CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/4/10

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Judge enters the new year with a plain old show -- I thought, after his year-by-year survey of the '70s that we'd get 4 hours of 1980 today, but apparently not.

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Judge heads into the homestretch with New Edition's "Popcorn Love", which i haven't heard in ages.

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Bob Shannon on 'LNG is featuring "hangover hits" for New Years -- songs that "hung over" from the end of one year to the beginning of the next.  Looking at '69-into-'70 and we get Lulu doing a ballet on a tabletop, followed by Jefferson's fab "Take Me In Your Arms".

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Been a couple of weeks since I've been here on a Wednesday, but it's "Radio De Sebb"s covers show -- kicking off with "Lady Marmalade" -- LaBelle followed by the Lords of Acid (!).

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TANC: we get the Beatles "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", followed by the Al Green version! LAWD!  (Al mondegreens "I can't hide" into "I get high", but then who hasn't?)

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NTM: Gloria Gaynor doing a faithful ballad cover of "Careless Whisper" -- surprised she didn't Hi-NRG it.

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ROTFL: Senor Coconut, doing a latin/caribbean cover of ... "Smoke on the Water" (!)

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Thelma Houston, we have a problem: 2 versions of "Don't Leave Me this Way", and neither is yours. (we get Teddy P and the Communards instead)

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ROTFL: Senor Coconut, doing a latin/caribbean cover of ... "Smoke on the Water" (!)

oh man, I wish I heard this...  or do I?

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Holy crapola! KPOO plays the Brian Auger's Oblivion Express version of "Inner City Blues" -- haven't heard this in decades.

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NTM: early ('64) Gladys/Pips, "Givin' Up."

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Lawdy, it's my fave Honey Cone tune, the pre-"Want Ads" midcharter, "Girls It Ain't Easy".

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Lawdy, it's my fave Honey Cone tune, the pre-"Want Ads" midcharter, "Girls It Ain't Easy".

I've never heard their version, only Dusty's cover.

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Lawdy, it's my fave Honey Cone tune, the pre-"Want Ads" midcharter, "Girls It Ain't Easy".

I've never heard their version, only Dusty's cover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7jdfhCgUY

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So I'm listening to this week's Little Steven show (his review of the decade past), and he played this great Edward R Murrow quote (spoken by David Strathairn in Good Night & Good Luck).  talk about the more things change, etc:

Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.