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Title: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 25, 2008, 12:41:05 PM
Judge plays the legendary Betty Davis, who often shows up on lists of "the greatest artists you've never heard of".

(http://www.thefunkstore.com/NewRelease/June2007/CD-BettyDavis07ReIssueD2.jpg)
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 25, 2008, 02:17:51 PM
a post-Motown Willie Hutch, circa 1980, with "Disco Thang".
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 28, 2008, 11:03:44 AM
doing WLNG today; they just played the "rarities" version of "Penny Lane" with the extra horn flourish at the end.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 28, 2008, 12:34:20 PM
eeek! 'LNG plays Starship's nearly-worthless "Sara", surely one of the worst #1's of the '80s. "storms are brewing in your eyes" -- really?  And yet "We Built This City" is the one people hate. Yeesh.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 28, 2008, 02:41:55 PM
Spyder Turner's cover of "Stand By Me", in which he does fair-to-middling impressions of Jackie Wilson, David Ruffin, Billy Stewart, Smokey Robinson, Chuck Jackson.  Def one of the odder Top 40 hits of the '60s
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 11:03:36 AM
an hour of CG before CGSS gets under way with Elvis, "Way Down". Which is where he is, actually.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 11:13:21 AM
an hour of CG before CGSS gets under way with Elvis, "Way Down". Which is where he is, actually.
My CG player doesn't have a volume dial.   :-X
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 11:15:25 AM
an hour of CG before CGSS gets under way with Elvis, "Way Down". Which is where he is, actually.
My CG player doesn't have a volume dial.   :-X

Whaa? just below the guitar logo, no?  if not, close and re-load.  OMFG, David Soul's "Silver Lady", a #1 UK hit that did nothing over here (he's the guest this weekend on the retro-chart show).
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 11:18:50 AM
an hour of CG before CGSS gets under way with Elvis, "Way Down". Which is where he is, actually.
My CG player doesn't have a volume dial.   :-X

Whaa? just below the guitar logo, no?  if not, close and re-load.  OMFG, David Soul's "Silver Lady", a #1 UK hit that did nothing over here (he's the guest this weekend on the retro-chart show).
Must be a Firefox thing; it's not there.  No biggie smalls.

Kinda dug that "Silver Lady" song.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 11:23:53 AM
Celebrating MJ's birthday with "Man in the Mirror."  I often forget how good this and "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" were.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 11:24:17 AM
I've always had a soft spot for MJ's "Man in the Mirror".  Make that change (we can believe in)!

ETA: although all that "sha-maw!" stuff was the beginning of self-parody.

Oy, the Love Affair version of "Everlasting love" -- worst. mondegreening. EVAH.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 11:29:15 AM
Robert Knight's was the second-best "Everlasting Love," topped only by Carl Carlton's smash remake.  Gloria E comes in third, Love Affair a distant last.  (I've still never heard U2's version!)
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 11:30:02 AM
Oy, the Love Affair version of "Everlasting love" -- worst. mondegreening. EVAH.
One of us is misremembering covers.  Prolly me.

ETA: Yup, I was wrong - which means I don't remember the Robert Knight version.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 11:54:56 AM
Oy, the Love Affair version of "Everlasting love" -- worst. mondegreening. EVAH.
One of us is misremembering covers.  Prolly me.

ETA: Yup, I was wrong - which means I don't remember the Robert Knight version.

Don't forget the Rex Smith/Rachel Sweet duet!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJp3agQ0nUQ
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 12:25:02 PM
it ain't nuthin' but a house party, y'all! and the Isleys are invited!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 01:31:00 PM
I missed an hour of CGSS due to an errand that should only have taken 15 min.  >:(

But I'm back in time to Keep on Truckin'!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 01:33:04 PM
I missed an hour of CGSS due to an errand that should only have taken 15 min.  >:(

But I'm back in time to Keep on Truckin'!

Eddie K's a Red Ball Express -- of LOVIN'!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 01:36:29 PM
I know they're not singing " somebody help me out, Mee-owww!" but it sure sounds like it.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 01:41:34 PM
Sophisticated mama!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 01:52:21 PM
it's all ovah, Casanovah! Love that "contrary/extraordinary" rhyme.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 01:59:49 PM
Ah, so THAT's Bohannon!  I'd long wondered what the Tom Tom Club was fussing about.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 02:01:42 PM
sounds like Greg should marry Sarah Palin. LOL!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 02:08:38 PM
I've only ever heard War's "You Got the Power" on the radio twice - both on CGSS.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 02:12:46 PM
"Mother Nature gave me 2 hands to hold you..."  And in the case of Rick James, Teena Marie needed both, I'll wager!
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 02:13:30 PM
"Mother Nature gave me 2 hands to hold you..."  And in the case of Rick James, Teena Marie needed both, I'll wager!
Yes. He held a pipe with one hand while she held his with two.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 02:17:42 PM
I love this Jean Cairn "Was That All it Was?", a CGSS staple, cheezy synth-drums and all.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 02:25:46 PM
Shannon meets Peabody & Sherman -- "he's dancing his Wayback to me". Kidding aside, easily one of my fave dance records of the '80s.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 02:27:32 PM
Shannon meets Peabody & Sherman -- "he's dancing his Wayback to me". Kidding aside, easily one of my fave dance records of the '80s.
In my top 10, full stop, of the '80s.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 02:36:06 PM
Lawd! the other MJ (Millie Jackson) sez "mah man, he a SWEET man!"
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 02:42:15 PM
and speaking of 2 hands...

(http://forum.belmont.edu/business/Whopper%20with%20Cheese.jpg)
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on August 29, 2008, 02:48:00 PM
3 cheers for the fabulous Crown Heights Affair, soaring into the Galaxy of Love. Huge in the clubs back then, but largely unknown because they never had that crossover pop hit.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 02:56:00 PM
3 cheers for the fabulous Crown Heights Affair, soaring into the Galaxy of Love. Huge in the clubs back then, but largely unknown because they never had that crossover pop hit.
Another club hit that didn't cross over: KC & the Sunshine Band, "Sound Your Funky Horn."
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 29, 2008, 02:57:34 PM
Easily Bobby Brown's best moment: "Every Little Step."
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 31, 2008, 04:04:32 PM
This week Barry Scott does his yearly Top 100 countdown, based on listener requests.  In at #100, TANC, "Who Do You Think You Are?"

FYI, #1 is usually something uber-cheezy like "Seasons in the Sun."
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 31, 2008, 04:09:49 PM
Hey Mike: "Ariel" made it in at #98, nudging out "Watching Scotty Grow."  Is "Ariel" a common Jewish name?
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 31, 2008, 04:15:21 PM
Followed by the saddest disco song ever in its catching the notion of loneliness in a city of millions, Odyssey's pretty "Native New Yorker."
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 31, 2008, 05:28:38 PM
OMFGWTF!!!  The (apparently original) version of "Lady Marmalade," by an outfit called the 11th Hour.  Labelle performed some marvelous triage on this ailing patient.  What painfully bad Muppet-like lead vocals.  But they get credit for knowing more French than Patti, Sarah and Nona.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 31, 2008, 05:40:03 PM
Barry's single edit of "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing," which of course excises the spoken intro, has really amped up the percussion.  I'm liking it; wonder if that's a distinct mix or Barry's doing.

ETA: Barry confirmed: He played the 45, which is different from the others.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 31, 2008, 06:14:07 PM
Wow, I didn't know I liked Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Out of the Question"!  I'll chalk up "Get Down" as an aberration, since I dig its predecessors too.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 31, 2008, 06:19:25 PM
Oh, weird: Barry plays a (presumably recent) interview with Neil Sedaka in which he admits to "a parting of the ways" with Carole King that he hopes they "can mend soon."  Ooh girl!  OTOH, he calls her "the genius of all time" and said she wrote more hits than anyone, "even Smokey."

Of course the interview clip is followed by "Bad Blood."
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: Gazoo on August 31, 2008, 06:45:23 PM
"I Believe There's Nothing Stronger Than" Paul Anka.  But I'm usually displeased when there's a Strong Odia in the room.
Title: Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 8/25/08
Post by: RGMike on September 01, 2008, 10:04:11 AM
Hey Mike: "Ariel" made it in at #98, nudging out "Watching Scotty Grow."  Is "Ariel" a common Jewish name?

I think Mr Friedman was poking some gentle fun at the notion of middle-class jews giving their kids NON-Jewish names. Like "Ariel"... and, er, "Dean".