Introducing: Speed of Sound

Speed of Sound is the podcast that breaks down the stories behind the pop songs - and sounds - that topped the charts and shaped the soundtrack of generations. It's hosted by Steve Greenberg, a multi-Grammy Award winning record producer and all-around music obsessive. Tune in for an all access pass to music's biggest moments from sock hops to hip hop to k-pop; you won't want to miss a beat.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
I've been in the music business long enough to know
that behind every big hit song there's a story packed
with surprises. Every rhyme that he said, our rapper's life
was mine. Every verse he said, I'm the C, A
S and the oldie A and the rest. He just
spelled out my name. So Hank was so much not

(00:24):
at EMC. He didn't even know enough. Don't say the
god name, but changed the letters around your name. Never
let an m C steel around irony on irony. I'm
Steve Greenberg, a Grammy winning producer, veteran label exact and
all around music obsessive and your host for Speed of Sound,
where you'll get a front row seat to music's biggest moments.

(00:48):
Ladies and gentlemen. For the first time in the year
in the United States, here are the Beatles singing I
Want to Hold Your Hand and some of its biggest scandals.
Lawrence Leaving just connect it with the Genovese family. He
was a mop guy, and the guy was reluctant to
sign a contract, so Morris had one of his boys

(01:09):
hang him out of a ninth story window by the
ankles until he acquiesced. When he pulled them up, he
said okay, and where do I sign? Of course he signed?
And how some hits really came from left field? He
plays me this song with like a middle aged man
in this video running around in a dog costume to

(01:32):
a tract that sounded like a cassio keyboard. It was
a guy barking and singing about dogs, and I thought,
this has gotta be a joke. He can't be serious
about this song. So now his you have Alex Rodriguez
that every time he steps up to the plate, we
left the dogs out is now being played for a
minute and a a half, two minutes while he's walking up

(01:55):
to his batting position. So that was a really a
key music moment to me. Part of You'll hear how
the hits really hit the top of the charts. Deep
diving into the collision of pop music and pop culture.
Fifty four was big. It was enormous, and you felt
informous being in there. If you were one of the

(02:16):
people who were special enough to be in Spear fifty four,
it felt like you were a magical place. But sex
was past big with the girls were amazing, uh and
if they played your music, wow, you really felt like
a king. Tune into speed of sound for the inside
scoop on the songs that have become the soundtrack of

(02:37):
our lives. I thought it would be exactly what it
was the gigantic masses young. You're not over a hit,
and with us, you're in a new genre of music
and had not existed before. You won't want to miss
a beat the first episode drops. They find it on
the I Heart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you

(03:00):
get your BINGEMM