10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on September 22, 2009, 08:00:12 AM
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JJ's '60s Tuesday begins with the Whispers powerful "Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L0cTK83CmI
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Poor sweet fat Kim Weston: dealing with Berry Gordy really *did* put her in a "helpless situation"!
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before I forget, JJ on KPOO this AM played Dinah Washington singing This Bitter Earth.... awesome. Not really soul and def has a 1950's era swelling-strings-sound, but really liked it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9zAUZfDV-w
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still trudging through Barry Scott's Top 100 countdown. Just heard Rupert Holmes' Him -- ugh. kinda painful. Really, who needs Him?
But I just read this on wiki about Holmes' Escape (The Piņa Colada Song):
The song hit #1 late in December 1979, becoming the last song to top the pop chart in the 1970s.
The song fell to #2 for the first week of January, 1980 and then rebounded to #1 the next week,
making Holmes the only artist to ascend to the #1 spot with the same song in different decades.
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still trudging through Barry Scott's Top 100 countdown. Just heard Rupert Holmes' Him -- ugh. kinda painful. Really, who needs Him?
But I just read this on wiki about Holmes' Escape (The Piņa Colada Song):
The song hit #1 late in December 1979, becoming the last song to top the pop chart in the 1970s.
The song fell to #2 for the first week of January, 1980 and then rebounded to #1 the next week,
making Holmes the only artist to ascend to the #1 spot with the same song in different decades.
Dude! Rupert is GOD!
Seriously, dunno how familiar you are with his pre-"Pina Colada" output, but it's worth investigating, he's a very smart songwriter, and I'm not just talking about "Timothy". His mid-'70s solo LPs are loaded with gems. And the "thinking man's Barry Manilow" label he was given is not the backhanded compliment it sounds... more front-handed, IMHO.
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still trudging through Barry Scott's Top 100 countdown. Just heard Rupert Holmes' Him -- ugh. kinda painful. Really, who needs Him?
But I just read this on wiki about Holmes' Escape (The Piņa Colada Song):
The song hit #1 late in December 1979, becoming the last song to top the pop chart in the 1970s.
The song fell to #2 for the first week of January, 1980 and then rebounded to #1 the next week,
making Holmes the only artist to ascend to the #1 spot with the same song in different decades.
Dude! Rupert is GOD!
Seriously, dunno how familiar you are with his pre-"Pina Colada" output, but it's worth investigating, he's a very smart songwriter, and I'm not just talking about "Timothy". His mid-'70s solo LPs are loaded with gems. And the "thinking man's Barry Manilow" label he was given is not the backhanded compliment it sounds... more front-handed, IMHO.
OK, I'll check it out -- but Him never stuck with me. (Escape is a guilty pleasure, though..)
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Brenda Lee's "Comin' On Strong" on 'LNG --and Golden Earring is nowhere in sight, thank gawd.
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OMFG! Nancy & Lee's "Some Velvet Morning" to tell us 'bout Phaedra.
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NTM and TANC: Dave Berry (who had the orig version of "The Crying Game" in 1964) doing the UK hit of "Little Things", which I recently wrote about when 'LNG played the US version by Bobby Goldsboro.
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wow, the somewhat legendary obscure British group Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, with "Mirror Mirror" -- their only hit, tho' they later became The Flying Machine, and "Smile a Little Smile" made them One Hit Wonders... twice.
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also NTM: David Cassidy's "Some Kind of Summer", one of his many UK hits that did nothing in the US. A rather nice road-trip-across-America saga that compares favorably to "Me & You & a Dog Named Boo".
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'LNG Highlight of the day: Alice C's great "Only Women Bleed".
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couple of fab UK obscurities: the Bedrocks' Jamaican-tinged cover of "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-da", which competed with Marmalade's version on the Brit chart in '68; and Billy Ocean's "Red Light Spells Danger", his follow-up to "Love Really Hurts Without You".
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OMGWTF Obscurity of the Month: a band called the New York Public Library (!?!) doing the Rascals' "Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore". Words fail me.
and it's followed by one of the all-time shoulda-been-bigger singles: "Shame Shame" by the Magic Lanterns.
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The people be bumpin'! TOP go down to the nightclub on KPOO. Bump City! Bump-te-bump-te-bump!
Followed by a pre-"Misdemeanor" Sylvers family with "Wish That I Could Talk To You". Not only did Foster sound like MJ at that point, one of his bros sounds like Jermaine!