WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 4, 2024

Listener comments!
	2:45pm WLSClark: Dont know if I qualify for WOW! Generation? I turned 68 today. Am I IN the club?
	♥ 2:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @2:45 Happy Birthday Clark!
	2:54pm WLSClark: Thanks Larry! a buddy was emailing how he liked hearing I was 68 because his fave music year is 1968. I told him in 1968 on my birthday, Martin Luther King Jr died. For my birthday, I got the 5 month old "A Scratch in the Sky" album by the Cryan Shames and the 45 of "Summertime Blues" as well as a tiny radio transmitter that I could now send a signal that covered.....my whole BLOCK! I'd made it to radio royalty, or so I thought. haha. I was 12.
	♥ 2:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @2:54 Aside from MLK that sound slike an OK birthday
	♥ 3:00pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, Larry, and all other listeners!
	♥ 3:01pm Michael 98145: Howdy
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:00 Hey Andrew!
	♥ 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Larry! Ready to testify and to Wow!
	♥ 3:01pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & Co.
	♥ 3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WLSClark @2:54 Hi, Clark!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:01 Hi Michael!
	♥ 3:02pm Michael 98145: I have a '68 Mustang sedan resting in the garage
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Yvang!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:01 Hey Brian!
	♥ 3:02pm Sem: Bend me, Shape me, WOW me, anytime. Hello, Reverend Larry, pew warmers, and all.
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:02 Hey Sem!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Jeff Ash @3:02 Hiya Jeff!
	3:03pm Erica: ↳ WLSClark @2:54 Wow that's interesting.
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:03 Hi Erica!
	3:03pm Erica: Hi Larry.
	♥ 3:04pm doctorjazz: Hello Larry and Streamers!
	♥ 3:04pm Brian in UK: ↳ WLSClark @2:45 Happy Birthday Clark. 1968 was my year 15 going on 16. First concert, Byrds at the Royal Albert Hall. GP's last gig with them. And all that music going down. First time abroad, first motorcycle. You get the drift.
	3:05pm Frank Talk About Humans: Andy!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:04 Hey Doc!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Frank Talk About Humans @3:05 Hello Frank!
	3:06pm WLSClark: Hi Andrew, Michael, Yvang, Brian, Sem, Jeff, Erica, drJ, Brian and Frank. Thanks to all for Birthday wishes. Feel good, weather is sunny and nice. Life is good!
	3:06pm Erica: Anyway happy birthday WLS!
	♥ 3:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ WLSClark @2:45 Happy Birthday Clark (you won't catch up to me, unless something bad happens to me, of course...)
	♥ 3:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme" Love this Mel Torme cover!
	3:07pm WLSClark: ↳ Brian in UK @3:04 Ahh those good days too!
	♥ 3:07pm Sem: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:00 Hello, AiT! All good there?
	♥ 3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:06 Mel was doing some quality swinging in the late 60s!
	3:07pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @3:06 Erica, always fun reading your chat messages.
	♥ 3:07pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sem @3:02 Hiya, Sem!
	♥ 3:08pm Michael 98145: Swingin' on the Riviera one day And then layin' in the Bombay alley next day
	3:08pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:07 I THINK Mel from Nebraska or lived here?
	3:08pm Erica: Aww.
	♥ 3:08pm Yvang: ↳ WLSClark @3:06 Hi WLSC!
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:08 Mel was from Chicago
	♥ 3:09pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Song: "Come to the Sunshine" by "Sounds of Our Time" Whoa! Tuned in a few minutes late. Thought I had the wrong show ..FMU theme songs.
	♥ 3:09pm Sem: hahahahahaha.
	♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Wait for the organ on this one...
	3:10pm WLSClark: I still have a tape of myself on my birthday with my little tiny microphone making my own top 10 mini countdown--Blue Cheer at #1. Still have the mic, which is hilarious to see nowadays.
	3:10pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:08 Figures. Something made me think he had some time lived in Neb.
	3:11pm David Shortell: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:08 Is there an episode of "Danger Man" where that actually happens to Drake?
	♥ 3:11pm Michael 98145: ↳ David Shortell @3:11 =shrug=
	3:12pm still b/p: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Please transfer to digital and submit to FMU for sharing of excerpts by DJ deemed most likely to use.
	♥ 3:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:12 Hey SBP!
	♥ 3:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @3:11 Hi David!
	♥ 3:12pm Brian in UK: ↳ still b/p @3:12 That will be Irwin.
	♥ 3:13pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" by "Sandy Nelson" Oh boy, there is no end to the madness!!!
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:13 Sandy did some unusual covers. SoCal (like Texas and Florida) were hotbeds of Yardbirds fandom
	3:15pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "( I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by "Ted Heath and... Sax portion was iffy, but full team sound was vim, vigor aaaand with it.
	3:15pm WLSClark: ↳ still b/p @3:12 Haha. Yes, I have it digitized, but pretty silly. I found that my voice most sounded like a DJ then by saying words in pretend raspy voice. So silly.
	3:15pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:14 I think Bob Irwin has played some Sandy mid-60s on his show that was cool too.
	♥ 3:19pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sem @3:07 Iy`s still good and wet! We`ve had 2 solid days of rain,
	♥ 3:20pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:15 His albums are full of great stuff.
	3:21pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Spinning Wheel" by "101 Strings" Clean-living and square types hearing this mighta worried they'd been tabbed.
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:21 Yeah, this is prettyfar out for 101 Strings!
	♥ 3:24pm Funky16Corners: I LOVE the steel guitar on this version!
	🥁 ♥ 3:25pm listener 126464: Boss show, Larry! Hello all.
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: ↳ listener 126464 @3:25 Howdy!
	3:27pm WLSClark: ↳ listener 126464 @3:25 SO, how do you KNOW you are 126464?
	3:32pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Happy Together" by "Emil Richards" Man...time sig and games were knocking and knotting more than half a century of neural stability associated with the song.
	♥ 3:32pm Phillippe: howdy
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Phillippe @3:32 Hey Phillippe!
	♥ 3:36pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Everyday People" by "Foru Freshmen" Boy, does this take the edge off the original (could be a Coke commercial).
	♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:36 Believe it or not, there's a nice version by Peggy Lee!
	3:37pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Lennon Sisters" BUT did they sing this on Larry Welk show?
	3:38pm Erica: ↳ doctorjazz @3:36 Too squeaky clean of a version I agree.
	♥ 3:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:37 Good question!
	🥁 ♥ 3:39pm listener 126464: ↳ WLSClark @3:27 That’s what the manager said.
	3:40pm still b/p: Saw a Lennon sister, in a later-day interview included after a Welk episode on PBS, describe having to miss out on midway fun when touring state fairs with Pat Boone because they were all too recognizable and would be mobbed. Took a disguised turn on ferris wheel until someone from their team outed them for a laugh, aaaand they were mobbed.
	♥ 3:43pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" by "Liberace" this is fun!
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: Spooner Pldham and Larry Collins are on this Liberace album
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:43 He does Suite Judy Blues Eyes on this album.
	3:45pm WLSClark: ↳ listener 126464 @3:39 That's pretty cool. 162000 listeners since 1958? That equates to 2400 listeners per year! haha
	3:47pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:38 I wish you could check into why your arrows to previous post doesn't hilite the right comment. Only show I cannot tell is this one.
	♥ 3:47pm Michael 98145: ↳ still b/p @3:40 Lennon groupies?!? Lennonies?
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:47 They were a big deal. Lawrence Welk was on TV for like 30 years!
	3:48pm WLSClark: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:47 careful, or they will make another "YESTERDAY" movie about the Lennon sisters!
	♥ 3:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Sunshine Superman" by "Mariano and the Unbelievab... Also, ahem, Unbelievably fun!
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:45 I wonder if any of the 1958 listeners still tune in?
	3:48pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:48 Still on here in replays I think. 6 PM Saturday nights just like 60s.
	♥ 3:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:48 They have two albums, both similarly cool
	3:49pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:48 From what I have heard, the station has gone thru so many issues and changes that it is basically not hardly related to 1958 one except in call letters.
	♥ 3:56pm WTF_Chuck: Digging the show, Larry. I can imagine, maybe reality, maybe not, that some of these tracks would have been heard when I was a wee lad. Perhaps in the cool places that didn’t have Muzak? Perhaps TV? Pretty sure I saw some weird versions of pop songs on Lawrence Welk when I was at my grandparents back in the late 60s early 70s.
	🥁 ♥ 3:56pm listener 126464: ↳ WLSClark @2:54 Happy birthday! It’s my brother's also. He was born in 68.
	♥ 3:56pm Yvang: Love all these versions!
	♥ 3:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @3:56 Hi Chuck! I remember similar things from my parents listeneing to WPAT which was the NY area "Beautiful Music" station
	♥ 3:57pm Michael 98145: ↳ WTF_Chuck @3:56 Lotsa Myron Floren
	♥ 3:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ride My Seesaw" by "Ronnie Aldrich" Nice treatment for Moodies (their stuff fits this)
	♥ 3:59pm Sem: Grew up in a one station town in the 60s, block programming, w/ contemporary music relegated to "Wee Willie and the Trendex Twenty" a few night a week, for an hour. Covers like the one's you're playing would be prime time fodder, for the over 19s. Love hearing those versions here, all that being said.
	♥ 4:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:59 When I was a kid, driving around with my parents, they NEVER played Top 40 radio, it was all "beautiful music" and Newsradio 88 (or maybe WNEW-AM which was kind of Adult Contemporary
	4:04pm still b/p: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:57 When Myron AND Joann Castle -- who ripped and bounced and killed and smiled and winked in her own open-throttle piano numbers -- play accordion together, my happiness reaches a new level.
	♥ 4:08pm Michael 98145: ↳ still b/p @4:04 =Glowing= smile !
	4:09pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Undun" by "Dina Shore" I truly dug that version of Undone. Can't believe it was from the mid 70s. Doesn't sound like a 70s recording.
	4:09pm David Shortell: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:01 Sounds kind of like my own folks. My big brother told me that when Gary Busey's movie "The Buddy Holly Story" came out in 1978, they didn't know who Buddy was. They frequently listened to the talk radio station WOR (710 AM), which seemingly came out of a time warp from decades before.
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Also Gabor Szabo on this one!
	♥ 4:11pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:09 Oddly enough, as a middle schooler, I spent a LOT of time listening to WOR in the afternoon and evenings, starting with Bob and Ray, then CBS MYstery Theater and then Jean Shepherd.
	♥ 4:12pm Michael 98145: I do know people who never listened to music and still don't. Quite a mystery to me, but ...
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:12 I have also encountered this, and have been similarly baffled by it
	4:13pm Fred R: Afternoon Larry and everyone!
	♥ 4:13pm WTF_Chuck: Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Dinah Shore - all names I remember and shows I would see when hanging out with my grandmother as a child on weekday afternoons. Incidentally, she was a choral director at church and had a piano and organ I used to play (hack away) at as a small child. Whatever I learned from doing that paid dividends later when I took up guitar and several other instruments. Anyhow, I’m sure all that Beautiful Music pop covers had an impact. TY.
	♥ 4:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Fred R @4:13 Hi Fred!
	♥ 4:14pm Michael 98145: On the left coast, we were lucky enough to hear Jean Shepherd tapes. On KRAB-fm.
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:14 I started listening in the mid-70s because my father was a fan. I think it might have been Shep's last stand on NY radio.
	♥ 4:17pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Sound Symposium" I like this tune, but, admit it, it's a bit sappy. Extra sappification is not called for...
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:17 One of my all time fave songs. I'll listen to pretty much any version.
	4:18pm David Shortell: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:12 Maybe it's connected to the equally baffling phenomenon that some people can somehow listen to "work-radio" (i.e., robot radio stations that repeat a very small list of songs on shuffle) without going bonkers. Sometimes I almost envy them.
	♥ 4:20pm Michael 98145: Some of those "work-radio" stations seem to be turning into country stations. Something to do with money.
	♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:18 The year I started by first full time job (that I stayed at for nearly 25 years) it was on the overnight shift in a newspaper composing room, with the radio tuned to WNBC-AM, which played a 2-hour block of syndicated Wolfman Jack Top 40. I heard the same rotation of songs four times a shift.
	♥ 4:20pm Michael 98145: These covers are amazing. And i'm amazed you found them all.
	♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:20 I spend a LOT of time looking for this stuff!
	♥ 4:22pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:20 Agreed! This show will be replayed for unsuspecting friends in the near future. Thanks Larry!!
	♥ 4:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:22 My pleasure! Glad you're digging it!
	♥ 4:26pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Song: "Nights in White Satin" by "Brooklyn Bridge" We were the only high school band I knew of that played this song in 1982. Not this cool though..
	♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:26 This was their "rock" album. They also cover Neil Young and the Buffalo Springfield
	4:27pm David Shortell: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:13 Mike Douglas had some cool musical guests, such as the Rolling Stones during their first US min-tour in June 1964. They mimed to a couple of records and Mike chatted amicably with them. In their other American TV appearance at that time, they played for real on "Hollywood Palace", but host Dean Martin rudely snubbed them.
	♥ 4:28pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:27 There's great footage of Moby Grape on the Mike Douglas Show!
	4:31pm still b/p: Saw just a minute of Dean in "Airport" last night and was wondering if director said, "Now, Dean, for this one, you can't just, you know, phone it in and smirk and all that, like the Matt Helm bit. You gotta, you know, step it up a good degree. Okay...okay?"
	♥ 4:31pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:31 He looks pickled through that entire movie
	♥ 4:32pm Brian in UK: Dean Martin. Why?
	♥ 4:32pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ David Shortell @4:27 Cool. I’m a ‘65 vintage, so it was probably ‘69-‘73 timeframe that I would have been seeing those afternoon TV shows. I don’t remember anything specific. I would have been thrilled to see a Monkee at time. But maybe saw some Partridge Family or other relatable things. Don’t really remember, but even the stuff I “didn’t like” was an influence. No doubt about that.
	♥ 4:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:32 There are a lot of great guest spots from that period, Micky Dolenz on My Three Sons, Davy on the Brady Bunch etc
	♥ 4:34pm StringOFperils: So understated, all this stuff: A real panoply of reticence and quiet, tasteful reserve...like a day-glo plaid mohair suit at a funeral.
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: This Shirley Bassey is next level
	♥ 4:35pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:33 I remember Davy on the Brady Bunch. I watched My 3 Sons in syndication, but don’t remember seeing Mickey.
	♥ 4:36pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:35 He shows up (surprisingly) as a rock star, interacting with Chip's band (I think)
	♥ 4:36pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:35 I may be getting old, but I agree 100%%%%
	4:37pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Light My Fire" by "Shirley Bassey" Shirley among the few who should have cosmic Permission To Do This.
	♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:37 The arrangement on this is amazing. I think it's been sampled.
	♥ 4:39pm Brian in UK: Larry, a real ear opener. Nice one.
	♥ 4:40pm Funky16Corners: This is a great album, and I don't think it's ever been reissued.
	♥ 4:40pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:36 So Chip Douglas, not Chip Douglas
	4:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Brian in UK @4:32 Generation gap. He didn't like their long hair or their music. On the back cover of "Another Side of Bob Dylan", Bob wrote “an dean martin should apologize t the rolling stones”.
	♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:40 Steve Douglas's son, not the producer/bassist
	♥ 4:41pm arlo: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:40 need to check!
	♥ 4:41pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Light My Fire" by "Shirley Bassey" - wow -
	♥ 4:42pm arlo: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:40 as in... i need to check it out!
	♥ 4:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ arlo @4:42 It's basically a Wrecking Crew session led by concertmaster Jan Rubini (who's son Michael was a member of the WC)
	♥ 4:43pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:41 I’ll have to look that up. “WFMU - The Wiki for music nerds everywhere!”
	♥ 4:44pm Sem: Well, the Doc was always cooler than the show he led an orchestra on...
	♥ 4:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:44 Doc was hip!
	♥ 4:45pm StringOFperils: Speaking of day-glo suits, it's Doc!
	♥ 4:45pm Sem: ↳ StringOFperils @4:45 Man could dress it up, alright.
	♥ 4:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:45 He's still around, well into his 90s
	4:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:28 Or "the Moby Grapes", as Mike introduced them on the clip I just looked up. I'd like to see the whole episode because Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were on it.
	♥ 4:47pm Discotech Underground: Hey Larry! Fun show today, again full of things I had no idea even existed! Stay tuned for Discotech Underground starring ME! Next on WFMU's Give The Drummer Radio! wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:47pm Sem: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:46 I'll say, 96. Ninety seven if he gets to July 7.
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:46 When I was a kid Mike Douglas was on right after I got home from school. I used to love how he'd have a co-host for the entire week, and all kinds of great music and comedy
	♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:47 Hey Kip!
	♥ 4:48pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Song: "In the Court of the Crimson King" by "Doc Severin... I wonder if Doc is appreciated these days. Another staple of my teen years - watching a tiny B&W tv in my bedroom late night. Only heard the intros and outros, of course. But cool dude and I didn’t realize at the time how great that Tonight Show band was.
	♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:47 Peter Marshall of the Hollywood Squares just turned 98!?!?
	4:49pm WLSClark: Well, basically missed most of show talking to my bro. Sorry!
	♥ 4:49pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 My dad did road construction and he was off during the winter and he rarely missed Mike Douglas. He would be watching it when I would get home from school every day.
	♥ 4:49pm Sem: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:48 I echo your "!?!?!"
	♥ 4:49pm Michael 98145: Next billboard - "WFMU. Music You Didn't Know Existed."
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:49 That's be a perfect motto!
	♥ 4:50pm StringOFperils: Yeah, the Mike Douglas Show booked some killer music acts, and often before they were widely known...he straddled the territory between being homespun and being hip
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: I don't know if you guys can hear the L-R panning of the drums
	♥ 4:51pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:49 That is actually a pretty effective sell line!
	♥ 4:51pm Sem: What a service, Reverend Larry. You know how to keep the parishioners coming back. See you, and the congregation next time.
	♥ 4:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:51 Thanks Sem!
	♥ 4:51pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Sem @4:51 Amen
	♥ 4:52pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "Give Peace a Chance" by "Louis Armstrong" I wonder what Scatman Crothers would have done with "Give Peace A Chance"...
	♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:52 I'd pay to hear that.
	♥ 4:53pm StringOFperils: This involved a lot of weed
	4:53pm still b/p: Didn't know til much later that Peter Marshall was a big band singer and hobnobbed with entertainment celebs of a past period -- giving him pockets full of anecdote/name-drop material -- before Squares days. Was a DJ for "Music Of Your Life" syndicated format in post-Squares years and recorded a new album. I heard a bit of it. And...well, I heard it.
	♥ 4:53pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "Give Peace a Chance" by "Louis Armstrong" Wow! (I understand the title of the show now)
	♥ 4:54pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:53 He did a couple of good, in depth podcast interviews about his early years
	♥ 4:54pm Andrew in Toronto: What another great episode! Thanks, Larry!
	♥ 4:54pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:54 Thanks Andrew!
	♥ 4:54pm arlo: big thanks, Larry
	♥ 4:55pm WTF_Chuck: Thanks for the memories, Larry!
	4:56pm still b/p: Five-star show. Thanks.
	♥ 4:56pm StringOFperils: Kid Ory to hippies. Quite the arc. Wow!
	4:56pm Erica: All I'm saying is give Louis Armstrong a chance. Anyway great show Larry.
	♥ 4:57pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry (Satch Rules)!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Jeff Ash: Good one! Thanks, Larry!
	4:58pm WLSClark: Thanks, Larry.
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks everyone!
	♥ 4:59pm StringOFperils: Another gold-mine Larry. Thanks!
	♥ 4:59pm Yvang: Thanks Larry!
	4:59pm Erica: Thanks Larry.
	♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
	🥁 ♥ 5:02pm listener 126464: Thank you, Larry.

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 4, 2024

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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)
Murmaids	Paper Sun "Paper Sun" by "Murmaids"	45RPM Single	Liberty	1968	45	0:01:25 (Pop-up)
Mel Torme	Secret Agent Man "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme"	Right Now!	Columbia	1966	LP	0:04:28 (Pop-up)
Sounds of Our Time	Come to the Sunshine	Music of the Flower Children	Capitol	1967	LP	0:06:51 (Pop-up)
Ted Heath and His Music	( I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	The Big Ones	Decca	1969	LP	0:09:23 (Pop-up)
Sandy Nelson	Happenings Ten Years Time Ago	Cheetah Beat	Imperial	1967	LP	0:13:14 (Pop-up)

101 Strings	Spinning Wheel "Spinning Wheel" by "101 Strings"	More Million Selling Hits	Alshire	1971	LP	0:19:27 (Pop-up)
Ambrose Brazelton	The Beat Goes On	The Beat Goes On For Physical Education	KES	1968	LP	0:21:50 (Pop-up)
Santo and Johnny	It's Wonderful "It's Wonderful" by "Santo and Johnny"	Golden Guitars	Liberty	1968	LP	0:24:25 (Pop-up)
Don Sebesky & The Jazz-Rock Syndrome	I Dig Rock and Roll Music	Don Sebesky and the Jazz Rock Syndrome	Verve	1968	LP	0:26:43 (Pop-up)
Emil Richards	Happy Together "Happy Together" by "Emil Richards"	New Time Element	Uni	1967	LP	0:28:40 (Pop-up)
Electric Piano Playground	I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)	Psychedelic Seeds	Bell	1967	LP	0:31:12 (Pop-up)
Foru Freshmen	Everyday People "Everyday People" by "Foru Freshmen"	Different Strokes	Liberty	1969	LP	0:33:54 (Pop-up)
Lennon Sisters	Green Tambourine "Green Tambourine" by "Lennon Sisters"	The Lennon Sisters Today!	Mercury	1968	LP	0:36:26 (Pop-up)
Sarah Vaughan	1-2-3 "1-2-3" by "Sarah Vaughan"	The New Scene	Mercury	1966	LP	0:38:27 (Pop-up)
Liberace	Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)	A Brand New Me	WB	1970	LP	0:41:04 (Pop-up)
Herb Larson	Mendocino "Mendocino" by "Herb Larson"	Sax Appeal	Command	1969	LP	0:44:11 (Pop-up)
Mariano and the Unbelievables	Sunshine Superman	Mariano and the Unbelievables	Capitol	1967	LP	0:47:22 (Pop-up)
Roslyn Kind	The Shape Of Things To Come	Give Me You	RCA	1969	LP	0:50:26 (Pop-up)
Julie Budd	People Are Strange "People Are Strange" by "Julie Budd"	Child of Plenty	MGM	1968	LP	0:52:52 (Pop-up)
Ronnie Aldrich	Ride My Seesaw "Ride My Seesaw" by "Ronnie Aldrich"	It's Happening Now	Decca	1969	LP	0:55:02 (Pop-up)
Dina Shore	Undun "Undun" by "Dina Shore"	Once Upon a Summertime	Stanyan	1975	LP	0:58:43 (Pop-up)

Bob Theile and His New Happy Times Ochestra	Fakin' It	Light My Fire	Impulse	1967	LP	1:10:05 (Pop-up)
Sound Symposium	Darling Be Home Soon	Contemporary Composers Interpreted	Dot	1969	LP	1:15:58 (Pop-up)
Nat Stuckey	In the Year "In the Year" by "Nat Stuckey"	New Country Roads	RCA	1969	LP	1:18:38 (Pop-up)
Billy Vaughn	Time of the Season "Time of the Season" by "Billy Vaughn"	The Windmills Of Your Mind	Dot	1969	LP	1:21:53 (Pop-up)
Brooklyn Bridge	Nights in White Satin	Brooklyn Bridge	Buddah	1970	LP	1:24:32 (Pop-up)
Della Reese	Solitary Woman "Solitary Woman" by "Della Reese"	45RPM Single	ABC	1967	45	1:27:46 (Pop-up)
Gloria Loring	Darkness Darkness "Darkness Darkness" by "Gloria Loring"	And Now We Come To Distances	Evolution	1969	LP	1:30:31 (Pop-up)
Shirley Bassey	Light My Fire "Light My Fire" by "Shirley Bassey"	Something	UA	1969	LP	1:35:12 (Pop-up)
Surf Symphony	The Warmth of the Sun	Song of Summer	Capitol	1969	LP	1:38:34 (Pop-up)
Topanga Canyon Orchestra	Crimson and Clover	Crimson and Clover	Uni	1968	LP	1:41:30 (Pop-up)
Doc Severinsen	In the Court of the Crimson King	Doc Severinsen's Closet	Command	1970	LP	1:43:57 (Pop-up)
Louis Armstrong	Give Peace a Chance	Louis Armstrong and His Friends	Flying Dutchman	1970	LP	1:51:15 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:58:44 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	2:45pm WLSClark: Dont know if I qualify for WOW! Generation? I turned 68 today. Am I IN the club?
	♥ 2:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @2:45 Happy Birthday Clark!
	2:54pm WLSClark: Thanks Larry! a buddy was emailing how he liked hearing I was 68 because his fave music year is 1968. I told him in 1968 on my birthday, Martin Luther King Jr died. For my birthday, I got the 5 month old "A Scratch in the Sky" album by the Cryan Shames and the 45 of "Summertime Blues" as well as a tiny radio transmitter that I could now send a signal that covered.....my whole BLOCK! I'd made it to radio royalty, or so I thought. haha. I was 12.
	♥ 2:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @2:54 Aside from MLK that sound slike an OK birthday
	♥ 3:00pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, Larry, and all other listeners!
	♥ 3:01pm Michael 98145: Howdy
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:00 Hey Andrew!
	♥ 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Larry! Ready to testify and to Wow!
	♥ 3:01pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & Co.
	♥ 3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WLSClark @2:54 Hi, Clark!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:01 Hi Michael!
	♥ 3:02pm Michael 98145: I have a '68 Mustang sedan resting in the garage
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Yvang!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:01 Hey Brian!
	♥ 3:02pm Sem: Bend me, Shape me, WOW me, anytime. Hello, Reverend Larry, pew warmers, and all.
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:02 Hey Sem!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Jeff Ash @3:02 Hiya Jeff!
	3:03pm Erica: ↳ WLSClark @2:54 Wow that's interesting.
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:03 Hi Erica!
	3:03pm Erica: Hi Larry.
	♥ 3:04pm doctorjazz: Hello Larry and Streamers!
	♥ 3:04pm Brian in UK: ↳ WLSClark @2:45 Happy Birthday Clark. 1968 was my year 15 going on 16. First concert, Byrds at the Royal Albert Hall. GP's last gig with them. And all that music going down. First time abroad, first motorcycle. You get the drift.
	3:05pm Frank Talk About Humans: Andy!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:04 Hey Doc!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Frank Talk About Humans @3:05 Hello Frank!
	3:06pm WLSClark: Hi Andrew, Michael, Yvang, Brian, Sem, Jeff, Erica, drJ, Brian and Frank. Thanks to all for Birthday wishes. Feel good, weather is sunny and nice. Life is good!
	3:06pm Erica: Anyway happy birthday WLS!
	♥ 3:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ WLSClark @2:45 Happy Birthday Clark (you won't catch up to me, unless something bad happens to me, of course...)
	♥ 3:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme" Love this Mel Torme cover!
	3:07pm WLSClark: ↳ Brian in UK @3:04 Ahh those good days too!
	♥ 3:07pm Sem: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:00 Hello, AiT! All good there?
	♥ 3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:06 Mel was doing some quality swinging in the late 60s!
	3:07pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @3:06 Erica, always fun reading your chat messages.
	♥ 3:07pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sem @3:02 Hiya, Sem!
	♥ 3:08pm Michael 98145: Swingin' on the Riviera one day And then layin' in the Bombay alley next day
	3:08pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:07 I THINK Mel from Nebraska or lived here?
	3:08pm Erica: Aww.
	♥ 3:08pm Yvang: ↳ WLSClark @3:06 Hi WLSC!
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:08 Mel was from Chicago
	♥ 3:09pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Song: "Come to the Sunshine" by "Sounds of Our Time" Whoa! Tuned in a few minutes late. Thought I had the wrong show ..FMU theme songs.
	♥ 3:09pm Sem: hahahahahaha.
	♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Wait for the organ on this one...
	3:10pm WLSClark: I still have a tape of myself on my birthday with my little tiny microphone making my own top 10 mini countdown--Blue Cheer at #1. Still have the mic, which is hilarious to see nowadays.
	3:10pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:08 Figures. Something made me think he had some time lived in Neb.
	3:11pm David Shortell: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:08 Is there an episode of "Danger Man" where that actually happens to Drake?
	♥ 3:11pm Michael 98145: ↳ David Shortell @3:11 =shrug=
	3:12pm still b/p: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Please transfer to digital and submit to FMU for sharing of excerpts by DJ deemed most likely to use.
	♥ 3:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:12 Hey SBP!
	♥ 3:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @3:11 Hi David!
	♥ 3:12pm Brian in UK: ↳ still b/p @3:12 That will be Irwin.
	♥ 3:13pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" by "Sandy Nelson" Oh boy, there is no end to the madness!!!
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:13 Sandy did some unusual covers. SoCal (like Texas and Florida) were hotbeds of Yardbirds fandom
	3:15pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "( I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by "Ted Heath and... Sax portion was iffy, but full team sound was vim, vigor aaaand with it.
	3:15pm WLSClark: ↳ still b/p @3:12 Haha. Yes, I have it digitized, but pretty silly. I found that my voice most sounded like a DJ then by saying words in pretend raspy voice. So silly.
	3:15pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:14 I think Bob Irwin has played some Sandy mid-60s on his show that was cool too.
	♥ 3:19pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sem @3:07 Iy`s still good and wet! We`ve had 2 solid days of rain,
	♥ 3:20pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:15 His albums are full of great stuff.
	3:21pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Spinning Wheel" by "101 Strings" Clean-living and square types hearing this mighta worried they'd been tabbed.
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:21 Yeah, this is prettyfar out for 101 Strings!
	♥ 3:24pm Funky16Corners: I LOVE the steel guitar on this version!
	🥁 ♥ 3:25pm listener 126464: Boss show, Larry! Hello all.
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: ↳ listener 126464 @3:25 Howdy!
	3:27pm WLSClark: ↳ listener 126464 @3:25 SO, how do you KNOW you are 126464?
	3:32pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Happy Together" by "Emil Richards" Man...time sig and games were knocking and knotting more than half a century of neural stability associated with the song.
	♥ 3:32pm Phillippe: howdy
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Phillippe @3:32 Hey Phillippe!
	♥ 3:36pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Everyday People" by "Foru Freshmen" Boy, does this take the edge off the original (could be a Coke commercial).
	♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:36 Believe it or not, there's a nice version by Peggy Lee!
	3:37pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Lennon Sisters" BUT did they sing this on Larry Welk show?
	3:38pm Erica: ↳ doctorjazz @3:36 Too squeaky clean of a version I agree.
	♥ 3:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:37 Good question!
	🥁 ♥ 3:39pm listener 126464: ↳ WLSClark @3:27 That’s what the manager said.
	3:40pm still b/p: Saw a Lennon sister, in a later-day interview included after a Welk episode on PBS, describe having to miss out on midway fun when touring state fairs with Pat Boone because they were all too recognizable and would be mobbed. Took a disguised turn on ferris wheel until someone from their team outed them for a laugh, aaaand they were mobbed.
	♥ 3:43pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" by "Liberace" this is fun!
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: Spooner Pldham and Larry Collins are on this Liberace album
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:43 He does Suite Judy Blues Eyes on this album.
	3:45pm WLSClark: ↳ listener 126464 @3:39 That's pretty cool. 162000 listeners since 1958? That equates to 2400 listeners per year! haha
	3:47pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:38 I wish you could check into why your arrows to previous post doesn't hilite the right comment. Only show I cannot tell is this one.
	♥ 3:47pm Michael 98145: ↳ still b/p @3:40 Lennon groupies?!? Lennonies?
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:47 They were a big deal. Lawrence Welk was on TV for like 30 years!
	3:48pm WLSClark: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:47 careful, or they will make another "YESTERDAY" movie about the Lennon sisters!
	♥ 3:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Sunshine Superman" by "Mariano and the Unbelievab... Also, ahem, Unbelievably fun!
	♥ 3:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:45 I wonder if any of the 1958 listeners still tune in?
	3:48pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:48 Still on here in replays I think. 6 PM Saturday nights just like 60s.
	♥ 3:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:48 They have two albums, both similarly cool
	3:49pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:48 From what I have heard, the station has gone thru so many issues and changes that it is basically not hardly related to 1958 one except in call letters.
	♥ 3:56pm WTF_Chuck: Digging the show, Larry. I can imagine, maybe reality, maybe not, that some of these tracks would have been heard when I was a wee lad. Perhaps in the cool places that didn’t have Muzak? Perhaps TV? Pretty sure I saw some weird versions of pop songs on Lawrence Welk when I was at my grandparents back in the late 60s early 70s.
	🥁 ♥ 3:56pm listener 126464: ↳ WLSClark @2:54 Happy birthday! It’s my brother's also. He was born in 68.
	♥ 3:56pm Yvang: Love all these versions!
	♥ 3:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @3:56 Hi Chuck! I remember similar things from my parents listeneing to WPAT which was the NY area "Beautiful Music" station
	♥ 3:57pm Michael 98145: ↳ WTF_Chuck @3:56 Lotsa Myron Floren
	♥ 3:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ride My Seesaw" by "Ronnie Aldrich" Nice treatment for Moodies (their stuff fits this)
	♥ 3:59pm Sem: Grew up in a one station town in the 60s, block programming, w/ contemporary music relegated to "Wee Willie and the Trendex Twenty" a few night a week, for an hour. Covers like the one's you're playing would be prime time fodder, for the over 19s. Love hearing those versions here, all that being said.
	♥ 4:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:59 When I was a kid, driving around with my parents, they NEVER played Top 40 radio, it was all "beautiful music" and Newsradio 88 (or maybe WNEW-AM which was kind of Adult Contemporary
	4:04pm still b/p: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:57 When Myron AND Joann Castle -- who ripped and bounced and killed and smiled and winked in her own open-throttle piano numbers -- play accordion together, my happiness reaches a new level.
	♥ 4:08pm Michael 98145: ↳ still b/p @4:04 =Glowing= smile !
	4:09pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Undun" by "Dina Shore" I truly dug that version of Undone. Can't believe it was from the mid 70s. Doesn't sound like a 70s recording.
	4:09pm David Shortell: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:01 Sounds kind of like my own folks. My big brother told me that when Gary Busey's movie "The Buddy Holly Story" came out in 1978, they didn't know who Buddy was. They frequently listened to the talk radio station WOR (710 AM), which seemingly came out of a time warp from decades before.
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Also Gabor Szabo on this one!
	♥ 4:11pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:09 Oddly enough, as a middle schooler, I spent a LOT of time listening to WOR in the afternoon and evenings, starting with Bob and Ray, then CBS MYstery Theater and then Jean Shepherd.
	♥ 4:12pm Michael 98145: I do know people who never listened to music and still don't. Quite a mystery to me, but ...
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:12 I have also encountered this, and have been similarly baffled by it
	4:13pm Fred R: Afternoon Larry and everyone!
	♥ 4:13pm WTF_Chuck: Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Dinah Shore - all names I remember and shows I would see when hanging out with my grandmother as a child on weekday afternoons. Incidentally, she was a choral director at church and had a piano and organ I used to play (hack away) at as a small child. Whatever I learned from doing that paid dividends later when I took up guitar and several other instruments. Anyhow, I’m sure all that Beautiful Music pop covers had an impact. TY.
	♥ 4:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Fred R @4:13 Hi Fred!
	♥ 4:14pm Michael 98145: On the left coast, we were lucky enough to hear Jean Shepherd tapes. On KRAB-fm.
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:14 I started listening in the mid-70s because my father was a fan. I think it might have been Shep's last stand on NY radio.
	♥ 4:17pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Sound Symposium" I like this tune, but, admit it, it's a bit sappy. Extra sappification is not called for...
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:17 One of my all time fave songs. I'll listen to pretty much any version.
	4:18pm David Shortell: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:12 Maybe it's connected to the equally baffling phenomenon that some people can somehow listen to "work-radio" (i.e., robot radio stations that repeat a very small list of songs on shuffle) without going bonkers. Sometimes I almost envy them.
	♥ 4:20pm Michael 98145: Some of those "work-radio" stations seem to be turning into country stations. Something to do with money.
	♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:18 The year I started by first full time job (that I stayed at for nearly 25 years) it was on the overnight shift in a newspaper composing room, with the radio tuned to WNBC-AM, which played a 2-hour block of syndicated Wolfman Jack Top 40. I heard the same rotation of songs four times a shift.
	♥ 4:20pm Michael 98145: These covers are amazing. And i'm amazed you found them all.
	♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:20 I spend a LOT of time looking for this stuff!
	♥ 4:22pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:20 Agreed! This show will be replayed for unsuspecting friends in the near future. Thanks Larry!!
	♥ 4:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:22 My pleasure! Glad you're digging it!
	♥ 4:26pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Song: "Nights in White Satin" by "Brooklyn Bridge" We were the only high school band I knew of that played this song in 1982. Not this cool though..
	♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:26 This was their "rock" album. They also cover Neil Young and the Buffalo Springfield
	4:27pm David Shortell: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:13 Mike Douglas had some cool musical guests, such as the Rolling Stones during their first US min-tour in June 1964. They mimed to a couple of records and Mike chatted amicably with them. In their other American TV appearance at that time, they played for real on "Hollywood Palace", but host Dean Martin rudely snubbed them.
	♥ 4:28pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:27 There's great footage of Moby Grape on the Mike Douglas Show!
	4:31pm still b/p: Saw just a minute of Dean in "Airport" last night and was wondering if director said, "Now, Dean, for this one, you can't just, you know, phone it in and smirk and all that, like the Matt Helm bit. You gotta, you know, step it up a good degree. Okay...okay?"
	♥ 4:31pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:31 He looks pickled through that entire movie
	♥ 4:32pm Brian in UK: Dean Martin. Why?
	♥ 4:32pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ David Shortell @4:27 Cool. I’m a ‘65 vintage, so it was probably ‘69-‘73 timeframe that I would have been seeing those afternoon TV shows. I don’t remember anything specific. I would have been thrilled to see a Monkee at time. But maybe saw some Partridge Family or other relatable things. Don’t really remember, but even the stuff I “didn’t like” was an influence. No doubt about that.
	♥ 4:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:32 There are a lot of great guest spots from that period, Micky Dolenz on My Three Sons, Davy on the Brady Bunch etc
	♥ 4:34pm StringOFperils: So understated, all this stuff: A real panoply of reticence and quiet, tasteful reserve...like a day-glo plaid mohair suit at a funeral.
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: This Shirley Bassey is next level
	♥ 4:35pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:33 I remember Davy on the Brady Bunch. I watched My 3 Sons in syndication, but don’t remember seeing Mickey.
	♥ 4:36pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:35 He shows up (surprisingly) as a rock star, interacting with Chip's band (I think)
	♥ 4:36pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:35 I may be getting old, but I agree 100%%%%
	4:37pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Light My Fire" by "Shirley Bassey" Shirley among the few who should have cosmic Permission To Do This.
	♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:37 The arrangement on this is amazing. I think it's been sampled.
	♥ 4:39pm Brian in UK: Larry, a real ear opener. Nice one.
	♥ 4:40pm Funky16Corners: This is a great album, and I don't think it's ever been reissued.
	♥ 4:40pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:36 So Chip Douglas, not Chip Douglas
	4:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Brian in UK @4:32 Generation gap. He didn't like their long hair or their music. On the back cover of "Another Side of Bob Dylan", Bob wrote “an dean martin should apologize t the rolling stones”.
	♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WTF_Chuck @4:40 Steve Douglas's son, not the producer/bassist
	♥ 4:41pm arlo: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:40 need to check!
	♥ 4:41pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Light My Fire" by "Shirley Bassey" - wow -
	♥ 4:42pm arlo: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:40 as in... i need to check it out!
	♥ 4:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ arlo @4:42 It's basically a Wrecking Crew session led by concertmaster Jan Rubini (who's son Michael was a member of the WC)
	♥ 4:43pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:41 I’ll have to look that up. “WFMU - The Wiki for music nerds everywhere!”
	♥ 4:44pm Sem: Well, the Doc was always cooler than the show he led an orchestra on...
	♥ 4:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:44 Doc was hip!
	♥ 4:45pm StringOFperils: Speaking of day-glo suits, it's Doc!
	♥ 4:45pm Sem: ↳ StringOFperils @4:45 Man could dress it up, alright.
	♥ 4:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:45 He's still around, well into his 90s
	4:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:28 Or "the Moby Grapes", as Mike introduced them on the clip I just looked up. I'd like to see the whole episode because Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were on it.
	♥ 4:47pm Discotech Underground: Hey Larry! Fun show today, again full of things I had no idea even existed! Stay tuned for Discotech Underground starring ME! Next on WFMU's Give The Drummer Radio! wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:47pm Sem: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:46 I'll say, 96. Ninety seven if he gets to July 7.
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:46 When I was a kid Mike Douglas was on right after I got home from school. I used to love how he'd have a co-host for the entire week, and all kinds of great music and comedy
	♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:47 Hey Kip!
	♥ 4:48pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Song: "In the Court of the Crimson King" by "Doc Severin... I wonder if Doc is appreciated these days. Another staple of my teen years - watching a tiny B&W tv in my bedroom late night. Only heard the intros and outros, of course. But cool dude and I didn’t realize at the time how great that Tonight Show band was.
	♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:47 Peter Marshall of the Hollywood Squares just turned 98!?!?
	4:49pm WLSClark: Well, basically missed most of show talking to my bro. Sorry!
	♥ 4:49pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 My dad did road construction and he was off during the winter and he rarely missed Mike Douglas. He would be watching it when I would get home from school every day.
	♥ 4:49pm Sem: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:48 I echo your "!?!?!"
	♥ 4:49pm Michael 98145: Next billboard - "WFMU. Music You Didn't Know Existed."
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:49 That's be a perfect motto!
	♥ 4:50pm StringOFperils: Yeah, the Mike Douglas Show booked some killer music acts, and often before they were widely known...he straddled the territory between being homespun and being hip
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: I don't know if you guys can hear the L-R panning of the drums
	♥ 4:51pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:49 That is actually a pretty effective sell line!
	♥ 4:51pm Sem: What a service, Reverend Larry. You know how to keep the parishioners coming back. See you, and the congregation next time.
	♥ 4:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:51 Thanks Sem!
	♥ 4:51pm WTF_Chuck: ↳ Sem @4:51 Amen
	♥ 4:52pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "Give Peace a Chance" by "Louis Armstrong" I wonder what Scatman Crothers would have done with "Give Peace A Chance"...
	♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:52 I'd pay to hear that.
	♥ 4:53pm StringOFperils: This involved a lot of weed
	4:53pm still b/p: Didn't know til much later that Peter Marshall was a big band singer and hobnobbed with entertainment celebs of a past period -- giving him pockets full of anecdote/name-drop material -- before Squares days. Was a DJ for "Music Of Your Life" syndicated format in post-Squares years and recorded a new album. I heard a bit of it. And...well, I heard it.
	♥ 4:53pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "Give Peace a Chance" by "Louis Armstrong" Wow! (I understand the title of the show now)
	♥ 4:54pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:53 He did a couple of good, in depth podcast interviews about his early years
	♥ 4:54pm Andrew in Toronto: What another great episode! Thanks, Larry!
	♥ 4:54pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:54 Thanks Andrew!
	♥ 4:54pm arlo: big thanks, Larry
	♥ 4:55pm WTF_Chuck: Thanks for the memories, Larry!
	4:56pm still b/p: Five-star show. Thanks.
	♥ 4:56pm StringOFperils: Kid Ory to hippies. Quite the arc. Wow!
	4:56pm Erica: All I'm saying is give Louis Armstrong a chance. Anyway great show Larry.
	♥ 4:57pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry (Satch Rules)!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Jeff Ash: Good one! Thanks, Larry!
	4:58pm WLSClark: Thanks, Larry.
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks everyone!
	♥ 4:59pm StringOFperils: Another gold-mine Larry. Thanks!
	♥ 4:59pm Yvang: Thanks Larry!
	4:59pm Erica: Thanks Larry.
	♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
	🥁 ♥ 5:02pm listener 126464: Thank you, Larry.

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 4, 2024

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