Testify! Episode #13

Testify Episode #13. Originally broadcast 08/09/2017

Stooges – Down On the Street (Elektra)
Television – See No Evil (Elektra)
Beastie Boys – Jimmy James (Grand Royal)
James Brown – Funky President (People It’s Bad) (Polydor)
Judy Clay – Get Together (Atlantic)

Caetano Veloso – Tropicalia (Philips)
Gilberto Gil – Bat Macumba (Philips)
Os Mutantes – Panis ou Circensis (Philips)
Gal Costa – Baby (Philips)
Bebel Gilberto – Samba Da Bencao (Ziriguiboom)
Grizzly Bear – Southern Point (Warp)

Barbara Lynn – I’m a Good Woman (Tribe)
Nolan Chance – Just Like the Weather (Constellation)
Andy Butler – Take Me (TRC)
The Shells – When I’m Blue (Conlo)
Ike and Tina Turner – You Must Believe Me (Loma)
Lavell Kamma and the Afro Soul Review – Soft Soul (Tupelo Sound)
Sunny and the Sunliners – My Dream (Teardrop)
Darondo – Didn’t I (Music City)

Neil Young – Emperor of Wyoming (Reprise)
Neil Young – The Loner (Reprise)
Brewer and Shipley – Pig’s Head (kama Sutra)
Brewer and Shipley – Truly Right (A&M)
Andy Bey – River Man (Evidence)
Bobby Darin – Darling Be Home Soon (Atlantic)
Mama Cass – Talking To Your Toothbrush (Dunhill)
Velvet Underground – THere She Comes Now (MGM)
Velvet Underground – Candy Says (MGM)
Velvet Underground – Jesus (MGM)
Bruce Springsteen – Spirit In the Night (Columbia)
Django Reinhardt – Nuages (RCA)

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Greetings all.

Dig – if you will – the latest episode of Testify! my weekly show for WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio.

This is a very special, very groovy episode of the show that I think has a lot to offer for Iron Leggers.

I hope you dig it, subscribe to the show as a podcast, and drop something in the old Patreon bucket.

Peace

Larry
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Also…

It’s time for the 2017 Funky16Corners Pledge Drive.

Since Iron Leg, and the Iron Leg Radio Show podcast are dependent of the continued health of Funky16Corners, and continue under the banner of the Funky16Corners Radio Network, it behooves me to post these links here, too.

The pledging will also take a slightly different form this year, moving to Patreon (click here or on the logo below to go to the Funky16Corners page) , where you will be able to spread your contributions out over the entire year, which will help cover the ongoing server/broadcast/hardware expenses. This year has seen the upgrade of a couple of crucial pieces of equipment, and any help you fine people can provide will keep the machinery moving here at Funky16Corners central. So please dig deep so we can continue to do the same!

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So pull down the ones and zeros, dig it and I’ll see you next week.

Make sure you subscribe to the podcast in iTunes!

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #73

Why hello there!

Playlist

ILRS#73

Murmaids – Paper Sun (Liberty)
Super Dupers – Mickey Mouse March (Design)
The Unknown – All Over the World (La La) (Cinema)
Owen B – Nowhere To Run (Janus)
Free Ferry – Friend (Date)
Michael J James – Love’s Funny (Uni)
Twiggy – When I Think of You (Capitol)

Margo Guryan – Take a Picture (Mala)
Margo Guryan – What Can I Give You (Mala)
Gary McFarland – River Girl (Prestige)
Freda Payne – Lonely Woman (Impulse)
Trombones Unlimited – Sunday Morning (Liberty)
Claudine Longet – Think of Rain (A&M)
Julie London – Sunday Mornin’ (Liberty)
Julie London – Come to Me Slowly (Liberty)
Spanky and Our Gang – Sunday Mornin’ (Mercury)
Margo Guryan – Spanky and Our Gang (Mala)
Astrud Gilberto – Think of Rain (Verve)

Wanted – In the Midnight Hour (The Detroit Sound)
Del Shannon – Move It On Over (Amy)
Animals – We’re Gonna Howl Tonight (MGM)
Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers – Got To Get You Into My Life (Parlophone)
Mikos Theodorakis – Jet Rock (20th Century)
Mikos Theodorakis – Let’s Dance the Jet (20th Century)
Grass Roots – Beatin’ Around the Bush (Dunhill)
Grass Roots – House of Stone (Dunhill)
Mel Street – Green River (GRT)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #73 – 157MB/256kbps

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Greetings all.

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

This time out we have even more new and recent arrivals, as well as a long set of music recorded and/or written by Margo Guryan.

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

Make sure you subscribe to the podcast in iTunes!

Peace

Larry

 

PS Head over to Funky16Corners

Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #63

Why hello there!

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

 

PS Head over to Funky16Corners

Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #51

Why hello there!

Playlist

Serge Gainsbourg – Ballade De Melody Nelson
Bobby Bland- Rockin’ In the Same Old Boat
Howard Roberts – Unfolding In
John Buck Wilkin – The Daydream
Joe South – A Million Miles Away
Staple Singers – Step Aside
Jerry Garcia – The Wheel
Little Buster – I’m So Lonely
Peter Waker – I and Thou
Quinteto Violado – Acua
Avant Garde – Yellow Beads
Chad and Jeremy – Rest In Peace

Mama Cass – Talking To Your Toothbrush
Eddie Harris – Smoke Signals
Fleetwood Mac – Albatross
Rod McKuen and Anita Kerr – The Day They Built the Road
Ordells – Sipping a Cup of Coffee
Quincy Jones – Walking In Space
Houstons – Sea of Tranquility
Baker Street Philharmonic – Tycho
Beaver and Krause – By Your Grace
Jack Sheldon – I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
Peggy Lee – Is That All There Is

(All “bed” music taken from Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’)

 

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #51 – 182MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

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

 

We enter the 51st episode of the podcast up inside a new headspace (if you will) that finds the ILRS in a trippy, free-form, somewhat dreamy and experimental place (more Venus Flytrap than Johnny Fever).

There are some stylistic surprises (nothing too jarring…) but I think you’ll find yourself drifting away on a pillowy (occasionally dark0 cloud of musical nirvana.

So get your download on, and uplink into your ears.

I hope you dig it.

See you next week.

Peace

Larry

 

PS Head over to Funky16Corners

Return of the Au Go Go Mixes!

Iron Leg Digital Trip Number Five – The Party

Playlist

1 Henry Mancini (The Party OST) – The Party (vocal) (RCA)
2 Keith Mansfield – Boogaloo (CBS)
3 Enoch Light – Over Under Sideways Down (Project 3)
4 Moe Koffman – Dr Swahili (Jubilee)
5 Mr Jamo – Shake What You Brought With You Pt1 (SSS Intl)
6 Dick Hyman – The Liquidators (Command)
7 Walter Wanderley – Kee Ka Roo (Verve)
8 Sweet Charity OST – The Pompeii Club (Rich Man’s Frug) (Decca)
9 John Philip Soul & his Stone Marching Band – That Memphis Thing (Pepper)
10 Andre Brasseur – The Duck (Palette)
11 Tony Newman – Soul Thing (Parrot)
12 Jimmy Caravan – Look Into the Flower (Vault)
13 Vic Mizzy (Don’t Make Waves OST) – Vox Box (MGM)
14 New London Rhythm & Blues Band – Soul Stream (Vocalion)
15 Dave Grusin (Candy OST) – Ascension to Virginity (ABC)
16 Henry Mancini (the Party OST) – The Party (instr) (RCA)

Listen/Download 46MB Mixed MP3 – MP3

Iron Leg Digital Trip #32 – A Not Unpleasing Splash of Colour

Playlist

Keith Mansfield – Soul Thing (Pronit)
101 Strings – Jesus Christ Superstar (edit) (Alshire)
Jimmy Smith – The Cat (45 edit) (Verve)
Enoch Light – C’Mon and Swim (Command)
Living Strings – Out and About (Camden)
Mariano and the Unbelievables – Sunshine Superman (Capitol)
Lady Nelson and the Lords – Soho Strut (Dunhill)
Louis Bellson – The Eel (Project 3)
Quincy Jones – Mohair Sam (Mercury)
Lloyd Green – Steel Blue (Chart)
Mike Sharpe – Spook A Lou (Liberty)
Dave Pike Set – You’ve Got the Feeling (Wagram)
Vic Mizzy – Daybreak In Malibu (MGM)
Andre Brasseur – Pow Pow (MFP)
Virtues – Meditation of the Soul (Andee)
Enoch Light – Bond Street (Project 3)
New London Rhythm and Blues Band – Soul Mate (Vocalion)
Freddie Scott and the Seven Steps – It’s Not Unusual (Marlin)
101 Strings – Spinning Wheel (Alshire)
Mohawks – Baby Hold On Pt2 (Cotillion)
Moe Koffman – Funky Monkey (Jubilee)
US Air Force Academy Falconaires – Day Tripper (USAFA)
Keith Mansfield – Funky Fanfare (KPM)

Listen/Download 102MB/256K Mixed Mp3

 

Greetings all.

This week sees the return (by special request) of two of my favorite Iron Leg Digital Trip mixes, #5 and #32, aka The Au Go Go Mixes.

The yearly Funky16Corners Pledge Drive is underway, and since Iron Leg is an important part of the Funky16Corners Blogcasting Network, and depends on the same paid storage space in which to function, I thought it made sense to tie this blog in with the goings on at that (blog).

If you dig what we do here (or there,or in both places) fall by Funky16Corners, click on the Paypal button and drop a coin (or two) in the jukebox (as it were).

It will be greatly appreciated.

Iron Leg Digital Trips numbers 5 and 32 really do belong together, with the latter being intended as a sequel to the former.
They are my take on the Au Go Go vibe of the swinging 60s, with all manner of groovy stuff stitched together from soundtracks, library music, jazz, pop, soul, funk and kitsch.

You can read the original manifesto here.

So mix yourselves up a cocktail, pull down the ones and zeros and I’ll be back next week with some garage punk.

Peace

Larry

 

PS Head over to Funky16Corners for some soul.

Iron Leg Radio Episode #3

Beep beep beep beep…..

Playlist

Opening Theme – Alan Hawkshaw/Keith Mansfield – Action Scene (KPM)

Brenda Patterson – This Wheel’s On Fire (Epic)
Gas Co – Your Times Up (Mirwood)
Plasticland – Rattail Comb (Scadillac)
The Knack – Time Waits For No One (Capitol)
The Bougalieu – Let’s Do Wrong (Roulette)
Crip Guerney – Understanding Each Other (Hi)
The Spats – Bonie Moronie (ABC)
Del Shannon – Sweet Mary Lou (Dunhill)
Modern Folk Quartet – If All You Think (WB)
Small Faces Radio Spot

Electronic Concept Orchestra – Rock me (Limelight)
Quinteto Violado – Acaua (Philips Brazil)
Free Design – 2002 a Hit Song (Project 3)
Beverley – Where the Good Times Are (Deram)
Moody Blues – This is My House (London)
Underdogs – Love’s Gone Bad (VIP)
Orpheus – Lesley’s World (MGM)
PJ Proby – Don’t Forget About Me (Imperial)
PJ Proby Radio Spot

Apple – Buffalo Billycan (Page One)
1910 Fruitgum Co – Blue Eyes and Orange Skies (Buddah)
The Association – Come On In (WB)
The Millennium – I Just Want To be Your Friend (Columbia)
Mighty Baby – Egyptian Tomb (Head)
The Neats – Six (Ace of Hearts)
New Vaudeville Band – There’s a Kind of Hush (Fontana)
Richie Havens – Strawberry Fields Forever (Stormy Forest)
Easybeats Coke Commercial

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 3 – 153MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

As hard as it may be to believe, it’s already time for the third installment of the Iron Leg Radio Show.

This time out there’s all kinds of groovy ish, from the psyche, to the garage, to vaguely almost kinda prog, to cool stuff from Brazil, freakbeat, Moog and the cusp of heavyosity, all delivered with the kind of sub-Wolfman Jack-ery that you’ve come to expect during the three months that this has been going on.

If you dig what I’m doing here (or not, heaven forfend…) , take a moment to drop me a line.

Requests are welcomed (as long as I have it I’ll play it) and while we’re on the subject, should you also dig the sounds of soul, you might want to skip over to the mothership, aka the Funky16Corners blog and click on the F16C Radio Show tab to pull down the ones and zeros on episodes of the long-running show of the same name that airs every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio.

That said, I hope you dig the show, and I’ll be back next week with something cool.

Peace

Larry

 

PS Head over to Funky16Corners

Iron Leg Meets Funky16Corners #4 – Gilberto Gil – Oma Lao

Gilberto Gil (In a Psychedelic Mood)

Listen – Gilberto Gil – Oma Lao – MP3

Greetings all.
The tune I bring you today is the flipside of the same 45 featured over at Funky16Corners.
I’ve beena big an of Tropicalia for a long time, and the music that Gilberto Gil recorded between 1967 and 1972 is one of the major cornerstones of that movement.
It’s rare that I get a 45 with one side that I’d consider Funky16Corners-worthy that also has an Iron Leg-gy flip, but when I finally scored a copy of the Gilberto Gil 45 that haunted my want list for so long, it fit the (double) bill.
The Iron Leg side of the 45 is the song I bring you today, ‘Oma Lao’*. Recorded during the sessions for Gil’s 1968, self-titled LP (like Peter Gabriel years later, Gil had a string of LPs that bore only his name), ‘Oma Lao’ is every bit as psychedelic and experimental as it’s a-side ‘Aquele Abraco’ is straightforward and joyous. The 1968 LP (also known as ‘Cerebro Eletronico’) is one of the most innovative and far out LPs of the Tropicalia years with all manner of trippy tape manipulations, experiments with musique concrete set side by side with pure pop.
‘Oma Lao’ has a recurring, echoed guitar riff and bass line, seasoned with minimal, improvised percussion, with Gil repeating the title over and over again. There are what sound like tape splices with bits of Hendrix-esque guitar. I have no idea what he’s singing about, but he is clearly speaking the international language of psychedelia. Whether the tune is about a ham sandwich, or more likely nothing at all, it’s still inescapably lysergic.
If you dig what you hear, make sure you grab Gilberto Gil’s first three LPs as well as material from the same era by Caetano Veloso, Os Mutantes, Gal Costa and others, and head over to Funky16Corners to check out the fantastic flipside of this 45 (one of my favorite songs).
Peace
Larry

*The 45, which I believe is a Chilean issue spells both songs differently than their listings on the ‘Gilberto Gil’ CD reissue, so I decided to defer to the LP spelling, thus the different title in the label scan above.

PS Head over to Funky16Corners for the flipside of this very 45.

PSS Check out Paperback Rider too…