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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)
Robert Klein  At the Dentist   Favoriting New Teeth  Epic  1975  LP  0:01:26 (Pop-up)
David Brenner  NY NY/LA LA   Favoriting Excuse Me, Are You Reading That?  MCA  1983  LP  0:10:19 (Pop-up)
 
Stan Freberg  St George and the Dragonet   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1953  45  0:23:13 (Pop-up)
Stan Freberg  The Honey Earthers   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1955  45  0:26:27 (Pop-up)
Ace Trucking Co  Electric Chair   Favoriting Ace Trucking Co  RCA  1970  LP  0:30:07 (Pop-up)
Firesign Theatre  Temporarily Humboldt County   Favoriting Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him  Columbia  1968  LP  0:37:38 (Pop-up)
Firesign Theatre  Ralph Spoilsport Motors   Favoriting Forward Into The Past  Columbia  1976  LP  0:46:43 (Pop-up)
Milt Kamen  Introduction/The Tomato   Favoriting Here's Milt Kamen  Capitol  1961  LP  0:53:47 (Pop-up)
Dick Gregory  Name Rank Serial Number   Favoriting Dick Gregory On  Poppy  1969  LP  1:03:13 (Pop-up)
 
Bob and Ray  The Big Scoop   Favoriting The Best of Bob and Ray Volume One  RadioArt  2003  CD  1:22:22 (Pop-up)
Fred Allen  Allen's Alley   Favoriting Fred Allen Show 11/11/45  Old Time Radio  1945  MP3  1:27:42 (Pop-up)
Stan Freberg  Incident at Los Voraces   Favoriting Face the Funnies  Capitol  1962  LP  1:33:09 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On The Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:57:15 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Andrew in Toronto:

Hi there Larry and all other listeners!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:01
Hey Andrew!
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Yvang:

Hi Larry! Hi testifyers united!
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dreamyandseedy:

hello hello Larry and all!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Yvang @3:02
Hi Yvang!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ dreamyandseedy @3:02
Hi dreamy!
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northguineahills:

haze!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @3:03
NGH!
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WLSClark:

Been scared of dentists ever since WC Fields became one!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:03
Hey Clark!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ WLSClark @3:03
Hi Clark!
Me too!
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WLSClark:

Hi larry, andrew, Yvang, dreamy, NG!!
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doctorjazz:

Hello Larry! maybe I'll tell my dentist story (again)...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:05
Hi Doc!
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WLSClark:

That pic looks Wobegon to me!!
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WLSClark:

Hi drJ
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:05
Daws Butler, June Foray and Stan Freberg
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WLSClark:

I actually had yearly cleaning yesterday. A new helper who wanted to skim on mouth cleaning. I wondered if it was a statue when I was full of teeth crap and water and she finally would relent!
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:06
WOW! How cool!
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Funky16Corners:

My dentist is nice, as are her techs. I still hate going there
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Erica:

Afternoon Larry. Hearing some comedy this week?
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WLSClark:

Do you guys remember the TV show "Remember WENN"? Great Rupert Holmes show that really recreated OLD RADIO very well!
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northguineahills:

Once I start working, I should go see a dentist. It's been 13 years....
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:08
I remember when it was on. I wish it was streaming somewhere
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WLSClark:

↳ northguineahills @3:08
You're beyond hope now! Just get out the buffer.
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Sem:

Hello, Larry, and radio friends.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @3:09
Hey Sem!
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coelacanth∅:

greetings Larry & all
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:09
Me too! I have some shows taped then on BETA somewhere. It was quite a lesson for me! My dad got to see a live show in 47 in Hollywood.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:09
hiya coel!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:09
Hi C!
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WLSClark:

He Sem, coel!
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coelacanth∅:

hey Andrew! WLSC!
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Sem:

↳ WLSClark @3:10
Yo, WLSClark.
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WLSClark:

Love all these old comedy bits!
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Funky16Corners:

His Dragnet parodies are so spot on
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coelacanth∅:

↳ northguineahills @3:08
i went 17 years once.
had 1 cavity in a wisdom tooth which should've been pulled anyway because the root was entering my sinus cavity; and 1 cavity in the molar next to it.
i blew off my last cleaning, about a year ago.
'doesn't matter if it's free; twice/year is a waste of time.
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Erica:

I hear you too screaming dragon.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:27
Hi Erica!
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Erica:

Sounds nothing like Jackie Gleason
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WLSClark:

ralph sounding like Aflac!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:28
I think people were able to pick up on context clues
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WLSClark:

I wish Crazy Gugenheim woulda been worked into Honeymooner skits!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:30
I can never decide whether Crazy Guggenheim was drunk or brain damaged
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Erica:

If Gilbert Gottfried, Lois Griffin and Bullwinkle voiced the Honeymooners.
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WLSClark:

↳ Erica @3:28
"One of these days, Erica--BAM to the moon!" haha
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WLSClark:

↳ Song: "Electric Chair" by "Ace Trucking Co"
'Not the thinker! Not the cement mixer!" Foghorn Leghorn....
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Erica:

↳ WLSClark @3:31
Straight to the moon you mean.
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Funky16Corners:

Fred Willard, Bill 'Ray J Johnson' Seluga, Patti Deutsch, Michael Mislove and George Memmoli (who appeared in Mean Streets)
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WLSClark:

↳ Erica @3:32
BOTH!! haha
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WLSClark:

Fred Willard was just so great! Fernwood Tonight--classic TV!
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Erica:

↳ WLSClark @3:34
Played in many sitcoms too
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Erica:

Charlie Chaplin lol
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WLSClark:

↳ Erica @3:35
yep!
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northguineahills:

I have to admit, most of my knowledge of comedians from the 80s and before (outside of the obvious examples) comes from the last 15 years trolloping around online...
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WLSClark:

I knew these guys would be coming soon!
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northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Temporarily Humboldt County" by "Firesign Theatre"
although i do have a few firesign theatre LPs...
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Erica:

🌮
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Funky16Corners:

I don't think anyone did this kind of thing (on record) better than Firesign
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Funky16Corners:

My favorite line: "Domine Domine Domine, You're all Catholic!"
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WR:

More Sugar!
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WR:

A Stan Freberg special was streamed a couple of days ago on Sheena's
wfmu.org...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @3:45
Hey WR!
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WR:

The first three Firesign albums are imprinted deeply in what is left of my brain, great to refresh the synapses.
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Sem:

↳ WR @3:49
Pointedly put.
Likewise.
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Sem:

Larry, just getting into Fighting Clowns. Saved it for my dotage.
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Funky16Corners:

This part is amazing, esp for the 60s
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WLSClark:

Forward into the Past was a pic sleeve 45 in 69 or 70. My first intro to this crazy group!
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WLSClark:

Hi WR!
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:52
indeed! Who knew?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:52
It's kind of amazing how many people would dismiss this as "drug humor". It's some of the smartest comedy every committed to vinyl
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:53
Yes, I believe the Committee was doing some crazy skits like some of these, but never committed to record that I knew of.
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WLSClark:

I used to play F Theater on my show in 80s. Ron Britain on WCFL was like a Firesign Theater LP playing every night.
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WR:

↳ Song: "Introduction/The Tomato" by "Milt Kamen"
Did not remember Milt Kamen by name, looking him up, recognize the face.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @3:59
He did a ton of TV/Movie acting. Died young in 1977
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WLSClark:

Didn't Dick Gregory run for president once?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:11
I believe so
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WLSClark:

SCALLIONS!
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WLSClark:

Im not sure I have EVER heard a more ONE SKIT comedian than Eddie Lawrence. He used the Old Philosopher thing for decades! It still gets used occasionally today.
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WLSClark:

I think Avery Schriver was in the Committee???
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Brian in UK:

Hello Larry. If you lived here you'd be home by now.
Was it the Lennon/Marx album originally?
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WLSClark:

Bob and Ray--so brilliant!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:19
He started out as a Second City guy in Chicago
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:16
At some point someone resurrected the Old Philosopher for casino ads in the 80s/90s. Not sure if it was still him
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:23
Bob and Ray were nuts. Drier than dry.
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:24
Drier than nuts?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @4:25
Depends on the nuts
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:24
Probably not.
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:24
I used their Right Guard commercial on my Father Flot fill in last week.
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Erica:

Somebody I say somebody knock.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:27
I wish someone would do a Bob and Ray boxed set that included their advertising work.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @4:29
This is where they stole Foghorm Leghorn from
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WLSClark:

Indeed! I once had a stack of original reels from their syndicated shows in 70s, but sold all but one which I still have.
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:29
Ha! That is cool! I loved Foghorn leghorn!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:30
The Stan Freberg box set I have includes a ton of his advertising stuff
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:32
I played a cut from "Who Listens to radio" on my drop in. Those shorts were SOOO true as to radio vs TV back then.
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Funky16Corners:

This piece is over 20 minutes
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:34
Just like prog rock.
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WLSClark:

Im gonna be slipping out when "somebody" gets home from work shortly, but want to say this show is awesome. You could go on for 24 hours and never have the same artists on a second time, Im sure. Too bad about Bill Cosby, because many of his skits were priceless.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:35
Glad you're enjoying it!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @4:35
This is most of an episode of his pioneering late 50s radio show. He only did 12 or 13 episodes but they're all fantastic
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Erica:

Now this is a cool retelling of Romeo and Juliet
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:38pm
Funky16Corners:

He was always making fun of rock'n'roll, but his parodies were always really well done.
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WLSClark:

Johnathan & Darlene Edwards were so fantastic in 50's but no one remembers them today.
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Discotech Underground:

Hey Larry! Hey Testifiers!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:39
Hey Kip!
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Discotech Underground:

↳ Song: "Incident at Los Voraces" by "Stan Freberg"
Man, you make me feel old with this because I recognize most of the names being dropped!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:39
Wasn't their whole act a gag?
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:38
Indeed, I think the Chickenman guys made their career with commercials from Freberg's comedy for decades!
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Funky16Corners:

Stay tuned for Kip at 5PM ET: wfmu.org...
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Discotech Underground:

↳ WLSClark @4:40
Dick Orkin was definitely a Freberg fan!
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:40
well as man and wife, it was really quite fun to hear.
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WLSClark:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:41
Kip, Orkin was Freberg on acid. haha
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:41
"Darlene" was singer Jo Stafford!
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:41
HA! Again, I did NOT know that!
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:41
I have 3 of their old Columbia LPs.
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Discotech Underground:

↳ WLSClark @4:41
I met Orkin at a conference once. Not a real friendly guy but I still respected his brilliance and creativity.
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Andrew in Toronto:

What a fabulous show!
Thanks Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:52
Thanks, Andrew!
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WR:

Many thanks! Larry!
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doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry!
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Erica:

Interesting show today Larry. Much different when you do comedy shows. Back to the music next week.
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Yvang:

Thanks Larry for the great comedy pieces!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks everyone!
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Mxter Baba:

gotta go??!!? I just got here! well, gotta go to the archives! HI, Larry! Thanks! Byeeeee
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Mxter Baba @4:58
Hey Baba!
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