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Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on January 26, 2009, 08:56:33 AM
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checking out WMIR, the Lawn Guyland pirate rocker, and damn, it's the Stranglers' "No More Heroes".
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another lost nugget: Chris deBurgh, "Don't Pay the Ferryman".
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a truly fab UK chart from July '67 featured on CG's retro-countdown show this week:
01. - Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
02. - Engelbert Humperdinck - There Goes My Everything
03. - The Hollies - Carrie-Anne
04. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - Okay!
05. Traffic - Paper Sun
06. The Turtles - She'd Rather Be With Me
07. The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git
08. The Young Rascals - Groovin'
09. The Tremeloes - Silence Is Golden
10. The Supremes - The Happening
11. Topol - If I Were A Rich Man
12. Petula Clark - Don't Sleep In The Subway
13. Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
14. The Small Faces - Here Come The Nice
15. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
16. The Beach Boys - Then I Kissed Her
17. The Four Tops - Seven Rooms Of Gloom
18. New Vaudeville Band - Finchley Central
19. Cream - Strange Brew
20. Vikki Carr - It Must Be Him
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a truly fab UK chart from July '67 featured on CG's retro-countdown show this week:
07. The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git
Didn't they call this "Alternate Title" over there?
At any rate, a fantastic countdown, more evidence to support my belief that '67 was the crescendo year of rock & soul.
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a truly fab UK chart from July '67 featured on CG's retro-countdown show this week:
07. The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git
Didn't they call this "Alternate Title" over there?
Yes -- I corrected it for the benefit of those unfamiliar with the "controversy".
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Decided to Deep Track it today, and am rewarded with David Bowie covering S&G's "America"(!) apparently from the Concert For NYC. Hearing Bowie deliver the line "...the man in the gabbardine suit is a spy..." is really interesting.
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a truly fab UK chart from July '67 featured on CG's retro-countdown show this week:
07. The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git
Didn't they call this "Alternate Title" over there?
Yes -- I corrected it for the benefit of those unfamiliar with the "controversy".
This particular retro-chart show, in which Mike Sweeney is interviewing Gary Booker of Procol Harum, appears to have been recorded several years ago -- they're talking about Desmond Dekker as if he's still alive, and he died in May of 2006.
ETA: great anecdote -- Booker says Procol Harum turned down Woodstock because Robin Trower's wife was about to have a baby in Aug '69, and they decided to go back to England instead. Then the baby ended up being born two weeks late.
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20. Vikki Carr - It Must Be Him
"a cracking piece of cheese" Says Mike Sweeney. I LURVED this song when I was 12. That shoulda been a major clue that I was gay. Ah, hindsight...
And The New Vaudeville Band's "Finchley Central" is NTM and a fairly workmanlike "Winchester Cathedral" knockoff.
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Yikes -- Topol, several years before he'd star in the film version of Fiddler, doing "If I Were a Rich Man" -- take THAT, Gwen Stefani!
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TANC: after Gaz praised their "You Can't Turn Me Off" last week, Judge plays High Inergy's "Shoulda Gone Dancin (Instead of Romancin')", NTM and a fine lost disco nugget.
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Wow, DT just played The Byrds "Chestnut Mare". Probably haven't heard this for 30 yrs.
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Wow, DT just played The Byrds "Chestnut Mare". Probably haven't heard this for 30 yrs.
TANC: I heard it on KCDX last week and on WMIR this morning! But yeah, it's a wonderful track that was an absolute staple of the FM rock stations I grew up on, and which has been completely forgotten by mainstream "Classic Rock" radio stations.
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Wow, DT just played The Byrds "Chestnut Mare". Probably haven't heard this for 30 yrs.
TANC: I heard it on KCDX last week and on WMIR this morning! But yeah, it's a wonderful track that was an absolute staple of the FM rock stations I grew up on, and which has been completely forgotten by mainstream "Classic Rock" radio stations.
That was part of a pretty great half hour:
5:26pm TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS by BEATLES
5:29pm CHESTNUT MARE by BYRDS
5:34pm SENTIMENTAL LADY by FLEETWOOD MAC
5:39pm STORMY MONDAY by ALLMAN BROTHERS
5:47pm DON'T BRING ME DOWN by ANIMALS
5:51pm BLUE LIGHT by DAVID GILMOUR
5:55pm PEG (LIVE) by STEELY DAN
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Johnny Taylor (the natch'l wailer) is working on his "Love Bone" -- er, be sure to clean up afterwards, Johnny.
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At last! oooh! At last! Mah fo'evah came today!
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NTM: the Fantastic Four, "You gave Me Something", one for the Faux-Town list, a somewhat low-rent Tempts ballad soundalike from 1967.
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New to Me on 'LNG: Ray Peterson, the orig version of "The Wonder of You", later a hit for Elvis in 1970.
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interesting "Behind the Hits" story on 'LNG of "Angel of the Morning". The orig version was by a woman named Evie Sands -- her single was released two weeks before the record company (Cameo-Parkway) went bankrupt! So the producers decided to try again with Merilee Rush.
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interesting "Behind the Hits" story on 'LNG of "Angel of the Morning". The orig version was by a woman named Evie Sands -- her single was released two weeks before the record company (Cameo-Parkway) went bankrupt! So the producers decided to try again with Merilee Rush.
Did they mention who wrote the song? (that's one of my favorite bits of trivia)
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interesting "Behind the Hits" story on 'LNG of "Angel of the Morning". The orig version was by a woman named Evie Sands -- her single was released two weeks before the record company (Cameo-Parkway) went bankrupt! So the producers decided to try again with Merilee Rush.
Did they mention who wrote the song? (that's one of my favorite bits of trivia)
yes, but they didn't go into who he's related to -- that's a "Behind the Hits" for another day, I guess.
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OMG! Mark Lindsay's postin' a poster of Pancho & Cisco -- hey, won'tcha go my way?
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another great Lesley Gore soundalike record: Patty Duke's "Don't Just Stand There", a ringer (melody-wise) for "You Don't Own Me".
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OMGWTF -- the orig 1965 version of "The Way of Love" by Kathy Kirby! -- NTM, and she also keeps the gender-bending perspective just as Cher did.
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Psychedelic Kenny Rogers just dropped in! Yeah... yeah... whoa yeeeeah!
Followed (Trainwreck segue alert!) by Astrud Gilberto, "Girl From Ipenema" Everybody samba!
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yikes, I haven't heard Elvis' "Don't Cry Daddy" in decades.
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a lovely forgotten '80s nugget: Anne Murray, "Could I Have This Dance?", from the Urban Cowboy sndtk.
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'LNG plays a big Gaz fave: "Pilot of the Airwaves", which I haven't heard in many a moon.
Followed by a fab forgotten Fifth (Dimension): "Carpet Man".
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Followed by a fab forgotten Fifth (Dimension): "Carpet Man".
I've never heard that. Is it about Glenn Quagmire? Giggity-giggity-goo!
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'LNG plays Little Richard's cover of "Baby Face". Beats the Wing-and-a-Prayer version, but his lyric substitution -- he changes "warm embrace" to "FIRM embrace" -- is giving me an unwanted visual a bit too soon after breakfast.
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Followed by a fab forgotten Fifth (Dimension): "Carpet Man".
I've never heard that. Is it about Glenn Quagmire? Giggity-giggity-goo!
I'll try to ignore the Family Guy ref, but you'd like "Carpet man", I think; it's the 5-D at their most Mamas-n-Papas-ish.
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'LNG doesn't disappoint me: Judy Collins' lovely "Someday Soon". Talk about a gem.
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wow -- I haven't heard Melanie's "Nickel Song" in ages.
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DT just played EJ's "Friends" a few minutes ago.
That & today's set made me really miss Dave. A LOT.
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OMGWTF -- the orig 1965 version of "The Way of Love" by Kathy Kirby! -- NTM, and she also keeps the gender-bending perspective just as Cher did.
and speaking of gender-bending by Cher: here's "You Better Sit Down Kids"! She'll still be your dad!
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KCDX brightens my afternoon with the Woofa Toofa -- live Geils, "Do I Love You?" Ah DO!
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There's never been any reason to like Head East's "Never Been Any Reason".
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And now it's time to get down with JJ on KPOO -- literally, as he starts the show with the O'Jays song of the same name.
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wow, JJ plays the original Narada, "I Shoulda Loved Ya", as his weekly "Bay Area Power Play". Followed by gospel-crossovers The Rance Allen Group, whose "Ain't No Need of Crying" is one of the best Earth Wind & Fire imitations ever to chart (I actually thought it *was* EWF for years).
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"He makes me feel just like a woman -- something that you could never do!"
Ouch! Gladys tells that no-good man the TRUTH! Of course, that was before she became a subservient-to-men Mormon lady.
And here's the Persuaders with their fine orig version of "Some Guys Have All the Luck", 11 years before Rod the Mod sped it up for the MTV crowd.
OMGWTFLOL -- a NTM track by 100 Proof, "One Man's Leftovers (is Another Man's Feast)", which actually contains the line "yum-yum-yummy, got love fo' mah tummy"! Talk about sloppy seconds!