CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the weeks of 3/9/09 & 3/16/09

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Haven't had a lot of time to do my usual play-by-play of Judge's Monday jam, but it's been fab as usual. Right now: Marvin sez "Come Get to This", one of my very favorite of his lesser chart hits.

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smooth Smokey gives his woman "A Love That She Can Count On" on KPOO. 

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Lawd! Barbara Acklin's "Am I The Same Girl?" -- the record whose instrumental backing track became Young-Holt Unltd's "Soulful Strut".  Either version is a delight and totally makes my morning.  (Swingout Sister did a nice cover of this in the early '90s.)

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OMG! Otis covering JB -- Papa's got a REALLY brand new bag!

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rare Tempts that's NTM: "You're Candy To Me" (?) with Eddie K on lead.

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"but honey... he's not our kind"

'LNG plays the great "Society's Child"

followed by Lezzie Gore, "You Don't Own me"

(it's a Women's History Month thang, y'all)

and for the "I Didn't Know That" file -- the same organist played the similar codas on "Society's Child" and the Raiders' "Indian Reservation"!

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"but honey... he's not our kind"

'LNG plays the great "Society's Child"

followed by Lezzie Gore, "You Don't Own me"

(it's a Women's History Month thang, y'all)

and for the "I Didn't Know That" file -- the same organist played the similar codas on "Society's Child" and the Raiders' "Indian Reservation"!

Wow, that's interesting - I always assumed Janis did her own coda ("look how precocious I am!) and that Paul Revere did the finish on IR.

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talk about your forgotten hit: David Gates, "Took the Last Train".

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on 'LNG, Gerry & the Pacemakers sing about the Liverpool gay scene: "Fairy Cross the Mersey".

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wow, very rare Left Banke: "She May Call You Up Tonight"

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wow, very rare Left Banke: "She May Call You Up Tonight"

Love that one.  (And it's yet another song covered by Sweet-Hoffs, I must add.)

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OMGWFTLOL-of-the-Month: listening to CG's retro chart (from March 1978) and here's Tom Robinson band with "Don't Take No For an Answer" -- haven't heard this great song in ages. And it's uncensored, no less!

"I offer you a slice
But you tell me no dice
'cause you want the fucking lot"

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Oh, Heathcliff!  kate Bush is further along on this retro chart with "Wuthering Heights".

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01.  ABBA - Take A Chance On Me
02.  Darts - Come Back My Love
03.  Rose Royce - Wishing On A Star
04.  Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
05.  Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
06.  Brotherhood Of Man - Figaro
07.  Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky
08.  Yellow Dog - Just One More Night
09.  Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen
10.  Scott Fitzgerald And Yvonne Keely - If I Had Words
11.  Blondie - Denis
12.  Free - All Right Now (re-release)
13.  Rod Stewart - Hot Legs/I Was Only Joking
14.  Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
15.  Eruption - I Can't Stand The Rain
16.  Samantha Sang - Emotions
17.  Bob Marley & The Wailers - Is This Love
18.  Tom Robinson Band - Don't Take No For An Answer
19.  Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are
20.  Baccara - Sorry I'm A Lady
21.  Earth, Wind And Fire - Fantasy
22.  Tonight - Drummer Man
23.  Stranglers - Five Minutes
24.  Stargard - Theme From 'Which Way Is Up'
25.  Rita Coolidge - Words

(March 4, 1978)

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06.  Brotherhood Of Man - Figaro

Wow, I was wondering if this was son-of-"Angelo," and that doesn't come close to doing justice.

Unflattering pantsuits and a terrible transition from bridge to chorus (can someone who knows music theory tell me why it's wrong?).  And sorry, Agentha II on the left is fine, but the gal on the right looks too much like Deputy Wiegel from Reno 911.