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Into the Soft Vol 2 – Mirror Maze

Posted by funky16corners on April 29, 2020
Posted in: 45s, Baroque, Brill Building, Canadian Music, cover versions, Culture, Easy Listening, folk rock, Iron Leg, Kitsch, Music, Now Sound, pop, Soft Pop, Sunshine Pop. Tagged: , , , . Leave a comment

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The Match – Mirror Maze Lady (RCA)
Lesley Gore – Brink Of Disaster (Mercury)
Michael J James – Love’s Funny (Uni)
Anthony and the Imperials – My Love Is a Rainbow (Veep)
The Guild – The Sun Shines For You (Twinight)
Bruce and Terry – Thank You Baby (Columbia)
Doodletown Pipers – Image of You (Epic)
Julie Budd – Yesterday’s Sunshine (MGM)
The Pufnstuf – Nonsense (Decca)
Love Generation – The Love In Me (Imperial)
Sugar Shoppe – Canada (Yorkville)
The Hour Glass – Silently (Liberty)
The Collage – Can I Go (Smash)
The Tokens – Portrait of My Love (WB)
The Lennon Sisters – Everything That Touches You (Mercury)
The Four Freshmen – Love Is a Happy Thing (Liberty)
Claudine Longet – Small Talk (A&M)
Gabor Szabo with the California Dreamers – 12:30 (Young Girls Are Coming To the Canyon) (Impulse)
Pink Cloud – Midnight Sun (Tower)
Dino, Desi and Billy – Thru Spray Colored Glasses (Uni)
Roger Nichols and the Small Circle of Friends – Kinda Wasted Without You (A&M)
The Sunshine Company – To Put Up With You (Imperial)
Uncle Sound – I’m Gonna Ask Him (WB)

Into the Soft Vol 1 – Mirror Maze – mixed MP3 – Download/stream
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Greetings all!

The lockdown continues apace, and so then, does the mix-ology!

Into the Soft Vol 2 – Mirror Maze is the second collection in a row of rare and unusual 1960s soft and harmony pop.

There are some better known artists as well as a ton of more obscure performers.

So open your mind (and heart) , pull down the ones and zeroes and dig!

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So dig it, make sure to tune in, and I’ll see you all next week with a new mix.

Peace

Larry

 

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Last Train To Squaresville Vol 1

Posted by funky16corners on March 18, 2020
Posted in: 45s, Beatles-esque Sounds, Bubblegum, cover versions, Culture, Easy Listening, folk rock, Iron Leg, Kitsch, Music, Now Sound, pop, Rock, Sunshine Pop, Testify!. Tagged: , , , , . 1 Comment

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Last Train To Squaresville Vol1

Nat Stuckey – In the Year 2525 (RCA)
Mel Torme – Secret Agent Man (Columbia)
Peggy Lee – Reason to Believe (Capitol)
Clara Ward – Help (Verve)
Dora Hall – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Cozy)
Jackie and Roy – The Word (Capitol)
Julie Budd – People Are Strange (MGM)
Roslyn Kind – Shape of Things To Come (RCA)
Four Freshmen – Everyday People (Liberty)
Sarah Vaughn – 1-2-3 (Mercury)
Anita Kerr Singers – The Beat Goes On (WB)
Della Reese – Solitary Woman (ABC)
Dinah Shore – Undun (Stanyan)
The Lennon Sisters – Green Tambourine (Mercury)
Ella Fitzgerald – Savoy Truffle (Reprise)
Four King Cousins – Good Day Sunshine (Capitol)
Gloria Loring – Darkness Darkness (Evolution)
Morgana King – Tomorrow Never Knows (Verve)
Noel Harrison – Strawberry Fields Forever (Reprise)
Shirley Bassey – Light My Fire (UA)
Louis Armstrong – Everybody’s Talkin’ (Flying Dutchman)

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Greetings all!

When this whole crazy lockdown/quarantine shindig rolled down the pike, I promised that I was going to work on some new mixes/radio shows, to keep myself busy and to give you all something to pass the time.

What you see before you is the first of two Iron Leg/Testify mixes that roll on the same thing, that being folks from the non-hip side of things trying to roll  the rocks, pop and get psychedelic (in their own way).

Some of it is kitschy, all of it is kicky, so dig in and I’ll be back next week with volume 2!

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So dig it, make sure to tune in, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show #107

Posted by funky16corners on March 2, 2020
Posted in: 45s, Baroque, Beatles-esque Sounds, Country Rock, cover versions, Culture, Curt Boettcher, folk rock, freakbeat, Hammond Organ, Instrumental, Iron Leg, Iron Leg Radio Show, Jazz, Laurel Canyon, Music, Now Sound, pop, psychedelia, Rock, Sunset Strip, Sunshine Pop, The Millennium. Tagged: , , , , . Leave a comment

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Mamas and Papas – 12:30 (Young Girls Are Coming To the Canyon) (Dunhill)
Mamas and Papas – Trip Stumble and Fall (Dunhill)
Mama Cass – Welcome to the World (Dunhill)
Denny Doherty & Jimmie Haskell – To Claudia on Thursday (ABC)
Bobby Sherman – Think of Rain (Epic)
Bobby Sherman – Cold Girl (Epic)
Bruce and Terry – Come Love (Columbia)
Bruce and Terry – Thank You Baby (Columbia)
Carol Dunn – Bitter Honey (Congress)

Little Feat – Snakes On Everything (Warner Brothers)
Little Feat – Strawberry Flats (Warner Brothers)
Bob Dylan – If Not For You (Columbia)
Bob Dylan – Wigwam (Columbia)
Brewer and Shipley – Time and Changes (A&M)
Brewer and Shipley – Truly Right (A&M)
Monkees – Auntie’s Municipal Court (Colgems)
Monkees – Tapioca Tundra (Colgems)
Del Shannon – Gemini (Liberty)
Del Shannon – Conquer (Liberty)

Tom Scott and the California Dreamers – Today (Impulse)
Tom Scott and the California Dreamers – She’s Leaving Home (Impulse)
Emil Richards – Blues For Hari (Uni)
Emil Richards – Happy Together (Uni)
Lonnie Smith – Devil’s Haircut (Scufflin’) 
Lonnie Smith – The New Pollution (Scufflin’)

The Moody Blues – Legend of a Mind (Deram)
The Moody Blues – The Best Way to Travel (Deram)
Harper’s Bizarre – Speak Low (The Forest Bay Company)
The Cyrkle – Red Chair Fadeaway (Columbia)
Jack Wilson – Harbor Freeway (Blue Note)

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This month’s Iron Leg Radio Show, episode #107 is packed with groovy sounds from end to end.

There’s a long set of California harmony pop, including a couple of rare things, country rock into psychedelia, some far-out jazz, and of course pure pop!

There are two full hours to massage into your ears.

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So dig it, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Testify! Episode #

Posted by funky16corners on December 16, 2019
Posted in: 45s, acoustic, Australian Pop, Canadian Music, Country Rock, cover versions, Culture, folk, folk rock, Iron Leg, Laurel Canyon, Music, Nederbeat, pop, psychedelia, Rock, Soft Pop, Sunshine Pop. Tagged: , , , , , , . Leave a comment

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Testify Episode #144. Originally broadcast 12/11/2019

The Guild – The Sun Shines For You (Twinight)
Chris and Peter Allen – My Silent Symphony (Mercury)
Gordian Knot – We Must Be Doing Something Right (Verve)
Sugar Beats – Begin-Give In (A&M)
Jim Valley – Invitation (Dunhill)
Boyce and Hart – For Baby (A&M)
The Banned – Goodbye Groovy Goodbye (Fontana)
Tin Tin – Toast and Marmalade For Tea (Atco)

Crib and Ben – Emily (Decca)
Guild Light Gauge – Cloudy (We Make Rock’n’Roll Records)
Triste Janiero -In the Garden (GPC)
Gordon Lightfoot – For Lovin’ Me (UA)
Gordon Lightfoot – The Way I Feel (UA)
Judy Collins – Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye (Elektra)
Steve Noonan – Buy For Me The Rain (Elektra)
Steve Noonan – Leaning Back and Laughing (Elektra)
Steve Noonan – Shadow Dream Song (Elektra)
Jim and Jean – Time Goes Backwards (Verve)
Jim and Jean – What’s That Got To Do With Me (Verve)

Mickey Newbury – Write a Song a Song/Angeline (Mercury)
Lowell George – Find a River (WB)
Bert Jansch – Poison (Transatlantic)
Dion – Tomorrow Is a Long Time (Laurie)
David Ackles – That’s No Reason To Cry (Elektra)
David Ackles – Woman River (Elektra)
Patrick Sky – Children’s Song (Verve Forecast)
Patrick Sky – The Dance of Death (Verve Forecast)
Patrick Sky – Follow the Longhaired Lady (Verve Forecast)
Rare Earth – Smiling Faces (Sometimes) (Rare Earth)
Boudewijn de Groot – Aeneas Nu (Decca)
Keef James – Somewhere (Rare Earth)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers – I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor) (Like)

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Greetings all!

This week’s edition of Testify! is two hours of soft/sunshine pop as well as a grip of cool singer/songwriter stuff (as well as a couple of surprising left turns). 

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So dig it, make sure to tune in, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Testify! Episode #127 – Home Sweet Oklahoma

Posted by funky16corners on August 11, 2019
Posted in: 45s, Au Go Go, Beatles-esque Sounds, Bread, cover versions, Culture, folk rock, Frat Rock, garage punk, Instrumental, Iron Leg, Laurel Canyon, Leon Russell, Music, pop, psychedelia, Rock, Sunset Strip, Testify!, Tulsa Sound. Tagged: , , , , , , . 1 Comment

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Testify Episode #127. Originally broadcast 08/07/2019

Fencemen – Swinging Gates (Liberty)
Spotlights – Batman and Robin (Smash)
Spotlights – Dayflower (Smash)
Gary Sanders – Ain’t No Beatle (WB)
Gary Sanders – Ain’t I Good To You (WB)
Gas Co – Your Time’s Up (Mira)
Hal Blaine (The Drummer Man)

Suzy Wallis – Kisses On Paper (RCA)
Grady and Brady – Star of the Show (Planetary)
Grady and Brady – Just a Lot of Talk (Planetary)
Dorothy Berry – Shindig City (Planetary)
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Diddy Wah Diddy (A&M)
Palace Guard – Saturday’s Child (Parkway)
Nino Tempo and April Stevens – You’ll Be Needing Me Baby (White Whale)
Gary Lewis and the Playboys – Face In the Crowd (Liberty)
Brian Hyland – The Joker Went Wild (Philips)
Hoy Axton – Double Double Dare (Veejay)
JJ Cale – It’s a Go Go Place (Liberty)
JJ Cale – Slow Motion (Liberty)
JJ Cale – After Midnight (Liberty)
Lee Hazlewood – The Tantrum (Cool Ones OST Unreleased)
Le Cirque – Land of Oz (Buddah)
Harper’s Bizarre – Raspberry Rug (WB)
Lively Set – Let the Trumpets Sound (Capitol)
Colours – Lovin’ (Dot)
Colours – Rather Be Me (Dot)
Bobby Whitlock – Raspberry Rug (Hip)
Asylum Choir – Icicle Star Tree (Smash)
Asylum Choir – Welcome to Hollywood (Smash)
Tom Northcott – 1941 (WB)

Taj Mahal – Ain’t That a Lot of Love (Columbia)
Jesse Ed Davis – Alcatraz (Atco)
Leon Russell – Shootout at the Plantation (Shelter)
Leon Russell – Delta Lady (Shelter)
Leon Russell – Of Thee I Sing (Shelter)
Leon Russell – Beware of Darkness (Shelter)
Leon Russell – Crystal Closet Queen (Shelter)
Leon Russell – Home Sweet Oklahoma (Shelter)
Leon Russell – This Masquerade (Shelter)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers – I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor) (Like)
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Greetings all!

This week I’m bringing you the most recent episode of my show for WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio, Testify! which I thought would be of interest to Iron Leggers.

Testify! episode #127 is dedicated to the group of Oklahoma musicians that made their way to the West Coast in the late 50s and early 60s to work as musicians, songwriters, producers and arrangers.

You get early work by Leon Russell, JJ Cale, Davis Gates, Chuck Blackwell, Carl Radle, Greg Dempsey, Gary Sanders, and others. The way they intersect with some of the major names of the days is really interesting and worth a listen.

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So dig it, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Best of Iron Leg: ILDT#34 – Symphony du Sneetch

Posted by funky16corners on July 25, 2019
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Iron Leg Digital Trip #34 – Symphonie du Sneetch

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Unusual Sounds
In a Perfect Place
Run In the Sun
Take My Hand
You’re Gonna Need Her
…And I’m Thinking
Watch Me Burn
Weather Scene
Heloise
Broke Up In My Hands
Behind The Shadow
Things We’ll Never See
The Fool For You
The Dog In Me
They Keep Me Running

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Greetings all.

What you see before you is a mix that I first posted in 2010.

The Sneetches are – in my opinion – one of the greatest bands of the 80s and 90s, and woefully underappreciated. I play them on my radio shows every chance I get and push them on strangers like a fanatic.

I thought it’d be nice to re-up this mix of what I consider their best stuff.

I hope you dig it (and run out and get yourself some Sneetches records), and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Fargo – Talks We Used to Have

Posted by funky16corners on May 19, 2019
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Listen/Download – Fargo – Talks We Used To Have

Greetings all.

A few years back I was out driving around the hinterlands of upstate New York with my father-in-law, perusing antique stores and the like and happened upon one of the most isolated record stores I’ve ever been to.

The place was one of those big old buildings that looked like it used to be a feed store, but all of the oats and hay had been replaced by well worn cardboard boxes full of records.

Things were not optimally organized or placed for easy browsing, but I couldn’t very well walk away from a mountain of vinyl like that, so dig I did.

One of the armload of records I picked up that day was the album you see before you by Fargo.

Fargo, basically the duo of Dean Wilden and Tony Decker seem to have hailed from Utah, and if a few of the songs on the album (along with scraps of information on the interwebs) are to be believed, they were dabbling in Christian rock.

Don’t let that out you off, because while they were dabbling in Jesus, they were fully involved in making high quality folk/pop/popsike, packed to the rafters with hooks and tight harmonies.

Recorded in 1969, with assistance from Rick Cunha (of Hearts and Flowers) and producer/songwriter Marty Cooper, ‘I See It Now’ is – if not a genuine lost classic – orbiting in the vicinity thereof.

Cooper is an interesting touchpoint, because he helped write a few of the songs and is the link between Fargo and Jennifer Warnes, who recorded their song ‘Places Everyone’ and the Cooper-penned ‘Sunny Day Blue’ which appeared as a Fargo b-side.

The track I bring you today is my fave from the album, ‘Talks We used To Have’.

The song is a blissful piece of folk rock bordering on sunshine pop, with an absolutely beautiful chorus. I’m a little shocked that it wasn’t released as a 45, but all signs seem to point to the fact that Fargo were an artistic success and a commercial failure.

I don’t think Wilden or Decker did anything else, which is a shame since they clearly had a lot of talent.

‘I See It Now’ was reissued on CD by Lion records in 2017. The original album isn’t terribly expensive, hovering between 10 and 20 dollars, and worth every penny.

I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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