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Title: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: urth on January 18, 2008, 10:01:42 AM
For Shane, who just turned....21?!? There is hope for the youth of today...
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:03:10 AM
I suspected we were in for '60s today -- "ah betcha wondrin' how ah knew."  VHM Marvin
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:07:14 AM
Chicago is a "Toddlin'" town, actually.  Y'know that Spielberg is filming "Trial of the Chicago Seven" next", right? With Philip Seymour Hoffman as William Kunstler and (gulp) Willl Smith as Bobby Seale.

"FIE-uh!"  BOS CWOAB.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:09:42 AM
OMFG! Vanilla Fudge, still hangin' on!  BOS2 for sheer self-indulgent psychedelic-ness.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:17:04 AM
Now, I *love* "Classical Gas", but it's quite the frequent flier, esp if you count instrumental sets.  Maybe it's taking the slot usually reserved for "Grazin in the Grass". BOS3 in spite if it all.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: urth on January 18, 2008, 10:17:49 AM
Ack! Poorly timed phone call from my sis, so I missed everything from the Toddlin town clip until mid-Classical Gas. What'd I miss besides Crazy Arthur?
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:19:22 AM
Ack! Poorly timed phone call from my sis, so I missed everything from the Toddlin town clip until mid-Classical Gas. What'd I miss besides Crazy Arthur?

see above.

Hoo Lawd! BOS4 Delfonics, La-La-ing their way into your heart. proxy of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Forster.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: urth on January 18, 2008, 10:19:29 AM
On the other hand I would have been SO bummed to have missed La-La Means I Love You--BOS fo' sho!!
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: urth on January 18, 2008, 10:21:08 AM
Ack! Poorly timed phone call from my sis, so I missed everything from the Toddlin town clip until mid-Classical Gas. What'd I miss besides Crazy Arthur?

see above.

Hoo Lawd! BOS4 Delfonics, La-La-ing their way into your heart. proxy of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Forster.

So I just missed Fire and the VanFudge tune? OK, I can live with that.

God, this is a great tune. Did I mention BOS for La-La Means I Love You? Well, double-super BOS.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:22:32 AM
holy crap! BOS5 "Elenor", my pride and joy etc.  proxy of Gaz.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: urth on January 18, 2008, 10:22:41 AM
And BOS2 to the Turtles and Eleanor--sing it Howie & Mark!! Total ear candy (and to think it's just Happy Together turned inside out!)
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:24:32 AM
And BOS2 to the Turtles and Eleanor--sing it Howie & Mark!! Total ear candy (and to think it's just Happy Together turned inside out!)

One More Tiiiime!
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: urth on January 18, 2008, 10:26:19 AM
Still more ear candy, and BOS3--BBs, Friends.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:29:01 AM
another BOS BBs -- oh WTF -- 10-way tie.  Dave's making up for the rest of the week today.

dim-dim-de-lou, dim-dee-i-oh!

and another OMFG, the Troggs -- the orig (and still the best) version of "Love is All Around".  The Wet Wet Wet cover was #1 in the UK for something like 4 MONTHS.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:33:13 AM
Lady Madonna, baby at your breast. Not to mention Guy Ritchie.

Hoo Lawd #2 -- smooth Smokey! Maybe one of the cleverest phrases in the history of pop.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: urth on January 18, 2008, 10:33:27 AM
another BOS BBs -- oh WTF -- 10-way tie.  Dave's making up for the rest of the week today.


Yeah, that's fer sure. Hope the rest of the gang is listening 'cause this has been a fab set. And I Second that Emotion! Dave's R&B selections today have been superlative!
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: ggould on January 18, 2008, 03:45:09 PM
01/18/2008 - FRIDAY!!! Time Spent in...1968!!
 
1.   Marvin Gaye - Heard it Through the Grapevine      
2.   Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire      
3.   Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin' On (BEST OF SET!!)      
4.   Mason Williams - Classical Gas      
5.   Delphonics - La La Means I Love You      
6.   Turtles - Elenore      
7.   Beach Boys - Friends      
8.   Troggs - Love is All Around      
9.   Beatles - Lady Madonna      
10.   Smoky & the Miracles - I Second That Emotion
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on January 18, 2008, 10:11:33 PM
Chicago is a "Toddlin'" town, actually.  Y'know that Spielberg is filming "Trial of the Chicago Seven" next", right? With Philip Seymour Hoffman as William Kunstler and (gulp) Willl Smith as Bobby Seale.

"FIE-uh!"  BOS CWOAB.

Gets my BOS.  That may be the single greatest opening ever.  (I'd love to undertake this countdown someday.)

But isn't "FIE-uh!" more the Ohio Players inflection?
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:27:35 PM
Meant to take note of this earlier, but Dave referred to "shoop-shoop orchestra leader's batons by Wham-O", obviously a tip o' the hat to the founder of Wham-O (makers of hoola-hoops and frisbees) who died yesterday.  Also liked his reference to Friday as "the best day" on 10@10. (well, unless Dave's on vacay and we get a late-'80s "classic")

Glad Gaz is here for the replay and "Elenor", really.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on January 18, 2008, 10:32:13 PM
holy crap! BOS5 "Elenor", my pride and joy etc.  proxy of Gaz.

Gee, I think it's swellenore.  (Did John McLaughlin really say this to Eleanor Clift on his show once, or is that an invented memory on my part?)
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on January 18, 2008, 10:33:12 PM
a tip o' the hat to the founder of Wham-O (makers of hoola-hoops and frisbees) who died yesterday.

I'd missed this bit of news.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:34:44 PM
holy crap! BOS5 "Elenor", my pride and joy etc.  proxy of Gaz.

Gee, I think it's swellenore.  (Did John McLaughlin really say this to Eleanor Clift on his show once, or is that an invented memory on my part?)

and she told him he was all wet wet wet.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on January 18, 2008, 10:38:44 PM
"Love is All Around".  The Wet Wet Wet cover was #1 in the UK for something like 4 MONTHS.

Second-biggest hit in UK chart history.  Five frink points for Number One?
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:40:24 PM
One of my all-time fave lines: "Sunday morning creeping like a nun" Or at least like Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane dressed as nuns.

Gaz, I hope tomorrow is a good year on AT40; I'll be listening in bed and drifting in-n-out of consciousness. 
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 10:42:24 PM
"Love is All Around".  The Wet Wet Wet cover was #1 in the UK for something like 4 MONTHS.

Second-biggest hit in UK chart history.  Five frink points for Number One?

EJ's Princess Di "Candle..."?  I know that's up there sales-wise, if not weeks-at-#1-wise.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: Gazoo on January 18, 2008, 10:58:00 PM
"Love is All Around".  The Wet Wet Wet cover was #1 in the UK for something like 4 MONTHS.

Second-biggest hit in UK chart history.  Five frink points for Number One?

EJ's Princess Di "Candle..."?  I know that's up there sales-wise, if not weeks-at-#1-wise.

You're correct, of course, but I'm going for the weeks-at-#1 record.

And I'll be doing the same kinda drifting tomorrow a.m.
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: RGMike on January 18, 2008, 11:05:40 PM
"Love is All Around".  The Wet Wet Wet cover was #1 in the UK for something like 4 MONTHS.

Second-biggest hit in UK chart history.  Five frink points for Number One?

EJ's Princess Di "Candle..."?  I know that's up there sales-wise, if not weeks-at-#1-wise.

You're correct, of course, but I'm going for the weeks-at-#1 record.

well, I couldn't go to bed without looking up the answer, and actually there are two answers:

Most Weeks at Number 1 --
18 - by Frankie Laine's "I Believe". It topped the UK chart on three separate occasions (all in 1953).

Most Consecutive Weeks at Number 1 --
16 - by Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" (1991).

(The Wet Wet Wet cover of "Love is all Around" was #1 for a mere 15 weeks)
Title: Re: 18 January 2008--it's...1968!!
Post by: mshray on January 23, 2008, 10:21:18 AM
Ack! Poorly timed phone call from my sis, so I missed everything from the Toddlin town clip until mid-Classical Gas. What'd I miss besides Crazy Arthur?

The thing you really missed is that Dave spliced the end of the 'Toddlin town clip' such that Da Mayor's rant went seamlessly into the words "I am the God of Hellfire!".  I was driving at the time & rang Dave up to say that was brilliant how he turned Richard J. Daley into the God of Hellfire, and he was cracking himself up over it.