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Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on May 11, 2009, 02:54:29 PM
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Someone's knockin' at the door: it's Billy Paul with his fab afro-centric cover of Macca's "Let 'Em In", capping another wonderful Monday with Judge on KPOO.
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Judge just played these 2 tracks back-to-back: Deodato's "Super strut" and Joe Bataan's cover of it called "Latin Strut". And I googled and found this blog post about them (where you can hear them both):
http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/joe-bataan-latin-strut/
I'm gonna have to investigate that blog further when I have some time.
ETA: Day-um! the blog's very cool and the guy's got an archive of podcasts that I can't wait to dive into:
http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/funky16corners-podcast-archive/
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ooo! JJ plays the Delfonics fab orig version of "When You Get Right Down to It" -- he played the Ronnie Dyson cover Saturday nite.
and he follows it with Brenda and the Tabulations, making it the 4th time I've heard "Tip of My Tongue" since Sat nite -- but I never get tired of this one.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YJNP5NWVL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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as a big 'mo, I strongly endorse Smokey's "Mo' Love".
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time for a showdown -- Gladys has the lowdown! BOS1 "End of Our Road".
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Blobby Boo Band, er, Bobby "Blue" Bland and the orig of "Share Your Love", of which I love every cover version I've ever heard.
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BOS2 Fancy Miss Nancy Wilson, youdon'tknowyoudon'tknowyoudon'tknowyoudon'tknow... how glad she am.
Folowed by the Tempts, tryin' to take the wet from water.
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Peaches! them whispers is gettin' LOUDAH! BOS3 Jackie Wilson.
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Peaches! them whispers is gettin' LOUDAH! BOS3 Jackie Wilson.
word up, bub! that was nice.
there he is: "Mr. Excitement," the late, great Jackie Wilson -- gone but not forgotten.
now it's a boog-a-loo par-tay
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Peaches! them whispers is gettin' LOUDAH! BOS3 Jackie Wilson.
word up, bub! that was nice.
I belatedly discovered Mr Wilson in the '80s when he hit #1 in the UK with a re-release of "Reet Petite" (it had been used in a jeans commercial -- take THAT, David Dundas!). And "Whispers" and "The Sweetest Feeling" became 2 of my fave '60s soul singles.
ooo! Wes Montgomery's instrumental take on "Windy"! George Benson, eat your heart out.
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another fine retro-chart on CG this week: June of 1982. Sure hope we hear Capt. Sensible as one of the "bubbling under" extras.
01. Charlene - I've Never Been To Me
02. Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
03. Soft Cell - Torch
04. Kid Creole And The Coconuts - I'm A Wonderful Thing (Baby)
05. Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
06. ABC - The Look Of Love
07. Odyssey - Inside Out
08. Diana Ross - Work That Body
09. Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
10. Stevie Wonder - Do I Do
11. Gary Numan - We Take Mystery (To Bed)
12. The Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
13. Roxy Music - Avalon
14. Madness - House Of Fun
15. Tight Fit - Fantasy Island
16. Natasha - Iko Iko
17. Junior - Mama Used To Say
18. The Beatles - The Beatles Movie Medley
19. Midge Ure - No Regrets
20. Genesis - 3 x 3 (EP)
21. Yazoo - Only You
22. Queen - Las Palabras De Amor
23. Echo & The Bunnymen - The Back Of Love
24. Toyah - Brave New World
25. Shalamar - A Night To Remember
26. The Rolling Stones - Going To A Go Go
27. The Fun Boy Three - The Telephone Always Rings
28. Cheri - Murphy's Law
29. Associates - Club Country
30. Blondie - Island Of Lost Souls
31. Imagination - Music And Lights
32. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Fireworks
33. Captain Sensible - Happy Talk
34. A Flock Of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song
35. Prelude - After The Gold Rush {1982}
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ooo! Wes Montgomery's instrumental take on "Windy"! George Benson, eat your heart out.
and speaking of instrumentals: 'LNG plays the Sounds Orchestral version of "Cast Your Fate to the Wind", which I heard a billion times in the '70s as one of WNEW-FM's "just before the news" instrum's.
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Peaches! them whispers is gettin' LOUDAH! BOS3 Jackie Wilson.
word up, bub! that was nice.
I belatedly discovered Mr Wilson in the '80s when he hit #1 in the UK with a re-release of "Reet Petite" (it had been used in a jeans commercial -- take THAT, David Dundas!). And "Whispers" and "The Sweetest Feeling" became 2 of my fave '60s soul singles.
ooo! Wes Montgomery's instrumental take on "Windy"! George Benson, eat your heart out.
Yes, we both (Stacy and I) thought that was pretty lovely, too.
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another fine retro-chart on CG this week: June of 1982. Sure hope we hear Capt. Sensible as one of the "bubbling under" extras.
01. Charlene - I've Never Been To Me
ah, yes... "the subtle whoring that costs too much to be free..." Charlene is the guest this week (and her life story is rather interesting, actually). No wonder this song ended up a drag queen classic.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41dt1mfCNnL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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21. Yazoo - Only You
Highlight so far. Astounding that this wasn't a hit single in the US.
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18. The Beatles - The Beatles Movie Medley
whoever invented the "medley record" in the '80s should rot in hell.
But TANC -- Junior gets a BOS
17. Junior - Mama Used To Say
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16. Natasha - Iko Iko
15. Tight Fit - Fantasy Island
WTF? this Natasha thing is NTM, and it's *very* similar to the Belle Starrs version later in the decade.
Also NTM: Tight Fit with "Fantasy Island" -- Worst. ABBA. Imitation. Evah!
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11. Gary Numan - We Take Mystery (To Bed)
another NTM track, one of Numan's many UK hits that never crossed the pond. Me likey. BOS2.
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VHM Stevie's honeysuckle chocolate-drippin' kisses full o' love fo' you!
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Miss Ross says "Work that Body", but the backup singers are doin' all the work on this track. Paging Jane Fonda.
ETA: Charlene tells the host that she had a daughter named Chadney (er... OK) and that Diana Ross liked the name so much she named HER daughter "Chudney" (!)
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BOS3 Odyssey's fab "Inside Out", which got to #3 in the UK but shamefully didn't make it in the US.
and uber-BOS4 ABC's still-stunning "Look of Love". Sistahs and brothas!
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after a long delay -- the CG player crapped out and I had to restart the show from the beginning! -- here are 2 more BOS's: Kid Creole's "I'm a Wonderful Thing" and Soft Cell's little-heard "Torch".
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and uber-BOS4 ABC's still-stunning "Look of Love". Sistahs and brothas!
great album! saw Martin Fry (as ABC) at the Independent last year. he's still got it.
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WTF-of-the-Day: the Impressions, "I Can't Satisfy" which 'LNG just played. NTM, and damned if it ain't a rip-off of the Isley's "This Old Heart of Mine" -- apparently Motown sued and Curtis Mayfield had to share songwriting credit! Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL4JL9ohpx4&feature=player_embedded
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always a treat: 'LNG plays Rose Garden's fab OHW "Next Plane To London". Lead singer sounds kinda like Amy Indigo Girl.
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the guy's got an archive of podcasts that I can't wait to dive into:
http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/funky16corners-podcast-archive/
I'm sampling the wares and so far I'm impressed. Highly recommend the podcasts he calls "S.O.S. Heart in Distress", and "Bold Soul Sisters", all mostly-obscure female '60s soul.
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TANC: one of the tracks on the "Bold Soul Sisters" podcast is a Brenda & the Tabulations obscurity called "Scuze Us, Y'all" -- and the label it was on was called Top & Bottom Records! And speaking of Top & Bottom, here's Cold Blood's "You Got Me Hummin'", on the San Francisco label.
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This blog guy has a number of R&B-Beatle-covers podcasts, and I'm hearing Li'l Junior Parker ("a cousin 'o mine...") doing a real interesting version of "Tomorrow Never Knows" -- not a Beatle tune that gets covered much.
OTOH, here's Bill Cosby desecrating "Sgt Pepper". Yikes.
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catching the tail-end of KPOO's Thurday-morning R&B Oldies show (9a-11a, I usually forget it's on) and get "Does Your Mama Know About Me?" followed by "I've Passed This way Before". Gotta check this out more often.
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oh my! 'LNG gives us the Classics IV's underrated, forgotten last hit: "Every Day With You Girl". Love that sax!
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Paper Lace are on "the East side of Chicago" -- methinks they're lost. Someone should do an update:
"when a man named Blagojevich
tried to make that town his bitch"
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pirate cat radio is getting loud:
Current Song: Bauhaus w/ Brian Eno - Third Uncle
Past Songs:
1. GG Allin - You Hate Me And I Hate You
2. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
3. The Deep Eynde - deepEynde deadAlive
4. Dead Milkmen - Bitchin Camaro
5. Templars - No Rhyme, Nor Reason
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Dead Milkmen - Bitchin Camaro
OMG -- haven't heard that in ages!
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Pirate cat keeping it real:
Billy Bragg - The Price oif Oil (2002)
John Lydon & Afrika Bambaataa - World Destruction
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I'm back to the Funky 16 Corners podcasts and I'm listening to one that's primarily covers, including a reggafied "Down by the River" by someone named Ken Boothe, a jazz guitarist named Grant Green (NTM) doing "Never Can Say Goodbye", Low Rawls s-s-smokin' on "Season of the Witch" (!), Rhetta Hughes' soulful "Light My Fire" (Jose F. eat yer heart out), and OMG, Tony Joe White doin' "Witchita Lineman"
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I'm back to the Funky 16 Corners podcasts and I'm listening to one that's primarily covers, including a reggafied "Down by the River" by someone named Ken Boothe, a jazz guitarist named Grant Green (NTM) doing "Never Can Say Goodbye", Low Rawls s-s-smokin' on "Season of the Witch" (!), Rhetta Hughes' soulful "Light My Fire" (Jose F. eat yer heart out), and OMG, Tony Joe White doin' "Witchita Lineman"
thanks for the tip, I'm listening now.
http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/funky16corners-podcast-archive/
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I'm back to the Funky 16 Corners podcasts and I'm listening to one that's primarily covers, including a reggafied "Down by the River" by someone named Ken Boothe, a jazz guitarist named Grant Green (NTM) doing "Never Can Say Goodbye", Low Rawls s-s-smokin' on "Season of the Witch" (!), Rhetta Hughes' soulful "Light My Fire" (Jose F. eat yer heart out), and OMG, Tony Joe White doin' "Witchita Lineman"
thanks for the tip, I'm listening now.
http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/funky16corners-podcast-archive/
Vol 43 "Unquiet Storm" is the one we're talking about -- the real find for me is an amazing 10-1/2 minute political ballad called "To the Establishment" by the NTM Lou Bond. Gaz would dig this, methinks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYT4gZHaqnw
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I'm back to the Funky 16 Corners podcasts .... Low Rawls s-s-smokin' on "Season of the Witch" (!)
a few years back Donovan sold out several nights at Cafe Du Nord in SF, and Stacy attended.. She got to sit up front at Donovan's sister's table. She said Donovan pretty much sang Season Of The Witch to their table. heheh
About a year later, Donovan did an in-store at Tower on Columbus & Bay for his just-released box set, and I rode my bike down there to check it out. It was fab! He did a bunch of his hits, just with his guitar. There were maybe 50 people there, and I feel very lucky to have been one of them.
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(Theme to) Get Carter is such a groove. :)
See the orig movie w Michael Caine if you haven't.
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another fine retro-chart on CG this week: June of 1982. Sure hope we hear Capt. Sensible as one of the "bubbling under" extras.
01. Charlene - I've Never Been To Me
ah, yes... "the subtle whoring that costs too much to be free..." Charlene is the guest this week (and her life story is rather interesting, actually). No wonder this song ended up a drag queen classic.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41dt1mfCNnL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
TANC: I've Never Been To Me was cowritten by Ron Wilson, who also wrote a bunch of Stevie Wonder hits incl. For Once In My Life and was just discussed over in the Obituary forum.
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Funky 16 Corners scores again with a total OMGWTF: his newest podcast has Doc Severinsen (yes, Johnny Carson's bandleader/trumpeter) doing a jazzy instrumental take on "Court of the Crimson King" (!!!)
http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/
sez Mr Funky 16:
Doc manages to remove the song from its super heavy, glue sniffing prog bombast, and refit it with a snappy new set of threads, making it a lot less “arena full of stoned grad students”, and a lot more “slightly cheesy version of the Concierto di Aranjuez”. When I say slightly cheesy, I only do so because there’s a certain loss of, how do they say “authenticity” when the leader of the Tonight Show band decides to try on this kind of material. That said, it’s very groovy in an LA 1970 studio jazz kind of way, which isn’t surprising when you take a look at the serious players on the session. I’ve been picking up Doc’s late 60’s/early 70’s stuff when I find it, and I have to say that most of the records have something cool to offer.
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Listening to Magic 98 in Wisconsin's "Saturday at the '70s" (which culminates in Casey Kasem tonite) and they're playing "Dy-no-mite" by Tony Camillo's Bazuka from 1975. Can't remember the last time I heard this one.