'LNG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 4/5/10

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Lawd! JJ plays a NTM version of "Save the Country" by Thelma Houston. Decidedly more soulful than Ms. McCoo's take.  Lay that devil DOWN!

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'LNG's Bob Shannon plays Peggy Scott & JoJo Benson's orig version of "Soul Shake", later covered by Delaney & Bonnie. What a fab single, with a boatload of first-class Nashville session players backing up Peggy & JoJo.

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OffShore radio pulls out the Monkees' Valleri.   Proxy of Gaz, of course...  if we were voting here, that is

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Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) on OffShore radio sounding pretty good.  

also, I caught a brief mondegreen.  

I thought he was saying:

Oh, make me wanna holler,
and throw up on my hands

(it's actually "...both my hands...")

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NTM: MUD --  Tiger Feet.  Raucous glammy stuff, reminiscent of T-Rex and Sweet.  

sorta embarrassing video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2sMuVPMkkk

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blast from my past: The Rockets  -  Oh Well

Roy Orbison introduces them on some TV special:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoLHfVo8B2s

(Roy seems pretty tall, eh?).  My local rawk station (WCMF) used to play this crunchy nugget a lot.

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NTM: MUD --  Tiger Feet.  Raucous glammy stuff, reminiscent of T-Rex and Sweet.  

sorta embarrassing video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2sMuVPMkkk

Yeah, very T-Rex-y -- they had 14 top-20 singles in 3 years ('73-'76) in the UK, including 2 #1's... and did absolutely zilch on these shores.

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Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity out of England
have obviously been listening to The Jefferson Airplane,
esp on  Wheels On Fire (1968):

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

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Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity out of England
have obviously been listening to The Jefferson Airplane,
esp on  Wheels On Fire (1968):

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

I know their version, of course, as the theme to AbFab, but that's a terrif performance. gaz-tastic!

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'LNG plays yet another obscure '60s band that is NTM: the Everpresent Fullness, with "Wild About My Lovin", a song wriiten by a young Warren Zevon.

http://www.answers.com/topic/everpresent-fullness

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ooo! 'LNG digs up Patti Drew's orig of "Workin' on a Groovy Thing", covered by the 5-D. I prefer this version, actually.

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TANC: Electric Indian's "Keem-O-Sabe".

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Woofa Toofa Goofa Loofa!  Listening to Li'l Steven's show and it's his 8th anniv special with special guest Peter Wolf (who has a new album out, apparently).  Great stuff.

ETA: Steven closed the show with a track from Wolf's new CD: a duet with... Merle Haggard! Just beautiful.

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rare Motown on Offshre: Tammi Terrell's version of "This Old Heart of Mine", NTM and as fab as you'd expect. Gotta find an anthol of her solo stuff.

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Offshore plays Keith West's "Excerpt From a Teenage Opera" (aka "Grocer Jack") -- this was a CG staple when I was listening to them regularly 5 or 6 years ago.  Love the kiddie chorus.