CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/2/09

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Lawd!  Judge kicks off 1972 with Dennis Coffey's "Taurus" rather than the more-often-heard "Scorpio"-- and this taurus is lovin' it.

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Holy crap! a twin-spin by The Soul Children, including "Don't Take My Kindness for Weakness"!

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peak Blaxploitation year: we've gotten trailers for Slaughter (and its little-heard theme song by Billy Preston!) and now Superfly.

And now Glodean and the girls are trying to get out of the rain. Call Barry!

followed by very early EWF -- NTM

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Lamont Dozier's fab "Why can't We Be Lovers?" and Luther Ingram's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" rip-off "Shelter".

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"Pass the Peas": one of the many JB-offshoots of the period. Fred Wesley? Bobby Byrd? dunno. But it's fonky and it's about food -- who could ask for mo'?

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Betty Wright's "Babysitter" -- a "Clean-Up Woman" retread, but all retreads should be this enjoyable.

and now JB his own damn self, like a dull knife -- jus' ain't cuttin'! "Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Nothin'".  And we're into the #1's and near-misses of '72. Honey Cone's "Day I Found Myself" is one of the latter. Look atchoo foolin' you! Sly's "Runnin' Away" to get away... from the department of redundancy department.

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"right on... right on..."

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"and when he's lonesome and feelin' love-starved I'll be there to feed him"



well then, Ree-Ree, he won't starve, that's fo' sho'!

OMG! Mille Jackson's uber-fab "Ask Me What You Want" makes my afternoon.

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preach it, sistah!

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rarely-heard Jr Walker -- one of his last charted hits: "Walk in the Night".  And Bobby W knows a woman gotta have it.

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may be factual, may be cruel: Cuba Sr. plays da fool.

Lyn Collins -- the Female Preacher! -- with the destined-to-be-sampled "Think".



and Mel & Tim with the destined-to--be-covered by H&O "Starting All Over Again".

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NTM rarity-of-the-week: the Ramrods, "Hot Potato" -- the original (pre-MFSB) theme from Soul Train (!)

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Awwww...

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Lawd! the Isleys with the orig version of "Work to Do", which AWB would cover 2 years later.

and Judge closes eversotastefully with Billy Paul.



Wonder if the "Your Song" on the B-side is indeed an EJ cover.