CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 2/2/09

[RGMike]

Kenny Rogers finds his mind in a brown paper bag again. Yeah, yeah...ohhhh yeaaaaah.

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OMGWTFLOL-of-the-day: Herman's Hermits' dee-lite-ful "Dandy", a Ray Davies compo.

"2 girls are too many, 3's a crowd and 4 you're dead!"

[Alicat]

I've had HEART UK playing in the background since 10@10 ended. Groovin to the disco! Yay! Helps me stay upbeat as I send out resume after resume. 

1-2-3 shake your body down. Hey some good whistle action here.

[Alicat]

yay hay, more disco, Bee Gee style. Stayin Alive. Stayin Alive

[RGMike]

I've had HEART UK playing in the background since 10@10 ended. Groovin to the disco! Yay! Helps me stay upbeat as I send out resume after resume. 

1-2-3 shake your body down. Hey some good whistle action here.

They're a once-a-month listen for me; they quite literally play the same songs every week (unlike Greg's late lamented CGSS) so I try not to overdo it. BTW I saw a post on a UK Radio message board from someone who saw Greg at one of his live club appearances in Dec, and he supposedly said "be on the lookout for an announcement in Jan" about a new radio gig. But so far, nada.

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Carly gavottes on a yacht yet again.

"You said that we made such a pretty pair..."

Actually Carly made a pretty pair all by herself:

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another Gaz-tastically sunshiny vocal perf: Peppermint Rainbow, "Will You Be Staying After Sunday?" You coulda told me this was the Seekers and I'd've totally believed you.

[Tinka Cat]

another Gaz-tastically sunshiny vocal perf: Peppermint Rainbow, "Will You Be Staying After Sunday?" You coulda told me this was the Seekers and I'd've totally believed you.

beautiful:

The Peppermint Rainbow -- Will You Be Staying After Sunday?

[RGMike]

another Gaz-tastically sunshiny vocal perf: Peppermint Rainbow, "Will You Be Staying After Sunday?" You coulda told me this was the Seekers and I'd've totally believed you.

beautiful:

The Peppermint Rainbow -- Will You Be Staying After Sunday?

The song...       beautiful
The vocals...     beautiful
Those outfits... notsomuch

[Gazoo]

another Gaz-tastically sunshiny vocal perf: Peppermint Rainbow, "Will You Be Staying After Sunday?" You coulda told me this was the Seekers and I'd've totally believed you.

beautiful:

The Peppermint Rainbow -- Will You Be Staying After Sunday?

Wow, I'm so glad I got to see the creme de menthe outfits!  To my ears, though, they were pure Spanky & Our Gang.  Gawds, I love Big Voices.

[RGMike]

One of my fave only-from-JJ lost hits: Kellee Patterson's 1977 "If it Don't Fit, Don't Force it" -- gee, think this got played in gay discos? (and yes, Leon Haywood totally ripped this off 3 years later with "Don't Push it, Don't Force It".)

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New Birth (or "noo burf" as JJ pronounces it) want somethin' sweet as a candy bar -- and I Can Understand It.  I thought this was Bobby Womack for the longest time.

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New Birth (or "noo burf" as JJ pronounces it) want somethin' sweet as a candy bar -- and I Can Understand It.  I thought this was Bobby Womack for the longest time.

TANC: 3 songs later, Bobby W his ownself shows up with "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out".  and Lawd! here's DeeDee Sharp-Gamble with her wonderful Nancy Wilson-ish cover of "I'm Not In Love". Loveliness is next to Godley-and-Cremely-ness.

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That rare Temptations song that's actually NTM: 1977's "In a Lifetime", with Glenn Leonard doing a fine Eddie Kendricks imitation. This one never even charted Pop!

and OMGWTFLOL-of-the-night: the 5th Dimension's version of "Love Hangover"! As I've said before, it's very similar to Diana's -- it's as if the Misses Ross and McCoo both copied from the same demo. Don't call the doctah! don't call the preachah!

Also NTM: John Edwards (not the former Senator) with "Careful Man" from 1974. (Come to think of it, if the *other* John Edwards had been a careful man... ) BTW, this is the John Edwards who later replaced Phillippe Wynne in the Spinners.

[Gazoo]

Loveliness is next to Godley-and-Cremely-ness.

Hee, this is one of your better lines.

But re "Love Hangover," hadn't Marilyn McCoo left the 5D by that point?