WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 12, 2021

Listener comments!
	🥁 12:01pm WR: Bam!. Right on!
	12:01pm Phillippe: Larry, I thought you asked me to come early to help set up chairs?
	12:02pm βrian: I brought my own desk bell, if that's ok. ding
	🥁 12:02pm Yvang: Wedstify!
	12:02pm Funky16Corners: WR! Phillippe! Brian! Yvang!
	12:03pm Funky16Corners: Got a nice, mellow soul session planned for today, followed by the 4th Anniversary show tomorrow!
	12:04pm doctorjazz: Hi Larry and Testificationists!
	12:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	12:07pm listener Rey: Never Can Say No to Mo' Testify!
	12:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	12:09pm zzz: underrated grant green album. hey F16C and all peeps!
	12:09pm Funky16Corners: Whatup zzz?
	12:09pm Jeff Ash: Reporting for duty from Wisconsin. Here for Norman Whitfield.
	12:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	12:10pm Funky16Corners: One more! This one goes out to the ladies...
	12:12pm Funky16Corners: Is it legal to play make-out music like this in the afternoon?
	12:15pm Mark R: It's none of the government's goddamn business if we want to have sex in the afternoon. First they ban my Newports, now this!
	12:19pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mark! You have all the sex you want! To paraphrase the drinkers, it's always midnight somewhere.
	12:19pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - This is very Whitfield-adjacent, though it's 100% Thom Bell
	12:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Say Hayes Soul Survivors ! Thx for filling in ! Glad for a chance to hear this program - what with all the streams & things crowding the timeslots...
	12:23pm Funky16Corners: Hello there Revolution Rabbit Nov63! How does the day find you?
	12:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...well - I'd need AllenGinsberg to articulate it - but we're in a hurry...
	🥁 12:26pm WR: I like this so kuch better than any other Johnny Mathis record, and a quick look at discogs and don't see that it was on eithet album that was released around the same time. was hopping for an album of Thomas Bell produced Mathis. .
	12:26pm Funky16Corners: I heard a Ginsberg quote in a weird place this past week, and I'm trying to remember where. Maybe on a BBC mystery show...
	12:26pm Funky16Corners: @WR - There is! And there's a CD with extra stuff: www.discogs.com...
	12:27pm Funky16Corners: There's a nice version of Stone In Love With You
	12:27pm Funky16Corners: BTW, in case you hadn't heard it today, Norman Whitfield was a goddamned genius.
	🥁 12:29pm WR: Thanks, my bad, didn't scroll down far enough.
	12:29pm Funky16Corners: It kinds of falls through the cracks. I don't think he got any chart action with that album.
	12:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Temptations trax ! What can you say.
	12:32pm Funky16Corners: One of those rare times where a Number One hit is a genuine work of art.
	🥁 12:34pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry, and mellow osculators
	12:35pm Funky16Corners: Theo!
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: A window where an artistic underground & various other movements - like civil rights - & technological expansion - coincided with a boom in an industrial market...
	12:37pm Funky16Corners: It's not often that the mass market embraces authentic ART, and when it does it's usually by accident.
	12:38pm Funky16Corners: The way the rhythm guitar sneaks in on this track is something else
	12:38pm Hubig Pie: It's all about the bass.
	12:38pm Funky16Corners: Hubig Pie!
	12:38pm Funky16Corners: The Funk Brothers were a serious all-star team.
	12:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...some Motown Hits may be overexposed - but they were not fooling around !... Bass still kinda underrated in significance - as kind of a general statement...
	12:40pm Funky16Corners: The irony is, that despite the obvious greatness of his work. Whitfield was a major source of friction at Motown. He had to hit the charts to convince Gordy of his value, and the Temps were pissed at him for stuff like this, which were largely instrumental
	12:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: But isn't this a common tale ? Motown was this Motor City Hit Factory - & 'special editions' had to buck the assembly line... TheBeatles getting high coupled with white-coated British Empire engineers is a common analogy...
	12:42pm Funky16Corners: Though, it says something that if you look at the back cover of this album, there's a tiny pic of the Temps, and a huge pic of Whitfield www.discogs.com...
	12:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...unusually transparent...
	12:44pm Funky16Corners: @RRN63 - Yes indeed. A lot of the really visionary stuff at Motown happened in spite of the direction of the label. I was watching a rerun of the Ed Sullivan show and the Four Tops were doing this awful, supper club act and Gordy was all about that shit. Trying to sell his product to Mom and Dad, when the kids were his main audience
	12:45pm Funky16Corners: I mean, who the fuck needs to see the Supremes sing 'Mame' on Ed Sullivan?
	12:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - Ed was for the whole family... & he was the Big Time when there were like three channels... The Culture however was moving on...
	12:48pm Funky16Corners: True that. It's interesting, on that same album cover, ALL of the musicians get credit. Very unusual for a Motown album.
	12:50pm Hubig Pie: The local FM station played this when it was released. Back when FM radio was a bit more freeform and the commercials were locally produced for hippie food stores, record shops and the like
	12:51pm Funky16Corners: Crossing over into the "head" world
	12:54pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Larry.
	12:54pm TDK60: Hi Larry, all. The Temps.
	12:55pm Funky16Corners: Franco! TDK 60! Welcome!
	12:59pm TDK60: Hola Franco. I was just walking by our subway entrance and saw on a free library shelf there, a book about your town: City Of Quartz by Mike Davis. It's in good shape so I grabbed it. I'd heard it recommended.
	12:59pm Funky16Corners: Good book!
	🥁 1:00pm dutchtheo: 19:00 perfect cooking music Larry! and the other romantic stuff
	1:01pm Funky16Corners: Excellent!
	1:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Not for everybody : bestclassicbands.com... TDK I lived in SantaBarbara 16 years - & 'Quratz' rawked my head ! The relation of L.A. & Noir - that's ne thing. & putting the System above Humans & Habitation is another ! Relates to things both MarkHurst has touched on (what are Humans for ??) - & SheilaB, if she more in reference to NYC. But Gentriication & Corporatization ...as happened to FM radio. Yeah.
	1:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& typos for Type A's...
	1:05pm TDK60: Revrab63- thanks for the thought. I see Jimi H. in your avatar of the hour. // Yeah Larry, "Papa" was monumental.
	1:11pm TDK60: I know a fellow who drummed with Sharon J. some. Not on this album.
	1:15pm Webhamster Henry: Sarah Vaughan is doing a good job here!
	1:16pm Funky16Corners: Hey Henry! Yeah, she did some great contemporary stuff for Mainstream in the early 70s
	1:22pm Funky16Corners: This album is amazing and not nearly well-known enough
	1:29pm Funky16Corners: www.discogs.com...
	1:30pm Funky16Corners: BTW, that's Tami in the pic at the top of the playlist
	1:35pm Franco Twinkie: TDK@12:59 City of Quartz is a knowing unravel and examination of the sprawling mess that is Los Angeles. A lot has happened since the book came out, but it still happens to be the go-to book if you want to understand this place.
	1:37pm TDK60: Franco. Yes, it's from 1990, a while now but I figure it's still relevant. Plus, I have you & Chresti for on-the-ground (or in-the-skies) reporting!
	1:39pm Franco Twinkie: Where do you live?
	1:41pm TDK60: I live in Washington Heights, Manhattan, NYC. 11 years. Before, several other states --south, north, west.
	1:43pm Franco Twinkie: Okay, you know something about living in a house of mirrors.
	1:43pm Andres: Hi, Larry! Sounding great! +1 for City of Quartz! Great book. Before I ever visited LA it helped give a story and a sense of place to what was allegedly a placeless city, a place beyond what is depicted in television and movies.
	1:44pm Funky16Corners: Hi Andres!
	1:45pm TDK60: Also, I learn from other sources, like musicians. As in Ry Cooder's Chávez Ravine album. Zappa, etc!
	1:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I don't remember the title of the more recent book about the gentrification of NYC SheilaB was talking about... Yes ! 'Quartz' has historical perspective too - the roots of the thing... Lynch I think illuminates this quality of SoCal in another way.
	1:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (Movies.)
	1:48pm Franco Twinkie: This is a complicated place by any measure. I have the perspective of a native who's lived here their entire life, and there's still things I have trouble comprehending.
	1:48pm Funky16Corners: The last time I watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, there was the scene where Brad Pitt picks up the hitchhiker, and made mention of where she was trying to go (Spahn Ranch) so I looked it up on a map and I was surprised how spread out LA is. Places that I assumed were right next to each other were a long drive away
	1:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The West is Horizontal. ...Does anyone know exactly where L.A. begins & ends & what's included ??... Obvious thing of our little NewEngland traps are built around Old World cemeteries - but L.A. is a Highway...
	1:53pm TDK60: I had the privilege of performing "Something Is Wrong" in a band I played in once, way back.
	1:53pm Franco Twinkie: My only complaint against Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was the soundtrack. By using airchecks from KHJ, Tarintino missed the chance of a life time. In 1969 there were much better radio stations to plunder to create a sense of place.
	1:54pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Great, great song
	1:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Franco: Ironic since he's supposedly famous for starting there...
	1:55pm Andres: I love the original of this. This Dee Dee Sharp is making me swoon! So good!
	1:55pm Franco Twinkie: True that, but he was a little kid when all that shit went down.
	1:55pm Webhamster Henry: This show is a reminder that "cover" originally was the term applied to taking a song from one recording market to another.
	1:56pm Funky16Corners: @Andres - I have another great cover by Richie Havens
	1:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Franco: By 'there' I mean - Soundtrack! But yeah... Webhenry good point.
	2:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Art of Quiet Storm (what a fabulous term btw)... Lush but sparing... Where do you even begin to coordinate such an Arrangement & Production with Singer & Strings & all ?? I'd have no idea !!...
	2:03pm Funky16Corners: This record was done in Memphis with members of the local symphony.
	2:12pm TDK60: Small world dept: A longtime pal and former bandmate of mine was earlier in Loading Zone w/Linda Tillery (Divine).
	2:12pm Funky16Corners: No kidding? That's great album.
	2:18pm TDK60: Very cool those few seconds of slower beat.
	2:19pm Funky16Corners: That's an amazing 45.
	2:28pm Funky16Corners: A weird one, in that the b-side is almost a minute longer than the A
	2:40pm Funky16Corners: Written about his friend, the recently assassinated Bobby Kennedy
	2:42pm TDK60: That was heavy.
	2:43pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, Rosey had some great 45s, mostly recorded in Memphis.
	2:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Andrew Sandoval had an episode of Come to the Sunshine spotlighting the Four Seasons' psychedelic album !
	2:48pm TDK60: Small world dept #321: I knew one of Frankie V.'s daughters.
	2:48pm Funky16Corners: There are some cool songs (written or cowritten by Jake Holmes) on that record
	2:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: wfmu.org...
	2:55pm doctorjazz: Thanks Larry!
	2:56pm TDK60: How fine to have stopped by unplanned, DJ Larry.
	2:57pm Andres: Thank you, Larry! Great selections today!
	2:58pm Franco Twinkie: A man ahead of this time, Rosy Grear was known to be fond of knitting I seem to remember. Thanks Larry.
	2:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks all!
	2:58pm Funky16Corners: Franco, NEEDLEPOINT!
	🥁 2:58pm Yvang: Thank you, Larry!
	2:59pm Franco Twinkie: I stand corrected.
	🥁 2:59pm David Shortell: Rosie was right there when Bobby was shot, right? There's no film of it, just audio: www.youtube.com...
	2:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks guys! @David, yes
	3:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY ! A great sojourn where I haven't been overfamiliar !
	3:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 12, 2021

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May 12, 2021: Testify! Special Wednesday Afternoon Quiet Storm, Whitfield-isms, Balladry and a Mellow Vibe

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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)
New Birth	Never Can Say Goodbye "Never Can Say Goodbye" by "New Birth"	Ain't No Big Thing But It's Growing	RCA	1971	LP	0:01:26 (Pop-up)
Grant Green	Never Can Say Goodbye	Visions	Blue Note	1971	LP	0:04:45 (Pop-up)
Isaac Hayes	Never Can Say Goodbye	Black Moses	Enterprise	1971	LP	0:12:44 (Pop-up)

Johnny Mathis	Life Is a Song Worth Singing	I'm Coming Home	Columbia	1973	LP	0:18:35 (Pop-up)
Temptations	Papa Was a Rolling Stone	45RPM Single	Gordy	1972	45	0:24:19 (Pop-up)
Temptations	Masterpiece "Masterpiece" by "Temptations"	Masterpiece	Gordy	1971	LP	0:36:07 (Pop-up)
Temptations	Smiling Faces (Sometimes)	Sky's the Limit	Gordy	1973	LP	0:49:56 (Pop-up)

Sharon Jones and Lee Fields	Stranded In Your Love	Naturally	Daptone	2005	LP	1:07:33 (Pop-up)
Sarah Vaughan	That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be	A Time In My Life	Mainstream	1971	LP	1:13:10 (Pop-up)
Claudia Lennear	From A Whisper To A Scream	Phew	Warner Brothers	1973	LP	1:18:04 (Pop-up)
Tami Lynn	Love Affair Suite: Wings Upon Your Horns/Love Is Here And Now You're Gone/Can't Last Much Longer/That's Understanding	Love Is Here and Now You're Gone	Cotillion	1972	LP	1:21:00 (Pop-up)
Linda Divine	Cigarettes and Coffee	Sweet Linda Divine	Columbia	1969	LP	1:41:50 (Pop-up)
Lea Roberts	When Something Is Wrong With MyBaby	45RPM Single	Minit	1969	45	1:49:09 (Pop-up)
Dee Dee Sharp	I'm Not In Love "I'm Not In Love" by "Dee Dee Sharp"	Happy Bout The Whole Thing	TSOP	1975	LP	1:52:28 (Pop-up)
Lou Bond	That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be	Lou Bond	We Produce	1974	LP	1:57:35 (Pop-up)

Moses Dillard and the Tex Town Display	Got To Find A Way (To Hide My Hurt) Pts 1&2	45RPM Single	Curtom	1970	45	2:11:14 (Pop-up)
Holland/Dozier	Don't Leave Me Starvin' For Your Love	45RPM Single	Invictus	1972	45	2:18:58 (Pop-up)
Butterscotch	Something Has Got to Change Pts 1&2	45RPM Single	Renee	1973	45	2:24:37 (Pop-up)
New Birth	Make It With You "Make It With You" by "New Birth"	Ain't No Big Thing But It's Growing	RCA	1971	LP	2:32:30 (Pop-up)
Arthur Prysock	In the Rain "In the Rain" by "Arthur Prysock"	45RPM Single	Old Town	1973	45	2:35:21 (Pop-up)
Roosevelt Grier	People Make the World	45RPM Single	Amy	1968	45	2:39:58 (Pop-up)
Larry Bell and the Soul Pack	Experienced	45RPM Single	Philips	1969	45	2:42:08 (Pop-up)
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons	You're A Song I Can't Sing	Chameleon	Mowest	1972	LP	2:45:04 (Pop-up)
Carl Hall	You Don't Know Nothing About Love	45RPM Single	Loma	1968	45	2:48:08 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	LIke	1966	45	2:58:15 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 12:01pm WR: Bam!. Right on!
	12:01pm Phillippe: Larry, I thought you asked me to come early to help set up chairs?
	12:02pm βrian: I brought my own desk bell, if that's ok. ding
	🥁 12:02pm Yvang: Wedstify!
	12:02pm Funky16Corners: WR! Phillippe! Brian! Yvang!
	12:03pm Funky16Corners: Got a nice, mellow soul session planned for today, followed by the 4th Anniversary show tomorrow!
	12:04pm doctorjazz: Hi Larry and Testificationists!
	12:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	12:07pm listener Rey: Never Can Say No to Mo' Testify!
	12:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	12:09pm zzz: underrated grant green album. hey F16C and all peeps!
	12:09pm Funky16Corners: Whatup zzz?
	12:09pm Jeff Ash: Reporting for duty from Wisconsin. Here for Norman Whitfield.
	12:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	12:10pm Funky16Corners: One more! This one goes out to the ladies...
	12:12pm Funky16Corners: Is it legal to play make-out music like this in the afternoon?
	12:15pm Mark R: It's none of the government's goddamn business if we want to have sex in the afternoon. First they ban my Newports, now this!
	12:19pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mark! You have all the sex you want! To paraphrase the drinkers, it's always midnight somewhere.
	12:19pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - This is very Whitfield-adjacent, though it's 100% Thom Bell
	12:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Say Hayes Soul Survivors ! Thx for filling in ! Glad for a chance to hear this program - what with all the streams & things crowding the timeslots...
	12:23pm Funky16Corners: Hello there Revolution Rabbit Nov63! How does the day find you?
	12:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...well - I'd need AllenGinsberg to articulate it - but we're in a hurry...
	🥁 12:26pm WR: I like this so kuch better than any other Johnny Mathis record, and a quick look at discogs and don't see that it was on eithet album that was released around the same time. was hopping for an album of Thomas Bell produced Mathis. .
	12:26pm Funky16Corners: I heard a Ginsberg quote in a weird place this past week, and I'm trying to remember where. Maybe on a BBC mystery show...
	12:26pm Funky16Corners: @WR - There is! And there's a CD with extra stuff: www.discogs.com...
	12:27pm Funky16Corners: There's a nice version of Stone In Love With You
	12:27pm Funky16Corners: BTW, in case you hadn't heard it today, Norman Whitfield was a goddamned genius.
	🥁 12:29pm WR: Thanks, my bad, didn't scroll down far enough.
	12:29pm Funky16Corners: It kinds of falls through the cracks. I don't think he got any chart action with that album.
	12:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Temptations trax ! What can you say.
	12:32pm Funky16Corners: One of those rare times where a Number One hit is a genuine work of art.
	🥁 12:34pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry, and mellow osculators
	12:35pm Funky16Corners: Theo!
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: A window where an artistic underground & various other movements - like civil rights - & technological expansion - coincided with a boom in an industrial market...
	12:37pm Funky16Corners: It's not often that the mass market embraces authentic ART, and when it does it's usually by accident.
	12:38pm Funky16Corners: The way the rhythm guitar sneaks in on this track is something else
	12:38pm Hubig Pie: It's all about the bass.
	12:38pm Funky16Corners: Hubig Pie!
	12:38pm Funky16Corners: The Funk Brothers were a serious all-star team.
	12:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...some Motown Hits may be overexposed - but they were not fooling around !... Bass still kinda underrated in significance - as kind of a general statement...
	12:40pm Funky16Corners: The irony is, that despite the obvious greatness of his work. Whitfield was a major source of friction at Motown. He had to hit the charts to convince Gordy of his value, and the Temps were pissed at him for stuff like this, which were largely instrumental
	12:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: But isn't this a common tale ? Motown was this Motor City Hit Factory - & 'special editions' had to buck the assembly line... TheBeatles getting high coupled with white-coated British Empire engineers is a common analogy...
	12:42pm Funky16Corners: Though, it says something that if you look at the back cover of this album, there's a tiny pic of the Temps, and a huge pic of Whitfield www.discogs.com...
	12:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...unusually transparent...
	12:44pm Funky16Corners: @RRN63 - Yes indeed. A lot of the really visionary stuff at Motown happened in spite of the direction of the label. I was watching a rerun of the Ed Sullivan show and the Four Tops were doing this awful, supper club act and Gordy was all about that shit. Trying to sell his product to Mom and Dad, when the kids were his main audience
	12:45pm Funky16Corners: I mean, who the fuck needs to see the Supremes sing 'Mame' on Ed Sullivan?
	12:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - Ed was for the whole family... & he was the Big Time when there were like three channels... The Culture however was moving on...
	12:48pm Funky16Corners: True that. It's interesting, on that same album cover, ALL of the musicians get credit. Very unusual for a Motown album.
	12:50pm Hubig Pie: The local FM station played this when it was released. Back when FM radio was a bit more freeform and the commercials were locally produced for hippie food stores, record shops and the like
	12:51pm Funky16Corners: Crossing over into the "head" world
	12:54pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Larry.
	12:54pm TDK60: Hi Larry, all. The Temps.
	12:55pm Funky16Corners: Franco! TDK 60! Welcome!
	12:59pm TDK60: Hola Franco. I was just walking by our subway entrance and saw on a free library shelf there, a book about your town: City Of Quartz by Mike Davis. It's in good shape so I grabbed it. I'd heard it recommended.
	12:59pm Funky16Corners: Good book!
	🥁 1:00pm dutchtheo: 19:00 perfect cooking music Larry! and the other romantic stuff
	1:01pm Funky16Corners: Excellent!
	1:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Not for everybody : bestclassicbands.com... TDK I lived in SantaBarbara 16 years - & 'Quratz' rawked my head ! The relation of L.A. & Noir - that's ne thing. & putting the System above Humans & Habitation is another ! Relates to things both MarkHurst has touched on (what are Humans for ??) - & SheilaB, if she more in reference to NYC. But Gentriication & Corporatization ...as happened to FM radio. Yeah.
	1:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& typos for Type A's...
	1:05pm TDK60: Revrab63- thanks for the thought. I see Jimi H. in your avatar of the hour. // Yeah Larry, "Papa" was monumental.
	1:11pm TDK60: I know a fellow who drummed with Sharon J. some. Not on this album.
	1:15pm Webhamster Henry: Sarah Vaughan is doing a good job here!
	1:16pm Funky16Corners: Hey Henry! Yeah, she did some great contemporary stuff for Mainstream in the early 70s
	1:22pm Funky16Corners: This album is amazing and not nearly well-known enough
	1:29pm Funky16Corners: www.discogs.com...
	1:30pm Funky16Corners: BTW, that's Tami in the pic at the top of the playlist
	1:35pm Franco Twinkie: TDK@12:59 City of Quartz is a knowing unravel and examination of the sprawling mess that is Los Angeles. A lot has happened since the book came out, but it still happens to be the go-to book if you want to understand this place.
	1:37pm TDK60: Franco. Yes, it's from 1990, a while now but I figure it's still relevant. Plus, I have you & Chresti for on-the-ground (or in-the-skies) reporting!
	1:39pm Franco Twinkie: Where do you live?
	1:41pm TDK60: I live in Washington Heights, Manhattan, NYC. 11 years. Before, several other states --south, north, west.
	1:43pm Franco Twinkie: Okay, you know something about living in a house of mirrors.
	1:43pm Andres: Hi, Larry! Sounding great! +1 for City of Quartz! Great book. Before I ever visited LA it helped give a story and a sense of place to what was allegedly a placeless city, a place beyond what is depicted in television and movies.
	1:44pm Funky16Corners: Hi Andres!
	1:45pm TDK60: Also, I learn from other sources, like musicians. As in Ry Cooder's Chávez Ravine album. Zappa, etc!
	1:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I don't remember the title of the more recent book about the gentrification of NYC SheilaB was talking about... Yes ! 'Quartz' has historical perspective too - the roots of the thing... Lynch I think illuminates this quality of SoCal in another way.
	1:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (Movies.)
	1:48pm Franco Twinkie: This is a complicated place by any measure. I have the perspective of a native who's lived here their entire life, and there's still things I have trouble comprehending.
	1:48pm Funky16Corners: The last time I watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, there was the scene where Brad Pitt picks up the hitchhiker, and made mention of where she was trying to go (Spahn Ranch) so I looked it up on a map and I was surprised how spread out LA is. Places that I assumed were right next to each other were a long drive away
	1:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The West is Horizontal. ...Does anyone know exactly where L.A. begins & ends & what's included ??... Obvious thing of our little NewEngland traps are built around Old World cemeteries - but L.A. is a Highway...
	1:53pm TDK60: I had the privilege of performing "Something Is Wrong" in a band I played in once, way back.
	1:53pm Franco Twinkie: My only complaint against Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was the soundtrack. By using airchecks from KHJ, Tarintino missed the chance of a life time. In 1969 there were much better radio stations to plunder to create a sense of place.
	1:54pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Great, great song
	1:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Franco: Ironic since he's supposedly famous for starting there...
	1:55pm Andres: I love the original of this. This Dee Dee Sharp is making me swoon! So good!
	1:55pm Franco Twinkie: True that, but he was a little kid when all that shit went down.
	1:55pm Webhamster Henry: This show is a reminder that "cover" originally was the term applied to taking a song from one recording market to another.
	1:56pm Funky16Corners: @Andres - I have another great cover by Richie Havens
	1:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Franco: By 'there' I mean - Soundtrack! But yeah... Webhenry good point.
	2:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Art of Quiet Storm (what a fabulous term btw)... Lush but sparing... Where do you even begin to coordinate such an Arrangement & Production with Singer & Strings & all ?? I'd have no idea !!...
	2:03pm Funky16Corners: This record was done in Memphis with members of the local symphony.
	2:12pm TDK60: Small world dept: A longtime pal and former bandmate of mine was earlier in Loading Zone w/Linda Tillery (Divine).
	2:12pm Funky16Corners: No kidding? That's great album.
	2:18pm TDK60: Very cool those few seconds of slower beat.
	2:19pm Funky16Corners: That's an amazing 45.
	2:28pm Funky16Corners: A weird one, in that the b-side is almost a minute longer than the A
	2:40pm Funky16Corners: Written about his friend, the recently assassinated Bobby Kennedy
	2:42pm TDK60: That was heavy.
	2:43pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, Rosey had some great 45s, mostly recorded in Memphis.
	2:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Andrew Sandoval had an episode of Come to the Sunshine spotlighting the Four Seasons' psychedelic album !
	2:48pm TDK60: Small world dept #321: I knew one of Frankie V.'s daughters.
	2:48pm Funky16Corners: There are some cool songs (written or cowritten by Jake Holmes) on that record
	2:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: wfmu.org...
	2:55pm doctorjazz: Thanks Larry!
	2:56pm TDK60: How fine to have stopped by unplanned, DJ Larry.
	2:57pm Andres: Thank you, Larry! Great selections today!
	2:58pm Franco Twinkie: A man ahead of this time, Rosy Grear was known to be fond of knitting I seem to remember. Thanks Larry.
	2:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks all!
	2:58pm Funky16Corners: Franco, NEEDLEPOINT!
	🥁 2:58pm Yvang: Thank you, Larry!
	2:59pm Franco Twinkie: I stand corrected.
	🥁 2:59pm David Shortell: Rosie was right there when Bobby was shot, right? There's no film of it, just audio: www.youtube.com...
	2:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks guys! @David, yes
	3:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY ! A great sojourn where I haven't been overfamiliar !
	3:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 12, 2021

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