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

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Favoriting January 2, 2020: Testify! - Come Spy With Me - The Musical Side of the 1960s Secret Agent/Spy Craze!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Johnny Rivers  Secret Agent Man   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Liberty  1966  45  0:01:16 (Pop-up)
Ray Barretto  Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang   Favoriting Senor 007  UA  1965  LP  0:04:18 (Pop-up)
Nancy Sinatra  The Last of the Secret Agents   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Reprise  1966  45  0:06:20 (Pop-up)
Lalo Schifrin  Mission Impossible Theme   Favoriting Music From Mission Impossible  Dot  1967  LP  0:09:02 (Pop-up)
Count Basie  Thunderball   Favoriting Basie Meets Bond  UA  1966  LP  0:11:32 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Smith  Goldfinger Pt2   Favoriting 45RPM single  Verve  1965  45  0:15:28 (Pop-up)
Laurie Johnson  Theme From the Avengers   Favoriting Laurie Johnson Orchestra Plays the Avengers  HBR  1966  LP  0:18:21 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  Sock It To Em JB   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atlantic  1966  45  0:24:05 (Pop-up)
Jamo Thomas and the Party Brothers Orchestra  I Spy (For the FBI)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Thomas  1966  45  0:26:37 (Pop-up)
The Miracles  Come Spy With Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Tamla  1967  45  0:29:11 (Pop-up)
Edwin Starr  Agent 00 Soul   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Ric Tic  1965  45  0:32:06 (Pop-up)
The Olympics  Secret Agents   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mirwood  1966  45  0:34:46 (Pop-up)
Robert Parker  Secret Service (Makes Me Nervous)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  NOLA  1967  45  0:37:12 (Pop-up)
Perry and the Harmonics  Do the Monkey With James   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mercury  1965  45  0:39:58 (Pop-up)
Sandy Nelson  Sock It To Em JB   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Imperial  1966  45  0:42:35 (Pop-up)
 
John Dankworth  Modesty Blaise Theme   Favoriting Modesty Blaise OST  20th Century Fox  1966  LP  0:48:36 (Pop-up)
Jerry Goldsmith  The Girl From UNCLE   Favoriting The Girl From UNCLE  MGM  1966  LP  0:50:24 (Pop-up)
Vikki Carr  Theme From the Silencers   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Liberty  1966  45  0:52:54 (Pop-up)
Steve Allen feat Maureen Arthur  A Man Called Dagger   Favoriting A Man Called Dagger OST  MGM  1968  LP  0:55:48 (Pop-up)
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass  Casino Royale (Main Theme)   Favoriting Casino Royale OST  Colgems  1967  LP  0:58:17 (Pop-up)
Irving Szathmary  Get Smart Theme   Favoriting 45RPM Single  UA  1965  45  1:00:55 (Pop-up)
Barbara Feldon  99   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1966  45  1:01:45 (Pop-up)
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart  The Ambushers   Favoriting 45RPM Single  A&M  1967  45  1:04:33 (Pop-up)
The Flintstones  Spy Type Guy   Favoriting The Man Called Flintstone  HBR  1966  LP  1:06:42 (Pop-up)
Ted Nichols  Secret Squirrel Theme   Favoriting Bootleg  HBR  1965  MP3  1:08:32 (Pop-up)
The Hunters  Russian Spy and I   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1966  45  1:09:20 (Pop-up)
The Shadows  Man of Mystery   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia UK  1960  45  1:11:54 (Pop-up)
 
Sid Ramin  Stiletto   Favoriting Stiletto OST  Columbia Masterworks  1969  LP  1:18:06 (Pop-up)
Al Caiola  The Eye In Flat Five   Favoriting Sounds for Spies and Private Eyes  UA  1965  LP  1:20:56 (Pop-up)
Billy Strange  The Man from UNCLE   Favoriting Secret Agent File  GNP Crescendo  1965  LP  1:22:58 (Pop-up)
Billy Strange  I Spy   Favoriting Secret Agent File  GNP Crescendo  1965  LP  1:25:31 (Pop-up)
The Clee-Shays  Ed Spy   Favoriting Super Spy Themes  Triumph  1966  LP  1:27:00 (Pop-up)
Edwin Astley  Theme From the Saint   Favoriting Secret Agent Meets the Saint  RCA  1965  LP  1:28:33 (Pop-up)
Dick Hyman  The Liquidator   Favoriting The Man from ORGAN  Command  1965  LP  1:30:16 (Pop-up)
The Guys from UNCLE  The Spy   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Swan  1966  45  1:32:56 (Pop-up)
Henry Mancini  A Shot In the Dark   Favoriting Pink Panther OST  RCA  1964  LP  1:35:22 (Pop-up)
Herbie Mann  Our Man Flint   Favoriting Our Mann Flute  Atlantic  1966  LP  1:37:51 (Pop-up)
John Barry  A Man Alone (Jazz Version)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Decca  1965  45  1:40:29 (Pop-up)
Reg Guest Syndicate  Underworld   Favoriting Underworld  Mercury  1966  LP  1:43:12 (Pop-up)
Edwin Astley Orchestra  Danger Man Theme   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1962  45  1:45:50 (Pop-up)
Hal Blaine  Secret Agent Man   Favoriting Have Fun Play Drums  Dunhill  1968  LP  1:48:11 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainor  Theme From the Prisoner   Favoriting Bootleg  Bootleg  1967  MP3  1:50:40 (Pop-up)
Roy Budd  Carter   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Pye  1971  45  1:51:40 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:59:18 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Matt from New Orleans:

Hey Larry. I’m here for the inaugural non-fill-in daytime edition of Testify.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Matt!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
Doug Schulkind:

I'm ready to Testifly with Cap'n Grogan!
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Erica:

Whew I made it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Erica, you're here!
Avatar 3:03pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

Happy Funky Fresh New Year!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Funky16Corners:

MMM!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Doug Schulkind:

I love this Barretto LP!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
WR:

I spy Testify on Thursday afternoon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Sem:

Along for this wild ride.
Hey, Larry, and all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey WR! Sem!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Funky16Corners:

@Doug - All Barretto is reliably good Barretto!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Matt from New Orleans:

This is a solid arrangement marred by Nancy Sinatra.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
Funky16Corners:

I like Nancy's voice!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

hello, Larry and folx! Great to splash down into this excitement!
Avatar 3:12pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

This is a most excellent way to kick off the new year, as well as the new time slot.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
dutchtheo:

Happy new year, happy with new time, 9 pm here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
Funky16Corners:

Granny! Theo!
Avatar 3:12pm
Erica:

There is an internet radio station by Soma FM that also plays this kinda music called Secret Agent. It's worth checking out if you're curious.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Hello Larry & all Testifiers. Presume this is the parallel Giantland?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

@Theo - As I said last week, It's always nighttime somewhere!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I'll look for it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Kevin! Of what Giantland do you speak?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Fabio's.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
Funky16Corners:

I don't know what that is.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
WR:

Note to self, figure out who that bone player was on the Basie tune.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Your 91.1 co-broadcaster's opening song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
Funky16Corners:

Oh, I get it now. A little slow on the uptake this afternoon. Still adjusting.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
Funky16Corners:

@WR - Norman Keenan
Avatar 3:18pm
Hubig Pie:

The Prisoner had a real groovy theme song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Regardless, great to hear you while the sun shines.
Avatar 3:19pm
Erica:

It feels weird to me too listening after an afternoon shower. Plus I'm not used to seeing different people on here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks! Great to be heard!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
Matt from New Orleans:

@ Larry Norman Keenan was on bass. That album had four trombonists. www.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
Sem:

Could not miss an episode of the Avengers growing up.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
Funky16Corners:

@HubigPie - Stay Tuned!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:21pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

"Mr. Giant Man" from James Last if Fabio's lead off and currently the #1 favorited song on the WFMU charts - www.wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Yup Sem. Emma was my first TV crush.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

and Rev. Turnip Druid was the first!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
WR:

@MattfNO thanks for the link for the Basie link.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Funky16Corners:

I once saw Diana Rigg at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Well into her 60s and still as lovely as ever!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Matt from New Orleans:

@WR No worries
Avatar 3:29pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

I missed out on the original airings of The Avengers by a few years, but was tuned in without fail when A&E re-aired it just after I graduated HS and whilst I was in junior college, now nearly a full 30 years ago this coming fall (yikes). And FWIW, who wouldn't fall hard for Mrs. Peel?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
Funky16Corners:

If you ever get the chance check out the 1968 film of a Midsummer's Night Dream, featuring both Diana Rigg and a young Helen Mirren
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
Sem:

There was a certain frisson of dominatrix w/ Emma...always, "Mrs. Peel", for instance.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:33pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, indeed, The leather catsuits didn't hurt in that regard, either.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
doctorjazz:

Welcome to Thursday! (Works better for me in some ways, but listen at work, likely to comment much less (which may be preferable to some...).
Happy New Near!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc! Glad to see you here!
Avatar 3:38pm
Erica:

Hey Doc!
Avatar 3:42pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

The elusive Perry and the Harmonics... I reckon I'll never get my hands on that disc.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
Funky16Corners:

You might be able to grab the LP at a more reasonable price
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
ParUbi:

Hey everyone. Digging the new time slot.
Avatar 3:49pm
Erica:

Hi ParUbi! Glad you could tune in.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey ParUbi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
ParUbi:

I decoded the secret message from the numbers station!
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Mod Mokka Matti:

@Funky16: BTW, any chance of Sir Julian Gould making an appearance with his take on "You Only Live Twice"? That one I do have - at least, as part of his "Love is Blue" LP.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:51pm
Funky16Corners:

@MMM - Not familiar with that one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
Funky16Corners:

@ParUbi - I used to have a bunch of recordings of numbers stations. Super creepy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
Funky16Corners:

@MMM - Was he billed as 'Sir Julian'? I have a 45 of his somewhere, but not that one
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
Doug Schulkind:

@ParUbi
I bought that 4-CD set The Conet Project (en.wikipedia.org...) hot off the shelves! Oh how I wish all that crap was a hoax. It would be so much more interesting.
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Mod Mokka Matti:

@Funky16: Yes, that was what he most often went by - just "Sir Julian". First learned of him years ago from the "Organs in Orbit" comp. CD that was part of the Ultra-Lounge series.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Funky16Corners:

@MMM - The 45 I have is 'Dansero'
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ParUbi:

I've listened to the CONET project. Creepy sounding for sure. First heard part of it in that Wilco song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:01pm
doctorjazz:

Time for the Cone Of Silence!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Missed it by THAT MUCH!
Avatar 4:04pm
Erica:

Roar!
  4:08pm
johnzo:

enjoying all this spy music larry! was driving around with my homeless chaldean friend... he is mentally divergent and thinks he’s a secret agent of the US Govt/God so it was pretty appropriate
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Erica:

WILMAAAA!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey johnzo!
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dutchtheo:

Flintstones Dragnet theme?
Avatar 4:11pm
Erica:

"Your code name is Rock Slag."
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dutchtheo:

Jan Akkerman in the Hunters
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Funky16Corners:

Secret Agent 10,000BC
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Funky16Corners:

@dutch theo - Yes indeed!
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Erica:

I haven't seen The Man Called Flintstone movie in full either. I have seen what is called a YouTube Poop of the movie, which is basically a remixed, edited version that's been done for comedy. It's called the Flint Called Manstone and it's a pretty well re-edited version of the movie and it's hilarious.
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Erica:

Pretty explicit though but worth checking out if you want a laugh.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:24pm
Funky16Corners:

I'll look for that
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Erica:

It's made by English guys who are known as WTLNetwork. But this video has been re-uploaded by another person for copyright reasons.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
Matt from New Orleans:

There was a really fun Secret Squirrel back up comic in the surprisingly good Scooby Apocalypse comic that ran from 2016-2019. It was part of DC’s attempt to modernize and adultify Hanna Barbara’s cartoons for Generation X. The best of those was The Flintstones and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles both written by Mark Russell.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:30pm
Funky16Corners:

@Matt - I remember those vaguely, especially the Snagglepuss one
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Matt from New Orleans:

The Snagglepuss one was a brilliant satire of the McCarthy Era with Snagglepuss as a gay left wing playwright and very loosely based on Tennessee Williams.
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Mod Mokka Matti:

I have been meaning to pick up that "Man from O.R.G.A.N." album, even if Mr. Hyman is playing a Lowrey, not a Hammond.
  4:36pm
CalZone!:

Spy HiFi!
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Funky16Corners:

Cal!
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Funky16Corners:

@MMM - It's worth it. Lots of cool tracks
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Funky16Corners:

@Matt - That's the one I saw
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
Sem:

The art of Mr. Mancini on display. Love those charts.
Avatar 4:40pm
Erica:

Speaking of Snagglepuss and the Pink Panther, has anyone gotten the two confused before?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
Funky16Corners:

As the Pink Panther is generally silent, no, but the build is similar.
Avatar 4:42pm
Erica:

I meant by design because they're both pink.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:45pm
Funky16Corners:

You're right! I was thinking brown but that's Pete Puma, who sounded like crazy Guggenheim from the Jackie Gleason Show, but that's a lion for another day
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:47pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Thanks Larry. It’s been a fun show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:47pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Matt!
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Erica:

I just asked because I thought Pink Panther was Snagglepuss because I hadn't heard of the Pink Panther yet. I was in my tweens.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:50pm
Funky16Corners:

My youngest son's first words from lifted from a Pink Panther cartoon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
ParUbi:

Yes, the Prisoner!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry! Going to skulk off into the sunset with that beautiful spy on my arm (don't tell the missus...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Doc!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:52pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I imagine Diabolik isn’t going to make the cut due to the fact that the soundtrack has never been released commercially due to the masters having been destroyed in a fire.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I love Get Carter and Roy Budd’s score is fantastic.
  4:53pm
CalZone!:

Get Carter!
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dutchtheo:

So many great tunes. I can be jealous on the midsixties American tv time excitement. Wrong continent, wrong time, sadly. Thanks, Larry
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Funky16Corners:

@Matt - It is not, but I don't have it in any form
  4:53pm
melinda:

This has been fun.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Theo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
Matt from New Orleans:

These last two have been British Theo.
Avatar 4:56pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

These two hours have flown by way too fast. It is kind of strange to look out and still see daylight, even in January, but I sure hope to keep tuning in, or catch up via the archive when I can't. Thanks, Larry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
Sem:

Happy to hear you'll be here Thursday afternoons. See you again next time, LG and all.
  4:57pm
CalZone!:

Will definitely need to listen to the whole archive! A gem, LG!
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dutchtheo:

MfNO and Diana Rigg too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks MMM! Sem! Cal! Theo!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
WR:

Fun show Larry. Luckily work was slow so I could listen to most of it. Later all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks WR!
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Erica:

This had been an interesting show this week. It will take some time to get used to this new time slot. Will try to make it next week too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Erica! Glad you could make the scene!
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