Favoriting Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from August 22, 2018 Favoriting

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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.

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Favoriting August 22, 2018: Readings from the Books of Aretha, Bonniwell and Sts Stephen, Neil, David and Graham

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Aretha Franklin  Oh Mary Don't you Weep   Favoriting Amazing Grace  Atlantic  1972  LP 
Aretha Franklin  I've Been Loving You Too Long   Favoriting Young Gifted and Black  Atlantic  1972  LP 
Aretha Franklin  Dark End of the Street   Favoriting This Girl's In Love With You  Atlantic  1970  LP 
 
The Music Machine  Talk Talk   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Original Sound  1966  45 
The Music Machine  Masculine Intuition   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Original Sound  1966  45 
The Music Machine  Come On In   Favoriting Turn On the Music Machine  Original Sound  1966  LP 
The Music Machine  Hey Joe   Favoriting Turn On the Music Machine  Original Sound  1966  LP 
 
The Fire Escape  Talk Talk   Favoriting Psychotic Reaction  GNP CRescendo  1967  LP 
The Music Machine  Trouble   Favoriting Turn On the Music Machine  Original Sound  1966  LP 
Jerry and Deborah  Come On In   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Epic  1966  45 
The Music Machine  Some Other Drum   Favoriting Turn On the Music Machine  Original Sound  1966  LP 
The Music Machine  Wrong   Favoriting Turn On the Music Machine  Original Sound  1966  LP 
The Music Machine  96 Tears   Favoriting Turn On the Music Machine  Original Sound  1966  LP 
The Music Machine  Taxman   Favoriting Turn On the Music Machine  Original Sound  1966  LP 
Deviled Ham  Come On In   Favoriting I had Too Much To Dream Last Night  Super K  1968  LP 
The Music Machine  The People In Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Original Sound  1966  45 
 
Liberace  Suite Judy Blue Eyes   Favoriting Brand New Me  Warner Brothers  1970  LP 
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade  Marrakesh Express   Favoriting Brass Menagerie  Project 3   1972  LP 
Paul Horn  Guinnevere   Favoriting Visions  Epic  1974  LP 
Paul Horn  Long Time Gone   Favoriting Visions  Epic  1974  LP 
Jefferson Airplane  Wooden Ships   Favoriting Volunteers  RCA  1969  LP 
Bola Sete  Suite Judy Blue Eyes   Favoriting Workin' On a Groovy Thing  Paramount  1971  LP 
 
Roger Eckers  Carry On   Favoriting Roger Eckers  Zez  1971  LP 
The Assembled Multitude  Woodstock   Favoriting The Assembled Multitude  Atlantic  1970  LP 
Fareed Haque  4+20   Favoriting Deja Vu  Blue Note  1997  CD 
Happy Day  Everybody I Love You   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Uni  1970  45 
Barry Miles  Woodstock   Favoriting White Heat  Mainstream  1971  LP 
Isley Brothers  Ohio/Machine Gun   Favoriting Givin' It Back  T-Neck  1971  LP 
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45 


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Gary:

Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Gary!
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chresti:

hello!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Chresti!
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hyde:

hi
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Funky16Corners:

Hyde!
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Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Wisconsin!
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Franco Twinkie:

Greetings from the SGV!
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Funky16Corners:

Jeff! Franco!
  10:07pm
rw:

Greetings from the OC!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey rw!
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Franco Twinkie:

RW! You dawg!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Funky16Corners:

I'm in the OC, but it's Ocean County, NJ
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
doctorjazz:

Hi, in and out tonight ,but digging Gospel Aretha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
Avatar 🥁 10:11pm
Erica:

Sorry I'm late for the chat. There was no link on Facebook.
Avatar 10:11pm
still b/p:

I usually can't name a favorite anything -- movie, color, food -- but for a year or two my favorite Aretha selection has been a TV performance of Say A Little Prayer from 10/9/70, not sure what show. Just a damn pleasure. Another clip of same song, same year, from Cliff Richard Show is also pretty good.
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Doug Schulkind:

Already (still) weeping.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Franco Twinkie:

Can we change USA to United States Of Aretha?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Funky16Corners:

@SBP - Among her many covers, that is especially economic and sublime.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doug!
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Funky16Corners:

@Franco - It is, at least for a few more weeks.
  10:22pm
chresti:

I got knocked over by the choir in the amazing grace track
Avatar 🥁 10:25pm
Erica:

Yea it's sad that Aretha passed away. I posted a song by her that she sang with Elton John as a tribute to her called "Through the Storm".
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Funky16Corners:

I'm not 100% sure but I think it was recorded in church. I'll have to look.
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Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I'm not familiar with that one. I'll look it up
  10:25pm
rw:

Yo! Franco T!

F16T, all the Aretha tributes I've heard have been incredible. I guess it's tough to go wrong, but still.
And holy cow, that WAS a hard left turn there!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Funky16Corners:

@rw - Kind of like "we now return you to Testify, already in progress."
  10:29pm
chresti:

Very doors feeling
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Funky16Corners:

@Chresti - LA Contemporaries of the Doors
Avatar 🥁 10:31pm
Erica:

Hey Larry, just curious, ever heard the Original Sinners? They had a single called "You'll Never Know". Very catchy mid-60s garage rock//pop-rock.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Funky16Corners:

That name isn't ringing any bells. I'll look for it.
Avatar 🥁 10:32pm
Erica:

It's on Youtube.
  10:32pm
chresti:

Hey joe is so forlorn ! Great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Franco Twinkie:

Oh Yeah! This is the Shit! In the sixth grade(1966) Mr. Watkins asked the class what their favorite songs on the radio were. As you can expect lots of Beatles, Hermins Hermits ect. He said:"Franco?" I said Talk,Talk by the Music Machine. I got stares of non -comprehention and suspicion. This reaction would plague me my entire dismal career as a student. More later.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, I always suspected that Hendrix heard this version,
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Funky16Corners:

@Franco - That's great!
Avatar 10:45pm
still b/p:

Give The Drummer Some Other.
Avatar 🥁 10:47pm
Erica:

Wrong, sir. WRONG!
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Franco Twinkie:

A long time ago, my girl friend dumped me and moved up to the Southern Sierras to play in a county&western band. I drove up to see her shortly there after. One day she said "Lets go see my friend Rocky" (The band leader.) When we got to his house, his wife said he was out in the garage with some guy recording. We banged on the door and Rocky came out with his friend. He said "This is Sean Bonniwell." I blurted out: "I use to see you on Boss City!"(A TV dance show in L.A.) He said " You know, I invented punk rock" He was wearing flip-flops with socks.
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Funky16Corners:

That's cool. I was in touch with him years ago via a fanzine I was doing. He had become a big Christian.
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Funky16Corners:

@FRanco - Who was the host of Boss City? Was it Sam Riddle or was he just on Hollywood A Go Go?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Franco Twinkie:

I know, Rocky said they recorded a bunch of song about Jesus.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Franco Twinkie:

Both. Hollywood A Go-Go morphed into Boss City.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Funky16Corners:

Ah, OK. I thought I had heard his name associated with both, though I don't think I've ever seen any Boss City clips.
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Franco Twinkie:

BTW. The Fire Escape turned into The Seeds.
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Funky16Corners:

Really? I thought the Seeds were out first.
Avatar 🥁 10:58pm
Erica:

He's probably referring to another band of the same name perhaps?
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Franco Twinkie:

Larry, is Super K a spin-off of K-tel, it's swell?
  10:59pm
rw:

There must be a comp with a bunch of these songs. Most seem SO familiar to me but I can't figure out from where. Couldn't have been the radio. I must have had a tape at some point. Maybe it was the Nuggets comp.
  11:01pm
chresti:

They are great songs!
  11:03pm
rw:

You're a madman, Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

@rw - There was a great Rhino comp of the Music Machine that came out in the 80s.
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Funky16Corners:

And Talk Talk was def on the original, Lenny Kaye compiled Nuggets
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still b/p:

Patchouli and sandalwood scented candles in the candelabra.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Liberace in a buckskin caftan
  11:07pm
rw:

That sounds familiar... maybe we had it at the radio station when I was in college. Maybe I've got the LP in my closet. Pretty sure I had a tape on rotation in my car though. Great stuff. Thanks for the set and the scholarly anecdotes!
Avatar 11:08pm
still b/p:

But he refused to sport some facial stubble. He could only go so far.
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Funky16Corners:

"I will grow my sideburns only so long and NO LONGER!!"
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Franco Twinkie:

Original Sound was the official record label for Cholos and Cholas in jr. high. How they bagged the Music Machine I'll never know. Art Laboe was a funny guy. He put out some early Frank Zappa records.
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Jeff Ash:

I bought that Liberace record on your recommendation way back when on the Iron Leg blog.
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Funky16Corners:

@FRanco - I think Laboe got his start putting on R&B concerts in East LA.
  11:11pm
rw:

Ha! Jeff Ash. And?
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Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - It's worth it for the couple of cool tunes and the Spooner Oldham involvement.
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Franco Twinkie:

Yup, At The El Monte Legion Stadium.
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Funky16Corners:

Didn't Zappa do a tine called 'Memories of El Monte' or something like that?
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Franco Twinkie:

Yes. Ray Collins sang the lead vocals.
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Jeff Ash:

Larry's recommendations are usually right on. Liberace was all right, RW. Not that I'm ever going to pop for another Liberace record.
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Franco Twinkie:

Go ride the music!
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Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - Nobody "needs" a Liberace record, but if you have the time, a dollar (or less) and open ears, that's the one to buy.
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Franco Twinkie:

Sounds like Liberace on piano. but I think it's Nicky Hopkins.
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Funky16Corners:

It is indeed Nicky!
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still b/p:

If I come across early Liberace albums in a thrift store stack, I'd consider buying one or two for the cover images.
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Franco Twinkie:

I just pulled out The Tin Man Was Dreamer today. But I got distracted by Ella Fitzgerald.
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Funky16Corners:

Ella will do that to you.
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Franco Twinkie:

My enduring memory of Guinnevere was the day I got that record when I was 14 I had driven up into the foothills above La Verne in my uncle Johns Dodge Power Wagon to pick avocados in hazy winter light.
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Funky16Corners:

That's a cool memory.
Avatar 11:37pm
still b/p:

A judge in this area hauled a number of people in this week to answer for failure to report for jury duty. "Distracted by Ella" would get you an instant pass.
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Funky16Corners:

"Your honor, I was knee deep in Ornette Coleman albums and the freedom had me otherwise occupied"
Avatar 11:41pm
still b/p:

If you make it to the voir dire stage, are Ornette and Ella inclinations/fascinations going to assure you a seat or get you struck?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
Franco Twinkie:

You bet, BP! The very album I was listening to was Sunshine Of Your Love recorded live in 1969 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
Franco Twinkie:

My dad use to cut school to go see Ella at the Million Dollar theater Downtown L.A. in the late 1940's.
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Erica:

I bet he got caught too.
  11:47pm
rw:

My dad almost hit David Crosby in the parking lot at the Hollywood Bowl. I said, "Hey, there's David Crosby" And he started looking around saying, "Where?" I said, "He's right in front of you. Stop! You're going to hit him!"
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Franco Twinkie:

Yes he did! His solution to escaping the the truant officer was to join the air force!
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Funky16Corners:

@rw - Now, the chances that the story was about almost punching Crosby...even odds.
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Funky16Corners:

Non-Deja Vu - bonus track...
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Jeff Ash:

This is one of my favorite Isley records.
  11:50pm
rw:

Ha! Not my dad. But maybe...
  11:51pm
rw:

Wow. This IS good.
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Funky16Corners:

@rw - I meant that Crosby might have been asking for it.
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Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - Yeah the Isleys in the 70s is a real treasure trove of interesting stuff.
  11:53pm
rw:

Yes! I got that. But still, my dad was a pretty nice guy.
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Funky16Corners:

I'm sure he was. Crosby on the other hand...kicked out of every band he ever joined, including his own solo projects...j/k
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Franco Twinkie:

The same girl friend that dumped me to hang around with violent crackers in the Sierras...Her parent lived down the street from David Crosby's father. One day we had coffee with him and it was Davy this,Davy that. He was really proud of his son. Floyd Crosby was no slouch, he was the DP on High Noon and my personal favorite, The Man with x-Ray Eyes with Ray Milland.
  11:57pm
rw:

My daughter was just talking about the Isley Bros. the other day. She was saying how she likes them but then she heard a song about young girls that creeps her out. I tried explaining that times were different but it's a tough argument to make to a young person these days. Especially my daughter who's kind of a hard-ass.
Avatar 11:57pm
still b/p:

Forrmer flight attendant I know had a bunch of celebrity encounters. Crosby firmly reinforced his own rep.
  11:59pm
chresti:

Thanks for another great show Larry!
  12:00am
rw:

Oh man. This show is too short! Been fun hanging out listening to music with y'all. Much better than working, which is what i'm supposed to be doing... Thanks again Larry! Take care everyone!
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Franco Twinkie:

Top shelve. Larry!
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Jeff Ash:

Thanks, Larry! Enjoy vacation!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Chresti!
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Erica:

See ya Larry! Have a nice vacation.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks rw, Chresti, Jeff, Erica! I shall enjoy the vacation. Maybe I'll bring back some new records!
  12:02am
rw:

Enjoy your week off and have a great 56th!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks rw!
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