Testify! Episode #127 – Home Sweet Oklahoma

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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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #100 Special!

Why hello there!

Playlist

Bobby Fuller Four – Let Her Dance (Mustang)
Music Machine – Trouble (Original Sound)
The Real Don Steele – Tina Delgado Is Alive (Parkway)
Seeds – Tripmaker (GNP Crescendo)
Turtles – Outside Chance (White Whale)
Mamas and Papas – Somebody Groovy (Dunhill)
Nino Tempo and April Stevens – Out of Nowhere (White Whale)
Changin’ Times – How Is The Air Up There (Philips)
Byrds – So You Want To Be a Rock and Roll Star (Columbia)

Buffalo Springfield – Mr Soul (Atco)
Sonny and Cher – It’s Gonna Rain (Atco)
Van Dyke Parks – Come To The Sunshine (MGM)
Boyce and Hart – Out and About (A&M)
The Kaleidoscope – Elevator Man (Epic)
Nino Tempo, April Stevens and the Guilloteens – I Love How You Love Me (Atco)
The Knack – Time Waits for No One (Capitol)
Lamp of Childhood – Two O’Clock Morning (Dunhill)
Lyme and Cybelle – Follow Me (White Whale)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Search the Sky (Liberty)

Gene Clark With the Gosdin Brothers – So You Say You Lost Your Baby (Columbia)
David Hemmings – Back Street Mirror (MGM)
The Rose Garden – Till Today (Atco)
The Doors – Love Me Two Times (Elektra)
The Monkees – Pleasant Valley Sunday (Colgems)
WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band – Hippy Elevator Operator (HBR)
Limey and the Yanks – Out of Sight Out of Mind (Loma)
The Spats – She Done Moved (ABC)
Standells – Little Sally Tease (Tower)

Baker Knight and the Knightmares – Hallucinations (Reprise)
Dino Desi and Billy – The Rebel Kind (Reprise)
Electric Prunes – Get Me To the World On Time (Reprise)
Captain Beefheart – Zig Zag Wanderer (Buddah)
The Moon – Got To Be On My Way (Imperial)
The Garden Club – I Must Love Her (A&M)
The Poor – She’s Got the Time (She’s Got the Changes) (York)
Sagittarius – My World Fell Down (Columbia)
Thorinshield – Wrong My Friend (Philips)
Love – The Red Telephone (Elektra)
Spirit – Topanga Windows (Ode)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #100 – 180MB/256kbps

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It’s Iron Leg Radio time again!

This month’s Iron Leg Radio Show is a very special edition as it marks the 100th episode of the show since we started back in May of 2011 (the blog started in 2007). It’s also our second outing on The Face Radio!

I put together a Trip Down the Sunset Strip, so strap yourselves in and dig it!

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

Peace

Larry

 

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Testify! Episode #125

Sarah Vaughan – If Not For You (Mainstream)
Bob Dylan – Mozambique (Columbia)
Bob Dylan – Black Diamond Bay (Columbia)

Beck – So Long Marianne (Record Club)
Tom Northcott – Suzanne (UNI)
Pearls Before Swine – Nancy (Reprise)
Genya Ravan – Bird On a Wire (Columbia)
Dion – Sisters of Mercy (Laurie)
Beck – Stories of the Street (Record Club)
Jennifer Warnes – Close Another Door (Parrot)
Jennifer Warnes – I Am Waiting (Parrot)
Jennifer Warnes – These Days (Reprise)
The Rascals – Find Somebody (Atlantic)

Lonnie Smith – Mama Wailer (Kudu)
Lonnie Smith – Stand (Kudu)
Wes Montgomery – Up and At it (A&M/CTI)
Nat Adderley – Biafra (CTI)
Nat Adderley – Nobody Knows (CTI)
Quincy Jones – Walking In Space (A&M/CTI)
Quincy Jones – Gula Matari (A&M)
Johnny Hammond Smith – Bug Sur Suite (Kudu)
Johnny Hammond Smith – Catch My Soul (Kudu)
Milt Jackson – People Make the World Go Round (CTI)

Traffic – Hidden Treasure (Island)
Traffic – The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Island)

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

Testify Episode #125. Originally broadcast 07/28/2019

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Greetings all

I had the opportunity to do a special, fill-in episode of Testify! this Sunday morning, so I thought I’d serve it up here, fresh, hot and tasty!

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

Iron Leg Digital Trip #34 – Symphonie du Sneetch

Playlist

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

Listen/Download 96MB/256K Mixed MP3

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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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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #99

Why hello there!

Playlist

The Golden Cups – This Bad Girl (Capitol JP)
Jun Mayuzumi – Black Room (Capitol JP)
Mieko Hirota – On a Sorrowful Day (Columbia JP)
Terumasa Hino Quintet – Snake Hip (Capitol JP)

Louie Shelton – A Walk In the Country (WB)
Louie Shelton – Bora Bora (A Child of Atlantis) (WB)
Louie Shelton – Evolution (WB)
Teri Nelson Group – Inch By Inch (Kama Sutra)
Triste Janero – Rene De Marie (GPC)
Triste Janero – In the Garden (GPC)

Boudewijn de Groot – Picknick (Decca)
Boudewijn de Groot – Cinderella (Decca)
Boudewijn de Groot – Tegenland (Decca)
Boudewijn de Groot – Prikkebeen (Decca)
Boudewikn de Groot – Aenaes NU (Decca)
Boudewijn de Groot – Wie Kan Me Nog Vertellem (Decca)

Galaxies IV – Let Me Hear You Say Yeah (Veep)
The Hallmarks – Soul Shakin’ Psychedelic Sally (VOV)
Inmates – You Tell Lies (Columbia)
Motifs – If I Gave You Love (Selsom)
Mods – Ritual (Mod)
Storytellers – Cry With Me (Trystero)
Critters – It Just Won’t Be That Way (Musicor)
Richard and the Young Lions – Nasty (Philips)
Myddle Class – Don’t Let Me Sleep Too Long (Tomorrow)
Myddle Class – I Happen To Love You (Tomorrow)
Inmates – More Than I Have (VOV)

Ralph Soul Jackson – Sunshine of Your Love (Atlantic)
Rotary Connection – Tales of Brave Ulysses (Cadet Concept)
Rotary Connection – We’re Going Wrong (Cadet Concept)
El Chicano – I Feel Free (Kapp)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #99 – 180MB/256kbps

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It’s Iron Leg Radio time again!

This month is a very special episode of the Iron Leg Radio Show, marking our debut as part of The Face Radio family. We’ll be broadcasting live on The Face Radio on the first Sunday of every month from 10AM until 12 Noon Eastern Time, and the show will be archived as usual following every broadcast.

This month’s show features a set of Japanese 60s stuff, some groovy US pop, Dutch psychedelia, NJ garage bands and closes with a set of Cream covers.

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

Peace

Larry

 

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Testify! Episode #120

Testify Episode #120. Originally broadcast 06/26/2019

Kings – The Beat Goes On/Switching To Glide (Elektra)
Jellyfish – My Best Friend (Virgin)
Primrose Circus – PS Call Me Lulu (Mira)
Sneetches – When Love Comes My Way (Alias)

The Cars – You’re All I’ve Got Tonight (Elektra)
The Cars – Bye Bye Love (Elektra)
The Cars -Moving In Stereo (Elektra)
The Cars – All Mixed Up (Elektra)

Buckwheat – Yes (Super K)
Any Trouble – Second Choice (Stiff)
Beatles – Penny Lane (Apple)
The Sunshine Company – Love That’s Where It Is (Imperial)
Fun and Games – The Grooviest Girl In the World (UNI)
The Millennium – Prelude/To Claudia On Thursday (Columbia)
Millennium – I Just Want To Be Your Friend (Columbia)
Spongetones – Anna (Triapore)
Sugar Shoppe – Canada (Yorkville)
Joey Heatherton – Say Hello (MGM)
Hondells – Just One More Chance (Columbia)
Cowsills – Anything Changes (MGM)
The Humblebums – All The Best People Do It (Liberty)
Penny Nichols – Sunshine Blues (Buddah)

Sneetches – You’re Gonna Need Her (Alias)
Timebox – Gone Is the Sad Man (Deram)
Eternity’s Children – Mrs Bluebird (Tower)
Beach Boys – Passing By (Capitol)
The Association – Everything That Touches You (WB)
Orpheus – Lesley’s World (MGM)
Kings of Convenience – Toxic Girl (Source)
Jellyfish – Russian Hill (Virgin)
Spanky and Our Gang – Like To Get To Know You/Coda (Mercury)

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

Testify Episode #120. Originally broadcast 06/26/2019

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Greetings all

Summer is underway and things have been busy (oddly enough, life around here speeds up during the summer).

There wasn’t an Iron Leg Radio Show for June, but there will be a summer episode in July, and then the big 100th episode in September.

So dig these sounds from last week’s Testify! and I’ll see you all soon.

Peace

Larry

 

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Brotherhood – Jump Out the Window

Brotherhood

Listen/Download – Brotherhood – Jump Out the Window

Greetings all.

A brief note before we start: The 2019 Pledge Drive has begun. If you dig what we do here at Iron Leg or over at Funky16Corners, whether it be the individual blog posts, the live radio shows or the mix archives, please consider clicking on the Patreon link and signing up for a small, recurring monthly donation to help keep the lights on around here (server space/bandwidth/broadcast fees).

Any thing you can contribute is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Larry

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Today’s selection is a very tasty bit of psychedelia from the little known but excellent post-Raiders chapters of Drake Levin, Phil Volk and Mike Smith.

Breaking off from Paul Revere and company in 1967, the three ex-Raiders kept busy musically, with Drake Levin recording one excellent 45 as dRake (On The Road to Mexico) and then forming the group Brotherhood (with Smith, Volk and keyboardist Ron Collins).

Brotherhood would record three albums over the next few years, two under that name and another (much more far out) under the name of Friendsound.

The first Brotherhood album, from 1968 is a fine collection of pop and popsike sounds that ought to have caught on but was likely lost in the tsunami of high quality music coming out at the time.

Today’s selection, ‘Jump Out the Window’ is my fave from the album, with a wild, trippy vibe (and slightly humorous) vibe.

Written by Smith, Volk and Levin, along with Chris Etheridge (bassist for the Flying Burrito Brothers, who also appeared on the Friendsound album), the song incorporates heavy guitar, Moog synthesizer and lysergically-inspired lyrics about taking flight (“I’m a hip Mary Poppins!”).

The rest of the album is excellent, and a testament to why these cats had to leave the Raiders and spread their wings. As much as I dig Paul Revere and the Raiders, they never seemed capable (or would likely allow) anything as far out as the best tracks on the Brotherhood album.

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

Peace

Larry

 

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