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Title: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: RGMike on September 08, 2010, 09:37:38 PM
Yeah, some sorta birthday request she's doing. Could be great or dreadfully cliche-ridden (Fogheads are predictably asking for Mamas & Papas, Beach Boys, Scott McKenzie...zzzzzzzzzzzz).  I have a 2-1/2 hour meeting from 9:30-NOON so I'm gonna miss this one, can't say I'm overly upset.  Catch up with the replay.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on September 09, 2010, 08:30:53 AM
Yeah, some sorta birthday request she's doing. Could be great or dreadfully cliche-ridden (Fogheads are predictably asking for Mamas & Papas, Beach Boys, Scott McKenzie...zzzzzzzzzzzz).  I have a 2-1/2 hour meeting from 9:30-NOON so I'm gonna miss this one, can't say I'm overly upset.  Catch up with the replay.

Plus, there's a request for.... "Sausalito Summerlight" by Diesel! Score! ::) I actually sort of know the guy who requested it, so I didn't get sarcastic on FB.

To be fair, I do believe it's California Day.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: RGMike on September 09, 2010, 08:43:27 AM

To be fair, I do believe it's California Day.

So it is!  I shoulda requested "California Day", Starland Vocal Band's lovely, ill-fated follow-up to "Afternoon Delight"
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on September 09, 2010, 08:56:25 AM
I haven't checked fb, but I hope someone requested -- and we get --  LL Cool J.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: RGMike on September 09, 2010, 09:13:33 AM
I haven't checked fb, but I hope someone requested -- and we get --  LL Cool J.

I requested it -- and I'm betting sundaygal did too.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Gazoo on September 09, 2010, 10:05:30 AM
Starting with a Beach Boys twin spin, the second half of which is new to me.  Nice bomp-a-dee-dah groove to this one.  "Salinas Way"?
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: urth on September 09, 2010, 10:09:38 AM
I haven't checked fb, but I hope someone requested -- and we get --  LL Cool J.

I requested it -- and I'm betting sundaygal did too.

She did--and I was all set to, until I saw you two had taken care of it. And AL commented that she didn't have to sound the "what, no LL?" alarm, so that bodes well, as she didn't call out any other songs specifically.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on September 09, 2010, 10:12:21 AM
I think it'd be ok if AL included a clip from The Grape Of Wrath movie -- maybe the part where Grandpa dies at the side of the road, his dreams of finally being able to sit in a tub of sweet grapes and squarsh them all over dashed. 

I'm just sayin'.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on September 09, 2010, 10:15:51 AM
Cheap Trick's Californee May-un, what great rocking pop.  (Actually, everything they do is great rocking pop...)
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: urth on September 09, 2010, 10:17:03 AM
BOS to Cheap Trick's cover of California Man. I was hoping AL'd pull out the original Move version, but this is just fine. I don't care if your legs start achin'...
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Davefish on September 09, 2010, 10:19:41 AM
BOS for Estimated Prophet, thought this is the only song I've heard so far.

Classic Tom Scott at the end of this one.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on September 09, 2010, 10:24:36 AM
who's this?  Wilco?
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Davefish on September 09, 2010, 10:25:44 AM
who's this?  Wilco?
Roger that.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on September 09, 2010, 10:28:19 AM
who's this?  Wilco?
Roger that.

:)
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: urth on September 09, 2010, 10:30:38 AM
who's this?  Wilco?
Roger that.

This is shaping up to be damn near an all-request set. Of course, when people call out 10 or 20 songs each, it's tough to pick out something that *wasn't* requested.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on September 09, 2010, 10:37:55 AM
love the inclusion of Annie Hall quips making fun of the LA ('Don't tell me we have to walk from the house from here.  My feet haven't touched pavement since I got to LA' and '..All the good meetings are taken.')  nyuk nyuk

another great 'let's make fun of LA' movie scene is the one in LA Story where Steve Martin drives down the street for a very short distance, keeping the car door open and his left legging hanging out  b/c it's just not worth getting completely in the car!  love that..
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: sundaygal on September 09, 2010, 10:39:10 AM
There it is, folks...Going Back To Cali - LL Cool J (with his washboard abs...)
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on September 09, 2010, 10:43:48 AM
There it is, folks...Going Back To Cali - LL Cool J (with his washboard abs...)

I have washboard flabs, too.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: urth on September 09, 2010, 10:49:24 AM

another great 'let's make fun of LA' movie scene is the one in LA Story where Steve Martin drives down the street for a very short distance, keeping the car door open and his left legging hanging out  b/c it's just not worth getting completely in the car!  love that..


That whole film is one big sendup of LA life. There are loads of subtle and not so subtle pokes at their lifestyle. There's a scene where he's working out in a park, and in the background you can see several people collapsing and being loaded into ambulances.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on September 09, 2010, 11:33:41 AM

another great 'let's make fun of LA' movie scene is the one in LA Story where Steve Martin drives down the street for a very short distance, keeping the car door open and his left legging hanging out  b/c it's just not worth getting completely in the car!  love that..


That whole film is one big sendup of LA life. There are loads of subtle and not so subtle pokes at their lifestyle. There's a scene where he's working out in a park, and in the background you can see several people collapsing and being loaded into ambulances.

tee hee, yeah, it's great.  I love the anticipation which builds when everyone wants to goto the newest and hottest restaurant, and then we finally find out they it's spelled L'Idiot.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: RGMike on September 09, 2010, 12:08:02 PM
Starting with a Beach Boys twin spin, the second half of which is new to me.  Nice bomp-a-dee-dah groove to this one.  "Salinas Way"?

I'm glad to hear she played that. They did a "suite" about Cali on that LP (Holland?); not sure how much of it she did, but the "on my way to sunny cal-a-for-ny-ay" piece was a flop single at the time, sadly.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Wayback on September 09, 2010, 02:04:43 PM
9/9/10-Thursday!! Happy 160th Birthday to Californ-I-A! 10 Great Songs for our Great Golden State!
 1.  Beach Boys - California Girls/ California Saga (On My Way To Californ-I-A)
 2.  The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
(TV: I Love Lucy: California, Here I Come)
 3.  The Rivieras - California Sun
 4.  Cheap Trick - California Man
(Movie: Caddyshack- Bill Murray)
 5.  Grateful Dead - Estimated Prophet
 6.  Wilco w/Billy Bragg - California Stars
 7.  Led Zeppelin - Going To California
 8.  Joni Mitchell - California (BOS!!)
(Movie: Annie Hall: Woody in L.A.)
 9.  Albert Hammond - It Never Rains In Southern California
(Movie: Annie Hall-Woody back in L.A.)
10.  LL Cool J - Going Back To Cali
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on September 09, 2010, 04:00:25 PM
who's this?  Wilco?
Roger that.

Well played, sir.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on September 09, 2010, 04:01:12 PM
BOS, LZ.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: RGMike on September 09, 2010, 07:54:30 PM
Love the guy on FB who voted for "the Rivieras doing a Ramones song". I hope he was kidding.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on September 09, 2010, 08:16:12 PM
"It Never Rains In Southern California":

The name of two distinct top 40 hits by Albert Hammond and Tony! Toni! Tone!

And I think the winner of the "most unlikely title to be hits with two different songs" award.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Gazoo on September 09, 2010, 08:36:35 PM
"It Never Rains In Southern California":

The name of two distinct top 40 hits by Albert Hammond and Tony! Toni! Tone!

And I think the winner of the "most unlikely title to be hits with two different songs" award.

Believe it or not, I've given thought to that very subject.  Best competitor I've come up with is "Stairway to Heaven" (a hit for Neil Sedaka a decade before Zep).
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on September 10, 2010, 08:23:23 PM
"It Never Rains In Southern California":

The name of two distinct top 40 hits by Albert Hammond and Tony! Toni! Tone!

And I think the winner of the "most unlikely title to be hits with two different songs" award.

Believe it or not, I've given thought to that very subject.  Best competitor I've come up with is "Stairway to Heaven" (a hit for Neil Sedaka a decade before Zep).

When I saw a few years ago that Jewel had a minor Hot AC hit entitled "2 Become 1", I thought "Jewel covering the Spice Girls, how quaint". Of course, it wasn't actually the same song.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Gazoo on September 11, 2010, 10:35:43 AM
"It Never Rains In Southern California":

The name of two distinct top 40 hits by Albert Hammond and Tony! Toni! Tone!

And I think the winner of the "most unlikely title to be hits with two different songs" award.

Believe it or not, I've given thought to that very subject.  Best competitor I've come up with is "Stairway to Heaven" (a hit for Neil Sedaka a decade before Zep).

When I saw a few years ago that Jewel had a minor Hot AC hit entitled "2 Become 1", I thought "Jewel covering the Spice Girls, how quaint". Of course, it wasn't actually the same song.

There are also two hits titled "Never Had a Dream Come True": Stevie's in the  '60s was followed by an unrelated song by a teen-pop outfit called S Club 7 a decade or so ago.  I believe  Cathy Dennis wrote it, for those who remember her.
Title: Re: 9 Sept 2010: it's... California Songs
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on September 11, 2010, 05:12:44 PM
"It Never Rains In Southern California":

The name of two distinct top 40 hits by Albert Hammond and Tony! Toni! Tone!

And I think the winner of the "most unlikely title to be hits with two different songs" award.

Believe it or not, I've given thought to that very subject.  Best competitor I've come up with is "Stairway to Heaven" (a hit for Neil Sedaka a decade before Zep).

When I saw a few years ago that Jewel had a minor Hot AC hit entitled "2 Become 1", I thought "Jewel covering the Spice Girls, how quaint". Of course, it wasn't actually the same song.

There are also two hits titled "Never Had a Dream Come True": Stevie's in the  '60s was followed by an unrelated song by a teen-pop outfit called S Club 7 a decade or so ago.  I believe  Cathy Dennis wrote it, for those who remember her.

Currently we have Bruno Mars and a climbing hit, "Just The Way You Are", which is not a Billy Joel cover.