CG/KPOO/VIP/WLNG etc Week of 5/29/06

[RGMike]

another lost gem: The Dells medley of "Sing a Rainbow/Love is Blue".

[RGMike]

PJ Proby, "Nikki Hoeky".  This has been an a-MAY-zing afternoon o0f music.

[Gazoo]

I can't... stop...posting!

Reparata & the DelRons! "Captain of Your Ship" a real late-'60s girl-group obscurity that Gaz would just love.

I've only ever heard "I'm Nobody's Baby Now" from them.  Would love to find this.  As for the Dells track - I've never heard it; did they write lyrics for "Love Is Blue," or interpolate another song into its melody; or were there already lyrics pre-Mauriat?

[RGMike]

I can't... stop...posting!

Reparata & the DelRons! "Captain of Your Ship" a real late-'60s girl-group obscurity that Gaz would just love.

I've only ever heard "I'm Nobody's Baby Now" from them.  Would love to find this.  As for the Dells track - I've never heard it; did they write lyrics for "Love Is Blue," or interpolate another song into its melody; or were there already lyrics pre-Mauriat?

Reparata rules!  I think they also did "Whenever a Teenager Cries", which I do have on a tape somewhere.

re: "Love is Blue", somebody (dunno who) wrote lyrics after the instrumental was a hit; I remember hearing other singers do it on various Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas shows. "Blue, blue, my love is blue..."

[RGMike]

here's that CG list I talked about last week: "essential" songs that never made the British Top 30...

http://www.capitalgold.com/Article.asp?id=223432

[RGMike]

CGSS gets down: Cerrone, "Supernature". And Ollie & Jerry's "Breakin' (Ain't No Stoppin' Us)" is comin' up.

[ggould]

played Fleetwood Mac's "Hypnotized" which just goes to show ya it's not all roots music.  I was diggin' it big time as I was waiting for Travis T Hipp's news show, which had to do with Laura Bush.