CG/KPOO/LNG/VIP etc week of 3/6/06

[RGMike]

The more I listen to this, the more I think they're borrowing heavily from the KFRC school of oldies radio--the announcers, the promos, the jingles, all sound very much like 'FRC prior to their format shift a few months back.

One thing tho--the VIP stream sounds really nice. Not CD quality, but not nearly as tinny as some web streams.

It's taken from the old Drake/Chenault style (CKLW, Dave's boyhood station, for one example).  I hope the playlist is this varied and interesting and non-repetitive once they're "live".  'Cause it's pretty damn fab.

[RGMike]

George McCrae's "I Can't Leave You Alone", which I heard for the very first time sat nite on KPOO... and here it is again. TANC!

[princessofcairo]

ooh...a super groovy version of "baby, i love your way" on vip. i can't place the artist, though.

[RGMike]

movin' & groovin' with "The Northern Soul Hall of Fame"!

It's only a Northern (Soul) Song. But this tune has nothing bright anout it.

[RGMike]

Marvin & tammi, "The Onion Song", one of my fave duets of theirs, even tho' the lyrics make No. Sense. At. All.

Followed by Junior, "Too late" (not the Carole King song), his follow-up to "Mama Used to Say".

[RGMike]

Robbie Dupree, "Steal Away", one of the best McDonald-era Doobs clones, raising the question, why doesn't Michael McD do an album of covers of that song, "He's So Shy", Frankie & the Knockouts' "Sweetheart", etc.

[RGMike]

CG-ing today, and it's Christie, "San Bernardino", their follow-up to "Yellow River". I've never heard this -- nothing like Brits singing about California even tho' they've obviously never been there (First Class's hilarious reference to San Jose in "Beach Baby" is another example).

[RGMike]

OMG! ABC "When Smokey Sings"!

[RGMike]

Yipes! Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, doing their orig 1968 version of "Red Red Wine " (yes, 1968!) ... as a ballad, sounding sorta like "Green Green Grass of Home" or other songs of that ilk.

[RGMike]

just switched to WGHT, an oldies station in NJ not unlike WLNG  -- and they're playing Soupy Sales' "Do The Mouse" !!!  you can do it in your house, yeah!

[RGMike]

CGSS!

"secret stash
heavy bread
baddest bitches
in the bed"

Curtis M, "Pusherman"!

[RGMike]

ooo! Prince , "Money Don't Matter 2 Night", twice in one week!  Does Greg listen to KPOO?

[RGMike]

Loleatta Holloway -- the orig "Love Sensation". Nice to hear it w/out Marky Mark rapping over it.

[Gazoo]

CG-ing today, and it's Christie, "San Bernardino", their follow-up to "Yellow River". I've never heard this -- nothing like Brits singing about California even tho' they've obviously never been there (First Class's hilarious reference to San Jose in "Beach Baby" is another example).

Bwaha!  I know exactly which other songs you're thinking of:

Kim Wilde's odd interest in "east California" in "Kids in America"
Diesel's entire fucking journey in "Sausalito Summernights"

[RGMike]

CG-ing today, and it's Christie, "San Bernardino", their follow-up to "Yellow River". I've never heard this -- nothing like Brits singing about California even tho' they've obviously never been there (First Class's hilarious reference to San Jose in "Beach Baby" is another example).

Bwaha!  I know exactly which other songs you're thinking of:

Kim Wilde's odd interest in "east California" in "Kids in America"
Diesel's entire fucking journey in "Sausalito Summernights"

Yes, thank you -- I was trying to think of the Kim Wilde and had a brain fart.  Diesel, on the other hand, were German, no? If so I'll cut them a little more slack (well, geographically anyway -- not muscally).