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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirley You Can't

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Be Serious Podcast. I am here with my co host

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of all co hosts, mister Jason Colvin. Jason, how you doing,

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man or? As they say in Africa, jambo jumbo.

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Speaker 2: Hello, d You're the one I'm looking for.

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Speaker 1: Tell me how to win your heart? Man, I haven't

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got a clue.

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Speaker 2: Well, my friends, the time has come to raise the

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roof and have some fun.

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Speaker 1: Guys, we are here to talk about Lina Richie's second

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solo album, Can't Slow Down, and guys, just to give

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you an idea. Eight songs on the album, five of

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them were released as singles. All five of them hit

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the top ten, two of them hit number one. It

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is one of the best selling albums of the eighties

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and was album of the year.

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Speaker 3: This is a giant It's a gigantic album.

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Speaker 2: When you and I talked about it beforehand, we both

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had this album in our house, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I can remember little kids sitting on the floor.

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You've got the record player on the shelf above your

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head because you're so small, and flipping through those albums

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and seeing Lionel Richie's smiling face on that kind of

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wicker chair that he's looking at it at you off

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of a very light blue veranda.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was a very very well received album

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for parents and kids alike.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I loved the songs on this. I can remember

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listening to this LP growing up. It is a part

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of my blood. If you will.

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Speaker 2: This is a panty dropper for our parents, right.

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Speaker 1: Oh gross, let's not think about that.

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Speaker 2: Okay. So you mentioned that this is one of the

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biggest selling albums of the eighties.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna blow your socks off of this.

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You ready for this? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: This is the eighteen h best selling album of the eighties.

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It sold more than Pyromania Synchronicity nineteen eighty four Licensed

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to Ill. Wow, this is a huge album. It is

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also the third best selling album of nineteen eighty four.

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And we've talked before, nineteen eighty four maybe one of

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the best years of music ever.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is. It is literally a year that will

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never be recreated. The artistry, the albums, of the songs,

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the music that came out in nineteen eighty four was

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a pinnacle that shall not be reached together.

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Speaker 2: I totally agree. Listen to this top ten real quick

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I'm gonna wow you right off the bat. Okay, so

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Number ten seven and Ragged Tiger by Duran Duran. We've

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talked about that album. We haven't covered it track by track,

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but Duran Duran Huge. Number nine in nineteen eighty four

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was the Footloose soundtrack. We've covered that album track by track. Yeah,

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go back and check it out. Number eight Synchronicity also

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covered it, covered that one track by track. Number seven

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Eliminator by a Zezy Top.

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Speaker 1: We have that one coming up.

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Speaker 2: That one we'll be on the schedule for later this year.

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Number six nineteen eighty four by Van Halen.

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Speaker 1: Well, we definitely have covered that in one of our

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very first episodes.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I would like to break that one down, go

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a little deeper.

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Speaker 1: On the track by track on that one. We should.

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Speaker 2: Number five You're gonna laugh. Color by Numbers by Culture Club.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna laugh. That was another LP that was

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in the collection when I was a little.

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Speaker 2: You've been after me to do this one track by track,

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telling you it is a monumental album.

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Speaker 1: I remember those faces in all their little circles.

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Speaker 2: You're right, we need to do that one.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: Number four An Innocent Man by Billy Joel.

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Speaker 1: We are comparing that album to this album. This is

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our matchup. I mean, two gigantic hits of nineteen eighty four.

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Can't wait to talk about that. That's right.

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Speaker 2: Number three Cancelo down of course. Yes, Number two Sports

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by Huey Lewis, which we've covered and man, one of

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my favorite albums. Track by track, we did that one.

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And number one of course, the Thriller. Okay, let's talk

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about mister Lionel Richie.

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Speaker 1: Say, okay, So Lionel Ritchie was born in Alabama, Yes,

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grew up in Tuskegee. Actually restored the house that he

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grew up in, came back and restored it. It was on

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the Tuskegee University campus. Get this, It was given to

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his family by Booker T.

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Speaker 3: Washington.

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Speaker 1: WHOA right, Wow, Yeah, so Booker T. Washington. I'm sure

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probably in a lot of states they've got a big

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school that's the Booker T. Washington School. In our area,

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it is the same case. But the actual Booker T.

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Washington gave Lionel Ritchie's family their home that he grew

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up in.

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Speaker 2: Incredible.

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Speaker 1: He ended up going to Tuskegee University and was an

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economics major minored in accounting. He actually went on a

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tennis scholarship.

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Speaker 2: That When I found that, I was like, you have

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got to be kidding, because he looks like like one

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of the least athletic people I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I mean the way he dances. He's a

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little he's a small guy, but I mean those tennis

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players are not usually but guys. Right. Then, despite his

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major in school, he gives his dad a call one

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day and says, Dad, I've got to join this music group.

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We are going to be the Black Beatles.

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Speaker 2: How Hey, he grew up in a home where his

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grandmother was a classically trained pianist and music was just

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kind of a big part. They sang in church. I mean,

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is a traditional religious church musical family. And now he's

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going to be the Black Beatles.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind how many years he's been doing this, right,

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grew up with that family life. How many you know,

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fifty years in the music business and he cannot read

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or write music. It's crazy. Come on, that's crazy. Same

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thing for Eddie van Halen, right.

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Speaker 2: It's the same thing for Billy Joel.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so joined the Commodores, and I mean there's a

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whole history there, but their first big hit, surprisingly since

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obviously we've got the soulful voice of Lionel Richie plus

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the other guys in the Commodores, it was an instrumental.

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Speaker 2: It was an instrumental. That song is called machine Gun.

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Came out in nineteen seventy four.

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Speaker 1: I know the song from growing up, but it was

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also big in the Booge Nights soundtrack, which I wore

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out in the nineties.

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Speaker 2: For sure, You've got Lionel Richie's voice at your disposal,

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and your first hit is an instrumental.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy. It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: So within the Commodores, he's one of three singers and

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one of like five songwriters. And we can get into

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the Commodore's maybe at a later date, but basically they

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would take turns. You know, you would get your song,

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I would get my song, he would get his song,

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and you trade off. Well, it's like the Beatles, right,

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and Lionel Richie was the love song.

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Speaker 1: Guy Swammy.

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Speaker 2: I'm Easy in a funk band. He's the guy producing

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love songs right. Well, after a while he starts getting

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these love song hits, uh huh, songs like Easy, like

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Sunday Morning three times a lady. You compare that to

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like brick House, which he also co wrote. But the

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guys in the Commodores started to get fed up with

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Lionel Richie love songs, okay, little jealousy well, and he

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starts making a whole lot more money because the writing

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credits for these starts to pay off a.

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Speaker 1: Lot more sure, and he's writing songs for other people

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at this time too. I mean, he and Diana Ross

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are doing stuff together.

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Speaker 2: Kenny Rogers was the first one who came to him

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and said, hey, I want you to write a song

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for me. And he sits down at the piano and

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he says, well, here's what I've got. Da da da

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da da da da da Lady, Da da da da

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da da da da da da And Kenny Rogers is like,

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I really like it. Fill in the da da das.

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Let's do it right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. That song goes number one in nineteen eighty Lady.

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Speaker 2: For so many years I thought I'd never find you.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty one rolls around and Motown decides to pair

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up Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross. Huh, and they come

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up with a song Endless.

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Speaker 1: Love and yr may tell me you big, huge, massive,

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hit huge. He's outgrowing the band. I mean, the Commodorees

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are great, but then there's next level. Yep.

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Speaker 2: So the people at Motown go to him. They're like, hey, man,

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you have said before that you are content to retire

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as a Commodore, but we want you to try a

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solo album.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So that album is called Lionel Richie. As you

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do with your first album a lot of times, right,

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get your name out there.

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Speaker 2: That first solo album sold four million copies and you

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mentioned it. My love that song hits number five, you

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are that hits number four and truly goes to.

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Speaker 1: Number one always. That makes my life.

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Speaker 2: He talks about how he was a little bit scared

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to go solo because groups had success. Right, solo artists,

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it's iffy, you know, it's a real gamble.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, right out of the gate, he's got three

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top five hits. So he gets together with a guy

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that he's worked with before. This is the producer of

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the album, a guy named James Anthony Carmichael. He produced Temptations,

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he produced Jackson five, and of course he produced the Commodorees.

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So Lionel Richie familiar with him one of his most

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successful records. Yeah, is an arrangement and a production of

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the nineteen sixty seven album Silver Throat Bill Cosby Sings What,

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which included Cosby's number four US pop hit Lil Old Man?

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Speaker 2: Is It?

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Speaker 1: Because I cannot believe that has happened. I've said, right, job,

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take my ram you like, what are you talking about?

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I knew that you would love that little random, out

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of the blue nugget. So that's that is producer James

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Anthony Carmichael. You know. In addition to producing the Jackson five,

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he also produced Bill Cosby's singing album.

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Speaker 2: That is Hilarious.

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Speaker 1: Hey.

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Speaker 2: By the way, a quick story for you. When Lima,

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Richie and the Commodorees were opening, they got a gig opening.

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Speaker 1: For the Jackson five.

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Speaker 2: Right, So think about Commodores Jackson five, and then we

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move into the eighties. We've got Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: So this is when he decided to really take music seriously.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh.

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Speaker 2: So up to that point, it has just been fun, right, Okay,

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So he's hanging out with the Jackson five and they're

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having a great time. Well, he happens to catch a

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check given to the Jackson five one hundred and eighty

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thousand dollars check, just a personal check, like here you go, boom,

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he says. Soon as he saw that check, he's like, hmm,

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maybe ought to take this music thing a little more

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serious than I am.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: So it's interesting to me that Michael and Lionel have

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been in the same circle for a while.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you listen to if you listen to this album,

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if you listen and can't slow down, the similarities to

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some of the tracks on Thriller is unmistakable. Absolutely, both

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of them are coming out in eighty three, and of

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course they know each other and work together all the time.

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They work with Quincy Jones together all of the time,

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so it makes sense that you have this overlap. Not

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to mention that you've got the guys from Toto playing instruments.

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Lucather and Jeff Picoro are both playing on some of

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these songs on this album, just like they did with Thriller,

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So makes sense that there would be a similar sound

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to these. But he's still nailing it. It's still his own.

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It's still unmistakably Lionel Richie. Okay, guys, so we're gonna

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go with these songs track by track, but just let

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you know there are some pretty crazy stories that go

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along with these songs. One of them will involve the

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moment that Lionel Richie's first wife met his second wife. Yes,

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the only problem was he was still married to his

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first wife at the time. Yeah, that is one that

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will come up in just a second. But stay tuned

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for that one, boy.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, I can't wait to hear that story.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump in track by track. First song

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of the album, Can't Slow Down, So both Thriller and

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Can't Slow Down We're Big and eighty three. Thriller came

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out in November of eighty two, Cancelor Down comes Down

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in October of nineteen eighty three, but they definitely have

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You can hear those similar sounds. Okay, So right out

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of the gate, I'm getting a lot of flavors of Thriller.

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The song Thriller, like You've got that dent and You've

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it's got the same bass sound to it. It's got

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the same kind of ambient celestial sound that goes on

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at the beginning of the song. It's an entirely different song,

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but it's got those those notes of flavor, if you will.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it's interesting that you say that, because obviously

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this is the song where he gets the album title from.

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Much like Thriller. For me, though, this is a miss

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right right out of the gate. This is an incorrect

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first track.

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Speaker 1: Right you You are wanting this song to be big

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and great. It's I don't dislike this song. It's just

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not a tent pole as far as the eyeing goes, right.

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I mean, we talked about the fact that this, I mean,

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the bad average on this particular album is phenomenal, and

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maybe this is a swing and a miss for being

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the first song. It's not a bad song. It belongs

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on the album. It's not a throwaway, it's not a skipper,

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but it's it just doesn't quite compare to the rest

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of the songs on the album.

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Speaker 2: For me, sure, this is maybe a base hit between

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the shortstop and the third baseman.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's an order of war. You know, it's

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an order of war before you eat the before you

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eat the main course.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so let me tell you this. I'm gonna try

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not to say.

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Speaker 1: No, it's order by the way, I'm just being funny.

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Speaker 2: That's funny I got you. I'm gonna try not to

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say this on every track on this album. This song

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belongs on Miami Vice.

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Speaker 1: Well, ironically, you're gonna be right on one of them.

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Speaker 2: I am going to be right on one of the

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We'll talk about when we get there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 2: So Crockett goes to a club and he's working his

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way past the dance floor to go talk to the

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Colubian drug dealer. This is the song playing in the

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background in that scene.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you should stop your story, man, I

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think let's tell the whole episode. How what else happened? Hey?

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Speaker 2: I could talk by any by his all day long.

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Speaker 1: All right? So, not the greatest, but not a bad

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song for the album. Okay, starter, but not our main

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course meal.

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Speaker 2: Right, absolutely, let me tell you a story about maybe

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the greatest twenty four hours in the nineteen eighties. Okay,

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So January twenty eighth, nineteen eighty five. This is after

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the success of this album, Can't Slow Down. Lionel Ritchie

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is hosting the American Music Awards during the course of

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this so he has to be there early. He shows

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up for rehearsal as the host. He's got to be

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there all day long. When they hit the awards ceremony

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that night, he wins six statues during the course of

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the evening that he's hosting.

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Speaker 1: Wow right, how awkward?

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Speaker 2: I know, right, Hey, it's me again. Yeah, And in fact,

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he comes out he's real famous quote. He's like comes

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up and he's like outrageous, all over the top.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: He wins favorite pop rock artist, wins favorite pop rock

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video for a video we'll be talking about here in

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a little bit, Okay, wins favorite pop rock video artist

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about that same video. He wins Favorite R and B Artist.

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He wins favorite R and B Male video artist, and

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favorite R and B video Okay, six wins for the

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show he's hosting. Once the show is over, he then

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meets most of the musical guests that are attending to

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record the song We Are the World that he co

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wrote with Michael Jackson. Yeah, is that a great twenty

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four hours?

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Speaker 1: Or what the heck of a twenty four hours? Seems

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like maybe you'd do one more album and retire for

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ten years. Okay, So there we go. Can't slow down?

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Are we ready to move on to song number two?

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Speaker 2: Let's move on to song number two.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited because if this was the order of

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this is our big hunkah awesome, smoking jerk statement. Oh okay,

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if you don't hear these beginning drum beats and musical

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instruments and him saying daddie and dada, and you don't

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feel happy and relaxed, you got some things in your

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life you need to deal with. Bro. This is a

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song that just I mean, it's like the beginning of

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Africa by Toto. It is so like puts you in

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that zen state of there's not a care in the

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world that I have that is as important as I'm

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making it right now. This is happiness down in the Caribbean. Baby.

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Speaker 2: This is a ten pole song of the eighties for me.

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Speaker 1: This is the best song on the album. In my opinion,

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You've got one of the greatest albums of the eighties.

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This is number one, will always be my favorite song

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of the album and Lionel Richie song to the top

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of the list.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you one hundred percent number one song the album.

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Absolutely yeah. This song makes you feel like you're on vacation.

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And it's funny because he wrote this song about going

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on vacation, right He said to his producers. They were

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kind of nervous about him releasing a Caribbean type of song,

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and he's like, guys, listen, I've been around the world.

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He goes, it doesn't matter who you are when you

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go to the Caribbean. You could be an opera singer,

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you could be a rap artist, you could be a

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rock guy. Everybody dances to the calypso there, and that's

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what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to encapsulate a

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vacation in a four minute song.

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Speaker 1: Now, you told me a story about how he had

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this idea that hey, this is going to have this

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Caribbean flavor to it, and he had kind of the

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words and the verses, but he didn't have the hook.

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Speaker 2: He didn't have the hook.

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Speaker 1: Tell me.

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Speaker 2: So. He had everything like raise the roof, have some fun,

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We're going to party, Caramo Fiesta forever, come on and

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sing a long.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you say next?

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Speaker 2: Stun silence. He's got nothing, He has no chorus, he

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has no hook. He went to a friend's house, one

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of his doctor friends who's Jamaican, and after dinner he's

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on his you know, like saying their goodbyes. He's walking

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out to the car and he's like, I got to

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go the studio, man, I got to go finish that

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song that I can't finish. I got to find the chorus.

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So I'm going to be up all night long, man

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all night long, man all night long. And that is

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how he came up with the hook for the song.

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: How about the loves?

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Speaker 1: I can't believe he had the audacity to use a

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Jamaican accent to his Jamaican doctor, especially such a bad one.

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, how's my Jamaican accent?

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Speaker 1: That's what I was talking about.

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Speaker 2: This song is released August of nineteen eighty three. This

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is the lead single. It hits number one in November

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of eighty three. It also hit number one on the

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Pop charts, the R and B charts, and the Adult

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Contemporary charts.

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Speaker 1: This is blowing them all out of the water. So

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this one has a video, of course, right yes, And

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it is produced by one of the monkeys. I know

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what so Mike Nesmith, the guy one of the one

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of the monkeys. I don't know how to say it.

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Speaker 2: Hey, where the monkey is?

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Speaker 1: People say we monkey around? Well, he quit monkeying around

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and he decided to produce some videos, and he produced

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the video for All Night Long. The song was also used.

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You've mentioned this several times nineteen eighty four in the

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Olympics at the closing ceremonies. Guys, we've done it, we've finished.

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It is time to go party all night along.

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Speaker 2: I love it, I love it. You know who is

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dancing in that ceremony closing the Olympics with Liona Richie

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playing All Night Long?

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Speaker 1: Number one?

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Speaker 2: You have Diane Alexander Okay, who's the woman who gets

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beat up by Leona Richie's first wife. Here in a

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second Okay Okay who later becomes his second wife. Right,

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And also Cuba Gooding Junior was a dancer. What during

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that ceremony?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, how about that? That is crazy?

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Speaker 2: So this is interesting, right, there's all those sort of

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African Wars words in the middle of it, right, Jimbo

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Jumbo right told him to be right, all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: You say that perfectly. It was like I was right

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there saying it was born.

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Speaker 2: And raised in Africa. He called the UN to try

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to get somebody to help him with this African language,

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and the UN. I don't know who you call like

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dial up the un Hey can I speak with the

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African person in charge? And they said, well, there's a

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billion different African languages.

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: And one word in this language may mean something totally

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different in this so it's all made up crap.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he totally made up some gibberish. Mama say mama,

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saw ma ma musa, jimbo, jambo, tomali, tomola di da whatever,

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it is nothing. It means nothing at all.

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Speaker 2: There's actually a few nuggets in here. So kamo means

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party in Swahili, okay, and jambo means hello in Swahili.

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Speaker 1: I see, I was close. I was close.

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Speaker 2: Hey you got hello? You got party? What what else

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do you need?

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Speaker 1: That's what the song is all about. Hello Party.

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Speaker 2: By the way, this song appears in the pilot episode

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of Miami Vice and Lionel Richie was supposed to be

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in that episode. He was caught busy doing other things.

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He was off on tour or whatever, and so they

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got in somebody else to sing the song. I watched

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part of this episode. The guy they got was horrible.

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It was embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: We should listen to that.

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Speaker 2: Well, then Brad dis Cone.

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Speaker 1: Rais has some fun.

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Speaker 3: Done.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a stinker. Good motivation to never let somebody

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else perform your song.

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, I've got a story that I could not

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believe until I heard it from the words of the

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army commander in charge.

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Speaker 1: All right, So during the invasion of Iraq in two

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thousand and two, Okay, do you know this story?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: On the edge of my seat. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So when the US rolls into town, the Iraqis want

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to let the US.

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Speaker 1: Know that hey, we're friendly, You're welcome here, help us out.

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Come on in, kid, you not.

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Speaker 2: They start blaring all night long as a welcoming song

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to the US. Yeah, okay, And in return, the US

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from their home vs and stuff start blaring dancing on

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a ceiling.

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Speaker 1: That's great, that's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Wellyama, Richie is all about helping us and Iraqis make friends.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. I did not know that Iraqi's

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in the Middle East. There. He is huge in the

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Middle East. Like people, if you meet people from the

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Middle East and they're like, oh, hey, do you know

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Lionel Richie, they'll go nuts. They'll be like, he is

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the best singer of all time. It is. He is

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huge in that part of the country. I can't tell

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you why, but that was a tidbit that are in

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across How about that? That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: You know who sings back up on this song and

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most of the songs on this album is it Richard Marks.

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It is Richard Barks.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to say this, I'll throw this out there.

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Calvin Harris Senior was an engineer on this album. He

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also sang backing vocals. He is the father of Calvin

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Harris Junior. Okay, okay. Calvin Harris Junior was ranked the

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number five smooth jazz artist by Billboard Magazine. He has

474
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toured with Prince Lenny Kravitz, Boys to Men, Earth Wind,

475
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and Fire. For Rell Williams, I mean he Whitney Houston.

476
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He is huge. His dad was the engineer on this

477
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album and eight also backup singer for a couple songs.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's fantastic. Yeah, Okay, We've got to talk about

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the video real quick.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

481
00:24:35,559 --> 00:24:38,839
Speaker 2: This is a time capsule plucked right out of nineteen

482
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eighty four yep. And it's breakdancing and partying eighty style.

483
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It is so fun, I'd love it.

484
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Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty four is when I was full in parachute pants,

485
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Bandana's Michael Jackson jacket and glove break dancing fiend. And

486
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I love watching the little little kid doing his breakdancing

487
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,920
moves in this video. Okay, I'm so glad I looked

488
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:07,400
him up. Okay, the breakdancer in this I mean one

489
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:08,799
of I'm not sure he was a little kid, but

490
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one of the breakdancers in this video is Michael Chambers,

491
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who you I hope no better as Turbo from Breaking

492
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:29,880
and Break into Electrical how about that? Right? Oh my gosh,

493
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,480
he moves on. He moves on from this video into

494
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doing the ultimate breakdancing movie of all time.

495
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's sequel Latric Boogaloo. Love it, man.

496
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,880
I love the rabbit holes that you go down sometimes

497
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turn out with straight gold.

498
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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: Just a fun video and a super fun song of

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the nineteen eighties, right tent pole song on the album

501
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Okay Are We Ready for? Song number three on the

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album Let's Do It. Song number three is a song

503
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called Penny Lover. Don't you be Cram? Can't you see

504
00:26:14,079 --> 00:26:18,160
girls beating for you?

505
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Speaker 1: Now? You talk about panty droppers? Oh my gosh, so

506
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,799
not ironically but appropriately wine. Richie wrote this song with

507
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his wife at the time. His wife's name was Brenda

508
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,680
Harvey Ritchie. That's right. This high school sweethearts. High school sweethearts,

509
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:37,880
that's right. Yeah, tell me more.

510
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,279
Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal. She was a high school sweetheart

511
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,200
of his and like people in the business, thought that

512
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,599
couple will last forever, right right, it was legit love.

513
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She loved him before he became a star. We'll get

514
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to the rest of the story here in a second,

515
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But that love story didn't last.

516
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Speaker 1: Forever, right. So they had been married for quite a while,

517
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,599
like eighteen years when this about the time this album

518
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,680
came out. Okay, sorry, well I mean that he's still

519
00:27:01,759 --> 00:27:04,039
like fifteen years about the time this album had come out,

520
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,680
right right, And she was a songwriter but hadn't done

521
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,519
a whole lot, but she did help him write this song.

522
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This song is amazing, I mean, it is the what

523
00:27:14,319 --> 00:27:17,279
it's the last single that came off of the album.

524
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It was released September of nineteen eighty four, and it

525
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was top ten hit, gotten to number eight in December

526
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,160
of that year, got hit eight on the R and

527
00:27:27,279 --> 00:27:30,759
B chart, also on the Adult Contemporary chart, spent four

528
00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:34,160
weeks at number one. Incredible beautiful song.

529
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Speaker 2: So another top ten hit, number eight on the R

530
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and B, number eight on the Hot one hundred and

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number one Adult Contemporary. As we said, a panty dropper

532
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,480
for women in nineteen eighty three, okay, it was used

533
00:27:45,519 --> 00:27:46,640
in the movie The Sure Thing.

534
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Speaker 1: Have you seen that movie?

535
00:27:48,079 --> 00:27:51,279
Speaker 2: No? I have not. John Cusack, Rob Reiners like first movie.

536
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,839
Speaker 1: Uh huh Daftning Zuniga. I need to check it out.

537
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: It's so good man, we got to cover that.

538
00:27:55,759 --> 00:27:57,839
Speaker 1: Well. We've talked about comparing that one to something else

539
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,359
and maybe say anything. I think maybe's what we talk about.

540
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,599
But be fun. That'd be great. Now. That is one

541
00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:10,279
more thing I like. Don't you ever take Sweet Love

542
00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:14,079
a wag?

543
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:21,839
Speaker 2: Jeffs I've got a story for you on this one, okay, okay.

544
00:28:22,279 --> 00:28:25,119
Bob Giraldi is the guy who does the video. Yes, okay,

545
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,279
and he was a very well known video director at

546
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the time.

547
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think he did three of the videos on

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this album.

549
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Speaker 3: He goes on.

550
00:28:32,519 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: He directs Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar. Yep.

551
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 2: He also directs the music video Say Say Say by

552
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,680
Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, which we've talked about before,

553
00:28:41,759 --> 00:28:44,440
because Michael Jackson wins that arm wrestling contest when they

554
00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:46,839
must out right right.

555
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

556
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,559
Speaker 2: But for you eighties levers out there, he directed the

557
00:28:50,839 --> 00:28:54,359
John Cryer movie Hiding Out in nineteen eighty seven.

558
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,039
Speaker 1: Okay, so the video for this song is interesting. It

559
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:03,039
is so incredibly eighties. You've got some girls wishing somebody

560
00:29:03,119 --> 00:29:03,440
could buy.

561
00:29:03,559 --> 00:29:08,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's it looks like a futuristic brothel of some sort,

562
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,680
uh huh. And she's telling the general see you later, general. Yeah,

563
00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:15,079
he's wearing a navy uniform. Now.

564
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,799
Speaker 1: The girls all have right kneon hair, just like you

565
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,279
did back in the eighties. I guess with the strange cuts.

566
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Speaker 2: They look very twenty twenty three.

567
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:29,799
Speaker 1: Yeah. Lyonel Richie, however, is wearing a shoulder padded gemstone

568
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,839
emblazoned jacket. Yes, and then later is getting his shirt

569
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,680
taken off by one of these women. It's a testament

570
00:29:37,759 --> 00:29:40,200
to the gold of the eighties that at the.

571
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Speaker 2: Very beginning of the video there's like a love letter

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that the girls read and it's like, tell the one

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that is so special that I still love him, And

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they all turn and look at Lena Richie and then

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he begins to sing all.

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Speaker 1: My dearest friends. The time has been too long since

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I've been able to write to you. My life now

578
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,480
seemschizeds been this week and I.

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Speaker 3: Am so.

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Speaker 1: Please tell the one We're so special that my sweetlove

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never went away.

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Speaker 2: The music videos of the day are so fun to

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go back and look at it.

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Speaker 1: I just I want this to be the episode that

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we get the most Jason Colvin accents that we can

586
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,079
have can we give me? Do that? I think that

587
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so we got French, we got Caribbean. I can't wait

588
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for what's next?

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Speaker 2: Is so special?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Okay, okay, So let's move on to

591
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,519
song number song number four. This song is called stuck

592
00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:41,640
On You Stuck On got this feeling down deep in

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the soul.

594
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Speaker 3: Then that just came.

595
00:30:45,279 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 2: Get them all way.

596
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,359
Speaker 1: I feel like two step in. I know right, this

597
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,160
is like a country song. Oh my gosh, I looked

598
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,559
there's no video for this song. When I started listening

599
00:30:58,559 --> 00:30:59,880
the album again, I'm listening to this, I'm like, oh,

600
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:01,960
I love the song. I'm like, man, I didn't realize

601
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,400
how country and this could be On the country charts.

602
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 2: It made it to the country charts. It reached number

603
00:31:08,279 --> 00:31:11,279
twenty four on the Hot one hundred Country Songs.

604
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: So if you look, there's no official music video to

605
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this song. But that's okay because you have Lionel Ritchie's

606
00:31:18,559 --> 00:31:21,559
picture on the cover of the single, wearing a cowboy

607
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,400
hat and a big old belt buckle. Baby, he looks great.

608
00:31:24,519 --> 00:31:26,759
Speaker 2: Man. It's Lionel the Cowboy Ritchie.

609
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: That's all the gold you need.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: This song is probably my number two on the album.

612
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,319
I love this. I love the song. It is straight

613
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,279
down the line on Lady and the other Kenny Rogers

614
00:31:38,319 --> 00:31:41,880
songs that they've worked together on. Yeah, it is. It's beautiful.

615
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,119
Speaker 2: I didn't realize how close in genre and in style

616
00:31:45,319 --> 00:31:47,279
Lionel Richie is to Kenny Rogers.

617
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. Yeah, well, country at that time was

618
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,200
becoming much more pop and much more soulful. Yeah, and

619
00:31:53,359 --> 00:31:55,200
here we go with Lionel Ritchie. I mean he's raised

620
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,079
in Alabama, Baby, I know. Yeah, I mean that's how

621
00:31:58,119 --> 00:31:59,200
it is, there, you go. Yeah.

622
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 2: I noticed in the lyrics there are country phrases or

623
00:32:02,839 --> 00:32:06,200
terms that I would consider country. Yeah, like Darlin calls

624
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,119
her Darlin, you know, and then he uses the term

625
00:32:09,279 --> 00:32:10,480
mighty glad you state.

626
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: Mighty glad you stay. Yeah, taking the Midnight Train. Man,

627
00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:16,480
I love it, I love it yep.

628
00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:19,119
Speaker 2: This song was released May one, nineteen eighty four, reached

629
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,200
number three in August of eighty four.

630
00:32:21,359 --> 00:32:21,839
Speaker 1: Great song.

631
00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 2: Great another top ten hits.

632
00:32:23,759 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

633
00:32:24,079 --> 00:32:26,319
Speaker 2: If you listen to the lyrics in this song, it's

634
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,279
basically about moving a friend who's a girl into the

635
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:31,359
girlfriend lane.

636
00:32:31,559 --> 00:32:34,759
Speaker 1: Right. It's it's upgrading, right, getting her out of the

637
00:32:34,759 --> 00:32:36,160
friend zone, getting out of the friend zone.

638
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it reminds me lyrically. It's sort of similar

639
00:32:39,519 --> 00:32:42,519
to the Survivor song called the Search is over All right.

640
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was right before my eyes. Yeah, I

641
00:32:44,599 --> 00:32:45,240
got that. Yeah.

642
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 2: Another great one though.

643
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: Got a feeling down deep in my soul that I

644
00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:49,640
just can't lose.

645
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,759
Speaker 2: And when he says the guess I'm on my way. Yeah,

646
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,920
Oh that's just solid gold right there. Man, I love it.

647
00:32:57,039 --> 00:32:59,279
Speaker 1: Great song. I love it. Yeah. All right. D So

648
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,200
that conclude side one of Can't Slow Down.

649
00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:04,839
Speaker 2: Hit stop on your tape player, kick it out, flip

650
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,240
it over for side two. We begin side to with

651
00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:10,519
the song love Will Find a Way.

652
00:33:25,039 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: Okay, So the instrumentation on this reminds you at all

653
00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:31,079
of the song Thriller.

654
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: Wow, I was gonna say baby be Mine, but tell

655
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:34,400
me more.

656
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: No, it could very well be baby be Mine as well. Okay,

657
00:33:38,319 --> 00:33:41,400
so the co writer on this song is a guy

658
00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:46,720
named Greg pillin Gaines. Okay, he's from Detroit. He started

659
00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:50,119
playing him this is, this is I'm not kidding, started

660
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,039
playing piano by ear and was playing at the piano

661
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,599
bar Age two what his mom bought him a piano.

662
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,359
He ultimately later on gets discovered by Stevie Wonder and

663
00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:04,799
then in nineteen seventy eight begins a three decade long

664
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,920
involvement with mister King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson. He

665
00:34:09,119 --> 00:34:12,079
is the guy who laid down many of the tracks

666
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,320
on the Thriller album, including this track that goes underneath

667
00:34:16,519 --> 00:34:20,079
the Vincent Price rap. Oh that's great man. Yeah, so

668
00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:22,039
he is the co writer of this song.

669
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,679
Speaker 2: Okay, well, and that makes sense right. This song to

670
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:29,000
me is that sort of light, funky synth, very very

671
00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:32,440
eighties right. In fact, I would even say early eighties.

672
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,079
I could see Crockett working his way to the pretty

673
00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:37,400
girl on the dance floor after talking to the Columbian

674
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:38,719
drug dealer to this song.

675
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: Now, he did some solo work Yeah, and apparently one

676
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,159
of his minor hits was a cover of the Yellow

677
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,599
Magic Orchestra's song Behind the Mask. How's that for tying

678
00:34:48,679 --> 00:34:51,440
in with an old Mariah Carey reference?

679
00:34:51,599 --> 00:34:52,039
Speaker 2: Look at that?

680
00:34:53,039 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: Yes, guys, Mariah Carey, we've covered on our Patreon episodes.

681
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,280
If you want to hear those super special episodes, I

682
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,119
promise they are all better than Mariah Carey, you can

683
00:35:03,199 --> 00:35:05,599
go over to our Patreon page, which is patreon dot

684
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,679
com backslash Shirly podcast. That's s U R E l y.

685
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 2: What a great tie in.

686
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. You can hear all the stories

687
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,599
about the Yellow Magic Orchestra and Mariah Carey stealing their music.

688
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,920
So that's all I've really got on this song because

689
00:35:21,079 --> 00:35:22,119
it's not one of my favorites.

690
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 2: This one's one of the weaker songs on the album.

691
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 1: It is kind of a panty drapper. Yeah, I mean

692
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,920
it's this is a style of music that is very

693
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,840
popular with a certain group of folks love this type

694
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of music.

695
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:34,119
Speaker 2: I'm just not that guy.

696
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: This is not my style. But that doesn't make this

697
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,599
a bad song. It's just not me right, Moving on

698
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,880
to the next song. That song is called The Only

699
00:35:41,000 --> 00:36:01,920
One let me tell you know all that song Okay.

700
00:36:02,199 --> 00:36:05,440
This song was co written with Lionel Ritchie by a

701
00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:10,679
guy named David Foster. He has won sixteen Grammy Awards,

702
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:15,039
has been nominated forty seven times. Wow, And he also

703
00:36:16,039 --> 00:36:18,760
was an executive who chaired the Verve Records from twenty

704
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,400
twelve to twenty sixteen. I mean, this guy is huge

705
00:36:22,599 --> 00:36:23,960
and kind of under the radar.

706
00:36:24,119 --> 00:36:25,199
Speaker 2: Where I know him from is?

707
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: I know?

708
00:36:25,599 --> 00:36:28,679
Speaker 2: He wrote the love song for the movie San Animl's Fire,

709
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:34,920
a little.

710
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: Bit of nineteen eighty five gold right there, ladies there? Yeah?

711
00:36:38,159 --> 00:36:40,920
So again though, another one that's just kind of an

712
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:41,480
okay song.

713
00:36:41,559 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 2: Here's the thing with this song, this is just an

714
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:48,079
okay song. Yeah, But you add Lionel Richie's vocals to this. Yeah,

715
00:36:48,199 --> 00:36:53,760
they're so smooth and effortless. They're easy like Sunday Morning,

716
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:58,400
if you will, perfect, But his vocals elevate the song

717
00:36:58,599 --> 00:36:58,960
for sure.

718
00:36:59,039 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 1: It's not a skipper, No, it's not a skipper. This

719
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,920
one you listen through and then you know you're excited

720
00:37:04,039 --> 00:37:05,400
for running with the knight, right.

721
00:37:05,639 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Let's get to the real good one here, all right.

722
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: Second to the last song on the album, number seven

723
00:37:12,199 --> 00:37:34,119
on the album Running with the Night, dude, I mean,

724
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,159
just set it up. I'm just in heaven right now,

725
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:43,559
because this is crashing eighties synthesizers, a very cool bassline,

726
00:37:44,079 --> 00:37:47,519
the muted picking of the strings of a guitar. I mean,

727
00:37:47,679 --> 00:37:49,800
I'm in, I'm in all over the place on this one.

728
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,599
Speaker 2: Hey, this is Lionel Ritchie's answer to Michael Jackson's Beat It.

729
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:59,239
It's motown meets pop rock. Yeah, it's Lionel Richie plus

730
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,840
Toto equals hit.

731
00:38:01,039 --> 00:38:04,559
Speaker 1: Okay, So we've talked about this story before, but we

732
00:38:04,639 --> 00:38:07,679
got to tell it again, right, Okay. So Steve Lukather,

733
00:38:08,159 --> 00:38:10,679
the lead guitarist for Toto, one of the most underrated

734
00:38:10,679 --> 00:38:14,199
guitarists of all times. He is phenomenal, right, phenomenal guitarist.

735
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,480
And he was a session musician, yes, and so they said, hey,

736
00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:20,039
this needs to have a very rock feel to it.

737
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,599
Let's get Steve to come in and lay down a

738
00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:24,519
solo on it. So they had done the whole song.

739
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,599
They wanted the solo not to be in the middle,

740
00:38:26,639 --> 00:38:28,840
but at the end of the song, right, and so

741
00:38:29,599 --> 00:38:33,079
Steve comes in, and he's an experienced guy, so he's like, hey,

742
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,159
just let me listen to it and see what I

743
00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:38,440
can do. And so they're like, all right, and they

744
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,119
play the backing track for him that they've already covered,

745
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,719
right right, And so Steve Lucather does what you do

746
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,960
is a guitarist and you're trying to find the solo

747
00:38:47,159 --> 00:38:49,320
is he starts noodling and he's picking it out and

748
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,119
he's finding little licks that he likes and he's like, okay,

749
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:53,960
grooving and I'm like, oh, I like that, like that

750
00:38:54,119 --> 00:38:56,559
all right, gets done with it and he's like, okay, guys,

751
00:38:56,639 --> 00:38:59,280
I'm ready to do the take, and the producer says

752
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:00,639
that was the take.

753
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:01,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.

754
00:39:01,679 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: So the solo that you hear at the end of

755
00:39:04,559 --> 00:39:08,840
this song, it was the first attempt at the soul.

756
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,320
Like he's playing around, he's fiddling around, and he creates

757
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,079
one of the most memorable solos of all time.

758
00:39:14,199 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 2: He doesn't even know he's being recorded. He's just screwing

759
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,480
around with the guitar looking for the solo. Okay, I

760
00:39:20,519 --> 00:39:22,360
think I can come up with something. No, that's perfect.

761
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thanks for puting get your check

762
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,800
from the receptions on the way out. It's in your

763
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,159
money today. Steve incredible, right, So now, This video is

764
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,719
directed by Bob Jerryaldi, who we talked about before. Yes,

765
00:39:36,159 --> 00:39:40,039
this one is a wedding reception. Is where we start off,

766
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:44,639
and you've got a young pretty bridesmaid who is sitting alone,

767
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,960
very sad. And then he cuts to Lina Ritchie and

768
00:39:48,039 --> 00:39:50,480
he's hanging out with his goofy buddies and they're all

769
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,519
being goofy, and then they're hooking up with girls and

770
00:39:53,559 --> 00:39:56,159
Lina Richie's not hooking up with girls, and then they

771
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,559
end up crashing the wedding that this lonely bridesmaid has

772
00:39:59,599 --> 00:40:02,599
been sitting. And then oh love is in the air,

773
00:40:02,679 --> 00:40:06,320
and Lionel Ritchie hooks up with this young pretty bridesmaid.

774
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,320
Do you know who is playing the young pretty bridesmaid?

775
00:40:10,559 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 2: I didn't until you told me and blew my socks off.

776
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,360
I'm putting my socks back on right at the moment.

777
00:40:15,639 --> 00:40:19,360
Tell me who the bridesmaid is. The bridesmaid is Sheila E.

778
00:40:29,559 --> 00:40:32,880
That's freaking Sheila E, the solo artist and drummer for.

779
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: Prince Yes, dude. And what is crazy is there's another

780
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,400
connection with her and mister Ritchie. Ok. And we were

781
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,840
texting as we do you know when we find out

782
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,280
these little bits of gold that we have, we have

783
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:50,800
to text each other. So on Monday at eight thirty three,

784
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:55,280
I texted you and I said, Nicole Ritchie is the

785
00:40:55,440 --> 00:41:00,719
biological niece of Sheila E. And your response was shut up.

786
00:41:03,079 --> 00:41:08,079
So Nicole Ritchie, who everybody knows at this point was adopted,

787
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,360
was the adopted daughter of Lionel Ritchie, and she was

788
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,960
the biological daughter of one of his musicians, right right,

789
00:41:15,159 --> 00:41:18,760
but starts staying with the richies when she is very young.

790
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:25,079
But her given name is Nicole Camille Escoveto. And if

791
00:41:25,159 --> 00:41:30,440
you don't know, Sheila E. Is short for Sheila Escovito.

792
00:41:30,679 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 2: How about that? That's incredible.

793
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,679
Speaker 1: What a great nugget that is, Auntie Sheila.

794
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 2: It's a love bizarre. It's a love bizarre.

795
00:41:38,559 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: I love it.

796
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,519
Speaker 2: This song reached number seven in nineteen eighty four, again

797
00:41:42,639 --> 00:41:45,800
another top ten hit. The video when I watched it,

798
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,639
it looks like early Smooth Criminal, right, they're all wearing

799
00:41:48,679 --> 00:41:51,639
fedoras and like, you know, yeah, the chrome suits and

800
00:41:51,679 --> 00:41:55,880
all that stuff. It's fun awesome. Another Bob Girardi video.

801
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,000
What you already said, you know who plays drums on

802
00:41:58,079 --> 00:41:58,360
this song?

803
00:41:58,519 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 1: Not Sheilah Okay, now tell me Jeff Picaro.

804
00:42:01,039 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 2: Of course, there you go. Of course, yeah that makes sense. Okay,

805
00:42:04,039 --> 00:42:07,079
this song opened the AMAS when we talked about the

806
00:42:07,119 --> 00:42:10,079
greatest twenty four hours in eighties music history. Yeah, this

807
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,000
was the song that Lionel Richie kicked off the AMAS

808
00:42:13,079 --> 00:42:16,280
with Running with the Night, and then he bookens the

809
00:42:16,559 --> 00:42:20,639
night with the recording of We Are the World Sweet,

810
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:22,119
which I've got a funny story for you.

811
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 1: Okay.

812
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 2: You know Prince was supposed to sing and we Are

813
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:25,320
the World.

814
00:42:25,519 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about this in our Huey Lewis episode

815
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,039
that Huey Lewis got the part in that song because

816
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:32,280
Prince did not show up.

817
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,519
Speaker 2: Prince was a no show. So here's the funny story, right,

818
00:42:35,559 --> 00:42:38,400
go ahead. Yeah, so Lionel is orchestrating this whole deal.

819
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,599
He co wrote the song with Michael. We really need

820
00:42:40,639 --> 00:42:42,039
to do a deep dive on we Are the World.

821
00:42:42,159 --> 00:42:45,679
But it's time, and you know, where's Prince? Right? Well,

822
00:42:45,679 --> 00:42:47,440
they get him on the phone, and Lionel gets him

823
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,480
on the phone, is like hey Prince, hey, you know

824
00:42:49,599 --> 00:42:52,760
we're recording where are you get down here? And Prince

825
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,639
is like, well, you know, I don't really like to

826
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,480
record in a group. I like to record in a

827
00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:00,159
booth by myself. Can I have that? And Lionel's like no,

828
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,039
I mean this is a we're doing the big video,

829
00:43:03,159 --> 00:43:05,840
we're doing it all together. You can't have that. He's like, well,

830
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,039
I don't really do that, you know, I don't really

831
00:43:09,079 --> 00:43:11,199
want to do that. And so anyway, he's trying to

832
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,880
convince Prince to come down and he says the wrong thing.

833
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: He says, Prince, just.

834
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,159
Speaker 2: Come on down. We'll put you right next to Michael.

835
00:43:20,199 --> 00:43:23,639
And that was the death sentence. Like Prince was like

836
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,920
dead silent. You could tell I said the wrong thing

837
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,639
and that was absolutely not gonna happen.

838
00:43:31,199 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: So are we ready to move on to the final

839
00:43:33,039 --> 00:43:33,679
song on the album?

840
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 2: Let's move on to the final song on the album.

841
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:41,039
Speaker 1: What is the best name for the last song on

842
00:43:41,199 --> 00:43:41,599
the album?

843
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 2: Goodbye?

844
00:43:43,599 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: No, it's hello? Hello? Is it me you looking?

845
00:43:53,199 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 3: I can see it in your right.

846
00:43:57,039 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 1: I can see it in your smile. Okay, So this

847
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,519
is the Hello before Adele. This is the original Hello.

848
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,280
This is Lionel Richie's Hello, and it's one of my favorites.

849
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,159
This is a video that I can remember from a

850
00:44:15,679 --> 00:44:19,559
kid watching this thing. Because you had Lionel who was

851
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,360
fallen in love. Of course, of course another one by

852
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,719
Bob Jerryaldi, one of the three that he did for

853
00:44:25,119 --> 00:44:27,679
the show. Lionel Ritchie is falling in love with this

854
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,719
girl in the acting class, but she's blind and he

855
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:34,239
think it's unrequited until at the very end he shows

856
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:39,840
up and she's sculpted his face in what looks like bubblegum.

857
00:44:43,039 --> 00:44:47,639
It is the most frightening sculpture I've seen, so scarred

858
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:48,119
me a bit.

859
00:44:48,559 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 2: This is the weirdest video of all time. But at

860
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,239
won at the AMA Awards, right, it won two awards

861
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,079
for being the Best Video, and it is so dumb.

862
00:44:57,199 --> 00:45:00,239
It is painfully dumb. So here's the thing. So when

863
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,599
he's at you know, getting Bob Giraldi to do these

864
00:45:03,679 --> 00:45:06,280
videos is a big get, right, right, And when he

865
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,519
shows up at the set, the very first thing Lionel

866
00:45:08,599 --> 00:45:11,000
Richie does is he looks at the bust and he's like,

867
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,320
that didn't look anything like me. And Bob's like, yeah, okay,

868
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,840
you know whatever, Okay, So then they set up some

869
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,920
more and you know, an hour later, Lionel Richie's like, hey,

870
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:21,440
I don't know if you've seen the bus, but it

871
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,159
doesn't look anything like me. And then he's like yeah, yeah,

872
00:45:24,159 --> 00:45:26,480
okay whatever he and so now it's time to shoot

873
00:45:26,519 --> 00:45:30,920
that scene. And Lionel's finally like, hey, hey, Bob, hold everything.

874
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,480
That bus doesn't look anything like me. And Bob's like, well,

875
00:45:34,519 --> 00:45:38,360
here's the deal, Lionel. She's blind. Okay, so we're going

876
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:38,639
with that.

877
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:44,679
Speaker 1: That's terrible, that's terrible. We can't oh my gosh. So

878
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,639
the inception of the song is interesting. This is one

879
00:45:48,679 --> 00:45:51,239
of the ones that well, just a happy little story

880
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,639
on happy little accident, on how this happens. The producer

881
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:58,199
that we talked about before, mister Carmichael, Anthony Carmichael, is

882
00:45:58,400 --> 00:45:59,880
looking for Lionel.

883
00:46:00,079 --> 00:46:03,760
Speaker 2: Walking around the studio looking for Lionel Richie. Lionel Richie's

884
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:09,039
sitting at the piano. Linel keeps passing by him, Linel, Hey, Lionel,

885
00:46:09,039 --> 00:46:12,239
where are you? And Lionel, as an answer to that question,

886
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,360
plays just a couple of little notes on the piano

887
00:46:14,519 --> 00:46:17,360
keyboard and says, hello, is it me you're looking for?

888
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:18,199
Speaker 1: Uh huh.

889
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,760
Speaker 2: At that moment, James Anthony Carmichael could have looked at

890
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,719
him and said, yes, where have you been? I've been

891
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:24,679
looking for you the whole time. Instead, he looks at

892
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,119
him and said, finish that song, And Lionel Richie's like,

893
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,559
what song that song that you just played for me.

894
00:46:31,599 --> 00:46:34,079
He's like, it's not a song, it's just words, right,

895
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,880
And he's like, finish that song?

896
00:46:42,039 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 1: Is it me?

897
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 2: You? And I wonder what?

898
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,199
Speaker 1: I love it? I love these stories there's it seems

899
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,559
to be a song like this on every album. And

900
00:46:56,679 --> 00:46:59,840
of course how perfect to put hello at the very

901
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:00,760
end of the album.

902
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, this song reached number one in nineteen eighty four.

903
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,280
Of course, it was the third single released on the

904
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,239
album and is a ten poll song for lyone.

905
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:09,519
Speaker 1: Richie, Yeah, definitely.

906
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 2: So interestingly, this was a holdover from his first solo album.

907
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,239
This was actually demoed all the way back in nineteen

908
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,400
eighty two. He had to be convinced. He thought people

909
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,159
would kind of laugh him out of the room when

910
00:47:21,199 --> 00:47:21,880
he played this song.

911
00:47:22,039 --> 00:47:24,599
Speaker 1: It's a little cheesy. Yeah, it turns out this.

912
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 2: Is the biggest motown song of all time. Wow, Like

913
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,280
when you think about Motown, when you think about Smokey

914
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:30,840
Robinson and stuff like that, Yeah.

915
00:47:30,679 --> 00:47:33,559
Speaker 1: This is the biggest song of all times. That's amazing.

916
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,199
That is amazing. Okay, guys, that is the end of

917
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,199
this album. But we are not done yet. We promised

918
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,519
you a story before we got started, and there's there.

919
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:45,360
The story is coming, I promise you.

920
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:46,199
Speaker 2: Okay, let's have it.

921
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: So so this album was released. It obviously did fantastically well.

922
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,079
One's all kinds of awards best selling album of nineteen

923
00:47:53,119 --> 00:47:56,519
eighty five. And so what does he do nineteen eighty

924
00:47:56,559 --> 00:48:01,119
six He releases solo album number three, Dane on the Ceiling. Now,

925
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,199
you probably have seen the video to Dancing on the Ceiling.

926
00:48:04,519 --> 00:48:06,920
And if you have seen the video to Dancing on

927
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,840
the Ceiling, then you have seen Lionel Ritchie's second wife.

928
00:48:11,159 --> 00:48:12,840
There's a story that goes along with it, and I'll

929
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:14,079
let Jason tell us that story.

930
00:48:15,159 --> 00:48:17,519
Speaker 2: Okay. So, one of the dancers in the Dancing on

931
00:48:17,599 --> 00:48:20,519
the Ceiling video, his names is Diane Alexander.

932
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,199
Speaker 1: Sam girl who was dancing at the nineteen eighty four

933
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:22,559
o Elemper.

934
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 2: That's right, and when you look at her, oh man,

935
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,440
she's majors. His wife, Brenda and him were going through

936
00:48:28,519 --> 00:48:31,920
rough times, so they were separated for a while. Supposedly,

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this is what he says.

938
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Speaker 1: He said, we were on a break.

939
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Speaker 2: And so they lived together and they were still married,

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but he would sneak out in the middle of the

941
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night and go see his mistress, Diane Alexander. Yeah, one

942
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,639
of the people who lived next door to Lionel Ritchie said,

943
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he said, I would see him leave every night at

944
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two o'clock in the morning, sneaking out the back door.

945
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On June twenty ninth and nineteen eighty eight, Brenda Richie

946
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decides she's had enough and she follows him to her

947
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apartment and confronts them him at her apartment in the

948
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middle of the night. Okay, and so what happens is

949
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she remains very calm and she's very cool, and nothing

950
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happens that is not true. She loses her ever love

951
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:17,599
and mind. Yeah, she breaks crap. She screams her head off,

952
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She's busting up furniture. She starts to beat up Lionel Richie.

953
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Speaker 1: Lionel Richie is like, baby, baby, it wasn't me. It

954
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wasn't me.

955
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Speaker 2: I was returning the library book her.

956
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Speaker 1: Oh gosh.

957
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,159
Speaker 2: So the funny thing is is that she goes ape

958
00:49:33,199 --> 00:49:36,239
crap and starts wailing on both of them, like, kicks

959
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,360
him in the balls. He said it was in the

960
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stomach region.

961
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Speaker 1: In the ball.

962
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Speaker 2: She kicked him in the two brick houses, right, and

963
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then she continues to pummel Diane. Alexander is like got

964
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her on the ground and is wailing on her. So

965
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Lionel Richie takes off, he leaves, He flees the scene.

966
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Oh no, so he goes to a payphone calls the cops.

967
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Of course, the neighbors call the cops because you can't

968
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live in an apartment complex and scream your head off

969
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and break furniture and go ballistic. So they come to

970
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arrest Brenda Ritchie.

971
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Speaker 1: Get this.

972
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Speaker 2: When the police show up, she doesn't go peacefully. She

973
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goes eight crap on them.

974
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Speaker 1: Uh huh.

975
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Speaker 2: They have to cuff her and hold her down like things,

976
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like five of.

977
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Speaker 1: Them to hold her down. They literally had to stuff her.

978
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Speaker 2: So they arrest her for corporal injury of the spouse,

979
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resisting arrest, trespassing, vandalism, battery, disturbing the peace. And while

980
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:36,559
they've got her down on the ground, they're trying to

981
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cuff her hands, trying to cuff ankles.

982
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Speaker 1: Stop resisting. This is a lot easier if you.

983
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 2: Just laid back. They are trying to take care of her,

984
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and the whole time she's screaming at Diane, help me

985
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,519
right the girl, she was just whooping, help me, Diane,

986
00:50:52,559 --> 00:50:54,320
don't let them do this to me, help me, help me?

987
00:50:54,599 --> 00:50:58,960
What come on? Oh my gosh, and guess what nobody

988
00:50:59,000 --> 00:50:59,639
press charges?

989
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:00,519
Speaker 1: Yeah?

990
00:51:00,679 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and by the way, they tried to patch

991
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,599
it up. They were married for another three or four

992
00:51:05,679 --> 00:51:06,280
years after this.

993
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but ultimately get divorced. He goes and marries

994
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,239
Diane and they're together for quite a while as well. Yep.

995
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,119
Speaker 2: And then she dumps him because he won't he cuts

996
00:51:16,159 --> 00:51:17,920
her off. He won't allow her to spend three hundred

997
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,320
thousand dollars a month. That was what she was wanting.

998
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: She's hanging out with Tony Katine exactly. Okay, guys, that

999
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does it for Lionel Richie. Can't slow down? Be sure

1000
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:31,679
and hit that follow button so that you will catch

1001
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,119
us next episode where we are going to talk about

1002
00:51:34,199 --> 00:51:38,800
mister piano Man himself, Billy Joel and his nineteen eighty

1003
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three album Innocent.

1004
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Speaker 2: Man, Miss Boy, I don't want to see you a

1005
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:49,159
little good thing slip Away. Wow, what a fantastic out

1006
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:51,519
that that matchup is gonna be huge, and I hopefully

1007
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we're gonna have John Reid with us on that one

1008
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and we'll talk about it track by track and figure

1009
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out which one we'd like best.

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Speaker 1: Come back next week, and guys, if you haven't checked

1011
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out our YouTube page, we've got some cool videos on there.

1012
00:52:01,599 --> 00:52:05,239
Jason just went to the locations for The Outsiders and

1013
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,800
Rumblefish and caught some cool video there, so definitely go

1014
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:09,960
check that out as well. We will see you guys

1015
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next week.

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Speaker 2: But this is a song where like Crockett goes to

1017
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a tub, Crockett goes to a club and he wants.

1018
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I like it better when he goes

1019
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,360
to a tub. He doesn't go to tubs and he

1020
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doesn't go to a club. He goes to a tub.