CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/30/09

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Looking forward to Judge's salute to 1976 at noon.

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Looking forward to Judge's salute to 1976 at noon.

and I'm rewarded with the 5th Dimension's ill-fated version of "Love Hangover" -- it hit the chart the same week as Miss Ross' take, and hers soon became a smash, leaving the (now Marilyn McCoo-less) 5-D in the dust. But the versions are amazingly similar, as if both acts were imitating the same demo. One of the great pop-trivia oddities of the decade.

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Lawd! Bobby W sees "Daylight". Why this was not a pop hit remains a mystery.

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Judge plays William Bell's "Tryin to Love Two" which i remember as being from '77, not '76.

But he recovers with a local white boy name of Scaggs. "What Can I Say?"

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WTF? a trailer for Dr Black and Mr Hyde!  "Don't give him no sass... or he'll kick yo' ass!"

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ooo! Ms. Summer has a "Spring Affair", and here's some funky disco thang with someone playing vibes -- Roy Ayers?

ETA: yup, 'twas he. Followed by obscure Philly Soul: Double Exposure, "Ten Percent" (NOT a gay reference).

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Judge's first dud of the afternoon: Bill Cosby's awful Barry White parody, "Yes Yes Yes".

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I don't mind Judge playing white people -- we've heard the Stones and Boz Scaggs so far -- but I draw the line at Mickey Thomas/Elvin Bishop.

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she was a disco queen! she came from New Crleans! "Catfish" makes the Four Tops' collective nature rise.

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Long-forgotten disco (and the flashback of the day): Bumblebee Unltd, "Love Bug" -- "I'm gonna sting you with my love", a common lyrical trope in gay disco hits of the period (see also: Gloria Gaynor, "Honeybee").

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another unjustly forgotten nugget: AWB's rather EWF-ish "Queen of My Soul"

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Damn I wish JJ was on KPOO *every* morning.

Brenda Holloway's orig version of "You've Made Me So Very Happy". BS&T and DCT: eat yer hearts out.

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lawd! "The Chokin' Kind" followed by "Can I Change My Mind?"

"if you don't like the peach
walk on by the tree"

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Am I psychic?  This morning on BART, for no real reason, Mark Lindsay's "Arizona" popped into my head.  And now here's Mr Lindsay on WLNG, postin' a poster of Pancho & Cisco, one California day.

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Listening to Li'l Steven's show, it's another of his Songwriter Salutes, this week he's doing Lieber & Stoller, Jackie DeShannon and Bert Burns. Burns wrote among other things "Here Comes The Night", made famous by Them but Steven played the original version by... Lulu!  NTM and I am (you guessed it) utterly gobsmacked.