WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from February 9, 2023

Listener comments!
	3:00pm Moog1 Radio: Calling all Beatle geeks!
	3:01pm Alex In Illinois: Where is everyone?
	🥁 3:01pm WR: Here to hear,
	3:01pm Alex In Illinois: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:00 Hi Moog1 Radio
	3:01pm Sem: Hey, Larry. Fab covers it is.
	3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Larry and all other listeners!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Alex! Kurt! WR! Sem! Andrew!
	3:03pm Moog1 Radio: The voices of Paul Frees and Lance Percival in the cartoon!
	3:03pm Erica: Ready for the covers Larry!
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:03 I can't tell you how disappointed I was as a kid to find out that it wasn't the Beatles actual voices
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:05 Same with Yellow Submarine
	3:06pm still b/p: I remember when the Beatles cartoon was on, though I don't recall seeing it much or recall what it was like. But I tell ya, that image of the cartoon lads elicits a wince. I'm wondering if just a couple years later, with fuller control of conditions and choices, they would've responded to that part of the mania and attention and licensing orgy with, "Uh, no."
	3:06pm Moog1 Radio: actually Lance Percival who did Paul and Ringo in The Beatles Cartoon voiced Old Fred in YS
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:06 Hey SBP! One of the great iuntold stories of the Beatles rise is what a hash Epstein made of their licensing
	3:09pm CalZone!: Howdy Larry, M1R, and all the rest...here on Grogan's Isle!
	3:09pm Jeff Ash: Late to the party, but greetings to all from Wisconsin!
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: Cal! Jeff!
	3:11pm doctorjazz: Hey Beatlemaniacs!
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	3:12pm StringOFperils: Oh, hey! Playing my song! Ha ha. Hey, Larry!
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey String!
	🥁 3:20pm WLSClark: Hi Larry, WR, Andrew, WR and all. Larry, I taped cartoon Beatles songs off TV back in 65 as a 9 year old and some of those had interesting EDITS of the songs. Sometimes lengthened to fit the cartoon better and some were horrible clip jobs.
	3:21pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi Clark!
	3:21pm Erica: I saw the movie Help! Once on PBS. All I remember is that they performed for Arabian people, Ringo lost a ring and they sang Ode to Joy or whatever that song was first called. I need to rewatch it again.
	🥁 3:22pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @3:21 Its certainly not on par with hard Days Night, but still great!
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:20 Hey Clark!
	3:24pm Moog1 Radio: Leo McKern! Victor Spinetti and Roy Kinnear! Didnt Victor and Roy appear together in a Mike and The Mechanics video in the 1980s?
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:24 I think that's correct!
	🥁 3:24pm WR: Hi WLSClark
	🥁 3:25pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry
	3:26pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:25 Hey Brian!
	3:26pm Moog1 Radio: Both Leo McKern and Patrick Cargill starred in The Prisoner few years later.
	🥁 3:26pm WLSClark: Erica, sorry I missed you! Brian, Moog1.....
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:24 The question ism did Victor Spinetti's frustrated TV director become the mad scientist in HELP?
	3:27pm StringOFperils: I remember watching the cartoon Beatles do I'm Looking Through You over at my friend Stuart's place in the '60s. He had the cable. He had his aunt's Beatle records. He had the guitar. He had the neglect. It was our Beatle freedom.
	3:27pm Erica: ↳ WLSClark @3:26 Missed what? If it's saying hi it's okay.
	🥁 3:27pm Brian in UK: Toppermost of the Poppermost.
	3:28pm Moog1 Radio: I always wished they would go back and released the rest of Ken Thorne's soundtrack. Good stuff
	3:29pm still b/p: Just checked and the Help line that I remembered for years as "You're a failure aren't you, scientist?" is actually, "Scientist, you're getting nowhere." But my recollection of this is correct: "Go to the window. Go to the window."
	3:30pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:28 I like the use of instrumental versions of Beatle tunes in the background of some scenes
	3:30pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Ticket To Ride" by "Fifth Dimension" This is the kind of treatment that should have a variety show dance troupe carrying on around the performance.
	3:30pm Mike Sin: ↳ Song: "Got to Get You Into My Life" by "Cliff Bennett & ... I feel this is the type of drumming that should have been on the Beatles version.
	3:31pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mike Sin @3:30 Hey Mike! Yeah, great 45
	🥁 3:34pm WLSClark: Doesn't matter what song Jose sings, you KNOW it's his voice!
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:34 Underrated performer IMHO
	3:35pm StringOFperils: Killed by Feliz Navidad
	3:37pm Erica: ↳ StringOFperils @3:35 Sadly that was what made him well known
	🥁 3:38pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:34 Rain, One More Mile, Destiny my faves by him besides Light My Fire. ALL in my fave 45s.
	🥁 3:38pm WLSClark: ↳ StringOFperils @3:35 Is it me or does that song just get longer every year I hear it?
	3:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:35 Here's some weird trivia for you. Back about 37 years ago, my band did an in-studio performance at the old WFMU studios at Upsala, and among the songs we played was Feliz Navidad...
	3:39pm StringOFperils: ↳ Erica @3:37 Success in the pop marketplace can be precarious.
	🥁 3:39pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @3:37 Actually, the controversial National Anthem at World Series was the thing that made him news.
	🥁 3:40pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry and the Larrytones
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: I think Feliciano's longevity was damaged by the fact that he was a straight-up "entertainer". Never a singer/songwriter, stylist, but an all around showbiz guy, a breed that all but died out by the early 70s
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dutchtheo @3:40 Hey Theo!
	🥁 3:40pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:38 37 years ago, we did not have stations playing Christmas songs before the WEEK of Christmas--often not until the DAY!
	🥁 3:41pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:40 Chico and the man theme.....
	3:41pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:39 Have you ever heard Robert Klein's routine about that?
	🥁 3:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Got To Get You Into My Life" by "Morgana King" THE KISSING BANDIT was a singer?????
	3:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:42 The actress that played Mrs Don Corleone in the Godfather
	🥁 3:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:41 Nope!
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:42 It's funny. He talks about how racist the reaction to Feliciano's performance was
	🥁 3:44pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:42 OK< so not the kissing bandit. Whew!
	3:44pm still b/p: Oh, say can you see a tangent? Check out Albert Brooks' bit on auditioning a new national anthem.
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:44 I played it a few months back on the all-comedy show!
	🥁 3:45pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:44 Well, could be, but I would admit that before that, most singers sang it straight and now everyone does it however they want.
	3:46pm Moog1 Radio: Ahh, so the complete Ken Thorne Help! underscore is out there. It surfaced on a compilation CD called The Film Music Of Ken Thorne Volume 2.
	3:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:44 wfmu.org...
	3:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:46 I'll have to look for that!
	🥁 3:47pm WLSClark: Hope you dont play the Chairman's version of Something: "Great song by Lennon-McCartney" haha
	3:48pm still b/p: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:46 Shit! Have to put a dollah in the Didn't Listen That Day jar.
	🥁 3:48pm WLSClark: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:46 I WILL admit I like his Help intro. I used it in my drop in show a month ago.
	3:48pm Moog1 Radio: I would love to find the 45 of Octopus's Garden by Reparata & The Delrons. It has been on my wish list for a while.
	3:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:48 Or the Milton Berle version of Yellow Submarine
	3:49pm CalZone!: A ticket A Tasket, Ella found a yellow truffle!
	🥁 3:49pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Hey Jude" by "Four Freshmen" I kinda like Wilson Pickett's version, but wish he would not have done all those covers 68-70.
	3:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:48 That's what the archives are for!
	3:51pm Sem: This is the slowest elevator ride of my life.
	3:52pm Sem: ...and enjoying every moment.
	3:53pm Funky16Corners: This is from the album where Doc does In the Court of the Crimson King
	🥁 3:53pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Abbey Road Medley" by "Doc Severinsen" Loved that opening. Not sure now.
	3:55pm Sem: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:53 Really? How'd that work out?
	3:55pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:55 It's cool. I think I've played it on Testify! before
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: Oh yeah, RIP Burt Bacharach: wfmu.org...
	3:58pm Sem: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:55 Got it. Playlist from May 17, 2017
	3:59pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:57 I was about to ask if you were going to do a Burt Bacharach show in tribute to him but you already did.
	🥁 4:03pm dutchtheo: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:57 I didn't know the Shirelles' Baby It's You, and the Beatles cover on Please please me was a Burt Bacharach song.
	4:05pm wenzo: Wow Theo I didn’t know that!
	4:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dutchtheo @4:03 Burt did the arrangement on the Shirelles 45
	4:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:47 No Chairman, just Carmen...
	4:16pm Funky16Corners: I have been reliably informed that Doc Severinsen is still with us at the age of 95!
	🥁 4:17pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:16 Great! What a band leader he was!
	4:22pm CalZone!: Loving the Bola Sete!
	🥁 4:22pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" by "Bola Sete" Get yer La las Out!
	4:24pm Erica: Smooth cover by Sam and Dave here.
	4:25pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:24 B-side of their last 45
	4:31pm doctorjazz: The Wicked Pickett's Hey Jude (with Duane) is the best EVER!!!
	4:32pm Mike Sin: Other than the Beatles going to sleep and then waking up the next morning to find out that another 50,000 copies of Abbey Road sold while they were in bed, Lennon and McCartney probably didn't know of so many of these covers until they received royalty statements. "Just who is this Doctor Severinsen?"
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mike Sin @4:32 Is he related to Doctor Robert?
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: I wonder if anyone ever interviewed either of them about their favorite covers of their songs?
	🥁 4:34pm WLSClark: ↳ Mike Sin @4:32 Im surprised the recently deceased Luoise Harrison didn't record any songs for that interview LP she put out. Probably didn't want to pay royalties.
	4:35pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:34 I got the impression she was estranged from George's family
	4:35pm Mike Sin: I think during the hours of "Get Back" tapes, you hear McCartney mention that he was happy to hear Fats Domino covered "Lady Madonna" or some such.
	🥁 4:36pm Brian in UK: Larry, have you played music from The Beatles 'Love' album? I like the what might be called mash-ups on it.
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 I have not, though I recall hearing it at some point
	4:37pm fredr: Afternoon Larry and all!
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ fredr @4:37 Hey fred!
	4:38pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Tomorrow Never Knows" by "Steve Marcus" This is cool!
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:38 Produced by Herbie Mann (Marcus was in his band at the time)
	🥁 4:39pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:35 Yeah, but in 63/4 when she was stumping for the band, she was kinda important to the fabs I think in US
	🥁 4:40pm WLSClark: ↳ Mike Sin @4:35 Well, I believe he did put out on 45 on Frank's label.
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:39 Yes, she was living here. George came over to visit her before they broke in the US
	🥁 4:41pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:40 I know she was on WLS some talking in the early days, as well as many other stations as the LP shows.
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:41 I have a vague recollection that she lived in Illinois, but I may be wrong
	🥁 4:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:42 Yes, down state.
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mike Sin @4:35 McCartney songs were a perfect fit for Fats!
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: Make sure to stay tuned for Kip and Discotech Underground when I'm done at 5:00 - wfmu.org...
	4:44pm Andrew in Toronto: That was great! Thanks Larry!
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:44 Thanks Andrew!
	4:46pm Erica: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:44 Still more left.
	4:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:46 Yes, indeed!
	🥁 4:50pm WLSClark: Being Super Bowl weekend, imagine if the Beatles would have performed that halftime show Jan 15, 1967! They could have played their new 45 "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields" with orchestra and shown off their shocking new hair!
	4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:50 I think Up With People were already booked
	4:51pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:50 Up with people?
	4:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:51 Google them. The whitest, stiffest, middle of the road-est group in history
	4:52pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:51 They sound boring Larry
	4:53pm Funky16Corners: They made the Doddletown Pipers look like Black Sabbath
	4:53pm Erica: ↳ Erica @4:52 *That
	4:53pm Discotech Underground: Hey Larry! Nice Beatles covers today! Join me for my 100th show right after Testify right here on the Drummer Streamt! wfmu.org...
	🥁 4:54pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @4:51 Pretty popular group, religious if I remember right? I used to know a member. They changed singers like many of those chorus groups then. Lasted a long time, tho.
	4:54pm Funky16Corners: They parodied them on the Simpsons, but I can't remember what they called them
	🥁 4:54pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:53 VERY boring but energetic singers at least.
	4:56pm Sem: Been most excellent fun. Thank you, Larry, and hope to see you again next time.
	4:57pm Erica: Great show Larry. RIP Burt Bacharach. See you all soon!
	🥁 4:58pm WLSClark: Great show. Love that ending theme.
	4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everyone!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from February 9, 2023

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February 9, 2023: Testify! - Covering the Beatles

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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 \| Pop-up)
Bob Theile and His New Happy Times Ochestra	All You Need Is Love	All You Need Is Love	ABC	1967	LP	0:01:24 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Nino Tempo and Eddie Cano	Hard Days Night	On Broadway	Atco	1966	LP	0:04:24 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Clara Ward	Help "Help" by "Clara Ward"	Hang Your Tears Out To Dry	Verve	1966	LP	0:06:28 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Merit Hemmingson	Lady Madonna "Lady Madonna" by "Merit Hemmingson"	Plays	RCA/Camden	1968	LP	0:08:46 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Three Good Reasons	Nowhere Man "Nowhere Man" by "Three Good Reasons"	45RPM Single	Mercury	1966	45	0:11:33 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Les James Trio	Day Tripper "Day Tripper" by "Les James Trio"	Alive!	Century	1972	LP	0:14:12 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)

Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers	Got to Get You Into My Life	45RPM Single	Parlophone	1966	45	0:22:46 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Dee Irwin and Mamie Galore	Day Tripper	45RPM Single	Imperial	1969	45	0:25:22 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Fifth Dimension	Ticket To Ride "Ticket To Ride" by "Fifth Dimension"	Magic Garden	Soul City	1967	LP	0:28:21 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Jose Feliciano	She's a Woman "She's a Woman" by "Jose Feliciano"	45RPM Single	RCA	1969	45	0:32:16 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Merit Hemmingson and the Meritones	She's a Woman	Discotheque Dance a Go Go	Sonet	1966	LP	0:37:23 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Morgana King	Got To Get You Into My Life	I Know How It Feels To Be Lonely	Verve	1968	LP	0:40:35 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Santo and Johnny	Hello Goodbye "Hello Goodbye" by "Santo and Johnny"	Golden Guitars	Imperial	1968	LP	0:43:11 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Ella Fitzgerald	Savoy Truffle "Savoy Truffle" by "Ella Fitzgerald"	45RPM Single	Reprise	1969	45	0:45:22 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Four Freshmen	Hey Jude "Hey Jude" by "Four Freshmen"	Different Strokes	Liberty	1969	LP	0:48:04 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Doc Severinsen	Abbey Road Medley "Abbey Road Medley" by "Doc Severinsen"	Doc Severinsen's Closet	Command	1970	LP	0:52:01 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)

Tams	Hey Jude "Hey Jude" by "Tams"	Portrait of the Tams	ABC	1969	LP	1:05:32 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
John Bishop	Come Together "Come Together" by "John Bishop"	John Bishop Plays His Guitar Doesn't He	TRC	1971	LP	1:09:39 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Carmen McRae	Something "Something" by "Carmen McRae"	Just a Little Lovin'	Atlantic	1970	LP	1:13:07 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
George Shearing Quintet and the Amigos	Eleanor Rigby	The Way We Are	MPS	1974	LP	1:16:12 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Bola Sete	Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight	Workin' On a Groovy Thing	Paramount	1971	LP	1:20:13 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Sam and Dave	We Can Work It Out "We Can Work It Out" by "Sam and Dave"	45RPM Single	Contempo	1977	45	1:22:39 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Shirley Scott	Because "Because" by "Shirley Scott"	Something	Atlantic	1970	LP	1:26:17 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Steve Marcus	Tomorrow Never Knows	Tomorrow Never Knows	Vortex	1968	LP	1:30:01 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
John Andrews Tartaglia	A Day In the Life	Good Morning Starshine	Capitol	1969	LP	1:41:03 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Big Jim Sullivan	Within You Without You	Sitar a Go Go	Mercury UK	1967	LP	1:45:19 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Overton Berry Trio	Hey Jude "Hey Jude" by "Overton Berry Trio"	At Seattle's Doubletree Inn	Jaro	1970	LP	1:48:41 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	LIke	1966	45	1:57:19 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:00pm Moog1 Radio: Calling all Beatle geeks!
	3:01pm Alex In Illinois: Where is everyone?
	🥁 3:01pm WR: Here to hear,
	3:01pm Alex In Illinois: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:00 Hi Moog1 Radio
	3:01pm Sem: Hey, Larry. Fab covers it is.
	3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Larry and all other listeners!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Alex! Kurt! WR! Sem! Andrew!
	3:03pm Moog1 Radio: The voices of Paul Frees and Lance Percival in the cartoon!
	3:03pm Erica: Ready for the covers Larry!
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:03 I can't tell you how disappointed I was as a kid to find out that it wasn't the Beatles actual voices
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:05 Same with Yellow Submarine
	3:06pm still b/p: I remember when the Beatles cartoon was on, though I don't recall seeing it much or recall what it was like. But I tell ya, that image of the cartoon lads elicits a wince. I'm wondering if just a couple years later, with fuller control of conditions and choices, they would've responded to that part of the mania and attention and licensing orgy with, "Uh, no."
	3:06pm Moog1 Radio: actually Lance Percival who did Paul and Ringo in The Beatles Cartoon voiced Old Fred in YS
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:06 Hey SBP! One of the great iuntold stories of the Beatles rise is what a hash Epstein made of their licensing
	3:09pm CalZone!: Howdy Larry, M1R, and all the rest...here on Grogan's Isle!
	3:09pm Jeff Ash: Late to the party, but greetings to all from Wisconsin!
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: Cal! Jeff!
	3:11pm doctorjazz: Hey Beatlemaniacs!
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	3:12pm StringOFperils: Oh, hey! Playing my song! Ha ha. Hey, Larry!
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey String!
	🥁 3:20pm WLSClark: Hi Larry, WR, Andrew, WR and all. Larry, I taped cartoon Beatles songs off TV back in 65 as a 9 year old and some of those had interesting EDITS of the songs. Sometimes lengthened to fit the cartoon better and some were horrible clip jobs.
	3:21pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi Clark!
	3:21pm Erica: I saw the movie Help! Once on PBS. All I remember is that they performed for Arabian people, Ringo lost a ring and they sang Ode to Joy or whatever that song was first called. I need to rewatch it again.
	🥁 3:22pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @3:21 Its certainly not on par with hard Days Night, but still great!
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:20 Hey Clark!
	3:24pm Moog1 Radio: Leo McKern! Victor Spinetti and Roy Kinnear! Didnt Victor and Roy appear together in a Mike and The Mechanics video in the 1980s?
	3:24pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:24 I think that's correct!
	🥁 3:24pm WR: Hi WLSClark
	🥁 3:25pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry
	3:26pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:25 Hey Brian!
	3:26pm Moog1 Radio: Both Leo McKern and Patrick Cargill starred in The Prisoner few years later.
	🥁 3:26pm WLSClark: Erica, sorry I missed you! Brian, Moog1.....
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:24 The question ism did Victor Spinetti's frustrated TV director become the mad scientist in HELP?
	3:27pm StringOFperils: I remember watching the cartoon Beatles do I'm Looking Through You over at my friend Stuart's place in the '60s. He had the cable. He had his aunt's Beatle records. He had the guitar. He had the neglect. It was our Beatle freedom.
	3:27pm Erica: ↳ WLSClark @3:26 Missed what? If it's saying hi it's okay.
	🥁 3:27pm Brian in UK: Toppermost of the Poppermost.
	3:28pm Moog1 Radio: I always wished they would go back and released the rest of Ken Thorne's soundtrack. Good stuff
	3:29pm still b/p: Just checked and the Help line that I remembered for years as "You're a failure aren't you, scientist?" is actually, "Scientist, you're getting nowhere." But my recollection of this is correct: "Go to the window. Go to the window."
	3:30pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:28 I like the use of instrumental versions of Beatle tunes in the background of some scenes
	3:30pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Ticket To Ride" by "Fifth Dimension" This is the kind of treatment that should have a variety show dance troupe carrying on around the performance.
	3:30pm Mike Sin: ↳ Song: "Got to Get You Into My Life" by "Cliff Bennett & ... I feel this is the type of drumming that should have been on the Beatles version.
	3:31pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mike Sin @3:30 Hey Mike! Yeah, great 45
	🥁 3:34pm WLSClark: Doesn't matter what song Jose sings, you KNOW it's his voice!
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:34 Underrated performer IMHO
	3:35pm StringOFperils: Killed by Feliz Navidad
	3:37pm Erica: ↳ StringOFperils @3:35 Sadly that was what made him well known
	🥁 3:38pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:34 Rain, One More Mile, Destiny my faves by him besides Light My Fire. ALL in my fave 45s.
	🥁 3:38pm WLSClark: ↳ StringOFperils @3:35 Is it me or does that song just get longer every year I hear it?
	3:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:35 Here's some weird trivia for you. Back about 37 years ago, my band did an in-studio performance at the old WFMU studios at Upsala, and among the songs we played was Feliz Navidad...
	3:39pm StringOFperils: ↳ Erica @3:37 Success in the pop marketplace can be precarious.
	🥁 3:39pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @3:37 Actually, the controversial National Anthem at World Series was the thing that made him news.
	🥁 3:40pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry and the Larrytones
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: I think Feliciano's longevity was damaged by the fact that he was a straight-up "entertainer". Never a singer/songwriter, stylist, but an all around showbiz guy, a breed that all but died out by the early 70s
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dutchtheo @3:40 Hey Theo!
	🥁 3:40pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:38 37 years ago, we did not have stations playing Christmas songs before the WEEK of Christmas--often not until the DAY!
	🥁 3:41pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:40 Chico and the man theme.....
	3:41pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:39 Have you ever heard Robert Klein's routine about that?
	🥁 3:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Got To Get You Into My Life" by "Morgana King" THE KISSING BANDIT was a singer?????
	3:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:42 The actress that played Mrs Don Corleone in the Godfather
	🥁 3:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:41 Nope!
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:42 It's funny. He talks about how racist the reaction to Feliciano's performance was
	🥁 3:44pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:42 OK< so not the kissing bandit. Whew!
	3:44pm still b/p: Oh, say can you see a tangent? Check out Albert Brooks' bit on auditioning a new national anthem.
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:44 I played it a few months back on the all-comedy show!
	🥁 3:45pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:44 Well, could be, but I would admit that before that, most singers sang it straight and now everyone does it however they want.
	3:46pm Moog1 Radio: Ahh, so the complete Ken Thorne Help! underscore is out there. It surfaced on a compilation CD called The Film Music Of Ken Thorne Volume 2.
	3:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:44 wfmu.org...
	3:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:46 I'll have to look for that!
	🥁 3:47pm WLSClark: Hope you dont play the Chairman's version of Something: "Great song by Lennon-McCartney" haha
	3:48pm still b/p: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:46 Shit! Have to put a dollah in the Didn't Listen That Day jar.
	🥁 3:48pm WLSClark: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:46 I WILL admit I like his Help intro. I used it in my drop in show a month ago.
	3:48pm Moog1 Radio: I would love to find the 45 of Octopus's Garden by Reparata & The Delrons. It has been on my wish list for a while.
	3:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Moog1 Radio @3:48 Or the Milton Berle version of Yellow Submarine
	3:49pm CalZone!: A ticket A Tasket, Ella found a yellow truffle!
	🥁 3:49pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Hey Jude" by "Four Freshmen" I kinda like Wilson Pickett's version, but wish he would not have done all those covers 68-70.
	3:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:48 That's what the archives are for!
	3:51pm Sem: This is the slowest elevator ride of my life.
	3:52pm Sem: ...and enjoying every moment.
	3:53pm Funky16Corners: This is from the album where Doc does In the Court of the Crimson King
	🥁 3:53pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Abbey Road Medley" by "Doc Severinsen" Loved that opening. Not sure now.
	3:55pm Sem: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:53 Really? How'd that work out?
	3:55pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:55 It's cool. I think I've played it on Testify! before
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: Oh yeah, RIP Burt Bacharach: wfmu.org...
	3:58pm Sem: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:55 Got it. Playlist from May 17, 2017
	3:59pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:57 I was about to ask if you were going to do a Burt Bacharach show in tribute to him but you already did.
	🥁 4:03pm dutchtheo: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:57 I didn't know the Shirelles' Baby It's You, and the Beatles cover on Please please me was a Burt Bacharach song.
	4:05pm wenzo: Wow Theo I didn’t know that!
	4:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ dutchtheo @4:03 Burt did the arrangement on the Shirelles 45
	4:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:47 No Chairman, just Carmen...
	4:16pm Funky16Corners: I have been reliably informed that Doc Severinsen is still with us at the age of 95!
	🥁 4:17pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:16 Great! What a band leader he was!
	4:22pm CalZone!: Loving the Bola Sete!
	🥁 4:22pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" by "Bola Sete" Get yer La las Out!
	4:24pm Erica: Smooth cover by Sam and Dave here.
	4:25pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:24 B-side of their last 45
	4:31pm doctorjazz: The Wicked Pickett's Hey Jude (with Duane) is the best EVER!!!
	4:32pm Mike Sin: Other than the Beatles going to sleep and then waking up the next morning to find out that another 50,000 copies of Abbey Road sold while they were in bed, Lennon and McCartney probably didn't know of so many of these covers until they received royalty statements. "Just who is this Doctor Severinsen?"
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mike Sin @4:32 Is he related to Doctor Robert?
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: I wonder if anyone ever interviewed either of them about their favorite covers of their songs?
	🥁 4:34pm WLSClark: ↳ Mike Sin @4:32 Im surprised the recently deceased Luoise Harrison didn't record any songs for that interview LP she put out. Probably didn't want to pay royalties.
	4:35pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:34 I got the impression she was estranged from George's family
	4:35pm Mike Sin: I think during the hours of "Get Back" tapes, you hear McCartney mention that he was happy to hear Fats Domino covered "Lady Madonna" or some such.
	🥁 4:36pm Brian in UK: Larry, have you played music from The Beatles 'Love' album? I like the what might be called mash-ups on it.
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 I have not, though I recall hearing it at some point
	4:37pm fredr: Afternoon Larry and all!
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ fredr @4:37 Hey fred!
	4:38pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Tomorrow Never Knows" by "Steve Marcus" This is cool!
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:38 Produced by Herbie Mann (Marcus was in his band at the time)
	🥁 4:39pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:35 Yeah, but in 63/4 when she was stumping for the band, she was kinda important to the fabs I think in US
	🥁 4:40pm WLSClark: ↳ Mike Sin @4:35 Well, I believe he did put out on 45 on Frank's label.
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:39 Yes, she was living here. George came over to visit her before they broke in the US
	🥁 4:41pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:40 I know she was on WLS some talking in the early days, as well as many other stations as the LP shows.
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:41 I have a vague recollection that she lived in Illinois, but I may be wrong
	🥁 4:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:42 Yes, down state.
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mike Sin @4:35 McCartney songs were a perfect fit for Fats!
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: Make sure to stay tuned for Kip and Discotech Underground when I'm done at 5:00 - wfmu.org...
	4:44pm Andrew in Toronto: That was great! Thanks Larry!
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:44 Thanks Andrew!
	4:46pm Erica: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:44 Still more left.
	4:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:46 Yes, indeed!
	🥁 4:50pm WLSClark: Being Super Bowl weekend, imagine if the Beatles would have performed that halftime show Jan 15, 1967! They could have played their new 45 "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields" with orchestra and shown off their shocking new hair!
	4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:50 I think Up With People were already booked
	4:51pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:50 Up with people?
	4:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:51 Google them. The whitest, stiffest, middle of the road-est group in history
	4:52pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:51 They sound boring Larry
	4:53pm Funky16Corners: They made the Doddletown Pipers look like Black Sabbath
	4:53pm Erica: ↳ Erica @4:52 *That
	4:53pm Discotech Underground: Hey Larry! Nice Beatles covers today! Join me for my 100th show right after Testify right here on the Drummer Streamt! wfmu.org...
	🥁 4:54pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @4:51 Pretty popular group, religious if I remember right? I used to know a member. They changed singers like many of those chorus groups then. Lasted a long time, tho.
	4:54pm Funky16Corners: They parodied them on the Simpsons, but I can't remember what they called them
	🥁 4:54pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:53 VERY boring but energetic singers at least.
	4:56pm Sem: Been most excellent fun. Thank you, Larry, and hope to see you again next time.
	4:57pm Erica: Great show Larry. RIP Burt Bacharach. See you all soon!
	🥁 4:58pm WLSClark: Great show. Love that ending theme.
	4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everyone!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from February 9, 2023

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