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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #90

Posted by funky16corners on October 6, 2018

Posted in: 45s, Au Go Go, Bread, British Beat, cover versions, Culture, folk rock, garage punk, Iron Leg, Iron Leg Radio Show, Music, Nederbeat, Now Sound, pop, psychedelia, R&Beat, Rock, Sunset Strip, Sunshine Pop, Surf Music. Leave a comment

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Playlist

Q65 – It Came To Me (Decca)
The Outsiders – Touch (Relax)
The Outsiders – Lying All the Time (Relax)
Marquees – Call My Name (Relax)
The Zipps – Kicks and Chicks (Relax)

The Rooney Brothers – Just a Friend (Columbia)
The Rooney Brothers – Geordie (Columbia)
The Rooney Brothers – I’m Left To Wondering (Columbia)
The Rooney Brothers – I’m Wondering (Columbia)

Pretty Things – Midnight to Six Man (Fontana NL)
Pretty Things – Can’t Stand The Pain (Fontana NL)
Pretty Things – Don’t Bring Me Down (Fontana)
Johnny Maestro and the Crests – Come See Me (Parkway)

Michael Blodgett – Clay People of Box Town (Capitol)
Michael Blodgett – Fire Engine Sky (Capitol)
Jackie DeShannon – Changing My Mind (Imperial)
Jan and Dean – Norwegian Wood (Liberty)
Santo and Johnny – Hello Goodbye (Imperial)
Santo and Johnny – She’s a Rainbow (Imperial)
Santo and Johnny – It’s Wonderful (Imperial)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #90- 170MB/256kbps

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It’s Iron Leg Radio time again!

We have a very groovy show for you this month, with lots of new and recent arrivals, including a Nederbeat set (dedicated to Joop Roelofs of the Q65), the complete recorded works of the Rooney Brothers, a Pretty Things (and related) set as well as some unusual pop stuff.

So dig it all!

Click here to subscribe to any of the Funky16Corners Radio Network shows!

See you next week!

Peace

Larry

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Iron Leg Radio Show #82

Posted by funky16corners on February 4, 2018

Posted in: 45s, Au Go Go, Baroque, Brian Wilson, Country Rock, cover versions, Culture, folk rock, freakbeat, garage punk, Instrumental, Iron Leg, Iron Leg Radio Show, Music, pop, psychedelia, R&Beat, Rock, Soft Pop, Wrecking Crew. Leave a comment

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Playlist

The Herd – Beauty Queen (Fontana)
California – Sugar Kite (Columbia)
Uncle Sound – Beverly Hills (Warner Brothers)
Uncle Sound – I’m Gonna Ask Him (Warner Brothers)

Keef James – Somewhere (Rare Earth)
Keep James – Find Your Own Way (Rare Earth)
Keef James – Find Your Own Way (Rare Earth)

31st of February – Pick a Gripe (Vanguard)
31st of February – Sandcastles (Vangaurd)
George Washington Brown – Donovan’s Colours (Warner Brothers)
Steve Douglas – God Only Knows (Mercury)
Steve Douglas – Good Vibrations (1969)

Zombies – Is This the Dream (Epic)
Zombies – If It Don’t Work Out (Epic)
Zombies – She’s Coming Home (Epic)
King Bees – On Your Way Down the Drain (RCA)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #82 – 170MB/256kbps

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It’s Iron Leg Radio time again!

This month we continue to dig back into the wave of 2017/2018 new arrivals, with the Herd, California, Uncle Sound, Keef James, 31st Of February, George Washington Brown, Steve Douglas, the Zombies and the King Bees!

Dig it all, and make sure to subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes.

Click here to subscribe to any of the Funky16Corners Radio Network shows!

See you next week!

Peace

Larry

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Testify Episode #2. Originally broadcast 05/24/2017

Testify Intro
Roger and the Gypsies – Pass the Hatchet Pt1 (Seven B)
Roy Ward – Horse With a Freeze Pt1 (SevenB)
Bobby Williams – Boogaloo Mardi Gras Pt1 (Capitol)
James K Nine – Live It Up (Federal)
Curly Moore and the Kool Ones – Shelley’s Rubber Band (House of the Fox)
Doug Anderson – Hey Mama Here Comes the Preacher (Janus)

Theme From the Saint
Billy Strange – Theme From the Man From U.N.C.L.E. (GNP)
Baker Knight and the Knightmares – Hallucinations (Reprise)
Beckett Quintet – No Correspondence (Gemcor)
Blue Things – Orange Rooftop of Your Mind (RCA)
Cast of Thousands – Girl What You Gonna Do (Tower)
Motifs – If I Gave You Love (Selsom)
Beauregard and the Tuffs – Ramblin’ Rose (Decca)
The Kinks – The Last of the Steam Powered Trains (Reprise)

Soupy Sales – The Mouse (ABC-Paramount)
Maggie Thrett – Soupy (From tha Soul)
Evie Sands – I Can’t Let Go (Blue Cat)
Shangri Las – Bulldog (Red Bird)
Janis Ian – Letter To John (Verve)
Sly and the Family Stone – Dance to the Medley (Epic)

The Isley Brothers – Testify Pts 1&2 (T-Neck)
Ray Sharpe – Help Me (Get the Feeling) (Atco)
Billy Lamont – Sweet Thang (20th Century Fox)
Lonnie Youngblood – Go Go Shoes (Fairmount)
Lonnie Youngblood – Soul Food (That’s What I Like) (Fairmount)
Sonny Hopson WHAT Aircheck 1969
Jerry Blavat and Yon Teenagers – Discophonic Walk (Favor)
Georgie Woods – Potato Salad Pt1 (Fat Back)
John R – Keep On Scratchin’ (Smash)
E Rodney Jones with Larry and the Hippies Band – Right On Right On Sex Machine (Westbound)
Hank Marr – White House Party (Wingate)
Music Out
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers – I Gotta Go Now (Out On the Floor) (Like)

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Greetings all

I am in the process of gearing up for this year’s fundraiser, as well as a reassessment of blogging/podcasting workload.

All podcasts, Funky16Corners Radio Show, Iron Leg Radio Show and my weekly live bag, Testify! on WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio will continue going forward.

The actual written end of the blogs may undergo some truncation to accommodate the increased production schedule.

I want to keep the Iron Leg Radio Show as the first post of the month, so the new episode will be dropping next Sunday, 6/2/17.

This week I’m posting this past week’s episode of Testify! which I think you’ll dig if you enjoy either of the blogs/podcasts.

You can also hit up my archive page over at WFMU for the previous episode, as well as all episodes going forward (broadcast every Wednesday night from 10-12).

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

Peace

Larry

Playboys of Edinburg – Mickey’s Monkey

Posted by funky16corners on May 21, 2017

Posted in: 45s, cover versions, Culture, garage punk, Iron Leg, Music, R&Beat, Rock, Texas music, Uncategorized. Leave a comment

Playboys of Edinburg

Listen/Download – Playboys of Edinburg – Mickey’s Monkey

Greetings all.

Before we get started this week I have some important news.

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In related news, my new weekly radio show for WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio, Testify! had it’s inaugural episode last week and is archived over there. If you dig Funky16Corners and/or Iron Leg I think you’ll dig it. I’ll be on the air every Wednesday night from 10-12, live, so tune in when you get a chance!
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The record I bring you today is the result of a seed planted in my head way back in the 80s, when their name popped up in a spectacular radio station promo from a mid-60s concert in Texas called the Now Sounds Groove In.

The radio spot appeared on a compilation of Texas garage punk, and it became a staple of my mix tapes back in the day.

Hosted by the Houston Post (the spot was narrated by Scott Holtzman of the Fever Tree, who provided an original psychedelic jingle for the ad), the concert featured a bunch of Texas bands, some of which I knew (the Fever Tree, Moving Sidewalks, Countdown 5, A440, Neal Ford and the Fanatics) and some that were new to me (The Glass Can, Coastliners, Sixpence, Thursday’s Children, Dimensions) including the Playboys of Edinburg.

Though I had never heard the group, the name stuck in my head (along with the rest of the commercial) and when I happened upon the 45 you see before you today, I had to grab it.

When I had only heard the ad, I assumed that the name was yet another grab at the British Invasion, a la the Playboys of Edinburgh (Scotland). The band was in fact the Playboys of Edinburg (Texas), a border down in the Southeast part of the state.

The A-side of their 1967 45, ‘Sanford Ringleton the 3rd of Abernathy’ is a kind of Kinks-y pop thing, but the flip, a cover of the Miracles ‘Mickey’s Monkey’ is a smoker.

They really lay into the tune, with some wailing organ and pounding drums (and handclaps) and I’d put their take right up there with the Rascals version.

The group released a handful of 45s for local and national labels between 1966 and 1970 (including a few later on as POE) and their version of ‘Mickey’s Monkey’ was a regional hit in Texas.

It’s a groovy 45, and I hope you dig it.

See you next week.

Peace

Larry

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Testify! Episode #1

Posted by funky16corners on March 12, 2017

Posted in: 45s, acoustic, Atomic Guitar Destruction, Au Go Go, Beatles-esque Sounds, cover versions, Culture, folk rock, Frat Rock, freakbeat, Funky16Corners, Instrumental, Iron Leg, Music, pop, R&Beat, Rock, Testify!, Uncategorized, WFMU Rock'n'Soul Ichiban. Leave a comment

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Playlist

Testofy Episode #1

Mac Rebennack and the Soul Orchestra – The Point (AFO)
Mae West – Shakin’ All Over (Tower)
Ascots – Sookie Sookie (Super)
Caretakers – East Side Story (Rip-Off)
Boyce and Hart – Out and About (A&M)

Betty Harris – Mo Jo Hannah (Jubilee)
Barbara Lynn – Club a Go Go (Tribe)
Blues Magoos – Gotta Get Away (Mercury)
Arthur Conley – Love Got Me (Atco)
Cast of Thousands – Girl What You Wanna Do (Tower)

Booker T and the MGs – Chicken Pox (Stax)
Al Capps Band – Cissy Strut (Columbia)
Coasters – Down Home Girl (Date)
Beauregard and the Tuffs – Rambling Rose (Decca)
Bobby Hollaway – Cornbread Hog Maws and Chitterlins (Smash)

Chuck Berry – Club Nitty Gritty (Mercury)
Bruce Johnston – Jersey Channel Islands Part 7 (Columbia)
Jacques Dutronc – Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi (Vogue)
Billy Preston – Billy’s Bag (Veejay)
7-11 – Do the Slurp (7-11)

Lee Hazlewood – The Tantrum

Listen/Download – Testify! Episode #1 – 256kbps

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Greetings all.

This is the archive of the very first episode of my new show for DJ Roulette on the WFMU Rock’n’Soul Ichiban Stream, Testify!

Testify! is a mix of rock, soul, garage, psych and funk, a kind of intersection of the Funky16Corners and Iron Leg vibes and I think it meshes together pretty well (if I say so myself).

I’ll be doing it roughly monthly, and I’ll announce it, then archive it here.

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

Peace

Larry

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Adam Faith with the Roulettes – It’s Alright

Posted by funky16corners on November 20, 2016

Posted in: Culture, Iron Leg, Music, R&Beat, Rock, Uncategorized. Leave a comment

Adam Faith (right) with the Roulettes

Listen/Download – Adam Faith with the Roulettes – It’s Alright

Greetings all.

Today’s selection is one of those records that I had forever (probably picked it up in a big box of 45s) and ignored (at my own peril as it turns out). Ignored until one of my periodic reappraisal safaris into the crates, when I pulled it out and had my wig flipped.

Adam Faith is one of those British Invasion guys that I had kind of written off as a bland pretty boy, which is why I never expected something like ‘It’s Alright’.

The hotness of this 45 – which has a kind of deceptive opening – is due in large part to the presence of the backing band, that being the mighty Roulettes, the boys that brought you epic beat monsters like ‘Bad Time’ (which the Spectors used to kick the stuffing out of) and ‘The Long Cigarette’.

The Roulettes worked as Faith’s backing group for a number of years, while also recording their own stuff, and then some of them moving on to form Unit 4+2.

‘It’s Alright’ was released in 1964 and was a hit in the UK and the US, where Faith appeared on Shindig performing the song with the Isley Brothers and the Newbeats.

The tune opens with Faith crooning alongside a harmonica, before the whole thing busts open like one of the Dave Clark Five’s more raucous 45RPM riots.

It has that beat group push to it, but also lots of powerful undercurrent as well, with the bass, drums, guitars and backing vocals (and handclaps) sounding like a mob descending on the recording studio.

There’s a great guitar solo and the rhythm guitar is way up in the mix (which is cool).

It was Faith’s biggest US hit by far, as opposed to the UK where he was a presence in the Top 40 from 1959 to 1966.

A groovy record, and a lesson is giving everything a chance.

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

Peace

Larry

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Manfred Mann – Hubble Bubble

Posted by funky16corners on October 2, 2016

Posted in: British Beat, Culture, Iron Leg, Mod, Music, R&Beat, Rock, Swinging London. 1 Comment

Manfred Mann

Listen/Download – Manfred Mann – Hubble Bubble

Greetings all.

The mighty Manfred Mann has appeared in this space before, on the blog and in the podcast, because, well, they were the shit.

One of the greatest of the UK R&Beat bands, with solid R&B and jazz chops, who’s memory is damned somewhat by the poppy nature of some of their bigger US chart hits, the Manfreds are a big fave of mine.

Their US albums (with the exception of the US version of ‘Mann Made’ which is scarce) are not terribly hard to find or expensive, and are all solid from start to finish.

Aside from their instrumental skill, they had one of the finest singers of the era in Paul Jones.

Today’s selection comes from their 1965 LP ‘The Five Faces of Manfred Mann’, which included their hit covers of the Shirelles (Sha-La-La) and Marie Knight (Come Tomorrow) as well as a grip of blazing blues and R&B.

Though I was knee deep in the garage/mod thing in the 80s, it wasn’t until I was gifted a copy of a UK greatest hits CD in the early 90s that I was exposed to songs like ‘Hubble Bubble’.

Manic R&B with a Pretty Things-like intensity, ‘Hubble Bubble’ (and my other fave from the album, ‘’I’m Your Kingpin’) reveal the band to be exceptionally tight, imaginative and full of fire.

‘Hubble Bubble’ moves along at 100mph, like their epic ‘5-4-3-2-1’ with similarly hot harp playing by Jones.

It’s a killer, and if you haven’t investigated the band more deeply, get out there and start digging.

You will not be sorry.

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

Peace

Larry

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #63

Posted by funky16corners on July 10, 2016

Posted in: 45s, acoustic, Au Go Go, Beatles-esque Sounds, Brazil, cover versions, Culture, folk rock, garage punk, Iron Leg, Music, pop, R&Beat, Rock, Sunset Strip, Uncategorized. 3 Comments

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Playlist

Episode #63

Sonny and Cher – Baby Don’t Go (Reprise)
Sonny and Cher – It’s Gonna Rain (Atco)
Cher – I Feel Something in the Air (Magic In the Air) (Imperial)
Cher – Alfie (Imperial)
Cher – Homeward Bound (Imperial)
Cher – Pied Piper (Imperial)
Cher – I Want You (Imperial)
Cher – Until It’s Time For You To Go (Imperial)
Cher – Sunny (Imperial)
Cher – Hey Joe (Imperial)
Cher- There But For Fortune (Imperial)

Brazilian Bitles- E Onda (Polydor)
Maritza Fabiana – O Leilao (Polydor)
Marcio Greyck – Venha Sorrido (Polydor)
Mugstones – A Grande Parada (Polydor)
Os Primitivos – Mulher Reindeira (Polydor)
Roberto Rei – E Bomba (Polydor)
Sandra – Uni Dunite (Polydor)

Cryan’ Shames – Ben Franklin’s Almanac (Columbia)
Cryan’ Shames – I Want To Meet You (Columbia)
Show Stoppers – If You Want To Why Don’t You (Columbia)
Show Stoppers- Once More With Love (Columbia)
Silver Eagle – Astor Disaster (MGM)
Silver Eagle – True As a Brand New Lie (MGM)
Big Jim Sullivan – Tallyman (Mercury)
Big Jim Sullivan – Sunshine Superman (Mercury)
Big Jim Sullivan – Translove Airways (Fat Angel) (Mercury)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #63 – 155MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

Welcome to this month’s episode of the Iron Leg Radio Show.

I should start by reminding you that the Iron Leg Radio Show podcast is now available in iTunes, so head on over there and subscribe!

We have a cool one for you this month, with a long set of Sonny and (solo) Cher, a set of very cool mid-60s Brazilian pop and rock, and some new arrivals.

As always, I hope you dig it.

See you next week.

Peace

Larry

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Sonny and Cher meet the Real Don Steele!

Playlist

Larry Grogan on WFMU DJ Roulette

Intro – Dave Diamond Poem
Ananda Shankar – Jumping Jack Flash
Dave Grusin – Ascent To Virginity
Kaleidoscope – Flight From Ashiya

Music Under DJ – Love – Emotions (Elektra)

Real Don Steele – Tina Delgado Is Alive (Cameo/Parkway)
Music Machine – Trouble (Original Sound)
Nino Tempo, April Stevens & the Guilloteens – I Love How You Love Me (Atco)
Spats – She Done Moved (ABC)
Monkees – Star Collector (Colgems)

Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters – Alley Opp (Verve)
Tweeds – We Got Time (Coral)
Uncalled For – Do Like Me (Laurie)
Lamp of Childhood – Two O’Clock Morning (Dunhill)

Animals – I’m Gonna Change the World (MGM)
Ian and the Zodiacs – Why Can’t It Be Me (Philips)
Montanas – That’s When Happiness Began (WB)
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich – He’s a Raver (Star Club)
Playing out – Mighty Baby – Egyptian Tomb (Head)

Listen/Download -Larry Grogan on WFMU DJ Roulette – 205MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

I have something special for you this week.

A while back the lovely Glynis Ward (thanks also to Debbie D!) asked if I would be interested in putting together a show for the Sunday DJ Roulette show on the WFMU Rock’n’Soul Ichiban stream.

Naturally, I said yes, and set to work in here in the Funky16Corners Blogcasting Nerve Center and Record Vault, and whipped together an hour long excursion into the Iron Leg side of things.

It just ran (literally, this morning). I thought I’d post it here, too, so those of you that missed out at FMU might dig it, too.

So, I hope you do (dig it).

See you next week.

Peace

Larry

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #61

Posted by funky16corners on May 15, 2016

Posted in: 45s, acoustic, Au Go Go, Beatles-esque Sounds, cover versions, Culture, Easy, folk rock, freakbeat, Iron Leg, Iron Leg Radio Show, Kitsch, Music, Now Sound, pop, psychedelia, R&Beat, Rock. Leave a comment

Why hello there!

Playlist

Episode #61

Genesis – When the Sour Turns to Sweet (London)
Genesis – In the Beginning (London)
Genesis – The Serpent (London)
Rolling Stones – We Love You (London)
Fox – Butterfly (Crewe)
Fleetwood Mac – My Dream (Reprise)
The Equals – The Skies Above (RCA)
St John and the Crew – I’m a Man (Turnette)
St John and the Crew – You Belong To Me (Turnette)

The Cowsills – Hair (MGM)
Electronic Concept Orchestra – Aquarius (Limelight)
Nina Simone – Ain’t Got No/I Got Life (RCA)
Constellations – Easy To be Hard (Gemini Star)
Mort Garson – Be-In (Hare Krishna) (A&M)
Free Design – Where Do I Go (Project 3)
Strawberry Alarm Clock – Good Morning Starshine (Uni)
Bobby Bryant – Colored Spade (World Pacific Jazz)
Quincy Jones – Walking In Space (A&M)
Stan Kenton – Sodomy (Capitol)
Liza Minelli – Frank Mills (A&M)
Galt MacDermot – Donna/Hashish (Kilmarnock)
Jennifer – Let the Sunshine In (Parrot)

Newbury Park – My God and I (Cream)
Kenny Rankin – Peaceful (Mercury)
Kenny Rankin – The Dolphins (Mercury)
Herb Larson – You Showed Me (Command)
Herb Larson – You Showed Me (Command)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #61 – 205MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

Welcome to this month’s episode of the Iron Leg Radio Show.

This month I have a cool one for you, with a set of UK psyche and freakbeat (with a little Dutch garage tacked on at the end), a long set of covers of songs from the musical HAIR and some pop new arrivals.

It’s a little longer than usual, but that just means more music.

It also just so happens that today is the exact fifth anniversary of this podcast, with the first ep having dropped on 5/15/11! So dig that!

See you next week.

Peace

Larry

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I’ve Got a Lot On My Mind

R&Beat

Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #90

Iron Leg Radio Show #82

Testify! Episode #2

Playboys of Edinburg – Mickey’s Monkey

Testify! Episode #1

Adam Faith with the Roulettes – It’s Alright

Manfred Mann – Hubble Bubble

Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #63

Larry Grogan on WFMU’s DJ Roulette!

Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #61

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