WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 10, 2020

Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 3:00pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin, the land of cheese!
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm WR: I really don't know what to expect from that program title, and with that I turn down the volume and join another work conference call. Will check in again if I'm lucky.
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! WR!
	♥ 3:01pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi Larry. Like the graphic.
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt! Thanks!
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Erica: Today's show is gonna be very cheesy indeed.
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry & testifiers! that was a smooth transfer from the continental subway
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica! Theo!
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: That drum break was Morris Jennings Jr, the same guy that played the break on Marlena Shaw's California Soul!
	♥ 3:04pm Matt from New Orleans: Is that a Cheez-It box? I always get them confused with Cheese Nips. We always had Sunshine Bakery products in my house not Nabisco.
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: Cheezits
	🥁 ♥ 3:05pm Erica: Cheez-It's are the ones in the red box Matt. They have that sharp cheddar taste while Cheese Nips in the orange box have a mild cheddar taste. And both look identical.
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: I wish I had some Cheezits right now...
	♥ 3:09pm Matt from New Orleans: I prefer any version of spinning wheel that doesn’t have David Clayton Thomas
	3:09pm Listening Out There: This sounds pretty okay...
	🥁 ♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Listening!
	🥁 ♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: I don't understand David Clayton Thomas hate. He's one of my fave voices.
	🥁 ♥ 3:10pm Jeff Ash: Just so long as we don't get Sinatra's cover of Mrs. Robinson, we'll be fine.
	♥ 3:10pm Matt from New Orleans: We’ll agree to disagree on him
	🥁 ♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Almost no vocals in today's show (and no Sinatra at all)
	🥁 ♥ 3:11pm Erica: Wow Benny Goodman doing Blood, Sweat and Tears. That sounded just like it would've if it came out in the '40s.
	🥁 ♥ 3:12pm Jeff Ash: Instrumental cheese! Nice.
	♥ 3:12pm Matt from New Orleans: It’s mostly just Spinning Wheel that I can’t stand his vocals. I’m less opinionated on other BS&T songs with him on vocals.
	🥁 ♥ 3:12pm Funky16Corners: I think EVERYONE recorded a version of 'Spinning Wheel'. Soul singers, pop singers, lounge singers (especially), big bands, everyone.
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm Erica: They were all getting on the popular (music) bandwagon Larry, trying to aim towards different demographics.
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm Erica: At least that is how it seemed.
	🥁 ♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: I think you're right.
	♥ 3:18pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry I listened to last week’s show and throughly enjoyed the revisit
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm Jeff Ash: Wonder what the original artists thought of these covers, if indeed they ever heard them.
	🥁 ♥ 3:20pm Erica: They were either probably honored or disgusted Jeff haha. I know I'd be.
	🥁 ♥ 3:27pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - Thanks!
	🥁 ♥ 3:27pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - The ones with a sense of humor probably dug it. Others (and there were many) might not have.
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Erica: George Benson meets the Monkees. Jazzy AND groovy!
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Funky16Corners: Unless of course the royalty cheks were coming in, in which case they loved it
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - He does some cool covers in this album
	3:29pm northguineahills: My parents still subscribe to Reader’s Digest, and I found a bunch of their record comps in the late 90s/2000s.
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: The first time I read To Kill a Mockingbird it was as a Readers Digest Condensed Book
	🥁 ♥ 3:32pm Erica: Speaking of Readers Digest, I found a 70's soft rock compilation on CD online but used copies are too expensive and a good number of songs aren't even soft rock songs.
	🥁 ♥ 3:33pm Jeff Ash: Readers Digest was a constant presence at our house in the '60s and '70s. The magazine and the condensed books and some of the records, but we never had Happiness Is.
	🥁 ♥ 3:33pm Erica: Good thing I didn't order it.
	🥁 ♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: My aunt and uncle used to live right by Readers Digest headquarters in NY. We used to drive past it on the way to their house
	♥ 3:35pm Matt from New Orleans: Up in Mt Kisco. Been by there plenty myself in my younger days.
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: That's the one!
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Jeff Ash: I have this Golden Gate Strings record. Larry has been a bad influence on me.
	🥁 ♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: That's pretty much my goal in life. I carry record hoarding like a virus.
	🥁 ♥ 3:38pm Jeff Ash: No hoarding for me. Just questionable choices.
	🥁 ♥ 3:39pm Funky16Corners: Groovy cover on this album: www.discogs.com...
	3:40pm Listening Out There: I have read that both Stephen Stills and Charles Manson were among musician auditioning to become Monkees....
	🥁 ♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: Apparently Stills got the kibosh because of his wrecked teeth. Manson probably was a "bad fit" for the winsome foursome.
	♥ 3:43pm Matt from New Orleans: Manson was in prison in 65 so that’s nonsense
	🥁 ♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: Good to know. If only he'd been in prison in 1969.
	♥ 3:44pm Matt from New Orleans: He got out in 67
	🥁 ♥ 3:45pm Erica: And when Manson died, nobody cared. To quote Bebe's Kids "Everyone was glad he was dead". Haha!
	🥁 ♥ 3:46pm Erica: Or so it seemed.
	♥ 3:47pm Matt from New Orleans: The story might be the result of Rodney B The Mayor of the Strip. He claimed that Manson was at the auditions.
	🥁 ♥ 3:49pm Funky16Corners: Looking at Rodney Bingenheimer these days, I wouldn't describe him as a reliable source of history.
	🥁 ♥ 3:50pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry. Watched a short biography of the Monkees recently, funny business.
	3:50pm Listening Out There: @Matt: Now that I check online, it looks like you're right! I stand corrected. Will fall over later.
	🥁 ♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	♥ 3:51pm Matt from New Orleans: Did you ever watch the depressing documentary about Rodney Larry?
	🥁 ♥ 3:52pm Brian in UK: Steve Stills recommended Peter Tork according to PT in prevuiously mentioned biog.
	♥ 3:53pm Matt from New Orleans: @LOT No worries. There are lots of plausible, semi-plausible and absurd stories out there. Hard to tell which is which.
	🥁 ♥ 3:57pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - I did, 'Mayor of the Sunset Strip'. He seems like a guy with problems, and he's so meek and withdrawn it's hard to reconcile that with his being some kind of scenester in the 60s
	🥁 ♥ 3:59pm Brian in UK: Ronald Bell has passed. Spirit of the Boogie is forever.
	🥁 ♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: I saw that. Sad.
	🥁 ♥ 4:00pm Jeff Ash: Billy May did a lot of cool TV action scores during the '60s.
	🥁 ♥ 4:01pm Funky16Corners: Yes! Also a respected jazz arranger. I have some Anita O'Day albums arranged by May.
	🥁 ♥ 4:05pm Jeff Ash: Anita O'Day. Now there was a live wire!
	🥁 ♥ 4:06pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, she was cool. Her book is amazing.
	🥁 ♥ 4:13pm Funky16Corners: An unusual Nilsson cover. I don't recall too many others of this one
	🥁 ♥ 4:20pm Jeff Ash: Interesting but I guess not surprising that so much of this is from such a short time span, '67 to '71.
	🥁 ♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: I suspect that if you looked at the Easy Listening charts from later on in the 70s you'd still find stuff like this, but it would be covers of awful stuff you didn't want to hear in the original form.
	♥ 4:21pm Matt from New Orleans: Who wouldn’t want to hear an easy listening Jungle Boogie?
	🥁 ♥ 4:23pm Jeff Ash: The mellow stylings of Led Zep?
	🥁 ♥ 4:23pm Funky16Corners: The Adult Contemporary charts are a fascinating deep dive. All kinds of weird stuff crossing over, hits by people you thought were long gone. I have a Billboard AC chart book. It's full of unusual stuff
	4:24pm still b/p: My older brother hated Jennifer Juniper. Should confine him in a booth for many hours with this version. Just for cruelty's sake.
	🥁 ♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - I would not be at all surprised to find Zep covers. There are some by instrumental rock bands, like the Ventures and CCS
	♥ 4:24pm Matt from New Orleans: Here’s the muppets doing Jungle Boogie youtu.be...
	🥁 ♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP!
	4:26pm still b/p: I am woeful that I can only listen a short while. But happy to encounter the extra double cheese of the collection title "Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today."
	🥁 ♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: I think these "easy" covers are only as good as the songs they're covering, along with how much imagination and skill of the arranger
	🥁 ♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - They were "Programmed For Pleasure" too!
	4:32pm northguineahills: I always said I would donate my Recs to wfmu in my will, but maybe I could sell a few Reader’s Digest box set comps, as I’ll need the scratch.
	4:34pm northguineahills: Uh, hopefully wfmu won’t get them in the immediate future, this being 2020 and all.
	🥁 ♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, hang on to those and stay alive, please.
	🥁 ♥ 4:38pm Jeff Ash: Just came across this Frank Chacksfield record in the last month or so. Didn't get it, though.
	🥁 ♥ 4:39pm Funky16Corners: Not essential, but pretty cool as these things go.
	🥁 ♥ 4:40pm Erica: Go home Jojo
	🥁 ♥ 4:44pm Funky16Corners: This reminds me of a Beatles lullably CD we had for the boys when they were little
	🥁 ♥ 4:47pm Jeff Ash: We had the Little Richard CD of kids songs for Evan. Now if I could only find it, but I suspect it's long gone.
	🥁 ♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: Was it him singing or covers of his stuff?
	🥁 ♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: The Beatles on we had was by one of the guys in Jellyfish. It made for really good listening, in addition to putting the kids to sleep.
	🥁 ♥ 4:50pm Jeff Ash: It was Little Richard singing children's songs. "Shake It All About," a Disney CD from 1992. www.discogs.com...
	♥ 4:52pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry
	🥁 ♥ 4:52pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!, Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today
	🥁 ♥ 4:54pm Funky16Corners: I just realized that I didn't play a single 45 on this show!
	🥁 ♥ 4:54pm Jeff Ash: Nope, not for this kind of thing.
	🥁 ♥ 4:57pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry! Great show!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: I have a bunch of easy/Now Sound 45s, but they didn't make it in.
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thank you all for listening!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff! Matt! Theo!
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm dutchtheo: Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor) saved you! .... 45RPM Single
	🥁 ♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: There you go! I always have it in my back pocket!
	🥁 ♥ 9:39am Cal Zone!: Love, Love Love, Lovin This!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 10, 2020

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September 10, 2020: Testify! - A Box of Cheese - An Exploration of a Now Sound Motherlode

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Electronic Concept Orchestra	Grazing In the Grass	Moog Groove	Limelight	1969	LP	0:01:35 (Pop-up)
Moog Machine	Time of the Season "Time of the Season" by "Moog Machine"	Switched On Rock	Columbia	1969	LP	0:03:49 (Pop-up)
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	Spinning Wheel	Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today	Readers Digest	1970	LP	0:07:32 (Pop-up)
Percy Faith and His Orchestra	Viva Tirado	Black Magic Woman	Columbia	1971	LP	0:10:23 (Pop-up)
Johnny Frigo Quartet	Groovin' "Groovin'" by "Johnny Frigo Quartet"	Chicago Jazz Dance Revival At Gus's Place	Orion	1969	LP	0:13:42 (Pop-up)
Ted Heath and His Music	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	The Big One	Decca	1969	LP	0:15:59 (Pop-up)

George Benson	Last Train To Clarksville	Shape of Things To Come	CTI	1968	LP	0:26:23 (Pop-up)
Enoch Light Singers	Valleri "Valleri" by "Enoch Light Singers"	12 Smash Hits	Project 3	1968	LP	0:31:48 (Pop-up)
Golden Gate Strings	I'm Not Your Stepping Stone	Monkees Songbook	Epic	1967	LP	0:34:32 (Pop-up)
Ray Martin and His Orchestra	Pleasant Valley Sunday	Up Up and Away	Camden	1967	LP	0:37:42 (Pop-up)
Ray Martin and His Orchestra	Words	Up Up and Away	Camden	1967	LP	0:40:21 (Pop-up)
Arthur Greenslade and His Orchestra	I'm a Believer	Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today	Readers Digest	1970	LP	0:42:27 (Pop-up)
Wichita Train Whistle	Tapioca Tundra	The Wichita Train Whistle Sings	Dot	1968	LP	0:45:07 (Pop-up)
Wichita Train Whistle	You Told Me	The Wichita Train Whistle Sings	Dot	1968	LP	0:48:02 (Pop-up)

Billy May and His Orchestra	Marrakesh Express	Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today	Readers Digest	1970	LP	0:56:23 (Pop-up)
David Whitaker and His Orchestra	Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show	Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today	Readers Digest	1970	LP	0:59:34 (Pop-up)
David Whitaker and His Orchestra	Crystal Blue Persuasion	Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today	Readers Digest	1970	LP	1:03:14 (Pop-up)
John Andrews Tartaglia	Light My Fire	The Tartaglian Theorem	Capitol	1968	LP	1:06:39 (Pop-up)
Percy Faith and His Orchestra	The Wailing of the Willow	Black Magic Woman	Columbia	1971	LP	1:12:01 (Pop-up)
Joe Reisman and His Orchestra	Everybody's Talkin'	Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today	Readers Digets	1970	LP	1:15:40 (Pop-up)
Stapleton-Morley Expression	12:30 (Young Girls Are Coming To the Canyon)	The Mamas and Papas Book of Songs	Dunhill	1967	LP	1:18:39 (Pop-up)
Arthur Greenslade and His Orchestra	Jennifer Juniper	Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today	Readers Digest	1970	LP	1:21:55 (Pop-up)
Steve Douglas	Wear Your Love Like Heaven	Reflections In a Golden Horn	Mercury	1969	LP	1:24:30 (Pop-up)
Joe Reisman and His Orchestra	Wichita Lineman	Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today	Readers Digest	1970	LP	1:26:34 (Pop-up)
Ken Thorne and His Orchestra	Sunshine of Your Love	Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today	Readers Digest	1970	LP	1:29:38 (Pop-up)

Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra	A Hard Days Night	Plays the Beatles Songbook	Decca	1970	LP	1:37:06 (Pop-up)
Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra	Get Back	Plays the Beatles Songbook	Decca	1970	LP	1:40:02 (Pop-up)
Joe Reisman and His Orchestra	Hey Jude	Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today	Readers Digest	1970	LP	1:43:07 (Pop-up)
John Andrews Tartaglia	I Am the Walrus	The Tartaglian Theorem	Capitol	1968	LP	1:46:42 (Pop-up)
Ken Thorne and His Orchestra	A Day In the Life	Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today	Readers Digest	1970	LP	1:50:19 (Pop-up)
John Andrews Tartaglia	Goodnight "Goodnight" by "John Andrews Tartaglia"	The Tartaglian Theorem	Capitol	1968	LP	1:53:16 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:57:43 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 3:00pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin, the land of cheese!
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm WR: I really don't know what to expect from that program title, and with that I turn down the volume and join another work conference call. Will check in again if I'm lucky.
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! WR!
	♥ 3:01pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi Larry. Like the graphic.
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt! Thanks!
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Erica: Today's show is gonna be very cheesy indeed.
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry & testifiers! that was a smooth transfer from the continental subway
	🥁 ♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica! Theo!
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: That drum break was Morris Jennings Jr, the same guy that played the break on Marlena Shaw's California Soul!
	♥ 3:04pm Matt from New Orleans: Is that a Cheez-It box? I always get them confused with Cheese Nips. We always had Sunshine Bakery products in my house not Nabisco.
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: Cheezits
	🥁 ♥ 3:05pm Erica: Cheez-It's are the ones in the red box Matt. They have that sharp cheddar taste while Cheese Nips in the orange box have a mild cheddar taste. And both look identical.
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: I wish I had some Cheezits right now...
	♥ 3:09pm Matt from New Orleans: I prefer any version of spinning wheel that doesn’t have David Clayton Thomas
	3:09pm Listening Out There: This sounds pretty okay...
	🥁 ♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Listening!
	🥁 ♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: I don't understand David Clayton Thomas hate. He's one of my fave voices.
	🥁 ♥ 3:10pm Jeff Ash: Just so long as we don't get Sinatra's cover of Mrs. Robinson, we'll be fine.
	♥ 3:10pm Matt from New Orleans: We’ll agree to disagree on him
	🥁 ♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Almost no vocals in today's show (and no Sinatra at all)
	🥁 ♥ 3:11pm Erica: Wow Benny Goodman doing Blood, Sweat and Tears. That sounded just like it would've if it came out in the '40s.
	🥁 ♥ 3:12pm Jeff Ash: Instrumental cheese! Nice.
	♥ 3:12pm Matt from New Orleans: It’s mostly just Spinning Wheel that I can’t stand his vocals. I’m less opinionated on other BS&T songs with him on vocals.
	🥁 ♥ 3:12pm Funky16Corners: I think EVERYONE recorded a version of 'Spinning Wheel'. Soul singers, pop singers, lounge singers (especially), big bands, everyone.
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm Erica: They were all getting on the popular (music) bandwagon Larry, trying to aim towards different demographics.
	🥁 ♥ 3:14pm Erica: At least that is how it seemed.
	🥁 ♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: I think you're right.
	♥ 3:18pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry I listened to last week’s show and throughly enjoyed the revisit
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm Jeff Ash: Wonder what the original artists thought of these covers, if indeed they ever heard them.
	🥁 ♥ 3:20pm Erica: They were either probably honored or disgusted Jeff haha. I know I'd be.
	🥁 ♥ 3:27pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - Thanks!
	🥁 ♥ 3:27pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - The ones with a sense of humor probably dug it. Others (and there were many) might not have.
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Erica: George Benson meets the Monkees. Jazzy AND groovy!
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Funky16Corners: Unless of course the royalty cheks were coming in, in which case they loved it
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - He does some cool covers in this album
	3:29pm northguineahills: My parents still subscribe to Reader’s Digest, and I found a bunch of their record comps in the late 90s/2000s.
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: The first time I read To Kill a Mockingbird it was as a Readers Digest Condensed Book
	🥁 ♥ 3:32pm Erica: Speaking of Readers Digest, I found a 70's soft rock compilation on CD online but used copies are too expensive and a good number of songs aren't even soft rock songs.
	🥁 ♥ 3:33pm Jeff Ash: Readers Digest was a constant presence at our house in the '60s and '70s. The magazine and the condensed books and some of the records, but we never had Happiness Is.
	🥁 ♥ 3:33pm Erica: Good thing I didn't order it.
	🥁 ♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: My aunt and uncle used to live right by Readers Digest headquarters in NY. We used to drive past it on the way to their house
	♥ 3:35pm Matt from New Orleans: Up in Mt Kisco. Been by there plenty myself in my younger days.
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: That's the one!
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Jeff Ash: I have this Golden Gate Strings record. Larry has been a bad influence on me.
	🥁 ♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: That's pretty much my goal in life. I carry record hoarding like a virus.
	🥁 ♥ 3:38pm Jeff Ash: No hoarding for me. Just questionable choices.
	🥁 ♥ 3:39pm Funky16Corners: Groovy cover on this album: www.discogs.com...
	3:40pm Listening Out There: I have read that both Stephen Stills and Charles Manson were among musician auditioning to become Monkees....
	🥁 ♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: Apparently Stills got the kibosh because of his wrecked teeth. Manson probably was a "bad fit" for the winsome foursome.
	♥ 3:43pm Matt from New Orleans: Manson was in prison in 65 so that’s nonsense
	🥁 ♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: Good to know. If only he'd been in prison in 1969.
	♥ 3:44pm Matt from New Orleans: He got out in 67
	🥁 ♥ 3:45pm Erica: And when Manson died, nobody cared. To quote Bebe's Kids "Everyone was glad he was dead". Haha!
	🥁 ♥ 3:46pm Erica: Or so it seemed.
	♥ 3:47pm Matt from New Orleans: The story might be the result of Rodney B The Mayor of the Strip. He claimed that Manson was at the auditions.
	🥁 ♥ 3:49pm Funky16Corners: Looking at Rodney Bingenheimer these days, I wouldn't describe him as a reliable source of history.
	🥁 ♥ 3:50pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry. Watched a short biography of the Monkees recently, funny business.
	3:50pm Listening Out There: @Matt: Now that I check online, it looks like you're right! I stand corrected. Will fall over later.
	🥁 ♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	♥ 3:51pm Matt from New Orleans: Did you ever watch the depressing documentary about Rodney Larry?
	🥁 ♥ 3:52pm Brian in UK: Steve Stills recommended Peter Tork according to PT in prevuiously mentioned biog.
	♥ 3:53pm Matt from New Orleans: @LOT No worries. There are lots of plausible, semi-plausible and absurd stories out there. Hard to tell which is which.
	🥁 ♥ 3:57pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - I did, 'Mayor of the Sunset Strip'. He seems like a guy with problems, and he's so meek and withdrawn it's hard to reconcile that with his being some kind of scenester in the 60s
	🥁 ♥ 3:59pm Brian in UK: Ronald Bell has passed. Spirit of the Boogie is forever.
	🥁 ♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: I saw that. Sad.
	🥁 ♥ 4:00pm Jeff Ash: Billy May did a lot of cool TV action scores during the '60s.
	🥁 ♥ 4:01pm Funky16Corners: Yes! Also a respected jazz arranger. I have some Anita O'Day albums arranged by May.
	🥁 ♥ 4:05pm Jeff Ash: Anita O'Day. Now there was a live wire!
	🥁 ♥ 4:06pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, she was cool. Her book is amazing.
	🥁 ♥ 4:13pm Funky16Corners: An unusual Nilsson cover. I don't recall too many others of this one
	🥁 ♥ 4:20pm Jeff Ash: Interesting but I guess not surprising that so much of this is from such a short time span, '67 to '71.
	🥁 ♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: I suspect that if you looked at the Easy Listening charts from later on in the 70s you'd still find stuff like this, but it would be covers of awful stuff you didn't want to hear in the original form.
	♥ 4:21pm Matt from New Orleans: Who wouldn’t want to hear an easy listening Jungle Boogie?
	🥁 ♥ 4:23pm Jeff Ash: The mellow stylings of Led Zep?
	🥁 ♥ 4:23pm Funky16Corners: The Adult Contemporary charts are a fascinating deep dive. All kinds of weird stuff crossing over, hits by people you thought were long gone. I have a Billboard AC chart book. It's full of unusual stuff
	4:24pm still b/p: My older brother hated Jennifer Juniper. Should confine him in a booth for many hours with this version. Just for cruelty's sake.
	🥁 ♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - I would not be at all surprised to find Zep covers. There are some by instrumental rock bands, like the Ventures and CCS
	♥ 4:24pm Matt from New Orleans: Here’s the muppets doing Jungle Boogie youtu.be...
	🥁 ♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP!
	4:26pm still b/p: I am woeful that I can only listen a short while. But happy to encounter the extra double cheese of the collection title "Happiness Is... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today."
	🥁 ♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: I think these "easy" covers are only as good as the songs they're covering, along with how much imagination and skill of the arranger
	🥁 ♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - They were "Programmed For Pleasure" too!
	4:32pm northguineahills: I always said I would donate my Recs to wfmu in my will, but maybe I could sell a few Reader’s Digest box set comps, as I’ll need the scratch.
	4:34pm northguineahills: Uh, hopefully wfmu won’t get them in the immediate future, this being 2020 and all.
	🥁 ♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, hang on to those and stay alive, please.
	🥁 ♥ 4:38pm Jeff Ash: Just came across this Frank Chacksfield record in the last month or so. Didn't get it, though.
	🥁 ♥ 4:39pm Funky16Corners: Not essential, but pretty cool as these things go.
	🥁 ♥ 4:40pm Erica: Go home Jojo
	🥁 ♥ 4:44pm Funky16Corners: This reminds me of a Beatles lullably CD we had for the boys when they were little
	🥁 ♥ 4:47pm Jeff Ash: We had the Little Richard CD of kids songs for Evan. Now if I could only find it, but I suspect it's long gone.
	🥁 ♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: Was it him singing or covers of his stuff?
	🥁 ♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: The Beatles on we had was by one of the guys in Jellyfish. It made for really good listening, in addition to putting the kids to sleep.
	🥁 ♥ 4:50pm Jeff Ash: It was Little Richard singing children's songs. "Shake It All About," a Disney CD from 1992. www.discogs.com...
	♥ 4:52pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry
	🥁 ♥ 4:52pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!, Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today
	🥁 ♥ 4:54pm Funky16Corners: I just realized that I didn't play a single 45 on this show!
	🥁 ♥ 4:54pm Jeff Ash: Nope, not for this kind of thing.
	🥁 ♥ 4:57pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry! Great show!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: I have a bunch of easy/Now Sound 45s, but they didn't make it in.
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thank you all for listening!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff! Matt! Theo!
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm dutchtheo: Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor) saved you! .... 45RPM Single
	🥁 ♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: There you go! I always have it in my back pocket!
	🥁 ♥ 9:39am Cal Zone!: Love, Love Love, Lovin This!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 10, 2020

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