WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 7, 2022

Listener comments!
	3:01pm Phillippe: howdy
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Phillippe!
	🥁 3:02pm Yvang: Hi Larry! Hi fellow testifyers!
	3:02pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: HI HO
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Yvang!
	3:02pm Jeff Ash: Good afternoon from cool, dreary and wet Wisconsin!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Three Moons!
	🥁 3:02pm Yvang: Thursday Thursday!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! Same her in Jerz...
	3:03pm Michael 98145: Howdy, Gang
	3:03pm still b/p: Heard Words of Love on the radio a couple days ago, and wondered again what Cass might have done is she'd been around doing music two or three or five more decades.
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hi Michael!
	3:03pm Michael 98145: California dreaming
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Howdy SBP!
	🥁 3:04pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry and Testify! disciples
	3:04pm still b/p: Papa Larry!
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Theo!
	3:05pm doctorjazz: Hello Larry! Hello Mommelahs und Poppelahs (still in mode from Continental Subway).
	3:06pm Little Danny: thursday thursday! hello larry hi all
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: Danny!
	3:07pm still b/p: Or Godpapas, for a carryover you can't refuse.
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: In case you're curious, the playlist image is adapted from a poster for a 1966 Hollywood Bowl concert: id.pinterest.com...
	3:08pm Erica: Hi Testifiers. I'm here for the Mamas & Papas show.
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	3:09pm moog1 Radio: Love this record!!!
	3:09pm still b/p: Ha! Looks like it's from a Saturday morning cartoon version of band.
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt!
	3:10pm Michael 98145: doodly doodlie
	3:10pm Sem: Herb Alpert sound-a-like, sorta. Hey, Larry, and Testifiers.
	3:10pm moog1 Radio: Vinnie Bell is so wonderful
	3:10pm Michael 98145: whoa
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - Mama Cass was actually converted to cartoon form for Scooby Doo! www.imdb.com...
	3:11pm Michael 98145: this is dragging my mind back
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: Me too, Michael. The Ms&Ps form some of my earliest musical memories
	3:14pm still b/p: I never, ever, ever see any later reference to any singer's work in such vocal groups. Not in any obituary or showbiz story or anywhere else do I ever see, "He/she sang -- or his/her/ mom/dad sang -- in the Johnny Mann Singers, or Ray Charles Singers, or Percy Faith singers. Never.
	3:14pm Erica: This must've been before she died when she was in Scooby Doo
	3:15pm Franco Twinkie: I love this so much - hey Larry!
	3:15pm Funky16Corners: It was, Erica. I saw the original cels for that at the Norman Rockwell Museum years ago
	3:15pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	3:18pm still b/p: Scooby was just past my cartoon appetite years, and it was always an eye-roll inducer. No offense to the countless millions who hold a firmer favorable nostalgia for it. Its BIG place in pop culture recollection and apparent fondness....I just can't get with it.
	3:19pm Michael 98145: Only saw them on TV ... but i have been to the Hollywood Bowl
	3:20pm Franco Twinkie: THAT I would love to see!
	3:21pm moog1 Radio: The Beatles go Ska!
	3:22pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - Mama Cass's appearance was from the even later spin-off, The Scooby Doo Movies, which also featured the thespian mastery of Don Knotts!
	3:23pm Phillippe: was never much of a Beatles fan, still surprises me when I hear a song I don't remember hearing before. Not saying I didn't ever hear it (probably did), just don't remember
	3:24pm Franco Twinkie: I had no idea Ozzie rocked this before The Mamas and Papas.
	3:24pm Erica: Ozzie & Harriet Ozzie Nelson? I can see where Ricky got his singing talent from.
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: 'I Call Your Name' was a fairly early original, from their second US album
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Ozzie among many others
	3:25pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Ozzie was a bandleader before he was Ricky and David's dad
	3:25pm Phillippe: I'm wearing a cardigan today, so this feels right
	3:25pm Erica: Didn't know that Larry.
	3:26pm Michael 98145: this is fun
	3:26pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Their mom, Harriet was an actress. She shows up in a bunch of 1930 movies
	3:27pm doctorjazz: I love this early "Dedicated..." Full of R&B goodness...
	3:27pm still b/p: Speaking of nostalgia and where one places the fondness flag, Knotts was perfect as Fife, but only inducing MORE eye-rolls (my eyes be TIRED) as the guy on Three's Company. Yoy...ugh. Saw poor Ricky Nelson recently in just an early part of Wackiest Ship in the Navy with Jack Lemmon. Don't know if he redeemed himself as an actor by latter demands of that movie story...but my eyes, there they go, there they GO!
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - This is the original, before the Shirelles
	3:27pm Little Danny: so great, this was the original version of "dedicated," no?
	3:27pm Kitschy Mama: Lovin’ the show Larry!
	3:27pm Erica: Didn't know this version of "Dedicated"
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Yes
	3:28pm Little Danny: heh you answered my question
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kitschy Mama!
	3:28pm Franco Twinkie: Ozzie was the next door neighbor of some friends grandparents in Laguna Beach. Apparently Ozzie use to swim every day in the ocean for his personal fitness program. He was also a boxer!
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: Ozzie was a native New Jersey-an. Ricky was born in New Brunswick (not far from where I live)
	🥁 3:29pm David Shortell: Yeah, still b/p. Pretty much all Saturday morning toons were cheap inanimate garbage. It irks me that there are modern parents who survived that era, yet instill the same drek on their own kids. Hanna-Barbera was the worst thing that happened to animation (or maybe Filmation).
	3:30pm Funky16Corners: Hanna Barbera was my era, but y sons were brought up on a diet of classic Warner Brothers and MGM
	3:30pm doctorjazz: I know, have that Five Royales somewhere or other... Ella... Ahhh......
	🥁 3:32pm David Shortell: Glad to hear that, Funky!
	3:33pm Erica: So many people covered Do You Wanna Dance, including the Beach Boys and Bette Midler.
	3:33pm Michael 98145: I think digital animation is an abomination. IMHO.
	3:35pm Funky16Corners: Unfortunately quality animation is an expensive proposition. Every decrease in quality has been due to cost saving measures.
	3:35pm Kitschy Mama: Ahh Sing for your supper is one of my favorites! Mama Cass nailed this one too!
	3:36pm Funky16Corners: I couldn't locate the original version, which appeared in a 1932 Broadway show called The Boys From Syracuse
	3:37pm Erica: Sounds like Red Hot Riding Hood. Haha.
	3:39pm still b/p: Better-known American songbook/ MOR songs from Boys From Syracuse: Falling In Love With Love, This Can't Be Love.
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: I love digging into old Broadway shows that are fairly obscure to find well know songs like that.
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: The first version (but listen to the background singers)
	3:43pm Erica: California was a cover?
	3:43pm Erica: California dreamin was a cover?
	3:43pm still b/p: That show catches my attention because I became familiar as a teen-aged stage crew apprentice for it in a NJ dinner theater where young Manhattan actors came out by long van ride to work for peanuts.
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: Written by John Phillips, first recorded by Barry McGuire
	3:44pm Franco Twinkie: David@3:32, I straddled the line. TV in L.A in the sixties was over brimming with cartoons. I liked everything(mostly) Super flat animation can't be quantified as one thing. The modernist era of Warner Brothers still excite me in a very particular way(drugs have something to do with it) But still, value can't be ascribed to visual representation based on realism.(Disney and Tex Avery back round paintings)Hitting someone on the head with a hammer looks great no matter how it's rendered.
	3:45pm still b/p: That was Mama voices backing Barry, yes?
	3:48pm Funky16Corners: It was indeed!
	3:48pm Michael 98145: Ah, Petula
	🥁 3:49pm WR: Interesting and entertaining approach to the career of The Mamas and Papas. Earliest version I previously had heard of Dream a Little Dream Of Me was Ella Fitzgerald.
	3:49pm SquigY0: hi larry and all!
	3:49pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR! SquigY0!
	🥁 3:49pm WR: And hello Larry and Testify Streamers !
	3:50pm Michael 98145: Hard to wrap my mind around Petula being ~34 back in '66
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: Some day I'm going to put together a show of 1960s artists performing old standards. There are MANY.
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: BTW this Petula album is great.
	3:51pm Funky16Corners: @Michael - Petula was a child star in the UK during WW2, and had a career singing in French that predates her big hits
	3:51pm Michael 98145: loved her
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: I always love seeing her on the reruns of the Ed Sullivan Show where he always refers to her as "Little Petula Clark"
	3:53pm Franco Twinkie: Just recently I read a quote by Moe Tucker of The Velvet Underground - she said when the VU first came to the West coast in 1966, they heard California Dreamin' on the radio and collectively moaned 'Hippies - Run!!!!'
	3:54pm Michael 98145: Heh!
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: The VU got a very chilly welcome in Los Angeles
	3:54pm Michael 98145: Not even the Summer of Love yet
	3:55pm still b/p: But...Lou coulda scored a little bag from Papa John.
	3:56pm Erica: Weren't the VU hippie-ish too?
	3:56pm Funky16Corners: I could picture the VU getting along with Love or The Doors, maybe...
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: The VU were a bunch of NYC heroin-chic intellectuals. The antithesis of hippy
	3:59pm Michael 98145: no flowers in their hair
	3:59pm still b/p: If Warhol had the chance, he probably would've said, "Yes, by all means, let's get the band guesting as New York heroic-chic intellectual characters on The Monkees show!"
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: Nope, though Lou could write some pretty songs.
	3:59pm Franco Twinkie: Oh yeah, and older friend of mine saw them at The Trip that fateful Spring. He liked it! He said the tables we set up with candles and such. At The same time he was hanging out with The Grateful Dead in their digs in The Adams District(not Watts!) The Dead were also less than successful in Los Angeles at the same time as the VU.
	4:00pm Funky16Corners: Lots of LA vs San Francisco rivalry at the time. It showed up at Monterey Pop
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: Don Sebesky even wrote a song for this album called 'Big Mama Cass'
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: Which was covered by Buddy Rich
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: Larry Coryell on guitar
	4:03pm Franco Twinkie: Love was very popular in San Francisco, but wasn't invited to play at Monterey Pop. Go figure!
	4:04pm Erica: Love the band Franco?
	4:04pm Franco Twinkie: Yes.
	4:07pm Funky16Corners: This is a wild album. Phil Woods and a jazz rhythm section playing with Greek musicians: www.discogs.com...
	4:07pm Michael 98145: Great discovery
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: Impulse was not afraid to experiment,
	4:08pm Michael 98145: "Theme From Anthony & Cleopatra" !
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: And Zorba the Greek, of course
	4:09pm Funky16Corners: I have a great psychedelic 45 by these guys from a few years later
	4:15pm Michael 98145: No salt on -her- tail
	4:15pm Funky16Corners: This actually came out on a 45!
	4:17pm still b/p: Where are they? The individual Anita Kerr Singers who came and went? They vanished with the Johnny Mann Singers, et al.
	4:18pm Funky16Corners: They all probably made a fortune singing commercial jingles
	4:23pm Scobot: Perfect selections!
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Scobot!
	4:27pm Michael 98145: Interesting view of the late 1960s
	4:28pm Franco Twinkie: This is a great song no matter who does it. Laurel Canyon is NOTHING like this anymore, but then what is?
	4:28pm Funky16Corners: Speaking of largely anonymous vocalists, the California Dreamers sang - alone and collectively - on TONS of things. The Bahler brothers are all over the Partridge Family records as well as countless jingles and pop records.
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Used very well b Tarantino in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	4:30pm Michael 98145: forgot about that film
	4:30pm Discotech Underground: Larry!
	4:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kip!
	4:31pm Erica: To me Franco, Laurel Canyon is Joni Mitchell.
	4:31pm Funky16Corners: Stay tuned for Kip and Discothech Unerground at 5PM! wfmu.org...
	4:31pm CalZone!: I've been listening while working in the background. Bravo Maestro Grogan!
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: Consumers could be forgiven for mistakenly thinking this was a Mamas and Papas album: www.discogs.com...
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: Hey Cal! Thanks!
	4:33pm Discotech Underground: If I were to be transported back in time to 1960's Laurel Canyon, I'd be hanging out at Frank Zappa's place!
	4:33pm Franco Twinkie: Larry, my only gripe with that movie is the music. I understand why Tarentino used KHJ as a textural device, but still. KHJ was the lamest rock station in L.A. in 1969.
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: Zappa lived in Tom Mix's log cabin house!
	4:34pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Tarantino isn't old enough to have experienced it firsthand. He missed a lot of good stuff.
	4:34pm Discotech Underground: I know, and sadly the cabin was torn down long ago!
	4:35pm Franco Twinkie: My former next door neighbor use to jam at Zappa's house in Laurel Canyon. He said it was in the basement bowling Alley.
	4:36pm Franco Twinkie: I loved that movie by the way.
	4:37pm Vincent The Soul Chef: I'm not allowed to say what I want to say, so I'll just say I'm sorry I missed the show waits patiently for archive :'(
	🥁 4:40pm David Shortell: Is anything from the group's post-breakup contractual obligation album any good?
	4:40pm Franco Twinkie: Erica, without a doubt. Joni's music from that period has an inner life that's soooo beautiful
	4:41pm Funky16Corners: @David - It's an OK album but nothing great.
	4:41pm Funky16Corners: Hey Vincent!
	4:41pm SquigY0: twas a dooozie vincent!!
	4:41pm MOM WHIG: Hi all -I'm super late today. Larry, Phillippe, Funky, Yvang, 3 moons, Jeff, Michael 98145, still b/p, dutch, drjazz, Erica, KIP
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mom Whig!
	4:42pm Discotech Underground: Hey Mom!
	4:43pm Funky16Corners: This was actually a pretty significant hit for Bobby
	4:43pm Michael 98145: Hey @Mom, welcome in
	4:43pm MOM WHIG: hi there David S too
	4:44pm MOM WHIG: Hi there WR
	4:45pm Franco Twinkie: Erica, can we just geek out on Blue for awhile. That was my gateway drug into Joni Mitchell. I was turned onto it by the only girl in our junior high school who went to see the Stones at Altamont.
	4:46pm Erica: Hey Larry did you know the band America (A Horse With No Name) also covered California Dreamin' for a movie of the same name in 1979?
	4:46pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I did not!
	4:46pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - In my book there is no one better than Joni.
	4:47pm Franco Twinkie: Amen brother!
	4:48pm Jeff Ash: Larry, that Petula Clark record from earlier in the show is the one I've been looking for! Thanks!
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: Worth picking up, Jeff!
	4:48pm still b/p: At the MusiCares event honoring Joni as person of the year the other day, musicians and actors talked about the profound effect she had on their lives.
	4:48pm Erica: You should look it up after the show Larry.
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - Her music and it's progression is profound. She's unique.
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I will
	4:50pm Franco Twinkie: Joni at her height of power was a seer.
	4:50pm doctorjazz: Clearly George Benson on guitar.
	4:51pm Funky16Corners: yes, I think Bob James on piano. Jack deJohnnette on drums
	4:51pm Franco Twinkie: Hello Mister Doctor.
	4:53pm doctorjazz: Hello Mister Twinkie!
	4:53pm Michael 98145: Thanks again, Larry G
	4:53pm Funky16Corners: You're welcome!
	4:54pm Discotech Underground: Don't touch that dial! Stay right here for Discotech Underground coming up next! Don't forget to tune in Monday night starting at 7 as I fill in for Global Grease! wfmu.org...
	4:54pm doctorjazz: Let Benson loose (much more that on CTI studio albums...)
	4:54pm MOM WHIG: Will have to catch the beginning of today's show in the Archives later.
	4:54pm MOM WHIG: Kip see you soon
	4:54pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - George Benson was one of the first concerts I ever saw, in like 78 or 79
	4:55pm Michael 98145: Gotta go walk in the sunshine
	4:56pm doctorjazz: Cool-don't think I ever saw Benson... Thanks, Larry!
	🥁 4:56pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!
	4:57pm still b/p: Chances for you to bop, pony and frug when you visit the fuller pour in the archive, MOM.
	4:57pm SquigY0: thanks larry! we're coming for you kip!
	4:57pm Sem: Thanks for the memories, Larry. Good fun, and YAY! Bobby Womack! Later, all.
	4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks everyone!
	4:58pm Erica: Thanks Larry!
	🥁 4:58pm Yvang: Thanks, Larry! Always a joy!
	4:58pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks so much Larry!
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks kids!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 7, 2022

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April 7, 2022: Testify! The Mamas and Papas Covered and Uncovered

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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)
Dee Dee Warwick	Monday Monday "Monday Monday" by "Dee Dee Warwick"	45RPM SIngle	Mercury	1967	45	0:01:25 (Pop-up)
Fuzzy Kane Trio	Monday Monday "Monday Monday" by "Fuzzy Kane Trio"	45RPM SIngle	Bay Sound	1968	45	0:04:11 (Pop-up)
Ambrose Brazleton	Monday Monday "Monday Monday" by "Ambrose Brazleton"	And the Beat Goes On For Physical Education	KER	1968	LP	0:07:42 (Pop-up)
Johnny Mann Singers	Monday Monday	We Can Fly!	Liberty	1967	LP	0:10:34 (Pop-up)
Eddie Cano and His Quintet	Monday Monday	Brought Back Live From PJs	Dunhill	1967	LP	0:13:03 (Pop-up)

The Beatles	I Call Your Name "I Call Your Name" by "The Beatles"	Second Album	Capitol	1964	LP	0:20:47 (Pop-up)
Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra	Dream a Little Dream Of Me	78RPM Single	Brunswick	1931	78	0:22:50 (Pop-up)
Five Royales	Dedicated to the One I Love	45RPM SIngle	King	1957	45	0:25:55 (Pop-up)
Ella Fitzgerald	My Heart Stood Still	The Rodgers and Hart Songbook	Verve	1956	LP	0:28:36 (Pop-up)
Bobby Freeman	Do You Wanna Dance "Do You Wanna Dance" by "Bobby Freeman"	45RPM SIngle	Jubilee	1958	45	0:31:37 (Pop-up)
Benny Goodman feat Martha Tilton	Sing For Your Supper	78RPM Single	Victor	1938	78	0:34:10 (Pop-up)
Dobie Gray	The In Crowd "The In Crowd" by "Dobie Gray"	45RPM SIngle	Charger	1964	45	0:36:59 (Pop-up)
Turtles	You Baby "You Baby" by "Turtles"	45RPM SIngle	White Whale	1966	45	0:39:46 (Pop-up)
Barry McGuire	Cailfornia Dreamin'	This Precious Time	Dunhill	1965	LP	0:42:20 (Pop-up)

Petula Clark	Monday Monday "Monday Monday" by "Petula Clark"	I Couldn't Live Without Your Love	Warner Brothers	1966	LP	0:48:26 (Pop-up)
Free Design	California Dreamin' "California Dreamin'" by "Free Design"	You Could Be Born Again	Project 3	1968	LP	0:51:14 (Pop-up)
Stapleton-Morley Expression	Dancing Bear	The Mamas and Papas Book of Songs	Dunhill	1967	LP	0:53:33 (Pop-up)
Don Sebesky and the Jazz Rock Syndrome	Somebody Groovy	Don Sebesky and the Jazz Rock Syndrome	Verve	1968	LP	0:57:13 (Pop-up)
Don Sebesky and the Jazz Rock Syndrome	Dancing In the Street	Don Sebesky and the Jazz Rock Syndrome	Verve	1968	LP	1:01:20 (Pop-up)
Phil Woods	Got a Feelin' "Got a Feelin'" by "Phil Woods"	Greek Cooking	Impulse	1967	LP	1:04:37 (Pop-up)
Les Sauterelles	Hey Girl "Hey Girl" by "Les Sauterelles"	Les Sauterelles	Columbia SW	1966	LP	1:09:06 (Pop-up)
Sandy Nelson	Words of Love "Words of Love" by "Sandy Nelson"	Cheetah Beat	Imperial	1967	LP	1:11:08 (Pop-up)
Anita Kerr Singers	No Salt On Her Tail	All You Need Is Love	Warner Brothers	1967	LP	1:14:20 (Pop-up)
Johnny Mann Singers	Go Where You Wanna Go	We Can Fly!	Liberty	1967	LP	1:16:50 (Pop-up)
Harvey Averne Dozen	Free Advice "Free Advice" by "Harvey Averne Dozen"	Viva Soul	Atlantic	1968	LP	1:18:57 (Pop-up)
Sue Raney	Once Was a Time I Thought	New and Now!	Imperial	1967	LP	1:21:40 (Pop-up)
Scott McKenzie	12:30 "12:30" by "Scott McKenzie"	The Voice of Scott McKenzie	Ode	1967	LP	1:23:30 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers	12:30 (Young Girls Are Coming To the Canyon)	Wind, Sky and Diamond	Impulse	1967	LP	1:26:46 (Pop-up)
Stapleton-Morley Expression	Creeque Alley	The Mamas and Papas Book of Songs	Dunhill	1967	LP	1:29:42 (Pop-up)
Julie London	Straight Shooter "Straight Shooter" by "Julie London"	With Body and Soul	Liberty	1967	LP	1:32:53 (Pop-up)

Bobby Womack	California Dreamin' "California Dreamin'" by "Bobby Womack"	45RPM SIngle	Minit	1969	45	1:40:38 (Pop-up)
Eddie Hazel	California Dreamin' "California Dreamin'" by "Eddie Hazel"	45RPM SIngle	Warner Brothers	1977	45	1:43:58 (Pop-up)
CTI All Stars	California Dreamin'	Live at the Hollywood Bowl	CTI	1977	LP	1:47:58 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM SIngle	Like	1966	45	1:58:01 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:01pm Phillippe: howdy
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Phillippe!
	🥁 3:02pm Yvang: Hi Larry! Hi fellow testifyers!
	3:02pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: HI HO
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Yvang!
	3:02pm Jeff Ash: Good afternoon from cool, dreary and wet Wisconsin!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Three Moons!
	🥁 3:02pm Yvang: Thursday Thursday!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! Same her in Jerz...
	3:03pm Michael 98145: Howdy, Gang
	3:03pm still b/p: Heard Words of Love on the radio a couple days ago, and wondered again what Cass might have done is she'd been around doing music two or three or five more decades.
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hi Michael!
	3:03pm Michael 98145: California dreaming
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Howdy SBP!
	🥁 3:04pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry and Testify! disciples
	3:04pm still b/p: Papa Larry!
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Theo!
	3:05pm doctorjazz: Hello Larry! Hello Mommelahs und Poppelahs (still in mode from Continental Subway).
	3:06pm Little Danny: thursday thursday! hello larry hi all
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: Danny!
	3:07pm still b/p: Or Godpapas, for a carryover you can't refuse.
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: In case you're curious, the playlist image is adapted from a poster for a 1966 Hollywood Bowl concert: id.pinterest.com...
	3:08pm Erica: Hi Testifiers. I'm here for the Mamas & Papas show.
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	3:09pm moog1 Radio: Love this record!!!
	3:09pm still b/p: Ha! Looks like it's from a Saturday morning cartoon version of band.
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt!
	3:10pm Michael 98145: doodly doodlie
	3:10pm Sem: Herb Alpert sound-a-like, sorta. Hey, Larry, and Testifiers.
	3:10pm moog1 Radio: Vinnie Bell is so wonderful
	3:10pm Michael 98145: whoa
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - Mama Cass was actually converted to cartoon form for Scooby Doo! www.imdb.com...
	3:11pm Michael 98145: this is dragging my mind back
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: Me too, Michael. The Ms&Ps form some of my earliest musical memories
	3:14pm still b/p: I never, ever, ever see any later reference to any singer's work in such vocal groups. Not in any obituary or showbiz story or anywhere else do I ever see, "He/she sang -- or his/her/ mom/dad sang -- in the Johnny Mann Singers, or Ray Charles Singers, or Percy Faith singers. Never.
	3:14pm Erica: This must've been before she died when she was in Scooby Doo
	3:15pm Franco Twinkie: I love this so much - hey Larry!
	3:15pm Funky16Corners: It was, Erica. I saw the original cels for that at the Norman Rockwell Museum years ago
	3:15pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	3:18pm still b/p: Scooby was just past my cartoon appetite years, and it was always an eye-roll inducer. No offense to the countless millions who hold a firmer favorable nostalgia for it. Its BIG place in pop culture recollection and apparent fondness....I just can't get with it.
	3:19pm Michael 98145: Only saw them on TV ... but i have been to the Hollywood Bowl
	3:20pm Franco Twinkie: THAT I would love to see!
	3:21pm moog1 Radio: The Beatles go Ska!
	3:22pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - Mama Cass's appearance was from the even later spin-off, The Scooby Doo Movies, which also featured the thespian mastery of Don Knotts!
	3:23pm Phillippe: was never much of a Beatles fan, still surprises me when I hear a song I don't remember hearing before. Not saying I didn't ever hear it (probably did), just don't remember
	3:24pm Franco Twinkie: I had no idea Ozzie rocked this before The Mamas and Papas.
	3:24pm Erica: Ozzie & Harriet Ozzie Nelson? I can see where Ricky got his singing talent from.
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: 'I Call Your Name' was a fairly early original, from their second US album
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Ozzie among many others
	3:25pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Ozzie was a bandleader before he was Ricky and David's dad
	3:25pm Phillippe: I'm wearing a cardigan today, so this feels right
	3:25pm Erica: Didn't know that Larry.
	3:26pm Michael 98145: this is fun
	3:26pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Their mom, Harriet was an actress. She shows up in a bunch of 1930 movies
	3:27pm doctorjazz: I love this early "Dedicated..." Full of R&B goodness...
	3:27pm still b/p: Speaking of nostalgia and where one places the fondness flag, Knotts was perfect as Fife, but only inducing MORE eye-rolls (my eyes be TIRED) as the guy on Three's Company. Yoy...ugh. Saw poor Ricky Nelson recently in just an early part of Wackiest Ship in the Navy with Jack Lemmon. Don't know if he redeemed himself as an actor by latter demands of that movie story...but my eyes, there they go, there they GO!
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - This is the original, before the Shirelles
	3:27pm Little Danny: so great, this was the original version of "dedicated," no?
	3:27pm Kitschy Mama: Lovin’ the show Larry!
	3:27pm Erica: Didn't know this version of "Dedicated"
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Yes
	3:28pm Little Danny: heh you answered my question
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kitschy Mama!
	3:28pm Franco Twinkie: Ozzie was the next door neighbor of some friends grandparents in Laguna Beach. Apparently Ozzie use to swim every day in the ocean for his personal fitness program. He was also a boxer!
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: Ozzie was a native New Jersey-an. Ricky was born in New Brunswick (not far from where I live)
	🥁 3:29pm David Shortell: Yeah, still b/p. Pretty much all Saturday morning toons were cheap inanimate garbage. It irks me that there are modern parents who survived that era, yet instill the same drek on their own kids. Hanna-Barbera was the worst thing that happened to animation (or maybe Filmation).
	3:30pm Funky16Corners: Hanna Barbera was my era, but y sons were brought up on a diet of classic Warner Brothers and MGM
	3:30pm doctorjazz: I know, have that Five Royales somewhere or other... Ella... Ahhh......
	🥁 3:32pm David Shortell: Glad to hear that, Funky!
	3:33pm Erica: So many people covered Do You Wanna Dance, including the Beach Boys and Bette Midler.
	3:33pm Michael 98145: I think digital animation is an abomination. IMHO.
	3:35pm Funky16Corners: Unfortunately quality animation is an expensive proposition. Every decrease in quality has been due to cost saving measures.
	3:35pm Kitschy Mama: Ahh Sing for your supper is one of my favorites! Mama Cass nailed this one too!
	3:36pm Funky16Corners: I couldn't locate the original version, which appeared in a 1932 Broadway show called The Boys From Syracuse
	3:37pm Erica: Sounds like Red Hot Riding Hood. Haha.
	3:39pm still b/p: Better-known American songbook/ MOR songs from Boys From Syracuse: Falling In Love With Love, This Can't Be Love.
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: I love digging into old Broadway shows that are fairly obscure to find well know songs like that.
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: The first version (but listen to the background singers)
	3:43pm Erica: California was a cover?
	3:43pm Erica: California dreamin was a cover?
	3:43pm still b/p: That show catches my attention because I became familiar as a teen-aged stage crew apprentice for it in a NJ dinner theater where young Manhattan actors came out by long van ride to work for peanuts.
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: Written by John Phillips, first recorded by Barry McGuire
	3:44pm Franco Twinkie: David@3:32, I straddled the line. TV in L.A in the sixties was over brimming with cartoons. I liked everything(mostly) Super flat animation can't be quantified as one thing. The modernist era of Warner Brothers still excite me in a very particular way(drugs have something to do with it) But still, value can't be ascribed to visual representation based on realism.(Disney and Tex Avery back round paintings)Hitting someone on the head with a hammer looks great no matter how it's rendered.
	3:45pm still b/p: That was Mama voices backing Barry, yes?
	3:48pm Funky16Corners: It was indeed!
	3:48pm Michael 98145: Ah, Petula
	🥁 3:49pm WR: Interesting and entertaining approach to the career of The Mamas and Papas. Earliest version I previously had heard of Dream a Little Dream Of Me was Ella Fitzgerald.
	3:49pm SquigY0: hi larry and all!
	3:49pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR! SquigY0!
	🥁 3:49pm WR: And hello Larry and Testify Streamers !
	3:50pm Michael 98145: Hard to wrap my mind around Petula being ~34 back in '66
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: Some day I'm going to put together a show of 1960s artists performing old standards. There are MANY.
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: BTW this Petula album is great.
	3:51pm Funky16Corners: @Michael - Petula was a child star in the UK during WW2, and had a career singing in French that predates her big hits
	3:51pm Michael 98145: loved her
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: I always love seeing her on the reruns of the Ed Sullivan Show where he always refers to her as "Little Petula Clark"
	3:53pm Franco Twinkie: Just recently I read a quote by Moe Tucker of The Velvet Underground - she said when the VU first came to the West coast in 1966, they heard California Dreamin' on the radio and collectively moaned 'Hippies - Run!!!!'
	3:54pm Michael 98145: Heh!
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: The VU got a very chilly welcome in Los Angeles
	3:54pm Michael 98145: Not even the Summer of Love yet
	3:55pm still b/p: But...Lou coulda scored a little bag from Papa John.
	3:56pm Erica: Weren't the VU hippie-ish too?
	3:56pm Funky16Corners: I could picture the VU getting along with Love or The Doors, maybe...
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: The VU were a bunch of NYC heroin-chic intellectuals. The antithesis of hippy
	3:59pm Michael 98145: no flowers in their hair
	3:59pm still b/p: If Warhol had the chance, he probably would've said, "Yes, by all means, let's get the band guesting as New York heroic-chic intellectual characters on The Monkees show!"
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: Nope, though Lou could write some pretty songs.
	3:59pm Franco Twinkie: Oh yeah, and older friend of mine saw them at The Trip that fateful Spring. He liked it! He said the tables we set up with candles and such. At The same time he was hanging out with The Grateful Dead in their digs in The Adams District(not Watts!) The Dead were also less than successful in Los Angeles at the same time as the VU.
	4:00pm Funky16Corners: Lots of LA vs San Francisco rivalry at the time. It showed up at Monterey Pop
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: Don Sebesky even wrote a song for this album called 'Big Mama Cass'
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: Which was covered by Buddy Rich
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: Larry Coryell on guitar
	4:03pm Franco Twinkie: Love was very popular in San Francisco, but wasn't invited to play at Monterey Pop. Go figure!
	4:04pm Erica: Love the band Franco?
	4:04pm Franco Twinkie: Yes.
	4:07pm Funky16Corners: This is a wild album. Phil Woods and a jazz rhythm section playing with Greek musicians: www.discogs.com...
	4:07pm Michael 98145: Great discovery
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: Impulse was not afraid to experiment,
	4:08pm Michael 98145: "Theme From Anthony & Cleopatra" !
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: And Zorba the Greek, of course
	4:09pm Funky16Corners: I have a great psychedelic 45 by these guys from a few years later
	4:15pm Michael 98145: No salt on -her- tail
	4:15pm Funky16Corners: This actually came out on a 45!
	4:17pm still b/p: Where are they? The individual Anita Kerr Singers who came and went? They vanished with the Johnny Mann Singers, et al.
	4:18pm Funky16Corners: They all probably made a fortune singing commercial jingles
	4:23pm Scobot: Perfect selections!
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Scobot!
	4:27pm Michael 98145: Interesting view of the late 1960s
	4:28pm Franco Twinkie: This is a great song no matter who does it. Laurel Canyon is NOTHING like this anymore, but then what is?
	4:28pm Funky16Corners: Speaking of largely anonymous vocalists, the California Dreamers sang - alone and collectively - on TONS of things. The Bahler brothers are all over the Partridge Family records as well as countless jingles and pop records.
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Used very well b Tarantino in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	4:30pm Michael 98145: forgot about that film
	4:30pm Discotech Underground: Larry!
	4:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kip!
	4:31pm Erica: To me Franco, Laurel Canyon is Joni Mitchell.
	4:31pm Funky16Corners: Stay tuned for Kip and Discothech Unerground at 5PM! wfmu.org...
	4:31pm CalZone!: I've been listening while working in the background. Bravo Maestro Grogan!
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: Consumers could be forgiven for mistakenly thinking this was a Mamas and Papas album: www.discogs.com...
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: Hey Cal! Thanks!
	4:33pm Discotech Underground: If I were to be transported back in time to 1960's Laurel Canyon, I'd be hanging out at Frank Zappa's place!
	4:33pm Franco Twinkie: Larry, my only gripe with that movie is the music. I understand why Tarentino used KHJ as a textural device, but still. KHJ was the lamest rock station in L.A. in 1969.
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: Zappa lived in Tom Mix's log cabin house!
	4:34pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Tarantino isn't old enough to have experienced it firsthand. He missed a lot of good stuff.
	4:34pm Discotech Underground: I know, and sadly the cabin was torn down long ago!
	4:35pm Franco Twinkie: My former next door neighbor use to jam at Zappa's house in Laurel Canyon. He said it was in the basement bowling Alley.
	4:36pm Franco Twinkie: I loved that movie by the way.
	4:37pm Vincent The Soul Chef: I'm not allowed to say what I want to say, so I'll just say I'm sorry I missed the show waits patiently for archive :'(
	🥁 4:40pm David Shortell: Is anything from the group's post-breakup contractual obligation album any good?
	4:40pm Franco Twinkie: Erica, without a doubt. Joni's music from that period has an inner life that's soooo beautiful
	4:41pm Funky16Corners: @David - It's an OK album but nothing great.
	4:41pm Funky16Corners: Hey Vincent!
	4:41pm SquigY0: twas a dooozie vincent!!
	4:41pm MOM WHIG: Hi all -I'm super late today. Larry, Phillippe, Funky, Yvang, 3 moons, Jeff, Michael 98145, still b/p, dutch, drjazz, Erica, KIP
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mom Whig!
	4:42pm Discotech Underground: Hey Mom!
	4:43pm Funky16Corners: This was actually a pretty significant hit for Bobby
	4:43pm Michael 98145: Hey @Mom, welcome in
	4:43pm MOM WHIG: hi there David S too
	4:44pm MOM WHIG: Hi there WR
	4:45pm Franco Twinkie: Erica, can we just geek out on Blue for awhile. That was my gateway drug into Joni Mitchell. I was turned onto it by the only girl in our junior high school who went to see the Stones at Altamont.
	4:46pm Erica: Hey Larry did you know the band America (A Horse With No Name) also covered California Dreamin' for a movie of the same name in 1979?
	4:46pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I did not!
	4:46pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - In my book there is no one better than Joni.
	4:47pm Franco Twinkie: Amen brother!
	4:48pm Jeff Ash: Larry, that Petula Clark record from earlier in the show is the one I've been looking for! Thanks!
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: Worth picking up, Jeff!
	4:48pm still b/p: At the MusiCares event honoring Joni as person of the year the other day, musicians and actors talked about the profound effect she had on their lives.
	4:48pm Erica: You should look it up after the show Larry.
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - Her music and it's progression is profound. She's unique.
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I will
	4:50pm Franco Twinkie: Joni at her height of power was a seer.
	4:50pm doctorjazz: Clearly George Benson on guitar.
	4:51pm Funky16Corners: yes, I think Bob James on piano. Jack deJohnnette on drums
	4:51pm Franco Twinkie: Hello Mister Doctor.
	4:53pm doctorjazz: Hello Mister Twinkie!
	4:53pm Michael 98145: Thanks again, Larry G
	4:53pm Funky16Corners: You're welcome!
	4:54pm Discotech Underground: Don't touch that dial! Stay right here for Discotech Underground coming up next! Don't forget to tune in Monday night starting at 7 as I fill in for Global Grease! wfmu.org...
	4:54pm doctorjazz: Let Benson loose (much more that on CTI studio albums...)
	4:54pm MOM WHIG: Will have to catch the beginning of today's show in the Archives later.
	4:54pm MOM WHIG: Kip see you soon
	4:54pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - George Benson was one of the first concerts I ever saw, in like 78 or 79
	4:55pm Michael 98145: Gotta go walk in the sunshine
	4:56pm doctorjazz: Cool-don't think I ever saw Benson... Thanks, Larry!
	🥁 4:56pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!
	4:57pm still b/p: Chances for you to bop, pony and frug when you visit the fuller pour in the archive, MOM.
	4:57pm SquigY0: thanks larry! we're coming for you kip!
	4:57pm Sem: Thanks for the memories, Larry. Good fun, and YAY! Bobby Womack! Later, all.
	4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks everyone!
	4:58pm Erica: Thanks Larry!
	🥁 4:58pm Yvang: Thanks, Larry! Always a joy!
	4:58pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks so much Larry!
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks kids!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 7, 2022

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