November 6, 2025 • 56 mins
Season 1 wraps up with a full tank of soul and a dash of chaos! 🚗💨 Logan gets a second shot at picking the tunes—this time, the Blues Brothers soundtrack—while Jim grabs the clipboard to do the grading. Will Logan redeem himself, or crash and burn in a cloud of rhythm and blues? 🎷
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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. Welcome back, ladies and
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gentlemen, to episode #20 of TheVinyl Curriculum.
Logan and Jim here in the studio.
What are you looking at? What is the back of your name
tag? What is all that green stuff?
It was mold. No, no, no, they, they put a
sticker on there for, I think itwas suicide prevention, but it,
it's kind of faded. I need to, I need to get some
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Google on and get it off there because it's kind of faded.
But welcome to Logan's version #2 I'm excited.
Are you? I am.
Are you excited? I don't know, we'll find out.
I'm sad. This is this is the season
finale of episode of Season 1. I know here can I get a?
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Yeah, we might be listening to that sound a lot this episode.
This is Logan's version #2 back on episode #10 was my first
crack at picking a playlist for this for us to listen to and I
thought I had a pretty good variety of music to listen to
but. But there's no theme.
There's no theme, yes. So that's all I said.
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Do you do you on this one? But try to come up with a theme.
And a theme we have in probably my favorite movie of all time.
This week's playlist is the Blues Brothers soundtrack, the
classic Chicagoland favorite from the started as an SNL
sketch and has some great music with some great musical talent
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from around, you know, the time.Some of them aren't even even
included in the album. Like you had mentioned before we
started recording, that was JohnLee Hooker, but you know, it's
Aretha Franklin, James Brown, James Brown.
I can never remember James Brown's name, but Cab Calloway.
Cab Calloway, just a phenomenal line up.
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And so I'm looking forward to listening to some of the songs
with you today. But you said you just watched
the movie over the weekend. I'd never seen a movie.
Watched it with my wife last night.
You had never seen the movie? No.
Oh, I thought you watched it again.
No, I've never seen it and I, I guess I have seen bits and
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pieces and clips and stuff, 'cause it wasn't.
I had no idea what the storylinewas.
I just knew they were on a mission from God.
I didn't that I'd heard that a million times.
I think I have heard the soundtrack before just because I
there wasn't a song on here I wasn't familiar with.
I mean, some of them are remakes, but right so or maybe
they just played on the radio. I don't remember.
Yeah, well I think we just hopped right into it with song
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#1 the opening song, the openingnumber from the picture, she
caught the Katie, which you justtold me was a train, which was
an interesting fact. But they opening scene to set
the the tone for the listening audience.
For those who haven't seen the movie, it's it takes place right
outside of the old Julia prison in Juliet, which I've been to
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and taken a photo. We should I should find that
photo to post on social media from that area.
But iconic opening scene from the old prison.
And yeah, I think that will set the tone with just that.
And we'll get going here on the vinyl curriculum.
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Little harmonica action here in the vinyl curriculum, and so
this is a little different. I have to get used to this
again. Jim will be providing the grades
for each song today, as he did back for Logan's version #1 on
episode #10 and all right. I just want to clarify though
what I'm doing here because I amgoing to be grading the album,
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the songs. BL Right.
No, I. Am not writing the movie.
No, I know. But I want to talk about the
movie. Yeah, well, you have we have to
talk about. The movie, I have one word.
I can't give it a grade because we're not Grady movies, but I
can give it a word and it would be terrible.
You know. I thought it was.
My wife and I both thought it was atrocious.
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There's one time I laughed out loud and it was the most random
thing and it had nothing to do with anybody.
It was when that they were running Chase.
Well, one of the many times where they were running from the
rednecks, the good old boys, andthey were in a camper and they
showed the very top and there's like four faces.
I laughed and I had to rewind it.
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But that was about the joy I gotout of that movie.
But I reason I wanted to watch it because I thought, OK, well,
maybe if I listened, you know, Ilistened to the album multiple
times because I do my homework. And then I wanted to say, okay,
if I watch the movie, is it going to make me like the song
more? And it actually in many cases
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made me not like it as much. But I like this song.
I thought I give it an A minus. It was it.
It bothered me because I didn't know what a Katie was.
It reminded me when I saw cast and they kept singing about this
dadgum Jellicle Ball or something, and I didn't know.
Yeah, I didn't know what it was and it I still don't know what
it was. OK.
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It's a terrible musical in my opinion, but anyway, and I
finally I listened to the lyricsand I figured it had to do
something with a bus or a train and it was a train so but I like
it. It was John Belushi.
He really does had he had a goodvoice.
OK, here I got a I'm kind of write your grade down here.
I was not prepared, I think. I think for me that I obviously
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associate a lot of the songs with the movie, so, you know, I
was a little biased. What?
But what about the movie was so good to know?
I think it was just. You said this is probably my
favorite movie. I mean, I don't understand that.
I don't know, I think I'm just afan of musicals in general,
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which we've talked about in the past and, and just seeing, I
don't know, I guess it was maybethe first time I saw it, watched
it with my grandparents, so. There's the lore, there's the
lore of it. And it's, it's a local thing,
anything that has to do with like, you know, I grew up in
Lockport, like 10 minutes away from the the old prison in
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Joliet. And so, you know, I would head
driven by it many times and thento see it in the movie and
you're like, what is this masterpiece, You know, and I
didn't even that was before I knew all about, you know, SNL
and like the history of the Blues Brothers and Dan Aykroyd
and John Belushi and kind of howbig they were.
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And I thought, you know, I just thought this was, you know.
Again, it's the lore. It's there's this connection
with you, which is the 20th episode.
I think we can all agree that ifyou have a history, even though
you said it didn't matter to youin one of the episodes, remember
when I told you that Blur was from Champagne?
You're like, that doesn't matterif they're from my backyard.
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And we all know that's bull. It does matter.
And I agree. And I and I did not grow up up
here. It was kind of cool, though,
saying, oh, that was that was McCormick Place.
There was a tip of that. But then the next thing I know
there downtown Chicago is like, well, there's a longer drive
than that, you know? So I was.
Yeah, but yeah, it wasn't. That part was interesting.
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I just thought it was just terrible acting like the whoever
was the married, you know, the guy who played, he was Aretha's
wife, a husband. I wonder if that was his.
Probably the real musician. Yeah, that was the real.
He was a musician, he was not anactor.
Terrible. The lip syncing with James Brown
and Aretha Franklin, I thought it almost was like it was the
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two second delay. It was just so bad.
And it, I, I could have gone to the bathroom, got popcorn, filed
my fingernails. Yeah, with the opening section
when he's just walking out. Yeah, it was.
I don't know if there was a slower movie in my life.
And then, whoa, by the way, we bring up the Nazis, OK.
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And then who is? Carrie.
Fisher. Well, whoa, whoa, whoa.
We're we're way Fast forward. Talking about the movie because
then I want to talk about this music because.
Chronological order just a little bit, but yes, so the I
know the singing was really hardfor Aretha Franklin in the movie
because she had never lipstickedbefore.
And so that that was a challengethat was documented.
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So. Well, that's good.
I mean, she said. I'm sure with the singing.
And I'm sure James Brown was thesame thing.
Like, you know, these people arenot let's go sing, you know, lip
sync music like whatever the whatever.
Was it on top of the pop when the choke the chick was eating
the banana? The Mamas and the Pop, yeah.
So I mean, it's similar to that where it's like, OK, you know,
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they just wanted to perform the song, but yeah, it gets a little
weird, you know, with the whole Illinois Nazi thing.
In the fall and when he was likeat the end where he jumps the
thing and the next thing you know he's like falling like from
the top of the car. It's like, Oh my God, it
reminded me of grease. When they they ride off, it's
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like. It's kind of though it's, it's
like a sketch thing. It was, it was based on a sketch
comedy. So it's not like it's supposed
to be kind of goofy. And I it actually this leads
into the next song. So the next song is the theme
from Peter Gunn, which is a veryiconic, you know, I.
Knew that one. So that was that was an SNL
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thing that they wouldn't, you know, a sketch kind of failed or
didn't really have a good ending.
They kind of just play them off the stage with the Peter Gunn
theme. But this scene in the movie when
they they're start playing this song is when they parked the
Blues mobile in the little garage.
Did you watch the director's cutor the Did you watch?
No, and I would. You must.
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Miss this scene and that means it's.
Longer than and there's no way Iwanted anything longer.
So the original plot subplot wasthat the Blues Mobile would
parks in this little garage, like buy all these machines and
all this stuff. And that's what gives it its
powers. Yeah, I know it gets a little,
it gets a little far reaching, but like when it, you know, can
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fly over the the the the bridge when it's, you know, it can jump
over the bridge and all that stuff.
But that was part of then they kind of scrapped that sub
storyline like because the moviewas getting so long.
But that led into them the playing of the Peter Gunn theme.
So let's take a listen to that and then we'll have some more
thoughts here on the final curriculum.
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Doesn't that make you just want to like, walk down the street
with sunglasses on? I left him downstairs.
I was going to put him on. I brought my Blues Brothers
sunglasses. To record.
You want to do that? No, So I'm going to just be very
clear. I am not going to be referencing
the movie like my grade has nothing to do with the.
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Movie because I know and it shouldn't it absolutely it was
terrible. I just no well.
It was terrible. I just, I, I think it's
important for me to give the backward, you know, we listen to
you, Yeah, no, on and on about your, you know, records that you
listen to or whatever, you know,you talk about, but.
But I'm just, I'm just grading the music.
No, absolutely. So I would give this.
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One AB and the only reason I give it AB is because it's, it's
so repetitive. But what makes it not be AC or
lower is the fact that you can'tlisten to it in under in the
different music coming in. And it makes it tolerable, but
it's just so repetitive. You know, there's no lyrics and
you know, yeah. And I, I'm, I'm very familiar
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with that tune and I don't know why.
It's, I don't know, it's just. Been around forever.
It's been around forever. Yeah, it was utilized on SNL.
Remember that, But I didn't watch it.
I mean, I was like 12 when it first came out.
I would watch. I remember seeing the B50 twos
when they performed. I don't know why, but I did.
Yeah. So anyway.
Well, Paul Shaffer was the musical director for Saturday
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Night Live, and he was also the musical director for the Blues
Brothers, so I think a lot of that SNL stuff kind of came over
from from there. But yeah, no, it's a it's a good
little tune. I just, I can picture myself
walking down the street with that mentality.
I'm. Just wondering though, if you if
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it was reversed and you just were sitting with Peppa Oi, Mimi
and whatever grandparents were what listening to the album and
not the movie, would you? Would you love this as much?
Probably not. Probably not.
No, you're absolutely right. But yeah, I don't know.
AB though, Solid, a solid grade for sure.
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Terrible, but nothing spectacular.
The next one was not fully included in the movie, so the
first time I ever heard it was listening to the album.
It's called Give Me Some Lovin. And this is when the Blues
Brothers get back together, you know, after being broken apart
for so many years, and they go on a mission from God to get the
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band back together, yada yada, yada.
So give me some lovin. A little different twist here on
the vinyl curriculum. Let's take a listen.
You want to give me some lovin, Jim, or what?
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I don't it was this is right here.
Give Me Some Lovin was a top 20 Billboard hit, peaking at #18
yeah, because I, I told you, I think I remember hearing that
version. Obviously that's an old song
remake, but I remember that version of it.
Yeah, that was that. Was the only one that charted
though. And yeah, peaked at 59 on the UK
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album charts too in 1987. So Which is interesting that it
wasn't even included in the original movie.
Well, I mean, it was it was a movie, but it wasn't like, but.
That you see that all the time. Like usually you don't, unlike
this you, this song will be there, but it's like a little
clip, you know, like pretty in pink or something like that.
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Unless somebody's dancing to thesong, you don't.
Now, this is a musical per SE, so right, I don't know.
I'd give this another B. Yeah, I think I'd give it AB
too. It wasn't my all time favorite
song from the from the movie, but I think again, it was
partially because it wasn't fully included.
And again, I'm going to be talking a lot about the movie
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because I know a lot about the movie.
But yeah, I. Just think it's interesting.
It's one of your favorites. Yeah.
You don't go to the movie. A lot do.
You no, no. My other favorite, my other
favorite is The Dark Knight trilogy.
Yeah, with what's his name The Batman is.
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Was he Michael Keaton? No, no, he was in Psycho.
Oh oh. What's his name?
No, the remake of Psycho, Yeah, I don't remember that one.
I don't know. It doesn't matter.
We saw The Dark Knight with the kids, if I'm not mistaken, and I
had to Grace and I had to go outside.
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She did not like it. I don't remember.
Middle school. High school, I don't remember.
Yeah, yeah, that's not a bad one.
Anyway, yeah, the next one, Shake a tail feather with Ray
Charles. Yep, with who's I guess the
principal artist because he's it's shake a tail feather,
parentheses with Blues Brothers and parentheses by Ray Charles.
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So. Congratulations on your proper
use of parentheses. I appreciate that.
Yeah, so OK, I think we take a listen then I've got another fun
fact about this song. So OK, let's take a listen here
on the vinyl curriculum. This is another one that was
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remade, Yes, it originally came out in the 60s by the Five Due
Tones chicago-based group. But during the course of filming
this scene, this is when they'reall, you know, they're at Ray's
music shop in Chicago, they're all dancing outside.
And apparently when they were filming that scene, it was like
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the middle of winter, so it was like -15° outside.
And so everybody was like freezing colds and getting
hypothermia. So they did it in like 2 takes
and they're like all right, timeto be done.
But yeah, Ray Charles classic first cameo, first cameo in the
movie I think, or first cameo onthe album anyway by a famous
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John. Johnny Hooker was.
He was. He was.
Side going in or was he outside the diner?
He was outside the diner. That was before Aretha Franklin,
so. I get this one a this reminds me
of Hairspray. I feel like it was in Hairspray,
you know, but it's did you ever see Hairspray?
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I did not, no. It's this kind of music.
Yeah. This is fun. 60s, Yeah.
This is, I mean, just it has theclassic Ray Charles sound, you
know, with the keyboard that eventually becomes part of the
Blues Brothers. Band he he did a better job lip
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syncing than the other two did, I would just say.
Yeah, well, I, I, I mean, I don't know who knows what the
technology was back then and howthey were like if they were just
playing the song. Like I don't know how they like
or were they not even playing any music where they just, you
know, trying to lip sync it without?
Well, they would have to have something so everybody would
know what to dance to. You'd have to have a beat.
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Right. But so if you're just, if you're
singing to like just a beat likethat's hard to.
Well, I'm sure they they could do it.
And then you don't, you don't play the sound from that.
So I don't know. It's a fun song.
It was a fun scene. That that wasn't one.
Of the few highlights of that movie, that was tolerable.
That's a little aggressive. And then we're going to we're
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going to get you to see some more movies.
I think we, yeah, we definitely need to do that, but.
I want you to see Rocky Harpers show.
I was talking to a Co worker here about it because of
Halloween. You know, I saw the meatloaf
thing that they sang some of thesongs from that.
Our Co worker listened to the album and we were just talking
about how great of an album, howfun that movie was.
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It's a little different, but youhave to go like, I wouldn't want
to watch that on Netflix. You got to go see it at midnight
in a theater with all the props,and it's just a crazy fun
experience. Yeah.
And that's it. That's something you use like
that's a live performance, right?
Not just no. It's a movie people make
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interactive and there's things that people say at certain
points and they just people go so much that they know when to
do it. So if you're the first one
going. You stand out like a thumb, sore
thumb because you're not dressedor you don't know what to say
and you just kind of sit there. Yeah.
But yeah, it's just craziness and fun.
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And the music, I was telling my Co worker, the music, I haven't
listened to it in probably a decade and it was fabulous.
I was singing along. I knew all the words.
I remembered great music. It was a musical Broadway show.
But then they made this movie that was kind of a flop, yeah.
And then it became this cult. It's a cult.
Following. Yeah.
Well, that's what happens. That's what I think happened to
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this movie is like, it kind of has a cult following.
They still do. Like, I mean, it's Dan Aykroyd
and Jim Belushi who come and do a concert like once a year in
the old Juliet prison. But that's just it.
Is this just like if I go to Laredo, TX, are people just as
in love with this movie or is itbecause it's local?
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I think it's probably because it's, but it's, but it's all of
Chicago. It's not just like our area
even, I mean, we are the principal, you know, Joliet,
Jake, obviously we're right nextdoor, but.
But he was from Calumet City, wasn't he?
Yeah, but they called him. His nickname was Joliet Jake
because he was in, you know. Where was the palace like at the
end is because they were like 100 and something miles from
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Chicago and they had 100. And six miles from Chicago.
Where was that? That was in the Palace Hotel bar
room. That's where they were.
I don't know. I think that might have been in,
I don't remember where they filmed it at, but I don't think
they ever mentioned like a specific town that it was.
And because I'm. Trying to think what's 106 miles
away that would have something like that.
A. 106 miles from Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas,
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half pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing
sunglasses. Now we're going to listen to
probably one of the principal songs of the album.
Everybody needs somebody to love, which has been remade a
couple times. Queen has a version of it that's
a little slower, but let's take a listen.
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OK? Here on the vinyl curriculum.
Yeah. Do you need me, Jim?
No. You need somebody to love.
I need someone to explain something to me.
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Okay, what's that? I just ask you, well, wait a
minute, where was, I don't remember this part, them singing
this this early in the movie because they haven't even got
their bandmates. And you just told me that, Oh
yeah, this is. Out of order what?
Why would they do? That I have no idea that to me
because this became 1 of this was one of their most iconic
songs. This was a cover of a song from
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the 60s but. Not Queen, by the way, not
Queen. But all right, I'm not.
Since I'm not going to deal withthe movie, I'm not going to take
it down. I would knock it down because
that's about dumb. Yeah.
I think I give this a minus. OK.
Like again, John, I think John Belushi for being an actor, he,
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you know, he could pass as just.A musician?
Oh yeah, he did all his own stunts well.
He was doing those backflips. Yeah, he was.
He could do it. He did it on SNL.
Look it up. I remember doing cartwheels.
I did that's because it then when he it was done it you could
tell it was dubbed in. Like it wasn't a continuous film
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thing. From the information I got, he
did all his own stunts. I know he was.
He was the. He was a handful for sure.
Woke up on a couple couches in the local surrounding areas
after, Yeah, raiding their refrigerator.
So. But yeah, that's probably that
one. And the one of the later ones.
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Sweet Home Chicago, I think is probably the most synonymous
song from this album. What's that noise?
Do you hear noise? No, I don't know.
But that was like part of their performance in the Palace Hotel
ballroom. Later at the end of the movie.
Later, at the end of the movie, yes.
It's so weird. That is weird because the the
Cab Calloway song that we'll hear a little bit later was
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right before this. Like literally right before it.
Right, because he was. He was singing while they were
stalling. Yeah, he was stalling when he
came, when they came into the the theater.
So a minus though. A minus.
I'm not upset about that. No.
The next one is by another famous individual, James Brown.
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The old landmark, it's called with Ray Charles I think.
No, I think they, I think that was Chaka Khan in the.
I think Chaka Khan was in the choir behind.
Yeah, Reverend James Cleveland Choir, that's what, that's what
who is with with James Brown. And that was some interesting
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editing. I'm sure that you've saw when
they were. On the trampoline, Yeah, that
silliness didn't make any sense.This, like this movie, is silly
though. How much is but it wasn't.
That's just it. It was not silly.
And and then the fact that how much we're going to have to pay
to get a trampoline in there when you could have easily just
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let them keep dancing. But anyway, we we digress.
Let's play the music. James Brown in the vinyl
curriculum. That's another one that makes
you want to just get up and dance, doesn't it?
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Yeah. James Brown from the Blues
Brothers movie. I loved it.
I give, I'm, I'm give that a plus.
Oh, I love, I love gospel music like that.
Oh my. Gosh.
And actually that's one where the the video made it a little
bit better until they started the trampoline shots at the end
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and the back. Flips.
That's right here in this part of the song.
But with them, yeah, but with them dancing.
And James Brown killed it just the way he his sang it.
Not the way he lips it, but the way he sang it.
He killed it. And I love that.
It reminds me of Color Purple. I don't know if you ever saw
that. There was some scenes in there
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now that stop it. You never saw the color.
No. That's one of the best movies
ever. I mean, it is one of the best
movies ever. But anyway for me.
This is one of my one. You know what the difference
between the best movies ever? You know what the difference
between Color Purple and this movie Blues Brothers is?
What's that? One is good, one is not, and one
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has a story that's means something and 1 is just
silliness. Do not even talk to me about
stories without silly. They're on a mission from God,
Jim. It is not even a mission from
God. That's just it.
You thought. I would have thought he would
have got some sort of a sign. And just the fact that he
started glowing doesn't mean it was a sign.
Saw the light. He saw the light.
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Yeah. Are you kidding me?
He was on a mission to help the Penguin.
Save the orphanage that her, thepart with her where she was
coming in and out and the doors were shut and that was kind of
fun. That was I'm telling you like to
find humor. Across the floor.
Yeah, to find humor in it was, it was a stretch.
Yeah, no. What?
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What did it do? No, it was not a.
Stretch. Oh, it was a stretch.
No. It was a stretch to me.
I I guess I was thinking it was going to be more like Airplane
with like slapstick comedy or whatever.
And it was none of that. There was a lot of just if I
could take a shot every time a car crash happened, I would be
in the hospital because they putall their money on trampolines
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and car crashes. Well that has supposedly that
was at the old, I think Chicago Ridge Mall was where they filmed
that car crash scene. In Harvey, I looked it up.
Yeah, and supposedly they never paid the bill for that.
They kind of just. But it what I read 'cause I I I
want to know where it was and they said it was already.
Empty it was closed down and they whatever they didn't hit,
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they didn't have to pay for. That was the other deal.
So like they only the stuff thatthey destroyed they had to pay
for? But they never opened it and
they demolished it but. Well, it was, I mean, it was
closed by when they started filming and all the cars in the
parking lot were from a new car dealership.
So they weren't, they couldn't weren't allowed to hit any cars
in the parking lot. Anyway.
I told you, I know a lot of weird stuff in this movie.
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Yeah. OK.
The next. One's good to know because I'll
never I want to talk about it and get it out so I can forget
about it. See, I want I had this whole
idea to do a promo where we could do the opening scene for
the Blues Brothers where we eachhave the sunglasses on and then
we show me and then it's like, well.
We can still do it for the promofor social media.
(28:46):
Yeah, but not if you think it's stupid.
Well, well, you're right. We're going to do it anyway.
We've done promos for things that you didn't care for.
This is, well, most of them anyway.
But if if it was a whole album of James Brown doing gospel, I
would love it. Well, what about Aretha Franklin
though? That she's up next.
Let's think. Let's think what we think.
Think a little bit and we're going to.
(29:08):
Judge the music and not the lip syncing.
Two fried chickens and a Coke. 4fried chickens.
Yeah, 4 fried chickens and a Coke.
A year. A year, yeah.
It's been a while. And he only eat more of a white
bread. I'm more of a white bread guy.
Yeah. Yeah.
Dry white toast. All right, OK, let's listen to
(29:28):
Aretha here. I'll buy him a curriculum.
I'm going to have some freedom after this, Jim.
Or what? What are you looking at?
Why are there big speakers in this room?
I don't know just for. Listening to podcast and they
(29:50):
have these big. It wasn't always a podcast.
It wasn't always a podcast studio.
I think I like that. Yeah, so this one was another
one that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 was up all the
way up to #7 This one was released separately by Aretha
Franklin, so. But she already had released it
(30:13):
on her own. Yeah, well, I mean that's that's
what I'm saying is so. She had no, she had this is
older than this in 1980. No, right.
No, this was 1968 was when she released it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's what I was saying it was.
It was separate from the movie. This is a remake of it because
it didn't sound like this for. The movie, yes.
So I'm talking about the original.
(30:35):
Release the 1968, Yeah, yeah, I'll give it an A.
It was. Classic.
It's a good song and I'm not, but I like the way she rephrase.
She you know, it's different from the other one.
It is different. And they're dancing in that
little diner shop there. She's, you know, she's good and
(30:55):
she's talented and, you know, over the years she's done duets
with all types of people. George Michael, She's very
talented and she, you know, she went through a phase in the 80s
where she really became, you know, she'd been out for a long
time. She came out and she had a who's
zooming who and are you fixing to sneeze?
(31:16):
No, I'm all right. You're supposed to just keep
talking, Jim. Well, I thought.
You were having a stroke or something.
I didn't know what was going on.But anyway, yeah, Aretha was
talented. Aretha is great.
So now to stick with our out of order nature, we're going to go
back to the theme from Rawhide. Yeah.
This is just weird. This is when they were in the.
(31:39):
They were in the bar, they were singing for as the good old
boys, good old Blues Brothers boys band from Chicago, and you
know, you need to play a little country music.
So this is their attempt at that.
Yep, and they left out the othersongs that they sang that wasn't
on here. Yes, it was.
That was. No, they sang a slow song.
(32:02):
Oh. Right there was 3 songs that
that we hear them singing but Give Me Some Love and was the
first song and then they transitioned it.
Right. And they shut them down with
that because it was so bad. They wanted country it.
Wasn't bad, it was just not country.
I forgot which one they did and they were doing false that
anyway it was false that is. No.
Yes, you do. I don't.
(32:22):
When, when, when you try to imitate people and you sing hi,
that's fall set up. Oh well, they had at the bar
that they were at, they had thatBob's country bunker.
They have both types of music, country and western.
Yep. So I'm not sure which one which
category this falls under, but I'll let you be the judge.
Here's the theme from. That's where they bring in the
(32:56):
bullwhip. Yeah, that's was my that was
what got me interested in bullwhip.
Stop it. I've actually.
So I've made two of them. The second one is much better
than the first one. Like a actual bullwhip.
You made a bullwhip? Yeah.
I wove it out of paracord. Why?
I don't. Why is that a thumbs down?
(33:17):
Why is that a thumbs down? They wove it out of paracord and
it actually it cracks. It's like a it's really long,
it's like 11 feet. So it kind of you need a lot of
space to crack it, but. How were you when you did this?
Did you have friends? Did you?
Have friends. This was during COVID.
(33:38):
But so. Poor Logan.
Yeah, this was a relatively recent endeavor.
I'm sorry about that, Logan. I hear that.
Why I it's a it's a hobby. Along with unicycles, basket
weaving, what else have we done?I guess you're talented.
Really into magic. Oh, that's right, I forgot about
(33:59):
magic. I didn't have a lot of friends.
Oh, is there a? Oh, Nope, Nope, that's.
Well, let's just move on becausewe, we just need to.
That's the sad. We just had a downturn in
emotion right here. Yeah.
So I didn't like it. No.
I didn't like it. I'm going to say AC and the
reason I don't think Dan Aykroydis as he wasn't as talented.
(34:24):
He's not a, well, he's not as talented of a singer for sure,
but he's, he was the, he was theone who was really into like the
Blues and that kind of stuff. And, and, and John Belushi was
too. But Dan Aykroyd was the like the
one of the principal writers of the movie and actually have like
written well over like 300 pagesor something originally.
(34:47):
But you're right, the talented 1is definitely John Belushi.
That's why the second movie was terrible.
Yeah. Did you ever see Driving Miss
Daisy? I did not with Morgan Freeman,
no. And Dan Aykroyd.
Yeah, no, I need to watch that. Well, it's slow, so you're not
going to like it. But this this song was from ATV
(35:08):
series that was on CBS like in the late 50s fifty 9 to 65.
So I don't. Know so I would say then that
would be western if you say was it country or western.
It was country and western. Yeah, but I have.
I've never heard the original version of that song so not sure
(35:29):
if it would be better or worse, but you know it's it was not.
Included in mono. It's not in stereo because it
was so old, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, so this one is one of my favorites.
This is like kind of a, you know, I call it a hidden gem.
It's not really that's not really an accurate descriptor
though. It's more of like a lesser known
(35:52):
like like how this show started.It was like it was like this I
feel like would be AB side like first song on the B side kind of
thing. This is by Cab Calloway, one of
the other people who was not included in the second movie
because he had passed away between the filming of the first
movie. In the second movie, it was Cab
Calloway, James Brown and John Belushi.
We're all not in the second movie.
(36:13):
James Blues brothers 2000 this one though many of the moocher
is. I have heard of him sing other
versions of this song, like fromhis original release, but I
think I like this one a little bit more.
OK, so we'll take a listen and then we'll hear what Jim has to
say on the vinyl curriculum. Hey folks, here's the story
(36:36):
about can you say all that? I don't even know.
I think he's just making noises.I think they call it scat.
Is that what they call it? Yeah, I don't know.
But this one is the oldest released song.
(36:57):
I mean, Cab Calloway originally released this way back in 1931.
Yeah, and he looked good. Yeah, for his age.
I mean, that's 50 years later. That was 50 years, yeah, before
the movie came out. So I'm not sure how old he was
in the movie, but you're right. He he was born in 19 O 7.
So what is that 7773? 73.
(37:22):
So I mean, he was. Young when we recorded it.
He did look good. This was you talked about some
faux pas, I guess would be the word in the in the movie.
This was the first one that I ever noticed.
They're filming it in this ballroom, the Palace Hotel
Ballroom, which isn't really a real place, But all of the
people that are clapping along to the the song are not clapping
(37:44):
around along in time. And if you ever you hear the
clapping, but if you watch them actually clapping, they're not
like the claps are not lining upwith the actual, you know,
clapping. But to have the deal with, you
know, 400 something extras to try to get them all to do the
same thing. Well, they were probably not.
What they were hearing was probably different because
(38:05):
again, they weren't right. He wasn't singing that version
of it at the point. So I think it has to do with
more the production or somethingbecause old school because
especially with the Aretha one, she was the worst.
Yeah. I liked it.
I'll give it a minus. A minus, all right.
It was, I had heard it before and I don't I maybe it's from
(38:25):
the soundtrack or maybe I just heard the original or other
remakes of it, but that's fun. That would be fun to go see a
concert. I love old stuff like that.
I do. I love old music.
I love gospel music like that. It's it gets people involved.
It's fun. Yeah, and Kev Kellaway is just a
(38:46):
talented performer, you know, toremain relevant for 50 years,
you know, after or had that songremain relevant for 50 years and
and included in that movie. And back the end.
I liked it because you always had the horn sections in the
back, you know, And fun. Yeah, no, All right.
(39:08):
A minus. Not bad, no, for many of the
moocher. Got you know what a moocher is?
Yeah, she was, you know, taking advantage of the guy with all
the money. Yeah, I just want to make sure
you knew. I mean you're you're not the.
Things that she was needing. Yeah, you.
Didn't know what Katie was. OK, well, a moocher though.
(39:28):
Well, I just didn't how I'm asking don't get.
A diamond car with the platinum wheel.
Howdy, howdy, howdy. Yeah.
OK anyway, so this number song #10 on the Blues Brothers
soundtrack album, probably the most famous song about the city
of Chicago that has ever existed.
(39:49):
Song called Sweet Home Chicago played at probably every
Blackhawks game and every Bulls game, every Wolves, every
sporting event in Chicago at least once.
But not because of the Blue Brothers.
Blue Brothers. No, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm just saying, just in general.
Very popular. Yeah.
(40:13):
Let's just take a listen. I think you know people.
People have to know this one, right?
I don't know. Let's take it.
My sweet home. Chicago, See.
(40:34):
Can you even sing along to this song?
Since you're not from here, I guess you are now.
You're not from Chicago. I'm from the Chicagoland area.
They're not saying Sweet Home Chicagoland area, they're saying
Sweet home Chicago. So you need to stop it.
Actually, I live closer to the city than you do now.
Now, I mean, I grew up in Lockport, which was closer.
(40:58):
Maybe, maybe not. I live really close to the
Interstate, which is closer. It's farther and I've driven it.
It's farther. Anyway, this is another remake
from a song by that was originally recorded by Robert
Johnson, some guy named Robert Johnson, way back in 1936.
So this was just a couple years after our Cab Calloway friend
(41:21):
recorded his song so. Didn't like Frank Sinatra do it?
No. He might have.
He'd had a version of it, but. He's not from Chicago.
Maybe that's not true. He did the New York, NY song.
Yeah, maybe that's what I'm getting confused with.
So I thought. It's fine.
I think it. I mean, it's I.
You know, I give it an A minus. Yeah, I don't hate it.
(41:43):
I mean, it's good. Yeah, it's good.
Fair enough. I The song went on a long time
on the movie, right? Yeah, because this was when they
were leaving. They were sneaking out to avoid
the police. Yeah, who's by the way?
(42:04):
The police were just ignorant. In the show, Yeah, yeah, that's,
that's one. I mean, they're the police are
like, oh, let's go raid this show, but hold on, we're going
to let them. I want to hear what they sound
like and let's sit through the whole show and let them sneak
out the back door, I said. I wasn't going to talk about the
movie anymore, but I have other things to say.
(42:26):
John Candy is one of the funniest guys, and he was
useless in that movie. He had no, there was no funny
lines. So why John Candy?
He could, yeah. Did we talk about the Illinois
Nazis? Why would they even bring like
what was the purpose of that? That was just a subplot and you
know this. Whole Carrie Fisher with the
bazooka and all that I mean, andthen she's going to he's going
(42:50):
to be like fake and oh, I'm sorry and then she's.
Going to follow up in the mud. Yeah, that's just.
I don't know it's. Yeah.
It's terrible writing, quite honestly.
The Illinois Nazi thing was always a little random, like I
felt like we could have done without that.
You don't think them going into the the men's homeless shelter
(43:11):
or whatever and her shooting a bazooka at them was random out
of nowhere? That well, I mean, it was
explained later though, So at least that and like with the
Nazi thing we know, I mean, we understand why they were upset
is because they drove them off the bridge, you know.
So at least there was like, those were just like subplots,
(43:31):
you know? It could have been left out.
It could have been, but it it helps with the depth of the
movie. I'm not going to.
Yeah, knee deep in feces is whatit is.
That depth it. Helped me learn the the address
of Wrigley Field though. 1060 W Addison.
(43:53):
Why would I even want to know that I?
Don't know. You know, I'm not one of those
fans. I'm not either, but I know the
address of the friendly confines, so it's more than the
more than you can say I guess. All right, let's hear the last
song of Season 1 of the Vinyl Curriculum.
Jailhouse Rock This is the last song in the movie, obviously
(44:15):
originally released by Elvis Presley from From.
I have a connection with Elvis Presley.
We're from the same town. Oh, from Mississippi.
Tupelo, Ms. OK, I thought you were talking about what?
Where is the song from? No, Karen and I used to live on
Elvis Presley Drive, right down the street from his birthplace.
It wasn't really his birthplace.He was born in the country.
(44:35):
They moved his house, oh, in town, kind of, and they have a
little Chapel. You can get married there.
They had a swimming pool, that guy.
Can you get married by Elvis there too?
Like you can't invade. No, I don't think they do that.
That would be smart though. Yeah.
Maybe there's somebody that would do it.
Yeah, so this was really originally released 1957 remake,
(44:57):
obviously for this movie. Great.
And the prison scene is very synonymous.
Back in jail. Yeah, back in jail, obviously.
And you know, what's funny is like they they'd all stem from
just a speeding ticket, like getting pulled over because they
were going too fast. That's how this whole like, I
(45:18):
don't know if you caught that, but they got pulled over at the
beginning of the movie. And then the whole plot of being
chased by the police is just because they got pulled over
because they were speeding. Yeah.
Like they it's not like they didanything serious.
They just. They were.
Speeding. They killed the Nazi.
Well, he did not survive that fall, but he was murder.
Kill him. He they drove themselves off the
(45:40):
line, which is true. They didn't he that was more
Yeah, they didn't push him. It wasn't like they pushed him
off. They you know.
Like I said, self out there I I don't mind discussing this movie
for you for this hour, but I hope I can forget about it.
I hope I never have to think of this movie again.
OK, well, we're going to think about it a little bit more for
this last song. Jailhouse Rock.
(46:02):
You know, the vinyl curriculum. See, this always makes me think
of the scene in Walk the Line when Johnny Cash is performing
(46:24):
in Folsom Prison. I don't know.
I mean, they're both just performing in a prison, I guess.
So not a not a big connection a.True story and was not, but
that's. Yeah.
I never saw that one either, butI think you never saw no Walk
the line. I think I would like that one
though. Oh gosh, Joaquin Phoenix, top
tier performance in that one. And Reese Witherspoon, is she in
(46:47):
that one? What was the one she was in?
I don't know. You know who she is.
I know the name and I probably would know.
Maybe not, I don't know. I thought this was good.
I mean. It is with Reese Reese
Witherspoon. She was the one illegally
blonde. Yeah, I give it an A minus.
(47:10):
OK. I think, yeah, I think it's a
good version of it. And I'm I'm not a huge Elvis fan
at all because by the time I wasalive, when he was alive, so
when he died at that point, thisis all past he had, he was
overweight, he had the big sideburns.
(47:32):
He. Wore junk.
Weird. He.
Would do karate and like on stage and that's what I remember
and so I wasn't attracted to that.
Did you see Elvis? Live ever No, no, he was too
big. Like he was big.
He was Taylor Swift big or bigger, you know, and the fact
that he married, he was a 14 year old.
(47:53):
I mean, it's just there's a lot of weird stuff there.
I never saw that movie with Tom Hanks either.
Did you see that You're going? To tell me yes, I saw that.
I told you to me, I don't see movies.
I don't see like biography. Biopics.
I do, sometimes I don't. I just.
Did you see the Queen movie? Yeah.
Did you see the Elton John movie?
Yes. OK.
I have interest in them, though.See, I don't have, I don't have
(48:15):
a big interest in Elvis. I've just told you why.
Yeah. So, I mean, I do.
One of my best friends growing up, his mother saw Elvis in
concert and she he threw out $100 bill and she called it.
I said, did you save it? She said no, I spent it.
Yeah, he probably would be worthso much.
He would swing out, hand out money and everything.
(48:36):
All right, Logan. Obviously this let's so I can go
through I recap. Yeah, so big final episode of
season #1 Jim, I thought you were pretty fair.
I mean for not for hating the movie, you know?
My job was to do the music, not the the movie.
But they're connected as much asyou want to deny.
No, I oblivion, I'm telling you right now I disconnected them
(48:58):
because otherwise if there was any pull from the movie we would
be in the D minus sections. So no, this is just the music.
Yeah. I mean A minus, BBAA minus, A+,
ACA minus A -, A minus. So obviously my grade is an A
(49:18):
for the entire album. I marked that down on our sheet
here. What is your overall grade?
Now you have to grade me. You're not grading the album,
you're grading. I know.
So don't put that on the sheet, because that's irrelevant.
I put my grade on the sheet because it's important, because
I like this album so, and it's Logan's version #2 so I can do
it however I want. Thank you very much.
(49:41):
I would have to give it an A minus I just because there's a
couple of B's in the, so I'd have to give it a minus, but it
was I would listen to it again. I would skip a few songs, but I
would listen to it and just try not to have flashbacks of the of
the mood. Yeah, I'd give you an AI.
Think you were very fair grade for the album even though you
(50:05):
didn't like the movie, and that's OK.
You know, but you can understandhow people would not like that
movie. I can understand that coming in
is kind of a 2. Year old who does not have no
but it's not even I love silly movies, I love airplanes it's.
Just weird. It's a weird, it's a weird
concept, you know? And that's why when you it's one
thing you say, oh, I love the movie, but when you say I think
(50:27):
it's my favorite movie, I'm concerned.
Yeah, all. Right.
So let me let me let's recap this Season 1 recap.
Yeah, maybe you can think of some takeaways.
I have a few takeaways. Yeah, well, let's hear what you
have this time. 1st take away #1is over 20 episodes.
I hope you have understood that yes, lore does matter because
(50:53):
you can we talk about that. You used to think it didn't.
Yes, yes. I think this is a perfect
example how history of somethingcan help you like something
more. Yep.
I think I have learned Oh God either I used to.
I used to not listen to lyrics like I do now so I don't know if
(51:14):
it's a age thing. You are quite a bit older.
Than me I am. And I mean quite a bit older,
like a lot of I'm. Twice as old as you.
Over. Over.
Twice as old as me, OK. You want a little more detail?
He's trying to tick me off, young man.
(51:35):
I'm still old enough to whoop your tail is what I am.
So anyway, I see you got me all distracted.
I don't remember what I was saying.
Oh, so lyrics, What I when I think to myself, lyrics are
important. I realize on certain songs, if
it's an Aussie song, I'm not listening to lyrics.
If it's a dance song, I'm not listening to the lyrics.
(51:57):
If it's a like a upbeat song where it's going fast and stuff,
I'm not listening to the lyrics.And even with U2, obviously I
wasn't listening to the lyrics. I didn't know what the world is
talking about. Yeah.
Slower songs I do because I think I have time to process.
Yeah. What is there?
Let me at least do three. What's another?
I think those are your two solidpoints though.
(52:19):
And I mean, I think while you think of that third one, I think
I've evolved, which I think was the goal a little bit.
Don't laugh, Did you? Don't laugh.
I wanna hear your, I think. So I mean, I feel like when we
started I was very anti slow songs.
(52:40):
I'm still pretty anti slow songs, but just like if I was at
like a, you know, a level 9 of hating, I think we're at like an
8 1/2 now. So we moved down slightly.
I don't count that as one because I if I had to come up
with a third, it would be that you still and the and the.
The issue with that is you're missing out a lot of good stuff.
(53:00):
Yeah. And I think another issue, and
it's not just you, it's your agegroup.
And and it's just the way digital media, digital music has
caused this by missing out, by not listening to albums.
There's there's if you were to ask people my age, namely your
(53:21):
favorite album and what's your favorite song on it?
A lot of times it's not going tobe a single.
It's going to be something like a seat like a hidden jam almost
right. For whatever reason, sometimes
they were too long that they they couldn't release it.
So it's a great song. It just was too long to release.
And sometimes they are the hits.So I think this generation is
(53:41):
missing out on that, and I thinkit's kind of ironic when vinyl
is so popular. I would love to have a
discussion with those people. Are you really listening to them
or do you just like the idea of?It the idea, yeah, maybe that
could be season #2 we, we talkedto some more people because we
only had one guest for season #1Sir Harold McKay.
(54:05):
Sir Harold McKay, the emeritus faculty Emeritus, 60's rock
folk, folk, 60s folk. And I think that was a good
conversation, you know, to be with someone else who was there,
even though you guys definitely teamed up on me.
But that's OK. It's so easy to do.
Though I know, I know. Especially when I like the Blues
(54:25):
Brothers, I'm I'm sure I'm nevergoing to live that one down.
Well, you're not alone. I remember our old pastor
brought up Blues Brothers quote,you know, in one of his sermons
one time. And I remember thinking, oh, I
never saw that movie, you know, and.
You're probably glad you died for that long.
I don't. I'm not saying I'm glad I didn't
(54:47):
see it, because at least now I know.
Yeah. OK.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why not?
It's the last episode, so. But.
Be sure to tune in with us on social media.
I'm sure we're going to be continuing posting on the vinyl
curriculum Instagram page and Facebook page.
(55:10):
And let us know, you know, you let us know what you think.
If you like things that you like, things that you don't,
things that we can maybe change for next season.
Like, do we get rid of Logan? Is it just the gym?
Is it just the gym in the curriculum?
With gym I? You know what?
I also think it's a chance for people to get caught up because,
you know, once a week we were kind of hanging in there.
And I think I've talked to several people.
They're like, yeah, I got to catch up.
(55:32):
I have it, you know, go on vacation.
You miss. And so anyway, yeah, feedback
from the social media. We'd love to hear from you.
You know, we'll see how long ourbreak lasts.
Probably. Logan's finishing his MBA.
Yeah, so the more feedback we get, the more likely we are to
(55:52):
return faster. If you really are missing the
vinyl curriculum, hit us up on social media.
Yep, it's been a great first season, I think.
I think so. We we found something new and
we're looking forward to season #2 whenever that may be, right.
This has been Season 1 of the Vinyl curriculum.
I'm Logan. That's Jim.
Do you have a tissue? And we'll catch you all on the
(56:15):
next one. Bye.
Oh boy.
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. Welcome back, ladies and
(00:24):
gentlemen, to episode #20 of TheVinyl Curriculum.
Logan and Jim here in the studio.
What are you looking at? What is the back of your name
tag? What is all that green stuff?
It was mold. No, no, no, they, they put a
sticker on there for, I think itwas suicide prevention, but it,
it's kind of faded. I need to, I need to get some
(00:44):
Google on and get it off there because it's kind of faded.
But welcome to Logan's version #2 I'm excited.
Are you? I am.
Are you excited? I don't know, we'll find out.
I'm sad. This is this is the season
finale of episode of Season 1. I know here can I get a?
(01:07):
Yeah, we might be listening to that sound a lot this episode.
This is Logan's version #2 back on episode #10 was my first
crack at picking a playlist for this for us to listen to and I
thought I had a pretty good variety of music to listen to
but. But there's no theme.
There's no theme, yes. So that's all I said.
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Do you do you on this one? But try to come up with a theme.
And a theme we have in probably my favorite movie of all time.
This week's playlist is the Blues Brothers soundtrack, the
classic Chicagoland favorite from the started as an SNL
sketch and has some great music with some great musical talent
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from around, you know, the time.Some of them aren't even even
included in the album. Like you had mentioned before we
started recording, that was JohnLee Hooker, but you know, it's
Aretha Franklin, James Brown, James Brown.
I can never remember James Brown's name, but Cab Calloway.
Cab Calloway, just a phenomenal line up.
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And so I'm looking forward to listening to some of the songs
with you today. But you said you just watched
the movie over the weekend. I'd never seen a movie.
Watched it with my wife last night.
You had never seen the movie? No.
Oh, I thought you watched it again.
No, I've never seen it and I, I guess I have seen bits and
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pieces and clips and stuff, 'cause it wasn't.
I had no idea what the storylinewas.
I just knew they were on a mission from God.
I didn't that I'd heard that a million times.
I think I have heard the soundtrack before just because I
there wasn't a song on here I wasn't familiar with.
I mean, some of them are remakes, but right so or maybe
they just played on the radio. I don't remember.
Yeah, well I think we just hopped right into it with song
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#1 the opening song, the openingnumber from the picture, she
caught the Katie, which you justtold me was a train, which was
an interesting fact. But they opening scene to set
the the tone for the listening audience.
For those who haven't seen the movie, it's it takes place right
outside of the old Julia prison in Juliet, which I've been to
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and taken a photo. We should I should find that
photo to post on social media from that area.
But iconic opening scene from the old prison.
And yeah, I think that will set the tone with just that.
And we'll get going here on the vinyl curriculum.
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Little harmonica action here in the vinyl curriculum, and so
this is a little different. I have to get used to this
again. Jim will be providing the grades
for each song today, as he did back for Logan's version #1 on
episode #10 and all right. I just want to clarify though
what I'm doing here because I amgoing to be grading the album,
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the songs. BL Right.
No, I. Am not writing the movie.
No, I know. But I want to talk about the
movie. Yeah, well, you have we have to
talk about. The movie, I have one word.
I can't give it a grade because we're not Grady movies, but I
can give it a word and it would be terrible.
You know. I thought it was.
My wife and I both thought it was atrocious.
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There's one time I laughed out loud and it was the most random
thing and it had nothing to do with anybody.
It was when that they were running Chase.
Well, one of the many times where they were running from the
rednecks, the good old boys, andthey were in a camper and they
showed the very top and there's like four faces.
I laughed and I had to rewind it.
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But that was about the joy I gotout of that movie.
But I reason I wanted to watch it because I thought, OK, well,
maybe if I listened, you know, Ilistened to the album multiple
times because I do my homework. And then I wanted to say, okay,
if I watch the movie, is it going to make me like the song
more? And it actually in many cases
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made me not like it as much. But I like this song.
I thought I give it an A minus. It was it.
It bothered me because I didn't know what a Katie was.
It reminded me when I saw cast and they kept singing about this
dadgum Jellicle Ball or something, and I didn't know.
Yeah, I didn't know what it was and it I still don't know what
it was. OK.
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It's a terrible musical in my opinion, but anyway, and I
finally I listened to the lyricsand I figured it had to do
something with a bus or a train and it was a train so but I like
it. It was John Belushi.
He really does had he had a goodvoice.
OK, here I got a I'm kind of write your grade down here.
I was not prepared, I think. I think for me that I obviously
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associate a lot of the songs with the movie, so, you know, I
was a little biased. What?
But what about the movie was so good to know?
I think it was just. You said this is probably my
favorite movie. I mean, I don't understand that.
I don't know, I think I'm just afan of musicals in general,
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which we've talked about in the past and, and just seeing, I
don't know, I guess it was maybethe first time I saw it, watched
it with my grandparents, so. There's the lore, there's the
lore of it. And it's, it's a local thing,
anything that has to do with like, you know, I grew up in
Lockport, like 10 minutes away from the the old prison in
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Joliet. And so, you know, I would head
driven by it many times and thento see it in the movie and
you're like, what is this masterpiece, You know, and I
didn't even that was before I knew all about, you know, SNL
and like the history of the Blues Brothers and Dan Aykroyd
and John Belushi and kind of howbig they were.
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And I thought, you know, I just thought this was, you know.
Again, it's the lore. It's there's this connection
with you, which is the 20th episode.
I think we can all agree that ifyou have a history, even though
you said it didn't matter to youin one of the episodes, remember
when I told you that Blur was from Champagne?
You're like, that doesn't matterif they're from my backyard.
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And we all know that's bull. It does matter.
And I agree. And I and I did not grow up up
here. It was kind of cool, though,
saying, oh, that was that was McCormick Place.
There was a tip of that. But then the next thing I know
there downtown Chicago is like, well, there's a longer drive
than that, you know? So I was.
Yeah, but yeah, it wasn't. That part was interesting.
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I just thought it was just terrible acting like the whoever
was the married, you know, the guy who played, he was Aretha's
wife, a husband. I wonder if that was his.
Probably the real musician. Yeah, that was the real.
He was a musician, he was not anactor.
Terrible. The lip syncing with James Brown
and Aretha Franklin, I thought it almost was like it was the
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two second delay. It was just so bad.
And it, I, I could have gone to the bathroom, got popcorn, filed
my fingernails. Yeah, with the opening section
when he's just walking out. Yeah, it was.
I don't know if there was a slower movie in my life.
And then, whoa, by the way, we bring up the Nazis, OK.
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And then who is? Carrie.
Fisher. Well, whoa, whoa, whoa.
We're we're way Fast forward. Talking about the movie because
then I want to talk about this music because.
Chronological order just a little bit, but yes, so the I
know the singing was really hardfor Aretha Franklin in the movie
because she had never lipstickedbefore.
And so that that was a challengethat was documented.
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So. Well, that's good.
I mean, she said. I'm sure with the singing.
And I'm sure James Brown was thesame thing.
Like, you know, these people arenot let's go sing, you know, lip
sync music like whatever the whatever.
Was it on top of the pop when the choke the chick was eating
the banana? The Mamas and the Pop, yeah.
So I mean, it's similar to that where it's like, OK, you know,
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they just wanted to perform the song, but yeah, it gets a little
weird, you know, with the whole Illinois Nazi thing.
In the fall and when he was likeat the end where he jumps the
thing and the next thing you know he's like falling like from
the top of the car. It's like, Oh my God, it
reminded me of grease. When they they ride off, it's
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like. It's kind of though it's, it's
like a sketch thing. It was, it was based on a sketch
comedy. So it's not like it's supposed
to be kind of goofy. And I it actually this leads
into the next song. So the next song is the theme
from Peter Gunn, which is a veryiconic, you know, I.
Knew that one. So that was that was an SNL
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thing that they wouldn't, you know, a sketch kind of failed or
didn't really have a good ending.
They kind of just play them off the stage with the Peter Gunn
theme. But this scene in the movie when
they they're start playing this song is when they parked the
Blues mobile in the little garage.
Did you watch the director's cutor the Did you watch?
No, and I would. You must.
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Miss this scene and that means it's.
Longer than and there's no way Iwanted anything longer.
So the original plot subplot wasthat the Blues Mobile would
parks in this little garage, like buy all these machines and
all this stuff. And that's what gives it its
powers. Yeah, I know it gets a little,
it gets a little far reaching, but like when it, you know, can
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fly over the the the the bridge when it's, you know, it can jump
over the bridge and all that stuff.
But that was part of then they kind of scrapped that sub
storyline like because the moviewas getting so long.
But that led into them the playing of the Peter Gunn theme.
So let's take a listen to that and then we'll have some more
thoughts here on the final curriculum.
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Doesn't that make you just want to like, walk down the street
with sunglasses on? I left him downstairs.
I was going to put him on. I brought my Blues Brothers
sunglasses. To record.
You want to do that? No, So I'm going to just be very
clear. I am not going to be referencing
the movie like my grade has nothing to do with the.
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Movie because I know and it shouldn't it absolutely it was
terrible. I just no well.
It was terrible. I just, I, I think it's
important for me to give the backward, you know, we listen to
you, Yeah, no, on and on about your, you know, records that you
listen to or whatever, you know,you talk about, but.
But I'm just, I'm just grading the music.
No, absolutely. So I would give this.
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One AB and the only reason I give it AB is because it's, it's
so repetitive. But what makes it not be AC or
lower is the fact that you can'tlisten to it in under in the
different music coming in. And it makes it tolerable, but
it's just so repetitive. You know, there's no lyrics and
you know, yeah. And I, I'm, I'm very familiar
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with that tune and I don't know why.
It's, I don't know, it's just. Been around forever.
It's been around forever. Yeah, it was utilized on SNL.
Remember that, But I didn't watch it.
I mean, I was like 12 when it first came out.
I would watch. I remember seeing the B50 twos
when they performed. I don't know why, but I did.
Yeah. So anyway.
Well, Paul Shaffer was the musical director for Saturday
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Night Live, and he was also the musical director for the Blues
Brothers, so I think a lot of that SNL stuff kind of came over
from from there. But yeah, no, it's a it's a good
little tune. I just, I can picture myself
walking down the street with that mentality.
I'm. Just wondering though, if you if
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it was reversed and you just were sitting with Peppa Oi, Mimi
and whatever grandparents were what listening to the album and
not the movie, would you? Would you love this as much?
Probably not. Probably not.
No, you're absolutely right. But yeah, I don't know.
AB though, Solid, a solid grade for sure.
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Terrible, but nothing spectacular.
The next one was not fully included in the movie, so the
first time I ever heard it was listening to the album.
It's called Give Me Some Lovin. And this is when the Blues
Brothers get back together, you know, after being broken apart
for so many years, and they go on a mission from God to get the
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band back together, yada yada, yada.
So give me some lovin. A little different twist here on
the vinyl curriculum. Let's take a listen.
You want to give me some lovin, Jim, or what?
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I don't it was this is right here.
Give Me Some Lovin was a top 20 Billboard hit, peaking at #18
yeah, because I, I told you, I think I remember hearing that
version. Obviously that's an old song
remake, but I remember that version of it.
Yeah, that was that. Was the only one that charted
though. And yeah, peaked at 59 on the UK
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album charts too in 1987. So Which is interesting that it
wasn't even included in the original movie.
Well, I mean, it was it was a movie, but it wasn't like, but.
That you see that all the time. Like usually you don't, unlike
this you, this song will be there, but it's like a little
clip, you know, like pretty in pink or something like that.
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Unless somebody's dancing to thesong, you don't.
Now, this is a musical per SE, so right, I don't know.
I'd give this another B. Yeah, I think I'd give it AB
too. It wasn't my all time favorite
song from the from the movie, but I think again, it was
partially because it wasn't fully included.
And again, I'm going to be talking a lot about the movie
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because I know a lot about the movie.
But yeah, I. Just think it's interesting.
It's one of your favorites. Yeah.
You don't go to the movie. A lot do.
You no, no. My other favorite, my other
favorite is The Dark Knight trilogy.
Yeah, with what's his name The Batman is.
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Was he Michael Keaton? No, no, he was in Psycho.
Oh oh. What's his name?
No, the remake of Psycho, Yeah, I don't remember that one.
I don't know. It doesn't matter.
We saw The Dark Knight with the kids, if I'm not mistaken, and I
had to Grace and I had to go outside.
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She did not like it. I don't remember.
Middle school. High school, I don't remember.
Yeah, yeah, that's not a bad one.
Anyway, yeah, the next one, Shake a tail feather with Ray
Charles. Yep, with who's I guess the
principal artist because he's it's shake a tail feather,
parentheses with Blues Brothers and parentheses by Ray Charles.
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So. Congratulations on your proper
use of parentheses. I appreciate that.
Yeah, so OK, I think we take a listen then I've got another fun
fact about this song. So OK, let's take a listen here
on the vinyl curriculum. This is another one that was
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remade, Yes, it originally came out in the 60s by the Five Due
Tones chicago-based group. But during the course of filming
this scene, this is when they'reall, you know, they're at Ray's
music shop in Chicago, they're all dancing outside.
And apparently when they were filming that scene, it was like
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the middle of winter, so it was like -15° outside.
And so everybody was like freezing colds and getting
hypothermia. So they did it in like 2 takes
and they're like all right, timeto be done.
But yeah, Ray Charles classic first cameo, first cameo in the
movie I think, or first cameo onthe album anyway by a famous
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John. Johnny Hooker was.
He was. He was.
Side going in or was he outside the diner?
He was outside the diner. That was before Aretha Franklin,
so. I get this one a this reminds me
of Hairspray. I feel like it was in Hairspray,
you know, but it's did you ever see Hairspray?
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I did not, no. It's this kind of music.
Yeah. This is fun. 60s, Yeah.
This is, I mean, just it has theclassic Ray Charles sound, you
know, with the keyboard that eventually becomes part of the
Blues Brothers. Band he he did a better job lip
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syncing than the other two did, I would just say.
Yeah, well, I, I, I mean, I don't know who knows what the
technology was back then and howthey were like if they were just
playing the song. Like I don't know how they like
or were they not even playing any music where they just, you
know, trying to lip sync it without?
Well, they would have to have something so everybody would
know what to dance to. You'd have to have a beat.
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Right. But so if you're just, if you're
singing to like just a beat likethat's hard to.
Well, I'm sure they they could do it.
And then you don't, you don't play the sound from that.
So I don't know. It's a fun song.
It was a fun scene. That that wasn't one.
Of the few highlights of that movie, that was tolerable.
That's a little aggressive. And then we're going to we're
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going to get you to see some more movies.
I think we, yeah, we definitely need to do that, but.
I want you to see Rocky Harpers show.
I was talking to a Co worker here about it because of
Halloween. You know, I saw the meatloaf
thing that they sang some of thesongs from that.
Our Co worker listened to the album and we were just talking
about how great of an album, howfun that movie was.
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It's a little different, but youhave to go like, I wouldn't want
to watch that on Netflix. You got to go see it at midnight
in a theater with all the props,and it's just a crazy fun
experience. Yeah.
And that's it. That's something you use like
that's a live performance, right?
Not just no. It's a movie people make
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interactive and there's things that people say at certain
points and they just people go so much that they know when to
do it. So if you're the first one
going. You stand out like a thumb, sore
thumb because you're not dressedor you don't know what to say
and you just kind of sit there. Yeah.
But yeah, it's just craziness and fun.
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And the music, I was telling my Co worker, the music, I haven't
listened to it in probably a decade and it was fabulous.
I was singing along. I knew all the words.
I remembered great music. It was a musical Broadway show.
But then they made this movie that was kind of a flop, yeah.
And then it became this cult. It's a cult.
Following. Yeah.
Well, that's what happens. That's what I think happened to
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this movie is like, it kind of has a cult following.
They still do. Like, I mean, it's Dan Aykroyd
and Jim Belushi who come and do a concert like once a year in
the old Juliet prison. But that's just it.
Is this just like if I go to Laredo, TX, are people just as
in love with this movie or is itbecause it's local?
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I think it's probably because it's, but it's, but it's all of
Chicago. It's not just like our area
even, I mean, we are the principal, you know, Joliet,
Jake, obviously we're right nextdoor, but.
But he was from Calumet City, wasn't he?
Yeah, but they called him. His nickname was Joliet Jake
because he was in, you know. Where was the palace like at the
end is because they were like 100 and something miles from
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Chicago and they had 100. And six miles from Chicago.
Where was that? That was in the Palace Hotel bar
room. That's where they were.
I don't know. I think that might have been in,
I don't remember where they filmed it at, but I don't think
they ever mentioned like a specific town that it was.
And because I'm. Trying to think what's 106 miles
away that would have something like that.
A. 106 miles from Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas,
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half pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing
sunglasses. Now we're going to listen to
probably one of the principal songs of the album.
Everybody needs somebody to love, which has been remade a
couple times. Queen has a version of it that's
a little slower, but let's take a listen.
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OK? Here on the vinyl curriculum.
Yeah. Do you need me, Jim?
No. You need somebody to love.
I need someone to explain something to me.
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Okay, what's that? I just ask you, well, wait a
minute, where was, I don't remember this part, them singing
this this early in the movie because they haven't even got
their bandmates. And you just told me that, Oh
yeah, this is. Out of order what?
Why would they do? That I have no idea that to me
because this became 1 of this was one of their most iconic
songs. This was a cover of a song from
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the 60s but. Not Queen, by the way, not
Queen. But all right, I'm not.
Since I'm not going to deal withthe movie, I'm not going to take
it down. I would knock it down because
that's about dumb. Yeah.
I think I give this a minus. OK.
Like again, John, I think John Belushi for being an actor, he,
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you know, he could pass as just.A musician?
Oh yeah, he did all his own stunts well.
He was doing those backflips. Yeah, he was.
He could do it. He did it on SNL.
Look it up. I remember doing cartwheels.
I did that's because it then when he it was done it you could
tell it was dubbed in. Like it wasn't a continuous film
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thing. From the information I got, he
did all his own stunts. I know he was.
He was the. He was a handful for sure.
Woke up on a couple couches in the local surrounding areas
after, Yeah, raiding their refrigerator.
So. But yeah, that's probably that
one. And the one of the later ones.
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Sweet Home Chicago, I think is probably the most synonymous
song from this album. What's that noise?
Do you hear noise? No, I don't know.
But that was like part of their performance in the Palace Hotel
ballroom. Later at the end of the movie.
Later, at the end of the movie, yes.
It's so weird. That is weird because the the
Cab Calloway song that we'll hear a little bit later was
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right before this. Like literally right before it.
Right, because he was. He was singing while they were
stalling. Yeah, he was stalling when he
came, when they came into the the theater.
So a minus though. A minus.
I'm not upset about that. No.
The next one is by another famous individual, James Brown.
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The old landmark, it's called with Ray Charles I think.
No, I think they, I think that was Chaka Khan in the.
I think Chaka Khan was in the choir behind.
Yeah, Reverend James Cleveland Choir, that's what, that's what
who is with with James Brown. And that was some interesting
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editing. I'm sure that you've saw when
they were. On the trampoline, Yeah, that
silliness didn't make any sense.This, like this movie, is silly
though. How much is but it wasn't.
That's just it. It was not silly.
And and then the fact that how much we're going to have to pay
to get a trampoline in there when you could have easily just
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let them keep dancing. But anyway, we we digress.
Let's play the music. James Brown in the vinyl
curriculum. That's another one that makes
you want to just get up and dance, doesn't it?
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Yeah. James Brown from the Blues
Brothers movie. I loved it.
I give, I'm, I'm give that a plus.
Oh, I love, I love gospel music like that.
Oh my. Gosh.
And actually that's one where the the video made it a little
bit better until they started the trampoline shots at the end
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and the back. Flips.
That's right here in this part of the song.
But with them, yeah, but with them dancing.
And James Brown killed it just the way he his sang it.
Not the way he lips it, but the way he sang it.
He killed it. And I love that.
It reminds me of Color Purple. I don't know if you ever saw
that. There was some scenes in there
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now that stop it. You never saw the color.
No. That's one of the best movies
ever. I mean, it is one of the best
movies ever. But anyway for me.
This is one of my one. You know what the difference
between the best movies ever? You know what the difference
between Color Purple and this movie Blues Brothers is?
What's that? One is good, one is not, and one
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has a story that's means something and 1 is just
silliness. Do not even talk to me about
stories without silly. They're on a mission from God,
Jim. It is not even a mission from
God. That's just it.
You thought. I would have thought he would
have got some sort of a sign. And just the fact that he
started glowing doesn't mean it was a sign.
Saw the light. He saw the light.
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Yeah. Are you kidding me?
He was on a mission to help the Penguin.
Save the orphanage that her, thepart with her where she was
coming in and out and the doors were shut and that was kind of
fun. That was I'm telling you like to
find humor. Across the floor.
Yeah, to find humor in it was, it was a stretch.
Yeah, no. What?
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What did it do? No, it was not a.
Stretch. Oh, it was a stretch.
No. It was a stretch to me.
I I guess I was thinking it was going to be more like Airplane
with like slapstick comedy or whatever.
And it was none of that. There was a lot of just if I
could take a shot every time a car crash happened, I would be
in the hospital because they putall their money on trampolines
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and car crashes. Well that has supposedly that
was at the old, I think Chicago Ridge Mall was where they filmed
that car crash scene. In Harvey, I looked it up.
Yeah, and supposedly they never paid the bill for that.
They kind of just. But it what I read 'cause I I I
want to know where it was and they said it was already.
Empty it was closed down and they whatever they didn't hit,
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they didn't have to pay for. That was the other deal.
So like they only the stuff thatthey destroyed they had to pay
for? But they never opened it and
they demolished it but. Well, it was, I mean, it was
closed by when they started filming and all the cars in the
parking lot were from a new car dealership.
So they weren't, they couldn't weren't allowed to hit any cars
in the parking lot. Anyway.
I told you, I know a lot of weird stuff in this movie.
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Yeah. OK.
The next. One's good to know because I'll
never I want to talk about it and get it out so I can forget
about it. See, I want I had this whole
idea to do a promo where we could do the opening scene for
the Blues Brothers where we eachhave the sunglasses on and then
we show me and then it's like, well.
We can still do it for the promofor social media.
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Yeah, but not if you think it's stupid.
Well, well, you're right. We're going to do it anyway.
We've done promos for things that you didn't care for.
This is, well, most of them anyway.
But if if it was a whole album of James Brown doing gospel, I
would love it. Well, what about Aretha Franklin
though? That she's up next.
Let's think. Let's think what we think.
Think a little bit and we're going to.
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Judge the music and not the lip syncing.
Two fried chickens and a Coke. 4fried chickens.
Yeah, 4 fried chickens and a Coke.
A year. A year, yeah.
It's been a while. And he only eat more of a white
bread. I'm more of a white bread guy.
Yeah. Yeah.
Dry white toast. All right, OK, let's listen to
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Aretha here. I'll buy him a curriculum.
I'm going to have some freedom after this, Jim.
Or what? What are you looking at?
Why are there big speakers in this room?
I don't know just for. Listening to podcast and they
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have these big. It wasn't always a podcast.
It wasn't always a podcast studio.
I think I like that. Yeah, so this one was another
one that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 was up all the
way up to #7 This one was released separately by Aretha
Franklin, so. But she already had released it
(30:13):
on her own. Yeah, well, I mean that's that's
what I'm saying is so. She had no, she had this is
older than this in 1980. No, right.
No, this was 1968 was when she released it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's what I was saying it was.
It was separate from the movie. This is a remake of it because
it didn't sound like this for. The movie, yes.
So I'm talking about the original.
(30:35):
Release the 1968, Yeah, yeah, I'll give it an A.
It was. Classic.
It's a good song and I'm not, but I like the way she rephrase.
She you know, it's different from the other one.
It is different. And they're dancing in that
little diner shop there. She's, you know, she's good and
(30:55):
she's talented and, you know, over the years she's done duets
with all types of people. George Michael, She's very
talented and she, you know, she went through a phase in the 80s
where she really became, you know, she'd been out for a long
time. She came out and she had a who's
zooming who and are you fixing to sneeze?
(31:16):
No, I'm all right. You're supposed to just keep
talking, Jim. Well, I thought.
You were having a stroke or something.
I didn't know what was going on.But anyway, yeah, Aretha was
talented. Aretha is great.
So now to stick with our out of order nature, we're going to go
back to the theme from Rawhide. Yeah.
This is just weird. This is when they were in the.
(31:39):
They were in the bar, they were singing for as the good old
boys, good old Blues Brothers boys band from Chicago, and you
know, you need to play a little country music.
So this is their attempt at that.
Yep, and they left out the othersongs that they sang that wasn't
on here. Yes, it was.
That was. No, they sang a slow song.
(32:02):
Oh. Right there was 3 songs that
that we hear them singing but Give Me Some Love and was the
first song and then they transitioned it.
Right. And they shut them down with
that because it was so bad. They wanted country it.
Wasn't bad, it was just not country.
I forgot which one they did and they were doing false that
anyway it was false that is. No.
Yes, you do. I don't.
(32:22):
When, when, when you try to imitate people and you sing hi,
that's fall set up. Oh well, they had at the bar
that they were at, they had thatBob's country bunker.
They have both types of music, country and western.
Yep. So I'm not sure which one which
category this falls under, but I'll let you be the judge.
Here's the theme from. That's where they bring in the
(32:56):
bullwhip. Yeah, that's was my that was
what got me interested in bullwhip.
Stop it. I've actually.
So I've made two of them. The second one is much better
than the first one. Like a actual bullwhip.
You made a bullwhip? Yeah.
I wove it out of paracord. Why?
I don't. Why is that a thumbs down?
(33:17):
Why is that a thumbs down? They wove it out of paracord and
it actually it cracks. It's like a it's really long,
it's like 11 feet. So it kind of you need a lot of
space to crack it, but. How were you when you did this?
Did you have friends? Did you?
Have friends. This was during COVID.
(33:38):
But so. Poor Logan.
Yeah, this was a relatively recent endeavor.
I'm sorry about that, Logan. I hear that.
Why I it's a it's a hobby. Along with unicycles, basket
weaving, what else have we done?I guess you're talented.
Really into magic. Oh, that's right, I forgot about
(33:59):
magic. I didn't have a lot of friends.
Oh, is there a? Oh, Nope, Nope, that's.
Well, let's just move on becausewe, we just need to.
That's the sad. We just had a downturn in
emotion right here. Yeah.
So I didn't like it. No.
I didn't like it. I'm going to say AC and the
reason I don't think Dan Aykroydis as he wasn't as talented.
(34:24):
He's not a, well, he's not as talented of a singer for sure,
but he's, he was the, he was theone who was really into like the
Blues and that kind of stuff. And, and, and John Belushi was
too. But Dan Aykroyd was the like the
one of the principal writers of the movie and actually have like
written well over like 300 pagesor something originally.
(34:47):
But you're right, the talented 1is definitely John Belushi.
That's why the second movie was terrible.
Yeah. Did you ever see Driving Miss
Daisy? I did not with Morgan Freeman,
no. And Dan Aykroyd.
Yeah, no, I need to watch that. Well, it's slow, so you're not
going to like it. But this this song was from ATV
(35:08):
series that was on CBS like in the late 50s fifty 9 to 65.
So I don't. Know so I would say then that
would be western if you say was it country or western.
It was country and western. Yeah, but I have.
I've never heard the original version of that song so not sure
(35:29):
if it would be better or worse, but you know it's it was not.
Included in mono. It's not in stereo because it
was so old, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, so this one is one of my favorites.
This is like kind of a, you know, I call it a hidden gem.
It's not really that's not really an accurate descriptor
though. It's more of like a lesser known
(35:52):
like like how this show started.It was like it was like this I
feel like would be AB side like first song on the B side kind of
thing. This is by Cab Calloway, one of
the other people who was not included in the second movie
because he had passed away between the filming of the first
movie. In the second movie, it was Cab
Calloway, James Brown and John Belushi.
We're all not in the second movie.
(36:13):
James Blues brothers 2000 this one though many of the moocher
is. I have heard of him sing other
versions of this song, like fromhis original release, but I
think I like this one a little bit more.
OK, so we'll take a listen and then we'll hear what Jim has to
say on the vinyl curriculum. Hey folks, here's the story
(36:36):
about can you say all that? I don't even know.
I think he's just making noises.I think they call it scat.
Is that what they call it? Yeah, I don't know.
But this one is the oldest released song.
(36:57):
I mean, Cab Calloway originally released this way back in 1931.
Yeah, and he looked good. Yeah, for his age.
I mean, that's 50 years later. That was 50 years, yeah, before
the movie came out. So I'm not sure how old he was
in the movie, but you're right. He he was born in 19 O 7.
So what is that 7773? 73.
(37:22):
So I mean, he was. Young when we recorded it.
He did look good. This was you talked about some
faux pas, I guess would be the word in the in the movie.
This was the first one that I ever noticed.
They're filming it in this ballroom, the Palace Hotel
Ballroom, which isn't really a real place, But all of the
people that are clapping along to the the song are not clapping
(37:44):
around along in time. And if you ever you hear the
clapping, but if you watch them actually clapping, they're not
like the claps are not lining upwith the actual, you know,
clapping. But to have the deal with, you
know, 400 something extras to try to get them all to do the
same thing. Well, they were probably not.
What they were hearing was probably different because
(38:05):
again, they weren't right. He wasn't singing that version
of it at the point. So I think it has to do with
more the production or somethingbecause old school because
especially with the Aretha one, she was the worst.
Yeah. I liked it.
I'll give it a minus. A minus, all right.
It was, I had heard it before and I don't I maybe it's from
(38:25):
the soundtrack or maybe I just heard the original or other
remakes of it, but that's fun. That would be fun to go see a
concert. I love old stuff like that.
I do. I love old music.
I love gospel music like that. It's it gets people involved.
It's fun. Yeah, and Kev Kellaway is just a
(38:46):
talented performer, you know, toremain relevant for 50 years,
you know, after or had that songremain relevant for 50 years and
and included in that movie. And back the end.
I liked it because you always had the horn sections in the
back, you know, And fun. Yeah, no, All right.
(39:08):
A minus. Not bad, no, for many of the
moocher. Got you know what a moocher is?
Yeah, she was, you know, taking advantage of the guy with all
the money. Yeah, I just want to make sure
you knew. I mean you're you're not the.
Things that she was needing. Yeah, you.
Didn't know what Katie was. OK, well, a moocher though.
(39:28):
Well, I just didn't how I'm asking don't get.
A diamond car with the platinum wheel.
Howdy, howdy, howdy. Yeah.
OK anyway, so this number song #10 on the Blues Brothers
soundtrack album, probably the most famous song about the city
of Chicago that has ever existed.
(39:49):
Song called Sweet Home Chicago played at probably every
Blackhawks game and every Bulls game, every Wolves, every
sporting event in Chicago at least once.
But not because of the Blue Brothers.
Blue Brothers. No, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm just saying, just in general.
Very popular. Yeah.
(40:13):
Let's just take a listen. I think you know people.
People have to know this one, right?
I don't know. Let's take it.
My sweet home. Chicago, See.
(40:34):
Can you even sing along to this song?
Since you're not from here, I guess you are now.
You're not from Chicago. I'm from the Chicagoland area.
They're not saying Sweet Home Chicagoland area, they're saying
Sweet home Chicago. So you need to stop it.
Actually, I live closer to the city than you do now.
Now, I mean, I grew up in Lockport, which was closer.
(40:58):
Maybe, maybe not. I live really close to the
Interstate, which is closer. It's farther and I've driven it.
It's farther. Anyway, this is another remake
from a song by that was originally recorded by Robert
Johnson, some guy named Robert Johnson, way back in 1936.
So this was just a couple years after our Cab Calloway friend
(41:21):
recorded his song so. Didn't like Frank Sinatra do it?
No. He might have.
He'd had a version of it, but. He's not from Chicago.
Maybe that's not true. He did the New York, NY song.
Yeah, maybe that's what I'm getting confused with.
So I thought. It's fine.
I think it. I mean, it's I.
You know, I give it an A minus. Yeah, I don't hate it.
(41:43):
I mean, it's good. Yeah, it's good.
Fair enough. I The song went on a long time
on the movie, right? Yeah, because this was when they
were leaving. They were sneaking out to avoid
the police. Yeah, who's by the way?
(42:04):
The police were just ignorant. In the show, Yeah, yeah, that's,
that's one. I mean, they're the police are
like, oh, let's go raid this show, but hold on, we're going
to let them. I want to hear what they sound
like and let's sit through the whole show and let them sneak
out the back door, I said. I wasn't going to talk about the
movie anymore, but I have other things to say.
(42:26):
John Candy is one of the funniest guys, and he was
useless in that movie. He had no, there was no funny
lines. So why John Candy?
He could, yeah. Did we talk about the Illinois
Nazis? Why would they even bring like
what was the purpose of that? That was just a subplot and you
know this. Whole Carrie Fisher with the
bazooka and all that I mean, andthen she's going to he's going
(42:50):
to be like fake and oh, I'm sorry and then she's.
Going to follow up in the mud. Yeah, that's just.
I don't know it's. Yeah.
It's terrible writing, quite honestly.
The Illinois Nazi thing was always a little random, like I
felt like we could have done without that.
You don't think them going into the the men's homeless shelter
(43:11):
or whatever and her shooting a bazooka at them was random out
of nowhere? That well, I mean, it was
explained later though, So at least that and like with the
Nazi thing we know, I mean, we understand why they were upset
is because they drove them off the bridge, you know.
So at least there was like, those were just like subplots,
(43:31):
you know? It could have been left out.
It could have been, but it it helps with the depth of the
movie. I'm not going to.
Yeah, knee deep in feces is whatit is.
That depth it. Helped me learn the the address
of Wrigley Field though. 1060 W Addison.
(43:53):
Why would I even want to know that I?
Don't know. You know, I'm not one of those
fans. I'm not either, but I know the
address of the friendly confines, so it's more than the
more than you can say I guess. All right, let's hear the last
song of Season 1 of the Vinyl Curriculum.
Jailhouse Rock This is the last song in the movie, obviously
(44:15):
originally released by Elvis Presley from From.
I have a connection with Elvis Presley.
We're from the same town. Oh, from Mississippi.
Tupelo, Ms. OK, I thought you were talking about what?
Where is the song from? No, Karen and I used to live on
Elvis Presley Drive, right down the street from his birthplace.
It wasn't really his birthplace.He was born in the country.
(44:35):
They moved his house, oh, in town, kind of, and they have a
little Chapel. You can get married there.
They had a swimming pool, that guy.
Can you get married by Elvis there too?
Like you can't invade. No, I don't think they do that.
That would be smart though. Yeah.
Maybe there's somebody that would do it.
Yeah, so this was really originally released 1957 remake,
(44:57):
obviously for this movie. Great.
And the prison scene is very synonymous.
Back in jail. Yeah, back in jail, obviously.
And you know, what's funny is like they they'd all stem from
just a speeding ticket, like getting pulled over because they
were going too fast. That's how this whole like, I
(45:18):
don't know if you caught that, but they got pulled over at the
beginning of the movie. And then the whole plot of being
chased by the police is just because they got pulled over
because they were speeding. Yeah.
Like they it's not like they didanything serious.
They just. They were.
Speeding. They killed the Nazi.
Well, he did not survive that fall, but he was murder.
Kill him. He they drove themselves off the
(45:40):
line, which is true. They didn't he that was more
Yeah, they didn't push him. It wasn't like they pushed him
off. They you know.
Like I said, self out there I I don't mind discussing this movie
for you for this hour, but I hope I can forget about it.
I hope I never have to think of this movie again.
OK, well, we're going to think about it a little bit more for
this last song. Jailhouse Rock.
(46:02):
You know, the vinyl curriculum. See, this always makes me think
of the scene in Walk the Line when Johnny Cash is performing
(46:24):
in Folsom Prison. I don't know.
I mean, they're both just performing in a prison, I guess.
So not a not a big connection a.True story and was not, but
that's. Yeah.
I never saw that one either, butI think you never saw no Walk
the line. I think I would like that one
though. Oh gosh, Joaquin Phoenix, top
tier performance in that one. And Reese Witherspoon, is she in
(46:47):
that one? What was the one she was in?
I don't know. You know who she is.
I know the name and I probably would know.
Maybe not, I don't know. I thought this was good.
I mean. It is with Reese Reese
Witherspoon. She was the one illegally
blonde. Yeah, I give it an A minus.
(47:10):
OK. I think, yeah, I think it's a
good version of it. And I'm I'm not a huge Elvis fan
at all because by the time I wasalive, when he was alive, so
when he died at that point, thisis all past he had, he was
overweight, he had the big sideburns.
(47:32):
He. Wore junk.
Weird. He.
Would do karate and like on stage and that's what I remember
and so I wasn't attracted to that.
Did you see Elvis? Live ever No, no, he was too
big. Like he was big.
He was Taylor Swift big or bigger, you know, and the fact
that he married, he was a 14 year old.
(47:53):
I mean, it's just there's a lot of weird stuff there.
I never saw that movie with Tom Hanks either.
Did you see that You're going? To tell me yes, I saw that.
I told you to me, I don't see movies.
I don't see like biography. Biopics.
I do, sometimes I don't. I just.
Did you see the Queen movie? Yeah.
Did you see the Elton John movie?
Yes. OK.
I have interest in them, though.See, I don't have, I don't have
(48:15):
a big interest in Elvis. I've just told you why.
Yeah. So, I mean, I do.
One of my best friends growing up, his mother saw Elvis in
concert and she he threw out $100 bill and she called it.
I said, did you save it? She said no, I spent it.
Yeah, he probably would be worthso much.
He would swing out, hand out money and everything.
(48:36):
All right, Logan. Obviously this let's so I can go
through I recap. Yeah, so big final episode of
season #1 Jim, I thought you were pretty fair.
I mean for not for hating the movie, you know?
My job was to do the music, not the the movie.
But they're connected as much asyou want to deny.
No, I oblivion, I'm telling you right now I disconnected them
(48:58):
because otherwise if there was any pull from the movie we would
be in the D minus sections. So no, this is just the music.
Yeah. I mean A minus, BBAA minus, A+,
ACA minus A -, A minus. So obviously my grade is an A
(49:18):
for the entire album. I marked that down on our sheet
here. What is your overall grade?
Now you have to grade me. You're not grading the album,
you're grading. I know.
So don't put that on the sheet, because that's irrelevant.
I put my grade on the sheet because it's important, because
I like this album so, and it's Logan's version #2 so I can do
it however I want. Thank you very much.
(49:41):
I would have to give it an A minus I just because there's a
couple of B's in the, so I'd have to give it a minus, but it
was I would listen to it again. I would skip a few songs, but I
would listen to it and just try not to have flashbacks of the of
the mood. Yeah, I'd give you an AI.
Think you were very fair grade for the album even though you
(50:05):
didn't like the movie, and that's OK.
You know, but you can understandhow people would not like that
movie. I can understand that coming in
is kind of a 2. Year old who does not have no
but it's not even I love silly movies, I love airplanes it's.
Just weird. It's a weird, it's a weird
concept, you know? And that's why when you it's one
thing you say, oh, I love the movie, but when you say I think
(50:27):
it's my favorite movie, I'm concerned.
Yeah, all. Right.
So let me let me let's recap this Season 1 recap.
Yeah, maybe you can think of some takeaways.
I have a few takeaways. Yeah, well, let's hear what you
have this time. 1st take away #1is over 20 episodes.
I hope you have understood that yes, lore does matter because
(50:53):
you can we talk about that. You used to think it didn't.
Yes, yes. I think this is a perfect
example how history of somethingcan help you like something
more. Yep.
I think I have learned Oh God either I used to.
I used to not listen to lyrics like I do now so I don't know if
(51:14):
it's a age thing. You are quite a bit older.
Than me I am. And I mean quite a bit older,
like a lot of I'm. Twice as old as you.
Over. Over.
Twice as old as me, OK. You want a little more detail?
He's trying to tick me off, young man.
(51:35):
I'm still old enough to whoop your tail is what I am.
So anyway, I see you got me all distracted.
I don't remember what I was saying.
Oh, so lyrics, What I when I think to myself, lyrics are
important. I realize on certain songs, if
it's an Aussie song, I'm not listening to lyrics.
If it's a dance song, I'm not listening to the lyrics.
(51:57):
If it's a like a upbeat song where it's going fast and stuff,
I'm not listening to the lyrics.And even with U2, obviously I
wasn't listening to the lyrics. I didn't know what the world is
talking about. Yeah.
Slower songs I do because I think I have time to process.
Yeah. What is there?
Let me at least do three. What's another?
I think those are your two solidpoints though.
(52:19):
And I mean, I think while you think of that third one, I think
I've evolved, which I think was the goal a little bit.
Don't laugh, Did you? Don't laugh.
I wanna hear your, I think. So I mean, I feel like when we
started I was very anti slow songs.
(52:40):
I'm still pretty anti slow songs, but just like if I was at
like a, you know, a level 9 of hating, I think we're at like an
8 1/2 now. So we moved down slightly.
I don't count that as one because I if I had to come up
with a third, it would be that you still and the and the.
The issue with that is you're missing out a lot of good stuff.
(53:00):
Yeah. And I think another issue, and
it's not just you, it's your agegroup.
And and it's just the way digital media, digital music has
caused this by missing out, by not listening to albums.
There's there's if you were to ask people my age, namely your
(53:21):
favorite album and what's your favorite song on it?
A lot of times it's not going tobe a single.
It's going to be something like a seat like a hidden jam almost
right. For whatever reason, sometimes
they were too long that they they couldn't release it.
So it's a great song. It just was too long to release.
And sometimes they are the hits.So I think this generation is
(53:41):
missing out on that, and I thinkit's kind of ironic when vinyl
is so popular. I would love to have a
discussion with those people. Are you really listening to them
or do you just like the idea of?It the idea, yeah, maybe that
could be season #2 we, we talkedto some more people because we
only had one guest for season #1Sir Harold McKay.
(54:05):
Sir Harold McKay, the emeritus faculty Emeritus, 60's rock
folk, folk, 60s folk. And I think that was a good
conversation, you know, to be with someone else who was there,
even though you guys definitely teamed up on me.
But that's OK. It's so easy to do.
Though I know, I know. Especially when I like the Blues
(54:25):
Brothers, I'm I'm sure I'm nevergoing to live that one down.
Well, you're not alone. I remember our old pastor
brought up Blues Brothers quote,you know, in one of his sermons
one time. And I remember thinking, oh, I
never saw that movie, you know, and.
You're probably glad you died for that long.
I don't. I'm not saying I'm glad I didn't
(54:47):
see it, because at least now I know.
Yeah. OK.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why not?
It's the last episode, so. But.
Be sure to tune in with us on social media.
I'm sure we're going to be continuing posting on the vinyl
curriculum Instagram page and Facebook page.
(55:10):
And let us know, you know, you let us know what you think.
If you like things that you like, things that you don't,
things that we can maybe change for next season.
Like, do we get rid of Logan? Is it just the gym?
Is it just the gym in the curriculum?
With gym I? You know what?
I also think it's a chance for people to get caught up because,
you know, once a week we were kind of hanging in there.
And I think I've talked to several people.
They're like, yeah, I got to catch up.
(55:32):
I have it, you know, go on vacation.
You miss. And so anyway, yeah, feedback
from the social media. We'd love to hear from you.
You know, we'll see how long ourbreak lasts.
Probably. Logan's finishing his MBA.
Yeah, so the more feedback we get, the more likely we are to
(55:52):
return faster. If you really are missing the
vinyl curriculum, hit us up on social media.
Yep, it's been a great first season, I think.
I think so. We we found something new and
we're looking forward to season #2 whenever that may be, right.
This has been Season 1 of the Vinyl curriculum.
I'm Logan. That's Jim.
Do you have a tissue? And we'll catch you all on the
(56:15):
next one. Bye.
Oh boy.
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