Speaker 1: Hudson River Radio dot Com single.
Speaker 2: That will be.
Speaker 3: This is John Fulbright, Hi, this is jar Williams.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 4: This is Mitch Margle of the Tokens.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 5: This is Gary us Bonds mad here on the Rock
and Roll History Show.
Speaker 6: All right, everybody, welcome back to part two of our
annual holiday Surprise Extravaganza thing. We got to come up
with a better name for next year. Somebody remind me
to do that.
Speaker 3: I think you're doing great.
Speaker 6: Before we hop into our holidays year as always, allowed
me to introduce the Crambones, who are joining us here tonight.
First and foremost, from the Richter Observatory, he says that
mummies love Christmas because there's so much wrapping. Richter is back.
Speaker 7: Ooh, time to erect the halls. But buddy, Holly, okay.
Speaker 4: That was good.
Speaker 6: That was good. From paranormally yours, she learned that after
the first two wise men gave their gifts of gold
and frankensonse, the third one said, wait, there's murrh cale
nucle is here.
Speaker 2: Oh hello, Brian, I think that one's soldier than you are.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, well, it's time to get recycled. It's
good for the environment.
Speaker 7: Murray Christmas, not touching.
Speaker 6: That from the silver screen. She walked into a bar
on Christmas Eve and they were having an open mic night.
So Santa hopped up there to try some stand up
comedy and he slayed Mercedes.
Speaker 3: Kanvas year as he would as he would. You got
to be at a bar on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 6: Right, I've never had the experience.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, well, may I say you are missing out?
Speaker 6: I will take that into consideration. We'll see we can
make that happen.
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, Happy Holidays, see y'all.
Speaker 6: And our newly retired teacher, he says that Rudolph got
a lousy report card because he went down in history.
John Kelly's here.
Speaker 8: Oh, Merry Christmas, everybody, from this newly retired.
Speaker 6: Teacher, and last but not least, the host of Shaving Cream.
She would like to warn you that if you get
sent a link that says Justin Bieber singing Christmas songs,
don't click it because it's a link to Justin Bieber
singing a bunch of Christmas songs.
Speaker 1: Barbara vel is here, the best advice ever.
Speaker 6: Agreed, Yeah, you.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 6: So the two things that we didn't cover in the
first episode that we tend to do every year. Number one,
Jingle Bells was written as a Thanksgiving song, just a reminder,
there's your trivia. Number two. Mercedes and I are on
the same page that Rudolph is a terrible story about
people like crap unless they can do something for you.
So keep that.
Speaker 3: Wait, what the heck is up with that? Seriously?
Speaker 6: I don't know. It's just mean, but we bring it
around every year, So I thought i'd get that out
of the way at the top and then we can
hop in and have a festive evening.
Speaker 3: What do you think I feel better now?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 8: I actually would probably agree with you, Brian. You know
that that Mercedes, that yeah, I would agree with you
on that. When you look at the plot in Rudolph,
it's it's kind of cruel.
Speaker 6: It's just it's not kind of it's completely his own
parents were embarrassed to.
Speaker 7: Him, coming coming from the land of misfit toys. Myself,
I totally related to what you're saying. Yeah, it was terrible.
Speaker 6: Yeah, awful. So there you go. All right, keep that
in mind as you're celebrating your holidays. And uh on
that note, Gel gets to lead us off, so good luck.
Speaker 7: With that.
Speaker 2: Well, I've got a much more normal selection to start
this episode off than the one from last episode. Actually,
the song I chose was written a long time ago.
It was popular in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America,
popular from the late fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. So that's
talking the fourteen hundreds through the seventeen hundreds.
Speaker 6: Longer than Thriller was on the charts.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's called Rurruchio, and sometimes that's shortened to ruryu
or ruchio. It's a Spanish viencco, which is like a
Christmas carol that has changed some contemporary fame as a
Christmas carol attributed to the feast of the Immaculate Conception
during Advent, which to me is a little confusing because
most people think that the Immaculate Conception was Oh never mind,
cut that part out, Brian, when you're editing.
Speaker 6: Nope, not cutting anything mine. Well, you talked about plugging
up chimneys.
Speaker 2: Now we're talking about the Blessed Mother.
Speaker 9: Hm.
Speaker 2: Okay. So this viencco is attributed by some sources to
Matteo Flecha, the elder who died in fifteen fifty three.
It has also been described as anonymous. This song also
bears a strong resemblance to another Villancicco who ho called
Falla lanlera Okay by Bartomeo Carceres, an Aragonese composer. It's
known from a single source, the Cuno the Oopsala, published
in fifteen fifty six in Venice. A unique copy is
preserved at the library of the University of Oopsala. It's
derived from medieval dance forms don't fall asleep, guys.
Speaker 3: Uh the are you going to talk about the Immaculate consumption?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Circle, you segued real quick.
Speaker 2: Well, because I couldn't remember half the facts and I
don't have them in my notes, because some people think
it's one thing and it's actually another. And John can
back me up on that.
Speaker 8: Well, you haven't heard my selection yet, folks.
Speaker 2: Huh, oh, no, it has it has to do with Oh,
never mind, I don't want to get the facts wrong anyway.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to learn anything tonight.
Speaker 2: Look it up, people, look it up in Spanish though, anyway.
It's derived from medieval dance forms the Spanish vienzco. It
was a type of popular song sung in the vernacular,
which means the local language, and frequently associated with rustic themes.
The poetic form of the Spanish vienzco was that of
an estribillo or refrain, and copias, which are stanzas with
or without an introduction. This will all make sense to
you when you hear it, trust me. While the exact
order a number of repetitions of the estribillo and copias varied,
the most typical form was a loose aba framework, often
in a triple meter. Apparently nonsense syllables Ryo yu chu
are often taken to represent the song of a nightingale,
while the context and the etymology are compatible with the
call of a kingfisher. Ryo translates as river in the
Catalan language in agreement with the birthplace of the accredited composer,
and was translated as river by are you ready for
this the monkeys who did a cover of it where
the roaring river prevented a wolf from crossing to attack sheep.
The first part goes ryor yu chi u la guadaribera
the os guada, which means with a cry of ruryuchu,
the kingfisher god kept the wolf from our lamb the
raid when the land they're referring to here isn't actually Christ,
but it's his mom. The raging wolf sought to bite her,
but God Almady knew how to defend her. He chose
to make her so that she could not sin. No
original sin was found in that version. This one that
is born is the great King Christ, the patriarch clothed
in flesh. He redeemed us when he made himself small.
Though he was infinite, he would make himself finite. So
let's give a listen to the Monkeys this. They performed
it in nineteen sixty seven Live on the Monkeys Christmas Show,
a Christmas episode of their TV series, Let's have a listen.
I love this song. I heard a medieval group do
this many years ago at Rockland Community College. They were
called the Waverley Consort. And when I came across the
version by the Monkeys by mistake, I was floored. Wait
till you hear these guys. It's amazing.
Speaker 10: Your squago WELLO Bodin West rac Dera, your squado WELLO
Bodin West Raco de Real.
Speaker 5: She you la Guada your squad as well. Hello Bodin Westraca,
your squads.
Speaker 7: Well, Hello Bodin.
Speaker 5: West Hello Bora.
Speaker 10: So lais there mastillas bodo sola supo deaf in the
kits of you? Do you say peg car?
Speaker 9: You know region?
Speaker 10: Now that's too villin, not too vera?
Speaker 5: Really she you lah guadlia your squad as well? Those well,
hello bodin West, your squad as well, Hello bodin West racoda.
Speaker 10: Let's takis naci s grandmo crista patria de car?
Speaker 2: Reallyaa does that not give you chills and knock your
socks off?
Speaker 4: That was beautiful? That was the monkeys.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's crazy, he says, they didn't have talent.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that gives me chills because that's not easy.
That harmony and the exact rhythm and doing it a cappella.
And I finally remembered what the heck I was gonna
say before. About the immaculate conception, many people think the
immaculate conception refers to Mary conceiving Christ by the Holy Spirit. No,
according to the Christian faith, we were all born with
original sin because of Adam eating the apple that Eve
gave him. The actual immaculate conception is that Mary was
conceived by her parents without original sin. Now I don't
have the details on how God did this, but Prophecy
foretold that the Mother of Jesus would be born without
original sin, and God saw to it.
Speaker 7: But that.
Speaker 2: Tune always gives me chills, and it's not real easy
to perform. Classical and early performers of that song include
the Boston Camarata No Surprise There and the Oxford Camarata,
and a studio version was released of The Monkeys' version
on subsequent compilation albums and later on the twoenty eighteen
album Christmas Party. The Monkey's producer, Chip Douglas, had performed
it himself with his former band, the Modern Folk Quartet
on their nineteen sixty four album Changes.
Speaker 3: That was amazing.
Speaker 6: So that was different, right, very impressive.
Speaker 4: That was That was beautiful.
Speaker 8: I'm a sucker for for beautiful Christmas music, and they
owe me too.
Speaker 2: I'm a sucker for tight harmonies, especially with men singing them.
It's just delicious nice.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 4: That was beautiful.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was good. I don't even want to make
a joke on the way we can make jokes, but
that that just would never just after hearing that, it's
just you can't, you really can't.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 6: So we're just going to go take a normal non
humorous break.
Speaker 2: And we'll be after this and I'm just going to
eat that tune with spoon.
Speaker 6: Do you think we'll be right back?
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Speaker 11: Santa Claus.
Speaker 12: In the one What's Up.
Speaker 6: And welcome back. I think John is probably going to
take us in a slightly different direction than Gail. Slightly slightly,
so yeah, let's see what do you have John? All right?
Speaker 8: Well, you know, as as I pointed out when we
were listening to Gail's beautiful selection there, I really enjoy
good Christmas. I love music of all types and varieties
when it comes to Christmas music. I don't deviate from
that belief from that interest. I love every conceivable type.
I love spiritual Christmas music, I love classical Christmas music.
I love modern day contemporary Christmas music.
Speaker 4: I enjoy everything. You know.
Speaker 8: I'm a sucker for a good Bing Crosby Christmas song
or a Mannheim steam roller, or you get into some
of these more classical Christmas pieces. It is all beautiful music,
all in this celebration of Christmas and what it really
truly means, because what is Christmas. Christmas is the celebration
of a birthday. And along those lines, I am going
to take our show from Gale's piece, and I am
going to ram this thing into reverse and I am
going to hit the floor of the gas pedal in
reverse and bring us to nineteen eighty seven and that
Christmas classic from Robert lee Emery otherwise known as Gunnery
Sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jack. Why don't we just
play the song and then I have something to talk
about afterwards, Brian, Right.
Speaker 4: Here we go, folks, hold on to your seatbelts.
Speaker 6: To you.
Speaker 12: They do you.
Speaker 1: Abdues have bad to you.
Speaker 13: Today is Christmas. There will be a magic Joe at
zero nine.
Speaker 12: Chaplin.
Speaker 13: Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer.
Speaker 9: Communism with the aid of God.
Speaker 6: And the FU Marine.
Speaker 13: Because we kill everything we see, he plays his games.
We play our to show our appreciation for so much power.
We keep heaven packed with fresh soul.
Speaker 9: God was here before the marine corp.
Speaker 13: Oh, you can give your heart to Jesus, but your
ass he loves to the car He Ladies understand.
Speaker 4: I can't hear you, okay, everybody?
Speaker 8: That was Happy Birthday to Jesus by the lead Robert
Lee Ermei from this movie Full Metal Jacket. And you
can't get more opposite than what with that than when
when you heard Gail's beautiful piece.
Speaker 6: I was definitely a reverse slam on that one.
Speaker 8: And I gotta be honest with you, everybody, I struggled
with this one because I wanted to do something beautiful
and I wanted to do something more.
Speaker 6: Oh it was beautiful, and.
Speaker 8: You know what, I was gonna go with this whole
more sedate, you know, sweet Christmas song, and I was like,
you know what, No, I'm just gonna do completely at
a character Robert Lee Ermi. What's interesting about that is,
of course most of you probably already know Robert Lee
Ermi played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. He
also was a sergeant and drill instructor in the US Marines.
He had received several awards as a Marine for his
service in Vietnam, including the Meritorious Unit Commendation and the
Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross for his service in the
Vietnam War, and he had a stellar career as an actor,
and this was the perfect role for him to play
a drill sergeant in a movie that I guess mimicked
his real life to a certain degree.
Speaker 6: He got it by accident, didn't he in that?
Speaker 4: Yes? Right, yes he did.
Speaker 6: He was a consultant. Yes, and there was an actor
trying to play a drill sergeant and he's like, no, no, no, no,
yeah no.
Speaker 4: And there was the only one who could do that.
Speaker 8: I can't imagine anyone else doing that role than our
Lee Army as as gunnery Sergeant Hartman, I do. The
Marine Corps actually made him an honorary gunnery sergeant after
this particular movie. And we lost the We lost, Yes,
we lost Gunny in twenty eighteen at the age of
seventy four. He actually reprised the role of Gunner Research
and Hartman in a few in a movie, in a
couple of movies after that. And but you can't when
you think about it, what is Christmas? We are selling
celebrating the birth of Christ. So we do need to
wish a happy birthday, and I could not think of
a better way to do it.
Speaker 6: On History Channel, Yes, he did Military.
Speaker 1: I loved his show milk. Yeah, he loved best and
I gotta I gotta just say this. Back in the
mid two thousand's my windows start up sound bite, Yes,
was him saying, what is your major malfunction? That was
my windows startup.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So I just you couldn't get more peaceful than Gail's selection.
Speaker 4: And you couldn't.
Speaker 8: Just I could not ram that into reverse harder.
Speaker 4: I just could not.
Speaker 8: So I hope you all enjoyed Happy Birthday by Gunnery
Sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jacket nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 6: Nice. I think nice. The average of the two brings
us back to where we normally are. So I feel
more comfortable now. That's good. Yes, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm glad hold that thought.
Speaker 6: Yeah that's good.
Speaker 4: Because one more thing I say, I believe.
Speaker 8: I believe Full Metal Jacket was Stanley Kubrick's I think
it was his last movie before.
Speaker 6: Oh I don't know, I think so. I'm not sure,
you know, Mercedes.
Speaker 7: No, No, it was his last movie was Eyes Wide Shot.
Speaker 14: Yeah, oh okay, but.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, all all of Kubrick's movies, or most of them,
were always very I won't say weird because.
Speaker 4: That's weird and raw.
Speaker 7: Perhaps maybe Yeah, that's too, I'd say, more like, you know,
just had a bizarre atmosphere to them, which I really like.
He's probably one of my favorite directors overall. I mean
two thousand and one, well, Doctor Strangelove, which was you know,
yeah that was just insane. I guess the shining and
oh how can I forget Clockwork Orange? So so yeah,
he made a lot of strange movies, and Full Metal
Jacket was you know, no exception to that rule now, but.
Speaker 8: It's the dialogue in Full Metal Jacket was straight up
weird in some ways and very memorable and just about
in other ways.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: I don't want to list the dialogue here, but there's
a lot of famous lines you could pull from Full
Metal Jacket.
Speaker 7: It would get bleeped here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, of.
Speaker 8: Course, of course. But you can't get more christmasy than
Happy Birthday by Robert Lee Ermie.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that. Yes, all right,
So now that the keel has evened out, uh, Barbara,
see what you can do with that.
Speaker 1: So let's let's tip the canoe, why don't we?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 4: All right, okay, okay, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So my song is by a gentleman by the
name of Dustin Ballard, and he has a YouTube channel
called there I Ruined It, where he explores the way
that AI is shaping music with his mashups. He asks
the question are new tools fostering creativity or just making noise?
His mini bio on his social media reads, I lovingly
destroy your favorite songs. So if you want to go
down a rabbit hole, go on this YouTube channel and
listen to all his mashups. There hilarious. You won't believe
the job he does. So what I chose from my
selection tonight was his masterpiece of Rootolph the Red Nose Reindeer,
as performed by and I will say this in quotations Creed.
Speaker 6: All right, all right here we're wait to hear it.
Speaker 9: Rude Alf the red nose Raine deer head of a
shiny nos Andrew, you have salt it, Udy say bluess
Illo the rain deer used to laugh and go him.
They never let Rude off.
Speaker 3: John and any raindeer games.
Speaker 9: In one bugget Christmas Eve.
Speaker 12: Oh Sanna came to say, Chillielte me high sure police
square snow man.
Speaker 6: See Challielte made.
Speaker 12: High sure police square sleeve.
Speaker 6: Bell's rain.
Speaker 9: There now Rangey no ti as the childed up with Blea,
Rudolph red Nose, Ranger Yogle down in his store.
Speaker 6: Yell always been rude a.
Speaker 9: John and any rainy games, one body dress Mossy.
Speaker 12: Oh Santa came to say, jail yelte me high sue
please squees no man see jam yelte made high Juel
please squares slive bells.
Speaker 6: Okay, So that was cool.
Speaker 1: I promise if you want to check out the YouTube channel,
make sure you have sometimes set aside because you're like
gonna forget to eat, You're gonna you're forgetting, I'm gonna
forget to have a bowel movement whatever.
Speaker 6: I think he actually does mix up some legit tracks
because some of his videos it looks like pro tools
is streaming streams so you could see the multiple Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not an expert in that.
Speaker 6: I couldn't really tell. I think he's actually mashed up
some real tracks too. This one might be AI like
you said, but oh it's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So he began the there I Ruined It project during
the COVID nineteen pandemic perfect and the premise is to
quote ruin songs with covers of them that are very
different than the original and ruining as many beloved songs
as possible before it's banned from the Internet. Inside the
song mashup style we just heard. Ballad also does genre
swapping remixes. His backup singers are called the ruin Nettes.
The project has received some mixed reviews, some calling them
straight up terrible, while others say they're hilarious and have
benefited from the quote fiendish musical butchery unquote. Ballard points
out that AI can be traced way back to the
early days of recorded music, which receives some criticism for
not being live.
Speaker 3: Mhmm, there you have it.
Speaker 2: That was fun.
Speaker 4: That was fun.
Speaker 6: That's going on.
Speaker 3: You too, beget there.
Speaker 1: I ruined it.
Speaker 7: Now, you see. I was never and I'm not like
a big creed guy. I never really got the creed thing.
But I heard that. So he didn't really ruin it.
It was actually he actually.
Speaker 6: Made it, improved it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he made it better you see.
Speaker 3: So palatable for you.
Speaker 7: Huh exactly. Yeah. It had the reverse effect on me.
Speaker 6: So that's great.
Speaker 2: You know me guy singing in a strong, deep voice.
Those are my favorite kind of vocalists. So did you.
Speaker 1: Spill your juice on the floor. Oh, I like the
new color much better. Yeah, what's that from the Twilight Zone? Uh,
it's It's a good Life Anthony Fremont. Yeah, yeah, he'd
like they don't want to yell at him because he'll
wish them into the cornfield when he when he stains
the rug, they praise him that I like the new
color better.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, did I learned that one backwards? Because the
Simpsons spoofed it and then I had to go back and.
Speaker 7: That that, hands down is the creepiest is And there
are plenty of creepy ones, but that one, that one.
Speaker 2: If I ever meet Billy Mooney, oh my god, I'm
going to tell him that was the creepiest thing I've
ever seen.
Speaker 1: I met him, and in order for me to be
able to talk to him without babbling, I had to
like not think about that, and I had to not
think about the fact that he sang fish heads, otherwise
I wouldn't be able to get a word out.
Speaker 2: That's hilarious.
Speaker 6: All right, Thank you, Barbara. Another real quick break and
we've got two more two round out our holiday season,
So stick around.
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Speaker 4: We could be worse.
Speaker 2: Jingle bells, batmen, smells, Robin Leyden.
Speaker 11: Batmobile, lustle its Wheel, the Joker got Away.
Speaker 3: Hey, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 11: Oh, I'm sorry kid.
Speaker 6: All right, we're in our final stretch. And then you
can go out and do your holiday shopping that you
haven't started yet. Neil take it away.
Speaker 7: Well, here's a spiffy little holiday number, and it's called
The Dolly Rots Do Christmas. Now. You say, I was
gonna say Dolly Rots. What the heck is a Dolly Rot?
You ask? Yeah, Well, The Dolly Rots are an American
punk rock band that formed in the year two thousand.
They're comprised of Kelly Ogden on bass and lead vocals
and Luis Cabazos on guitar and backing vocal. They perform
as a trio live and they've used a slew of
drummers over the years, so I'm not even gonna mention
all them now. The two of these guys have known
each other since meeting in eighth grade in Lando Lakes, Florida,
and they both attended the New College in Florida together
and that's where they started playing music. Now, after being
disillusioned with the results of the year two thousand presidential election.
You remember the Hanging Chads, they decided to make the
band full time.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 7: As Kelly Igden puts it, and I paraphrase a little here,
Luis and I were like, the world's probably gonna end anyway,
and I don't want to go to med school, so
we thought, let's just do the band. We have no
future anyways, so let's just be in a rock band.
And you know, I think that is the best philosophy
I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 6: Time is a limited quantity, so make the most.
Speaker 7: And since then, they've released nine studio albums plus many
singles and EPs featuring both original and cool cover songs
on various indie labels, including their own, and they're currently
signed with Little Stephen van Zandt's Wicked Cool label. Now.
The Dolly Rots Do Christmas As We'll Hear is a
medley of several Christmas favorites and classics, and it came
out somewhere around twenty eighteen and it's currently available on
a vinyl LP as well as a CD called A
Very Dolly Rots Christmas and that features a collection of
Christmas and holiday songs that the band has recorded over
the years. So hey, let's do Christmas with the dolly
Rotstunta dot.
Speaker 14: Clown and telling in live stach.
Speaker 1: Den.
Speaker 14: He second, it's like he's gotta find out he's naughty
all night.
Speaker 1: Sa bas comments.
Speaker 2: He sees you when all sleeping.
Speaker 14: He know when your roadway, he knows that you've got
that all good.
Speaker 12: So we got fucot your.
Speaker 16: Sleeping sun night, oh night, Oh listen, it's bad brown
mon bad Timberli coold b Sto sleepy and Hanna sleep
and heaven piece.
Speaker 1: Read off the bad.
Speaker 15: Thus rank here had a very shiny do and if
you ever saw it you would need to say it glows.
I love the good brank dear.
Speaker 14: You still haven't call him names to day that a
left paw brute an't join in any rank yet. Games
then one body Christmas Eve saying I came through Say
up with John no so price she got that flight tonight.
Frosty the Snowman, what's the chilly happy soul with the
con cop pipe and a button nose that too wise
made out of cold Frosty the Snowman, it's a fairytail day,
Say he was made up? So but the tail trind go.
How we came to live one day must have been
some dgain that old sail cat day found Old.
Speaker 6: Wedde placed it on his head.
Speaker 11: You can't do us.
Speaker 15: Ready, Christmas, we messady Christmas, spray.
Speaker 12: That hppy yea.
Speaker 7: And to recap for those of you keeping score at
home in that little medley, we heard Santa Claus is
coming to town. Silent Night, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer,
Frosty the Snowman, and we wish you a merry Christmas. Now.
Aside from recording and touring, Kelly Ogden is also with
DJ on Serious XM's Underground Garage, where their song I'm
Awesome was voted the coolest song in the world by
a listener's poll back in two thousand and seven, and
another song called Everything won the same honor in the
year twenty nineteen. Now, along with Cabasis, they are married.
By the way, the couple have two children, a boy
and a girl, River and Daisy, respectively, who often accompany
them on tour and sometimes appear with them on stage
stealing the show. As I discovered while seeing them last
summer at a place called the Colony up in Woodstock,
New York. So if you get the chance, I highly
recommend you check them out. The Dolly Rots excellent.
Speaker 1: That was cool and I almost popped my stitches dancing
and that one.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, that would not be good.
Speaker 6: So, I you know, I mentioned figgy pudding as that
song does, and I've never had it. I don't even
it's like figgie pudding literally figs. I don't know it's
it's yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually saw like a cooking show the other day
when I was convalescing doing nothing, demonstrating how.
Speaker 3: To make it, and yeah, it's figs.
Speaker 6: So why is it figgy pudding as opposed to fig
fig pudding?
Speaker 2: Because that was not explained.
Speaker 6: Only the way to make it sounds like it's so ish.
Speaker 7: Fits better in the song. I think, you know, yeah,
there's some fig.
Speaker 6: Fig pudding fig putting. It fits.
Speaker 7: I don't know if it's actually correct me if I'm wrong,
but put figgy pudding or iny you it's not really putting.
Speaker 1: It's more like a little like hey cake, it's a cake, yeah,
it's It's the thing is figs are the main ingredient,
but it's got other stuff in it, so it's it's
like a fig big pudding. It's figgy because it's got
fig in it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think of like, you know, jello, you know,
pudding pops or something like. No, there's nothing like that
at all.
Speaker 6: All right, I don't know. Maybe the season will break
the mold. Try it. I don't know. Go either way.
Is it basically like a figure?
Speaker 7: Get back to me on that, because I'm not interested.
I was not to appetize it.
Speaker 6: But if somebody plops it down and be like, all right,
well give me a shot, I just gave it too sweet.
Speaker 8: It's a traditional British dessert. It's traditional recipes sometimes contain
no figs. The figgy and plumb in older names refer
to raisins and other dry gross general.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: In England they eat Heinz baked beans on toast for breakfast.
Speaker 6: And they up their peas like that makes them better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So there you go. That's fake pudding.
Speaker 6: Never mind, Sorry I brought it up. It's not going
to do it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it sounds like fruitcake basically.
Speaker 6: Nope, nope, all right, one more to go and that
will wrap up our twenty twenty five holiday season. I
went with a song from nineteen seventy four. Called Santa
Claus Wants Some Lovin by Albert King. Albert King was
one of the most influential blues and rock guitarists, even
if people don't recognize his name now. He was born
in nineteen twenty three in Mississippi and was later named
the Velvet Bulldozer because he was around six foot four
inches tall and two hundred and fifty pounds, and on
top of that, he actually drove a bulldozer to make
ends meet because music doesn't always pay a lot of money.
As it turns out, his name wasn't really Albert King.
His name was Albert Nelson and that's how he was
known until about nineteen fifty three, when he was around
twenty years old. Then he started using the stage name
Albert King and claimed to be from Indianola, Mississippi, and
claimed to be BB King's half brother. He was neither
of those. He was not BB King's half brother. He
was not from Indianola, where BB King was from. He
also took on the nickname Blues Boy, which is how
the real BV got his name, and he started calling
his guitars Lucy as opposed to BB King's guitars, which
were called Lucille. See piggybacking much? Maybe is this the
wise Men's camels right here? Piggybacking on again? So, as
you can imagine, the real BB King was not too
happy about that for quite a while until he met
Albert and got to know him well. And the real
BB would later say, he wasn't my brother in blood,
but he sure was my brother in the blues, So
apparently he got over it. There was room and enough
work for both of them, so they were able to
move forward as friends. Albert moved from Mississippi to Arkansas,
then to Gary, Indiana, and then wound up in Brooklyn, Illinois,
not Brooklyn, New York, which is on the other side
of the Mississippi River from Saint Louis. He started to
be I'm well known around the Saint Louis nightclub circuit
along with two guys that you may recognize, Ike Turner
and Chuck Berry. He was in the same circles with them.
He went on to Memphis and was signed by Stax Records,
recording with Booker T and the MGS. Of course, we
just lost Steve Cropper, so this song became the downer
that the spinal tap one also became a downer, and
neither of those are my fault this time around. It
was at Stacks that he recorded his best known song,
Born under a Bad Sign, which has been covered by
countless others, most importantly Homer Simpson. Go listen to that version.
No thank you, Oh, I insists, Oh it's awesome, Yeah,
I insist. He continued to work and tour up until
his death from a heart attack in nineteen ninety two.
He was working on planning a tour with BB King
and Bobby Bland when he passed away. He was inducted
into the Blues Hall of Fame in nineteen eighty three
and posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in twenty thirty. Team Albert was a left handed player.
He played a right handed guitar flipped over upside down,
which might remind you of another guitarist whose name escapes
me at the moment.
Speaker 7: I forgot yeah, I don't know some some other guy
I don't know.
Speaker 6: James something something along those lines. He would also use
alternative tuning and light gauge strings to get his unique
string bending sounds. He usually played a flying V guitar,
unlike a lot of musicians. I just couldn't find anything
controversial about this guy other than him trying to piggyback
on Bvking. He just really seemed to be a hardworking
musician and just never really stirred the pot too much,
which makes for a boring story, but it makes for
a nice gentleman.
Speaker 3: You disappointed by the time I was.
Speaker 6: You start to dig down the hole and you're like,
all right, where you know? Got arrested for something? He
posted ball jump, nothing, nothing. He just toured, worked very
very hard at it craft and succeeded for it. So
hats off to Albert King. I can't really argue with that.
Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin was released as a single
in nineteen seventy four. Like Gale, I will not explain
what the content is. You can probably figure it out
for yourself, alright.
Speaker 12: Then.
Speaker 6: The song was written by Bonnie mack Rice, who wrote
a lot of early R and B hits, the most
famous of which would be Mustang Sally, which you hear
played by every bar band and to the point where
I'm kind of sick of those Thanks Sally, I have
to admit, because you just hear it everywhere but you
don't hear Santa Claus wants some levin all over the place,
and that's why we're going to listen to it right now.
Speaker 7: Cooking, amateur sleep.
Speaker 11: It's top Home Santa claud Fakers, Midsnight Cleen and home
Costo love you no.
Speaker 4: Sanacol so love.
Speaker 7: I'm knowing something real fundy on that Christmas tree.
Speaker 11: I have no love in this boiling me cause love
yell me Sancoe a love. I'm trying to fix his
own bicycle.
Speaker 1: I can't see find my clown.
Speaker 11: I'm happy with watch your mama be motion nothing sleeping
eyes caught.
Speaker 6: Sco lovey, sanacol s love. I don't want no talking.
Speaker 7: I don't care nothing about okay.
Speaker 11: I want you to come in there won't before that.
Children want taught, I said, now Christmas is mother children,
and I want them to be pleased. But right now, Mama,
it's Christmas so fake.
Speaker 4: That ha been caught.
Speaker 12: You give me s.
Speaker 6: That's so catchy. That's going on the top of the
holiday list for me.
Speaker 4: And Rudolph.
Speaker 6: I think they may be on a loop tonight. So
you have it, Albert King. And of course I think
our professor had an experience with Albert.
Speaker 7: Right who me you? Oh, yeah, well well I didn't
I saw him perform. Yeah, and it was the final
shows at the legendary Fillmore East. He opened the show
Albert King for Jay Giles Band and the Olman Brothers band,
and yeah, it was pretty awesome there. I was the
ripe old age of sixteen or something. He didn't play
He didn't play that song though, because well I think
it was in like, you know, in the summertime, so
it was it was not Christmas time, so he didn't
do that one. But no, he I think he was,
you know, probably one of the more influential guitar players
on the British guitar players you know the Claptains and
and and and like you know that he wasn't, you know,
he didn't, you know, even though he tried to emulate
BB King and even Freddie King. I don't know if
he was related either, but they were the three Kings
of the Blues. But yeah, I think he was influential,
whether or not he got the you know, recognition from
the general public or not, but.
Speaker 6: Maybe not mainstream, but other musicians knew, yeah he was.
Speaker 7: He was like, yeah, the musicians knew who he was, Yeah,
that was great.
Speaker 6: All right. So that brings us to the end of
holiday season twenty five. We live what should I say,
I like you know the shows where we go a
few levels deeper than normal instead of the typical you know,
Christmas cows and all that. They have their place and
they all have good stories behind it, but this stuff
makes it much better. So awesome job, crampones across the board.
Any final thoughts before we will pull the plug and
take the Christmas tree to the curb. Call it a year.
Speaker 4: Let's take down the decorations and move on.
Speaker 6: Right, you got it's time to put up the Valentine's stuff. Yeah,
come on, clocks ticking, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 7: I haven't even taken down my Halloween stuff yet.
Speaker 6: Well that's a year round in your house.
Speaker 7: That's that's much normal.
Speaker 2: I actually have my.
Speaker 1: Halloween birdhouse is out with my Christmas stuff.
Speaker 11: That works.
Speaker 6: I don't judge. All right, great job, Crambone's and a
great job in all of twenty twenty five. So thank
you all, and thank you everybody out there in podcast
laying for joining us, because the numbers are creeping up
and more and more countries are popping up on the list,
and I'm behalf of all the Crambones. We are very
grateful for it, because that's why we do this, because
it's a lot of fun. We try to dig for
something a little deeper, a little more interesting, not your
typical kind of stuff. So hopefully we'll keep it going
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holiday season. Merry Christmas and we'll see again later.
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