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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
Funky16orners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Johnny Hammond Smith  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Soul Flowers  Prestige  1968  LP  0:01:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken Munson  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Superflute  Paramount  1973  LP  0:04:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Leon Haywood  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting It's Got to Be Mellow  Decca  1967  LP  0:08:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Changin' Times  Columbia  1968  LP  0:13:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Louis Bellson  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Breakthrough  Project 3  1968  LP  0:18:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Joe Tex  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Soul Country  Atlantic  1967  LP  0:21:33 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Bobbie Gentry  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Ode to Billie Joe  Capitol  1967  LP  0:30:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Cal Tjader  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Solar Heat  Skye  1968  LP  0:34:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Alan Copeland Conspiracy  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting A Bubble Called You  ABC  1967  LP  0:37:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jerome Richardson  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Groove Merchant  Verve  1967  LP  0:41:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Detroit Emeralds  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Ric Tic  1968  45  0:44:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Charlie McCoy  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting The World of Charlie McCoy  Monument  1968  LP  0:47:42 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Phil Harris  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Live on the Hollywood Palace  ABC  1967  MP3  0:51:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Mel Brown  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting 45RPM single  Impulse  1968  45  0:56:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Tammy Wynette  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Take Me To Your World  Epic  1968  LP  0:59:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Merl Saunders Trio and Big Band  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Soul Grooving  Galaxy  1968  LP  1:04:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Nancy Wilson  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting Welcome To My Love  Capitol  1967  LP  1:07:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Mighty Flea  Ode to Billie Joe   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Eldo  1968  45  1:12:36 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
 
Testify! 5th Annual 30 Minute Christmas Special
Cast of Scrooge  December the 25th   Favoriting Scrooge OST  Columbia  1970  LP  1:19:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bing Crosby, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary  Christmas Medley   Favoriting Live on the Hollywood Palace  ABC  1965  MP3  1:23:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jimmy Durante  Banjo's Entrance   Favoriting The Man Who Came To Dinner  Paramount  1948  MP3  1:26:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bobby Moynihan  Guy Fieri's Full Throttle Christmas Special   Favoriting Saturday Night Live  NBC  2022  MP3  1:28:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Albert Finney  I Like LIfe   Favoriting Scrooge OST  Columbia  1970  LP  1:31:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Michael Caine and the Muppets  A Thankful Heart   Favoriting A Muppet Christmas Carol  Jim Henson Records  1992  LP  1:35:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Nilsson  Give, Love, Joy   Favoriting Ziggy's Gift  Purple Chick  2011  CD  1:37:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Keenan Thompson  Sump'n Claus   Favoriting Saturday Night Live  NBC  2022  MP3  1:39:33 (MP3 | Pop-up)
John Malkovich  Twas the Night Before Christmas   Favoriting Saturday Night Live  NBC  1999  MP3  1:43:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Vince Guaraldi Trio  Christmas Time Is Here   Favoriting A Charlie Brown Christmas  Fantasy  1965  LP  1:47:27 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Soulful Strings  Jingle Bells   Favoriting The Magic of Christmas  Cadet  1968  LP  1:55:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Erica:

Seasons Greetings Larry!
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bradford:

Hey there Larry & fellow Testifiers!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:00
Hey Erica!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ bradford @3:00
Hi bradford!
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Yvang:

Hi Larry! Hi testifiers!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Yvang @3:01
Yvang!
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he's Crafty:

Hi Larry, hi everybody!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ he's Crafty @3:02
Howdy Crafty!
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StringOFperils:

Christmas tree/Gen tree; I see what you're doing here....
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Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @3:06
Hi String!
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Brian in UK:

Hello Larry & commenters.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @3:06
Hey Brian!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Yvang @3:01
Hi there, larry, and all other groovers!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:06
Hello Andrew!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Yvang @3:01
Hi there, larry, and all other groovers!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Yvang @3:01
Hey, again, Yvang!
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doctorjazz:

What's happened to my appetite? I haven't eaten a single bite!
Hi Larry, Testifiers!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:09
Hi Doc!
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Brian in UK:

Amazing; barely ten years before she cut & ran. Cannot blame her.
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WLSClark:

Hi Larry, Andrew, Erica, bradford, Yvang, crafty, SoP, Brian, DrJ!
Ode to Billie Christmas to you all!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ doctorjazz @3:09
Hi, again, doc!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:10
Hey Clark!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ WLSClark @3:10
Hi, there, Clark!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @3:10
One of the great musical enigmas
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bradford:

↳ WLSClark @3:10
Howdy Clark!
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Erica:

↳ WLSClark @3:10
Haha thanks WLS.
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Brian in UK:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:11
As enigmatic as this song.
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Erica:

So we're hearing Ode to Billie Joe covers along with the Christmas show today.
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Brian in UK:

She did have great hair though.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:13
That is correct
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Mollywog:

Happy Thursday and happy holidays all!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Mollywog @3:14
Hye Mollywog!
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WLSClark:

↳ Erica @3:13
The story just wont go away.
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Erica:

Can't believe there's only less than a week until Christmas yet it still doesn't feel like Christmas time.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:14
Yeah, it's been so warm the last couple of days I've been going out without a jacket.
  🥁 3:16pm
WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:15
Yeah, no jacket in Lincoln today, but have 50 MPH winds. 330 days without measurable snow. record!
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zzz:

hey @F16C!
was just talking about the truly killer Lou Donaldson version of Ode to Billie Joe with the sweet sweet Idris Muhammad drums
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Yvang:

↳ WLSClark @3:10
Hi WLSClark!
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:15
No i meant I still haven't finished preparing. I got distracted by other stuff going on and now I need to get wrapping done, plus finishing up shopping Saturday and decorating downstairs.
  🥁 3:17pm
Mollywog:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Lester Flatt and Earl Scru...
I've heard a lot of covers for this song, but never this one!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ zzz @3:16
Hi zzz!
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StringOFperils:

Not feeling Christmas is a long-established tradition. Probably a no kids thing.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Mollywog @3:17
Flatt and Scruggs did some unusual cover versions
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zzz:

missed the Johnny Hammond Smith version at the top but ill check that one out
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Erica:

↳ StringOFperils @3:17
And no snow either.
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still b/p:

Saw Durante in an Ed Sullivan excerpt the other night. Just being so...Durante.

The Ode vibe from Lester and Earl seems meant for nodding off in the porch swing.
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doctorjazz:

↳ WLSClark @3:10
H WLSClark!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:10
Hello again Andrew!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @3:17
Hey SBP! I'm a BIG Durante fan.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:16
I have most of my shopping done. I haven't wrapped anything but I'll have plenty of time.
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zzz:

a lot of groovy covers of this i'm learning, not surprisingly
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Yvang:

I discovered this song through the french version by Joe Dassin. It's called "Marie Jeanne". youtu.be...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Yvang @3:19
I may even have a French Canadian version (maybe with that title) in the stacks
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zzz:

↳ Yvang @3:19
oooh YESSSSS!
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David The Splatter:

Afternoon, Larry and all!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David The Splatter @3:20
Hi David!
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Jeff Ash:

Greetings from snowy Wisconsin, everyone! Bridges -- even the Tallahatchie Bridge -- ice over first!
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Yvang:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:20
Completely different lyrics from the english version!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Jeff Ash @3:21
Hey Jeff!
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StringOFperils:

No snow good! Snow....bad. Bad bad bad snow. I'd hope for April 1st under my tree. If I had a tree. *It's my capacity for damp cold that's 3 sizes too small.
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Funky16Corners:

We may actually get a little snow this weekend. Temps are supposed to go way down. Of course, this being NJ it'll be 80 on Christmas
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Brian in UK:

A song with subtitles.
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doctorjazz:

Snow off and on in the NY/NJ area next few days, according to the report.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Joe Tex"
Bet Billie Joe had Skinny Legs...
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:23
Yeah it's 50's today and below zero wind chill tonight! That CAN be Nebraska, but lately years have been great.
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WLSClark:

↳ doctorjazz @3:25
hahaha
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David The Splatter:

↳ Jeff Ash @3:21
"Bridge Ices Before Road", I thought that was PA's state motto when I was young.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David The Splatter @3:27
It was years before I understood that warning.
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Erica:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Louis Bellson"
This version is growing on me, the soul food line did it for me.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:32
You mean the Joe Tex?
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Brian in UK:

Jimmie Haskell, peerless as ever.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @3:33
Oh yeah, one of the finest arrangers ever
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Cal Tjader"
The drum sound on this album is perfection.
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Brian in UK:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Alan Copeland Conspiracy"
An album title that could only be 1967.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Alan Copeland Conspiracy"
Alan Copeland who appeared as a member of Felix Unger's band on The Odd Couple
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @3:39
Seriously
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Jerome Richardson"
Nice!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:42
This is a great album
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Mollywog:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:40
I live for trivia like that!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Mollywog @3:43
That's like 25% of my brain.
  3:49pm
Erica:

So many instrumental versions.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:49
Oh yeah. I could do this show again with all different versions. TONS of them.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Charlie McCoy"
love how he's mimicing the string lines with the chromatic harmonica
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StringOFperils:

Totally forgot about Charlie McCoy
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Funky16Corners:

The next one is really interesting...
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CupcakeJenny:

Hi everyone!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ CupcakeJenny @3:51
Hi Mrs Grogan!
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Erica:

↳ CupcakeJenny @3:51
Hi Jenny.
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Jeff Ash:

Greetings, Jen!
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still b/p:

Baloo and Mowgli throwing something off the Tallahatchie bridge.
  3:57pm
CupcakeJenny:

Happy Merry Everything everyone! Hi Jeff and Erica!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @3:56
Phil Harris is one of the most interesting entertainers. He was Jack Benny's bandleader/foil on the radio, had his own radio sitcom (which was great), had a number one hit in 1950 with 'The Thing' and then went on to to voices for Disney in The Jungle Book, The Aristocats and Robin Hood
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Funky16Corners:

Oh, and his real first name was WONGA (derived from a Cherokee word)
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Funky16Corners:

en.wikipedia.org...
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still b/p:

Hear "The Thing" from time to time on local station that plays vintage stuff. Also a kick to hear, far less often, "That's What I Like About The South." I have one of his vinyl LPs around here, but I ain't never spun it.
  4:02pm
Midge:

This Ode to Billy Joe extravaganza is EPIC!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @4:01
Phil was a real swinger in the grooviest sense of the word. Almost a proto-beatnik on the Benny show. He was really funny, too.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Midge @4:02
Thanks Midge!
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Brian in UK:

Tammy seems to follow Bobbie Gentry's version closest.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @4:03
Yes, similar arrangement
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still b/p:

One also gets the impression that Phil enjoyed a drop regularly.
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zzz:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Merl Saunders Trio and Big...
oooh my dude Merl Saunders. surprising! early cut from him
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Merl Saunders Trio and Big...
This is Merl a few years before he met up with Jerry Garcia. He was straight up soul jazz in the beginning.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ zzz @4:05
Yes! His early organ stuff for Galaxy and Fantasy is great.
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zzz:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:05
yeah! he is sounding great in this more traditional soul jazz Hammond setting

www.discogs.com...

the tune Soul Roach from here shows up in the Garcia/Saunders repertoire (assuming this is the same tune, i havent heard this release)
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he's Crafty:

will the be an Ode to Billie Dean tribute in the near future? I also cant help but be reminded of the 1985 classic film Ode to Bille Jean featuring an all star cast and finely choreographed soundtrack🀣
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Funky16Corners:

↳ zzz @4:07
I'm pretty sure it's the same tune.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ he's Crafty @4:08
Is that the one where they toss Michael Jackson off the bridge?
  4:09pm
CupcakeJenny:

What do you even get the man that has 10 versions of Ode to Billy Joe for Christmas?? lol
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Funky16Corners:

↳ CupcakeJenny @4:09
10? There are 19 in this show and I have lots more!
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David The Splatter:

↳ CupcakeJenny @4:09
An eleventh? :D
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he's Crafty:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:08
🀣🀣🀣
  4:11pm
CupcakeJenny:

@David 🀣🀣🀣
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Erica:

↳ he's Crafty @4:10
You're funny.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Nancy Wilson"
This one arranged by Oliver Nelson
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Mighty Flea"
This is the trombone player from Johnny Otis's band. You can hear Johnny talking in the background
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zzz:

↳ Song: "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Mighty Flea"
this band is killing it. Bass!
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doctorjazz:

↳ zzz @3:16
Someone uses that version (sometimes) for talk-over bed music, think it's Wendy! Nice version!
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zzz:

and the break! love it
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zzz:

*drum break
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Erica:

Hooray! 'Tis the season.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "December the 25th" by "Cast of Scrooge"
This is BY FAR my favorite Christmas movie. I saw it when it came out at the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show. I was 8.
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:20
Must be your favorite version of A Christmas Carol. That story has been overdone in sitcoms and animation in the past.
  4:22pm
CupcakeJenny:

Better than the man who came to dinner? Better than the one with Charlie rugles???
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Funky16Corners:

↳ CupcakeJenny @4:22
I love them all, but this remains a sentimental favorite
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Funky16Corners:

I mean, how can you go wrong with Colonel Klink and Sgt Schultz?
  4:25pm
CupcakeJenny:

I sang this in chorus in elementary school
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:25
Both, ironically Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression. Robert Clary was in a concentration camp
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Funky16Corners:

Mary Wickes!
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Erica:

↳ Song: "Banjo's Entrance" by "Jimmy Durante"
It was the first snow of the season. *sings Frosty the Snowman*.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:27pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "Banjo's Entrance" by "Jimmy Durante"
Durante's character based on Harpo Marx
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still b/p:

Schnozzola doing his Harpo-adjacent biz.
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still b/p:

↳ still b/p @4:27
Marx jinx!
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Erica:

Yeah I'm the crowd who only knew of Jimmy Durante from Frosty.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @4:28
Great minds!
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Erica:

↳ Erica @4:29
I'm in that crowd.
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doctorjazz:

Used to see Durante on TV when I was a kid.
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he's Crafty:

↳ Song: "Guy Fieri's Full Throttle Christmas Special" by "...
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still b/p:

I like Man Who Came To Dinner, but, man, Bette's love interest, Bert, is such a hapless male-ingenue schmucky doofus that he's hard to take.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @4:33
He's def the weak link in an amazing cast. Not a great actor.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "A Thankful Heart" by "Michael Caine and the Muppets"
The finest, mostly-puppet version of A Christmas Carol
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Brian in UK:

Happy Christmas, Larry, Jenny & commenters.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:37pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @4:36
The same to you and yours, Brian!
  🥁 4:37pm
Mollywog:

↳ Brian in UK @4:36
And to you as well Brian!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "Give, Love, Joy" by "Nilsson"
This is a great special. You can watch it on Youtube
  4:38pm
CupcakeJenny:

To you too, Brian!
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Erica:

↳ Brian in UK @4:36
Merry Christmas to you too Brian.πŸŽ„
  🥁 4:39pm
WLSClark:

↳ Song: "Give, Love, Joy" by "Nilsson"
"Love is only in a dream, remember!" (Christmas)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:39
I think I played that on a previous Christmas special
  🥁 4:40pm
WLSClark:

↳ Song: "Sump'n Claus" by "Keenan Thompson"
Whaz Up wit dat?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:40
I should have looked to see if there was a Christmas What's Up With That
  🥁 4:41pm
WLSClark:

Merry Christmas all!
  🥁 4:42pm
WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:41
This is fine!
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still b/p:

A couple of younger friends have INSISTED that I watch Muppet Christmas Carol. Then one of them reminded me and claimed I'd sworn a "blood oath" to view it.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @4:42
It's REALLY good and very faithful to the source material
  4:43pm
CupcakeJenny:

Muppet Christmas Carol is a top-tier Scrooge
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Funky16Corners:

↳ CupcakeJenny @4:43
Michael Caine does a great job
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Erica:

Lots of SNL sketches.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "Twas the Night Before Christmas" by "John Malkovich"
love how Malkovich leans into his weirdness
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Erica:

Sahnt Nick
  🥁 4:48pm
WLSClark:

↳ Song: "Christmas Time Is Here" by "Vince Guaraldi Trio"
This show sleighs all other Christmas shows!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:48
Thanks, Clark!
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Discotech Underground:

Merry Christmas, Larry and to all of the Testify people who celebrate!

Stay tuned for a Zappadan tribute to Frank Zappa next on Discotech Underground!

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Erica:

↳ Song: "Christmas Time Is Here" by "Vince Guaraldi Trio"
The one special I need to watch before it's too late. Missed it on Apple TV plus. Wish they put this back on TV.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:48
Hey Kip!
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still b/p:

↳ Song: "Christmas Time Is Here" by "Vince Guaraldi Trio"
Commenter said earlier today that Norah Jones ripped this off for her big hit Don't Know Why.
  🥁 4:49pm
WLSClark:

↳ Erica @4:48
Me, you and so many others wish that.
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doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry! Happy Holidays all celebrating something or other (or not celebrating, should still have happy days)!
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Erica:

"Of all the Charlie Brown's in the world, you're the Charlie Browniest."
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @4:49
The Best line
  🥁 4:50pm
WLSClark:

↳ Erica @4:49
"Psychiatrist is WAY IN"
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Discotech Underground:

"Charlie Brown, you are the only one I know who can take something as beautiful as Christmas and turn it into a problem!"
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he's Crafty:

Thanks Larry, thanks everybody! fun show!
  4:52pm
David the Splatter:

Thanks and Merry Christmas, Larry!!
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bradford:

Thanks as always, Larry. Have a great holiday!
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still b/p:

Thanks, have an XL enjoyable Xmas!
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Yvang:

Thanks Larry. Merry Christmas!πŸŽ„ πŸŽ„ πŸŽ„ πŸŽ„ πŸŽ„ 🌲🌲🌲
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks for listening everybody!
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Erica:

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah Larry!
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WR:

Thank you! Larry!
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Andrew in Toronto:

Meery Christmas, and thanks, larry!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @4:56
Thanks Erica! I hope you have a great Christmas!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:56
Thanks Andrew! You too!
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Erica:

Merry Christmas to the rest of you who celebrate.πŸŽ„ β›„πŸŽ
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @4:54
Merry Christmas SBP!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Yvang @4:54
Joyeux Noel, Yvang!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ bradford @4:53
Happy Holidays, bradford!
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:56
I hope not to get sick again like last year.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David the Splatter @4:52
Thanks David!
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he's Crafty:

↳ Erica @4:56
same to you and everyoneπŸ₯°β€
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Yvang:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:57
Merci!!!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ he's Crafty @4:51
Thanks Crafty!
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still b/p:

Letter in the paper today again snottily decrying "holiday" term instead of "Christmas." Sighhhh.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @4:58
People are WEIRD
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