10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on May 05, 2008, 01:07:15 PM
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KPOO's stream is exceptionally clean today (hope i don't jinx it by posting this). Judge slammin' & jammin'.
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"We're HERE! Sun is HERE!". Judge jams "Sun is Here" by (who else?) Sun.
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Judge musta seen Classic Soul Train this weekend -- here's Taste of Honey doing "We're the Ladies of the '80s". Saturday was the first time I'd ever heard this, and this is the second time.
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Smooth Smokey! "Let Me Be the Clock" -- Hickory Dickory Dock!
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OMG! My fave forgotten O'Jays ballad: "Your Body's Here With Me (But Your Mind is On The other Side of Town)". This cries out for a country cover version.
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We're getting live Tower of Power again -- Judge must be leaving early.
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Greg on CGSS just read a lesbian marriage proposal! followed by "You Make Me Feel Brand New". Awwww....
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always a treat to hear Oran "Juice" Jones, "The Rain"
"you without me like corn flakes without the MILK!"
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New to me: Johnny Mathis/Deniece Williams "That's What Friends are For" -- NOT the Gladys/Stevie/Elton AIDS benefit hit.
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LAWD! Barbara Acklin's "Love Makes a Woman" on SoulClassics 247.
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CG's retro chart: Feb 1982, feat. comments by Hugh Cornwall of the Stranglers (who had "Golden Brown" at #2). New to me: ONJ, "Landslide" (NOT the FMac song).
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a HUGE star in the UK (and huge presence on the British Charts), Shakin' Stevens, on his way down from #1 with "Oh Julie", covered in the US by Barry Manilow of all people.
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synths RULE! back-to-back-to-back in the chart:
5. Kraftwerk, "The Model"
4. OMD "Joan of Arc"
3. Soft Cell, "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye"
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switched over to "Sweeney's '60s Classics" on CG, and I'm rewarded with two great obscurities: Jimmy James & the Vagabonds with the orig (non-reggae) hit of "Red Red wine" (circa '68) and -- oh frabjous day! -- Manfred Mann's "My Name is Jack".
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Classic Country today: "She's Actin' Single, I'm Drinkin' Doubles" -- one of the greatest song titles ever.
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New to me: ONJ, "Landslide" (NOT the FMac song).
From the Physical album; faltered at #52. She performed this on SNL that year, I think.
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Greg on CGSS plays War's "Cinco de Mayo" a few days late, followed by Leon Haywood's "Dont Push it, Don't Force it" (!)
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Greg on CGSS plays War's "Cinco de Mayo" a few days late, followed by Leon Haywood's "Dont Push it, Don't Force it" (!)
Rock Him Gently! Or, I Wantcha to Do Something Freaky to Me
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KPOO's JJ on his usual Sat nite roll: The DEE-troit Emeralds, buyin' a wash machine and ironin' board, so you can keep yo' new dress pressed!
Followed by Ronnie Dyson's lovely cover of the Delfonics' "When You Get Right Down to It", which failed to make the pop Top 40 in '71, and the J-5 lookin' thru the windows -- peeping MJ!
And talk about a rarity: The Watts 103rd Street Band, "Doin' What Comes Naturally", their first single on Dunhill after a long run on Warners, and their last charted single ever (circa '73).
And as a Mother's Day special, JJ's doing 2 hours of "Sixties Soul Sistahs" at midnite!
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Greg on CGSS plays War's "Cinco de Mayo" a few days late, followed by Leon Haywood's "Dont Push it, Don't Force it" (!)
Rock Him Gently! Or, I Wantcha to Do Something Freaky to Me
Well, here's the TANC-of-the-Week and the WTF?-of-the-Month: JJ just played Kellee Patterson's "If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It", from late '77 -- yes, it pre-dates the Haywood hit by 2-1/2 years! They're similar... but not quite the same.
Patterson: "If it don't fit, don't force it/Just relax and let it go/Just 'cause that's how you want it/Doesn't mean it will be so"
Haywood: "Don't push it, don't force it/Let it happen naturally/It will surely happen/If it was meant to be"
Somebody shoulda sued somebody, no?
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Barry Scott breakout of the night: "You + Me = Us," a disco groover of 1977 from the Undisputed Truth. It had two chart runs, one reaching #48. Bridge reminds me a lot of the recently heard "Thunder + Lightning."
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Another stunning breakout: "Maybe Tomorrow" by Badfinger when they were still known as the Iveys. (No relation to the J5 song.)
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Another stunning breakout: "Maybe Tomorrow" by Badfinger when they were still known as the Iveys. (No relation to the J5 song.)
I *love* that song. I remember it getting some NYC airplay and being crushed that it was not a hit. Also rather BeeGees-ish, as I recall. Thankfully included on the Badfinger best-of that I have.
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alright you muthas! Little Steven's Mother's Day show is in full swing. Tell Mama!
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alright you muthas! Little Steven's Mother's Day show is in full swing. Tell Mama!
A salute to Yogi Berra's birthday featuring songs with "hit" in the title culminates with a Honeymooners clip followed by "He Hit Me... and it Felt Like a Kiss". Really, Steven?!?!