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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 13, 2018: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About the Cowsills But Were Afraid To Ask!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
The Cowsills  All I Really Want To Be Is Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Joda  1965  45 
The Cowsills  What's It Gonna Be Like   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1966  45 
The Cowsills  Party Girl   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1966  45 
The Cowsills  Most of All   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1966  45 
 
The Cowsills  The Rain, The Park, and Other Things   Favoriting The Cowsills  MGM  1967  LP 
The Cowsills  Pennies   Favoriting The Cowsills  MGM  1967  LP 
The Cowsills  Thinkin' About the Other Side   Favoriting The Cowsills  MGM  1967  LP 
The Cowsills  River Blue   Favoriting The Cowsills  MGM  1967  LP 
The Cowsills  How Can I Make You See   Favoriting The Cowsills  MGM  1967  LP 
The Cowsills  The Milk Song   Favoriting The Cowsills Collectors Album Presented By The American Dairy Association (EP)  MGM  1968  EP 
The Cowsills  The Fun Song   Favoriting The Cowsills Collectors Album Presented By The American Dairy Association (EP)  MGM  1968  EP 
The Cowsills  We Can Fly   Favoriting We Can Fly  MGM  1967  LP 
The Cowsills  Gotta Get Away From It All   Favoriting We Can Fly  MGM  1967  LP 
The Cowsills  I Need a Friend   Favoriting We Can Fly  MGM  1967  LP 
The Cowsills  Beautiful Beige   Favoriting We Can Fly  MGM  1967  LP 
The Cowsills  Mr Flynn   Favoriting We Can Fly  MGM  1967  LP 
The Bit A Sweet  How Can I Make You See   Favoriting Hypnotic 1  ABC  1968  LP 
The Cowsills  Paperback Writer   Favoriting In Concert  MGM  1969  LP 
 
The Cowsills  Indian Lake   Favoriting Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools  MGM  1968  LP 
The Cowsills  Painting the Day   Favoriting Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools  MGM  1968  LP 
The Cowsills  The Fantasy World of Harry Faversham   Favoriting Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools  MGM  1968  LP 
The Cowsills  Can't Measure the Cost of a Woman Lost   Favoriting Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools  MGM  1968  LP 
The Cowsills  Make the Music Flow   Favoriting Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools  MGM  1968  LP 
The Cowsills  Love American Style   Favoriting 45RPM Single  MGM  1970  LP 
The Cowsills  Anything Changes   Favoriting II X II  MGM  1969  LP 
The Cowsills  Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine   Favoriting II X II  MGM  1969  LP 
The Cowsills  Goodtime Charley   Favoriting II X II  MGM  1969  LP 
The Cowsills  Don't Look Back   Favoriting II X II  MGM  1969  LP 
 
The Cowsills  On My Side   Favoriting On My Side  London  1971  LP 
The Cowsills  Once There Was a Time   Favoriting On My Side  London  1971  LP 
The Cowsills  Mystery Of Life   Favoriting On My Side  London  1971  LP 
Bill Cowsill  Everybody's Here   Favoriting Nervous Breakthrough  MGM  1971  LP 
Bill Cowsill  The Shoop Shoop Song   Favoriting Nervous Breakthrough  MGM  1971  LP 
Bill Cowsill  Nobody   Favoriting Nervous Breakthrough  MGM  1971  LP 
Bill Cowsill  Ride   Favoriting Nervous Breakthrough  MGM  1971  LP 
Bodine  Disaster   Favoriting Bodine  MGM  1969  LP 
Lightmyth  Across the Universe   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1969  45 
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45 


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Listener comments!

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coelacanth∅:

hey Larry and cowpokes, sillies, cowsillies
  10:04pm
chresti:

Hi!!
Bug free zone
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
  10:06pm
chresti:

What was the cowsills hit?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Chresti!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Funky16Corners:

@Chresti - They had a bunch. You'll hear most of them tonight
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
coelacanth∅:

the park the bees and other things ?! (something like that!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
coelacanth∅:

that was the big one; and "hair".
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Funky16Corners:

The Rain the Park and Other Things
Avatar 🥁 10:09pm
EStar785:

Hi everyone! Just registered for the WFMU
WFMU Friendship Society.
  10:09pm
chresti:

Ok I remember Hair!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
coelacanth∅:

hahaha well i knew i was off! ...and i've got tiny critters on the brain.
they also did some chart-topping tv ads for milk
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi EStar785!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Franco Twinkie:

Once some doofus said to me;"Arn't the Cowsills kinda like The Osmonds?" I guess he thought all family bands were extruded from the same hose (think of The King Family) I love these guys! And girl(s)
Avatar 🥁 10:10pm
EStar785:

It's me Erica. This is my new account.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
coelacanth∅:

hey welcome EStar!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - Milk song coming up later!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
coelacanth∅:

yeah the cowsills are criminally overlooked.
  10:15pm
miles:

those 1st two garage records were FANTASTIC
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Franco Twinkie:

i know Susan is still out there - she just did a Buffalo Springfield tribute thingy here a couple months ago, but what about the others?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
coelacanth∅:

i liked the rain the park and other things ("flowers in her hair" as i knew it) as a child then made fun of it as a punkrocker with a deranged version in a sound collage...now i like it again
chresti you know this song.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Funky16Corners:

The Cowsills, with Susan and two of the brothers are out on tour this summer with the Happy Together tour
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Franco, Miles!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
coelacanth∅:

Franco last i knew Susan and 3(?) of her brothers had reformed and did some shows.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Funky16Corners:

I think it's just two brothers. John tours with the Beach Boys as their drummer.
  10:18pm
miles:

I heard a really interesting & good indie '90s Cowsills 45 when it came out- no idea what it was or who put it out
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
coelacanth∅:

okay. i read it a while back, along with sad tales of disharmony between her and some of the others.
Avatar 🥁 10:19pm
EStar785:

They went from go-go dancer pop and garage to sunshine pop.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Franco Twinkie:

Susan was in this band called the Continental Drifters I saw at this basement dump in Hollywood called Raji's. She was in overalls with bare feet!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Funky16Corners:

@MIles - Is it on this album? www.discogs.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Funky16Corners:

Continental Drifters also included Vicki Peterson of the Bangles and Peter Holsapple of the DBs
  10:20pm
miles:

@funky I'm on the app & can't click links
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Funky16Corners:

Oh ok. It was called Global and came out in 1998
  10:20pm
chresti:

Beach boy style in vocals-weird production
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Franco Twinkie:

I just saw Vickie a couple of months ago, she looked great.
  10:21pm
miles:

I see i see
  10:21pm
chresti:

Is this not crazier and crazier?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Funky16Corners:

@Chresti - The Beach Boys were a touchstone. Stay tuned for some of the later stuff where they kid of intersect with 'Friends' era Beach Boys
Avatar 🥁 10:27pm
EStar785:

Real funk number here.
Avatar 🥁 10:27pm
EStar785:

I meant funky number.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Funky16Corners:

Hmmmm, suddenly I'm thirsty for milk...from 1968
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
coelacanth∅:

milk is really outa sight!
Avatar 🥁 10:29pm
EStar785:

Got milk?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Funky16Corners:

Considering their image, a milk commercial is pretty meta. They wrote it, too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
coelacanth∅:

i don't remember any of those cowsills milking cows in that advert
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Funky16Corners:

I have the record but i've never seen the commercials
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Franco Twinkie:

I worked on a Got Milk? commercial with a guy who was Captain Beefhearts road manager!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Funky16Corners:

I'd buy milk from Captain Beefheart! Was it Safe As Milk??
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
coelacanth∅:

was this one presented by norml?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Franco Twinkie:

Ha Ha! Good one Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Thank you! I'll be here until 12!
Avatar 🥁 10:35pm
EStar785:

Hey Larry ever feature Milk (The Basic) by American Dairy Association of Mississippi on any of your shows, speaking of milk?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Jeff Ash:

Been here since the start, quietly digging it. Carry on, fine sir!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Funky16Corners:

@Estar785 - I have not. When is it from?
Avatar 🥁 10:37pm
EStar785:

Date unknown. Just found it on Discogs when looking up the Cowsills dairy EP.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Funky16Corners:

II LOVE this one.
Avatar 🥁 10:39pm
EStar785:

You can here it here after the show: www.youtube.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks! I'll check that out.
Avatar 🥁 10:42pm
EStar785:

I'll check it out tomorrow. I have to go to be after the show.
Avatar 🥁 10:44pm
EStar785:

To bed I mean.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Funky16Corners:

Going to be isn't bad, in the zen sense.
Avatar 🥁 10:46pm
EStar785:

I hope not to doze off before the show's over haha.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Funky16Corners:

Same here. I've been up since 6AM
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
coelacanth∅:

hey they didn't sing "Frère Jacques"!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Funky16Corners:

I wonder if they even noticed it was there in the first place!
Avatar 🥁 11:01pm
Erica:

Did Barbara Cowsill sing this one? Forgot if she did.
  11:02pm
chresti:

Are there instrumental version s
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - That was Susan
Avatar 🥁 11:04pm
Erica:

Big voice for a then-tiny person I must say.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
Funky16Corners:

@Chresti - Of which songs?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - She had some great tutors in her big brothers
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
chresti:

This makes me think of Ken Berry and Carol Burnett doing a soft shoe number wearing top hats.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah right?
  11:09pm
Dean:

Damn, I'm missing some good stuff. Gotta wrap up this Putter Smith record I'm playing here and then I'll check in. Playing any Twilley?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Not tonight. All Cowsills/Bill Cowsill productions
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
Jeff Ash:

I see the intro with the fireworks in my head as I listen to this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
coelacanth∅:

i completely forgot they did this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
Franco Twinkie:

Paula Prentess and?....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:12pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, and all the clips of Stuart Margolin
Avatar 🥁 11:12pm
Erica:

Love American Style :)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Dig this.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
Funky16Corners:

There's actually a clip of them performing this on some variety show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
coelacanth∅:

damn. i should've made my chocolate run while you played the first album, which i have.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Funky16Corners:

Things start to get interesting at this point. This is the stuff you never hear on the radio (or anywhere else)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Franco Twinkie:

I drank all the milk in the house, but I'm waiting till this is over.
Avatar 🥁 11:16pm
Erica:

If I get offline early, it's because I lost internet connection. My brother's getting ready for bed soon.
Avatar 🥁 11:17pm
Erica:

I hope not though.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:17pm
Funky16Corners:

You can always pick it up in the archive
Avatar 🥁 11:18pm
Erica:

I know Larry, but I would have to what I've missed when I have the time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
Franco Twinkie:

Lookin" inward and gettin' heavy.
  11:19pm
Dean:

I'm not kidding about Twilley. I saw him with John and Susan at a really tiny venue near Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA. Hoping you'll spin some of those tracks.
Avatar 🥁 11:20pm
Erica (EStar785):

Also I have a question: do you guys like my 1st name or username? Sorry I keep switching between them.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - I didn't think you were. I'm just not working that far out in the web. I will in the future.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Franco Twinkie:

I'd go with Erica.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - The shorter user name is easier to type, which helps in the chat
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:22pm
Franco Twinkie:

Yeah but...Erica Kane!
  11:22pm
Dean:

Gotcha. The stuff I heard was well over ten years after what you're playing right now.
Avatar 🥁 11:22pm
Erica:

Actually Franco, my mom named my after Erica Kane from All My Children.
Avatar 🥁 11:23pm
Erica:

named me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:23pm
Franco Twinkie:

I love your mom!
Avatar 🥁 11:24pm
Erica:

I'm sure she'd like you too if she met you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
Franco Twinkie:

Well, my sister and I started watching All My Children as bored teenagers in the summer of 1971. Later, when we left home, my mother had become addicted, and she kept up on the shennagins of Erica and the others. (remember Jesse?)
  11:29pm
rw:

Uh... hey! What's up? Damn, I'm late again.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey rw!
  11:30pm
rw:

Cowsills night!
Avatar 🥁 11:30pm
Erica:

I don't watch soap operas but I think my mom would remember Jesse.
  11:31pm
rw:

Even without hearing most of this it's kind of fun just to read the song titles.
Avatar 🥁 11:32pm
Erica:

If they released any more albums in 1972-1981 which they didn't, they'd probably turn into one of those soft Rock bands.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Franco Twinkie:

Yeah you were probably an infant when Jesse was on. Surely you know the song Erica Kane by Urge Overkill?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
coelacanth∅:

Erica @11.20 go with what you like. many people will shorten it or create a nick name out of it anyway. (as i already did when i said hi before)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
coelacanth∅:

very csn-ish, this
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - Wait til you hear the Bill Cowsill solo styff. There are definitely traces of Big Star-ish power pop.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - There's a lot of stuff from the last two albums that sounds like CSN(Y)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Franco Twinkie:

Rw! Didn't it feel like August today?
  11:35pm
Dean:

Seems The Cowsills encountered a bit of controversy with the Remo Capra tune. Evidently, The Beatles' "Ballad of John and Yoko" was at risk of being banned, and for some reason so was the Cowsills' tune for being "offensive" or "blasphemous."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
coelacanth∅:

i like it; though the early, quartet stuff may be more my cuppa.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - I did not know that! I can see why.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:38pm
Funky16Corners:

Wow! I just looked and that song charted Top 40 in a bunch of markets! I'm shocked.
  11:38pm
Dean:

This was reported in the June 28, 1969, Billboard. Remo appears many times in the press, especially around 1960.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
Funky16Corners:

Do you know anything else about him?
  11:42pm
Dean:

I don't, but I have access to databases that report one way or another on him.
  11:42pm
rw:

Hey FT! Yeah, I normally try to do a bike ride in the afternoon if I'm working from home but ditched it to have a a few beers with a couple friends instead. It was nice but now I feel a little like a slug.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
Funky16Corners:

It was humid AF in NJ today. It's OK though, it'll be over in October.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
Franco Twinkie:

Okay, time to come clean. with the exception of the top hits, I never heard any of this stuff in real time. And been the budding music snob that I was, I would have hated it if I did. Time changes every thing.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
Funky16Corners:

I think with a lot of the harmony pop, if the sound hits you in your pleasure centers (as it does to me) you seek it out in all forms, following it down all kinds of dark, unexplored alleys.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
Jeff Ash:

G'night, Larry! Thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:47pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite Jeff!
  11:48pm
rw:

East Coast humidity. Can't even imagine. Sorry, man. Digging the harmony pop though!
  11:48pm
Dean:

Disc magazine, July 9, 1960: "Remo Capra, new singer on the Columbia label, is billed as 'The Romantic Debonair.' Remo, who works by day as a supervisor for an excavation company, makes his bow with 'Just Say I Love Her' and 'Fools Rush In.'"
  11:49pm
Dean:

(I was just one year old at the time that Disc review appeared.)
  11:50pm
rw:

If the coffee on my desk isn't growing mold it's safe to drink, right?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - I think it's the same guy as the crooner. How he ended up writing an apocalyptic song, I have no idea
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Franco Twinkie:

The early '70's were a very divisive time in pop music. I was fifteen in 1971 and could only concern myself with what was counter culture approved. In retrospect I missed alot.
Avatar 🥁 11:52pm
Erica:

Will you please play Covered Wagon, the Cowsills comeback single?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
coelacanth∅:

rw dip a spoon to the bottom see if there're any coffeelogged critters in there
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Franco Twinkie:

Why is coffee mold always green?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Funky16Corners:

Erica - I would if I had it. I've been looking for it for YEARS.
  11:54pm
chresti:

Rw boil the coffee just in case
  11:55pm
rw:

chresti, too late. But thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
Franco Twinkie:

I don't mind old coffee, but mold? Really?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
coelacanth∅:

"isn't growing mold"
Avatar 🥁 11:59pm
Erica:

Covered Wagon is originally a Danny O Keefe song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
Franco Twinkie:

Yes! saw Waddy with Warren Zevon in '78 during his Missed Moment.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
coelacanth∅:

i've never seen moldy coffee. i just threw out some moldy hand lotion though. that was disgusting and unexpected.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:00am
coelacanth∅:

those cowsills seemed to have had weak lungs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01am
Franco Twinkie:

Wow! Moldy hand lotion? Wonders never cease!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01am
coelacanth∅:

(which is odd for skilled singers)
Avatar 🥁 12:01am
Erica:

Well it's time for bed. Great show tonight.
  12:01am
rw:

No mold. Thanks F16C! Always appreciate the rigor you put into these shows. Good night everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01am
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry! Great program!
tchau camaradas
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks guys!
  12:02am
chresti:

Thanks for info and this show!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02am
Franco Twinkie:

Nity nite all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02am
Funky16Corners:

Thanks for listening!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02am
Funky16Corners:

Nite Franco!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03am
Franco Twinkie:

Nite Bro!
  12:03am
chresti:

Good night!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:03am
Funky16Corners:

Nite Chresti!
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