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Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 26, 2007, 12:19:21 PM
Judge plays white folks! Nu Shooz, "Point of No Return". Weren't there 2 diff songs with that title around the same time? The Cover Girls, perhaps?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on November 26, 2007, 12:24:44 PM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Judge plays white folks! Nu Shooz, "Point of No Return". Weren't there 2 diff songs with that title around the same time? The Cover Girls, perhaps?


The underappreciated Exposé did the other one.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 26, 2007, 12:27:34 PM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Quote from: "RGMike"
Judge plays white folks! Nu Shooz, "Point of No Return". Weren't there 2 diff songs with that title around the same time? The Cover Girls, perhaps?


The underappreciated Exposé did the other one.


Thanks! I knew it was one of those late-'80s Nuevo girl groups. Company B was another.

ooo! now he's playing RFTW's "Love You Down".
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on November 26, 2007, 12:33:32 PM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Thanks! I knew it was one of those late-'80s Nuevo girl groups. Company B was another.


Are you and I the only people who still have a soft spot for this scene?  Sweet Sensation, Cover Girls ... and the solo artists Corina ("Temptation") and Martika.  (I think she counts.)
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 26, 2007, 12:46:35 PM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Quote from: "RGMike"
Thanks! I knew it was one of those late-'80s Nuevo girl groups. Company B was another.


Are you and I the only people who still have a soft spot for this scene?  Sweet Sensation, Cover Girls ... and the solo artists Corina ("Temptation") and Martika.  (I think she counts.)


Well, "Toy Soldiers" is a HFH for me, so the less said about Martika the better.

Now were getting Freddie Jackson singing about "Tasty Love". Which for fat Freddie would be a 10-pound glazed ham, I reckon. (Or a night with Michael Strahan)
Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 26, 2007, 01:05:52 PM
Judge gives us Prince, "100 MPH". much 2 hot 2 B cool!
Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 26, 2007, 01:08:47 PM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Judge gives us Prince, "100 MPH". much 2 hot 2 B cool!


OK, actually Maserati (a Prince production, I assume -- who can tell the diff?)
Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 26, 2007, 01:12:46 PM
Gwen Guthrie's got them bill collectors at her door again.
Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 26, 2007, 01:53:56 PM
no idea who's doing a very faithful cover of FOD's "Going in Circles".
Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 26, 2007, 02:47:51 PM
OMG -- Prince's "Anotherloverholeinyohead"!
Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 26, 2007, 03:11:19 PM
Judge plays Dolemite!

"you mah nigga if you don't get no bigga -- and if you get bigga, then you mah bigga nigga".

Word.
Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 26, 2007, 03:15:05 PM
Hoo Lawd! "Casanova" -- one of my very fave singles of the late '80s.
Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 26, 2007, 03:19:54 PM
Dept of Redundancy Dept: Patti Austin, "in the heat of heat, the heat is so hot" Huh?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 28, 2007, 12:29:42 PM
Listening to Gold's retro-chart show: it's Sept 1978 when "3 Times a Lady" was #1. And I'm hearing Renaissance -- anyone else remember them besides me? -- doing a song called "Northern Lights" that almost sounds like one of ABBA's ballads. New to me and quite pretty.

Renaissance were huge on NYC prog-FM radio in the mid-'70s, and all-but-forgotten now.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 28, 2007, 12:39:53 PM
and now it's "Substitute" (NOT the Who song) a former #1 by Clout, on its way down. Gloria Gaynor covered it in the US and both versions ended up bombing here. But on the flip side of Ms. Gaynor's "Substitute" was a little ditty called "I Will Survive" that you may have heard once or twice...
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 28, 2007, 12:46:56 PM
Holy crap! The Rezillos doing a tribute to "Top of the Pops", followed by Blondie's great forgotten "Picture This".  Her finest hour was watching you shower...

and that's followed by Siouxie, "Hong Kong Garden" -- this was quite a week for music in the UK.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 28, 2007, 12:55:26 PM
Jeezus! Dylan's "Baby Stop Cryin'" was a Top 15 single in Britain!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 28, 2007, 01:00:35 PM
And now the Motors, stealing a riff or 2 from the GrassRoots' "Sooner or Later" on "Forget About You" -- I wonder if Gaz has ever heard this one.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 28, 2007, 01:12:42 PM
ohwhatthehell... I'll stop commenting and just post the top 35 from that week:

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1. The Commodores - Three Times A Lady
2. Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon/Brown Girl In The Ring
3. Darts - It's Raining
4. 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday
5. David Essex - Oh What A Circus
6. Jilted John - Jilted John
7. John Travolta And Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want
8. Cerrone - Super Nature
9. Hi Tension - British Hustle
10 Andy Gibb - An Everlasting Love
11 Child - It's Only Make Believe
12 Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn
13 The Motors - Forget About You
14 Bob Dylan - Baby Stop Crying
15 Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
16 Blondie - Picture This
17 Rezillos - Top Of The Pops
18 Clout - Substitute
19 Exile - Kiss You All Over
20 Renaissance - Northern Lights
21A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie
22 The Who - Who Are You
23 Status Quo - Again And Again
24 Frankie Valli - Grease
25 Herbie Hancock - I Thought It Was You
26 The Jam - David Watts/'A' Bomb In Wardour Street
27 The Stranglers - Walk On By
28 City Boy - 5-7-0-5
29 Crown Heights Affair - Galaxy Of Love
30 Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
31 Sham 69 - If The Kids Are United
32 Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
33 Gladys Knight And The Pips - Come Back And Finish What You Started
34 Karen Young - Hot Shot
35 Father Abraham And The Smurfs - The Smurf Song
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 28, 2007, 01:40:53 PM
final comment: at #5, David Essex with "Oh What a Circus" --which is from Evita!. Mr Essex played "Che" in the show in London's West End. This has been an amazing 2 hours -- not even "Dreadlock Holiday" can ruin it for me.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on November 29, 2007, 08:13:54 AM
Wow, I didn't recognize most of these songs!  I'll be seeking out the Renaissance and Motors tracks toot sweet.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 29, 2007, 10:52:37 AM
Just logged on to KCDX for the first time in a while and here's Speedy Keen (the precursors to Thunderclap Newman, iirc) doing "Old-Fashioned Girl". Talk about a  rarity.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 29, 2007, 11:27:42 AM
10cc's minor masterpiece "I'm Mandy, Fly Me", followed by the orig FMac version of "Sentimental Lady", which I prefer to Welch's remake -- less is more.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 29, 2007, 12:25:17 PM
OMG! Loudon Wainwright's "Dead Skunk", which cometothinkofit woulda made a fine addition to the Turkey set. C'mon, STINK!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 29, 2007, 02:48:40 PM
WLNG just played the orig 45 version of Chris Rea's "Fool If You Think It's Over", which was in not-great shape, but at least it was the orig.  The jock explained that (as we have suspected and discussed here) Every. Single. Chris Rea CD in existence has a re-recorded version.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on November 29, 2007, 10:16:49 PM
WLNG just played the orig 45 version of Chris Rea's "Fool If You Think It's Over", which was in not-great shape, but at least it was the orig.  The jock explained that (as we have suspected and discussed here) Every. Single. Chris Rea CD in existence has a re-recorded version.

Am I correct in assuming the version of "Fool" I have on a "Hard to Find 45s" comp is a re-record?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 30, 2007, 07:29:23 AM
WLNG just played the orig 45 version of Chris Rea's "Fool If You Think It's Over", which was in not-great shape, but at least it was the orig.  The jock explained that (as we have suspected and discussed here) Every. Single. Chris Rea CD in existence has a re-recorded version.

Am I correct in assuming the version of "Fool" I have on a "Hard to Find 45s" comp is a re-record?

if it sounds jsut like the version Dave has played ... then yes, it's the re-do.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 30, 2007, 11:18:36 AM
Seems like every time I listen to Sweeney on CG, he plays the new Iggles tune.  "Like a bluebird with its heart removed..." -- there's a visual for ya. Ewwww.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on November 30, 2007, 11:38:35 AM
Seems like every time I listen to Sweeney on CG, he plays the new Iggles tune.  "Like a bluebird with its heart removed..." -- there's a visual for ya. Ewwww.

Eagles singing of heartless birds = redundant
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 30, 2007, 01:56:57 PM
Undoubtedly the whitest guy we'll hear on "Soul Spectrum" today: R. Dean Taylor! Doing his "Ghost in My House"  -- if the 4 Tops didn't cover this one, they should've.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 30, 2007, 02:33:49 PM
Undoubtedly the whitest guy we'll hear on "Soul Spectrum" today: R. Dean Taylor! Doing his "Ghost in My House"  -- if the 4 Tops didn't cover this one, they should've.

wow, it's a White Folks Fest! here's Nu Shooz, "I Can't Wait", with some of the most endearingly cheezy synths ever. "I love you, even when you don't try" -- for years I thought she was saying "I love you even when you don't drive".
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on November 30, 2007, 03:16:41 PM
Woo Hoo! Greg goes all the way and plays Sly Fox!  Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! 
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 01, 2007, 08:05:45 AM
Today's Casey recap comes from 12/1/73.  Jim Croce debuts at #18 with "Time in a Bottle," he having bid adieu a few weeks earlier.  And Casey incorrectly predicts that Helen Reddy's "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" (now at 12) will become a #1.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:05:47 AM
Another Saturday of overtime, but Casey K is counting down Dec 1st 1973!  Hope Gaz is hearing some o'this. Mavis and daddy daddy daddy are at #14, followed by the great, underrated Ms Reddy's "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)".
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:08:02 AM
Ms Reddy's "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)".

which, BTW, Casey predicts will be a #1 -- sorry, Mr K, you turned out to be wrong. 
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:09:36 AM
OMGWTFLOL! Marie Osmond channels Anita Bryant on "Paper Roses". Talk about a flashback!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 01, 2007, 08:16:42 AM
Ms Reddy's "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)".

which, BTW, Casey predicts will be a #1 -- sorry, Mr K, you turned out to be wrong. 

Haha, jinx!  And very nearly another one for the LOLs and OMGs of "Paper Roses" at 12.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 01, 2007, 08:20:41 AM
Now this is my kinda cheese: "The Most Beautiful Girl," who walked out on Charlie Rich.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:22:08 AM
That was a great story about Sam Phillips thinking Charley Rich would be bigger than Elvis and Roy Orbison...  hadn't heard "The Most Beautiful Girl" in quite some time. Oh for the days when Country #1's routinely crossed over to Pop.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:23:29 AM
And now a big Gaz swoon for the DeFrancos!  It's a good vibration!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 01, 2007, 08:24:34 AM
That was a great story about Sam Phillips thinking Charley Rich would be bigger than Elvis and Roy Orbison...  hadn't heard "The Most Beautiful Girl" in quite some time. Oh for the days when Country #1's routinely crossed over to Pop.

Yeah, I specifically remember my introduction to pop radio including Rich, John Denver, and Freddy Fender.  And a couple years later, Crystal Gayle, Barbara Mandrell, and Don Williams.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 01, 2007, 08:25:06 AM
And now a big Gaz swoon for the DeFrancos!  It's a good vibration!

A good vibration but a terrible voice.  Seriously, was anyone ever more flat on a #1 Top 5 track than little Tony?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:27:17 AM
I hope and pray that they've syndicated that "upcoming" Xmas countdown Casey just promo-ed -- and that KFRC plays it.  I remember it well, it was fab.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:29:40 AM
And now a big Gaz swoon for the DeFrancos!  It's a good vibration!

A good vibration but a terrible voice.  Seriously, was anyone ever more flat on a #1 Top 5 track than little Tony?

Well, there was "Angel Baby" by (I think) Rosie and the Originals -- considered one of the worst records ever by DJs of the era.  Fingernails-on-a-blackboard time.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:34:25 AM
pre-emptive "Woo-Woo!" Jinx for Gladys on da train.  I'd forgotten Jim Weatherly wrote "Neither One of Us" too.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 01, 2007, 08:42:31 AM
You got to have a mother trucker for me!  Eddie Kendricks, making it easier for me to do the dishes and clean up the kitchen.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:44:22 AM
Eddie K's a Red Ball Express -of LOVIN'! But "Least-remembered hit in the Top 10" goes to Billy Preston's "Outta-Space" soundalike, "Space Race".
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:45:26 AM
You got to have a mother trucker for me!  Eddie Kendricks, making it easier for me to do the dishes and clean up the kitchen.

Let his love flood yo' Watergate!  Oh, wait, that's from "Boogie Down" (the looong version).
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:49:21 AM
ooo! I was looking at the chart at home earlier and I swear I said "I hope we get 'Helen Wheels' as an extra!"  And lo...
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:54:07 AM
"I'm not a present for your friends to open" -- !?! -- how naive America was in '73 not to get what this song was really about.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 08:57:01 AM
Ringo snaps a photo.  Richard Perry is truly one of the unsung musical heroes of the '70s.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 01, 2007, 08:58:58 AM
I just noticed that Casey hasn't done any long-distance dedications in these replays.  Was he not doing them in the early '70s, or are there different (pirvacy?) rights for replaying those?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 01, 2007, 09:00:21 AM
Eddie K's a Red Ball Express -of LOVIN'! But "Least-remembered hit in the Top 10" goes to Billy Preston's "Outta-Space" soundalike, "Space Race".

I hear ya.  But I'm sure there's no other act that had multiple Top 5 instrumentals AND multiple Top 5 vocals.

Woo!  "Top of the World" is there!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 09:03:56 AM
I just noticed that Casey hasn't done any long-distance dedications in these replays.  Was he not doing them in the early '70s, or are there different (pirvacy?) rights for replaying those?

I believe LDDs started later on in the run of the show -- after it switched from a three-hour to a four-hour format.

What a joy to haer "Top of the World".  I don't remember Casey trying to predict next week's #1 either -- that feature was pretty short-lived, iirc. Well, I'll head over to KFOG for an hour until CGSS time.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 01, 2007, 09:15:33 AM
I just noticed that Casey hasn't done any long-distance dedications in these replays.  Was he not doing them in the early '70s, or are there different (pirvacy?) rights for replaying those?

I believe LDDs started later on in the run of the show -- after it switched from a three-hour to a four-hour format.

What a joy to haer "Top of the World".  I don't remember Casey trying to predict next week's #1 either -- that feature was pretty short-lived, iirc. Well, I'll head over to KFOG for an hour until CGSS time.

I'm with Felix Hernandez at WBGO for the hour, at least while '89 is still the year.  And yeah, the prediction thing came as a surprise to me, especially that he predicted a rebound for "Photograph."  (He was wrong, btw: TOTW hung on for another week before being dethroned 12/15/73 by Charlie Rich.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 09:27:00 AM
I'm with Felix Hernandez at WBGO for the hour, at least while '89 is still the year. 

'79 is up next, should you care.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 09:36:14 AM
I'm with Felix Hernandez at WBGO for the hour, at least while '89 is still the year. 

'79 is up next, should you care.

Hmmm... a Latino guy singing "My only desire is making you mine" -- no wonder Dave loves "Coo-BAH!" so much ;D
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 10:13:57 AM
"An' ahm out da DOOR!"  Over to CGSS in time for EnVogue's Fab. Yoo. Luss. ""My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)".
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 10:39:27 AM
HAHAHA! Thanks to Greg on CGSS, I'm hearing "Coo-BAH!" twice in less than an hour.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 11:16:49 AM
OMFG! Greg digs out the orig "Money$ Too Tight To Mention", later covered by Simply Red. CUTBACKS!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 11:45:10 AM
Surprise of the Day: The Temptations' version of "Friendship Train" -- new to me.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 12:19:50 PM
Hoo Lawd! Bobby W, "If You Think You're Lonely Now".
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07
Post by: RGMike on December 01, 2007, 10:29:40 PM
Too bad the PM replay of AT40 doesn't include the first hour; the bottom of this week's chart from '73 was very interesting -- a festival of sound-alike follow-ups including:

Tony Orlando, still looking for Sweet Gypsy Rose in the "Strawberry Patch With Sally"
Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Get Down" clone, "Ooh Baby"
"My Music", L&M's cheap knockoff of "Your Mama Don't Dance"

Kudos, then, to the Stylistics for the underrated "Rockin' Roll Baby", one of their rare uptempo numbers. But a worst-of-the week to "Be", Neil Diamond at his most pretentious -- a scary harbinger of his future. And Best Flashback to Art Garfunkel's "All I Know", a gorgeous Jim Webb lyric, beautiful production and  -- sadly -- a completely forgotten Top Ten single.

ETA: and this is weird -- I'm looking at the Hot 100 charts for late '73 and the "Chart Bound" box at the top of the Sept 15th chart indicates that Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air" was re-released as a single that week. WTF?  It never even charted as a result of that re-issue... bet someone at MCA got demoted as a result of that blunder.