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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 Byner  Everybody Do The   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Pop-Side  1966  45  0:01:30 (Pop-up)
Allan Sherman  Pop Hates the Beatles   Favoriting For Swinging Livers Only  WB  1966  LP  0:03:18 (Pop-up)
Robert Klein  Late Night FM Radio   Favoriting Child of the 50s  Brut  1973  LP  0:06:18 (Pop-up)
Robert Klein  Record Offer   Favoriting Mind Over Matter  Brut  1974  LP  0:09:15 (Pop-up)
Credibilty Gap  Grammy Sketch   Favoriting Flexi Disk  Varitone  1971  Flexi  0:10:29 (Pop-up)
 
Bob Newhart  Modern Witch Doctor   Favoriting This Is It  WB  1967  LP  0:24:14 (Pop-up)
Bob and Ray  Charles The Poet   Favoriting Bob and Ray On a Platter  RCA  1960  LP  0:27:09 (Pop-up)
Ernie Kovacs  Ode From a Germ's Eye Viewpoint   Favoriting Percy Dovetonsils…thpeaks  Omnivore  2014  CD  0:29:37 (Pop-up)
Bob and Ray  Intro - Hard Luck Stories   Favoriting Best of The Bob and Ray Public Radio Prohgram  Audio Arts  1986  CD  0:32:34 (Pop-up)
Jean Carroll  My Daughter Is a Beatnik   Favoriting Girl In a Hot Steam Bath  Columbia  1960  LP  0:35:54 (Pop-up)
Stan Freberg  Pop Art Interview   Favoriting Freberg Underground Show #1  Capitol  1966  LP  0:42:41 (Pop-up)
Bob and Ray  Rudolph and Irma Dance Studio   Favoriting The Best of The Bob and Ray Public Radio Program  Audio Arts  1986  CD  0:48:08 (Pop-up)
Robert Klein  The National Anthem   Favoriting Mind Over Matter  Brut  1974  LP  0:50:59 (Pop-up)
Albert Brooks  Rewriting the National Anthem   Favoriting 45RPM Single  ABC  1973  45  0:54:03 (Pop-up)
 
Credibility Gap  Kingpin   Favoriting A Great Gift Idea  Reprise  1973  LP  1:09:13 (Pop-up)
Stan Freberg  Flackman and Reagan   Favoriting Shaft Theater: Freberg Underground Show #1  Capitol  1966  LP  1:12:41 (Pop-up)
Robert Klein  Mother Isn't Always Right   Favoriting New Teeth  Epic  1975  LP  1:24:30 (Pop-up)
Robert Klein  Our Gang   Favoriting Child of the 50s  Brut  1973  LP  1:26:51 (Pop-up)
Jean Carroll  Mink Coat   Favoriting Girl In a Hot Steam Bath  Columbia  1960  LP  1:30:35 (Pop-up)
Freddie Prinze  Puerto Ricans/Washington Heights   Favoriting Looking Good  Columbia  1975  LP  1:42:04 (Pop-up)
Dom Irrera  My Family   Favoriting Greatest Hits Volume One  Scungili Brothers  2006  CD  1:48:49 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:58:11 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Jeff Ash:

Good afternoon from Wisconsin!
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Andrew in Toronto:

Happy Thursday Larry and all other listeners!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff!
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Funky16Corners:

Hi Andrew!
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Yvang:

Hi Larry! Hi testifyers! I am intrigued.
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Funky16Corners:

Yvang!
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Michael 98145:

Hey hey
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Michael!
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Michael 98145:

do the pretzel
  3:03pm
Moog1 Radio:

Allan!!! My hero!!!
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Funky16Corners:

Kurt! My hero!
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doctorjazz:

Hey Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
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adamdoesit:

Hi Rev Larry, sons, and celebrities!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi adamdoesit!
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Erica:

Honestly a funnier song than Hello Muddah Hello Fathah
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Erica!
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Andrew in Toronto:

Hi adamdoesit!
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Erica:

Hey Larry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:08pm
adamdoesit:

Hey AiT!

Erica, agree. But then, so is "Don't Buy the Liverwurst."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Recognize any of these voices?
  3:13pm
captain mike:

Squiggy from Laverne & Shirley?
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tim abdellah:

Hey Larry and All - Is Harry Shearer in there?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

And Lenny, and Mr Burns from the Simpsons
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Tim! Yes, indeed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:14pm
Michael 98145:

Road to Spinal Tap
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:14pm
Funky16Corners:

Tap into Testify!
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Michael 98145:

This must be one big flexi ...
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:17pm
Erica:

Sounds like it Michael.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:18pm
Brian in UK:

Hello Larry. Monologists, do it for me.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:21pm
Brian in UK:

"You kids call that music?"
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Erica:

Funny how back then, older people thought 60s music sounded like trash. Nowadays we have autotune and pop singers who can't sing or they show too much skin.
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Erica:

I meant when 60s music was new btw.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:24pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Brian!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:25pm
Brian in UK:

Erica, older people or some at least did have great songwriters from the Thirties/Forties to compare with those long hairs. Think it was appearance as much as musical quality.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:27pm
Brian in UK:

Newhart's timing was spot on.
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Erica:

@Brian we've sure come a long way in the music industry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:28pm
Funky16Corners:

Newhart had only done actual standup once or twice when they recorded his first album
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Michael 98145:

Ernie !!
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Funky16Corners:

I wish someone would show his old shows
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tim abdellah:

Loving this set ❤️❤️ As a kid in the '70s in the SF Bay Area, I used to hear a lot of these records on KSFO's Comedy Hour - every weeknight.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:34pm
Funky16Corners:

I wish we had something like that in the East, though I suspect that WBAI probably did something along those lines
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Michael 98145:

Great to be reminded of all these greats
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Bob and Ray did so many variations of this bit, always giving away hilariously useless gifts
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:36pm
Jeff Ash:

Jean Carroll, great comedian, long forgotten.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:37pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - Yes! Jean Carroll was HUGELY influential, way ahead of her time in style and substance. A popular female standup who is all but forgotten today.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:38pm
Funky16Corners:

This is from her only album, from 1960
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:41pm
Michael 98145:

Sadly never heard of her before now -
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:43pm
Funky16Corners:

The only place you're likely to run into her today is on the reruns of the Ed Sullivan show
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Michael 98145:

"Freberg is also known for his affinity with the radio platform, stating that it is a special medium capable of stretching the imagination more than television"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:45pm
Funky16Corners:

He worked extensively in advertising, radio and TV
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Jeff Ash:

A couple of Jean Carroll clips from Kliph Nesteroff's comedy blog. classicshowbiz.blogspot.com...
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Funky16Corners:

That remark about the Greyhound is a reaction to an actual piece of art
  3:46pm
AS from MP:

My mother bought those two featured Robert Klein albums when I was in HS, early-mid 70's. My brother and I played them repeatedly, learned the bits inside-out. The funny but frequently unfortunate thing is, his topics and messages can still be so relevant today. He had some great HBO specials, and had major role on Sisters on NBC.
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Funky16Corners:

Hi AS from MP! Remember listening to comedy albums with friends?
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Brian in UK:

I was amazed that Joyce Grenfell was released on Elektra. So very English.
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Funky16Corners:

I think that was Bob Elliott's actual home address
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Brian in UK:

I have no trouble at all finding Bill Cosby's monologues funny; despite all that has gone on. Funny is funny.
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Brian in UK:

Funny is funny unless it is nasty or malicious. Swearing generally demeans humour in my opinion.
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Funky16Corners:

Everything in moderation
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Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - Thanks for that link! Highly recommended.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:56pm
Funky16Corners:

That's Albert Brooks playing the piano!
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tim abdellah:

Bob Newhart turns 93 on Monday
  4:08pm
AS from MP:

It is very difficult to watch or listen to the absolutely hypocritical and sanctimonious "Cos," and try to separate his material from his loathsome actions and transgressions.
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Funky16Corners:

I agree. Cosby even made one of my favorite funk 45s and I have not been able to listen to it since all of his misdeeds came to light
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Funky16Corners:

Michael McKean doing a pretty good Curtis Mayfield imitation
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Erica:

Stereotypical black music trailer lol.
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Erica:

Seriously though it sounds like the Temptations.
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Erica:

It's Bayad!
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Funky16Corners:

Freberg doing a spot on William Dozier imitation
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tim abdellah:

This Freberg has a real Firesign feel. Or perhaps early Firesign was more Frebergian than I realized!
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Funky16Corners:

@tim - Agreed.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:18pm
Funky16Corners:

I was mistaken, Daws Butler is not on this record, but omnipresent character actor Charles Lane is!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:19pm
Funky16Corners:

There's June Foray!
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Woo:

Love this stuff
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Funky16Corners:

One of the voice actors on this album, Bill Woodson is the narrator at the beginning of every Odd Couple episode
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Woo! Glad you're digging it!
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Erica:

Saaayy.
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Erica:

Reminds me of that Hey Arnold episode Hooky.
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Funky16Corners:

The first time I heard that Robert Klein Our Gang bit I almost crashed my car I was laughing so hard
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Woo:

you don't hear mink coat jokes these days
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:32pm
Funky16Corners:

Right?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:32pm
Funky16Corners:

A status symbol of a bygone age!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:35pm
Woo:

aka "mink stole"
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Funky16Corners:

62 years ago!?!
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Funky16Corners:

Jean Carroll also interesting/important for working NY Jewish culture into her routines, much like Alan King and Allan Sherman. Probably familiar to people from the area, probably alien to people in the midwest
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tim abdellah:

This Jean Carroll is fantastic! I never heard her before today - thanks Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:39pm
Funky16Corners:

I'm so glad you're discovering/enjoying her!
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Discotech Underground:

Hey Larry! Digging the comedy! Join me next for a 60's and 70's freakout on Discotech Underground right here on the Drummer stream!

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Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:44pm
Woo:

Half Hungarian? Did not know that. Listen and learn!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:44pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Kip!
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Funky16Corners:

Real name: Frederick Karl Pruetzel
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Erica:

I thought cockroaches were Mexican. Haha.
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Discotech Underground:

Jean Carroll reminds me of a female Lenny Bruce with the Jewish idioms.
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Erica:

Not trying to be racist, just funny.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:47pm
Funky16Corners:

@Kip - Lots of similarities in delivery
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Woo:

Never had roach problems but the ants still show up every year. And some house flies.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:48pm
Funky16Corners:

Ants every summer.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:49pm
Jeff Ash:

Freddie Prinze hugely influenced by Richard Pryor.
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Erica:

Surprisingly my house didn't have a lot of ants this summer, unlike last summer.
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Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - Oh yeah. Burned out quickly, too.
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Woo:

Erica, your ants went on vacation, plotting next year's takeover.
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Erica:

They were crazy back in March Woo.
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spodiodi:

thanks, Larry!
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Yvang:

Thanks Larry! Fun & funny show indeed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:53pm
Woo:

Now you gotta play that Gap thing!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:55pm
Andrew in Toronto:

Thanks for a great show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:58pm
Woo:

Thanks for the laughs Larry! Don't worry about 60. It's great! You care so much less.
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spodiodi:

happy bday, Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Everyone!
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tim abdellah:

Thanks Larry - see y'all later!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:58pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Woo! Spodiodi!
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Erica:

Don't worry Larry. You'll be fine. Interesting show today.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Tim!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Erica!
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