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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 June 6, 2018: A Canadian Buffalo, A British Soul Girl and something for your head.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Buffalo Springfield  Mr Soul (45 Mix)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atco  1967  45 
Buffalo Springfield  Down To the Wire   Favoriting Stampede  Atco  1968  CD 
Neil Young and Crazy Horse  Cinnamon Girl   Favoriting Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere  Reprise  1969  CD 
Neil Young and Crazy Horse  Cowgirl In the Sand   Favoriting Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere  Reprise  1969  CD 
Neil Young and Crazy Horse  Down By the River   Favoriting Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere  Reprise  1969  CD 
Neil Young  Tonight's the Night   Favoriting Tonight's The Night  Reprise  1975  CD 
 
Dusty Springfield  Can I Get a Witness   Favoriting Dusty!  Philips  1964  LP 
Dusty Springfield  Do Re Mi   Favoriting Dusty!  Philips  1964  LP 
Dusty Springfield  Live It Up   Favoriting Dusty!  Philips  1964  LP 
Dusty Springfield and the Echoes  Go Ahead On   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1966  45 
Dusty Springfield  Don't Forget About Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atlantic  1968  45 
Dusty Springfield  Breakfast In Bed   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atlantic  1968  45 
Dusty Springfield  Sweet Ride   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1968  45 
Dusty Springfield  No Stranger Am I   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1968  45 
Dusty Springfield  Love Power   Favoriting Dusty Definitely  Atlantic  1968  LP 
Dusty Springfield  Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone   Favoriting Dusty Definitely  Atlantic  1968  LP 
Dusty Springfield  Sweet Inspiration   Favoriting All Her Faces  Atlantic  1972  LP 
Dusty Springfield  Crumbs Off the Table   Favoriting All Her Faces  Atlantic  1972  LP 
 
Beck  I Think I'm In Love   Favoriting The Information  Interscope  2006  CD 
Beck  Soldier Jane   Favoriting The Information  Interscope  2006  CD 
Caetano Veloso  Irene   Favoriting Caetano Veloso  Philips  1969  CD 
Chris Cornell  Seasons   Favoriting Singles OST  Epic  1992  CD 
The Lovemongers  The Battle of Evermore   Favoriting Singles OST  Epic  1992  CD 
Bert Jansch  Blackwater Side   Favoriting Jack Orion  Transatlantic  1966  CD 
Bert Jansch  Needle of Death   Favoriting Bert Jansch  Transatlantic  1965  CD 
Bert Jansch  The First Time Ever I saw Your Face   Favoriting Jack Orion  Transatlantic  1966  CD 
Carlos Barbosa Lima and Sharon Isbell  Prelude #3   Favoriting Rhapsody In Blue/West Side Story  Concord  1988  CD 
Duck Baker  The Third World   Favoriting Spinning Songs: Duck baker Plays the Music of Herbie Nichols  Avant  1996  CD 
Duck Baker  134th St   Favoriting Spinning Songs: Duck baker Plays the Music of Herbie Nichols  Avant  1996  CD 
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45 


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Gary:

Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
chresti:

heyo!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Chresti!
  10:03pm
Erica:

Hello.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Erica!
Avatar 10:04pm
geezerette:

Larry! Gary! Chresti!
Hey, the last munchkin just died at 98.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Geezerette!
  10:05pm
Erica:

I've been listening to the show since April but have discovered the chat room last week. Missed last week's show though. :(
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Pick it up in the archive or podcast.
Avatar 10:06pm
still b/p:

Mr Soul seems like the kind of track that coulda been covered successfully in a few different periods/styles, traditional and not, since it was born. Anyone ever do a decent redo?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Funky16Corners:

And welcome aboard!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey SBP. Not that I recall, but I would npt be surprised
  10:07pm
Erica:

Thank you Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Wisconsin, everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Funky16Corners:

@Geezerette - Jerry Maren, the last munchkin standing, was also the Oscar Mayer mascot back in the day
  10:12pm
Erica:

Yea it's sad that he died :(
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Funky16Corners:

98 is a great, long life.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
northguineahills:

I'm one of those weird guys that thinks Neil Young can do no wrong. He used to play at s hippie redneck music fest about 30 minutes from here every year. Back in the day I had a roommate who used to always go, I regret not going w/ him.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey NGH! I am a Neil believer, Even when he does things I don't like, I still have a ton of respect for the man.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
northguineahills:

@geezerette, Oh, you mean Oz! (Dunkin' still has munchkins).

@Erica: Hola!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
northguineahills:

(said fest may still happen, I need to research if Neil still plays).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Funky16Corners:

If there's anyone left from the Wizard of Oz they would have to have been kids. My Dad is 87 this year and he was 8 when they made it.
  10:15pm
Erica:

Hi NGH.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
chresti:

my brother and his friends practiced "down by the river" every Friday night around 1972
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Funky16Corners:

Can I assume that the jam lasted into 1973?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
coelacanth∅:

howdy Larry & all
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
northguineahills:

My favorite cover of "Down By the River" is done by Low. Seek it out, you won't be disappointed.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Funky16Corners:

I will. There's also a great version by the Jamaican singer Ken Boothe
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Parq:

I need to go to the basement and get the laundry, but I just can't leave while this Neil Young set is underway.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
northguineahills:

@Larry: Ah, heard that one (don't have it on vinyl unfortunately.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Funky16Corners:

One more song and then you can listen to me blab from a distance while you get the wash
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Funky16Corners:

@NGH - I'll have to play some tracks from the Ken Boothe album. It has a quite a few interesting covers on it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
chresti:

He's jamming with the munchkins now
Avatar 10:26pm
geezerette:

Larry@10:11; sonds like he did very well. Wonder if he was a the motion picture home.(Not enough to search it though.)
Wow, the harmonies and spare arrangement of DBTR are so beautiful.
Avatar 10:27pm
still b/p:

Was there a statement upon confirmation of the last munchkin's passing...?
As Coroner, my verdict's grim,
I thoroughly examined him.
And he's not only merely dead,
he's really most sincerely dead.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
coelacanth∅:

i've heard this so many times (hundreds?) and intentionally put it on once and maybe twice in the past year and i still love every second of it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Funky16Corners:

@SBP - That is literally the first thing that went through my mind.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - There is som much righteous crunch on this album
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Funky16Corners:

Boo Berry was a working man, he used to ride with Count Chocula in the van
Avatar 10:29pm
geezerette:

NGH, are the DD munchkins donut holes?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
coelacanth∅:

haha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Funky16Corners:

The are indeed
  10:29pm
Erica:

Now I'm hungry for DD haha.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
northguineahills:

Si, geezerette!
Avatar 10:31pm
geezerette:

Larry, pretty sure he was the last one.

Congrats to your Dad!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Parq:

Larry, I live in a 9th floor apartment, so I'd have to have *real* good ears to hear you in the basement, but I'll hang in until you give me dispensation.
  10:31pm
Erica:

And Frankin Berry hitched hiked for a ride with Boo and the Count.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Funky16Corners:

Fruit Brute was loading in the amps
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Little Danny:

Hey Larry, hey all
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Funky16Corners:

@Parq - i'll shout
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Danny!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Parq:

Still b/p, the coroner in 2007, three years before he died:
static01.nyt.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
coelacanth∅:

i have 3 favorite NY albums but tonight's the night might be #4
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
coelacanth∅:

(hmm or tied with his first)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Little Danny:

You could spend a coupla shows on unreleased Motown/Tamla tracks alone.
Avatar 10:37pm
geezerette:

S B/P, tee-hee-hee-hee- hee...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
coelacanth∅:

hey Danny
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, indeed. That and Blue Note sessions that sat in the can for years
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Little Danny:

Hey Coel!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Little Danny:

Oh man, Blue Note. Totally
Avatar 10:39pm
geezerette:

Dusty!!! :D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
coelacanth∅:

and in my opinion there're a dozen or more Prince songs that are unreleased and better than practically everything that was.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Funky16Corners:

One of my favorite albums, Bobby Hutcherson's Patterns was unreleased for years
Avatar 10:40pm
geezerette:

Coel!
Danny!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Little Danny:

Hey geez!
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coelacanth∅:

the best Roky Erickson album remains only a bootleg.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Little Danny:

@LG: Donald Byrd's unreleased Kofi is up there for me
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Funky16Corners:

It's prett remarkable what they sat on, but hardly as remarkable as what they released!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
coelacanth∅:

hey g!

...i can't think of who did this first (even though i have the 45)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
coelacanth∅:

(do re mi that is....Lee Dorsey?)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Funky16Corners:

Which one? Do Re Mi? Lee Dorsey
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Little Danny:

Yep. QC at Blue Note was unparalleled. Whereas, like, Prestige would release ANY session

(I love Prestige btw)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Funky16Corners:

Georgie Fame covered it too
  10:44pm
Erica:

That Dusty version of Do Re Mi was quite good coel.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Funky16Corners:

@Danny - I've heard stories about Prestige getting junkies into the studio with promise of quick money
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Little Danny:

I believe it!
  10:45pm
rw:

Yo! Just got home. Was also amazed at that first B.Springfield 45. I thought it was some hidden alt version.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
coelacanth∅:

yeah i dug that version...but then, it's Dusty Springfield!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:46pm
Funky16Corners:

@rw - It was an alt version, but the official 45 release
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
coelacanth∅:

(back on Neil Young for a second -i just remembered that i turned on a bar full of people yesterday to the Isleys' version of ohio/machine gun. 'twas quite well-received)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Funky16Corners:

Great track. I played it on the Iron Leg Radio Show last week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
chresti:

I don't remember hearing Dusty Springfield- I saw her picture in teen magazines. though. Man! She can really belt them out!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, great, great voice, and managed to rack up a decent amount of hits in the US, but nothing like in the UK
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
coelacanth∅:

Larry, someone played it on fmu last week. (thought it might've been you) i'd heard it before but with a fade before machine gun.
  10:54pm
Erica:

She sure had a soft, yet raspy voice chresti.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - I played it on one of the two shows I did before I got ot WFMU. You can check it out here: ironleg.wordpress.com
  10:56pm
Erica:

Yes Larry she's only know for at least two songs here in the States. Everyone knows "Son of a Preacher Man" and "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
coelacanth∅:

i'll be happy to check that out, but neither of my computers want to cooperate with wordpress.
-some day.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
Funky16Corners:

You can get it as a podcast in iTunes, as well
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
coelacanth∅:

haha, sorry - next option?
  10:59pm
mauri:

love power!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Funky16Corners:

You can get it using any podcast aggregator
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Mauri!
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coelacanth∅:

...if my snow leopard ever dies completely i'll eventually have to get a new computer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
coelacanth∅:

hmm, certainly can't knock Mr.Withers but, this preceded "ain't no sunshine" by a few years, i think.
  11:03pm
Erica:

Yet not as big as Bill's song coel.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
Funky16Corners:

It's a Norman Whitfield song, done by the Temptations among others
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
coelacanth∅:

nah, ain't no sunshine is another song i'll never tire of.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
Jeff Ash:

Boy, I don't think I've ever seen this Dusty LP.
Avatar 11:15pm
geezerette:

Dusty, LuLu, Cilla Black; goose bump good.
  11:15pm
Erica:

I forgot about "Wishin' and Hopin'"
Avatar 11:15pm
still b/p:

The Look of Love had sort of an MOR rep for a while I think.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Funky16Corners:

Ah yes! That one too!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - I don't know that I've ever seen a copy on vinyl
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:17pm
Little Danny:

Excellent. I've always really dug Beck's voice
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
Funky16Corners:

Me too. I saw him a few times early on, right around Loser and then again when Odelay came out
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:19pm
Funky16Corners:

I always thought that this album was very trippy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:19pm
northguineahills:

Been going through Beck's back catalog lately.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
Funky16Corners:

Lots of good stuff in there. A consistently (at least for a while) inventive songwriter and performer
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
chresti:

I rent a studio in a building where "Loser" was made
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Funky16Corners:

That's cool!
Avatar 11:21pm
geezerette:

There's a rolling, electronic lowrider beat. So cool, temperature wise. Looking backwards and forward at once. Like it a lot.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
northguineahills:

Wowsers, chresti!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:22pm
Funky16Corners:

@Geezerette - That's what was so cool, the backward/forward thing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:23pm
chresti:

The producer was my first landlord here
Avatar 11:24pm
geezerette:

Veloso's voice is so sweet.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:25pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, next to Gilberto Gil, his is my fave Tropicalia stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
chresti:

Geez- lowrider is a spot on description
Avatar 11:29pm
geezerette:

@Larry, "Irene" is like one of the Beck songs with a folkloric troupe weaving through and around it. Like a third layer.
Guess this is a cerebral set. Pretty great.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks!
Avatar 11:31pm
geezerette:

Oh, hey thanks, Chresti.
Avatar 11:34pm
still b/p:

I sez, "These vocals sound like..." and...it is them.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
Jeff Ash:

It's a rush to hear this on the late-night radio again.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Wilson sisters and friends
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
Funky16Corners:

I was going to ave it for an all Tolkien-influenced set but thought better of that...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
coelacanth∅:

wilson sisters as in heart? -i never heard of "lovemongers" before
  11:40pm
Erica:

I never heard of the Lovemongers before either coel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40pm
coelacanth∅:

(and don't know heart so well)
Avatar 11:40pm
geezerette:

Life without music would be unbearable. So much of what it is to be human is exprssed and contained in music. I've met people who have no need for it. Glad not to be one of them.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:40pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes indeed. It was a side group they formed in the 90s. They did at least one full album. That track was from the soundtrack to Singles
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
Funky16Corners:

www.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
coelacanth∅:

ah i love this...but it's so sad
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, it is. The quieter precursor of Tonight's the Night
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
chresti:

I have to have music playing constantly
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
coelacanth∅:

...sorta full circle here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
coelacanth∅:

oh! never mind! (11.42)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
chresti:

a nice voice
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, one of my favorite singers, and a brilliant guitarist
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
Jeff Ash:

Thanks and good night, Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite Jeff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
coelacanth∅:

whenever i think of Bert Jansch i think of Anne Briggs (understandably especially as i learned of Anne first) -but also Roy Harper.
  11:48pm
Erica:

Night Jeff! Zzz
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - That whole gang of UK folkies that started out trad but moved into new places during the 60s, including those you mentioned, Davy Graham, Fairport Convention etc
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
coelacanth∅:

i have some catching up to do regarding Davy Graham. kind of a peripheral blur that should maybe get some focus.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Funky16Corners:

He waa a HUGE influence on Jansch, Donovan, Nick Drake, John Renbourn et al
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Funky16Corners:

His reclusiveness and lack of a foothold over here kind of obscures his importance. I mean, he was covered by Simon and Garfunkel!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
coelacanth∅:

(as Anne Briggs)
  11:59pm
Erica:

See you next week Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Erica!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry! Excellent as always
tchau camaradas
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite C!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
chresti:

Thanks Larry! Goodnight everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00am
Funky16Corners:

Nite Chresti!
  12:02am
rw:

Thanks LG!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02am
Funky16Corners:

Nite rw!
Avatar 12:02am
still b/p:

Grazie grazie, Grogie.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:03am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks SBP!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:20pm
Cal Zone!:

Great show LG! Really enjoyable...specially the Dusty set!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:25pm
Funky16corners:

Thanks Cal!
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