WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:06.360 Hudson River Radio dot Com. 2 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:09.519 I got back a gunner rue that maga. 3 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:15.160 Got Yeah, recall it, go back guy that with the egg, 4 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:15.960 John cap. 5 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:18.239 Hey, this is Jesse Carmichael from Room five. 6 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:20.879 Hi, this is Phil Margo of the Tokens. 7 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:21.199 Hello. 8 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:23.839 It's Nicole Atkins on the Rock and Roll History Show. 9 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:31.519 Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Rock and Roll History 10 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:35.320 Show on Hudson River Radio. I'm Brian Horowitz. We have 11 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:38.439 an interesting topic that I am not even going to 12 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:41.799 attempt to explain. I'm gonna leave that to the Crambone 13 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:45.799 who came up with it. But before, yep, we jumped 14 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:49.759 in confused. Uh yeah, yep, that's why I'm not touching it. 15 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:52.960 We're gonna let the expert explain it. But before we 16 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:55.520 jump in, allow me to introduce all the Crambones joining 17 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:59.439 us here tonight. First and foremost, from the Richter Observatory. 18 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:01.640 Do you think it's rude to get invited to a 19 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:04.439 funky little shack and then be expected to bring your 20 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:05.640 own jukebox? Money? 21 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:10.400 What's that? What's all that about? 22 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:10.840 Right? 23 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:14.280 How you doing? Everybody? 24 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.959 From paranormally yours. She says that jurabil is actually short 25 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:26.719 for jur Williams, Gail newcomers here, Oh my one from 26 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:30.120 the silver screen. She saw a Roman centurion walk into 27 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:33.840 a bar and order a Martinez. The bartender said, you 28 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:37.159 mean a martini, and the centurion said, if I wanted 29 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:40.840 a double, I would have asked for it. Mercedes cantas here. 30 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:45.879 Okay, you're you're on tonight. 31 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:46.760 Oh thank you. 32 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:50.519 It's all Daniel from here, so enjoy you. Wall last, 33 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.599 our officially retired teacher. He went to the pharmacy and 34 00:01:54.840 --> 00:02:00.959 asked for deodorant. The pharmacist asked ball or airsol said neither. 35 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:04.079 It's from my armpits. John Kelly is here. 36 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.760 Oh, good evening, everybody. 37 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:11.240 Good to be And last, but not least, the host 38 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:14.360 of shaving cream. She says, a zombie making a stir 39 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:18.280 fry is a dead man walking Barbara Wow. 40 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:23.360 And while he's busy cooking, I'm running. 41 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:28.199 All right. Yeah, you want to get your human flesh 42 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.280 up to what is it, one hundred and forty degrees 43 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:34.159 to make sure you kill the Yeah. Yeah, so I've 44 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:40.000 heard all right. So tonight's topic was courtesy of Mercedes, 45 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:41.639 So I'm going to turn it over to her to 46 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:43.680 explain it, and then she's going to lead us off 47 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:45.000 as well, so take it away. 48 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:51.520 Thank you, Brian. This topic was not very hard songs 49 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:54.319 with UGH. You know that song. 50 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:59.960 You've all heard that, many of these songs. I'm gonna 51 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.680 talk about what I'm. 52 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:04.639 Going to talk about the history of UGH. 53 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:08.319 I don't know there was a history, all right? 54 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:09.400 Oh yeah. 55 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:13.879 It wasn't like the first word ever, it was. 56 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:15.080 The first song word. 57 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:19.080 Nowadays, I think the first word is can I speak 58 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:20.560 with your manager? Yeah? 59 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:24.039 True? 60 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:27.599 So the UH has been a very long has a 61 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:32.680 very long history. According to Masterclass, that rhythmic guttural ugh 62 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:37.879 is one of the most powerful non lexical vocalizations in 63 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.520 modern music history. Often referred to by musicians and musicologists 64 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:48.680 as a vocal grunt, rock grunt, or rhythmic exclamation, it 65 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:53.599 serves multiple artistic and structural purposes across genres. 66 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.879 The ugh so am I doing it right? 67 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:05.039 Is deeply rooted in gospel blues and early rhythm and blues. 68 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:09.159 It transitioned from a raw, spontaneous burst of emotion into 69 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:14.280 a highly calculated musical tool. In traditional Western and South 70 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:17.720 African music, singing has never been limited to clean or 71 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:21.879 pretty melodies. When Africans were enslaved and brought to the 72 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:25.519 American South. These vocal traditions adapted to survival. 73 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:26.759 The music. 74 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:32.480 The musical UGH, I keep doing it differently was born 75 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:37.959 directly out of backbreaking manual labor. As work songs evolved 76 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:42.279 into the blues, early recording artists brought the raw physical 77 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:46.560 sounds of the field into commercial music. Early Delta blues 78 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:50.800 players like Charlie Patten or Blind Willie Johnson would pepper 79 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:56.199 their lyrics with gravelly grunts and uugh sounds to simulate 80 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:00.279 the physical strain of their lyrics. You can hear in 81 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:04.240 Screaming Jay Hawk and songs and leader James Brown changed 82 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:07.879 music history by turning the grunt into a formal arrangement. 83 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:13.560 James Brown weaponized to the ugh or ugh right on 84 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:18.560 the downbeat or the backbeat, replacing traditional lyrics with pure 85 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:22.879 rhythmic punctuation. From there, it was picked up another genres 86 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:26.639 of music, pop with Michael Jackson, who was also heavily 87 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:32.040 influenced by James Brown, heavy rock like Metallica and ACDC, 88 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:37.920 and hip hop with rapper Master P who I don't know. 89 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:46.000 So that's the history of it all right, Pretty crazy, huh. 90 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:46.920 There's a lot to it. 91 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:47.720 Yeah. 92 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:51.120 Yeah, it goes way, way, way way back. 93 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:55.800 I remember my college experience. I took a public speaking course, 94 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.120 one of the best classes I ever took, and doctor 95 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:01.240 Pete Baker was the professor. He had an UH chart, 96 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:06.759 So anytime you got up there you said uh so uh. 97 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:11.399 Somebody's job was to market it on the piece of 98 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:14.399 tag poster board. So and boy, you learn how to 99 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:17.639 not say uhs and ums and the fillers, the brain fillers, 100 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:22.639 you know. Yeah, long story, yeah, long story. Short. Silence 101 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:25.480 is fine. It lets people have time to absorb what 102 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.480 you're saying. But the uzz and the ums take you 103 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.120 out of the moment. And yeah, when somebody's there tallying 104 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.160 up the number of times you say it, you stopped 105 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:34.800 pretty quickly. 106 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:36.360 Yeah, for sure. 107 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:39.959 Yeah, it also gives you a moment to think, Yeah, 108 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:42.720 it does. So it's it's good all around. 109 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:46.319 You know, it's too late now. But if somebody had 110 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:51.959 had the foresight to actually copyright the uh or whatever, 111 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:56.439 you know, grunt, they would be making millions, because absolutely 112 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:00.439 the royalties would just be rolling in. But I guess 113 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:02.839 it's it's it's too late now. 114 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.600 It is, well, you know, the most of the bag 115 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:12.879 the most famous annoyed grunt anybody is you dope? From 116 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:18.600 The Simpsons. Sim Homer was written in early scripts as 117 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:23.079 annoyed grunt and Dan Castellanetta came up with dope, and 118 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:24.240 it's now in the dictionary. 119 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:30.120 In the dictionary, everyone knew, you know, they knew it. 120 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.439 They knew it instinctively, that that was what it meant, 121 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:36.399 you know, yeah, brilliant. 122 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:38.639 Imagine inventing a word. 123 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:41.839 You know. 124 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.720 That's well, I've created. 125 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:51.800 A few, you know, we all, yeah, we've all uttered 126 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:52.680 a few in our day. 127 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:56.399 I meant more academically speaking, but yes, we've all had 128 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.360 our bourbon related vocab Larry, Yes. 129 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:05.959 Creative cursing is you know? Oh yeah, I excelled in that. 130 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:12.519 That was the best class I had. Creative cursing. Nice, Yes, 131 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.560 and so and so immediately got sent to the principal's office. 132 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:22.800 So yeah, so you all heard me do perform the word. 133 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.839 Let's go around the room and hurt here everybody else's. 134 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:28.120 Can we do that? 135 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:31.360 Okay? Okay, who's first? 136 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:33.279 Brian? You're first? 137 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.600 Can I go with dope? Is that taking already? 138 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:41.960 Nice? 139 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:42.480 Okay? 140 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:43.000 Good? 141 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:43.440 John? 142 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:53.639 Oh okay, different different kind of grunt, Gail, Oh yeah, yeah, 143 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:57.039 I think you got to take it down a. 144 00:08:57.080 --> 00:08:57.519 Couple of. 145 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:01.720 Please. Look you're talking to no, no, I. 146 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:06.399 Mean lower, lower and pitch. That is what I meant. 147 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:07.120 Guttural. 148 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:10.840 Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. 149 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:16.120 Oh, let's got the voice fry to bar. 150 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:20.559 Oh you sound pissed. 151 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:26.399 Yeah, I'm just I'm just waiting for Brian, when we're 152 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:29.279 all done with this, to make like a SoundBite of 153 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:31.559 all of us doing this and then change the order 154 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:33.200 and keep doing it. 155 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.960 I just I just know he's going to you mean 156 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.120 like jingle bears with dogs. 157 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:44.720 Yes, yes, yes, now you've given him ideas. 158 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:45.080 Thank you. 159 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.679 I'm waiting for it, Neil, what do you get? 160 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:56.000 Okay, Okay, that's exasperated. 161 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:02.320 That's how I wake up every morning and face the day. 162 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:06.679 I see the sun out, the birds are chirping, the clouds, 163 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:07.720 the sky is blue. 164 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:16.879 It's interesting, though, because not all languages use h for uh. 165 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:24.840 Some use actual words, like in Spanish they use esta, 166 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:31.039 which is weird because you're going estay. That's complicated for me. 167 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:39.960 French is eh, Sheerman is m. Japanese is anno or eto. 168 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:46.200 I can't even pronounce the one for Mandarin Chinese. But yeah, 169 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:51.000 some languages use an actual different word. 170 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:55.080 But they all have that that space filler. Yeah, let 171 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:06.720 your brain catch up to your motor back to do cuche. 172 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:14.720 I'm gonna hear it like that one. Okay, So. 173 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:18.159 Can I go? Please? 174 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:18.720 Please? 175 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:28.080 So I'm going to talk about Prince, and oh what 176 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.480 do you say about Prince? I quickly realized that after 177 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:34.080 starting my research that it would be almost impossible to 178 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:37.600 include everything about him, his influence, his incredible talent. 179 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:39.600 So I will do the best. 180 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:45.039 In a short amount of time. I saw Prince multiple 181 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:48.879 times and I am so grateful. The first time was 182 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:52.120 at the Ritz in New York City, and I just 183 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:56.639 read this about the performance. Prince's iconic performance at the 184 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:59.759 Ritz in New York City took place on March twenty second, 185 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:04.559 eighty one, during his Dirty Mind tour. During his rendition 186 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:08.720 of the provocative song Head, Prince sat and writhed on 187 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:13.480 a prop bed, pushing the boundaries of stage performance. The 188 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:17.120 March twenty second show is a legendary moment in early 189 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:22.440 Prince history. The audience for this particular night famously included 190 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:26.080 Mick Jagger and Daryl Hall. Jagger was so captivated by 191 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:30.159 Prince's raw, funk driven stage presence that he invited Prince 192 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:33.240 to open for the Rolling Stones later that year. I 193 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:36.559 did not know this at the time, but I was there. 194 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:39.600 Okay, cool. 195 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:46.679 Prince born Prince Rogers Nelson was and that was really 196 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:51.879 hurt for me. An American singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, actor, 197 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:54.799 and filmmaker. He came from a musical family and he 198 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.720 wrote his first song, Funk Machine, at the age of seven, 199 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:01.559 on his father's piano. He was signed by Warner Brothers 200 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:05.240 Records when he was eighteen, and his first LP for You, 201 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:09.799 was released in nineteen seventy eight. On the album, Prince wrote, 202 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.600 produced a range, composed, and played all twenty seven instruments 203 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.799 so often. Wet, which was the album's lead single, became 204 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:21.000 a minor hit on the Billboard Chart one hundred, peaking 205 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:24.039 at number ninety two. However, it became a top ten 206 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:27.519 hit on the Billboard Hot Soul Single Chart, peaking at 207 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:31.960 number twelve. In October nineteen eighty, Prince released the album 208 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:36.720 Dirty Mind, which contained sexually explicit material and was described 209 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:42.759 by music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine as a stunning, audacious 210 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:47.720 amalgam of funk, new wave, R and B, and pop 211 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:52.080 fueled by Grinningly Salacious Sex and the Desire to Shock. 212 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:55.799 I was actually given this LP when it was released 213 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:59.720 from an old boyfriend, and I honestly didn't quite know 214 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:01.639 what to make of it at the time, but I 215 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:06.879 do still have it. In October nineteen eighty one, Prince 216 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.440 released the album Controversy. In nineteen eighty one, Prince formed 217 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:14.879 a side project band called The Time. The band released 218 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:18.279 four albums between nineteen eighty one and nineteen ninety, with 219 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.720 Prince writing and performing most of the instruments and background vocals, 220 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:28.960 with lead vocals by Morris Day. In late nineteen eighty two, 221 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:33.240 Prince released a double album nineteen ninety nine with a 222 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:37.720 new band called The Revolution Who Can Forget Wendy and Lisa, 223 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:42.759 which sold more than four million copies. Princess Little Red 224 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.519 Corvette was one of the first two videos by black artists, 225 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:50.399 along with Michael Jackson's Billy Jean played in heavy rotation 226 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:56.159 on MTV Pretty Interesting. Then, of course, there was the 227 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:04.120 Purple Rain soundtrack. According to his manager, he was required 228 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:06.679 to find him a star role in a feature film, 229 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:11.200 which resulted in the film Purple Rain. The album Purple 230 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:14.559 Rain sold more than thirteen million copies in the United 231 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:18.840 States and spent twenty twenty four consecutive weeks at number 232 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:22.440 one on the Billboard two hundred chart. The film won 233 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:25.919 Prince an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and 234 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:30.120 grossed more than sixty eight million dollars in the US. 235 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:33.840 And you know, obviously that would be a lot more today. 236 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:38.600 At one point, Prince simultaneously had the number one album, 237 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:42.759 the number one single, and the number one film in 238 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:45.960 the United States, being the first person to achieve this. 239 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:49.759 If you can, if you. 240 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:58.840 Get ahead, that song Purple Rain rabs me every single time. 241 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:01.200 I know, I know, I mean, I feel like that 242 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:04.320 way about most of his songs. But and if you 243 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:09.120 can't tell I'm a huge fan, you picked up on 244 00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:10.120 that by now. 245 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:12.399 There's so much more. 246 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:15.480 But let's get to the song kiss from the album 247 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:18.320 Under the Cherry Moon, which was also a film but 248 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:21.480 didn't do as well and received a Golden Raspberry Award. 249 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:27.159 Although many critics later changed their opinion, Kisses ugh is 250 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.080 the quintessential for me. 251 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:41.679 Let's hear it, don't have to. 252 00:16:45.679 --> 00:17:09.079 Do me, do me. 253 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:15.880 I'm gonna show you it's so hard. You don't have 254 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:20.640 to be rich to be you don't have to be 255 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:27.200 cool to do all he not particular side all the batable. 256 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.799 I just want jose extra. 257 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:31.680 Time and your. 258 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:33.960 Kiss. 259 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:45.799 And you've got to not talk to the baby. You 260 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:52.240 won't I press me. You can't be to sir the MoMA. 261 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:59.000 I don't have to undress me. Yeah I want to be. 262 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:04.400 I have to say maybe you could be married. 263 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:07.880 You just leave it. 264 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:17.000 Oh luck to we could have good don't have the bach, 265 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:34.359 don't have the big mobile the boy want at the time. Yo, jesus, 266 00:18:40.720 --> 00:19:00.880 Oh thanks, you go and list they. 267 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:09.400 Got that gott. 268 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:22.839 Women loue mall shut their rule marbles. 269 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:29.359 Actual think not a shoe, such a shoe son. 270 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:31.880 Make a week soon. The talk. 271 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:37.759 You don't have to watch the speaking in to head 272 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:38.839 and attitude. 273 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:42.400 You don't. 274 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:47.880 To me my love be awfoo. 275 00:19:49.079 --> 00:20:09.039 Yeah you don't bu kiss. 276 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:12.759 So let me just speak to my fellow crambones for 277 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:17.319 a moment. Y'all talked through the ear so I heard one. 278 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:19.960 I mean we have to hear it again. 279 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:21.119 We got the gist of it. 280 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:29.680 There's one very specific one that is an absolute. A 281 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:32.319 few more facts that you might not know. His underground 282 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:35.400 vault at Paisley Park, which Brian tried to go to 283 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:36.240 and didn't. 284 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:41.519 It's going to give you there's a story, didn't well. 285 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:44.119 Number one all right, it was Minneapolis. We were out 286 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:46.680 there for farm Eide. It sold out, but it was 287 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:50.839 so stupid expensive that even if it was available, I 288 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:53.640 don't know, but. 289 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:55.039 That's okay, I would have gone. 290 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:55.680 Yeah. 291 00:20:56.759 --> 00:21:00.400 So the underground vault at Paisley Park contains a massive 292 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:05.839 collection of music. Archivist knows that there is enough completed 293 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:09.640 material to release a new posthumous album every year for 294 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:10.559 one hundred years. 295 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:11.400 Wow. 296 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:12.759 Allow music. 297 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:15.759 Yeah, and if you wanted to get anywhere near that, 298 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:19.440 it costs even more. Oh, I bet you could knock 299 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:21.200 on the front door for a hundred bucks or something 300 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:22.480 like that. I don't remember what it was. 301 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:27.559 Prince secretly gave away millions of dollars to charities, family 302 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:31.839 members of civil rights victims, and community tech initiatives on 303 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:35.039 the condition that his name never be revealed. During his lifetime, 304 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:39.799 Prince also composed music for other artists, including Manic Monday 305 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:42.599 for the Bengals, I Feel for You for Chuka Khan, 306 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:46.720 and Nothing Compares to You for Snead O'Connor. He was 307 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:49.680 a devowed Jehovah's witness who even went door to door. 308 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:53.359 One woman in Minnesota tells of the time that he 309 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:56.640 knocked on her door and started in on religion, and 310 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:01.640 she said, you know what, into a Jewish household, and 311 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:02.039 this is. 312 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:03.799 Not something I'm interested in. 313 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:09.680 Okay, because after his passing in twenty sixteen, there was 314 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:13.680 no will found. In addition to his full sister, Prince's 315 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:17.039 five half siblings also had a claim to an estate 316 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:21.680 totally millions of dollars in cash, as well as real estate, stocks, 317 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:26.640 and cars. Within three weeks of his death, seven hundred 318 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:30.079 people claimed to be half siblings or descendants. 319 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:32.759 Of course, that gets an uh from me. 320 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:35.319 Yeah, this is it too late to your name to 321 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:35.680 the list. 322 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:41.119 Prince is often credited as a major influence on modern 323 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:44.720 popular music and was the quote unquote, the greatest musician 324 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:49.400 of his generation. According to Billboard, Simon Reynolds called him 325 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:53.480 a pop polymath, which I had to look up. It 326 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:57.160 means he knows. He's got a wide range of knowledge, 327 00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:06.759 flitting between funk ddelia, fronkadelia, funkadelia, acid rock, deep soul, schmaltz, 328 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:12.279 often within the same song. In twenty sixteen, Simon Reynolds 329 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:17.480 said Prince's eighties evasion of conventional gender definition speaks to 330 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:21.079 us now in this transware moment, but it also harkens 331 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:23.759 backwards in time to the original rock and roll in 332 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:28.759 racial mixture and sexual blurring. Prince was known for the 333 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:32.240 strong female presence in his bands and his support for 334 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:34.079 women in the music industry. 335 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:36.759 Throughout his career. Slat said that. 336 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:40.440 He worked with an astounding range of female stars and 337 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:44.200 quote unquote promised a world where men and women looked 338 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:48.960 and acted like each other. In twenty twenty three, Billboard 339 00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:51.720 ranked him at number sixteen on their list of the 340 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:56.200 two hundred Greatest Singers of All Time. In nineteen ninety three, 341 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:01.000 during negotiations regarding the release of the Gold Experience album, 342 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:05.000 there was a legal battle between Warner Brothers and Print 343 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:08.680 over the artistic and financial control of his music. He 344 00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:11.960 appeared in public and explained that he had changed his 345 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:15.640 name to an unpronounceable symbol to emancipate himself from his 346 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:18.599 contract with Warner Brothers, and that he had done it 347 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:21.960 out of frustration because he felt his own name now 348 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:25.279 belonged to the company. That symbol has a name, by 349 00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:28.400 the way, it's the love symbol. 350 00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:29.160 Number two. 351 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.960 Since the symbol did not exist on computer keyboards, Warner 352 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:38.319 Brothers sent floppy discs to media outlets containing a digital 353 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:41.839 rendition of the image. Course, most people referred to him 354 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:46.839 as the artist formerly known as Prince. He released thirty 355 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:51.319 nine studio albums during his lifetime, alongside numerous live and 356 00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:57.960 posthumous projects. In nineteen ninety five, the album that he released, 357 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:01.119 The Gold Experience, had a song title The Most Beautiful 358 00:25:01.160 --> 00:25:03.880 Girl in the World, and Prince had a contest where 359 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:06.759 girls would send in their pictures to be in the video, 360 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:10.400 and we actually interviewed the winner on the silver screen. 361 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:15.160 I remember that. Yeah, that's right. 362 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:17.119 She told us all about. 363 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:26.480 Being terrified, very excited, and Paisley Park. 364 00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:30.319 All right cool. 365 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:32.240 Yeah. 366 00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:35.240 Tom Jones did a version of Kiss that Neil mentioned 367 00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:36.599 while it was playing, and I think I like the 368 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:40.039 Tom Jones version better. Did a weird Aldo a version 369 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:41.200 not yet? 370 00:25:44.119 --> 00:25:44.799 Yeah, very good? 371 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:47.279 Yeah, what would it be called? Hiss? 372 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:48.799 Yeah? 373 00:25:50.359 --> 00:25:53.039 Kiss did a song was called Prince. 374 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:02.559 This I appreciate. All right, thank you, Mercedes, good leader. 375 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:06.119 I was good and a challenging topic. 376 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:09.000 So yeah, it really was. 377 00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:12.880 It was it was John, You're. 378 00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:18.119 Up, okay, I was kind of puzzled by this topic, Mercedes. 379 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:21.400 You know, it kind of forces you to put your 380 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.319 thinking cap on to kind of figure out. And I 381 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:25.319 had had been off the show for a few weeks, 382 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:28.160 so I was kind of thrown this and I wasn't 383 00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:31.400 quite sure of the origin of the context, and I 384 00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:33.640 was like, where the heck can I go with this? 385 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:38.200 So I what I found for Better or Worse was 386 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:42.720 a song from nineteen sixty four from a garage rock 387 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:46.359 band called The Novas. Now, Neil, I must say that 388 00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:48.759 the song that I chose for tonight was also recorded 389 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:53.039 by the Ramones. However, this is not the Ramones version, 390 00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:59.240 So this is the song of the Crusher. It was 391 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:02.920 recorded by the garage rock band the Novas from Dallas 392 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:06.119 Fort Worth. They were only they were only around from 393 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:10.440 nineteen sixty three to nineteen sixty eight and the only 394 00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:13.880 I believe, recorded seven or eight songs. They were hugely 395 00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:18.319 popular in the North Texas area, all high school kids 396 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:21.839 and whatnot, and they disbanded and when they went to 397 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:25.240 college and that was that. So it'll be really interesting 398 00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:27.240 to see if these guys had stuck around together. 399 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:28.480 I know. 400 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:32.359 A couple of their members were forcibly pulled from the 401 00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:35.200