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August 13, 2026 11 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Samonchoti after the show podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Today, we're doing a little extra music news, those little
stories that don't make music news every day, but you know,
I still think they're fun to talk about. Like our
first one up here from mister ed Sheer and he
thought that he would be a one hit wonder with
that song the A Team. He said that was it.
He said, I was going to be happy with that
song as my big hit. But he said, here I

(00:24):
am sixteen years later, and.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Wells all, that first song really grabbed me. I thought,
this is beautiful and deep and I understand what he's
talking about. But let me ask you this question, is
it didn't Taylor Swift like not she fell in love
with the song and the music, and didn't she have
him open for her?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh? I don't know. I think so. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
If you go back to the beginnings of their friendship,
she was a fan and she was like, I want
to know you more. They're very good friends today. They
write together. Well, he was a wedding and he opened
He opened one of her earlier tours.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
He made the comments about the song. This past weekend,
he played Sofi Stadium in LA and he said the
first performance ever did in the US was in LA.
It was at a little club in Inglewood, and he said,
this was the only song I had at the time,
he only hit he said, I played it and he said,
I honestly thought that would be it for him.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, so Jody, you were correct. He was the opening
act for the for the North American Red Tour for
six months. Oh the Red album in twenty thirteen.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, Look, she was just I'm not It's not that
he he would have gone on because he's got so
much music in him.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, but it was.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
That's not a bad crowd to be opening for, right,
a songwriter.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
And he's he's a musician's musician like Taylor is. They're
both songwriters, they're both singers, they're both you know, they
both play instruments. I mean, they they're the whole thing.
So I can see how you bond when you've really
got that true common thread. And both such extremely talented
songwriters too.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean there's a lot of his music that unless
you know the deep cuts and buy the albums, you
don't realize how very Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
What's the word of prolific, Yeah, prolific deep layered.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
He is, you know, the radio hits possibly if you
kind of like Ed Sheer and you only know the big,
the big hits, which are big timeless songs. Yeah, Thinking
out Loud is a huge timeless love song, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
And not even thinking about the Taylor Swift connection there,
it makes me wonder if some of her marketing savvy
you know, helped him or off on him because of
the whole you know, his album series, the you know,
plus what is it, Delta Divide multiply, all of that. Yeah,
the mathematical and the way that he would tease what
he was going to do and not going to do.
I mean, he knows, he knows how to engage his

(02:48):
fan base the same way that Taylor does.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, write a song too.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
No oh wait, he did that thing.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
He did this thing with a camp of music students
one time and it was incredible.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yes, I'm on a podcast, asked for Benny Blanco and
they were showing, you know, this is how you're doing,
and give me some lyrics and it's just like the
song goes together and it's amazing to watch.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, it's his gift.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, that is a gift.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
It's a gift. Yeah, I loved it. I love knowing.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
This second one up is Green Day. They've launched a
twenty four to seven YouTube channel.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Book.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, it's on all the time. It's got unearthed VHS tapes,
hundreds of hours of footage, music videos, live concerts, deep cuts,
and they said stuff that should have stayed in the archives.
And they even have an original show on there called
Transmission Unknown, which the drummer Trey Cool intro introduces and

(03:41):
features upcoming bands.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, it's interesting to know if it's twenty four to seven,
how long it's your stuff repeat? You know, you have
to be a really really interested in Green Day or
just in that mood.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, just let that run. And that's fine. It's a
niche thing.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
They put this out because this Friday they have a
movie coming out that's based on their story called Nimrods,
a Green Day comedy. Okay, that should be fun. All right. Now,
one of your favorites, Jody William Shatner, he's got a
new heavy metal album coming out.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Does she really?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
He's touched on rock and roll before Goodbye Everybody.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I've got everything that he does. It's that spoken word.
He's been doing that since the sixties.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Right, because that is his stick.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Now he's ninety five years old. He and he put
together a heavy metal band. They're going to appear at
riot Fest in Chicago next month. They're gonna be one
of the performers on stage, and then also coming out soon.
He's got the new album, the heavy metal album. It's
called what the blank is heavy Metal?

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Okay? Is there actual metal on it?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, because he put together all of the there's veteran
heavy metal drummers and guitar players and all that are
on the album with him.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Good Okay.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
I haven't heard any of it yet to see if
he's going to talk through it like he does everything else.
Of course, have you watched him though, It's like he
and Dick Van Dyke, nothing stopping them. I mean, it's
they are just as when you look at William Shatner,
he's not walking around like a ninety five year old.
I don't know how he does it whereas Jeans came
from or whatever.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
But that's what we talked about in the Hollywood Outsider
today about Julie Andrews saying no thank you to being
in Princess Diaries three, but that she, you know, is
basically retired.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
She's ninety years old, but she still does work.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
She does voice work narration for Bridgerton on Netflix. Sometimes
that's her Oh it's because she says she does that
to just keep her brain healthy, to keep herself in
the game. But she kind of wants to roll like
she's retired. So that's what Shattner's doing, just with heavy metal.
I guess, keeping his brain in the game.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah. I think he's made music and pretty much all
the genres too. I mean, he's always had something new
going on. Moving on to lend Manuelma Randa. Now you
know the Disney movie in Canto, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Oh gosh, of course.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
He says he thinks they could turn that into a
great Broadway play, a beautiful stage show. So he says
he would like that opportunity down the road. He said,
you know, because the movie itself, if you remember, it's
a it's a house that's a kind of a magical
house that they live in. It can do all kinds
of stuff, and he says that on Broadway would be awesome.
But he said he's got too much on his plate

(06:28):
right now, so he's hoping the Disney folks will let
him do that once he clears things up, a few
good things on what he's doing there.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Glenn Manuel Miranda walks in and pitches you that you
take it seriously.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
You just do. And he knows he has that.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
You know the movie from it the seventies or eighties
called Warriors.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
He don't.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
He's turned that one into a Broadway play. It's that's
what he's been working on right now, and that's going
to be on Broadway next year. So you ever, whenever
Lynn does stuff, do you ever listen to the music
and think this, I hear his his style. I guess so, yes,
I hear some of the songs he does. It's like, well,
I could hear it. I could hear this in Hamilton.
All right, this has got the same kind of rhythm

(07:07):
as Hamilton.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
I always thought after Hamilton he was going to do
something else. He could have done a series of those,
like take a public figure and.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Do another one. I was, you know whatever, Adams or
I don't know, but I just thought.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I guess it would have to strike him in the
right way because the duel and dine and the duel
and all that. I mean, you've got you have built
in drama around the Real Life of Alexander Hamilton. I
think that's the reason that that it works so well.
But it's not right, not that he's the only one.
If anybody could do it, Lin Manuel Miranda can do it.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
I thought it was going to be that, but then
he did other things so not predictable Lincoln.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
That's why I just said Lincoln would be great. Right,
there's a lot of drama there.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, we know how it ends, okay, just like Hamilton.
Similar Moving on, Vanessa Williams, this is a really cool story.
You know. One of her biggest hits was Save the
Best for Last, Yeah, number one for five weeks. She
wasn't the one who was supposed to record that song,
of course, she said she was the third person offered

(08:11):
that song.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Was Whitney offered it.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
No, Whitney wasn't. It was first offered to Bette Midler.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Oh I can hear about doing that?

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, that sounds like a Bete Midler song.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
And then after Bett passed on it, they offered it
to Barbara streisand oh, of course, and she also passed
on it. Both of both Bet and Barbara were coming
off of nineteen ninety one movies that were like Oscar nominees,
Betead for the Boys, and yeah barbera head Prince of Tides.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
That movie rocked my soul. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
What's really funny is in an interview where she was
talking about how she was the third one on the
list for that, she said there was another song that
year that she wanted to record but nobody ever offered
it to her, and that was Amy Grant's baby Baby Why.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yeah, Okay, So.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
For context for anybody doesn't know, that song was nineteen
ninety two, So that's been a minute.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
It sounds like one of those Disney songs to me,
but it's because it's Vanessa singing.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
She did the Disney song. Yeah, Colors the Wind, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
That one from Pocahontas. Yes, before he was David Bowie.
You know what his real name was.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
I feel like I've heard it, but I don't know it.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Davy Jones. Oh yeah, and he wound up changing his
name because there was a Davy Jones already in the Monkeys.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
It was for sure Davy. Yeah, because not everybody who's
David is Davy.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
He was. His was spelled d A v i E.
Davy Jones. I think was d A V e Y Monkeys.
But before he switched names to David Bowie, he recorded
a whole album and they're going to be releasing that
album next month called even though it's his name is
Davy Jones, it's called David Bowie the Shell Tell Me Recordings.
Here's one of the songs from it, I Want Your Love.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Because that's before he really developed his own style that
sounds like that nineteen sixties what they called Mersey beat.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, you know, so featuring a guitarist you might know
named Jimmy Page. Oh really okay Zeppelin Wow, okay. And
our final story today is for miss Dolly Parton. Now
we know her Broadway Music Hall is going to be
debuting next year, but next month she's going to be
opening up her Nashville hotel, the song Teller Hotel. It's

(10:27):
opening September. It's going to have two venues in it.
One of them is called Joe Lene's Man.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
I want to go there.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
And it's also going to have a museum, the Dolly's
Life of Many Colors museum. Nice.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, I want to go stay there.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
I mean I think over the place.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
And now we stayed at the Dolly Parton Resort Dream
dream Moore in right the Smoky and it's just like that,
you feel like Dolly just gives you a Hugolet you
say there was.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
A Dolly hologram.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, there is a well there's a museum there also
on you know, at Dollywood and then the and I
think it's a reconstruction of the cabin that she grew
up in. I don't know if it's the exact cabin
or if it's a reconstructions.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
On the property.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
But inside the museum with all these outfits that she wore,
I mean, it's a Dolly museum. It just happens to
be at Dollywood, which makes sense. But yeah, towards the
end of the tour, walking through and it's like there
she is on stage in hologram format. It was crazy. Yeah,
it was crazy.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
If you I mean, I don't know what you do
if you're opening your own place in Nashville. Do you
move that stuff there? You got to keep some of
it at Dollywood.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
She got two museums. She can, you know, switch things
back and forth.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
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