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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 January 2, 2020: Testify! - Come Spy With Me - The Musical Side of the 1960s Secret Agent/Spy Craze!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Johnny Rivers  Secret Agent Man   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Liberty  1966  45  0:01:16 (Pop-up)
Ray Barretto  Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang   Favoriting Senor 007  UA  1965  LP  0:04:18 (Pop-up)
Nancy Sinatra  The Last of the Secret Agents   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Reprise  1966  45  0:06:20 (Pop-up)
Lalo Schifrin  Mission Impossible Theme   Favoriting Music From Mission Impossible  Dot  1967  LP  0:09:02 (Pop-up)
Count Basie  Thunderball   Favoriting Basie Meets Bond  UA  1966  LP  0:11:32 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Smith  Goldfinger Pt2   Favoriting 45RPM single  Verve  1965  45  0:15:28 (Pop-up)
Laurie Johnson  Theme From the Avengers   Favoriting Laurie Johnson Orchestra Plays the Avengers  HBR  1966  LP  0:18:21 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  Sock It To Em JB   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atlantic  1966  45  0:24:05 (Pop-up)
Jamo Thomas and the Party Brothers Orchestra  I Spy (For the FBI)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Thomas  1966  45  0:26:37 (Pop-up)
The Miracles  Come Spy With Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Tamla  1967  45  0:29:11 (Pop-up)
Edwin Starr  Agent 00 Soul   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Ric Tic  1965  45  0:32:06 (Pop-up)
The Olympics  Secret Agents   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mirwood  1966  45  0:34:46 (Pop-up)
Robert Parker  Secret Service (Makes Me Nervous)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  NOLA  1967  45  0:37:12 (Pop-up)
Perry and the Harmonics  Do the Monkey With James   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mercury  1965  45  0:39:58 (Pop-up)
Sandy Nelson  Sock It To Em JB   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Imperial  1966  45  0:42:35 (Pop-up)
 
John Dankworth  Modesty Blaise Theme   Favoriting Modesty Blaise OST  20th Century Fox  1966  LP  0:48:36 (Pop-up)
Jerry Goldsmith  The Girl From UNCLE   Favoriting The Girl From UNCLE  MGM  1966  LP  0:50:24 (Pop-up)
Vikki Carr  Theme From the Silencers   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Liberty  1966  45  0:52:54 (Pop-up)
Steve Allen feat Maureen Arthur  A Man Called Dagger   Favoriting A Man Called Dagger OST  MGM  1968  LP  0:55:48 (Pop-up)
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass  Casino Royale (Main Theme)   Favoriting Casino Royale OST  Colgems  1967  LP  0:58:17 (Pop-up)
Irving Szathmary  Get Smart Theme   Favoriting 45RPM Single  UA  1965  45  1:00:55 (Pop-up)
Barbara Feldon  99   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1966  45  1:01:45 (Pop-up)
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart  The Ambushers   Favoriting 45RPM Single  A&M  1967  45  1:04:33 (Pop-up)
The Flintstones  Spy Type Guy   Favoriting The Man Called Flintstone  HBR  1966  LP  1:06:42 (Pop-up)
Ted Nichols  Secret Squirrel Theme   Favoriting Bootleg  HBR  1965  MP3  1:08:32 (Pop-up)
The Hunters  Russian Spy and I   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1966  45  1:09:20 (Pop-up)
The Shadows  Man of Mystery   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia UK  1960  45  1:11:54 (Pop-up)
 
Sid Ramin  Stiletto   Favoriting Stiletto OST  Columbia Masterworks  1969  LP  1:18:06 (Pop-up)
Al Caiola  The Eye In Flat Five   Favoriting Sounds for Spies and Private Eyes  UA  1965  LP  1:20:56 (Pop-up)
Billy Strange  The Man from UNCLE   Favoriting Secret Agent File  GNP Crescendo  1965  LP  1:22:58 (Pop-up)
Billy Strange  I Spy   Favoriting Secret Agent File  GNP Crescendo  1965  LP  1:25:31 (Pop-up)
The Clee-Shays  Ed Spy   Favoriting Super Spy Themes  Triumph  1966  LP  1:27:00 (Pop-up)
Edwin Astley  Theme From the Saint   Favoriting Secret Agent Meets the Saint  RCA  1965  LP  1:28:33 (Pop-up)
Dick Hyman  The Liquidator   Favoriting The Man from ORGAN  Command  1965  LP  1:30:16 (Pop-up)
The Guys from UNCLE  The Spy   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Swan  1966  45  1:32:56 (Pop-up)
Henry Mancini  A Shot In the Dark   Favoriting Pink Panther OST  RCA  1964  LP  1:35:22 (Pop-up)
Herbie Mann  Our Man Flint   Favoriting Our Mann Flute  Atlantic  1966  LP  1:37:51 (Pop-up)
John Barry  A Man Alone (Jazz Version)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Decca  1965  45  1:40:29 (Pop-up)
Reg Guest Syndicate  Underworld   Favoriting Underworld  Mercury  1966  LP  1:43:12 (Pop-up)
Edwin Astley Orchestra  Danger Man Theme   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1962  45  1:45:50 (Pop-up)
Hal Blaine  Secret Agent Man   Favoriting Have Fun Play Drums  Dunhill  1968  LP  1:48:11 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainor  Theme From the Prisoner   Favoriting Bootleg  Bootleg  1967  MP3  1:50:40 (Pop-up)
Roy Budd  Carter   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Pye  1971  45  1:51:40 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:59:18 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Matt from New Orleans:

Hey Larry. I’m here for the inaugural non-fill-in daytime edition of Testify.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Matt!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
Doug Schulkind:

I'm ready to Testifly with Cap'n Grogan!
Avatar 🥁 3:01pm
Erica:

Whew I made it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Erica, you're here!
Avatar 3:03pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

Happy Funky Fresh New Year!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Funky16Corners:

MMM!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Doug Schulkind:

I love this Barretto LP!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
WR:

I spy Testify on Thursday afternoon.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Sem:

Along for this wild ride.
Hey, Larry, and all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey WR! Sem!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Funky16Corners:

@Doug - All Barretto is reliably good Barretto!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Matt from New Orleans:

This is a solid arrangement marred by Nancy Sinatra.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
Funky16Corners:

I like Nancy's voice!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

hello, Larry and folx! Great to splash down into this excitement!
Avatar 3:12pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

This is a most excellent way to kick off the new year, as well as the new time slot.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
dutchtheo:

Happy new year, happy with new time, 9 pm here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
Funky16Corners:

Granny! Theo!
Avatar 🥁 3:12pm
Erica:

There is an internet radio station by Soma FM that also plays this kinda music called Secret Agent. It's worth checking out if you're curious.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Hello Larry & all Testifiers. Presume this is the parallel Giantland?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

@Theo - As I said last week, It's always nighttime somewhere!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I'll look for it!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Kevin! Of what Giantland do you speak?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Fabio's.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
Funky16Corners:

I don't know what that is.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
WR:

Note to self, figure out who that bone player was on the Basie tune.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Your 91.1 co-broadcaster's opening song.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
Funky16Corners:

Oh, I get it now. A little slow on the uptake this afternoon. Still adjusting.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
Funky16Corners:

@WR - Norman Keenan
Avatar 3:18pm
Hubig Pie:

The Prisoner had a real groovy theme song
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Regardless, great to hear you while the sun shines.
Avatar 🥁 3:19pm
Erica:

It feels weird to me too listening after an afternoon shower. Plus I'm not used to seeing different people on here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks! Great to be heard!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
Matt from New Orleans:

@ Larry Norman Keenan was on bass. That album had four trombonists. www.discogs.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
Sem:

Could not miss an episode of the Avengers growing up.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
Funky16Corners:

@HubigPie - Stay Tuned!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:21pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

"Mr. Giant Man" from James Last if Fabio's lead off and currently the #1 favorited song on the WFMU charts - www.wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Yup Sem. Emma was my first TV crush.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

and Rev. Turnip Druid was the first!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
WR:

@MattfNO thanks for the link for the Basie link.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Funky16Corners:

I once saw Diana Rigg at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Well into her 60s and still as lovely as ever!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Matt from New Orleans:

@WR No worries
Avatar 3:29pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

I missed out on the original airings of The Avengers by a few years, but was tuned in without fail when A&E re-aired it just after I graduated HS and whilst I was in junior college, now nearly a full 30 years ago this coming fall (yikes). And FWIW, who wouldn't fall hard for Mrs. Peel?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
Funky16Corners:

If you ever get the chance check out the 1968 film of a Midsummer's Night Dream, featuring both Diana Rigg and a young Helen Mirren
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
Sem:

There was a certain frisson of dominatrix w/ Emma...always, "Mrs. Peel", for instance.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:33pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, indeed, The leather catsuits didn't hurt in that regard, either.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
doctorjazz:

Welcome to Thursday! (Works better for me in some ways, but listen at work, likely to comment much less (which may be preferable to some...).
Happy New Near!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc! Glad to see you here!
Avatar 🥁 3:38pm
Erica:

Hey Doc!
Avatar 3:42pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

The elusive Perry and the Harmonics... I reckon I'll never get my hands on that disc.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
Funky16Corners:

You might be able to grab the LP at a more reasonable price
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
ParUbi:

Hey everyone. Digging the new time slot.
Avatar 🥁 3:49pm
Erica:

Hi ParUbi! Glad you could tune in.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey ParUbi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
ParUbi:

I decoded the secret message from the numbers station!
Avatar 3:51pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

@Funky16: BTW, any chance of Sir Julian Gould making an appearance with his take on "You Only Live Twice"? That one I do have - at least, as part of his "Love is Blue" LP.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:51pm
Funky16Corners:

@MMM - Not familiar with that one.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
Funky16Corners:

@ParUbi - I used to have a bunch of recordings of numbers stations. Super creepy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
Funky16Corners:

@MMM - Was he billed as 'Sir Julian'? I have a 45 of his somewhere, but not that one
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
Doug Schulkind:

@ParUbi
I bought that 4-CD set The Conet Project (en.wikipedia.org...) hot off the shelves! Oh how I wish all that crap was a hoax. It would be so much more interesting.
Avatar 3:56pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

@Funky16: Yes, that was what he most often went by - just "Sir Julian". First learned of him years ago from the "Organs in Orbit" comp. CD that was part of the Ultra-Lounge series.
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Funky16Corners:

@MMM - The 45 I have is 'Dansero'
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ParUbi:

I've listened to the CONET project. Creepy sounding for sure. First heard part of it in that Wilco song.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:01pm
doctorjazz:

Time for the Cone Of Silence!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Missed it by THAT MUCH!
Avatar 🥁 4:04pm
Erica:

Roar!
  4:08pm
johnzo:

enjoying all this spy music larry! was driving around with my homeless chaldean friend... he is mentally divergent and thinks he’s a secret agent of the US Govt/God so it was pretty appropriate
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Erica:

WILMAAAA!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey johnzo!
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dutchtheo:

Flintstones Dragnet theme?
Avatar 🥁 4:11pm
Erica:

"Your code name is Rock Slag."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:11pm
dutchtheo:

Jan Akkerman in the Hunters
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Secret Agent 10,000BC
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:13pm
Funky16Corners:

@dutch theo - Yes indeed!
Avatar 🥁 4:20pm
Erica:

I haven't seen The Man Called Flintstone movie in full either. I have seen what is called a YouTube Poop of the movie, which is basically a remixed, edited version that's been done for comedy. It's called the Flint Called Manstone and it's a pretty well re-edited version of the movie and it's hilarious.
Avatar 🥁 4:21pm
Erica:

Pretty explicit though but worth checking out if you want a laugh.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:24pm
Funky16Corners:

I'll look for that
Avatar 🥁 4:26pm
Erica:

It's made by English guys who are known as WTLNetwork. But this video has been re-uploaded by another person for copyright reasons.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
Matt from New Orleans:

There was a really fun Secret Squirrel back up comic in the surprisingly good Scooby Apocalypse comic that ran from 2016-2019. It was part of DC’s attempt to modernize and adultify Hanna Barbara’s cartoons for Generation X. The best of those was The Flintstones and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles both written by Mark Russell.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:30pm
Funky16Corners:

@Matt - I remember those vaguely, especially the Snagglepuss one
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:34pm
Matt from New Orleans:

The Snagglepuss one was a brilliant satire of the McCarthy Era with Snagglepuss as a gay left wing playwright and very loosely based on Tennessee Williams.
Avatar 4:35pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

I have been meaning to pick up that "Man from O.R.G.A.N." album, even if Mr. Hyman is playing a Lowrey, not a Hammond.
  4:36pm
CalZone!:

Spy HiFi!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:36pm
Funky16Corners:

Cal!
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Funky16Corners:

@MMM - It's worth it. Lots of cool tracks
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:37pm
Funky16Corners:

@Matt - That's the one I saw
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
Sem:

The art of Mr. Mancini on display. Love those charts.
Avatar 🥁 4:40pm
Erica:

Speaking of Snagglepuss and the Pink Panther, has anyone gotten the two confused before?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
Funky16Corners:

As the Pink Panther is generally silent, no, but the build is similar.
Avatar 🥁 4:42pm
Erica:

I meant by design because they're both pink.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:45pm
Funky16Corners:

You're right! I was thinking brown but that's Pete Puma, who sounded like crazy Guggenheim from the Jackie Gleason Show, but that's a lion for another day
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:47pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Thanks Larry. It’s been a fun show.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:47pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Matt!
Avatar 🥁 4:48pm
Erica:

I just asked because I thought Pink Panther was Snagglepuss because I hadn't heard of the Pink Panther yet. I was in my tweens.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:50pm
Funky16Corners:

My youngest son's first words from lifted from a Pink Panther cartoon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
ParUbi:

Yes, the Prisoner!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry! Going to skulk off into the sunset with that beautiful spy on my arm (don't tell the missus...)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Doc!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:52pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I imagine Diabolik isn’t going to make the cut due to the fact that the soundtrack has never been released commercially due to the masters having been destroyed in a fire.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I love Get Carter and Roy Budd’s score is fantastic.
  4:53pm
CalZone!:

Get Carter!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
dutchtheo:

So many great tunes. I can be jealous on the midsixties American tv time excitement. Wrong continent, wrong time, sadly. Thanks, Larry
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Funky16Corners:

@Matt - It is not, but I don't have it in any form
  4:53pm
melinda:

This has been fun.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Theo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
Matt from New Orleans:

These last two have been British Theo.
Avatar 4:56pm
Mod Mokka Matti:

These two hours have flown by way too fast. It is kind of strange to look out and still see daylight, even in January, but I sure hope to keep tuning in, or catch up via the archive when I can't. Thanks, Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
Sem:

Happy to hear you'll be here Thursday afternoons. See you again next time, LG and all.
  4:57pm
CalZone!:

Will definitely need to listen to the whole archive! A gem, LG!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
dutchtheo:

MfNO and Diana Rigg too!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks MMM! Sem! Cal! Theo!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
WR:

Fun show Larry. Luckily work was slow so I could listen to most of it. Later all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks WR!
Avatar 🥁 5:01pm
Erica:

This had been an interesting show this week. It will take some time to get used to this new time slot. Will try to make it next week too.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Erica! Glad you could make the scene!
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