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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 
We Five  You Were On My Mind   Favoriting 45RPM Single  A&M  1965  45 
Beau Brummels  When It Comes To Your Love   Favoriting Volume 2  Autumn  1965  LP 
Mojo Men  Off the Hook   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Autumn  1965  45 
Sly  Buttermilk Pt1   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Autumn  1965  45 
 
The Count Five  Psychotic Reaction   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Double Shot  1966  45 
The Other Side  Walking Down the Road   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Brent  1966  45 
Knight Riders  I   Favoriting San Francisco Roots  Vault  1968  LP 
The Mourning Reign  Satisfaction Guaranteed   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Link  1966  45 
The Chocolate Watchband  Sweet Young Thing   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Tower  1967  45 
The New Breed  Want Ad Reader   Favoriting 45RPM Single  HBR  1966  45 
The Charlatans  Alabama Bound   Favoriting Alabama Bound  Philips  1968  LP 
Jefferson Airplane  3/5 Mile In Ten Seconds   Favoriting Surrealistic Pillow  RCA  1967  LP 
Jefferson Airplane  My Best Friend   Favoriting Surrealistic Pillow  RCA  1967  LP 
Sons of Champlin  Fat City   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Verve  1966  45 
 
The Loading Zone  Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead   Favoriting The Loading Zone  RCA  1968  LP 
Grateful Dead  The Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion   Favoriting Grateful Dead  Warner Brothers  1967  LP 
Grateful Dead  Born Cross Eyed   Favoriting Anthem of the Sun  Warner Brothers  19681  LP 
Country Joe and the Fish  Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine   Favoriting Electric Music For the Mind and Body  Vanguard  1967  LP 
Country Joe and the Fish  Superbird   Favoriting Electric Music For the Mind and Body  Vangauard  1967  LP 
Moby Grape  Omaha   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia  1967  45 
Sopwith Camel  Cellophane Woman   Favoriting Sopwith Camel  Kama Sutra  1967  LP 
 
Steve Miller Band  Living In the USA   Favoriting Sailor  Capitol  1968  LP 
Big Brother and the Holding Company  Combination of the Two   Favoriting Cheap Thrills  Columbia  1968  LP 
Quicksilver Messenger Service  Who Do You Love   Favoriting Happy Trails  Capitol  1969  LP 
Quicksilver Messenger Service  Mona   Favoriting Happy Trails  Capitol  1969  LP 
Kak  Rain (45 Edit)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Epic  1968  45 
Clover  Shotgun   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Liberty (Italy)  1970  45 
Santana  Persuasion   Favoriting Santana  Columbia  1969  LP 
Sly and the Family Stone  I Want To Take You Higher   Favoriting Stand  Epic  1969  LP 
It's a Beautiful Day  White Bird   Favoriting It's a Beautiful Day  Columbia  1969  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
Parq:

Made it! Battery died and I was worried I wouldn't be here for the intro. Baby baby baby ...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Parq!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Parq:

I *love* this We Five number.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
coelacanth∅:

hey Larry ...and flower children
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes indeed. Great record.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

And IMHO better than the original
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
coelacanth∅:

i don't recall ever hearing an earlier version of you were on my mind. i might've guessed that that was the original.
Avatar 10:06pm
hyde:

only here briefly, but hello
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

It was by Ian and Sylvia
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Hyde!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
coelacanth∅:

i hear your voice. the music before your voice didn't fit in with the theme, from what i can tell.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, the connection software crapped out and the stream popped back in, Can you hear the Count Five now?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Uncle Michael:

Hello.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Uncle Michael:

yes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Parq:

Somebody -- I don't remember who, maybe Uncle Michael? -- played the other version recently.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
coelacanth∅:

oh yeah!
- this track never wears out!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Unk!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Parq:

I heard everything that's listed on your playlist. And there was only a very brief gap before your voice came back in. I mean a second, maybe.
  10:16pm
still b/p:

Hear’em fine. Unless I’m having, y’know....a sigh caught tick reaction.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Uncle Michael:

I played the Brenton Wood version last July.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Funky16Corners:

I def disconnected for a minute or so
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Parq:

I was about to say "But then, I'm on the stream" and then I remembered that this is Drummer Some and the stream is all there is.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Uncle Michael:

yes you did, briefly
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Parq:

Well, my puter must have processed it efficiently, because i scarcely had time to look up before you were back.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
coelacanth∅:

there was a minute or more of a stream song...guy with maybe a hispanic "accent" and a raunchy bluesy git.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Funky16Corners:

I couldn't tell what was up for a second, my screen went completely black
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Parq:

Mentioning "Drummer Some" reminds me, anyone know how our fearless leader is doing? He ought to be in his finals period now, and having been to professional school myself, I know what that's like.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Funky16Corners:

Done with school and on vacation!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Funky16Corners:

He was at a ballgame tonight
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Uncle Michael:

Doug graduated and is on vacation with his family. Thatchmo is filling in this Friday.
  10:21pm
still b/p:

Heard enough of Buttermilk — a glass half FULL — to realize I never heard it before, but must hear/drink it again.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
Funky16Corners:

I'd have played Pt2 but it's pretty much just a rehash of Pt1
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
Uncle Michael:

You have much Stewart Brothers stuff, Larry?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Funky16Corners:

No, I do not. I wish I had the comp that came out a while back
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Uncle Michael:

oooh, there's a comp?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, I can't recall the title. It's a bunch of early Sly-related stuff
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Uncle Michael:

This? www.amazon.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Funky16Corners:

I think that's it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Uncle Michael:

Doesn't look like it includes the Stewart Brothers singles...The Rat, Sleep on the Porch...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Funky16Corners:

I have a vague memory of that stuff being comped, but maybe it was back in the 80s
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Parq:

Doug is finished with school? Oh, that's fantastic, I didn't know that. Did his semester end early or did he finish in December? (My kid did the latter, so I know about that.) If the latter, is gonna walk with his class this year?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Parq:

Re Coales @ 10:18, I didn't hear anything like that, I'm pleased to say.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Uncle Michael:

It ended last week or the week before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Parq:

UM, wow, that's great, good for him. He's gonna be great in the field he chose. I'll have to write him when he gets back from vaca.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
coelacanth∅:

this backing track may have influenced "i'm your captain",methinks.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Funky16Corners:

There is certainly a resemblance
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm trying to hang on but it's not working. I'm putting my tired ass to bed. Keep the tunes coming, Larry. Night all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite Unk!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
coelacanth∅:

nighty night Uncle M
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Parq:

JA! Boy, them and the Rascals, the two of them made up the bulk of my 45 collection in those days.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
chresti:

good night
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
coelacanth∅:

Parq haha i probably didn't do it justice with my description! it wasn't bad...and (not that i'm a great fan, but) was sorta Beefheart-ish. (maybe... it's a long time ago now!)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Funky16Corners:

This is one of my favorite songs ever
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Parq:

UM, sleep well and dream of the fun we're gonna have on Friday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
coelacanth∅:

they had so many great ones.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Parq:

I love the version that starts their live album (Bless Its Pointed Little Head?) that follows the "King Kong" clip-- the roaring Cassidy and Spencer intro, with Jorma and Paul falling in and building it up.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Funky16Corners:

Such a great band, and as big as they are, underrated
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
coelacanth∅:

i revisited after bathing at baxters a few months ago, and my visit is still going on!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
chresti:

Groovin
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Funky16Corners:

Excellent!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
coelacanth∅:

maybe the mediocre-at-best-starship cast a dark shadow over their legacy?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Funky16Corners:

It does indeed. Every time We Built This City gets played another spadeful of dirt lands on their grave
  10:44pm
Doctorjazz:

Late to the party again... Hi Larry and all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Parq:

Yeah, Coales, Grace has cheerfully admitted that most of what she recorded in the 80s probably sucks, candidly saying that, if someone said to her "Sing this and we'll give you more coke", she sang it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:46pm
coelacanth∅:

haha Larry i'm laughing and cringing at the same time!
  10:48pm
Lord Johnzon:

That Lester Bangs essay sounds interesting... I'm gonna check it out!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
coelacanth∅:

hey doc

Parq it doesn't surprise me that coke was behind it, but cool that she said that.
...the truth is i never much liked her singing and time gradually makes me like it less...although i like her singing usually if she's not the lead.
  10:50pm
Lord Johnzon:

I'm trying to find it... can you post a link? Just finding the whole book for sale... maybe I should buy it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
coelacanth∅:

Marty Balin had a wonderful voice.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Funky16Corners:

@Lord Johnzon - It's worth picking up the whole book. Some of the greatest music writing ever.
  10:56pm
Doctorjazz:

DEAD! Bout time...
  10:58pm
still b/p:

I think it’s funny how We Built This City became such a punching bag. I don’t stand up for it, but it seems a harmless semi-ho-hum production j.o. that suffers mostly from contrast with band’s earlier legacy. I recall hearing someone in the biz giving it generous props back then, saying, production-wise, “something’s happening every moment!”
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Something's happening alright. Nothing good!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Funky16Corners:

I mean, did anybody ever need to hear Grace Slick sound like all the rest of the stuff on MTV?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
coelacanth∅:

i remember the first time i heard the first 'dead album i was like no, really? YES! i already knew europe 72; workingman's; 'beauty; scullfuck... it pretty instantly became my favorite grateful dead album and remains so.
  11:02pm
still b/p:

Other than provision of some blow, I’m curious about pitches and perspectives as Starship undertook such a track.
  11:02pm
Doctorjazz:

Great County Joe!
Balin and Slick had a nice blend and chemistry
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
Parq:

Larry, I was gonna try to comment, but @ 10:59, you nailed it. There is nothing I could usefully add.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
Funky16Corners:

I used to play it all the time for my mod/garage freinds when they'd start carping about the Dead. There's some straight up garage pop on that first album.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
Funky16Corners:

@SBP - I assume it was money? If you read the bands bio, the influence of Mickey Thomas got them some hits but was terrible for the band artistically
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Somebody needs to write an anti-Trump song this good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
coelacanth∅:

well then i heard my brother's "vintage dead" album which is my other favorite...but because the dead doesn't make money for that album they pretend it didn't exist, and zombie deadheads obediently pretend it doesn't exist also, it seems.
  11:06pm
still b/p:

Lorraine is good and worth hearing more often. Never coulda told ya who recorded it til now.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Funky16Corners:

That first Country Joe album is great from end to end, with some really trippy psychedelic tunes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
coelacanth∅:

it's perfect. not a bad moment.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:10pm
coelacanth∅:

section 43 as trippy as trippy ja
  11:10pm
Doctorjazz:

Omaha was fav at the time!

The 1st 2 Dead albums did have punky moments, but they also had lots of hints on the Dead live show, more than the other studio albums, seems to me (of course, the live albums were better for this).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Anthem is practically live
  11:11pm
Lord Johnzon:

Anybody else heard that story about Salvatore Dali showing up to a party naked... well not technically I guess... but wrapped in Saran Wrap(or whatever the contemporary equivalent)... not sure if it's apocryphal
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:12pm
coelacanth∅:

isn't anthem live with a whole lot of overdub? or is it not that much...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
coelacanth∅:

(...and released later, stripped down again - and much better in my opinion?)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
Funky16Corners:

Anthem is a mix of live and overdubs. Pretty forward thinking for the time
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Funky16Corners:

@LordJ - I haven't heard that story, but from what I know of Dali, it wouldn't surprise me a bit
  11:19pm
Doctorjazz:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_of_the_Sun

Story of Anthem..., interesting.
  11:20pm
Dean:

I so fucking need this BB&tHC right now.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
Funky16Corners:

For their rep as a bunch of stoners, the Dead were on the cutting edge of technology and recording
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Dean!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
northguineahills:

I took my puter 20 some minutes, but, I'm finally here!.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey NGH!
  11:21pm
Doctorjazz:

BIG Brother got a bad rap at the time.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:22pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, and it doesn't help that Janis gave them their walking papers pretty quickly. Sam Andrew was a great guitarist
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:23pm
Funky16Corners:

I always loved how they used this as the opening sequence to Monterey Pop
  11:26pm
still b/p:

I should watch the Monterey doc again... probably viewed 25 years ago. Good chance for music, scene, festival envy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
coelacanth∅:

they were great musicians. they should've just found another good female singer. it wouldn't be the same, but just as good. (maybe better?)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:27pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, I mean Janis was a hard act to follow, but they could have done something
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
Funky16Corners:

@SBP - The Criterion Collection box of Monterey Pop is amazing. Lots of unissued footage
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
doctorjazz:

Janis supposedly took the critics panning of the band to heart; they used to say Big Brother was holding Janis back. That was really her high point.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
coelacanth∅:

(i've never heard anything about their bad rap, but the best Janis is with them, in my opinion)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
Funky16Corners:

I dig Full Tilt Boogie, too, but there's something perfect about her stuff with Big Brother
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
coelacanth∅:

yeah i should've said there are exceptions! (bobby mcgee, for one)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
doctorjazz:

I remember reading about it, critics thought she'd be much better without them. She definitely did great stuff after she left, but the recordings with them were special.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Funky16Corners:

Along with Hendrix, she's one of the great puzzles, i.e. what might she have done if she'd survived? Progressed and "tuned her instrument" or ended up hacking it on the blues fest circuit?
  11:32pm
Dean:

For sure. I think Janis hadn't yet reached a high point.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Funky16Corners:

Got a bad rap as a screecher, but really had a lot of talent and was sublime at her best
  11:34pm
Dean:

A--not the, but a--high point for Cipollina is on Man's Maximum Darkness album. Not saying it's all due to him, but the record's a good one.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Funky16Corners:

Another great player. I saw some of his gear at the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
doctorjazz:

Cool version of Shotgun, never heard that (or Clover, for that matter).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
Funky16Corners:

I'll explain them at the break. Interesting guys
  11:46pm
Dean:

So fun: Joplin was born pretty much halfway between the time of the births of me and my mom. I regard Janis as formative of my musical life. My mom likely doesn't even remember her.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
Funky16Corners:

Her legacy is really enduring, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:47pm
coelacanth∅:

i got to check out early
Thanks Larry!
tchau camaradas
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:47pm
doctorjazz:

Boom laka laka laka laka
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite C!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
doctorjazz:

Awww, pretty way to end (I figure that works out time wise).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Funky16Corners:

Just about perfectly!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
doctorjazz:

Loved the show, thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Doc!
  11:55pm
still b/p:

Great show. This one’s always so evocative of mid-70s radio play for me.
  11:55pm
rw:

Thank you F16C!
  11:57pm
Dean:

Oh christ don't say "lean into it"! Not these days.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks guys!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - who wrecked that turn of phrase? Or do you mean leaning in general?
  12:05am
Dean:

What's her name Sandberg of Facebook. Pop press BS, presented as feminist or pro-woman.
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