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Speaker 3: Hello.

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Speaker 6: It's Nicole Atkins on the Rock and Roll History Show.

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Speaker 7: Hello.

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Speaker 8: Everyone, Welcome back to the Rock and Roll History Show

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on Hudson River Radio. I'm Brian Horowitz. We have a

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good topic tonight thanks to a special guest who is

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joining us. But we'll get to that in a moment.

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As always, allow me to introduce the Cranbones who are

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joining us here tonight from paranormally yours. She can only

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sleep on a pile of old magazines. She has back

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issues gilt I every our officially retired tea. He vehemently

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believes that tricks are not just for kids. He says

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adults and rabbits are allowed to eat them too. John

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Speaker 9: Oh, hey, everybody, good one ban.

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Speaker 8: I haven't had tricks. I maybe have had them once

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in my entire life, and I want her.

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Speaker 4: Think about it.

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Speaker 10: Do they still sell boys?

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Speaker 8: I don't know not. There find a rabbit nest and

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the host of Shavy Cream. She was just in the

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hospital because she got bitten by a wolf. The doctor

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asked where, and she said, no, a regular one. Barbara

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Speaker 1: Pardon me while I go shave my body.

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Speaker 8: And we have a special guest tonight. She is the

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host of UFO Headquarters with Mike Wrdon. She is the

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host of Murder in the Hudson Valley with Yours Truly,

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and you may remember her as our official heart ass

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judge for the annual Krapones pop Quiz. She says, to

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get a baby alien to fall asleep, you rocket, rocket man,

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get it? Yes, Okay, yes we can.

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Speaker 11: We move on now.

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Speaker 8: Yes, thanks for joining us, Linda. And in fact, tonight's

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topic is courtesy of Linda. We are going to be

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doing bad versions of good songs because Linda got so

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angry at hearing a version of a song that she

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loved that she stopped what she was doing to tell

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me about it in the middle of nowhere.

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Speaker 11: I did, and.

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Speaker 8: I'm kind of honored that I'm the person that you

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thought of to vet you about such a thing. And

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we're like, yep, that's going to be an episode. So

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here we are.

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Speaker 10: Good good.

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Speaker 11: I'm glad I've been able to bring this out in everyone.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's everybody has to suffer now because I don't

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know what's coming. But we'll see tonight. If I remember correctly.

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He's also a first, Neil is not with us tonight.

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I think this is the first show that Neil has

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ever had to miss since we started doing this, and

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it's been a long time. My understanding is Neil is

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trying to join a traveling opera and we're going to

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see how it goes. I really fingers crossed. I I

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Speaker 9: We'll see, Okay, Yeah, well, okay, Brian, can I say

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that if Neil does join a traveling opera, I will

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be the first to get tickets to see that show

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rows and.

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Speaker 8: We will all be cramboning right in the front row.

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Speaker 1: Oh hey, I'm going to be a groupie.

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Speaker 8: All right. So, but Neil did pre record his selection

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for tonight, so we're going to start with that, and

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let's hear what Neil has for us.

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Speaker 5: They say that beauty is in the eye, or in

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this case, the ear of the beholder. So I think

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this is going to be very interesting. In this case,

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some of you might love the original, some of you

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might hate the cover, Some of you may love the

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cover and hate the original. Some may love both, some

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may hate both. So I'm going to leave that up

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to all of you. The name of the original song

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is The Safety Dance by Men Without Hats. Now, the

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original song itself elicits strong and visceral reactions. Some people

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love it, others not so much. Now I happen to

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fall into the former category, And given my well known

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disdain for all things eighties, this may surprise some of you,

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But those who know me also know my affinity for

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all things quirky and offbeat, and the Safety Dance certainly

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fits that bill too. Men Without Hats are a Canadian

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new wave synthpop band. They formed in Montreal, Canada, in

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nineteen seventy seven. The original band consisted of their lead

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singer and songwriter Ivan Dorischach, along with his brothers Stephen

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and Colin. Incidentally, all three brothers are classically trained musicians.

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Ivan is the only constant member throughout the band's history,

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and a group has included numerous members over its career.

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The group got their name because they all refused to

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wear hats during Montreal's cold winters, because hats would you

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mess up their hairstyles and who Once hat head Right.

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Ivan wrote the songs the Safety Dance after being thrown

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out of the club for pogo dancing. Poegoing, which wasn't

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really that dangerous, was the precursor to slam dancing or mashing,

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which actually did pose a danger to other dancers. The

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Safety Dance was the second single from their nineteen eighty

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two Rhythm of Youth LP. The song peaked at number

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eleven in Canada in the spring of nineteen eighty three,

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and it became an even bigger hit here in the States,

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spending four weeks at number three on the Billboard Hot

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one hundred. The US album released By the Way contained

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the l longer Extended Dance Mix version. Overall, it would

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become a worldwide top ten hit, which brings us to

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our cover version. So ladies and gentlemen, buckle up and

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allow me to introduce Ab Junior and his Magic Banjo

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performing the Safety Dance. Hie, men, without hats, We.

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Speaker 4: Can dance if we want to. We can leave your

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friends behind because.

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Speaker 12: Your friends don't dance it. If they don't dance, well,

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they love friends of mine. We can go where we

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want to, a place where they will know we find

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we can acte like we come from out of this world.

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You go real one far behind a weekend dance.

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Speaker 2: Or sin.

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Speaker 12: We can go if we want to. The night is

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young and soul my we can dress real need from

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our hats to her feet of surprise and with the

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victory curry.

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Speaker 8: We can act if we want to.

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Speaker 12: If we don't knowbody will, we cannot real rude.

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Speaker 4: And totally removed. I can act like an embassoom a

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weekend dance.

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Speaker 13: Everything's out of controom that we can dance. They're doing

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Speaker 1: Pole to pole.

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Speaker 7: Yes, we can dance.

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Speaker 6: Well, everybody, look at your hands. We can dance here,

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everybody's taking the chair. We can dance if we want to.

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We've got all your life from mine song as we.

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Speaker 12: Have BESI but never gonna lose it everything or work

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Speaker 4: We can dance if we want to leave your friends

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behind because your friends.

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Speaker 12: Don't dance it, if they don't dance with the no friends.

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Speaker 4: Of mine, we can dance.

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Speaker 13: Everything's out of control.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we can dance. They're doing the compole the pole.

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Speaker 13: Yeah we can man, Hey, everybody, look at your hands.

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Speaker 14: Yeah we can.

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Speaker 13: He everybody, safety save Saaf.

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Speaker 5: Okay, what do you think now, I'll be perfectly honest.

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I really like that version and the original too, so

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sue me.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 5: I could find very little information on ab Jr. Other

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than that he apparently has numerous videos on YouTube that

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cover a variety of popular songs, from Devo to The

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Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin to the Talking Heads, all of

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which showcasing his talent as a banjo player. His playing

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has been praised for its quality, as well as for

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his contribution to the banjo genre in general. His video

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for the Safety Dance was posted about nine years ago,

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and the only quote I could find by him was

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simply this just having fun with my banjo and hope

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to inspire others to do the same. Pretty cool as

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for Men without Hats. After going on hiatus for about

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twenty years, Ivan reformed the band in twenty ten, and

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they have since released several more albums and continue to

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tour regularly. So that's it, it's safe to dance. Now

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go to a concert.

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Speaker 8: Well, I like it.

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Speaker 9: A version, Yeah, I would have loved it if it

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didn't have a banjo.

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Speaker 8: Well that's that's helf a.

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Speaker 10: Oh you're not a bad fail.

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Speaker 9: No, I actually like a banjo. I just didn't feel it.

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Speaker 1: It just didn't add anything to that.

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Speaker 9: No, it just I don't know, it just fell flat.

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Speaker 8: It just you know, Well, it's because you're not wearing

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Speaker 9: Yes, I gotta get my overalls and I get like

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a piece of weed or something stuck in my tweet,

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right or whatever.

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Speaker 8: I don't Yeah, when you wake up in the morning,

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you want to do ten repetitions in the mirror of yeehah, Right,

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you gotta loosen up, all right, all right, Well, I

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appreciate Neil submitting that, and we wish him luck on

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his audition. I'm sure he'll be back, and we're going

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to turn it over to our special guest and the

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reason we're doing our episode tonight, Linda, who is also

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not a fan of the banjo. I'm throwing her right

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under the bus.

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Speaker 11: She yeah, throw me under there.

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Speaker 8: She sat and quietly through that whole thing and didn't say.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, the banjo not not my of tea. But so

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what how this all came about? I'm doing the Mona

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Lisa song tonight, which has many many versions, and well,

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before I get to how how I got so enraged

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quickly Mona Lisa. Of course, we all know the Leonardo

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da Vinci painting fifteen oh three to fifteen seventeen. He

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took his time with it, and Mona Lisa was actually

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Lisa Camilla di'antono Maria Garandini Gianconda.

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Speaker 8: That's why it took so long to.

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Speaker 11: Paint exactly she's smiling in the painting. However, at the

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age of fifteen she married a much older silk merchant

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in Florence, Florence, Italy, and ended up having six kids

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and taking care of three kids of other relatives. So

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I don't know how much longer she was smiling, but

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you know everybody knows that painting. So in nineteen fifty

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the song Mona Lisa was written by lyricist Ray Evans

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and the music was by Jay Livingston.

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Speaker 10: They were doing this for.

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Speaker 11: A paramount movie, Captain Carrie USA, which starred Alan Ladd

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as an OSS agent, and it actually was introduced to

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the world world by a Cuban, Sergio di Carlo, singing

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as an Italian with a guitar, and then there were

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different different little snippets of it throughout the movie. On

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the accordion so it didn't. Yeah, that's how I feel

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about the banjo. So despite that, it won the Academy

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Award for Best Original Song. Evans and Livingston actually won

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three Academy Awards, one other for k Sarasra and then

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Buttons and Bows. But I think their greatest claim to

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fame they did the TV music for Bonanza that's iconic

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and this is the greatest of all time, the Mister

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Ed Song.

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Speaker 15: Oh Bo.

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Speaker 11: And I found out that they originally had an Italian

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opera singer to sing the Mister ed Song and he

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was terrible. So they asked Livingston, could you do like something,

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do a version, so he has an idea of how

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you want it, how it should be done, and it

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was so good they kept it.

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Speaker 8: Say no, course, of course, of course, Lynda.

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Speaker 9: I'm just trying to picture in my head an Italian

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opera singer singing Mister ed exactly with the horse as

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the you know, with the horse's lips moving and everything.

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Speaker 8: It would be mister Eduardo.

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Speaker 11: And I think Brian you have miss mentioned this on

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Christmas Shows that Evans and Livingstone also did Silver Bells,

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which we know was originally Tinkle Bells, which has a

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slightly different connotation. So Nat King Cole fortunately recorded this

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on March eleventh, nineteen fifty at Capitol in Hollywood. It

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was released on June twelfth of that year spent five

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weeks at number one on the Billboard charts. It's one

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of my favorite songs by perhaps my favorite singer. I

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just think he is the perfect voice, doing the perfect rendition.

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And of course, you know they say imitation is the

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sincerest form of flattery. Maybe not, because so many people

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have done this. This might have been my choice for

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bad versions, but fortunately I couldn't find it. Britain. It

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was a big hit Ronald Chesney doing it on the harmonica.

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Speaker 8: Oh God favorite.

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Speaker 11: So if anyone can find that, please don't send it

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to me. So again, to me, Nat King Cole is perfection,

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this velvet baritone. He just melts in my ears. So

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Bob and I are driving along listening to the fifties

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station on Siri and this song comes on and I'm

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kind of half listening, and all of a sudden, I'm like, wait,

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some some of that sounds familiar, and I'm like, no, no,

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whoever this is is doing Mona Lisa, make him stop,

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Make him stop, it's and when it was, I'm like,

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who's responsible for this? And it was actually Carl Mann,

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who was known as the last Son of Sun Records

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s U N. He was born in Tennessee in nineteen

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forty two. Child Protest Prodigy released his first single at

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age fifteen on Jackson Records. And some people consider this

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version version the best version of Mona Lisa. It doesn't

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get any.

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Speaker 10: Better than this.

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Speaker 11: I hate it. I will always hate it. And there's

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just it went, you know. To me, it's like taking

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the portrait of the Mona Lisa and giving her a

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mullet and a can of beer.

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Speaker 8: So well, let's what kind of beer?

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Speaker 11: Bad beer?

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Speaker 10: All right?

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Speaker 2: Warm?

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Speaker 11: Bad cheap beer?

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Speaker 8: All right?

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Speaker 10: Fair enough to try to class up a moment.

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Speaker 8: They're coming back from what I understand you first me

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had already, So I'm done. I paid my dues. Yeah,

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well don't all right? Are we ready to rend? All right?

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Here we go, will model Lisa Lisa?

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Speaker 16: You select the lady with the mystic smile?

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Speaker 17: Is it only?

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Speaker 16: Is it alys strangeness and your smile?

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Speaker 10: Will you smile to tell the love her mom?

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Speaker 16: Lisa marais sit to hide a broken all?

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Speaker 18: Are you warm, Are you real?

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Speaker 4: Moneysa stuff calling.

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Speaker 16: All the lovely work of art?

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Speaker 11: Well in a.

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Speaker 16: Little goo eyed tie in town, lils a girl who's beauty?

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Same the Rose May dreams hopping rough at her the

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all Now, why does he won't know about him?

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Speaker 17: Lord?

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Speaker 4: Will model?

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Speaker 16: Lisa? Lisa?

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Speaker 8: And how named you?

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Speaker 16: It's the lack of a lady with the mystic smile?

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Speaker 2: Is it Holly other?

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Speaker 10: Loney?

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Speaker 16: They have a name you?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 16: That's all these, the strangeness in your smile, a wether

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you smile.

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Speaker 8: To tell the lover?

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Speaker 7: Mona Lisa?

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Speaker 16: Are slider?

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Speaker 17: High?

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Speaker 5: A broken? Are are you one?

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Speaker 7: Are you real?

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Speaker 15: Mona, Lisa?

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Speaker 2: Are you stuff?

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Speaker 8: Holding?

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Speaker 16: Lowly lovely word of art? I just stuck calling lowly

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lovely word of art. I just stuck calling lowly lovely

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word havard.

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Speaker 11: Well, there it is. I do want to add that

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it did make it to number twenty five on the

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Billboard Hot one hundred. It didn't make it any far

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farther because about the same time Conway Twitty did his

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bad version. Oh oh, not quite as offensive. But you

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had two bad versions competing for one another. But apparently

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the song did go on to sell a million copies,

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so no accounting for taste. I want to hear your opinions.

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Speaker 9: That sucked on toast, I would say, kind of like

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a desperate Elvis impersonation there.

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Speaker 8: Maybe yes, Like I said before you and on the outlier,

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Linda and I often disagree on murder on the Hudson Valley,

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and now we're disagreeing on this show because I thought

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that was awesome. There's very little Sun Records material that

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doesn't speak to me.

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Speaker 11: Do you know the original version?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 8: I know that King Cole. I know the one, and

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that's tremendous. I'm in that King Cole vert. It's a

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completely I will say, reinterpreted, as you would say, ruined version.

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I understand.

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Speaker 11: You wrote write a song like that. Great change the lyrics.

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You know, it's not Mona Lisa, it's Betty Joe. And

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it's not in an Italian village, it's in Memphis. You know,

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just do something different, don't ruin perfection.

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Speaker 8: Your point is taken, but I still like it. It

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had something we haven't talked about in a while. That

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tape echo sound on the vocals was something that Sam

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Phillips invented. We're used to hearing that reverb kind of

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sound now, but he came up with a way of

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doing that before computers, before digital It was not in

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an echo chamber like like Moti unused. He actually used

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a second tape recorder to make that delay sound and

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make that echo. There's a lot of innovation going on there. Yeah.

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Speaker 11: Well there wasn't enough delay in that song.

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Speaker 17: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Well that's why they make the polls button.

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Speaker 10: So that's why they make the delete button.

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Speaker 11: So that's why I immediately emailed Brian.

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Speaker 8: I'm like, oh my god, do you ever do you texted?

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You didn't text take too long?

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Speaker 17: Yeah?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, rage, did you ever? Do you ever do shows

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bad versions of great songs?

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Speaker 8: So I can understand. You know, the style is not

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for everybody. I just happen to like it, So sorry.

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We can continue our argument after the show if you want.

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But I get where you're coming from. I get the

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you know, the style is not everybody's cup of tea.

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Speaker 11: It's fine for a different song, Like I said, change

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the Laker, you know different too, That's fine.

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Speaker 8: And you're right, you're too click away from the overly

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twangy country stuff that I'm not really a fan of too. Yeah,

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we're just enough next to that where it's still okay

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with me.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, to me, there's just some things that are so

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perfect you don't ever need to like, don't ever remake Casablanca.

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You can't, oh gosh right. Yeah, So that's that's where

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I'm coming from.

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Speaker 8: I hear you, all right, I understand the rage, and

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I appreciate you sharing it with us. But now you

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have to stick around here. Everybody else's bed all right,

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all right, cool, So we're gonna take a real quick

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break and be back with those selections right after Sam

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plays it. Hudson River Radio, Your dog likes us.

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Speaker 10: This concludes the first part of this cassette. Please turn

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the cassette over and begin again on side too.

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Speaker 17: This is Hudson River.

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Speaker 1: Radio dot Com Ray.

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Speaker 8: And welcome back. Linda and I continue to argument during

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the commercial break, and we still did not come to

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a conclusion, but that's okay. You should check out Murder

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in the Hudson Valley and here are all the other

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arguments that we have. Barbara, we're up to your bed selection.

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Speaker 19: Okay.

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Speaker 1: My song choice for this topic is a Puddle of

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MUD's cover of Nirvana's About a Girl A Puddle of

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Mud formed in nineteen ninety two in Kansas City by

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Wes Scantlin, Jimmy Allen, Sean Sammon, and Kenny Burkeett. The

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band's name was inspired by the Missouri River Levy, which

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often invaded their practice space, and they were on the

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second floor so their instruments did not get ruined, but

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they often had a walk through the invading mud in

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order to practice not fun. They released their first EP

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nineteen ninety six and another in nineteen ninety seven, but

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they broke up in nineteen ninety nine. The following year,

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Scantlon sent a demo tape to Fred Durst of Limp Biscuit,

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who brought Scanlon to California to try to get him

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a new band. Together with Drst's connections, Doug Ordito, Paul Phillips,

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and Greg Upchurch all auditioned and were accepted as the

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new Puddle of Mud members. They released the album Come

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Clean in two thousand and one, and the single Control

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from that album became successful, followed by Blurry, which reached

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number five on the Billboard Hot one hundred. The album

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was certified triple platinum in the US. In two thousand

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and three, they released more albums and underwent a few

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more lineup changes, which brings us to November twenty nineteen,

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when they performed an acoustic session for Sirius XM's Octane Channel.

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From that performance, I proudly presents you there of Nirvana's

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about the Girl.

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Speaker 11: Now he's in fail I too with the haddo land.

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Speaker 19: I do thank you for this.

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Speaker 17: You I do.

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Speaker 7: I do have my clue.

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Speaker 2: Take it its found you hang me out the drive.

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Speaker 7: I can see you Tebrien not ray.

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Speaker 17: I do.

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Speaker 20: No sa then in your life I do help you

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have the time. I do the cut the boot, I

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do keep ah.

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Speaker 10: They will go.

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Speaker 2: They can't have been as wild young me out of God.

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Speaker 19: I can't free you the bread that I free. You

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know it's different out.

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Speaker 20: With the deal layout dot you they go the mot

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deal DoD you.

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Speaker 4: He thought tay with you.

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Speaker 20: They can't then it.

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Speaker 2: Well there hear me out of that, I gus say

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you different, thank you, se you different?

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Speaker 7: Ni Grey.

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Speaker 2: Do you.

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Speaker 19: God Well.

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Speaker 1: The recording session pretty much gained little attention until twenty twenty,

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when an edited video of the session was uploaded to YouTube,

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where has been ex intensively criticized and ridiculed, mostly for

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Scantlon's strained and off key vocals, and as of this writing,

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the video has gained ninety eight hundred likes and twenty

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four thousand dislikes and counting.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna have to agree.

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Speaker 10: I have two I have two things to say. One

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is somebody get that man of cough Drop, and the

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other is are you sure that's not Cartman from Southwark

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singing this?

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Speaker 1: It sounded kind of like krusty to me. And if

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you watch the video on YouTube, be sure to turn

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your clothes captioning on it will not disappoint and read

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the comments, because the best comments I read were something

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like the bass player through the whole thing is trying

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to keep a straight face, as my fellow Crambones did.

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I was watching them watching listening to this, and they

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were all trying to keep us ray face. And the

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other band members look like they're rethinking their life choices.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, with good reason. It was.

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Speaker 8: To paraphrase the discussions. As the song was playing, someone

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said it was Cartman, but an octave down. I said

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it was Tom Waits, but an octave up. Either way,

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that clash in the middle is something to behold.

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Speaker 11: Oh yeah, My comment was it was as if someone

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was having labor pains, coming closer and closer together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds sound of like a moose in labor.

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Speaker 11: Well, that was it.

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Speaker 19: That's all I got.

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Speaker 1: That.

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Speaker 8: That was more than enough. Barbara, Thank you anytime. All right, John,

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We're up to you.

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Speaker 9: Okay, tonight, I picked a really nice one. Okay, I

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just want to say I picked Dancing in the Streets.

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It was written originally in nineteen sixty four by Marvin

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Gay and William Stevenson and Ivy Joe Hunter from Martha

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and the Vandelas.

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Speaker 8: It was back in.

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Speaker 9: Sixty four, reached number two on the Billboard Hot one

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hundred for two weeks, behind Da Wah Diddy Diddy, what

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DOA did he whatever? I just said, It peaked at

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number four.

480
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:37,599
Speaker 2: Ye.

481
00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 9: It also peaked number four in the UK Singles Chart

482
00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:46,559
and following its release re release in nineteen sixty nine.

483
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:52,359
So classic great song. That is not what we're talking

484
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,599
about tonight. We are talking about the nineteen eighty five

485
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,559
re release by Mick Jagger and Dave Bowie.

486
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 10: I don't know why people make fun of this one.

487
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,279
I actually like it. I actually happen to this one.

488
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,039
Video was fun.

489
00:33:07,279 --> 00:33:08,319
Speaker 4: The video is awesome.

490
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 9: The video is hilarious.

491
00:33:10,839 --> 00:33:11,559
Speaker 8: I will say this.

492
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,119
Speaker 9: I didn't see it, but I understand there is a

493
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,839
music less parody that is apparently.

494
00:33:18,559 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 8: Very really awkward.

495
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:25,359
Speaker 9: It features only sound effects of footsteps, grunts, and heavy breathing.

496
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,519
So I highly recommend you folks go out there and

497
00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:35,319
google that and for your entertainment. I also recommend you

498
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,599
do not google that on a work computer. But you

499
00:33:39,759 --> 00:33:43,279
know that might be might be worth it. So but

500
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,920
some of you might like it. I did not. I

501
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,960
really do prefer the nineteen sixty four version. I like

502
00:33:51,079 --> 00:33:51,720
the classic.

503
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 17: You know.

504
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,279
Speaker 9: I did look at the video in nine of the

505
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:01,880
eighty five of release, and I did listen to it

506
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:10,800
on audio only, and I still, no, it's not for me, Brian.

507
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:16,360
You're laughing here me, No, not at all. So without

508
00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:21,360
further ado, Brian, let us play Dancing in the Streets

509
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,400
by Mick Jagger and David Bowie.

510
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 11: Okay, don't you stop, America.

511
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,280
Speaker 14: Rap stops.

512
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,679
Speaker 10: Calling out around the world.

513
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,519
Speaker 11: You're ready for a brand new fee.

514
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:52,559
Speaker 9: Some time.

515
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,119
Speaker 4: Dancing in the.

516
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 14: Street in.

517
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 7: And a new audience in New York City.

518
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,760
Speaker 8: In the music, sweet music.

519
00:35:11,599 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 14: They'll be music every well, they'll be swinging swing with

520
00:35:18,079 --> 00:35:21,079
course b dancenter.

521
00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 20: In the street.

522
00:35:23,639 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 14: It doesn't matter what you have, just a flow. You

523
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:36,559
are to come up every goud rob girl everywhere around

524
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,559
the world, dance.

525
00:35:38,559 --> 00:35:42,119
Speaker 8: Soon dancing and dusty.

526
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 2: Looking from new takes across the Nasha or chounce.

527
00:35:49,639 --> 00:35:51,039
Speaker 11: My boots for met.

528
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 15: Lit love being the singing a new swing, dancing in

529
00:35:57,639 --> 00:36:00,559
the street, map.

530
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 10: All the moon seeking now, don't forget the more to see.

531
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 8: Im misteek so basil.

532
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:14,519
Speaker 2: Me where's it?

533
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,760
Speaker 7: Don't matter where you are.

534
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 14: In a music sweet music that will be using Yah, well,

535
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:35,159
there'll be swinging sway cutting the dancer in the street.

536
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:46,679
It don't come out too world. That's there every clime,

537
00:36:48,159 --> 00:36:49,159
every man.

538
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 7: In the street.

539
00:37:20,159 --> 00:37:23,079
Speaker 9: Hey, dancing in the streets. Now, look, I get it

540
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:27,000
some of you out there like this. It's just I

541
00:37:27,079 --> 00:37:29,480
thought it was they tried too hard. I don't know

542
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:31,239
that it means.

543
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 8: It sounds like they're having a lot of fun.

544
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, exactly, And they.

545
00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 8: Know it's inconsequential because they have more money than they

546
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,199
will ever be able to spend in ten lifetimes. Yeah

547
00:37:41,599 --> 00:37:42,960
already back in the eighties.

548
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I will say this about their video on

549
00:37:46,679 --> 00:37:51,239
this particular song, I read some pretty interesting quotes about

550
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:55,800
the video. They it's been likened to embarrassing dad energy.

551
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:03,400
I can see that, okay, and then another one I

552
00:38:03,559 --> 00:38:08,880
love here somebody quoted it as being sublimely stupid. So

553
00:38:09,679 --> 00:38:12,599
those were two interesting quotes. I will say, like I said,

554
00:38:12,599 --> 00:38:15,440
I would strongly recommend you go to the musicless version.

555
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:20,079
And Brian, wasn't there a Family Guy reference as well?

556
00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 2: Yeah?

557
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,599
Speaker 8: There is, Barbara, you want to share that one.

558
00:38:23,199 --> 00:38:26,159
Speaker 1: They actually played the whole entire video on an episode

559
00:38:26,199 --> 00:38:28,599
of Family Guy and made fun of it.

560
00:38:28,679 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 8: May comments about Yeah, they called it the gayest.

561
00:38:31,679 --> 00:38:38,079
Speaker 1: Video, yes, and which I never that never even occurred

562
00:38:38,079 --> 00:38:40,519
to me. But I have to tell you that Family

563
00:38:40,559 --> 00:38:43,840
Guy has like made me look at things differently in

564
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,559
my lifetime, like so many things, Family Guy from their

565
00:38:47,639 --> 00:38:51,480
perspective has made me look at differently. And so in

566
00:38:51,559 --> 00:38:54,480
the video the little close ups of their butts wiggling

567
00:38:54,559 --> 00:38:56,119
back and forth and stuff.

568
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 8: Like that, and yeah, well like eighties break color shirt

569
00:39:00,199 --> 00:39:00,920
and the clothes.

570
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's much in my head before Family Guys.

571
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, they ruined it. Yeah, gud feeling. If Neil

572
00:39:11,039 --> 00:39:12,519
were here, he would want to point out that Van

573
00:39:12,599 --> 00:39:14,239
Hale and also did a rock and cover of it,

574
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,599
which I happen to like. We can argue that one too.

575
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 9: I'm sure we could. But again, I just felt that

576
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,000
they tried too hard, both in the recording and the

577
00:39:25,079 --> 00:39:28,079
audio and the video. I'm not saying that David Bowie

578
00:39:28,079 --> 00:39:31,079
and mc chagger are not talented. They're fabulously talented people.

579
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,760
I just thought they tried a little hard here, and

580
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,000
I kind of I'm partial to the sixty four original.

581
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 8: I get it, I get it. This is why we

582
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:45,280
all get together because we have inter intersecting opinions over.

583
00:39:45,559 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 10: Agree to disagree with you on that one, Okay, exactly.

584
00:39:49,679 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: I think it was awesome and Jagger and Bowie can

585
00:39:53,559 --> 00:39:54,119
do no wrong.

586
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 3: Yes, well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree

587
00:39:58,559 --> 00:40:07,760
that it's better than that they didn't do mona Lisa, Yes, right, explode.

588
00:40:08,519 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, they knew their limits. So all right, thank you, John. Okay,

589
00:40:13,079 --> 00:40:14,960
we're gonna take one more real quick break and we

590
00:40:15,039 --> 00:40:17,519
have two more to go, so you don't want to

591
00:40:17,519 --> 00:40:19,320
miss these because I know what's coming up now, So

592
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stick around. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 6: Hudson River Radio dot Com.

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Speaker 4: Hudson River Radio dot com.

595
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 8: So Gail's up, and Gail never disappoints when we do

596
00:40:37,559 --> 00:40:39,920
these kinds of things, because she digs deeper than the

597
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,199
rest of us do for the most comes up with

598
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:43,440
the most amazing stuff.

599
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 15: So take it.

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00:40:45,039 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 8: Away, thank you.

601
00:40:46,599 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 11: Well.

602
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 10: I was having a hard time researching this, and you

603
00:40:54,519 --> 00:40:58,920
know me, I like to find something different, and the

604
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:05,800
song I chose and the artists I chose are definitely different.

605
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:10,320
But I'm not sure it's a bad cover of a

606
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,599
good song. I think it's just a different cover of

607
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,159
a good song, and it's not in a style that

608
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:24,280
I normally like very much. But I will tell you

609
00:41:24,519 --> 00:41:27,000
a little bit about it. Please pardon me. I am

610
00:41:27,079 --> 00:41:31,199
going to be trying to pronounce Brazilian Portuguese, which I

611
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,719
do not speak, so I.

612
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 8: Had to, like any of us would know if you said, we.

613
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 10: May have listeners who speak Portuguese, and they'll be like, oh.

614
00:41:41,679 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 8: My god, she reallys and we welcome the correction. But yes,

615
00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:48,320
the correction will not be coming from the crambones.

616
00:41:48,199 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 10: Right, So I had to try and look up everything

617
00:41:54,639 --> 00:41:58,639
make it gal. Yeah, So a lot of you know

618
00:41:59,039 --> 00:42:03,599
that I adore Eddie Vedder's voice, and I adore Pearl Jam.

619
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,599
I would love to see them someday, but I don't

620
00:42:06,639 --> 00:42:07,920
know if it's ever going to happen.

621
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:09,119
Speaker 2: Uh.

622
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 10: They did a song called Plush and I found it

623
00:42:13,639 --> 00:42:15,559
rather interesting.

624
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 8: Cover, wasn't it Stone Temple Pilot.

625
00:42:19,599 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 10: Maybe I don't know if that that could be I

626
00:42:24,199 --> 00:42:25,440
don't know that could be wrong.

627
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:27,199
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know the song.

628
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 10: Yeah, anyhow, yep, anyhow I like STP too, me too.

629
00:42:33,119 --> 00:42:38,920
I never got over Chris Cornell's death, but that's another neither. Anyway,

630
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,599
pronouncing this is going to be interesting. I came across

631
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,960
I came across this Brazilian Portuguese band, or they don't

632
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,000
even call themselves a band. They call themselves a music

633
00:42:53,599 --> 00:43:01,800
project and they've only been together since twenty twenty four.

634
00:43:03,599 --> 00:43:06,639
They kind of came out of nowhere, Well not really,

635
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,599
they came out of Brazil, but anyway. The group's name

636
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:18,480
is called Chiao Aus Bravos, and they are a rural

637
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:24,280
rock musical project known for blending classic rock covers with

638
00:43:25,159 --> 00:43:35,400
country instrumentation such as Sorry Linda Banjo's and viola is

639
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:41,320
often featured on TikTok. The project associated with the username

640
00:43:42,079 --> 00:43:51,159
at Chiao aus Bravos frequently features performances by the artist

641
00:43:51,440 --> 00:44:04,199
known as Chie how medono Wow, and they have a website.

642
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:09,639
I did read it translated into English so that I

643
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:14,159
could understand it. It says the band is like a

644
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:21,159
mix of Kachasa and Coca cola, a combination no one expected. Now.

645
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:27,960
To clarify, Kachasa is the national spirit national alcoholic drink

646
00:44:28,199 --> 00:44:35,559
of Brasil. It's distilled from sugarcane juice and the alcohol

647
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:40,000
by volume is between thirty eight and forty eight percent,

648
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:50,360
so that sounds kind of strong. The members are country

649
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,280
folk that bumped into each other by chance and decided

650
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,360
to turn the confusion into music. It's a mix of

651
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:03,280
American country music and songs we sing every day while

652
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,239
some of us sing every day. That and it makes

653
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,400
the band unique. Get ready to dance, sing, laugh, and

654
00:45:09,519 --> 00:45:14,280
wonder how it all works so well. Acoustic instruments aka

655
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:20,559
the one guy has a washboard around his neck with

656
00:45:21,519 --> 00:45:27,920
a little symbol and a bell love He's Yeah, I mean,

657
00:45:28,599 --> 00:45:32,960
you gotta see these guys videos. They're they're amazing. They're

658
00:45:33,119 --> 00:45:39,280
just so funny. It's difficult to define them within a

659
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:40,199
single style.

660
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:42,199
Speaker 8: Yeah.

661
00:45:43,079 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 10: The band's essence lies in traditional American music as its

662
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:51,800
main influence, while also exploring various popular musical styles from

663
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:56,519
the nineteen twenties to nineteen fifties. Its members possess a

664
00:45:56,679 --> 00:46:01,159
vast musical background. Their repertoire includes songs that have made

665
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,599
and continue to make us remember significant moments in our lives,

666
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:11,239
played in a very interesting manner acoustically in a show

667
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:15,840
full of unexpected surprises and accessible to listeners of all

668
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,400
ages and musical tastes.

669
00:46:18,559 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 11: And they do tour.

670
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 10: I'm looking for the names.

671
00:46:25,119 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 8: Oh, and.

672
00:46:28,039 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 10: The head of the project, Ciao Madonio. I'm thinking that's

673
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:41,800
probably a stage name, because Chiao Madonio is a fictional

674
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,679
character and the leader of a gang in the nineteen

675
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:51,679
sixty two Brazilian crime film assaulto au trem Paador Assault

676
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:57,440
on the pay Train. He's not a real historical figure,

677
00:46:57,559 --> 00:47:01,199
but he's a character from the movie movie and it

678
00:47:01,519 --> 00:47:08,039
sounds like maybe, uh, that's a stage name. So the

679
00:47:08,199 --> 00:47:17,000
members identified include TiO, Jukie Doni, and al l A

680
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:21,519
g Loquez. So let's call listen to.

681
00:47:22,000 --> 00:48:22,039
Speaker 17: Blush askas.

682
00:48:38,440 --> 00:49:50,039
Speaker 18: Also bars, she weds a Bay and SPASSKII to.

683
00:49:50,159 --> 00:49:52,119
Speaker 7: Moor to.

684
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:20,199
Speaker 4: The first.

685
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:54,119
Speaker 7: To stab, time time to time, time to bow.

686
00:50:55,519 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 13: To f.

687
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,519
Speaker 8: Okay, guys, what'd you think two thumbs up. That was awesome,

688
00:51:16,079 --> 00:51:17,400
that was really cool.

689
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 10: Now and that's your polite response.

690
00:51:29,639 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 8: And I think John moved on to something else. He

691
00:51:31,559 --> 00:51:32,440
just quit totally.

692
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was like yeah, no, no, that was a

693
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:41,840
little too twangy for me. Amazing And I'm a country

694
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:42,519
guy too, and.

695
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 10: I know and I'm not. That's why it's like so strange.

696
00:51:49,159 --> 00:51:53,760
So on their website it says, do you want to

697
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:57,760
bring the band to your party or event, contact us

698
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:03,079
on WhatsApp and we'll arrange it. One little fun fact

699
00:52:03,599 --> 00:52:09,480
is there was a Variety TV show on from March

700
00:52:09,559 --> 00:52:13,440
fifteenth to twenty twenty four to January third, twenty twenty

701
00:52:13,559 --> 00:52:20,599
five called It's All Ours and the band did their

702
00:52:20,639 --> 00:52:24,400
theme song oh in Portuguese. Of course.

703
00:52:26,559 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 8: Are they coming to the US because we can come

704
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:30,039
up with an event?

705
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 10: There's no yeah, I know, right, yeah, we should. We

706
00:52:36,519 --> 00:52:40,199
should have them play something. But I don't know. Yeah,

707
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,119
I don't know how much hard it costs for them

708
00:52:42,159 --> 00:52:43,639
to come all the way up from Brazil.

709
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 8: I don't know. I don't know. Some combination of Linda's

710
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:53,039
front yard, Neil's front yard, a flatbed trailer driving around.

711
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:56,559
Speaker 11: I'll pay them to stay in Brazil.

712
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:02,199
Speaker 8: All right, I like it. I thought that was good.

713
00:53:03,679 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 11: Is there any music you don't like?

714
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 8: Yes? I can't stand Selene Dion's voice. And I'm not

715
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,960
a Tom Waits fan. I'm a Tom Waits music fan

716
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,599
when done by other people. But he really just sounds

717
00:53:15,639 --> 00:53:17,599
like he should be singing for an Xlax commercial.

718
00:53:20,119 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 10: He's another one. Somebody please get him a cough drop.

719
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's done on purpose because when he talks,

720
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:26,360
he just talks.

721
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:27,199
Speaker 2: I know.

722
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 8: When he goes to sing, it's like purposely.

723
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,320
Speaker 10: You would think that would ruin his voice singing that with.

724
00:53:32,519 --> 00:53:35,280
Speaker 8: You, it's ruined, it's already. He does it on purpose,

725
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:40,760
that's my opinion. What can I say? But my selection

726
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:44,639
is not too far behind those two. And I are

727
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,079
you done, Gail before I step all over you? Okay? Yeah,

728
00:53:47,519 --> 00:53:49,159
all right, that was a good one. I did like that.

729
00:53:50,119 --> 00:53:53,400
I made my pick because it's my ongoing quest to

730
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:55,880
bring Neil up to speed on the eighties that he missed.

731
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 10: I love eighties a little bit.

732
00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:58,199
Speaker 17: Yeah.

733
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,519
Speaker 8: Well we'll see, because you may not forget me after

734
00:54:00,559 --> 00:54:06,679
this one. So my bad version is by Stanley Kirk Burrell,

735
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,199
who is now sixty four years old. He grew up

736
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,719
relatively poor in Oakland, California, along with eight siblings, so

737
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:16,840
to make some money, he and his brother would gather

738
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,719
up baseballs that made their way to the parking lot

739
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:25,079
of Oakland Coliseum when where the Oakland A's played. They

740
00:54:25,079 --> 00:54:27,559
would gather up the baseballs and sell them to fans,

741
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:29,599
and he would dance in the lot. He would just

742
00:54:29,679 --> 00:54:33,199
basically busk and dance for tips in the lot, and

743
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:37,119
the owner of the A's, Charlie Finley, saw Burrell's energy

744
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:40,679
and actually hired him to be a bat boy. But

745
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,119
what happened is his brother wound up being the bad

746
00:54:43,199 --> 00:54:47,400
boy why while Burrell wound up being the teenage quote

747
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:50,920
eyes and ears for Finley, who was gone all summer,

748
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:55,000
he was basically an absentee owner, and Burrell made such

749
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:59,159
an impression on him that he had this thirteen year

750
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:03,519
old kid representing the owner in the clubhouse for the

751
00:55:03,599 --> 00:55:06,360
Oakland A's and actually trusted him to report back on

752
00:55:06,599 --> 00:55:10,039
what was going on. And apparently Burrell had the respect

753
00:55:10,079 --> 00:55:13,280
of the players because he worked there from nineteen seventy

754
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:17,320
three to nineteen eighty. So this young teenager apparently made

755
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,840
a good impression right off the bat. And in fact,

756
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,880
this is when Reggie Jackson had left the Yankees and

757
00:55:23,039 --> 00:55:27,119
was playing for the A's at this point, Linda's our baseball. Well,

758
00:55:27,159 --> 00:55:29,440
she's a Mets fan, and Mets is very close to

759
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:30,760
baseball from what I understand.

760
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:38,639
Speaker 9: Okay, the gauntlet has been hh.

761
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,280
Speaker 8: Yeah, Well the problem is that is the extent of

762
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:45,719
my knowledge of sport. It ends there, and so anything

763
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:47,920
Linda has to say, I lose. So I have no

764
00:55:48,039 --> 00:55:51,039
idea what I'm talking about, but I do remember Reggie Jackson.

765
00:55:51,159 --> 00:55:55,679
So Reggie thought Burrell looked like baseball legend Hank Aaron.

766
00:55:56,199 --> 00:55:59,679
And do you remember, Linda, Hank Aaron's nickname, which I

767
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:04,039
didn't know until I was researching this Hammer and Hank Hammer. Yup,

768
00:56:04,599 --> 00:56:08,599
So Reggie started calling this kid Hammer. Hammer took on

769
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,679
the title MC Master of Ceremonies and would go out

770
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,159
and perform clubs while on the road with the A's

771
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:21,320
during the summer as MC Hammer And there you go,

772
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:26,559
so smart kid. The A's were paying him to travel,

773
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,039
They were footing the bill for him to travel, stay

774
00:56:29,079 --> 00:56:30,800
at the hotels and do all this. And as a

775
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:32,440
side gig, he would go out and play at the

776
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:36,920
clubs in between games. Burrell graduated high school in nineteen eighty.

777
00:56:37,079 --> 00:56:39,880
He wound up taking a few undergraduate classes that did

778
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,440
not go well, so he enlisted in the US Navy

779
00:56:43,639 --> 00:56:48,199
and served for three years. He received an honorable discharge. Afterwards,

780
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:51,079
he put together a Christian rap group that had relatively

781
00:56:51,159 --> 00:56:54,920
good local success. He borrowed some money from two Oakland

782
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,599
A's players and he started his own record company. They

783
00:56:58,679 --> 00:57:01,480
would record their own material and sell records out of

784
00:57:01,559 --> 00:57:04,440
the trunk of their car, and to his credit, he

785
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:08,519
just pounded the pavement and worked relentlessly. He sold sixty

786
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:12,440
thousand copies of his first record out of the trunk

787
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:16,760
of his car and managed to get radio airplay. Now,

788
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,079
the material was more mainstream, not the Christian stuff, but

789
00:57:19,559 --> 00:57:23,039
he got a lot of radio airplay just from hustling,

790
00:57:23,599 --> 00:57:26,440
and a lot of the tracks got played in dance

791
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,679
clubs in the area back when dance clubs were a

792
00:57:28,719 --> 00:57:31,519
lot bigger than they are now. So I gotta give

793
00:57:31,559 --> 00:57:35,280
him credit. So mc Hammer, as we now know him,

794
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:37,960
took it to the next level. He hired a troop

795
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,880
of dancers, he put together a band with backup singers,

796
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:45,440
and put together a very impressive stage show. He received

797
00:57:45,519 --> 00:57:48,800
and turned down offers from major labels who had come

798
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:51,679
out to see him, until an executive from Capitol Records

799
00:57:51,679 --> 00:57:55,119
saw his show and offered him a multi album contract

800
00:57:55,239 --> 00:58:00,639
with a one point seven million dollar advance. Nice from

801
00:58:00,679 --> 00:58:03,960
going from the trunk of your car to an almost

802
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:07,440
two million dollar advance back then, that's pretty good. I

803
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,840
don't know how much money that would be now worth

804
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,079
every penny to both him and to Capitol Records. So

805
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,880
long story short. He was friends with Arcinio Hall back

806
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:20,039
when Arsenio Hall had his show in the eighties early nineties.

807
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,639
He premiered the song you Can't Touch This on the

808
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:26,199
Arsenio Hall Show in nineteen eighty nine. The song famously

809
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:30,440
samples the baseline from super Freak by Rick James. That

810
00:58:30,639 --> 00:58:33,920
track was off the huge nineteen ninety album Please Hammer

811
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:38,159
Don't Hurt Him, which was entirely recorded and produced on

812
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:42,039
a portable studio that Hammer had built into his tour bus,

813
00:58:43,119 --> 00:58:45,599
something that is common now because we can do everything

814
00:58:45,639 --> 00:58:48,679
on laptops and interfaces and plugins and all that, but

815
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:52,039
it was quite revolutionary back then. The whole album done

816
00:58:52,119 --> 00:58:54,400
on a tour bus, which I think is quite awesome.

817
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:56,920
It will go on to be the first hip hop

818
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,000
album to achieve Diamond status, with over eighteen million cups

819
00:59:00,159 --> 00:59:03,440
he sold to date. The video played all the time

820
00:59:03,519 --> 00:59:07,559
on MTV, and I still find it entertaining because the pants.

821
00:59:07,599 --> 00:59:09,599
If you have not seen mc Hammer's pace, oh yeah,

822
00:59:09,639 --> 00:59:14,239
the war pants, Yeah, do yourself. The favre. Oh it's

823
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:19,079
like worse somehow, but the pants, the moves, I can't

824
00:59:19,119 --> 00:59:21,880
do any of it. I still get a kick out

825
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,519
of seeing that video every once in a while. Uh,

826
00:59:24,639 --> 00:59:27,000
there was another successful single off of this album. There

827
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:28,880
were actually two. We're going to talk about one of them.

828
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:30,519
That's the one we're going to come back to in

829
00:59:30,599 --> 00:59:33,559
a little bit. He kept plugging away. He started a

830
00:59:33,639 --> 00:59:38,199
management company, he started record companies, He owned racehorses. He

831
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:41,519
built up a fortune of about thirty three million dollars

832
00:59:41,599 --> 00:59:45,960
back then, which is pretty good from working hard. And

833
00:59:46,119 --> 00:59:50,320
of course he was equally famous for overspending and blowing

834
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:54,480
his money and going bankrupt. More recently, he's worked his

835
00:59:54,519 --> 00:59:57,519
way back up and he's doing fine now. I don't

836
00:59:57,519 --> 01:00:00,400
know if he kept the pants or not, but he's

837
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,880
doing all right. But that second single from this nineteen

838
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:07,559
ninety album the one we're going to talk about not

839
01:00:07,719 --> 01:00:11,239
so fun. He did a nineteen nineties version of a song,

840
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,199
well late eighties, early nineties version of a song originally

841
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,760
done in nineteen seventy one by Chicago R and B

842
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:20,159
group The Chighlights. The song is called have You Seen Her?

843
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:20,559
Speaker 16: Oh?

844
01:00:20,599 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 10: I love that song.

845
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:24,519
Speaker 8: Yeah, keep that one in mind, because I don't know

846
01:00:24,559 --> 01:00:28,800
about this song. The original and his version both begin

847
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,880
and end with a spoken word narration about a woman

848
01:00:32,039 --> 01:00:35,760
who left and doesn't come back, so no happy ending.

849
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:39,360
In this song, mc hammer updated the lyrics for the

850
01:00:39,639 --> 01:00:43,440
late eighties. He made the opening line, ah yeah, I'm

851
01:00:43,519 --> 01:00:46,920
glad I put this tape in, which made me think,

852
01:00:47,199 --> 01:00:49,280
when is the last time I put a tape in?

853
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 10: Oh yeah?

854
01:00:50,639 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 8: And I bought this album because I was DJing back then,

855
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:55,639
and I bought it on CD. Even when I was

856
01:00:55,679 --> 01:00:57,840
listening to it, I didn't put a tape in, so

857
01:00:58,239 --> 01:01:02,239
it was kind of already obsolete. He references other rapper

858
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:04,199
friends of his from the time, most of whom are

859
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,239
still around and still performing, so you recognize the names.

860
01:01:07,719 --> 01:01:10,880
And he also references the Cosby Show, which has not

861
01:01:11,039 --> 01:01:14,320
held up very well. No yeah, so keep your your

862
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:18,920
ears open for that. So let's hear mc hammer's version

863
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:22,639
of have you Seen Her? And I apologize up front.

864
01:01:24,599 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm glad I put this tape in. I'm

865
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:35,400
just gonna put me down a road, lucas the stars

866
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:40,599
of the sky has dripped off into the sleep memories.

867
01:01:40,159 --> 01:01:40,559
Speaker 7: That I have.

868
01:01:43,679 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 4: I would love that. My heart is the.

869
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:51,519
Speaker 15: Searching for for so long, and I know somewhere and

870
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:58,800
I keep looking that love. Fine, the picture wills clearer.

871
01:01:58,480 --> 01:01:59,519
Speaker 5: And clearer.

872
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:02,920
Speaker 4: From the back to the front of my mind.

873
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:08,159
Speaker 16: I like love, I love.

874
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:09,199
Speaker 4: I know I'll have.

875
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 7: The girl that I bought.

876
01:02:12,199 --> 01:02:15,559
Speaker 21: She'll be mine, shall be fled, and it'll last.

877
01:02:16,559 --> 01:02:19,639
Speaker 4: I see her face that I can't let go. She's

878
01:02:19,719 --> 01:02:22,400
in my dreams and my heart, So let me know,

879
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:29,800
have you seen her? I'm looking for that us. She's

880
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:31,400
a thought and a widget in.

881
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:32,519
Speaker 8: My memoir reath.

882
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 4: I have it better, but deft where because he's big.

883
01:02:37,719 --> 01:02:42,079
Have you seen her? I'm looking for that special love,

884
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:49,199
oh love, love.

885
01:02:49,079 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 8: And feeling that I have a death.

886
01:02:54,239 --> 01:03:02,039
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, maybe be mine. I need your love to

887
01:03:02,159 --> 01:03:10,199
make it somebody else you mean minds? Yes, the search

888
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:13,760
is going on from coast to coast. A moment for

889
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:18,440
the man who's talking the most. Have you seen her?

890
01:03:23,079 --> 01:03:26,079
My heart is beating strong. This stuff cannot be wrong.

891
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 5: I need and I want someone to my home.

892
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 4: Have you seen them?

893
01:03:34,159 --> 01:03:37,639
Speaker 15: I'm gonna keep looking at the movies in my car,

894
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:38,760
on my theories.

895
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:42,559
Speaker 4: Oh at a game of difference? Well are the cost shows?

896
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:45,079
Speaker 13: Have you seen them?

897
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:47,039
Speaker 7: Yo?

898
01:03:47,159 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 6: Bill?

899
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:51,079
Speaker 21: Tell me what's up at the track, at the club

900
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:52,800
or out buying dogs?

901
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 4: If you've seen them? I'll help her because I'm in love.

902
01:03:57,679 --> 01:03:58,440
Speaker 16: Have you seen her?

903
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 4: My heart is hers so bad? Super love is a feeling.

904
01:04:11,119 --> 01:04:12,199
Speaker 5: That I know I did.

905
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, could be my baby? I need your love

906
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:25,280
to make it? Why would she be mine?

907
01:04:27,519 --> 01:04:30,119
Speaker 5: Where could she be? In a store?

908
01:04:30,199 --> 01:04:35,159
Speaker 4: Around the colors on wondering at night? Another brother? Hold

909
01:04:35,239 --> 01:04:38,440
in the night at your seeing her.

910
01:04:40,159 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 2: Now?

911
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:45,159
Speaker 4: And know I'm looking calling on my hands all around

912
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:45,840
my place.

913
01:04:46,599 --> 01:04:49,119
Speaker 7: Got the birth of my holy rob.

914
01:04:49,079 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 21: Based at the scene of your Peter Hotel, telling me

915
01:04:55,119 --> 01:04:59,199
on the phone dead drake or in love?

916
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:00,519
Speaker 2: Five?

917
01:05:00,719 --> 01:05:01,000
Speaker 7: Pretty?

918
01:05:01,119 --> 01:05:02,599
Speaker 4: Watch your young brother?

919
01:05:04,239 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 2: Have you seen her?

920
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 8: I've got a picture in my mother.

921
01:05:09,599 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 4: The Lord is so of the love I need like magic? Ever,

922
01:05:15,079 --> 01:05:21,000
don't you uppere? Oh baby, why don't you appear? I

923
01:05:21,079 --> 01:05:25,760
can see your face. I'm seeing her face again and again.

924
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:28,760
I'm knocking at my door and you know I'll let

925
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:29,079
you in.

926
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:31,639
Speaker 1: Have you seen.

927
01:05:33,599 --> 01:05:37,639
Speaker 4: All my sweet bug searching around the world?

928
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:39,159
Speaker 5: What more I say?

929
01:05:39,599 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 4: The mother's start to see right, the only scene James.

930
01:05:55,039 --> 01:05:57,679
Speaker 8: And I turned it over to the Crambones for your

931
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,199
comments and input, and jad.

932
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 4: It didn't suck.

933
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 8: Really, that's a prayer. That's a positive note right there.

934
01:06:10,599 --> 01:06:13,880
That is not the reaction I expected, because man, I

935
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:16,880
thought I just kept going, Yeah I did.

936
01:06:17,199 --> 01:06:22,719
Speaker 11: But you know, all right, I have a slightly related

937
01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:29,960
little factoid. When hammer Time was so popular, I used

938
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,559
to joke with my boyfriend at the time and I

939
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:37,719
made him bright pink hammer pants for Christmas, Oh my

940
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:43,079
god that year, which he dutifully put on and did

941
01:06:43,159 --> 01:06:44,880
the hammer dance across the floor.

942
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:47,039
Speaker 8: So outstanding.

943
01:06:47,679 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 11: Nice, put my sewing skills to good, good youth.

944
01:06:52,599 --> 01:06:56,239
Speaker 8: I think I've ever been prouder of you, Linda doing something.

945
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,519
Books and lectures and all this kind of stuff. But

946
01:06:58,599 --> 01:06:59,559
it's the hammer pants.

947
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:01,920
Speaker 11: It's the bright pink hammer pants.

948
01:07:02,039 --> 01:07:06,760
Speaker 10: All right, excellent, that's amazing.

949
01:07:07,119 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 8: All right. Well, so there you go. I can't say

950
01:07:11,519 --> 01:07:14,480
they're all bad versions, but they are alternate versions of

951
01:07:14,519 --> 01:07:15,079
all these songs.

952
01:07:15,159 --> 01:07:15,320
Speaker 5: Yeah.

953
01:07:16,159 --> 01:07:18,719
Speaker 8: So I think it was a pretty good selection across

954
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:19,119
the board.

955
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Speaker 10: Definitely not too bad.

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Speaker 8: And Linda, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 11: Oh it was fun and it's nice to be able

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to be on the show without everybody hating me because

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I'm judging them. I wasn't the hard ass judge tonight,

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but I'm sure I'll make an appearance sometime this the

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end of this year.

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Speaker 8: Maybe maybe not.

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Speaker 10: I still remember my reaction from last year. Oh hi, Linda, Oh.

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Speaker 11: Wait, Yeah, everybody's like, oh yeah, oh no.

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Speaker 8: So we already decided on the punishment for those who

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missed the quiz. You may recall what is it? Two

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years ago? John missed it and he and I had

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to sit through the Cats musical movie. I was terrible.

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This year it's the Sylvester Stallone movie over the Top

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from the.

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Speaker 10: Eighties, which was I don't think I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Well you better not miss yeah, yeah, don't miss the quayser.

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You're going to see it all right. I think it's

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time to pull the plug because enough is enough, because

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we don't need more bad stuff cropping up. We've had

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enough for one episode, so excellent selections. Thank you again

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Linda for joining us, and thank you cram Bones for

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all the hard work as always, and thank you for

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joining us for the rock and Roll History Show. Don't

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forget to subscribe in your favorite podcast app and check

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out all the other shows we do here at Hudson

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River Radio, especially Murder in the Hudson Valley and UFO Headquarters.

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There is something for everybody. We'll be back next week

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with another brand new episode, and until then, eas out everybody.

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Speaker 11: Rock cop bottom of cram.

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Speaker 10: Okay, Bye bye.

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Speaker 8: Hudson River Radio dot com. A Subsidiaria Glacier Entertainment LLC,

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