CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 2/25/08

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DJ Marilynn plays the orig of "My Ding-a-Ling" which appears to pre-date Chuck Berry's by about 50 years!

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Judge is in quite a jazzy mood today (DJ Jazzy Judge!) playing the likes of off-the-beaten-path tracks by Herbie Hancock and Weather Report.

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I have surely never heard this instrumental version of Ms King's "So far Away" by the Crusaders before.

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I have surely never heard this instrumental version of Ms King's "So far Away" by the Crusaders before.

I am digging this--they really stretch on it. Digging the entire show, actually--feels like 1977 all over again. Just segued into a cover of Marvin Gaye's I Want You To Want Me Too.

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I have surely never heard this instrumental version of Ms King's "So far Away" by the Crusaders before.

I am digging this--they really stretch on it. Digging the entire show, actually--feels like 1977 all over again. Just segued into a cover of Marvin Gaye's I Want You To Want Me Too.

Smooth jazz when Smooth jazz was good!

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jumped over to KPOO in time for Shorty Long's cover of... "Chantilly Lace"! -- new to me, never knew this existed.

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jumped over to KPOO in time for Shorty Long's cover of... "Chantilly Lace"! -- new to me, never knew this existed.

followed by another new-to-me cover: SDQ's "She's About a Mover" done by what sounds like Wilson Pickett!

oops, turns out it was Otis Clay.

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only on CG: the brow-beatin', heavy-leather "Resurrection Shuffle", followed by Bowie's fab cover of "Sorrow" and (holy crap) Manilow's "Can't Smile Without You", which is apparently the theme song of Spurs football club (!). Well, I'm sure Barry loves a good ruck.

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OMG, Sandy Posey's "The Single Girl", getting more love from the Brits than she'll ever get from US oldies stations.  "tenderoni she's got to be", replies MJ.

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another wonderful CG retro-chart: July 1965 -- Byrds are #1, Roger McGuinn is the guest (and he's brought his gee-tar!). But first, "bubbling under" is Sandie Shaw's fab, forgotten "Long Live Love" (covered by Tracey Ullman, iirc).

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Holy crap -- the Pretty Things covering Solomon Burke's "Cry To Me". New to me and a small gem.  Followed by the 'oo -- the equally fab "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere".

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jeezus, now here's somebody doing the theme from Zorba the Greek!!

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jumped over to KPOO in time for Shorty Long's cover of... "Chantilly Lace"! -- new to me, never knew this existed.

followed by another new-to-me cover: SDQ's "She's About a Mover" done by what sounds like Wilson Pickett!

oops, turns out it was Otis Clay.

TANC -- here's the orig Sir Douglas version on CG's retro-chart.

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gotta love those Brits: Joan Baez's "There But For Fortune" was a Top 10 hit in the UK. Over here... notsomuch.

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Greg's Saturday CGSS -- earlier, First Choice's fine cover of Rev. Al's "Love & happiness", and now Luther V's dramatic medley of "Superstar" and "Until You Come back To Me".