CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 2/18/08

[RGMike]

And now George Thorogood is my cue to go out for lunch.

Having the "one bourbon, one Scotch, and one beer" lunch?

Ha! No, I meant that was a song I was more than happy to miss hearing. Lawd, I wasn't lovey-dovey.

[Gazoo]

nice surprise: Ms. Ronstadt's cover of Little Anthony's "Hurts So bad". I love the way she screams at the end.

I love both versions, as well as the Lettermen version.  (My mom had it on 8-track.)

[RGMike]

New to me on CG: Jimmy Cliff's version of "Wild World", not reggae-ish in the least, but a straight-ahead cover of Cat Stevens (or is it the other way around?).

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Listening to Greg on CG today, and laughing to myself at his warnings to his male listeners to get checked for "prostrate cancer."  That's not something you want to take lying down...

[RGMike]

Listening to Greg on CG today, and laughing to myself at his warnings to his male listeners to get checked for "prostrate cancer."  That's not something you want to take lying down...

LOL!  That's one of my favorite malapropisms -- one I hear people say all the time, sadly. 

I loved the discussion of the lyrics to "Band of Gold" -- and here he is reading my email about it. And following it with Luther V, being New & True & Gay.

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This week's countdown flashback takes us to Feb. 24, 1973, where Loudon Wainwright III comes in at 40 with "Dead Skunk."

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Kasem gushes about "David Boooey" finally succeeding with "Space Oddity" on its third release.

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At 34 and new to me: "Give Me Your Love" by Barbara Mason, from Superfly.  No mention from Casey of this being her first visit to the Top 40 in almost eight years.

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The 5Ds are "Living Together, Growing Together" at 32.  Perhaps in a beautiful balloon!

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At 29, a song I heard for the first time last Sunday on Barry Scott's Lost 45s: Gallery, "Big City Miss Ruth Ann."  I used to bus tables at a restaurant where one of the waitresses was named Ruth Ann.

At 28, King James, "I got Ants in My Pants (And I Wanna Dance)"!

[Gazoo]

I'm absolutely floored by "Love Jones."

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YAAGGGGHHHH!!!  At #2, one of my absolute least favorite songs of all time: "Dueling Banjos."

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YAAGGGGHHHH!!!  At #2, one of my absolute least favorite songs of all time: "Dueling Banjos."

Interestingly, Casy credits it to "Deliverance soundtrack" rather than to Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell (yes, I had to look that up).

And the countdown is redeemed by one of my absolute favorite #1s: "Killing Me Softly With His Song."

[RGMike]

I'm absolutely floored by "Love Jones."

I'm so glad you finally got to hear the original!! One of the worst. singles. evah, IMHO.

I heard the first hour and then went back to sleep; I'll catch the rest tonite. But another sledgehammer-laden countdown for me.  Trivia: the 5th Dimension hit was from the ill-fated box office flop musical remake of Lost Horizon (Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann Sing!?!). And we juuuust missed Miss Ross doing "Good Morning Heartache", at #41, and Joni's "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio", which dropped out that week (Casey had stopped listing drop-outs by '73, I guess).

Why the hate for "Dueling Banjos"? Quite amazing that something like that could get to #2.

[RGMike]

I'm absolutely floored by "Love Jones."

I'm so glad you finally got to hear the original!! One of the worst. singles. evah, IMHO.

"what is a love jones? shucks, darlin', it's when you love someone very very much... and you jus' can't seem to git yo'self to-GETHA!"  Preposterously overwrought, but I guess that's what teenyboppers were buyin' in '73.  Give me Foster Sylvers any day.