WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from December 19, 2024

Listener comments!
	3:00pm Erica: Seasons Greetings Larry!
	🥁 3:00pm bradford: Hey there Larry & fellow Testifiers!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:00 Hey Erica!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @3:00 Hi bradford!
	🥁 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Larry! Hi testifiers!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Yvang!
	3:02pm he's Crafty: Hi Larry, hi everybody!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: ↳ he's Crafty @3:02 Howdy Crafty!
	3:06pm StringOFperils: Christmas tree/Gen tree; I see what you're doing here....
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:06 Hi String!
	🥁 3:06pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & commenters.
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:06 Hey Brian!
	3:06pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Hi there, larry, and all other groovers!
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:06 Hello Andrew!
	3:07pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Hi there, larry, and all other groovers!
	3:07pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Hey, again, Yvang!
	3:09pm doctorjazz: What's happened to my appetite? I haven't eaten a single bite! Hi Larry, Testifiers!
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:09 Hi Doc!
	🥁 3:10pm Brian in UK: Amazing; barely ten years before she cut & ran. Cannot blame her.
	🥁 3:10pm WLSClark: Hi Larry, Andrew, Erica, bradford, Yvang, crafty, SoP, Brian, DrJ! Ode to Billie Christmas to you all!
	3:10pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @3:09 Hi, again, doc!
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Hey Clark!
	3:11pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Hi, there, Clark!
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:10 One of the great musical enigmas
	🥁 3:11pm bradford: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Howdy Clark!
	3:11pm Erica: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Haha thanks WLS.
	🥁 3:12pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:11 As enigmatic as this song.
	3:13pm Erica: So we're hearing Ode to Billie Joe covers along with the Christmas show today.
	🥁 3:13pm Brian in UK: She did have great hair though.
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:13 That is correct
	🥁 3:14pm Mollywog: Happy Thursday and happy holidays all!
	3:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mollywog @3:14 Hye Mollywog!
	🥁 3:14pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @3:13 The story just wont go away.
	3:14pm Erica: Can't believe there's only less than a week until Christmas yet it still doesn't feel like Christmas time.
	3:15pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:14 Yeah, it's been so warm the last couple of days I've been going out without a jacket.
	🥁 3:16pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:15 Yeah, no jacket in Lincoln today, but have 50 MPH winds. 330 days without measurable snow. record!
	3:16pm zzz: hey @F16C! was just talking about the truly killer Lou Donaldson version of Ode to Billie Joe with the sweet sweet Idris Muhammad drums
	🥁 3:16pm Yvang: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Hi WLSClark!
	3:16pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:15 No i meant I still haven't finished preparing. I got distracted by other stuff going on and now I need to get wrapping done, plus finishing up shopping Saturday and decorating downstairs.
	🥁 3:17pm Mollywog: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Lester Flatt and Earl Scru... I've heard a lot of covers for this song, but never this one!
	3:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @3:16 Hi zzz!
	3:17pm StringOFperils: Not feeling Christmas is a long-established tradition. Probably a no kids thing.
	3:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mollywog @3:17 Flatt and Scruggs did some unusual cover versions
	3:17pm zzz: missed the Johnny Hammond Smith version at the top but ill check that one out
	3:17pm Erica: ↳ StringOFperils @3:17 And no snow either.
	3:17pm still b/p: Saw Durante in an Ed Sullivan excerpt the other night. Just being so...Durante. The Ode vibe from Lester and Earl seems meant for nodding off in the porch swing.
	3:17pm doctorjazz: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 H WLSClark!
	3:18pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:10 Hello again Andrew!
	3:18pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:17 Hey SBP! I'm a BIG Durante fan.
	3:19pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:16 I have most of my shopping done. I haven't wrapped anything but I'll have plenty of time.
	3:19pm zzz: a lot of groovy covers of this i'm learning, not surprisingly
	🥁 3:19pm Yvang: I discovered this song through the french version by Joe Dassin. It's called "Marie Jeanne". youtu.be...
	3:20pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:19 I may even have a French Canadian version (maybe with that title) in the stacks
	3:20pm zzz: ↳ Yvang @3:19 oooh YESSSSS!
	3:20pm David The Splatter: Afternoon, Larry and all!
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David The Splatter @3:20 Hi David!
	3:21pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from snowy Wisconsin, everyone! Bridges -- even the Tallahatchie Bridge -- ice over first!
	🥁 3:21pm Yvang: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:20 Completely different lyrics from the english version!
	3:22pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Jeff Ash @3:21 Hey Jeff!
	3:22pm StringOFperils: No snow good! Snow....bad. Bad bad bad snow. I'd hope for April 1st under my tree. If I had a tree. *It's my capacity for damp cold that's 3 sizes too small.
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: We may actually get a little snow this weekend. Temps are supposed to go way down. Of course, this being NJ it'll be 80 on Christmas
	🥁 3:23pm Brian in UK: A song with subtitles.
	3:24pm doctorjazz: Snow off and on in the NY/NJ area next few days, according to the report.
	3:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Joe Tex" Bet Billie Joe had Skinny Legs...
	🥁 3:26pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:23 Yeah it's 50's today and below zero wind chill tonight! That CAN be Nebraska, but lately years have been great.
	🥁 3:26pm WLSClark: ↳ doctorjazz @3:25 hahaha
	3:27pm David The Splatter: ↳ Jeff Ash @3:21 "Bridge Ices Before Road", I thought that was PA's state motto when I was young.
	3:31pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David The Splatter @3:27 It was years before I understood that warning.
	3:32pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Louis Bellson" This version is growing on me, the soul food line did it for me.
	3:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:32 You mean the Joe Tex?
	🥁 3:33pm Brian in UK: Jimmie Haskell, peerless as ever.
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:33 Oh yeah, one of the finest arrangers ever
	3:36pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Cal Tjader" The drum sound on this album is perfection.
	🥁 3:39pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Alan Copeland Conspiracy" An album title that could only be 1967.
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Alan Copeland Conspiracy" Alan Copeland who appeared as a member of Felix Unger's band on The Odd Couple
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:39 Seriously
	3:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Jerome Richardson" Nice!
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:42 This is a great album
	🥁 3:43pm Mollywog: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:40 I live for trivia like that!
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mollywog @3:43 That's like 25% of my brain.
	3:49pm Erica: So many instrumental versions.
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:49 Oh yeah. I could do this show again with all different versions. TONS of them.
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Charlie McCoy" love how he's mimicing the string lines with the chromatic harmonica
	3:51pm StringOFperils: Totally forgot about Charlie McCoy
	3:51pm Funky16Corners: The next one is really interesting...
	3:51pm CupcakeJenny: Hi everyone!
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:51 Hi Mrs Grogan!
	3:54pm Erica: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:51 Hi Jenny.
	3:55pm Jeff Ash: Greetings, Jen!
	3:56pm still b/p: Baloo and Mowgli throwing something off the Tallahatchie bridge.
	3:57pm CupcakeJenny: Happy Merry Everything everyone! Hi Jeff and Erica!
	3:58pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:56 Phil Harris is one of the most interesting entertainers. He was Jack Benny's bandleader/foil on the radio, had his own radio sitcom (which was great), had a number one hit in 1950 with 'The Thing' and then went on to to voices for Disney in The Jungle Book, The Aristocats and Robin Hood
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: Oh, and his real first name was WONGA (derived from a Cherokee word)
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: en.wikipedia.org...
	4:01pm still b/p: Hear "The Thing" from time to time on local station that plays vintage stuff. Also a kick to hear, far less often, "That's What I Like About The South." I have one of his vinyl LPs around here, but I ain't never spun it.
	4:02pm Midge: This Ode to Billy Joe extravaganza is EPIC!
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:01 Phil was a real swinger in the grooviest sense of the word. Almost a proto-beatnik on the Benny show. He was really funny, too.
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Midge @4:02 Thanks Midge!
	🥁 4:03pm Brian in UK: Tammy seems to follow Bobbie Gentry's version closest.
	4:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:03 Yes, similar arrangement
	4:05pm still b/p: One also gets the impression that Phil enjoyed a drop regularly.
	4:05pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Merl Saunders Trio and Big... oooh my dude Merl Saunders. surprising! early cut from him
	4:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Merl Saunders Trio and Big... This is Merl a few years before he met up with Jerry Garcia. He was straight up soul jazz in the beginning.
	4:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @4:05 Yes! His early organ stuff for Galaxy and Fantasy is great.
	4:07pm zzz: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:05 yeah! he is sounding great in this more traditional soul jazz Hammond setting www.discogs.com... the tune Soul Roach from here shows up in the Garcia/Saunders repertoire (assuming this is the same tune, i havent heard this release)
	4:08pm he's Crafty: will the be an Ode to Billie Dean tribute in the near future? I also cant help but be reminded of the 1985 classic film Ode to Bille Jean featuring an all star cast and finely choreographed soundtrack🤣
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @4:07 I'm pretty sure it's the same tune.
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ he's Crafty @4:08 Is that the one where they toss Michael Jackson off the bridge?
	4:09pm CupcakeJenny: What do you even get the man that has 10 versions of Ode to Billy Joe for Christmas?? lol
	4:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @4:09 10? There are 19 in this show and I have lots more!
	4:09pm David The Splatter: ↳ CupcakeJenny @4:09 An eleventh? :D
	4:10pm he's Crafty: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:08 🤣🤣🤣
	4:11pm CupcakeJenny: @David 🤣🤣🤣
	4:11pm Erica: ↳ he's Crafty @4:10 You're funny.
	4:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Nancy Wilson" This one arranged by Oliver Nelson
	4:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Mighty Flea" This is the trombone player from Johnny Otis's band. You can hear Johnny talking in the background
	4:15pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Mighty Flea" this band is killing it. Bass!
	4:15pm doctorjazz: ↳ zzz @3:16 Someone uses that version (sometimes) for talk-over bed music, think it's Wendy! Nice version!
	4:15pm zzz: and the break! love it
	4:15pm zzz: *drum break
	4:20pm Erica: Hooray! 'Tis the season.
	4:20pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "December the 25th" by "Cast of Scrooge" This is BY FAR my favorite Christmas movie. I saw it when it came out at the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show. I was 8.
	4:22pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:20 Must be your favorite version of A Christmas Carol. That story has been overdone in sitcoms and animation in the past.
	4:22pm CupcakeJenny: Better than the man who came to dinner? Better than the one with Charlie rugles???
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @4:22 I love them all, but this remains a sentimental favorite
	4:25pm Funky16Corners: I mean, how can you go wrong with Colonel Klink and Sgt Schultz?
	4:25pm CupcakeJenny: I sang this in chorus in elementary school
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:25 Both, ironically Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression. Robert Clary was in a concentration camp
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: Mary Wickes!
	4:27pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Banjo's Entrance" by "Jimmy Durante" It was the first snow of the season. sings Frosty the Snowman.
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Banjo's Entrance" by "Jimmy Durante" Durante's character based on Harpo Marx
	4:27pm still b/p: Schnozzola doing his Harpo-adjacent biz.
	4:28pm still b/p: ↳ still b/p @4:27 Marx jinx!
	4:29pm Erica: Yeah I'm the crowd who only knew of Jimmy Durante from Frosty.
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:28 Great minds!
	4:29pm Erica: ↳ Erica @4:29 I'm in that crowd.
	4:30pm doctorjazz: Used to see Durante on TV when I was a kid.
	4:30pm he's Crafty: ↳ Song: "Guy Fieri's Full Throttle Christmas Special" by "... 😂🤣🤣
	4:33pm still b/p: I like Man Who Came To Dinner, but, man, Bette's love interest, Bert, is such a hapless male-ingenue schmucky doofus that he's hard to take.
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:33 He's def the weak link in an amazing cast. Not a great actor.
	4:35pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "A Thankful Heart" by "Michael Caine and the Muppets" The finest, mostly-puppet version of A Christmas Carol
	🥁 4:36pm Brian in UK: Happy Christmas, Larry, Jenny & commenters.
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 The same to you and yours, Brian!
	🥁 4:37pm Mollywog: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 And to you as well Brian!
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Give, Love, Joy" by "Nilsson" This is a great special. You can watch it on Youtube
	4:38pm CupcakeJenny: To you too, Brian!
	4:39pm Erica: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 Merry Christmas to you too Brian.🎄
	🥁 4:39pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Give, Love, Joy" by "Nilsson" "Love is only in a dream, remember!" (Christmas)
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:39 I think I played that on a previous Christmas special
	🥁 4:40pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Sump'n Claus" by "Keenan Thompson" Whaz Up wit dat?
	4:41pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:40 I should have looked to see if there was a Christmas What's Up With That
	🥁 4:41pm WLSClark: Merry Christmas all!
	🥁 4:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:41 This is fine!
	4:42pm still b/p: A couple of younger friends have INSISTED that I watch Muppet Christmas Carol. Then one of them reminded me and claimed I'd sworn a "blood oath" to view it.
	4:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:42 It's REALLY good and very faithful to the source material
	4:43pm CupcakeJenny: Muppet Christmas Carol is a top-tier Scrooge
	4:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @4:43 Michael Caine does a great job
	4:44pm Erica: Lots of SNL sketches.
	4:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Twas the Night Before Christmas" by "John Malkovich" love how Malkovich leans into his weirdness
	4:46pm Erica: Sahnt Nick
	🥁 4:48pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Christmas Time Is Here" by "Vince Guaraldi Trio" This show sleighs all other Christmas shows!
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:48 Thanks, Clark!
	4:48pm Discotech Underground: Merry Christmas, Larry and to all of the Testify people who celebrate! Stay tuned for a Zappadan tribute to Frank Zappa next on Discotech Underground! wfmu.org...
	4:48pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Christmas Time Is Here" by "Vince Guaraldi Trio" The one special I need to watch before it's too late. Missed it on Apple TV plus. Wish they put this back on TV.
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:48 Hey Kip!
	4:49pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Christmas Time Is Here" by "Vince Guaraldi Trio" Commenter said earlier today that Norah Jones ripped this off for her big hit Don't Know Why.
	🥁 4:49pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @4:48 Me, you and so many others wish that.
	4:49pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry! Happy Holidays all celebrating something or other (or not celebrating, should still have happy days)!
	4:49pm Erica: "Of all the Charlie Brown's in the world, you're the Charlie Browniest."
	4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:49 The Best line
	🥁 4:50pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @4:49 "Psychiatrist is WAY IN"
	4:50pm Discotech Underground: "Charlie Brown, you are the only one I know who can take something as beautiful as Christmas and turn it into a problem!"
	4:51pm he's Crafty: Thanks Larry, thanks everybody! fun show!
	4:52pm David the Splatter: Thanks and Merry Christmas, Larry!!
	🥁 4:53pm bradford: Thanks as always, Larry. Have a great holiday!
	4:54pm still b/p: Thanks, have an XL enjoyable Xmas!
	🥁 4:54pm Yvang: Thanks Larry. Merry Christmas!🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🌲🌲🌲
	4:56pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everybody!
	4:56pm Erica: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah Larry!
	🥁 4:56pm WR: Thank you! Larry!
	4:56pm Andrew in Toronto: Meery Christmas, and thanks, larry!
	4:56pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:56 Thanks Erica! I hope you have a great Christmas!
	4:56pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:56 Thanks Andrew! You too!
	4:56pm Erica: Merry Christmas to the rest of you who celebrate.🎄 ⛄🎁
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:54 Merry Christmas SBP!
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @4:54 Joyeux Noel, Yvang!
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @4:53 Happy Holidays, bradford!
	4:57pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:56 I hope not to get sick again like last year.
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David the Splatter @4:52 Thanks David!
	4:57pm he's Crafty: ↳ Erica @4:56 same to you and everyone🥰❤
	🥁 4:57pm Yvang: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:57 Merci!!!
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ he's Crafty @4:51 Thanks Crafty!
	4:58pm still b/p: Letter in the paper today again snottily decrying "holiday" term instead of "Christmas." Sighhhh.
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:58 People are WEIRD

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from December 19, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Funky16orners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16orners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Johnny Hammond Smith	Ode to Billie Joe	Soul Flowers	Prestige	1968	LP	0:01:25 (Pop-up)
Ken Munson	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Ken Munson"	Superflute	Paramount	1973	LP	0:04:35 (Pop-up)
Leon Haywood	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Leon Haywood"	It's Got to Be Mellow	Decca	1967	LP	0:08:21 (Pop-up)
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs	Ode to Billie Joe	Changin' Times	Columbia	1968	LP	0:13:54 (Pop-up)
Louis Bellson	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Louis Bellson"	Breakthrough	Project 3	1968	LP	0:18:13 (Pop-up)
Joe Tex	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Joe Tex"	Soul Country	Atlantic	1967	LP	0:21:33 (Pop-up)

Bobbie Gentry	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Bobbie Gentry"	Ode to Billie Joe	Capitol	1967	LP	0:30:32 (Pop-up)
Cal Tjader	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Cal Tjader"	Solar Heat	Skye	1968	LP	0:34:40 (Pop-up)
Alan Copeland Conspiracy	Ode to Billie Joe	A Bubble Called You	ABC	1967	LP	0:37:43 (Pop-up)
Jerome Richardson	Ode to Billie Joe	Groove Merchant	Verve	1967	LP	0:41:19 (Pop-up)
Detroit Emeralds	Ode to Billie Joe	45RPM Single	Ric Tic	1968	45	0:44:13 (Pop-up)
Charlie McCoy	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Charlie McCoy"	The World of Charlie McCoy	Monument	1968	LP	0:47:42 (Pop-up)
Phil Harris	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Phil Harris"	Live on the Hollywood Palace	ABC	1967	MP3	0:51:28 (Pop-up)
Mel Brown	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Mel Brown"	45RPM single	Impulse	1968	45	0:56:48 (Pop-up)
Tammy Wynette	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Tammy Wynette"	Take Me To Your World	Epic	1968	LP	0:59:47 (Pop-up)
Merl Saunders Trio and Big Band	Ode to Billie Joe	Soul Grooving	Galaxy	1968	LP	1:04:00 (Pop-up)
Nancy Wilson	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Nancy Wilson"	Welcome To My Love	Capitol	1967	LP	1:07:18 (Pop-up)
Mighty Flea	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Mighty Flea"	45RPM Single	Eldo	1968	45	1:12:36 (Pop-up)

Testify! 5th Annual 30 Minute Christmas Special
Cast of Scrooge	December the 25th	Scrooge OST	Columbia	1970	LP	1:19:38 (Pop-up)
Bing Crosby, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary	Christmas Medley	Live on the Hollywood Palace	ABC	1965	MP3	1:23:35 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Durante	Banjo's Entrance "Banjo's Entrance" by "Jimmy Durante"	The Man Who Came To Dinner	Paramount	1948	MP3	1:26:16 (Pop-up)
Bobby Moynihan	Guy Fieri's Full Throttle Christmas Special	Saturday Night Live	NBC	2022	MP3	1:28:40 (Pop-up)
Albert Finney	I Like LIfe "I Like LIfe" by "Albert Finney"	Scrooge OST	Columbia	1970	LP	1:31:22 (Pop-up)
Michael Caine and the Muppets	A Thankful Heart	A Muppet Christmas Carol	Jim Henson Records	1992	LP	1:35:04 (Pop-up)
Nilsson	Give, Love, Joy "Give, Love, Joy" by "Nilsson"	Ziggy's Gift	Purple Chick	2011	CD	1:37:20 (Pop-up)
Keenan Thompson	Sump'n Claus "Sump'n Claus" by "Keenan Thompson"	Saturday Night Live	NBC	2022	MP3	1:39:33 (Pop-up)
John Malkovich	Twas the Night Before Christmas	Saturday Night Live	NBC	1999	MP3	1:43:09 (Pop-up)
Vince Guaraldi Trio	Christmas Time Is Here	A Charlie Brown Christmas	Fantasy	1965	LP	1:47:27 (Pop-up)

Soulful Strings	Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" by "Soulful Strings"	The Magic of Christmas	Cadet	1968	LP	1:55:25 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:00pm Erica: Seasons Greetings Larry!
	🥁 3:00pm bradford: Hey there Larry & fellow Testifiers!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:00 Hey Erica!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @3:00 Hi bradford!
	🥁 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Larry! Hi testifiers!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Yvang!
	3:02pm he's Crafty: Hi Larry, hi everybody!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: ↳ he's Crafty @3:02 Howdy Crafty!
	3:06pm StringOFperils: Christmas tree/Gen tree; I see what you're doing here....
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:06 Hi String!
	🥁 3:06pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & commenters.
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:06 Hey Brian!
	3:06pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Hi there, larry, and all other groovers!
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:06 Hello Andrew!
	3:07pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Hi there, larry, and all other groovers!
	3:07pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Hey, again, Yvang!
	3:09pm doctorjazz: What's happened to my appetite? I haven't eaten a single bite! Hi Larry, Testifiers!
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:09 Hi Doc!
	🥁 3:10pm Brian in UK: Amazing; barely ten years before she cut & ran. Cannot blame her.
	🥁 3:10pm WLSClark: Hi Larry, Andrew, Erica, bradford, Yvang, crafty, SoP, Brian, DrJ! Ode to Billie Christmas to you all!
	3:10pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @3:09 Hi, again, doc!
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Hey Clark!
	3:11pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Hi, there, Clark!
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:10 One of the great musical enigmas
	🥁 3:11pm bradford: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Howdy Clark!
	3:11pm Erica: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Haha thanks WLS.
	🥁 3:12pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:11 As enigmatic as this song.
	3:13pm Erica: So we're hearing Ode to Billie Joe covers along with the Christmas show today.
	🥁 3:13pm Brian in UK: She did have great hair though.
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:13 That is correct
	🥁 3:14pm Mollywog: Happy Thursday and happy holidays all!
	3:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mollywog @3:14 Hye Mollywog!
	🥁 3:14pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @3:13 The story just wont go away.
	3:14pm Erica: Can't believe there's only less than a week until Christmas yet it still doesn't feel like Christmas time.
	3:15pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:14 Yeah, it's been so warm the last couple of days I've been going out without a jacket.
	🥁 3:16pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:15 Yeah, no jacket in Lincoln today, but have 50 MPH winds. 330 days without measurable snow. record!
	3:16pm zzz: hey @F16C! was just talking about the truly killer Lou Donaldson version of Ode to Billie Joe with the sweet sweet Idris Muhammad drums
	🥁 3:16pm Yvang: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 Hi WLSClark!
	3:16pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:15 No i meant I still haven't finished preparing. I got distracted by other stuff going on and now I need to get wrapping done, plus finishing up shopping Saturday and decorating downstairs.
	🥁 3:17pm Mollywog: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Lester Flatt and Earl Scru... I've heard a lot of covers for this song, but never this one!
	3:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @3:16 Hi zzz!
	3:17pm StringOFperils: Not feeling Christmas is a long-established tradition. Probably a no kids thing.
	3:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mollywog @3:17 Flatt and Scruggs did some unusual cover versions
	3:17pm zzz: missed the Johnny Hammond Smith version at the top but ill check that one out
	3:17pm Erica: ↳ StringOFperils @3:17 And no snow either.
	3:17pm still b/p: Saw Durante in an Ed Sullivan excerpt the other night. Just being so...Durante. The Ode vibe from Lester and Earl seems meant for nodding off in the porch swing.
	3:17pm doctorjazz: ↳ WLSClark @3:10 H WLSClark!
	3:18pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:10 Hello again Andrew!
	3:18pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:17 Hey SBP! I'm a BIG Durante fan.
	3:19pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:16 I have most of my shopping done. I haven't wrapped anything but I'll have plenty of time.
	3:19pm zzz: a lot of groovy covers of this i'm learning, not surprisingly
	🥁 3:19pm Yvang: I discovered this song through the french version by Joe Dassin. It's called "Marie Jeanne". youtu.be...
	3:20pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:19 I may even have a French Canadian version (maybe with that title) in the stacks
	3:20pm zzz: ↳ Yvang @3:19 oooh YESSSSS!
	3:20pm David The Splatter: Afternoon, Larry and all!
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David The Splatter @3:20 Hi David!
	3:21pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from snowy Wisconsin, everyone! Bridges -- even the Tallahatchie Bridge -- ice over first!
	🥁 3:21pm Yvang: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:20 Completely different lyrics from the english version!
	3:22pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Jeff Ash @3:21 Hey Jeff!
	3:22pm StringOFperils: No snow good! Snow....bad. Bad bad bad snow. I'd hope for April 1st under my tree. If I had a tree. *It's my capacity for damp cold that's 3 sizes too small.
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: We may actually get a little snow this weekend. Temps are supposed to go way down. Of course, this being NJ it'll be 80 on Christmas
	🥁 3:23pm Brian in UK: A song with subtitles.
	3:24pm doctorjazz: Snow off and on in the NY/NJ area next few days, according to the report.
	3:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Joe Tex" Bet Billie Joe had Skinny Legs...
	🥁 3:26pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:23 Yeah it's 50's today and below zero wind chill tonight! That CAN be Nebraska, but lately years have been great.
	🥁 3:26pm WLSClark: ↳ doctorjazz @3:25 hahaha
	3:27pm David The Splatter: ↳ Jeff Ash @3:21 "Bridge Ices Before Road", I thought that was PA's state motto when I was young.
	3:31pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David The Splatter @3:27 It was years before I understood that warning.
	3:32pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Louis Bellson" This version is growing on me, the soul food line did it for me.
	3:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:32 You mean the Joe Tex?
	🥁 3:33pm Brian in UK: Jimmie Haskell, peerless as ever.
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:33 Oh yeah, one of the finest arrangers ever
	3:36pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Cal Tjader" The drum sound on this album is perfection.
	🥁 3:39pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Alan Copeland Conspiracy" An album title that could only be 1967.
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Alan Copeland Conspiracy" Alan Copeland who appeared as a member of Felix Unger's band on The Odd Couple
	3:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:39 Seriously
	3:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Jerome Richardson" Nice!
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:42 This is a great album
	🥁 3:43pm Mollywog: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:40 I live for trivia like that!
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mollywog @3:43 That's like 25% of my brain.
	3:49pm Erica: So many instrumental versions.
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:49 Oh yeah. I could do this show again with all different versions. TONS of them.
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Charlie McCoy" love how he's mimicing the string lines with the chromatic harmonica
	3:51pm StringOFperils: Totally forgot about Charlie McCoy
	3:51pm Funky16Corners: The next one is really interesting...
	3:51pm CupcakeJenny: Hi everyone!
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:51 Hi Mrs Grogan!
	3:54pm Erica: ↳ CupcakeJenny @3:51 Hi Jenny.
	3:55pm Jeff Ash: Greetings, Jen!
	3:56pm still b/p: Baloo and Mowgli throwing something off the Tallahatchie bridge.
	3:57pm CupcakeJenny: Happy Merry Everything everyone! Hi Jeff and Erica!
	3:58pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @3:56 Phil Harris is one of the most interesting entertainers. He was Jack Benny's bandleader/foil on the radio, had his own radio sitcom (which was great), had a number one hit in 1950 with 'The Thing' and then went on to to voices for Disney in The Jungle Book, The Aristocats and Robin Hood
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: Oh, and his real first name was WONGA (derived from a Cherokee word)
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: en.wikipedia.org...
	4:01pm still b/p: Hear "The Thing" from time to time on local station that plays vintage stuff. Also a kick to hear, far less often, "That's What I Like About The South." I have one of his vinyl LPs around here, but I ain't never spun it.
	4:02pm Midge: This Ode to Billy Joe extravaganza is EPIC!
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:01 Phil was a real swinger in the grooviest sense of the word. Almost a proto-beatnik on the Benny show. He was really funny, too.
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Midge @4:02 Thanks Midge!
	🥁 4:03pm Brian in UK: Tammy seems to follow Bobbie Gentry's version closest.
	4:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:03 Yes, similar arrangement
	4:05pm still b/p: One also gets the impression that Phil enjoyed a drop regularly.
	4:05pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Merl Saunders Trio and Big... oooh my dude Merl Saunders. surprising! early cut from him
	4:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Merl Saunders Trio and Big... This is Merl a few years before he met up with Jerry Garcia. He was straight up soul jazz in the beginning.
	4:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @4:05 Yes! His early organ stuff for Galaxy and Fantasy is great.
	4:07pm zzz: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:05 yeah! he is sounding great in this more traditional soul jazz Hammond setting www.discogs.com... the tune Soul Roach from here shows up in the Garcia/Saunders repertoire (assuming this is the same tune, i havent heard this release)
	4:08pm he's Crafty: will the be an Ode to Billie Dean tribute in the near future? I also cant help but be reminded of the 1985 classic film Ode to Bille Jean featuring an all star cast and finely choreographed soundtrack🤣
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @4:07 I'm pretty sure it's the same tune.
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ he's Crafty @4:08 Is that the one where they toss Michael Jackson off the bridge?
	4:09pm CupcakeJenny: What do you even get the man that has 10 versions of Ode to Billy Joe for Christmas?? lol
	4:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @4:09 10? There are 19 in this show and I have lots more!
	4:09pm David The Splatter: ↳ CupcakeJenny @4:09 An eleventh? :D
	4:10pm he's Crafty: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:08 🤣🤣🤣
	4:11pm CupcakeJenny: @David 🤣🤣🤣
	4:11pm Erica: ↳ he's Crafty @4:10 You're funny.
	4:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Nancy Wilson" This one arranged by Oliver Nelson
	4:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Mighty Flea" This is the trombone player from Johnny Otis's band. You can hear Johnny talking in the background
	4:15pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Mighty Flea" this band is killing it. Bass!
	4:15pm doctorjazz: ↳ zzz @3:16 Someone uses that version (sometimes) for talk-over bed music, think it's Wendy! Nice version!
	4:15pm zzz: and the break! love it
	4:15pm zzz: *drum break
	4:20pm Erica: Hooray! 'Tis the season.
	4:20pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "December the 25th" by "Cast of Scrooge" This is BY FAR my favorite Christmas movie. I saw it when it came out at the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show. I was 8.
	4:22pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:20 Must be your favorite version of A Christmas Carol. That story has been overdone in sitcoms and animation in the past.
	4:22pm CupcakeJenny: Better than the man who came to dinner? Better than the one with Charlie rugles???
	4:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @4:22 I love them all, but this remains a sentimental favorite
	4:25pm Funky16Corners: I mean, how can you go wrong with Colonel Klink and Sgt Schultz?
	4:25pm CupcakeJenny: I sang this in chorus in elementary school
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:25 Both, ironically Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression. Robert Clary was in a concentration camp
	4:26pm Funky16Corners: Mary Wickes!
	4:27pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Banjo's Entrance" by "Jimmy Durante" It was the first snow of the season. sings Frosty the Snowman.
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Banjo's Entrance" by "Jimmy Durante" Durante's character based on Harpo Marx
	4:27pm still b/p: Schnozzola doing his Harpo-adjacent biz.
	4:28pm still b/p: ↳ still b/p @4:27 Marx jinx!
	4:29pm Erica: Yeah I'm the crowd who only knew of Jimmy Durante from Frosty.
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:28 Great minds!
	4:29pm Erica: ↳ Erica @4:29 I'm in that crowd.
	4:30pm doctorjazz: Used to see Durante on TV when I was a kid.
	4:30pm he's Crafty: ↳ Song: "Guy Fieri's Full Throttle Christmas Special" by "... 😂🤣🤣
	4:33pm still b/p: I like Man Who Came To Dinner, but, man, Bette's love interest, Bert, is such a hapless male-ingenue schmucky doofus that he's hard to take.
	4:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:33 He's def the weak link in an amazing cast. Not a great actor.
	4:35pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "A Thankful Heart" by "Michael Caine and the Muppets" The finest, mostly-puppet version of A Christmas Carol
	🥁 4:36pm Brian in UK: Happy Christmas, Larry, Jenny & commenters.
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 The same to you and yours, Brian!
	🥁 4:37pm Mollywog: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 And to you as well Brian!
	4:38pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Give, Love, Joy" by "Nilsson" This is a great special. You can watch it on Youtube
	4:38pm CupcakeJenny: To you too, Brian!
	4:39pm Erica: ↳ Brian in UK @4:36 Merry Christmas to you too Brian.🎄
	🥁 4:39pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Give, Love, Joy" by "Nilsson" "Love is only in a dream, remember!" (Christmas)
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:39 I think I played that on a previous Christmas special
	🥁 4:40pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Sump'n Claus" by "Keenan Thompson" Whaz Up wit dat?
	4:41pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:40 I should have looked to see if there was a Christmas What's Up With That
	🥁 4:41pm WLSClark: Merry Christmas all!
	🥁 4:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:41 This is fine!
	4:42pm still b/p: A couple of younger friends have INSISTED that I watch Muppet Christmas Carol. Then one of them reminded me and claimed I'd sworn a "blood oath" to view it.
	4:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:42 It's REALLY good and very faithful to the source material
	4:43pm CupcakeJenny: Muppet Christmas Carol is a top-tier Scrooge
	4:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ CupcakeJenny @4:43 Michael Caine does a great job
	4:44pm Erica: Lots of SNL sketches.
	4:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Twas the Night Before Christmas" by "John Malkovich" love how Malkovich leans into his weirdness
	4:46pm Erica: Sahnt Nick
	🥁 4:48pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Christmas Time Is Here" by "Vince Guaraldi Trio" This show sleighs all other Christmas shows!
	4:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:48 Thanks, Clark!
	4:48pm Discotech Underground: Merry Christmas, Larry and to all of the Testify people who celebrate! Stay tuned for a Zappadan tribute to Frank Zappa next on Discotech Underground! wfmu.org...
	4:48pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Christmas Time Is Here" by "Vince Guaraldi Trio" The one special I need to watch before it's too late. Missed it on Apple TV plus. Wish they put this back on TV.
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:48 Hey Kip!
	4:49pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Christmas Time Is Here" by "Vince Guaraldi Trio" Commenter said earlier today that Norah Jones ripped this off for her big hit Don't Know Why.
	🥁 4:49pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @4:48 Me, you and so many others wish that.
	4:49pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry! Happy Holidays all celebrating something or other (or not celebrating, should still have happy days)!
	4:49pm Erica: "Of all the Charlie Brown's in the world, you're the Charlie Browniest."
	4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:49 The Best line
	🥁 4:50pm WLSClark: ↳ Erica @4:49 "Psychiatrist is WAY IN"
	4:50pm Discotech Underground: "Charlie Brown, you are the only one I know who can take something as beautiful as Christmas and turn it into a problem!"
	4:51pm he's Crafty: Thanks Larry, thanks everybody! fun show!
	4:52pm David the Splatter: Thanks and Merry Christmas, Larry!!
	🥁 4:53pm bradford: Thanks as always, Larry. Have a great holiday!
	4:54pm still b/p: Thanks, have an XL enjoyable Xmas!
	🥁 4:54pm Yvang: Thanks Larry. Merry Christmas!🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🌲🌲🌲
	4:56pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everybody!
	4:56pm Erica: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah Larry!
	🥁 4:56pm WR: Thank you! Larry!
	4:56pm Andrew in Toronto: Meery Christmas, and thanks, larry!
	4:56pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:56 Thanks Erica! I hope you have a great Christmas!
	4:56pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:56 Thanks Andrew! You too!
	4:56pm Erica: Merry Christmas to the rest of you who celebrate.🎄 ⛄🎁
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:54 Merry Christmas SBP!
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @4:54 Joyeux Noel, Yvang!
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @4:53 Happy Holidays, bradford!
	4:57pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:56 I hope not to get sick again like last year.
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David the Splatter @4:52 Thanks David!
	4:57pm he's Crafty: ↳ Erica @4:56 same to you and everyone🥰❤
	🥁 4:57pm Yvang: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:57 Merci!!!
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ he's Crafty @4:51 Thanks Crafty!
	4:58pm still b/p: Letter in the paper today again snottily decrying "holiday" term instead of "Christmas." Sighhhh.
	4:59pm Funky16Corners: ↳ still b/p @4:58 People are WEIRD

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