OH YES, OH INDEEDY DOO, THIS NEW GROOVIN' BLUE IS SO DOWNHOME, SO TANGY AND TASTEFUL AND SO, SO SOULFUL . . . WAGRadio MANAGEMENT CAN'T BELIEVE THE AMOUNT OF URBAN RHYTHM 'N' BLUES THAT IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE . . . GOOD FOR GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 05 and GOOD FOR ALL Y'ALL ! !

THE ALL-NEW GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 05 IS SO.. SO SOULFULLY FULL AS TO BE AN ALMOST NEW-BREED OF DJZigZag PROGRAMMING.
THE QUOTIENT OF URBAN SOUL (R'n'B) SINGING ON 
THE NEW GROOVIN' BLUE IS THE HIGHEST IT'S BEEN IN MANY A YEAR . . 
MAJESTIC WARBLERS LIKE KEM, K'JON, MARCUS CANTY, MIGUEL 
and JOHN LEGEND [his best single ever(?)] 
plus SOUL GIANTS - BOBBY WOMACK, JAMES BROWN & LENNY WILLIAMS
as well as REGGAE MONSTA'S - I-OCTANE, MIGUEL MIGS,
BLACK BLUNT & TIPPIE IRIE 
mean THIS IS A GROOVIN' BLUE FOR ALL TASTES AND SEASONINGS.


ENJOY.

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PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO CIGARETTE SMOKING IN STUDIO 'A' or STUDIO 'B' of WAGRadio - by Management decree ! ! JUST LIKE STEPHEN MARLEY'S ROOM ! !

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FROM THE SOON-TO-BE GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 05 . . . ITALIAN SOUL BROTHER DANNY and FUNKATOMIC with A TO-BE-HUGE WAGRadio HIT "LIVIN' IT UP" ! !

This Italian man has a great voice and the choon "LIVIN' IT UP" captures the DISCO feel of the 1970's. Plus the bouncer looks a little bit like DJZigZag's pal

Marco Baldissera (at :11sec of the video).

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STUFF THAT STOOSHE . . . HERE'S "LOVE ME" feat. Travie McCoy * * * WHAT A WAGRadio HIT ! !

OBVIOUSLY A MADE-UP BRIT GIRL GROUP but DJZigZag LOVES THIS SINGLE SO . . .

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40 MINUTE CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARY on ONE OF WAGRadio's HEROES - MR. TEDDY PENDERGRASS by TVOne - SOME GREAT PHOTOS and FOOTAGE ! !

This is a very well done doc on Teddy Pendergrass.
As a matter of fact TVOne has done profiles on some of the top names in NEW WORLD AFRICAN MUSIC.

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ANOTHER ROMANTIC R'n'B URBAN HIT ! ! K'JON and "WILL YOU BE THERE" on the latest GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 04 from WAGRadio / 180.2 fm & 1802 am . . .

From the brother who gave WAGRadio listeners "ON THE OCEAN" a year or so ago . . .

comes his latest hit featured on GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 04 .

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IS THIS THE ULTIMATE JOHN LEGEND SINGLE EVER ? ? - "TONIGHT (BEST YOU EVER HAD)" ft. Ludacris IS FEATURED ON GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 04 . . .

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If it isn't the best JOHN LEGEND single release of his career . . .

then it is certainly the most romantic.
Mr. Legend's in a most soulful R&B mode and mood for this one.
Featured on the latest GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 04 . . .

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WAGRadio FEATURES ANTHONY DAVID's HIT FROM A FEW MONTHS AGO "4EVERMORE" feat. Algebra & Phonte - SO NICE WE GOT TO FEATURE IT TWICE ! !

"4EVERMORE" by ANTHONY DAVID feat. ALGEBRA & PHONTE

was such a huge hit a while back on WAGRadio

and so loved by DJZigZag that we decided to give you another listen .
Yes it's a featured choon on the latest GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 04 . . .

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THE JOY OF MUSIC - THE POWER OF NEW WORLD AFRICAN MUSIC - THE LOVE OF OUR MOST POWERFUL FRIEND . . . MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC ! ! !

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This new documentary entitled "ALIVE INSIDE " hopefully will be airing on one of your local television stations or available to we who love music in a cinema nearby.
Music is life.

Our life is love.

Our love is music.

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TWO MORE PHOTOS of BILL & BOB'S RECORD SHOP - LOCATION - 10 Pender Street West, CHINATOWN VANCOUVER . . .

These contemporary photos are of the narrowest building in the world (Ripley's Believe It Or Not) at 10 Pender Street West between Carrall St. and Shanghai Alley.

This was the second location of Bill & Bob's Record Shop owned by Bill Reiter & Bobby Garrison.

The initial home of Bill & Bob's was Mr. Akira Yamashita's pool hall (International Billiards) at 24 East Hastings Street (Hastings and Carrall).

"Yama's Pool Hall" (operated by sons Robert, Donald and Douglas) had an eight by twenty-five foot long entrance hallway with a counter running its length.

For six months that counter became Bill & Bob's first business location.

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THE ORIGINAL SAM KEE BUILDING IN VANCOUVER, B.C.'s CHINATOWN - HOME OF BILL & BOB'S RECORD SHOP and THE BEGINNINGS OF GROOVIN' BLUE and WAGRadio !

In October of 1967 the radio show “Groovin’ Blue”, produced and hosted by Bill Reiter, first aired on Vancouver radio station CKLG-FM - 99.3 MHz. Uniquely, every record played and opinion expressed was that of the 24 year old host/producer.

Bill had originally been approached by a young man regarding CKLG-FM in Bill & Bob’s Record Shop. Owned and operated by Bill Reiter and Bobby Garrison and located at 10 Pender Street West at Shanghai Alley (the Sam Kee bldg.) in Vancouver’s Chinatown, “Bill & Bob’s” occupied half of the structure featured in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not as the narrowest building in the world. The store’s mandate was to provide Black Music – Soul, Rhythm ‘n’ Blues, Jazz, Funk, Gospel, Salsa, Blues etc. - to Vancouver’s Lower Mainland. The young man visiting Bill & Bob’s that day told Bill he’d been asked to host a soon-to-air Jazz show on CKLG-FM. He suggested that Bill talk with LG-FM’s Program Director with regard to the store sponsoring the proposed show.

The well-known and respected CKLG-FM Program Director Mr. Frank Callaghan met Bill at the Moffat Communications Ltd. station a day or two later. After an hour or so, Mr. Callaghan declared that the young fellow who came into the record shop was one of ten people that ‘LG was interested in and, more importantly, how would Bill like to host the show? Reiter jumped at it. Here was an opportunity to play the music he and his East End Vancouver pals loved so much. Frank Callaghan’s offer was especially thrilling because it opened a door, for the first time, which allowed the music to reach the much wider audience outside its present Hastings Street East boundaries. Until then, no Canadian radio program – in fact no radio show ever - had programmed such a full spectrum of Black Music.

Initially, Groovin’ Blue aired only on Saturday nights in the 6:30 to 8:30 time slot. Then, on March 16, 1968, six months after its October 1967 premiere, the program moved to 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. - Monday to Saturday. Eventually Groovin’ Blue would become widely known not only to listeners in British Columbia but also Black Music fans in Washington State and the many areas the 100,000 watt signal bounced to.

The show’s name was taken from the title of a 1961 Pacific Jazz album by Curtis Amy and Frank Butler. Bill tells of the time a New Yorker phoned the show to say he’d recently been on a freighter in the middle of the Pacific Ocean heading to Vancouver from Japan when he picked up the CKLG-FM Groovin’ Blue signal. The Big Apple denizen said he couldn’t believe that anyone on the West Coast of Canada was playing the recordings of N.Y.C. conga drum hero Mongo Santamaria - let alone Pucho & his Latin Soul Brothers.

All of this came about because CKLG-FM management wanted to air a unique program that echoed the type originally hosted by Russ “The Moose” Syracuse on KYA’s “All Night Flight” and Larry Miller on KMPX. These San Francisco, California all-night DJ’s’ formats originally shared the designations “Underground”, “Free-Form” and “Progressive Rock”. Moffat Communications management wondered if a Vancouver, British Columbia radio audience would accept “…a Blues music type show”. If they did, they mused, then a more San Francisco-style format, now being shaped in the California city by KMPX program director Tom “Big Daddy” Donohue, might prove to be immensely popular.

What Moffat management didn’t know was that the Groovin’ Blue Format was more than just Jazz or only Blues. Reiter’s musical tastes covered the complete spectrum of contemporary Black Music - the same music being offered for sale at his Bill & Bob’s record shop. Bill feels he was fortunate that the Country & Western-appreciating management weren’t sophisticated enough to ask the right questions. Reiter speculates that if they had, the show might never have been offered to him. Appreciatively, Groovin’ Blue paved the way to meet both parties’ needs.

Many outstanding artists got their first Canadian airplay on the program. Ollie & The Nightingales, Marva Whitney, The Dapps, Sy Risby, The Joe Tex Band, Sly & The Family Stone, Larry Williams & Johnny Watson, George Kerr, Johnnie Taylor, The Trials of Jayson Hoover, Freddy Robinson, Mabel John, Oscar Toney Jr., The Raelettes, O’Dell Brown & The Organizers, Melvin Van Peebles, Lou Donaldson and many more Black Music artists made their Great White North radio debut on Groovin’ Blue. Interviews with Jimmy Smith, Billy Preston, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, King Curtis, John Lee Hooker, Bobby Freeman, Bobby Hebb, Joe Tex, Stanley Turrentine and others were a show feature.

Groovin’ Blue lasted for two years and ended its tenure on CKLG-FM in mid-September 1969.

From a dream on Pender Street in Vancouver's Chinatown to everywhere via the world-wide web. That's the contemporary Groovin' Blue on WAGRadio.

Photo: Walter E. Frost

Bill & Bob's took up half of the bottom floor (on the right).

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HOT AND GREAZY - THE LATEST GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 04 HAS BEEN SERVED AND IS WAITIN' ON YA' - THE NEW WORLD AFRICAN MUSIC GOODNESS IS STEAMIN' THRU . .

OOOOOOOOOooooooooo Weeeeee !

THAT IS SOME SOULED-OUT FUNK-LADEN GOODNESS COMIN' FROM THE LATEST

GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 04 . . .

HOT 'N' JUICY TREATS ABOUND ! !

This NEW G.B. 12 - 04

offers choons from KENDRICK LAMAR, K'JON, HUGH MASEKELA, STOOSHE, EARTH, WIND & FIRE, I-OCTANE, CHAMILLIONAIRE, DIRTY JOB, SWV, FRANK OCEAN, LEEE JOHN, R KELLY, BUSY SIGNAL,

and so many, many more . . .

flickr foto by Scuzzi

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* * * * * * WAGRadio'S SPRING 2012 TOP ONE HUNDRED * * * * * * as compiled by DJZigZag - GROOVIN' BLUE FORMAT PLAYLIST **

** The WAGRadio TOP ONE HUNDRED For SPRING 2012 **

** (as compiled by DJZigZag) ** - final revision April 5, 2012

1. "Bring Me Coconut" - BIG ALI feat. LUCENZO & GRAMPS MORGAN [Sony Music Group]

2. "Little Red Corvette (Schizofrenik Mix)" - THE SCHIZOFRENIKS [Play All]

3. "Life Has A Way" - ANTHONY HAMILTON [RCA Records] - Cd #88697-99136-2 "Back To Love"

4. "Blessed" - SCHOOLBOY Q feat. KENDRICK LAMAR [Top Dawg Entertainment]

5. "Visual Friday" - OSTINATO [Kyosaku Records]

6. "Won't Change" - CHAMILLIONAIRE feat. TAMI LaTRELL [Big Machine Records]

7. "Look Right Through (Part 1)" - STORM QUEEN [Defected]

8. "Marciac" - KYLE EASTWOOD [Rendezvous/Candid]

9. "Share My Love" - R KELLY [Jive]

10."Love Is Love (vocal/instrumental)" - KID DAYTONA feat MELANIE FIONA

[Big Machine Records]

11."Come Over" - BUSY SIGNAL [VP]

12."Love You" - ESTER DEAN [Interscope Records]

13."Promise" - ROMEO SANTOS feat. USHER [Sony Music Entertainment]

14."Holding Back" - KEYSHIA COLE feat RYON LOVETTE [Geffen Records]

15."I Made You (First Class)" - SMOKE DZA feat K-YOUNG & LORE'L [Epic Records]

16."Jesus Children Of America" - DEEP BLUE ORGAN TRIO [Origin]

- Cd # OJ 82595 "Wonderful" - Bobby Brown (gtr), Greg Rockingham (dm), Chris Foreman (org)

17."Hard In A Earth" - BUSY SIGNAL [Big Machine Records] - Hard Life Riddim

18."L.O.V.E. Y.O.U." - I-OCTANE [VP VPS 9259] - Jamaican 45 rpm

19."1960 What?" - GREGORY PORTER [Motema] - Cd #233170 "Water"

20."Thinking About You" - FRANK OCEAN [Universal Music]

21."Baby Girl" - ANTHONY HAMILTON [RCA Records] - Cd #88697-99136-2 "Back To Love"

22."Lexapro Love Boat (Boom Tst Boom Tst)" - JAPAN AIRCRAFT [Continuous Cool]

- Ep "Therapy Didn't Work"

23."Illusion" - GREGORY PORTER [Motema] - Cd #233170 "Water"

24."Betcha By Golly Wow (Ross's Mix)" - IMAGINATION feat. LEEE JOHN [Cherry Red Records]

25."I Found Love (Tonka Remix) [vocal/inst.]" - DABRUCK & KLEIN feat. OLLIE JAMES [We Play]

26."Marsha Brady" - TONY WILLIAMS feat. FONZWORTH BENTLEY & CHIP THA RIPPER

[Def Jam] - prod. Chris Cutta

27."Backstabbers" - LARRY CARLTON [335]

28."Love Me (Fcuk Me) [Kat Krazy Extend. Mix]" - STOOSHE feat. TRAVIE McCOY [Warner Bros.]

29."Sabotage (Inst.)" - WALE feat. LLOYD [Warner Music Canada Co.]

30."Billie Jean" - JOEY DEFRANCESCO [www.youtube.com/watch?V=tb1bol1Z7OE]

31."Honey (Mr. Moon Soul Deep Dub Mix)" / "Honey (Mr. Moon 80's Vocal Mix)"

- LISA SHAW [Salted Music]

32."Mas Que Nada (Richard Grey Remix)"

- RICHARD GREY, NARI & MILANI feat. ALEXANDRA PRINCE [Ego]

33."Cold Summer" - CJ HILTON [J]

34."Never Let Go" - ANTHONY HAMILTON [RCA Records] - Cd #88697-99136-2 "Back In Love"

35."Stay" - TYRESE / "Stay (Remix)" - TYRESE feat. FAITH EVANS & RICK ROSS

[Voltron/EMI Group]

36."The Whole Enchilada" - KEB MO [Warner Bros.]

37."Trouble" - JOSE JAMES [Amazon]

38."Love On Top (Smash Mode Extended Mix)" - BEYONCE [Columbia]

39."Hold Mi Tight" - LEFTSIDE feat. SYON [Keepleft Records]

40."Co-Sign" - SWV [Entertainment/One/Mass Appeal Music]

41."No Make Up (Her Vice)" - KENDRICK LAMAR feat. COLIN MONROE [Top Dawg Entertainment]

42."I'm Soul Happy" - HENRIQUE PIRAI [Soul Shift Music]

43."I Do" - TREY SONGZ [Atlantic]

44."Anyway (Rhythm Shed Mix)" - CEE LO GREEN [Elektra Format]

45."Play The Guitar (Inst.)" - B.o.B feat. ANDRE 3000 [Grand Hustle]

46."Bubble Pon Mi" - VOICEMAIL [Washroom Entertainment] - Bubble Gum Riddim

47."Now Or Never" - HIROMI [Telarc] - Cd #3289-02 "Voice" - full name Hiromi Uehara

48."4 A.M." - MELANIE FIONA [Walt Disney Records] - full name Melanie Fiona Hallim

49."Culture of Fear" - THIEVERY CORPORATION feat. MR. LIF [ESL Music]

50."I Need You" - MISTER P [Royal Music Paris]

51."You Made Me Change My Number (vocal/inst.)" - A.M.X. feat. SNOOP DOGG

[Bungalo Records]

52."Transformation" - TERRI LYNN CARRINGTON [Concord Jazz]

53."Terco" - LARRY CORYELL with THE WIDE HIVE PLAYERS [Wide Hive Records]

54."Animated" - ADERO [Aires Entertainment] 2011

55."Streets Of London" - DIRTY JOB [Phucked Records] - real name Bruno Miguel Isidro

56."Adorn" - MIGUEL [Koch]

57."Woo (vocal/inst.)" - ANTHONY HAMILTON [RCA Records]

- Cd #88697-99136-2 "Back To Love"

58."Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)" - LLOYD feat LIL WAYNE & ANDRE 3000 [Universal Music]

59."Everyday Woman" - CHRIS WALKER [Pendulum Records/LLC and WDE]

60."Liquid Love" - CHRIS TURNER [Chris Turner] - prod. The Stuyvesants

61."Go Get It" - MARY MARY [Columbia Records/C2 Records]

- sisters Erica & Tricina Atkins-Campbell

62."Tonight (Best You Ever Had) - JOHN LEGEND feat. LUDACRIS [Sony Music Dist.]

63."Through My Window" - GYPTIAN [Notice Productions] - Daylight Riddim

64."The Real Her" - DRAKE feat. ANDRE 3000 and LIL WAYNE [RCA Records]

65."Writing On The Wall" - ANTHONY HAMILTON [RCA Records]

- Cd #88697-99136-2 "Back To Love"

66."Uncle Tom" - DEE 1 [Dee 1] - real name David Augustine Jr.

67."Jamboree" - NAUGHTY BY NATURE [Sony Music Entertainment]

68."Cloud 10" - KENDRICK LAMAR [@kendricklamar]

69."Forever" - RAHEEM DeVAUGHN feat. PHIL ADE and MARSHA AMEROSIUS

[368 Music Group]

70."Keisha's Song (Her Pain)" - KENDRICK LAMAR feat. ASHTRO BOT [Top Dawg Entertainment]

71."When The Night Knows (The Hood Internet Mashup)" - WHITNEY HOUSTON Vs CHROMEO [Floor Bangers]

72."For The Homies" - KENDRICK LAMAR [@kendricklamar]

73."Mad" - ANTHONY HAMILTON [RCA Records] - Cd #88697-99136-2 "Back To Love"

74."How Deep Is Your Love" - DRU HILL feat. REDMAN [Island Records]

75."Poe Man's Dream (His Vice)" - KENDRICK LAMAR feat. GLC [Top Dawg Entertainment]

76."En El Temblor" - OCOTE SOUL SOUNDS [ESL Music]

77."You Make Me Feel (Dirty Dutch Remix)" - COBRA STARSHIP feat. SABI

[Atlantic Records/Big Beat Records]

78."Take Me As I Am" - KHAGO [G.T. Productions]

79."Like I Love You" - MELANIE FIONA [Motown]

80."Stay Together" - LIDISI feat. JAHEIM [Verve Forecast]

81."Caracas Caliente" - WAIKA MC [Universal Latino/Alex Corolla]

82."I Am Rich In Love" - ROMAIN VIRGO [Lifeline Music]

83."You're On My Mind" - KEM [Universal Music Group]

84."Magic Happen" - KINDRED THE FAMILY SOUL [Purpose Music/Shanachie]

- married duo Fantin Dantzier & Aja Graydon

85."Crying To The Nation" - I-OCTANE [VP]

86."She's All Woman" - HEZRON [Whatage Music]

87."Movin' Down The Line (Don't You Go Away)" - RAPHEL SAADIQ [Columbia Records]

88."Won't Make A Fool Out Of Me" - MARCUS CANTY [Epic]

89."Will You Be There" - K'JON [Universal Music Group]

90."Still" - LENNY WILLIAMS [Geffen]

91."Make It Hot (Inst.)" - NICOLE WRAY feat. MISSY ELLIOT & MOCHA [Elektra]

92."Good Love (Inst.)" - SHEEK LOACH [Def Jam]

93."The System (Acoustic Version)" - ROMAIN VIRGO [VP]

94."Primavera" - OCOTE SOUL SOUNDS [ESL Music]

95."Dem Try" - JOGGO [The Handcraft] - Light and Shadow Riddim

96."Don't Kiss Me" - CARL THOMAS [Verve Forecast]

97."Runaway" - FONZWORTH BENTLEY feat. BUSH [Here To Colors Mixtape]

98."Longtime" - GAPPY RANKS [Special Delivery Music] - Longtime riddim

99."California Soul (A.Skillz Remix)" - MARLENA SHAW - remix by Adam "A.Skillz" Mills

100."High Grade" - BLACK BLUNT and TIPPIE IRIE [Lockdown Productions] - Driver riddim

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HERE'S ONE FO' DA GRANDMAMA's AND GRANDPAPA's - 1950's JOHNNY OTIS LOS ANGELES T.V. SHOW - RARE FOOTAGE and another long one @ over 28 MINUTES ! !

ONCE AGAIN we gotta thank Mike "The Jungle Slav" Cvetkovich's little brother

GEORGE BALKOVEC for turning us on to this great piece of video.

From 1958 (probably) this particular show features the great LIONEL HAMPTON.

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ALMOST SIX & A HALF MINUTES OF 'LIVE' PROUD MARY / IKE & TINA TURNER on SOUL TRAIN . . . AT THEIR PEAK ! !

Thank you George Balkovec for turning WAGRadio on to this one.

The sheer length of this SOUL TRAIN appearance is amazing. And LIVE too ! ! !

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