KPOO etc week of 1/16/12

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DJ Marilynn's KPOO show today is like a 3-hour version of AL's MLK set. Great stuff so far.

and sure enuf here's Nina Simone (The King of Love is Dead) -- will AL play it too or was posting it on FB a hint that DC disapproved?

ETA: KPOO is just stellar this morning. JB, more Nina Simone, Isleys.

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JJ's "on fire" this morning.  Otis' "Mr Pitiful" followed by the orig pre-Moodies "Go Now" by Bessie Banks.

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1340 just played a soulful cover of "Smackwater Jack" -- no idea who it was but I liked it. And sadly, the guy who did the request show (and was the only live DJ on the station) appears to have left the building.

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2NG's retro chart is from Jan 1969 -- say hallelujah!

Tull's little-heard "Love Story" gets a BOSFRA.

Kermit Canned Heat: "goin' up the country, Piggy don't you wanna go?"

OMFG: "Quick Joey Small"!

first of TWO covers of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-la-Da" is NTM: the Bedrocks, a jamaican outfit. I think I like their version better than Marmalade's.

meanwhile, more Englebert impersonators on this chart than you can shake a muttonchop sideburn at.  Oh those wacky Brits.

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Discovery of the Week, courtesy WDAS in Philly: Jo Armstead, "Stone Good Lover", an R&B hit circa 1968:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Ez6f6SCaU

she never had pop success but she wrote Garland Green's "Jealous Kind of fella"

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In between Etta James songs, JJ on KPOO just found time to do the "Bertha Butt Boogie" -- no question!