CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 2/23/09

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new discovery: London's Absolute Radio (formerly Vrigin Radio):

http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/?source=listenpage

They're Little Steven's newest affiliate (they air his show on Monday nites). And Absolut Vodka is suing them over the name!

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breakitup breakitup breakitup! Judge plays Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" -- rap when it was actually amusing and fun.

"Ma Bell sent you a whopping bill
with 18 phone calls to Brazil!"

I still have this 45 with part 1 on the A-side and part 2 on the flip.

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Lawd! a Prince twin-spin: "Uptown" followed by "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?"

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Judge unearths an oddity: Johnny "Guitar" Watson, "We Got a Love Jones" -- same melody as the Emotions' "Don't Ask My Neighbors" but completely diff lyric.

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"Get up! Get it on!" Main Ingredient say "Happiness is Just 'Round the Bend" -- Cuba Gooding Sr., comporting himself better than his son did on the Oscars last nite.

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Judge lets me hear "Soul Makossa" for the 3rd time this month. And now he's playing a version of "Give Me Your Love" by The Sisters Love (who?) -- I know the Curtis Mayfield orig, and the Barbara Mason cover that Curtis produced, but this is NTM.

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OMG! Judge plays the orig version of "Can't Hide Love" by Creative Source -- they did it several years before EW&F.  Gaz would like this one, methinks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJpv-AwZJAM

Followed by the Ohio Players' "Funky Worm" -- tell it, granny!

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JJ has us sinking into "Quicksand" wif Marfa.

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JJ plays a soul version of "Walk Right In" by the Moments! NTM; I grew up with the very white Rooftop Singers version.

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Lawd! the Shades of Blue, "Oh How Happy" makes me oh so happy.  And the Iceman his own damn self, Mr Butler -- he NEVAH gonna give you up!

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Holy crap!  Nina Simone's version of "Revolution" is new to me and mind-blowing!

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clap yo' hands and prepare to pat! Shirley Ellis does her ode to the clap, er, clapping.

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'LNG celebrates Mardi Gras with PJ Proby's "Niki Hoeky". Pappy's in the pokey! Get hip to the cogitation!

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a fab CG retro-chart from 1966: a cover of "Just Like a Woman" by Manfred Mann that's NTM, the Troggs fab forgotten "With a Girl Like You", The Who's "I'm a Boy", and a Sonny & Cher rarity, "Little Man" (no it's not about Sonny, har har).

oh and at #1: the Small Faces with "All or Nothing", also NTM.

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Lawd! Lee Dorsey is so tired of workin' in a coal mine! (I guess it's not "sonic blackface" if you're actually, er, black).

and he's followed by one ofthe great "WTF?" records of all time: Napoleon XIV, "There Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-ha!"