CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 4/27/09

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KPOO's Marilynn played a fab (and NTM) Ike & Tina cover of JB's "Please Please Please" with a long spoken intro in which Tina attends the wedding of her lover to another woman. Lawd!

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OMG! 'LNG plays Derek's soundalike followup to "Cinnamon", "Back Door Man".  Someone should introduce him to Andy Kim.

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another NTM revelation: Keith Hampshire's version of "First Cut is the Deepest".

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OMG! 'LNG plays Derek's soundalike followup to "Cinnamon", "Back Door Man".  Someone should introduce him to Andy Kim.

Heh, nice.

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wow,here's The Archies' pre-"Sugar" "Bang-Shang-A-Lang", even more rarely-heard than "Jingle Jangle", which is saying something.

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a pretty cool retro-chart on CG this week, from August 1986:

01.   Chris De Burgh - The Lady In Red
02.   Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
03.   Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way
04.   Rod Stewart - Every Beat Of My Heart
05.   Sinitta - So Macho/Cruising
06.   Stan Ridgway - Camouflage
07.   Hollywood Beyond - What's The Colour Of Money
08.   UB40 - Sing Our Own Song
09.   Robert Palmer - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
10.   Five Star - Find The Time
11.   Haywoode - Roses {1986}
12.   Owen Paul - My Favourite Waste Of Time
13.   The Jesus And Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking
14.    Audrey Hall - Smile
15.   Spandau Ballet - Fight For Ourselves
16.   Bananarama - Venus
17.    Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent
18.   The Smiths - Panic
19.   Steve Winwood - Higher Love
20.   The Housemartins - Happy Hour

Hadn't heard the Housemartins' wonderful "Happy Hour" in ages. And Stan (Wall of Voodoo) Ridgeway's "Camouflage" was a top ten hit in the UK? Did nothing here -- I always thought of it as an '80s counterpart to "Big Bad John" and songs of that ilk.

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17.    Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent

lawd! the late Ms. Guthrie's finest hour.  "You gots to have a J-O-B/If you wanna be with me!"  Sharon Jones should tackle a cover of this one.

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J&M Chain's "Some Candy Talking" is NTM, as is Owen Paul (who??) with a Calypso-inflected cover of Marshall Crenshaw's "Favorite Waste of Time".

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another TANC: UB40 when they were good  -- indeed this was their peak period -- with "Sing Our Own Song".

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yikes, Sinitta's "So Macho" is the cheeziest Hi-NRG blatantly-gay disco anthem, like, ever.

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'LNG digs up a Supes tune I haven't heard in decades: "the Composer".

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yikes, Sinitta's "So Macho" is the cheeziest Hi-NRG blatantly-gay disco anthem, like, ever.

I'd never heard of this until now.  Was unable to make it through 2 minutes of it on YouTube - ugh.

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yikes, Sinitta's "So Macho" is the cheeziest Hi-NRG blatantly-gay disco anthem, like, ever.

I'd never heard of this until now.  Was unable to make it through 2 minutes of it on YouTube - ugh.

clearly, you're not "Match-oh" enuf.    The Brits, they loved this sorta stuff in the '80s.

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over to 'LNG in time for the Cowsills to wash the taste of Bob's '81 crapfest outta my mouth with "Indian Lake" -- a much better summer vacation song than Diesel's.

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Lawd have mercy! JJ's KPOO soulfest tonite is a salute to James Brown, whose birf-day (as JJ pronounces it) is tomorrow.  All JB all the time! Jump back! Kiss mahself!

"Gone but not forgotten, up in Soul Heaven!"