WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:05.320 Hudson River Radio dot Com. 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:07.759 And now back to v H one salute to singers 3 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:10.759 from the nineties today's installment why they all needed to 4 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:12.359 turn every vowel into the letter A. 5 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:14.480 It used to be. 6 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:21.719 That you love May, but now it's nineteen nineteen. 7 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:27.920 Hi, and I half to say it, are you free? 8 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:35.479 The letter head earlier? 9 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:40.880 Aleta, thank you. 10 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:43.079 This is John Fulbright. 11 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:44.200 Hi, This is jar Williams. 12 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:44.439 Hi. 13 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:46.159 This is Mitch Margle of the Tokens. 14 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:46.439 Hi. 15 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:48.759 This is Gary us Bonds. Matt here on the Rock 16 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:54.640 and Roll History Show. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the 17 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:57.600 Rock and Roll History Show and Hudson River Radio. I'm 18 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.880 Brian Horowitz. Tonight we're gonna be talking about musicians who 19 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:05.640 were successful and then changed careers, either by choice or 20 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:08.640 maybe not so much. We'll find out. But before we 21 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:10.840 hop in, as always, allow me to introduce all of 22 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:14.799 the cranbones who are joining us here tonight. First and foremost, 23 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:18.120 from the Richter Observatory, he figured out that the longest 24 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:22.640 drum solo ever was twelve hours, played by the kids 25 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:25.840 sitting behind him on his last flight to England. Neil 26 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:26.560 Richter is here. 27 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:31.400 Hey, everybody, should I say? 28 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.239 And the host of Paranormally Yours. She only sings in 29 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:42.680 the car when it's going in reverse. She's a backup singer. 30 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:44.319 Gl Nuklem is here. 31 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:48.920 Oh hell, I mean hello. 32 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:53.120 And from the silver screen she saw a vegan, a 33 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:56.599 yoga student, and an atheist walk into a bar. She 34 00:01:56.680 --> 00:02:00.000 only knew because they told everybody within the first two minutes. 35 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.359 And it's Mercedes Kent is here. 36 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:05.239 Oh my gosh, so true. 37 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:10.879 Hey, hey, everybody, and joining us from his upstairs bathroom. 38 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.039 He is ready to accept an airplane from any country 39 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.840 willing to give him one. He'll also take a boat, 40 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:19.520 a jet ski or an ATV, but no East scooters 41 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.520 because those are ridiculous. John Kelly's back with us. 42 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:26.039 Hi, John, Hey, Brian, Hey, everybody, good to be here, 43 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.520 and I'll gladly accept that plane as long as somebody 44 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:29.479 else pays for the games. 45 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:30.080 There you go. 46 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:33.560 And last, but not least, the host of Shaving Cream, 47 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:38.080 she decided to download the Titanic movie. It's sinking right now, 48 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:39.039 Barbara vielle Is. 49 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:44.000 That just sums up everything, right pretty much. 50 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:49.479 Everybody's having a rough weekend, which you know, but we're 51 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:51.639 here to have a good weekend, all right. It was 52 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:55.439 the following week. Yeah, I hear you, but what can 53 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:57.159 we do. We're just gonna make the most of it tonight. 54 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:59.439 We're gonna have a good time. But I thought before 55 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:03.960 we been recently we talked about if you remember, monitoring 56 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:08.280 systems and like what the performers here on stage versus 57 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:13.120 what the audience heres? And Guns and Roses click tracks, 58 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:15.400 we talked about the click tracks and all that. Yeah, well, 59 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:18.400 Guns and Roses had a little thing that kind of 60 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:20.479 made the rounds. It's been a bad month for drummers 61 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:24.400 because Zach Starkey is back out. We're a little behind 62 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:25.039 the times on this. 63 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:26.840 Yeah. 64 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:30.919 So Guns and Roses has a new drummer, Isaac Carpenter, 65 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:32.919 and they were doing a show in Japan and he 66 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:37.080 started playing the wrong song. So Axel Rose is trying 67 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.319 to correct him. So it's a great example of he's 68 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:42.520 talking into his mic and everybody on stage can hear, 69 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:45.159 but the audience can't and all. So let me play 70 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:47.639 a clip of what happened in Guns and Roses a 71 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:48.400 couple of weeks ago. 72 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:56.960 No bad obsession, Bad obsessions? 73 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:05.719 Can Isaac not hear me? Somebody answer me. 74 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:06.439 I can't. 75 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:10.919 I can barely hear whoever's talking, all right. 76 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:13.960 My check for dub, my check for. 77 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:25.199 H. 78 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:46.480 So now they're all back on the right track. But 79 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:48.560 I thought that was a great example of the kind 80 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.519 of stuff we were talking about with oops. 81 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:56.879 Wow talking about marching to the beat of a different drummer. 82 00:04:55.439 --> 00:05:00.600 H yeah, but that was That's the point is that 83 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:02.879 it wasn't a hot mic that you know, you got 84 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:06.800 your monitor engineer controlling what everybody's hearing on stage in 85 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:10.319 front of house shuts off axls mic, so you didn't 86 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.199 hear that wrong song whole thing going. 87 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.360 On there, and that person did their job. 88 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:16.319 And they did their job. 89 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:16.639 Yep. 90 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:21.120 I don't know who let that clip out, but that's awesome. Yeah, 91 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:23.600 you know, stuff happens. Even when you've been playing for 92 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:26.560 forty something years, you're still gonna have mistakes up there 93 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:29.680 and all that. So I thought that would be something 94 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:32.639 entertaining to share with all y'all. So let us hop 95 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:36.680 it hop in tonight to our career change topic. Barbara, 96 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:38.040 you are going to lead us out tonight. 97 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:44.720 Okay, So for musicians who changed careers. My song choice 98 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:47.399 for this topic, I'm gonna mention it in just a bit. 99 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:54.040 It's by a musician fred Neil born Frederick Ralph Morlock 100 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:58.879 Junior on March sixteenth, nineteen thirty six, in Cleveland, Ohio. 101 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:03.680 His family moved to Saint Petersburg, Florida in nineteen forty two, 102 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:07.639 where he started to sing while attending first grade, later 103 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:12.160 learning guitar in sixth grade. He served two years in 104 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:16.839 the Navy and was discharged in nineteen fifty five. He 105 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:21.199 married and divorced several times. And I loved reading all 106 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:23.879 these names of all these super women he was married to, 107 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:29.000 but most notably at least to me, because I recognized 108 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:34.600 the name. His second wife was Elaine Berman, who later 109 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:41.000 married Tony Orlando. Fred Neil composed and recorded my song 110 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:45.839 choice Everybody's Talking in nineteen sixty six, and I can't 111 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:47.839 say the title of that song without my New York 112 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:52.439 accent coming out, so I apologize for that. So it 113 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:56.199 was recorded in sixty six, but it actually wasn't released 114 00:06:56.279 --> 00:07:00.560 until nineteen sixty eight on his self titled album, and 115 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:02.639 the song became a hit when it was covered by 116 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:07.079 singer Harry Nilson in nineteen sixty nine. It reached number 117 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:10.319 six on the Billboard Hot one hundred and won a 118 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:13.800 Grammy after being featured in the film Midnight Cowboy. 119 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:15.000 So before we. 120 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:18.920 Continue, let's listen to the original Fred Neil recording. 121 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:26.879 Everybody is talking head me. I don't hear what they're saying, 122 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:38.959 only the ecless. Oh my mind. People stop in steering, 123 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:47.879 I can't see the paces. Holdly the shadow. Who's out there? 124 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:56.879 I'm going with the sun, you shine in through the 125 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:58.040 poor it ring. 126 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:00.680 Go in? 127 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:10.360 Were the weather suits my clueses banking off of the northeast. 128 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:13.000 When you see down on the. 129 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:13.959 Summer breed. 130 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:31.720 Snipping over the old shine like stone. 131 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:44.480 I'm going in where the sun keeps shining air through 132 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:51.279 the boy and ring, go in where the weather shoots 133 00:08:51.360 --> 00:09:00.639 my cloes baking after the northeast, when say, laying on 134 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:12.559 a solar breed skipping over the ocean like stone. Ye, 135 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:18.960 everybody else talking at me, can't hear what the same 136 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:32.159 old many headles on my mind. I'll let my love her. 137 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:35.440 Do. 138 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:38.759 I let you my love. 139 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.159 I will let you. 140 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:47.720 My love her. 141 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:52.240 So. 142 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.000 Fred Neil had been interested in dolphins since the mid 143 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:01.080 nineteen sixties after visiting the Miami Seaquarium. He had moved 144 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:04.240 to Woodstock in nineteen sixty nine, but left there in 145 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:08.759 the mid nineteen seventies. After co founding the Dolphin Research 146 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:15.159 Project in nineteen seventy, dedicated to stopping the worldwide capture, trafficking, 147 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:21.039 and exploitation of dolphins, he had increasingly spent more time 148 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:25.159 on the Dolphin Project and gradually disappeared from recording altogether, 149 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:29.679 and many of his early nineteen seventies recordings remained unissued 150 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:33.840 and unreleased. In June nineteen eighty seven, he was involved 151 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:36.600 in a car accident that took the life of his girlfriend, 152 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:40.000 and he passed away on July seventh, two thousand and one, 153 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:44.320 from cancer. And the reason I chose this particular artist 154 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:49.080 is because while researching all the various musicians, I found 155 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:53.080 this website that had all these musicians that changed careers 156 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:56.720 and what they changed to and I found this one 157 00:10:57.080 --> 00:10:59.279 to be like the most intriguing. I thought this was 158 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:04.000 really really cool. And the other thing, yeah, the other 159 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:07.799 thing that really really caught my eye that just I 160 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:10.919 guess a nerd like me would notice this that his 161 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:15.879 given name Frederick Ralph Morlock, the last name Morlocke. That 162 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:21.440 was the name of the creatures in HG. Well's Time Machine. 163 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:25.679 They were called the Morlocks. If you remember they had 164 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:29.919 no that was his born name. He changed it to 165 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:34.879 Fred Neil, So I kind of liked the fact that 166 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:38.120 he picked Neil, but I would have kept Morlock. I 167 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:40.519 would have changed my name in Neil. 168 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:47.240 Or make it a hyphenated last name Neil dash Morlock. 169 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:50.000 No, just make your first name more in your last 170 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:50.759 name Locke. 171 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:54.399 Hey, whatever works. 172 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:58.399 So that was like two things that just like pulled 173 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:02.840 me in. Was the moral lock thing and the dolphin thing. Yeah, 174 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:04.759 well that just sucked me right, And that was it. 175 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:09.840 Dolphins and the traffic and well I started thinking ace 176 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:12.480 Ventura and then you said he died from cancer, and 177 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:14.759 I'm like, well, then I can't drop that line right after. 178 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.080 Yeah, well that's that's it. 179 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:22.320 So like that, that's a. 180 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:25.120 Pretty drastic career change. That's certainly I would say it's 181 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:26.279 a pretty drastic career. 182 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:26.559 Yeah. 183 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.320 I like the song. It was a nice dreamy cop. Well, 184 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:30.759 well obviously we've heard it performance. 185 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.279 Yeah, it was very soothing. I really did like it. 186 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.159 Yeah, all right, good lead off, Thank you, Barbara, Gail, 187 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:37.919 you're up. 188 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:45.000 Thank you. And apparently I am not up on current 189 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:49.039 events in certain ways because I found out I messed 190 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:54.759 up with my choice. Uh, oh yeah, yeah. As a 191 00:12:55.279 --> 00:13:00.600 kid in like middle school, I adored Kat Stephen. I 192 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:04.559 still love his music. I thought he left the industry completely, 193 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:08.440 but apparently his son a few years ago talked him 194 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:13.879 back into coming back into secular music. He had a 195 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:21.799 religious conversion at one point, and it's amazing because Okay, 196 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:32.000 his father was Greek Orthodox, his mother was Baptist. He 197 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:35.639 was born and raised in London. They sent him to 198 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:42.240 Catholic school. Earlier in his career, he was into Zen Buddhism. 199 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:49.559 Handed up having a major, major spiritual overhaul at one 200 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:55.519 point later in his life, in nineteen seventy seven, he 201 00:13:55.639 --> 00:14:00.679 converted to Islam and that's when he leave up doing 202 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:07.879 secular music for several years. There is so much, so 203 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:14.840 many facts about Kat Stephens. He was born Stephen Dimitri Giorgio. 204 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:20.519 He went right after his conversion, he went by Yusuf 205 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:27.679 Islam and now he just goes by Yusuf. He's a 206 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:32.360 British singer, songwriter and musician. In his whole career, he 207 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:36.080 has sold more than one hundred million records and has 208 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:43.159 more than two billion streams. His music varies from folk, pop, rock, 209 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:50.480 and later in his career to Islamic music now it 210 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:56.200 was for twenty years he did only music which met 211 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:03.480 strict religious standards, meaning as now, I don't know a 212 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:09.320 lot about Islam, but there are some Muslims that say 213 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:15.279 music at all is harahm, it's forbidden. So I learned 214 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:18.679 something I didn't even know there was any music considered 215 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:25.320 acceptable or hellal in Islam. So the song I Chose 216 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:31.320 is something I've always loved. It wasn't released as a single. 217 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:36.200 It was from his album Catch Bull at Four and 218 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:40.000 it was released on the twenty seventh of September in 219 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:44.240 nineteen seventy two. He recorded it in May nineteen seventy 220 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:50.360 two in various different places Studio The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, 221 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:59.639 Chateau de Ruvi in Eruvilla, France, Morgan Studios in London. 222 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:04.679 The whole album is almost forty minutes long, and the 223 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:07.960 song that I chose because I love love, love love 224 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:12.000 love it is called Angel. See let's have. 225 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:12.960 A listen. 226 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:30.679 See slang the Angel and sell them Eve and stuff, 227 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:38.559 cancel the windows upfer you Ne's out of offer you 228 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:58.879 Nehver's a house that crystal little little meding your soul 229 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:06.319 so patiently avoiding before y'all used to be whole boy, 230 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:22.680 y'all he used to the hole, the sheer. 231 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:30.799 Wrists up the water Belave dimondlong the shore and discermritism, 232 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:35.960 who watch the motion, the cellar door, the breath be wall, 233 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:45.039 the fire, dear man, the part bisiness to magicians, after Dancer, 234 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.720 the lot and the Dancer. 235 00:17:48.480 --> 00:18:11.319 To the park side. 236 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:28.640 Her clothes are maid of rainbows and twenty thousand kids 237 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:33.000 shine through the spaces off fur gold dun ogre. 238 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:36.480 Here it's our fur gold ogre head. 239 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:42.319 Oooh my baby, I want you and on my line 240 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:47.000 fasse awhere fine come jumps will follow you forever. 241 00:18:47.160 --> 00:19:06.480 If your muny everywhere, if yous me everywhere, He who 242 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:11.440 like the NATO and stands in its suck. 243 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:20.039 Down through the windows of rivers of the Doctor, rivers 244 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:23.039 of ac nivers. 245 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:32.200 That song never fails to make me feel just joyous 246 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:35.960 and happy and all is right with the world. I 247 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:40.519 just love that. Rumor had it that he partly wrote 248 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:46.480 it about the c s Ea the Ocean, and rumor 249 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:49.559 had it that he also wrote it about Carly Simon, 250 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:53.640 who he was in a relationship with for seven months. 251 00:20:53.680 --> 00:21:02.000 I think in the seventies. Now, I asked my colleagues 252 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:06.039 here to listen to the song and see if they 253 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:11.480 could figure out what the background singers are singing. Do 254 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:13.160 any of you have any idea? 255 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:16.359 It says, who's going to sign for this? Ups sign 256 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:16.680 for this? 257 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:17.880 I like that. 258 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:20.720 Actually, we'd like. 259 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:22.920 To talk to you about your car's extended warranty. 260 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:23.880 Here you go. 261 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:31.640 Okay, it's a bit of a trick question, actually, because 262 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:37.039 on December eighth, twenty twenty two, he was interviewed about 263 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:42.160 that very question, and he said, they are made up words. 264 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:47.960 I wanted to sound like an Armenian chorus. Boom dala saqua, 265 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:50.079 boom dalles qua. 266 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:54.400 Where did he get Armenian chorus from? 267 00:21:55.559 --> 00:21:56.119 Who knows? 268 00:21:56.519 --> 00:22:01.039 I mean, that's like so was specific. 269 00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:05.519 Then again, who's gonna say that doesn't sound Armenian. 270 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:09.079 An Armenian person, right? 271 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:12.000 Maybe? Yeah, odds in your favor, you're gonna get away 272 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:12.200 with it. 273 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:16.960 But the Armenian person would have to actually think it's Armenian. 274 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:18.119 Right, right? 275 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:24.440 And I don't offhand know anybody who's like first generation Armenian. 276 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:31.039 So anyway, the album Catch Bullet four, which was actually 277 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:36.880 his sixth studio album, was well His album was well 278 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:41.440 received both commercially and critically. Rolling Stone was happy with 279 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:47.079 the gorgeous melody and orchestration, while simultaneously disappointed by the 280 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:50.799 lack of a single track comparable to Morning Has Broken 281 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:55.240 from Cheezer and the Fire Cat. But I think it's 282 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:58.359 a beautiful, gorgeous song and it just makes me very 283 00:22:58.480 --> 00:22:58.960 very happy. 284 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:01.799 I can see what. 285 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:05.279 Yeah, it's kind of like a kind of kind of 286 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:07.599 a feel good, kind of a lift, uplifting, you know 287 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:08.480 it is. 288 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:10.119 It's very joyous. 289 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:11.559 Yes, I love it. 290 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:12.480 I love it. 291 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:15.119 Excellent, all right, thank you, Gail. 292 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:19.000 That's my that's my somewhat erroneous choice. 293 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:21.200 No, I think it counts. I think it's twenty year 294 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:23.559 pause and then coming back. I think I think you're 295 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:27.119 okay good. Yeah, all right, We're gonna take a real 296 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:29.400 quick break and we'll be back with more right after this. 297 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:33.440 Hudson River Radio, Your dog likes us. 298 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:36.680 This concludes the first part of this cassette. Please turn 299 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:44.480 the cassette over and begin again on side too. This 300 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:46.920 is Hudson River Radio dot Com. 301 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:48.680 Ah Ry. 302 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:55.319 And welcome back. We are going to hop right back 303 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:58.279 into career changes with John. What do you have for us? John. 304 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:02.920 Okay, tonight I selected a song from a British band 305 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:07.200 which is still out there today. This one comes from 306 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:11.160 nineteen ninety three and the song is called Things Can 307 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:15.200 Only Get Better. It was a Northern Irish well, it 308 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.960 is a Northern Irish band called d rem As in 309 00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:23.920 d Semi colon r e a m or dream. It's 310 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:26.359 what's interesting about the song is I need to say 311 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.680 this right from the get go. I can't stand it, okay, 312 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:35.200 So I just need to let everybody in radio land know. 313 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:39.279 But this is not about the song, okay, but I 314 00:24:39.559 --> 00:24:43.880 do want to play the song because of the theme 315 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:47.279 of tonight's show, So keep that in mind, please, Okay, 316 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:50.680 Thanks and feel free everybody out there in radio land 317 00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:54.359 and my colleagues here at Hudson River Radio to tell 318 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:56.160 me if you love it, you hate it, bash it, 319 00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:58.960 praise it, whatever, I'm you know, whatever, bring it on. 320 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:02.920 But anyway, it actually became, according to what I found 321 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.079 here on the BBC of all things, a defining British 322 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:10.599 political anthem. And it was a bit of a sleeper hit. 323 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:13.359 It did reach the top of the charts in the 324 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:16.200 UK and it got pretty high on the charts in 325 00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:17.839 the US. For a short period of time too. 326 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:18.480 Believe it or not. 327 00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:22.720 However, it's just I just it's it's not one of 328 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:26.200 my favorites. If you were British in the early nineties, 329 00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:30.160 you loved it. But I'm not British, not Northern Irish. 330 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:32.759 I'm just a guy from New Jersey who doesn't like 331 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:36.000 the song. So, Brian, why don't we play it? And then? 332 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:38.519 But before you play it again, what I want you 333 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:40.039 to do when you listen to the song, see if 334 00:25:40.039 --> 00:25:42.160 you can pick up the keyboards and we'll leave it 335 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:42.400 at that. 336 00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:48.880 Brian, you can my path, you can wear Mauss shoes. 337 00:25:50.920 --> 00:25:57.200 Then you too. 338 00:25:58.920 --> 00:26:00.079 But maybe. 339 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:04.400 You ain't never gonna feel this way. 340 00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:07.960 You ain't never gonna know me. 341 00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:11.119 But I know you. 342 00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:18.960 Singing there that bad a can only get better? 343 00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:22.559 No, only get that. 344 00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:27.000 You'll be see you, damns me. 345 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:29.319 I'm gonna do to tease me. 346 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:30.440 Not to day. 347 00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:39.720 Can only get better, nonly get No, only get they. 348 00:26:39.720 --> 00:26:40.920 Get on a minion. 349 00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:52.000 No, I know that, Dad's no, they get better. Sometimes 350 00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:57.319 lose myself, I lose time. 351 00:26:58.440 --> 00:26:59.680 And I can't see the. 352 00:27:01.799 --> 00:27:04.119 Jez she said on the lad. 353 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:13.880 But brid just as you go to too Fa, I 354 00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:15.079 got the person to. 355 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:22.920 Word and then you sit walk my friend with my shoes, 356 00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:24.640 talk like that. 357 00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:30.519 I'm big into the thing, cannot play. 358 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:40.559 Can you? 359 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:46.000 So I cannot get. 360 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:49.839 I cannot make get. 361 00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:55.680 You anything. 362 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:03.799 Show me bred you do this and agree, and. 363 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:04.720 You've shown me. 364 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:10.000 I'm just nothing to do this. 365 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:17.240 See I look at things now, you die. 366 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:19.279 For the one. 367 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:23.519 Everything. 368 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:31.519 Excuse me? Fuck your man when you. 369 00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:36.279 See you do like that cop and into everything. 370 00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:43.279 You cannot lead. You cannot. 371 00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:58.839 The way that I cannot. I cannot help me get 372 00:29:28.519 --> 00:29:44.000 you can. 373 00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:53.359 It's you a little lighter up there, you know? 374 00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:02.480 No, okay, I things can only get better by d 375 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:06.720 dream whatever you want to call it. So my take 376 00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:09.880 on the song is I was telling my colleagues here 377 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:12.960 while I was playing, it's kind of like one of 378 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:17.000 those coming of age late eighties movies and the song 379 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:20.039 you hear when the credits are rolling, and it's just 380 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:24.839 it's not that they can't sing, they can't play, it's just, 381 00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:27.839 I don't know, it's kind of a tired theme. 382 00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:29.279 But the kind of song where you're getting up and 383 00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:30.960 walking out of the room like at the end of 384 00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:32.519 the movie. Yeah that you're saying. 385 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:36.480 Exactly, Can I just say that John hates this song. 386 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:38.960 I've heard worse. 387 00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:41.000 Now, but you're right. 388 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:43.759 I mean it sounds to me like so eighties and 389 00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:47.319 it was like so done, yeah, yeah, nineteen ninety three. 390 00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:51.839 You know what, YB hashett I regurgitate it. 391 00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:54.880 Now. 392 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:57.559 One of the homework assignments I gave everybody out there 393 00:30:57.599 --> 00:30:59.880 on radio land was to just kind of make no 394 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.279 of the keyboards, because the keyboards. The keyboardists for this 395 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:08.119 particular band was also the keyboardist for a band called Dare. 396 00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:13.599 His name is Brian Cox, known today in twenty twenty 397 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:20.119 five as Professor Brian Cox. Mister Cox was studying physics 398 00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:23.119 towards the end of his time with the band, and 399 00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:26.440 he decided to leave to get his PhD in particle 400 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.279 physics as one does, yes, and to study at the 401 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:37.160