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can't afford imagine, so just imagine.

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This is imagine. Imagine. Imagine. No religion, nothing matters. Everything

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is bad. Hey, this is
Jesse Carmichael from the Room five High.

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This is Phil Margot of the Token. Hello. It's Nicole Atkins on the

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Rock and Roll History Show. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Rock

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and Roll History Show on Brian Harrowitz. Once again, we have a very

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interesting topic lined up for you.
But before we hop in, allow me

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to introduce all the crambones out of
joining us here tonight. First and foremost,

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from the Richter Observatory. He was
wondering why the frisbee kept getting bigger

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and bigger, and then it hit
him. Neil Richter is here. Ouch.

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Hey, everybody much out for that
frisbee. Keep your eyes peeled from

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paranormally yours. She has a friend
named Jack who says he can communicate with

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vegetables. In other words, Jack
and the beans talk. Gayl nucom is

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here from the silver screen. She
saw two whales walk into a bar.

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The first one said we and the
second one goes, shut up, Steve,

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you're drunk. Mercedes kentis here him. Mercedes oh Man, Hey,

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everybody joining us. From his home
studio, he went to buy some camouflage

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pants, but he couldn't find any. John Kelly is here, Hi John,

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everybody. Goodyear. Very good Brian, as usual, very good.

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Thank you. From her secret bunker. She moved around a lot growing up,

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and she figured out the difference between
a northern fairytale and a Southern fairytale.

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A northern fairytale begins with once upon
a time, and a Southern fairytale

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starts with y'all ain't gonna believe this, Becky, that was great, Brian.

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I think it's accurate in my experience. And last or not at least

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multitasking from her kitchen, tonight our
newest official Cranbone. She wants you to

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know that you shouldn't brush your teeth
with your left hand, because a toothbrush

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works better. Jessica Dean is back
high jess Hey, everybody, how are

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you doing tonight? All right?
So tonight'sts Brian, Thank you, thank

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you, thank you. Every once
in a while, things line up and

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come together. Mercedes, Tonight's topic
was your idea would you like to bring

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us in tonight? There's actually not
much to expound about it. But it's

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clothing songs about clothing, and um, I don't know. I don't think

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anybody picked it. I mean kind
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like raspberry beret, that's the first
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thinking. But then I was thinking
that there's a lot of songs that are

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actually about clothings. And I could
kick myself because I just thought of one

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that I should have picked and didn't. Fashion. Oh yeah, that's a

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tad. Well why did I not
pick that? We can come back and

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visit it again, So do your
research and come back there you go,

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have it, have it on standby, ready for the next round. So

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all right, why don't we just
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lead us off this week, So
take it away, Neil, Well,

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thank you, thank you. Yes, my article of clothing. Usually I

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think, you know, clothing is
optional, but in this case, I'll

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be wearing a pair of black slacks
because black Slacks is the name of the

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song that I picked for this show. It's a rockabilly song and was first

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re recorded by a band called the
Sparkle Tones. And what a cool name

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is that they were sometimes known as
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fifty seven. The Sparkle Tones consisted
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Wayne Arthur on double bass or double
bass around here as we say, Howard

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Sparky Childress on guitar, and Jimmy
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you hadn't figured that out, I
was gonna say, did he play the

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clarinet or something. The song was
written co written by both Bennett and Denton.

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The Sparkletones were formed in nineteen fifty
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while the group's members were still in
high school, with ages ranging from thirteen

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to sixteen years old. They were
noticed by a CBS talent scout after they

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took first prize at an open audition. They were flown to New York City

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and signed with ABC Paramount. The
band recorded Black Slacks during their first recording

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session. Interestingly enough, singer writer
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recording studio that day, added some
background vocals to another track they recorded called

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Boppin' Rock Boogie during that same session. Black Slacks was released as a single

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became a local hit before building up
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and landed the group on national TV
shows like The Nat King Cole Show,

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American Bandstand, and Yup, The
Ed Sullivan Show. Black Slack stage on

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the US charts for over four months. It reached number eleven on the R

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and B chart, hit number seventeen
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and was ranked on the Billboard year
end Hot one hundred Singles chart at

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number one hundred. Just made it
all in nineteen fifty seven, So let's

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give it a listen. Black slacks, lack slack, black slacks, black

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slack. Black slacks make a good
dadio. I'm raring to go. When

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I'm gonna play this, I just
don't care. You know why you see

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you when I ware black slash take
fourteen black slacks. Really arty. Black

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slacks make a cool dadio when I
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man, y'all see me with the
derby. Y'all. I know that

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you will say gonna lack slacks mostly
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I said, black slack. I'm
a captain John All run around with crazy

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little more. Where the girls all
look when I go by? When I

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wear the naked side black slacks,
I wear it both time, black slacks.

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They ain't me all my black slacks
with a cat chain down on my

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knees. I ain't done. But
the real google black slacks, black slacks,

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black slack, black slacks, black
slacks, Good ladio. When I

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put them, I'm ready to go
to put them on. I'm rearing to

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going to put them on. I'm
raring to go. Black slacks, black

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slacks, black slack, black slacks. All right, repeat after me.

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Black slacks. I was gonna say
it sounded black. They were either giving

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somebody a raspberry or the motor problem. Yes, well, what's better than

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one pair of black slacks? Two
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Why not to interrupt you, But
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take a pair of slacks and you
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have black? I don't know.
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like, what do they call it? A pair of pants? Right?

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Cut in half? What do you
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carry on, well anyway, black
slacks was also covered by the legendary rockabilly

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revivalist Robert Gordon, friend of Hudson
River Radio, which we'll talk about that

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in a little bit. Gordon was
born in nineteen forty seven in Bethesda,

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Maryland. He moved to New York
City in the early nineteen seventies and was

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part of the early CBGB Max's Kansas
City scene. During the mid seventies,

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he was the same for the band
Tough Darts, and they appeared on a

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compilation LP called Live at CBGB's had
also included a number of other local New

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York City bands in nineteen seventy six. Not on that album were bands like

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The Ramones, Talking Heads, and
Blondie because they had already signed contracts and

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you weren't legally allowed to be on
that album. But it's pretty cool,

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so you checked that out. But
record producer Richard Gotterer, he of The

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Strange Loves and I Want Candy Fame, heard Gordon and suggested that he team

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up with nineteen fifties guitar legend Link
Ray, which they did, and the

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two released two LPs in nineteen seventy
seven and seventy eight on Gotterer's private stock

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label. Gordon then signed with RCA
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come true for him because RCIA was
also the label that Elvis Presley was on,

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so he was good company. That's
when he recorded his third studio album,

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Rock Billy Boogie, and it contains
his version of black slacks. This

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time he was with British guitar legend
Chris Spedding in nineteen seventy nine, so

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that LP it peaked at number one
oh six on the Billboard Top two hundred.

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Let's give that one. Listen.
Black sacks, black sacks, black

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black slacks, black slacks, Mayo
Dando with the Bludeman. I'm a raring

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to goal when I go places that
own, why to see what I wear?

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The blacksacks, backsack, backsacks,
the blue moon. I'm raaring to

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goal man. You are to see
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he's go on backsacks, backsacks,
the BLACKSACKA thought to run around cras a

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little mama. Yeah, where the
girls all look when I go by?

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That makes some sign a backslack.
I wear a red bull, a black

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slack. They save me all my
black slacks, and the captain down the

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money. I ain't nothing but the
real Koree Black Slack, the black Slack,

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black Slack, black slack, the
black Slacks. Man who Daddy We

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through the moan. I'm wearing the
gold who threw the moon? I'm wearing

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the Goldman. I'm raring to go
black black slack, black slack, black

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slack, black slack, black slack. If that song doesn't put a smile

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on your face, I don't know
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Robert Gordon continued to release numerous studio
and live records, perform live and

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as well appear on TV and in
films sadly before he passed away last year

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October twenty twenty two at the age
of seventy five. As I said earlier,

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he was on Mercedes Show the Silver
Screen as a guest. Ryan was

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a part of that so as a
tie and it's quite an interesting character.

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I know, We've got some interesting
stories. I know, I you know,

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and I know Mercedes has too.
Saw him perform live over the years

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decades numerous times. You know.
I saw him play with Link Ray,

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I saw him play as recently as
a few years back with Chris Betting as

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well as you know, back in
the eighties, I saw him play with

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Chris Spedding and I think the well
the most interesting time he played. He

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used to do a Valentine's Day show
here in Rockland County at the Turning Point,

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which is in Pierremont and every year, and at one point fellow I

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was playing with who was you know, did kind of a rockabilly fifties sound,

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and I used to play in his
band, you know, when he

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needed a band. He was doing
a solo as an opening act for Robert

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Gordon at one of these shows at
the Turning Point. I think I was

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working that night, so I didn't
get there. There were two shows,

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so I didn't get there till the
second show, and he came up to

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me, my friend, and said, you want to sit in and play

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with you know, and just play
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like real rockabilly, this guitar and
drums. I said, sure, I'd

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be thrilled. So I got to. Actually, you know, I was

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unplanned or you know, I had
no idea. It was not my intention,

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but I showed up and actually open
for Robert Gordon, wow and set

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at the Turning Point. After the
set, the owner John m came up

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and said, would you like to
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you want to come up to the
dressing rooms and meet to meet Robert.

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And I was like, oh,
I'd be thrilled too. Sure, So

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we go up there. We knock
on the door and his his like you

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know, manager or handler comes to
the door. He's like, well,

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um yeah. When we look in, Robert Gordon is this is in between

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shows, passed out cold on the
couch, like like face down, just

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like you know, not not conscious. So we were like He's kind of

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like I think you'd probably that's not
a good time. And We're like okay,

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oh I walked out and I'm like
going, how is it going to

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get? How? How how is
it going to do the second show?

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You know, there's no way.
So the band comes on, which they

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would do usually in U is a
longtime bass player, Rob Stoner, you

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know, leading the you know the
it was a trio you know, bass

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guitar and drums from Rockland County.
Yes, yes, it lives in Rockland

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County as well. So they usually
do a couple of songs, you know,

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just to warm up the you know, the audience, and then they

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launch into his first song, you
know, with a I think the way

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I walk, you know, the
door opens up, he comes out like

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a ball of fire, hits the
stage and I'm like, where were they

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hiding you? He was, he
was, and he was on it,

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put on a great show. I
guess he took I guess he took a

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power nap. That's probably what it
was, something along that line, but

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a little gatorade, you know something. But he was a handful. I

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mean I know three club owners that
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the audiences love him. But man, he was tough to work with.

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I mean, yeah, people quit, Oh my gosh. Yeah, it

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was crazy. You know. He
had to have a certain defined kind of

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microphone stand and if that wasn't it, he wouldn't play, and he would

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have a little bit of a temper
tantrum and a little bit yeah if the

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sound check walk off, if the
monitors weren't weren't right, oh yeah,

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and they never and they were never
right. It was almost like a ritual.

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Yeah, he would he would you
be up there, no, no,

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turn it up, turn it down
a little more, trouble a little.

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And I was like, at first, I thought it was just you

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know, an isolated incident. I
saw it happen almost at every show,

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and I'm like, yeah, nope, that's that's his thing. I saw

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him so many times, and when
I first moved to these village, you

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know, back in the day,
he and Snooky from man A Panic were

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sort of the king and Queen of
the Lower East Side. They were they

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were a long time couple, and
they were awesome, and when they were

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out and about, it was kind
of cool to see them. I loved

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him forever since the first record that
of his that came out. But I'll

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tell you I got to I never
I got to meet him a couple of

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times in that he would say something
to me as he was walking onto the

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stage. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh he was with the audience.

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He was very personal and yeah,
and very and gracious like that. Yes.

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But I got to know real well
when he was coming on my radio

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show, because he would call me
at eight thirty in the morning, and

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he would call me at eleven o'clock
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he wanted to make sure we were
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or could he play this song or
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went on constantly. And then after
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and is on one of my podcasts. Um, afterwards he would call me

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and say, howd it go?
What do people think? Just talking about

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it for like a week afterwards.
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I like that. That was good. Yeah. Then one night he was

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you know, I was. I
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you ended the interview, thanks for
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and you know, he hung up
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outro. The phone rang again immediately
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And I'm like, oh, we
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back? And he's like, no, no, no, I just wanted

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to make sure that was all good. So I did attend his funeral,

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which, as Neil said, was
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know it was. It was really
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music in the beginning, which was
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of people there of interest, but
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he was a special performer. Indeed, indeed, again very very glad I

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got to see him, and well
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once, maybe a couple of times. Yeah, and always a great show,

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so cool, all right, perfect, perfect night off. Yeah,

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welcome back tonight. We are talking
about clothing in rock music, oddly specific,

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and we're up to Mercedes. Take
it away, Mercedes. I feel

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like I'm going to be a real
bummer this show, and I feel like

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that's not typically my role on here. But but it's fun, right,

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I don't know. Oh, you'll
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okay. So in These Shoes is
a song by Christy McCall, who is

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a British singer and songwriter. Her
first single was They Don't Know, which

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was released in nineteen seventy nine.
It peaked at number two on the Music

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Week Airplay UK chart. However,
a distributor strike prevented copies of the single

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getting into the record stores, and
the single consequently failed to appear on the

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UK Singles Chart. That's coincidentally,
that's what happened to the Rubenus this same

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year because of the same strike.
They came out with a record. They

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were on tour with Elvis Costello,
and their record was not in the record

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store. And as much as people
liked them, you know, they were

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opening for this guy, and as
much as people saw them and liked them,

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they couldn't buy the record. Wow. Tracy Ullman later released that same

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song they Don't Know and Tracy Ullman's
recording of the song and you may know

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it from her version, Yeah I
know it. Yeah. Tracy Allman's recording

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of the song was a Billboard Top
ten hit. Allman's version reached number eight

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on the US Hot one hundred in
April nineteen eighty four, and did even

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better in the UK, hitting number
two in September nineteen eighty three. McCall

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also sang back up on the track
because parts of it were just too high

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pitched for Ullmen. She was on
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the distributors Strike Fiasco. They were
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so she moved to Polydor in nineteen
eighty one and had a number fourteen UK

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hit with are You Ready for This? There's a guy who works down the

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chip shop swears he's Elvis. I
love that, so you know what the

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song's about right off the bat.
Yeah, what's a chip shop like?

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Like fish and chips. Mccaull re
emerged in the British charts in December nineteen

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eighty seven, reaching number two with
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singing a duet with Shane McGowan.
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on their British and European tour in
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in nineteen eighty six, McCall was
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as no company. No record company
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who was Stiff Records, so she
was out there, but she couldn't

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control her her career. However,
she had regular session work as a backing

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vocalist, and she frequently sang on
records produced or engineered by her husband luckily

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was Steve Lillywhite, including tracks for
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Shriekback, Simple Minds, Talking Heads, Big Country, and she also

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performed backing vocals for the likes of
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The Rolling Stones, Happy Mondays,
Morrissey, Talking Head, Simple Minds,

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Alison, Robert Plant and David Byrne
and more, and that issue was

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finally resolved in nineteen eighty nine and
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She did have some success on her
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and Brazil, she recorded the world
music inspired Tropical Brainstorm, particularly Cuban and

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other Latin American forms of music,
which was released in two thousand and two

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critical acclaim, including the song in
These Shoes which is my son for this

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show Today. In the year two
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Mexico with her sons and her boyfriend, musician. She obviously split up

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with Steve lily White, and on
December eighteenth, two thousand, she and

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her sons sorry went diving at the
Chonka nab Reef, part of the National

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Marine Park of Cosomel in a designated
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With a group was a local veteran
dive master, and as the group

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was surfacing from a dive, a
power boat moving at high speed entered the

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restricted area. McCall saw the boat
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age thirteen at the time, was
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age fifteen was. She was able
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He sustained minor head and rib injuries, but she was struck by the power

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boat, which ran over her.
She suffered severe chest and head injuries and

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died instantly. She was forty one. I'm a bummer tonight, count so

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sad. I feel like she had
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with all the things that happened to
her that were not of her control at

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all. Anyway, it's a really
good song, so let's hear the song

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that'll cheer you up. I once
met a man with a sense of advantage,

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and he was dressed to thrill.
Whenever he said, let's my glove

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on the mountain top under the stars
on a big hard rock I don't think

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so I said, Hi, let's
do it. Here. So I'm sitting

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at a bar and wat a la
hi, and walks a guy with a

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far away look in his eyes.
He said, I've got a powerful horse

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outside. Climb on the back.
I'll take you for a ride and know

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a little place we can get that
for the break of day. I said,

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in these shoes, no way,
Jose, I said, honey,

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let's stay right here. M no. Then I met an englishman. Oh,

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he said, are you won't you
walk up and down my spine?

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It makes me feel strangely alive,
I said, in this shop, I

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doubt you to survive. I said, honey, let's do it. Let's

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stay right here, lest no play
my almost play my life. And so

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this time double legles mean no playing
mon lie almost play in my life.

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And listen when you les me,
no way, my almost play in my

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life. And let's stay around here, les me no play my life almost

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way in my life. And now
I need a margarita. Yeah that had

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like a nice Latin that kind of
feel to it. Yeah, I love

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Latin music. Yeah yeah, I
also had it almost had a James Bond

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theme feel on top of it.
Yeah. Yeah, that was awesome And

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and I love I love the little
Spanish things they're saying roughly translated in in

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the the Yeah, something something about
don't want to walk, can't ride the

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horse? Um? Perfect? How
how do we dance? It's a scandal.

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I love it. I love it. So. The song has been

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covered by Bette Midler, which I
did listen to, and I like Christy

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McCall's version better. Bet Miler one
is a little bit too how to Vegas.

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Yeah, And this song is also
featured in Sex in the City and

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the film Kinky Boots. So I
think it's perfect. In a review of

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Tropical Brainstorm the album, David Botter
from The Associated Press considered In These Shoes

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to be a hilarious song about a
woman whose obsession with fashion pumps. Excuse

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me, I knew I was going
to say that wrong. A hilarious song

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about a woman whose obsession with fashion
trumps all other interests. The song samples

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Spanish Grease, which is a track
written by Willie Bobo and Melvin Lastie and

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first recorded by Bobo in nineteen sixty
five. During an appearance on Later with

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Jules Holland, which was a UK
show, McCall said about the song,

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it's about being a fashion, victim, being a slave to fashion, crippling

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yourself in the process. And that's
the song. I love it. That

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was a great one, very cool, awesome. All right, Jess,

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you're up. All right. That's
a hard act to follow, I know,

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right. I considered a couple of
different songs. Yeah, you brought

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us down. He made me say
it, and then you brought it back.

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That was good. I had to
get the bad part out of the

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word. That was planned. Stage
is set for Jess perfect. Yeah,

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you gotta bring bring it up,
bring it up, which this song does.

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So after a couple of selections that
I considered that just really paled in

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comparison, I settled on Forever in
Blue Jeans by Neil Diamond, which was

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released in nineteen seventy eight on the
album You Don't Bring Me Flowers, and

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it was later released as a single
by Columbia Records in February of nineteen seventy

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nine. The song peaked at number
twenty on the Billboard Hot one hundred and

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number two on the Easily Easy Listening
chart in March of seventy nine. So

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let's go ahead and table listen and
it talks, but it don't sing,

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and dance and don't wall. As
long as Zach can have you he with

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me, I'd much travel be forever
in blue jeans, onny sweet, but

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it ain't nothing next to babies treat. If you pardon me, I'd like

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to sing with you, old cave
river in blue jeans, Beave it tonight,

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beave it tonight by the fire,
all alone you and night, nothing

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around but the sound of my heart, your size, But he thought,

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but it can't sing dancing detan walk
as long as I can have you here

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with me, That the travel be
the river in blue jeans, baby and

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hot it is sweet, be then
nothing next to babies treat. If you

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pardon me, I'd like to say
we do. Can the river in blue

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jeans? Leave it tonight, bed
it tonight by the fire, all alone

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you and night, nothing around but
the sound of my heart and your side

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in my head. Time, But
we don't sing and dancing the down wall.

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Zach, have you here, whear
me let let's traveled beans, Let

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bother say we do jae jeans,
baby, Zach me. That was Forever

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in Blue Jeans that he co wrote
with his guitarist Richard Bennett and uh Neil

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Diamond himself was actually quoted saying the
simple things are really the important things,

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and that's the ultimate messaging of the
song, which I thought was was really

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cool. Um just you know,
it's not so much about the clothing itself,

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but kind of what it stands for
and the simple life and just being

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able to appreciate the um, you
know, the simple things and family in

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life. Um. Cash Box called
the song a pleasant tribute to doing okay

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without the glitter of wealth and fame. So I thought that that was m

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you know again, another nice way
to sum it up. All right,

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it's coming from one of the wealthiest
people in show business. It's going to

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say, just because he wrote it
doesn't mean he lived it. Not only

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his own songs, but he wrote
a couple of the biggest hits for the

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Monkeys, I'm a boot, a
little bit, a little bit you.

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So he's saying you don't get it. He's saying, you don't give me

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fiers with Barbara and didn't slap her. So good for him, and hearing

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that took me back to my youth. Nice. Yeah, I think it's

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a I think it's a great song. And of course, you know,

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tidbits about the song no surprise,
it was used to advertise Blue Jeans,

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and one of the ads that was
done with it was done in September of

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two thousand and one with Will Ferrell
actually impersonating Neil Diamond for the gap and

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the commercial runs about thirty seconds.
It's pretty hilarious because you know it's Will

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Ferrell. And now there was an
unsighted note in one of the references that

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I looked at, so I can't
verify that it's true, but apparently in

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the sixties, way before this song, Neil Diamond actually had done ads for

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Hi S Jeans himself, So that's
just like, you know, the irony

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of history that he would do those
type of ads and then do this song

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later on. So I thought that
was kind of interesting. And then as

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far as rabbit Holes looking at Will
Farrell and Blue Jeans, one of the

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things that comes up on the feed
is an snl skit that Will Farrell did

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on November twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, that was a fake ad for Blue

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Jeans, and it is just hilarious
because it's just so far fetched and ridiculous.

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So if you want to look that
up and maybe see some things that

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might not be considered appropriate for any
other show that Saturday Night Live, and

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um, you know that's that'll definitely
give you a good a gig, good

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giggle. So that's what I have
for tonight, Nice Mercedes. You might

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know I thought Neil Diamond held or
still holds the record for the most expensive

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divorce in history. Who I don't
remember all the details, but I don't

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know that fact, but I am. I believe it. Yeah, totally

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believe. Yeah, yeah, that
was you know, marriage was not in

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his skill set. But that's why
he's still in blue jeans. He can't

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be good at everything that's true,
that is true, songwriting and performing and

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all of that kind of stuff.
His musical just launched a couple of months

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ago, too, right, it's
a musical, I believe, so yeah,

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00:39:31,199 --> 00:39:37,800
I think it's on Broadway now.
But and he's Scott Parkinson's is something

407
00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:43,280
similar. He makes appearances in like
the balcony at the musical every once in

408
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,280
a while. But oh well,
yeah, I don't think. I don't

409
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:51,639
think he's going to be performing,
so but very sad that I've seen him

410
00:39:51,679 --> 00:39:58,519
performing and it's been great shows.
Yeah, So I'm I'm going to see

411
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:05,159
Tom Jones in Oh my god.
Wow, that's awesome. Saw him before,

412
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,760
awesome show, so excited. Don't
buy the throwing undergarments because he ignores

413
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:15,400
it. I don't think our seats
are anywhere near throwing undergarments. All right,

414
00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:17,480
if you throw people in front of
you're gonna be really mad. So

415
00:40:17,599 --> 00:40:22,559
there's two really you probably shouldn't.
Besides, it's me and my friend Doris,

416
00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:27,360
who just turned eighty, so that
would be rather oh not touching that

417
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,559
one. Nope. Yeah, there's
many many turns you could take on those

418
00:40:31,639 --> 00:40:35,559
jokes, and I'm not Yes,
she's very exciting any of that. Now,

419
00:40:35,639 --> 00:40:37,840
he puts on a great show.
He still sounds great. Yeah,

420
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,840
so excellent. All right, awesome, thank you, Jess. We're gonna

421
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:45,760
take another real quick break and we
will be right back. This is Hudson

422
00:40:45,880 --> 00:41:01,320
River Radio dot Com. Oh right, Hot's your radio dot com. I'm

423
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:07,599
so nicer hot you can't stop and
welcome back. Let's just jump right back

424
00:41:07,679 --> 00:41:14,400
in and Becky, you are up
all right, So I hope everybody is

425
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:20,880
ready to have fun with my choice
because it is hot Pants Explosion by the

426
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,840
B fifty twos, and it was
the very first song that came to mind.

427
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,039
When I knew this was the topic. I love the song I know

428
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,320
I chose to be fifty twos.
A couple of shows ago and I talked

429
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:36,519
a little bit about their background,
but just to recap in case people in

430
00:41:36,679 --> 00:41:40,559
radio land don't know about the B
fifty twos. I guess they're considered a

431
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:46,679
new wave band. They formed in
nineteen seventy six, which means they are

432
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:52,199
one year younger than I am.
I had no idea until I did all

433
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:57,519
this deep research on them. Their
first concert, they played a Valentine's Day

434
00:41:57,519 --> 00:42:01,280
show for their friends. In nineteen
seventy seven, they released rock Lobster,

435
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:06,800
which I'm sure everybody knows. Nineteen
seventy eight the first album, What's Up

436
00:42:07,599 --> 00:42:15,079
Yeah. Rock Lobster is just like
an iconic B fifty two songs Yeah,

437
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:22,119
and nineteen seventy nine was their first
album. I won't go into many details.

438
00:42:22,159 --> 00:42:25,800
You could spend your life reaching about
the B fifty twos, but sadly,

439
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,519
one of the founding members, which
I forgot to mention. The founding

440
00:42:30,599 --> 00:42:35,800
members were Ricky and Cindy Wilson,
Keith Strickland, Kate Pearson, and Fred

441
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,800
Schneider, and they all met in
Athens, Georgia, Ricky and Cindy Wilson

442
00:42:40,159 --> 00:42:47,480
brother and sister. Keith Strickland was
Ricky's friend, and Kate and Fred came

443
00:42:47,519 --> 00:42:52,159
down from New Jersey and landed in
Athens. Kate was doing some farming and

444
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:57,159
things like that, and Fred was
at the University of Georgia and he wrote

445
00:42:57,159 --> 00:43:00,880
a book of poems and then he
dropped out. When they all met and

446
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:06,360
shared a volcano drink at a Chinese
restaurant and then started the band. But

447
00:43:06,599 --> 00:43:10,519
sadly, Ricky Wilson died in nineteen
eighty five at the age of thirty two

448
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:16,559
from aids. So when he died
he had been the group's guitarist and Keith

449
00:43:16,639 --> 00:43:24,280
Strickland was the drummer. So Keith
decided to go over to guitar and play

450
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:29,000
it in the style of Ricky and
then just have other folks to the rhythm

451
00:43:29,079 --> 00:43:35,559
section when they moved ahead after Ricky's
death, So that was in eighty five,

452
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:38,440
and it was really devastating, especially
to Cindy. So they took a

453
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:44,199
little hiatus and they came back in
nineteen eighty nine and a big comeback album

454
00:43:44,679 --> 00:43:49,159
was Cosmic Thing, which I'm sure
everybody knows love Shack was like the biggest

455
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:59,000
single from Cosmic Thing, and love
Shack was actually their first top top top

456
00:43:59,119 --> 00:44:04,800
forty Billboard song, peaking at number
three on the Billboard Hot one hundred.

457
00:44:06,199 --> 00:44:13,719
So Cosmic Thing was produced by Nile
Rodgers and Don Was And the song that

458
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:19,360
I chose Hot Pant's Explosion was from
the next album, Good Stuff, which

459
00:44:19,519 --> 00:44:24,639
was released in nineteen ninety two.
It charted at It charted for fifteen weeks,

460
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:30,159
peaking at number sixteen on Billboard two
hundred, which is the listing of

461
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:37,519
albums. Probably people in radio lands
will know the title track good Stuff,

462
00:44:37,039 --> 00:44:40,880
that was on the radio a lot, and this one not so much.

463
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,880
But I'm telling you this song is
so great and I just can't wait to

464
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,599
hear it. So before we hear
it, I just want to make sure

465
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:57,639
everybody please pay attention very carefully to
the lyrics because I usually don't end because

466
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,960
Fred Schneider was a poet and kind
of a ma master of lyrics. I

467
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,800
mean, you have to listen to
these. You'll see why, uh when

468
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:08,960
we hear it. So, Bryan, if you will, you know what

469
00:45:09,079 --> 00:45:35,239
I say they are hot pass what
say damn? I'm and chipping if you

470
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:42,000
are received band god, I see, I ain't buy back the longest legs

471
00:45:42,119 --> 00:45:49,920
and the shortest pain you gotta do
when I bake. Damn, you got

472
00:45:50,119 --> 00:45:59,679
me pan like a dog, pant
my dog. You mind? When I

473
00:46:00,079 --> 00:46:17,239
saw your up behind where high High, It's like my wild highs High has

474
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:29,119
screens on the rise up to go
to night work in the night shit I

475
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:43,480
get on the breath breaking out of
the back to hanging out moon. It

476
00:46:43,599 --> 00:46:53,679
wouldn't be so has put on and
takeing stalk in my mind, wild h

477
00:46:55,360 --> 00:47:22,639
High, it's like dance clo closed
the fat baby so sweet. How you

478
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:28,519
got me choke choking out? I
said, oh you've got ever and that

479
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:40,159
I'm so spoke. I worsen names
disesteament. I gonna run got this cream

480
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:55,559
in super calum rider water halpen you
got all supervis this the keep beanre with

481
00:47:55,760 --> 00:48:07,639
me, super cat howes to do
that? I was gif stime. I

482
00:48:07,920 --> 00:49:04,239
see London and I've seen brand burn. I never saw that sid. I

483
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:30,800
can't I get why. I never
though nothing. Keep away, keep arty

484
00:49:31,679 --> 00:49:58,559
time. They're getting so hot we
might have to take them all. So

485
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:05,400
if you are down and feeling blue, just put on hot Pants Explosion.

486
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:10,199
I swear every single word in those
lyrics just makes me laugh. I don't

487
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:15,360
know how they can sing it without
laughing. It is hilarious. Um.

488
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:19,840
But yeah, I was gonna say
when you said that, if you're feeling

489
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,960
down and blue, you said put
on hot pants explosion. I thought,

490
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,000
for a second you were gonna say
to say, well, didn't put on

491
00:50:27,039 --> 00:50:31,639
hot pant there you go and take
them off. That's what I thought,

492
00:50:35,599 --> 00:50:39,039
little, but this is much better
than what I thought it was going to

493
00:50:39,159 --> 00:50:44,280
be. When I heard the title
hot Pants Explosion, I thought maybe somebody

494
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:52,400
had gone to Sonic or Taco Bell. Oh ow yuck. I guess that

495
00:50:52,599 --> 00:51:00,639
is one interpretation that's a different show. Yeah, yes, have to come

496
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:06,400
back to that one. But I
also forgot to mention with the Good Stuff

497
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:10,039
album that Cindy Wilson after Cosmic Things, she took a break from nineteen ninety

498
00:51:10,039 --> 00:51:15,760
to nineteen ninety four, so she
didn't sing good on the Good Stuff album.

499
00:51:15,559 --> 00:51:22,239
Um, and hot Pants Explosion was
written by Fred Kate and Keith Um.

500
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,800
I have to say, I mean, what other song are you going

501
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:34,440
to find where the chorus is hot
pants Explosion at the Factory and if you

502
00:51:34,599 --> 00:51:37,239
say it, it sounds kind of
ridiculous, but they sing it, and

503
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,199
Kate Pearson's voice is like so luscious, and the harmonies, you know,

504
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:45,440
the way she sings this chorus,
she's singing hot Pants Explosion at the Factory.

505
00:51:45,639 --> 00:51:50,440
I don't think I've ever heard a
song where thunder thighs hanging out you

506
00:51:50,559 --> 00:51:54,239
have in the lyrics like this one, and it's so musical, and she

507
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:59,960
sings it. Yeah. Yeah,
it's like she says, she sings thunder

508
00:52:00,159 --> 00:52:04,840
thighs hanging out, moonbeams dancing about. So it's like your brain is going

509
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:09,480
through all these you know, visions
of different things kind of um positioned and

510
00:52:09,599 --> 00:52:17,119
juxtaposed and stuff. So I also
love when Fred goes super calahlatosis. It's

511
00:52:17,159 --> 00:52:24,320
absolute so like, oh my goodness, he is so funny. And I

512
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:30,280
didn't actually realize until today that he
had written poetry. And I think that's

513
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:36,639
why their songs are. The lyrics
are so good and just so creative.

514
00:52:37,079 --> 00:52:42,480
I don't know where they get all
the energy to be so creative and write

515
00:52:42,519 --> 00:52:46,960
such good music, but I tell
you it's it's just the of this song

516
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:59,519
um and another album after and I
never heard it. It was like two

517
00:52:59,599 --> 00:53:02,840
thousand eight, so, um,
I have to go back and check that

518
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:09,920
out. And before we leave,
hot Pants hot Pants Explosion. I wanted

519
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:15,159
to remind everybody another thing that I
forgot that Kate Pearson and Fred Schneider sang

520
00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:21,320
the theme song to Rocco's Modern Life
on Nickelodeon. Um, and I have

521
00:53:21,599 --> 00:53:28,039
a quiz for Brian. Brian true
or false? The b fifty two's did

522
00:53:28,119 --> 00:53:34,360
a spoof of love shack on The
Simpsons. Of course they did, do

523
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:40,920
you remember it? Yea, Homer
was challenged to a duel by a guy

524
00:53:42,039 --> 00:53:45,920
from the South, and the guy
from the South was a spoof on Foghorn.

525
00:53:45,039 --> 00:53:50,480
Leghorn slaps him with the glove.
So and they did a spoof called

526
00:53:50,519 --> 00:53:55,000
glove Slap. Yep, love Slap. I cannot full Brian. He knows

527
00:53:55,280 --> 00:54:00,679
he has like the Dictionary, the
Encyclopedia of Simpson's history. So it's amazing

528
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,920
really when you think about it,
you cannot stomp Brian when it comes to

529
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,239
Simpsons. So yeah, well,
well, Brian is the Brian is the

530
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:14,920
the the the Simpsons Guru and Neil
or the Simpsons Dictionary and Neil is just

531
00:54:15,079 --> 00:54:17,760
a musical, you know. I
mean, Neil is just the musical dictionary

532
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:22,480
himself. I don't know what else
to say. Thank you. Well,

533
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:24,639
yeah, Becky, I just wanted
to know that I did add that to

534
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:30,039
my favorite playlist while it was playing. Oh yeah, and I have to

535
00:54:30,119 --> 00:54:36,000
brag a little bit. My daughter
opened up for Cindy Wilson on her last

536
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,960
tour. Awesome. That is so
cool my daughter's banned. Yeah, yeah,

537
00:54:40,079 --> 00:54:45,119
very very cool. Well, I'm
the b fifties twos have still got

538
00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:51,159
it too. Oh. We just
saw them back in October, and forget

539
00:54:51,199 --> 00:54:53,880
it. They were were great.
I would love to see them some today.

540
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:58,880
They said they said it was gonna
be it was like their farewell tour

541
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,960
or something to that effect. Then
I heard that they're doing like a Vegas

542
00:55:04,079 --> 00:55:07,800
residency, So I guess that's not
really a toore, I guess, but

543
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,559
you have to go to Vegas to
see him, it would. Yeah.

544
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:15,880
Yeah. Then I saw that they're
playing somewhere at some time over the summer

545
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:22,119
this coming summer in Asbury Park,
some outdoor kind of you know, festival

546
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:27,079
type things. So they they they
did not retire when you know, good,

547
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,039
Yeah he did not. Yeah,
that's cool. Interesting that they sang

548
00:55:31,159 --> 00:55:36,239
on. Um. Sorry, that
was a random thought that just came into

549
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:44,920
my head that they sang on Brocko's
Modern Life because Pat Irwin, who is

550
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:46,360
there, you know, helped me
out here. What is there? What

551
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:51,519
he was? He was one of
the I guess back in the I guess

552
00:55:51,599 --> 00:55:55,920
the you know, the latter Day
band when you know after you know,

553
00:55:55,920 --> 00:56:00,199
I say, in the nineties,
was a guitar player. Yeah, he

554
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:04,719
was in the I won't say the
backup band because he was in the band.

555
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,480
Oh yeah, but he was not
an original members. But he wrote

556
00:56:07,679 --> 00:56:13,719
the theme for Rocco's Modern Life.
Oh so he wrote it and they must

557
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:17,079
have just performed it they sang it. Yeah, so that all comes together.

558
00:56:19,079 --> 00:56:23,079
Yeah. Yeah, my little brother
loved Rocco's Modern Life. And when

559
00:56:23,159 --> 00:56:28,599
I read that, I could just
hear Fred's voice Rocco's Modern Life, you

560
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:31,559
know, and the song is really
it's really good, the theme song.

561
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:36,519
Um, he's released a few you
know, like solo things too that are

562
00:56:36,639 --> 00:56:40,800
you know, just as like witty
and hysterical, you know that Fred Fred

563
00:56:42,039 --> 00:56:45,679
right, yeah, Ritch Schneider genius, that guy, he really is.

564
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:53,639
I actually realized today that the B
fifty twos, that's the one group that

565
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:59,119
I have actually seen the most.
I saw them three times in my life.

566
00:57:00,119 --> 00:57:04,119
Are approaching their fiftieth year of being
a band, and oh my gosh,

567
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,920
I know it's and they only have
Stephen albums, but you know,

568
00:57:07,159 --> 00:57:14,559
their stuff is so amazing. Um, I saw them in time. Yes,

569
00:57:14,679 --> 00:57:19,400
it does transcend time. I mean
because these you know, their songs

570
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:23,599
are just I don't know, they
just I loved them so much in high

571
00:57:23,599 --> 00:57:27,719
school. I listened to them all
the time. That was the first concert

572
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,320
I saw in high school. I
saw them at Saratoga Performing Arts Center,

573
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:37,400
spack Um and actually then I saw
them at the Lake Placid Olympic Center and

574
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:45,000
recently saw them with my little brother
in in queens Um Forest Park. What

575
00:57:45,239 --> 00:57:52,719
is it forest Stadium? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, so um yeah they

576
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:55,360
were they were, they were the
group and they had all these other opening

577
00:57:55,400 --> 00:58:01,960
acts and Culture Club it was B
fifty twos and Culture Lubum and Thompson Twins

578
00:58:02,079 --> 00:58:08,159
opened for them. So wow,
so amazing. Just love them And this

579
00:58:08,639 --> 00:58:13,119
this song is so great. I
hope you all enjoyed it. I hope,

580
00:58:14,039 --> 00:58:17,599
like Mercedes, you'll you'll at least
listen to it again and like just

581
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:22,320
enjoy. Oh hilarious, it is, I might because it was my daughters.

582
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:27,039
It was my kids first concert that
I that I ever took them to,

583
00:58:27,559 --> 00:58:31,800
and Marina ended up with her band
opening for Cindy Hilson a few years

584
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:37,559
ago. I remember running into you, you guys at one of the shows

585
00:58:37,599 --> 00:58:39,239
in the lobby and we were like, what are you doing here? What

586
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:43,320
do you mean? Of course we're
here, you know, but I think

587
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:49,239
that was at Bergen Pack. I
was like, oh, of course you're

588
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:52,599
here. I had a friend,
one of my main or you know,

589
00:58:52,719 --> 00:58:57,239
big regrets in life, and I've
got a few. Was I never saw

590
00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,039
the B fifty twos back in the
cbe GEB's day, you know, when

591
00:59:00,159 --> 00:59:05,880
when they were just coming out.
But I had a friend who lives down

592
00:59:06,119 --> 00:59:07,840
in the city at the time,
and he used to, you know,

593
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:12,760
see them at CBGB's. Not only
that, he and a friend of his

594
00:59:13,079 --> 00:59:17,480
used to like make clothing and give
it to Kate and Cindy and they would

595
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:22,119
wear the stuff on stage. The
next time they played, they'd be wearing

596
00:59:22,159 --> 00:59:28,079
these clothes that they made for them. And it was I had to deal

597
00:59:28,119 --> 00:59:30,280
with him. He would go down
to the record stores down there because all

598
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:36,519
these records were not available, you
know, in your you know, regular

599
00:59:36,599 --> 00:59:38,880
record stores. They were only available
like to B fifty two. So they

600
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:45,159
released rock Lobster on a their own
independent forty five back with fifty two girls

601
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:50,320
on the on the B side.
And he would go down to these and

602
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:52,719
everything he bought, I said,
buy two and I'll you know, I'll

603
00:59:53,159 --> 00:59:55,960
give it to me and I'll reimburse
you. And one of those was their

604
00:59:57,039 --> 01:00:00,000
first single on B fifty two Records, rock Club. It was. It

605
01:00:00,079 --> 01:00:06,199
was a picture sleeve, different version
then came out on the album when they

606
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:10,039
signed if you get a label,
but you know, the major label,

607
01:00:12,039 --> 01:00:16,159
and so I was like, this
is great stuff, and you know,

608
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:22,440
I was happy when the world agreed, you know that. But like I

609
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:27,320
said, I've seen them since,
but I regret never seeing them at the

610
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:32,199
beginning. Well, if you have
the chance to see them now, you

611
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:37,199
know, if you want to go
to Las Vegas, uh check out out

612
01:00:37,679 --> 01:00:40,519
or hopefully they will come back around
to the East Coast for more than that

613
01:00:40,679 --> 01:00:45,559
one show trip Vegas road trip.
Yeah. I don't know if I ever

614
01:00:45,639 --> 01:00:49,239
told you guys, this is a
little off topic, but I went to

615
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:53,639
Las Vegas for the National Flute Association
convention. Um, back when I worked

616
01:00:53,639 --> 01:00:59,840
for Powell Flutes, and yeah,
that was. It was like a hunch

617
01:01:00,039 --> 01:01:07,280
in fifty degrees. It's in August
and it's torrential rainstorm. And I remember

618
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:12,679
walking into Caesar's Palace because that's where
they actually had the flute convention. I'm

619
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:15,519
not making this up, um,
So I'm walking in with my coworker,

620
01:01:15,719 --> 01:01:20,760
she's also named Rebecca, and we
see this giant poster in Caesar's Palace for

621
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,840
Rod Stewart. Were like Rod Stewart, but we were we were ready to

622
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:28,840
just ditch our work and go see
him, but he wasn't playing until October,

623
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,199
so we were very sad. And
then we just went on our merryway

624
01:01:32,559 --> 01:01:38,559
and did our flute flute show stuff. We Rember Thanksgiving, Me and my

625
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:45,519
kids went for Thanksgiving and we went
to see Britney Spears. Oh cool,

626
01:01:45,119 --> 01:01:51,079
yzing? Was it less than one
hundred and fifty degrees? Then? Oh?

627
01:01:51,159 --> 01:01:55,519
I don't remember. I don't care. I feel like the warm weather.

628
01:01:57,039 --> 01:01:59,920
Yeah I do. When you're inside, it's fine. It's when you

629
01:02:00,119 --> 01:02:04,519
when you have to go outside.
Yeah, I remember just stepping outside and

630
01:02:04,639 --> 01:02:07,960
like my contact lens is dried up. It was just that hot. And

631
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:12,480
I'm a North country person, so
I don't do well in the heat.

632
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:20,159
I don't either, So anyway,
that is my choice for tonight hot fans

633
01:02:20,239 --> 01:02:22,920
exclusion. Excellent. That's a good
one, John, You're up next,

634
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:25,679
take it away, all right.
Well, I don't know if I can

635
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:31,480
top Becky's selections, you know,
or I really don't know if I can

636
01:02:31,519 --> 01:02:35,960
top that one here. Anyway,
my song tonight is Devil with a brew

637
01:02:36,039 --> 01:02:39,000
dress. Let me start over again, Devil with a blue dress on.

638
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:45,440
I tried to say that twice as
fast. Also unknown originally as Devil with

639
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:49,840
the blue dress on, and that
was something I did not know before I

640
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:54,159
did my little research here. It
was originally written by Frederick Long and William

641
01:02:54,239 --> 01:03:00,559
Stevenson in nineteen sixty four. However, their version is not very commercially successful.

642
01:03:00,639 --> 01:03:05,119
However, in nineteen sixty six,
the version by Mitch Ryder and the

643
01:03:05,199 --> 01:03:09,760
Detroit Reels wheel I Am So So
Bad Tonight. The Detroit Wheels made it

644
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:14,280
more of an up tempo medley,
and they combined it with Little Richard's song

645
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:19,039
good Golly, Missilemali and gave it
a bit of a sixties soul style,

646
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:22,320
and it was pretty darn successful.
It rose to number four in the US

647
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:28,199
Billboard Hot one hundred and nineteen sixty
six thanks to their rewrite of the song.

648
01:03:29,119 --> 01:03:30,199
So why don't we just go right
into the song and I have a

649
01:03:30,280 --> 01:04:00,800
couple of interesting points to make afterwards? Right all right? Jump up beat

650
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:06,719
beat by by football phone, look
at mining down because she ain't come when

651
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:13,719
the wig hat and change the mass, high heels shoes and a lookated when

652
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:18,840
the pearls and the timer race got
freds on the fingers and ever replayed Devil

653
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:35,119
the Devil wi back first to first, Mutu still come about be the finding

654
01:04:35,199 --> 01:04:45,159
colave to walk till to the differs, Captain, I can't say back to

655
01:04:46,079 --> 01:04:59,119
some ginger and a lot of fat
devil wa devil devil the kind of gether

656
01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:19,320
with as long the call of missus
mother don't like boll got the mohow like

657
01:05:19,519 --> 01:05:36,360
a fall Mama call moment seven by
the rack and the call of missus mall

658
01:05:39,159 --> 01:06:08,719
you're like fall roll beat beat by
book Once against she drove where a w

659
01:06:09,639 --> 01:06:15,360
sha come back gotta feel spierality that
where a firl in the diamond. They

660
01:06:15,639 --> 01:06:45,079
got right finger play Devil Devil all
Right. A couple of interesting facts.

661
01:06:45,079 --> 01:06:48,920
The Detroit Wheels were a backup band
for Mitch Rider, who was known for

662
01:06:49,159 --> 01:06:55,000
his rough singing style and charismatic performances
on stage. They worked as his backup

663
01:06:55,039 --> 01:07:00,559
from sixty four to sixty seven,
and this was quite a success. Some

664
01:07:00,719 --> 01:07:04,239
common interesting points about the song itself. It's had quite a few recordings over

665
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:08,440
the years. I can't say that
I found all of them, but I

666
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:13,079
could say there were a few here
I noticed. It was recorded by Pratt

667
01:07:13,159 --> 01:07:15,719
and McClain, who are best known
for the theme from the television series Happy

668
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:20,159
Days. Bruce Springsteen's version of the
song was part of his No Nukes concert

669
01:07:20,199 --> 01:07:26,000
album in nineteen eighty and he has
performed it regularly in concert from the nineteen

670
01:07:26,079 --> 01:07:30,440
seventies to the present. A Spanish
language version of the song was recorded by

671
01:07:30,519 --> 01:07:34,679
Los Lobos and released on the Eating
Raoul film soundtrack in nineteen eighty two.

672
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:40,480
I had no idea about any of
this, and yes, I have to

673
01:07:40,639 --> 01:07:45,719
look for that. Yes, And
the Duke University Basketball pep band plays the

674
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:49,760
song during Blue Devil home games and
after Blue Devil victories. And finally,

675
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:55,360
a version of The song was recorded
by Nicholas O'Har who that is for the

676
01:07:55,480 --> 01:08:03,519
nineteen nineties spoof of The Exorcist Repossessed. Okay, so your your homework everybody

677
01:08:03,719 --> 01:08:08,519
is to look up some of these, uh, these later versions and see

678
01:08:08,559 --> 01:08:13,239
how they compare to the nineteen sixty
six I hope you enjoyed it. Just

679
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:17,079
the whole Exorcist Repossess sounds like it's
right up my alley. You got her

680
01:08:17,119 --> 01:08:21,760
attention. Have you seen have you
seen the movie Eating Role? I have

681
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:29,119
not. Oh lordy, you have
to see that. It's so good,

682
01:08:30,159 --> 01:08:32,239
very good. It'll be on my
list. I'll find it on Netflix,

683
01:08:32,319 --> 01:08:38,359
I'm sure. Okay, maybe all
right, is there a teaser to go

684
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:40,880
with that? Or we just we're
on our own. We got to figure

685
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:44,079
it out. Oh, you're on
your own. I found the list of

686
01:08:44,359 --> 01:08:47,239
later versions, but I didn't really
have time to delve into each later version.

687
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:51,239
I'm sure each has its own kind
of unique style, should you say,

688
01:08:53,039 --> 01:08:55,600
But I had no idea that was
so many. There was also a

689
01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:59,760
movie as well of the same name. I believe it was nineteen ninety five

690
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:04,039
that came out, and um,
was was it Denzel Washington? I think

691
01:09:04,199 --> 01:09:08,760
was in it. But uh,
but anyway, it came out with a

692
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:13,359
lot of a lot of interesting versions, but the original itself from sixty four

693
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:17,199
was basically a bomb, which is
interesting because it was pretty popular from sixty

694
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:20,760
from sixty six on, right a
little too early? All right, cool,

695
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:26,319
thank you, John. That that
Mitch Rider version is just goes off

696
01:09:26,359 --> 01:09:30,920
the rails. You can't you can't
beat that. No, no, he's

697
01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:34,079
got such a that gravelly voice and
that quick tempo to it. It's just

698
01:09:34,279 --> 01:09:39,079
it. It very makes it really
catchy. Yeah. Yeah, the whole

699
01:09:39,119 --> 01:09:43,039
band is just out of control.
But yeah, but tight, tightly out

700
01:09:43,079 --> 01:09:47,159
of control. Perfect. I wish
I wish they had songs like that more

701
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:50,279
on playlist in the radio today.
I really do, because that that's a

702
01:09:50,359 --> 01:09:54,359
lot of fun. I would like
to hear that in a casual playlist ism,

703
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,159
you know, tooling along the Highway. If I got my FM on

704
01:09:57,319 --> 01:10:00,399
or something, you can put it
on your playlist, Yes, yeah,

705
01:10:00,399 --> 01:10:04,680
I could Spotify or Pandora and all
of those. Actually, yes, you're

706
01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:08,279
right, Yeah, all right,
thank you, John. We are in

707
01:10:08,359 --> 01:10:11,920
our final stretch. One more quick
break and we'll be back with Gail's pick.

708
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:21,399
Right up to this Hudson River Radio, Your Dog likes Us, Hudson

709
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:28,239
River Radio dot com, and welcome
back Yale, Take it away. The

710
01:10:28,399 --> 01:10:34,199
song I chose is by a band
called Cake, which sounds kind of yummy.

711
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:40,159
Actually, such a good band.
Yes they are, they have they

712
01:10:40,279 --> 01:10:46,279
have such good stuff. Um.
They're an alternative band from Sacramento in California.

713
01:10:47,079 --> 01:10:53,680
The singer is John McCrae. They
have h Rumpeter Vince di Fiori,

714
01:10:55,039 --> 01:11:00,600
guitarist Sean McCurdy. The guy's first
name is spelled x A and so I

715
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:04,600
hope I pronounced it right. They
are bassist is Daniel McCullum, and they

716
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:14,439
have a drummer called Todd Roper.
And they're noted for McCrae's sarcastic lyrics and

717
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:19,720
deadpan vocals, which I never thought
of it that way. I just like

718
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:30,000
them, so I don't know.
They have a lot of wide ranging influences.

719
01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:35,319
Um Nortagne, which I don't know
what that is, but it sounds

720
01:11:35,359 --> 01:11:42,119
like it's northern country music, mariactually
disco rock, funk, folk music and

721
01:11:42,359 --> 01:11:49,960
hip hop. Sounds very and yeah, eclectic, that's the word I was

722
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:59,039
trying to think of. H So
the song I shows is called short skirt,

723
01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:04,319
long jackets, and let's listen to
this. Listen to the lyrics,

724
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:17,840
and I'll tell you a couple of
things after the song. I want a

725
01:12:18,039 --> 01:12:24,840
girl with the mind like a diamond. I want a girl who knows what's

726
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:30,600
best. I want a girl with
shoes that cut and eyes that burn like

727
01:12:31,239 --> 01:12:38,800
cigarettes. I want a girl with
the right locations, who is fast and

728
01:12:39,039 --> 01:12:44,520
thorough and sharp as attack. She's
playing with her jewelry, she's putting up

729
01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:49,880
her hair, She's during the facility
and picking up slacket. I want a

730
01:12:50,039 --> 01:13:09,840
girl with a short skirt and a
lar jacket. I want a girl who

731
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:15,720
gets up early. I want a
girl who stays up late. I want

732
01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:23,359
a girl with uninterrupted prosperity, who
uses a machete to cut through red tape,

733
01:13:24,239 --> 01:13:29,359
with finger nails that shine like justice, and a voice that is dark

734
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:34,640
like tinted glass. She is fast, thorough, and sharper's attack. She

735
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:41,800
is touring the facility and picking up
slack. I want a girl with the

736
01:13:41,960 --> 01:14:21,359
short skirt and a long love jacket. I want a girl with a smooth

737
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:29,159
lipidation. I want a girl with
good dividuns. At that city bank,

738
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:34,000
we will meet accidently that we'll start
to talk when she borrows my pen.

739
01:14:35,319 --> 01:14:41,159
She wants a car with the cup
holder our arresque. She wants a car

740
01:14:41,479 --> 01:14:46,239
that will get her loud. She's
changing her name from Kitty to Curran.

741
01:14:46,720 --> 01:14:53,279
She's trading her energy for a white
Chrisier La Barran. I want a girl

742
01:14:53,479 --> 01:15:31,520
with the short skirt and a long
yet this guy's lyrics are terrific, Like

743
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:35,920
the beat, I really I do
too. And I don't know if any

744
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:39,880
of you noticed. I did notice
all of you were grooving to this,

745
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:45,159
so I guess I got a hit
here on my hands. Uh. I

746
01:15:45,199 --> 01:15:49,000
don't know if any of you noticed. During the verses, they play a

747
01:15:49,159 --> 01:15:56,640
variation of the chord structure from The
Velvet Underground's Sweet Chain. Yep, I

748
01:15:56,840 --> 01:16:00,640
did not notice that, but I
did, now that you mention it.

749
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:03,560
Yeah yeah, yeah I could.
Yeah I can put it in there.

750
01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:10,880
Yeah yeah yeah. This was actually
their first single from their two thousand and

751
01:16:11,079 --> 01:16:16,880
one album, Comforts Eagle, and
the lyrics you know you can tell they're

752
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:25,840
starting to describe an ideal fantasy woman, beginning with a simple want a woman

753
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:29,359
with a short skirt and a long
jacket, which I'm sorry to me,

754
01:16:29,479 --> 01:16:31,880
that sounds like kind of a weird
fashion choice, but what do I know?

755
01:16:34,960 --> 01:16:42,760
And it gets on being more and
more specific and elaborate, wonderfully elaborate,

756
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:50,520
as if he's telling a story about
a particular woman. It's been used

757
01:16:51,279 --> 01:16:59,800
in several other things. A thirty
second mostly instrumental cut of it is used

758
01:17:00,159 --> 01:17:03,640
the theme music for the NBC series
Chuck, which I've never seen, so

759
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:10,399
I don't know. It was used
in the film Waitress starring Kerry Russell,

760
01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:18,640
Nathan Phillion, and Andy Griffith,
and another use of an instrumental section was

761
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:26,479
used in the films All About Steve, The Changeup and Date Night. Apple

762
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:31,439
used the song in an ad for
their sixth generation iPod Nano. It was

763
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:38,079
used in a two thousand and one
episode of the TV series Er titled Blood,

764
01:17:38,359 --> 01:17:43,720
Blood, Sugar, Sex Magic.
It was used in a fast track

765
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:48,359
commercial for Summer Bags. It's a
playable song in the video game Rock Band

766
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:57,119
four. It's used in a series
of split tracks on an electric card mixing

767
01:17:57,359 --> 01:18:03,079
game Drop Mix by Hasbro. I
have no idea what that is. It

768
01:18:03,359 --> 01:18:11,399
was used in relation to New Zealand
social welfare clerk Christine Rankin when in two

769
01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:15,960
thousand and one, she lost a
high profile employment court case after the labor

770
01:18:16,079 --> 01:18:24,920
government decided not to renew her contract
with allegations oops of extravagance, spending,

771
01:18:25,239 --> 01:18:34,439
management style, and choice of wardrobe. The single went to Let's see Us

772
01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:42,079
Bubbling under Hot one hundred Singles,
It went up to nineteen. In the

773
01:18:42,119 --> 01:18:46,640
Adult Top forty, it went up
to thirty one, and in US Alternative

774
01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:53,159
Airplay Billboard it went up to seven. And I just adore the song.

775
01:18:53,279 --> 01:18:57,960
It's a fun song. They're such
a good band and my favorite song is

776
01:18:58,119 --> 01:19:05,720
never There of the Yeah they're playing
at Pier seventeen in the summer. Oh

777
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:15,880
we know where Girl's going to be
nice? Awesome? That was. That

778
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:17,520
was a really good one. I
never heard that one before. That was

779
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:21,119
a good one. I liked the
baseline, but that's that's my thing,

780
01:19:21,399 --> 01:19:25,039
right, Yeah, that was an
awesome baseline. Yeah, that was really

781
01:19:25,079 --> 01:19:28,880
good. All right, one more? You're ready. A lot of good

782
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:31,920
songs tonight, Yeah, a lot
of good ones, so lower your expectations.

783
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:40,920
I had trouble narrowing it down,
so my final four. One of

784
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:46,000
them is called Underwear Goes Inside the
Pants by Lazy Boy. I like bat

785
01:19:46,079 --> 01:19:50,920
already Yeah, lazy Boy, but
that turned out to be way more vulgar

786
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:57,800
than but we Can Get Away with
You. Next choice was Cosby Sweater by

787
01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:02,479
Hilltop Hoods in hip hop group.
The problem with that is that this song

788
01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:11,079
came out in twenty fourteen, literally
weeks before Cosby's scandal broke. The Hilltop

789
01:20:11,159 --> 01:20:16,119
Hoods basically wound up doing an apology
tour because the idea of a Cosby Sweater

790
01:20:16,279 --> 01:20:20,279
did a complete one eighty. Yeah, they had no idea it was coming.

791
01:20:20,399 --> 01:20:25,680
This song was done long before the
scandal broke, and just talk about

792
01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:31,359
bad timing for these four guys.
Yep and Mexican Hat danced by Alan Sherman,

793
01:20:31,479 --> 01:20:35,439
best known for Hellamuta, Hello Fare, and that was like, nah,

794
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:40,840
all right, But I went with
a song called Your Socks Don't Match

795
01:20:41,239 --> 01:20:45,159
by Bing Crosby and Louis Jordan.
I figured a little life lesson couldn't hurt

796
01:20:46,319 --> 01:20:50,359
super quick Bio one Bing. He
was born Harry Crosby Junior in nineteen oh

797
01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:55,079
three. He died in nineteen seventy
seven. During his prime, he was

798
01:20:55,319 --> 01:21:00,359
a leader in radio ratings, record
sales, and motion picture grosses. He

799
01:21:00,479 --> 01:21:04,800
recorded over sixteen hundred tracks and appeared
in over seventy movies seven zero movies,

800
01:21:05,119 --> 01:21:10,399
which is just amazing. Talk about
a career. He was widely recognized for

801
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:15,479
his efforts during World War Two in
raising morale and money. After World War

802
01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:18,560
Two, he got to see a
German real to real tape recorder that had

803
01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:24,039
been brought back to the United States
and he saw the potential. So he

804
01:21:24,159 --> 01:21:29,560
wound up investing fifty thousand dollars back
then in the Ampex Company, which became

805
01:21:30,079 --> 01:21:34,199
a leader in the recording industry.
He then convinced ABC to allow him to

806
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:41,960
prerecord his shows, which were then
mastered onto Ampex magnetic tape. That made

807
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:45,239
for outstanding quality. When he came
to broadcasting and to archiving, they could

808
01:21:45,279 --> 01:21:50,520
keep the shows. But he was
really motivated by golf. Prerecording his shows

809
01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:56,920
gave him more free time to go
out and play golf. Absolute genius.

810
01:21:57,159 --> 01:22:00,800
I think that's great. That's what
they do now. You record game shows,

811
01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:03,199
you record the whole season in a
couple of days and you're done.

812
01:22:03,359 --> 01:22:08,720
That's it. So props to him. It's genius. He was also a

813
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:13,159
wise investor. He invested in real
estate, he invested in professional baseball,

814
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:17,800
in TV, and he made a
fortune investing in Minute made orange juice.

815
01:22:18,079 --> 01:22:24,800
Of all things, who knew,
there's also one thing that he was one

816
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:29,760
of the first to do, and
that has influenced pretty much all of music

817
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:34,560
that came after being became known as
a crooner for his conversational, softer style

818
01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:41,199
of singing, and that was made
possible with the better quality microphones that had

819
01:22:41,319 --> 01:22:45,840
been developed in the nineteen forties that
gave better quality recordings. These new mics

820
01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:50,520
could pick up nuances and softer sounds
that earlier microphones couldn't. So now you

821
01:22:50,600 --> 01:22:55,239
had a separate mic in front of
the singer who could get in close like

822
01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:59,279
we're doing now, all of us
from home, and you could get a

823
01:22:59,359 --> 01:23:02,119
more personal, an intimate sound.
Before this, singers had to really belt

824
01:23:02,159 --> 01:23:04,760
it out loudly in order to be
heard. You had one or two mics

825
01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:09,520
that were picking up the whole band
in general, and the singer had to

826
01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:12,680
be really loud to be heard.
But now you could be really soft and

827
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:17,680
we say uptight uptight against the mic, and this just became the standard method

828
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:21,600
in big bands. Country music picked
it up. Think of the rat pack,

829
01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:25,840
you know. Frank Sinatra was one
of the next group that did it.

830
01:23:26,199 --> 01:23:30,119
Everybody got up real close that each
had their own individual microphones. Seems

831
01:23:30,319 --> 01:23:32,560
like common sense now, but it
was actually innovative at the time. And

832
01:23:33,199 --> 01:23:36,520
think about it now. Have you
ever seen a singer without their own microphone?

833
01:23:38,319 --> 01:23:41,199
Nowadays it's all wireless, but they're
all walking around the stage carrying their

834
01:23:41,239 --> 01:23:45,640
room. So that's being about Louie. Jordan Louie was born in nineteen o

835
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:49,279
eight. He died in nineteen seventy
five. He was a popular band leader

836
01:23:49,319 --> 01:23:55,439
and saxophonist in the late nineteen thirties
through the fifties. He became known as

837
01:23:55,520 --> 01:23:59,560
the King of the jukebox. He
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall

838
01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:02,800
of Fame in nineteen eighty seven as
an early influencer and like being. He

839
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:08,239
also appeared in a number of films
thanks to Tom and Jerry. He is

840
01:24:08,319 --> 01:24:11,880
probably best known for his song is
You Is? Or Is You Ain't?

841
01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:15,359
My Baby? If you guys remember
that one. Yeah. He also did

842
01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:19,720
a version of baby It's Cold Outside
with Ella Fitzgerald. That is a controversy

843
01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:25,319
for another show. When he made
it big, his fees went through the

844
01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:28,680
roof, as they should. He
was making about two thousand dollars per night

845
01:24:29,199 --> 01:24:31,479
back then, which is I don't
even know what that would be nowadays.

846
01:24:32,239 --> 01:24:36,560
He also realized that with the right
musicians, his group would sound just as

847
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:42,760
good with five musicians as it did
with the seventeen or eighteen that he normally

848
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:47,039
had, and he could charge the
same amount of money. So the music

849
01:24:47,119 --> 01:24:53,399
industry picked up on what he was
doing and started hiring fewer and fewer musicians,

850
01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:58,479
and basically, Louie Jordan ruined his
own style of big band music because

851
01:24:59,279 --> 01:25:01,680
big bands we're no more because nobody
would pay for them. They would pay

852
01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:04,560
for smaller groups. So he kind
of shot himself in the foot with that.

853
01:25:06,359 --> 01:25:11,319
The song Your Socks Don't Match was
off the nineteen forty eight album Bing

854
01:25:11,399 --> 01:25:16,279
Crosby Sings with Lionel Hampton, Eddie
Haywood, Louie Jordan. What I found

855
01:25:16,359 --> 01:25:24,880
surprising is that everybody was black except
Bing, and I could not find any

856
01:25:25,640 --> 01:25:30,439
controversy over that. This was,
you know, the nineteen forties, segregation

857
01:25:30,560 --> 01:25:32,680
was still in full swing. You'd
think there would be some kind of backlash,

858
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:36,760
some kind of outcrying. Nothing.
I couldn't find anything about that,

859
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:41,319
which good. I think that's awesome. Yeah, that was a pleasant surprise

860
01:25:41,880 --> 01:25:46,439
looking this up. So this track
your Socks Don't Match was recorded with Louie

861
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:50,880
Jordan and his Timpani five on July
twenty six, nineteen forty four, and

862
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:55,520
it was shelved for four years before
this album was released in nineteen forty eight.

863
01:25:56,119 --> 01:25:59,800
It is a lesson for us gentlemen
that no matter what, no matter

864
01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:02,720
how much of a catch, you
may be a chick their words now mine,

865
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:08,720
a chick will reject you if your
socks don't match. So let's check

866
01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:18,720
it out. We have such high
standards. We heard a chick just the

867
01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:27,399
other day cooling out her boyfriend in
every way. She kept on qualkin,

868
01:26:28,039 --> 01:26:35,119
full of complaints like she expected folks
to be saying. She insisted that he

869
01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:41,760
looked me. So this was her
complaint, complete report to the nation.

870
01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:48,880
I liked the dimple in your chin. I like the tricky way you groom.

871
01:26:50,039 --> 01:26:54,920
Still you ain't no kind of cats, you know? Why don't you

872
01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:59,840
tell him? Dog on your son? Your socks don't man. The tea

873
01:27:00,119 --> 01:27:05,600
you have furly white, all your
lips are sweet, and you pucker right.

874
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:13,680
You're the kind live my latch.
But dogs on you boy, Your

875
01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:19,880
socks don't match. The shoes you
wear, reveal your horse one red and

876
01:27:20,039 --> 01:27:30,279
one bright blue. That told strangers
and I suppose you should introduce those two.

877
01:27:31,600 --> 01:27:38,520
You got two eyes of lovely blues. Cute little pud knows, I

878
01:27:38,720 --> 01:27:44,840
go for two. Though you're the
bets of all. The batch. Can't

879
01:27:44,960 --> 01:28:01,880
know you song because your socks don't
match. That's a quick riff satch,

880
01:28:02,199 --> 01:28:20,640
but your socks don't match. By
your lyle is violent, your gotten righting

881
01:28:23,039 --> 01:28:30,119
shoes you wear? Reveal your hoes
one red, one bright blue, the

882
01:28:30,479 --> 01:28:39,800
total strangers and eyes her poles.
You should introduce those too. You got

883
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:45,079
two eyes of lovely blues, talking
loop, A cute little puck knows.

884
01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:47,960
I go for two. I didn't
hope get in here. Though you're the

885
01:28:48,079 --> 01:28:55,079
best of all the batch tain't no
use some cus your socks don't match.

886
01:28:55,279 --> 01:29:00,960
You got a red one, a
blue one that ain't gonna do. So

887
01:29:01,239 --> 01:29:08,199
your socks done. Not a bad
lesson, right, I like it.

888
01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:11,920
It has a cool kind of a
you know, old style beat to it.

889
01:29:12,039 --> 01:29:15,960
Yeah, laid back. So when
you're listening to Being and Louis sing,

890
01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:18,239
there's a lot of low end,
a lot of the base they're using

891
01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:23,439
to their advantage what's called the proximity
effect. The closer you get into a

892
01:29:23,520 --> 01:29:27,640
microphone and boosts up the low end. And that's something that being picked up

893
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:32,560
on these with these better microphones.
So low end notes, you know,

894
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:36,279
deeper notes take a lot more energy
to be heard than higher end, so

895
01:29:36,439 --> 01:29:41,119
as you back off, the low
end drops off faster. That's why even

896
01:29:41,279 --> 01:29:44,119
when you go to a concert now
there's a ton of sub worffers and a

897
01:29:44,159 --> 01:29:46,680
ton of low end speakers and fewer
high end speakers because it takes that much

898
01:29:46,720 --> 01:29:49,800
more energy. So when you get
in real tight to a microphone and you're

899
01:29:49,840 --> 01:29:53,960
doing that crooner kind of voice,
it really boosts the low end and it

900
01:29:54,039 --> 01:29:57,560
sounds great. So he was one
of the first to really do that and

901
01:29:57,640 --> 01:30:00,359
bring that to the forefront. That's
what everybody's doing and now it had great

902
01:30:00,359 --> 01:30:04,119
effect. Yep, yep, it
worked. So there you go. I

903
01:30:04,239 --> 01:30:09,199
think I think everybody learned a lot
today. Yeah, yeah, I have

904
01:30:09,279 --> 01:30:15,199
to go check my sucks. The
while Johns song was playing, you know,

905
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:18,319
with the Mitch Rider, I was
trying to look up what an alligator

906
01:30:18,399 --> 01:30:23,720
hat is because I really don't know. Now you google it. And the

907
01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:26,960
only thing that comes up is Amazon
with hats that look like an alligator,

908
01:30:27,439 --> 01:30:32,079
And I'm like, this is wasting
my time with this in yours for like

909
01:30:32,199 --> 01:30:38,119
two ninety nine exactly, So I'm
gonna pass on that. I'm going to

910
01:30:38,159 --> 01:30:41,479
assume that's not what the song's about. But yeah, you never know,

911
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:45,000
it might be time for a new
version. So all right, um,

912
01:30:45,359 --> 01:30:47,359
I think we should pull the plug
while we're still on track, which is

913
01:30:47,439 --> 01:30:51,439
very unusual for us. So I
want to thank all the Crambones again for

914
01:30:51,479 --> 01:30:55,279
all their hard work and thank you
all for joining us here on the rock

915
01:30:55,279 --> 01:30:58,840
and all history show stuff. It
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916
01:30:58,960 --> 01:31:00,159
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917
01:31:00,560 --> 01:31:03,319
We have a little bit of something
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918
01:31:03,399 --> 01:31:05,960
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919
01:31:06,039 --> 01:31:10,640
a great weekend. Until then,
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920
01:31:10,640 --> 01:31:12,319
a yet about dud, a lot
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921
01:31:12,399 --> 01:31:20,279
cock bottom and tram Okay, Bye
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