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Rock and Roll History Show. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Rock
and Roll History Show on Brian Harrowitz. Once again, we have a very
interesting topic lined up for you. But before we hop in, allow me
to introduce all the crambones out of joining us here tonight. First and foremost,
from the Richter Observatory. He was wondering why the frisbee kept getting bigger
and bigger, and then it hit him. Neil Richter is here. Ouch.
Hey, everybody much out for that frisbee. Keep your eyes peeled from
paranormally yours. She has a friend named Jack who says he can communicate with
vegetables. In other words, Jack and the beans talk. Gayl nucom is
here from the silver screen. She saw two whales walk into a bar.
The first one said we and the second one goes, shut up, Steve,
you're drunk. Mercedes kentis here him. Mercedes oh Man, Hey,
everybody joining us. From his home studio, he went to buy some camouflage
pants, but he couldn't find any. John Kelly is here, Hi John,
everybody. Goodyear. Very good Brian, as usual, very good.
Thank you. From her secret bunker. She moved around a lot growing up,
and she figured out the difference between a northern fairytale and a Southern fairytale.
A northern fairytale begins with once upon a time, and a Southern fairytale
starts with y'all ain't gonna believe this, Becky, that was great, Brian.
I think it's accurate in my experience. And last or not at least
multitasking from her kitchen, tonight our newest official Cranbone. She wants you to
know that you shouldn't brush your teeth with your left hand, because a toothbrush
works better. Jessica Dean is back high jess Hey, everybody, how are
you doing tonight? All right? So tonight'sts Brian, Thank you, thank
you, thank you. Every once in a while, things line up and
come together. Mercedes, Tonight's topic was your idea would you like to bring
us in tonight? There's actually not much to expound about it. But it's
clothing songs about clothing, and um, I don't know. I don't think
anybody picked it. I mean kind of what I had in my head was
like raspberry beret, that's the first thing to pop. That's what I was
thinking. But then I was thinking that there's a lot of songs that are
actually about clothings. And I could kick myself because I just thought of one
that I should have picked and didn't. Fashion. Oh yeah, that's a
tad. Well why did I not pick that? We can come back and
visit it again, So do your research and come back there you go,
have it, have it on standby, ready for the next round. So
all right, why don't we just we'll hop right in and Neil's going to
lead us off this week, So take it away, Neil, Well,
thank you, thank you. Yes, my article of clothing. Usually I
think, you know, clothing is optional, but in this case, I'll
be wearing a pair of black slacks because black Slacks is the name of the
song that I picked for this show. It's a rockabilly song and was first
re recorded by a band called the Sparkle Tones. And what a cool name
is that they were sometimes known as Joe Bennett and the Sparkle Tones in nineteen
fifty seven. The Sparkle Tones consisted of Joe Bennett on vocals and guitar,
Wayne Arthur on double bass or double bass around here as we say, Howard
Sparky Childress on guitar, and Jimmy Stix Denton he was on drums. If
you hadn't figured that out, I was gonna say, did he play the
clarinet or something. The song was written co written by both Bennett and Denton.
The Sparkletones were formed in nineteen fifty six in Spartanburg, South Carolina,
while the group's members were still in high school, with ages ranging from thirteen
to sixteen years old. They were noticed by a CBS talent scout after they
took first prize at an open audition. They were flown to New York City
and signed with ABC Paramount. The band recorded Black Slacks during their first recording
session. Interestingly enough, singer writer Paul Anka, who was also in the
recording studio that day, added some background vocals to another track they recorded called
Boppin' Rock Boogie during that same session. Black Slacks was released as a single
became a local hit before building up a wider audience that launched a US tour
and landed the group on national TV shows like The Nat King Cole Show,
American Bandstand, and Yup, The Ed Sullivan Show. Black Slack stage on
the US charts for over four months. It reached number eleven on the R
and B chart, hit number seventeen on the Billboard Top one hundred Pop chart,
and was ranked on the Billboard year end Hot one hundred Singles chart at
number one hundred. Just made it all in nineteen fifty seven, So let's
give it a listen. Black slacks, lack slack, black slacks, black
slack. Black slacks make a good dadio. I'm raring to go. When
I'm gonna play this, I just don't care. You know why you see
you when I ware black slash take fourteen black slacks. Really arty. Black
slacks make a cool dadio when I put them on. I'm running to go,
man, y'all see me with the derby. Y'all. I know that
you will say gonna lack slacks mostly in a black slack. Well that's what
I said, black slack. I'm a captain John All run around with crazy
little more. Where the girls all look when I go by? When I
wear the naked side black slacks, I wear it both time, black slacks.
They ain't me all my black slacks with a cat chain down on my
knees. I ain't done. But the real google black slacks, black slacks,
black slack, black slacks, black slacks, Good ladio. When I
put them, I'm ready to go to put them on. I'm rearing to
going to put them on. I'm raring to go. Black slacks, black
slacks, black slack, black slacks. All right, repeat after me.
Black slacks. I was gonna say it sounded black. They were either giving
somebody a raspberry or the motor problem. Yes, well, what's better than
one pair of black slacks? Two pairs of black slacks? Here's the question?
Why not to interrupt you, But I'm interrupting you anyway. If you
take a pair of slacks and you cut it in half, what do you
have black? I don't know. Is it a slack? Well, it's
like, what do they call it? A pair of pants? Right?
Cut in half? What do you have a pant? Okay? Sorry,
carry on, well anyway, black slacks was also covered by the legendary rockabilly
revivalist Robert Gordon, friend of Hudson River Radio, which we'll talk about that
in a little bit. Gordon was born in nineteen forty seven in Bethesda,
Maryland. He moved to New York City in the early nineteen seventies and was
part of the early CBGB Max's Kansas City scene. During the mid seventies,
he was the same for the band Tough Darts, and they appeared on a
compilation LP called Live at CBGB's had also included a number of other local New
York City bands in nineteen seventy six. Not on that album were bands like
The Ramones, Talking Heads, and Blondie because they had already signed contracts and
you weren't legally allowed to be on that album. But it's pretty cool,
so you checked that out. But record producer Richard Gotterer, he of The
Strange Loves and I Want Candy Fame, heard Gordon and suggested that he team
up with nineteen fifties guitar legend Link Ray, which they did, and the
two released two LPs in nineteen seventy seven and seventy eight on Gotterer's private stock
label. Gordon then signed with RCA Records, which I guess was a dream
come true for him because RCIA was also the label that Elvis Presley was on,
so he was good company. That's when he recorded his third studio album,
Rock Billy Boogie, and it contains his version of black slacks. This
time he was with British guitar legend Chris Spedding in nineteen seventy nine, so
that LP it peaked at number one oh six on the Billboard Top two hundred.
Let's give that one. Listen. Black sacks, black sacks, black
black slacks, black slacks, Mayo Dando with the Bludeman. I'm a raring
to goal when I go places that own, why to see what I wear?
The blacksacks, backsack, backsacks, the blue moon. I'm raaring to
goal man. You are to see him with my der, you would say
he's go on backsacks, backsacks, the BLACKSACKA thought to run around cras a
little mama. Yeah, where the girls all look when I go by?
That makes some sign a backslack. I wear a red bull, a black
slack. They save me all my black slacks, and the captain down the
money. I ain't nothing but the real Koree Black Slack, the black Slack,
black Slack, black slack, the black Slacks. Man who Daddy We
through the moan. I'm wearing the gold who threw the moon? I'm wearing
the Goldman. I'm raring to go black black slack, black slack, black
slack, black slack, black slack. If that song doesn't put a smile
on your face, I don't know what will. Let me tell you well.
Robert Gordon continued to release numerous studio and live records, perform live and
as well appear on TV and in films sadly before he passed away last year
October twenty twenty two at the age of seventy five. As I said earlier,
he was on Mercedes Show the Silver Screen as a guest. Ryan was
a part of that so as a tie and it's quite an interesting character.
I know, We've got some interesting stories. I know, I you know,
and I know Mercedes has too. Saw him perform live over the years
decades numerous times. You know. I saw him play with Link Ray,
I saw him play as recently as a few years back with Chris Betting as
well as you know, back in the eighties, I saw him play with
Chris Spedding and I think the well the most interesting time he played. He
used to do a Valentine's Day show here in Rockland County at the Turning Point,
which is in Pierremont and every year, and at one point fellow I
was playing with who was you know, did kind of a rockabilly fifties sound,
and I used to play in his band, you know, when he
needed a band. He was doing a solo as an opening act for Robert
Gordon at one of these shows at the Turning Point. I think I was
working that night, so I didn't get there. There were two shows,
so I didn't get there till the second show, and he came up to
me, my friend, and said, you want to sit in and play
with you know, and just play drums behind me, like you know,
like real rockabilly, this guitar and drums. I said, sure, I'd
be thrilled. So I got to. Actually, you know, I was
unplanned or you know, I had no idea. It was not my intention,
but I showed up and actually open for Robert Gordon, wow and set
at the Turning Point. After the set, the owner John m came up
and said, would you like to you know, before they go on,
you want to come up to the dressing rooms and meet to meet Robert.
And I was like, oh, I'd be thrilled too. Sure, So
we go up there. We knock on the door and his his like you
know, manager or handler comes to the door. He's like, well,
um yeah. When we look in, Robert Gordon is this is in between
shows, passed out cold on the couch, like like face down, just
like you know, not not conscious. So we were like He's kind of
like I think you'd probably that's not a good time. And We're like okay,
oh I walked out and I'm like going, how is it going to
get? How? How how is it going to do the second show?
You know, there's no way. So the band comes on, which they
would do usually in U is a longtime bass player, Rob Stoner, you
know, leading the you know the it was a trio you know, bass
guitar and drums from Rockland County. Yes, yes, it lives in Rockland
County as well. So they usually do a couple of songs, you know,
just to warm up the you know, the audience, and then they
launch into his first song, you know, with a I think the way
I walk, you know, the door opens up, he comes out like
a ball of fire, hits the stage and I'm like, where were they
hiding you? He was, he was, and he was on it,
put on a great show. I guess he took I guess he took a
power nap. That's probably what it was, something along that line, but
a little gatorade, you know something. But he was a handful. I
mean I know three club owners that used to have him all the time because
the audiences love him. But man, he was tough to work with.
I mean, yeah, people quit, Oh my gosh. Yeah, it
was crazy. You know. He had to have a certain defined kind of
microphone stand and if that wasn't it, he wouldn't play, and he would
have a little bit of a temper tantrum and a little bit yeah if the
sound check walk off, if the monitors weren't weren't right, oh yeah,
and they never and they were never right. It was almost like a ritual.
Yeah, he would he would you be up there, no, no,
turn it up, turn it down a little more, trouble a little.
And I was like, at first, I thought it was just you
know, an isolated incident. I saw it happen almost at every show,
and I'm like, yeah, nope, that's that's his thing. I saw
him so many times, and when I first moved to these village, you
know, back in the day, he and Snooky from man A Panic were
sort of the king and Queen of the Lower East Side. They were they
were a long time couple, and they were awesome, and when they were
out and about, it was kind of cool to see them. I loved
him forever since the first record that of his that came out. But I'll
tell you I got to I never I got to meet him a couple of
times in that he would say something to me as he was walking onto the
stage. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh he was with the audience.
He was very personal and yeah, and very and gracious like that. Yes.
But I got to know real well when he was coming on my radio
show, because he would call me at eight thirty in the morning, and
he would call me at eleven o'clock at night. He wanted to mind and
this is weeks weeks before the show, so one hour radio show, and
he wanted to make sure we were going to cover this or not covered that,
or could he play this song or oh my gosh. No. It
went on constantly. And then after the show, which was a great show
and is on one of my podcasts. Um, afterwards he would call me
and say, howd it go? What do people think? Just talking about
it for like a week afterwards. Well, he likes to be prepared.
I like that. That was good. Yeah. Then one night he was
you know, I was. I had him on the phone and yeah,
you ended the interview, thanks for being on here, blah blah blah,
and you know, he hung up and you were going to do your normal
outro. The phone rang again immediately and it was him. How was that?
And I'm like, oh, we still on? You want to go
back? And he's like, no, no, no, I just wanted
to make sure that was all good. So I did attend his funeral,
which, as Neil said, was in was last October, which was you
know it was. It was really said. They played a bunch of his
music in the beginning, which was very cool. Um, it's a lot
of people there of interest, but it's said he was a you know,
he was a special performer. Indeed, indeed, again very very glad I
got to see him, and well we went and saw him together at least
once, maybe a couple of times. Yeah, and always a great show,
so cool, all right, perfect, perfect night off. Yeah,
great song love that one. Um, We're gonna just hop out and take
a real quick break and we're gonna be back with Mercedes. Pick right into
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welcome back tonight. We are talking about clothing in rock music, oddly specific,
and we're up to Mercedes. Take it away, Mercedes. I feel
like I'm going to be a real bummer this show, and I feel like
that's not typically my role on here. But but it's fun, right,
I don't know. Oh, you'll get used to it, trust me,
okay. So in These Shoes is a song by Christy McCall, who is
a British singer and songwriter. Her first single was They Don't Know, which
was released in nineteen seventy nine. It peaked at number two on the Music
Week Airplay UK chart. However, a distributor strike prevented copies of the single
getting into the record stores, and the single consequently failed to appear on the
UK Singles Chart. That's coincidentally, that's what happened to the Rubenus this same
year because of the same strike. They came out with a record. They
were on tour with Elvis Costello, and their record was not in the record
store. And as much as people liked them, you know, they were
opening for this guy, and as much as people saw them and liked them,
they couldn't buy the record. Wow. Tracy Ullman later released that same
song they Don't Know and Tracy Ullman's recording of the song and you may know
it from her version, Yeah I know it. Yeah. Tracy Allman's recording
of the song was a Billboard Top ten hit. Allman's version reached number eight
on the US Hot one hundred in April nineteen eighty four, and did even
better in the UK, hitting number two in September nineteen eighty three. McCall
also sang back up on the track because parts of it were just too high
pitched for Ullmen. She was on Stiff Records at the time, and after
the distributors Strike Fiasco. They were not so much behind her second single,
so she moved to Polydor in nineteen eighty one and had a number fourteen UK
hit with are You Ready for This? There's a guy who works down the
chip shop swears he's Elvis. I love that, so you know what the
song's about right off the bat. Yeah, what's a chip shop like?
Like fish and chips. Mccaull re emerged in the British charts in December nineteen
eighty seven, reaching number two with The Pogues on fairy Tale of New York,
singing a duet with Shane McGowan. This led to her accompanying the Pogues
on their British and European tour in eighteen eighty eight. When Stiff went bankrupt
in nineteen eighty six, McCall was left unable to record in her own right
as no company. No record company had bought her contract from the official receiver,
who was Stiff Records, so she was out there, but she couldn't
control her her career. However, she had regular session work as a backing
vocalist, and she frequently sang on records produced or engineered by her husband luckily
was Steve Lillywhite, including tracks for Robert Plant, The Smiths, Alison Moye,
Shriekback, Simple Minds, Talking Heads, Big Country, and she also
performed backing vocals for the likes of The Pogues, Billy Bragg, The Smiths,
The Rolling Stones, Happy Mondays, Morrissey, Talking Head, Simple Minds,
Alison, Robert Plant and David Byrne and more, and that issue was
finally resolved in nineteen eighty nine and Christie could again record on her own.
She did have some success on her own, and after several trips to Cuba
and Brazil, she recorded the world music inspired Tropical Brainstorm, particularly Cuban and
other Latin American forms of music, which was released in two thousand and two
critical acclaim, including the song in These Shoes which is my son for this
show Today. In the year two thousand, McCall took a holiday in Cosommel,
Mexico with her sons and her boyfriend, musician. She obviously split up
with Steve lily White, and on December eighteenth, two thousand, she and
her sons sorry went diving at the Chonka nab Reef, part of the National
Marine Park of Cosomel in a designated diving area that watercraft were restricted from entering.
With a group was a local veteran dive master, and as the group
was surfacing from a dive, a power boat moving at high speed entered the
restricted area. McCall saw the boat coming before her sons did. Lewis,
age thirteen at the time, was not in its path, but Jamie,
age fifteen was. She was able to push him out of the way.
He sustained minor head and rib injuries, but she was struck by the power
boat, which ran over her. She suffered severe chest and head injuries and
died instantly. She was forty one. I'm a bummer tonight, count so
sad. I feel like she had a rough time all the way through,
with all the things that happened to her that were not of her control at
all. Anyway, it's a really good song, so let's hear the song
that'll cheer you up. I once met a man with a sense of advantage,
and he was dressed to thrill. Whenever he said, let's my glove
on the mountain top under the stars on a big hard rock I don't think
so I said, Hi, let's do it. Here. So I'm sitting
at a bar and wat a la hi, and walks a guy with a
far away look in his eyes. He said, I've got a powerful horse
outside. Climb on the back. I'll take you for a ride and know
a little place we can get that for the break of day. I said,
in these shoes, no way, Jose, I said, honey,
let's stay right here. M no. Then I met an englishman. Oh,
he said, are you won't you walk up and down my spine?
It makes me feel strangely alive, I said, in this shop, I
doubt you to survive. I said, honey, let's do it. Let's
stay right here, lest no play my almost play my life. And so
this time double legles mean no playing mon lie almost play in my life.
And listen when you les me, no way, my almost play in my
life. And let's stay around here, les me no play my life almost
way in my life. And now I need a margarita. Yeah that had
like a nice Latin that kind of feel to it. Yeah, I love
Latin music. Yeah yeah, I also had it almost had a James Bond
theme feel on top of it. Yeah. Yeah, that was awesome And
and I love I love the little Spanish things they're saying roughly translated in in
the the Yeah, something something about don't want to walk, can't ride the
horse? Um? Perfect? How how do we dance? It's a scandal.
I love it. I love it. So. The song has been
covered by Bette Midler, which I did listen to, and I like Christy
McCall's version better. Bet Miler one is a little bit too how to Vegas.
Yeah, And this song is also featured in Sex in the City and
the film Kinky Boots. So I think it's perfect. In a review of
Tropical Brainstorm the album, David Botter from The Associated Press considered In These Shoes
to be a hilarious song about a woman whose obsession with fashion pumps. Excuse
me, I knew I was going to say that wrong. A hilarious song
about a woman whose obsession with fashion trumps all other interests. The song samples
Spanish Grease, which is a track written by Willie Bobo and Melvin Lastie and
first recorded by Bobo in nineteen sixty five. During an appearance on Later with
Jules Holland, which was a UK show, McCall said about the song,
it's about being a fashion, victim, being a slave to fashion, crippling
yourself in the process. And that's the song. I love it. That
was a great one, very cool, awesome. All right, Jess,
you're up. All right. That's a hard act to follow, I know,
right. I considered a couple of different songs. Yeah, you brought
us down. He made me say it, and then you brought it back.
That was good. I had to get the bad part out of the
word. That was planned. Stage is set for Jess perfect. Yeah,
you gotta bring bring it up, bring it up, which this song does.
So after a couple of selections that I considered that just really paled in
comparison, I settled on Forever in Blue Jeans by Neil Diamond, which was
released in nineteen seventy eight on the album You Don't Bring Me Flowers, and
it was later released as a single by Columbia Records in February of nineteen seventy
nine. The song peaked at number twenty on the Billboard Hot one hundred and
number two on the Easily Easy Listening chart in March of seventy nine. So
let's go ahead and table listen and it talks, but it don't sing,
and dance and don't wall. As long as Zach can have you he with
me, I'd much travel be forever in blue jeans, onny sweet, but
it ain't nothing next to babies treat. If you pardon me, I'd like
to sing with you, old cave river in blue jeans, Beave it tonight,
beave it tonight by the fire, all alone you and night, nothing
around but the sound of my heart, your size, But he thought,
but it can't sing dancing detan walk as long as I can have you here
with me, That the travel be the river in blue jeans, baby and
hot it is sweet, be then nothing next to babies treat. If you
pardon me, I'd like to say we do. Can the river in blue
jeans? Leave it tonight, bed it tonight by the fire, all alone
you and night, nothing around but the sound of my heart and your side
in my head. Time, But we don't sing and dancing the down wall.
Zach, have you here, whear me let let's traveled beans, Let
bother say we do jae jeans, baby, Zach me. That was Forever
in Blue Jeans that he co wrote with his guitarist Richard Bennett and uh Neil
Diamond himself was actually quoted saying the simple things are really the important things,
and that's the ultimate messaging of the song, which I thought was was really
cool. Um just you know, it's not so much about the clothing itself,
but kind of what it stands for and the simple life and just being
able to appreciate the um, you know, the simple things and family in
life. Um. Cash Box called the song a pleasant tribute to doing okay
without the glitter of wealth and fame. So I thought that that was m
you know again, another nice way to sum it up. All right,
it's coming from one of the wealthiest people in show business. It's going to
say, just because he wrote it doesn't mean he lived it. Not only
his own songs, but he wrote a couple of the biggest hits for the
Monkeys, I'm a boot, a little bit, a little bit you.
So he's saying you don't get it. He's saying, you don't give me
fiers with Barbara and didn't slap her. So good for him, and hearing
that took me back to my youth. Nice. Yeah, I think it's
a I think it's a great song. And of course, you know,
tidbits about the song no surprise, it was used to advertise Blue Jeans,
and one of the ads that was done with it was done in September of
two thousand and one with Will Ferrell actually impersonating Neil Diamond for the gap and
the commercial runs about thirty seconds. It's pretty hilarious because you know it's Will
Ferrell. And now there was an unsighted note in one of the references that
I looked at, so I can't verify that it's true, but apparently in
the sixties, way before this song, Neil Diamond actually had done ads for
Hi S Jeans himself, So that's just like, you know, the irony
of history that he would do those type of ads and then do this song
later on. So I thought that was kind of interesting. And then as
far as rabbit Holes looking at Will Farrell and Blue Jeans, one of the
things that comes up on the feed is an snl skit that Will Farrell did
on November twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, that was a fake ad for Blue
Jeans, and it is just hilarious because it's just so far fetched and ridiculous.
So if you want to look that up and maybe see some things that
might not be considered appropriate for any other show that Saturday Night Live, and
um, you know that's that'll definitely give you a good a gig, good
giggle. So that's what I have for tonight, Nice Mercedes. You might
know I thought Neil Diamond held or still holds the record for the most expensive
divorce in history. Who I don't remember all the details, but I don't
know that fact, but I am. I believe it. Yeah, totally
believe. Yeah, yeah, that was you know, marriage was not in
his skill set. But that's why he's still in blue jeans. He can't
be good at everything that's true, that is true, songwriting and performing and
all of that kind of stuff. His musical just launched a couple of months
ago, too, right, it's a musical, I believe, so yeah,
I think it's on Broadway now. But and he's Scott Parkinson's is something
similar. He makes appearances in like the balcony at the musical every once in
a while. But oh well, yeah, I don't think. I don't
think he's going to be performing, so but very sad that I've seen him
performing and it's been great shows. Yeah, So I'm I'm going to see
Tom Jones in Oh my god. Wow, that's awesome. Saw him before,
awesome show, so excited. Don't buy the throwing undergarments because he ignores
it. I don't think our seats are anywhere near throwing undergarments. All right,
if you throw people in front of you're gonna be really mad. So
there's two really you probably shouldn't. Besides, it's me and my friend Doris,
who just turned eighty, so that would be rather oh not touching that
one. Nope. Yeah, there's many many turns you could take on those
jokes, and I'm not Yes, she's very exciting any of that. Now,
he puts on a great show. He still sounds great. Yeah,
so excellent. All right, awesome, thank you, Jess. We're gonna
take another real quick break and we will be right back. This is Hudson
River Radio dot Com. Oh right, Hot's your radio dot com. I'm
so nicer hot you can't stop and welcome back. Let's just jump right back
in and Becky, you are up all right, So I hope everybody is
ready to have fun with my choice because it is hot Pants Explosion by the
B fifty twos, and it was the very first song that came to mind.
When I knew this was the topic. I love the song I know
I chose to be fifty twos. A couple of shows ago and I talked
a little bit about their background, but just to recap in case people in
radio land don't know about the B fifty twos. I guess they're considered a
new wave band. They formed in nineteen seventy six, which means they are
one year younger than I am. I had no idea until I did all
this deep research on them. Their first concert, they played a Valentine's Day
show for their friends. In nineteen seventy seven, they released rock Lobster,
which I'm sure everybody knows. Nineteen seventy eight the first album, What's Up
Yeah. Rock Lobster is just like an iconic B fifty two songs Yeah,
and nineteen seventy nine was their first album. I won't go into many details.
You could spend your life reaching about the B fifty twos, but sadly,
one of the founding members, which I forgot to mention. The founding
members were Ricky and Cindy Wilson, Keith Strickland, Kate Pearson, and Fred
Schneider, and they all met in Athens, Georgia, Ricky and Cindy Wilson
brother and sister. Keith Strickland was Ricky's friend, and Kate and Fred came
down from New Jersey and landed in Athens. Kate was doing some farming and
things like that, and Fred was at the University of Georgia and he wrote
a book of poems and then he dropped out. When they all met and
shared a volcano drink at a Chinese restaurant and then started the band. But
sadly, Ricky Wilson died in nineteen eighty five at the age of thirty two
from aids. So when he died he had been the group's guitarist and Keith
Strickland was the drummer. So Keith decided to go over to guitar and play
it in the style of Ricky and then just have other folks to the rhythm
section when they moved ahead after Ricky's death, So that was in eighty five,
and it was really devastating, especially to Cindy. So they took a
little hiatus and they came back in nineteen eighty nine and a big comeback album
was Cosmic Thing, which I'm sure everybody knows love Shack was like the biggest
single from Cosmic Thing, and love Shack was actually their first top top top
forty Billboard song, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot one hundred.
So Cosmic Thing was produced by Nile Rodgers and Don Was And the song that
I chose Hot Pant's Explosion was from the next album, Good Stuff, which
was released in nineteen ninety two. It charted at It charted for fifteen weeks,
peaking at number sixteen on Billboard two hundred, which is the listing of
albums. Probably people in radio lands will know the title track good Stuff,
that was on the radio a lot, and this one not so much.
But I'm telling you this song is so great and I just can't wait to
hear it. So before we hear it, I just want to make sure
everybody please pay attention very carefully to the lyrics because I usually don't end because
Fred Schneider was a poet and kind of a ma master of lyrics. I
mean, you have to listen to these. You'll see why, uh when
we hear it. So, Bryan, if you will, you know what
I say they are hot pass what say damn? I'm and chipping if you
are received band god, I see, I ain't buy back the longest legs
and the shortest pain you gotta do when I bake. Damn, you got
me pan like a dog, pant my dog. You mind? When I
saw your up behind where high High, It's like my wild highs High has
screens on the rise up to go to night work in the night shit I
get on the breath breaking out of the back to hanging out moon. It
wouldn't be so has put on and takeing stalk in my mind, wild h
High, it's like dance clo closed the fat baby so sweet. How you
got me choke choking out? I said, oh you've got ever and that
I'm so spoke. I worsen names disesteament. I gonna run got this cream
in super calum rider water halpen you got all supervis this the keep beanre with
me, super cat howes to do that? I was gif stime. I
see London and I've seen brand burn. I never saw that sid. I
can't I get why. I never though nothing. Keep away, keep arty
time. They're getting so hot we might have to take them all. So
if you are down and feeling blue, just put on hot Pants Explosion.
I swear every single word in those lyrics just makes me laugh. I don't
know how they can sing it without laughing. It is hilarious. Um.
But yeah, I was gonna say when you said that, if you're feeling
down and blue, you said put on hot pants explosion. I thought,
for a second you were gonna say to say, well, didn't put on
hot pant there you go and take them off. That's what I thought,
little, but this is much better than what I thought it was going to
be. When I heard the title hot Pants Explosion, I thought maybe somebody
had gone to Sonic or Taco Bell. Oh ow yuck. I guess that
is one interpretation that's a different show. Yeah, yes, have to come
back to that one. But I also forgot to mention with the Good Stuff
album that Cindy Wilson after Cosmic Things, she took a break from nineteen ninety
to nineteen ninety four, so she didn't sing good on the Good Stuff album.
Um, and hot Pants Explosion was written by Fred Kate and Keith Um.
I have to say, I mean, what other song are you going
to find where the chorus is hot pants Explosion at the Factory and if you
say it, it sounds kind of ridiculous, but they sing it, and
Kate Pearson's voice is like so luscious, and the harmonies, you know,
the way she sings this chorus, she's singing hot Pants Explosion at the Factory.
I don't think I've ever heard a song where thunder thighs hanging out you
have in the lyrics like this one, and it's so musical, and she
sings it. Yeah. Yeah, it's like she says, she sings thunder
thighs hanging out, moonbeams dancing about. So it's like your brain is going
through all these you know, visions of different things kind of um positioned and
juxtaposed and stuff. So I also love when Fred goes super calahlatosis. It's
absolute so like, oh my goodness, he is so funny. And I
didn't actually realize until today that he had written poetry. And I think that's
why their songs are. The lyrics are so good and just so creative.
I don't know where they get all the energy to be so creative and write
such good music, but I tell you it's it's just the of this song
um and another album after and I never heard it. It was like two
thousand eight, so, um, I have to go back and check that
out. And before we leave, hot Pants hot Pants Explosion. I wanted
to remind everybody another thing that I forgot that Kate Pearson and Fred Schneider sang
the theme song to Rocco's Modern Life on Nickelodeon. Um, and I have
a quiz for Brian. Brian true or false? The b fifty two's did
a spoof of love shack on The Simpsons. Of course they did, do
you remember it? Yea, Homer was challenged to a duel by a guy
from the South, and the guy from the South was a spoof on Foghorn.
Leghorn slaps him with the glove. So and they did a spoof called
glove Slap. Yep, love Slap. I cannot full Brian. He knows
he has like the Dictionary, the Encyclopedia of Simpson's history. So it's amazing
really when you think about it, you cannot stomp Brian when it comes to
Simpsons. So yeah, well, well, Brian is the Brian is the
the the the Simpsons Guru and Neil or the Simpsons Dictionary and Neil is just
a musical, you know. I mean, Neil is just the musical dictionary
himself. I don't know what else to say. Thank you. Well,
yeah, Becky, I just wanted to know that I did add that to
my favorite playlist while it was playing. Oh yeah, and I have to
brag a little bit. My daughter opened up for Cindy Wilson on her last
tour. Awesome. That is so cool my daughter's banned. Yeah, yeah,
very very cool. Well, I'm the b fifties twos have still got
it too. Oh. We just saw them back in October, and forget
it. They were were great. I would love to see them some today.
They said they said it was gonna be it was like their farewell tour
or something to that effect. Then I heard that they're doing like a Vegas
residency, So I guess that's not really a toore, I guess, but
you have to go to Vegas to see him, it would. Yeah.
Yeah. Then I saw that they're playing somewhere at some time over the summer
this coming summer in Asbury Park, some outdoor kind of you know, festival
type things. So they they they did not retire when you know, good,
Yeah he did not. Yeah, that's cool. Interesting that they sang
on. Um. Sorry, that was a random thought that just came into
my head that they sang on Brocko's Modern Life because Pat Irwin, who is
there, you know, helped me out here. What is there? What
he was? He was one of the I guess back in the I guess
the you know, the latter Day band when you know after you know,
I say, in the nineties, was a guitar player. Yeah, he
was in the I won't say the backup band because he was in the band.
Oh yeah, but he was not an original members. But he wrote
the theme for Rocco's Modern Life. Oh so he wrote it and they must
have just performed it they sang it. Yeah, so that all comes together.
Yeah. Yeah, my little brother loved Rocco's Modern Life. And when
I read that, I could just hear Fred's voice Rocco's Modern Life, you
know, and the song is really it's really good, the theme song.
Um, he's released a few you know, like solo things too that are
you know, just as like witty and hysterical, you know that Fred Fred
right, yeah, Ritch Schneider genius, that guy, he really is.
I actually realized today that the B fifty twos, that's the one group that
I have actually seen the most. I saw them three times in my life.
Are approaching their fiftieth year of being a band, and oh my gosh,
I know it's and they only have Stephen albums, but you know,
their stuff is so amazing. Um, I saw them in time. Yes,
it does transcend time. I mean because these you know, their songs
are just I don't know, they just I loved them so much in high
school. I listened to them all the time. That was the first concert
I saw in high school. I saw them at Saratoga Performing Arts Center,
spack Um and actually then I saw them at the Lake Placid Olympic Center and
recently saw them with my little brother in in queens Um Forest Park. What
is it forest Stadium? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, so um yeah they
were they were, they were the group and they had all these other opening
acts and Culture Club it was B fifty twos and Culture Lubum and Thompson Twins
opened for them. So wow, so amazing. Just love them And this
this song is so great. I hope you all enjoyed it. I hope,
like Mercedes, you'll you'll at least listen to it again and like just
enjoy. Oh hilarious, it is, I might because it was my daughters.
It was my kids first concert that I that I ever took them to,
and Marina ended up with her band opening for Cindy Hilson a few years
ago. I remember running into you, you guys at one of the shows
in the lobby and we were like, what are you doing here? What
do you mean? Of course we're here, you know, but I think
that was at Bergen Pack. I was like, oh, of course you're
here. I had a friend, one of my main or you know,
big regrets in life, and I've got a few. Was I never saw
the B fifty twos back in the cbe GEB's day, you know, when
when they were just coming out. But I had a friend who lives down
in the city at the time, and he used to, you know,
see them at CBGB's. Not only that, he and a friend of his
used to like make clothing and give it to Kate and Cindy and they would
wear the stuff on stage. The next time they played, they'd be wearing
these clothes that they made for them. And it was I had to deal
with him. He would go down to the record stores down there because all
these records were not available, you know, in your you know, regular
record stores. They were only available like to B fifty two. So they
released rock Lobster on a their own independent forty five back with fifty two girls
on the on the B side. And he would go down to these and
everything he bought, I said, buy two and I'll you know, I'll
give it to me and I'll reimburse you. And one of those was their
first single on B fifty two Records, rock Club. It was. It
was a picture sleeve, different version then came out on the album when they
signed if you get a label, but you know, the major label,
and so I was like, this is great stuff, and you know,
I was happy when the world agreed, you know that. But like I
said, I've seen them since, but I regret never seeing them at the
beginning. Well, if you have the chance to see them now, you
know, if you want to go to Las Vegas, uh check out out
or hopefully they will come back around to the East Coast for more than that
one show trip Vegas road trip. Yeah. I don't know if I ever
told you guys, this is a little off topic, but I went to
Las Vegas for the National Flute Association convention. Um, back when I worked
for Powell Flutes, and yeah, that was. It was like a hunch
in fifty degrees. It's in August and it's torrential rainstorm. And I remember
walking into Caesar's Palace because that's where they actually had the flute convention. I'm
not making this up, um, So I'm walking in with my coworker,
she's also named Rebecca, and we see this giant poster in Caesar's Palace for
Rod Stewart. Were like Rod Stewart, but we were we were ready to
just ditch our work and go see him, but he wasn't playing until October,
so we were very sad. And then we just went on our merryway
and did our flute flute show stuff. We Rember Thanksgiving, Me and my
kids went for Thanksgiving and we went to see Britney Spears. Oh cool,
yzing? Was it less than one hundred and fifty degrees? Then? Oh?
I don't remember. I don't care. I feel like the warm weather.
Yeah I do. When you're inside, it's fine. It's when you
when you have to go outside. Yeah, I remember just stepping outside and
like my contact lens is dried up. It was just that hot. And
I'm a North country person, so I don't do well in the heat.
I don't either, So anyway, that is my choice for tonight hot fans
exclusion. Excellent. That's a good one, John, You're up next,
take it away, all right. Well, I don't know if I can
top Becky's selections, you know, or I really don't know if I can
top that one here. Anyway, my song tonight is Devil with a brew
dress. Let me start over again, Devil with a blue dress on.
I tried to say that twice as fast. Also unknown originally as Devil with
the blue dress on, and that was something I did not know before I
did my little research here. It was originally written by Frederick Long and William
Stevenson in nineteen sixty four. However, their version is not very commercially successful.
However, in nineteen sixty six, the version by Mitch Ryder and the
Detroit Reels wheel I Am So So Bad Tonight. The Detroit Wheels made it
more of an up tempo medley, and they combined it with Little Richard's song
good Golly, Missilemali and gave it a bit of a sixties soul style,
and it was pretty darn successful. It rose to number four in the US
Billboard Hot one hundred and nineteen sixty six thanks to their rewrite of the song.
So why don't we just go right into the song and I have a
couple of interesting points to make afterwards? Right all right? Jump up beat
beat by by football phone, look at mining down because she ain't come when
the wig hat and change the mass, high heels shoes and a lookated when
the pearls and the timer race got freds on the fingers and ever replayed Devil
the Devil wi back first to first, Mutu still come about be the finding
colave to walk till to the differs, Captain, I can't say back to
some ginger and a lot of fat devil wa devil devil the kind of gether
with as long the call of missus mother don't like boll got the mohow like
a fall Mama call moment seven by the rack and the call of missus mall
you're like fall roll beat beat by book Once against she drove where a w
sha come back gotta feel spierality that where a firl in the diamond. They
got right finger play Devil Devil all Right. A couple of interesting facts.
The Detroit Wheels were a backup band for Mitch Rider, who was known for
his rough singing style and charismatic performances on stage. They worked as his backup
from sixty four to sixty seven, and this was quite a success. Some
common interesting points about the song itself. It's had quite a few recordings over
the years. I can't say that I found all of them, but I
could say there were a few here I noticed. It was recorded by Pratt
and McClain, who are best known for the theme from the television series Happy
Days. Bruce Springsteen's version of the song was part of his No Nukes concert
album in nineteen eighty and he has performed it regularly in concert from the nineteen
seventies to the present. A Spanish language version of the song was recorded by
Los Lobos and released on the Eating Raoul film soundtrack in nineteen eighty two.
I had no idea about any of this, and yes, I have to
look for that. Yes, And the Duke University Basketball pep band plays the
song during Blue Devil home games and after Blue Devil victories. And finally,
a version of The song was recorded by Nicholas O'Har who that is for the
nineteen nineties spoof of The Exorcist Repossessed. Okay, so your your homework everybody
is to look up some of these, uh, these later versions and see
how they compare to the nineteen sixty six I hope you enjoyed it. Just
the whole Exorcist Repossess sounds like it's right up my alley. You got her
attention. Have you seen have you seen the movie Eating Role? I have
not. Oh lordy, you have to see that. It's so good,
very good. It'll be on my list. I'll find it on Netflix,
I'm sure. Okay, maybe all right, is there a teaser to go
with that? Or we just we're on our own. We got to figure
it out. Oh, you're on your own. I found the list of
later versions, but I didn't really have time to delve into each later version.
I'm sure each has its own kind of unique style, should you say,
But I had no idea that was so many. There was also a
movie as well of the same name. I believe it was nineteen ninety five
that came out, and um, was was it Denzel Washington? I think
was in it. But uh, but anyway, it came out with a
lot of a lot of interesting versions, but the original itself from sixty four
was basically a bomb, which is interesting because it was pretty popular from sixty
from sixty six on, right a little too early? All right, cool,
thank you, John. That that Mitch Rider version is just goes off
the rails. You can't you can't beat that. No, no, he's
got such a that gravelly voice and that quick tempo to it. It's just
it. It very makes it really catchy. Yeah. Yeah, the whole
band is just out of control. But yeah, but tight, tightly out
of control. Perfect. I wish I wish they had songs like that more
on playlist in the radio today. I really do, because that that's a
lot of fun. I would like to hear that in a casual playlist ism,
you know, tooling along the Highway. If I got my FM on
or something, you can put it on your playlist, Yes, yeah,
I could Spotify or Pandora and all of those. Actually, yes, you're
right, Yeah, all right, thank you, John. We are in
our final stretch. One more quick break and we'll be back with Gail's pick.
Right up to this Hudson River Radio, Your Dog likes Us, Hudson
River Radio dot com, and welcome back Yale, Take it away. The
song I chose is by a band called Cake, which sounds kind of yummy.
Actually, such a good band. Yes they are, they have they
have such good stuff. Um. They're an alternative band from Sacramento in California.
The singer is John McCrae. They have h Rumpeter Vince di Fiori,
guitarist Sean McCurdy. The guy's first name is spelled x A and so I
hope I pronounced it right. They are bassist is Daniel McCullum, and they
have a drummer called Todd Roper. And they're noted for McCrae's sarcastic lyrics and
deadpan vocals, which I never thought of it that way. I just like
them, so I don't know. They have a lot of wide ranging influences.
Um Nortagne, which I don't know what that is, but it sounds
like it's northern country music, mariactually disco rock, funk, folk music and
hip hop. Sounds very and yeah, eclectic, that's the word I was
trying to think of. H So the song I shows is called short skirt,
long jackets, and let's listen to this. Listen to the lyrics,
and I'll tell you a couple of things after the song. I want a
girl with the mind like a diamond. I want a girl who knows what's
best. I want a girl with shoes that cut and eyes that burn like
cigarettes. I want a girl with the right locations, who is fast and
thorough and sharp as attack. She's playing with her jewelry, she's putting up
her hair, She's during the facility and picking up slacket. I want a
girl with a short skirt and a lar jacket. I want a girl who
gets up early. I want a girl who stays up late. I want
a girl with uninterrupted prosperity, who uses a machete to cut through red tape,
with finger nails that shine like justice, and a voice that is dark
like tinted glass. She is fast, thorough, and sharper's attack. She
is touring the facility and picking up slack. I want a girl with the
short skirt and a long love jacket. I want a girl with a smooth
lipidation. I want a girl with good dividuns. At that city bank,
we will meet accidently that we'll start to talk when she borrows my pen.
She wants a car with the cup holder our arresque. She wants a car
that will get her loud. She's changing her name from Kitty to Curran.
She's trading her energy for a white Chrisier La Barran. I want a girl
with the short skirt and a long yet this guy's lyrics are terrific, Like
the beat, I really I do too. And I don't know if any
of you noticed. I did notice all of you were grooving to this,
so I guess I got a hit here on my hands. Uh. I
don't know if any of you noticed. During the verses, they play a
variation of the chord structure from The Velvet Underground's Sweet Chain. Yep, I
did not notice that, but I did, now that you mention it.
Yeah yeah, yeah I could. Yeah I can put it in there.
Yeah yeah yeah. This was actually their first single from their two thousand and
one album, Comforts Eagle, and the lyrics you know you can tell they're
starting to describe an ideal fantasy woman, beginning with a simple want a woman
with a short skirt and a long jacket, which I'm sorry to me,
that sounds like kind of a weird fashion choice, but what do I know?
And it gets on being more and more specific and elaborate, wonderfully elaborate,
as if he's telling a story about a particular woman. It's been used
in several other things. A thirty second mostly instrumental cut of it is used
the theme music for the NBC series Chuck, which I've never seen, so
I don't know. It was used in the film Waitress starring Kerry Russell,
Nathan Phillion, and Andy Griffith, and another use of an instrumental section was
used in the films All About Steve, The Changeup and Date Night. Apple
used the song in an ad for their sixth generation iPod Nano. It was
used in a two thousand and one episode of the TV series Er titled Blood,
Blood, Sugar, Sex Magic. It was used in a fast track
commercial for Summer Bags. It's a playable song in the video game Rock Band
four. It's used in a series of split tracks on an electric card mixing
game Drop Mix by Hasbro. I have no idea what that is. It
was used in relation to New Zealand social welfare clerk Christine Rankin when in two
thousand and one, she lost a high profile employment court case after the labor
government decided not to renew her contract with allegations oops of extravagance, spending,
management style, and choice of wardrobe. The single went to Let's see Us
Bubbling under Hot one hundred Singles, It went up to nineteen. In the
Adult Top forty, it went up to thirty one, and in US Alternative
Airplay Billboard it went up to seven. And I just adore the song.
It's a fun song. They're such a good band and my favorite song is
never There of the Yeah they're playing at Pier seventeen in the summer. Oh
we know where Girl's going to be nice? Awesome? That was. That
was a really good one. I never heard that one before. That was
a good one. I liked the baseline, but that's that's my thing,
right, Yeah, that was an awesome baseline. Yeah, that was really
good. All right, one more? You're ready. A lot of good
songs tonight, Yeah, a lot of good ones, so lower your expectations.
I had trouble narrowing it down, so my final four. One of
them is called Underwear Goes Inside the Pants by Lazy Boy. I like bat
already Yeah, lazy Boy, but that turned out to be way more vulgar
than but we Can Get Away with You. Next choice was Cosby Sweater by
Hilltop Hoods in hip hop group. The problem with that is that this song
came out in twenty fourteen, literally weeks before Cosby's scandal broke. The Hilltop
Hoods basically wound up doing an apology tour because the idea of a Cosby Sweater
did a complete one eighty. Yeah, they had no idea it was coming.
This song was done long before the scandal broke, and just talk about
bad timing for these four guys. Yep and Mexican Hat danced by Alan Sherman,
best known for Hellamuta, Hello Fare, and that was like, nah,
all right, But I went with a song called Your Socks Don't Match
by Bing Crosby and Louis Jordan. I figured a little life lesson couldn't hurt
super quick Bio one Bing. He was born Harry Crosby Junior in nineteen oh
three. He died in nineteen seventy seven. During his prime, he was
a leader in radio ratings, record sales, and motion picture grosses. He
recorded over sixteen hundred tracks and appeared in over seventy movies seven zero movies,
which is just amazing. Talk about a career. He was widely recognized for
his efforts during World War Two in raising morale and money. After World War
Two, he got to see a German real to real tape recorder that had
been brought back to the United States and he saw the potential. So he
wound up investing fifty thousand dollars back then in the Ampex Company, which became
a leader in the recording industry. He then convinced ABC to allow him to
prerecord his shows, which were then mastered onto Ampex magnetic tape. That made
for outstanding quality. When he came to broadcasting and to archiving, they could
keep the shows. But he was really motivated by golf. Prerecording his shows
gave him more free time to go out and play golf. Absolute genius.
I think that's great. That's what they do now. You record game shows,
you record the whole season in a couple of days and you're done.
That's it. So props to him. It's genius. He was also a
wise investor. He invested in real estate, he invested in professional baseball,
in TV, and he made a fortune investing in Minute made orange juice.
Of all things, who knew, there's also one thing that he was one
of the first to do, and that has influenced pretty much all of music
that came after being became known as a crooner for his conversational, softer style
of singing, and that was made possible with the better quality microphones that had
been developed in the nineteen forties that gave better quality recordings. These new mics
could pick up nuances and softer sounds that earlier microphones couldn't. So now you
had a separate mic in front of the singer who could get in close like
we're doing now, all of us from home, and you could get a
more personal, an intimate sound. Before this, singers had to really belt
it out loudly in order to be heard. You had one or two mics
that were picking up the whole band in general, and the singer had to
be really loud to be heard. But now you could be really soft and
we say uptight uptight against the mic, and this just became the standard method
in big bands. Country music picked it up. Think of the rat pack,
you know. Frank Sinatra was one of the next group that did it.
Everybody got up real close that each had their own individual microphones. Seems
like common sense now, but it was actually innovative at the time. And
think about it now. Have you ever seen a singer without their own microphone?
Nowadays it's all wireless, but they're all walking around the stage carrying their
room. So that's being about Louie. Jordan Louie was born in nineteen o
eight. He died in nineteen seventy five. He was a popular band leader
and saxophonist in the late nineteen thirties through the fifties. He became known as
the King of the jukebox. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame in nineteen eighty seven as an early influencer and like being. He
also appeared in a number of films thanks to Tom and Jerry. He is
probably best known for his song is You Is? Or Is You Ain't?
My Baby? If you guys remember that one. Yeah. He also did
a version of baby It's Cold Outside with Ella Fitzgerald. That is a controversy
for another show. When he made it big, his fees went through the
roof, as they should. He was making about two thousand dollars per night
back then, which is I don't even know what that would be nowadays.
He also realized that with the right musicians, his group would sound just as
good with five musicians as it did with the seventeen or eighteen that he normally
had, and he could charge the same amount of money. So the music
industry picked up on what he was doing and started hiring fewer and fewer musicians,
and basically, Louie Jordan ruined his own style of big band music because
big bands we're no more because nobody would pay for them. They would pay
for smaller groups. So he kind of shot himself in the foot with that.
The song Your Socks Don't Match was off the nineteen forty eight album Bing
Crosby Sings with Lionel Hampton, Eddie Haywood, Louie Jordan. What I found
surprising is that everybody was black except Bing, and I could not find any
controversy over that. This was, you know, the nineteen forties, segregation
was still in full swing. You'd think there would be some kind of backlash,
some kind of outcrying. Nothing. I couldn't find anything about that,
which good. I think that's awesome. Yeah, that was a pleasant surprise
looking this up. So this track your Socks Don't Match was recorded with Louie
Jordan and his Timpani five on July twenty six, nineteen forty four, and
it was shelved for four years before this album was released in nineteen forty eight.
It is a lesson for us gentlemen that no matter what, no matter
how much of a catch, you may be a chick their words now mine,
a chick will reject you if your socks don't match. So let's check
it out. We have such high standards. We heard a chick just the
other day cooling out her boyfriend in every way. She kept on qualkin,
full of complaints like she expected folks to be saying. She insisted that he
looked me. So this was her complaint, complete report to the nation.
I liked the dimple in your chin. I like the tricky way you groom.
Still you ain't no kind of cats, you know? Why don't you
tell him? Dog on your son? Your socks don't man. The tea
you have furly white, all your lips are sweet, and you pucker right.
You're the kind live my latch. But dogs on you boy, Your
socks don't match. The shoes you wear, reveal your horse one red and
one bright blue. That told strangers and I suppose you should introduce those two.
You got two eyes of lovely blues. Cute little pud knows, I
go for two. Though you're the bets of all. The batch. Can't
know you song because your socks don't match. That's a quick riff satch,
but your socks don't match. By your lyle is violent, your gotten righting
shoes you wear? Reveal your hoes one red, one bright blue, the
total strangers and eyes her poles. You should introduce those too. You got
two eyes of lovely blues, talking loop, A cute little puck knows.
I go for two. I didn't hope get in here. Though you're the
best of all the batch tain't no use some cus your socks don't match.
You got a red one, a blue one that ain't gonna do. So
your socks done. Not a bad lesson, right, I like it.
It has a cool kind of a you know, old style beat to it.
Yeah, laid back. So when you're listening to Being and Louis sing,
there's a lot of low end, a lot of the base they're using
to their advantage what's called the proximity effect. The closer you get into a
microphone and boosts up the low end. And that's something that being picked up
on these with these better microphones. So low end notes, you know,
deeper notes take a lot more energy to be heard than higher end, so
as you back off, the low end drops off faster. That's why even
when you go to a concert now there's a ton of sub worffers and a
ton of low end speakers and fewer high end speakers because it takes that much
more energy. So when you get in real tight to a microphone and you're
doing that crooner kind of voice, it really boosts the low end and it
sounds great. So he was one of the first to really do that and
bring that to the forefront. That's what everybody's doing and now it had great
effect. Yep, yep, it worked. So there you go. I
think I think everybody learned a lot today. Yeah, yeah, I have
to go check my sucks. The while Johns song was playing, you know,
with the Mitch Rider, I was trying to look up what an alligator
hat is because I really don't know. Now you google it. And the
only thing that comes up is Amazon with hats that look like an alligator,
And I'm like, this is wasting my time with this in yours for like
two ninety nine exactly, So I'm gonna pass on that. I'm going to
assume that's not what the song's about. But yeah, you never know,
it might be time for a new version. So all right, um,
I think we should pull the plug while we're still on track, which is
very unusual for us. So I want to thank all the Crambones again for
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