CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/31/07

[RGMike]

Judge is doing a two-hour salute to the post-Motown Jacksons, including Jermaine solo stuff (th'o he orig remained on Motown as a solo artist during that period).  Jermaine's "Let's Be Young Tonight" -- a fine forgotten single.

[Gazoo]

Did he play Jermaine's duet with Pia Zadora?  Apparently it was huge throughout Europe.

[RGMike]

Did he play Jermaine's duet with Pia Zadora?  Apparently it was huge throughout Europe.

Sorry, I left after the first hour. But I somehow doubt they did   Gotta love a movie called Voyage of the Rock Aliens, tho'.

They *did* mention "Let Me Tickle Your Fancy" (his collab with Devo) and I was hoping they'd play it before I had to bail. I'll have to dig out the 45 and give it a spin.

[RGMike]

another week, another CG retro-countdown: Sept of '78, and despite the presence of "Dreadlock Holiday" at #1 (it failed to make the Top 40 in the US, I'm happy to say), it's a pretty nifty Top 20. Any excuse to hear the Motors' fab "Forget About You" is fine with me.

1. () 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday
2. () The Commodores - Three Times A Lady
3. () David Essex - Oh What A Circus
4. () Jilted John - Jilted John
5. () Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon/Brown Girl In The Ring
6. () Exile - Kiss You All Over
7. () Abba - Summer Night City
8. () Darts - It's Raining
9. () Frankie Valli - Grease
10. () Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
11. () John Travolta And Olivia Newton-John - Summer Nights
12. () Blondie - Picture This
13. () Status Quo - Again And Again
14. () Hi Tension - British Hustle
15. () The Motors - Forget About You
16. () Andy Gibb - An Everlasting Love
17. () Rose Royce - Love Don't Live Here Anymore
18. () John Travolta And Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want
19. () Herbie Hancock - I Thought It Was You
20. () Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

[RGMike]

at #4 on the above chart: "Jilted John" by, er, Jilted John. The sort of punk parody the Brits loved back then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN45OjB-cCU

[RGMike]

Next weeK; Feb '67 with Peter Tork ("I'm a Believer" was #1)!

[RGMike]

Checked in with the LI pirate station WMIR -- first time in months; KCDX's player isn't working. And right off the bat: the Records' "Starry Eyes".

[RGMike]

WLNG plays the fabulous "When Smokey Sings", truly one of my favorite singles of the '80s.

[RGMike]

For the 2nd time this week, Andy Gibb's "Shadow Dancing" -- it was the #1 single of '78 on Casey Kasem's retro-countdown Saturday morning -- which will forever remind me of the South Park ep where Mr Garrison has plastic surgery and comes out looking like David Hasslehoff.

[RGMike]

More gems on WMIR: Siouxie's cover of Iggy's "The Passenger";  Tull, "The Whistler"; and The Outlaws' "Green Grass & High Tides".

[RGMike]

Good Lord: Uriah Heep's "Cheater".

ETA: followed by "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg"!!!

[RGMike]

as befits a Lawn Guyland-based pirate, we close out the afternoon with the legendary Good Rats: "Injun Joe". Watcha know?

[RGMike]

another fab CGSS, with Greg pulling out Donna Summer's "I Remember Yesterday", followed by the Janet Jackson/Herb Alpert collab "Diamonds".

[Gazoo]

Casey's first AT40 countdown of the year spins us back to 1971, with B.J. Thomas's "Most of All" at 40 and Andy Kim's revival of "Be My Baby" falling to 39.  And whoa!  "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved" at 38.  I'd never heard this before -- it's not on any of my JB comps -- and so I didn't realize just how much of a "Sex Machine" retread it is.

[Gazoo]

Ack!  Bobby Goldsboro's "Watching Scotty Grow"!  (Written by Mac Davis, fwiw.)