WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 22, 2019

Listener comments!
	10:01pm Jeff Ash: Good evening from Wisconsin!
	10:01pm chresti: Howdy Larry and Testify!
	10:01pm Gary: Larry!
	10:01pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! Chresti! Gary!
	10:02pm Franco Twinkie: Supergroup! Do people still say that? Wait a minute. I just did.
	10:02pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	10:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: Ha! I'm wearing my Young Ones "Scumbag College" t-shirt right now!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey C! Hi Wendy!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Wendy - Time for University Challenge!
	🥁 10:03pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Neeeeeeeilllllllll!!!!!!
	10:03pm Erica: Never heard this version of Hole in My Shoe before.
	10:03pm Franco Twinkie: This is a great album in so many ways.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Granny! Put the lentils on!
	10:03pm Wendy del Formaggio: F16C: "I've got a Porsche!"
	10:03pm Matt from New Orleans: Hello everyone
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Erica! Matt!
	🥁 10:04pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Funky16Corners: yes, i just had the best dal of my life tonight, mmmmmm
	10:04pm Wendy del Formaggio: Where's Anne Y. and Matt Clarke?! Fellow fans of the Young Ones.
	10:05pm Franco Twinkie: My White Bicycle fer instance.
	10:05pm Erica: Hi Wendy!
	10:05pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hey Erica! How's it going?
	10:06pm Erica: Good. Thanks Wendy.
	10:07pm doctorjazz: Hello folks!
	10:09pm rw: ¡Hola! ¡This show is off to a great start!
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey rw!
	10:11pm Little Danny: Heya Larry and all! Delighted to spend a night off with y'all
	10:12pm Funky16Corners: Danny! Great to have you here!
	10:13pm Erica: No Lost Frequencies this week Danny?
	10:13pm Franco Twinkie: Danny! Are you wearing your satin brocade coat and white loafers?
	10:14pm doctorjazz: Ttaffic,if I remember correctly, cool cover,
	10:15pm doctorjazz: Hey Danny!
	10:15pm coelacanth∅: weird, and good version
	10:15pm doctorjazz: BST wannabes, but not badly done,
	10:16pm Little Danny: Haha, Erica, thanks for remembering Lost Frequencies! Taking the evening off after a long day
	10:16pm Little Danny: Now I am, Franco!
	10:16pm Little Danny: Heya good doctor!
	10:17pm Erica: Well it's nice to have you here Danny.
	10:17pm doctorjazz: And more Traffic!
	10:17pm Franco Twinkie: Brit psych is soooo, I dunno, like British breakfast cereal - familiar and peculiar at the same time.
	10:18pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m surprised that Steve Winwood never got the moniker Little Stevie Winwood considering he started his career super young as well and he went by Stevie in his younger years.
	10:18pm doctorjazz: Donut remember them being covered much, guess I missed the covers,
	10:19pm doctorjazz: Don't...that is...
	10:20pm coelacanth∅: none of these versions are familiar so far, but i knew several songs by their covers before i'd ever heard of traffic
	10:21pm Franco Twinkie: Doc, for a minute I thought Donut was an English band I missed.
	10:21pm doctorjazz: Haha!
	10:22pm Wendy del Formaggio: Doctorjazz: I think "donut" is an excellent substitute for "don't." I often use "otter" in place of "ought to." As in, "You otter change the radio station back to WFMU."
	10:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: I would totally buy a Vyvyan Heavy Concept Album. Very metal!
	10:23pm doctorjazz: In think Winwood did get called Little Stevie some early on. But, there was a famous little Stevie (Wonder) out there.
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: @FRanco - There was a UK popsike band called the Crocheted Donut Ring
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I think you're right. He was 14 when he started out
	10:27pm coelacanth∅: at one point in my childhood there were 5 versions of feelin' alright in the house, between my older brother and myself. (3 dog night; rare earth; grand funk railroad; Joe Cocker; traffic)
	10:27pm doctorjazz: And this song Feelin Alright, is one of the best written 2 chord songs ever!
	10:28pm Jeff Ash: Many fine covers of "Feelin' Alright" to choose from, including that Lou Rawls version.
	10:28pm rw: Iggy Pop should cover that song, Feelin' Alright.
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: It probably kept Dave Mason financially secure for a long time
	10:28pm doctorjazz: Buttermilk Bottom??!???
	10:29pm Franco Twinkie: Stevie Winwood and Rebop Kwaku Baah were going to team up with Arthur Lee and Jimi Hendrix, but then Hendrix went did something else...oh yeah, he died.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed!
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: and though generally speaking Mason wrote a small minority of my favorite traffic songs, he did write feelin' alright - and another of my faves: house for everyone.
	10:30pm doctorjazz: Yeah, Franco, he screwed Miles Davis too.
	10:31pm rw: This playlist may go down in history as the one with the coolest band names. It'll be in the running at least.
	10:31pm doctorjazz: (Always loved this song, Medicated Goo).
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: (i think Jimi checking out just screwed Miles before Miles could screw him)
	10:33pm Franco Twinkie: Yup. Also Dealer. File under loaded.
	10:33pm Wendy del Formaggio: I'm really loving this show tonight. Thanks for the good vibes, Larry Grogan!
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: Glad you're digging it Wendy!
	10:34pm coelacanth∅: i heard dealer by someone else first too, though i cannot remember by whom
	10:39pm Dean: Wow, what an overdue theme. Traffic really deserves a lot more love than they typically receive.
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dean!
	10:40pm doctorjazz: We're pretty much in the earliest Traffic stuff. Have to admit, once Winwood went solo, didn't pay much attention (Low Spark was the last, not counting Blind Faith).
	10:40pm Franco Twinkie: I can honestly say I despise traffic, but love Traffic.
	10:40pm Erica: Hi Dean! Neat hearing later Woody Herman stuff.
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: Tonight we got up to Low Spark
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - His Cadet and later Fantasy albums are really cool
	10:42pm doctorjazz: All those 45s and Lps, I'm drooling (messing up my phone).
	10:44pm Franco Twinkie: Woody Herman was not afraid of putting on a paisley scarf.
	10:45pm Dean: Alan Broadbent joined Herman's crowd around this time. I love Broadbent as pianist and composer. Once hired his trio to play a celebration at the public library where I worked. It was amazing.
	10:45pm coelacanth∅: i once mentioned to another drummer stream radio host who said he never got into traffic and had never been tempted to that i thought he'd like some of it (as if i'd know) i wonder if someone of more authority than myself might convince him to check into it!
	10:45pm Funky16Corners: Woody was exceedingly hip, and kept a hot band
	10:46pm Parq: "Moves of Vegetable Centuries" is my new favorite album title of the week. And digging the Woody -- still searching for relevance.
	10:46pm Funky16Corners: @C - I wonder what the sticking point was? Not digging the jazz stuff? Or the psychedelic stuff?
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq! Isn't that cool?
	10:47pm Wendy del Formaggio: Parq!
	10:47pm Parq: Vendala!
	10:49pm Erica: Now this is a cool cover of Paper Sun
	10:49pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, If this person was not persuaded by your superior wit and wisdom, I would say said person was beyond help.
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: Larry i don't want to reveal who! and if i reason out why i thought he'd like it i might, so... but maybe it was just a bad taste from all the commercial stuff that came later, and the earlier stuff that maybe got played on classic rock stations? (did it? i don't know)
	10:49pm Wendy del Formaggio: Nice to see you here, Parq!
	10:50pm Funky16Corners: @C - If he/she was close to my age, they probably caught a LOT of Traffic on the radio as a kid. I loved it. Some folks might have gotten sick of it.
	10:50pm Parq: I'm sure Woody and his arrangers were inspired by the BS&T version. In fairness, I also think of that as the definitive version.
	10:51pm coelacanth∅: haha Thanks Franco but i can say this person is miles beyond me in certain realms
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - This is a really good album. Featuring Mick Taylor and a couple of the guys from the Average White Band
	10:51pm doctorjazz: I've said this before, but I always disliked Mann, but hearing him often on FMU, I've gotten to really like him.
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: @Parq - Woody sdid a bunch of other cool things around the same time, including a cover of Sly Stone's 'Sex Machine'
	10:52pm rw: The video for Traffic's Paper Sun is pretty great. They're just sort of hanging out and looking around at a museum. And singing a little every once in a while.
	10:52pm still b/p: re: old-schoolers seeking to keep padding in the current -- I saw a clip this evening of Skitch Henderson opening a Hullabaloo show in '66.
	10:52pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, have you ever done a show?
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP! I just saw a poster for a Batman themed dhow at Shea Stadium in 66 that featured the Rascals, Smokey and the Miracles and Skitch Henderson and the Tonight Show Orchestra!
	10:55pm TheNewLexGofer: Good evening from Perry County. Coffee's on!
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: Hey NewLexGofer!
	10:56pm northguineahills: aloha, Larry!
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: NGH!
	10:57pm Franco Twinkie: Having suffered through BS&T's in real time, I can say that David Clayton Thomas gave me a rash every time I heard him.
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: He's one of my favorite singers!
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: Though I hear he was a jerk...
	10:58pm TheNewLexGofer: Evenin', Larry!
	10:59pm doctorjazz: Infamous version of Dear Mr Fantasy (at least when it came out Monk quote!
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Here's BST with a different singer, Jerry Fisher
	11:00pm doctorjazz: Back to the comment I started... All Kooper and Mike Bloomfield's Dear Mr Fantasy were all over FM radio when it came out
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: Supersession?
	11:02pm TheNewLexGofer: @doctorjazz: Springsteen hated Mann for what he did to "Blinded by the Light"...
	11:02pm Erica: "Thank you Blood and Sweat. Sorry to hear about Tears." (Anyone get the reference?)
	11:02pm doctorjazz: (Got carried away with the BST Monk quote, Well You Needn't. I didn't know Monk's music when I first Grady the BST album, so it went past me them).
	11:02pm Franco Twinkie: Oh he can sing. That's obvious. It was his demeanor, presentation and just general grating Davidness! Can Buddy Rich play the drums? What a question! But..
	11:03pm Erica: Or was it "Sorry about Tears."
	11:04pm Dean: Springsteen has no authority for hating anything musical.
	11:04pm Funky16Corners: @NewLexGofer - Wasn't that Manfred Mann?
	11:04pm coelacanth∅: bs&t did at least one other traffic song too
	11:05pm coelacanth∅: yeah it was a different man
	11:05pm TheNewLexGofer: Yes. Got in late. Guess I missed something...
	11:05pm doctorjazz: It was on The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and All Kooper.
	11:06pm Erica: Hi NLG. I'm Erica.
	11:06pm Funky16Corners: @C - BST also did Smiling Phases
	11:07pm Dean: Nothing reaches When the Eagle Flies? I actually like that album a lot.
	11:07pm Parq: I dug Jerry Fisher in BS&T. He sang lead in their great cover of City's "Snow Queen". But I drift afield of the Traffic topic.
	11:08pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - Didn't have any covers of stuff after Low Spark
	11:08pm northguineahills: I dig every version of John Barleycorn I hear, even Joe Walsh (I have Joe Walsh album somewhere). Hey, I like what Herbie Mann did w/ Stereolab…..
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: I love Herbie Mann. Underrated master of musical fusions and a very hip bandleader. He had some amazing sidemen along the way
	11:09pm coelacanth∅: 2 bs&t songs Parq...it's already on the table!
	11:09pm Parq: We "studied" John Barleycorn in high school English class -- a poetry section that included Dylan, Crosby and others. The search for relevance indeed.
	11:09pm TheNewLexGofer: Herbie, not Manfred. Oops... Hi, Erica. New (to me) Joe Walsh!
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - John Barleycorn is in many way the quintessential British folk number
	11:11pm Parq: Was this Capaldi tribute a fundraiser? Medical costs or something?
	11:11pm coelacanth∅: i've heard a cover of "sometimes i feel so uninspired" but, like the original, it's rather uninspired
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: @Parq - Memorial. He passed from stomach cancer in 2005
	11:14pm northguineahills: @Larry: I have Herbie's Bossa and Psyche(ish) albums....
	11:14pm doctorjazz: Rickie Lee manages to stick close to the original, yet make it sound like her own.
	11:14pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I really dig this version
	11:15pm still b/p: The things ya loin. I noticed the Lou Rawls album was named for his cover of the song that gave BS&T one of their biggest hits, so I was looking up who wrote it, and not only did I learn that but also who else covered You Made Me So Very Happy. One of the more unexpected names on that list: Bobbie Gentry!
	11:15pm Dean: And then there's Winwood's work with Stomu Yamashta,which is lovely.
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - Originally recorded by Brenda Holloway
	11:16pm Parq: Great conversation, but my pup will no longer be denied. Good night and take care, all.
	11:17pm Erica: Bye Parq!
	11:17pm coelacanth∅: so who penned "...very happy"? gnight Parq
	11:18pm still b/p: Holloway co-wrote it with Berry Gordy and others.
	11:18pm coelacanth∅: ah. thank you
	11:19pm doctorjazz: I'm on an 8 hour of sleepa night kick (not quite making it, but getting closer). But, late start in the office tomorrow, so can catch this whole show! :)
	11:21pm TheNewLexGofer: Grech was in Blind Faith.
	11:22pm doctorjazz: Yup, Rick Gretch.
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: Nite Parq!
	11:24pm Franco Twinkie: In my mind I always associate this song with the Manson murders which is unfortunate, but the album was in heavy rotation when all that shit happened.
	11:25pm Erica: Which song? "Can't Find My Way Home"?
	11:26pm Franco Twinkie: Yes.
	11:27pm coelacanth∅: can't find my way home was revelatory when i first heard it (which was several years after the manson murders)
	11:28pm Erica: Wow
	11:28pm doctorjazz: I was wondering if they'd have the fires tho go for the guitar break. They did, but didn't quite get there inn it, methinks.
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: ...then again i was young enough when the manson people did their deed that the impact was minimal at the time
	11:30pm doctorjazz: (Should have said...guts to go for the guitar break...one of these days I'll learn too proof read...)
	11:31pm coelacanth∅: Larry are you gonna play Buddy Holly's cover of well all right?!
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: I was 6 going on 7 when the Manson murders happened. I don't think I had any idea about any of it until I was in high school and Helter Skelter came out
	11:31pm Franco Twinkie: Doc, I agree. Good sense should have told them during the playback that they should scratch the guitar break.
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: @C - No, not tonight
	11:33pm Franco Twinkie: People in L.A. were totally wigged out that summer.
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: (you know i was kidding)
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: You never know, C. You never know...
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - It really put a chill over the country but must have been especially, specifically weird in LA
	11:36pm doctorjazz: I laughed, Coel...though it would have been a cool change up. Loved the I Barritas, and Mcllwaine had nice pipes.
	11:37pm Dean: I clearly remember (ha, clearly!) seeing the LAT headlines on August 9, 1969, at a restaurant in -- was it Malibu? -- with my parents. Ten years later a bunch of us drove to Cielo Drive to view the outskirts of the scene.
	11:40pm coelacanth∅: maybe trying to avoid paying for permission to do the songs
	🥁 11:42pm Granny Spicy Tuna: I was born exactly between the Manson Family murders and Woodstock. I've always said that describes the family i came from.
	11:43pm Erica: Haha Granny.
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I can only imagine what the vibe must have been before they knew who had done the killings. The rumors must have been crazy, and then it all turned out much weirder than anyone could have imagined
	11:44pm Jeff Ash: Quintessential late-night FM free-form radio cut.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: Indeed. As late night as late night ever got
	11:45pm Erica: Hey Ash better late than never.
	11:47pm doctorjazz: Pretty cool version,b don't know them except the name
	11:47pm Jeff Ash: This is right in my wheelhouse. It was about this time of night -- not quite deep in the night, but you could see it and feel it from there -- that we'd hear this on the local FM free-form radio of the time, the early '70s.
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: They are HUGE in the foundation of the 'jam band' thing. One of those bands that doesn't poke their heads up into the mainstream too much but has a really big, devoted underground audience. I have a buddy that owns a record store down in DC who went to college with them and was around for their earliest days
	11:49pm doctorjazz: Yup, Jeff, rememberit as well.
	11:49pm Franco Twinkie: I love this! This is the difference between been a young person and a decreped old person. One night when I worked in Hollywood after putting in a 12 hour day, my boss and I got totally ripped on super grass and went to the Roxy to see Wide Spread Panic, even though we had to be back on stage at 6am. It would kill me today. That is if I had a job to go to.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - We're lucky to have been around when commercial radio played things like this,
	11:50pm Little Danny: Awesome and heady show Larry. Thanks a bunch!
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - I feel that feeling all the time. Remembering the days where I'd be out all Friday night, go to work Saturday morning, take a disco nap and then head back out for more fun on Saturday night. I think if I tried that these days I'de be dead halfway through
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Danny!
	11:52pm Dean: I have no doubt that they got airplay on KPFK's Thursday Lunch show (which aired Friday nights) featuring jam bands.
	11:52pm Jeff Ash: Amen, Larry. That late-night free-form FM radio was so influential. My constant companion, and one that opened my eyes and ears to so much.
	11:52pm Franco Twinkie: Said boss went out with Patricia Krenwinkle in high school.
	11:53pm chresti: Thanks Larry! I'm fading fast...
	11:53pm rw: I'm headed to the other room to catch the remainder. Thank you F16C for another entertaining, enlightening and informative two hours of music and conversation! Take care everyone!
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - College radio carried on the experimental feel, but in the punk realm. Not much in the way of dreamy/head music.
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: Nite Chresti! rw!
	11:54pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Whoa...way to bury the lede!
	11:54pm TheNewLexGofer: I'll be back for more of this. Nytol!
	11:54pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, great fun!
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: Nite NewLexGofer! Nite Doc!
	🥁 11:55pm Granny Spicy Tuna: thanks, Larry, sweet dreams, everyone…
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: Nite Granny!
	11:55pm Jeff Ash: Yes, absolutely. Never had a college radio station to listen to, but had a local, listener-sponsored indie station much like WFMU.
	11:56pm Jeff Ash: In any case, great show! Thanks!
	11:56pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff!
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! Excellent! nighty night folks
	11:58pm still b/p: Low Spark, Barleycorn and Can't Find My Way are absolutely distinct recall prompts for 70s FM listening. Thanks for the mix of other takes on 'em!
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks C! Thanks SBP!
	11:59pm Erica: What a show. Until next week guys!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Erica!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 22, 2019

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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
Neil	Hole In My Shoe "Hole In My Shoe" by "Neil"	Neil's Heavy Concept Album	WEA	1984	LP
Murmaids	Paper Sun "Paper Sun" by "Murmaids"	45RPM Single	Liberty	1968	45
The Hassles	Coloured Rain "Coloured Rain" by "The Hassles"	The Hassles	UA	1968	LP
The Smoke	Utterly Simple "Utterly Simple" by "The Smoke"	My Friend Jack Eats Sugar Lumps	Morgan Music	2015	CD
The Fuzzy Bunnies	Heaven Is In Your Mind	45RPM Single	Decca	1969	45
Orange Machine	You Can All Join In	45RPM Single	Pye	1968	45

Lou Rawls	Feelin' Alright "Feelin' Alright" by "Lou Rawls"	You've Made Me So Very Happy	Capitol	1970	LP
Buttermilk Bottom	Dear Mr Fantasy	45RPM Single	Polydor	1970	45
Mudd	Medicated Goo "Medicated Goo" by "Mudd"	45RPM Single	UNI	1970	45
Tramline	Pearly Queen "Pearly Queen" by "Tramline"	Moves of Vegetable Centuries	Island	1969	LP
Jay and the Americans	Shanghai Noodle Factory	45RPM Single	UA	1968	45
Woody Herman	Smiling Phases "Smiling Phases" by "Woody Herman"	Woody	Cadet	1970	LP
Hugh Masekela	No Face, No Name and No Number	Promise of a Future	Uni	1968	LP
Herbie Mann	Paper Sun "Paper Sun" by "Herbie Mann"	London Underground	Atlantic	1974	LP
Blood Sweat and Tears	40,000 Headmen	Blood Sweat and Tears 3	Columbia	1970	LP
Blood Sweat and Tears	Empty Pages	No Sweat	Columbia	1973	LP
Joan Baez	Many a Mile To Freedom "Many a Mile To Freedom" by "Joan Baez"	Blowin' Away	Epic	1977	LP
Joe Walsh	John Barleycorn Must Die	Dear Mr Fantasy: A Celebration For Jim Capaldi	Eagle	2007	CD
Rickie Lee Jones	The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys	It's Like This	Artemis	2000	CD

Yvonne Elliman	Can't find My Way Home	45RPM Single	Decca	1971	45
Milt Matthews Inc	Presence of the Lord	For the People	Catalyst	1971	LP
I Barritas	Al Ristorante (Sea of Joy)	45RPM Single	Liberty Italy	1970	45
Ellen McIlwaine	Can't Find My Way Home	Honky Tonk Angel	Mercury	1972	LP

Widespread Panic	The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys	Live 12/01/2000 Carbondale Illinois	WPA	2000	MP3

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 Jeff Ash: Good evening from Wisconsin!
	10:01pm chresti: Howdy Larry and Testify!
	10:01pm Gary: Larry!
	10:01pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! Chresti! Gary!
	10:02pm Franco Twinkie: Supergroup! Do people still say that? Wait a minute. I just did.
	10:02pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	10:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: Ha! I'm wearing my Young Ones "Scumbag College" t-shirt right now!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey C! Hi Wendy!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Wendy - Time for University Challenge!
	🥁 10:03pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Neeeeeeeilllllllll!!!!!!
	10:03pm Erica: Never heard this version of Hole in My Shoe before.
	10:03pm Franco Twinkie: This is a great album in so many ways.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Granny! Put the lentils on!
	10:03pm Wendy del Formaggio: F16C: "I've got a Porsche!"
	10:03pm Matt from New Orleans: Hello everyone
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Erica! Matt!
	🥁 10:04pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Funky16Corners: yes, i just had the best dal of my life tonight, mmmmmm
	10:04pm Wendy del Formaggio: Where's Anne Y. and Matt Clarke?! Fellow fans of the Young Ones.
	10:05pm Franco Twinkie: My White Bicycle fer instance.
	10:05pm Erica: Hi Wendy!
	10:05pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hey Erica! How's it going?
	10:06pm Erica: Good. Thanks Wendy.
	10:07pm doctorjazz: Hello folks!
	10:09pm rw: ¡Hola! ¡This show is off to a great start!
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey rw!
	10:11pm Little Danny: Heya Larry and all! Delighted to spend a night off with y'all
	10:12pm Funky16Corners: Danny! Great to have you here!
	10:13pm Erica: No Lost Frequencies this week Danny?
	10:13pm Franco Twinkie: Danny! Are you wearing your satin brocade coat and white loafers?
	10:14pm doctorjazz: Ttaffic,if I remember correctly, cool cover,
	10:15pm doctorjazz: Hey Danny!
	10:15pm coelacanth∅: weird, and good version
	10:15pm doctorjazz: BST wannabes, but not badly done,
	10:16pm Little Danny: Haha, Erica, thanks for remembering Lost Frequencies! Taking the evening off after a long day
	10:16pm Little Danny: Now I am, Franco!
	10:16pm Little Danny: Heya good doctor!
	10:17pm Erica: Well it's nice to have you here Danny.
	10:17pm doctorjazz: And more Traffic!
	10:17pm Franco Twinkie: Brit psych is soooo, I dunno, like British breakfast cereal - familiar and peculiar at the same time.
	10:18pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m surprised that Steve Winwood never got the moniker Little Stevie Winwood considering he started his career super young as well and he went by Stevie in his younger years.
	10:18pm doctorjazz: Donut remember them being covered much, guess I missed the covers,
	10:19pm doctorjazz: Don't...that is...
	10:20pm coelacanth∅: none of these versions are familiar so far, but i knew several songs by their covers before i'd ever heard of traffic
	10:21pm Franco Twinkie: Doc, for a minute I thought Donut was an English band I missed.
	10:21pm doctorjazz: Haha!
	10:22pm Wendy del Formaggio: Doctorjazz: I think "donut" is an excellent substitute for "don't." I often use "otter" in place of "ought to." As in, "You otter change the radio station back to WFMU."
	10:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: I would totally buy a Vyvyan Heavy Concept Album. Very metal!
	10:23pm doctorjazz: In think Winwood did get called Little Stevie some early on. But, there was a famous little Stevie (Wonder) out there.
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: @FRanco - There was a UK popsike band called the Crocheted Donut Ring
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I think you're right. He was 14 when he started out
	10:27pm coelacanth∅: at one point in my childhood there were 5 versions of feelin' alright in the house, between my older brother and myself. (3 dog night; rare earth; grand funk railroad; Joe Cocker; traffic)
	10:27pm doctorjazz: And this song Feelin Alright, is one of the best written 2 chord songs ever!
	10:28pm Jeff Ash: Many fine covers of "Feelin' Alright" to choose from, including that Lou Rawls version.
	10:28pm rw: Iggy Pop should cover that song, Feelin' Alright.
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: It probably kept Dave Mason financially secure for a long time
	10:28pm doctorjazz: Buttermilk Bottom??!???
	10:29pm Franco Twinkie: Stevie Winwood and Rebop Kwaku Baah were going to team up with Arthur Lee and Jimi Hendrix, but then Hendrix went did something else...oh yeah, he died.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed!
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: and though generally speaking Mason wrote a small minority of my favorite traffic songs, he did write feelin' alright - and another of my faves: house for everyone.
	10:30pm doctorjazz: Yeah, Franco, he screwed Miles Davis too.
	10:31pm rw: This playlist may go down in history as the one with the coolest band names. It'll be in the running at least.
	10:31pm doctorjazz: (Always loved this song, Medicated Goo).
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: (i think Jimi checking out just screwed Miles before Miles could screw him)
	10:33pm Franco Twinkie: Yup. Also Dealer. File under loaded.
	10:33pm Wendy del Formaggio: I'm really loving this show tonight. Thanks for the good vibes, Larry Grogan!
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: Glad you're digging it Wendy!
	10:34pm coelacanth∅: i heard dealer by someone else first too, though i cannot remember by whom
	10:39pm Dean: Wow, what an overdue theme. Traffic really deserves a lot more love than they typically receive.
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dean!
	10:40pm doctorjazz: We're pretty much in the earliest Traffic stuff. Have to admit, once Winwood went solo, didn't pay much attention (Low Spark was the last, not counting Blind Faith).
	10:40pm Franco Twinkie: I can honestly say I despise traffic, but love Traffic.
	10:40pm Erica: Hi Dean! Neat hearing later Woody Herman stuff.
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: Tonight we got up to Low Spark
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - His Cadet and later Fantasy albums are really cool
	10:42pm doctorjazz: All those 45s and Lps, I'm drooling (messing up my phone).
	10:44pm Franco Twinkie: Woody Herman was not afraid of putting on a paisley scarf.
	10:45pm Dean: Alan Broadbent joined Herman's crowd around this time. I love Broadbent as pianist and composer. Once hired his trio to play a celebration at the public library where I worked. It was amazing.
	10:45pm coelacanth∅: i once mentioned to another drummer stream radio host who said he never got into traffic and had never been tempted to that i thought he'd like some of it (as if i'd know) i wonder if someone of more authority than myself might convince him to check into it!
	10:45pm Funky16Corners: Woody was exceedingly hip, and kept a hot band
	10:46pm Parq: "Moves of Vegetable Centuries" is my new favorite album title of the week. And digging the Woody -- still searching for relevance.
	10:46pm Funky16Corners: @C - I wonder what the sticking point was? Not digging the jazz stuff? Or the psychedelic stuff?
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq! Isn't that cool?
	10:47pm Wendy del Formaggio: Parq!
	10:47pm Parq: Vendala!
	10:49pm Erica: Now this is a cool cover of Paper Sun
	10:49pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, If this person was not persuaded by your superior wit and wisdom, I would say said person was beyond help.
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: Larry i don't want to reveal who! and if i reason out why i thought he'd like it i might, so... but maybe it was just a bad taste from all the commercial stuff that came later, and the earlier stuff that maybe got played on classic rock stations? (did it? i don't know)
	10:49pm Wendy del Formaggio: Nice to see you here, Parq!
	10:50pm Funky16Corners: @C - If he/she was close to my age, they probably caught a LOT of Traffic on the radio as a kid. I loved it. Some folks might have gotten sick of it.
	10:50pm Parq: I'm sure Woody and his arrangers were inspired by the BS&T version. In fairness, I also think of that as the definitive version.
	10:51pm coelacanth∅: haha Thanks Franco but i can say this person is miles beyond me in certain realms
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - This is a really good album. Featuring Mick Taylor and a couple of the guys from the Average White Band
	10:51pm doctorjazz: I've said this before, but I always disliked Mann, but hearing him often on FMU, I've gotten to really like him.
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: @Parq - Woody sdid a bunch of other cool things around the same time, including a cover of Sly Stone's 'Sex Machine'
	10:52pm rw: The video for Traffic's Paper Sun is pretty great. They're just sort of hanging out and looking around at a museum. And singing a little every once in a while.
	10:52pm still b/p: re: old-schoolers seeking to keep padding in the current -- I saw a clip this evening of Skitch Henderson opening a Hullabaloo show in '66.
	10:52pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, have you ever done a show?
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP! I just saw a poster for a Batman themed dhow at Shea Stadium in 66 that featured the Rascals, Smokey and the Miracles and Skitch Henderson and the Tonight Show Orchestra!
	10:55pm TheNewLexGofer: Good evening from Perry County. Coffee's on!
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: Hey NewLexGofer!
	10:56pm northguineahills: aloha, Larry!
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: NGH!
	10:57pm Franco Twinkie: Having suffered through BS&T's in real time, I can say that David Clayton Thomas gave me a rash every time I heard him.
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: He's one of my favorite singers!
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: Though I hear he was a jerk...
	10:58pm TheNewLexGofer: Evenin', Larry!
	10:59pm doctorjazz: Infamous version of Dear Mr Fantasy (at least when it came out Monk quote!
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Here's BST with a different singer, Jerry Fisher
	11:00pm doctorjazz: Back to the comment I started... All Kooper and Mike Bloomfield's Dear Mr Fantasy were all over FM radio when it came out
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: Supersession?
	11:02pm TheNewLexGofer: @doctorjazz: Springsteen hated Mann for what he did to "Blinded by the Light"...
	11:02pm Erica: "Thank you Blood and Sweat. Sorry to hear about Tears." (Anyone get the reference?)
	11:02pm doctorjazz: (Got carried away with the BST Monk quote, Well You Needn't. I didn't know Monk's music when I first Grady the BST album, so it went past me them).
	11:02pm Franco Twinkie: Oh he can sing. That's obvious. It was his demeanor, presentation and just general grating Davidness! Can Buddy Rich play the drums? What a question! But..
	11:03pm Erica: Or was it "Sorry about Tears."
	11:04pm Dean: Springsteen has no authority for hating anything musical.
	11:04pm Funky16Corners: @NewLexGofer - Wasn't that Manfred Mann?
	11:04pm coelacanth∅: bs&t did at least one other traffic song too
	11:05pm coelacanth∅: yeah it was a different man
	11:05pm TheNewLexGofer: Yes. Got in late. Guess I missed something...
	11:05pm doctorjazz: It was on The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and All Kooper.
	11:06pm Erica: Hi NLG. I'm Erica.
	11:06pm Funky16Corners: @C - BST also did Smiling Phases
	11:07pm Dean: Nothing reaches When the Eagle Flies? I actually like that album a lot.
	11:07pm Parq: I dug Jerry Fisher in BS&T. He sang lead in their great cover of City's "Snow Queen". But I drift afield of the Traffic topic.
	11:08pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - Didn't have any covers of stuff after Low Spark
	11:08pm northguineahills: I dig every version of John Barleycorn I hear, even Joe Walsh (I have Joe Walsh album somewhere). Hey, I like what Herbie Mann did w/ Stereolab…..
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: I love Herbie Mann. Underrated master of musical fusions and a very hip bandleader. He had some amazing sidemen along the way
	11:09pm coelacanth∅: 2 bs&t songs Parq...it's already on the table!
	11:09pm Parq: We "studied" John Barleycorn in high school English class -- a poetry section that included Dylan, Crosby and others. The search for relevance indeed.
	11:09pm TheNewLexGofer: Herbie, not Manfred. Oops... Hi, Erica. New (to me) Joe Walsh!
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - John Barleycorn is in many way the quintessential British folk number
	11:11pm Parq: Was this Capaldi tribute a fundraiser? Medical costs or something?
	11:11pm coelacanth∅: i've heard a cover of "sometimes i feel so uninspired" but, like the original, it's rather uninspired
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: @Parq - Memorial. He passed from stomach cancer in 2005
	11:14pm northguineahills: @Larry: I have Herbie's Bossa and Psyche(ish) albums....
	11:14pm doctorjazz: Rickie Lee manages to stick close to the original, yet make it sound like her own.
	11:14pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I really dig this version
	11:15pm still b/p: The things ya loin. I noticed the Lou Rawls album was named for his cover of the song that gave BS&T one of their biggest hits, so I was looking up who wrote it, and not only did I learn that but also who else covered You Made Me So Very Happy. One of the more unexpected names on that list: Bobbie Gentry!
	11:15pm Dean: And then there's Winwood's work with Stomu Yamashta,which is lovely.
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - Originally recorded by Brenda Holloway
	11:16pm Parq: Great conversation, but my pup will no longer be denied. Good night and take care, all.
	11:17pm Erica: Bye Parq!
	11:17pm coelacanth∅: so who penned "...very happy"? gnight Parq
	11:18pm still b/p: Holloway co-wrote it with Berry Gordy and others.
	11:18pm coelacanth∅: ah. thank you
	11:19pm doctorjazz: I'm on an 8 hour of sleepa night kick (not quite making it, but getting closer). But, late start in the office tomorrow, so can catch this whole show! :)
	11:21pm TheNewLexGofer: Grech was in Blind Faith.
	11:22pm doctorjazz: Yup, Rick Gretch.
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: Nite Parq!
	11:24pm Franco Twinkie: In my mind I always associate this song with the Manson murders which is unfortunate, but the album was in heavy rotation when all that shit happened.
	11:25pm Erica: Which song? "Can't Find My Way Home"?
	11:26pm Franco Twinkie: Yes.
	11:27pm coelacanth∅: can't find my way home was revelatory when i first heard it (which was several years after the manson murders)
	11:28pm Erica: Wow
	11:28pm doctorjazz: I was wondering if they'd have the fires tho go for the guitar break. They did, but didn't quite get there inn it, methinks.
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: ...then again i was young enough when the manson people did their deed that the impact was minimal at the time
	11:30pm doctorjazz: (Should have said...guts to go for the guitar break...one of these days I'll learn too proof read...)
	11:31pm coelacanth∅: Larry are you gonna play Buddy Holly's cover of well all right?!
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: I was 6 going on 7 when the Manson murders happened. I don't think I had any idea about any of it until I was in high school and Helter Skelter came out
	11:31pm Franco Twinkie: Doc, I agree. Good sense should have told them during the playback that they should scratch the guitar break.
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: @C - No, not tonight
	11:33pm Franco Twinkie: People in L.A. were totally wigged out that summer.
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: (you know i was kidding)
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: You never know, C. You never know...
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - It really put a chill over the country but must have been especially, specifically weird in LA
	11:36pm doctorjazz: I laughed, Coel...though it would have been a cool change up. Loved the I Barritas, and Mcllwaine had nice pipes.
	11:37pm Dean: I clearly remember (ha, clearly!) seeing the LAT headlines on August 9, 1969, at a restaurant in -- was it Malibu? -- with my parents. Ten years later a bunch of us drove to Cielo Drive to view the outskirts of the scene.
	11:40pm coelacanth∅: maybe trying to avoid paying for permission to do the songs
	🥁 11:42pm Granny Spicy Tuna: I was born exactly between the Manson Family murders and Woodstock. I've always said that describes the family i came from.
	11:43pm Erica: Haha Granny.
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I can only imagine what the vibe must have been before they knew who had done the killings. The rumors must have been crazy, and then it all turned out much weirder than anyone could have imagined
	11:44pm Jeff Ash: Quintessential late-night FM free-form radio cut.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: Indeed. As late night as late night ever got
	11:45pm Erica: Hey Ash better late than never.
	11:47pm doctorjazz: Pretty cool version,b don't know them except the name
	11:47pm Jeff Ash: This is right in my wheelhouse. It was about this time of night -- not quite deep in the night, but you could see it and feel it from there -- that we'd hear this on the local FM free-form radio of the time, the early '70s.
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: They are HUGE in the foundation of the 'jam band' thing. One of those bands that doesn't poke their heads up into the mainstream too much but has a really big, devoted underground audience. I have a buddy that owns a record store down in DC who went to college with them and was around for their earliest days
	11:49pm doctorjazz: Yup, Jeff, rememberit as well.
	11:49pm Franco Twinkie: I love this! This is the difference between been a young person and a decreped old person. One night when I worked in Hollywood after putting in a 12 hour day, my boss and I got totally ripped on super grass and went to the Roxy to see Wide Spread Panic, even though we had to be back on stage at 6am. It would kill me today. That is if I had a job to go to.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - We're lucky to have been around when commercial radio played things like this,
	11:50pm Little Danny: Awesome and heady show Larry. Thanks a bunch!
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - I feel that feeling all the time. Remembering the days where I'd be out all Friday night, go to work Saturday morning, take a disco nap and then head back out for more fun on Saturday night. I think if I tried that these days I'de be dead halfway through
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Danny!
	11:52pm Dean: I have no doubt that they got airplay on KPFK's Thursday Lunch show (which aired Friday nights) featuring jam bands.
	11:52pm Jeff Ash: Amen, Larry. That late-night free-form FM radio was so influential. My constant companion, and one that opened my eyes and ears to so much.
	11:52pm Franco Twinkie: Said boss went out with Patricia Krenwinkle in high school.
	11:53pm chresti: Thanks Larry! I'm fading fast...
	11:53pm rw: I'm headed to the other room to catch the remainder. Thank you F16C for another entertaining, enlightening and informative two hours of music and conversation! Take care everyone!
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - College radio carried on the experimental feel, but in the punk realm. Not much in the way of dreamy/head music.
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: Nite Chresti! rw!
	11:54pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Whoa...way to bury the lede!
	11:54pm TheNewLexGofer: I'll be back for more of this. Nytol!
	11:54pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, great fun!
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: Nite NewLexGofer! Nite Doc!
	🥁 11:55pm Granny Spicy Tuna: thanks, Larry, sweet dreams, everyone…
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: Nite Granny!
	11:55pm Jeff Ash: Yes, absolutely. Never had a college radio station to listen to, but had a local, listener-sponsored indie station much like WFMU.
	11:56pm Jeff Ash: In any case, great show! Thanks!
	11:56pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff!
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! Excellent! nighty night folks
	11:58pm still b/p: Low Spark, Barleycorn and Can't Find My Way are absolutely distinct recall prompts for 70s FM listening. Thanks for the mix of other takes on 'em!
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks C! Thanks SBP!
	11:59pm Erica: What a show. Until next week guys!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Erica!

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