WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 17, 2019

Listener comments!
	10:01pm Jeff Ash: Reporting for duty!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:02pm SoulChef: This one has me intrigued to say the least... I'll probably miss some cos work, but yeah.
	10:03pm Erica: I'm here too.
	10:03pm doctorjazz: Cool theme! Hi all!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Vincent! Erica! Doc!
	10:03pm chresti: Hey!
	10:04pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Larry. I’m here and actually up in DC.
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt, in Marvn Gaye's hometown!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	10:04pm still b/p: I swear...that organ sound distinctly tags some endorphins. Endorganphins.
	10:04pm Franco Twinkie: Larry!
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: SBP! Franco!
	10:07pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m going to the Native Tongue Fest tomorrow. Reliving my youth.
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Who's playing?
	10:07pm Franco Twinkie: I'm having eye trouble....I just can't see coming into work today.
	10:08pm Matt from New Orleans: www.hiphopondeck.com...
	10:08pm doctorjazz: This Calvin Scott is GREAT! (Think I'll be saying that a lot this show...)
	10:09pm Erica: Hope you see an eye doctor soon Franco.
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - What's the line from Office Space? "You've been missing a lot of work." "I wouldn't say I've been missing it."
	10:10pm Franco Twinkie: Rx Doc!
	10:12pm still b/p: They're filming part of a doc at the show, Matt. Maybe you'll be in pictures!
	10:15pm northguineahills: In and out, still packing!
	10:15pm Doug Schulkind: Chase away the darkness, Rev. Grogan!
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: NGH! Doug!
	10:15pm Erica: It's sad that I only know Marvin's big hits and none of his other stuff.
	10:16pm Funky16Corners: There are a TON of great songs all along the way Erica. If you hear anything unfamiliar tonight, go out and get it!
	10:17pm doctorjazz: I knew this from the Band before I heard the Gate version. This one is cool too.
	10:18pm Matt from New Orleans: I’ll be wearing a hat and sunglasses as I’m on the lam. On the other hand, that guy in the stands at the Dodgers game during Curb Your Enthusiasm was able to verify his alibi and beat the bogus murder charges.
	10:18pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - The Band version is great, too
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - On the run from Johnny Law!
	10:19pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:21pm Funky16Corners: Phil Moore Jr, soloing on the melodica!
	10:21pm doctorjazz: Larry, or absolutely is (The Band version, that is).
	10:22pm still b/p: He's got circumstantial immunity, like Hamlet: "Yet must not we put the strong law on him: He's loved of the distracted multitude."
	10:23pm Matt from New Orleans: nypost.com... Here’s the story if people are unfamiliar/interested
	10:25pm Funky16Corners: That's crazy!
	10:27pm Matt from New Orleans: It’s just a series of crazy coincidences and a ridiculous effort by the lawyer
	10:27pm doctorjazz: And, Credence did a classic version of Grapevine (though it was a bit long...)
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: I wanted to choose a lesser-known version. My fave will always be Gladys Knight and the Pips
	10:28pm Matt from New Orleans: I’ve always liked this el Chicano
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: This is a great album
	10:29pm Matt from New Orleans: Yup
	10:29pm Erica: I always though this song (the Marvin Gaye version) was overrated as FM radio won't stop playing it.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: I can understand your fatigue but I must respectfully disagree. This album is a masterpiece from end to end.
	10:31pm Matt from New Orleans: Have you ever listened to entire album Erica?
	10:32pm Erica: I didn't say it was bad. I've just heard the hits from the album too many times. I need to check out the rest of that album.
	10:32pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m utterly flabbergasted but I’ll leave it at that.
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: I think listening to he whole thing will be a revelation
	10:33pm doctorjazz: Gladys Knight did a masterful version for sure.
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: yeah Donny!
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: - that guitar!
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: Phil Upchurch
	10:37pm Matt from New Orleans: www.rollingstone.com... Not to say I agree with all the placements on this list but the fact that it’s 6 says something.
	10:37pm coelacanth∅: thank you! (you know i was wondering)
	10:37pm Franco Twinkie: That was an amazing story Matt. But I will say this, If the police scrutinized video of the cheap seats of any Dodger game they would surly turn up more that a few suspects with outstanding warrants.
	10:37pm still b/p: Like that dancey El Chicano version, and Marvin's is a long, longtime top favorite track. Fantastically evocative and one of the songs that endures and holds up remarkably well and deserves its response and respect.
	10:39pm Matt from New Orleans: Or in the parking lot where assaults seem all too common after games even though there’s no one in the stands after the 7th inning because of traffic
	10:39pm coelacanth∅: s b/p i was out of the room the the el chicano version, unfortunately
	10:40pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m also a big fan of this cover
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: Another really cool album. Lots of interesting cover material
	10:42pm still b/p: Find it later, coel; shove furniture out the way, have a few friends over and dahnce.
	10:44pm coelacanth∅: inner city blues always been a fave in general and my favorite track on the album there's another great version by Sly & Robbie... s b/p i shall follow that advice
	10:47pm coelacanth∅: haha i don't agree with ANY of those albums as the top 6! though they're all great.
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, that RS list is rockist AF. All great records, but a little myopic
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: eh, rolling stone. it's not even as bad as i'd expect!
	10:51pm Erica: Haha! I didn't expect Michael McDonald on here.
	10:51pm coelacanth∅: i thought the rolling stone site would crash my laptop. it did.
	10:51pm Erica: I wonder if we'll hear Robert Palmer's version/medley of Mercy Mercy Me as well.
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: I take a lot of shit from my fellow soul DJs, but Michael McDonald is one of my favorite singers
	10:53pm coelacanth∅: (i'm not holding out for the slits' 'grapevine)
	10:53pm Erica: I agree Larry. I'm a huge fan of 70s and 80s yacht rock myself. I just didn't expect him on here.
	10:57pm Matt from New Orleans: Erica I heard good things about this from last month. No clue if it will air on BBC America. www.bbc.co.uk...
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: That looks interesting.
	10:59pm still b/p: Soap opera to pitch: The Yacht and the Rockless.
	11:00pm Erica: Haha!
	11:02pm northguineahills: First time I saw a melodica, it was Tortoise w/ a long tube going into a synth when they went through their Morricone phase.... I've borrowed a couple before, a lot of fun to play. (and yes, I'm a Augustus Pablo fan).
	11:03pm northguineahills: @larry: yeah, wasn't familiar w/ him, that cover hit it w/ me...
	11:06pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - I bought my oldest son a melodica years ago. He always enjoyed it, and of all the instruments you could give to a five year old, it was at least pleasant to listen to
	11:07pm Erica: Whenever I hear "Let's Get it On", I think of that Reese's Easter commercial and the cat meme where the cat gets scared by a car horn.
	11:08pm Erica: The Marvin version I mean.
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: I don't remember that. i'll have to check Youtube
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: of course what's going on is a Great album and a major achievement... but -i don't think Marvin would've gone where he went if Stevie and Curtis and Isaac and Sly hadn't paved the way.
	11:10pm Dean: I saw Augustus Pablo live in west Los Angeles. One of the better shows ever. I can't process "Michael McDonald" and "favorite singer." Even if, arguably, he's a singer, how can he possibly rise to favorite?
	11:12pm chresti: Gotta get to bed, Great selection, thanks Larry, goodnight everybody.
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: I dig his voice.
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: 'night chresti
	11:13pm Erica: Here is the Cat Horn video: www.youtube.com...
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: Nite Chresti!
	11:13pm Erica: Also, g'night chresti. Zzz
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: (my introduction to the melodica was Augustus Pablo) ...(and then Joe Jackson!)
	11:17pm doctorjazz: Pharoah Sanders! Outrageous!
	11:17pm Dean: Two or three or four years ago, my son would listen to a popular singer, Sam Smith, whom I dubbed "Mush Mouth," because he sounded like he was singing with a mouth full of mashed potatoes. My son got the epithet. Indeed, Smith is a mush mouth! His songs would show up on radio and my son would announce, "Dad, this is Mush Mouth." Smith sounds very similar to McDonald in this regard. Neither understands that, as a singer, one needs to a-r-t-i-c-u-l-a-t-e now and then.
	11:19pm Erica: I thought Mush Mouth was that kid in Fat Albert.
	11:19pm Erica: Haha!
	11:19pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - Who knew Pharoah could/would blow R&B like this?
	11:21pm coelacanth∅: the original mush mouth was a mouse
	11:21pm coelacanth∅: ...with a sawed off shotgun!
	11:22pm Dean: Which just goes to prove how unoriginal Sam Smith was!
	11:22pm doctorjazz: It sounds like REAL R&B, and it sounds like Pharoah! What a trip!
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: What about Punkin' Puss?
	11:23pm Erica: I hope you don't mean a mouse named Mickey.
	11:25pm Dean: Punkin' Puss attacks Mushmouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU6woY7iF2c If that ain't allegory, I don't know what is.
	11:25pm Matt from New Orleans: Two songs from the last 20 years Larry! Quelle surprise!
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - We're referencing an old Hanna Barbera cartoon called Mush Mouse & Punkin' Puss. Kind of a hillbilly Tom & Jerry thing
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - To paraphrase Monty Python 'No One Expects the Last 20 Years!!'
	11:26pm coelacanth∅: (far more interesting and less annoying then mickey)
	11:29pm Erica: Never heard of that HB cartoon. Must've been less popular than Huckleberry Hound or Yogi Bear, or even the Flintstones.
	11:29pm still b/p: Despite the long Mickey saturation/exposure, I can't tell you what his character personality is supposed to be. Doesn't seem very distinct, the way Bugs and plenty of lesser stars are.
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: If you're around my age or older, you got to see all kinds of crazy HBR cartoons, like Secret Squirrel, Squiddly Diddly, The Impossibles etc
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: @sbp - I've been watching classic Bugs Bunny stuff with my youngest son over the last few days. He's been digging it.
	11:31pm Franco Twinkie: Top Cat!
	11:31pm coelacanth∅: secret squirrel ruled!
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: @FRanco - Top Cat aka animated Sgt Bilko
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: @C - And Morocco Mole!
	11:32pm Matt from New Orleans: DC over the last few years has been releasing reimagined Hanna Barbera comics. Some have been amazing like Snagglepuss Exit Stage Left.
	11:32pm Dean: Laurel & Hardy, folks. Show them to your kids. I generally eschew video of any kind -- movies, video, TV -- but L&H hit the spot.
	11:32pm coelacanth∅: yeah top cat! i loved that...and forgot all about it. i do remember that my mother didn't like that i liked it!
	11:33pm Matt from New Orleans: Snagglepuss is a gay commie playwright in the 50s and gets caught up in HUAC
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: wow snagglepuss; morocco mole...very vague memories
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I recently bought the 10CD Hal Roach Studios L&H collection. All kinds of shorts, features and even the foreign language features that L&H did speaking Spanish!
	11:35pm Franco Twinkie: That's because Top Cat and his posse were a bunch of hoodlums. Your mom read it correctly, Coel.
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: This Grover Washington album is odd, in that it has two tracks 14 minutes or longer, and one three minute Bread cover.
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: The other long cover is a version of the Temptations 'Masterpiece'
	11:36pm Franco Twinkie: Dean, does that collection include Big Business?
	11:36pm coelacanth∅: i know -i can picture him peeking up from the trash can with the lid on his head!
	11:37pm Dean: I could watch all of that L&H, F16C, all of it.
	11:37pm Erica: I always like Huckleberry Hound the best. I just can't stand it when he sings 'Oh My Darling Clementine". And yes Matt Snagglepuss was gay.
	11:37pm Dean: Larry has the collection, Franco. I'm not into collecting video.
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: Franco - No Big Business. THis is the list: DISC 1: UNACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE 1929 BERTH MARKS 1929 MEN O' WAR 1929 PERFECT DAY 1929 [original 1929 track] PERFECT DAY 1936 [reissue with musical score] THEY GO BOOM 1929 THE HOOSE-GOW 1929 NIGHT OWLS 1930 LADRONES (Night Owls, Spanish) 1930 BLOTTO 1930 DISC 2: LA VIDA NOCTURNA (Blotto, Spanish) 1930 BRATS 1937 [reissue, new LeRoy Shield musical score] BRATS 1930 [original score of stock jazz-band records] BELOW ZERO 1930 TIEMBLA Y TITUBEA (Below Zero, Spanish) 1930 HOG WILD 1930 THE LAUREL-HARDY MURDER CASE 1930 NOCHE DE DUENDES (The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case & Berth Marks, Spanish) 1930 ANOTHER FINE MESS 1930 DISC 3: BE BIG! 1931 CHICKENS COME HOME 1931 POLITIQUERIAS (Chickens Come Home, Spanish) 1931 LAUGHING GRAVY 1931 LES CAROTTIERS (Feature: Be Big! & Laughing Gravy, French) 1931 DISC 4: LOS CALAVERAS (Feature: Be Big! & Laughing Gravy, Spanish) 1931 OUR WIFE 1931 PARDON US (Feature, extended version) 1931 COME CLEAN 1931 ONE GOOD TURN 1931 BEAU HUNKS 1931 DISC 5: HELPMATES 1932 ANY OLD PORT 1932 THE MUSIC BOX 1932 THE CHIMP 1932 COUNTY HOSPITAL 1932 SCRAM! 1932 PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES (Feature) 1932 THEIR FIRST MISTAKE 1932 DISC 6: TOWED IN A HOLE 1933 TWICE TWO 1933 ME AND MY PAL 1933 THE MIDNIGHT PATROL 1933 BUSY BODIES 1933 DIRTY WORK 1933 SONS OF THE DESERT (Feature) 1933 OLIVER THE EIGHTH 1934 GOING BYE-BYE! 1934 DISC 7: THEM THAR HILLS 1934 THE LIVE GHOST 1934 TIT FOR TAT 1935 THE FIXER UPPERS 1935 THICKER THAN WATER 1935 THE BOHEMIAN GIRL (Feature) 1936 DISC 8: OUR RELATIONS (Feature) 1936 WAY OUT WEST (Feature) 1937 SWISS MISS (Feature) 1938 DISC 9: BLOCK-HEADS (Feature) 1938 A CHUMP AT OXFORD (42 min.) 1940 A CHUMP AT OXFORD (Feature, 63 min.) 1940 SAPS AT SEA (Feature) 1940 DISC 10: SPECIAL FEATURES A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy On Location with the Boys: tour of set locations and interactive map Laurel & Hardy Guest Appearances Laurel & Hardy Trailers
	11:41pm Dean: Hrmm, don't recall Chump at Oxford. Have to see that one. I worked one summer there.
	11:41pm Erica: I pity the fool who messes with Mister T. (sorry couldn't resist).
	11:41pm coelacanth∅: hey does anyone here know how to set a macbook to never install or check for updates to "apps"?
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - Chump at Oxford features a young Peter Cushing!
	11:42pm Matt from New Orleans: That would be very stupid thing to do C
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: (never mind, just figured it out)
	11:43pm Dean: Sorry, had to look up Peter Cushing. I really don't like movies at all, so I know very little about the who and what of them.
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: Matt, it wouldn't.
	11:44pm still b/p: The other day a friend and I got to talking Top Cat, and had to look up the name of his buddy, Benny the Ball.
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: I'm an inveterate movie NUT. I DVR'd ten episode of a 1940 Flash Gordon serial and was watching it with my son.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: @C - I forget which one, but one of the actors from Sgt Bilko did the voice for his animated counterpart on Top Cat.
	11:45pm Franco Twinkie: Weird. That is one that seems to be excluded on lots of collections. Laurel and Hardy are trying to sell Christmas trees in July, without much success, until they ring the door bell of James Finlayson....then all hell breaks loose.
	11:46pm Matt from New Orleans: We’ll agree to disagree on that one C. I hope you still manually check at a regular interval if you don’t want them automated.
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: Finlayson was hilarious. The origin of D'oh!
	11:46pm coelacanth∅: i can't say i'm familiar with sgt. bilko. (i've heard the name...)
	11:47pm Dean: That would have been Phil Silvers. I don't like movies, in part, because I saw so much goddamn tv as a kid and shortly realized how vacuous it was as a medium.
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: @C - If you ever get the chance to see Bilko, it is one of the funniest shows ever made. Phil Silvers and an amazingly funny supporting cast
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: Matt, one would only want updates for "apps" if one uses "apps".
	11:48pm Franco Twinkie: Oh yeah! Finlayson was the greatest agitated doofus in silent film.
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: i have to add it to my list Larry. earlier today a friend implored me to watch some muppets, which i've never done.
	11:49pm Matt from New Orleans: Your web browser is an app and that needs to be updated regularly
	11:50pm coelacanth∅: (i was kind of over tv by around 1970)
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: @C - Go for the original Muppet show. Very funny and lots of cool guest stars
	11:51pm still b/p: In a review of Last Tango in Paris I read this evening, the writer had this lots wrongo line: "As Oliver Hardy would say, 'What a mess we’ve gotten ourselves into now.'"
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: I don't think Oliver was thinking about a butt full of margarine
	11:53pm coelacanth∅: Matt, my web browser (firefox) will let me know when an update is available. ...and on my last computer i never updated it since c. 2013 - avoiding all the complications of incompatability with that operating system.
	11:53pm still b/p: Showing of Tango in the area attracting controversy because of the later revelations about that scene.
	11:55pm coelacanth∅: (i think it was butter)
	11:55pm Franco Twinkie: Which was what?
	11:56pm coelacanth∅: (...butt er)
	11:58pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry Enjoyed the Marvin covers
	11:59pm Dean: Gaye should be alive today.
	11:59pm Jeff Ash: Good show! Thanks, Larry!
	11:59pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Larry.
	11:59pm still b/p: Brando and Bertolucci hatched the scene idea without Schneider, didn't tell her until time for the shot. Bertolucci WANTED her to be discomfited. She felt stressed and humiliated, and powerless. The sex was simulated but she regarded it as an assault and appallingly unfair and ill-conceived. Watch the film and you're seeing a real and real uncomfortable thing.
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Matt!
	11:59pm Erica: Another 2 hours gone too fast. See you all later!
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! take care everyone
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - Yes he should
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff, Franco, Erica, C, Dean, SBP!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: @SBP - Yeah, basically a sexual assault
	12:01am coelacanth∅: - not the first time that's happened for the sake of a movie scene
	12:01am coelacanth∅: -or the last

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 17, 2019

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July 17, 2019: Testify! - What's Going On - The Songs of Marvin Gaye

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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
Major Lance	Hitchhike "Hitchhike" by "Major Lance"	The Monkey Time	Okeh	1963	LP
Earl Van Dyke and the Soul Brothers	How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)	45RPM Single	Soul	1965	45
Calvin Scott	Can I Get a Witness "Can I Get a Witness" by "Calvin Scott"	I'm Not Blind...I Just Can't See	Stax	1972	LP
Choker Campbell and his 16 Piece Band	Pride and Joy	Plays the Hits of the 60s	Motown	1965	LP

Alvin Robinson	Baby Don't You Do It	45RPM Single	Atco	1968	45
George Tindley	Ain't That Peculiar	45RPM Single	Wand	1969	45
Phil Moore Jr	Ain't No Mountain High Enough	Right On	Atco	1969	LP
Detroit City Limits	Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing	98 Cents Plus Tax	Okeh	1968	LP
Lloyd Price Orchestra	I Heard It Through the Grapevine	45RPM Single	Lloyd Price's Turntable	1969	45
El Chicano	What's Going On "What's Going On" by "El Chicano"	El Chicano	MCA	1973	LP
Donny Hathaway	What's Going On "What's Going On" by "Donny Hathaway"	Live	Atco	1972	LP
Sarah Vaughan	Inner City Blues (Make We Wanna Holler)	A Time In My Life	Mainstream	1971	LP
Grover Washington Jr	Inner City Blues (Make We Wanna Holler)	Inner City Blues	Kudu	1971	LP
Michael McDonald	Mercy Mercy Me "Mercy Mercy Me" by "Michael McDonald"	Motown Two	Motown	2004	CD
Grover Washington Jr	Mercy Mercy Me	Inner City Blue	Kudu	1971	LP

Ken Boothe	Let's Get It On "Let's Get It On" by "Ken Boothe"	Let's Get It On	Trojan	1974	LP
Maceo Parker	Let's Get It On "Let's Get It On" by "Maceo Parker"	Mo' Roots	Verve	1990	CD
Pharoah Sanders	Got To Give It Up	Love Will Find a Way	Arista	1978	LP
Angie Stone	Trouble Man "Trouble Man" by "Angie Stone"	Black Diamond	Arista	1999	CD
Grover Washington Jr	Trouble Man "Trouble Man" by "Grover Washington Jr"	Soul Box	Kudu	1973	LP
Stanley Turrentine	Don't Mess With Mister T	Don't Mess With Mister T	CTI	1973	LP
Roy Meriwether	Sexual Healing "Sexual Healing" by "Roy Meriwether"	Opening Night	Gemini	1987	LP

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: Reporting for duty!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:02pm SoulChef: This one has me intrigued to say the least... I'll probably miss some cos work, but yeah.
	10:03pm Erica: I'm here too.
	10:03pm doctorjazz: Cool theme! Hi all!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Vincent! Erica! Doc!
	10:03pm chresti: Hey!
	10:04pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Larry. I’m here and actually up in DC.
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt, in Marvn Gaye's hometown!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	10:04pm still b/p: I swear...that organ sound distinctly tags some endorphins. Endorganphins.
	10:04pm Franco Twinkie: Larry!
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: SBP! Franco!
	10:07pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m going to the Native Tongue Fest tomorrow. Reliving my youth.
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Who's playing?
	10:07pm Franco Twinkie: I'm having eye trouble....I just can't see coming into work today.
	10:08pm Matt from New Orleans: www.hiphopondeck.com...
	10:08pm doctorjazz: This Calvin Scott is GREAT! (Think I'll be saying that a lot this show...)
	10:09pm Erica: Hope you see an eye doctor soon Franco.
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - What's the line from Office Space? "You've been missing a lot of work." "I wouldn't say I've been missing it."
	10:10pm Franco Twinkie: Rx Doc!
	10:12pm still b/p: They're filming part of a doc at the show, Matt. Maybe you'll be in pictures!
	10:15pm northguineahills: In and out, still packing!
	10:15pm Doug Schulkind: Chase away the darkness, Rev. Grogan!
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: NGH! Doug!
	10:15pm Erica: It's sad that I only know Marvin's big hits and none of his other stuff.
	10:16pm Funky16Corners: There are a TON of great songs all along the way Erica. If you hear anything unfamiliar tonight, go out and get it!
	10:17pm doctorjazz: I knew this from the Band before I heard the Gate version. This one is cool too.
	10:18pm Matt from New Orleans: I’ll be wearing a hat and sunglasses as I’m on the lam. On the other hand, that guy in the stands at the Dodgers game during Curb Your Enthusiasm was able to verify his alibi and beat the bogus murder charges.
	10:18pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - The Band version is great, too
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - On the run from Johnny Law!
	10:19pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:21pm Funky16Corners: Phil Moore Jr, soloing on the melodica!
	10:21pm doctorjazz: Larry, or absolutely is (The Band version, that is).
	10:22pm still b/p: He's got circumstantial immunity, like Hamlet: "Yet must not we put the strong law on him: He's loved of the distracted multitude."
	10:23pm Matt from New Orleans: nypost.com... Here’s the story if people are unfamiliar/interested
	10:25pm Funky16Corners: That's crazy!
	10:27pm Matt from New Orleans: It’s just a series of crazy coincidences and a ridiculous effort by the lawyer
	10:27pm doctorjazz: And, Credence did a classic version of Grapevine (though it was a bit long...)
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: I wanted to choose a lesser-known version. My fave will always be Gladys Knight and the Pips
	10:28pm Matt from New Orleans: I’ve always liked this el Chicano
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: This is a great album
	10:29pm Matt from New Orleans: Yup
	10:29pm Erica: I always though this song (the Marvin Gaye version) was overrated as FM radio won't stop playing it.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: I can understand your fatigue but I must respectfully disagree. This album is a masterpiece from end to end.
	10:31pm Matt from New Orleans: Have you ever listened to entire album Erica?
	10:32pm Erica: I didn't say it was bad. I've just heard the hits from the album too many times. I need to check out the rest of that album.
	10:32pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m utterly flabbergasted but I’ll leave it at that.
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: I think listening to he whole thing will be a revelation
	10:33pm doctorjazz: Gladys Knight did a masterful version for sure.
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: yeah Donny!
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: - that guitar!
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: Phil Upchurch
	10:37pm Matt from New Orleans: www.rollingstone.com... Not to say I agree with all the placements on this list but the fact that it’s 6 says something.
	10:37pm coelacanth∅: thank you! (you know i was wondering)
	10:37pm Franco Twinkie: That was an amazing story Matt. But I will say this, If the police scrutinized video of the cheap seats of any Dodger game they would surly turn up more that a few suspects with outstanding warrants.
	10:37pm still b/p: Like that dancey El Chicano version, and Marvin's is a long, longtime top favorite track. Fantastically evocative and one of the songs that endures and holds up remarkably well and deserves its response and respect.
	10:39pm Matt from New Orleans: Or in the parking lot where assaults seem all too common after games even though there’s no one in the stands after the 7th inning because of traffic
	10:39pm coelacanth∅: s b/p i was out of the room the the el chicano version, unfortunately
	10:40pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m also a big fan of this cover
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: Another really cool album. Lots of interesting cover material
	10:42pm still b/p: Find it later, coel; shove furniture out the way, have a few friends over and dahnce.
	10:44pm coelacanth∅: inner city blues always been a fave in general and my favorite track on the album there's another great version by Sly & Robbie... s b/p i shall follow that advice
	10:47pm coelacanth∅: haha i don't agree with ANY of those albums as the top 6! though they're all great.
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, that RS list is rockist AF. All great records, but a little myopic
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: eh, rolling stone. it's not even as bad as i'd expect!
	10:51pm Erica: Haha! I didn't expect Michael McDonald on here.
	10:51pm coelacanth∅: i thought the rolling stone site would crash my laptop. it did.
	10:51pm Erica: I wonder if we'll hear Robert Palmer's version/medley of Mercy Mercy Me as well.
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: I take a lot of shit from my fellow soul DJs, but Michael McDonald is one of my favorite singers
	10:53pm coelacanth∅: (i'm not holding out for the slits' 'grapevine)
	10:53pm Erica: I agree Larry. I'm a huge fan of 70s and 80s yacht rock myself. I just didn't expect him on here.
	10:57pm Matt from New Orleans: Erica I heard good things about this from last month. No clue if it will air on BBC America. www.bbc.co.uk...
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: That looks interesting.
	10:59pm still b/p: Soap opera to pitch: The Yacht and the Rockless.
	11:00pm Erica: Haha!
	11:02pm northguineahills: First time I saw a melodica, it was Tortoise w/ a long tube going into a synth when they went through their Morricone phase.... I've borrowed a couple before, a lot of fun to play. (and yes, I'm a Augustus Pablo fan).
	11:03pm northguineahills: @larry: yeah, wasn't familiar w/ him, that cover hit it w/ me...
	11:06pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - I bought my oldest son a melodica years ago. He always enjoyed it, and of all the instruments you could give to a five year old, it was at least pleasant to listen to
	11:07pm Erica: Whenever I hear "Let's Get it On", I think of that Reese's Easter commercial and the cat meme where the cat gets scared by a car horn.
	11:08pm Erica: The Marvin version I mean.
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: I don't remember that. i'll have to check Youtube
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: of course what's going on is a Great album and a major achievement... but -i don't think Marvin would've gone where he went if Stevie and Curtis and Isaac and Sly hadn't paved the way.
	11:10pm Dean: I saw Augustus Pablo live in west Los Angeles. One of the better shows ever. I can't process "Michael McDonald" and "favorite singer." Even if, arguably, he's a singer, how can he possibly rise to favorite?
	11:12pm chresti: Gotta get to bed, Great selection, thanks Larry, goodnight everybody.
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: I dig his voice.
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: 'night chresti
	11:13pm Erica: Here is the Cat Horn video: www.youtube.com...
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: Nite Chresti!
	11:13pm Erica: Also, g'night chresti. Zzz
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: (my introduction to the melodica was Augustus Pablo) ...(and then Joe Jackson!)
	11:17pm doctorjazz: Pharoah Sanders! Outrageous!
	11:17pm Dean: Two or three or four years ago, my son would listen to a popular singer, Sam Smith, whom I dubbed "Mush Mouth," because he sounded like he was singing with a mouth full of mashed potatoes. My son got the epithet. Indeed, Smith is a mush mouth! His songs would show up on radio and my son would announce, "Dad, this is Mush Mouth." Smith sounds very similar to McDonald in this regard. Neither understands that, as a singer, one needs to a-r-t-i-c-u-l-a-t-e now and then.
	11:19pm Erica: I thought Mush Mouth was that kid in Fat Albert.
	11:19pm Erica: Haha!
	11:19pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - Who knew Pharoah could/would blow R&B like this?
	11:21pm coelacanth∅: the original mush mouth was a mouse
	11:21pm coelacanth∅: ...with a sawed off shotgun!
	11:22pm Dean: Which just goes to prove how unoriginal Sam Smith was!
	11:22pm doctorjazz: It sounds like REAL R&B, and it sounds like Pharoah! What a trip!
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: What about Punkin' Puss?
	11:23pm Erica: I hope you don't mean a mouse named Mickey.
	11:25pm Dean: Punkin' Puss attacks Mushmouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU6woY7iF2c If that ain't allegory, I don't know what is.
	11:25pm Matt from New Orleans: Two songs from the last 20 years Larry! Quelle surprise!
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - We're referencing an old Hanna Barbera cartoon called Mush Mouse & Punkin' Puss. Kind of a hillbilly Tom & Jerry thing
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - To paraphrase Monty Python 'No One Expects the Last 20 Years!!'
	11:26pm coelacanth∅: (far more interesting and less annoying then mickey)
	11:29pm Erica: Never heard of that HB cartoon. Must've been less popular than Huckleberry Hound or Yogi Bear, or even the Flintstones.
	11:29pm still b/p: Despite the long Mickey saturation/exposure, I can't tell you what his character personality is supposed to be. Doesn't seem very distinct, the way Bugs and plenty of lesser stars are.
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: If you're around my age or older, you got to see all kinds of crazy HBR cartoons, like Secret Squirrel, Squiddly Diddly, The Impossibles etc
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: @sbp - I've been watching classic Bugs Bunny stuff with my youngest son over the last few days. He's been digging it.
	11:31pm Franco Twinkie: Top Cat!
	11:31pm coelacanth∅: secret squirrel ruled!
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: @FRanco - Top Cat aka animated Sgt Bilko
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: @C - And Morocco Mole!
	11:32pm Matt from New Orleans: DC over the last few years has been releasing reimagined Hanna Barbera comics. Some have been amazing like Snagglepuss Exit Stage Left.
	11:32pm Dean: Laurel & Hardy, folks. Show them to your kids. I generally eschew video of any kind -- movies, video, TV -- but L&H hit the spot.
	11:32pm coelacanth∅: yeah top cat! i loved that...and forgot all about it. i do remember that my mother didn't like that i liked it!
	11:33pm Matt from New Orleans: Snagglepuss is a gay commie playwright in the 50s and gets caught up in HUAC
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: wow snagglepuss; morocco mole...very vague memories
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I recently bought the 10CD Hal Roach Studios L&H collection. All kinds of shorts, features and even the foreign language features that L&H did speaking Spanish!
	11:35pm Franco Twinkie: That's because Top Cat and his posse were a bunch of hoodlums. Your mom read it correctly, Coel.
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: This Grover Washington album is odd, in that it has two tracks 14 minutes or longer, and one three minute Bread cover.
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: The other long cover is a version of the Temptations 'Masterpiece'
	11:36pm Franco Twinkie: Dean, does that collection include Big Business?
	11:36pm coelacanth∅: i know -i can picture him peeking up from the trash can with the lid on his head!
	11:37pm Dean: I could watch all of that L&H, F16C, all of it.
	11:37pm Erica: I always like Huckleberry Hound the best. I just can't stand it when he sings 'Oh My Darling Clementine". And yes Matt Snagglepuss was gay.
	11:37pm Dean: Larry has the collection, Franco. I'm not into collecting video.
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: Franco - No Big Business. THis is the list: DISC 1: UNACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE 1929 BERTH MARKS 1929 MEN O' WAR 1929 PERFECT DAY 1929 [original 1929 track] PERFECT DAY 1936 [reissue with musical score] THEY GO BOOM 1929 THE HOOSE-GOW 1929 NIGHT OWLS 1930 LADRONES (Night Owls, Spanish) 1930 BLOTTO 1930 DISC 2: LA VIDA NOCTURNA (Blotto, Spanish) 1930 BRATS 1937 [reissue, new LeRoy Shield musical score] BRATS 1930 [original score of stock jazz-band records] BELOW ZERO 1930 TIEMBLA Y TITUBEA (Below Zero, Spanish) 1930 HOG WILD 1930 THE LAUREL-HARDY MURDER CASE 1930 NOCHE DE DUENDES (The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case & Berth Marks, Spanish) 1930 ANOTHER FINE MESS 1930 DISC 3: BE BIG! 1931 CHICKENS COME HOME 1931 POLITIQUERIAS (Chickens Come Home, Spanish) 1931 LAUGHING GRAVY 1931 LES CAROTTIERS (Feature: Be Big! & Laughing Gravy, French) 1931 DISC 4: LOS CALAVERAS (Feature: Be Big! & Laughing Gravy, Spanish) 1931 OUR WIFE 1931 PARDON US (Feature, extended version) 1931 COME CLEAN 1931 ONE GOOD TURN 1931 BEAU HUNKS 1931 DISC 5: HELPMATES 1932 ANY OLD PORT 1932 THE MUSIC BOX 1932 THE CHIMP 1932 COUNTY HOSPITAL 1932 SCRAM! 1932 PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES (Feature) 1932 THEIR FIRST MISTAKE 1932 DISC 6: TOWED IN A HOLE 1933 TWICE TWO 1933 ME AND MY PAL 1933 THE MIDNIGHT PATROL 1933 BUSY BODIES 1933 DIRTY WORK 1933 SONS OF THE DESERT (Feature) 1933 OLIVER THE EIGHTH 1934 GOING BYE-BYE! 1934 DISC 7: THEM THAR HILLS 1934 THE LIVE GHOST 1934 TIT FOR TAT 1935 THE FIXER UPPERS 1935 THICKER THAN WATER 1935 THE BOHEMIAN GIRL (Feature) 1936 DISC 8: OUR RELATIONS (Feature) 1936 WAY OUT WEST (Feature) 1937 SWISS MISS (Feature) 1938 DISC 9: BLOCK-HEADS (Feature) 1938 A CHUMP AT OXFORD (42 min.) 1940 A CHUMP AT OXFORD (Feature, 63 min.) 1940 SAPS AT SEA (Feature) 1940 DISC 10: SPECIAL FEATURES A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy On Location with the Boys: tour of set locations and interactive map Laurel & Hardy Guest Appearances Laurel & Hardy Trailers
	11:41pm Dean: Hrmm, don't recall Chump at Oxford. Have to see that one. I worked one summer there.
	11:41pm Erica: I pity the fool who messes with Mister T. (sorry couldn't resist).
	11:41pm coelacanth∅: hey does anyone here know how to set a macbook to never install or check for updates to "apps"?
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - Chump at Oxford features a young Peter Cushing!
	11:42pm Matt from New Orleans: That would be very stupid thing to do C
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: (never mind, just figured it out)
	11:43pm Dean: Sorry, had to look up Peter Cushing. I really don't like movies at all, so I know very little about the who and what of them.
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: Matt, it wouldn't.
	11:44pm still b/p: The other day a friend and I got to talking Top Cat, and had to look up the name of his buddy, Benny the Ball.
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: I'm an inveterate movie NUT. I DVR'd ten episode of a 1940 Flash Gordon serial and was watching it with my son.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: @C - I forget which one, but one of the actors from Sgt Bilko did the voice for his animated counterpart on Top Cat.
	11:45pm Franco Twinkie: Weird. That is one that seems to be excluded on lots of collections. Laurel and Hardy are trying to sell Christmas trees in July, without much success, until they ring the door bell of James Finlayson....then all hell breaks loose.
	11:46pm Matt from New Orleans: We’ll agree to disagree on that one C. I hope you still manually check at a regular interval if you don’t want them automated.
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: Finlayson was hilarious. The origin of D'oh!
	11:46pm coelacanth∅: i can't say i'm familiar with sgt. bilko. (i've heard the name...)
	11:47pm Dean: That would have been Phil Silvers. I don't like movies, in part, because I saw so much goddamn tv as a kid and shortly realized how vacuous it was as a medium.
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: @C - If you ever get the chance to see Bilko, it is one of the funniest shows ever made. Phil Silvers and an amazingly funny supporting cast
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: Matt, one would only want updates for "apps" if one uses "apps".
	11:48pm Franco Twinkie: Oh yeah! Finlayson was the greatest agitated doofus in silent film.
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: i have to add it to my list Larry. earlier today a friend implored me to watch some muppets, which i've never done.
	11:49pm Matt from New Orleans: Your web browser is an app and that needs to be updated regularly
	11:50pm coelacanth∅: (i was kind of over tv by around 1970)
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: @C - Go for the original Muppet show. Very funny and lots of cool guest stars
	11:51pm still b/p: In a review of Last Tango in Paris I read this evening, the writer had this lots wrongo line: "As Oliver Hardy would say, 'What a mess we’ve gotten ourselves into now.'"
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: I don't think Oliver was thinking about a butt full of margarine
	11:53pm coelacanth∅: Matt, my web browser (firefox) will let me know when an update is available. ...and on my last computer i never updated it since c. 2013 - avoiding all the complications of incompatability with that operating system.
	11:53pm still b/p: Showing of Tango in the area attracting controversy because of the later revelations about that scene.
	11:55pm coelacanth∅: (i think it was butter)
	11:55pm Franco Twinkie: Which was what?
	11:56pm coelacanth∅: (...butt er)
	11:58pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry Enjoyed the Marvin covers
	11:59pm Dean: Gaye should be alive today.
	11:59pm Jeff Ash: Good show! Thanks, Larry!
	11:59pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Larry.
	11:59pm still b/p: Brando and Bertolucci hatched the scene idea without Schneider, didn't tell her until time for the shot. Bertolucci WANTED her to be discomfited. She felt stressed and humiliated, and powerless. The sex was simulated but she regarded it as an assault and appallingly unfair and ill-conceived. Watch the film and you're seeing a real and real uncomfortable thing.
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Matt!
	11:59pm Erica: Another 2 hours gone too fast. See you all later!
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! take care everyone
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - Yes he should
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff, Franco, Erica, C, Dean, SBP!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: @SBP - Yeah, basically a sexual assault
	12:01am coelacanth∅: - not the first time that's happened for the sake of a movie scene
	12:01am coelacanth∅: -or the last

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 17, 2019

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