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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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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Buck Owens and the Buckaroos  Buckaroo   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1964  45 
The Byrds  Mr Spaceman   Favoriting Fifth Dimension  Columbia  1966  LP 
Grady and Brady  Love or Money   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Planetary  1965  45 
Monkees  What Am I Doing Hangin' Round   Favoriting PISCES AQUARIUS CAPRICORN & JONES  Colgems  1967  LP 
Monkees  You Told Me   Favoriting Headquarters  Colgems  1967  LP 
Nat Stuckey  Listen To the Band   Favoriting New Country Roads  RCA  1969  LP 
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band  Holding   Favoriting Nitty Gritty Dirt Band  Liberty  1967  LP 
The Gosdin Brothers  The Sounds of Goodbye   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1968  45 
Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers  Tried So Hard   Favoriting Gene Clark With the Gosdin Brothers  Columbia  1967  LP 
 
International Submarine Band  Luxury Liner   Favoriting Safe At Home  LHI  1968  LP 
Buffalo Springfield  Burned   Favoriting Buffalo Springfield  Atco  1966  LP 
Buffalo Springfield  Kind Woman   Favoriting Last Time Around  Atco  1968  LP 
The Dillards  Lemon Chimes   Favoriting Wheatstraw Suite  Elektra  1968  LP 
Glad  Let' Play Make Believe   Favoriting Feelin' Glad  ABC  1968  LP 
Poco  You Better Think Twice   Favoriting Poco  Epic  1970  LP 
The Holy Mackerel  The Somewhere In Arizona At 4:30 A.M. Restaurant Song (And Now I Am Alone)   Favoriting Holy Mackerel  Reprise  1968  LP 
Rick Nelson  If You Gotta Go Go Now   Favoriting Rick Nelson In Concert  Decca  1970  LP 
Neil Young  Emperor of Wyoming   Favoriting Neil Young  Reprise  1968  LP 
The Everly Brothers  T For Texas   Favoriting Roots  Warner Brothers  1968  LP 
Hearts and Flowers  Please   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1967  45 
Johnny Darrell  Willing   Favoriting Cailfornia Stopover  UA  1970  LP 
Sandy Salisbury  Cecily   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Together  1969  45 
The Byrds  One Hundred Years From Now   Favoriting Sweetheart of the Rodeo  Columbia  1968  LP 
The Byrds  King Apathy III   Favoriting Dr Byrds and Mr Hyde  Columbia  1969  LP 
 
Doug Sahm and Band  Is Anybody Going To San Antone   Favoriting Doug Sahm and Band  Atlantic  1973  LP 
The Grateful Dead  Friend of the Devil   Favoriting American Beauty  Warner Brothers  1970  LP 
John Stewart  Never Going Back   Favoriting California Bloodlines  Capitol  1969  LP 
John Stewart  Shackles and Chains   Favoriting California Bloodlines  Capitol  1969  LP 
Flying Burrito Brothers  Christine's Tune (Devil In Disguise)   Favoriting Gilded Palace of Sin  A&M  1969  LP 
Flying Burrito Brothers  Hot Burrito #1   Favoriting Gilded Palace of Sin  A&M  1969  LP 
Flying Burrito Brothers  Hot Burrito #2   Favoriting Gilded Palace of Sin  A&M  1969  LP 
Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels  California Cottonfields   Favoriting Live 1973  Sierra  1973  CD 
Little Feat  Willin'   Favoriting Sailin' Shoes  Warner Brothers  1972  LP 
The Byrds  Truck Stop Girl   Favoriting Untitled  Columbia  1970  LP 
Leon Russell  She Smiles Like a River   Favoriting Leon Russell and the Shelter People  Shelter  1971  LP 
Chaparral Brothers  Hello LA Bye Bye Birmingham   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1969  45 
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45 


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Listener comments!

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Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Wisconsin!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Jeff!
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Erica:

Welcome back (to Testify!) Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Erica!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Hi Larry, Jeff and Erica
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Matt!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Do the dead of working man’s dead qualify?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Coming up later on!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
chresti:

Hi Larry! Everybody!
Franco is on his way back from Joshua Tree
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Hi Chresti
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Chresti! Hurry up Franco!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Maybe he can bring the spirit of Gram Parsons back with him!
Avatar 🥁 10:08pm
Erica:

Haha Larry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Matt from New Orleans:

The font on that piece of paper looks small for quickly scanning
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Matt from New Orleans:

On your Instagram pic of your setup
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Which piece of paper?
  10:10pm
Dean:

A bit outside the the radius captured by this evening's theme: Goose Creek Symphony.
Avatar 🥁 10:10pm
Erica:

Papa Nez! :D
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Dean!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
chresti:

At least I think he's on his way, his phone is still out of range or out of juice
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Funky16Corners:

@Matt - I still have reasonable eyesight!
  10:11pm
Dean:

I never owned PAC&J, yet I recall almost vividly listening to this song all the time...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I do not
Avatar 🥁 10:13pm
Erica:

I don't have a physical copy of PAC&J myself, but same here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - I had to work hard to whittle this down to two hours. There's definitely another volume in the future
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
chresti:

I think it was on the tv show
Avatar 🥁 10:14pm
Erica:

Surprised Larry didn't play Monkees songs during the Hal Blaine tribute.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Jeff Ash:

I bought this Nat Stuckey LP on your recommendation over at F16C. I think I might have seen it once more in the wild since then.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
chresti:

...playing during some madcap scene.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Funky16Corners:

@Chresti - I was definitely on the show, maybe more than one episode
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - It's worth it for all the weird covers
Avatar 🥁 10:15pm
Erica:

Also, Headquarters was proof that the Monkees COULD play their own instruments and write (some of) their own songs.
Avatar 10:16pm
still b/p:

"What Am I Doing Hanging Round" written by Michael Martin Murphey and Owen Castleman. I wondered, so I looked. Fun track, as a number of Monkees songs are.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey SBP! Yup, from their labelmates the Lewis and Clarke Expedition!
  10:17pm
Dean:

I understand, Larry. GSM were fairly popular for a time, if not as much as The Monkees. I'm pretty sure they continue to tour.
Avatar 🥁 10:18pm
Erica:

Speaking of Listen to the Band, ever heard the long, tripped-out version Mike sings in the NBC special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee? Much different from the studio/TV show version OR the Nat Stuckey version.
Avatar 🥁 10:18pm
Erica:

Mike Nesmith that is.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Funky16Corners:

I don't know that version. I'll have to look for it
Avatar 🥁 10:21pm
Erica:

I watched that Monkees special once out of curiosity. It was trippy (and it was a flop back in 1969).
Avatar 10:22pm
still b/p:

If I ever get over Joshua Tree way, I wanna stay in a pod at the Wagon Station Encampment. Been intrigued since I saw the artist speak locally several years ago.
www.7x7.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
chresti:

GSM?
  10:23pm
mzzm:

everytime i hear guy clark i miss bob brainen show
  10:25pm
Dean:

Wha?! You're right, chresti. I meant...

GCS

...as in Goose Creek Symphony.
  10:29pm
Dean:

I camped once in Joshua Tree, but I'm not a camping kinda guy. If the opportunity had arisen post-U2, I wouldn't have gotten near to that place.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I completely forgot about Lee Hazelwood’s short lived label.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
coelacanth∅:

hello Larry, everyone
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Funky16Corners:

Oh shit, I was singing along, loud enough that my wife just texted me from upstairs at the other end of the house...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
coelacanth∅:

main or harmony?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
coelacanth∅:

(i usually sing the harmony on that)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Funky16Corners:

Lead, naturally
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
coelacanth∅:

then we're a match!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Funky16Corners:

EVERYBODY SING!
  10:41pm
Dean:

Seems to me, too, that we need to give credit to Larry Hosford.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
chresti:

Oh yeah, Andrea Zittle, she's great. The place I'd like to stay is the Lightening Fields, you been? @sb/p
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
coelacanth∅:

sometimes it's a fine line between -or a matter of opinion which voice is the harmony to the lead (and vice versa) especially with the beatles and Neil Young ...and CSNY
...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, intertwining leads, like the front line of a bebop combo with the trumpet and sax weaving in and out of the forefront
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
chresti:

I camped in JT once, in the early 90s.
  10:50pm
rw:

Hey! I'm here. I've just been in the back doing homework for my other class...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey rw!
  10:54pm
rw:

Some of these songs I know pretty well, some are new to me. Enjoying it all. Thanks, man. And keep on singing!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Funky16Corners:

Glad you're digging it!
  11:00pm
rw:

On a weird sort of aside, I got Laurel and Topanga Canyons mixed up the other day and we were trying to fit the two into musical history. Is there a musical distinction between the two canyons?
Avatar 11:00pm
still b/p:

Lightning Fields in NM? No, made a few brief stops in NM when I lived in West Texas for a few years, and back again quick when a friend got married in Albuquerque, but there's a HELL of a lot there I haven't seen in the region and would like to experience at a free and leisurely pace.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
Funky16Corners:

I think they were both home to all manner of hippie musicians. Maybe moreso in Laurel, but I hear about both
  11:06pm
rw:

Yeah, we were trying to figure out if one preceded the other in terms of hippie musicians or if one was home to cooler musicians than the other. Laurel's closer to town. Topanga's further out.
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Erica:

More Byrds. A lot of Texas musicians/songs in the mix tonight.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
Funky16Corners:

@rw - Laurel was home to Zappa, Mamas and Papas, CSNY, Topanga was home to Spirit (among others). I wonder if Laurel was more expensive real estate at the time.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Zappa lived in Tom Mix's old house!
  11:11pm
rw:

This is pure speculation but I think of Zappa as a Beverly Hills kid.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
coelacanth∅:

eagles: slightly countryish pop
or... (is there a genre called "coke pop"?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
chresti:

I think he's from the eastside somewhere?
Avatar 🥁 11:18pm
Erica:

Coke pop? As in soda pop or as in cocaine pop? Haha!
  11:18pm
rw:

Coke-pop! That's a pretty wide genre.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
Jeff Ash:

50 years ago last month, the Byrds played a high school gym in Green Bay, Wisconsin, as they toured in support of "Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde," the last LP in the last set. Roger McGuinn was the only original member left by then, and Clarence White was one of the guitarists. They reportedly sounded great, but a guy who was at the show recalled: "The Byrds were pissed off that the concert was in the gym, not the auditorium. They refused to play any of their old songs. The Byrds brought no lighting and used the gym ceiling lights."
Avatar 🥁 11:20pm
Erica:

Agreed. Both Gene and Gram died too young.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:22pm
Funky16Corners:

@rw - If I'm not mistake Zappa grew up around LA but not Beverly Hills. After he got famous he moved into Tom Mix's old log cabin manse in Laurel Canyon (apparently close to the Canyon Country Store)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:24pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - I would have loved to have seen that! There are actually some live recordings of that era of the band.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:27pm
Jeff Ash:

I'll go see if my time machine is out in the garage.
  11:28pm
rw:

Lancaster! Not BH at all! He just seemed to have some of the personality traits of people I know who grew up in BH.

Jeff, be careful with that thing.
  11:28pm
Dean:

I thought Zappa grew up in the Lancaster, kinda outside of San Fernando Valley.
Avatar 🥁 11:29pm
Erica:

Don't accidentally transport yourself back to the Stone Age Jeff. Haha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - Wiki says born in Baltimore, grew up in San Diego
  11:29pm
Dean:

You know, rw, I've found that people "from" someplace don't exhibit "traits" of that place. That goes for just about everywhere.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Jeff Ash:

Gonna transport myself to Ohio tomorrow. Maybe hit up some record stores while there.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Funky16Corners:

Good idea, Jeff!
  11:32pm
Dean:

Born in Baltimore, then Lancaster via San Diego (where I was born not long after him). Finally, of course, the dude found Whittier Blvd.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Funky16Corners:

Zappa's family later moved to Lancaster where he went to Antelope Valley High School where he made the acquaintance of a certain Don Van Vliet!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Funky16Corners:

Then merely Private Beefheart...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I figured there’d be more Chris Hillman. Any Manassas before we’re done tonight?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
coelacanth∅:

haha (private beefheart)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
Funky16Corners:

Not this time, but def the next time I dig into this sound.
  11:42pm
rw:

Dean, you mean I don't come across as So. Cal. suburbanite?? I thought I was pretty easily pegged.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
coelacanth∅:

okay my time has come
Thanks Larry
gnight everone
  11:43pm
rw:

Later cc!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite C!
Avatar 🥁 11:44pm
Erica:

Night coel.
  11:45pm
rw:

Hot Burrito was last night for me. Or maybe it was more Warm Burrito.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
Funky16Corners:

Now I want a burrito...
  11:46pm
Dean:

Nope, rw, I've never pegged anybody (in any sense of the word, so shut up the rest of you!). I have this perverse notion that people are people, which means you cannot (or should not) predict (or "peg," if you prefer) their adopted identities based upon their geographical/ethnic/political/whathaveyou assignments.
Avatar 🥁 11:46pm
Erica:

Just be glad it wasn't a cold burrito. Haha! (I keep saying Haha alot).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Im sure manning the decks works up a mighty appetite
  11:48pm
Dean:

Goddamn, I love this tune. Too much, in fact. Sometimes, I can't sleep 'cuz this song is racing through what's left of my brain.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
Funky16Corners:

I have to sing along with this one...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
Funky16Corners:

Weed...whites....and wiiiiiinnnnnneee
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Funky16Corners:

Another really early Little Feat cover
Avatar 11:51pm
still b/p:

"Willing" escaped my attention somehow -- howda happ'n? -- until I heard someone play guitar and sing it in a dorm room in 77 or 78.
  11:52pm
Dean:

I've said it many times on these comments boards, but I heard LF with LG open for ELO in Anaheim many years ago. I went for ELO, but I secretly celebrated the fact that I'd get to hear this odd band with the hit "Dixie Chicken."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Funky16Corners:

I definitely heard other people do it before Little Feat
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - That's a weird double bill!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Thanks Larry. Really enjoyed the show. It’s good to switch it up musically.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Matt!
  11:55pm
Dean:

It is, and it was then. But in retrospect I think not quite so much. Jeff Lynne is as much an artist as Lowell George.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
Jeff Ash:

Thanks, Larry! Good night!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite Jeff!
  11:57pm
rw:

Dean, Good advice. I'm not sure I completely agree that people aren't shaped in part by their environment but best not to draw conclusions (as I was incorrectly and perhaps wrongly doing with FZ!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
chresti:

Thanks Larry! Gdnight!
Avatar 🥁 11:57pm
Erica:

Well another show over already. Thanks Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite Chresti!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Erica!
  11:59pm
Dean:

Splendid program tonight. Thanks. I'm sleep-ward.
  11:59pm
rw:

Thank you once again F16! Super show. Later everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Dean! rw!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02am
Funky16Corners:

I will be sleepward shortly, myself!
Avatar 8:51pm
hyde:

couldn't comment live, so i'm doing it now; this show was amazing
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Hyde!
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