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CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« on: January 26, 2009, 08:56:33 AM »
checking out WMIR, the Lawn Guyland pirate rocker, and damn, it's the Stranglers' "No More Heroes".
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2009, 09:18:01 AM »
another lost nugget: Chris deBurgh, "Don't Pay the Ferryman".
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2009, 09:45:58 AM »
a truly fab UK chart from July '67 featured on CG's retro-countdown show this week:

01. -  Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
02.  - Engelbert Humperdinck - There Goes My Everything
03.  - The Hollies - Carrie-Anne
04.   Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - Okay!
05.   Traffic - Paper Sun
06.   The Turtles - She'd Rather Be With Me
07.   The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git
08.   The Young Rascals - Groovin'
09.   The Tremeloes - Silence Is Golden
10.    The Supremes - The Happening
11.    Topol - If I Were A Rich Man
12.   Petula Clark - Don't Sleep In The Subway
13.    Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
14.    The Small Faces - Here Come The Nice
15.   The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
16.   The Beach Boys - Then I Kissed Her
17.   The Four Tops - Seven Rooms Of Gloom
18.   New Vaudeville Band - Finchley Central
19.    Cream - Strange Brew
20.    Vikki Carr - It Must Be Him
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2009, 10:03:58 AM »
a truly fab UK chart from July '67 featured on CG's retro-countdown show this week:

07.   The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git

Didn't they call this "Alternate Title" over there?

At any rate, a fantastic countdown, more evidence to support my belief that '67 was the crescendo year of rock & soul.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2009, 10:07:11 AM »
a truly fab UK chart from July '67 featured on CG's retro-countdown show this week:

07.   The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git

Didn't they call this "Alternate Title" over there?


Yes -- I corrected it for the benefit of those unfamiliar with the "controversy".
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2009, 11:02:03 AM »
Decided to Deep Track it today, and am rewarded with David Bowie covering S&G's "America"(!) apparently from the Concert For NYC.  Hearing Bowie deliver the line "...the man in the gabbardine suit is a spy..." is really interesting.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2009, 12:38:09 PM »
a truly fab UK chart from July '67 featured on CG's retro-countdown show this week:

07.   The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git

Didn't they call this "Alternate Title" over there?


Yes -- I corrected it for the benefit of those unfamiliar with the "controversy".

This particular retro-chart show, in which Mike Sweeney is interviewing Gary Booker of Procol Harum, appears to have been recorded several years ago -- they're talking about Desmond Dekker as if he's still alive, and he died in May of 2006.

ETA: great anecdote -- Booker says Procol Harum turned down Woodstock because Robin Trower's wife was about to have a baby in Aug '69, and they decided to go back to England instead. Then the baby ended up being born two weeks late.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2009, 12:58:53 PM »

20.    Vikki Carr - It Must Be Him

"a cracking piece of cheese" Says Mike Sweeney.  I LURVED this song when I was 12. That shoulda been a major clue that I was gay. Ah, hindsight...

And The New Vaudeville Band's "Finchley Central" is NTM and a fairly workmanlike "Winchester Cathedral" knockoff.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2009, 01:38:15 PM »
Yikes -- Topol, several years before he'd star in the film version of Fiddler, doing "If I Were a Rich Man" -- take THAT, Gwen Stefani!
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2009, 03:01:01 PM »
TANC: after Gaz praised their "You Can't Turn Me Off" last week, Judge plays High Inergy's "Shoulda Gone Dancin (Instead of Romancin')", NTM and a fine lost disco nugget.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2009, 03:33:29 PM »
Wow, DT just played The Byrds "Chestnut Mare".  Probably haven't heard this for 30 yrs.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2009, 03:46:28 PM »
Wow, DT just played The Byrds "Chestnut Mare".  Probably haven't heard this for 30 yrs.

TANC: I heard it on KCDX last week and on WMIR this morning! But yeah, it's a wonderful track that was an absolute staple of the FM rock stations I grew up on, and which has been completely forgotten by mainstream "Classic Rock" radio stations. 
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2009, 03:58:27 PM »
Wow, DT just played The Byrds "Chestnut Mare".  Probably haven't heard this for 30 yrs.

TANC: I heard it on KCDX last week and on WMIR this morning! But yeah, it's a wonderful track that was an absolute staple of the FM rock stations I grew up on, and which has been completely forgotten by mainstream "Classic Rock" radio stations. 

That was part of a pretty great half hour:

5:26pm   TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS by BEATLES
5:29pm   CHESTNUT MARE by BYRDS
5:34pm   SENTIMENTAL LADY by FLEETWOOD MAC
5:39pm   STORMY MONDAY by ALLMAN BROTHERS
5:47pm   DON'T BRING ME DOWN by ANIMALS
5:51pm   BLUE LIGHT by DAVID GILMOUR
5:55pm   PEG (LIVE) by STEELY DAN

 
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2009, 08:16:12 AM »
Johnny Taylor (the natch'l wailer) is working on his "Love Bone" -- er, be sure to clean up afterwards, Johnny.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 1/26/09
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2009, 08:19:28 AM »
At last! oooh! At last! Mah fo'evah came today!
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