WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.240 Hey everybody, it's your pal Jay Sweet here on 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:04.860 My Weekly Mixtape. This week, we're taking our 00:00:04.860 --> 00:00:20.420 musical DeLorean back to 1955 and beyond. Welcome 00:00:20.420 --> 00:00:23.000 to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that takes the 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.179 classic mixtape approach to building a modern 00:00:26.179 --> 00:00:28.809 playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. Joining 00:00:28.809 --> 00:00:31.929 me once again as guest curator is my former TuneStyles 00:00:31.929 --> 00:00:35.149 podcast co -host, Mr. Jay Sweet. Jay, welcome 00:00:35.149 --> 00:00:37.750 back to the show, man. Hello, Brian. How you 00:00:37.750 --> 00:00:42.189 doing today? And now not joining me is my former 00:00:42.189 --> 00:00:45.609 TuneStyles. All right, all right. It's the Wolfman. 00:00:46.549 --> 00:00:49.429 Well, Jay, I wanted to start with the fact that 00:00:49.429 --> 00:00:52.630 I received some feedback in regards to your last 00:00:52.630 --> 00:00:56.590 visit, which was episode 33, Songs You Didn't 00:00:56.590 --> 00:01:00.340 Know Were Covers. Philip Bergman, a longtime 00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:03.560 TuneStyles listener and now mixtaper, shared 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:06.659 his disappointment at the fact that you and I 00:01:06.659 --> 00:01:10.519 went an entire episode together without mentioning 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:14.060 board shorts. And I wanted to send my deepest 00:01:14.060 --> 00:01:17.859 and sincerest apologies to him. Good thing is, 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:22.900 though, what is old is new again. So, Jay, you 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:25.060 could wear those board shorts with pride again, 00:01:25.140 --> 00:01:28.359 sir. And I am. You just can't see it on camera. 00:01:30.989 --> 00:01:33.310 Well, tonight we're talking about a topic that's 00:01:33.310 --> 00:01:35.329 actually very near and dear to my heart because 00:01:35.329 --> 00:01:38.989 I grew up around classic cars and car shows because 00:01:38.989 --> 00:01:41.829 my father rebuilt several when I was growing 00:01:41.829 --> 00:01:45.310 up. And at these classic car shows, there were 00:01:45.310 --> 00:01:48.849 nothing but live bands that played a lot of 50s 00:01:48.849 --> 00:01:51.890 and 60s music, doo -wop golden oldies, so to 00:01:51.890 --> 00:01:54.450 speak. And then also during these car shows, 00:01:54.530 --> 00:01:57.310 they had swap meets with various vendors who 00:01:57.310 --> 00:02:00.689 would be selling mixed CDs and cassettes. from 00:02:00.689 --> 00:02:03.370 that era, and since I was always a music nerd, 00:02:03.530 --> 00:02:06.989 I always found myself picking up cassettes of 00:02:06.989 --> 00:02:09.930 oldies and doo -wop to jam out my car to in my 00:02:09.930 --> 00:02:13.289 Walkman on the way home. So I'll just go out 00:02:13.289 --> 00:02:15.629 on the record and say tonight my bank of songs 00:02:15.629 --> 00:02:19.270 is pretty ridiculously large, and this mixtape 00:02:19.270 --> 00:02:22.229 can go in many, many different directions. I'm 00:02:22.229 --> 00:02:24.949 kind of curious about what this topic means to 00:02:24.949 --> 00:02:29.180 you. Well, it's similar to your story. This is 00:02:29.180 --> 00:02:32.360 probably my favorite genre of music because when 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:36.259 I was little, my dad had I've referenced my dad 00:02:36.259 --> 00:02:38.300 on on several occasions, you and me talking. 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:42.580 It was a musician, much like we are, and had 00:02:42.580 --> 00:02:44.759 a job, but did music as a hobby because he knew 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:46.680 he wasn't going to, quote unquote, make any money 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:50.259 at it. But what he did have in his collection 00:02:50.259 --> 00:02:52.599 were there were a couple of things that I realized 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:56.759 were gold. And I use that word with full intention 00:02:56.759 --> 00:03:00.939 of the golden oldies was what we could consider 00:03:00.939 --> 00:03:04.780 the ultimate oldies mixtape, which is the American 00:03:04.780 --> 00:03:08.139 graffiti soundtrack. Yes. 1973 starring around 00:03:08.139 --> 00:03:12.139 Howard and Cynthia. No city Williams. And, uh, 00:03:12.139 --> 00:03:15.919 Oh, good Lord. I just dropped a, uh, jaws guy, 00:03:16.060 --> 00:03:18.300 Richard Dreyfuss. That's what I'm trying to say. 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:21.860 And Harrison Ford's in it as well. But that movie 00:03:21.860 --> 00:03:24.979 was great. It had some great cars in it and some 00:03:24.979 --> 00:03:28.159 fantastic music. And I think I'm drawn to that 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:31.060 because of those records were being hanging around 00:03:31.060 --> 00:03:33.099 in my house. So the Grease soundtrack was the 00:03:33.099 --> 00:03:36.939 other one, also in the 70s, 78, if I'm not mistaken, 00:03:37.060 --> 00:03:41.340 from RSO Records, based on the musical of the 00:03:41.340 --> 00:03:45.020 same name, which centers around a group of late 00:03:45.020 --> 00:03:49.159 50s greaser kids and early 60s high school kids. 00:03:49.849 --> 00:03:51.669 John Travolta in the movie with Olivia Newton 00:03:51.669 --> 00:03:55.550 -John. And a host of bit actors and actresses 00:03:55.550 --> 00:03:58.650 who went on to do bigger things as well. Stockard 00:03:58.650 --> 00:04:00.810 Channing being one of them who was in an entire, 00:04:00.930 --> 00:04:03.789 what, arc of the West Wing, if I'm not mistaken, 00:04:03.789 --> 00:04:05.990 most recently. And she's done a whole lot of 00:04:05.990 --> 00:04:08.310 other stuff like that. But point being, that 00:04:08.310 --> 00:04:11.849 music is just, it resonates in my heart and soul. 00:04:11.969 --> 00:04:16.300 And it is... probably with all of the invention 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:19.839 of the harmonies that came out of the late 40s, 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:22.720 early 50s, with the Four Aces, the Four Lads, 00:04:22.779 --> 00:04:25.800 morphed into the rock and roll that we know from 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:29.120 1955 onward with greats like Bill Haley and his 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:32.560 Comets, Little Richard, and those artists who 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.959 took all heavily from those tight harmonies that 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:38.259 they were singing on the street corners in major 00:04:38.259 --> 00:04:41.040 cities and minor cities all over America. I don't 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:43.560 think there's anything that represents American 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:47.100 rock and roll more than this era of music. And 00:04:47.100 --> 00:04:49.519 a fun fact about Grease, the original Broadway 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:52.220 play was actually called Grasse, if you didn't 00:04:52.220 --> 00:04:55.680 know that. I did not know that. I'm totally lying. 00:04:55.860 --> 00:05:00.699 It didn't. Let's get down to business. Tonight, 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:03.279 as I mentioned at the top of the show, Jay and 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:05.939 I will be curating a golden oldies and doo -wop 00:05:05.939 --> 00:05:08.420 mixtape, and we're going to use that old cassette 00:05:08.420 --> 00:05:11.100 deck approach. Jay, as my special guest, will 00:05:11.100 --> 00:05:13.860 begin side A with his first song choice, and 00:05:13.860 --> 00:05:16.399 then I'll add a song that I feel best follows 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:18.920 of his choice. We'll then flip -flop choosing 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:21.759 songs until we've mapped out 10 songs for side 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:24.529 A. We'll then give our mixtape a proverbial flip 00:05:24.529 --> 00:05:26.769 and we'll map outside B, only this time I'll 00:05:26.769 --> 00:05:29.870 kick things off with Jay choosing second. Our 00:05:29.870 --> 00:05:32.149 overall goal for this episode is to craft the 00:05:32.149 --> 00:05:34.930 best golden oldies and doo -wop mixtape possible 00:05:34.930 --> 00:05:38.089 through only 20 songs. And at the end of the 00:05:38.089 --> 00:05:39.990 show, you can take our conversation to the next 00:05:39.990 --> 00:05:43.410 level by visiting the episode page at myweeklymixtape 00:05:43.410 --> 00:05:46.529 .com to give our final mixtape a listen via the 00:05:46.529 --> 00:05:48.920 embedded playlist. And if you like what you're 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:51.180 hearing on the show, you can help me out by either 00:05:51.180 --> 00:05:53.819 telling a friend, leaving the show a five -star 00:05:53.819 --> 00:05:56.500 review wherever you're tuning in, or by becoming 00:05:56.500 --> 00:05:59.939 a Patreon mixtaper at patreon .com forward slash 00:05:59.939 --> 00:06:03.720 myweeklymixtape. And a few of the Patreon mixtapers 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.779 chimed in with what they would use to kick off 00:06:06.779 --> 00:06:09.120 a Golden Oldies doo -wop mixtape, and I wanted 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:12.319 to shout a couple of those out. Jason Donchus 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:15.959 says he loves the mellow groove of Dusty Springfield's 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:19.100 Son of a Preacher Man, but he could also go with 00:06:19.100 --> 00:06:23.459 Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum. And somewhere 00:06:23.459 --> 00:06:26.040 on that tape, he needs to hear the letter by 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:29.680 the box tops. Cactus Pete chose the Dell Vikings' 00:06:29.899 --> 00:06:32.660 Come Go With Me, with a second choice being the 00:06:32.660 --> 00:06:36.079 Five Aces version of the exact same song. Mally 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:38.459 Hart chimed in with the Everly Brothers' Bird 00:06:38.459 --> 00:06:41.759 Dog. And Sean Faust chimed in with Buddy Holly's 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.279 Every Day, which is one of his favorite songs 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:47.519 of all time. So Jay, with that musical food for 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:49.959 thought out in the atmosphere, I'm officially 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:52.420 pressing the record button on our mixtape and 00:06:52.420 --> 00:06:54.800 the floor is yours. Why don't you dive into the 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.399 song you're choosing? to kick things off tonight. 00:06:57.579 --> 00:07:00.519 I have the perfect song to open up any rock and 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.819 roll mixtape from this era, especially it's going 00:07:03.819 --> 00:07:06.100 to be very poignant. And I think that Danny and 00:07:06.100 --> 00:07:08.639 the Juniors rock and roll is here to stay. It's 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.160 a great way to kick this all off. It hits you 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:12.860 right in the chest and it gives you kind of good 00:07:12.860 --> 00:07:16.899 idea of what you're in store for on this magical 00:07:16.899 --> 00:07:20.100 ride. Absolutely love it, though I'm a little 00:07:20.100 --> 00:07:24.449 upset with you right from the jump. Because you 00:07:24.449 --> 00:07:27.430 already checked off a band now that I can't go 00:07:27.430 --> 00:07:31.089 back and use. Because I had Danny and the Juniors 00:07:31.089 --> 00:07:35.389 at the hop on my list. Because to me, that was, 00:07:35.410 --> 00:07:37.769 again, you mentioned American Graffiti at the 00:07:37.769 --> 00:07:40.550 beginning of the show. That was a prime song 00:07:40.550 --> 00:07:43.329 on that soundtrack. And it's kind of an important 00:07:43.329 --> 00:07:46.250 song in the history of rock and roll because 00:07:46.250 --> 00:07:49.069 Dick Clark and the whole Radio Paola scandal 00:07:49.069 --> 00:07:51.730 happened around that tune, which I thought was... 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.100 an important piece, but rock and roll is here 00:07:54.100 --> 00:07:57.040 to stay is a fantastic song. Danny and the juniors 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:01.540 are one of those quintessential harmony driven 00:08:01.540 --> 00:08:04.800 groups. And I'm so glad that we started off with 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.860 that. And I think I know exactly what I'm going 00:08:07.860 --> 00:08:10.079 to follow it up with. And I'm going to bring 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.040 the pace down just a little bit, but I'm going 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.240 to get the heads bobbing for that second song. 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:17.560 I want to get something that's got a little bit 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:19.879 of a groove, bring in a little bit of that blues 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:24.829 feel. And a little bit of the angst of that era, 00:08:24.949 --> 00:08:29.250 a song that you can listen to now and go back 00:08:29.250 --> 00:08:32.289 and say, I see where modern rock and roll came 00:08:32.289 --> 00:08:34.649 from. And I feel like this is a song that really 00:08:34.649 --> 00:08:37.309 puts it on the map. And I'm going to go back 00:08:37.309 --> 00:08:42.169 to 1961 off of his album, run around Sue. I'm 00:08:42.169 --> 00:08:46.409 going to go with Dion and a song that shockingly 00:08:46.409 --> 00:08:50.110 was not a number one hit, but is. Easily my favorite 00:08:50.110 --> 00:08:52.889 Dion song of all time. I'm going with The Wanderer. 00:08:53.669 --> 00:08:57.750 This song only reached number two, but it is 00:08:57.750 --> 00:09:00.590 ranked on Rolling Stone's 500 greatest songs 00:09:00.590 --> 00:09:03.009 of all time. So I feel like it got a mulligan 00:09:03.009 --> 00:09:05.509 of not being a number one hit because to me, 00:09:05.509 --> 00:09:09.250 The Wanderer is a classic oldie song. And I think 00:09:09.250 --> 00:09:11.769 it's perfect coming out of kind of the upbeat 00:09:11.769 --> 00:09:15.269 frenzy of rock and roll is here to stay. And 00:09:15.269 --> 00:09:17.149 then it kind of gets people, brings it down just 00:09:17.149 --> 00:09:20.679 a touch. but still has that blues and rock groove 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:22.980 to it to really keep this thing going. So following 00:09:22.980 --> 00:09:25.220 you up, I'm going with Dion's The Wanderer. I 00:09:25.220 --> 00:09:28.059 like that a lot, and I love The Wanderer. I had, 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.059 of course, Run Around Sue on my list as well. 00:09:31.379 --> 00:09:34.379 That, again, was one of the first songs that 00:09:34.379 --> 00:09:37.240 I was exposed to from my dad's band when he was 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:40.690 in high school and then after I was born. the 00:09:40.690 --> 00:09:43.309 professors. And they did a great cover of that 00:09:43.309 --> 00:09:45.830 and actually sat down. I remember sitting down 00:09:45.830 --> 00:09:49.659 with my father at rehearsal. And picking up my 00:09:49.659 --> 00:09:52.720 little solid gold plastic guitar with nylon strings, 00:09:52.980 --> 00:09:56.879 right? And I, what was I, seven? I think six 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.039 or seven. You were 35. Come on. Yes, this was 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:04.539 45 years ago. No, but I was plucking out the 00:10:04.539 --> 00:10:07.059 notes for Runaround Sue at that age while my 00:10:07.059 --> 00:10:09.620 dad was playing that song. That said, The Wanderer 00:10:09.620 --> 00:10:12.419 is a phenomenal song and a lot of controversy 00:10:12.419 --> 00:10:15.200 surrounding Dion, you know, with the Belmonts. 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.080 having started out in New York City in the Bronx, 00:10:18.299 --> 00:10:21.120 in the Belmont section of what is the Bronx. 00:10:21.500 --> 00:10:24.960 And, yeah, he had, you know, they had some, if 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:27.980 you watch A Bronx Tale, a lot of that is based 00:10:27.980 --> 00:10:32.320 on the music in that area that De Niro had kind 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:36.480 of spilled out into the fighting and the rock 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.600 and roll rebellion, right, that started with 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:42.639 the 50s and transposed right up into punk rock 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:45.799 and modern rock. By all means. And now you have 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:49.080 to follow up Danny and the Juniors and Dion. 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:55.039 Let's see. How about we go to a wonderful group 00:10:55.039 --> 00:11:00.059 of singerettes, if you will. I loved the song 00:11:00.059 --> 00:11:03.639 One Fine Day by the Chiffons with that great 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.840 piano intro banging out. And when they remixed 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.639 it to stereo. It really, really brought out that 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.220 ringy piano intro. So I want to put down there 00:11:15.220 --> 00:11:17.360 for track three, we're going to go with the Chiffons 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:20.840 and One Fine Day. Great song written by the legendary 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:23.720 Carole King, who covered it herself. So love 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:26.460 the pick. Great to see the ladies brought into 00:11:26.460 --> 00:11:30.879 this mix nice and early. I love it. Hmm. I'm 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:32.740 scrolling through my bank of songs here and trying 00:11:32.740 --> 00:11:36.279 to think of how I could follow that up. All right, 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:37.759 I'm going to go with one that's going to be kind 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:40.330 of controversial, I think. The band won't be 00:11:40.330 --> 00:11:42.649 for sure, but I think the song pick is going 00:11:42.649 --> 00:11:45.970 to be. This song was a top 20 hit originally 00:11:45.970 --> 00:11:50.409 recorded in 1961 by the Regents. However, in 00:11:50.409 --> 00:11:54.629 1965, two years later, the Beach Boys took this 00:11:54.629 --> 00:11:58.049 song to number two. And it is not. I know everyone's 00:11:58.049 --> 00:11:59.570 going to think you're doing a golden oldies. 00:11:59.590 --> 00:12:02.409 You got to go good vibrations. No, no, no. I 00:12:02.409 --> 00:12:05.950 am going with Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys. 00:12:06.570 --> 00:12:10.149 And a fun fact on this one. Dean Torrance of 00:12:10.149 --> 00:12:13.529 Jan and Dean is actually the song's lead vocalist 00:12:13.529 --> 00:12:16.450 alongside of Brian Wilson. So it kind of checks 00:12:16.450 --> 00:12:19.230 off these two big bands of the era. And that 00:12:19.230 --> 00:12:21.590 song just has this feeling. It's on the Beach 00:12:21.590 --> 00:12:24.529 Boys party album. It literally feels like they're 00:12:24.529 --> 00:12:28.149 all just sitting around on their various couches 00:12:28.149 --> 00:12:31.149 and sofas in a living room, kind of just singing 00:12:31.149 --> 00:12:33.809 that song together. And the harmonies are so 00:12:33.809 --> 00:12:37.429 perfect and so wonderful. I know it's not. the 00:12:37.429 --> 00:12:41.950 go -to Beach Boys song. But I feel like coming 00:12:41.950 --> 00:12:47.090 out of One Fine Day, it actually works. I agree 00:12:47.090 --> 00:12:50.429 with you. I think that is a fantastic pick. Beach 00:12:50.429 --> 00:12:54.129 Boys, of course, had a ton of great hits. You 00:12:54.129 --> 00:12:57.830 described it perfectly. If you think about them 00:12:57.830 --> 00:13:00.289 sitting in a room, the way that that song was 00:13:00.289 --> 00:13:02.169 recorded, that they're all clapping along and 00:13:02.169 --> 00:13:05.809 snapping their fingers and having a... in their 00:13:05.809 --> 00:13:08.529 living room, right? Recording these great harmonies 00:13:08.529 --> 00:13:11.350 and this excellent, and again, you mentioned 00:13:11.350 --> 00:13:12.990 the Regents, which is terrific because that's 00:13:12.990 --> 00:13:14.649 the version you'll find on the American Graffiti 00:13:14.649 --> 00:13:17.049 soundtrack. Yes, yes, by all means. But the Beach 00:13:17.049 --> 00:13:18.970 Boys version, they took that song and it sounded 00:13:18.970 --> 00:13:21.110 like they just had a lot of fun just singing 00:13:21.110 --> 00:13:23.370 it in their living room one night. They were 00:13:23.370 --> 00:13:26.230 all hanging out with Dean and those guys and 00:13:26.230 --> 00:13:29.230 were like, hey, let's do this song. So it sounded 00:13:29.230 --> 00:13:31.169 like they had a lot of fun re -recording that 00:13:31.169 --> 00:13:34.529 and made it one of their own. You could go in 00:13:34.529 --> 00:13:36.549 any number of directions with the Beach Boys. 00:13:36.669 --> 00:13:38.950 You could go with Surfer Girl, which is a nice 00:13:38.950 --> 00:13:41.049 down -tempo number, but still keeps those great 00:13:41.049 --> 00:13:43.549 harmonies. In My Room is another great Beach 00:13:43.549 --> 00:13:45.889 Boys song, which I had on my list. And of course, 00:13:45.950 --> 00:13:48.529 Surfing USA. I think a Teen Wolf when he's up 00:13:48.529 --> 00:13:51.769 on top of the van. Yes, yes. Now, there's also 00:13:51.769 --> 00:13:54.009 a really fun video from the Beach Boys that I'll 00:13:54.009 --> 00:13:56.649 throw up onto the episode page at myweeklymixtape 00:13:56.649 --> 00:14:00.129 .com. It's a joke video that got put out years 00:14:00.129 --> 00:14:02.840 ago, and every time I watch it, It brings tears 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:05.259 to my eyes. Somebody overdubbed a Beach Boys 00:14:05.259 --> 00:14:08.620 video and called it the Beach Boys Unplugged. 00:14:08.620 --> 00:14:11.820 Right. And it's just people singing really bad 00:14:11.820 --> 00:14:15.100 and out of key. Yeah. In terrible harmonies, 00:14:15.100 --> 00:14:19.899 clapping to the wrong beat. And it is hysterically 00:14:19.899 --> 00:14:22.820 funny. So I'll post it up on my weekly mixtape 00:14:22.820 --> 00:14:24.539 just to give some people a laugh after you're 00:14:24.539 --> 00:14:26.720 done listening to this episode. But I'm throwing 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:29.700 the proverbial musical gauntlet back to you for 00:14:29.700 --> 00:14:32.200 the next pick. Well, you know, before I move 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:34.559 on, the Beach Boys also had a great way to keep 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:37.519 themselves relevant well into the 80s, having 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:39.980 hooked up with the Fat Boys for their cover of 00:14:39.980 --> 00:14:42.940 Wipeout. And then Kokomo from the Cocktail soundtrack 00:14:42.940 --> 00:14:47.179 was. Right. Yeah. 1988. I think so. And then 00:14:47.179 --> 00:14:50.639 obviously the Fat Boys crushing that Wipeout 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:53.860 video. So great. When I first played that for 00:14:53.860 --> 00:14:56.419 my parents, my dad's like, you know, this is 00:14:56.419 --> 00:14:58.700 I said, I know the original. And he's like, I'm 00:14:58.700 --> 00:15:02.009 not going to lie. He was not the biggest hip 00:15:02.009 --> 00:15:04.750 hop guy. He did have a soft spot for Run DMC 00:15:04.750 --> 00:15:06.950 and the Beastie Boys. But outside of that, he 00:15:06.950 --> 00:15:09.549 wasn't the biggest hip hop guy. But when I played 00:15:09.549 --> 00:15:12.750 him, the Beach Boys and the Fat Boys doing Wipeout, 00:15:12.870 --> 00:15:16.649 he was 100 % on board with that. And then a song 00:15:16.649 --> 00:15:18.970 maybe we'll talk about later. So I don't know 00:15:18.970 --> 00:15:21.529 if I should say it, but the Fat Boys did The 00:15:21.529 --> 00:15:23.970 Twist. That's right. With Chubby Checker. And 00:15:23.970 --> 00:15:26.149 Louie Louie on that same Coming Back Hard Again 00:15:26.149 --> 00:15:28.690 album. That's right. I had forgotten about Louie 00:15:28.690 --> 00:15:32.649 Louie, actually. Louie Louie. I was listening 00:15:32.649 --> 00:15:36.169 to the Chubby Checker hookup with The Twist. 00:15:36.269 --> 00:15:39.250 Also featured vocals on that record, too, before 00:15:39.250 --> 00:15:43.450 he passed on. Yeah. Let's go into some real soulful, 00:15:43.450 --> 00:15:45.970 down -tempo blues from there. I want to bring 00:15:45.970 --> 00:15:48.649 in some Fats Domino with Ain't That a Shame. 00:15:49.110 --> 00:15:53.139 Ooh. I do love a whole lot of love for you. is 00:15:53.139 --> 00:15:57.659 another great Fats Domino tune. He was a fantastic 00:15:57.659 --> 00:16:01.279 blues pianist and had that really grovelly great 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:04.700 voice that really worked very well with this 00:16:04.700 --> 00:16:07.779 era. Yeah, you definitely scooped me on the artist. 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.580 I had actually, I will say it's the theme song 00:16:11.580 --> 00:16:14.899 because it was the theme song to the hysterically 00:16:14.899 --> 00:16:18.360 funny Steve Martin movie, My Blue Heaven. That 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:21.279 was the song I had on my list because what is 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:26.259 arugula? It's a vegetable. Such a good movie 00:16:26.259 --> 00:16:28.299 and such a great song. Yeah, it's an amazing 00:16:28.299 --> 00:16:30.620 song, but I love Ain't That a Shame. So what 00:16:30.620 --> 00:16:32.639 a great pick. And I think I know exactly what 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:34.419 I'm going to follow that up with. I'm going to 00:16:34.419 --> 00:16:38.720 go up to 1964 for this one. This was a song written 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.720 by Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick, and it was 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:45.100 recorded by the Drifters. And to me, the Drifters 00:16:45.100 --> 00:16:49.480 are one of those bands that are so iconic in 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:53.080 the doo -wop golden oldies scene because their 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:55.820 songs, when you think about Up on the Roof and 00:16:55.820 --> 00:16:59.639 on Broadway, there's so much soul in those songs. 00:16:59.779 --> 00:17:02.320 But I have to go with the one being a New Jersey 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:05.180 kid growing up. And growing up by the beach, 00:17:05.420 --> 00:17:09.319 I'm going with a song that shockingly only reached 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:12.400 number four. But it has been forever embedded 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:15.279 in everyone's hearts because it also ranks on 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:17.460 Rolling Stone's list of 500 greatest songs of 00:17:17.460 --> 00:17:20.480 all time. I'm going to go with Under the Boardwalk. 00:17:21.059 --> 00:17:23.740 Because on a blanket with my baby is where I'll 00:17:23.740 --> 00:17:28.900 be. I love that song. I love the bass. Under 00:17:28.900 --> 00:17:32.140 the Boardwalk. Like, it's just such a wonderful... 00:17:32.509 --> 00:17:35.029 peaceful song and coming out of ain't that a 00:17:35.029 --> 00:17:37.950 shame i feel like there's a nice vibe going there 00:17:37.950 --> 00:17:39.789 that that really kind of follows where we're 00:17:39.789 --> 00:17:42.990 heading with this absolutely the drifters had 00:17:42.990 --> 00:17:47.890 probably one of the best soulful low end in this 00:17:47.890 --> 00:17:51.049 era i think of all of the groups that they really 00:17:51.049 --> 00:17:54.349 were able to nail down that deep bassy blue summit 00:17:54.970 --> 00:17:57.569 I think it kind of lent itself nicely back into 00:17:57.569 --> 00:18:00.150 the Motown, kind of dipped a toe into that pool, 00:18:00.309 --> 00:18:02.890 and also firm roots in rock and roll as well. 00:18:03.269 --> 00:18:06.529 So, man, Drifters, again, there's another one 00:18:06.529 --> 00:18:08.170 like you mentioned. You could go in any number 00:18:08.170 --> 00:18:10.349 of different directions for tunes that the Drifters 00:18:10.349 --> 00:18:13.990 did. Up on the Roof is a fantastic song. I think 00:18:13.990 --> 00:18:17.750 from there, I can dovetail nicely into a little 00:18:17.750 --> 00:18:20.069 musical. It was a music review, I believe, called 00:18:20.069 --> 00:18:23.309 Smokey Joe's Cafe, and they did a nice cover 00:18:23.309 --> 00:18:26.359 of... The title track to that song is Smokey 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:29.539 Joe's Cafe. But I'm going to go on to Dozer Holland 00:18:29.539 --> 00:18:32.559 and Dozer, the triple threat of Motown, if you 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:36.799 will. And you can go in any number of directions 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:39.099 with this band as well. But I think you can't 00:18:39.099 --> 00:18:42.480 get any better than Diana Ross and the Supremes. 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:46.460 And we're going to go with the fantastic Come 00:18:46.460 --> 00:18:51.220 See About Me. Ooh, really nice pick. And I'll 00:18:51.220 --> 00:18:54.059 just be honest. I didn't put a ton of Motown 00:18:54.059 --> 00:18:58.079 in my list because I know there's a future Motown 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:02.019 only episode of my mixtape coming. So I use this 00:19:02.019 --> 00:19:04.880 episode to kind of dive outside of Motown a little 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:07.680 bit. But I absolutely love that you're going 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.700 with the Queen Diana in this mix. And that makes 00:19:11.700 --> 00:19:14.359 it a little tough for me because I have a lot 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:17.160 of different directions I can go. I still have 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:20.170 two picks on this side. So I think I'm going 00:19:20.170 --> 00:19:24.609 to pick up the pace a little bit. Yes. Even from 00:19:24.609 --> 00:19:28.210 Come See About Me by The Supremes. All right. 00:19:28.309 --> 00:19:31.690 I want to go fast. And I want to follow up one 00:19:31.690 --> 00:19:35.750 iconic music label with another. And Sun Records 00:19:35.750 --> 00:19:39.049 is a great place to do that. Yes, it is. And 00:19:39.049 --> 00:19:42.069 here's another song that didn't reach number 00:19:42.069 --> 00:19:45.849 one on the Billboard Hot 100. It was a number 00:19:45.849 --> 00:19:49.799 one Hot Country single. But when people hear 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:53.059 this song, they do not think country music. They 00:19:53.059 --> 00:19:57.819 think that guy is ridiculous on piano. Some might 00:19:57.819 --> 00:20:00.859 even call him the killer. One of the greatest 00:20:00.859 --> 00:20:05.000 to ever tickle the ivories. Jerry Lee Lewis, 00:20:05.259 --> 00:20:10.299 Great Balls of Fire. It was again ranked by Rolling 00:20:10.299 --> 00:20:12.700 Stone magazine as one of the greatest songs of 00:20:12.700 --> 00:20:16.940 all time. It really is a monster rock and roll 00:20:16.940 --> 00:20:21.549 song. And the song became a hit again in 1989 00:20:21.549 --> 00:20:25.289 because Jerry Lee Lewis re -recorded the song 00:20:25.289 --> 00:20:28.029 for the movie Great Balls of Fire, which starred 00:20:28.029 --> 00:20:30.910 Dennis Quaid and Winona Ryder. Yes, and that 00:20:30.910 --> 00:20:33.710 song again came back into the limelight in the 00:20:33.710 --> 00:20:36.789 80s. And a little fun fact, I talked about this 00:20:36.789 --> 00:20:39.410 over on Playlist Wars once, but I want to bring 00:20:39.410 --> 00:20:42.250 it into this episode because I do have a small 00:20:42.250 --> 00:20:47.869 nostalgia for old school wrestling. Ric Flair 00:20:47.869 --> 00:20:53.269 started using his iconic, woo, because of the 00:20:53.269 --> 00:20:55.849 song Great Balls of Fire. Goodness gracious, 00:20:56.250 --> 00:20:59.789 Great Balls of Fire. Woo! And that's where it 00:20:59.789 --> 00:21:02.769 came from. That's fantastic. It's just such an 00:21:02.769 --> 00:21:06.829 iconic, fun song. And it definitely sets the 00:21:06.829 --> 00:21:09.190 bar to keep this pace going for the end of the 00:21:09.190 --> 00:21:12.089 side here. I love it. I love it a lot. Jerry 00:21:12.089 --> 00:21:16.630 Lewis, you nailed it. There are real... solid 00:21:16.630 --> 00:21:20.470 performances on piano from this era Jerry Lee 00:21:20.470 --> 00:21:23.430 Lewis being probably one of the most well known 00:21:23.430 --> 00:21:26.029 and we'll get into another one later I'm sure 00:21:26.029 --> 00:21:29.170 and I mentioned Fats Domino and there's just 00:21:29.170 --> 00:21:33.829 a handful of really solid what we call rockabilly 00:21:34.170 --> 00:21:37.049 that came out of country music mixed with rock 00:21:37.049 --> 00:21:40.210 and roll, and I think Jerry Lee sums that up 00:21:40.210 --> 00:21:43.410 nicely. Elvis Presley dipped into that a bit 00:21:43.410 --> 00:21:46.869 as well, especially with some of his middler 00:21:46.869 --> 00:21:50.109 stuff with the Jordanaires, and a little bit 00:21:50.109 --> 00:21:52.750 of Patsy Cline as well, which is another fantastic 00:21:52.750 --> 00:21:55.009 artist that I'm sure will get mentioned more 00:21:55.009 --> 00:21:57.450 than just in passing on this side of the tape. 00:21:57.789 --> 00:21:59.869 Well, what you gonna follow up Great Balls of 00:21:59.869 --> 00:22:04.259 Fire with? Ooh, let's see. So we went Sun Records 00:22:04.259 --> 00:22:08.720 with Jerry Lee. Ah, some great piano playing 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:13.299 there. Let's go with some really kick butt blues 00:22:13.299 --> 00:22:17.680 rock. I like staying in the vein of this blues 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:20.240 groove riff thing that we have going on. And 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:22.819 I like a little bit of Eddie Cochran's Summertime 00:22:22.819 --> 00:22:27.970 Blues. Ooh. That song, again, it held on well 00:22:27.970 --> 00:22:30.009 into the 80s, I think. Was it not used in the 00:22:30.009 --> 00:22:32.349 La Bamba soundtrack? Yes, but that version was 00:22:32.349 --> 00:22:34.930 by Brian Setzer, right? Yes, and Brian's orchestra 00:22:34.930 --> 00:22:39.849 covered that as well as he did solo. And that 00:22:39.849 --> 00:22:43.589 song just endures, for sure. Unbelievable track. 00:22:44.150 --> 00:22:47.099 Timeless track. So many people cover that song. 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:49.440 You have Joan Jett. You have Alan Jackson. I 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:51.400 mean, countless versions of this song exist. 00:22:51.740 --> 00:22:54.779 I feel like that's kind of one of those quintessential 00:22:54.779 --> 00:22:58.319 blues rock barroom stompers. Yep. It's just such 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:00.500 a wonderful song. It's timeless. It's absolutely 00:23:00.500 --> 00:23:04.259 timeless. And I think to close out Side A, I'm 00:23:04.259 --> 00:23:07.420 going to go with another timeless classic. But 00:23:07.420 --> 00:23:12.720 first, I want you to wait a minute. And I mean... 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:18.339 Now wait a minute. Very nice. Isley Brothers, 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:23.299 1959. I am going to go with Shout to close out 00:23:23.299 --> 00:23:25.759 the side because we have a party going right 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:29.450 now between... Great Balls of Fire and Summertime 00:23:29.450 --> 00:23:31.710 Blues. And I want to keep that party going to 00:23:31.710 --> 00:23:34.569 the end of the side. And we've talked about our 00:23:34.569 --> 00:23:37.349 careers in radio over the years. This song, I 00:23:37.349 --> 00:23:40.049 think, was played on every single Z -Morning 00:23:40.049 --> 00:23:43.430 Zoo across the country as the Friday morning. 00:23:43.809 --> 00:23:45.849 Yeah, the wake up song. It's almost the weekend 00:23:45.849 --> 00:23:49.410 wake up song, right? It's synonymous with morning 00:23:49.410 --> 00:23:51.910 radio. And I loved it growing up because of that 00:23:51.910 --> 00:23:54.890 fact. It got you excited for the weekend. I remember 00:23:54.890 --> 00:23:57.430 Scott Shannon on the New York Zee Morning Zoo. 00:23:57.630 --> 00:24:00.089 They would all sing over this song and everybody 00:24:00.089 --> 00:24:02.250 was in the studio. You could tell it was a party 00:24:02.250 --> 00:24:06.349 happening. And then obviously in 1978, Lloyd 00:24:06.349 --> 00:24:11.069 G. Williams, otherwise known as Mr. Otis Day 00:24:11.069 --> 00:24:13.890 with the Knights, covered the song in National 00:24:13.890 --> 00:24:17.130 Lampoon's Animal House during the iconic toga 00:24:17.130 --> 00:24:20.369 party scene, which brought this song to another 00:24:20.369 --> 00:24:25.269 level. of iconic because it is a film scene that 00:24:25.269 --> 00:24:29.009 is iconic in all of film history and a song that's 00:24:29.009 --> 00:24:31.690 iconic in all of music history so i think it's 00:24:31.690 --> 00:24:35.630 the perfect way to close outside a that is an 00:24:35.630 --> 00:24:38.710 excellent excellent pick and again you scooped 00:24:38.710 --> 00:24:41.730 me on the song but i also uh the artist otis 00:24:41.730 --> 00:24:43.849 day in the nights i loved shamalama ding dong 00:24:43.849 --> 00:24:48.599 which is will otis sees us he loved us he still 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:51.579 goes out and tours as otis day in the night that's 00:24:51.579 --> 00:24:53.640 awesome and i've really wanted him to come around 00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:55.920 new jersey because i would totally go to that 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:58.500 absolutely so that was another one of the records 00:24:58.500 --> 00:25:00.619 that my father had when i was growing up that 00:25:00.619 --> 00:25:03.279 i listened to non -stop and that and the blues 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:06.000 brothers which was you know when i graduated 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:09.119 high school and went off to pre -med in college 00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:13.359 which you Now, as a radio DJ, you know how that 00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:17.160 worked out for me. But he made me a copy when 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:20.900 CDs started to be popular. He knew that I loved 00:25:20.900 --> 00:25:22.819 to drive around and I would go back and forth 00:25:22.819 --> 00:25:26.420 from Syracuse to New York City and made me a 00:25:26.420 --> 00:25:30.259 copy of his vinyl on tape. And I could listen 00:25:30.259 --> 00:25:32.740 to the Blues Brothers on the trip down from Syracuse 00:25:32.740 --> 00:25:36.240 to New York. Very, very nice. It was very cool. 00:25:36.380 --> 00:25:39.140 It was extremely cool. Well, there you have it, 00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:42.140 folks. Side A of our Golden Oldies and Doo -Wop 00:25:42.140 --> 00:25:44.980 mixtape, which consists of Danny and the Juniors, 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:48.400 Rock and Roll is Here to Stay, Dion's The Wanderer, 00:25:48.460 --> 00:25:52.089 The Chiffons' One Fine Day. Beach Boys, Barbara 00:25:52.089 --> 00:25:55.829 Ann, Fats Domino, Ain't That a Shame, The Drifters, 00:25:55.970 --> 00:25:58.869 Under the Boardwalk, Diana Ross and the Supremes, 00:25:58.869 --> 00:26:01.869 Come See About Me, Jerry Lee Lewis, Great Balls 00:26:01.869 --> 00:26:04.990 of Fire, Eddie Cochran, Summertime Blues, and 00:26:04.990 --> 00:26:09.009 the Isley Brothers, Shout. Head over to myweeklymixtape 00:26:09.009 --> 00:26:12.009 .com to hear all the songs we've discussed in 00:26:12.009 --> 00:26:14.849 this mix through the playlist embedded on the 00:26:14.849 --> 00:26:17.490 episode page. Now, Jay, I don't know if this 00:26:17.490 --> 00:26:19.470 was around the country, but I grew up listening 00:26:19.470 --> 00:26:23.519 with my father. to CBS 101 .1 in New York City. 00:26:23.660 --> 00:26:26.359 And I almost feel like you and I should have 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:29.200 that extra reverb on our microphones. Do you 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:31.759 remember? Yeah, absolutely. The amount of reverb. 00:26:31.819 --> 00:26:33.940 It sounded like they were talking into a toilet, 00:26:34.019 --> 00:26:38.180 but it was so iconic because you knew what station 00:26:38.180 --> 00:26:41.779 you were listening to. Every DJ had that. heavy 00:26:41.779 --> 00:26:44.539 reverb on their voice and you knew it was the 00:26:44.539 --> 00:26:47.160 classic oldies station that's right we had oldies 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:51.160 92 .1 in syracuse wscn which is now dinosaur 00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:54.299 radio and they kind of they're a really hot ac 00:26:54.299 --> 00:26:58.299 station they do a lot of everything from 60s 00:26:58.299 --> 00:27:00.609 all the way up Really, really, really good station. 00:27:00.730 --> 00:27:03.210 Some old friends of mine are DJs on that station 00:27:03.210 --> 00:27:06.470 still, which is fantastic to see them still working. 00:27:06.690 --> 00:27:10.349 But when it was the oldies 92 format, they had 00:27:10.349 --> 00:27:13.670 the heavy, heavy reverb in there. Overly compressed 00:27:13.670 --> 00:27:17.710 sound that your VU meters are pegging in the 00:27:17.710 --> 00:27:19.789 red, but you're not hearing any of that. It's 00:27:19.789 --> 00:27:23.670 just really squashed, heavy reverb sound. And 00:27:23.670 --> 00:27:29.519 CBS 101, if memory serves, they had a... compilation 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:32.279 CD set, kind of like Time Life Music did for 00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:35.539 a while. In fact, a lot of that morphed into 00:27:35.539 --> 00:27:38.480 kind of radio and records promo type things, 00:27:38.619 --> 00:27:40.880 right? When new music was breaking, that CBS 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:45.359 101 kind of pushed a lot of new artists on modern 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:49.380 radio. Yeah. And they also do the CBS 101 .1 00:27:49.380 --> 00:27:52.859 has a Christmas series of the oldies for Christmas 00:27:52.859 --> 00:27:55.700 songs that comes out. And I have I want to say 00:27:55.700 --> 00:27:58.920 seven or eight volumes of it because I love holiday 00:27:58.920 --> 00:28:00.680 music around the holidays. And what better than 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:03.940 get the classics from the 60s, 50s, 60s and 70s. 00:28:04.019 --> 00:28:06.319 But this isn't the Christmas episode that's coming 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:08.460 in due time. Right now, we are talking about 00:28:08.460 --> 00:28:11.180 golden oldies and doo -wop. So I'm going to try 00:28:11.180 --> 00:28:14.720 to start by kicking off side B on the right foot. 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:18.019 And once again, I'm picking a song that did not 00:28:18.019 --> 00:28:22.519 reach number one in the US, which I feel like 00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:24.359 there's a theme going on here with the songs 00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:26.640 I'm picking, but it just so happens to be true. 00:28:26.859 --> 00:28:30.180 However, it was a number one hit over the pond 00:28:30.180 --> 00:28:34.319 in the UK. So the UK got it right. And this one's 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:37.109 a little later. than any of the songs we've talked 00:28:37.109 --> 00:28:38.470 about tonight. I'm actually going to go all the 00:28:38.470 --> 00:28:41.009 way up to 1968, which is still a long time ago. 00:28:41.130 --> 00:28:43.789 And it still falls under that category of golden 00:28:43.789 --> 00:28:46.970 oldies. And this was by an American group. So 00:28:46.970 --> 00:28:49.089 even more shocking that an American group gets 00:28:49.089 --> 00:28:51.470 number one in the UK, but not here in the US. 00:28:51.849 --> 00:28:54.049 And I'm going to go with Tommy James and the 00:28:54.049 --> 00:28:58.490 Shondells with Money Money. Oh, fantastic. perfect 00:28:58.490 --> 00:29:01.890 song to kick off side two obviously for us kids 00:29:01.890 --> 00:29:05.309 who really grew up during the 80s billy idol's 00:29:05.309 --> 00:29:07.589 version brought the song back into the spotlight 00:29:07.589 --> 00:29:11.130 and then also brought to the forefront the crowd 00:29:11.130 --> 00:29:14.450 provided call and response of hey say what get 00:29:14.450 --> 00:29:17.369 laid get ass and that became a thing at every 00:29:17.369 --> 00:29:19.910 wedding we've ever been to right and then even 00:29:19.910 --> 00:29:23.869 more importantly in 1988 Weird Al parodied the 00:29:23.869 --> 00:29:27.029 song as alimony for his album Even Worse. So 00:29:27.029 --> 00:29:29.890 to me, this song was iconic in many levels in 00:29:29.890 --> 00:29:32.650 many decades and definitely deserves a place 00:29:32.650 --> 00:29:35.210 on this playlist tonight. Definitely. And Tommy 00:29:35.210 --> 00:29:38.440 James and the Shondells was... One of the first 00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:40.599 bands, I think, to really reinvent themselves 00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:43.180 with the times. I know we talked about Aerosmith 00:29:43.180 --> 00:29:45.940 doing it where they started off with that nice 00:29:45.940 --> 00:29:48.259 hard rock edge and kind of morphed into a pop 00:29:48.259 --> 00:29:52.720 rock sound, top 40 rock sound, and then jumped 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:55.759 out of that. And Steven Tyler dabbles in country 00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:58.259 music and blues and they honking on Bobo and 00:29:58.259 --> 00:30:01.589 some really, you know. reinvention stuff to keep 00:30:01.589 --> 00:30:03.390 themselves relevant. I think Tommy James, the 00:30:03.390 --> 00:30:06.069 Shondells did the same thing as you get on up 00:30:06.069 --> 00:30:08.809 into the late 60s and the early 70s with the 00:30:08.809 --> 00:30:12.069 psychedelic stuff, Crimson and Clover, just keeping 00:30:12.069 --> 00:30:14.789 themselves relevant, even though that five guys 00:30:14.789 --> 00:30:16.529 on the street corner singing, you know, snapping 00:30:16.529 --> 00:30:19.089 their fingers kind of went away a little bit. 00:30:19.549 --> 00:30:23.170 they maintained relevance in the mainstream for 00:30:23.170 --> 00:30:26.289 quite some time. In fact, not too short time 00:30:26.289 --> 00:30:28.789 ago, Tommy James and the Shondells are still 00:30:28.789 --> 00:30:30.730 playing. They were, well, at least Tommy James's, 00:30:30.789 --> 00:30:33.109 was at the Syracuse Great New York State Fair 00:30:33.109 --> 00:30:37.190 this summer. And they were able to get on Dinosaur 00:30:37.190 --> 00:30:39.730 Radio, which I gave a shout out to. Awesome. 00:30:39.769 --> 00:30:41.990 Awesome. And the one thing I will say is Crimson 00:30:41.990 --> 00:30:43.910 and Clover is one of those songs that I don't 00:30:43.910 --> 00:30:46.269 know if I would include it on a Golden Oldies 00:30:46.269 --> 00:30:48.990 mixtape. I feel like that would go more onto 00:30:48.990 --> 00:30:52.309 a classic rock. Absolutely. Mixtape. So that 00:30:52.309 --> 00:30:55.089 really does show the generations that they kind 00:30:55.089 --> 00:30:59.230 of crossed. Money, Money definitely is a song 00:30:59.230 --> 00:31:02.589 you would hear on an oldies radio station, but 00:31:02.589 --> 00:31:05.869 maybe not so much butted up against a Led Zeppelin 00:31:05.869 --> 00:31:08.250 or Pink Floyd, but Crimson and Clover, on the 00:31:08.250 --> 00:31:10.970 other hand, definitely does work with those songs. 00:31:11.089 --> 00:31:13.349 So you really, really hit the nail on the head 00:31:13.349 --> 00:31:15.970 in the fact that they were able to reinvent themselves 00:31:15.970 --> 00:31:19.210 musically and stay relevant. Yeah. All right. 00:31:19.230 --> 00:31:21.369 So now it's my turn to follow that up. Let's 00:31:21.369 --> 00:31:24.750 see. Money, Money, the little dance vibe that 00:31:24.750 --> 00:31:29.059 we got going on here. How about Junior Walker 00:31:29.059 --> 00:31:33.859 and the All Stars with Shotgun? Funny story about 00:31:33.859 --> 00:31:37.960 that song. Every year, my parents are like, whatever 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:40.299 you do, don't buy us any more CDs. We've got 00:31:40.299 --> 00:31:43.220 too many CDs, which I inherently disagree with 00:31:43.220 --> 00:31:45.740 because there's no such thing as too many CDs. 00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:50.019 But alas, I got the speech last year. And then 00:31:50.019 --> 00:31:52.930 my father pulled me aside and goes, but. I have 00:31:52.930 --> 00:31:55.730 been trying to find a junior Walker in the all 00:31:55.730 --> 00:31:58.710 -stars greatest hits album for forever. So if 00:31:58.710 --> 00:32:01.869 you happen to stumble across one of those, consider 00:32:01.869 --> 00:32:05.369 it an asterisk to our no more CDs clause. And 00:32:05.369 --> 00:32:07.349 sure enough, I was able to find it. And yeah, 00:32:07.410 --> 00:32:10.329 that song is such a frigging classic. I absolutely 00:32:10.329 --> 00:32:13.789 love it. Yeah. And that song for me too, was 00:32:13.789 --> 00:32:17.049 when I was producing a morning radio on the talk 00:32:17.049 --> 00:32:19.150 side of things. When I had jumped into news and 00:32:19.150 --> 00:32:22.119 talk radio, Using that song is bump music, and 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:24.460 it was really popularized again on the jock rock 00:32:24.460 --> 00:32:27.019 album. The first one that came out, ESPN's jock 00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:30.019 rock was featured prominently on that track. 00:32:30.099 --> 00:32:32.900 Eight, I think, if I'm not mistaken. Don't at 00:32:32.900 --> 00:32:35.400 me because I don't know for sure. But that was 00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:37.519 the, you know, the mid 90s at that point. And 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:39.619 again, we're talking about music now at that 00:32:39.619 --> 00:32:43.700 point was about 30 years old. Yeah, by all means. 00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:47.019 Well, I'm going to stay in and around that area, 00:32:47.019 --> 00:32:48.720 and I'm going to go with what I think might be 00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:52.319 a. deeper cut for this mix it's not a deeper 00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:57.039 cut because it was a hit song but it's not one 00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:00.599 that people normally think of with golden oldies 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:02.819 and this is another one that my father was a 00:33:02.819 --> 00:33:05.299 huge fan of growing up and i heard endless times 00:33:05.299 --> 00:33:07.720 and i feel like coming at a junior walker because 00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.180 i told that story about them i feel like this 00:33:10.180 --> 00:33:13.420 is the next logical step And in a throwback to 00:33:13.420 --> 00:33:16.059 our songs you didn't know were covers episode, 00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:19.240 here's a contender if we ever did a volume two 00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.460 of that. This song was originally recorded in 00:33:22.460 --> 00:33:27.779 1963 by Dick Holler and the Holidays and was 00:33:27.779 --> 00:33:32.200 re -recorded and became a big hit in 1966 by 00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:35.579 the Swinging Medallions. And I'm going with Double 00:33:35.579 --> 00:33:40.250 Shot of My Baby's Love. Wow. Yes, apparently. 00:33:40.269 --> 00:33:42.829 And I did confirm this one with my folks before 00:33:42.829 --> 00:33:45.890 recording. This song was pretty controversial 00:33:45.890 --> 00:33:50.630 at the time in 1966 and a ton of radio stations 00:33:50.630 --> 00:33:53.690 banned it. And that's why people were desperate 00:33:53.690 --> 00:33:57.210 to get their hands on it because of the line, 00:33:57.289 --> 00:34:01.769 it was the worst hangover that I ever had, as 00:34:01.769 --> 00:34:06.099 well as the line, she loved me so hard. Those 00:34:06.099 --> 00:34:10.260 were considered ridiculously controversial. Man, 00:34:10.500 --> 00:34:14.300 how times have changed. For sure. But I will 00:34:14.300 --> 00:34:17.719 say in 2011, Better Than Ezra did a really fun 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:19.699 cover of this, which you can find on streaming 00:34:19.699 --> 00:34:22.239 services. And this is one of those songs where 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:27.980 it kind of goes against the doo -wop sound because 00:34:27.980 --> 00:34:30.860 there was not a lot of harmonies in this song. 00:34:31.210 --> 00:34:36.090 It was just six guys singing the entire verse 00:34:36.090 --> 00:34:40.510 and chorus together at once without harmonies. 00:34:40.510 --> 00:34:43.150 They literally were all singing the same notes. 00:34:43.309 --> 00:34:48.010 So it gave it this gang vocal approach to this 00:34:48.010 --> 00:34:51.230 style of music. And I looked on YouTube. They're 00:34:51.230 --> 00:34:53.809 still performing this song to this day with the 00:34:53.809 --> 00:34:56.389 dances and everything else. And it's just such 00:34:56.389 --> 00:35:00.380 a fun party song to me. Double Shot of My Baby's 00:35:00.380 --> 00:35:04.400 Love is this side's Barbara Ann. Fair enough. 00:35:04.500 --> 00:35:07.679 I like it a lot. That is a very deep cut. And 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:09.820 I think that I have the perfect way to follow 00:35:09.820 --> 00:35:12.659 that up with, you know, following up controversy. 00:35:13.179 --> 00:35:16.199 Let's go with Bobby Fuller and I Fought the Law. 00:35:16.500 --> 00:35:20.980 Ooh. Push some envelopes. And this is the Eddie 00:35:20.980 --> 00:35:23.199 Cochran of this side of the tape, I think, right? 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:26.610 You've got that really great. jangly blues riff 00:35:26.610 --> 00:35:29.170 when you've got the edge of what would eventually 00:35:29.170 --> 00:35:31.489 become, you know, punk music, punk rock music. 00:35:31.510 --> 00:35:33.829 Oh my God. Pushing back against the establishment. 00:35:34.269 --> 00:35:36.530 John Cougar Mellencamp did it with the authority 00:35:36.530 --> 00:35:40.030 song in the eighties and it just keeps going. 00:35:40.190 --> 00:35:42.710 You could lay down that track today and it would 00:35:42.710 --> 00:35:45.809 still hold up as the song was written. By all 00:35:45.809 --> 00:35:47.949 means. And then obviously you have to acknowledge 00:35:47.949 --> 00:35:51.300 the clashes version of that song. You have to 00:35:51.300 --> 00:35:54.179 acknowledge Mike Ness of Social Distortion's 00:35:54.179 --> 00:35:56.659 version of that song. You have to acknowledge 00:35:56.659 --> 00:35:59.539 Green Day's version in the 2000s version. So 00:35:59.539 --> 00:36:02.219 right there, I just covered the 80s, 90s, and 00:36:02.219 --> 00:36:05.960 2000s. Between The Clash, Mike Ness, and Green 00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:09.139 Day all covered this song. And it was always 00:36:09.139 --> 00:36:12.599 a big deal every time it happened because Bobby 00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:16.320 Fuller's embraced that punk rock essence all 00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:19.320 the way back when. Early influences, for sure. 00:36:19.670 --> 00:36:23.550 By all means. And following that up, Jay, I feel 00:36:23.550 --> 00:36:26.889 like our mixtape seems to have an absence of 00:36:26.889 --> 00:36:30.070 a certain ornithological piece. What do you mean? 00:36:30.269 --> 00:36:33.130 Maybe like a headline regarding a mass awareness 00:36:33.130 --> 00:36:36.389 of a certain avian variety? I'm not sure what 00:36:36.389 --> 00:36:38.349 you're talking about, Brian. Oh, have you not 00:36:38.349 --> 00:36:41.710 heard? No. It was my understanding that everyone 00:36:41.710 --> 00:36:48.969 had heard. Heard what? No brain, don't. I know 00:36:48.969 --> 00:36:54.369 I brought up the Family Guy skit, but that is 00:36:54.369 --> 00:36:56.829 probably my favorite Family Guy episode ever. 00:36:57.070 --> 00:37:01.389 Definitely. I love Surf and Bird. As a kid, this 00:37:01.389 --> 00:37:03.670 was one of those songs when I was really, really 00:37:03.670 --> 00:37:07.190 young. This song got me excited about music because 00:37:07.190 --> 00:37:10.650 it was so silly. It sounded like a kid's song. 00:37:11.050 --> 00:37:13.530 So when my parents would play it, I always thought, 00:37:13.610 --> 00:37:15.449 hey, they're playing children's music for me. 00:37:15.469 --> 00:37:18.610 No, they're playing the Trashmen. And this song 00:37:18.610 --> 00:37:21.610 is so much fun. And then again, we have to go 00:37:21.610 --> 00:37:26.130 back to the 1980s for this one. Because in 1987, 00:37:26.449 --> 00:37:30.909 in the Back to the Beach movie soundtrack, Paul 00:37:30.909 --> 00:37:34.420 Reubens, who sadly just passed away. covered 00:37:34.420 --> 00:37:37.300 the song as his Pee Wee Herman character for 00:37:37.300 --> 00:37:41.460 that movie. I forgot. I had the 45 of it. That's 00:37:41.460 --> 00:37:45.119 fantastic. It was amazing. So I simply had to 00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:47.460 include Surf and Bird into this mix tonight. 00:37:48.059 --> 00:37:51.119 100%. You got groups like the Trash Men and the 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:53.860 Rivingtons with Papa Uma Mal. Songs like that 00:37:53.860 --> 00:37:56.739 show up on novelty records. The Dr. Demento Show, 00:37:56.860 --> 00:38:00.340 which had put out compilations of wacky and demented 00:38:00.340 --> 00:38:03.570 songs. one would consider novelty songs. My uncle 00:38:03.570 --> 00:38:07.969 had a eight track of not necessarily Dr. Demento 00:38:07.969 --> 00:38:11.429 stuff, but stuff with the trash men on it had 00:38:11.429 --> 00:38:14.750 Ray Stevens, the streak and some really great 00:38:14.750 --> 00:38:18.969 songs, nervous, nervous, and those kinds of wacky 00:38:18.969 --> 00:38:22.289 songs. But they were still literally like written 00:38:22.289 --> 00:38:24.869 songs that weren't necessarily written to be 00:38:24.869 --> 00:38:27.590 novelty songs. It's just, they're cult classic. 00:38:27.789 --> 00:38:30.469 By all means. Oh, my goodness. So where do we 00:38:30.469 --> 00:38:32.530 go from the trash bin with the surfing bird? 00:38:34.010 --> 00:38:36.510 Let's bring it back into the surf. We'll keep 00:38:36.510 --> 00:38:38.409 the surf theme going and we'll bring it back 00:38:38.409 --> 00:38:41.170 to beach rock. And we'll talk about a band that 00:38:41.170 --> 00:38:43.130 you mentioned a little earlier when we were talking 00:38:43.130 --> 00:38:45.730 about the Regents and the Beach Boys. And we'll 00:38:45.730 --> 00:38:49.570 talk about Jan and Dean's Dead Man's Curve. The 00:38:49.570 --> 00:38:53.130 drums on that song with the harmonies on the 00:38:53.130 --> 00:38:59.150 high. Those are so great. And just the rock and 00:38:59.150 --> 00:39:02.030 drum fills that he's doing in between the loops 00:39:02.030 --> 00:39:05.849 of the chorus are so good. I usually get chills 00:39:05.849 --> 00:39:08.650 when I hear that song because the song Subject 00:39:08.650 --> 00:39:10.929 Matters is pretty cool. Talking about drag racing. 00:39:11.130 --> 00:39:14.130 And I grew up in upstate New York. In Syracuse, 00:39:14.130 --> 00:39:16.610 there's a place called the 13 Curbs. And there's 00:39:16.610 --> 00:39:20.329 a legend that a young bride was killed at 13 00:39:20.329 --> 00:39:25.139 Curbs. And she stalks that road. Dead Man's Curve 00:39:25.139 --> 00:39:28.780 always brings to mind that legend to me. Awesome 00:39:28.780 --> 00:39:32.059 song. You scooped me on the band because I had, 00:39:32.099 --> 00:39:34.840 going back to, again, the cars that my father 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:38.559 rebuilt. One of the ones he built was a 66 GTO. 00:39:38.940 --> 00:39:42.460 So I had My Mighty GTO by Jan and Dean on my 00:39:42.460 --> 00:39:45.099 list, of course. So you scooped me on that one. 00:39:45.139 --> 00:39:47.780 But Dead Man's Curve is such a great song. So 00:39:47.780 --> 00:39:50.099 I'm okay with it. I'm going to let it slide. 00:39:50.380 --> 00:39:53.329 I'm going to let it slide. All right, now it's 00:39:53.329 --> 00:39:55.349 your turn. Scoop me. Yeah, I think I'm going 00:39:55.349 --> 00:39:57.510 to slow it down a little bit here because we've 00:39:57.510 --> 00:39:59.710 been doing a lot of fun stuff, a lot of upbeat 00:39:59.710 --> 00:40:02.230 stuff. And I don't think I could get through 00:40:02.230 --> 00:40:05.710 a Golden Oldies mixtape without one of my favorite 00:40:05.710 --> 00:40:10.050 ballads of all time in any decade. And I am going 00:40:10.050 --> 00:40:11.690 to go back to the American Graffiti soundtrack 00:40:11.690 --> 00:40:14.469 because that's the album I discovered this version 00:40:14.469 --> 00:40:19.469 on. And the song was originally recorded in 1934 00:40:19.469 --> 00:40:23.820 for the movie Dames. But the version I'm going 00:40:23.820 --> 00:40:28.960 with is the Flamingo's 1959 massive hit, I Only 00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.559 Have Eyes For You. It only reached again, not 00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:36.239 even a top 10 hit, only reached number 11. But 00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:39.599 this song is absolutely iconic and it ranked 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:42.119 on Rolling Stone's 500 greatest songs of all 00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:47.780 time for this very reason. It is an absolutely 00:40:47.780 --> 00:40:53.699 beautiful, stunning. gorgeous song. It puts a 00:40:53.699 --> 00:40:57.019 smile on my face. It relaxes me when I hear that 00:40:57.019 --> 00:41:01.440 opening. The vocals are just so warm and welcome. 00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:04.340 It's such a beautiful, romantic song, but it's 00:41:04.340 --> 00:41:08.619 also just so well produced. The harmonies on 00:41:08.619 --> 00:41:11.099 it, really, you listen to the layered harmonies. 00:41:11.099 --> 00:41:13.199 There's no auto -tune in this song, folks. These 00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:15.699 are guys standing around a single microphone 00:41:15.699 --> 00:41:19.340 making that magic happen. And this song is just... 00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:23.119 the perfect snapshot of what a beautiful love 00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:25.599 song should be. So I'm going with the flamingos. 00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:28.239 I only have eyes for you. That's a fantastic 00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:31.500 pick used. I mean, there's another one of those 00:41:31.500 --> 00:41:35.000 songs that stands up to all generations that 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:38.980 was most recently used in a commercial for Alexa, 00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:42.610 if I'm not mistaken, right? amazon music i'm 00:41:42.610 --> 00:41:45.050 sure amazon owns everything right so yeah right 00:41:45.050 --> 00:41:48.050 at this point but it was also covered by carly 00:41:48.050 --> 00:41:51.730 simon and i mean just so many covers of that 00:41:51.730 --> 00:41:55.650 song as well that real slow piano in the background 00:41:55.650 --> 00:41:59.670 it's great in the four -part harmonies i love 00:41:59.670 --> 00:42:02.030 that song very very much can't argue with that 00:42:02.030 --> 00:42:05.289 at all all right let's see let's ramp it back 00:42:05.289 --> 00:42:09.840 up a little bit And I think I'm going to go with 00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:14.559 a group that is my all time favorite band out 00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:17.760 of this era group. And I'm going to tie it into 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:21.719 your New Jersey roots and the Jersey boys. We'll 00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:23.579 talk a little bit about Frankie Valley and the 00:42:23.579 --> 00:42:28.300 Four Seasons. And I love the song Dawn. That's 00:42:28.300 --> 00:42:31.199 another one of those great harmonies with rock 00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:33.869 and drum track. And we picked it back up a little 00:42:33.869 --> 00:42:35.909 bit. I know, as I said, we'll ramp back into 00:42:35.909 --> 00:42:38.809 this. So we're going to run right back into the 00:42:38.809 --> 00:42:42.309 high tempo and just those screaming four -part 00:42:42.309 --> 00:42:45.710 harmonies. I wish I had a hangnail's worth of 00:42:45.710 --> 00:42:48.929 Frankie Valli's vocal talents. My voice goes 00:42:48.929 --> 00:42:52.809 pretty high, as you know. Yes. But I, just short 00:42:52.809 --> 00:42:56.019 of Steelheart. territory in frankie valley territory 00:42:56.019 --> 00:42:58.780 i mean we could try i could line up and kick 00:42:58.780 --> 00:43:01.000 you as hard as i possibly can to see if that 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:05.820 gives you that little something extra but yeah 00:43:05.820 --> 00:43:09.320 i i mean and again frankie valley is one of the 00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:12.239 most enduring artists of that time You could 00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.500 go a hundred different ways. You actually scooped 00:43:15.500 --> 00:43:18.800 me on the band, obviously. I had Big Girls Don't 00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:23.039 Cry. I also had Sherry. Depending on where the 00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:25.300 playlist was going, if I had room, I wanted to 00:43:25.300 --> 00:43:28.119 go with either or. Clint Eastwood did such an 00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:30.679 amazing job on that movie. That movie was so 00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:36.559 well done. Look, I did not know that era. So 00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:39.539 I'm basing it off of what others who lived in 00:43:39.539 --> 00:43:43.579 that era said. this movie is worth the watch. 00:43:43.739 --> 00:43:46.760 And he really did a fantastic job with it. Absolutely. 00:43:46.820 --> 00:43:49.940 And the casting was fantastic. If you hadn't 00:43:49.940 --> 00:43:52.179 had a chance to see the musical when it was on 00:43:52.179 --> 00:43:54.820 Broadway, it's touring America right now. But 00:43:54.820 --> 00:43:57.920 man, the kid that they had playing Frankie Valli 00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:01.400 was so good. You could just close your eyes and 00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:05.840 you're seeing a young Frankie Valli without question, 00:44:06.099 --> 00:44:09.599 vocally. And then in the story behind that, sure, 00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:11.440 is there a little artistic license in there? 00:44:11.500 --> 00:44:13.219 Absolutely. But it's something that I think I 00:44:13.219 --> 00:44:15.820 referenced at the top of the show with the Bronx 00:44:15.820 --> 00:44:17.860 tale. And it kind of talks a little bit about 00:44:17.860 --> 00:44:20.619 the angst and the violence that kind of came 00:44:20.619 --> 00:44:23.960 along with this genre of music. By all means. 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.500 And now you went with an iconic artist here. 00:44:26.599 --> 00:44:31.309 I mean, Frankie Valli is an icon of music. And 00:44:31.309 --> 00:44:33.969 I feel like I can't take a step down from that. 00:44:34.070 --> 00:44:37.489 And I have so many iconic artists still left 00:44:37.489 --> 00:44:40.710 over on my list that the guilt is creeping in 00:44:40.710 --> 00:44:43.210 because I'm going to pick one and I'm leaving 00:44:43.210 --> 00:44:46.329 off at least two or three that I think is a crime 00:44:46.329 --> 00:44:49.489 that we haven't gotten to tonight. So I feel 00:44:49.489 --> 00:44:53.090 like a volume two of this episode is an absolute 00:44:53.090 --> 00:44:56.780 must. Because there are so many artists that 00:44:56.780 --> 00:45:00.280 we are going to leave off of the table that deserve 00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:04.420 to be talked about. So I am booking you mid -show 00:45:04.420 --> 00:45:08.619 for a sequel to this one because there is just 00:45:08.619 --> 00:45:12.420 way too many songs left. But I think trying to 00:45:12.420 --> 00:45:16.340 stick with the level of iconic that Frankie Valli 00:45:16.340 --> 00:45:19.079 brings to this, there's only one place I can 00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:24.519 go, and that's to 1957. And I have not talked 00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:27.619 about Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller yet. Two 00:45:27.619 --> 00:45:32.099 of the people most responsible for, I don't know, 00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:36.579 pretty much every massive hit of that era. Obviously 00:45:36.579 --> 00:45:38.199 not all of them because we've talked about a 00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:40.219 bunch. But the fact that I haven't mentioned 00:45:40.219 --> 00:45:44.579 them tonight yet is just a crime. It's criminal. 00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:47.139 It's criminal. And I want to apologize for that. 00:45:47.179 --> 00:45:50.639 But I'm going to go with a song that was a number 00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:54.469 one smash hit. in the U S haven't done it yet 00:45:54.469 --> 00:45:58.150 tonight, which is ridiculous. And I want to remedy 00:45:58.150 --> 00:46:02.510 that from the 1957 soundtrack of the same name. 00:46:02.809 --> 00:46:05.550 I'm going to go with Elvis Presley's jailhouse 00:46:05.550 --> 00:46:09.570 rock also included on the Rolling Stone list 00:46:09.570 --> 00:46:13.090 of the 500 greatest songs of all time. And the 00:46:13.090 --> 00:46:15.369 rock and roll hall of fame named this song as 00:46:15.369 --> 00:46:18.510 one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll. 00:46:19.340 --> 00:46:22.000 Absolutely spot on with that. It really did. 00:46:22.300 --> 00:46:27.599 You think of that opening. Like that is iconic. 00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:32.599 So following up Frankie Valli, I think this works. 00:46:32.699 --> 00:46:34.199 And it's, again, the end of the side. You want 00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:37.500 to get the party going. And as an 80s guy growing 00:46:37.500 --> 00:46:42.300 up, 1987, Girls, Girls, Girls, Motley Crue, closing 00:46:42.300 --> 00:46:46.230 song. their live version of Jailhouse Rock. So 00:46:46.230 --> 00:46:51.309 even in my 80s metal phase growing up, when that's 00:46:51.309 --> 00:46:53.829 all I listened to, I was still getting doses 00:46:53.829 --> 00:46:57.630 of the 50s and 60s through bands like Motley 00:46:57.630 --> 00:47:00.750 Crue that were revisiting these songs. So I am 00:47:00.750 --> 00:47:03.889 following up Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons 00:47:03.889 --> 00:47:07.869 Dawn with Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock. We had 00:47:07.869 --> 00:47:09.929 to talk about Elvis. Yeah, absolutely. That's 00:47:09.929 --> 00:47:13.820 a fantastic pick. Elvis is another one. probably 00:47:13.820 --> 00:47:16.840 mentioning that his responsibility, his part 00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:19.559 in the rock and roll movement cannot be denied 00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:23.690 if he's not the original step. The first step, 00:47:23.750 --> 00:47:26.510 primary step in the rock and roll history. He 00:47:26.510 --> 00:47:29.510 certainly is high up on that list. And again, 00:47:29.630 --> 00:47:32.670 another being another artist who completely reinvented 00:47:32.670 --> 00:47:35.869 himself as the decades rolled through. He had 00:47:35.869 --> 00:47:38.050 his gospel years. He had some rockabilly. He 00:47:38.050 --> 00:47:40.929 had country. He had rock and roll. And then he 00:47:40.929 --> 00:47:43.670 went into disco a little bit with Huckaburn and 00:47:43.670 --> 00:47:46.590 Love. Even Viva Las Vegas had a little bit of 00:47:46.590 --> 00:47:48.329 that. Yeah, it had a little less conversation. 00:47:48.849 --> 00:47:51.929 Yep, yep. And he had a little bit of the crooner 00:47:51.929 --> 00:47:54.809 in him, too, with the big anthems like Suspicious 00:47:54.809 --> 00:47:59.530 Minds. Those songs are just unbelievably iconic 00:47:59.530 --> 00:48:02.030 in their own right, for sure. He's in a class 00:48:02.030 --> 00:48:04.269 all by himself. There's no question about that. 00:48:04.489 --> 00:48:06.590 Yeah, I had two songs from Elvis in my list. 00:48:06.670 --> 00:48:10.449 I also had another one that might have come earlier 00:48:10.449 --> 00:48:13.010 in the night, but I feel like it wasn't as massive 00:48:13.010 --> 00:48:16.210 of a hit. But Return to Sender was another one 00:48:16.210 --> 00:48:18.690 of my absolute favorites by him. But coming out 00:48:18.690 --> 00:48:21.130 of Frankie Valli, I had to go with the massive 00:48:21.130 --> 00:48:23.789 crowd pleaser to kind of close out my part of 00:48:23.789 --> 00:48:27.690 Side B. So Jailhouse Rock edged out Return to 00:48:27.690 --> 00:48:29.909 Sender ever so slightly, but love both songs. 00:48:30.449 --> 00:48:33.190 Fantastic. All right. So we've got a little iconic 00:48:33.190 --> 00:48:35.710 history going on here. We've mentioned some big 00:48:35.710 --> 00:48:38.289 names. We've mentioned Dozer Hall and Dozer early 00:48:38.289 --> 00:48:40.829 on. You just mentioned Lieber and Stoller. And 00:48:40.829 --> 00:48:43.409 I'm going to bring in somebody that we haven't 00:48:43.409 --> 00:48:45.610 mentioned yet. It'll be criminal if we don't 00:48:45.610 --> 00:48:48.449 mention on this mixtape as well. And that is 00:48:48.449 --> 00:48:52.730 one Mr. Phil Spector. And the wall of sound that 00:48:52.730 --> 00:48:55.789 he created is probably one of the best known 00:48:55.789 --> 00:48:59.550 effects in recording history, music recording, 00:48:59.710 --> 00:49:02.429 to the point where Phil Collins actually capitalized 00:49:02.429 --> 00:49:05.610 on that wall of sound in his creating his drum 00:49:05.610 --> 00:49:08.989 sound for the 80s, post -Genesis and beyond. 00:49:09.659 --> 00:49:14.059 And I want to go with Ronnie Spector and Be My 00:49:14.059 --> 00:49:18.300 Baby. Ooh, huge hit. Love it. Starts off the 00:49:18.300 --> 00:49:21.179 Dirty Dancing soundtrack. Another iconic scene 00:49:21.179 --> 00:49:23.119 where they're all the black and white dancing. 00:49:23.219 --> 00:49:25.860 And then it morphs into the color as the movie 00:49:25.860 --> 00:49:30.519 goes on. And again, 1963, it was a big year in 00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:32.739 American history. And it was a big year in global 00:49:32.739 --> 00:49:35.579 history. It was the year that JFK got assassinated. 00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:38.340 It was, you know, the world was on a precipice 00:49:38.340 --> 00:49:41.280 of change. And I think that the music kind of 00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:44.659 reflected a lot of that. 100%. And obviously, 00:49:44.980 --> 00:49:49.579 look, Phil Spector has had a tumultuous history 00:49:49.579 --> 00:49:53.699 towards the end, but not going down the TMZ route 00:49:53.699 --> 00:49:56.000 of things and just looking at his contribution 00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:59.619 to music. Yeah. Nothing else. You have to give 00:49:59.619 --> 00:50:02.739 respect to it because it really did change the 00:50:02.739 --> 00:50:06.670 face of music forever moving forward. And man, 00:50:06.710 --> 00:50:09.090 that guilt has officially set in big time because 00:50:09.090 --> 00:50:10.989 there's so many groups we haven't talked about. 00:50:11.090 --> 00:50:14.510 So I want to apologize to every mixtaper listening 00:50:14.510 --> 00:50:17.230 because I know you're sitting there going, how 00:50:17.230 --> 00:50:20.469 the hell did you guys not bring up blank? So 00:50:20.469 --> 00:50:23.090 why don't you follow up with me by reaching out 00:50:23.090 --> 00:50:26.090 on social media or hitting me up at myweeklymixtape 00:50:26.090 --> 00:50:29.010 at gmail .com and letting me know some songs 00:50:29.010 --> 00:50:31.250 you think should be included on this mix. And 00:50:31.250 --> 00:50:33.650 then Jay and I will maybe include them on volume 00:50:33.650 --> 00:50:37.000 two because. There will be a volume two for this 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.039 one, for sure. At least. At least, by all means. 00:50:40.179 --> 00:50:43.900 I mean, look, WCBS FM, I have eight Christmas 00:50:43.900 --> 00:50:47.940 oldie CDs by them. We've got volumes and volumes 00:50:47.940 --> 00:50:50.880 of this topic that we can go down. Sure. But 00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:53.760 for tonight, side B, we kicked off with Tommy 00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:56.880 James and the Shondells, Moany Moany, Junior 00:50:56.880 --> 00:51:00.380 Walker and the All -Star Shotgun, Swingin' Medallions, 00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:03.460 Double Shot of My Baby's Love, Bobby Fuller's 00:51:03.460 --> 00:51:23.030 I Fought the Law, Head over to MyWeeklyMixtape 00:51:23.030 --> 00:51:25.550 .com to hear all of the songs we've discussed 00:51:25.550 --> 00:51:28.610 tonight through the playlist embedded on the 00:51:28.610 --> 00:51:32.849 episode page. And Jay, once again, always a pleasure, 00:51:32.849 --> 00:51:35.639 my friend. Looking forward. to a volume two on 00:51:35.639 --> 00:51:38.280 this one in the very near future. Oh, absolutely. 00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:40.219 My friend, I appreciate you having me on again. 00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:46.179 And, uh, as the Wolfman would say, and I'll go 00:51:46.179 --> 00:51:49.840 with Rick flares. Woo. 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