CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 2/18/08

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The Monday-nite oldies guy on KPOO is doing a belated Valentine's show -- 3 hours of "heart" songs!

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Only on CG could you go from the Stranglers to Barry Manilow. ("Golden Brown" into "Copacabana"  -- have a banana!)

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wow, OMFG-of-the-week: Alison Moyet, "That Old Devil Called Love".

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TANC: direct from this week's Klassic Kasem Kountdown, the lovely Matthews Southern Comfort version of "Woodstock". This was actually a UK #1.

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another fab retro chart coming up on CG: April '83.  Nick Rhodes of the Durannies will be reminiscing...

01. (-) Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?
02. () David Bowie - Let's Dance
03. () Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
04. (-) The Style Council - Speak Like A Child
05. () Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
06. () JoBoxers - Boxerbeat
07. () Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love
08. () Orange Juice - Rip It Up
09. () Bananarama - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
10. () Forrest - Rock The Boat
11. () Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
12. () Joan Armatrading - Drop The Pilot
13. () Big Country - Fields Of Fire (400 Miles)
14. () David Joseph - You Can't Hide (Your Love From Me)
15. () Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind
16. () Leo Sayer - Orchard Road
17. () New Order - Blue Monday
18. () Tracey Ullman - Breakaway
19. () Mezzoforte - Garden Party
20. () Kajagoogoo - Ooh To Be Ah

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Mezzoforte's "Garden Party" is new to me -- a horn-dominated instrumental that's sorta like Herb Alpert meets "I'll Tumble 4 Ya".   And it's followed by Tracey Ullman's "Breakaway," a Dusty S cover iirc.

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2 you-never-hear-'em-in-the-US treats back-to-back: Altered Images' "Don't Talk To Me About Love", and the JoBoxers' "Boxerbeat".

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certainly the highlight of the whole countdown: Style Council's fab, little-heard "Speak Like a Child".

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more fabulousness: "Total Eclipse of the Heart", one I haven't heard in some time. An "epic" as Dave might say. He really should play it some time.

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David "Elmer Fudd" Bowie implores us to put on our wed shoes and dance the bwoos.

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Greg on Saturday's CGSS, playing Diana & Marvin's lovely cover of the Sylistics' "Stop... Look... Listen", which was a hit single in the UK.

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FYI, KCDX's player is actually working today.

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FYI, KCDX's player is actually working today.

wow -- Traffic's "Berkshire Poppies", new to me (which is pretty amazing in itself). 

Followed by Moby Grape! "Indifference" -- anything that's not "Omaha" is a rarity to me.

And now George Thorogood is my cue to go out for lunch.

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And now George Thorogood is my cue to go out for lunch.

Having the "one bourbon, one Scotch, and one beer" lunch?

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nice surprise: Ms. Ronstadt's cover of Little Anthony's "Hurts So bad". I love the way she screams at the end.