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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2008, 06:33:32 AM »
Heard Wilson Pickett's "Fire and Water" for the first time at 37.  But the big OMGWTF of the week is "American Trilogy," not to be confused with "American City Suite."  Mickey Newbury was apparently a prolific C/W songwriter of the period, but damn if I know a single thing he did.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2008, 06:40:55 AM »
Great God'o'mighty, boy!  Make Gladys the woman you go home to, already!
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2008, 06:50:42 AM »
Heard Wilson Pickett's "Fire and Water" for the first time at 37.  But the big OMGWTF of the week is "American Trilogy," not to be confused with "American City Suite."  Mickey Newbury was apparently a prolific C/W songwriter of the period, but damn if I know a single thing he did.

Wikipedia says he wrote "Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Condition Was In"!
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2008, 07:22:37 AM »
Oh my goodness, my gracious: Charley Pride's "Kiss an Angel Good Morning," which I haven't heard since I was a kid, followed by Sonny & Cher, "Aw, hon-NAY."
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2008, 07:36:05 AM »
"Hey Big Brother" (Rare Earth) at 20 is new to me.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #20 on: January 12, 2008, 08:02:43 AM »
Heard Wilson Pickett's "Fire and Water" for the first time at 37.  But the big OMGWTF of the week is "American Trilogy," not to be confused with "American City Suite."  Mickey Newbury was apparently a prolific C/W songwriter of the period, but damn if I know a single thing he did.

Wikipedia says he wrote "Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Condition Was In"!

amazing indeed. His "San Francisco Mabel Joy" was covered by a bunch o' fokls, including Joan Baez -- it was almost as popular (covers-wise) as "Bobby McGee" back then.  These early-'70s shows are truly mind-blowing.  I see you got to hear "Once You Understand" -- luckily I was in transit when that happened  ;)
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #21 on: January 12, 2008, 08:03:45 AM »
oo! Honey Cone -- is it the "sookie-suck you" version?

ETA: Yes!
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #22 on: January 12, 2008, 08:06:48 AM »
oo! Honey Cone -- is it the "sookie-suck you" version?

ETA: Yes!

Casey quoted quite liberally from it!
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #23 on: January 12, 2008, 08:14:14 AM »
MJ gives us kissin' when it's missin'!  One of my fave forgotten J-5 hits, something of a comeback after "Maybe Tomorrow" failed to crack the Top Ten.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #24 on: January 12, 2008, 08:18:24 AM »
MJ gives us kissin' when it's missin'!  One of my fave forgotten J-5 hits, something of a comeback after "Maybe Tomorrow" failed to crack the Top Ten.

Too close to the formula for my ears, which I guess is why it outperformed "Maybe Tomorrow" (which I consider an unfairly lost gem, though it is florid and structurally weird).
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #25 on: January 12, 2008, 08:19:29 AM »
Heard Wilson Pickett's "Fire and Water" for the first time at 37. 

gret stuff -- also covered by Free, post-"All Right Now".
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #26 on: January 12, 2008, 08:22:23 AM »
Mike, I KNOW you're shakin' your ass right now.  The Clean-Up Woman!
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #27 on: January 12, 2008, 08:25:46 AM »
OMG! Donny O with one of his many MANY teen-dream late-'50s/early-'60s covers. (Speaking of formula!)
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #28 on: January 12, 2008, 08:26:13 AM »
Mike, I KNOW you're shakin' your ass right now.  The Clean-Up Woman!

she swept me off mah feet-ah!
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/7/08
« Reply #29 on: January 12, 2008, 08:26:33 AM »
I'm not a big Donny Osmond fan, but the DeFrancos couldn't hold a candle to this.
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