10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => KFOG's 10@10 => Topic started by: mshray on May 16, 2008, 08:57:19 AM
-
B-day request for some lucky Foghead. Cue Tommy.
-
B-day request for some lucky Foghead. Cue Tommy.
Likely that we'll all get Steamed again.
-
B-day request for some lucky Foghead. Cue Tommy.
or these prime Katrinas:
"More Today Than Yesterday"
"Na na Hey Hey"
"Someday We'll Be Together"
-
I'll be shocked beyond belief if we DON'T hear that news clip of Stonewall and the origins of the gay love for interior decorating.
-
I'll be shocked beyond belief if we DON'T hear that news clip of Stonewall and the origins of the gay love for interior decorating.
Good point. Pride season is nearly upon us.
-
I'll be shocked beyond belief if we DON'T hear that news clip of Stonewall and the origins of the gay love for interior decorating.
Good point. Pride season is nearly upon us.
so, it's a season now? like Christmas and Easter?
-
I'll be shocked beyond belief if we DON'T hear that news clip of Stonewall and the origins of the gay love for interior decorating.
Good point. Pride season is nearly upon us.
so, it's a season now? like Christmas and Easter?
I know people who make a season of it - each weekend in June they travel to a different city's Pride festivities. This is why, frex, LA and SF always try to have their parades on different weekends.
-
I'll be shocked beyond belief if we DON'T hear that news clip of Stonewall and the origins of the gay love for interior decorating.
Good point. Pride season is nearly upon us.
I was thinking in terms of yesterday's ruling more than any season.
-
This must be a different Jose, 'cause Judith gets the request fulfillment, not him.
-
I'll be shocked beyond belief if we DON'T hear that news clip of Stonewall and the origins of the gay love for interior decorating.
Good point. Pride season is nearly upon us.
I was thinking in terms of yesterday's ruling more than any season.
Oh, duh (dings own head), of course.
Ah, the unmistakable drumroll of "Stand!" ... maybe Dave shoulda just made this a Soul Patrol.
-
There's a midget standing tall!
-
I'll be shocked beyond belief if we DON'T hear that news clip of Stonewall and the origins of the gay love for interior decorating.
Good point. Pride season is nearly upon us.
I was thinking in terms of yesterday's ruling more than any season.
Oh, duh (dings own head), of course.
Ah, the unmistakable drumroll of "Stand!" ... maybe Dave shoulda just made this a Soul Patrol.
or an early Pride set. BOS Sly -- Hrm, Booker T with BOS2 -- mini-Soul Patrol?
-
There's a midget standing tall!
And a giant beside him about to toss a dwarf.
-
Ah, the unmistakable drumroll of "Stand!" ... maybe Dave shoulda just made this a Soul Patrol.
That'd be fine by me.
BOS2 BT&tMGs.
-
triple soul! BOS3 Marvin, "Too Busy..." one of the rare Motown hits that hasn't been covered to death -- or at all, afaik.
-
triple soul! BOS3 Marvin, "Too Busy..." one of the rare Motown hits that hasn't been covered to death -- or at all, afaik.
The first two songs were great, but this trumps both of 'em in my book. BOSFRA, dontcha know...
-
Ah, the unmistakable drumroll of "Stand!" ... maybe Dave shoulda just made this a Soul Patrol.
DM mentioned that the requestor asked for "lots of Motown and R&B", but now a break for Donovan...
-
graet, the stream just died, and we no longer have a 2nd choice for accessing it.
-
graet, the stream just died, and we no longer have a 2nd choice for accessing it.
DAMMIT! >:(
-
graet, the stream just died, and we no longer have a 2nd choice for accessing it.
Time to get a mini-FM w/earbuds, for emergencies like this!
-
Listening on radio, still in the long outtro of "Atlantis".
-
DM mentioned that the requestor asked for "lots of Motown and R&B", but now a break for Donovan...
And an honest-ta-god bustout at that!
-
News headlines: Saigon, Apollo 11 > Isley's "Its Yo' Thing"
-
DM mentioned that the requestor asked for "lots of Motown and R&B", but now a break for Donovan...
And an honest-ta-god bustout at that!
That's one of those "It's not possible" bustouts -- I know Dave's played it back in the day; often, in fact. But if it ain't in the db it ain't in the db...
-
News headlines: Saigon, Apollo 11 > Isley's "Its Yo' Thing"
and finally the stream comes back.
-
News headlines: Saigon, Apollo 11 > Isley's "Its Yo' Thing"
and the revelation that, at the time of the Apollo 11 moonlanding, Nixon had no television in his office!Inconceivable today.
-
Woo Hoo! BOS4 Flirtations!!!
-
Flirtations "Nuthin But A Heartache"!
-
Flirtations "Nuthin But A Heartache"!
And after a brief dalliance with britpop, we seem to be back in soul patrol mode.
-
News headlines: Saigon, Apollo 11 > Isley's "Its Yo' Thing"
and the revelation that, at the time of the Apollo 11 moonlanding, Nixon had no television in his office! Inconceivable today.
Yet he had a tape recorder in his desk ;)
-
BOS Creedence - Lodi - still holds up well.
-
And after a brief dalliance with britpop, we seem to be back in soul patrol mode.
The soul of CCR
-
oh LAWD! stuck in Lodi (and not New Jersey, either). VHM CCR.
-
graet, the stream just died, and we no longer have a 2nd choice for accessing it.
Time to get a mini-FM w/earbuds, for emergencies like this!
Nuthin but a heartache. First time in a long time I've been at the computer WITH walkman on. Yay!
I was about to 10-way BOS but CCR spoiled it.
-
graet, the stream just died, and we no longer have a 2nd choice for accessing it.
Time to get a mini-FM w/earbuds, for emergencies like this!
Nuthin but a heartache. First time in a long time I've been at the computer WITH walkman on. Yay!
I was about to 10-way BOS but CCR spoiled it.
gonna be another short set--unless daave drops in a long version of some sort. 7 songs in and it's only 10:22.
-
Wooo baby, guitarzan.
BOS
let's hear it for the monkey!!!!!
-
McCain should start giving Agnew-ism speeches, just for the fun of it!
BOS "Guitarzan"! I still have the 45!
-
Give him a hand! Guitarzan!
-
Git-TAR-zan! Bay-BAY! VHM Mr Stevens.
-
OK, demand for some Baez.
VHM, long time no hear
-
Back to the Soul Patrol with Joan Baez ;)
-
and now for something COMPLETELY different! BOS5 Ms. Baez!!!
-
and now for something COMPLETELY different! BOS5 Ms. Baez!!!
DAMN! not only a bustout, it's the first Baez track in the db ever!
-
OK, demand for some Baez.
VHM, long time no hear
"Love is Just a Four-Letter Word" is a song written by Bob Dylan, and long associated with Joan Baez, who has recorded it numerous times, and performed it throughout her career. Written by Dylan somewhere around 1965, Baez immediately took to the song, and began performing it, even before it was finished. (In the film Dont Look Back, a documentary of Dylan's 1965 tour of the UK, Baez is shown in one scene singing a fragment of the song in a hotel room late at night. She then tells Dylan, "If you finish it, I'll sing it on a record.") Baez first included the song on Any Day Now (album), her 1968 album of Dylan covers; she has since recorded it three additional times.
Dylan himself appears to have never recorded the song.
Trivia
In the 2005 PBS American Masters documentary on Dylan, No Direction Home, Baez told an amusing story of how she was with Dylan, when he first heard her recording of "Love is Just a Four-Letter Word" on the radio. He commented on it, "Hey, that's a great song!", apparently having forgotten that it was he who'd written it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Is_Just_a_Four-Letter_Word"
-
OK, demand for some Baez.
VHM, long time no hear
"Love is Just a Four-Letter Word" is a song written by Bob Dylan, and long associated with Joan Baez, who has recorded it numerous times, and performed it throughout her career. Written by Dylan somewhere around 1965, Baez immediately took to the song, and began performing it, even before it was finished. (In the film Dont Look Back, a documentary of Dylan's 1965 tour of the UK, Baez is shown in one scene singing a fragment of the song in a hotel room late at night. She then tells Dylan, "If you finish it, I'll sing it on a record.") Baez first included the song on Any Day Now (album), her 1968 album of Dylan covers; she has since recorded it three additional times.
Dylan himself appears to have never recorded the song.
Trivia
In the 2005 PBS American Masters documentary on Dylan, No Direction Home, Baez told an amusing story of how she was with Dylan, when he first heard her recording of "Love is Just a Four-Letter Word" on the radio. He commented on it, "Hey, that's a great song!", apparently having forgotten that it was he who'd written it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Is_Just_a_Four-Letter_Word"
Excellent, thanks for the backstory!
-
Here's our first Katrina, but I never complain about Desmond Dekker.
-
Another BOS, the Israelites.
You get up in the morning and you slaving for bread
-
wow -- closest to a katrina, and it's Desmond Dekker. An extraordinary set. Kudos to Mr Morey. That court ruling put him in a good mood, I guess.
-
Nice finish to a pretty great set--Desmond Dekker, Israelites.
Boy, did this turn my ears around in the summer of '69 when Top 40 radio picked it up.
-
BOS Ray Stevens!!!!! Followed by Desmond and the Flirtations too. Great set Dave!
-
Ah-ha, I did not realize it was an "On This Date" set
-
I'll be shocked beyond belief if we DON'T hear that news clip of Stonewall and the origins of the gay love for interior decorating.
I guess I'm not so shocked, since it was an 'On This Date' set apparently, which puts it a month before Stonewall.
I just looked at the 1969 set we got 15 days ago, and there wasn't a single black artist in that set, so today's set bookends well with it.
-
Great set today. I am working from home, and made myself breakfast during the set, so I was actually listening on my home stereo, which was something of a treat.
I'll 10 way tie for BOS (nothing wrong with CCR in my book).
Funny, two days in a row now a novelty song has won BOS (Styx fans might argue with me on Mr Roboto, but c'mon!).
-
05/16/2008 - FRIDAY!! Back, back, back to...1969!!
1. Sly & the Family Stone - Stand
2. Booker T & the MGs - Time is Tight
3. Marvin Gaye - Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
4. Donovan - Atlantis
5. Isleys - It's Your Thing
6. Flirtations - Nothing But a Heartache
7. CCR - Lodi
8. Ray Stevens - Gitarzan (BEST OF SET!!)
9. Joan Baez - Love is Just a Four Letter Word
10. Desmond Dekker & the Aces - The Israelites
BONUS TRACK: John Mayall - Room to Move
-
DM mentioned that the requestor asked for "lots of Motown and R&B", but now a break for Donovan...
And an honest-ta-god bustout at that!
That's one of those "It's not possible" bustouts -- I know Dave's played it back in the day; often, in fact. But if it ain't in the db it ain't in the db...
Dave's played it in the pre-DB days; I know b/c I discovered the song (as with so many others) via 10@10.
But my BOS of BOSes goes to the Fabulous Flirtations. Will still be up to hear the replay in a little while (will be my first time hearing the Baez tune).
-
Nice finish to a pretty great set--Desmond Dekker, Israelites.
Boy, did this turn my ears around in the summer of '69 when Top 40 radio picked it up.
Turned my ears inside-out just trying to figure out WTF he was singing! As I've mentioned before, WABC jock Dan Ingram got ahold of the lyrics and for a while he would "translate" whenever he played the song during his air shift.
-
DM mentioned that the requestor asked for "lots of Motown and R&B", but now a break for Donovan...
And an honest-ta-god bustout at that!
That's one of those "It's not possible" bustouts -- I know Dave's played it back in the day; often, in fact. But if it ain't in the db it ain't in the db...
Dave's played it in the pre-DB days; I know b/c I discovered the song (as with so many others) via 10@10.
Actually, I take this back: I now recall hearing/seeing it on MTV's "Closet Classics" way back when.
-
I'm in for the fab-u-luss-ness of the replay. Didn't really feel the Donovan this morning. Really hearing it now.
-
It's your thing, wikipedia educates me yet again,
"It's Your Thing" is an influential funk single by the Isley Brothers. Released in 1969, the funk (and feminist) anthem was an artistic response to Motown chief Berry Gordy's demanding hold on his artists after the Isleys left the label in late-1968. The lyrics of the chorus (which also serve as first verse lyrics) read: "It's your thing/Do what you wanna do/I can't tell you/Who to sock it to".
Overview
After scoring one popular hit with the label with "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)", the Isleys felt typecast in the role as a second-tier act while well-established Detroit acts like The Temptations, The Miracles and The Four Tops got more promotion from the label Motown. The brothers' decision to leave Motown came after a successful UK tour, where the brothers had a bigger fanbase than in America. A re-release of "This Old Heart" had reached number three on their pop singles chart. Similar success came with two more singles from their Motown catalog that were hits well after their Motown departure. Berry Gordy allowed the brothers to leave the label, and the Isleys reactivated their own label, T-Neck Records, which they had originally started a few years prior to their Motown signing. For Buddah Records, the Isleys recorded "It's Your Thing" which Ronald wrote upon arriving home after taking his daughter Tawana to school. The lead singer said that he thought of the melody and some of the lyrics in his head. His older brothers O'Kelly and Rudolph helped compose more lyrics.
Release and reaction
Recorded in two takes and featuring the first appearance of seventeen-year-old Ernie on bass, the song was released as a single on February 16, 1969 and quickly rose to the top of both the Billboard pop and R&B singles charts, peaking at #2 on the former and marking their first #1 hit in the latter. Upon the song's release and ascent to success, Gordy threatened to sue the group for releasing it in an attempt to bring them back to Motown, but he eventually cancelled his threat, and in February 1970 the brothers became the first former Motown act to win a Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.
Cover versions and legacy
Over sixty artists have recorded their own version of the song including a not yet established Jackson Five, who first performed the song at their television debut on the Miss Black America Pageant, later recording it for their ABC album. Another version was recorded by Memphis soul singer Ann Peebles. The song also has been heavily sampled by hip-hop acts, most famously by rap group Salt 'N' Pepa and D.C. go-go band E.U., who sampled it for "Shake Your Thang" (1988), and like many of their earlier singles, the song has been featured in commercials. The song has been credited for being one of the first full-fledged funk songs around the same time as artists like James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone brought their own funk anthems to the scene.
Credits
Lead vocals by Ronald Isley
Background vocals by O'Kelly Isley, Jr. and Rudolph Isley
Written, arranged and composed by Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Jr. and Rudolph Isley
Produced by The Isley Brothers
Bass by Ernie Isley
Guitar by Charles "Skip" Pitts
Piano by Everett Collins
-
Was there a "skip" early on in Nothing but a Heartache? Didn't catch this in the 10am play.
BOS BOS BOS Flirtations
Lodi still a letdown following the Flirtations.
-
Was there a "skip" early on in Nothing but a Heartache? Didn't catch this in the 10am play.
YES! I heard it too. But not on the Sat morning version. And damn, Dave was right about the stereo separation on "Gitarzan". Still waiting for Gaz's reaction to the Baez.
-
Was there a "skip" early on in Nothing but a Heartache? Didn't catch this in the 10am play.
YES! I heard it too. But not on the Sat morning version. And damn, Dave was right about the stereo separation on "Gitarzan". Still waiting for Gaz's reaction to the Baez.
I finally realized, about a verse into LIJA4LW, that I did indeed know it once upon a time: My friend Matt, with whom I made furtive efforts at songwriting collaboration in college, used to play that one from a Dylan songbook. I had completely forgotten it. Dug what JB did with it.