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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Richard and Mimi Farina  Reflections In a Crystal Wind   Favoriting Reflections In a Crystal Wind  Vanguard  1965  LP  0:01:11 (Pop-up)
Richard and Mimi Farina  Chrysanthemum   Favoriting Reflections In a Crystal Wind  Vanguard  1965  LP  0:04:41 (Pop-up)
Richard and Mimi Farina  Allen's Interlude   Favoriting Reflections In a Crystal Wind  Vanguard  1965  LP  0:07:08 (Pop-up)
Richard and Mimi Farina  Children of Darkness   Favoriting Reflections In a Crystal Wind  Vanguard  1965  LP  0:10:00 (Pop-up)
 
Marty Wilde  Ice In the Sun   Favoriting Diversions  Philips  1969  LP  0:18:40 (Pop-up)
Al Jones  Come Join My Orchestra   Favoriting Alun Ashworth Jones  Parlophone  1969  LP  0:21:05 (Pop-up)
Money Jungle  Away Away   Favoriting 45RPM Single  President  1972  45  0:22:52 (Pop-up)
Matchmakers  Sandy   Favoriting Bubble Gum a Go Go  Chapter One  1971  LP  0:25:37 (Pop-up)
Genesis  Am I Very Wrong   Favoriting From Genesis To Revelation  Decca  1969  LP  0:28:45 (Pop-up)
Freedom  The Better Side   Favoriting Black on White (Nero su Bianco)  Atlantic  1969  LP  0:32:14 (Pop-up)
Stackridge  Everyman   Favoriting 45RPM Single  MCA  1971  45  0:36:49 (Pop-up)
Love  The Daily Planet   Favoriting Forever Changes  Elektra  1967  LP  0:41:02 (Pop-up)
Love  The Red Telephone   Favoriting Forever Changes  Elektra  1967  LP  0:44:27 (Pop-up)
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks  Canned Music   Favoriting Striking It Rich  Blue Thumb  1972  LP  0:49:08 (Pop-up)
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks  Slow Movin'   Favoriting Orignal Recordings  Epic  1969  LP  0:52:37 (Pop-up)
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks  I Scare Myself   Favoriting Striking It Rich  Blue Thumb  1972  LP  0:55:42 (Pop-up)
 
Merl Saunders Trio and Big Band  Ode To Billie Joe   Favoriting Soul Groovin'  Galaxy  1968  LP  1:08:48 (Pop-up)
John Coltrane and Don Cherry  Focus On Sanity   Favoriting The Avant Garde  Atlantic  1966  LP  1:12:04 (Pop-up)
Ornette Coleman Quartet  Lonely Woman   Favoriting The Shape of Jazz To Come  Atlantic  1959  LP  1:24:11 (Pop-up)
Jack Wilson  The Sphinx   Favoriting Something Personal  Blue Note  1967  CD  1:29:04 (Pop-up)
Jack Wilson Quartet  Ramblin'   Favoriting Ramblin'  Vault  1966  LP  1:34:08 (Pop-up)
Ben Sidran  Now I Live and Now My Life Is Done   Favoriting Puttin' In Time On Planet Earth  Blue Thumb  1973  LP  1:41:15 (Pop-up)
Ben Sidran  Puttin' In Time On Planet Earth   Favoriting Puttin' In Time On Planet Earth  Blue Thumb  1973  LP  1:49:47 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM SIngle  Like  1966  45  2:00:55 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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doctorjazz:

Purty! (Hi Larry!)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Charlie:

<3 this Farinas song so much!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Jeff Golick:

Nice!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Charlie! Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Ya think maybe Jimmy Page was thinking of this song when he wrote 'Over the Hills and Far Away'?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
Charlie:

Ha! Never thought of that before, but, yeah, wouldn't be surprised...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Funky16Corners:

It's not just the melody, it's the textural changes as well.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Charlie:

"Why have the breezes of summer, dear, been laced with a grim design?" -- one of my fave lines ever.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Funky16Corners:

I love this first Genesis album.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Charlie:

I am sadly remiss in not knowing this album. I see I will have to rectify that situation!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Photocopy Cha Cha:

Hey there! Good tunes so far. I wonder why this is supposed to be the worst Genesis album (at least Gabriel era) - never heard this as an entity, but the weekly Genesis fix at Dark Night Of The Soul often includes a tune from it.
Avatar 7:33pm
zivilars:

Hi everybody, hi Larry! Have to go to bed soon, but joining a few minutes one of my favourite shows. My time zone doesn't mean well for me when it comes to Testify, but luckily, there's the WFMU archives ... Have a great day all you out there, thanks for the show!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Funky16Corners:

I think people that are into the seriously PROG Genesis stuff see it as too conventionally pop. The songs and production are fantastic but it is definitely straight on 1968/69 popsike
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Funky16Corners:

Also, Hello Photocopy and Zivilars!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Funky16Corners:

So eerie....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Charlie:

well that's timely (I wonder who it will be tomorrw, you or me?)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, I think Arthur was seeing into the future with that one.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Charlie:

I've been expecting Dan Hicks...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Funky16Corners:

Well that's a happy coincidence!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Photocopy Cha Cha:

I guess the 2003 LOVE forever changes gig (with stockholm strings & horns) is probably my favourite live experience ever.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Funky16Corners:

The album they put out of that tour is unbelievably good. It's almost like Arthur knew the end was near,
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Funky16Corners:

I saw Arthur at Maxwells when he was being backed by the guys from Das Damen, before he went to prison.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
Funky16Corners:

It was spare, but still such an honor to see him sing and play in person
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Photocopy Cha Cha:

They also put out an ep called Love On Earth Must Be around 2004. It is pretty difficult to get hold of, and probably the whole pressing had defects. I have never heard a listenable one either (once found a rip somewhere) so can't really comment whether the new songs were good or not. They played a few the second and also last time I saw them with Arthur Lee in 2004 in London (In 2005 they were supposed to perform in London on the 7. of July 2005, but there was the transport terror attacks, they postponed the gig by a week and Arthur Lee did not show up. Johnny Echols was there though.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
WR:

Hi Larry & drummer streamers, listening but busy at work so not commenting.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey WR!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Funky16Corners:

@Photocopy - I think Johnny Echols still performs as Love now and again
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Released in 1966, but originally recorded in 1960
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Photocopy Cha Cha:

@8:10 Funky16Corners: I had forgotten about he did this as Love Band, but did not know he still does it, just googled and yes, now it is called Love Revisited, and same line-up as before, i.e. members of Baby Lemonade (like it was the three times I saw LOVE with and also once without Arthur Lee)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Funky16Corners:

I think it's cool that he's still around to play, but Love without Arthur or Bryan MacLean isn't Love (to me, anyway)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Funky16Corners:

I think that the folks who put together the tour for Arthur, with the strings and everything were doing something special, for Arthur first and foremost, but for us all as well. You can hear it in his voice, that this was the realization of a lifelong dream.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
doctorjazz:

Love this Ornette, just beautiful!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, this stuff, the first few Quartet LPs are just amazing
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Charlie:

agreed. Ornette.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Photocopy Cha Cha:

@8:26 Funky16Corners: I have never heard the recordings, but the two gigs - 2003 & 2004 - were pretty magical. The 2005 one with Johnny Echols was surprisingly good but no Arthur, no LOVE.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Funky16Corners:

I remember when I first clicked with Ornette, it was like having my ears rewired. What seemed like chaos before came into focus, and blew my mind.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
doctorjazz:

Got assigned grilling for dinner, missed some of the set, great stuff, will have to come back to it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Funky16Corners:

It will live in the archive!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
doctorjazz:

Glad I got to see Dan Hicks, fun show he put on.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Funky16Corners:

Sadly I never got to see him live.
  8:36pm
Dean:

First time I heard Ornette, it clicked without a hitch. ABBA, on the other hand: I still don't get them.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
doctorjazz:

Ramblin' and Lonely Women were the 1st Ornette tunes I ever heard (on The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Dean!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Funky16Corners:

This is actually the first Ornette tune I ever heard. I bought this album when I was in high school because it looked cool.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Funky16Corners:

Roy Ayers, BTW on both of the Jack Wilson tracks
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
doctorjazz:

You could play Dancing Queen a hundred times in a row, I'd never you're of it (haven't listened to anything else by then, though).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
doctorjazz:

(...never tire, that should say...)
  8:41pm
Dean:

My sense is that they do bad pop, but in a way the badness of which is enjoyable. I simply haven't found that way. (Trust me, I love a lot of bad pop groups.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Funky16Corners:

It's Abba's world. We just live in it, driving around them (most of the time, anyway, I like a few of their songs a lot) and continuing on our way to more substantial/nutritious things.
Avatar 8:47pm
Bri The Beatnik:

This sounds like if Velvet Underground did Jazz
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Bri! This (and the track I'll play after it) are very much in that vein. At other times Sidran sounds like he's trying to be a cross between Mose Allison and Bob Dorough. I prefer his more instrumentally inclined stuff.
Avatar 8:50pm
Bri The Beatnik:

Interesting!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Funky16Corners:

BTW the drums on both of these tracks are played by Clyde Stubblefield, from James Brown's band
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
doctorjazz:

Quitting time? Thanks, Larry!
Avatar 8:56pm
Bri The Beatnik:

Cool!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
WR:

Great show Larry. Helped keep me in a groove as I work. Laters all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Photocopy Cha Cha:

ABBA is NOT bad pop - you can enjoy it in a completely unironic way.

But hey, thanks Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks for listening, all!
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