July 24, 2025 • 47 mins
In Episode 5 of The Vinyl Curriculum podcast, we take a humorous and critical look at some of the biggest musical mistakes in history.
From cringe-worthy lyrics to questionable production choices, we dive into songs that should never have been made and definitely should never be repeated.
Join us for a fun and opinionated discussion, as we highlight the tunes that missed the mark and explore what went wrong along the way.
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Every record tells a story. Independent labels.
I think a lot of interesting songs came out of that.
And every generation has a soundtrack.
The only hip you have in your body is made of titanium.
This is the final curriculum with Logan.
Apparently I don't know very much about anything.
Somebody calls her Tay Tay. Hey, it's slogan.
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Just a quick heads up before we get into it.
This episode was originally recorded live on WLRA radio
where we are able to play all the songs that we talked about.
Unfortunately, due to copyright restrictions, we can't include
the music here on the podcast. So anytime you hear this sound,
that means we're skipping over asong that we originally played
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on air. But don't worry, Jim's put
together a playlist with all thetracks from the episode.
So you can still follow along. Just check the link in the shown
ups. All right, now on to the
episode. All right, welcome back to
another episode of the Vinyl Curriculum.
Logan and Jim here in the studiofor this podcast exclusive
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episode of the Vinyl Curriculum.Jim, how we doing today?
Doing great. A little nervous about this not
laying on the radio. I don't know how this is going
to turn out. It'll turn out just fine because
we are what you call professionals.
At least I'm a professional. I don't know what I'd call you.
I don't know. Amateur hour over here.
Let's find out. We'll find out.
That's OK. I'm excited.
We've got a good episode today, I think.
(01:27):
Right? You.
You didn't tell me very much about what this is.
I did not tell you this is, you know, this is this episode is a
direct response from something you said on episode 2.
And if you don't mind, I'd like you to play that clip I sent you
all. Right, well, let's go in the Way
Back machine here. We'll go a little bit back to
episode #2 and we'll see. We'll see what Jim's talking
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about here. So I can appreciate that.
It's a Queen song, which again, I I don't care about the lore of
the song, but I did like it. You know, history is important.
Why do we, why when we're in at the university level, we're in
high school, why do we study history?
We need to know you need to knowthe history of some of these
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things because it might influence you how you think
about it. No, we study history, so we
don't repeat it. That's why we study history.
So unless you're studying the history, so we'd never hear this
song again, I feel like that's not a very valid reason to be
concerned with the history. I don't know.
I. Hope your high school history
teacher is not listening to you right now.
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Who was that? Feel like we're in a time
machine here. This is.
That was very dreamy. Yes, it.
Was it was, it was very dreamy, but we got a little bit of a
taste of my thoughts on history.And you don't like that
interpretation, you know that's.Really a crappy, you know, but I
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want to prove your point. There are some songs that have
been released and actually some songs have been pretty
successful that we should never do that again, We should never
repeat them. So that's what today's episode 5
of this podcast is going to be called.
Mistakes. Oh boy, mistakes.
Mistakes. You have not heard these songs
ahead of time. Now you might know some of them.
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I don't know. I don't know.
Well my musical knowledge is is all over the map, so I feel like
sometimes some of these weird songs I might be more familiar
with than some of the more well known ones like we've had in the
past couple weeks. You might.
Now, I don't know if you really need to grade these like you
typically do because I think we can assume a bad grade and maybe
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if there's one that you feel is a good grade, you say it, but
this goes from 1986 and mostly in the 70s, but there are few in
the 80s all the way up to 89. Oh, well, that's interesting.
Yeah, I like that. I like that a lot.
I do want to remind the people that we have something new that
we've got going on for feedback.Let's take a listen to that.
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Why don't we? Part of the show.
Call or text us, 815-733-8517. Tell us your favorite album,
your hottest take, or just shareone of those memories that you
have about the music. How?
Has Logan never heard smoking byBoston?
Come on man. You never know, you might just
hear yourself in the next episode.
It's like hanging out with. Two friends who argue about
records, Five fold laundry. Again, that number is
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815-733-8517. Love what y'all are doing.
Don't stop. Let's hear what you have to say.
That's right. You can call or text us and we
will be monitoring the text messages and we may read them on
air or if you call and leave a message you might hear us or you
might hear yourself on next week's episode.
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Again, that number is 815-733-8517 if you want to give
us some feedback. If let us know how terrible
these songs actually are. I'm getting nervous.
Jim, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm telling you, these are terrible,
but I had many of these 40 fives.
I purchased these. It's just looking back now, it's
like, you know, what were we thinking?
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I don't know. I mean, I, I feel that with a
lot of the music you brought to the table, I'm completely honest
with you. Stop it.
You know you, I play some reallygood music so far and it's only
going to get better. In your opinion, maybe, but
that's OK. All right, So what is this first
song? All right, 1975 also, I want to
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when you play the song, I want you to guess how high this song
charted. OK, each song just guess kind of
so. Maybe instead of the grade,
we'll go. Yeah.
How high do you think this charted or did it chart?
OK, actually they all did. They all charted.
So I'm going to give it and. The chart is Top 100, Top 40,
Top 40. In the USA all right, this first
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one in the seven in 75 there waslike this trucker theme going on
in my dad had like a. Trucker.
ACB in the car and we went on a trip one time out West when my
sister was Spacey Tracy and we would be on the that was her CB
name or whatever you call it. So as we drive you, you're
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bored, you're driving in the car.
We didn't have Spotify, so we'reon the CB and we're listening
and my sister got on and she's like, hey, this is Spacey Tracy.
Well, my dad had to stop that because people were like, hey,
I'm at mile marker marker 7. Why don't you pull on over
Spacey, Tracy and. Oh boy.
So my dad stopped that, but thisconvoy trucking, it was a big
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thing. This is called Convoy by C.W.
McCall. So let's back up for a second.
So our our CB names like rapper names, like my rapper name is
Big Milk. Can I use that?
What can I use Big milk? Like a tall glass of white milk.
I'm Big Milk. That is my that's offensive.
I don't like that at all. Don't ever call yourself big
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milk in my presence. That's terrible.
OK, Yeah. If you were, you had to have A
and you'll hear in this song people had their they were
saying what they're. I don't know what you're called.
I don't know. Big milk.
OK, well. Convoy listen.
Convoy by CW. McCall.
Convoy by C.W. McCall.
Let's take a listen here. Breaker 19 This here's a rubber
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duck. That's a little Johnny Cash.
Ask Jim. Yeah.
That is, there's a song by Johnny Cash, Chicken in Black,
that came back very similar vibe.
And we established a couple weeks ago that I'm a Johnny Cash
fan. Johnny.
Hey there, I'm Johnny Cash. So how high do you think that
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one charged? I mean, it sounds like a theme
song from like a late 90s TV show.
Like it we have Convoy. It wasn't it?
Was it a theme song for something or?
No, I don't. Know I wouldn't be surprised if
they didn't make a movie about it because who knows.
I mean it, it sounds like it. It's a very dramatic song.
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Yeah. I mean, I don't know.
I'm not. Sometimes things chart that.
I'm not even. I'm.
I bet it charted. I think it we'll, we'll call it
17. Yeah, it was #1 on the country
and the pop. Star stop it.
Country and the pop chart. And it was, I was reading about
it, it was actually a kind of a protest song because at that
time there was a 1973, there waslike an oil crisis and they had
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all these rules that you couldn't drive over 55 miles an
hour and that kind of stuff. So that he kind of wrote it as.
A. You couldn't drive over 50.
Miles, they didn't want 55. They didn't to save gas because
it was such a shortage. Oh, so interesting.
Yeah, but what? This is what I understand.
You know what a convoy is, right?
They just. Yeah, like a trucker convoy.
And the cops are after them. Well, you got to stop and get
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gas. I don't understand.
You can't drive. They were literally in this
song. They're going from California to
New Jersey. People have to stop and get gas.
You have to go to the bathroom. So I don't understand.
They're talking about breaking through the barricades.
I don't know. It didn't make sense to.
Me. This is like a high speed chase
with a big 18 Wheeler or something or what?
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Listen to You gotta listen to the end of the song, you know,
and to find out what happened so.
Something about backing on out of there well.
I'm telling you so. That was Convoy.
All right, CWCW. What is it?
Macaw. Macaw.
All right. Like macaw.
Like a bird macaw like that I'm.Worried McCall LL OK, All right,
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now what happened 50 years ago? Do you know what happened 50
years ago? Well, let's put it this way, 50
years ago we're in 2025. That was 197075.
The same year that Convoy came out, this next song came out and
I'm just there was some major event that happened 50 years
ago. I don't know, is that was that
like the invention of the telephone?
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A movie came out. Oh.
Jaws 50 years ago. Did you ever see Jaws?
Do you know? What let me tell you about Jaws.
I went to the Lyric Theatre in Tupac, Mississippi and saw Jaws
and it scared the ever living daylights out of me because we
would go every summer to Gulf Shores, AL.
We had a cabin down there and wesaw Jaws and like 3 weeks later
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we did our weekend Gulf Shores and I wouldn't go past my knees
and my dad was so upset but I was scared to death of sharks.
That movie is terrible now. If you watch it now, it's so
cheesy. It really is.
Scared me half to death. Well, they have viewing parties
for the movie in a pool and now that's not something I would
like to do. I would they would show it like
it at night in a pool. Not a fan of that, but it is
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kind of cheesy. Have you seen Jaws 2?
That's the cheese capital of themovie industry.
Yeah, it was worse. OK, so the next one is called
Mr. Jaws and it was by this guy named Dickie Goodman.
I had this 45. Of course you did.
It's a satire. So what he.
Well, you listen and then we'll talk about.
It and you give me such a hard time for my music and you had
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all of these records. I told you I listened to
Eclectic and by the way, I was you 10.
I was 10 years old. OK so all I could afford was a
45 but obviously I wasn't the only one that liked.
This OK this is called Mr. jaws ( 1975 and parentheses.
No. That's what it says on.
That's what it says on the title.
But that's not the name of it. That's OK, so I'm going to.
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Challenge that. I don't think that's the proper
use of a parentheses. OK, go ahead.
Apple Music is lying Mr. Jaws byDickie Goodman here on the vinyl
curriculum. We are here on the beach.
Where a giant shark has just eaten a girl swimmer.
Hey, Jaws. Hey Jaws going to catch you.
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This is think of that. This is like a meme before
memes. Is that not like this?
This is a meme mask. Yeah, so he was taking clips
from popular songs at the time and throwing them in.
I thought it was hilarious. It is kind of funny, I guess.
Yeah. I don't know.
I don't. So what is satire, though?
(12:00):
You said something about satire.You know, you're taking it and
you're making something funny out of it, like novelty, like a
novelty record. There's another one in here
that's a novelty record, but youknow, it's, he's doing it to be
silly. And it worked.
Yeah. In fact, how?
How well do you think it worked?I, I mean, I, I feel like this
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is going to be a trend of numberones, but I, I, I can't say it
was #1 I'd say top five. We'll say 5, number 40.
OK. So yeah, I was close top five.
#4 I had to 45. OK.
All right now. And a 45.
So was there a reason that it was on a 45?
It was a single because you couldn't afford the album.
You'd buy the single. Just like remember they had the
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heck singles I don't know if andthen they had Did CDs have
singles? Probably not.
I don't think so. They had little mini CDs, maybe
I don't. Know but anyway, so yeah, you'd
get this you'd buy the single and then on the backside would
be the B side like we talked about with Fleetwood Mac you.
Know so but. So you get 2 songs for one.
And a 45 is how fast you would play it, right?
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Right. It was a 45.
On the record player you'd pick,you'd pick 45 and then it would
spin. And like see I always thought
there was more deeper meaning behind that.
Like, oh, this tempo of this song fits better with as a 45 or
I guess it doesn't really matter, right?
It didn't matter. That's how you played the song,
All right, Yeah. So this next one we're.
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All well, I'm learning things. Yes, you are.
That's this whole this whole podcast is educating Logan
parentheses. So now this next couple of songs
are interesting pop songs that have really unique stories
behind them. All right.
Run, Joey. Run Yeah by David Gettys Again,
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1975. This was a year of crazy music,
so listen to Run Joey Run. Run, Joey, Run.
And the album art is a little interesting, too.
This is this is a little bit different than our normal setup.
So I can see the album art and it's it's, I don't even know how
to describe that. Yeah, it's kind of cartoony.
I don't know anything about David Geddis.
(14:11):
No, and I don't think he will. OK, well.
It's very melodramatic teenage drama, but you got to listen to
the story. All right, I'll listen to the
story. This is run Joey run on the
vinyl curriculum. Daddy,
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please don't. It wasn't his fault.
So. So Joey is running from a the
parent of the girl. Yes, I see, and the girl I I got
major frosty the snowman vibes from her, like you know, Frosty
the snow. You know who sings that?
She sounds exactly like that person, So I don't know what I
don't know what the same. Girl, you just went down, but
you lost me. No, you know you know this.
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Drama and you're talking about. Frosty, that's all I can think
about. Yeah, that the girl.
I was originally going to say Jackson 5 for that, the girl's
voice. But listen, Daddy, please don't
Frosty the snowman. You had just ruined that song.
It was already ruined. Jolly.
Happy soul. It's too hot to be doing
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Christmas, but not in here. It's cold in here.
So yeah, she something happened.They don't say what happened,
but something happened. The father found out.
You can kind of assume, uh oh, because we're going to get
married. She told the dad.
Oh, and so she said don't come over.
Well, he went over. Uh oh.
And she was the dad snuck up behind him and had a gun and she
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said, daddy, please don't. And then he jumped in.
She jumped in the way and she got shot and she didn't make it.
And her dying words were, daddy,please don't.
It wasn't his fault. Isn't it tragic?
I had the 45. I've loved it. 10 year old me
loved it. This is like this is.
(16:02):
Weird. It's Vixen.
Get weirder. Oh.
So what do you think about Run, Joey?
Run. I feel like that that's got to
be a number one. No, it was number 40. close
enough, I know. I like that.
Better than the the other two. I think that to me that was
better. It was dramatic.
It was dramatic. It had a story.
You, your big theme a couple weeks ago when we were talking
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about Pink Floyd, The Wall, everything that has a story.
That was, in itself a story. Soap opera.
I got soap opera. There you go.
Very. Yeah.
That's an apartment description for it.
Now this next one, this was a couple years earlier.
This is 1971. I was 6 but somebody in my house
had to 45 because I remember playing it.
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That was a long time this. Song stirred a lot of
controversy. It's the tale of trapped minors.
What? They were trapped and something
happened and it was written by aguy named Rupert Holmes.
Do you know that song Escape thePina Colada song?
And you like pee in a colada? Worst song ever.
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Oh gosh, do you see that is no. He's OK, so he's laying in bed
with his girlfriend who he's tired of.
He's looking at the personal adsin the back, sees hey, let's
hook up message. OK.
So he writes her back, they hookup and it's they're his
girlfriend and they're like, howfunny, let's date again.
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Don't you think that's just the whole concept is ridiculous?
Well, when you explain it like that, it kind of is.
You gotta listen to the lyrics but anyway.
I like getting caught in the rain.
You like pina coladas? Yeah, but anyway, Rupert Holmes
wrote that, and that's why if you listen to Sirius 70s on 7 on
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Sirius, it's too many of his songs are on there because he
drives me crazy. But he wrote this song, Rupert.
'S like the name of a dog. I like Rupert.
That's a interesting name. I like that.
I had twin uncles named Ruben and Ruble.
Really. And Louis.
And Lois? Stop it.
They were twins too. There was this niece, though.
I mean an aunt and an uncle. Whoa.
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Ruben and Ruble, and then Louis and Louis.
My mother was youngest at 13. Oh my gosh.
What? Yeah, I didn't know that.
Yeah, she was. Wow.
OK. All right, this is called what?
Timothy by the buoys, the buoys buoys BUOYS like buoy.
Like you're on the water. Kind of like.
Last week's episode of Yacht Rock.
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All right, if you haven't heard Yacht Rock, it's streaming now
on Apple Podcast and Spotify. This is Timothy by the Buoys.
Timothy I like this one. Timothy find the buoys this
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they. Ate him.
They ate. What?
What they ate. Cannibalism.
Did you listen? No, there was three of them, but
only two of them came out. Timothy, where did you go?
Lord that Why don't I know? Oh my gosh, what?
That's not I was going to say this is like late 60s, early 70s
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like game show, you know, bell bottom pants, you know, collar
busted open down to the third rib down here.
You know, lot of lot of buttons,unbuttoned chest hair like old
hotel. I don't like stop with all these
descriptions. I get it, 71 so I was 6 but we
had that 45. Of course you did.
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Of course you did of. Course we did.
Yeah. But Rupert Holmes, he wrote it.
He wanted something controversial, and he knew he
couldn't talk about sex or drugsbecause they would be banned it.
So he wrote about cannibalism and some places banned it, but a
little more played it and it caused a lot of stir and people
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listen to it. And how high do you think it
went? To. 17.
Oh my gosh. What?
Logan, he was talking about cannibalism, that many people
are going to listen to that dude.
Yeah, but I don't know. Cannibalism is going to limit,
some people are not going to listen to it.
That though I feel like that wasa different time because during
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that time, are you all right? I don't.
Know my phone just freaked out. That time, that was when people
actually listen to the lyrics, like new music, the lyrics don't
even, you don't even understand what the lyrics are saying.
They're like, I call it mumble rap, not a big fan of mumble
rap, but like way back in the day here in the black and white
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TV time, everyone listened to every single word of the song
and analyzed it. I feel right because there was.
Are you the? Expert on this you're acting
like you know what you're talking about and you're just.
Speaking, I'm asking the teachera question.
Is this? Is this?
I did. I knew this is about
cannibalism. OK, well, but.
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And I knew why Joey was running.But do you think that's because
now the reason that nobody listens is because there's such
a plethora of media, whereas back then there was like 4 songs
that came out a year that peopleactually listen to?
That's just crazy what you just said.
(21:24):
No, we it you just didn't have video.
Like, so right now, so many songs, it had to do with the
video. Even you guys watch video on
YouTube, right? Yeah, Yeah.
I mean, the video makes songs. Back then, it was just what you
heard on the radio. So people were just trying like,
like I said, he just wanted something.
He wrote this song to try to getpeople to listen.
OK, well, we'll we'll do a cannibalism.
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They didn't make it. One guy came out.
Where'd you go? I don't know.
And it worked. I don't like.
That bizarre. No, it's weird.
I. Don't like that at all.
You know I need to cheer you up.Though I think so, I think this
little, I'm feeling a little down after that this.
Next time I'm going to cheer youup is by hot butter and it's
called popcorn. Hot butter.
You skipped one, but that's. OK, telephone, man, I had this
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45 too. Telephone.
But yeah, you're right, because she's another telling a story.
Oh boy, and. She had this style, she had
multiple songs and it. Do you know what a double
entendre is? Yes.
A double meaning, yes. It's I just, I had a shirt that
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had something on it that I remember someone said I can't
remember what it is. Maybe I will by the end of the
song, but. Well, this was about a double
entendre story and she kind of that was what she's known for.
I had this 45 too. Of course she did.
Telephone Man by Mary Wilson. Mary Wilson And there's no
relation to Meredith Wilson, thefamous composer of Broadway
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musicals. Could be it's MERI, it could be
the same person. Meredith Mary could be short for
Meredith, it might be the same woman.
I think Meredith is a double entendre in her what she does
for a. Living.
I'm pretty sure Meredith is a man, but OK telephone.
Meredith is a man. I dude, I don't know.
This was back in the 60s. Where?
Who the heck knows? What's going on?
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I'm excited. This is this is a good one.
OK, this is Telephone Man Parentheses.
Original version parentheses. Mary Wilson here on the vinyl
curriculum. This is.
I feel like I'm blushing over here after listening to this
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song. You know, we can't play the
entire song, so we had, this is a very short song.
That's why we had to cut so muchof this off.
It is, you know. Yeah, she's just getting her
phone installed. I'm sure that's what's going on
here, getting her phone installed real good.
She got a Ding, a Ling, OK Oh God, oh God.
(24:00):
OK, please never say that again.I had that 45.
Oh boy. What?
How high do you think this one went?
One no. What?
No. Stop dude.
I don't get how does it too riskprobably too risque for the mass
vast majority of people. I do.
I would think that well, I guessthis is. 12 year olds liked it,
I had to worry about. It this isn't what was it.
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The 60s, though, is when the rebellious age started, right?
Yeah, but this was in the what year did this one come?
It was 70. 70s so. This was after the rebellious
age. I would think that like.
People when Boston was playing, Yeah, but anyway.
OK, well, interesting song Telephone Man by Mary Wilson.
But she died in a car wreck in 2002.
Aw. Yeah, on the icy Rd.
(24:47):
This is supposed to bring up thefeels Jim and.
I feel like every single popcornpopcorn but hot butter is going
to do that. Hot butter hot, butter hot.
Play popcorn by hot butter. No, so popcorn.
I mean, I've, I've heard of other songs called popcorn.
I I imagine I haven't heard thissong.
(25:08):
Maybe this is it. Maybe this is it you.
Might know this one. Hot Butter.
My favorite name of a group I think that I've ever heard.
Hot butter popcorn on the vinyl curriculum.
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I have heard this song, Jim. I have.
I was so excited I heard it playing.
Did did it pick up your spirits?It did.
Good. Did you?
There was a popular guy who was on Britain's Got Talent.
His name is Vigo Van and he comes out and doesn't act to
this song where he goes inside aballoon and bounces around.
(25:53):
No, I did not see that. But see, here's that you like
this now because there's a reference to something that you
remember. Yes.
So there's a trend, this whole thing.
This is my kind of music. This is that.
Yes. Oh, yeah.
I love this. This.
Yeah. Put it on your playlist.
We're going to, we're going to give this an A.
OK, we're not doing AIDS. How?
All right. Did America give it an A?
(26:15):
What do you how high? Well, you, you said you were how
old when this song came out? Seven, seven years old.
I bet it was really popular withteenagers and boys.
Popcorn. Why?
I don't know. It just sounds like I love.
I don't know. I don't, I don't know about
that. I think boys were teenage boys
were probably listening to 16-9 stop.
(26:37):
I'm so bad at well, how would you know?
How would you know? Yeah, I don't know.
OK, All right. Popcorn.
Now you're going to know the next one, at least part of it.
The next 177 Star Wars came out,Yeah.
And so MECO Miko, Meko Miko decided to put the music and
(27:00):
they released it. OK, so so this is this is from
the movie star. Wars No, he just took it and
then he put it on an album called Star Wars and Other
Galactic Funk. If you want to go to the video,
the vinyl store and pick that one up.
Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk.
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I wanted to do a days. I want to do a podcast about 70s
funk like Funkadelic. Uncle Jam wants you.
Funko what now? Funkadelic in Parliament in the
name of the album was Uncle Jam wants you OK, really good.
But anyway try this is called Star Wars themed cantina band.
It's that's later on, but maybe what we can start talking over
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and later on we can do the Cantina band.
OK, so but this is, this is called.
This is what did you say? This is called galactic funk.
The album is galactic funk, but.This is kind of funky.
Yeah. I like it.
Oh, yeah. This is where it's at.
(28:03):
You want to just take a listen now?
Yeah. All right.
This is like Viva Las Vegas, something you hear like in the
(28:25):
70s at the casino in Vegas. It's just the Star Wars
soundtrack with a disco beat. I don't know.
Oh, now we have a little R2 action.
Yeah, and in a minute we'll turnit back up.
In a minute. They're playing the when they
were in the little. Cantina Yeah, yeah, I like the
the laser sound effects. Pew.
Pew. I don't think you guys
understood how when Star Wars came out, how big of a deal it.
(28:47):
Was oh, I knew I yeah, that was one of those momentum shifting
movies. Yeah, and you watch it now and
it's like, oh, that looks like apotato because.
It probably wasn't. It was a potato, but back then,
you know, it's like, wow, loved it.
You know how they made the lasersounds?
They had like a taut cable that they would bang with a wrench
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and. Then go Pew Pew.
Oh, there we go. I'm glad you I can't see him
right now. This is I'm loving this.
This might be my favorite episode.
Good of crappy songs. No, this is not crappy songs.
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Come on now, this is literally just put a disco beat behind
something. The soundtrack is good, but just
put a disco beat behind it. But this is songs that I can get
up and dance to. I'm going to save this playlist.
We're going to play. It in the car, we're going to do
a dance podcast and then you're going to have to love every one
of them because everyone is going to be a dance song.
I think we should we should start doing this on video so
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people can see my wonderful dancing.
I don't know if we'd have audience by then, but.
All right, that is the Star Warsthemed Cantina Band by Meko and.
Then how high do you think that one went?
That's got to be top ten. That's got to be 7.
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Number one for two year, 2 weeksin a row.
Wow, they're not messing around here.
Now on the disco theme, this next one is no different.
It's called Hooked on Classics Part 1 and 2 by the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra. And this is 81.
So like this is, I won't want tosay that not that long ago
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because it was still a long timeago.
It was almost 15. Years ago 16 yeah, there was
hooks on hooked on Classics, Hooked on.
There was other ones too. I.
Can't. It was hooked on phonics, but I
think that was a schoolhouse rock.
Episode that was Helen learn howto read all right, listen to
hooks on classics and tell me what you think about all right.
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Hooked on classic parts one and two?
Yeah, let's take a listen. I've never seen him bounce
around like he's been doing. This is fantastic.
(31:14):
I just favorited this song on myphone right now.
This is adding this is This songis getting added to my this
isn't This might even be the first A+ song that we've heard
on the show and. We're not even grading this one.
I know, but it's listen to this Oh, a little fit of.
Beethoven, I remember hearing onthe radio.
I didn't have this one. Well, actually, maybe I did.
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It's Part 1 and 2, but it's really just one song.
I don't know why they did that. It's Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
I'm impressed. So how high do you think do you
think America? Has to be #1 This has to be a
number one. #10 I was, I was, well, they were talking.
I was telling you my number one there used to be hooked on.
There were other ones. I'm gonna have to Google that
(32:00):
because there were other ones and they would just do
different, you know, songs and put them to do medleys.
They Mozart. There was a there was a one for
Beatles songs. And anyway, yeah, Hooked on
classics. See Hooked on Phonics was one I
just looked it up right now. But that's not a music thing, is
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it? I have no idea I.
Don't think so. All right, so now this is 1981.
Another big thing that was happening in 1981 was video
games. Yep.
And go ahead and play this next one and then we'll talk about
it. Afterwards, all right, we're not
even going to say say the name, we're just going to play we're.
Going to play it because I thinkyou'll get it.
All right, here we go. Oh, man, I think I've got a
(32:51):
fever. And the only prescription more
cowbell. Now, you know, out went to
Mississippi State and in our football games, they play that
clip because we have cowbells. Yeah.
And they play that clip and it gets everybody riled up.
This is great this. That song was terrible.
That song was terrible. I will say with authority, this
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is with me being 100% sincere right now.
This is my favorite episode thatwe've recorded.
You're not a music, you're not amusic fan.
You just want jokes. No, it's not jokes.
This is this is the vibe we're. Going to do a disco podcast
because I think you will won't be able.
To stand in. Yeah, well, I'm sitting right
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now and you're lucky because otherwise I'd be moving and
grooving all around the room. Yeah, How so?
How high was this one? Pac-Man was pretty popular in
the what year was this 80? This is 81. 81 When did Pac-Man
come out? Probably around that time, I
don't. Probably around that time, I
think the people try to jump on the.
See, I, I would say, I would sayit's it charted high because I
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liked it. So I'm going to go, I'm going to
guess 17. #9. OK.
But you know, remember kind of when Angry Birds came out and
you see T-shirts and you there was a movie and.
The movie was much later though.The Movie.
Was, I don't know, but that's kind of what happened.
You know, you see T-shirts you'dsee.
I remember when Thriller came out.
You see 75 year old grandmas with a Thriller shirt on and
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it's like, what's happening here?
Yeah, but that 2.5 million copies of that record were sold.
And that's crappy. I'm sorry.
That's too bad. Was this the 45?
Yeah, I'm sure there was an album too, but I I think that
would be the same. You didn't have.
I did not have that one. No, I stopped.
I didn't buy any of this. Buckner and Garcia is who this
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is by. I want to bring up one more
thing about that Hooked on classics.
First of all, you looked it up. Hooked on Swing, Hooked on Mute
movies. There was a bunch of them.
Yeah, there was. Yeah.
Hooked on classics. Hooked on swing instruments,
Rock classics, themes, Dixie rhythm and classics, Dancing,
polkas. Country.
Barack Classics again. Barack Obama.
(35:02):
No BARO. Baroque.
Baroque. OK, kind of like when you're
young, you're baroque. Yeah, but that's why I don't
understand how you had all these40 fives.
Because they were cheap and you'd I'd go to the Gibsons and
they would have a a shopping cart of all the cheap ones and I
would just buy them. But I wanted to say something
(35:23):
about the Hooked on Classics I read and I'm now we're in
Chicagoland. So we're Bear fans, we're not
Packer fans, but I heard that they play that song at Lambeau
Field after every win. So if someone is a Packer fan, I
would like to know if that is a true statement.
According to Wikipedia that is true.
OK. According to Wikipedia, Hooked
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on Classics Part 1 is usually played at Lambeau Field after
every Green Bay Packers home victory.
OK, so wicked Wikipedia doesn't lie.
And well, it kind of does. It's not a reliable source,
that's what I learned, but that's.
Well, the next one is Frank Zappa.
I've heard of Frank Zappa. Do you know what his daughter's
(36:06):
name is? No.
Moon Unit Zappa. Moon.
Unit unit. But I think she goes by Moon.
This was in 1982. Moon Unit.
And Valley Girl kind of the talkwas out.
And so for some reason, Frank and his daughter decided to make
(36:30):
this song called Valley Girl. Valley girl, Is this talking
about Moon? No, it is moon singing.
I see. All right, let's take a listen.
Let's take a listen anyway. Hey guys, are you into asking
them? I go, oh, right.
Could you like just all right, we need to, we need to turn
(36:52):
that. On enough of that, right?
That is not good. Very starts a contract.
To hit and people started going around saying gag me with a
spoon. Oh.
God. Barf.
And yeah, it was a. Horrible time it was.
It was Top 40. It was.
Was it top 20? I don't know, I'm asking you.
There's no way this was top 20. I'm gonna go 22.
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It was 32. OK, I guess that's called Val
speak when you talk Valley girl like that.
Like, Oh my God, like Can you believe that guy?
Right now, I know you were a radio major, right?
Yes. You probably didn't do very well
from what we hear, but but this next guy was a DJ in Memphis.
(37:36):
OK. And he came out with this song
and it was a hit, and his radio station, WMPS, would not let him
play it. And he played it and they fired
him. And so then his competition
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hired him, and he could play it.It's just a back story, but
listen to this song. It's called Disco Duck.
Disco Duck. By Dick D, Rick Dees and his
cast of idiots. Rick.
Dees, Rick, Dees have. You ever heard of him?
No. Yeah.
But this is a solid Elmo Mart aswell.
Yeah, We got like a Donald Duck theme going on.
(38:18):
Here, No, it's the disco duck. But you're going to like this
because it's disco beat. All right, you know, yeah,
that's what I you know how to get to my heart here, Jim.
I appreciate that disco duck on the vinyl curriculum.
Well, on a positive note, this guy's Donald Duck impression is
(38:41):
pretty much spot on. That's not Donald Duck.
That's Disco Duck. Well, I understand that, but.
I'm sure there's a copyright issue.
We're. Going for Donald Duck?
No, you're going for disco duck.You know, there's a really good
Donald Duck impression is Tom Cruise.
I can sneeze like Donald Duck. It's unbelievable.
I don't, I'm not a fan. I don't like this.
(39:03):
This is this. Is that's got to be?
I don't understand. It's got to be and he, I think
it's because he was a radio DJ. Is that what the problem?
Was because I'm just a hater? Is that what you're saying?
No. Isn't that weird though?
They wouldn't let him play it. No, this was a different time,
though. Radio was much more popular back
then and it's all like, it's allbased on like what people want
(39:24):
to hear and if the people are turning off the station and if
they thought people would turn off the station when this song
came on. Well, how high do you think it
went? 17 number one.
No, it didn't. I did.
Oh my God. Yep.
(39:46):
Now I want to tell you, yeah. This is not good.
He, I mean, he made the rounds. I remember he would, he made the
rounds. You see him on TV shows and I
think he got first, it was just him and then I think he got some
people together and they went ontour.
And the people who went on tour,they had another guy doing the
Disco the Duck impression, but Ithink that was him at first.
(40:10):
Now the next one was 89. This is the last, the latest
one. This is our last, the last song
of the hour. No, Yes.
No. This is Prince.
Is it because I don't have that on my playlist?
We got to get it on there. Look up bat dance.
What's it called? Bat Dance.
Bat. Dance by.
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Prince All right and OK, I thinkI know this.
Yeah. I think I know and I have to say
this is the worst song ever. But the other day I watched the
video. It is.
The reason it was successful wasbecause of the video.
Because by this time MTV is out.Prince was great at videos and
(40:52):
but they they did, he did the music for this soundtrack.
I didn't think this is terrible.Is this so I I see the album art
is the Batman logo? Yep.
Is this was this part of the Batman movie?
He did the soundtrack, yeah. And so, but this was part of the
soundtrack. It was on the soundtrack, I
don't know if I'm assuming they played it in.
(41:12):
Music. Let's listen to it and then I'll
tell you because that's one of my favorite movies of all time,
so let's take a listen. This is called Bat Dance by
Prince on the vinyl curriculum. Oh I got a live 1 here.
That is from the movie. Well, peace is like they
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literally played it. They played it as is or they
just took. There was a scene in the movie
where they did a dance. Oh, I think.
The bat dance. Apparently.
I mean that. I mean, like I said, the video
was fine, but listen that in thecar.
Stop it. Nobody wants to hear that.
(41:56):
What is? Yeah, that's.
It's just too much. It's a little much.
That's Prince song, though, so Ilove Prince, I know.
And a lot of people love Prince,so I imagine it charted pretty
high. We'll go top, we'll go from
number. 4 #1. Yeah, if it was anyone other
than Prince, I feel like it wouldn't, it wouldn't have done
it. Right.
(42:16):
But like the video, people were so excited.
You know who else Queen did the soundtrack to flash the movie?
Flash Gordon. Yeah, Flash.
And I was so excited, you know, because I do love Queen and it
was a weird. I mean, the soundtrack was like,
it is instrumental is like strange.
Yeah. So I don't know if I don't know
(42:38):
what his other sounds were about.
Like on that soundtrack. I didn't have it but.
The Bat Dance album, Whatever album, whatever the name of this
album is. I'm guessing it's just Batman
soundtrack. Yeah, it's just called Batman as
the album. Yeah.
So. So there's only one more
there's. Only one more.
Are you sad? Well, and now, because I know
what the last song is. But you know what?
(42:59):
I did this because the other dayyou attempted.
No. To sing Falsetta.
And it was disturbing and it reminded me, oh, there's another
disturbing Falsetta voice. Falsetto.
I can. I'll do my impression for you
after if you. I really don't want to hear.
It I think people, the people want to hear it.
I don't think so. So this is Tiptoe through the
(43:20):
Tulips. This is actually a song from
1929. Yeah, and well, Tiny Tim, Yep,
let's take a listen. Come tiptoe through the.
Tulips. He doesn't have a very good
false set of voice, but it's better than yours.
(43:40):
Let's hear. It.
All right, go, everyone go look at the album art on this
playlist. That's what my face looks like
(44:02):
right now. Flower power.
No, the album art for our playlist.
My green face, because I'm aboutto.
Chuck, that was a quality sun and on Jim, that's got to be #1.
That was #17 Oh my God, you knowwhat this guy, I remember, he
was all, he was on TV. He got married on TV.
(44:24):
He was just kind of a such a unique.
Character. He got married to Miss Vicki
back in 1969. I wonder if that's the same Miss
Vicki. Miss Vicki's chips.
She makes good kettle chips, I tell you what.
I do, I like the jalapeno ones. Yeah, the Salt and Vinegar.
I'm a big fan, but this, I, I said it before, I'm going to say
it again, this has been my favorite episode of the vinyl
(44:47):
curriculum that we've recorded so far.
I'm just, I'm different. I have a lot of different songs
that I like to listen to. And so I think that's why, I
mean, some of them were not good, some of them were not
good, but. Well, yeah, And unfortunately,
everything that you liked has tohave a disco beat.
That's what I. Don't feel bothers about disco
but something that I can you know.
(45:09):
You know, last week, shake a little groove thing.
Too. You know what I mean?
Last week we listened to some wonderful yacht rock songs.
We're going to keep, you know, expanding.
We're going to see what's next. Well, I do have to say though
that there was a couple songs from a couple weeks ago when we
did the Second British Invasion.Yep, that I had played in the
(45:31):
car and I've played a few times since then.
People Are People was one of my favourites from that week and
I've played it a few times so. By Depeche Mode, I think is what
you call. That mode, yeah, Depeche Mode.
But yeah, it's been fun. I like this a lot.
I had assigned A grenade. I know we're not doing this this
episode. I'd give it an A minus for the
day, even though you're supposedwe're supposed to be whatever
(45:53):
you said, throwing up or up chucking or whatever weird that
you used. But.
Well, like I said, I I liked them at the time, a lot of them,
and obviously other people did too.
But with looking back, it's like, you know, do we really
need to do that again? It kind of goes with the theme
of, you know, you learn and you listen and you hopefully don't
repeat. So I don't want to hear another
(46:15):
run Joey run. Ever.
No, I agree, but this has been episode 5 of the vinyl
curriculum. If you haven't heard episodes
one through 4, you can search them up on Spotify and Apple
podcast. Search the vinyl curriculum.
You'll see a cartoon picture of me and Jim this episode.
You'll see a nice green faced 1 and an album art for this by the
(46:35):
way, for each episode looks fantastic.
I had to. I had to compliment you on that
because you did a great job with.
That and I want to also add we have a web page, it's just a
single page, it's vinyl curriculum.card.co and it's
CARRD. So that's got links to all of
the if you're going to listen live on Mondays at noon, it's
(46:57):
got a link to that. It's got our playlists for each
week and it's also got links to the podcast, so final
curriculum.card.co and it's CARRD.
On there's also the phone number, you can call and leave
us a message. We might play it on air,
815-733-8517. You can also send us a text.
I get all those. So I'll be much monitoring that,
(47:19):
which is great. So thank you for another great
episode and we'll catch you all on the next one.
You spend time, Logan.
Every record tells a story. Independent labels.
I think a lot of interesting songs came out of that.
And every generation has a soundtrack.
The only hip you have in your body is made of titanium.
This is the final curriculum with Logan.
Apparently I don't know very much about anything.
Somebody calls her Tay Tay. Hey, it's slogan.
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Just a quick heads up before we get into it.
This episode was originally recorded live on WLRA radio
where we are able to play all the songs that we talked about.
Unfortunately, due to copyright restrictions, we can't include
the music here on the podcast. So anytime you hear this sound,
that means we're skipping over asong that we originally played
(00:44):
on air. But don't worry, Jim's put
together a playlist with all thetracks from the episode.
So you can still follow along. Just check the link in the shown
ups. All right, now on to the
episode. All right, welcome back to
another episode of the Vinyl Curriculum.
Logan and Jim here in the studiofor this podcast exclusive
(01:05):
episode of the Vinyl Curriculum.Jim, how we doing today?
Doing great. A little nervous about this not
laying on the radio. I don't know how this is going
to turn out. It'll turn out just fine because
we are what you call professionals.
At least I'm a professional. I don't know what I'd call you.
I don't know. Amateur hour over here.
Let's find out. We'll find out.
That's OK. I'm excited.
We've got a good episode today, I think.
(01:27):
Right? You.
You didn't tell me very much about what this is.
I did not tell you this is, you know, this is this episode is a
direct response from something you said on episode 2.
And if you don't mind, I'd like you to play that clip I sent you
all. Right, well, let's go in the Way
Back machine here. We'll go a little bit back to
episode #2 and we'll see. We'll see what Jim's talking
(01:49):
about here. So I can appreciate that.
It's a Queen song, which again, I I don't care about the lore of
the song, but I did like it. You know, history is important.
Why do we, why when we're in at the university level, we're in
high school, why do we study history?
We need to know you need to knowthe history of some of these
(02:09):
things because it might influence you how you think
about it. No, we study history, so we
don't repeat it. That's why we study history.
So unless you're studying the history, so we'd never hear this
song again, I feel like that's not a very valid reason to be
concerned with the history. I don't know.
I. Hope your high school history
teacher is not listening to you right now.
(02:29):
Who was that? Feel like we're in a time
machine here. This is.
That was very dreamy. Yes, it.
Was it was, it was very dreamy, but we got a little bit of a
taste of my thoughts on history.And you don't like that
interpretation, you know that's.Really a crappy, you know, but I
(02:50):
want to prove your point. There are some songs that have
been released and actually some songs have been pretty
successful that we should never do that again, We should never
repeat them. So that's what today's episode 5
of this podcast is going to be called.
Mistakes. Oh boy, mistakes.
Mistakes. You have not heard these songs
ahead of time. Now you might know some of them.
(03:11):
I don't know. I don't know.
Well my musical knowledge is is all over the map, so I feel like
sometimes some of these weird songs I might be more familiar
with than some of the more well known ones like we've had in the
past couple weeks. You might.
Now, I don't know if you really need to grade these like you
typically do because I think we can assume a bad grade and maybe
(03:34):
if there's one that you feel is a good grade, you say it, but
this goes from 1986 and mostly in the 70s, but there are few in
the 80s all the way up to 89. Oh, well, that's interesting.
Yeah, I like that. I like that a lot.
I do want to remind the people that we have something new that
we've got going on for feedback.Let's take a listen to that.
(03:56):
Why don't we? Part of the show.
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(04:16):
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Again, that number is 815-733-8517 if you want to give
us some feedback. If let us know how terrible
these songs actually are. I'm getting nervous.
Jim, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm telling you, these are terrible,
but I had many of these 40 fives.
I purchased these. It's just looking back now, it's
like, you know, what were we thinking?
(04:58):
I don't know. I mean, I, I feel that with a
lot of the music you brought to the table, I'm completely honest
with you. Stop it.
You know you, I play some reallygood music so far and it's only
going to get better. In your opinion, maybe, but
that's OK. All right, So what is this first
song? All right, 1975 also, I want to
(05:18):
when you play the song, I want you to guess how high this song
charted. OK, each song just guess kind of
so. Maybe instead of the grade,
we'll go. Yeah.
How high do you think this charted or did it chart?
OK, actually they all did. They all charted.
So I'm going to give it and. The chart is Top 100, Top 40,
Top 40. In the USA all right, this first
(05:39):
one in the seven in 75 there waslike this trucker theme going on
in my dad had like a. Trucker.
ACB in the car and we went on a trip one time out West when my
sister was Spacey Tracy and we would be on the that was her CB
name or whatever you call it. So as we drive you, you're
(06:00):
bored, you're driving in the car.
We didn't have Spotify, so we'reon the CB and we're listening
and my sister got on and she's like, hey, this is Spacey Tracy.
Well, my dad had to stop that because people were like, hey,
I'm at mile marker marker 7. Why don't you pull on over
Spacey, Tracy and. Oh boy.
So my dad stopped that, but thisconvoy trucking, it was a big
(06:21):
thing. This is called Convoy by C.W.
McCall. So let's back up for a second.
So our our CB names like rapper names, like my rapper name is
Big Milk. Can I use that?
What can I use Big milk? Like a tall glass of white milk.
I'm Big Milk. That is my that's offensive.
I don't like that at all. Don't ever call yourself big
(06:43):
milk in my presence. That's terrible.
OK, Yeah. If you were, you had to have A
and you'll hear in this song people had their they were
saying what they're. I don't know what you're called.
I don't know. Big milk.
OK, well. Convoy listen.
Convoy by CW. McCall.
Convoy by C.W. McCall.
Let's take a listen here. Breaker 19 This here's a rubber
(07:08):
duck. That's a little Johnny Cash.
Ask Jim. Yeah.
That is, there's a song by Johnny Cash, Chicken in Black,
that came back very similar vibe.
And we established a couple weeks ago that I'm a Johnny Cash
fan. Johnny.
Hey there, I'm Johnny Cash. So how high do you think that
(07:29):
one charged? I mean, it sounds like a theme
song from like a late 90s TV show.
Like it we have Convoy. It wasn't it?
Was it a theme song for something or?
No, I don't. Know I wouldn't be surprised if
they didn't make a movie about it because who knows.
I mean it, it sounds like it. It's a very dramatic song.
(07:51):
Yeah. I mean, I don't know.
I'm not. Sometimes things chart that.
I'm not even. I'm.
I bet it charted. I think it we'll, we'll call it
17. Yeah, it was #1 on the country
and the pop. Star stop it.
Country and the pop chart. And it was, I was reading about
it, it was actually a kind of a protest song because at that
time there was a 1973, there waslike an oil crisis and they had
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all these rules that you couldn't drive over 55 miles an
hour and that kind of stuff. So that he kind of wrote it as.
A. You couldn't drive over 50.
Miles, they didn't want 55. They didn't to save gas because
it was such a shortage. Oh, so interesting.
Yeah, but what? This is what I understand.
You know what a convoy is, right?
They just. Yeah, like a trucker convoy.
And the cops are after them. Well, you got to stop and get
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gas. I don't understand.
You can't drive. They were literally in this
song. They're going from California to
New Jersey. People have to stop and get gas.
You have to go to the bathroom. So I don't understand.
They're talking about breaking through the barricades.
I don't know. It didn't make sense to.
Me. This is like a high speed chase
with a big 18 Wheeler or something or what?
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Listen to You gotta listen to the end of the song, you know,
and to find out what happened so.
Something about backing on out of there well.
I'm telling you so. That was Convoy.
All right, CWCW. What is it?
Macaw. Macaw.
All right. Like macaw.
Like a bird macaw like that I'm.Worried McCall LL OK, All right,
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now what happened 50 years ago? Do you know what happened 50
years ago? Well, let's put it this way, 50
years ago we're in 2025. That was 197075.
The same year that Convoy came out, this next song came out and
I'm just there was some major event that happened 50 years
ago. I don't know, is that was that
like the invention of the telephone?
(09:44):
A movie came out. Oh.
Jaws 50 years ago. Did you ever see Jaws?
Do you know? What let me tell you about Jaws.
I went to the Lyric Theatre in Tupac, Mississippi and saw Jaws
and it scared the ever living daylights out of me because we
would go every summer to Gulf Shores, AL.
We had a cabin down there and wesaw Jaws and like 3 weeks later
(10:08):
we did our weekend Gulf Shores and I wouldn't go past my knees
and my dad was so upset but I was scared to death of sharks.
That movie is terrible now. If you watch it now, it's so
cheesy. It really is.
Scared me half to death. Well, they have viewing parties
for the movie in a pool and now that's not something I would
like to do. I would they would show it like
it at night in a pool. Not a fan of that, but it is
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kind of cheesy. Have you seen Jaws 2?
That's the cheese capital of themovie industry.
Yeah, it was worse. OK, so the next one is called
Mr. Jaws and it was by this guy named Dickie Goodman.
I had this 45. Of course you did.
It's a satire. So what he.
Well, you listen and then we'll talk about.
It and you give me such a hard time for my music and you had
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all of these records. I told you I listened to
Eclectic and by the way, I was you 10.
I was 10 years old. OK so all I could afford was a
45 but obviously I wasn't the only one that liked.
This OK this is called Mr. jaws ( 1975 and parentheses.
No. That's what it says on.
That's what it says on the title.
But that's not the name of it. That's OK, so I'm going to.
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Challenge that. I don't think that's the proper
use of a parentheses. OK, go ahead.
Apple Music is lying Mr. Jaws byDickie Goodman here on the vinyl
curriculum. We are here on the beach.
Where a giant shark has just eaten a girl swimmer.
Hey, Jaws. Hey Jaws going to catch you.
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This is think of that. This is like a meme before
memes. Is that not like this?
This is a meme mask. Yeah, so he was taking clips
from popular songs at the time and throwing them in.
I thought it was hilarious. It is kind of funny, I guess.
Yeah. I don't know.
I don't. So what is satire, though?
(12:00):
You said something about satire.You know, you're taking it and
you're making something funny out of it, like novelty, like a
novelty record. There's another one in here
that's a novelty record, but youknow, it's, he's doing it to be
silly. And it worked.
Yeah. In fact, how?
How well do you think it worked?I, I mean, I, I feel like this
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is going to be a trend of numberones, but I, I, I can't say it
was #1 I'd say top five. We'll say 5, number 40.
OK. So yeah, I was close top five.
#4 I had to 45. OK.
All right now. And a 45.
So was there a reason that it was on a 45?
It was a single because you couldn't afford the album.
You'd buy the single. Just like remember they had the
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heck singles I don't know if andthen they had Did CDs have
singles? Probably not.
I don't think so. They had little mini CDs, maybe
I don't. Know but anyway, so yeah, you'd
get this you'd buy the single and then on the backside would
be the B side like we talked about with Fleetwood Mac you.
Know so but. So you get 2 songs for one.
And a 45 is how fast you would play it, right?
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Right. It was a 45.
On the record player you'd pick,you'd pick 45 and then it would
spin. And like see I always thought
there was more deeper meaning behind that.
Like, oh, this tempo of this song fits better with as a 45 or
I guess it doesn't really matter, right?
It didn't matter. That's how you played the song,
All right, Yeah. So this next one we're.
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All well, I'm learning things. Yes, you are.
That's this whole this whole podcast is educating Logan
parentheses. So now this next couple of songs
are interesting pop songs that have really unique stories
behind them. All right.
Run, Joey. Run Yeah by David Gettys Again,
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1975. This was a year of crazy music,
so listen to Run Joey Run. Run, Joey, Run.
And the album art is a little interesting, too.
This is this is a little bit different than our normal setup.
So I can see the album art and it's it's, I don't even know how
to describe that. Yeah, it's kind of cartoony.
I don't know anything about David Geddis.
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No, and I don't think he will. OK, well.
It's very melodramatic teenage drama, but you got to listen to
the story. All right, I'll listen to the
story. This is run Joey run on the
vinyl curriculum. Daddy,
(14:33):
please don't. It wasn't his fault.
So. So Joey is running from a the
parent of the girl. Yes, I see, and the girl I I got
major frosty the snowman vibes from her, like you know, Frosty
the snow. You know who sings that?
She sounds exactly like that person, So I don't know what I
don't know what the same. Girl, you just went down, but
you lost me. No, you know you know this.
(14:55):
Drama and you're talking about. Frosty, that's all I can think
about. Yeah, that the girl.
I was originally going to say Jackson 5 for that, the girl's
voice. But listen, Daddy, please don't
Frosty the snowman. You had just ruined that song.
It was already ruined. Jolly.
Happy soul. It's too hot to be doing
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Christmas, but not in here. It's cold in here.
So yeah, she something happened.They don't say what happened,
but something happened. The father found out.
You can kind of assume, uh oh, because we're going to get
married. She told the dad.
Oh, and so she said don't come over.
Well, he went over. Uh oh.
And she was the dad snuck up behind him and had a gun and she
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said, daddy, please don't. And then he jumped in.
She jumped in the way and she got shot and she didn't make it.
And her dying words were, daddy,please don't.
It wasn't his fault. Isn't it tragic?
I had the 45. I've loved it. 10 year old me
loved it. This is like this is.
(16:02):
Weird. It's Vixen.
Get weirder. Oh.
So what do you think about Run, Joey?
Run. I feel like that that's got to
be a number one. No, it was number 40. close
enough, I know. I like that.
Better than the the other two. I think that to me that was
better. It was dramatic.
It was dramatic. It had a story.
You, your big theme a couple weeks ago when we were talking
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about Pink Floyd, The Wall, everything that has a story.
That was, in itself a story. Soap opera.
I got soap opera. There you go.
Very. Yeah.
That's an apartment description for it.
Now this next one, this was a couple years earlier.
This is 1971. I was 6 but somebody in my house
had to 45 because I remember playing it.
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That was a long time this. Song stirred a lot of
controversy. It's the tale of trapped minors.
What? They were trapped and something
happened and it was written by aguy named Rupert Holmes.
Do you know that song Escape thePina Colada song?
And you like pee in a colada? Worst song ever.
(17:08):
Oh gosh, do you see that is no. He's OK, so he's laying in bed
with his girlfriend who he's tired of.
He's looking at the personal adsin the back, sees hey, let's
hook up message. OK.
So he writes her back, they hookup and it's they're his
girlfriend and they're like, howfunny, let's date again.
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Don't you think that's just the whole concept is ridiculous?
Well, when you explain it like that, it kind of is.
You gotta listen to the lyrics but anyway.
I like getting caught in the rain.
You like pina coladas? Yeah, but anyway, Rupert Holmes
wrote that, and that's why if you listen to Sirius 70s on 7 on
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Sirius, it's too many of his songs are on there because he
drives me crazy. But he wrote this song, Rupert.
'S like the name of a dog. I like Rupert.
That's a interesting name. I like that.
I had twin uncles named Ruben and Ruble.
Really. And Louis.
And Lois? Stop it.
They were twins too. There was this niece, though.
I mean an aunt and an uncle. Whoa.
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Ruben and Ruble, and then Louis and Louis.
My mother was youngest at 13. Oh my gosh.
What? Yeah, I didn't know that.
Yeah, she was. Wow.
OK. All right, this is called what?
Timothy by the buoys, the buoys buoys BUOYS like buoy.
Like you're on the water. Kind of like.
Last week's episode of Yacht Rock.
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All right, if you haven't heard Yacht Rock, it's streaming now
on Apple Podcast and Spotify. This is Timothy by the Buoys.
Timothy I like this one. Timothy find the buoys this
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they. Ate him.
They ate. What?
What they ate. Cannibalism.
Did you listen? No, there was three of them, but
only two of them came out. Timothy, where did you go?
Lord that Why don't I know? Oh my gosh, what?
That's not I was going to say this is like late 60s, early 70s
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like game show, you know, bell bottom pants, you know, collar
busted open down to the third rib down here.
You know, lot of lot of buttons,unbuttoned chest hair like old
hotel. I don't like stop with all these
descriptions. I get it, 71 so I was 6 but we
had that 45. Of course you did.
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Of course you did of. Course we did.
Yeah. But Rupert Holmes, he wrote it.
He wanted something controversial, and he knew he
couldn't talk about sex or drugsbecause they would be banned it.
So he wrote about cannibalism and some places banned it, but a
little more played it and it caused a lot of stir and people
(20:02):
listen to it. And how high do you think it
went? To. 17.
Oh my gosh. What?
Logan, he was talking about cannibalism, that many people
are going to listen to that dude.
Yeah, but I don't know. Cannibalism is going to limit,
some people are not going to listen to it.
That though I feel like that wasa different time because during
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that time, are you all right? I don't.
Know my phone just freaked out. That time, that was when people
actually listen to the lyrics, like new music, the lyrics don't
even, you don't even understand what the lyrics are saying.
They're like, I call it mumble rap, not a big fan of mumble
rap, but like way back in the day here in the black and white
(20:42):
TV time, everyone listened to every single word of the song
and analyzed it. I feel right because there was.
Are you the? Expert on this you're acting
like you know what you're talking about and you're just.
Speaking, I'm asking the teachera question.
Is this? Is this?
I did. I knew this is about
cannibalism. OK, well, but.
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And I knew why Joey was running.But do you think that's because
now the reason that nobody listens is because there's such
a plethora of media, whereas back then there was like 4 songs
that came out a year that peopleactually listen to?
That's just crazy what you just said.
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No, we it you just didn't have video.
Like, so right now, so many songs, it had to do with the
video. Even you guys watch video on
YouTube, right? Yeah, Yeah.
I mean, the video makes songs. Back then, it was just what you
heard on the radio. So people were just trying like,
like I said, he just wanted something.
He wrote this song to try to getpeople to listen.
OK, well, we'll we'll do a cannibalism.
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They didn't make it. One guy came out.
Where'd you go? I don't know.
And it worked. I don't like.
That bizarre. No, it's weird.
I. Don't like that at all.
You know I need to cheer you up.Though I think so, I think this
little, I'm feeling a little down after that this.
Next time I'm going to cheer youup is by hot butter and it's
called popcorn. Hot butter.
You skipped one, but that's. OK, telephone, man, I had this
(22:09):
45 too. Telephone.
But yeah, you're right, because she's another telling a story.
Oh boy, and. She had this style, she had
multiple songs and it. Do you know what a double
entendre is? Yes.
A double meaning, yes. It's I just, I had a shirt that
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had something on it that I remember someone said I can't
remember what it is. Maybe I will by the end of the
song, but. Well, this was about a double
entendre story and she kind of that was what she's known for.
I had this 45 too. Of course she did.
Telephone Man by Mary Wilson. Mary Wilson And there's no
relation to Meredith Wilson, thefamous composer of Broadway
(22:52):
musicals. Could be it's MERI, it could be
the same person. Meredith Mary could be short for
Meredith, it might be the same woman.
I think Meredith is a double entendre in her what she does
for a. Living.
I'm pretty sure Meredith is a man, but OK telephone.
Meredith is a man. I dude, I don't know.
This was back in the 60s. Where?
Who the heck knows? What's going on?
(23:14):
I'm excited. This is this is a good one.
OK, this is Telephone Man Parentheses.
Original version parentheses. Mary Wilson here on the vinyl
curriculum. This is.
I feel like I'm blushing over here after listening to this
(23:36):
song. You know, we can't play the
entire song, so we had, this is a very short song.
That's why we had to cut so muchof this off.
It is, you know. Yeah, she's just getting her
phone installed. I'm sure that's what's going on
here, getting her phone installed real good.
She got a Ding, a Ling, OK Oh God, oh God.
(24:00):
OK, please never say that again.I had that 45.
Oh boy. What?
How high do you think this one went?
One no. What?
No. Stop dude.
I don't get how does it too riskprobably too risque for the mass
vast majority of people. I do.
I would think that well, I guessthis is. 12 year olds liked it,
I had to worry about. It this isn't what was it.
(24:25):
The 60s, though, is when the rebellious age started, right?
Yeah, but this was in the what year did this one come?
It was 70. 70s so. This was after the rebellious
age. I would think that like.
People when Boston was playing, Yeah, but anyway.
OK, well, interesting song Telephone Man by Mary Wilson.
But she died in a car wreck in 2002.
Aw. Yeah, on the icy Rd.
(24:47):
This is supposed to bring up thefeels Jim and.
I feel like every single popcornpopcorn but hot butter is going
to do that. Hot butter hot, butter hot.
Play popcorn by hot butter. No, so popcorn.
I mean, I've, I've heard of other songs called popcorn.
I I imagine I haven't heard thissong.
(25:08):
Maybe this is it. Maybe this is it you.
Might know this one. Hot Butter.
My favorite name of a group I think that I've ever heard.
Hot butter popcorn on the vinyl curriculum.
(25:31):
I have heard this song, Jim. I have.
I was so excited I heard it playing.
Did did it pick up your spirits?It did.
Good. Did you?
There was a popular guy who was on Britain's Got Talent.
His name is Vigo Van and he comes out and doesn't act to
this song where he goes inside aballoon and bounces around.
(25:53):
No, I did not see that. But see, here's that you like
this now because there's a reference to something that you
remember. Yes.
So there's a trend, this whole thing.
This is my kind of music. This is that.
Yes. Oh, yeah.
I love this. This.
Yeah. Put it on your playlist.
We're going to, we're going to give this an A.
OK, we're not doing AIDS. How?
All right. Did America give it an A?
(26:15):
What do you how high? Well, you, you said you were how
old when this song came out? Seven, seven years old.
I bet it was really popular withteenagers and boys.
Popcorn. Why?
I don't know. It just sounds like I love.
I don't know. I don't, I don't know about
that. I think boys were teenage boys
were probably listening to 16-9 stop.
(26:37):
I'm so bad at well, how would you know?
How would you know? Yeah, I don't know.
OK, All right. Popcorn.
Now you're going to know the next one, at least part of it.
The next 177 Star Wars came out,Yeah.
And so MECO Miko, Meko Miko decided to put the music and
(27:00):
they released it. OK, so so this is this is from
the movie star. Wars No, he just took it and
then he put it on an album called Star Wars and Other
Galactic Funk. If you want to go to the video,
the vinyl store and pick that one up.
Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk.
(27:21):
I wanted to do a days. I want to do a podcast about 70s
funk like Funkadelic. Uncle Jam wants you.
Funko what now? Funkadelic in Parliament in the
name of the album was Uncle Jam wants you OK, really good.
But anyway try this is called Star Wars themed cantina band.
It's that's later on, but maybe what we can start talking over
(27:41):
and later on we can do the Cantina band.
OK, so but this is, this is called.
This is what did you say? This is called galactic funk.
The album is galactic funk, but.This is kind of funky.
Yeah. I like it.
Oh, yeah. This is where it's at.
(28:03):
You want to just take a listen now?
Yeah. All right.
This is like Viva Las Vegas, something you hear like in the
(28:25):
70s at the casino in Vegas. It's just the Star Wars
soundtrack with a disco beat. I don't know.
Oh, now we have a little R2 action.
Yeah, and in a minute we'll turnit back up.
In a minute. They're playing the when they
were in the little. Cantina Yeah, yeah, I like the
the laser sound effects. Pew.
Pew. I don't think you guys
understood how when Star Wars came out, how big of a deal it.
(28:47):
Was oh, I knew I yeah, that was one of those momentum shifting
movies. Yeah, and you watch it now and
it's like, oh, that looks like apotato because.
It probably wasn't. It was a potato, but back then,
you know, it's like, wow, loved it.
You know how they made the lasersounds?
They had like a taut cable that they would bang with a wrench
(29:07):
and. Then go Pew Pew.
Oh, there we go. I'm glad you I can't see him
right now. This is I'm loving this.
This might be my favorite episode.
Good of crappy songs. No, this is not crappy songs.
(29:29):
Come on now, this is literally just put a disco beat behind
something. The soundtrack is good, but just
put a disco beat behind it. But this is songs that I can get
up and dance to. I'm going to save this playlist.
We're going to play. It in the car, we're going to do
a dance podcast and then you're going to have to love every one
of them because everyone is going to be a dance song.
I think we should we should start doing this on video so
(29:50):
people can see my wonderful dancing.
I don't know if we'd have audience by then, but.
All right, that is the Star Warsthemed Cantina Band by Meko and.
Then how high do you think that one went?
That's got to be top ten. That's got to be 7.
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Number one for two year, 2 weeksin a row.
Wow, they're not messing around here.
Now on the disco theme, this next one is no different.
It's called Hooked on Classics Part 1 and 2 by the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra. And this is 81.
So like this is, I won't want tosay that not that long ago
(30:33):
because it was still a long timeago.
It was almost 15. Years ago 16 yeah, there was
hooks on hooked on Classics, Hooked on.
There was other ones too. I.
Can't. It was hooked on phonics, but I
think that was a schoolhouse rock.
Episode that was Helen learn howto read all right, listen to
hooks on classics and tell me what you think about all right.
(30:53):
Hooked on classic parts one and two?
Yeah, let's take a listen. I've never seen him bounce
around like he's been doing. This is fantastic.
(31:14):
I just favorited this song on myphone right now.
This is adding this is This songis getting added to my this
isn't This might even be the first A+ song that we've heard
on the show and. We're not even grading this one.
I know, but it's listen to this Oh, a little fit of.
Beethoven, I remember hearing onthe radio.
I didn't have this one. Well, actually, maybe I did.
(31:37):
It's Part 1 and 2, but it's really just one song.
I don't know why they did that. It's Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
I'm impressed. So how high do you think do you
think America? Has to be #1 This has to be a
number one. #10 I was, I was, well, they were talking.
I was telling you my number one there used to be hooked on.
There were other ones. I'm gonna have to Google that
(32:00):
because there were other ones and they would just do
different, you know, songs and put them to do medleys.
They Mozart. There was a there was a one for
Beatles songs. And anyway, yeah, Hooked on
classics. See Hooked on Phonics was one I
just looked it up right now. But that's not a music thing, is
(32:20):
it? I have no idea I.
Don't think so. All right, so now this is 1981.
Another big thing that was happening in 1981 was video
games. Yep.
And go ahead and play this next one and then we'll talk about
it. Afterwards, all right, we're not
even going to say say the name, we're just going to play we're.
Going to play it because I thinkyou'll get it.
All right, here we go. Oh, man, I think I've got a
(32:51):
fever. And the only prescription more
cowbell. Now, you know, out went to
Mississippi State and in our football games, they play that
clip because we have cowbells. Yeah.
And they play that clip and it gets everybody riled up.
This is great this. That song was terrible.
That song was terrible. I will say with authority, this
(33:14):
is with me being 100% sincere right now.
This is my favorite episode thatwe've recorded.
You're not a music, you're not amusic fan.
You just want jokes. No, it's not jokes.
This is this is the vibe we're. Going to do a disco podcast
because I think you will won't be able.
To stand in. Yeah, well, I'm sitting right
(33:36):
now and you're lucky because otherwise I'd be moving and
grooving all around the room. Yeah, How so?
How high was this one? Pac-Man was pretty popular in
the what year was this 80? This is 81. 81 When did Pac-Man
come out? Probably around that time, I
don't. Probably around that time, I
think the people try to jump on the.
See, I, I would say, I would sayit's it charted high because I
(33:57):
liked it. So I'm going to go, I'm going to
guess 17. #9. OK.
But you know, remember kind of when Angry Birds came out and
you see T-shirts and you there was a movie and.
The movie was much later though.The Movie.
Was, I don't know, but that's kind of what happened.
You know, you see T-shirts you'dsee.
I remember when Thriller came out.
You see 75 year old grandmas with a Thriller shirt on and
(34:19):
it's like, what's happening here?
Yeah, but that 2.5 million copies of that record were sold.
And that's crappy. I'm sorry.
That's too bad. Was this the 45?
Yeah, I'm sure there was an album too, but I I think that
would be the same. You didn't have.
I did not have that one. No, I stopped.
I didn't buy any of this. Buckner and Garcia is who this
(34:40):
is by. I want to bring up one more
thing about that Hooked on classics.
First of all, you looked it up. Hooked on Swing, Hooked on Mute
movies. There was a bunch of them.
Yeah, there was. Yeah.
Hooked on classics. Hooked on swing instruments,
Rock classics, themes, Dixie rhythm and classics, Dancing,
polkas. Country.
Barack Classics again. Barack Obama.
(35:02):
No BARO. Baroque.
Baroque. OK, kind of like when you're
young, you're baroque. Yeah, but that's why I don't
understand how you had all these40 fives.
Because they were cheap and you'd I'd go to the Gibsons and
they would have a a shopping cart of all the cheap ones and I
would just buy them. But I wanted to say something
(35:23):
about the Hooked on Classics I read and I'm now we're in
Chicagoland. So we're Bear fans, we're not
Packer fans, but I heard that they play that song at Lambeau
Field after every win. So if someone is a Packer fan, I
would like to know if that is a true statement.
According to Wikipedia that is true.
OK. According to Wikipedia, Hooked
(35:46):
on Classics Part 1 is usually played at Lambeau Field after
every Green Bay Packers home victory.
OK, so wicked Wikipedia doesn't lie.
And well, it kind of does. It's not a reliable source,
that's what I learned, but that's.
Well, the next one is Frank Zappa.
I've heard of Frank Zappa. Do you know what his daughter's
(36:06):
name is? No.
Moon Unit Zappa. Moon.
Unit unit. But I think she goes by Moon.
This was in 1982. Moon Unit.
And Valley Girl kind of the talkwas out.
And so for some reason, Frank and his daughter decided to make
(36:30):
this song called Valley Girl. Valley girl, Is this talking
about Moon? No, it is moon singing.
I see. All right, let's take a listen.
Let's take a listen anyway. Hey guys, are you into asking
them? I go, oh, right.
Could you like just all right, we need to, we need to turn
(36:52):
that. On enough of that, right?
That is not good. Very starts a contract.
To hit and people started going around saying gag me with a
spoon. Oh.
God. Barf.
And yeah, it was a. Horrible time it was.
It was Top 40. It was.
Was it top 20? I don't know, I'm asking you.
There's no way this was top 20. I'm gonna go 22.
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It was 32. OK, I guess that's called Val
speak when you talk Valley girl like that.
Like, Oh my God, like Can you believe that guy?
Right now, I know you were a radio major, right?
Yes. You probably didn't do very well
from what we hear, but but this next guy was a DJ in Memphis.
(37:36):
OK. And he came out with this song
and it was a hit, and his radio station, WMPS, would not let him
play it. And he played it and they fired
him. And so then his competition
(37:56):
hired him, and he could play it.It's just a back story, but
listen to this song. It's called Disco Duck.
Disco Duck. By Dick D, Rick Dees and his
cast of idiots. Rick.
Dees, Rick, Dees have. You ever heard of him?
No. Yeah.
But this is a solid Elmo Mart aswell.
Yeah, We got like a Donald Duck theme going on.
(38:18):
Here, No, it's the disco duck. But you're going to like this
because it's disco beat. All right, you know, yeah,
that's what I you know how to get to my heart here, Jim.
I appreciate that disco duck on the vinyl curriculum.
Well, on a positive note, this guy's Donald Duck impression is
(38:41):
pretty much spot on. That's not Donald Duck.
That's Disco Duck. Well, I understand that, but.
I'm sure there's a copyright issue.
We're. Going for Donald Duck?
No, you're going for disco duck.You know, there's a really good
Donald Duck impression is Tom Cruise.
I can sneeze like Donald Duck. It's unbelievable.
I don't, I'm not a fan. I don't like this.
(39:03):
This is this. Is that's got to be?
I don't understand. It's got to be and he, I think
it's because he was a radio DJ. Is that what the problem?
Was because I'm just a hater? Is that what you're saying?
No. Isn't that weird though?
They wouldn't let him play it. No, this was a different time,
though. Radio was much more popular back
then and it's all like, it's allbased on like what people want
(39:24):
to hear and if the people are turning off the station and if
they thought people would turn off the station when this song
came on. Well, how high do you think it
went? 17 number one.
No, it didn't. I did.
Oh my God. Yep.
(39:46):
Now I want to tell you, yeah. This is not good.
He, I mean, he made the rounds. I remember he would, he made the
rounds. You see him on TV shows and I
think he got first, it was just him and then I think he got some
people together and they went ontour.
And the people who went on tour,they had another guy doing the
Disco the Duck impression, but Ithink that was him at first.
(40:10):
Now the next one was 89. This is the last, the latest
one. This is our last, the last song
of the hour. No, Yes.
No. This is Prince.
Is it because I don't have that on my playlist?
We got to get it on there. Look up bat dance.
What's it called? Bat Dance.
Bat. Dance by.
(40:31):
Prince All right and OK, I thinkI know this.
Yeah. I think I know and I have to say
this is the worst song ever. But the other day I watched the
video. It is.
The reason it was successful wasbecause of the video.
Because by this time MTV is out.Prince was great at videos and
(40:52):
but they they did, he did the music for this soundtrack.
I didn't think this is terrible.Is this so I I see the album art
is the Batman logo? Yep.
Is this was this part of the Batman movie?
He did the soundtrack, yeah. And so, but this was part of the
soundtrack. It was on the soundtrack, I
don't know if I'm assuming they played it in.
(41:12):
Music. Let's listen to it and then I'll
tell you because that's one of my favorite movies of all time,
so let's take a listen. This is called Bat Dance by
Prince on the vinyl curriculum. Oh I got a live 1 here.
That is from the movie. Well, peace is like they
(41:35):
literally played it. They played it as is or they
just took. There was a scene in the movie
where they did a dance. Oh, I think.
The bat dance. Apparently.
I mean that. I mean, like I said, the video
was fine, but listen that in thecar.
Stop it. Nobody wants to hear that.
(41:56):
What is? Yeah, that's.
It's just too much. It's a little much.
That's Prince song, though, so Ilove Prince, I know.
And a lot of people love Prince,so I imagine it charted pretty
high. We'll go top, we'll go from
number. 4 #1. Yeah, if it was anyone other
than Prince, I feel like it wouldn't, it wouldn't have done
it. Right.
(42:16):
But like the video, people were so excited.
You know who else Queen did the soundtrack to flash the movie?
Flash Gordon. Yeah, Flash.
And I was so excited, you know, because I do love Queen and it
was a weird. I mean, the soundtrack was like,
it is instrumental is like strange.
Yeah. So I don't know if I don't know
(42:38):
what his other sounds were about.
Like on that soundtrack. I didn't have it but.
The Bat Dance album, Whatever album, whatever the name of this
album is. I'm guessing it's just Batman
soundtrack. Yeah, it's just called Batman as
the album. Yeah.
So. So there's only one more
there's. Only one more.
Are you sad? Well, and now, because I know
what the last song is. But you know what?
(42:59):
I did this because the other dayyou attempted.
No. To sing Falsetta.
And it was disturbing and it reminded me, oh, there's another
disturbing Falsetta voice. Falsetto.
I can. I'll do my impression for you
after if you. I really don't want to hear.
It I think people, the people want to hear it.
I don't think so. So this is Tiptoe through the
(43:20):
Tulips. This is actually a song from
1929. Yeah, and well, Tiny Tim, Yep,
let's take a listen. Come tiptoe through the.
Tulips. He doesn't have a very good
false set of voice, but it's better than yours.
(43:40):
Let's hear. It.
All right, go, everyone go look at the album art on this
playlist. That's what my face looks like
(44:02):
right now. Flower power.
No, the album art for our playlist.
My green face, because I'm aboutto.
Chuck, that was a quality sun and on Jim, that's got to be #1.
That was #17 Oh my God, you knowwhat this guy, I remember, he
was all, he was on TV. He got married on TV.
(44:24):
He was just kind of a such a unique.
Character. He got married to Miss Vicki
back in 1969. I wonder if that's the same Miss
Vicki. Miss Vicki's chips.
She makes good kettle chips, I tell you what.
I do, I like the jalapeno ones. Yeah, the Salt and Vinegar.
I'm a big fan, but this, I, I said it before, I'm going to say
it again, this has been my favorite episode of the vinyl
(44:47):
curriculum that we've recorded so far.
I'm just, I'm different. I have a lot of different songs
that I like to listen to. And so I think that's why, I
mean, some of them were not good, some of them were not
good, but. Well, yeah, And unfortunately,
everything that you liked has tohave a disco beat.
That's what I. Don't feel bothers about disco
but something that I can you know.
(45:09):
You know, last week, shake a little groove thing.
Too. You know what I mean?
Last week we listened to some wonderful yacht rock songs.
We're going to keep, you know, expanding.
We're going to see what's next. Well, I do have to say though
that there was a couple songs from a couple weeks ago when we
did the Second British Invasion.Yep, that I had played in the
(45:31):
car and I've played a few times since then.
People Are People was one of my favourites from that week and
I've played it a few times so. By Depeche Mode, I think is what
you call. That mode, yeah, Depeche Mode.
But yeah, it's been fun. I like this a lot.
I had assigned A grenade. I know we're not doing this this
episode. I'd give it an A minus for the
day, even though you're supposedwe're supposed to be whatever
(45:53):
you said, throwing up or up chucking or whatever weird that
you used. But.
Well, like I said, I I liked them at the time, a lot of them,
and obviously other people did too.
But with looking back, it's like, you know, do we really
need to do that again? It kind of goes with the theme
of, you know, you learn and you listen and you hopefully don't
repeat. So I don't want to hear another
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run Joey run. Ever.
No, I agree, but this has been episode 5 of the vinyl
curriculum. If you haven't heard episodes
one through 4, you can search them up on Spotify and Apple
podcast. Search the vinyl curriculum.
You'll see a cartoon picture of me and Jim this episode.
You'll see a nice green faced 1 and an album art for this by the
(46:35):
way, for each episode looks fantastic.
I had to. I had to compliment you on that
because you did a great job with.
That and I want to also add we have a web page, it's just a
single page, it's vinyl curriculum.card.co and it's
CARRD. So that's got links to all of
the if you're going to listen live on Mondays at noon, it's
(46:57):
got a link to that. It's got our playlists for each
week and it's also got links to the podcast, so final
curriculum.card.co and it's CARRD.
On there's also the phone number, you can call and leave
us a message. We might play it on air,
815-733-8517. You can also send us a text.
I get all those. So I'll be much monitoring that,
(47:19):
which is great. So thank you for another great
episode and we'll catch you all on the next one.
You spend time, Logan.
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