WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 18, 2021

Listener comments!
	3:00pm Moog1 Radio: Online and ready!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Kurt!
	♥ 3:01pm Yvang: Hey Larry! I am drooling at the theme of the show! & Hell Yeah to Norma Tanega!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Yvang!
	3:02pm TDK60: Hello DJ Larry G!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey TDK60!
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Greetings, Larry and folx! This song is hilarious!
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Bab a Bee!
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Hey there, TDK60, Yvang, Moog1 Radio, Will in Norman!
	♥ 3:04pm zzz: ditto to @Yvang @3:01
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey zzz!
	🥁 ♥ 3:05pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Just gonna clicky star this whole playlist right now.
	3:05pm TDK60: Hey there Mx Bee, and assorted other listeners.
	🥁 ♥ 3:05pm Jeff Ash: Good afternoon from Wisconsin. Dropping by for just a short while today.
	🥁 ♥ 3:05pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry and pop cats and dog walkers!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: hey Jeff!
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Theo!
	♥ 3:08pm dreamyandseedy: greetings Larry and all!
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hi Dreamy!
	♥ 3:08pm Ciggy: Hey Larry! 1st X listener. How lame ;-)
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hi Ciggy! First time caller?
	3:09pm Erica: Hey Larry.
	3:09pm Vincent The Soul Chef: present, and trying to put records away... :)
	♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Vincent!
	♥ 3:10pm zzz: just how popular was something like "variations of a theme called hanky panky" in the late 60s anyways? that was definitely a trip
	♥ 3:10pm Ciggy: I'm more of a loomer?
	3:10pm Erica: I can't believe next week is Thanksgiving already.
	3:11pm Erica: After that it's Christmas shopping.
	♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - Sadly unpopular, a fairly common theme in much of the brilliance in today's show.
	♥ 3:12pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & popsters.
	♥ 3:13pm Funky16Corners: Brian!
	3:14pm TDK60: Theo B. was in the '50s-'60s folkie scene. One of the earliest acts on Elektra when still a small indie folk label.
	3:14pm Erica: I brought this up because I'm not ready for that.
	♥ 3:14pm Brian in UK: Oh yes, Cat Stevens, the first album I bought with my paper round money on Deram.
	♥ 3:14pm zzz: theodore bikel! just watched him the other day starring in an amazing episode of columbo where he is in some high IQ/genius social club and murders his business partner using some rube goldberg type set up
	♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: The album that Bikel track is from is the only thing he ever did like that and it has never been reissued.
	♥ 3:16pm Brian in UK: produced by Mike Hurst who was in the Springfields with Dusty & her brother.
	♥ 3:16pm Funky16Corners: This track issued in the US under the artist name Shannon (for no good reason that I can ascertain)
	♥ 3:17pm Brian in UK: Abergavenny does not quite have the same effect as Phoenix or San Francisco!!!
	♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: Is it in Wales?
	♥ 3:18pm Brian in UK: South Wales
	♥ 3:19pm Funky16Corners: It has that Welsh sound
	♥ 3:23pm Brian in UK: This Buckwheat is wacko.
	♥ 3:24pm Webhamster Henry: Hey I've been looking for Pure Buckwheat Honey for a long time: www.echonyc.com...
	3:28pm TDK60: Bikel: That figures, Warner, right? (Reprise). Too big to care? The kind of album a reissue label like Sundazed could do.
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm Jeff Ash: Gotta fly. I'll catch the other sets in the archive. Enjoy your day, everyone!
	♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey Webhamster Henry! It's worth tracking down.
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: Later Jeff!
	3:31pm Andres: I’m a collector of musical arcana is what I will tell my wife and kids the next time someone complains about the too many boxes of lps and 45s around here.
	3:31pm TDK60: Wow, this Van Dyke P. is wild! I only discovered it years later via a cassette that had been discounted. A '60s gem, really.
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - re Bikel - I would love to see that album rediscovered/reissued
	🥁 ♥ 3:31pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): aw, I never heard the VDP version of this before, sweet
	♥ 3:32pm Brian in UK: I used to own Song Cycle but could not find any continuity in it. That's Van Dyke Parks for you.
	♥ 3:32pm Webhamster Henry: VDP is still active , here's a new record he did the string arrangements for: Van Dyke Parks orchestrates Verónica Valerio: Only in America
	♥ 3:32pm Funky16Corners: Song Cycle is proof positive that somebody at Reprise believed in VDP because it is wildly uncommercial, but brilliant
	3:32pm Erica: This Van Dyke Parks song is very out there.
	🥁 ♥ 3:32pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): and, yes, that means that somehow I still haven't listened to Song Cycle?!??!??!?! Must remedy that ASAP
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: Some day I'll have to do a VDP show with all of his productions/compositions
	🥁 ♥ 3:33pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): YES PLEASE
	3:33pm TDK60: ...and his session playing work?
	♥ 3:33pm Webhamster Henry: Mx. Baba Bee: you might also like Jump! his concept album-musical based on Uncle Remus tales.
	♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Yes, that too
	🥁 ♥ 3:34pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): WHH: There is so much VDP I haven't simmered in yet. This is a great idea, thanks!
	♥ 3:34pm Brian in UK: VDP did produce one of my favourites. Phil Ochs Greatest Hits.
	♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: Oddly enough, VDP was/is obsessed with Trinidadian steel band music
	♥ 3:35pm Brian in UK: Yes, Larry. The Clang of the Yankee Reaper is good.
	3:36pm Andres: One of those steel band 45s, from a thrift store, is a jewel in my collection!
	♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: Parks had his hands all over this Ruthann 45
	♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: BTW This is Ruthann Friedman who wrote Windy for the Association
	♥ 3:38pm Brian in UK: Wish I could make sense of Surfs Up's lyrics.
	3:39pm David in California: I heard a VDP track on a Warners 1970s album collecting tracks by some of their less commercial artists. Does anyone know what the title of that album was?
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: @David - I have a few of those Warner loss leaders with VDP tracks, one with a Datsin commercial and one with music for the Ice Capades
	♥ 3:42pm Phillippe: hey there
	♥ 3:42pm Funky16Corners: Hey Phillippe!
	3:42pm Erica: Hi Phillippe
	♥ 3:42pm Brian in UK: Larry, would it be fair to say that Del Shannon & Lou Christy travelled a similar path in the late Sixties?
	3:43pm David in California: Thanks, Larry. It was an interesting album, which also had an Everly Brothers track on it.
	♥ 3:43pm Brian in UK: Hello Phillippe, missed you earlier.
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Yes though I think Shannon's was a more substantial path, but Christiy had the right idea
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: @David - Here's one of them: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 3:45pm Funky16Corners: Here's the other one: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 3:46pm Brian in UK: First time I heard To Claudia... was on California '99.
	♥ 3:47pm Funky16Corners: That's a wild album, with an insane package!
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: There's also a 45 by Denny Laine that has a clean version of Claudia (no intro/segue)
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: Not Denny Laine. Denny Doherty
	♥ 3:49pm Phillippe: Hey Brian and Erica!
	3:50pm David in California: Thanks again, Larry. I think it was the second one, since I remember "T for Texas" being on it. I wish more labels had issued that kind of collection.
	♥ 3:50pm Aitch: Heroes and Villains a fave. New to show, but very interesting
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: @David - Those loss leaders are gold mine.
	♥ 3:51pm Brian in UK: Larry, you could play Twister on the album cover!!
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: Hi Aitch!
	♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I think it compares to Isaac Hayes Black Moses for pure square footage used
	3:53pm Moog1 Radio: YES! Timebox!
	3:54pm Moog1 Radio: The guy who plays Barry Wom in the Rutles is the drummer!
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: Such a great 45!
	3:54pm Andres: +1 for Timebox!
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: Jon Halsey!
	♥ 3:55pm Brian in UK: The Deramic Sound System.
	3:55pm Moog1 Radio: And the guy who stood in for the still image shot of Leppo from the Rutles is in this band. He co wrote some of the Rutles songs with Neil Innes.
	♥ 3:56pm Funky16Corners: Halsall?
	3:56pm Moog1 Radio: Yes Ollie
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: This Cookies 45 written and produced by the Tokens, including Mitch Margo who just passed away
	♥ 4:00pm Brian in UK: Here's Mr Halsey. www.youtube.com...
	4:02pm Moog1 Radio: I met him at the Chicago Beatefest back in the 90s when Neil Innes revived the Rutles and they did a concert!
	♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: Innes was so cool.
	♥ 4:03pm Brian in UK: Cracks me up that there are/were Rutles tribute bands.
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: The "Progressive Roy Orbison". Lasted exactly one 45
	♥ 4:08pm Mike Sin: Many interesting tracks today! I think after the full onslaught of psychedelia in 1967, record labels and artists were probably wondering in earnest, "where is it going to go from here?" now that applying more involved studio techniques and instituting creative arranging were resonating well with audiences especially on the FM side of the dial.
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mike!
	♥ 4:11pm Brian in UK: Mike Sin, agree. Think that the Beatles left a deep impression and suddenly there were 16 tracks to play with.
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: I think a lot of the stuff on today's show is AM trying to suck up some of that FM juice.
	4:12pm David in California: Wow, this is unlike anything else I've heard by Roy Orbison.
	4:12pm TDK60: Never heard this Roy O. afore. Suite-like huh?
	4:13pm Erica: Sounds like it Larry.
	♥ 4:13pm Funky16Corners: Very suite-like. Largely the work of the guys from the previous track, Tupper Saussy and Don Gant of the Neon Philharmonic
	♥ 4:14pm Brian in UK: Larry, you are talking a foreign language AM/FM to us over here at that time.
	4:14pm TDK60: How'd that fit onto a 45? Or, both sides?
	♥ 4:14pm Mike Sin: @FunkyLarry -- Or artists and labels trying to create "product" (I know that term is hated!) that plays to both the AM and FM side of the dial!
	♥ 4:16pm Aitch: No FM here in Australia until 1975
	♥ 4:18pm doctorjazz: Hi folks!
	♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - One side of a 45!
	♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: @MIke Sin - That works, too
	♥ 4:21pm Webhamster Henry: This show fits in well with my sporadic quests for concept albums.
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I forget that the UK had the thin gruel of BBC approved pop and the pirates.
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: @Webhamster Henry - There are lots of records here that fit that bill
	4:24pm TDK60: Good ol' Gene Clark.
	♥ 4:24pm zzz: ahh, there's Norma!
	♥ 4:25pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Check it out: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 4:25pm Brian in UK: Larry, just out of interest did Roy Orbison's song come out after Hey Jude. The single which extended how long a single could be?
	♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: A year after Hey Jude
	♥ 4:27pm StringOFperils: Howdy! Love this old Springfield...sad sad Neil
	♥ 4:28pm Funky16Corners: Hey String! This track makes me yearn for the days of magic mushrooms...
	♥ 4:28pm StringOFperils: Ha ha ha!
	♥ 4:29pm Brian in UK: Larry, this is the time of year for them over here!!! Get the teapot out.
	♥ 4:31pm Funky16Corners: One year later James Griffin would co-found Bread.
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: Young Paul Williams here
	4:40pm Vincent The Soul Chef: @Larry - would you consider this "toytown"? I've got tons of homemade comps on my hard drive that I have ye to fully discover.
	4:40pm David in California: Andrew Sandoval played several tracks from The Ark on his Requiem to Chad Stuart on Come To The Sunshine last December.
	♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: I wouldn't. Way too interesting and not at all cloying
	4:41pm Vincent The Soul Chef: beautiful track, this, btw :)
	♥ 4:42pm Funky16Corners: Both of the late-period C&J albums are essential. Of Cabbages and Kings and The Ark
	4:42pm Erica: Sorry about that. Got distracted by two alley cats in the backyard.
	♥ 4:43pm Funky16Corners: This album has an officla release date of 1972, but the rumor is that it was recorded a few years earlier, possibly for release on Immediate and sat in the can looking for a new home, which it found on Rare Earth
	4:44pm David in California: Chad Stuart said he went from making schlock rock to art rock. He was too hard on himself, as the earlier C&J was not schlock rock.
	♥ 4:45pm Funky16Corners: Even their early stuff is pretty cool. Not exactly progressive, but not cheesy either
	♥ 4:48pm Brian in UK: Oh yes, love the bass. Great debut album.
	4:49pm TDK60: Yeah David, I thought early C&J was good proto-folk-rock-pop.
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: This is a really interesting transitional album: www.discogs.com...
	4:51pm Erica: An underrated Turtles gem.
	🥁 ♥ 4:51pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): this one sounds like it's about to burst into a jingle for a famous soft drink
	♥ 4:52pm StringOFperils: That is SO good! Turtles.
	♥ 4:52pm Brian in UK: Great selections, Larry.
	🥁 ♥ 4:53pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!
	4:54pm djnogoodnick: Thanks for the shout Larry! And I totally agree about the Norma Tanega. Street that Rhymes is my favorite track on there too..
	4:55pm David in California: Larry, thanks for the Distant Shores link. Thanks for the show. I've really enjoyed it.
	4:55pm Erica: Brilliant show Larry. Was expecting more Norma Tanega haha.
	4:56pm TDK60: Thanks Larry.
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thank you all!
	♥ 4:57pm Yvang: Thanks for the unlimited Pop, Larry!
	🥁 ♥ 4:57pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): thank you Larry, this was a fantastic journey
	4:57pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Thank yiou indeed... :)
	♥ 4:57pm StringOFperils: Thank you!
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
	♥ 4:57pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the testification, Larry!
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Henry!
	4:58pm Erica: Happy Thanksgiving everyone who celebrates it.
	4:58pm HyperDose: I give thanks for these groovy tunes!
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: Have a good one, Erica!
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Hyperdose!
	♥ 4:59pm Alex In Illinois: The trapdoor to the Disco Underground seems to be stuck. Oh, I see, we are heading to Electic Lazy Susan now.
	♥ 5:00pm Alex In Illinois: The trapdoor to the Disco Underground seems to be stuck. Oh, I see, we are heading to electric Lazy Susan now

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 18, 2021

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November 18, 2021: Testify! - Struggling Against the Limits of Pop

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Free Design	2002 (A Hit Song) "2002 (A Hit Song)" by "Free Design"	45RPM Single	Project 3	1969	45	0:01:31 (Pop-up)
Definitive Rock Chorale	Variations of a Theme Called Hanky Panky	45RPM Single	Philips	1968	45	0:04:06 (Pop-up)
Zombies	Maybe After He's Gone "Maybe After He's Gone" by "Zombies"	Odessey and Oracle	Date	1968	LP	0:06:54 (Pop-up)
Theodore Bikel	I Hear the Laughter	A New Day	Reprise	1969	LP	0:09:24 (Pop-up)
Cat Stevens	Matthew and Son "Matthew and Son" by "Cat Stevens"	45RPM Single	Deram	1966	45	0:13:04 (Pop-up)
Marty Wilde	Abergavenny "Abergavenny" by "Marty Wilde"	45RPM Single	Philips	1968	45	0:15:43 (Pop-up)
Buckwheat	Pure Buckwheat Honey "Pure Buckwheat Honey" by "Buckwheat"	Pure Buckwheat Honey	Super K	1969	LP	0:18:26 (Pop-up)

Van Dyke Parks	Vine Street / Palm Desert	Song Cycle	Reprise	1967	LP	0:29:35 (Pop-up)
Ruthann	Carry On (Glittering Dancer)	45RPM Single	Reprise	1970	45	0:36:13 (Pop-up)
Lou Christy/Twyla and the Canterbury Strings	Canterbury Road/Saints of Aquarius	45RPM Single	Buddah	1968	45	0:38:37 (Pop-up)
Millennium	Prelude/To Claudia On Thursday	Begin	Columbia	1968	LP	0:45:14 (Pop-up)
Beach Boys	Heroes and Villains "Heroes and Villains" by "Beach Boys"	45RPM Single	Brother	1967	45	0:51:14 (Pop-up)
Timebox	Gone Is The Sad Man "Gone Is The Sad Man" by "Timebox"	45RPM Single	Deram	1968	45	0:53:07 (Pop-up)
Biff Rose	Fill Your Heart "Fill Your Heart" by "Biff Rose"	The Thorn In Mrs. Rose's Side	Tetragrammaton	1968	LP	0:56:48 (Pop-up)
The Cookies	Wounded "Wounded" by "The Cookies"	45RPM Single	Warner Brothers	1967	45	0:59:59 (Pop-up)
Neon Philharmonic	Brilliant Colors	The Moth Confesses	Warner Brothers	1969	LP	1:02:31 (Pop-up)
Roy Orbison	Southbound Jericho Parkway	45RPM Single	MGM	1969	45	1:06:58 (Pop-up)

Gene Clark	Echoes "Echoes" by "Gene Clark"	Gene Clark With The Gosdin Brothers	Columbia	1967	LP	1:20:35 (Pop-up)
Norma Tanega	A Street That Rhymes at 6 A.M.	Walking My Cat Named Dog	New Voice	1966	LP	1:23:47 (Pop-up)
Buffalo Springfield	Expecting To Fly	Again	Atco	1967	LP	1:26:10 (Pop-up)
James Griffin	The Light Of Your Mind	45RPM Single	Viva	1968	45	1:30:29 (Pop-up)
Holy Mackerel	1984 "1984" by "Holy Mackerel"	The Holy Mackerel	Reprise	1968	LP	1:32:19 (Pop-up)
Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde	The Ark	The Ark	Columbia	1968	LP	1:36:43 (Pop-up)
Keef James	Somewhere "Somewhere" by "Keef James"	One Tree Or Another	Rare Earth	1972	LP	1:41:21 (Pop-up)
Love	Softly To Me "Softly To Me" by "Love"	Love	Elektra	1966	LP	1:47:24 (Pop-up)
Turtles	You Know What I Mean "You Know What I Mean" by "Turtles"	45RPM Single	White Whale	1967	45	1:49:42 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin & the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:56:56 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:00pm Moog1 Radio: Online and ready!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Kurt!
	♥ 3:01pm Yvang: Hey Larry! I am drooling at the theme of the show! & Hell Yeah to Norma Tanega!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Yvang!
	3:02pm TDK60: Hello DJ Larry G!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey TDK60!
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Greetings, Larry and folx! This song is hilarious!
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Bab a Bee!
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Hey there, TDK60, Yvang, Moog1 Radio, Will in Norman!
	♥ 3:04pm zzz: ditto to @Yvang @3:01
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey zzz!
	🥁 ♥ 3:05pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Just gonna clicky star this whole playlist right now.
	3:05pm TDK60: Hey there Mx Bee, and assorted other listeners.
	🥁 ♥ 3:05pm Jeff Ash: Good afternoon from Wisconsin. Dropping by for just a short while today.
	🥁 ♥ 3:05pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry and pop cats and dog walkers!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: hey Jeff!
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Theo!
	♥ 3:08pm dreamyandseedy: greetings Larry and all!
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hi Dreamy!
	♥ 3:08pm Ciggy: Hey Larry! 1st X listener. How lame ;-)
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hi Ciggy! First time caller?
	3:09pm Erica: Hey Larry.
	3:09pm Vincent The Soul Chef: present, and trying to put records away... :)
	♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Vincent!
	♥ 3:10pm zzz: just how popular was something like "variations of a theme called hanky panky" in the late 60s anyways? that was definitely a trip
	♥ 3:10pm Ciggy: I'm more of a loomer?
	3:10pm Erica: I can't believe next week is Thanksgiving already.
	3:11pm Erica: After that it's Christmas shopping.
	♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - Sadly unpopular, a fairly common theme in much of the brilliance in today's show.
	♥ 3:12pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & popsters.
	♥ 3:13pm Funky16Corners: Brian!
	3:14pm TDK60: Theo B. was in the '50s-'60s folkie scene. One of the earliest acts on Elektra when still a small indie folk label.
	3:14pm Erica: I brought this up because I'm not ready for that.
	♥ 3:14pm Brian in UK: Oh yes, Cat Stevens, the first album I bought with my paper round money on Deram.
	♥ 3:14pm zzz: theodore bikel! just watched him the other day starring in an amazing episode of columbo where he is in some high IQ/genius social club and murders his business partner using some rube goldberg type set up
	♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: The album that Bikel track is from is the only thing he ever did like that and it has never been reissued.
	♥ 3:16pm Brian in UK: produced by Mike Hurst who was in the Springfields with Dusty & her brother.
	♥ 3:16pm Funky16Corners: This track issued in the US under the artist name Shannon (for no good reason that I can ascertain)
	♥ 3:17pm Brian in UK: Abergavenny does not quite have the same effect as Phoenix or San Francisco!!!
	♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: Is it in Wales?
	♥ 3:18pm Brian in UK: South Wales
	♥ 3:19pm Funky16Corners: It has that Welsh sound
	♥ 3:23pm Brian in UK: This Buckwheat is wacko.
	♥ 3:24pm Webhamster Henry: Hey I've been looking for Pure Buckwheat Honey for a long time: www.echonyc.com...
	3:28pm TDK60: Bikel: That figures, Warner, right? (Reprise). Too big to care? The kind of album a reissue label like Sundazed could do.
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm Jeff Ash: Gotta fly. I'll catch the other sets in the archive. Enjoy your day, everyone!
	♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey Webhamster Henry! It's worth tracking down.
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: Later Jeff!
	3:31pm Andres: I’m a collector of musical arcana is what I will tell my wife and kids the next time someone complains about the too many boxes of lps and 45s around here.
	3:31pm TDK60: Wow, this Van Dyke P. is wild! I only discovered it years later via a cassette that had been discounted. A '60s gem, really.
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - re Bikel - I would love to see that album rediscovered/reissued
	🥁 ♥ 3:31pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): aw, I never heard the VDP version of this before, sweet
	♥ 3:32pm Brian in UK: I used to own Song Cycle but could not find any continuity in it. That's Van Dyke Parks for you.
	♥ 3:32pm Webhamster Henry: VDP is still active , here's a new record he did the string arrangements for: Van Dyke Parks orchestrates Verónica Valerio: Only in America
	♥ 3:32pm Funky16Corners: Song Cycle is proof positive that somebody at Reprise believed in VDP because it is wildly uncommercial, but brilliant
	3:32pm Erica: This Van Dyke Parks song is very out there.
	🥁 ♥ 3:32pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): and, yes, that means that somehow I still haven't listened to Song Cycle?!??!??!?! Must remedy that ASAP
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: Some day I'll have to do a VDP show with all of his productions/compositions
	🥁 ♥ 3:33pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): YES PLEASE
	3:33pm TDK60: ...and his session playing work?
	♥ 3:33pm Webhamster Henry: Mx. Baba Bee: you might also like Jump! his concept album-musical based on Uncle Remus tales.
	♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Yes, that too
	🥁 ♥ 3:34pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): WHH: There is so much VDP I haven't simmered in yet. This is a great idea, thanks!
	♥ 3:34pm Brian in UK: VDP did produce one of my favourites. Phil Ochs Greatest Hits.
	♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: Oddly enough, VDP was/is obsessed with Trinidadian steel band music
	♥ 3:35pm Brian in UK: Yes, Larry. The Clang of the Yankee Reaper is good.
	3:36pm Andres: One of those steel band 45s, from a thrift store, is a jewel in my collection!
	♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: Parks had his hands all over this Ruthann 45
	♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: BTW This is Ruthann Friedman who wrote Windy for the Association
	♥ 3:38pm Brian in UK: Wish I could make sense of Surfs Up's lyrics.
	3:39pm David in California: I heard a VDP track on a Warners 1970s album collecting tracks by some of their less commercial artists. Does anyone know what the title of that album was?
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: @David - I have a few of those Warner loss leaders with VDP tracks, one with a Datsin commercial and one with music for the Ice Capades
	♥ 3:42pm Phillippe: hey there
	♥ 3:42pm Funky16Corners: Hey Phillippe!
	3:42pm Erica: Hi Phillippe
	♥ 3:42pm Brian in UK: Larry, would it be fair to say that Del Shannon & Lou Christy travelled a similar path in the late Sixties?
	3:43pm David in California: Thanks, Larry. It was an interesting album, which also had an Everly Brothers track on it.
	♥ 3:43pm Brian in UK: Hello Phillippe, missed you earlier.
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Yes though I think Shannon's was a more substantial path, but Christiy had the right idea
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: @David - Here's one of them: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 3:45pm Funky16Corners: Here's the other one: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 3:46pm Brian in UK: First time I heard To Claudia... was on California '99.
	♥ 3:47pm Funky16Corners: That's a wild album, with an insane package!
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: There's also a 45 by Denny Laine that has a clean version of Claudia (no intro/segue)
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: Not Denny Laine. Denny Doherty
	♥ 3:49pm Phillippe: Hey Brian and Erica!
	3:50pm David in California: Thanks again, Larry. I think it was the second one, since I remember "T for Texas" being on it. I wish more labels had issued that kind of collection.
	♥ 3:50pm Aitch: Heroes and Villains a fave. New to show, but very interesting
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: @David - Those loss leaders are gold mine.
	♥ 3:51pm Brian in UK: Larry, you could play Twister on the album cover!!
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: Hi Aitch!
	♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I think it compares to Isaac Hayes Black Moses for pure square footage used
	3:53pm Moog1 Radio: YES! Timebox!
	3:54pm Moog1 Radio: The guy who plays Barry Wom in the Rutles is the drummer!
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: Such a great 45!
	3:54pm Andres: +1 for Timebox!
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: Jon Halsey!
	♥ 3:55pm Brian in UK: The Deramic Sound System.
	3:55pm Moog1 Radio: And the guy who stood in for the still image shot of Leppo from the Rutles is in this band. He co wrote some of the Rutles songs with Neil Innes.
	♥ 3:56pm Funky16Corners: Halsall?
	3:56pm Moog1 Radio: Yes Ollie
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: This Cookies 45 written and produced by the Tokens, including Mitch Margo who just passed away
	♥ 4:00pm Brian in UK: Here's Mr Halsey. www.youtube.com...
	4:02pm Moog1 Radio: I met him at the Chicago Beatefest back in the 90s when Neil Innes revived the Rutles and they did a concert!
	♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: Innes was so cool.
	♥ 4:03pm Brian in UK: Cracks me up that there are/were Rutles tribute bands.
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: The "Progressive Roy Orbison". Lasted exactly one 45
	♥ 4:08pm Mike Sin: Many interesting tracks today! I think after the full onslaught of psychedelia in 1967, record labels and artists were probably wondering in earnest, "where is it going to go from here?" now that applying more involved studio techniques and instituting creative arranging were resonating well with audiences especially on the FM side of the dial.
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mike!
	♥ 4:11pm Brian in UK: Mike Sin, agree. Think that the Beatles left a deep impression and suddenly there were 16 tracks to play with.
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: I think a lot of the stuff on today's show is AM trying to suck up some of that FM juice.
	4:12pm David in California: Wow, this is unlike anything else I've heard by Roy Orbison.
	4:12pm TDK60: Never heard this Roy O. afore. Suite-like huh?
	4:13pm Erica: Sounds like it Larry.
	♥ 4:13pm Funky16Corners: Very suite-like. Largely the work of the guys from the previous track, Tupper Saussy and Don Gant of the Neon Philharmonic
	♥ 4:14pm Brian in UK: Larry, you are talking a foreign language AM/FM to us over here at that time.
	4:14pm TDK60: How'd that fit onto a 45? Or, both sides?
	♥ 4:14pm Mike Sin: @FunkyLarry -- Or artists and labels trying to create "product" (I know that term is hated!) that plays to both the AM and FM side of the dial!
	♥ 4:16pm Aitch: No FM here in Australia until 1975
	♥ 4:18pm doctorjazz: Hi folks!
	♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - One side of a 45!
	♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: @MIke Sin - That works, too
	♥ 4:21pm Webhamster Henry: This show fits in well with my sporadic quests for concept albums.
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I forget that the UK had the thin gruel of BBC approved pop and the pirates.
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: @Webhamster Henry - There are lots of records here that fit that bill
	4:24pm TDK60: Good ol' Gene Clark.
	♥ 4:24pm zzz: ahh, there's Norma!
	♥ 4:25pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Check it out: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 4:25pm Brian in UK: Larry, just out of interest did Roy Orbison's song come out after Hey Jude. The single which extended how long a single could be?
	♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: A year after Hey Jude
	♥ 4:27pm StringOFperils: Howdy! Love this old Springfield...sad sad Neil
	♥ 4:28pm Funky16Corners: Hey String! This track makes me yearn for the days of magic mushrooms...
	♥ 4:28pm StringOFperils: Ha ha ha!
	♥ 4:29pm Brian in UK: Larry, this is the time of year for them over here!!! Get the teapot out.
	♥ 4:31pm Funky16Corners: One year later James Griffin would co-found Bread.
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: Young Paul Williams here
	4:40pm Vincent The Soul Chef: @Larry - would you consider this "toytown"? I've got tons of homemade comps on my hard drive that I have ye to fully discover.
	4:40pm David in California: Andrew Sandoval played several tracks from The Ark on his Requiem to Chad Stuart on Come To The Sunshine last December.
	♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: I wouldn't. Way too interesting and not at all cloying
	4:41pm Vincent The Soul Chef: beautiful track, this, btw :)
	♥ 4:42pm Funky16Corners: Both of the late-period C&J albums are essential. Of Cabbages and Kings and The Ark
	4:42pm Erica: Sorry about that. Got distracted by two alley cats in the backyard.
	♥ 4:43pm Funky16Corners: This album has an officla release date of 1972, but the rumor is that it was recorded a few years earlier, possibly for release on Immediate and sat in the can looking for a new home, which it found on Rare Earth
	4:44pm David in California: Chad Stuart said he went from making schlock rock to art rock. He was too hard on himself, as the earlier C&J was not schlock rock.
	♥ 4:45pm Funky16Corners: Even their early stuff is pretty cool. Not exactly progressive, but not cheesy either
	♥ 4:48pm Brian in UK: Oh yes, love the bass. Great debut album.
	4:49pm TDK60: Yeah David, I thought early C&J was good proto-folk-rock-pop.
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: This is a really interesting transitional album: www.discogs.com...
	4:51pm Erica: An underrated Turtles gem.
	🥁 ♥ 4:51pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): this one sounds like it's about to burst into a jingle for a famous soft drink
	♥ 4:52pm StringOFperils: That is SO good! Turtles.
	♥ 4:52pm Brian in UK: Great selections, Larry.
	🥁 ♥ 4:53pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!
	4:54pm djnogoodnick: Thanks for the shout Larry! And I totally agree about the Norma Tanega. Street that Rhymes is my favorite track on there too..
	4:55pm David in California: Larry, thanks for the Distant Shores link. Thanks for the show. I've really enjoyed it.
	4:55pm Erica: Brilliant show Larry. Was expecting more Norma Tanega haha.
	4:56pm TDK60: Thanks Larry.
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thank you all!
	♥ 4:57pm Yvang: Thanks for the unlimited Pop, Larry!
	🥁 ♥ 4:57pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): thank you Larry, this was a fantastic journey
	4:57pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Thank yiou indeed... :)
	♥ 4:57pm StringOFperils: Thank you!
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
	♥ 4:57pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the testification, Larry!
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Henry!
	4:58pm Erica: Happy Thanksgiving everyone who celebrates it.
	4:58pm HyperDose: I give thanks for these groovy tunes!
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: Have a good one, Erica!
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Hyperdose!
	♥ 4:59pm Alex In Illinois: The trapdoor to the Disco Underground seems to be stuck. Oh, I see, we are heading to Electic Lazy Susan now.
	♥ 5:00pm Alex In Illinois: The trapdoor to the Disco Underground seems to be stuck. Oh, I see, we are heading to electric Lazy Susan now

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 18, 2021

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