CG/VIP/LNG/KPOO etc Week of 4/10/06

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The Marvelettes nice version of "When you're young and in love", a UK hit but I don't think it did anything here.

and speaking of young & in love.. it's Madge, and she's keepin' that damn baby! somebody call Danny Aiello!

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here's a boyband covering Tracy Chapman's "Baby Can I Hold You". Glad somebody had a hit with that one.

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ooo! Mel & Kim, "Respectable" (NOT the Stones song). I can never remember whether Mel or Kim was the one who died, but I remember them being huge for a brief period in the UK in the late '80s.

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Woo Hoo! Suzi Quatro, "Devil Gate Drive".  She can jive!

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Ahh, one of my all-time girl-group faves, "Sweet Talkin' Guy."

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Followed by an all-time disco fave, "Young Hearts Run Free."  One of those songs I can always recognize in under three notes.

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Followed by an all-time disco fave, "Young Hearts Run Free."  One of those songs I can always recognize in under three notes.

FYI, I've switched to WLNG; I'm not a big fan of that Alex Belfield guy on CG at this hour.

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OMG! Paul Anka, "You Are My Destiny". Used to great effect in a wonderful Hungarian film from the early '80s called Time Stands Still, about Hungarian teens in the late '50s discovering sex and American rock'v'roll -- worth a rental.

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Yikes! ZZTop's "Sleeping Bag", which I haven't heard since it was a hit.

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Joanie Sommers' "Johnny Get Angry" -- the antithesis of "You Don't Own Me".

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now, where else am I gonna hear Melissa Manchester's "Don't Cry Out Loud", fer cryin' out loud?  And how did Barry Manilow let this one get away?

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now, where else am I gonna hear Melissa Manchester's "Don't Cry Out Loud", fer cryin' out loud?  And how did Barry Manilow let this one get away?

OMG, if Barry Manilow and Clay Aiken did a duet of this world peace would be achieved through worldwide OMFGWTFLOLism.  Imagine:

Clay: Because I had the finest teacher ...

Barry: That was me.  [ hushed ] I told him ...

And the Junior Vasquez dance megamix would reign for months.

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now, where else am I gonna hear Melissa Manchester's "Don't Cry Out Loud", fer cryin' out loud?  And how did Barry Manilow let this one get away?

OMG, if Barry Manilow and Clay Aiken did a duet of this world peace would be achieved through worldwide OMFGWTFLOLism.  Imagine:

Clay: Because I had the finest teacher ...

Barry: That was me.  [ hushed ] I told him ...

And the Junior Vasquez dance megamix would reign for months.

ROTFLSHIPMP!

But seriously, "Don't Cry Out Loud" is on the all-time "shoulda-been-Manilow" list, along with Phil Collins' "Against All Odds" and Rex Smith's "You Take My Breath Away".  Others? (it's kinda like the "Faux-town" list... for white people)

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VIP-ing today... and we begin with Style Council's pushy-bottom anthem, "Shout to the Top".

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VIP digs up Gloria Gaynor's rendition of "I Am What I Am". Dave should do the same for his Pride set this year -- an underrated record, as it was a retro-disco anthem in the mid-'80s, before those really became fashionable.