KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc week of 10/24/11

[RGMike]

Another Monday that Judge doesn't appear to be on KPOO -- wonder what's up? The canned music is still stellar, tho' -- Tina Turner's hard-to-find mid-'70s cover of "Whole Lotta Love" gets Obscurity-of-the-Day honors, so far.

[Tinka Cat]

the always-fantastic Technicolor Web of Sound just played

Bob Seger System's Lonely Man >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocDT2Giw128

He's rambling ... He's lonely...  poor dude.  NTM.

[RGMike]

whoever this is subbing for Judge is into a classic soul instrumentals bag: "In Crowd", "Time Is Tight", "The Horse", "Soulful Strut"...

OMG: fellow Americans and lady Americans, JB is talking to heroin and heroin is talking back.

"Be you Italian, Jewish, Black or Mex/
I can make the most virile of men forget their sex"

followed -- lawd! -- by Bobby W, "Daylight".

"Soul Makossa" always deserves a shout-out. Tunga tunga umbo te tunga!

[RGMike]

the always-fantastic Technicolor Web of Sound

just turned them on, so to speak. Capt Beefheart, "Ella Guru". groovy, baby!

OMFG! Crimson! "21st Century Schizoid man"!!  My mind has been blown.

ETA: a nice NTM Kinks tune ("End of the Season") and an equally obscure Tull song have made this quite worthwhile today. "Magic Bus" is the most mainstream thing they've played in an hour.

[Tinka Cat]

the always-fantastic Technicolor Web of Sound

just turned them on, so to speak. Capt Beefheart, "Ella Guru". groovy, baby!

OMFG! Crimson! "21st Century Schizoid man"!!  My mind has been blown.

ETA: a nice NTM Kinks tune ("End of the Season") and an equally obscure Tull song have made this quite worthwhile today. "Magic Bus" is the most mainstream thing they've played in an hour.

yes, they are fantastic!  seldom heard garage and psych.

a lot like an WNYU show called Plastic Tales of the Marshmallow Dimension, which I kind of credit for turning ME on to this stuff.

[RGMike]

"tha KILLAH, honey!" -- Ike & Tina think it's gonna work out fine. Ooops.

the Soul Survivors have been tryin' to get (in)to you fo' a LOOOONG time.

Best of JJ today: Lou Rawls, "Love is a Hurtin' Thing".

ETA: 1340 The Boardwalk just played the Mayer Hawthorne tune, which I recommended to them last week. Took a while for them to get hold of the radio edit (without the F-bomb), apparently.

[RGMike]

"Soul et Funk" Radio slammin' & jammin -- Gary Byrd's "The Crown" (loooong version), the Sisters Love doing Curtis M's "Give Me Your Love" and now First Choice have an appointment with "Dr Love" -- he's got the potion and the motion!

OMG: now it's "Endicott" -- haven't heard this since Dave retired.

ETA: back-to-back originals -- Curtis M, "On and On" and Shuggie O's "Strawberry Letter".

[sundaygal]

OMG: now it's "Endicott" -- haven't heard this since Dave retired.

 

Holee crapola!  I was just thinking about this Kid Creole tune! 

[RGMike]

2NG's retro-chart today is from Oct 1965 -- Joan Baez's version of "It's all Over Now Baby Blue" starts us off. Nice. And now Mr Royal is down in the boonies.

OMG1: see the "new music" thread for a clip of Jody Miller's amazing "Home of the Brave".

OMG2: Donovan, "Universal Soldier"!

"I never thought I'd cut a record by myself..." -- solo Sonny's "Laugh at Me" is a gem. Son of a gun!

The Fortunes' "Here it Comes Again" is NTM. As are PJ Proby's "That Means a Lot" and the Honeycombs' "That's The Way"

wow -- the #1 song (in fact "the biggest-selling single of 1965" in the UK) is NTM: "Tears" a sappy '40s-style MOR ballad by Ken Dash (who??)

[RGMike]

WTF-of-the-afternoon: Ahmad Jamal, doing a jazzy instrumental version of Foster Sylvers' "Misdemeanor" (!)

[RGMike]

Robert John's forgotten '60s semi-hit "If You Don't Want My Love" is just delightful and more than makes up for his '70s atrocities.