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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Buzz night here and welcome to the Take in a
Walk podcast, another episode of This Week in Music History.
And he likes the big build up, so I'm going
to give him the big build up. He is the
Master of Mayhem, the maestro of music, all things, all knowing,
all seeing. Harry Jacobs, Welcome to This Week in Music
History for the week of September the twenty ninth through
(00:25):
October the fifth. Is that better than the last episode intro?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I really couldn't ask for anything more at this point.
I'm just I'm just glad to be here, Buss. As
the ballplayers say after their game, I'm just glad to
be part of the team.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That's awesome. You're satisfied.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Good Week, September twenty ninth through the fifth of October.
A lot of stuff going on. Nineteen fifty six. On
September twenty ninth, Bill Haley and the Comments became the
first rock act to tour Australia. The big deal that
was His band was thought to kind of be the
first of the real rock bands.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Right yeah. Can you imagine and seeing what touring would
have been like for them back in that day, especially
going as far as Australia, I can only I was
envisioning how hard it is now for you know, anybody
to travel like that, and then thinking back there with
a band and equipment and such a long distance. I
(01:21):
just it kind of makes me chuckle because that's the
rawness of rock and roll right there on display.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I have a friend who is a very entertaining guy,
and he talks he's got a couple of grandchildren. And
you may appreciate this, but he'll talk about his grandchildren
coming to the house, like they come for the weekend
and they go.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And I said, how, you know, how is it?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Tell me about it, like after the first one, you know,
it's like to have little kids around.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And he said, it's like the freaking.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Circus is in town, literally moving it out, moving them in,
moving them out, and then dealing with the animals.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
While they're there.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's like he's like, got the gable Williams.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I actually think it's more like a tornado, but a
beautiful tournado. How's that? That's perfect? Take it?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Nineteen sixty seven. On September twenty ninth, the Beatles mixed
I Am the Walrus at Abbey Road, cuckoocka chew, We
don't get through a week without the Beatles, but we
have to have the Beatles. We could, we could, we
could play a stunt and say there'll be no Beatles,
even though there's a lot of Beatles. But we can't
do that. That's not fair. No, absolutely not. A legendary
(02:24):
album from a guy that you just saw at the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was released on September
twenty ninth. I give the year, it's going to give
it away, and if I tell you that any more information,
I'm gonna give it away.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Who do you think it was? Is his first name
Peter yea. His last name would be Frampton. That's correct,
that's the guy.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Brampton Comes Alive September twenty ninth, nineteen seventy six, an
epic double live album.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It through the world of Dayton, Ohio. When I was
on the radio upside down, no, I imagine, So when
do you feel like we do? Came out and hitting
the request line and saying, yes, hello, this is WVUD
(03:15):
what do you want to hear? And one of the
nice folks from somewhere in the suburbs of Dayton would say,
and this is only with affection, this imitation that I'm
about to say, He would say, yeah, can you play
that song with the talking guitar anyway?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
A legendary album, that talk box that he used, that
Gibson's legendary guitar. Just a legendary album.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh my God.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
September thirtieth, nineteen fifty five, James Dean died in the
car crash twenty four years old. Sad day for fans
of James Dean Reckless Youth, Yeah sixty five. Donovan made
his US television debut on Shindig and.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I I don't know about Donovan.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
You know a handful of songs that I appreciated, but
it was just, you know, I was a little too young,
I think to appreciate him.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I appreciated a lot of him. And there's there is
one song though, then I think, goes down in music
history as possibly one of the worst songs and lyrics.
And it is attributed to Donovan, unfortunately, and I love Donovan.
What is a song? The song I'm not kidding is
(04:38):
called I Love My Shirt. Oh gosh, I love my shirt.
I love my shirt. My shirt is so lovely and
it loves me. Now, I would suggest Donovan maybe was
on the psychedelics. Possibly, let's just say.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Maybe listen, you can write it dumb song and have success.
Look at that. I'm too sexy for myself, right, who's
that right? Said Brett, Same thing like, look at my shirt.
I'm too Look at me, I'm too sexy for myself.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I dare anybody to listen to I love my shirt
and to suggest to me that there's not a worst
song ever written. Yeah, I'm not doing it. I'm not
giving it. I'm not that's probably three and a half minutes.
I'll never get back. Oh please do.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Isaac Hayes in nineteen seventy one, on September thirtieth, hit
number one on the charts with the theme from Shaft, I.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Love that Guy and if I'm not mistaken, he had
a radio career for a while, didn't he. That's a
good question. I think I believe he was part. I
swear he was part of a morning show on an
urban station in New York City at one point. Tell
me that I'm correct with this one. Yeah, you you
(05:55):
are correct.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He hosted his own radio show and had various music
stations named after him, obviously on Apple and Pandora, but
he did have an early radio show at Kiss FM.
He was featured. I'm not sure if he was a
jock there. I'm trying to get this as.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It was a morning show, I'm pretty sure, and there
were others over the years that would be celebrities doing
morning shows. But he I think he was one of
the you know, the early ones in that rage.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, he was on He was on Kiss just ninety
eighty seven as a jock, so I'm sure he did.
He worked before then too, I mean, you know just Land,
you know, in New York.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And was he on a show like or his voice
on a show like or was South Park? Possibly he did.
He voiced chef, He voiced chef. Yeah, wow, he voiced chef.
Isn't there crazy? Yeah? It is crazy?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Crazy talented talented dude.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yepe much better about myself because I went down two
rabbit holes and they were successful rabbit holes. Yeah, it
wasn't bad. Inform me. There was no fake news. As
you know, I can go down rabbit holes and they
could be lost in the ozone forever. It's like nothing
I've ever seen sometimes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
October first, nineteen sixty six, Jimmy Hendrix landed in London
with Chas Chandler, his manager at the time, And this
was right at about the time that things really skyrocketed for.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Hendricks in sixty six. Amazing time and an unbelievable career.
I'm sure over there they were going wild for him. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
In seventy Janis Joplin made her final studio recording the
Mercedes Benz song Oh Yeah in nineteen seventy and in
seventy seven, Elton John became the first rock star to
be honored in New York's Madison Square Gardens Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh wow, I didn't know that the DJ. That's when
when he would show up at w n WFM and
be on the air with Scott Muni and play his
favorite songs, that's what he was called. He was EJ
the DJ.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Isn't that funny? Have you speaking of Elton? Have you
watched the Billy Joel documentary yet? I have and I
loved it.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Interesting case made by Billy Joel for for his playing
over Elton's playing. It surprised me when I first heard it.
When I first heard him say, well, Elton, don't compare
me to Elton John. He's not a piano player.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I thought that whole thing was bizarre between the two
of them. And I also thought I give Elton credit for,
you know, having the ghoul uns to be able to
kind of say to Billy, Billy, you know, just passing
out at shows is not really good business.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, well that that piece of it.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I you know, obviously we were aware of some of
the documentary just sheds light on, you know, a damaged guy.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, very in a lot of ways. Yeah. And I'm
interviewing is by the time this comes out, I'll have
interviewed I'm not sure the episode will be out, but
I'll have interviewed Billy's daughter Alexa. Alexa Alexai Scule.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, she's quite as she's Oh it's Alexa.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
God bless it.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I never use it. When I'm in here doing something.
I always whisper like Alex if I'm talking to someone. Yeah, no,
that's funny. Yeah, Alexa just said you made my day.
Shut up before you go in the trash. October second,
nineteen sixty five, The Who made their US TV debut
and they saying, I can't explain on Shindig.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
You ever watched some of the old Shindig stuff, have you? Yeah? Yeah,
it's fun. It is fun.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
And that was a good short song, a couple of
minutes long and easy three quarter for them on Shindig.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
But yep, I'm sure it was great.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
On nineteen sixty seven, all six members of the Dead
were arrested for possession of marijuana in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Oh man, that's shocking. Putting the screws to you for
the for the for the for the briefer. Yeah, now
they look at they'd be looking at the world and
go what happened?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, nineteen eighty two, Jack and Diane hit number one
in the US.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
This was John Couger before.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
He was I mean he was John Mellencamp, but then
he was John Couger, and then John Cougar Mellencamp and
now just John Mellencamp again.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Guy smokes the light cigarettes. Yeah. And by the way,
did you have his daughter on with you? No? It
did not do that. No, he's he is an angry dude.
He's always been angry. Yeah, he's always been angry and
a chip on his shoulder. And I'll just leave it
(10:56):
at that right now.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
How do you expected to be in the spotlight with
a personality like that? And I've seen him walk out
of interviews. I've seen him just be you know, the
wheels come off.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, well, we'll go down the rabbit hole with him
as soon as I clear it with my attorneys.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You're also talking to like a man who may get
John Mellencamp at some point, so.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
No, I doubt that, probably too, by the way, seeing
him a couple of times, he puts on a heck
of a show, so I'll give him that. Yeah, great stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
October third, sixty nine, the Beatles released Abbey Road in
the US said It's a Crazy Day. Nineteen seventy October third,
Genis Joplin was found dead the heroin overdose. And then
in seventy eight Aerosmith was involved in a car and
a plane crash. Oh obviously survived that, but two stories
(11:52):
that were not good for rock and rock history. I
was not familiar with the Aerosmith plane crash story.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Me neither. But it is a band that had about
twenty five lives.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
So yeah, listen, they may have only had one plane crash,
but they've had many train wrecks.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's good. Well over the years, nicely done. Yeah, let's
see here.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Nineteen seventy four October fourth Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells came
out and that was the first recording on Virgin in
the US.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And the fact tubular RELs that that became was that
the hit because of the Exorcist. Yeah, that's exactly what
it was, all right, Because the fact that you would
hear that once again on rock radio then was pretty interesting.
But it was because it was a cultural phenomenon then
because of the Exorcists.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, And the tubular bells are a specific type of
instrument similar you know, you go and think about like
what Blue Man does with their you know, the PBC
and all that.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
This is, you know, experimental music, that's right.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Nineteen eighty Queen started a three week run at number
one for another one.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Bites the Dust, catchy, good fun hit. Elmer just spoke
up about it my dog, and I don't think he
was a fan of that song.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, not one of the great Queen, I mean, not
down or Keep Yourself Alive or you know any.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
No radio Gaga, I'll tell you that. Oh God, there's
an awful song too. And Cash Gordon like they had
a bunch of drek.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
They did right, They did some things very well and
then Flash Gordon another one bites the Dust Radio Gaga.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
There were a number of those, that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
October fifth, nineteen sixty two, Love Me Do, the first
Beatles single, was released in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Those darn Beatles. They can't, they can't just stay away,
No I can't.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Sixty seven October fifth, Pink Floyd released c Emily Play
in the US.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I don't think I know a song on that album.
You know that, you know see Emily Play? I know,
I should you know that because that was like three
minutes and twenty seconds or whatever, so not seventeen minutes
and thirty seconds. Yeah, other tracks.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
In nineteen seventy, led Zepelin three was released in the
UK the Immigrant Song you know track one?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I believe? Right, Yeah, that's right. I wasn't a fan.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Of the album otherwise, just really all everything else I
really enjoyed. But that was an album where there were
only a couple things and wasn't hey, hey, what can
I do?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
A B side of Immigrant from Immigrant Song? Yeah? Yeah,
that's right, Which is weird that it didn't make the album.
This actually makes us look like we actually prepare for this. Yeah,
oh no, we don't.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
There's no there's nothing this is smoking mirrors, Yeah, a
lot of mirrors.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's some smoke, but anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Led Zeppelin three released in the United Kingdom nineteen seventy
and that wraps up the week through October the fifth.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And the pretty solid week. My god, yeah, busy, yeah, busy.
Thank you Harry Jacobs. We appreciate it as always, and
thanks to all of you for listening to the Taking
a Walk podcast and This Week in Music History for
the week of September twenty ninth to October the fifth,
and we are proudly part of the iHeart Podcast
Buzz night here and welcome to the Take in a
Walk podcast, another episode of This Week in Music History.
And he likes the big build up, so I'm going
to give him the big build up. He is the
Master of Mayhem, the maestro of music, all things, all knowing,
all seeing. Harry Jacobs, Welcome to This Week in Music
History for the week of September the twenty ninth through
(00:25):
October the fifth. Is that better than the last episode intro?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I really couldn't ask for anything more at this point.
I'm just I'm just glad to be here, Buss. As
the ballplayers say after their game, I'm just glad to
be part of the team.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That's awesome. You're satisfied.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Good Week, September twenty ninth through the fifth of October.
A lot of stuff going on. Nineteen fifty six. On
September twenty ninth, Bill Haley and the Comments became the
first rock act to tour Australia. The big deal that
was His band was thought to kind of be the
first of the real rock bands.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Right yeah. Can you imagine and seeing what touring would
have been like for them back in that day, especially
going as far as Australia, I can only I was
envisioning how hard it is now for you know, anybody
to travel like that, and then thinking back there with
a band and equipment and such a long distance. I
(01:21):
just it kind of makes me chuckle because that's the
rawness of rock and roll right there on display.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I have a friend who is a very entertaining guy,
and he talks he's got a couple of grandchildren. And
you may appreciate this, but he'll talk about his grandchildren
coming to the house, like they come for the weekend
and they go.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And I said, how, you know, how is it?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Tell me about it, like after the first one, you know,
it's like to have little kids around.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And he said, it's like the freaking.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Circus is in town, literally moving it out, moving them in,
moving them out, and then dealing with the animals.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
While they're there.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's like he's like, got the gable Williams.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I actually think it's more like a tornado, but a
beautiful tournado. How's that? That's perfect? Take it?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Nineteen sixty seven. On September twenty ninth, the Beatles mixed
I Am the Walrus at Abbey Road, cuckoocka chew, We
don't get through a week without the Beatles, but we
have to have the Beatles. We could, we could, we
could play a stunt and say there'll be no Beatles,
even though there's a lot of Beatles. But we can't
do that. That's not fair. No, absolutely not. A legendary
(02:24):
album from a guy that you just saw at the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was released on September
twenty ninth. I give the year, it's going to give
it away, and if I tell you that any more information,
I'm gonna give it away.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Who do you think it was? Is his first name
Peter yea. His last name would be Frampton. That's correct,
that's the guy.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Brampton Comes Alive September twenty ninth, nineteen seventy six, an
epic double live album.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It through the world of Dayton, Ohio. When I was
on the radio upside down, no, I imagine, So when
do you feel like we do? Came out and hitting
the request line and saying, yes, hello, this is WVUD
(03:15):
what do you want to hear? And one of the
nice folks from somewhere in the suburbs of Dayton would say,
and this is only with affection, this imitation that I'm
about to say, He would say, yeah, can you play
that song with the talking guitar anyway?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
A legendary album, that talk box that he used, that
Gibson's legendary guitar. Just a legendary album.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh my God.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
September thirtieth, nineteen fifty five, James Dean died in the
car crash twenty four years old. Sad day for fans
of James Dean Reckless Youth, Yeah sixty five. Donovan made
his US television debut on Shindig and.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I I don't know about Donovan.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
You know a handful of songs that I appreciated, but
it was just, you know, I was a little too young,
I think to appreciate him.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I appreciated a lot of him. And there's there is
one song though, then I think, goes down in music
history as possibly one of the worst songs and lyrics.
And it is attributed to Donovan, unfortunately, and I love Donovan.
What is a song? The song I'm not kidding is
(04:38):
called I Love My Shirt. Oh gosh, I love my shirt.
I love my shirt. My shirt is so lovely and
it loves me. Now, I would suggest Donovan maybe was
on the psychedelics. Possibly, let's just say.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Maybe listen, you can write it dumb song and have success.
Look at that. I'm too sexy for myself, right, who's
that right? Said Brett, Same thing like, look at my shirt.
I'm too Look at me, I'm too sexy for myself.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I dare anybody to listen to I love my shirt
and to suggest to me that there's not a worst
song ever written. Yeah, I'm not doing it. I'm not
giving it. I'm not that's probably three and a half minutes.
I'll never get back. Oh please do.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Isaac Hayes in nineteen seventy one, on September thirtieth, hit
number one on the charts with the theme from Shaft, I.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Love that Guy and if I'm not mistaken, he had
a radio career for a while, didn't he. That's a
good question. I think I believe he was part. I
swear he was part of a morning show on an
urban station in New York City at one point. Tell
me that I'm correct with this one. Yeah, you you
(05:55):
are correct.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He hosted his own radio show and had various music
stations named after him, obviously on Apple and Pandora, but
he did have an early radio show at Kiss FM.
He was featured. I'm not sure if he was a
jock there. I'm trying to get this as.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It was a morning show, I'm pretty sure, and there
were others over the years that would be celebrities doing
morning shows. But he I think he was one of
the you know, the early ones in that rage.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, he was on He was on Kiss just ninety
eighty seven as a jock, so I'm sure he did.
He worked before then too, I mean, you know just Land,
you know, in New York.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And was he on a show like or his voice
on a show like or was South Park? Possibly he did.
He voiced chef, He voiced chef. Yeah, wow, he voiced chef.
Isn't there crazy? Yeah? It is crazy?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Crazy talented talented dude.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yepe much better about myself because I went down two
rabbit holes and they were successful rabbit holes. Yeah, it
wasn't bad. Inform me. There was no fake news. As
you know, I can go down rabbit holes and they
could be lost in the ozone forever. It's like nothing
I've ever seen sometimes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
October first, nineteen sixty six, Jimmy Hendrix landed in London
with Chas Chandler, his manager at the time, And this
was right at about the time that things really skyrocketed for.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Hendricks in sixty six. Amazing time and an unbelievable career.
I'm sure over there they were going wild for him. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
In seventy Janis Joplin made her final studio recording the
Mercedes Benz song Oh Yeah in nineteen seventy and in
seventy seven, Elton John became the first rock star to
be honored in New York's Madison Square Gardens Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh wow, I didn't know that the DJ. That's when
when he would show up at w n WFM and
be on the air with Scott Muni and play his
favorite songs, that's what he was called. He was EJ
the DJ.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Isn't that funny? Have you speaking of Elton? Have you
watched the Billy Joel documentary yet? I have and I
loved it.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Interesting case made by Billy Joel for for his playing
over Elton's playing. It surprised me when I first heard it.
When I first heard him say, well, Elton, don't compare
me to Elton John. He's not a piano player.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I thought that whole thing was bizarre between the two
of them. And I also thought I give Elton credit for,
you know, having the ghoul uns to be able to
kind of say to Billy, Billy, you know, just passing
out at shows is not really good business.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, well that that piece of it.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I you know, obviously we were aware of some of
the documentary just sheds light on, you know, a damaged guy.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, very in a lot of ways. Yeah. And I'm
interviewing is by the time this comes out, I'll have
interviewed I'm not sure the episode will be out, but
I'll have interviewed Billy's daughter Alexa. Alexa Alexai Scule.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, she's quite as she's Oh it's Alexa.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
God bless it.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I never use it. When I'm in here doing something.
I always whisper like Alex if I'm talking to someone. Yeah, no,
that's funny. Yeah, Alexa just said you made my day.
Shut up before you go in the trash. October second,
nineteen sixty five, The Who made their US TV debut
and they saying, I can't explain on Shindig.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
You ever watched some of the old Shindig stuff, have you? Yeah? Yeah,
it's fun. It is fun.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
And that was a good short song, a couple of
minutes long and easy three quarter for them on Shindig.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
But yep, I'm sure it was great.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
On nineteen sixty seven, all six members of the Dead
were arrested for possession of marijuana in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Oh man, that's shocking. Putting the screws to you for
the for the for the for the briefer. Yeah, now
they look at they'd be looking at the world and
go what happened?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, nineteen eighty two, Jack and Diane hit number one
in the US.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
This was John Couger before.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
He was I mean he was John Mellencamp, but then
he was John Couger, and then John Cougar Mellencamp and
now just John Mellencamp again.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Guy smokes the light cigarettes. Yeah. And by the way,
did you have his daughter on with you? No? It
did not do that. No, he's he is an angry dude.
He's always been angry. Yeah, he's always been angry and
a chip on his shoulder. And I'll just leave it
(10:56):
at that right now.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
How do you expected to be in the spotlight with
a personality like that? And I've seen him walk out
of interviews. I've seen him just be you know, the
wheels come off.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, well, we'll go down the rabbit hole with him
as soon as I clear it with my attorneys.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You're also talking to like a man who may get
John Mellencamp at some point, so.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
No, I doubt that, probably too, by the way, seeing
him a couple of times, he puts on a heck
of a show, so I'll give him that. Yeah, great stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
October third, sixty nine, the Beatles released Abbey Road in
the US said It's a Crazy Day. Nineteen seventy October third,
Genis Joplin was found dead the heroin overdose. And then
in seventy eight Aerosmith was involved in a car and
a plane crash. Oh obviously survived that, but two stories
(11:52):
that were not good for rock and rock history. I
was not familiar with the Aerosmith plane crash story.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Me neither. But it is a band that had about
twenty five lives.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
So yeah, listen, they may have only had one plane crash,
but they've had many train wrecks.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's good. Well over the years, nicely done. Yeah, let's
see here.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Nineteen seventy four October fourth Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells came
out and that was the first recording on Virgin in
the US.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And the fact tubular RELs that that became was that
the hit because of the Exorcist. Yeah, that's exactly what
it was, all right, Because the fact that you would
hear that once again on rock radio then was pretty interesting.
But it was because it was a cultural phenomenon then
because of the Exorcists.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, And the tubular bells are a specific type of
instrument similar you know, you go and think about like
what Blue Man does with their you know, the PBC
and all that.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
This is, you know, experimental music, that's right.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Nineteen eighty Queen started a three week run at number
one for another one.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Bites the Dust, catchy, good fun hit. Elmer just spoke
up about it my dog, and I don't think he
was a fan of that song.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, not one of the great Queen, I mean, not
down or Keep Yourself Alive or you know any.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
No radio Gaga, I'll tell you that. Oh God, there's
an awful song too. And Cash Gordon like they had
a bunch of drek.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
They did right, They did some things very well and
then Flash Gordon another one bites the Dust Radio Gaga.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
There were a number of those, that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
October fifth, nineteen sixty two, Love Me Do, the first
Beatles single, was released in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Those darn Beatles. They can't, they can't just stay away,
No I can't.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Sixty seven October fifth, Pink Floyd released c Emily Play
in the US.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I don't think I know a song on that album.
You know that, you know see Emily Play? I know,
I should you know that because that was like three
minutes and twenty seconds or whatever, so not seventeen minutes
and thirty seconds. Yeah, other tracks.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
In nineteen seventy, led Zepelin three was released in the
UK the Immigrant Song you know track one?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I believe? Right, Yeah, that's right. I wasn't a fan.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Of the album otherwise, just really all everything else I
really enjoyed. But that was an album where there were
only a couple things and wasn't hey, hey, what can
I do?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
A B side of Immigrant from Immigrant Song? Yeah? Yeah,
that's right, Which is weird that it didn't make the album.
This actually makes us look like we actually prepare for this. Yeah,
oh no, we don't.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
There's no there's nothing this is smoking mirrors, Yeah, a
lot of mirrors.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's some smoke, but anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Led Zeppelin three released in the United Kingdom nineteen seventy
and that wraps up the week through October the fifth.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And the pretty solid week. My god, yeah, busy, yeah, busy.
Thank you Harry Jacobs. We appreciate it as always, and
thanks to all of you for listening to the Taking
a Walk podcast and This Week in Music History for
the week of September twenty ninth to October the fifth,
and we are proudly part of the iHeart Podcast
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