CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 10/15/07

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New to Me: Sergio Mendez (the "Brasil '77" incarnation) and a Stevie Wonder comp, "The Real Thing". Nice -- Gaz'd like this.

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Greg plays the Richie Havens version of Lamont Dozier's "Back to My Roots"  -- def one for Gaz's iTunes list if it's available.

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Listening to saturday's CGSS -- Greg gives me Third World "Now That We've Found Love" for the 2nd time today. What were the odds?

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I've just signed onto CG's player to hear their retro-countdown show. This week it's nancy Sinatra, recalling the week "Something Stupid" was #1 in '67. Should be fab.

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I've just signed onto CG's player to hear their retro-countdown show. This week it's nancy Sinatra, recalling the week "Something Stupid" was #1 in '67. Should be fab.

and here's the Top 20 from that week, more or less:

 1 Nancy & Frank Sinatra Somethin' Stupid
 2 Sandie Shaw Puppet On A String
 3 Engelbert Humperdinck Release Me
 4 The Monkees A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You
 5 Manfred Mann Ha Ha Said The Clown
 6 Harry Secombe This Is My Song
 7 Jimi Hendrix Experience Purple Haze
 8 Alan Price Set Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear
 9 Cliff Richard It's All Over
 10 The Four Tops Bernadette
 11 Whistling Jack Smith I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman
 12 Vince Hill Edelweiss
 13 Cat Stevens I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun
 14 The Turtles Happy Together
 15 Georgie Fame Because I Love You
 16 The Beatles Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever
 17 The Seekers Georgy Girl
 18 The Dubliners Seven Drunken Nights
 19 Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich Touch Me Touch Me
 20 Val Doonican Memories Are Made Of This

And we just heard Pink Floyd's "Arnold Layne", which was bubbling under.

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The British charts in '67 are a trip -- Just heard Alan Price's orig cover of Randy Newman's "Simon Smith/Dancing Bear" and here's a Manfred Mann song I've never heard: "Ha Ha Said the Clown".

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The British charts in '67 are a trip -- Just heard Alan Price's orig cover of Randy Newman's "Simon Smith/Dancing Bear" and here's a Manfred Mann song I've never heard: "Ha Ha Said the Clown".

now this is truly bizarre: Harry Secombe -- Brit comedian, he was part of Peter Sellers' "Goon Shows" in the '50s -- doing a straight-ahead nearly-operatic version of "This is My Song", on the chart the same time as Pet Clark's version.  Oh those wacky Brits.

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And right now: Donna Summer's fab disco-ization of Barry Manilow's "Could it Be Magic"!

and it was the loooooong version (on the terrific Summer anthol I have, they included the single edit).

TANC: 'LNG just played the Manilow original.

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Sweeney on Gold plays a request for the Meat Loaf/Cher duet, "Dead Ringer For Love". those Brits just LURVE them some Loaf!

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OMG! Suzi Quatro, "Devil Gate Drive". Come alive!