CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/31/09

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I'm in Stevie heaven (and it's not 10 zillion light years away)

and here's that song. What a fab hour this was.

And we close with "All In Love Is Fair". *swoon*

Wow, one of my very favorite Stevie songs.  A deceptively difficult vocal.

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I'm in Stevie heaven (and it's not 10 zillion light years away)

and here's that song. What a fab hour this was.

And we close with "All In Love Is Fair". *swoon*

Wow, one of my very favorite Stevie songs.  A deceptively difficult vocal.

Babs did a nice version that, sadly, flopped as a single.

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'LNG's Greenwich tribute continues: Tina sings about the only doll she ever owned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KkMSkmx7sM

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yikes -- Buckner & Garcia, "Pac-Man Fever" -- barely a notch above "The Curly Shuffle" on the '80s Novelty Record evolutionary scale.

but it's followed by Bobby Goldsboro's finest hour: the before-he-discovered-smarminess "Little Things", which sounds like Johnny Rivers-meets-Neil Diamond

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Ha! 'LNG plays Daniel Boone's "Beautiful Sunday" -- in German! Ja wohl!

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holy crap! 'LNG unearths a NTM Andy Williams obscurity, "Ain't it True".

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Marvin don't see Marvin in his mirror -- he sees "You". Wonder if Gladys covered this one? She shoulda.

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new radio discovery, Offshore Music Radio, a tribute of sorts to the UK radio pirates of old.

http://loudcity.com/stations/offshore-music-radio/files/show/listen.htm

despite that huge pageful of links, most would not work for me; except this one

http://www.bitsmitter.com:8004

which opens a Real player, and this one

http://65.60.32.4:8004

which you can paste into a WMP. (both are mono, sadly)  Just heard OC Smith's "Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp" which was a treat, and here's Donna Summer's Dr Buzzard knockoff, "I Remember Yesterday" .

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quite a range of nuggets on this "Offshore" thing. Sheila B Devotion doing a (NTM) cheezy Eurodisco rendition of "Singin' in the Rain", followed by Candlewick Green's orig version of "Who Do You Think You Are?", which Bo Donaldson covered note-for-note.  And now -- holy crap! -- Hedgehoppers Anonymous, "It's Good News Week"

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also NTM: Martha/Vandellas "Joy in the Morning" -- no surprise, tho', as those Northern Soul-loving Brits know more obscure Motown numbers than anybody.

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nicest surprise on this UK "Offshore Radio" thingy: Donovan's "Universal Soldier".  Still a superb song.

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back to UK "Offshoe Radio" in time for the Adverts, "Gary Gilmore's Eyes"!

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ooo! "Sad Sweet Dreamer"! This one always makes my day.

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Candlewick Green's orig version of "Who Do You Think You Are?", which Bo Donaldson covered note-for-note. 

Slightly more complicated than that, I learned recently.  Turns out the song was written by the leader of Jigsaw.  They recorded it, then gave it to Candlewick Green, who did it more literally note-for-note.  Afterward BD&tH took a crack at it, changing almost nothing.

Jigsaw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjriWGxk7Ps

Candlewick Green: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evZbeUAMoYg

Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djFPS9ysSeY

But how's this for missed opportunity: Imagine Dusty Springfield singing this song.

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Candlewick Green's orig version of "Who Do You Think You Are?"... 

But how's this for missed opportunity: Imagine Dusty Springfield singing this song.

oh my yes -- and TANC (as well as OMGWTF): Offshore radio just played the Merseybeats UK hit version of "Wishin' & Hopin'" -- NTM and rather generically Liverpudlian.

and it's followed by Sweet's "Wig-Wham Bam" -- thank you ma'am!