WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 2, 2019

Listener comments!
	🥁 9:38pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): i've got one ear here and one ear there
	9:40pm Funky16Corners: Hey Granny! Nothing here yet!
	9:44pm Dean: This is a very promising theme. B.J. Cole, perhaps?
	9:46pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dean! Not tonight, but I will def revisit this theme in the future.
	10:01pm Jeff Ash: Good evening from soggy Wisconsin!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff! Good evening from sweltering New Jersey! it was 95 today!
	10:03pm Franco Twinkie: Dump it on me Larry. The chair beckons.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	10:04pm Jeff Ash: Huge fan of this when I was a teenager in the '70s. And then my son Evan got into ELP, so he has some of my records now.
	10:05pm CC: This is my first time catching your show Larry...nice beginning!!!...
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey CC!
	10:05pm chresti: Hi Testify Worldwide! I like the one with the striped robe, in the GIF
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Next to Karnevil 9, this is my fave ELP
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Chresti!
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: That's Kurt Weill in the robe
	10:06pm Erica: Hi I'm here. My internet connection is acting up again. >:( Diggin' the ELP.
	10:06pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and others
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica! Coel!
	10:07pm Dean: Figured ELP would be here, but expected Mussorgsky.
	10:08pm coelacanth∅: interesting hearing this with (essentially) no bass. (laptop speakers) would not have guessed it to be what it is, or even ELP.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I have that one somewhere. Next time. The Hut of Baba Yaga.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: @C - After the opening it doesn't hew too closely to Copland.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Basically Keith Emerson abusing his keyboards.
	10:09pm CC: Two recent vocalist who died that hurt me the most were Greg Lake and Gregg Allman!!!
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: It always struck me as weird that Lake was in King Crimson before this.
	10:09pm coelacanth∅: at this point in the track i probably would've guessed it!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Ah, here it comes around to the main theme again
	10:11pm coelacanth∅: but before he turned up the overdrive (is that redundant?) it just sounded like someone noodling light-heartedly on an organ, with someone else tapping drumsticks on the rim of the snare!
	10:12pm Jeff Ash: AM radio 1971.
	10:12pm Jeff Ash: Check that. 1972. But still AM radio.
	10:12pm coelacanth∅: i still love this
	10:12pm Funky16Corners: I always loved this record. Fell in love with it all over again on the soundtrack to Boogie Nights
	10:14pm coelacanth∅: never saw/heard boogie nights but i still have the apollo 100 lp my parents bought. swiped it long before my father died in fact, since i knew he'd never play it again.
	10:15pm Erica: I notice that a lot of prog rock bands from the 70s were influenced by classical music, Jethro Tull especially.
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: You should check out early Tull when they were basically a blues rock band. Good stuff.
	10:18pm coelacanth∅: makes perfect sense, since "prog rockers" were by necessity more sophisticated than the general modern music population.
	10:18pm Dean: The prog affection for classical is one source of the charge that these bands were pretentious. And in certain respects, they were, indeed. A great Italian prog band, RDM, devoted an entire album to Bach.
	10:18pm CC: Well... so do we get any lyrics or not???
	10:21pm Funky16Corners: @CC - Lyrics coming up shortly!
	10:21pm Dean: One great contrary example, because it blurs the classical/pop/prog borders, is Reverberi, whose album including Chopin, Schumman, Beethoven, et al., performed on synthesizers but not as audaciously as, say, Tomita, manages to straddle the divide.
	10:23pm coelacanth∅: true Dean but "pretentious" is relative. i think most well-known "metal" bands' pretention makes prog rockers look almost humble! then there's rappers and divas and many of the johnny-come-lately psych bands... (etc.)
	10:23pm CC: Alan!!!...the best outside of Jack Kerouac!!!
	10:24pm coelacanth∅: i agree about Reverberi's first album. (and the et al is just Liszt)
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: (...actually, no Beethoven on that first album, but on the mostly not great stairway to heaven)
	10:26pm Dean: I don't think that was is first album...
	10:28pm Dean: ^his
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: This was actually a big hit in 1961!
	10:29pm coelacanth∅: hmm, maybe not. it's been difficult for me to find a (well, impossible) a full, accurate discography for Reverberi. i know it was early...early 70s? and he's had many albums since ...many soundtracks i guess
	10:29pm Dean: A start: https://www.discogs.com/artist/281531-Gian-Piero-Reverberi
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: These guys did a lot of classical adaptations
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: Another one for the cartoon fans
	10:32pm Dean: My favorite is Nirvana's cover of Cage's 4'33". Rim shot!
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: TURN IT UP!
	10:32pm Erica: Going back to the 30s I see.
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: thanks Dean. that was not so accurate last i checked. (a few years ago) wikipedia much worse.
	10:34pm Erica: Love this song. Didn't know this was a classical piece.
	10:34pm Erica: Love this song. Didn't know this was a classical piece.
	10:35pm Erica: Sorry for the repeat. Like I said my internet is acting up.
	10:37pm Erica: (like my stomach)
	10:37pm Funky16Corners: Not a problem!
	10:38pm coelacanth∅: i remember a tv ad for a set of classical records in the late 60s or early 70s and the very distinguished gentleman's main selling point was that many of the songs the proverbial we know from the radio are based on classical compositions.
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, that guy played Mr French's brother on Family Affair
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: John Williams, he's also in a great episode of the Twilight Zone with Burt Reynolds
	10:41pm Parq: "Yes, I'm sure you all recognize this lovely melody, A Stranger In Paradise. But did you know..."
	10:43pm Parq: Did not know that guy played Sebie Cabot's brother.
	🥁 10:43pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): my ear is still here!
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: hey Parq! Yeah, 'The Poliventzian Dance Number two by Borodin'...
	🥁 10:44pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): and digging it!
	10:44pm CC: That reminds me...why does everybody play Funk 49 and nobody plays Funk 48?!?
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: Granny!
	10:45pm coelacanth∅: wow i'm glad you guys all remember that so clearly!
	10:45pm Funky16Corners: @CC - Lack of imagination!
	10:46pm Erica: Fixed my connection. Hopefully things should go smoothlynow.
	10:46pm Parq: Coal, I had a friend once who could do a dead-on impression of that commercial that would have had you cracking up.
	10:47pm Franco Twinkie: I heard Joe Walsh did this for an encore at The Eagles Mega Vegas shakedown last week. Not really. I'll go back to washing the dishes now.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: I'd pay to see that!
	10:49pm Jeff Ash: James Gang was one of the go-to groups in those glorious days/nights of free-form FM radio.
	10:49pm Dean: Yes's "Cans & Brahms" is a tasteful candidate.
	10:49pm Dean: Ooooh, G&S is stretching "classical"...
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Love the James Gang!
	10:50pm coelacanth∅: Parq haha -cracking up just thinking about it! ...as children we just made fun of it (especially the poliVET sian dance number 2)
	10:50pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I don't think so.
	10:50pm Funky16Corners: I think operetta counts, as we'll see in a minute
	10:52pm Dean: I love Sullivan's songs, but my sense is that G&S lean more toward Broadway pop than, say, Mozart.
	10:52pm Parq: Must go, but this is one show where I'll definitely dig the archives.
	10:53pm Jeff Ash: Fun fact: On its first 3 LPs on Wooden Nickel (before hitting it big), Styx covered Aaron Copland, Bach and Handel. Kinda have a hunch Styx is not in this mix.
	10:53pm coelacanth∅: but sabre dance doesn't. that crappy blind melon song counts (although they never gave credit where credit was due) ...and if you play that i have to leave!
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: Nite Parq!
	10:53pm Dean: Huh, funny, just today I reported an upcoming performance of a recital by Theo Bleckmann of tunes by, inter alia, Weill, as Broadway tunes. IOW, still not convinced.
	10:54pm coelacanth∅: gnight Parq
	10:54pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - I didn't know that about their early stuff. I'll have to check that out.
	10:54pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I think Weill bounces back and forth depending on the setting and the singer.
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: @C - Which Blind Melon song? I did not know they dabbled in classical borrowing
	10:58pm Dean: I also question the classification of Nina Simone as a popular setting.
	10:59pm Dean: OTOH, The Doors, yeah, they occupy a popular setting.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: Miss Simone, like Mr Weill moves back and forth seamlessly between popular and, let us say, serious music.
	11:00pm CC: great show Larry I'll have to catch the rest on the archive because dinner is ready and the news is on...luv ya bro!!!
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: Nite CC!
	11:01pm Dean: I deeply regard popular music as serious.
	11:02pm Erica: Pirate Jenny sounds like a good song to play on Halloween. Haha! Forget Thriller or the Monster Mash.
	11:02pm coelacanth∅: Larry -not blind melon (sorry blind melon!) i don't remember the band, or the song title. i'll think of it. i think it was their biggest hit. (their only hit?) employed Pachelbel's canon. (as several others did)
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - The singer of that song is a downtrodden chambermain who dreams of a pirate ship destroying the entire city, after which she orders the survivors executed and then sails away with the pirates!
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: CHAMBERMAID...
	11:13pm Erica: I meant about the killing part of the song Larry. Reminds me of horror films.
	11:14pm Franco Twinkie: Okay, I knew the most unpleasant memories of high school would be conjured eventually.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Part of any healthy breakfast and/or radio show
	11:17pm Franco Twinkie: ....A blue Ford Econoline with it's doors open up on Angeles Crest.
	11:21pm coelacanth∅: Larry that song i was trying to think of is by blues traveler. -absolute shit. ...again my apologies to blind melon!
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: I just looked it up, that original US production of Threepenny Opera also featured (during the course of its run) Ed Asner, Jerry Orbach and Jerry Stiller!
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: @C - You will never, unless I am being held at gunpoint, ANY Blues Traveler on this show.
	11:22pm coelacanth∅: (but yeah the chord progression from Pachelbel the whole way)
	11:22pm coelacanth∅: haha Larry! that's reassuring!
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: Not a fan...
	11:25pm Erica: Audio gurgling.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: Fixed it! Sorry about that! Not sure why that happened.
	11:27pm rw: How-dee. Did I hear someone say no Blues Traveller?? And I was about to donate some $.
	11:27pm Erica: Guess we both have computer problems tonight eh?
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: @rw - Hee-larious!
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Weird software glitch. I'll have to look into that.
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: of course it's "bad form" to dwell on it; but the first time i heard that blues traveller song i was sitting in my car with my girlfriend and we'd just smoked some herb and my cassette wasn't working we turned on the radio during the harmonica solo of that song and we looked at each-other like can this possibly be this bad?! and sorta giggled about it. then the solo ended and the singer came on and did this kind of scat thing and we simultaneously burst out laughing! it was a bonding experience.
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I find pretty much everything about them hard to take. And I do admire a solid harp player, but not in service of dreck
	11:32pm coelacanth∅: kind of the equivalent of a guitarist who can noodle very fast. so what.
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: in another world, this Rollins is smoldering nicely
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, but as opposed to the guitar, where there are noodlers a-plenty, you don't find too many harmonica players with that facility. It's a shame he wastes his talent.
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: Doug Watkins (bass) Max Roach (drums) Tommy Flanagan (piano)
	11:37pm rw: I guess I should look up Blues Traveller. I'm kind of scared. I'm sure I'd know it though.
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: They did that song 'Runaround' which haunted me for the year or so that it was a big hit. I think they formed in NJ, too.
	11:38pm coelacanth∅: the one song was all over the radio for a minute c. 1996
	11:40pm rw: Oh! This is the Long Hair show! Mary Wing was promoting it this am. I'm not going to look them up for fear of earworms. I got that Keep 'em Separated song stuck in my head once and I don't want a repeat. Sonny Rollins and D. Byrd are just fine, thank you!
	11:41pm coelacanth∅: oh i shouldn't have done that. ..."hook" was the other hit, the one that entertained us so in it's terribleness.
	11:42pm rw: Or I should say Brecht and Grofe.
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: i liked offspring momentarily. got 3 albums and quickly realised their songs all sound about the same. no disrespect though.
	11:46pm coelacanth∅: by the way rw i've been listening to that träden album a lot; pretty sure that's one that you sacrificed.
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: I have had brief musical infatuations like that, that passed after I realized that what I liked about the artist was found more plentifully and in a more satisfying fashion elsewhere
	11:48pm coelacanth∅: right Larry. maybe i was yearning for new punkrock that could stand up next to the old punkrock; but it wasn't to be.
	11:49pm rw: Cool! Glad you like it!
	11:50pm Erica: 10 minutes left.
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: I like to think I'm invincible when it comes to things like that, but I have a number of dark, unpleasant flirtations with questionable music over the years. Let's just say that at one point I bought a Crash Test Dummies CD, then sold it back two days later.
	11:51pm coelacanth∅: ...(well, that's not true. fugazi and rancid were every bit as good as most of the 70s-80s punk)
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I will make it under the wire!
	11:52pm Dean: Folks, we're talking about music product. No need to apologize.
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: I owe apologies to no one but my own ears...
	11:52pm rw: We have a time constraint?
	11:53pm coelacanth∅: haha Larry the first one i usually think of is boston -but then, i was very young. ...there are lots of them though.
	11:54pm Erica: No I was just letting you guys know the show's almost over and that it went by fast.
	11:54pm Funky16Corners: @rw - Not really, but I will finish within a few minutes of midnight
	11:56pm coelacanth∅: and what the hell, i still listen to my kansas album every ...okay, once in the last 40 years...but i'll cop to enjoying it!
	11:56pm rw: Boston! I liked that first album. Of course I never bought it. It was plenty ubiquitous. I think I was in 7th grade.
	11:56pm coelacanth∅: yeah there really wasn't much need to buy it
	11:57pm Dean: The dude who engineered Boston's first LP has a stereo shop three blocks from my house. He's hella cool.
	11:58pm rw: Ha! It did have a pretty great sound to it.
	11:58pm coelacanth∅: it really was well-done. and good music for the time, for children anyway. i just don't want to ever hear it again. ever.
	12:01am coelacanth∅: Excellent Larry! Thanks take care y'all
	12:01am rw: Thank you Larry16!! You're almost half way to the goal. Take care y'all!
	12:02am Erica: Goodnight all! Beautiful show tonight Larry, aside from the glitch that happened. Until next time!
	12:02am Funky16Corners: Thanks C! rw!
	12:02am rw: Dammit. I copied coel. Later kids!!
	12:02am Funky16Corners: Oh my! I got donation while I was yakking! I will thank the donor next week!
	12:03am Funky16Corners: Nite Erica!
	8:35am Cal Zone!: Listening now!
	9:49am Cal Zone!: Loving the Kokomo and Ekseption stuff! ;)
	10:30am Funky16Corners: Thanks! I hope you dig the rest!
	6:57pm doctorjazz: Great show! ,(had to listen to the archive)
	6:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 2, 2019

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October 2, 2019: Testify! - Like Long Hair - Classical Themes In Popular Settings

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3
Emerson Lake and Palmer	Fanfare For the Common Man	Works Vol 1	Atlantic	1977	LP	Composer - Aaaron Copland
Apollo 100	Joy "Joy" by "Apollo 100"	Joy	Mega	1972	LP	Composer - Johann Sebastian Bach Original Composition - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring

The Ventures	Rap City "Rap City" by "The Ventures"	45RPM Single	Dolton	1964	45	Composer - Franz Liszt Composition - Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Allan Sherman	Hungarian Goulash "Hungarian Goulash" by "Allan Sherman"	My Son the Nut	Warner Brothers	1963	LP	Composer - Franz Liszt Composition - Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Link Wray	Moonlight Love "Moonlight Love" by "Link Wray"	45RPM	Epic	1961	45	Composer - Claude Debussy Composition - Clair De Lune
Kokomo	Asia Minor "Asia Minor" by "Kokomo"	45RPM Single	Felsted	1960	45	Composer - Edvard Grieg Composition - Piano Concerto In A Minor
Ekseption	Ritual Fire Dance "Ritual Fire Dance" by "Ekseption"	Ekseption	Philips	1969	LP	Composer - Emanual Da Falla Composition - Ritual Fire Dance
Raymond Scott	In an 18th Century Drawing Room	78RPM Single	Columbia	1939	78	Composer - Mozart Composition - Piano Sonata In C
The Toys	A Lover's Concerto "A Lover's Concerto" by "The Toys"	45RPM Single	Dynovoice	1965	45	Composer - Bach Composition - Minuet In G Minor
The Toys	Silver Spoon "Silver Spoon" by "The Toys"	45RPM Single	Dynovoice	1966	45	Composer - Beethoven Composition - Pathetique Sonata
The Free Design	Kije's Ouja "Kije's Ouja" by "The Free Design"	Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love	Project 3	1970	LP	Composer - Prokofiev Composition - Lieutenant Kije
James Gang	The Bomber Medley: A) Closet Queen, B) Cast Your Fate to the Wind	Rides Again	ABC	1970	LP	Composer - Ravel Composition - Bolero
Patrick Sky	A Modern Major General	Reality Is Bad Enough	Verve	1968	LP	Composer - Gilbert and Sullivan Composition - The Pirates of Penzance
Nina Simone	Pirate Jenny "Pirate Jenny" by "Nina Simone"	In Concert	Philips	1964	LP	Composer - Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht Composition - Threepenny Opera
The Doors	Alabama Song "Alabama Song" by "The Doors"	The Doors	Elektra	1966	LP	Composer - Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht Composition - The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Deodato	Also Sprach Zarathustra "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by "Deodato"	Prelude	CTI	1972	LP	Composer - Richard Strauss Composition - Also Sprach Zarathusra
Deodato	Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun	Prelude	CTI	1972	LP	Composer - Claude Debussy Composition - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Sonny Rollins	Moritat (aka Mack the Knife)	Saxophone Colossus	Prestige	1957	LP	Composer - Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht Composition - Die Moritat von Mackie Messer (from Threepeny Opera)
Donald Byrd	On the Trail "On the Trail" by "Donald Byrd"	Mustang	Blue Note	1966	LP	Composer - Ferde Grofe Composition - Grand Canyon Suite
Wayne Shorter	Valse Triste "Valse Triste" by "Wayne Shorter"	The Soothsayer	Blue Note	1979	CD	Composer - Jean Sibelius Composition - Valse Triste
Stanley Turrentine	Goin' Home "Goin' Home" by "Stanley Turrentine"	Hustlin'	Blue Note	1965	LP	Composer - Dvorak Composition - Symphony For the New World

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!
	🥁 9:38pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): i've got one ear here and one ear there
	9:40pm Funky16Corners: Hey Granny! Nothing here yet!
	9:44pm Dean: This is a very promising theme. B.J. Cole, perhaps?
	9:46pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dean! Not tonight, but I will def revisit this theme in the future.
	10:01pm Jeff Ash: Good evening from soggy Wisconsin!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff! Good evening from sweltering New Jersey! it was 95 today!
	10:03pm Franco Twinkie: Dump it on me Larry. The chair beckons.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	10:04pm Jeff Ash: Huge fan of this when I was a teenager in the '70s. And then my son Evan got into ELP, so he has some of my records now.
	10:05pm CC: This is my first time catching your show Larry...nice beginning!!!...
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey CC!
	10:05pm chresti: Hi Testify Worldwide! I like the one with the striped robe, in the GIF
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Next to Karnevil 9, this is my fave ELP
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Chresti!
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: That's Kurt Weill in the robe
	10:06pm Erica: Hi I'm here. My internet connection is acting up again. >:( Diggin' the ELP.
	10:06pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and others
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica! Coel!
	10:07pm Dean: Figured ELP would be here, but expected Mussorgsky.
	10:08pm coelacanth∅: interesting hearing this with (essentially) no bass. (laptop speakers) would not have guessed it to be what it is, or even ELP.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I have that one somewhere. Next time. The Hut of Baba Yaga.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: @C - After the opening it doesn't hew too closely to Copland.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Basically Keith Emerson abusing his keyboards.
	10:09pm CC: Two recent vocalist who died that hurt me the most were Greg Lake and Gregg Allman!!!
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: It always struck me as weird that Lake was in King Crimson before this.
	10:09pm coelacanth∅: at this point in the track i probably would've guessed it!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Ah, here it comes around to the main theme again
	10:11pm coelacanth∅: but before he turned up the overdrive (is that redundant?) it just sounded like someone noodling light-heartedly on an organ, with someone else tapping drumsticks on the rim of the snare!
	10:12pm Jeff Ash: AM radio 1971.
	10:12pm Jeff Ash: Check that. 1972. But still AM radio.
	10:12pm coelacanth∅: i still love this
	10:12pm Funky16Corners: I always loved this record. Fell in love with it all over again on the soundtrack to Boogie Nights
	10:14pm coelacanth∅: never saw/heard boogie nights but i still have the apollo 100 lp my parents bought. swiped it long before my father died in fact, since i knew he'd never play it again.
	10:15pm Erica: I notice that a lot of prog rock bands from the 70s were influenced by classical music, Jethro Tull especially.
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: You should check out early Tull when they were basically a blues rock band. Good stuff.
	10:18pm coelacanth∅: makes perfect sense, since "prog rockers" were by necessity more sophisticated than the general modern music population.
	10:18pm Dean: The prog affection for classical is one source of the charge that these bands were pretentious. And in certain respects, they were, indeed. A great Italian prog band, RDM, devoted an entire album to Bach.
	10:18pm CC: Well... so do we get any lyrics or not???
	10:21pm Funky16Corners: @CC - Lyrics coming up shortly!
	10:21pm Dean: One great contrary example, because it blurs the classical/pop/prog borders, is Reverberi, whose album including Chopin, Schumman, Beethoven, et al., performed on synthesizers but not as audaciously as, say, Tomita, manages to straddle the divide.
	10:23pm coelacanth∅: true Dean but "pretentious" is relative. i think most well-known "metal" bands' pretention makes prog rockers look almost humble! then there's rappers and divas and many of the johnny-come-lately psych bands... (etc.)
	10:23pm CC: Alan!!!...the best outside of Jack Kerouac!!!
	10:24pm coelacanth∅: i agree about Reverberi's first album. (and the et al is just Liszt)
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: (...actually, no Beethoven on that first album, but on the mostly not great stairway to heaven)
	10:26pm Dean: I don't think that was is first album...
	10:28pm Dean: ^his
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: This was actually a big hit in 1961!
	10:29pm coelacanth∅: hmm, maybe not. it's been difficult for me to find a (well, impossible) a full, accurate discography for Reverberi. i know it was early...early 70s? and he's had many albums since ...many soundtracks i guess
	10:29pm Dean: A start: https://www.discogs.com/artist/281531-Gian-Piero-Reverberi
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: These guys did a lot of classical adaptations
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: Another one for the cartoon fans
	10:32pm Dean: My favorite is Nirvana's cover of Cage's 4'33". Rim shot!
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: TURN IT UP!
	10:32pm Erica: Going back to the 30s I see.
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: thanks Dean. that was not so accurate last i checked. (a few years ago) wikipedia much worse.
	10:34pm Erica: Love this song. Didn't know this was a classical piece.
	10:34pm Erica: Love this song. Didn't know this was a classical piece.
	10:35pm Erica: Sorry for the repeat. Like I said my internet is acting up.
	10:37pm Erica: (like my stomach)
	10:37pm Funky16Corners: Not a problem!
	10:38pm coelacanth∅: i remember a tv ad for a set of classical records in the late 60s or early 70s and the very distinguished gentleman's main selling point was that many of the songs the proverbial we know from the radio are based on classical compositions.
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, that guy played Mr French's brother on Family Affair
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: John Williams, he's also in a great episode of the Twilight Zone with Burt Reynolds
	10:41pm Parq: "Yes, I'm sure you all recognize this lovely melody, A Stranger In Paradise. But did you know..."
	10:43pm Parq: Did not know that guy played Sebie Cabot's brother.
	🥁 10:43pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): my ear is still here!
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: hey Parq! Yeah, 'The Poliventzian Dance Number two by Borodin'...
	🥁 10:44pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): and digging it!
	10:44pm CC: That reminds me...why does everybody play Funk 49 and nobody plays Funk 48?!?
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: Granny!
	10:45pm coelacanth∅: wow i'm glad you guys all remember that so clearly!
	10:45pm Funky16Corners: @CC - Lack of imagination!
	10:46pm Erica: Fixed my connection. Hopefully things should go smoothlynow.
	10:46pm Parq: Coal, I had a friend once who could do a dead-on impression of that commercial that would have had you cracking up.
	10:47pm Franco Twinkie: I heard Joe Walsh did this for an encore at The Eagles Mega Vegas shakedown last week. Not really. I'll go back to washing the dishes now.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: I'd pay to see that!
	10:49pm Jeff Ash: James Gang was one of the go-to groups in those glorious days/nights of free-form FM radio.
	10:49pm Dean: Yes's "Cans & Brahms" is a tasteful candidate.
	10:49pm Dean: Ooooh, G&S is stretching "classical"...
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Love the James Gang!
	10:50pm coelacanth∅: Parq haha -cracking up just thinking about it! ...as children we just made fun of it (especially the poliVET sian dance number 2)
	10:50pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I don't think so.
	10:50pm Funky16Corners: I think operetta counts, as we'll see in a minute
	10:52pm Dean: I love Sullivan's songs, but my sense is that G&S lean more toward Broadway pop than, say, Mozart.
	10:52pm Parq: Must go, but this is one show where I'll definitely dig the archives.
	10:53pm Jeff Ash: Fun fact: On its first 3 LPs on Wooden Nickel (before hitting it big), Styx covered Aaron Copland, Bach and Handel. Kinda have a hunch Styx is not in this mix.
	10:53pm coelacanth∅: but sabre dance doesn't. that crappy blind melon song counts (although they never gave credit where credit was due) ...and if you play that i have to leave!
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: Nite Parq!
	10:53pm Dean: Huh, funny, just today I reported an upcoming performance of a recital by Theo Bleckmann of tunes by, inter alia, Weill, as Broadway tunes. IOW, still not convinced.
	10:54pm coelacanth∅: gnight Parq
	10:54pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - I didn't know that about their early stuff. I'll have to check that out.
	10:54pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I think Weill bounces back and forth depending on the setting and the singer.
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: @C - Which Blind Melon song? I did not know they dabbled in classical borrowing
	10:58pm Dean: I also question the classification of Nina Simone as a popular setting.
	10:59pm Dean: OTOH, The Doors, yeah, they occupy a popular setting.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: Miss Simone, like Mr Weill moves back and forth seamlessly between popular and, let us say, serious music.
	11:00pm CC: great show Larry I'll have to catch the rest on the archive because dinner is ready and the news is on...luv ya bro!!!
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: Nite CC!
	11:01pm Dean: I deeply regard popular music as serious.
	11:02pm Erica: Pirate Jenny sounds like a good song to play on Halloween. Haha! Forget Thriller or the Monster Mash.
	11:02pm coelacanth∅: Larry -not blind melon (sorry blind melon!) i don't remember the band, or the song title. i'll think of it. i think it was their biggest hit. (their only hit?) employed Pachelbel's canon. (as several others did)
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - The singer of that song is a downtrodden chambermain who dreams of a pirate ship destroying the entire city, after which she orders the survivors executed and then sails away with the pirates!
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: CHAMBERMAID...
	11:13pm Erica: I meant about the killing part of the song Larry. Reminds me of horror films.
	11:14pm Franco Twinkie: Okay, I knew the most unpleasant memories of high school would be conjured eventually.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Part of any healthy breakfast and/or radio show
	11:17pm Franco Twinkie: ....A blue Ford Econoline with it's doors open up on Angeles Crest.
	11:21pm coelacanth∅: Larry that song i was trying to think of is by blues traveler. -absolute shit. ...again my apologies to blind melon!
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: I just looked it up, that original US production of Threepenny Opera also featured (during the course of its run) Ed Asner, Jerry Orbach and Jerry Stiller!
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: @C - You will never, unless I am being held at gunpoint, ANY Blues Traveler on this show.
	11:22pm coelacanth∅: (but yeah the chord progression from Pachelbel the whole way)
	11:22pm coelacanth∅: haha Larry! that's reassuring!
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: Not a fan...
	11:25pm Erica: Audio gurgling.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: Fixed it! Sorry about that! Not sure why that happened.
	11:27pm rw: How-dee. Did I hear someone say no Blues Traveller?? And I was about to donate some $.
	11:27pm Erica: Guess we both have computer problems tonight eh?
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: @rw - Hee-larious!
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Weird software glitch. I'll have to look into that.
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: of course it's "bad form" to dwell on it; but the first time i heard that blues traveller song i was sitting in my car with my girlfriend and we'd just smoked some herb and my cassette wasn't working we turned on the radio during the harmonica solo of that song and we looked at each-other like can this possibly be this bad?! and sorta giggled about it. then the solo ended and the singer came on and did this kind of scat thing and we simultaneously burst out laughing! it was a bonding experience.
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I find pretty much everything about them hard to take. And I do admire a solid harp player, but not in service of dreck
	11:32pm coelacanth∅: kind of the equivalent of a guitarist who can noodle very fast. so what.
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: in another world, this Rollins is smoldering nicely
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, but as opposed to the guitar, where there are noodlers a-plenty, you don't find too many harmonica players with that facility. It's a shame he wastes his talent.
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: Doug Watkins (bass) Max Roach (drums) Tommy Flanagan (piano)
	11:37pm rw: I guess I should look up Blues Traveller. I'm kind of scared. I'm sure I'd know it though.
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: They did that song 'Runaround' which haunted me for the year or so that it was a big hit. I think they formed in NJ, too.
	11:38pm coelacanth∅: the one song was all over the radio for a minute c. 1996
	11:40pm rw: Oh! This is the Long Hair show! Mary Wing was promoting it this am. I'm not going to look them up for fear of earworms. I got that Keep 'em Separated song stuck in my head once and I don't want a repeat. Sonny Rollins and D. Byrd are just fine, thank you!
	11:41pm coelacanth∅: oh i shouldn't have done that. ..."hook" was the other hit, the one that entertained us so in it's terribleness.
	11:42pm rw: Or I should say Brecht and Grofe.
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: i liked offspring momentarily. got 3 albums and quickly realised their songs all sound about the same. no disrespect though.
	11:46pm coelacanth∅: by the way rw i've been listening to that träden album a lot; pretty sure that's one that you sacrificed.
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: I have had brief musical infatuations like that, that passed after I realized that what I liked about the artist was found more plentifully and in a more satisfying fashion elsewhere
	11:48pm coelacanth∅: right Larry. maybe i was yearning for new punkrock that could stand up next to the old punkrock; but it wasn't to be.
	11:49pm rw: Cool! Glad you like it!
	11:50pm Erica: 10 minutes left.
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: I like to think I'm invincible when it comes to things like that, but I have a number of dark, unpleasant flirtations with questionable music over the years. Let's just say that at one point I bought a Crash Test Dummies CD, then sold it back two days later.
	11:51pm coelacanth∅: ...(well, that's not true. fugazi and rancid were every bit as good as most of the 70s-80s punk)
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I will make it under the wire!
	11:52pm Dean: Folks, we're talking about music product. No need to apologize.
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: I owe apologies to no one but my own ears...
	11:52pm rw: We have a time constraint?
	11:53pm coelacanth∅: haha Larry the first one i usually think of is boston -but then, i was very young. ...there are lots of them though.
	11:54pm Erica: No I was just letting you guys know the show's almost over and that it went by fast.
	11:54pm Funky16Corners: @rw - Not really, but I will finish within a few minutes of midnight
	11:56pm coelacanth∅: and what the hell, i still listen to my kansas album every ...okay, once in the last 40 years...but i'll cop to enjoying it!
	11:56pm rw: Boston! I liked that first album. Of course I never bought it. It was plenty ubiquitous. I think I was in 7th grade.
	11:56pm coelacanth∅: yeah there really wasn't much need to buy it
	11:57pm Dean: The dude who engineered Boston's first LP has a stereo shop three blocks from my house. He's hella cool.
	11:58pm rw: Ha! It did have a pretty great sound to it.
	11:58pm coelacanth∅: it really was well-done. and good music for the time, for children anyway. i just don't want to ever hear it again. ever.
	12:01am coelacanth∅: Excellent Larry! Thanks take care y'all
	12:01am rw: Thank you Larry16!! You're almost half way to the goal. Take care y'all!
	12:02am Erica: Goodnight all! Beautiful show tonight Larry, aside from the glitch that happened. Until next time!
	12:02am Funky16Corners: Thanks C! rw!
	12:02am rw: Dammit. I copied coel. Later kids!!
	12:02am Funky16Corners: Oh my! I got donation while I was yakking! I will thank the donor next week!
	12:03am Funky16Corners: Nite Erica!
	8:35am Cal Zone!: Listening now!
	9:49am Cal Zone!: Loving the Kokomo and Ekseption stuff! ;)
	10:30am Funky16Corners: Thanks! I hope you dig the rest!
	6:57pm doctorjazz: Great show! ,(had to listen to the archive)
	6:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc!

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