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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Favoriting June 26, 2019: Testify! - Pure Pop For Testify People!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
The Kings  The Beat Goes On/Switchin To Glide   Favoriting The Kings Are Here  Elektra  1980  LP 
Jellyfish  My Best Friend   Favoriting Spilt Milk  Virgin  1993  CD 
Primrose Circus  PS Call me Lulu   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mira  1968  45 
The Sneetches  Love Comes My Way   Favoriting Please Don't Break My Heart EP  Alias  1989  EP 
 
The Cars  You're All I've Got Tonight   Favoriting The Cars  Elektra  1978  LP 
The Cars  Bye Bye Love   Favoriting The Cars  Elektra  1978  LP 
The Cars  Moving In Stereo   Favoriting The Cars  Elektra  1978  LP 
The Cars  All Mixed Up   Favoriting The Cars  Elektra  1978  LP 
 
Buckwheat  Yes   Favoriting Pure Buckwheat Honey  Super K  1969  LP 
Any Trouble  Second Choice   Favoriting Where Are All the Nice Girls?  Stiff  1980  LP 
The Beatles  Penny Lane   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1967  45 
The Sunshine Company  Love, That's Where It Is   Favoriting The Sunshine Company  Imperial  1967  LP 
The Fun and Games  The Grooviest Girl In the World   Favoriting Elephant Candy  Uni  1968  LP 
The Millennium  Prelude/To Claudia On Thursday   Favoriting Begin  Columbia  1968  LP 
The Millennium  I Just Want To Be Your Friend   Favoriting Begin  Columbia  1968  LP 
The Spongetones  Anna   Favoriting Where-ever-land  Triapore  1987  CD 
Sugar Shoppe  Canada   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Yorkville  1967  45 
Joey Heatherton  Say Hello   Favoriting The Joey Heatherton Album  MGM  1972  LP 
The Hondells  Just One More Chance   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia  1967  45 
The Cowsills  Anything Changes   Favoriting II X II  MGM  1969  LP 
The Humblebums  All of the Best People Do It   Favoriting Open Up the Door  Liberty  1969  LP 
Penny Nichols  Sunshine Blues   Favoriting Penny's Arcade  Buddah  1968  LP 
 
The Sneetches  You're Gonna Need Her   Favoriting Sometimes That's All We Have  Alias  1988  LP 
Timebox  Gone Is the Sad Man   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Deram  1968  45 
Eternity's Children  Mrs Bluebird   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Tower  1968  45 
Beach Boys  Passing By   Favoriting Friends  Capitol  1968  LP 
The Association  Everything That Touches You   Favoriting Birthday  Warner Brothers  1968  LP 
Orpheus  Lesley's World   Favoriting 45RPM Single  MGM  1967  45 
Kings of Convenience  Toxic Girl   Favoriting Quiet Is the New Loud  Source  2000  CD 
Jellyfish  Russian Hill   Favoriting Spilt Milk  Virgin  1993  CD 
Spanky and Our Gang  Like To Get To Know You/Coda   Favoriting Like To Get To Know You  Mercury  1968  LP 
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up on the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45 

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Listener comments!

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Gary:

Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00pm
Jeff Ash:

Greetings again from Wisconsin!
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Erica:

Ready for the pop show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
chresti:

Hi Testify! Larry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Hey Larry. Feeling tired and have to get up early tomorrow. Not sure I’ll be around long. Enjoyed the Sunday show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Jeff! Erica! Chresti!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Matt!
Avatar 10:02pm
Erica:

Yeah sorry I didn't show up Sunday. I had to shower lol.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Funky16Corners:

That's OK. Bits and bytes are preserved if you feel the need to hear it.
Avatar 10:04pm
Erica:

Cool Larry. I can never make it to your 9 am shows (not just Testify!) and rarely your noon shows. 10 pm is most convenient for me since there's nothing on but the news anyway.
Avatar 10:04pm
Erica:

And 8 pm I watch TV shows.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
doctorjazz:

Hey Larry and Testifiers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Nobody want to watch the news these days. Nothing good can come of it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

yeah! howdy everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Franco Twinkie:

Are we going skinny tie tonight?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Franco! Only partly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Granny!
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Erica:

Hey Granny! Where ya been?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Doug Schulkind:

Testifantastic!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

I just realized that that Kings 45 came out the summer I graduated from high school, almost exactly 39 (cough) years ago!
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northguineahills:

Testing...fi-(fo)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Funky16Corners:

NGH!
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northguineahills:

My HS gf loved Jellyfish!
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Erica:

Is this all Powerpop?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Funky16Corners:

In a manner of speaking, some just power pop adjacent or 'roots of power pop'-ish
Avatar 10:10pm
still b/p:

They're dressed so spiffy that I think that shot is beyond the moment when I saw the Cars for four bucks at The Rat in Boston.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Funky16Corners:

I wish I'd been there for that!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Larry and others
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
doctorjazz:

Heading to Solid Sound Festival in North Adams this weekend, psyched!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
doctorjazz:

Don't know most of this stuff, but it's fun (power pop fan, obsessed with Fountains of Wayne).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Funky16Corners:

They are certainly the descendants of a LOT of this stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
doctorjazz:

This is one of the few albums I was able to get my 20 year old punk/metal loving daughter into.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Funky16Corners:

I think it works on multiple levels because in addition to a ton of hooks and great singing, it has heavy guitars too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Funky16Corners:

And the production by Roy Thomas Baker is incredible
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

first LP i ever bought, age 10. sounds as fresh as ever.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Funky16Corners:

It really does.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Funky16Corners:

A record collector buddy of mine just told me he recently scored a copy of the first 45 by Ben Orr's 1960s band, The Grasshoppers. They were the house band on a Cleveland teen dance party TV show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Franco Twinkie:

Which one was in The Modern Lovers? Dave...what?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Funky16Corners:

David Robinson
  10:27pm
Carmichael:

Heya Larry and various Cars.
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still b/p:

I've commented before that my initial encounters with the debut album were not good. After hearing the demo tape tracks for months in local radio play, the record production sounded severely over-glossy, vibe-changingly stuffed and slicked up. Got accustomed, but at first it was, "Ohhh, now, boys, what have you done here?"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

Larry i love you so much for continuing the play!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Carmichael!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Funky16Corners:

Granny, the pleasure is all mine!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Funky16Corners:

These tracks really need to heard together
Avatar 10:34pm
Erica:

And again, Granny's .Gif image dances in tune to the song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Franco Twinkie:

I had a neighbor who worked at Rhino and he gave me a collection that had a metal flake hot rod paint job cover. I think it has a book. Now I want to find it, but that will entail a major excavation project.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Funky16Corners:

I remember when that came out. Cool looking set.
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Erica:

Bea-tles.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Funky16Corners:

One of my earliest musical memories.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

my sweetie just walked in and innocently started making some corn dumplings
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Funky16Corners:

Mmmmm! Dumplings!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
chresti:

What a sweet sweetie.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

it's not my fault
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

hee hee! that came out funny. well, we do have a thing about dumplings in this household
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still b/p:

Boarding house scene in '69 True Grit:
"Watch out for the chicken and dumplings. They'll hurt your eyes."
"How's that?"
"They'll hurt your eyes looking for the chicken!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:00pm
Funky16Corners:

I have to remember that one!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Big Mamas and Papas influence on this one
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
Franco Twinkie:

Granny, one time on New Years Eve we walked over to this place on 32nd Ave and Clement and had great dumplings. The place was empty,except for us. Later that night, a crazy violent man abused a shopping cart while we waited for the #5 on Fulton next to the park.
Avatar 11:03pm
Erica:

I get the same vibe Larry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Franco Twinkie:

Joey Heatherton, the real fifth Beatle.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
Funky16Corners:

That was a Paul Williams song that as far as I can tell never appeared anywhere else
  11:09pm
Dean:

Well, wow. The Cars qualify as pure pop?! When did that happen?
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northguineahills:

@Dean: To me, MBV is pure pop....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:10pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - 1978 and onward
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Erica:

MBV?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
Funky16Corners:

See if the singer on this song sounds familiar
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Erica:

Song sounds ahead of his time.
  11:14pm
Dean:

Emmett Rhodes?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
Funky16Corners:

It is (at least I think so)
  11:15pm
Dean:

(sp)
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Erica:

its time I mean.
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Funky16Corners:

Young Gerry Rafferty
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northguineahills:

@Erica: My Bloody Valentine
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northguineahills:

As long as there are lyrics and melody, it's pop to me....
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Erica:

Of Stealers Wheel? Thanks ngh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:17pm
Funky16Corners:

Before Stealers Wheel and Baker Street etc
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:19pm
Franco Twinkie:

That was a long way from Penny Nichols eco-protest song Black Mesa, from the early '70's.
Avatar 11:19pm
northguineahills:

Been enjoying, Larry, will be leaving in about 10 mins, buenas noches!
  11:21pm
Dean:

The Cars, in my experience, which was '78 and on from when the first LP arrived, weren't pop in the way, say, Bay City Rollers or Alessi Brothers were pop. (Nick Lowe's "Pure Pop..." bit was a ploy designed to keep "Jesus" out of American markets. Nick Lowe, never mind Brinsley Schwarz, knew damn well he wasn't pure pop, either.) Of course, I don't abide strictly by genre designations. But calling The Cars pop just doesn't seem fitting.
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Funky16Corners:

Nite NGH!
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Funky16Corners:

@Franco - She had a really interesting career. Recorded that one album, was apparently very close friends with a young jackson Browne, then didn't record another record for decades
  11:28pm
Carmichael:

Ok, long lapse. Incredible playlist, sir!
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Funky16Corners:

@ Dean - I must disagree strenuously! I think the first two Cars albums are pop all the way
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Carmichael!
  11:29pm
Dean:

"Say Hello" appeared on a Cass Elliott album: https://www.discogs.com/Cass-Elliot-The-Road-Is-No-Place-For-A-Lady/release/1690541
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Funky16Corners:

No kidding!?! I have to dig that up! Thanks Dean!
  11:30pm
Dean:

I suppose there's no point in disguising my distaste for The Cars. I listened to the first album multiple times, and then I stopped.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
doctorjazz:

I'd call The Cars pop with attitude (which is what they were shooting for). They didn't sell all those albums because of Ocasec's edge (only).
That Sneeches track was great, have to check them out.
  11:33pm
Carmichael:

Dean, I have a personal past with the Rollers. Give them som sympathy, or I will tell you my Grand Funk story again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Funky16Corners:

@Doc - I love everything the Sneetches did, but that first album is absolute perfection
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Erica:

Hey it's Bruce Blackman!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Funky16Corners:

Indeed, produced by Curt Boettcher and Keith Olsen!
  11:34pm
Dean:

I *like* the Rollers. And I also have a personal past with them...purportedly, inasmuch as a girlfriend from a long time ago claimed she used to spend quality time with Eric.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
Franco Twinkie:

Bay City Rollers=Tartan pants=Rat Scabies.
  11:36pm
Carmichael:

Eric? Woolfsen?
  11:36pm
Carmichael:

Woolfson*
  11:36pm
Dean:

Faulkner
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37pm
doctorjazz:

Which one is that Larry?
  11:38pm
rw:

Larry! Digging the summer jams. During the first couple sets I was working on a bicycle in the driveway just as I was doing in 1978. Actually my friend Bill's old bike from that same time. Took me back. Thanks!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:38pm
Funky16Corners:

rw - My pleasure!
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Funky16Corners:

@Doc - Sometimes That's All We Have
  11:39pm
Carmichael:

Aahh, later to me. I know David Paton, knew Billy Lyall, etc ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
doctorjazz:

This is one of the first albums I ever bought (Along Comes...). Fond, er, associations, ahem...
  11:39pm
Carmichael:

God, this song is like love.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40pm
Funky16Corners:

An underrated and often misunderstood group
  11:40pm
Dean:

Billy Lyall? Never knew he was in BCR! I adore Pilot, and Lyall's solo album from back then.
  11:41pm
Carmichael:

Solo Casting, yeah.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
Franco Twinkie:

Terry Kirkman is spotted at back yard parties in Pasadena drinking ice tea now and then.
  11:43pm
Dean:

Yep, Phil Collins, etc.
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Erica:

Haven't heard this one since 2012.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
Funky16Corners:

@Franco - No Kidding? There's a bootleg recording out there of the Association live at the Felt Forum in like 71 or 72 which is really interesting. I think you can find it on Youtube.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
doctorjazz:

I love the Valley Lodge album, 1st, great power pop.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I LOVE this song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry! (Sneeches album not that easy to find in a quick search, at least not unless you spend a lot...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
Jeff Ash:

Now I know where I know Jellyfish from. They had a cut on a Nilsson tribute CD from about 25 years ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - Jellyfish are one of my faves, I keep hoping that I'll stumble on a copy of their rare box set someday
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Erica:

The album version of "Like to Get to Know You" has a different intro.
  11:52pm
rw:

Man, I need some pick-up line lessons from Spanky.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Funky16Corners:

Another group that is a lot deeper and more interesting than their hits (which are great)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
doctorjazz:

Well, she can't promise...
  11:53pm
rw:

What was it? "Is that your slipper in the bathroom?"
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Erica:

Also the song fades instead of a deep key in the middle.
Avatar 11:55pm
Erica:

Listen to the single version and compare and contrast.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
Franco Twinkie:

Shit, I missed "the comedy," I was in the kitchen shoving crackers in my mouth talking about the debate I made a point of ignoring.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
Jeff Ash:

Thanks, Larry!
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Erica:

Goodnight Larry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I pulled that from the Spanky boxed set that came out a few years back
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite all! Have a good weekend!
  11:59pm
rw:

Thank you Rev. F16! Take care all!
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Franco Twinkie:

G'night Larry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite rw, Franco, Jeff, Erica!
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Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

Thank you!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03am
Funky16Corners:

Nite Granny!
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