CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/17/09

[RGMike]

perfect antidote to the generally uninteresting sets today: the KYA retro stream. Donovan, looking thru crys-tal spek-tickles.

i've been listening too.  I thought Jerry Butler was telling me about his Nudie Woman... Turns out it's a Moody Woman.... dangit.

I wonder what Mama Cass thought the first time she heard Spanky & Our Gang's "Sunday will Never Be the same"? like, bet she was all "Damn! Ahm gonna kill dat fat bitch, think she can steal mah act!"

[urth]

OMG! the format Gaz has been waiting for!  "CheezyFM":

http://www.cheezyfm.com/

dang, was all excited to listen online, but apparently it's a corporate site that want to market that format over the airwaves.  I would listen, but resent (just a little) the whole idea of some songs I like being shoehorned into the "cheezy" category.   But that's how stupid (and afraid) radio/pop culture marketing has become: we're reluctant to admit we like something, and instead have to be all ironic and sh*t so we can still remain cool.  I like cheese!

yeah, I was hoping for a "listen live" link too. I can't imagine anyone carrying it as their main format -- maybe on weekends, but not 24/7.

They need to employ a spell-checker, too. That carousel in the middle of the page that invites you to "name our core artists" misspells "Tennille"--they have one N where there should be two. Not earning any points here.

[RGMike]

One of my faves: Johnny Rivers, "Summer Rain" -- but I always wondered how "the jukebox kept on playin' 'Sgt Pepper's Lonelyhearts Club Band' ", when nothing from that LP was ever a single?

[Tinka Cat]

One of my faves: Johnny Rivers, "Summer Rain" -- but I always wondered how "the jukebox kept on playin' 'Sgt Pepper's Lonelyhearts Club Band' ", when nothing from that LP was ever a single?

missed that one, like it, too.   wow, some good music knowledge here b/w you and urth.

Jr Walker's Shotgun playing now.  I always heard the phrase as "Shotgun -- shoot a bullet right now."  which of course makes no sense since shotguns use shells.  just looked it up:

I said, Shotgun shoot em for he runs now
Do the jerk baby
Do the jerk now
Hey!

[RGMike]

One of my faves: Johnny Rivers, "Summer Rain" -- but I always wondered how "the jukebox kept on playin' 'Sgt Pepper's Lonelyhearts Club Band' ", when nothing from that LP was ever a single?

missed that one, like it, too.   wow, some good music knowledge here b/w you and urth.

Jr Walker's Shotgun playing now.  I always heard the phrase as "Shotgun -- shoot a bullet right now."  which of course makes no sense since shotguns use shells.  just looked it up:

I said, Shotgun shoot em for he runs now
Do the jerk baby
Do the jerk now
Hey!

ha! I assume that "for" is short for "before" ("shoot 'im fo' he runs now" would be better spelling on their part). I always thought it was "shoot him for me right now". Either way, you're shooting some guy... and then you're dancing? WTF?

[Tinka Cat]

KYA just played a vintage commercial for the Rolling Stones concert stop in the Oakland Coliseum.  Bill Graham presets their only NorCal appearance. What year would that have been?

The tickets ranged from $4.50 up to a whopping $7.50!

If you wanted tix, "please send your money and a self addressed stamped envelope to the Coliseum" and they will mail the tix back.  So cash in one direction and stones tickets in the other direction.  I wonder how many of those envelopes -- in both directions -- were open by postal employees? 

[urth]

KYA just played a vintage commercial for the Rolling Stones concert stop in the Oakland Coliseum.  Bill Graham presets their only NorCal appearance. What year would that have been?

The tickets ranged from $4.50 up to a whopping $7.50!

If you wanted tix, "please send your money and a self addressed stamped envelope to the Coliseum" and they will mail the tix back.  So cash in one direction and stones tickets in the other direction.  I wonder how many of those envelopes -- in both directions -- were open by postal employees? 

I think it might have been this one, circa November 1969, about a month before Altamont:

I believe the next time they came through here was in '72 and they played Winterland, then the Cow Palace in '75, and after that it was all stadium shows at either Oakland or Candlestick until 1999.

When was the last time you went to a show that had tickets at that many price levels? Nowadays it's either all one price, or perhaps one exhorbitant price for most seats, except for the nosebleeds and obstructed view, for which they offer a minimal discount.

[RGMike]

KYA just played a vintage commercial for the Rolling Stones concert stop in the Oakland Coliseum.  Bill Graham presets their only NorCal appearance. What year would that have been?

The tickets ranged from $4.50 up to a whopping $7.50!

When was the last time you went to a show that had tickets at that many price levels? Nowadays it's either all one price, or perhaps one exhorbitant price for most seats, except for the nosebleeds and obstructed view, for which they offer a minimal discount.

Indeed, I remember similar NYC shows in the '70s -- Madison Sq Garden, Shea Stadium -- where there were 5 or 6 diff price points. (I had nosebleed seats for Rick Wakeman doing his entire Journey to the Center of the Earth LP!)

But what's really hilarious on that poster is "By Popular Demand -- 2nd Show 10:30 the Same Night!"    Bet Mick doesn't stay up that late these days...

[RGMike]

Ay! Ay que FIEVRE!  JJ plays "Jungle Fever" by Chakachas, which he pronounces "sha-ka-kas". Er, huh?

But the WTF-of-the-night goes to a NTM cover of "Heaven Must've Sent You" by the Continental 4, recorded midway between the Elgins' 1966 original and Bonnie Pointer's '79 hit version.

and it's followed by one from my all-time top ten forgotten soul nuggets: the Chi-Lites, "Stoned Outta My Mind". Oh *please* let us hear a Casey Kasem 1973 chart that includes this one in the next month.

[RGMike]

"Like a house on FY-uh
mah de-ZY-uh
is climbin' HY-uh
baby WOOO!"

They just don't write deep lyrics like that anymore. Yay "Hot Line" by the Sylvers.