CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 5/12/08

[Gazoo]

dunno if you caught that plug for hellarecords.com... but on that website, DJ TD Camp is selling his CDs -- looks like that's what we've been listening to!

Smart marketing!

PS: Jim Gilstrap also sang on the "Good Times" theme.

[RGMike]

PS: Jim Gilstrap also sang on the "Good Times" theme.

Ain't we happy we got him? Gil-STRAP!

For years I saw his name in Whitburn, etc, and -- knowing nothing about him -- assumed that, with a name like Jim Gilstrap, he must be a white country singer...

[RGMike]

Someone new to me is subbing for Dean on his CG request show -- but the listeners are the star, and one of 'em requested "Mary's Prayer", to my delight.

[RGMike]

all right, fellas... let's Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Dean's sub tonite is named Murray Jay -- I keep picturing the manager on "Flight of the Conchords"

[RGMike]

new to me: Gary Moore (feat Phil Lynott on vocals), "Parisienne Walkways", a top ten UK hit from '79.

[RGMike]

OMFG! Andrew Gold's lovely "Never Let Her Slip Away"

[RGMike]

OMFG2! Cher, "Ah Fayound Someone".  If Dave can play godawful power ballads by Cheap Trick and Heart, he can surely give this one an occasional spin.

[RGMike]

Billy Fury with the UK hit of "Halfway to Paradise" (Tony Orlando had the US version). But here's Nick Lowe's fab cover from the late '70s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqyGYjBchwQ

[RGMike]

Another to go with "Rock Me Gently" and "Don't Push I Don't Force It" -- Hot Chocolate's bluntly titled "Put Your Love in Me". (!)

[urth]

I've been making Vin Scelsa's WFUV edition of Idiot's Delight part of my weekly listening habits for the last month or so, and the one for last weekend is all over the map but particularly satisfying. It's just getting close to wrapping up now, with Mink DeVille's Venus of Avenue D.

[One annoying thing about the FUV archive stream is that you can't move it back or ahead to listen to a particular part of the show. You have to start at the beginning, and listen all the way thru if you want to hear something at the end. At least you can pause it, but jeez.]

[RGMike]

I've been making Vin Scelsa's WFUV edition of Idiot's Delight part of my weekly listening habits for the last month or so, and the one for last weekend is all over the map but particularly satisfying. It's just getting close to wrapping up now, with Mink DeVille's Venus of Avenue D.

[One annoying thing about the FUV archive stream is that you can't move it back or ahead to listen to a particular part of the show. You have to start at the beginning, and listen all the way thru if you want to hear something at the end. At least you can pause it, but jeez.]

indeed... same prob with CG -- was listening to the Saturday CGSS (a 6 hour show) and their stream died 2 hours in. To reconnect would've meant listening to the first 2 hours again.  Greg says they're working on posting it in 2-hour pieces, but so far no luck.

So I switched to WLNG and got this trifecta:

Tom Jones "Love Me Tonite"
Dennis Coffey, "Scorpio"
Irish Rovers, "The Unicorn" (and it ain't even St Patty's Day!)

[RGMike]

wow a rarity for sure: The Critters, "Don't Let The Rain fall Down on Me" -- Gaz, if you've never heard this one, you should.

[Gazoo]

wow a rarity for sure: The Critters, "Don't Let The Rain fall Down on Me" -- Gaz, if you've never heard this one, you should.

Just listened to it on YouTube, thanks!  Nice melody, but the vocals would have been better in the hands of Sagittarius or Spany & Our Gang.  Or even the Peppermint Rainbow.

[RGMike]

digging another CGSS podcast -- a couple rarities: James & Bobby Purify (of "I'm Your Puppet" fame) doing a bang-up cover of "Shake a Tailfeather", followed by the Tymes fab soulful version of La Streisand's "People".

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Lawd! Jimmy Ruffin holds on to his, uh, love.  Wish this one was on Dave's radar.