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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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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Astrud Gilberto  Beginnings   Favoriting September, 17 1969  Verve  1970  LP    0:01:36 (Pop-up)
Os Mutantes  Bat Macumba   Favoriting Os Mutantes  Philips  1967  LP  Singer Rita Lee  0:09:43 (Pop-up)
Vicki Anderson  Answer to Mother Popcorn (I Got a Mother for You)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  King  1969  45    0:12:43 (Pop-up)
Will-O-Bees  Make Your Own Kind of Music   Favoriting 45RPM Single  SGC  1968  45  Co-Composer Cynthia Weill  0:16:09 (Pop-up)
Biff Rose  Fill Your Heart   Favoriting The Thorn In Mrs. Rose's Side  Tetragrammaton  1968  LP    0:18:26 (Pop-up)
The Byrds  I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia  1965  45    0:21:34 (Pop-up)
Crosby Stills And Nash  49 Bye Byes   Favoriting Crosby Stills and Nash  Atlantic  1969  LP  David Crosby  0:23:59 (Pop-up)
 
Kool and the Gang  Hollywood Swinging   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Delite  1974  45  Drummer George 'Funky' Brown  0:33:46 (Pop-up)
The Band  Chest Fever   Favoriting Music From Big Pink  Capitol  1968  LP  Robbie Robertson  0:38:21 (Pop-up)
Country Joe & The Fish  Superbird   Favoriting Electric Music For The Mind & Body  Vanguard  1967  LP  Bassist Bruce Barthol  0:43:40 (Pop-up)
Kaleidoscope  Elevator Man   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Epic  1967  45  David Lindley  0:45:34 (Pop-up)
The Poor  She Got The Time She Got the Changes   Favoriting 45RPM Single  York  1967  45  Bassist/singer Randy Meisner  0:48:27 (Pop-up)
Moody Blues  Go Now   Favoriting 45RPM Single  London  1964  45  Singer Denny Laine  0:50:13 (Pop-up)
Strangeloves  I Want Candy   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Bang  1965  45  Band member/co-composer Bob Feldman  0:53:22 (Pop-up)
Manfred Mann  My Little Red Book   Favoriting My Little Red Book of Winners  Ascot  1965  LP  Composer Burt Bacharach  0:56:14 (Pop-up)
Ian and the Zodiacs  This Empty Place   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1965  45  Composer Burt Bacharach  0:58:39 (Pop-up)
Guess Who  Til We Kissed   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Scepter  1965  45  Chad Allan/co-composer Cynthia Weill  1:01:14 (Pop-up)
Nino Tempo & April Stevens  Out of Nowhere   Favoriting All Strung Out  White Whale  1967  LP  April Stevens  1:03:46 (Pop-up)
Ike and Tina Turner  It's Gonna Work Out Fine   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Sue  1961  45    1:05:59 (Pop-up)
Ike and Tina Turner  Finger Poppin'   Favoriting 45RPM Single  WB  1965  45    1:08:31 (Pop-up)
Isley Brothers  This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Tamla  1966  45  Rudolph Isley  1:11:16 (Pop-up)
Chuck Jackson  Good Things Come To Those Who Wait   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Wand  1965  45    1:13:54 (Pop-up)
Lou Johnson  Walk On By   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Big Top  1966  45  Composer Burt Bacharach  1:16:37 (Pop-up)
Young Holt Unlimited  California Montage   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Brunswick  1969  45  Drummer Isaac Redd Holt  1:19:27 (Pop-up)
 
Gary Wright  Love Is Alive   Favoriting 45RPM Single  WB  1976  45    1:26:59 (Pop-up)
Smiths  How Soon Is Now   Favoriting Meat Is Murder  Sire  1985  LP  Bassist Andy Roarke  1:30:39 (Pop-up)
David McCallum  The Edge   Favoriting Music A Bit More of Me  Capitol  1967  LP    1:37:17 (Pop-up)
Jeff Beck  Beck's Bolero   Favoriting Truth  EMI  1968  LP    1:40:09 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot  If You Could Read My Mind   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Reprise  1970  45    1:42:56 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot  Sundown   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Reprise  1972  45    1:46:41 (Pop-up)
The Association  Birthday Morning   Favoriting Birthday  WB  1968  LP  Terry Kirkman  1:50:14 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Might Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45    1:55:28 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Andrew in Toronto:

Hi there, Larry, and all other listeners!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:02
Hi Andrew!
  3:02pm
bradford:

Hey there Larry & greetings to all!
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Erica:

Hi Larry
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Mike East:

Oh yeah! Tuned in, sir.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
Michael 98145:

So many gone this year ..

Hello, Everyone.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Larry, Streamers into the new year!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ bradford @3:02
Hey bradford!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:02
Hi Erica!
Avatar 3:04pm
still b/p:

A good news, bad news show.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Mike East @3:03
Hey Mike!
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Yvang:

Hi Larry and all!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Michael 98145 @3:03
Hi Michael!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:03
Hey Doc!
  3:04pm
bobobob plasticland Milwaukee:

Hey Larry!!!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @3:04
Hey SBP!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Yvang @3:04
Yvang!
Avatar 🥁 3:04pm
Erica:

I'm still getting over my illness from Christmas but I'm well enough for this obituary show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
coelacanth∅:

good afternoon Larry and all

(just a minute before i hit the road actually)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ bobobob plasticland Milwaukee @3:04
Hey bobobob!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:05
Hey C!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:04
Whatever has been going around is tough to get rid of.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:05
greetings, coel!
Avatar 🥁 3:06pm
Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:05
it's mucus congestion, mostly.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Wisconsin!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Jeff Ash @3:09
Hey Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
Sem:

Afternoon, Reverend Larry, and congregants.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @3:18
Hey Sem!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Fill Your Heart" by "Biff Rose"
Time for a Biff Rose revival!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:21pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:20
Agreed 100%!
Avatar 🥁 3:25pm
Erica:

Why is that this time of year is always so gloomy?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:25
Weather, cumulative regrets, obituaries, pessimism about the coming year...
Avatar 🥁 3:25pm
Erica:

Not just the weather either. After Christmas, I feel sad knowing the holidays are almost over. And New Year's is a time to say goodbye to the current year.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:25
My wife hates the first few months after Christmas
Avatar 🥁 3:27pm
Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:26
For me, January and February are comfort months. By March everything changes again.
  3:35pm
Fred R:

Happy New Year Larry and everyone in Cyberland!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Fred R @3:35
Hi Fred!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
Sem:

Yep, this is fine, fine, fine.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:38pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @3:37
New Jersey represent!
Avatar 🥁 3:38pm
Erica:

Every year I try to make a tribute video to those who died but it's so hard to keep up with the news and I always run out of time.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Chest Fever" by "The Band"
Go Garth!
Avatar 🥁 3:39pm
Erica:

Plus there's always too many people who've left us. This year I decided to make a collage of things that happened in the news this year, including some of the people who passed on this year.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
Sem:

Thy Garth will be done.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:39
Last man standing!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:39
It's too hard, and too sad, these days
  3:41pm
iko:

Thank you for the psychic dj connection on chest fever - have had this song on my mind the last weeks for no reason lol
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Funky16Corners:

↳ iko @3:41
I will never pass up an opportunity to play this song!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
Funky16Corners:

PURE JOY!
  3:42pm
iko:

The organ drips out of even the crappiest speaker
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:40
Agreed Larry. Much too sad.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:43
Yeah, this is all music I love. Every single track in today's show came straight out of my own stacks.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
Sem:

Country Joe still kicking: countryjoe.com
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @3:48
I think he actually retired from performing, unless he un-retired?
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Sem:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:50
" I played my "farewell performance" at The Chapel in San Francisco with the Electric Music Band on December 22, 2017."
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Sem:

He's 81.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
Funky16Corners:

BTW Bob Feldman was NOT Corey Feldman's father...
Avatar 🥁 3:56pm
Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:55
Haha
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:56
It was listed as fact in a bunch of articles/obits
Avatar 🥁 4:07pm
Erica:

Tina Turner is in my collage for sure.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @4:07
I love all this early Ike and Tina stuff
  4:09pm
mzzm:

Hi!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ mzzm @4:09
Hey mzzm!
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Sem:

Nice juxtaposition, Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:11pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @4:10
Which one?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:12pm
Sem:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:11
These 2 Tina tunes, one lovely-dovey w/ Ike, the next...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @4:12
Ah!
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DJ Peter:

So cool to hear this on 45 although… this has no high end!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ DJ Peter @4:13
Hi Peter!
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Erica:

↳ Song: "This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)" by "Isl...
Great song! I also like the version by Rod Stewart (the 1989 version).
  4:19pm
mzzm:

I am enjoying this set
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:21pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ mzzm @4:19
Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
Discotech Underground:

Hey Larry! Happy Week Between Christmas and New Years everyone!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:29
Hey Kip!
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swivs:

↳ Song: "Love Is Alive" by "Gary Wright"
Been listening and loving the show as always, but this one made me hafta sing on and say thanks for all you do Larry. A happy healthy new year to you.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ swivs @4:30
Hey swivs! Thanks!
Avatar 🥁 4:31pm
Erica:

Gary's love may be alive, but he is no longer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
swivs:

🎶🤌
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:32pm
Brian in UK:

Hello Larry. Family just arrived for a belated Christmas.
Was Go Now! in the UK only. Never understood the exclamation mark.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:32pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @4:32
Hi Brian!
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Erica:

↳ Song: "The Edge" by "David McCallum"
Didn't Snoop Dogg sample this?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:39pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @4:38
I think so
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Sem:

↳ Brian in UK @4:32
Happy, happy, BiUK.
  4:43pm
bradford:

↳ Song: "Beck's Bolero" by "Jeff Beck"
What an amazing piece of music...
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Brian in UK:

↳ Sem @4:40
You bet.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ bradford @4:43
Best thing he ever did, IMHO
  4:44pm
mzzm:

he passed this year too..., sad
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Sem:

Oh, Gordie.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:46pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "If You Could Read My Mind" by "Gordon Lightfoot"
Always loved this (and Beck's Bolero too, as a matter of fact).
Thanks Larry! Happy New Year to all!
  4:46pm
bradford:

↳ Song: "If You Could Read My Mind" by "Gordon Lightfoot"
a beloved voice from my childhood, sad that he's gone...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:47pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "If You Could Read My Mind" by "Gordon Lightfoot"
Saw a pretty good Documentary on Lightfoot, forget which streaming service.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:48pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @4:47
I saw that, it was great.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:48pm
coelacanth∅:

glad i got to my destination, and the radio, in time to hear some Gordie
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coelacanth∅:

(hello again)
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Sem:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:48
coel: as a musician, how's Gord rate in your book?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:49pm
Funky16Corners:

Did a whole Gord tribute back in 2021: wfmu.org...
  4:49pm
mzzm:

I can't tell what made him special from other AOR
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Funky16Corners:

↳ mzzm @4:49
Great songwriter and a beautiful/mournful voice
  4:50pm
mzzm:

I meant he's special but couldn't tell what is
  4:51pm
mzzm:

right
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Fuzzy:

↳ Erica @4:38
Don't know all about art but I know what I like.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:52pm
WR:

Hi Larry and folks. Have been listening to the show. Maybe too late to fit in some Tommy Smothers.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:52pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Fuzzy @4:51
Hi Fuzzy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @4:52
Hey WR! Next week is a tribute to all the music that the Smothers Brothers presented on their show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Fuzzy:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:52
Hello!

I didn't mean that last quip specifically for Erica -- don't know how that happened.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Funky16Corners:

Stay tuned for Kip: wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
WR:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:53
Whoo Hoooo! Now I know why mom liked you best!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Sem @4:49
hi Sem! not sure i'm qualified to rate his musicianship but i think he was an extraordinary lyricist, and a very good composer.
add to that a beautiful voice and sincere delivery and at least adequate if not excellent guitar playing and
- he rates high!
Avatar 🥁 4:54pm
Erica:

↳ Fuzzy @4:53
Hi Fuzzy. That's okay. I hope you are enjoying your holiday.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:55pm
Sem:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:54
Much obliged, thanks for that, coel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:55pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Sem @4:55
...i guess "very good composer" in this case means he's created a handful of extraordinary songs, and nothing bad.

...what do *you* think?
  4:56pm
mzzm:

Yay!
  4:56pm
bradford:

Many thanks Larry. Have a happy new year!
Avatar 🥁 4:56pm
Erica:

I wish you all a Happy 2024 everybody. I just hope my mucus congestion goes away by then.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks for listening everyone! Happy New Year!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
coelacanth∅:

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

↳ Erica @4:54
Thank you -- and Happy New Year to you and everyone!
  4:57pm
mzzm:

Thanks for the GLF link. I will play it back right after this show
  4:57pm
C in Thailand:

Thank you, Larry! Happy New Year!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
Sem:

Grew up on his music, helped by being able to hear it on the radio (Can/Con) reliably. Loved his poetry, and what can I say about the atmosphere of the more reflective songs? Part of me, now.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
WR:

Happy New Year to all y'all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
Funky16Corners:

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
Fuzzy:

Thank you Larry! HNY!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
Sem:

Thx, Larry. See ya next time.
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