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KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« on: January 03, 2012, 12:35:15 PM »
now that they're finished with their "all-Xmas" stuff, WDAS-AM in Philly is a pretty nice classic soul stream.

http://www.iheart.com/#/live/3405/?autoplay=true

Older-skewing than, say, Kiss-FM -- mostly '60s & '70s.
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Re: KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2012, 01:46:25 PM »
No JJ on the KPOO radio this AM. They had his vlife doing cannd IDs, but his soul shows were absent.  Dang.  But they played some good stuff nonetheless.

Thank god for KPOO.
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Re: KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2012, 11:28:11 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on January 03, 2012, 12:35:15 PM
now that they're finished with their "all-Xmas" stuff, WDAS-AM in Philly is a pretty nice classic soul stream.

http://www.iheart.com/#/live/3405/?autoplay=true

Older-skewing than, say, Kiss-FM -- mostly '60s & '70s.

This stream just went up a notch in my esteem by playing a nugget I'd never heard before: The Independents, "Baby I Been Missin' You". Nice.
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Re: KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2012, 08:53:59 AM »
2NG's retro-chart today is Jan 1975. If it's as good as I expect, I may take a pass on AL's 1992 excursion.

Suzi Quatro is a "Wild One"! and Hot Chocolate's "Cheri Babe" is a welcome obscurity.  The Trammps "Zing Went the Strings" is glorious early disco; George MacCrae's "You Can Have it All" is one of his forgotten "Rock Your baby" soundalikes. And labelmate KC's "Sound Your Funky Horn" sounds like MacCrae's "I Can't Leave You Alone".

WOS Ringo's "Only You", one of his worst singles.

ooo!  a reggaefied cover of "Help Me Make it Thru the Night" by a John Holt (onetime lead singer of the Paragons, I'm told). Nice.

OMFG: a cover of "Under My thumb" by Wayne Gibson (who?).  Not bad, and I'm surprised it hasn't been covered by very many others. (Surely Tom Jones has a version on some LP or other, no?) We're told this version was big on the Northern Soul club scene.

eek: leftover Xmas hits on this chart: "Hey Mr Xmas" (Showaddywaddy), "Wombling Merry Xmas" (the Wombles, natch), Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Christmas Song" (NOT the Nat King Cole number) and Mud's "Lonely This Xmas".

DUUUUDE! the QUO!!  Stay-tus Quo's fab "Down Down" shoulda been a huge hit on our side of the pond.
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Re: KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2012, 11:02:15 AM »
Yet another fab live-n-local, mom-n-pop oldies station, in Lancaster CA:

http://www.kfxm.com/

They're the WLNG of the west! (they claim a library of 10,000 oldies, just as 'LNG does).

holee crap: they're playing Mary Hopkin's "Temma Harbour". talk about forgotten/obscure.
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Re: KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2012, 08:06:40 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on January 05, 2012, 08:53:59 AM
DUUUUDE! the QUO!!  Stay-tus Quo's fab "Down Down" shoulda been a huge hit on our side of the pond.
Word. It's, like, their only good song after Pictures of Matchstick Men.
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Re: KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2012, 09:11:18 AM »
Quote from: Here'sToYa! on January 06, 2012, 08:06:40 AM
Quote from: RGMike on January 05, 2012, 08:53:59 AM
DUUUUDE! the QUO!!  Stay-tus Quo's fab "Down Down" shoulda been a huge hit on our side of the pond.
Word. It's, like, their only good song after Pictures of Matchstick Men.

no love for "Ice in the Sun"?   ;)

astounding, really, how many hits they had in the UK:

http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=318
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Re: KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2012, 09:37:53 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on January 06, 2012, 09:11:18 AM
no love for "Ice in the Sun"?   ;)

astounding, really, how many hits they had in the UK:

http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=318

Astounding, yes, especially when we tend to think of Brits as "smart."

I'll have to listen to Ice in the Sun, emoticon aside; maybe that one's good, too.

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Re: KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2012, 09:56:35 AM »
Quote from: Here'sToYa! on January 06, 2012, 09:37:53 AM
Quote from: RGMike on January 06, 2012, 09:11:18 AM
no love for "Ice in the Sun"?   ;)

astounding, really, how many hits they had in the UK:

http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=318

Astounding, yes, especially when we tend to think of Brits as "smart."


when you realize how many football clubs have hit number one in the UK singing their team songs, or how many allegedly funny Benny Hill-ish novelty tunes have done the same, or how many crappy treacly show-tuney ballads by Sarah Brightman, Elaine Page et al... the mind reels.  And Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" is really a parody of that very British tendency.
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Re: KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2012, 11:09:34 AM »
Quote from: Here'sToYa! on January 06, 2012, 09:37:53 AM
Quote from: RGMike on January 06, 2012, 09:11:18 AM
no love for "Ice in the Sun"?   ;)

astounding, really, how many hits they had in the UK:

http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=318

Astounding, yes, especially when we tend to think of Brits as "smart."


ha, that's funny.     I don't know their music beyond Pictures Of Matchstick Men -- and that song is a true classic -- but I've heard more than one person exclaim incredulity at SQ's longevity and knack for charting for lo these many decades.   I always got the feeling that quite a few people "in the know" think SQ was (still is?) a pretty hacky, sub-par band.
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Re: KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2012, 11:16:37 AM »
Quote from: Tinka Cat on January 06, 2012, 11:09:34 AM
I always got the feeling that quite a few people "in the know" think SQ was (still is?) a pretty hacky, sub-par band.

Yup. The Quo were supposed to be the number one inspiration for Spinal Tap. That makes sense considering the Tap's first hit, Gimme Some Money, was very "Sixties" like Matchstick Men.
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Re: KPOO etc week of 1/2/12
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2012, 10:21:04 PM »
Damn, still no JJ on KPOO -- we're getting canned (mostly '80s) music -- Stacey Lattisaw, Klymaxx, RFTW, et al.
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