CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/3/07

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KPOO's Marilynn is into some dirty blues with a "drilling" theme -- first a song about a sexy dentist who fills her, um, cavities, and now an oil rigger number: "drill drill drill, daddy!".

ooo! "I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco" -- not sure whose version this is. Nancy Wilson?

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Judge is doing a salute to solo Smokey. "soft and warm, a quiet storm..."

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we're getting hours of artists -- after an hour of Smokey, it's an hour of Ree-Ree, from her mid-to-late '70s period. Here's her version of "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)", which is new to me.

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OMG! Here's Ree-Ree's version of "Without Love", which I know via the Southside Johnny version -- the orig is... Ben E King? Solomon Burke?

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Once you get started with an hour of Chaka, you just can't stop!  I likes the way she do it, when she do it.

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and noe Judge segs from an hour of Chaka to an hour of EWF. Bow-day-OW!

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Yee Haw!  checking out "Country Legends" from Dallas/Ft Worth ( http://www.countrygoldradio.com/?gclid=CNbP3aGZ5I4CFSQeYAodpDPjww ) and it's Loretta Lynn, "You Ain't Woman Enough (To take My Man)".  Tell it, girl!

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another Gold retro-chart; this week it's May 1981, with Adam & the Ants at #1:

01. Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver
02. Starsound - Stars On 45
03. Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai (Theme From 'Life And Times Of David Lloyd George')
04. Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
05. Shakin' Stevens - You Drive Me Crazy
06. Madness - Grey Day
07. Sugar Minott - Good Thing Going
08. The Jacksons - Can You Feel It
09. The Nolans - Attention to Me
10. Spandau Ballet - Musclebound/Glow
11. Graham Bonnet - Night Games
12. Keith Marshall - Only Crying
13. Eddy Grant - Can't Get Enough Of You
14. The Whispers - It's A Love Thing
15. Barry Manilow - Bermuda Triangle
16. Saxon - And The Band Played On
17. Whitesnake - Don't Break My Heart Again
18. Bad Manners - Just A Feeling
19. Shakin' Stevens - This Ole House
20. Landscape - Einstein A-Go-Go

fully 14 out of 20 are songs I have never heard before -- this is gonna be interesting.

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Yikes, early Whitesnake -- long before they discovered Tawny Kitaen.

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Shakin' Stevens' "You Drive Me Crazy" sounds EXACTLY like Rocky Burnette's "Tired of Toein' the Line" -- it could've easily been that hit's soundalike follow-up, they're THAT similar.

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AAAAACK! "Stars on 45" -- truly one of the worst (and most unnecessary) records ever made.

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another Gold retro-chart; this week it's May 1981, with Adam & the Ants at #1:

01. Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver
02. Starsound - Stars On 45
03. Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai (Theme From 'Life And Times Of David Lloyd George')
04. Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
05. Shakin' Stevens - You Drive Me Crazy
06. Madness - Grey Day
07. Sugar Minott - Good Thing Going
08. The Jacksons - Can You Feel It
09. The Nolans - Attention to Me
10. Spandau Ballet - Musclebound/Glow
11. Graham Bonnet - Night Games
12. Keith Marshall - Only Crying
13. Eddy Grant - Can't Get Enough Of You
14. The Whispers - It's A Love Thing
15. Barry Manilow - Bermuda Triangle
16. Saxon - And The Band Played On
17. Whitesnake - Don't Break My Heart Again
18. Bad Manners - Just A Feeling
19. Shakin' Stevens - This Ole House
20. Landscape - Einstein A-Go-Go

fully 14 out of 20 are songs I have never heard before -- this is gonna be interesting.

Heh: The count for me was 17!

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Just discovered this: a gay website with some queer xmas mixes:

http://www.queermusicheritage.us/dec2003.html

http://www.queermusicheritage.us/dec2004.html

http://www.queermusicheritage.us/dec2005.html

http://www.queermusicheritage.us/dec2006.html

"Don We Now Our Gay Apparel" indeed!

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Yee Haw!  checking out "Country Legends" from Dallas/Ft Worth ( http://www.countrygoldradio.com/?gclid=CNbP3aGZ5I4CFSQeYAodpDPjww ) and it's Loretta Lynn, "You Ain't Woman Enough (To take My Man)".  Tell it, girl!

Listening again today and they're quite impressive -- def not the same 300 focus-grouped country oldies repeated ad nauseam.  Willie Nelson, "Mr Record Man", Charley Pride "The Snakes Crawl at Night" -- damn!

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Highlight of the afternoon:WLNG plays EJ's fab forgotten "Mama Can't Buy You Love", another of those '80s Elton hits Dave surprisingly ignores.  From the Thom Bell sessions, and I'd've loved to hear a Spinners take on this one.