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Randall’s One Song – We’ve Only Just Begun, by Glenn Jones · Drive with John Perlman

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  Speaker 1: Randall's One Song on 702 Drive with John Perlman.
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  Speaker 2: 702 Drive with John Perlman.
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  Speaker 3: So Randall joining us for Randall's One Song once again.
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  Speaker 3: And Randall, we're going to be listening to some music.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the show, by the way. Music by Glenn Jones,
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  Speaker 3: an American R & B soul singer. Someone who's been
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  Speaker 3: around for quite a while. Grew up in the Florida area.
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  Speaker 3: town or city of Jacksonville. And he's your guy this week.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us why you're thinking of Glenn Jones at the minute.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: Good afternoon, John. So a few weeks ago, we played
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  Speaker 4: a British R & B singer, a song called Thinking
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  Speaker 4: About Your Love. And I think you and I did
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  Speaker 4: discuss almost, you know, one hit wonder. Someone who had
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  Speaker 4: a big hit, just one or two hits and kind
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  Speaker 4: of that was that. But That song was really of
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  Speaker 4: its time. It was a very influential label, Contempo. And
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  Speaker 4: in the case of Glenn Jones, I have a feeling
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  Speaker 4: that a lot of listeners are going to know the song.
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  Speaker 4: We've only just begun. It went to number two on
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  Speaker 4: the Billboard chart, and he then had a number one
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  Speaker 4: year ago again on the R & B chart a
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  Speaker 4: few years later. But he'd been a performer for some time,
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  Speaker 4: and then he moved to a very, very successful label
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  Speaker 4: at the time, Jive. which was run by South African
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  Speaker 4: class Calder, had all sorts of hits, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys,
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  Speaker 4: the group Justin Timberlake was in, and tons and tons
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  Speaker 4: of R & B hits, including Jonathan Butler. And it's
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  Speaker 4: just important or significant in a career when someone moves
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  Speaker 4: labels and goes on to great success. It certainly happened
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  Speaker 4: with Arisa Franklin when she moved from Columbia to Atlantic.
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  Speaker 4: And I thought that, you know, those were the two
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  Speaker 4: things that got me. The song is very much of
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  Speaker 4: its time. It's, you know, an R & B ballad.
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  Speaker 4: And there were really great ones. Freddie Jackson passed away recently,
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  Speaker 4: had many of them. But as I say, it's just so,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think a lot of listeners are going
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  Speaker 4: to say this is one I haven't heard in a
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  Speaker 4: long time, but I've got so many great memories from
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  Speaker 4: the late 80s.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, Glenn Jones, let's take a listen. The late 80s,
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  Speaker 3: this one came out. It's called We've Only Just Begun.
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  Speaker 2: We've only just begun The romance is.
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  Speaker 1: Not over Got a lot, a lot of love to
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  Speaker 1: give We've only just begun The romance is not over I've.
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  Speaker 2: Got so much love to.
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  Speaker 5: Give I remember oh so well when I first held
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  Speaker 5: your hand and we started to dance.
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  Speaker 1: I had this awesome crush on you hoping deep down
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  Speaker 1: inside that you wanted me too and now Preparing ourselves
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  Speaker 1: for the future, yeah. Cause there's so much that we
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  Speaker 1: can do.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, girl, let me show you. We've only just begun.
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  Speaker 2: The romance is not over. We've got a lot, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of love to give to you. We've only just begun.
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  Speaker 1: The romance is not over. I got so much love
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  Speaker 1: to give.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go to our favorite place. Close to the fire.
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  Speaker 1: And let our passions run wild.
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  Speaker 2: And love the night away. I'm just dying to please you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'll never leave you. Oh, girl, let's stay close
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  Speaker 1: and get lost in each other. Cause there's so much
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  Speaker 1: more that we can do.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I love you, girl.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna show you.
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  Speaker 2: We've only just begun.
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  Speaker 1: The romance is not over. We've got a lot, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of love to give to you. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: always be your lover. I believe we need each other. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We've only just begun, Glenn, Glenn Jones with that one.
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  Speaker 3: I remember that song when it came out and really,
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  Speaker 3: really liked it. Randall, big question. Take your time on
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  Speaker 3: it if you need. I mean, there are so many
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  Speaker 3: songs in this genre. And by saying that, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: suggesting they tend to penny or that in any way
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  Speaker 3: devalues them. But some of them are great and some
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  Speaker 3: of them somehow don't hit the mark. Do you know
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  Speaker 3: why some work and some don't?
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  Speaker 4: It's a really great question, John. I imagine that in
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  Speaker 4: some cases it's just obviously the vocalist, the performer that
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  Speaker 4: has that special quality. And I guess As you say,
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  Speaker 4: tons of songs in that genre, but just one or
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  Speaker 4: two of them are also just perfectly written, as it were.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: And the last point that I keep saying on the
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  Speaker 6: show is that you can't legislate for public taste. It's
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  Speaker 6: often the case with songs that isn't that great, honestly,
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  Speaker 6: and the vocal isn't that great, but there's just something
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  Speaker 6: about it that works for the public at that moment.
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  Speaker 4: And no matter.
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  Speaker 7: No matter what the artist does, it ends up being
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  Speaker 7: a hit. But I mean, that's why if you look
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  Speaker 7: at the compilations, usually you'll definitely find Glenn Jones, Freddie Jackson,
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  Speaker 7: Michael Bolton from that period, early Michael Bolton from that period.
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  Speaker 7: And as you say, they're just, you know, those gems.
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  Speaker 7: And this is certainly one of them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it absolutely is. Thank you so much, Randall's one song.
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  Speaker 3: And let's get your view on that. I mean, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm generalizing hugely because, I mean, these songs do vary.
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  Speaker 3: The voices change and so on. What struck me about
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  Speaker 3: that song is it's got an absolutely memorable chorus. um
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  Speaker 3: but when when you enjoy songs like that are you
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  Speaker 3: listening out for the lyrics do you have any idea
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  Speaker 3: what it is that absolutely uh ensures one song gets
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  Speaker 3: under your skin and you find yourself humming it and
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  Speaker 3: you know it's in the back of your mind and
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  Speaker 3: you think i gotta listen to that again and and
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  Speaker 3: you know before there was music on demand the way
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  Speaker 3: there is now where you can just simply go online
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  Speaker 3: and Have a listen. Sometimes you have to hang out
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  Speaker 3: and either hope that a friend had the cassette or
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  Speaker 3: maybe you listen to a radio station. Metro were fantastic
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  Speaker 3: with that kind of music in the 80s, for example.
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  Speaker 3: And you hope, oh, man, I really hope they're going
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  Speaker 3: to play Glenn Jones. Well, that would be into the 90s.
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  Speaker 3: But I think you get my point. So, yeah, add
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  Speaker 3: your thoughts to the ones that Randall shared. And Randall,
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  Speaker 3: of course, will be back with us at the same
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  Speaker 3: time next Friday. Still to come on the show, we'll
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  Speaker 3: be chatting to the IEC, the Independent Electoral Commission. Ramifications,
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  Speaker 3: reverberations from that Concord decision that was announced yesterday. It
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  Speaker 3: means other parties can also come up and say, oh, please,
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  Speaker 3: can we press submit now and get ourselves on the ballot?
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  Speaker 3: The answer to that from the IEC, an unequivocal yes.
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  Speaker 3: And then later in the show, staying with music and
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  Speaker 3: people creating exciting and interesting songs. We'll be chatting to
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  Speaker 3: the artist Langemar Wussow in our weekly feature, A Song,
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  Speaker 3: A Book and A Dish. It's five o'clock.