WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 23, 2020

Listener comments!
	3:00pm Michael 98145: Well, okay
	3:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Michael!
	3:01pm Erica: Gday mates!
	3:01pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: First
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Erica! Ian!
	3:02pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: Funky
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Got this turned up LOUD in the haedphones!
	3:03pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: INXS in the first or second hour, Larry?
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: The 9th hour, after I'm upstairs having supper
	3:04pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: :=/
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Which is not to say that I dislike them, just that I've programmed a bunch of stuff I like a lot more
	3:05pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: Any Angry Anderson?
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: The majority of the show is focused on the 60s, but there are some later things (like this)
	3:05pm Erica: The sound quality got low.
	3:06pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: sound fine here
	3:06pm Jeff Ash: Digging into the Vanda-Young canon early! Just what I needed on this work day. Greetings from Wisconsin!
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - All the levels look OK on this end
	🥁 3:07pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry and groovers. Holding put for some Little Pattie.
	3:07pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: Maybe Erica wasnt familiar with the quiet bit in the ACDC song
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: That's possible.
	🥁 3:08pm Brian in UK: Erica, the sound is down under.
	3:08pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: good one, brian
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: If you put a didgeridoo up to your ear it all gets louder
	3:10pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: just dont put it anywhere else
	3:10pm Erica: No Jeff I mean the audio quality of the stream dropped.
	🥁 3:11pm Brian in UK: Give me a didgeridont anyday!
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: Anyone else having stream issues?
	3:11pm Little Danny: Hey Larry 'n' all
	3:12pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	3:12pm Mike Sin: Stream issues? I'm having FUZZ issues!
	3:12pm Funky16Corners: Mike!
	3:12pm Little Danny: All sounds good here
	3:13pm Erica: Sounds like the stream went under water.
	🥁 3:13pm dutchtheo: G'day Larry, and up over, and down under!
	3:14pm Candy-O'67: Tuning in, Larry! Hi, everyone! Love the rock from down under!
	3:14pm Erica: Hold on I found the problem - it was my cheapo earphones
	3:14pm Erica: Ugh.
	3:15pm Erica: The stream is fine after all.
	🥁 3:15pm Brian in UK: Erica, look after those discerning ears.
	🥁 3:15pm dutchtheo: Aka acca dacca down under
	3:16pm Funky16Corners: Hey Theo! Candy-O!
	3:20pm Erica: Are we gonna hear Men at Work too? Haha!
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: Actually, Erica...
	3:21pm doctorjazz: OK, I'm here, the party can start!
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: This is as thick-headed and neanderthal and any American garage 45
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: And that's a good thing!
	3:25pm Michael 98145: it's always tomorrow in AUS
	3:26pm Funky16Corners: Really! Good morning Australia!
	3:31pm Mike Sin: Considering how big Australia is, what was the population in the mid '60s? 10 million folks? I wonder what the average sales of a #1 single were there in, say, 1966?
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: Good question!
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: I want to know how they heard this one?
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: These are the guys in the picture at the top of the playlist
	3:34pm Michael 98145: enjoying this
	3:34pm Little Danny: Love this Missing Links track. Ugly Things classic!
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: Thanks!
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: yeah, absolutely brutal for 1965
	🥁 3:35pm Brian in UK: The Navy/merchant ships was always a good source of music, Liverpool being a good example of how records travelled.
	3:35pm Erica: It's funny how Aussie band names are more complex.
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I assume they got the British brodcasting in Australia, like they did in Canada
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - You think?
	3:37pm Candy-O'67: I tell you what. The Aussie's have always known how to rock! Some of my all-time favorite bands are from there :)
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band and Strawberry Alarm Clock were all American
	3:37pm Mike Sin: The song publishing companies really worked the markets back in those days because of the high stakes... I love how "She Does Everything For Me" and "You're Gonna Miss Me" were given to Australian artists to break in that region.
	3:38pm Funky16Corners: @Candy-O - You ain't kidding!
	3:39pm Candy-O'67: Wow, Mike!
	3:39pm Erica: In my opinion anyway Larry.
	3:39pm Funky16Corners: @Mike - Isn't there an Aussie 45 of You're Gonna Miss Me?
	3:39pm Candy-O'67: Who did the Aussie You're Gonna Miss Me?
	3:41pm Mike Sin: @Candy -- Tom Thumb
	3:41pm Little Danny: These Aussie beat 45s seem to fall somewhere between the impeccable UK beat production style and the scrappiness of local U.S. garage bands. In least in terms of their production and grit.
	3:41pm Candy-O'67: Ah! I'll have to check that out!
	3:41pm Funky16Corners: Lynne Randell, girlfriend of Davy Jones!
	3:41pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Agreed, Lots of attitude but polish as well
	3:42pm Little Danny: I had no idea she was Australian.
	3:42pm Candy-O'67: Cool info, Larry, about Lynne
	3:42pm listener Rey: G'Day everyone! Aussie Monkkes riff in that hoe down
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Born in Liverpool, grew up in Australia from the age of 5
	3:44pm listener Rey: Crikey! that shoulda said Monkees
	3:44pm Mike Sin: @Candy -- I need to correct myself. Tom Thumb was from New Zealand not Australia.
	3:46pm Funky16Corners: @MIke - What was the comp with the Tom Thumbs on it? I can picture the cover but can't remember the name?
	3:46pm doctorjazz: Even my old manlooks...good! Classic lyric!
	3:46pm Jeff Ash: Local radio station in Madison, Wisconsin, used to play this song early every Friday afternoon to get the weekend started. So for me to hear it on any other day than Friday is weird.
	🥁 3:47pm Brian in UK: Were the Easybeats recorded in the UK, kind of sounds like it was.
	3:47pm Funky16Corners: Wild Things!
	3:47pm Erica: I read that this song introduced the Beat sound to Australia.
	3:47pm Mike Sin: @Funky - "Wild Things!"
	3:49pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - That seems likely, it was produced by Shel Talmy
	3:49pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Friday on My Mind? The beat sound was going on in Australia way back before that.
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: It might have introduced Australian beat to the USA
	3:50pm Erica: Hey don't take my word for it Larry.
	3:51pm Mark R.: This Wild Cherries guy sounds like 1 part Tom Jones, 1 part David Clayton Thomas
	3:51pm Candy-O'67: @Mike-- Thanks! Easy mistake to make ;)
	3:52pm Mike Sin: I love this "croony" guy from the Wild Cherries... A bit more of a heartbroken "Sean Bonniwell" lilt.
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: @Mark - The guitarist in this band, Lobby Lloyd is a legend in Australia
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: @Mike - Yeah!
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Everybody prepare to psych out
	3:54pm Guido from Cologne: "The Real Thing Pts 1&2" is total madness. Can you play anything after that?
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: This actually got released here in the US!
	3:54pm Candy-O'67: I'm ready, Larry!
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: Hey Guido! I have a couple of things up my sleeve
	3:55pm Mike Sin: I came for the cool records, but I stuck around for the psilocybin.
	🥁 3:55pm Brian in UK: Guessing that it was similar in Aussie to the UK when the R'nB/Beat groups almost over night grew hair and found phasing/flanging.
	3:56pm Funky16Corners: Well, this one is pretty late in the game (1969), but the trends there followed everywhere else, beat, garage, psych, hard rock etc
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: There's a fantastic live version of this recorded a few years back at a festival in Australia
	3:57pm Guido from Cologne: Consider there were no effect devices for that at the time!
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: Byron Bay Blues Festival 2013
	3:58pm Funky16Corners: It's on Youtube
	3:58pm Mike Sin: One thing that took Australia a while to get was color TV. Whenever I see clips from even the early '70s, I always end up thinking they're older because it's all in B&W until 1972 or such.
	🥁 3:59pm Brian in UK: Just chuck it in the blender.
	4:01pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Larry, you gonna play any Stems?
	4:01pm Erica: Australia was always behind in TV Mike. The didn't switch to digital transmission until 2013 I think.
	4:01pm Mike Sin: "Legs Diamond" Peter Allen?
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: The very same!
	4:02pm Mike Sin: Ha! "The Boy from Oz", right?
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: Yup!
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: The album is pretty cool. That track is the only psych-ey thing on it but lots if sunshine pop-type stuff
	4:04pm Erica: I have a CD reissue of BiCoastal. A must for Yacht Rock and Peter Allen fans.
	4:06pm Mike Sin: All right, Zoot! Featuring "the sexiest man alive".. a few years later!
	4:07pm Funky16Corners: Yes, under his real name, Rick Springthorpe!
	4:08pm Candy-O'67: Zoot and their pink outfits! Ha!
	4:14pm Michael 98145: "The common yabby is an Australian freshwater crustacean" ... ??
	4:16pm Funky16Corners: Hmmmm, chrome plated crab, eh?
	4:17pm Michael 98145: spacey. this.
	4:17pm Funky16Corners: Billy Thorpe was one of the big stars of Australia's first beat boom, 1964-ish. Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, featured a young Vince Melouney (Later of the Bee Gees)
	4:18pm Funky16Corners: Imagine a stoned teenager, 1979-ish with this blasting on really big speakers
	4:19pm Funky16Corners: With a groovy Mouse & Kelley cover, too: www.discogs.com...
	4:21pm Michael 98145: whoa. cool.
	4:21pm Michael 98145: Krome Plated Angels
	4:22pm Funky16Corners: If you were witness to the early days of MTV this video was on A LOT
	4:24pm Mike Sin: And the video is just various clips of fun in the sun in Santa Monica, of all places, right?
	4:24pm Jeff Ash: True dat. A vaguely CSNY sound.
	4:24pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed! Originally released in 1979, recharted in 1981
	4:25pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Definitely, but I can't recall what the rest of the record sounds like
	4:26pm Mike Sin: This is indeed the greatest Men at Work track.
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: I recently watched a great documentary about Colin Hay and remembered how much I liked this song
	4:27pm Erica: Woo! Thanks for Men at Work Larry!
	4:28pm Funky16Corners: You're welcome!
	4:28pm Jeff Ash: People still love Men at Work. The Colin Hay parts of the Ringo Starr and His All-Star Band got the biggest reception of all.
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: Strap yourselves in for a string of absolute ANTHEMS after this
	4:29pm Candy-O'67: Ok, Larry! Please play some Stems!!
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - An underrated band that got way too popular way too fast. That part of the story was sad
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Candy-O - I will!
	4:30pm Jeff Ash: Colin Hay solo is tremendous, too. Men at Work fans should check out his Man @ Work record, which has a bunch of acoustic reworkings of those great Men At Work songs.
	4:30pm wendy del formaggio: I loved this Men at Work song when it came out — and it looks like I still do. I had the album on cassette tape and would play it over and over.
	4:31pm Funky16Corners: Get ready for the chorus!
	4:31pm Candy-O'67: Yay! Thanks!
	4:31pm Funky16Corners: GOD, I LOVE THIS RECORD!!
	4:32pm dave wuz here: i saw the hoodoo gurus on this album's tour - i had the fakest i.d. you ever
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: I saw them at Maxwells but a few years later
	4:32pm Candy-O'67: Haha, that's funny, dave wuz here. I had a bad fake I.D. back in the day, too!
	4:33pm Mike Sin: I don't think I saw the Hoodoo Gurus until the following LP was released... at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ of all places.
	4:33pm Candy-O'67: Poor kids today, I don't think they can even get away with fake I.D.'s anymore!
	4:33pm Candy-O'67: Yay, Larry! Thanks! This is a good one!
	4:34pm Funky16Corners: I remember buying the Stems 45s when they came out
	4:35pm Candy-O'67: Wow, so cool! I only learned of them in the last 12 years or so
	4:35pm Candy-O'67: I love all of Dom Mariani's bands!
	4:35pm Funky16Corners: Oh yeah, Ron Rimsite at Venus Records on 8th St in NYC turned a bunch of us on to the Stems
	4:35pm Candy-O'67: He was a smart dude ;)
	4:36pm Funky16Corners: He was, indeed!
	4:36pm Candy-O'67: I've seen DM3 here in Austin at SXSW
	4:36pm Funky16Corners: Mike Sin, you still out there? Mike knew Ron, too
	4:36pm Candy-O'67: Probably about 8 or 9 years ago now
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to play some more Stems in the future
	4:37pm Candy-O'67: Please do!
	4:37pm Mike Sin: Ron was a very generous maniac with his time and knowledge.
	4:37pm Candy-O'67: He's got a new band Datura4
	4:39pm Candy-O'67: Dare I say it (too mainstream) INXS? I did love them back then ;)
	4:39pm Funky16Corners: These guys actually played at the Green Parrot in Neptune, NJ on their (only, I think) American tour. They kicked ass.
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: No INXS this time but not out of the question in the future
	4:40pm Candy-O'67: I bet that was a good show, Larry
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: It was awesome. Tiny bar that a lot of great alternative bands played at because we had a commercial alternative station in the area
	4:43pm Candy-O'67: Cool! I actually saw them right before they hit it big back in Houston at a small club called Cardi's. I had a few girls I hung out with that were kind of groupies and we followed their tour bus to way west side of town where they were staying and sat at the bar and their roadies ended up talking to us and inviting us up to someone's room to party with the band! It was a blast! I was 16! One of my girlfriends traded T-shirts with Michael Hutchence! I'll never forget that!
	4:43pm Mike Sin: Dare I say, the only time I saw Midnight Oil was when they played in front of the Exxon headquarters in NYC after the Alaskan oil spill. The did a cover of "Instant Karma"
	4:43pm Funky16Corners: Very cool!
	4:43pm Candy-O'67: I really loved Blue Sky Mine - I'd say my favorite Midnight Oil song
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: @Mike - I remember that!
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: Featuring member of the Australian Parliament, Peter Garrett!
	4:44pm Erica: I only know Beds Are Burning.
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: They were a good band. I had a few of their albums and liked them both. Big on MTV at the time, too
	4:46pm Michael 98145: All these sounds really bring back memories, don't they?
	4:46pm Candy-O'67: Sure does, Michael
	4:47pm Funky16Corners: They do. I love this album so much.
	🥁 4:49pm Brian in UK: Is Neil Finn in Fleetwood Mac now, or did I dream that?
	4:50pm Funky16Corners: I think he was for a while, one of the Lindsey Buckingham replacements
	🥁 4:51pm Brian in UK: Wood Face is an endearing album.
	4:51pm Mike Sin: Gotta hit the high road, but it was great tuning in today and hearing all the fun trax! Bye folks! Thanks, Larry!
	4:51pm Candy-O'67: Bye, Mike Sin!
	4:52pm Funky16Corners: Bye Mike! Thanks for listening!
	4:54pm Erica: Play that digeridoo Drew.
	4:56pm Candy-O'67: Thanks, Larry! Enjoyed the Aussie tunes today :)
	🥁 4:58pm Brian in UK: Good job, Larry.
	5:01pm Michael 98145: Thank you! Enjoyed that.
	5:01pm Funky16Corners: Thanks all!
	5:01pm Erica: Thanks for the Aussie music Larry.
	5:02pm Candy-O'67: Man, I love this last song!!!!!!
	5:02pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Erica!
	5:02pm Candy-O'67: The Woggles usually perform it at their shows!
	5:02pm Funky16Corners: @Candy-O - The Rex Garvin? One of my all time fave 45s
	5:03pm Funky16Corners: On the rare occasions when I DJ live I always try to close sets with it
	5:03pm Candy-O'67: Yes!
	5:03pm listener Rey: Thanks Larry. As usual you hipped me to some good bands I never heard of
	5:04pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Rey! That was a fun show for me. No I want to go make dinner and have a beer!
	5:04pm listener Rey: A frothy as they say in OZ
	5:04pm Funky16Corners: Indeed!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 23, 2020

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July 23, 2020: Testify! - Wizards From Oz! Australian Rock 1964 - 1991

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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)
AC/DC	Jailbreak "Jailbreak" by "AC/DC"	45RPM Single	Albert	1975	45	0:01:10 (Pop-up)
Twilights	Bad Boy "Bad Boy" by "Twilights"	45RPM Single	Columbia	1966	45	0:05:51 (Pop-up)
The Throb	Fortune Teller "Fortune Teller" by "The Throb"	45RPM Single	Parlophone	1966	45	0:07:57 (Pop-up)
Normie Rowe and the Playboys	Shakin' All Over	45RPM Single	Sunshine	1966	45	0:10:14 (Pop-up)

Ray Brown and the Whispers	Now Is The Time	45RPM Single	Leedon	1965	45	0:15:53 (Pop-up)
MPD LImited	Little Boy Sad "Little Boy Sad" by "MPD LImited"	45RPM Single	Go!	1965	45	0:18:09 (Pop-up)
Easybeats	She's So Fine "She's So Fine" by "Easybeats"	45RPM Single	Parlophone	1965	45	0:20:31 (Pop-up)
Purple Hearts	Early In the Morning	45RPM Single	Sunshine	1966	45	0:22:32 (Pop-up)
The Loved Ones	The Loved One "The Loved One" by "The Loved Ones"	45RPM Single	IN	1966	45	0:24:38 (Pop-up)
Phil Jones and the Unknown Blues	If I Had a Ticket	45RPM Single	Festival	1967	45	0:27:27 (Pop-up)
Mike Furber and the Bowery Boys	You Stole My Love	45RPM Single	Sunshine	1966	45	0:30:09 (Pop-up)
The Missing Links	You're Driving Me Insane	45RPM Single	Philips	1965	45	0:32:46 (Pop-up)
Masters Apprentices	Undecided "Undecided" by "Masters Apprentices"	45RPM Single	Astor	1967	45	0:35:38 (Pop-up)
Ronnie Burns	Exit Stage Right "Exit Stage Right" by "Ronnie Burns"	45RPM Single	Spin	1967	45	0:38:05 (Pop-up)
Lynne Randell	That's a Hoe Down "That's a Hoe Down" by "Lynne Randell"	45RPM Single	Epic	1967	45	0:40:27 (Pop-up)
James Taylor Move	Magic Eyes "Magic Eyes" by "James Taylor Move"	45RPM Single	Festival	1967	45	0:42:22 (Pop-up)
Easybeats	Friday On My Mind "Friday On My Mind" by "Easybeats"	45RPM Single	Parlophone	1966	45	0:45:01 (Pop-up)
Masters Apprentices	Elevator Driver	45RPM Single	Astor	1968	45	0:47:43 (Pop-up)
Wild Cherries	Krome Plated Yabbie	45RPM Single	Festival	1967	45	0:49:57 (Pop-up)
Russell Morris	The Real Thing Pts 1&2	45RPM Single	Diamond	1969	45	0:52:53 (Pop-up)
Chris and Peter Allen	My Silent Symphony	Album #1	Mercury	1968	LP	0:59:08 (Pop-up)
Procession	Anthem "Anthem" by "Procession"	Procession	Smash	1969	LP	1:01:42 (Pop-up)
Zoot	1x2x3x4 "1x2x3x4" by "Zoot"	45RPM Single	Columbia	1968	45	1:04:48 (Pop-up)

Billy Thorpe	Children of the Sun "Children of the Sun" by "Billy Thorpe"	Children of the Sun	Capricorn	1979	LP	1:15:10 (Pop-up)
Tarney-Spencer Band	No Time To Lose	Run For Your Life	A&M	1979	LP	1:21:43 (Pop-up)
Men At Work	Overkill "Overkill" by "Men At Work"	Cargo	CBS	1983	LP	1:26:21 (Pop-up)
Hoodoo Gurus	I Want You Back "I Want You Back" by "Hoodoo Gurus"	Stoneage Romeos	A&M	1984	LP	1:30:07 (Pop-up)
The Stems	Make You Mine "Make You Mine" by "The Stems"	45RPM Single	Citadel	1985	45	1:33:13 (Pop-up)
Screaming Tribesmen	I Got a Feeling	Bones and Flowers	Rykodisc	1988	LP	1:37:55 (Pop-up)
Midnight Oil	Blue Sky Mine "Blue Sky Mine" by "Midnight Oil"	45RPM Single	CBS	1990	45	1:41:47 (Pop-up)
Crowded House	It's Only Natural "It's Only Natural" by "Crowded House"	Wood Face	Capitol	1991	CD	1:46:02 (Pop-up)
Yothu Yindi	Timeless Land "Timeless Land" by "Yothu Yindi"	Freedom	Mushroom	1993	CD	1:49:25 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up on the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	2:01:26 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:00pm Michael 98145: Well, okay
	3:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Michael!
	3:01pm Erica: Gday mates!
	3:01pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: First
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Erica! Ian!
	3:02pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: Funky
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: Got this turned up LOUD in the haedphones!
	3:03pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: INXS in the first or second hour, Larry?
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: The 9th hour, after I'm upstairs having supper
	3:04pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: :=/
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: Which is not to say that I dislike them, just that I've programmed a bunch of stuff I like a lot more
	3:05pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: Any Angry Anderson?
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: The majority of the show is focused on the 60s, but there are some later things (like this)
	3:05pm Erica: The sound quality got low.
	3:06pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: sound fine here
	3:06pm Jeff Ash: Digging into the Vanda-Young canon early! Just what I needed on this work day. Greetings from Wisconsin!
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	3:06pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - All the levels look OK on this end
	🥁 3:07pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry and groovers. Holding put for some Little Pattie.
	3:07pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: Maybe Erica wasnt familiar with the quiet bit in the ACDC song
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: That's possible.
	🥁 3:08pm Brian in UK: Erica, the sound is down under.
	3:08pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: good one, brian
	3:09pm Funky16Corners: If you put a didgeridoo up to your ear it all gets louder
	3:10pm Ian 'Lankey' Pinkston: just dont put it anywhere else
	3:10pm Erica: No Jeff I mean the audio quality of the stream dropped.
	🥁 3:11pm Brian in UK: Give me a didgeridont anyday!
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: Anyone else having stream issues?
	3:11pm Little Danny: Hey Larry 'n' all
	3:12pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	3:12pm Mike Sin: Stream issues? I'm having FUZZ issues!
	3:12pm Funky16Corners: Mike!
	3:12pm Little Danny: All sounds good here
	3:13pm Erica: Sounds like the stream went under water.
	🥁 3:13pm dutchtheo: G'day Larry, and up over, and down under!
	3:14pm Candy-O'67: Tuning in, Larry! Hi, everyone! Love the rock from down under!
	3:14pm Erica: Hold on I found the problem - it was my cheapo earphones
	3:14pm Erica: Ugh.
	3:15pm Erica: The stream is fine after all.
	🥁 3:15pm Brian in UK: Erica, look after those discerning ears.
	🥁 3:15pm dutchtheo: Aka acca dacca down under
	3:16pm Funky16Corners: Hey Theo! Candy-O!
	3:20pm Erica: Are we gonna hear Men at Work too? Haha!
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: Actually, Erica...
	3:21pm doctorjazz: OK, I'm here, the party can start!
	3:21pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: This is as thick-headed and neanderthal and any American garage 45
	3:23pm Funky16Corners: And that's a good thing!
	3:25pm Michael 98145: it's always tomorrow in AUS
	3:26pm Funky16Corners: Really! Good morning Australia!
	3:31pm Mike Sin: Considering how big Australia is, what was the population in the mid '60s? 10 million folks? I wonder what the average sales of a #1 single were there in, say, 1966?
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: Good question!
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: I want to know how they heard this one?
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: These are the guys in the picture at the top of the playlist
	3:34pm Michael 98145: enjoying this
	3:34pm Little Danny: Love this Missing Links track. Ugly Things classic!
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: Thanks!
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: yeah, absolutely brutal for 1965
	🥁 3:35pm Brian in UK: The Navy/merchant ships was always a good source of music, Liverpool being a good example of how records travelled.
	3:35pm Erica: It's funny how Aussie band names are more complex.
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I assume they got the British brodcasting in Australia, like they did in Canada
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - You think?
	3:37pm Candy-O'67: I tell you what. The Aussie's have always known how to rock! Some of my all-time favorite bands are from there :)
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band and Strawberry Alarm Clock were all American
	3:37pm Mike Sin: The song publishing companies really worked the markets back in those days because of the high stakes... I love how "She Does Everything For Me" and "You're Gonna Miss Me" were given to Australian artists to break in that region.
	3:38pm Funky16Corners: @Candy-O - You ain't kidding!
	3:39pm Candy-O'67: Wow, Mike!
	3:39pm Erica: In my opinion anyway Larry.
	3:39pm Funky16Corners: @Mike - Isn't there an Aussie 45 of You're Gonna Miss Me?
	3:39pm Candy-O'67: Who did the Aussie You're Gonna Miss Me?
	3:41pm Mike Sin: @Candy -- Tom Thumb
	3:41pm Little Danny: These Aussie beat 45s seem to fall somewhere between the impeccable UK beat production style and the scrappiness of local U.S. garage bands. In least in terms of their production and grit.
	3:41pm Candy-O'67: Ah! I'll have to check that out!
	3:41pm Funky16Corners: Lynne Randell, girlfriend of Davy Jones!
	3:41pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Agreed, Lots of attitude but polish as well
	3:42pm Little Danny: I had no idea she was Australian.
	3:42pm Candy-O'67: Cool info, Larry, about Lynne
	3:42pm listener Rey: G'Day everyone! Aussie Monkkes riff in that hoe down
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Born in Liverpool, grew up in Australia from the age of 5
	3:44pm listener Rey: Crikey! that shoulda said Monkees
	3:44pm Mike Sin: @Candy -- I need to correct myself. Tom Thumb was from New Zealand not Australia.
	3:46pm Funky16Corners: @MIke - What was the comp with the Tom Thumbs on it? I can picture the cover but can't remember the name?
	3:46pm doctorjazz: Even my old manlooks...good! Classic lyric!
	3:46pm Jeff Ash: Local radio station in Madison, Wisconsin, used to play this song early every Friday afternoon to get the weekend started. So for me to hear it on any other day than Friday is weird.
	🥁 3:47pm Brian in UK: Were the Easybeats recorded in the UK, kind of sounds like it was.
	3:47pm Funky16Corners: Wild Things!
	3:47pm Erica: I read that this song introduced the Beat sound to Australia.
	3:47pm Mike Sin: @Funky - "Wild Things!"
	3:49pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - That seems likely, it was produced by Shel Talmy
	3:49pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Friday on My Mind? The beat sound was going on in Australia way back before that.
	3:50pm Funky16Corners: It might have introduced Australian beat to the USA
	3:50pm Erica: Hey don't take my word for it Larry.
	3:51pm Mark R.: This Wild Cherries guy sounds like 1 part Tom Jones, 1 part David Clayton Thomas
	3:51pm Candy-O'67: @Mike-- Thanks! Easy mistake to make ;)
	3:52pm Mike Sin: I love this "croony" guy from the Wild Cherries... A bit more of a heartbroken "Sean Bonniwell" lilt.
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: @Mark - The guitarist in this band, Lobby Lloyd is a legend in Australia
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: @Mike - Yeah!
	3:52pm Funky16Corners: Everybody prepare to psych out
	3:54pm Guido from Cologne: "The Real Thing Pts 1&2" is total madness. Can you play anything after that?
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: This actually got released here in the US!
	3:54pm Candy-O'67: I'm ready, Larry!
	3:54pm Funky16Corners: Hey Guido! I have a couple of things up my sleeve
	3:55pm Mike Sin: I came for the cool records, but I stuck around for the psilocybin.
	🥁 3:55pm Brian in UK: Guessing that it was similar in Aussie to the UK when the R'nB/Beat groups almost over night grew hair and found phasing/flanging.
	3:56pm Funky16Corners: Well, this one is pretty late in the game (1969), but the trends there followed everywhere else, beat, garage, psych, hard rock etc
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: There's a fantastic live version of this recorded a few years back at a festival in Australia
	3:57pm Guido from Cologne: Consider there were no effect devices for that at the time!
	3:57pm Funky16Corners: Byron Bay Blues Festival 2013
	3:58pm Funky16Corners: It's on Youtube
	3:58pm Mike Sin: One thing that took Australia a while to get was color TV. Whenever I see clips from even the early '70s, I always end up thinking they're older because it's all in B&W until 1972 or such.
	🥁 3:59pm Brian in UK: Just chuck it in the blender.
	4:01pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Larry, you gonna play any Stems?
	4:01pm Erica: Australia was always behind in TV Mike. The didn't switch to digital transmission until 2013 I think.
	4:01pm Mike Sin: "Legs Diamond" Peter Allen?
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: The very same!
	4:02pm Mike Sin: Ha! "The Boy from Oz", right?
	4:02pm Funky16Corners: Yup!
	4:03pm Funky16Corners: The album is pretty cool. That track is the only psych-ey thing on it but lots if sunshine pop-type stuff
	4:04pm Erica: I have a CD reissue of BiCoastal. A must for Yacht Rock and Peter Allen fans.
	4:06pm Mike Sin: All right, Zoot! Featuring "the sexiest man alive".. a few years later!
	4:07pm Funky16Corners: Yes, under his real name, Rick Springthorpe!
	4:08pm Candy-O'67: Zoot and their pink outfits! Ha!
	4:14pm Michael 98145: "The common yabby is an Australian freshwater crustacean" ... ??
	4:16pm Funky16Corners: Hmmmm, chrome plated crab, eh?
	4:17pm Michael 98145: spacey. this.
	4:17pm Funky16Corners: Billy Thorpe was one of the big stars of Australia's first beat boom, 1964-ish. Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, featured a young Vince Melouney (Later of the Bee Gees)
	4:18pm Funky16Corners: Imagine a stoned teenager, 1979-ish with this blasting on really big speakers
	4:19pm Funky16Corners: With a groovy Mouse & Kelley cover, too: www.discogs.com...
	4:21pm Michael 98145: whoa. cool.
	4:21pm Michael 98145: Krome Plated Angels
	4:22pm Funky16Corners: If you were witness to the early days of MTV this video was on A LOT
	4:24pm Mike Sin: And the video is just various clips of fun in the sun in Santa Monica, of all places, right?
	4:24pm Jeff Ash: True dat. A vaguely CSNY sound.
	4:24pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed! Originally released in 1979, recharted in 1981
	4:25pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Definitely, but I can't recall what the rest of the record sounds like
	4:26pm Mike Sin: This is indeed the greatest Men at Work track.
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: I recently watched a great documentary about Colin Hay and remembered how much I liked this song
	4:27pm Erica: Woo! Thanks for Men at Work Larry!
	4:28pm Funky16Corners: You're welcome!
	4:28pm Jeff Ash: People still love Men at Work. The Colin Hay parts of the Ringo Starr and His All-Star Band got the biggest reception of all.
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: Strap yourselves in for a string of absolute ANTHEMS after this
	4:29pm Candy-O'67: Ok, Larry! Please play some Stems!!
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - An underrated band that got way too popular way too fast. That part of the story was sad
	4:29pm Funky16Corners: @Candy-O - I will!
	4:30pm Jeff Ash: Colin Hay solo is tremendous, too. Men at Work fans should check out his Man @ Work record, which has a bunch of acoustic reworkings of those great Men At Work songs.
	4:30pm wendy del formaggio: I loved this Men at Work song when it came out — and it looks like I still do. I had the album on cassette tape and would play it over and over.
	4:31pm Funky16Corners: Get ready for the chorus!
	4:31pm Candy-O'67: Yay! Thanks!
	4:31pm Funky16Corners: GOD, I LOVE THIS RECORD!!
	4:32pm dave wuz here: i saw the hoodoo gurus on this album's tour - i had the fakest i.d. you ever
	4:32pm Funky16Corners: I saw them at Maxwells but a few years later
	4:32pm Candy-O'67: Haha, that's funny, dave wuz here. I had a bad fake I.D. back in the day, too!
	4:33pm Mike Sin: I don't think I saw the Hoodoo Gurus until the following LP was released... at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ of all places.
	4:33pm Candy-O'67: Poor kids today, I don't think they can even get away with fake I.D.'s anymore!
	4:33pm Candy-O'67: Yay, Larry! Thanks! This is a good one!
	4:34pm Funky16Corners: I remember buying the Stems 45s when they came out
	4:35pm Candy-O'67: Wow, so cool! I only learned of them in the last 12 years or so
	4:35pm Candy-O'67: I love all of Dom Mariani's bands!
	4:35pm Funky16Corners: Oh yeah, Ron Rimsite at Venus Records on 8th St in NYC turned a bunch of us on to the Stems
	4:35pm Candy-O'67: He was a smart dude ;)
	4:36pm Funky16Corners: He was, indeed!
	4:36pm Candy-O'67: I've seen DM3 here in Austin at SXSW
	4:36pm Funky16Corners: Mike Sin, you still out there? Mike knew Ron, too
	4:36pm Candy-O'67: Probably about 8 or 9 years ago now
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to play some more Stems in the future
	4:37pm Candy-O'67: Please do!
	4:37pm Mike Sin: Ron was a very generous maniac with his time and knowledge.
	4:37pm Candy-O'67: He's got a new band Datura4
	4:39pm Candy-O'67: Dare I say it (too mainstream) INXS? I did love them back then ;)
	4:39pm Funky16Corners: These guys actually played at the Green Parrot in Neptune, NJ on their (only, I think) American tour. They kicked ass.
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: No INXS this time but not out of the question in the future
	4:40pm Candy-O'67: I bet that was a good show, Larry
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: It was awesome. Tiny bar that a lot of great alternative bands played at because we had a commercial alternative station in the area
	4:43pm Candy-O'67: Cool! I actually saw them right before they hit it big back in Houston at a small club called Cardi's. I had a few girls I hung out with that were kind of groupies and we followed their tour bus to way west side of town where they were staying and sat at the bar and their roadies ended up talking to us and inviting us up to someone's room to party with the band! It was a blast! I was 16! One of my girlfriends traded T-shirts with Michael Hutchence! I'll never forget that!
	4:43pm Mike Sin: Dare I say, the only time I saw Midnight Oil was when they played in front of the Exxon headquarters in NYC after the Alaskan oil spill. The did a cover of "Instant Karma"
	4:43pm Funky16Corners: Very cool!
	4:43pm Candy-O'67: I really loved Blue Sky Mine - I'd say my favorite Midnight Oil song
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: @Mike - I remember that!
	4:44pm Funky16Corners: Featuring member of the Australian Parliament, Peter Garrett!
	4:44pm Erica: I only know Beds Are Burning.
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: They were a good band. I had a few of their albums and liked them both. Big on MTV at the time, too
	4:46pm Michael 98145: All these sounds really bring back memories, don't they?
	4:46pm Candy-O'67: Sure does, Michael
	4:47pm Funky16Corners: They do. I love this album so much.
	🥁 4:49pm Brian in UK: Is Neil Finn in Fleetwood Mac now, or did I dream that?
	4:50pm Funky16Corners: I think he was for a while, one of the Lindsey Buckingham replacements
	🥁 4:51pm Brian in UK: Wood Face is an endearing album.
	4:51pm Mike Sin: Gotta hit the high road, but it was great tuning in today and hearing all the fun trax! Bye folks! Thanks, Larry!
	4:51pm Candy-O'67: Bye, Mike Sin!
	4:52pm Funky16Corners: Bye Mike! Thanks for listening!
	4:54pm Erica: Play that digeridoo Drew.
	4:56pm Candy-O'67: Thanks, Larry! Enjoyed the Aussie tunes today :)
	🥁 4:58pm Brian in UK: Good job, Larry.
	5:01pm Michael 98145: Thank you! Enjoyed that.
	5:01pm Funky16Corners: Thanks all!
	5:01pm Erica: Thanks for the Aussie music Larry.
	5:02pm Candy-O'67: Man, I love this last song!!!!!!
	5:02pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Erica!
	5:02pm Candy-O'67: The Woggles usually perform it at their shows!
	5:02pm Funky16Corners: @Candy-O - The Rex Garvin? One of my all time fave 45s
	5:03pm Funky16Corners: On the rare occasions when I DJ live I always try to close sets with it
	5:03pm Candy-O'67: Yes!
	5:03pm listener Rey: Thanks Larry. As usual you hipped me to some good bands I never heard of
	5:04pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Rey! That was a fun show for me. No I want to go make dinner and have a beer!
	5:04pm listener Rey: A frothy as they say in OZ
	5:04pm Funky16Corners: Indeed!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 23, 2020

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