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Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 17, 2009, 01:24:13 PM
Judge in a mellow mood: a soul cover of "Make it with You" (not sure whose; there are several) and then he dredges up the 5-D's "Love's Lines Angles & Rhymes".

"Cylinders of hope turning and yearning
 Into pendulums of weary hesitation"

er... huh?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 17, 2009, 02:17:26 PM
lawd! O'Jays, "992 Arguments", one of my fave sound-alike follow-ups.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 17, 2009, 02:32:40 PM
OMGWTF!  an early-'70s J-5 soundalike doing a delightful cover of "How can You mend a broken Heart?", replete with spoken passages ("somebody tell me how to put the pieces back together again!").  I've heard this before but can't remember the name (I'll look it up tonite). A lost gem.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 17, 2009, 03:42:46 PM
For those looking for a Triple-A that's more adventurous than KFOG... there's "The River" in Northampton Mass.  Not much Feist and no Jazn Mrazzzzzz thatI can see:

http://www.wrsi.com/pages/3230891.php
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 18, 2009, 08:44:06 AM
tail-end of JJ's '60s hour: Smokey's "Happy Landing" -- NTM.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 18, 2009, 09:33:53 AM
Ree-Ree *IS* "Eleanor Rigby"!  keepin' her face in a jar by the door --- these days, she needs a pretty big jar.

(http://blogs.registerguard.com/cms/images/uploads/aretha_in_hat.jpg)
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: Gazoo on August 18, 2009, 10:11:24 AM
Ree-Ree *IS* "Eleanor Rigby"! 

Never understood why she adopted the first-person conceit in the first verse - and then ditched it in the third.  A for singing, D for interpretation.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 18, 2009, 03:23:03 PM
'LNG gem of the day: the Ronettes' fab orig version of "I Can Hear Music", which you almost never hear.  Oh Ronnie, I (heart) you.

And a newly discovered mondegreen: Ronnie says "I hear the music, hold me tight", but in the Beach Boys' version, I thought they were singing "I hear the music all the time".
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 19, 2009, 09:41:31 AM
Holy crap! NTM lost '70s bubblegum from The Sugar Bears (created for a cereal ad campaign): "You Are the One".

http://popdose.com/lost-in-the-70s-the-sugar-bears/
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 19, 2009, 11:49:20 AM
wow -- 'LNG plays several pre-GrassRoots versions of "Live For Today" including the Italian version! (by a Brit group called the Rokes who sound rather Kinks-y.)  And then it was recorded by the Skopes and The Living Daylights (the LD's version was apparently a top ten hit in a few markets). Amazing.

http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2009/03/lets-live-for-today.html
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 20, 2009, 12:50:34 PM
OMG! the format Gaz has been waiting for!  "CheezyFM":

http://www.cheezyfm.com/
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: Tinka Cat on August 20, 2009, 01:57:05 PM
OMG! the format Gaz has been waiting for!  "CheezyFM":

http://www.cheezyfm.com/

dang, was all excited to listen online, but apparently it's a corporate site that want to market that format over the airwaves.  I would listen, but resent (just a little) the whole idea of some songs I like being shoehorned into the "cheezy" category.   But that's how stupid (and afraid) radio/pop culture marketing has become: we're reluctant to admit we like something, and instead have to be all ironic and sh*t so we can still remain cool.  I like cheese!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 20, 2009, 02:04:32 PM
OMG! the format Gaz has been waiting for!  "CheezyFM":

http://www.cheezyfm.com/

dang, was all excited to listen online, but apparently it's a corporate site that want to market that format over the airwaves.  I would listen, but resent (just a little) the whole idea of some songs I like being shoehorned into the "cheezy" category.   But that's how stupid (and afraid) radio/pop culture marketing has become: we're reluctant to admit we like something, and instead have to be all ironic and sh*t so we can still remain cool.  I like cheese!

yeah, I was hoping for a "listen live" link too. I can't imagine anyone carrying it as their main format -- maybe on weekends, but not 24/7.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 21, 2009, 11:15:27 AM
perfect antidote to the generally uninteresting sets today: the KYA retro stream. Donovan, looking thru crys-tal spek-tickles.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: Tinka Cat on August 21, 2009, 12:21:41 PM
perfect antidote to the generally uninteresting sets today: the KYA retro stream. Donovan, looking thru crys-tal spek-tickles.

i've been listening too.  I thought Jerry Butler was telling me about his Nudie Woman... Turns out it's a Moody Woman.... dangit.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 21, 2009, 12:38:52 PM
perfect antidote to the generally uninteresting sets today: the KYA retro stream. Donovan, looking thru crys-tal spek-tickles.

i've been listening too.  I thought Jerry Butler was telling me about his Nudie Woman... Turns out it's a Moody Woman.... dangit.

I wonder what Mama Cass thought the first time she heard Spanky & Our Gang's "Sunday will Never Be the same"? like, bet she was all "Damn! Ahm gonna kill dat fat bitch, think she can steal mah act!"

(http://www.northcoastjournal.com/020300/cover0203-spanky.jpeg)
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: urth on August 21, 2009, 12:38:57 PM
OMG! the format Gaz has been waiting for!  "CheezyFM":

http://www.cheezyfm.com/

dang, was all excited to listen online, but apparently it's a corporate site that want to market that format over the airwaves.  I would listen, but resent (just a little) the whole idea of some songs I like being shoehorned into the "cheezy" category.   But that's how stupid (and afraid) radio/pop culture marketing has become: we're reluctant to admit we like something, and instead have to be all ironic and sh*t so we can still remain cool.  I like cheese!

yeah, I was hoping for a "listen live" link too. I can't imagine anyone carrying it as their main format -- maybe on weekends, but not 24/7.

They need to employ a spell-checker, too. That carousel in the middle of the page that invites you to "name our core artists" misspells "Tennille"--they have one N where there should be two. Not earning any points here.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 21, 2009, 12:54:08 PM
One of my faves: Johnny Rivers, "Summer Rain" -- but I always wondered how "the jukebox kept on playin' 'Sgt Pepper's Lonelyhearts Club Band' ", when nothing from that LP was ever a single?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: Tinka Cat on August 21, 2009, 01:02:47 PM
One of my faves: Johnny Rivers, "Summer Rain" -- but I always wondered how "the jukebox kept on playin' 'Sgt Pepper's Lonelyhearts Club Band' ", when nothing from that LP was ever a single?

missed that one, like it, too.   wow, some good music knowledge here b/w you and urth.

Jr Walker's Shotgun playing now.  I always heard the phrase as "Shotgun -- shoot a bullet right now."  which of course makes no sense since shotguns use shells.  just looked it up:

I said, Shotgun shoot em for he runs now
Do the jerk baby
Do the jerk now
Hey!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 21, 2009, 01:25:59 PM
One of my faves: Johnny Rivers, "Summer Rain" -- but I always wondered how "the jukebox kept on playin' 'Sgt Pepper's Lonelyhearts Club Band' ", when nothing from that LP was ever a single?

missed that one, like it, too.   wow, some good music knowledge here b/w you and urth.

Jr Walker's Shotgun playing now.  I always heard the phrase as "Shotgun -- shoot a bullet right now."  which of course makes no sense since shotguns use shells.  just looked it up:

I said, Shotgun shoot em for he runs now
Do the jerk baby
Do the jerk now
Hey!


ha! I assume that "for" is short for "before" ("shoot 'im fo' he runs now" would be better spelling on their part). I always thought it was "shoot him for me right now". Either way, you're shooting some guy... and then you're dancing? WTF?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: Tinka Cat on August 21, 2009, 02:26:00 PM
KYA just played a vintage commercial for the Rolling Stones concert stop in the Oakland Coliseum.  Bill Graham presets their only NorCal appearance. What year would that have been?

The tickets ranged from $4.50 up to a whopping $7.50!

If you wanted tix, "please send your money and a self addressed stamped envelope to the Coliseum" and they will mail the tix back.  So cash in one direction and stones tickets in the other direction.  I wonder how many of those envelopes -- in both directions -- were open by postal employees? 
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: urth on August 21, 2009, 07:19:49 PM
KYA just played a vintage commercial for the Rolling Stones concert stop in the Oakland Coliseum.  Bill Graham presets their only NorCal appearance. What year would that have been?

The tickets ranged from $4.50 up to a whopping $7.50!

If you wanted tix, "please send your money and a self addressed stamped envelope to the Coliseum" and they will mail the tix back.  So cash in one direction and stones tickets in the other direction.  I wonder how many of those envelopes -- in both directions -- were open by postal employees? 

I think it might have been this one, circa November 1969, about a month before Altamont:

(http://www.oldhandbills.com/images/060915-Albert-Bill_Graham/BG201-Rolling_Stones-Oakland_Coliseum-1969-Card.jpg)

I believe the next time they came through here was in '72 and they played Winterland, then the Cow Palace in '75, and after that it was all stadium shows at either Oakland or Candlestick until 1999.

When was the last time you went to a show that had tickets at that many price levels? Nowadays it's either all one price, or perhaps one exhorbitant price for most seats, except for the nosebleeds and obstructed view, for which they offer a minimal discount.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 21, 2009, 09:48:43 PM
KYA just played a vintage commercial for the Rolling Stones concert stop in the Oakland Coliseum.  Bill Graham presets their only NorCal appearance. What year would that have been?

The tickets ranged from $4.50 up to a whopping $7.50!


When was the last time you went to a show that had tickets at that many price levels? Nowadays it's either all one price, or perhaps one exhorbitant price for most seats, except for the nosebleeds and obstructed view, for which they offer a minimal discount.

Indeed, I remember similar NYC shows in the '70s -- Madison Sq Garden, Shea Stadium -- where there were 5 or 6 diff price points. (I had nosebleed seats for Rick Wakeman doing his entire Journey to the Center of the Earth LP!)

But what's really hilarious on that poster is "By Popular Demand -- 2nd Show 10:30 the Same Night!"  :o :o :o  Bet Mick doesn't stay up that late these days...
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 22, 2009, 10:47:48 PM
Ay! Ay que FIEVRE!  JJ plays "Jungle Fever" by Chakachas, which he pronounces "sha-ka-kas". Er, huh?

But the WTF-of-the-night goes to a NTM cover of "Heaven Must've Sent You" by the Continental 4, recorded midway between the Elgins' 1966 original and Bonnie Pointer's '79 hit version.

and it's followed by one from my all-time top ten forgotten soul nuggets: the Chi-Lites, "Stoned Outta My Mind". Oh *please* let us hear a Casey Kasem 1973 chart that includes this one in the next month.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09
Post by: RGMike on August 22, 2009, 10:52:02 PM
"Like a house on FY-uh
mah de-ZY-uh
is climbin' HY-uh
baby WOOO!"

They just don't write deep lyrics like that anymore. Yay "Hot Line" by the Sylvers.