artistic intent isn't determinative.
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: www.discogs.com...
	11:11pm doctorjazz: Now THIS is the PERFECT cover!
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: Steve's just goofing. he'll be back with even More chips!
	11:12pm Erica: Never heard this version before.
	11:13pm Dean: Sorry, I have low tolerance for Paul Simon.
	11:13pm Franco Twinkie: Dr. West's Junk Pile Medicine Chest - wasn't that the name of Norman's band?
	11:15pm doctorjazz: Ah, this sent me to Discogs, I like Paul Simon (he's a distant cousin of my wife...the family has never forgiven him for not keeping touch, but I have no issues). And the Hummingbirds are just amazing!
	11:17pm Dean: Ten or fifteen dollar albums, to me, are not inexpensive. I'm really sick of this "market" shit.
	11:20pm Franco Twinkie: No kidding, Dean! I just had to cough up 20 bucks for Moby Grape '69. But now the set is complete.
	11:21pm doctorjazz: New vinyl now is $30-$50, and higher for some audiophile/collector albums. Ten bucks ain't bad (finding the great $2.99 bargain is a thing of the past).
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - You have to remember that I am a record collector of long standing and deep sickness, and my approximation of 10-15 as inexpensive makes me a piker in the eyes of the really deep cats.
	11:24pm chresti: Love this VU song
	11:24pm Franco Twinkie: Love this album. Some Velveteers I know make a sour face at this one. They put away the whips and put on nice sweaters.
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: I should also say that my shelves are filled with many more 1-5 dollar hollars than the expensive stuff. My 45s, not so much
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - This is my fave VU album
	11:26pm Dean: My main gripe is with myself: I sold a ton of stuff thirty years ago, some of which I wish I now had. But I don't buy the market. The joy of record collecting, c.'76, say, was finding rare stuff CHEAP. We did it then. You can do it now. Don't buy the economists' bullshit. My major regret regarding rare 45s is not having visited Wenzel's Music Town in Downey more often.
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: I'm DJing at the Keystone Northern Soul Weekender in November, and that room is filled with people that spend hundreds on 45s. I won't say that I never spent that kind of money, but it was very, very rare.
	11:29pm Franco Twinkie: I'd sooner fill my garage with crushed aluminum cans that worry about the market value of my records.
	11:29pm doctorjazz: If you have patience/energy, garage sales are the way to find stuff. Too old and tired, though. Even lost the patience to go through racks at used record stores. Used to spend whole days at Princeton Record Exchange and Tower Records-now Discogs, Amazon, and some other on line sites are the way I shop.
	11:29pm Funky16Corners: But I've also been collecting soul music for almost 40 years, and my incurable/insatiable curiousity has led me to find many things before they were valuable.
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - Princeton's new arrivals section used to be one of my favorite places to dig
	11:31pm Erica: JEEEESSSUUUSSS!
	11:31pm doctorjazz: Never actually priced the stuff I have. A good old friend, with a terrific classical collection had a heart attack and died. His wife is trying to figure out how to get some of the worth of it back.
	11:31pm Dean: I would love one day to get to Princeton Record Exchange! (I did make it to Cheapo Cheapo in London in '76. Joy!) I've spent entire weekends hitting all the Tower Record stores in LA. They often mispriced stuff, and I bought it!
	11:31pm Erica: Sorry but Turley's got a high falsetto there.
	11:32pm Franco Twinkie: If I could just find a 45 of There's A Ghost In My House by R. Dean Taylor I'd stop right now.
	11:33pm doctorjazz: I just LOVE this GRam Parsone!
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - That one will make an appearance on the Halloween show!
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - With Emmylou in the background
	11:34pm Dean: I definitely don't buy to sell. Once sold a Joy Division single I bought for five bucks for $150. Woo hoo.
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: I never sell. I have a trade box, but selling is a pain in the ass and I'm not a speculator
	11:35pm Erica: You can buy a lot of Joy Division singles for $150.
	11:35pm doctorjazz: In the prime of my record shopping, I had no clue about collecting. If I was at a used record store, and they had an original album, and a reissue as a two-fer of the same album, I'd always buy the two-fer, figuring I'd get twice the music for the same price. Boy, can kick myself for that sometimes...
	11:36pm Franco Twinkie: That's my angle Larry! The Fall will have to do this year.
	11:37pm Dean: No, doctorjazz. You were exactly right. So-called originals aren't necessarily higher quality, audio-wise. Sometimes (but sometimes not) the two-fers sounded at least as good, if not better.
	11:39pm doctorjazz: Ah, you know the audiophile dogma, early pressings are the best, of course.
	11:39pm Dean: Bullshit.
	11:40pm Dean: Though I'll confess that a first pressing of Yes's Close to the Edge surpassed Mobile Fidelity's remaster on a really good system.
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: As a die-hard collector, unless you're talking about music that is otherwise unhearable outside of the original pressing, it's largely about fetishism, i.e. I have to have the original to satisfy my need to connect to that thing.
	11:42pm doctorjazz: CHECK THE RECORD PLAYER (IS ANYONE ELSE HEARING THE BROKEN REPEATING RECORD?!)
	11:42pm Dean: Precisely. Which is why I admit that I don't like listening to music. I like playing records.
	11:43pm Franco Twinkie: When I found 7&7 Is by Love (my first 45- long lost) on the black and yellow label, I almost quit. Then I found another...so I kept going. I mean, what else am I suppose instead?
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - There are many worse ways to spend your time and money.
	11:43pm doctorjazz: Must have been something weird digital here. I disconnected and reconnected, and The Armstrong (is that Armstrong?) was playing fine.
	11:44pm Franco Twinkie: Leon Thomas?
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: I mean, if I hadn't spent my life chasing records, I might not be doing this.
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: Leon and Louis Armstrong
	11:44pm doctorjazz: There's the Loius-ism in the voice now...
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: Satchmo does a version of Give Peace a Chance on this record
	11:47pm Dean: There is no history unless we seek and capture and preserve material evidence of human expression. That's not fetishism per se. But it could be...
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: True that
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: I'm never JUST collecting records. I'm also collecting stories, and making connections
	11:50pm doctorjazz: Lovely version of this gorgeous Duke tune by Booker Ervin.
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Yes, Booker is one of my very favorite players
	11:51pm doctorjazz: He has a nice softness to his sound that fits perfectly with this song.
	11:54pm Dean: Three notes and I knew it was Hamza el Din. Heard him live in LA at McCabe's guitar shop. The best.
	11:54pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry! Catch you all next time!
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: I love the sound of the oud.
	11:55pm Franco Twinkie: On a day that's been like sandpaper on my face, this show has made me feel human again, Thank you Larry. I can take out the trash now.
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc! Singles Going Steady next week!
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Franco! High praise indeed!
	12:00am Erica: Thanks for the show Larry!
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks Erica!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 10, 2018

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