Top 5 Songs of 1978

<v Speaker 1>Good day.
<v Speaker 2>Ah.
<v Speaker 3>This is Tim here from the Great White North and
<v Speaker 3>you're listening to like the Surely You Can't Be Serious
<v Speaker 3>Podcast with my honorary hoss D and Jason.
<v Speaker 4>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't
<v Speaker 4>Be Serious Podcast. We are here today with our top
<v Speaker 4>five picks from the year nineteen seventy eight. So if
<v Speaker 4>you like the nightlife, if you like to booget, this
<v Speaker 4>may not be the list that you love. I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>I'm waiting to see what mister Jason Colvin has come
<v Speaker 4>up with from this year, because for this year there
<v Speaker 4>were a lot of very big chart topping hits that
<v Speaker 4>I am like, there's no way this is getting on
<v Speaker 4>my list. I mean, Andy Gibb not on my list.
<v Speaker 4>Sniffe Tears not on my list. Not on my list?
<v Speaker 3>Are you trashing my list already?
<v Speaker 1>I just don't know.
<v Speaker 4>I'm just saying, if you love disco, you may love
<v Speaker 4>this list. If you love rock, you may love this list.
<v Speaker 4>If you love country, if you love women singers, you
<v Speaker 4>may love this list, or you may hate it. I
<v Speaker 4>don't know where this list is going to go, but
<v Speaker 4>there are so many freaking great songs from this year
<v Speaker 4>that it was agonizing to cut this list down to
<v Speaker 4>only five.
<v Speaker 3>I know, I've been sitting here for thirty minutes waiting
<v Speaker 3>on you to cut it down.
<v Speaker 4>You know it's going to be different answers for me tomorrow.
<v Speaker 4>It'll be different answers by the time we finished the
<v Speaker 4>podcast than it is right now. But I just have
<v Speaker 4>to say, time to fish or cut bait. Let's go,
<v Speaker 4>let's do it. I've written my stuff down, I've murdered
<v Speaker 4>the babies. Let's jump in.
<v Speaker 3>Let's do it. Okay. So the tricky part about this
<v Speaker 3>is this is pre MTV. You and I were both
<v Speaker 3>very young.
<v Speaker 4>For three quarters of the year of nineteen seventy eight.
<v Speaker 4>I was two years old. Okay too, Yeah, but I
<v Speaker 4>thought to myself, well, am I really going to know
<v Speaker 4>much of the music from there? Oh? My gosh, yes,
<v Speaker 4>I just have to. I have to at this point
<v Speaker 4>say thank you to my parents for being avid music listeners,
<v Speaker 4>because this music A lot of the songs I probably
<v Speaker 4>haven't heard in forty years. But going back, I was like,
<v Speaker 4>I would love to listen to this as my parents
<v Speaker 4>listened to the vinyl LPs playing in the living room.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, okay, so I was. I turned five years old
<v Speaker 3>in nineteen seventy eight, so I'm a few years older
<v Speaker 3>than you. So this list is definitely shaped by my
<v Speaker 3>parents' musical tastes, right, Yeah, pre MTV, I didn't really
<v Speaker 3>have tastes of my own, so I just sat around
<v Speaker 3>and listened to their stuff. Definitely hear their impact here.
<v Speaker 3>Fair Necessities doesn't make the list. That's probably one of
<v Speaker 3>my favorite songs from that time, right, This is from
<v Speaker 3>my mom spinning records and me listening to her stuff,
<v Speaker 3>you know.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, And it turns out my parents were actually pretty cool.
<v Speaker 3>That's great.
<v Speaker 1>That's great.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So you and I established a few rules for ourself.
<v Speaker 3>So of this list, we're going to do our top
<v Speaker 3>five songs plus two honorable mentions, and we're leaving out
<v Speaker 3>any song that we have covered so far, correct, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>so that eliminates everything from Grease.
<v Speaker 4>If you want to check out our Grease episode, it
<v Speaker 4>was very recent. We'll put a link in the show
<v Speaker 4>notes for you so that you can go check out that.
<v Speaker 4>But we covered the whole album that.
<v Speaker 3>Grease soundtrack episodes did pretty well for us.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, and it was a humongous hit. It WANs so
<v Speaker 4>many songs from that album. In this year just hitting
<v Speaker 4>the charts all over the.
<v Speaker 3>Place, we wanted to come with fresh songs. So if
<v Speaker 3>you want to hear us talk about Grease, go back
<v Speaker 3>list of that nothing from Saturday Night Fever.
<v Speaker 4>Same story last year, but we still cover that whole album.
<v Speaker 4>It's been one of our best.
<v Speaker 3>Episodes, yep. So we've covered that. We've covered those two
<v Speaker 3>and then the biggie nothing from van Halen one.
<v Speaker 4>That was a hard decision to make, right well, my
<v Speaker 4>list was literally over fifty songs long without van Halen
<v Speaker 4>on there. If you throw van Halen, they could have
<v Speaker 4>taken every It was kind of like when we did
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty three and Thriller could have had all five
<v Speaker 4>spots here. So I just had to say listen. We
<v Speaker 4>covered that in detail on like our fourth or fifth episode.
<v Speaker 4>Go check out our van Halen episodes. They are some
<v Speaker 4>of our best received episodes. We love them. But we
<v Speaker 4>covered van Halen's debut album pretty thoroughly in.
<v Speaker 3>That pretty thoroughly.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And then also I eliminated for my list hold the
<v Speaker 3>Line by Toto because we discussed it kind of in
<v Speaker 3>the pre Toto four episode that.
<v Speaker 4>We did another great song from seventy eight.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my gosh, it would have easily been in my
<v Speaker 3>top five. Sure, okay, all right, well let's get down
<v Speaker 3>to it, man. Let's see what babies are left.
<v Speaker 4>All right, here we go, number five five.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, we're gonna tease this up. This is how we
<v Speaker 3>do it here, right, So we I tease it up
<v Speaker 3>with some little trivia tidbits for you, yep, and you
<v Speaker 3>try to figure it out exactly. I think it's gonna
<v Speaker 3>be a little harder to tease it up because our
<v Speaker 3>experiences were different. We were little kids. So let's see
<v Speaker 3>how much we can get done here. Okay, okay, So
<v Speaker 3>first thing This was released January of nineteen seventy eight,
<v Speaker 3>peaked at number twenty one in May of seventy eight. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>so clearly seventy eight song. This began as a joke
<v Speaker 3>and kind of like a dare by Phil Everley of
<v Speaker 3>the Everly Brothers. Okay, okay, So he dared this artist
<v Speaker 3>to write a song about this particular movie that he
<v Speaker 3>had watched. He even thought, maybe you could start a
<v Speaker 3>dance craze with this.
<v Speaker 4>Wow, all of these seventy eight songs are swimming through
<v Speaker 4>my head and I don't. I don't have a clue
<v Speaker 4>what this one? Okay?
<v Speaker 3>All right, So when they were jamming out this song,
<v Speaker 3>the artist who haven't named yet and the guys in
<v Speaker 3>his band were just jamming, reflowing out lyrics. Well, they
<v Speaker 3>had a great time. They thought they had something going.
<v Speaker 3>They came back the next day. Of course they're all
<v Speaker 3>high ast kites. They get there and they're like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>let's play that song we were working on. And nobody
<v Speaker 3>remembered what they had said or what they had done. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>but the guy's wife took notes. So some of the
<v Speaker 3>early versions of this song include name drops from Jimmy Hoffa,
<v Speaker 3>Marilyn Chambers does that ring a bell with you?
<v Speaker 5>No?
<v Speaker 3>That's good. You weren't watching porn the seventies? And Linda
<v Speaker 3>Lovelace who was Steve Throat there? Yeah, yeah, playing on
<v Speaker 3>this song. John McVie on bass, Mick Fleetwood on drums.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, anything coming to you? Is this a song off
<v Speaker 4>of rumors?
<v Speaker 1>It is not? Okay?
<v Speaker 4>Is not okay? Keep going?
<v Speaker 3>Took ten minutes to write and it was a standard
<v Speaker 3>and this I'm not a musician, this is what it said.
<v Speaker 3>It was G. C. D. Which is a lot of
<v Speaker 3>popular songs, G C D. Yeah, and they just had
<v Speaker 3>a ball, just kind of making it, scratching it out,
<v Speaker 3>and literally it's the only song by this guy.
<v Speaker 4>I know, this is not Fleetwood. Mac then just has
<v Speaker 4>mc fleetwood on the drums. That's right, You've got me, dude,
<v Speaker 4>I don't know what this is. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>The movie that they watched that Phil Everly and Warren
<v Speaker 3>Zevon watched, uh huh was called Werewolves of London.
<v Speaker 1>It's great.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, so this was this was not a baby for me.
<v Speaker 4>I didn't have I saw that one on the list
<v Speaker 4>and I was just like, oh, that's not one of
<v Speaker 4>my that's not one of my songs. Okay. And that's
<v Speaker 4>important to note for the for our listeners, we're not
<v Speaker 4>necessarily picking songs that were like crowd favorites. We're not yeah,
<v Speaker 4>picking chart toppers. We're not even picking songs that have lasted.
<v Speaker 4>We're just picking songs that we like. Sure, sure, but yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I know when you said that, I immediately thought of
<v Speaker 4>Sweet Home, Alabama the chord progression, because that's what that
<v Speaker 4>same thing. But Kid Rock did a thing where he
<v Speaker 4>combined were Wolves of London and Sweet Home Alabama and
<v Speaker 4>his song as well.
<v Speaker 3>So that was a big song that was called All
<v Speaker 3>Summer Long. Yeah, okay, so quick quick story for you
<v Speaker 3>on this. I thought this was hilarious.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>While they were jamming, one of his buddies comes in.
<v Speaker 3>He's like, hey, what's this song about, and he said
<v Speaker 3>it's about were wolves and the guy he's like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>He's like, yes, yeah, I'm howling around your kitchen door.
<v Speaker 3>They added that to the song.
<v Speaker 4>Fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>When they came out with this as the lead single
<v Speaker 3>from that album, he was really mad. He's like, guys,
<v Speaker 3>we're just fooling around. This song's a piece of crap.
<v Speaker 6>Oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 3>Quick story for you on Warren's Zvon. Okay, the only
<v Speaker 3>reason I bring this up is because we just did
<v Speaker 3>Billy Idol's Rebel Yell and we talked about the Chateau
<v Speaker 3>Merrimont'll tell right, yes, okay, So Billy Idol had some
<v Speaker 3>trouble there. If you want to hear about that, go
<v Speaker 3>back and listen to that episode. That's also where John
<v Speaker 3>Belushi had his fatal overdose. Okay, Warren Zyvon checked himself
<v Speaker 3>in there to have his own personal drama. Checked himself
<v Speaker 3>in the only thing he brought with him was whiskey
<v Speaker 3>and a forty four magnum.
<v Speaker 4>That does not sound good.
<v Speaker 3>That sound like a good combination, sound good, guns and booze.
<v Speaker 4>Right.
<v Speaker 3>Well, apparently while working out his issues, he was standing
<v Speaker 3>on his balcony shooting his pistol across Sunset Boulevard at
<v Speaker 3>a billboard of Richard Pryor. Oh my gosh, So there
<v Speaker 3>you go. Wow, tortured rockstar.
<v Speaker 4>Wow, that's a good one. Great, okay, great.
<v Speaker 3>Job, thank you, all right to your number five sir.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, So you may get this one quickly, or you
<v Speaker 4>may not, because when we do these things, we kind
<v Speaker 4>of text back and forth, and so've I've tipped my
<v Speaker 4>hand a bit here and there. Okay, Okay. So this
<v Speaker 4>one was a number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred,
<v Speaker 4>which is rare for my songs. Typically they're not gonna
<v Speaker 4>be number one in seventy eight. But this one was
<v Speaker 4>a number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>It also won the nineteen seventy eight Grammy for Best
<v Speaker 4>Pop Vocal Performance. It was written by a guy named
<v Speaker 4>Randy Goodrum. Randy was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, I'm
<v Speaker 4>from Arkansas, you know, so it was kind of cool
<v Speaker 4>to say, hey, this song. When I I came across
<v Speaker 4>this song, I hadn't heard it again. This was one
<v Speaker 4>I hadn't heard in decades. But when I heard it, I
<v Speaker 4>was like, oh my gosh, this song is. I mean,
<v Speaker 4>it brings back all of those feels that I had
<v Speaker 4>from listening to music as a little kid. And so
<v Speaker 4>after I listened to it a few times, I texted
<v Speaker 4>you about it, and then I texted my dad about it.
<v Speaker 4>I'm like, you, guys, you know, do you remember this song?
<v Speaker 4>And my dad, who I mean? This is? His response
<v Speaker 4>is so out of character, but it was just hilarious.
<v Speaker 4>He's like, this brought tears to my eyes. I had
<v Speaker 4>to listen to it five times. I'm like, whoa the
<v Speaker 4>tough bearded man. It's like, what, but I mean this was.
<v Speaker 4>One of the joys of growing up with my dad
<v Speaker 4>is that we both played music, and so this music
<v Speaker 4>is something that we really share. And he said, I
<v Speaker 4>had to look up the guy who wrote it. He's
<v Speaker 4>from Hot Springs, Arkansas, and gave me a little more
<v Speaker 4>info on it. So he went to Hot Springs High
<v Speaker 4>School as well. He formed a band called the Three Kings,
<v Speaker 4>although they were also called the Three Blind Mice. It
<v Speaker 4>was him, a couple of drummers, and a saxophone player.
<v Speaker 4>Who might know his name is Bill Clinton. What Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>So Randy Goodrum was in a band with Bill Clinton
<v Speaker 4>when they were both in high school. Okay, And so
<v Speaker 4>he goes on and goes to college while Bill's at Harvard.
<v Speaker 4>I guess he's over, you know, in Conway, Arkansas, going
<v Speaker 4>to Hendricks College. He becomes a songwriter but isn't having
<v Speaker 4>a lot of success. He's gone out to la He's
<v Speaker 4>trying to pump these songs and everybody's like, hey, we
<v Speaker 4>don't want anything, but keep going. You're doing great. And
<v Speaker 4>so he's got this he's he said, I was better
<v Speaker 4>at writing music at first, and so he's got a
<v Speaker 4>lot of musical snippets that he would just have lying
<v Speaker 4>around and so one day he's cleaning up his office
<v Speaker 4>and he's like, I'm taking a break. He sits down
<v Speaker 4>with a musical snippet and plays it on the piano,
<v Speaker 4>and then the first two or three lines come to
<v Speaker 4>him and he's like, oh my gosh, I think I've
<v Speaker 4>got I'm onto something and literally the rest of it
<v Speaker 4>just poured out of him. He goes and plays it
<v Speaker 4>for his wife and she goes, yeah, that's pretty good.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Reminder, this was became a number one on the Billboard
<v Speaker 4>How Want of? This was the song that broke him,
<v Speaker 4>and it also broke the female lead singer, the first
<v Speaker 4>female Canadian to hit number one in the US and
<v Speaker 4>also the first female Canadian to earn a gold record
<v Speaker 4>in the US.
<v Speaker 3>I have a guess, is this You Light Up My Life?
<v Speaker 3>By Debbie Boone?
<v Speaker 4>No, okay, no similar sound, but no different, different singer. Okay, okay.
<v Speaker 4>So the singer later on, she's struggling. She's married to
<v Speaker 4>a music producer named Bill Langstroth. They have a son
<v Speaker 4>together who's just a toddler. His name's William as well,
<v Speaker 4>and she's just like, I'm struggling with trying to make
<v Speaker 4>a career as a musician but also be there for
<v Speaker 4>my son, because you know, it's not like when mommy
<v Speaker 4>goes to work she's gone for eight hours. She's gone
<v Speaker 4>for two months. And so it was this real difficult
<v Speaker 4>situation she was in, and she was scrolling through some
<v Speaker 4>tapes that she had of demo songs and she comes
<v Speaker 4>across this song and she sees it, she hears it,
<v Speaker 4>and she's like, this captures exactly how I feel about.
<v Speaker 4>He's two men in my life, my son and my husband.
<v Speaker 4>But the only thing that's on the tape is this
<v Speaker 4>guy's name, this Randy Goodrum guy.
<v Speaker 3>I got nothing. I mean, I'm nowhere.
<v Speaker 4>The beauty of this song is almost religious. The name
<v Speaker 4>of the song is called You Needed Me by.
<v Speaker 1>Cameron and gave me dignity.
<v Speaker 5>Sohowy Ney.
<v Speaker 1>You gave me string.
<v Speaker 6>To stand to face.
<v Speaker 4>Making me wee dude, It's so beautiful and it's been
<v Speaker 4>I mean, I haven't heard that song in forever. Like
<v Speaker 4>all of the songs that you still hear from this era,
<v Speaker 4>I haven't heard it from ever forever. And I tell
<v Speaker 4>you I only put it a number five. But of
<v Speaker 4>all the songs, I replayed this one more than any
<v Speaker 4>of them. It just it brings out all the feels.
<v Speaker 4>And it's crazy because it has no chorus. There's no
<v Speaker 4>chorus in the whole song. Interesting when he tried to
<v Speaker 4>promote it before and like, finally listen to the tape,
<v Speaker 4>people would be like, well, don't you want to put
<v Speaker 4>a chorus in there, and he's like, why it's already
<v Speaker 4>you know long enough it's yeah, I don't need the chorus,
<v Speaker 4>And ultimately everybody, including his wife, Yeah it's pretty good,
<v Speaker 4>was wrong and it set him on a music career.
<v Speaker 4>By the way, he went on to write, oh, Sherry,
<v Speaker 4>Steve Perry. Yes, he had another big hit from seventy
<v Speaker 4>eight called Bluer than Blue by Michael Johnson, and he
<v Speaker 4>also wrote if she would have been faithful by.
<v Speaker 3>Chicago, Yes, that's fantastic. I bet I haven't heard that
<v Speaker 3>song in four decades. There you go, very good, very good.
<v Speaker 4>All right. That brings us to number four.
<v Speaker 3>Four all right, number four. You know when you're talking
<v Speaker 3>about all the feels, this is the one that kind
<v Speaker 3>of brings out the most feels in me. This almost
<v Speaker 3>didn't make the album. Maybe one of this artist's most
<v Speaker 3>well known songs. Okay, if it had not been for
<v Speaker 3>Phoebe Snow and Linda Ronstat walking by and listening and
<v Speaker 3>hearing the song, it probably would not have.
<v Speaker 4>Made the album.
<v Speaker 3>So here's the deal. It's a chick song.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, okay, Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>They walked by this artist who you very well know,
<v Speaker 3>who we've covered here at the Shirley can be a
<v Speaker 3>serious podcast. They walked by and they're like, man, this
<v Speaker 3>song's fantastic, And the guys in the band were like, really,
<v Speaker 3>we're not sure if we like it or not. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>I mean we think it's pretty good, but we're not
<v Speaker 3>really sure. And they're like like grabbed him by the
<v Speaker 3>shirt collars, like, if you guys don't put this on
<v Speaker 3>the album, you're crazy. Wow, this is a fantastic song.
<v Speaker 1>You guys are being such guys.
<v Speaker 3>So the women were the ones are like, this isn't
<v Speaker 3>amazing song. He wrote this for his wife on her birthday.
<v Speaker 4>Okay all Right?
<v Speaker 3>Released September of nineteen seventy seven, peaked at number three
<v Speaker 3>on the charts in nineteen seventy eight. It has been
<v Speaker 3>covered by Barry White, Frank Sinatra, Isaac Hayes, Tons Moore
<v Speaker 3>won the Grammy for Record.
<v Speaker 1>Of the Year.
<v Speaker 4>Have you got anything for Me? No, I don't.
<v Speaker 3>This particular artist also sang it to Oscar on Sesame Street.
<v Speaker 3>Okay okay, uh huh, all right, I got nothing nothing.
<v Speaker 4>No, ill play it for you, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Don't go ja.
<v Speaker 3>To try please me. You never led me down before.
<v Speaker 3>This is Billy Joels just the Way you are fantastic.
<v Speaker 4>I remember I was, I was struggling on like we've
<v Speaker 4>covered the artist. So, yeah, what a incredibly great song
<v Speaker 4>off of the Stranger. This is one of a bunch
<v Speaker 4>of great songs off of the Stranger, like you've got
<v Speaker 4>just the way You've are, you've got the Stranger, you've
<v Speaker 4>got moving out, you've got scenes from an Italian restaurant. Incredible.
<v Speaker 4>And then of course in seventy eight, in October seventy eight,
<v Speaker 4>fifty second Street comes out and it's got.
<v Speaker 3>Another slew O. It's amazing, right, such a great art.
<v Speaker 1>I take you, Jeff the way.
<v Speaker 3>So this obviously is Billy Joel. There were several Billy
<v Speaker 3>Joel songs that had to mark off the list as
<v Speaker 3>we whittled it down. Yeah, the tune of this song
<v Speaker 3>came to him in a dream, right yeah, and he
<v Speaker 3>was like, oh, that's really good. That's really good. Went
<v Speaker 3>to sleep, woke up the next morning and he was
<v Speaker 3>searching for it, couldn't really find it, Like, man, what
<v Speaker 3>was that tune I was listening to in my head?
<v Speaker 3>A couple of days later, he's in a business meeting.
<v Speaker 3>He's like sitting there with accountants and you know, lawyers
<v Speaker 3>and boring people, and he's like sitting there and he's like.
<v Speaker 1>Ooh ooh, that's it.
<v Speaker 3>And he literally stood up and said, guys, I've got
<v Speaker 3>to go.
<v Speaker 4>I got it right now, right now.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, just the way you are, Billy Joel.
<v Speaker 4>It's a great one, great great pick.
<v Speaker 1>Hey.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, just I want to throw this out
<v Speaker 3>there real quick.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Accidentally, I have kind of a theme running through my songs.
<v Speaker 3>Oh okay, it doesn't encompass every song, but the theme
<v Speaker 3>is baseball. Billy Joel is a baseball fan. He's a
<v Speaker 3>Mets fan, New York Mets. One of the things that
<v Speaker 3>they do now for the New York Mets is in
<v Speaker 3>the middle of the eighth inning, they all seen piano
<v Speaker 3>Man and he's been there and they it's this wonderful
<v Speaker 3>thing that everybody in the stadium is singing piano Man.
<v Speaker 3>It's really cool.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. Two year a number four, sir, Before we jump
<v Speaker 4>into my number four, I'm glad that you mentioned Linda Ronstadt.
<v Speaker 4>Nineteen seventy eight was a huge year for women singers.
<v Speaker 4>Lynda Ronstadt's album was phenomenal. You've got Ann Murray, which
<v Speaker 4>I mentioned. You've got Bonnie Tyler, you got Debbie Harry,
<v Speaker 4>you got Patti Smyth. I mean, that's just to name
<v Speaker 4>a handful of the big hitters. But it was a
<v Speaker 4>huge year for women in me.
<v Speaker 3>Mu Ye, good call, good call.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. Okay, So my number four? What is mine? Number four? Okay?
<v Speaker 4>All right, here we go. This one almost escaped my radar,
<v Speaker 4>but then I was scrolling through the Billboard Hot one
<v Speaker 4>hundred and I was like, oh crap, this song came
<v Speaker 4>out well enough to be in the Billboard Hot one
<v Speaker 4>hundred in nineteen seventy eight. I can't not include it.
<v Speaker 4>So at the time that he wrote the song, the
<v Speaker 4>songwriter who was the lead singer for the band as well,
<v Speaker 4>they were opening for Kiss and zz Top and Aerosmith, okay,
<v Speaker 4>and he's standing there with his main band Buddy, and
<v Speaker 4>he's like the band Buddy is like, do you think
<v Speaker 4>we will ever be the openers? Do you ever think
<v Speaker 4>we'll get the gold?
<v Speaker 1>Right?
<v Speaker 4>And he said he wrote this song as this kind
<v Speaker 4>of idea of you, We're going to look back on
<v Speaker 4>these memories fondly, but maybe we didn't get the gold
<v Speaker 4>even though we look back on it with fondness. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>became a huge hit for him. They thought, after their
<v Speaker 4>original hit a couple of years earlier, that it was
<v Speaker 4>they're gonna start steamroll, but it wasn't one that gave
<v Speaker 4>it to them. Right. Okay, there's references in here that
<v Speaker 4>are almost biblical. But the songwriter, Dennis DeYoung, was trying
<v Speaker 4>to get something going after they had had a big
<v Speaker 4>hit with Lady. This is off their nineteen seventy seven
<v Speaker 4>album Grand Illusion, So.
<v Speaker 3>This de Young is in stix. This has to be
<v Speaker 3>come sail Away.
<v Speaker 5>I sadly away set an open cause.
<v Speaker 3>For the bugency.
<v Speaker 1>Si.
<v Speaker 4>This is a song that was great for me when
<v Speaker 4>I was a kid, that kind of fell away, as
<v Speaker 4>songs do. And then something happened as I'm raising my
<v Speaker 4>own kids and I'm like, oh, you guys haven't heard
<v Speaker 4>this song. I turn it up, and somehow it became
<v Speaker 4>like the go to song when we're driving in the
<v Speaker 4>car together. And I've got you know, I've got my
<v Speaker 4>kids that are eight and six at the time, singing
<v Speaker 4>as loud as they can this nineteen seventy eight hit.
<v Speaker 4>And I so when I got home a couple of
<v Speaker 4>days ago, I'm like, hey, Brock, do you remember the
<v Speaker 4>first time that I played Come sail Away for you,
<v Speaker 4>and he was like, yes, I do. And he was
<v Speaker 4>the six year old, like, I mean, he was very young, right,
<v Speaker 4>And I was like, what did you think? And he
<v Speaker 4>makes this kind of sour face and he's like I thought.
<v Speaker 4>And then I thought, wow, this is pretty good. And
<v Speaker 4>I was like yes, yes, because it's this beauty. It
<v Speaker 4>leads you in with this soft beautiful like I'm going
<v Speaker 4>to go slow dance and then whoa, where.
<v Speaker 2>Are we up?
<v Speaker 4>Where are we now? What? Oh, we're hard rocking, we're
<v Speaker 4>banging our heads. I mean, fantastic freaking song.
<v Speaker 3>It's amazing. I've got a personal story for you regarding
<v Speaker 3>this song, and this song was one of the ones
<v Speaker 3>that was close and nearly made it for me. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>So a couple of years ago, my son Quinn is
<v Speaker 3>in the high school band. Yeah, and he's a junior
<v Speaker 3>high he's like seventh grade, right, and we played basketball.
<v Speaker 3>We're a small school, it's small, a tiny gem. Well
<v Speaker 3>they put the band who's really good at this school
<v Speaker 3>in the visitor side. Well, the one song that they
<v Speaker 3>knew other than the Star Spangled Band was Come sail Away, right,
<v Speaker 3>And that's what they so they blew the ear drums
<v Speaker 3>out of the visitors the entire season. They would just
<v Speaker 3>turn and come tail away.
<v Speaker 1>It was awesome.
<v Speaker 4>That's fantastic. So listening to Dennis de Young talk about
<v Speaker 4>this one, he was he was like, he's doing an
<v Speaker 4>interview and the guy was talking about how much the
<v Speaker 4>song meant to him, and he says, listen, you could
<v Speaker 4>say that all you want. And I appreciate that, you know,
<v Speaker 4>I really I'm glad that the music hit for you.
<v Speaker 4>But let me just tell you that, from nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 4>four to nineteen ninety five, nobody brought that song up
<v Speaker 4>to me, not one word, not from anybody. I was wondering,
<v Speaker 4>what's you know, what's next for me in life for
<v Speaker 4>that good eleven year period. Yeah, and then in nineteen
<v Speaker 4>ninety five I got a call from this guy named
<v Speaker 4>Matt Parker and he said, hey, we've got this cartoon
<v Speaker 4>we'd like to use your song. Is that okay? And
<v Speaker 4>initially I was like, well, heck yeah, because nobody else
<v Speaker 4>wants to use it. And then I was like, well
<v Speaker 4>wait a minute, let me check out this cartoon. Woo,
<v Speaker 4>And he's like, what's it call? He says it's called
<v Speaker 4>South Park. He goes and watches it and he sees
<v Speaker 4>the Barber streisand episode where like she's this monster robot
<v Speaker 4>or whatever it was, like, are you going to barbar
<v Speaker 4>streisiand the song? Matt Parker's like, no, no, no, He's like,
<v Speaker 4>I had a radio show when I was a kid,
<v Speaker 4>and this was one of my we will not He's like,
<v Speaker 4>the idea is when Cartman hears the song, he has
<v Speaker 4>to finish it. And he said from nineteen ninety five
<v Speaker 4>on his phone did not stop ringing. I mean freaks
<v Speaker 4>and geeks, Adam Sandler movies, I mean it's everywhere.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you Matt Parker and Trey stew Yeah, well done. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that's a great one. I love it, all right, near
<v Speaker 3>miss for me?
<v Speaker 6>Three?
<v Speaker 3>All right, number three for me. This is where my
<v Speaker 3>baseball starts to come alive for me, right here?
<v Speaker 4>Okay, okay, all right.
<v Speaker 3>So the guy who performed this and the guy who
<v Speaker 3>sings this, huh, they're huge New York Yankee fans.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, all right.
<v Speaker 3>And the reason I bring that up is because there's
<v Speaker 3>a very prominent Yankee featured in this song. A Yankee
<v Speaker 3>baseball player, former Yankee baseball player. Okay with me so far?
<v Speaker 4>I'm with you so far.
<v Speaker 3>You know what I'm talking about?
<v Speaker 4>Not yet, Okay.
<v Speaker 3>This song was a product of an attempt to make
<v Speaker 3>a rock musical out of the story Peter Pan.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, all right.
<v Speaker 3>The girl who sings in this song was actually hired
<v Speaker 3>to be the windy character.
<v Speaker 1>Now.
<v Speaker 3>The producer Todd Runggren, who we've talked about Liff Tyler's stepdad,
<v Speaker 3>that's right, inventor of the graphic tablet, that's exactly right.
<v Speaker 3>When the writer of the song, Jim Steinman, who was
<v Speaker 3>originally the producer for def Leppard's Hysteria album, Yeah, came
<v Speaker 3>to him and he said, I want Phil Rizzuto, voice
<v Speaker 3>of the Yankees, to have his own sort of narration
<v Speaker 3>in the middle of the song. Todd run grim is
<v Speaker 3>not a baseball fan. He's like, what what do you talk?
<v Speaker 1>What?
<v Speaker 4>What do you what? I've got it?
<v Speaker 3>What do you got?
<v Speaker 4>This has to be meatloaf, and it has to be
<v Speaker 4>Paradise by the dashboard.
<v Speaker 1>Light yesterday, that's it, right, any.
<v Speaker 3>Round second, he's out, No, ain't safe safe ad second.
<v Speaker 3>Jim Simon was talking about this and he actually scripted
<v Speaker 3>those words out for Phil Rizzuto, who's the voice of
<v Speaker 3>the Yankees, and he wanted him to do it like
<v Speaker 3>he was calling a game. And Phil Razutta was like,
<v Speaker 3>he's rounding first headed four seconds, he slides in, he's safe. No,
<v Speaker 3>he's out. Jen Simon's like, dude, what are you doing.
<v Speaker 3>He's like, what are you talking about. I'm reading the
<v Speaker 3>words you wrote down. He's like, no, I want you
<v Speaker 3>to call the game. Pretend like it's the Yankees and
<v Speaker 3>the Red Size. He's like, okay. He goes there's about
<v Speaker 3>the dirty that I'm saying, right, And they were like no, no.
<v Speaker 4>No, sir, no, no, no.
<v Speaker 3>So after the song comes out, because they he recorded
<v Speaker 3>his part without the music, he sees them at a
<v Speaker 3>Yankee game and he comes up to them. He's like,
<v Speaker 3>he calls him, huckleberries, you huckleberries.
<v Speaker 1>You tricked me. It's dirty.
<v Speaker 3>They're like, sorry, Phil, here's your check exactly. He made
<v Speaker 3>one thousand dollars for that song. Oh and that's it.
<v Speaker 4>Jim and Vincent Price can cry in their beer together.
<v Speaker 3>Four parts to this song, Paradise Baseball, stop right there.
<v Speaker 4>And Praying for the End of Time, Ran for the
<v Speaker 4>End of Time. So walking and Tom with Ude.
<v Speaker 3>It peaked at number thirty nine in September of seventy eight.
<v Speaker 4>I don't fault you for this at all, but I
<v Speaker 4>said when we first started on this thing, I'm like,
<v Speaker 4>I got fifty songs and I'm pretty confident that we're
<v Speaker 4>not going to overlap. Yeah, and I've been right like this.
<v Speaker 4>I saw a meat loaf and I'm like, I'm a
<v Speaker 4>meatloaf fan. It's okay, moving on. I mean, I don't
<v Speaker 4>hate it, but it's just was my ideal. Right, So
<v Speaker 4>great song.
<v Speaker 3>Okay to you, sir for your number three.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, it's interesting that you said that number three is
<v Speaker 4>where the baseball analogies come in, because this is almost
<v Speaker 4>like a baseball idea and almost like a Yankees baseball idea.
<v Speaker 4>But I don't want to give it away too much, Okay, Okay.
<v Speaker 4>So this song came from a group that gave themselves
<v Speaker 4>their name because of how bad their circumstances were, Like
<v Speaker 4>they couldn't they didn't have a pot to piss in,
<v Speaker 4>they couldn't make any money, and they literally were would
<v Speaker 4>wander around different places in the UK trying to listen
<v Speaker 4>to different bands to get some feel for what they
<v Speaker 4>might have as their sound, okay, all right, And so
<v Speaker 4>one night they go into a pub. So one night,
<v Speaker 4>the lead singer, the guy who's going to write this song,
<v Speaker 4>he goes into a pub in a place called Ipswich
<v Speaker 4>in the UK. Okay, haven't been to Ipswich myself. I
<v Speaker 4>don't think it's very big. I haven't been there either, okay,
<v Speaker 4>he said. He goes in and there's like these three
<v Speaker 4>or four tired musicians in the corner playing dixie Land
<v Speaker 4>music okay in the UK in the seventies, right, And
<v Speaker 4>he's just fascinated by what these guys are doing. You know,
<v Speaker 4>they're just playing some really kind of crazy music for
<v Speaker 4>that time. And a little bit later on he's looking
<v Speaker 4>for an idea for a song and he's like, I'm
<v Speaker 4>going to write about that experience. I'm going to write
<v Speaker 4>about going in and seeing these guys play. And he
<v Speaker 4>composes it on like an old dobro, like an acoustic
<v Speaker 4>bluesy kind of guitar, plays it for one of the
<v Speaker 4>band members and they're like, eh, it's eh. And so
<v Speaker 4>he like pinches pennies, buys himself a Fender stratocaster and
<v Speaker 4>he redoes the whole chord progression to make this song
<v Speaker 4>a completely different song with the same lyrics that he's written.
<v Speaker 4>But it's all about coming in and seeing this band.
<v Speaker 4>And he's talking about the band now he mentions a
<v Speaker 4>couple of the band members' names. It's doubtful that these
<v Speaker 4>are the actual band members of the band he saw
<v Speaker 4>on Ipswich. Some people say they're the name of a
<v Speaker 4>couple of guys from the Easy Beats, which we've talked
<v Speaker 4>about in our back and Black Emmerson we have.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. He talks about Harry, who has a daytime job,
<v Speaker 4>and he talks about guitar George, which is probably George Young,
<v Speaker 4>Angus Young's brother. Yes, and the song is similar to
<v Speaker 4>what they call the very famous baseball player. But what
<v Speaker 4>the song title actually comes from is when this Dixie
<v Speaker 4>band that he heard late night one night in Ipswich.
<v Speaker 4>They were playing to maybe three or four people, and
<v Speaker 4>they stand up and they say thank you, we are
<v Speaker 4>the announces the band name as though they're the biggest
<v Speaker 4>band in the world.
<v Speaker 3>Do you know it, well, you're all over ac DC. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it's not ACDC, It's not ac DC. Okay, I don't
<v Speaker 3>know it guitar George.
<v Speaker 4>He knows all the chords because they are the Sultan's
<v Speaker 4>of Swing.
<v Speaker 3>You get it in the dog gets rained in the
<v Speaker 3>pop meantime, Dire Straits got it.
<v Speaker 4>So I showed my big list of all of the
<v Speaker 4>songs that were in the running for nineteen seventy eight
<v Speaker 4>to Kevin Davis, and I'm like, am I missing anything?
<v Speaker 4>Because Kevin's a few years older than us, And I
<v Speaker 4>mean he was, he was more in the prime of
<v Speaker 4>his life at that point, really listening to radio. And
<v Speaker 4>he's like, no, I think you got everything. But Sunday
<v Speaker 4>night at ten o'clock he texts me. He goes, hey, bro,
<v Speaker 4>the Sultans of Swing come out in nineteen seventy eight.
<v Speaker 4>If so it needs to be on the list, And
<v Speaker 4>I said, it's definitely on the radar. He's like, put
<v Speaker 4>it on their poll's best song to listen to with
<v Speaker 4>headphones ever? And he's not wrong. It is. Mark Knopfler
<v Speaker 4>is a musical genius. And just if you're wondering, I mean,
<v Speaker 4>we know. I mean we got our Dire Straits experience
<v Speaker 4>from Money for Nothing right.
<v Speaker 3>And Brothers in Arms that whole album, the whole album.
<v Speaker 4>So for Money for Nothing is just under four hundred
<v Speaker 4>and sixty million. Okay, that's what the downloads are. Four
<v Speaker 4>hundred and sixty million, okay, right, Walk of Life, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>six hundred million. Sultans of Swing one billion, eighty three million.
<v Speaker 3>Wow, Gita joos all the conte.
<v Speaker 1>Is strict, name or them.
<v Speaker 3>He doesn't want to make a cry all soon. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>that surprises me. It is an incredibly good song. It's amazing.
<v Speaker 4>I love it. I love it.
<v Speaker 3>Short list for me, all right to my number two.
<v Speaker 6>Two?
<v Speaker 3>All right. Some people believe that the inspiration for this
<v Speaker 3>song came from when the band was recording over in France.
<v Speaker 1>I think you're smiling.
<v Speaker 3>You're smiling.
<v Speaker 4>I know it already. You keep on going though.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, see you're making me nervous. We're gonna have our
<v Speaker 3>first crossover.
<v Speaker 4>Nope, nope, you keep on going. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>They were in Nice, France, and as they were recording,
<v Speaker 3>one of the things that was happening in their area
<v Speaker 3>was the Tour de France. So they were witnessing the
<v Speaker 3>Tour de France.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, I don't.
<v Speaker 3>Really know, other than you saw a lot of people's backsides. Well,
<v Speaker 3>they're writing bicycles.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, all right, I'm gonna go ahead and say that
<v Speaker 4>I thought I knew what this was when you started,
<v Speaker 4>and it's not what I thought it was then, But
<v Speaker 4>I think I know what it is now. But you
<v Speaker 4>keep on going. Okay, all right, I.
<v Speaker 3>Don't want to lead you astray because the other one. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>So here's the thing. They wrote two songs because of this.
<v Speaker 3>One of them called Bicycle Race appears in this song
<v Speaker 3>across references it does, and this particular song, my number
<v Speaker 3>two cross references bicycle Race, and it was on a
<v Speaker 3>double A single, so both singles were an A side.
<v Speaker 4>If I may, This is Fat Bottom Girls by Queen.
<v Speaker 4>Get on your bikes and ride.
<v Speaker 7>Fat Bottom Girls, You make the rocking world around. I
<v Speaker 7>was just a scald a new nooka.
<v Speaker 3>This is a top down, turn it up song from
<v Speaker 3>nineteen seventy eight. It comes on I blauring out the speakers.
<v Speaker 4>I gotta tell you that I am very glad that
<v Speaker 4>you picked this one, because there were three songs from
<v Speaker 4>that year that I was like, which of these three
<v Speaker 4>do I pick? I mean, I've said a bunch, but you.
<v Speaker 3>Gotta have Queen on this list? Do you have to
<v Speaker 3>have Queen, not.
<v Speaker 4>Have Queen, but I've got a I've got a different album.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Well I got I got a couple more nuggets
<v Speaker 3>for you, and so here's the deal. So Brian May
<v Speaker 3>wrote this song knowing full well that Freddie Mercury is
<v Speaker 3>going to be singing it, and it did cost him
<v Speaker 3>a bit of pause knowing that he was going to
<v Speaker 3>be singing so strongly about women, even though he knew
<v Speaker 3>his preference. Yes, and He's like, that didn't matter. It's like,
<v Speaker 3>basically you can interchange.
<v Speaker 4>I believed him when he talked about big fat Fanny,
<v Speaker 4>such a naughty nanny. This is off the album Jazz, right,
<v Speaker 4>it is okay? So have you seen the fold out
<v Speaker 4>in the middle of the album, No, I have. It
<v Speaker 4>has about I'd say fifty or sixty women on bicycles
<v Speaker 4>were all naked except for helmets and socks. Well done,
<v Speaker 4>Well done, Queen, well done.
<v Speaker 3>That is awesome.
<v Speaker 4>Well I'm tipping my hand a little bit too much here,
<v Speaker 4>but it is appropriate that your number two is queen
<v Speaker 4>because my number two is also Queen. All right, different
<v Speaker 4>album okay. Earlier that year was literally written. Freddie Mercury said,
<v Speaker 4>I wrote this song to be used for football games.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I already know what it is, but no, just
<v Speaker 3>go ahead. It has to be we are the champions,
<v Speaker 3>my friend.
<v Speaker 4>To me, yes, and I feel completely okay saying that
<v Speaker 4>it is a tie for second with We're the Champions
<v Speaker 4>and we will rock here.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, they go together like peas and carrots. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I haven't heard him separate them.
<v Speaker 4>You can't separate them without causing gnashing of teeth. And
<v Speaker 4>way the outcry is strong, what you cannot play we
<v Speaker 4>will rock You and not follow it with.
<v Speaker 1>We are the Champions.
<v Speaker 3>It's so true. When I end up we will Rock You,
<v Speaker 3>I always expect to hear the beginning we are the championship.
<v Speaker 4>So I started with we Will Rock You when I
<v Speaker 4>was doing my research, and I like trying to pull
<v Speaker 4>it up and I'm like, I can't find that this
<v Speaker 4>hit the billboard hot one hundred. That's not possible. It's
<v Speaker 4>because they were putting together and so we are the champions,
<v Speaker 4>is what I mean, because we Will Rock You comes
<v Speaker 4>first and slash we are the champions, right right right.
<v Speaker 4>But the way that they when they released the single,
<v Speaker 4>it was the other way around, and so we are
<v Speaker 4>the Champions was hitting the charts hard in January of
<v Speaker 4>nineteen seventy year.
<v Speaker 3>I love it. I love it. We played this whenever
<v Speaker 3>my baseball team won the Summer League in nineteen eighty two.
<v Speaker 3>We put it on the jukebox.
<v Speaker 4>Well, and it was I mean, they wrote it for
<v Speaker 4>football and it was part of the FIFA Championship from
<v Speaker 4>I don't remember, like ninety eight or something like that,
<v Speaker 4>and became another big hit again.
<v Speaker 3>All right, so we're at our number one now, right.
<v Speaker 4>Well, before we get to number one, we have to
<v Speaker 4>do our honorable mentions, and this is this is where
<v Speaker 4>I'm struggling because I've got five and I've only been
<v Speaker 4>allowed to I don't know what to do, Okay, So
<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna let you go your honorable mentions first, and
<v Speaker 4>maybe you'll knock a couple off my list.
<v Speaker 3>Okay. So this is where my parents' taste kind of
<v Speaker 3>seeps in right here.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>In a nineteen eighty issue of Current Biology magazine I
<v Speaker 3>know nothing about okay, it called this song the most
<v Speaker 3>recognized tune since Michelle by the Beatles, and I probably went,
<v Speaker 3>which one is that? But this is the one of
<v Speaker 3>the most popular instrumentals of all time. Yes, I Did
<v Speaker 3>Say instrumental. It was released in December of nineteen seventy
<v Speaker 3>seven reached number four on the charts in nineteen seventy eight.
<v Speaker 4>I have a guess. Okay, do you have a guess? Okay?
<v Speaker 4>Is this close Encounters of the Third Kind? John Williams. No,
<v Speaker 4>but that's a good guess, okay, because it was on
<v Speaker 4>the charts in seventy eight. Right right, right right?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Okay, keep going, keep going? Okay, So this was
<v Speaker 3>nominated for Record of the Year. This is not some
<v Speaker 3>obscure song.
<v Speaker 4>Wow. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it lost to Just the Way You Are, which
<v Speaker 3>was on my chart as well.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>It finished the year in chart for nineteen seventy eight
<v Speaker 3>at number six. This is a huge song.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>This guy the artist, his name is Chuck MANGIONI also
<v Speaker 3>wanted to be a baseball player, but instead became a
<v Speaker 3>flugelhorn and trumpetereer and composer. He also created the Cannonball
<v Speaker 3>Run theme. If you remember that back when we covered
<v Speaker 3>Cannonball Run.
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Okay, you know this song?
<v Speaker 3>No me play it for you see if you recas again?
<v Speaker 3>Most recognizable since Michelle by the Beatles.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, So I've heard the song. I feel like I
<v Speaker 4>heard it on mister mom.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe it's possible.
<v Speaker 4>Is this a general hospital theme?
<v Speaker 3>No, it's just called a song called Feels So Good.
<v Speaker 3>It was just an instrumental and it was play the
<v Speaker 3>crap out of on the radio.
<v Speaker 4>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>I remember playing it when I was just sitting around
<v Speaker 3>playing with my Star Wars guys. Wow, my parents love
<v Speaker 3>this song. Okay, all right, well, hey, I can tell
<v Speaker 3>it didn't strike play with you.
<v Speaker 1>It did not.
<v Speaker 4>Of the year I knew our list would be different.
<v Speaker 4>There you go, Okay, what else you got?
<v Speaker 1>Okay?
<v Speaker 3>My other honorable Mention is a song strongly associated with
<v Speaker 3>baseball Again. It was originally written about Los Angeles, but
<v Speaker 3>has since become synonymous with the San Francisco area. The
<v Speaker 3>guy who wrote this song it was one of his
<v Speaker 3>first songs that he brought to this band, who were
<v Speaker 3>huge in the seventies and eighties and still today they're huge.
<v Speaker 3>Originally only reached number sixty eight on the Hot one hundred.
<v Speaker 3>This song is played at San Francisco Giants Games, Oakland
<v Speaker 3>A's Games, Golden State Warrior Games, forty nine Ers games,
<v Speaker 3>and this artist has sung this during the World Series Okay,
<v Speaker 3>when I play this song, you're gonna know every word.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, ready, yep, Yeah, it took one chord Lights by Journey,
<v Speaker 4>that's it.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, We're the lights go down in the sentence.
<v Speaker 1>And the song shine.
<v Speaker 6>The band.
<v Speaker 3>Lot of So originally the lyrics were when the sun
<v Speaker 3>shines on.
<v Speaker 1>La oh okay, but.
<v Speaker 3>When the band moved to San Francisco, Steve Perry's like, man,
<v Speaker 3>that just fits so well to say sun shines on
<v Speaker 3>the Bay.
<v Speaker 4>I love it. Yeah, I would pick of that on
<v Speaker 4>that album. I would pick Wheel in the Sky, but
<v Speaker 4>this is definitely a close second for me.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I love it.
<v Speaker 1>I love it.
<v Speaker 3>It's so singable, right.
<v Speaker 4>Very yep. Okay, So I just at this point, I've
<v Speaker 4>just to I've got to apologize to Joe Walsh. I've
<v Speaker 4>got apologize to Billy Joel. I'm really thankful that you
<v Speaker 4>brought up one of his songs, but there was another
<v Speaker 4>one that was totally like a killer for me. I've
<v Speaker 4>got to apologize to Kansas. But anyway, okay, So my
<v Speaker 4>first honorable mention is the one colorably disco song that
<v Speaker 4>I have on my list. Okay, all right, yep, And
<v Speaker 4>the title of the song. Well, first, the song begins
<v Speaker 4>with an acappella chorus. You know, it's beautifully done. Of
<v Speaker 4>the four members of this band, right, two guys, two girls.
<v Speaker 4>The title of the song comes from the writer. One
<v Speaker 4>of the guys in the band. He was a runner,
<v Speaker 4>and so as he was running, he would have a
<v Speaker 4>rhythm in his head of and that became this.
<v Speaker 3>Is take a Chance on Me by Abba.
<v Speaker 4>Hey.
<v Speaker 3>We have actually covered Abba twice.
<v Speaker 4>Now, yeah, with your Patreon episode.
<v Speaker 3>With the Patreon episodes, the two guys broke off and
<v Speaker 3>created the song one night in Bangkok in any Freed
<v Speaker 3>Frida Yeah, released the song There's Something going On, which
<v Speaker 3>we covered on our Patreon as well.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, this is my I love a lot of songs.
<v Speaker 4>This is probably top of the list.
<v Speaker 3>Right, you can't really have a Slate seventies list without
<v Speaker 3>Abba somewhere in there.
<v Speaker 4>This song. Actually, it didn't reach his hall as high
<v Speaker 4>on the charts as Dancing Queen, but it has sold
<v Speaker 4>more copies than Dancing Queen every day.
<v Speaker 3>I love it, absolutely love.
<v Speaker 4>It all right. My second honorable mention, I think we
<v Speaker 4>have to cover this album at some point. Okay, okay,
<v Speaker 4>So this was the first single off of the debut
<v Speaker 4>album of this band. The band's debut album was self titled.
<v Speaker 4>Same name as the band was the name of the album.
<v Speaker 4>There are three fantastic songs on this album. They're still
<v Speaker 4>being played today. I'll walk into CVS and this will
<v Speaker 4>be on the bad right. Okay, So there are two
<v Speaker 4>guys who sang in this band. They've both since passed away.
<v Speaker 4>One of them has very good looks, blonde, blue eyed,
<v Speaker 4>beautiful voice. The other one is i would venture to say,
<v Speaker 4>hideously ugly and has a very strange voice, but is
<v Speaker 4>probably the more recognizable of the two guys. They set
<v Speaker 4>the standard for the way music sounded in the eighties
<v Speaker 4>with this album from nineteen seventy eight, What Wow. We
<v Speaker 4>have talked about him briefly before because their follow up
<v Speaker 4>album they used Mutt Lang as their producer.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, this has to be the Cars You Got It.
<v Speaker 4>Debut single is called just what I Needed.
<v Speaker 2>I come.
<v Speaker 1>Wasting all my time because when you're standing as kind
<v Speaker 1>of was my mind?
<v Speaker 3>Oh good one. That is a great one.
<v Speaker 4>Thank you good call.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, now that you say it, I'm like that dude
<v Speaker 3>is ugly.
<v Speaker 4>Rick Okazik is not a handsome man, but is.
<v Speaker 3>He married Paulina Porskova, who is gorgeous.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, yeah, so you had just what I needed. You
<v Speaker 4>had my best friend's girl, and you had good times
<v Speaker 4>roll all on this album. Nobody was playing music like
<v Speaker 4>this back then, and these guys were nobody and they
<v Speaker 4>came out with their own sound and it set the
<v Speaker 4>stage for all of the music you heard in the
<v Speaker 4>eighties from that.
<v Speaker 1>That's fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>Hey, you know what I mean. Heartbeat City by the
<v Speaker 3>Cars is on the schedule for next season.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I can't wait to talk about it.
<v Speaker 3>Could be fun.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, okay. And then just a couple of Wow I
<v Speaker 4>didn't know about this group or this song, okay, okay.
<v Speaker 4>One of them was a group that the apparent lead
<v Speaker 4>singer was lip syncing the whole time. And this is
<v Speaker 4>interesting because the guy who was really singing, who wrote
<v Speaker 4>all the songs and did all the music, is the
<v Speaker 4>same guy who was behind Millie Vanilli.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, you know this, I do because I just watched
<v Speaker 3>the Milli Vanilli documentary.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. So the name of the band is Bony m Yes,
<v Speaker 4>and the name of the song is Resputant Yeah, although
<v Speaker 4>when they sing it it's respoutine.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>The same dude, who did Milli Vanilli did?
<v Speaker 1>Well?
<v Speaker 3>You gotta watch that.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. I got an exotic dancer from the Caribbean to
<v Speaker 4>come and pretend like he was singing this. Yes, but
<v Speaker 4>these guys just they did never hit it quite as big.
<v Speaker 4>But I love the music. I'd never heard it before.
<v Speaker 4>I started listening to big hits of seventy eight and
<v Speaker 4>I came across across Rasputine and I was like, whoaw,
<v Speaker 4>this is fantastic. Yes, yeah, it is not a black
<v Speaker 4>guy singing the song. It is a white guy singing.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, oh yeah.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, I was interacting with Amanagenic on Facebook
<v Speaker 3>the other day. She's like, you guys have got to
<v Speaker 3>do the Milli Vanilla thing. After watching the documentary. It
<v Speaker 3>is incredibly She was going back.
<v Speaker 4>And forth with me, so all right, well you twist
<v Speaker 4>my arm. I'm interested enough. We can talk about it.
<v Speaker 4>It's a good story. It was heartbreaking, all right. And
<v Speaker 4>then the other one was a song that I had
<v Speaker 4>never heard before, absolutely loved. Very seventy sound named after
<v Speaker 4>and kind of modeled after a nursery rhyme. The lead
<v Speaker 4>singer for this band would go on to his own
<v Speaker 4>individual stardom inteen teen eighty four with a big hit
<v Speaker 4>for a movie. Who you gonna call.
<v Speaker 3>Ray Parker Jr?
<v Speaker 4>So the band he had in nineteen seventy eight? Do
<v Speaker 4>you know this? Because again this is great. I see
<v Speaker 4>this band and the name of the band is called
<v Speaker 4>Radio are A Ydo I show this to Kevin Davis
<v Speaker 4>and he's like, oh yeah, it's Ray Parker Jr. Like
<v Speaker 4>holy cow. So here's the song because you probably haven't
<v Speaker 4>heard it.
<v Speaker 6>Jack.
<v Speaker 4>So the name of that song is Jack and Jill.
<v Speaker 4>It just I mean it its his seventies for me, So.
<v Speaker 3>About Jack and Jill.
<v Speaker 4>You got it?
<v Speaker 3>There you go, nice, very good way to pull Ray
<v Speaker 3>Parker Junior out of that.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, crazy interesting.
<v Speaker 3>Here's a couple of near misses for me, just throwing
<v Speaker 3>these out there for you. Copa Cabana really wanted to
<v Speaker 3>jump into my list.
<v Speaker 4>It was it was in my It wasn't my dar,
<v Speaker 4>it really was.
<v Speaker 3>This list was shaped by my parents, New York Groove
<v Speaker 3>by Ace Freely. Really wanted to be on there. Uh,
<v Speaker 3>I mean, if I can't have You was the hardest
<v Speaker 3>one to cut, but we had already covered the Saturday
<v Speaker 3>Night Fever and then don't look back by Boston. It
<v Speaker 3>was such a great song. It hurt to leave that
<v Speaker 3>one off.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. I had to struggle with leaving rock San off
<v Speaker 4>because ultimately what I did was well, it didn't really
<v Speaker 4>hit until it was re released in April of seventy nine,
<v Speaker 4>so I've got to make that cut and then I
<v Speaker 4>apologies to Bob Seeger as well, But it was more
<v Speaker 4>of a seventy nine song than it was a seventy
<v Speaker 4>eight song. So and for me, it was an eighty
<v Speaker 4>three song all the time.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah for sure.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah one.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So we're to our number one.
<v Speaker 4>We're to our number ones. Let's see what you got Mart.
<v Speaker 3>We have had zero crossover.
<v Speaker 2>Zero.
<v Speaker 4>That's as I expected.
<v Speaker 3>That's fantastic. Okay, So my should I go first?
<v Speaker 4>I go first?
<v Speaker 3>Yep, Okay, this is going to crush me if our
<v Speaker 3>number one is a crossover here, but.
<v Speaker 4>So thin, so I really don't. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>So my number one song by a one hit wonder artist, okay,
<v Speaker 3>except he was with a group who had a very
<v Speaker 3>well known hit from the seventies early seventies, like nineteen
<v Speaker 3>seventy three.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, that's similar.
<v Speaker 3>Keep kidding the song that he hit with when he
<v Speaker 3>was with the group Steeler's Wheel.
<v Speaker 4>Oh my gosh, we finally have our own and it's
<v Speaker 4>at our number one position.
<v Speaker 3>How about that?
<v Speaker 4>Oh wow? What makes me so happy that we both
<v Speaker 4>picked the same song for me? High five babies? All right,
<v Speaker 4>so nobody else knows what we're talking about yet, so
<v Speaker 4>go ahead. The song that he had was a hit
<v Speaker 4>from Steeler Wheel.
<v Speaker 3>It was called Stuck in the Middle with You, which
<v Speaker 3>is featured in Reservoir Dogs.
<v Speaker 4>Most iconic scene, which makes the song so iconic.
<v Speaker 3>Don't one gets this clowns letting me joke us to
<v Speaker 3>the right here, I am snucking a little with you yourself.
<v Speaker 3>I'm stuck in a little of you.
<v Speaker 4>But yes, I would not have called this particular gentleman
<v Speaker 4>a one hit wonder. But he didn't do much.
<v Speaker 3>After this album, nothing that I recognize anyway.
<v Speaker 4>So the name of the album that this song that
<v Speaker 4>we're talking about appears on is called City to City.
<v Speaker 4>This guy's first band was a group, a folk duo
<v Speaker 4>called the humble Bums, which he was in with a
<v Speaker 4>guy who became a big stand up comedian named Billy Connelly,
<v Speaker 4>the scott the Scottish comedian, Like I mean, you know, him, right, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I do. Yeah, So that was that was his original band.
<v Speaker 4>And then of course, like you said, he was with
<v Speaker 4>Steeler's Wheel. They had that big hit, but then they
<v Speaker 4>had a very bad breakup of the band.
<v Speaker 3>Well, and then they got in a fight with their
<v Speaker 3>record company and they couldn't record for three years.
<v Speaker 4>Three years, and so for three years he's aimless. He's
<v Speaker 4>drinking heavily. And this song he wrote because he would
<v Speaker 4>go to these meetings that he would have with the
<v Speaker 4>lawyers and the accountants, the boring people, where all this
<v Speaker 4>fighting was going on, right, and he would just get
<v Speaker 4>frustrated and not want to have to take the train back.
<v Speaker 4>So he had a buddy who lived on a particular
<v Speaker 4>street and he would go over there and just play
<v Speaker 4>music and drink and write.
<v Speaker 3>And that street was called Baker Street.
<v Speaker 4>I can never get tired of the song. It is
<v Speaker 4>so freaking good. I have to point and scowl at
<v Speaker 4>my friend Clay Yoakum, who was the last time he
<v Speaker 4>was up hanging out with me, is like, I can't
<v Speaker 4>stand that song. I'm like what he's like, It's like
<v Speaker 4>it can't decide what kind of song it is.
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, that's why it's so good epic, man.
<v Speaker 4>I mean by my friend listens to Radiohead, which I
<v Speaker 4>love too, but I mean talk about music that's all
<v Speaker 4>over the place. But anyway, this song covering this experience
<v Speaker 4>where he's thinking to himself, I'm gonna give up the
<v Speaker 4>booze and the one night stands, buy a little piece
<v Speaker 4>of land. I mean, it's all autobiographical on what he's
<v Speaker 4>going through and then has this beautiful ending when they
<v Speaker 4>finally get the suing and the lawsuits and all that
<v Speaker 4>stuff done. He writes this these last lyrics when you
<v Speaker 4>wake up, it's a new morning, the sun is shining,
<v Speaker 4>it's a new You're going You're going home.
<v Speaker 1>Basic.
<v Speaker 4>He used to say that it was.
<v Speaker 3>So is it your Giant Your It's a wonderful song.
<v Speaker 3>I love it. This is another one. I remember listening
<v Speaker 3>to it while I was playing with my Star Wars guys. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>by the way, have you heard the song by Steve
<v Speaker 3>Marcus called Half a Heart?
<v Speaker 4>Yes?
<v Speaker 3>What do you think?
<v Speaker 4>Very similar? Uh huh, let's play it. Let's have a listen.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah you decide, Okay, legitimately very similar, right, and it's
<v Speaker 4>a horn that's playing too. Right now. What's interesting is
<v Speaker 4>that Jerry Rafferty, you know, he's finally recording now, he
<v Speaker 4>settle all the lawsuits and he's recording this album with
<v Speaker 4>this song on it, and he had a space where
<v Speaker 4>he wanted this lick right, and somebody else said, you
<v Speaker 4>should probably use a saxophone for this one. So they
<v Speaker 4>call up this guy named Rufael Ravenscroft. There you go,
<v Speaker 4>thank you for saying that sounds like a character on
<v Speaker 4>Harry Potter does Ravenscroft. And he comes in and they,
<v Speaker 4>you know, they do what they do. He lays down
<v Speaker 4>this sax solo. To this day, he says, it sounds
<v Speaker 4>horrible to me. The sacks is flat, it's not timed right,
<v Speaker 4>and I'm just like, you're a moron, how do you
<v Speaker 4>And but then he went on to say, hey, that
<v Speaker 4>was me. I wrote that, and I should be getting
<v Speaker 4>song credit for it. And there was a bit of
<v Speaker 4>a fight, but then ultimately they found demo tapes where
<v Speaker 4>Jerry Rafferty is playing that same lick on a guitar.
<v Speaker 4>So no, sorry, buddy, you're not You're not doing it.
<v Speaker 3>You pulled the Melissa mingle. Sorry, buddy.
<v Speaker 4>So not only does it have this incredible moving story
<v Speaker 4>behind it. Not only does it have this incredible sax solo,
<v Speaker 4>you get two minutes left in the song and you
<v Speaker 4>are getting some ear splitting, kick ass guitar solo. It's amazing.
<v Speaker 3>It comes screaming in at the end. It's wonderful.
<v Speaker 4>This the the guitar solo is a guy by a
<v Speaker 4>guy named Hugh Burns. What is funny to me is
<v Speaker 4>he's the guitarist on this one, which has conceivably one
<v Speaker 4>of the most recognizable sax solos ever. He was also
<v Speaker 4>the guitarist on Careless Whisper.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, that's fantastic. By the way, this is the same
<v Speaker 3>Baker Street where Sherlock Holmes lived, twenty one b By
<v Speaker 3>the way, A quick little baseball connection to Jerry Rafferty. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>he wrote a song about build a Spaceman Lee. He
<v Speaker 3>was a pitcher. He used to talk to his baseballs,
<v Speaker 3>and he was one of the first guys to get
<v Speaker 3>in trouble for using pot in baseball. Nice and so
<v Speaker 3>there's a little baseball connection for you. This reached number
<v Speaker 3>two and held that spot for over a month in
<v Speaker 3>the summer of nineteen seventy eight, and was blocked the
<v Speaker 3>entire time by one song Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb,
<v Speaker 3>not even.
<v Speaker 4>What it ruled the entire year. I just don't. I
<v Speaker 4>don't understand it. I mean, talk about that when just
<v Speaker 4>what I needed only reached number twenty seven, you know,
<v Speaker 4>is number one Shadow Dancing, Boogie oggi Ogie by Taste
<v Speaker 4>of Honey. Oh shut up, I knew you say that.
<v Speaker 4>So this was another one I texted my dad about.
<v Speaker 4>I texted in the album cover for City to City
<v Speaker 4>because it was very familiar to me. I'm Mike, did
<v Speaker 4>we have this in the album collection? And he said,
<v Speaker 4>I don't remember, but I really did like Baker Street,
<v Speaker 4>and I was like, it is probably the best song
<v Speaker 4>of a year of incredibly good songs. But to touch
<v Speaker 4>on your idea of one hit Wonder, another great song
<v Speaker 4>off of that album is called right down the Line,
<v Speaker 4>and I know you know it. I'll play it for you.
<v Speaker 3>I retract my one hit Wonder statement. Yes that's a
<v Speaker 3>very familiar song to me.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, yeah, it's another great one off the album. I
<v Speaker 4>started listening to that album from beginning to end just
<v Speaker 4>from the love that I found for those two songs.
<v Speaker 3>Fantastic.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, great job you too, man, And I know that
<v Speaker 4>there will be a lot of people who are at
<v Speaker 4>this point in the podcast are going you guys didn't
<v Speaker 4>say anything about somebody, and I'm sorry.
<v Speaker 1>I really didn't want to leave them off the list.
<v Speaker 4>But go ahead tell us who you think that we
<v Speaker 4>are crazy for not even getting on our top seven songs.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, we'd love to hear from you guys.
<v Speaker 4>Absolutely.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, this is our last formal episode of
<v Speaker 3>the season. This wraps up Season four. De Congratulations season.
<v Speaker 4>Four You too, man, I can't believe it's been four years.
<v Speaker 4>I'm still having a fantastic time me too. Dear listeners,
<v Speaker 4>Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you guys have
<v Speaker 4>a fantastic holiday season with your family. Thank you for
<v Speaker 4>allowing us to come into your lives for a little
<v Speaker 4>bit of time every week. It means everything to us
<v Speaker 4>that we can find joy in the same movies and
<v Speaker 4>music and other silliness that we love once you guys,
<v Speaker 4>have a great new year, and we will catch back
<v Speaker 4>up with you in twenty twenty four.
<v Speaker 3>Bye guys. All right, do we have to tell the story?
<v Speaker 3>So you and I we went to see Die Hard
<v Speaker 3>with the guys from the Only in Oklahoma Podcast ye,
<v Speaker 3>the guys. That's right, great bunch of dudes, and we
<v Speaker 3>kind of set up this meat but you and I
<v Speaker 3>showed up late.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, we finished with our episode that you guys just
<v Speaker 4>listened to, and we said, ohkap, we gotta go.
<v Speaker 3>We got to go right now.
<v Speaker 4>We hauled balls over there as fast as we can.
<v Speaker 4>But can you have a movie without popcorn and candy?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>So can.
<v Speaker 3>So we walk in and you're like, man, I'm a
<v Speaker 3>little hungry. I gotta grab some snacks and a fifty
<v Speaker 3>five gallon drum of popcorn right now. Keep in mind
<v Speaker 3>we haven't met these guys in person, which is the
<v Speaker 3>small by the way.
<v Speaker 4>Oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 3>So we had interacted with these guys a little bit
<v Speaker 3>on Facebook. We had exchanged some texts, but we hadn't
<v Speaker 3>We didn't really know what they looked like, right clue.
<v Speaker 3>So we walk into the movie. It's they're showing the previews. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>this is first impression. Time we look up. They wave
<v Speaker 3>at us like hey, here we are, like, hey, there
<v Speaker 3>they are, And all of a sudden, I see all
<v Speaker 3>of their faces go like ooh whoa.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, because you got a water and I got a
<v Speaker 4>water and a popcorn and of re pieces and a
<v Speaker 4>butterfingers and I'm carrying all of those things. Yes, and
<v Speaker 4>as I see them, I'm looking at them. And I
<v Speaker 4>didn't trip. I flat out kicked. I kicked the step
<v Speaker 4>that I was going into, and all of that stuff
<v Speaker 4>in my hands started becoming a juggling act. And it
<v Speaker 4>looked like old Jed was a millionaire because popcorn like
<v Speaker 4>spewed everywhere. Oh my gosh, so yes, guys we'd never
<v Speaker 4>met before the first impressions. Oh d just spilled popcorn
<v Speaker 4>all over the.
<v Speaker 3>Movie Popcorn Explosion. Well, we had a great time with
<v Speaker 3>those guys. That was a lot of fun. But we
<v Speaker 3>had to tell the story of the popcorn explosion.
<v Speaker 2>Oh here comes a flock of wir w workforce. Wow,
<v Speaker 2>not work