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Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on February 18, 2008, 08:51:54 PM
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The Monday-nite oldies guy on KPOO is doing a belated Valentine's show -- 3 hours of "heart" songs!
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Only on CG could you go from the Stranglers to Barry Manilow. ("Golden Brown" into "Copacabana" -- have a banana!)
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wow, OMFG-of-the-week: Alison Moyet, "That Old Devil Called Love".
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TANC: direct from this week's Klassic Kasem Kountdown, the lovely Matthews Southern Comfort version of "Woodstock". This was actually a UK #1.
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another fab retro chart coming up on CG: April '83. Nick Rhodes of the Durannies will be reminiscing...
01. (-) Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?
02. () David Bowie - Let's Dance
03. () Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
04. (-) The Style Council - Speak Like A Child
05. () Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
06. () JoBoxers - Boxerbeat
07. () Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love
08. () Orange Juice - Rip It Up
09. () Bananarama - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
10. () Forrest - Rock The Boat
11. () Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
12. () Joan Armatrading - Drop The Pilot
13. () Big Country - Fields Of Fire (400 Miles)
14. () David Joseph - You Can't Hide (Your Love From Me)
15. () Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind
16. () Leo Sayer - Orchard Road
17. () New Order - Blue Monday
18. () Tracey Ullman - Breakaway
19. () Mezzoforte - Garden Party
20. () Kajagoogoo - Ooh To Be Ah
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Mezzoforte's "Garden Party" is new to me -- a horn-dominated instrumental that's sorta like Herb Alpert meets "I'll Tumble 4 Ya". And it's followed by Tracey Ullman's "Breakaway," a Dusty S cover iirc.
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2 you-never-hear-'em-in-the-US treats back-to-back: Altered Images' "Don't Talk To Me About Love", and the JoBoxers' "Boxerbeat".
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certainly the highlight of the whole countdown: Style Council's fab, little-heard "Speak Like a Child".
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more fabulousness: "Total Eclipse of the Heart", one I haven't heard in some time. An "epic" as Dave might say. He really should play it some time.
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David "Elmer Fudd" Bowie implores us to put on our wed shoes and dance the bwoos.
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Greg on Saturday's CGSS, playing Diana & Marvin's lovely cover of the Sylistics' "Stop... Look... Listen", which was a hit single in the UK.
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FYI, KCDX's player is actually working today.
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FYI, KCDX's player is actually working today.
wow -- Traffic's "Berkshire Poppies", new to me (which is pretty amazing in itself).
Followed by Moby Grape! "Indifference" -- anything that's not "Omaha" is a rarity to me.
And now George Thorogood is my cue to go out for lunch. ;)
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And now George Thorogood is my cue to go out for lunch. ;)
Having the "one bourbon, one Scotch, and one beer" lunch? :D
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nice surprise: Ms. Ronstadt's cover of Little Anthony's "Hurts So bad". I love the way she screams at the end.
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And now George Thorogood is my cue to go out for lunch. ;)
Having the "one bourbon, one Scotch, and one beer" lunch? :D
Ha! No, I meant that was a song I was more than happy to miss hearing. Lawd, I wasn't lovey-dovey.
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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.)
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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... :D
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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... :D
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)"!
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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."
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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.
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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.
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And here on the replay is Don McLean's unfairly overlooked "Dreidel", which gets Flashback-of-the-Day honors (and that's saying something on a chart like this).
Ah, and I miss the days when Casey would answer questions like "which animal has been named in the most #1 songs?" (the answer is "dog", in 3 #1s, BTW).
And now Casey intros Bette Midler as "one of the most acclaimed nightclub performers in years". Well, I guess bath-houses are clubs that you go to at night...
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Barry Scott kicks off tonight's Lost 45s with "Yes We Can Can." I wonder if their albums of the period are worth seeking out.
On the slate for later: interviews with Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman.
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The Bee Gees' original "Run to Me"; I sang the praises of Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs' cover of it to anyone who would listen.
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Oh, for goodness' sakes: "Disco Lucy." Utter Desilunacy.
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An early Chris Norman & Smokie record, "If You Think You Really Love Me," sounding a LOT like Albert Hammond's "... Southern CA," which I just listened to a little while ago. (I have a major crush on Hammond Sr. as he appeared in '74.)
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Barry plays Paul Davis's "I Go Crazy" and informs us that -- I didn't know that! -- the record was produced by Michael "Let's All Dance" Zager.
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Barry plays Paul Davis's "I Go Crazy" and informs us that -- I didn't know that! -- the record was produced by Michael "Let's All Dance" Zager.
Dude. You're missing the f---ing Oscars.
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Barry plays Paul Davis's "I Go Crazy" and informs us that -- I didn't know that! -- the record was produced by Michael "Let's All Dance" Zager.
Dude. You're missing the f---ing Oscars.
Shocker: I could really give a good goddamn about the Oscars. I'm copyediting a newsletter while listening to Suzi Quatro's "Gloria" rewrite, "Lipstick."
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An early Chris Norman & Smokie record, "If You Think You Really Love Me," sounding a LOT like Albert Hammond's "... Southern CA," which I just listened to a little while ago. (I have a major crush on Hammond Sr. as he appeared in '74.)
TANC: just heard this on CG -- "If You think You Know How to Love Me" is the actual title -- and it's a fine single that deserved better in the US (it reached #3 in the UK). Sweeney says Chris Norman is a big star in Germany these days. Wonder if he knows Hasslehoff?