CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/26/07

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Undoubtedly the whitest guy we'll hear on "Soul Spectrum" today: R. Dean Taylor! Doing his "Ghost in My House"  -- if the 4 Tops didn't cover this one, they should've.

wow, it's a White Folks Fest! here's Nu Shooz, "I Can't Wait", with some of the most endearingly cheezy synths ever. "I love you, even when you don't try" -- for years I thought she was saying "I love you even when you don't drive".

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Woo Hoo! Greg goes all the way and plays Sly Fox!  Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! 

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Today's Casey recap comes from 12/1/73.  Jim Croce debuts at #18 with "Time in a Bottle," he having bid adieu a few weeks earlier.  And Casey incorrectly predicts that Helen Reddy's "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" (now at 12) will become a #1.

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Another Saturday of overtime, but Casey K is counting down Dec 1st 1973!  Hope Gaz is hearing some o'this. Mavis and daddy daddy daddy are at #14, followed by the great, underrated Ms Reddy's "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)".

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Ms Reddy's "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)".

which, BTW, Casey predicts will be a #1 -- sorry, Mr K, you turned out to be wrong. 

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OMGWTFLOL! Marie Osmond channels Anita Bryant on "Paper Roses". Talk about a flashback!

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Ms Reddy's "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)".

which, BTW, Casey predicts will be a #1 -- sorry, Mr K, you turned out to be wrong. 

Haha, jinx!  And very nearly another one for the LOLs and OMGs of "Paper Roses" at 12.

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Now this is my kinda cheese: "The Most Beautiful Girl," who walked out on Charlie Rich.

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That was a great story about Sam Phillips thinking Charley Rich would be bigger than Elvis and Roy Orbison...  hadn't heard "The Most Beautiful Girl" in quite some time. Oh for the days when Country #1's routinely crossed over to Pop.

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And now a big Gaz swoon for the DeFrancos!  It's a good vibration!

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That was a great story about Sam Phillips thinking Charley Rich would be bigger than Elvis and Roy Orbison...  hadn't heard "The Most Beautiful Girl" in quite some time. Oh for the days when Country #1's routinely crossed over to Pop.

Yeah, I specifically remember my introduction to pop radio including Rich, John Denver, and Freddy Fender.  And a couple years later, Crystal Gayle, Barbara Mandrell, and Don Williams.

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And now a big Gaz swoon for the DeFrancos!  It's a good vibration!

A good vibration but a terrible voice.  Seriously, was anyone ever more flat on a #1 Top 5 track than little Tony?

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I hope and pray that they've syndicated that "upcoming" Xmas countdown Casey just promo-ed -- and that KFRC plays it.  I remember it well, it was fab.

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And now a big Gaz swoon for the DeFrancos!  It's a good vibration!

A good vibration but a terrible voice.  Seriously, was anyone ever more flat on a #1 Top 5 track than little Tony?

Well, there was "Angel Baby" by (I think) Rosie and the Originals -- considered one of the worst records ever by DJs of the era.  Fingernails-on-a-blackboard time.

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pre-emptive "Woo-Woo!" Jinx for Gladys on da train.  I'd forgotten Jim Weatherly wrote "Neither One of Us" too.