KHUM/CG/KPOO/KRSH/KCDX/VIP/LNG etc week of 12/4/06

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wow -- "Neanderthal Man", the lone 1970 hit by Hotlegs, who several years later became  10cc.

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CG pulls out Belinda Carlisle's "Circle In the Sand" -- can't remember when I last heard this one.

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and here's Real thing, "Can't Get By Without You", their follow-up to "You To Me Are Everything", and nearly as delightful.

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OMGWTFLOL! The Bonzo Dog Band, "I'm the Urban Spaceman"!

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KRSH SP is fab as always. "Cheaper to Keep Her", Johnnie Taylor (the Natural Wailer).

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JB lookin' fo' the big PAY-back! "Re-VENGE! Ahm MAD!  Get ready you MUTH-ah!"

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GodDAMMIT! Tryin' to make it real compared to what?

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"there's a fella in blue jeans
dancing with an older queen"

Sam Cooke, decades ahead of his time.

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VIP's Beach Music show plays Wilson Pickett's "Silver Bells" from the wonderful '60s-style Christmas Soul Special LP from the early '80s.

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Billy Ocean and his "carra-byoon queen".

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ooo! T.O.P., "You Ought to be Havin' Fun".

followed by -- holy shit! -- Darlene Love, "All Alone on Christmas".

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The Mighty Clouds of Joy's very Trammps-like "Mighty High", a fab forgotten slice of gospel-disco.

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The Mighty Clouds of Joy's very Trammps-like "Mighty High", a fab forgotten slice of gospel-disco.

Mmm.  Can you recommend other artists (or better yet, a comp) in this field?  Might be a good step to take after I explore Northern Soul (a resolution for next year).

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The Mighty Clouds of Joy's very Trammps-like "Mighty High", a fab forgotten slice of gospel-disco.

Mmm.  Can you recommend other artists (or better yet, a comp) in this field?  Might be a good step to take after I explore Northern Soul (a resolution for next year).

Frankly, I don't know that there's enough to call it a "field". I only know of the above-mentioned tune -- it's really great, you'd swear it was the Trammps, and it got quite a bit of NYC airplay back in the day -- and "You Brought the Sunshine" by the Clark Sisters from '83.

Northern Soul, on the other hand, is a HUGE pool to wade into, as I've learned from listening to VIP.

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JJ on KPOO is s-s-s-smokin' as usual: Honey Cone's "One Monkey" -- the "suck you" version, which is hard to find -- followed by Eighth Day's "Eeny-Meeny-Miny-Moe" (new to me), the Chi-Lites' fab "Stoned Out of My Mind",  Rev. Green, "Let's Get Married", and a rare Three Degrees number, "I Didn't Know" (the follow-up to "When Will I See You Again", which astoundingly didn't even chart pop). Hoo Lawd!