WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 4, 2023

Listener comments!
	3:01pm Yvang: Hello Larry and fellow testifyers!
	3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Larry and all other listeners!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Hey Yvang!
	3:01pm Erica: Hi Larry. May the 4th be with you!
	3:02pm Sem: Hello, Larry, Yvang, AiT, and Erica.
	3:02pm Jeff Ash: Good afternoon from Wisconsin, everyone!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:01 Hi Andrew!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:01 Hi Erica!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:02 Hey Sem!
	3:02pm Yvang: Sem,Erica,Andrew, Jeff!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Jeff Ash @3:02 Howdy Jeff!
	3:03pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi Yvang!
	3:03pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sem @3:02 Hello Sem!
	🥁 3:08pm WLSClark: Hi LARRY, ANDREW, Yvang, ERICA, Sam, Jeff! Keep spinning those great 45s!!!
	3:08pm Erica: It's a Carole King show I'm guessing?
	3:08pm Yvang: Did Yo La Tengo covered this?
	3:09pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Glad to be here... how's everyone doing today?
	🥁 3:09pm WLSClark: Hi Chef of Soul too!
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:08 I don't know. Hermans Hermits definitely did
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:08 Hi Clark!
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:08 You are correct!
	🥁 3:10pm WLSClark: Temps cant make up mind! Hey GIRL or My GIRL!
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:09 Hey Vincent!
	3:12pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Hey Girl" by "Temptations" Hey Larry! Nice version of Hey Girl!
	3:12pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Hi Clark!
	3:13pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @3:12 Hi doc!
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:12 Hey Doc!
	🥁 3:13pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Up On the Roof" by "Drifters" As the Cryan Shames #1 fan, I prefer their version of this classic. The band told me that after the success of Mamas & papas "dedicated" a year earlier, they thought it was a good idea.
	🥁 3:17pm WLSClark: Hi-De-Ho was a classic BS&T did that Carole's shortlived "City" group did and she wrote. GREAT song by her AND BS&T!
	🥁 3:18pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Hey Girl" by "Temptations" Big hit for Bobby Vee too!
	3:19pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:13 Theirs is a cool version!
	3:19pm CupcakeJenny: Hi everyone
	🥁 3:19pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Pleasant Valley Sunday" by "Carole King" Monkees did this great fo sure!
	3:20pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:19 Hi Mrs Grogan!
	3:20pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Yep... this is the greatest pop song ever written... by anyone... I will die on that hill.
	🥁 3:21pm WLSClark: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:19 Hi Cupcake Jenny! You should get together with Mom Whig and start a business!
	3:21pm CupcakeJenny: Hey hon
	3:22pm CupcakeJenny: What kind of business? 😃
	3:23pm adamdoesit: Hi Funky16Corners and witnesses. Larry, I’m sorry to hear of your loss.
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:21 Isn't Mom Whig famous for her cookies?
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ adamdoesit @3:23 Hi adamdoesit! Thanks!
	🥁 3:24pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:23 Very much so!
	3:25pm CupcakeJenny: Mi just like eating cupcakes. Not much of a baker with our oven.
	🥁 3:26pm WLSClark: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:25 Just had one for desert at lunch, so I understand that!
	🥁 3:28pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "That Old Sweet Roll (Hi De Ho)" by "The City" AND there it is!
	3:28pm CupcakeJenny: Lar, I’m off to find Trish at the other school and kill some time until tonight. Have to work. See you all later!
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:28 BS&T (among many others) covered the next one, too
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:28 Bye, Jenny! Good luck tonight!
	🥁 3:32pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Snow Queen" by "The City" Byzantine Empire from Chicago does this great too!
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:32 I have that 45. I should have dug it out!
	3:33pm Funky16Corners: There is another version coming, though
	🥁 3:33pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:32 Actually, I think several Chicago bands did her songs here and there.
	3:36pm doctorjazz: Hoping for Taj Mahal's Take A Giant Step (but with my luck, I'll be away from my radio if it does play...)
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:36 You'll be hearing him sing it soon, but not his solo recording
	3:39pm adamdoesit: doc, I read yesterday that Taj Mahal is opening Celebrate Brooklyn this year.
	3:39pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Goin' Back" by "The Byrds" The version I know (and probably many other folks), never heard Carole King's version. The Byrds were masters of cover versions, of course!
	3:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ adamdoesit @3:39 Taj is my Rebbe! I saw him a bunch of times, many years back, would love to catch him again (I hadn't seen the Celebrate Brooklyn Schedule). Thanks, Adam!
	3:41pm Funky16Corners: This is Taj with the Rising Sons, featuring Ed Cassidy on drums, who would have been 100 today!
	3:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Take a Giant Step" by "Rising Sons" Pre-Solo Taj! Cool Version!
	3:42pm Funky16Corners: Though Ed may not be on this (probably Kevin Kelley)
	🥁 3:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Take a Giant Step" by "Rising Sons" I'll stick with Monkees B side.
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: I love the Ry Cooder guitar on this.
	3:43pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Take a Giant Step" by "Rising Sons" Groovy wild rendition of the song. I need to check out that Los Angeles Nuggets compilation by our own Andrew Sandoval.
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: This may be my fave Carole King song (after Pleasant Valley Sunday)
	🥁 3:44pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Don't Bring Me Down" by "Animals" If you saw the Carole King play that toured, I found it cool how they decided they needed to get into the Brit market and did so SUCCESSFULLY with this one!
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:44 Her songs hit it big in the UK, too, something like 60 chart hits
	3:45pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Wait, THIS is a Carole King composition?!?
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:45 Yessir!
	3:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:43 Ry Cooder is cool, he plays on the early Taj solo albums as well (this version of Giant Step was fun, but I still like the version on his Giant Step album better)
	3:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:46 Plays on early Captain Beefheart, too!
	3:48pm Funky16Corners: This one produced and arranged by Jack Nitzsche
	🥁 3:49pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Don't Forget About Me" by "PJ Proby" Again, another Chicago band song too. American Breed's 2nd single 1967!
	3:51pm Funky16Corners: Next one's for Jeff...
	3:52pm Erica: And one for Andrew Sandoval lol.
	🥁 3:52pm WLSClark: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:20 The Soul Chef is quite happy!
	3:53pm Erica: Seriously though this is the best version of Pleasant Valley Sunday. 🙈 🙉 🙊
	3:53pm Funky16Corners: This is a top fiver for me, any genre, any period
	3:54pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ WLSClark @3:52 Yes I am... and I always forget that the stereo mix of this is different from the mono
	3:56pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ...and I am still actively looking for an original pressing of this record, sans the extra minute tacked on the end $$$
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:56 This is from the 45. Arranged by Jack Nitzsche
	🥁 3:58pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:57 I got the 45 when it came out as a DJ 45 and was very surprised by the sound.
	3:58pm adamdoesit: Didn’t this open “Head?” That’s ripe for rewatching.
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:58 It reminds me at times of Expecting to Fly by Buffalo Springfield, which Nitzsche also had his hands on
	4:00pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:57 I have the 45, but the LP is what I really want... The 1985 reissue has a pressing flaw.
	4:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ adamdoesit @3:58 It does
	🥁 4:03pm WLSClark: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:00 Head LP, I assume? Its hard to find without any wear for sure.
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: This is the first recording of Snow Queen
	4:05pm Funky16Corners: Sorry about that gap...
	4:06pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ WLSClark @4:03 Yes...
	4:07pm Mike Sin: Enjoying the show! I didn’t hear that City LP and its entirety until an RSD reissue or some such some years back. Pretty strong album
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mike Sin @4:07 Hey Mike!
	4:09pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Take a Giant Step" by "Stone River Boys" That's an interesting take on this...
	4:10pm StringOFperils: Hey there, Larry 'n' all !
	4:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:10 Hey String!
	4:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:09 This is a good album
	🥁 4:13pm WLSClark: ↳ Mike Sin @4:07 One wonders how long Ode label woulda continued without Tapestry a year after City LP flopped.
	🥁 4:16pm WLSClark: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:06 You might like this. I thought it so funny when I got the new Billboard in Dec 68 and it picked the 3 heavyweight bands of the time all next to each other! White, Silver and White Lp covers same week! Scroll down to page 70. worldradiohistory.com...
	4:19pm coelacanth∅: a whole lotta Kingdom today... hi Larry and all
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:19 Hey C!
	🥁 4:23pm WLSClark: THIS song may have made carole more money than any of HER hits.
	4:23pm Erica: You make me feel...
	4:24pm Erica: ↳ Song: "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" by "Aret... Haven't heard this one in a long while.
	4:24pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:16 That's wild!
	🥁 4:24pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:24 You never think that these 3 basically BORING covers were all same time and by huge artists.
	4:25pm Sem: This tune could be cited as an example of divine inspiration.
	🥁 4:26pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "I Can't Hear You" by "Betty Everett" Helen Reddy hit in 70's if I remember right?
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:26 You are correct!
	4:27pm coelacanth∅: WLSC -in no small measure because of being used in a tv commercial!
	4:28pm Funky16Corners: Make sure to stay tuned for the Knave when I'm done today: wfmu.org...
	🥁 4:29pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:28 I cant stay but KIP of all people has a guest DJ???? Wild!
	4:31pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:29 Kip's off digging for records in Texas!
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: This was actually a minor hit for Roberta!
	🥁 4:32pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" by "Roberta Flack" You probably wont believe this, but my fave version of this one is 4 Seasons! After Cryan Shames failed with Up On Roof spring 68, Seasons dig up a different one and hit well about same time. Go figure.
	4:33pm coelacanth∅: Roberta may be the only singer i'd trust with a mellow version of this!
	4:34pm coelacanth∅: (imagine the shitshow of someone on today's top 40 chart covering it?!)
	🥁 4:35pm WLSClark: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:34 Isnt the theme same as all these rap records today--just more horrible lyrics.
	🥁 4:36pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry, hope life is treating you well. S'funny I was thinking about Carol King's amazing number of wonderful songs recently. The only Monkees record I ever bought was Pleasant Valley Sunday 45.
	🥁 4:36pm WLSClark: Gotta go, but great stuff Larry!
	4:36pm Erica: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 Hi Brian. Glad you join us for the rest of the show
	🥁 4:37pm Brian in UK: Hello Erica.
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 Hi Brian!
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:36 Thanks Clark!
	4:38pm coelacanth∅: olá Brian! tchau WLSC
	4:39pm Erica: Loving this jazzy cover.
	🥁 4:39pm Brian in UK: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:38 Good to see to surfacing from the depths.
	🥁 4:42pm Brian in UK: It was a great move of Randy California to get his step Dad, Ed Cassidy, to play in Spirit. What a great crisp drummer.
	4:42pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Ha! Here we go... another LP I seriously need to upgrade. My copy is beyond fried...
	4:44pm Jeff Ash: One of the excellent covers off the Isleys' "Brother, Brother, Brother" LP. It was one of their first records I found some 15 years ago.
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Jeff Ash @4:44 I'd go as far as to say that THIS is the definitive version
	4:45pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:45 I wholeheartedly concur...
	4:45pm coelacanth∅: i had the pleasure of an unusually conscious ~25-year-old renting my other bedroom a few years ago. one day he said he'd bought a Carole King album because he'd been made aware of a great significance. unfortunately not tapestry and he said he doesn't get it at all...which i can easily understand, depending on what album he got. i told him about all the music she'd written but he'd never heard of the ones i named. oh well. i have complete confidence he'll appreciate her one day though.
	4:46pm StringOFperils: ↳ Brian in UK @4:42 Is that true? I always assumed that Ed, being Randy Wolfe's step-dad and a jazz drummer, and a guy already on the west-coast scene (and already half way to rock in The Rising Sons), mentored the kid and that they were kinda the family that played together and stayed together. Honest question, because I don't know.
	4:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:45 I'm gettting to the point where I shake my head at "the kids" a couple of times a day. I saw someone write an article about the passing of Gordon Lightfoot in which they (with Google at their disposal) credited him with writing Me and Bobby McGhee. Come ON...
	4:47pm Andrew in Toronto: That was another fantastic show! ThanksLarry!
	4:48pm coelacanth∅: i Love Love Love the Isleys, and some of their covers easily rival the originals... but i think Carole's 'too late' is IT.
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:47 Thanks, Andrew!
	4:48pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 No words... damn.
	4:50pm Sem: Marvelous. Grateful for the work that goes into this show each week. Thank you, Larry.
	4:50pm StringOFperils: ↳ StringOFperils @4:46 Maybe it was to keep him from going to London with Jimi? I do know that he wasn't allowed to go because he was too young. I should track this down...as a die-hard Spirit fan...
	🥁 4:50pm Brian in UK: ↳ StringOFperils @4:46 That is how I understand it but Spirit kind of slipped through the cracks. Bob Brainen did tribute a while back. Fresh Garbage one of the great opening traks on a first album, along with Steely Dan's Do It Again.
	4:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:50 Thanks, Sem!
	4:51pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 really?! - and sadly, most people reading it really don't care... "yeah,one of those old songs"
	4:52pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Another superb show...
	🥁 4:52pm Brian in UK: ↳ StringOFperils @4:50 Spirit of 76 is a very satisfying double album. Like a Rolling Stone is the best.
	4:53pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, dug the King exploration!
	4:53pm StringOFperils: ↳ Brian in UK @4:50 I also don't quite get how they were on the west coast re. the Jimi connection, who I understand to have been in NYNY, where he was teaching Velvert Turner and Richard Lloyd to play guitar....arcane shit this stuff...
	🥁 4:54pm Brian in UK: ↳ StringOFperils @4:53 Oh the mists of time.
	🥁 4:54pm Yvang: Excellent show! Thanks Larry!
	4:54pm spodiodi: thanks, Larry! great show
	4:54pm StringOFperils: Anyway, God bless Carole King and Larry Grogan and all who sail with him
	4:55pm Erica: Amazing Carole King show Larry! Happy Star Wars Day!
	4:55pm adamdoesit: Thanks, Larry!
	4:55pm Funky16Corners: Thank you all for listening!
	🥁 4:55pm Brian in UK: Larry, good to see that you are back in mid-season form.
	4:55pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:55 Thanks, Brian!
	4:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! Excellent !
	4:58pm Funky16Corners: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:57 Thanks, C!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 4, 2023

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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)
The Drifters	Some Kind of Wonderful	45RPM Single	Atlantic	1961	45	0:01:22 (Pop-up)
The Cookies	Chains "Chains" by "The Cookies"	45RPM Single	Dimension	1962	45	0:03:43 (Pop-up)
Earl Jean	I'm Into Something Good	45RPM Single	Colpix	1964	45	0:06:13 (Pop-up)
Temptations	Hey Girl "Hey Girl" by "Temptations"	Cloud Nine	Gordy	1969	LP	0:09:04 (Pop-up)
Drifters	Up On the Roof "Up On the Roof" by "Drifters"	45RPM Single	Atlantic	1962	45	0:11:36 (Pop-up)

Carole King	Pleasant Valley Sunday	The Legendary Demos	Hear Music	2012	CD	0:18:33 (Pop-up)
The City	Paradise Alley "Paradise Alley" by "The City"	45RPM Single	Ode	1968	45	0:20:54 (Pop-up)
The City	Why Are You Leaving "Why Are You Leaving" by "The City"	45RPM Single	Ode	1968	45	0:23:53 (Pop-up)
The City	That Old Sweet Roll (Hi De Ho)	45RPM Single	Ode	1968	45	0:27:24 (Pop-up)
The City	Snow Queen "Snow Queen" by "The City"	45RPM Single	Ode	1968	45	0:30:24 (Pop-up)
Carole King`	Goin' Back "Goin' Back" by "Carole King`"	Writer: Carole King	Ode	1970	LP	0:34:02 (Pop-up)
The Byrds	Goin' Back "Goin' Back" by "The Byrds"	Notorious Byrd Brothers	Columbia	1968	LP	0:37:16 (Pop-up)
Rising Sons	Take a Giant Step "Take a Giant Step" by "Rising Sons"	Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968	Rhino	2009	CD	0:40:41 (Pop-up)
Animals	Don't Bring Me Down "Don't Bring Me Down" by "Animals"	45RPM Single	MGM	1966	45	0:43:31 (Pop-up)
PJ Proby	Don't Forget About Me "Don't Forget About Me" by "PJ Proby"	Enigma	Imperial	1967	LP	0:46:42 (Pop-up)
Ray Martin and His Orchestra	Pleasant Valley Sunday	Up Up and Away	Camden	1967	LP	0:49:18 (Pop-up)
Monkees	Pleasant Valley Sunday "Pleasant Valley Sunday" by "Monkees"	Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd.	Colgems	1967		0:52:00 (Pop-up)
Monkees	Porpoise Song "Porpoise Song" by "Monkees"	Head	Colgems	1968	45	0:55:10 (Pop-up)
Tom Northcott	Spaceship Races "Spaceship Races" by "Tom Northcott"	Upside Downside	UNI	1971	LP	0:59:08 (Pop-up)
Roger Nichols Trio	Snow Queen "Snow Queen" by "Roger Nichols Trio"	45RPM Single	A&M	1967	45	1:01:56 (Pop-up)
Peggy Lipton	Lady of the Lake "Lady of the Lake" by "Peggy Lipton"	Peggy Lipton	Ode	1968	LP	1:05:42 (Pop-up)
Stone River Boys	Take a Giant Step	Love On the Dial	Cow Island	2010	CD	1:08:30 (Pop-up)

Aretha Franklin	(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman	45RPM Single	Atlantic	1967	45	1:22:23 (Pop-up)
Betty Everett	I Can't Hear You "I Can't Hear You" by "Betty Everett"	45RPM Single	Veejay	1964	45	1:25:05 (Pop-up)
Dusty Springfield	Don't Forget About Me	45RPM Single	Atlantic	1969	45	1:27:28 (Pop-up)
Roberta Flack	Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?	Quiet Fire	Atlantic	1971	LP	1:30:12 (Pop-up)
Sally Kellerman	Paradise Alley "Paradise Alley" by "Sally Kellerman"	Roll With the Feelin'	Decca	1972	LP	1:34:14 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo	It's Going To Take Some Time	Mizrab	CTI	1973	LP	1:37:13 (Pop-up)
Isley Brothers	It's Too Late "It's Too Late" by "Isley Brothers"	45RPM Single	T-Neck	1973	45	1:41:19 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:54:32 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:01pm Yvang: Hello Larry and fellow testifyers!
	3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Larry and all other listeners!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Hey Yvang!
	3:01pm Erica: Hi Larry. May the 4th be with you!
	3:02pm Sem: Hello, Larry, Yvang, AiT, and Erica.
	3:02pm Jeff Ash: Good afternoon from Wisconsin, everyone!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:01 Hi Andrew!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:01 Hi Erica!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:02 Hey Sem!
	3:02pm Yvang: Sem,Erica,Andrew, Jeff!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Jeff Ash @3:02 Howdy Jeff!
	3:03pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi Yvang!
	3:03pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sem @3:02 Hello Sem!
	🥁 3:08pm WLSClark: Hi LARRY, ANDREW, Yvang, ERICA, Sam, Jeff! Keep spinning those great 45s!!!
	3:08pm Erica: It's a Carole King show I'm guessing?
	3:08pm Yvang: Did Yo La Tengo covered this?
	3:09pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Glad to be here... how's everyone doing today?
	🥁 3:09pm WLSClark: Hi Chef of Soul too!
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:08 I don't know. Hermans Hermits definitely did
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:08 Hi Clark!
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:08 You are correct!
	🥁 3:10pm WLSClark: Temps cant make up mind! Hey GIRL or My GIRL!
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:09 Hey Vincent!
	3:12pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Hey Girl" by "Temptations" Hey Larry! Nice version of Hey Girl!
	3:12pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Hi Clark!
	3:13pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @3:12 Hi doc!
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:12 Hey Doc!
	🥁 3:13pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Up On the Roof" by "Drifters" As the Cryan Shames #1 fan, I prefer their version of this classic. The band told me that after the success of Mamas & papas "dedicated" a year earlier, they thought it was a good idea.
	🥁 3:17pm WLSClark: Hi-De-Ho was a classic BS&T did that Carole's shortlived "City" group did and she wrote. GREAT song by her AND BS&T!
	🥁 3:18pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Hey Girl" by "Temptations" Big hit for Bobby Vee too!
	3:19pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:13 Theirs is a cool version!
	3:19pm CupcakeJenny: Hi everyone
	🥁 3:19pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Pleasant Valley Sunday" by "Carole King" Monkees did this great fo sure!
	3:20pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:19 Hi Mrs Grogan!
	3:20pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Yep... this is the greatest pop song ever written... by anyone... I will die on that hill.
	🥁 3:21pm WLSClark: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:19 Hi Cupcake Jenny! You should get together with Mom Whig and start a business!
	3:21pm CupcakeJenny: Hey hon
	3:22pm CupcakeJenny: What kind of business? 😃
	3:23pm adamdoesit: Hi Funky16Corners and witnesses. Larry, I’m sorry to hear of your loss.
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:21 Isn't Mom Whig famous for her cookies?
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ adamdoesit @3:23 Hi adamdoesit! Thanks!
	🥁 3:24pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:23 Very much so!
	3:25pm CupcakeJenny: Mi just like eating cupcakes. Not much of a baker with our oven.
	🥁 3:26pm WLSClark: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:25 Just had one for desert at lunch, so I understand that!
	🥁 3:28pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "That Old Sweet Roll (Hi De Ho)" by "The City" AND there it is!
	3:28pm CupcakeJenny: Lar, I’m off to find Trish at the other school and kill some time until tonight. Have to work. See you all later!
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:28 BS&T (among many others) covered the next one, too
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:28 Bye, Jenny! Good luck tonight!
	🥁 3:32pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Snow Queen" by "The City" Byzantine Empire from Chicago does this great too!
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:32 I have that 45. I should have dug it out!
	3:33pm Funky16Corners: There is another version coming, though
	🥁 3:33pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:32 Actually, I think several Chicago bands did her songs here and there.
	3:36pm doctorjazz: Hoping for Taj Mahal's Take A Giant Step (but with my luck, I'll be away from my radio if it does play...)
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:36 You'll be hearing him sing it soon, but not his solo recording
	3:39pm adamdoesit: doc, I read yesterday that Taj Mahal is opening Celebrate Brooklyn this year.
	3:39pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Goin' Back" by "The Byrds" The version I know (and probably many other folks), never heard Carole King's version. The Byrds were masters of cover versions, of course!
	3:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ adamdoesit @3:39 Taj is my Rebbe! I saw him a bunch of times, many years back, would love to catch him again (I hadn't seen the Celebrate Brooklyn Schedule). Thanks, Adam!
	3:41pm Funky16Corners: This is Taj with the Rising Sons, featuring Ed Cassidy on drums, who would have been 100 today!
	3:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Take a Giant Step" by "Rising Sons" Pre-Solo Taj! Cool Version!
	3:42pm Funky16Corners: Though Ed may not be on this (probably Kevin Kelley)
	🥁 3:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Take a Giant Step" by "Rising Sons" I'll stick with Monkees B side.
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: I love the Ry Cooder guitar on this.
	3:43pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Take a Giant Step" by "Rising Sons" Groovy wild rendition of the song. I need to check out that Los Angeles Nuggets compilation by our own Andrew Sandoval.
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: This may be my fave Carole King song (after Pleasant Valley Sunday)
	🥁 3:44pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Don't Bring Me Down" by "Animals" If you saw the Carole King play that toured, I found it cool how they decided they needed to get into the Brit market and did so SUCCESSFULLY with this one!
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:44 Her songs hit it big in the UK, too, something like 60 chart hits
	3:45pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Wait, THIS is a Carole King composition?!?
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:45 Yessir!
	3:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:43 Ry Cooder is cool, he plays on the early Taj solo albums as well (this version of Giant Step was fun, but I still like the version on his Giant Step album better)
	3:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:46 Plays on early Captain Beefheart, too!
	3:48pm Funky16Corners: This one produced and arranged by Jack Nitzsche
	🥁 3:49pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Don't Forget About Me" by "PJ Proby" Again, another Chicago band song too. American Breed's 2nd single 1967!
	3:51pm Funky16Corners: Next one's for Jeff...
	3:52pm Erica: And one for Andrew Sandoval lol.
	🥁 3:52pm WLSClark: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:20 The Soul Chef is quite happy!
	3:53pm Erica: Seriously though this is the best version of Pleasant Valley Sunday. 🙈 🙉 🙊
	3:53pm Funky16Corners: This is a top fiver for me, any genre, any period
	3:54pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ WLSClark @3:52 Yes I am... and I always forget that the stereo mix of this is different from the mono
	3:56pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ...and I am still actively looking for an original pressing of this record, sans the extra minute tacked on the end $$$
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:56 This is from the 45. Arranged by Jack Nitzsche
	🥁 3:58pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:57 I got the 45 when it came out as a DJ 45 and was very surprised by the sound.
	3:58pm adamdoesit: Didn’t this open “Head?” That’s ripe for rewatching.
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:58 It reminds me at times of Expecting to Fly by Buffalo Springfield, which Nitzsche also had his hands on
	4:00pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:57 I have the 45, but the LP is what I really want... The 1985 reissue has a pressing flaw.
	4:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ adamdoesit @3:58 It does
	🥁 4:03pm WLSClark: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:00 Head LP, I assume? Its hard to find without any wear for sure.
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: This is the first recording of Snow Queen
	4:05pm Funky16Corners: Sorry about that gap...
	4:06pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ WLSClark @4:03 Yes...
	4:07pm Mike Sin: Enjoying the show! I didn’t hear that City LP and its entirety until an RSD reissue or some such some years back. Pretty strong album
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mike Sin @4:07 Hey Mike!
	4:09pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Take a Giant Step" by "Stone River Boys" That's an interesting take on this...
	4:10pm StringOFperils: Hey there, Larry 'n' all !
	4:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:10 Hey String!
	4:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:09 This is a good album
	🥁 4:13pm WLSClark: ↳ Mike Sin @4:07 One wonders how long Ode label woulda continued without Tapestry a year after City LP flopped.
	🥁 4:16pm WLSClark: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:06 You might like this. I thought it so funny when I got the new Billboard in Dec 68 and it picked the 3 heavyweight bands of the time all next to each other! White, Silver and White Lp covers same week! Scroll down to page 70. worldradiohistory.com...
	4:19pm coelacanth∅: a whole lotta Kingdom today... hi Larry and all
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:19 Hey C!
	🥁 4:23pm WLSClark: THIS song may have made carole more money than any of HER hits.
	4:23pm Erica: You make me feel...
	4:24pm Erica: ↳ Song: "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" by "Aret... Haven't heard this one in a long while.
	4:24pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:16 That's wild!
	🥁 4:24pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:24 You never think that these 3 basically BORING covers were all same time and by huge artists.
	4:25pm Sem: This tune could be cited as an example of divine inspiration.
	🥁 4:26pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "I Can't Hear You" by "Betty Everett" Helen Reddy hit in 70's if I remember right?
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:26 You are correct!
	4:27pm coelacanth∅: WLSC -in no small measure because of being used in a tv commercial!
	4:28pm Funky16Corners: Make sure to stay tuned for the Knave when I'm done today: wfmu.org...
	🥁 4:29pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:28 I cant stay but KIP of all people has a guest DJ???? Wild!
	4:31pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:29 Kip's off digging for records in Texas!
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: This was actually a minor hit for Roberta!
	🥁 4:32pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" by "Roberta Flack" You probably wont believe this, but my fave version of this one is 4 Seasons! After Cryan Shames failed with Up On Roof spring 68, Seasons dig up a different one and hit well about same time. Go figure.
	4:33pm coelacanth∅: Roberta may be the only singer i'd trust with a mellow version of this!
	4:34pm coelacanth∅: (imagine the shitshow of someone on today's top 40 chart covering it?!)
	🥁 4:35pm WLSClark: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:34 Isnt the theme same as all these rap records today--just more horrible lyrics.
	🥁 4:36pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry, hope life is treating you well. S'funny I was thinking about Carol King's amazing number of wonderful songs recently. The only Monkees record I ever bought was Pleasant Valley Sunday 45.
	🥁 4:36pm WLSClark: Gotta go, but great stuff Larry!
	4:36pm Erica: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 Hi Brian. Glad you join us for the rest of the show
	🥁 4:37pm Brian in UK: Hello Erica.
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 Hi Brian!
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:36 Thanks Clark!
	4:38pm coelacanth∅: olá Brian! tchau WLSC
	4:39pm Erica: Loving this jazzy cover.
	🥁 4:39pm Brian in UK: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:38 Good to see to surfacing from the depths.
	🥁 4:42pm Brian in UK: It was a great move of Randy California to get his step Dad, Ed Cassidy, to play in Spirit. What a great crisp drummer.
	4:42pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Ha! Here we go... another LP I seriously need to upgrade. My copy is beyond fried...
	4:44pm Jeff Ash: One of the excellent covers off the Isleys' "Brother, Brother, Brother" LP. It was one of their first records I found some 15 years ago.
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Jeff Ash @4:44 I'd go as far as to say that THIS is the definitive version
	4:45pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:45 I wholeheartedly concur...
	4:45pm coelacanth∅: i had the pleasure of an unusually conscious ~25-year-old renting my other bedroom a few years ago. one day he said he'd bought a Carole King album because he'd been made aware of a great significance. unfortunately not tapestry and he said he doesn't get it at all...which i can easily understand, depending on what album he got. i told him about all the music she'd written but he'd never heard of the ones i named. oh well. i have complete confidence he'll appreciate her one day though.
	4:46pm StringOFperils: ↳ Brian in UK @4:42 Is that true? I always assumed that Ed, being Randy Wolfe's step-dad and a jazz drummer, and a guy already on the west-coast scene (and already half way to rock in The Rising Sons), mentored the kid and that they were kinda the family that played together and stayed together. Honest question, because I don't know.
	4:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:45 I'm gettting to the point where I shake my head at "the kids" a couple of times a day. I saw someone write an article about the passing of Gordon Lightfoot in which they (with Google at their disposal) credited him with writing Me and Bobby McGhee. Come ON...
	4:47pm Andrew in Toronto: That was another fantastic show! ThanksLarry!
	4:48pm coelacanth∅: i Love Love Love the Isleys, and some of their covers easily rival the originals... but i think Carole's 'too late' is IT.
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:47 Thanks, Andrew!
	4:48pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 No words... damn.
	4:50pm Sem: Marvelous. Grateful for the work that goes into this show each week. Thank you, Larry.
	4:50pm StringOFperils: ↳ StringOFperils @4:46 Maybe it was to keep him from going to London with Jimi? I do know that he wasn't allowed to go because he was too young. I should track this down...as a die-hard Spirit fan...
	🥁 4:50pm Brian in UK: ↳ StringOFperils @4:46 That is how I understand it but Spirit kind of slipped through the cracks. Bob Brainen did tribute a while back. Fresh Garbage one of the great opening traks on a first album, along with Steely Dan's Do It Again.
	4:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:50 Thanks, Sem!
	4:51pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 really?! - and sadly, most people reading it really don't care... "yeah,one of those old songs"
	4:52pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Another superb show...
	🥁 4:52pm Brian in UK: ↳ StringOFperils @4:50 Spirit of 76 is a very satisfying double album. Like a Rolling Stone is the best.
	4:53pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, dug the King exploration!
	4:53pm StringOFperils: ↳ Brian in UK @4:50 I also don't quite get how they were on the west coast re. the Jimi connection, who I understand to have been in NYNY, where he was teaching Velvert Turner and Richard Lloyd to play guitar....arcane shit this stuff...
	🥁 4:54pm Brian in UK: ↳ StringOFperils @4:53 Oh the mists of time.
	🥁 4:54pm Yvang: Excellent show! Thanks Larry!
	4:54pm spodiodi: thanks, Larry! great show
	4:54pm StringOFperils: Anyway, God bless Carole King and Larry Grogan and all who sail with him
	4:55pm Erica: Amazing Carole King show Larry! Happy Star Wars Day!
	4:55pm adamdoesit: Thanks, Larry!
	4:55pm Funky16Corners: Thank you all for listening!
	🥁 4:55pm Brian in UK: Larry, good to see that you are back in mid-season form.
	4:55pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:55 Thanks, Brian!
	4:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! Excellent !
	4:58pm Funky16Corners: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:57 Thanks, C!

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