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CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« on: September 22, 2009, 08:00:12 AM »
JJ's '60s Tuesday begins with the Whispers powerful "Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L0cTK83CmI
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2009, 08:09:44 AM »
Poor sweet fat Kim Weston: dealing with Berry Gordy really *did* put her in a "helpless situation"!
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2009, 05:22:13 PM »
before I forget, JJ on KPOO this AM played Dinah Washington singing This Bitter Earth.... awesome.  Not really soul and def has a 1950's era swelling-strings-sound, but really liked it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9zAUZfDV-w
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2009, 05:25:47 PM »
still trudging through Barry Scott's Top 100 countdown.  Just heard Rupert Holmes' Him -- ugh.  kinda painful.   Really, who needs Him?

But I just read this on wiki about Holmes' Escape (The Piņa Colada Song):

The song hit #1 late in December 1979, becoming the last song to top the pop chart in the 1970s.
The song fell to #2 for the first week of January, 1980 and then rebounded to #1 the next week,
making Holmes the only artist to ascend to the #1 spot with the same song in different decades.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2009, 08:48:00 PM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on September 22, 2009, 05:25:47 PM
still trudging through Barry Scott's Top 100 countdown.  Just heard Rupert Holmes' Him -- ugh.  kinda painful.   Really, who needs Him?

But I just read this on wiki about Holmes' Escape (The Piņa Colada Song):

The song hit #1 late in December 1979, becoming the last song to top the pop chart in the 1970s.
The song fell to #2 for the first week of January, 1980 and then rebounded to #1 the next week,
making Holmes the only artist to ascend to the #1 spot with the same song in different decades.

Dude! Rupert is GOD!

Seriously, dunno how familiar you are with his pre-"Pina Colada" output, but it's worth investigating, he's a very smart songwriter, and I'm not just talking about "Timothy". His mid-'70s solo LPs are loaded with gems. And the "thinking man's Barry Manilow" label he was given is not the backhanded compliment it sounds... more front-handed, IMHO.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2009, 10:32:01 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on September 22, 2009, 08:48:00 PM
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on September 22, 2009, 05:25:47 PM
still trudging through Barry Scott's Top 100 countdown.  Just heard Rupert Holmes' Him -- ugh.  kinda painful.   Really, who needs Him?

But I just read this on wiki about Holmes' Escape (The Piņa Colada Song):

The song hit #1 late in December 1979, becoming the last song to top the pop chart in the 1970s.
The song fell to #2 for the first week of January, 1980 and then rebounded to #1 the next week,
making Holmes the only artist to ascend to the #1 spot with the same song in different decades.

Dude! Rupert is GOD!

Seriously, dunno how familiar you are with his pre-"Pina Colada" output, but it's worth investigating, he's a very smart songwriter, and I'm not just talking about "Timothy". His mid-'70s solo LPs are loaded with gems. And the "thinking man's Barry Manilow" label he was given is not the backhanded compliment it sounds... more front-handed, IMHO.

OK, I'll check it out -- but Him never stuck with me.  (Escape is a guilty pleasure, though..)

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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2009, 08:35:52 AM »
Brenda Lee's "Comin' On Strong" on 'LNG --and Golden Earring is nowhere in sight, thank gawd.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2009, 09:31:09 AM »
OMFG! Nancy & Lee's "Some Velvet Morning" to tell us 'bout Phaedra.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2009, 11:10:12 AM »
NTM and TANC: Dave Berry (who had the orig version of "The Crying Game" in 1964) doing the UK hit of "Little Things", which I recently wrote about when 'LNG played the US version by Bobby Goldsboro.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2009, 11:20:36 AM »
wow, the somewhat legendary obscure British group Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, with "Mirror Mirror"  -- their only hit, tho' they later became The Flying Machine, and "Smile a Little Smile" made them One Hit Wonders... twice.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2009, 11:26:34 AM »
also NTM: David Cassidy's "Some Kind of Summer", one of his many UK hits that did nothing in the US. A rather nice road-trip-across-America saga that compares favorably to "Me & You & a Dog Named Boo".
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2009, 01:49:09 PM »
'LNG Highlight of the day: Alice C's great "Only Women Bleed".
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2009, 08:17:58 AM »
couple of fab UK obscurities: the Bedrocks' Jamaican-tinged cover of "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-da", which competed with Marmalade's version on the Brit chart in '68; and Billy Ocean's "Red Light Spells Danger", his follow-up to "Love Really Hurts Without You".
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2009, 11:37:12 AM »
OMGWTF Obscurity of the Month: a band called the New York Public Library (!?!) doing the Rascals' "Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore".  Words fail me.

and it's followed by one of the all-time shoulda-been-bigger singles: "Shame Shame" by the Magic Lanterns.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 9/21/09
« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2009, 10:56:21 PM »
The people be bumpin'! TOP go down to the nightclub on KPOO. Bump City! Bump-te-bump-te-bump!

Followed by a pre-"Misdemeanor" Sylvers family with "Wish That I Could Talk To You". Not only did Foster sound like MJ at that point, one of his bros sounds like Jermaine!
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