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- 0:03Speaker 1: Dearly beloved.
- 0:04Speaker 2: We are gathered here today to celebrate Death.
- 0:06Speaker 3: Daves nineteen eighty four, a video podcast that will take
- 0:10Speaker 3: you through the greatest pop culture year we have ever seen.
- 0:12Speaker 4: Blacks on my fellow Americans, flacks, Oh.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Diama, candidates, and we'll seek.
- 0:20Speaker 3: Reelection from movies, music, sports, comics, television and more. This
- 0:28Speaker 3: show will be a chronological journey through every aspect of
- 0:31Speaker 3: the year.
- 0:34Speaker 2: So Who's gonna drive you home? And not let the
- 0:36Speaker 2: glory days pass you by? Death Daves nineteen eighty four.
- 0:41Speaker 2: It's a hard habit to break.
- 0:42Speaker 3: But time after time I'll show you why nineteen eighty.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Four was the best year ever. So who you gonna call?
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- 1:28Speaker 1: Welcome back to Children of the Eighties. I am one
- 1:30Speaker 1: of your hosts, Jim, and I am joined as always
- 1:33Speaker 1: by the lady who thinks that the Blues Brothers are
- 1:37Speaker 1: members of the Saint Louis hockey team. It's my co
- 1:41Speaker 1: host Lindsay.
- 1:43Speaker 2: That's giving me way too much credit there on on
- 1:46Speaker 2: the hockey Saint Louis sports teams.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, I mean, you don't have a hockey
- 1:51Speaker 1: team down here, so you got to adopt one, so
- 1:52Speaker 1: it may as well be the Blues, right, I mean?
- 1:55Speaker 1: And also you like the phrase nobody leaves here without
- 1:58Speaker 1: singing the Blues.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Nobody leaves here without singing to Blues. I guess it's
- 2:03Speaker 2: because I grew up in Atlanta, but hockey was just
- 2:06Speaker 2: not anything I was ever exposed to. And then you
- 2:10Speaker 2: came into my life and suddenly hockey's a thing, and
- 2:14Speaker 2: then Emmy loves hockey.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Yes, and you enjoyed actually watching it when your nephew
- 2:20Speaker 1: was playing.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Yes, it's easy to follow, and for that I'm appreciatives.
- 2:26Speaker 1: All you do is follow the puck, right, Yeah, I
- 2:28Speaker 1: score a goal?
- 2:29Speaker 2: It's easy. Yes, So I got that. But uh so,
- 2:33Speaker 2: what's going on with Okay? Okay? So do you have
- 2:36Speaker 2: the kid for this weekend? Can you handle her?
- 2:39Speaker 1: The kid?
- 2:40Speaker 2: The kid, our kid, our child? Can you handle her
- 2:43Speaker 2: this weekend? Because I've packed a bag and clearly I
- 2:47Speaker 2: need to go find Nancy Guthrie. So somebody needs to
- 2:52Speaker 2: and I've decided that obviously the men can't get it done,
- 2:56Speaker 2: and so I'm going I've got a group of ladies.
- 2:58Speaker 2: We're all gonna go. We're gonna find her, We're gonna
- 3:00Speaker 2: bring her home. Savannah.
- 3:02Speaker 1: You don't think that they have lady detectives on the scene.
- 3:07Speaker 2: I mean, clearly they don't, or they would have found
- 3:10Speaker 2: her by now. I mean I feel like so at
- 3:13Speaker 2: one point a couple of days ago, they put a
- 3:16Speaker 2: big white tent up around the front door. I think
- 3:20Speaker 2: probably in hindsight, they were going to do something to
- 3:23Speaker 2: the ring cam or the nest camera, and they didn't
- 3:26Speaker 2: want lookie loose to be able to see what they
- 3:29Speaker 2: were doing. But at that moment, I went, oh my god,
- 3:33Speaker 2: she's been in the attic the entire time and they're
- 3:35Speaker 2: about to bring her poor little body out.
- 3:39Speaker 1: No, what you don't know is that white tent thing
- 3:42Speaker 1: was over there. Huh So Walton Jesse could cook a
- 3:45Speaker 1: meth inside her house while she was gone.
- 3:47Speaker 2: I mean that makes sense. This dude on this ring
- 3:50Speaker 2: cam footage looks like he would have something to do
- 3:53Speaker 2: with them.
- 3:54Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, got anything less depressing.
- 3:59Speaker 2: I'm sorry, so yes, let me pull it up here.
- 4:02Speaker 2: I talked to Chris Weber and basketball player. I don't
- 4:10Speaker 2: think so. I think it might be another Chris Weber
- 4:12Speaker 2: okay on Instagram, and he and I felt about the
- 4:17Speaker 2: same way about last week's episode. And he said, Okay.
- 4:22Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, wait a minute.
- 4:26Speaker 1: I picked out the music for last week's episode. I
- 4:29Speaker 1: know I got a lot of flack. Yes you did,
- 4:33Speaker 1: and you deserved it.
- 4:34Speaker 2: I got. So listen listen to what he said. Just
- 4:37Speaker 2: started the podcast on my way to work. So I
- 4:39Speaker 2: got this at seven fifty two in the morning on Wednesday.
- 4:42Speaker 2: I was not prepared for Babs and Bet at six
- 4:46Speaker 2: thirty in the morning.
- 4:47Speaker 1: No, nobody was prepared for the baby.
- 4:49Speaker 2: And I said, I'm sorry. This episode should have come
- 4:52Speaker 2: with the warning. And then later, a couple of days later,
- 4:56Speaker 2: he sent another message. He said, I never recovered from
- 4:59Speaker 2: those first.
- 5:02Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on before you keep going, Chris, I'm
- 5:04Speaker 1: sorry that you never recovered, but we really do appreciate
- 5:07Speaker 1: you listening.
- 5:08Speaker 2: But now listen to this. He said he was tasked
- 5:14Speaker 2: with sappy. Perhaps he misheard it and thought crappy. That
- 5:22Speaker 2: is really the only explanation that makes sense.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Well, okay, so I will say this.
- 5:30Speaker 2: No babies were made while listening to that music.
- 5:34Speaker 1: No, I disagree, because I got two messages from our
- 5:38Speaker 1: podcast buddies.
- 5:40Speaker 2: Oh I may not want to know.
- 5:42Speaker 1: I mean one one was from our buddy Dave Totally
- 5:46Speaker 1: eighties and nineties Recall, and he basically said, you went
- 5:52Speaker 1: zero for five on the first five, but he said
- 5:56Speaker 1: when I got deeper into the show, the next three
- 5:58Speaker 1: were good. The top four we're awesome, Eternal Flame is elite,
- 6:03Speaker 1: and Start a Fall is amazing.
- 6:05Speaker 2: Okay, I don't disagree.
- 6:07Speaker 1: And then our buddy Jason Colvin from the Surely You
- 6:13Speaker 1: Can't Be Serious podcasts said that we were irresponsible and
- 6:17Speaker 1: that we should have put out a warning label because
- 6:21Speaker 1: who is going to pay for all the babies that
- 6:24Speaker 1: will be made after listening to that podcast?
- 6:26Speaker 2: I don't know, Jason. We'll send them your way.
- 6:31Speaker 1: Listen, skip the babies, Bet and Babs, and just move
- 6:38Speaker 1: on with the rest.
- 6:39Speaker 2: I mean, we don't have to skip be, but we
- 6:42Speaker 2: do need to skip Babs.
- 6:44Speaker 1: You got to skip both of them. I mean, both
- 6:46Speaker 1: of them were bad. But I did that on purpose.
- 6:48Speaker 2: So you know what, did you or did you really
- 6:51Speaker 2: think that was a good idea?
- 6:52Speaker 1: No? No, no, no, sometimes you've just got to bring stuff
- 6:55Speaker 1: to the masses, even if they don't like them. Because
- 6:59Speaker 1: not all of the eighties were good. We like to
- 7:02Speaker 1: look back and pretend like the eighties were perfect and
- 7:05Speaker 1: they worked.
- 7:06Speaker 2: Okay, they were awesome, but they weren't perfect. This is
- 7:09Speaker 2: what I think that you did. Now, this just came
- 7:11Speaker 2: to me in hindsight. This is what I think that
- 7:13Speaker 2: you did. You thought if you would start the show
- 7:17Speaker 2: off with such horrible songs that we would be so
- 7:22Speaker 2: relieved when we made it through that half of the countdown,
- 7:26Speaker 2: that it would make the second half look that much better.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Yes, no, that is that is one true. I started
- 7:31Speaker 1: off with the bad songs on on purpose.
- 7:35Speaker 2: First Gosh, Jim Chure, the Bebes.
- 7:39Speaker 1: So after the Bbes, it wasn't that bad. You can
- 7:43Speaker 1: hate on air supply all you want. Air supplies awesome.
- 7:46Speaker 2: So I listened to a husband and wife podcast team today.
- 7:51Speaker 2: I found them.
- 7:52Speaker 1: I'm kind of like, we're not the only ones.
- 7:54Speaker 2: Oh, apparently only ones in this genre. This was a
- 7:57Speaker 2: different genre. And so I tried to listen to like
- 8:02Speaker 2: two different episodes and they just kept talking about making dinner.
- 8:08Speaker 2: And it was weird because there it was supposed to
- 8:10Speaker 2: be true crime. Yeah, it was, or the lack of
- 8:14Speaker 2: dinner making really weird. And that just made me think
- 8:18Speaker 2: about I wonder what cringe stuff we say and do
- 8:21Speaker 2: that people wish that we didn't do, you know, really
- 8:27Speaker 2: put it in perspective for me.
- 8:29Speaker 1: I really hope we're not cringey.
- 8:30Speaker 2: I know, I hope that we're not. That we're not either.
- 8:33Speaker 2: I have a question for you. Yeah, something that I've
- 8:35Speaker 2: been kind of storing back for a rainy day. Do
- 8:39Speaker 2: you remember magic sand from when you were growing up?
- 8:45Speaker 1: Was that the sand that was in the bottle that
- 8:48Speaker 1: was that had all the different colors and stuff.
- 8:50Speaker 2: So I don't think it was different colors. I think
- 8:54Speaker 2: you could get a bottle like the bottles were colored.
- 8:58Speaker 2: But I want to say this sand was all silver.
- 9:01Speaker 1: What made it magic?
- 9:03Speaker 2: Okay? So Magic Sand was released in nineteen eighty one,
- 9:08Speaker 2: and it was what they called the sand that refused
- 9:12Speaker 2: to get wet. So it looked and acted much like
- 9:16Speaker 2: regular beach sand, with a granular and free flowing texture,
- 9:21Speaker 2: but in water. If you poured it in water, which
- 9:24Speaker 2: was the purpose of magic Sand, it repelled water. So
- 9:30Speaker 2: it was sand that stayed.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Dry, never heard of such a thing.
- 9:36Speaker 2: It was really cool. I'm going to hold up the
- 9:38Speaker 2: bottle is weird looking, so if you if you had
- 9:41Speaker 2: any memories the bottle would bring it back.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Nope, that bottle looks perverted.
- 9:52Speaker 2: It is What in the world this is one of
- 9:57Speaker 2: those I can't now it's over. Yeah, I know, move on.
- 10:03Speaker 2: I think it was like the first uh what is
- 10:06Speaker 2: it called now that kids play with kinetic sand? But
- 10:09Speaker 2: it's just something that lives in the back of my
- 10:12Speaker 2: mind and I wonder, Well, first off, I wondered did
- 10:17Speaker 2: they still make it? So I had to google, you know,
- 10:19Speaker 2: to find out is it something that even is still
- 10:21Speaker 2: out there? Was it even real or was it a
- 10:23Speaker 2: fever dream? But then I also wonder how much carcinogenic is.
- 10:28Speaker 1: Well that's why I was gonna say, they probably still
- 10:29Speaker 1: don't make it, because it caused everybody to get cancer.
- 10:32Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what's wrong with us all that it's hydrophobic sand.
- 10:38Speaker 2: Hydrophobic sand. Yeah, I'm going to post a picture up
- 10:41Speaker 2: on social media sure and see if anybody else remembers
- 10:46Speaker 2: this stuff. Look, I could buy some on on eBay,
- 10:52Speaker 2: on Etsy, Etsy my new favorite site. Can I buy
- 10:54Speaker 2: fifteen bucks? No buy, no, please, please please thirty six
- 10:59Speaker 2: dollars on eBay and they'll give me ten percent off.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Oh so that's a better deal than what's on Etsy
- 11:06Speaker 1: for the fifteen dollars.
- 11:07Speaker 2: Goodness, that's something that we I think we had in
- 11:11Speaker 2: TAG when they were also trying to figure out if
- 11:13Speaker 2: we were going to be able to be in the CIA.
- 11:17Speaker 1: Yeah, and we weren't.
- 11:18Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no.
- 11:22Speaker 1: All right, are you ready to get to today's episode?
- 11:25Speaker 1: I think so, let's get to it.
- 11:35Speaker 2: This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
- 11:38Speaker 2: of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
- 11:41Speaker 2: important to us as children and what we look back
- 11:44Speaker 2: on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
- 11:49Speaker 2: nostalgia podcast.
- 11:51Speaker 1: Yes, and as I mentioned earlier, not all of the
- 11:54Speaker 1: eighties were good, and I feel like some of the
- 11:57Speaker 1: songs on this list oh yeah, are not good as well.
- 12:01Speaker 2: Okay, so I felt so bad about the hit you
- 12:08Speaker 2: took for last week's episode that I wanted to take
- 12:11Speaker 2: a hit for this week. Yes, so this week's episode
- 12:14Speaker 2: was my idea. So when it all crashes and burns,
- 12:18Speaker 2: it's my fault.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Yes, it is your fault. But before we get to that,
- 12:22Speaker 1: We've got another nominee for the Middle aged Man. Wow
- 12:27Speaker 1: Hall of Fame.
- 12:28Speaker 2: They're coming in fast, all right, right, So.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Just to go through Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Wilfred Brimley,
- 12:38Speaker 1: and Tommy Lee Jones, they're all in. I have a
- 12:41Speaker 1: new nominee this week. You get to decide whether or
- 12:45Speaker 1: not he gets into the Hall of Fame or it's
- 12:48Speaker 1: banished forever. My nomination this week is one of the
- 12:55Speaker 1: stars of the sitcom Soap and the star of the
- 13:01Speaker 1: sitcom Empty Nest, mister Richard Mulligan. Yes, does Richard Mulligan
- 13:09Speaker 1: get into the Middle Aged Man Hall of Fame?
- 13:11Speaker 2: Whatn't a unique looking gentleman? Yes, cannot imagine him any
- 13:15Speaker 2: younger than fifty five. Correct, Absolutely let him in. He's in. Yay.
- 13:28Speaker 1: Our live studio audience is really excited about Richard Mulligan
- 13:32Speaker 1: getting in.
- 13:32Speaker 2: They got a little worked up there, didn't they. Yeah,
- 13:34Speaker 2: they did.
- 13:35Speaker 1: Okay. So today's episode is another music episode. Like you said,
- 13:39Speaker 1: you thought of this one and you brought it to me.
- 13:42Speaker 1: What I did not tell you, though, was that even
- 13:45Speaker 1: though this is your idea last year or about a
- 13:49Speaker 1: year and a half ago. On Twitter, my buddy Jason
- 13:51Speaker 1: Colvin that I previously mentioned. We had a discussion about
- 13:56Speaker 1: actors who had hits in the nineteen eighties and I said,
- 14:00Speaker 1: gested that this would be a good episode to do,
- 14:02Speaker 1: and he agreed. But this isn't really their style, right.
- 14:06Speaker 1: Their style is to pit movies or albums against each other,
- 14:10Speaker 1: not just to talk about, you know, one kind of
- 14:12Speaker 1: genre of things. So we're gonna take it.
- 14:15Speaker 2: Let's do it.
- 14:16Speaker 1: So this one's for you, Jason.
- 14:18Speaker 2: So really, what you're saying is this idea is not
- 14:22Speaker 2: unique to me.
- 14:25Speaker 1: No, but I never mentioned it to you, So I
- 14:27Speaker 1: mean you came up with it organically for sure. So
- 14:30Speaker 1: this list does not include those who had already hit
- 14:33Speaker 1: it big in music and then went on to star
- 14:36Speaker 1: in movies. So lucky for Chris Webber, no Bet Midler,
- 14:42Speaker 1: no Babs unlucky for most of us guys who grew
- 14:47Speaker 1: up in the eighties, No Olivia, Newton, John all of
- 14:50Speaker 1: them had music careers before they got into acting. How
- 14:54Speaker 1: did you come up with this?
- 14:55Speaker 2: I know that people like our music episodes. Obviously, coming
- 15:01Speaker 2: right off of Valentine's Day, that's a no brainer music episode.
- 15:04Speaker 2: I love to think outside of the box, and so
- 15:07Speaker 2: just kind of sat down and I'm like, Okay, what
- 15:09Speaker 2: is what is something that's not typical that we could
- 15:13Speaker 2: do that's also a music episode? And that's how I
- 15:16Speaker 2: came up with this.
- 15:18Speaker 1: All right, well, let's move on to it. What do
- 15:21Speaker 1: you say?
- 15:21Speaker 2: I love it, Let's do it.
- 15:32Speaker 1: We have ten songs that were hits by actors or
- 15:40Speaker 1: actresses that were actors or actresses first. The last one
- 15:46Speaker 1: could be argued, but I think us here in America
- 15:49Speaker 1: got to know him as an actor before we knew
- 15:51Speaker 1: him as a musician. But I think these ten are
- 15:56Speaker 1: a good variety. Some of them are really good, some
- 15:59Speaker 1: of them are really bad. What do you think of
- 16:02Speaker 1: this list?
- 16:03Speaker 2: So? I am of the thought that if you're an actor,
- 16:07Speaker 2: just act, If you're a singer, just sing. I know
- 16:11Speaker 2: that probably if you're an artist, you think of yourself
- 16:15Speaker 2: as doing art, and that could be all sorts of things, music, painting, acting.
- 16:20Speaker 2: I think you have to have somewhat of a big
- 16:24Speaker 2: ego probably to make it in Hollywood. But boy, what
- 16:27Speaker 2: size ego do you have to have to be an
- 16:30Speaker 2: actor and go ahead and be like, oh yeah, I
- 16:33Speaker 2: can make a hit album. Watch me?
- 16:35Speaker 1: Well, I will say that some of these knocked it
- 16:37Speaker 1: out of the park and then other ones.
- 16:39Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
- 16:41Speaker 1: They only got to the top twenty because of who
- 16:44Speaker 1: they were and not because they could sing.
- 16:46Speaker 2: But they all agreed to do it, so they thought
- 16:49Speaker 2: they had a chance.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Yes, they thought that they had a chance. All right,
- 16:53Speaker 1: So you ready for I'm not really counting them down,
- 16:56Speaker 1: but we're gonna caut them down just so folks know
- 16:58Speaker 1: where they are. But it's not an order of preference
- 17:01Speaker 1: or anything, because otherwise this first song would probably be
- 17:04Speaker 1: near the top. You ready, Here is number ten that
- 17:34Speaker 1: is Party all the Time by Eddie Murphy. This song
- 17:37Speaker 1: debuted in the top forty on November ninth, nineteen eighty five.
- 17:41Speaker 1: It was on the chart for fourteen weeks. It peaked
- 17:44Speaker 1: at number two on the Billboard Hot one hundred for
- 17:47Speaker 1: three weeks. That usually only happens when something strong's hold
- 17:50Speaker 1: it off. You don't want to know what song held
- 17:52Speaker 1: it off? Yeah, say You Say Me by Lionel Riches.
- 17:58Speaker 1: This would actually finish night teen eighty six is the
- 18:01Speaker 1: seventh biggest song in the land.
- 18:02Speaker 2: It's not a bad song. I'll give him that.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a good song. Probably some auto
- 18:10Speaker 1: tune maybe in there. But it's not like Eddie's got
- 18:12Speaker 1: a bad voice. We heard him sing his Donkey and Shrek. Yeah,
- 18:17Speaker 1: he's got a good voice. So why don't you give
- 18:20Speaker 1: us some background on the okay?
- 18:21Speaker 2: So, Party All the Time was written and produced by
- 18:25Speaker 2: the one and only Rick James. Yes, now here's where
- 18:29Speaker 2: the story gets good. When Eddie Murphy told fellow comedian
- 18:33Speaker 2: Richard Pryor that he was making a music album, Prior
- 18:37Speaker 2: famously had a reaction similar to mine that I just
- 18:41Speaker 2: had a minute ago. Bror famously bet him one hundred
- 18:45Speaker 2: grand that he couldn't do a serious album, so no jokes,
- 18:49Speaker 2: no comedy, only music. Years later, though, Eddie Murphy revealed
- 18:53Speaker 2: on Jimmy Kimmel Live that Prior never actually paid up
- 18:57Speaker 2: before he passed away in two thousand.
- 18:59Speaker 1: Why wouldn't he get a chocolate bar? You said, one
- 19:04Speaker 1: hundred grand chocolate bar?
- 19:06Speaker 3: So.
- 19:06Speaker 2: The single itself was recorded at Rick James's home studio
- 19:10Speaker 2: in Buffalo, New York, during what became known as Buffalo's
- 19:14Speaker 2: legendary six pack snowstorm. The city was absolutely buried over
- 19:19Speaker 2: thirty inches of snow and everything was shut down. So
- 19:24Speaker 2: Murphy originally planned to stay for just a weekend, but
- 19:27Speaker 2: instead ended up snowed in with Rick James for nearly
- 19:33Speaker 2: two weeks.
- 19:34Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to say that thirty inches of snow
- 19:37Speaker 1: isn't unusual for Buffalo.
- 19:39Speaker 2: I don't know, it sounds insane to me. Full circle
- 19:42Speaker 2: moment in a in a very sad way, Eddie Murphy
- 19:46Speaker 2: actually paid for Rick James's funeral in two thousand and four.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Really because Rick James was I'm assuming was broken or
- 19:53Speaker 1: his family was broken. That's sad, all right, anything else
- 19:59Speaker 1: on Eddie, if he Rick James or Richard pryor.
- 20:02Speaker 2: I mean, it's got some The song's got some good vibes.
- 20:05Speaker 2: It's classic Rick James.
- 20:07Speaker 1: Oh for sure. Yeah, it's absolutely a Rick a Rick
- 20:10Speaker 1: James jam.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Do you know what I can't quite ever get over
- 20:14Speaker 2: when anybody talks about Rick James. What's it? His bangs?
- 20:19Speaker 1: Rick James bangs? That should be a that should be
- 20:22Speaker 1: a Twitter handle. Rick James bangs.
- 20:26Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, boy, those were some bangs.
- 20:29Speaker 5: Yea.
- 20:30Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably why Emmy gave up her bangs after kindergarten.
- 20:34Speaker 1: She probably saw Rick James.
- 20:36Speaker 2: They deserve a moment.
- 20:38Speaker 1: A moment of silence. Yeah, all right, moving on, thank you,
- 20:43Speaker 1: here we go our number nine song. Are only female
- 20:46Speaker 1: in the uh in the list? Shit that is, they
- 21:17Speaker 1: don't know? By Tracy Olmen. This debuted in the top
- 21:21Speaker 1: forty on March seventeenth, nineteen eighty four. It was on
- 21:25Speaker 1: the shart for eleven weeks. It peaked at number eight
- 21:27Speaker 1: on the Billboard Hot one hundred. It was number one
- 21:30Speaker 1: in Norway and Ireland.
- 21:32Speaker 2: Okay, Norway, thank you.
- 21:35Speaker 1: And this finished nineteen eighty four as the seventy first
- 21:38Speaker 1: biggest song. I believe this is a cover, but I'm
- 21:40Speaker 1: sure you've got information on that. I do, but that
- 21:43Speaker 1: was better than I thought it was going to be.
- 21:44Speaker 1: I do not remember this song from nineteen eighty four,
- 21:47Speaker 1: if I'm being one hundred percent honest. But it hit
- 21:49Speaker 1: number eight, So I don't know why I don't remember
- 21:51Speaker 1: this song, And maybe I do, and I didn't know
- 21:53Speaker 1: it was Tracy Oulmen.
- 21:54Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 21:55Speaker 1: I just think of Tracy Oulmen as the strange English
- 21:59Speaker 1: comedian who debuted us the Simpsons on her show.
- 22:03Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
- 22:04Speaker 1: But other than that, I didn't really know about the
- 22:07Speaker 1: song and I heard it. You would ask me when
- 22:08Speaker 1: I was putting this together, what do you think about
- 22:11Speaker 1: this list? And I'm like, you actually like any of
- 22:13Speaker 1: these songs on this list? I'm like very few, And
- 22:16Speaker 1: this was one of the ones that I was thinking
- 22:17Speaker 1: very few of, but I.
- 22:19Speaker 2: Actually like it. Do you know what this song sounds
- 22:21Speaker 2: like to me? A very classic eighties sitcom opening? Okay, yeah,
- 22:30Speaker 2: I hear that right, like Charles in Charge or something.
- 22:33Speaker 1: I was thinking it was more like the beginning of
- 22:38Speaker 1: Adventures and babysitting. When she was singing then he kissed me.
- 22:41Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking. It sounded blake.
- 22:42Speaker 2: That's a good point, all right.
- 22:47Speaker 1: So what do you got on this song?
- 22:49Speaker 2: This song actually started life way back forty six years ago,
- 22:54Speaker 2: in the year nineteen seventy nine.
- 22:56Speaker 1: Oh wow, it sounds sixty.
- 22:58Speaker 2: Ish to me. It was written and first recorded by
- 23:01Speaker 2: Kirsty McCall. I'm not exactly sure who that is, but
- 23:06Speaker 2: when the song was later recorded by Tracy Ullman, she
- 23:10Speaker 2: was already well known in the UK as an actress
- 23:13Speaker 2: and comedian, and had even scored a top ten hit
- 23:16Speaker 2: with her debut single Breakaway. Do you happen to know
- 23:19Speaker 2: that I do not?
- 23:20Speaker 1: I know? Breakout? By the Swingout Sisters.
- 23:23Speaker 2: So the song's big break in the US came thanks
- 23:27Speaker 2: to MTV. She had zero exposure in America at the time,
- 23:32Speaker 2: but they invited her to be a guest VJ in
- 23:35Speaker 2: February of eighty four, and the response was so positive
- 23:39Speaker 2: that MCA Records rushed the song out as her debut
- 23:44Speaker 2: US single. So despite that success, they don't know, ended
- 23:49Speaker 2: up being her only top forty hit in the US unfortunately.
- 23:55Speaker 2: So in a full circle moment, you know, I always
- 23:58Speaker 2: bring it back to death. Do you notice that Allman
- 24:03Speaker 2: performed the song in two thousand and two at a
- 24:06Speaker 2: memorial concert honoring Kirsty McCall, who had tragically died in
- 24:10Speaker 2: a boating accident a couple of years before. So, oh,
- 24:14Speaker 2: fun detail. I got one more thing. If you look
- 24:17Speaker 2: closely at the music video, that really is Paul McCartney
- 24:21Speaker 2: making a cameo. Really, He and Olman had recently worked
- 24:24Speaker 2: together on Give My Regards to broad Street, So there's
- 24:28Speaker 2: a little friendly crossover moment there.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Oh wow, sir Paul. Yeah, he was in that video
- 24:34Speaker 1: right after being in say Sayce, We're probably against better judgment.
- 24:39Speaker 1: He dressed in blackface.
- 24:41Speaker 2: That oh, I don't even know where to go with that.
- 24:44Speaker 1: I know, you know what. I don't even know where
- 24:46Speaker 1: to go with this next song. But I put this
- 24:48Speaker 1: in strictly for our friend def Dave.
- 24:51Speaker 5: Well.
- 25:12Speaker 1: That was give Me Some Loving by the Blues Brothers.
- 25:17Speaker 2: I don't really got much to say here, but okay,
- 25:19Speaker 2: I'm gonna hold off. I'll let you talk.
- 25:21Speaker 1: First, all right. This debuted in the top forty on
- 25:23Speaker 1: June twenty first, nineteen eighty. It was on the chart
- 25:26Speaker 1: for eighteen weeks. I'm sorry. It was on the shart
- 25:29Speaker 1: for eight weeks but peaked at number eighteen. I was like, eighteen, yeah, no, no, no, only.
- 25:34Speaker 2: For eight oh wait to start a rumor.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Peaked at number eighteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred.
- 25:38Speaker 1: It is a cover of a Spencer Davis group song
- 25:41Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty six, and that version actually hit number
- 25:45Speaker 1: seven on the Billboard Hot one hundred fourteen years earlier.
- 25:51Speaker 2: Okay, so I had our time finding anything that I
- 25:54Speaker 2: really wanted to talk about related to the Blues Brothers
- 25:58Speaker 2: version of this song, so I'm branched out a little bit.
- 26:02Speaker 2: Just squinch your eyes and bear with me. So give
- 26:06Speaker 2: Me some lovin. Originally, it was a hit back in
- 26:08Speaker 2: nineteen sixty six by the Spencer Davis Group. Do you
- 26:12Speaker 2: know anything about them? I do not.
- 26:14Speaker 1: I know that they're called the Spencer Davis Group, okay,
- 26:17Speaker 1: and that they had a number seven hit called Gimme
- 26:19Speaker 1: Some Lovin.
- 26:20Speaker 2: There were three gentlemen in this group. They were a trio.
- 26:24Speaker 2: I guess a trio Spencer Davis, Okay, that makes sense,
- 26:28Speaker 2: Muff win Wood and a seventeen year old Steve Winwood.
- 26:33Speaker 2: The Steve Winwood.
- 26:35Speaker 1: That's what I was going to ask. When you said
- 26:37Speaker 1: muff Winwood, I was like, any relation to Steve Winwood.
- 26:40Speaker 2: He wrote this song, Jim, Steve Winwood wrote this song,
- 26:43Speaker 2: wrote this song in about half an hour in the
- 26:47Speaker 2: year nineteen sixty seven.
- 26:49Speaker 1: Well, that just goes to prove his musical genius.
- 26:53Speaker 2: Yeah, this song not the Blues Brothers. The song is
- 26:58Speaker 2: ranked number two hundred and forty seven on Rolling Stones
- 27:02Speaker 2: list of the five hundred Greatest Songs of All Time. Wow,
- 27:07Speaker 2: I mean I didn't know any of this. I feel
- 27:09Speaker 2: totally enlightened.
- 27:10Speaker 1: So I have to ask, what do you think of
- 27:12Speaker 1: the Blues Brothers.
- 27:16Speaker 2: I feel like it's they were not I'm not their audience.
- 27:21Speaker 2: So I don't care for them, but I don't think
- 27:25Speaker 2: I was meant to care for them. What do you
- 27:28Speaker 2: How do you feel about the Blues Brothers. I don't
- 27:30Speaker 2: get it, really, yeah, I don't get it. I mean,
- 27:33Speaker 2: I love dan Aykroyd. I I'd never thought John Belushi
- 27:38Speaker 2: was that great. I know I didn't either.
- 27:39Speaker 1: I know that the people who watched the early things
- 27:42Speaker 1: of Saturday Night Life just thought he was brilliant and
- 27:44Speaker 1: Chris Farley like, but I never thought he was that great.
- 27:47Speaker 1: He was great when he did the Joe Cocker in person,
- 27:50Speaker 1: yes he was. It was fantastic, and he was great
- 27:52Speaker 1: at some things that I saw, But overall, I just
- 27:56Speaker 1: I just didn't get it. So maybe maybe it's yeah,
- 27:59Speaker 1: maybe it was just before my time. But I love
- 28:01Speaker 1: dan Aykroyd, but I also didn't get them just dressing
- 28:05Speaker 1: up in suits and singing blue songs.
- 28:07Speaker 2: It wasn't funny, No, not not in the least. So
- 28:12Speaker 2: someone out there believes that they are so iconic that
- 28:19Speaker 2: they are still something to go and see. At Universal
- 28:23Speaker 2: Studios in Florida, the Blues Brothers perform and drive up
- 28:29Speaker 2: in a Cadillac. I guess, yeah, can get out and
- 28:31Speaker 2: do things in and around universal you have to carry
- 28:35Speaker 2: some kind of generational interest. I don't know, you have
- 28:38Speaker 2: to have on a different level. Listen, I don't get it.
- 28:41Speaker 1: I am not denying that people love them. I'm just like,
- 28:45Speaker 1: I don't understand why. Yeah, I'm just saying I don't
- 28:47Speaker 1: get it. But I'm not denying that that they are
- 28:49Speaker 1: big and that people love them. And that's fine, that's great.
- 28:52Speaker 1: You know love with you went to love, but you
- 28:54Speaker 1: know it's not for me. I don't get it. Yeah,
- 28:58Speaker 1: all right, let's move on to number seven. And I'm
- 29:00Speaker 1: not sure we're getting any better here.
- 29:01Speaker 2: It gets worse before it gets better.
- 29:29Speaker 1: Looking at me, So what do you think that song's called?
- 29:36Speaker 1: That is Heartbeat by Don Josh No. It debuted in
- 29:41Speaker 1: the top forty on November sixth, nineteen eighty six. It
- 29:44Speaker 1: was on the chart for ten weeks. It peaked at
- 29:46Speaker 1: number five on the Billboard Hot one hundred. It not
- 29:50Speaker 1: surprisingly did not make the year end Hot one hundred.
- 29:53Speaker 1: It was number three in Austria, which is the highest
- 29:57Speaker 1: charting country that I could find. I will say that
- 30:02Speaker 1: the chorus there he does not sound terrible, but he's
- 30:05Speaker 1: got great backup singers, maybe making him sound better. Oh yeah,
- 30:08Speaker 1: when he sings zech verse, it's just not good.
- 30:10Speaker 2: It's the same thing over and over again.
- 30:12Speaker 1: It's just not good.
- 30:13Speaker 2: And you listen.
- 30:15Speaker 1: Don Johnson, great looking man, yeah, great actor. Love almost
- 30:21Speaker 1: everything he has done. Not a singer. I think he
- 30:24Speaker 1: was hanging out with Glenn Fry too much on the
- 30:27Speaker 1: set and Glenn was like, oh yeah, singing's easy, and
- 30:31Speaker 1: Don proved that it's not so.
- 30:33Speaker 2: In a nineteen eighty seven interview with The La Times,
- 30:36Speaker 2: Don Johnson was very clear that he wasn't messing around
- 30:40Speaker 2: when it came to his music, so he said time
- 30:43Speaker 2: and time again that he wanted the music to sound
- 30:47Speaker 2: modern and tough. He wanted it to be real rock
- 30:50Speaker 2: Jim and not like something other people had cooked up
- 30:54Speaker 2: while he just popped in and sang a few vocals.
- 30:56Speaker 2: He even told the president of CBS Records at the
- 31:00Speaker 2: time that if the album didn't feel credible, he'd just
- 31:02Speaker 2: walk away.
- 31:04Speaker 1: You you paused, president, I thought he was talking to Ronnie.
- 31:09Speaker 2: Music reviewer J. D. Considine famously said that Don Johnson
- 31:14Speaker 2: sings about as well as Glenn Fry acts, which is
- 31:19Speaker 2: either a compliment or a.
- 31:21Speaker 1: No that probably right on, probably right on. And you
- 31:27Speaker 1: know I love Glenn Fry, but I'm not you know,
- 31:29Speaker 1: he's not getting nominated or anything. No, so what did
- 31:32Speaker 1: Don Johnson say, He's not gonna what just jump in
- 31:35Speaker 1: and sing a few lines or whatever.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Yeah, no, he was all in. He wanted the record
- 31:40Speaker 2: to sound modern and tough. He wanted it to be
- 31:43Speaker 2: real rock.
- 31:44Speaker 1: Right, But then what was the what was the line about?
- 31:47Speaker 2: And not like something other people had cooked up while
- 31:50Speaker 2: he just popped in to sing of you vocals?
- 31:52Speaker 1: Well, I think, uh, that describes this next song that
- 31:55Speaker 1: we're going to number six.
- 32:24Speaker 2: I have lots of questions.
- 32:26Speaker 1: Well, I've got lots of answers. That's Respect Yourself by
- 32:32Speaker 1: Bruce Willis this debuted?
- 32:36Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 32:36Speaker 1: Oh no, it's got talking in it. Oh yeah, it's
- 32:38Speaker 1: got talking in the song. This debuted in the top
- 32:44Speaker 1: forty on January thirty first, nineteen eighty seven. It was
- 32:47Speaker 1: on the chart for ten weeks. How the heck get
- 32:50Speaker 1: peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot one hundred
- 32:53Speaker 1: I will never know, And it would also finish nineteen
- 32:56Speaker 1: eighty seven. Is the eighty ninth biggest.
- 32:58Speaker 2: Song That's insane.
- 33:00Speaker 1: Apparently this was huge with the Italians because this hit
- 33:04Speaker 1: number one in Italy. This is a cover of the
- 33:08Speaker 1: Staples Sisters song Respect Yourself and all I'm gonna say
- 33:13Speaker 1: is this debuted in January thirty first, nineteen eighty seven.
- 33:20Speaker 1: He's lucky that he got the lead and diehard after
- 33:26Speaker 1: making this.
- 33:28Speaker 2: He's a trash I know, I know. So I did
- 33:31Speaker 2: not realize that Bruce Willis was the eighties version of
- 33:38Speaker 2: Chris Gaines in Garth Brooks. Did you know this? No,
- 33:42Speaker 2: he didn't sing as Bruce Willis, he sang as Bruno RATTLINI.
- 33:47Speaker 1: Yes, yes, because in the video they say, hey, Bruno
- 33:50Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah.
- 33:51Speaker 2: So that's why that's why it charted and did so
- 33:54Speaker 2: well in Italy. They all thought he was this like
- 33:56Speaker 2: Italian guy. Okay, so the name of the album the
- 34:01Speaker 2: Return of Bruno.
- 34:03Speaker 1: Okay, we don't talk about Bruno?
- 34:05Speaker 2: Well, can we never talk about Bruno again? Because this
- 34:09Speaker 2: served as a companion to the HBO special of the
- 34:13Speaker 2: same name that aired shortly after the album's release. The
- 34:18Speaker 2: special was presented as a mockumentary and leaned fully into
- 34:23Speaker 2: the joke, featuring appearance from real music legends Elton John Ringo, Starr,
- 34:30Speaker 2: Brian Wilson, all speaking very seriously about Bruno so called
- 34:36Speaker 2: influence on their music careers.
- 34:38Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that I.
- 34:42Speaker 2: Am so offended and I don't even know what else
- 34:46Speaker 2: to say.
- 34:48Speaker 1: That's awful. That's about as bad as this song is.
- 34:52Speaker 1: I mean, listen, no, it's just bad. Look, you guys
- 34:59Speaker 1: can make on to Babs and bet all you want.
- 35:02Speaker 1: This is worse. I'm sorry.
- 35:04Speaker 2: Okay, the Pointer Sisters are singing backup though on the stoe.
- 35:07Speaker 1: I was gonna ask if that was the Pointers really is.
- 35:10Speaker 1: It's the only reason why the song sounds halfway decent.
- 35:13Speaker 1: It is literally the only reason why the song sounds
- 35:14Speaker 1: halfway decent, because it's my favorite sisters. Yeah, the Pointer Sisters.
- 35:19Speaker 1: Not the Sisters of the Poor or the Sisters of
- 35:21Speaker 1: the Blind. It's the Pointer Sisters. It's not the Staple
- 35:25Speaker 1: Sisters either. It's not Sister's Sledge, it's not Twisted Sister. No,
- 35:30Speaker 1: it's the Pointer Sisters.
- 35:33Speaker 2: Listen. Thank god die Hard came along.
- 35:37Speaker 1: Yeah, because if we would have had to live through
- 35:38Speaker 1: there's there's a there's a universe where Bruce Willis's music
- 35:42Speaker 1: is popular, like the Wild Stallions, with Bill and Ted.
- 35:45Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, and uh, I don't want to live or
- 35:48Speaker 1: even think about that universe.
- 35:50Speaker 2: We're not happy there.
- 35:51Speaker 1: No, no, it's it's pure misery. All right, let's move on.
- 35:57Speaker 1: This one's better. I'm not a big fan of this song,
- 36:00Speaker 1: but at least this person can really sing.
- 36:05Speaker 2: Can't upgain rise she's on.
- 36:13Speaker 4: Just the fool to believe I haven't anything. She's not
- 36:20Speaker 4: the way.
- 36:26Speaker 1: You know, you can't have a good love song without
- 36:28Speaker 1: a great saxophone in the eighties, right, Oh yeah, that is.
- 36:32Speaker 1: She's like the win by Patrick Swayzee. I've written and
- 36:35Speaker 1: performed by Patrick Swayzee. I believe this debut in the
- 36:38Speaker 1: top forty on January sixteenth, nineteen eighty eight, so we
- 36:41Speaker 1: had a year to recover from Bruce Willis before Patrick
- 36:43Speaker 1: Swayzey came on us. It was on the chart for
- 36:46Speaker 1: thirteen weeks. It peaked at number three on the Billboard
- 36:49Speaker 1: Hot one hundred, but it was number one on the
- 36:51Speaker 1: Adult Contemporary chart for two weeks, so mister Swayzee has
- 36:55Speaker 1: himself a number one hit.
- 36:56Speaker 2: I love this song.
- 36:57Speaker 1: It finished nineteen eighty eight as the forty the biggest
- 37:00Speaker 1: song in the land, so you would have heard Casey
- 37:02Speaker 1: Kasem Yeah doing his final countdown and this would have
- 37:06Speaker 1: let off. This was also a top ten hit in
- 37:08Speaker 1: nine other countries. So when I said, I don't like
- 37:11Speaker 1: this song, it's just it's not really my style. But
- 37:14Speaker 1: it's not that it's a bad song. And like I said,
- 37:17Speaker 1: he can actually sing. He's not like Bruce Willis or
- 37:19Speaker 1: Don Johnson. Patrick Swayze could actually sing. You know. Put
- 37:22Speaker 1: him in the Eddie Murphy category here. So you know,
- 37:26Speaker 1: that's all I got. I know you've got more information
- 37:29Speaker 1: on it. I know what movie it's from. You probably
- 37:31Speaker 1: have that information, but you go right okay, So.
- 37:33Speaker 2: She's like The win was recorded for the sound track
- 37:37Speaker 2: to the film Dirty Dancing, which obviously Patrick Swayzee also started,
- 37:41Speaker 2: but the story of how the song came to be
- 37:45Speaker 2: actually goes back a few years earlier. He co wrote
- 37:49Speaker 2: the song back in nineteen eighty four, Really Yes. While
- 37:53Speaker 2: Dirty Dancing was in production, Swayzey played the demo for
- 37:58Speaker 2: producer Linda got Gottlieb and director emil Ardolino. I'm sorry
- 38:04Speaker 2: I'm butchering their names. They immediately loved it and passed
- 38:07Speaker 2: it along to the soundtrack executive producers, and the song
- 38:11Speaker 2: was officially recorded for the soundtrack in November of eighty six.
- 38:15Speaker 2: But listen to this, I'm listening. Here's a great near
- 38:22Speaker 2: miss moment. During a twenty twenty episode of The Joe
- 38:25Speaker 2: Rogan Experience, actor Rob Lowe revealed that Patrick Swayzey had
- 38:30Speaker 2: originally tried to place the song on the soundtrack Young Blood.
- 38:35Speaker 1: Yes, you know what, It's funny because you said and
- 38:38Speaker 1: he wrote it in nineteen eighty four, and I was
- 38:39Speaker 1: gonna say, did he write it for Young Blood? I'm
- 38:41Speaker 1: glad I didn't like spoil it.
- 38:43Speaker 2: Because then I would have been like, well, never mind.
- 38:45Speaker 1: If that song doesn't go with Young Blood, what's Patrick
- 38:48Speaker 1: Swayzey think thinking.
- 38:49Speaker 2: He's just trying to get it out there. Jimmy had
- 38:51Speaker 2: to do what he had to do.
- 38:52Speaker 1: I feel like it would have ruined the movie Young
- 38:54Speaker 1: Blood had it been in there. There you go, Patrick Swayzey,
- 39:00Speaker 1: Rob low Hockey Players, hockey movie.
- 39:03Speaker 2: I think Patrick swayze what what a special person And
- 39:09Speaker 2: it's absolutely heartbreaking to stop and think about. And what
- 39:13Speaker 2: a good guy.
- 39:14Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a great and that point break yep.
- 39:19Speaker 1: All right, probably getting to your favorite song.
- 39:22Speaker 2: Here we go, it's no never, come home me.
- 39:32Speaker 4: Time, kiss me my darg be mind tonight tomorrow to.
- 39:50Speaker 1: It's no never, that is it's now We're never. And
- 39:56Speaker 1: know that is not the king of rock and roll.
- 39:58Speaker 1: That is the king of the general Lee. It's mister
- 40:01Speaker 1: John Schneider. And he can actually sing too. He's actually
- 40:04Speaker 1: got a good voice.
- 40:05Speaker 2: He has a fantastic voice. Let me just point that out.
- 40:08Speaker 1: So obviously this is the cover of an Elvis song.
- 40:10Speaker 1: A debut in the top forty on June twenty seventh,
- 40:13Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one. It was on the chart for eleven weeks.
- 40:17Speaker 1: It peaked at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred,
- 40:20Speaker 1: but was number five on the Adult Contemporary chart and
- 40:23Speaker 1: number four on the Country chart, and it would finish
- 40:26Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one as the eighty second biggest song. Now,
- 40:32Speaker 1: as I was putting this song on to the roadcaster
- 40:35Speaker 1: so I could play it in real time, taking it
- 40:39Speaker 1: off a YouTube, they got a picture there of John Snider.
- 40:42Speaker 1: He's got a head on like a cowboy, had on
- 40:45Speaker 1: his blonde locks. But then he's got some pork shops
- 40:48Speaker 1: coming down.
- 40:49Speaker 2: Why they were glued on Jim.
- 40:51Speaker 1: He was growing that they weren't George Jones pork shops.
- 40:56Speaker 1: But yeah, he's got someone. He looks like he's about fourteen.
- 41:00Speaker 2: Well there you go. So who is this.
- 41:03Speaker 1: John Schneider Bo Duke?
- 41:06Speaker 2: Or is it mister Paul Sorvino.
- 41:11Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna say, mister Lindsey Helton.
- 41:13Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, okay. So many people assumed the
- 41:16Speaker 2: song was chosen because it was an Elvis classic, But
- 41:19Speaker 2: mister Servino has said many times he gravitated toward material
- 41:25Speaker 2: that already felt timeless and romantic, so which fit the
- 41:30Speaker 2: early like nineteen eighties country crossover moment perfectly. Here's a
- 41:34Speaker 2: subtle but cool little nugget of info. By covering It's
- 41:38Speaker 2: Now or Never, mister Sorvino became one of the very
- 41:43Speaker 2: few artists to score a major country hit with the
- 41:46Speaker 2: song that originally topped the pop charts more in than
- 41:48Speaker 2: twenty years earlier.
- 41:49Speaker 1: Will you stop calling him, mister Sorvino. It is John Schneider,
- 41:53Speaker 1: it is Bo Duke.
- 41:54Speaker 2: He's spending mister Paul Sorvino's money, and I feel a
- 41:59Speaker 2: little bad about that.
- 42:01Speaker 1: What is Paul Servino care?
- 42:03Speaker 2: I'm also a little bitter he's taking a nap dirt.
- 42:08Speaker 1: Naw, yeah, the eternal dirt.
- 42:09Speaker 2: Now, okay, so did you did you hear me?
- 42:11Speaker 5: Though? What?
- 42:12Speaker 2: Did you hear what I said? Though?
- 42:14Speaker 1: I got distracted by you saying mister No, I heard you.
- 42:17Speaker 1: Of course I heard you, But I wish you'd quit
- 42:19Speaker 1: calling a mister Sorvino. You know this, it's now or
- 42:25Speaker 1: never when it comes to this song. I'll take never
- 42:27Speaker 1: rather than now. But he could sing, but I'm not.
- 42:33Speaker 2: He's got a really good voice. He's an extremely talented artist.
- 42:39Speaker 2: But I'm just salty because I lost out to Paul
- 42:42Speaker 2: Sorvino's widow. What you were gonna kick me to the curve?
- 42:46Speaker 2: I even left the bathroom door unlock.
- 42:48Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. All right, this next one? I like
- 42:51Speaker 1: this next one.
- 43:07Speaker 2: Jimmy, Jimmy Dean Sausage. He's just saying words. He's talking
- 43:21Speaker 2: about the King of sausage.
- 43:22Speaker 1: He's just saying words.
- 43:24Speaker 2: What do they do?
- 43:26Speaker 1: What do they doing?
- 43:27Speaker 2: Music?
- 43:28Speaker 1: Do they not say words?
- 43:29Speaker 2: They don't. He's just saying words, but they don't necessarily
- 43:32Speaker 2: go together to form a sentence or a stanza.
- 43:36Speaker 1: Stanza custanza.
- 43:39Speaker 2: You were going there?
- 43:41Speaker 5: Uh?
- 43:41Speaker 1: This is rock on by Young and the Restless star
- 43:44Speaker 1: Michael Damien. This debut in the top forty on April eighth,
- 43:49Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. It was on the chart for thirteen weeks.
- 43:52Speaker 1: It peaked a number one on the Billboard Hot one
- 43:55Speaker 1: hundred and number one on the Airplay chart. It finished
- 43:59Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine the forty fifth biggest song, and it
- 44:03Speaker 1: is in the movie Dream a Little Dream, which stars
- 44:06Speaker 1: the corys. Oh.
- 44:08Speaker 2: That's right, So here's the thing I made fun of it.
- 44:12Speaker 2: I actually really liked this song, but it is just
- 44:14Speaker 2: kind of ironic that he's just like shouting out words.
- 44:19Speaker 2: They don't all go together. Okay, So Damon was best Damien.
- 44:23Speaker 1: Damien, Sorry, fat Damon Williams.
- 44:30Speaker 2: I drag out names that should be shorter, and then
- 44:33Speaker 2: I shortened names that should be longer. Yes, okay. So
- 44:37Speaker 2: he was best known for playing Danny Ramilotti on The
- 44:41Speaker 2: Young and the Restless. Let's just stop for a moment
- 44:45Speaker 2: and talk about the importance that soap operas played to
- 44:50Speaker 2: our moms and our grandma's in the eighties and therefore
- 44:53Speaker 2: in our lives.
- 44:54Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, no, there was something always on. It was,
- 44:59Speaker 1: whether it was The Young and the Restless or days
- 45:01Speaker 1: of our lives. I don't really remember people watching General
- 45:05Speaker 1: Husse now my house, but I do remember the bold
- 45:09Speaker 1: and the beautiful days of our lives, the young and
- 45:11Speaker 1: the restless.
- 45:12Speaker 2: As the world turns.
- 45:13Speaker 1: I guess the world turns maybe a little. All my
- 45:15Speaker 1: children with Susan Luchi.
- 45:18Speaker 3: So.
- 45:20Speaker 2: In the house with Nanny, Lunch was served promptly at
- 45:24Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. Whether you were hungry or not made no
- 45:28Speaker 2: difference because Papa had worked super early hours at General Motors,
- 45:33Speaker 2: so every meal they did, they did super early. Okay,
- 45:38Speaker 2: so eleven o'clock was lunch. Made no difference if you
- 45:41Speaker 2: were hungry or not, but you wanted to eat and
- 45:43Speaker 2: be done, and the table cleaned up in time for
- 45:46Speaker 2: the twelve o'clock news. The news goes off at twelve thirty.
- 45:50Speaker 2: That's when the Young and the Restless comes on twelve
- 45:53Speaker 2: thirty to one thirty. You get a break from one
- 45:55Speaker 2: thirty to two for a snack, because from two to
- 45:59Speaker 2: three is going to be as the world turns. Three
- 46:03Speaker 2: o'clock school got out, and that's if I've been to
- 46:06Speaker 2: school that day, that's when I'm coming in the door,
- 46:08Speaker 2: or if I've been home sick. That's when friends are
- 46:11Speaker 2: coming home, you know. Anyways, it's so funny life like
- 46:15Speaker 2: when the two soaps were on that nanny watched. Shut
- 46:19Speaker 2: it quiet. You better not need anything. You cut your
- 46:23Speaker 2: arm off, then don't bleed to dad. I'll be with
- 46:25Speaker 2: you at three o'clock. Yeah.
- 46:28Speaker 1: So, my mem she when I was a kid, she
- 46:33Speaker 1: were so and we actually lived with her for four years.
- 46:37Speaker 1: So I don't know how she did this because I'm
- 46:39Speaker 1: fifty two and I think she was fifty two when
- 46:41Speaker 1: I was born. Oh wow, right, So from the time
- 46:44Speaker 1: I was like four or five, we lived with her
- 46:46Speaker 1: until I was like eight, me and my brother and
- 46:49Speaker 1: my sister. And so she would wake us up in
- 46:54Speaker 1: the morning, give us breakfast, drive us to the babysitter
- 46:57Speaker 1: before school, go to work, work all day yep, come back,
- 47:03Speaker 1: pick us up from the babysitters, go home, yeap, cook
- 47:07Speaker 1: us dinner, get us a bath, get us to bed,
- 47:12Speaker 1: and then wake up and do the next thing. And
- 47:14Speaker 1: she was in her late fifties or early sixties. I
- 47:18Speaker 1: go to work and I come home and I'm done.
- 47:20Speaker 2: I know she was a special breed.
- 47:23Speaker 1: But I will say this when she retired, because she
- 47:27Speaker 1: never watched soaps, right, But when she retired, I would
- 47:31Speaker 1: come over there during the day because by that time
- 47:32Speaker 1: I was a college student, right, so I may get
- 47:34Speaker 1: done at eleven and go over there for lunch or whatever,
- 47:38Speaker 1: and she'd be like, I'm watching my story.
- 47:40Speaker 2: That's what they called it.
- 47:41Speaker 1: Yeah, my story. My story's on yes, and so Guiding Light, Yeah,
- 47:46Speaker 1: Guiding Light anyone? Ye, Santa Barbara with a Martine?
- 47:50Speaker 2: Oh a Martine.
- 47:52Speaker 1: You know how he got that name? Right, his friend
- 47:55Speaker 1: saw him. They just call him by his last name,
- 47:56Speaker 1: and they'd be like, a Martinez.
- 48:00Speaker 2: So bad. But seriously, when you would go over there
- 48:04Speaker 2: as a college student and she's watching her stories, did
- 48:07Speaker 2: you not find yourself getting invested in the storyline?
- 48:09Speaker 1: They will draw you in like that. I know like
- 48:12Speaker 1: that and it's stupid and it's ridiculous, but they will
- 48:16Speaker 1: draw you in, like.
- 48:17Speaker 2: Like eight year old little Lens would be sitting on
- 48:19Speaker 2: the couch like trying to figure out how Marlena on
- 48:23Speaker 2: Days of Our Lives was going to do whatever. It's crazy.
- 48:25Speaker 1: Oh, there was one that you watched and you were
- 48:28Speaker 1: surprised that I knew what it was too, And I
- 48:30Speaker 1: can't think of that another world Another World.
- 48:33Speaker 2: I was obsessed with another I was in.
- 48:35Speaker 1: College and I would come home early and I would
- 48:39Speaker 1: watch Another World.
- 48:40Speaker 2: I was obsessed with it.
- 48:41Speaker 1: Yes, So Young and the Restless. Michael Damien, he's there.
- 48:47Speaker 1: Guess what? What got another soap operactor for you?
- 49:00Speaker 2: It's just a little time to sure? Is it all
- 49:07Speaker 2: in my mind? Jaws it saying so.
- 49:17Speaker 1: So that is all I need? By Jack Wagner from
- 49:22Speaker 1: General Hospital. This song debuted in the top forty on
- 49:27Speaker 1: November twenty fourth, nineteen eighty four. It was on the
- 49:30Speaker 1: chart for twelve weeks. It peaked at number two on
- 49:33Speaker 1: the Billboard Hot one hundred for two weeks. It was
- 49:36Speaker 1: held off by Madonna's Like a Virgin. It was also
- 49:40Speaker 1: number two on the sales and airplay charts, but it
- 49:42Speaker 1: did hit number one on the Adult Contemporary chart for
- 49:45Speaker 1: two weeks, and this would finish nineteen eighty five as
- 49:49Speaker 1: the forty second biggest song. Now before we get to you,
- 49:53Speaker 1: all I'm gonna say is whether you like that song
- 49:55Speaker 1: or not, it doesn't matter to me.
- 49:57Speaker 2: He can sing. You got a good voice, Yes, absolutely,
- 50:00Speaker 2: you had a very good voice. Okay, So I have
- 50:03Speaker 2: something controversial to say. Controversial, he to me. Sounds just
- 50:10Speaker 2: a little bit if you squint, I'm squinting like Elton John.
- 50:17Speaker 1: Okay, I can I can hear it when when he
- 50:20Speaker 1: hits the high note, right when he hits the high note. Yeah,
- 50:23Speaker 1: I can hear it.
- 50:23Speaker 2: So he was. He played Frisco Jones on General Hospital.
- 50:27Speaker 1: Frisco.
- 50:28Speaker 2: They couldn't have come up with a better name than
- 50:30Speaker 2: Frisco Jones.
- 50:31Speaker 1: I used to eat a Frisco Burger at Harties in
- 50:33Speaker 1: my college days.
- 50:35Speaker 2: The song was written by listen to this David Foster
- 50:40Speaker 2: and Richard Marx. Oh wow, yes, so that tells you
- 50:45Speaker 2: right there. It was a quality song.
- 50:47Speaker 1: David Foster for Chicago.
- 50:50Speaker 2: He did, That's what I thought. So All I Need
- 50:53Speaker 2: first appeared on General Hospital as part of a romantic
- 50:56Speaker 2: storyline between Frisco and Felicia Oh, played by Christina Wagner.
- 51:03Speaker 2: The audience's response was so strong that the song was
- 51:06Speaker 2: released commercially.
- 51:08Speaker 1: Really so this started there, yep, But it was made
- 51:12Speaker 1: just for the show. It wasn't made for commercial release.
- 51:16Speaker 2: Oh wow, I.
- 51:16Speaker 1: Did not know that. It's funny that you mentioned Richard
- 51:19Speaker 1: Marx because I had to ask you. I was like,
- 51:21Speaker 1: was Richard Marx in a soap because he just looks
- 51:23Speaker 1: like he would have been in a cell.
- 51:24Speaker 2: Yes he does, but he was not. No, he was not.
- 51:28Speaker 2: Is that all you got? That's all I got?
- 51:29Speaker 1: Oh man, you can do a whole lot of homework
- 51:31Speaker 1: on that one, you know, slack and all.
- 51:33Speaker 2: Be thankful that I did anything.
- 51:35Speaker 1: All right, we did. We did save the best for last,
- 51:38Speaker 1: and we're going. We're going from General Hospital Star to
- 51:41Speaker 1: general Hospital Star. That is Don't Talk to Strangers by
- 52:13Speaker 1: Little Ricky Springfield. The song debut in the top forty
- 52:18Speaker 1: on March thirteenth, nineteen eighty two. It was on the
- 52:21Speaker 1: chart for sixteen weeks. It peaked at number two on
- 52:24Speaker 1: Billboard on the Billboard Hot one hundred for four weeks.
- 52:29Speaker 1: It should have been number one. However, it was held
- 52:32Speaker 1: off by the second worst number one of the nineteen eighties,
- 52:36Speaker 1: Ebony and Ivory, Oh by Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney.
- 52:41Speaker 1: What's the worst number one long running number one of
- 52:44Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties? What Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie and
- 52:48Speaker 1: Less Love?
- 52:49Speaker 2: I should have known that?
- 52:50Speaker 1: That's where you should have known. This would finish nineteen
- 52:53Speaker 1: eighty two as the twentieth biggest song in the land,
- 52:58Speaker 1: mister Rick.
- 52:59Speaker 2: Spring that's kind of impressive.
- 53:01Speaker 1: Hit after hit after hit after hit after hit.
- 53:04Speaker 2: Okay. So, the music for this song was based on
- 53:09Speaker 2: an earlier Springfield song titled Spanish Eyes. The song lyrics
- 53:14Speaker 2: were changed and were written to Springfield's then girlfriend, Barbara Porter,
- 53:19Speaker 2: who later on became his wife, whom he was worried
- 53:22Speaker 2: might be running around on him when he was out
- 53:25Speaker 2: on the road. Later on, he said, back then, I
- 53:28Speaker 2: was scared that she was screwing around because I was
- 53:31Speaker 2: doing the same thing.
- 53:32Speaker 1: Oh, I was gonna say, wouldn't he doing that? Yeah,
- 53:35Speaker 1: he can't. You can't be a hypocrite.
- 53:37Speaker 2: Rick. So he originally didn't want the song released as
- 53:40Speaker 2: a single. He felt it was too dark and aggressive
- 53:43Speaker 2: compared to Jesse's Girl, and he worried that radio wouldn't
- 53:45Speaker 2: go for it.
- 53:46Speaker 1: But obviously they did. Yeah, and I feel like this
- 53:49Speaker 1: is a good life lesson for kids.
- 53:53Speaker 2: Keep your pants sipped.
- 53:54Speaker 1: No, don't talk to stranger. Never tell a kid to
- 53:59Speaker 1: keep a pants what's.
- 54:00Speaker 5: Wrong with that?
- 54:03Speaker 2: I didn't know where we were going.
- 54:06Speaker 1: Don't talk to strangers. I mean, I don't know stranger danger.
- 54:10Speaker 1: I didn't think his name of the song that there
- 54:12Speaker 1: you go, you got anything else?
- 54:14Speaker 2: That's all I got.
- 54:15Speaker 1: So he was clearly he was clearly a musical artist before.
- 54:19Speaker 2: Yeah, so I had I had issue with this one, but.
- 54:23Speaker 1: I don't think he had hit it big in the
- 54:25Speaker 1: States and he was on General Hospital and then he
- 54:27Speaker 1: hit it big.
- 54:28Speaker 2: So well, I mean, I'll allow it because I love
- 54:31Speaker 2: Rick Springfield, but it just didn't seemed to be quite
- 54:35Speaker 2: fair to just lob him in on the top of
- 54:38Speaker 2: the pile bad take.
- 54:45Speaker 1: All Right, Well, that wraps up our ten. But you
- 54:48Speaker 1: know what, it wouldn't be a music episode unless I
- 54:53Speaker 1: gave you some statistics bringing on not a lot ten
- 54:59Speaker 1: songs all on our list nine years. We covered nine
- 55:04Speaker 1: of the ten years in the eighties.
- 55:05Speaker 2: That's impressive, good for us.
- 55:07Speaker 1: The only year not covered is nineteen eighty three, but
- 55:12Speaker 1: Tracy Omen released her song in the UK in nineteen
- 55:15Speaker 1: eighty three. Okay, so all other years are represented on
- 55:19Speaker 1: the list. Eighty four is technically represented twice, at least
- 55:24Speaker 1: here in the US, because that's when Tracy Omen they
- 55:27Speaker 1: don't Know was debuted. We had a number one, three,
- 55:31Speaker 1: number twos, and number three and two, number five.
- 55:35Speaker 2: Okay, I mean their names carried some weight. They do.
- 55:41Speaker 1: I would agree with that, and like I said, some
- 55:43Speaker 1: of the songs are good. A couple of them are
- 55:46Speaker 1: pretty bad. Yeah, But like I said at the beginning
- 55:50Speaker 1: of the show, we look back on the eighties with funness,
- 55:53Speaker 1: and everybody does and they say it's the best decade ever,
- 55:56Speaker 1: and I agree with them. But that doesn't mean it
- 55:59Speaker 1: was perfect because it wasn't right. There was some crap music,
- 56:02Speaker 1: there were some crap movies, there were some crap TV,
- 56:05Speaker 1: and we gave you a couple of crap music.
- 56:09Speaker 2: But it was fun. It was fun.
- 56:11Speaker 1: Yeah, And this was an idea that it's funny that
- 56:13Speaker 1: we both organically had without talking to each other about it.
- 56:16Speaker 2: So what do you say? So, speaking of ideas, I
- 56:22Speaker 2: have an idea for a possible upcoming episode that I
- 56:26Speaker 2: worry might be a little much. I'm not going to
- 56:29Speaker 2: share any information about it right now, but I've worried
- 56:33Speaker 2: that if I do the episode well, people hate us well.
- 56:42Speaker 1: I mean, there are people on the radio that make
- 56:45Speaker 1: a living out of people hating them.
- 56:47Speaker 2: I don't. I can't handle that. And I'm too much
- 56:49Speaker 2: of a people pleaser to people need to like me.
- 56:52Speaker 2: But I got something up my sleeve and I'm mulling
- 56:54Speaker 2: it over right now.
- 56:55Speaker 1: Would you like me to reach out to trusted confidants
- 56:58Speaker 1: and ask them if people would hate us?
- 57:00Speaker 2: Yeah, you might say, okay, I.
- 57:02Speaker 1: Will do that.
- 57:03Speaker 2: Okay, So let's talk at just a minute Patreon. Can
- 57:06Speaker 2: we talk about Patreon.
- 57:07Speaker 1: Let's talk about Patreon.
- 57:09Speaker 2: So we're over there on Patreon. We're working it hard
- 57:12Speaker 2: over there, and we would love if you would come
- 57:14Speaker 2: visit us. You don't have to join, We would appreciate
- 57:17Speaker 2: it if you did, but you could also just come
- 57:20Speaker 2: and hang out for free. Yeah, but get in on
- 57:22Speaker 2: the conversation and what's going on over there, because there's
- 57:26Speaker 2: there's some stuff.
- 57:26Speaker 1: Happening, posting polls, having conversations, having little chats here and there.
- 57:31Speaker 2: And listen. If you join at the second level for
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- 57:38Speaker 1: You get some swag. We wouldn't want some children of
- 57:41Speaker 1: the eighty swag. We will email or not email you.
- 57:44Speaker 1: We will actually physically mail you some stuff.
- 57:47Speaker 2: Literally, I will go to the post office and I
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- 57:55Speaker 1: Absolutely, we will do that. Yeah, come join the fun.
- 57:58Speaker 1: We put out monthly episodes. We've released our January episode,
- 58:02Speaker 1: we're getting ready to release our February episode.
- 58:04Speaker 2: Yep.
- 58:05Speaker 1: Right now, we're counting down the top one hundred songs
- 58:08Speaker 1: of nineteen.
- 58:09Speaker 2: Ninety nineteen eighty ten, that's.
- 58:11Speaker 1: What I meant, nineteen eighty ten. And we're doing about
- 58:15Speaker 1: five at a time, and we're playing a little game where,
- 58:17Speaker 1: you know, I kind of have an idea of what
- 58:19Speaker 1: the songs are, and Lindsey gives me some clues and
- 58:23Speaker 1: I try to figure out what they are. So it's
- 58:25Speaker 1: a little bit different vibe, a little bit more I
- 58:28Speaker 1: want to say, less production.
- 58:30Speaker 2: I was going to say, I mean what, Oh yeah,
- 58:32Speaker 2: I'm on hinged over there, but not over here.
- 58:35Speaker 1: No, you're you're completely unhinged all the way. You are.
- 58:37Speaker 1: What you are, what you get is what you see,
- 58:39Speaker 1: or what you see is what you get, however you
- 58:41Speaker 1: want to say it, folks, this is what I have
- 58:42Speaker 1: to live with on a daily basis. Yep. But we
- 58:46Speaker 1: want to hear from you. What did you think about
- 58:47Speaker 1: our list?
- 58:48Speaker 2: Yeah, we would love to know. Did you suffer through
- 58:51Speaker 2: it with us? Are your ears bleeding? Did you have
- 58:53Speaker 2: way enjoy it? Did it bring back a memory.
- 58:55Speaker 1: We'd love to know did we miss anybody?
- 58:57Speaker 2: I don't.
- 58:57Speaker 1: Probably we did, but it's possible have Absolutely, we're not perfect.
- 59:02Speaker 1: So as Lindsay mentioned Patreon, but you can also if
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