SLOW-COOKED SOULFULNESS SITTIN' ON YOUR PLATE . . . JUST WAITIN' FOR YOU . . . THE FAITHFUL LISTENERS OF GROOVIN' BLUE ! !

Ohh Good Gawd A'mighty . . .  The latest GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 06 is posted and is a taste treat of good ol' and new and sooo sooo full of NEW WORLD AFRICAN MUSIC sounds and feelings through and though.


Featured on the latest GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 06 are such wonderfully New World African artists as;
LES McCANN & EDDIE HARRIS, RYAN SHAW, USHER, ERIC BENET feat. LIL WAYNE, JAPAN AIRCRAFT, STEFFWELL, The Genius - RAY CHARLES, URBAN MYSTIC, ROMAIN VIRGO, CODY SIMPSON feat. T-PAIN, STEPHEN MARLEY, MELANIE FIONA and so many, many, many, many MORE ! ! ! 

Also, fittingly (although we didn't know of her passing when we recorded it)
a great new 2012 re-mix of a DONNA SUMMER 1989 original.

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FROM GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 05 IT's GAPPY RANKS and his WAGRadio HIT - "LONGTIME" - THIS VIDEO INCLUDES GREAT SHOTS OF BRITISH STREETS AND LIFE.

THANK YOU GEORGE BALKOVEC FOR SENDING WAGRadio THIS INTERESTING THEORY ON WHY SOUTHERN MUSIC BECAME THE MUSIC OF THE WORLD - BEGINNING IN 1908 SEARS, ROEBUCK STARTED SELLING $1.89 - STEEL STRING GUITARS . . . ! !

"While it is certainly true that the music was forged in part by the legacy of slavery and the insults of Jim Crow, the iconic image of the lone bluesman traveling the road with a guitar strapped to his back is also a story about **innovators** seizing on expanded opportunities brought about by the commercial and technological advances of the early 1900s. 


There was no Delta blues before there were cheap, readily available steel-string guitars. 
And those guitars, which transformed American culture, were brought to the boondocks by Sears, Roebuck & Co. ... 
Guitars first appeared in the catalog in 1894 for $4.50 (around $112 in today’s money). By 1908 Sears was offering a guitar, outfitted for steel strings, for $1.89 ($45 today), making it the cheapest harmony-generating instrument available."


**Click on **innovators** in the preceeding paragraphs to take you to the DAILY BEAST story.

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Article taken from The Daily Beast www.the dailybeast.com

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FROM GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 05 . . . THIS WONDERFULLY SUNG SINGLE "YOU'RE ON MY MIND" by KEM !

FROM GROOVIN' BLUE (Soon To Be Podcaste) 12 - 06 IT'S ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE JAM-ROCK STARS ** ROMAIN VIRGO ** with HIS HUGE WORLD-WIDE HIT "THE SYSTEM" - G'WAN YOUNG MAN ! !

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CONSISTENCY SEEMS TO BE THE WATCH-WORD WITH THIS YOUNG JAMAICAN STAR - MR. ROMAIN VIRGO.
EVERY COUPLA' MONTHS, ROMAIN HAS ANOTHER WAGRadio TOP CHOON ! !
This one is from the up-coming GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 06 . . .

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ONE OF OUR FAVOURITES HERE AT WAGRadio - FROM GEORGIA TO NEW JERSEY TO OUR HEARTS - SEXY, TALENTED **MILLIE JACKSON** . . . This is another wonderful TVOne Documentary

SOME OF THE BESTEST SOUNDS EMANATING FROM THE 1970's HAD TO BE THOSE RAUNCHY & UNBELIEVABLY SOULFUL RECORDS OF MS. MILLIE JACKSON . . .
FOR ALL OF YOU YOUNG'UNS OUT THERE . . . WHO HAVEN'T HEARD THIS WONDERFUL SEXY LADY - DO YO'SEF A FAVOUR AND GET SOME MILLIE JACKSON SPRING RECORDS SOUNDS IN YO' EAR ! ! !  

THESE BROTHERS WERE THE TOP JAZZ GROUP IN VANCITY and ARGUABLY THE MOST RESPECTED JAZZ GROUP IN THE GREAT WHITE NORTH IN THE 1970's & 1980's - PACIFIC SALT ! !

PACIFIC SALT was the combined musical talents of DON CLARK (tpt), P.J. PERRY (reeds), GEORGE URSAN (dm), OLIVER GANNON (gtr), RON JOHNSTON (kybds) and TONY CLITHROE (bs).
DJZigZag's alter-ego BILL REITER got to know them personally from the ten years the band played DON CLARK's wonderful music & arrangements for the C.B.C. radio comedy/variety show DR. BUNDOLO'S PANDEMONIUM MEDICINE SHOW.


A big THANK YOU to JasManJurvanderHilton for the digging up of this JAZZ AT THE PLAYHOUSE poster.

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IT DO NOT GET MUCH MORE VANCITY or EAST VAN THAN STEVE PONAK and MIKE "The Jungle Slav" CVETKOVICH AND THIS FONCIE'S FOTO OF THE LADS - CORNER OF ROBSON AND GRANVILLE STREETS IN 1955 ! !

                                                                       

DRIVIN' DOWN TO TACOMA AND SEATTLE, WASHINGTON from VANCOUVER, CANADA DIGGIN' THOSE JUMPIN' RHYTHM 'N' BLUESY NEW WORLD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC SOUNDS WAS A FAVOURITE PASTIME IN THE LATE FORTIES and EARLY FIFTIES FOR MIKE 'East End KingaDa Blues' CVETKOVICH and HIS EAST VAN BUDDIES.


IT WASN'T UNTIL THE 1960's THAT DJZigZag SHARED THE ROAD TRIP GOOD TIMES WITH HIS MENTOR - MIKE C.


HERE'S THE LATEST 'EAST END TALKIN' featuring the TWO PALS .... THIS MAY BE THE BEST OF THE FOUR SHOWS.


East End Talkin' Show #4 features;
B.B. KING, LUTHER RANDOLPH & JOHNNY STYLES, SHIRLEY & LEE, CHUCK WILLIS, BABY RAY, THE CLOVERS, BUDDY GUY, DAVE 'Baby' CORTEZ, RAY CHARLES, LITTLE JR. PARKER, ALBERT COLLINS and so many, many more.


ENJOY, DEAR LISTENERS ENJOY ! !

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A MOST WONDERFUL BOOK FOR FANS and STUDENTS of NYC HOUSE and DISCO MUSIC . . . "VOGUING AND THE HOUSE BALLROOM SCENE of NEW YORK CITY 1989 - 1992"

During the late 1980's we (of the straight world) learned about the Harlem, NYC culture of drag balls and voguing.  
We didn't know it then, but supposedly the phenomenon had a history dating back to the mid-1860's.
That's when, the Tim Lawrence-written liner notes of this book tell us, that the first queer masquerade ball was held at Harlem's Hamilton Lodge.


The first contemporary black ball was probably staged by black queens led by Marcel Christian in 1962.


This book of remarkable photographs by French photog Chantel Regnault is both mind-openly candid and helped along by Mr. Lawrence's wonderfully informative chapter dialogue .


The book is also teamed with an available 2x2LP/3 Cd set of the music that was burning up the voguing floor in the 1980's.  Both are available from Britain's Soul Jazz Records.


Open the pages of this book and the world of Hector Xtravaganza, Muhammad Omni, Adrian Magnifique and a host of soulful others is yours.


Click  **here**  to be taken to Soul Jazz Records web page.

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