LNG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/16/10

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NTM from JJ on KPOO: Brothers & Others, "If Love was Like a River" -- from '71, a sort of Sam & Dave-meets-Sly kinda thang.

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Also NTM: 7th Wonder, from 1973, basically ripping off Al Green's cover of "For The Good Times"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ca88RqXHYU

and even more NTM: Brenda & the tabulations doing Smokey's "Who's Loving You?", long before the J-5 tackled it.

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wow, quite a morning for NTMs: Stevie W with the orig of "With a Child's Heart" -- I only know the MJ cover from the '70s.

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The day of NTMs continues with an OMGWTFLOL: solo Gary Puckett's 1970 version of "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" -- quite a nice perf, maybe his least-smarmy vocal evah.  Can't find it on YouTube, sadly.

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Yikes! 'LNG plays Leapy Lee, "Little Arrows".

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This week's Little Steven Show is a tribute to "fake" rock bands (Monkees, Rutles, Max Frost & the Troopers, etc), inspired by the new film Scott Pilgrim vs the World -- guess Steven didn't know it was gonna flop before he recorded the show...

ETA: Steven closed the first segment of the show, after his backannounce, by predicting that Scott Pilgrim will "open at #1 at the box office".  Um... OOOPS!

ETA2: this is one of Steven's most enjoyable shows in ages -- after a segemt devoted to the Rutles, we're into a serious Spinal Tap tribute.

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mercy! I have not heard Adeva's dance version of "Respect" since 1989.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t21dMFdA0NU

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"WTF?" of the day: Clarence Carter (!) doing a cover of "BrickHouse" that sounds like one of those "soundalike" bands pretending to be the Commodores on a cheezy sub-K-TEL compilation. Yeesh.

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Yet another NTM Gil Scott Heron thang on Radio de Sebb: the lovely "I Think I'll Call it Morning". Damn, I wish there was an all-inclusive Heron anthol. And whitey's on da moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1dvUVTwnJk

has anyone ever covered this? it ought to be a standard.

ETA: also NTM: Bobby Womack, "If You Want My Love, Put Something Down On It".  Guess that's why they call it "lay-away", Mr W.

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and as they often do, Radio de Sebb plays an Undisputed Truth version of a Tempts hit: their take on "Ball of Confusion".

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Friday treat: Real Thing's "You To Me Are Everything", which I haven't heard since I stopped listening to Capital Gold.

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ETA: also NTM: Bobby Womack, "If You Want My Love, Put Something Down On It".  Guess that's why they call it "lay-away", Mr W.

holy crap -- turns out this Bobby W song (from 1975) was hijacked by the folks who wrote Rod the Mod's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" (1978):

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/17746/Rod%20Stewart-Da%20Ya%20Think%20I'm%20Sexy%3F_Bobby%20Womack-(If%20You%20Want%20My%20Love)%20Put%20Something%20Down%20on%20It/

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Yet another NTM Gil Scott Heron thang on Radio de Sebb: the lovely "I Think I'll Call it Morning". Damn, I wish there was an all-inclusive Heron anthol. And whitey's on da moon.

I have a comp called The Revolution Will Not Be Televised that covers all his "poetic" work (including "Morning") - but you're right about the absence of all-inclusiveness; it's missing, among other things, "South Carolina" and "We Almost Lost Detroit."