10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on August 24, 2009, 09:31:48 AM
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Ha! KPOO's DJ Marilynn is doing a half-hour of James Brown songs that mention food. "Popcorn" for breakfast!
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"and mah name... is... PEACHES!!!"
KPOO plays Nina Simone's "Four Women".
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KPOO plays Willie Dixon's version of "29 ways (to make it to my baby's door)" -- I never knew the Marc Cohn version was a cover!
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Judge plays Consumer Rapport's "Ease On Down the Road", one of the best-remembered singles to never make the Top 40.
followed by the Blackbyrds fine, forgotten "Happy Music".
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Judge on fire today: an obscure, NTM Spinners song "Wake Up Susan", and now The Richie Family's "Best Disco In Town" -- the looooooooong 12" version.
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Quincy Jones' version of "Ai No Corrida" -- a Chas Jankel song (he was one of Ian Dury's Blockheads). But the melody seems swiped from (gulp!) "Dreadlock Holiday" (which came first, in '78; "ANC" was released in '80 by Jankel and '81 by QJ).
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The O'Jays' great forgtten ballad "Your Body's Here With Me, But Your Mind is On the Other Side of Town" -- I'm amazed no one ever had a country hit with this lyric.
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he's James Brown. And he's level wit da ground. Truer now than it was 40 years ago, har har.
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KPOO's oldies show last nite saluted Johnny Carter of the Dells and now JJ does the same.
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ooo! Watts 103rd St Band, "Do Your Thing" -- in the jungle, babe!
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woo hoo! 'LNG plays the Swingin' Medallions' *other* hit, "She Drives Me Outta My Mind".
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one of Len Barry's several sound-alike follow-ups to "1-2-3": "I Struck it Rich (When I Found You Baby)".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kvi5sBiKVk
BTW, "1-2-3" was ripped off from a Supremes song, "Ask Any Girl" (B-side of "Baby Love") -- Motown successfully sued! Here's a comparison:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-KfDodRgDM
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Highlight of the afternoon: Ms King's lovely "Sweet Seasons" -- amazing how underplayed this is, given her catalogue.
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NTM obscurities from JJ: Deniece Williams doing "Baby Baby My Love's All For You", and Michael Henderson, still looking for a wide receiver on "Take Me I'm Yours".
And the week comes full-circle with the Blackbyrds' "Happy Music", which Judge played on Monday -- amazingly, their only other Top 40 hit besides "Walking in Rhythm".
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another obscurity, "Now Is The Time", from the 4-woman Bay Area group The Sisters Love, which included both Merry Clayton and a pre-Paul Anka Odia Coates!
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Barry Scott opened tonight's Lost 45s with Tom Clay's "What the World Needs Now" mashup - unexpectedly affecting in light of Teddy's Dead day.
(That's what I said.)
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Barry scores again: besides interviewing Skip Prokop (writer of 3 of my all-time faves), he plays #2 on my all-time list, the Grass Roots' "I'd Wait a Million Years." (Mike, you've joked that Grass Roots songs are interchangeable, but you gotta admit, this one's kinda sui generis.)