CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/21/08

[RGMike]

Macca thought the Major was a lady suffragette -- and that Master's thesis on "Gender confusion in the songs of Paul mcCartney" gets longer and longer.

[RGMike]

Also new to me: the New Seekers, "I Get a Little Sentimental (Over You)". Old-timey in a Mama Cass kinda way.

[RGMike]

'LNG just played a ballad I'd never heard, about a girl being dumped right before her wedding. Turned out to be "Girl in Love", the Outsiders' follow-up to "Time Won't Let Me". It was a Top 40 hit, and quite a change of pace for them. This led me to their Wiki page -- I never knew they recorded the orig version of "Bend Me Shape me", but didn't release it. So Amen Corner and American Breed had the UK and US hits respectively. Live'n'learn!

[Gazoo]

'LNG just played a ballad I'd never heard, about a girl being dumped right before her wedding. Turned out to be "Girl in Love", the Outsiders' follow-up to "Time Won't Let Me". It was a Top 40 hit, and quite a change of pace for them. This led me to their Wiki page -- I never knew they recorded the orig version of "Bend Me Shape me", but didn't release it. So Amen Corner and American Breed had the UK and US hits respectively. Live'n'learn!

I have the Amen Corner version, don't really recommend it.  Their name was better than their material, for the most part (though "If Paradise Is Half As Nice" is always a treat).

[RGMike]

Happy to report CG has brought back Dean's Jukebox for 2 hours in the evening (noon-to-2 here). Indeed they've revamped the entire lineup (which doesn't really sound like good news, given that their new "Gold" incarnation is only a few months old).

[RGMike]

Happy to report CG has brought back Dean's Jukebox for 2 hours in the evening (noon-to-2 here). Indeed they've revamped the entire lineup (which doesn't really sound like good news, given that their new "Gold" incarnation is only a few months old).

and bless whoever requested Smokie's "Living Next Door to Alice", a cheezy '70s guilty pleasure.

[urth]

Happy to report CG has brought back Dean's Jukebox for 2 hours in the evening (noon-to-2 here). Indeed they've revamped the entire lineup (which doesn't really sound like good news, given that their new "Gold" incarnation is only a few months old).

Didn't Sweeney have that slot before? Wonder what's up? Always glad to hear Dean, but I dug Sweeney, too (albeit more in his Rock Show persona than his homogenized general-consumption one).

[RGMike]

Happy to report CG has brought back Dean's Jukebox for 2 hours in the evening (noon-to-2 here). Indeed they've revamped the entire lineup (which doesn't really sound like good news, given that their new "Gold" incarnation is only a few months old).

Didn't Sweeney have that slot before? Wonder what's up? Always glad to hear Dean, but I dug Sweeney, too (albeit more in his Rock Show persona than his homogenized general-consumption one).

Sweeney's still on (in fact he's about the only show that hasn't been changed) from 8-noon Pacific -- Drive Time over there. Dean's then on for two hours, and their 10-midnite slot is now a rotating rerun show -- the retro chart show, the album show and other weekend goodies get replayed. In fact today's replay is Sweeney's Saturday Rock Show, so if you wanna check him out between 2 and 4, he'll be there.

In fact, I caught the last hour of Sweeney's regular show today and it was far from bland -- everything from the Waterboys to Lene Lovich. And I learned a new brit slang word: "anorak".  Yes, like the winter coat, but it sort of means geek, in the sense of having obsessive knowlege of a subject.

[RGMike]

New to me: Barry Blue's "School Love" another of the many (too many) '50s pastiches that the Brits were entirely too fond of in the mid-'70s.

and here's another: 10cc's "Donna", their only absolutely awful single.

[Gazoo]

TANC: 2 songs about dead actresses back-to-back: a good one ("Candle in the Wind") and an awful one ("Emma").

A good/awful song, or actress?  Both may well apply, though I like "Emma" the song well enough.  (Clearly she sucked as an actor.)

[RGMike]

TANC: 2 songs about dead actresses back-to-back: a good one ("Candle in the Wind") and an awful one ("Emma").

A good/awful song, or actress?  Both may well apply, though I like "Emma" the song well enough.  (Clearly she sucked as an actor.)

I meant song -- I really hate "Emma", IMHO it's worse than any early-'60s "teenage death song" I can think of, and that's saying something.

[Gazoo]

TANC: 2 songs about dead actresses back-to-back: a good one ("Candle in the Wind") and an awful one ("Emma").

A good/awful song, or actress?  Both may well apply, though I like "Emma" the song well enough.  (Clearly she sucked as an actor.)

I meant song -- I really hate "Emma", IMHO it's worse than any early-'60s "teenage death song" I can think of, and that's saying something.

Strange things happen in this world ...

[RGMike]

TANC: 2 songs about dead actresses back-to-back: a good one ("Candle in the Wind") and an awful one ("Emma").

A good/awful song, or actress?  Both may well apply, though I like "Emma" the song well enough.  (Clearly she sucked as an actor.)

I meant song -- I really hate "Emma", IMHO it's worse than any early-'60s "teenage death song" I can think of, and that's saying something.

Strange things happen in this world ...

ah, "Laurie".  At least "Teen Angel" was written as a parody (tho' taken seriously by its target audience, who didn't know any better).

[RGMike]

Sweeney on CG is doing "Beatles A-to-Z" -- one song per day (!), and today it was one of their really bad early covers, "A Taste of Honey".  Good thing they started writing their own stuff.

[RGMike]

Sweeney got on the subject of banned songs and songs with "naughty bits", and got an email from someone asking about a certain line from "Penny Lane" -- "I'm not even gonna GO there" sez Sweeney.  Not a fan of Fish'n'Finger Pie, obviously.