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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 September 24, 2020: Testify! - Starring Paul Williams, Co-Starring Roger Nichols (and assorted heavy friends)!

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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)
Holy Mackerel  To Put up With You   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Reprise  1968  45  0:01:26 (Pop-up)
Holy Mackerel  1984   Favoriting Holy Mackerel  Reprise  1968  LP  0:04:50 (Pop-up)
Biff Rose  Fill Your Heart   Favoriting The Thorn In Mrs Rose's Side  Tetragrammaton  1968  LP  0:09:14 (Pop-up)
Biff Rose  I'll Walk Away   Favoriting Biff Rose  Buddah  1970  LP  0:12:26 (Pop-up)
The Neighborhood  So Many People   Favoriting Debut  Big Tree  1970  LP  0:15:13 (Pop-up)
 
Paul Williams  Someday Man   Favoriting Someday Man  Reprise  1970  LP  0:23:26 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams  So Many People   Favoriting Someday Man  Reprise  1970  LP  0:26:11 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams  Time   Favoriting Someday Man  Reprise  1970  LP  0:28:24 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams  Trust   Favoriting Someday Man  Reprise  1970  LP  0:31:18 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams  Mornin' I'll Be Movin' On   Favoriting Someday Man  Reprise  1970  LP  0:33:57 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams  To Put up With You   Favoriting Someday Man  Reprise  1970  LP  0:36:45 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams  Waking Up Alone   Favoriting Just an Old Fashioned Love Song  A&M  1971  LP  0:39:31 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams  We've Only Just Begun   Favoriting Just an Old Fashioned Love Song  A&M  1971  LP  0:43:04 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams  An Old Fashioned Love Song   Favoriting Just An Old Fashioned Love Song  A&M  1971  LP  0:46:28 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams  Nilsson Sings Newman   Favoriting Here Comes Inspiration  A&M  1974  LP  0:49:34 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams  The Ones Who Love Ya   Favoriting The Odd Couple  Unger/Madison  1974  MP3  0:50:25 (Pop-up)
Paul Williams  Rainy Days and Mondays   Favoriting Here Comes Inspiration  A&M  1974  LP  0:52:41 (Pop-up)
 
Peppermint Trolley Co  Trust   Favoriting Peppermint Trolley Co  Acta  1968  LP  1:02:44 (Pop-up)
Claudine Longet  It's Hard To Say Goodbye   Favoriting 45RPM Single  A&M  1968  45  1:05:22 (Pop-up)
Carol Dunn  Bitter Honey   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Congress  1968  45  1:08:32 (Pop-up)
Punch  Travelin' Boy   Favoriting Punch  A&M  1971  LP  1:10:58 (Pop-up)
Sunshine Company  To Put Up With You   Favoriting Sunshine and Shadows  Imperial  1968  LP  1:14:20 (Pop-up)
Harpers Bizarre  Look to the Rainbow/The Drifter/Reprise   Favoriting Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre  Warner Brothers  1968  LP  1:16:53 (Pop-up)
The Four King Cousins  If I Fell   Favoriting Introducing  Capitol  1968  LP  1:21:24 (Pop-up)
The Match  Time   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1970  45  1:23:57 (Pop-up)
The Monkees  Someday Man   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Colgems  1969  45  1:26:27 (Pop-up)
Carpenters  Rainy Days and Mondays   Favoriting 45RPM Single  A&M  1971  45  1:29:03 (Pop-up)
Joey Heatherton  Say Hello   Favoriting The Joey Heatherton Album  MGM  1972  LP  1:32:34 (Pop-up)
Barbra Streisand  I Won't Last a Day Without You   Favoriting Butter Fly  Columbia  1974  LP  1:35:13 (Pop-up)
Three Dog Night  Out In the Country   Favoriting 45RPM Single  ABC/Dunhill  1970  45  1:39:27 (Pop-up)
Three Dog Night  An Old Fashioned Love Song   Favoriting 45RPM Single  ABC/Dunhill  1971  45  1:42:30 (Pop-up)
The Intruders  Rainy Days and Mondays   Favoriting The Energy of Love  Philadelphia International  1974  LP  1:45:51 (Pop-up)
Willie Nelson  The Rainbow Connection   Favoriting Rainbow Connection  Island  2001  CD  1:52:21 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  2:04:04 (Pop-up)

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Phillippe Bastille:

firsties!
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Funky16Corners:

Phillippe!
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SquigY0:

oh man I woulda been first, but opened the wrong damn browser!
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dutchtheo:

Larry! testify to the holy mackerel!
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Funky16Corners:

SquigY0! Theo!
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SquigY0:

I got my emailed ballot today! I forgot where I was and what I was doing for a full 90 mins I was so happy
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Funky16Corners:

We haven't gotten ours yet.
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SquigY0:

Looks like I can drop-off as early as Monday so a field trip is likely in order!
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Funky16Corners:

As soon as we get ours we're fillig them out and taking them to the dropbox
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SquigY0:

yup! no wait for the post office to lose it or delay it. and ours will actually tell me on the site when they've received it
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Erica:

I had a hard time finding this week's playlist. But I am here now.
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SquigY0:

welcome Erica!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Erica!
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SquigY0:

a little Tom Lehrer in the vocals there
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:11pm
Funky16Corners:

I never made that connection, hut you're right!
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northguineahills:

Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

NGH!
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Little Danny:

Hey Larry 'n' all
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Danny!
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SquigY0:

greetz Danny
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Brian in UK:

Hello Larry, love elfin.
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Little Danny:

Heyo Squiqo
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northguineahills:

uhhhmmmm, I'm a in my mid-40s, and I have Paul Williams records, and read quite a bit of them (but that can go for any song writer/recording artists since the the age of the wax cylinder.)
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WR:

My preferred singers of Williams songs are, in no particular order, Biff Rose and Kermit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:24pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Brian! WR!
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Funky16Corners:

@Brian - If ever the use of elfin as a descriptor was apt, it was surely in the case of Paul Williams
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Jeff Ash:

Checking in from Wisconsin this afternoon.
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Brian in UK:

Bijou or petit do not do the job.
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Erica:

My other favorite version of this song.
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SquigY0:

this is realgood feelgood
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff!
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Funky16Corners:

@Erica - You will hear the other one later on in the show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:31pm
Funky16Corners:

I was a little surprised at how little footage I was able to find of Williams performing music. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but it hasn't made its way to Youtube.
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Funky16Corners:

And this, right here is one of my most beloved, favorite songs of all time.
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Little Danny:

Very much enjoying this first listen of "Someday Man." It almost sounds like a follow-up Holy Mackerel LP.
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Funky16Corners:

I have said, perhaps hyperbolically, that Someday Man is the Forever Changes of soft pop. Full of masterful songwriting that surprises and pleases at every turn.
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

@3:32 Funky16Corners: Hey Larry! you know what, I have no personal history with his music - but this album is now on my shopping list. What can I say, right up my alley.
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Little Danny:

I can hear that.
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Brian in UK:

Mr Williams did not receive much promotion over here as I recall.
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Funky16Corners:

@Photocopy - Excellent! Another convert comes to the altar!
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Funky16Corners:

@Brian - Here neither. He was all over TV, but was regarded more as a personality than a songwriter, though Im sure his songs made him quite wealthy
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Erica:

Moving on sounds like a song by Chicago.
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northguineahills:

off to work, thanks, Larry, will listen via the app!
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Funky16Corners:

Bye NGH!
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Do you know if there is affordable vintage vinyl of this? Some Reprise albums are not that expenisve - I have found pearls For Swine's The Use of ashes for a tenner (don't remember if it was GBP or euros) - and it was a 1970 original (1st pressing?) in MINT condition.
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Funky16Corners:

I think you could probably get one for 20-25 bucks
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Funky16Corners:

It took me a while to find an affordable copy of The Use of Ashes
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

@3:41 Funky16Corners: hmmmm, maybe the guy who sold me my copy was either generous or did not know what he was doing, this is maybe 3 years ago. This was from UK via discogs - but I have heard of their albums being sold for even cheaper here in Finland (original or otherwise old pressings)
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Funky16Corners:

I think with Pearls Before Swine, the audience is limited, but their record sales were even MORE limited.
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Erica:

Just an old fashioned love song...Dixieland style.
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Funky16Corners:

This song only ever appeared on The Odd Couple. No albums, no other versions either
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northguineahills:

It's weird I saw almost all episodes of the Odd Couple. There was only so much budget American TV available on AFRTS (American armed Forces Television Services). in 1989, we got a second channel!
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northguineahills:

(when I lived in Japan)
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SquigY0:

NEWWWWWMAN!!!
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doctorjazz:

Missed the Biff Rose (just got a copy of "...Thorn" I the mail yesterday...).
Hi folks!
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SquigY0:

welcome doc
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Funky16Corners:

@Doc - I think you'll love it. It's such a great album.
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Funky16Corners:

The Peppermint Trolley Company perform this on an episode of Mannix, featuring Harry Dean Stanton as the recording engineer
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Otis Fodder:

Hi all. Coming off of Sheena's and I caught Paul Williams and now Claudine. I think I found my way home.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Otis!
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Doug Schulkind:

It's easy to say hello, Larry and all Testifillians!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Doug!
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Otis Fodder:

Speaking of Use of Ashes, took me years and finally upgraded my beat up vinyl to a minty copy last year. I am both a Someday and very Patient Man.
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Funky16Corners:

Another all time classic album!
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Otis Fodder:

Someday Man took me a while to find a clean press. Thankfully Paul's later albums are super affordable and such a big admirer of his songwriting.. and voice!
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Otis Fodder:

Ha, this Punch album is awesome too. A new-ish find just a couple of years ago, saw the goofy grins on the cover and picked it up for something like a five-spot. Shelf-keeper.
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Funky16Corners:

Yes! I enjoy his singing, too. Gilbert Gottfried does a hilarious impersonation of Williams, that he did when Paul was on his podcast
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Funky16Corners:

Punch are goofy looking. They look like four members of Up With People found a joint and got high
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Erica:

Haha Gilbert Gottfried is hilarious.
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Otis Fodder:

So goofy, yea... ha, smoking for the first time! Ha!
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Funky16Corners:

Gilbert and Paul duetted on The Rainbow Connection
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SquigY0:

HA!!
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Otis Fodder:

I even like Paul Williams dressed up for Planet of the Apes. Now if only he would sing So Many People in Ape Attire.
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Funky16Corners:

Have you ever seen the clip of him on the Tonight Show in Apes makeup?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:19pm
Otis Fodder:

Now, but going to look it up now.
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Funky16Corners:

It's hilarious. Also, check out the 1965 movie of 'The Loved One'. He's in it, he's 23 but looks 12
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Funky16Corners:

It's a good movie, too
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Otis Fodder:

Great, haven't seen either. Nice!
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SquigY0:

oh man the Paul Williams rabbit hole that is swallowing us up
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Funky16Corners:

Featuring Jonathan Winters and a supremely weird Rod Steiger
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Otis Fodder:

We need a bio-doc or just doc on the man. I wonder if there is one?
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Funky16Corners:

There is indeed! Paul Williams Still Alive. I think it's streaming, too
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Otis Fodder:

Nice, will check out. Thanks!
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Erica:

Here's the version of Someday Man I waited for.
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Funky16Corners:

That voice...
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SquigY0:

sorry...Karen!
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Erica:

Hello hello.
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Funky16Corners:

This is from the album where Streisand does Bowie's Life On Mars
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Erica:

Babs!
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Jeff Ash:

This one from Three Dog Night gets overlooked and/or forgotten.
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah, I can't remember the last time I heard it on oldies radio
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Funky16Corners:

It was a pretty substantial hit, too
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Erica:

I can't remember last time I heard oldies radio period Larry.
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Jeff Ash:

These Three Dog Night songs take me right back to rather specific times and places. A vibe from another time.
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SquigY0:

"oldies" is defined differently than when I was growing up. Same as "classic rock"
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Funky16Corners:

I have deep Boy Scout Camp memories associated with Shambala
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SquigY0:

pretty sure Pearl Jam isn't classic rock. Call me crazy...
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Jeff Ash:

Yep, Shambala is another one.
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Erica:

Yeah SquigY0 most oldies stations are classic hits stations that now play mostly 80s MTV music with some 70s and 90s mixed in.
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Funky16Corners:

Even the real oldies stations are obsessed with the Top 10. You never get to hear the stuff from 11 to 40
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Erica:

70s and 90s music I mean.
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Erica:

I mean I heard No Doubt on a station that used to play oldies before.
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Funky16Corners:

Pearl Jam is more than 20 years ago
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Funky16Corners:

Most of what I think of as oldies is more than 50 years old
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Jeff Ash:

Thanks so much! ;-)
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Funky16Corners:

Hey, I'm 58!
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Erica:

Hey this has been a nice show Larry.
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dutchtheo:

Hey, I'm 58! Thanks, Larry!
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Jeff Ash:

Hey, I'm ... ah ... never mind.
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

I have lost the competition - I am only 44 (I feel MUCH older).

That said, what a lovely show, even if I arrived late - but just in time for some choice cuts from Paul Williams! Loved this, this is such a good show Larry! Stay safe, everyone!
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SquigY0:

you too Cha Cha!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks everyone!
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SquigY0:

thanks as always Larry for the adventure, entertainment, and education!
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WR from the app:

Thanknyou Larry!
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rw:

Thank you F16C!!! Cool show. Brought back memories!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks guys!
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Erica:

Enjoy your week off Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Erica!
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Cal Zone!:

Awesome show LG! Love the Unger/Madison label! Big fan!
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Funky16corners:

Thanks Cal!
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