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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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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Darlene Love  Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philles  1963  45 
Mavis Staples and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama  Children Go Where I Send Thee   Favoriting Go Tell It On the Mountain  Real World  2003  CD 
Staple Singers  There Was a Star   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Riverside  1962  45 
Otis Redding  Merry Christmas Baby   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atco  1968  45 
The Christmas Spirit  Christmas Is My Time of Year   Favoriting 45RPM Single  White Whale  1968  45 
The Credibility Gap  Something For Mary   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Warner Brothers  1973  45 
Honey and the Bees  Jing Jing a Ling   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Chess  1969  45 
 
Bobby Hollaway  Funky Little Drummer Boy   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Smash  1967  45 
Albert King  Santa CLaus Wants Some Lovin'   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Stax  1974  45 
Clarence Carter  Back Door Santa   Favoriting Clarence Carter's Greatest Hits  Atlantic  1968  LP 
Run DMC  Christmas In Hollis   Favoriting 45RPM Single  London  1987  45 
J Hines and the Boys  A Funky X-Mas To You   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Nation Wide  1968  45 
Count Sidney and His Dukes  Soul Christmas   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Goldband  1967  45 
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings  8 Days (Of Hanukkah)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Daptone  2015  45 
Garth and Kat  Hanukkah Album   Favoriting SNL  Bootleg  2016  MP3 
Woody Guthrie  Hanukkah Songs   Favoriting Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Volume 3  Folkways  1998  MP3 
 
James Brown  Santa Claus Go Straight To the Ghetto   Favoriting 45RPM Single  King  1968  45 
Stan Freberg  Christmas Dragnet (Yulenet)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1955  45 
Allan Sherman  12 Gifts of Christmas   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Warner Brothers  1965  45 
Homer and Jethro  (All I Want For Christmas Is) My Upper Plate   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1953  45 
Harvey Averne Band  Let's Get It Together This Christmas   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Fania  1970  45 
Canned Heat  Christmas Blues   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Liberty  1969  45 
Baby Washington  White Christmas   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Sue  1966  45 
Ike and Tina Turner  Merry Christmas Baby   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Warner Brothers  1965  45 
 
Louis Armstrong  Twas The Night Before Christmas   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Continental Production Company  1971  45 
Dee Irwin and Mamie Galore  All I Want For Christmas Is Your Love   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Imperial  1968  45 
Johnny and jon  Christmas In Vietnam   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Jewel  1965  45 
Lenox Ave  Little Drummer Boy   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Chess  1970  45 
Johnny Lytle  Chanukah   Favoriting New and Groovy  Tuba  1967  LP 
John Fahey  God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen   Favoriting The New Possibility  Takoma  1968  CD 
The Christmas Spirit  Will You Still Believe In Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  White Whale  1968  45 
Vince Guaraldi  Christmastime Is Here   Favoriting A Charlie Brown Christmas  Fantasy  1965  CD 
Charles Brown  Merry Christmas Baby   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Jewel  1970  45 
The Soulful Strings  Merry Christmas Baby   Favoriting The Magic of Christmas  Cadet  1968  LP 
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45 


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Jeff Ash:

Season's greetings from Green Bay, Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Jeff Ash:

Seeing Darlene Love sing this live a couple of years ago in Milwaukee was tremendous!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, what a voice!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Parq:

Ass-kicking opener. (Okay, technically, Darlene was the opener, but still.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Parq!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Parq:

The Darlene is an old favorite but the Mavis/Blind cut is a revelation.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, one of my favorite Christmas songs from the gospel tradition
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Mavis Staples recordings, 40 years apart
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Funky16Corners:

This is various and sundry Turtles, Gram Parsons and Linda Ronstadt (among others)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Parq:

I bought an album almost 15 years ago with the Monkees version of "Christmas is My", and never heard the Turtles Etc. version until this year, and now I've heard it twice.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Funky16Corners:

It's a great 45. I'll play the other side later in the show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Larry and all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
JtotheK:

hi F16C, hi everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Parq:

Oh man, I just *love* this Honey and the Bees.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C, J!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Funky16Corners:

@Parq, a great Christmas record that's also a great soul record
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
JtotheK:

@Jeff Ash -- green bay, huh? are there still record shows there are few times a year - and if so, are they decent for soul 45s?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Jeff Ash:

We have two record shows, in the spring and the fall. Not many soul records turn up here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
coelacanth∅:

I was out of the room...is that "merry christmas baby" the Charles Brown song?
Avatar 10:28pm
northguineahills:

2017 has been the worst, and possibly one of the best years of my life. I have optimism personally, and limited optimism worldly.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm heading to bed, but I wanted to pop into the comments to wish you happy holidays, Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Unk!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
JtotheK:

thanks for the info, jeff.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey NGH, I feel you. This year has been unrelenting. Hard to stay positive, but stay positive we must
Avatar 10:32pm
northguineahills:

UM, you're back a few time zones, yet, you go to sleep early some nights (and others are out as late as I am).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm one time zone away and I crash anywhere from 9:30 to 11:00...but I start heading that way earlier. I also keep the usic playing.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Funky16Corners:

If I wasn't on the air I'd be relaxing in bed, too
Avatar 10:34pm
still b/p:

So McKean and Lander of Credibility Gap became....Lenny and Squiggy. That familiar odd story & journey....people with a presumably sharp satirical sense shift over to the worst lowbrow whitebread kind of entertainment. Yes, I know McKean went on to other smarter material later.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Funky16Corners:

I hope Lenny and Squiggy fattened their bank accounts
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Uncle Michael:

The Lenny & the Squigtones album had a long life in the cutout bins.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Funky16Corners:

Featuring a young Nigel Tufnel?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Uncle Michael:

In his teddy boy period.
Avatar 10:38pm
northguineahills:

Surprisingly G rated for Clarence Carter!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Funky16Corners:

Not if you have a dirty enough mind!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
JtotheK:

@NGH, yeah - for some reason "strokin" never took off as a holiday airplay tune...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Jeff Ash:

Amen, brother. "Back Door Santa" is filthy.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Funky16Corners:

I'll be there's a spicy live version out there somewhere
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
JtotheK:

i have a treacherous 3 holiday 45, recommended.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Jeff Ash:

!!!!!!!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Funky16Corners:

I'll have to look for that!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Jeff Ash:

"Christmas In Hollis" has become a classic over the last 30 years.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Funky16Corners:

It certainly has. I still remember the video
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Uncle Michael:

ok, I'm outta here...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite UM!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
coelacanth∅:

back door Santa is pretty thinly veiled, even by Clarence's standards.
...my 2 possibly favorite Clarence Carter songs are both rated g. (road of love; I'd rather go blind)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
coelacanth∅:

night UM
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Funky16Corners:

Clarence is underrated
  10:51pm
DJ Pat K:

Testify!! Great show tonight!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Pat!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
coelacanth∅:

not in my world. i've done my little bit to help - in the pub, via jukebox.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:00pm
Funky16Corners:

Then you are doing good work!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
Funky16Corners:

That's no brownie! That's the Attorney General!!
Avatar 11:11pm
still b/p:

Oh, we listened to this Allan Sherman when it was newish. The Japanese transistor radio is the only listed gift I actually remembered though.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
Funky16Corners:

I love Allan Sherman.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
Funky16Corners:

My 4th Grade teacher Mrs Teller used to play his records for us
Avatar 11:13pm
still b/p:

Last week I watched a clip of him doing a medley of his stuff with Dean Martin and Vic Damone.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
Funky16Corners:

He was hilarious, especially so if you grew up around Jewish people. You get a lot more of the jokes.
Avatar 11:20pm
still b/p:

In a different version of the path I was talking about earlier, the suits wanted him to go for broader appeal and be less....ethnic.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Funky16Corners:

That's a shame. His NY/Jewish flavor was one of the reasons he was so good. His medley of Irish songs turned Jewish is one of the best things he ever did (Switching out HARRIGAN for HOROWITZ)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
Jeff Ash:

Satchmo. Yesssssssss.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:27pm
Parq:

Larry, you are KILLING it! What a great mix of my faves (you shoulda seen me drunkenly tagging key words to the Stan Frieberg track) and stuff I don't know. If Mrs. Funky 16 and the kiddums ever head to the inlaws and leave you behind, you are *so* welcome at our house for Christmas. You would fit *right* in.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:27pm
Funky16Corners:

I love the way he does this
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Parq! High praise indeed!
Avatar 11:28pm
still b/p:

If Thurl Ravenscroft hadn't been available for that iconic rendition of You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch, it's fun to imagine a Louis take on it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
Funky16Corners:

Louis gets extra credit for saying DONDER and not DONNER!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
Parq:

It's worth adding that I *had* one of those Japanese transistor radios. One of the best Christmas presents I've had in my whole sexagenarian life.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
Funky16Corners:

I wonder if there are other recordings of the Grinch out there that predate the TV special?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Parq:

Oh, Still, I'm going to be up all night imagining that.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Funky16Corners:

I was recently regaling my son with tales of my multi-band portable radio that I got as a gift when I was 10 or 11. HUGELY important to my musical development
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
Funky16Corners:

A JOIK!!
Avatar 11:32pm
northguineahills:

Thanks for this Satchmo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Parq:

Larry, there's an extra on the Grinch DVD in which Thurl explains that he showed up to do the job on the "Welcome Christmas" session and then the composer approached him and asked him to try his hand at another song he wrote for the production The rest, as they say, is --- well, you know.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Funky16Corners:

Thurl is such a part of our childhood, but I'd bet most people never heard his name.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Funky16Corners:

Tony the Tiger!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Parq:

Speaking of Thurl, for those of you who don't know about it:

blog.wfmu.org...
Avatar 11:34pm
still b/p:

A photo line-up of every transistor radio I owned as a kid would be great. One was the Sunoco gas pump model, which a friend gave me for a birthday (11th?), and he discourteously told me before presenting it, like it was a grudging sacrifice he'd made, "I paid four bucks for it."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Funky16Corners:

@NGH - My Pleasure!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
Funky16Corners:

SBP - In our house we have the legend of my Pop's Montgomery Ward model that got left on the dashboard one hot, summer day. The back of teh case melted over the insides, yet it continued to work for years
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44pm
coelacanth∅:

Santa somebody apparently put a little transistor radio in each of our stockings when I was maybe 7-8. that was big. I remember doing a lot more walking around with no destination after that, just to walk around with that radio.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:44pm
Jeff Ash:

Touching all the bases tonight! John Fahey. Sweet.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
Funky16Corners:

This is a great album
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - Kids today (cough, cough...) have no idea how important those things were
Avatar 11:46pm
northguineahills:

John Fahey (jumps an awkward happy dance). I have Fahey xmas albums, but not this one, Yes, happy laddy am I. Going to hit the hay after midnight, thanks LD and all of our fine folks! (uggh, I sound like I live in the South)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:47pm
Funky16Corners:

Fahey was such a brilliant guitarist, and almost as troubled as he was gifted
Avatar 11:48pm
northguineahills:

In one of Christian Marclay's Xmas parties (where DJ Olive was a guest), I saw Christian scratch up (in a good way) a Fahey Xmas record. It was a good night.
Avatar 11:49pm
northguineahills:

Yeah, Fahey is finger pickin' good!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
coelacanth∅:

Larry @11.45 ugh, don't get me started! (take liberties adding an accent to that)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Funky16Corners:

Did you read his biography?
Avatar 11:51pm
northguineahills:

(which [fahey] one?)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
Funky16Corners:

Brutal
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, Fahey
Avatar 11:53pm
northguineahills:

Crap, most of my books are still boxed.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Funky16Corners:

It was interesting, and well written, but so much of his later life was an utter disaster that it was a little painful to read
Avatar 11:55pm
still b/p:

Make the day after Christmas unBoxing Day.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
Funky16Corners:

Good idea!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
JtotheK:

thanks for the tunes, Larry - all the best to you and yours! i hope to be around for your fill in tomorrow, cheers everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
coelacanth∅:

at the pub, about a month ago already, somehow the charlie brown christmas special came on, instead of the usual horribleness. i hadn't seen that in years, and it was a huge thing in our household. others were enjoying it too.
then someone (a friend) who's always sneaking behind the bar to change the station to some sports thing, did that -right at the climax near the end, and people started yelling! fucking funny! I got right up and grabbed the remote to change it back, but nobody knew what station it was on. so we missed the end.
  11:57pm
Dean:

Dance of death : the life of John Fahey, American guitarist / Steve Lowenthal.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
Funky16Corners:

Night J!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - That is a good story. I hope he wasn't beaten too badly by the crowd.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - Thanks, that's the one
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:00am
coelacanth∅:

ha never! but I never saw him try to look small before that!
Avatar 12:01am
still b/p:

Thanks and good night.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03am
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry merry everything to you - all.
tchau
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:03am
Funky16Corners:

Nite guys! Merry/Happy Everything!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04am
Parq:

Superb. Merry Christmas, Larry. Have a great weekend and a fine week.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:04am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Parq!
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