Home
News
- Shoalhaven News
- Highlands News
- Local Weather
- Celebrities
- Lost & Found Pets
- Birthdays
- N.R. Wallace Building Inspections
What's Happening?
- Competitions & Events
  
  Thursday Meat Raffle
- Community Calendar
  
  Coast
  
  Highlands
- Gig Guide
- Your Feedback
- Life Changer
  
  Emma
  
  Margie
  
  Vicki
Shows
- Charles Maxwell
- Barry Mac
- Pete Brandtman
- Matt Pardy
- Murray Wilton
- Nick Lowther
- Australia Overnight
- Graeme Day
- 2020 Retro Countdown
- Around the Campfire
- Feature Shows
  
  The Classic Cafe
  
  2ST Swap Time
  
  Better Homes & Gardens
  
  Sunday Night Lite
  
  Saturday Night Live
  
  Sports Saturday
  
  My Generation
  
  Casey Kasem 'The 70's'
  
  The Continuous Call Team
  
  Dropkicks
Info
- Radio Advertising
- Contact Us
- Legal
  
  Codes & Complaints
  
  Privacy Policy
  
  Terms of Use
  
  Competition Conditions
- Help
  
  Streaming Help
  
  Website Help
  
  Radio Reception Guide
- Our Network
Business Directory
Sitemap

CLASSIC CAFE | Weekdays from 1pm

The swinging 60's, the sizzling 70's and the electrfying 80's. We've got the music, and we've got the stories. The Classic Cafe is where music comes alive from the three big decades. It's the A-Z of great music from Abba to ZZ Top.

Classic Cafe Weekdays 1-2pm

Doobie Brothers …live in concert China Grove

Friday, 24 February 2012 09:48

China Grove is a small town in Texas, about 10 miles from San Antonio.

Did Doobie Brothers singer/guitarist Tom Johnston know this when he wrote the song?

Sort of.

Here's what he told us: "The words were written last, and they were made up around this whole idea of this wacky little town with a sheriff that had a Samurai Sword and all that sort of thing.

The funny thing was that I found out in 1975 in a cab in Houston that there really was a China Grove, although what happened was in 1972 we were touring in Winnebagos, and we were driving into San Antonio. And there is a China Grove, Texas, right outside of San Antonio.

I must have seen the sign and forgotten about it. And when I came up with the term 'China Grove,' I thought I was just making it up because of the words being about this crazy sheriff with a Samurai Sword."

Here are the Doobie Brothers live in concert Dim lights Embed Embed this video on your site

THE CLASSIC CAFE

Shake A Tail Feather - Blues Brothers

"Shake a Tail Feather" (Otha Hayes, Verlie Rice, and Andre Williams) is a song originally recorded in 1963 by the Chicago-based group The Five Du-Tones. "Shake a Tail Feather" has been covered by many other artists over the years, perhaps most notably by Ray Charles, who performed the song during his scenes in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. This version of the song includes calls for various 1960s dances, including the Twist, the Monkey, The Frug and The Mashed Potato, to be performed by a crowd gathered outside Ray's Music Exchange. {youtube}/qdbrIrFxas0{/youtube} Read more

Can’t Help Myself – Flowers

"Can't Help Myself" is the first single released by the Australian synthpop/rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse2] It was released in May 1980 as a 7" vinyl single on independent label, Regular Records, five months ahead of debut album Icehouse. A 10" vinyl single was released in July and had a cover depicting individual images of band members diagonally across the band's name and the single's title . It peaked at #10 on the Australian Singles Charts The music video was filmed in 1980 in a car park in Chatswood, Sydney. {youtube}/zDF6as0nlmU{/youtube} Read more

The Human League- Keep Feeling Fascination

The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. The band had an early hit with "Being Boiled", but achieved stardom after a key change in line-up in 1980, releasing multiple international hits from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Dare (1981), the band's most popular album, yielded the single "Don't You Want Me", a No. 1 hit in the pop charts of UK, US and many other countries. Other international hits include: "Love Action", "Open Your Heart", "Mirror Man", "Fascination", "The Lebanon", "Human" (a US No. 1) and "Tell Me When". {youtube}/QqqBs6kkzHE{/youtube} Read more

THE CLASSIC CAFE

MORE FROM THE CLASSIC CAFE

LOCAL NEWS