CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 4/6/09

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Judge has been in a disco groove much of the afternoon. And things top out (so to speak) with Sylvester dancin' the beat in the disco heat.

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NTM: The Stylistics, "Fly", one of their rare non-ballads, in which they almost pull off rhyming "seagull" with "eagle".

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OMFG! the orig Eddy Grant version of "Walking on Sunshine" (NOT the Katrina song).

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JJ on KPOO plays the Emperors,  "Do the Karate" -- which was later rewritten as Santana's "Everybody's Everything"!  check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJcuwoneU8

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Bob Shannon just played '80s nugget "Waiting for a Star to Fall" -- one of Paul Sidney's personal faves, and a song turned down by both Whitney Houston and Belinda Carlisle!

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can't believe I'm saying this, but "Hold On" by Wilson-Phillips sounds real good to me this morning.

(Bob Shannon played it because Carnie Wilson is hosting the new incarnation of  ... wait for it... The Newlywed Game. Sheesh.)

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A decidedly quirky retro-chart this week on CG from 1976 -- no less than 3 versions of the Spanish/Latin Hustle! -- with (TANC) Billy Ocean as guest.

01.  - Tina Charles - I Love To Love
02.    CW McCall - Convoy
03.   Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You
04.   Brotherhood Of Man - Save Your Kisses For Me
05.    Guys And Dolls - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
06.    Barry White - You See The Trouble With Me
07.   - Glitter Band - People Like You People Like Me
08.    Gallagher And Lyle - I Wanna Stay With You
09.   The Four Seasons - December '63
10.    Yvonne Fair - It Should Have Been Me
11.   The Fatback Band - (Do The) Spanish Hustle
12.    Marmalade - Falling Apart At The Seams
13.   - The Stylistics - Funky Weekend
14.    Manuel And The Music Of The Mountains - Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjuez
15.   Status Quo - Rain
16.    Pluto Shervington - DAT
17.   The Beatles - Yesterday
18.   Cliff Richard - Miss You Nights
19.    The O'Jays - I Love Music
20.    The Who - Squeeze Box
21.    Peters And Lee - Hey Mr Music Man
22.    Randy Edelman - Concrete And Clay
23.    Harold Melvin And The Bluenotes - Wake Up Everybody
24.    M And O Band - Let's Do The Latin Hustle
25.    Eagles - Take It To The Limit
26.    Eddie Drennon And BBS Unlimited - Let's Do The Latin Hustle
27.    Smokie - Something's Been Making Me Blue
28.    The Drifters - Hello Happiness
29.    Be Bop Deluxe - Ships In The Night
30.    Emmylou Harris - Here There And Everywhere

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LadyCliff's "Miss You Nights" is quite lovely, and shoulda been bigger in the US  -- I recall segueing this with ED&JFC's "Nights are Forever" more than once.

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NTM: Stay-tus Quo seem to be ripping off ZZ Top with "Rain" (NOT the Beatles song).

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2nd non-ballad Stylistics hit of the week: "Funky Weekend", another UK smash that did nothing stateside.

Followed by one of Marmalade's many Brit hits: "Falling Apart at the Seams"

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proxy of Geoff: Yvonne fair: "It Should Have Been me" -- great song, and one of the great unknown pull-out-all-the-stops vocal perfs. And the host of the show rightly asked: How come no one's ever done a cover version?

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another NTM UK-only hit: Gallagher & Lyle, "I Wanna Stay With You".

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WTF? a group called Guys & Dolls doing a cover of "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" that's even more karaoke-awful than Elvis's! Good lord those wacky Brits will buy anything.

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wow -- Brotherhood of Man, "Save Your Kisses For Me", a UK #1 (and Eurovision winner) that got screwed in the US because Bobby Vinton rushed out a competing cover version.

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CW and his (chartreuse) VW arrive to save the day!