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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm Buzzsnight, the host of the taking Over podcast music
History on foot, well sort of, and welcome to another
episode of This Week in Music History for the week
of January the twenty seventh, and we go to the
music History Desk to my main man radio pro, former
radio programmer, self described musicologist, Harry Jacobs at the Music
(00:27):
History Desk. Hello, Harry, us.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good to good to be here, and we've got a
couple of couple of good ones for this week, the
week of January twenty seventh, So I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
About this one. Good.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Let's let it roll.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
In nineteen eighty five January twenty eighth, they recorded We
Are the World, which was, you know, a monster deal.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
We've spoke a little.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Bit about you know about this in the past, but
this was a huge deal to organize.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
These were the you know, the monsters at the times,
TV wonder Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen. It was
just a who's who of music and a tremendous benefit.
Harry Belafani actually had had organized the entire thing, but
Michael Jackson was deeply involved in it.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The documentary the Greatest Night and Pop was an incredible
watch to really get the behind the scenes and the
flavor of it, and you really just saw, you know,
who was kind of leading that whole charge. Lionel Ritchie
was pretty amazing in terms of the way he kind
of led things. I also got to ask John Oates
(01:39):
about it, I believe as well, maybe even Darryl too,
if I'm not mistaken about their you know vibe of
that whole that whole evening. So yeah, it was an incredible,
you know scene there, no doubt, and it had little
pockets of drama everywhere, right.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And had some humor.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Think about Lionel Richie, Bob Dylan on how to sing
like Bob Dylan.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh yeah, I mean Bob was the most uncomfortable person there.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No doubt, next to next to Bruce, it was Bob.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
They were a fish out of water.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And I forget who it was, but one of the
big country you know guys walked.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Out, Whalen Jenning. He Whalen could not deal with it,
and I think Way said he thinks maybe Whalen regretted
that move, like walking out of that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'm sure after it came out and it was the
monster hit that it was, he thought to himself, son.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Of my God, Yeah, I messed up.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I misplayed that.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
February first, nineteen sixty nine, the Beatles performed their final
live concert, was the Rooftop in London. This was an
impromptu performance. It was almost forty five minutes long, you know,
the full concert more the footage was released on that
and that Peter Jackson let it be.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It's amazing to see that.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Oh yeah, just incredible And it's fascinating thinking about the
length of that concert. It's about fifteen minutes longer than
the concerts they used to play at, like Shay Stadium
in places like that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Isn't that incredible?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Think about that They would show up somewhere at you know,
something like Shay and play for thirty minutes. That's it,
bang through their two and a half minute songs and
that's the end of that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, and no one could hear anything. I guess.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Get Back was the twenty twenty one documentary, which was
fascinating to watch.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Just I loved every bit of it. Some people thought
it was too long, whatever, I just I dug the
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
January thirty first, nineteen seventy led Zeppelin played a Whole
Lot of Love live on TV their first ever British
TV appearance on the BBC, and that song would you
know later go on to become one of the most
iconic Zeppelin songs.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I can't find footage of that. I used to be
the fine footage of that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
For whatever reason, I think the BBC removed that appearance
of them doing a whole Lot of Loves all kinds
of appearances in nineteen seventy is Zeppelin playing a whole
Lot of Love in all kinds of places, including the
Royal Albert Hall. But the BBC footage is now gone.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
They must have put a paywall up or something that
requires you to have to pay to see it, you know.
That's all I could think about. And Jimmy Page just
you know, over the recent days, celebrating a birthday, you
talk about someone well, he and Robert plant aging gracefully,
you know, with such such dignity. So it's great to
(04:38):
see those guys, you know, looking great. And you know,
Jimmy seems like he's not up to that much as
far as music. Robert obviously is up to a lot
of things. But well you can't deny the monster known
as led Zeppelin, right.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Jimmy, you know this is a this is an area
where where there's contention between the two of them, because
Jimmy wanted to take that reunion that they did at
the O two and go on the road. That's what
the plan was, was to go and make that show
the launch of a tour and do you know a
dozen shows all over the world which would have been
(05:18):
monster moneymakers. Just can you imagine them getting back together
at that time and doing shows?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Oh? I could imagine it. Yeah. But so you're saying
that you think the relationship to this day is a
little fractured.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I think it's a little fractured because Robert doesn't want
to sing those songs, and Jimmy and John and certainly
Jason Bonham at this point, Jason Bonham is just happy
to be along for the ride. But Jimmy and John
were gained to go out on the road and.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And b Zeppelin again, Robert didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I kind of sided with Robert. It's like, if you
don't want to sing those songs anymore, then because you're
happier with Alison Kraust, then you know, hey, man, that's
the way that sort of goes.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
You know, at what point do you think to yourself,
think about that money piece, but how many people it
would attract? Think about how many millions of bands around
the oh would pay to see you.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Sing those songs.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's not worth if nothing else to fill your own ego,
to fill stadiums, to fill I mean, isn't there something that.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah? I mean some would do it right and and
some have no problem having one surviving member part of
the band with you know, three others being not original members.
It's so interesting to see how that all rolls out
for a lot of bands. I think it's a you know,
(06:50):
a money grab when it's it's too far from what
the original really is. But nonetheless, I think both of them,
Robert and Jimmy, in their own way, you know, are
aging gracefully, you know, And I have to say that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I would love to see you know, it's not gonna
happen now, but I'd love to see it.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I would love to have seen it. I would have
flown anywhere to go to.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Go do that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Ye. January twenty seventh, nineteen seventy one, David Bowie came
to the US for.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The first time and he wasn't allowed to perform because
there was a work visa issue.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So he could come visit, but he couldn't work, So
he spent time in New York hung out with you.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Know, Lou.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
These relationships, you know, Andy Warhol and Lou Reid and
and and those relationships ended up influencing Ziggy Stardust.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
There's some great photos too of that era, you know,
from a number of distinguished photographers, you know, Andy and
Lou and Bowie, you know, huddling, you know, over a
cocktail or whatever. So you can't find, you know, anything
cooler than that if you think about the beginnings of
(08:07):
what Bowie would create with Ziggy.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You know, January twenty ninth, nineteen seventy nine, the Clash
released London Calling. This was an epic think about what
the remember what the hit song was from that?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Right train in Vain anything? Oh? Yeah, you remember that?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You couldn't find that listed in the tracks on the album.
It was like a hidden track, right.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yes, it was, that's right. That's rights so strange.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
What was so.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Interesting about all that? And I think we touched on
this in a previous episode. You know, there was the
emergence of of you know what we would call sort
of sort of new wave there, right, and out of
that came, you know, certain real pop sounds, and then
out of new wave would come a blend of new
(08:59):
wave and punk that would come out. And that was
sort of how I would characterize the Clash. So they
were viewed, I think as this way different entity because
they were way different the sound of the Rebellion, and
then the more you would sort of get in and
dig into it, it was this different cool miss factor
(09:20):
to what the Clash was about, you know, just that
raw nastiness. And I think over time people started deciphering
it style wise. You know, it was the reggae aspect
of it and the rockabilly aspect as well. So one
of the great albums for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Ever, and you kind of two last thoughts.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
You think about the difference in sound on that same
album of a song like London Calling and then Train
in Vain, which I want to say they almost hid
because they thought it sounded too poppy?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Is that the story behind.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I'm not sure. I'm not sure about that. Maybe you
might be right. Was it also that other one on
London Calling that was sort of a cool deep track
lost in the supermarket.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You're the deep track guy. I don't know lost in
the supermarket.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Check it out, well, I will a couple.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Of other things of note.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Elton John's Candle and the Wind became the best selling
single of all time in nineteen ninety seven. Think about
when that album actually came out. That was part of
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, you know in the in the seventies, right,
and it became the number one seller because of the
Princess Diana tribute that that song ended up being nineteen
(10:38):
seventy three, it came out originally and song about Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, and you know Elton with his ability to craft
pop pop hits, he really put a spotlight on Elton
in a different way when that happened.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Whitney Houston Star Spangled Banner performance happened at Super Bowl
thirty January twenty seven, nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Think about how moving that was. Remember watching that live?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, well, what a performer she was, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Became a they released it became a top twenty hit
on the Billboard Hot one hundred at the time as well.
And this also was the week you can't talk about
the Super Bowls and history in pop and moments without
thinking about the wardrobe malfunction, justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson
remember the exposure as you.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
And oh yeah, yeah, I was watching it with my daughter,
I remember, and that was we were like, oops, what
just happened? How do you explain to Let's see, how
old would my daughter ben? Then?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
She was.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Seven or eight years old, I guess then. So it
was an awkward moment as a parent, for sure. But
what that would yield also would be a lot of
change in what broadcast media had to be considering when
it came to, you know, not violating certain certain things,
(12:06):
what they needed to censor, you know, the importance of delays.
So that had ripple effects really when it came to,
you know, the way media had to behave themselves basically.
So that was quite a moment and one that still
to this day I think has impact.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yeah, interesting and true. Billy Joel released fifty.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Second Street this week in nineteen seventy nine, Big Shots
one of my favorite songs. It's got the greatest line
to me, one of the greatest lines in pop music,
which is you wake up in the morning with your
head on fire and your eyes too bloody to see.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, right, mister big shot.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, two other things have not won a news story.
I'll give you the kind of sappy one first and
then we'll talk to the news story and wrap it up.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
But this is the that the.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Final episode of mister Rogers Neighborhood aired. And you know,
I remember watching it when when I was young. But
what I remember, and it was incredibly emotional, was the
documentary that they made about mister Rogers.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Did you ever did you see that?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
No? Someone recommended it. I didn't, so you're the second
one who recommended it, so I should see it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It made me a because I watched it when I
was a kid, and he was just like when you
listen to his message, you know this, you know, just
his manner, his personality, his being. It just made me
so emotional to watch him talk about what that was like.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
He did fresh episodes for years.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
He didn't have to think about the generations, you know,
every three or four years. They could have ran reruns
and run the same programming, but it was important to
him to continue his teachings about being a good person, right,
and there's just so much for us to learn.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It made I'd be curious on your ta on. It
made me emotional to watch that.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, I'll check it out. But you can't deny you
have he defines compassion right.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, absolutely, And this is the week the Paris Peace
Accord basically ended the Vietnam War January twenty seventh, nineteen
seventy three. That was the end of our involvement, in
the US's involvement, and that was a war that, like
many there was there was no winning.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It and a lot of suffering.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You know, those port vets came back from Vietnam and
didn't didn't get what they should have.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, you got that right. Well, thanks for listening to
this episode of This Week in Music History. Thank you
Harry Jacobs, and you could check out the Taking a
Walk podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you
get your podcasts.
I'm Buzzsnight, the host of the taking Over podcast music
History on foot, well sort of, and welcome to another
episode of This Week in Music History for the week
of January the twenty seventh, and we go to the
music History Desk to my main man radio pro, former
radio programmer, self described musicologist, Harry Jacobs at the Music
(00:27):
History Desk. Hello, Harry, us.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good to good to be here, and we've got a
couple of couple of good ones for this week, the
week of January twenty seventh, So I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
About this one. Good.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Let's let it roll.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
In nineteen eighty five January twenty eighth, they recorded We
Are the World, which was, you know, a monster deal.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
We've spoke a little.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Bit about you know about this in the past, but
this was a huge deal to organize.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
These were the you know, the monsters at the times,
TV wonder Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen. It was
just a who's who of music and a tremendous benefit.
Harry Belafani actually had had organized the entire thing, but
Michael Jackson was deeply involved in it.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The documentary the Greatest Night and Pop was an incredible
watch to really get the behind the scenes and the
flavor of it, and you really just saw, you know,
who was kind of leading that whole charge. Lionel Ritchie
was pretty amazing in terms of the way he kind
of led things. I also got to ask John Oates
(01:39):
about it, I believe as well, maybe even Darryl too,
if I'm not mistaken about their you know vibe of
that whole that whole evening. So yeah, it was an incredible,
you know scene there, no doubt, and it had little
pockets of drama everywhere, right.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And had some humor.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Think about Lionel Richie, Bob Dylan on how to sing
like Bob Dylan.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh yeah, I mean Bob was the most uncomfortable person there.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No doubt, next to next to Bruce, it was Bob.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
They were a fish out of water.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And I forget who it was, but one of the
big country you know guys walked.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Out, Whalen Jenning. He Whalen could not deal with it,
and I think Way said he thinks maybe Whalen regretted
that move, like walking out of that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'm sure after it came out and it was the
monster hit that it was, he thought to himself, son.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Of my God, Yeah, I messed up.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I misplayed that.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
February first, nineteen sixty nine, the Beatles performed their final
live concert, was the Rooftop in London. This was an
impromptu performance. It was almost forty five minutes long, you know,
the full concert more the footage was released on that
and that Peter Jackson let it be.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It's amazing to see that.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Oh yeah, just incredible And it's fascinating thinking about the
length of that concert. It's about fifteen minutes longer than
the concerts they used to play at, like Shay Stadium
in places like that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Isn't that incredible?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Think about that They would show up somewhere at you know,
something like Shay and play for thirty minutes. That's it,
bang through their two and a half minute songs and
that's the end of that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, and no one could hear anything. I guess.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Get Back was the twenty twenty one documentary, which was
fascinating to watch.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Just I loved every bit of it. Some people thought
it was too long, whatever, I just I dug the
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
January thirty first, nineteen seventy led Zeppelin played a Whole
Lot of Love live on TV their first ever British
TV appearance on the BBC, and that song would you
know later go on to become one of the most
iconic Zeppelin songs.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I can't find footage of that. I used to be
the fine footage of that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
For whatever reason, I think the BBC removed that appearance
of them doing a whole Lot of Loves all kinds
of appearances in nineteen seventy is Zeppelin playing a whole
Lot of Love in all kinds of places, including the
Royal Albert Hall. But the BBC footage is now gone.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
They must have put a paywall up or something that
requires you to have to pay to see it, you know.
That's all I could think about. And Jimmy Page just
you know, over the recent days, celebrating a birthday, you
talk about someone well, he and Robert plant aging gracefully,
you know, with such such dignity. So it's great to
(04:38):
see those guys, you know, looking great. And you know,
Jimmy seems like he's not up to that much as
far as music. Robert obviously is up to a lot
of things. But well you can't deny the monster known
as led Zeppelin, right.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Jimmy, you know this is a this is an area
where where there's contention between the two of them, because
Jimmy wanted to take that reunion that they did at
the O two and go on the road. That's what
the plan was, was to go and make that show
the launch of a tour and do you know a
dozen shows all over the world which would have been
(05:18):
monster moneymakers. Just can you imagine them getting back together
at that time and doing shows?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Oh? I could imagine it. Yeah. But so you're saying
that you think the relationship to this day is a
little fractured.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I think it's a little fractured because Robert doesn't want
to sing those songs, and Jimmy and John and certainly
Jason Bonham at this point, Jason Bonham is just happy
to be along for the ride. But Jimmy and John
were gained to go out on the road and.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And b Zeppelin again, Robert didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I kind of sided with Robert. It's like, if you
don't want to sing those songs anymore, then because you're
happier with Alison Kraust, then you know, hey, man, that's
the way that sort of goes.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
You know, at what point do you think to yourself,
think about that money piece, but how many people it
would attract? Think about how many millions of bands around
the oh would pay to see you.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Sing those songs.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's not worth if nothing else to fill your own ego,
to fill stadiums, to fill I mean, isn't there something that.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah? I mean some would do it right and and
some have no problem having one surviving member part of
the band with you know, three others being not original members.
It's so interesting to see how that all rolls out
for a lot of bands. I think it's a you know,
(06:50):
a money grab when it's it's too far from what
the original really is. But nonetheless, I think both of them,
Robert and Jimmy, in their own way, you know, are
aging gracefully, you know, And I have to say that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I would love to see you know, it's not gonna
happen now, but I'd love to see it.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I would love to have seen it. I would have
flown anywhere to go to.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Go do that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Ye. January twenty seventh, nineteen seventy one, David Bowie came
to the US for.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The first time and he wasn't allowed to perform because
there was a work visa issue.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So he could come visit, but he couldn't work, So
he spent time in New York hung out with you.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Know, Lou.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
These relationships, you know, Andy Warhol and Lou Reid and
and and those relationships ended up influencing Ziggy Stardust.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
There's some great photos too of that era, you know,
from a number of distinguished photographers, you know, Andy and
Lou and Bowie, you know, huddling, you know, over a
cocktail or whatever. So you can't find, you know, anything
cooler than that if you think about the beginnings of
(08:07):
what Bowie would create with Ziggy.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You know, January twenty ninth, nineteen seventy nine, the Clash
released London Calling. This was an epic think about what
the remember what the hit song was from that?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Right train in Vain anything? Oh? Yeah, you remember that?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You couldn't find that listed in the tracks on the album.
It was like a hidden track, right.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yes, it was, that's right. That's rights so strange.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
What was so.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Interesting about all that? And I think we touched on
this in a previous episode. You know, there was the
emergence of of you know what we would call sort
of sort of new wave there, right, and out of
that came, you know, certain real pop sounds, and then
out of new wave would come a blend of new
(08:59):
wave and punk that would come out. And that was
sort of how I would characterize the Clash. So they
were viewed, I think as this way different entity because
they were way different the sound of the Rebellion, and
then the more you would sort of get in and
dig into it, it was this different cool miss factor
(09:20):
to what the Clash was about, you know, just that
raw nastiness. And I think over time people started deciphering
it style wise. You know, it was the reggae aspect
of it and the rockabilly aspect as well. So one
of the great albums for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Ever, and you kind of two last thoughts.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
You think about the difference in sound on that same
album of a song like London Calling and then Train
in Vain, which I want to say they almost hid
because they thought it sounded too poppy?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Is that the story behind.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I'm not sure. I'm not sure about that. Maybe you
might be right. Was it also that other one on
London Calling that was sort of a cool deep track
lost in the supermarket.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You're the deep track guy. I don't know lost in
the supermarket.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Check it out, well, I will a couple.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Of other things of note.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Elton John's Candle and the Wind became the best selling
single of all time in nineteen ninety seven. Think about
when that album actually came out. That was part of
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, you know in the in the seventies, right,
and it became the number one seller because of the
Princess Diana tribute that that song ended up being nineteen
(10:38):
seventy three, it came out originally and song about Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, and you know Elton with his ability to craft
pop pop hits, he really put a spotlight on Elton
in a different way when that happened.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Whitney Houston Star Spangled Banner performance happened at Super Bowl
thirty January twenty seven, nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Think about how moving that was. Remember watching that live?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, well, what a performer she was, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Became a they released it became a top twenty hit
on the Billboard Hot one hundred at the time as well.
And this also was the week you can't talk about
the Super Bowls and history in pop and moments without
thinking about the wardrobe malfunction, justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson
remember the exposure as you.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
And oh yeah, yeah, I was watching it with my daughter,
I remember, and that was we were like, oops, what
just happened? How do you explain to Let's see, how
old would my daughter ben? Then?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
She was.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Seven or eight years old, I guess then. So it
was an awkward moment as a parent, for sure. But
what that would yield also would be a lot of
change in what broadcast media had to be considering when
it came to, you know, not violating certain certain things,
(12:06):
what they needed to censor, you know, the importance of delays.
So that had ripple effects really when it came to,
you know, the way media had to behave themselves basically.
So that was quite a moment and one that still
to this day I think has impact.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yeah, interesting and true. Billy Joel released fifty.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Second Street this week in nineteen seventy nine, Big Shots
one of my favorite songs. It's got the greatest line
to me, one of the greatest lines in pop music,
which is you wake up in the morning with your
head on fire and your eyes too bloody to see.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, right, mister big shot.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, two other things have not won a news story.
I'll give you the kind of sappy one first and
then we'll talk to the news story and wrap it up.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
But this is the that the.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Final episode of mister Rogers Neighborhood aired. And you know,
I remember watching it when when I was young. But
what I remember, and it was incredibly emotional, was the
documentary that they made about mister Rogers.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Did you ever did you see that?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
No? Someone recommended it. I didn't, so you're the second
one who recommended it, so I should see it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It made me a because I watched it when I
was a kid, and he was just like when you
listen to his message, you know this, you know, just
his manner, his personality, his being. It just made me
so emotional to watch him talk about what that was like.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
He did fresh episodes for years.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
He didn't have to think about the generations, you know,
every three or four years. They could have ran reruns
and run the same programming, but it was important to
him to continue his teachings about being a good person, right,
and there's just so much for us to learn.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It made I'd be curious on your ta on. It
made me emotional to watch that.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, I'll check it out. But you can't deny you
have he defines compassion right.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, absolutely, And this is the week the Paris Peace
Accord basically ended the Vietnam War January twenty seventh, nineteen
seventy three. That was the end of our involvement, in
the US's involvement, and that was a war that, like
many there was there was no winning.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It and a lot of suffering.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You know, those port vets came back from Vietnam and
didn't didn't get what they should have.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, you got that right. Well, thanks for listening to
this episode of This Week in Music History. Thank you
Harry Jacobs, and you could check out the Taking a
Walk podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you
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