February 16, 2025 • 37 mins
Ever tried to choose which two 80's Pop albums/cassettes you'd be willing to part with? That’s the musical dilemma we tackled in this week's episode of "Music in My Shoes." Our journey starts with a random list of 28 cassettes, that Jimmy and I dive headfirst into, looking for the first 2 out and the first 2 in. Music is subjective and deeply personal, and our lively debate underscores just that as we reflect on the albums we just can't let go. Play along with us, with the list below.
And that's not all—we also take you through our top five Super Bowl halftime shows, a list packed with electrifying memories from Michael Jackson's game-changing performance to U2's heartfelt tribute to 9/11. Each show left a lasting impact, with Prince’s rain-soaked guitar solos and Paul McCartney's crowd-rousing "Hey Jude" sing-along standing out. As we meander through these iconic moments, we also pause to recall the timeless resonance of certain albums and even share a detour into the world of sports with the 1980 "Miracle on Ice." We look back at Aerosmith guesting in the 'Wayne's World' sketch on Saturday Night Live in 1990. Join us for a rich blend of music, memories, and moments that have shaped our lives.
28 Cassette Stay or Go Challenge
Culture Club - Colour by Numbers / Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth
Huey Lewis & the News - Sports / Stray Cats - Built for Speed
Duran Duran - Arena / Blondie - The Best of Blondie
The Cars - Shake it Up / Bananarama - True Confessions
Roxette - Look Sharp! / Olivia Newton-John - Physical
Thompson Twins - Here's to Future Days / Richard Marx - Repeat Offender
Wham! - Make it Big / INXS - Kick
Billy Idol / Rebel Yell / Bangles - Different Light
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta / Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward / Madonna - True Blue
Michael Jackson - Thriller / Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven on Earth / Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat
Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl / Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes / Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
He's got the feeling and it's out there growing.
Hey everybody, this is Jim Bogeand you're listening to Music
In my Shoes.
That was Vic Thrill kicking offepisode 66.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
Episode 66, get your kicks onRoute 66.
(00:54):
Yeah, oh, you sound realthrilled with that.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I don't know if I've ever been on Route 66.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I don't think I have.
I'd like to go on Route 66.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It winds from Chicago to LA, I believe.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Now, it sounds've ever been on Route 66.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I don't think I have.
I'd like to go on Route 66.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It winds from Chicago to LA, I believe.
Now it sounds like you'resinging a song Nearly 3,000
miles along the way, somethinglike that.
Yeah, and I know that they kindof have.
I mean, I don't know, only fromwhat I've read and what I've
seen.
I've read some magazinearticles that are pretty.
You know high up on it that youshould do it just to kind of
see like what America once wasold America, if I could say.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, I guess that's what it would mean Rather than
the interstate.
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, thank you for that littlekick on Route 66 here on
episode 66.
So, Jimmy, on social media Ibelong to a group and it's
called.
Grew Up Listening to WLIR DREAgain, that's the radio station
I listened to when I was a muchyounger lad, in my teenage years
(01:55):
and into my early 20s, andsomeone posted a picture and it
had 28 cassettes that were kindof stacked up so you could read
the band name and you could readthe album name, and then it
says you can only remove two.
So, jimmy, I put a piece ofpaper.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh, this is the paper , okay.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yes, so if you flip over that piece of paper it's
got a list.
And for those of you at home,if you want to pause, these will
all be listed on the show notesso you can kind of take a look,
take a screenshot of it andthen be able to kind of play
along with us.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
This is funny.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So I'm going to give you a minute to do that right
now.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now I'm removing two because I don't want to listen
to them.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes, Okay, Because of whatever the reason may be.
Okay, so before you get achance, we're going to just read
them out loud.
I'll read the first side andthen you read the second side
and we'll do it kind of quickly.
Again, for those of you at home, this is on the show notes.
You can screenshot it and thenyou can kind of play along so
(03:09):
that you kind of see what wehave.
So I'll go with Culture Club,Color by Numbers, Huey Lewis and
the News Sports, Duran DuranArena, the Cars Shake it Up,
Rock Set, Look Sharp.
Thompson Twins.
Here's to Future Days.
Wham Make it Big, Billy Idol,Rebel Yell the Police, Zenyatta,
(03:34):
Mandatta, Depeche Mode, SomeGreat Reward.
I always have trouble withcertain words.
Reward is one of those words.
Also always have trouble withcertain words.
Reward is one of those wordsalso.
Anyway.
Michael jackson thriller.
Belinda carlisle, heaven onearth.
Paula abdul, forever your girl.
Daryl hall.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
John oats, private eyes, jimmy oh, I'm reading the
other side.
Yes, please debbie gibson,electric youth stray cats built
for speed.
Blondie, the best of blondie.
Bananarama.
True confessions, olivia newton, john physical, richard marx,
repeat offender, nxs, kickbangles, different light, prince
(04:14):
in the revolution.
Music from motion picturepurple rain, madonna, true blue,
millie vanillie girl.
You know it's true, true Blue.
Milli Vanilli Girl.
You Know it's True.
Go-go's Beauty and the Beat,pet Shop Boys, actually, and
Cyndi Lauper, she's so unusual.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, you can only pick two that you wouldn't have,
and I could pick a bunch morethan two, to be honest with you,
but this person on the socialmedia website not website,
social media, whatever saysimmediately that they would pick
Debbie Gibson and OliviaNewton-John.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Like immediately, like you know, with a question
mark, like I mean that's it,like that's the only answer,
when we know that's not the onlyanswer and we know that I like
Debbie Gibson, that I don't makeany bones about that.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, she's no Anne Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
She's no Anne Hathaway, but you know Electric
Youth, that's a pretty goodalbum.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I have to say, oh is it.
You're familiar with the album.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I have the CD.
I do.
I kid you not, I do have that.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
My brother-in-law, Gary.
Actually he likes I can'tremember if he likes Debbie
Gibson or Tiffany, but he madethe case that they were like
really good pop songs, reallygood artists, and, like Gary,
Gary loves the Grateful Dead, heloves, you know, all kinds of
rock and roll.
So I trust Gary on that one.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So Tiffany did that song I Think we're Alone Now
which was Tommy James and theShondells originally.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And I believe Tiffany would go around to malls all
across America and these kidswould show up.
I think the videos that theyshowed on MTV were actually mall
footage, yeah it's a reallysmart thing to do.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
If your target audience can't get into a club,
then go to the mall.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It worked.
It definitely did.
So, Jimmy, looking at this,what two immediately do you say
that you're going to take offthis list?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'm going to take off Milli Vanilli Girl.
You Know it's True, becausethat's not really them.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I appreciate that they had their dancing and their
cornrows and all that look andeverything, but they weren't the
actual people singing.
So I think the album Girl, youKnow it's True.
I've heard this.
So I think the album Girl, youKnow it's True.
I've heard this.
I can't say that it's beenverified, but I think it was
originally going to be called.
You Know, the Singing Isn'tTrue.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, Girl, you Know it Isn't True.
And the other one I take off isMichael Jackson Thriller.
Whoa Anyone?
Whoa yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I didn't see that coming, but for me, my first two
is not Debbie Gibson, of coursenot, unlike the first person
that I took this from, but Iwould go with Richard Marks.
Repeat Offender.
Don't really like anythingthat's on there.
And Paula Abdul, forever yourGirl.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
There's not a whole lot you know she's not a good
singer.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
She was a dancer.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, didn't she do like the LA Lakers, like the
choreography or something likethat back in the day?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That sounds right.
Yeah, she was a bigchoreographer and dancer.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
And she was on what show?
Was that American Idol?
Yeah, she was on American Idolfor a few years.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And her musical opinions were never very good.
You know, she was nice toeverybody.
That was one thing.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Sometimes I'm not sure if she knows she was there.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So, Jimmy, let's look at what would be your next two
that you think that you mightget rid of.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh, wow, okay, I would probably okay if we're not
doubling up on each other.
Then I would probably get ridof Culture Club and Belinda
Carlisle.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Nice.
Yeah, well, Nice yeah well, Ijust oh, and now I just saw
another one.
That is definitely above those,but I already said the two.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Well, that's great, I like that.
So for me, you know now, I meanI like a lot of these.
I'm not going to lie, there's alot of these that I do like
Straycats Built for Speed.
I still have the cassette thatI originally bought when the
album came out.
I absolutely love that, Blondie.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
What songs are on that one?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Built for Speed is going to be Rock this Town.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Rumbling Brighton.
Cat strut.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yes, yeah, there you go, all right right there, big
one, yes, built for speed.
I'd probably go bananarama trueconfessions pick and then after
that, oh man, I, I don't know.
I I mean, I kind of like allthe rest.
Wow, I really do.
So let's look at it a differentway.
(09:33):
The first two that you wouldkeep all right.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, the first two I would keep would be billy idol,
rebel yell and I'll go purplerain oh, nice choices.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I like that.
I would probably go both fromaround 1984, if I yeah, yeah, I
would go, because I don't wantto say the same ones as you.
I would go, the police and YanaMandata and I would probably do
(10:14):
the Stray Cats built for speedthat I said.
I think that would be my firsttwo that I would keep in.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Do you have any guilty pleasures like okay, I
would keep this one, but Iwouldn't brag about it.
Debbie Gibson, Electric Youth.
Yeah, okay, Mine might be HueyLewis and the News.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
That's a great album.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I saw him at Shaky Knees.
It's probably been eight yearsago or something.
Sadly now I think he's lost hishis voice.
He's had some sort of a problemwith his vocal cords or his
hearing.
Okay, yeah, yeah and uh, butthey were great, you know they
uh, they had really good popsongs and they have a pretty
good guitar player in that bandtoo yeah, they, um, are a.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You know he's a funny guy.
He was on Back to the Future.
He did some stuff that wasfunny.
They did some music for themovie.
They had a bunch of albums in arow that were good.
I like sports.
You know, looking at this, Iprobably would have went with.
I love Duran Duran but Iprobably would have got rid of
Arena.
I wasn't big on Arena andprobably after that, even though
(11:27):
you said it, it would have tobe Milli Vanilli Girl.
You know it's true.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And my other one would be Wham Make it Big.
I just don't want any Whamalbums.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, I would probably go with you on that one
.
I do like when George Michaelat Live Aid played with Elton
John, they did Don't Let the SunGo Down on Me.
I like that.
I thought it was pretty cooland then I know George Michael
released it as his own singleafter that.
I thought he did a pretty goodjob, not a big.
Wake me up before you go.
Yeah, I'm heading somewhere.
(12:04):
No, no, I'm not sure what ofwhat the word is.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You're not planning on going solo.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh, I think that's what it is.
I think that's what it is.
Well, Jimmy, I appreciate youplaying along and I hope and you
know you listeners at home, Ihope that you were able to do a
screenshot of all these and takea look at them and, you know,
pick out what you think.
These and take a look at themand, you know, pick out what you
(12:29):
think.
Feel free to contact us atmusicinmyshoes at gmailcom, or
you can always like our Facebookpage or our Instagram page.
So, Jimmy, yes, there's been 59Super Bowls and 59 halftime
shows, and I started to thinkabout my favorites and this is
what I came up with my top fiveSuper Bowl halftime performances
(12:54):
.
All right, Maybe some of mineare some of yours, or maybe not.
Let's see.
Let's do it.
Number five Super Bowl XVII, 27,january 1993, michael Jackson.
It included Billie Jean, blackor white.
(13:17):
He had this children's choirthat was singing we Are the
World and I kind of feel like itstarted at all, I know like the
one before the super bowl,before the two super bowls
before.
I think new kids on the blockwere on one of them and maybe
gloria estefan was on one ofthem.
(13:38):
I'm not a hundred percent sure.
But then they got michaeljackson who at the time was, you
know, the biggest thing around,and it just kind of changed the
way that the whole Super Bowlwas.
I mean, for heck, the firsthalf of them it was just
marching bands from differentcolleges that would come out and
they might throw out acelebrity here and there and you
(14:01):
know, wasn't really anythingexciting.
So that's why I go at numberfive with Michael Jackson.
Number four Super Bowl XLII, 42.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You're so Roman.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, thank you.
Went in Rome.
There you go, february 2008,.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
American girl, I won't backdown, free falling, running down
a dream.
They were not the first choice.
The Eagles turned them down.
Somebody else turned them downalso, but they were great.
(14:41):
They sounded great, they playedgreat.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I mean, I wonder how the Heartbreakers felt about
that set list though, becausealmost none of those are
Heartbreaker songs.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Right, yeah, they were Running.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Down a Dream, Free Fallin', and I Won't Back Down.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
But they were playing them live anyway, yeah, yeah, I
think it was just, you know,part of the whole thing that
they had to do to be part of TomPetty and the crew, yeah, so,
but it was good, I mean, itreally was good.
He sounded good.
You know, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I saw Tom Petty live back around that time at what
was then Phillips Arena, and hedid not.
He did a straight 1970s styleshow no video screens, no big
like catwalk or any big crowdinteraction, just some flashing
colored lights and them playingtheir songs, which was cool, but
(15:37):
it was a bit of a throwbackeven in 2008 or whatever.
And they did kind of the samething at the halftime show.
They didn't do a whole lot ofglitz, it was more just like
yeah, we're playing our songs.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, you know, that's Tom.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
That's Tom Petty for you Coming in at number three on
my top five favorite Super Bowlhalftime performances.
Super Bowl XLI, 41, february2007,.
Prince, which included let's GoCrazy, baby, I'm a Star, did a
(16:13):
cover of Proud Mary 1999, andthen Purple Rain.
And as he's playing Purple Rain, it's like a downpour of rain
all of a sudden starts comingdown.
Like he was able to controlthat.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I know cool thing about that show and about seeing
Prince live in general is thatlike his records are very
curated and produced and, youknow, sound a certain way so the
song might be poppier soundingor more dance or but when Prince
played live he was a guitarshredder, you know, so that that
(16:50):
performance on that halftimeshow showed people he was a rock
and roll guitarist yeah, he wasfantastic.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
He really was again.
You know, I say this all thetime I'm not a huge prince fan.
I don't dislike him.
You know, I like some songs butI'm not, like you know, a
prince head or whatever.
But definitely a goodperformance made my top three of
all time Super Bowl halftimeperformances.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I might put it right at the top.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Most people do.
Most people do, yeah, but we'regoing to find out what my
number one is, because next upat number two, super Bowl
XXXIX39, february 2005,.
Paul McCartney, drive my car,get back live and let die.
(17:41):
And hey Jude, with the wholestadium singing, yeah that's
incredible.
That was really cool.
That definitely was super cool.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But I also saw Paul McCartney right around that same
time at Piedmont Park.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Was he playing Tom Petty songs?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Unbelievable yeah, he actually had his current band
playing Beatles songs.
Can you believe it?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes, I saw him in 2009, right around that same
time.
I saw him at Citi Field in NewYork City.
It was fantastic.
I mean, he was fantastic.
People loved that he wasplaying there.
They definitely were excited.
You know, sometimes some of theSuper Bowl shows, you see
(18:27):
there's a bunch of people theycould care less, yeah, but this
one they were all into it,without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, I would put that as my number two as well.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I just have to say I feel like Karnak the Magnificent
or whatever on Johnny Carson.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Johnny Carson Because .
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I have a feeling I know what's in the envelope.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
At number one, super Bowl XXXVI, 36, february 2002,
u2, beautiful Day, mlk, wherethe Streets have no Name, a
tribute to those killed in theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks, and
(19:11):
it was just an amazing show.
2001 attacks and it was just anamazing show.
Behind them, they had thescreen that put the list, you
know, of the names of everyonethat was lost, whether it was,
you know, in new york orwashington, and their names were
huge.
You could read them.
There was no question.
You know and it listed.
You know where they were.
(19:31):
You know whether the southtower, the north tower, they,
you know and it listed.
You know where they were.
You know whether they're in theSouth Tower, the North Tower,
you know, were they on thisplane or Washington?
And it was just like goosebumpsthat you kind of had as you
watched it.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, cause I mean it was really just three months or
something after 9-11.
Right, four months yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, just like kind of right after, and it was still
kind of tough as a countrytrying to get back to normalcy,
you know, and I think U2 was aperfect fit.
And then, you know, at onepoint, I think it was towards
the end, I don't rememberexactly, but I just remember him
opening up his jacket, and itwas the jacket that had, like,
the American flag on the insideand it was just really cool.
(20:12):
It definitely was super cool.
So what did you think of that?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
as number one, uh, I I think that's in my top three
as well.
I mean, I'd have a tough timeorganizing the top three.
I went back and I watchedprince's performance recently,
but I I haven't had a chance togo back and watch that youtube
performance, so if I did they,they might leap to the top, or
paul mccartney there you Now.
I'm kind of surprised youdidn't mention the Rolling
(20:38):
Stones.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
So that's funny because I think a lot of people
would say the Rolling Stones.
I was not impressed with theRolling Stones performance at
all.
I remember them playing threesongs.
You know they ended withSatisfaction.
I forget, you know was thesatisfaction, um, I I forget,
you know was the other one mayberock in a hard place or
something you know, off one ofthe newer albums, and it didn't
(21:03):
do anything for me.
I almost felt like they justshowed up, they played, you know
they did their thing, but threesongs do my thing.
I'm out of here.
Where's my check?
And that's my, my opinion ofreally how that performance was.
Yeah, but what I do have is Ihave two honorable mentions.
Okay, super bowl li, 51february 2017.
(21:30):
Lady gaga I'm not a big LadyGaga fan by any means, but I
thought that performance wasreally good.
It was great yeah.
I really enjoyed it.
I thought it was super cool.
Xxxviii, 38, february 2004,.
(21:55):
Janet Jackson with JustinTimberlake on Rock your Body,
and that's the song that put theXXX in Super Bowl.
Xxxviii.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It brought wardrobe malfunction into the lexicon.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And that's what changed who the performers were
after that.
That's when they brought allthe old rock guys the who, the
Rolling Stones, paul McCartney,tom Petty, bruce Springsteen,
yeah, all of them because theydidn't think there would be any
wardrobe malfunctions.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
And if there was, you know, if you saw Roger
Daltrey's chest.
Nobody wants to see that, butit wouldn't be the end of the
world.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
No, even at his age.
Yeah, according to my watch,jimmy it's Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
I wanted to talk about the 30thanniversary of February 1995 of
the release of the MatthewSweet record 100% Fun.
It of course starts out withthe classic track Sick of Myself
.
I mean, that's the guitar riffin the classic track Sick of
(23:14):
Myself.
I mean that's the guitar riffin that it's such a simple song
that he went back and just madethis kind of simple masterpiece
out of and I think that songholds up to this day.
This album also has we're.
The Same is another good songon there Lost my Mind, a lot of
(23:35):
good tunes on it and it's hardto believe it's been 30 years.
The cover of the record hasMatthew as looks like he's about
11 years old or something, witha pair of big 1970s headphones
on, sitting in front of a brownsofa, like I'm sure we both had,
you know.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
We did have one.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Tweed kind of thing, and it probably pulls out.
Oh, there's the clock.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And I did have those big headphones too.
When I looked at the albumcover I know it wasn't me, but
when I looked at it I saw myselfyeah, and I think that's one of
the things that they probablywanted to do.
Yeah, hey, it's, it's not you,but when you look at it you
think it's you.
Like you can remember.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, it's relatable.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Extremely very, very relatable Sick of myself.
I love how it ends but doesn'tend.
You're not sure it's over Areally really good song.
I love that song.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I think you're right.
You know, 30 years later, it isstill something that you can
just put on and it sounds good.
It's a good album.
It really is 100% fun.
It is.
You know what it's 100% fun itis?
Yes, it is.
My name is Jimmy.
Last episode, I mentionedseeing a band man Bites Dog and
(24:57):
I couldn't remember what bandthey were covering with the song
Hurricane.
A few people reached out askingdid I mean Neil Young, like a
hurricane, or Bob Dylan,hurricane?
I did not, which.
Both of those are really goodsongs.
They're both on my phone.
I listen to them, but it wasactually the Band of Heathens
(25:23):
and they did the song in 2011.
Now I looked this up.
I didn't know.
You know all of this, but itturns out it's actually a cover
of a country song that was donein 1981 by leon everett.
That actually made, like youknow, the charts the country
(25:44):
single charts okay which is kindof cool, not knowing anything
about it.
I only know this song from a guyat work that does karaoke, runs
his own karaoke business and hesings this song and he had said
to me hey, you ever hear thissong and blah, blah, blah, blah.
I went to see him one time.
I heard him sing it and thenchecked it out and you know,
(26:08):
like I said, I saw this band doit and I was like wow, I've
never heard of this song before.
You know, a year ago, and nowI've heard it a bunch of times
when did it come out?
2011.
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, so it'spretty cool.
So it was Band of Heathens, soI know the show is called Music
(26:29):
in my Shoes and that's what wetalk about.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
No more music than shoes.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
but yeah, yeah true, you're right, and sometimes I
talk about other topics, butthere's usually a tie-in to
music at some point.
But I'm going to say there's notie-in to music on this little
segment here.
All right, okay.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
But sometimes there are tie-ins to Levittown, New
York.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Sometimes there are Sometimes that's enough, but
what's the tie-in?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
No tie-in to either one.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
We're going to find out All right.
February 22, 1980, team USAdefeated the Soviet Union in
hockey at the Olympics.
So that's 45 years ago thatthat happened Again.
Nothing to do with music, butstill a vivid memory that you
know.
I had just turned 13 when thisgame happened.
(27:20):
You know the miracle on ice,something that we still talk
about all these years later.
The 1980 Winter Olympics wereheld in Lake Placid, new York,
which is about a five-hour drivenorth of Levittown, new York,
where I grew up All right, andit's about two hours away from
Burlington, vermont.
And Lake Placid also hosted the1932 Winter Olympics.
(27:44):
So it was the second time thatthey had them, the Soviet team,
because we called it the SovietUnion back then.
It wasn't Russia, they wereRussians, but the country was
the Soviet Union.
The Soviet team was made up ofwhat was essentially pro players
Back then.
Their players couldn't play inthe NHL.
They couldn't come to Americaand play and the Soviet Union
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didn't permit it.
That's why they couldn't come.
It wasn't us, it was the SovietUnion.
Wouldn't let them leave theSoviet.
Union, because they would defectBecause they would defect.
So they didn't do it.
But they did becomeprofessionals on the
international circuit where theywere.
They would have these jobs thatbasically they had the job to
pay them so that they could play.
You know, on the soviet team Ithink the big one was the red
(28:31):
army team.
That was the big hockey team.
The us team was amateurs.
It was led by Coach Herb Brooksand this guy he just picked who
he thought could work out anddo what needed to be done.
He didn't look at who can dothe fastest 50-yard dash not
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that they do that in ice hockeybut he looked at who can play
well.
And the first thing he did ishe gave them a 300 question
psychological exam and if youdidn't want to take it, you
didn't make the team.
That was the first thing.
But he wanted to see who coulddeal with pressure.
(29:15):
Oh yeah, how did they deal withpressure?
And that was his firstrequirement.
And he put together.
This team had, if I'm notmistaken, I think there was only
about four guys that evenplayed in minor league hockey.
I mean, these were really dudesthat just graduated college, or
(29:35):
maybe they were still incollege.
They were truly amateurs.
The Soviets hadn't lost anOlympic game since 1968.
Wow, yeah, us team comes awaywith a 4-3 win.
The game was played at 5 pm buttape delayed until 8 pm for
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primetime coverage.
So many people thought it waslive, even though they said
before the game that it's notlive.
It's tape delayed.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
But the media held on the the media held.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
They didn't say a word.
It's not like today with theinternet, where you can look up
something instantaneously.
I had no idea, no idea who wonthe game, until I watched the
game, and you couldn't doanything like that today, you
know.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, that was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
With five seconds left, al Michaels, who was
calling the game on television,said his famous line do you
believe in miracles?
Yes, so many people thought itwas the gold medal game, but it
wasn't.
Oh yeah, it was just you beatRussia.
You're probably thought it wasthe gold medal game, but it
wasn't.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Oh yeah.
It was just you beat Russia,you're probably going to win the
gold medal.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
So the US had to beat Finland and they did 4-2.
That secured the gold medal forthem.
But some people still swear theSoviet game was the gold medal
game and that it was broadcastlive.
Neither one of them happened.
It's a miracle that just livesstill today.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I mean, there's been movies, uh, you know, it's just
something that's just super coolbecause they made that arcade
hockey game about basically thatgame that the usa versus russia
.
You'd walk into a place thathad pinball machines and video
games and stuff and they had abubble over it and you played
hockey with the handles.
(31:28):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Okay, You've never seen a hockey game that you can
play like foosball almost.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
But they made the players USA versus Russia and
they only did it after the USAbeat Russia and it was like all
right yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, I mean times were definitely different back
then.
It was, you know, the Cold WarAround.
That time there was rumors thatJimmy Carter was going to not
let the US team go to Moscow forthe summer Olympics 1980 summer
Olympics because they hadinvaded Afghanistan in 1979.
So there were all thesedifferent things happening and
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you know, as a kid you alwaysyou thought it was the Soviet
Union that were going to comeand attack us.
And all these different things,I mean that's really what my
thoughts were as a kid.
Yeah, very different than theway that we live today.
But again, the miracle on ice45 years ago.
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February 17th 1990, aerosmithguest on Wayne's World on
Saturday Night Live.
Pretty cool episode Wayne andGarth hanging out in Wayne's
basement where they did theirpublic access show.
Remember they would do that.
I think it was Aurora.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Aurora Illinois.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yes, and they were played by Mike Myers and Dana
Carvey.
Garth's cousin, barry, was aroadie for Aerosmith and said he
would get Aerosmith on the showas long as he could be a guest
also.
And Barry was played by TomHanks and he just cracks me up
in this episode.
(33:09):
It is just so funny.
Just watching him is as good asany other part of what's going
on.
And he's asked what he does asa roadie and out of nowhere he
just grabs two microphone standsand he places them you know so
many feet apart.
(33:29):
And then he gets a scarf forSteven Tyler and he's like, yeah
, and I wrap it around here.
And then he does the mic checkand it's just funny, it really
is.
Aerosmith comes down to thebasement.
They're asked a couple ofquestions and the last question
is with the recent developmentsin Eastern Europe, do you think
(33:51):
that communism is on the declineor is this just a temporary
setback?
And you're just laughing whenMike Myers, who plays Waynene,
says it.
And then stephen tyler and thebass player I think it's tom
hamilton, I'm not not 100 sure,but I think it's tom hamilton.
They give these likeintelligent answers that
(34:15):
surprise everybody and just haveeverybody laughing and cracking
up.
Yeah, you know, and Jimmy, youhave to remember it's a
different time.
We just talked about 1980 withthe Soviet Union, 1990, it's
only a few months since the fallof the Berlin Wall in November
1989.
So 10 years.
What a difference.
(34:35):
How things are Very, verydifferent.
But you know, very cool.
So while this is all happening,barry again Tom Hanks, you know,
is playing him.
He's squatting or kneeling, Idon't remember, in the back
corner and he's got likeflashlights.
You know, like when a band isgoing to come on stage and they
(34:58):
have the guy with theflashlights.
Yeah, it just cracks me up.
He's playing it to a T like heknew what he was doing.
Aerosmith joined Wayne andGarth.
They play the Wayne's Worldtheme song.
They added words to it, theywrote some words so they could
actually make it a song.
And at this point Barry's kindof behind them and he's got
(35:25):
towels.
So when they come, you know,through this, when they're done
with the song, he can give themtowels, they can wipe the sweat
off and I believe this versionmade the cd maxi single for
arrowsmiths.
The other side oh that theyactually recorded it and they
put it out and I need to look itup, I need to see if I can find
it because I would like tolisten to it.
You know you can see it onYouTube, but I'd like to listen
(35:47):
to it where it's actuallyrecorded and it sounds good, you
know.
So the band turns down theoffer to appear in Wayne's World
.
But they did appear in Wayne'sWorld 2.
I definitely think this was thebest Wayne's World on Saturday
Night Live.
Any skit of Wayne's World, thiswas definitely the best one.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Now I will tell you.
I don't know why, but Iremember waiting in line in the
rain in New York City, when Ilived there, on opening night to
see Wayne's World 2.
And I dragged my now wife alongwith me.
So I must have been a reallybig Wayne's World fan.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
It's funny because they say the first mistake
Aerosmith made was not going inWayne's World.
The second mistake they madewas going in Wayne's World 2.
On that note, party on Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Party on Jim.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Excellent.
That's it for Episode 66 ofMusic in my Shoes.
I've been your excellent host,Jim Boge.
With me, as always, was Jimmyshow producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios, locatedright here in Atlanta, Georgia.
Thank you to Vic Thrill for ourpodcast music.
I hope you learned somethingnew or remembered something old.
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We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
Swing, I'm not worthy you.
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
He's got the feeling and it's out there growing.
Hey everybody, this is Jim Bogeand you're listening to Music
In my Shoes.
That was Vic Thrill kicking offepisode 66.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
Episode 66, get your kicks onRoute 66.
(00:54):
Yeah, oh, you sound realthrilled with that.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I don't know if I've ever been on Route 66.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I don't think I have.
I'd like to go on Route 66.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It winds from Chicago to LA, I believe.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Now, it sounds've ever been on Route 66.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I don't think I have.
I'd like to go on Route 66.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It winds from Chicago to LA, I believe.
Now it sounds like you'resinging a song Nearly 3,000
miles along the way, somethinglike that.
Yeah, and I know that they kindof have.
I mean, I don't know, only fromwhat I've read and what I've
seen.
I've read some magazinearticles that are pretty.
You know high up on it that youshould do it just to kind of
see like what America once wasold America, if I could say.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, I guess that's what it would mean Rather than
the interstate.
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, thank you for that littlekick on Route 66 here on
episode 66.
So, Jimmy, on social media Ibelong to a group and it's
called.
Grew Up Listening to WLIR DREAgain, that's the radio station
I listened to when I was a muchyounger lad, in my teenage years
(01:55):
and into my early 20s, andsomeone posted a picture and it
had 28 cassettes that were kindof stacked up so you could read
the band name and you could readthe album name, and then it
says you can only remove two.
So, jimmy, I put a piece ofpaper.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh, this is the paper , okay.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yes, so if you flip over that piece of paper it's
got a list.
And for those of you at home,if you want to pause, these will
all be listed on the show notesso you can kind of take a look,
take a screenshot of it andthen be able to kind of play
along with us.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
This is funny.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So I'm going to give you a minute to do that right
now.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now I'm removing two because I don't want to listen
to them.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes, Okay, Because of whatever the reason may be.
Okay, so before you get achance, we're going to just read
them out loud.
I'll read the first side andthen you read the second side
and we'll do it kind of quickly.
Again, for those of you at home, this is on the show notes.
You can screenshot it and thenyou can kind of play along so
(03:09):
that you kind of see what wehave.
So I'll go with Culture Club,Color by Numbers, Huey Lewis and
the News Sports, Duran DuranArena, the Cars Shake it Up,
Rock Set, Look Sharp.
Thompson Twins.
Here's to Future Days.
Wham Make it Big, Billy Idol,Rebel Yell the Police, Zenyatta,
(03:34):
Mandatta, Depeche Mode, SomeGreat Reward.
I always have trouble withcertain words.
Reward is one of those words.
Also always have trouble withcertain words.
Reward is one of those wordsalso.
Anyway.
Michael jackson thriller.
Belinda carlisle, heaven onearth.
Paula abdul, forever your girl.
Daryl hall.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
John oats, private eyes, jimmy oh, I'm reading the
other side.
Yes, please debbie gibson,electric youth stray cats built
for speed.
Blondie, the best of blondie.
Bananarama.
True confessions, olivia newton, john physical, richard marx,
repeat offender, nxs, kickbangles, different light, prince
(04:14):
in the revolution.
Music from motion picturepurple rain, madonna, true blue,
millie vanillie girl.
You know it's true, true Blue.
Milli Vanilli Girl.
You Know it's True.
Go-go's Beauty and the Beat,pet Shop Boys, actually, and
Cyndi Lauper, she's so unusual.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, you can only pick two that you wouldn't have,
and I could pick a bunch morethan two, to be honest with you,
but this person on the socialmedia website not website,
social media, whatever saysimmediately that they would pick
Debbie Gibson and OliviaNewton-John.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Like immediately, like you know, with a question
mark, like I mean that's it,like that's the only answer,
when we know that's not the onlyanswer and we know that I like
Debbie Gibson, that I don't makeany bones about that.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, she's no Anne Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
She's no Anne Hathaway, but you know Electric
Youth, that's a pretty goodalbum.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I have to say, oh is it.
You're familiar with the album.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I have the CD.
I do.
I kid you not, I do have that.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
My brother-in-law, Gary.
Actually he likes I can'tremember if he likes Debbie
Gibson or Tiffany, but he madethe case that they were like
really good pop songs, reallygood artists, and, like Gary,
Gary loves the Grateful Dead, heloves, you know, all kinds of
rock and roll.
So I trust Gary on that one.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So Tiffany did that song I Think we're Alone Now
which was Tommy James and theShondells originally.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And I believe Tiffany would go around to malls all
across America and these kidswould show up.
I think the videos that theyshowed on MTV were actually mall
footage, yeah it's a reallysmart thing to do.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
If your target audience can't get into a club,
then go to the mall.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It worked.
It definitely did.
So, Jimmy, looking at this,what two immediately do you say
that you're going to take offthis list?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'm going to take off Milli Vanilli Girl.
You Know it's True, becausethat's not really them.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I appreciate that they had their dancing and their
cornrows and all that look andeverything, but they weren't the
actual people singing.
So I think the album Girl, youKnow it's True.
I've heard this.
So I think the album Girl, youKnow it's True.
I've heard this.
I can't say that it's beenverified, but I think it was
originally going to be called.
You Know, the Singing Isn'tTrue.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, Girl, you Know it Isn't True.
And the other one I take off isMichael Jackson Thriller.
Whoa Anyone?
Whoa yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I didn't see that coming, but for me, my first two
is not Debbie Gibson, of coursenot, unlike the first person
that I took this from, but Iwould go with Richard Marks.
Repeat Offender.
Don't really like anythingthat's on there.
And Paula Abdul, forever yourGirl.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
There's not a whole lot you know she's not a good
singer.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
She was a dancer.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, didn't she do like the LA Lakers, like the
choreography or something likethat back in the day?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That sounds right.
Yeah, she was a bigchoreographer and dancer.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
And she was on what show?
Was that American Idol?
Yeah, she was on American Idolfor a few years.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And her musical opinions were never very good.
You know, she was nice toeverybody.
That was one thing.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Sometimes I'm not sure if she knows she was there.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So, Jimmy, let's look at what would be your next two
that you think that you mightget rid of.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh, wow, okay, I would probably okay if we're not
doubling up on each other.
Then I would probably get ridof Culture Club and Belinda
Carlisle.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Nice.
Yeah, well, Nice yeah well, Ijust oh, and now I just saw
another one.
That is definitely above those,but I already said the two.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Well, that's great, I like that.
So for me, you know now, I meanI like a lot of these.
I'm not going to lie, there's alot of these that I do like
Straycats Built for Speed.
I still have the cassette thatI originally bought when the
album came out.
I absolutely love that, Blondie.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
What songs are on that one?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Built for Speed is going to be Rock this Town.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Rumbling Brighton.
Cat strut.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yes, yeah, there you go, all right right there, big
one, yes, built for speed.
I'd probably go bananarama trueconfessions pick and then after
that, oh man, I, I don't know.
I I mean, I kind of like allthe rest.
Wow, I really do.
So let's look at it a differentway.
(09:33):
The first two that you wouldkeep all right.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, the first two I would keep would be billy idol,
rebel yell and I'll go purplerain oh, nice choices.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I like that.
I would probably go both fromaround 1984, if I yeah, yeah, I
would go, because I don't wantto say the same ones as you.
I would go, the police and YanaMandata and I would probably do
(10:14):
the Stray Cats built for speedthat I said.
I think that would be my firsttwo that I would keep in.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Do you have any guilty pleasures like okay, I
would keep this one, but Iwouldn't brag about it.
Debbie Gibson, Electric Youth.
Yeah, okay, Mine might be HueyLewis and the News.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
That's a great album.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I saw him at Shaky Knees.
It's probably been eight yearsago or something.
Sadly now I think he's lost hishis voice.
He's had some sort of a problemwith his vocal cords or his
hearing.
Okay, yeah, yeah and uh, butthey were great, you know they
uh, they had really good popsongs and they have a pretty
good guitar player in that bandtoo yeah, they, um, are a.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You know he's a funny guy.
He was on Back to the Future.
He did some stuff that wasfunny.
They did some music for themovie.
They had a bunch of albums in arow that were good.
I like sports.
You know, looking at this, Iprobably would have went with.
I love Duran Duran but Iprobably would have got rid of
Arena.
I wasn't big on Arena andprobably after that, even though
(11:27):
you said it, it would have tobe Milli Vanilli Girl.
You know it's true.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And my other one would be Wham Make it Big.
I just don't want any Whamalbums.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, I would probably go with you on that one
.
I do like when George Michaelat Live Aid played with Elton
John, they did Don't Let the SunGo Down on Me.
I like that.
I thought it was pretty cooland then I know George Michael
released it as his own singleafter that.
I thought he did a pretty goodjob, not a big.
Wake me up before you go.
Yeah, I'm heading somewhere.
(12:04):
No, no, I'm not sure what ofwhat the word is.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You're not planning on going solo.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh, I think that's what it is.
I think that's what it is.
Well, Jimmy, I appreciate youplaying along and I hope and you
know you listeners at home, Ihope that you were able to do a
screenshot of all these and takea look at them and, you know,
pick out what you think.
These and take a look at themand, you know, pick out what you
(12:29):
think.
Feel free to contact us atmusicinmyshoes at gmailcom, or
you can always like our Facebookpage or our Instagram page.
So, Jimmy, yes, there's been 59Super Bowls and 59 halftime
shows, and I started to thinkabout my favorites and this is
what I came up with my top fiveSuper Bowl halftime performances
(12:54):
.
All right, Maybe some of mineare some of yours, or maybe not.
Let's see.
Let's do it.
Number five Super Bowl XVII, 27,january 1993, michael Jackson.
It included Billie Jean, blackor white.
(13:17):
He had this children's choirthat was singing we Are the
World and I kind of feel like itstarted at all, I know like the
one before the super bowl,before the two super bowls
before.
I think new kids on the blockwere on one of them and maybe
gloria estefan was on one ofthem.
(13:38):
I'm not a hundred percent sure.
But then they got michaeljackson who at the time was, you
know, the biggest thing around,and it just kind of changed the
way that the whole Super Bowlwas.
I mean, for heck, the firsthalf of them it was just
marching bands from differentcolleges that would come out and
they might throw out acelebrity here and there and you
(14:01):
know, wasn't really anythingexciting.
So that's why I go at numberfive with Michael Jackson.
Number four Super Bowl XLII, 42.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You're so Roman.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, thank you.
Went in Rome.
There you go, february 2008,.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
American girl, I won't backdown, free falling, running down
a dream.
They were not the first choice.
The Eagles turned them down.
Somebody else turned them downalso, but they were great.
(14:41):
They sounded great, they playedgreat.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I mean, I wonder how the Heartbreakers felt about
that set list though, becausealmost none of those are
Heartbreaker songs.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Right, yeah, they were Running.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Down a Dream, Free Fallin', and I Won't Back Down.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
But they were playing them live anyway, yeah, yeah, I
think it was just, you know,part of the whole thing that
they had to do to be part of TomPetty and the crew, yeah, so,
but it was good, I mean, itreally was good.
He sounded good.
You know, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I saw Tom Petty live back around that time at what
was then Phillips Arena, and hedid not.
He did a straight 1970s styleshow no video screens, no big
like catwalk or any big crowdinteraction, just some flashing
colored lights and them playingtheir songs, which was cool, but
(15:37):
it was a bit of a throwbackeven in 2008 or whatever.
And they did kind of the samething at the halftime show.
They didn't do a whole lot ofglitz, it was more just like
yeah, we're playing our songs.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, you know, that's Tom.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
That's Tom Petty for you Coming in at number three on
my top five favorite Super Bowlhalftime performances.
Super Bowl XLI, 41, february2007,.
Prince, which included let's GoCrazy, baby, I'm a Star, did a
(16:13):
cover of Proud Mary 1999, andthen Purple Rain.
And as he's playing Purple Rain, it's like a downpour of rain
all of a sudden starts comingdown.
Like he was able to controlthat.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I know cool thing about that show and about seeing
Prince live in general is thatlike his records are very
curated and produced and, youknow, sound a certain way so the
song might be poppier soundingor more dance or but when Prince
played live he was a guitarshredder, you know, so that that
(16:50):
performance on that halftimeshow showed people he was a rock
and roll guitarist yeah, he wasfantastic.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
He really was again.
You know, I say this all thetime I'm not a huge prince fan.
I don't dislike him.
You know, I like some songs butI'm not, like you know, a
prince head or whatever.
But definitely a goodperformance made my top three of
all time Super Bowl halftimeperformances.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I might put it right at the top.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Most people do.
Most people do, yeah, but we'regoing to find out what my
number one is, because next upat number two, super Bowl
XXXIX39, february 2005,.
Paul McCartney, drive my car,get back live and let die.
(17:41):
And hey Jude, with the wholestadium singing, yeah that's
incredible.
That was really cool.
That definitely was super cool.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But I also saw Paul McCartney right around that same
time at Piedmont Park.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Was he playing Tom Petty songs?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Unbelievable yeah, he actually had his current band
playing Beatles songs.
Can you believe it?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes, I saw him in 2009, right around that same
time.
I saw him at Citi Field in NewYork City.
It was fantastic.
I mean, he was fantastic.
People loved that he wasplaying there.
They definitely were excited.
You know, sometimes some of theSuper Bowl shows, you see
(18:27):
there's a bunch of people theycould care less, yeah, but this
one they were all into it,without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, I would put that as my number two as well.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I just have to say I feel like Karnak the Magnificent
or whatever on Johnny Carson.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Johnny Carson Because .
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I have a feeling I know what's in the envelope.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
At number one, super Bowl XXXVI, 36, february 2002,
u2, beautiful Day, mlk, wherethe Streets have no Name, a
tribute to those killed in theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks, and
(19:11):
it was just an amazing show.
2001 attacks and it was just anamazing show.
Behind them, they had thescreen that put the list, you
know, of the names of everyonethat was lost, whether it was,
you know, in new york orwashington, and their names were
huge.
You could read them.
There was no question.
You know and it listed.
You know where they were.
(19:31):
You know whether the southtower, the north tower, they,
you know and it listed.
You know where they were.
You know whether they're in theSouth Tower, the North Tower,
you know, were they on thisplane or Washington?
And it was just like goosebumpsthat you kind of had as you
watched it.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, cause I mean it was really just three months or
something after 9-11.
Right, four months yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, just like kind of right after, and it was still
kind of tough as a countrytrying to get back to normalcy,
you know, and I think U2 was aperfect fit.
And then, you know, at onepoint, I think it was towards
the end, I don't rememberexactly, but I just remember him
opening up his jacket, and itwas the jacket that had, like,
the American flag on the insideand it was just really cool.
(20:12):
It definitely was super cool.
So what did you think of that?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
as number one, uh, I I think that's in my top three
as well.
I mean, I'd have a tough timeorganizing the top three.
I went back and I watchedprince's performance recently,
but I I haven't had a chance togo back and watch that youtube
performance, so if I did they,they might leap to the top, or
paul mccartney there you Now.
I'm kind of surprised youdidn't mention the Rolling
(20:38):
Stones.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
So that's funny because I think a lot of people
would say the Rolling Stones.
I was not impressed with theRolling Stones performance at
all.
I remember them playing threesongs.
You know they ended withSatisfaction.
I forget, you know was thesatisfaction, um, I I forget,
you know was the other one mayberock in a hard place or
something you know, off one ofthe newer albums, and it didn't
(21:03):
do anything for me.
I almost felt like they justshowed up, they played, you know
they did their thing, but threesongs do my thing.
I'm out of here.
Where's my check?
And that's my, my opinion ofreally how that performance was.
Yeah, but what I do have is Ihave two honorable mentions.
Okay, super bowl li, 51february 2017.
(21:30):
Lady gaga I'm not a big LadyGaga fan by any means, but I
thought that performance wasreally good.
It was great yeah.
I really enjoyed it.
I thought it was super cool.
Xxxviii, 38, february 2004,.
(21:55):
Janet Jackson with JustinTimberlake on Rock your Body,
and that's the song that put theXXX in Super Bowl.
Xxxviii.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It brought wardrobe malfunction into the lexicon.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And that's what changed who the performers were
after that.
That's when they brought allthe old rock guys the who, the
Rolling Stones, paul McCartney,tom Petty, bruce Springsteen,
yeah, all of them because theydidn't think there would be any
wardrobe malfunctions.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
And if there was, you know, if you saw Roger
Daltrey's chest.
Nobody wants to see that, butit wouldn't be the end of the
world.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
No, even at his age.
Yeah, according to my watch,jimmy it's Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
Minute with Jimmy.
I wanted to talk about the 30thanniversary of February 1995 of
the release of the MatthewSweet record 100% Fun.
It of course starts out withthe classic track Sick of Myself
.
I mean, that's the guitar riffin the classic track Sick of
(23:14):
Myself.
I mean that's the guitar riffin that it's such a simple song
that he went back and just madethis kind of simple masterpiece
out of and I think that songholds up to this day.
This album also has we're.
The Same is another good songon there Lost my Mind, a lot of
(23:35):
good tunes on it and it's hardto believe it's been 30 years.
The cover of the record hasMatthew as looks like he's about
11 years old or something, witha pair of big 1970s headphones
on, sitting in front of a brownsofa, like I'm sure we both had,
you know.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
We did have one.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Tweed kind of thing, and it probably pulls out.
Oh, there's the clock.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And I did have those big headphones too.
When I looked at the albumcover I know it wasn't me, but
when I looked at it I saw myselfyeah, and I think that's one of
the things that they probablywanted to do.
Yeah, hey, it's, it's not you,but when you look at it you
think it's you.
Like you can remember.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, it's relatable.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Extremely very, very relatable Sick of myself.
I love how it ends but doesn'tend.
You're not sure it's over Areally really good song.
I love that song.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I think you're right.
You know, 30 years later, it isstill something that you can
just put on and it sounds good.
It's a good album.
It really is 100% fun.
It is.
You know what it's 100% fun itis?
Yes, it is.
My name is Jimmy.
Last episode, I mentionedseeing a band man Bites Dog and
(24:57):
I couldn't remember what bandthey were covering with the song
Hurricane.
A few people reached out askingdid I mean Neil Young, like a
hurricane, or Bob Dylan,hurricane?
I did not, which.
Both of those are really goodsongs.
They're both on my phone.
I listen to them, but it wasactually the Band of Heathens
(25:23):
and they did the song in 2011.
Now I looked this up.
I didn't know.
You know all of this, but itturns out it's actually a cover
of a country song that was donein 1981 by leon everett.
That actually made, like youknow, the charts the country
(25:44):
single charts okay which is kindof cool, not knowing anything
about it.
I only know this song from a guyat work that does karaoke, runs
his own karaoke business and hesings this song and he had said
to me hey, you ever hear thissong and blah, blah, blah, blah.
I went to see him one time.
I heard him sing it and thenchecked it out and you know,
(26:08):
like I said, I saw this band doit and I was like wow, I've
never heard of this song before.
You know, a year ago, and nowI've heard it a bunch of times
when did it come out?
2011.
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, so it'spretty cool.
So it was Band of Heathens, soI know the show is called Music
(26:29):
in my Shoes and that's what wetalk about.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
No more music than shoes.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
but yeah, yeah true, you're right, and sometimes I
talk about other topics, butthere's usually a tie-in to
music at some point.
But I'm going to say there's notie-in to music on this little
segment here.
All right, okay.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
But sometimes there are tie-ins to Levittown, New
York.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Sometimes there are Sometimes that's enough, but
what's the tie-in?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
No tie-in to either one.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
We're going to find out All right.
February 22, 1980, team USAdefeated the Soviet Union in
hockey at the Olympics.
So that's 45 years ago thatthat happened Again.
Nothing to do with music, butstill a vivid memory that you
know.
I had just turned 13 when thisgame happened.
(27:20):
You know the miracle on ice,something that we still talk
about all these years later.
The 1980 Winter Olympics wereheld in Lake Placid, new York,
which is about a five-hour drivenorth of Levittown, new York,
where I grew up All right, andit's about two hours away from
Burlington, vermont.
And Lake Placid also hosted the1932 Winter Olympics.
(27:44):
So it was the second time thatthey had them, the Soviet team,
because we called it the SovietUnion back then.
It wasn't Russia, they wereRussians, but the country was
the Soviet Union.
The Soviet team was made up ofwhat was essentially pro players
Back then.
Their players couldn't play inthe NHL.
They couldn't come to Americaand play and the Soviet Union
(28:09):
didn't permit it.
That's why they couldn't come.
It wasn't us, it was the SovietUnion.
Wouldn't let them leave theSoviet.
Union, because they would defectBecause they would defect.
So they didn't do it.
But they did becomeprofessionals on the
international circuit where theywere.
They would have these jobs thatbasically they had the job to
pay them so that they could play.
You know, on the soviet team Ithink the big one was the red
(28:31):
army team.
That was the big hockey team.
The us team was amateurs.
It was led by Coach Herb Brooksand this guy he just picked who
he thought could work out anddo what needed to be done.
He didn't look at who can dothe fastest 50-yard dash not
(28:52):
that they do that in ice hockeybut he looked at who can play
well.
And the first thing he did ishe gave them a 300 question
psychological exam and if youdidn't want to take it, you
didn't make the team.
That was the first thing.
But he wanted to see who coulddeal with pressure.
(29:15):
Oh yeah, how did they deal withpressure?
And that was his firstrequirement.
And he put together.
This team had, if I'm notmistaken, I think there was only
about four guys that evenplayed in minor league hockey.
I mean, these were really dudesthat just graduated college, or
(29:35):
maybe they were still incollege.
They were truly amateurs.
The Soviets hadn't lost anOlympic game since 1968.
Wow, yeah, us team comes awaywith a 4-3 win.
The game was played at 5 pm buttape delayed until 8 pm for
(29:58):
primetime coverage.
So many people thought it waslive, even though they said
before the game that it's notlive.
It's tape delayed.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
But the media held on the the media held.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
They didn't say a word.
It's not like today with theinternet, where you can look up
something instantaneously.
I had no idea, no idea who wonthe game, until I watched the
game, and you couldn't doanything like that today, you
know.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, that was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
With five seconds left, al Michaels, who was
calling the game on television,said his famous line do you
believe in miracles?
Yes, so many people thought itwas the gold medal game, but it
wasn't.
Oh yeah, it was just you beatRussia.
You're probably thought it wasthe gold medal game, but it
wasn't.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Oh yeah.
It was just you beat Russia,you're probably going to win the
gold medal.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
So the US had to beat Finland and they did 4-2.
That secured the gold medal forthem.
But some people still swear theSoviet game was the gold medal
game and that it was broadcastlive.
Neither one of them happened.
It's a miracle that just livesstill today.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I mean, there's been movies, uh, you know, it's just
something that's just super coolbecause they made that arcade
hockey game about basically thatgame that the usa versus russia
.
You'd walk into a place thathad pinball machines and video
games and stuff and they had abubble over it and you played
hockey with the handles.
(31:28):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Okay, You've never seen a hockey game that you can
play like foosball almost.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
But they made the players USA versus Russia and
they only did it after the USAbeat Russia and it was like all
right yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, I mean times were definitely different back
then.
It was, you know, the Cold WarAround.
That time there was rumors thatJimmy Carter was going to not
let the US team go to Moscow forthe summer Olympics 1980 summer
Olympics because they hadinvaded Afghanistan in 1979.
So there were all thesedifferent things happening and
(32:09):
you know, as a kid you alwaysyou thought it was the Soviet
Union that were going to comeand attack us.
And all these different things,I mean that's really what my
thoughts were as a kid.
Yeah, very different than theway that we live today.
But again, the miracle on ice45 years ago.
(32:31):
February 17th 1990, aerosmithguest on Wayne's World on
Saturday Night Live.
Pretty cool episode Wayne andGarth hanging out in Wayne's
basement where they did theirpublic access show.
Remember they would do that.
I think it was Aurora.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Aurora Illinois.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yes, and they were played by Mike Myers and Dana
Carvey.
Garth's cousin, barry, was aroadie for Aerosmith and said he
would get Aerosmith on the showas long as he could be a guest
also.
And Barry was played by TomHanks and he just cracks me up
in this episode.
(33:09):
It is just so funny.
Just watching him is as good asany other part of what's going
on.
And he's asked what he does asa roadie and out of nowhere he
just grabs two microphone standsand he places them you know so
many feet apart.
(33:29):
And then he gets a scarf forSteven Tyler and he's like, yeah
, and I wrap it around here.
And then he does the mic checkand it's just funny, it really
is.
Aerosmith comes down to thebasement.
They're asked a couple ofquestions and the last question
is with the recent developmentsin Eastern Europe, do you think
(33:51):
that communism is on the declineor is this just a temporary
setback?
And you're just laughing whenMike Myers, who plays Waynene,
says it.
And then stephen tyler and thebass player I think it's tom
hamilton, I'm not not 100 sure,but I think it's tom hamilton.
They give these likeintelligent answers that
(34:15):
surprise everybody and just haveeverybody laughing and cracking
up.
Yeah, you know, and Jimmy, youhave to remember it's a
different time.
We just talked about 1980 withthe Soviet Union, 1990, it's
only a few months since the fallof the Berlin Wall in November
1989.
So 10 years.
What a difference.
(34:35):
How things are Very, verydifferent.
But you know, very cool.
So while this is all happening,barry again Tom Hanks, you know,
is playing him.
He's squatting or kneeling, Idon't remember, in the back
corner and he's got likeflashlights.
You know, like when a band isgoing to come on stage and they
(34:58):
have the guy with theflashlights.
Yeah, it just cracks me up.
He's playing it to a T like heknew what he was doing.
Aerosmith joined Wayne andGarth.
They play the Wayne's Worldtheme song.
They added words to it, theywrote some words so they could
actually make it a song.
And at this point Barry's kindof behind them and he's got
(35:25):
towels.
So when they come, you know,through this, when they're done
with the song, he can give themtowels, they can wipe the sweat
off and I believe this versionmade the cd maxi single for
arrowsmiths.
The other side oh that theyactually recorded it and they
put it out and I need to look itup, I need to see if I can find
it because I would like tolisten to it.
You know you can see it onYouTube, but I'd like to listen
(35:47):
to it where it's actuallyrecorded and it sounds good, you
know.
So the band turns down theoffer to appear in Wayne's World
.
But they did appear in Wayne'sWorld 2.
I definitely think this was thebest Wayne's World on Saturday
Night Live.
Any skit of Wayne's World, thiswas definitely the best one.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Now I will tell you.
I don't know why, but Iremember waiting in line in the
rain in New York City, when Ilived there, on opening night to
see Wayne's World 2.
And I dragged my now wife alongwith me.
So I must have been a reallybig Wayne's World fan.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
It's funny because they say the first mistake
Aerosmith made was not going inWayne's World.
The second mistake they madewas going in Wayne's World 2.
On that note, party on Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Party on Jim.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Excellent.
That's it for Episode 66 ofMusic in my Shoes.
I've been your excellent host,Jim Boge.
With me, as always, was Jimmyshow producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios, locatedright here in Atlanta, Georgia.
Thank you to Vic Thrill for ourpodcast music.
I hope you learned somethingnew or remembered something old.
(37:05):
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
Swing, I'm not worthy you.
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