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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 31, 2018: An evening listening intently to women making beautiful music.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Etta James  Tell Mama   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Chess  1967  45 
Gladys Knight and the Pips  Just Walk In My Shoes   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Soul  1966  45 
Gloria Jones  Heartbeat Pt1   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Uptown  1965  45 
Irma Thomas  What Are You Trying To Do   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Imperial  1965  45 
Piccola Pupa  Breakaway   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Warner Brothers  1965  45 
Sandy Wynns  Love Belongs To Everyone   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Champion  1964  45 
Vicky Gomez  Boys Are a Dime a Dozen   Favoriting 45RPM Single  ABC/Paramount  1965  45 
Rita and the Tiaras  Gone With the Wind Is My Love   Favoriting Collectors Delight Volume One  Dore  1967  LP 
 
The Apollas  Mr Creator   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Warner Brothers  1967  45 
Dorothy Berry  Shindig City   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Planetary  1965  45 
Funky Sisters  Soul Woman   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Aurora  1968  45 
Bobbettes  Tighten Up Your Own Home   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mayhew  1972  45 
Roberta Flack  Compared To What   Favoriting First Take  Atlantic  1969  LP 
Mieko Hirota  On a Sorrowful Day   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia JP  1969  45 
Nanette Workman  Lady Marmalade   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Pacha  1975  45 
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll and the Trinity  Indian Ropeman   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Marmalade  1969  45 
 
Twiggy  When I Think About You   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1967  45 
Lynne Randell  That's a Hoedown   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Epic  1967  45 
Lulu  Love Loves To Love Love   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Epic  1967  45 
Janis Ian  Sweet Misery   Favoriting The Secret Life of J Eddy Fink  Verve  1968  LP 
Julie Budd  All's Quiet On West 23rd Street   Favoriting Child of PLenty  MGM  1968  LP 
Jeannie Piersol  Gladys   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Cadet Concept  1968  45 
Norma Tanega  Walking My Cat Named Dog   Favoriting Walking My Cat Named Dog  New Voice  1966  LP 
Lesley Gore  Off and Running   Favoriting California Nights  Mercury  1967  LP 
Francoise Hardy  Ce Petit Couer   Favoriting Francoise Hardy  Four Corners  1965  LP 
2 of Clubs  Heart   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Fraternity  1966  45 
Evie Sands  Take Me For a Little While   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Blue Cat  1965  45 
Bonnie Hayes and Wild Combo  Girls Like Me   Favoriting Good Clean Fun  Slash  1982  LP 
 
Shirley Bassey  Light My Fire   Favoriting Something  United Artists  1970  LP 
Rita Coolidge  Walkin' In the Morning   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Pepper  1969  45 
Lynn Castle and Last Friday's Fire  Rose Colored Corner   Favoriting 45RPM Single  LHI  1969  45 
Merilee Rush  Reach Out   Favoriting 45RPM Single  AGP  1968  45 
Roslyn Kind  A Modern Day Version of Love   Favoriting Give Me You  RCA  1969  LP 
Tina Mason  Are You There   Favoriting Something Wonderful  Capitol  1967  LP 
Dusty Springfield  No Stranger Am I   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1968  45 
Brenda Lee  The Crying Game   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Decca  1965  45 
Della Reese  It Was a Very Good Year   Favoriting 45RPM Single  ABC/Paramount  1966  45 
 
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 10:02pm
Jeff Ash:

Hello from Wisconsin, where we're about to go back into the deep freeze through the weekend. We gather for some heat from Mr. Larry Grogan!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Uncle Michael:

'zappening?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Unk!
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coelacanth∅:

hey Larry and others
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
Avatar 10:06pm
still b/p:

I like this GK&P...don't think I've heard it. Did it do anything in '66?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey SBP! According to Billboard R&B not a thing. Big record on the Northern Soul scene though
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Funky16Corners:

ARSA says that it had regional Top 40 success in the midwest
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Parq:

Supper's almost ready.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Parq!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Parq:

(Mrs. Parq works late.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Funky16Corners:

Mrs Testify was out tonight so the Grogan boys had a big greasy pizza with anchovies
  10:21pm
cupcakejenny:

Psst. You don’t “spin” things into the warp and weft. That’s weaving. ;D
Avatar 10:22pm
still b/p:

I'm having a roasted vegetable pizza (that started froze) and I added butternut squash and pesto quinoa on top.

Speaking of 1966 music, that's one of those years with a pretty extraordinary fun and interesting line-up for the Billboard Top 100. I'm biased, of course, by memories and nostalgia and the follow-up appreciation and broader history of pop & rock. But, I'm tellin' ya...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Funky16Corners:

1966 is my pick for the best year of the 60s. It really represents a sweet spot for stylistic growth and transitions
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
coelacanth∅:

i've said before i think the renaissance of modern music was from 1966 through 1977. ...am i being too generous to go up to '77? maybe '75.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
coelacanth∅:

(of course this is greatly influenced by my own preferences!)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Funky16Corners:

If you include 77 you get punk in full flower and the birth of new wave
Avatar 10:33pm
still b/p:

Guy I used to work with would say "we got ripped off...shafted" because our junior high through young adult years were in a period of poor music -- the 70s. I said no no no. You just weren't looking or weren't aware of the range. It wasn't just bubble gum and disco. (And even some of that found redemption in my ears later.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, plenty to love in the 70s. Some night I'm going to do a show composed entirely of high quality disco and stylish modern soul from the 70s
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
coelacanth∅:

right. and i'm a big fan - up to '79 or '80 maybe 81 latest.
but aside from punk/new wave there was a general shift, starting sometime mid-70s toward less creativity and more marketability. punk was the only bright spot, i think, after rock became bravado and formulaic, and disco came.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Funky16Corners:

I think the record industry was cranked up on cocaine and high profits. I always look to the packaging of records as a touchstone. They were doing crazy things with record jackets in the mid to late 70s that must have cost a fortune with very little return. By the early 80s MCA was shoving double albums into single sleeves to save money
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
coelacanth∅:

this song - one version or another, gets played either in my house or via the jukebox at the pub, more than once/week. Roberta was my first.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
coelacanth∅:

yeah i got some of those who reissues on mca. good deal for poor people.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Funky16Corners:

I have to play the original 1967 Compared to What by Les McCann, two years before his duet with Eddie Harris
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Funky16Corners:

Actually 1966 www.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
coelacanth∅:

to be clear - i like a lot of music from every year of the 70s; including some cheesy rock, cheesy prog and shallow disco! i'm just saying it wasn't a time for blossoming creativity in most of the industry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Funky16Corners:

Agreed
Avatar 10:44pm
still b/p:

I hope Roberta included numbers like Compared to What when she was singing live...and not just the big later softer hits.
She's 80 -- still performing?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
coelacanth∅:

-and the 70s was a fantastic time for reggae
Avatar 10:45pm
still b/p:

"And now we've put together this collection of CDs called 'Extra Cheese' so you can relive those days through this special offer!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
coelacanth∅:

now i'm thinking maybe i've never even heard the Les McCann version, without Eddie Harris
...the live one with Harris is straight up Orgasmic though! it gets people drumming on the bar every time!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
coelacanth∅:

sbp i wouldn't buy that; i could make my own though!
  10:51pm
cupcakejenny:

Distaff??? My fiber Love is rubbing off on you tonight:)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Funky16Corners:

Is distaff a term used in the world of yarn?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Funky16Corners:

@C 10:48 - I'm shocked that the original version by McCann isn't better known. As far as I can tell Gene McDaniels never recorded his own
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
coelacanth∅:

that first take also has an excellent cover of a Leonard Cohen song, hey that's no way to say goodbye. but yeah the whole album -whew! very moving
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Parq:

A hoe-down. There's a truly awful pun in there, but I'm too weary to think it up
  10:56pm
cupcakejenny:

In spinning with a spindle. It’s a tall thing that holds fiber. Isn’t there a Distaff Day or a St. Distaff day?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
coelacanth∅:

i have to hear the Les McCann one
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Funky16Corners:

I'll put it on the list
Avatar 10:57pm
still b/p:

We could all turn into my Dad later...up with insomnia and late night TV and thinking the country music collection is lookin' pretty good. He was trying to decide last year between that and some one of the loudly pitched gizmos or products.

distaff -- a staff for holding the flax, tow, or wool in spinning. didn'tknow that definition, only the other.

Riffy shot of Last Train to Clarksville in the Hoedown.
  10:57pm
cupcakejenny:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distaff_Day
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Funky16Corners:

According to Webster the yarn definition is the primary one. I always heard the word used to describe the female
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Parq you already have! but let's just let that one lie there.
(ehem)
  10:59pm
cupcakejenny:

Well, St Distaff day is made up I think. Its about women going back to work after ephiphony
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
coelacanth∅:

Lulu could've said "Love, Love Loves to Love Love, Love" (a la "buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo")
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
coelacanth∅:

(actually that first comma shouldn't be there)
Avatar 11:10pm
still b/p:

I recognize this done by someone else on the record player in To Sir With Love. Mindbenders.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
Funky16Corners:

The Mindbenders covered it in the movie
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:12pm
Funky16Corners:

It was the very first record i ever played on Testify!
Avatar 11:15pm
still b/p:

I wisht I'da heard that inaugural spin. I'd have thought, "Oh. Things will be good here."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
coelacanth∅:

heh i thought sbp was calling the coincidence, since we just heard Lulu, a mindbender
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks! Hopefully they still are!
  11:16pm
Doctorjazz:

Hi, checking in for a bit.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:17pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
  11:17pm
Doctorjazz:

This Evie Sands track is great!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
Funky16Corners:

One of the greatest songs ever written
Avatar 11:21pm
still b/p:

Now, regressive sorts of males could say, in the fashion of "Ginger? ...or Mary Ann?" such males could say,"Lulu? ...or Judy Geeson?"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
Funky16Corners:

Lulu, all the way
Avatar 11:27pm
still b/p:

Well....all the way is up to her.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:27pm
Funky16Corners:

But of course
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
Jeff Ash:

This is a most enjoyable show! Nice work!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Jeff!
  11:37pm
Doctorjazz:

Man, what a version of Reach Out! Reminds me of the way Vanilla Fudge did their covers (great vocal).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:38pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, really unusual as it's a follow up to Angle of the Morning
Avatar 11:51pm
still b/p:

This is fun, Della's take.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah. BIG fave of mine
  11:53pm
Doctorjazz:

Thanks Larry, really enjoyed the tunes, night all!
Avatar 11:54pm
still b/p:

A duet would've been fun with Frank....but back in the late 60s, not like Frank's late, late kind of vacant duets.

Wonderful show, thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
coelacanth∅:

it was very fudgie
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry
good night all
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks C, everyone!
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