Favoriting Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from March 27, 2019 Favoriting

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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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Favoriting March 27, 2019: Testify! Shades of Scott Walker

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Walker Brothers  Make It Easy On Yourself   Favoriting Take it Easy With the Walker Brothers  Smash  1965  LP 
Walker Brothers  You're All Around Me   Favoriting Take it Easy With the Walker Brothers  Smash  1965  LP 
Walker Brothers  Saturday's Child   Favoriting Portrait  Philips  1966  LP 
Walker Brothers  Hurting Each Other   Favoriting Portrait  Philips  1966  LP 
 
Walker Brothers  The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Smash  1966  45 
Walker Brothers  After the Lights Go Out   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Smash  1966  45 
Walker Brothers  Baby You Don't Have To Tell Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Smash  1966  45 
Walker Brothers  My Love Is Growing   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1966  45 
Walker Brothers  Living Above Your Head   Favoriting Portrait  Philips  1966  LP 
Walker Brothers  I Can See It Now   Favoriting Portrait  Philips  1966  LP 
Walker Brothers  Genevieve   Favoriting Images  Philips  1967  LP 
Walker Brothers  Orpheus   Favoriting Images  Philips  1967  LP 
Scott Walker  Mrs Murphy   Favoriting Solo John/Solo Scott  Philips  1966  EP 
 
Scott Walker  Montague Terrace (In Blue)   Favoriting Scott  Smash  1967  LP 
Scott Walker  Such a Small Love   Favoriting Scott  Smash  1967  LP 
Scott Walker  The Amorous Humphrey Plugg   Favoriting Scott 2  Smash  1968  LP 
Scott Walker  Plastic Palace People   Favoriting Scott 2  Smash  1968  LP 
Scott Walker  The Girls From the Streets   Favoriting Scott 2  Smash  1968  LP 
Scott Walker  The Plague   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1968  45 
Scott Walker  The Bridge   Favoriting Scott 2  Smash  1968  LP 
 
Scott Walker  It's Raining Today   Favoriting Scott 3  Smash  1969  LP 
Scott Walker  Copenhagen   Favoriting Scott 3  Smash  1969  LP 
Scott Walker  Big Louise   Favoriting Scott 3  Smash  1969  LP 
Scott Walker  The Seventh Seal   Favoriting Scott 4  Philips  1969  LP 
Scott Walker  Angels of Ashes   Favoriting Scott 4  Philips  1969  LP 
Scott Walker  Boy Child   Favoriting Scott 4  Philips  1969  LP 
Scott Walker  The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)   Favoriting Scott 4  Philips  1969  LP 
Scott Walker  Time Operator   Favoriting Til the Band Comes In  Philips  1970  LP 
Walker Brothers  The Electrician   Favoriting Nite Flights  GTO  1978  LP 
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45 

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Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I’m here and ready to listen to the eclectic musical output of Scott Walker. Will you be including music he produced like Pulp?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Strictly Walker Brothers and solo Scott
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Larry and all
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Gary:

Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Jeff Ash:

Present.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

C! Gary! Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 10:03pm
Erica:

Hello all.
  10:03pm
Doug Schulkind:

Lay it on thick, Larry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
chresti:

Hi Larry and Testafingers!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Erica! Doug! Chresti!
Avatar 🥁 10:07pm
Erica:

Yeah it seems like a lot of musical talent has passed on this year.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Lots of classic era performers getting on in years. Scott was 76.
Avatar 10:07pm
Hams:

been looking forward to a wfmu walker tribute.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Franco Twinkie:

Larry, Bring it on!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Hams!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Franco!
Avatar 10:09pm
Hams:

hello, larry!
Avatar 10:18pm
Hams:

i really enjoyed the score he did for the recent VOX LUX movie. those opening credits were badass.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Funky16Corners:

I haven't heard that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Franco Twinkie:

I can't believe how this stands up. I was in the fifth grade when this was big and current. Now I'm an old man, and it's still amazing!
Avatar 🥁 10:20pm
Erica:

I once had a dream of going into a crowed supermarket where people moved in different directions and this song played in the background. I think there was an event inside. Also, the 45 mix sounds a bit different from what I'm used to hearing.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Funky16Corners:

@Franco - They were great records, in writing, production and performance. Among the finest Wall of Sound-adjacent records of the era
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
Funky16Corners:

This one especially. Just brilliant.
Avatar 10:24pm
still b/p:

Sun Ain't Gonna Shine had a hella hold on me a couple years ago. Still would like to give it a karaoke stab (ouch! ...what did Connery say about bringing a knife to a Sunfight?) sometime just for fun...if I ever give any karaoke a try.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Funky16Corners:

It's an amazing song, and like many of these records, packed with drama
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - Cool dream. I love music dreams
Avatar 10:27pm
northguineahills:

Thanks for the Scott Walker!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I always liked the Scott walker sung theme song of the spaghetti western cemetery without crosses(the rope and the colt)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey NGH! My pleasure!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Funky16Corners:

@Matt - There's a spaghetti western vibe in some of his solo stuff.
Avatar 🥁 10:28pm
Erica:

Yes Larry but that wasn't all. I remember going inside and there was a showcase of produce and deserts. Not sure if anybody bought any but they did look at them. I do remember hearing "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" in the background though.
Avatar 🥁 10:29pm
Erica:

It's funny how songs you know get played in your dreams, even in random moments that make no sense.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Funky16Corners:

I always go to sleep listening to music. Every once in a while the songs end up in my dreams
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Franco Twinkie:

Still b/p, Do it! Just watch the video of that song from some euro teen show, and you will want to be reincarnated as a Walker Bro.
Avatar 🥁 10:31pm
Erica:

I do that sometimes too, Larry, but not on purpose though, just when I'm feeling very tired and doze off.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Funky16Corners:

@Franco - Scott was definitely the whole package. Smart, talented and good looking. I can't think of a picture where he didn't look cool.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Franco Twinkie:

He aged well, too!
Avatar 10:34pm
still b/p:

I will DEMAND a mike with a cord!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Gotta have the shades, too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
chresti:

A lot of these songs I might of first heard in a sleepy state, in the middle of the night on the radio or television
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Funky16Corners:

They have that kind of vibe...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Franco Twinkie:

The thing about Scott, if you sing one of his songs into a hair brush, in front a mirror, a voice inside you will say - I'm Not Worthy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Funky16Corners:

It's that voice. Perfection.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:46pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Juliet Stevenson
Avatar 🥁 10:49pm
Erica:

Scott Walker went a different direction during the mid-late 60's while others went psychedelic.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Franco Twinkie:

The dirty little secret about fame. Good call, Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Funky16Corners:

@Matt - That's her! Thank you!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I read something in the last few days that said that while Scott's music was not psychedelic in the regular ways, that it often created a mind-altering mood akin to psychedelia
Avatar 10:54pm
still b/p:

Scott shoulda sung a Bond picture theme.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Funky16Corners:

@SBP - Good call.
Avatar 🥁 10:55pm
Erica:

Lyrically his musically went into a more in-depth, detailed lyrics that make you think Larry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Franco Twinkie:

Yes, psychedelic as a reality altering glaze on the everyday. Madness for instance.
Avatar 10:56pm
still b/p:

...though apparently he did make it onto one of the soundtrack albums...The World Is Not Enough.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - Yeah, he's revered as a kind of cult figure/tragic artist, but Scott Walker was a brilliant songwriter. His lyrics are amazing and the music has so much depth,
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
doctorjazz:

Hi all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
Funky16Corners:

@Franco - Righy? There's all kinds of psychedelia, especially if you have experience in that regard.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
Avatar 🥁 10:57pm
Erica:

The doctor is in the house.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Franco Twinkie:

I never heard sitars when I was tripping, but I did feel like I was loosing my marbles.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Funky16Corners:

That's when I stopped.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
Franco Twinkie:

The landscapes these song play against are so not American. A flavor to peculiar for the times, I think.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
coelacanth∅:

lost you Larry!
Avatar 🥁 11:06pm
Erica:

Uh oh. Is the stream acting up again? I heard Scott Walker, but now I'm hearing jazz music.
Avatar 11:07pm
still b/p:

Bryce can give those marbles the blender treatment for smooth(ie) reintroduction into your system.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Funky16Corners:

We should be back now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Yup
Avatar 🥁 11:08pm
Erica:

For now, yes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
coelacanth∅:

..."jazz" music. i'm surprised Doug has that in his library!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
Funky16Corners:

@Franco - I saw an interview with an English musician (May have been Jarvis Cocker) who commented that these songs were VERY English
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:10pm
Franco Twinkie:

Yup, I remember seen some English kitchen sink drama when I was a kid, and feeling like I was upside down. Same with Scott.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
Funky16Corners:

BTW - Even if we have stream interruptions, my recording, which will go into the archive, will be uninterrupted.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
coelacanth∅:

Franco (@10.56) it's possible that the majority of overtly "psychedelic" music has been created by people who'd never personally explored the effects of mind-altering substances. (and pretty certainly by people who'd never had Life-changing experiences)
...seems that way to me anyway.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:12pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - That wouldn't surprise me at all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
coelacanth∅:

(..."Life-changing experiences" instigated within the mind's own creations, that is.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
Franco Twinkie:

That is why Forever Changes still hits a nerve. From the well of deep experience.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
coelacanth∅:

right on -that shit's deep
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
Funky16Corners:

True, and an album that isn't ever psychedelic in a cliched way.
Avatar 11:17pm
still b/p:

While walking my paper route when I was 12 or 13, I remember composing a song in my head about acid trip experience, mysteries and terrors. It was a few years later I got first-handy in the realm.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:17pm
Franco Twinkie:

Elliptical lyrics and two voices at the same time beat a wah wah pedal every time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:22pm
coelacanth∅:

that's the thing with bands like the chocolate watch band or strawberry alarm clock -etc- not that they didn't have their moments, sometimes very good; but often trying hard and not convincing.
13th floor elevators lived it and knew it. easter everywhere is the result of mind-expansion.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:22pm
Franco Twinkie:

Yup.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:24pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, The Elevators are as good or better than a dozen better known bands from the same era. Deep stuff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
Franco Twinkie:

Only a few song writers can be literary and not churn out clunkers.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, it's a delicate balance that is very hard to maintain
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hey guys. I picked a heck of a night to hop over to the Drummer stream. Thanks for gathering these.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
doctorjazz:

Pretty stuff, have to say I'm only familiar with the Walker Brothers Hit.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Ken!
Avatar 🥁 11:32pm
Erica:

Hello Mario, I mean Ken.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
chresti:

this kind of dark, with burning witches and all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
coelacanth∅:

so, i'll confess -almost all of this program is new to me.
i'm sure i've heard sun ain't gonna shine dozens of times since childhood (& make it easy on yourself, but that may have been the impressions/Jerry Butler every time)
i never paid even the slightest attention to Scott or the walker brothers until "soused" came out! (being a fan of sun o))))
...then i backtracked and really dug tilt; drift, and climate of hunter -amongst others.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Borrowed from Bergman!
Avatar 11:38pm
still b/p:

I was just looking at the lyrics to see if it was about the film at all after not paying close attention as the song played...and, ohh, yeah.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - His later avant garde period is hard for me to listen to. I respect his work/vision as an artist/explorer, but this stuff is where I connect to him. Have you seen the documentary about him?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Erica. I should get a side job delivering hamburgers to complete the circle.
Avatar 🥁 11:40pm
Erica:

Haha Ken.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
coelacanth∅:

Larry i have not. i don't see many movies, though i like documentaries in general.
and i can easily see how if you grew up with his music...grew with him -that the later stuff could be challenging.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
Funky16Corners:

I think it's more that this period of his music speaks to me in a special way. It brings together different strains of music and culture in a way that I find to be beautiful and poetic. The later stuff is very stark.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
Franco Twinkie:

Not to get all high hat, but is this an example of dissonance paired with lush pastoral romanticism? Polka dots on top of plaid, perhaps?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
coelacanth∅:

entiendo
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
Funky16Corners:

There are bits of deliberate dissonance in a lot of this stuff, especially in the string arrangements
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
Franco Twinkie:

This works,yes.
Avatar 11:47pm
still b/p:

"...pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral..."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
coelacanth∅:

cheetah spots on top of plaid, maybe
Avatar 🥁 11:50pm
Erica:

Scott's voice sounded raspier in this recording.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, indeed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Franco Twinkie:

Okay, who does a better take on nightclub shmaltz. Scott or Tom Waits?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Funky16Corners:

Scott's my pick, but your mileage may vary
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
chresti:

I keep seeing his head dissolving to another head from a different angle, with a stark, shadowy background, maybe a lone dancer, rolling around on the floor
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
coelacanth∅:

Franco your hi-hat's not closed tight and it's making a terrific racket!

...and that's easy for me. Scott.
Avatar 11:53pm
northguineahills:

Thanks Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Funky16Corners:

Thank you NGH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Franco Twinkie:

30 Century Man, please. He it's the bulls eye on that one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
chresti:

This one tops the heap!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Larry. I understand Uncle Michael is also planning a tribute on Friday.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
Funky16Corners:

@Chresta - This is from the last Walker Brothers comeback album from 1978 and is really the bridge to his later avant garde stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
coelacanth∅:

i generally greatly dislike Tom Waits' loungy stuff; in fact his slow songs in general i'll say.
- i love "a soldier's things"...
Avatar 11:56pm
still b/p:

I listened to and liked The Electrician the other night after seeing a reference in a long obit.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Ken! Yes, Michael has some special stuff planned
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
coelacanth∅:

yes i recall the huge difference between Scott's songs on this album to the others' songs.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry! (great exit)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
chresti:

Thanks Larry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
Franco Twinkie:

Thank you, Professor Grogan. This foundation class in all thing Scott was concise an spot on.
Avatar 🥁 11:59pm
Erica:

Geez another show over too soon. Thanks for the Scott Walker tribute.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01am
coelacanth∅:

-and the drone! no wonder he collaborated with sun o)))
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:01am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02am
coelacanth∅:

this has been splendid indeed
Thanks Larry!
good night y'all
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks C!
Avatar 12:03am
still b/p:

Thanks for talking the talk, and...y'know...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:04am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks SBP!
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