KHUM/CG/KPOO/etcetcetc for the week of 3/5/07

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CG just played something from Donny Osmond's new covers CD -- a very nice version, if I do say so, of "Laughter in the Rain".

Oooooh, how I love that song.  Every chord change is perfect to my ears.  Could never bring myself to buy a Sedacky GH comp, though, since I dislike so much of his other stuff.

Don Imus, after playing LITR in early 1975: "Neil, you sing like a girl!" And he was right, actually.

Makes me think of the duet he did with his daughter (!), "Never Should've Let You Go" -- their voices were eerily similar in timbre, and the only way you could tell who was who was that Daria-or-whatever-her-name-was was a bit, shall we say, pitch-challenged.  It sounded like bad karaoke and somehow became a hit.

Dara Sedaka is the daughter, I believe.  Neil's lovely "The Immigrant", dedicated to John Lennon at the time of his INS troubles, is actually sweet and heartfelt -- I wish Dave or somebody would play it one of these days.

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CG Stayin Alive at the start of the British work day.
go BGs go!

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CGSS Disco Su Doku

James Brown - 'Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine'

Gloria Gaynor - 'I Will Survive'

Kool & The Gang - 'Celebration'

Billy Ocean - 'Caribbean Queen'

Nile Rodgers (Chic) - 'Le Freak'

Sister Sledge - 'He's The Greatest Dancer'

Edwin Starr - 'Contact'

Donna Summer - 'I Feel Love'

Sylvester - 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)'

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CGSS: "Where the Happy Alicats Go".

This has been a fab Friday, musically speaking: '69, '71, and 2 "Time" sets. And now this.

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Good Gawd! Jump back, wanna kiss mahself!  UNGH!!  There will never be another JB.

Hit me!

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hoo lawd! The Staples' fab cover of "Slippery People".

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Sweeney on CG is doing one of the more interesting Pete Townsend interviews I've heard. I never knew the story about the Townsend/Abbie Hoffman dust-up at Woodstock.  There's no film of it (it's not in the movie) but there was audio tape of it and Sweeney played some.

Hoffman: "I think this is a pile of shit!"

Townsend: "Fuck off!"

LOL!

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Beau Brummels fans unite -- Joel Selvin's show on the Bone tonite will feature Sal Valentino.

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Little Steven's doing a salute to Chicago this week -- opened the show with Chi-town's own Shadows of Knight, "Shake". And then he played Sinatra (!), "This Town". Very impressive.