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Top Ten Summer Songs of 1981 · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Children of the Eighties. I am one
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  Speaker 2: of your hosts, Jim, and I am joined as always
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  Speaker 2: by the lady who was friends with Elvira and once
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  Speaker 2: dated the boy from New York City. It's my co
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  Speaker 2: host Lindsay.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you never failed me. Never, you never do, never disappoint.
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  Speaker 2: That was a good well. I'm glad that I never disappointed,
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  Speaker 2: because I've disappointed a whole lot of people a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of times in my life.
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  Speaker 1: So when I was growing up and the Oakridge Boys
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  Speaker 1: did the song Elvira, right, I thought their song was
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  Speaker 1: about the Elvira that I would see sometimes on TV. Right,
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  Speaker 1: I did too, And I don't think it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, But I mean, would you blame them if they
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  Speaker 1: did write a song about her?
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  Speaker 2: No? But they actually didn't write the song. It's actually
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  Speaker 2: a cover, yes, from something back in like the sixties,
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  Speaker 2: which was pre Elvira.
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  Speaker 1: Would you blame them for covering a song on Elvira
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  Speaker 1: if it was about that Elvira?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: But if it was about Elvira, they could have left
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  Speaker 2: the song the same, but instead of naming it Elvira,
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  Speaker 2: they could have named it Mistress of the Dark.
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  Speaker 1: Elvira was just one of those characters the eighties brought us.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I was thinking about that the other day.
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  Speaker 2: We had lots of just like characters in the eighties
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  Speaker 2: that we knew that were famous. Essentially, they were the
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  Speaker 2: pre kardash.
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  Speaker 1: That we didn't know why they were famous exactly.
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  Speaker 2: They were famous for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 1: Larry bud Melman, Yes, I bring him up every opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you do. So you've got Elvira, you've got
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  Speaker 2: Leon Redbone. Not that he I mean he was, I
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  Speaker 2: mean he was. He was a singer. Yeah, he was
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  Speaker 2: a musician, but he just had that look. He hadn't
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  Speaker 2: look like nobody else had in the a And so
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  Speaker 2: it's just like all these things that you see as
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  Speaker 2: a child, Like why did we know who Robert Goulay was?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, well I knew Robert Goulay because
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  Speaker 1: the ladies on the Golden Girls talked about him.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, But all I'm saying is they must have been
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  Speaker 2: famous in the past and then still somehow kind of
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  Speaker 2: stuck around into the eighties. But us young kids didn't
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  Speaker 2: know why they were famous.
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  Speaker 1: Max Headroom.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, all the guys in the Miller Like commercials, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they were all made famous. They were all
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  Speaker 2: sports guys or whatever, and they were all made famous
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  Speaker 2: because of those Miller Like commercials.
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  Speaker 1: And there's so many references. Well, I mean every generation,
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  Speaker 1: I guess has those references. But when you just said
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  Speaker 1: the sports guys, that made me think about Joe Namath
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  Speaker 1: and his fur coat. Yes, this younger generation, they have
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  Speaker 1: no clue what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Joe was on Fantasy Island. Uh, he was on the
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  Speaker 2: Brady Bunch yep. So yeah, sports guys got into Hollywood
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  Speaker 2: and Hansy Joe Hansy, Joe Well Fred Dryer Hunter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I played for the Los Angeles Rams. Yes, Merlin Olsen,
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  Speaker 2: father Murphy and from Little House on the Barry right.
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  Speaker 2: He was defensive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams, the
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  Speaker 2: Fearsome Forsome. He was part of the Fearsome Forsome.
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  Speaker 1: Webster's dad.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Alex Carris again, defensive lineman. Apparently the defensive lineman.
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  Speaker 2: They have the personalities. But in the world what was
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  Speaker 2: OJ a killer in addition to that, a liar, a thief,
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  Speaker 2: a murderer, and a running back running back?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So Clive Davis passed away this week, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember speaking of oh J. I'm gonna tie
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  Speaker 1: it together. I don't remember in recent years someone passing
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  Speaker 1: away where people were instantly like, he's getting what he
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  Speaker 1: deserves now, And I've just seen so many posts of
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  Speaker 1: people being like glad he's gone, because I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: maybe we should do an episode on some of the
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  Speaker 1: artists that he made famous. But now I'm thinking, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not. I mean, and I just feel maybe he
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  Speaker 1: is getting what he deserves. Maybe he's not. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like we're drawing him out of the.
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  Speaker 2: Cesspool of bad people in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like there's probably more bad than good.
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  Speaker 1: Why are we gonna just like ostracize him.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, I know, do you not have an opinion
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  Speaker 1: at all? I do not.
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  Speaker 2: I do not. I heard some things too. I heard
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  Speaker 2: some of the things that you were saying that, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I and people backed it up with, you know,
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  Speaker 1: different accusations, and I mean, I don't know, they could
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  Speaker 1: be true. They could not be true. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying usually there's just a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: time right before people start saying, glad he's burning alive. Right, No,
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  Speaker 1: he's not alive. Glad he's burning dead.
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  Speaker 2: Him OJ and Osama bin Laden are the only three
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  Speaker 2: people I know that have done that. Yes, we need
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  Speaker 2: a fourth for amount rushmore So, I feel like I've
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  Speaker 2: been waiting years to get this episode out. Two days ago,
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  Speaker 2: we were supposed to do it and you were like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm too tired.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh no, no, no, no, no, no. You asked
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  Speaker 1: me like nine o'clock at night, Hey, ready.
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  Speaker 2: To go record? No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone knows mama shuts down at eight.
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  Speaker 2: No I am On Sunday, I asked you at like
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  Speaker 2: six o'clock do you want to go?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, no way. It was not six o'clock
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  Speaker 1: because I was getting ready to go to bed.
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  Speaker 2: No, that was yesterday on Sunday. I asked you at
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  Speaker 2: six o'clock if you wanted to go record, and you're like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm too tired. And then yesterday I'm like, and it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't nine o'clock, it was like seven thirty. But I said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to go record? You're like no, I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting ready to go to bed. And so then I'm like, fine,
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  Speaker 2: come home from work early today. You did not, you came,
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  Speaker 2: you came. No, no, hold on, I'm not done. You
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  Speaker 2: can refute after I'm done. You came home at the
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  Speaker 2: normal time. Then you sat down, which is fine. I
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  Speaker 2: know you need a little bit of you know, some uh,
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  Speaker 2: let's just come down from the work situation for a second.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine. But you were like, hey, you ready to
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  Speaker 2: go record? And I'm like, yeah, I assure him. So
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  Speaker 2: I come running upstairs all excited and I turn on
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  Speaker 2: all my stuff and then all of a sudden, you're
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  Speaker 2: not here, and you're not here, and you're not here.
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  Speaker 2: And then the next thing I know, I hear Emmy
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  Speaker 2: playing the piano, and so I figure you're just down
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  Speaker 2: there helping her with the piano rather than being up here.
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  Speaker 2: And then the next thing I know, you come in
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  Speaker 2: here with a steaming hot cup of coffee. I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: maybe Emmy, while Emmy was playing the piano, you went
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  Speaker 2: to Starbucks or seven brus or something and just disappeared
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  Speaker 2: on me. So I've been up here chomping at the
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  Speaker 2: bit to get this recording complete, and here we are.
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  Speaker 1: So one thing I have noticed, while you have not
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  Speaker 1: been working as much, you don't remember how crazy life
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  Speaker 1: can be.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes that may be true.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Like, you're right. I didn't purposely put it
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  Speaker 1: off for two and a half days, but you're right.
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  Speaker 1: It has been two and a half days.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm finally ready to record one of my favorite
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  Speaker 2: episodes of the year that we do each year.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been grumpy all day. I've been in a
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  Speaker 1: bad mood, yes, and I'm actually looking forward to this
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  Speaker 1: episode the way I feel like if I'd have had
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  Speaker 1: a great day and I was in a great mood,
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  Speaker 1: I would come on here and be like, well, this
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  Speaker 1: is gonna poop on my day because I hate nineteen
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  Speaker 1: Whatever we're going to be talking about today, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure you're ready for me to give it away.
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  Speaker 2: Well, why don't we get moving and then and then
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  Speaker 2: we'll get into it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's do it. This is a podcast that looks
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  Speaker 1: back on the decade of the nineteen eighties. We talk
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  Speaker 1: about things that were important to us as children and
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  Speaker 1: what we look back on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: this is a nostalgia podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and nothing brings back nostalgia like music. That's very true,
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  Speaker 2: especially music in the summer. US kids in the summer,
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  Speaker 2: we had just a good time listening to music. Whether
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  Speaker 2: we were young, whether we were older and going to
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  Speaker 2: the pool or driving around or whatever, we just had
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  Speaker 2: a good time. And so today we're doing the songs
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  Speaker 2: of the summer of nineteen eighty one. We're gonna do
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  Speaker 2: the top ten, just like we've always done. Last year
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  Speaker 2: we did nineteen eighty seven. The year before when we
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  Speaker 2: started this, we did nineteen eighty nine. So I figured,
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  Speaker 2: let's go back to somewhere earlier in the decade and
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  Speaker 2: tackle that year. So this year it's nineteen eighty one.
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  Speaker 2: Because if we do all the good stuff at first
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  Speaker 2: and then go back and do the bad stuff, nobody's
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  Speaker 2: gonna listen. So we got to keep bouncing back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I just can't imagine that nineteen eighty one has
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  Speaker 1: anything good to offer.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, I think you're gonna be surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Good, I hope, I am.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So before we get to that, let's do
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  Speaker 2: some clean up items. Okay, you ready?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, did you mess up again?
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  Speaker 2: Did I mess up again?
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  Speaker 1: And do you have some something you need to apologize for?
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  Speaker 2: Uh no, but I did want to go over some
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  Speaker 2: feedback and I didn't want to talk about our patreon. So, folks, again,
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  Speaker 2: you can join our patreon for free, but if you
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  Speaker 2: really want the real good stuff, you can join for
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  Speaker 2: as little as five dollars a month. You get bonus episodes.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, we're doing a contest for songs, and then
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  Speaker 2: our Patreon members are going to be included in an
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  Speaker 2: ongoing basis over the next year and a half to
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  Speaker 2: two years as we try to determine the best year
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  Speaker 2: of the nineteen eighties for music. So that is something
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  Speaker 2: exclusive to our paid Patreon members. Just if you want
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  Speaker 2: to be part of that, go on over there. You
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  Speaker 2: can sign up for as little as five dollars a month.
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  Speaker 2: You get bonus stuff. Let's just say that. And we
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  Speaker 2: have outside the podcast, and we do have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of phone We got a good little community over there. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: with that out of the way, I did get an
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  Speaker 2: email from our friends over at the Canadian Movie Crew. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: from Derek. He said, happy birthday to Lindsay. Greetings from
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  Speaker 2: the Great White North obviously because the Canadian movie crew.
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  Speaker 2: Your episode really brought me back to childhood this past week.
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  Speaker 2: I could see the memories as plain as day. And
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  Speaker 2: then he goes on, which was probably dangerous because I
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  Speaker 2: was driving at the time. He said he remembers going
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  Speaker 2: to McDonald's for many birthday parties at a kid, but
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  Speaker 2: at their local McDonald's. In addition to the party hats,
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  Speaker 2: the favors, the cake, and the cigarette smoke, they also
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  Speaker 2: got invited by an employee to go behind the scenes
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  Speaker 2: and they'd learned about how the food was made, taken
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  Speaker 2: on a tour of the restaurant's back rooms, and then
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  Speaker 2: get taken into a room with a TV like on
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  Speaker 2: a stand. You know how you had them in the
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  Speaker 2: classrooms where the teachers would roll them in, Right, So
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  Speaker 2: get taken into a TV on a stand and they'd
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  Speaker 2: get to watch McDonald's shorts. What And he was like,
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  Speaker 2: these aren't the cartoons from the nighteen nineties, right? These
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  Speaker 2: were the live action kind of skits starring all the
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  Speaker 2: characters from McDonald land, Ronald, Grimace, Hamblerger, Birdie and the
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  Speaker 2: Fry Guys and Gles et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: But apparently I didn't know this, and we didn't cover
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  Speaker 2: this last week, but there was a lawsuit from Sid
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  Speaker 2: and Marty Croft that caused McDonald's to have to drop
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  Speaker 2: Mayor mccheese and Officer Big Mac, as well as the
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  Speaker 2: Professor and Captain Crook. Yeah. I didn't know that either,
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  Speaker 2: but let me know that. So they weren't in the
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  Speaker 2: live action skit.
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  Speaker 1: Sid and Marty Kroft had like an indoor I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know fun land. That was where the CNN Center
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  Speaker 1: was in Atlanta, And right at the end of my
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  Speaker 1: mom's life, she was like, remember when we went to
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was called, And I'm like, I have no
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  Speaker 1: idea what you're talking about. I've never been there, And
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  Speaker 1: my googled it and it was it was there in
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  Speaker 1: like the food court area at the CNN Center, but
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  Speaker 1: it was Sid and Marty and it had a name
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  Speaker 1: and it was like some weird little like you've gone
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  Speaker 1: on some kind of drug Hayese High and uh, I
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  Speaker 1: guess she wents at some point before I was born.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that they were something back in the seventies.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, Well, anyway, that's what happened to Mayor mccheese
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  Speaker 2: and officer her big Bany.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, thank you Derek for the email. He goes
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  Speaker 2: on and on about how great I am and about
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  Speaker 2: how you you're not as good, but he likes you anyway,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and talks about bowling alleys. Apparently they didn't
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  Speaker 2: have Chuck E Cheese or showbiz in Canada in the eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's thinks. I'm sorry about that.
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  Speaker 2: So sorry about that. We had roller skating parties. They
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  Speaker 2: had ice skating party, so you know, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: about a fifty to fifty trade there that tracks. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and then they also had parties at Pizza Hut like
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  Speaker 2: we did as well. So thanks Derek for the email.
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  Speaker 2: We really appreciate it. And uh, folks, go check out
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  Speaker 2: the Canadian Movie Crew if you like movies. They do
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  Speaker 2: a great job over there. All right, did you get
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  Speaker 2: any feedback.
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  Speaker 1: I've been living somewhat in my own little world over
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  Speaker 1: the last week, so I haven't been too present in
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  Speaker 1: podcast land.
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  Speaker 5: I apologize, Okay, fair enough, all right, I got one
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  Speaker 5: more thing before we get on to today's episode.
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  Speaker 6: I know, because I'm middle aged, I have another nominee
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  Speaker 6: for Middle Aged Man Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: Brad.
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  Speaker 1: Is Brad back trying to brand?
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  Speaker 2: Is not back trying again? Yeah? I feel bad for him.
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  Speaker 2: He thinks that you have something against him.
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  Speaker 1: Which is not true. Brad.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So today's nominee is none other than star
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  Speaker 2: of Lethal Weapon mister Roger Murtau, also known as the
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  Speaker 2: actor's name Danny Glover, who even at forty years ago,
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  Speaker 2: was too old for this.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: That is a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. To save us some time, because I know last
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  Speaker 1: episode it took me a really long time to make
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  Speaker 1: up my mind, so I've quickly typed in Danny Glover.
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  Speaker 1: He has not always looked middle aged. Right now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at a picture of him from nineteen fifty seven and.
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  Speaker 2: Nineteen fifty seven.
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  Speaker 1: He looks quite young. Well, I would hope.
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  Speaker 2: So that was seventy years ago. You can't use something
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  Speaker 2: from seventy years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen fifty seven. I'm sorry, he looks young.
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  Speaker 2: That was seventy years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I'm looking at a picture of him from nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven. I don't know how old he would have
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  Speaker 1: been then, but he looks like he's about fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety seven, Okay, it's about fifty five.
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  Speaker 2: So in nineteen eighty seven he played rock Jer Murtal
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  Speaker 2: a fifty he was either fifty or fifty one in
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  Speaker 2: lethal weapon, but he was actually only thirty eight years
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  Speaker 2: old at that point.
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  Speaker 1: What yes, wow.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not I'm not going to allow you to
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  Speaker 2: go back to the fifties. But you can go back
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  Speaker 2: to the early eighties or the late seventies, maybe even
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  Speaker 2: the mid seventies, but you can't go back to the fifties.
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  Speaker 2: He would have been like he was eleven years old
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  Speaker 2: then in nineteen fifty seven.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm looking at pictures from the late eighties, early nineties.
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  Speaker 1: He definitely looks like a middle aged man then. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm also looking at a picture of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: It's very distinguished with his gray hair. He's actually more
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  Speaker 1: handsome now than he was then. I am allowing it.
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  Speaker 3: All.
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  Speaker 1: Our fans really got into that.
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  Speaker 2: They really did congratulates this Danny Glover into the Middle
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  Speaker 2: Aged Man Hall of Fame. And that was submitted to
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  Speaker 2: us by Patreon or Julie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Julie.
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  Speaker 2: So he's been too old for this stuff for the
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  Speaker 2: last forty years. So I hear you, and back then
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  Speaker 2: he was thirty nine.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: With that being said, if you don't have anything, let's
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  Speaker 2: get to the meat of the show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready. Let's do it, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So, as I mentioned, we've done this the past two years,
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  Speaker 2: and we're doing it again this year for nineteen eighty one.
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  Speaker 2: And just to quickly go over it, I loved Casey
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  Speaker 2: Casem back in the day. I like the end of
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  Speaker 2: the year countdown stuff. I love statistics. I like to
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  Speaker 2: compare stuff. I like to come up with formulas to
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  Speaker 2: separate things. And so what I've done here is look
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: at the last couple of years, I've looked at the
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Billboard Hot one hundred. This year, I just looked at
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: the top forty because Billboard went and just like everybody else,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: got greedy and put it behind a paywall. But I
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: found something else. It gives me the top forty, and honestly,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: top one hundred doesn't really matter anyway. So I made
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: a list of each song that hit the top forty
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: for each week, and then each song got points based
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: on their ranking that week. For instance, if a song
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: was number one, they got forty points, if they were
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: number two, they got thirty nine, if they fell to
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: number ten, they got thirty one. If they fell all
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the way to forty, they got one point.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I got it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I then added up all the points for all the
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: weeks that they were in the countdown from Memorial Day
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: to Labor Day. And the part that's really fun is seeing,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: you know, as you add a new song, seeing if
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: it's going to reach the top ten or take over
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the top. So when you think of the summer of
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty one, what comes to mind the fact that
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: you were.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Too Yeah, that I was really really.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Little, all right, So I think you'll be surprised when
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: you see this list.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, I hope it's better than what I'm picturing.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: All right. So there were fifteen weeks from Memorial Day,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: counting Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend. That means there
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: are fifteen number one songs or fifteen weeks of number
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: one songs. How many different songs do you think hit
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: number one over those fifteen weeks hit number one?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Eight?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: There were actually only five different songs that hit number one,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: and one of those number ones didn't finish in our
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: top ten songs of the summer. And I can't tell
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: you how thankful I am for that because it is
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: that piece of crap endless love by Lionel Richey and
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Diana rust.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I love that song.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: So that song, I believe, for the last four weeks
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: was number one, but it didn't enter the charts until
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: like late July, so it didn't gain enough points to
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: finish in our top ten. So here we go. We're
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: gonna talk about the top twenty. We'll go from twenty
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: to eleven, just kind of mentioning them and see what
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: you know about them and what you don't know about them,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: and what I know about them, what I don't know
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: about them. But then when we get to the top ten,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: that's when we really get into the meat of stuff. Right,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I'm ready, all right? Our number twenty song is Lady Parentheses,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: You Bring Me Up by the Commodoors. This ended up
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: with two hundred and eleven points. It did not end
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: there top forty until July eleventh, and it was in
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: the top ten and climbing the last three weeks of
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the summer. Okay, do you recognize that song?
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you'd give us number nineteen.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: The next one, number nineteen, This little girl Gary Us
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Bonds what kind of name is that?
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Two hundred and thirty six points. This song got okay,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: it never hit the top ten all summer.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I know I'm not comfortable with the little girl part.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Well I was going to get to that. So it's
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: creepy with little girl in it? But what was it
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: about little girls in the eighties that come?
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: So this won't surprise you. This song was actually written
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: by Bruce Springsteen, who is the creep of all creeps.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Because if you were remember at the beginning of I'm
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: on Fire, he little girl as you got a home
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: goog oh?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Can we just stop being creepy with little girl?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Yes? Can we please?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Now that I've got a twelve year old.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm gonna go punch Gary Us minds and Bruce
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Springsteen favracy.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: It's so Gary Us bonds like I'm struggling. Is that
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: a band? Is that a person? Is that a stage name?
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: But it's a creep all right? Number eighteen your favorite
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: artist Ronnie millsap with No Getting Over Me. I got
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: two hundred and forty points, but didn't enter the top
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: forty until the July eleven This song was in the
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: top ten and climbing the last four weeks of the summer.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: So uh, it would go on to higher and hire heights.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: All right, what's number seventeen?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Number seventeen America? Neil Diamond. Yes, got two hundred and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: forty five points. Yes, it peaked at number eight for
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: three weeks in a row and then fell out of
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the top forty by August first.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Yes. So number sixteen is the aforementioned Endless Love.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I hate that because it sucks. Diana Ross and Lionel
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Rikshie with two hundred and forty six points just one
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: point above Neil, and to me there are ninety nine
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: thousand points below Neil. But as I mentioned, this didn't
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: enter until July eighteenth, but it went quickly up to
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: number one. It was the top song for the last
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: four weeks of the summer, and I think it would
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: hold on for another four or five weeks.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Wow, okay, Number fifteen suki Yaki A Taste of Honey?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Do you know that song.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Is suki yaki Japanese for little girl?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: It is Japanese, but I don't think it's for little
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: girl now.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Two hundred and sixty six points. It spent the first
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: five weeks of the summer in the top four, then
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: fell out of the top forty by August first. Non
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: answer your question. Never heard that song?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Just as bad as you would think it was.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Oh I'm thinking some things.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Number fourteen As a Woman Needs Love by Ray
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Parker Junior with three hundred and five points. This one
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: spent the first six weeks of the summer in the
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: top ten before falling out of the top forty on
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: August eighth.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Number thirteen, Queen of Hearts Juice Newton. You know I
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: love that song.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Three hundred and eleven points is what
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: it gets. Spent the last six weeks in the top ten,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: but it didn't reach the top forty until June twentieth,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: which hurt its overall ring.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, otherwise it would have made it. If it had
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: been there around Memorial Day, it probably would have been
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: in the top ten. Number twelve is All Those Years
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Ago by George Harrison. This was in the top ten
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: for six weeks, and it peaked at number two for
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: three of those weeks and probably could have been a
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: number one song except for it was held off by
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: a long running number one song.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: So not to bring us down. But I don't really
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: want a funeral. But if you insist on having some
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: kind of a memorial service for me, I think I
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: kind of want this.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Song play you went all those years ago? Kind of
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: it's a tribute to John Lennon.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Well, couldn't it be a tribute to Lindsay Butler? Sure?
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Thanks, all right, go ahead and you do number eleven.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Since this is your favorite band.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: You make my dreams come true. Haul of notes. It
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: spent twelve of the fifteen weeks on the chart. It
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: missed the summer top ten by three points. It spent
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: six weeks in the top ten but never got higher
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: than number five.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: All Right, you ready to get to the top ten.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Let's do it?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: All right? Here is our number ten song. This is
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: remember our buddy Allen Hunter calls the early eighties the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: good and the bad and the ugly.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: This is the ugly.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: This is either the ugly or.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: The bad, Down, Down and.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Sugar.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: So that is Stars on forty five.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: So it sampled other songs by Stars.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: On forty five. It's sampled a lot of sixty songs
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: and a lot of Beetles stuff, which makes sense considering
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: John Lennon had just been murdered. Yeah, that one wasn't OJ,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: was it?
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: No about it abound as bad as OJ, but no.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: So this spent the first seven weeks of the summer
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: in the top ten. It actually number one on the
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: week of June twentieth, knocking out the previous number one,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: and then would be knocked out the next week by
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: that same song that it knocked out. It was out
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: of the top forty by August eighth. This song reached
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: number one in twelve different countries. It was the year
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: a number twenty four hit for the Billboard Hot one hundred,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: and it was a year in top three hit for
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: eight countries. Why was the song so popular, you.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Ask, Well, I have no idea, but I did a
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: quick Google search and I've got the ten different songs.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Okay they included in the in this song. Okay, you
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: want to hear them? Yeap Venus Sugar Sugar, no reply,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I'll be back, drive my car. Do you want to
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: know a secret? We can work it out. I should
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: have known better nowhere, man, you're going to that girl.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: They should have known better than to do this song.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: That's what they should have known better. Yeah, Uh, should
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: have known Richard Marx was' until nineteen eighty nine, though,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: So how'd they do this in nineteen eighty one?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: They're time travelers?
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, Dolorian or phone booth UFOs. All right, so
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I don't think we need to give our thoughts on
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: this song. We both think it's kind of crap, right, yep,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: all right? Why don't I let you handle number nine?
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Since you used to date this person.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Tell us about the.
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: Easy down and he's no crown. He has a fine
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: as I have seen it time.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: And a small half.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Number nine boy from New York City by the Manhattan Transfer. Now,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: why is this my boyfriend?
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Because I said earlier that you dated the boy from
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: New York City.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I don't even know anybody from New York City.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah you do?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Okay. Three hundred and thirty nine points is how many
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: of this song got. It entered the top forty on
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: June thirteenth and only missed two weeks. It peaked at
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: number seven, where it stayed for three weeks, and it
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: was on the top ten for six weeks in a row.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: It was the thirty sixth biggest song of nineteen eighty one.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this song was originally recorded and released by the
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: ad Libs in nineteen sixty four and peaked at number
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: eight on the Billboard Hot one hundred, so it actually
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: did a little bit better one spot better in eighty
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: one than it did in sixty four.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty five, the Beach Boys recorded an answer
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: song to The Boy from New York City titled The
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Girl from New York City.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: You know what, I bet Deaf Dave didn't know that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Oh yea thie.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: I bet he didn't know that.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: So I feel like I know the original version more
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: so than this eighties version.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Really. Yeah, Okay, I mean this song was I mean
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: it was on all the time, obviously because it was
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: number seven, But I just remember hearing it all the time.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: And you know, in nineteen eighty one, when you're a
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: little kid, you're like a seven year old boy, the
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: only music you really get to hear is when you're
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: in the car or if your parents are playing a
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: record at home. Right, So anytime we were in the car,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: I felt like I was hearing this song, yes, right,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: So I felt like it was on the radio all
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: the time. I don't really remember Stars on forty five,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: but Boy from New York City, I remember that one,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: all right? I remember this next one too, This is
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: number eight.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I'm on, man, I'm on a love of them as
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: a day touch little fans time not common card. I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: want somebody will come say when it comes to low.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: So that is Slowhand by my favorite sisters, which are
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: who the Pointers Sisters? Yes? So this finished with three
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: hundred and forty nine points. The song actually did not
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: enter the top forty until June twenty seventh, but two
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: weeks later it was in the top ten and stayed
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: the top ten for the rest of the summer. It
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: peaked at number two but never made it to number
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: one because of stupid endless love.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: You're not letting that one go never.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: It would end the year as the nineteenth biggest song
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: for nineteen eighty one. So what are your thoughts on
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: that song? So that song as a kid made me
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: uncomfortable because they said the word lover, because I didn't
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: know exactly what they were singing about, but I knew
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: it was something that I wasn't quite old enough to know.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: But I know the Pointer sister's version. But the song,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the version of the song that I grew up with
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: was Conway Twitty.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Oh really, I thought the song was about Eric Clapton
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: because they call him.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: All right, so you liked the song.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: So my sweet sweet aunt just recently had a massive
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: pulmonary embolism and they didn't expect her to live, and
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: thank god, she has and she's eighty three. She comes
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: out of the medically induced coma and they take her
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: off the ventilator and literally one of the first lucid
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: moments she has, she's talking about Conway Twitty. That's that's
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: how you know an icon is an icon.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, we're not talking about Conway Twitty. Well, I
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: think we should talking about the Pointer Sisters.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: I prefer the Pointer Sisters over Conway Twitty myself. All right,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: all right, let's get to the number seven song.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: And you found yourself a new love.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Number together love.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Lets what kind of that?
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Well, why don't you tell folks.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I can do it?
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Because it's bad.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: That is number seven. It's called Hearts My I'm already balin.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had never heard of this song. I had
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: never heard of the singer.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I'm balen on this song, but I recognize the song
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: when I heard it, y'all. I've never heard that song
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: in my life. I hope I never hear it again.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: The only thing I'm upset about right now is I'm
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: gonna have to edit this podcast and listen to that again.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Okay, mister Baylin got three hundred and
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: fifty points. It spent thirteen of the fifteen weeks in
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the top forty. What was going on?
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: It was in the top ten for four weeks in
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: a row. It peaked at number eight for two weeks. Uh,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: what in the year is the forty first biggest song
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: for nineteen eighty one?
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what takes me off? It beat
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: out Slowhand by the Pointer Sisters by one's thinging point.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Otherwise they would have been flip flopped. So you've already
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: given your thoughts on this song. You never want to
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: hear it again. Unfortunately, you're gonna have to you edit, yeah,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: and put it all together. Yeah, that song sucks. That's
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: all I gotta say about it. All right, I'll let
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: you do number six, since you had to do the
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: sucky song, and since this is one of your favorites here.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Rhyme singing elam.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Is that more your style?
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I cannot. I don't have words for
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: how much I love this song. Okay, this is number
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: six el Vira Oakridge Boys. I'll give the stats, but
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: then I got to talk about my love of this song.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: So three, one hundred and seventy seven points. Ah, man,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: it sopped. It's been the entire summer except for Memorial
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Day weekend in the top forty. It was a top
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: ten song for eight weeks. It peaked at number five
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: for four weeks in a row. Prior to its peak,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: it spent three weeks at number.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Six, so seven weeks. It looks like for seven weeks
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: it was either number six or number five.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: And as it should have, it hit number one on
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the country charts. It would end the year as the
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: thirty first biggest song for nineteen eighty one, which is
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: ironic because it finished the summer at thirty one on
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the top forty charts.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a little ironic. That's so totally a
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: gem stat that you pulled up.
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: I know I did.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I pulled it out in ironically enough. It is a
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: cover of a song from nineteen sixty five, which we.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Talked about before. We talked about this when we did
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: our Country crossover back in the first season.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: So I had about a five minute radio career back
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: in the early knots aughts not knots. No, they're not
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: because they're zeros. They're like a knot. I don't know
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: what's an aught a zero. An aught is like an
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: otter or something. Anyway, so for for like five minutes.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: But one of my highlights was getting to meet the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Oakreage boys and they sang Alvirah to me live.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Did they really? Did you tell them the story about
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: you standing up on the table and singing it at
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: the uh what was it at the cracker barrel?
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: That was Jesus Loves Me. I stood up. Oh, I
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: stood up on the table at po folks and saying
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Jesus loves me. I was a traveling preacher back in
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the day. But anyways, so that was one of the
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: highlights of that time of my life. But going back
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to when it was originally out, you know, my dad
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: was very much a hands off eighties dad, but one
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: of the things that connected us was our love for
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: eighties country, and so when this song would come on
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the radio, he would get down on his knees and
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: dance with me.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's fack in the day. That's sweet.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Now can you picture my dad doing that?
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Totally? Your dad was like a big kid, all right.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: That moves us on to our number five song. I'll
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: take this one stop day so anywhere that is the
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: one that you loved by air Supply. It would end
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: up with three hundred and eighty nine points. It was
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: on the top forty all summer except for the last
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: two weeks. It was a top ten song for eight weeks,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: and it peaked at number one on July twenty fifth
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: and knocked out are What's gonna be our number two song?
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: When we get there? It held these spots in the
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: top ten one, two, three, six, and seven, and it
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: would end the year as the twenty eighth biggest song
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: for nineteen eighty one. Here's a fun fact that was
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: twenty eight. Air Supply also had the twenty seventh biggest
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: song of the year for nineteen eighty one, and that
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: was every Woman in the World. So if you're listening
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: to the year end Casey Casem countdown, you'd have heard
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: air Supply back with back to back songs twenty seven. Yeah,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: so what do you think about this song?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: You know, I like it. It's a really sweet love song. Yes,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I have a soft spot for air supply the Grahams. Yes,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: so it definitely it's no hard hitting song, but it's sweet, right, Yeah,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: for sure, it's not a hard hitting song.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: This next one isn't a hard hitting song either, But
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you take our number four onn.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: And man ah, yes we wanna doll? Hod on me?
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: You baby?
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Now you're giving me a look across the table. You
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: like this song or don't know?
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: This song is horrible?
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Oh my god? I thought so because I'm over here
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: having literally like an emotional reaction to this song. And
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I look at you, thinking like, oh, our eyes are
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: gonna meet, and you give me a look like you're nauseous. Yes,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I was Jim Butler. Play that again.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: I don't wanna do it. I don't wanna wanna man.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, we wanna doll? What on.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: You bebe? Wow?
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I'm literally I've never heard that song before, and I'm
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: having like a reaction to it.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, so if we still had an audience before that song,
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: we certainly don't have it anymore after you made me
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: play it twice.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, coming in at number four, I don't need you
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: fuck right Now three and ninety six points. It missed
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: the first two weeks, then spent the rest of the
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: summer in the top forty. It was a top ten
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: song for eight weeks. It was still number eleven on
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Labor Date weekend. It peaked at number three for two
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: weeks before falling to number eleven. It would end the
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: year as the forty fourth biggest song for nineteen eighty one.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: So I'm thinking that in nineteen eighty one country singers,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: you know, with the crossover, they were apparently pretty cocky
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: because he's telling this lady he doesn't need her, and
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Ronnie Millsap was telling people that there's no getting over
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: me when I when I leave you. Yeah, we got
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: some country narcissist crossovers in nineteen eighty one.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: So I love Kenny Rogers. I mean, he's on the
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore of country singers, country singers. That voice, How
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: could you not just melt when you hear.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: He's got a great voice. I love Kenney Rogers, but
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: I did not like that song. I had never heard
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: it either, and that's not I mean. And I had
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Kenny Rogers's greatest hintsing you know, what that's not on it?
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: And I think there's a reason why.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: So I met somebody a few years ago, and after
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I had known him for a while, like maybe a year,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: he tells me he works for Kenney Rogers. This was right,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: not long before he passed away, and I was just
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: blown away, And of course I'm trying to play it cool.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Turns out Kenny Rogers bought a house and this gentleman
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: was an employee of the home. So when Kenny bought
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: the house, he got the employee.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought you were gonna tell me that he uh,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: he worked for Kenny Rogers, the left handed picture baseball player.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: But that's what I guess. My point is, that's a
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: level of rich that I didn't know existed.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: That you come with the house.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Did you know that that rich people buy homes that
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: come with employees. I didn't know.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't know that either. Well, apparently I probably
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: will never know that other than what you just told me.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to our number three song.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: Suddenly I'm a mon of other world. It shut up
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: in somebody.
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: On it.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: I never thought of.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: Hit me.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Believe it.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: All right? That is, believe it or not or the
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: theme from Greatest American Hero by Joey Scarbury. This had
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: four hundred and twenty three points for the summer. It
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: was in the top forty all summer except for the
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: first two weeks. It missed the first two weeks. It
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: would spend the last ten weeks of the summer as
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: a top ten song. It peaked at number two for
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: two weeks, once again was held off by that piece
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: of crap endless Loof. And there's only one other song
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: that spent more than ten weeks in the top ten
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: this summer. We haven't talked about it yet. This would
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: end the years the eleventh biggest song for nineteen eighty one.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: So we've talked about this song a lot on our
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: podcast we have. I feel like it got a raw
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: deal in the television theme song Countdown Tournament.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah from our tournament.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, from our tournament.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna say, because it got put
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: with Greatest American Hero that it't got a raw deal.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: No, it's perfect for the Greatest American Hero. They're perfect
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: for each other.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: If you were saying it got a raw deal because
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: it was put with the Greatest American Hero, did it
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: make up when for it when it got featured on Seinfeld.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, but it didn't. It wasn't done wrong by being
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: put with greatest American hero. All Right, a true one
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: hit wonder. I don't remember Joey Scarberry doing anything else.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: What more can we say about this song?
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: It's been on the podcast more than I have been.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: All Right, let's get to our number two song.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: This is a good one.
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: When she snows you, she throws you, she's frosha and
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: she knows just what it tags to be probed.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: The balls thinks she's a spouse.
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: She's gowing headed day sides.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, number two Betty Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes Man.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I love her voice. I know I wish I tried
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: the voice. Okay, four hundred and forty three points. This
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: song rocks. Yeah.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: When I think of the early eighties, I think of
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: the song.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: It missed the last two weeks of summer on the
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Top forty chart, but it was a top ten song
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: for ten weeks.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: That's not the most impressive stat It was.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Number one to start the summer for three weeks. Got
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: knocked out of the top spawn on June twentieth. A
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: lot of things happened on June twentieth, you know by
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: stars on forty five, then went back to number one
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: and spent four more weeks there.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: That's impressive. That doesn't happen a lot.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: It spent seven total weeks at number one and two
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: weeks at number two. It would end the year as
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the biggest song for nineteen eighty one.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Right, and so we've talked about this song. We both
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: love this song. To me, this is a probably a
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: top ten song of the eighties, even though it's in
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: early eighty one. But I want to ask you something.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: What song so this was number two for the summer?
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: What song could possibly have beaten a song that spent
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: seven weeks at number one during the summer.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: I cain't even fathom.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: I have no idea, So I'll give you some hints.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: This was the only song that stayed in the top
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: forty for all fifteen weeks of the summer. It topped
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: the chart for two weeks and was knocked out by
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Endless Love. Here's the most impressive thing I think about
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: this song's run. It entered the top ten on June
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: twentieth and stayed there and was still number nine on
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: Labor Day Weekend. Oh wow, it was top five for
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: eight weeks in a row, so you would have heard
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Casey case I'm talking about this song for fifteen straight
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: weeks from Memorial Day to Labor Day. And this ended
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: up being the fifth biggest song for nineteen eighty one.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Can you guess what this song is?
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I have no idea, oh late nineteen No, what were said?
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: I had, just it's go.
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: Jess, Go find Jesse, Go.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: Find find.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: All right, talk to me about Jesse's Girl.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: That's a great song, okay, Number one, Jesse's Girl by
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: none other than mister Rick Springfield. Four hundred and ninety
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: points are Walking Class DJ.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, so it finished way ahead of Betty Davis Eyes,
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: which blew me away when I was doing this.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: So get this.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: I was working on this many weeks ago and my
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: brother Matt was texting me and I said, Hey, I'm
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: working on a show, and he was like, what are
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: you working on? I said, the top ten songs of
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: the summer for nineteen eighty one, and he was like, well,
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: Google says that Jesse's Girls is the number one is
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: the song of the summer for nineteen eighty one, And
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: I was like that fat guy on Maul Rats when
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: the kid looks at the picture and goes, oh, look
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: it's a schooner. Because I'm like, you, dumb bastard, I'm
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: like Betty Davis Eyes was number one for seven weeks
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: during the summer. It's not gonna be Jesse's girl. Well,
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: it turns out it was Jesse's girl. I think Jesse's
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: Girl being in the top ten basically for all summer
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: allowed it to jump past even something that was number
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: one for seven weeks.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: So is this a public apology to your brother?
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: I told I already told them already. All right, okay,
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: so just wrapping up here, what'd you think of the list?
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: You know what, it wasn't half bad. And here's something
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: that rarely happens. I have found a song I'm now
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: going to go download and put on my playlist. Can
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: you ride your show? It never happens.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, So you have to admit that nineteen eighty one,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: at least for the summer, wasn't as bad as you
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: thought it was going to be. Now, there were some
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: stinkers on there, don't get me wrong, but I would
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: have replaced those stinkers by like you make those dreams
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: come True by Holland Oates. All Those Years Ago by
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: George Harrison, Queen of Hearts by Juice Newton. Even a
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Woman Needs Love by Ray Parker. If you've never heard that,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: I would suggest go and listen to America by Neil Diamond.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: That's a good one too, really, you bring me Up
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: by the Commodorees. That's a really good one as well.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: So nineteen eighty one again the good, the bad, and
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: the ugly. Right, the good are very very good, the
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: bad are very very bad, and then we got a
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: few in there that are real ugly.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: That really does sum it up very well? It does,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: all right?
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: You got anything else as far as just overlooking this thing.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: I'm still a nerd, right.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: You're still a nerd. That's not going to change anytime soon.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Not a lot.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it is what it is at this point.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Are you going to go out and download the Kenney Rogers?
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: I am not.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: I am not, but you know what I am going
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: to do. I'm gonna tell folks to make sure that
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: they click the subscribe button on whatever podcast forum they
• 51:54
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• 51:57
  Speaker 2: a show.
• 51:57
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• 52:01
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• 52:03
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• 52:07
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• 52:10
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• 52:14
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• 52:19
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• 52:21
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• 52:24
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• 52:29
  Speaker 2: of the nineteen books. Glorious, I love it all right, Well,
• 52:34
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• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I'm Jim and I'm Lindsay, and we are Children of
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the Eighties.