WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:12.080 Hudson Riverradio dot com. 2 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:16.160 This is Jesse Carmicho from Room five. Hi, this is 3 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:18.199 Phil Margol of the Tokens. Hello. 4 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:21.559 It's Nicole Atkins on the Rock and Roll History Show. 5 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:28.079 Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Rock and Roll History 6 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:32.000 Show on Hudson River Radio. I'm Brian Horowitz. It's fourth 7 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:35.439 of July weekend and America's two hundred and fiftieth you've 8 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:38.439 probably heard, so hopefully I have a little downtime this weekend. 9 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:40.399 Hopefully you get to hang out and celebrate and do 10 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:42.759 what you want to do, hang out by the pool. 11 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:46.640 Whether your pool is Flag blue or Incredible Hulk green, 12 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:50.079 we hope you have a wonderful weekend. We thought we 13 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:52.719 would buy you some drinks this weekend to help you celebrate. 14 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:55.200 But before we hop into all that, allow me to 15 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.960 introduce all the cranbones joining us here tonight from the 16 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:02.600 Richter Observatory. He recently found out that Elvis used to 17 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:05.799 be a phone operator at a famous theater. One for 18 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:08.760 the money, two for the show, three to get ready, 19 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.480 four for sales, buy for customer service. 20 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:16.079 I was waiting, where's this going off? 21 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:18.560 That meil Richtor is back? 22 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:22.040 Thank you very much, thank you from. 23 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:24.760 The silver screen. She saw a guy walk into a bar. 24 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:27.319 He's all banged up and bruised. His arm is in 25 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:30.640 a cast. Bartender says, hey, what happened to you? He says, 26 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:33.359 I tried to climb the tallest tower in France, but 27 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:34.519 I fell off. 28 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:41.480 Mercedes Kent is back out, Hey, everybody. 29 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:45.120 And the host of Shaving Cream. She says, pigs dressed 30 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:50.000 in black never get bullied because Batman protects Gotham. 31 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:57.959 Barbara Deel, Oh wow, Wow, that regret my choice here? 32 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:01.239 Yeah, well, it's too late. I'm about to introduce you. 33 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:04.319 We have a special guest joining us tonight to fill 34 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:07.640 the void of two missing Crambones. She is the host 35 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:10.520 of Murder in the Hudson Valley with Yours Truly. She's 36 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:13.919 the host of UFO Headquarters with Mike Worden. You may 37 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:16.479 know her best here as the official hard ass judge 38 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:20.159 of the annual Pop Crambone Quiz. She was recently in 39 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:24.280 a documentary about bakeries. She got a small role. Linda 40 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:25.000 Zimmermann is. 41 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:28.479 Back, but it was a good role. 42 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:30.840 Is there a bad one? 43 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:33.879 You're just trying to butther her up? Can I I am? 44 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:34.639 I am? 45 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:37.000 She's taking the time out to join us tonight, and 46 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:39.919 I am very grateful. And actually you were filming something 47 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.680 recently I saw on your Facebook page. Are you allowed 48 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:45.360 to talk about that or oh? 49 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:51.759 Yeah, I filmed an episode for let me see if 50 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.879 I can remember the Mysteries in the Heartland. It's looking 51 00:02:56.039 --> 00:03:00.280 at ancient Native American sites, which is one of the 52 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:04.039 things I do in the HUDs in the Hudson Valley 53 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:04.879 in this area. 54 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:09.639 So yeah, that was that was fun. So okay for me, 55 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:11.560 I do a variety. 56 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:13.240 Yeah, yeah, do you know when that's coming out? 57 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:15.199 Or probably September. 58 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:20.599 Okay, I'm all about the astronomical alignments of stone sites, 59 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.479 but I'm sure nobody listening tonight show wants to hear that, 60 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:24.879 so I. 61 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:32.039 Think you would be surprised. Yes, all right, fine, we're 62 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:34.680 going to get to the news and the celebratory weekend, 63 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:37.960 and no one's better to lead us off than Neil. 64 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:41.680 Yeah. It's something I'm not unfamiliar, not totally unfamiliar with 65 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:48.039 the the pastime. But anyway, so yes, you know, I 66 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:52.560 know that I've chosen songs by the Ramones numerous times 67 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.319 here on the Rock and Roll History Show, covering a 68 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:59.439 variety of topics well, and that's only because they really 69 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.879 have a song for every occasion. But this time it's 70 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:06.080 going to be a little different. Instead of talking about 71 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:09.400 the Ramones as a band, I'm going to focus on 72 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:13.879 one particular member, their third drummer, Richie Ramone, and a 73 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.519 song he wrote for the band called Somebody Puts Something 74 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:23.399 in My Drink. Richard Reinhardt he was born in nineteen 75 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:27.800 fifty seven. Richie played drums for several early CBGB bands 76 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:31.639 like Velveteen and The Shirts before becoming the drummer for 77 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:36.800 the Ramones. Between February nineteen eighty three and August nineteen 78 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:41.720 eighty seven, he took over for Marky Ramone, the band's 79 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:47.839 second drummer, after Marky was fired ironically because of his alcoholism. 80 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:52.519 Talk about drinking here I remember it well, yeap. 81 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.199 Now. At first, Richie performed under the stage name of 82 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:02.600 Richie bo b Ea You, before adopting the Ramone surname 83 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:06.560 in time for the release of his first Ramones album, 84 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:10.920 the band's eighth studio LP called Too Tough to Die, 85 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:14.399 and it's the first of three studio albums that he 86 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:18.839 appears on. Richie is the only Ramones drummer to be 87 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:23.160 the sole composer of a Ramone song. Now the other 88 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:27.759 two drummers they collaborated, but Richie wrote these all on 89 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:31.920 his own. He wrote several actually, including Somebody puts Something 90 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:34.800 in My Drink, which is found on their nineteen eighty 91 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:39.040 six album Animal Boy. Now. Rumor has it that the 92 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:43.000 song is based on an actual incident where he was 93 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:48.279 given a drink spiked with LSD and he was out 94 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:52.639 on a date with Frankie Valley's daughter. What could go wrong? 95 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:53.480 Oh? 96 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:57.759 What a night? Get it? Get any? 97 00:05:58.639 --> 00:05:59.240 Oh yeah? 98 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:03.920 Pause for laughter and continue now. 99 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:07.439 Richie recorded his version of the song for his twenty 100 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:13.399 thirteen solo album entitled entitled, which is the version we're 101 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:18.000 about to hear. So grab a glass, drink up, but 102 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:22.120 just be careful. We never know what might be in there. 103 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:50.319 Somebody, somebody putting somebody another nice add on a joy 104 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:55.279 stuff it fun my usual set. 105 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:55.360 To please. 106 00:06:56.680 --> 00:06:59.040 Spot with a joy. 107 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:01.959 I don't blacket it's a colored pig. 108 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:04.199 I'm actual staying scene. 109 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:13.360 It's not a bier. Somebody or something. Somebody would something 110 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:19.600 in the back trick somebody or something somebody Wood chopper. 111 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:28.000 Land fission, Janny thoughts film offenses many straw feel something. 112 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:31.079 Come on, I can't put. 113 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:34.680 You back, swam the floor, drag sack drink. 114 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.360 Drink some more. I can't say. 115 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:40.600 By what's that drink. 116 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:48.160 Some fire or shopper, somebody WoT some sack and back trick, 117 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:53.279 samphire or something. Somebody wood chump say. 118 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.959 The back drink, chambre ort, somefer. 119 00:07:57.240 --> 00:07:59.879 Some by wood shop say the back drink. 120 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:02.839 Somebody but supper. 121 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:06.399 In that say. 122 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:09.279 In that tray. 123 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:11.560 In bat. 124 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:14.600 In my drug. 125 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:36.080 I can't fonder for college break going to say for 126 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:37.480 something and drug. 127 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:39.159 I feel a little dry. 128 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:43.759 I don't care what your fucking for. 129 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.279 Somebody put something in my drug. 130 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:47.919 I can't think. 131 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:50.159 Why what's in that? 132 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:57.639 Somebody but somewhere else some night it would some sa 133 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:05.320 in Matre, Somebud Soper, somebody WoT Soffer, a major sub 134 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:13.360 cat Sper sun By, WoT Soler, Mantri sun By or Soper. 135 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:16.360 In mad. 136 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:19.159 In back. 137 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:21.679 In Ma. 138 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:31.320 Ma Ma, magine. 139 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:34.080 The magic. 140 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:46.679 Some fat Soffer, some viney wood Soufer, major Sam butter 141 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:54.080 boat Soffer, some Babo Solfer and Majory, some butter boat Sofer, 142 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:57.320 somebody WoT Soffer Mado. 143 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.159 I can't tell whether he's happy about it or mad 144 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:06.440 about it, but maybe a little of both now. Richie 145 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:10.519 quit the Ramones abruptly in August of nineteen eighty seven 146 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:15.440 due to financial conflicts. Richie said he had asked for 147 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:20.200 a small percentage of the merchandise income that is, basically 148 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.759 you know, the T shirts, the T shirt money that 149 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:27.759 bore his name and image. Now, while admitting he didn't 150 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:30.159 feel entitled to an equal share as he was not 151 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:34.039 a founding member of the band, he did feel cheated 152 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:37.320 when the other members would cash their merchandise checks while 153 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.600 he sat there with nothing. Now. These conflicts were mostly 154 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:45.840 with guitarist Johnny Ramone, as the other members apparently didn't 155 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:50.039 really object, and there were also issues over production credits 156 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:55.639 as well, again with Johnny. Ultimately, Richie was replaced by 157 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:59.919 his predecessor, Markey. They brought him back after he got sober, 158 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:02.440 and he remained in the band Mark He did until 159 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:08.759 the band retired in nineteen ninety six. After releasing Entitled, 160 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:14.279 Richie released two more solo LPs, one called Cellophane in 161 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:19.039 twenty sixteen and another Lived to Tell in twenty twenty three. 162 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:24.960 In twenty eighteen, he published his autobiography I Know Better 163 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:29.000 Now my life before, during, and after the Ramones, and 164 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:31.360 I Know Better Now is another one of the songs 165 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:35.200 he wrote for the band. Somebody Put Something in My 166 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:37.559 Drink has since been covered by a number of other 167 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:40.279 punk bands, and has also been featured in a couple 168 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:43.919 of movies as well. In two thousand and seven, this 169 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:48.720 is pretty interesting, Richie debuted a classical composition called Sweet 170 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:53.039 for drums and orchestra with the Pasadena Pops, and it 171 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:56.440 was based on themes from the musical West Side Story. 172 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:00.080 So not too shabby for a punk drubber No. 173 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:02.600 No elegant. 174 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:03.840 Now. 175 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.279 Along with the three Ramone studio albums, the third being 176 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.519 nineteen eighty seven's Halfway to Sanity. By the Way, Richie 177 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.840 also appears on numerous Ramone's Greatest Hits compilations, and he 178 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:21.799 also played on Joey Ramone's second posthumous solo LP and Yes, 179 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:23.679 I know You're all wondering, and I know some of 180 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:26.399 you know. Of course, I got to see Richie play 181 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:30.159 with the Ramones a few times, and once right here 182 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:34.000 in our own Rockland County in Mount Ivy, back in 183 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:38.240 nineteen eighty four, a place called the Expo and I 184 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.519 think they tore it down and built a diner anyway, 185 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:44.519 And I know I've seen him perform with his own 186 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:47.440 band a few times, along with a couple of the 187 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:51.639 Cranbones here many times with Mercedes, and we even dragged 188 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:55.360 Brian along one time too. I think he's almost gotten 189 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:56.000 over the shock. 190 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.639 I had a great night. That was awesome. I got 191 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:01.279 a sign drumstick to chat with him a little bit. 192 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:02.480 That was a good night. 193 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:04.320 It was. It was really cool. 194 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:08.000 Now I will never reach the coolness factor of Neil 195 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:11.799 and Mercedes. Obviously I was. I made the tricycle that 196 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.720 was the third wheel. But that's okay. I'll take what 197 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:15.200 I can get. 198 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:21.320 It all counts, it all counts, And finally, Richie continues 199 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:24.240 to perform, and he's currently one of the three surviving 200 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:26.480 members of the band, the other two being Markeye and 201 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:32.279 bassist CJ. Ramone. So remember, don't drink and drive and 202 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:34.080 go to a concert. 203 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:36.159 Thank you excellent. 204 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:41.000 I cannot listen to any version of that song without 205 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:44.039 thinking of a friend of mine who used to go 206 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:46.399 to Ceegb's all the time. And I don't know what 207 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:48.679 band he was there to see, but he was there 208 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:50.879 one night with his girlfriend. Now he lived down the 209 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:55.000 Jersey Shore somewhere, so when they left, they had to 210 00:13:55.120 --> 00:14:01.000 drive home and they actually woke up on the median 211 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:02.960 of the turnpike. 212 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:04.120 Oh my god. 213 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:12.759 But they woke up intact, intact, I hope. Yeah, them 214 00:14:12.919 --> 00:14:14.399 and whatever vehicles. 215 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:17.960 Yeah, insane. 216 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:21.000 Yeah, that's that's a night of bad decisions. 217 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:23.279 Somebody put something in their drink. 218 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:29.919 Yes, absolutely, wow, alcohol alcohol for one, No, for real? 219 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:31.320 Something oh really really? 220 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.519 Oh yeah yeah yeah from the area. The Jersey Turnpike 221 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.480 at some places is like four or five six lanes wide. 222 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.720 And they're in the media in the Wow. Okay, yeah, 223 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:44.519 that's well. 224 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:46.200 I remember they used to you know, they used to 225 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:50.159 serve tap be you know in pictures. I would for 226 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:53.360 many reasons, I never ordered that. I always had something, 227 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.840 you know, that was like like a bottle can. Yeah, 228 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:02.000 for sure. It just it just didn't seem like a 229 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:02.600 good idea. 230 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:07.840 And in college, one of the downtown bars used to 231 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.679 do dollar beer nights, but you brought your own container, 232 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:15.159 and just that week, the hardware store at the other 233 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:17.440 end of the street would sell bird baths on sale, 234 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.759 So you would actually have guys walking around this bar 235 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:24.000 carrying bird baths. 236 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.360 I think that's hilarious. 237 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:34.159 I was DJing. I was not a bird bath participant. 238 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:37.799 So how much does a bird bath hold I don't 239 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:39.399 know in pictures. 240 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:43.080 It was a lot in bird bird bath. 241 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:46.679 Of beer bourbon. You could take it anywhere you want. 242 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:48.879 Well, I'm not going to brag, but that was the 243 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:52.320 sort of class I was in, you know, before retiring, 244 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:55.159 of course. Yeah, but I never thought of using a 245 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:55.879 bird bath. 246 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.000 But I don't know who came up with it, but 247 00:15:58.559 --> 00:15:59.480 they made the most of it. 248 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:02.679 All him that if it was new, not an old 249 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:03.240 bird bath. 250 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:06.480 No, I mean not no, these were new bird baths from. 251 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:11.960 Swipe swipe one off of somebody's Oh god, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, well, 252 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:17.799 you know maybe after enough never mind, never mind, you 253 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:18.399 can use it. 254 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:21.440 After for whatever. But yes, when you're done drinking out of. 255 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:23.519 It, that alcohol disinfects it. 256 00:16:24.360 --> 00:16:27.759 No no, still still no, no, it could be one 257 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.759 green alcohol and there's still not Yeah. 258 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.519 Well this was all before bird flew and all that stuff, 259 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:35.559 so I might have been no never mind. 260 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:38.039 Yeah, birds have been since the dawn of time, so 261 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:39.360 there is no good way to. 262 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:40.840 Buy your bird baths. 263 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:44.360 Conversation South real fast, are you surprised. 264 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:47.200 Oh, I'm sure it's going to get worse we're talking about. 265 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:50.440 I'm sure, Actually, Barbara, you're up. So you get to 266 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:53.200 decide high brow low brow? Which way are we going 267 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:53.440 to go? 268 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:54.360 All right? 269 00:16:54.480 --> 00:17:01.080 Well, all right, so yeah, the song about drinking that 270 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:05.400 I have chosen, it's called the Scotsman. We're gonna hear 271 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.599 the rendition by Brian Bowers, and I'm going to talk 272 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:11.599 about him a little bit later, but for right now, 273 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:14.400 I want to talk about the guy that wrote the song, 274 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:19.440 Mike Cross. He was born October twenty fifth, nineteen forty six, 275 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:24.200 in Maryville, Tennessee. He grew up in North Carolina, and 276 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:29.759 he's an American musician, singer, songwriter, fiddler, guitarist, and storyteller. 277 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:34.680 His musical works are a blend of bluegrass, Celtic influences, 278 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:37.839 country rock, folk, and pop, but he's best known for 279 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:42.079 his humorous songs. However, his diehard fans are quick to 280 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:45.960 point out that his serious songwriting is just as impressive 281 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:50.000 as his comedy. Cross was inducted into the Blue Ridge 282 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:52.680 Music Hall of Fame in two thousand and nine in 283 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:57.880 recognition of his contributions to Appalachian and North Carolina music. 284 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:03.079 Although he never achieved mainstream success, and it's unknown exactly 285 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:06.359 when Cross wrote The Scotsman, but it's believed to be 286 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:10.039 sometime during the nineteen seventies because the recording we will 287 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:14.880 now hear was released in nineteen eighty by Brian Bauers 288 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:19.279 on his album Home Home on the Road. So before 289 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:24.319 we continue with details about Bowers, let's hear its brief. 290 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:25.160 It's very short. 291 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:27.799 Let's hear his version of the Scotsman. 292 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:28.880 Now well. 293 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:32.680 Scotsman planned and killed, left the bar wan even fair, 294 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:35.920 and one could tell how he walked, and he drunk 295 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:39.680 more than his share. He fumbled around until he could 296 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:43.279 no longer keep his feet, and he stumbled off to 297 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:47.160 the grass to sleep beside this street, ringing it a 298 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:52.799 little lady ringed Lisle. He stumbled off to the grass 299 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:56.359 to sleep beside this tree. About that time to the 300 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.359 young and lovely girls. Just happened by one says to 301 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:04.440 the other, with the twinkle in her eye, see on 302 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:09.720 sleeping Scotsman, so strong and handsome, Bill. I wonder rivage's true? 303 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:11.519 What they don't wear beneath the. 304 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:16.160 Kilt, ringing it a little lady ring nordedly eye. 305 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:20.200 Oh wow, wonder rivage's true. What they don't wear beneath 306 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:24.640 the kilt. They crept upon that sleeping Scotsman quiet as 307 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:28.559 could be lifted up as killed about and if so 308 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:32.240 they could see and their all for them. Of you 309 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:36.200 beneath this god is skirt was nothing more than God 310 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:40.079 had graced him with upon his bird ringing, that a 311 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:44.880 little lad ring nordedly eye, oh, was nothing more than 312 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.960 God had graced him with upon his birth. They marveled 313 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:52.000 for a moment. Then one said we must be gone. 314 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.359 Let's leave a present for our friend before we move along. 315 00:19:56.920 --> 00:19:59.680 As a gift, they left their blue silk ribbon tied 316 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:04.200 into a bowl around the bunny star. The scots kilted 317 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:05.599 lyft dunshow. 318 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:11.079 Ringing did a little ladio ring nadii isle around the 319 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:11.920 bunny star. 320 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:15.960 The scots kilted lyft dun show. Now the Scotsman wolf 321 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:20.000 to nature's call and stumble towards the trees behind the 322 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:23.200 bushy lifts his kilt and cock said what he sees 323 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:27.039 and there the startle boys, He says to what's before 324 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:31.160 his eyes off, lad, I don't know where you've in Budaseo. 325 00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:36.160 One first priss ringing did a little ladio ring nadali 326 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:38.640 isle a lad I don't. 327 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:44.559 Know where you've embudasyo one first part, okay, the. 328 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:47.079 Pews of would happen if you drink so much you 329 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:50.240 pass out? Let that be a lesson to all of us. 330 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.839 So the song is done in a classic folk storytelling format, 331 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:02.480 with a simple narration, a memorable chor a punchline. And 332 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:06.319 it was frequently requested on the Doctor Demento Show and 333 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:10.559 often made the show's top five, known as the Funny Five. 334 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:14.880 And just to put it out there, my next show 335 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.759 I'm working on for Shaving Cream will be a tribute 336 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:24.000 to Doctor Demento's Funny Five. So Bowers is also known 337 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:28.319 as an auto harp player. You can find pictures of 338 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:35.559 it online, and the auto harp. He's actually credited with 339 00:21:35.799 --> 00:21:41.319 introducing the instrument to generations of musicians. And he's kind 340 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:44.240 of more famous for playing the auto harp than he 341 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:48.079 is for that song. And he was inducted into the 342 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:51.640 Auto Harp Hall of Fame in nineteen ninety three. 343 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:56.319 Oh he's the other guy, all right, gotcha? 344 00:21:57.319 --> 00:21:59.880 Which I think is almost as funny as the song is. 345 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:02.599 So there you have it. 346 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:05.079 Where is the Auto hart Hall of Fame. 347 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:10.039 The I don't know if there's a physical. 348 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:13.279 Some spare bedroom in the back. 349 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:17.160 It's probably in some janitor's closet. 350 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:19.599 And some building somewhere. I never even heard of it. 351 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:22.720 I know, I know, I was trying to find more 352 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:23.839 info on it, but I. 353 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:25.119 Mean, I'm not. I would definitely go. 354 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:28.720 Yeah, you would go to the Auto Heart Hall of Fame, 355 00:22:28.799 --> 00:22:34.880 and you would marvel at this gentleman howers that he 356 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:37.200 actually has his name somewhere. 357 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:39.960 Yeah, you can only imagine the gift shop. 358 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:42.119 Wow. 359 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:50.160 Yeah, sorry, Okay, all right, thank you for. 360 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:53.200 You left me speechless with that. 361 00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:57.119 When I'm sitting here trying to picture all the things 362 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:00.960 I could pross, possibly purchase and all, Yeah, gift shot. 363 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:02.720 Key chain, it would be very very difficult. 364 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:06.920 They have a whole, a whole section of Blue River. 365 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:08.000 I was gonna say that. 366 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:09.400 You just beat me to it. 367 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:12.599 Killed kilts and key chains. 368 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:16.240 And blue being being being of part, you know, part 369 00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:19.640 Scottish descent. You know, I've got a whole trophy case 370 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:20.079 of those. 371 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:25.720 Are they all blue? 372 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:28.839 Neil, I'll never tell. 373 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:31.519 That's for another show. 374 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:36.759 One that was that was a loaded question. I justn't know. 375 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:40.400 It's a family show. I'm going to stop right there. 376 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:45.319 Yep, And if we haven't scared Linda off yet, we're 377 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:45.839 gonna try. 378 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:48.880 The song reminded me of you know, the World Cup 379 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:52.960 is going on now and the Scots keep drinking Boston dry. 380 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:56.559 Yes you want to. 381 00:23:56.640 --> 00:23:59.960 They came over on except for the bud light. Except 382 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:03.200 the bud light. They have bud light light, Yes they would. 383 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:06.200 Yeah, so last week we did. 384 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:08.839 Brian hates the bagpipes, and so I went to the 385 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:12.279 other side of the coin where we have scotsman but 386 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:17.680 no bagpipes, and there you go, say thank you, Brian, 387 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:18.240 thank you. 388 00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:23.160 All Right, we're gonna take a real quick break and 389 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:25.920 we're gonna be back with more. So go hit the 390 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:28.839 restroom while you can and get another round, then join 391 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:31.240 us in a few minutes. We'll be right back. Hudson 392 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:34.119 River Radio dot Com. Your dad likes us. 393 00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:37.599 This concludes the first part of this cassette. 394 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:40.680 Please turn the cassette over and begin again on side 395 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:51.319 to Hudson River Radio dot Com and welcome back. So uh, 396 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:55.200 I'm partial to old fashions myself. I have to admit, 397 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:57.519 you know, I. 398 00:24:57.680 --> 00:24:58.000 Tried to. 399 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:05.000 Ever had never had heard about need to try, so 400 00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:07.599 that that's kind of my default, that a nice porter 401 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:09.519