WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from December 11, 2019

Listener comments!
	9:56pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Larry! Feel bad that I encouraged Randy to listen to Kris last night forgetting he was taking it off.
	9:57pm Matt from New Orleans: All those snowy pics make me happy that I moved here
	9:57pm Funky16Corners: I'm sure he figured it out.
	9:58pm Funky16Corners: It snowed most of the day today but no real accumulation
	9:58pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m sure.
	9:59pm Funky16Corners: It was 60 degrees yesterday
	10:00pm Matt from New Orleans: Weather patterns are weird all over
	10:01pm Jeff Ash: 5 degrees in Green Bay with a winter weather advisory at the moment, Matt.
	10:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:01pm Matt from New Orleans: Sounds delightful Jeff
	10:03pm Erica: Well I'm here Testifiers!
	10:03pm Jeff Ash: At least the wind is calm, so no below-zero wind chill. We got that going for us!
	10:03pm fleep: Nipping at your nose greetings, Larry, Matt, Jeff, Erica.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Erica!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Fleep!
	10:04pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Larry and The Snow Patrol.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	10:05pm Dean: A chilly 56 in Berkeley.
	10:06pm TDK60: Hello. It's been a colder than usual November~into~December in NYC.
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Dean!
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: TDK60!
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: BTW, this is THAT Peter Allen, AKA Mr Liza Minnelli
	10:08pm Doug Schulkind: Funky16Corners, once again, doing something very right.
	10:09pm Matt from New Orleans: Is this musical content tied to the show name?
	10:09pm chresti: We're in the upper fifties here...no nose nipping yet
	10:09pm Franco Twinkie: I can stand on my front porch in a tee shirt drinking coffee and see the snow on Mount Wilson where all the transmitters are.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug! I opened the show with a Doug Schulkind special!
	10:09pm Little Danny: Hey all Man I love this Gordian Knot track
	10:09pm Mod Mokka Matti: Guten Abend. Finally got through with work so I could tune in.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - No theme, just a vibe (of sorts)
	10:09pm Erica: Is that the same Peter Allen from Australia?
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Little Danny! MMM!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Yes indeed
	10:10pm Erica: Also what do these sunshine pop songs have to do with winter? I don't hear the connection yet.
	10:11pm Matt from New Orleans: I though of you earlier Danny when I was listening to an all Ethiopian show off of original vinyl dug in Ethiopia
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: See my comment above...Just a vibe...coolness in all its forms
	10:12pm Doug Schulkind: I missed the opener. Just got back from the Mr. Rogers movie. Weird watching it in a theater situated about two minutes from where Rogers lived. He's like a saint in Pittsburgh.
	10:13pm Franco Twinkie: This music makes me want an ice cream soda.
	10:13pm Little Danny: I'm guessing there will be more harpsichord and chimes to come this evening. Great theme, love an icy pop production
	10:13pm Erica: Ah so it's an atmospheric thing eh Larry?
	10:13pm TDK60: Doug, which part of Pburgh ya in?
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - He's a saint everywhere!
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Yes
	10:14pm Doug Schulkind: @TDK60 The Hill of Squirrels. About two blocks from Jerry's Records.
	10:15pm Doug Schulkind: Love that Guild track, Larry. Such delightfully cheesy saxophone noodling.
	10:16pm TDK60: Doug -ah, Jerry's still there..
	10:16pm Funky16Corners: Pure pop bliss
	10:16pm Doug Schulkind: @TDK60 Jerry finally sold the place. To one of his long-time employees.
	10:18pm Erica: I wouldn't be surprised to hear the Association on here or (ironically) "A Summer Song".
	10:18pm TDK60: Are you a longtime Pburgh person?
	10:19pm Little Danny: Haha, glad you connect Ethiopian music with me, Matt!
	10:20pm Matt from New Orleans: You were playing those Ethiopiques comps regularly for a while
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: I bought this 45 in Pittsburgh!
	10:22pm Doug Schulkind: @TDK60 Moved to Pittsburgh in 2010. Feels like yesterday.
	10:22pm Erica: Toast & Marmalade for Tea. Yum!
	10:22pm chresti: Ah..marmalade!
	10:23pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	10:23pm Erica: I think I heard this once before. Hi chresti!
	10:24pm chresti: How many marmalade songs are there, you think?
	10:24pm TDK60: Doug: Is Eide's records still there? Did you know Stedeford's records on the North Side? Specialties: soul, R&B, jazz, blues, rock. Gone now.
	10:24pm Franco Twinkie: Not exactly marmalade, bur yesterday I made french toast topped with gauva sugar glop.
	10:26pm Matt from New Orleans: What is guava sugar glop Franco? Sounds like it would taste good even with the glop descriptor.
	10:26pm Little Danny: Dude I'm eating a piece of buttered toast with guava compote right now. Great minds!
	10:28pm Dean: I'm baking little balls of potato gratin, sauteeing spinach with garlic, and preparing to fry breaded pork chops. There is butter aplenty.
	10:28pm Franco Twinkie: I saw Peter Allen opening for The Tubes in 1975. He wore a sparkly jacket and banged on a piano in an Elton John kind of fashion.
	10:29pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry the only Sugar Beats I found is a kids oriented band created by the daughter of Carole King and Gerry Goffin
	10:29pm Little Danny: Whoa this Crib and Ben!
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: @FRanco - That sounds about right!
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - This is a much earlier thing
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Yeah, isn't this good?
	10:30pm Erica: Steve Kipner AKA Knock the Walls Down? Wow Peter Allen and Steve Kipner, two future 'yacht rock' artists in one hour.
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Kipner wrote some other big songs for other people. None of them are coming to mind right now...
	10:31pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m well aware. I was completely unaware of her efforts as we never listened to much kids music when I was a kid.
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Didn't you write about these guys at some point?
	10:32pm Erica: He also had a solo album in 1979 called (as mentioned above) Knock the Walls Down. If you like that late 70s early 80s soft rock/AOR sound, it's worth checking out.
	10:33pm Franco Twinkie: Okay Danny, if I was more articulate I would have gone with compote. Matt, my Cambodian neighbor gave me a big bag of guavas from his backyard. I ran them though a sieve, added sugar and lemon and cooked in a pot. Viola! Guava sugar glop.
	10:34pm TDK60: nice Simon & Garfunkel cover, Cloudy.
	10:35pm Little Danny: @Larry: Yep! Spent some nice time with the lead singer of the Guild Light Gauge and the Collection
	10:35pm Little Danny: You're really playing some of my dark sunshine pop faves tonight
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Kipner wrote Physical for Olivia Newton John, A Hard Habit to Break for Chicago and Genie In a Bottle for Christina Aguilera!
	10:36pm Erica: Honestly I feel more of a spring vibe rather than a winter vibe hearing this show. Maybe it's just me.
	10:37pm Erica: Yes Larry and those are awesome tunes. Hard Habit to Break was featured at reoccurring times in the sitcom "Yes Dear". Haha!
	10:37pm TDK60: Erica, it's the kind of music we can listen to here by the fire on a cold winter night, have some cheese fondue, then hot chocolate.
	10:38pm Funky16Corners: Mmmmm, now I want fondue...
	10:38pm Erica: For me, that's new age and smooth jazz TDK60.
	🥁 10:38pm WR: Songs for cup of cocoa sitting near the fireplace or more likely near the warm computer and screen.
	10:39pm ParUbi: hey guys
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: WR! ParUbi!
	10:39pm Franco Twinkie: Well, since I don't usually don't have much interaction with snow, I will transpose this music to driving down Pacific Coast Highway. Works for me!
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: @WR - Warming your hands over the USB port
	10:40pm Little Danny: Yeah it's funny these songs all strike me as wintry and cool too
	🥁 10:41pm WR: I will now forever associate these songs with guava sugar glop.
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: Someone had better start a band called Guava Sugar Glop
	10:41pm Little Danny: Betting on "Snow Queen" and "Our Winter Love" this evenin'
	10:42pm TDK60: ..great Lightfoot recording.
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: Not tonight, but both good suggestions, but which version of Snow Queen?
	10:43pm Little Danny: Roger Nichols I was thinking but also that early Carole King production
	10:43pm TDK60: ..and a Colliins one too.
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: The City?
	10:44pm Little Danny: Yes, thanks, that's the group!
	10:45pm Funky16Corners: I have a couple of their 45s. Still looking for the album
	10:45pm Franco Twinkie: I myself am betting on Cold Rain and Snow. Obray Ramsey or The Grateful Dead. Makes no nevermind to me.
	10:46pm TDK60: Wildflowers is quite an album, me feels.
	10:46pm chresti: My mom liked Joan Baez
	10:46pm Matt from New Orleans: Judy Collins always gets me thinking of send in the clowns which gets me thinking of Krusty gets Kancelled
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Really good album, kind of her transitioning into a more modern vibe
	10:47pm Little Danny: @Matt: Classic Simpsons ep, even the celebrity cameos were good
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - Send in the clowns, those laffy daffy cloawns, those soulful, doleful, schmaltz by the bowlful clowns...
	10:48pm Erica: Just don't send in Pennywise. Haha!
	10:51pm Erica: Speaking of clowns Larry, ever thought of doing a show about songs titled or mentioning clowns?
	10:51pm Matt from New Orleans: When I read It in fifth grade, I didn’t sleep well for quite some time. I already was creeped out by clowns due to my aunt’s porcelain doll/clowns collection.
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: That's an idea! I'll look into it.
	10:53pm Erica: I once purposely destroyed a clown doll as a kid, thinking it was something else. I look back and wish that I hadn't done that but then again my mom is afraid of clowns.
	10:54pm TDK60: this has a Tim Buckley feel, coincidence?
	10:55pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m not afraid of clowns just find them creepy in a more Gahan Wilson way
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: Interesting you should say that, TDK, hang in to the break
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: I'm sure Freud or Jung must have written something about clowns.
	10:57pm Little Danny: Man so much goodness in this set, Larry
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Danny!
	10:59pm Little Danny: I feel like clown-phobia is a fairly recent thing. The "creepy clown" wasn't a motif yet when I was a little kid. As far as I know.
	11:01pm Little Danny: That sounded for a second like Vinnie Bell on guitar
	11:02pm chresti: I was afraid of clowns, I thought their skin was poison and that they wanted to electrocute me with their hands.
	11:03pm Erica: Yeah clowns don't scare me for some reason. They're just people wearing face paint. red noses and goofy looking outfits and colorful hair.
	11:04pm Little Danny: Love the specificity of your terror, chresti
	11:04pm ParUbi: I don't get the fear of clowns. Mimes, on the other hand...
	11:05pm Erica: Mimes are just silent, colorless clowns who do invisible tricks.
	11:05pm Little Danny: Some deep knowledge being dropped in this mic break
	11:06pm Little Danny: Hahaha, Erica, that IS terrifying, actually
	11:06pm ParUbi: :O
	11:07pm chresti: The electrocution fear came from seeing a clown zapping kids with a buzzer, whenever you shook his hand
	11:07pm Erica: Only if the mime throws an invisible anvil on your head Danny. Haha!
	11:08pm Little Danny: Mercifully blocked by the walls of my invisible box, Erica
	11:09pm chresti: they shook his hand I was about 3.
	11:09pm Doug Schulkind: @TDK60 at 10:24 Eide's and Stedeford's are before my time.
	11:10pm TDK60: ..as a kid I was squirted in the face by a clown at the circus. He had a fake watermelon that squirted water. I thought it was funny.
	11:11pm Franco Twinkie: Erica, when my sister and I were kids, my mom took us to see Bozo at a local shopping center. This must have been an new recruit in the Bozo franchise because he was a total prick who started slapping the kids who mobbed him when he was trying to blow up balloons. After that, my sister didn't want to marry Bozo anymore.
	11:13pm chresti: Also, around that time, there was a terrifying PSA on TV, that involved a sinister looking clown on a staircase.
	11:13pm TDK60: ..there was also the sad hobo clown type.
	11:14pm Little Danny: Love the wintry wind wordless vocal chorus on that Mickey Newbury. BRRRR
	11:14pm Franco Twinkie: Emmit Kelly
	11:14pm Funky16Corners: That Newbury album is amazing. An odd but beautiful mix of alt-country sounds with almost psychedelic sound effects on the songs.
	11:14pm Erica: Not if the invisible anvil breaks your box Danny. Also, Franco that's just mean. I'm surprised that Bozo (pun intended) didn't get in trouble for laying a hand on those kids.
	11:15pm Little Danny: I need to hear that, Franco
	11:15pm chresti: Hobo Kelly, I was not afraid of that one
	11:16pm Erica: Ooh very smooth and yachty. Gonna look up this Lowell George song.
	11:16pm Franco Twinkie: That was the early 60's, Erica. It was okay to hit other peoples kids back then.
	11:17pm Matt from New Orleans: Was this recorded near Lowell’s death?
	11:17pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - It's on his only solo album
	11:17pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - Same year
	11:18pm Erica: Nowadays Franco, you'd be seen as a crazy person doing that today.
	11:18pm Little Danny: @Larry: Do you know Jan & Lorraine's LP on ABC entitled 'Gypsy People'?
	11:19pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I've heard of it but don't have it
	11:20pm Little Danny: It's really good and has this vibe written all over it, you'd dig it the most, man!
	11:20pm Matt from New Orleans: I have a bootleg of the bootleg cd of that album Danny
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: I'll look for it. English?
	11:21pm Little Danny: I could listen to Dion sing anything. Same for Ricky Nelson.
	11:22pm Little Danny: Matt: It's good amirite?
	11:23pm Franco Twinkie: On the inner sleeve of Thank, I'll Eat It Here is a great photo of Lowell George looking like a rumpled mess, holding up a big bunch of sea weed dangling from a fishing pole.
	11:23pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry would definitely like it. I haven’t listened to it in a bit but remember enjoying it stoned
	11:24pm Little Danny: Recorded in the UK but I believe a Detroit-area duo. And only released in this country.
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to look for a CD. The album is really expensive
	11:26pm Little Danny: It's come down in price a lot, a little patience can net one a $20 copy
	11:26pm Matt from New Orleans: I’ll see if I can find it when I’m up in NY in two week. If I find it, I’ll mail it to you.
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Matt!
	11:28pm Matt from New Orleans: It’s also on YouTube if you get curious
	11:34pm Little Danny: Another gem that's brand new to me, this Patrick Sky. Talk about your unfortunate album covers, though.
	11:34pm doctorjazz: Here for the home stretch, hi all!
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Yeah, if I hadn't already known of him I probably would have gone right past it
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	11:36pm Little Danny: Is the rest of the album THIS good? This is amazing
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: Yes, with a few weird exceptions
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: The opening track is a weird half-hearted attempt at a Lovin Spoonful thing and he also does a cool (but incongruous) version of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Modern Major General'
	11:39pm Matt from New Orleans: Is that tabla?
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: It is
	11:40pm Little Danny: Old-timey Gilbert and Sullivan antics definitely killed some psych-pop and sunshine pop album sides back in the late '60s.
	11:41pm Matt from New Orleans: This is a solid cover
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: He does it with a banjo. It's pretty cool.
	11:42pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - This is a cool album. Norman Whitfield production
	11:42pm Jeff Ash: Well, I did not expect Rare Earth, but I love it!
	11:42pm northguineahills: Dug Patrick Sky, somehow missed his work before. Was half asleep, time to go fully asleep. Thanks Larry!
	11:43pm doctorjazz: That Patrick Sky album is very available on Discogs, not expensive...
	11:43pm Erica: Hiya Jeff!
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: I think you turned me on to this album, Jeff
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	11:44pm Jeff Ash: If so, great! I gotta get around to listening and writing about Rare Earth's debut album from 1968 on Verve, which I had never seen until I picked it up a while back.
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: I had no idea that album existed for years. I'm still looking for a copy
	11:45pm Matt from New Orleans: This album apparently got released in Mozambique
	11:46pm Jeff Ash: Ma is a record you don't often see, either.
	11:48pm Matt from New Orleans: It got released all over the world Jeff. I didn’t realize Rare Earth was so popular internationally
	11:49pm northguineahills: Is Boudewijn de Groot, Flemish?
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: Dutch
	11:50pm Erica: Close enough Larry.
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Ah, turns out Flemish is a variant of Dutch, spoken in Flanders/Belgium
	11:53pm Little Danny: Fantastic show tonight Larry. So vibe-y!
	11:54pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Danny!
	11:55pm Erica: Very laid back indeed Danny.
	11:55pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry. This is not the type of music I generally would choose to listen to but I enjoyed the show.
	11:56pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry!
	11:58pm Erica: Thanks for the show Larry!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks everyone!
	12:16pm Marie: Beauteous! Thanks, Larry--perfect listening for the last day of fall.
	12:20pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Marie!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from December 11, 2019

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Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Guild	The Sun Shines For You "The Sun Shines For You" by "The Guild"	45RPM Single	Twinight	1969	45	0:01:11 (Pop-up)
Chris and Peter Allen	My Silent Symphony	Album #1	Mercury	1968	LP	0:04:25 (Pop-up)
The Gordian Knot	We Must Be Doing Something Right	The Gordian Knot	Verve	1968	LP	0:06:55 (Pop-up)
Sugar Beats	Begin-Give In "Begin-Give In" by "Sugar Beats"	45RPM Single	A&M	1966	45	0:09:41 (Pop-up)
Jim Valley	Invitation "Invitation" by "Jim Valley"	45RPM Single	Dunhill	1967	45	0:11:34 (Pop-up)
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart	For Baby	Test Patterns	A&M	1967	LP	0:14:04 (Pop-up)
The Banned	Goodbye Groovy Goodbye	45RPM Single	Fontana	1968	45	0:17:47 (Pop-up)
Tin Tin	Toast and Marmalade For Tea	Tin Tin	Atco	1970	LP	0:20:26 (Pop-up)

Crib and Ben	Emily "Emily" by "Crib and Ben"	45RPM Single	Decca	1968	45	0:27:00 (Pop-up)
Guild Light Gauge	Cloudy "Cloudy" by "Guild Light Gauge"	45RPM Single	We Make Rock 'N Roll Records	1968	45	0:30:05 (Pop-up)
Triste Janiero	In the Garden "In the Garden" by "Triste Janiero"	45RPM Single	GPC	1969	45	0:32:43 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	For Lovin' Me "For Lovin' Me" by "Gordon Lightfoot"	Lightfoot	UA	1966	LP	0:35:24 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	The Way I Feel "The Way I Feel" by "Gordon Lightfoot"	Lightfoot	UA	1966	LP	0:37:49 (Pop-up)
Judy Collins	Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye	Wildflowers	Elektra	1967	LP	0:41:31 (Pop-up)
Steve Noonan	Buy For Me the Rain "Buy For Me the Rain" by "Steve Noonan"	Steve Noonan	Elektra	1968	LP	0:45:01 (Pop-up)
Steve Noonan	Leaning Back and Laughing	Steve Noonan	Elektra	1968	LP	0:47:41 (Pop-up)
Steve Noonan	Shadow Dream Song "Shadow Dream Song" by "Steve Noonan"	Steve Noonan	Elektra	1968	LP	0:51:24 (Pop-up)
Jim and Jean	Time Goes Backwards "Time Goes Backwards" by "Jim and Jean"	People World	Verve	1968	LP	0:54:33 (Pop-up)
Jim and Jean	What's That Got To Do With Me	People World	Verve	1968	LP	0:57:32 (Pop-up)

Mickey Newbury	Write a Song a Song/Angeline	Looks Like Rain	Mercury	1968	LP	1:05:21 (Pop-up)
Lowell George	Find a River "Find a River" by "Lowell George"	Thanks, I'll Eat It Here	Warner Brothers	1979	LP	1:12:27 (Pop-up)
Bert Jansch	Poison "Poison" by "Bert Jansch"	Birthday Blues	Transatlantic	1969	LP	1:16:04 (Pop-up)
Dion	Tomorrow Is a Long Time "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" by "Dion"	Dion	Laurie	1968	LP	1:19:13 (Pop-up)
David Ackles	That's No Reason To Cry	Subway To the Country	Elektra	1969	LP	1:22:50 (Pop-up)
David Ackles	Woman River "Woman River" by "David Ackles"	Subway To the Country	Elektra	1969	LP	1:26:00 (Pop-up)
Patrick Sky	Children's Song "Children's Song" by "Patrick Sky"	Reality Is Bad Enough	Verve Forecast	1968	LP	1:30:26 (Pop-up)
Patrick Sky	The Dance of Death "The Dance of Death" by "Patrick Sky"	Reality Is Bad Enough	Verve Forecast	1968	LP	1:33:02 (Pop-up)
Patrick Sky	Follow the Longhaired Lady	Reality Is Bad Enough	Verve Forecast	1968	LP	1:36:22 (Pop-up)
Rare Earth	Smiling Faces (Sometimes)	Ma	Rare Earth	1973	LP	1:39:14 (Pop-up)
Boudewijn de Groot	Aeneas Nu "Aeneas Nu" by "Boudewijn de Groot"	Nacht En Ontij	Decca	1968	LP	1:45:07 (Pop-up)
Keef James	Somewhere "Somewhere" by "Keef James"	One Tree Or Another	Rare Earth	1972	LP	1:48:58 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:59:12 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:56pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Larry! Feel bad that I encouraged Randy to listen to Kris last night forgetting he was taking it off.
	9:57pm Matt from New Orleans: All those snowy pics make me happy that I moved here
	9:57pm Funky16Corners: I'm sure he figured it out.
	9:58pm Funky16Corners: It snowed most of the day today but no real accumulation
	9:58pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m sure.
	9:59pm Funky16Corners: It was 60 degrees yesterday
	10:00pm Matt from New Orleans: Weather patterns are weird all over
	10:01pm Jeff Ash: 5 degrees in Green Bay with a winter weather advisory at the moment, Matt.
	10:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:01pm Matt from New Orleans: Sounds delightful Jeff
	10:03pm Erica: Well I'm here Testifiers!
	10:03pm Jeff Ash: At least the wind is calm, so no below-zero wind chill. We got that going for us!
	10:03pm fleep: Nipping at your nose greetings, Larry, Matt, Jeff, Erica.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Erica!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Fleep!
	10:04pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Larry and The Snow Patrol.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Franco!
	10:05pm Dean: A chilly 56 in Berkeley.
	10:06pm TDK60: Hello. It's been a colder than usual November~into~December in NYC.
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Dean!
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: TDK60!
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: BTW, this is THAT Peter Allen, AKA Mr Liza Minnelli
	10:08pm Doug Schulkind: Funky16Corners, once again, doing something very right.
	10:09pm Matt from New Orleans: Is this musical content tied to the show name?
	10:09pm chresti: We're in the upper fifties here...no nose nipping yet
	10:09pm Franco Twinkie: I can stand on my front porch in a tee shirt drinking coffee and see the snow on Mount Wilson where all the transmitters are.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug! I opened the show with a Doug Schulkind special!
	10:09pm Little Danny: Hey all Man I love this Gordian Knot track
	10:09pm Mod Mokka Matti: Guten Abend. Finally got through with work so I could tune in.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - No theme, just a vibe (of sorts)
	10:09pm Erica: Is that the same Peter Allen from Australia?
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Little Danny! MMM!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Yes indeed
	10:10pm Erica: Also what do these sunshine pop songs have to do with winter? I don't hear the connection yet.
	10:11pm Matt from New Orleans: I though of you earlier Danny when I was listening to an all Ethiopian show off of original vinyl dug in Ethiopia
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: See my comment above...Just a vibe...coolness in all its forms
	10:12pm Doug Schulkind: I missed the opener. Just got back from the Mr. Rogers movie. Weird watching it in a theater situated about two minutes from where Rogers lived. He's like a saint in Pittsburgh.
	10:13pm Franco Twinkie: This music makes me want an ice cream soda.
	10:13pm Little Danny: I'm guessing there will be more harpsichord and chimes to come this evening. Great theme, love an icy pop production
	10:13pm Erica: Ah so it's an atmospheric thing eh Larry?
	10:13pm TDK60: Doug, which part of Pburgh ya in?
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - He's a saint everywhere!
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Yes
	10:14pm Doug Schulkind: @TDK60 The Hill of Squirrels. About two blocks from Jerry's Records.
	10:15pm Doug Schulkind: Love that Guild track, Larry. Such delightfully cheesy saxophone noodling.
	10:16pm TDK60: Doug -ah, Jerry's still there..
	10:16pm Funky16Corners: Pure pop bliss
	10:16pm Doug Schulkind: @TDK60 Jerry finally sold the place. To one of his long-time employees.
	10:18pm Erica: I wouldn't be surprised to hear the Association on here or (ironically) "A Summer Song".
	10:18pm TDK60: Are you a longtime Pburgh person?
	10:19pm Little Danny: Haha, glad you connect Ethiopian music with me, Matt!
	10:20pm Matt from New Orleans: You were playing those Ethiopiques comps regularly for a while
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: I bought this 45 in Pittsburgh!
	10:22pm Doug Schulkind: @TDK60 Moved to Pittsburgh in 2010. Feels like yesterday.
	10:22pm Erica: Toast & Marmalade for Tea. Yum!
	10:22pm chresti: Ah..marmalade!
	10:23pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	10:23pm Erica: I think I heard this once before. Hi chresti!
	10:24pm chresti: How many marmalade songs are there, you think?
	10:24pm TDK60: Doug: Is Eide's records still there? Did you know Stedeford's records on the North Side? Specialties: soul, R&B, jazz, blues, rock. Gone now.
	10:24pm Franco Twinkie: Not exactly marmalade, bur yesterday I made french toast topped with gauva sugar glop.
	10:26pm Matt from New Orleans: What is guava sugar glop Franco? Sounds like it would taste good even with the glop descriptor.
	10:26pm Little Danny: Dude I'm eating a piece of buttered toast with guava compote right now. Great minds!
	10:28pm Dean: I'm baking little balls of potato gratin, sauteeing spinach with garlic, and preparing to fry breaded pork chops. There is butter aplenty.
	10:28pm Franco Twinkie: I saw Peter Allen opening for The Tubes in 1975. He wore a sparkly jacket and banged on a piano in an Elton John kind of fashion.
	10:29pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry the only Sugar Beats I found is a kids oriented band created by the daughter of Carole King and Gerry Goffin
	10:29pm Little Danny: Whoa this Crib and Ben!
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: @FRanco - That sounds about right!
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - This is a much earlier thing
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Yeah, isn't this good?
	10:30pm Erica: Steve Kipner AKA Knock the Walls Down? Wow Peter Allen and Steve Kipner, two future 'yacht rock' artists in one hour.
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Kipner wrote some other big songs for other people. None of them are coming to mind right now...
	10:31pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m well aware. I was completely unaware of her efforts as we never listened to much kids music when I was a kid.
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Didn't you write about these guys at some point?
	10:32pm Erica: He also had a solo album in 1979 called (as mentioned above) Knock the Walls Down. If you like that late 70s early 80s soft rock/AOR sound, it's worth checking out.
	10:33pm Franco Twinkie: Okay Danny, if I was more articulate I would have gone with compote. Matt, my Cambodian neighbor gave me a big bag of guavas from his backyard. I ran them though a sieve, added sugar and lemon and cooked in a pot. Viola! Guava sugar glop.
	10:34pm TDK60: nice Simon & Garfunkel cover, Cloudy.
	10:35pm Little Danny: @Larry: Yep! Spent some nice time with the lead singer of the Guild Light Gauge and the Collection
	10:35pm Little Danny: You're really playing some of my dark sunshine pop faves tonight
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Kipner wrote Physical for Olivia Newton John, A Hard Habit to Break for Chicago and Genie In a Bottle for Christina Aguilera!
	10:36pm Erica: Honestly I feel more of a spring vibe rather than a winter vibe hearing this show. Maybe it's just me.
	10:37pm Erica: Yes Larry and those are awesome tunes. Hard Habit to Break was featured at reoccurring times in the sitcom "Yes Dear". Haha!
	10:37pm TDK60: Erica, it's the kind of music we can listen to here by the fire on a cold winter night, have some cheese fondue, then hot chocolate.
	10:38pm Funky16Corners: Mmmmm, now I want fondue...
	10:38pm Erica: For me, that's new age and smooth jazz TDK60.
	🥁 10:38pm WR: Songs for cup of cocoa sitting near the fireplace or more likely near the warm computer and screen.
	10:39pm ParUbi: hey guys
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: WR! ParUbi!
	10:39pm Franco Twinkie: Well, since I don't usually don't have much interaction with snow, I will transpose this music to driving down Pacific Coast Highway. Works for me!
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: @WR - Warming your hands over the USB port
	10:40pm Little Danny: Yeah it's funny these songs all strike me as wintry and cool too
	🥁 10:41pm WR: I will now forever associate these songs with guava sugar glop.
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: Someone had better start a band called Guava Sugar Glop
	10:41pm Little Danny: Betting on "Snow Queen" and "Our Winter Love" this evenin'
	10:42pm TDK60: ..great Lightfoot recording.
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: Not tonight, but both good suggestions, but which version of Snow Queen?
	10:43pm Little Danny: Roger Nichols I was thinking but also that early Carole King production
	10:43pm TDK60: ..and a Colliins one too.
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: The City?
	10:44pm Little Danny: Yes, thanks, that's the group!
	10:45pm Funky16Corners: I have a couple of their 45s. Still looking for the album
	10:45pm Franco Twinkie: I myself am betting on Cold Rain and Snow. Obray Ramsey or The Grateful Dead. Makes no nevermind to me.
	10:46pm TDK60: Wildflowers is quite an album, me feels.
	10:46pm chresti: My mom liked Joan Baez
	10:46pm Matt from New Orleans: Judy Collins always gets me thinking of send in the clowns which gets me thinking of Krusty gets Kancelled
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Really good album, kind of her transitioning into a more modern vibe
	10:47pm Little Danny: @Matt: Classic Simpsons ep, even the celebrity cameos were good
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - Send in the clowns, those laffy daffy cloawns, those soulful, doleful, schmaltz by the bowlful clowns...
	10:48pm Erica: Just don't send in Pennywise. Haha!
	10:51pm Erica: Speaking of clowns Larry, ever thought of doing a show about songs titled or mentioning clowns?
	10:51pm Matt from New Orleans: When I read It in fifth grade, I didn’t sleep well for quite some time. I already was creeped out by clowns due to my aunt’s porcelain doll/clowns collection.
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: That's an idea! I'll look into it.
	10:53pm Erica: I once purposely destroyed a clown doll as a kid, thinking it was something else. I look back and wish that I hadn't done that but then again my mom is afraid of clowns.
	10:54pm TDK60: this has a Tim Buckley feel, coincidence?
	10:55pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m not afraid of clowns just find them creepy in a more Gahan Wilson way
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: Interesting you should say that, TDK, hang in to the break
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: I'm sure Freud or Jung must have written something about clowns.
	10:57pm Little Danny: Man so much goodness in this set, Larry
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Danny!
	10:59pm Little Danny: I feel like clown-phobia is a fairly recent thing. The "creepy clown" wasn't a motif yet when I was a little kid. As far as I know.
	11:01pm Little Danny: That sounded for a second like Vinnie Bell on guitar
	11:02pm chresti: I was afraid of clowns, I thought their skin was poison and that they wanted to electrocute me with their hands.
	11:03pm Erica: Yeah clowns don't scare me for some reason. They're just people wearing face paint. red noses and goofy looking outfits and colorful hair.
	11:04pm Little Danny: Love the specificity of your terror, chresti
	11:04pm ParUbi: I don't get the fear of clowns. Mimes, on the other hand...
	11:05pm Erica: Mimes are just silent, colorless clowns who do invisible tricks.
	11:05pm Little Danny: Some deep knowledge being dropped in this mic break
	11:06pm Little Danny: Hahaha, Erica, that IS terrifying, actually
	11:06pm ParUbi: :O
	11:07pm chresti: The electrocution fear came from seeing a clown zapping kids with a buzzer, whenever you shook his hand
	11:07pm Erica: Only if the mime throws an invisible anvil on your head Danny. Haha!
	11:08pm Little Danny: Mercifully blocked by the walls of my invisible box, Erica
	11:09pm chresti: they shook his hand I was about 3.
	11:09pm Doug Schulkind: @TDK60 at 10:24 Eide's and Stedeford's are before my time.
	11:10pm TDK60: ..as a kid I was squirted in the face by a clown at the circus. He had a fake watermelon that squirted water. I thought it was funny.
	11:11pm Franco Twinkie: Erica, when my sister and I were kids, my mom took us to see Bozo at a local shopping center. This must have been an new recruit in the Bozo franchise because he was a total prick who started slapping the kids who mobbed him when he was trying to blow up balloons. After that, my sister didn't want to marry Bozo anymore.
	11:13pm chresti: Also, around that time, there was a terrifying PSA on TV, that involved a sinister looking clown on a staircase.
	11:13pm TDK60: ..there was also the sad hobo clown type.
	11:14pm Little Danny: Love the wintry wind wordless vocal chorus on that Mickey Newbury. BRRRR
	11:14pm Franco Twinkie: Emmit Kelly
	11:14pm Funky16Corners: That Newbury album is amazing. An odd but beautiful mix of alt-country sounds with almost psychedelic sound effects on the songs.
	11:14pm Erica: Not if the invisible anvil breaks your box Danny. Also, Franco that's just mean. I'm surprised that Bozo (pun intended) didn't get in trouble for laying a hand on those kids.
	11:15pm Little Danny: I need to hear that, Franco
	11:15pm chresti: Hobo Kelly, I was not afraid of that one
	11:16pm Erica: Ooh very smooth and yachty. Gonna look up this Lowell George song.
	11:16pm Franco Twinkie: That was the early 60's, Erica. It was okay to hit other peoples kids back then.
	11:17pm Matt from New Orleans: Was this recorded near Lowell’s death?
	11:17pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - It's on his only solo album
	11:17pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - Same year
	11:18pm Erica: Nowadays Franco, you'd be seen as a crazy person doing that today.
	11:18pm Little Danny: @Larry: Do you know Jan & Lorraine's LP on ABC entitled 'Gypsy People'?
	11:19pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I've heard of it but don't have it
	11:20pm Little Danny: It's really good and has this vibe written all over it, you'd dig it the most, man!
	11:20pm Matt from New Orleans: I have a bootleg of the bootleg cd of that album Danny
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: I'll look for it. English?
	11:21pm Little Danny: I could listen to Dion sing anything. Same for Ricky Nelson.
	11:22pm Little Danny: Matt: It's good amirite?
	11:23pm Franco Twinkie: On the inner sleeve of Thank, I'll Eat It Here is a great photo of Lowell George looking like a rumpled mess, holding up a big bunch of sea weed dangling from a fishing pole.
	11:23pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry would definitely like it. I haven’t listened to it in a bit but remember enjoying it stoned
	11:24pm Little Danny: Recorded in the UK but I believe a Detroit-area duo. And only released in this country.
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to look for a CD. The album is really expensive
	11:26pm Little Danny: It's come down in price a lot, a little patience can net one a $20 copy
	11:26pm Matt from New Orleans: I’ll see if I can find it when I’m up in NY in two week. If I find it, I’ll mail it to you.
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Matt!
	11:28pm Matt from New Orleans: It’s also on YouTube if you get curious
	11:34pm Little Danny: Another gem that's brand new to me, this Patrick Sky. Talk about your unfortunate album covers, though.
	11:34pm doctorjazz: Here for the home stretch, hi all!
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Yeah, if I hadn't already known of him I probably would have gone right past it
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	11:36pm Little Danny: Is the rest of the album THIS good? This is amazing
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: Yes, with a few weird exceptions
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: The opening track is a weird half-hearted attempt at a Lovin Spoonful thing and he also does a cool (but incongruous) version of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Modern Major General'
	11:39pm Matt from New Orleans: Is that tabla?
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: It is
	11:40pm Little Danny: Old-timey Gilbert and Sullivan antics definitely killed some psych-pop and sunshine pop album sides back in the late '60s.
	11:41pm Matt from New Orleans: This is a solid cover
	11:41pm Funky16Corners: He does it with a banjo. It's pretty cool.
	11:42pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - This is a cool album. Norman Whitfield production
	11:42pm Jeff Ash: Well, I did not expect Rare Earth, but I love it!
	11:42pm northguineahills: Dug Patrick Sky, somehow missed his work before. Was half asleep, time to go fully asleep. Thanks Larry!
	11:43pm doctorjazz: That Patrick Sky album is very available on Discogs, not expensive...
	11:43pm Erica: Hiya Jeff!
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: I think you turned me on to this album, Jeff
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	11:44pm Jeff Ash: If so, great! I gotta get around to listening and writing about Rare Earth's debut album from 1968 on Verve, which I had never seen until I picked it up a while back.
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: I had no idea that album existed for years. I'm still looking for a copy
	11:45pm Matt from New Orleans: This album apparently got released in Mozambique
	11:46pm Jeff Ash: Ma is a record you don't often see, either.
	11:48pm Matt from New Orleans: It got released all over the world Jeff. I didn’t realize Rare Earth was so popular internationally
	11:49pm northguineahills: Is Boudewijn de Groot, Flemish?
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: Dutch
	11:50pm Erica: Close enough Larry.
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Ah, turns out Flemish is a variant of Dutch, spoken in Flanders/Belgium
	11:53pm Little Danny: Fantastic show tonight Larry. So vibe-y!
	11:54pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Danny!
	11:55pm Erica: Very laid back indeed Danny.
	11:55pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry. This is not the type of music I generally would choose to listen to but I enjoyed the show.
	11:56pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry!
	11:58pm Erica: Thanks for the show Larry!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks everyone!
	12:16pm Marie: Beauteous! Thanks, Larry--perfect listening for the last day of fall.
	12:20pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Marie!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from December 11, 2019

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