WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 27, 2022

Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm Jeff Ash: Good afternoon from Wisconsin!
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	♥ 3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Happy Thursday Larry and all other listeners!
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hi Andrew!
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Yvang: Hi Larry and associates!
	♥ 3:02pm Little Danny: hello larry hello all
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Yvang! Danny!
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm doctorjazz: Flute solo every week!!! Hi Larry!
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm WLSClark: Hi Larry, Andrew, Jeff, Yvang, Funky16, Danny, Dr Jazz. First time to hear this show, but when I heard Curt Boettcher, I knew I wanted to hear this if I was home.
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Howdy!
	♥ 3:07pm Little Danny: this has a curious slowed-down quality that i love
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm doctorjazz: Hey WLSClark!
	♥ 3:08pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi WLSCark.
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm Erica: Hi Larry.
	♥ 3:09pm Andrew in Toronto: Hey doc!
	🥁 ♥ 3:09pm WLSClark: Hi Erica!
	🥁 ♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	♥ 3:11pm Little Danny: absolutely LOVE this 45
	🥁 ♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: Action Unlimited?
	♥ 3:12pm Little Danny: yep
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm WLSClark: One of the greatest from summer 68! Just one more masterpiece.
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm Erica: Bruce Blackman!
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm WLSClark: Erica, you got it!
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: This is a pretty incredible record. Amazing it wasn't more successful.
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm listener Rey: Hello Larry and testifyers everywhere!
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	🥁 ♥ 3:15pm Erica: Eternity's Children should've been bigger. Perhaps they would've had high charting hits?
	🥁 ♥ 3:16pm WLSClark: Erica, I love "Wait & See" by them too.
	🥁 ♥ 3:17pm WLSClark: Erica, Starbuck was good in 70's with Bruce as well.
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: I think with a lot of this stuff, it was just a case of a very crowded market with limited slots on the radio. So much great music that is also very obscure
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm WLSClark: This is a nice version that Curt also tried with Sagittarius, of course.
	3:18pm Moog1 Radio: My Mom won a Cuyler Moped on WLS back in 1978
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm WLSClark: Funky, indeed, the playlists were awesome in 68.
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt!
	🥁 ♥ 3:19pm WLSClark: Moog1, I grew up on WLS and WCFL and loved every minute.
	🥁 ♥ 3:19pm listener Rey: This one's got a little Monkees flavor to it
	🥁 ♥ 3:19pm WLSClark: Rey, VERY true.
	3:20pm Moog1 Radio: @WLSClark, same here! Welcome!
	♥ 3:20pm Little Danny: larry @3:18: totally, also Tower Records' promotional power and reputation were more hit-or-miss than say Capitol's
	🥁 ♥ 3:20pm WLSClark: Moog1, did you catch the Rewound Radio special a month ago?
	🥁 ♥ 3:20pm Funky16Corners: This album is fantastic!
	3:21pm Moog1 Radio: No. I did not.
	🥁 ♥ 3:21pm WLSClark: Danny, Tower was better than Together was.
	♥ 3:21pm Webhamster Henry: Tommy Roe FTW!
	🥁 ♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: Henry!
	🥁 ♥ 3:22pm WLSClark: Moog1, they did 66 hours of old airchecks of CFL and WLS from 60-77
	♥ 3:23pm Webhamster Henry: Diggin' the bass line.
	♥ 3:28pm dreamyandseedy: hello hello
	🥁 ♥ 3:29pm Funky16Corners: Hey dreamy!
	♥ 3:30pm Little Danny: always appreciate how well you contextualize this stuff larry
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Danny!
	🥁 ♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: Here comes the bliss!
	🥁 ♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: One of the prettiest songs of the 60s...
	🥁 ♥ 3:35pm WLSClark: This was a top 10 song when I grew up. Top 10 Wichita, Ks.
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: Really!?!
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Erica: I've become a bit more familiar with Sagittarius since I keep hearing My World Fell Down.
	🥁 ♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: Oddly enough I don't think Curt had anything to do with that 45
	🥁 ♥ 3:38pm Erica: Need to check more of their stuff out.
	🥁 ♥ 3:38pm Funky16Corners: Present Tense is a great album
	🥁 ♥ 3:39pm WLSClark: Erica, if you like Sagittarius, you will like Millenium and Ballroom probably as well. It's all great stuff!
	🥁 ♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: @WLSClark - I looked it up. I was surprised to see that Another Time went Top 40, and even Top 10 in a bunch of regional markets!
	🥁 ♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: This is Lou Costello's daughter!
	♥ 3:40pm Webhamster Henry: The Boettiques!
	🥁 ♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: You can hear him singing background
	🥁 ♥ 3:41pm WLSClark: Funky (is that Larry?), yeah we got the promo DJ copy and it went top 10 on MY personal chart then too, I think. I was so lucky to get all those DJ 45s as they came out then.
	🥁 ♥ 3:42pm Funky16Corners: Yes, Funky is me!
	🥁 ♥ 3:42pm WLSClark: Larry, great show!
	♥ 3:43pm Webhamster Henry: Imagine it being your job to write and produce this music every day for a few years.
	🥁 ♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Clark!
	🥁 ♥ 3:45pm WLSClark: Sure would be nice if these political phone calls wouldn't keep calling all the time. I dont answer, but it's a real pain.
	🥁 ♥ 3:46pm WLSClark: Henry, and Columbia had so much talent that people could bounce off of like Melcher, Johnston, Curt and many others.
	🥁 ♥ 3:46pm WLSClark: Take my hand is just a GREAT song and one of my fave bands is Montanas who just tear it up with this song!
	🥁 ♥ 3:46pm Funky16Corners: Considering who was hanging around some of these records couldn't help but be good.
	🥁 ♥ 3:47pm Funky16Corners: Ooh! I've never heard the Montanas version!
	🥁 ♥ 3:48pm WLSClark: Larry, you HAVE to listen to their verson--really cool abrupt ending too.
	🥁 ♥ 3:49pm Funky16Corners: I'll look for it. I have a couple of Montanas 45s, but not that one. It's cool that they were getting all of that West Coast material (like That's When Happiness Began)
	🥁 ♥ 3:49pm WLSClark: I just saw Bruce Arnold, the TERRIFIC voice and writer behind Orpheus has died. What a sound they had.
	🥁 ♥ 3:50pm WLSClark: Harry, they did Moby Grape "Omaha" and "Hey Grandma" on BBC!
	🥁 ♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: Oh that's awful. I love Orpheus!
	🥁 ♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: Lesley's World is a favorite of mine
	🥁 ♥ 3:53pm Erica: G'day mates.
	🥁 ♥ 3:53pm Funky16Corners: IT's wild to me that this is a Jonathan Moore 45 but the main voice on both sides is Curt's
	🥁 ♥ 3:55pm Erica: Sounded more Australian than British, that's for sure.
	🥁 ♥ 3:56pm WLSClark: Harry, me too!
	♥ 3:57pm Little Danny: dang, another new one to me, this something young 45
	🥁 ♥ 3:57pm WLSClark: "I'll be on my Way" part2!
	🥁 ♥ 3:59pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Something Young made one other 45 under the name Summer Snow
	🥁 ♥ 4:05pm WLSClark: There's a video of the Collage guesting on Bandstand that is kinda funny. Dick asks the group about how they formed and it was a bit as if they just picked up people on the way.
	♥ 4:06pm Little Danny: thanks larry :)
	🥁 ♥ 4:07pm WR: Hi Larry, drummer streamers. Have spent a few minutes reading the comments. Looks like y'all enjoying this Boettcher episode of Testify.
	🥁 ♥ 4:08pm WLSClark: Hi WR!!
	🥁 ♥ 4:11pm WLSClark: Curt sure threw a lot of band names at the wall to see what stuck, I guess. As he says, "The truth is Not real"!!
	🥁 ♥ 4:14pm WLSClark: I like Yes to You on Columbia, but not sure if Curt did that 45 or not.
	♥ 4:15pm Little Danny: wow, these layers of vocals
	🥁 ♥ 4:15pm Funky16Corners: @Clark - It's the flipside of this record. Up next
	🥁 ♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I've had the Outer Limits 45 for 35 years but this version is my fave
	🥁 ♥ 4:16pm WLSClark: I figured once I heard these backing vocals. haha
	♥ 4:18pm Little Danny: gorgeous sound, as does this side
	🥁 ♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: Don't know anything about Jacobson or Tansley...
	♥ 4:23pm Mike Sin: So much '60s music has been codified retroactively by compilers and historians... I feel the "Sunshine Pop" subgenre was created just to sum up Boettcher!
	🥁 ♥ 4:24pm WLSClark: Mike, haha. Could be! Never heard the term until 90's I think.
	🥁 ♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mike!
	🥁 ♥ 4:25pm Candy-O'67: Hey Larry! Just tuned in the last song by Jacobson & Tansley. That was a cool somg
	🥁 ♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: Hey Candy-O!
	🥁 ♥ 4:27pm WLSClark: Hi Candy!
	🥁 ♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: @Mike - I agree that the classification is a post hoc one, like Northern Soul, but like that sound, it definitely existed.
	🥁 ♥ 4:28pm Candy-O'67: Hey Clark!
	🥁 ♥ 4:28pm WLSClark: Sunshine Pop sounds like that, but Norther Soul and Beach Music terms I still have no idea really.
	♥ 4:28pm Little Danny: my fave boettcher production :)
	🥁 ♥ 4:29pm Erica: Here's a groovy number.
	♥ 4:31pm Mike Sin: @Larry -- I agree, but most of the terms codifying subgenres can be traced to a certain sound. "Freakbeat," for example, includes, say, Shel Talmy, but it's not a distinct direct line right to him. With "Sunshine Pop" I feel it's almost an archer's arrow right to Boettcher! ;)
	♥ 4:34pm Andrew in Toronto: Great tunes! Thanks Larry!
	🥁 ♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Andrew!
	🥁 ♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: @Mike - The thing is (for me, anyway) is that I wouldn't say that Boettcher was influential except in a very small circle of musicians. The Mamas and Papas were a bigger overall influence on what we came to call Sunshine Pop. There were pockets of the sound all over the map. It tends toward the "square" end of things, but that's one of the things that adds to its charm. It's a lot of unhip people attempting to sound hip.
	🥁 ♥ 4:39pm WLSClark: Larry, good point. I love the Montanas, but feel like most only like "Thats When happiness Begins" and dont care for their other great stuff.
	♥ 4:44pm Discotech Underground: Hey Larry! Be sure to stay tuned after Testify as Discotech Underground brings you our Halloween Hellraiser 2022 special! Lots of spooky sounds and your chance to help me meet my fundraising goal!! wfmu.org...
	🥁 ♥ 4:44pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kip!
	🥁 ♥ 4:46pm WLSClark: Hey Kip.
	♥ 4:47pm Discotech Underground: Clark!
	🥁 ♥ 4:48pm Candy-O'67: Hey there Kip!
	🥁 ♥ 4:49pm WLSClark: This vocal has an Emitt Rhodes sound.
	🥁 ♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: Definitely! This is Mickey Rooney Jr!
	🥁 ♥ 4:50pm Candy-O'67: What a trip, Larry!
	🥁 ♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: This is a great album, too
	🥁 ♥ 4:51pm Erica: That was a groovy trip Larry.
	🥁 ♥ 4:53pm WR: Thank you! Larry!
	♥ 4:53pm Discotech Underground: Hey Candy!
	🥁 ♥ 4:54pm Candy-O'67: Thx, Larry! I'll have to catch what I missed in the archive!
	🥁 ♥ 4:54pm Candy-O'67: See you next, Kip!
	🥁 ♥ 4:55pm Yvang: Thank you! Larry!
	🥁 ♥ 4:57pm Erica: Thanks Larry. Hope you guys enjoy your Halloween holiday for those who celebrate. My birthday is also this Monday.
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks everybody!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Happy early birthday Erica!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm WLSClark: Larry, great show.
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Candy-O'67: Happy early birthday, Erica! My dad's 80th birthday is Saturday!🎉🥳🎂🎈
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Clark!
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm WLSClark: ERICA!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm WLSClark: Erica, maybe OP will have an Orange cake for you Monday!!!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 27, 2022

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October 27, 2022: Testify! - The Touch of Curt Boettcher

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Association	Along Comes Mary "Along Comes Mary" by "The Association"	45RPM Single	Valiant	1966	45	Produced and arranged by Curt Boettcher. Written by Tandyn Almer	0:01:26 (Pop-up)
The Association	Message of Our Love	Along Comes the Association	Valiant	1966	LP	Co-written by Curt Boettcher and Tandyn Almer, Produced by Curt Boettcher	0:04:10 (Pop-up)
Bobby Jameson	Right By My Side "Right By My Side" by "Bobby Jameson"	45RPM Single	Verve	1967	45	Produced by Curt Boettcher for Our Productions	0:08:32 (Pop-up)
Action Unlimited	My Heart Cries Out	45RPM Single	Parkway	1966	45	Produced by Curt Boettcher	0:10:32 (Pop-up)
Eternity's Children	Mrs Bluebird "Mrs Bluebird" by "Eternity's Children"	Eternity's Children	Tower	1968	LP	Procuced by Curt Boettcher and Keith Olsen	0:13:13 (Pop-up)
Eternity's Children	You Know I've Found a Way	Eternity's Children	Tower	1968	LP	Procuced by Curt Boetttcher and Lee Mallory	0:16:26 (Pop-up)
Tommy Roe	Aggravation "Aggravation" by "Tommy Roe"	It's Now Winter's Day	ABC	1967	LP	Produced by Steve Clark, vocal arrangements by Curt Boettcher	0:18:17 (Pop-up)
Tommy Roe	Leave Her "Leave Her" by "Tommy Roe"	It's Now Winter's Day	ABC	1967	LP	Procuced by Steve Clark, vocal arrangements by Curt Boettcher	0:20:20 (Pop-up)

The Millennium	I Just Want To Be Your Friend	Begin	Columbia	1968	LP	wr Curt Boettcher, produced Curt Boettcher and Keith Olsen	0:29:34 (Pop-up)
The Millennium	The Know It All "The Know It All" by "The Millennium"	Begin	Columbia	1968	LP	wr Curt Boettcher, produced by Curt Boettcher and Keith Olsen	0:32:04 (Pop-up)
Sagittarius	Another Time "Another Time" by "Sagittarius"	Present Tense	Columbia	1968	LP	wr Curt Boettcher, produced by Curt Boettcher and Gary Usher	0:34:42 (Pop-up)
Sagittarius	I'm Not Living Here "I'm Not Living Here" by "Sagittarius"	Present Tense	Columbia	1968	LP	wr Curt Boettcher, produced Curt Boettcher and Gary Usher	0:37:21 (Pop-up)
Bootiques	Did You Get Your Fun "Did You Get Your Fun" by "Bootiques"	45RPM Single	Date	1966	45	Procuced by Curt Boettcher	0:39:48 (Pop-up)
Brothers Cain	Better Times "Better Times" by "Brothers Cain"	45RPM Single	Acta	1967	45	wr Curt Boettcher and Lee Mallory, produced by Our Productions	0:41:30 (Pop-up)
GoldeBriars	Pretty Girls and Rolling Stones	45RPM Single	Epic	1964	45	wr by GoldeBriars	0:43:40 (Pop-up)
Lee Mallory	Take My Hand "Take My Hand" by "Lee Mallory"	45RPM Single	Valiant	1967	45	produced by Curt Boettcher	0:45:36 (Pop-up)
Lee Mallory	The Love Song "The Love Song" by "Lee Mallory"	45RPM Single	Valiant	1967	45	produced by Curt Boettcher	0:47:56 (Pop-up)
Jonathan Moore	I Didn't Ever Know	45RPM Single	Columbia	1966	45	Co-written and produced by Curt Boettcher	0:50:34 (Pop-up)
Jonathan Moore	London Bridge "London Bridge" by "Jonathan Moore"	45RPM Single	Columbia	1966	45	Produced by Curt Boettcher	0:52:42 (Pop-up)
Lyme and Cybelle	Song #7 "Song #7" by "Lyme and Cybelle"	45RPM Single	White Whale	1966	45	produced by Curt Boettcher, vocal by Wayne Erwin	0:54:28 (Pop-up)
Something Young	Oh, Don't Come Crying Back to Me	45RPM Single	Fontana	1966	45	produced by Curt Boettcher	0:56:28 (Pop-up)
Something Young	The Words I'm Seeking	45RPM Single	Fontana	1966	45	produced by Curt Boettcher, wr by Ruthann Friedman	0:58:42 (Pop-up)
Your Gang	Tomorrow's Dreams "Tomorrow's Dreams" by "Your Gang"	Your Gang	Mercury	1966	LP	wr by Curt Boettcher, prod Gary Paxton	1:00:38 (Pop-up)
The Collage	Would You LIke To Go "Would You LIke To Go" by "The Collage"	The Collage	Smash	1967	LP	wr Curt Boettcher and Jules Alexander	1:03:13 (Pop-up)

Hondells	Just One More Chance "Just One More Chance" by "Hondells"	45RPM Single	Columbia	1967	45	vocal arrangements by Curt Boettcher, prod Gary Usher	1:14:01 (Pop-up)
Hondells	Yes To You "Yes To You" by "Hondells"	45RPM Single	Columbia	1967	45	vocal arrangements by Curt Boettcher, prod Gary Usher, wr by Robb Royer and Diane Hildebrand	1:17:05 (Pop-up)
Jacobson and Tansley	Dream With Me	45RPM Single	Filmways	1966	45	prod Curt Boettcher	1:19:09 (Pop-up)
Jacobson and Tansley	I Knew You Back When Babe	45RPM Single	Filmways	1966	45	prod Curt Boettcher	1:20:59 (Pop-up)
Karen Karsh	Musty Dusty "Musty Dusty" by "Karen Karsh"	45RPM Single	Dunhill	1968	45	wr Curt Boettcher/Tandyn Almer	1:23:04 (Pop-up)
The Mother Love	Where Do We Go From Here	45RPM Single	20th Century Fox	1967	45	voc arr Curt Boettcher	1:25:41 (Pop-up)
The Oracle	Don't Say No "Don't Say No" by "The Oracle"	45RPM Single	Verve	1967	45	prod Curt Boettcher and Keith Olden, wr by Ruthann Friedman	1:28:12 (Pop-up)
Plastic People	This Life Of Mine "This Life Of Mine" by "Plastic People"	45RPM Single	Kapp	1966	45	prod Curt Boettcher/Jim Bell	1:31:16 (Pop-up)
Plastic People	It's Not Right "It's Not Right" by "Plastic People"	45RPM Single	Kapp	1966	45	prod Curt Boettcher/Jim Bell	1:33:13 (Pop-up)
Summer's Children	Milk and Honey "Milk and Honey" by "Summer's Children"	45RPM Single	Date	1966	45	Curt Boettcher and Victoria Winston, wr/prod Curt Boettcher	1:35:59 (Pop-up)
Summer's Children	Too Young To Marry	45RPM Single	Date	1966	45	Curt Boettcher and Victoria Winston, prod Curt Boettcher, wr Tommy Roe	1:38:18 (Pop-up)
Sunshine Company	If You Only Knew	Sunshine Company	Imperial	1968	LP	wr Curt Boettcher	1:40:27 (Pop-up)
Sunshine Company	I Just Want To Be Your Friend	Happy Is	Imperial	1967	LP	wr Curt Boettcher	1:43:24 (Pop-up)
Sandy Salisbury	Cecily "Cecily" by "Sandy Salisbury"	45RPM Single	Together	1969	45	wr Curt Boettcher and Sandy Salisbury, prod Curt Boettcher, Keith Olsen and Gary Usher	1:45:33 (Pop-up)
Song	Sugar Lady "Sugar Lady" by "Song"	Album	MGM	1970	LP	prod Curt Boettcher/Keith Olsen	1:48:15 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45		1:57:45 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm Jeff Ash: Good afternoon from Wisconsin!
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	♥ 3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Happy Thursday Larry and all other listeners!
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hi Andrew!
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Yvang: Hi Larry and associates!
	♥ 3:02pm Little Danny: hello larry hello all
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Yvang! Danny!
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm doctorjazz: Flute solo every week!!! Hi Larry!
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm WLSClark: Hi Larry, Andrew, Jeff, Yvang, Funky16, Danny, Dr Jazz. First time to hear this show, but when I heard Curt Boettcher, I knew I wanted to hear this if I was home.
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Howdy!
	♥ 3:07pm Little Danny: this has a curious slowed-down quality that i love
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm doctorjazz: Hey WLSClark!
	♥ 3:08pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi WLSCark.
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm Erica: Hi Larry.
	♥ 3:09pm Andrew in Toronto: Hey doc!
	🥁 ♥ 3:09pm WLSClark: Hi Erica!
	🥁 ♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	♥ 3:11pm Little Danny: absolutely LOVE this 45
	🥁 ♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: Action Unlimited?
	♥ 3:12pm Little Danny: yep
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm WLSClark: One of the greatest from summer 68! Just one more masterpiece.
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm Erica: Bruce Blackman!
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm WLSClark: Erica, you got it!
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: This is a pretty incredible record. Amazing it wasn't more successful.
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm listener Rey: Hello Larry and testifyers everywhere!
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	🥁 ♥ 3:15pm Erica: Eternity's Children should've been bigger. Perhaps they would've had high charting hits?
	🥁 ♥ 3:16pm WLSClark: Erica, I love "Wait & See" by them too.
	🥁 ♥ 3:17pm WLSClark: Erica, Starbuck was good in 70's with Bruce as well.
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: I think with a lot of this stuff, it was just a case of a very crowded market with limited slots on the radio. So much great music that is also very obscure
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm WLSClark: This is a nice version that Curt also tried with Sagittarius, of course.
	3:18pm Moog1 Radio: My Mom won a Cuyler Moped on WLS back in 1978
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm WLSClark: Funky, indeed, the playlists were awesome in 68.
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt!
	🥁 ♥ 3:19pm WLSClark: Moog1, I grew up on WLS and WCFL and loved every minute.
	🥁 ♥ 3:19pm listener Rey: This one's got a little Monkees flavor to it
	🥁 ♥ 3:19pm WLSClark: Rey, VERY true.
	3:20pm Moog1 Radio: @WLSClark, same here! Welcome!
	♥ 3:20pm Little Danny: larry @3:18: totally, also Tower Records' promotional power and reputation were more hit-or-miss than say Capitol's
	🥁 ♥ 3:20pm WLSClark: Moog1, did you catch the Rewound Radio special a month ago?
	🥁 ♥ 3:20pm Funky16Corners: This album is fantastic!
	3:21pm Moog1 Radio: No. I did not.
	🥁 ♥ 3:21pm WLSClark: Danny, Tower was better than Together was.
	♥ 3:21pm Webhamster Henry: Tommy Roe FTW!
	🥁 ♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: Henry!
	🥁 ♥ 3:22pm WLSClark: Moog1, they did 66 hours of old airchecks of CFL and WLS from 60-77
	♥ 3:23pm Webhamster Henry: Diggin' the bass line.
	♥ 3:28pm dreamyandseedy: hello hello
	🥁 ♥ 3:29pm Funky16Corners: Hey dreamy!
	♥ 3:30pm Little Danny: always appreciate how well you contextualize this stuff larry
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Danny!
	🥁 ♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: Here comes the bliss!
	🥁 ♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: One of the prettiest songs of the 60s...
	🥁 ♥ 3:35pm WLSClark: This was a top 10 song when I grew up. Top 10 Wichita, Ks.
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: Really!?!
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Erica: I've become a bit more familiar with Sagittarius since I keep hearing My World Fell Down.
	🥁 ♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: Oddly enough I don't think Curt had anything to do with that 45
	🥁 ♥ 3:38pm Erica: Need to check more of their stuff out.
	🥁 ♥ 3:38pm Funky16Corners: Present Tense is a great album
	🥁 ♥ 3:39pm WLSClark: Erica, if you like Sagittarius, you will like Millenium and Ballroom probably as well. It's all great stuff!
	🥁 ♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: @WLSClark - I looked it up. I was surprised to see that Another Time went Top 40, and even Top 10 in a bunch of regional markets!
	🥁 ♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: This is Lou Costello's daughter!
	♥ 3:40pm Webhamster Henry: The Boettiques!
	🥁 ♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: You can hear him singing background
	🥁 ♥ 3:41pm WLSClark: Funky (is that Larry?), yeah we got the promo DJ copy and it went top 10 on MY personal chart then too, I think. I was so lucky to get all those DJ 45s as they came out then.
	🥁 ♥ 3:42pm Funky16Corners: Yes, Funky is me!
	🥁 ♥ 3:42pm WLSClark: Larry, great show!
	♥ 3:43pm Webhamster Henry: Imagine it being your job to write and produce this music every day for a few years.
	🥁 ♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Clark!
	🥁 ♥ 3:45pm WLSClark: Sure would be nice if these political phone calls wouldn't keep calling all the time. I dont answer, but it's a real pain.
	🥁 ♥ 3:46pm WLSClark: Henry, and Columbia had so much talent that people could bounce off of like Melcher, Johnston, Curt and many others.
	🥁 ♥ 3:46pm WLSClark: Take my hand is just a GREAT song and one of my fave bands is Montanas who just tear it up with this song!
	🥁 ♥ 3:46pm Funky16Corners: Considering who was hanging around some of these records couldn't help but be good.
	🥁 ♥ 3:47pm Funky16Corners: Ooh! I've never heard the Montanas version!
	🥁 ♥ 3:48pm WLSClark: Larry, you HAVE to listen to their verson--really cool abrupt ending too.
	🥁 ♥ 3:49pm Funky16Corners: I'll look for it. I have a couple of Montanas 45s, but not that one. It's cool that they were getting all of that West Coast material (like That's When Happiness Began)
	🥁 ♥ 3:49pm WLSClark: I just saw Bruce Arnold, the TERRIFIC voice and writer behind Orpheus has died. What a sound they had.
	🥁 ♥ 3:50pm WLSClark: Harry, they did Moby Grape "Omaha" and "Hey Grandma" on BBC!
	🥁 ♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: Oh that's awful. I love Orpheus!
	🥁 ♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: Lesley's World is a favorite of mine
	🥁 ♥ 3:53pm Erica: G'day mates.
	🥁 ♥ 3:53pm Funky16Corners: IT's wild to me that this is a Jonathan Moore 45 but the main voice on both sides is Curt's
	🥁 ♥ 3:55pm Erica: Sounded more Australian than British, that's for sure.
	🥁 ♥ 3:56pm WLSClark: Harry, me too!
	♥ 3:57pm Little Danny: dang, another new one to me, this something young 45
	🥁 ♥ 3:57pm WLSClark: "I'll be on my Way" part2!
	🥁 ♥ 3:59pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Something Young made one other 45 under the name Summer Snow
	🥁 ♥ 4:05pm WLSClark: There's a video of the Collage guesting on Bandstand that is kinda funny. Dick asks the group about how they formed and it was a bit as if they just picked up people on the way.
	♥ 4:06pm Little Danny: thanks larry :)
	🥁 ♥ 4:07pm WR: Hi Larry, drummer streamers. Have spent a few minutes reading the comments. Looks like y'all enjoying this Boettcher episode of Testify.
	🥁 ♥ 4:08pm WLSClark: Hi WR!!
	🥁 ♥ 4:11pm WLSClark: Curt sure threw a lot of band names at the wall to see what stuck, I guess. As he says, "The truth is Not real"!!
	🥁 ♥ 4:14pm WLSClark: I like Yes to You on Columbia, but not sure if Curt did that 45 or not.
	♥ 4:15pm Little Danny: wow, these layers of vocals
	🥁 ♥ 4:15pm Funky16Corners: @Clark - It's the flipside of this record. Up next
	🥁 ♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I've had the Outer Limits 45 for 35 years but this version is my fave
	🥁 ♥ 4:16pm WLSClark: I figured once I heard these backing vocals. haha
	♥ 4:18pm Little Danny: gorgeous sound, as does this side
	🥁 ♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: Don't know anything about Jacobson or Tansley...
	♥ 4:23pm Mike Sin: So much '60s music has been codified retroactively by compilers and historians... I feel the "Sunshine Pop" subgenre was created just to sum up Boettcher!
	🥁 ♥ 4:24pm WLSClark: Mike, haha. Could be! Never heard the term until 90's I think.
	🥁 ♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mike!
	🥁 ♥ 4:25pm Candy-O'67: Hey Larry! Just tuned in the last song by Jacobson & Tansley. That was a cool somg
	🥁 ♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: Hey Candy-O!
	🥁 ♥ 4:27pm WLSClark: Hi Candy!
	🥁 ♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: @Mike - I agree that the classification is a post hoc one, like Northern Soul, but like that sound, it definitely existed.
	🥁 ♥ 4:28pm Candy-O'67: Hey Clark!
	🥁 ♥ 4:28pm WLSClark: Sunshine Pop sounds like that, but Norther Soul and Beach Music terms I still have no idea really.
	♥ 4:28pm Little Danny: my fave boettcher production :)
	🥁 ♥ 4:29pm Erica: Here's a groovy number.
	♥ 4:31pm Mike Sin: @Larry -- I agree, but most of the terms codifying subgenres can be traced to a certain sound. "Freakbeat," for example, includes, say, Shel Talmy, but it's not a distinct direct line right to him. With "Sunshine Pop" I feel it's almost an archer's arrow right to Boettcher! ;)
	♥ 4:34pm Andrew in Toronto: Great tunes! Thanks Larry!
	🥁 ♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Andrew!
	🥁 ♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: @Mike - The thing is (for me, anyway) is that I wouldn't say that Boettcher was influential except in a very small circle of musicians. The Mamas and Papas were a bigger overall influence on what we came to call Sunshine Pop. There were pockets of the sound all over the map. It tends toward the "square" end of things, but that's one of the things that adds to its charm. It's a lot of unhip people attempting to sound hip.
	🥁 ♥ 4:39pm WLSClark: Larry, good point. I love the Montanas, but feel like most only like "Thats When happiness Begins" and dont care for their other great stuff.
	♥ 4:44pm Discotech Underground: Hey Larry! Be sure to stay tuned after Testify as Discotech Underground brings you our Halloween Hellraiser 2022 special! Lots of spooky sounds and your chance to help me meet my fundraising goal!! wfmu.org...
	🥁 ♥ 4:44pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kip!
	🥁 ♥ 4:46pm WLSClark: Hey Kip.
	♥ 4:47pm Discotech Underground: Clark!
	🥁 ♥ 4:48pm Candy-O'67: Hey there Kip!
	🥁 ♥ 4:49pm WLSClark: This vocal has an Emitt Rhodes sound.
	🥁 ♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: Definitely! This is Mickey Rooney Jr!
	🥁 ♥ 4:50pm Candy-O'67: What a trip, Larry!
	🥁 ♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: This is a great album, too
	🥁 ♥ 4:51pm Erica: That was a groovy trip Larry.
	🥁 ♥ 4:53pm WR: Thank you! Larry!
	♥ 4:53pm Discotech Underground: Hey Candy!
	🥁 ♥ 4:54pm Candy-O'67: Thx, Larry! I'll have to catch what I missed in the archive!
	🥁 ♥ 4:54pm Candy-O'67: See you next, Kip!
	🥁 ♥ 4:55pm Yvang: Thank you! Larry!
	🥁 ♥ 4:57pm Erica: Thanks Larry. Hope you guys enjoy your Halloween holiday for those who celebrate. My birthday is also this Monday.
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks everybody!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Happy early birthday Erica!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm WLSClark: Larry, great show.
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Candy-O'67: Happy early birthday, Erica! My dad's 80th birthday is Saturday!🎉🥳🎂🎈
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Clark!
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm WLSClark: ERICA!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm WLSClark: Erica, maybe OP will have an Orange cake for you Monday!!!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 27, 2022

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