Favoriting Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from February 13, 2019 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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Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Charlie Rich  Dance of Love   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Smash  1965  45 
Etta James  Something's Got a Hold On Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Argo  1962  45 
Clarence Carter  Soul Deep   Favoriting Testifyin'  Atlantic  1969  LP 
Dee Dee Warwick  We're Doing Fine   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Blue Rock  1965  45 
Chris Bartley  The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Vando  1967  45 
Wilson Pickett  Everybody Needs Somebody To Love   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atlantic  1967  45 
 
Gloria Gaynor  Never Can Say Goodbye   Favoriting 45RPM Single  MGM  1974  12" 
Viola Wills  If You Could Read My Mind   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Ariola  1980  12" 
Eddie Kendricks  Date With the Rain   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Tamla  1976  45 
Sylvester  You Make Me Feel Mighty Real   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Fantasy  1978  12" 
 
Erasure  Chains of Love   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mute  1988  45 
JoBoxers  Just Got Lucky   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1983  45 
The Motors  Love and Loneliness   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Virgin  1980  45 
The The  Uncertain Smile   Favoriting Soul Mining  Sire  1982  CD 
The Thompson Twins  If You Were Here   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Arista  1984  45 
Tommy Keene  Back Again (Try)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Dolphin  1984  12" 
Talk Talk  It's My Life   Favoriting It's My Life  EMI  1984  CD 
The Smithereens  I Don't Want To Lose You   Favoriting Especially For You  Enigma  1986  CD 
 
Brenda Lee  Do Right Woman Do Right Man   Favoriting Memphis Portrait  Decca  1970  LP 
Otis Redding  These Arms of Mine   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Volt  1962  45 
Linda Divine  Cigarettes and Coffee   Favoriting Sweet Linda Divine  Columbia  1970  LP 
Carl Hall  You Don't Know Nothing About Love   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Loma  1967  45 
Eddie 'Little Buster' Forehand  You Were Meant For Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Josie  1968  45 
Eldridge Holmes  A Love Problem   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Decca  1969  45 
Tami Lynn  Can't Last Much Longer   Favoriting Love Is Here And Now You're Gone  Cotillion  1971  LP 
Otis Clay  You Don't Miss Your Water   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Cotillion  1968  45 
Big Star  Give Me Another Chance   Favoriting #1 Record  Ardent  1972  LP 
 
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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Jeff Ash:

Standing in the shadows of the snow piles out here in Wisconsin!
  10:01pm
Gary via app:

Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Jeff!
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Funky16Corners:

Gary!
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chresti:

Hi Testify and Larry fans!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Chresti!
Avatar 🥁 10:05pm
Erica:

Happy (early) Valentine's Day!
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Franco Twinkie:

Happy Valentines Day eve everybody!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Erica!
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Funky16Corners:

Franco!
Avatar 10:06pm
fleep:

Greetings, Larry and all
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Fleep!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Franco Twinkie:

Who did this first, Clarence or The Box Tops?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Box Tops
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Franco Twinkie:

One of my favorite Alex Chilton vocals.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Funky16Corners:

Apparently Eddy Arnold covered it in 1970 and had an Adult Contemporary hit with it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Franco Twinkie:

Whoa!
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coelacanth∅:

hey Larry & everyone
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Funky16Corners:

hey C!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
chresti:

I like that weird background string sound
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, one of my favorite records. Otherworldly
  10:16pm
cupcakejenny:

Hi everyone. Happy (early) Valentine’s Day!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi wife!
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chresti:

I found a Love is a fav
Avatar 🥁 10:18pm
Erica:

Hi Larry's wife (forget your name).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Funky16Corners:

Jennifer
  10:22pm
cupcakejenny:

Aw I tuned in just in time :)
Avatar 🥁 10:22pm
Erica:

Disco on Testify? Also I thought the disco era began in 1975 or 76, not 74.
  10:23pm
cupcakejenny:

(I’m Jenny)
Avatar 🥁 10:23pm
Erica:

Also, hello Jennifer. I hope you and Larry have a wonderful Valentine's Day tomorrow.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Funky16Corners:

Started earlier than that in the underground discos (especially the gay ones). The above ground sort of pop disco thing started a little later. I've done disco on the show before. Once did a five hour marathon!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Erica!
  10:23pm
melinda:

Hi all
  10:23pm
cupcakejenny:

Or Jennifer. Or Jen. I answer to everything.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Melinda!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Funky16Corners:

If anyone is interested in an outstanding book on the breadth of disco music and culture this is it: www.amazon.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Franco Twinkie:

Cruising With Ruben And The Jets is one of the greatest records about love ever made. The Mothers cover every possible angle on the subject on that album. Ray Collins was a fantastic singer.
Avatar 10:26pm
still b/p:

Just looking the other day at info on Rock the Boat by Hues Corp. One version released '73 got club play, then the reedit was one of the first widely popular disco hits in '74.
Avatar 🥁 10:26pm
Erica:

Yeah my parents were around at that time, not me, so I only know about the popular disco stuff from oldies stations and the internet.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Jeff Ash:

This disco cover of Gordon Lightfoot is better than I might have imagined.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Funky16Corners:

There's a ton of great music from the disco era that never gets played on the radio. It's by and large just black dance music.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - Yeah, a hit in the clubs and on the disco charts but nowhere else. It's on the soundtrack to the movie '54'
Avatar 🥁 10:29pm
Erica:

It was black dance music until Saturday Night Fever came out.
Avatar 🥁 10:30pm
Erica:

Well until the Bee Gees made disco records anyway.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Funky16Corners:

There was still plenty of black music on that soundtrack, Tavares, Kool and the Gang, Trammps
Avatar 🥁 10:31pm
Erica:

Then came KC & the Sunshine Band (I could go on).
  10:32pm
melinda:

@Jeff I agree
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Funky16Corners:

They even had some good records. 'Get Down Tonight' (especially the long, Tom Moulton mix) is a big fave of mine. They came out of the southern Florida, TK records scene.
Avatar 10:33pm
still b/p:

Can still sometimes hear the forehead slapper of a mischaracterization that Saturday Night Fever started the craze. It gave it a surge, pushed it further into more corners of America, and made it a genericized theme for TV show plots and yadda yadda....but "started"....get adda heah.

Also, gay clubs and white urban trend riders made early disco much more than only black dance music, I'm pretty sure.
Avatar 🥁 10:34pm
Erica:

I do know that the SNF soundtrack cover has been spoofed so many times (did I mention that before?).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
chresti:

Glam begat Disco, I thought
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Funky16Corners:

@SBP - The book I mentioned above is a great look at the early years of the sound. 'Last Night a DJ Saved My ife' also has some good stuff in it.
Avatar 🥁 10:35pm
Erica:

Yeah SNF didn't start the disco craze, it popularized it a few years after its existence.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Funky16Corners:

@Chresti - Maybe some of the sartorial style, but not the music, in anay measurable way
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Funky16Corners:

ALL RISE FOR SYLVESTER!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
chresti:

A remote spinoff?
Avatar 🥁 10:38pm
Erica:

Now I know where that song from the Candy Crush commercial came from haha.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
chresti:

...in dance clubs
  10:38pm
melinda:

One of the best disco songs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Franco Twinkie:

When I told my sister that I had never seen Saturday Night Fever, she reacted as if said I had never eaten a potato chip.
Avatar 10:39pm
still b/p:

As 15 to 17 year olds, my friends and I were sneering at the fad and the music '74-'76, and by '76 the fashion and hair styles sure had made it to suburban Massachusetts.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Funky16Corners:

The music that became disco was happening concurrently with glam but almost completely unrelated stylistically. It was happening in gay clubs and loft parties years before it ever broke through into the wider consciousness
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
doctorjazz:

Hello folks!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Funky16Corners:

I remember seeing Sylvester on American Bandstand and having my mind reset.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
chresti:

Right
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
doctorjazz:

I was one of the few of my friends who liked this stuff ...
Avatar 10:44pm
still b/p:

In college, the guys I roomed with called the discos "bimbo joints" (even though some of went there for the social mixing scene). This wasn't a direct insult to women, but a jeering term -- more of a verb -- for the whole scene and the behavior and dancing. One guy was given a shirt that said in pretty bold type, "I will bimbo no more forever."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Franco Twinkie:

My favorite disco 45 will forever and always be Funky Town by Lipps Inc. Okay, I Feel Love is pretty dang good too.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:46pm
doctorjazz:

It was "Disco Sucks" to the folks who broke in with hippy music.
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chresti:

Yeah-Funky Town is a favorite
Avatar 🥁 10:47pm
Erica:

It was the rock n roll fans who hated disco.
Avatar 10:47pm
still b/p:

Heard Funky Town yesterday and it made me smile.
  10:48pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Funny that you mentioned Hi-NRG as I’ve been listening to a lot of Ian Levine podcasts on mixcloud lately.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Funky16Corners:

If you have any interest in seeing it broken down, check out the three 'Dosco Not Disco' essays I wrote at Funky16Corners: funky16corners.com...
  10:49pm
melinda:

I loved Funky Town. I think I love You Make Me Feel Mighty Real more.
Avatar 🥁 10:49pm
Erica:

Okay now THIS is out of the ordinary for Testify! unless you played New Wave on your show before Larry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
chresti:

People I knew that were into Glam got into disco. Dance party people
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I have on occasion
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Franco Twinkie:

Funky Town makes me think of washing the driveway with a hose on a hot summer day, and it's blaring out an apartment window with dirty curtains.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
doctorjazz:

There was great stuff before electronics computers, drum machines came in, but that really defined the sound once they got introduced.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
coelacanth∅:

s b/p (@10.39, 10.44...) exactly where i (and practically everyone in school) was at. i still dislike the vast majority of disco.
Franco i've never seen saturday night fever and very likely never will.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
coelacanth∅:

...not to be a killjoy or anything!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Funky16Corners:

Here's the disco playlist I did last June: wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 10:53pm
Erica:

I wonder if Larry knows about the Just Can't Get Enough series put out by Rhino Records. It has new wave from the 70s and 80s, many of the hits and a lot of obscure stuff too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
chresti:

I've never seen Saturday Night Fever, either.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I think I have a few of them in my CD boxes
Avatar 🥁 10:54pm
Erica:

Been meaning to listen to that series once I can purchase it though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
coelacanth∅:

...but i've missed most of the show, trying to figure out a computer problem; and now i'm connected but may not make it to the end!
then again i might.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Franco Twinkie:

This is a great way to reconsider music. Forty years after the fact, in my bathrobe on a rainy night.
  10:55pm
cupcakejenny:

Nothing wrong with SNF :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
coelacanth∅:

chresti i think in my older sister's case -and mine, to a small degree, the t rex album "light of love" (reissued as ...zip gun?) helped to ease people from glam toward disco.
i still love that album.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
doctorjazz:

Like this Motors track, great voice.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, this is an epic
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Franco Twinkie:

This makes me think of guys with Nu-Wave shirts and haircuts looking all serious bent over a 64 track mixing desk.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:00pm
coelacanth∅:

the motors. weird. i bought their first album in 1978 - considered a new wave album. i never knew they did this kind of thing.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
doctorjazz:

First digital track played-got pretty far on vinyl!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
Funky16Corners:

The Motors started out in the Pub Rock scene. Bram Tchaikovsky was in the band for a while.
  11:02pm
cupcakejenny:

You should have played the 16 candles song
Avatar 11:02pm
still b/p:

If we'll allow more SNF indulgence:
There's much of the 70s disco that gives me a smile and kick now. I like SNF as something to idly ponder and examine. When I first saw it, months after its biggest hype, it was better than I expected. Looking at repeatedly over the years it's good for: scenes of an older New York; noting how awful and lame some of the dancing actually is; noting how how clunky and low the production level is, to both better and worse effect.
And favorite scenes and lines. Discussing Romeo and Juliet suicides at the coffee shop, Tony thinks Romeo "could have waited." Stephanie: "It's the way they took poison in those days."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
Funky16Corners:

@Jenny - by these guys or the Thompson Twins?
  11:03pm
cupcakejenny:

You know the one. At the end with the car
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
coelacanth∅:

Tchaikovsky was definitely with them when they did "dancing the night away", which is why i bought a motors album. kind of a new wave-prog meld... but i think their biggest hit was "airport",no?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
chresti:

coel-t rex is great
  11:06pm
Dean:

Frankly, I totally avoided the whole New Romanticism thing. However, I await the arrival of a recently purchased 3CD Depeche Mode set of hits.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Funky16Corners:

This one's for Jenny (and Tina Belcher)
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coelacanth∅:

chresti - slider is killer...but i liked all of 'em.
  11:07pm
cupcakejenny:

Omg was this planned?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
Funky16Corners:

It was not
  11:08pm
cupcakejenny:

Xoxo xoxo
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:09pm
Funky16Corners:

I happened to have it, and I love the song, so there you go
Avatar 🥁 11:09pm
Erica:

We went from 60s soul, 70s disco, 80s new wave and what next? 90s grunge lol?
Avatar 🥁 11:09pm
Erica:

Seriously I'm looking forward to the last Valentine's Day set.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:09pm
Franco Twinkie:

ARP synthesisers, Roland 808's and beepers. Makes me kind of woozy thinking about those times
  11:09pm
cupcakejenny:

My 15 year old teenage heart ❤️
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:10pm
Funky16Corners:

80s synth pop is one of my deep dark secrets
  11:12pm
Dean:

80s synth pop is a real effort for me.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:12pm
Funky16Corners:

F R E E F O R MMMMMMMMMMMMM
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
coelacanth∅:

you know what Uncle Michael says (and i've agreed since long before i heard him)
there are no guilty pleasures.
Avatar 🥁 11:14pm
Erica:

So much for a Valentine's Day special.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
Funky16Corners:

He speaks the truth!
Avatar 🥁 11:15pm
Erica:

No but there are embarrassing pleasures just the same.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
Funky16Corners:

Do tell?
Avatar 🥁 11:16pm
Erica:

Guilty pleasures are nothing more than things you enjoy that make you feel embarrassed Larry.
  11:16pm
Dean:

I have a feeling that repeated assertions that there are no guilty pleasures might be symptomatic of...something else.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
doctorjazz:

I like this stuff (though the 80s were mostly checking out jazz for me, but I stuck my head up here and there to check out a bit of what else s going on)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
coelacanth∅:

some of my flower child posse came over one day (high school days) unexpectedly and i was playing an Olivia Newton-John song "physical" and 3 of them were shocked. like weeks of shock!
the youngest one, Charlene, said it's cool that i'm open to it.
no guilty pleasures.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:17pm
coelacanth∅:

i love it's my life.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:17pm
Funky16Corners:

I am embarrassed by none of this music. In fact I love it, some of it deeply.
  11:17pm
Dean:

Olivia Newton-John is Max Born's granddaughter. Brings new meaning to "Let's get physical."
  11:19pm
Dean:

I enjoy cultivating a love of bands whose music embarrasses me, e.g., Alessi Brothers and Mentors. I like them because they make me squirm.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
doctorjazz:

The Byrds, guitar quote!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
doctorjazz:

From "Feel a Whole Lot Better"
Avatar 🥁 11:21pm
Erica:

Yazoo in the UK, Yazz in the US.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Franco Twinkie:

Once I was looking in my moms pantry and I found a can of fruit cocktail in heavy syrup that had a Best By date from fifteen years past. I thought to myself how would I feel if I ate this? I think I know now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:22pm
coelacanth∅:

i have never been embarrassed by my musical choices. never - even when i was deemed very un-cool for them. i always (arrogantly?) figured it was THEIR shortcoming.
  11:23pm
Dean:

I still kinda like Tears for Fears.

You want embarrassing? I adore Telemann.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:24pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - That's the spirit (literally)
Avatar 🥁 11:24pm
Erica:

Telemann? Isn't that the band with Johnny and Tommy Sanders? Not as good of a band as Tap Tap or Pete & the Pirates.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:24pm
coelacanth∅:

telemann seems very trite to me; but then i love herman's hermits!
  11:25pm
Dean:

Telemann wrote music as if he didn't give one little shit about it. And he wrote tons of it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25pm
coelacanth∅:

( -i shouldn't say that. most of herman's hermits' music wasn't trite at all)
Avatar 11:26pm
still b/p:

Expressed my like of Tears for Fears to someone the other day when an oldies station played two of the hits within a few hours as we worked. Have the cassette. Still hope to convince a friend we should do a Mad World duet as a simple-chord curiosity.
Avatar 🥁 11:26pm
Erica:

Never mind, wrong artist. Telemann was a German baroque composer. I just looked it up. Teleman (without the last n) is an Indie band.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
doctorjazz:

I have no problem with Herman's Hermits or other silly pop songs (though Paul's Silly Love Songs is a bit much)
Avatar 🥁 11:26pm
Erica:

(There needs to be a delete comment tab).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:27pm
Funky16Corners:

@SBP - I love 'Songs From the Big Chair'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:27pm
coelacanth∅:

i liked Telemann for a minute, but he just doesn't move me. i can't stand Tchaikovski either, for similar reason.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
doctorjazz:

Otis. . Niiiiice....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
coelacanth∅:

(except Bram!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
coelacanth∅:

yeah big chair's a good album
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
doctorjazz:

How did it get to be 11:30?
  11:30pm
Dean:

Tchaikovsky demands serious attention. Telemann doesn't, and that's why I love his music. (I love Tchaikovsky, too, but for different reasons.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Funky16Corners:

The time, she flies when fun is being had (at least by some)
  11:32pm
Dean:

"Sowing the Seeds of Love" is a pop masterpiece.

I suppose I'm also a fan of New Order. The music is ordinary, but the production and sound are pretty terrific.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
coelacanth∅:

eh, Tchaikovski's pretty predictable.
  11:33pm
Doug Schulkind:

Sounding divine as usual, Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Funky16Corners:

I love Tchaikovsky. Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, 1812
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doug!
  11:33pm
Dean:

Predictable? Do you know the piano trio?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Funky16Corners:

TCHAIKOVSKY FIGHT!!!!
Avatar 🥁 11:34pm
Erica:

Speaking of classical music, I'd say I like Beethoven, but then again, I'd be a blond boy who wears a black and purple striped shirt, playing a red toy piano. Haha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
coelacanth∅:

okay yes swan lake...there are some moments.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
coelacanth∅:

1812 is a snoozefest!
  11:37pm
Dean:

Some recordings of the 1812 are snoozefests. The work itself, not so much.
Avatar 11:37pm
still b/p:

In the program notes at the debut performance of Romeo and Juliet , Tchaikovsky said this about what he tried to capture: "It's the way they took poison in those days."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
coelacanth∅:

Dean, i'll give you that. and conversations like this always make me go listen again.
... i just know that Tchaikovski was the first classical composer i got into, as a child, and when i started discovering other composers he seemed very elementary...which makes sense to me.
Avatar 🥁 11:40pm
Erica:

Is that your favorite quoute b/p?
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Erica:

quote I mean.
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Funky16Corners:

Tchaikovsky wore his heart on his sleeve, As un-inscrutable (scrutable?) as any of the big composers
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still b/p:

From the movie, I think so. For now.
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coelacanth∅:

now they take it (at gunpoint) in a kool-aid imitation
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doctorjazz:

Forehand is a name I haven't heard, nice pipes (not a backhand compliment)
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Funky16Corners:

@Doc - He recorded mainly as Little Buster. One of my favorite lesser known soul singers.
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Dean:

I'd say that's a bit of stereotyping, F16C. I mean, Elgar? Beethoven? Puccini? Penderecki? They all were emotionally demonstrative.
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doctorjazz:

Cool, that's a familiar name.
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Funky16Corners:

There I go again, stereotyping Russian composers. Don't get me started or I'll start pigeonholing the baroque era's best.
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coelacanth∅:

i think Chopin is my favorite romantic period composer. maybe Schumann - but i don't know all that much of either of their works.
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Dean:

Chopin? S-w-o-o-n!
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coelacanth∅:

go for it Larry! i don't know much about baroque composers.
Bach, Vivaldi & Telemann... that might be it.
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Franco Twinkie:

Are nausea and despair legitimate reactions to the heartfelt expression of artistic vision?
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coelacanth∅:

(of course i say that when it might be clear i also don't know much about romantic period composers)
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Funky16Corners:

@C - I don't either. I was kidding.
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doctorjazz:

If you have any vocal chops ,I don't think you can do a bad version of Don't Miss Your Waste ..
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coelacanth∅:

yes Franco but it also occurs when you consume pre-historic fruit cocktail.
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Dean:

You could do worse than start with Bach. For instance, listen to a half a dozen or more recordings of Goldberg Variations. That comparison alone can be incredibly instructive and inspirational.
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Erica:

Now it's Power Pop. Can't wait to hear the Raspberries next haha. The power of Freeform radio.
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Funky16Corners:

@Doc - Otis Clay's is my favorite. Surpasses the original (IMHO).
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Funky16Corners:

@Erica - It's just songs. Good songs.
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still b/p:

We had a Chopin bio-album when I was a kid -- dramatizations of life moments and conversations, and presumably music. I only vaguely remember a confrontation scene on the record. I think a godmother gave it to my brother. Interesting choice for a grade school kid. It didn't get the play that The Chipmunks and Paul Bunyan and Disney Pinocchio and Mary Poppins got.
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coelacanth∅:

i know he's top 40 and all but i love Bach
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doctorjazz:

Can't knowlegebly argue over Classical composers (though I have some familiarity with the Greatest Hits But if someone wants to argue over Frank Teschmacher, I'm your man
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Franco Twinkie:

Big Star, a Saint Valentine's Day cupcake for the ages.
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Dean:

I, too, love Bach. More and more every day.
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doctorjazz:

The Clay IS great Larry!
Thanks
Night all !
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chresti:

Thanks Larry!
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chresti:

Goodnight everybody!
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still b/p:

btw -- The Chipmunks -- more recent computer animated version of them -- do an acapella beatboxing version of....Funky Town.
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coelacanth∅:

up until age 3-4 the records we had (maybe 3 records?) included "conduct your own orchestra" which was a sampling, covering a lot of ground as i remember. got an early start.
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Franco Twinkie:

Dug!!!
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still b/p:

I heard more Allen Sherman than classiclal.

Thanks a Wednesday-load, Larry!.
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coelacanth∅:

next week is your baroque show?
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Funky16Corners:

Nite all! Next week all madrigals!
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doctorjazz:

Go for Baroque!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry! take care everyone
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Funky16Corners:

Nite C!
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Erica:

Happy Valentine's Day to you Larry! Happy V-day to all of you guys! Have a good night tonight.
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Funky16Corners:

Nite Erica!
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still b/p:

Rococo loco!
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Funky16Corners:

Nite SBP!
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