CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 3/10/08

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DJ Marilynn on KPOO plays "Big Blonde & Beautiful" -- Motormouth Maybelles' song from the Hairspray orig cast -- a song left out of the movie. 

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Judge promises an hour of live Tower of Power at 3pm. Meanwhile it's Lionel Ritchie when he was good: Commodores, "Just to be Close to You".

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TANC-of-the-Day: A Spinners song you never hear -- but I'm hearing it twice in 3 days. "Love or Leave", which was danced-to on this weeks Classic Soul Train, and now here it is again from Judge.

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Holy flaming mother of disco! Herbie Mann's "Hi-jack", a NY club hit (circa '75) that became a NY radio hit, tho' nationally it did not do nearly as well. Have not heard this in decades!

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Judge promises an hour of live Tower of Power at 3pm.

and heah 'tis! "Down to the Nightclub"..."You're Still a Young Man"... "What is Hip?"... recorded live in Sac'to!

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Holy Flaming Mother of God -of-the-week: KCDX plays Billy Joel's "Streetlife Serenader", which sounds like he shoulda saved it for Nylon Curtain -- "shopping center hero/child of Eisenhower"

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not quite an OMFG, as WMIR played it last week, but welcome anyway on KCDX: Steppenwolf's "Snowblind Friend" -- a Hoyt Axton tune, iirc.

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I've got an afternoon-long meeting coming up, but KCDX has made my lunchtime with Nilsson's "Jump into the Fire" and Mink DeVille's "Gunslinger".

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Judge promises an hour of live Tower of Power at 3pm.

and heah 'tis! "Down to the Nightclub"..."You're Still a Young Man"... "What is Hip?"... recorded live in Sac'to!

Was wondering if that was the album he was going to pull his live stuff from? (I'm reading and responding two days hence, so pardon the lack of timeliness).

I remember that for the longest time there were only two live albums recorded in Sacramento--this one, and an early Beach Boys live set. I can only think of two others that have material recorded in Sacto since that time--both by the same artist. I'm speaking of Neil Young's Time Fades Away and 25 or so years later, Year of the Horse. Thankfully the latter was at a different venue, the now departed Cal Expo Amphitheater (Sac Memorial Aud. is an acoustic hellhole). Neither was released in its entirety, but both have a couple of songs from Sac-burg.

And that would be #6500.

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WMIR plays Heart's only good '80s track, the RAWKIN' "If Looks Could Kill".

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Spending the rest of today listening to Greg's Saturday CGSS "on demand". the playlist is here:

http://www.mygoldmusic.co.uk/article.asp?id=614850

appropriately, he plays EWF's "Sat Nite", with the line "London Bridge is falling down".

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'70s Supes, "Automatically Sunshine" -- "we'll walk barefoot on life's gravel" Er, ouch.

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another OMFG (and a Gaz fave, iirc): ED&JFC's long-lost "It's Sad To Belong".

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another OMFG (and a Gaz fave, iirc): ED&JFC's long-lost "It's Sad To Belong".

I don't recognize that one by title, but I'll seek it out!

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A good day for Sweeney fans: the UK is still on standard time (we're a couple weeks ahead of them in the switch to DST) so you get an extra hour of Mike -- CGSS won't start until 1:00 our time.