Favoriting Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from June 18, 2020 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 June 18, 2020: Testify! - To Tell the Truth aka Rumors, Gossip, Words Untrue

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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)
The O'Jays  Back Stabbers (Tom Moulton Mix)   Favoriting Philadelphia International Classics: The Tom Moulton Remixes  Philadelphia International  1972  CD  0:01:10 (Pop-up)
Cyril Neville  Gossip   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Josie  1969  45  0:10:45 (Pop-up)
 
Styx  Lies   Favoriting Man of Miracles  Wooden Nickel  1974  MP3  0:18:01 (Pop-up)
The Beatles  I'm Looking Through You   Favoriting Rubber Soul  Capitol  1965  LP  0:20:43 (Pop-up)
Swinging Blue Jeans  Rumors, Gossip, Words Untrue   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Imperial  1966  45  0:23:02 (Pop-up)
Grin  White LIes   Favoriting 1+1  Spindizzy  1971  LP  0:25:28 (Pop-up)
Brenda Lee  Is It True   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Decca  1964  45  0:28:51 (Pop-up)
Chesterfield Kings  She Told Me Lies   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mirror  1984  45  0:31:08 (Pop-up)
Tryfles  Had Enough Of Your Lies   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Midnight  1985  45  0:33:15 (Pop-up)
Chuck Berry  Don't You Lie To Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Chess  1965  45  0:36:38 (Pop-up)
Big Star  Don't Lie To Me   Favoriting #1 Record  Ardent  1972  CD  0:38:33 (Pop-up)
Kaleidoscope  Lie To Me   Favoriting Incredible Kaleidoscope  Epic  1969  LP  0:41:39 (Pop-up)
The Police  Truth Hits Everybody   Favoriting Outlandos d'Amour  A&M  1978  LP  0:44:18 (Pop-up)
Argent  Liar   Favoriting Argent  Epic  1969  LP  0:47:17 (Pop-up)
 
Undisputed Truth  Smiling Faces Sometimes   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Gordy  1971  45  0:54:25 (Pop-up)
Otis Redding  Tell the Truth   Favoriting Tell the Truth  Atco  1970  LP  0:57:39 (Pop-up)
Diamond Joe  Gossip Gossip   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Sansu  1967  45  1:00:43 (Pop-up)
Prince Buster  Madness   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Blue Beat  1963  45  1:03:26 (Pop-up)
Barbara West  You're No Good   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Ronn  1968  45  1:06:04 (Pop-up)
Dorothy Morrison  Ain't That Peculiar   Favoriting 45RPM Single  MGM  1972  45  1:08:28 (Pop-up)
The High Keys  Living a Lie   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Verve  1966  45  1:11:33 (Pop-up)
Gladys Knight and the Pips  I Heard It Through the Grapevine   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Soul  1967  45  1:13:53 (Pop-up)
Gary US Bonds  Funky Lies   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Botanic  1968  45  1:16:39 (Pop-up)
Ike and Tina Turner Revue  To Tell The Truth   Favoriting The Ike and Tina Turner Show  Warner Brothers  1965  LP  1:18:44 (Pop-up)
Bob Kuban and the In-Men  The Cheater   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Musicland USA  1965  45  1:21:27 (Pop-up)
 
Lowell George  An Honest Man   Favoriting Thanks I'll Eat It Here  Warner Brothers  1979  LP  1:29:41 (Pop-up)
Gram Parsons  How Much I've Lied   Favoriting GP  Reprise  1973  LP  1:33:07 (Pop-up)
The Silver Eagle  True As a Brand New Lie   Favoriting 45RPM Single  MGM  1967  45  1:35:33 (Pop-up)
Tom Northcott  It's True   Favoriting Upside Downside  Uni  1971  LP  1:38:20 (Pop-up)
Mose Allison  How Much Truth   Favoriting Western Man  Atlantic  1971  LP  1:41:10 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone  Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood   Favoriting Broadway - Blues - Ballads  Philips  1964  LP  1:44:45 (Pop-up)
Elizabeth Cotten  Babe It Ain't No LIe   Favoriting Folksongs and Instrumentals With Guitar  Folkways  1958  LP  1:47:25 (Pop-up)
Tim Hardin  Reason To Believe   Favoriting Tim Hardin 1  Verve  1966  LP  1:52:05 (Pop-up)
Tim Hardin  You Upset the Grace Of Living When you Lie   Favoriting Tim Hardin 2  Verve  1967  LP  1:54:16 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  2:01:53 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Brian in UK:

Rainy days and Thursdays always gets me down, except when listening to Testify!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Brian!
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Matt from New Orleans:

Hi Larry & everyone
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Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Green Bay!
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Listener Bob in PGH:

Hi everyone from everywhere!
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Funky16Corners:

Matt! Jeff! Bob!
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Matt from New Orleans:

It’s hot(32 C) & sunny here Brian.
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Erica:

Testify is back.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Erica!
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Funky16Corners:

It's actually cool up here, in the 60s
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Matt from New Orleans:

Classic mix Larry
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Brian in UK:

Thanks Matt, cheered me up no end!!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, this collection is essential
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Jeff Ash:

BOOM! Great start with a Tom Moulton mix! Fun fact: Back in the heyday of mashups, there was tremendous mashup of "Back Stabbers" and ... believe it or not ... Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time."
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Funky16Corners:

I have the 1970s vinyl issue, and the expanded CD box set
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Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - I'll have to look for that
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Hi Larry, this is a GREAT opener.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Hopey! Thanks!
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doctorjazz:

What they do?!?!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc! They smile in your face!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
Funky16Corners:

There should be a statue of Tom Moulton somewhere.
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Sem:

Hiya, Larry, Remixers, all.
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Looking at the track listing on this album: HOT. I need this.
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Matt from New Orleans:

Maybe he’ll replace Columbus Larry
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Brian in UK:

A Neville a day keeps the blues away.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Sem!
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Funky16Corners:

@Matt - That'd be OK with me
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Funky16Corners:

Meters backing brother Cyril on this 45
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Sem:

If a Scoville is a measure of heat, then surely a Neville is a measure of soul.
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Brian in UK:

Amen.
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

That was so right on, Larry.
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WR:

Thank you for speaking out Larry.
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

*This* is Styx?
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks all!
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doctorjazz:

Always loved "Lies", moves!
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Funky16Corners:

Yes, early Styx, 1974
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doctorjazz:

Well said, Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks to Jeff who suggested this and passed it on to me!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Doc!
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Jeff Ash:

This is really the last vestige of Styx being a regional band out of Chicago. Once they broke nationally, they left covers behind.
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Erica:

Styx before Babe and Mr. Robotic.
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Funky16Corners:

I can't recall is this is before Lady became a hit (I think Lady came out before Lies)
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Funky16Corners:

Happy Birthday Paul!
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Jeff Ash:

Yep, Erica. Some of us who knew of Styx before they hit it big prefer the earlier stuff. Big prog influence. Yes, Larry, "Lady" came first.
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Erica:

Paul Mccartney Larry?
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Matt from New Orleans:

Sir Paul to you Pleb
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Funky16Corners:

Yes!
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Brian in UK:

When I'm Sixty Four plus fourteen.
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah, I can't believe he's almost as old as my Mom!
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Brian in UK:

This SBJ has hints of other songs that I cannot quite place.
  3:27pm
Dean:

But Mr. Grogan, he has always been almost as old as your Mom, hasn't he?
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Erica:

Happy birthday Macca!
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Funky16Corners:

@Dean, he has indeed!
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Funky16Corners:

@Brian - It was also recorded by the Knickerbockers
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Brian in UK:

Dean, not sure if Larry's mom was ever a pop star, they age differently.
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Funky16Corners:

@Brian - Only in our house
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Funky16Corners:

This Brenda Lee 45 was recorded in the UK with Jimmy Page on guitar
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Matt from New Orleans:

@Larry Did you ever play on the same bill as either these guys or the Kings?
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Funky16Corners:

No. We knew people in both bands but never had the opportunity to play with them. The Tryfles were broken up before we formed and the Chesterfield Kings were kind of out of our league
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Funky16Corners:

We were kind of a second-wave band, and most of the bands we played with were also. We never got to play with the Fuzztones, or the Vipers, but played with the Secret Service a bunch of times
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Oh, good choice from Outlandos.
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Funky16Corners:

I love the early Police stuff
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Erica:

Which Secret Service Larry?
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Funky16Corners:

The one based in Long Island, played UK-R&B stuff
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Erica:

Oh because there was another band from Sweden that played New Wave music during the 80s
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Erica:

That had the same name.
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Funky16Corners:

www.discogs.com...
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Matt from New Orleans:

This Argent song sounds duet of like the Flash Gordon theme
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Matt from New Orleans:

Missed sort becoming duet
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Erica:

I'll check that one out Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

It's good stuff, Erica. They were a great live band.
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Sem:

indisputably.
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doctorjazz:

OTIS!!!
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Matt from New Orleans:

Another fave from down here Larry
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Funky16Corners:

One of my all time faves!
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Jeff Ash:

I think you introduced me to "Gossip Gossip" on one of your earliest NOLA mixes at F16C. Thanks as always!
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Funky16Corners:

My pleasure!
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Matt from New Orleans:

I have a great Japanese comp on CD of Diamond Joe & Willie West I picked up used there in 2006.
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Matt from New Orleans:

Prince Buster!
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Funky16Corners:

On Peavine?
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Matt from New Orleans:

Yeah Larry P-Vine
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Funky16Corners:

I remember when they were reissuing New Orleans stuff
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Matt from New Orleans:

I notice the CD version is not listed on Discogs. Don’t have it down here with me. Just the digital files.
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Funky16Corners:

I wish Sundazed had expanded on their Sansu comp with more New Orleans comps. They really did the best job.
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Matt from New Orleans:

That’s a good one. Me too. I’m always up for more reissues especially for unreleased sessions from down here.
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Jeff Ash:

Proof again that Gladys Knight was badass.
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Matt from New Orleans:

I suspect that dude who ended up with Allen’s master tapes won’t be making them available for cheap.
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Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - My fave singer on Motown!
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Erica:

Look out for the Cheater!
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Erica:

Love that song.
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Another great set, Larry! And really looking forward to Uncle Michael's dance party tomorrow.
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Matt from New Orleans:

Gene Kent Ronn Records
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Little Danny:

Hey Larry 'n' all
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Hopey!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Danny!
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Funky16Corners:

@Matt - That's the guy! Thank you!
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Matt from New Orleans:

Hey Danny. We all missed you on Tuesday.
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Brian in UK:

Larry, listening to FMU shows playing music from the Sixties has made me realise how little we got over here compared to yourselves. It was the British Invasion and a lot bands covering American hits over here so never heard the originals. (The Originals being an early version of Spinal Tarp)
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Little Danny:

Thanks Matt, it's nice to be missed!
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Funky16Corners:

@Brian - I can imagine that happened quite a lot.
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Little Danny:

This is gorgeous, this Silver Eagle 45. New to me.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:39pm
Funky16Corners:

It was released under a couple of different names (same group). Also as John, Jeffrey and Brother Tom
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Matt from New Orleans:

Some connection to Spanky and Our Gang dom what I remember?
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Matt from New Orleans:

From not dom
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Little Danny:

Mose!
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Sem:

NIce, Mose Allison, thanks, Larry. Been awhile.
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Funky16Corners:

Can't go very long without some Mose.
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Funky16Corners:

This is a great album, too. I think it's the only album where he plays electric piano.
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Little Danny:

I'm wholly unfamiliar with his music after the early '60s. This is very cool yet unmistakably Mose.
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Funky16Corners:

@Matt - I think Geoffrey Meyers went on to replace one of the members in Spanky and Our Gang
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Funky16Corners:

The album is called 'Western Man'. It's not as common as some of his other albums but well worth grabbing
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Brian in UK:

A little truth would be a start.
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Matt from New Orleans:

I saw Elizabeth Cotten in my youth. Around 83/84. It was impressive to see someone so old still play the guitar and sing well.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Funky16Corners:

Wow!
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John from NP:

Hi Larry, long time no see. Digging the show today, as usual
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Funky16Corners:

Hi John!
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Matt from New Orleans:

Thanks Larry
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Brian in UK:

Great selections Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks guys!
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doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry!
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Erica:

What a show Larry!
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Thanks so much for the great show!
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Little Danny:

Thanks Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks everybody!
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