CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 2/16/09

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Getting ready to leave for the afrternoon, but had to commend Judge for a fab first half-hour that included the Trammps' "Hooked for Life" (a far better use of the "junkie" analogy than "Love Jones") and Jimmy Castor's 1977 "Space Age", an unjustly forgotten dance record and no Bertha Butt in sight.

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'LNG plays one of Little Steven's very favorite records, "Killer Joe" by the Rocky Fellers, a OHW by a group of Filipino teens. (Steven plays it several times a year -- and indeed he played it this weekend on his annual "St Valentine's Day Massacre" show)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqefSMEvo9M

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'LNG plays one of Little Steven's very favorite records, "Killer Joe" by the Rocky Fellers, a OHW by a group of Filipino teens. (Steven plays it several times a year -- and indeed he played it this weekend on his annual "St Valentine's Day Massacre" show)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqefSMEvo9M

One of the Rocky Fellers went on to join Hawaiian lounge act Society of Seven, who have one of my favorite album covers (I do own them on vinyl):

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listening to CG for a change, and I'm rewarded with Chris Farlowe's orig version of "Hangbags & Gladrags" from '67 (2 years before Rod the Mod's cover).

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can't remember the last time I heard Ian Dury twice in one day, but here's "Hit me With Your Rhythm Stick" on CG!

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Rickrolled! on to CG's retro-chart-of-the-week,  from Nov of '87, with Rick Astley as guest.  TTD, bubbling under, advises grandma to get up outta her rockin' chair. But this is weird: Was (Not Was)'s "Walk the Dinosaur" was a UK hit in '87??  2 years before it charted in the States?

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Yikes -- haven't heard this dance-remix featuring diaglogue from Full Metal Jacket in ages. Very strange.

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one of my fave latter-period KISS tunes: "Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Nights".

Followed by the Communards with one of their many gay-specfic reimaginings of '70s disco-diva staples, in this case "Never Can Say Goodbye", and (speaking of gay-specific), the PSBs with "Rent", boy.

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Holy crap: Ray Parker, Jr, "I Don't Think That man Should Sleep Alone". Everything I've heard so far on this chart would've kicked butt on Dave's '87 Katrinafest today.

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'LNG plays Carole King's hilarious answer record to wacky Sedaky's "Oh Carol", "Oh Neil".

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NTM: the Scotland Yardleys (!) with "Some Guys have It" (1966), ripping off a riff from "Day Tripper".

Followed by a guilty pleasure of mine: Bobby Darin's "Artificial Flowers" -- a perfectly awful song about an orphaned girl who makes the titular blooms to support herself in her tenement room. It's from a long-forgotten B'way musical (Tenderloin), and was originally sung as a tear-jerking dirge (Bobby Goldsboro himself would be embarrassed by its sappiness). But Darin's insistently upbeat swing arrangement makes "Mack the Knife" seem poky by comparison, and it becomes a bizarrely compelling, finger-snapping ditty.

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'LNG plays 2 by the Showmen, including "It Will Stand" -- I've heard this song hundreds of times and never realized their lead singer was General Johnson of Chairmen of the Board fame. Duh.

Followed -- OMGWTFLOL and proxy of Gaz -- by Electric Indian's "Keem-O-Sabe".

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ooo! Robin MacNamara lays a little lovin' on me!

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Extra Extra! Babs in love! it's ev-i-dent, she's the "Main Event".

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Perfect timing: just as the Oscars end, Little Steven's annual movie-themed show begins with Garland Jeffreys' "35 Millimeter Dreams".