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Top 80S Hits: Cover Songs from Previous Decades · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 1: So we got some feedback on last week's episode, which
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  Speaker 1: was about planes, trains and automobiles and iron Jawed Angel
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  Speaker 1: had a comment to follow up on what I had
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  Speaker 1: said about Dell being homeless right that I thought was
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  Speaker 1: pretty profound, and I think I agree.
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  Speaker 2: And she said, I don't think Dell is homeless. He
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  Speaker 2: has a house, but it's no longer a home because
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  Speaker 1: That just breaks my heart.
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 2: wasn't something that I had thought of. So again, thanks
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  Speaker 1: I know, and I'll love the feedback.
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  Speaker 2: So anything else going on other than.
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  Speaker 1: Just being in the loo?
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  Speaker 2: Being in the loo?
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  Speaker 1: I had some Emo's pizza for dinner. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: getting some ted Drew's later on.
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  Speaker 2: I have to go to ted Drew's when you're in town,
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  Speaker 2: so I can't have to get good Italian food ted Drew's,
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  Speaker 2: Emo's pizza, and you've checked most of the boxes. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: some Lion's Choice roast beef.
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  Speaker 1: Emmy wants to go to white Castle.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we will take her and for her first trip
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  Speaker 2: to white Castle another beach Beastie boys hang out.
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  Speaker 1: Have I been to white Castle?
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe that you have.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I have either.
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  Speaker 2: So I have Crystal down South.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, it's similar to Crystal.
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  Speaker 2: Not as good. Crystal is not as good.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so Crystal they only do mustard on their.
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  Speaker 2: White castle, only does onions on theirs.
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  Speaker 1: No ketchup or musk ketchup or mustards.
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  Speaker 2: You will have to add that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you add it?
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  Speaker 2: I do not what I get others do.
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  Speaker 1: Would I get laughed at if I added some ketchup? No?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean as long as we do it in
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  Speaker 2: the privacy of the hotel room and you're not out
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  Speaker 2: in public embarrassing me.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, I like mayo on my burger. Would that make
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  Speaker 1: things weird?
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  Speaker 2: That's disgusting?
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 2: What are you European?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that might explain a lot. Okay, you ready to
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  Speaker 1: jump on in?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go get to it.
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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
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  Speaker 1: of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
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  Speaker 1: important to us as children and what we look back
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  Speaker 1: on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
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  Speaker 1: nostalgia podcast.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And as I mentioned a few episodes ago,
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  Speaker 2: November is Thanksgiving obviously family time and we are here
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  Speaker 2: visiting my family and this episode today was given to
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  Speaker 2: me by my dad, and so we are going to
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  Speaker 2: hit that. And so what we're talking about today are
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  Speaker 2: eighties hits that were covers of hit songs from the
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  Speaker 2: fifties and sixties.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought you meant he was sponsoring the episode,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought for a minute I was actually going
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  Speaker 1: to get some money from ever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I don't think he's sponsoring the episode.
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  Speaker 1: Did I say it was.
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  Speaker 2: Brought to me by my dad or given to me?
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  Speaker 1: I think you said given to me.
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  Speaker 2: Still, I was thinking, this episode's brought to you by
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  Speaker 2: the Butler family, who will be sponsoring us for one
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we better make this fast.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're saying that too. But there are so
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  Speaker 2: many cover songs in the eighties. Did you realize that
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  Speaker 2: that we can't possibly cover them all in one episode.
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't really stopped to think about that until we
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  Speaker 1: started talking about this topic, and then I started kind
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  Speaker 1: of making a mental list, and yeah, there are a lot,
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  Speaker 1: There are tons.
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  Speaker 2: So we've picked eight of our favorites because we can't
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  Speaker 2: have a four and a half hour episode. We don't
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  Speaker 2: want to put our live audience or our listening audience
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  Speaker 2: to sleep. Yeah, start grumbling?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: So any thoughts about cover songs? You said that you
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  Speaker 2: saw a lot of them. Are there any ones that
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  Speaker 2: aren't on this list that you just want to throw
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  Speaker 2: out there and mention?
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  Speaker 1: All the ones that I know of are on this list?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So you're ready to get to it, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: So here's our first song. Let me know if you
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  Speaker 2: recognize it. So did you recognize that song?
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  Speaker 1: So? Not only do I I recognized that song? That's
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  Speaker 1: one of my all time favorite songs period.
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  Speaker 2: So that is Crimson and Clover covered by Jon Jet
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  Speaker 2: and the Black Heart originally done.
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  Speaker 1: By Tommy James and the Sean Dels.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, So let me tell you about Jong Jet
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  Speaker 2: and the Black Hearts. This song debuted in the top
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  Speaker 2: forty on May fifteenth, nineteen eighty two. It was on
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  Speaker 2: the chart for ten weeks. It peaked at number seven
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  Speaker 2: on the Billboard Hot one hundred and was actually one
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  Speaker 2: step higher on the Mainstream Rock chart, where it peaked
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  Speaker 2: at number six. It charted in the top one hundred
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  Speaker 2: for nineteen eighty two for a year end it actually
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  Speaker 2: hit number seventy eight. I would not have guessed that
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  Speaker 2: it was on their debut album. It was actually her
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  Speaker 2: second album, but this was her first album with the
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  Speaker 2: Black Hearts. I could be a member of the Black
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  Speaker 2: Hearts since I also have a black heart.
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  Speaker 1: You just made your sister laugh. She knows it's the truth.
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  Speaker 2: This is a follow up to their it I Love
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  Speaker 2: rock and Roll, which ironically is also a cover.
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  Speaker 1: Is that all Joan Jet can do? All she did
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  Speaker 1: was covers? Did she ever do anything original?
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  Speaker 2: She did, Yeah, she did some original, but she did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of covers, a lot of her popular stuff
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  Speaker 2: for covers. So you mentioned Tommy James and the Chonde. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so this is let me hear it, their version.
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  Speaker 3: Not holling, No Crimson and Clue.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say something.
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  Speaker 2: Controversial, say something controversial.
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  Speaker 1: There's no comparison between the two.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, the original is better. I mean, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't say that a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I know, and I don't want to slam Joon Jet.
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  Speaker 1: I think she's fantastic, but in this situation, you just
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  Speaker 1: can't even compare it. Well, you can't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can cover it, but you can't outdo
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  Speaker 2: an original. That's fantastic. So let me give you their
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  Speaker 2: debut debut in top forty on December twenty first, nineteen
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  Speaker 2: sixty eight. It was on the chart for fifteen weeks.
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  Speaker 2: It peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot one
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  Speaker 2: hundred for two weeks. But get this, it was also
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  Speaker 2: number one in Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, and Switzerland.
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  Speaker 1: Half the country now in the world. Half the world
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  Speaker 1: knew what a great song that was.
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  Speaker 2: It was the number ten song of the year for
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  Speaker 2: nineteen sixty nine. I would maybe they were nine better songs,
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  Speaker 2: but I would find it hard pressed. I know what
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  Speaker 2: number one was, though, and I would probably agree it's
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  Speaker 2: probably a better song. It was Sugar Sugar by the Archie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one too.
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  Speaker 2: So which version did you hear first?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So I feel a little bad up to show
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  Speaker 1: my ignorance, I did not know Jon Jet did this
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  Speaker 1: as a cover. I thought that the only version of
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  Speaker 1: this song was the Tommy James and the Shondell version.
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  Speaker 2: So I actually did know that Jone Jett did this.
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  Speaker 2: It was one of the first songs I remember hearing
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  Speaker 2: as a kid on maybe MTV or just on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: I hadn't heard the Tommy James version yet, so I
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  Speaker 2: actually discovered Jone Jet first and I liked it, and
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  Speaker 2: somebody told me it was a cover of Tommy James
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  Speaker 2: and the Shondell's. That didn't mean anything to me other
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  Speaker 2: than it was Tommy James and the Shondells, and so
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  Speaker 2: I hadn't heard that version. I did not hear that
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  Speaker 2: version until I was probably a teenager.
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  Speaker 1: So I have a really embarrassing story. Can I give
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  Speaker 1: it to you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we always love to embarrass ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: This is I mean, this is right on up there.
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  Speaker 1: So I was in sixth grade summer go well was
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  Speaker 1: the summer going from fifth into sixth grade, So that
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  Speaker 1: would have been the summer of nineteen ninety, yes, I
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  Speaker 1: think if I'm doing my math correctly. Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go to summer camp and my parents said no,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't old enough. It was going to be a week.
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  Speaker 1: And they said I wasn't old enough to be gone
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  Speaker 1: from home a state away for a solid week without them.
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  Speaker 1: So they packed their bags and they went to Whoa.
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  Speaker 2: But what does that have to do with Crimson and Clover.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so confused.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting there. So my parents went with me to
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  Speaker 1: a week of summer camp and there were some older
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  Speaker 1: teenagers at this summer camp who I just looked up to.
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  Speaker 1: They had such like a cool style, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: their clothes were different. They were coming from somewhere else
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  Speaker 1: in the country. I don't remember now where. I thought
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  Speaker 1: their clothes were different and everything. They went around singing
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  Speaker 1: this song all.
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  Speaker 2: Week at camp in nineteen ninety.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety, so both.
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  Speaker 2: Those songs were old by nineteen ninety. Yeah, I know
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  Speaker 2: were they Yankees? Because I know that you Southerners, you
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  Speaker 2: don't like the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: What does that have to do with any of this?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because you said that they were kids and they
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  Speaker 2: were from a different part of the world and they
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  Speaker 2: were cool. So I just wondered if you like went
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  Speaker 2: against the grain and you actually liked the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: I think they were from Florida, but anyways, might as
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  Speaker 1: well be a different part of the world. So they
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  Speaker 1: went around singing this song all week long. I had
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  Speaker 1: heard it before because in my house we listened to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of oldies, right, and so I knew the song,
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  Speaker 1: but then to hear them singing it, it just added
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  Speaker 1: like an extra cool factor, and that's when I fell
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  Speaker 1: in love with the song.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like, as a kid, my dad always
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  Speaker 2: played oldies, and I had not ever heard him play
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  Speaker 2: this song. Played a lot of Beatles and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Aerosmith and Eagles and stuff like that, but no
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  Speaker 2: Tommy James and the Chandell So I had not heard this.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I heard Jones Jet first. I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: I heard Tommy James when I was older, and usually
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  Speaker 2: I liked the version that I heard first. But the
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  Speaker 2: Tommy James and version is just so cool that I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna take that one.
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  Speaker 1: And how do they do this? How do they do that?
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  Speaker 2: They're my people, They're Indians like that.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that was cool. Imagine how innovative that was
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  Speaker 1: back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you ask me as a kid, like
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  Speaker 2: everything in the sixties, it was like living in black
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  Speaker 2: and white?
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  Speaker 1: All right, You ready to get to the next one?
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  Speaker 1: Bring it on.
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  Speaker 2: I think this artist might be a little bit familiar.
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  Speaker 1: Did she just say trying to be a yes or
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to be a skinny one. I'm like a
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  Speaker 1: skinny one. That voice sounded familiar.
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  Speaker 2: That was Joe Jet and the Black Hearts. You asked
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  Speaker 2: if all they did was covers, Well, here's another one,
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  Speaker 2: and that was Everyday People, which was originally.
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  Speaker 1: Done by sling the Family Stone. That is correct.
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  Speaker 2: So this one debut in the top forty on October fifteenth,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three. It was only on the chart for
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  Speaker 2: two weeks, so.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, she should have stayed home that day. That was embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: Peaked at number thirty seven on the Billboard Hot one hundred,
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  Speaker 2: but peaked at number six on the Mainstream Rock chart.
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  Speaker 2: This was on their second album from nineteen eighty three.
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  Speaker 2: So I get the feeling that you don't like this version.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't let me play it lacks depth, it does.
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  Speaker 2: So let me play this version for me. Man Stone,
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  Speaker 2: different strokes for different faults, trying to be a skinny one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Jon Jet's voice felt very immature in her version
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  Speaker 1: of Everyday People, so I got to go with Slane
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  Speaker 1: the family one sly.
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  Speaker 2: Had a better voice than jone Jut.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but listen, I'm not hating on jone Jet. I
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  Speaker 1: actually I'm a jone Jet fan. I'm sorry. This is
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  Speaker 1: just not it for me.
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  Speaker 2: So let me give you the deats on Sliing the
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  Speaker 2: Family Stone. It debuted in the top forty on January fourth,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen sixty nine, was on the chart for fourteen weeks.
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  Speaker 2: It peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot one
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  Speaker 2: hundred for four weeks. For those of you that are
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  Speaker 2: mathematically impaired, that's a month.
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  Speaker 1: That's me.
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  Speaker 2: That's this was the number five song of the year
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty nine. So this was actually rated higher
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  Speaker 2: than Tommy James and the Shondell's Crimson and Clover. And
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  Speaker 2: it is number two hundred and ninety nine on the
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  Speaker 2: all time chart.
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  Speaker 1: You know those all time charts. They make me chuckle.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you can ever just rank every
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  Speaker 1: song that's ever been in all of existence. Well, and
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  Speaker 1: this is two ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think I need to ask you which
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  Speaker 2: version you like better. I think you made that pretty clear.
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  Speaker 2: Which version did you hear first?
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  Speaker 1: It's Fly in the Family st so me too.
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  Speaker 2: I actually heard the older version first, and then I
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  Speaker 2: discovered the Jones Jet version just by listening to some
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  Speaker 2: kind of mix on YouTube or something that came out
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, it's pretty cool. Like I
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  Speaker 2: didn't realize that anybody had ever covered this, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought that she did a good job, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: nearly what the original was. So I did do some
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  Speaker 2: research on this song, though you want to hear what
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  Speaker 2: I found.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely so this is one of.
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  Speaker 2: Sly Stones pleas for peace and equality among differing races
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  Speaker 2: and social groups, a major theme and focus for the
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  Speaker 2: band Sly. Sister Roastone sings bridging sections using the cadence
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  Speaker 2: of Nana Nana Boo boo, the children's taunt.
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  Speaker 1: I had never thought about it like that, right, and so.
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  Speaker 2: The chap mox the futility of people hating each other
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  Speaker 2: for being tall, short, rich, poor, fat, skinny, white, black,
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  Speaker 2: or anything else. The bridge of the song contains the
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  Speaker 2: line which I said earlier, Different strokes for different folks,
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  Speaker 2: and this kind of led to the theme song for
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  Speaker 2: the television show Different Strokes.
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  Speaker 1: Really, are you just making that I'm not baking that up?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: You ready for the next one?
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  Speaker 2: Or you got anything else to say about U? Sly
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  Speaker 2: and the family Stone and everyday people. I hope that
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  Speaker 2: I'm everyday people.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, well you are.
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  Speaker 2: I hope I'm tomorrow people.
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  Speaker 1: You're you're the what is it the man of the people,
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  Speaker 1: the man?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I am. I'm the man of the people.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna run for mayor of pod cast. Lean, all right,
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  Speaker 2: you're ready for the next one. So why don't you
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  Speaker 2: tell the folks what that is?
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  Speaker 1: So that is Lubumba by Los Lobos.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, when it's a cover of.
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  Speaker 1: Richie Vallen song, right, which really.
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  Speaker 2: We know is a is an old Mexican folk song
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  Speaker 2: that Richievallens just did and made popular unpopular radio. Right,
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  Speaker 2: but Richie Villins did not write it.
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  Speaker 1: But do you think the people listening to just mainstream
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  Speaker 1: radio when Richie Vallens did it, do you think they
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  Speaker 1: knew that that was just like a Mexican folk song.
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  Speaker 1: I bet the Mexican people did, I'm sure, but just
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  Speaker 1: the average white guy. Okay. So the Low's Lobos version
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  Speaker 1: of La Bamba debuted in the Top forty on July eighteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, where it's set on the chart for
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  Speaker 1: fourteen weeks. It peaked at number one on Billboard Hot
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  Speaker 1: one hundred, where it stayed for three weeks. It landed
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  Speaker 1: number eleven on the Mainstream Rock chart, number four on
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  Speaker 1: the AC chart, and number one on the US Latin
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  Speaker 1: Songs Chart.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that there was a US Latin song no.
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  Speaker 1: Idea, No Idea, also number one in thirteen other countries
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  Speaker 1: and top five and six more pretty big hit. It
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  Speaker 1: was the number eleven song of the Year in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven. That's I mean, that's pretty high. Now, No
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: number eleven. That surprises me a little bit.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: It does me too, But I mean I remember it
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: being somewhat popular, and I remember the movie being popular, obviously,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: but with Lou Diamond Phillips.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Lou Diamond Phillips, who's not Hispanic, No, he's not,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: and he's.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Got he's got a lot of mixture in him. We've
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: we've looked at that in the past because he's in
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of our favorite Native American shows.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So was the fourth holy non English language song
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: to reach the top spawn on Billboard's Hot one hundred.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: All right, so that was Los Lobos version. Let's listen
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: to Richie Vallens. Okay, So I feel like Richie Vallens
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: spoke better Spanish than Los Lobos.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, I feel like you did too.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Why don't you give this information on the Richie Vollens
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: version and then I'll talk a little bit about that.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: So it debuted in the top forty on January nineteenth,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nine. It was on the chart for eight weeks,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: so for us mathematically challenged.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: People, it's about two months.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: So. It peaked at number twenty two on the Billboard
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Hot one hundred and is best known for Richie Vallen's adaptation.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: This was a follow up to his biggest hit, Donna,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: which was a number two song for two weeks.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Yes you know, oh Donna, yesh.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I sure do. I didn't realize that was Richie Vallen.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: It is Richie Valens.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: And so I'm looking here at a picture of Richie
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Valens and he looks like Sammy Sosa. Now not Sammy Sosa.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: When he played, I was going to say, Sammy sam out.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Sammy Sosa bleached out with the cowboy hat. I
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Richie isn't wearing the cowboy hat.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: He knowes he's He's a little more handsome than a
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: bleached out, bloated at Sammy so.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: And Lou Diamond Phillips was a little bit more handsome.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Than Richey Valence. Well that's always how those things work
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: going downhill. So which version did you hear first? I heard?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I think I heard Richie Ballins first. I'm not sure.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I think I did. Ten.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: It was right there, we did. I know we did
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: a fifties unit in like eighth grade, and so nineteen
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: eighty seven July eighteenth, nineteen eighty seven would have been
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the year that I was heading the summer between seventh
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: and eighth grade, so I may have heard the Los
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Lobos version first. I don't know. It's possible that I
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: heard the Richie ballins. It's not something that really sticks
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: out in my head.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Why do I feel like Los Lobos did something like
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: on into the nineties. Did they possibly?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't research into the nineties. I
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: only research into nineteen eighty ten.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I feel like they did. But anyways, I think that
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I probably heard the Richie Vallens version first, and honestly,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I like his version better.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I can't choose between the two to be they're the same.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: You know what, I've got another version that I like better,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: and I'll play it right.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Here, Lasagna, You and Lasagna, maybe.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Bughetti, what do you think about that, Mama Mia Banbino.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: That's hysterical. We listened to weird out like the whole
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: way here, the whole way here. It was only until
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you fell asleep felt like the whole way here.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: So you're sticking with Richie Valen's version being better. I'm
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: going with Lasagna being better than Lobamba.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I don't even think that it's on the table. I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: don't think you can do that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I can do whatever I want. This is my show.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: If you don't like it, get your own show.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Oh all right, let's move on to the next song.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: A Little.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Will to Me.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Oh. I love that song.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: So that's Lean on Me by Club Nouveau, originally done
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: by Bill Withers, debut in the top forty on February
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: twenty first, nineteen eighty seven. I think you're gonna see
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven as a theme.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Apparently what was going on that year?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I guess they ran out of music to do on
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: their own on the chart for twelve weeks, only twelve weeks,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: which is shocking. But it peaked at number one on
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: the Billboard Hot one hundred for two weeks, and it
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: was number one on airplay also for two weeks, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: for sales for a week. It also hit number one
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: in New Zealand and Canada. It was the number twenty
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: nine song of the Year in nineteen eighty. But here
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: is what shocked me. It actually won a Grammy Award
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: for Bill Withers as the Writer for Best R and
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: B Song, fifteen years after he wrote the song rings
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: number ninety four on VH one's one hundred Greatest one
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Hit Wonders of the Eighties.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that summer camp that I went to with
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: my parents.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Uh huh, did you also sing.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Lean on Me? We did? We did. We'd have a
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: little like after dinner at night, we would all come
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: back together and they would have like a little like message.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: It was a church camp thing, so they would do
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: like a little message and then we would all sing
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and stuff. And this is one of the songs.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: We would sing, sit around the fire and play the
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: guitar and sound rounds.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: But there are there are hand motions to this song.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: There are hand motions to lean on me.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, I don't remember them, but there are. You have
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: to have a partner though, because you have to lean
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: on them.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: You have to lean on their back.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to sing. You have to lean back
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to back. Uh huh.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Okay. Takes a lot of faith to lean back to
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: back on somebody that you don't know. I hope they
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: max you up by height too, because if you were
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: going you know, you were like five foot seven in
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: the fifth grade.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Were going with like a little four foot one boy
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: who ended puberty.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Yet, like I was traveling with my Persham or something.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: So I had my built in best friend and my.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Mom's Oh okay, okay, let me.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Tell you a little bit about Bill Withers version. Okay,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you ready?
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Yep it?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Do you want to play it? If we know that, always.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Lean on me when you're not start.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: And I'll me you break ow that you can.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Bet it.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: So I have never thought this before about this song,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: but when you put it up next to Club DeVoe's version,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I feel like old Bill is too bored to really
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: get this song out.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I mean I just listened to that. I fell asleep
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: for a few minutes.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I never thought that before though, But he definitely takes
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: it much slower.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, it was like I had narcolepsie or something. That
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: song put me to sleep.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, So Bill Withers version caused me to wither away. Yes.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: It debuted in the top forty on May twenty seventh,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two, not long before you came along correct,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: We're set on the chart for fourteen weeks. It peaked
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: at number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred for
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: three weeks. It was the number seven Song of the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Year for nineteen seventy two. So I have to ask
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: you which version did you hear first? I don't know.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I can't. I'm having a hard time knowing.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I heard the Club Neuvaue version first.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just don't think I could say. Now, which
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: one do I like better? I think, now that we've
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: put them side by side, I mean, I think I
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: might pick Club Novidue.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm going with too. It's just a little
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: more upbeat and a little more you know, dancy. I
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: guess not that I dance. But it's a bop.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: It's a bop. I love it. It's a I love
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: me a good bop.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Bill Withers is not a bop.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a slow dance.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: It's a slow dance, just too slow and boring for me.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Although he does have a fantastic voice, and I do
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: love Bill Withers, but not digging that song, or at
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: least that version of that song well written, though all.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Right, you ready for the next one. I am.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I think you're going to see a pattern here, at
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: least with something, some kind of a pattern.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: She come nothing, she was out, turn around coome on moon.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: All right, now, you gotta.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: All right. I have so many questions.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Why don't you go ahead and give the people the
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: name of the song?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And okay, I'm sorry, I was jumping right into my questions. Okay,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: it's money money, yes by Billy Idol.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Why are you looking at me? Why were you like
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: money money? And then you looked at me as if
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: did I say that correctly? Like it was super color
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: fragulent text?
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Me? I know, because what's a mony? That's don't worry.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: About you think too deeply on these things.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: That's my question. It's like he puts that into the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: song as a as an action verb.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. Tommy James still does a song
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: on sixties on six, although I don't think it's on
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: six anymore. Why don't we call him up and ask
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: him what's a mony?
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: What's a mony? Money? So?
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, this was Billy Idol, originally done by Tommy James
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: and the Chandell. Since you're shirking your responsibilities, I'll go ahead.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I got no no no, what they want no no no.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: So the song's title was inspired by Tommy James view
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: of the m O n Y sign atop the Mutual
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: of New York building in New York City. Well, you
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: could see that from his Manhattan apartment. That's where it
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: comes from.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I doubt Billy Idol could sing it see it from
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: England unless you had a very strong telescope.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, correct.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: So this is Money Money by Billy Idol debut in
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: the Top forty on September twenty sixth, nineteen eighty seven.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: It was on the chart for twelve weeks, and it
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: It was also number one in sales and two in airplay.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: It was the number nineteen song of the Year in
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven. It was Billy's eighth Top forty hit
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: and his only number one.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: That is, Billy Idol's only number one song, Number one. Oh,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I had no idea.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Apparently it wasn't always a nice day for a white one.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Wait yeah, oh gosh, okay, let me hear the other one,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: all right?
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: Basic Come thousand voted a soon count on a alcomvoted.
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: Fading love all that.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, that was the Tommy James and the Shondell's version.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: What do you think he gets into that, Dunny. Here's
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the thing, Tommy James has the passion in this song
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: that Billy Idol doesn't have because Billy Idol is like me,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: he doesn't understand what mony mony is either.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say this, Billy Idol rocked out more than
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Tommy James. And I feel like Tommy James wanted to
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: be forefront here because it sounds like the Shondells are
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: in a bathroom down the street.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, okay, So Tommy James version. It debuted in
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the top forty on May fourth, nineteen sixty eight. It
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: was on the chart for thirteen weeks. It peaked at
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: number three on the Billboard Hot one hundred. It was
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: number one in the UK.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Now that's ironic. The American had a number one hit
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: in the UK and the guy from the UK had
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: a number one hit in America.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: That's sideways, isn't it.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: It's just it's a flip flop. So which version did
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: you hear first?
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I think I heard the Tommy James version first.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I think I heard the Billy Idyl version first. Which
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: version do you like best, Tommy James. I'm sorry, but
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: that's the an incorrect answer. No, correct answer is Billy Idol.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: No, no, because listen, put your little weird hand thing down. Listen.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Billy Idol he just kind of phones it in.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: He didn't phone it in. Yeah, to number one, number
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: one and Tommy James. You know what, Tommy James didn't
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: get somebody to come in and say here she comes
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: now once her alimony like Billy Idol did when weird
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I'll covered it the same year.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, if you say so. I still think Tommy James
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: has a passion in his voice that Billy Idol is
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: like I would agree with that. I agree with that one.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: But the backing band was better. The Schondelle's let me
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: down on this one, and so did all the people
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: who play the instruments. Okay, so that's why I'm going
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: with Billy and his band. So who do you like better?
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Again, Tommy James, you don't talk.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: About Billy Idol that way?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: All right? Moving on.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Time?
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: The line.
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: As that one's kind of a bop too, isn't it
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: a little bit?
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it gives me a little will pick me up.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: So tell me what that is.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Okay. The tide is high, and that one is is
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the Blondie version? Yes, originally done by the Paragons?
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: All right? Have you ever heard of the Paragons? Not
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: I've heard of a paradox.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I've heard of a pair of dice, A pair of dice. Okay.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever heard of the paragons.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: I've heard of a pair of shoes.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: I've heard of a parachute.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: All right, I think you got me beat there.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, So the Blondie version. It debuted in the top
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: forty on November twenty, nineteen eighty. This just came in
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: right at the beginning of the decade, where it was
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: on the chart for seventeen weeks, that.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Is four months.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: That's impressive. So it peaked at number one on the
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Billboard Hot one hundred, It peaked at number three on
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the Adult Contemporary chart, and it was the number seventeen
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: song of the year in nineteen eighty one. Listen to This.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: It was also number one in Canada, the UK, and
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: New Zealand, and it was a top five song in
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: six other countries. So people liked it.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: People liked it I was not one of those people.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: What I was not an everyday people with this one.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Oh really?
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: I hated this song up until about two months ago.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: What it came on a list that I was listening
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: to and I just kind of started bopping to it,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, Eh, maybe I wasn't fair to this song.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I actually kind of like it.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: It's not a bad song.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: I hated it for the longest time.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Can you play the Paragon's version?
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Let's do that.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Just like that? Are they?
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: It's not gonna be my number one? I can tell
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: you that much.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: That was rough.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: That was rough. So let me give you a little
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: bit of information for it. Maybe it'll give you some
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: background on it, maybe help you understand it a little
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: bit more so. This was written by John Holt, who
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: was a member of the Paragons, which was a group
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: in Jamaica. It was released in nineteen sixty seven. It
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: never charted here in the US, and I think we
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: can understand why because that was pretty dreadful. But the
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: genre is rock steady. Do you recognize rock steady other
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: than being a song by the Whispers?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all I know about rockstee So.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: This was a successor to ska music and a precursor
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: to reggae. That's what rock span genre was. Okay, so
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: I don't even think I need to ask you which
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: version did you hear first? And I don't think I
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: need to ask you which version do you like better?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you do not.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: The Paragon's version is a little rough. Now. I did
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: not realize that Blondie that that was a cover until.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I saw that Paragons that version never charted in the US.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Well there's a reason for that, yeah, I know, right, Yeah.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: So, but I like the song. I mean, I don't
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: like the Paragons version, but you like the Blondie version.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I do. So.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Blondie did not want to do any covers at all,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: but she heard that song and just liked it so
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: much and was like, we've got to do it.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I do, missus blonde Debbie.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Harry, Oh, missus Blondie. No, mister Blondie, after this, can
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: we go get a blondie because I'm kind of hungry?
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: I don't have a whole lot more to say other
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: than I hated this song and now I like the
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Blondie version. But I still get to live in my
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: hate because I heard the Paragon's version.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't hate this next one.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I can tell you that. All right, let's move on
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: to the next one.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, don't at me, don't at you, don't at me,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: but I hate that version.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Well, then I guess we don't have to wait till
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: the end of the end of the show where you
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: say which version you like better.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I know we have a lot of people who love
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: van Halen. That's fine, that was atrocious.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: You're gonna get added or I'm gonna get added because
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I handed to Winter. The opinions of Lindsay Butler do
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: not necessarily reflect the opinions of the children of the
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: eighties podcast that is pretty Woman or oh, in parentheses,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: pretty Woman by Van Halen, which.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Was a cover of Roy Orbison.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: So this debut in the top forty on June twenty six,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two. It was on the chart for nine weeks.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: It peaked at number twelve on the Billboard Hot one hundred.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: But hey, you are about the only person that hated this,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: because this was number one on the Mainstream Rock chart
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: for two weeks, and it was the number eighty eight
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: song of the Year in nineteen eighty two and I've
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: got a little bit of nugget for you. So this
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: was to be released as a non album single before
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: they had planned a hiatus, but because it was so
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: successful by listeners other than Lindsey Butler, the record company
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: pressured them into releasing an album, and therefore that's why
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: we have diver Down. Oh and I think a lot
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: of Van Halen fans may not be super happy about
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: diver Down.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: But why did they just kind of have to throw
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: it together?
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's definitely not nineteen eighty four or any
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: of their earlier stuff. So this is their third top
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: forty hit, after Danced the Night Away and then another
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: cover of the Kinks You Really Got Me. And I
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: was really hoping that that had been in the eighties
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: because I was going to include that, But that's actually
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy eight. So but that was a good cover.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: I think you probably would have liked that version. I
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: got a feeling that you like this version better.
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: Pretty woman walking down the street, Pretty Alma, I'm.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: Kind of like you me, Pretty Alma.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: I don't leave you no one good old as good
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: as you.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Mercy. Do you think that's where Uncle Jesse had got
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: half Mercy? From with Roy Orbison, I do, so.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: What should give us?
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: And I know you like that version better, so I'll
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: save my final judgment until we get to the end
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: of what we're going to talk about. But why don't
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: you go ahead and give the royal information?
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: So it debuted in the Top forty on September the fifth,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four. It was on the chart for fourteen weeks.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: It peinked at number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: where it set for three weeks. It was also number
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: one in eleven other countries. It was the number four
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: song of the Year for nineteen sixty four. It was
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: number seven in the UK. This was his second and
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: final number one hit. It was his seventeenth top forty hit.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like like, in my mind, Roy Orbison is
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: a lot more talented, a lot more popular than someone
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: who only had two number one hits.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Who only had two number one hits Orbison, Oh okay,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: I thought you were comparing him to somebody.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, in my mind.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Talented, yeah, and too popular to have only had.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: To have only had two number one hits.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Well, you know me. I always loved the Traveling Wilbury's
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: and yeah, Roy Orbison was one of them, and unfortunately
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: the first one to pass. I'm looking at his picture
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: here in the nineteen sixties. He's got the pompadour, yeah,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: the black pompadoor, but he might and he's got the
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Buddy Holly glasses, but he might be the first person
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: with tents. Well you got the tinted glasses.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you know he had an eye condition where
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: his eyes were he was super sensitive to the lights.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, then we're just gonna cut that part out of
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: the podcast.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: No, we're not. We're gonna leave it because when little
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Lynz comes along and she sees Roy Orbison on TV.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: In my house, country music was everything, so they had
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: my parents had already had to explain Ronnie Millsap to
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: me was blind and had to walk me through what
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: that meant. So when I see Roy Orbison on TV
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: and he's got these dark sunglasses on, I say, oh,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: he's blind, like Ronnie Millsap, And then my Mom's like, no,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: he's not blind. It just blew my mind's and I
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: was like, no, he is, because he's wearing the sunglasses
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: just like Charles. Where's the sunglasses? Ronnie Millsap where's the sunglasses?
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Stevie wonder where's the sunglasses? Even though especially when he drives,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: he wears the sunglasses.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: Yes, but Roy.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Orbison were the sunglasses. But he was not blind, Yeah, correct,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: but he had some kind of condition His eyes were
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: super sensitive to light, so he always has on these
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: dark sunglines.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Can I get the tents?
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Or no?
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: And what did I tell you that I can? That
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: you cannot and that I would actually divor you?
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Well, that's right, that's where I was going. I can,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: but I will be single after that, so you better
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: not make me madder. I'm getting the tents all right?
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: So which version did you hear first?
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know until I was like an adult
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: that Van Halen had done this song, had covered this.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: So Roy Orbison's version is the only version that exists
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: in my world.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: So I heard the Roy Orbison version first two. As
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I mentioned, my dad listened to a lot of oldies
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: and this was one of them. I like Roy's version better.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: And you can't beat Roy.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: No, you can't beat Roy. I think heart Disease beat Roy. Y.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: I'm going with Roy. And I also like it the
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: fact that they play it in dumb and.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Dumber, Yes, yes, all right?
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Are you ready for our final cover?
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: When this episode went by fast?
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: It did it's supposed to, though, I mean our live
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: studio owners can't sit here forever being quiet, trying not
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: to laugh.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: All right, I think you're gonna see a pattern here too.
• 44:39
  Speaker 9: Okay, get away and then it's almost.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't seem to.
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: I think of us.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Do you recognize this song? All right?
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: That is a song that Emmy actually wanted to include
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: in her top ten a couple of weeks ago, and
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: I told her to hold it off and keep it
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: at eleven because we would be playing it as the
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: number one cover here on this episode, and so I
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: made her hold it back, but that probably would have
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: been in her top ten. That is I Think We're
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Alone Now by Tiffany, originally done.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: By Tommy James and the shan Dells.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, is he worth like a billion dollars now?
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Because apparently he was cranking out hit after hit after
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: hit in the sixties, and then everybody wants to cover
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: his songs in the eighties, except for I'm a little
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: upset that nobody covered Crystal Blue Persuasion because that's I
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: like that song is one of my favorites. So this
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: song by Tiffany debuted in the top forty on September
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: twenty sixth, nineteen eighty seven. It was on the chart
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: for thirteen weeks. It peaked at number one on the
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Billboard Hot one hundred for two weeks, was also number
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: one in sales and airplay for those two weeks. Besides
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: reaching the top spot in the United States, it also
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: hit the top spot in six other countries and number
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: two in five more. It was the number eighteen song
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: of the year in nineteen eighty seven in the US
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: and the number five song of the year in the
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: UK for nineteen eighty eight. Now, in nineteen eighty seven,
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: you could not have convinced me that this was the
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: eighteenth best song of the year. I would have said
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: it was probably top five, if not top one.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would have agreed with you on that
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: back then.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: So what do you have to say about miss Tiffany?
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: So I have al queen, No, I have something to
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: tell you about Tommy James.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, So you're not going to talk anymore about the
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Redhead other than we know our friend Jason.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I know you, sir, well, I know you're in love
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: with her. I don't want to talk about it. I'm
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: not in love with Tiffany. I was never in love
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: with Tiffany. I thought you were the Tiffany guy.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I chose Tiffany over Debbie Gibson. But that doesn't.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: You are all about the redhead. I loved this song.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah no, I love the song too, and I feel
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: like in some way Tiffany got cheated somehow. It was
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: out of her career. I don't know what happened, but
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: she never really did much after this.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe she was overshadowed by Robin Sparkles.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Probably. I don't know what happened, but I feel like
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: she deserves a do over. I mean not now, she's
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: old now, but.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, we really have to wonder what could have
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: been of Tiffany's career. Yeah we do, all right, Let's
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: listen to the Tommy James version.
• 48:02
  Speaker 6: That doesn't seem to be any one.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: The beating of this is the.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Bus, all right. So I know you have some thoughts
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: about Tommy James. Let me give the people the beats
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: and then you just go into it. So this song
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: debut on the Top forty on March eleventh, nineteen sixty seven,
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: it was on the chart for twelve weeks.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: It only peaked at number.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: Four on the Billboard Hot one hundred. I said, only
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: it's a top five hit, but Tiffany had number one,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: so as a top ten hit in three other countries.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: It was the number twelve song of the year in
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: nineteen sixty seven. So in that way, you know, twenty
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: years before it was higher than Tiffany's. And so go
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: ahead with your Tommy James.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I did a quick Google search. Tommy James,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: who sold one one hundred million records, estimated in a
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one interview that his royalty fortune was somewhere
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: between thirty and forty million dollars. I believe it. He
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: said it was difficult to get money from his record
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: labels because Mars Levy was a mob associate. I thought
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: that was interesting.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: It is interesting. Thirty to forty million. Emmy, if you're listening,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: you got to write us a big hit, okay, because
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Daddy wants to retire at some point and Mommy has
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: a spending habit, and so if you're listening, write a
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: hit song. Because I want thirty to forty.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, if Mony Mony can be a hit.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Emmy can come up with something better than that.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Money money, That's what I'm thinking. Yes, I want money,
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: That's what i want, all right. So which version did
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: you hear first?
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I had to guess the Tommy
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: James version, just because that's the type of music that
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: my parents really listening to.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: So I heard the Tiffany version first. I know that
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: for him, Yeah, because I know that. When I heard
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: the Tommy James version, I was like, this version sucks
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: and the Tiffany version is better. I am older now,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: I am more mature now, and up until two and
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: a half minutes ago, I would have told you that
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: I like the Tiffany version better.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Well what just changed?
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: I just listened to the Tommy James versions. This is
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: brilliant music, and so I'm going down.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Brilliant, brilliant. I'm still going with Tiffany's version, Okay.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: I mean it's close, it's not like it's a runaway.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: It's probably a photo finish. I mean, I hope the
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: mom doesn't come out which one of them has the
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: bigger nose, Tiffany or Tommy James, because that's my winner.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: You know, you win by a nose and horse racing James,
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: whoever has the bigger nose than is that because he's
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: older and our noses never quit growing. Yep, all right,
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: so you like the Tiffany version better. I think we
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: disagreed on almost everything here.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Well, that sounds about right. That'scept for pretty woman. That's
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: us in Crimson and Clover.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: We didn't disagree on that. That's agreed, And I guess
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: I guess we also agreed on everyday people, yes, But
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: other than that we were pretty far off. So you know,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: I'm a nerd. I've got stats. Let me give the
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: final stats fifteen half. Here, we have five number ones
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: in the nineteen eighties and five in the previous decades
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: as well. All of them spent a total of twenty
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: eight weeks at the top spot on various US charts.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: We also have number ones in forty five countries. Now,
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: if we're just talking the nineteen eighties, we had a
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: song from nineteen eighty, We had two from eighty two,
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: one from eighty three, and four from eighty seven. Apparently
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: eighty seven was the year of the covers. You know
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: what else was in eighty seven? What George Harrison's Got
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: My Mindset on You, which was also a cover.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, you're right.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: So apparently eighty seven was the year of the covers.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Jitals.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: So there were six songs in the nineteen sixties, one
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: in the fifties, and one in the seventies. I know,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: we said we were going to stick to the fifties
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: and sixties, but I just had to go lean on
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: me because it's so popular in nineteen eighty seven.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah too.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: All right, So I guess that wraps us up here
• 52:18
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  Speaker 1: Well, until next time.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: We want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Oh absolutely,
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: as this episode will be dropping the day before Thanksgiving,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: So if you're old like us, you're probably not going
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: to go out partying on Wednesday nights like I did
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: in my twenties and thirties, and then eat a nice,
• 53:31
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• 53:34
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• 53:35
  Speaker 2: of bed. So sleep well, folks, and then eat a
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: nice big Thanksgiving meal.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: And then get ready for the Black Friday deals.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, you can't go wrong with them. Do people go
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: to brick and mortar stores anymore? They just do it
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: all online.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I just do it all online. But I think some
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: people still that is fun.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: It used to be fun to wake up at five
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: am on Black Friday and go hit the door opener deals.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: I know ruined it by opening up on Thanksgiving and
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: all that stuff, making people open up on Thanksgiving. So
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: all right, I guess that concludes us now.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, well until next time, and I'm Lindsay we are
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: children of the eighties.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: I like how you slowed it down there at the end.