WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from August 27, 2020

Listener comments!
	2:46pm Matt from New Orleans: Are those your parents Larry?
	2:48pm Funky16Corners: My maternal grandarents.
	2:51pm Matt from New Orleans: Cool
	3:00pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi everyone
	3:01pm Candy-O'67: Hey Funky Corners and Matt! I'm ready to testify!!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: Matt! Candy-O!
	3:02pm Michael 98145: Kinks Continuity!
	3:03pm Jeff Ash: In the house all the way from Wisconsin!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Michael! Jeff!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: It's a fortuitous sign that Julie finished with the Kinks and I started with them!
	3:04pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: in alphabetical order Hi Candy, Jeff, Larry, Matt, Michael + anyone who follows after I have hit "POST THAT NOW!"
	3:04pm northguineahills: I didn't get into the Kinks until 2005. This was the album that converted me...
	🥁 3:05pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry! and the preservation society! Testify!
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: Photocopy! Theo!
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: NGH!
	3:05pm northguineahills: Charming, Larry, they look my paternal grandparents...!
	3:05pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @3:02 Michael 98145: What a pity they never released an album called "The KInks Kontinuity"
	3:06pm Erica: Hello Testifies!
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	3:09pm Julie: ahh Face to Face such a great album.
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: Hey Julie!
	3:10pm Erica: Ready for some Kinks. Just don't play Come Dancing cause that one gets on my nerves
	3:10pm Erica: Haha!
	3:10pm Julie: The Kinks Kontinuum
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: Karry On Kinks!
	🥁 3:11pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry and kool kats. I was only pondering the other day at all the English bands that took America by storm. The Kinks were so essentially English and one man's vision. The Stones always wanted to be seen as American. Beatles and Who just powered through.
	3:11pm Erica: Seriously though I am tired of that one.
	3:11pm Julie: Kinks Katastrophe
	3:12pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	3:13pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: I don't know why but Til Death Do Us Part somehow gets me a bit weepy.
	3:13pm doctorjazz: Kinks-a-palooza! How Larry! (On an old issue, pastrami, I finally got a sandwich from Harolds today. It is indeed good pastrami. However, prices are insane, and I didn't think it was better that Lox, Stock, and Deli, which also ain't cheap, but not as astronomically costly as Harold's. My $0.02, of course...)
	3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc! I miss Harolds...I'm in half-sour withdrawal...
	🥁 3:14pm Brian in UK: doctorjazz we can but dream over here. What ever the cost.
	3:16pm Matt from New Orleans: Doc I usually eat Indian food on the odd occasion I find myself in Edison.
	🥁 3:17pm Brian in UK: The man who played the son in law in 'Till death Us Do Part over here is Tony Blair's wife's Dad.
	3:18pm northguineahills: Although, I did see Ray Davies at the WTC in 2001, b/c a friend was big fan, and it also turned me on to them.
	3:21pm Matt from New Orleans: I was at that show too NGH. Might have been the last time I was at the WTC.
	3:22pm Candy-O'67: Hey Photocopy Cha Cha! Good to see so many on the chat today :)
	3:22pm northguineahills: sounds like my grandparents' generation of relatives. They all were gone by the time I was 30. @Matt: Me too, last time I was there, and I was in Loisaida that fateful day, and saw it all from my ex's rooftop.
	3:25pm Michael 98145: @ngh, that must've been truly horrible. We were in Normandy.
	3:26pm Erica: I can say that I never met my grandfathers for they passed before I was born. My grandmother on my mom's side died when I was 13 and my grandmother on my dad's side died when I was 16 going on 17.
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: My sons are fortunate that all of their grandparents are still with us.
	3:28pm Matt from New Orleans: I took the morning off that day and was in my apartment in Central Harlem across from Marcus Garvey Park. I was supposed to have been in a meeting downtown that day but rescheduled it the day before. I’m still glad I did. It wasn’t at the WTC but not far from it.
	3:29pm Erica: Lucky them Larry.
	3:29pm Michael 98145: I knew all my grandparents. RIP. Even one great-grandfather.
	3:29pm doctorjazz: @BiUK-even here, in the general NY area, good pastrami sandwiches are hard to come by (and costly when you do get them). @Matt-i lived inn Edison for a year, big Indian population, the Indian restaurants are not countable. I used to frequent Indian restaurants in Manhattan on E6th street, another area with one Indian restaurant after another, before I got married. But, my wife has GERD, can't eat spicy food, and we don't eat Indian often now (amazing how you lose the ability to eat spicy food after a while)
	3:29pm Little Danny: Hey Larry, all
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	🥁 3:31pm Brian in UK: Larry, love the fact that FMU has an appreciation of the essentially English Bonzoes.
	3:31pm Funky16Corners: One of the most interesting bands of their day, without which there would be no Rutles.
	🥁 3:33pm Brian in UK: I still carry Viv Stanshall's memory around, as do many folks.
	3:34pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry I was visiting Memphis a while back and had gone to eat Korean food at Kwik Stop a convenience store with great sandwiches, Middle Eastern and Korean food. I was wandering around the area after and I walked past Ardent and rang the bell and the person that opened the door gave me a tour. No one was recording that day. It was still cool to walk around.
	3:35pm Funky16Corners: Is the Big Star supermarket still across the street?
	🥁 3:36pm WR: Hi all. Popping in for a few minutes, busy day at work. Playlist looks very interesting. Will definitely listen all the way through from the archive.
	3:37pm Matt from New Orleans: No. They’re still around but mostly in the surrounding area.
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR!
	3:37pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @3:34 Matt from New Orleans: a private tour of Ardent, whoah!
	3:37pm doctorjazz: Ah, the famous Biff Rose song, was on FM radio back in the day, did really like it!
	3:38pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - I was there in 1990, there was a Big Star market (where the band took their name from) right behind Ardent. When I was younger there was a Grand Union (owned by the same company as Big Star) market nearby and they had a couple of Big Star baskets on site. I regret not commandeering one.
	3:39pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I love this album. This is such a sad song, though...
	3:39pm doctorjazz: Very sad indeed
	3:39pm Funky16Corners: There's also a pretty nice cover of Molly on one of John Denver's early albums
	3:42pm Michael 98145: I had NO idea that's where "Big Star" came from ...
	3:43pm Michael 98145: LOVE this track
	🥁 3:43pm Brian in UK: Storm Laura could lay it down.
	3:44pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: yes. Love Laura Nyro!
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: Someday I'm going to a Laura Nyro show with a bunch of covers
	🥁 3:51pm Brian in UK: The Band has wistful by the ton.
	3:52pm Michael 98145: what a great set.
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed, this one especially. It hits me right in the feels (as a father)
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Michael!
	🥁 3:53pm Brian in UK: Oh Richard is it poker, tell me who is the joker.
	🥁 3:54pm Brian in UK: Have to confess that I bought and sold Big Pink very quickly, felt that it did not have momentum.
	3:54pm doctorjazz: Great Band tune! Does get one choked up (even though the lyric isn't all that clear).
	3:57pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: goosebump-inducing set this one, Larry!
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: I think you can read it literally, i.e. a father feeling abandoned by his child, or symbolically about the split of generations in the 1960s.
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Photocopy!
	3:58pm doctorjazz: Really Brian? Always loved that album (I'll grant you the ballads outnumber upbeat tunes).
	3:58pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: I wish that Century City mix of this Jim Sullivan album would be re-released eventually as well as the RCA single.
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: I love Big Pink from end to end. Such a deep record.
	🥁 4:00pm Brian in UK: doc, the two that followed are priceless. I might even prefer Stagefright to the Band. Fifty years since I bought Stagefright. They stopped time briefly.
	4:01pm Funky16Corners: Pretty wild how a bunch of (mostly) Canadians could capture America so well.
	4:01pm Michael 98145: Yes. Have to agree with the praise for Big Pink.
	4:02pm Sem: Summoned by the Possum. Hello, Larry, and all.
	🥁 4:02pm Brian in UK: Larry. Sometimes looking from a distance does that.
	4:03pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @3:59 Funky16Corners: it took me a long time to get into The Band, but yes, it is quite something. The mighty finnish band WIGWAM played its part in this introduction process, I am too young to have seen them the first time around (1968-1977), but live recordings from those days do exist - they did good versions of Chest Fever and The Moonstruck One back in the day.
	🥁 4:03pm Brian in UK: What's up Sem.
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	4:04pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: for a second I thought "I have not heard this Gene Clark track before", well what do you know, it's the Gosdin Brothers.
	4:04pm Funky16Corners: @Photocopy - I saw the Band twice, in the 80s, Robbie Robertson-less. They were fantastic.
	4:05pm Funky16Corners: This is an EXCELLENT album.
	4:06pm Sem: Hi, BiUK. Let me clarify: Garth Hudson summoned me on behalf of George. Watched a doc recently about the myriad Big Pink bootlegs. Fascinating and wonderful in equal measures.
	4:07pm northguineahills: @Matt: I got my gf's camera, and used the telephoto lenses to take pics. I thought at first were papers falling from the tower. A minute later, looking through the camera, I realized I was mistaken. I also saw Alex Chilton and the Box Tops in 2001 at the WTC. (HS friend played drums w/ him).
	4:08pm doctorjazz: Brian, agree completely on the next 2 Band records, and, while the 2nd was a knock out when it came out, I think I'm more likely to pull out Stage Fright now. Saw them a few times way Back when, at the New Year's Eve concert (with Dylan as guest for the encores), with the Dead, alone, and as soloists at the Lone Star in NY when they split up.
	🥁 4:08pm Brian in UK: This all puts me in mind of possibly Gram Parson's best song One Hundred Years from This Time.
	4:10pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @4:04 Funky16Corners: the closest I have got is that I have seen Wigwam do a good version of The Moonstruck One live in a later 2000s incarnation but to have seen The Band even in my wildest dreams, oh wow - you were lucky to have seen them
	🥁 4:11pm Brian in UK: We'll Meet Again was the last track on the first Byrds Album.
	4:13pm Michael 98145: Grew up listening to the Byrds
	🥁 4:14pm Brian in UK: Michael 98145, Tambourine Man was the song that turned my head at twelve.
	4:14pm Erica: Sorry about that. I was eating and couldn't type.
	4:16pm Michael 98145: @Brian, wore out a few copies of that Mr. Tambourine Man LP
	🥁 4:19pm Brian in UK: Michael, they were also my first gig in 1968, Sounds '68 at the Royal Albert Hall and GP's last one with them.
	4:23pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: one of my favorite Zep tracks ever, I just love this!!!!
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: Can't go wrong with Physical Graffiti. I remember my joy when I got a copy for Christmas back in the day.
	4:24pm Funky16Corners: It's funny, my oldest son has a big mop of blond curls now. He was walking up the front steps the other day and I said to my wife 'Robert Plant is living with us now.'
	4:25pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @4:23 Funky16Corners: as I was born a year after this was released I got introduced 10 years after the release, but very fond childhood memories of listening to this in the library, especially this (third) lp side.
	4:26pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Robert Plant as a son can be a handful :)
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: I was in 8th grade when this came out. I was introduced to this and the first Aerosmith album by a guy I was in a band with. This one still gets plays.
	4:29pm Erica: Haha Larry. Miles needs a haircut lol
	4:30pm Funky16Corners: His mother keeps telling him that.
	4:30pm Funky16Corners: I was forced to cut my hair so many times I don't have the heart.
	🥁 4:31pm Brian in UK: Oh yes Bryan Maclean. Interesting to hear Arthur sing this at Glastonbury for the first time ever. Wonderful David Angel strings. My favourite album.
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: Mine too. Brian.
	🥁 4:35pm Brian in UK: Funny, I was playing Hejira in the car today and appreciated how much I feel at home with her later, deeper voice. That said the early songs are top notch.
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: I prefer 70s Joni, but her early stuff is pretty amazing.
	4:41pm Sem: Lovin' this set. Much obliged, LG.
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Sem!
	🥁 4:43pm Brian in UK: Bookends was kind of subsumed by Trouble Over Bridgewater.
	4:43pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Yes. A lot of this stuff makes me a bit weepy.
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: Me too...me too.
	4:44pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: The Ink Spots makes me want to rewatch some Dennis Potter stuff.
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: I have an old best of the Ink Spots CD that I can listen to over and over again
	4:45pm Sem: Saw the Spots in Halifax Nova Scotia in the early 80s. Their sets were worn to sillky-smoothness by all those years. Still had the pipes, all of them.
	4:46pm Erica: I don't want to set the world on firrrree.
	4:47pm Funky16Corners: One of my father's favorite groups.
	🥁 4:48pm Brian in UK: Larry, another peerless episode. Thank you for the personal memories. Music is the message.
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: Thank you Brian!
	4:49pm doctorjazz: Lovely set!
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc!
	4:50pm doctorjazz: Great to hear Sassy, wotta set of pipes!
	4:50pm Michael 98145: Wow. That went fast. Thanks!
	4:50pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, these albums she did on Mainstream are great.
	4:52pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry. I’ve been doing done work to the tunes. Made it go far easier.
	4:52pm Michael 98145: Gilbert O'Sullivan.
	4:52pm Matt from New Orleans: Some work
	4:53pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Matt!
	4:53pm doctorjazz: I have tons of her earlier stuff-used to be allergic to jazz singers covering rock/pop stuff, but getting to like it (because I'm getting older?). Loved the show, Larry, thanks! (Trouble with pastrami, feel so loaded down afterwards...)
	4:54pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc! Now I want pastrami!
	4:55pm Erica: I prefer H Gilbert I Sullivan's version of Alone Again Naturally myself Michael.
	4:56pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry! A-musing show!
	4:56pm Erica: Seems that I got signed out. No matter. The show is about over now anyway.
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Theo!
	4:58pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Thanks a lot for compiling this show Larry, many beautiful tunes here, not a single weak one included.
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Photocopy! I'm glad you dug it!
	4:59pm Candy-O'67: Thanks, Larry! Very beautiful tunes!
	4:59pm Michael 98145: pastrami sounds pretty darn good right now
	5:02pm Dean: I remember when Physical Graffiti was released, but only just learned today that much of it was recorded years prior to is release.
	5:03pm Dean: its^
	5:05pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Candy-O!
	5:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dean! That makes sense.
	5:06pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @5:02 Dean: That was their "Rolling STones" album - a new album that has really old stuff (old meaning a couple of years), oh and did not they use Rolling Stones Mobile studio for recording?
	5:06pm Erica: See you soon Larry.
	5:07pm Funky16Corners: Bye Erica!
	5:07pm Funky16Corners: The Rolling Truck Stones Thing (apologies to Deep Purple)
	5:08pm Dean: Seems they recorded in three or four locations. Not sure which studio(s), though, except Headley Grange.

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from August 27, 2020

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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)
The Kinks	Picture Book "Picture Book" by "The Kinks"	Are The Village Green Preservation Society	Reprise	1968	LP	0:01:11 (Pop-up)
The Kinks	People Take Pictures of Each Other	Are The Village Green Preservation Society	Reprise	1968	LP	0:03:45 (Pop-up)
The Kinks	Do You Remember Walter "Do You Remember Walter" by "The Kinks"	Are The Village Green Preservation Society	Reprise	1968	LP	0:05:56 (Pop-up)
The Kinks	I'll Remember "I'll Remember" by "The Kinks"	Face to Face	Reprise	1966	LP	0:08:19 (Pop-up)
The Kinks	Til Death Do Us Part "Til Death Do Us Part" by "The Kinks"	The Great Lost Kinks Album	Reprise	1973	LP	0:10:42 (Pop-up)
The Kinks	Days "Days" by "The Kinks"	45RPM Single	Reprise	1968	45	0:13:56 (Pop-up)

The Turtles	We'll Meet Again "We'll Meet Again" by "The Turtles"	45RPM Single	White Whale	1966	45	0:23:47 (Pop-up)
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band	Postcard "Postcard" by "Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band"	Urban Spacemen	Liberty	1968	LP	0:25:41 (Pop-up)
Big Star	Thirteen "Thirteen" by "Big Star"	#1 Record	Ardent	1972	CD	0:29:56 (Pop-up)
Marty Wilde	A Prelude to Old Age "A Prelude to Old Age" by "Marty Wilde"	Diversions	Philips	1969	LP	0:32:30 (Pop-up)
Biff Rose	Molly "Molly" by "Biff Rose"	The Thorn In Mrs Rose's Side	Tetragrammaton	1968	LP	0:35:30 (Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson	1941 "1941" by "Harry Nilsson"	Pandemonium Shadow Show	RCA	1967	LP	0:39:41 (Pop-up)
Laura Nyro	And When I Die "And When I Die" by "Laura Nyro"	More Than a New Discovery	Verve Folkways	1967	LP	0:42:14 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan	If You See Her Say Hello	Blood On the Tracks	Columbia	1974	LP	0:44:50 (Pop-up)
The Band	Tears of Rage "Tears of Rage" by "The Band"	Music From Big Pink	Capitol	1968	LP	0:49:29 (Pop-up)
Jim Sullivan	Roll Back Time "Roll Back Time" by "Jim Sullivan"	UFO	Monnie	1969	CD	0:54:50 (Pop-up)
Fairport Convention	I Still Miss Someone	Heyday	Island	1968	CD	0:57:00 (Pop-up)
George Jones and the Jones Boys	A Girl I Used to Know	45RPM Single	United Artists	1962	45	0:59:22 (Pop-up)
The Gosdin Brothers	One Hundred Years From Now	Sounds of Goodbye	Capitol	1969	LP	1:01:56 (Pop-up)
The Flying Burrito Brothers	Farther Along	Burrito Deluxe	A&M	1970	LP	1:04:38 (Pop-up)

Blues Project	Love Will Endure "Love Will Endure" by "Blues Project"	Anthology	Verve	1967	CD	1:15:31 (Pop-up)
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks	Presently In the Past	Striking It Rich	Blue Thumb	1972	LP	1:17:38 (Pop-up)
Led Zeppelin	Ten Years Gone "Ten Years Gone" by "Led Zeppelin"	Physical Graffiti	Atlantic	1975	LP	1:20:50 (Pop-up)
Love	Old Man "Old Man" by "Love"	Forever Changes	Elektra	1967	LP	1:27:16 (Pop-up)
Elliott Smith	Somebody That I Used To Know	Figure 8	Dreamworks	2000	CD	1:30:11 (Pop-up)
Joni Mitchell	Songs To Aging Children Come	Clouds	Reprise	1969	LP	1:32:17 (Pop-up)
Peggy Lee	It Changes "It Changes" by "Peggy Lee"	Norma Delores Egstrom From Jamestown North Dakota	Capitol	1973	CD	1:35:16 (Pop-up)
Simon and Garfunkel	Old Friends "Old Friends" by "Simon and Garfunkel"	Bookends	Columbia	1968	LP	1:41:04 (Pop-up)
Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald	Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall	78RPM Single	Decca	1944	78	1:42:01 (Pop-up)
Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards and the Wonderland Jazz Band	I'll See You In My Dreams	Ukelele Ike Sings Again	Buena Vista	1956	CD	1:45:10 (Pop-up)
Sarah Vaughan	Alone Again (Naturally)	45RPM Single	Mainstream	1972	45	1:47:07 (Pop-up)
Charley D and Milo	Take Me Home/Om Sweet Om	Charley D and Milo	Epic	1970	LP	1:51:33 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	2:04:14 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	2:46pm Matt from New Orleans: Are those your parents Larry?
	2:48pm Funky16Corners: My maternal grandarents.
	2:51pm Matt from New Orleans: Cool
	3:00pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi everyone
	3:01pm Candy-O'67: Hey Funky Corners and Matt! I'm ready to testify!!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: Matt! Candy-O!
	3:02pm Michael 98145: Kinks Continuity!
	3:03pm Jeff Ash: In the house all the way from Wisconsin!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Michael! Jeff!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: It's a fortuitous sign that Julie finished with the Kinks and I started with them!
	3:04pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: in alphabetical order Hi Candy, Jeff, Larry, Matt, Michael + anyone who follows after I have hit "POST THAT NOW!"
	3:04pm northguineahills: I didn't get into the Kinks until 2005. This was the album that converted me...
	🥁 3:05pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry! and the preservation society! Testify!
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: Photocopy! Theo!
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: NGH!
	3:05pm northguineahills: Charming, Larry, they look my paternal grandparents...!
	3:05pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @3:02 Michael 98145: What a pity they never released an album called "The KInks Kontinuity"
	3:06pm Erica: Hello Testifies!
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	3:09pm Julie: ahh Face to Face such a great album.
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: Hey Julie!
	3:10pm Erica: Ready for some Kinks. Just don't play Come Dancing cause that one gets on my nerves
	3:10pm Erica: Haha!
	3:10pm Julie: The Kinks Kontinuum
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: Karry On Kinks!
	🥁 3:11pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry and kool kats. I was only pondering the other day at all the English bands that took America by storm. The Kinks were so essentially English and one man's vision. The Stones always wanted to be seen as American. Beatles and Who just powered through.
	3:11pm Erica: Seriously though I am tired of that one.
	3:11pm Julie: Kinks Katastrophe
	3:12pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	3:13pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: I don't know why but Til Death Do Us Part somehow gets me a bit weepy.
	3:13pm doctorjazz: Kinks-a-palooza! How Larry! (On an old issue, pastrami, I finally got a sandwich from Harolds today. It is indeed good pastrami. However, prices are insane, and I didn't think it was better that Lox, Stock, and Deli, which also ain't cheap, but not as astronomically costly as Harold's. My $0.02, of course...)
	3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc! I miss Harolds...I'm in half-sour withdrawal...
	🥁 3:14pm Brian in UK: doctorjazz we can but dream over here. What ever the cost.
	3:16pm Matt from New Orleans: Doc I usually eat Indian food on the odd occasion I find myself in Edison.
	🥁 3:17pm Brian in UK: The man who played the son in law in 'Till death Us Do Part over here is Tony Blair's wife's Dad.
	3:18pm northguineahills: Although, I did see Ray Davies at the WTC in 2001, b/c a friend was big fan, and it also turned me on to them.
	3:21pm Matt from New Orleans: I was at that show too NGH. Might have been the last time I was at the WTC.
	3:22pm Candy-O'67: Hey Photocopy Cha Cha! Good to see so many on the chat today :)
	3:22pm northguineahills: sounds like my grandparents' generation of relatives. They all were gone by the time I was 30. @Matt: Me too, last time I was there, and I was in Loisaida that fateful day, and saw it all from my ex's rooftop.
	3:25pm Michael 98145: @ngh, that must've been truly horrible. We were in Normandy.
	3:26pm Erica: I can say that I never met my grandfathers for they passed before I was born. My grandmother on my mom's side died when I was 13 and my grandmother on my dad's side died when I was 16 going on 17.
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: My sons are fortunate that all of their grandparents are still with us.
	3:28pm Matt from New Orleans: I took the morning off that day and was in my apartment in Central Harlem across from Marcus Garvey Park. I was supposed to have been in a meeting downtown that day but rescheduled it the day before. I’m still glad I did. It wasn’t at the WTC but not far from it.
	3:29pm Erica: Lucky them Larry.
	3:29pm Michael 98145: I knew all my grandparents. RIP. Even one great-grandfather.
	3:29pm doctorjazz: @BiUK-even here, in the general NY area, good pastrami sandwiches are hard to come by (and costly when you do get them). @Matt-i lived inn Edison for a year, big Indian population, the Indian restaurants are not countable. I used to frequent Indian restaurants in Manhattan on E6th street, another area with one Indian restaurant after another, before I got married. But, my wife has GERD, can't eat spicy food, and we don't eat Indian often now (amazing how you lose the ability to eat spicy food after a while)
	3:29pm Little Danny: Hey Larry, all
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	🥁 3:31pm Brian in UK: Larry, love the fact that FMU has an appreciation of the essentially English Bonzoes.
	3:31pm Funky16Corners: One of the most interesting bands of their day, without which there would be no Rutles.
	🥁 3:33pm Brian in UK: I still carry Viv Stanshall's memory around, as do many folks.
	3:34pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry I was visiting Memphis a while back and had gone to eat Korean food at Kwik Stop a convenience store with great sandwiches, Middle Eastern and Korean food. I was wandering around the area after and I walked past Ardent and rang the bell and the person that opened the door gave me a tour. No one was recording that day. It was still cool to walk around.
	3:35pm Funky16Corners: Is the Big Star supermarket still across the street?
	🥁 3:36pm WR: Hi all. Popping in for a few minutes, busy day at work. Playlist looks very interesting. Will definitely listen all the way through from the archive.
	3:37pm Matt from New Orleans: No. They’re still around but mostly in the surrounding area.
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR!
	3:37pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @3:34 Matt from New Orleans: a private tour of Ardent, whoah!
	3:37pm doctorjazz: Ah, the famous Biff Rose song, was on FM radio back in the day, did really like it!
	3:38pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - I was there in 1990, there was a Big Star market (where the band took their name from) right behind Ardent. When I was younger there was a Grand Union (owned by the same company as Big Star) market nearby and they had a couple of Big Star baskets on site. I regret not commandeering one.
	3:39pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I love this album. This is such a sad song, though...
	3:39pm doctorjazz: Very sad indeed
	3:39pm Funky16Corners: There's also a pretty nice cover of Molly on one of John Denver's early albums
	3:42pm Michael 98145: I had NO idea that's where "Big Star" came from ...
	3:43pm Michael 98145: LOVE this track
	🥁 3:43pm Brian in UK: Storm Laura could lay it down.
	3:44pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: yes. Love Laura Nyro!
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: Someday I'm going to a Laura Nyro show with a bunch of covers
	🥁 3:51pm Brian in UK: The Band has wistful by the ton.
	3:52pm Michael 98145: what a great set.
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed, this one especially. It hits me right in the feels (as a father)
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Michael!
	🥁 3:53pm Brian in UK: Oh Richard is it poker, tell me who is the joker.
	🥁 3:54pm Brian in UK: Have to confess that I bought and sold Big Pink very quickly, felt that it did not have momentum.
	3:54pm doctorjazz: Great Band tune! Does get one choked up (even though the lyric isn't all that clear).
	3:57pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: goosebump-inducing set this one, Larry!
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: I think you can read it literally, i.e. a father feeling abandoned by his child, or symbolically about the split of generations in the 1960s.
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Photocopy!
	3:58pm doctorjazz: Really Brian? Always loved that album (I'll grant you the ballads outnumber upbeat tunes).
	3:58pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: I wish that Century City mix of this Jim Sullivan album would be re-released eventually as well as the RCA single.
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: I love Big Pink from end to end. Such a deep record.
	🥁 4:00pm Brian in UK: doc, the two that followed are priceless. I might even prefer Stagefright to the Band. Fifty years since I bought Stagefright. They stopped time briefly.
	4:01pm Funky16Corners: Pretty wild how a bunch of (mostly) Canadians could capture America so well.
	4:01pm Michael 98145: Yes. Have to agree with the praise for Big Pink.
	4:02pm Sem: Summoned by the Possum. Hello, Larry, and all.
	🥁 4:02pm Brian in UK: Larry. Sometimes looking from a distance does that.
	4:03pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @3:59 Funky16Corners: it took me a long time to get into The Band, but yes, it is quite something. The mighty finnish band WIGWAM played its part in this introduction process, I am too young to have seen them the first time around (1968-1977), but live recordings from those days do exist - they did good versions of Chest Fever and The Moonstruck One back in the day.
	🥁 4:03pm Brian in UK: What's up Sem.
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	4:04pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: for a second I thought "I have not heard this Gene Clark track before", well what do you know, it's the Gosdin Brothers.
	4:04pm Funky16Corners: @Photocopy - I saw the Band twice, in the 80s, Robbie Robertson-less. They were fantastic.
	4:05pm Funky16Corners: This is an EXCELLENT album.
	4:06pm Sem: Hi, BiUK. Let me clarify: Garth Hudson summoned me on behalf of George. Watched a doc recently about the myriad Big Pink bootlegs. Fascinating and wonderful in equal measures.
	4:07pm northguineahills: @Matt: I got my gf's camera, and used the telephoto lenses to take pics. I thought at first were papers falling from the tower. A minute later, looking through the camera, I realized I was mistaken. I also saw Alex Chilton and the Box Tops in 2001 at the WTC. (HS friend played drums w/ him).
	4:08pm doctorjazz: Brian, agree completely on the next 2 Band records, and, while the 2nd was a knock out when it came out, I think I'm more likely to pull out Stage Fright now. Saw them a few times way Back when, at the New Year's Eve concert (with Dylan as guest for the encores), with the Dead, alone, and as soloists at the Lone Star in NY when they split up.
	🥁 4:08pm Brian in UK: This all puts me in mind of possibly Gram Parson's best song One Hundred Years from This Time.
	4:10pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @4:04 Funky16Corners: the closest I have got is that I have seen Wigwam do a good version of The Moonstruck One live in a later 2000s incarnation but to have seen The Band even in my wildest dreams, oh wow - you were lucky to have seen them
	🥁 4:11pm Brian in UK: We'll Meet Again was the last track on the first Byrds Album.
	4:13pm Michael 98145: Grew up listening to the Byrds
	🥁 4:14pm Brian in UK: Michael 98145, Tambourine Man was the song that turned my head at twelve.
	4:14pm Erica: Sorry about that. I was eating and couldn't type.
	4:16pm Michael 98145: @Brian, wore out a few copies of that Mr. Tambourine Man LP
	🥁 4:19pm Brian in UK: Michael, they were also my first gig in 1968, Sounds '68 at the Royal Albert Hall and GP's last one with them.
	4:23pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: one of my favorite Zep tracks ever, I just love this!!!!
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: Can't go wrong with Physical Graffiti. I remember my joy when I got a copy for Christmas back in the day.
	4:24pm Funky16Corners: It's funny, my oldest son has a big mop of blond curls now. He was walking up the front steps the other day and I said to my wife 'Robert Plant is living with us now.'
	4:25pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @4:23 Funky16Corners: as I was born a year after this was released I got introduced 10 years after the release, but very fond childhood memories of listening to this in the library, especially this (third) lp side.
	4:26pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Robert Plant as a son can be a handful :)
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: I was in 8th grade when this came out. I was introduced to this and the first Aerosmith album by a guy I was in a band with. This one still gets plays.
	4:29pm Erica: Haha Larry. Miles needs a haircut lol
	4:30pm Funky16Corners: His mother keeps telling him that.
	4:30pm Funky16Corners: I was forced to cut my hair so many times I don't have the heart.
	🥁 4:31pm Brian in UK: Oh yes Bryan Maclean. Interesting to hear Arthur sing this at Glastonbury for the first time ever. Wonderful David Angel strings. My favourite album.
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: Mine too. Brian.
	🥁 4:35pm Brian in UK: Funny, I was playing Hejira in the car today and appreciated how much I feel at home with her later, deeper voice. That said the early songs are top notch.
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: I prefer 70s Joni, but her early stuff is pretty amazing.
	4:41pm Sem: Lovin' this set. Much obliged, LG.
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Sem!
	🥁 4:43pm Brian in UK: Bookends was kind of subsumed by Trouble Over Bridgewater.
	4:43pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Yes. A lot of this stuff makes me a bit weepy.
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: Me too...me too.
	4:44pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: The Ink Spots makes me want to rewatch some Dennis Potter stuff.
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: I have an old best of the Ink Spots CD that I can listen to over and over again
	4:45pm Sem: Saw the Spots in Halifax Nova Scotia in the early 80s. Their sets were worn to sillky-smoothness by all those years. Still had the pipes, all of them.
	4:46pm Erica: I don't want to set the world on firrrree.
	4:47pm Funky16Corners: One of my father's favorite groups.
	🥁 4:48pm Brian in UK: Larry, another peerless episode. Thank you for the personal memories. Music is the message.
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: Thank you Brian!
	4:49pm doctorjazz: Lovely set!
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc!
	4:50pm doctorjazz: Great to hear Sassy, wotta set of pipes!
	4:50pm Michael 98145: Wow. That went fast. Thanks!
	4:50pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, these albums she did on Mainstream are great.
	4:52pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry. I’ve been doing done work to the tunes. Made it go far easier.
	4:52pm Michael 98145: Gilbert O'Sullivan.
	4:52pm Matt from New Orleans: Some work
	4:53pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Matt!
	4:53pm doctorjazz: I have tons of her earlier stuff-used to be allergic to jazz singers covering rock/pop stuff, but getting to like it (because I'm getting older?). Loved the show, Larry, thanks! (Trouble with pastrami, feel so loaded down afterwards...)
	4:54pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc! Now I want pastrami!
	4:55pm Erica: I prefer H Gilbert I Sullivan's version of Alone Again Naturally myself Michael.
	4:56pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry! A-musing show!
	4:56pm Erica: Seems that I got signed out. No matter. The show is about over now anyway.
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Theo!
	4:58pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Thanks a lot for compiling this show Larry, many beautiful tunes here, not a single weak one included.
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Photocopy! I'm glad you dug it!
	4:59pm Candy-O'67: Thanks, Larry! Very beautiful tunes!
	4:59pm Michael 98145: pastrami sounds pretty darn good right now
	5:02pm Dean: I remember when Physical Graffiti was released, but only just learned today that much of it was recorded years prior to is release.
	5:03pm Dean: its^
	5:05pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Candy-O!
	5:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dean! That makes sense.
	5:06pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: @5:02 Dean: That was their "Rolling STones" album - a new album that has really old stuff (old meaning a couple of years), oh and did not they use Rolling Stones Mobile studio for recording?
	5:06pm Erica: See you soon Larry.
	5:07pm Funky16Corners: Bye Erica!
	5:07pm Funky16Corners: The Rolling Truck Stones Thing (apologies to Deep Purple)
	5:08pm Dean: Seems they recorded in three or four locations. Not sure which studio(s), though, except Headley Grange.

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from August 27, 2020

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