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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 October 4, 2017: All your money and your cocaine, Rhythm, Blues, Pearls and Swine.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  American Girl   Favoriting Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  Shelter  1976  LP 
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  Rockin' Around With You   Favoriting Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  Shelter  1976  LP 
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  I Need To Know   Favoriting You're Gonna Get It  Shelter  1977  LP 
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  Listen To Here Heart   Favoriting You're Gonna Get It  Shelter  1977  LP 
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  Shadow of a Doubt (Complex Kid)   Favoriting Damn the Torpedoes  Backstreet  1979  LP 
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  Here Comes My Girl   Favoriting Damn the Torpedoes  Backstreet  1979  LP 
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  Century City   Favoriting Damn the Torpedoes  Backstreet  1979  LP 
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  Don't Bring Me Down   Favoriting Pack Up the Plantation  MCA  1985  LP 
 
Richard Berry and the Pharaohs  Louie Louie   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Flip  1957  45 
L'il Bob and the Lollipops  I Got Loaded   Favoriting 45RPM Single  La Louisianne  1965  45 
John Lee Hooker  Boom Boom   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Veejay  1962  45 
Charles Sheffield  It's Your Voodoo Working   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Excello  1961  45 
Otis Rush  Homework   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Duke  1962  45 
Louisiana Red  Sugar Hips   Favoriting 45rPM Single  Glover  1964  45 
Tommy Tucker  Mo Shorty   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Checker  1964  45 
Richard Berry and the Pharaohs  have Love Will Travel   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Flip  1960  45 
 
A Tribe Called Quest  Can I Kick It   Favoriting People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm  Jive  1990  CD 
Shuggie Otis  Inspiration Information   Favoriting Inspiration Information  Epic  1974  LP 
Shuggie Otis  Sparkle City   Favoriting Inspiration Information  Epic  1974  LP 
Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway  Where Is the Love   Favoriting Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway  Atlantic  1972  LP 
Lou Bond  That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be   Favoriting Lou Bond  We Produce  1974  LP 
Love  Softly To Me   Favoriting Love  Elektra  1966  LP 
Alan Lorber Orchestra  Flute Thing   Favoriting The Lotus Palace  Verve  1967  LP 
Alan Lorber Orchestra  Within You Without You   Favoriting The Lotus Palace  Verve  1967  LP 
Joe Harriott Double Quintet Under the Direction of John Mayer  Raga Megha   Favoriting Indo Jazz Suite  Atlantic  1967  LP 
Pearls Before Swine  I Saw the World   Favoriting 45RPM Single  ESP Disk  1968  45 
Pearls Before Swine  The Jeweler   Favoriting Use of Ashes  Reprise  1970  LP 
Pearls Before Swine  Rocket Man   Favoriting Use of Ashes  Reprise  1970  LP 
Pearls Before Swine  The Wedding   Favoriting City of Gold  Reprise  1971  LP 
Tim Hardin  Reason To Believe   Favoriting Tim Hardin 1  Verve  1966  LP 
Tim Hardin  Don't Make Promises   Favoriting Tim Hardin 1  Verve  1966  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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Alex In Illinois:

Ha... Hello. Anybody here?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Funky16Corners:

I am here!
Avatar 10:02pm
hyde:

hi
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Hyde!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Doug Schulkind:

When in Grog, do as the Grogans do!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Alex In Illinois:

Tom Petty. Hard to believe. I never though it would be this soon.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, a real gut punch
  10:05pm
cupcakejenny:

Hello friends
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Jenny!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
northguineahills:

I told this tale on WFMU already, but my undergrad gf lived in the dorm where the song is based on jumped. It was spooky smoking cigarettes sitting on the window on the outside (the window was flush w/ the floor), and of course I had to play the song (I quit smoking when I was 22).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Which song?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Jeff Ash:

I always liked "I Need To Know," too.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
northguineahills:

American Girl.

Why yes, I moved back to the town that produced Bo Diddley and Tom Petty (thanks to a friend of a friend doing a startup environmental science firm).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Funky16Corners:

I never made the connection that it was about a suicide. Makes sense. I need to pay closer attention to the lyrics and stop playing air guitar so vigorously.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
northguineahills:

There's a million stories about Tom Petty here in Gainesville (feels weird, I've only been here less then two months).
Avatar 10:18pm
hyde:

this is great
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Funky16Corners:

I've been to most mainland US states but never to Florida. I think I'm afraid I'll run into too many people from NJ
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Hyde!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Funky16Corners:

Get ready for the breakdown, one of the most sublime moments in all of rock music
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
northguineahills:

relevant lyrics:

"It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' in the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach "

US 441 (13th St) is one of the two main roads at the University Florida campus.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Funky16Corners:

Watch her walk...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Jeff Ash:

Anyone else hear "Pink Cadillac" in this one?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Funky16Corners:

Yup
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
northguineahills:

There are about an equal amount of people from the northeast in FL as rednecks, and they are usually the Jerseyites or Longylanders you hoped would leave your neighborhood. Thankfully, Gainesville doesn't have either problem, but, every other city seems to.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
northguineahills:

gonna jump, coming back!

Thanks for a proper Tom Petty tribute, I'll revisit the archive in the future.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Funky16Corners:

Excellent! Have a good night!
  10:25pm
Bluesman:

Hey Larry! Good on you to remember Mr. Petty!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Johnny! How could I not?
  10:29pm
Bluesman:

I forgot about the Pack up the Plantation LP. His covers are great. Feel a whole lot better!
  10:36pm
Bluesman:

Beautifully stated, Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Johnny!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Jeff Ash:

Introduced to this one by Los Lobos in the mid-'80s.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Funky16Corners:

Me too! I was given a CD of Mardi Gras faves by a friend many years ago and this was on it. I had no idea it was a cover. Rushed out and found a copy for 10 bucks. It goes fro about ten times that these days
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Jeff Ash:

This set so far is all stuff I listened to at that time.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Funky16Corners:

I had this set planned before TP passed, it's certainly right up his alley
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Jeff Ash:

I have a Rhino comp of "Louie, Louie" covers from 1983, and that Richard Berry cut is on it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Funky16Corners:

Berry's original is still my fave
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Funky16Corners:

Songs that J Geils taught me...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Jeff Ash:

Oh, man. There are so many I came to know through J. Geils. I was so clueless.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Funky16Corners:

Me too. That first album especially
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Funky16Corners:

It helps that they had an inveterate record collector in the band
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings - been diggin' it
  10:50pm
Bluesman:

Dig the version on Full House - the LP that never lets up! the band sounds like a bluesier/RnB detroit act....guess they were soaking in the MI vibes on that show!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Funky16Corners:

Johnny - you mean Geils version of Homework?
  10:51pm
Bluesman:

Larry I'm trying to work and you now have me completely distracted with all this tune-age.
  10:51pm
Bluesman:

Yes J Geils. From the Live LP
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
Funky16Corners:

I think that's how it's supposed to work. I'm a BAD INFLUENCE!
  10:53pm
Bluesman:

Imagine if the lame-o's from the show "Full House" attempted Homework or hard Drivin' man.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
coelacanth∅:

never heard a "homework" i didn't like. favorites are fleetwood mac's (live) and Otis'. Giels' is up there, and yeh they got the best "hard drivin' man", in my opinion.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Funky16Corners:

Geils could certainly tear shit up
  11:00pm
Bluesman:

Fun fact: Saw the Dictators one time at the Palladium (with Mark The Animal Mendoza on bass). For the encore they whipped out a (not too) surprisingly energetic version of "Lookin' for a Love - which was obviously inspired by J. Geils' version on Full House. I think everybody's "homework" for tomorrow is to listen to that album!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:00pm
coelacanth∅:

and Bluesman speaks truth -that live album doesn't let up!

(still like bloodshot the best though)
  11:01pm
Bluesman:

Coelacanth0 I will have to revisit Bloodshot. Its been awhile.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
coelacanth∅:

haha i just listened to it a month or 2 ago!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Aren't there three or four Geils Live LPs?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
coelacanth∅:

well, full house was my very exciting (at a very young age) intro to J.Giels Band; but bloodshot swept me off my feet! (strangely have NOT listened to that one in a few years though, except a few tracks i put on a mixtape)
  11:07pm
Bluesman:

Larry, there is "Showtime" which had their MTV "Hit" of I Do as well as the Centerfold era stuff.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Another song (I Do) that I heard first by J Geils
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:09pm
coelacanth∅:

my records are not playable, since i moved to an apartment with apparently rubber floors. spotify had full house at the time of Giels' departure; they didn't have bloodshot.
...damn i miss playing records.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
coelacanth∅:

liking this other Otis. i haven't explored Shuggie much, for some reason...or beyond reason?
Avatar 11:13pm
geezerette:

Shuggie!
Larry!
Funky friends!

Gots ta go, just waving hi!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
Funky16Corners:

if you can find the comp that Luaka Bop put out it's a good place to start
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi/Bye Geezerette!
  11:14pm
Bluesman:

Larry I think the J. Geils discussion may be the roots of your future Testify: Songs J. Geil taught us!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
Funky16Corners:

I could do a show like that!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:17pm
Jeff Ash:

J. Geils had 3 live LPs. Full House, Blow Your Face Out and Showtime. First two are worthwhile.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:17pm
Funky16Corners:

I knew you'd know!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
coelacanth∅:

i think every blues/rnb cover on full house i learned of there first, at least.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
Funky16Corners:

It was their first album for me. Albert Collins. Contours. John Lee Hooker, etc
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
coelacanth∅:

- and "hold your lovin'" from bloodshot...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:23pm
coelacanth∅:

i didn't hear that first album 'till years later - probably into my 20s, when i found it for a buck in a used book store.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:25pm
Funky16Corners:

I first heard it on another one of those two-fer cassettes, with the first LP on one side and Monkey Island on the other (I think)
  11:31pm
Bluesman:

Reminding me of the Rutles' tea-drinking eastern-influenced tune.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Funky16Corners:

Tea...right...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Funky16Corners:

This is cool, and English jazz group playing with an Indian ensemble
  11:35pm
Bluesman:

"I've taken tea, lots of tea, and biscuits.."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
Funky16Corners:

Stunned...and shocked...shocked and stunned.
  11:36pm
Bluesman:

This John Harriott track is fantastic.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:37pm
Funky16Corners:

There was a CD reissue of both of the albums this group did. I have an OG of the first album on vinyl.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:37pm
Funky16Corners:

It's all really good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40pm
coelacanth∅:

what was it about the rutles that you found so appealing?
  11:40pm
melgrog:

Sorry I missed the Tom tribute! Late entry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:40pm
Funky16Corners:

Their tight trousers, naturally
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:40pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Mel! You can grab the podcast
  11:41pm
melgrog:

Will do. Shadow of a doubt has been in my head for two days.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
Funky16Corners:

I played it!
  11:42pm
melgrog:

I saw in the track list. Very cool
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44pm
Doug Schulkind:

Been away from my keyboard, but loving and grooving to the groovy loving. Sweetness! #joeharriotismyhero
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Funky16Corners:

Excellent!
  11:45pm
Dean:

C'mon, WFMU MF'ers, pitch in!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes! Pass the e-hat!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
coelacanth∅:

pearls before swine is another, like Shuggie, that i've known about forever but somehow never explored very deeply. clearly not deeply enough.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
Funky16Corners:

I LOVE Pearls Before Swine. One of the great underrated bands of the 60s and 70s.
  11:52pm
melgrog:

Tim Hardin! Haven't listened to this in a long old time. Love it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah. classic stuff
Avatar 11:58pm
geezerette:

My husband just told me Tim Hardin stayed at his house in Topanga
one night.
Beautiful,beautiful show.
Thanks, Larry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
coelacanth∅:

Brilliant program! Thanks Larry
'night all
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Geezerette!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks C!
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Jeff Ash:

Good night from Wisconsin!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:01am
Funky16Corners:

Nite Jeff!
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