CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 6/2/08

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new to me on CGSS: Marlena Shaw's very nice cover of Marvin & Tammi's "California Soul" (an Ashford & Simpson comp). I should investigate Ms. Shaw's catalog -- I've always loved her "Go Away Little Boy". And didn't she put out an LP called The Bitch is Black?

[Gazoo]

new to me on CGSS: Marlena Shaw's very nice cover of Marvin & Tammi's "California Soul" (an Ashford & Simpson comp). I should investigate Ms. Shaw's catalog -- I've always loved her "Go Away Little Boy". And didn't she put out an LP called The Bitch is Black?

I've never heard of her, it, or it.  But I do have a 5D cover of "California Soul" that's comically unsoulful.

[Gazoo]

Barry Scott's early highlight this week: Polly something-or-other, "Up in a Puff of Smoke."  Best non-Diana Diana Ross ever.

[RGMike]

Barry Scott's early highlight this week: Polly something-or-other, "Up in a Puff of Smoke."  Best non-Diana Diana Ross ever.

Polly Brown.  Best white Diana Ross, at any rate   A British woman, she was the lead singer of Pickettywitch, who did "That Same Old Feeling", also done by the Fortunes (best non-Frankie Valli Frankie Valli ever)

[Gazoo]

Missed much of the set, but I'll give BS BOS to Frida's "I Know There's Something Going On."  Fierce!

[RGMike]

ooo! Li'l Steven segues nicely from his Dean Martin salute to a Nancy Sinatra's Birthday set (or 2). Tell me 'bout Phaedra, baby. Lee Hazlewood rules!

[RGMike]

ooo! Li'l Steven segues nicely from his Dean Martin salute to a Nancy Sinatra's Birthday set (or 2). Tell me 'bout Phaedra, baby. Lee Hazlewood rules!

OMFG! Steven plays Nancy's nifty cover/gender-reworking of the Beatles' "Run For Your Life" ("catch you with another girl/that's the end-uh! little boy!"). Take THAT, you misogynist moptops!

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OMFG-to-the-Nth-power: Steven's "Coolest Song in the World" this week is by the Mother Truckers! It's more than a tad "Honky-Tonk Woman"-ish, but it rocks.