May 25, 2025 • 40 mins
We take a nostalgic journey through the Billboard Hot 100 chart from June 7, 1980, and explore musical milestones of that year including Frank Sinatra's comeback and Peter Gabriel's innovative album "Melt."
• Examination of Billboard Hot 100 hits from June 7, 1980
• Discussion of Frank Sinatra's "Theme from New York, New York" which became his signature song despite being recorded in 1980
• Analysis of Christopher Cross's popularity and Michael McDonald's distinctive backing vocals on "Ride Like the Wind"
• Exploration of the Mount St. Helens eruption and photographer Robert Landsberg's heroic final act
• Recap of the Virginia Highland Porch Fest featuring Jimmy Guthrie's performance with the Concord Grapes
• Minute with Jimmy segment featuring Tommy Stinson from The Replacements
• Deep dive into Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" and other significant releases from May 1980
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
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 80.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new, newor remember something old.
So, Jimmy, I wanted to startthe show with looking back at
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the Billboard Hot 100 songs fromJune 7th 1980.
Episode 80, June 1980.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, I was wondering when you were going to pick up
on the whole episode and yearcolliding with each other and
here we are, 80.
We're doing it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We did it with 75.
It actually was by accident.
That did not happen on purpose.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I didn't even notice.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, it just kind of happened that I decided to do
episode 75 with.
April of 75, billboard Hot 100.
So I thought it was pretty cool.
A lot of people reached out andsaid that they thought that was
cool.
So I thought it was pretty cool.
A lot of people, you know,reached out and said that they
thought that was cool.
So here we are, we're doing itagain.
So we're going to start offwith well, first of all, I don't
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want to go through the wholelist, and I know every time I
say that means I am going to gothrough the whole list, but I'm
going to jump around, we'll goall over, but I'm going to jump
around, we'll go all over, butwe're going to start Not the
whole 100.
No, we're going to start withnumber 51 from June 7th 1980,
and that was Alice Cooper cloneswe're all single.
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Peaked at number 40 onBillboard Hot 100, july 5th of
1980.
I'm a clone, I know I'm'm fine.
I'm one and more on the way.
That's a great way to start usall all right.
This was new wave alice cooperright you know away from his
rock.
(02:18):
You know that, you know we gotto know all about.
But I like this song and Ithought this was a good song and
then the Smashing Pumpkins dida fantastic cover of it.
It was the B-side of there-release of Bullet with
Butterfly Wings in 1996.
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And we could go on about that.
That's a whole nother story,but we're not because we're on
June 7th 1980.
Number 50, to anybody.
There is something about thissong.
The music starts off.
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It's almost a little sultrysounding.
It's a good song, it really is.
Peaked at number one August 2nd1980.
The amazing thing about it,it's from the Xanadu soundtrack.
Oh, really A film that did notdo well whatsoever.
It was a flop, if I remembercorrectly.
Do you remember Xanadu?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, I'd forgotten it was a film, but I remember
the Olivia Newton-John songthere you go, and Olivia
Newton-John and Electric LightOrchestra.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
they did, I think, almost all the music for it.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I don't really remember.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I don't think I remember any of the ELO songs,
to be honest.
But you know I remember thissong and it's a good song.
It's still a good song, youknow.
It's a slow kind of you know, Idon't know adult contemporary
song.
I like it.
So we've mentioned Blondie'sAtomic before.
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It was number 47 on the list,but at number 42, All Night Long
by Joe Walsh.
We get up early and we work allday.
We put our time in because welike to stay up all night long.
I mean great way to open a song, great lines.
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A lot of people can relate to.
That peaked at number 19, july26th of 80.
I like joe walsh, I like hissolo stuff.
I like, you know, when he gotinto the eagles and the eagles
liked him so much they wouldplay his solo stuff in concert
yeah, they still do yeah, andthat's not something a lot of
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bands will do.
You know, they kind of try andkeep it separate, right, because
we play your solo stuff, thenwe have to play my solo stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, they never played Don Henley's solo stuff
or Glenn Frey's solo stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But they would play Joe Walsh's.
Yeah, and Joe Walsh, I mean Ilove his guitar work is.
And Joe Walsh, I mean I lovehis guitar work, I love his
singing, I love his lyrics, Imean it's just so cool.
He has so many great songs.
All Night Long is definitelyone of them.
Number 38, jay Giles' band LoveStinks.
We've talked about that before.
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Good song holds the test oftime.
It was on a couple of weeks agoin my house and one of my kids
was singing it.
So you know I always like that.
Things like that, you know,excite me from the standpoint of
.
This is something that I waslistening to 45 years ago and
here they are just singing awaywith it, you know.
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Number 35, theme from New York,new York, and I think everybody
knows the song Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And it was from 1977.
I think there was like a Idon't know if it was a movie or
a musical Liza Minnelli was inand she initially sang the song
and I was real familiar with itI lived in New York at the time.
You would hear it.
But then Frank decided torecord it and it really was the
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beginning of his comeback in1980.
Now we're talking about FrankSinatra, who had been singing
songs since the beginning oftime, but he really had a
comeback In the 70s.
He kind of faded away.
He did a bunch of covers ofsongs that didn't really do well
.
And in 1980, he records thisand all of a sudden, you know
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he's playing the places all over, you know the world.
Again he's on top, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
He didn't do New York .
New York till 1980?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
1980.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I never knew that.
I thought he did it, you know,back in the 60s or something.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, he did not.
It wasn't until 1980.
And you know, when you thinkabout it, start spreading the
news.
I'm leaving today.
I want to be a part of it.
New York, new York, yeah.
Or music in my shoes.
I want to be a part of that too.
So I'd say it's Frank Sinatra'ssignature song and it's funny,
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that's what I think.
It came out in 1980.
It's probably his last big hitthat he had.
You thought it was a song froma long time ago.
So obviously you think it's abig song.
Oh yeah, and it wasn't until1980.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
His song, oh yeah, and it wasn't until 1980.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
His other signature song, though.
What would you say?
I would say either Fly Me tothe Moon or Come Fly With Me, oh
, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That would be like to me his next best songs.
What about you?
I feel like Fly Me to theMoon's a little more across the
board.
Tony Bennett does a versionright, but the one that I think
stuck with Frank is my Way.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh yeah, that totally , you know, and I like that.
I guess I like these threesongs more.
So that's what I think ofinitially.
I really do I listen to.
I don't listen to the themefrom New York a lot, you know.
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That's just not a song that Iplay a lot, but I do play.
The other two, come Fly With Meand Fly Me to the Moon, are
regulars, both the studioversion and the live at the
Sands.
I listen to those a lot andenjoy those.
Number 29, another Brick in theWall.
Part two, former number onesong, a song that we talked
about, you know, a bunch ofepisodes ago, number 27.
Tell me if you remember thisone the Manhattans singing
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Shining Star.
The song peaked at number fiveon July 19th 1980.
Do you remember it?
Yes, honey, you are my shiningstar, don you go away?
Yeah, oh, baby.
At number 26, a song we spokeabout on our last episode, the
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clash train in vain.
Stand by me again.
I think you had said like it'sa song that sounds just like it
itself and there's no other songthat sounds like it at all.
Right, and I mean what a goodsong and that it actually you
know, when you think about itthese years later, that it was
on billboard hot 100 and thisparticular week it was number 26
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yeah, I remember being excitedthat I heard it on KC's Top 40.
There you go, and so did therest of America.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, I mean, they heard it.
I don't know if they wereexcited, but I was excited.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm sure they were excited.
I'm sure so.
Number 23 on the Billboard Hot100 chart from June 7th 1980, is
Ride Like the Wind, christopherCross, oh yeah 1980 is Ride.
Like the Wind.
Christopher Cross, oh yeah, Hisdebut single with Michael
McDonald of Doobie Brothers fameon backing vocals.
It peaked at number two inApril of 80.
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And Christopher Cross justseemed to be everywhere in 1980,
1981, maybe even into 1982,winning all kinds of awards.
I mean, he was just like he wasthe in thing.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, what did you think of him?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You know I'm not a huge Christopher Cross fan but
he's just not my cup of tea.
You know I don't like that kindof soft rock, yacht rock stuff
very much.
But you know he was good atwhat he did.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's funny that you say that, because I looked it up
.
I wanted to see what theylisted him as.
They did list them as yachtrock when I looked it up.
It's funny.
But do you remember michaelmcdonald?
He would do the backing.
So christopher cross sings thewhole song and you know I'm
gonna ride like the wind, andthen chris.
Uh, michael mcdonald would belike ride like the wind, like
(10:45):
yeah here we go such a long wayyeah, that's it, that's what he
would do, and this little raspyvoice and everything, and um,
yeah, I like Christopher Cross.
Some of the stuff I do, I, Ilike it.
I really like the theme fromArthur.
Um, I like that movie withDudley Moore and Liza Minnelli,
who we just mentioned a fewminutes ago.
(11:06):
I like that movie.
So you know, everything's noteverybody's cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
No, exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Not at all.
Could be my Pepsi, who knows.
So if that wasn't your cup oftea, I'm sure number 19, lost in
Love by Air Supply, isdefinitely not your cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
No, but at that time it was like a slow couple skate
song at the skating rink.
So it's like okay yeah, thatserves, its purpose.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Lost in love and I don't know much.
Was I thinking aloud and fellout of touch?
Yeah, it's gorgeous.
It is, jimmy.
I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I'm not sure I use that word a whole lot.
What has this show?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
become Jim.
You know what?
I didn't pick these songs.
These songs are what theBillboard chart was Okay okay.
So we're just going through them.
It had been high as numberthree in May and here we were
number 19 on June 8th 1980.
Number 14, another song we'vetalked about, the Pretenders
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Brass in Pocket.
Pretenders Brass in Pocket.
Number 13, robbie Dupree StealAway.
Number 11, billy Joel.
It's still rock and roll to me.
I love this song.
I know we talked about GlassHouses a few episodes ago.
I really didn't talk a lotabout this song.
But this song to me is justsuper cool.
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It kind of talks about, youknow, whether it's rock and roll
or you're calling it New Waveor you're calling it this, you
know everything that washappening in 1980 when this came
out.
You know it kind of all is thesame in the end.
You know it's just some coolmusic to listen to and you can
call it different things and youknow you can put it on the
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cover of this magazine as thisand this magazine as that, but
it's still rock and roll to me.
Yeah, you know, I like it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I like it too.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Number nine Cars by Gary Newman.
Oh yeah, here in my car I feelsafest of all.
I can lock all my doors.
It's the only way to live Incars.
I never really thought about it,but like that's kind of sad if
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he was living in his car.
So what it was is, I believe,is he was in his car and
something was going on outsidehis car and he just locked the
doors and he just felt safe,like it was like something that
really happened.
And you know it's, the only wayto live is lock the doors and
you're okay.
You know, um, you know thesynthesizers give it that like
futuristic sound again.
This is 1980, so it's so cool.
(13:55):
Like you know, like man, I, Igotta just keep listening.
You know I gotta hit rewind orI gotta pick the record uh,
needle up and bring it back tothe front so I can, you know,
start it again, because thebeginning was just really cool,
you know.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, it has that sort of fade in on that synth
chord and then the drum hits.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
yeah, yeah, really cool.
Still like the song.
Still like the song Numberseven Against the Wind, bob
Seger.
I'm not a huge Bob Seger fan,but I do really like the song a
lot.
It's a good song, you know.
It's one of those things thatyou know.
For me, even not being a bigfan and not listening a whole
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lot and knowing what the wholesong was about, at times I felt
like I was against the wind.
You know Like we all stillrunning against the wind.
You know Like we can all kind ofrelate to that Yep Number six,
the Rose by Bette Midler.
Oh yeah, I forgot about thissong.
I loved this song when it cameout and I haven't listened to it
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in a long time.
I'll be honest, but did youever see the the movie the rose.
I don't think I did so it'sloosely based on Janis Joplin.
Bette Midler plays her in themovie and you know just kind of
similarities to the way thatJanis's life went.
So you know it's kind of sad,but at the same it made you want
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to watch it because it wasloosely based on Janis Joplin.
Not sure I would have watchedit if it hadn't been for that,
you know.
So number five Blondie, call Mesliding down the chart after
being at number one.
Number two coming up live atGlasgow Paul McCartney and Wings
(15:46):
.
And this is the B-side.
So do you know the story behindthis song?
No, I'm going to share it withyou, that's what we're here for.
That's what we're here for.
So, if you remember, we had anepisode where we talked about
Paul McCartney getting busted inTokyo.
Oh right, yeah, and theycanceled his tour and he was
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going to come to America.
They canceled that before ithappened.
They didn't put tickets on sale, they just canceled it.
And he decided I'm going towork on my McCartney 2 album and
record everything.
I'm saying me like it's me, butI don't mean it that way.
He decided that he's going torecord every instrument and he's
going to do all this stuff andhe's going to release it 10
(16:29):
years after the first McCartneyalbum.
So he has it already, hereleases it and the first single
is coming up and it's the onewith him playing all of the
different instruments.
On the B side they put the liveversion.
And do you remember the video?
The video has, I don't know, 30different Paul McCartneys in it
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and a few Lindas.
And a few Lindas and it's thedifferent phases of his career,
different Beatles and solo andjust different people and stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, that was the first music video I really
remember seeing and thinking,wow, that's like a music little
movie they made just for thissong.
They played it on AmericanBandstand and I was just blown
away that, like he didn't playlive, he made this video about
it.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, and not just made the video, put a lot of
work into it, you know, to makethis happen.
So the song comes out and theystart playing the A side, which
was him, and you know I had the45.
And I was like man, it just was.
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So it was just likeoverproduced or too polished or
it was just too much.
It just didn't sound like itwas Paul McCartney.
Then you flip it over and youput the B side on, paul
McCartney and Wings had playedthe song I think it was the
December of 79, if I'm notmistaken and it was fantastic
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and it was what you expect whenyou hear Paul McCartney.
So, while the rest of the world,the original A-side was what
went number one and was the hitacross the world, in America it
was the live version andinitially they would put that it
was the A-side and then finallythey decided to change it that
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the hit was actually the liveversion.
That's not what they didinitially, but the live was so
good, so good and for me, havingpaul mccartney who had been
busted earlier in the year, thiswas kind of cool to have him
have a good song, something thateverybody seemed to like, and
people like the video, eventhough it was the version of him
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doing it solo.
They liked the video and thatkind of superseded the music,
like did on a lot of MTV bands,if you think about it, you know.
So but yeah, it was definitelycool and it's still a good song
to listen to.
So the number one song onBillboard Hot 100, 45 years ago,
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on June 7th 1980, gotta Make aMove to A town.
That's right for me.
Oh yeah, that was number onefor a while.
Town to keep me moving, keep megrooving with some energy.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Funky town.
Yeah, I mean I've talked aboutit, talked about it, talked
about it, talked about it.
I mean I've talked about it,talked about it talked about it.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Talked about it, yes, talked about moving.
There you go, gotta move on,Gotta move on.
But we're not ready to move onyet.
That song was number one May31st until June 21st of 1980.
You're right, it was number onefor a long time, right.
And then, you know, it wasbuilding its way up and then it
was building its way down.
It was on Billboard forever.
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But what a great song.
I mean it's still a good song,like if you go to a party and
someone puts that on, you knoweverybody's tapping their foot,
moving around a little bit.
You know enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, you know, it's an instant good time.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So Pseudo Echo released a cover that made it to
number six on Billboard July18th of 1987, which I was
listening to, wdre up in NewYork at the time and it was a
song that they just would play alot.
But it was a cool version, morerock and had a guitar, a little
guitar solo in the middle andso forth.
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Good version, gotta, move on.
Gotta, move on.
Won't you take me to Funky Town?
So, staying in the year 1980,robert Landsberg was
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photographing Mount St Helens inWashington State when at 8.32
am, an earthquake triggered aneruption.
So it blows off part of the topof Mount St Helens and it
actually removed the height,removed the height and the
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height used to be, I think itwas like 9,000 something feet,
and now it was 8,000 or it was8,000.
Now it was I don't rememberexactly but I know it was 1300
feet of the elevation came off.
Whoa, yeah, I mean somethingreally crazy.
So it destroyed everything for230 square miles around and this
was just huge back then it was.
They kept talking about it wasgoing to happen and, if I
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remember correctly, like a bigbubble was starting to form at
the top and everything, and theearthquake that happened that
day.
That's what made the wholething go.
You know, right, that happenedthat day.
That's what made the wholething go.
You know, the originalearthquake, which I think was a
few months earlier, is whatstarted that bubble on the
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outside, and then thisearthquake is what made it erupt
.
So as the plume of smoke and ashapproached Landsberg, he jumps
in his car.
But he keeps taking pictures ofeverything that's happening.
And then he takes his cameraand the film, puts it in his
backpack and lays his body on itin the car because he knows he
(22:27):
can't survive.
I mean, I think the ash and theyou know all of that I mean it
gets to like a thousand degrees,like something crazy that you
can't survive any of that.
You can't breathe it, you can'tdo anything.
You know, ten days later he wasfound in his car and his car is
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buried.
I saw pictures of it.
His car was buried up to thedoors, over the hood, over the
trunk.
And they got to get this filmand they were able to develop
and it was kind of grainy, itwasn't in perfect shape.
I mean it went through a lot.
The heat was still.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I'm amazed anything came out at all.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, I mean this story, and it's not just him.
There were other photographersthat the same thing happened to
that took pictures.
I've seen some of the differentpictures in National Geographic
, different magazines over theyears the fact that someone
would want to give up their lifeso that they can.
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I guess they're not givingtheir life up.
They know that they can'tsurvive.
It is really what it comes downto, and that they continue to
take pictures to the lastpossible moment and do whatever
it is that they can to make surethat they preserve.
It is super cool.
You know that really is thatwe're talking about it 45 years
(23:57):
later.
My hat's off to them.
Really cool story.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Really cool story.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
It's sad, but they will live on forever because
they were doing something thatthey loved, and when you talk
about Mount St Helens 55 yearsfrom now, you can still talk
about those guys.
So, speaking of wanting to talkabout some people and speaking
of something that was hot,virginia Highland Porch Fest was
(24:26):
this past weekend.
Yes, the Concord Grapes, whichour own Jimmy Guthrie is a part
of, played, and so why don't youkind of set up what the Porch
Fest is all about?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
It's a really fun event.
So it's in my neighborhood,Virginia Highlands neighborhood
of Atlanta, and they hook uppeople that want to have a party
on their porch and have a bandplay and a band that wants to
play and they just connectpeople.
So if you want your porch to bea party, you fill out form
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online and you know if you're aband, you fill out another and
then you find out if you gotmatched up and then it's kind of
up to you to handle the rest.
So they don't have a main stagewith you know pa system and
sound people and lighting andthey they do have an area with
arts and crafts vendors and, uh,you know, food and drink
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vendors and that sort of thing.
But for the most part it'sreally grassroots that the bands
themselves and it can rangeanywhere from a child playing
the violin to you know acousticduo like mine, to a full rock
band to a marching band.
So you get a lot of differentthings.
And we played at the same housethat we've played at for our
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fifth year running over at theKohler's house and it was a
blast.
Yeah, we had a lot of fun,played a bunch of covers.
I played one original SpaceGiants song called 45s that I
wrote.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
So that's still a cover, because it was the
Concord Grapes doing SpaceGiants.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So, and it was good, I mean, I had a blast, I had a
really good time.
I didn't know what to expect.
It far exceeded what in my mind.
It was going to be like so many, so many people there going to
see all these different bands,and you talked about the vendors
and and you know they had art,you know tents with.
(26:29):
You know that people had allthis art and all this stuff and
it was located pretty close toright where you were playing
that you could do all this stuffor buy stuff and it was so many
things wrapped into one right,yeah, and the crowd is huge,
like there are so many peoplethere yeah, when I was done
(26:51):
watching you and then we weremoving on, it was like almost
impossible to move on thatstreet.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, it was insane yeah, we went after we were done
packing up to go see a friend'sband and it took us 20, 25
minutes to get two blocks was myfavorite song of all the songs
(27:23):
and you know, I was telling somepeople about it and they're
like, why do you think it wasyour favorite?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
and I'm like it could be, because I just didn't
expect it and it was that youguys did a really good cover of
it and that I was like man, thisis gonna be tough to beat, you
know apparently we didn't.
But I'm glad we started outwith a bang yeah, well, the guy
your partner and I don'tremember.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Tim.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Tim.
I think he was like if you hadthe Velvet Underground on your
bingo card.
I didn't, you know, Idefinitely didn't.
But you guys did a great jobwith that.
You know, you did 8-6-7-5-3-0-9.
You did the Wait by the BandMm-hmm.
The Cure song.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
In Between Days In Between Days.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
So you played one song that I guess was for the
younger generation, because youknow you've been there.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, I played Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
No idea what song that was.
I'm like, I have no idea whatthis is, yet all of the younger
people that were there allseemed to know it.
Yeah, they all know it.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
So I looked up the stats on that song because Tim
Lang and my bandmate was kind ofsaying the same thing.
He'd never heard it and I'vereally only heard it through my
kids.
But I looked up the stats andso the most popular Beatles song
on Spotify granted you couldlook across other platforms, but
(28:45):
I bet the numbers would besimilar is here Comes the Sun,
Really, and I think it wasaround 1.5 billion plays.
Espresso has 2.2 billion Really.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah, how old is this song, honestly?
I mean, I don't know the song.
One year, really, it came.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
How old is this song, Honestly?
I mean, I don't know the songOne year Really.
It came out like April 2024.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Wow.
The only thing I know about heris we talked about her when we
talked about the 50thanniversary of Saturday Night
Live and she played with PaulSimon.
Never heard of her before thatday and I never heard of her
until today.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, that's the experience of a lot of people
over 40, I think but you hadyour son sing a song.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
He sang the Strokes.
I thought he did a wonderfuljob.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
He did.
Yeah, he's a great singer.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
When you hear people are going to have their kids,
you're like, oh, what's thisgoing to be like?
But he did a really good joband it was almost effortless for
him it just seemed like he justhad the microphone and he's
just like this is what I do andI sing, and I was like, wow,
this was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, I mean we rehearsed it twice in the
kitchen, just you know, notreally trying that hard and I
was like, yeah, you nailed it,Both times were good.
And then he got up and henailed it.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
He did, without a doubt.
My hat's off to him.
Oh wait a minute.
According to my watch, it'sMinute 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 (30:18):
Minute with Jimmy, all right.
So I wanted to talk about theshow that I saw just the other
night.
Tommy Stinson.
He's the original bass playerfrom the Replacements.
In fact, when the Replacementsfirst album came out he was not
even 16 years old and he hasbeen playing music his whole
(30:42):
life.
He's like this great troubadourof rock and roll.
He didn't really get to writesongs in the replacements and a
lot of people probably don'tknow that he has so many great
original songs.
So he has his rock band thatI'm a massive fan of Bash and
Pop, and then he also has solostuff that he's done kind of
(31:02):
with and without full bands, andso the other night he was
playing solo acoustic.
But he also had a woman namedCarla Rose that opened the show.
She played acoustic guitar andthen she accompanied him on
several songs on violin and itwas just amazing.
He he had a great set list andhe was awesome with the audience
(31:26):
and you just really felt likeit was something special.
So where was the show, jimmy?
It was in Roswell, georgia, ata place called From the Earth
Brewing.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
And I was really surprised.
When I walked in, I thought,okay, well, there's going to be
some music room in the back orsomething.
No, it's just right.
When you walk in, on the leftthere are a bunch of tables with
people eating and then there'sa stage right behind it and
that's where he played.
You know, there were somepeople that weren't there for
the show, that were justfinishing their dinner and, you
(32:01):
know, got up and left part waythrough.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
But who is this guy playing?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
There were a lot of people kind of around our age
and you know some, maybe alittle older, that you could
tell they were big Tommy fansfrom you know way back.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Well, good, that's pretty awesome.
I still miss the replacements.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, did you catch the reunion that they did in
2014?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Oh, it was so good, it was great.
And when I saw them at RiotFest in Chicago I think it was
the Riot Fest one when they didthis no, it was when I saw them
the second time on that tour atShaky Knees in Atlanta, billy
Joe Armstrong from Green Dayplayed with them the whole show,
(32:45):
really Like they didn't make abig deal out of it.
I think they announced it, youknow, three quarters of the way
through.
Oh, thanks to Billy JoeArmstrong for playing with us,
but he was their backupguitarist the whole show.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Really, yeah, do you know what band played right
before them when they broke upin Chicago?
No Material issue.
Oh, a little bit of triviathere.
Yeah, friends of the show,friends of the show, I like it.
That was A Good Minute withJimmy.
(33:16):
All right, let's revisit somemore music from the past.
Let's start up Peter Gabriel.
So the Peter Gabriel album.
He named a few of them.
I don't know, it was three,maybe four albums.
He named them Peter Gabriel,but each one kind of had its own
name.
This one was called Melt.
That came out May 30th of 1980.
(33:37):
And it was an album cover byHypnosis.
We had talked about them.
They did a ton of stuff.
That kind of started with PinkFloyd back in the late 60s and
they ended up doing this album.
And do you remember the albumcover where his face kind of
looks melted on one side?
What they did is they just kepttaking pictures of him with a
(33:57):
Polaroid camera and they wouldtake different things and, you
know, make it so that itdeveloped unclear, you know.
Like they would take differentinstruments, just different
stuff, and just do it until theygot the cover that they wanted.
That's how they did it with thePolaroid picture.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
That's old school.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
That is old school.
So Games Without Frontiers tome it's a great album.
But games without frontiers tome is the best song and it
seemed to get a lot of radioairplay, at least where I was,
on all kinds of differentstations, you know whether it
was modern rock or new rock orclassic like it.
(34:38):
Just a lot of people wereplaying it because it was Peter
Gabriel.
He'd been in Genesis so hereally was getting to play.
It had kind of a new wave bentto it yeah which it did, but it
peaked at only number 48 on theBillboard Hot 100, september
20th of 1980.
It just didn't get with themasses.
(34:59):
Really cool sounding song,percussion, you know with the
masses.
You know Really cool soundingsong Percussion, drum machine,
guitar, kate Bush, backingvocals, whistling, a lot of
whistling in the song.
This is probably the number onewhistling song that I know and
like.
Definitely it's a top 200favorite song for me.
(35:22):
Definitely in my top 200.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Do you have this list secretly written down somewhere
, or do you just keep it in yourhead?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
It's in my head.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
It's in my head, it's impressive, because sometimes
you say 300, sometimes 200.
Yeah, you know where they are.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, it's definitely a top 200, without a doubt, and
this is one of the songs that Ihad borrowed 8-track, johnny's
8-track player.
It also is Emerson that we'vetalked about before on the show
and you know it had radio also,and I remember being at a
friend's house and I had heardthis song multiple times.
(35:59):
And this one time I got to myfriend's house and I'm like, hey
, everybody just be quiet, thesong just begins.
We gotta listen to the wholething.
You gotta listen to.
You have to listen to this song.
You know and this is me, I'm 13and being like when the song
ended by like was that not themost amazing song?
(36:21):
And and they didn't really getit.
You know, they didn't reallyget it at all.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
There was a song you talked about last week I think
that similar thing that you saidthe friends didn't get it but
you thought it was reallyemotional.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
It happens all the time to me, I think.
But that's why I have music inmy shoes.
Yeah, we're music, people weare, we are.
If looks could kill, theyprobably will.
In games without frontiers, warwithout tears.
Hey, let's move to May 30th1980.
Again the same day.
(36:55):
Suzy and the Banshees,christine.
Okay, that song comes out thesame day that they released
Peter Gabriel's Melt album, areally good song, not well-known
by Suzy and the Banshees.
Absolutely love it, and it'sinspired by the book the Three
(37:15):
Faces of Eve and it's aboutChristine Sizemore, who had 22
different personalities andgoing to her therapist and a
book came out.
A movie came out in 1957starring Joanne Woodward, and
then in 1980, susie and theBanshees sang about it and it
(37:36):
was kind of cool.
She tries not to shatterkaleidoscope style Personality
changes behind her red smile.
Every new problem brings astranger inside, helplessly
falling.
One more new disguise ChristineFalco, rock me, amadeus.
(37:57):
Do you remember this one?
Yes, this does not seem likeit's your cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Not really.
I mean, hey, you know, it waskind of fun.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I liked this song.
I liked it, I liked the video.
They all dressed up, you know,in the Amadeus-type outfits, and
so forth.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Wasn't there a movie out at that time called Amadeus?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
There was a movie out .
I don't know if it was beforeafter I out, I don't know if it
was before after.
I really don't remember.
I don't know if he wrote thisbecause the movie was out and
wanted to get a quick boost.
I have no idea.
It was the screamer of the weekthe fifth week of May 1985 on
WLIR.
They were so far ahead ofeverybody because it didn't
(38:39):
enter the Billboard Hot 100until nine months later and
peaked at number one.
This was a number one song,march 29th 1986, fifth week of
May 85.
It is the screamer of the weekon WLIR.
Yeah, wow, yes, hey.
Listen if you want to reach outto us and ask us about the
(38:59):
Billboard 100 that we listenedto.
If you want to talk aboutAmadeus, if you want to know
about the Virginia HighlandPorch Fest, reach us at
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That's it for Episode 80 ofMusic in my Shoes.
(39:21):
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located herein Atlanta, georgia, and Vic
Thrill, for our podcast music.
This is Jim Boge and I hope youlearned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, gotta move on,gotta move on, gotta move on.
(39:45):
Live life and keep the musicplaying, thank you.
He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
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 80.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new, newor remember something old.
So, Jimmy, I wanted to startthe show with looking back at
(00:52):
the Billboard Hot 100 songs fromJune 7th 1980.
Episode 80, June 1980.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, I was wondering when you were going to pick up
on the whole episode and yearcolliding with each other and
here we are, 80.
We're doing it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We did it with 75.
It actually was by accident.
That did not happen on purpose.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I didn't even notice.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, it just kind of happened that I decided to do
episode 75 with.
April of 75, billboard Hot 100.
So I thought it was pretty cool.
A lot of people reached out andsaid that they thought that was
cool.
So I thought it was pretty cool.
A lot of people, you know,reached out and said that they
thought that was cool.
So here we are, we're doing itagain.
So we're going to start offwith well, first of all, I don't
(01:34):
want to go through the wholelist, and I know every time I
say that means I am going to gothrough the whole list, but I'm
going to jump around, we'll goall over, but I'm going to jump
around, we'll go all over, butwe're going to start Not the
whole 100.
No, we're going to start withnumber 51 from June 7th 1980,
and that was Alice Cooper cloneswe're all single.
(01:58):
Peaked at number 40 onBillboard Hot 100, july 5th of
1980.
I'm a clone, I know I'm'm fine.
I'm one and more on the way.
That's a great way to start usall all right.
This was new wave alice cooperright you know away from his
rock.
(02:18):
You know that, you know we gotto know all about.
But I like this song and Ithought this was a good song and
then the Smashing Pumpkins dida fantastic cover of it.
It was the B-side of there-release of Bullet with
Butterfly Wings in 1996.
(02:39):
And we could go on about that.
That's a whole nother story,but we're not because we're on
June 7th 1980.
Number 50, to anybody.
There is something about thissong.
The music starts off.
(03:07):
It's almost a little sultrysounding.
It's a good song, it really is.
Peaked at number one August 2nd1980.
The amazing thing about it,it's from the Xanadu soundtrack.
Oh, really A film that did notdo well whatsoever.
It was a flop, if I remembercorrectly.
Do you remember Xanadu?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, I'd forgotten it was a film, but I remember
the Olivia Newton-John songthere you go, and Olivia
Newton-John and Electric LightOrchestra.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
they did, I think, almost all the music for it.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I don't really remember.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I don't think I remember any of the ELO songs,
to be honest.
But you know I remember thissong and it's a good song.
It's still a good song, youknow.
It's a slow kind of you know, Idon't know adult contemporary
song.
I like it.
So we've mentioned Blondie'sAtomic before.
(04:03):
It was number 47 on the list,but at number 42, All Night Long
by Joe Walsh.
We get up early and we work allday.
We put our time in because welike to stay up all night long.
I mean great way to open a song, great lines.
(04:23):
A lot of people can relate to.
That peaked at number 19, july26th of 80.
I like joe walsh, I like hissolo stuff.
I like, you know, when he gotinto the eagles and the eagles
liked him so much they wouldplay his solo stuff in concert
yeah, they still do yeah, andthat's not something a lot of
(04:45):
bands will do.
You know, they kind of try andkeep it separate, right, because
we play your solo stuff, thenwe have to play my solo stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, they never played Don Henley's solo stuff
or Glenn Frey's solo stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But they would play Joe Walsh's.
Yeah, and Joe Walsh, I mean Ilove his guitar work is.
And Joe Walsh, I mean I lovehis guitar work, I love his
singing, I love his lyrics, Imean it's just so cool.
He has so many great songs.
All Night Long is definitelyone of them.
Number 38, jay Giles' band LoveStinks.
We've talked about that before.
(05:20):
Good song holds the test oftime.
It was on a couple of weeks agoin my house and one of my kids
was singing it.
So you know I always like that.
Things like that, you know,excite me from the standpoint of
.
This is something that I waslistening to 45 years ago and
here they are just singing awaywith it, you know.
(05:41):
Number 35, theme from New York,new York, and I think everybody
knows the song Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And it was from 1977.
I think there was like a Idon't know if it was a movie or
a musical Liza Minnelli was inand she initially sang the song
and I was real familiar with itI lived in New York at the time.
You would hear it.
But then Frank decided torecord it and it really was the
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beginning of his comeback in1980.
Now we're talking about FrankSinatra, who had been singing
songs since the beginning oftime, but he really had a
comeback In the 70s.
He kind of faded away.
He did a bunch of covers ofsongs that didn't really do well
.
And in 1980, he records thisand all of a sudden, you know
(06:34):
he's playing the places all over, you know the world.
Again he's on top, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
He didn't do New York .
New York till 1980?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
1980.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I never knew that.
I thought he did it, you know,back in the 60s or something.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, he did not.
It wasn't until 1980.
And you know, when you thinkabout it, start spreading the
news.
I'm leaving today.
I want to be a part of it.
New York, new York, yeah.
Or music in my shoes.
I want to be a part of that too.
So I'd say it's Frank Sinatra'ssignature song and it's funny,
(07:10):
that's what I think.
It came out in 1980.
It's probably his last big hitthat he had.
You thought it was a song froma long time ago.
So obviously you think it's abig song.
Oh yeah, and it wasn't until1980.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
His song, oh yeah, and it wasn't until 1980.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
His other signature song, though.
What would you say?
I would say either Fly Me tothe Moon or Come Fly With Me, oh
, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That would be like to me his next best songs.
What about you?
I feel like Fly Me to theMoon's a little more across the
board.
Tony Bennett does a versionright, but the one that I think
stuck with Frank is my Way.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh yeah, that totally , you know, and I like that.
I guess I like these threesongs more.
So that's what I think ofinitially.
I really do I listen to.
I don't listen to the themefrom New York a lot, you know.
(08:10):
That's just not a song that Iplay a lot, but I do play.
The other two, come Fly With Meand Fly Me to the Moon, are
regulars, both the studioversion and the live at the
Sands.
I listen to those a lot andenjoy those.
Number 29, another Brick in theWall.
Part two, former number onesong, a song that we talked
about, you know, a bunch ofepisodes ago, number 27.
Tell me if you remember thisone the Manhattans singing
(08:32):
Shining Star.
The song peaked at number fiveon July 19th 1980.
Do you remember it?
Yes, honey, you are my shiningstar, don you go away?
Yeah, oh, baby.
At number 26, a song we spokeabout on our last episode, the
(08:55):
clash train in vain.
Stand by me again.
I think you had said like it'sa song that sounds just like it
itself and there's no other songthat sounds like it at all.
Right, and I mean what a goodsong and that it actually you
know, when you think about itthese years later, that it was
on billboard hot 100 and thisparticular week it was number 26
(09:19):
yeah, I remember being excitedthat I heard it on KC's Top 40.
There you go, and so did therest of America.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, I mean, they heard it.
I don't know if they wereexcited, but I was excited.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm sure they were excited.
I'm sure so.
Number 23 on the Billboard Hot100 chart from June 7th 1980, is
Ride Like the Wind, christopherCross, oh yeah 1980 is Ride.
Like the Wind.
Christopher Cross, oh yeah, Hisdebut single with Michael
McDonald of Doobie Brothers fameon backing vocals.
It peaked at number two inApril of 80.
(09:54):
And Christopher Cross justseemed to be everywhere in 1980,
1981, maybe even into 1982,winning all kinds of awards.
I mean, he was just like he wasthe in thing.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, what did you think of him?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You know I'm not a huge Christopher Cross fan but
he's just not my cup of tea.
You know I don't like that kindof soft rock, yacht rock stuff
very much.
But you know he was good atwhat he did.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's funny that you say that, because I looked it up
.
I wanted to see what theylisted him as.
They did list them as yachtrock when I looked it up.
It's funny.
But do you remember michaelmcdonald?
He would do the backing.
So christopher cross sings thewhole song and you know I'm
gonna ride like the wind, andthen chris.
Uh, michael mcdonald would belike ride like the wind, like
(10:45):
yeah here we go such a long wayyeah, that's it, that's what he
would do, and this little raspyvoice and everything, and um,
yeah, I like Christopher Cross.
Some of the stuff I do, I, Ilike it.
I really like the theme fromArthur.
Um, I like that movie withDudley Moore and Liza Minnelli,
who we just mentioned a fewminutes ago.
(11:06):
I like that movie.
So you know, everything's noteverybody's cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
No, exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Not at all.
Could be my Pepsi, who knows.
So if that wasn't your cup oftea, I'm sure number 19, lost in
Love by Air Supply, isdefinitely not your cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
No, but at that time it was like a slow couple skate
song at the skating rink.
So it's like okay yeah, thatserves, its purpose.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Lost in love and I don't know much.
Was I thinking aloud and fellout of touch?
Yeah, it's gorgeous.
It is, jimmy.
I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I'm not sure I use that word a whole lot.
What has this show?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
become Jim.
You know what?
I didn't pick these songs.
These songs are what theBillboard chart was Okay okay.
So we're just going through them.
It had been high as numberthree in May and here we were
number 19 on June 8th 1980.
Number 14, another song we'vetalked about, the Pretenders
(12:20):
Brass in Pocket.
Pretenders Brass in Pocket.
Number 13, robbie Dupree StealAway.
Number 11, billy Joel.
It's still rock and roll to me.
I love this song.
I know we talked about GlassHouses a few episodes ago.
I really didn't talk a lotabout this song.
But this song to me is justsuper cool.
(12:41):
It kind of talks about, youknow, whether it's rock and roll
or you're calling it New Waveor you're calling it this, you
know everything that washappening in 1980 when this came
out.
You know it kind of all is thesame in the end.
You know it's just some coolmusic to listen to and you can
call it different things and youknow you can put it on the
(13:02):
cover of this magazine as thisand this magazine as that, but
it's still rock and roll to me.
Yeah, you know, I like it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I like it too.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Number nine Cars by Gary Newman.
Oh yeah, here in my car I feelsafest of all.
I can lock all my doors.
It's the only way to live Incars.
I never really thought about it,but like that's kind of sad if
(13:34):
he was living in his car.
So what it was is, I believe,is he was in his car and
something was going on outsidehis car and he just locked the
doors and he just felt safe,like it was like something that
really happened.
And you know it's, the only wayto live is lock the doors and
you're okay.
You know, um, you know thesynthesizers give it that like
futuristic sound again.
This is 1980, so it's so cool.
(13:55):
Like you know, like man, I, Igotta just keep listening.
You know I gotta hit rewind orI gotta pick the record uh,
needle up and bring it back tothe front so I can, you know,
start it again, because thebeginning was just really cool,
you know.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, it has that sort of fade in on that synth
chord and then the drum hits.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
yeah, yeah, really cool.
Still like the song.
Still like the song Numberseven Against the Wind, bob
Seger.
I'm not a huge Bob Seger fan,but I do really like the song a
lot.
It's a good song, you know.
It's one of those things thatyou know.
For me, even not being a bigfan and not listening a whole
(14:41):
lot and knowing what the wholesong was about, at times I felt
like I was against the wind.
You know Like we all stillrunning against the wind.
You know Like we can all kind ofrelate to that Yep Number six,
the Rose by Bette Midler.
Oh yeah, I forgot about thissong.
I loved this song when it cameout and I haven't listened to it
(15:01):
in a long time.
I'll be honest, but did youever see the the movie the rose.
I don't think I did so it'sloosely based on Janis Joplin.
Bette Midler plays her in themovie and you know just kind of
similarities to the way thatJanis's life went.
So you know it's kind of sad,but at the same it made you want
(15:24):
to watch it because it wasloosely based on Janis Joplin.
Not sure I would have watchedit if it hadn't been for that,
you know.
So number five Blondie, call Mesliding down the chart after
being at number one.
Number two coming up live atGlasgow Paul McCartney and Wings
(15:46):
.
And this is the B-side.
So do you know the story behindthis song?
No, I'm going to share it withyou, that's what we're here for.
That's what we're here for.
So, if you remember, we had anepisode where we talked about
Paul McCartney getting busted inTokyo.
Oh right, yeah, and theycanceled his tour and he was
(16:07):
going to come to America.
They canceled that before ithappened.
They didn't put tickets on sale, they just canceled it.
And he decided I'm going towork on my McCartney 2 album and
record everything.
I'm saying me like it's me, butI don't mean it that way.
He decided that he's going torecord every instrument and he's
going to do all this stuff andhe's going to release it 10
(16:29):
years after the first McCartneyalbum.
So he has it already, hereleases it and the first single
is coming up and it's the onewith him playing all of the
different instruments.
On the B side they put the liveversion.
And do you remember the video?
The video has, I don't know, 30different Paul McCartneys in it
(16:53):
and a few Lindas.
And a few Lindas and it's thedifferent phases of his career,
different Beatles and solo andjust different people and stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, that was the first music video I really
remember seeing and thinking,wow, that's like a music little
movie they made just for thissong.
They played it on AmericanBandstand and I was just blown
away that, like he didn't playlive, he made this video about
it.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, and not just made the video, put a lot of
work into it, you know, to makethis happen.
So the song comes out and theystart playing the A side, which
was him, and you know I had the45.
And I was like man, it just was.
(17:41):
So it was just likeoverproduced or too polished or
it was just too much.
It just didn't sound like itwas Paul McCartney.
Then you flip it over and youput the B side on, paul
McCartney and Wings had playedthe song I think it was the
December of 79, if I'm notmistaken and it was fantastic
(18:04):
and it was what you expect whenyou hear Paul McCartney.
So, while the rest of the world,the original A-side was what
went number one and was the hitacross the world, in America it
was the live version andinitially they would put that it
was the A-side and then finallythey decided to change it that
(18:26):
the hit was actually the liveversion.
That's not what they didinitially, but the live was so
good, so good and for me, havingpaul mccartney who had been
busted earlier in the year, thiswas kind of cool to have him
have a good song, something thateverybody seemed to like, and
people like the video, eventhough it was the version of him
(18:49):
doing it solo.
They liked the video and thatkind of superseded the music,
like did on a lot of MTV bands,if you think about it, you know.
So but yeah, it was definitelycool and it's still a good song
to listen to.
So the number one song onBillboard Hot 100, 45 years ago,
(19:13):
on June 7th 1980, gotta Make aMove to A town.
That's right for me.
Oh yeah, that was number onefor a while.
Town to keep me moving, keep megrooving with some energy.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Funky town.
Yeah, I mean I've talked aboutit, talked about it, talked
about it, talked about it.
I mean I've talked about it,talked about it talked about it.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Talked about it, yes, talked about moving.
There you go, gotta move on,Gotta move on.
But we're not ready to move onyet.
That song was number one May31st until June 21st of 1980.
You're right, it was number onefor a long time, right.
And then, you know, it wasbuilding its way up and then it
was building its way down.
It was on Billboard forever.
(19:57):
But what a great song.
I mean it's still a good song,like if you go to a party and
someone puts that on, you knoweverybody's tapping their foot,
moving around a little bit.
You know enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, you know, it's an instant good time.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So Pseudo Echo released a cover that made it to
number six on Billboard July18th of 1987, which I was
listening to, wdre up in NewYork at the time and it was a
song that they just would play alot.
But it was a cool version, morerock and had a guitar, a little
guitar solo in the middle andso forth.
(20:34):
Good version, gotta, move on.
Gotta, move on.
Won't you take me to Funky Town?
So, staying in the year 1980,robert Landsberg was
(21:00):
photographing Mount St Helens inWashington State when at 8.32
am, an earthquake triggered aneruption.
So it blows off part of the topof Mount St Helens and it
actually removed the height,removed the height and the
(21:20):
height used to be, I think itwas like 9,000 something feet,
and now it was 8,000 or it was8,000.
Now it was I don't rememberexactly but I know it was 1300
feet of the elevation came off.
Whoa, yeah, I mean somethingreally crazy.
So it destroyed everything for230 square miles around and this
was just huge back then it was.
They kept talking about it wasgoing to happen and, if I
(21:41):
remember correctly, like a bigbubble was starting to form at
the top and everything, and theearthquake that happened that
day.
That's what made the wholething go.
You know, right, that happenedthat day.
That's what made the wholething go.
You know, the originalearthquake, which I think was a
few months earlier, is whatstarted that bubble on the
(22:01):
outside, and then thisearthquake is what made it erupt
.
So as the plume of smoke and ashapproached Landsberg, he jumps
in his car.
But he keeps taking pictures ofeverything that's happening.
And then he takes his cameraand the film, puts it in his
backpack and lays his body on itin the car because he knows he
(22:27):
can't survive.
I mean, I think the ash and theyou know all of that I mean it
gets to like a thousand degrees,like something crazy that you
can't survive any of that.
You can't breathe it, you can'tdo anything.
You know, ten days later he wasfound in his car and his car is
(22:49):
buried.
I saw pictures of it.
His car was buried up to thedoors, over the hood, over the
trunk.
And they got to get this filmand they were able to develop
and it was kind of grainy, itwasn't in perfect shape.
I mean it went through a lot.
The heat was still.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I'm amazed anything came out at all.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, I mean this story, and it's not just him.
There were other photographersthat the same thing happened to
that took pictures.
I've seen some of the differentpictures in National Geographic
, different magazines over theyears the fact that someone
would want to give up their lifeso that they can.
(23:32):
I guess they're not givingtheir life up.
They know that they can'tsurvive.
It is really what it comes downto, and that they continue to
take pictures to the lastpossible moment and do whatever
it is that they can to make surethat they preserve.
It is super cool.
You know that really is thatwe're talking about it 45 years
(23:57):
later.
My hat's off to them.
Really cool story.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Really cool story.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
It's sad, but they will live on forever because
they were doing something thatthey loved, and when you talk
about Mount St Helens 55 yearsfrom now, you can still talk
about those guys.
So, speaking of wanting to talkabout some people and speaking
of something that was hot,virginia Highland Porch Fest was
(24:26):
this past weekend.
Yes, the Concord Grapes, whichour own Jimmy Guthrie is a part
of, played, and so why don't youkind of set up what the Porch
Fest is all about?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
It's a really fun event.
So it's in my neighborhood,Virginia Highlands neighborhood
of Atlanta, and they hook uppeople that want to have a party
on their porch and have a bandplay and a band that wants to
play and they just connectpeople.
So if you want your porch to bea party, you fill out form
(25:00):
online and you know if you're aband, you fill out another and
then you find out if you gotmatched up and then it's kind of
up to you to handle the rest.
So they don't have a main stagewith you know pa system and
sound people and lighting andthey they do have an area with
arts and crafts vendors and, uh,you know, food and drink
(25:21):
vendors and that sort of thing.
But for the most part it'sreally grassroots that the bands
themselves and it can rangeanywhere from a child playing
the violin to you know acousticduo like mine, to a full rock
band to a marching band.
So you get a lot of differentthings.
And we played at the same housethat we've played at for our
(25:47):
fifth year running over at theKohler's house and it was a
blast.
Yeah, we had a lot of fun,played a bunch of covers.
I played one original SpaceGiants song called 45s that I
wrote.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
So that's still a cover, because it was the
Concord Grapes doing SpaceGiants.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So, and it was good, I mean, I had a blast, I had a
really good time.
I didn't know what to expect.
It far exceeded what in my mind.
It was going to be like so many, so many people there going to
see all these different bands,and you talked about the vendors
and and you know they had art,you know tents with.
(26:29):
You know that people had allthis art and all this stuff and
it was located pretty close toright where you were playing
that you could do all this stuffor buy stuff and it was so many
things wrapped into one right,yeah, and the crowd is huge,
like there are so many peoplethere yeah, when I was done
(26:51):
watching you and then we weremoving on, it was like almost
impossible to move on thatstreet.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, it was insane yeah, we went after we were done
packing up to go see a friend'sband and it took us 20, 25
minutes to get two blocks was myfavorite song of all the songs
(27:23):
and you know, I was telling somepeople about it and they're
like, why do you think it wasyour favorite?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
and I'm like it could be, because I just didn't
expect it and it was that youguys did a really good cover of
it and that I was like man, thisis gonna be tough to beat, you
know apparently we didn't.
But I'm glad we started outwith a bang yeah, well, the guy
your partner and I don'tremember.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Tim.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Tim.
I think he was like if you hadthe Velvet Underground on your
bingo card.
I didn't, you know, Idefinitely didn't.
But you guys did a great jobwith that.
You know, you did 8-6-7-5-3-0-9.
You did the Wait by the BandMm-hmm.
The Cure song.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
In Between Days In Between Days.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
So you played one song that I guess was for the
younger generation, because youknow you've been there.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, I played Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
No idea what song that was.
I'm like, I have no idea whatthis is, yet all of the younger
people that were there allseemed to know it.
Yeah, they all know it.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
So I looked up the stats on that song because Tim
Lang and my bandmate was kind ofsaying the same thing.
He'd never heard it and I'vereally only heard it through my
kids.
But I looked up the stats andso the most popular Beatles song
on Spotify granted you couldlook across other platforms, but
(28:45):
I bet the numbers would besimilar is here Comes the Sun,
Really, and I think it wasaround 1.5 billion plays.
Espresso has 2.2 billion Really.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah, how old is this song, honestly?
I mean, I don't know the song.
One year, really, it came.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
How old is this song, Honestly?
I mean, I don't know the songOne year Really.
It came out like April 2024.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Wow.
The only thing I know about heris we talked about her when we
talked about the 50thanniversary of Saturday Night
Live and she played with PaulSimon.
Never heard of her before thatday and I never heard of her
until today.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, that's the experience of a lot of people
over 40, I think but you hadyour son sing a song.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
He sang the Strokes.
I thought he did a wonderfuljob.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
He did.
Yeah, he's a great singer.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
When you hear people are going to have their kids,
you're like, oh, what's thisgoing to be like?
But he did a really good joband it was almost effortless for
him it just seemed like he justhad the microphone and he's
just like this is what I do andI sing, and I was like, wow,
this was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, I mean we rehearsed it twice in the
kitchen, just you know, notreally trying that hard and I
was like, yeah, you nailed it,Both times were good.
And then he got up and henailed it.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
He did, without a doubt.
My hat's off to him.
Oh wait a minute.
According to my watch, it'sMinute 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 (30:18):
Minute with Jimmy, all right.
So I wanted to talk about theshow that I saw just the other
night.
Tommy Stinson.
He's the original bass playerfrom the Replacements.
In fact, when the Replacementsfirst album came out he was not
even 16 years old and he hasbeen playing music his whole
(30:42):
life.
He's like this great troubadourof rock and roll.
He didn't really get to writesongs in the replacements and a
lot of people probably don'tknow that he has so many great
original songs.
So he has his rock band thatI'm a massive fan of Bash and
Pop, and then he also has solostuff that he's done kind of
(31:02):
with and without full bands, andso the other night he was
playing solo acoustic.
But he also had a woman namedCarla Rose that opened the show.
She played acoustic guitar andthen she accompanied him on
several songs on violin and itwas just amazing.
He he had a great set list andhe was awesome with the audience
(31:26):
and you just really felt likeit was something special.
So where was the show, jimmy?
It was in Roswell, georgia, ata place called From the Earth
Brewing.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
And I was really surprised.
When I walked in, I thought,okay, well, there's going to be
some music room in the back orsomething.
No, it's just right.
When you walk in, on the leftthere are a bunch of tables with
people eating and then there'sa stage right behind it and
that's where he played.
You know, there were somepeople that weren't there for
the show, that were justfinishing their dinner and, you
(32:01):
know, got up and left part waythrough.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
But who is this guy playing?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
There were a lot of people kind of around our age
and you know some, maybe alittle older, that you could
tell they were big Tommy fansfrom you know way back.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Well, good, that's pretty awesome.
I still miss the replacements.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, did you catch the reunion that they did in
2014?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Oh, it was so good, it was great.
And when I saw them at RiotFest in Chicago I think it was
the Riot Fest one when they didthis no, it was when I saw them
the second time on that tour atShaky Knees in Atlanta, billy
Joe Armstrong from Green Dayplayed with them the whole show,
(32:45):
really Like they didn't make abig deal out of it.
I think they announced it, youknow, three quarters of the way
through.
Oh, thanks to Billy JoeArmstrong for playing with us,
but he was their backupguitarist the whole show.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Really, yeah, do you know what band played right
before them when they broke upin Chicago?
No Material issue.
Oh, a little bit of triviathere.
Yeah, friends of the show,friends of the show, I like it.
That was A Good Minute withJimmy.
(33:16):
All right, let's revisit somemore music from the past.
Let's start up Peter Gabriel.
So the Peter Gabriel album.
He named a few of them.
I don't know, it was three,maybe four albums.
He named them Peter Gabriel,but each one kind of had its own
name.
This one was called Melt.
That came out May 30th of 1980.
(33:37):
And it was an album cover byHypnosis.
We had talked about them.
They did a ton of stuff.
That kind of started with PinkFloyd back in the late 60s and
they ended up doing this album.
And do you remember the albumcover where his face kind of
looks melted on one side?
What they did is they just kepttaking pictures of him with a
(33:57):
Polaroid camera and they wouldtake different things and, you
know, make it so that itdeveloped unclear, you know.
Like they would take differentinstruments, just different
stuff, and just do it until theygot the cover that they wanted.
That's how they did it with thePolaroid picture.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
That's old school.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
That is old school.
So Games Without Frontiers tome it's a great album.
But games without frontiers tome is the best song and it
seemed to get a lot of radioairplay, at least where I was,
on all kinds of differentstations, you know whether it
was modern rock or new rock orclassic like it.
(34:38):
Just a lot of people wereplaying it because it was Peter
Gabriel.
He'd been in Genesis so hereally was getting to play.
It had kind of a new wave bentto it yeah which it did, but it
peaked at only number 48 on theBillboard Hot 100, september
20th of 1980.
It just didn't get with themasses.
(34:59):
Really cool sounding song,percussion, you know with the
masses.
You know Really cool soundingsong Percussion, drum machine,
guitar, kate Bush, backingvocals, whistling, a lot of
whistling in the song.
This is probably the number onewhistling song that I know and
like.
Definitely it's a top 200favorite song for me.
(35:22):
Definitely in my top 200.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Do you have this list secretly written down somewhere
, or do you just keep it in yourhead?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
It's in my head.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
It's in my head, it's impressive, because sometimes
you say 300, sometimes 200.
Yeah, you know where they are.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, it's definitely a top 200, without a doubt, and
this is one of the songs that Ihad borrowed 8-track, johnny's
8-track player.
It also is Emerson that we'vetalked about before on the show
and you know it had radio also,and I remember being at a
friend's house and I had heardthis song multiple times.
(35:59):
And this one time I got to myfriend's house and I'm like, hey
, everybody just be quiet, thesong just begins.
We gotta listen to the wholething.
You gotta listen to.
You have to listen to this song.
You know and this is me, I'm 13and being like when the song
ended by like was that not themost amazing song?
(36:21):
And and they didn't really getit.
You know, they didn't reallyget it at all.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
There was a song you talked about last week I think
that similar thing that you saidthe friends didn't get it but
you thought it was reallyemotional.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
It happens all the time to me, I think.
But that's why I have music inmy shoes.
Yeah, we're music, people weare, we are.
If looks could kill, theyprobably will.
In games without frontiers, warwithout tears.
Hey, let's move to May 30th1980.
Again the same day.
(36:55):
Suzy and the Banshees,christine.
Okay, that song comes out thesame day that they released
Peter Gabriel's Melt album, areally good song, not well-known
by Suzy and the Banshees.
Absolutely love it, and it'sinspired by the book the Three
(37:15):
Faces of Eve and it's aboutChristine Sizemore, who had 22
different personalities andgoing to her therapist and a
book came out.
A movie came out in 1957starring Joanne Woodward, and
then in 1980, susie and theBanshees sang about it and it
(37:36):
was kind of cool.
She tries not to shatterkaleidoscope style Personality
changes behind her red smile.
Every new problem brings astranger inside, helplessly
falling.
One more new disguise ChristineFalco, rock me, amadeus.
(37:57):
Do you remember this one?
Yes, this does not seem likeit's your cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Not really.
I mean, hey, you know, it waskind of fun.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I liked this song.
I liked it, I liked the video.
They all dressed up, you know,in the Amadeus-type outfits, and
so forth.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Wasn't there a movie out at that time called Amadeus?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
There was a movie out .
I don't know if it was beforeafter I out, I don't know if it
was before after.
I really don't remember.
I don't know if he wrote thisbecause the movie was out and
wanted to get a quick boost.
I have no idea.
It was the screamer of the weekthe fifth week of May 1985 on
WLIR.
They were so far ahead ofeverybody because it didn't
(38:39):
enter the Billboard Hot 100until nine months later and
peaked at number one.
This was a number one song,march 29th 1986, fifth week of
May 85.
It is the screamer of the weekon WLIR.
Yeah, wow, yes, hey.
Listen if you want to reach outto us and ask us about the
(38:59):
Billboard 100 that we listenedto.
If you want to talk aboutAmadeus, if you want to know
about the Virginia HighlandPorch Fest, reach us at
musicinmyshoes at gmailcom.
Please like and follow theMusic in my Shoes Facebook and
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That's it for Episode 80 ofMusic in my Shoes.
(39:21):
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios located herein Atlanta, georgia, and Vic
Thrill, for our podcast music.
This is Jim Boge and I hope youlearned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, gotta move on,gotta move on, gotta move on.
(39:45):
Live life and keep the musicplaying, thank you.
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