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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 October 30, 2019: Testify! - Songs That Go Bump In the Night! aka Plan 9 From New Jersey!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Plan 9 From Outer Space  Trailer   Favoriting The Movies  Bootleg  1959  MP3 
The Mystrys  Witch Girl   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Orbit  1966  45 
The Sonics  The Witch   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Etiquette  1964  45 
Round Robin  I'm the Wolfman   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Domain  1965  45 
Halloween Convention of Spooks  Trailer   Favoriting The Movies  Bootleg  1958  MP3 
Mike Sharpe  Spooky   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Liberty  1967  45 
ZZ Hill  I Created a Monster   Favoriting Keep On Lovin' You  UA  1975  LP 
Bobby Byrd  Back From the Dead   Favoriting 45RPM Single  International Brothers  1974  45 
 
House On Haunted Hill  Trailer   Favoriting The Movies  Bootleg  1959  MP3 
Robert Johnson  Hellhound On My Trail   Favoriting 78rpm  Vocalion  1937  78 
John Lee Hooker  Graveyard Blues   Favoriting Burning Hell  Riverside  1964  LP 
Andy Bey and the Bey Sisters  Zombie Jamboree (Back to Back)   Favoriting Andy Bey and the Bey Sisters  RCA  1961  LP 
The Lyres  Buried Alive   Favoriting AHS1005  Ace of Hearts  1981  LP 
The Astro Zombies  Trailer   Favoriting The Movies  Bootleg  1968  MP3 
Jack Marshall's Music  The Ghoul   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1965  45 
Bobby Bare  Vampira   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Jackpot  1958  45 
Little Tibia and the Fibias  The Mummy   Favoriting Mad Monster Party OST  Waxwork  1967  CD 
The Starfires  Vampire   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Lewis  1962?  45 
Atom Age Vampire  Trailer   Favoriting The Movies  Bootleg  1960  MP3 
Bela La Goldstein  Old Boris   Favoriting 45RPM Single  International  1962  45 
The Ebb Tides  Seance   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Jar  1967  45 
Gary Warren  Midnight Rain   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Nasco  1958  45 
The Grim Reepers  Two Souls   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Chalon  1966  45 
Larry and the Blue Notes  Night of the Sadist   Favoriting 45RPM Single  20th Century Fox  1965  45 
Mad Men  Haunted   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Cloister  1962  45 
Teddy Durant  Beast of the Sunset Strip   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Impression  1965  45 
Teddy Durant  The Night Stalker   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Impression  1965  45 
Bobby Boris Pickett  Monster Concert   Favoriting 45RPM Single  White Whale  1970  45 
 
Robot Monster  Trailer   Favoriting The Movies  Bootleg  1958  MP3 
Blue Oyster Cult  Don't Fear the Reaper   Favoriting Agents of Fortune  Columbia  1976  LP 
Richard Rome  Ghost a Go Go   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Fayette  1965  45 
Strange Things  Bump In the Night   Favoriting John and Mary OST  A&M  1968  LP 
The Holy Mackerel  The Golden Ghost of Love   Favoriting The Holy Mackerel  A&M  1968  LP 
Country  Killer   Favoriting Country  Clean  1971  LP 
Norma Tanega  You're Dead   Favoriting Walking My Cat Named Dog  New Voice  1966  LP 
Devon Irons  Vampire   Favoriting Arkology [Disc 1]  Island  1977  CD 
Augustus Pablo  Bells of Death   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Move and Groove  1972  45 
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein  Trailer   Favoriting The Movies  Bootleg  1957  MP3 
Beck  Already Dead   Favoriting Sea Change  DGC  2002  CD 
The Velvet Underground  The Murder Mystery   Favoriting The Velvet Underground  MGM  1969  LP 
Mr Undertaker  Here Lies My Love   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Music City  1955  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!

Avatar 🥁 10:03pm
Erica:

Hi Larry Happy Halloween (early)! Tomorrow is also my birthday. Glad to join you in this year's Halloween special.
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coelacanth∅:

every week i await with excitement the guy that says "Bam. right on."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
chresti:

Boris Johnson-scary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
coelacanth∅:

hey Larry and all
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Erica! C! Chresti!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - That's Lou Rawls!
Avatar 10:04pm
TDK60:

C'mon Bela, Frank, Wolf, let's have tea.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
coelacanth∅:

oh! Right on!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

TDK60!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Did you bring the tana leaves?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Happy Birthday Erica!
Avatar 🥁 10:06pm
Erica:

Thanks Larry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
coelacanth∅:

Happy birthday Erica! -today?
Avatar 🥁 10:07pm
Erica:

Tomorrow coel.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Green Bay, where it has just started snowing again. Just dropped in to see what condition everyone's condition is in.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
WR:

OMG I just realized that I don't know where my copy of Plan 9 is.... what dusty box in which dim corner of what pile in which squalid room filled with stuff my kids will end up paying someone to haul to the dump. The horrors.
Avatar 10:08pm
TDK60:

yes, the ceremonial tana tea leaves, and my mojo, and staff.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Jeff! WR!
Avatar 10:11pm
TDK60:

Dangit! Tomorrow's the Halloween Parade here in NYC but it's supposed to rain, so I'm not in the mood; anyway, can't find my scary clothing chest; where is it, down in the dungeon?..
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Funky16Corners:

I'm wondering if we're going to get washed out for Halloween. I feel bad for the little kids.
Avatar 🥁 10:15pm
Erica:

I hope it will just drizzle too Larry. People on FB keep complaining not to have trick-or-treating (well Halloween itself) postponed and to let the kids go out in the rain.
Avatar 🥁 10:17pm
Erica:

It's like you can't get a simple yes or no answer.
Avatar 10:17pm
TDK60:

yeah, we should all just go out anyway. I'll go as a Pagan Rain God or something..
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Funky16Corners:

If it's just a drizzle I say go ahead, but I also don't see any harm in postponing until Friday. Candy's not going anywhere.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
chresti:

..he trained his baby?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
coelacanth∅:

i'll go as a wet blanket.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Funky16Corners:

I keep getting rocks...
Avatar 🥁 10:20pm
Erica:

Haha Larry! Don't worry the Great Pumpkin will come.
Avatar 10:21pm
TDK60:

..be careful, sometimes surrealistic weirdos infiltrate the Halloween parade; Dangerous stuff.
Avatar 10:22pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

Good Evening, Mr. Grogan - and to all you other fine people as well. It's getting a bit nippy here in the upper Pacific Northwest. Thank goodness for the hot wax that is streaming through my laptop, to make it a bit more tolerable!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
chresti:

The Bringer of Rain..
I want to hear The Witch again.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Funky16Corners:

Mod Mokka Matti! Welcome!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
coelacanth∅:

TDK i've been wondering how can i make myself a surrealistic witch for halloween
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
coelacanth∅:

i'll probably just wear a hat and put a few freckles on my face. see who looks at me with a question mark above their heads.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Funky16Corners:

I love a good, inscrutable Halloween costume
Avatar 🥁 10:31pm
Erica:

I got the Halloween blues now.
Avatar 10:31pm
TDK60:

I am the one to ask. You find all those clothing items in your Attic or Dungeon that are not often worn. You adorn yourself, then assume the proper attitude; then you do a ritual with tea leaves, before leaving the compound.
  10:37pm
rw:

Happy early Halloween! And Happy early Birthday Erica!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Funky16Corners:

If the guitar sounds familiar on this, it's the flipside to the Munsters theme
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey rw!
Avatar 🥁 10:37pm
Erica:

Something about 60s Halloween/spooky themed songs make you wanna get up and groove.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, def an a-go-go vibe to that one
Avatar 10:40pm
TDK60:

..it's frightening, Erica, how I dance.
  10:40pm
rw:

Surrealistic witch... huh...
Avatar 🥁 10:40pm
Erica:

Is Witch Doctor on this playlist tonight Larry?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Funky16Corners:

Not tonight
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
chresti:

Dye your hair with a washable color and if it rains, the color will run down your face for added effect
Avatar 🥁 10:41pm
Erica:

Oh well.
Avatar 🥁 10:42pm
Erica:

And why does that sound like Donald Duck?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Funky16Corners:

It's the sound of the Mummy in the movie
Avatar 10:43pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

Call me a bit biased, but one can't have a truly good Halloween without a heaping helping of some Hammond action.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
chresti:

Snakes coming out of the hat could be surreal
Avatar 🥁 10:45pm
Erica:

Well that mummy sounds like a duck to me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
ParUbi:

Always with the marring, tragedy.
  10:45pm
rw:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r8v0cb7fsjlzy1p/Surrealistic%20Witch.jpg?dl=0
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - Have you ever seen Mad Monster Party?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey ParUbi!
Avatar 🥁 10:47pm
Erica:

No Larry. I need to though.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Funky16Corners:

It's a big fave of mine since I was a kid
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Funky16Corners:

I love the organ on this track
Avatar 🥁 10:54pm
Erica:

I temporarily changed my profile pic for Halloween. Forgot to do that.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Funky16Corners:

I forgot, too...
Avatar 🥁 10:56pm
Erica:

It's okay Larry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
coelacanth∅:

TDK i've been a surrealistic something a few times, or at least tried to be. i have lots of stuff to work with, but i'd like to keep it subtle. subtle enough that people who don't know me might wonder if i'm in costume or not.
i was a witch a few years ago...or warlock? (i did wear a dress, but i don't think i looked female) maybe that was a surrealistic witch?

...hey rw!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:00pm
Funky16Corners:

I was a beatnik ghost once.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:00pm
coelacanth∅:

...your description of people looking at you approvingly then their expressions changing is appealing to me! i feel like there must've been something subtle about your costume that kept people on their toes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
Franco Twinkie:

Larry, my musical cohorts and I were just chased out our practice space while we we were making a Halloween video by a grumpy family member! This is not supposed to happen to senior citizens. Made me feel young again!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Franco! Glad you made the scene!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
Franco Twinkie:

I have this on the Mondo Hollywood sound track. On Tower, naturally.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
Funky16Corners:

I didn't know there was an LP!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
coelacanth∅:

i was a rhinoceros once when i was in my teens or 20s. i made a cone with heavy paper and strapped it to my head. i was hoping to start a trend of conceptual costuming but i don't think a single person appreciated it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
coelacanth∅:

my friend George had the monster mash album but i don't think one was on it
  11:08pm
rw:

Grateful Undead Head! That would be a good costume.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:10pm
Franco Twinkie:

Jefferson Vampires. Har!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
coelacanth∅:

...so who did the heavier munsters theme when it was redone a few seasons in? i always thought it was the standells but i just looked and there's mention of them appearing on the show but not of the theme song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
Franco Twinkie:

If you find it Larry, It most likely will be beat to crap, just like mine.
Avatar 🥁 11:13pm
Erica:

When it comes to TV themes, especially Halloween-themed ones, I always end up finding cover versions by studio artists like on those sound-alike albums.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - I'm not sure, bit I will look into it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
Funky16Corners:

AIR GUITAR! I'm 14 again!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
coelacanth∅:

i had to change my avatar just for this song
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Funky16Corners:

Nice! 8-track!
Avatar 11:17pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

Speaking of Halloween Hammond action, will Arthur Brown and Vincent Crane be making an appearance with "Nightmare"?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
Funky16Corners:

Not tonight, but I'll put it on the list for next years extravaganza!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
coelacanth∅:

yes! that little incident, 4-5 years ago inspired me to learn what everyone should know about 8-track tapes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:19pm
coelacanth∅:

(...okay, not really everyone.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
Funky16Corners:

@MMM - Here's some organ, from Richie Rome, the man behind the Chicago Cubs Clark St Band's 'Slide', a serious Hammond burner
Avatar 🥁 11:20pm
Erica:

Sorry I was enjoying "Don't Fear the Reaper". Great song.
  11:24pm
rw:

Does beer plus tiny chocolate bars equal dinner?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:24pm
coelacanth∅:

it depends what kind of beer
Avatar 11:25pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

@Funky16: Thank you! BTW, "The Committee" is one intriguing bit of film. Vincent seems to be channeling Schroeder quite a bit as he's backing up Mr. Brown.
  11:26pm
rw:

I've got Lagunitas IPA.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
Franco Twinkie:

Yes RW! Join the to busy having fun to eat like an adult club.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
Funky16Corners:

@rw - Have a Scotch Ale, the beer that eats like a soup.
Avatar 11:27pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

@Funky16: Oh that was a new one to me. "Slide" has been a long-time personal favourite, so I'll have to go back and listen to this one again.
  11:28pm
rw:

I'll take that as a yes. Thanks!
Avatar 🥁 11:29pm
Erica:

Larry I've having trouble finding the band Country. Can you post a link to them please? Thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Funky16Corners:

Here you go, Erica: www.discogs.com...
Avatar 🥁 11:31pm
Erica:

Thanks Larry! I heard two soft rock/country rock bands on this Halloween show tonight and I wish to check out more of their material, if any.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
coelacanth∅:

yes, if you don't have any W.C.Field's Three-Squares Lager; or Dr.Dean Martin's Basic Food Group Ale around, then a scotish ale or an irish stout should do the job.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - Was the other band the Holy Mackerel?
Avatar 🥁 11:34pm
Erica:

@Larry ZZ Hill
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
Funky16Corners:

ZZ Hill was a hard soul thing
Avatar 🥁 11:36pm
Erica:

Not the song I heard tonight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:38pm
coelacanth∅:

someone gave me a 2nd generation mixtape c.1982? called "space skank" with no info and it took me years to track down all or most of what's on it. it turned out probably over 1/2 of it is Lee Perry (or produced) including vampire
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
Funky16Corners:

He did a bunch of versions of Vampire
Avatar 11:41pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

Is that the same man doing that movie trailer VO the same one who was Arch Oboler's sidekick on Lights Out? I can't think of his name atm...
  11:42pm
rw:

Wow. My bike trail is on fire!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
Funky16Corners:

@MMM - I'm not sure
  11:43pm
rw:

Should I ride out there to see it??
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
coelacanth∅:

oh shit. how close is that to where you are?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:44pm
Funky16Corners:

Stay out of there! Those fires look terrifying.
  11:44pm
rw:

The trail is about 13 mi. round trip, so less than 7 miles.
  11:45pm
rw:

My son says I should go ride the trail so he can see me on the news.
  11:46pm
rw:

Sorry, I'll stop now. Got a little excited.
Avatar 11:47pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

Ah, I think Frank Martin was that VO for the Teenage Frankenstein trailer. I came to know a lot of OTR programs rather early, through parents who grew up with it when it was all first-run.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
Funky16Corners:

I want to find some of those Arch Oboler programs to listen to.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Franco Twinkie:

Yeah, previously mentioned grumpy person was evacuated from her house in Pacific Palisades because of The Getty Fire. Even if you aren't personally affected, people all around you are.
Avatar 🥁 11:52pm
Erica:

This song is too overwhelming to listen to. Can't make out the mystery.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Funky16Corners:

That's just the VU being avant garde...
Avatar 11:53pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

@Funky16: the nice thing is that there are far more sources now online for OTR, including Oboler's work, compared to when I was young in the 70s/early 80s. Back then, my sister and I would listen to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater with our dad nearly every night, on KIRO out of Seattle.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - Especially near the end where it sounds like John Cale is playing the piano with his elbows
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Franco Twinkie:

Larry, I was outside digging thru the trash so I missed some of the chat. I have an Arch Obolor record called Strange Truth. That's and understatement!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Funky16Corners:

@MMM _ I was a HUGE Mystery Theater fan when I was a kid!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
WR:

VU MM is impressionist mood thing. Suggestive. Just as the singing interludes are suggestive fragments. No literal story IMO.
  11:55pm
rw:

FT, my job for Monday was postponed due to that Getty Fire. That day was pretty weird. I think the layer of smoke has been coloring my perception of everything the past few weeks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry
happy nightmares, y'all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
WR:

Understood RW. Hope the flames stay 7 miles away from you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
coelacanth∅:

rw 7 miles isn't much. don't eat too much beer for dinner.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
chresti:

Thanks Larry!
rw, me too
  11:59pm
rw:

Thank you WR and chresti! We're upwind so I think we're okay.
Avatar 🥁 11:59pm
Erica:

Happy Halloween everyone! Great haunting show Larry. Until next week.
Avatar 11:59pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

This was fun. Thanks again Mr. G, for another satisfying show!
  12:00am
rw:

Oh, and thanks coel!

Thank you F16! Have a super spooky Halloween everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00am
Funky16Corners:

Nite all! Thanks for listening!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:00am
Franco Twinkie:

WPLJ was covered by The Mothers - with lots of swearing in Spanish to boot!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:01am
Funky16Corners:

Good old Frank Zappa and his unquenchable thirst for old school R&B!
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