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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 16, 2019: Testify! - Hard Hustling with Andre Williams! Plus B-Boy jams and some pop!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band  Scorpio   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Sussex  1971  45 
Babe Ruth  The Mexican   Favoriting First Base  Harvest  1972  LP 
The Soul Searchers  Ashley's Roach Clip   Favoriting Salt of the Earth  Sussex  1974  LP 
 
Andre Williams and His Orchestra  Hard Hustling   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Avin  1966  45 
Andre Williams and His Orchestra  Soul Party A Go Go   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Avin  1966  45 
Andre Williams and His Orchestra  Loose Juice   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Wingate  1966  45 
Andre Williams and His Orchestra  Rib Tips   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Avin  1967  45 
Andre Williams  Pearl Time   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Sport  1967  45 
Five Du-Tones  Shake a Tail Feather   Favoriting 45RPM Single  One-Derful  1963  45 
Betty Harris  Mojo Hannah   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Jubilee  1964  45 
Johnny Sayles  The Concentration   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Chi-Town  1965  45 
Jomo  Uhuru (African Twist)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Cadet  1967  45 
Bull and the Matadors  The Funky Judge   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Toddlin' Town  1968  45 
E.J.'s Unlimited  Black Bull   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Back Beat  1969  45 
 
Sir Mack Rice  Mustang Sally   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Blue Rock  1965  45 
Otis Leavill  Boomerang   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Blue Rock  1965  45 
JJ Barnes  I Ain't Gonna Do It   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Ric-Tic  1966  45 
The Viceroys  Bacon Fat   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Seafair-Bolo  1965  45 
Dave Baby Cortez  Twine Time   Favoriting Organ Shindig  Roulette  1965  LP 
The Dynatones  Rib Tips Pt2   Favoriting The Fife Piper  HBR  1966  LP 
Tami Lynn  Mojo Hannah   Favoriting Love Is Here And Now You're Gone  Cotillion  1971  LP 
J Geils Band  The Funky Judge   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atlantic  1974  45 
Willie Mitchell  Pearl Time   Favoriting Soul Serenade  Hi  1968  LP 
Andre Williams  Cadillac Jack   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Checker  1968  45 
Andre Williams  It's Gonna Be Fine in '69   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Checker  1969  45 
Andre Williams  Do the Popcorn   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Checker  1969  45 
Carl Carlton  Don't Walk Away   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Back Beat  1969  45 
Thomas East and the Fabulous Playboys  I Get a Groove   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Toddlin' Town  1968  45 
Velvet Hammer  Happy   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Soozi  1977  45 
 
Associated Soul Group  Are You Experienced   Favoriting Todays Big Hits  Contessa  1968  LP 
Harper and Rowe  Here Comes Yesterday Again   Favoriting 45RPM Single  World Pacific  1968  45 
The Avant Garde  Honey and Gall   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia  1968  45 
Clover  Stealin'   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Liberty  1970  45 
The Brooklyn Bridge  Down By the River   Favoriting The Brooklyn Bridge  Buddah  1970  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!

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Uncle Michael:

hey hey
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Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Wisconsin! Oooh, and starting with Dennis Coffey. One of my faves!
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chresti:

Hello! Larry! Testify! People!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Unk! Jeff! Chresti!
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Erica:

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

Erica!
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Erica:

Larry!
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Gary:

Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Gary!
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fleep:

Wassup humans
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Funky16Corners:

Fleep!
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Erica:

hello dolphin fleep.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Uncle Michael:

Babbitt killing it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Funky16Corners:

As someone shouts out, 'Babbitt's bad!'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
coelacanth∅:

hola Larry y todos los demás
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
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Erica:

Hya Coel!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
coelacanth∅:

hey Erica!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Uncle Michael:

I did not get the Cheech and Chong reference when I was a kid.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Funky16Corners:

I think I knew the Cheech and Chong before i knew this record.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Uncle Michael:

Same here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Funky16Corners:

That Chuck Brown rhythm guitar is amazing.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Funky16Corners:

And that break!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
doctorjazz:

Hi all! Good Wednesday!
  10:18pm
Johnny “Bronx” Rahmer:

Awwwright!
Avatar 10:18pm
fleep:

Howdy, Erica! Was drying a wet cat.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc! Johnny boy!
  10:24pm
rw:

Howdy! Looks like a party in here! My daughter just asked if this was the soul show. I said, no, it's the... I'm not sure what it is but there's a lot of '60s pop. Is there a better way to classify Testify!?
  10:25pm
rw:

Oh, hang on. There's a description right at the top of the page.
Avatar 🥁 10:25pm
Erica:

Aww is your kitty okay fleep?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey rw! It is the everything including a lot of soul show!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Funky16Corners:

Trumpet solo by Gary D'ellabate
  10:28pm
rw:

Everything including a lot of soul and it seems to be playing in every room in my house.
Avatar 10:29pm
fleep:

Erica, just fine. Has to check her territory, rain or no.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
chresti:

My rib tips are getting a workout!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Funky16Corners:

ALEXA - PLAY TESTIFY!
Avatar 🥁 10:30pm
Erica:

Aww. My cat's name is Ashley. What's your furchild's name Fleep?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Funky16Corners:

We have two kitties, brother and sister named Peewee and Dottie
Avatar 🥁 10:33pm
Erica:

I saw pictures of your black cat Larry. So beautiful.
Avatar 10:34pm
fleep:

Erica, her name is Cali, she was in the mascot contest this year and lost to a frog. A gorgeous frog.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Funky16Corners:

They're good kitties, with distinct personalities. Both back but Dottie's a tuxedo cat.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
chresti:

Back in the Saddle.
Avatar 🥁 10:36pm
Erica:

Aww. Cali's a cute name. And I'm sure they are good kitties Larry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
chresti:

@Betty Harris.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Funky16Corners:

A few years ago my son was out for a walk and found a whole litter that had been abandoned. Two was our limit, though.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Funky16Corners:

@Chresti - That Betty Harris record is wild. She sounds like she's going to collapse.
Avatar 🥁 10:38pm
Erica:

What happened to the rest of the litter Larry? Did you take them to a shelter and have them adopted?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Funky16Corners:

They went to the local no-kill shelter
Avatar 🥁 10:39pm
Erica:

Well that's good news. Hopefully they got fixed and are in loving homes now.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Funky16Corners:

The consensus from the neighbors and the animal control guy was that someone dumped the litter at the park that is adjacent to our neighborhood. They didn't show signs of having been outdoors for long.
Avatar 🥁 10:42pm
Erica:

People are so cruel to animals. Yet we're told to spay/neuter them to save lives when it's people who won't take the time to care for them or find them a new home.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, tese didn't seem like they would have survived very long on their own. Ironically we'd been trying to find a dog, and the cats found us.
Avatar 🥁 10:46pm
Erica:

Hey, think of it as if it were a gift from God. It's good that you accepted (part of) the gift.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:46pm
Funky16Corners:

Indeed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
coelacanth∅:

crap! i was out of the room and missed tail feather. and the original.
bummer
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
doctorjazz:

Never heard this Mustang Sally, GREAT!!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Funky16Corners:

This is the original!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
coelacanth∅:

oh i like this version!
always thought it was first by WP (which i like, though not one of my favorite Pickett songs)
Avatar 🥁 10:54pm
Erica:

Great version, I agree.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
doctorjazz:

Too Cool!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
doctorjazz:

I also thought the original was by the Wicked one.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Funky16Corners:

Sir Mack Rice is better known as a songwriter (he also wrote Respect Yourself for the Staple Singers) but he made some great records under his own name
Avatar 10:56pm
still b/p:

When the first words you hear upon tuning in are "want to introduce you to a teenage craze," you know the tuning in is a win!
Avatar 10:57pm
northguineahills:

Ok, back, hallos, Larry and friends....
Avatar 🥁 10:57pm
Erica:

I'm guessing, a dance craze that didn't catch on.
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coelacanth∅:

one of my favorite Pickett songs is also one of the few beatles songs that i like a cover (Wilson's cover) better
take a guess.
  10:58pm
Dean:

Oh, dear. Lorna Doom of The Germs has died.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Jude?
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Erica:

ngh Hi!
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coelacanth∅:

hey ngh
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Funky16Corners:

Hey NGH!
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Jeff Ash:

What's the instrumental that uses this same horn chart?
Avatar 10:58pm
still b/p:

Boomerang didn't catch on, but kept coming back. Heyyy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - You are correct!
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coelacanth∅:

Larry *ding*
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Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - Loose Juice from the first set
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:00pm
Jeff Ash:

Ah, yes. One of the regular workout tunes on my iPod.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:00pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey SBP!
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coelacanth∅:

shit Dean she couldn't be very old
...rest in peace
Avatar 🥁 11:01pm
Erica:

Better not show any dogs that bacon fat or they'll lick it. Haha!
  11:02pm
Johnny “Bronx” Rahmer:

Mmmmmmmmmmmm Baaaaaaacon!
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still b/p:

Hiya, to all of tonight's teenage craze grazers.
  11:02pm
Dean:

Reports say 50, but that can't be, because that means she would have been born in 1969, playing with the band when she was...seven?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
coelacanth∅:

she grew up fast
  11:03pm
Dean:

Must mean 60.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Dean! I heard that. She had to have been much older than 50.
  11:04pm
Dean:

That band was inimitable. One of the very best.
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coelacanth∅:

the germs never really grabbed me. i might want to give it another listen. i thought wipers were too poppy then and i love them now.
- i saw the germs open for Joe Jackson (who i didn't like all that much and like even less now but managed to, for the sake of being with my friends, see 3 times)
don't remember the germs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
coelacanth∅:

some guy a few nights ago started telling me how believe it or not j.giels band was great at one time. i's like "Yeaahh!" he was surprised that anyone else knew that!
- i told him to check out wfmu.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
coelacanth∅:

crap i have to pick someone up at an airport
NOW!
Thanks Larry! gnight everyone.
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Funky16Corners:

Nite C!
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Erica:

Later coel!
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still b/p:

I think I still make a reflexive sour face when I hear Freeze Frame or Centerfold, after growing up in Boston area with steady exposure to the ollllll' Geils.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Funky16Corners:

I love early J Geils, Hot as hell R&B bar band.
  11:23pm
Dean:

I like early J. Geils, and I don't mind the later hits, either.
Avatar 🥁 11:23pm
Erica:

Strange how the J Geils band went from funk & soul to pop/rock
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chresti:

Ha ha@10:58, sb/p!
  11:25pm
Dean:

The videos, on the other hand...yeesh. I'll never fathom how MTV caught on.
Avatar 🥁 11:26pm
Erica:

Funny thing. I saw a picture of Chumpies chips on Facebook, went to look up images of it and wound up finding a link to the old WFMU blog. Small world, eh?
Avatar 🥁 11:26pm
Erica:

has nothing to do with this show, but there you go.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - My wife and I were talking about mTV a while back, and wondering how it was so huge for a while and now just shows a long list of shitty reality shows
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
chresti:

I got a feeling.
  11:29pm
Dean:

Six degrees, Erica. It likely has *something* to do with the show.

Yeah, Larry, but even when it was huge it was shitty. Dumb-ass DJs, crappy programming, those godawful videos of stoopid rock stars mugging for the camera.
Avatar 🥁 11:30pm
Erica:

Anyway, back on subject...I can't stand "Centerfold". Annoying song.
Avatar 11:30pm
northguineahills:

Howdeez coel y Erica. Spent three hours making spicy Mexi chicken soup today (first time cooking w/ non-seafood meat). I'm so stuffed (it was delicious, many ingredients from my garden....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Funky16Corners:

I read an oral history of MTV, which was pretty rough going, but the most interesting part was how insane record companies got about spending money on videos, and the influence (largely bad) that the trend had on music
Avatar 11:32pm
fleep:

Because back in radio days there was no payola nope nope no influence there
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
chresti:

I never saw J Geils on MTv,
Avatar 🥁 11:34pm
Erica:

What I don't understand is that most of the time, music videos have nothing to do with the actual songs, especially ones from the 80s. For example, the song could be about heartbreak, but one of the band members are at a party, flirting with a girl.
  11:36pm
Dean:

Sexist to the core and by design, of course, both the videos and the lyrics to "Centerfold." I'd like to think that the latter at least somehow acknowledged the exploitative nature of "girlie magazines."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:37pm
Jeff Ash:

I think that really might have been George Jessel on that J. Geils cut.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - Really??!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
Funky16Corners:

@Chresti - J Geils were HUGE on MTV for a while, especially when Freeze Frame came out
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - it's interesting to have seen the evolution of music video, from the Scopitones in the 60s, to the early music video from Europe and the UK in the 70s on into MTV at its peak. A few gems along the way, but a lot of dreck too
  11:41pm
Dean:

I suppose I have to confess an affection for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer."
Avatar 11:42pm
still b/p:

Some of the prime-MTV-years videos soooo awful. And for a while, they were graded on a weird curve. Primitive and clunky in concepts and production technique, but because it was a new growing category, they'd get a pass, or even praise.
One I regarded as awful, I was amused to learn was NOTORIOUS for its awfulness: Journey, Separate Ways.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
Funky16Corners:

The earliest years of MTV were the best because the production of videos hadn't fallen into a rut, and they were playing a lot of bands that weren't well known or popular but who had videos ready.
Avatar 🥁 11:43pm
Erica:

Yeah. If I had grown up in those times, I'd see it for myself. I'll just have to take your word for it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
Funky16Corners:

You didn't miss much.
Avatar 11:46pm
northguineahills:

I only saw MTV in the 80s at my friends' houses or when going up north to visit my grandparents. Only a handful stand out to me. I suppose I saw a few on pop-up video in the 90s...
Avatar 11:47pm
northguineahills:

and what Dean said....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:47pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - You were right! He doesn't get an official credit, but he gets thanked on the back of the album!
Avatar 11:48pm
northguineahills:

(weird my grandparents had full cable and HBO, and my parents had neither).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
chresti:

I remember seeing Peter Gabriel on mTv, in the early eighties.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
Funky16Corners:

The arrival of MTV coincided with my parents getting cable. There was video jukebox on HBO, before MTV and of course videos on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert and the like
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
doctorjazz:

Interesting take on Stealin'.. My 2 favorite versions are Taj Mahal's and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Avatar 11:50pm
still b/p:

After a few years, there was a category of videos spoofing other videos, by regular acts, not just parody acts.

"So" was the last vinyl I bought at the tail of the standard vinyl era.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
Funky16Corners:

This is the band that would eventually include Huey Lewis, and would then back Elvis Costello on his first album
  11:51pm
Dean:

My introduction to cable was earlier, mid-'70s, when a family whose home I loitered around bought a subscription to one of the early services. I remember watching Woody Allen's Interiors multiple times one week. Might be his best movie, but then I'm no good judge of movies. I frankly can't tolerate the medium at all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
doctorjazz:

Really , they toughened up quite a lot later (at least relative to this mellow take on. STEALIN)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
doctorjazz:

Is this The A Worst That Of Happen to Neil Young
Avatar 11:54pm
northguineahills:

I don't remember this being on my Brooklyn Bridge LP, weird, always a fave song of mine (although Low's cover is my favorite).
Avatar 11:55pm
northguineahills:

Thanks, Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks Larry
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
chresti:

The Midnight Special.
Avatar 🥁 11:58pm
Erica:

Thanks Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite NGH! Doc!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite Erica!
  11:59pm
Dean:

What was the show hosted by Chip Monk? I remember shots of Mott the Hoople followed by Roxy Music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
chresti:

Thanks Larry, fantastic!
Avatar 11:59pm
fleep:

Thanks, Larry!
  12:00am
Dean:

Goodnight, all. Marvelous show.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Chresti! Fleep!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Dean!
Avatar 12:02am
northguineahills:

Thanks, Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:03am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks NGH!
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