CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 6/8/09

[RGMike]

KPOO's deejay Marilynn is devoting most of her blues show today to the late Koko Taylor. We pitchin' a wang dang doodle, y'alls.

[RGMike]

Coolest thing on Little Steven's Nancy Sinatra tribute: her distaff cover of the Beatles' "Run For Your Life", taking the Fab Four's oft-criticized-for-misogyny lyrics and turning the tables.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvA3UrY2E_U

runner-up: The Rubinoos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3t66Nrqteo

[RGMike]

So of course I wanted to post "Some Velvet Morning" as well, but I didn't expect to find this fabulous clip, from a 1967 NBC TV special (!)  Wow and wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4

[Gazoo]

So of course I wanted to post "Some Velvet Morning" as well, but I didn't expect to find this fabulous clip, from a 1967 NBC TV special (!)  Wow and wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4

That honestly may be the strangest Top 40 hit ever.  Lee Hazlewood was a hell of an outsider artist insofar as he actually had hits doing so.

[Tinka Cat]

So of course I wanted to post "Some Velvet Morning" as well, but I didn't expect to find this fabulous clip, from a 1967 NBC TV special (!)  Wow and wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4

That honestly may be the strangest Top 40 hit ever.  Lee Hazlewood was a hell of an outsider artist insofar as he actually had hits doing so.

pretty great clip.  I first heard "Hey Cowboy" on KUSF a couple years ago and loved the tune.  When the deejay said it was Lee Hazlewood, I was like wha...? 

I admit I didn't know much at all about him, and here he is singing w a Swedish woman about being an actual cowboy in Sweden?? ... how the heck did this happen?  anyway, got hold of the other tunes from the record, then got his stuff w Nancy, and love it. 

[RGMike]

JJ's back and he's tightenin' it UP!

[RGMike]

There is the mighty mighty Dells, doin' the Best. Four. Tops. Imitation. EVAH.

Followed the *other* Best. Four. Tops. etc: The Platters' "With This Ring"! Or are they trying to be the Tempts?  Faux-town RULES!

[Gazoo]

There is the mighty mighty Dells, doin' the Best. Four. Tops. Imitation. EVAH.

Followed the *other* Best. Four. Tops. etc: The Platters' "With This Ring"! Or are they trying to be the Tempts?  Faux-town RULES!

Wow, you know how much I love both of those.  That Platters tune is part of my someday wedding mix.  They were definitely wearing Levi scrubs.

[RGMike]

There is the mighty mighty Dells, doin' the Best. Four. Tops. Imitation. EVAH.

Followed the *other* Best. Four. Tops. etc: The Platters' "With This Ring"! Or are they trying to be the Tempts?  Faux-town RULES!

Wow, you know how much I love both of those. 

another fave, on 'LNG: Tupper and Co, Neon Philharmonic with the fabulous "Morning Girl". Read your box of Cheerios!

[Gazoo]

There is the mighty mighty Dells, doin' the Best. Four. Tops. Imitation. EVAH.

Followed the *other* Best. Four. Tops. etc: The Platters' "With This Ring"! Or are they trying to be the Tempts?  Faux-town RULES!

Wow, you know how much I love both of those. 

another fave, on 'LNG: Tupper and Co, Neon Philharmonic with the fabulous "Morning Girl". Read your box of Cheerios!

You just might be the only one of my Facebook friends who gets my current profile image.

[RGMike]

There is the mighty mighty Dells, doin' the Best. Four. Tops. Imitation. EVAH.

Followed the *other* Best. Four. Tops. etc: The Platters' "With This Ring"! Or are they trying to be the Tempts?  Faux-town RULES!

Wow, you know how much I love both of those. 

another fave, on 'LNG: Tupper and Co, Neon Philharmonic with the fabulous "Morning Girl". Read your box of Cheerios!

You just might be the only one of my Facebook friends who gets my current profile image.

if you store your sauce in a tupperware bowl, it's tupper saucy!

[RGMike]

Treat of the Day: we missed out on hearing the Stylistic's fine cover of "You'll Never Get to Heaven" on Klassic Kasem this week, but 'LNG plays it back-to-back with the Dionne W orig!

[Tinka Cat]

Treat of the Day: we missed out on hearing the Stylistic's fine cover of "You'll Never Get to Heaven" on Klassic Kasem this week, but 'LNG plays it back-to-back with the Dionne W orig!

 i heard that!  pretty nice 

[Gazoo]

There is the mighty mighty Dells, doin' the Best. Four. Tops. Imitation. EVAH.

Followed the *other* Best. Four. Tops. etc: The Platters' "With This Ring"! Or are they trying to be the Tempts?  Faux-town RULES!

Wow, you know how much I love both of those. 

another fave, on 'LNG: Tupper and Co, Neon Philharmonic with the fabulous "Morning Girl". Read your box of Cheerios!

You just might be the only one of my Facebook friends who gets my current profile image.

if you store your sauce in a tupperware bowl, it's tupper saucy!

I once tried to map out a sketch-comedy piece about a talk show hosted by two indier-than-thou types.  The kind who think Pitchfork is a sellout.  Both way on the mascara'd, fey side, might as well be drag queens.  Their names: Tuppy and Saucy.

The sketch, alas, went nowhere.

[RGMike]

'LNG just played a Cowsills milk commercial from '69 or so. NTM and it's fun  -- Gaz will love, methinks

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

and now it's the Reflections "Romeo & Juliet" for the 3rd time in 24 hours -- I never knew the Motown "Funk Brothers" are the backing band on this! (I always thought of it as a very white record).

ETA: 15 minutes later we get the 'sills again, goin' to "Indian Native American Lake"