CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 7/13/09

[Gazoo]

Bob Shannon is doing a salute to Carolina Beach Music -- here's a pre-"Lion Sleeps Tonite" Robert John with "If You Don't Want My Love"!

I'm unclear on the parameters/attributes of "Carolina Beach Music" - can you give me a primer on the genre?

[RGMike]

Bob Shannon is doing a salute to Carolina Beach Music -- here's a pre-"Lion Sleeps Tonite" Robert John with "If You Don't Want My Love"!

I'm unclear on the parameters/attributes of "Carolina Beach Music" - can you give me a primer on the genre?

it's any song you can do The Shag to (the Shag being a dance, no relation to any Austin Powers reference). Mostly soul, but white artists have had CBM hits too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Beach_Music

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw_0_20?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=carolina+beach+music+classics&sprefix=carolina+beach+music

[RGMike]

WLNG juxtaposition of the week: creepy Gary Puckett turns some poor girl into a woman; Darlene Love replies "He's Sure the Boy I Love".

[RGMike]

If KPOO's Thursday morning soul guy wants me to stay -- he'll play some Sly.

[RGMike]

ooo!, the Contours, "Just a Little Misunderstanding"  -- another Motown obscurity that sounds like it was written for Levi Stubbs. Geils shoulda covered this one.

[RGMike]

JB's been 'buked, and he been scorned. And he had a hard time finding black kids in the suburbs of LA to sing "Say it Loud".

LAWD -- it's the looooong (i.e., parts 1 & 2) version!

[RGMike]

And you thought those Billy Mays commercials still running are creepy: KPOO just played a PSA about glaucoma prevention featuring... Ray Charles. The DJ said "obviously recorded in heaven". LOL!

[RGMike]

King Curtis' "Soul Serenade" is making me want to blow off AL and stick with KPOO. If her "mystery year" is a '90s thang (which I suspect is the case) I will do just that.

[RGMike]

Wow! Magic 98, doin' their Saturday '70s thang, plays Carole King's "Believe in Humanity" -- I can't remember the last time I heard this.

[Gazoo]

Wow! Magic 98, doin' their Saturday '70s thang, plays Carole King's "Believe in Humanity" -- I can't remember the last time I heard this.

Several months ago I wanted to do a blog entry on this song, but it wasn't anywhere on YouTube.  Good thing - the entry would have been me at my most bitter.  The song's up now, but thankfully the mood has passed.  (In sum: I was going to tell Carole why she shouldn't.  I should never tell anyone that.)