WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 2, 2020

Listener comments!
	🥁 2:59pm WR: Hi Larry, as ever, it will be interesting to hear how the clever program title translates into sounds we may or may not have heard before.
	3:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR! I think I can accommodate!
	3:01pm Sem: Hello, Larry, WR. Along for the ride.
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	3:02pm still b/p: I would play this at a party.
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP!
	3:02pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi Larry. Randy said he’d probably stop by. Hello to my fellow shut-ins.
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt!
	3:04pm Erica: I'm here for Testify!
	3:04pm Matt from New Orleans: It was sounding Enoch Lightish and flipped over to the song page and got confirmation
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Those Discotheque albums have a lot of good stuff on them
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	3:05pm chresti: Hi Testify!
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	3:05pm Matt from New Orleans: This is a noble version of this classic
	🥁 3:06pm dutchtheo: Hi Larry, ready for a hip work out, with the testifiers!
	3:06pm Doug Schulkind: Hello Dukes and Duchesses!
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: Theo! Doug!
	3:07pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hey Larry, I be over once Fabio finishes King Crimson's Red
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - That Duke of Burlington album has some great tracks on it, including one (Slot Machine) that is a straight up rip of Cissy Strut
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kevin!
	3:08pm still b/p: I would not play this at a party...unless everyone had already agreed to dress in semi-classy full early 70s gear, and then to dance.
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: It has that vibe
	3:10pm Matt from New Orleans: Was that kazoo?
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: Voices I think
	3:13pm Erica: Cha cha cha.
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: SAN TA NA
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: or TI TO PUENTE as the case may be
	3:13pm chresti: I kind of feel like I'm on hold with that You Keep Me Hanging On playing.
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: Pretty lively hold music
	3:15pm doctorjazz: Hi. Be careful you DON'T go too far...
	3:16pm Doug Schulkind: Bring on the DABBLERS, Larry!
	3:17pm Erica: Week 4 of the Covid-19 quarantine (for me).
	🥁 3:17pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry, the bluebells will be out soon. Yipee
	3:18pm Franco Twinkie: Larry! Chresti and I are hanging out in the kitchen trying to remember where you might have heard this music in real time. Shopping at Food Giant? The car wash lounge? Intermission at the drive-in theater? It does create a nostalgic good time memory of the Ford administration. Carefree days,no?
	3:19pm Little Danny: Hey Larry, hey all.
	3:19pm Doug in JC: I was lucky to see Bucky a handful of times around 2003 or so. He must have been in his late 70s then and clearly loved to be doing what he was doing
	3:19pm Little Danny: LOVE that Percy Faith LP. Psychedelic!
	🥁 3:21pm Brian in UK: Franco, saw you comment belatedly om bigplanetnoise. Have you seen this interview with Johnny E. www.youtube.com...
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: Franco! Danny! Brian! Other Doug!
	3:21pm doctorjazz: I got to see Bucky a few times too, once with his soon, John. John is a fine guitarist, but seeing them together, it was clear which one was the master...
	3:22pm Franco Twinkie: I use to see Harihar at the Music Circle at Occidental College. He would introduce all the guests musicians from India, and sometimes jam with them.
	3:23pm Doug in JC: @doctorjazz agreed. John was good though!
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: I saw Bucky almost 45 years ago, as a young teenager with a trad-jazz supergroup called the Soprano Summit
	🥁 3:23pm Brian in UK: Larry, guess there must be enough juice for a World Pacific show!!!! Nutty label.
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Wasn't he a teacher there?
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: I was a young teenager. Bucky was a young teenager in 1940
	3:24pm Doug in JC: I took a date to Shanghai Jazz in Madison, NJ, and the only table open was the one right in front of the stage. Bucky was about five feet away and kept winking at my date during the whole show
	3:25pm Doug in JC: It didn't work out between us, but it wasn't Bucky's fault.
	3:26pm Franco Twinkie: Probably. He was a regular fixture at Occi. He lived in Pasadena. I would see him at a bakery on Colorado Blvd.
	3:26pm Funky16Corners: He was a true virtuoso. Master of his instrument in a wide variety of settings
	3:26pm Erica: For some reason, 60s and early 70s bubblegum always sounds better orchestrated to me, like library production music. Easy Come Easy Go is one of those songs.
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - yeah, I love this song
	3:27pm Little Danny: I think I'm with you there, Erica
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: Good pop songwriting shows through in any context
	🥁 3:29pm Brian in UK: Hermans Hermit (what a name) might have been more popular in the US than UK.
	3:29pm Franco Twinkie: Brian, Yes! That is a great interview. The thing about Johnny Echols is he's has always been the truth teller regarding Love.
	3:30pm Doug Schulkind: I just downloaded yesterday one of the Mariachi Brass LPs featuring a mostly worthless Chet Baker.
	3:30pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - For a while Herman and the Dave Clark Five were giving the Beatles a run for their money in the USA
	3:31pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - I think that might have been the drugged/teeth falling out period of Chet's life
	3:31pm Little Danny: @Doug: Poor Chet
	3:32pm still b/p: And the Beat Goes On For Physical Education...you can get it on Amazon complete with 34-page instruction manual.
	3:34pm CalZone!: listening on my bike ride, LG!
	3:34pm Julie: Herman's Hermits had a HUGE hit here with Henry VIII, something that was missing from the english comp that I bought.
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - I have it, two lps, one all music and the other with calisthenic instructions
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: Cal! Watch the road!
	🥁 3:35pm Brian in UK: Larry. There must be a years worth at least of Beatles covers and soundalikes. This is not a request!!
	3:35pm Funky16Corners: Hey Julie!
	3:36pm Julie: hiya Larry! @brian Gaylord used to do a presentation at our record fair featuring Beatles imitators
	🥁 3:36pm Brian in UK: Julie, not sure if it was ever released over here. A song for the American market.
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I've done a couple of Beatles covers shows, of Revolver and Abbey Road
	3:37pm Doug in JC: I imagine the record execs being like "yeah, we know he was. no thanks"
	🥁 3:37pm Brian in UK: I think that Uncle Michael did the White Album.
	3:39pm Erica: If you know the words, sing along..."Come togetherrrr..."
	3:39pm Julie: @Brian Right exactly
	3:39pm Little Danny: @Larry: You presumably know the Phoenix Authority's great version of "Come Together" on Mainstream?
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: I do, and I'll be playing a track off of that album in about 5 minutes!
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: Not that one, though
	3:40pm still b/p: Some week soon, you can lead us in calisthenics to the Phys. Ed. music, seein's how we're shut in at home and all. Slow stretching with To Sir With Love is what we need. Lulu-cise.
	🥁 3:40pm Brian in UK: Whodathoughtit that I would be listening to Frank Chacksfield in 2020.
	🥁 3:42pm Brian in UK: @still b/p how about the Talking Heads workout on Stop Making Sense.
	3:42pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Everybody gets a giant suit
	3:44pm CalZone!: The H2GER by ER Was super cool
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: @Cal - That's a really interesting album.
	3:45pm Jeff Ash: Late to the party, sorry. Working and time got away from me. But hello to all from Wisconsin!
	3:46pm Julie: we're all gonna NEED giant suits after all this at home time eating
	3:46pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	🥁 3:46pm Brian in UK: Larry, was UNI an independent or part of a multinational? Seem to remember some releases over here.
	3:47pm Funky16Corners: I think they were an independent
	3:47pm chresti: My main exercise has been pacing around the house.
	3:47pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - a subsidiary of MCA
	3:48pm Erica: Hey chresti
	3:48pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - Too bad anxiety doesn't burn calories
	🥁 3:49pm Brian in UK: Larry, thanks what were they about? Big company that did not know their arse from their elbow or am I mistaken.
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: UNI or MCA? MCA were a giant. UNI had a bunch of cool releases. They were swallowed back up by MCA in 1973
	3:51pm Franco Twinkie: Geronimo Black were on UNI.
	3:52pm Santos L. Halper: Paging Andrew Sandoval.
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Hey Santos!
	3:53pm Santos L. Halper: Digging the tunes Larry, thanks!
	3:54pm still b/p: There's room in the world for a Pax Christi movement and a Pace Chresti movement.
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: My pleasure!
	🥁 3:54pm Brian in UK: I just had the impression that MCA did not have a direction.
	3:55pm Erica: I think I heard this version of the Monkees theme before. Don't remember though.
	3:55pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I think like most labels of the period, their 'direction' was cocaine
	🥁 3:56pm Brian in UK: Franco was that a Zappa cohorts offshoot?
	3:56pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Did you listen to the Monkees covers mix I did last week?
	🥁 3:57pm Brian in UK: I used to think that if you worked for a BIG record company you did not like music.
	3:58pm chresti: Haha still b/p.
	4:00pm Franco Twinkie: Brian, yes. Jimmy Carl Black and Bunk Gardiner from The Mothers and Tjay Cantrelli from Love, along with some others.
	4:01pm Little Danny: Huh, never heard/seen this Bill Page LP before. Crazy!
	4:01pm Funky16Corners: The conceit was that the whole orchestra was electrified in some way
	4:03pm Little Danny: No conceit too esoteric for Tower Records
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: Indeed!
	4:04pm Little Danny: I dig this Louie Shelton, a Now Sound LP with definite aspirations.
	4:05pm Little Danny: The original "Evolution" is a fave
	4:06pm still b/p: Would love to have heard the meetings and conversations of the time at record companies and with producers and arrangers and orchestra leaders, held about suggested cover choices and cases made for them.
	4:06pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - It's a good one. I was shocked when I found it, I had no idea that Shelton had ever done a solo album
	4:06pm Little Danny: @Larry: I would love to see your top ten list of psychedelic-era Now Sound LPs
	4:06pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I'll have to make that list!
	4:07pm Erica: Yummy yummy just became crunchy crunchy.
	4:08pm Erica: Or am I thinking of chewy chewy?
	4:08pm Little Danny: @still b/p: Me too. The suits' panic was on as all manner of "craziness" had commercial potential
	4:09pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Either one will do
	4:11pm Erica: Yummy reminds me of Homer Simpson. Haha!
	🥁 4:12pm dutchtheo: Digging this long set, it is everytime a surprise you don't start talking, though
	4:12pm Little Danny: The "Homer Loves Flanders" episode prominently features "Sugar, Sugar" too
	4:13pm still b/p: And I'm surprised at how the time is often short between the time of the particular popular hits and these covers/adaptations. Cashing in on the popularity, but not with quite the same buying public.
	4:14pm chresti: Live and Let Die has a 70's tv show feeling to it.
	4:19pm Jeff Ash: Live and Let Die is a '70s James Bond theme, but yeah, certainly of that time.
	4:23pm chresti: Ah, that's why.
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed, best known in the vocal version by Paul McCartney and Wings
	4:26pm Matt from New Orleans: The flamenco guitar is the cherry on top
	4:27pm Matt from New Orleans: I’ve been listening while cooking
	4:27pm zivilars: Hello everybody, hi Larry! I unfortunately don't get the chance to listen to your show live too often, but just wanna say: I love "Testify!", thanks for your great work!
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - These groups always had top of the line musicians, and as long as the arranger had some imagination it was worth hearing
	4:27pm zivilars: stay stafe everybody!
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: Hey Zivilars! Thanks!
	4:29pm Jeff Ash: Not too long ago, I came across an Ambrose Brazelton phy ed record that was Beatles covers.
	4:30pm Funky16Corners: I haven't seen that one. I would surely purchase it it if I had!
	🥁 4:33pm dutchtheo: Love the spoonful
	4:33pm Jeff Ash: I'll look again when the record stores reopen.
	4:34pm Funky16Corners: That would be cool!
	4:34pm Funky16Corners: @Theo - It's a cool album if you ever happen upon it
	4:38pm CalZone!: the Artie Schroek LS was incredible!
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed, longtime fave of mine
	4:38pm zzz: beastie boys sample??
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: I think the Beasties sampled the original by the Blues Project
	4:39pm zzz: ahh. nice. that sounded so familiar
	4:41pm Little Danny: I'm trying to think of the most unlikely Now Sound cover. "Ain't Got Nothing Yet" is pretty hard to top.
	4:42pm CalZone!: many of the favorite records you are playing today, I've purchased based on your audio recommendations!
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, supremely weird, especially from a middle-aged straight
	4:43pm Funky16Corners: @Cal - I have done the same with many of YOUR recommendations!
	4:44pm CalZone!: Awwwww shucks!
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: You and Kurt are costing me money!
	🥁 4:47pm dutchtheo: Building up to a James Last finale?
	🥁 4:47pm Brian in UK: Spanky?
	4:47pm Little Danny: Margo Guryan!
	4:48pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry!
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: @Theo - No, but I think you'll dig the last song. One of the odder covers I've come across
	4:48pm Erica: Well we know it's not the Velvet Underground haha.
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Spanky recorded it, but Danny got it, written by Margo Guryan
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - Thanks!
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Not the Velvets, but still very cool
	4:51pm Funky16Corners: Not this one, the next tune
	🥁 4:51pm Brian in UK: Larry, you never cease to amaze.
	4:52pm Sem: Most excellent putzing around in the kitchen show, thanks, Larry. Love being able to hear the show live. Seeya.
	4:52pm Funky16Corners: I try Brian. I'm as amazing as I can hope to be, but no more.
	4:52pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Sem!
	4:53pm KevinfromBayRidge: Arise WPAT, Arise! Thanks for another great shew, Larry
	4:54pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Kevin!
	4:54pm CalZone!: OMG this WIGWAM! KILLS!
	4:54pm Funky16Corners: Isn't it crazy?
	4:55pm zivilars: I also already say thank you before the time is over – till next time, Larry, keep up these great shows!
	4:57pm Little Danny: Thanks Larry! Right back atcha!
	4:57pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry. See you later Danny.
	4:58pm Erica: Thanks for the covers Larry! Stay safe from the virus everyone!
	4:58pm chresti: Thanks Larry! See y'alls later..
	🥁 4:58pm dutchtheo: Thanks Larry, dug it!
	4:59pm still b/p: A New Christy Minstrels record was at my house when I was growing up, and it became one of those inseparable-from-name image things. c8.alamy.com... Which is funny, given how old school white-bread some of their covers were. Thanks for hugely enjoyable show!
	4:59pm Jeff Ash: I also recently saw that Stapleton-Morley Expression record.
	5:00pm Doug Schulkind: Larry Grogan, scientist of sound, throwing it down!
	5:01pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry!
	5:02pm Funky16Corners: Thanks guys!
	5:02pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - I'm going to have Scientist of Sound cards made up!
	5:04pm still b/p: A laboratory full of Testify tubes.
	5:04pm Funky16Corners: Erlenmeyr flasks, pipettes and Testify! tubes!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 2, 2020

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade	Come See About Me	Discotheque Vol 2	Command	1965	LP
The Duke of Burlington	I Want You Back	The Pressed Piano	Joker	1970	LP
The Impact of Brass	Never Can Say Goodbye	Down at the Brass Works	Rare Earth	1971	LP
Paul Mauriat	You Keep Me Hanging On	Rhythm and Blues	Philips	1968	LP
Percy Faith	Oye Como Va "Oye Como Va" by "Percy Faith"	Black Magic Woman	Columbia	1972	LP

Folkswingers feat Harihar Rao	Kicks	Raga Rock	World Pacific	1966	LP
Johnny Frigo Quartet	Classical Gas	Chicago Jazz Dance Revival at Gus's Place	Orion	1969	LP
Chet Baker	Easy Come Easy Go "Easy Come Easy Go" by "Chet Baker"	Blood Chet and Tears	Verve	1970
Ambrose Brazelton featuring Vinnie Bell	There's a Kind of Hush	And the Beat Goes On For Physical Education	KER	1969	LP
Bib Theile and the New Happy Times Orchestra	All You Need Is Love	Do the Love	ABC	1967	LP
Gene Barge	I Feel Fine "I Feel Fine" by "Gene Barge"	Dance With Daddy G	Checker	1965	LP
Santo and Johnny	Hello Goodbye "Hello Goodbye" by "Santo and Johnny"	Golden Guitars	Imperial	1968	LP
Frank Chacksfield	Come Together "Come Together" by "Frank Chacksfield"	Plays the Beatles Songbook	Decca	1970	LP
Emil Richards	Happy Together "Happy Together" by "Emil Richards"	New Time Element	Uni	1967	LP
Don Sebesky and the Jazz Rock Syndrome	I Dig Rock'n'Roll Music	Don Sebesky and the Jazz Rock Syndrome	Verve	1968	LP
Phoenix Authority	Sugar Sugar "Sugar Sugar" by "Phoenix Authority"	Blood Sweat and Brass	Mainstream	1970	LP
Sounds of Our Times	Come to the Sunshine	Music of the Flower Children	Capitol	1967	LP
Your Gang	These Boots Were Made For Walking	Your Gang	Mercury	1966	LP
Al Hirt	Theme From the Monkees "Theme From the Monkees" by "Al Hirt"	The Horn Meets the Hornet	RCA	1966	LP
Electric Piano Playground	Psychotic Reaction	Psychedelic Seeds	Bell	1967	LP
Bill Page and His Orchestra	We Ain't Got Nothing Yet	Sounds of the Sonic 60s	Tower	1968	LP
Louie Shelton	Touch Me "Touch Me" by "Louie Shelton"	Touch Me	Warner Brothers	1969	LP
The Moog Machine	Yummy Yummy Yummy	Switched On Rock	Columbia	1969	LP
George Shearing, The Quintet and Amigos	Aquarius	The Way We Are	MPS	1974	LP
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra	Live and Let Die	On the Richter Scale	Creative World	1973	LP

Les Reed with the Eddie Lester Singers	Crystal Blue Persuasion	Love Is All	London	1969	LP
Sound Symposium	Darling Be Home Soon	Contemporary Composers Interpreted	Dot	1969	LP
Artie Schroeck Implosion	Six O'Clock	A Spoonful of Lovin'	Verve	1967	LP
Charlie Byrd	You Made Me So Very Happy	Aquarius	Columbia	1969	LP
Alan Lorber Orchestra	Flute Thing	The Lotus Palace	Verve	1967	LP
Ted Heath and His Music	In the Year 2525	The Big Ones	Decca	1969	LP
Stapleton-Morley Expression	San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)	The Mamas and Papas Book of Songs	Dunhill	1967	LP
Trombones Unlimited	Sunday Morning	Grazing In the Grass	Liberty	1968	LP
Les Williams Orchestra	Sunny Goodge Street	Plays the Collected Works of Donovan	Imperial	1968	LP
Steve Douglas	Wear Your Love Like Heaven	Reflections In a Golden Horn	Mercury	1969	LP
New Christy Minstrels	Wig Wam "Wig Wam" by "New Christy Minstrels"	You Need Someone To Love	Gregar	1970	LP

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45

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Listener comments!
	🥁 2:59pm WR: Hi Larry, as ever, it will be interesting to hear how the clever program title translates into sounds we may or may not have heard before.
	3:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR! I think I can accommodate!
	3:01pm Sem: Hello, Larry, WR. Along for the ride.
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	3:02pm still b/p: I would play this at a party.
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP!
	3:02pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi Larry. Randy said he’d probably stop by. Hello to my fellow shut-ins.
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt!
	3:04pm Erica: I'm here for Testify!
	3:04pm Matt from New Orleans: It was sounding Enoch Lightish and flipped over to the song page and got confirmation
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Those Discotheque albums have a lot of good stuff on them
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	3:05pm chresti: Hi Testify!
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	3:05pm Matt from New Orleans: This is a noble version of this classic
	🥁 3:06pm dutchtheo: Hi Larry, ready for a hip work out, with the testifiers!
	3:06pm Doug Schulkind: Hello Dukes and Duchesses!
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: Theo! Doug!
	3:07pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hey Larry, I be over once Fabio finishes King Crimson's Red
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - That Duke of Burlington album has some great tracks on it, including one (Slot Machine) that is a straight up rip of Cissy Strut
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kevin!
	3:08pm still b/p: I would not play this at a party...unless everyone had already agreed to dress in semi-classy full early 70s gear, and then to dance.
	3:08pm Funky16Corners: It has that vibe
	3:10pm Matt from New Orleans: Was that kazoo?
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: Voices I think
	3:13pm Erica: Cha cha cha.
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: SAN TA NA
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: or TI TO PUENTE as the case may be
	3:13pm chresti: I kind of feel like I'm on hold with that You Keep Me Hanging On playing.
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: Pretty lively hold music
	3:15pm doctorjazz: Hi. Be careful you DON'T go too far...
	3:16pm Doug Schulkind: Bring on the DABBLERS, Larry!
	3:17pm Erica: Week 4 of the Covid-19 quarantine (for me).
	🥁 3:17pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry, the bluebells will be out soon. Yipee
	3:18pm Franco Twinkie: Larry! Chresti and I are hanging out in the kitchen trying to remember where you might have heard this music in real time. Shopping at Food Giant? The car wash lounge? Intermission at the drive-in theater? It does create a nostalgic good time memory of the Ford administration. Carefree days,no?
	3:19pm Little Danny: Hey Larry, hey all.
	3:19pm Doug in JC: I was lucky to see Bucky a handful of times around 2003 or so. He must have been in his late 70s then and clearly loved to be doing what he was doing
	3:19pm Little Danny: LOVE that Percy Faith LP. Psychedelic!
	🥁 3:21pm Brian in UK: Franco, saw you comment belatedly om bigplanetnoise. Have you seen this interview with Johnny E. www.youtube.com...
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: Franco! Danny! Brian! Other Doug!
	3:21pm doctorjazz: I got to see Bucky a few times too, once with his soon, John. John is a fine guitarist, but seeing them together, it was clear which one was the master...
	3:22pm Franco Twinkie: I use to see Harihar at the Music Circle at Occidental College. He would introduce all the guests musicians from India, and sometimes jam with them.
	3:23pm Doug in JC: @doctorjazz agreed. John was good though!
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: I saw Bucky almost 45 years ago, as a young teenager with a trad-jazz supergroup called the Soprano Summit
	🥁 3:23pm Brian in UK: Larry, guess there must be enough juice for a World Pacific show!!!! Nutty label.
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Wasn't he a teacher there?
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: I was a young teenager. Bucky was a young teenager in 1940
	3:24pm Doug in JC: I took a date to Shanghai Jazz in Madison, NJ, and the only table open was the one right in front of the stage. Bucky was about five feet away and kept winking at my date during the whole show
	3:25pm Doug in JC: It didn't work out between us, but it wasn't Bucky's fault.
	3:26pm Franco Twinkie: Probably. He was a regular fixture at Occi. He lived in Pasadena. I would see him at a bakery on Colorado Blvd.
	3:26pm Funky16Corners: He was a true virtuoso. Master of his instrument in a wide variety of settings
	3:26pm Erica: For some reason, 60s and early 70s bubblegum always sounds better orchestrated to me, like library production music. Easy Come Easy Go is one of those songs.
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - yeah, I love this song
	3:27pm Little Danny: I think I'm with you there, Erica
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: Good pop songwriting shows through in any context
	🥁 3:29pm Brian in UK: Hermans Hermit (what a name) might have been more popular in the US than UK.
	3:29pm Franco Twinkie: Brian, Yes! That is a great interview. The thing about Johnny Echols is he's has always been the truth teller regarding Love.
	3:30pm Doug Schulkind: I just downloaded yesterday one of the Mariachi Brass LPs featuring a mostly worthless Chet Baker.
	3:30pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - For a while Herman and the Dave Clark Five were giving the Beatles a run for their money in the USA
	3:31pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - I think that might have been the drugged/teeth falling out period of Chet's life
	3:31pm Little Danny: @Doug: Poor Chet
	3:32pm still b/p: And the Beat Goes On For Physical Education...you can get it on Amazon complete with 34-page instruction manual.
	3:34pm CalZone!: listening on my bike ride, LG!
	3:34pm Julie: Herman's Hermits had a HUGE hit here with Henry VIII, something that was missing from the english comp that I bought.
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - I have it, two lps, one all music and the other with calisthenic instructions
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: Cal! Watch the road!
	🥁 3:35pm Brian in UK: Larry. There must be a years worth at least of Beatles covers and soundalikes. This is not a request!!
	3:35pm Funky16Corners: Hey Julie!
	3:36pm Julie: hiya Larry! @brian Gaylord used to do a presentation at our record fair featuring Beatles imitators
	🥁 3:36pm Brian in UK: Julie, not sure if it was ever released over here. A song for the American market.
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I've done a couple of Beatles covers shows, of Revolver and Abbey Road
	3:37pm Doug in JC: I imagine the record execs being like "yeah, we know he was. no thanks"
	🥁 3:37pm Brian in UK: I think that Uncle Michael did the White Album.
	3:39pm Erica: If you know the words, sing along..."Come togetherrrr..."
	3:39pm Julie: @Brian Right exactly
	3:39pm Little Danny: @Larry: You presumably know the Phoenix Authority's great version of "Come Together" on Mainstream?
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: I do, and I'll be playing a track off of that album in about 5 minutes!
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: Not that one, though
	3:40pm still b/p: Some week soon, you can lead us in calisthenics to the Phys. Ed. music, seein's how we're shut in at home and all. Slow stretching with To Sir With Love is what we need. Lulu-cise.
	🥁 3:40pm Brian in UK: Whodathoughtit that I would be listening to Frank Chacksfield in 2020.
	🥁 3:42pm Brian in UK: @still b/p how about the Talking Heads workout on Stop Making Sense.
	3:42pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Everybody gets a giant suit
	3:44pm CalZone!: The H2GER by ER Was super cool
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: @Cal - That's a really interesting album.
	3:45pm Jeff Ash: Late to the party, sorry. Working and time got away from me. But hello to all from Wisconsin!
	3:46pm Julie: we're all gonna NEED giant suits after all this at home time eating
	3:46pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	🥁 3:46pm Brian in UK: Larry, was UNI an independent or part of a multinational? Seem to remember some releases over here.
	3:47pm Funky16Corners: I think they were an independent
	3:47pm chresti: My main exercise has been pacing around the house.
	3:47pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - a subsidiary of MCA
	3:48pm Erica: Hey chresti
	3:48pm Funky16Corners: @Chresti - Too bad anxiety doesn't burn calories
	🥁 3:49pm Brian in UK: Larry, thanks what were they about? Big company that did not know their arse from their elbow or am I mistaken.
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: UNI or MCA? MCA were a giant. UNI had a bunch of cool releases. They were swallowed back up by MCA in 1973
	3:51pm Franco Twinkie: Geronimo Black were on UNI.
	3:52pm Santos L. Halper: Paging Andrew Sandoval.
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Hey Santos!
	3:53pm Santos L. Halper: Digging the tunes Larry, thanks!
	3:54pm still b/p: There's room in the world for a Pax Christi movement and a Pace Chresti movement.
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: My pleasure!
	🥁 3:54pm Brian in UK: I just had the impression that MCA did not have a direction.
	3:55pm Erica: I think I heard this version of the Monkees theme before. Don't remember though.
	3:55pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I think like most labels of the period, their 'direction' was cocaine
	🥁 3:56pm Brian in UK: Franco was that a Zappa cohorts offshoot?
	3:56pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Did you listen to the Monkees covers mix I did last week?
	🥁 3:57pm Brian in UK: I used to think that if you worked for a BIG record company you did not like music.
	3:58pm chresti: Haha still b/p.
	4:00pm Franco Twinkie: Brian, yes. Jimmy Carl Black and Bunk Gardiner from The Mothers and Tjay Cantrelli from Love, along with some others.
	4:01pm Little Danny: Huh, never heard/seen this Bill Page LP before. Crazy!
	4:01pm Funky16Corners: The conceit was that the whole orchestra was electrified in some way
	4:03pm Little Danny: No conceit too esoteric for Tower Records
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: Indeed!
	4:04pm Little Danny: I dig this Louie Shelton, a Now Sound LP with definite aspirations.
	4:05pm Little Danny: The original "Evolution" is a fave
	4:06pm still b/p: Would love to have heard the meetings and conversations of the time at record companies and with producers and arrangers and orchestra leaders, held about suggested cover choices and cases made for them.
	4:06pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - It's a good one. I was shocked when I found it, I had no idea that Shelton had ever done a solo album
	4:06pm Little Danny: @Larry: I would love to see your top ten list of psychedelic-era Now Sound LPs
	4:06pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I'll have to make that list!
	4:07pm Erica: Yummy yummy just became crunchy crunchy.
	4:08pm Erica: Or am I thinking of chewy chewy?
	4:08pm Little Danny: @still b/p: Me too. The suits' panic was on as all manner of "craziness" had commercial potential
	4:09pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Either one will do
	4:11pm Erica: Yummy reminds me of Homer Simpson. Haha!
	🥁 4:12pm dutchtheo: Digging this long set, it is everytime a surprise you don't start talking, though
	4:12pm Little Danny: The "Homer Loves Flanders" episode prominently features "Sugar, Sugar" too
	4:13pm still b/p: And I'm surprised at how the time is often short between the time of the particular popular hits and these covers/adaptations. Cashing in on the popularity, but not with quite the same buying public.
	4:14pm chresti: Live and Let Die has a 70's tv show feeling to it.
	4:19pm Jeff Ash: Live and Let Die is a '70s James Bond theme, but yeah, certainly of that time.
	4:23pm chresti: Ah, that's why.
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed, best known in the vocal version by Paul McCartney and Wings
	4:26pm Matt from New Orleans: The flamenco guitar is the cherry on top
	4:27pm Matt from New Orleans: I’ve been listening while cooking
	4:27pm zivilars: Hello everybody, hi Larry! I unfortunately don't get the chance to listen to your show live too often, but just wanna say: I love "Testify!", thanks for your great work!
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - These groups always had top of the line musicians, and as long as the arranger had some imagination it was worth hearing
	4:27pm zivilars: stay stafe everybody!
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: Hey Zivilars! Thanks!
	4:29pm Jeff Ash: Not too long ago, I came across an Ambrose Brazelton phy ed record that was Beatles covers.
	4:30pm Funky16Corners: I haven't seen that one. I would surely purchase it it if I had!
	🥁 4:33pm dutchtheo: Love the spoonful
	4:33pm Jeff Ash: I'll look again when the record stores reopen.
	4:34pm Funky16Corners: That would be cool!
	4:34pm Funky16Corners: @Theo - It's a cool album if you ever happen upon it
	4:38pm CalZone!: the Artie Schroek LS was incredible!
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed, longtime fave of mine
	4:38pm zzz: beastie boys sample??
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: I think the Beasties sampled the original by the Blues Project
	4:39pm zzz: ahh. nice. that sounded so familiar
	4:41pm Little Danny: I'm trying to think of the most unlikely Now Sound cover. "Ain't Got Nothing Yet" is pretty hard to top.
	4:42pm CalZone!: many of the favorite records you are playing today, I've purchased based on your audio recommendations!
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, supremely weird, especially from a middle-aged straight
	4:43pm Funky16Corners: @Cal - I have done the same with many of YOUR recommendations!
	4:44pm CalZone!: Awwwww shucks!
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: You and Kurt are costing me money!
	🥁 4:47pm dutchtheo: Building up to a James Last finale?
	🥁 4:47pm Brian in UK: Spanky?
	4:47pm Little Danny: Margo Guryan!
	4:48pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry!
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: @Theo - No, but I think you'll dig the last song. One of the odder covers I've come across
	4:48pm Erica: Well we know it's not the Velvet Underground haha.
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Spanky recorded it, but Danny got it, written by Margo Guryan
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - Thanks!
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Not the Velvets, but still very cool
	4:51pm Funky16Corners: Not this one, the next tune
	🥁 4:51pm Brian in UK: Larry, you never cease to amaze.
	4:52pm Sem: Most excellent putzing around in the kitchen show, thanks, Larry. Love being able to hear the show live. Seeya.
	4:52pm Funky16Corners: I try Brian. I'm as amazing as I can hope to be, but no more.
	4:52pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Sem!
	4:53pm KevinfromBayRidge: Arise WPAT, Arise! Thanks for another great shew, Larry
	4:54pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Kevin!
	4:54pm CalZone!: OMG this WIGWAM! KILLS!
	4:54pm Funky16Corners: Isn't it crazy?
	4:55pm zivilars: I also already say thank you before the time is over – till next time, Larry, keep up these great shows!
	4:57pm Little Danny: Thanks Larry! Right back atcha!
	4:57pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry. See you later Danny.
	4:58pm Erica: Thanks for the covers Larry! Stay safe from the virus everyone!
	4:58pm chresti: Thanks Larry! See y'alls later..
	🥁 4:58pm dutchtheo: Thanks Larry, dug it!
	4:59pm still b/p: A New Christy Minstrels record was at my house when I was growing up, and it became one of those inseparable-from-name image things. c8.alamy.com... Which is funny, given how old school white-bread some of their covers were. Thanks for hugely enjoyable show!
	4:59pm Jeff Ash: I also recently saw that Stapleton-Morley Expression record.
	5:00pm Doug Schulkind: Larry Grogan, scientist of sound, throwing it down!
	5:01pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry!
	5:02pm Funky16Corners: Thanks guys!
	5:02pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - I'm going to have Scientist of Sound cards made up!
	5:04pm still b/p: A laboratory full of Testify tubes.
	5:04pm Funky16Corners: Erlenmeyr flasks, pipettes and Testify! tubes!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 2, 2020

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