CG/VIP/KPOO/WLNG etc Week of 4/24/06

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If you didn't hear Liitle Steven last nite, check out the show on-line: salutes to, among other things, Al Pacino's birthday and the premiere of Hair in '68  -- best set of the show, including, yes, the Cowsills, as well as "Can You Dig It" by the Monkees (from Head) and Donovan's "Fat Angel".

All this plus the newly-re-formed Buzzcocks new song and the fabulous, long-lost Joey Ramone/Holly Vincent version of "I Got You Babe". Amazing.

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I've never heard it on ANY 10@10, but KPOO's Judge plays, of all things, Queen's "Fight From the Inside", from News of the World.

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Club Nouveau's "other" hit, "Why You Treat Me So Bad?"

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Judge follows a Bobby Brown double-play with the Osmonds and sez "from One Bad Apple to another". LOL!

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Judge follows a Bobby Brown double-play with the Osmonds and sez "from One Bad Apple to another". LOL!

"A is for Apple!"

"K is for Krack!"

"Cinnamon toasty Apple Krack!"

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of interest to Gaz: VIP's playing someone named Felice Taylor (?) covering Love Unltd's "It may Be Winter Outside (but in my Heart it's Spring)". A faux-Motown type arrangement.

ETA: and 10 mins later, here's Love Unltd themselves with "Walking in the Rain With The One I Love" (Mr White did love those long song titles, no?).

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VIP's "just played" feature's not working, but they're playing a reggaefied cover of Millie Jackson's "It Hurts so Good".  The stuff they come up with never fails to amaze.

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VIP's "just played" feature's not working, but they're playing a reggaefied cover of Millie Jackson's "It Hurts so Good".  The stuff they come up with never fails to amaze.

anecdote of the day: "Hurts so good" was written by Philip Johnson, who also wrote many other soul hits in the '70s, foremost among them Mel & Tim's "Starting All Over Again" -- apparently he got a call asking him to write a song with that title for Mel & Tim, and he thought they said Sam & Dave -- he figured  S&D were getting back together (it was 1972) and so the title made sense. He wrote it in a car on the way to the studio, and found out later who it was really for.

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OMG! whinyface Elliman's lovely cover of "Hello Stranger" -- haven't heard this in ages.  shoo-bop-shoo-bop, mah baby!

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and now VIP totally makes my day with the J-5, "Mama's Pearl", the 5th of their 6-in-a-row Top Two career-starting singles and the one you hear the least, by far.

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of interest to Gaz: VIP's playing someone named Felice Taylor (?) covering Love Unltd's "It may Be Winter Outside (but in my Heart it's Spring)". A faux-Motown type arrangement.

Actually, it worked in reverse: Part of what brought Barry White and Glodean James together was that she owned a copy of the Felice Taylor single, which Barry had produced and arranged.  A few years later Love Unltd. recorded their version in part as tribute to what love (and vinyl) had joined together.

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of interest to Gaz: VIP's playing someone named Felice Taylor (?) covering Love Unltd's "It may Be Winter Outside (but in my Heart it's Spring)". A faux-Motown type arrangement.

Actually, it worked in reverse: Part of what brought Barry White and Glodean James together was that she owned a copy of the Felice Taylor single, which Barry had produced and arranged.  A few years later Love Unltd. recorded their version in part as tribute to what love (and vinyl) had joined together.

live'n'learn!

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of interest to Gaz: VIP's playing someone named Felice Taylor (?) covering Love Unltd's "It may Be Winter Outside (but in my Heart it's Spring)". A faux-Motown type arrangement.

Actually, it worked in reverse: Part of what brought Barry White and Glodean James together was that she owned a copy of the Felice Taylor single, which Barry had produced and arranged.  A few years later Love Unltd. recorded their version in part as tribute to what love (and vinyl) had joined together.

live'n'learn!

Anyway, I thank you for bringing them up, 'cuz it got me to pull their CD out for the first time in many, many months and revisit it during my commute to work.  What lovely work, especially underknown tracks "Under the Influence of Love," "Move Me No Mountain," and "I Needed Love—You Were There."  And no kidding about those long song titles that Barry favored; they carried over into the girls' work as well: "High Steppin' Hip Dressin' Fella (You Got It Together)" is a highwater mark.  Albeit not as hilariously gratuitous as the "Babe" in "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Babe."

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CG treats us to the remake of "Relight My Fire" by Take That featuring Lulu!

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thanks to CG, I'm hearing BAD's "E=MC squared" twice in 90 mins.  Now I don't have to listen to the 10@10 replay tonite!

"I like a bit of a cavort."