CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 3/24/08

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Always happy to switch over to JJ on KPOO for some Tues morning '60s: some forgotten Smokey, "That's What Love is Made Of"

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Diana just woke up to "The Happening"... and it can happen to YOU!

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Diana just woke up to "The Happening"... and it can happen to YOU!

Improbably sampled in Fantasia's recent near-hit "Hood Boy."

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Diana just woke up to "The Happening"... and it can happen to YOU!

Improbably sampled in Fantasia's recent near-hit "Hood Boy."

There's no longer any such thing as "improbably sampled", is there? 

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'CDX-ing for awhile, and Suzy Q & Chris N are foolshly layin' their hearts on the table.

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wow, an Andrew Gold song I'd never heard ("Go Back Home Again") is followed by the Fabulous Poodles "Bionic Man", which is, well, fab. Talk about a forgotten band of that period.

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'CDX Flashback of the day (so far): Frampton's orig studio version of "I Wanna Go To The Sun". 

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'CDX Flashback of the day (so far): Frampton's orig studio version of "I Wanna Go To The Sun". 

but Neil & the Springfield nearly top it with "Broken Arrow", one of my fave comps of his.

"they married for peace and were gone. did you see them?"

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Green Grass & High Tides -- and it ain't even St Patty's Day!

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different kinda flashbacks now that I've switched over to WLNG: Robin McNamara's fabulously bubblegummy "Lay A Little Lovin' On Me". Honey doggone it, ah depend upon it!

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OMFG! "Sad Sweet Dreamer"! ooh-wah-wah-ooh-wah-wah-ooh!

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my heart is doin' flip-flops -- "Goody Goody Gumdrops".  Love the way they rhyme "baby blue eyes" with "dainty shoe size".

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Now yeah! boom! nitty gritty! Shirley Ellis with the orig version, before Gladys & Co.

and it's followed -- Nugget o' the Day, for sure -- by Vanity Fare's *other* hit, the pre- "Hitchin' a Ride" ditty "Early in the Morning".  Have not heard this in decades.

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it's a miracle to be hearing "It's a Miracle"!  One of Mr Manilow's best singles, with great backing vox by Lady Flash (if they were indeed called that, at that point).  'LNG has been beyond spectacular this afternoon.

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Now yeah! boom! nitty gritty! Shirley Ellis with the orig version, before Gladys & Co.

and it's followed -- Nugget o' the Day, for sure -- by Vanity Fare's *other* hit, the pre- "Hitchin' a Ride" ditty "Early in the Morning".  Have not heard this in decades.

EITM is a major favorite of mine - I love those oh-so-Gypso-Russo-Euro melodies (see also: "Those Were the Days," "Little Man").

And I do believe Barry's backing babes were indeed Lady Flash at that point - didja know one of them was Reparata (as in, and the Delrons, of "I'm Nobody's Baby Now" semi-fame)?