Author Topic: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT  (Read 9898 times)

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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2009, 10:20:55 AM »
Not a bad showing so far. BOS CCR, Raspberries, and GFR, stayin' up all night with Freddie King.

I always thought it was Frank King... which certainly scans better (one less syllable)


Pretty sure it's Freddy. Several lyric sites and wikipedia all concur:

Out on the road for forty days
Last night in Little Rock, put me in a haze
Sweet, sweet Connie was doin' her act
She had the whole show and that's a natural fact

Up all night with Freddie King
I got to tell you, poker's his thing
Booze and ladies, keep me right
As long as we can make it to the show tonight
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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2009, 10:22:49 AM »
Not a bad showing so far. BOS CCR, Raspberries, and GFR, stayin' up all night with Freddie King.

I always thought it was Frank King... which certainly scans better (one less syllable)


Pretty sure it's Freddy. Several lyric sites and wikipedia all concur:

Out on the road for forty days
Last night in Little Rock, put me in a haze
Sweet, sweet Connie was doin' her act
She had the whole show and that's a natural fact

Up all night with Freddie King
I got to tell you, poker's his thing
Booze and ladies, keep me right
As long as we can make it to the show tonight

oh I know... I went to Top40 db before I posted. But amazingly this was the first time I ever became aware of the discrepancy/m'green.

VHM Congressman John Hall & Orleans.
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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2009, 10:24:17 AM »
We're diggin' into the cheeze--Still the One, which would be fodder for a thousand TV commercials.

Hope they held onto their publishing!
« Last Edit: September 30, 2009, 10:25:50 AM by urth »
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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2009, 10:24:54 AM »
hmm, sounds like Orleans ripped off the Sweet's Ballroom Blitz guitar riff
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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #19 on: September 30, 2009, 10:27:12 AM »
Is this the 2nd time AL has played disco Star Wars?  VHM anyway -- cheeze factor just surged.

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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2009, 10:27:41 AM »
Sing with me:  "Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars.  If they should bar wars, where would we be?"
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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #21 on: September 30, 2009, 10:29:39 AM »
Star Wars takes me back, I saw it in the first couple days before it became a phenomenon.  Back then movies, at least in St. Louis, usually opened on Wed.

ooooh that chartbusters guy is like fingernails on chalkboard, but LRB is a very soothing antidote.  BOS #2.
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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #22 on: September 30, 2009, 10:31:25 AM »
Sing with me:  "Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars.  If they should bar wars, where would we be?"

Right there with you:

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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #23 on: September 30, 2009, 10:31:54 AM »

ooooh that chartbusters guy is like fingernails on chalkboard, but LRB is a very soothing antidote.  BOS #2.


agreed on Mr Voiceover Guy -- yeesh.  LRB would be more welcome had I not heard it on Klassic Kasem this wknd. But at least this is the full version, not the bad edit Casey played.
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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #24 on: September 30, 2009, 10:32:22 AM »
another BOS for Reminiscing
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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #25 on: September 30, 2009, 10:32:34 AM »
And the cheeze just keeps on comin'! Reminiscing with Little River Band.
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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #26 on: September 30, 2009, 10:34:58 AM »
Pop Pop CheezMuzik!

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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #27 on: September 30, 2009, 10:35:15 AM »
And we wrap it up oh so tastefully with M's Pop Muzik! Which is what this set's been all about anyway, right?
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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2009, 10:37:43 AM »
And we wrap it up oh so tastefully with M's Pop Muzik! Which is what this set's been all about anyway, right?

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Jumping Jack
I wanna hold
Get Back"
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Re: 30 September 2009--it's...a 70s VT
« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2009, 10:39:02 AM »

But at least this is the full version, not the bad edit Casey played.

I was just gonna say that I don't think the version that charted had the trumpet solo.  But you know I loves me some trumpet solos.
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