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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 July 8, 2021: Testify! - The Sound of Lou Courtney!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting The Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  The Man With the Cigar   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Imperial  1963  45    0:01:27 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  Professional Lover   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Imperial  1964  45    0:03:32 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  I Watched You Slowly Slip Away   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1965  45    0:06:02 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  Skate Now   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Riverside  1966  45    0:08:12 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  Do the Thing   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Riverside  1967  45    0:11:00 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  You Ain't Ready   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Riverside  1967  45    0:14:54 (Pop-up)
 
Freddie and the Dreamers  Do The Freddie   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mercury  1965  45  Written by Lou Courtney and Dennis Lambert  0:21:18 (Pop-up)
Gloria Gaynor  She'll Be Sorry   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Jocida  1965  45  Written by Lou Courtney and Dennis Lambert  0:23:11 (Pop-up)
Lorraine Ellison  Call Me Anytime You Need Some Loving   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mercury  1966  45  Written by Lou Courtney, produced by Lou Courtney and Dennis Lambert  0:25:43 (Pop-up)
Nashville Teens  Find My Way Home   Favoriting 45RPM Single  London  1965  45  Written by Lou Courtney and Dennis Lambert  0:28:15 (Pop-up)
Paramounts  The Girl With the Big Black Boots   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mercury  1965  45  written and produced by Lou Courtney and Dennis Lambert  0:30:36 (Pop-up)
Spotlights  Batman and Robin   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Smash  1966  45  Written by Lou Courtney, Leon Russell and Snuff Garrett  0:32:37 (Pop-up)
Dreamettes  Gonna Make That Little Boy Mine   Favoriting 45RPM Single  UA  1965  45  written by by Lou Courtney and Dennis Lambert  0:34:52 (Pop-up)
Henry Lumpkin  Soul Is Takin' Over   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Buddah  1967  45  Written by Lou Courtney, Robert Bateman and Henry Lumpkin  0:37:19 (Pop-up)
McCoys  Up and Down   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Bang  1966  45  Written by Lou Courtney and Dennis Lambert  0:40:04 (Pop-up)
Spindles  Ten Shades Shades of Blue   Favoriting 45RPM Single  ABC  1971  45  Written by Lou Courtney and Dennis Lambert  0:42:55 (Pop-up)
Webs  This Thing Called Love   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Popside  1967  45  Produced by Lou Courtney and Robert Bateman  0:45:41 (Pop-up)
Webs  Tomorrow   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Popside      Produced by Lou Courtney and Robert Bateman  0:48:28 (Pop-up)
 
Lou Courtney  I've Got Just the Thing   Favoriting Skate Now/Shingaling  Riverside  1967  LP    0:57:32 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  I Need You Now   Favoriting Skate Now/Shingaling  Riverside  1967  LP    0:59:58 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  Me and You Doing the Boogaloo   Favoriting Skate Now/Shingaling  Riverside  1967  LP    1:02:31 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  I Can Always Tell   Favoriting Skate Now/Shingaling  Riverside  1967  LP    1:05:19 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  I Don't Want To Leave You   Favoriting Skate Now/Shingaling  Riverside  1967  LP    1:07:31 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  I'm Mad About You   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Popside  1967  45    1:10:03 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  Hey Joyce   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Popside  1967  45    1:12:37 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  If the Shoe Fits   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Popside  1968  45    1:15:18 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  It's Love Now   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Popside  1968  45    1:17:24 (Pop-up)
 
Lou Courtney  Do the Horse   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Verve  1968  45    1:23:37 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  Rubber Neckin' (Chick Check'n)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Verve  1968  45    1:26:23 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  You Can Give Your Love To Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Verve  1968  45    1:29:13 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  Tryin' to Find My Woman   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Buddah  1969  45    1:31:24 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney and Funk Junction  Hot Butter 'n' All   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Hurdy Gurdy  1970  45    1:33:39 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  Beware   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Rags  1973  45  Produced by Lou Courtney and Jerry Ragovoy  1:36:30 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  What You Want Me To Do   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Rags  1973  45    1:39:44 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney  The Best Thing a Man Can Do For His Woman   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Epic  1974  45  Procuced by Lou Courtney and Jerry Ragovoy  1:42:30 (Pop-up)
Lou Courtney/Buffalo Smoke  Don't Stop the Box   Favoriting Buffalo Smoke  RCA  1976  LP    1:45:40 (Pop-up)
The Fifth Dimension  Everybody's Got To Give It Up   Favoriting High On Sunshine  Motown  1978  LP    1:48:48 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45    1:58:23 (Pop-up)

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Brian in UK:

Hello Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Brian!
  3:03pm
Moog1 Radio:

Checking in for my weekly dose of Larry
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Kurt!
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Brian in UK:

Know nothing about Lou Courtney, apart from the fact that he likes jackets that do up both ways.
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Erica:

Hi Larry. Ugh my head hurts.
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Funky16Corners:

Hi Erica!
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dreamyandseedy:

greetings!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Funky16Corners:

@Brian - I think you'll dig this show. Lots of great soul and funk, and wait until you hear the stuff her wrote and/or produced!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Dreamy!
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SquigY0:

Hi Larry! It's been a day so ready to rock and/or roll
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey SquigY0!
Avatar 3:15pm
SquigY0:

maybe I AM ready, Lou!! *folds arms*
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
Funky16Corners:

Long a point of contention.
Avatar 3:16pm
SquigY0:

right?
Avatar 3:22pm
SquigY0:

everybody wanted to start a freakin dance crazy :D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
doctorjazz:

I'm doing the Freddy (coworkers looking at me strangely).
Hi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
Funky16Corners:

The momentary popularity of Freddie and the Dreamers remains a mystery more than 50 years later.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
Brian in UK:

You got to be Garrity to like this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
Funky16Corners:

Doing the Freddie requires 200% more dance floor space than the closest dance.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
Candy-O'67:

Hey, Larry and Testifiers! Happy Thursday!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
Funky16Corners:

Candy-O!
Avatar 3:27pm
SquigY0:

hahaha.
happy Thursdays doc, Brian, and Cany
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:33pm
Candy-O'67:

Hadn't heard these Nashville Teens or Paramounts songs before. Diggin' them!
Avatar 3:33pm
SquigY0:

ha, he was part of this one? k!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:33pm
dutchtheo:

Hello, Larry and testifiers. Start the Batmobile!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:33pm
Funky16Corners:

Yup!
Avatar 3:34pm
SquigY0:

and Leon russell! funny times
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Erica:

Nananananananana Batmaaan and Roobin.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Theo!
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Discotech Underground:

Good afternoon, Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Kip!
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Discotech Underground:

and everyone else!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Funky16Corners:

@SquigY0 - Lou only worked on the 45, the rest of the LP was a bunch of others including the Allman Joys aka Gregg and Duane Allman's mid-60s band
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Funky16Corners:

@Candy-O - Have you heard 'I'm Going Home' by the Choir? A 100% steal of the Nashville Teens record
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:38pm
Brian in UK:

You would think that he would drop the Henry and change it to Tiny.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:38pm
Candy-O'67:

I'm not sure if I have, Larry. I'll Youtube it to see!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:38pm
Funky16Corners:

I can't believe he didn't change his last name!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:41pm
Funky16Corners:

@Candy-O - It's the flip of their it 'IT's Cold Outside'. The Chesterfield Kings covered it on their first album
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
Candy-O'67:

Just listened! I hadn't heard it, I don't think. I'll have to check the Chesterfield Kings' version, too. Love them!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
Funky16Corners:

I only knew the Choir song for years then someone told me to check out the Nashville Teens record and my mind was blown.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
Discotech Underground:

So, was Lou related to Dean Courtney, who recorded for RCA and MGM?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
Funky16Corners:

No, Lou's real name was Louis Pegues.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
Funky16Corners:

I have a killer Dean Courtney 45, though...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
Discotech Underground:

I have the two RCA's but the MGM has eluded me!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
Funky16Corners:

Yipes! $500!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
Discotech Underground:

Interestingly enough, my favorite of the two RCA's is the one that doesn't sell for as much, "We Got A Good Thing". The other one is OK but I like the cheaper one better.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
Funky16Corners:

That's the one I have, Love it!
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northguineahills:

Ok, back from camping and playing music up bear New Paltz. Making sounds was so thereaputic and hanging out w/ old friends.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
Discotech Underground:

It's a great one, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg!
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northguineahills:

(also, being in Brooklyn is invigorates me)
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Funky16Corners:

hey NGH!
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Funky16Corners:

@Kip - Those are the best kinds of records!
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Funky16Corners:

I wish I knew who was playing on this album. The guitar and drums are especially good.
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Funky16Corners:

This record is massive. Bootlegged as a 45 (no original 45 release) for the Northern Soul scene
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Discotech Underground:

Yeah, Northern Soul DJ's don't like LP's much.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
Funky16Corners:

True that.
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Erica:

But Larry would make an exception if he wanted to though. ;)
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Funky16Corners:

You know I would.
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Discotech Underground:

The Silhouettes LP on Goodway is a prime example...it came with a bonus 45 of the track "Not Me Baby" that was also on the LP. The 45 gets four figures by itself but the album barely gets a couple hundred...and it's the same exact cut!
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Funky16Corners:

I speak as someone with decades of experience and an intimate understanding of the species: Record collectors are WEIRD.
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Funky16Corners:

Myself included, of course
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:12pm
Funky16Corners:

The next one is the biggie...
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Funky16Corners:

As sampled by DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist...
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SquigY0:

just imagine how challenging the lyrics writing would be if her name wasn't Joyce
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Hey Betty! I Love spaghetti!
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SquigY0:

Hey hey Ellen! You're a felon!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
Candy-O'67:

Lovin' all the Lou Courtney! Didn't know about all this soul! Great stuff!
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Brian in UK:

Lucretia will teach ya.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
Funky16Corners:

@Candy-O - Another one of those guys that's pretty much only known by DJs and collectors, which is a shame
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
Candy-O'67:

I'm definitely gonna be on the lookout for Lou's stuff now!
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Brian in UK:

Lou did like making up dances.
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Funky16Corners:

You can still find the Riverside 45s pretty cheaply, Some of the other stuff, like Hey Joyce and a few of the things you'll hear in this set are much ore expensive and hard to find,
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
Funky16Corners:

@Brian - Dance craze 45s were the meat and potatoes of the 60s soul scene!
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Funky16Corners:

James Brown made it a cottage industry!
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SquigY0:

Larry's had a whole show devoted to the dance crazes and it...is...bonkers how they're so much the same yet so different
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:26pm
Funky16Corners:

I have to do another one of those!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:27pm
Funky16Corners:

This is another one of his 45s that I can't believe isn't much bigger amongst soul fans.
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SquigY0:

yes please!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:30pm
Funky16Corners:

I could probably do entire shows devoted to songs that mention either the boogaloo or the shingaling!
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SquigY0:

haha

but what about the dingaling and the shambala?
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SquigY0:

or shabadabadooooooo
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
Funky16Corners:

Only for shows devoted to the most obscure and arcane dances
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Brian in UK:

Backing singers and a brass section. What more do you need.
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SquigY0:

ha fair nuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:32pm
Funky16Corners:

The next record...strap yourselves in. I'm warning you...
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Erica:

Will do Larry.
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SquigY0:

kinky
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
Funky16Corners:

NOTE: Not really singing about melted butter!!!
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WR:

hello Larry and all. Slipping in late, one question, why is there not a big Wikipedia page for Lou Courtney?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey WR! There's a small one.
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SquigY0:

oh....my
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:37pm
dreamyandseedy:

i am gonna have to listen again in the archive, this show is too good for just one listen!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:37pm
WR:

oh, of course, you're right, just no one linked the discogs entry to it.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Dreamy!
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Funky16Corners:

He deserves more: en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:40pm
Candy-O'67:

I agree, dreamyandseedy! Hey!
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Candy-O'67:

Hey, WR!
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dreamyandseedy:

hello Candy-O'67! i hate when work forces me to concentrate and i can't appreciate this music as much as it deserves ;)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
Brian in UK:

Larry, thanks for the education.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:43pm
Funky16Corners:

My pleasure, always!
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Funky16Corners:

This was a pretty decent R&B hit in 1974
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:47pm
Candy-O'67:

Same here, dreamyandseedy! I'm working, too!
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Doug Schulkind:

Courtney... Love.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Doug!
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Discotech Underground:

Don't forget to stay tuned for DISCOTECH UNDERGROUND immediately following Larry's show for the best in garage, psych, freakbeat and prog rock from the Sonic 60's and Sizzling 70's!

wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:48pm
WR:

Hi Candy!

Larry, I will definitely be listening to this from the start. I had seen Lou Courtney's name around but had no clue about the range of his career.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:49pm
Funky16Corners:

This Fifth Dimension tune written by Ashford and Simpson
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:50pm
Funky16Corners:

Lou was in the group for two albums post-Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr
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dutchtheo:

Thanks, Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:55pm
WR:

Thank you Larry. Great well deserved survey of Lou Courtney.
Laters all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks everyone!
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Erica:

Great show Larry. I hope to survive 5 hours of your show next week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Erica! Me too!
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Candy-O'67:

Thanks so much, Larry! Enjoyed it and will be listening and referring to it when I want to look for Lou material!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:14pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Candy-O!
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