CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 11/17/08

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Bob Shannon does a Mitch Mitchell trib with "Fire".  Stop actin' so crazy!

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TANC: I was listening to Stevie's GH Vol. 1, including "Fingertips," yesterday.

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"What key?! What key?!"

"What drummer? What drummer?"

Oh, and now one of the most poorly sung hits ever: "Down at Papa Joe's."

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Oh, and now one of the most poorly sung hits ever: "Down at Papa Joe's."

"It's thicker than cream on a monkey's back"  Er -- WHAT?

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Oh, and now one of the most poorly sung hits ever: "Down at Papa Joe's."

"It's thicker than cream on a monkey's back"  Er -- WHAT?

Between that and this morning's buttered popcorn, I'm learning a wealth of new uses for dairy products!

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Oh, and now one of the most poorly sung hits ever: "Down at Papa Joe's."

"It's thicker than cream on a monkey's back"  Er -- WHAT?

Between that and this morning's buttered popcorn, I'm learning a wealth of new uses for dairy products!

I don't suppose you've ever seen Last Tango in Paris?

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Patsy Cline's "Sweet Dreams" never fails to give me chills.

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Patsy Cline's "Sweet Dreams" never fails to give me chills.

and that was a rather nice segue from Patsy's "Dreams" to Percy's "Sea of Love".

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another Percy reference: the Everlys version of "Gone Gone Gone", which Mr Plant did with Alison Krauss.

Followed by Chuck Berry's "C'est La Vie", which was also country-covered (by Emmylou).

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Never cared for Buddy Holly's hiccup effect on his vox.  Then again, maybe that's my anti-pre-Beatles bias for ya.

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Never cared for Buddy Holly's hiccup effect on his vox.  Then again, maybe that's my anti-pre-Beatles bias for ya.

Def a period thang, and it never did become widespread (except for Tommy Roe's "Sheila")

speaking of period pieces, Jerry Lee Lewis. "Whose barn? What barn? Mah barn!"

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Jerry Lee Lewis is one of very few rockers to whom the term "dangerous" actually applies.  I can see why mothers were wary - his shtick strikes me as equal parts sex and violence.

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Jerry Lee Lewis is one of very few rockers to whom the term "dangerous" actually applies.  I can see why mothers were wary - his shtick strikes me as equal parts sex and violence.

And he had MORE THAN ONE wife die under mysterious circumstances! (Wife #4 drowned in a swimming pool in 1982. Wife #5 OD'd on methadone in 1983.) The "Killer" indeed.

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Otis! he a LOVE man!

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I have serious reservations regarding Elvis. His cultural influence can never be overstated, obviously, he changed everything. But I think he's overrated as a singer, and after he left Sun, RCA neutered and sugar-coated him horribly.  Great pop records all along the way, certainly (we know how I adore "Suspicious Minds"), but an awful lot of crap too.