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« on: August 08, 2005, 11:37:05 AM »
Dean plays The New Seekers' lovely cover of Harry Chapin's "Circles", one of their follow-ups to "I'd Like to Teach the World". A MUCH bigger hit in the UK than here. Haven't heard this since 1972.
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« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2005, 12:29:27 PM »
another lost gem: Mink DeVille, "Spanish Stroll".
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« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2005, 03:54:57 PM »
and, after switching to WLNG: Vikki Carr! "It Must Be Him". Just a hunch: I bet Dave LOVES this song but would never play it in a million years.
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« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2005, 04:33:04 PM »
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and, after switching to WLNG: Vikki Carr! "It Must Be Him". Just a hunch: I bet Dave LOVES this song but would never play it in a million years.

I always dug the song, but it certainly rings just a tad pathetic, eh?
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« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2005, 07:29:03 AM »
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and, after switching to WLNG: Vikki Carr! "It Must Be Him". Just a hunch: I bet Dave LOVES this song but would never play it in a million years.

I always dug the song, but it certainly rings just a tad pathetic, eh?

As pathetic as "With Pen in Hand"?  (Disclaimer/warning: If I ever see WPIH in a karaoke room, I'm taking it on as if it were a mechanical bull.)
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

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« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2005, 07:35:46 AM »
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and, after switching to WLNG: Vikki Carr! "It Must Be Him". Just a hunch: I bet Dave LOVES this song but would never play it in a million years.

I always dug the song, but it certainly rings just a tad pathetic, eh?

As pathetic as "With Pen in Hand"?  (Disclaimer/warning: If I ever see WPIH in a karaoke room, I'm taking it on as if it were a mechanical bull.)


I'm assuming you know Ms carr's version of WPIH, but it was also done around the same time by Billy "At This Moment" Vera, one of his earliest chart hits.
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« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2005, 07:37:26 AM »
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Dean plays The New Seekers' lovely cover of Harry Chapin's "Circles", one of their follow-ups to "I'd Like to Teach the World". A MUCH bigger hit in the UK than here. Haven't heard this since 1972.


There ARE no coincidences, Part 3,765,221... Last nite KTEH showed a Harry Chapin special, lots of old performance footage, including "Circles".
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« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2005, 07:43:46 AM »
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and, after switching to WLNG: Vikki Carr! "It Must Be Him". Just a hunch: I bet Dave LOVES this song but would never play it in a million years.

I always dug the song, but it certainly rings just a tad pathetic, eh?

As pathetic as "With Pen in Hand"?  (Disclaimer/warning: If I ever see WPIH in a karaoke room, I'm taking it on as if it were a mechanical bull.)


I'm assuming you know Ms carr's version of WPIH, but it was also done around the same time by Billy "At This Moment" Vera, one of his earliest chart hits.


Mr. Vera wrote the song, but I've never heard him sing it.  I guess it makes more sense from a male perspective -- why's she asking him to teach the girl how to do her hair? -- but I don't care for Vera's hot-rocks-hit-with-water voice.
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« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2005, 04:04:08 PM »
on WLNG: the Shaun Cassidy cover of Eric Carmen's "That's Rock'N'Roll".

C'mon everybody get down get with it!
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« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2005, 11:22:58 AM »
CG: Sweet, "Fox on the Run"!

Eamonn Kelly is sitting in for Dean... I emailed a request for TTD, "If You Let Me Stay".
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« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2005, 11:48:40 AM »
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CG: Sweet, "Fox on the Run"!

Eamonn Kelly is sitting in for Dean... I emailed a request for TTD, "If You Let Me Stay".


YAY! he played it! What a fab-yoo-luss single. So of course it flopped in the US...
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« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2005, 12:55:51 PM »
OMG! Soft Cell's lovely "Say Hello Wave Goodbye".
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« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2005, 01:07:22 PM »
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OMG! Soft Cell's lovely "Say Hello Wave Goodbye".


Never heard that.  Have to add it to my list of Soft Cell songs I like better than "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go."

OOooh Mike, quick, switch back to DDT, it's your favorite Eagles song!
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« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2005, 01:30:20 PM »
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OMG! Soft Cell's lovely "Say Hello Wave Goodbye".


Never heard that.  Have to add it to my list of Soft Cell songs I like better than "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go."

OOooh Mike, quick, switch back to DDT, it's your favorite Eagles song!


No Way!  too late, I just saw this post at 1:30 :cry:
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« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2005, 02:18:05 PM »
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OMG! Soft Cell's lovely "Say Hello Wave Goodbye".


Never heard that.  Have to add it to my list of Soft Cell songs I like better than "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go."

OOooh Mike, quick, switch back to DDT, it's your favorite Eagles song!


No Way!  too late, I just saw this post at 1:30 :cry:


oh well.  sing along with me anyway..."She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island..."
"Music is the Earth, People are the Flowers, and I am the Hose."

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