Favoriting Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 20, 2021 Favoriting

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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 Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
John Martyn  Call Me Crazy   Favoriting Sunday's Child  Island  1975  CD  0:01:28 (Pop-up)
John Martyn  Glistening Glyndebourne   Favoriting Bless The Weather  Island  1971  CD  0:08:52 (Pop-up)
Bert Jansch  Blackwater Side   Favoriting The Bert Jansch Sampler  Transatlantic  1969  LP  0:15:23 (Pop-up)
Dave Van Ronk and Frankie Armstrong  Tango Ballad   Favoriting Let No One Deceive You - Songs of Bertolt Brecht  Flying Fish  1990  CD  0:19:05 (Pop-up)
 
Air  La Femme D'argent   Favoriting Moon Safari  Source  1998  CD  0:28:27 (Pop-up)
Eric Matthews  Soul Nation Select Them   Favoriting It's Heavy In Here  Sub Pop  1995  CD  0:35:22 (Pop-up)
Sneetches  Behind the Shadows   Favoriting Blow Out the Sun  SpinArt  1994  CD  0:38:36 (Pop-up)
Ennio Morricone  Sinfonia D'una Citta Pt1   Favoriting Copkiller OST  WEA  1983  CD  0:41:42 (Pop-up)
Gal Costa  Nao Identificado   Favoriting Gal Costa  Philips  1969  CD  0:46:25 (Pop-up)
Circus Maximum  Wind   Favoriting Circus Maximus  Vanguard  1967  LP  0:49:40 (Pop-up)
 
Zombies  Time of the Season   Favoriting Odessey and Oracle  Date  1968  LP  1:02:44 (Pop-up)
Temptations  Slave   Favoriting Puzzle People  Gordy  1969  LP  1:06:16 (Pop-up)
Quicksilver Messenger Service  Mona   Favoriting Happy Trails  Capitol  1969  LP  1:13:40 (Pop-up)
Led Zeppelin  In the Light   Favoriting Physical Graffiti  Atlantic  1975  CD  1:20:51 (Pop-up)
Stone Roses  Fools Gold 9.53   Favoriting 12" Single  Silvertone  1989  12"  1:29:10 (Pop-up)
Ekova  La Nef des Fous   Favoriting Heaven's Dust  Six Degrees  1998  CD  1:39:03 (Pop-up)
King Crimson  The Sheltering Sky   Favoriting Discipline  WB  1981  CD  1:41:51 (Pop-up)
Lou Reed  Walk On the Wild Side   Favoriting Lou Reed  RCA  1973  LP  1:49:55 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:59:41 (Pop-up)

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Yvang:

Am so happy to be here today!
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listener Rey:

Oh yeah!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Yvang! Me too!
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Funky16Corners:

Hi Rey!
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TDK60:

Hello Larry!
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Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Wisconsin!
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Funky16Corners:

TDK60! How does the day find you!
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Funky16Corners:

Jeff! Greetings back from NJ!
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Erica:

Hey I am here too.
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Funky16Corners:

Erica! How are you?
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Brian in UK:

Hey Larry, remember seeing John Martyn on the Old Grey Whistle Test for the first time with an Echoplex. Fair turned my head.
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Brian in UK:

Erica, are you feeling better?
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Brian! I only discovered him n the 80s, adjacent to Nick Drake.
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Erica:

Much better Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

Excellent!
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Erica:

Saw my doctor yesterday and he called in thrush medicine as well as did blood work on me.
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TDK60:

Brian- cheers. Old Grey Whistle Test was a live TV show?
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Erica:

Now I have to collect a stool sample soon so he can see what is wrong with me.
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Funky16Corners:

Our whole household seems to be grappling with allergies right now. Over-pollenated.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Collect them all! Like stamps, or 45s!
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dutchtheo:

Hey, Larry! and Glysteners!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Theo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:17pm
Funky16Corners:

This one ringing any bells?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:18pm
Yvang:

David Dichelle would "Roud 564" this one !
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:19pm
Yvang:

I've heard it before for sure !
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:19pm
Funky16Corners:

It's the British folk song that Led Zeppelin would adapt as Black Mountain Side on Led Zeppelin 1
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:21pm
Jeff Ash:

Dave Van Ronk was a regular visitor to an old bar in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, when I lived there in the late '70s. Wasn't my scene, though. 21- and 22-year-old me wasn't cool enough for that room.
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TDK60:

Yes Larry, I recall that Jimmy Page version.
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Funky16Corners:

I never got to see him live (in person). One of my all time faves.
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TDK60:

I never saw Ronk either. I do get to walk down Dave V.R. street now and then, in the Village.
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Brian in UK:

TDK60, yes as I recall. One of the few shows that opened the ears to new music.
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doctorjazz:

Hi Larry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:29pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc! Happy Birthday!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:29pm
Funky16Corners:

Van Ronk is one of those musical pleasures I get to share with my father.
  3:30pm
CupcakeJenny:

Hello! Tuning in from bus duty!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Mrs Testify!
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Brian in UK:

Moon Safari is tops. Kelly Watch the Stars is my favourite.
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Funky16Corners:

I love that one, too!
  3:32pm
CalZone!:

Hey LG, Testifyers, and Groganiacs!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Cal!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:34pm
Funky16Corners:

I wish I could remember which, at some point this was being used in a perfume ad (or hair care, or something similar)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:35pm
Brian in UK:

Tahiti 80 is another French band that sing in English so well as it is not their first language. They even have Eric Matthews paying trumpet on some tracks on their first album.
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Funky16Corners:

I don't know them. I'll check them out.
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Brian in UK:

Synchronicity.
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Brian in UK:

Wallpaper for the Soul is the album.
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Little Danny:

Hi Larry, hi all!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Danny!
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Little Danny:

I love the theme.
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Funky16Corners:

Thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:41pm
Funky16Corners:

This song is sooooooo dreamy
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Little Danny:

Yeah this is great. I know the Sneetches by name but don't think I've heard their music before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:42pm
Funky16Corners:

I'm right on the verge of doing an entire show dedicated to the Sneetches. One of my favorite bands.
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Erica:

Now this one is quite eerie and poppy.
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Little Danny:

"Abandoned Cities, Echoes and Reverberations" would also make for a good movie night/programme.
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Funky16Corners:

A good, running theme
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Brian in UK:

Feel that I should be wearing a beret for this show!
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Funky16Corners:

This is from the soundtrack to a detective film starring Harvey Keitel, and...Johnny Rotten.
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Funky16Corners:

@Brian, with espresso and gauloises...
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Brian in UK:

Where can you buy Gauloises these days?
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Funky16Corners:

France (I think)... or any of the finer tobacconists.
  3:47pm
CupcakeJenny:

Time to go home. Yay!
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Funky16Corners:

Drive safe! Treat yourself to a coffee.
  3:49pm
CupcakeJenny:

Is this your way to tell me we need coffee?
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Brian in UK:

Just going back to Brecht. On Jimmie Dale Gilmore's One Endless Night the last (hidden track) is Mack the Knife. His high lonesome voice is just right.
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TDK60:

Had only heard a few songs off each of Eric Matthews albums. One that stuck with me was Festival Fun off his 2nd.
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Funky16Corners:

@Jenny - I'm not sure if we do. Text Lebowski.
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Funky16Corners:

@Brian - I'd love to hear that!
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Little Danny:

Jimmie Dale's voice is the best.
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Funky16Corners:

@TDK60 - I love both of those albums, but the first, the best
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Funky16Corners:

Jimmie Dale Gilmore, speaking of Lebowski...
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Brian in UK:

It is all hooking up.
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Funky16Corners:

I w as referring to our oldest son as Lebowski, with his hair, and fetish for Hawaiian shirts and loud pants, I've started calling him The Dude
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Funky16Corners:

He has a prodigious mop of blond, curly hair. Robert Plant-esque
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Little Danny:

Haha, CupcakeJenny is your better half, no?
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Funky16Corners:

Yes, indeed, Much better.
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Funky16Corners:

On her way home from work.
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Erica:

I saw pictures of your son Larry. He really let his hair grow.
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Funky16Corners:

Oh yeah. He's quite the hair farmer these days. My hair used to be very long, but never that curly. He gets that from Mom.
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Little Danny:

Surprisingly jazzy fare from what I recall as an otherwise very (good) garage-y LP.
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Yvang:

What? Nobody except me clicked-star this magnificent Circus Maximus track?
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TDK60:

I heard it so many times on WFMU, Yvang, I thought I clicked it in 1971 or so. Wait....
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Yvang:

I am totally addicted to the joyous melancholy of this song.
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Yvang:

Okay I see it's been favorited on other shows.
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Erica:

Can't hear it in full.
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Funky16Corners:

Oddly enough, This Will be Our Year from O&O has popped up in a commercial recently
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Brian in UK:

Perfect.
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Funky16Corners:

@Erica - What do you mean?
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Erica:

It's in stereo but I hear it in mono.
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Funky16Corners:

Headphone issues?
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Erica:

No Larry. I mean I can hear the keyboard s but not the guitar riffs.
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Funky16Corners:

Anyone else not hearing both channels?
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Jeff Ash:

One of the first Temptations records I ever found.
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Funky16Corners:

Right in that Whitfield sweet spot
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Funky16Corners:

I have a great reggae version of this (I think, by Derrick Harriott)
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Jeff Ash:

You know it! I see it often enough while digging that people seem to be sleeping on it. Maybe that's just Wisconsin for you. Who knows?
  4:08pm
Little Danny:

Hmm sounds okay to me in the app. But I don’t know this song to compare.
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Erica:

It's easier with mono recordings and mono mixes so the music sounds full on both channels.
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Funky16Corners:

I checked, coming through OK on this end
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Funky16Corners:

@Erica - Hoe are you listening? Phone, computer?
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Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - Of all the big Motown acts, the Temptations' LPs seem to turn up the most
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Erica:

That's the thing with radio streams Larry, they sound fine on one end but they may not on the other end. I noticed that when trying to stream a music playlist of my own using Caster.FM.
  4:15pm
CalZone!:

Listening on the android app on my older phone via bluetooth link to my vintage reciever and audiophile speakers and it sounds great!
  4:16pm
Little Danny:

Man I really need these early QMS LPs
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Funky16Corners:

Super cool, underrated band.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:18pm
Funky16Corners:

John Cipollina tearing it up!
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Funky16Corners:

The way the guitar is panning from side to side is something else
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Funky16Corners:

Fire up your bongs, people.
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Funky16Corners:

"And if you feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel....."
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zivilars:

Hi Larry and everyone else - thanks for the show! As I can see, I missed a fantastic set so far, but better late than never
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Funky16Corners:

Hey zivilars!
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Erica:

*Head bangs* ✌️🤘
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Funky16Corners:

I'll be right back, I just time-traveled to high school.
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Funky16Corners:

I may not be seeing trails, but I am HEARING them.
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Jeff Ash:

I must confess it has been in only the last couple of years that I've come to know Stone Roses.
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Funky16Corners:

This one got heavy airplay in my first apartment back in the day.
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TDK60:

Love the old Q.M.S.
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Funky16Corners:

QMS had so many great songs, in addition to the trippy jams. Their old greatest hits was the first record of theirs I had in high school, lots to listen to.
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Funky16Corners:

This one is UK rave culture writ large.
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TDK60:

I've heard the Dead would be on a bill with Q.M.S. and would be blown away by 'em.
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Funky16Corners:

I believe that.
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TDK60:

Great spacey Crimson piece, not heard in ages.
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Funky16Corners:

I love this album. The perfect period in KC history, in my opinion,anyway.
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Funky16Corners:

Fripp's weirdness crossed with Adrian Belew's weirdness.
  4:50pm
Little Danny:

Very nice, that KC. A sound I’ve only just come to appreciate.
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Erica:

Hey babe take a walk on the wild side...
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Yvang:

this set took us on the wild side.
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Little Danny:

UK jazz modernist Ronnie Ross!
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Brian in UK:

Great show, Larry.
  4:54pm
CalZone!:

Cool show LG! TY!
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Little Danny:

Thank you Larry, 110% fantastic as always.
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TDK60:

Thanks, Larry. Hope to mosey on by soon.
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zivilars:

Thanks for a great show, Larry! Hear you again soon!
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Yvang:

Thanks, Larry. Incredible show!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks all!
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Erica:

Until next week Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

Be well, Erica!
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Erica:

Thanks for another great show.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks for listening!
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