WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 6, 2019

Listener comments!
	10:00pm Matt from New Orleans: The beat hasn’t started yet. Hey Larry.
	10:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt! Waiting on Gary.
	10:03pm Erica: And the beat goes on.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	10:03pm Franco Twinkie: Without moving and inch - hey!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	10:04pm Franco Twinkie: Now I will make toast.
	10:05pm Matt from New Orleans: Avocado toast?
	10:05pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all you gone cats ...oh wait, not that kind of beat?!
	10:07pm Matt from New Orleans: Hit me baby one more time!
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:07pm Mod Mokka Matti: Good evening!
	10:07pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from snow-covered Wisconsin!
	10:07pm bigplanetnoise: Is this where the beat is, it is???
	10:07pm chresti: Hey testify musical journey to the center of a song top to bottom
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! Bigplanetnoise!
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	10:08pm Erica: As long as we don't hear that version from that Ernesto commercial lol.
	10:09pm still b/p: Make toast points! Make toast points! The parts of Vince's version that sounded less distinctly like Beat Goes On sounded like Mexican/Teaberry Shuffle.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: sbp!
	10:09pm chresti: Buddy and Cathy Rich, big swing face!
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Ernesto who?
	10:09pm Erica: I meant Entresto.
	10:10pm Erica: Typo error.
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: I'm not sure what version that is
	10:10pm Franco Twinkie: Matt, home made guyaba jam.
	10:10pm Erica: Me neither but it was for the commercial.
	10:11pm Matt from New Orleans: Cool. Enjoy Franco.
	10:12pm Erica: But I recommend the Globos version for those who wish to hear an 80s Australian perspective on the song.
	10:12pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: Hey there
	10:12pm chresti: Here come the Golddiggers..
	10:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey ParUbi!
	10:13pm Erica: Yoo Hoo!?
	10:13pm Funky16Corners: Das Golddiggers in this case!
	10:15pm chresti: Haha or da da!
	10:17pm Matt from New Orleans: I much prefer Buddy Rich’s version to the original.
	10:20pm chresti: I think we should all submit our versions of the Beat Goes ON
	10:20pm Franco Twinkie: The great Ectro-Clash punk band The Screamers did The Beat Goes On, but I don't think they recorded it. To bad, It was beyond belief.
	10:22pm chresti: I liked Vince Guaraldi's version
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: Sadly Guaraldi's non-Charlie Brown stuff doesn't get played nearly enough
	10:25pm Dean: Maybe they didn't record it in studio, Franco, but somebody recorded it a time or two. There are two live versions on In a Better World.
	10:26pm Dean: Whoops, three times!
	10:27pm Dean: Two nights at the Whisky, one at Mabuhay
	10:28pm coelacanth∅: Flash Strap, i think, did a Guaraldi program
	10:28pm Erica: I'm trying to look up Bobby and Connie but all I could find is info on the characters from King of the Hill. Haha!
	10:28pm northguineahills: Finally a whole set where I know all of the lyrics! (Bryce might had a few when played only instrumentals....
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: I did one early on.
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: okay yes Larry in fact i think your's was more committed than Evan's
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: Bunch of Guaraldi here: testifyradio.wordpress.com...
	10:30pm Matt from New Orleans: Bobby & Connie don’t probably exist Erica. Hit records was a label that put out quick budget cover 45s for 5 & dimes.
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: Had a lot of connection problems that night
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Yes, Hit was a rip-off label. Some cool stuff on their records, though
	10:32pm chresti: I still don't know all the lyrics to Beat goes On
	10:32pm Franco Twinkie: Dean, it's great that those audience tapes surfaced, but I think they do the band a dis-service. They wouldn't convince anybody how awe inspiring they were. I remember in the summer of 1977 a neighbor played me a cassette tape, but prefaced it with " Trust me. You have to see them."
	10:33pm Erica: I've heard soundalike records before Matt, but the Bobby and Connie one sounds pretty decent for a rip-off label cover.
	10:34pm coelacanth∅: i don't either chresti! it's okay
	10:35pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry I’m already beaten. I think I’ll need to digest this one in smaller segments.
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: ...so far i like some of the instrumental versions the best
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - The quality on those records varies widely, i think depending on the musicians involved and their ambition
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: Nite Matt!
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: @C - There are some unusual ones coming
	10:38pm Dean: That goes for just about everybody, Franco. Some of us, however, especially love hearing the vibrant energy through the shitty medium. Recordings will never faithfully reproduce the events they capture. Disservice? I disagree. Screamers were notoriously protective of their work, for some dumb reason. They threatened folks (Flipside) who wanted to release records of their performances.
	10:41pm Franco Twinkie: Talk about a strategy that failed!
	10:43pm Dean: It worked at the time.
	10:46pm Franco Twinkie: Yes, it sure did! They were a true under ground sensation. At the time, they were so far ahead of all the other L.A. bands.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: I'm not familiar with their work at all. I'll have to look them up.
	10:47pm Dean: Yes, they were. I was awestruck by that band.
	10:50pm Franco Twinkie: The only other band at the time that was as thrilling were The Cramps.
	10:54pm Dean: Start here with TBGO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXgV655tlc Not at all, Franco. Weirdos were spectacular, and Germs, of course. Bags. LA was ripe with this stuff. Randoms.
	10:55pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh
	10:55pm Erica: On a cold Christmas night too ParUbi.
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: I always thought 'teenybopper' was a really strange word. Like it fell out of the mouth of some cigar chomping ad man
	10:56pm Dean: The Eyes were a short-lived but perfectly unrefined band. I remember a show with Crime (from SF), Weirdos, and Screamers. Holy crap.
	10:57pm chresti: I heard the king part and was confused
	10:58pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: listening to that Screamers version, and oh my! the energy! and the buzzy instruments!
	10:58pm Dean: And Meltzer was dishing out his offal. Good goddamn times.
	10:58pm Franco Twinkie: I liked the Weirdos, but ultimately they could not hold my interest. Never saw the Randoms. The others? No comment.
	10:59pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: the kids don't need no religion
	10:59pm Erica: My mom still uses 'teenybopper' sometimes. I'm guessing it meant dancing teens or teens dancing.
	10:59pm Funky16Corners: It meant pre-teen/tween pop music fans
	11:00pm coelacanth∅: "teeniebopper" is weird but it makes sense too...and it's not as stupid sounding as "hip hop", after all
	11:00pm Erica: I was somewhat close. Thanks Larry!
	11:01pm Mod Mokka Matti: Why would one chomp on a cigar? Oh, such tasty tobacco. Blech. BTW, what happened to the whole cigar craze?
	11:01pm Erica: It made sense back then but now it sounds old-fashioned and out of place.
	11:01pm coelacanth∅: Mod MM, shhhh
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey MMM!
	11:02pm coelacanth∅: (just be thankful you don't have to see that any more!)
	11:03pm Erica: Seriously coel?
	11:05pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: i checked the ngram thing, and "teenybopper" peaked in 1970 and then again in 1989
	11:06pm Dean: Cigar Aficionado, like Wine Spectator, is still going. I am not a fan of this stuff, rankings, and "reviews' and crap. ngram is a blast, isn't it? Unreliable, but fun.
	11:06pm Mod Mokka Matti: What is that that Booker was playing? A Clavinet? I really ought to know that, but I don't. Didn't sound like any kind or Rhodes or Wurlitzer, unless my ears are really blocked.
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: seriously. fucking disgusting. then add the poseur aspect, the fedora and the fat cigar sticking out the middle of the mouth and make it really attractive.
	11:07pm Erica: Yuck. No wonder the craze didn't last long.
	11:07pm Mod Mokka Matti: Hope you're not anti-fedora
	11:08pm coelacanth∅: teenybopper music is alive and more ubiquitous than ever; it's just not called tennybopper any more.
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: MMM they look terrible on most people, but some can pull it off. - but the cigar thing goes with various types of floppy-rimmed hats actually.
	11:10pm Franco Twinkie: I like Giant Sand. Howe Gelb is a great contrarian. Met him at a Mexican restaurant in Tuscon. He was quite funny.
	11:10pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: Is this the best or worst line by the way? "Electrically they keep a baseball score"
	11:11pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: I saw Giant Sand up in Eugene. Loved their album, Ramp.
	11:11pm coelacanth∅: Howie's a good guy and a talented one
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: @MMM - Maybe not a proper clavinet but likely some ripoff variant thereof
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: @ParUbi - Relevant in an era right after baseball scores were changed by hand
	11:15pm Erica: That explains the term "electrically" being used.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: My brother is a cigar nut. I grew up smelling my Grandpa's cigars, so I dig the smell a little but not the smoke, up close
	11:17pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: that makes sense! it's all falling into place. You're not supposed to inhale them, right?
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: Unfortunately cigars have become part of the obnoxious rich-guy/rich-guy-wannabe play acting, territory-marking. Look how may times you see Giuliani with a big, stinky stogie clenched between his yellow teeth. Ugh
	11:18pm rw: Evening! This beat just keeps going on and on.
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: Hey rw!
	11:19pm coelacanth∅: i like the smell of many cigars, and the smoke doesn't bother me much if it's not in close-quarters. that's not what disgusts me about it.
	11:19pm Dean: If I had to choose, I'd go the pipe route. Once upon a time I smoked a Meerschaum. Ultimately, I decided I don't like tobacco.
	11:20pm rw: I had to smoke a cigar down so we could use it as a prop for photography. I think I actually turned green.
	11:20pm Funky16Corners: @rw - Like in the old cartoons!
	11:20pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: that's a ton of nicotine.
	11:20pm coelacanth∅: Larry @11.18 Bingo!
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: @ParUbi - I'd like to know what the dosage is from an average cigar compared to a cigarette?
	11:21pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: so you're just supposed to hold the smoke, right? not into the lungs?
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: I think so, but my experience is very limited in that regard
	11:23pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: a full sized cigar apparently has as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: Wow!
	11:23pm Dean: I suspect one of the reasons I firmly believe that the effect of cannabis is purely placebo is that I don't know how to hold the smoke "into the lungs." But I do believe pot operates primarily as a placebo. So be it!
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: Bye bye lungs...
	11:24pm coelacanth∅: just hold the smoke in the mouth, let it permeate to the nasal passages...i guess. that's pretty much how i smoke a cigarette, on the rare occasion i do that. i don't really inhale it.
	11:24pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: yeah if you actually inhaled it, you'd likely puke
	11:25pm chresti: My dad used to chew on cigars
	11:25pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: did he finish them in one sitting?
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - You see that a lot in old movies, guys chewing the hell out of stogies. I don't know how anyone did that.
	11:26pm Mod Mokka Matti: My late maternal grandfather was far from a rich guy, being a cowboy/truck driver/small-scale short-haul truck line owner, and my mother would often bring up that he didn't smoke cigarettes, but did like cigars when he was out on the road in one of his trucks. He lived to be 97 1/2 years old, so there's that... sort of like George Burns.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: Time to take your acid boys and girls...
	11:26pm coelacanth∅: Dean i don't hold cannabis smoke in my lungs for more than a second. a lot of it gets absorbed through the sinus cavity i think
	11:28pm chresti: Life goes on keeping baseball scores
	11:28pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: and the question is, how long is one cigar supposed to last?
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: @MMM - My Grandpa wasn't loaded either, but cherished his time with a Garcia y Vega, lounging on the living room couch.
	11:29pm chresti: Dean, I eat pot, and it's real
	11:29pm Funky16Corners: I loved the olden days, when hippies could walk into a major label and hand them something like this and it would get released.
	11:30pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: that's the way to do it. get all the nice oils
	11:30pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: I'm loving this version!
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: I love it too, but is is AGGRESSIVELY uncommercial.
	11:32pm Mod Mokka Matti: It's certainly a different take.
	11:32pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: it's a journey
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: my grandfather smoked a cigar occasionally too. his wife smoked pall mall, camel or lucky strike. the short ones with no filters, into her 80s. i never heard her cough.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: Someday I'll play side two, which is even weirder.
	11:34pm chresti: He chewed on little italian cigars and, no, he left them in ashtrays, ParUbi. Actually, he kind of sucked on them for a while and would trim the soggy end off when it lost flavor.
	11:34pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: not exactly radio ready
	11:34pm Mod Mokka Matti: Wow, this just took an interesting diversion
	11:34pm coelacanth∅: chresti -Dean doesn't really believe herb's just placebo. he just likes pushing buttons!
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: @MMM - It takes a bunch more. Hang on.
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - My Pop tells me of the Italian stonecutters in his neighborhood who used to smoke those little Italian cigars. He has a funny name for them, but I can't remember it exactly.
	11:36pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: they split the song open and set an empire up inside
	11:36pm coelacanth∅: hahaha
	11:37pm Funky16Corners: @ParUbi - That's a great description!
	11:38pm chresti: They looked more like dried, dark pieces of bark, than cigars
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: I think they were cheroots but he called them some kind of 'stinkers'
	11:38pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: is it bad that i kinda want to try them now?
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - Just looked it up. The brand was Toscano but they were popularly known as stinkers!
	11:39pm Erica: Okay this is getting pretty weird now, especially when they say Phase whatever number.
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: Ahhh, there's Vanilla Fudge!
	11:40pm coelacanth∅: maybe it's like the mothers or pink floyd, where the label was somehow convinced to sign them but had no idea what they were about so they just gave them freedom in the studio
	11:40pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: that's some serious musical sprawwwwllll
	11:41pm chresti: That sounds right, @Larry
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: It's not like Vanilla Fudge were cranking out hits, but they did have a formula, which the cut to pieces on this record
	11:42pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: it's like a deconstructed dish. there are parts lying around.
	11:42pm Funky16Corners: Side two of this record opens with a series of WW2 era speeches by world leaders, so you know, the kitchen sink.
	11:43pm doctorjazz: Made it for Fudge. Shall we call it "Plod Rock"?
	11:43pm chresti: coel@11:34, yeah, I know..
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: ParUbi if you have a tendency to give in to temptation (an "addictive personality") then yes, it's a bad idea. you have a child, right?
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc! Sounds good!
	11:44pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: the binding thread is rather ... weak
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: I think the binding thread is a potent mixture of ego and LSD
	11:45pm Mod Mokka Matti: Just when I thought it was making sense, I'm back to wondering where it's going.
	11:46pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: yeah, i'm going to pass on the tobacco products
	11:46pm Franco Twinkie: I love the story of The Mothers Of Invention opening for Vanilla Fudge in Long Island, their home turf. The audience was chanting "You guys stink! Bring on The Fudge!
	11:46pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: someone find the beat!
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: it's in here somewhere
	11:47pm Erica: Is it over yet?
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: Yes, we have moved on to Paris Pilot.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - I can picture an audience of Long Island yobbos screaming at anyone, but especially the Mothers
	11:49pm chresti: ParUbi, I tried it and don't recommend it, you have to spit all the time.@italian cigars
	11:51pm Franco Twinkie: Let us all bow our heads down and contemplate this horror.
	11:51pm chresti: So is this the longest ever rendition of TBGO?
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - The Vanilla Fudge "version" is a whole album!
	11:52pm Erica: No the Vanilla Fudge version is. I looked it up.
	11:52pm coelacanth∅: the 'fudge's version probably
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: I only played side one. This is Paris Pilot, a late 60s Memphis band
	11:52pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: i'm gonna have to listen to side 2 at some point. do they ever find the beat?
	11:53pm coelacanth∅: they just couldn't decide which one!
	11:53pm doctorjazz: Interesting compilation, have to catch it in the archive. A competitor to Ken's 3 hour Bohemian a Rhapsody extravaganza (which is up there with my favorite radio EVER).
	11:54pm rw: And the beat just keeps getting trippier
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: the beat goes on acid
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: There are three hours worth of Bohemian Rhapsody covers?!?
	11:55pm doctorjazz: I'll find the link...
	11:55pm Franco Twinkie: Wasn't The Fudge drummer supposed to be some hot shit player? According to who!?! They should have played their version in drug prevention programs.
	11:56pm Funky16Corners: Carmine Appice! I had one of his drum instruction books when I was in high school.
	11:56pm Mod Mokka Matti: This has been a rather intriguing exploration. I knew of a few of these interpretations already, but definitely learned of A LOT more tonight.
	11:57pm doctorjazz: wfmu.org... I think this is it (very quick search, hope I got it)
	11:58pm doctorjazz: (The Ken Bohemian Rhapsody show,that is...)
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: thanks for that link doc. (yes it works)
	12:00am Erica: I need to check out more on Paris Pilot. Anyway, what a ride. See you guys next week! And be sure to check out the Globos' version of The Beat Goes On during your spare time. Later!
	12:00am Franco Twinkie: Well, it was interesting.
	12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry interesting adventure! good night y'all
	12:00am ParUbi of Pittsburgh: that was a blast!
	12:00am chresti: Thanks Larry, fun show!
	12:00am doctorjazz: Night all!
	12:01am coelacanth∅: ...and the beat goes on
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thank you all, for taking the ride! See you next week!
	12:01am rw: Thank you F16!! Fun show. 'Specially the Fudge! Take care everyone!
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Nite rw!
	12:01am ParUbi of Pittsburgh: Thanks, Larry! It was a trip!
	12:02am doctorjazz: Dug the Fudge as well, plod and all.

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 6, 2019

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November 6, 2019: Testify! - The Beat Goes On, and On, and On - Journey To the Center of a Song Pt1

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Vince Guaraldi	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Vince Guaraldi"	The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi	Warner Brothers	1969	LP	0:01:12 (Pop-up)
Buddy and Cathy Rich	The Beat Goes On	Big Swing Face	World Pacific Jazz	1967	LP	0:04:55 (Pop-up)
The Kai Warner Singers and Orchestra	The Beat Goes On	Happy Together	Polydor	1967	LP	0:10:08 (Pop-up)
Sonny and Cher	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Sonny and Cher"	45RPM Single	Atco	1966	45	0:13:26 (Pop-up)

Bob Dorough	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Bob Dorough"	A Taste of Honey	MMO	1972	LP	0:21:15 (Pop-up)
Bobby and Connie	The Beat Goes On	45RPM Single	Hit	1967	45	0:24:38 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Sabu Martinez"	Groovin' With Sabu Martinez	Metronome	1968	LP	0:27:28 (Pop-up)
Herbie Mann	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Herbie Mann"	The Beat Goes On	Atlantic	1967	LP	0:30:38 (Pop-up)
Kim Weston	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Kim Weston"	For the First Time	MGM	1966	LP	0:33:29 (Pop-up)
Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra	The Beat Goes On	The Beat Goes On	Dot	1967	LP	0:36:40 (Pop-up)
Sandy Nelson	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Sandy Nelson"	The Beat Goes On	Imperial	1967	LP	0:39:08 (Pop-up)
Anita Kerr and the Anita Kerr Singers	The Beat Goes On	Sounds	Warner Brothers	1968	LP	0:42:17 (Pop-up)
The Harvey Averne Dozen	The Beat Goes On	The Harvey Averne Dozen	Atlantic	1969	LP	0:45:15 (Pop-up)
Bill Black's Combo	The Beat Goes On	Bill Black's Beat Goes On	Hi	1968	LP	0:48:17 (Pop-up)
Giant Sand	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Giant Sand"	Cover Magazine	Thrill Jockey	2002	CD	0:51:05 (Pop-up)
Ambrose Brazelton featuring Vinnie Bell	The Beat Goes On	And the Beat Goes On for Physical Education	Kimbo Educational	1968	LP	0:57:09 (Pop-up)
Booker T and the MGs	The Beat Goes On	Doin' Our Thing	Stax	1968	LP	0:59:47 (Pop-up)

Gabor Szabo	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Gabor Szabo"	45RPM Single	Impulse	1967	45	1:09:52 (Pop-up)
Ivan Boogaloo Joe Jones	The Beat Goes On	Introducing the Psychedelic Soul jazz Guitar Of	Prestige	1968	LP	1:14:42 (Pop-up)
Sonny Criss	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Sonny Criss"	The Beat Goes On	Prestige	1968	LP	1:18:05 (Pop-up)
Vanilla Fudge	The Beat Goes On Side One	The Beat Goes On	Atco	1968	LP	1:25:19 (Pop-up)
Paris Pilot	The Beat Goes On "The Beat Goes On" by "Paris Pilot"	Paris Pilot	Hip	1969	LP	1:46:36 (Pop-up)
Johnny Frigo Quartet	The Beat Goes On	Chicago Jazz Dance Revival at Gus's Place	Orion	1969	LP	1:52:19 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:58:53 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	10:00pm Matt from New Orleans: The beat hasn’t started yet. Hey Larry.
	10:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt! Waiting on Gary.
	10:03pm Erica: And the beat goes on.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	10:03pm Franco Twinkie: Without moving and inch - hey!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	10:04pm Franco Twinkie: Now I will make toast.
	10:05pm Matt from New Orleans: Avocado toast?
	10:05pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all you gone cats ...oh wait, not that kind of beat?!
	10:07pm Matt from New Orleans: Hit me baby one more time!
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:07pm Mod Mokka Matti: Good evening!
	10:07pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from snow-covered Wisconsin!
	10:07pm bigplanetnoise: Is this where the beat is, it is???
	10:07pm chresti: Hey testify musical journey to the center of a song top to bottom
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! Bigplanetnoise!
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	10:08pm Erica: As long as we don't hear that version from that Ernesto commercial lol.
	10:09pm still b/p: Make toast points! Make toast points! The parts of Vince's version that sounded less distinctly like Beat Goes On sounded like Mexican/Teaberry Shuffle.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: sbp!
	10:09pm chresti: Buddy and Cathy Rich, big swing face!
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Ernesto who?
	10:09pm Erica: I meant Entresto.
	10:10pm Erica: Typo error.
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: I'm not sure what version that is
	10:10pm Franco Twinkie: Matt, home made guyaba jam.
	10:10pm Erica: Me neither but it was for the commercial.
	10:11pm Matt from New Orleans: Cool. Enjoy Franco.
	10:12pm Erica: But I recommend the Globos version for those who wish to hear an 80s Australian perspective on the song.
	10:12pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: Hey there
	10:12pm chresti: Here come the Golddiggers..
	10:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey ParUbi!
	10:13pm Erica: Yoo Hoo!?
	10:13pm Funky16Corners: Das Golddiggers in this case!
	10:15pm chresti: Haha or da da!
	10:17pm Matt from New Orleans: I much prefer Buddy Rich’s version to the original.
	10:20pm chresti: I think we should all submit our versions of the Beat Goes ON
	10:20pm Franco Twinkie: The great Ectro-Clash punk band The Screamers did The Beat Goes On, but I don't think they recorded it. To bad, It was beyond belief.
	10:22pm chresti: I liked Vince Guaraldi's version
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: Sadly Guaraldi's non-Charlie Brown stuff doesn't get played nearly enough
	10:25pm Dean: Maybe they didn't record it in studio, Franco, but somebody recorded it a time or two. There are two live versions on In a Better World.
	10:26pm Dean: Whoops, three times!
	10:27pm Dean: Two nights at the Whisky, one at Mabuhay
	10:28pm coelacanth∅: Flash Strap, i think, did a Guaraldi program
	10:28pm Erica: I'm trying to look up Bobby and Connie but all I could find is info on the characters from King of the Hill. Haha!
	10:28pm northguineahills: Finally a whole set where I know all of the lyrics! (Bryce might had a few when played only instrumentals....
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: I did one early on.
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: okay yes Larry in fact i think your's was more committed than Evan's
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: Bunch of Guaraldi here: testifyradio.wordpress.com...
	10:30pm Matt from New Orleans: Bobby & Connie don’t probably exist Erica. Hit records was a label that put out quick budget cover 45s for 5 & dimes.
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: Had a lot of connection problems that night
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Yes, Hit was a rip-off label. Some cool stuff on their records, though
	10:32pm chresti: I still don't know all the lyrics to Beat goes On
	10:32pm Franco Twinkie: Dean, it's great that those audience tapes surfaced, but I think they do the band a dis-service. They wouldn't convince anybody how awe inspiring they were. I remember in the summer of 1977 a neighbor played me a cassette tape, but prefaced it with " Trust me. You have to see them."
	10:33pm Erica: I've heard soundalike records before Matt, but the Bobby and Connie one sounds pretty decent for a rip-off label cover.
	10:34pm coelacanth∅: i don't either chresti! it's okay
	10:35pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry I’m already beaten. I think I’ll need to digest this one in smaller segments.
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: ...so far i like some of the instrumental versions the best
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - The quality on those records varies widely, i think depending on the musicians involved and their ambition
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: Nite Matt!
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: @C - There are some unusual ones coming
	10:38pm Dean: That goes for just about everybody, Franco. Some of us, however, especially love hearing the vibrant energy through the shitty medium. Recordings will never faithfully reproduce the events they capture. Disservice? I disagree. Screamers were notoriously protective of their work, for some dumb reason. They threatened folks (Flipside) who wanted to release records of their performances.
	10:41pm Franco Twinkie: Talk about a strategy that failed!
	10:43pm Dean: It worked at the time.
	10:46pm Franco Twinkie: Yes, it sure did! They were a true under ground sensation. At the time, they were so far ahead of all the other L.A. bands.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: I'm not familiar with their work at all. I'll have to look them up.
	10:47pm Dean: Yes, they were. I was awestruck by that band.
	10:50pm Franco Twinkie: The only other band at the time that was as thrilling were The Cramps.
	10:54pm Dean: Start here with TBGO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXgV655tlc Not at all, Franco. Weirdos were spectacular, and Germs, of course. Bags. LA was ripe with this stuff. Randoms.
	10:55pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh
	10:55pm Erica: On a cold Christmas night too ParUbi.
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: I always thought 'teenybopper' was a really strange word. Like it fell out of the mouth of some cigar chomping ad man
	10:56pm Dean: The Eyes were a short-lived but perfectly unrefined band. I remember a show with Crime (from SF), Weirdos, and Screamers. Holy crap.
	10:57pm chresti: I heard the king part and was confused
	10:58pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: listening to that Screamers version, and oh my! the energy! and the buzzy instruments!
	10:58pm Dean: And Meltzer was dishing out his offal. Good goddamn times.
	10:58pm Franco Twinkie: I liked the Weirdos, but ultimately they could not hold my interest. Never saw the Randoms. The others? No comment.
	10:59pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: the kids don't need no religion
	10:59pm Erica: My mom still uses 'teenybopper' sometimes. I'm guessing it meant dancing teens or teens dancing.
	10:59pm Funky16Corners: It meant pre-teen/tween pop music fans
	11:00pm coelacanth∅: "teeniebopper" is weird but it makes sense too...and it's not as stupid sounding as "hip hop", after all
	11:00pm Erica: I was somewhat close. Thanks Larry!
	11:01pm Mod Mokka Matti: Why would one chomp on a cigar? Oh, such tasty tobacco. Blech. BTW, what happened to the whole cigar craze?
	11:01pm Erica: It made sense back then but now it sounds old-fashioned and out of place.
	11:01pm coelacanth∅: Mod MM, shhhh
	11:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey MMM!
	11:02pm coelacanth∅: (just be thankful you don't have to see that any more!)
	11:03pm Erica: Seriously coel?
	11:05pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: i checked the ngram thing, and "teenybopper" peaked in 1970 and then again in 1989
	11:06pm Dean: Cigar Aficionado, like Wine Spectator, is still going. I am not a fan of this stuff, rankings, and "reviews' and crap. ngram is a blast, isn't it? Unreliable, but fun.
	11:06pm Mod Mokka Matti: What is that that Booker was playing? A Clavinet? I really ought to know that, but I don't. Didn't sound like any kind or Rhodes or Wurlitzer, unless my ears are really blocked.
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: seriously. fucking disgusting. then add the poseur aspect, the fedora and the fat cigar sticking out the middle of the mouth and make it really attractive.
	11:07pm Erica: Yuck. No wonder the craze didn't last long.
	11:07pm Mod Mokka Matti: Hope you're not anti-fedora
	11:08pm coelacanth∅: teenybopper music is alive and more ubiquitous than ever; it's just not called tennybopper any more.
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: MMM they look terrible on most people, but some can pull it off. - but the cigar thing goes with various types of floppy-rimmed hats actually.
	11:10pm Franco Twinkie: I like Giant Sand. Howe Gelb is a great contrarian. Met him at a Mexican restaurant in Tuscon. He was quite funny.
	11:10pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: Is this the best or worst line by the way? "Electrically they keep a baseball score"
	11:11pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: I saw Giant Sand up in Eugene. Loved their album, Ramp.
	11:11pm coelacanth∅: Howie's a good guy and a talented one
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: @MMM - Maybe not a proper clavinet but likely some ripoff variant thereof
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: @ParUbi - Relevant in an era right after baseball scores were changed by hand
	11:15pm Erica: That explains the term "electrically" being used.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: My brother is a cigar nut. I grew up smelling my Grandpa's cigars, so I dig the smell a little but not the smoke, up close
	11:17pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: that makes sense! it's all falling into place. You're not supposed to inhale them, right?
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: Unfortunately cigars have become part of the obnoxious rich-guy/rich-guy-wannabe play acting, territory-marking. Look how may times you see Giuliani with a big, stinky stogie clenched between his yellow teeth. Ugh
	11:18pm rw: Evening! This beat just keeps going on and on.
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: Hey rw!
	11:19pm coelacanth∅: i like the smell of many cigars, and the smoke doesn't bother me much if it's not in close-quarters. that's not what disgusts me about it.
	11:19pm Dean: If I had to choose, I'd go the pipe route. Once upon a time I smoked a Meerschaum. Ultimately, I decided I don't like tobacco.
	11:20pm rw: I had to smoke a cigar down so we could use it as a prop for photography. I think I actually turned green.
	11:20pm Funky16Corners: @rw - Like in the old cartoons!
	11:20pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: that's a ton of nicotine.
	11:20pm coelacanth∅: Larry @11.18 Bingo!
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: @ParUbi - I'd like to know what the dosage is from an average cigar compared to a cigarette?
	11:21pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: so you're just supposed to hold the smoke, right? not into the lungs?
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: I think so, but my experience is very limited in that regard
	11:23pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: a full sized cigar apparently has as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: Wow!
	11:23pm Dean: I suspect one of the reasons I firmly believe that the effect of cannabis is purely placebo is that I don't know how to hold the smoke "into the lungs." But I do believe pot operates primarily as a placebo. So be it!
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: Bye bye lungs...
	11:24pm coelacanth∅: just hold the smoke in the mouth, let it permeate to the nasal passages...i guess. that's pretty much how i smoke a cigarette, on the rare occasion i do that. i don't really inhale it.
	11:24pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: yeah if you actually inhaled it, you'd likely puke
	11:25pm chresti: My dad used to chew on cigars
	11:25pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: did he finish them in one sitting?
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - You see that a lot in old movies, guys chewing the hell out of stogies. I don't know how anyone did that.
	11:26pm Mod Mokka Matti: My late maternal grandfather was far from a rich guy, being a cowboy/truck driver/small-scale short-haul truck line owner, and my mother would often bring up that he didn't smoke cigarettes, but did like cigars when he was out on the road in one of his trucks. He lived to be 97 1/2 years old, so there's that... sort of like George Burns.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: Time to take your acid boys and girls...
	11:26pm coelacanth∅: Dean i don't hold cannabis smoke in my lungs for more than a second. a lot of it gets absorbed through the sinus cavity i think
	11:28pm chresti: Life goes on keeping baseball scores
	11:28pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: and the question is, how long is one cigar supposed to last?
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: @MMM - My Grandpa wasn't loaded either, but cherished his time with a Garcia y Vega, lounging on the living room couch.
	11:29pm chresti: Dean, I eat pot, and it's real
	11:29pm Funky16Corners: I loved the olden days, when hippies could walk into a major label and hand them something like this and it would get released.
	11:30pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: that's the way to do it. get all the nice oils
	11:30pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: I'm loving this version!
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: I love it too, but is is AGGRESSIVELY uncommercial.
	11:32pm Mod Mokka Matti: It's certainly a different take.
	11:32pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: it's a journey
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: my grandfather smoked a cigar occasionally too. his wife smoked pall mall, camel or lucky strike. the short ones with no filters, into her 80s. i never heard her cough.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: Someday I'll play side two, which is even weirder.
	11:34pm chresti: He chewed on little italian cigars and, no, he left them in ashtrays, ParUbi. Actually, he kind of sucked on them for a while and would trim the soggy end off when it lost flavor.
	11:34pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: not exactly radio ready
	11:34pm Mod Mokka Matti: Wow, this just took an interesting diversion
	11:34pm coelacanth∅: chresti -Dean doesn't really believe herb's just placebo. he just likes pushing buttons!
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: @MMM - It takes a bunch more. Hang on.
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - My Pop tells me of the Italian stonecutters in his neighborhood who used to smoke those little Italian cigars. He has a funny name for them, but I can't remember it exactly.
	11:36pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: they split the song open and set an empire up inside
	11:36pm coelacanth∅: hahaha
	11:37pm Funky16Corners: @ParUbi - That's a great description!
	11:38pm chresti: They looked more like dried, dark pieces of bark, than cigars
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: I think they were cheroots but he called them some kind of 'stinkers'
	11:38pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: is it bad that i kinda want to try them now?
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - Just looked it up. The brand was Toscano but they were popularly known as stinkers!
	11:39pm Erica: Okay this is getting pretty weird now, especially when they say Phase whatever number.
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: Ahhh, there's Vanilla Fudge!
	11:40pm coelacanth∅: maybe it's like the mothers or pink floyd, where the label was somehow convinced to sign them but had no idea what they were about so they just gave them freedom in the studio
	11:40pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: that's some serious musical sprawwwwllll
	11:41pm chresti: That sounds right, @Larry
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: It's not like Vanilla Fudge were cranking out hits, but they did have a formula, which the cut to pieces on this record
	11:42pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: it's like a deconstructed dish. there are parts lying around.
	11:42pm Funky16Corners: Side two of this record opens with a series of WW2 era speeches by world leaders, so you know, the kitchen sink.
	11:43pm doctorjazz: Made it for Fudge. Shall we call it "Plod Rock"?
	11:43pm chresti: coel@11:34, yeah, I know..
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: ParUbi if you have a tendency to give in to temptation (an "addictive personality") then yes, it's a bad idea. you have a child, right?
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc! Sounds good!
	11:44pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: the binding thread is rather ... weak
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: I think the binding thread is a potent mixture of ego and LSD
	11:45pm Mod Mokka Matti: Just when I thought it was making sense, I'm back to wondering where it's going.
	11:46pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: yeah, i'm going to pass on the tobacco products
	11:46pm Franco Twinkie: I love the story of The Mothers Of Invention opening for Vanilla Fudge in Long Island, their home turf. The audience was chanting "You guys stink! Bring on The Fudge!
	11:46pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: someone find the beat!
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: it's in here somewhere
	11:47pm Erica: Is it over yet?
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: Yes, we have moved on to Paris Pilot.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - I can picture an audience of Long Island yobbos screaming at anyone, but especially the Mothers
	11:49pm chresti: ParUbi, I tried it and don't recommend it, you have to spit all the time.@italian cigars
	11:51pm Franco Twinkie: Let us all bow our heads down and contemplate this horror.
	11:51pm chresti: So is this the longest ever rendition of TBGO?
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - The Vanilla Fudge "version" is a whole album!
	11:52pm Erica: No the Vanilla Fudge version is. I looked it up.
	11:52pm coelacanth∅: the 'fudge's version probably
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: I only played side one. This is Paris Pilot, a late 60s Memphis band
	11:52pm ParUbi of Pittsburgh: i'm gonna have to listen to side 2 at some point. do they ever find the beat?
	11:53pm coelacanth∅: they just couldn't decide which one!
	11:53pm doctorjazz: Interesting compilation, have to catch it in the archive. A competitor to Ken's 3 hour Bohemian a Rhapsody extravaganza (which is up there with my favorite radio EVER).
	11:54pm rw: And the beat just keeps getting trippier
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: the beat goes on acid
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: There are three hours worth of Bohemian Rhapsody covers?!?
	11:55pm doctorjazz: I'll find the link...
	11:55pm Franco Twinkie: Wasn't The Fudge drummer supposed to be some hot shit player? According to who!?! They should have played their version in drug prevention programs.
	11:56pm Funky16Corners: Carmine Appice! I had one of his drum instruction books when I was in high school.
	11:56pm Mod Mokka Matti: This has been a rather intriguing exploration. I knew of a few of these interpretations already, but definitely learned of A LOT more tonight.
	11:57pm doctorjazz: wfmu.org... I think this is it (very quick search, hope I got it)
	11:58pm doctorjazz: (The Ken Bohemian Rhapsody show,that is...)
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: thanks for that link doc. (yes it works)
	12:00am Erica: I need to check out more on Paris Pilot. Anyway, what a ride. See you guys next week! And be sure to check out the Globos' version of The Beat Goes On during your spare time. Later!
	12:00am Franco Twinkie: Well, it was interesting.
	12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry interesting adventure! good night y'all
	12:00am ParUbi of Pittsburgh: that was a blast!
	12:00am chresti: Thanks Larry, fun show!
	12:00am doctorjazz: Night all!
	12:01am coelacanth∅: ...and the beat goes on
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thank you all, for taking the ride! See you next week!
	12:01am rw: Thank you F16!! Fun show. 'Specially the Fudge! Take care everyone!
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Nite rw!
	12:01am ParUbi of Pittsburgh: Thanks, Larry! It was a trip!
	12:02am doctorjazz: Dug the Fudge as well, plod and all.

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 6, 2019

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