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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Buzzsnight, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast, and
welcome to another edition of This Week in Music History.
It's for the week of June the second, and we
go over to the music history desk to the Maestro
of Mayhem, the master of music history.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello, Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It was a pleasure to be here for another week,
and a fairly interesting week, a busy week in terms
of music history. So I'm glad to be here. But
you know, it's never a week without some Beatles news.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Bring it on. We're gonna start on June second.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We talked about this last week that Sergeant Pepper's was
rushed by EMI for release in the UK. Well, the
following week it was officially released, you know, in the US,
and that was, you know, the beginning of this monster album.
Unbelievable artwork, unbelievable music. Who and I talked by the way,
(01:04):
about the White Album last week, which came out after
Sergeant Peppers, and think about the you know, you had
an observation the cover work on Sergeant Peppers was amazing.
You you said to me, it caught me off guard. Well,
think about the White album and how you know how
amazing that cover was and I had to think about.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It for a minute. I thought it was there something in.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Boston that that I didn't see.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I feel like they poured so much work creatively into
the artwork of Sergeant Pepper that then the White Album.
They were like, Okay, we're the Beatles, we can do
exactly what we want, and we're gonna call it the
White Album.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Let's get it out there, brilliant. If you're the Beatles,
you can get away with it.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We don't care. We did enough on Sergeant Peppers. Here's
the new album. It's the White Album. Deal with it,
take it or leave it. June second, two thousand and two,
Eminem reached number one with The Eminem Show in the
US and the UK, and this kind of began his
dominance in hip hop.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Do you like Eminem? I definitely some of his music,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I will tell you I was once in a room
with him.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh how long ago was that? Oh this was back
in the early.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Was around It was mid two thousands when I used
to have to you remember, go to year old Stomping Grounds, Detroit,
Michigan for a lot of work business work with our
radio stations. I stayed at my favorite spot there the
Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, Michigan. And I remember the workers
(02:50):
there were not supposed to do this, but one of
the workers came over to me and went, just take
a look over there in the corner, Look who's over there?
And there was mister M and M yeah with us,
with a couple of other people, kind of shrouded in mystery.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah. I was back in his drug days too, right, probably. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
June third, nineteen sixty seven, Aretha Franklin's Respect, which was
originally covered or not covered, but it was originally Otis
Redding song. It was her cover of Otis's song from
nineteen sixty five, and it was a.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Number one song here in the US.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
An anthem, a rally cry for women.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Just a great song. You know.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I defy you to not turn it up when it
comes on the radio, right.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Oh yeah? I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And Areta my God with a voice Got Crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Nineteen sixty seven, The Doors released a radio friendly version
of Light My Fire. Remember the original was over six
minutes long, and they cut it down at two minutes
and fifty two seconds so that the radio station's top
forty radio.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
There wasn't really any album rock at that point. In time.
It was you know, AM radio for the most part,
that's where.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
People and you know, we never would play the edited versions,
makes makes sense, you played the long We always played
whatever it was, whatever artists had had created the shorter,
you know, top forty version right on our radio stations.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We never played those. We played the long one.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Did we play the the unedited version? I'm sure we
did the unedited version of Jet Airliner by Steve Miller
with shit in it.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, you know, here's what we did.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And then and then eventually, you know, as we know
how love them personally, but when the lawyers get a
hold of anything, that's pretty much like, no, you can't
do why because you can't.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So eventually that changed, right. You know, there was one
you probably never thought about this, maybe you did.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
There's one of those things with a horrible word in
it that rock radio played over and over again, the
live version of Leonard Skynyrd's Give Me Three Steps. It's
about a guy that gets caught with not his girlfriend
and there's gonna be a fight Ronnie van Zant and
whoever this guy is, and Ronnie van Zant in the
live version says, man, I ain't gonna fight him over
(05:32):
his blank can't say the word. I wouldn't utter the
word here. It's a word that women hate. If you
go back and listen to Gimme Three Steps. How did
that song, the live version of that song, ever get played?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Someone was probably not? I mean, you're aware of that, right,
did you know? I'm really not? Honestly, Go listen to the.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Live version of it. Okay, the live version, and you
hear Vans and said say that line.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I don't know what caused me to think about that,
but I was listening to it one day. I thought,
did he just say what I thought? He said?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Every rock station in America played that one more for
the road from that album.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Wow. I didn't realize that. All right, I'm going to
check it out.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Anyway, the radio edit. I'm surprised that never got edited down.
In twenty nineteen, on June third, Forbes declared Jay Z
the first rapper to become a billionaire with three hundred
and ten million from.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
His steak in that champagne that he had. I didn't,
I didn't. I didn't realize he had a steak in champagne.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Sorry, a lot of different businesses. I guess, so that's
one of them.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
This one's interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
In twenty twenty three, Lauren Hill stage a surprise Fuji's
reunion with why Cliff John in Philadelphia. You and I
have a connection to Lauren Hill before she was really
Lauren Hill.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I mean she was Lauren Hill. But you think about
this for a second.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You remember Lauren Hill from from Boston. No, okay, You
and I in nineteen ninety five went to an event.
Record companies would routinely create showcases, right, so they like
in this case, Columbia Records. I think Rocky Del Balzo
(07:31):
or somebody arranged a showcase of multiple artists at Mama
Kin the Aerosmith Club.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
You and I.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Went to that show and we heard Lauren Hill and
the Fugis play Killing Me Softly for the first time,
and we looked at each other as that I remember
this like it was yesterday. We heard Killing Me Softly
two years before I think it came out.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
This is now coming back to me as you're telling
me this story. Somehow you've unlocked right the Swiss cheese
up here on the left side of my head. Yeah,
I do recall it, and I wonder if it was
Rocky or the person who I just recently interviewed.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
The episode probably will be close to be out when
by the time this comes out Paul Rappaport, so I'm
sure he would know about that as well.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, think about it.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
We were at Mama Can the Arrolsmith Club on what's
that street behind Fenway Park is at Lansdown Street. Yeah,
where the rumor is that the late great Patrick Murray
from the Charles Lacrderre Show got a speeding ticket going
seventy five miles an hour down that street. Long Live
the memory of Patrick Murray. Those of you from Boston
(08:54):
will get it. How ridiculous seventy five miles an hour
would be down Lansdown Street.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But that's where we heard me softly good one, Good One.
It's coming back to me, all right.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
June fourth, this is the next three and this is
the last for the week. There's a Springsteen connection. We're
both Springsteen fans. But this is what popped up during
this week. Nineteen eighty four, June fourth was the release
of Born in the USA. That song was co opted
by Ronald Reagan. Was a big deal because people, you know,
(09:27):
pump their fists when they hear, you know, you go
even now you go see Bruce and he plays Born
in the USA and everyone's pumping their hands and holding
up their flags.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The song was about as anti American as it gets. Yeah,
totally misunderstood.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
You know, people don't get it, so no I but
that changed the world for Bruce in nineteen eighty four,
that album, Now.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I remember, I remember all of that time with that
release most vividly due to my wonderful time that I
adored while working in New York at WNWFM, Because you
want to see a way for a radio station to
(10:11):
quote unquote own that album when it came out, that
was any w at its at its greatest at that moment.
And you know Bruce was a was a big fan
of the radio stations.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, yeah, I lived in the in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So two years later, after the Born in the USA
tour was over, Bruce ended up connecting on that Amnesty
International tour and there are a whole bunch of people
that you know that were there for part of it,
YouTube and Sting and Tracy Chapman and Peter Gabriel. If
you remember that tour, Bruce recorded a little EP that
got played along, but I remember it really helped Tracy Chapman,
(10:52):
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And then in two thousand, Bruce.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Released American Skin forty one shots and had a years
on the New York City concert the dvd a very
moving song, you know, about shooting of an unarmed young man.
The message from you know, the mother to the son,
you know, keep your hands where they can see him,
(11:17):
don't do anything, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It's just it is.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
There you go with this week and music for the
first week in June.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well good and ending it in a Springsteen fury. I
like that as well.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, so well, Thank you Harry Jacobs for another look
at this week in music history. And it was quite
a week the week of June the second, and we
love talking about it. And thanks for listening to the
Taking a Walk podcast. We are available wherever you get
your podcasts.
Buzzsnight, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast, and
welcome to another edition of This Week in Music History.
It's for the week of June the second, and we
go over to the music history desk to the Maestro
of Mayhem, the master of music history.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello, Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It was a pleasure to be here for another week,
and a fairly interesting week, a busy week in terms
of music history. So I'm glad to be here. But
you know, it's never a week without some Beatles news.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Bring it on. We're gonna start on June second.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We talked about this last week that Sergeant Pepper's was
rushed by EMI for release in the UK. Well, the
following week it was officially released, you know, in the US,
and that was, you know, the beginning of this monster album.
Unbelievable artwork, unbelievable music. Who and I talked by the way,
(01:04):
about the White Album last week, which came out after
Sergeant Peppers, and think about the you know, you had
an observation the cover work on Sergeant Peppers was amazing.
You you said to me, it caught me off guard. Well,
think about the White album and how you know how
amazing that cover was and I had to think about.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It for a minute. I thought it was there something in.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Boston that that I didn't see.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I feel like they poured so much work creatively into
the artwork of Sergeant Pepper that then the White Album.
They were like, Okay, we're the Beatles, we can do
exactly what we want, and we're gonna call it the
White Album.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Let's get it out there, brilliant. If you're the Beatles,
you can get away with it.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We don't care. We did enough on Sergeant Peppers. Here's
the new album. It's the White Album. Deal with it,
take it or leave it. June second, two thousand and two,
Eminem reached number one with The Eminem Show in the
US and the UK, and this kind of began his
dominance in hip hop.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Do you like Eminem? I definitely some of his music,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I will tell you I was once in a room
with him.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh how long ago was that? Oh this was back
in the early.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Was around It was mid two thousands when I used
to have to you remember, go to year old Stomping Grounds, Detroit,
Michigan for a lot of work business work with our
radio stations. I stayed at my favorite spot there the
Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, Michigan. And I remember the workers
(02:50):
there were not supposed to do this, but one of
the workers came over to me and went, just take
a look over there in the corner, Look who's over there?
And there was mister M and M yeah with us,
with a couple of other people, kind of shrouded in mystery.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah. I was back in his drug days too, right, probably. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
June third, nineteen sixty seven, Aretha Franklin's Respect, which was
originally covered or not covered, but it was originally Otis
Redding song. It was her cover of Otis's song from
nineteen sixty five, and it was a.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Number one song here in the US.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
An anthem, a rally cry for women.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Just a great song. You know.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I defy you to not turn it up when it
comes on the radio, right.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Oh yeah? I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And Areta my God with a voice Got Crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Nineteen sixty seven, The Doors released a radio friendly version
of Light My Fire. Remember the original was over six
minutes long, and they cut it down at two minutes
and fifty two seconds so that the radio station's top
forty radio.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
There wasn't really any album rock at that point. In time.
It was you know, AM radio for the most part,
that's where.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
People and you know, we never would play the edited versions,
makes makes sense, you played the long We always played
whatever it was, whatever artists had had created the shorter,
you know, top forty version right on our radio stations.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We never played those. We played the long one.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Did we play the the unedited version? I'm sure we
did the unedited version of Jet Airliner by Steve Miller
with shit in it.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, you know, here's what we did.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And then and then eventually, you know, as we know
how love them personally, but when the lawyers get a
hold of anything, that's pretty much like, no, you can't
do why because you can't.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So eventually that changed, right. You know, there was one
you probably never thought about this, maybe you did.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
There's one of those things with a horrible word in
it that rock radio played over and over again, the
live version of Leonard Skynyrd's Give Me Three Steps. It's
about a guy that gets caught with not his girlfriend
and there's gonna be a fight Ronnie van Zant and
whoever this guy is, and Ronnie van Zant in the
live version says, man, I ain't gonna fight him over
(05:32):
his blank can't say the word. I wouldn't utter the
word here. It's a word that women hate. If you
go back and listen to Gimme Three Steps. How did
that song, the live version of that song, ever get played?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Someone was probably not? I mean, you're aware of that, right,
did you know? I'm really not? Honestly, Go listen to the.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Live version of it. Okay, the live version, and you
hear Vans and said say that line.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I don't know what caused me to think about that,
but I was listening to it one day. I thought,
did he just say what I thought? He said?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Every rock station in America played that one more for
the road from that album.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Wow. I didn't realize that. All right, I'm going to
check it out.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Anyway, the radio edit. I'm surprised that never got edited down.
In twenty nineteen, on June third, Forbes declared Jay Z
the first rapper to become a billionaire with three hundred
and ten million from.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
His steak in that champagne that he had. I didn't,
I didn't. I didn't realize he had a steak in champagne.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Sorry, a lot of different businesses. I guess, so that's
one of them.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
This one's interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
In twenty twenty three, Lauren Hill stage a surprise Fuji's
reunion with why Cliff John in Philadelphia. You and I
have a connection to Lauren Hill before she was really
Lauren Hill.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I mean she was Lauren Hill. But you think about
this for a second.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You remember Lauren Hill from from Boston. No, okay, You
and I in nineteen ninety five went to an event.
Record companies would routinely create showcases, right, so they like
in this case, Columbia Records. I think Rocky Del Balzo
(07:31):
or somebody arranged a showcase of multiple artists at Mama
Kin the Aerosmith Club.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
You and I.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Went to that show and we heard Lauren Hill and
the Fugis play Killing Me Softly for the first time,
and we looked at each other as that I remember
this like it was yesterday. We heard Killing Me Softly
two years before I think it came out.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
This is now coming back to me as you're telling
me this story. Somehow you've unlocked right the Swiss cheese
up here on the left side of my head. Yeah,
I do recall it, and I wonder if it was
Rocky or the person who I just recently interviewed.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
The episode probably will be close to be out when
by the time this comes out Paul Rappaport, so I'm
sure he would know about that as well.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, think about it.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
We were at Mama Can the Arrolsmith Club on what's
that street behind Fenway Park is at Lansdown Street. Yeah,
where the rumor is that the late great Patrick Murray
from the Charles Lacrderre Show got a speeding ticket going
seventy five miles an hour down that street. Long Live
the memory of Patrick Murray. Those of you from Boston
(08:54):
will get it. How ridiculous seventy five miles an hour
would be down Lansdown Street.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But that's where we heard me softly good one, Good One.
It's coming back to me, all right.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
June fourth, this is the next three and this is
the last for the week. There's a Springsteen connection. We're
both Springsteen fans. But this is what popped up during
this week. Nineteen eighty four, June fourth was the release
of Born in the USA. That song was co opted
by Ronald Reagan. Was a big deal because people, you know,
(09:27):
pump their fists when they hear, you know, you go
even now you go see Bruce and he plays Born
in the USA and everyone's pumping their hands and holding
up their flags.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The song was about as anti American as it gets. Yeah,
totally misunderstood.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
You know, people don't get it, so no I but
that changed the world for Bruce in nineteen eighty four,
that album, Now.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I remember, I remember all of that time with that
release most vividly due to my wonderful time that I
adored while working in New York at WNWFM, Because you
want to see a way for a radio station to
(10:11):
quote unquote own that album when it came out, that
was any w at its at its greatest at that moment.
And you know Bruce was a was a big fan
of the radio stations.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, yeah, I lived in the in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So two years later, after the Born in the USA
tour was over, Bruce ended up connecting on that Amnesty
International tour and there are a whole bunch of people
that you know that were there for part of it,
YouTube and Sting and Tracy Chapman and Peter Gabriel. If
you remember that tour, Bruce recorded a little EP that
got played along, but I remember it really helped Tracy Chapman,
(10:52):
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And then in two thousand, Bruce.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Released American Skin forty one shots and had a years
on the New York City concert the dvd a very
moving song, you know, about shooting of an unarmed young man.
The message from you know, the mother to the son,
you know, keep your hands where they can see him,
(11:17):
don't do anything, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It's just it is.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
There you go with this week and music for the
first week in June.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well good and ending it in a Springsteen fury. I
like that as well.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, so well, Thank you Harry Jacobs for another look
at this week in music history. And it was quite
a week the week of June the second, and we
love talking about it. And thanks for listening to the
Taking a Walk podcast. We are available wherever you get
your podcasts.
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