Favoriting Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from December 25, 2019 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 December 25, 2019: Testify! - Third Annual Multidenominational Holiday Extravaganza!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Darlene Love  Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philles  1963  45  0:01:12 (Pop-up)
Beach Boys  Little Saint Nick   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1963  45  0:03:52 (Pop-up)
Aretha Franklin  Winter Wonderland   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia  1964  45  0:05:52 (Pop-up)
The Ronettes  Sleigh Ride   Favoriting A Christmas Gift for You (From Phil Spector)  Philles  1963  LP  0:08:01 (Pop-up)
 
Ike and Tina Turner  Merry Christmas Baby   Favoriting 45RPM Single  WB  1965  45  0:14:03 (Pop-up)
Booker T and the MGs  Silver Bells   Favoriting In the Christmas Spirit  Stax  1965  LP  0:16:00 (Pop-up)
Harold Johnson  Greensleeves   Favoriting Wide Open  Revue  1970  LP  0:18:29 (Pop-up)
Count Sidney and His Dukes  Soul Christmas   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Goldband  1967  45  0:23:38 (Pop-up)
Gatemouth Moore  Christmas Blues   Favoriting Mr Santa's Boogie  National  1946  78  0:25:50 (Pop-up)
Little Esther Phillips and Johnny Otis  Faraway Christmas Blues   Favoriting Mr Santa's Boogie  Savoy  1984  78  0:28:49 (Pop-up)
Nathaniel Mayer  Mr Santa Claus (Bring Me My Baby)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Fortune  1962  45  0:32:05 (Pop-up)
Little Johnny Taylor  Please Come Home For Christmas   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Galaxy  1965  45  0:34:32 (Pop-up)
Otis Redding  White Christmas   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atco  1968  45  0:37:18 (Pop-up)
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings  8 Days of Hanukkah   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Daptone  2015  45  0:40:20 (Pop-up)
 
Sufjan Stevens  O come O Come Emmanuel   Favoriting Christmas  Asthmatic Kitty  2006  CD  0:46:40 (Pop-up)
Jean Shepherd  Duel In the Snow or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid Pt1   Favoriting WOR Radio  Bootleg  1972  MP3  0:50:41 (Pop-up)
Sufjan Stevens  Holy Holy Holy   Favoriting Christmas  Asthmatic Kitty  2006  CD  1:02:49 (Pop-up)
Jean Shepherd  Duel In the Snow or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid Pt2   Favoriting WOR Radio  Bootleg  1972  MP3  1:03:21 (Pop-up)
Sufjan Stevens  Hark the Herald Angels Sing   Favoriting Christmas  Asthmatic Kitty  2006  CD  1:22:26 (Pop-up)
Jean Shepherd  Duel In the Snow or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid Pt3   Favoriting WOR Radio  Bootleg  1972  MP3  1:23:10 (Pop-up)
Sufjan Stevens  Joy To the World   Favoriting Christmas  Asthmatic Kitty  2006  CD  1:30:03 (Pop-up)
 
Dave Brubeck Quartet  Santa Claus Is Coming To Town   Favoriting Jingle Bell Jazz  Columbia  1961  LP  1:37:50 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra  Jingle Bells   Favoriting Jingle Bell Jazz  Columbia  1962  LP  1:41:33 (Pop-up)
Manhattan Jazz All Stars  If I Were a Bell   Favoriting Jingle Bell Jazz  Columbia  1959  LP  1:44:27 (Pop-up)
Ramsey Lewis Trio  Snowfall   Favoriting More Sounds of Christmas  Argo  1964  LP  1:47:18 (Pop-up)
Herbie Hancock  Deck the Halls   Favoriting Jingle Bell Jazz  Columbia  1973  LP  1:49:28 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up on the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:57:23 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Jeff Ash:

Merry Christmas from foggy Wisconsin!
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Funky16Corners:

Merry Christmas Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Gary:

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

Gary!
Avatar 10:01pm
Kris Holmes:

We’re tuned in
Avatar 10:02pm
Kris Holmes:

Merry Christmas Grogan clan!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Kris! Merry Christmas to you and Misa!
Avatar 🥁 10:02pm
Erica:

Merry Christmas Day night Testifiers! I can't believe this day's gone by so fast.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Merry Christmas Erica! It has been a long-ass day. Just got home a little while ago from Pennsylvania.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
WR:

OKAY, I'm ready for a Christmas purge.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Jeff Ash:

Saw the video of Darlene Love singing this on "The View." There is no way she is 78. I'll have what she's having.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Jeff Ash:

+10 for the red Solo cup. DJ Santa might be nightmare fuel, though. ;-)
Avatar 🥁 10:05pm
Erica:

Darlene can still sing for sure Jeff. She was a powerhouse vocalist, for early 60s standards.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Miles put that together for me!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey WR!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Jeff Ash:

Attaboy, Miles!
Avatar 🥁 10:06pm
Erica:

I see you played the stereo version of Little Saint Nick. The mono version has the ding dings in the track, which I'm more familiar with.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - yeah, the separation is wide open on that one
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Jeff Ash:

Agreed, Erica. We saw Darlene Love on her holiday tour 3 years ago. Tremendous then, tremendous now.
Avatar 🥁 10:10pm
Erica:

Yeah I heard the stereo version on WJBR a year or so back. Sounded odd since I'm used to the mono version.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Funky16Corners:

I hope everyone has had an excellent holiday, whichever one (or none at all) you celebrate.
Avatar 🥁 10:17pm
Erica:

I can honestly say that the Phil Spector Christmas album, in my opinion is the reason so many modern Christmas songs, both original and covers sounds like they're from the 50s and 60s. "Underneath the Tree" by Kelly Clarkson is a fine example.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
ParUbi:

Merry merry, everyone
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Funky16Corners:

Oooh, I got the Booker T autobiography from Santa!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey ParUbi!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Jeff Ash:

Sweet on the Booker T book! Hey, that Ike and Tina tune sounded like it borrowed from "Finger Poppin'."
Avatar 10:20pm
Kris Holmes:

Been playing the Booker T LP all day
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - From almost exactly the same time
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Funky16Corners:

@Kris - It's a great one
Avatar 10:21pm
Kris Holmes:

I also just got the autobiography, looking forward to it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
Funky16Corners:

I got that one, a big bio of Peggy Lee and the new John Hodgman book
Avatar 🥁 10:27pm
Erica:

Way to take us back to the 40s Larry.
Avatar 🥁 10:28pm
Erica:

By the way I saw that picture of Miles wearing the bunny suit.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Funky16Corners:

That was from our visit to the Christmas Story house in Cleveland a few years ago
Avatar 🥁 10:29pm
Erica:

It seems likes everyone is talking about that Christmas Story museum this year.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Funky16Corners:

It was fun. We enjoyed Cleveland a lot.
Avatar 10:34pm
Kris Holmes:

Love this Nathaniel Mayer, actually all Nathaniel Mayer
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks to the Norton folks for keeping that flame lit
Avatar 🥁 10:44pm
Erica:

There needs to be more Hanukkah songs. There are some but the most memorable ones are "Oh Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah" and the "Hanukkah Song" by Adam Sandler.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Funky16Corners:

I kind of can't stand Adam Sandler.
Avatar 10:50pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

Howdy, all! Here's hoping the remainder of the show helps ease my nasty headache that I've had all day. Christmas got postponed a bit over here...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey MMM!
Avatar 🥁 10:52pm
Erica:

You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Franco Twinkie:

Larry, I am happy to report we met the Christmas challenge - My mom is on her way back to the facility, and there were no tears! Now, have you seen my hash pipe?
Avatar 10:54pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

Wish I had been around, or at least old enough to hear Jean Shepherd on the radio...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Funky16Corners:

While I didn't hear this specific broadcast, I used to listen to Shep when I was in junior high, nights at 9PM on WOR-AM n NYC
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Funky16Corners:

Franco! Merry (hashpipe) Christmas!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
chresti:

Hello! Dinner guests on their way home, ready for the next dimension..
Avatar 🥁 10:55pm
Erica:

This was recorded when Jean was a bit younger. He Narrated the movie in 1983.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Funky16Corners:

Chresti!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - This is an actual aircheck. I used to have a studio-recorded version by Shepherd on cassette that came in a set of four stories.
Avatar 🥁 11:00pm
Erica:

Cool Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
Funky16Corners:

There's a wealth of this kind of stuff on the internet. Someone was posting airchecks as a podcast you could get in iTunes.
Avatar 11:03pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

I'll have to go look for that, for sure.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
Funky16Corners:

The sound quality varies widely, but if you dig Shep it's worth tracking down
Avatar 11:06pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

@Funky16: Ha, I just realized that according to your playlist, this recording is roughly the same vintage as me - that was my first Xmas :-)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Funky16Corners:

My 10th!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Circa 1974-1976 I used to come home from school and listen to Bob and Ray, then Mystery Theater, then wait until 9PM for Shepherd. My Pop was already a fan from the old days, so he dug it too
Avatar 🥁 11:11pm
Erica:

Sandy Andy?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Wha?
Avatar 🥁 11:13pm
Erica:

Or is it Sandy Annie? I'm used to hearing Ralphie saying he wanted Tinker Toys.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
Funky16Corners:

I'll have to ask my Pop if it was a toy of the era. He is child of the Depression
Avatar 🥁 11:15pm
Erica:

Never mind it was Sandy Andy crane toy. Never heard of it. But I found a picture of it: images.search.yahoo.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Funky16Corners:

Man, kids were so easy to entertain back then.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
Funky16Corners:

It's funny, he keeps mentioning Goldblatts Department Store. The only other place I've heard of it is Billy Boy Arnold's 'I Ain't Got You' where he talks about having a charge account at Goldblatts'
Avatar 🥁 11:18pm
Erica:

Life before the internet and even television Larry. And yet kids of the 60s and 70s say they 'survivied'. Try living in the 30s and 40s. Haha!
Avatar 11:19pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

Being born and raised out in the Northwest, My parents likely didn't know all that much of Jean, prior to "A Christmas Story", but they really enjoyed that film. It reminded them a lot of their own growing up in the 40s (as they were both Depression babies, too).
  11:19pm
Doug Schulkind:

Oh how I wished I’d grown up listening to Jean Shepherd.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:19pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doug!
Avatar 🥁 11:22pm
Erica:

Jester & Witch: "YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT (x2)! Ahhahaha!"
  11:23pm
Doug Schulkind:

Cool fill-in show on the stream tomorrow. Diane’s Kamikaze Fun Machine will be on at noon for Julie and Dark Night of the Soul!
  11:27pm
spodiodi:

DK!
  11:28pm
spodiodi:

and Julie!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
Funky16Corners:

Ahhhhhhh...Paul Desmond....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:47pm
Funky16Corners:

Anybody still up?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
chresti:

I like this dimension.
Avatar 🥁 11:50pm
Erica:

Yes and the show is nearly over already. :(
Avatar 11:50pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

I am - just drifting away on a cloud of tranquility. It's only going on 9 PM here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
Funky16Corners:

I have to go to bed! I've been up since 6:30AM and drove around 3 hours today. I'm too old for such shenanigans!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Funky16Corners:

Plus I want to get up tomorrow and play with all my Christmas loot!
Avatar 11:53pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

Even being a few years younger, I am definitely feeling my limits a lot more now. Driving in itself can really sap a lot of energy.
Avatar 🥁 11:53pm
Erica:

I can't wait for New Year's Eve next week. Saying goodbye to the 2010s
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Jeff Ash:

Still here, writing a blog post. I gotta hit the rack, too, but I can hang on until the end of the show.
Avatar 🥁 11:53pm
Erica:

Hello 2020.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
chresti:

That's right, you're in the pst @Mod Mokka, same as us
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
WR:

Riding along to the end. Listened closely to the Jean shepherd. Digging the groove playing now. Are you doing the wed. night show on the 1st?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
Jeff Ash:

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

Set the date: Thursday, January 2, 2020 at 3 pm.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
chresti:

Thanks Larry!
Avatar 11:58pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

That was a great closing set - I'll have to go back and listen to the first half that I missed. Thank you, sir!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Everyone! Merry Jingles to you all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
Funky16Corners:

@WR - No, Sam will be here then, I start my new slot the following day
Avatar 🥁 11:59pm
Erica:

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to you and your family Larry! I will try to tune in Thursday if I can.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Erica!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:01am
WR:

Just noticed Miles gif matches the closing tune beat.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:01am
Funky16Corners:

He did great job!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:56pm
Parq:

All right, I admit it; I didn't listen to FMU on Christmas night. So I caught up with the archive for what will probably be my last FMU Christmas show of 2019. Great stuff. Loved hearing Shep, whom I dug mostly for his books rather than his radio show. Nice Jingle Bell Jazz cuts and a fine show overall. Happy New Year, F16C .
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Parq!
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