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Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on December 27, 2007, 11:22:57 AM

Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 27, 2007, 11:22:57 AM
well, this Xmas '88 retro-chart on CG is quite interesting -- a cover of "I say a Little Prayer" by Bomb the Bass (new to me) followed by Bananarama's cover of "Nathan Jones" (from the RainMan sndtk, iirc).
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 27, 2007, 11:25:37 AM
oh no! we're "Loco in Aca-poco"!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 27, 2007, 11:32:02 AM
well, this Xmas '88 retro-chart on CG is quite interesting -- a cover of "I say a Little Prayer" by Bomb the Bass (new to me)

Artist was immortalized in Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance": "Bomb the Bass - rock this place!"

PS: I saw there was an EP on that chart they're recapping.  Do they play the entire EP in the countdown, or select a track from it?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 27, 2007, 11:44:53 AM
well, this Xmas '88 retro-chart on CG is quite interesting -- a cover of "I say a Little Prayer" by Bomb the Bass (new to me)

Artist was immortalized in Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance": "Bomb the Bass - rock this place!"

PS: I saw there was an EP on that chart they're recapping.  Do they play the entire EP in the countdown, or select a track from it?

we'll be lucky to hear one tune, I reckon. And indeed "Buffalo Stance" is coming up. Didn't hit in the US until Spring/Summer '89 as I recall.

Wearin' padded bras!
Drinkin' beer thru straws!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 27, 2007, 11:49:58 AM
well, this Xmas '88 retro-chart on CG is quite interesting -- a cover of "I say a Little Prayer" by Bomb the Bass (new to me)

Artist was immortalized in Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance": "Bomb the Bass - rock this place!"

PS: I saw there was an EP on that chart they're recapping.  Do they play the entire EP in the countdown, or select a track from it?

we'll be lucky to hear one tune, I reckon. And indeed "Buffalo Stance" is coming up. Didn't hit in the US until Spring/Summer '89 as I recall.

Wearin' padded bras!
Drinkin' beer thru straws!

That totally made my week -- hadn't heard it in ages. Would that Dave would bust it out for an '89 set. "Y'know'tahmean?"
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 27, 2007, 11:56:21 AM
WTF??? Pet Clark's "Downtown" was a hit re-release in '88!

And Lady Cliff just called Ethel Merman "Methyl Ermine".  LOL!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 27, 2007, 12:39:28 PM
AAACK! next week's retro chart is from the week in '78 when "Dreadlock Holiday" was #1.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 28, 2007, 10:06:38 AM
Thank gawd Dave's '89 set forced me to bail -- CG is giving me Dusty's sublime "Goin' Back".
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 28, 2007, 10:11:27 AM
Thank gawd Dave's '89 set forced me to bail -- CG is giving me Dusty's sublime "Goin' Back".

followed -- holy crap! -- by Nina Simone's "I Got Love", Sandie Shaw's fab "Long Live Love" (later covered by Tracey Ullman), and Ms King's "It Might As Well Rain Until Sept".  I'm in heaven.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 28, 2007, 10:47:48 AM
Wow -- some sort of remix of Shirley Bassey's 1967 version of "Big Spender".
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 28, 2007, 02:27:37 PM
Woo Hoo! Eddie Kendricks lets his love flood your Watergate!  I only ever hear this version of "Boogie Down" on CG.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 28, 2007, 02:40:04 PM
OMG! Greg plays Pigbag, "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag". A lost '80s gem.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 29, 2007, 06:45:49 AM
Indeed, today's AT40 recap is the second half of the 1978 year-end.  "Dust in the Wind" at 39, "The Closer I Get to You" at 38.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 29, 2007, 07:11:04 AM
I didn't know that: Longtime hitmeister Barry Mann co-wrote the melody of Dan Hill's otherwise dismal "Sometimes When We Touch."  Now ABBA gets Erasuresque at 32, and Raydio's "Jack & Jill" makes a surprise appearance at 31.  Seriously, when's the last time anyone played this on the radio?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 29, 2007, 07:16:54 AM
Peter Brown!  "Dance With Me" at 29.

I imagine the final hour of this will be all Bee Gees, Andy Gibb, and other RSO acts.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 29, 2007, 07:49:38 AM
OMGWTF: Always a treat to hear Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good" in an unironic context.  Still love the drumming work on this.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 29, 2007, 07:51:11 AM
Chic's "Dance, Dance, Dance" was on the charts for SIX MONTHS?!?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 29, 2007, 07:57:25 AM
Chic's "Dance, Dance, Dance" was on the charts for SIX MONTHS?!?

(Yeah, that works out to only about 25 or 26 weeks, but I thought that never happened until much later.  Then again, Casey just played Nick Gilder's "Hot Child in the City" a little bit ago, and that took 21 weeks to make it to the top.)
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 29, 2007, 08:34:43 AM
Casey: "Billboard's predicting that the proportion of disco songs in our countdown will go WAY UP in 1979."  A safe bet in hindsight, I suppose.  Wonder if he foresaw its slash in '80-'81.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 29, 2007, 08:36:40 AM
OMG, one I NEVER hear: Andy Gibb at #9 with "Love Is Thicker Than Water."  That lyric is something.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 29, 2007, 08:42:46 AM
OK, this'll be my last post of the countdown.  Casey was rattling off the nationalities of the artists on the year-end chart and included "Guyanese" among them.  I haven't the foggiest what artist from Guyana would have charted in 1978.  Anyone?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 29, 2007, 10:15:02 AM
OK, this'll be my last post of the countdown.  Casey was rattling off the nationalities of the artists on the year-end chart and included "Guyanese" among them.  I haven't the foggiest what artist from Guyana would have charted in 1978.  Anyone?

I believe he mentioned during Part One last week that one of the members of HeatWave was from Guyana. But what was that bit about Samantha Sang being the only Aussie woman? ONJ doesn't count??

Glad you got to hear the show this morning -- I'm guessing you're hearing Dave's Xmas card right about now.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: Gazoo on December 29, 2007, 10:31:50 AM
OK, this'll be my last post of the countdown.  Casey was rattling off the nationalities of the artists on the year-end chart and included "Guyanese" among them.  I haven't the foggiest what artist from Guyana would have charted in 1978.  Anyone?

I believe he mentioned during Part One last week that one of the members of HeatWave was from Guyana. But what was that bit about Samantha Sang being the only Aussie woman? ONJ doesn't count??

Glad you got to hear the show this morning -- I'm guessing you're hearing Dave's Xmas card right about now.

I wondered about ONJ as well, but he/they specifically considered her British.

And yeah, caught the card.  Great timing!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/24/07
Post by: RGMike on December 29, 2007, 10:35:28 AM
I wondered about ONJ as well, but he/they specifically considered her British.


indeed, per Whitburn, she was born in England. Family moved to Australia when she was 5.

BTW, was anybody listening to the entire marathon? What was the "extra" set/year (only 4 actual sets aired during the week)?