CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/19/07

[RGMike]

Judge is in disco mode. But no idea who this "Gotta keep dancing" song is.

[RGMike]

ah believe in da boogie -- but da boogie don't believe in me!  Judge plays the orig version by Brainstorm.

[RGMike]

Lou Rawls and the Philly Int'l All-Stars, cleanin' up the ghetto!  "The rats, the roaches and the waterbugs --- they was HUSTLIN', baby!"

[Gazoo]

ah believe in da boogie -- but da boogie don't believe in me!  Judge plays the orig version by Brainstorm.

There was another version?  All I know is the Brainstorm.  My friend Adrian once declared of it, owing to its relentlessness: "This is what cocaine sounds like."

[RGMike]

ah believe in da boogie -- but da boogie don't believe in me!  Judge plays the orig version by Brainstorm.

There was another version?  All I know is the Brainstorm.  My friend Adrian once declared of it, owing to its relentlessness: "This is what cocaine sounds like."

Sylvester & the Two Tons covered it.

[RGMike]

Judge keeps his Best of the Trammps close at hand today: earlier, "Livin' on the Dark Side of the Moon", and now "Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?", about the NYC blackout of '77.

[RGMike]

Judge spins an endless 12" version of a faux-Motown medley with Smokey soundalikes etc.  It's from long before Stars on 45 was the rage.

[RGMike]

OMFG! The Pointer Sisters doing "The Number Song" from Sesame Street!

[Gazoo]

Judge spins an endless 12" version of a faux-Motown medley with Smokey soundalikes etc.  It's from long before Stars on 45 was the rage.

Would that be the pre-Jody Watley Shalimar?

[RGMike]

Judge spins an endless 12" version of a faux-Motown medley with Smokey soundalikes etc.  It's from long before Stars on 45 was the rage.

Would that be the pre-Jody Watley Shalimar?

Yup -- I always get this Shalimar medley ("Uptown Festival") confused with the Richie Family's "Best Disco in Town".  I played both to death in my college Top 40 days.  As you may know, the record was a Don Cornelius project (on Soul Train Records) and afterwards he put a group together (Watley, Howard Hewitt, etc) so the name wouldn't go to waste.

[Gazoo]

Judge spins an endless 12" version of a faux-Motown medley with Smokey soundalikes etc.  It's from long before Stars on 45 was the rage.

Would that be the pre-Jody Watley Shalimar?

Yup -- I always get this Shalimar medley ("Uptown Festival") confused with the Richie Family's "Best Disco in Town".  I played both to death in my college Top 40 days.  As you may know, the record was a Don Cornelius project (on Soul Train Records) and afterwards he put a group together (Watley, Howard Hewitt, etc) so the name wouldn't go to waste.

I didn't know those origins - thanks!

BTW, this weekend I caught an old Soul Train ep with the then four-piece Pointer Sisters doing some Staples-sounding thing that wasn't a hit.  (I forget what it was.)

[RGMike]

Rocking out with Sweeney on CG -- just heard a very good segue from Queen's "Tie Your Mother Down" to Simple Minds' "Waterfront".

[RGMike]

No turkeys on WLNG: here's Carole King's "Been to Canaan", one of her loveliest melodies, and this shoulda been a much bigger hit. Haven't heard it since "I can't remember when.."

[RGMike]

Only WLNG could follow JB's "Mother Popcorn" with the Marketts' "Batman Theme". na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na --- Batman!

[Gazoo]

Casey countin' 'em down this weekend: (It's Nov. 20, 1976.)

At #30: Salsoul Orchestra, "Nice 'n' Naasty" (!)

At #29: Engelbert Humperdinck, "After the Loving" (!!)

And a bonus: Debuting at #89, Mary McGregor, "Torn Between Two Lovers."  Still one of the most I-can't-believe-this-hit-No.-1 No. 1 hits of all time.