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Speaker 1: From Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You

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Can't Be Serious Podcast. I don't know what music Jason's

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going to put for the introduction, but I hope it.

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Speaker 2: Involves I've got to play something really crazy seventies because

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we're diving back to the seventies today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So, guys, normally we do the eighties and nineties,

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and normally we do albums and movies, but we are

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doing something different today but still heavy on the gen X.

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We are bringing you today the first part of a

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three part series where we are giving our top five

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TV themes.

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Speaker 2: Top five TV themes from nineteen seventy five to nineteen

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seventy nine.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's episode one. Episode two will be nineteen eighty

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nineteen eighty four, and episode three will be nineteen eighty

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five to nineteen eighty nine, the time period that all

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us gen X freaks we're watching TV NonStop.

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Speaker 2: I know, I'm excited to do this because this is

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back at a time when TV was sort of much

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more important in people's lives.

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Speaker 1: Guys, if you are feeling the stresses of life right now,

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you know there's always seems like something else coming onto

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your plate, and it's just bearing down upon you spend

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just the next few minutes with us to forget about that,

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travel back in time to when you were a kid

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and the biggest worry was what breakfast cereal you were

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going to eat when you watched your Saturday morning cartoons.

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Speaker 2: Just pretend like you're lying on the floor, you got

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your chin on your hands, and your dad tells you

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to go turn the knob to change the channel.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we're talking about when you were the

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remote control.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So in this first part of the series, we

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got to kind of set some ground rules for our choices, right.

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Speaker 3: Right, right, right.

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Speaker 1: So if you've heard some of our other top five episodes,

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we had the top five songs of nineteen eighty three.

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Earlier this season, yep, we had the top songs of

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nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, we've also had top Super Bowl

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performformances as well. But we always establish a few ground rules.

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One of the ground rules is it needs to kind

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of fit in the time period that we're talking about,

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but it doesn't have to be exclusively in that time period, right,

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It's tricky. Yeah, we may have some songs that maybe

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were before seventy five, but spilled on over into seventy

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five through seventy nine. We may have some songs that

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kind of go past seventy nine. You just you don't

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know what it's going to be, But as long as

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it kind of feels right, that's where we're placing things.

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So conceivably with some of the longer series, say Magnum

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p I for example, that went from eighty to eighty eight,

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that could be in my episode two, and it could

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be in your episode three. We just don't know what

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this right.

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Speaker 2: With that said, things like Scooby Doo and Gilligan's Island

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stuff we watched after school in the seventies and eighties,

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those are out because they're exclusively sixties.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a lot of Niked Knight stuff where

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we were picking up Brady Bunch and other themes like that,

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but we're talking about stuff that is new episodes in

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the time period that we're talking about exactly now.

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Speaker 2: Then the other rule that we established is that it

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has to be written for the television show.

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Speaker 1: And that is a big one. That was a booming

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sweep once we realized what we had done to ourselves

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because that excluded Golden Girls. Yeah, that excluded married with Children, right,

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that excluded the Wonder Years. Yeah, and then you pointed

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out to me it.

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Speaker 2: Excludes Bosom Buddies, which is tragic because that was one

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of my favorite TV things too. I was looking through that,

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I was like, whoo, that one's out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So all of these songs were specifically written for

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the series that they were the theme of. They were

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not some sort of rehash reboot thing. Yeah, exactly, Jason.

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The seventies for you was a little different than the

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seventies for me. Right, I think the seventies and I'm like,

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we're talking about the time period from my birth to

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the time that I was four, So that's a pretty

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tight window of knowledge for me. But I do remember

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a lot of these songs. The other things that I

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can remember from the seventies is my big wheel, I do.

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Speaker 2: I had a green machine but yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolute boss right, and that thing out Neighborhood Street for

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the first time.

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Speaker 2: Love it. I'll tell you what I did in the seventies. Yeah,

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my big thing was Star Wars Guys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I played with those things until my hands fell off.

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Star Wars Guys and Light Bright and Legos.

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Speaker 1: So guys think about the time on your big Wheel,

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think about the time with your Star Wars Kinner action figures.

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As we go back in history to the nineteen seventies,

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we flip on the TV and Jason, what is your

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number five pick for the top five five?

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Speaker 2: So my number five song from the seventies.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're gonna do this sort of quiz fashion too, right, Yeah,

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you're gonna give me a little hint. I'm gonna try

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: See this is tricky because there's not a lot you

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know here, but okay, okay. So this show ran from

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nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty four, okay, and it

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established what was cool in the seventies.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and by that I mean.

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Speaker 2: Punching a jukebox to make it start playing was cool?

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Speaker 1: Sunday, Monday, Happy Days.

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Speaker 3: Sunday, Happy Days Day, Happy Days Days, the weekend counts.

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I love it.

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Speaker 1: Great, great answer, great number five. So tell me what

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you've got on Happy Days.

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Speaker 2: So their first two seasons of Happy Days was actually

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Rock around the Clock by Bill Haley in the.

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Speaker 1: Comments, yeah, which technically would violate our rules. But by

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season three they come up with their own songs.

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Speaker 2: They did so they came up with a song called

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Happy Days, written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimble. Okay, now,

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these are the same guys who wrote Killing Me Softly

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by ROBERTA.

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Speaker 3: Flack, killing me song, Hey wear this song song.

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Speaker 1: With this song, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, I've got them

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coming up in a later mentioned but you keep.

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Speaker 3: On going, okay.

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Speaker 2: So the singers on this is called the Ron Hicklin Singers,

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and they actually back up the girl who sings little

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Erner Shirley song, which we may talk about here.

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Speaker 1: In a few minutes, Cindy Grecody Greco.

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Speaker 2: But if you pay close attention in the credits for

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Happy Days, the little forty five record comes up, starts playing,

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and you can read all of this information right there

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for you to see on the record. Nice grade five,

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Happy Days.

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Speaker 1: Great one, and that one created by Gary Marshall. Yes,

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and I got another story coming up here in a

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little while that'll throw back to one of our more

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recent episodes. But we'll come to that one in a minute.

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Are you very good? Yeah? Okay, all right, So for

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myn number five, I realize that I'm making this extremely difficult,

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but I don't think there's any way for me to

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do it otherwise, Okay, that's fine, Okay, So the composer, no,

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I can't do it, No, okay, okay. This theme music

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played as you were driving behind cars on the California Highway.

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It is so incredibly definitive seventies gold that you would

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probably not be surprised to find it in a porn.

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Speaker 2: Movie to be the theme song for Chips.

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Speaker 1: You've Got It. Chips ran from nineteen seventy seven to

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nineteen eighty three. We had Eric Estrada and Larry Willcox's

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Paunch and John p. John Man.

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Speaker 2: Those guys were studs back in the day.

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Speaker 1: Pontarelli. No, okay, So that show was created by a

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guy named Rick Rosner. He gets credit for the movie

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that came out in twenty seventeen, not that anybody would

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take credit for that movie right now. The guy that

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wrote the theme music for this TV show is a

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guy I don't really have any information on. His name

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is John Carl Parker. He was only involved with the

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series from seventy seven seventy eight. But we have talked

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about the music in this before, and I'm wondering if

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you're gonna remember this. So the guy who kind of

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took over his spot when John Parker, the composer left.

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The guy who composed the music for the bulk of

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the episode we've talked about in one of our earliest episodes. Okay,

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work with Chips, and then he started doing movie music

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and he was trying to establish himself with a Spielberg production.

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It was getting a little bit iffy. But this remember

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that Chips ended in eighty three. In eighty four, he

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did the theme music for a movie called Romancing the Stone.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you got it, it's Alan Silvestri.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. So even though Alan Silvestri did not

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compose the theme music to this, he did do the

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music for the bulk of this. Shut up, there you go.

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Speaker 2: That's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Alan Silvestri, of course, did the theme music for Back

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to the Future, many of the Marvel million. I mean,

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he's ready player one.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic, Yeah, all right, back to me, K to you four?

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All right, So my number four is a theme song

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that was associated with the television show that ran from

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nineteen seventy seven to nineteen eighty four. I still watch

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this show. I still think it's hilarious. This TV show

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is based on a British show called Man about the House.

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Speaker 1: Oh all right, that's not what I thought you were

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going to say. Oh, okay, keep going, all right, allow me.

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Speaker 2: Lonnie Anderson before WKRP Okay, auditioned for a main role

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in this TV show. Okay, and didn't get it because

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she was quote unquote too beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I kind of remember this. Keep going now.

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Speaker 2: Then Joanna Kern's audition for the main role.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she didn't get it either. She got growing pains later.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but I'll tell you who did get it, Suzanne Summers.

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Speaker 1: This has to be Three's Company.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna knock on our door down.

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Speaker 1: I'm knock gonna do I'm and knock gonna do.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: The music for this was written by Joe Riposo. He

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also wrote the theme for Sesame Street.

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Speaker 1: That's a big one.

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Speaker 2: He also wrote c us for Cookie That's a great one.

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay.

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Speaker 2: This was sung by Julia Rinker Miller and Ray Charles. No,

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not that Ray Charles, the other Rachel.

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Speaker 1: I was like, what did you see the episode where

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there was some kind of misunderstanding upon an overheard conversation

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and Jack fell down a lot, and.

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Speaker 2: They thought Jack was sleeping with that other girl and

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Jack fell down a lot. That's hilarious. I loved Three's

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Company as a kid.

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Speaker 1: I honestly, they were they were definitely in the running

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for me, but I knew you'd put him on your list,

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so I just went ahead and left it. Okay, So

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back to me, number four, number four. My number four

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is a spinoff of a series. Okay, all right. The

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series that it's a spin off of also had a

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very memorable introduction song that was actually sung by the

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two main characters in the TV series as they sat

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at a piano.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so the two main characters that sung the song

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and Saturday a piano, that has to be Archie Bunker

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Archie and Edith Bunker.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yes, the name of the series was All in

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the Family. Yep. He had a neighbor that he absolutely

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couldn't stand because he was this racist. His neighbor was

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named George Jefferson.

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Speaker 2: Moving on.

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Speaker 3: Dude, Moving on up.

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Speaker 1: Moving on up. That's number four for me. That Jefferson's

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ran from nineteen seventy five to nineteen eighty five, created

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by Don Nicol, who did all in the Family and

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Three's Company Okay, and developed by Norman Who's I mean

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I ran into if you were playing a drinking game.

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With the research I did on this, Norman Lear would

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be one of those names.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh.

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Speaker 1: The guy who came up with a theme song. Born

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guy that we've talked about before named Phil.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Work that he did with him included the song

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do what did he did? He? Uh huh. Jeff Berry,

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with other writers, wrote the song Leader of the Pack. Yes,

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also wrote a song that we talked about in our

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Hysteria episode sung by the Archies, Chug Sugar You Got It.

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And he wrote this song Moving On Up, with the

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singer of the song, Janet du Boi. Now Here's when

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we were looking into it. I was like, shut the

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front door a little bit earlier. I asked you if

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you had watched the TV series Good Times.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I know, MI hid done a Mike you got

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Speaker 1: So Janet Dubois, the one who sings Moving On Up.

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She played the part of Willona Woods, that neighborhood gossip

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that was always over stir in the pot. That was her.

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She was the actress that played that part, and she

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was the one sang moving on up. She's got a

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great voice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that surprises me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. I like that. That's very nugget.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So we're back to me, back to you.

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Speaker 2: We're number three three yeah, three, okay. So this show

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Speaker 1: It too, was a spin off.

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Speaker 2: The singer for this song, yes, was discovered at six

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Flags Magic Mountain.

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Speaker 1: Okay, do you know it? Well if it relates to

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a song that you've already mentioned, then yes, I know

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it does it? It does? Okay. This is also my

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number three all right, great. This is the song depending

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on whether we're talking about the album or the series.

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called We're Gonna Make It. If we're talking about the album,

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the song is making our dreams come true.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's interesting because I to me, it's making our

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dreams come true.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So they when they put it on the show,

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they called it We're Gonna Make It. But yes, Schlamiel

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Schla Maazel Haws and pep incorporated by Slamaz has incoporated.

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Speaker 2: This is the theme song from Laverne and Shirley.

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Speaker 1: Yes, which we talked about on our previous episode on

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Big Penny. Marshall was the director of that and of

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course she had gotten her big break when she and

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Cindy Williams played double dates of the Fawns and Richie

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and the crowd love them so much they decided to

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give them their own show. This was that show, and

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a key ingredient was this awesome introduction.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's fantastic. So I've got a story for

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you on this, Yeah, go ahead. Gary Marshall talks about

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how he came up with the idea for la vernon Shirley. Okay,

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So he came back from Korea and he was on

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a date and he was at a restaurant and the

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girl he was with got crossed with another girl in

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the restaurant, somebody they didn't know. The other girl said

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something rude to his date, and his date said, Gary,

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would you mind holding my coat for me please? And

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then a fistfight broke out between his date and the

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other girl.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: He's like, I couldn't believe that two girls got in

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a fistfight at a restaurant.

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Speaker 1: That is fantastic, and he goes, So.

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Speaker 2: That sort of spawned the idea of these sort of

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two blue collar, rough and.

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Speaker 1: Tough girls, girls who work in a brewery. Yep. I

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threw this idea out to my brother throw you know, hey,

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what don't think just say top eighties theme songs, right, yeah,

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this one came up and he's like, I remember that.

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Mom and I used to always sing this, and I

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was like, it's the only Yiddish I know. Schlemil schlamazl

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does that might have no idea?

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Speaker 2: Okay, I got one more nugget for you on this song.

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So you talked about how the guys who wrote this

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song are Charles Fox and Norman Gimbell.

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Speaker 1: Yes, real quick, you mentioned that they both wrote Killing

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Me Softly fantastic song.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Charles Fox also wrote the theme for the Love Boat,

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another big seventies yes, and at this one the original

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Monday Night football theme.

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Speaker 2: Really fantastic, you go Okay. They also wrote the Barry

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Manilow song Ready to Take a Chance Again, which was

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the theme for the movie foul Play, Oh with Chevy

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Chase Cha Yeah, which I'm getting ready to go onto

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the Film.

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Speaker 1: By podcast and talk about guys. Be sure and go

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over to the Film by podcast check out Jeff and

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Brad and some of their co hosts as they cover

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movies that are all awesome, but it's like the lesser

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known movies of the directors we all know. So Jason,

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you're gonna be talking about foul Play with them? I am.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be the last episode of the year,

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so it's down the road a bit.

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Speaker 1: But foul Play, great movie. Can't wait to talk about

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that sounds awesome. So we mentioned before. This song was

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sung by Cindy Greco is her only charting song, but

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it reached number twenty five on the Hot one hundred.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Charles Fox was at six Flags and heard her singing.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy, It's crazy, you never know ye all right? Okay,

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so that covers both of our number three. Shall I

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go to my number two? Or are you gonna go

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to your number two? Oh? Whatever you want to do,

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go for it. Okay, I will go to my number two.

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Okay two, And I will tell you that the composer

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of this song was the key to the best selling

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album of all time that we talked about in our

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very first episode.

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Speaker 2: So the best selling album of all time. I'm guessing

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you're gonna.

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Speaker 1: Say that's Thriller. Yes, And he's the composer of Thriller.

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He was a key ingredient in Thriller. Quincy Jones. Correct, Okay,

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I got nothing. What are we talking about here? So

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I'm gonna blow your mind because I didn't know that

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this was by him as well. So in the late

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sixties early seventies, he was still living in England, just

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had a baby over there, was trying to get back Rashida.

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Might have been, might have been okay, yeah, could have

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been okay. And he while in England fell in love

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with his very popular TV show called Steptoe and Son.

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Steptoe and Son, Yeah okay, And so he actually looked

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into getting the rights to do this show in the States,

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but somebody else already had it. They end up calling

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him back and saying, hey, would you write the theme

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music for us? Okay? I love I love the anticipation.

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I'm just going to keep on going and give you.

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I have a guest out there. I have a guest,

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keep going, keep going, he skill me up. So's He's like, okay,

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well tell me who you've got playing these parts. And

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the producer, Aaron Rubin says it's a Red Fox and

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Quincy Jones like, you can't put him on TV. He's

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like that there isn't a word that he says that's

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allowed to be said on TV. He's like, I used

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to work with that guys. I used to run the

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same circuit together. You can't put Red Fox on public television, No, sir,

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Sure enough they did, but they said, do you want

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to see the first episode before you composed the theme song?

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And he said, no, I know exactly what it needs

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to sound like, because I know what Red Fox sounds like. Yeah,

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which is where you get.

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Speaker 2: That's Sanford and sonon.

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Speaker 1: So listen to this song. I can't help but think

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of Doctor Teeth an electric mayhem. Oh yeah, very good,

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Sanford Son nineteen seventy two to nineteen seventy seven. The

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theme written by Quincy Jones, is called the Backstreeter. The

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story was based on an English series named Steptoe and

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Son created by Aaron Rubin and Norman Lear again develops

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the show.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Okay. So we're on to my.

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Speaker 1: Number two, onto your number two, all right, go ahead, okay.

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Speaker 2: So this show ran from nineteen seventy six to nineteen

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eighty one. Yes, and frankly, I'm astonished that we haven't

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come across it with you yet, and maybe we still will.

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So this song played at the beginning of every episode

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and the end of every episode, okay, and always had

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a different stinger with a character at the end before

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the show started.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I got nothing. You're gonna have to keep going,

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all right.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So imagine with me arches okay, and then we

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back up, and there's more arches, and then we back

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up and there's more arches, and everybody is singing this song.

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You got zuoit on the sacks, you got Rolf on

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the piano.

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Speaker 1: This is the Muppet Show tonight.

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Speaker 2: It's time to play the music, it's time to dress

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up right. Great song, and you've got Gonzo who at

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the end of every song does something funny with his

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horn and bubbles come out, or a chicken falls off

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the stage or something happens.

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Speaker 1: Yes, great show.

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Speaker 2: Love the show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic show. Good call. I didn't. It didn't make

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my radar. I actually thought about it, but it didn't.

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It didn't get dipped in, so great, great pick for

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number one.

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Speaker 2: I actually checked this show out from the library, showed

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it to my kids. They fell in love with Alice

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Cooper because of this show that you know, the muppets

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are singing Welcome to My Nightmare. They was singing Welcome

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to my Nightmare. Yes, and my kids just thought Alice

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Cooper was the funniest.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So that's that means we're to me

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that completes my number two. Okay, So I've done my

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number two, you've done your number two. We're onto honorable mentions, Yes,

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we are. I can tell you my honorable mentions. They've

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both been discussed. My honorable Okay. My honorable mentions were

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Happy Days and Three's Company. So you tell me what

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have you got? So one of my honorable mentions is

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Chips nice okay, good.

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Speaker 2: California Highway Patrol with the porno music in the background.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Paunch and John great great song.

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Speaker 2: Loved it, Okay, all right.

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Speaker 1: My other honorable mention is.

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Speaker 2: A TV show based on a movie.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay.

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Speaker 2: The movie is called Moon Runners from nineteen seventy five.

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Speaker 1: The movie is called moon Runners. That's right, that's got

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nothing okay? Oh oh wait, as in like moonshine Runners.

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Maybe is that it? That's it? Okay. I may come

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back and discuss that particular song with you in a

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future episode, But you've got to be talking about Dukes

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of Hazzard just a good old bone.

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Speaker 3: They haven't made in no harm.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, I'm talking about The Dukes of Hazzard, which

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ran from nineteen seventy nine to nineteen eighty five, with

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a little break in the middle with Vans and Koy.

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Speaker 1: Remember when uh scabs Bow and Duke Bow and Luke

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got kicked out for a few episodes and then Vance

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and Koy came in.

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Speaker 3: That didn't work.

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Speaker 2: But the song is called good Old Boys. It's based

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on a movie called moon Runners. Waylon Jennings actually narrated

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that movie, and so they invited him back to narrate

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The Dukes.

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Speaker 1: Of Hazzard as well as sing the theme song. Absolutely, absolutely, yes, sir,

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and I love that it starts off with the guitar, right,

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that's the first thing. How many times do you give

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so much credit to the theme music that you actually

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show the guy playing his guitar before you do. Scenes

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from the TV su point right, great point.

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Speaker 2: This was released as a single in August of nineteen

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eighty reached number one on the Country Hit chart in

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November nineteen eighty. I'm including it in the set, but

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it was very, very easy to put it on the

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eighties as well.

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Speaker 1: For sure. So be sure and tune into our future episodes.

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Maybe we've got more tidbits for you coming up, are okay?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: So now we're onto my number one, Yes, and your

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number one and my number one? Okay, you go first, Okay,

474
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all right. One.

475
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Speaker 2: So this comes from a television show that ran from

476
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nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty okay, starring an actor

477
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with local ties to you and I. In fact, there's

478
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,759
a statue of him in downtown Norman, Oklahoma.

479
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Speaker 1: I know exactly what it is. This is great because

480
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,559
in our future episode, I'm going to be talking about

481
00:24:48,599 --> 00:24:52,559
the composer of that particular song. He is. Again, if

482
00:24:52,599 --> 00:24:54,920
you're playing a drinking game, his name is a name

483
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,519
that you will need to remember. But I'm not going

484
00:24:56,599 --> 00:24:58,799
to step on your stories here. I'm just going to

485
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,839
tell you you're talking about out James Garner and The

486
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:02,759
Rockford Files.

487
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,920
Speaker 2: Okay, so you alluded to it, but this is composed

488
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,240
by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter. Mike Post is gonna

489
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,960
pop up left and right in our next episode, probably

490
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:21,680
for guessing.

491
00:25:21,839 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: There's no question.

492
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Speaker 2: When they sat down with him to talk about The

493
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,480
Rockford Files, yep, he said, Okay, tell me about the

494
00:25:27,519 --> 00:25:28,079
main character.

495
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Speaker 1: I said, all right, here's the deal.

496
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Speaker 2: It's casual, he's laid back, he's Oklahoma. And they said,

497
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whenever there's a fight, he tries to avoid.

498
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Speaker 1: Getting in a fight. He's like, okay, I got it.

499
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Harmonica, They're like, yes. So he built this theme

500
00:25:44,799 --> 00:25:48,680
from that laid back Oklahoma feel that James Garner has.

501
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Speaker 1: It's fantastic. I love it.

502
00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:52,319
Speaker 2: By the way, This was released as a single in

503
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August of nineteen seventy five, made it to number ten

504
00:25:55,039 --> 00:25:56,119
on the Hot one hundred.

505
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Speaker 1: So this one was his breakout hit he had at

506
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,200
twenty three years old. Well, first, let me just let

507
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,000
me let me back up just a little bit. So

508
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,599
Mike Post is a you know, musical genius, yes, and

509
00:26:10,799 --> 00:26:12,519
just this laid back I mean he looks like a

510
00:26:12,599 --> 00:26:15,200
mechanic a normal guy. I can't tell you how many

511
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,559
interviews I watched with him on the stuff that he's done.

512
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,799
But anyway, after touring for a while with various acts

513
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,960
that became pretty popular, he got a studio job and

514
00:26:24,039 --> 00:26:26,400
he wanted to just you know, get paid and play music,

515
00:26:26,559 --> 00:26:29,119
and so he started playing with this group of folks

516
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,799
that some people refer to as the Wrecking Crew.

517
00:26:32,079 --> 00:26:32,519
Speaker 3: No Way.

518
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: Yes, so we've mentioned the Wrecking Crew probably multiple times

519
00:26:36,039 --> 00:26:38,720
at this point, but they are the band behind all

520
00:26:38,839 --> 00:26:41,039
of the bands, and if you just to sum it up,

521
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,440
they're the band that Brian Wilson went to when he

522
00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:47,319
composed his masterpiece pet Sounds, and there's a documentary out

523
00:26:47,319 --> 00:26:50,400
there on him. But he's nineteen years old thrown in

524
00:26:50,519 --> 00:26:52,799
with these guys and he's just like in awe. He

525
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,960
knows how good they are and he manages to impress

526
00:26:57,039 --> 00:26:59,920
them and becomes a part of their group. It's fantastic.

527
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,960
He goes on, he does an arrangement for Classical Gas,

528
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,960
which gets him his first Grammy at twenty three, and

529
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then that Rockford Files becomes a top ten hit and

530
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:10,920
gets him his second Grammy.

531
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Speaker 2: Listen to this, I'm gonna blow your socks off with

532
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,799
this keep going. So he produces a couple albums that

533
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,440
you've heard of. Yeah, he produces the Dolly Parton album

534
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,359
that includes nine to five, which we will.

535
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: Be talking about in our future episode nine to five

536
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:26,359
versus mister Mom.

537
00:27:26,559 --> 00:27:27,759
Speaker 2: Well, I can't wait to talk about that.

538
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

539
00:27:28,279 --> 00:27:32,079
Speaker 2: He also produced Van Halen three, I know, right, the

540
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,319
one with Gary Cherone.

541
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,519
Speaker 1: Poor Gary Charon. But hey, honestly, that's not a bad

542
00:27:36,599 --> 00:27:38,799
album at all. Fantastic makes you want to go listen

543
00:27:38,839 --> 00:27:41,680
to it. He also back even before he produced Dolly Parton,

544
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,000
he produced Kenny Rogers in first edition throw back to

545
00:27:45,079 --> 00:27:48,480
our Big Lebowski episode, Oh wow, just walked in to

546
00:27:48,599 --> 00:27:50,200
see what condition my condition was?

547
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: In this Rockford Files theme song for forty years was

548
00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:59,880
the walkout music for the British football team, the Tranmer Rovers.

549
00:28:00,319 --> 00:28:01,799
Speaker 1: That's that's awesome.

550
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 3: Forty years.

551
00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Okay, all right with that name, Mike Post,

552
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,440
it's coming up later, all right, now.

553
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 2: Ready for your number one?

554
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: Okay, lay it on me. I can't believe it hasn't

555
00:28:10,759 --> 00:28:13,839
come up yet. Okay, okay, okay. So the composer on

556
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,440
this particular song is a guy that we've talked about

557
00:28:16,519 --> 00:28:17,359
briefly before.

558
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:17,759
Speaker 3: Okay.

559
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: The story that I talked about before was when this

560
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,960
composer sat down with a guy and smoked a joint

561
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,920
with him on a hill, and that guy was like, man,

562
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,640
I really dig your music. I love your name, and

563
00:28:31,839 --> 00:28:35,079
so he gave his name as the first name and

564
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,279
the middle name for his son would go on to

565
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,279
blow our freaking minds with his ability to sing hard

566
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,920
rock in a voice that was anything but hard rock.

567
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,640
It was so beautiful, sounds very much like a classical composer.

568
00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 2: Godly, dude, I got nothing.

569
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I have no clue. Okay. The name

570
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,799
of the composer for the song that is in my

571
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,799
number one spot is a guy named John Sebastian.

572
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 2: John Sebastian, Yes, Sebastian Bach.

573
00:29:04,319 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: Okay, got it. So the story was that John Sebastian

574
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,680
Bach's dad got high John Sebastian.

575
00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:15,039
Speaker 2: Yes, it's all Okay, that's been like three years ago

576
00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:15,759
we talked about.

577
00:29:16,559 --> 00:29:20,559
Speaker 1: So his dad was a huge fan of Love and Spoonful, right, Yes,

578
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,680
John Sebastian was the lead guy for Love and Spoonful.

579
00:29:23,799 --> 00:29:26,480
He had started off just you know, playing regular clubs.

580
00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:29,119
Is kind of a solo act, and then he gets

581
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,759
invited to do this little concert. He's standing next to

582
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,960
the guys who started the who ran the concert, when

583
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,240
the news comes over to him. They're like, hey, they

584
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,920
they broke down the gate in the third quadrant. And

585
00:29:41,319 --> 00:29:43,960
the two guys go talk for a second and they go, well,

586
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,960
I guess Woodstock is going to be a free concert now.

587
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,279
So he was at Woodstock as a virtual unknown and

588
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,119
goes on to form Love and Spoonful and then a

589
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,279
series comes along that is created by a guy named

590
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:03,000
Gabe Kaplan and Alan Sachs, and Alan Sachs says, I

591
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,359
really want the theme music for this to be like

592
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,119
a Love and Spoonful song. Okay, got it, And so

593
00:30:09,839 --> 00:30:14,680
they send John Sebastian the script, say hey, can you

594
00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:17,119
write a song for this? And so he reads the

595
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,039
whole script and he's like, Okay, I I think I've

596
00:30:20,119 --> 00:30:22,880
got some ideas, but like, what's the name of this show?

597
00:30:23,079 --> 00:30:25,559
You know what it is. It's Welcome Back Cotter.

598
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Speaker 3: Welcome back your dreams? Were you ticket.

599
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,359
Speaker 1: Perfect? But at the time that he got the script,

600
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,559
the only name they had for it was Cotter. Okay,

601
00:30:45,759 --> 00:30:48,640
and John Sebastian was like, guys, are you serious you

602
00:30:48,759 --> 00:30:50,720
want me to write a song about Cotter? What is

603
00:30:50,759 --> 00:30:52,640
a rhyme for that Otter? What am I going to

604
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:53,039
do with this?

605
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:53,799
Speaker 3: Right? Right?

606
00:30:54,039 --> 00:30:56,119
Speaker 1: And he goes, do I have to use that name?

607
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,119
And they were like, no, I guess you know, do

608
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,519
what you want to do. And so he felt like

609
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,519
the whole idea on that pilot episode was mister Carter

610
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,519
is coming back to his old high school to teach,

611
00:31:08,079 --> 00:31:10,680
and he's having to kind of teach the kids that

612
00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:13,200
were he was once like when he was that age,

613
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,599
and so it was a welcome back feeling that he got.

614
00:31:16,759 --> 00:31:19,079
That's how he got the title of the song, which

615
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,799
then of course became the title of the series.

616
00:31:22,119 --> 00:31:24,039
Speaker 2: I love it, I love it. I can't believe I

617
00:31:24,079 --> 00:31:26,799
overlooked that one. That's a great number one, thanks man,

618
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,119
And it's a fantastic song and it was a great

619
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:29,720
TV show.

620
00:31:29,839 --> 00:31:30,039
Speaker 1: Yeah.

621
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Speaker 2: I imagine that we'll talk about this a little bit

622
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,160
when we talk about Grease in the Fall.

623
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was the breakout for mister John Travolta

624
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,519
movie star extraordinary of the late seventies and early eighties.

625
00:31:43,599 --> 00:31:46,319
Speaker 2: That's right, all right, So that's our top five TV

626
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,039
theme songs A nineteen seventy five to nineteen seventy nine.

627
00:31:49,079 --> 00:31:50,119
Speaker 1: We want to make that distinction.

628
00:31:50,359 --> 00:31:52,839
Speaker 2: We would love to hear what you think we missed

629
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:53,480
and what's.

630
00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: Your top five? Yeah, don't forget rules are it has

631
00:31:56,119 --> 00:31:59,079
to be a song made for the series. That's rather

632
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,200
than that. Give us what you got. Absolutely, thank you

633
00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:04,200
so much for supporting us. We look forward to seeing

634
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:04,799
you next week.

635
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 2: Bye guys,