WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 10, 2019

Listener comments!
	10:01pm chresti: Hey Testify!
	10:01pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	10:02pm Gary: Larry!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Gary!
	10:03pm TDK60: Wish I could stay long DJ Larry G., but tonight I really knead to get to bed early.
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Rest well then TDK60 and I'll catch you in the archives!
	10:04pm northguineahills: If I was going to do a program of remixed and mashuped Bread related tracks, I'd call, "The Best Thing since Sliced (and Diced) Bread".
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: NGH!
	10:05pm Franco Twinkie: Larry! Enfrente con platanos fritos
	10:05pm chresti: Harharr! TDK60, you're on a roll!
	10:05pm Erica: Here I am, ready for the Before Bread show.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	10:05pm TDK60: yes, the archives, fresh on the shelves.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Erica!
	10:08pm TDK60: the rolls, are they done?
	10:08pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m done here. I hate terrible puns.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Matt!
	10:09pm TDK60: really bye. heh...
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Nite TDK!
	10:10pm Franco Twinkie: Pun away, you yucksters!
	10:11pm Erica: Before they were Bread, when they were just ingredients to make dough.
	10:11pm Erica: Yeah that was too long of a pun.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: As the Freak Brothers would say, 'Dope will get you through times of no Bread better than Bread will get you through times of no dope.'
	10:11pm Franco Twinkie: Bada bing, Erica!
	10:14pm chresti: Nite TDK60, you early "riser"
	10:15pm northguineahills: @Erica: and if they recorded an album w/ a single $10 mic in their bedroom, they'd be Flatbread. (I see the yeast joke sans or otherwise has already been made)
	10:17pm northguineahills: If Gary McFarland did a granulated synthesis composition, would he be Powdered Toast Man? (points for those who get that reference).
	10:18pm fleep: you folks have a rye sense of humor
	10:19pm Erica: Haha Ren & Stimpy. Good one ngh!
	10:21pm northguineahills: ding ding ding Erica w/ the points!
	10:22pm Erica: I keep on dancing...
	10:22pm Funky16Corners: Fleep!
	10:25pm Jeff Ash: I also am here tonight, tripping through the meadow.
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: Jeff!
	10:29pm Erica: Hi Jeff!
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: Note the co-writing credit on this one
	10:34pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin, Erica!
	10:37pm Erica: Lesley Gore's later stuff is underrated/unheard of compared to her hits from her early period. Sad she's no longer with us.
	10:38pm Funky16Corners: Have you ever heard the soul recordings she made in Philadelphia with Gamble and Huff?
	10:39pm Erica: No Larry I haven't.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: I'll play them sometime here. They're good.
	10:44pm Franco Twinkie: Yesterday morning I got two loves of rustic sourdough at this upscale bakery in Pasadena called Seed. In the 70's at the same location was a take-out place called Bill's Chicken In A Bag. Bill was this skinny old man who looked like Hound Dog Taylor. The place was coated with grease inside and out. They had a great jukebox packed with Jimmy Reed, Bobby Bland and Etta James. I would go there when I was really high, get a bag of wings, which came with about five slices of white bread. I would drive around north Pasadena in my maroon VW, listening to the radio throwing chicken bones out the window. Life was sweet and care free. But having said that, now I truly love expensive crafted leavened bread and skinless organic chicken. But if I could go back...
	10:46pm Funky16Corners: That sounds delicious!
	10:46pm still b/p: Got home and turned the computer to tune in, but got damned distracted with other damned computer biz and delayed the happy ears. I've lamented before the lack of a trained reminding monkey who'll move in and keep me on track! And will go out to fetch chicken.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: SBP!
	10:48pm Erica: I hate it when I get distracted from the music as well.
	11:00pm Erica: Now THIS sounds Beach Boys-esque in terms of the vocals
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: He was definitely listening closely to Brian Wilson
	11:03pm rw: Hello! Franco, seems the times have been keeping up with you.
	11:04pm Funky16Corners: rw!
	11:11pm rw: I've been mostly distracted up 'til now but it's cool to hear the hooks getting progressively hookier.
	11:12pm rw: Or is that just me?
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: The very Beatle-y side of Bread!
	11:13pm Erica: Fresh Bread, before they became too soft (yes that was another pun).
	11:14pm Erica: You know what I meant, this was before they had soft rock hits.
	11:15pm rw: Beatlebread.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: That first Bread album has some great songs on it
	11:16pm Franco Twinkie: It's funny how I never heard any of this stuff when it came out. It was aimed at the radio like a heat seeking missile, but some how went off course?
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: Do you mean Bread or the earlier stuff?
	11:19pm Franco Twinkie: Early, I should have clarified.
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: I don't think any of that stuff got played much. There was so much great stuff in competition to get o the radio that you had to get lucky, even if you had great hooks and performances
	11:21pm northguineahills: I missed Bread the first time around for obvious temporal reasons, but I do have one of their LPs. I'm afraid drifting off (finally getting my circadian rhythms under control). Thanks Larry, cheers, y'all!
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: Nite NGH!
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: A little surprise coming up next to close out the set.
	11:23pm Franco Twinkie: But regarding Bread. I don't remember them getting a lot of FM air play, even though this stuff was upper crust.(groan)
	11:23pm Erica: Better pun than mine Franco
	11:24pm Matt from New Orleans: Baby I'm-A Want You is getting reissued on vinyl by MSFL in May
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Once they started getting AM hits and moving more toward David Gates stuff FM looked the other way
	11:24pm Erica: Didn't expect to hear this one on Testify Haha!
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: Griffin and Royer wrote the lyrics. It won them an Oscar for best original song
	11:26pm Erica: So this is from which movie?
	11:26pm Matt from New Orleans: Whenever I hear the carpenters I think of Todd Haynes’ creepy movie Superstar about Karen Carpenter
	11:27pm Franco Twinkie: In L.A. the most discerning FM station, KPPC would play the hell out of the first Elton John album, for good reason! But Bread? no.
	11:28pm still b/p: Speaking of what gets on and played, saw the story yesterday of Youngbloods version of Get Together, not a hit until a couple years after initial release, not until a record guy with clout pushed his company to re-release it and, as Jesse Colin Young puts it, "The country was ready."
	11:28pm northguineahills: Radio, I don't need no stinin' (non-WFMU) radio! I play Harpers Bizarre everything all the time!
	11:30pm Franco Twinkie: Matt, along with Welcome To The Dollhouse, one of Todd Haynes best.
	11:32pm Franco Twinkie: Still b/p, Check out the original Get Together by Dino Valente. Rough and beautiful.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: I think Welcome to the Dollhouse was Todd Solondz
	11:33pm Franco Twinkie: Right!
	11:35pm Matt from New Orleans: It was. Here’s Superstar on YouTube youtu.be... It’s can’t be publicly exhibited yet somehow it’s managed to not be taken down from YouTube
	11:35pm Erica: So the last set is just gonna be Bowie or is it random stuff?
	11:35pm still b/p: Valente sold the rights to Get Together to get money to fight a drug rap! But got them back later.
	11:36pm Matt from New Orleans: Don’t like surprises Erica?
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - A couple of different things
	11:36pm Franco Twinkie: You know the story.
	11:36pm Erica: Just wondering Matt.
	11:38pm rw: Hunky Dory is such a great record.
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I love that early Bowie stuff.
	11:53pm Franco Twinkie: Back to bread for a minute: I think Jac Holzman saw a great opportunity in Bread to make wads of money for Electra Records without all the head aches of dealing with the type temperamental geniuses the label was known for.
	11:53pm Erica: Sounds like a deep scratch.
	11:53pm rw: Did we talk about where Bread got their name or is that a story?
	11:56pm Franco Twinkie: I was skeptical of Bowie for that reason....then I saw him. Everything changed.
	11:57pm Dean: I recall checking out from my high school library Bowie's Space Oddity, c. '75. It impressed me, but at the time I was aiming toward Renaissance and Medieval dance tunes. So I didn't buy into him at the time. And even now I love Rennaisnce and Medieval dance music.
	11:59pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry. Sleep well.
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: @rw - I'm not sure I know where Bread got there name
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: Nite Matt!
	11:59pm Erica: Goodnight folks!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Nite Erica!
	12:00am rw: It's just such a weird name. I wondered if there was a story. Thanks Mr. Grogan! Super. Have a good evening everyone!
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Nite rw!
	12:14am chresti: Good nite!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 10, 2019

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3
Gary McFarland	Fried Bananas "Fried Bananas" by "Gary McFarland"	The In Sound	Verve	1966	LP
Gary McFarland	80 Miles an Hour Through Beer Can Country	America the Beautiful	Skye	1969	LP
Gary McFarland	On This Site Shall Be Erected	America the Beautiful	Skye	1969	LP
Gary McFarland	Get Back "Get Back" by "Gary McFarland"	Today	Skye	1970	LP

Jimmy Griffin	These Are the Times	45RPM Single	Imperial	1965	45
The Gentrys	Make Up Your Mind "Make Up Your Mind" by "The Gentrys"	45RPM Single	MGM	1965	45	written by Jimmy Griffin w/Jack Brady
The Astronauts	Main Street "Main Street" by "The Astronauts"	Travelin' Men	Warner Brothers	1967	LP	Written by Jimmy Griffin and Michael Z Gordon
The Doodletown Pipers	Image of You	45RPM Single	Epic	1967	45	wr Griffin/Gordon
Beethoven Soul	Dreams "Dreams" by "Beethoven Soul"	Beethoven Soul	Dot	1967	LP	wr Griffin/Gordon
Morning Glories	Love In "Love In" by "Morning Glories"	45RPM Single	Warner Brothers	1967	45	wr Griffin/ TS Farthingsworth IV (Robb Royer, later of Bread)
Morning Glories	You're So Young "You're So Young" by "Morning Glories"	45RPM Single	Warner Brothers	1967	45	wr JJ Cale/Griffin/Gordon
Lesley Gore	Brink of Disaster "Brink of Disaster" by "Lesley Gore"	45RPM Single	Mercury	1967	45	wr Griffin/Gordon
Sagittarius	Hotel Indiscreet "Hotel Indiscreet" by "Sagittarius"	Present Tense	Columbia	1967	LP	wr Griffin/Gordon
Surrprise Package	The Other Me "The Other Me" by "Surrprise Package"	45RPM Single	Columbia	1967	45	wr Griffin / Gordon
Surprise Package	East Side West Side	45RPM Single	Columbia	1968	45	wr Griffin/Gordon
Harper's Bizarre	Jessie "Jessie" by "Harper's Bizarre"	Anything Goes	Warner Brothers	1967	LP	wr Griffin/Gordon

James Griffin	The Light of Your MInd	45RPM Single	Viva	1968	45	wr James Griffin/Robb Royer
James Griffin	Thank You Love "Thank You Love" by "James Griffin"	45RPM Single	Viva	1968	45	wr Griffin/Royer
James Arthur Griffin	The Miracle Worker	45RPM Single	Viva	1970	45	wr Griffin/Gordon
James Arthur Griffin	Lookin' So Much Better	45RPM Single	Viva	1967	45	wr Griffin/Gordon
The Roosters	Love Machine "Love Machine" by "The Roosters"	45RPM Single	Philips	1968	45	wr Griffin/Gordon
Michael J James	Get the Message "Get the Message" by "Michael J James"	45RPM Single	Uni	1969	45	wr Griffin/Gordon
Bread	Could I "Could I" by "Bread"	Bread	Elektra	1969	LP	wr Griffin/Royer
Slade	Could I "Could I" by "Slade"	Play It Loud	Polydor	1970	LP	wr Griffin/Royer
Bread	The Last Time "The Last Time" by "Bread"	Bread	Elektra	1969	LP	wr Griffin/Royer
Bread	Call On Me "Call On Me" by "Bread"	On The Waters	Elektra	1970	LP	wr Griffin/Royer
The Carpenters	For All We Know "For All We Know" by "The Carpenters"	45RPM Single	A&M	1970	45	wr Fred Karlin/James Griffin/Robb Royer

David Bowie	Life On Mars "Life On Mars" by "David Bowie"	Hunky Dory	RCA	1971	LP
David Bowie	Eight Line Poem "Eight Line Poem" by "David Bowie"	Hunky Dory	RCA	1971	LP
Herbie Mann	Miss Free Spirit "Miss Free Spirit" by "Herbie Mann"	Stone Flute	Embryo	1970	LP
Bobbi Humphrey	Sad Bag "Sad Bag" by "Bobbi Humphrey"	45RPM Single	Blue Note	1971	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!
	10:01pm chresti: Hey Testify!
	10:01pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	10:02pm Gary: Larry!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Gary!
	10:03pm TDK60: Wish I could stay long DJ Larry G., but tonight I really knead to get to bed early.
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Rest well then TDK60 and I'll catch you in the archives!
	10:04pm northguineahills: If I was going to do a program of remixed and mashuped Bread related tracks, I'd call, "The Best Thing since Sliced (and Diced) Bread".
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: NGH!
	10:05pm Franco Twinkie: Larry! Enfrente con platanos fritos
	10:05pm chresti: Harharr! TDK60, you're on a roll!
	10:05pm Erica: Here I am, ready for the Before Bread show.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	10:05pm TDK60: yes, the archives, fresh on the shelves.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Erica!
	10:08pm TDK60: the rolls, are they done?
	10:08pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m done here. I hate terrible puns.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Matt!
	10:09pm TDK60: really bye. heh...
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Nite TDK!
	10:10pm Franco Twinkie: Pun away, you yucksters!
	10:11pm Erica: Before they were Bread, when they were just ingredients to make dough.
	10:11pm Erica: Yeah that was too long of a pun.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: As the Freak Brothers would say, 'Dope will get you through times of no Bread better than Bread will get you through times of no dope.'
	10:11pm Franco Twinkie: Bada bing, Erica!
	10:14pm chresti: Nite TDK60, you early "riser"
	10:15pm northguineahills: @Erica: and if they recorded an album w/ a single $10 mic in their bedroom, they'd be Flatbread. (I see the yeast joke sans or otherwise has already been made)
	10:17pm northguineahills: If Gary McFarland did a granulated synthesis composition, would he be Powdered Toast Man? (points for those who get that reference).
	10:18pm fleep: you folks have a rye sense of humor
	10:19pm Erica: Haha Ren & Stimpy. Good one ngh!
	10:21pm northguineahills: ding ding ding Erica w/ the points!
	10:22pm Erica: I keep on dancing...
	10:22pm Funky16Corners: Fleep!
	10:25pm Jeff Ash: I also am here tonight, tripping through the meadow.
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: Jeff!
	10:29pm Erica: Hi Jeff!
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: Note the co-writing credit on this one
	10:34pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin, Erica!
	10:37pm Erica: Lesley Gore's later stuff is underrated/unheard of compared to her hits from her early period. Sad she's no longer with us.
	10:38pm Funky16Corners: Have you ever heard the soul recordings she made in Philadelphia with Gamble and Huff?
	10:39pm Erica: No Larry I haven't.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: I'll play them sometime here. They're good.
	10:44pm Franco Twinkie: Yesterday morning I got two loves of rustic sourdough at this upscale bakery in Pasadena called Seed. In the 70's at the same location was a take-out place called Bill's Chicken In A Bag. Bill was this skinny old man who looked like Hound Dog Taylor. The place was coated with grease inside and out. They had a great jukebox packed with Jimmy Reed, Bobby Bland and Etta James. I would go there when I was really high, get a bag of wings, which came with about five slices of white bread. I would drive around north Pasadena in my maroon VW, listening to the radio throwing chicken bones out the window. Life was sweet and care free. But having said that, now I truly love expensive crafted leavened bread and skinless organic chicken. But if I could go back...
	10:46pm Funky16Corners: That sounds delicious!
	10:46pm still b/p: Got home and turned the computer to tune in, but got damned distracted with other damned computer biz and delayed the happy ears. I've lamented before the lack of a trained reminding monkey who'll move in and keep me on track! And will go out to fetch chicken.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: SBP!
	10:48pm Erica: I hate it when I get distracted from the music as well.
	11:00pm Erica: Now THIS sounds Beach Boys-esque in terms of the vocals
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: He was definitely listening closely to Brian Wilson
	11:03pm rw: Hello! Franco, seems the times have been keeping up with you.
	11:04pm Funky16Corners: rw!
	11:11pm rw: I've been mostly distracted up 'til now but it's cool to hear the hooks getting progressively hookier.
	11:12pm rw: Or is that just me?
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: The very Beatle-y side of Bread!
	11:13pm Erica: Fresh Bread, before they became too soft (yes that was another pun).
	11:14pm Erica: You know what I meant, this was before they had soft rock hits.
	11:15pm rw: Beatlebread.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: That first Bread album has some great songs on it
	11:16pm Franco Twinkie: It's funny how I never heard any of this stuff when it came out. It was aimed at the radio like a heat seeking missile, but some how went off course?
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: Do you mean Bread or the earlier stuff?
	11:19pm Franco Twinkie: Early, I should have clarified.
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: I don't think any of that stuff got played much. There was so much great stuff in competition to get o the radio that you had to get lucky, even if you had great hooks and performances
	11:21pm northguineahills: I missed Bread the first time around for obvious temporal reasons, but I do have one of their LPs. I'm afraid drifting off (finally getting my circadian rhythms under control). Thanks Larry, cheers, y'all!
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: Nite NGH!
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: A little surprise coming up next to close out the set.
	11:23pm Franco Twinkie: But regarding Bread. I don't remember them getting a lot of FM air play, even though this stuff was upper crust.(groan)
	11:23pm Erica: Better pun than mine Franco
	11:24pm Matt from New Orleans: Baby I'm-A Want You is getting reissued on vinyl by MSFL in May
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Once they started getting AM hits and moving more toward David Gates stuff FM looked the other way
	11:24pm Erica: Didn't expect to hear this one on Testify Haha!
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: Griffin and Royer wrote the lyrics. It won them an Oscar for best original song
	11:26pm Erica: So this is from which movie?
	11:26pm Matt from New Orleans: Whenever I hear the carpenters I think of Todd Haynes’ creepy movie Superstar about Karen Carpenter
	11:27pm Franco Twinkie: In L.A. the most discerning FM station, KPPC would play the hell out of the first Elton John album, for good reason! But Bread? no.
	11:28pm still b/p: Speaking of what gets on and played, saw the story yesterday of Youngbloods version of Get Together, not a hit until a couple years after initial release, not until a record guy with clout pushed his company to re-release it and, as Jesse Colin Young puts it, "The country was ready."
	11:28pm northguineahills: Radio, I don't need no stinin' (non-WFMU) radio! I play Harpers Bizarre everything all the time!
	11:30pm Franco Twinkie: Matt, along with Welcome To The Dollhouse, one of Todd Haynes best.
	11:32pm Franco Twinkie: Still b/p, Check out the original Get Together by Dino Valente. Rough and beautiful.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: I think Welcome to the Dollhouse was Todd Solondz
	11:33pm Franco Twinkie: Right!
	11:35pm Matt from New Orleans: It was. Here’s Superstar on YouTube youtu.be... It’s can’t be publicly exhibited yet somehow it’s managed to not be taken down from YouTube
	11:35pm Erica: So the last set is just gonna be Bowie or is it random stuff?
	11:35pm still b/p: Valente sold the rights to Get Together to get money to fight a drug rap! But got them back later.
	11:36pm Matt from New Orleans: Don’t like surprises Erica?
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - A couple of different things
	11:36pm Franco Twinkie: You know the story.
	11:36pm Erica: Just wondering Matt.
	11:38pm rw: Hunky Dory is such a great record.
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I love that early Bowie stuff.
	11:53pm Franco Twinkie: Back to bread for a minute: I think Jac Holzman saw a great opportunity in Bread to make wads of money for Electra Records without all the head aches of dealing with the type temperamental geniuses the label was known for.
	11:53pm Erica: Sounds like a deep scratch.
	11:53pm rw: Did we talk about where Bread got their name or is that a story?
	11:56pm Franco Twinkie: I was skeptical of Bowie for that reason....then I saw him. Everything changed.
	11:57pm Dean: I recall checking out from my high school library Bowie's Space Oddity, c. '75. It impressed me, but at the time I was aiming toward Renaissance and Medieval dance tunes. So I didn't buy into him at the time. And even now I love Rennaisnce and Medieval dance music.
	11:59pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry. Sleep well.
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: @rw - I'm not sure I know where Bread got there name
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: Nite Matt!
	11:59pm Erica: Goodnight folks!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Nite Erica!
	12:00am rw: It's just such a weird name. I wondered if there was a story. Thanks Mr. Grogan! Super. Have a good evening everyone!
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Nite rw!
	12:14am chresti: Good nite!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 10, 2019

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