KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/1/11

[RGMike]

looking at the playlist for Peter Young's always-wonderful Jazz-FM show from this past weekend

http://www.jazzfm.com/playlist/30th-july-2011-6/

And I notice at the end of hour 3 there's Lesley Gore doing a medley of Keith's "98.6" and Spanky & Our Gang's "Lazy day"! WTF?

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1340 unearths Shakin' Stevens (huge in the UK in the '80s, and unknown here) and his cover of "Green Door".

[RGMike]

Atlantic2NG plays Cockney Rebel's "Come Up & See me", which makes me smile.

and now Jona Lewie's in the kitchen at a party.

OMGWTFLOL: the Partridge Family, "Point me in the Direction of Albequerque"!

[RGMike]

More Atlantic2NG: Tavares' superfab "Don't Take Away the Music".

[RGMike]

Just heard this on The Boardwalk... For all the FYC haters who are (rightfully) sick of "Good Thing" and "She Drives me Cray-zay"... their 1996 UK hit that did nothing here (afaik): "The Flame" (not the Cheap Trick hit).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHYdaorAKY4

[Tinka Cat]

Calling all 80s synth pop fans! *look at SundayGal and Shray for starters*

 soma.fm has a station right up your alley:

Underground 80s: Early 80s UK Synthpop and a bit of New Wave

http://somafm.com/u80s/

sample:
15:16:50  (Now)   Re-Flex   The Politics Of Dancing [Radio Edit]   Politics of Dancing   
15:16:44   Break / Station ID
15:12:06   Eight Seconds   Zoe      
15:08:50   Endgames   Love Cares [12` Version]      
15:03:56   Blancmange   Feel Me   Best of Blancmange   
15:03:51   Break / Station ID
15:00:02   Howard Jones   Things Can Only Get Better   Dream Into Action   
14:54:54   Sigue Sigue Sputnik   Twenty First Century Boy      
14:54:49   Break / Station ID
14:46:49   New Order   Perfect Kiss   Substance (1 of 2)   
14:43:08   Comast Angels   Independence Day      
14:36:25   Pete Shelley   Many A Time   The Best Of Pete Shelley   
14:36:20   Break / Station ID
14:31:58   Yaz   Nobody's Diary      
14:26:46   Thompson Twins   All Fall Out   Side Kicks   
14:21:48   Tears For Fears   Mothers Talk   Songs From The Big Chair   
14:18:35   New Musik   Living By Numbers   From A To B   
14:18:31   Break / Station ID
14:15:05   Fixx   Saved By Zero   The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another: Greatest Hits   
14:11:47   Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark   (Forever) Live And Die   The Pacific Age   

[RGMike]

Calling all 80s synth pop fans! *look at SundayGal and Shray for starters*

 soma.fm has a station right up your alley:

Underground 80s: Early 80s UK Synthpop and a bit of New Wave

http://somafm.com/u80s/

sample:
15:16:50  (Now)   Re-Flex   The Politics Of Dancing [Radio Edit]   Politics of Dancing   
15:16:44   Break / Station ID
15:12:06   Eight Seconds   Zoe      
15:08:50   Endgames   Love Cares [12` Version]      
15:03:56   Blancmange   Feel Me   Best of Blancmange   
15:03:51   Break / Station ID
15:00:02   Howard Jones   Things Can Only Get Better   Dream Into Action   
14:54:54   Sigue Sigue Sputnik   Twenty First Century Boy      
14:54:49   Break / Station ID
14:46:49   New Order   Perfect Kiss   Substance (1 of 2)   
14:43:08   Comast Angels   Independence Day      
14:36:25   Pete Shelley   Many A Time   The Best Of Pete Shelley   
14:36:20   Break / Station ID
14:31:58   Yaz   Nobody's Diary      
14:26:46   Thompson Twins   All Fall Out   Side Kicks   
14:21:48   Tears For Fears   Mothers Talk   Songs From The Big Chair   
14:18:35   New Musik   Living By Numbers   From A To B   
14:18:31   Break / Station ID
14:15:05   Fixx   Saved By Zero   The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another: Greatest Hits   
14:11:47   Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark   (Forever) Live And Die   The Pacific Age   

impressive!  Haven't heard Sigue Sigue Sputnik since they charted.

[sundaygal]

Calling all 80s synth pop fans! *look at SundayGal and Shray for starters*

 soma.fm has a station right up your alley:

Underground 80s: Early 80s UK Synthpop and a bit of New Wave

http://somafm.com/u80s/

sample:
15:16:50  (Now)   Re-Flex   The Politics Of Dancing [Radio Edit]   Politics of Dancing   
15:16:44   Break / Station ID
15:12:06   Eight Seconds   Zoe      
15:08:50   Endgames   Love Cares [12` Version]      
15:03:56   Blancmange   Feel Me   Best of Blancmange   
15:03:51   Break / Station ID
15:00:02   Howard Jones   Things Can Only Get Better   Dream Into Action   
14:54:54   Sigue Sigue Sputnik   Twenty First Century Boy      
14:54:49   Break / Station ID
14:46:49   New Order   Perfect Kiss   Substance (1 of 2)   
14:43:08   Comast Angels   Independence Day      
14:36:25   Pete Shelley   Many A Time   The Best Of Pete Shelley   
14:36:20   Break / Station ID
14:31:58   Yaz   Nobody's Diary      
14:26:46   Thompson Twins   All Fall Out   Side Kicks   
14:21:48   Tears For Fears   Mothers Talk   Songs From The Big Chair   
14:18:35   New Musik   Living By Numbers   From A To B   
14:18:31   Break / Station ID
14:15:05   Fixx   Saved By Zero   The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another: Greatest Hits   
14:11:47   Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark   (Forever) Live And Die   The Pacific Age   

Nice!   

[RGMike]

Retro Chart 7/31/71: holee crap, the first song played is Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Soldier Blue". I'm instantly gobsmacked.  CCR's Swedish-a Hy-kah is everywhere lately. But I love the way the Brits pronounce "Foggerty".

ooo! the Fascinations' fab "Girls Are Out To Get You" actually made the UK Top 40!  A Northern Soul classic.

ooo! again: Dylan's "Watching the River Flow".

Medicine Head (who?) doing "Pictures in the Sky". No matchstickmen involved. Followed by a Slade song that's NTM: "Get Down and Get With It"

a reggae-fied cover of "Pied Piper" is a delightful surprise, by Bob & Marcia Griffiths. -- yes, the same Marcia Griffiths who did "Electric Boogie".

Proxy of Dave Morey: John Kongos, steppin' on again.

Miss Ross' lovely "I'm Still Waiting" did nothing in the US, sadly. But it was a British #1.

[Gazoo]

I may have to YouTube some of those in a bit.  Always, um, intriguing to hear things that charted in the U.K. but not the U.S. in the '70s.

Blue Mink - "The Bana Man"?!

[RGMike]

I may have to YouTube some of those in a bit.  Always, um, intriguing to hear things that charted in the U.K. but not the U.S. in the '70s.

Blue Mink - "The Bana Man"?!

"Banner Man". Here's the chart if you care:

http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?date=31%2F07%2F1971

coming up: Greyhound's orig (pre-3DN) "Black & White" and the New Seekers covering Delaney & Bonnie.

"Leap Up & Down and Wave Your Knickers in the Air" ?!?

OMFG! BOS the Move, "Tonight"

WTFLOL: Atomic Rooster!

Roosters & Greyhounds & Monkeys -- oh my!

this does NOT sound like the orig "Dog Named Boo" -- crappy re-recording to my ears.

OMFG: early Sweet, "Co-Co", is NTM.

wow, the UK hit on "Chirpy Cheep Cheep" was by Middle of the Road, not Mac & Katie Kissoon.

Unexpected TANC: after playing "What Are You Doing Sunday" by dawn on their '71 chart, 2NG spins "Summer Sand". Yeah, I'm a sucker for that faux-Brill Building thang.

[RGMike]

Listening to last week's Little Steven show -- his annual "Dylan goes electric" tribute, including the great Al Kooper/Steven stills cover of "It takes a Lot to Laugh..."  proxy of geoff!

[Tinka Cat]

WTFLOL: Atomic Rooster!

heh, I might have this track somewhere.  I first heard their song called "Death Walks Behind You' on some internet station few years back and sought them out.

They are dark, dirge-y, mysterious and borderline hilarious.   

[RGMike]

WTFLOL: Atomic Rooster!

heh, I might have this track somewhere.  I first heard their song called "Death Walks Behind You' on some internet station few years back and sought them out.

They are dark, dirge-y, mysterious and borderline hilarious.   

as befits former members of Crazy World of Arthur Brown!

[Tinka Cat]

WTFLOL: Atomic Rooster!

heh, I might have this track somewhere.  I first heard their song called "Death Walks Behind You' on some internet station few years back and sought them out.

They are dark, dirge-y, mysterious and borderline hilarious.   

as befits former members of Crazy World of Arthur Brown!

no kidding?!  Great gods of hellfire!