WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 4, 2019

Listener comments!
	♥ 9:59pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Larry. Looking forward to hearing some duets.
	♥ 9:59pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt!
	🥁 ♥ 10:00pm Gary: Happy birthday, Larry!
	♥ 10:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Gary!
	♥ 10:01pm Franco Twinkie: Hey hey Larry.
	♥ 10:01pm Matt from New Orleans: I didn’t realize it was your bday. Happy Birthday.
	♥ 10:02pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all
	♥ 10:02pm chresti: Happy Birthday!!!
	♥ 10:02pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Everyone! Hey Franco, C, Chresti!
	10:03pm northguineahills: I see you're getting us redding for the show....
	10:03pm rw: Yes! Happy Birthday Funky16!!
	♥ 10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	♥ 10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey rw! Thanks!
	🥁 ♥ 10:04pm Jeff Ash: I bring birthday greetings from the great state of Wisconsin, the home of Underground Sunshine, who 50 years ago this summer covered the Beatles' "Birthday" for their one big hit.
	10:04pm Erica: Hey Larry! Happy birthday again!
	♥ 10:04pm coelacanth∅: Happy Birthday Larry!
	♥ 10:04pm Franco Twinkie: Today is your birthday? How old?
	♥ 10:05pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! Erica!
	♥ 10:05pm Funky16Corners: It is indeed Franco! 57 years young!
	♥ 10:06pm Franco Twinkie: Okay, that tells me a lot about your particular slant on things.
	♥ 10:07pm Funky16Corners: Hmmmm, how so? Good? Bad? Terrible?
	10:07pm Erica: Younger than I thought.
	♥ 10:08pm Funky16Corners: I must be one of those old souls they're always talking about.
	🥁 ♥ 10:08pm Jeff Ash: I found this Chuck Jackson and Maxine Brown LP on Wand in what basically was a head shop.
	♥ 10:08pm Franco Twinkie: Well, when certain songs infected your brain.
	♥ 10:09pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Lucky! I've been looking for a while. I only have the 45s.
	♥ 10:09pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - I think you're right (about the song infections).
	10:13pm Erica: Speaking of Boy meets Girl, any Sonny & Cher in the show Larry?
	♥ 10:14pm coelacanth∅: (they're in the gif image so i guess yes)
	♥ 10:16pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - yes indeed, as well as several S&C inspired duos
	10:16pm Parq: <male voice> Happy Birthday! <female voice> And many more!
	10:16pm Erica: They look like Sonny and Cher coel but they're not.
	♥ 10:17pm JtotheK: Arriving in time for Eddie Bo & Inez! Hiya Larry, happy birthday! Good evening, everyone.
	♥ 10:18pm nostrangerer: Focus on the 60s, OK I've adjusted my expectations accordingly.
	♥ 10:18pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq! JtotheK!
	♥ 10:19pm Funky16Corners: Nostrangerer!
	♥ 10:19pm Funky16Corners: Erica - That is def Sonny and Cher in the fur vest and striped pants
	10:20pm Erica: It didn't look like Sonny though.
	10:21pm Erica: Also, will we hear "Reach Out In the Darkness" by Friend and Lover, another boy/girl duet from the 60s? If not, just asking. I won't request anything else.
	♥ 10:22pm Funky16Corners: No Friend and Lover, but lots of other cool things
	10:22pm Parq: Having lots of fun watching Larry's playlist gif cycle through on the top of the page and on his three playlist posts. Cool effect!
	♥ 10:22pm Funky16Corners: Are you used to seeing Sonny with a mustache?
	10:23pm northguineahills: feliz cumpleanos grogan-san!
	♥ 10:24pm Funky16Corners: Thanks NGH!
	10:25pm Erica: I'm also used to seeing Sonny with darker colored hair too Larry.
	♥ 10:30pm Franco Twinkie: This set reminds me of the show Love Connection. One time, the host, Chuck Woolery was trying to ascertain why a particular hook-up went off the rails. The woman looked at him and said levelly in her own defense: "Chuck, I was looking good in my fur coat!"
	♥ 10:31pm Funky16Corners: Sadly, Chuck has gone off the rails of late
	♥ 10:39pm Franco Twinkie: This might be heresy to some, but I like version of California Soul by The Fifth Demension better.
	10:39pm Erica: I looked up the image of the Storybook Children LP by Very and Clay and Billy Vera looked like a new waver who traveled from the early 80s into the 60s. Haha.
	♥ 10:40pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - That was the first version I knew and I rate it pretty highly
	10:40pm Erica: His taste in fashion was ahead of its time, I must say.
	♥ 10:41pm Franco Twinkie: Billy Vera had a great show on KCRW back in the day.
	♥ 10:41pm coelacanth∅: i do too Franco
	♥ 10:42pm Funky16Corners: Billy Vera is a serious scholar of R&B and jazz, Big writer of liner notes for the Capitol Records reissue program for years
	♥ 10:42pm Franco Twinkie: The We Five cut out the line about getting sick.
	♥ 10:43pm chresti: a feeling in my shoe
	10:43pm Erica: "I got drunk and I got sick." Never heard that lyric before.
	♥ 10:43pm Funky16Corners: But they made Ian and Sylvia a fat chunk of change!
	♥ 10:44pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - This is the original
	10:44pm northguineahills: not sure why, but this Ian & Sylvia is grabbing me....
	10:45pm Erica: Interesting Larry.
	♥ 10:46pm Franco Twinkie: The We Five were very good, but Ian And Sylvia were great....and so good looking.
	♥ 10:47pm Funky16Corners: I have to dig out their country rock album, when they were the Great Speckled Bird
	♥ 10:47pm Franco Twinkie: Those Vanguard album covers!
	♥ 10:48pm Funky16Corners: Yes! Underrated!
	♥ 10:50pm Franco Twinkie: Very much of a Great Society vibe.
	♥ 10:51pm Funky16Corners: They only did a few 45s but they're all cool
	♥ 10:51pm Doug Schulkind: I'd follow you anywhere, Grogan. Happy birthday, Sir!
	♥ 10:51pm Franco Twinkie: How about Blackburn and Snow?
	♥ 10:52pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug! Thank you! It's been a good birthday!
	♥ 10:52pm Funky16Corners: Nothing by them Franco. I'm only vaguely familiar with the names
	♥ 10:53pm Franco Twinkie: Oh man, just you wait.
	♥ 10:54pm chresti: Shoes filled with lead!
	♥ 10:55pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, those lyrics are crazy! Screw your eyes back into your head!
	♥ 10:57pm Franco Twinkie: Suede jackets, dilated pupils and long, long hair.
	♥ 10:57pm coelacanth∅: wow i've never heard that version of come on in...and it's probably the original right?
	10:57pm Erica: Why does the song Come On In sound familiar if it's rare?
	♥ 10:58pm Funky16Corners: It's a cover of a Music Machine song
	♥ 11:04pm Funky16Corners: THIS is the original version.
	♥ 11:05pm Franco Twinkie: Wow!
	♥ 11:05pm coelacanth∅: oh i guess i've known the original. i'm so used to you playing the original versions of everything....
	11:06pm northguineahills: @Larry:Is it like no other gadget, that you've ever seen, does it start to spark w/ a shake yo the ground, the music machine only makes this sound, it goes,"Whirrrr Whiirrrr, chicka bum-bumps, Whirrrr Whiirrrr, chicka bum-bumps, if you want to hear a song, sar Whirrrr Whiirrrr, chicka bum-bumps" Or were we talking about the Talk Talk album?
	♥ 11:06pm chresti: Ha coel!
	♥ 11:07pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - The Talk Talk guys
	11:07pm Erica: Haha ngh.
	♥ 11:12pm Doug Schulkind: Can't wait to hear which Smokey and his Sister track you play. They make me swoon.
	♥ 11:14pm Matt from New Orleans: Been enjoying the tunes Larry. I’ve been reading a new hardcover of reprinted Love and Rockets material. I love the Hernandez brothers.
	♥ 11:14pm nostrangerer: Fun show. Tramp by Otis and Carla is the only one I expected. The majority of the rest have been lesser known versions of known tunes or lesser known tunes by known performers. Fun show.
	♥ 11:17pm Franco Twinkie: I was with an ex-girl friend when we met Sean Bonniwell, the writer of Come On In, at her band mates house. Recently I asked her if she ever saw him again. She said only once, they went to the county fair together to see George Jones....who Sean had never heard of!
	♥ 11:21pm Matt from New Orleans: Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu delves into Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi and Richard Farina. It’s a good book. Can’t believe it’s been almost 20 years since I read it.
	♥ 11:21pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Bonniwell was an interesting guy. I had a chance to talk to him briefly back in my fanzine days. He'd found Jesus (and martial arts) but was still pretty cool
	11:21pm Erica: I like how it sounds like two songs combined and edited together.
	♥ 11:21pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - That's a great book
	♥ 11:21pm Funky16Corners: @erica - Some Velvet Morning is a very heavy and very weird record
	♥ 11:22pm Funky16Corners: @nostrangerer - Thanks! Glad you're digging it!
	11:22pm Erica: Especially during the end.
	♥ 11:24pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - I picked a good one!
	♥ 11:24pm Franco Twinkie: Yes. I remember. Sean was a Christian. When I met him he had long greasy hair and wore socks with flip-flops on a very hot day.
	11:26pm northguineahills: Yes, I did xtian musicals as a kid and still remember all the lyrics....(then puberty hit and voice went to shit)
	11:26pm Erica: @Franco So he was basically Jesus?
	♥ 11:26pm Funky16Corners: Socks and flip flops?!?
	♥ 11:26pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Jesus with one black glove
	♥ 11:29pm Franco Twinkie: Erica, we never got into it, but I got the impression he had a lot to say on the subject
	11:30pm Johnzon: cool show concept, thanks for the tunes & information dj larry!
	♥ 11:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey Johnzon! My pleasure!
	11:30pm Erica: Good and Plenty were actual last names?
	♥ 11:31pm Funky16Corners: I'm guessing that they were pseudonyms, but I haven't been able to find other info
	11:32pm Erica: I'm about to say Larry.
	11:33pm Johnzon: isn't there a candy called that
	♥ 11:33pm Funky16Corners: There is indeed!
	♥ 11:35pm Franco Twinkie: Larry, was there a band called The Count Choculas?
	♥ 11:35pm Funky16Corners: Not that I know of, but I'd bet they're out there somewhere, gigging with the Frankenberries
	11:36pm Johnzo: "Good & Plenty was first produced by the Quaker City Confectionery Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1893 and is believed to be the oldest branded candy in the United States." and one of the lamest(sorry liquorish lovers)
	11:37pm rw: The Count Choculas are my new favorite garage band. The Frankenberries suck.
	♥ 11:37pm Funky16Corners: I'm with you Johnzon. Good and Fruity all the way for me.
	11:37pm Erica: Don't forget the Boo Berries too.
	♥ 11:37pm coelacanth∅: all i'm sayin' there better be a band called cap'n crunch
	11:37pm rw: Boo Berries rock.
	11:38pm Erica: Speaking of which I saw Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Frankinberry cereal at Walmart this past Saturday already.
	♥ 11:38pm Funky16Corners: Boo Berries, Fruit Brutes, all of them played at Cerealstock
	11:38pm Erica: Frankenberry, sorry.
	♥ 11:40pm coelacanth∅: even as a child i wasn't tempted to try a chocolate flavored breakfast anything.
	♥ 11:41pm Funky16Corners: Oooh, I loved Cocoa Puffs, some might say I was coocoo for them...
	♥ 11:41pm coelacanth∅: and for the record i liked good n plenty; didn't care for good n fruity.
	11:42pm Doug Schulkind: Bonus Smokey!!!
	11:43pm Erica: Since we're talking about cereal, anyone want to mention when they had cut out records on the boxes?
	♥ 11:44pm Franco Twinkie: I too liked Good 'n Plenty. It was my ritual movie matinee candy.
	♥ 11:45pm Franco Twinkie: Cereal box records!?!
	♥ 11:45pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - The Banana Splits, Bobby Sherman, Josie and the Pussycats, all (I think) appeared on cereal box records
	♥ 11:45pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Yeah, you cut the record out of the back of the box
	♥ 11:46pm Franco Twinkie: Okay, after my time.
	♥ 11:46pm coelacanth∅: bobby sherman: little woman, i think. my mother wouldn't wait for me to search through the boxes for easy come easy go. i forget what cereal it was.
	♥ 11:47pm Funky16Corners: They were on Post cereals, like Sugar Crisp and Alphabits
	♥ 11:47pm Funky16Corners: Maybe 1969/1970-ish
	11:47pm Erica: They were before my time but I've seen them on blog sites and whatnot.
	♥ 11:48pm Funky16Corners: I might have a few knocking around.
	♥ 11:49pm coelacanth∅: yeah i really wanted a banana splits flexi, but my mother wouldn't buy whatever kind of cereal it was on. she only bought sweetened cereals if they were on sale, and refused to buy certain ones at all.
	♥ 11:50pm Funky16Corners: That was the rule in our house, too. Living under the tyranny of puffed rice (blecchhh)
	11:50pm rw: I've got the Banana Splits singles. I think I sent away for them with boxtops and maybe a dollar.
	11:51pm Erica: At least it wasn't Rasin Bran Larry. Haha!
	11:51pm rw: And I sort of remember cereal box flexis. You would cut them off the back of the box, right? And then you had to tape them down to the turntable to keep them from slipping.
	♥ 11:52pm coelacanth∅: oh we had shredded wheat, total, cheerios, grapenuts, corn flakes... and all 3 chex cereals. i went through dozens of rice chex boxes, collecting "the lindburg line" model cars.
	11:52pm rw: I have a buddy who did a book on cereal boxes. I bet he's got some. He would know at least.
	11:52pm Erica: Raisin Bran I meant. This chat room needs to have an editing system similar to Facebook, man.
	♥ 11:53pm Funky16Corners: @rw - Right on both counts. I have the set of Banana Splits 45s that you had t mail away for. The other records got cut right off the box
	11:54pm rw: Used to love Grapenuts with a ton of sugar added on top. F16C, are your Banana Splits singles as beat up as mine are?
	♥ 11:55pm coelacanth∅: i remember one that was square or something, and the corners of course would curl up and whack the tone arm off the record
	♥ 11:55pm Funky16Corners: They are clean enough to DJ with but in fairly beat looking shape.
	♥ 11:56pm Franco Twinkie: Speaking of free stuff with food: In Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, when Cliff booth kicks Bruce Lees ass, in the back round on the wall of the sound stage are cartoon posters of Laurel And Hardy. Smaller versions were folded up in Fritos corn chip packages in the sixties.
	♥ 11:56pm Funky16Corners: I miss the little rubber Frito Banditos
	♥ 11:57pm coelacanth∅: yeah we didn't always have sweet cereals but were allowed to put as much white sugar on them as we wanted.
	11:58pm rw: Rubber Banditos!! Weren't they erasers or pencil toppers or something?
	11:58pm Doug Schulkind: A masterpiece, Larry. Thanks!
	♥ 12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! good night all.
	♥ 12:01am Franco Twinkie: I dug it!
	♥ 12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks Doug!
	12:02am Erica: This show went by fast. Great way to end your birthday Larry. Have a good night everyone.
	♥ 12:02am Funky16Corners: Thanks C! Franco! Erica!
	12:02am rw: Beautiful. Thanks F16! Nice birthday show! Hope you had a good one!
	♥ 12:03am Funky16Corners: Thanks rw! It was excellent!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 4, 2019

View Funky16Corners's profile

A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

Thursday 3 - 5pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
Give the Drummer Radio LIVE Audio Streams (Get help): Pop-up | 128k MP3

<-- Previous playlist | Back to Testify! with Larry Grogan playlists | Next playlist -->

September 4, 2019: Testify! Boy Meets Girl - A Celebration of Male/Female Duets!

Listen to this show: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

Example

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Otis Redding and Carla Thomas	Tramp	45RPM Single	Stax	1967	45		0:01:11 (Pop-up)
Arthur and Mary	Let's Get Together	45RPM Single	Modern	1967	45	Arthur Adams and Mary Love	0:04:09 (Pop-up)
Chuck Jackson and Maxine Brown	Hold On I'm Coming	45RPM Single	Wand	1967	45		0:07:03 (Pop-up)
William Bell and Mavis Staples	I Thank You	Boy Meets Girl	Stax	1969	LP		0:09:46 (Pop-up)

Eddie Bo and inez Cheatham	Lover and a Friend	45RPM Single	Capitol	1968	45		0:15:07 (Pop-up)
Eddie Floyd and Mavis Staples	Piece of My Heart	Boy Meets Girl	Stax	1969	LP		0:17:38 (Pop-up)
Bobby Byrd and Vicki Anderson	Here Is My Everything	45RPM Single	ABC	1968	45		0:20:32 (Pop-up)
Billy Vera and Judy Clay	Do Right Woman Do Right Man	Storybook Children	Atlantic	1968	LP		0:23:08 (Pop-up)
Gene Chandler and Barbara Acklin	From the Teacher to the Preacher	45RPM Single	Brunswick	1968	45		0:26:53 (Pop-up)
Lee Dorsey and Betty Harris	Love Lots of Lovin'	45RPM Single	Sansu	1968	45		0:29:14 (Pop-up)
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell	California Soul	45RPM Single	Tamla	1969	45		0:32:13 (Pop-up)

Sonny and Cher	Baby Don't Go "Baby Don't Go" by "Sonny and Cher"	45RPM Single	Reprise	1965	45		0:38:06 (Pop-up)
Ian and Sylvia	You Were On My Mind	Northern Journey	Vanguard	1964	LP		0:41:01 (Pop-up)
Nino Tempo and April Stevens	Deep Purple	45RPM Single	Atco	1962	45		0:43:47 (Pop-up)
Nino Tempo and April Stevens	You'll Be Needing Me Baby	All Strung Out	White Whale	1967	LP		0:46:23 (Pop-up)
Lyme and Cybelle	Follow Me "Follow Me" by "Lyme and Cybelle"	45RPM Single	White Whale	1966	45	Warren Zevon and Violet Santangelo	0:48:24 (Pop-up)
The Gas Co	Blow Your Mind "Blow Your Mind" by "The Gas Co"	45RPM Single	Mira	1965	45	Greg Dempsey and Kathy Yesse	0:50:49 (Pop-up)
Jerry and Deborah	Come On In "Come On In" by "Jerry and Deborah"	45RPM Single	Epic	1966	45		0:53:15 (Pop-up)
Summer's Children	Milk and Honey "Milk and Honey" by "Summer's Children"	45RPM Single	Date	1966	45	Curt Boettcher and Victoria Winston	0:56:03 (Pop-up)
St George and Tana	Without Your Heart	St George and Tana...Is Now	Kapp	1967	LP	John Campolongo and Tana (?)	0:58:24 (Pop-up)
Mimi and Richard Farina	Pack Up Your Sorrows	Celebrations For a Grey Day	Vanguard	1965	LP		1:00:16 (Pop-up)
Carson and Gaile	Something Stupid	San Antonio Rose	Kapp	1967	LP	Carson and Gaile Parks	1:03:12 (Pop-up)
Gene and Debbe	Playboy "Playboy" by "Gene and Debbe"	Hear and Now	Acta	1968	LP	Gene Thomas and Debbe Neville	1:05:15 (Pop-up)
Jackie and Roy	Didn't Want To Have To Do It	Changes	Verve	1967	LP	Jackie Caine and Roy Kral	1:08:05 (Pop-up)

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood	Some Velvet Morning	Nancy and Lee	Reprise	1967	LP		1:18:45 (Pop-up)
The Gentle Soul	You Move Me "You Move Me" by "The Gentle Soul"	45RPM Single	Columbia	1967	45	Pam Polland and Rick Stanley	1:22:21 (Pop-up)
Rejoice	Gardens of Chelsea "Gardens of Chelsea" by "Rejoice"	Rejoice	Dunhill	1968	LP	Nancy and Tom Brown	1:24:25 (Pop-up)
Good and Plenty	She Is the We of Me	The World of Good and Plenty	Senate	1967	LP	Doug Good and Ginny Plenty	1:28:22 (Pop-up)
Jonathan and Leigh	Song For Shelley	Third and Main	Vanguard	1967	LP	Jonathan Alden and Sandy Lee Bashaw	1:30:49 (Pop-up)
Smokey and His Sister	My Fondest Dreams	Smokey and His Sister	Warner Brothers	1968	LP	Smokey and Vicki Mims	1:33:23 (Pop-up)
Jim and Jean	Topanga Road "Topanga Road" by "Jim and Jean"	People World	Verve	1967	LP	Jim Glover and Jean Ray	1:37:09 (Pop-up)
Jim and Jean	The Planet June "The Planet June" by "Jim and Jean"	People World	Verve	1967	LP	Jim Glover and Jean Ray	1:39:53 (Pop-up)
John Stewart and Buffy Ford	Holly On My Mind	Signals Through the Glass	Capitol	1968	LP		1:42:46 (Pop-up)
Hedge and Donna	Collage "Collage" by "Hedge and Donna"	Evolution	Polydor	1971	LP	Hedge Capers and Donna Carson	1:45:50 (Pop-up)
Clark and Marilyn	Rain On Me "Rain On Me" by "Clark and Marilyn"	45RPM Single	Cream	1971	45	Clark and Marilyn Burroughs	1:48:34 (Pop-up)
Bill Anderson and Jan Howard	Someday We'll Be Together	45RPM Single	Decca	1970	45		1:53:52 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45		2:02:02 (Pop-up)

RSS feeds for Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlists feed | MP3 archives feed

| E-mail Larry Grogan | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by Testify! with Larry Grogan |

Listener comments!
	♥ 9:59pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Larry. Looking forward to hearing some duets.
	♥ 9:59pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt!
	🥁 ♥ 10:00pm Gary: Happy birthday, Larry!
	♥ 10:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Gary!
	♥ 10:01pm Franco Twinkie: Hey hey Larry.
	♥ 10:01pm Matt from New Orleans: I didn’t realize it was your bday. Happy Birthday.
	♥ 10:02pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all
	♥ 10:02pm chresti: Happy Birthday!!!
	♥ 10:02pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Everyone! Hey Franco, C, Chresti!
	10:03pm northguineahills: I see you're getting us redding for the show....
	10:03pm rw: Yes! Happy Birthday Funky16!!
	♥ 10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	♥ 10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey rw! Thanks!
	🥁 ♥ 10:04pm Jeff Ash: I bring birthday greetings from the great state of Wisconsin, the home of Underground Sunshine, who 50 years ago this summer covered the Beatles' "Birthday" for their one big hit.
	10:04pm Erica: Hey Larry! Happy birthday again!
	♥ 10:04pm coelacanth∅: Happy Birthday Larry!
	♥ 10:04pm Franco Twinkie: Today is your birthday? How old?
	♥ 10:05pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! Erica!
	♥ 10:05pm Funky16Corners: It is indeed Franco! 57 years young!
	♥ 10:06pm Franco Twinkie: Okay, that tells me a lot about your particular slant on things.
	♥ 10:07pm Funky16Corners: Hmmmm, how so? Good? Bad? Terrible?
	10:07pm Erica: Younger than I thought.
	♥ 10:08pm Funky16Corners: I must be one of those old souls they're always talking about.
	🥁 ♥ 10:08pm Jeff Ash: I found this Chuck Jackson and Maxine Brown LP on Wand in what basically was a head shop.
	♥ 10:08pm Franco Twinkie: Well, when certain songs infected your brain.
	♥ 10:09pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Lucky! I've been looking for a while. I only have the 45s.
	♥ 10:09pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - I think you're right (about the song infections).
	10:13pm Erica: Speaking of Boy meets Girl, any Sonny & Cher in the show Larry?
	♥ 10:14pm coelacanth∅: (they're in the gif image so i guess yes)
	♥ 10:16pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - yes indeed, as well as several S&C inspired duos
	10:16pm Parq: <male voice> Happy Birthday! <female voice> And many more!
	10:16pm Erica: They look like Sonny and Cher coel but they're not.
	♥ 10:17pm JtotheK: Arriving in time for Eddie Bo & Inez! Hiya Larry, happy birthday! Good evening, everyone.
	♥ 10:18pm nostrangerer: Focus on the 60s, OK I've adjusted my expectations accordingly.
	♥ 10:18pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq! JtotheK!
	♥ 10:19pm Funky16Corners: Nostrangerer!
	♥ 10:19pm Funky16Corners: Erica - That is def Sonny and Cher in the fur vest and striped pants
	10:20pm Erica: It didn't look like Sonny though.
	10:21pm Erica: Also, will we hear "Reach Out In the Darkness" by Friend and Lover, another boy/girl duet from the 60s? If not, just asking. I won't request anything else.
	♥ 10:22pm Funky16Corners: No Friend and Lover, but lots of other cool things
	10:22pm Parq: Having lots of fun watching Larry's playlist gif cycle through on the top of the page and on his three playlist posts. Cool effect!
	♥ 10:22pm Funky16Corners: Are you used to seeing Sonny with a mustache?
	10:23pm northguineahills: feliz cumpleanos grogan-san!
	♥ 10:24pm Funky16Corners: Thanks NGH!
	10:25pm Erica: I'm also used to seeing Sonny with darker colored hair too Larry.
	♥ 10:30pm Franco Twinkie: This set reminds me of the show Love Connection. One time, the host, Chuck Woolery was trying to ascertain why a particular hook-up went off the rails. The woman looked at him and said levelly in her own defense: "Chuck, I was looking good in my fur coat!"
	♥ 10:31pm Funky16Corners: Sadly, Chuck has gone off the rails of late
	♥ 10:39pm Franco Twinkie: This might be heresy to some, but I like version of California Soul by The Fifth Demension better.
	10:39pm Erica: I looked up the image of the Storybook Children LP by Very and Clay and Billy Vera looked like a new waver who traveled from the early 80s into the 60s. Haha.
	♥ 10:40pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - That was the first version I knew and I rate it pretty highly
	10:40pm Erica: His taste in fashion was ahead of its time, I must say.
	♥ 10:41pm Franco Twinkie: Billy Vera had a great show on KCRW back in the day.
	♥ 10:41pm coelacanth∅: i do too Franco
	♥ 10:42pm Funky16Corners: Billy Vera is a serious scholar of R&B and jazz, Big writer of liner notes for the Capitol Records reissue program for years
	♥ 10:42pm Franco Twinkie: The We Five cut out the line about getting sick.
	♥ 10:43pm chresti: a feeling in my shoe
	10:43pm Erica: "I got drunk and I got sick." Never heard that lyric before.
	♥ 10:43pm Funky16Corners: But they made Ian and Sylvia a fat chunk of change!
	♥ 10:44pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - This is the original
	10:44pm northguineahills: not sure why, but this Ian & Sylvia is grabbing me....
	10:45pm Erica: Interesting Larry.
	♥ 10:46pm Franco Twinkie: The We Five were very good, but Ian And Sylvia were great....and so good looking.
	♥ 10:47pm Funky16Corners: I have to dig out their country rock album, when they were the Great Speckled Bird
	♥ 10:47pm Franco Twinkie: Those Vanguard album covers!
	♥ 10:48pm Funky16Corners: Yes! Underrated!
	♥ 10:50pm Franco Twinkie: Very much of a Great Society vibe.
	♥ 10:51pm Funky16Corners: They only did a few 45s but they're all cool
	♥ 10:51pm Doug Schulkind: I'd follow you anywhere, Grogan. Happy birthday, Sir!
	♥ 10:51pm Franco Twinkie: How about Blackburn and Snow?
	♥ 10:52pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug! Thank you! It's been a good birthday!
	♥ 10:52pm Funky16Corners: Nothing by them Franco. I'm only vaguely familiar with the names
	♥ 10:53pm Franco Twinkie: Oh man, just you wait.
	♥ 10:54pm chresti: Shoes filled with lead!
	♥ 10:55pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, those lyrics are crazy! Screw your eyes back into your head!
	♥ 10:57pm Franco Twinkie: Suede jackets, dilated pupils and long, long hair.
	♥ 10:57pm coelacanth∅: wow i've never heard that version of come on in...and it's probably the original right?
	10:57pm Erica: Why does the song Come On In sound familiar if it's rare?
	♥ 10:58pm Funky16Corners: It's a cover of a Music Machine song
	♥ 11:04pm Funky16Corners: THIS is the original version.
	♥ 11:05pm Franco Twinkie: Wow!
	♥ 11:05pm coelacanth∅: oh i guess i've known the original. i'm so used to you playing the original versions of everything....
	11:06pm northguineahills: @Larry:Is it like no other gadget, that you've ever seen, does it start to spark w/ a shake yo the ground, the music machine only makes this sound, it goes,"Whirrrr Whiirrrr, chicka bum-bumps, Whirrrr Whiirrrr, chicka bum-bumps, if you want to hear a song, sar Whirrrr Whiirrrr, chicka bum-bumps" Or were we talking about the Talk Talk album?
	♥ 11:06pm chresti: Ha coel!
	♥ 11:07pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - The Talk Talk guys
	11:07pm Erica: Haha ngh.
	♥ 11:12pm Doug Schulkind: Can't wait to hear which Smokey and his Sister track you play. They make me swoon.
	♥ 11:14pm Matt from New Orleans: Been enjoying the tunes Larry. I’ve been reading a new hardcover of reprinted Love and Rockets material. I love the Hernandez brothers.
	♥ 11:14pm nostrangerer: Fun show. Tramp by Otis and Carla is the only one I expected. The majority of the rest have been lesser known versions of known tunes or lesser known tunes by known performers. Fun show.
	♥ 11:17pm Franco Twinkie: I was with an ex-girl friend when we met Sean Bonniwell, the writer of Come On In, at her band mates house. Recently I asked her if she ever saw him again. She said only once, they went to the county fair together to see George Jones....who Sean had never heard of!
	♥ 11:21pm Matt from New Orleans: Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu delves into Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi and Richard Farina. It’s a good book. Can’t believe it’s been almost 20 years since I read it.
	♥ 11:21pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Bonniwell was an interesting guy. I had a chance to talk to him briefly back in my fanzine days. He'd found Jesus (and martial arts) but was still pretty cool
	11:21pm Erica: I like how it sounds like two songs combined and edited together.
	♥ 11:21pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - That's a great book
	♥ 11:21pm Funky16Corners: @erica - Some Velvet Morning is a very heavy and very weird record
	♥ 11:22pm Funky16Corners: @nostrangerer - Thanks! Glad you're digging it!
	11:22pm Erica: Especially during the end.
	♥ 11:24pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - I picked a good one!
	♥ 11:24pm Franco Twinkie: Yes. I remember. Sean was a Christian. When I met him he had long greasy hair and wore socks with flip-flops on a very hot day.
	11:26pm northguineahills: Yes, I did xtian musicals as a kid and still remember all the lyrics....(then puberty hit and voice went to shit)
	11:26pm Erica: @Franco So he was basically Jesus?
	♥ 11:26pm Funky16Corners: Socks and flip flops?!?
	♥ 11:26pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Jesus with one black glove
	♥ 11:29pm Franco Twinkie: Erica, we never got into it, but I got the impression he had a lot to say on the subject
	11:30pm Johnzon: cool show concept, thanks for the tunes & information dj larry!
	♥ 11:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey Johnzon! My pleasure!
	11:30pm Erica: Good and Plenty were actual last names?
	♥ 11:31pm Funky16Corners: I'm guessing that they were pseudonyms, but I haven't been able to find other info
	11:32pm Erica: I'm about to say Larry.
	11:33pm Johnzon: isn't there a candy called that
	♥ 11:33pm Funky16Corners: There is indeed!
	♥ 11:35pm Franco Twinkie: Larry, was there a band called The Count Choculas?
	♥ 11:35pm Funky16Corners: Not that I know of, but I'd bet they're out there somewhere, gigging with the Frankenberries
	11:36pm Johnzo: "Good & Plenty was first produced by the Quaker City Confectionery Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1893 and is believed to be the oldest branded candy in the United States." and one of the lamest(sorry liquorish lovers)
	11:37pm rw: The Count Choculas are my new favorite garage band. The Frankenberries suck.
	♥ 11:37pm Funky16Corners: I'm with you Johnzon. Good and Fruity all the way for me.
	11:37pm Erica: Don't forget the Boo Berries too.
	♥ 11:37pm coelacanth∅: all i'm sayin' there better be a band called cap'n crunch
	11:37pm rw: Boo Berries rock.
	11:38pm Erica: Speaking of which I saw Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Frankinberry cereal at Walmart this past Saturday already.
	♥ 11:38pm Funky16Corners: Boo Berries, Fruit Brutes, all of them played at Cerealstock
	11:38pm Erica: Frankenberry, sorry.
	♥ 11:40pm coelacanth∅: even as a child i wasn't tempted to try a chocolate flavored breakfast anything.
	♥ 11:41pm Funky16Corners: Oooh, I loved Cocoa Puffs, some might say I was coocoo for them...
	♥ 11:41pm coelacanth∅: and for the record i liked good n plenty; didn't care for good n fruity.
	11:42pm Doug Schulkind: Bonus Smokey!!!
	11:43pm Erica: Since we're talking about cereal, anyone want to mention when they had cut out records on the boxes?
	♥ 11:44pm Franco Twinkie: I too liked Good 'n Plenty. It was my ritual movie matinee candy.
	♥ 11:45pm Franco Twinkie: Cereal box records!?!
	♥ 11:45pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - The Banana Splits, Bobby Sherman, Josie and the Pussycats, all (I think) appeared on cereal box records
	♥ 11:45pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - Yeah, you cut the record out of the back of the box
	♥ 11:46pm Franco Twinkie: Okay, after my time.
	♥ 11:46pm coelacanth∅: bobby sherman: little woman, i think. my mother wouldn't wait for me to search through the boxes for easy come easy go. i forget what cereal it was.
	♥ 11:47pm Funky16Corners: They were on Post cereals, like Sugar Crisp and Alphabits
	♥ 11:47pm Funky16Corners: Maybe 1969/1970-ish
	11:47pm Erica: They were before my time but I've seen them on blog sites and whatnot.
	♥ 11:48pm Funky16Corners: I might have a few knocking around.
	♥ 11:49pm coelacanth∅: yeah i really wanted a banana splits flexi, but my mother wouldn't buy whatever kind of cereal it was on. she only bought sweetened cereals if they were on sale, and refused to buy certain ones at all.
	♥ 11:50pm Funky16Corners: That was the rule in our house, too. Living under the tyranny of puffed rice (blecchhh)
	11:50pm rw: I've got the Banana Splits singles. I think I sent away for them with boxtops and maybe a dollar.
	11:51pm Erica: At least it wasn't Rasin Bran Larry. Haha!
	11:51pm rw: And I sort of remember cereal box flexis. You would cut them off the back of the box, right? And then you had to tape them down to the turntable to keep them from slipping.
	♥ 11:52pm coelacanth∅: oh we had shredded wheat, total, cheerios, grapenuts, corn flakes... and all 3 chex cereals. i went through dozens of rice chex boxes, collecting "the lindburg line" model cars.
	11:52pm rw: I have a buddy who did a book on cereal boxes. I bet he's got some. He would know at least.
	11:52pm Erica: Raisin Bran I meant. This chat room needs to have an editing system similar to Facebook, man.
	♥ 11:53pm Funky16Corners: @rw - Right on both counts. I have the set of Banana Splits 45s that you had t mail away for. The other records got cut right off the box
	11:54pm rw: Used to love Grapenuts with a ton of sugar added on top. F16C, are your Banana Splits singles as beat up as mine are?
	♥ 11:55pm coelacanth∅: i remember one that was square or something, and the corners of course would curl up and whack the tone arm off the record
	♥ 11:55pm Funky16Corners: They are clean enough to DJ with but in fairly beat looking shape.
	♥ 11:56pm Franco Twinkie: Speaking of free stuff with food: In Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, when Cliff booth kicks Bruce Lees ass, in the back round on the wall of the sound stage are cartoon posters of Laurel And Hardy. Smaller versions were folded up in Fritos corn chip packages in the sixties.
	♥ 11:56pm Funky16Corners: I miss the little rubber Frito Banditos
	♥ 11:57pm coelacanth∅: yeah we didn't always have sweet cereals but were allowed to put as much white sugar on them as we wanted.
	11:58pm rw: Rubber Banditos!! Weren't they erasers or pencil toppers or something?
	11:58pm Doug Schulkind: A masterpiece, Larry. Thanks!
	♥ 12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! good night all.
	♥ 12:01am Franco Twinkie: I dug it!
	♥ 12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks Doug!
	12:02am Erica: This show went by fast. Great way to end your birthday Larry. Have a good night everyone.
	♥ 12:02am Funky16Corners: Thanks C! Franco! Erica!
	12:02am rw: Beautiful. Thanks F16! Nice birthday show! Hope you had a good one!
	♥ 12:03am Funky16Corners: Thanks rw! It was excellent!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 4, 2019

Listener comments!

(C) 2025 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written 2000-2025 by Ken Garson