CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 5/5/08

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New to me: ONJ, "Landslide" (NOT the FMac song).

From the Physical album; faltered at #52.  She performed this on SNL that year, I think.

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Greg on CGSS plays War's "Cinco de Mayo" a few days late, followed by Leon Haywood's "Dont Push it, Don't Force it" (!)

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Greg on CGSS plays War's "Cinco de Mayo" a few days late, followed by Leon Haywood's "Dont Push it, Don't Force it" (!)

Rock Him Gently!  Or, I Wantcha to Do Something Freaky to Me

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KPOO's JJ on his usual Sat nite roll: The DEE-troit Emeralds, buyin' a wash machine and ironin' board, so you can keep yo' new dress pressed!

Followed by Ronnie Dyson's lovely cover of the Delfonics' "When You Get Right Down to It", which failed to make the pop Top 40 in '71, and the J-5 lookin' thru the windows -- peeping MJ!

And talk about a rarity: The Watts 103rd Street Band, "Doin' What Comes Naturally", their first single on Dunhill after a long run on Warners, and their last charted single ever (circa '73).

And as a Mother's Day special, JJ's doing 2 hours of "Sixties Soul Sistahs" at midnite!

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Greg on CGSS plays War's "Cinco de Mayo" a few days late, followed by Leon Haywood's "Dont Push it, Don't Force it" (!)

Rock Him Gently!  Or, I Wantcha to Do Something Freaky to Me

Well, here's the TANC-of-the-Week and the WTF?-of-the-Month: JJ just played Kellee Patterson's "If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It", from late '77 -- yes, it pre-dates the Haywood hit by 2-1/2 years!  They're similar... but not quite the same.

Patterson: "If it don't fit, don't force it/Just relax and let it go/Just 'cause that's how you want it/Doesn't mean it will be so"

Haywood: "Don't push it, don't force it/Let it happen naturally/It will surely happen/If it was meant to be"

Somebody shoulda sued somebody, no? 

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Barry Scott breakout of the night: "You + Me = Us," a disco groover of 1977 from the Undisputed Truth.  It had two chart runs, one reaching #48.  Bridge reminds me a lot of the recently heard "Thunder + Lightning."

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Another stunning breakout: "Maybe Tomorrow" by Badfinger when they were still known as the Iveys.  (No relation to the J5 song.)

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Another stunning breakout: "Maybe Tomorrow" by Badfinger when they were still known as the Iveys.  (No relation to the J5 song.)

I *love* that song. I remember it getting some NYC airplay and being crushed that it was not a hit.  Also rather BeeGees-ish, as I recall. Thankfully included on the Badfinger best-of that I have.

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alright you muthas! Little Steven's Mother's Day show is in full swing. Tell Mama!

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alright you muthas! Little Steven's Mother's Day show is in full swing. Tell Mama!

A salute to Yogi Berra's birthday featuring songs with "hit" in the title culminates with a Honeymooners clip followed by "He Hit Me... and it Felt Like a Kiss". Really, Steven?!?!