WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:05.320 Hudson River Radio dot com. 2 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:07.360 This is a favorite by men at work. 3 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:15.359 Big get about it. He get mad. 4 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:19.440 At Marie with a brand new Hyunda. 5 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:24.039 Hey, this is Jesse Carmichael from Room five. Hi, this 6 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:25.920 is Phil Margo of the Tokens. 7 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:26.239 Hello. 8 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:28.879 It's Nicole Atkins on the Rock and Roll History Show. 9 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.439 Hello, everybody, Welcome back to the Rock and Roll History 10 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:39.920 Show and Hudson River Radio. I'm Brian Horowitz. Tonight we're 11 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:42.520 gonna take a little trip around the world and talk 12 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:46.679 about songs about different places. No passport needed and no 13 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:53.039 follow up quiz, So just sit back, not not no, 14 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:55.880 that's true. If you want to scan yourself, go ahead. 15 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.039 I would choose the pat down. It's a little more fun, 16 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:03.200 but that's it. That's up to you. As always, before 17 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:05.280 we start, allowing me to introduce all the crambones who 18 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:08.159 are joining us here tonight. First and foremost, from the 19 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:11.840 Erector Observatory, he learned that if you walk the entire 20 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:15.280 distance of the equator, you'd be really tired. 21 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:20.640 Neil rectors and kind of wet to at some point. 22 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:24.000 I think you're right, but yeah, and you know, I'm 23 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:28.920 so old that I've actually used a paper road map. Yeah, 24 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:32.799 same like no GPS. No GPS here, dame. 25 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:35.400 The skill is to be able to fold it neatly 26 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:37.200 to this section you need. 27 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:45.239 That's why I've been walking around lost for decades. I'm okay. 28 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:47.959 Road maps and fitted sheets or the Bane of Mind 29 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:49.319 system fitted sheets. 30 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:51.359 You just roll them up and cram everything into the 31 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:55.239 pillowcase and put it away in the bag. That's that's 32 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:56.480 how you fold the fitted sheet. 33 00:01:58.640 --> 00:01:59.719 I just see that video. 34 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:05.239 Okay, did you say that fitted sheet? Did you say yeah? Okay, 35 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.520 just check say that fast. 36 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:13.560 No, I'm not. We're gonna move on from paranormally yours. 37 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:16.400 She's planning on quitting her job and traveling the world 38 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:20.719 until she's broke. So we'll see her tomorrow morning. Dale 39 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:26.400 Nuclem is here absolutely on the silver screen. She saw 40 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:30.199 the beach boys walk into a bar. Round round, get around. 41 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:38.280 I'll get around. Yeah, and last but not least, a 42 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.439 host of shaving cream. She read that Elton John recently 43 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:44.719 retired from touring. Now he's worried about packing on a 44 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:48.560 few pounds. Goodbye normal jeans, barb. 45 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:53.280 I'm just glad I got to see him. 46 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:56.400 Yeah, I saw him a few times. It was never disappointing. 47 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:59.039 I never saw a hissy fit. I know some people 48 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:03.319 got stuck at some he fit concerts and it was miserable. 49 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:03.960 Yeah. 50 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:06.360 Yeah, So I was lucky. He was always in a 51 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:07.800 good mood. So what can I say? 52 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.120 Yeah, well, I would have liked to have seen a 53 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:10.639 hissy fit. 54 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:13.400 Yeah, you know what, there were times and he would 55 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:15.439 just stop playing. There were times he would play poorly. 56 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.280 He wouldn't you know, it wasn't you know. He would 57 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.000 take it out on He had a hissy fit on 58 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:25.159 an usher once who was asking people to sit down, 59 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.280 and you know, because they're blocking people and that ain't right. 60 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:28.719 Yeah. 61 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:32.520 Yeah, I mean there's entertainment hiss he fits, and then 62 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:34.400 there's like you're being a jerk hiss he fit. 63 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:37.520 Oh my goodness. None of that occurred when I went 64 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:38.199 to see him. 65 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:40.120 Yeah, same, same. I was lucky. 66 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:43.439 You should get your money back or you know, half 67 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:45.840 your money back. Yeah, no, hissy fit. 68 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:48.360 True, No, that usually comes from the audience. 69 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:51.240 I want the hissy fit discount. 70 00:03:57.960 --> 00:03:59.759 You need a punch card your fifth hissy fit. 71 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:02.159 Yep. 72 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:05.439 All right, so yeah, we're talking about songs about different 73 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.240 places around the world. Mercedes. I think it was your idea, right, 74 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:10.240 It was my idea, and you're going to leave us 75 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:12.960 off this week, so take it away, good, Okay. 76 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:17.360 So this song I love and you will too, if 77 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.439 by a chance you've never heard it. It's a song 78 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:22.319 by They Might Be Giants, a band with a great 79 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:26.879 sense of humor and wonderfully clever lyrics. They were formed 80 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:30.879 in nineteen eighty two by John Flansburgh and John Linnell, 81 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:34.399 who started out as a duo and then added Marty Beller, 82 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:39.120 Dan Miller, and Danny Weincoff. John and John began writing 83 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.000 songs together in high school, but never played together in 84 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:45.079 a band back then. After going to separate colleges, they 85 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.920 reunited in nineteen eighty one after moving to the same 86 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.839 apartment building in Brooklyn. And no, I don't know if 87 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:55.800 that's a crazy coincidence. Planned I tried to find out 88 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:00.720 they had originally chosen a name that, according to John Flansburgh, 89 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.199 was quote so bad that John Lennelle and I have 90 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:07.279 made a vow that we will never tell anyone, even 91 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:10.319 our children. And now that's my life goal is to 92 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:14.360 find out what it was. Then, after they settled on 93 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.279 They Might Be Giants, after the movie with George She's 94 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:22.160 c Scott and Joanne Woodward, which is in turn taken 95 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:27.000 from a don Quixote passage about how cute they mistook 96 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:31.839 windmills for evil giants. According to Dave Wilson in his 97 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:35.240 book Rock Formations, the name they Might Be Giants had 98 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:38.240 been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the 99 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:43.360 band who had a ventriloquism act. In nineteen eighty three, 100 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.000 after a broken wrist and an apartment break in, they 101 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.360 were unable to play live, so they started diala song, 102 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:53.480 which was, according to Wikipedia, an answering machine with a 103 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:56.680 tape of the band playing various songs. The machine played 104 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:00.480 one track at a time, ranging from demos an uncomplete work, 105 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:04.680 to mock advertisements that the band had created. It became 106 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:09.399 so popular that the tagline was always busy, often broken. 107 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:14.879 Of course, I dialed the number and it is disconnected. 108 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:19.199 They began playing in New York City's Lower East Side 109 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:22.199 at the Pyramid Club, first as a duo with Flansborough 110 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:26.560 and guitar Linelle on accordion and saxophone, accompanied by a 111 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:30.680 drum machine or pre recorded backing track on audio cassette. 112 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:34.240 They can't remember those that had. 113 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:35.879 To be a good show. No really. 114 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.040 They became the house band from nineteen eighty four to 115 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:43.319 nineteen eighty seven. They have recorded twenty three studio albums. 116 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:45.839 The song I picked for the show is from their 117 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:49.079 third album, Flood, which went platinum. 118 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:49.800 And it's awesome. 119 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:55.759 It's awesome on Electure Records titled Stamboul Not from the Times. 120 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:58.639 Time and I think we should hear it in n Yah. 121 00:06:58.920 --> 00:06:59.680 I love this song. 122 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:23.240 Tell it's Stanbul's Consentinople now it's just stan Bol the 123 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.959 Constantinople band A long time gone and Contantinople now jerk. 124 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:29.560 You're like automble late night break out. 125 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.680 The Constantinople because it is Stanbult the Consenttinopiso. 126 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:34.399 Do you but they Constantine? 127 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:35.360 She'll be waiting again? 128 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:40.560 Is Stanbul? Even old New York was once New AMSTERDAMN? 129 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:42.120 Why they change it? 130 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:42.920 I can't say. 131 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:46.319 People just like, way, take me back. 132 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:49.360 To Constantine open or you can't go back to Constantinople 133 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:51.439 ben a long time gone and consantin noble. 134 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:53.079 Why the Constantinople get the works? 135 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:55.040 That's no what it because about. 136 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:56.839 The Jerms. 137 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:17.240 Temple still Even Old New York was once New AMSTERDAMN. 138 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:18.839 Why they change it? 139 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.759 I can't say, you'll just like to better that way. 140 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:23.079 Stun bold is. 141 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:23.920 Consent, it's a noble. 142 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:26.279 Now it'sis stunt bold my consent and noble, but a 143 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.120 long time gone and consent to noble? 144 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:29.759 Why the content and noble get the works? 145 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:31.040 That's nobs. 146 00:08:31.079 --> 00:09:00.000 It's about the terms. So take me back to content. 147 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:06.120 You can't go back to constantinoble, been a long time gone, Consantino, consentine, noble. 148 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:06.440 Get the works. 149 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:13.759 That's no long body's business. Bubble is Sanbol. 150 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:17.639 So good? 151 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:21.279 You cannot possibly be in a bad mood while listening 152 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:21.879 to that song? 153 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:23.360 Sure for sure. 154 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:23.919 Yeah. 155 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.080 So there's a couple of reasons that I like this song. 156 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:29.840 For one, I lived in Istanbul for two years as 157 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:33.120 three and four year old, and no, I don't remember 158 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.440 much except making mud pies on the balcony and hearing 159 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:40.360 the moves in who is the official who calls people 160 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.240 to prayer five times a day from the mosques minaret. 161 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:46.879 The other reason is that their former former manager is 162 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:49.759 a high school friend of mine. Oh that's pretty cool, 163 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:56.279 I think. But the thing that blew my mind is 164 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:01.480 that this song is a cover. Yeah did anybody know that? 165 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:01.960 Yeah? 166 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:02.360 I knew that. 167 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:04.720 Yeah, I was I was going to see yeah, I 168 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:06.799 was going to mention that if you hadn't. 169 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:11.360 I was really surprised. This is from Wikipedia. It is 170 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:14.120 a nineteen fifty three novelty song with lyrics of course 171 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:14.759 you would know that. 172 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:15.600 Barbara, Where Are You? 173 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:21.279 With lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat Simon. 174 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.200 It was written on the five hundredth anniversary at the 175 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:29.000 fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans. The lyrics humorously refer 176 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:33.000 to the official renaming of the city of Constantinople to Istanbul. 177 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:37.000 The song's original release, performed by the Four Lads, was 178 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:41.840 certified as a Gold record. Numerous cover versions have been 179 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:45.879 recorded over the years, and most famously a nineteen ninety 180 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.320 version by They Might Be Giants. They have won two 181 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.639 Grammy Awards, one four Bosamy the theme of Malcolm in 182 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:55.960 the Middle and here comes the one two three's Best 183 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:59.559 Children album. And they have sold over four million. 184 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:05.120 And they played in our area a bunch of times, right, 185 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:06.720 didn't they do fundraisers and stuff? 186 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:07.399 Yeah? 187 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.919 Yeah, I think some of them live there. I know 188 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:13.360 the manager, my friend lives up there. 189 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.320 Okay, nice? Oh yeah, I forgot you're down there. Where 190 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:23.360 you know it's above freezing. Yay, Look how many degrees 191 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:24.159 it was today. 192 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:24.559 You know. 193 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:26.919 I'm kidding. 194 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:28.799 I never brag about that. 195 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:36.000 You don't need to, all right, Thanks Mercedes Neil. 196 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:41.080 You are up all right? Well, I uh, I didn't 197 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:44.600 go as far out as Istanbul. I kept it pretty 198 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:49.320 much close to home because the geographical location I've chosen 199 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:54.360 for this topic is Boston, Massachusetts, a city that I've 200 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:59.679 visited many times now. Boston is the capital and the 201 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:03.519 most populated city in the state of Massachusetts. It covers 202 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:07.039 about forty eight and a half square miles and is 203 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.679 the cultural and financial center of the New England region. 204 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:15.679 The Greater Boston Metropolitan Area is home to about four 205 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:21.080 four point nine million people, making it the eleventh largest 206 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:23.759 metropolitan area in the United States. 207 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:26.440 Which is why it's so impossible to drive around. 208 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:33.320 Oh god, yes, Well, Boston was founded by English Puritan 209 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:37.919 settlers back in sixteen thirty coincidentally, the year I got 210 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:38.960 my driver's license. 211 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:41.759 That explains a lot. 212 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:45.919 And it's been home or is the home to several 213 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:50.200 historical events that happened during the American Revolution, including the 214 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:54.559 Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker 215 00:12:54.679 --> 00:13:00.279 Hill and the legendary midnight ride of Paul Revere. Boston 216 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:02.519 has gone on to become a global leader in higher 217 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:08.480 education and is a national leader in scientific research, law, medicine, engineering, 218 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:10.039 and business. 219 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:17.480 And donuts and donuts, nuts, really Boston cream, Oh. 220 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:19.519 My favorite? 221 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:21.039 That was my mom's favorite. 222 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:26.240 Now, this song that I've chosen to represent the city 223 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:29.399 of Boston is a song called dirty Water by the 224 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:35.039 band The Standel's. The Standell's were an American garage rock 225 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:40.399 band from Los Angeles, California. Note the irony there, Los Angeles, 226 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:47.759 not Boston. But they formed in nineteen sixty two, and 227 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:50.879 they've been credited for inspiring many of the punk rock 228 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:55.440 bands of the nineteen seventies. The Standell's recorded and released 229 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:59.000 their biggest and most recognizable song, dirty Water, in nineteen 230 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:03.200 sixty five. It was written by their producer, a man 231 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:07.519 named Ed Cobb, who incidentally wrote the song Tainted Love, 232 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:12.000 the Gloria Jones song that became a hit for the 233 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:17.919 band Soft Cell in the nineteen eighties with its iconic 234 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:22.159 opening guitar riff. The song is actually kind of a 235 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:26.840 backhanded tribute to Boston. It's not exactly complimentary at all, 236 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:32.320 referencing in particular that then famously polluted Charles River that 237 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:39.159 runs through the city and into the Boston Harbor. According 238 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:43.039 to legend, some of the song was also inspired when 239 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:48.000 producer Cobb got mugged while he was in Boston, notably 240 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.840 the line in the song about muggers and thieves. Additionally, 241 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:58.200 other local references in this song include Boston University's women's curfew. 242 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:02.480 They used to make all the women they had to 243 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:06.519 be in their dorms at a certain hour, thus leading 244 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:09.279 to the line the frustrated women happened to be in 245 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:14.240 by twelve o'clock and the singer hoping that just once 246 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:20.639 those doors weren't locked. Oh, of course, and has the 247 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:27.639 obligatory nod to the infamous Boston strangler. Now in the end, 248 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:32.360 the singer ultimately professes and confesses his affection and adoration 249 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:37.240 for his hometown. So let's show Boston a little love 250 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:40.679 with some dirty water by the standouts. 251 00:15:42.360 --> 00:16:02.120 I want to tell you a story down by the 252 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:07.200 bags of the river. Chob Ah, that's what's happened to baby. 253 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:13.240 But that's where you're finding. 254 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:20.399 Along with lovers, buggers and things of their cooeper. 255 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:33.240 But I love that Dirty Waters. 256 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:35.080 Your mind, you're no. Number one leak. 257 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:42.200 Frosted Winver, I mean a frustrated had to be. 258 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:50.759 Yem by twelve o'clock. All that's a shame. But I'm 259 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:52.039 a wall shattan. 260 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.559 That just one dose doors. 261 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:59.559 One clocks like the same time. 262 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:01.399 I'm prad. 263 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:10.400 But you. 264 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:32.200 Yeah, I stand. 265 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:50.440 You. 266 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:57.359 Yeah, but. 267 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:16.039 I think he loves it now. Band members on this 268 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:21.279 recording include drummer and lead vocalist Dick Dodd, a singing 269 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:26.119 drummer from we could have used that Yeah episode here Yeah, 270 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:33.559 keyboardist Larry Tamblin, Tony Valentino on guitar and harmonica, and 271 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:39.720 Gary Lane on bass. Now, although Cobb received soul songwriting credit, 272 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:43.839 Larry Tamblin said that the band had completely rearranged the 273 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:48.079 song into what it became and they didn't get any 274 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:53.319 credit for that. So that figures further in irony involving 275 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:56.359 the song about Boston sung by a Los Angeles band 276 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:01.759 was that dirty Water first became a hit down in Florida. 277 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:07.000 That's right, breaking up, breaking out on the Orlando radio 278 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:17.839 station WLFDL okay wlof in January of nineteen sixty six. Now, overall, 279 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:20.000 the song peaked at number eight on the cash Box 280 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:23.640 chart and hit number eleven on the Billboard Hot one hundred. 281 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:27.960 Dirty Water was also the title of the band's most 282 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:32.880 successful album, and that was their only nationally charting LP. 283 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:38.599 Dirty Water was included on Lenny Kaye's Influential Nuggets Garage 284 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:42.519 rock compilation in nineteen seventy two, and it's listed in 285 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:45.519 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's five hundred Songs 286 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.559 That Shaped rock and Roll. The song has also been 287 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:54.519 traditionally played at Boston sporting events like baseball's Boston Red 288 00:19:54.599 --> 00:20:00.039 Sox and hockey's Boston Bruins games. But perhaps the the 289 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:05.440 coolest thing about the Standels is that they appeared as 290 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:12.039 themselves on The Monsters TV show in nineteen sixty five. Yes, nice, else, 291 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:15.319 we're on the Monsters and it doesn't get any better 292 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:20.319 than that. Yep, my book. So enclosing, let me say 293 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:23.880 this that, having been born and raised here in the 294 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:29.240 New York metropolitan area, Boston is a nice place to visit, 295 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:32.960 but I wouldn't want to live there because I love 296 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:36.240 New York. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. 297 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:39.160 All right, thank you, Neil. That's a good one. I 298 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:42.119 suit the riff. As soon as I heard the beginning, 299 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:44.680 I was like, all right, yeah, I remember that. I 300 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:47.839 love that song. Yeah, and it's got the harmonica for 301 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:51.799 Gale right in the middle to make sure she's everyone. 302 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:55.160 Yeah, no, thank you, Oh come on, yeah it was. 303 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:57.920 That was a very tasteful harmonica short. 304 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:00.960 Yeah, sweet, just. 305 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:04.279 Like me any other any other instrument. Think about it, 306 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:06.119 what it It wouldn't make sense, you know what a 307 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:07.359 saxophone or you know what. 308 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:09.200 That's even worse. 309 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:13.160 Yeah, no, you know it's the perfect the perfect choice. 310 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:18.559 All right, good, thank you, Roger Rock excellent. We're going 311 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:20.960 to take our first real quick break. I think, Mercedes, 312 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:24.200 are you ducking out politely for something better? I guess. 313 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:27.920 Thanks for joining us. Made. We'll see you next time. 314 00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:31.240 All right, and stick around everybody, We'll be right back. 315 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:33.079 Hudson River Radio. 316 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:35.119 Your dog likes us. 317 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:38.720 This concludes the first part of this cassette. 318 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:42.000 Please turn the cassette over and begin again on side to. 319 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:50.039 This is Hudson River Radio dot Com. 320 00:21:55.960 --> 00:21:59.240 And welcome back, Gail. We're up to you. So where 321 00:21:59.279 --> 00:21:59.960 will you be taking? 322 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:05.359 Well, let's see, there were so many, so many choices. 323 00:22:06.599 --> 00:22:10.079 I chose a song by guns n' Roses it's called 324 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:14.640 Paradise City now. Guns n' Roses, as many of you 325 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:18.720 may know, is an American rock band formed in Los 326 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:21.480 Angeles in nineteen eighty five. 327 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:22.480 I did not know. 328 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:27.759 They only started in nineteen eighty five. They drew members 329 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:34.160 from two other bands, La Guns, which apparently is still functioning, 330 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:39.319 and Hollywood Rose, which is not. They signed with Geffen 331 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:44.279 Records in nineteen eighty six. Now, the band's classic lineup 332 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:49.799 features vocalist Axel Rose, who people are gonna hate me, 333 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:53.480 but I honestly think he sounds a lot like Jannis Choplin. 334 00:22:55.160 --> 00:23:02.519 Lead guitarist Slash aka Saul Hudson is much catchier, I 335 00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:10.039 guess than Saul Hudson. Rhythm guitarist Isy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, 336 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:13.880 and drummer Stephen Adler. These all sound like names of 337 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:17.759 guys I went to school with. It's like, I don't know, 338 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.799 it might be I didn't realize how many popular songs 339 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:27.400 came off of their first album. Their first album was 340 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:32.160 called Appetite for Destruction and it was released on July 341 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:37.720 twenty first, nineteen eighty seven. The first single called It's 342 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:40.440 So Easy, which I don't even know if I've ever heard. 343 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:45.480 It was released exclusively in the UK on June fifteenth, 344 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.680 nineteen eighty seven, and that reached number eighty four on 345 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:56.119 the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, their debut 346 00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:59.319 single from this album was Welcome to the Jungle, which 347 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:04.279 is pretty well known, served as the lead single in October, 348 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:09.480 accompanied by a music Feed video. There's so many songs 349 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:12.279 on this album that I really really like sweet Child 350 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:16.680 of Mine, which I'm addicted to. It reminds me of 351 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:21.400 my pets, but that's another story. That was the second 352 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:26.839 US single, and it originated as a poem axel Rose 353 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:31.559 wrote for his then girlfriend Aaron Everley. It's broad appeal 354 00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:36.119 and heavy rotation on radio and MTV propelled it to 355 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:40.960 number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred. That was 356 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:46.319 the band's only chart topper. Slash later remarked, I hated 357 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:49.160 that song with a huge passion for the longest time, 358 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:53.599 and it turned out to be our hugest hit. Following 359 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:57.119 this success of Sweet Child of Mine, Welcome to the 360 00:24:57.240 --> 00:25:00.000 Jungle was reissued and reached number. 361 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:01.160 Seve in the US. 362 00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:06.759 The song I Chose Paradise City peaked at number five, 363 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:12.200 and the album, Appetite for Destruction eventually reached number one 364 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:16.400 on the Billboard two hundred. This album has since sold 365 00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:20.759 more than thirty million copies worldwide, including eighteen million in 366 00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:24.880 the United States, making it the best selling debut album 367 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:30.680 in US history and the eleventh best selling album overall. 368 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:37.920 Now Paradise City was released as a single in January 369 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:41.400 nineteen eighty nine. It's the only song on the album 370 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:48.480 to feature a synthesizer, and it also hit number six 371 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:54.079 on the UK's Singles Chart. It peaked at number five 372 00:25:54.279 --> 00:25:56.079 on the Billboard Hot one hundred. 373 00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:59.079 And Let's have a listen, and. 374 00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:02.480 Then I have something funny that's got to be partially 375 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:05.079 censored to say afterwards. 376 00:26:29.400 --> 00:26:55.880 Take Down, you know I don't have the screen and 377 00:26:55.960 --> 00:26:56.319 a girl? 378 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.759 Oh yeah, yeah, tame Down's the paradise. 379 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:06.160 It was the grasses, green and the girls. 380 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:22.319 Don Britt and the ball not gonna say, I think 381 00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:22.640 I can. 382 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:26.920 Certain mind they were again, why remember most the devils 383 00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:29.559 the Green and I haven't the singer in my name 384 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:35.559 to the Dame, Save the Downs l Paradise. 385 00:27:35.799 --> 00:27:38.559 It was the brassiest breed of the girls. Don't Britta. 386 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:46.160 All yeah, Save the Downs Paradise. It was the brassiest 387 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:47.400 green of the Girl's um. 388 00:27:47.400 --> 00:28:18.000 Britt although you being man so far. 389 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:37.000 So brass in the character to go out doesn't okay, 390 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:38.359 I'm not to think your backs. 391 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:47.599 Clay tags me down to the parade of the brasses 392 00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:55.079 brain of the Girl's Opera. Yeah, take me down to 393 00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:58.279 the paranda where the brasses brain of the girls up. 394 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:32.400 I don't know if that do all, but I think 395 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:33.200 that rocks. 396 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:36.160 My neck hurts now I'm getting hold. 397 00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:39.359 Wait till you're my age. 398 00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:45.680 Slash, the guitarist, had said that that song was written 399 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:47.559 in the back of a rental band as they were 400 00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:49.599 on their way back from playing a gig in San 401 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:53.400