Music on TV

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CST gives us a rerun of an early-'74 classic I saw earlier this year: Sylvia, doing one of her follow-ups to "Pillow Talk", and duetting with the Moments, who also do their own "Sexy Mama".  Bonus: an appearance by Ecstasy, Passion & Pain!

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Bonus: an appearance by Ecstasy, Passion & Pain!

And again may I say that EP&P are most impressive. The lead singer, Barbara Roy, a tall Gloria Gaynor lookalike with a huge 'fro, is also the guitar player. (Don Cornelius to Barbara: "Well, I guess you must be Ecstasy..." LOL!)

Also of note in the Soul Train Dancers segments, 2 then-current singles that never crossed over: Martha Reeves covering Joe Simon's "Power of Love", and an early Herbie Hancock instrumental, "Chameleon".

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Bonus: an appearance by Ecstasy, Passion & Pain!

And again may I say that EP&P are most impressive. The lead singer, Barbara Roy, a tall Gloria Gaynor lookalike with a huge 'fro, is also the guitar player. (Don Cornelius to Barbara: "Well, I guess you must be Ecstasy..." LOL!)

Also of note in the Soul Train Dancers segments, 2 then-current singles that never crossed over: Martha Reeves covering Joe Simon's "Power of Love", and an early Herbie Hancock instrumental, "Chameleon".

Don't know the Reeves cover, but the Herbie Hancock tune rocks--a great jazz/funk workout from his seminal Head Hunters album, which was covered by several jazz outfits--including Maynard Ferguson!

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the Herbie Hancock tune rocks--a great jazz/funk workout from his seminal Head Hunters album, which was covered by several jazz outfits--including Maynard Ferguson!

It def sounded familiar to me, and turns out it just missed the pop Top 40, peaking at #42, while getting into the R&B Top 20.

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The Banana Splits are getting a Cartoon Network "makeover":

http://www.luxuriamusic.com/blog/djpyro/the-banana-splits-in-tv-comeback


Tra La La... somebody notify the Bob Marley estate.

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A Summer-of-'78 CST, with the Dells (in fab matching salmon-pink suits) doing a disco-fonky "Super Woman" (NOT the Stevie Wonder tune). And the Brothers Johnson appear, with Don Cornelius presenting them with a platinum LP before they perform "Ain't We Funkin' Now".

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Stevie Wonder live at the DNC, doing a song unfamiliar to me ("If My Eyes Were to See"?) backed-up by what sounds like Take 6.

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Stevie Wonder live at the DNC, doing a song unfamiliar to me ("If My Eyes Were to See"?) backed-up by what sounds like Take 6.

we went out for a ride and missed Michael McDonald; did anyone catch it?

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Stevie Wonder live at the DNC, doing a song unfamiliar to me ("If My Eyes Were to See"?) backed-up by what sounds like Take 6.

Didn't take the YouTube community long at all.  Fears can't put dreams to sleep:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvTO9tATBk

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Stevie Wonder live at the DNC, doing a song unfamiliar to me ("If My Eyes Were to See"?) backed-up by what sounds like Take 6.

we went out for a ride and missed Michael McDonald; did anyone catch it?

I was watching MSNBC and they chose not to show Mr. McD.

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we went out for a ride and missed Michael McDonald; did anyone catch it?

The entire event was shown on C-Span. Here's Michael McDonald:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSTBCF-3Lb8&feature=user

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BTW, did everyone notice the song they played immediately after Obama's speech?  No, it wasn't Springsteen, it was "Only in America" by... Brooks & Dunn.  Curious choice, playing something so, um, white at that exact moment. But more interestingly, country acts are notoriously conservative/Repub, and I can't imagine the Dems would've used the song without permission, so if B&D are endorsing Obama, that's impressive and newsworthy.

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Sadly, WGN pre-empted CST this week, so I missed out on an ep featuring the Staple Singers.

But VH-1 Soul is repeating their all-Prince-all-the-time weekend; right now it's an hour of "Prince's Women" -- we've had Vanity, Apollonia, and OMFG it's Sheena Easton's "Sugar Walls"! and her "Strut" too! I'm awash in delightfully cheezy '80s-ness.

Meanwhile, over on Fuse, they're doing a Top 20 Boys of Summer countdown (all male-dominated videos from the past 4 months). Everyone from Flo Rida to Foo Fightas. I'm assuming the Kid Rock tune that samples Zevon & Skynyrd will show up at some point.

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A CST from the summer of '86 headlined by Run-DMC -- I'm wondering if Aerosmith will make a cameo appearance.  Meanwhile the dancers have been grooving to a couple of forgotten semi-hits: Nu Shooz's "I Can't Wait" follow-up, "Point of No Return" (a Gaz fave iirc, or have I confused it with the Expose tune of the same name?); and James Brown's "Gravity". 

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Sadly, WGN pre-empted CST this week, so I missed out on an ep featuring the Staple Singers.

But VH-1 Soul is repeating their all-Prince-all-the-time weekend; right now it's an hour of "Prince's Women" -- we've had Vanity, Apollonia, and OMFG it's Sheena Easton's "Sugar Walls"! and her "Strut" too! I'm awash in delightfully cheezy '80s-ness.

Did you get "Manic Monday"?  I went on a Bangles kick yesterday, listening to their greatest-hits comp and marvelling at the Beatliciousness of "Hero Takes a Fall."

And it's the Expose "Point of No Return" I dig, not the Nu Shooz one.