Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, this is Ryan Rainwater and I'm here to
Speaker 1: introduce you to the guys that will totally kick your
Speaker 1: ass at anything eighties knowledge. Welcome to the latest episode
Speaker 1: of the Surely You Can't Be Serious podcasts. This week,
Speaker 1: Jason and Dee are discussing the top five songs of
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, a year of disco, funk and classic rock.
Speaker 2: So fire up your eight track player.
Speaker 1: Dust off your bell bottoms, and let's get ready to
Speaker 1: rock and roll.
Speaker 2: All right, d let's talk about something I'm gonna play.
Speaker 2: What does this have in common? Okay? Okay, pet Rocks ye,
Speaker 2: Dorothy Hammill's haircut, the founding of Apple Computer Company huh,
Speaker 2: and Jerry Lee Lewis waving a gun around outside Graceland.
Speaker 2: What are all those things having?
Speaker 3: Things I dreamed last night in my fever dream in
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: Those are all things that happened in nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 2: And today we're talking about things that happened in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy six, including the US bi centennial.
Speaker 3: That's a big one, and we're coming up with our
Speaker 3: biosexques Centennial or I can't remember what the name of
Speaker 3: it is. I think it's Yeah, well, two hundred and fifty,
Speaker 3: two fifty. We do things the American way over here.
Speaker 3: We just say the dad gum number instead of some
Speaker 3: Latin phrase.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. I've got some cool nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: six stuff I was going to share with you. Okay,
Speaker 2: So think back with me to nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 3: Can you give me details about Dorothy Hamill's hair.
Speaker 2: You don't remember her little mushroom cut, A little Melissa.
Speaker 3: I was zero to one year nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: Think back to nineteen seventy six where you were zero
Speaker 2: years old. We have the beginnings of happy Days and
Speaker 2: Laverne Shirley love them. Charlie's Angels is going strong. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Bionic Woman. Do you remember the last time we
Speaker 2: talked about Lindsay and the Bionic Woman?
Speaker 3: I do. We were talking about how angry she was
Speaker 3: that Eddie van Halen had a recording studio right next
Speaker 3: to our house. That's sorry to sleep when guys are
Speaker 3: playing at three am.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. Nineteen seventy six also gives us Rocky
Speaker 2: Taxi Driver, Carrie and all the President's Men great movies.
Speaker 2: This is a pre Star Wars universe we're talking about here.
Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy six, you have the beginning of you
Speaker 2: two the Toronto Blue Jays and Phil Collins as Genesis
Speaker 2: is Senior.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so we are here today to talk about the
Speaker 3: top five songs of nineteen seventy six, and ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 3: if you haven't been with us before when we've don't
Speaker 3: do one of our top five episodes, here's what you
Speaker 3: need to know. Number One, we don't include any songs
Speaker 3: that we have either covered already off of the many,
Speaker 3: many albums that we've covered. We also don't include songs
Speaker 3: on albums that we're gonna cover. I don't know that
Speaker 3: we've done that much from nineteen seventy six, but we definitely,
Speaker 3: I mean Hotel California is a big one.
Speaker 2: I mean that's probably taken out my number one overall
Speaker 2: draft pick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you could do, Yeah, you could do
Speaker 3: the whole album and the honorable mentions just from that album. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: And we don't tell you what our song is right
Speaker 3: off the bat. He doesn't know what my list is.
Speaker 3: I don't know what his list is. We tease this up,
Speaker 3: We tell each other stories, get a little trivia tidbits,
Speaker 3: and you the listener, and we as co host get
Speaker 3: to try to guess what the song is. So that
Speaker 3: gives a little bit of fun. Yeah, we like excitement.
Speaker 3: We're solving a mystery here, and in this particular case,
Speaker 3: fourteen mysteries, because we will have our top five, and
Speaker 3: we will have two honorable mentions, and we'll give you
Speaker 3: a little mysteries on all of them. Are you ready
Speaker 3: to get going?
Speaker 2: I am ready to get going.
Speaker 3: Okay, I would defer to you to start this show.
Speaker 3: Let's go with Jason Colvin's pick for number five. Five.
Speaker 2: All right, my number five. I've got this great story
Speaker 2: that goes along with this song.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: This song was released August of nineteen seventy six, and
Speaker 2: it peaks out in the US at number seven December fourth,
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy six. Now, this song originally had a different
Speaker 2: title because it had to do with a different person,
Speaker 2: a different fictional person. Okay, actually one's fictional, one's non
Speaker 2: fictional anyway. Okay. This is this group's biggest commercial hit,
Speaker 2: and it was created out of a band member or
Speaker 2: two mocking another band member for his girlfriend constantly being
Speaker 2: on his case while he was at the recording studio.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So we've talked about that story before. This
Speaker 3: is involved throwing milk.
Speaker 2: No, okay, at least not that I remember.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, then just keep on going, all.
Speaker 2: Right, So let's back up. Okay, So This appears on
Speaker 2: this group's fourth studio album Okay, And there's some controversy
Speaker 2: about who actually wrote the song. Yeah, it's credited to
Speaker 2: one particular member of the band, although the other three
Speaker 2: members of the band say nah, he didn't really do
Speaker 2: that much with it. It was really the producer of the
Speaker 2: album who wrote all the music and stuff. Okay, all right, now,
Speaker 2: this producer had a way of keeping them in line
Speaker 2: in the studio.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: He wore a whistle like a football coach and would
Speaker 2: whistle at them to get their attention. Okay, and would
Speaker 2: call them campers, which is so funny to me when
Speaker 2: you find out who this is. Okay, Okay, So let
Speaker 2: me ask this question.
Speaker 3: Yes, is this a British band?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: This is an American band.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, they're an American band.
Speaker 3: But is it the American band?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, no it's not Grand Funk Railroad. Okay. So nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy six American four piece band.
Speaker 2: Okay, massive, massive band.
Speaker 3: Massive band. All right, keep on going.
Speaker 2: This song went on to when the People's Choice Awards
Speaker 2: for Favorite Song of nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: It was featured in a movie in nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 2: which is ridiculous, one of the worst movies ever conceived
Speaker 2: that I can't really tell I mean, I can't tell
Speaker 2: you the name of it for sure. Let me tell
Speaker 2: you the names of the people involved.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: So the guy's girlfriend who they were mocking him for
Speaker 2: her constantly calling in and bugging him about what.
Speaker 3: He was doing.
Speaker 2: Her name was Becky, Becky, Becky, all right. So the
Speaker 2: name of the song was originally titled beck Okay, nothing,
Speaker 2: I got nothing, no, all right, let me play this
Speaker 2: song for you. I know this is not really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the clues that you've given as far
Speaker 3: as the songs are concerned, are very limited. So I'm struggling.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm tiptoeing around because if anything I say
Speaker 2: is going to tip it right off, well give it away.
Speaker 3: A little bit. Then. What's the name of the movie.
Speaker 2: The name of the movie is Kiss Meets the Phantom
Speaker 2: of the Park.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the band is Kiss, Yes, and it's not
Speaker 3: I want to rock and roll all the item party
Speaker 3: every day? Is it Beth?
Speaker 2: It's Beth?
Speaker 3: Okayd hear you call in?
Speaker 2: But I can't come home.
Speaker 4: And now.
Speaker 3: Me and the boars.
Speaker 4: And we just can't fin side.
Speaker 2: Okay, I might get ridiculed because I know Kiss fans
Speaker 2: hate that song. I don't care.
Speaker 3: I love it well if I don't like Kiss in general,
Speaker 3: but that song is actually kind of Okay.
Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute. What you have said many times
Speaker 2: you don't like Kiss? True, I wouldn't call myself a
Speaker 2: Kiss fan. Yeah, but what are we doing if we
Speaker 2: don't cover Kiss at some point?
Speaker 3: Yeah? We probably should. I guess.
Speaker 2: This was the B side to Detroit Rock City. Okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: and it was originally just a B side song, but
Speaker 2: it got so much radio play that it became an
Speaker 2: A side.
Speaker 3: Okay, very good.
Speaker 2: That was my number five. Okay, you're a number.
Speaker 3: Five, so all right, here we go. This is D's
Speaker 3: number five. All right. Now. Middle of this song, you
Speaker 3: have a guest musician named Paul Prestopino. Okay, Paul Prestopino.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: He was one of the backup guys session musicians for Peter,
Speaker 3: Paul and Mary for about fifteen years. Okay, Now, what's
Speaker 3: gonna surprise you once you know what the song is. Is
Speaker 3: that the instrument that he's playing and this song is
Speaker 3: the banjo. Okay, Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Think, okay, nineteen seventy six banjo, all right, yes.
Speaker 3: It's not Bernie Bernie En, not Bernie Leeden. Yep. This album,
Speaker 3: I would say, is one of the albums cited as
Speaker 3: influential albums for most of the bands that we've covered.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you got to pick one, like, which
Speaker 3: album did these bands site as super influential in their upbringing? Specifically,
Speaker 3: I can remember Nikki six talking about it and the
Speaker 3: Heroin Diaries and it was a favorite. It was on
Speaker 3: what Kurt Cobain wrote in a little notebook in top
Speaker 3: fifty Nirvana albums, and there was all the albums that
Speaker 3: influenced him, and this was one of those albums. Okay. Now,
Speaker 3: when you hear this song come on, for about the
Speaker 3: first twenty seconds, you're thinking, oh, this is gonna be
Speaker 3: a slow song and you might be tempted to skip
Speaker 3: it because you're in the mood to rock. Well, just
Speaker 3: wait till twenty two seconds, because at twenty two seconds
Speaker 3: it starts to rock. Now, this band is known for
Speaker 3: its lead guitarist and its lead singer, obviously, but it's
Speaker 3: one of those bands that, like everybody knows, it's like
Speaker 3: Richie Sambora and bon Jovi. Like everybody knows who the
Speaker 3: lead guitarist is. It's unmistakable, right.
Speaker 2: I know who the band is, and I know the
Speaker 2: album you're referring to, but I don't know the song yet.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the song is by the rhythm guitarist. Now,
Speaker 3: I say that he's played lead on plenty of songs before,
Speaker 3: but he's kind of the background guy as far as
Speaker 3: the guitar goes. You've got guitar God and this other
Speaker 3: guy who writes this really incredible song and deserves complete
Speaker 3: credit for it. And I know, I know that you
Speaker 3: figured out the band, but that was the band where
Speaker 3: the milk was thrown.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. I forgot about that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, Now that's all the clues that I have
Speaker 3: for this song. Okay, you tell me who you think
Speaker 3: the band is.
Speaker 2: So I'm ninety nine point nine percent.
Speaker 3: I mean it's Aerosmith, that is correct.
Speaker 2: The album is Gems No, but close rocks, yes, Rocks rocks, yes,
Speaker 2: my gyms rocks. Is it back in the saddle again?
Speaker 3: No? Great? Guess this one. Let me play it for you.
Speaker 2: This is Last Child? Excellent?
Speaker 5: Eh?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Good good, good, great tune love. It might be the
Speaker 3: shortest song on my list. Nineteen seventy six was full
Speaker 3: of extended play songs.
Speaker 2: Interesting, yeah, okay, all right, we might hear something related
Speaker 2: to this later on.
Speaker 3: Okay, very great, very good. All right, I'm deferring to
Speaker 3: you for your number four. Four.
Speaker 2: So we have a rule when we do these best
Speaker 2: of lists, we don't include songs that we've covered, right,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that we technically haven't covered this song,
Speaker 2: although we talked about it.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: We talked about it because it was in the history
Speaker 2: of a band that we covered within the past year
Speaker 2: or so.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, yep.
Speaker 2: Now, this song was a change of pace for this band, Okay.
Speaker 2: And because of the success of this particular song, huh,
Speaker 2: it literally fractured the band, change the course of their life,
Speaker 2: set their tone moving forward for eternity.
Speaker 3: Okay, got an idea.
Speaker 2: It was like they swallowed a poison pill in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy six that didn't kill them until nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Now, this won't give it away for
Speaker 3: our listeners and even our viewers, but is one of
Speaker 3: their albums right above my head up there, yes, okay,
Speaker 3: all right, so I got the band.
Speaker 2: In fact, I think maybe.
Speaker 3: That might be the album.
Speaker 2: It could be on that album right there. Yes, you've
Speaker 2: got it, You've got it. So this song hits number
Speaker 2: one October twenty third, nineteen seventy six, where it stays
Speaker 2: for two weeks. It's one of only five non disco
Speaker 2: number ones in nineteen seventy six. Yep, it's their first
Speaker 2: number one hit, and it won a Grammy for Best
Speaker 2: Vocal Performance for a Group.
Speaker 3: Yes, and this group had an incredible guitarist who came
Speaker 3: to an incredibly tragic end. And it was the bass
Speaker 3: player that came up with this song and sang it,
Speaker 3: and that's what fractured the band's So the bass player's
Speaker 3: name was Peter Saterra. Yes, the band's name is Chicago. Yes,
Speaker 3: and this is if you leave me now.
Speaker 4: You'll take away the bar.
Speaker 2: We talked about how this led them on the road
Speaker 2: to Balladtown and forever changed and morphed the band for eternity.
Speaker 2: This knocked Disco Duck out of the number one spot.
Speaker 3: Disco Duck was on my radar for being on this list.
Speaker 3: I will tell you that.
Speaker 2: That's like the worst song I really hope it does
Speaker 2: not show up. Crazily.
Speaker 3: Disco Duck came up in conversation the same day that
Speaker 3: I listened to it at work. Disco Duck popped out.
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know what's going about, Like
Speaker 3: this is a sign or something.
Speaker 2: Hey, I've got one little, one more little story on
Speaker 2: this one, which seems completely implausible to me.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: We talked about how Peter Starr was kind of on
Speaker 2: the outside looking in with the original guys who created
Speaker 2: this band.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit, and including you know.
Speaker 2: You've got a guitar player, you got the drummer, you
Speaker 2: got the horn guys.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So Walter Perizaider, who was the sax player, one of
Speaker 2: the horns guys. Yes, when he first heard it on
Speaker 2: the radio, he thought, huh, this song sounds a lot
Speaker 2: like Paul McCartney. Didn't recognize it his own song.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 2: All right to your number four, sir, All right, here
Speaker 2: we go, my number four.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to give you history on this one.
Speaker 3: I mean it is history because it happened I guess
Speaker 3: twenty five years ago. But this is much later on
Speaker 3: after the life of this song. So in two thousand
Speaker 3: and one. This became the first song that this artist
Speaker 3: approved a rap group to sample.
Speaker 2: Okay, two thousand and one.
Speaker 3: Two thousand and one. Now, I know that in the
Speaker 3: last couple of years, I know that Eminem has kind
Speaker 3: of sampled one of his songs, and I remember seeing
Speaker 3: him talk about that, But this was the first one.
Speaker 3: He approved it to be covered by run DMC. Shout
Speaker 3: out Deaf Dave. And by the way, by the way,
Speaker 3: we got some stuff coming up here. We got the
Speaker 3: re release of run DMC versus Beastie Boys, so you
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Speaker 3: Deaf Dave as our guest host on that one, and
Speaker 3: it's going to be fantastic. Yeah. But anyway, he had
Speaker 3: run DMC and Everlast covered the song, Okay, or used
Speaker 3: it for a sample.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, we're not talking eighty six, We're talking seventy six.
Speaker 3: We're talking seventy six, yes, but the cover captains in
Speaker 3: two thousand and one. Even more recent than that. Now,
Speaker 3: there is a movie from before this song, nineteen sixty
Speaker 3: nine movie by Woody that shares this the name of
Speaker 3: this song, but they are unrelated. Okay, all right, all right,
Speaker 3: all right, The song was inspired by the lead singer
Speaker 3: and songwriters trips that he used to take when he
Speaker 3: was a kid with his family. They would be on
Speaker 3: the road and he'd be listening to the radio, and
Speaker 3: this was just like his road trip song. Now, what's
Speaker 3: interesting is that it's not like a family going on
Speaker 3: a road trip. It's like a couple going on a
Speaker 3: road trip. And the song is almost a movie in itself,
Speaker 3: and a movie where the criminals get away. At the end, man, okay,
Speaker 3: they headed down to Mexico. I mean, all right, it
Speaker 3: sounds familiar. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 3: a little bit more of h before I give you this,
Speaker 3: all right, and this this song reached number eleven in
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy six. And the song is about a couple
Speaker 3: who either get away with murder or get away with
Speaker 3: attempted murder. They both have two.
Speaker 2: Names, Billy Joe and Bobby Sue, and.
Speaker 3: The sheriff who's after them also has two names. Ah, okay,
Speaker 3: Billy Jack.
Speaker 2: Billy Jack. There we go this Okay, I got it,
Speaker 2: I got it, Okay, Okay, so go ahead, Well, okay,
Speaker 2: so this is Steve Miller Band, which I have been
Speaker 2: saying we need to cuver Steve Miller band for the
Speaker 2: longest time, and.
Speaker 3: We have we don't have him on the schedule yet.
Speaker 2: So this is take the money and run, you got it?
Speaker 5: Adopting the Joe and Bobby so house good. I'm watching too.
Speaker 2: That's a good Those are good clues, man, those are good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm disappointed myself an catch on quicker. All right, ready, yeah,
Speaker 2: so number three for me?
Speaker 3: Number three three.
Speaker 2: This is tricky because how do I how do I
Speaker 2: tell you about this without telling you too much?
Speaker 3: Okay? Okay.
Speaker 2: So this was a song that was originally they weren't
Speaker 2: sure whether it was going to be a duet or not. Okay,
Speaker 2: And in fact, when they went to the studio and
Speaker 2: they divvied up the lines that it was like ninety
Speaker 2: percent one singer and ten percent the other singer. And
Speaker 2: the producer's like, well, wait a minute, is this a
Speaker 2: duet or like a guest appearance? He goes, no, no, duet,
Speaker 2: and he's like, well, well you got to divide up
Speaker 2: the lines better. Okay.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: So the the original part, you know, the guy who
Speaker 2: wrote it, he sings it. The duet part of it
Speaker 2: was originally offered to Dusty Springfield.
Speaker 3: Okay, Dusty Springfield, son of a preacher, Many Springfield.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The reason why Dusty Springfield could not do this song okay,
Speaker 2: These are the reasons given, and I have not dove
Speaker 2: into the specifics on this.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Alcoholism she had it or she was against it, and
Speaker 2: it was mentioned in the South. She took a hard
Speaker 2: stance against alcoholism. She had alcoholism, okay, she had drug addiction,
Speaker 2: uh huh. And the third self harm.
Speaker 3: Okay, so she was suffering from these things. Was just
Speaker 3: why she couldn't do the duet part of this.
Speaker 2: That's right, Okay, that's right. Keep it rolling, okay. This
Speaker 2: is the original Guy's sixth number one hit in four years.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Literally here arrives on the scene knocking out of the
Speaker 2: park left and right. Okay, but it's his last until
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Okay, So big Gap in time there released June nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy six. Any idea where I'm going with this?
Speaker 3: Not a clue. You're going to have to give you
Speaker 3: more than this? All right? Here you go, there you go.
Speaker 2: So the original singer called his co writing partner, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's a very famous writing partnership.
Speaker 3: I assume this is a female since the Dusty Springfield
Speaker 3: was suppose to do it but couldn't.
Speaker 2: I maybe leading you straight here.
Speaker 3: Okay, there's a male part.
Speaker 2: And then there was the to be filled Dusty Springfield part.
Speaker 3: Right, so she didn't fill it with another female singer
Speaker 3: filled it with the male singer.
Speaker 2: No, he called his songwriting partner, who's a male Okay,
Speaker 2: this is not the singer, all right, Okay, this person
Speaker 2: was in Barbados and was drunk and sunburned, and the
Speaker 2: singer said, hey, I've got a title. I want you
Speaker 2: to work on this for me. The guy pulled himself
Speaker 2: out of the pool, stuck his head in the ice bucket,
Speaker 2: and got to work on this. Bernie pulled himself out,
Speaker 2: Bernie pulled himself other the artist came up with something
Speaker 2: in about ten minutes. Okay, Now, then this song has
Speaker 2: been sung by the original singer and this woman, plus RuPaul,
Speaker 2: Minnie Mouse, Miss Piggy, Okay, the Spice Girls, and many
Speaker 2: other people.
Speaker 3: I'm sure. Okay, So the artist is Elton John, Yes.
Speaker 3: The co singer is Kiki d Yes. The song I
Speaker 3: cannot remember. I mean I obviously know the song because
Speaker 3: I know the two people who sing it, but I
Speaker 3: just can't bring the title to my head right now.
Speaker 2: It's shocking to me that you know it's Kiki D
Speaker 2: and you don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, it's just it's it's there in the It's in
Speaker 3: the hidden room. It's got that gotta be unlocked. Play
Speaker 3: the play the musical key for me. Let me see
Speaker 3: if I get it. Don't breaking, don't go breaking my hearts.
Speaker 2: Good job, it'll stick that landing.
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2: This was the number two Billboard song for nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 3: Excellent choice.
Speaker 2: Love it, Thank you just for that. I almost wore
Speaker 2: pink overalls. You and geeky me and Kky all right,
Speaker 2: here we are. This is my number three, you number three,
Speaker 2: number three?
Speaker 3: All right? This song is kind of a one hit wonder,
Speaker 3: and maybe just a one hit wonder. I don't I
Speaker 3: can't think of another song. I'm sure that these guys
Speaker 3: had something, but again, this is just barely alive at
Speaker 3: this point, right But the song, the band's name? You
Speaker 3: ever place? You ever play scrabble with your siblings? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did you ever put down a word that you were like? No?
Speaker 3: That's a word, and they're like, that is not a word.
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, that's really a word. You've done that.
Speaker 2: Quild you bow, yeah, quidjebo.
Speaker 3: So the name of this band came from the lead
Speaker 3: singer doing this with his brother. He put this name
Speaker 3: down and he's like, that's a thing, and his brother's like,
Speaker 3: that is not a thing. He's like, it's a thing. Okay, no,
Speaker 3: not a thing. So so later when they are trying
Speaker 3: to think of the name of the band, the other
Speaker 3: band members wanted to be called Brandywine, but he talked
Speaker 3: him into going with this other name, this not a
Speaker 3: word word that he had come up with, this scrabble
Speaker 3: like game.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 3: This song happened after a six hour jam session, just
Speaker 3: after their bass player Tony Stevens quits the band. He's like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be a rock star. That's literally
Speaker 3: his like, it's not like you guys suck, We're not
Speaker 3: moving the way I want to move. It's like, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm thinking about this, I don't want to
Speaker 3: be a rock star. Well he quit just in time,
Speaker 3: because they quit right before they had their one big hit. Right,
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Okay, So only one guy gets credit
Speaker 3: for the song. It's similar to your story. Only one
Speaker 3: guy gets a writing credit. But they all say, no,
Speaker 3: we all wrote this. Now, if they've lost their bass player,
Speaker 3: I don't know what's happened. No, I do know what happened.
Speaker 3: They have a producer and he's like, I'm gonna come
Speaker 3: in and I'll play the bass part. Right, So he's
Speaker 3: in the six hour jam session that they're doing. Sure, now,
Speaker 3: if you get it from this, don't give it away,
Speaker 3: all right, Yeah, if you have to be a news
Speaker 3: radio fan, no, okay. Well, like one of the characters,
Speaker 3: anytime somebody like the guy would fall asleep on the desk,
Speaker 3: he would play this song at full volume to make
Speaker 3: him wake up. Okay, all right, all right, Now there
Speaker 3: is a significant tempo increase in this song, which is
Speaker 3: ironic given the name of the song. Okay, but it's
Speaker 3: less ironic when you know the subject of the song.
Speaker 2: So wait, wait, wait, okay, Yeah, does this have to
Speaker 2: do with speed in some way?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So the drum comes in on the two in the four,
Speaker 3: I had to count it. I was like, I got
Speaker 3: to call it James Buckley. I didn't have time. I
Speaker 3: was just like, Okay, I'm gonna listen to this, and like,
Speaker 3: that's on the two in the four, so you the
Speaker 3: drum comes in on the two in the four, so
Speaker 3: the guitar has to start playing after the drum's played
Speaker 3: for a minute. But the drum comes in, and people
Speaker 3: have said this sounds like the headboard banging against the wall, okay,
Speaker 3: which again goes to the subject of the song, which
Speaker 3: I don't want to say the first line because it'll
Speaker 3: give it away, but the next one is go down,
Speaker 3: hold me, roll me. You get an idea what the
Speaker 3: subject of the song might be.
Speaker 2: No, I have no idea what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me play a Duran Duran song for you.
Speaker 3: So as I said, the tempo increase is ironic given
Speaker 3: the name of the song, but not ironic given that
Speaker 3: the song is clearly about sex. Okay, is this the
Speaker 3: head banging gets faster at the end. The headboard banging
Speaker 3: gets faster at the end.
Speaker 2: I'm getting what you're putting out is this slow ride?
Speaker 2: It is heay by foghet.
Speaker 3: You got it? Whoo that's a word. It is not
Speaker 3: no such thing as a fog cat that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good story. Okay, there you go. I have a
Speaker 2: feeling that's one of the like the first songs that
Speaker 2: you learned at guitar lessons or something.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I've been playing guitar for a long time before
Speaker 3: I became familiar with the song. The reason I became
Speaker 3: familiar with this song was dacing confused. This is the
Speaker 3: song that was playing at the end of the movie
Speaker 3: as they drive off into the sunset to go see
Speaker 3: the concert.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, we need to cover that movie at someone.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, in that soundtrack. Oh my gosh, what a soundtrack.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's do it. All right, all right, we on
Speaker 2: to my number.
Speaker 3: What are we on? Two? Two? Yep?
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 3: Two? All right.
Speaker 2: Do you remember a few years ago when we did
Speaker 2: Best of nineteen eighty nine and I had a song
Speaker 2: that I said, I think I could make a solid
Speaker 2: case that this song could appear in our Best of
Speaker 2: nineteen eight eighty seven, Best of nineteen eighty eight, and
Speaker 2: Best of nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3: Do you remember that, not specifically?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, that song, if you want to go back
Speaker 2: and listen to it, was Welcome to the Jungle. Okay,
Speaker 2: appetite was released in eighty seven, hit big in eighty eight,
Speaker 2: but really took hold in eighty nine. So Welcome to the
Speaker 2: Jungle was my that one. That song, this song, I
Speaker 2: think you can make a strong case for it to
Speaker 2: be in nineteen seventy three, maybe possibly nineteen seventy four,
Speaker 2: and for sure in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: So the singer for this band grew up and as
Speaker 2: a young child would lie under his father's piano and
Speaker 2: listen to him play classical music.
Speaker 3: I remember having have we talked about this? Yes, we
Speaker 3: have Okay.
Speaker 2: Keep His dad was a Juilliard trained pianist, and he
Speaker 2: would just lay and play under the piano to the
Speaker 2: sounds of Bach and Beethoven, all the classics. And so
Speaker 2: he started working on this song around age seventeen where
Speaker 2: he came up with the chords of this song, and
Speaker 2: he didn't come up with the lyrics until about age
Speaker 2: twenty two. And the interesting thing is when you look
Speaker 2: at the lyrics, you would say, this is somebody with
Speaker 2: a maturity beyond twenty two years.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Now, one of the other prominent players in the band,
Speaker 2: when he first heard it was really unsure about this song.
Speaker 2: He's like, listen, rock and roll is a show. It's
Speaker 2: all about the energy. And the singer is like, no,
Speaker 2: you got to understand. This is really going to be
Speaker 2: a big thing for us.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: So they ended up releasing it as their debut single
Speaker 2: off their first album Like Straight out of the Gate
Speaker 2: June of nineteen seventy three. It peaks at number fifty
Speaker 2: nine on the Hot one hundred. Not really what they
Speaker 2: were hoping for. Now after some success. We talked about this.
Speaker 2: It kind of happened to Hall of Notes as well.
Speaker 2: They go back and re release this song in January
Speaker 2: of nineteen seventy six, and it goes all the way
Speaker 2: to number six in April of seventy six. Okay, now, then,
Speaker 2: before I tell you about this particular song, When I
Speaker 2: look at the top three this week in nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 2: the one the week this stops out at number six,
Speaker 2: I'm like, these songs are complete? What are we doing here?
Speaker 3: People? Okay?
Speaker 2: Number three is Lonely Night by Captain and Taneil.
Speaker 3: That's on my list, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: Number two is dream Weaver by Gary Wright, which it's
Speaker 2: a good song, sure, Number one is Disco Lady by
Speaker 2: Johnny Taylor. I can't remember all right now before I
Speaker 2: tell you the name of the song. In nineteen seventy five,
Speaker 2: when this singer was twenty seven years old, he convinced
Speaker 2: the parents of a sixteen year old groupie to sign
Speaker 2: over guardianship to him so that she could live with
Speaker 2: him in Boston, essentially common law marriage. He's twenty seven,
Speaker 2: she's sixteen, Okay, Okay. That relationship ends three years later
Speaker 2: with a house fire and abortion. But we're not going
Speaker 2: to talk about that, okay. And this is widely like,
Speaker 2: nobody brings this up. This guy's an international rock star,
Speaker 2: and nobody ever talks about this.
Speaker 3: This is crazy. Okay, You're going to have to give
Speaker 3: me a giveaway clue here, all right. I don't have it.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I've recognized the piano under the okay,
Speaker 3: kid playing on the piano part, but I just can't
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 2: So I told you right before we started that today
Speaker 2: marks the thirty third anniversary of the release of Last
Speaker 2: Action Hero. Yes, when we talked about that movie, that
Speaker 2: soundtrack was really awesome. Yes, there is a version of
Speaker 2: this song on that soundtrack that is produced and like
Speaker 2: symphonied by Michael Kaman, like the world famous movie producer,
Speaker 2: and it was awes yes, thank you, producer, composer. And
Speaker 2: so this song is from a group that we've already
Speaker 2: talked about today, the Toxic Twins themselves, Steven Tyler and
Speaker 2: Joe Perry.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Okay, so is this off of Rocks?
Speaker 2: This is not off of Rocks. This is off their
Speaker 2: self titled first album called Aerosmith.
Speaker 3: Is this sweet Emotion?
Speaker 2: It's not?
Speaker 3: Is this dream on?
Speaker 6: It is dream on?
Speaker 3: That's an excellent choice. I didn't realize I didn't remember
Speaker 3: that this is a the rebirth in seventy six. I
Speaker 3: had forgotten. I remembered everything else about that story, but
Speaker 3: I did not remember that it was this song that
Speaker 3: is that's great, thank you good one, actually, thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you. Probably would have had that on my list
Speaker 3: had I remember.
Speaker 2: That, I mean seventy six.
Speaker 3: So okay, so you're ready, there's my number two, number two,
Speaker 3: and oddly enough, same situation. This song was originally released
Speaker 3: and I believe it was nineteen seventy three, oh good,
Speaker 3: but did not become big until nineteen seventy six. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: So this guy. We've talked about him in at least
Speaker 3: two different episodes, if not more. We talked about him
Speaker 3: in the Appetite for Destruction episode, and we talked about
Speaker 3: him in the Sports episode.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: So this song comes out and is released as a
Speaker 3: single and doesn't do well. In seventy three, he doesn't
Speaker 3: become super popular. He's opening up for other bands like
Speaker 3: Zezy Top and stuff like that, but his live show
Speaker 3: becomes particular, like it's it's people are coming to see
Speaker 3: and play live because they really enjoy the live performance,
Speaker 3: and for this particular song, they kind of expanded out
Speaker 3: and build and you've got peaks and valleys and it
Speaker 3: really is one that is a huge crowd favorite. So
Speaker 3: even though it didn't do much as a single, everybody
Speaker 3: loves it whenever he plays it live. Now, I remember
Speaker 3: a bud Ice commercial. I think it was from I
Speaker 3: think it was from the nineties. I'm pretty sure it
Speaker 3: was from the nineties, and it's these guys, the gen Xers,
Speaker 3: you know, walking around It may have been it may
Speaker 3: have been by two thousand, I'm not sure. Anyway, they're
Speaker 3: walking around the golf course and they're talking about different
Speaker 3: albums it's just like we it's like why we put
Speaker 3: this show together, right, this is how this is what
Speaker 3: we do. Right anyway, so they're like they're they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: but what about this album? Well what about this album?
Speaker 3: And then the kind of the climax of the commercial,
Speaker 3: they mention the album that this song is on, and
Speaker 3: they're like a moment of silence for this album and
Speaker 3: they all stop and are respectful about this album, which
Speaker 3: at the time I was like, I don't even I
Speaker 3: don't know that album. Now I know this song, I
Speaker 3: know several of the songs off of this album, but
Speaker 3: it's this live version that comes out that at that
Speaker 3: point the song takes off.
Speaker 2: I have an inkling, but keep going.
Speaker 3: Okay, first you need to know that this guy played
Speaker 3: at homer Palooza on The Simpsons, and in that episode
Speaker 3: he did play himself.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, wait, wait, is this one of those albums
Speaker 2: where like everybody had a copy of this album in
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 3: Probably Okay, I don't know, okay, Okay. The title of
Speaker 3: this song is not what he sings in the chorus.
Speaker 3: It's close, but he's changing a pronoun, changing a pronoun, right,
Speaker 3: and We mentioned it on our Guns N' Roses episode
Speaker 3: because Slash uses a certain device when he plays his
Speaker 3: guitar on one of the songs, which I found out.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize this until I started going to live shows.
Speaker 3: I thought it was something where like your voice was
Speaker 3: fed into the pedal and then it goes into the guitar,
Speaker 3: and that's what you hear. That's not what's happening. What's
Speaker 3: happening is the guitar comes into the pedal. The tube
Speaker 3: that runs up to your mouth is actually playing the
Speaker 3: music and you're just talking and it's picking it up
Speaker 3: through the microphone. It's not the amp. This is very interesting.
Speaker 3: So that particular thing comes up, you mention it and
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, yeah, most famous because of this album
Speaker 3: and this song. And you're like, oh, i'd make a
Speaker 3: case it was Richie Sambora and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: but you would be wrong because it's definitely this. This
Speaker 3: is where it all begins, right here is this song now.
Speaker 3: That's why we mentioned him on the Appetite for a
Speaker 3: Destruction episode. Why we mentioned him on the Huey Lewis
Speaker 3: episode is where Sweet Sweet Connie, the groupie had had
Speaker 3: had to name two people, the biggest and the smallest,
Speaker 3: and Huey Lewis was the biggest and this guy sadly
Speaker 3: was the smallest.
Speaker 2: But he was all over the place in nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: six and probably had many lovely encounters with the ladies. Sure,
Speaker 2: I know who this is, okay, and I think I
Speaker 2: know the song. Okay, this is Peter Frampton, Yes, off
Speaker 2: of Frampton Comes Alive. Yes, And is this show me
Speaker 2: the Way?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Is this baby I love your Way?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Is this do you feel like I.
Speaker 6: Do?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Hell, yes it is. Yes. Now I will mention one
Speaker 3: other thing because this just might happen to come up
Speaker 3: in the future of this episode. When he's using his talkbox,
Speaker 3: there's a thing that he says that I'm like, dude,
Speaker 3: you can't say that in a song and everybody else
Speaker 3: heard it the same way I do. Okay, I wanna
Speaker 3: f you is what it sounds like he's saying. Now,
Speaker 3: what I read is that's a misheard lyric. I'm like, yeah, well,
Speaker 3: he's not saying I want to feel you. I promise
Speaker 3: you that that's not what's coming out of his mouth.
Speaker 3: I don't care how to story the guitarist, but Anyway,
Speaker 3: there you go. That's he decided to use that talk
Speaker 3: box after the When he was a little kid, he
Speaker 3: would listen to Radio Luxembourg. That was the sound of
Speaker 3: their intro of the Radio Luxembourg with that talkbox.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when we talked about Radio Luxembourg for
Speaker 2: the first time? Pretty sure it was our first Patreon episode.
Speaker 3: Oh was it? Okay?
Speaker 2: Do you remember our first Patreon episode us the Buggles
Speaker 2: video Killed the Radio Star? And I'm pretty sure those
Speaker 2: guys listened to Day Luxembourg.
Speaker 3: Right, Another couple of side notes on this one. The
Speaker 3: lyric do you feel like I do? You? Villians was
Speaker 3: a placeholder. He didn't know. He was like, he was like,
Speaker 3: I'm going to change this later. I just he had
Speaker 3: had a lot of wine the night before. Okay, he
Speaker 3: wasn't feeling great, and so do you feel like I do?
Speaker 3: Like to the guys who were he's probably partying with
Speaker 3: That's how that got there.
Speaker 2: Okay, excellent, that's a good one, man. I don't know
Speaker 2: how you can not have Peter Frampton on this list.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, to our honorable mentions. Okay, guys, we've
Speaker 3: gone through our top four. We do our honorable mentions
Speaker 3: here at this point, Jason, I'm gonna defer to you
Speaker 3: got two honorable mentions to tell me about two honorable mentions?
Speaker 2: Okay. I don't really think you can have a list
Speaker 2: from nineteen seventy six without having at least one disco song.
Speaker 3: On it, right, Okay, Yes.
Speaker 2: So I pulled this one just because it's just irresistible
Speaker 2: to me. Okay, Now I think it's a one hit
Speaker 2: wonder because I can't think of one other thing this
Speaker 2: lady has sung. This song was released at the very
Speaker 2: end of nineteen seventy six, hits number one in early
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy seven. I watched the video and literally, I
Speaker 2: mean this is at a time before people knew videos
Speaker 2: were important, well before well before right five years right, yeah,
Speaker 2: And literally it's her singing and you know, lip syncing whatever,
Speaker 2: dancing in a record store, okay, and she's kind of
Speaker 2: like maneuvering around like product placement. It's her album, right,
Speaker 2: so it's just like her at a Peaches, you know.
Speaker 2: So Anyway, this song won the Grammy for Best Female
Speaker 2: R and B Vocal Performance. Okay, and at least the
Speaker 2: week it hit number one, it held off Number four
Speaker 2: Don't Give Up on This Baby by David Soul. Do
Speaker 2: you remember when we talked about that song? David Soul
Speaker 2: played either star Ski or Hutch I can't remember which one, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: And he was married to the girl in Rambo who
Speaker 2: had the worst Chinese accent of that girl. That's yes girl, yep.
Speaker 2: And number three was Hotel California. Number two was Southern
Speaker 2: Nights by Glenn Campbell. And then this song. Okay, it's
Speaker 2: a disco one hit, wonder I think I'm probably gonna
Speaker 2: have to play it for you.
Speaker 7: I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Say that.
Speaker 3: What you just said, I said, all the disco songs
Speaker 3: sound the same to me.
Speaker 2: This song is called Don't Leave Me This Way by
Speaker 2: Thelma Houston. Okay, I love it, all right, I don't
Speaker 2: care what anybody says.
Speaker 3: Uh huh, all right? What else you got? Honorable mention?
Speaker 2: All right, my other honorable mention. This song reached number
Speaker 2: eleven in nineteen seventy six in June. How am I
Speaker 2: going to say this without giving it right away?
Speaker 3: It's an honorable mention? Go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 2: So the woman who wrote this song had read a
Speaker 2: novel called Triad by Mary by Mary Bartlett Leader.
Speaker 3: It's rhiann and by Stevie n. Fleetwood Mac.
Speaker 2: That is correct.
Speaker 3: And it's not a witch. It's a goddess, the Wells Witch.
Speaker 3: The Wells Witch is not a witch.
Speaker 2: Is not a witch, my wife. That's good. We had
Speaker 2: just talked about Fleetwood Mac and in studying for that,
Speaker 2: I was like, man, this.
Speaker 3: Is August so great it was. It got bumped off
Speaker 3: my Honorable mentioned list just barely. I had. I had
Speaker 3: it prepared and I was like, oh nope, I got
Speaker 3: another one needs to go on here.
Speaker 2: Quick, funny, sorry for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There are people that you meet in this world and
Speaker 2: the moment I meet them, I can tell you. I said,
Speaker 2: I can tell you what your birth year is. Okay, right, yep,
Speaker 2: so Hobby, Lobby and Norman. I met a girl named
Speaker 2: Jealousy and it was spelled with E y uh huh.
Speaker 2: And I'm like I looked at her, I'm like, your
Speaker 2: parents were Jim Blossom fans. She's like, you're right, And
Speaker 2: I said you were born probably in ninety four or
Speaker 2: ninety five. She's like, you're right. I also met a
Speaker 2: woman named Rhiannon and I'm like, you had to have
Speaker 2: been born in nineteen seventy six, and she's like.
Speaker 3: You're right, yeah, nice, good one.
Speaker 2: All right, your honorable mentions?
Speaker 3: Okay, first honorable mention this, this song song's title that
Speaker 3: everybody knows it by was actually the parenthetical title when
Speaker 3: it first came out. Okay, it's hard for me to
Speaker 3: say something about it other than it mentions the genre
Speaker 3: that this band basically like. I wouldn't say they necessarily
Speaker 3: created it, but they might as well have because they
Speaker 3: perfected it. And it's also kind of a part of
Speaker 3: the name of the band, the genre of music that
Speaker 3: they play. Okay, Their show for this song would include
Speaker 3: flying saucer, rolls Royce, and pyrotechnics that would put the
Speaker 3: Manhattan Fourth of July fireworks show to shame.
Speaker 2: Sounds like somebody I like already.
Speaker 3: Okay, they it's used. This is for you because this
Speaker 3: is not my thing. This is your thing. It's used
Speaker 3: by the Mariners every time somebody hits a home run.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Adam Sandler dances to this song in one of his movies,
Speaker 3: and the movie is click. If that helps out at all, Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, I don't really have any other way to
Speaker 3: do it other than the play the song for you.
Speaker 2: I've been outside the Mariners Stadium. I've never been inside
Speaker 2: the Mariner Stadium.
Speaker 3: The original title of this song was Tear the roof
Speaker 3: off this Sucker? Is that helpful for you at all?
Speaker 2: Tear the roof off this sucker?
Speaker 3: And that was and then in parents and then parentheses
Speaker 3: was the name. Everybody knows the song. They've switched it
Speaker 3: since then. Now it's this followed by in parentheses, tear
Speaker 3: the roof off this sucker.
Speaker 2: The only thing that's coming to mind is tie your
Speaker 2: mother down by Queen.
Speaker 3: It is not that, okay. So remember the band contains
Speaker 3: their genre. This song title contains their genre. Here we
Speaker 3: go together, the mothersucker together together. This is like when
Speaker 3: you play that the disc of song for me. So
Speaker 3: this is the song is by Parliament, which became Parliament
Speaker 3: Funkadelic of course, okay.
Speaker 2: And this is give Up the Funk, Give up you
Speaker 2: funk the funk. Okay, not in my wheelhouse, but I
Speaker 2: can see where that would be a fun song to
Speaker 2: play out.
Speaker 3: For home run. All right, all right, next honorable mention.
Speaker 3: This song reached number five nineteen seventy six. It's the
Speaker 3: first time that they released a single that was actually
Speaker 3: written by the band. The way this band worked is
Speaker 3: they had a couple of guys who were songwriters, and
Speaker 3: they basically wrote all of their songs. And it's interesting
Speaker 3: that you mentioned dream Weaver because that song appears in
Speaker 3: a movie from the nineties that this song also or
Speaker 3: no that not this song, but that another song by
Speaker 3: this band also appears in that same movie, same movie.
Speaker 3: I got it, okay, I think all right. Well, there
Speaker 3: was a German band who changed the title of this song.
Speaker 3: They changed all the lyrics into German and released it
Speaker 3: a little before they were really big. Their title was
Speaker 3: called Focks Gave Promise.
Speaker 2: This is German.
Speaker 3: Fosd Joran No, sorry, fosd Vorn.
Speaker 2: Are you sure, okay, fuchs.
Speaker 3: Which is which was by the Scorpions?
Speaker 2: What okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah? But uh this the song that was out before
Speaker 3: this was called Ballroom Blitz. Yes, this song is a
Speaker 3: different song by the same band, you know, the band Man.
Speaker 2: So ballroom Blitz is by Sweet Correct And I know
Speaker 2: they were a big influence, like on Nikki six.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: And I was going to say ballroom Blitz until you
Speaker 2: said it wasn't room Blitz.
Speaker 3: Nope, this is after Ballroom Blitz.
Speaker 2: Ballroom Blitz is in Wayne's world?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 2: Is there another song.
Speaker 3: In Wayn's world?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Yeah, ah, man, I would play for me. Okay, I
Speaker 2: know this song.
Speaker 3: Yes? Is this this is Fox on the Run?
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a good one, man. I totally overlooked that one.
Speaker 3: This one. Uh yeah, it's a great song. I didn't
Speaker 3: know that it was by Sweet. I would have. I
Speaker 3: have heard the song a million times, but I just
Speaker 3: never pulled up the artist. I think I might have
Speaker 3: thought it was by Kiss. It kind of sounds like
Speaker 3: his voice, sounds like Gene Simons a little bit to me.
Speaker 2: I could see that.
Speaker 3: But this song, of course, became very big when they
Speaker 3: released Guardians of the Galaxy Volume two. Yeah, this is
Speaker 3: a huge one on that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, very good.
Speaker 3: Okay, Now one more thing before you get to your
Speaker 3: number one. I will tell you this. I'm giving you
Speaker 3: a hint on my number one, but it's not much
Speaker 3: of a hint. The band that composed my number one
Speaker 3: song had a song with this title in nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 3: They had a song called Fox on the Run. You're right,
Speaker 3: just put that put that inn pocket. Okay, see if
Speaker 3: it's helpful. All right, here we are. We have reached
Speaker 3: the top of the mountain, the peak, the climax, the apex. Yes,
Speaker 3: here we go. Jason, tell me your clues for your
Speaker 3: number one song, My number one?
Speaker 7: Yep one.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and break the suspense because
Speaker 2: you asked me. The first thing when you came in
Speaker 2: today is like, is Stevie Wonder on your list today?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Stevie Wonder did not make my list today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I asked that because when you covered a
Speaker 3: top five Billboard chart from nineteen seventy six when we
Speaker 3: were doing our Eagles Hotel California episode, the song Sir
Speaker 3: Duke came up and you said, this is a song
Speaker 3: that I actually like by Stevie Wonder or don't hate.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's yeah, but it's not Sir Duke.
Speaker 2: You're not Sir Duke. Okay, all right, Okay, So this
Speaker 2: song was released in September of seventy six. Now the
Speaker 2: story behind this just makes me so happy to hear.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to dive into this, right, this is
Speaker 2: one we need to get into.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: There's a guy who was a guitar player and he
Speaker 2: started really, really late so he started at like age
Speaker 2: twenty one playing the guitar, which is pretty late for
Speaker 2: a musician, and it just took a hold of his
Speaker 2: life and he decided he wanted to be a guitar player,
Speaker 2: and so he started working on demos, and he spent
Speaker 2: six years submitting demos. Okay, but after facing constant rejection
Speaker 2: from every record label in town, he kind of considered
Speaker 2: this song his last attempt, like I'm tired of getting
Speaker 2: beat down. I'm banging my head against the wall and
Speaker 2: nothing's happening, So this is my last chance. So he
Speaker 2: was working at Polaroid and I think he was in
Speaker 2: like product development or something. He'd graduated from college. He
Speaker 2: had like an engineering degree or something, but people knew
Speaker 2: he played guitar or whatever. And when he submitted this song,
Speaker 2: it started kind of slowly to be played on the radio.
Speaker 2: And he said one of the things he said, you know,
Speaker 2: the guys in his company be like, hey, your song's
Speaker 2: on the radio, come in here, you know, and he'd
Speaker 2: run in and he'd always hear it like fading out,
Speaker 2: like by the time he got head, Oh man, I
Speaker 2: missed it again, you know, like Charlie Brown, right right, right,
Speaker 2: but the song started to become more and more played right,
Speaker 2: and so because of the success of this particular song,
Speaker 2: they were invited him and a guy who could sing.
Speaker 2: They basically had nobody else in the band. They had
Speaker 2: the author of the song who played guitar, and a
Speaker 2: singer who is amazing, who's amazing. They were invited to
Speaker 2: open up I think for like Heart or somebody who's
Speaker 2: kind of warming up at the time, and they thought,
Speaker 2: and he thought, well, I'll ask for some time off
Speaker 2: for my Polaroid job to you know, would you hold
Speaker 2: my job? I'm gonna go open for Heart. And as
Speaker 2: soon as that was over, he went back to Polaroid. Okay,
Speaker 2: And then the next thing he was like getting offers
Speaker 2: to like headline, and He's like, well, I guess if
Speaker 2: I'm headlining, I probably should quit my job and maybe
Speaker 2: see if we can make this work.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 2: This song was the lead single off of one of
Speaker 2: the fastest and biggest debut albums of all time. Okay,
Speaker 2: any idea what I'm talking about? Uh?
Speaker 3: Not yet. I don't feel you've given me a good history,
Speaker 3: but you're going to have to give me some stuff
Speaker 3: about the song itself. Okay.
Speaker 2: So there's a woman's name mentioned in this song, okay,
Speaker 2: who is actually the name of his older cousin. And
Speaker 2: when he talks about her being that she's his cousin,
Speaker 2: he is mentioning her in a romantic way. And so
Speaker 2: when people find out it's about his cousin, you know,
Speaker 2: there's that weird factor. And he's like, yeah, but you
Speaker 2: don't understand. I really looked up to her and she
Speaker 2: was literally the most beautiful person I knew. Okay, right,
Speaker 2: And she likes to give him a hard time. She's like,
Speaker 2: every time you mentioned me, you say I'm your older cousin.
Speaker 2: Why'd you just say I'm your cousin?
Speaker 3: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well her name was Mary Anne.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right?
Speaker 2: Anything banging around yet not yet?
Speaker 3: Keep going.
Speaker 2: This song hit number five on the Hot one hundred
Speaker 2: and speaks about the power that an an old song
Speaker 2: can have when you hear it on the radio.
Speaker 3: Okay, So this song is you said, he plays guitar,
Speaker 3: and he got someone to sing with him who's a
Speaker 3: really good singer, amazing singer, And they developed a band
Speaker 3: together after that, Yes, And was the band named after
Speaker 3: them or was it just some different name that's not
Speaker 3: their name at all. We're not talking about Hall and Oates.
Speaker 2: I mean, no, no, no, no. It was named after a city.
Speaker 3: It's named after a city. Is this guy like, do
Speaker 3: you like go to Mit and stuff?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: He did, okay, And the city that it's named after
Speaker 3: is where the band Aerosmith came from. Yes, so this
Speaker 3: song is by Boston. Yes, and tell me what do
Speaker 3: you what? You said?
Speaker 2: The her name is Mary Anne.
Speaker 7: Oh crap, what is the Boston.
Speaker 2: Ah? I see my Marianne.
Speaker 3: I got it. I'm just ta can hear it? I
Speaker 3: just can't think of the title of the song.
Speaker 2: The song is called More Than a Feeling.
Speaker 3: Ah, there you go.
Speaker 2: You've probably played it a thousand times on guitar HEROD.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've played it a thousand times on guitar, not
Speaker 3: guitar hero. On guitar I played that song.
Speaker 2: Remember the first time you came to my house when
Speaker 2: we were playing guitar hero I'm like, don't worry, you'll
Speaker 2: get better at this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I didn't know you were a guitar player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really not that good of guitar tragically.
Speaker 2: All right, that's number one. I can't believe I really
Speaker 2: thought that would show up somewhere on.
Speaker 3: Your list yep, out of the radar. I don't know,
Speaker 3: it didn't even pop up. Okay, okay, all right. That
Speaker 3: means we're here for my number one song, number one. Ready, yes, okay,
Speaker 3: So I have six clues okay. Two of them are
Speaker 3: going to give it away, okay, one of them will
Speaker 3: give it away for everybody, and one of them will
Speaker 3: give it away for you. Okay, okay, so some clues
Speaker 3: that are not going to give it away. This song
Speaker 3: they referred to as the toilet breaks song because whenever
Speaker 3: they would start to play at the first few chords,
Speaker 3: everyone and they said, I mean everyone, not like just
Speaker 3: a couple of guys. Everyone would get up and go
Speaker 3: to the bathroom or go order a drink, or go
Speaker 3: do something else because they did not want to listen
Speaker 3: to this song.
Speaker 2: And it's not beth by Kiss.
Speaker 3: It's not beth by Kiss. Okay, okay. This song was
Speaker 3: given to them and the guitarists that they had said no,
Speaker 3: we're not gonna do this, and they we're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're going to do it. He's like, I'm not playing
Speaker 3: the song. They're like, we're doing the song. He's like,
Speaker 3: I quit, so This song is the first song that
Speaker 3: they release that did not have their guitarist as their guitarist.
Speaker 3: They had to get a new guitarist because he quit
Speaker 3: over the song. So this is how much is hated.
Speaker 3: The guitarist quit over having to record it, and the
Speaker 3: crowd would leave whenever they started playing. All right, okay,
Speaker 3: by the way, this song hit number one. This is
Speaker 3: a number one song. But the question is why if
Speaker 3: it's if you've got this adverse of a reaction by
Speaker 3: the crowd and by the guitarist, why is this song
Speaker 3: hitting number one? All right? Now, this is the clue
Speaker 3: that will give it away for you, I think. Okay,
Speaker 3: the songwriter of this song has never had a number
Speaker 3: one song except for the song. But it wasn't his
Speaker 3: version of the song. It was this version of this song. Now,
Speaker 3: the songwriter has had a number one album, which we
Speaker 3: have discussed in one of our previous episodes, but this
Speaker 3: song was on a much earlier album. He released it,
Speaker 3: it didn't do that well, and this other band that
Speaker 3: I'm talking about now came along and they recorded this song. Now,
Speaker 3: this song was given to him on a list of
Speaker 3: this songwriter and singer's songs. A DJ that was a
Speaker 3: friend of the lead singers, like, hey, I want you.
Speaker 3: And by the way, the name of the band is
Speaker 3: named after the head guy of the band. All right,
Speaker 3: he's like, you should look at these songs. He said,
Speaker 3: this song was on the bottom of the list of
Speaker 3: the songs that he wanted to do, but they still
Speaker 3: ended up doing it. But the song hits number one. Again,
Speaker 3: we have to asked the question why why did it
Speaker 3: hit number one? So here's the clue that's going to
Speaker 3: give it away for everybody. This song, in the first
Speaker 3: line contains one of the most famous maybe the most famous. Wait, wait,
Speaker 3: I don't give it away yet. Right in the middle
Speaker 3: of the song, you play piano no at all? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: if I said you have to play like you play
Speaker 3: one song on the piano, what are you going to
Speaker 3: play chopsticks? That's right, Yeah, that's what everybody is going
Speaker 3: to answer the question. Chopsticks appears in the middle of
Speaker 3: this song. And here's why the first part and the
Speaker 3: second part are different. They didn't know how to do it.
Speaker 3: And the drummer is just like, I why don't you
Speaker 3: play chopsticks? And he's like, that's okay, We're not doing
Speaker 3: that and then he realized, oh wait, chopsticks actually fits
Speaker 3: and it transitions the song in the middle. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: So the songwriter famous number one album, this is going
Speaker 3: to give it away. Number one album in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3: There's only five of them, yes, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, okay, we're talking Footlers, we're talking Purple Raine, we're
Speaker 2: talking Thriller, we're talking Bruce Springsteen, and we're talking Huey Lewis.
Speaker 3: Okay, it was one of the five, all right. So
Speaker 3: one of those guys that you just mentioned had a
Speaker 3: song that was covered by another band and that band
Speaker 3: hit number one with it because of that first heard
Speaker 3: later now real quick, when the songwriter was writing about
Speaker 3: was writing this song. This is because Clive Davis, he
Speaker 3: listened to his first album. He's like, there's not a
Speaker 3: single on here. You need to go write another song.
Speaker 3: So he sat down with a rhyming dictionary to write
Speaker 3: this song. But the first line that's misheard, the word
Speaker 3: that is misheard comes from the first V eight engine
Speaker 3: that was available in nineteen thirty two. The Beach Boys
Speaker 3: have a song about this car as well. They changed
Speaker 3: the lyric. The original lyric was loose like a deuce, right,
Speaker 3: but they changed it to revd up like a deuce.
Speaker 3: But that's not what anybody heard when they heard this song.
Speaker 2: I believe the lyrics are wrapped up like a nooche. Yes, Okay,
Speaker 2: I got it, I got I got it. Okay, tell
Speaker 2: me this is Manford man of a song written by
Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen, and this is blinded by.
Speaker 4: The light, Fine, by the light in the night, line
Speaker 4: by the light.
Speaker 2: Fine.
Speaker 3: And later on he says, gave my ainus curly worthy.
Speaker 3: Only that's not what he says either. So here I
Speaker 3: found I didn't know this right. They knew that they
Speaker 3: had efed up this lyric from the beginning. They knew
Speaker 3: as soon as he's like, it sounds like you're saying douche. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well they had. They had done it with like a
Speaker 3: dual tape recording. The guy had their engineer had forgotten
Speaker 3: to check the balance on it, and so just that
Speaker 3: missing balance made deuce sound like douche. They literally went
Speaker 3: on a tour like radio station tour to explain to everybody, listen,
Speaker 3: this is not this is not wrapped up like a douche.
Speaker 3: This is REVVD up like a deuce. But I mean,
Speaker 3: I remember it whenever I was a kid, my buddy
Speaker 3: going we listen to this lyric and I'm like, did
Speaker 3: he say douche? Yes? Everybody thought that. And because of
Speaker 3: that controversy and that fascination, this song hits number one,
Speaker 3: and I gotta say it's worthy of being number one.
Speaker 3: It's a fantastic freaking song.
Speaker 2: It's a great song. Man. I didn't see where you
Speaker 2: were leading me, but that that's a great one. That's
Speaker 2: a great one. All right, there we go, nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 3: There you go, all wrapped up like a deuce.
Speaker 2: Come back next week where we will actually get back
Speaker 2: on track and we're gonna do stand by Me versus Sandlot,
Speaker 2: which we teased last week, but de's been out.
Speaker 3: Of the country.
Speaker 2: I did, Yeah, I want to a fabulous yep. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And now you're back and now we're going to do
Speaker 2: this thing.
Speaker 3: Now we're gonna do this thing. So okay, guys, if
Speaker 3: you've listened to us this long, you might want to
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Speaker 3: where we talked about one hit wonders most of the
Speaker 3: time some other novelty songs. We do it in the
Speaker 3: same format that we've done it in this episode, where
Speaker 3: we tease one of us or the other of us
Speaker 3: teases up a song trying to figure out what this
Speaker 3: one hit wonder is. So be sure and come.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, give up the funk, All.
Speaker 2: Right, guys. We'll see you next week.
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