KFOG, But Not 10@10

[urth]

Hope y'all (but especially Geoff) caught Dave playing "Witchi Tai To" (the orig 1969 version by Everything is Everything) around 6:30 this morning.  Talk about a flashback!

Damn, I missed it, but that explains why Benson the PD was discussing Jim Pepper and his fabulous Comin' & Goin' album, which contains his own version of that tune, a longtime fave of mine as well. (Pepper wrote the song, iirc.)

"Water spirit spring is runnin' round in my head
Makes me feel glad that I'm not dead..."

[RGMike]

Hope y'all (but especially Geoff) caught Dave playing "Witchi Tai To" (the orig 1969 version by Everything is Everything) around 6:30 this morning.  Talk about a flashback!

Damn, I missed it, but that explains why Benson the PD was discussing Jim Pepper and his fabulous Comin' & Goin' album, which contains his own version of that tune, a longtime fave of mine as well. (Pepper wrote the song, iirc.)

"Water spirit spring is runnin' round in my head
Makes me feel glad that I'm not dead..."

apparently a Foghead emailed Dave with some of the lyrics and wanted to know Name of Song, Who Did It, etc.  So Dave went home and dug out his orig vinyl 45 of the tune.

[ggould]

Hope y'all (but especially Geoff) caught Dave playing "Witchi Tai To" (the orig 1969 version by Everything is Everything) around 6:30 this morning.  Talk about a flashback!

You may have heard me call him; I got kinda cocky, since I have about a half a dozen different versions of the song, and disagreed with him about the original version.  In the broadcast version of our conversation, I got the buzzer treatment!

My memory could be jaded by all the different versions I've heard, but the one I have that is credited to Jim Pepper feels like the 'original' in the sense it's from the author.

[RGMike]

Dunno if you heard the discussion the other morning about "songs that have inspired you" (triggered by this week's EW cover story).  Dave, to no one's surprise, mentioned McFadden & Whitehead, "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now".

TANC: last week someone brought a bilingual mix CD to the gym that featured a cover of "Ain't No..." en espanol. Betcha Dave'd LOVE that. :wink:   There was also a disco-ed up Spanish version of Carole King's "Corazon" that morphed into "Love Hangover". Sadly, no idea who does them.

[Gazoo]

Dunno if you heard the discussion the other morning about "songs that have inspired you" (triggered by this week's EW cover story).  Dave, to no one's surprise, mentioned McFadden & Whitehead, "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now".

TANC: last week someone brought a bilingual mix CD to the gym that featured a cover of "Ain't No..." en espanol. Betcha Dave'd LOVE that. :wink:   There was also a disco-ed up Spanish version of Carole King's "Corazon" that morphed into "Love Hangover". Sadly, no idea who does them.

Was this the comp?

http://www.bluebeat.com/albums/6177

Disco Forever Disc 1   
   1   We're On Our Way Home by Brainstorm   
   2   My Love Supreme by Milton Hamilton   
   3   Barely Breaking Even by Universal Robot Band   
   4   Chameleon by La Pregunta   
   5   You're So Right For Me by Eastside Connection   
   6   Ain't No Stopping Us Now by Charanga 76   
   7   Flight To Jamaica by The Crashers   
   8   Que Tal America by Two Man Sound   
   9   Corazon by The LTG Exchange   
   10   Love Hangover by Touch   
   11   Let's Make Love by Jeanne Napoli   
   12   Just As Long As I Got You by Love Committee   
   13   Smile by Skylite   
   14   I Got A Thing by Silver, Platinum & Gold   
   15   Shout At The Disco by Little Scotty   
   16   Work Song by Pat Lundy

[RGMike]

Dunno if you heard the discussion the other morning about "songs that have inspired you" (triggered by this week's EW cover story).  Dave, to no one's surprise, mentioned McFadden & Whitehead, "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now".

TANC: last week someone brought a bilingual mix CD to the gym that featured a cover of "Ain't No..." en espanol. Betcha Dave'd LOVE that. :wink:   There was also a disco-ed up Spanish version of Carole King's "Corazon" that morphed into "Love Hangover". Sadly, no idea who does them.

Was this the comp?

http://www.bluebeat.com/albums/6177

Wow... thanks! I'll check that list against the tunes on the CD (there was no accompanying track listing); it was described to me as a homemade mix but that could be wrong.  The segue from "Corazon" to "Love Hangover" is an amazing coincidence, certainly.

[urth]

Dunno if you heard the discussion the other morning about "songs that have inspired you" (triggered by this week's EW cover story).  Dave, to no one's surprise, mentioned McFadden & Whitehead, "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now".

TANC: last week someone brought a bilingual mix CD to the gym that featured a cover of "Ain't No..." en espanol. Betcha Dave'd LOVE that. :wink:   There was also a disco-ed up Spanish version of Carole King's "Corazon" that morphed into "Love Hangover". Sadly, no idea who does them.

Was this the comp?

http://www.bluebeat.com/albums/6177

Wow... thanks! I'll check that list against the tunes on the CD (there was no accompanying track listing); it was described to me as a homemade mix but that could be wrong.  The segue from "Corazon" to "Love Hangover" is an amazing coincidence, certainly.

Corazon is an amazing tune--I played on Woody Herman's arrangement of it with my HS jazz band.

[mshray]

Hope y'all (but especially Geoff) caught Dave playing "Witchi Tai To" (the orig 1969 version by Everything is Everything) around 6:30 this morning.  Talk about a flashback!

You may have heard me call him; I got kinda cocky, since I have about a half a dozen different versions of the song, and disagreed with him about the original version.  In the broadcast version of our conversation, I got the buzzer treatment!

My memory could be jaded by all the different versions I've heard, but the one I have that is credited to Jim Pepper feels like the 'original' in the sense it's from the author.

I have studio & live versions of that by Brewer & Shipley.  It was the last song on their second album & ever after it was the set closer to their live act.  In the liner notes Michael Brewer says they learned the song by listening to Everything Is Everything on a Little Rock radio station while driving around Missouri, Kansas & Arkansas late at night when it was the only station they could get.

[ggould]

Hope y'all (but especially Geoff) caught Dave playing "Witchi Tai To" (the orig 1969 version by Everything is Everything) around 6:30 this morning.  Talk about a flashback!

You may have heard me call him; I got kinda cocky, since I have about a half a dozen different versions of the song, and disagreed with him about the original version.  In the broadcast version of our conversation, I got the buzzer treatment!

My memory could be jaded by all the different versions I've heard, but the one I have that is credited to Jim Pepper feels like the 'original' in the sense it's from the author.

I have studio & live versions of that by Brewer & Shipley.  It was the last song on their second album & ever after it was the set closer to their live act.  In the liner notes Michael Brewer says they learned the song by listening to Everything Is Everything on a Little Rock radio station while driving around Missouri, Kansas & Arkansas late at night when it was the only station they could get.

I'd love to get a copy of the live version someday!

[RGMike]

love the new postioner I heard on the station this morning:

"streaming San Francisco Values to the world at kfog.com" LOL!

Also, as I was leaving the house this morning, KFOG was playing Oasis' "Wonderwall"... or maybe it was "Champagne Supernova" -- either way, neither song got KFOG play at the time they were current.

[Gazoo]

Tuned in to KFOG early tonight, unusual for me; and the "Buzz Cut" they're playing is an Incubus song and NOT the one that's now charting on the Hot 100 ("Anna-Molly").  I think the title is "Diamonds and Coal"?  They've REALLY honed the pop instincts this time 'round.  I dig it, though I can also dig why purists/old fans might not.

[darryl]

love the new postioner I heard on the station this morning:

"streaming San Francisco Values to the world at kfog.com" LOL!

Heh

Also, as I was leaving the house this morning, KFOG was playing Oasis' "Wonderwall"... or maybe it was "Champagne Supernova" -- either way, neither song got KFOG play at the time they were current.

Huh, around what time was that?  My script didn't pick it up.  Wonder if Dave just snuck it in somehow.  As far as my data goes, the last time in recent history KFOG played Oasis was back in June 2005 when they gave "Let There Be Love" a few spins, and for a few months up to that, "Lyla".

But I'm a little worried about my data.  Our son goes to sleep listening to KFOG, and they were just playing The Killers' "Bones" (who we just saw at Live 105's Not So Silent Night -- pretty rocking show, but goddamn I felt old).  My wife said, "Hey, they're playing the new one!", so I dutifully looked at my data, since I was just about to post a very late response to the Chili Peppers query from a few weeks ago.

The upshot:  their data is screwed up.  Their "last played" page, shows Sister Hazel's "Your Mistake" instead of the Killers.  And that page sources the same site that I do.  Feh.

In other news, I heard a teaser for Monday's 10@10 saying the year is going to be 1982.  Is it common for Dave to announce that on Saturdays?

--Darryl

[darryl]

Another question for Darryl and his nifty play-list cataloguing script:

Have the Chili Peppers seen an increase in play over the last couple of weeks? Not just the current stuff (Dani California et al) but older things--I've heard Give It Away a couple of times in the past week, and several others of that vintage, too. Wondering if they've been bumped up in the rotation, or if I'm just stumbling across them more frequently.

They *are* getting more play, I think on average of about 5 spins a day.  Prior to the Stadium Arcadium album hitting the airwaves (April 2006), it was more like 2-3 times a day.  In May-June 2006 their record company must have really started pestering the music director or something (or greasing her palm), because it seems to have jumped to about a fairly consistent 4-times a day.

In the most recent couple of months the spins have mainly been "Snow" from the new album (average 3 spins a day).  The other two spins a day have been a mix of the singles from the new album ("Dani California" and "Tell Me Baby") with a their older hits.  In the last month or so I only have them playing "Give It Away" on these dates:

Thu Nov  2 18:39:00 2006        RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS   GIVE IT AWAY    BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK
Thu Nov  9 17:24:00 2006        RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS   GIVE IT AWAY    BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK
Mon Nov 20 19:48:00 2006        RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS   GIVE IT AWAY    BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK
Thu Nov 30 16:39:00 2006        RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS   GIVE IT AWAY    BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK

But as mentioned in my last post, I'm wary of the accuracy of the data that I'm getting from KFOG's website.  There's definitely some mislabeled music in their database, and that screws up my data.  :-{

--Darryl

[RGMike]

In other news, I heard a teaser for Monday's 10@10 saying the year is going to be 1982.  Is it common for Dave to announce that on Saturdays?

Dave started recording a daily teaser for the next day's 10@10 at least five or six years ago; prior to that it was only once in a blue moon to promote "special" sets (Hits From Hell and the like). I remember because we griped about it at first -- it made the spin no longer a surprise. But we got used to it. Anyway, the promo for Monday usually runs all weekend. Most of us, I'm guessing, don't listen to KFOG as much as we used to, so it's rare that any of us happens to hear the promo.

[Alicat]

Your data doesn't show play of Snow (Hey Oh) which I think I hear a lot of. I def. hear more RHCP lately. No complaints.

Talk of Incubus above. Coming to SF in January. I plan to be there.