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Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on August 18, 2008, 12:19:10 PM
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More '70s Soul: Just got home from the doctor and Judge is doing a salute to '70s Motown. Diana & Marvin, "You're a Special Part of Me", which I haven't heard in eons. Followed by an obscure J-5 LP track, "Life of the Party". DAY-um!
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Lordy! Gladys gets as down'n'nasty as she ever did: "You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You?)"
"I'm a girl and you're a guy
Come on, let's give love a try"
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More tasty obscurities: The Miracles' first post-Smokey single: "Don't Let it End", and the Tempts' "Hey Girl (I Like Your Style)", criminally neglected by pop radio in 1973, despite being a #2 R&B hit.
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"What you say? Shut yo' mouth!"
No, it's not Shaft -- it's Gladys' "Daddy" -- who could swear, I declare. And Gladys & the Pips probably swore too, since releasing this as a single the same week as their debut Buddah 45 ("Where Peaceful Waters Flow") came out, was Motown's revenge for their leaving the label. (As a result both records had mediocre pop chart success.)
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Another Temptations '73 rarity: "Plastic Man" -- why was pop radio so down on them that summer? Whitfield wah-wah weariness?
I'm "Tempt"-ed to sit here and comment all day, since virtually every song has been a gem so far. But geoff would need a new posting category for me! And (total sick-day bonus!) the Giants game is on TV in a few.
Holy crap! Jermaine Jackson's cover of "Ain't That Peculiar", new to me.
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Holy Flaming Mother of Berry Gordy! new to me and just a stunner: Undisputed Truth, "What It Is", another Whitfield workout. Gaz, you'd LOVE this one, methinks.
And now Stevie's "Too High" -- and I'm feeling a bit like a tangerine mahself.
Judge has concentrated on '70 to '74 so far; he says 2pm-4pm will be '75 to '79. I wish I'd been in a position to record this sucker.
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Judge closes the '70-'74 segment with the Tempts' "Funky Music Sho' 'Nuff Turns Me On", which was a bigger hit for Edwin Starr...
...and he kicks off '75-'79 with MJ's sweet "We're Almost There", which could easily have been a hit for Diana.
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Judge's second half, '75-'79, was a calvalcade of obscurities, almost all of them NTM (New To Me):
- Rick James, "Coppin' Blow" (LP cut, NTM)
- Rose Banks (of Sly's Family), "Whole New Thing", NTM
- Jr Walker covering Ms Flack's "Feel Like Makin' Love" in '76, NTM
- Jerry Butler (during his brief Motown tenure), "I Wanna Do It To You", from '78, NTM
- Eddie Kendicks' last Motown 45, "Intimate Friends", NTM
- Willie Hutch's fabulous "Love Power"
Also a Bonnie Pointer hit I'd always heard of but had never heard, with the "WTF?" improbable title of "Free Me From My Freedom, Tie Me To a Tree (Handcuff Me)" (!) and a looooooooooooooong version of "Love Hangover" -- Judge mentioned earlier (and I'd never heard this) that Diana and Marvin's duets LP was recorded with them in separate studios because Marvin was smoking a LOT of pot at the time and Diana couldn't stand the smell!
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Mike, all I can say is that I wish I'd spent this afternoon listening alongside ya. Will YouTube the Un/Truth and maybe a couple others tonight as I make like Marvin.
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Mike, all I can say is that I wish I'd spent this afternoon listening alongside ya. Will YouTube the Un/Truth and maybe a couple others tonight as I make like Marvin.
Ha!
And as if the above weren't enuf, KPOO's Mon nite Oldies guy did a 4-hour Holland-Dozier-Holland retrospective -- all the hits, plus rarities and B-sides. Amazing.
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Listening to Saturday's CGSS and Greg is doing *his* Isaac Hayes tribute, starting with his writing/producing stuff for Sam & Dave and Carla T.
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Listening to Saturday's CGSS and Greg is doing *his* Isaac Hayes tribute, starting with his writing/producing stuff for Sam & Dave and Carla T.
and after a nice personal story from Greg (about the day -- record-shopping in Queens! -- that he bought Hot Buttered Soul), we get the fabulous "Walk on By"... the loooooooooooong version!
"You put the hurt on me... you SOCKED it to me, mama!"
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after a nice personal story from Greg (about the day -- record-shopping in Queens! -- that he bought Hot Buttered Soul)...
and from Queens to Candi Staten Island -- Greg plays her fab cover of "Nights on B'way", so we've covered 3 boroughs in one post.
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Lawd! TTD's "Dance Little Sister", one of the fab tracks from that LP you never hear on the radio.
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'LNG-ing this morning, where David Cassidy just woke up in love.
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Oh my: Herb Alpert, "The Sky's in Love With You". Mah hands... are SHAKIN'!
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NTM: Bobby Vee at his most Gene Pitney-ish with "Sharing You", a forgotten Goffin/King comp.
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also NTM: The Tokens with a very sunshine-poppy "I Hear Trumpets Blow", a mid-sized hit in '66. Gaz'd like this one.
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and for the 2nd time this week, Shaun Cassidy's "Da Doo Ron Ron" -- it really is one of the more worthless cover verions ever, but he followed it with 2 Eric Carmen covers that IMHO weren't half bad, esp "Hey Deanie".
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Treat of the Day: PP&M's "Leavin' on a Jet Plane", which I hadn't heard in a dog's age.
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currently listening to CBS-FM; their hourly "Hall of fame" feature today is "First and Last Hits". This hour it was Johnny Rivers, "Memphis" ('64?) and "Slow Dancin'" ('77).
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FYI: the CG player took a long while to load but it IS working. Freddie wants to make a supersonic man outta me!
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Out to lunch (Tibetan Kitchen, yummy momos)
I looked at their website -- momos look like either dumplings or steamed buns. Or neither. What's in 'em?
Pre-CGSS, we're getting Phunky Phil trying to be Princely in the Stu-stu-studio.
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Momos have either veggies and chives or ground meat, and are served either steamed or fried. Alas, the kitch was closed, so my friend Dan and I had Chinese instead. I am absurdly spoiled with access in my new nabe.
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FIIIII-YUH!
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Momos have either veggies and chives or ground meat, and are served either steamed or fried. Alas, the kitch was closed, so my friend Dan and I had Chinese instead. I am absurdly spoiled with access in my new nabe.
Mmmmm... ground meat.... Sounds yummy. I had to settle for a tuna sandwich. Out The Door (a less-pricey offshoot of Slanted Door) in the new mall downtown sells some rather tasty steamed chicken buns, so I can only imagine.
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FIIIII-YUH!
Is that the sound of someone being murdered in the next room? (or was that on "Love Rollycoaster"?)
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"Dolly, My Love" -- NOT about Ms. Parton.
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FIIIII-YUH!
Is that the sound of someone being murdered in the next room? (or was that on "Love Rollycoaster"?)
Ha! One of my favorite urban legends.
Who's loving Dolly here?
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Who's loving Dolly here?
believe-it-or-not, that was the Moments, a UK-only hit in 1975!
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George, I've asked you nicely. PLEASE STOP DOUBLING THE SOLO ON EVERY SONG. kthxbye
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hold on to your love, a-WOOO! This woulda livened up Dave's snoozy 1990 set yesterday
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"Act like you know"? NTM.
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"Act like you know"? NTM.
I wannna say Fat Larry's Band (it's a CGSS fave, as is "Strut Yo' Funky Stuff, Sho' 'Nuff!", with my favorite rhyme: "like Travolta/rolla coasta")
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BOS!!! One of my very favorite songs to dance to, War's "Galaxy." Sends me straight to the Lower Haight.
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and one of *my* personal faves, Alexander O'Neal's "Fake". Patty Patty!
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AO'N lays down the law! It's lyin' season!
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AO'N lays down the law! It's lyin' season!
that's what he gets for hookin' up wit a bad mamma jama. She's built! She's stacked!
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Oh my! da Sistahs Sledge, "Thinking of You".
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Oh my! da Sistahs Sledge, "Thinking of You".
I have a covers disc with Paul Weller (of all people) doing this song.
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Oh my! da Sistahs Sledge, "Thinking of You".
I have a covers disc with Paul Weller (of all people) doing this song.
Yes! I've heard his version.
Get DOWN baby bubba!
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the long-haired hippies and afro-blacks
all get together across the tracks
and they PAR-TAY!
JB on the goodfoot, one of my all-time faves.
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Keep it common-law!
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Keep it common-law!
missed it -- if I hadn't been on the phone, we'd've had a common-law JINX fo' sho'.
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ooh, I saw KC and the Sunshine Band at the San Mateo county Fair a couple weeks back. it was great, I gotta say!
He's got, like, seven or eight instantly recognizable hits, and when you're dancing to them (uh ... you do dance .. .don't you?) it's like you're worshipping at one the Disco godheads. The guy's put on many pounds, is 57 years old, and doesn't take himself or his place in the Disco era too seriously.
He's got two super hot dancer chicks, two lady backup singers, a full band w horn section, and he does several costume changes, each outfit more tasteless and garish then that last. Sooo many sequins...! Very Vegas-style, but very enjoyable stuff.
The Village People opened the night's festivities, and they've got a good sense of humor about themselves, too, but their "music" is just so one-dimensional and not as fun as KC's set.
I love county fairs...
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Keep it common-law!
that's awesome
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Keep it common-law!
that's awesome
Pre-emptive "Ack-SHAWN!" JINX!!!
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one of my fave forgotten '80s grooves: Imagination, "Just an Illusion".
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one of my fave forgotten '80s grooves: Imagination, "Just an Illusion".
That party tune had the same melody as "Walk Right Back"!
And now a disco fave of mine, Gloria Gaynor's happy-festing treatment of "Reach Out, I'll Be There."
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Ms Gaynor's discofication of "Reach Out". Followed by the Pasadenas wonderful "Tribute".
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Yeah, that Pasadenas "Tribute" was quite nice.
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one of my fave forgotten '80s grooves: Imagination, "Just an Illusion".
That party tune had the same melody as "Walk Right Back"!
obscure Motown from Tammi Terrell -- a prime example of "Northern Soul", if ya need one.
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And one of the very best disco songs, the fabulously produced "Groove Line." Nice closer to Alicat's birthday week?
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how, exactly, does one "ride" on a "groove line"? is it like a daisy chain?
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"This Will Be" would, um "be" more welcome if not for those incessant eHarmony commercials.
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Jermaine's "I'm Burning Hot" was NTM -- word to the badd, indeeed!
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Oh my. Womack & Womack on the oddly minimalist "Teardrops."
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Oh my. Womack & Womack on the oddly minimalist "Teardrops."
another CGSS staple -- I love that one, as well as their "Love Wars".
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This afternoon on Felix Hernandez's Rhythm Revue: First Choice, "Let No Man Put Asunder." I could spend hundreds of dollars on underexposed '70s soul and still barely scratch the surface.
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Barry Scott repeats one from the CGSS whose vocals and lyrics make me cringe: "Shame, Shame, Shame." (Shirley & Co.?)
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Barry Scott repeats one from the CGSS whose vocals and lyrics make me cringe: "Shame, Shame, Shame." (Shirley & Co.?)
It is a pretty horrendous vocal. Amazing that she's the same Shirley (Goodman) of Shirley and Lee who did "Let the Good Times Roll" in 1956!
I had to mention 2 lost gems (well, one's a gem, anyway) that JJ played last nite...
The gem: Creative Source's "You Can't Hide Love", which is, yes, the same song as EWF's "Can't Hide Love", which I never knew was a cover until JJ trotted it out last year -- CS's version was out 2 years before EWF's!
The non-gem: "The Devil is Dope", an hilariously bad anti-drug song about going to hell by the Dramatics of all people -- this thing made JB's "King Heroin" seem like a Shakespearean recitation. I'm still trying to get ahold of their cover of H&O's "Do What You Want, Be What You Are".
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Barry brings out a favorite I haven't thought about, much less heard, in years: Sutherland Brothers and Quiver, "You Got Me Anyway." Really should've been a smash.
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Tom T. Hall just told a great story on "Lost 45s": He was to perform "I Love" on an NBC show, but they insisted he change the "I love ... borboun in a glass/ and grass" line. So he went with "Old country homes/ And snow."
Heh.
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NTM and very much OMGWTFLOL: Cher, "War Paint and Soft Feathers." Her trilogy of tragedy heads off the rez and into a Romeo and Juliet meets internecine tribal battle. It's almost as cra-zay as "Pirate."