29 Jan 2010: 10@10 Goes to the Grammys

[RGMike]

again... the McDoobs got the award in Feb of '80 but it's really for '79 -- sorry, but that sort of inaccuracy pisses me off.

I emailed AL about this early on, and I'm guessing I wasn't alone -- she went out of her way to explain in the backannounce.

Sadly, she didn't bust out any Herb (unlike Gaz, who busts out the herb on a regular basis  )

[radical347]

BOS3 Tony Bennett. WOS Christopher Cross -- the "mellow '70s" reaching their nadir in 1980.

Followed in short order by the "mellow '00s." WOS2, Norah Jones bemoaning her lack of orgasm.

LOL.

I'll second that.  I agree with Mike that it was annoyingly overexposed.  It isn't a horrible song but IMO it's a completely generic AC ballad that for some reason everyone went gaga over (except for, oddly enough, the AC format...until she won the grammy.)

[urth]

Huh. Thought we streamers got aced out of the bonus track again, but it turns out we just missed the intro to it. AL played Percy and Alison Krauss' winner from last year, Please Read the Letter. Not bad, considering the set stretched from the 1960 winner (Mack the Knife) through 2003, when Norah Jones won.

[RGMike]

1/29/10 - FRIDAY!!  10@10 Goes to the Grammys!!!
            ...And the Record of the Year (award year) is...

   1.  1976 - Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together
   2.  1980 - The Doobie Brothers - What a Fool Believes
   3.  1960 - Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife
   4.  1969 - Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
   5.  1972 - Carole King - It's Too Late
   6.  1963 - Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco (BOS!)
   7.  1981 - Christopher Cross - Sailing
   8.  2003 - Norah Jones - Don't Know Why
   9.  1968 - The 5th Dimension - Up, Up and Away
 10.  1986 - USA For Africa - We Are the World

BONUS TRACK:  2009 - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Please Read the Letter

[Big Fingers McGee]

BOS Simon & Garfunkel, I guess.

WOS Christopher Cross

Actually, this set is indicative of the reason I don't pay much attention to the Grammys. Found myself toggling between it and Paul Carrack's Greatest Hits.

[urth]

Who was mentioning Love Will Keep Us Together the other day? Anyway, BOS1 for the Captain and Tennille. Let the clavinet play!

Btw, so far server times are not horrendous. (Crossing fingers.)

Realized it was on FB that I saw the mention of LWKUT. And a real WTF video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzW8hAtdHgc

[RGMike]

Who was mentioning Love Will Keep Us Together the other day? Anyway, BOS1 for the Captain and Tennille. Let the clavinet play!

Btw, so far server times are not horrendous. (Crossing fingers.)

Realized it was on FB that I saw the mention of LWKUT. And a real WTF video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzW8hAtdHgc

"I have 3 delicious grandchildren" -- So wacky Sedacky is a cannibal?  You gotta be desperate if the best booking your agent cant get you is "Huckabee", fer chissakes.