WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 9, 2019

Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 10:01pm Jeff Ash: Good evening from Wisconsin!
	♥ 10:02pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all
	♥ 10:04pm chresti: Hi Larry and everyone!
	♥ 10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff! C!
	♥ 10:04pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	♥ 10:05pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi everyone
	♥ 10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt!
	♥ 10:06pm Little Danny: Hey Larry, hey all. Stoked to be able to catch this live tonight!
	♥ 10:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	♥ 10:07pm Uncle Michael: Larry!
	♥ 10:08pm Funky16Corners: Unk!
	10:08pm Erica: I'm here. Just having internet problems again.
	♥ 10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica!
	10:14pm Erica: I missed the first 4 songs due to lagging problems and I needed to re-sign in.
	♥ 10:18pm Funky16Corners: OK, it'll all be there in the archive tomorrow, too
	♥ 10:18pm Little Danny: Awesome, never actually heard anything from this Steve Allen LP aside from the "Flowers and Love" 45 I have
	♥ 10:19pm Funky16Corners: It's really good, Danny, especially the Szabo tunes
	♥ 10:20pm Franco Twinkie: California uber alles!
	♥ 10:20pm doctorjazz: Hi folks!
	♥ 10:21pm Funky16Corners: Franco! Doc!
	♥ 10:22pm doctorjazz: Just realized they were playing Paul Simon...
	10:23pm Erica: I had a feeling you'd tune in tonight Danny. I was just thinking of your show too. Not sure if I asked this before but are you off tonight?
	♥ 10:24pm doctorjazz: Hey Danny!
	♥ 10:24pm Funky16Corners: This playlist is going to be a mile long from the group names alone...
	♥ 10:25pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m not really digging the choral vocals but like the instrumental arrangement.
	10:25pm Erica: The artist/group name is indeed a mouthful to pronounce.
	♥ 10:27pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - The vocals make more sense as we go along. I'm pretty sure that isn't what Dylan had in mind when he wrote that song
	♥ 10:27pm chresti: I see dancers singing "Everybody must get stoned" on TV
	10:27pm rw: Evening! I like the choral part! Everybody must get stoned.
	10:27pm Johnny Boy: Sloatsburg in da haus!
	♥ 10:27pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - It's weird, the group names are a mile long and the album titles are very short
	♥ 10:28pm Funky16Corners: rw! Johnny!
	10:28pm northguineahills: Do they any collaborations?
	10:29pm northguineahills: do any collaborations....
	♥ 10:29pm Franco Twinkie: So, just about a half hour ago I saw a big blinking blue and red sign on a trailer a few blocks from our house warning everybody that they better not drive while they're stoned!
	♥ 10:30pm Little Danny: Haha, thanks for thinking of me Erica! Yeah, I have the night off from my other show
	♥ 10:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey ngh! Who?
	10:32pm northguineahills: Bob Thiele and His New Happy Times Orchestra with Gabor Szabo with the California Dreamers and Tom Scott and Bill Plummer ….
	♥ 10:33pm Funky16Corners: Yes, with Dean Martin and the Golddiggers, the 1962 Mets featuring Casey Stengel and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
	10:33pm Erica: Groovy. I Imagine hippies getting down to this one while stoned lol.
	♥ 10:33pm Funky16Corners: j/k
	♥ 10:33pm Matt from New Orleans: Who’s playing guitar here Larry?
	🥁 ♥ 10:34pm Jeff Ash: Stream interrupted?
	🥁 ♥ 10:35pm Jeff Ash: Back in 1967 now. Temporary insanity.
	♥ 10:35pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - Gabor Szabo @Jeff - Thanks for the heads up, Fixed it
	10:35pm Erica: I was just wondering that too.
	♥ 10:37pm Matt from New Orleans: That was a stupid question as he was a guitarist and his name is in the long ass band name
	♥ 10:38pm Funky16Corners: This song pops up again in a different arrangement with a different title
	♥ 10:39pm Funky16Corners: Later in the show...
	♥ 10:42pm Franco Twinkie: I remember Steve Allen would always have the groups that the kids liked on his show. I seem to remember Professor Irwin Corey and Jane Meadows looking startled as Blue Cheer made a god awful racket, but Steve just handled in his breezily sarcastic fashion. Then there was his commercial for Mocha Mix, where he banged out the jingle on the piano!
	♥ 10:45pm Funky16Corners: I know he got very conservative/reactionary late in life, but Steve Allen was a funny guy, who kept even funnier company.
	♥ 10:46pm Little Danny: Steve Allen seemed like a pretty hip cat for what he was in his time. He also has a cool read of "Song For My Father" from a year or two earlier, which I feel like Larry has featured at some point on this show
	10:47pm Erica: The only song by Blue Cheer I've heard of is their version of "Summertime Blues", which didn't make as much sense as the original. Surprised Steve kept it cool.
	♥ 10:47pm Little Danny: Ahhh "Flowers and Love"
	♥ 10:48pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I don't remember if I played that one, but I have played his versions of 'California Soul' and Son Of A Preacher Man, which he recorded for Flying Dutchman
	♥ 10:50pm Franco Twinkie: I read in Tosh Bermans memoir that him and his dad, Wallace Berman, the legendary beat artist sat next to Steve Allen and his wife Jane Meadows at the Santa Monica Civic the first time David Bowie played in Los Angeles. I wonder if he was wearing a suit?
	♥ 10:51pm Funky16Corners: Feedback on a Steve Allen record!!
	♥ 10:51pm Little Danny: Szabo doesn't get the credit he deserves for being such a pioneer of feedback
	♥ 10:52pm Funky16Corners: I think if he hadn't died so young he'd be better respected today. he's one of my favorites
	♥ 10:52pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - a suit and black dress socks
	♥ 10:52pm Franco Twinkie: Oh man, Gabor Szabo played The Avalon Ballroom!
	10:53pm Erica: The narration in the beginning sounds sleepy compared to the Animals version.
	♥ 10:53pm Funky16Corners: I'd love to see a comprehensive list of jazz artists that Graham booked into his ballrooms
	10:53pm Erica: I meant this version is sleepy.
	♥ 10:54pm Little Danny: @Larry: I think Szabo's Now Sound crossovers also hurt his reputation with both the jazz crowd and the counterculture
	♥ 10:54pm Franco Twinkie: That's because Gabor had gone native....If you know what I mean.
	♥ 10:55pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I think you're right. Which is a shame because I like those albums a lot
	10:56pm Johnny Boy: I really like this version. Go Gabor!
	♥ 10:56pm Matt from New Orleans: I saw a concert at the Avalon when it briefly reopened as a concert venue last decade. I can’t remember who I saw.
	♥ 10:56pm Funky16Corners: @Johnny - Yeah, it really works well in this format
	♥ 10:58pm Franco Twinkie: Matt, so did Chresti and I! We saw The Mermen, a psychedelic surf power trio with a full on light show. It was the night before Easter.
	♥ 11:00pm Little Danny: That sounds awesome, Franco
	♥ 11:00pm Funky16Corners: Back in the 80s there was a club night in NYC that was part of the garage/mod revival, called The Minds Eye. They has a full psychedelic light show, which our band was lucky enough to play in front of
	♥ 11:00pm Franco Twinkie: Was indeed!
	♥ 11:02pm Funky16Corners: @Johnny Boy - Did you play the Minds Eye with us?
	♥ 11:03pm Little Danny: I always forget about your '80s garage band past, Larry. Any live footage anywhere on YouTube? Kinda shocking how much has turned up from that time
	♥ 11:04pm Little Danny: Great set btw
	♥ 11:05pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I'm getting to the age where I may start forgetting about it. No live footage from the 80s but there is a clip on Youtube from a reunion at Asbury Lanes maybe ten years ago
	♥ 11:05pm Funky16Corners: And thank you!
	11:06pm geezerette: Mellow hello, Larry and flowery people!
	♥ 11:07pm Funky16Corners: Geezerette!
	11:07pm Erica: I like these original songs, very groovy. Also I realized Gabor Szabo & the California Dreamers are a three-in-one easy listening, jazz and pop band. Worked well in the 60s.
	♥ 11:07pm Franco Twinkie: Bizzaro Geezer!
	♥ 11:08pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - That's why I love these albums so much. A bit of everything I dig all coked up together in the same pot.
	11:09pm geezerette: Me happy to see you, Franco.
	11:09pm Erica: The only thing missimg Larry is the northern soul.
	11:09pm Johnny Boy: @F16Corners: Larry, my first show with the P-5 was at a Tramps Minds Eye. Complete with Capt Whizzo Light shoe. “Going all the way pretty baby...”
	11:10pm geezerette: Can Shatner be far behind?
	11:10pm rw: So… is this jazz? I missed the commentary.
	♥ 11:11pm Funky16Corners: @Johnny - That was the one!
	♥ 11:11pm Funky16Corners: @rw - more 'jazz adjacent'. The next set things get jazzier
	11:12pm Erica: This 2nd set is very long.
	♥ 11:13pm Funky16Corners: Two more songs and then a break...
	♥ 11:14pm chresti: Jazz pop for people with digestive problems
	11:14pm Johnny Boy: @F16C: Fun fact - Dead Boy Cheetah Chrome was at our show and told me he thought we did a great set. Ha ha!
	♥ 11:15pm Little Danny: Haha Chresti. This IS good for digestion now that ya mention it
	11:15pm geezerette: Chardonay at sunset, in the hot tub... something I never did.
	11:15pm Erica: Haha chresti.
	11:16pm geezerette: Chresti! Heh! :)
	♥ 11:16pm Funky16Corners: @Johnny - I had no idea!
	♥ 11:21pm Franco Twinkie: For about a year a friend of ours lived a block from The Jefferson Airplane mansion on Fulton, across from the park.It was a great place! But unfortunately his downstairs neighbor was insane and possibly dismembered his mother there, so he moved.
	🥁 ♥ 11:23pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): Franco Twinkie: a contractor friend of mine just worked on that house a couple of years ago and was impressed by how well preserved it was.
	♥ 11:25pm Franco Twinkie: Granny, Did he find any remnants of the former tenants?
	♥ 11:28pm Franco Twinkie: Larry, please play Today off this record.
	♥ 11:29pm Funky16Corners: I will Franco!
	11:29pm rw: chresti, Haha! Nice!
	♥ 11:31pm doctorjazz: Like this version of the Dreamers with Ton Scott better that the earlier Szabo version.
	🥁 ♥ 11:31pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): Franco Twinkie: he didn't MENTION anything, but perhaps he is in cahoots!!!
	11:32pm rw: F16, thanks for the shout out. And thank you as always for doing this thing every week!!
	♥ 11:32pm Funky16Corners: My pleasure!
	11:32pm geezerette: Nice lilt. Hi, Doc!
	♥ 11:33pm doctorjazz: Hey, Geez!
	♥ 11:34pm doctorjazz: Beatles and Trane, there's some interesting programming.
	♥ 11:35pm Funky16Corners: As far as I can tell this is Scott's first album as a leader (maybe his first overall). Very different that what he would do with the LA Express and Joni Mitchell.
	11:36pm geezerette: Soft edges for those over thirty. Can't blame 'em.
	11:36pm rw: Man. Those background vocals!! Insane.
	♥ 11:38pm doctorjazz: Scott sounds much funkier than everyone else in the band on this Aretha cover, but I guess that's the point.
	♥ 11:38pm Funky16Corners: There's a great transitional phase in vocal arranging in the mid 60s, from Ray Conniff type stuff to things like this and many of Curt Boettcher's arrangements. Even Anita Kerr got hip.
	♥ 11:40pm Funky16Corners: Free Design, too
	♥ 11:40pm Funky16Corners: And the Mamas and Papas
	♥ 11:40pm Franco Twinkie: How things have changed! Marty Balins embryotic club, The Matrix is now a watering hole for the most boring people in San Francisco. Today however, is eternal. RIP Marty Balin.
	11:41pm geezerette: "Today" sounds good. Crossed that threshold.
	11:46pm geezerette: Honeysuckle Breeze sounds like a good album. Languid, drifting sound.
	♥ 11:47pm Little Danny: @Larry, spot-on re: this period of '60s vocal arrangements. I think there's like one or two other representative arrangers that I'm blanking on at the moment
	11:47pm northguineahills: Thanks, Larry! have a good night everyone!
	♥ 11:47pm Funky16Corners: Nite NGH!
	♥ 11:47pm doctorjazz: It's personal taste,of course, but to my ears Tim Scott puts a ton of energy into these tracks, lifts then up (he even goes "out" a bit in North).
	♥ 11:48pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - This is by far the jazziest title in the series.
	11:48pm geezerette: Doc, I agree.
	♥ 11:49pm doctorjazz: It does swing and get funky, Scott really brings it!
	11:49pm geezerette: Good night, ngh!
	♥ 11:50pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I'm trying to think of other arrangers that fit the mold, too
	♥ 11:50pm Little Danny: Oh yeah, Stu Phillips had some stuff in this camp, especially late '60s soundtracks like Follow Me
	11:50pm Erica: Tom, not Tim doc.
	♥ 11:50pm doctorjazz: Thanks Larry! Night all!
	♥ 11:50pm Funky16Corners: Nite Doc!
	♥ 11:51pm Little Danny: Oh yeah, and Bob Crewe...
	11:52pm geezerette: Thanks, Larry! Evocative. Lots of images.
	♥ 11:52pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Erica (I knew that, but didn't check my spell correct, as I often neglect to do)
	♥ 11:54pm Little Danny: Thanks Larry, super show!
	♥ 11:55pm Franco Twinkie: ....and introducing The Paisley Pillow Pill Poppers! Thanks Larry, you know I love this.
	11:57pm Erica: Thanks for the show Larry. Hopefully my internet won't act up again next week either.
	♥ 11:57pm chresti: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 11:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Danny!
	♥ 11:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Franco! Erica! Chresti!
	12:00am rw: Thankee Funky!! Have a good week everyone!!
	♥ 12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks rw!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 9, 2019

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October 9, 2019: Testify! - Bob & Steve & Gabor & Tom & the California Dreamers aka The Great 1967 Pop Jazz Experiment

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The California Dreamers	One Night Stand	45RPM Single	Nite Life	1966	45		0:01:47 (Pop-up)
Bob Thiele and his New Happy Times Orchestra featuring the Sunflower Singers and Steve Allen	Do The Love	Do The Love	ABC	1967	LP		0:03:41 (Pop-up)
Bob Thiele and his New Happy Times Orchestra featuring the Sunflower Singers and Steve Allen	Green	Do The Love	ABC	1967	LP		0:06:01 (Pop-up)
Bob Thiele and his New Happy Times Orchestra featuring the Sunflower Singers and Steve Allen	I Just Don't Know What To Say	Do The Love	ABC	1967	LP	Vocal by 'A Sunflower Singer'	0:08:08 (Pop-up)
Bob Thiele and his New Happy Times Orchestra featuring the Sunflower Singers and Steve Allen	Jet Me To Frisco	Do The Love	ABC	1967	LP		0:09:59 (Pop-up)

Bob Thiele and His New Happy Times Orchestra with Gabor Szabo with the California Dreamers and Tom Scott and Bill Plummer	Fakin' It	Light My Fire	Impulse	1967	LP		0:17:11 (Pop-up)
Bob Thiele and His New Happy Times Orchestra with Gabor Szabo with the California Dreamers and Tom Scott and Bill Plummer	Rainy Day Women #12 and 35	Light My Fire	Impulse	1967	LP		0:23:16 (Pop-up)
Bob Thiele and His New Happy Times Orchestra with Gabor Szabo with the California Dreamers and Tom Scott and Bill Plummer	Krishna	Light My Fire	Impulse	1967	LP		0:25:38 (Pop-up)
Steve Allen and the Gentle Players featuring Gabor Szabo and Hal Blaine	Here Comes Sgt Pepper	Songs For Gentle People	Dunhill	1967	LP		0:29:31 (Pop-up)
Steve Allen and the Gentle Players featuring Gabor Szabo and Hal Blaine	Flower Revolution	Songs For Gentle People	Dunhill	1967	LP		0:31:47 (Pop-up)
Steve Allen and the Gentle Players featuring Gabor Szabo and Hal Blaine	Fox	Songs For Gentle People	Dunhill	1967	LP		0:37:14 (Pop-up)
Steve Allen and the Gentle Players featuring Gabor Szabo and Hal Blaine	Green	Songs For Gentle People	Dunhill	1967	LP	written by Steve Allen	0:41:14 (Pop-up)
Steve Allen and the Gentle Players featuring Gabor Szabo and Hal Blaine	Keep Telling Me	Songs For Gentle People	Dunhill	1967	LP	written by Steve Allen	0:44:02 (Pop-up)
Steve Allen and the Gentle Players featuring Gabor Szabo and Hal Blaine	Flowers and Love	Songs For Gentle People	Dunhill	1967	LP		0:46:54 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers	San Franciscan Nights	Wind Sky and Diamonds	Impulse	1967	LP		0:51:15 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers	Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)	Wind Sky and Diamonds	Impulse	1967	LP		0:54:22 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers	A Day In the Life	Wind Sky and Diamonds	Impulse	1967	LP		0:57:16 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers	Are You There	Wind Sky and Diamonds	Impulse	1967	LP	wr by Gabor Szabo and Steve Allen. Same song as 'Fox' on Songs For Gentle People	1:00:34 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers	The End of Life	Wind Sky and Diamonds	Impulse	1967	LP	wr by Gabor Szabo, Christine Copeland, John Bahler and Tom Bahler	1:04:03 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers	Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds	Wind Sky and Diamonds	Impulse	1967	LP		1:06:56 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers	Saigon Bride	Wind Sky and Diamonds	Impulse	1967	LP	written by Joan Baez	1:10:05 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers	White Rabbit	Wind Sky and Diamonds	Impulse	1967	LP		1:13:10 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers	WC Fields	Wind Sky and Diamonds	impulse	1967	LP	written by Christine Copeland, Tom Bahler and John Bahler, also recorded by the Love Generation	1:15:36 (Pop-up)

Kay Starr wth the California Dreamers	Only When You're Lonely	45RPM Single	ABC	1968	45	wr by PF Sloan and Steve Barri	1:24:19 (Pop-up)
Tom Scott and the California Dreamers	Honeysuckle Breeze	Honeysuckle Breeze	Impulse	1967	LP	wr Ian Freebairn-Smith	1:26:49 (Pop-up)
Tom Scott and the California Dreamers	She's Leaving Home	Honeysuckle Breeze	Impulse	1967	LP		1:30:53 (Pop-up)
Tom Scott and the California Dreamers	Naima	Honeysuckle Breeze	Impulse	1967	LP	wr John Coltrane	1:33:08 (Pop-up)
Tom Scott and the California Dreamers	Baby I Love You	Honeysuckle Breeze	Impulse	1967	LP		1:35:46 (Pop-up)
Tom Scott and the California Dreamers	Today	Honeysuckle Breeze	Impulse	1967	LP		1:39:02 (Pop-up)
Tom Scott and the California Dreamers	North	Honeysuckle Breeze	Impulse	1967	LP	wr by Joan Baez	1:42:15 (Pop-up)
Tom Scott and the California Dreamers	Blues For Hari	Honeysuckle Breeze	Impulse	1967	LP	wr Tom Scott	1:46:38 (Pop-up)
Tom Scott and the California Dreamers	Deliver Me	Honeysuckle Breeze	Impulse	1967	LP		1:50:28 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45		1:57:44 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 10:01pm Jeff Ash: Good evening from Wisconsin!
	♥ 10:02pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all
	♥ 10:04pm chresti: Hi Larry and everyone!
	♥ 10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff! C!
	♥ 10:04pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	♥ 10:05pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi everyone
	♥ 10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt!
	♥ 10:06pm Little Danny: Hey Larry, hey all. Stoked to be able to catch this live tonight!
	♥ 10:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	♥ 10:07pm Uncle Michael: Larry!
	♥ 10:08pm Funky16Corners: Unk!
	10:08pm Erica: I'm here. Just having internet problems again.
	♥ 10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica!
	10:14pm Erica: I missed the first 4 songs due to lagging problems and I needed to re-sign in.
	♥ 10:18pm Funky16Corners: OK, it'll all be there in the archive tomorrow, too
	♥ 10:18pm Little Danny: Awesome, never actually heard anything from this Steve Allen LP aside from the "Flowers and Love" 45 I have
	♥ 10:19pm Funky16Corners: It's really good, Danny, especially the Szabo tunes
	♥ 10:20pm Franco Twinkie: California uber alles!
	♥ 10:20pm doctorjazz: Hi folks!
	♥ 10:21pm Funky16Corners: Franco! Doc!
	♥ 10:22pm doctorjazz: Just realized they were playing Paul Simon...
	10:23pm Erica: I had a feeling you'd tune in tonight Danny. I was just thinking of your show too. Not sure if I asked this before but are you off tonight?
	♥ 10:24pm doctorjazz: Hey Danny!
	♥ 10:24pm Funky16Corners: This playlist is going to be a mile long from the group names alone...
	♥ 10:25pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m not really digging the choral vocals but like the instrumental arrangement.
	10:25pm Erica: The artist/group name is indeed a mouthful to pronounce.
	♥ 10:27pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - The vocals make more sense as we go along. I'm pretty sure that isn't what Dylan had in mind when he wrote that song
	♥ 10:27pm chresti: I see dancers singing "Everybody must get stoned" on TV
	10:27pm rw: Evening! I like the choral part! Everybody must get stoned.
	10:27pm Johnny Boy: Sloatsburg in da haus!
	♥ 10:27pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - It's weird, the group names are a mile long and the album titles are very short
	♥ 10:28pm Funky16Corners: rw! Johnny!
	10:28pm northguineahills: Do they any collaborations?
	10:29pm northguineahills: do any collaborations....
	♥ 10:29pm Franco Twinkie: So, just about a half hour ago I saw a big blinking blue and red sign on a trailer a few blocks from our house warning everybody that they better not drive while they're stoned!
	♥ 10:30pm Little Danny: Haha, thanks for thinking of me Erica! Yeah, I have the night off from my other show
	♥ 10:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey ngh! Who?
	10:32pm northguineahills: Bob Thiele and His New Happy Times Orchestra with Gabor Szabo with the California Dreamers and Tom Scott and Bill Plummer ….
	♥ 10:33pm Funky16Corners: Yes, with Dean Martin and the Golddiggers, the 1962 Mets featuring Casey Stengel and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
	10:33pm Erica: Groovy. I Imagine hippies getting down to this one while stoned lol.
	♥ 10:33pm Funky16Corners: j/k
	♥ 10:33pm Matt from New Orleans: Who’s playing guitar here Larry?
	🥁 ♥ 10:34pm Jeff Ash: Stream interrupted?
	🥁 ♥ 10:35pm Jeff Ash: Back in 1967 now. Temporary insanity.
	♥ 10:35pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - Gabor Szabo @Jeff - Thanks for the heads up, Fixed it
	10:35pm Erica: I was just wondering that too.
	♥ 10:37pm Matt from New Orleans: That was a stupid question as he was a guitarist and his name is in the long ass band name
	♥ 10:38pm Funky16Corners: This song pops up again in a different arrangement with a different title
	♥ 10:39pm Funky16Corners: Later in the show...
	♥ 10:42pm Franco Twinkie: I remember Steve Allen would always have the groups that the kids liked on his show. I seem to remember Professor Irwin Corey and Jane Meadows looking startled as Blue Cheer made a god awful racket, but Steve just handled in his breezily sarcastic fashion. Then there was his commercial for Mocha Mix, where he banged out the jingle on the piano!
	♥ 10:45pm Funky16Corners: I know he got very conservative/reactionary late in life, but Steve Allen was a funny guy, who kept even funnier company.
	♥ 10:46pm Little Danny: Steve Allen seemed like a pretty hip cat for what he was in his time. He also has a cool read of "Song For My Father" from a year or two earlier, which I feel like Larry has featured at some point on this show
	10:47pm Erica: The only song by Blue Cheer I've heard of is their version of "Summertime Blues", which didn't make as much sense as the original. Surprised Steve kept it cool.
	♥ 10:47pm Little Danny: Ahhh "Flowers and Love"
	♥ 10:48pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I don't remember if I played that one, but I have played his versions of 'California Soul' and Son Of A Preacher Man, which he recorded for Flying Dutchman
	♥ 10:50pm Franco Twinkie: I read in Tosh Bermans memoir that him and his dad, Wallace Berman, the legendary beat artist sat next to Steve Allen and his wife Jane Meadows at the Santa Monica Civic the first time David Bowie played in Los Angeles. I wonder if he was wearing a suit?
	♥ 10:51pm Funky16Corners: Feedback on a Steve Allen record!!
	♥ 10:51pm Little Danny: Szabo doesn't get the credit he deserves for being such a pioneer of feedback
	♥ 10:52pm Funky16Corners: I think if he hadn't died so young he'd be better respected today. he's one of my favorites
	♥ 10:52pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - a suit and black dress socks
	♥ 10:52pm Franco Twinkie: Oh man, Gabor Szabo played The Avalon Ballroom!
	10:53pm Erica: The narration in the beginning sounds sleepy compared to the Animals version.
	♥ 10:53pm Funky16Corners: I'd love to see a comprehensive list of jazz artists that Graham booked into his ballrooms
	10:53pm Erica: I meant this version is sleepy.
	♥ 10:54pm Little Danny: @Larry: I think Szabo's Now Sound crossovers also hurt his reputation with both the jazz crowd and the counterculture
	♥ 10:54pm Franco Twinkie: That's because Gabor had gone native....If you know what I mean.
	♥ 10:55pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I think you're right. Which is a shame because I like those albums a lot
	10:56pm Johnny Boy: I really like this version. Go Gabor!
	♥ 10:56pm Matt from New Orleans: I saw a concert at the Avalon when it briefly reopened as a concert venue last decade. I can’t remember who I saw.
	♥ 10:56pm Funky16Corners: @Johnny - Yeah, it really works well in this format
	♥ 10:58pm Franco Twinkie: Matt, so did Chresti and I! We saw The Mermen, a psychedelic surf power trio with a full on light show. It was the night before Easter.
	♥ 11:00pm Little Danny: That sounds awesome, Franco
	♥ 11:00pm Funky16Corners: Back in the 80s there was a club night in NYC that was part of the garage/mod revival, called The Minds Eye. They has a full psychedelic light show, which our band was lucky enough to play in front of
	♥ 11:00pm Franco Twinkie: Was indeed!
	♥ 11:02pm Funky16Corners: @Johnny Boy - Did you play the Minds Eye with us?
	♥ 11:03pm Little Danny: I always forget about your '80s garage band past, Larry. Any live footage anywhere on YouTube? Kinda shocking how much has turned up from that time
	♥ 11:04pm Little Danny: Great set btw
	♥ 11:05pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I'm getting to the age where I may start forgetting about it. No live footage from the 80s but there is a clip on Youtube from a reunion at Asbury Lanes maybe ten years ago
	♥ 11:05pm Funky16Corners: And thank you!
	11:06pm geezerette: Mellow hello, Larry and flowery people!
	♥ 11:07pm Funky16Corners: Geezerette!
	11:07pm Erica: I like these original songs, very groovy. Also I realized Gabor Szabo & the California Dreamers are a three-in-one easy listening, jazz and pop band. Worked well in the 60s.
	♥ 11:07pm Franco Twinkie: Bizzaro Geezer!
	♥ 11:08pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - That's why I love these albums so much. A bit of everything I dig all coked up together in the same pot.
	11:09pm geezerette: Me happy to see you, Franco.
	11:09pm Erica: The only thing missimg Larry is the northern soul.
	11:09pm Johnny Boy: @F16Corners: Larry, my first show with the P-5 was at a Tramps Minds Eye. Complete with Capt Whizzo Light shoe. “Going all the way pretty baby...”
	11:10pm geezerette: Can Shatner be far behind?
	11:10pm rw: So… is this jazz? I missed the commentary.
	♥ 11:11pm Funky16Corners: @Johnny - That was the one!
	♥ 11:11pm Funky16Corners: @rw - more 'jazz adjacent'. The next set things get jazzier
	11:12pm Erica: This 2nd set is very long.
	♥ 11:13pm Funky16Corners: Two more songs and then a break...
	♥ 11:14pm chresti: Jazz pop for people with digestive problems
	11:14pm Johnny Boy: @F16C: Fun fact - Dead Boy Cheetah Chrome was at our show and told me he thought we did a great set. Ha ha!
	♥ 11:15pm Little Danny: Haha Chresti. This IS good for digestion now that ya mention it
	11:15pm geezerette: Chardonay at sunset, in the hot tub... something I never did.
	11:15pm Erica: Haha chresti.
	11:16pm geezerette: Chresti! Heh! :)
	♥ 11:16pm Funky16Corners: @Johnny - I had no idea!
	♥ 11:21pm Franco Twinkie: For about a year a friend of ours lived a block from The Jefferson Airplane mansion on Fulton, across from the park.It was a great place! But unfortunately his downstairs neighbor was insane and possibly dismembered his mother there, so he moved.
	🥁 ♥ 11:23pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): Franco Twinkie: a contractor friend of mine just worked on that house a couple of years ago and was impressed by how well preserved it was.
	♥ 11:25pm Franco Twinkie: Granny, Did he find any remnants of the former tenants?
	♥ 11:28pm Franco Twinkie: Larry, please play Today off this record.
	♥ 11:29pm Funky16Corners: I will Franco!
	11:29pm rw: chresti, Haha! Nice!
	♥ 11:31pm doctorjazz: Like this version of the Dreamers with Ton Scott better that the earlier Szabo version.
	🥁 ♥ 11:31pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): Franco Twinkie: he didn't MENTION anything, but perhaps he is in cahoots!!!
	11:32pm rw: F16, thanks for the shout out. And thank you as always for doing this thing every week!!
	♥ 11:32pm Funky16Corners: My pleasure!
	11:32pm geezerette: Nice lilt. Hi, Doc!
	♥ 11:33pm doctorjazz: Hey, Geez!
	♥ 11:34pm doctorjazz: Beatles and Trane, there's some interesting programming.
	♥ 11:35pm Funky16Corners: As far as I can tell this is Scott's first album as a leader (maybe his first overall). Very different that what he would do with the LA Express and Joni Mitchell.
	11:36pm geezerette: Soft edges for those over thirty. Can't blame 'em.
	11:36pm rw: Man. Those background vocals!! Insane.
	♥ 11:38pm doctorjazz: Scott sounds much funkier than everyone else in the band on this Aretha cover, but I guess that's the point.
	♥ 11:38pm Funky16Corners: There's a great transitional phase in vocal arranging in the mid 60s, from Ray Conniff type stuff to things like this and many of Curt Boettcher's arrangements. Even Anita Kerr got hip.
	♥ 11:40pm Funky16Corners: Free Design, too
	♥ 11:40pm Funky16Corners: And the Mamas and Papas
	♥ 11:40pm Franco Twinkie: How things have changed! Marty Balins embryotic club, The Matrix is now a watering hole for the most boring people in San Francisco. Today however, is eternal. RIP Marty Balin.
	11:41pm geezerette: "Today" sounds good. Crossed that threshold.
	11:46pm geezerette: Honeysuckle Breeze sounds like a good album. Languid, drifting sound.
	♥ 11:47pm Little Danny: @Larry, spot-on re: this period of '60s vocal arrangements. I think there's like one or two other representative arrangers that I'm blanking on at the moment
	11:47pm northguineahills: Thanks, Larry! have a good night everyone!
	♥ 11:47pm Funky16Corners: Nite NGH!
	♥ 11:47pm doctorjazz: It's personal taste,of course, but to my ears Tim Scott puts a ton of energy into these tracks, lifts then up (he even goes "out" a bit in North).
	♥ 11:48pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - This is by far the jazziest title in the series.
	11:48pm geezerette: Doc, I agree.
	♥ 11:49pm doctorjazz: It does swing and get funky, Scott really brings it!
	11:49pm geezerette: Good night, ngh!
	♥ 11:50pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I'm trying to think of other arrangers that fit the mold, too
	♥ 11:50pm Little Danny: Oh yeah, Stu Phillips had some stuff in this camp, especially late '60s soundtracks like Follow Me
	11:50pm Erica: Tom, not Tim doc.
	♥ 11:50pm doctorjazz: Thanks Larry! Night all!
	♥ 11:50pm Funky16Corners: Nite Doc!
	♥ 11:51pm Little Danny: Oh yeah, and Bob Crewe...
	11:52pm geezerette: Thanks, Larry! Evocative. Lots of images.
	♥ 11:52pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Erica (I knew that, but didn't check my spell correct, as I often neglect to do)
	♥ 11:54pm Little Danny: Thanks Larry, super show!
	♥ 11:55pm Franco Twinkie: ....and introducing The Paisley Pillow Pill Poppers! Thanks Larry, you know I love this.
	11:57pm Erica: Thanks for the show Larry. Hopefully my internet won't act up again next week either.
	♥ 11:57pm chresti: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 11:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Danny!
	♥ 11:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Franco! Erica! Chresti!
	12:00am rw: Thankee Funky!! Have a good week everyone!!
	♥ 12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks rw!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 9, 2019

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