10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 07:55:49 AM
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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.
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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!
Oh my yes. I distinctly remember Dave Morey playing this in the late '90s; I was so blown away by it that that evening, while at a concert somewhere in North Beach (Club Cocodrie, mebbe) I ducked into the bathroom for several minutes to catch the replay.
Julie's definitely taking her icy delivery cues from Grace. A year later she'd appear on the Monkees' ill-fated TV special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, staging a Grace-off with Micky on a soul-fried rendition of "I'm a Believer." (Next time I'm in town, I'm definitely staging a group showing of that special.)
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Madison's Magic 98 is having a One Hit Wonder Saturday -- it had never occurred to me that Bullet's "White Lies/Blue Eyes" is a GrassRoots soundalike but... sure enuf. And here's Roger Voudouris' forgotten "Get Used to It".
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after playing one of my fave obscurities, the Dixie Hummingbirds' rendition of "Loves Me Like a Rock" (sans Paul Simon), JJ totally blows my mind with a NTM soulful cover by the Cymbals (?) of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (!!) -- apparently done in 1970, a year before Ms Baez had her hit version. And now another NTM gem, Gladys/Pips "Don't Burn Down the Bridges" -- an LP cut, I guess, but some of the most stellar work by the Pips I've ever heard. DAMN!
ETA: some googling reveals the Pips tune was the B-side of "I Feel a Song in My Heart"! And now here's Jimmy Bee doing the ballad version of "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" in 1976, around the same time as Wacky Sedaky did it that way -- tho' Lenny Welch was the first to ballad-ize the tune in 1970.