FROM AMERICA'S NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO TO WAGRadio - RAPHAEL SAADIQ LIVE ! ! [at the tiny desk]

IT IS ANOTHER NPR Music TINY DESK CONCERT.

THIS ONE IS ESPECIALLY FOR GROOVIN' BLUE FANS ! !

RAPHAEL SAADIQ NU-SOUL'S HIS WAY THROUGH THREE CHOONS - 'Love That Girl', '100 Yard Dash' & 'Sure Hope You Heard It'. He's joined by guitarist ROB BACON.

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DJZigZag'z Got a NEW FAVOURITE TV SHOW - 'MISFITS' - ON SHOWCASE IN CANADA ** CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS - - Here are some of NATHAN'S FUNNIEST MOMENTS ! !

NO, NO, NO,

This WAGRadio blog isn't going to turn into a blog about WHAT DJZIGZAG LIKES ! ! BUT . . . HE is so adamant about his luv for this TV series - "MISFITS" - which just started (and the first show of which can be seen this Friday the 2nd of April at 11:00 pm on Showcase in the Great White North) that WE JUST HAD TO LET YOU KNOW.

AND, Y'KNOW, we here at WAGRadio . . . THINK ITS PRETTY EFFIN GREAT TOO ! ! !

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WAGRadio - FOR ALL HARD WORKIN' PEEPS - COMING SOON ** GROOVIN' BLUE 10 - 05 ** featuring this new choon by ROMAIN VIRGO -

WE STILL GETTIN' TONS A' HITS ON

GROOVIN' BLUE 10 - 04

AND Y'ALL ARE TELLIN' WAGRadio TO WAIT A WHILE BEFORE PODCASTING GB 10-05 BUT HERE'S A PREVIEW - ROMAIN VIRGO's NEW JAM-ROCK HIT " WHO FEELS IT, KNOWS IT "

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FEATURED ON THE LATEST GROOVIN' BLUE ** GB 10 - 04 ** "AWWW... LISTEN AT THIS..." ** THE JACKSON 5 and 'DANCING MACHINE'

Hey ! We get to see RANDY as a kid ! !

THE JACKSON 5 ON THE MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW.

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LONG BEFORE 'WASSUPP' - THERE WAS TIMMIE ROGERS AND HIS 'OH YEAH ! !'

ALL YOU GRANPAPAS AND GRANDMAMAS WILL REMEMBER STAND-UP COMEDIAN TIMMIE ROGERS and ESPECIALLY HIS FAMOUS CATCH PHRASE - "OH ! YEAH ! !"

AFTER YEARS OF WORKING CHITTLIN' CIRCUIT CLUBS IT WAS THIS GOLDEN PHRASE THAT MADE HIM A STAR WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND TOOK HIM TO VEGAS PLUS MANY APPEARANCES ON TOP AMERICAN TELEVISION SHOWS - WE IN CANADA REMEMBER HIM MOSTLY FROM HIS OFTEN STARRING ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW.

WHAT WE AT WAGRadio NEVER KNEW OR SAW WAS HIS CHICAGO TV 1980 KRAFT BARBECUE COMMERCIALS .

DAMN! MAKES US WANNA PUT THE BBQ ON RIGHT NOW!!

OH YEAH ! !

Thanks to Kelly aka decaf aka wzdry for turning us on to the video.

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THOSE CRAAZZEE KNUX - - "F!RE (PUT IT IN THE AIR)" - ON GROOVIN' BLUE 10 - 04 ! - - PODCASTED RIGHT NOW ! ! ! - WAGRadio . .

YES, WE HAVE SOME FAVOREET RAP ACTS ON WAGRadio - LIKE Devin The Dude, Fat Joe, Canibus & these guyz - THE CRAZEE KNUX (no, Crazee isn't part of their name but we think it'd be nutsoid hangin' out with the young brothers). Their latest Cd is one for y'all to pick up on Interscope - entitled - "remind me in 3 days..." - THE KNUX [Interscope B001209202]

Oh, and by the way . . . as far as rappers we like . . .we haven't made up our mind about Deacon The Villain of Cunninglynguists yet . . .

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RAPHAEL SAADIQ & INDIA.ARIE IN VANCITY THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 2Oth - AS PART OF THE CITY'S CULTURAL OLYMPIAD

NU-SOUL ARTISTS RAPHAEL SAADIQ AND INDIA.ARIE

WILL BE PLAYING

THE ORPHEUM THEATRE

IN DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER ON SATURDAY NITE ! !

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GROOVIN' BLUE 10 - 04 IS ON THE PLATE AND READY TO BE MUNCHED ON ! !

A BRAND NEW

GROOVIN' BLUE

GROOVIN' BLUE 10 - 04.

FLOATING OUT THERE IN PODCAST LAND IS GROOVIN' BLUE 10 - 04

THIS NEW GROOVIN' BLUE

FEATURES SOME OF YOUR FAVOURITE SINGERS - AL GREEN, R. KELLY, BILLY PAUL, SADE and MICHAEL JACKSON as well as some new artists you may not know - KONGA KULT, CRISOPOLIS, LEFTSIDE, and CHINO.

PUT 'EM ALL TOGETHER AND YOU GOT ANOTHER WONDERFULLY MUSICAL TIME AHEAD. ENJOY ! !

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NEW GROOVIN BLUE SOON TO BE UP AND PODCASTED ! ! !

THESE TWO HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT A NEW GROOVIN' BLUE IS SOON TO BE DELIVERED AND THEY THINK, PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE AND SPECIES RESPECTIVELY, THAT THE POSTMAN IS GONNA DELIVER IT - SO THAT'S WHO THEY'RE WATCHIN' OUT FOR ! !

But NO FEAR ! - - Miss McROBERTS and her trusty canine hero WILL SOON BE LISTENING TO A BRAND NEW PODCASTED

GROOVIN' BLUE 10 - 04 featuring some of their favourite artists - SADE, R. KELLY, VYBZ KARTEL & JAMES BROWN.

AWFULLY CLEVER CHILD AND POOCH ! !

Uncle DJZigZag

Photo: M. McRoberts

BLUNTLY PUT - CULT OF MARIE RIDES ON ! ! WITH "VEGGIES & FRUIT" by VANCE VEXED on WAGRadio

BLUNTLY PUT is not the name of a Baltimore rapper. I guess we should have said . . . PUTTING IT BLUNTLY . . . anyway, it was s'posed to be a clever marijuana-tinged term used to intro the VANCE VEXED and A. LEON CRAFT plus NAPPY ROOTS homage to the home-grown that was featured on GROOVIN' BLUE 10 - 03.

NAPPY ROOTS got a lotta money and that's why this video is lookin' so well executed we are thinkin'.

No need to take the tune too stringently - it's all in funn! ! We like the beat and it is great to dance to, too.

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DEY SO CUTE ! ! - DJZigZag's FAVOURITE CONTEMPORARY CHOON - 'KAWL ME' by JOELL ORTIZ feat. NOVEL

This has been DJZigZag'z favourite choon for the past two months and has been featured on at least three GROOVIN' BLUE shows on WAGRadio in three different forms (the instrumental version is a total groove !).

We dig humour and there is an underlying tongue-in-cheek to this piece of high school reminiscing that brings a smile to our faces.

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GROOVIN' BLUE 10 - 03 IS NOW UP AND PODCASTED ! ! ENJOY ! ENJOY ! ENJOY !

OH YES ! ! ! YUM YUM ! ! GROOVIN' BLUE 10-03 IS A SCRUMPDIDDLEYLICIOUSDILUCUCIOUS GROOVICIOUSNESS OF SOULFUL NEW WORLD MEATY GOODNESS ! ! ! AND . . . IT IS READY FOR ALL Y'ALL . . .

FOR THE ELDER STATESWOMEN AND STATESMEN WE GOT THE MANHATTANS, THE EBONYS and BROOK BENTON and O'JAYS . . .

FOR THE YOUNG'UNS WE GOT THE KNUX and USHER along with JOELL ORTIZ. JOINING IT ALL TOGETHER IN A 2010 NEW WORLD AFRICAN MIX ARE THE SOUNDS OF DANA HALL, AIDONIA, GIL SCOTT-HERON and VYBZ KARTEL.

Oh, and a note - we are still working on updating the blog [it is taking a little longer than we thought it would].

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ROGER G - NYC STREET PERFORMANCE GURU

DJZigZag saw this amazing man's performance on a PBS special the other night - "Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix Of Race And Identity" and asked us to share it with WAGRadio's listeners.

"I wanna go to NYC now!", sez DJZZ.

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SWITCHIN' IN THE KITCHEN WITH SWEET DADDY FONK - YES AND DJZIGZAG TOO ! ! ALL HELL'S A BREAKIN' LOOSE THIS VALENTINES - OLYMPIC PROPORTIONS 2010 !!

Oooooo Weeeeeee SWEET DADDY FONK and DJZigZag HAVE LINED UP A VALENTINE MUSIC LIST THAT WILL HAVE YOU PANTING FOR MORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

YOUR TWO ROMANTIC SOUL-BROTHERS HAVE DUG INTO THEIR PAST AND COME UP WITH SOME LOVE GEMS FROM JOE SIMON, REGINA BELLE, THE MANHATTANS, ALTON McCLAIN & JOHNNY BRISTOL as well as SOME POSSIBLY NEW OLDIES BY ETTA JAMES, THE T.N.J.'s, SIDNEY JOE QUALLS and so many more . . . WITH A SPECIAL SALUTE TO TEDDY PENDERGRASS.

So get comfy, get ready, get loose and get it on . . . .

IT'S A WAGRadio GROOVIN' BLUE FUNK SHUI VALENTINE 2010 SPECIAL OF OLYMPIC PROPORTIONS . . . .

Note: She be switchin' in the kitchen and I know she'll get a lickin' from doin' the hoochie koochie koo.

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NEW BOOK TO READ: THE STORY OF SYD NATHAN'S KING RECORDS OUT OF CINCINNATI - "KING OF THE QUEEN CITY"

We knew this was gonna be a winning read when we first heard about

"KING OF THE QUEEN CITY: THE STORY OF KING RECORDS".

Not only did two of WAGRadio's favourite 1960's musical acts record for the King and Federal labels, namely Hank Ballard and The Midnighters and James Brown and The Famous Flames but also Freddie King, Bill Doggett, The 5 Royales, Little Willie John and so many others gave the familiar look of the 45's immediate appeal.

We are three-quarters-way-through this 234 page book and can't put it down.

Here is an excerpt;

"(King record owner Syd) Nathan got on the phone and said, "What are you on? What kind of shit are you on? See, everybody in those days thought I (Sam Bass) was smoking pot because of the crazy things I did. Henry Glover said to me once, 'I'm black, but I won't go to some of the joints you do. 'So, I had to be on some shit, right?

"Anyway, Nathan says, 'You gotta be on something, because how could anybody in his right mind record the worst piece of shit I ever heard in my life? Sounds like someone stuttering on a record, all he says is one word.' I said, 'Oh, you must mean the Flames and "Please, Please, Please".

This is another wonderful book about the history of New World African American Music and also how King records influenced the world of Country and Western.

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