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KFOG's 10@10 / Monday 1/31/05 -- It's 1978

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:42:03 AM »

"sun is comin', and it's gettin' wow-mahhhhh ..."

and that's NOT lyrical hack-work?  

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KFOG's 10@10 / Monday 1/31/05 -- It's 1978

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:40:36 AM »

Andy Gibb, "Time Is Time"?  Wasn't this 1980 or '81?  I think Dave queued up the wrong track.

You are correct, sir! 1981.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Monday 1/31/05 -- It's 1978

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:36:02 AM »

a sweet, sweet vhm to sweet, sweet andy.

a 10@10 breakout, methinks.  George Michael should do a cover of this forthwith.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Monday 1/31/05 -- It's 1978

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:32:46 AM »

Mr Joel times two! "Only the Good..." earlier and now "Movin' Out".

workin too hard can give you a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack!

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KFOG's 10@10 / Monday 1/31/05 -- It's 1978

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:28:30 AM »

BOS Mr Palmer. Just lovely on a Monday morn.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Monday 1/31/05 -- It's 1978

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:27:46 AM »

The Bear is the Bay Area's country western station. I forget the call letters. My roomies and I like to pretend it's run by big, hairy gay men.

Funny, I like to pretend that too

Surely they realized this before they named it.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Monday 1/31/05 -- It's 1978

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:25:03 AM »

WOS to Eddie Money, "Baby Hold On."  Lyrical hack work.

but the chords, man!

that keyboard riff was sorta cribbed from "because" by the Dave Clark 5.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Monday 1/31/05 -- It's 1978

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:13:27 AM »

BOS Linda Lavin! A sultry rendition of that theme.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: Monday 1/31/05 -- It's 1978

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:11:45 AM »

there's a list if i ever heard of one:
i got the music in me, kiki

"Music", John Miles (which happens to be mentioned in that Joel Selvin article in today's Chron).
"Rock'n'Roll I Gave You the Best Years of My Life" Mac Davis (?)

I'll think of more.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Monday 1/31/05 -- It's 1978

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:02:53 AM »

Ray & the Kinks with one of his loveliest. Ah, songs about the love of music.

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1977 on 1/31/05

« on: January 31, 2005, 09:13:45 AM »

i always thought that about 'i knew,' but never really thought too long about 'pokr.'

'pokr'? I hardly know'er!

hey princess, thought you enjoy hearing that actress Martha Plimpton is now doing cabaret, per David Edelstein on slate.com:

it turns out she has a budding career as a singer—and who would have thought that this punky misfit actress would turn out to be a fabulous cabaret diva? Last night, I caught her at Joe's Pub in New York's Public Theater with Julian Fleisher in a show called Save It for the Stage. (It was one night only, but they'll pop up again.) Plimpton and Fleisher compare themselves to "Steve and Eydie, Sonny and Cher, Bonnie and Clyde, and Leopold and Loeb," which should give you some idea of the (unrehearsed) onstage banter. But if the act borders on camp, Plimpton sings with her whole heart: She has a chesty but soaring voice, and with her short blond hair and slinky body she looks great when she's contorting herself in front of a microphone.

Her rendition of "Neverland" was too earnestly plaintive, but everything else was a joy: the opening medley of "Movin' On Up" (from The Jeffersons) and "Nine to Five; "Little Red Corvette"—'70s/early '80s songs revitalized by her stylings and the witty band. Plimpton will bring down the house with a number, then break character and shrug and squeal as if to say, "Was that me? Did I just pull that off?" It's so exhilarating when you discover that an actor whom you loved (and I've followed Plimpton since The River Rat in 1984) has pipes.

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1977 on 1/31/05

« on: January 31, 2005, 08:42:12 AM »

Is "Point of Know Return" about Jesus' second coming?

I think alot of their stuff had Christian undertones ("He Knew" also seems to be about JC).

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1977 on 1/31/05

« on: January 31, 2005, 08:40:38 AM »

In hindsight, this just doesn't sound like a #1 hit to me.  

Funny, I predicted it would be one the first time I heard it. Not just because I liked it but because they were primed (by the 2nd-time-around success of "She's Gone" on their previous label) for something major and RCA would've looked really stupid had "Rich Girl" not gone the distance.

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Stream of Consciousness / Joel Selvin on Hard-to-find CDs

« on: January 31, 2005, 08:36:38 AM »

nice piece in today's Chron:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/31/DDGCUB280R1.DTL&type=music

Selvin's show on the Bone last nite was an hour of rare Springsteen -- B-sides, tracks he contributed to compilations, etc. Great stuff, And it was followed by Little Steven's tribute to 1967.  I say this every week, it seems, but Steven's show is an absolute MUST, and it's available on his website if you missed it...

http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/play/archive.html

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1977 on 1/31/05

« on: January 31, 2005, 08:26:45 AM »

was it you that said
how long?!

I thought it was Linda Lovelace who said that.