10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on December 01, 2008, 01:38:22 PM
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Judge s-s-smokin' as always: here's a personal '80s fave of mine: Shalimar's "Dead Giveaway".
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OMFG! early New Edition, their brilliant J-5 ballad pastiche, "Is This The End?" Got To Be I'll Be There.
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another '80s OMG: The Time, "Ice Cream Castles"
"You are White
I am of Color
Let's fall in Love"
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Somebody SLAP me! Klymaxx, "The Men All Pause".
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Somebody SLAP me! Klymaxx, "The Men All Pause".
I had just learned what "menopause" was around the time that song came out - needless to say, I found it, and them, strange. And that was before I understood what all was happening at that meeting in the ladies' room! (OTOH, their sublime "I Miss You" was on Casey's '80s this past w/e.)
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Somebody SLAP me! Klymaxx, "The Men All Pause".
I had just learned what "menopause" was around the time that song came out - needless to say, I found it, and them, strange. And that was before I understood what all was happening at that meeting in the ladies' room! (OTOH, their sublime "I Miss You" was on Casey's '80s this past w/e.)
"and ah am much MUCH unhappy about that"
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a short '60s set from Bob on a Tuesday means there's time left over for JJ on KPOO!
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lawd! Jackie Wilson wants a woman, a lover, and a friend (not necessarily in that order).
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a short '60s set from Bob on a Tuesday means there's time left over for JJ on KPOO!
I listened a bit this AM and heard a nice slow version of "Que Sera, Sera" -- not sure who did it, but a quick google search reveals that Sly and the FS covered it in 73. But JJ's Tuesday show is only music from the 60s, correct?
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a short '60s set from Bob on a Tuesday means there's time left over for JJ on KPOO!
I listened a bit this AM and heard a nice slow version of "Que Sera, Sera" -- not sure who did it, but a quick google search reveals that Sly and the FS covered it in 73. But JJ's Tuesday show is only music from the 60s, correct?
I missed that, but yes, Tuesday is supposed to be all-'60s. But Sly's version is indeed slow (it was revived in '88 for the movie Heathers). dunno about these (from wiki):
1963: The High Keys version with a calypso feel and sports whistle accents influenced versions by Earl Royce & the Olympics (1964) and Normie Rowe & the Playboys (1965)
1964: The Earl Royce & The Olympics version was recorded by Beatles producer George Martin.
1965: The Normie Rowe & The Playboys version was a hit in Australia.
1966: Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band on their Hand Clappin' Foot Stompin' Funky-Butt … Live! album.
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fascinating stuff on Bob Shannon's "Behind the Hits" show on 'LNG: he's interviewing the son of songwriter Alan Gordon, who recently died. He co-wrote the Turtles' "Happy Together", "Me about You" and "She'd rather Be With Me", 3DN's "Celebrate" and Streisand's "My Heart Belongs to Me" -- talk about range! He says "Celebrate" was orig a slowed-down, downbeat song called "Celebrity Ball" before 3DN got hold of it.
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oh by cracky, it's double Sedacky: Both of Neil's versions of "Breakin' Up Is Hard to Do", with a bit of Lenny Welch's cover (he did it slow before Neil did) thrown in for good measure.
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a couple of lost faves: Jay & the Techniques' "Keep the Ball Rolling", which I've always preferred to their bigger hit "Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie", and Bob Lind's exquisite "Elusive Butterfly". Dunno why I thought Lind was no longer with us, but he's alive and well and has just published his first novel -- and he used to write for the Weekly World News!
And here's some seasonal fun: Mack Rice's "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin".
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And here's some seasonal fun: Mack Rice's "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin".
speaking of: first Elmo & Patsy sighting of the season. OK, OK -- we believe already!
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TANC: after dominating the Turkey set, Ray Stevens returns with his Xmas ditty "Santa Claus Is watchin' You" -- special guest appearance by Ahab the Arab's camel, Clyde, filling in for Rudolph.
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Woo Hoo! Tom Jones, the original gangsta, shankin' dat bitch "Delilah"!
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OMGWTFLOL -- Joey Heatherton's "Gone", her only Top 40 hit (a Timi Yuro cover iirc), and one I haven't heard in decades. Nice big production -- woulda been a good song for Tom Jones, actually. For you young'uns, Joey was a sexpot and fave of Bob Hope (she did a lot of USO tours in Vietnam) and daughter of song-and-dance man Ray Heatherton
(http://famous-relationships.topsynergy.com/!photos/Joey_Heatherton.jpg)
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femme jolie, femme jolie! (and I DON'T mean Angelina): Clique's fab Tommy James-produced "Sugar on Sunday".
Followed by Gary Puckett's least-creepy hit: "Over You".
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femme jolie, femme jolie! (and I DON'T mean Angelina): Clique's fab Tommy James-produced "Sugar on Sunday".
OMFG! a few songs later we get their little-heard orig version of "Superman", made famous by REM. Followed by uber-GazWOS Bubble Puppy, "Hot Smoke & Sassafrass".
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More fabness: the 5-D's "Go Where You Wanna Go", when they were still "the black Mamas & Papas".
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holy crap: Brinsley Schwarz, early band of either Dave Edmunds or Nick Lowe or both, with a NTM ballad called "And She Cried". very Left Banke-meets-the Tremoloes.
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Holy flaming mother of Pop Argot: listening to London's Heart radio and their Friday "Club Classics" -- and amidst the usual suspects (Labelle, McFadden & Whitehead, Sister Sledge) we get a totally unexpected club mix of Cornershop's wonderful "Brimful of Asha", one of my very fave '90s tracks! Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow...
...but there's no romance without fi-nance! The late great Gwen Guthrie knew there wer'n't nuthin' goin' on but da rent.