CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 4/21/08

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New to me: Inez & Charlie Foxx (of "Mockingbird" fame), "If You Don't Believe I'm Leavin' (Just Count The Days I'm Gone)".

and now, several hours later, here's Patti Labelle & the Bluebells with their version of same.  This has been a fine afternoon of Soul -- nearly as good as the late lamented VIP Radio.

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Sweeney's CG replacement, Mr Coyte, doing a fine job: Albert Hammond's "Free Electric Band" and 10cc's "Art For Art's Sake".

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Wow, Greg on CGSS plays one of my fave forgotten late-'80s hits, Calloway's "I Wanna Be Rich". It actually peaked in early '90, iirc -- would've been a better bustout for Dave yesterday than that Nelson song.

and he follows it with R Dean Taylor's fab it-shoulda-been-the-Tops "Ghost in my House". 

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"Aquarius... and mah name is Charles. I like a woman... who's quiet... who carries herself like Miss Universe... so I can wear all her clothes..."

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Obscurity of the Month: last nite on KPOO, JJ played Carolyn Crawford's "My Smile Is Just a Frown (Turned Upside Down)", a minor hit on Motown in '65 and her only Motown hit.  New to me, it's a Smokey Robinson comp, not unlike the stuff Mary Wells was doing at the time. What's interesting is that the lyric includes the lines

"Just Like Pagliacci did
I try to keep my sadness hid"

!!!! -- I nearly fell out of bed when I heard that last nite! Smokey, of course, recycled that couplet a few years later for his own "Tears of a Clown".  Live'n'learn!