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Speaker 8: Everyone, Welcome back to the Rock and Roll History Show
on Hudson River Radio. I'm Brian Horowitz. We have a
good topic tonight thanks to a special guest who is
joining us. But we'll get to that in a moment.
As always, allow me to introduce the Cranbones who are
joining us here tonight from paranormally yours. She can only
sleep on a pile of old magazines. She has back
issues gilt I every our officially retired tea. He vehemently
believes that tricks are not just for kids. He says
adults and rabbits are allowed to eat them too. John
Kelly is with us.
Speaker 9: Oh, hey, everybody, good one ban.
Speaker 8: I haven't had tricks. I maybe have had them once
in my entire life, and I want her.
Speaker 4: Think about it.
Speaker 10: Do they still sell boys?
Speaker 8: I don't know not. There find a rabbit nest and
the host of Shavy Cream. She was just in the
hospital because she got bitten by a wolf. The doctor
asked where, and she said, no, a regular one. Barbara
Schale is here.
Speaker 1: Pardon me while I go shave my body.
Speaker 8: And we have a special guest tonight. She is the
host of UFO Headquarters with Mike Wrdon. She is the
host of Murder in the Hudson Valley with Yours Truly,
and you may remember her as our official heart ass
judge for the annual Krapones pop Quiz. She says, to
get a baby alien to fall asleep, you rocket, rocket man,
get it? Yes, Okay, yes we can.
Speaker 11: We move on now.
Speaker 8: Yes, thanks for joining us, Linda. And in fact, tonight's
topic is courtesy of Linda. We are going to be
doing bad versions of good songs because Linda got so
angry at hearing a version of a song that she
loved that she stopped what she was doing to tell
me about it in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 11: I did, and.
Speaker 8: I'm kind of honored that I'm the person that you
thought of to vet you about such a thing. And
we're like, yep, that's going to be an episode. So
here we are.
Speaker 10: Good good.
Speaker 11: I'm glad I've been able to bring this out in everyone.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's everybody has to suffer now because I don't
know what's coming. But we'll see tonight. If I remember correctly.
He's also a first, Neil is not with us tonight.
I think this is the first show that Neil has
ever had to miss since we started doing this, and
it's been a long time. My understanding is Neil is
trying to join a traveling opera and we're going to
see how it goes. I really fingers crossed. I I
don't know.
Speaker 9: We'll see, Okay, Yeah, well, okay, Brian, can I say
that if Neil does join a traveling opera, I will
be the first to get tickets to see that show
rows and.
Speaker 8: We will all be cramboning right in the front row.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, I'm going to be a groupie.
Speaker 8: All right. So, but Neil did pre record his selection
for tonight, so we're going to start with that, and
let's hear what Neil has for us.
Speaker 5: They say that beauty is in the eye, or in
this case, the ear of the beholder. So I think
this is going to be very interesting. In this case,
some of you might love the original, some of you
might hate the cover, Some of you may love the
cover and hate the original. Some may love both, some
may hate both. So I'm going to leave that up
to all of you. The name of the original song
is The Safety Dance by Men Without Hats. Now, the
original song itself elicits strong and visceral reactions. Some people
love it, others not so much. Now I happen to
fall into the former category, And given my well known
disdain for all things eighties, this may surprise some of you,
But those who know me also know my affinity for
all things quirky and offbeat, and the Safety Dance certainly
fits that bill too. Men Without Hats are a Canadian
new wave synthpop band. They formed in Montreal, Canada, in
nineteen seventy seven. The original band consisted of their lead
singer and songwriter Ivan Dorischach, along with his brothers Stephen
and Colin. Incidentally, all three brothers are classically trained musicians.
Ivan is the only constant member throughout the band's history,
and a group has included numerous members over its career.
The group got their name because they all refused to
wear hats during Montreal's cold winters, because hats would you
mess up their hairstyles and who Once hat head Right.
Ivan wrote the songs the Safety Dance after being thrown
out of the club for pogo dancing. Poegoing, which wasn't
really that dangerous, was the precursor to slam dancing or mashing,
which actually did pose a danger to other dancers. The
Safety Dance was the second single from their nineteen eighty
two Rhythm of Youth LP. The song peaked at number
eleven in Canada in the spring of nineteen eighty three,
and it became an even bigger hit here in the States,
spending four weeks at number three on the Billboard Hot
one hundred. The US album released By the Way contained
the l longer Extended Dance Mix version. Overall, it would
become a worldwide top ten hit, which brings us to
our cover version. So ladies and gentlemen, buckle up and
allow me to introduce Ab Junior and his Magic Banjo
performing the Safety Dance. Hie, men, without hats, We.
Speaker 4: Can dance if we want to. We can leave your
friends behind because.
Speaker 12: Your friends don't dance it. If they don't dance, well,
they love friends of mine. We can go where we
want to, a place where they will know we find
we can acte like we come from out of this world.
You go real one far behind a weekend dance.
Speaker 2: Or sin.
Speaker 12: We can go if we want to. The night is
young and soul my we can dress real need from
our hats to her feet of surprise and with the
victory curry.
Speaker 8: We can act if we want to.
Speaker 12: If we don't knowbody will, we cannot real rude.
Speaker 4: And totally removed. I can act like an embassoom a
weekend dance.
Speaker 13: Everything's out of controom that we can dance. They're doing
it from.
Speaker 1: Pole to pole.
Speaker 7: Yes, we can dance.
Speaker 6: Well, everybody, look at your hands. We can dance here,
everybody's taking the chair. We can dance if we want to.
We've got all your life from mine song as we.
Speaker 12: Have BESI but never gonna lose it everything or work
out fine.
Speaker 4: We can dance if we want to leave your friends
behind because your friends.
Speaker 12: Don't dance it, if they don't dance with the no friends.
Speaker 4: Of mine, we can dance.
Speaker 13: Everything's out of control.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we can dance. They're doing the compole the pole.
Speaker 13: Yeah we can man, Hey, everybody, look at your hands.
Speaker 14: Yeah we can.
Speaker 13: He everybody, safety save Saaf.
Speaker 5: Okay, what do you think now, I'll be perfectly honest.
I really like that version and the original too, so
sue me.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: I could find very little information on ab Jr. Other
than that he apparently has numerous videos on YouTube that
cover a variety of popular songs, from Devo to The
Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin to the Talking Heads, all of
which showcasing his talent as a banjo player. His playing
has been praised for its quality, as well as for
his contribution to the banjo genre in general. His video
for the Safety Dance was posted about nine years ago,
and the only quote I could find by him was
simply this just having fun with my banjo and hope
to inspire others to do the same. Pretty cool as
for Men without Hats. After going on hiatus for about
twenty years, Ivan reformed the band in twenty ten, and
they have since released several more albums and continue to
tour regularly. So that's it, it's safe to dance. Now
go to a concert.
Speaker 8: Well, I like it.
Speaker 9: A version, Yeah, I would have loved it if it
didn't have a banjo.
Speaker 8: Well that's that's helf a.
Speaker 10: Oh you're not a bad fail.
Speaker 9: No, I actually like a banjo. I just didn't feel it.
Speaker 1: It just didn't add anything to that.
Speaker 9: No, it just I don't know, it just fell flat.
Speaker 8: It just you know, Well, it's because you're not wearing
your overalls. You got to get in the right spirit.
Speaker 9: Yes, I gotta get my overalls and I get like
a piece of weed or something stuck in my tweet,
right or whatever.
Speaker 8: I don't Yeah, when you wake up in the morning,
you want to do ten repetitions in the mirror of yeehah, Right,
you gotta loosen up, all right, all right, Well, I
appreciate Neil submitting that, and we wish him luck on
his audition. I'm sure he'll be back, and we're going
to turn it over to our special guest and the
reason we're doing our episode tonight, Linda, who is also
not a fan of the banjo. I'm throwing her right
under the bus.
Speaker 11: She yeah, throw me under there.
Speaker 8: She sat and quietly through that whole thing and didn't say.
Speaker 11: Yeah, the banjo not not my of tea. But so
what how this all came about? I'm doing the Mona
Lisa song tonight, which has many many versions, and well,
before I get to how how I got so enraged
quickly Mona Lisa. Of course, we all know the Leonardo
da Vinci painting fifteen oh three to fifteen seventeen. He
took his time with it, and Mona Lisa was actually
Lisa Camilla di'antono Maria Garandini Gianconda.
Speaker 8: That's why it took so long to.
Speaker 11: Paint exactly she's smiling in the painting. However, at the
age of fifteen she married a much older silk merchant
in Florence, Florence, Italy, and ended up having six kids
and taking care of three kids of other relatives. So
I don't know how much longer she was smiling, but
you know everybody knows that painting. So in nineteen fifty
the song Mona Lisa was written by lyricist Ray Evans
and the music was by Jay Livingston.
Speaker 10: They were doing this for.
Speaker 11: A paramount movie, Captain Carrie USA, which starred Alan Ladd
as an OSS agent, and it actually was introduced to
the world world by a Cuban, Sergio di Carlo, singing
as an Italian with a guitar, and then there were
different different little snippets of it throughout the movie. On
the accordion so it didn't. Yeah, that's how I feel
about the banjo. So despite that, it won the Academy
Award for Best Original Song. Evans and Livingston actually won
three Academy Awards, one other for k Sarasra and then
Buttons and Bows. But I think their greatest claim to
fame they did the TV music for Bonanza that's iconic
and this is the greatest of all time, the Mister
Ed Song.
Speaker 15: Oh Bo.
Speaker 11: And I found out that they originally had an Italian
opera singer to sing the Mister ed Song and he
was terrible. So they asked Livingston, could you do like something,
do a version, so he has an idea of how
you want it, how it should be done, and it
was so good they kept it.
Speaker 8: Say no, course, of course, of course, Lynda.
Speaker 9: I'm just trying to picture in my head an Italian
opera singer singing Mister ed exactly with the horse as
the you know, with the horse's lips moving and everything.
Speaker 8: It would be mister Eduardo.
Speaker 11: And I think Brian you have miss mentioned this on
Christmas Shows that Evans and Livingstone also did Silver Bells,
which we know was originally Tinkle Bells, which has a
slightly different connotation. So Nat King Cole fortunately recorded this
on March eleventh, nineteen fifty at Capitol in Hollywood. It
was released on June twelfth of that year spent five
weeks at number one on the Billboard charts. It's one
of my favorite songs by perhaps my favorite singer. I
just think he is the perfect voice, doing the perfect rendition.
And of course, you know they say imitation is the
sincerest form of flattery. Maybe not, because so many people
have done this. This might have been my choice for
bad versions, but fortunately I couldn't find it. Britain. It
was a big hit Ronald Chesney doing it on the harmonica.
Speaker 8: Oh God favorite.
Speaker 11: So if anyone can find that, please don't send it
to me. So again, to me, Nat King Cole is perfection,
this velvet baritone. He just melts in my ears. So
Bob and I are driving along listening to the fifties
station on Siri and this song comes on and I'm
kind of half listening, and all of a sudden, I'm like, wait,
some some of that sounds familiar, and I'm like, no, no,
whoever this is is doing Mona Lisa, make him stop,
Make him stop, it's and when it was, I'm like,
who's responsible for this? And it was actually Carl Mann,
who was known as the last Son of Sun Records
s U N. He was born in Tennessee in nineteen
forty two. Child Protest Prodigy released his first single at
age fifteen on Jackson Records. And some people consider this
version version the best version of Mona Lisa. It doesn't
get any.
Speaker 10: Better than this.
Speaker 11: I hate it. I will always hate it. And there's
just it went, you know. To me, it's like taking
the portrait of the Mona Lisa and giving her a
mullet and a can of beer.
Speaker 8: So well, let's what kind of beer?
Speaker 11: Bad beer?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 2: Warm?
Speaker 11: Bad cheap beer?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 10: Fair enough to try to class up a moment.
Speaker 8: They're coming back from what I understand you first me
had already, So I'm done. I paid my dues. Yeah,
well don't all right? Are we ready to rend? All right?
Here we go, will model Lisa Lisa?
Speaker 16: You select the lady with the mystic smile?
Speaker 17: Is it only?
Speaker 16: Is it alys strangeness and your smile?
Speaker 10: Will you smile to tell the love her mom?
Speaker 16: Lisa marais sit to hide a broken all?
Speaker 18: Are you warm, Are you real?
Speaker 4: Moneysa stuff calling.
Speaker 16: All the lovely work of art?
Speaker 11: Well in a.
Speaker 16: Little goo eyed tie in town, lils a girl who's beauty?
Same the Rose May dreams hopping rough at her the
all Now, why does he won't know about him?
Speaker 17: Lord?
Speaker 4: Will model?
Speaker 16: Lisa? Lisa?
Speaker 8: And how named you?
Speaker 16: It's the lack of a lady with the mystic smile?
Speaker 2: Is it Holly other?
Speaker 10: Loney?
Speaker 16: They have a name you?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 16: That's all these, the strangeness in your smile, a wether
you smile.
Speaker 8: To tell the lover?
Speaker 7: Mona Lisa?
Speaker 16: Are slider?
Speaker 17: High?
Speaker 5: A broken? Are are you one?
Speaker 7: Are you real?
Speaker 15: Mona, Lisa?
Speaker 2: Are you stuff?
Speaker 8: Holding?
Speaker 16: Lowly lovely word of art? I just stuck calling lowly
lovely word of art. I just stuck calling lowly lovely
word havard.
Speaker 11: Well, there it is. I do want to add that
it did make it to number twenty five on the
Billboard Hot one hundred. It didn't make it any far
farther because about the same time Conway Twitty did his
bad version. Oh oh, not quite as offensive. But you
had two bad versions competing for one another. But apparently
the song did go on to sell a million copies,
so no accounting for taste. I want to hear your opinions.
Speaker 9: That sucked on toast, I would say, kind of like
a desperate Elvis impersonation there.
Speaker 8: Maybe yes, Like I said before you and on the outlier,
Linda and I often disagree on murder on the Hudson Valley,
and now we're disagreeing on this show because I thought
that was awesome. There's very little Sun Records material that
doesn't speak to me.
Speaker 11: Do you know the original version?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 8: I know that King Cole. I know the one, and
that's tremendous. I'm in that King Cole vert. It's a
completely I will say, reinterpreted, as you would say, ruined version.
I understand.
Speaker 11: You wrote write a song like that. Great change the lyrics.
You know, it's not Mona Lisa, it's Betty Joe. And
it's not in an Italian village, it's in Memphis. You know,
just do something different, don't ruin perfection.
Speaker 8: Your point is taken, but I still like it. It
had something we haven't talked about in a while. That
tape echo sound on the vocals was something that Sam
Phillips invented. We're used to hearing that reverb kind of
sound now, but he came up with a way of
doing that before computers, before digital It was not in
an echo chamber like like Moti unused. He actually used
a second tape recorder to make that delay sound and
make that echo. There's a lot of innovation going on there. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Well there wasn't enough delay in that song.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well that's why they make the polls button.
Speaker 10: So that's why they make the delete button.
Speaker 11: So that's why I immediately emailed Brian.
Speaker 8: I'm like, oh my god, do you ever do you texted?
You didn't text take too long?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yeah, rage, did you ever? Do you ever do shows
bad versions of great songs?
Speaker 8: So I can understand. You know, the style is not
for everybody. I just happen to like it, So sorry.
We can continue our argument after the show if you want.
But I get where you're coming from. I get the
you know, the style is not everybody's cup of tea.
Speaker 11: It's fine for a different song, Like I said, change
the Laker, you know different too, That's fine.
Speaker 8: And you're right, you're too click away from the overly
twangy country stuff that I'm not really a fan of too. Yeah,
we're just enough next to that where it's still okay
with me.
Speaker 11: Yeah, to me, there's just some things that are so
perfect you don't ever need to like, don't ever remake Casablanca.
You can't, oh gosh right. Yeah, So that's that's where
I'm coming from.
Speaker 8: I hear you, all right, I understand the rage, and
I appreciate you sharing it with us. But now you
have to stick around here. Everybody else's bed all right,
all right, cool, So we're gonna take a real quick
break and be back with those selections right after Sam
plays it. Hudson River Radio, Your dog likes us.
Speaker 10: This concludes the first part of this cassette. Please turn
the cassette over and begin again on side too.
Speaker 17: This is Hudson River.
Speaker 1: Radio dot Com Ray.
Speaker 8: And welcome back. Linda and I continue to argument during
the commercial break, and we still did not come to
a conclusion, but that's okay. You should check out Murder
in the Hudson Valley and here are all the other
arguments that we have. Barbara, we're up to your bed selection.
Speaker 19: Okay.
Speaker 1: My song choice for this topic is a Puddle of
MUD's cover of Nirvana's About a Girl A Puddle of
Mud formed in nineteen ninety two in Kansas City by
Wes Scantlin, Jimmy Allen, Sean Sammon, and Kenny Burkeett. The
band's name was inspired by the Missouri River Levy, which
often invaded their practice space, and they were on the
second floor so their instruments did not get ruined, but
they often had a walk through the invading mud in
order to practice not fun. They released their first EP
nineteen ninety six and another in nineteen ninety seven, but
they broke up in nineteen ninety nine. The following year,
Scantlon sent a demo tape to Fred Durst of Limp Biscuit,
who brought Scanlon to California to try to get him
a new band. Together with Drst's connections, Doug Ordito, Paul Phillips,
and Greg Upchurch all auditioned and were accepted as the
new Puddle of Mud members. They released the album Come
Clean in two thousand and one, and the single Control
from that album became successful, followed by Blurry, which reached
number five on the Billboard Hot one hundred. The album
was certified triple platinum in the US. In two thousand
and three, they released more albums and underwent a few
more lineup changes, which brings us to November twenty nineteen,
when they performed an acoustic session for Sirius XM's Octane Channel.
From that performance, I proudly presents you there of Nirvana's
about the Girl.
Speaker 11: Now he's in fail I too with the haddo land.
Speaker 19: I do thank you for this.
Speaker 17: You I do.
Speaker 7: I do have my clue.
Speaker 2: Take it its found you hang me out the drive.
Speaker 7: I can see you Tebrien not ray.
Speaker 17: I do.
Speaker 20: No sa then in your life I do help you
have the time. I do the cut the boot, I
do keep ah.
Speaker 10: They will go.
Speaker 2: They can't have been as wild young me out of God.
Speaker 19: I can't free you the bread that I free. You
know it's different out.
Speaker 20: With the deal layout dot you they go the mot
deal DoD you.
Speaker 4: He thought tay with you.
Speaker 20: They can't then it.
Speaker 2: Well there hear me out of that, I gus say
you different, thank you, se you different?
Speaker 7: Ni Grey.
Speaker 2: Do you.
Speaker 19: God Well.
Speaker 1: The recording session pretty much gained little attention until twenty twenty,
when an edited video of the session was uploaded to YouTube,
where has been ex intensively criticized and ridiculed, mostly for
Scantlon's strained and off key vocals, and as of this writing,
the video has gained ninety eight hundred likes and twenty
four thousand dislikes and counting.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna have to agree.
Speaker 10: I have two I have two things to say. One
is somebody get that man of cough Drop, and the
other is are you sure that's not Cartman from Southwark
singing this?
Speaker 1: It sounded kind of like krusty to me. And if
you watch the video on YouTube, be sure to turn
your clothes captioning on it will not disappoint and read
the comments, because the best comments I read were something
like the bass player through the whole thing is trying
to keep a straight face, as my fellow Crambones did.
I was watching them watching listening to this, and they
were all trying to keep us ray face. And the
other band members look like they're rethinking their life choices.
Speaker 10: Yeah, with good reason. It was.
Speaker 8: To paraphrase the discussions. As the song was playing, someone
said it was Cartman, but an octave down. I said
it was Tom Waits, but an octave up. Either way,
that clash in the middle is something to behold.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, My comment was it was as if someone
was having labor pains, coming closer and closer together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds sound of like a moose in labor.
Speaker 11: Well, that was it.
Speaker 19: That's all I got.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 8: That was more than enough. Barbara, Thank you anytime. All right, John,
We're up to you.
Speaker 9: Okay, tonight, I picked a really nice one. Okay, I
just want to say I picked Dancing in the Streets.
It was written originally in nineteen sixty four by Marvin
Gay and William Stevenson and Ivy Joe Hunter from Martha
and the Vandelas.
Speaker 8: It was back in.
Speaker 9: Sixty four, reached number two on the Billboard Hot one
hundred for two weeks, behind Da Wah Diddy Diddy, what
DOA did he whatever? I just said, It peaked at
number four.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 9: It also peaked number four in the UK Singles Chart
and following its release re release in nineteen sixty nine.
So classic great song. That is not what we're talking
about tonight. We are talking about the nineteen eighty five
re release by Mick Jagger and Dave Bowie.
Speaker 10: I don't know why people make fun of this one.
I actually like it. I actually happen to this one.
Video was fun.
Speaker 4: The video is awesome.
Speaker 9: The video is hilarious.
Speaker 8: I will say this.
Speaker 9: I didn't see it, but I understand there is a
music less parody that is apparently.
Speaker 8: Very really awkward.
Speaker 9: It features only sound effects of footsteps, grunts, and heavy breathing.
So I highly recommend you folks go out there and
google that and for your entertainment. I also recommend you
do not google that on a work computer. But you
know that might be might be worth it. So but
some of you might like it. I did not. I
really do prefer the nineteen sixty four version. I like
the classic.
Speaker 17: You know.
Speaker 9: I did look at the video in nine of the
eighty five of release, and I did listen to it
on audio only, and I still, no, it's not for me, Brian.
You're laughing here me, No, not at all. So without
further ado, Brian, let us play Dancing in the Streets
by Mick Jagger and David Bowie.
Speaker 11: Okay, don't you stop, America.
Speaker 14: Rap stops.
Speaker 10: Calling out around the world.
Speaker 11: You're ready for a brand new fee.
Speaker 9: Some time.
Speaker 4: Dancing in the.
Speaker 14: Street in.
Speaker 7: And a new audience in New York City.
Speaker 8: In the music, sweet music.
Speaker 14: They'll be music every well, they'll be swinging swing with
course b dancenter.
Speaker 20: In the street.
Speaker 14: It doesn't matter what you have, just a flow. You
are to come up every goud rob girl everywhere around
the world, dance.
Speaker 8: Soon dancing and dusty.
Speaker 2: Looking from new takes across the Nasha or chounce.
Speaker 11: My boots for met.
Speaker 15: Lit love being the singing a new swing, dancing in
the street, map.
Speaker 10: All the moon seeking now, don't forget the more to see.
Speaker 8: Im misteek so basil.
Speaker 2: Me where's it?
Speaker 7: Don't matter where you are.
Speaker 14: In a music sweet music that will be using Yah, well,
there'll be swinging sway cutting the dancer in the street.
It don't come out too world. That's there every clime,
every man.
Speaker 7: In the street.
Speaker 9: Hey, dancing in the streets. Now, look, I get it
some of you out there like this. It's just I
thought it was they tried too hard. I don't know
that it means.
Speaker 8: It sounds like they're having a lot of fun.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, exactly, And they.
Speaker 8: Know it's inconsequential because they have more money than they
will ever be able to spend in ten lifetimes. Yeah
already back in the eighties.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I will say this about their video on
this particular song, I read some pretty interesting quotes about
the video. They it's been likened to embarrassing dad energy.
I can see that, okay, and then another one I
love here somebody quoted it as being sublimely stupid. So
those were two interesting quotes. I will say, like I said,
I would strongly recommend you go to the musicless version.
And Brian, wasn't there a Family Guy reference as well?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: There is, Barbara, you want to share that one.
Speaker 1: They actually played the whole entire video on an episode
of Family Guy and made fun of it.
Speaker 8: May comments about Yeah, they called it the gayest.
Speaker 1: Video, yes, and which I never that never even occurred
to me. But I have to tell you that Family
Guy has like made me look at things differently in
my lifetime, like so many things, Family Guy from their
perspective has made me look at differently. And so in
the video the little close ups of their butts wiggling
back and forth and stuff.
Speaker 8: Like that, and yeah, well like eighties break color shirt
and the clothes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's much in my head before Family Guys.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, they ruined it. Yeah, gud feeling. If Neil
were here, he would want to point out that Van
Hale and also did a rock and cover of it,
which I happen to like. We can argue that one too.
Speaker 9: I'm sure we could. But again, I just felt that
they tried too hard, both in the recording and the
audio and the video. I'm not saying that David Bowie
and mc chagger are not talented. They're fabulously talented people.
I just thought they tried a little hard here, and
I kind of I'm partial to the sixty four original.
Speaker 8: I get it, I get it. This is why we
all get together because we have inter intersecting opinions over.
Speaker 10: Agree to disagree with you on that one, Okay, exactly.
Speaker 1: I think it was awesome and Jagger and Bowie can
do no wrong.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree
that it's better than that they didn't do mona Lisa, Yes, right, explode.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, they knew their limits. So all right, thank you, John. Okay,
we're gonna take one more real quick break and we
have two more to go, so you don't want to
miss these because I know what's coming up now, So
stick around. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 8: So Gail's up, and Gail never disappoints when we do
these kinds of things, because she digs deeper than the
rest of us do for the most comes up with
the most amazing stuff.
Speaker 15: So take it.
Speaker 8: Away, thank you.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 10: I was having a hard time researching this, and you
know me, I like to find something different, and the
song I chose and the artists I chose are definitely different.
But I'm not sure it's a bad cover of a
good song. I think it's just a different cover of
a good song, and it's not in a style that
I normally like very much. But I will tell you
a little bit about it. Please pardon me. I am
going to be trying to pronounce Brazilian Portuguese, which I
do not speak, so I.
Speaker 8: Had to, like any of us would know if you said, we.
Speaker 10: May have listeners who speak Portuguese, and they'll be like, oh.
Speaker 8: My god, she reallys and we welcome the correction. But yes,
the correction will not be coming from the crambones.
Speaker 10: Right, So I had to try and look up everything
make it gal. Yeah, So a lot of you know
that I adore Eddie Vedder's voice, and I adore Pearl Jam.
I would love to see them someday, but I don't
know if it's ever going to happen.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 10: They did a song called Plush and I found it
rather interesting.
Speaker 8: Cover, wasn't it Stone Temple Pilot.
Speaker 10: Maybe I don't know if that that could be I
don't know that could be wrong.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know the song.
Speaker 10: Yeah, anyhow, yep, anyhow I like STP too, me too.
I never got over Chris Cornell's death, but that's another neither. Anyway,
pronouncing this is going to be interesting. I came across
I came across this Brazilian Portuguese band, or they don't
even call themselves a band. They call themselves a music
project and they've only been together since twenty twenty four.
They kind of came out of nowhere, Well not really,
they came out of Brazil, but anyway. The group's name
is called Chiao Aus Bravos, and they are a rural
rock musical project known for blending classic rock covers with
country instrumentation such as Sorry Linda Banjo's and viola is
often featured on TikTok. The project associated with the username
at Chiao aus Bravos frequently features performances by the artist
known as Chie how medono Wow, and they have a website.
I did read it translated into English so that I
could understand it. It says the band is like a
mix of Kachasa and Coca cola, a combination no one expected. Now.
To clarify, Kachasa is the national spirit national alcoholic drink
of Brasil. It's distilled from sugarcane juice and the alcohol
by volume is between thirty eight and forty eight percent,
so that sounds kind of strong. The members are country
folk that bumped into each other by chance and decided
to turn the confusion into music. It's a mix of
American country music and songs we sing every day while
some of us sing every day. That and it makes
the band unique. Get ready to dance, sing, laugh, and
wonder how it all works so well. Acoustic instruments aka
the one guy has a washboard around his neck with
a little symbol and a bell love He's Yeah, I mean,
you gotta see these guys videos. They're they're amazing. They're
just so funny. It's difficult to define them within a
single style.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 10: The band's essence lies in traditional American music as its
main influence, while also exploring various popular musical styles from
the nineteen twenties to nineteen fifties. Its members possess a
vast musical background. Their repertoire includes songs that have made
and continue to make us remember significant moments in our lives,
played in a very interesting manner acoustically in a show
full of unexpected surprises and accessible to listeners of all
ages and musical tastes.
Speaker 11: And they do tour.
Speaker 10: I'm looking for the names.
Speaker 8: Oh, and.
Speaker 10: The head of the project, Ciao Madonio. I'm thinking that's
probably a stage name, because Chiao Madonio is a fictional
character and the leader of a gang in the nineteen
sixty two Brazilian crime film assaulto au trem Paador Assault
on the pay Train. He's not a real historical figure,
but he's a character from the movie movie and it
sounds like maybe, uh, that's a stage name. So the
members identified include TiO, Jukie Doni, and al l A
g Loquez. So let's call listen to.
Speaker 17: Blush askas.
Speaker 18: Also bars, she weds a Bay and SPASSKII to.
Speaker 7: Moor to.
Speaker 4: The first.
Speaker 7: To stab, time time to time, time to bow.
Speaker 13: To f.
Speaker 8: Okay, guys, what'd you think two thumbs up. That was awesome,
that was really cool.
Speaker 10: Now and that's your polite response.
Speaker 8: And I think John moved on to something else. He
just quit totally.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was like yeah, no, no, that was a
little too twangy for me. Amazing And I'm a country
guy too, and.
Speaker 10: I know and I'm not. That's why it's like so strange.
So on their website it says, do you want to
bring the band to your party or event, contact us
on WhatsApp and we'll arrange it. One little fun fact
is there was a Variety TV show on from March
fifteenth to twenty twenty four to January third, twenty twenty
five called It's All Ours and the band did their
theme song oh in Portuguese. Of course.
Speaker 8: Are they coming to the US because we can come
up with an event?
Speaker 10: There's no yeah, I know, right, yeah, we should. We
should have them play something. But I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know how much hard it costs for them
to come all the way up from Brazil.
Speaker 8: I don't know. I don't know. Some combination of Linda's
front yard, Neil's front yard, a flatbed trailer driving around.
Speaker 11: I'll pay them to stay in Brazil.
Speaker 8: All right, I like it. I thought that was good.
Speaker 11: Is there any music you don't like?
Speaker 8: Yes? I can't stand Selene Dion's voice. And I'm not
a Tom Waits fan. I'm a Tom Waits music fan
when done by other people. But he really just sounds
like he should be singing for an Xlax commercial.
Speaker 10: He's another one. Somebody please get him a cough drop.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's done on purpose because when he talks,
he just talks.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 8: When he goes to sing, it's like purposely.
Speaker 10: You would think that would ruin his voice singing that with.
Speaker 8: You, it's ruined, it's already. He does it on purpose,
that's my opinion. What can I say? But my selection
is not too far behind those two. And I are
you done, Gail before I step all over you? Okay? Yeah,
all right, that was a good one. I did like that.
I made my pick because it's my ongoing quest to
bring Neil up to speed on the eighties that he missed.
Speaker 10: I love eighties a little bit.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well we'll see, because you may not forget me after
this one. So my bad version is by Stanley Kirk Burrell,
who is now sixty four years old. He grew up
relatively poor in Oakland, California, along with eight siblings, so
to make some money, he and his brother would gather
up baseballs that made their way to the parking lot
of Oakland Coliseum when where the Oakland A's played. They
would gather up the baseballs and sell them to fans,
and he would dance in the lot. He would just
basically busk and dance for tips in the lot, and
the owner of the A's, Charlie Finley, saw Burrell's energy
and actually hired him to be a bat boy. But
what happened is his brother wound up being the bad
boy why while Burrell wound up being the teenage quote
eyes and ears for Finley, who was gone all summer,
he was basically an absentee owner, and Burrell made such
an impression on him that he had this thirteen year
old kid representing the owner in the clubhouse for the
Oakland A's and actually trusted him to report back on
what was going on. And apparently Burrell had the respect
of the players because he worked there from nineteen seventy
three to nineteen eighty. So this young teenager apparently made
a good impression right off the bat. And in fact,
this is when Reggie Jackson had left the Yankees and
was playing for the A's at this point, Linda's our baseball. Well,
she's a Mets fan, and Mets is very close to
baseball from what I understand.
Speaker 9: Okay, the gauntlet has been hh.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Well the problem is that is the extent of
my knowledge of sport. It ends there, and so anything
Linda has to say, I lose. So I have no
idea what I'm talking about, but I do remember Reggie Jackson.
So Reggie thought Burrell looked like baseball legend Hank Aaron.
And do you remember, Linda, Hank Aaron's nickname, which I
didn't know until I was researching this Hammer and Hank Hammer. Yup,
So Reggie started calling this kid Hammer. Hammer took on
the title MC Master of Ceremonies and would go out
and perform clubs while on the road with the A's
during the summer as MC Hammer And there you go,
so smart kid. The A's were paying him to travel,
They were footing the bill for him to travel, stay
at the hotels and do all this. And as a
side gig, he would go out and play at the
clubs in between games. Burrell graduated high school in nineteen eighty.
He wound up taking a few undergraduate classes that did
not go well, so he enlisted in the US Navy
and served for three years. He received an honorable discharge. Afterwards,
he put together a Christian rap group that had relatively
good local success. He borrowed some money from two Oakland
A's players and he started his own record company. They
would record their own material and sell records out of
the trunk of their car, and to his credit, he
just pounded the pavement and worked relentlessly. He sold sixty
thousand copies of his first record out of the trunk
of his car and managed to get radio airplay. Now,
the material was more mainstream, not the Christian stuff, but
he got a lot of radio airplay just from hustling,
and a lot of the tracks got played in dance
clubs in the area back when dance clubs were a
lot bigger than they are now. So I gotta give
him credit. So mc Hammer, as we now know him,
took it to the next level. He hired a troop
of dancers, he put together a band with backup singers,
and put together a very impressive stage show. He received
and turned down offers from major labels who had come
out to see him, until an executive from Capitol Records
saw his show and offered him a multi album contract
with a one point seven million dollar advance. Nice from
going from the trunk of your car to an almost
two million dollar advance back then, that's pretty good. I
don't know how much money that would be now worth
every penny to both him and to Capitol Records. So
long story short. He was friends with Arcinio Hall back
when Arsenio Hall had his show in the eighties early nineties.
He premiered the song you Can't Touch This on the
Arsenio Hall Show in nineteen eighty nine. The song famously
samples the baseline from super Freak by Rick James. That
track was off the huge nineteen ninety album Please Hammer
Don't Hurt Him, which was entirely recorded and produced on
a portable studio that Hammer had built into his tour bus,
something that is common now because we can do everything
on laptops and interfaces and plugins and all that, but
it was quite revolutionary back then. The whole album done
on a tour bus, which I think is quite awesome.
It will go on to be the first hip hop
album to achieve Diamond status, with over eighteen million cups
he sold to date. The video played all the time
on MTV, and I still find it entertaining because the pants.
If you have not seen mc Hammer's pace, oh yeah,
the war pants, Yeah, do yourself. The favre. Oh it's
like worse somehow, but the pants, the moves, I can't
do any of it. I still get a kick out
of seeing that video every once in a while. Uh,
there was another successful single off of this album. There
were actually two. We're going to talk about one of them.
That's the one we're going to come back to in
a little bit. He kept plugging away. He started a
management company, he started record companies, He owned racehorses. He
built up a fortune of about thirty three million dollars
back then, which is pretty good from working hard. And
of course he was equally famous for overspending and blowing
his money and going bankrupt. More recently, he's worked his
way back up and he's doing fine now. I don't
know if he kept the pants or not, but he's
doing all right. But that second single from this nineteen
ninety album the one we're going to talk about not
so fun. He did a nineteen nineties version of a song,
well late eighties, early nineties version of a song originally
done in nineteen seventy one by Chicago R and B
group The Chighlights. The song is called have You Seen Her?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 10: I love that song.
Speaker 8: Yeah, keep that one in mind, because I don't know
about this song. The original and his version both begin
and end with a spoken word narration about a woman
who left and doesn't come back, so no happy ending.
In this song, mc hammer updated the lyrics for the
late eighties. He made the opening line, ah yeah, I'm
glad I put this tape in, which made me think,
when is the last time I put a tape in?
Speaker 10: Oh yeah?
Speaker 8: And I bought this album because I was DJing back then,
and I bought it on CD. Even when I was
listening to it, I didn't put a tape in, so
it was kind of already obsolete. He references other rapper
friends of his from the time, most of whom are
still around and still performing, so you recognize the names.
And he also references the Cosby Show, which has not
held up very well. No yeah, so keep your your
ears open for that. So let's hear mc hammer's version
of have you Seen Her? And I apologize up front.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm glad I put this tape in. I'm
just gonna put me down a road, lucas the stars
of the sky has dripped off into the sleep memories.
Speaker 7: That I have.
Speaker 4: I would love that. My heart is the.
Speaker 15: Searching for for so long, and I know somewhere and
I keep looking that love. Fine, the picture wills clearer.
Speaker 5: And clearer.
Speaker 4: From the back to the front of my mind.
Speaker 16: I like love, I love.
Speaker 4: I know I'll have.
Speaker 7: The girl that I bought.
Speaker 21: She'll be mine, shall be fled, and it'll last.
Speaker 4: I see her face that I can't let go. She's
in my dreams and my heart, So let me know,
have you seen her? I'm looking for that us. She's
a thought and a widget in.
Speaker 8: My memoir reath.
Speaker 4: I have it better, but deft where because he's big.
Have you seen her? I'm looking for that special love,
oh love, love.
Speaker 8: And feeling that I have a death.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, maybe be mine. I need your love to
make it somebody else you mean minds? Yes, the search
is going on from coast to coast. A moment for
the man who's talking the most. Have you seen her?
My heart is beating strong. This stuff cannot be wrong.
Speaker 5: I need and I want someone to my home.
Speaker 4: Have you seen them?
Speaker 15: I'm gonna keep looking at the movies in my car,
on my theories.
Speaker 4: Oh at a game of difference? Well are the cost shows?
Speaker 13: Have you seen them?
Speaker 7: Yo?
Speaker 6: Bill?
Speaker 21: Tell me what's up at the track, at the club
or out buying dogs?
Speaker 4: If you've seen them? I'll help her because I'm in love.
Speaker 16: Have you seen her?
Speaker 4: My heart is hers so bad? Super love is a feeling.
Speaker 5: That I know I did.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, could be my baby? I need your love
to make it? Why would she be mine?
Speaker 5: Where could she be? In a store?
Speaker 4: Around the colors on wondering at night? Another brother? Hold
in the night at your seeing her.
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: And know I'm looking calling on my hands all around
my place.
Speaker 7: Got the birth of my holy rob.
Speaker 21: Based at the scene of your Peter Hotel, telling me
on the phone dead drake or in love?
Speaker 2: Five?
Speaker 7: Pretty?
Speaker 4: Watch your young brother?
Speaker 2: Have you seen her?
Speaker 8: I've got a picture in my mother.
Speaker 4: The Lord is so of the love I need like magic? Ever,
don't you uppere? Oh baby, why don't you appear? I
can see your face. I'm seeing her face again and again.
I'm knocking at my door and you know I'll let
you in.
Speaker 1: Have you seen.
Speaker 4: All my sweet bug searching around the world?
Speaker 5: What more I say?
Speaker 4: The mother's start to see right, the only scene James.
Speaker 8: And I turned it over to the Crambones for your
comments and input, and jad.
Speaker 4: It didn't suck.
Speaker 8: Really, that's a prayer. That's a positive note right there.
That is not the reaction I expected, because man, I
thought I just kept going, Yeah I did.
Speaker 11: But you know, all right, I have a slightly related
little factoid. When hammer Time was so popular, I used
to joke with my boyfriend at the time and I
made him bright pink hammer pants for Christmas, Oh my
god that year, which he dutifully put on and did
the hammer dance across the floor.
Speaker 8: So outstanding.
Speaker 11: Nice, put my sewing skills to good, good youth.
Speaker 8: I think I've ever been prouder of you, Linda doing something.
Books and lectures and all this kind of stuff. But
it's the hammer pants.
Speaker 11: It's the bright pink hammer pants.
Speaker 10: All right, excellent, that's amazing.
Speaker 8: All right. Well, so there you go. I can't say
they're all bad versions, but they are alternate versions of
all these songs.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So I think it was a pretty good selection across
the board.
Speaker 10: Definitely not too bad.
Speaker 8: And Linda, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 11: Oh it was fun and it's nice to be able
to be on the show without everybody hating me because
I'm judging them. I wasn't the hard ass judge tonight,
but I'm sure I'll make an appearance sometime this the
end of this year.
Speaker 8: Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 10: I still remember my reaction from last year. Oh hi, Linda, Oh.
Speaker 11: Wait, Yeah, everybody's like, oh yeah, oh no.
Speaker 8: So we already decided on the punishment for those who
missed the quiz. You may recall what is it? Two
years ago? John missed it and he and I had
to sit through the Cats musical movie. I was terrible.
This year it's the Sylvester Stallone movie over the Top
from the.
Speaker 10: Eighties, which was I don't think I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well you better not miss yeah, yeah, don't miss the quayser.
You're going to see it all right. I think it's
time to pull the plug because enough is enough, because
we don't need more bad stuff cropping up. We've had
enough for one episode, so excellent selections. Thank you again
Linda for joining us, and thank you cram Bones for
all the hard work as always, and thank you for
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