Favoriting Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 12, 2022 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 May 12, 2022: Testify! - 5th Anniversary Show! The Songs of Donovan!

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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)
Lou Rawls  Season of the Witch   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1969  45  0:01:34 (Pop-up)
Living Guitars  Be Not Too Hard   Favoriting San Franciscan Nights  Camden  1968  LP  0:07:16 (Pop-up)
Les Williams Orchestra  Oh Gosh   Favoriting Plays the Collected Works of Donovan  Imperial  1968  LP  0:10:01 (Pop-up)
Cal Tjader  Wear Your Love Like Heaven   Favoriting Tjader  Fantasy  1970  LP  0:12:43 (Pop-up)
Helmut Zacharias  Hurdy Gurdy Man   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1969  45  0:15:14 (Pop-up)
Dr Lonnie Smith feat Iggy Pop  Sunshine Superman   Favoriting Breathe  Blue Note  2021  CD  0:17:49 (Pop-up)
 
Mike Vickers  Sunshine Superman   Favoriting I Wish I Were a Group Again  Columbia UK  1967  CD  0:30:33 (Pop-up)
Karen Verros  You Just Gotta Know My Mind   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Dot  1965  45  0:33:35 (Pop-up)
George Washington Brown  Donovan's Colours   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Warner Brothers  1967  45  0:35:43 (Pop-up)
Tom Scott and the California Dreamers  Mellow Yellow   Favoriting Honeysuckle Breeze  Impulse  1967  LP  0:39:25 (Pop-up)
Cher  Catch the Wind   Favoriting Cher  Imperial  1966  LP  0:43:30 (Pop-up)
Tom Northcott  Sunny Goodge Street   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Warner Brothers  1967  45  0:45:42 (Pop-up)
Beverley  Museum   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Deram  1967  45  0:48:37 (Pop-up)
Sandie Shaw  Oh Gosh   Favoriting Reviewing The Situation  Pye  1969  CD  0:51:14 (Pop-up)
Theodore Bikel  Jennifer Juniper   Favoriting A New Day  Reprise  1969  LP  0:52:54 (Pop-up)
Rene Bloch and the Afro Blues Quintet  There Is a Mountain   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mira  1968  45  0:55:32 (Pop-up)
Eartha Kitt  Wear Your Love Like Heaven   Favoriting Sentimental Eartha  Spark  1970  LP  0:57:42 (Pop-up)
Jefferson Airplane  Fat Angel   Favoriting Bless It's Pointed Little Head  RCA  1969  LP  1:00:48 (Pop-up)
Dickies  Epistle To Dippy   Favoriting Dog From the Hare That Bit Us  Triple X  1998  CD  1:08:18 (Pop-up)
Terry Reid  Superlungs (My Supergirl)   Favoriting Terry Reid  Epic  1969  LP  1:11:27 (Pop-up)
Mel Torme  Sunshine Superman   Favoriting Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head  Columbia  1970  LP  1:14:07 (Pop-up)
 
Noel Harrison  Poor Cow   Favoriting The Great Electric Experiment Is Over  Reprise  1969  LP  1:24:04 (Pop-up)
Sister Janet Mead  Brother Sun and Sister Moon   Favoriting 45RPM Single  A&M  1973  45  1:26:57 (Pop-up)
Joan Baez  Turquoise   Favoriting Joan  Vanguard  1967  LP  1:29:34 (Pop-up)
Scott McKenzie  Celeste   Favoriting The Voice of Scott McKenzie  Ode  1967  LP  1:32:49 (Pop-up)
Jennifer Warnes  Sand and Foam   Favoriting Jennifer  Reprise  1972  LP  1:36:16 (Pop-up)
Linda Divine  Young Girl Blues   Favoriting Sweet Linda Divine  Columbia  1970  LP  1:38:47 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo  Three King Fishers   Favoriting Bacchanal  Skye  1968  LP  1:44:25 (Pop-up)
The Gosdin Brothers  Catch the Wind   Favoriting The Sounds of Goodbye  Capitol  1968  LP  1:49:08 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin And the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:55:22 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Little Danny:

hell yeah larry, congrats!!!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Danny!
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Yvang:

Hi Larry! Happy Testifive!
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Jeff Ash:

5 years! Congratulations, good sir!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Yvang! Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
Sem:

Hiya, Larry, and all.
Congrats on half a decade of Testify, man.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
Jeff Ash:

Also good afternoon from unseasonably hot Green Bay, where the temperature is 92 as we speak. Stick that in your frozen tundra.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
Michael 98145:

Happy to be here. Big Five!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Sem!
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Funky16Corners:

Hi Michael!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
Phillippe:

Howdy! Who brought the anniversary cake?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
dutchtheo:

Happy 5th Larry, on this Jersey thursday
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - 92!?!? It hasn't hit 60 here today!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Phillippe! Theo! Thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Candy-O'67:

Hey Larry and all! Tuning in!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Candy-O!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Phillippe:

Green Bay and Tampa Bay sister cities?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Funky16Corners:

This has been a weird, chilly spring hereabouts.
Avatar 🥁 3:06pm
Erica:

Hey Larry. Happy 5th anniversary of Testify!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Erica! Thank you!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Candy-O'67:

Happy anniversary, Larry;
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Candy-O!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
Candy-O'67:

5 years, that's great!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
Funky16Corners:

Went by like the blink of an eye!
Avatar 🥁 3:15pm
Erica:

5️⃣Years!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
Funky16Corners:

This is the 271st show
Avatar 🥁 3:17pm
Erica:

That fuzz guitar.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
Funky16Corners:

The crazy violin!
Avatar 🥁 3:19pm
Erica:

Orchestral meets Rock and/or Roll.
Avatar 🥁 3:19pm
Erica:

Rock and/or Roll was a Reverend Lovejoy reference.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
Funky16Corners:

I remember!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
Michael 98145:

Jazz it, Iggy
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I love how the organist collapses at the end of the song.
  3:27pm
sufferwords:

yipeee- for you and us
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:27pm
Candy-O'67:

@Jeff, it's only 88 here in Austin right now. High is supposed to be 94 today. Lower humidity today. So, it's not bad at all :)
Avatar 3:27pm
David Shortell:

I think I first saw Donovan in the unnarrated 1977 documentary series “All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music” when PBS rebroadcast it in 1980. He played the Brian Jones-inspired “Local Boy Chops Wood”.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:30pm
coelacanth∅:

Happy anniversary Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
Funky16Corners:

Hello sufferwords!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
coelacanth∅:

(husker du did my favorite version of sunshine superman)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi David! I kind of feel thay I've been aware of Donovan since I was a kid. It's almost impossible to have been alive in 1967 and not heard this song,
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi C! Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
coelacanth∅:

it was played at least every few hours on wabc-am, for weeks if not months
Avatar 🥁 3:34pm
Erica:

I could NOT sing that high.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Donovan's version of this song has never been released. It was recorded by Karen Verros and Dana Gillespie, both versions rare and expensive.
Avatar 🥁 3:35pm
Erica:

I discovered the Dana Gillespie version first, on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Funky16Corners:

I think it was just reissued for Record Store Day
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
Funky16Corners:

BTW George Washington Brown is in fact Van Dyke Parks
Avatar 🥁 3:37pm
Erica:

I didn't know that Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
Funky16Corners:

Which one, Erica?
Avatar 🥁 3:39pm
Erica:

Which one what Larry?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
Michael 98145:

VDP !
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
Funky16Corners:

You said you didn't know that. I was asking which thing didn't you know?
Avatar 3:40pm
David Shortell:

Until now, I only knew "You Just Gotta Know My Mind" as a song recorded in the 2000's by the Royal Purple (a project by WFMU Rock'N'Soul deejays Mike Sin and Stu Rutherford).
Avatar 🥁 3:41pm
Erica:

Sorry I thought you were talking to me about Record Store Day.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:41pm
Funky16Corners:

@David - Now I have to go dig out my Royal Purple CDs. Mike gave me a bunch of them years ago
Avatar 3:42pm
David Shortell:

I once saw Donovan in person, but not as a performer. Back in the 2000’s, he spoke to an audience at the Anthology Film Archives after a screening of Jacques Demy’s 1972 film “The Pied Piper” which he played the titular role in.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
Funky16Corners:

I've always wanted to see that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
Michael 98145:

just mad about superlungs
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
Funky16Corners:

OK, I just looked up The Pied Piper, it features UK bombshell as "Frau Poppendick". Somebody had a sense of humor.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
doctorjazz:

I may as well try to say hi (from my busy office), hi Larry and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
Michael 98145:

this is such a flashback
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
Funky16Corners:

@Michael - Superlungs is coming
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
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Kitschy Mama:

Fun show Larry!
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David Shortell:

Said UK bombshell is Diana Dors!
  3:51pm
Andres:

Hi, Larry! Happy 5th Anniversary! Digging the Donovan!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Angela! Thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Andres! Thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
Funky16Corners:

@David - Yes!
Avatar 3:53pm
David Shortell:

That line about a power ring in "Museum" is Donovan's second reference to Green Lantern in his songs!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
coelacanth∅:

Reid's superlungs is better than Donovan's in my opinion ...maybe just because of that voice Terry's got
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - That's the one that's coming!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
Sem:

Miss you, Theodore!
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Erica:

Ooh la la
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
Michael 98145:

Hope Dark Night Julie is around here ...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
Funky16Corners:

Julie did a Donovan set the other night.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Michael 98145:

yes, a big one!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:58pm
Michael 98145:

Green Lantern fans unite !
  3:58pm
CupcakeJenny:

Had to strip in and say hi 👋
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Erica:

Hi Jenny.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
coelacanth∅:

what, you're not playing the Allman brothers' version of first there is a mountain?!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Strip in?!?!? This is not a clothing optional show!
  3:59pm
CupcakeJenny:

Yikes!! DROP IN
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
Michael 98145:

Aloha, honored educator !
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - That would be like half the show.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Jenny!
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coelacanth∅:

1/4, about!
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Michael 98145:

wow - never heard this
  4:00pm
CupcakeJenny:

Funky16corners AFTER DARK LOL
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Funky16Corners:

@Michael - From a UK-only LP. She also does Hurdy Gurdy Man on it
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coelacanth∅:

and i believe it IS a clothing-optional show
  4:01pm
CupcakeJenny:

Hi Erica and Michael :)
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Erica:

lol coel
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:02pm
Michael 98145:

La-la !
  4:02pm
CupcakeJenny:

Anything is clothing optional if you’re not easily embarrassed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:03pm
coelacanth∅:

- or if you can't be seen
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David Shortell:

It's remarkable that Donovan referred to Jefferson Airplane in this song when they were largely unknown (before the group's first album!).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:04pm
Funky16Corners:

He made the scene in California.
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Funky16Corners:

Earlier this week the former editor of Sixteen magazine posted a clipping about Donovan coming to a Hollywood party, playing a set from the diving board of the pool, then jumping in
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:09pm
Michael 98145:

Whoa !
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:10pm
Funky16Corners:

This is from an all-covers album: www.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:13pm
Michael 98145:

Did NOT know this: One of the longest tenured punk rock bands, they have been in continuous existence for over 40 years.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:13pm
Michael 98145:

Bravo, this, too
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:13pm
Funky16Corners:

What a voice he had...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:14pm
coelacanth∅:

Supercords
  4:16pm
Andres:

Mel Torme!! Alright!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
Michael 98145:

Vegas in the house !
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coelacanth∅:

supposedly the subject of epistle to dippy quit the army after hearing the song; but then Donovan also covered universal soldier around the same time. maybe both had an impact.
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Erica:

That Mel Torme track was actually pretty good for a cover.
  4:20pm
CupcakeJenny:

I’ve got to get driving home! Have a good week everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:23pm
coelacanth∅:

wear your Eartha like heaven
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coelacanth∅:

take care Jenny
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
Funky16Corners:

See you at home Jenny!
Avatar 🥁 4:25pm
Erica:

Thanks for tuning in Jenny!
Avatar 4:26pm
David Shortell:

Not the same song as Sham 69's "Poor Cow".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:26pm
coelacanth∅:

some of Mel's cheesy stuff ain't 1/2 bad either
...for cheesy stuff
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:27pm
Funky16Corners:

@David - I'm not familiar with the Sham69 tune
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
Funky16Corners:

This was the flip side of her hit version (seriously) of The Lord's Prayer
Avatar 🥁 4:28pm
Erica:

Sister Janet Mead is sadly no longer with us.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, passed early this year
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
Funky16Corners:

Here's the link for Dave's show when I'm done: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
Michael 98145:

Joan is always unmistakable
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:32pm
Funky16Corners:

No other voice like it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
Discotech Underground:

Hey Larry and fellow Testifiers! I am BACK after a two week Florida vacation with an all new show coming up next! Thanks, Larry for pinch hitting for me last week!

wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:36pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Kip! My pleasure!
  4:36pm
Andres:

This is lovely!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:36pm
Funky16Corners:

REVISION!!! Dave is AFTER Kip, not after me...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:36pm
Funky16Corners:

@Andres - This is one of my fave Donovan songs
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:37pm
Funky16Corners:

And this - Sand and Foam - IS my fave Donovan song!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
Funky16Corners:

This album produced by John Cale.
  4:42pm
Andres:

Lots of competition in this group to find a fave!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:43pm
Funky16Corners:

I could def do another Donovan covers show, and will def do a Donovan show with his recordings, soon.
Avatar 4:48pm
David Shortell:

I saw the 1972 film "Brother Sun, Sister Moon", but the Donovan songs in it don’t appear on its soundtrack album. For some crazy reason, he had to rerecord the songs in 2004 so he could release them as an album through iTunes!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:48pm
Funky16Corners:

That's crazy! They're in the movie, right?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:49pm
Michael 98145:

Always liked Gabor Szabo
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:49pm
Funky16Corners:

I did a whole Szabo show a while back
Avatar 🥁 4:51pm
Erica:

This has been a great show Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Erica!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:52pm
Sem:

Loved this Donovan retrospective and the effort it took to put it together. Much obliged, Larry. Catch you next time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
Michael 98145:

Thank you again !
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
Yvang:

Thanksss!
Avatar 🥁 4:56pm
Erica:

Again happy Anniversary Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
Funky16Corners:

Thank you everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
dutchtheo:

Thank you!, Larry
  4:56pm
Andres:

Thank you, Larry!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
Funky16Corners:

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Doc! C!
Avatar 9:29am
TDK60:

DJ Larry! I missed this Donovan covers special! Will listen to the archive. I look forward to the Donovan special upcoming.
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