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Speaker 1: Good day.

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Speaker 2: Ah.

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Speaker 3: This is Tim here from the Great White North and

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you're listening to like the Surely You Can't Be Serious

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Podcast with my honorary hoss D and Jason.

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Speaker 4: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't

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Be Serious Podcast. We are here today with our top

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five picks from the year nineteen seventy eight. So if

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you like the nightlife, if you like to booget, this

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may not be the list that you love. I don't know.

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I'm waiting to see what mister Jason Colvin has come

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up with from this year, because for this year there

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were a lot of very big chart topping hits that

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I am like, there's no way this is getting on

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my list. I mean, Andy Gibb not on my list.

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Sniffe Tears not on my list. Not on my list?

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Speaker 3: Are you trashing my list already?

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Speaker 1: I just don't know.

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying, if you love disco, you may love

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this list. If you love rock, you may love this list.

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If you love country, if you love women singers, you

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may love this list, or you may hate it. I

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don't know where this list is going to go, but

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there are so many freaking great songs from this year

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that it was agonizing to cut this list down to

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only five.

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Speaker 3: I know, I've been sitting here for thirty minutes waiting

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on you to cut it down.

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Speaker 4: You know it's going to be different answers for me tomorrow.

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It'll be different answers by the time we finished the

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podcast than it is right now. But I just have

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to say, time to fish or cut bait. Let's go,

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let's do it. I've written my stuff down, I've murdered

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the babies. Let's jump in.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it. Okay. So the tricky part about this

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is this is pre MTV. You and I were both

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very young.

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Speaker 4: For three quarters of the year of nineteen seventy eight.

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I was two years old. Okay too, Yeah, but I

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thought to myself, well, am I really going to know

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much of the music from there? Oh? My gosh, yes,

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I just have to. I have to at this point

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say thank you to my parents for being avid music listeners,

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because this music A lot of the songs I probably

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haven't heard in forty years. But going back, I was like,

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I would love to listen to this as my parents

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listened to the vinyl LPs playing in the living room.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so I was. I turned five years old

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in nineteen seventy eight, so I'm a few years older

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than you. So this list is definitely shaped by my

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parents' musical tastes, right, Yeah, pre MTV, I didn't really

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have tastes of my own, so I just sat around

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and listened to their stuff. Definitely hear their impact here.

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Fair Necessities doesn't make the list. That's probably one of

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my favorite songs from that time, right, This is from

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my mom spinning records and me listening to her stuff,

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you know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And it turns out my parents were actually pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: That's great.

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Speaker 1: That's great.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So you and I established a few rules for ourself.

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So of this list, we're going to do our top

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five songs plus two honorable mentions, and we're leaving out

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any song that we have covered so far, correct, Yeah,

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so that eliminates everything from Grease.

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Speaker 4: If you want to check out our Grease episode, it

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was very recent. We'll put a link in the show

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notes for you so that you can go check out that.

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But we covered the whole album that.

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Speaker 3: Grease soundtrack episodes did pretty well for us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was a humongous hit. It WANs so

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many songs from that album. In this year just hitting

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the charts all over the.

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Speaker 3: Place, we wanted to come with fresh songs. So if

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you want to hear us talk about Grease, go back

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list of that nothing from Saturday Night Fever.

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Speaker 4: Same story last year, but we still cover that whole album.

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Speaker 3: Episodes, yep. So we've covered that. We've covered those two

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Speaker 4: That was a hard decision to make, right well, my

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list was literally over fifty songs long without van Halen

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on there. If you throw van Halen, they could have

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taken every It was kind of like when we did

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nineteen eighty three and Thriller could have had all five

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spots here. So I just had to say listen. We

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covered that in detail on like our fourth or fifth episode.

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of our best received episodes. We love them. But we

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covered van Halen's debut album pretty thoroughly in.

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Speaker 3: That pretty thoroughly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And then also I eliminated for my list hold the

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the pre Toto four episode that.

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Speaker 4: We did another great song from seventy eight.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it would have easily been in my

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top five. Sure, okay, all right, well let's get down

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to it, man. Let's see what babies are left.

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Speaker 4: All right, here we go, number five five.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna tease this up. This is how we

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do it here, right, So we I tease it up

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with some little trivia tidbits for you, yep, and you

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try to figure it out exactly. I think it's gonna

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be a little harder to tease it up because our

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experiences were different. We were little kids. So let's see

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how much we can get done here. Okay, okay, So

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first thing This was released January of nineteen seventy eight,

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peaked at number twenty one in May of seventy eight. Okay,

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so clearly seventy eight song. This began as a joke

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and kind of like a dare by Phil Everley of

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the Everly Brothers. Okay, okay, So he dared this artist

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to write a song about this particular movie that he

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had watched. He even thought, maybe you could start a

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dance craze with this.

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Speaker 4: Wow, all of these seventy eight songs are swimming through

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my head and I don't. I don't have a clue

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what this one? Okay?

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Speaker 3: All right, So when they were jamming out this song,

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the artist who haven't named yet and the guys in

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his band were just jamming, reflowing out lyrics. Well, they

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had a great time. They thought they had something going.

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They came back the next day. Of course they're all

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high ast kites. They get there and they're like, hey,

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let's play that song we were working on. And nobody

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remembered what they had said or what they had done. Okay,

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but the guy's wife took notes. So some of the

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early versions of this song include name drops from Jimmy Hoffa,

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Marilyn Chambers does that ring a bell with you?

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Speaker 3: That's good. You weren't watching porn the seventies? And Linda

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Lovelace who was Steve Throat there? Yeah, yeah, playing on

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this song. John McVie on bass, Mick Fleetwood on drums.

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Speaker 4: Okay, anything coming to you? Is this a song off

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of rumors?

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Speaker 1: It is not? Okay?

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Speaker 4: Is not okay? Keep going?

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Speaker 3: Took ten minutes to write and it was a standard

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and this I'm not a musician, this is what it said.

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It was G. C. D. Which is a lot of

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popular songs, G C D. Yeah, and they just had

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a ball, just kind of making it, scratching it out,

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and literally it's the only song by this guy.

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Speaker 4: I know, this is not Fleetwood. Mac then just has

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mc fleetwood on the drums. That's right, You've got me, dude,

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I don't know what this is. Okay.

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Speaker 3: The movie that they watched that Phil Everly and Warren

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Zevon watched, uh huh was called Werewolves of London.

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Speaker 1: It's great.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so this was this was not a baby for me.

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I didn't have I saw that one on the list

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and I was just like, oh, that's not one of

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my that's not one of my songs. Okay. And that's

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important to note for the for our listeners, we're not

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necessarily picking songs that were like crowd favorites. We're not yeah,

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picking chart toppers. We're not even picking songs that have lasted.

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We're just picking songs that we like. Sure, sure, but yeah,

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I know when you said that, I immediately thought of

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Sweet Home, Alabama the chord progression, because that's what that

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same thing. But Kid Rock did a thing where he

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combined were Wolves of London and Sweet Home Alabama and

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his song as well.

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Speaker 3: So that was a big song that was called All

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Summer Long. Yeah, okay, so quick quick story for you

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on this. I thought this was hilarious.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 3: While they were jamming, one of his buddies comes in.

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He's like, hey, what's this song about, and he said

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it's about were wolves and the guy he's like, oh,

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He's like, yes, yeah, I'm howling around your kitchen door.

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They added that to the song.

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Speaker 4: Fantastic.

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Speaker 3: When they came out with this as the lead single

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from that album, he was really mad. He's like, guys,

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we're just fooling around. This song's a piece of crap.

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Speaker 3: Quick story for you on Warren's Zvon. Okay, the only

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reason I bring this up is because we just did

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Billy Idol's Rebel Yell and we talked about the Chateau

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Merrimont'll tell right, yes, okay, So Billy Idol had some

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trouble there. If you want to hear about that, go

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back and listen to that episode. That's also where John

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Belushi had his fatal overdose. Okay, Warren Zyvon checked himself

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in there to have his own personal drama. Checked himself

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in the only thing he brought with him was whiskey

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and a forty four magnum.

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Speaker 4: That does not sound good.

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Speaker 3: That sound like a good combination, sound good, guns and booze.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: Well, apparently while working out his issues, he was standing

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on his balcony shooting his pistol across Sunset Boulevard at

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a billboard of Richard Pryor. Oh my gosh, So there

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you go. Wow, tortured rockstar.

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Speaker 4: Wow, that's a good one. Great, okay, great.

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Speaker 3: Job, thank you, all right to your number five sir.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So you may get this one quickly, or you

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may not, because when we do these things, we kind

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of text back and forth, and so've I've tipped my

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hand a bit here and there. Okay, Okay. So this

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one was a number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred,

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which is rare for my songs. Typically they're not gonna

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be number one in seventy eight. But this one was

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a number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: It also won the nineteen seventy eight Grammy for Best

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Pop Vocal Performance. It was written by a guy named

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Randy Goodrum. Randy was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, I'm

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from Arkansas, you know, so it was kind of cool

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to say, hey, this song. When I I came across

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this song, I hadn't heard it again. This was one

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I hadn't heard in decades. But when I heard it, I

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was like, oh my gosh, this song is. I mean,

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it brings back all of those feels that I had

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from listening to music as a little kid. And so

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after I listened to it a few times, I texted

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you about it, and then I texted my dad about it.

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I'm like, you, guys, you know, do you remember this song?

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And my dad, who I mean? This is? His response

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is so out of character, but it was just hilarious.

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He's like, this brought tears to my eyes. I had

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to listen to it five times. I'm like, whoa the

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tough bearded man. It's like, what, but I mean this was.

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One of the joys of growing up with my dad

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is that we both played music, and so this music

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is something that we really share. And he said, I

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had to look up the guy who wrote it. He's

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from Hot Springs, Arkansas, and gave me a little more

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info on it. So he went to Hot Springs High

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School as well. He formed a band called the Three Kings,

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although they were also called the Three Blind Mice. It

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was him, a couple of drummers, and a saxophone player.

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So Randy Goodrum was in a band with Bill Clinton

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when they were both in high school. Okay, And so

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he goes on and goes to college while Bill's at Harvard.

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I guess he's over, you know, in Conway, Arkansas, going

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to Hendricks College. He becomes a songwriter but isn't having

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a lot of success. He's gone out to la He's

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trying to pump these songs and everybody's like, hey, we

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don't want anything, but keep going. You're doing great. And

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so he's got this he's he said, I was better

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at writing music at first, and so he's got a

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lot of musical snippets that he would just have lying

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around and so one day he's cleaning up his office

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and he's like, I'm taking a break. He sits down

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with a musical snippet and plays it on the piano,

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and then the first two or three lines come to

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him and he's like, oh my gosh, I think I've

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got I'm onto something and literally the rest of it

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just poured out of him. He goes and plays it

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for his wife and she goes, yeah, that's pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: Reminder, this was became a number one on the Billboard

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How Want of? This was the song that broke him,

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and it also broke the female lead singer, the first

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female Canadian to hit number one in the US and

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also the first female Canadian to earn a gold record

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in the US.

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Speaker 3: I have a guess, is this You Light Up My Life?

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By Debbie Boone?

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Speaker 4: No, okay, no similar sound, but no different, different singer. Okay, okay.

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So the singer later on, she's struggling. She's married to

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a music producer named Bill Langstroth. They have a son

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together who's just a toddler. His name's William as well,

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and she's just like, I'm struggling with trying to make

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a career as a musician but also be there for

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my son, because you know, it's not like when mommy

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goes to work she's gone for eight hours. She's gone

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for two months. And so it was this real difficult

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situation she was in, and she was scrolling through some

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tapes that she had of demo songs and she comes

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across this song and she sees it, she hears it,

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and she's like, this captures exactly how I feel about.

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He's two men in my life, my son and my husband.

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But the only thing that's on the tape is this

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guy's name, this Randy Goodrum guy.

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Speaker 3: I got nothing. I mean, I'm nowhere.

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Speaker 4: The beauty of this song is almost religious. The name

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of the song is called You Needed Me by.

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Speaker 1: Cameron and gave me dignity.

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Speaker 5: Sohowy Ney.

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Speaker 1: You gave me string.

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Speaker 6: To stand to face.

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Speaker 4: Making me wee dude, It's so beautiful and it's been

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I mean, I haven't heard that song in forever. Like

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all of the songs that you still hear from this era,

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I haven't heard it from ever forever. And I tell

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you I only put it a number five. But of

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all the songs, I replayed this one more than any

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of them. It just it brings out all the feels.

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And it's crazy because it has no chorus. There's no

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chorus in the whole song. Interesting when he tried to

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promote it before and like, finally listen to the tape,

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people would be like, well, don't you want to put

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a chorus in there, and he's like, why it's already

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you know long enough it's yeah, I don't need the chorus,

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And ultimately everybody, including his wife, Yeah it's pretty good,

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was wrong and it set him on a music career.

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By the way, he went on to write, oh, Sherry,

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Steve Perry. Yes, he had another big hit from seventy

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eight called Bluer than Blue by Michael Johnson, and he

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also wrote if she would have been faithful by.

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Speaker 3: Chicago, Yes, that's fantastic. I bet I haven't heard that

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song in four decades. There you go, very good, very good.

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Speaker 4: All right. That brings us to number four.

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Speaker 3: Four all right, number four. You know when you're talking

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about all the feels, this is the one that kind

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of brings out the most feels in me. This almost

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didn't make the album. Maybe one of this artist's most

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well known songs. Okay, if it had not been for

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Phoebe Snow and Linda Ronstat walking by and listening and

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hearing the song, it probably would not have.

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Speaker 4: Made the album.

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Speaker 3: So here's the deal. It's a chick song.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: They walked by this artist who you very well know,

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who we've covered here at the Shirley can be a

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serious podcast. They walked by and they're like, man, this

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song's fantastic, And the guys in the band were like, really,

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we're not sure if we like it or not. Okay,

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I mean we think it's pretty good, but we're not

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really sure. And they're like like grabbed him by the

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shirt collars, like, if you guys don't put this on

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the album, you're crazy. Wow, this is a fantastic song.

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Speaker 1: You guys are being such guys.

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Speaker 3: So the women were the ones are like, this isn't

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amazing song. He wrote this for his wife on her birthday.

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Speaker 4: Okay all Right?

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Speaker 3: Released September of nineteen seventy seven, peaked at number three

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on the charts in nineteen seventy eight. It has been

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covered by Barry White, Frank Sinatra, Isaac Hayes, Tons Moore

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won the Grammy for Record.

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Speaker 1: Of the Year.

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Speaker 4: Have you got anything for Me? No, I don't.

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Speaker 3: This particular artist also sang it to Oscar on Sesame Street.

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Okay okay, uh huh, all right, I got nothing nothing.

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Speaker 4: No, ill play it for you, all right.

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Speaker 1: Don't go ja.

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Speaker 3: To try please me. You never led me down before.

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This is Billy Joels just the Way you are fantastic.

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Speaker 4: I remember I was, I was struggling on like we've

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covered the artist. So, yeah, what a incredibly great song

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off of the Stranger. This is one of a bunch

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of great songs off of the Stranger, like you've got

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just the way You've are, you've got the Stranger, you've

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got moving out, you've got scenes from an Italian restaurant. Incredible.

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And then of course in seventy eight, in October seventy eight,

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fifty second Street comes out and it's got.

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Speaker 3: Another slew O. It's amazing, right, such a great art.

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Speaker 1: I take you, Jeff the way.

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Speaker 3: So this obviously is Billy Joel. There were several Billy

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Joel songs that had to mark off the list as

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we whittled it down. Yeah, the tune of this song

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came to him in a dream, right yeah, and he

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was like, oh, that's really good. That's really good. Went

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to sleep, woke up the next morning and he was

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searching for it, couldn't really find it, Like, man, what

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was that tune I was listening to in my head?

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A couple of days later, he's in a business meeting.

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He's like sitting there with accountants and you know, lawyers

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and boring people, and he's like sitting there and he's like.

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Speaker 1: Ooh ooh, that's it.

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Speaker 3: And he literally stood up and said, guys, I've got

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to go.

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Speaker 4: I got it right now, right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just the way you are, Billy Joel.

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Speaker 4: It's a great one, great great pick.

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Speaker 1: Hey.

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Speaker 3: By the way, just I want to throw this out

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there real quick.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Accidentally, I have kind of a theme running through my songs.

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Oh okay, it doesn't encompass every song, but the theme

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is baseball. Billy Joel is a baseball fan. He's a

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Mets fan, New York Mets. One of the things that

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they do now for the New York Mets is in

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the middle of the eighth inning, they all seen piano

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Man and he's been there and they it's this wonderful

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thing that everybody in the stadium is singing piano Man.

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It's really cool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Two year a number four, sir, Before we jump

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into my number four, I'm glad that you mentioned Linda Ronstadt.

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Nineteen seventy eight was a huge year for women singers.

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Lynda Ronstadt's album was phenomenal. You've got Ann Murray, which

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I mentioned. You've got Bonnie Tyler, you got Debbie Harry,

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you got Patti Smyth. I mean, that's just to name

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a handful of the big hitters. But it was a

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huge year for women in me.

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Speaker 3: Mu Ye, good call, good call.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay, So my number four? What is mine? Number four? Okay?

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All right, here we go. This one almost escaped my radar,

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but then I was scrolling through the Billboard Hot one

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hundred and I was like, oh crap, this song came

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out well enough to be in the Billboard Hot one

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hundred in nineteen seventy eight. I can't not include it.

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So at the time that he wrote the song, the

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songwriter who was the lead singer for the band as well,

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they were opening for Kiss and zz Top and Aerosmith, okay,

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and he's standing there with his main band Buddy, and

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he's like the band Buddy is like, do you think

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we will ever be the openers? Do you ever think

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we'll get the gold?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: And he said he wrote this song as this kind

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of idea of you, We're going to look back on

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these memories fondly, but maybe we didn't get the gold

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even though we look back on it with fondness. Okay,

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became a huge hit for him. They thought, after their

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original hit a couple of years earlier, that it was

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they're gonna start steamroll, but it wasn't one that gave

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it to them. Right. Okay, there's references in here that

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are almost biblical. But the songwriter, Dennis DeYoung, was trying

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to get something going after they had had a big

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hit with Lady. This is off their nineteen seventy seven

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album Grand Illusion, So.

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Speaker 3: This de Young is in stix. This has to be

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come sail Away.

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Speaker 5: I sadly away set an open cause.

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Speaker 3: For the bugency.

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Speaker 1: Si.

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Speaker 4: This is a song that was great for me when

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I was a kid, that kind of fell away, as

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songs do. And then something happened as I'm raising my

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own kids and I'm like, oh, you guys haven't heard

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this song. I turn it up, and somehow it became

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like the go to song when we're driving in the

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car together. And I've got you know, I've got my

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kids that are eight and six at the time, singing

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as loud as they can this nineteen seventy eight hit.

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And I so when I got home a couple of

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days ago, I'm like, hey, Brock, do you remember the

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first time that I played Come sail Away for you,

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and he was like, yes, I do. And he was

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the six year old, like, I mean, he was very young, right,

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And I was like, what did you think? And he

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makes this kind of sour face and he's like I thought.

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And then I thought, wow, this is pretty good. And

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I was like yes, yes, because it's this beauty. It

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leads you in with this soft beautiful like I'm going

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to go slow dance and then whoa, where.

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Speaker 2: Are we up?

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Speaker 4: Where are we now? What? Oh, we're hard rocking, we're

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banging our heads. I mean, fantastic freaking song.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing. I've got a personal story for you regarding

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this song, and this song was one of the ones

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that was close and nearly made it for me. Okay,

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So a couple of years ago, my son Quinn is

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in the high school band. Yeah, and he's a junior

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high he's like seventh grade, right, and we played basketball.

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We're a small school, it's small, a tiny gem. Well

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they put the band who's really good at this school

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in the visitor side. Well, the one song that they

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knew other than the Star Spangled Band was Come sail Away, right,

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And that's what they so they blew the ear drums

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out of the visitors the entire season. They would just

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turn and come tail away.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome.

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Speaker 4: That's fantastic. So listening to Dennis de Young talk about

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this one, he was he was like, he's doing an

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interview and the guy was talking about how much the

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song meant to him, and he says, listen, you could

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say that all you want. And I appreciate that, you know,

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I really I'm glad that the music hit for you.

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But let me just tell you that, from nineteen eighty

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four to nineteen ninety five, nobody brought that song up

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to me, not one word, not from anybody. I was wondering,

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what's you know, what's next for me in life for

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that good eleven year period. Yeah, and then in nineteen

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ninety five I got a call from this guy named

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Matt Parker and he said, hey, we've got this cartoon

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we'd like to use your song. Is that okay? And

473
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,000
initially I was like, well, heck yeah, because nobody else

474
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,200
wants to use it. And then I was like, well

475
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,079
wait a minute, let me check out this cartoon. Woo,

476
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:43,880
And he's like, what's it call? He says it's called

477
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,039
South Park. He goes and watches it and he sees

478
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,279
the Barber streisand episode where like she's this monster robot

479
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,440
or whatever it was, like, are you going to barbar

480
00:23:52,519 --> 00:23:55,480
streisiand the song? Matt Parker's like, no, no, no, He's like,

481
00:23:55,559 --> 00:23:57,960
I had a radio show when I was a kid,

482
00:23:58,039 --> 00:24:02,000
and this was one of my we will not He's like,

483
00:24:02,039 --> 00:24:05,079
the idea is when Cartman hears the song, he has

484
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:10,200
to finish it. And he said from nineteen ninety five

485
00:24:10,599 --> 00:24:13,720
on his phone did not stop ringing. I mean freaks

486
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,359
and geeks, Adam Sandler movies, I mean it's everywhere.

487
00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 3: Thank you Matt Parker and Trey stew Yeah, well done. Yeah,

488
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:22,359
that's a great one. I love it, all right, near

489
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:22,880
miss for me?

490
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:25,160
Speaker 6: Three?

491
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,079
Speaker 3: All right, number three for me. This is where my

492
00:24:28,079 --> 00:24:30,000
baseball starts to come alive for me, right here?

493
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, all right.

494
00:24:31,519 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 3: So the guy who performed this and the guy who

495
00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:37,640
sings this, huh, they're huge New York Yankee fans.

496
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 4: Okay, all right.

497
00:24:38,759 --> 00:24:40,519
Speaker 3: And the reason I bring that up is because there's

498
00:24:40,559 --> 00:24:45,160
a very prominent Yankee featured in this song. A Yankee

499
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,359
baseball player, former Yankee baseball player. Okay with me so far?

500
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:50,039
Speaker 4: I'm with you so far.

501
00:24:50,079 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about?

502
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:51,599
Speaker 4: Not yet, Okay.

503
00:24:51,759 --> 00:24:55,519
Speaker 3: This song was a product of an attempt to make

504
00:24:55,559 --> 00:24:59,039
a rock musical out of the story Peter Pan.

505
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:01,640
Speaker 4: Okay, all right.

506
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 3: The girl who sings in this song was actually hired

507
00:25:05,519 --> 00:25:06,480
to be the windy character.

508
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: Now.

509
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 3: The producer Todd Runggren, who we've talked about Liff Tyler's stepdad,

510
00:25:11,559 --> 00:25:15,359
that's right, inventor of the graphic tablet, that's exactly right.

511
00:25:16,559 --> 00:25:20,319
When the writer of the song, Jim Steinman, who was

512
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:25,319
originally the producer for def Leppard's Hysteria album, Yeah, came

513
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:29,240
to him and he said, I want Phil Rizzuto, voice

514
00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:32,599
of the Yankees, to have his own sort of narration

515
00:25:32,799 --> 00:25:34,640
in the middle of the song. Todd run grim is

516
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,359
not a baseball fan. He's like, what what do you talk?

517
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 1: What?

518
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,039
Speaker 4: What do you what? I've got it?

519
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:41,279
Speaker 3: What do you got?

520
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,319
Speaker 4: This has to be meatloaf, and it has to be

521
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:45,880
Paradise by the dashboard.

522
00:25:45,559 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 1: Light yesterday, that's it, right, any.

523
00:26:02,839 --> 00:26:07,079
Speaker 3: Round second, he's out, No, ain't safe safe ad second.

524
00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:11,839
Jim Simon was talking about this and he actually scripted

525
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,920
those words out for Phil Rizzuto, who's the voice of

526
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,200
the Yankees, and he wanted him to do it like

527
00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:19,799
he was calling a game. And Phil Razutta was like,

528
00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:25,119
he's rounding first headed four seconds, he slides in, he's safe. No,

529
00:26:25,279 --> 00:26:28,079
he's out. Jen Simon's like, dude, what are you doing.

530
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:29,480
He's like, what are you talking about. I'm reading the

531
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,920
words you wrote down. He's like, no, I want you

532
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,799
to call the game. Pretend like it's the Yankees and

533
00:26:35,839 --> 00:26:59,279
the Red Size. He's like, okay. He goes there's about

534
00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:04,000
the dirty that I'm saying, right, And they were like no, no.

535
00:27:03,599 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 4: No, sir, no, no, no.

536
00:27:05,279 --> 00:27:08,079
Speaker 3: So after the song comes out, because they he recorded

537
00:27:08,079 --> 00:27:10,160
his part without the music, he sees them at a

538
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,319
Yankee game and he comes up to them. He's like,

539
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,759
he calls him, huckleberries, you huckleberries.

540
00:27:16,039 --> 00:27:18,319
Speaker 1: You tricked me. It's dirty.

541
00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 3: They're like, sorry, Phil, here's your check exactly. He made

542
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:29,160
one thousand dollars for that song. Oh and that's it.

543
00:27:29,799 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 4: Jim and Vincent Price can cry in their beer together.

544
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 3: Four parts to this song, Paradise Baseball, stop right there.

545
00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:48,599
Speaker 4: And Praying for the End of Time, Ran for the

546
00:27:48,759 --> 00:27:53,960
End of Time. So walking and Tom with Ude.

547
00:27:54,559 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 3: It peaked at number thirty nine in September of seventy eight.

548
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 4: I don't fault you for this at all, but I

549
00:28:02,079 --> 00:28:04,119
said when we first started on this thing, I'm like,

550
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,359
I got fifty songs and I'm pretty confident that we're

551
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,720
not going to overlap. Yeah, and I've been right like this.

552
00:28:09,839 --> 00:28:11,279
I saw a meat loaf and I'm like, I'm a

553
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,359
meatloaf fan. It's okay, moving on. I mean, I don't

554
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,839
hate it, but it's just was my ideal. Right, So

555
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:18,000
great song.

556
00:28:18,079 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 3: Okay to you, sir for your number three.

557
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 4: Okay, it's interesting that you said that number three is

558
00:28:23,039 --> 00:28:27,640
where the baseball analogies come in, because this is almost

559
00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:32,680
like a baseball idea and almost like a Yankees baseball idea.

560
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,720
But I don't want to give it away too much, Okay, Okay.

561
00:28:35,839 --> 00:28:40,519
So this song came from a group that gave themselves

562
00:28:40,559 --> 00:28:44,039
their name because of how bad their circumstances were, Like

563
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,680
they couldn't they didn't have a pot to piss in,

564
00:28:46,839 --> 00:28:50,440
they couldn't make any money, and they literally were would

565
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:55,200
wander around different places in the UK trying to listen

566
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,839
to different bands to get some feel for what they

567
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,799
might have as their sound, okay, all right, And so

568
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,079
one night they go into a pub. So one night,

569
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,839
the lead singer, the guy who's going to write this song,

570
00:29:08,039 --> 00:29:11,039
he goes into a pub in a place called Ipswich

571
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,279
in the UK. Okay, haven't been to Ipswich myself. I

572
00:29:14,319 --> 00:29:16,559
don't think it's very big. I haven't been there either, okay,

573
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,000
he said. He goes in and there's like these three

574
00:29:20,119 --> 00:29:24,079
or four tired musicians in the corner playing dixie Land

575
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,319
music okay in the UK in the seventies, right, And

576
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,119
he's just fascinated by what these guys are doing. You know,

577
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,079
they're just playing some really kind of crazy music for

578
00:29:35,119 --> 00:29:37,319
that time. And a little bit later on he's looking

579
00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:40,000
for an idea for a song and he's like, I'm

580
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,079
going to write about that experience. I'm going to write

581
00:29:42,079 --> 00:29:44,799
about going in and seeing these guys play. And he

582
00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:48,759
composes it on like an old dobro, like an acoustic

583
00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:52,079
bluesy kind of guitar, plays it for one of the

584
00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:57,279
band members and they're like, eh, it's eh. And so

585
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,440
he like pinches pennies, buys himself a Fender stratocaster and

586
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,240
he redoes the whole chord progression to make this song

587
00:30:06,519 --> 00:30:09,240
a completely different song with the same lyrics that he's written.

588
00:30:09,319 --> 00:30:12,839
But it's all about coming in and seeing this band.

589
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,359
And he's talking about the band now he mentions a

590
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,480
couple of the band members' names. It's doubtful that these

591
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,559
are the actual band members of the band he saw

592
00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:25,000
on Ipswich. Some people say they're the name of a

593
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,160
couple of guys from the Easy Beats, which we've talked

594
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,279
about in our back and Black Emmerson we have.

595
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:29,599
Speaker 5: Yeah.

596
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 4: Yeah. He talks about Harry, who has a daytime job,

597
00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:37,440
and he talks about guitar George, which is probably George Young,

598
00:30:37,799 --> 00:30:42,400
Angus Young's brother. Yes, and the song is similar to

599
00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:45,400
what they call the very famous baseball player. But what

600
00:30:45,559 --> 00:30:49,519
the song title actually comes from is when this Dixie

601
00:30:49,519 --> 00:30:52,480
band that he heard late night one night in Ipswich.

602
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,440
They were playing to maybe three or four people, and

603
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,720
they stand up and they say thank you, we are

604
00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:03,599
the announces the band name as though they're the biggest

605
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:04,559
band in the world.

606
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:09,359
Speaker 3: Do you know it, well, you're all over ac DC. Yeah,

607
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,279
it's not ACDC, It's not ac DC. Okay, I don't

608
00:31:12,279 --> 00:31:13,559
know it guitar George.

609
00:31:13,799 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 4: He knows all the chords because they are the Sultan's

610
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,720
of Swing.

611
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,119
Speaker 3: You get it in the dog gets rained in the

612
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:40,240
pop meantime, Dire Straits got it.

613
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 4: So I showed my big list of all of the

614
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,960
songs that were in the running for nineteen seventy eight

615
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,720
to Kevin Davis, and I'm like, am I missing anything?

616
00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:50,720
Because Kevin's a few years older than us, And I

617
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,359
mean he was, he was more in the prime of

618
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,039
his life at that point, really listening to radio. And

619
00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:57,799
he's like, no, I think you got everything. But Sunday

620
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,880
night at ten o'clock he texts me. He goes, hey, bro,

621
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,880
the Sultans of Swing come out in nineteen seventy eight.

622
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,000
If so it needs to be on the list, And

623
00:32:08,039 --> 00:32:10,680
I said, it's definitely on the radar. He's like, put

624
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,680
it on their poll's best song to listen to with

625
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,880
headphones ever? And he's not wrong. It is. Mark Knopfler

626
00:32:20,079 --> 00:32:23,839
is a musical genius. And just if you're wondering, I mean,

627
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,039
we know. I mean we got our Dire Straits experience

628
00:32:27,119 --> 00:32:28,960
from Money for Nothing right.

629
00:32:28,839 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 3: And Brothers in Arms that whole album, the whole album.

630
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 4: So for Money for Nothing is just under four hundred

631
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,480
and sixty million. Okay, that's what the downloads are. Four

632
00:32:35,559 --> 00:32:39,200
hundred and sixty million, okay, right, Walk of Life, yeah,

633
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:45,720
six hundred million. Sultans of Swing one billion, eighty three million.

634
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:56,799
Speaker 3: Wow, Gita joos all the conte.

635
00:32:53,799 --> 00:32:54,759
Speaker 1: Is strict, name or them.

636
00:32:54,839 --> 00:33:00,599
Speaker 3: He doesn't want to make a cry all soon. Yes,

637
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,680
that surprises me. It is an incredibly good song. It's amazing.

638
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it.

639
00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 3: Short list for me, all right to my number two.

640
00:33:11,519 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 6: Two?

641
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,119
Speaker 3: All right. Some people believe that the inspiration for this

642
00:33:16,279 --> 00:33:20,680
song came from when the band was recording over in France.

643
00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: I think you're smiling.

644
00:33:22,319 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 3: You're smiling.

645
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,839
Speaker 4: I know it already. You keep on going though.

646
00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 3: Okay, see you're making me nervous. We're gonna have our

647
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:28,519
first crossover.

648
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:30,799
Speaker 4: Nope, nope, you keep on going. Okay.

649
00:33:30,839 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 3: They were in Nice, France, and as they were recording,

650
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,839
one of the things that was happening in their area

651
00:33:37,359 --> 00:33:40,000
was the Tour de France. So they were witnessing the

652
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:40,640
Tour de France.

653
00:33:40,799 --> 00:33:41,759
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't.

654
00:33:41,559 --> 00:33:45,759
Speaker 3: Really know, other than you saw a lot of people's backsides. Well,

655
00:33:45,799 --> 00:33:48,559
they're writing bicycles.

656
00:33:49,559 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, I'm gonna go ahead and say that

657
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,559
I thought I knew what this was when you started,

658
00:33:54,759 --> 00:33:56,960
and it's not what I thought it was then, But

659
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,200
I think I know what it is now. But you

660
00:33:58,279 --> 00:33:59,640
keep on going. Okay, all right, I.

661
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 3: Don't want to lead you astray because the other one. Okay,

662
00:34:03,839 --> 00:34:06,680
So here's the thing. They wrote two songs because of this.

663
00:34:07,119 --> 00:34:11,239
One of them called Bicycle Race appears in this song

664
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,000
across references it does, and this particular song, my number

665
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,079
two cross references bicycle Race, and it was on a

666
00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:22,559
double A single, so both singles were an A side.

667
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 4: If I may, This is Fat Bottom Girls by Queen.

668
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,400
Get on your bikes and ride.

669
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:40,559
Speaker 7: Fat Bottom Girls, You make the rocking world around. I

670
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:48,000
was just a scald a new nooka.

671
00:34:48,079 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 3: This is a top down, turn it up song from

672
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,280
nineteen seventy eight. It comes on I blauring out the speakers.

673
00:34:55,519 --> 00:34:58,559
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you that I am very glad that

674
00:34:58,599 --> 00:35:02,079
you picked this one, because there were three songs from

675
00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:05,679
that year that I was like, which of these three

676
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,800
do I pick? I mean, I've said a bunch, but you.

677
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 3: Gotta have Queen on this list? Do you have to

678
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:11,639
have Queen, not.

679
00:35:11,559 --> 00:35:14,159
Speaker 4: Have Queen, but I've got a I've got a different album.

680
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 3: Okay, Well I got I got a couple more nuggets

681
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,400
for you, and so here's the deal. So Brian May

682
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,000
wrote this song knowing full well that Freddie Mercury is

683
00:35:23,039 --> 00:35:26,719
going to be singing it, and it did cost him

684
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,360
a bit of pause knowing that he was going to

685
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,880
be singing so strongly about women, even though he knew

686
00:35:33,880 --> 00:36:01,440
his preference. Yes, and He's like, that didn't matter. It's like,

687
00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:02,920
basically you can interchange.

688
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 4: I believed him when he talked about big fat Fanny,

689
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,599
such a naughty nanny. This is off the album Jazz, right,

690
00:36:12,679 --> 00:36:15,039
it is okay? So have you seen the fold out

691
00:36:15,159 --> 00:36:17,559
in the middle of the album, No, I have. It

692
00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:23,239
has about I'd say fifty or sixty women on bicycles

693
00:36:23,679 --> 00:36:31,239
were all naked except for helmets and socks. Well done,

694
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,960
Well done, Queen, well done.

695
00:36:34,199 --> 00:36:35,079
Speaker 3: That is awesome.

696
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,039
Speaker 4: Well I'm tipping my hand a little bit too much here,

697
00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:42,840
but it is appropriate that your number two is queen

698
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,320
because my number two is also Queen. All right, different

699
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:51,079
album okay. Earlier that year was literally written. Freddie Mercury said,

700
00:36:51,159 --> 00:36:54,320
I wrote this song to be used for football games.

701
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,079
Speaker 3: Okay, I already know what it is, but no, just

702
00:36:57,119 --> 00:36:59,679
go ahead. It has to be we are the champions,

703
00:37:11,559 --> 00:37:12,519
my friend.

704
00:37:19,079 --> 00:37:40,119
Speaker 4: To me, yes, and I feel completely okay saying that

705
00:37:40,159 --> 00:37:42,920
it is a tie for second with We're the Champions

706
00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:47,360
and we will rock here.

707
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,639
Speaker 3: Absolutely, they go together like peas and carrots. I mean,

708
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:52,960
I haven't heard him separate them.

709
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,679
Speaker 4: You can't separate them without causing gnashing of teeth. And

710
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:01,679
way the outcry is strong, what you cannot play we

711
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:03,760
will rock You and not follow it with.

712
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 1: We are the Champions.

713
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,159
Speaker 3: It's so true. When I end up we will Rock You,

714
00:38:07,199 --> 00:38:09,800
I always expect to hear the beginning we are the championship.

715
00:38:16,039 --> 00:38:18,119
Speaker 4: So I started with we Will Rock You when I

716
00:38:18,199 --> 00:38:20,000
was doing my research, and I like trying to pull

717
00:38:20,039 --> 00:38:21,559
it up and I'm like, I can't find that this

718
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,280
hit the billboard hot one hundred. That's not possible. It's

719
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,400
because they were putting together and so we are the champions,

720
00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:31,760
is what I mean, because we Will Rock You comes

721
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,519
first and slash we are the champions, right right right.

722
00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:37,880
But the way that they when they released the single,

723
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,960
it was the other way around, and so we are

724
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,760
the Champions was hitting the charts hard in January of

725
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:43,679
nineteen seventy year.

726
00:38:44,079 --> 00:38:46,639
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. We played this whenever

727
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,199
my baseball team won the Summer League in nineteen eighty two.

728
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:51,360
We put it on the jukebox.

729
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,280
Speaker 4: Well, and it was I mean, they wrote it for

730
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,239
football and it was part of the FIFA Championship from

731
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,559
I don't remember, like ninety eight or something like that,

732
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,280
and became another big hit again.

733
00:39:01,639 --> 00:39:04,679
Speaker 3: All right, so we're at our number one now, right.

734
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,639
Speaker 4: Well, before we get to number one, we have to

735
00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:10,800
do our honorable mentions, and this is this is where

736
00:39:11,079 --> 00:39:14,760
I'm struggling because I've got five and I've only been

737
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:19,880
allowed to I don't know what to do, Okay, So

738
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,840
I'm gonna let you go your honorable mentions first, and

739
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,480
maybe you'll knock a couple off my list.

740
00:39:23,559 --> 00:39:27,679
Speaker 3: Okay. So this is where my parents' taste kind of

741
00:39:27,679 --> 00:39:28,639
seeps in right here.

742
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:29,039
Speaker 4: Yeah.

743
00:39:29,159 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 3: In a nineteen eighty issue of Current Biology magazine I

744
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:39,440
know nothing about okay, it called this song the most

745
00:39:40,119 --> 00:39:46,079
recognized tune since Michelle by the Beatles, and I probably went,

746
00:39:46,679 --> 00:39:52,159
which one is that? But this is the one of

747
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,840
the most popular instrumentals of all time. Yes, I Did

748
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,880
Say instrumental. It was released in December of nineteen seventy

749
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:03,400
seven reached number four on the charts in nineteen seventy eight.

750
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 4: I have a guess. Okay, do you have a guess? Okay?

751
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:11,239
Is this close Encounters of the Third Kind? John Williams. No,

752
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,159
but that's a good guess, okay, because it was on

753
00:40:13,159 --> 00:40:15,039
the charts in seventy eight. Right right, right right?

754
00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, keep going, keep going? Okay, So this was

755
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,119
nominated for Record of the Year. This is not some

756
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:21,039
obscure song.

757
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 4: Wow. Okay.

758
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, it lost to Just the Way You Are, which

759
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,039
was on my chart as well.

760
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:27,599
Speaker 4: Okay.

761
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 3: It finished the year in chart for nineteen seventy eight

762
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,000
at number six. This is a huge song.

763
00:40:33,199 --> 00:40:33,559
Speaker 4: Okay.

764
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,599
Speaker 3: This guy the artist, his name is Chuck MANGIONI also

765
00:40:38,039 --> 00:40:41,159
wanted to be a baseball player, but instead became a

766
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:45,880
flugelhorn and trumpetereer and composer. He also created the Cannonball

767
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,280
Run theme. If you remember that back when we covered

768
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:48,920
Cannonball Run.

769
00:40:49,079 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, you know this song?

770
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 3: No me play it for you see if you recas again?

771
00:40:55,559 --> 00:40:58,239
Most recognizable since Michelle by the Beatles.

772
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,199
Speaker 4: Okay, So I've heard the song. I feel like I

773
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:18,400
heard it on mister mom.

774
00:41:18,559 --> 00:41:20,559
Speaker 3: Maybe it's possible.

775
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:22,559
Speaker 4: Is this a general hospital theme?

776
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,119
Speaker 3: No, it's just called a song called Feels So Good.

777
00:41:25,159 --> 00:41:28,559
It was just an instrumental and it was play the

778
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,159
crap out of on the radio.

779
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 4: Wow.

780
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 3: I remember playing it when I was just sitting around

781
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,440
playing with my Star Wars guys. Wow, my parents love

782
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,280
this song. Okay, all right, well, hey, I can tell

783
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:39,480
it didn't strike play with you.

784
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: It did not.

785
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 4: Of the year I knew our list would be different.

786
00:41:43,519 --> 00:41:46,760
There you go, Okay, what else you got?

787
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:47,800
Speaker 1: Okay?

788
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 3: My other honorable Mention is a song strongly associated with

789
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,039
baseball Again. It was originally written about Los Angeles, but

790
00:41:55,119 --> 00:41:58,960
has since become synonymous with the San Francisco area. The

791
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,239
guy who wrote this song it was one of his

792
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,400
first songs that he brought to this band, who were

793
00:42:04,599 --> 00:42:08,119
huge in the seventies and eighties and still today they're huge.

794
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,280
Originally only reached number sixty eight on the Hot one hundred.

795
00:42:12,599 --> 00:42:15,719
This song is played at San Francisco Giants Games, Oakland

796
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,320
A's Games, Golden State Warrior Games, forty nine Ers games,

797
00:42:19,599 --> 00:42:24,440
and this artist has sung this during the World Series Okay,

798
00:42:25,079 --> 00:42:27,000
when I play this song, you're gonna know every word.

799
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 4: Okay, ready, yep, Yeah, it took one chord Lights by Journey,

800
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:38,280
that's it.

801
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 5: Okay, We're the lights go down in the sentence.

802
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 1: And the song shine.

803
00:42:53,039 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 6: The band.

804
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 3: Lot of So originally the lyrics were when the sun

805
00:43:00,559 --> 00:43:01,519
shines on.

806
00:43:02,599 --> 00:43:05,079
Speaker 1: La oh okay, but.

807
00:43:05,079 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 3: When the band moved to San Francisco, Steve Perry's like, man,

808
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,760
that just fits so well to say sun shines on

809
00:43:12,119 --> 00:43:12,920
the Bay.

810
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 4: I love it. Yeah, I would pick of that on

811
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,719
that album. I would pick Wheel in the Sky, but

812
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,599
this is definitely a close second for me.

813
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:20,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.

814
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 1: I love it.

815
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:22,559
Speaker 3: It's so singable, right.

816
00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:26,519
Speaker 4: Very yep. Okay, So I just at this point, I've

817
00:43:26,559 --> 00:43:30,199
just to I've got to apologize to Joe Walsh. I've

818
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,519
got apologize to Billy Joel. I'm really thankful that you

819
00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:34,360
brought up one of his songs, but there was another

820
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,199
one that was totally like a killer for me. I've

821
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:42,199
got to apologize to Kansas. But anyway, okay, So my

822
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:47,519
first honorable mention is the one colorably disco song that

823
00:43:47,599 --> 00:43:50,159
I have on my list. Okay, all right, yep, And

824
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:54,000
the title of the song. Well, first, the song begins

825
00:43:54,039 --> 00:43:59,000
with an acappella chorus. You know, it's beautifully done. Of

826
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,960
the four members of this band, right, two guys, two girls.

827
00:44:02,079 --> 00:44:04,800
The title of the song comes from the writer. One

828
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,159
of the guys in the band. He was a runner,

829
00:44:07,199 --> 00:44:09,679
and so as he was running, he would have a

830
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:15,119
rhythm in his head of and that became this.

831
00:44:15,039 --> 00:44:16,519
Speaker 3: Is take a Chance on Me by Abba.

832
00:44:29,039 --> 00:44:29,199
Speaker 4: Hey.

833
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 3: We have actually covered Abba twice.

834
00:44:31,639 --> 00:44:33,519
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, with your Patreon episode.

835
00:44:33,559 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 3: With the Patreon episodes, the two guys broke off and

836
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,880
created the song one night in Bangkok in any Freed

837
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,199
Frida Yeah, released the song There's Something going On, which

838
00:44:43,199 --> 00:44:44,679
we covered on our Patreon as well.

839
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, this is my I love a lot of songs.

840
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:51,880
This is probably top of the list.

841
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:56,119
Speaker 3: Right, you can't really have a Slate seventies list without

842
00:44:56,119 --> 00:44:57,039
Abba somewhere in there.

843
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,599
Speaker 4: This song. Actually, it didn't reach his hall as high

844
00:45:00,679 --> 00:45:03,559
on the charts as Dancing Queen, but it has sold

845
00:45:03,679 --> 00:45:05,639
more copies than Dancing Queen every day.

846
00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 3: I love it, absolutely love.

847
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:12,119
Speaker 4: It all right. My second honorable mention, I think we

848
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,639
have to cover this album at some point. Okay, okay,

849
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,199
So this was the first single off of the debut

850
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,840
album of this band. The band's debut album was self titled.

851
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,119
Same name as the band was the name of the album.

852
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:29,239
There are three fantastic songs on this album. They're still

853
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,800
being played today. I'll walk into CVS and this will

854
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:36,280
be on the bad right. Okay, So there are two

855
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,559
guys who sang in this band. They've both since passed away.

856
00:45:39,679 --> 00:45:43,519
One of them has very good looks, blonde, blue eyed,

857
00:45:43,559 --> 00:45:47,119
beautiful voice. The other one is i would venture to say,

858
00:45:47,199 --> 00:45:51,280
hideously ugly and has a very strange voice, but is

859
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:56,320
probably the more recognizable of the two guys. They set

860
00:45:56,559 --> 00:46:00,960
the standard for the way music sounded in the eighties

861
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:06,639
with this album from nineteen seventy eight, What Wow. We

862
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:11,000
have talked about him briefly before because their follow up

863
00:46:11,039 --> 00:46:14,719
album they used Mutt Lang as their producer.

864
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,320
Speaker 3: Okay, this has to be the Cars You Got It.

865
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,119
Speaker 4: Debut single is called just what I Needed.

866
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 2: I come.

867
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:34,760
Speaker 1: Wasting all my time because when you're standing as kind

868
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,159
of was my mind?

869
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 3: Oh good one. That is a great one.

870
00:46:42,039 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 4: Thank you good call.

871
00:46:43,159 --> 00:46:45,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, now that you say it, I'm like that dude

872
00:46:45,199 --> 00:46:45,639
is ugly.

873
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:50,119
Speaker 4: Rick Okazik is not a handsome man, but is.

874
00:46:50,519 --> 00:46:54,199
Speaker 3: He married Paulina Porskova, who is gorgeous.

875
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,199
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, so you had just what I needed. You

876
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,800
had my best friend's girl, and you had good times

877
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,519
roll all on this album. Nobody was playing music like

878
00:47:04,559 --> 00:47:07,719
this back then, and these guys were nobody and they

879
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,880
came out with their own sound and it set the

880
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:11,360
stage for all of the music you heard in the

881
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:11,920
eighties from that.

882
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: That's fantastic.

883
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what I mean. Heartbeat City by the

884
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,400
Cars is on the schedule for next season.

885
00:47:16,519 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't wait to talk about it.

886
00:47:18,079 --> 00:47:18,519
Speaker 3: Could be fun.

887
00:47:18,599 --> 00:47:21,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay. And then just a couple of Wow I

888
00:47:21,199 --> 00:47:24,239
didn't know about this group or this song, okay, okay.

889
00:47:24,679 --> 00:47:28,400
One of them was a group that the apparent lead

890
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,400
singer was lip syncing the whole time. And this is

891
00:47:31,519 --> 00:47:35,960
interesting because the guy who was really singing, who wrote

892
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:37,880
all the songs and did all the music, is the

893
00:47:38,039 --> 00:47:40,840
same guy who was behind Millie Vanilli.

894
00:47:41,039 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 3: Yes, you know this, I do because I just watched

895
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,639
the Milli Vanilli documentary.

896
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 4: Yeah. So the name of the band is Bony m Yes,

897
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,440
and the name of the song is Resputant Yeah, although

898
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,960
when they sing it it's respoutine.

899
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 1: Wow.

900
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,559
Speaker 3: The same dude, who did Milli Vanilli did?

901
00:47:58,639 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: Well?

902
00:47:58,920 --> 00:47:59,559
Speaker 3: You gotta watch that.

903
00:47:59,639 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 4: Yeah. I got an exotic dancer from the Caribbean to

904
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,480
come and pretend like he was singing this. Yes, but

905
00:48:04,559 --> 00:48:07,000
these guys just they did never hit it quite as big.

906
00:48:07,039 --> 00:48:09,360
But I love the music. I'd never heard it before.

907
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,440
I started listening to big hits of seventy eight and

908
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,119
I came across across Rasputine and I was like, whoaw,

909
00:48:16,599 --> 00:48:21,400
this is fantastic. Yes, yeah, it is not a black

910
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,599
guy singing the song. It is a white guy singing.

911
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:24,760
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah.

912
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,519
Speaker 3: By the way, I was interacting with Amanagenic on Facebook

913
00:48:27,519 --> 00:48:29,960
the other day. She's like, you guys have got to

914
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:33,119
do the Milli Vanilla thing. After watching the documentary. It

915
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:35,599
is incredibly She was going back.

916
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,679
Speaker 4: And forth with me, so all right, well you twist

917
00:48:37,679 --> 00:48:40,360
my arm. I'm interested enough. We can talk about it.

918
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,840
It's a good story. It was heartbreaking, all right. And

919
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,440
then the other one was a song that I had

920
00:48:47,519 --> 00:48:51,920
never heard before, absolutely loved. Very seventy sound named after

921
00:48:52,079 --> 00:48:55,360
and kind of modeled after a nursery rhyme. The lead

922
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,360
singer for this band would go on to his own

923
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,840
individual stardom inteen teen eighty four with a big hit

924
00:49:02,119 --> 00:49:04,639
for a movie. Who you gonna call.

925
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 3: Ray Parker Jr?

926
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 4: So the band he had in nineteen seventy eight? Do

927
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,840
you know this? Because again this is great. I see

928
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,679
this band and the name of the band is called

929
00:49:14,039 --> 00:49:19,000
Radio are A Ydo I show this to Kevin Davis

930
00:49:19,039 --> 00:49:21,639
and he's like, oh yeah, it's Ray Parker Jr. Like

931
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,880
holy cow. So here's the song because you probably haven't

932
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:25,159
heard it.

933
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:28,639
Speaker 6: Jack.

934
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,039
Speaker 4: So the name of that song is Jack and Jill.

935
00:49:37,639 --> 00:49:41,519
It just I mean it its his seventies for me, So.

936
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:43,280
Speaker 3: About Jack and Jill.

937
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:44,599
Speaker 4: You got it?

938
00:49:45,119 --> 00:49:48,199
Speaker 3: There you go, nice, very good way to pull Ray

939
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:49,280
Parker Junior out of that.

940
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, crazy interesting.

941
00:49:51,199 --> 00:49:53,519
Speaker 3: Here's a couple of near misses for me, just throwing

942
00:49:53,519 --> 00:49:56,440
these out there for you. Copa Cabana really wanted to

943
00:49:56,519 --> 00:49:57,440
jump into my list.

944
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 4: It was it was in my It wasn't my dar,

945
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:01,679
it really was.

946
00:50:02,079 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 3: This list was shaped by my parents, New York Groove

947
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,599
by Ace Freely. Really wanted to be on there. Uh,

948
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,199
I mean, if I can't have You was the hardest

949
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,599
one to cut, but we had already covered the Saturday

950
00:50:12,639 --> 00:50:16,480
Night Fever and then don't look back by Boston. It

951
00:50:16,519 --> 00:50:18,320
was such a great song. It hurt to leave that

952
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:18,719
one off.

953
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:22,559
Speaker 4: Yeah. I had to struggle with leaving rock San off

954
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,519
because ultimately what I did was well, it didn't really

955
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:30,239
hit until it was re released in April of seventy nine,

956
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,239
so I've got to make that cut and then I

957
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,400
apologies to Bob Seeger as well, But it was more

958
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:38,199
of a seventy nine song than it was a seventy

959
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,519
eight song. So and for me, it was an eighty

960
00:50:41,519 --> 00:50:43,159
three song all the time.

961
00:50:44,159 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.

962
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 4: Yeah one.

963
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 3: Okay, So we're to our number one.

964
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,519
Speaker 4: We're to our number ones. Let's see what you got Mart.

965
00:50:55,679 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 3: We have had zero crossover.

966
00:50:58,199 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 2: Zero.

967
00:50:58,840 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 4: That's as I expected.

968
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 3: That's fantastic. Okay, So my should I go first?

969
00:51:04,119 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 4: I go first?

970
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 3: Yep, Okay, this is going to crush me if our

971
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,079
number one is a crossover here, but.

972
00:51:11,559 --> 00:51:13,360
Speaker 4: So thin, so I really don't. Okay.

973
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 3: So my number one song by a one hit wonder artist, okay,

974
00:51:17,599 --> 00:51:20,920
except he was with a group who had a very

975
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,000
well known hit from the seventies early seventies, like nineteen

976
00:51:24,039 --> 00:51:24,559
seventy three.

977
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 4: Okay, that's similar.

978
00:51:27,079 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 3: Keep kidding the song that he hit with when he

979
00:51:30,519 --> 00:51:32,440
was with the group Steeler's Wheel.

980
00:51:32,679 --> 00:51:37,679
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, we finally have our own and it's

981
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:38,960
at our number one position.

982
00:51:39,079 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 3: How about that?

983
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,599
Speaker 4: Oh wow? What makes me so happy that we both

984
00:51:43,639 --> 00:51:46,800
picked the same song for me? High five babies? All right,

985
00:51:47,079 --> 00:51:49,400
so nobody else knows what we're talking about yet, so

986
00:51:50,119 --> 00:51:52,559
go ahead. The song that he had was a hit

987
00:51:52,599 --> 00:51:53,440
from Steeler Wheel.

988
00:51:53,639 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 3: It was called Stuck in the Middle with You, which

989
00:51:56,039 --> 00:51:58,960
is featured in Reservoir Dogs.

990
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:03,159
Speaker 4: Most iconic scene, which makes the song so iconic.

991
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 3: Don't one gets this clowns letting me joke us to

992
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:16,840
the right here, I am snucking a little with you yourself.

993
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:18,960
I'm stuck in a little of you.

994
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,599
Speaker 4: But yes, I would not have called this particular gentleman

995
00:52:24,679 --> 00:52:27,280
a one hit wonder. But he didn't do much.

996
00:52:27,199 --> 00:52:30,119
Speaker 3: After this album, nothing that I recognize anyway.

997
00:52:30,199 --> 00:52:31,760
Speaker 4: So the name of the album that this song that

998
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,199
we're talking about appears on is called City to City.

999
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:38,000
This guy's first band was a group, a folk duo

1000
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,760
called the humble Bums, which he was in with a

1001
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,599
guy who became a big stand up comedian named Billy Connelly,

1002
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,760
the scott the Scottish comedian, Like I mean, you know, him, right, yeah,

1003
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,199
I do. Yeah, So that was that was his original band.

1004
00:52:52,199 --> 00:52:53,760
And then of course, like you said, he was with

1005
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,719
Steeler's Wheel. They had that big hit, but then they

1006
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,880
had a very bad breakup of the band.

1007
00:52:59,639 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 3: Well, and then they got in a fight with their

1008
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,920
record company and they couldn't record for three years.

1009
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:09,679
Speaker 4: Three years, and so for three years he's aimless. He's

1010
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:14,760
drinking heavily. And this song he wrote because he would

1011
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,199
go to these meetings that he would have with the

1012
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,599
lawyers and the accountants, the boring people, where all this

1013
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,360
fighting was going on, right, and he would just get

1014
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,360
frustrated and not want to have to take the train back.

1015
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,320
So he had a buddy who lived on a particular

1016
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:29,079
street and he would go over there and just play

1017
00:53:29,159 --> 00:53:30,639
music and drink and write.

1018
00:53:31,159 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 3: And that street was called Baker Street.

1019
00:53:54,079 --> 00:53:58,079
Speaker 4: I can never get tired of the song. It is

1020
00:53:58,199 --> 00:54:01,639
so freaking good. I have to point and scowl at

1021
00:54:01,639 --> 00:54:03,559
my friend Clay Yoakum, who was the last time he

1022
00:54:03,599 --> 00:54:05,280
was up hanging out with me, is like, I can't

1023
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,519
stand that song. I'm like what he's like, It's like

1024
00:54:08,639 --> 00:54:10,599
it can't decide what kind of song it is.

1025
00:54:10,679 --> 00:54:13,559
Speaker 3: I'm like, that's why it's so good epic, man.

1026
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:16,199
Speaker 4: I mean by my friend listens to Radiohead, which I

1027
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,440
love too, but I mean talk about music that's all

1028
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:21,320
over the place. But anyway, this song covering this experience

1029
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:23,360
where he's thinking to himself, I'm gonna give up the

1030
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:26,000
booze and the one night stands, buy a little piece

1031
00:54:26,039 --> 00:54:28,840
of land. I mean, it's all autobiographical on what he's

1032
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,920
going through and then has this beautiful ending when they

1033
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,880
finally get the suing and the lawsuits and all that

1034
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:39,000
stuff done. He writes this these last lyrics when you

1035
00:54:39,039 --> 00:54:41,519
wake up, it's a new morning, the sun is shining,

1036
00:54:41,599 --> 00:54:44,760
it's a new You're going You're going home.

1037
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: Basic.

1038
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,039
Speaker 4: He used to say that it was.

1039
00:54:53,199 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 3: So is it your Giant Your It's a wonderful song.

1040
00:55:01,519 --> 00:55:03,800
I love it. This is another one. I remember listening

1041
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,840
to it while I was playing with my Star Wars guys. Yeah,

1042
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,159
by the way, have you heard the song by Steve

1043
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,000
Marcus called Half a Heart?

1044
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 4: Yes?

1045
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 3: What do you think?

1046
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,159
Speaker 4: Very similar? Uh huh, let's play it. Let's have a listen.

1047
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:29,400
Yeah you decide, Okay, legitimately very similar, right, and it's

1048
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:32,719
a horn that's playing too. Right now. What's interesting is

1049
00:55:33,119 --> 00:55:35,920
that Jerry Rafferty, you know, he's finally recording now, he

1050
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:38,719
settle all the lawsuits and he's recording this album with

1051
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:42,159
this song on it, and he had a space where

1052
00:55:42,159 --> 00:55:44,840
he wanted this lick right, and somebody else said, you

1053
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,599
should probably use a saxophone for this one. So they

1054
00:55:47,639 --> 00:55:52,079
call up this guy named Rufael Ravenscroft. There you go,

1055
00:55:52,159 --> 00:55:54,119
thank you for saying that sounds like a character on

1056
00:55:54,159 --> 00:56:00,400
Harry Potter does Ravenscroft. And he comes in and they,

1057
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,400
you know, they do what they do. He lays down

1058
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:06,559
this sax solo. To this day, he says, it sounds

1059
00:56:06,599 --> 00:56:10,840
horrible to me. The sacks is flat, it's not timed right,

1060
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,440
and I'm just like, you're a moron, how do you

1061
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,840
And but then he went on to say, hey, that

1062
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:17,800
was me. I wrote that, and I should be getting

1063
00:56:18,039 --> 00:56:19,960
song credit for it. And there was a bit of

1064
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,960
a fight, but then ultimately they found demo tapes where

1065
00:56:23,199 --> 00:56:26,679
Jerry Rafferty is playing that same lick on a guitar.

1066
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,760
So no, sorry, buddy, you're not You're not doing it.

1067
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,559
Speaker 3: You pulled the Melissa mingle. Sorry, buddy.

1068
00:56:34,679 --> 00:56:39,159
Speaker 4: So not only does it have this incredible moving story

1069
00:56:39,199 --> 00:56:42,440
behind it. Not only does it have this incredible sax solo,

1070
00:56:42,639 --> 00:56:45,119
you get two minutes left in the song and you

1071
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:52,519
are getting some ear splitting, kick ass guitar solo. It's amazing.

1072
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,519
Speaker 3: It comes screaming in at the end. It's wonderful.

1073
00:56:55,679 --> 00:56:57,639
Speaker 4: This the the guitar solo is a guy by a

1074
00:56:57,679 --> 00:57:00,639
guy named Hugh Burns. What is funny to me is

1075
00:57:01,119 --> 00:57:04,599
he's the guitarist on this one, which has conceivably one

1076
00:57:04,599 --> 00:57:08,920
of the most recognizable sax solos ever. He was also

1077
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:10,920
the guitarist on Careless Whisper.

1078
00:57:14,079 --> 00:57:17,159
Speaker 3: Oh, that's fantastic. By the way, this is the same

1079
00:57:17,559 --> 00:57:22,039
Baker Street where Sherlock Holmes lived, twenty one b By

1080
00:57:22,039 --> 00:57:25,840
the way, A quick little baseball connection to Jerry Rafferty. Yeah,

1081
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:29,159
he wrote a song about build a Spaceman Lee. He

1082
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,360
was a pitcher. He used to talk to his baseballs,

1083
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,440
and he was one of the first guys to get

1084
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:37,679
in trouble for using pot in baseball. Nice and so

1085
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:40,400
there's a little baseball connection for you. This reached number

1086
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,840
two and held that spot for over a month in

1087
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,639
the summer of nineteen seventy eight, and was blocked the

1088
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:50,840
entire time by one song Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb,

1089
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:52,559
not even.

1090
00:57:52,679 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 4: What it ruled the entire year. I just don't. I

1091
00:57:56,519 --> 00:57:59,880
don't understand it. I mean, talk about that when just

1092
00:58:00,159 --> 00:58:02,519
what I needed only reached number twenty seven, you know,

1093
00:58:02,639 --> 00:58:06,159
is number one Shadow Dancing, Boogie oggi Ogie by Taste

1094
00:58:06,159 --> 00:58:19,719
of Honey. Oh shut up, I knew you say that.

1095
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:22,280
So this was another one I texted my dad about.

1096
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:24,519
I texted in the album cover for City to City

1097
00:58:24,559 --> 00:58:26,880
because it was very familiar to me. I'm Mike, did

1098
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,239
we have this in the album collection? And he said,

1099
00:58:29,519 --> 00:58:32,599
I don't remember, but I really did like Baker Street,

1100
00:58:32,679 --> 00:58:35,320
and I was like, it is probably the best song

1101
00:58:35,519 --> 00:58:39,159
of a year of incredibly good songs. But to touch

1102
00:58:39,199 --> 00:58:42,360
on your idea of one hit Wonder, another great song

1103
00:58:42,559 --> 00:58:46,159
off of that album is called right down the Line,

1104
00:58:46,239 --> 00:58:55,840
and I know you know it. I'll play it for you.

1105
00:58:57,119 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 3: I retract my one hit Wonder statement. Yes that's a

1106
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:01,320
very familiar song to me.

1107
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:03,039
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it's another great one off the album. I

1108
00:59:03,119 --> 00:59:05,159
started listening to that album from beginning to end just

1109
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:07,679
from the love that I found for those two songs.

1110
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 3: Fantastic.

1111
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:12,039
Speaker 4: Yeah, great job you too, man, And I know that

1112
00:59:12,079 --> 00:59:13,480
there will be a lot of people who are at

1113
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,159
this point in the podcast are going you guys didn't

1114
00:59:16,199 --> 00:59:19,159
say anything about somebody, and I'm sorry.

1115
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 1: I really didn't want to leave them off the list.

1116
00:59:21,719 --> 00:59:23,639
Speaker 4: But go ahead tell us who you think that we

1117
00:59:23,679 --> 00:59:27,079
are crazy for not even getting on our top seven songs.

1118
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:28,599
Speaker 3: Oh, we'd love to hear from you guys.

1119
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 4: Absolutely.

1120
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 3: By the way, this is our last formal episode of

1121
00:59:32,039 --> 00:59:35,320
the season. This wraps up Season four. De Congratulations season.

1122
00:59:35,079 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 4: Four You too, man, I can't believe it's been four years.

1123
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,239
I'm still having a fantastic time me too. Dear listeners,

1124
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:44,800
Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you guys have

1125
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,960
a fantastic holiday season with your family. Thank you for

1126
00:59:48,119 --> 00:59:51,000
allowing us to come into your lives for a little

1127
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,679
bit of time every week. It means everything to us

1128
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:58,199
that we can find joy in the same movies and

1129
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,639
music and other silliness that we love once you guys,

1130
01:00:01,719 --> 01:00:04,159
have a great new year, and we will catch back

1131
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:06,199
up with you in twenty twenty four.

1132
01:00:06,599 --> 01:00:11,079
Speaker 3: Bye guys. All right, do we have to tell the story?

1133
01:00:11,159 --> 01:00:15,000
So you and I we went to see Die Hard

1134
01:00:15,159 --> 01:00:17,679
with the guys from the Only in Oklahoma Podcast ye,

1135
01:00:18,199 --> 01:00:21,880
the guys. That's right, great bunch of dudes, and we

1136
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:23,840
kind of set up this meat but you and I

1137
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:24,400
showed up late.

1138
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:26,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, we finished with our episode that you guys just

1139
01:00:26,719 --> 01:00:29,079
listened to, and we said, ohkap, we gotta go.

1140
01:00:29,199 --> 01:00:30,559
Speaker 3: We got to go right now.

1141
01:00:30,559 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 4: We hauled balls over there as fast as we can.

1142
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:36,119
But can you have a movie without popcorn and candy?

1143
01:00:36,239 --> 01:00:36,519
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1144
01:00:36,559 --> 01:00:37,079
Speaker 4: So can.

1145
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,679
Speaker 3: So we walk in and you're like, man, I'm a

1146
01:00:39,679 --> 01:00:42,320
little hungry. I gotta grab some snacks and a fifty

1147
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:45,199
five gallon drum of popcorn right now. Keep in mind

1148
01:00:45,239 --> 01:00:47,119
we haven't met these guys in person, which is the

1149
01:00:47,159 --> 01:00:49,719
small by the way.

1150
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:50,679
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

1151
01:00:50,719 --> 01:00:52,599
Speaker 3: So we had interacted with these guys a little bit

1152
01:00:52,679 --> 01:00:55,960
on Facebook. We had exchanged some texts, but we hadn't

1153
01:00:56,079 --> 01:00:58,679
We didn't really know what they looked like, right clue.

1154
01:00:58,719 --> 01:01:01,480
So we walk into the movie. It's they're showing the previews. Yeah,

1155
01:01:01,519 --> 01:01:04,320
this is first impression. Time we look up. They wave

1156
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,760
at us like hey, here we are, like, hey, there

1157
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:08,960
they are, And all of a sudden, I see all

1158
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:14,800
of their faces go like ooh whoa.

1159
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you got a water and I got a

1160
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:17,639
water and a popcorn and of re pieces and a

1161
01:01:17,679 --> 01:01:21,280
butterfingers and I'm carrying all of those things. Yes, and

1162
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,639
as I see them, I'm looking at them. And I

1163
01:01:24,239 --> 01:01:28,599
didn't trip. I flat out kicked. I kicked the step

1164
01:01:28,639 --> 01:01:31,880
that I was going into, and all of that stuff

1165
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:35,280
in my hands started becoming a juggling act. And it

1166
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:38,199
looked like old Jed was a millionaire because popcorn like

1167
01:01:38,239 --> 01:01:43,400
spewed everywhere. Oh my gosh, so yes, guys we'd never

1168
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:47,840
met before the first impressions. Oh d just spilled popcorn

1169
01:01:48,039 --> 01:01:48,559
all over the.

1170
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 3: Movie Popcorn Explosion. Well, we had a great time with

1171
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,039
those guys. That was a lot of fun. But we

1172
01:01:55,159 --> 01:01:57,480
had to tell the story of the popcorn explosion.

1173
01:01:58,559 --> 01:02:36,719
Speaker 2: Oh here comes a flock of wir w workforce. Wow,

1174
01:02:37,199 --> 01:02:38,280
not work