CG/VIP/LNG/KPOO etc Week of 4/17/06

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Monday is KPOO day and here's a vocal version of "Peter Gunn" -- never knew there were lyrics!

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Grandmaster Flash! "New York New York, big city o' dreams..."

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Judge has been pulling out some weird-ass "white" records in recent weeks, and here's one I haven't heard in ages: Toby Beau, "My Angel Baby" from '78, a song that owes so much to "Since I Fell For You" that they actually recorded "SIFFY" as a follow-up.

I actually saw them as an opening act for Bob Seger that year.

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OMGWTFLOL! The Addrisi Bros, "Does She Do It Like She Dances?"  Gaz will be sorry he missed this.  I haven't heard this since it was a hit; sounds sorta like a clone of "Play that Funky Music."

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I've been tuned in today too--just heard a TSOP version of the
Spinners' Love Train, and now a female vocal trio (no clue as to ID) covering Chicago's If You Leave Me Now that I had no idea existed. Much better than the original, imo.

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I've been tuned in today too--just heard a TSOP version of the
Spinners' Love Train, and now a female vocal trio (no clue as to ID) covering Chicago's If You Leave Me Now that I had no idea existed. Much better than the original, imo.

that was Sergio Mendes (in his "Brasil '77" ) incarnation. And here's another Gaz-tastic fave: "Sad Sweet Dreamer". oo-wa-wa-oo-wa-wa-oo!

ETA: Judge identified SSD as being by "the lovely ladies of Sweet Sensation", obviously he thinks that was the female vocal group from the '80s, and not the '70s black British act.

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OMGWTFLOL#2: Bay City Rollers, "You Made Me Believe in Magic"! Another one I haven't heard since it was a hit.  this is a regular Gaz-fest today.

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from the Motown-covers-Motown subgenre: Jermaine Jackson doing Marvin's "Ain't That Peculiar?"

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I've been tuned in today too--just heard a TSOP version of the
Spinners' Love Train, and now a female vocal trio (no clue as to ID) covering Chicago's If You Leave Me Now that I had no idea existed. Much better than the original, imo.

that was Sergio Mendes (in his "Brasil '77" ) incarnation. And here's another Gaz-tastic fave: "Sad Sweet Dreamer". oo-wa-wa-oo-wa-wa-oo!

ETA: Judge identified SSD as being by "the lovely ladies of Sweet Sensation", obviously he thinks that was the female vocal group from the '80s, and not the '70s black British act.

Maybe he thinks they're sistas.  Sad sweet screamers, if you will.

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VIP is playing asong I've never heard -- a woman singing about finding her husband in the arms of another man!  And the "Now Playing" feature on the player ain't working! Damn!

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CG's Dean has his mum in the studio -- she'll be taking phone calls. LOL!

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CG highlight so far: TTD, "Dance Little Sister".

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it's a VIP day and -- OMG! -- Rick James & Teena Marie, "Fire & Desire"! Oh what a flashback to NYC in the early '80s.  "sugar sugar sugar..."

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Sweetie Darling! VIP plays the Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger "This Wheel's on Fire".

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WLNG Nugget o' the Day: Mr Manilow's "Ready to Take a Chance Again". TANC: 2 weeks ago, when I was home sick, I saw Foul Play for, amazingly, the first time. Not all that great a movie, actually, but seeing SF in '78 was cool.  "Been livin' with nothin' to show for it," indeed!