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Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on January 21, 2008, 12:08:48 PM
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Judge celebrates MLK Day with 4 hours of Philly Soul! "Time To Get Down" indeed.
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OMG! Ecstasy Passion & Pain's fab-yoo-luss "Good Things Don't Last Forever"!
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a record I never get tired of: NYC's "I'm Doin' Fine". Followed by "Armed & Extremely Dangerous", and Judge sez both singles were released on the same day in March 1973 -- if so, the latter took a lot longer to make its way up the charts.
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wow, Billy Paul's "Thanks for Savin' My Life" -- haven't heard this in many many years.
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"You got me where you want me" -- another OMG! for the Ritchie Family's "Brazil".
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Another highlight: Teddy P's nasty, muscular "I Don't Love You Anymore" -- his first solo single in 1977, and why it wasn't a big pop hit is beyond me.
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CGSS plays Dee Dee Sharp-Gamble's slow/sexy/soulful cover of 10cc's "I'm Not in Love". A little-heard gem.
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Hooray for KPIG, playing Randy Newman's "Naked Man".
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CBS-FM is saluting OHW's today, and after playing R Dean Taylor's "Indiana Wants Me", Bob Shannon plays one of the songs he wrote for Motown: the 4 Tops' "I'll Turn to Stone", which I didn't know was one of his. So *he's* the guy who shoulda sued the Foundations for "Build Me Up Buttercup"...
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another fab retro-chart on CG -- March 1974:
01 Paper Lace - Billy, Don't Be A Hero
02 The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
03 Charlie Rich - The Most Beautiful Girl
04 Ringo Starr - You're Sixteen
05.Alvin Stardust - Jealous Mind
06.The New Seekers - I Get A Little Sentimental Over You
07.Paul McCartney And Wings - Jet
08.Bay City Rollers - Remember (Sha-La-La-La)
09. Freddie Starr - It's You
10. Hot Chocolate - Emma
11. Elton John - Candle In The Wind
12. Barry Blue - School Love
13. Wombles - Wombling Song
14. Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive
15. Queen - Seven Seas Of Rhye
16. David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
17. Lena Zavaroni - Ma (He's Making Eyes At Me)
18. The Carpenters - Jambalaya
19. Hudson-Ford - Burn Baby Burn
20. Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
I was looking forward to the Carpenters version of "Jambalaya" (!) which I've never heard, but they screwed up and played the wrong record.
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another fab retro-chart on CG -- March 1974:
01 Paper Lace - Billy, Don't Be A Hero
Paper Lace did Billy, Don't Be A Hero? I just know them for The Night Chicago Died. And of course the Bo Donaldson version of Billy.... But that's the British charts for ya.
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OMFG -- the Wombles! (none of who are named Barry, BTW).
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another fab retro-chart on CG -- March 1974:
01 Paper Lace - Billy, Don't Be A Hero
Paper Lace did Billy, Don't Be A Hero? I just know them for The Night Chicago Died. And of course the Bo Donaldson version of Billy.... But that's the British charts for ya.
Yup -- Bo Donaldson & Co rushed out their cover and it rocketed up the US charts; it's generally thought that "The Night Chicago Died" was a hit here because Paper Lace were "owed".
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New to me: Barry Blue's "School Love" another of the many (too many) '50s pastiches that the Brits were entirely too fond of in the mid-'70s.
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TANC: 2 songs about dead actresses back-to-back: a good one ("Candle in the Wind") and an awful one ("Emma").
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Macca thought the Major was a lady suffragette -- and that Master's thesis on "Gender confusion in the songs of Paul mcCartney" gets longer and longer.
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Also new to me: the New Seekers, "I Get a Little Sentimental (Over You)". Old-timey in a Mama Cass kinda way.
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'LNG just played a ballad I'd never heard, about a girl being dumped right before her wedding. Turned out to be "Girl in Love", the Outsiders' follow-up to "Time Won't Let Me". It was a Top 40 hit, and quite a change of pace for them. This led me to their Wiki page -- I never knew they recorded the orig version of "Bend Me Shape me", but didn't release it. So Amen Corner and American Breed had the UK and US hits respectively. Live'n'learn!
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'LNG just played a ballad I'd never heard, about a girl being dumped right before her wedding. Turned out to be "Girl in Love", the Outsiders' follow-up to "Time Won't Let Me". It was a Top 40 hit, and quite a change of pace for them. This led me to their Wiki page -- I never knew they recorded the orig version of "Bend Me Shape me", but didn't release it. So Amen Corner and American Breed had the UK and US hits respectively. Live'n'learn!
I have the Amen Corner version, don't really recommend it. Their name was better than their material, for the most part (though "If Paradise Is Half As Nice" is always a treat).
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Happy to report CG has brought back Dean's Jukebox for 2 hours in the evening (noon-to-2 here). Indeed they've revamped the entire lineup (which doesn't really sound like good news, given that their new "Gold" incarnation is only a few months old).
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Happy to report CG has brought back Dean's Jukebox for 2 hours in the evening (noon-to-2 here). Indeed they've revamped the entire lineup (which doesn't really sound like good news, given that their new "Gold" incarnation is only a few months old).
and bless whoever requested Smokie's "Living Next Door to Alice", a cheezy '70s guilty pleasure.
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Happy to report CG has brought back Dean's Jukebox for 2 hours in the evening (noon-to-2 here). Indeed they've revamped the entire lineup (which doesn't really sound like good news, given that their new "Gold" incarnation is only a few months old).
Didn't Sweeney have that slot before? Wonder what's up? Always glad to hear Dean, but I dug Sweeney, too (albeit more in his Rock Show persona than his homogenized general-consumption one).
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Happy to report CG has brought back Dean's Jukebox for 2 hours in the evening (noon-to-2 here). Indeed they've revamped the entire lineup (which doesn't really sound like good news, given that their new "Gold" incarnation is only a few months old).
Didn't Sweeney have that slot before? Wonder what's up? Always glad to hear Dean, but I dug Sweeney, too (albeit more in his Rock Show persona than his homogenized general-consumption one).
Sweeney's still on (in fact he's about the only show that hasn't been changed) from 8-noon Pacific -- Drive Time over there. Dean's then on for two hours, and their 10-midnite slot is now a rotating rerun show -- the retro chart show, the album show and other weekend goodies get replayed. In fact today's replay is Sweeney's Saturday Rock Show, so if you wanna check him out between 2 and 4, he'll be there.
In fact, I caught the last hour of Sweeney's regular show today and it was far from bland -- everything from the Waterboys to Lene Lovich. And I learned a new brit slang word: "anorak". Yes, like the winter coat, but it sort of means geek, in the sense of having obsessive knowlege of a subject.
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New to me: Barry Blue's "School Love" another of the many (too many) '50s pastiches that the Brits were entirely too fond of in the mid-'70s.
and here's another: 10cc's "Donna", their only absolutely awful single.
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TANC: 2 songs about dead actresses back-to-back: a good one ("Candle in the Wind") and an awful one ("Emma").
A good/awful song, or actress? Both may well apply, though I like "Emma" the song well enough. (Clearly she sucked as an actor.)
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TANC: 2 songs about dead actresses back-to-back: a good one ("Candle in the Wind") and an awful one ("Emma").
A good/awful song, or actress? Both may well apply, though I like "Emma" the song well enough. (Clearly she sucked as an actor.)
I meant song -- I really hate "Emma", IMHO it's worse than any early-'60s "teenage death song" I can think of, and that's saying something.
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TANC: 2 songs about dead actresses back-to-back: a good one ("Candle in the Wind") and an awful one ("Emma").
A good/awful song, or actress? Both may well apply, though I like "Emma" the song well enough. (Clearly she sucked as an actor.)
I meant song -- I really hate "Emma", IMHO it's worse than any early-'60s "teenage death song" I can think of, and that's saying something.
Strange things happen in this world ...
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TANC: 2 songs about dead actresses back-to-back: a good one ("Candle in the Wind") and an awful one ("Emma").
A good/awful song, or actress? Both may well apply, though I like "Emma" the song well enough. (Clearly she sucked as an actor.)
I meant song -- I really hate "Emma", IMHO it's worse than any early-'60s "teenage death song" I can think of, and that's saying something.
Strange things happen in this world ...
ah, "Laurie". At least "Teen Angel" was written as a parody (tho' taken seriously by its target audience, who didn't know any better).
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Sweeney on CG is doing "Beatles A-to-Z" -- one song per day (!), and today it was one of their really bad early covers, "A Taste of Honey". Good thing they started writing their own stuff.
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Sweeney got on the subject of banned songs and songs with "naughty bits", and got an email from someone asking about a certain line from "Penny Lane" -- "I'm not even gonna GO there" sez Sweeney. Not a fan of Fish'n'Finger Pie, obviously.
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a trifecta I can't imagine hearing anywhere else: KC's little-heard gem "Queen of Clubs", followed by "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and then a-ha's "The Sun Always Shines on TV".
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Sweeney got on the subject of banned songs and songs with "naughty bits", and got an email from someone asking about a certain line from "Penny Lane" -- "I'm not even gonna GO there" sez Sweeney. Not a fan of Fish'n'Finger Pie, obviously.
Well, his audience knows what they're referring to--here, that line went right by most folks.
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a trifecta I can't imagine hearing anywhere else: KC's little-heard gem "Queen of Clubs", followed by "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and then a-ha's "The Sun Always Shines on TV".
I haven't heard the A-Ha song since it was on the charts. And I admittedly usually skip "Queen of Clubs" when I dust off my KC disc.
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a trifecta I can't imagine hearing anywhere else: KC's little-heard gem "Queen of Clubs", followed by "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and then a-ha's "The Sun Always Shines on TV".
I haven't heard the A-Ha song since it was on the charts. And I admittedly usually skip "Queen of Clubs" when I dust off my KC disc.
Hearing the a-ha earlier, it becomes quite clear how they got the James Bond gig. It's almost an audition tape.
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a trifecta I can't imagine hearing anywhere else: KC's little-heard gem "Queen of Clubs", followed by "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and then a-ha's "The Sun Always Shines on TV".
I haven't heard the A-Ha song since it was on the charts. And I admittedly usually skip "Queen of Clubs" when I dust off my KC disc.
Hearing the a-ha earlier, it becomes quite clear how they got the James Bond gig. It's almost an audition tape.
So who should be the next Bond maestro? I'd be curious as to what Muse or My Chemical Romance would do with the gig.
(PS: Mike, I just discovered I have Gladys's "Licence to Kill" on one of my compilations!)
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a trifecta I can't imagine hearing anywhere else: KC's little-heard gem "Queen of Clubs", followed by "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and then a-ha's "The Sun Always Shines on TV".
I haven't heard the A-Ha song since it was on the charts. And I admittedly usually skip "Queen of Clubs" when I dust off my KC disc.
Hearing the a-ha earlier, it becomes quite clear how they got the James Bond gig. It's almost an audition tape.
So who should be the next Bond maestro? I'd be curious as to what Muse or My Chemical Romance would do with the gig.
(PS: Mike, I just discovered I have Gladys's "Licence to Kill" on one of my compilations!)
If she lives... Amy Whine-house. But I dunno what anyone can do with a title like Quantum of Solace.
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KFRC's Kasey Kountdown takes us to early 1974, when Smokey was stumbling with "Baby Come Close," the Carpenters were on their way back down with "Top of the World," Tom T. Hall had his first (and only) Top 40 appearance with the ridiculous "I Love," and the week's top debut, at #28: Gordon Sinclair, "Americans"(!!!). I'd never heard that before!
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Although I don't find a great deal of humor in "Sister Mary Elephant (Shaddap!)," I love the fact that comedy records could once hit the charts.
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Holy shit: This week's trivia question was asked by a listener from Brooklyn: Bernard Goetz.
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The ubiquitous Donny Osmond cover machine soldiers on. This week it's "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" at 16, followed by War's forgotten-by-most "Me and Baby Brother" at 15.
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Yes, a thousand times yes, I'll let you be there, Livvy.
(Nice bass voice, whoever that is.)
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Mike, I hope you caught the misty watercolor memories at #3!
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the week's top debut, at #28: Gordon Sinclair, "Americans"(!!!). I'd never heard that before!
the first of TWO versions. Amazing.
I have no recollection of the Tempts' "Let Your hair Down", tho' I must've heard it at the time if it got to #27. Diana Ross' "Last Time I saw Him" always sounded to me like it was written for Helen Reddy. Nice to hear the DeFranco's "other" hit. And yes, the Bernard Goetz letter (assuming it was THAT Bernard Goetz) is an amazing footnote. Another fab stroll down memory lane.
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the week's top debut, at #28: Gordon Sinclair, "Americans"(!!!). I'd never heard that before!
the first of TWO versions. Amazing.
I have no recollection of the Tempts' "Let Your hair Down", tho' I must've heard it at the time if it got to #27. Diana Ross' "Last Time I saw Him" always sounded to me like it was written for Helen Reddy. Nice to hear the DeFranco's "other" hit. And yes, the Bernard Goetz letter (assuming it was THAT Bernard Goetz) is an amazing footnote. Another fab stroll down memory lane.
Oh, and these singles debuted on the Hot 100 that week:
Marvin Gaye, "You Sure Love to Ball" (!)
Spinners, "Mighty Love"
Bette Midler, "In the Mood"
John Denver, "Sunshine on my Shoulder"
Dolly Parton. "Jolene"
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Gems from JJ tonite: Billy Preston's cover of "My Sweet Lord", ReeRee's "Oh Me Oh My", The O'Jays' "Time to Get Down" (the follow-up to "Love Train", neglected on the pop side even tho' it went #2 R&B), and the late great Johnny "Guitar" Watson (gone but not forgotten, up in soul heaven) doing "I Don't Want to be a Lone Ranger" -- "rat on wit da rat on!"
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The very definition of a regional hit: Consumer Rapport's "Ease On Down the Road", which got to #3 in NYC but never made the national Top 40.
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Barry Scott goes for "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" in tonight's Lost 45s. "You're a hot-blooded woman-child / And it's warm where you're touching me." Um, ew. Still a guilty pleasure, though, as are a few other from Mac D.
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"There was a time when strangers were welcome here": I'd never hear Neil Sedaka's "The Immigrant" before. Fine work! Although he sounds a lot like Carly Simon on the chorus.
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"There was a time when strangers were welcome here": I'd never hear Neil Sedaka's "The Immigrant" before. Fine work! Although he sounds a lot like Carly Simon on the chorus.
OMG, I am SO glad you finally got to hear that. It's really lovely (and of course he famously dedicated it to John Lennon). I love to make fun of Sedaka (and he deserves it for mostly non-musical reasons) but his '70s comeback remains pretty astounding, the awfulness of "Bad Blood" notwithstanding.
But Carly's voice is deeper ;D
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Five Glen Campbell songs written by Jimmy Webb on the Lost 45s, culminating in "Where's the Playground, Suzie?" Webb's a weird guy. Self-deprecating to striking lengths about his lyrics.
And now a personal fave: the Partridges' "It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)."
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O.M.F.G. Bryan Adams's 1979 foray into disco, "Let Me Take You Dancing," his voice decidedly un-raspy, even Donny Osmond–esque.
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Five Glen Campbell songs written by Jimmy Webb on the Lost 45s, culminating in "Where's the Playground, Suzie?"
I love those Campbell/Webb collabs from the late '60s -- "Witchita Lineman", "Galveston", "...Phoenix", "...Suzie", "Honey Come Back". I always thought "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" was a Webb comp, but apparently not.
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Five Glen Campbell songs written by Jimmy Webb on the Lost 45s, culminating in "Where's the Playground, Suzie?"
I love those Campbell/Webb collabs from the late '60s -- "Witchita Lineman", "Galveston", "...Phoenix", "...Suzie", "Honey Come Back". I always thought "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" was a Webb comp, but apparently not.
I had to do some research on that. Turns out it was this guy (http://jimparkermusic.com/chrisgantry.html).
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Five Glen Campbell songs written by Jimmy Webb on the Lost 45s, culminating in "Where's the Playground, Suzie?" Webb's a weird guy. Self-deprecating to striking lengths about his lyrics.
And now a personal fave: the Partridges' "It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)."
The Scud Mountain Boys (New England alt-country band) used to do a great cover of "...Suzie" and for several years I thought it was an original of theirs. Don't think Joe Pernice has been doing it since the Scuds broke up. (Btw, you'll love the title of one of Joe's solo records: Chappaquiddick Skyline. Told you.)
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Five Glen Campbell songs written by Jimmy Webb on the Lost 45s, culminating in "Where's the Playground, Suzie?"
I love those Campbell/Webb collabs from the late '60s -- "Witchita Lineman", "Galveston", "...Phoenix", "...Suzie", "Honey Come Back". I always thought "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" was a Webb comp, but apparently not.
I had to do some research on that. Turns out it was this guy (http://jimparkermusic.com/chrisgantry.html).
I thought "Chris Gantry" was Garth Brooks' alter ego ;)