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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm Buzzsnight, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast,
and welcome to another look at this week in music history.
We are going to tackle the week of August eighteenth
to the twenty fourth, and nobody better to tackle it
than Harry Jacob's over at the Music History Desk.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, Harry, Buzz, Happy to be here for another week,
A great week, A lot going on. We begin on
the eighteenth and nineteen sixty nine, the final day of
Woodstock happened and Jimmy Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner,
a legendary version, a rippin'.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Version of the Star Spangled Banner.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And you know that was I don't remember hearing anyone
play it on guitar before that.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Prior to that, you at.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
All, no, And that was it was a bit, you know, audacious. Yeah,
it was considered audacious for him to do that. But
I guarantee those that had their senses at the moment,
that's a debatable question for all that were there having
their senses, but those that had their senses at that
(01:10):
moment certainly had those senses really firing out all cylinders
witnessing that.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I can't imagine that a lot of people copied Jimmy
in a lot of different ways, but the star Spangled
banner is one you know we saw. I think I
just saw the click come up on Instagram of Steve
Vai doing it at one point. But you know a
bunch of other guys have done it, and it's haunting
(01:39):
and it's great, and it really is, you know, an
attention getter. When you hear it, it's immediately recognizable. On
August eighteenth, nineteen seventy seven, the Police began recording Outlandis
Dear More if I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That right, But that's pretty good. Roxanne was on that album.
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
What's funny thinking about that, then, what were the Police considered,
especially in the early days of their album releases. What
genre did people kind of consider them this?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You know, this was this is an interesting I think
this was around the time of punk or new wave.
I think probably more new wave than traditional rock, right. Yeah,
it was a different, different sound for sure, but great.
I remember being you know, I wasn't we talked about this.
(02:46):
I wasn't really a sex pistols punk kind of person,
but this, you know, it straddled that line.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I think, Yeah, it was definitely considered new wave and
then just to think about it, you know, now, to
this day you hear a song like Roxanne either on
a classic hits station, a classic rock station, adult contemporary station.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, it's pretty funny, I can think about it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
My favorite version of Roxanne, maybe one of yours as well,
is in the movie forty eight Hours. We're Reggie Hammond
sitting in his cell and Jack Kates played by Nick
Nolty goes in to get him, and he's got the
walkman on and he's screaming, Roxanne, you don't have to
put I wish I could do. I wish I could
do the high voice. But that's my favorite rendition of Roxanne.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That's a good one. That's good. I remember that. Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Nineteen ninety two, Kurt Cobaine Courtney Love became parents to
Francis Bean Cobain.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And I have not heard.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't know if you have the well being of
Francis being cobained.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Do you know anything about her to this day? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
If she had the same struggles that her folk had,
I don't My knowledge of really, of all three of them,
is very limited.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Was she someone that struggled to I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
All I know is she you know, I say, thankfully
has been kept out of the limelight in.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Years, right. And her mother. I remember seeing her mother.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
At an event somewhere and being shocked at how tall
she was. I had no idea. It's one of those
things that you know, it catches you off guard. I remember,
you know, probably wearing high heels or something. But she
maybe five ten or five eleven or something. But I remember,
for whatever reason, thinking she appears to be tower M
(04:44):
six's one. And I remember her walking by me thinking,
oh she's she's that's a lot of women. Well yeah,
that's my memory of Courtney Love, I sorrow and I
and I saw her perform that night and it was,
you know, ridiculousness. August nineteenth, nineteen eighty, John Lennon began
recording his final album, Double Fantasy. This was such a
(05:07):
great album, you know, watching the Wheels and Watching the
Wheels is.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
One of my favorite same same here, and the great
Jack Douglas, the producer who was on a past taking
a Walk, did brilliant work with John and Yoko and
the rest of the session players. But just the beauty
of that old final album and then you know the
(05:32):
sadness that obviously we would all you know, live.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Through to this day. Yeah. Nineteen sixty four, another Beetle story.
Dovetelling on that one. They began their.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
First tour of the US and their first date was
San Francisco, all right in nineteen sixty four. In seventy eight,
I got to do this because you know, I'm a
I'm a sap for the sappy music.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh don't start with me now.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
The Commodore is hit number one with once twice, three
times a Lady Harry.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, I like that one.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I like brick House, I like eat, I'm easy like
Sunday mornings.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And I'm just easing.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Look, the Convodores were of a different flavor. He'll kilk yeah,
but uh and you gotta you gotta.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Love, oh yeah, oh yeah. And he still plays those
songs when he's playing live. He he plays those songs still.
He still embraces his Commodore history.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Never had the privilege to meet him, but those who
have say he's just the way you would expect.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
He's just wonderful. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
August twentieth, nineteen sixty nine. Another another Beatles story. Here,
Buz Surprise Surprise Beatles recorded together for the last time
in the studio in sixty nine, and they're.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Probably like, yeah, that's it, We're done. That's it. Yeah,
that's sad.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Nineteen eighty three, the Police top the Billboard charts. We go,
we go again, back to the Police, with every breath
you take.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
More of that new wave of music.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I remember being in Massachusetts somewhere and seeing an ad,
maybe a full pager from the Massachusetts State Police, an
anti dui ad with a state trooper and a state
police car, and that song kind of being quoted in
(07:25):
the ad, Oh every breath you take, every step you take.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Will be watching you. Pretty brilliant. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Nineteen ninety one, Metallica released the black album Legendary antwer samman.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Uh speaking of brilliant Yeah, absolutely God.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
August twenty first, nineteen sixty one, Patsy Climb Recordy Crazy
written by Willie Nelson.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
What a song had gotten that I had forgotten?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Written by Willie you know.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Really two great songs on this day on August twenty fourth,
She got Crazy and then you got nineteen seventy nine,
speaking a new wave, Gary Newman's Cars.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
That's a catchy that's a catchy number. It sure is
did the epitome of a one hit wonder, but a
great song. Surprised to my knowledge.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That it has never been used in a car commercial
that you know, I maybe it has and I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Know, but I'm listen, I'm going I'm going down the
Google rabbit hole in real time here to find out
whether it was or wasn't used. I have a tough
time believing that you can explain music licensing rights while
I'm doing this and why may not have been used?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, music licensing rights are the lifeblood for you know, artists, publishers,
everybody else who has.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Their hands on some music.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And ultimately, when commercials are made radio commercials, TV commercials,
some genius on Madison Avenue says, Oh, wouldn't that be
neat if cars is used for this fill in the blank,
you know, automaker commercial. I don't recall seeing it, but
(09:22):
maybe it has. And I also wonder, you know, there's
some of these lost eighties tours that are out there
these days. I wonder if Gary Newman is still out
occasionally showing up at a lost eighties tour of some type.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But anyway, I gave you enough time to look. Did
you find anything I.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Did, And what do you know, what else is he
playing besides cars on one of those tours. But yeah,
so the answer to that is we did not have
accurate information. It was used in a car commercial, in
a Nissan commercial in two thousand and two, okay, right,
and was also used in a Diehard battery commercial.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Okay as well? Yeah it was you, I mean it would.
It's a it's a natural kind of thing to be used.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
But two thousand and two a Nissan Ultima commercial and
then Diehard batteries.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
We so corrected, Harry, Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It was Gary Newman actually performed the song using the
horns of twenty four cars powered by a single battery.
That crazy Gary Neuman did it for that commercial.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That is the epitome of a gearhead. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
August twenty second, nineteen sixty six, the Beatles played their
last concert at Shay Stadium. I think I've asked you
this before, but you never saw them, right?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I never saw them? Brothers did. My brothers went to Shay,
Not to that one. They went to the another one,
previous one. All thirty two minutes or whatever of that performance.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Crazy yep. In nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
August twenty second, Elton John made his US debut, playing
at what famous Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Club, the iconic Troubadour Troubadour.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
He and Billy Joel ended up playing the same venue,
Billy after Elton. Pretty cool again, that competition between Elton
and Billy, That's kind of where.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It started, right there at the beginning for both of them.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
August twenty third, nineteen ninety, Tonad O'Connor refused to perform
on Saturday Night Live because of the national mandator or
the mandatory national anthem.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I's see that's Saturday Live. Are you aware of that?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
No, not at all, but just yesterday just because we
had seen it previously, and anybody who hasn't seen it.
If you want to see one of the sweetest performances
ever on Saturday Night Live, and it's one of the
sweetest that includes Sinead O'Connor, and normally we don't associate
sweet with this person Van Morrison, look for the version
(11:59):
of have I Told You Lately that I Love You
that Van does with Shanade. It's heartwarming and heartfelt and
everything about the heart that you could ever imagine, because
she's a nervous wreck. You could tell she is so
uncomfortable in her skin at that performance, and Van makes
(12:20):
her comfortable. He kind of brings her over and sort
of puts his arm around her, and then she starts smiling.
It is one of the most authentic, beautiful and sweet
performances of a great song.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You know, I've got to go back and look for that.
You know, I do love that song, and you know
I'm a fan of his. I you know, I didn't
really follow her, but I'll check that out.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's wonderful. It's a good endorsement.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
In nineteen seventy four, John Lennon testified in court that
the US government was tapping his phone.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You think this was conspiracy stuff or you think it
was real?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Oh, I think it was real. But what I do
think is it could have been a hint of added
paranoia that was just paranoia. But I think it was real.
I think it was clear the you know, enemies list
and those that are spoken out, So I think I
(13:20):
think it was real, but maybe tamped up by you know,
it's a added paranoia.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Post Nick Listen, a lot of weed and post Nixon, right,
and a lot of that stuff was going on. You know,
when Nixon was was still in power, So that's right.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah there.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
August twenty fourth, nineteen seventy five, Queen began recording Bohemian Rhapsody.
You ever seen anything on the recording of this, You
ever see how I have done how they did it.
It's it's pretty fantastic and it's you know, it's outlined
pretty well in the Queen movie that Robby Malloch played
Freddie Mercury.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
But it was an interesting process.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That song is I guess operatic maybe the best way
to know to describe it.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Sure, I would describe it that way, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But an interesting and complex and very different song from
rock radio YEP nineteen seventy five. Nineteen ninety one, Pearl
Jam released their album ten great great.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Record, Oh my God, are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And I don't think in that moment, I mean, we
knew it was great, But when you reflect on it, like,
you know, all the years later, and certainly the continued
relevancy of the band and Eddie sure pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Nineteen eighty one, Mark David Chapman was sentenced twenty years
to life.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
For murdering John Lennon.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I don't even like I don't even like doing the
story about it, right, just reading it, It's just it's
such an ick total.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, it's impossible to walk by that area in Central
Park and the Dakota without thinking about that and thinking
about John's It is hard to.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Hear that and read that. Yep.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I feel a sense of guilt for leaving us on
this week with that as our final item. I wasn't
even thinking right, I would would I would have put
it somewhere else, or I would have skipped it, quite honestly.
So for those of you listening, I'm sorry to leave
you on.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
On a sad note. But it is what it is.
It happened, and that is.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
This Week in Music History for the weekend in August
twenty fourth plus.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
All right, well, this week in music History covers the good,
the bad, the indifferent, and the tragic and the ugly,
so we got to cover it. So thank you Harry
Jacobs for another look at this week in music history,
and well thank you for listening to the Taking a
Walk podcast. We are part of the iHeart Podcast Network.
I'm Buzzsnight, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast,
and welcome to another look at this week in music history.
We are going to tackle the week of August eighteenth
to the twenty fourth, and nobody better to tackle it
than Harry Jacob's over at the Music History Desk.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, Harry, Buzz, Happy to be here for another week,
A great week, A lot going on. We begin on
the eighteenth and nineteen sixty nine, the final day of
Woodstock happened and Jimmy Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner,
a legendary version, a rippin'.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Version of the Star Spangled Banner.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And you know that was I don't remember hearing anyone
play it on guitar before that.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Prior to that, you at.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
All, no, And that was it was a bit, you know, audacious. Yeah,
it was considered audacious for him to do that. But
I guarantee those that had their senses at the moment,
that's a debatable question for all that were there having
their senses, but those that had their senses at that
(01:10):
moment certainly had those senses really firing out all cylinders
witnessing that.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I can't imagine that a lot of people copied Jimmy
in a lot of different ways, but the star Spangled
banner is one you know we saw. I think I
just saw the click come up on Instagram of Steve
Vai doing it at one point. But you know a
bunch of other guys have done it, and it's haunting
(01:39):
and it's great, and it really is, you know, an
attention getter. When you hear it, it's immediately recognizable. On
August eighteenth, nineteen seventy seven, the Police began recording Outlandis
Dear More if I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That right, But that's pretty good. Roxanne was on that album.
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
What's funny thinking about that, then, what were the Police considered,
especially in the early days of their album releases. What
genre did people kind of consider them this?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You know, this was this is an interesting I think
this was around the time of punk or new wave.
I think probably more new wave than traditional rock, right. Yeah,
it was a different, different sound for sure, but great.
I remember being you know, I wasn't we talked about this.
(02:46):
I wasn't really a sex pistols punk kind of person,
but this, you know, it straddled that line.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I think, Yeah, it was definitely considered new wave and
then just to think about it, you know, now, to
this day you hear a song like Roxanne either on
a classic hits station, a classic rock station, adult contemporary station.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, it's pretty funny, I can think about it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
My favorite version of Roxanne, maybe one of yours as well,
is in the movie forty eight Hours. We're Reggie Hammond
sitting in his cell and Jack Kates played by Nick
Nolty goes in to get him, and he's got the
walkman on and he's screaming, Roxanne, you don't have to
put I wish I could do. I wish I could
do the high voice. But that's my favorite rendition of Roxanne.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That's a good one. That's good. I remember that. Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Nineteen ninety two, Kurt Cobaine Courtney Love became parents to
Francis Bean Cobain.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And I have not heard.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't know if you have the well being of
Francis being cobained.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Do you know anything about her to this day? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
If she had the same struggles that her folk had,
I don't My knowledge of really, of all three of them,
is very limited.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Was she someone that struggled to I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
All I know is she you know, I say, thankfully
has been kept out of the limelight in.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Years, right. And her mother. I remember seeing her mother.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
At an event somewhere and being shocked at how tall
she was. I had no idea. It's one of those
things that you know, it catches you off guard. I remember,
you know, probably wearing high heels or something. But she
maybe five ten or five eleven or something. But I remember,
for whatever reason, thinking she appears to be tower M
(04:44):
six's one. And I remember her walking by me thinking,
oh she's she's that's a lot of women. Well yeah,
that's my memory of Courtney Love, I sorrow and I
and I saw her perform that night and it was,
you know, ridiculousness. August nineteenth, nineteen eighty, John Lennon began
recording his final album, Double Fantasy. This was such a
(05:07):
great album, you know, watching the Wheels and Watching the
Wheels is.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
One of my favorite same same here, and the great
Jack Douglas, the producer who was on a past taking
a Walk, did brilliant work with John and Yoko and
the rest of the session players. But just the beauty
of that old final album and then you know the
(05:32):
sadness that obviously we would all you know, live.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Through to this day. Yeah. Nineteen sixty four, another Beetle story.
Dovetelling on that one. They began their.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
First tour of the US and their first date was
San Francisco, all right in nineteen sixty four. In seventy eight,
I got to do this because you know, I'm a
I'm a sap for the sappy music.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh don't start with me now.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
The Commodore is hit number one with once twice, three
times a Lady Harry.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, I like that one.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I like brick House, I like eat, I'm easy like
Sunday mornings.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And I'm just easing.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Look, the Convodores were of a different flavor. He'll kilk yeah,
but uh and you gotta you gotta.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Love, oh yeah, oh yeah. And he still plays those
songs when he's playing live. He he plays those songs still.
He still embraces his Commodore history.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Never had the privilege to meet him, but those who
have say he's just the way you would expect.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
He's just wonderful. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
August twentieth, nineteen sixty nine. Another another Beatles story. Here,
Buz Surprise Surprise Beatles recorded together for the last time
in the studio in sixty nine, and they're.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Probably like, yeah, that's it, We're done. That's it. Yeah,
that's sad.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Nineteen eighty three, the Police top the Billboard charts. We go,
we go again, back to the Police, with every breath
you take.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
More of that new wave of music.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I remember being in Massachusetts somewhere and seeing an ad,
maybe a full pager from the Massachusetts State Police, an
anti dui ad with a state trooper and a state
police car, and that song kind of being quoted in
(07:25):
the ad, Oh every breath you take, every step you take.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Will be watching you. Pretty brilliant. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Nineteen ninety one, Metallica released the black album Legendary antwer samman.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Uh speaking of brilliant Yeah, absolutely God.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
August twenty first, nineteen sixty one, Patsy Climb Recordy Crazy
written by Willie Nelson.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
What a song had gotten that I had forgotten?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Written by Willie you know.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Really two great songs on this day on August twenty fourth,
She got Crazy and then you got nineteen seventy nine,
speaking a new wave, Gary Newman's Cars.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
That's a catchy that's a catchy number. It sure is
did the epitome of a one hit wonder, but a
great song. Surprised to my knowledge.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That it has never been used in a car commercial
that you know, I maybe it has and I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Know, but I'm listen, I'm going I'm going down the
Google rabbit hole in real time here to find out
whether it was or wasn't used. I have a tough
time believing that you can explain music licensing rights while
I'm doing this and why may not have been used?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, music licensing rights are the lifeblood for you know, artists, publishers,
everybody else who has.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Their hands on some music.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And ultimately, when commercials are made radio commercials, TV commercials,
some genius on Madison Avenue says, Oh, wouldn't that be
neat if cars is used for this fill in the blank,
you know, automaker commercial. I don't recall seeing it, but
(09:22):
maybe it has. And I also wonder, you know, there's
some of these lost eighties tours that are out there
these days. I wonder if Gary Newman is still out
occasionally showing up at a lost eighties tour of some type.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But anyway, I gave you enough time to look. Did
you find anything I.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Did, And what do you know, what else is he
playing besides cars on one of those tours. But yeah,
so the answer to that is we did not have
accurate information. It was used in a car commercial, in
a Nissan commercial in two thousand and two, okay, right,
and was also used in a Diehard battery commercial.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Okay as well? Yeah it was you, I mean it would.
It's a it's a natural kind of thing to be used.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
But two thousand and two a Nissan Ultima commercial and
then Diehard batteries.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
We so corrected, Harry, Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It was Gary Newman actually performed the song using the
horns of twenty four cars powered by a single battery.
That crazy Gary Neuman did it for that commercial.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That is the epitome of a gearhead. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
August twenty second, nineteen sixty six, the Beatles played their
last concert at Shay Stadium. I think I've asked you
this before, but you never saw them, right?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I never saw them? Brothers did. My brothers went to Shay,
Not to that one. They went to the another one,
previous one. All thirty two minutes or whatever of that performance.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Crazy yep. In nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
August twenty second, Elton John made his US debut, playing
at what famous Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Club, the iconic Troubadour Troubadour.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
He and Billy Joel ended up playing the same venue,
Billy after Elton. Pretty cool again, that competition between Elton
and Billy, That's kind of where.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It started, right there at the beginning for both of them.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
August twenty third, nineteen ninety, Tonad O'Connor refused to perform
on Saturday Night Live because of the national mandator or
the mandatory national anthem.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I's see that's Saturday Live. Are you aware of that?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
No, not at all, but just yesterday just because we
had seen it previously, and anybody who hasn't seen it.
If you want to see one of the sweetest performances
ever on Saturday Night Live, and it's one of the
sweetest that includes Sinead O'Connor, and normally we don't associate
sweet with this person Van Morrison, look for the version
(11:59):
of have I Told You Lately that I Love You
that Van does with Shanade. It's heartwarming and heartfelt and
everything about the heart that you could ever imagine, because
she's a nervous wreck. You could tell she is so
uncomfortable in her skin at that performance, and Van makes
(12:20):
her comfortable. He kind of brings her over and sort
of puts his arm around her, and then she starts smiling.
It is one of the most authentic, beautiful and sweet
performances of a great song.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You know, I've got to go back and look for that.
You know, I do love that song, and you know
I'm a fan of his. I you know, I didn't
really follow her, but I'll check that out.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's wonderful. It's a good endorsement.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
In nineteen seventy four, John Lennon testified in court that
the US government was tapping his phone.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You think this was conspiracy stuff or you think it
was real?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Oh, I think it was real. But what I do
think is it could have been a hint of added
paranoia that was just paranoia. But I think it was real.
I think it was clear the you know, enemies list
and those that are spoken out, So I think I
(13:20):
think it was real, but maybe tamped up by you know,
it's a added paranoia.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Post Nick Listen, a lot of weed and post Nixon, right,
and a lot of that stuff was going on. You know,
when Nixon was was still in power, So that's right.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah there.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
August twenty fourth, nineteen seventy five, Queen began recording Bohemian Rhapsody.
You ever seen anything on the recording of this, You
ever see how I have done how they did it.
It's it's pretty fantastic and it's you know, it's outlined
pretty well in the Queen movie that Robby Malloch played
Freddie Mercury.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
But it was an interesting process.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That song is I guess operatic maybe the best way
to know to describe it.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Sure, I would describe it that way, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But an interesting and complex and very different song from
rock radio YEP nineteen seventy five. Nineteen ninety one, Pearl
Jam released their album ten great great.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Record, Oh my God, are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And I don't think in that moment, I mean, we
knew it was great, But when you reflect on it, like,
you know, all the years later, and certainly the continued
relevancy of the band and Eddie sure pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Nineteen eighty one, Mark David Chapman was sentenced twenty years
to life.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
For murdering John Lennon.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I don't even like I don't even like doing the
story about it, right, just reading it, It's just it's
such an ick total.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, it's impossible to walk by that area in Central
Park and the Dakota without thinking about that and thinking
about John's It is hard to.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Hear that and read that. Yep.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I feel a sense of guilt for leaving us on
this week with that as our final item. I wasn't
even thinking right, I would would I would have put
it somewhere else, or I would have skipped it, quite honestly.
So for those of you listening, I'm sorry to leave
you on.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
On a sad note. But it is what it is.
It happened, and that is.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
This Week in Music History for the weekend in August
twenty fourth plus.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
All right, well, this week in music History covers the good,
the bad, the indifferent, and the tragic and the ugly,
so we got to cover it. So thank you Harry
Jacobs for another look at this week in music history,
and well thank you for listening to the Taking a
Walk podcast. We are part of the iHeart Podcast Network.
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