Favoriting Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from October 29, 2020 Favoriting

Funky16Corners's avatar View Funky16Corners's profile Favoriting

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.

Thursday 3 - 5pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
Give the Drummer Radio LIVE Audio Streams (Get help):   Pop-up  |  128k MP3

<-- Previous playlist | Back to Testify! with Larry Grogan playlists | Next playlist -->

Favoriting October 29, 2020: Testify! - America: Meditations and Reflections

Listen to this show: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

Playlist image Favoriting

Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corner  2017  MP3 
Jimi Hendrix  The Star Spangled Banner   Favoriting Woodstock  Cotillion  1969  LP 
MC5  Kick Out the Jams   Favoriting Kick Out the Jams  Elektra  1969  LP 
Rage Against the Machine  Testify   Favoriting CD Single  Epic  2000  CD 
NWA  F*ck Tha Police   Favoriting Straight Outta Compton  Ruthless  1988  LP 
Childish Gambino  This Is America   Favoriting Digital Single  RCA  2018  MP3 
Sylvester and the Hot Band  My Country Tis Of Thee   Favoriting Sylvester and the Hot Band  Blue Thumb  1973  LP 
 
Leon Russell  Of Thee I Sing   Favoriting Leon Russell and the Shelter People  Shelter  1971  LP 
Isley Brothers  Fight the Power Pts 1&2   Favoriting 45RPM Single  T-Neck  1975  45 
Youngbloods  Darkness Darkness   Favoriting Elephant Mountain  RCA  1969  LP 
Firesign Theatre  Temporarily Humboldt County   Favoriting Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him  Columbia  1968  LP 
Woody Guthrie  This Land Is Your Land   Favoriting Woody Guthrie  Smithsonian  1944  CD 
 
Mel Stewart  Simple's Soliloquy From Hamlet   Favoriting The Best of Simple: Poems of Langston Hughes  Folkways  1961  LP 
Skip James  Hard Time Killing Floor Blues   Favoriting Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers  Melodian  1965  LP 
John Lee Hooker/Funky16Corners  Goin' Down Highway 51 (Funky16Corners Remix)   Favoriting Remix  Specialty  1948  MP3 
Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul  I Got So Much Trouble In My Mind   Favoriting 45RPM Single  GSF  1972  45 
Marva Whitney  Things Got To Get Better (Get Together)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  King  1968  45 
MC5  American Ruse   Favoriting Back In the USA  Atlantic  1970  LP 
 
Simon and Garfunkel  America   Favoriting Bookends  Columbia  1968  LP 
Bob Dylan  Desolation Row   Favoriting Highway 61 Revisited  Columbia  1965  LP 
Blind Willie Johnson  Trouble Will Soon Be Over   Favoriting 78RPM Single  Columbia  1930  78 
Paul Desmond  America   Favoriting Bridge Over Troubled Water  CTI  1970  CD 
Leon Russell  Beware of Darkness   Favoriting Leon Russell and the Shelter People  Shelter  1971  LP 
John Andrews Tartaglia  America   Favoriting Tartaglian Theorem  Capitol  1968  LP 
Sam Cooke  A Change Is Gonna Come   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1964  45 
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45 

Example


<-- Previous playlist | Back to Testify! with Larry Grogan playlists | Next playlist -->

RSS feeds for Testify! with Larry Grogan: RSSPlaylists feed | RSSMP3 archives feed

| E-mail Larry Grogan | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by Testify! with Larry Grogan |
Listen on the Internet | Contact Us | Music & Programs | WFMU Home Page | Support Us | FAQ

Live Audio Streams for Give the Drummer Radio: Pop-up | 128k MP3    (More streams: [+])

Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:01pm
Erica:

Present!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:01pm
listener Rey:

Baby baby baby
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Erica! Rey!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:02pm
doctorjazz:

Listened Rey just stole my line...: (
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:02pm
Erica:

Still a better version of the national anthem than Roseanne's lol.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:03pm
Funky16Corners:

All versions are better than Roseanne's....
Avatar ♥ 3:03pm
spodiodi:

hi Larry!
hi all!
glad to be listening :D
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:03pm
Jeff Ash:

Taking a knee.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Spodiodi! Glad you're here!
Avatar 3:04pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

Building a playlist for Tuesday, but I can't miss this one...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Jeff! The appropriate posture!
Avatar ♥ 3:04pm
spodiodi:

haha, amen to that, Larry
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Vincent!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:05pm
Brian in UK:

Hello Larry. I was playing Phil Ochs' first album the other day and his tribute to Woody Bound for Glory hit home, that and playing Spirit's take on this song on Spirit of 76 today.
Avatar 3:05pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

A second Thursday off from work in a row *raises fist*
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Brian!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:06pm
Funky16Corners:

We'll be hearing from Woody later on
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:07pm
Michael 98145:

Kick 'em out!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Michael!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:09pm
Erica:

TESTIFY!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:10pm
Funky16Corners:

This is the angry set...
Avatar ♥ 3:11pm
spodiodi:

*fumes*
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:12pm
Funky16Corners:

Somebody play this for 2020 Ice Cube
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:12pm
Erica:

Black Lives Matter!
Avatar ♥ 3:12pm
spodiodi:

i wonder what ever became of the guy i knew who had "F*CK THE POLICE* tattooed around his nack
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

He's a policeman, of course
Avatar 3:13pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

You ain't pullin' no punches *raises fist*
Avatar ♥ 3:13pm
spodiodi:

neck*
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

The time for pulling punches is WAY in the rear view mirror
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:15pm
dutchtheo:

ok, ok, testify! Hello, Larry and meditators!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:15pm
Funky16Corners:

Theo!
Avatar ♥ 3:17pm
spodiodi:

haha, Larry. that would be funny, especially since it was a prisontat -- he regretted it, mostly, the last we spoke of it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:18pm
Funky16Corners:

The police seem to have loosened their hiring practices...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:30pm
Artie:

Preach, Larry, Preach!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:31pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Artie!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:32pm
Erica:

Can't wait until this election is over. No more annoying campaign ads.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:33pm
Funky16Corners:

You and me both.
Avatar 3:33pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

There we go...
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:34pm
Erica:

And Halloween can't come soon enough either.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:35pm
Funky16Corners:

I'm bummed the kids can't really trick or treat this year
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:36pm
Erica:

Kids in my town can trick or treat but have to social distance.
Avatar ♥ 3:37pm
spodiodi:

i don't know what to expect this year, really (but i guess we should buy some candy, just in case)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:37pm
Funky16Corners:

I don't think it's safe. I've been to two different doctor's offices this week (routine stuff) and the measure's they're taking suggest to me that we need to be CAREFUL
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:37pm
Erica:

Always be prepared spodiodi
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:38pm
Erica:

Depends on how bad Covid-19 is in your town Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:39pm
Funky16Corners:

Covid-19 is the same EVERYWHERE
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:39pm
Brian in UK:

Rev. Larry, always wait with anticipation for your sermon on the first break. You do not fail to deliver.
Avatar 3:39pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

Look here, if it ain't work or the grocery store, I ain't goin. MD is better than most, but I still don't trust anybody! Full stop.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:40pm
Funky16Corners:

@Brian - Thank you!
Avatar ♥ 3:40pm
spodiodi:

i'm with you, Vincent
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:40pm
Funky16Corners:

NJ's numbers are going up again
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:40pm
Erica:

It's worse in some places Larry. There are probably people who are still in lockdown.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:41pm
Funky16Corners:

If they're not in lockdown, I suspect they might be again soon.
Avatar 3:41pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

@spodiodi - I should mention that I work at a grocery store ;)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:42pm
Funky16Corners:

Countries in the EU are putting restrictions back on, big outbreaks in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Idaho and elsewhere
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:43pm
Funky16Corners:

I hate to be a wet blanket, but there are a lot of people in this country that are not taking it seriously
Avatar ♥ 3:43pm
spodiodi:

oooh, that's a tough one, Vincent! (i really worry about my sister, and a couple of other family members who's jobs require them to be around people, pretty much all of the time)
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:44pm
Erica:

I think they're just tired of the whole new normal thing Larry.
Avatar ♥ 3:44pm
spodiodi:

we've been getting groceries every 3-4 weeks since it ll began
Avatar ♥ 3:45pm
spodiodi:

heard that, Larry
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:45pm
Funky16Corners:

That's the problem. 21st century people bore easily, and their leaders, who ought to be leadingt the way safely are jacking around
Avatar 3:46pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

I stay msaked up, and I'm rather ignorant toward customers who won't give me my 6'. I don't give a fuck who don't like it. I ain't trying to die for a shite salary.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:47pm
Funky16Corners:

I mean, half the people who wear masks wear them under their noses, which, I mean, WTF
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:48pm
Erica:

I wear those disposable blue masks when I go out so I don't have to worry too much about not taking the virus seriously
Avatar 3:48pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

Don't even get me started on that! Burns me up when I see that.
Avatar ♥ 3:48pm
spodiodi:

i've been getting really good at walking backwards away from people who aren't careful enough

had one of those IN OUR HOME yesterday -- was kind of unavoidable and really, really disturbing
Avatar ♥ 3:49pm
spodiodi:

all i could do was stare at his nose and mustache in horror
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:49pm
Funky16Corners:

I don't set foot inside too many places, but when I do I take it slow and keep my distance
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 3:51pm
Erica:

That announcer sounds like a Simpsons character.
Avatar ♥ 3:52pm
spodiodi:

Woody!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:52pm
Funky16Corners:

Phil Proctor from Firesign Theatre has done a ton of animation voice work
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:00pm
Funky16Corners:

If you don't recognize the name, Google Mel Stewart. You will recognize the face
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:03pm
doctorjazz:

This Skip James song is up there with the best recordings EVER!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:04pm
Funky16Corners:

I agree. Haunting.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:08pm
Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, Testify faithfull!!! Here are a couple of words about what's to follow on Give the Drummer Radio this evening. (As if anything could follow Testify.)

From 5 to 7pm (ET), the great Matt Fiveash stops by for the last of his five Thursday specials here at his old stomping grounds.

From 7 to 10pm (ET), the Explorers Room with Flash Strap is usually on, but Hurricane Zeta has knocked out power in central North Carolina, so it's quite possible (likely) that there will be no Explorers Room this evening.

From 10pm to Midnight, Little Danny is back with a spectacular special: THE DEAD ROAM FREE on the Cool Blue Flame. Here is the program description: "Little Danny forges into the weird dark parts with two hours of lost supernatural terrors, R&B creepers, hillbilly graves, spectral rock 'n' roll, witchdoctor exotica, b-movie atmospherics, creaking electronics, and much, much more, including the SCREAM-O-SCOPE™ playing vintage '50s and '60s b-movie horror clips on the playlist page! Spooky clean fun!"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:12pm
Brian in UK:

When the leader undermines the process how can there be a good outcome. Democrats are complicit for not provide credible opposition four years ago. It is just the same over here. Jeremy Corbin has been suspended today from the Labour Party for his poor handling of the antic Jewish actions of some of his party. He is also complicit for the poor election result in December giving the Conservatives a huge majority and therefore free reign.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:13pm
Mx. Granny (e/em):

oh yeah, sounds good! hi, Larry and folx!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:13pm
Funky16Corners:

The people who are complicit are the ones that either voted for fascists, or didn't bother to vote at all. We don't need a messiah. We need sane leadership.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 4:14pm
Erica:

Thanks for the schedule listings Doug.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:14pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey there Mx. Granny!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:16pm
Funky16Corners:

Sonic!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 4:21pm
Erica:

...to look for Amerrrricaaaa.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:22pm
Brian in UK:

Great work from Roy Halee.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:22pm
Funky16Corners:

@Brian - It also bears mentioning that electoral fatigue is a closed loop and self-fulfilling prophecy, part and parcel of the fuckery that brings to mind the old horror movie trope of "the call is coming from inside the house". There are a bunch of people inside government who don't want people to vote, or want to make it harder, and want to make people throw up their hands and walk away. The biggest revelation of the last four years is how flawed the machinery of our democracy is
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:22pm
Mx. Granny (e/em):

this song reminds me of my hippie parents, who conceived me on a road trip when this song was first out <3
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:23pm
Funky16Corners:

Bookends is one of my favorite albums, just a remarkable piece of work
Avatar 4:24pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

<3 Desolation Row <3
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:24pm
doctorjazz:

The hits (at least My hit list) keep on a-comin''!
Avatar ♥ 4:25pm
David Shortell:

I know from watching repeats of “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” and “This is Toms Jones” that Mel Stewart was part of the radical San Franciscan comedy troupe known as “The Committee” (I recall there was a whole chapter about them in Tony Hendra’s book “Going Too Far: the Rise and Demise of Sick, Gross, Black, Sophomoric, Weirdo, Pinko, Anarchist, Underground, Anti-establishment Humor).
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 4:26pm
Erica:

I had a feeling we would hear a Bob Dylan song. But I was hoping for The Times They Are A Changin'.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:26pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey David! You are correct, along with Gary Goodrow,Larry Hankin, Dick Stahl and Hamilton Camp
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:27pm
Brian in UK:

Bookends has it over Trouble over Bridgewater, apart from the Only Living Boy....
From over here it is such a worry to see America unmasked.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:27pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - This song has always struck me as Bob's big painting of America
Avatar ♥ 4:27pm
David Shortell:

---and Howard Hesseman and Peter Bonerz!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:27pm
Funky16Corners:

@Brian - I hear that so often from friends overseas. How bad it looks from the outside.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:28pm
Funky16Corners:

@David - Yes! I forgot about those two. I think Hesseman shows up with some of the later members of the Committee in Billy Jack
  4:28pm
Sufferwords:

When they talk about American exceptionalism what they are really talking about our artists, our athletes, or spirit, our landscape - Louis Armstrong, James Brown, Bob Dylan... the true America not our politics - let the chimes ring with the promise of freedom
Avatar 4:29pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

If only you had "America" from Prince And The Revolution in this playlist...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:29pm
Funky16Corners:

@Sufferwords - I like that
  4:29pm
Sufferwords:

peace or what leads us there
Avatar ♥ 4:30pm
David Shortell:

By coincidence, I recently borrowed Pete Fornatale's "Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends" from my local library.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:30pm
Funky16Corners:

Peace would be nice. Peace among men. Peace of mind.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:30pm
Funky16Corners:

@David - I didn't know he wrote a book about it. I'll have to look for that
  4:31pm
Sufferwords:

Or the inner peace one feels when fighting facism
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:31pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes indeed. The good fight.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:33pm
Brian in UK:

Stay positive. Mammon is not the way.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:33pm
Funky16Corners:

Fingers crossed.
Avatar ♥ 4:34pm
David Shortell:

I borrowed Pete Fornatale's book from the Monmouth County Library HQ, right near your hometown.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:35pm
Funky16Corners:

I'm not 100% sure anyone in this house has a valid library card. I'll check when I'm done.
  4:36pm
Sufferwords:

dunno why I aint got a donate pumpkin- but just so you know
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:36pm
Funky16Corners:

Are you posting from the app?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:37pm
Mike Sin:

In a very strange and weird way, I feel all damage that Trump (and his gutless Republican minions in the senate and the house) has done to this country has only made me that much more "patriotic." I still believe in this place -- I still believe the greatness is there because I always viewed the USA as the place that could change, evolve, and journey toward "excellence" faster than any other country out there. I've been shaken at my core -- but, I'd like to think there is hope.. that we all didn't watch a dream die because of complacency. Yes, I know... I'm still naïve in a lot of ways.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 4:37pm
Erica:

Are you signed in suffer words?
Avatar ♥ 4:37pm
spodiodi:

suffer, you need to be signed in -- your black ID in the comments indicates that is not currently the case
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:37pm
Funky16Corners:

Mike! Really well said, and I concur 100%.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 4:38pm
Erica:

Agreed.
Avatar ♥ 4:38pm
spodiodi:

hear you, Mike Sin
  4:38pm
Sufferwords:

It's cool- I know- Mike Sin- there are a lot of us on the same tip-
Avatar 4:39pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

Yep. America has been complacent for far too long...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:44pm
Funky16Corners:

We're going to need time to heal as a country. I don't know if we're going to get it, either. My 16 year old son is sick to death of politics (of course he does live with me,,,) but, as I've had to explain to him more than once. shit is SERIOUS and he needs to pay attention
Avatar 4:45pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

Agreed. Larry, and I'm glad he's in a place where it can all be explained to him straight, no chaser.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:47pm
Funky16Corners:

It's tough on a kid. watching your parents have an existential crisis.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 4:50pm
Erica:

I'm sick of it too Larry, not as badly as you and your son though.
Avatar ♥ 4:51pm
spodiodi:

Sam Cooke, yeah...
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 4:52pm
Erica:

Oh boy get your (virtual) glow sticks out. It's An Cooke.
Avatar ♥ 4:52pm
spodiodi:

thanks, Larry! great show. love the different takes on America
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:52pm
Mike Sin:

Most folks, when they hit middle-age, go through that "when I was your age" routine about how tough it was and "you don't know how lucky you've got it" to younger folks.

It's completely opposite for me. I sit back and say, "man, I had it dead easy." I wonder if I would have had the chutzpah to deal with what's in front of younger folks now.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 4:52pm
Erica:

Sam Cooke. Stupid autocorrect.
Avatar 4:53pm
Vincent The Soul Chef:

My hero... *raises fist*
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:54pm
dutchtheo:

Thanks, Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:55pm
Jeff Ash:

Thanks, Larry!
Avatar ♥ 4:55pm
βrian:

@Mike Sin: No kidding. I feel like a lot of younger folks just don't have a moment to breathe, whereas I bumped about indecisively for years.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:56pm
Funky16Corners:

Thank you all!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 4:56pm
Erica:

Let us hope Joe Biden wins the election Larry. See you all next time. As always, Testify!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:56pm
Funky16Corners:

@Mike - I agree. I've thought the same thing. My teen years were so carefree compared to what kids have to deal with now. I feel guilty
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:41am
Brian in UK:

Belated thanks for the show Larry. We had a power cut for several hours mid show. Chocolate and whisky kept me safe!!
  7:30am
Funky16corners:

Thanks Brian!
Bottom
Comment!
Name
Email
(C) 2024 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written by Ken Garson