September 28, 2025 • 38 mins
Janis Joplin's untimely death on October 4, 1970, marked a profound loss for rock music just sixteen days after Jimi Hendrix's passing. We explore her remarkable legacy, breakthrough at the Monterey Pop Festival, and participation in the legendary Festival Express train tour across Canada.
• Janis Joplin died at age 27 with only four albums released, yet her impact remains enormous
• "Mercedes-Benz" was the last song Joplin recorded before her death
• The Festival Express train tour featured impromptu jam sessions with Joplin, The Grateful Dead, and The Band
• Room 105 at the former Landmark Motor Hotel (now Highland Gardens Hotel) has become a shrine to Joplin
• We compare rankings of greatest female vocalists across genres, including Ann Wilson, Stevie Nicks, and Whitney Houston
• Notable discussion of other musical icons including David Bowie's "Scary Monsters" album, Genesis' "Turn It on Again" Split Enz "I Got You" and The Cure "Close to Me"
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SPEAKER_02 (00:34):
Hey everybody, this is Jim Boge, and you're
listening to Music in My Shoes.
That was Vic Thrill kicking offepisode 98.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
Jimmy, two episodes ago, wespoke about the death of Jimi
Hendricks on September 18th,1970.
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Sixteen days later, on October4th, 1970, rock music lost
another icon with the overdosedeath of Janice Joplin.
Yeah.
And if you think about it, it'shard to imagine, you know, just
over two weeks in such a shortperiod of time, two of the most
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iconic rock and roll people losttheir lives.
You know, again, Jimi Hendrixdidn't have a a ton of albums
out.
I think we talked about he hadfour out at the time, three
studio, one live.
And for Janice, she had four.
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Two with Big Brother and theHolding Company, two solo, but
the last solo didn't come outuntil after her death, about
three months later.
She was actually recording itwhen when she died.
And it's just amazing how somepeople can put out music and not
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a ton of it, and it have such animpact still all these years
later.
Yeah, it really does.
It's amazing.
I mean, just listen to some ofthese songs that Janice
released.
Down on Me, Summertime.
I think Summertime is anabsolute killer song.
And I know a bunch of these arecovers, but she put her own spin
(02:24):
on it and just gave it thisblues, you know, from the heart
feeling.
SPEAKER_03 (02:30):
Yeah, she did.
SPEAKER_02 (02:31):
Are you choking up there, Jimmy?
SPEAKER_03 (02:33):
No, I just had a Greek salad.
I didn't realize this episodewas gonna touch you like that.
You know.
It's also the the lack of abeard on Jim is kind of like
throwing is putting a lump in mythroat or something.
SPEAKER_02 (02:46):
It is the new look.
At least today's look.
Who knows what tomorrow's lookwill be.
SPEAKER_03 (02:49):
Well, you can't grow it back in a day unless you get
like a Santa beard.
SPEAKER_02 (02:53):
We'll see what happens, Jimmy.
All right.
So Peace of My Heart.
I think everybody in the worldknows that song.
You might not know the name ofthe song, but when it comes on,
everybody knows that.
Another cover, Ball and Chain,Ball and Chain, what a fantastic
song.
Try Just a Little Harder, MoveOver, Me and Bobby McGee, and
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Mercedes-Benz.
Mercedes-Benz is an a cappellasong, which is the last song she
recorded.
Oh, okay.
It's the last thing she didbefore she died.
And what a great song it is.
And I talked about this oncebefore.
She had two shows at the CapitolTheater in Porchester, New York.
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And between the two shows, and II don't know if they were the
same day or or days apart, thatI don't remember, she was at a
bar with some people, somefriends, and based it off of a
poem someone had wrote and hadthe song, and by the second
show, she was playing it at thesecond show.
And it's just crazy, you know,that people have that much
(04:02):
talent, you know, and be able topull something like that off.
So 1967, Monterey Pop Festival,Monterey International Pop
Festival, POP Pop, is again, II've mentioned it probably 20
times.
It is probably my favoritefestival of the 60s.
SPEAKER_03 (04:26):
Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (04:27):
And part of it is because at that time the drugs
and alcohol hadn't taken over somany of the musicians, and they
really were all in it about themusic and what they could
possibly do.
And at the same time, many ofthese bands weren't signed bands
or weren't well known.
If you take a look at at JaniceJoplin, their first album didn't
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come out until two months afterthe Monterey Pop Festival on a a
large scale.
You know, it was released kindof like an independent type
thing.
But then large scale, it youknow, it was this big thing
after they had the success thatthey had at Monterey.
That's cool.
One of the things about Montereyis that they videoed the whole
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thing, and that you can uh um DAPennebaker and you can watch,
and that's you know, Idefinitely love watching these
festivals and seeing what wasgoing on.
But at the time, Albert Grossmanwas the manager of Big Brother
and the Holding Company, and herefused to give them permission
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to film.
And she had this amazingperformance, especially with
with ball and chain.
And, you know, it got kind ofcrazy after that, different
stories, whether or not, youknow, uh the Monterey people
like, hey, yeah, you really needto do that and put it on film.
Or Janice was really upset thatit wasn't on film after she gave
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this unbelievable performance.
But at the end of the day, theyget to play the next day and
it's on film, and you can watchit and you can see everything.
They're the only band thatplayed two days at the um
Monterey Festival.
Yeah, I mean, the audienceabsolutely loved them.
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They weren't really knownoutside of San Francisco.
And to be at a pop festival,this place where people from all
over, it really was the breakoutperformance, you know, for both
Janice as well as Big Brother.
So, you know, just a really goodtime, uh, a really good vibe
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when you watch the show.
Another really cool thing thatJanice was part of was in the
summer of 70, thing calledFestival Express.
And it was a train in Canadathat a bunch of rock bands got
on.
They decided, well, we're notlike driving, we're not flying,
we're gonna try somethingdifferent.
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We're all gonna go on a train.
And there was about 14 cars.
There was a bar car and sleepersand you know, all kinds of
stuff.
It was the very end of June of70, and I think it went to like
July 4th of 1970, just a handfulof shows, not many whatsoever.
(07:20):
But it was really cool becauseyou had The Grateful Dead, you
had Janice Joplin, you had theband, Buddy Guy, uh the Flying
Burrito Brothers.
I mean, just so many differentpeople that were part of it.
Uh Delaney and Bonnie andfriends.
(07:40):
Um just I I can't even think ofeverybody that was part of this.
The coolest moment, because it'son film.
Okay.
The coolest moment of the filmis when they just kind of have a
drunken jam in the bar car.
Oh, yeah, I bet.
And it's Bob Weir and JerryGarcia of The Grateful Dead, and
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it's a couple of guys of theband, and it's Janice Joplin,
and it's it's just so cool.
SPEAKER_03 (08:07):
Oh, yeah, I'd like to hear that.
SPEAKER_02 (08:09):
I mean, it's just fun.
It's just a fun time.
So the promoter had bought allthe alcohol, they ran dry, they
had to stop the train in a town,and everybody pooled their money
together so that they could buy,you know, more alcohol and
continue the trip.
And it it's cool to watch.
And the other thing that's coolis that people had gotten to the
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point where they were sick andtired of paying for music that
they thought should be free.
And, you know, there was kind oflike protest against it, and and
it wasn't huge amounts of money,but people didn't think they
needed to spend any money on it.
Right.
And uh at one of the cities,what Jerry Garcia came up with
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was hey, we're gonna do thisconcert at this place here, but
tomorrow we're gonna show up atthis park and we're gonna play
free.
So, you know, support this, butwe're gonna support you tomorrow
and we're gonna do this, youknow, free show, and you know, a
couple of bands played a fewsongs, and you know, enough to
to make people happy.
(09:15):
But it's just funny how peoplewere kind of fed up with the
fact of rising ticket pricesthat weren't that much to start
off with.
SPEAKER_03 (09:24):
Yeah, how much was it?
Like three bucks or something.
SPEAKER_02 (09:26):
It was not I don't know off the top of my head, but
I know it wasn't a ton of money.
But um it's a it's a cool umdocumentary if you ever get a
chance to watch it, FestivalExpress.
Again, I talk about it becauseanother cool thing that Janice
Joplin did.
So the landmark motor hotel inHollywood, and that's Hollywood,
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California, not Florida.
So Janice died.
It's now the Highland GardensHotel, and room 105, that's
where she was found, her hotelroom.
It's kind of like a shrine now.
And up until a few years ago,you could actually still rent
this room.
You could go and be like, yeah,I want 105, and you could sleep
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in the room, and the closet hada lot of people writing on it,
and you know, just kind of coolthings.
They don't let you sleep in itanymore that I can find, but you
can actually go and visit theshrine that they have for her.
So, yeah.
You know, we've talked aboutJimi Hendrix lately, we've
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talked about John Bottom, sowe've talked about great
guitarists, we talked aboutgreat drummers.
So that leads us today to greatfemale vocalists.
All right.
So great female vocalists.
We're gonna start off with rock,so just the rock genre.
Okay.
So ranker, 100 best female uhrock vocalists, number five,
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Tina Turner.
She started with Ike Turner.
They had the I think was it, theIke and Tina Review or the
something like that that theyplayed back in the sixties.
And then she was solo, you know,she had Private Dancer and you
know, a bunch of other stuff inthe 80s.
SPEAKER_03 (11:13):
Yeah.
You wouldn't really call thatrock, but okay.
SPEAKER_02 (11:16):
Tina Turner in the 60s.
That's I I think that's rock.
SPEAKER_03 (11:19):
Yeah, it was.
It was a form of rock.
Yeah.
I definitely didn't.
SPEAKER_02 (11:24):
No, no.
But you know how it is.
People get older, they kind ofchange a little bit, and they're
still remembered for their rockvocal.
Number four, Janice Jomplin.
Mm-hmm.
Number three, Pat Benatar.
I'm not sure that I'm in all inon this with Pat Benatar's
number of.
(11:45):
I think she is, but I can thinkof some other people that I
think are better than her atnumber three.
Number two, Stevie Nicks.
So Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac,as well as solo.
I get it.
I like her voice.
Very distinctive voice.
SPEAKER_03 (12:02):
Yeah, no, she's very distinctive.
Let me guess what number onethen.
SPEAKER_02 (12:06):
All right, wait, hold on.
I know this is female vocalists,but I'm gonna do the drums.
SPEAKER_03 (12:13):
Nancy Wilson.
SPEAKER_02 (12:16):
The wrong Wilson.
SPEAKER_03 (12:17):
Anne Wilson.
Anne Wilson.
And 50-50 chance.
SPEAKER_02 (12:23):
Yes, Anne Wilson of heart.
And I can't disagree with thisat all.
Okay?
No.
No.
Cannot disagree.
When you listen to the songBarracuda, that is just an
unbelievable song.
Her her vocals, her voice,unbelievable.
SPEAKER_03 (12:47):
I mean, all the songs.
Magic Man is another one,unbelievable.
Crazy on you?
Yeah.
And then, of course, they did gosoft in the 80s too, but we were
talking more about their 70sstuff.
SPEAKER_02 (12:59):
Correct.
SPEAKER_03 (13:00):
Now, I saw uh behind the music or something about
Heart, and Nancy was talkingabout Anne, and she said she
didn't always sing like that.
Like she she was a good singer,and she's like, it was literally
in the middle of a show onenight, and all of a sudden she
found this part of her voicethat she'd never found before.
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And she's like, we all looked ateach other like, oh my God, Anne
is amazing.
And then from then on, she waswho she was.
SPEAKER_02 (13:27):
The rest is history.
Yeah.
That that is cool.
We talked about Nancy in ourlast episode because she was
married to Cameron Crow at onepoint.
They wrote some songs for themovie Almost Famous.
And it's kind of cool whenthings kind of episode after
episode things tie in fromprevious, and you know, we don't
know where it's gonna go, butthat's where it goes.
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That's where it goes.
So Ultimate Classic Rock, allright?
And I I read Ultimate ClassicRock online a ton.
I really enjoy it.
I think it's pretty cool.
Um, their top ten femalevocalists.
Number 10, Grace Slick,Jefferson Airplane.
unknown (14:06):
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_03 (14:06):
Another band that went super soft in the 80s.
SPEAKER_02 (14:09):
Oh, God.
They had the worst song of allthe time, yeah.
You know, I got some some staticfrom people when I said that the
last time that they could notbelieve that I said we built the
city from Starship was the worstsong.
Aaron Ross Powell Really?
Yes.
I I don't even think it'sdebatable.
(14:30):
I don't think it is either.
I think it is the worst songsince the moment it came out,
and which is 40 years ago.
It was 85, I believe, when itcame out.
SPEAKER_03 (14:40):
It's it's held up.
SPEAKER_02 (14:41):
And you don't normally say that with a bad
song.
You usually talk about goodsongs, or you say a good song 40
years ago hasn't held up andit's bad now.
This is straight up bad from theget-go.
SPEAKER_03 (14:55):
It is.
It's like you remember thosecars, um, the uh the gremlin
that car?
You know, I always thought thatand a pacer was another one.
I always thought that those werereally ugly cars when I was
younger.
And now I look at them likethose were cool cars, you know,
and but we built the city hasn'thad that transformation.
SPEAKER_02 (15:15):
It hasn't hasn't changed one bit, has it, Jimmy?
So um, you know, this is basedoff of if you look at White
Rabbit, Somebody to Love, justyou know, some classic songs
that came out in 1967 that werereally, you know, cutting-edge
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songs at the time and really,you know, taking rock from from
one thing to another and reallyexploring things that hadn't
been explored before.
And Grace Slick did a great jobwith that.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_03 (15:48):
Psychedelia.
SPEAKER_02 (15:49):
Yes.
Number nine, Courtney Love ofHole.
I never would have expected thisin the top ten, but I don't have
a problem with it.
I love her voice.
I love her albums.
Well, you know, I've talkedabout her multiple times on the
show.
I I'm okay with this.
Okay.
I'm okay with this one.
Not that it matters, not thatwhat I think really matters at
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the end of the day.
SPEAKER_03 (16:12):
No, not that what uh ultimate classic rock thinks
matters either.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_02 (16:16):
But I I can go with this one.
I think her voice is prettygood.
I like it.
Number eight, Joan Jett and theBlackheart.
And also she was with therunaways beforehand.
And I I like her voice.
I think she's done some stuff.
You know, I love rock and roll.
Like when that song came out,her voice and just everything
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about it, like wow.
Number seven, Chrissy HindPretenders.
SPEAKER_04 (16:43):
Right.
SPEAKER_02 (16:44):
All right, I can go with that.
Number six, Debbie Harry ofBlondie.
SPEAKER_03 (16:50):
Yeah.
I mean, she was really good inin her day.
Yes.
I saw her saw Blondie in 2014 atRiot Fest in Chicago.
Right.
And I think she was upset aboutsomething.
She was being very particular.
She didn't move on the stage atall.
They played, you know, normallywhen you have a festival set,
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you if you have an hour, you'replaying every minute of that
hour, right?
You're fitting in all the songsyou can.
And so, like, 15 minutes beforetheir time was up, they played
Call Me, and they had alreadyplayed Heart of Glass, and you
know, I'm like, what do theyhave left?
Um, they just left the stage,they just cut it 15, 20 minutes
short.
(17:33):
Wow.
Yeah, I think she was she washaving a bad day.
SPEAKER_02 (17:36):
That's sad to hear, especially at Riot Fests.
SPEAKER_03 (17:39):
I know.
Man.
But you know what?
Saw a lot of great things thatday, though.
Saw Violent Femmes, they werefantastic, and saw uh the
replacements that night.
SPEAKER_02 (17:47):
Oh.
That is very good.
Violent Femmes and thereplacements.
And Blondie.
Hey, that's still a good day.
SPEAKER_04 (17:55):
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02 (17:56):
Number five, Annie Lennox of the Erhythmics.
I don't see this whatsoever.
No, I don't, but none of them.
She's distinctive.
Yeah, but I mean, she doesn'thave, you know, that many songs.
I know Sweet Dreams Are Made ofThis, Would I Lie To You?
I like those.
I don't really even like SweetDreams Are Made Of This, to be
honest with you.
I like the song Would I Lie toYou.
(18:16):
That song I like.
I I just don't see how she'snumber five on their, you know,
top women voc rock vocalist.
Number four, Janice Joplin.
Three, Tina Turner.
Two, Ann Wilson.
Number one, Stevie Nicks.
So the top four seemed to be thesame.
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So I decided let's look at allgenres.
So I went to rankers, 340 bestfemale vocalists ever ranked.
And the fact that it wasn't 350,it was 340 plus, that got my
attention.
It worked.
It worked.
So number 19, Janice Joplin.
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So this is everything.
This is any type of music.
Okay, whether it's pop, rock,jazz, um, anything.
SPEAKER_03 (19:11):
Yeah, I've got R and View that I'm expecting we're
gonna see in here.
We'll see.
SPEAKER_02 (19:16):
Number 18, Diana Ross from Diana Ross and the
Supremes and Solo.
Number 17, Amy Winehouse.
SPEAKER_03 (19:25):
Right.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (19:26):
Back to Black, You Know I'm No Good.
Those are the songs that I know.
I know.
I know we had some uh talk aboutwhat was that song?
Valerie?
Yeah, yeah.
I still don't know that song.
I have listened to it.
I I believe I've listened to itwith you, and I I just don't
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know the song.
I don't.
Okay.
So nothing but a good laugh.
Number 16.
SPEAKER_03 (19:52):
I still love you.
SPEAKER_02 (19:53):
Thank you.
Thank you, Jimmy.
That makes me feel better.
Hey, this has been Music MyShoes.
I hope you have a great day.
Number 16, Stevie Nicks.
Now, this this one perplexes me.
Number 15, Kelly Clarkson.
Since You've Been Gone,Stronger.
I like those songs.
I know they're poppy.
SPEAKER_03 (20:14):
But of all time?
She's pretty good.
You know?
SPEAKER_02 (20:19):
So, but you know what?
Since You've Been Gone, whenthat song came out, I really
liked it.
And I really like that strongersong.
I do.
Number 14, Dolly Parton, 9 to 5,Jolene.
SPEAKER_03 (20:32):
Great vocalist.
SPEAKER_02 (20:34):
Number 13, Judy Garland.
Everybody knows Over the Rainbowfrom the film she starred in,
Wizard of Oz.
But she does just an absolutefantastic version of Have
Yourself a Merry Christmas.
And I think and I don't know,but I believe it's from the
(20:55):
movie Meet Me in St.
Louis.
SPEAKER_03 (20:57):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (20:58):
I think it is.
It is absolutely fantastic.
It is mesmerizing when she singsit.
Number 12, Linda Ronstadt,You're No Good, Blue By You,
When Will I Be Love.
Blue By You was one of those onthe radio songs all the time
when it came out.
Number 11, Tina Turner.
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Number 10, Patsy Klein.
Yeah.
All right.
Crazy, I Fall to Pieces.
I Fall to Pieces was a Walmartcommercial, I believe, for quite
some time as the prices werechanging.
Number nine, Adele.
Hello.
Someone like you.
SPEAKER_03 (21:41):
I like that pick.
SPEAKER_02 (21:42):
I'm not a huge Adele fan, but I I can't say that I
disagree with it.
She's she's pretty, you know,popular and has a great voice.
She does.
Yeah.
Number eight, Billy Holiday.
SPEAKER_03 (21:54):
I was expecting that.
SPEAKER_02 (21:56):
All right.
So Billy Holiday.
Number seven, Mariah Carey.
All right.
Her big song back in the day wasHero.
She's got that voice.
I can't name all of the songsthat she does, you know, but
she's got that voice.
SPEAKER_03 (22:10):
Yeah, she could hit like higher notes than anybody
could, too.
SPEAKER_02 (22:13):
Oh, yeah.
I don't know if she can still doit, but back in the day, you're
like, how does she do that?
You know?
Number 16, Celine Dion, My HeartWill Go On.
That's from uh the Titanicmovie.
What was that?
Like here, uh far, wherever youare.
SPEAKER_03 (22:29):
Here, far, wherever you are.
SPEAKER_02 (22:30):
Yes.
SPEAKER_03 (22:31):
I know that my heart will go on.
SPEAKER_02 (22:33):
You know more about it than me.
That surprises me.
SPEAKER_03 (22:36):
Um I am not a Celine Dion fan, but I do have to say
that I think that song wasperfect for the movie.
Like even at the beginning ofthat movie, when they're showing
the wreck, and then that likethe um flute version, you know,
like the intro notes come in.
It was like, okay, I'm all in onthis.
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Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:58):
There you go.
I like that, Jimmy.
Number five, Etta James.
The song at last is one of thebest songs of all time.
That song is just a killer song,okay?
Love that.
Number four, Karen Carpenter ofThe Carpenters.
Okay.
I love her voice.
I think she's got a great.
(23:18):
I really do.
Uh they long to be close to you,superstar.
We've only just begun.
She always seems sad to me.
She was.
SPEAKER_03 (23:26):
Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_02 (23:27):
That's why she seemed it, because she was.
SPEAKER_03 (23:29):
I know, but I don't want to listen to her to sad
person.
SPEAKER_02 (23:32):
Well, you know what, Jimmy?
SPEAKER_03 (23:33):
I mean, if I want to listen to a sad person, I'll
listen to Kirk Cobain.
SPEAKER_02 (23:37):
I thought you were going to say Morrissey.
SPEAKER_03 (23:40):
I won't even do that.
SPEAKER_02 (23:42):
Number three, Ella Fitzgerald, the first lady of
song.
A jazz great.
Uh you know, she was around, Ibet she was around 50 years or
so.
I mean, she really is fantastic.
SPEAKER_03 (23:58):
I'm I've got to guess at number one.
SPEAKER_02 (24:00):
Well, I've got to go to number two first.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (24:02):
I mean Well, we'll see if she's number two.
SPEAKER_02 (24:04):
Is that the new thing?
We go to number one and thenlike ladies and gentlemen,
number two is number two, ArethaFranklin.
Respect a natural woman, youknow, just a great voice.
So number one on the top 340plus female vocalist of any
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genre is Whitney Houston.
Whitney Houston.
I want to dance with somebody.
I will always love you.
Greatest love of all.
I will always love you.
That was from that movie withthe bodyguard.
SPEAKER_03 (24:43):
And that was a cover of Dolly Parton.
SPEAKER_02 (24:45):
And it was a cover of Dolly Parton, correct.
Which I didn't know at first.
It took me a while before Ifound that out.
I've never seen The Bodyguard,but that song, I Will Always
Love You, that is a good song.
SPEAKER_03 (24:56):
To take a song like that that somebody as good as
Dolly did and like remake it andmake it your signature song,
that says a lot about her.
SPEAKER_02 (25:04):
It does.
I mean, it really does.
SPEAKER_03 (25:07):
So Dolly Parton was on this uh TV show called The
Porter Wagner Show, and that'swhere she got her start.
She was like the pretty girl,and he was like the old guy that
had his own show, and they thatwas kind of their shtick.
And she would sing on there, andeventually she decided she
needed to go off on her own, andshe wrote that song for him to
(25:28):
sing as her final song on theshow to let him know, you know,
um, I'll always love you.
unknown (25:34):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (25:35):
Wow.
SPEAKER_03 (25:35):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (25:36):
I did I didn't know that.
That's pretty cool, Jimmy.
I like that.
SPEAKER_03 (25:41):
If you listen to the words, it kind of makes sense.
SPEAKER_02 (25:43):
Uh we'll do it now.
I'll listen to it and maybedarken the lights a little bit
and just kind of listen to itand see what it says to me.
SPEAKER_03 (25:52):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (25:56):
Hey, so Jimmy, that was a pretty cool list.
I enjoyed going over that.
I've enjoyed some of the listswe've gone over the last few
episodes.
It's kind of fun to hear somedifferent things, especially
trying to guess who's in the topfive, top ten, top twenty,
whatever it may be.
SPEAKER_03 (26:10):
Yeah, it's been a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_02 (26:19):
Tick, tick, tick.
It's Minute with Jimmy.
SPEAKER_01 (26:21):
It's time for a minute with Jimmy, Minute with
Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for a minute withJimmy, Minute with Jimmy, Minute
with Jimmy.
SPEAKER_03 (26:30):
So I know that we've talked about the Shaky Knees
Music Festival, and it was justin Atlanta this weekend, and I
didn't have tickets because it'sjust so expensive.
And I was sitting there onSunday afternoon.
My uh wife and son and I arehaving lunch at a place nearby,
and I was like, you know, Iheard from somebody that
actually people are selling thewristbands on the street, and
(26:53):
you can get in relatively cheap.
Like, if we could get three ofus in for the price of one, like
let's go over there and do it.
So we my son drove me over fromthe restaurant.
I jumped out of the car, wentdown the sidewalk to see if I
could get some wristbands, and Iended up getting three.
So uh we we had a blast there.
We got to see Devo.
(27:14):
Nice, they were fantastic.
Um, a little bit of weird owl,you know.
Hey, it's fun.
Uh wet leg was really good.
Um and Vampire Weekend was good.
So it was it was a lot of fun.
It was a good uh littlespur-of-the-moment thing.
(27:34):
So yeah, it was it was a blast.
SPEAKER_02 (27:38):
Well, awesome.
That sounds pretty cool.
I love when you're able to dothings like that and you know,
get into a show cheap, however,you know, that comes about.
And nothing like seeing Devo.
That is pretty cool.
I'm gonna try and go see them.
They're playing with uh LenaLovich and the B-52s next month,
(27:59):
and I'm hoping to go see thatshow.
SPEAKER_03 (28:01):
Where's that?
SPEAKER_02 (28:02):
That's in Alpharetta at the umiris?
Yes.
I always struggle with the nameof that place.
But, you know, to uh see wetleg, you know, there's been a
lot of talk about wet leg.
Um a guy at work turned me on towet leg a few months ago, and um
it would have been cool to seethem and you know weird Al.
(28:23):
What can I say?
SPEAKER_03 (28:24):
It was fun.
He had um, you know, sometimeshe would go back to do like a
costume change, and so theywould just show some video
stuff, and it was clips of likeall these different TV shows
that have had him on it, youknow, The Simpsons and this
animated show Close Enough andeverything in between, just all
all kinds of funny clips of himthroughout the years.
(28:47):
So that that added to it.
And also when he would do likeMy Bologna or you know, one of
those a lot of his songs, hewould only do one verse and
chorus of it, and then he'd moveon to something else.
Oh, really?
So he didn't have to sit andlisten to a four-minute version
of Eat It.
SPEAKER_02 (29:05):
Um was it just him with the um accordion or did he
full band?
Was it a full band?
SPEAKER_03 (29:11):
He came out and did he came out in Nirvana attire
with a wig and everything, anddid his smells like teen spirit
spoof.
And yeah, what they went fromthere.
SPEAKER_02 (29:25):
My Bologna.
SPEAKER_03 (29:28):
I think that was the original that was what put him
on the map.
SPEAKER_02 (29:30):
I think it was.
I think it was.
My name was Jimmy.
Hey, not that we can top that,Jimmy, but let's revisit some
more music in my shoes.
September 12th, 1980, DavidBowie's Scary Monsters and Super
Creeps album came out.
First single off it was Ashes toAshes, that came out August 1st
(29:51):
of 1980.
Fashion was released in Octoberof 1980, so 45 years ago, but
But it only peaked at number 70on January 10th, 1981.
And then Scary Monsters andSuper Creeps, the single, was
released in January of 81.
And it did nothing, just likeAshes to Ashes did nothing.
(30:14):
I think this is a really goodalbum.
I'm not sure why it wasoverlooked.
I'm not, you know, I don't know.
SPEAKER_03 (30:20):
I remember the music video for Ashes to Ashes.
He was like kind of dressedalmost like Puddles the Sad
Clown.
You remember you ever seen that?
Yes.
Kind of looked like that, likewalking along the beach and
maybe in black and white orsomething.
SPEAKER_02 (30:32):
Yeah, I just don't know.
I mean, this is it's a goodalbum.
It really is.
I mean, fashion is a fantasticsong.
Ashes to Ashes, really good.
Scary monsters, I get it.
You know, it's a little bit outthere, but that's okay.
SPEAKER_03 (30:46):
He did a little callback to Major Tom.
Yes.
SPEAKER_02 (30:50):
Yes.
How to reach back out to go tothe past to bring it to the
future.
Genesis, Turn It On Again,peaked at number 58, October
4th, 1980.
Now, I'm not a huge Genesis fan,but I love this song.
I don't just like this song.
I love this song.
And I'm not even sure why.
(31:11):
It kind of starts off, you know,it's low, slow, but it's like,
you know, building up is like,dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,
you know, like, and it justcaptures me until they're ready
to sing, and then all of asudden Phil Collins belts out,
all I need is a TV show, thatand the radio, down on my luck
(31:34):
again, down on my luck again.
And I love those words.
I think everybody can relate atsome point to that song, you
know, with those words.
And it is something that, again,I'm not a huge Genesis fan, but
this song has always been like,you know, I don't know, like
(31:56):
turn it on again, and I know ithas to do with turn on the radio
and turn on the TV andeverything.
But for me, personally, a lot oftimes it's a song that helps,
like, you know, if I'm downabout something, I can put it on
and turn it on again.
Means to me to turn it on tobring it back to something else,
to get back out of this, to getout of this slump type of thing,
(32:18):
you know, and that's the wayI've always looked at it.
It's driving me mad.
It's just another way of passingthe day.
I, I get so lonely when she'snot there.
And I just love this song.
I do.
So the same day, October 4th,1980, that was number 58.
(32:41):
At number 53, split ends, I gotyou.
Two so totally different songs.
All right, five spaces away onthe Billboard Top 100.
SPEAKER_03 (32:55):
Yeah, one one from like a classic prog rock band
and one from a total new waveband.
SPEAKER_02 (33:01):
From Australia.
Yeah.
And it's just like it's like theguy singing I got you, kind of
like a paranoid, worried,distressed, but it's the music
also when you when you listen toit and you think about it, the
music sets you into that wholething, like, oh my like
something's you know, not righthere.
(33:24):
But it just pulls you into it.
I got you, that's all I want.
I won't forget that's a wholelot.
I don't go out, not now thatyou're in.
Sometimes we shout, but that'sno problem.
I just find it like I love it.
(33:47):
He thinks his girlfriend ischeating.
He's not going out because she'shome, so he doesn't want to
leave her.
When she's out, he's doesn't,he's, you know, like, what's
going on?
You know, and it's just allcrazy.
But listen to the song andlisten to it, you know, thinking
about how paranoid he is, buthow the music reflects it also.
(34:07):
It's not just him singing it,it's the music.
I don't know why sometimes I getfrightened.
You can see in my eyes, you cantell that I'm not lying.
Love the keyboards and the synthon the song.
Just love it.
Great song.
Again, one of the songs, notlike We Built the City, which
(34:29):
has stood the test of time ofsuckiness.
This song has stood the test oftime of being a really good
song.
Yeah, it really has.
The Cure, Close to Me, W-L-I-R,Screamer of the Week, fourth
week of September 1985.
I've waited hours for this.
I've made myself so sick.
(34:51):
I wish I'd stayed asleep today.
I love this song.
It was the last single off TheHead on the Door.
You know, they had a ton ofsongs in 1985.
Great album, great song.
They did just such a good job ofbeing able to bring in a whole
new audience to what they did.
(35:13):
Still love this song.
Yeah.
I never thought this day wouldend.
I never thought tonight couldever be this close to me.
Jimmy Bariah Carey Fantasy,number one on Billboard Hot 100
from September 30th to November18th, 1995.
Eight straight weeks.
(35:35):
All right, I mentioned before,you know, she had the song Hero.
I couldn't really tell you muchabout that song.
But this song samples Tom TomClub's Genius of Love.
Tom Tom Club were members of TheTalking Heads.
The remix, because there'sseveral of them, the remix with
(35:56):
ODB, Old Dirty Bastard, of theWu-Tang clan, is absolutely
fantastic.
And the sound quality and andthe song and everything, he
starts it off, and oh my lord.
So my 40th birthday back in2006, buddy of mine was a DJ,
(36:18):
and he couldn't DJ my birthdayparty, but he had something else
to do.
He says, But I can get you theDJ equipment for like 30 bucks.
You just got to DJ yourself.
I said, I can do it.
He gets me, Jimmy, the big hugespeakers that you put on the
(36:38):
stands.
Wow.
It was the whole getup.
Okay?
And the first song, I set it upin my garage because I want to
test it out.
The party's gonna be in mybasement, but I want to test it
in the garage.
And I set everything up, and Iplay that song first.
(37:00):
And I had it so loud, there werepeople probably 14, 15 houses
down coming out of their houseand looking to see what the heck
was going on.
Imagine ODB starting off aMariah Carey song and you know,
(37:20):
New York in the house and blah,blah, blah, blah, and it was so
loud.
It was like spinal tap.
I had it on 11.
It was great.
It was a great time, it was agreat memory.
Hey, listen, if you have anycomments on our list or any of
the songs that we talked abouttoday, you can reach us at
(37:42):
musicinmyshoes at gmail.com.
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Instagram pages.
That's it for episode 98 ofMusic in My Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie,show producer, and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios, located herein Atlanta, Georgia.
And big thrill for our podcastmusic.
(38:03):
This is Jim Boj and I hope youlearned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
Hey everybody, this is Jim Boge, and you're
listening to Music in My Shoes.
That was Vic Thrill kicking offepisode 98.
As always, I'm thrilled to behere with you.
Let's learn something new orremember something old.
Jimmy, two episodes ago, wespoke about the death of Jimi
Hendricks on September 18th,1970.
(00:57):
Sixteen days later, on October4th, 1970, rock music lost
another icon with the overdosedeath of Janice Joplin.
Yeah.
And if you think about it, it'shard to imagine, you know, just
over two weeks in such a shortperiod of time, two of the most
(01:20):
iconic rock and roll people losttheir lives.
You know, again, Jimi Hendrixdidn't have a a ton of albums
out.
I think we talked about he hadfour out at the time, three
studio, one live.
And for Janice, she had four.
(01:41):
Two with Big Brother and theHolding Company, two solo, but
the last solo didn't come outuntil after her death, about
three months later.
She was actually recording itwhen when she died.
And it's just amazing how somepeople can put out music and not
(02:03):
a ton of it, and it have such animpact still all these years
later.
Yeah, it really does.
It's amazing.
I mean, just listen to some ofthese songs that Janice
released.
Down on Me, Summertime.
I think Summertime is anabsolute killer song.
And I know a bunch of these arecovers, but she put her own spin
(02:24):
on it and just gave it thisblues, you know, from the heart
feeling.
SPEAKER_03 (02:30):
Yeah, she did.
SPEAKER_02 (02:31):
Are you choking up there, Jimmy?
SPEAKER_03 (02:33):
No, I just had a Greek salad.
I didn't realize this episodewas gonna touch you like that.
You know.
It's also the the lack of abeard on Jim is kind of like
throwing is putting a lump in mythroat or something.
SPEAKER_02 (02:46):
It is the new look.
At least today's look.
Who knows what tomorrow's lookwill be.
SPEAKER_03 (02:49):
Well, you can't grow it back in a day unless you get
like a Santa beard.
SPEAKER_02 (02:53):
We'll see what happens, Jimmy.
All right.
So Peace of My Heart.
I think everybody in the worldknows that song.
You might not know the name ofthe song, but when it comes on,
everybody knows that.
Another cover, Ball and Chain,Ball and Chain, what a fantastic
song.
Try Just a Little Harder, MoveOver, Me and Bobby McGee, and
(03:14):
Mercedes-Benz.
Mercedes-Benz is an a cappellasong, which is the last song she
recorded.
Oh, okay.
It's the last thing she didbefore she died.
And what a great song it is.
And I talked about this oncebefore.
She had two shows at the CapitolTheater in Porchester, New York.
(03:38):
And between the two shows, and II don't know if they were the
same day or or days apart, thatI don't remember, she was at a
bar with some people, somefriends, and based it off of a
poem someone had wrote and hadthe song, and by the second
show, she was playing it at thesecond show.
And it's just crazy, you know,that people have that much
(04:02):
talent, you know, and be able topull something like that off.
So 1967, Monterey Pop Festival,Monterey International Pop
Festival, POP Pop, is again, II've mentioned it probably 20
times.
It is probably my favoritefestival of the 60s.
SPEAKER_03 (04:26):
Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (04:27):
And part of it is because at that time the drugs
and alcohol hadn't taken over somany of the musicians, and they
really were all in it about themusic and what they could
possibly do.
And at the same time, many ofthese bands weren't signed bands
or weren't well known.
If you take a look at at JaniceJoplin, their first album didn't
(04:49):
come out until two months afterthe Monterey Pop Festival on a a
large scale.
You know, it was released kindof like an independent type
thing.
But then large scale, it youknow, it was this big thing
after they had the success thatthey had at Monterey.
That's cool.
One of the things about Montereyis that they videoed the whole
(05:12):
thing, and that you can uh um DAPennebaker and you can watch,
and that's you know, Idefinitely love watching these
festivals and seeing what wasgoing on.
But at the time, Albert Grossmanwas the manager of Big Brother
and the Holding Company, and herefused to give them permission
(05:34):
to film.
And she had this amazingperformance, especially with
with ball and chain.
And, you know, it got kind ofcrazy after that, different
stories, whether or not, youknow, uh the Monterey people
like, hey, yeah, you really needto do that and put it on film.
Or Janice was really upset thatit wasn't on film after she gave
(05:57):
this unbelievable performance.
But at the end of the day, theyget to play the next day and
it's on film, and you can watchit and you can see everything.
They're the only band thatplayed two days at the um
Monterey Festival.
Yeah, I mean, the audienceabsolutely loved them.
(06:17):
They weren't really knownoutside of San Francisco.
And to be at a pop festival,this place where people from all
over, it really was the breakoutperformance, you know, for both
Janice as well as Big Brother.
So, you know, just a really goodtime, uh, a really good vibe
(06:38):
when you watch the show.
Another really cool thing thatJanice was part of was in the
summer of 70, thing calledFestival Express.
And it was a train in Canadathat a bunch of rock bands got
on.
They decided, well, we're notlike driving, we're not flying,
we're gonna try somethingdifferent.
(06:59):
We're all gonna go on a train.
And there was about 14 cars.
There was a bar car and sleepersand you know, all kinds of
stuff.
It was the very end of June of70, and I think it went to like
July 4th of 1970, just a handfulof shows, not many whatsoever.
(07:20):
But it was really cool becauseyou had The Grateful Dead, you
had Janice Joplin, you had theband, Buddy Guy, uh the Flying
Burrito Brothers.
I mean, just so many differentpeople that were part of it.
Uh Delaney and Bonnie andfriends.
(07:40):
Um just I I can't even think ofeverybody that was part of this.
The coolest moment, because it'son film.
Okay.
The coolest moment of the filmis when they just kind of have a
drunken jam in the bar car.
Oh, yeah, I bet.
And it's Bob Weir and JerryGarcia of The Grateful Dead, and
(08:01):
it's a couple of guys of theband, and it's Janice Joplin,
and it's it's just so cool.
SPEAKER_03 (08:07):
Oh, yeah, I'd like to hear that.
SPEAKER_02 (08:09):
I mean, it's just fun.
It's just a fun time.
So the promoter had bought allthe alcohol, they ran dry, they
had to stop the train in a town,and everybody pooled their money
together so that they could buy,you know, more alcohol and
continue the trip.
And it it's cool to watch.
And the other thing that's coolis that people had gotten to the
(08:32):
point where they were sick andtired of paying for music that
they thought should be free.
And, you know, there was kind oflike protest against it, and and
it wasn't huge amounts of money,but people didn't think they
needed to spend any money on it.
Right.
And uh at one of the cities,what Jerry Garcia came up with
(08:54):
was hey, we're gonna do thisconcert at this place here, but
tomorrow we're gonna show up atthis park and we're gonna play
free.
So, you know, support this, butwe're gonna support you tomorrow
and we're gonna do this, youknow, free show, and you know, a
couple of bands played a fewsongs, and you know, enough to
to make people happy.
(09:15):
But it's just funny how peoplewere kind of fed up with the
fact of rising ticket pricesthat weren't that much to start
off with.
SPEAKER_03 (09:24):
Yeah, how much was it?
Like three bucks or something.
SPEAKER_02 (09:26):
It was not I don't know off the top of my head, but
I know it wasn't a ton of money.
But um it's a it's a cool umdocumentary if you ever get a
chance to watch it, FestivalExpress.
Again, I talk about it becauseanother cool thing that Janice
Joplin did.
So the landmark motor hotel inHollywood, and that's Hollywood,
(09:47):
California, not Florida.
So Janice died.
It's now the Highland GardensHotel, and room 105, that's
where she was found, her hotelroom.
It's kind of like a shrine now.
And up until a few years ago,you could actually still rent
this room.
You could go and be like, yeah,I want 105, and you could sleep
(10:11):
in the room, and the closet hada lot of people writing on it,
and you know, just kind of coolthings.
They don't let you sleep in itanymore that I can find, but you
can actually go and visit theshrine that they have for her.
So, yeah.
You know, we've talked aboutJimi Hendrix lately, we've
(10:33):
talked about John Bottom, sowe've talked about great
guitarists, we talked aboutgreat drummers.
So that leads us today to greatfemale vocalists.
All right.
So great female vocalists.
We're gonna start off with rock,so just the rock genre.
Okay.
So ranker, 100 best female uhrock vocalists, number five,
(10:57):
Tina Turner.
She started with Ike Turner.
They had the I think was it, theIke and Tina Review or the
something like that that theyplayed back in the sixties.
And then she was solo, you know,she had Private Dancer and you
know, a bunch of other stuff inthe 80s.
SPEAKER_03 (11:13):
Yeah.
You wouldn't really call thatrock, but okay.
SPEAKER_02 (11:16):
Tina Turner in the 60s.
That's I I think that's rock.
SPEAKER_03 (11:19):
Yeah, it was.
It was a form of rock.
Yeah.
I definitely didn't.
SPEAKER_02 (11:24):
No, no.
But you know how it is.
People get older, they kind ofchange a little bit, and they're
still remembered for their rockvocal.
Number four, Janice Jomplin.
Mm-hmm.
Number three, Pat Benatar.
I'm not sure that I'm in all inon this with Pat Benatar's
number of.
(11:45):
I think she is, but I can thinkof some other people that I
think are better than her atnumber three.
Number two, Stevie Nicks.
So Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac,as well as solo.
I get it.
I like her voice.
Very distinctive voice.
SPEAKER_03 (12:02):
Yeah, no, she's very distinctive.
Let me guess what number onethen.
SPEAKER_02 (12:06):
All right, wait, hold on.
I know this is female vocalists,but I'm gonna do the drums.
SPEAKER_03 (12:13):
Nancy Wilson.
SPEAKER_02 (12:16):
The wrong Wilson.
SPEAKER_03 (12:17):
Anne Wilson.
Anne Wilson.
And 50-50 chance.
SPEAKER_02 (12:23):
Yes, Anne Wilson of heart.
And I can't disagree with thisat all.
Okay?
No.
No.
Cannot disagree.
When you listen to the songBarracuda, that is just an
unbelievable song.
Her her vocals, her voice,unbelievable.
SPEAKER_03 (12:47):
I mean, all the songs.
Magic Man is another one,unbelievable.
Crazy on you?
Yeah.
And then, of course, they did gosoft in the 80s too, but we were
talking more about their 70sstuff.
SPEAKER_02 (12:59):
Correct.
SPEAKER_03 (13:00):
Now, I saw uh behind the music or something about
Heart, and Nancy was talkingabout Anne, and she said she
didn't always sing like that.
Like she she was a good singer,and she's like, it was literally
in the middle of a show onenight, and all of a sudden she
found this part of her voicethat she'd never found before.
(13:20):
And she's like, we all looked ateach other like, oh my God, Anne
is amazing.
And then from then on, she waswho she was.
SPEAKER_02 (13:27):
The rest is history.
Yeah.
That that is cool.
We talked about Nancy in ourlast episode because she was
married to Cameron Crow at onepoint.
They wrote some songs for themovie Almost Famous.
And it's kind of cool whenthings kind of episode after
episode things tie in fromprevious, and you know, we don't
know where it's gonna go, butthat's where it goes.
(13:48):
That's where it goes.
So Ultimate Classic Rock, allright?
And I I read Ultimate ClassicRock online a ton.
I really enjoy it.
I think it's pretty cool.
Um, their top ten femalevocalists.
Number 10, Grace Slick,Jefferson Airplane.
unknown (14:06):
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_03 (14:06):
Another band that went super soft in the 80s.
SPEAKER_02 (14:09):
Oh, God.
They had the worst song of allthe time, yeah.
You know, I got some some staticfrom people when I said that the
last time that they could notbelieve that I said we built the
city from Starship was the worstsong.
Aaron Ross Powell Really?
Yes.
I I don't even think it'sdebatable.
(14:30):
I don't think it is either.
I think it is the worst songsince the moment it came out,
and which is 40 years ago.
It was 85, I believe, when itcame out.
SPEAKER_03 (14:40):
It's it's held up.
SPEAKER_02 (14:41):
And you don't normally say that with a bad
song.
You usually talk about goodsongs, or you say a good song 40
years ago hasn't held up andit's bad now.
This is straight up bad from theget-go.
SPEAKER_03 (14:55):
It is.
It's like you remember thosecars, um, the uh the gremlin
that car?
You know, I always thought thatand a pacer was another one.
I always thought that those werereally ugly cars when I was
younger.
And now I look at them likethose were cool cars, you know,
and but we built the city hasn'thad that transformation.
SPEAKER_02 (15:15):
It hasn't hasn't changed one bit, has it, Jimmy?
So um, you know, this is basedoff of if you look at White
Rabbit, Somebody to Love, justyou know, some classic songs
that came out in 1967 that werereally, you know, cutting-edge
(15:37):
songs at the time and really,you know, taking rock from from
one thing to another and reallyexploring things that hadn't
been explored before.
And Grace Slick did a great jobwith that.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_03 (15:48):
Psychedelia.
SPEAKER_02 (15:49):
Yes.
Number nine, Courtney Love ofHole.
I never would have expected thisin the top ten, but I don't have
a problem with it.
I love her voice.
I love her albums.
Well, you know, I've talkedabout her multiple times on the
show.
I I'm okay with this.
Okay.
I'm okay with this one.
Not that it matters, not thatwhat I think really matters at
(16:11):
the end of the day.
SPEAKER_03 (16:12):
No, not that what uh ultimate classic rock thinks
matters either.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_02 (16:16):
But I I can go with this one.
I think her voice is prettygood.
I like it.
Number eight, Joan Jett and theBlackheart.
And also she was with therunaways beforehand.
And I I like her voice.
I think she's done some stuff.
You know, I love rock and roll.
Like when that song came out,her voice and just everything
(16:36):
about it, like wow.
Number seven, Chrissy HindPretenders.
SPEAKER_04 (16:43):
Right.
SPEAKER_02 (16:44):
All right, I can go with that.
Number six, Debbie Harry ofBlondie.
SPEAKER_03 (16:50):
Yeah.
I mean, she was really good inin her day.
Yes.
I saw her saw Blondie in 2014 atRiot Fest in Chicago.
Right.
And I think she was upset aboutsomething.
She was being very particular.
She didn't move on the stage atall.
They played, you know, normallywhen you have a festival set,
(17:12):
you if you have an hour, you'replaying every minute of that
hour, right?
You're fitting in all the songsyou can.
And so, like, 15 minutes beforetheir time was up, they played
Call Me, and they had alreadyplayed Heart of Glass, and you
know, I'm like, what do theyhave left?
Um, they just left the stage,they just cut it 15, 20 minutes
short.
(17:33):
Wow.
Yeah, I think she was she washaving a bad day.
SPEAKER_02 (17:36):
That's sad to hear, especially at Riot Fests.
SPEAKER_03 (17:39):
I know.
Man.
But you know what?
Saw a lot of great things thatday, though.
Saw Violent Femmes, they werefantastic, and saw uh the
replacements that night.
SPEAKER_02 (17:47):
Oh.
That is very good.
Violent Femmes and thereplacements.
And Blondie.
Hey, that's still a good day.
SPEAKER_04 (17:55):
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02 (17:56):
Number five, Annie Lennox of the Erhythmics.
I don't see this whatsoever.
No, I don't, but none of them.
She's distinctive.
Yeah, but I mean, she doesn'thave, you know, that many songs.
I know Sweet Dreams Are Made ofThis, Would I Lie To You?
I like those.
I don't really even like SweetDreams Are Made Of This, to be
honest with you.
I like the song Would I Lie toYou.
(18:16):
That song I like.
I I just don't see how she'snumber five on their, you know,
top women voc rock vocalist.
Number four, Janice Joplin.
Three, Tina Turner.
Two, Ann Wilson.
Number one, Stevie Nicks.
So the top four seemed to be thesame.
(18:39):
So I decided let's look at allgenres.
So I went to rankers, 340 bestfemale vocalists ever ranked.
And the fact that it wasn't 350,it was 340 plus, that got my
attention.
It worked.
It worked.
So number 19, Janice Joplin.
(19:03):
So this is everything.
This is any type of music.
Okay, whether it's pop, rock,jazz, um, anything.
SPEAKER_03 (19:11):
Yeah, I've got R and View that I'm expecting we're
gonna see in here.
We'll see.
SPEAKER_02 (19:16):
Number 18, Diana Ross from Diana Ross and the
Supremes and Solo.
Number 17, Amy Winehouse.
SPEAKER_03 (19:25):
Right.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (19:26):
Back to Black, You Know I'm No Good.
Those are the songs that I know.
I know.
I know we had some uh talk aboutwhat was that song?
Valerie?
Yeah, yeah.
I still don't know that song.
I have listened to it.
I I believe I've listened to itwith you, and I I just don't
(19:46):
know the song.
I don't.
Okay.
So nothing but a good laugh.
Number 16.
SPEAKER_03 (19:52):
I still love you.
SPEAKER_02 (19:53):
Thank you.
Thank you, Jimmy.
That makes me feel better.
Hey, this has been Music MyShoes.
I hope you have a great day.
Number 16, Stevie Nicks.
Now, this this one perplexes me.
Number 15, Kelly Clarkson.
Since You've Been Gone,Stronger.
I like those songs.
I know they're poppy.
SPEAKER_03 (20:14):
But of all time?
She's pretty good.
You know?
SPEAKER_02 (20:19):
So, but you know what?
Since You've Been Gone, whenthat song came out, I really
liked it.
And I really like that strongersong.
I do.
Number 14, Dolly Parton, 9 to 5,Jolene.
SPEAKER_03 (20:32):
Great vocalist.
SPEAKER_02 (20:34):
Number 13, Judy Garland.
Everybody knows Over the Rainbowfrom the film she starred in,
Wizard of Oz.
But she does just an absolutefantastic version of Have
Yourself a Merry Christmas.
And I think and I don't know,but I believe it's from the
(20:55):
movie Meet Me in St.
Louis.
SPEAKER_03 (20:57):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (20:58):
I think it is.
It is absolutely fantastic.
It is mesmerizing when she singsit.
Number 12, Linda Ronstadt,You're No Good, Blue By You,
When Will I Be Love.
Blue By You was one of those onthe radio songs all the time
when it came out.
Number 11, Tina Turner.
(21:20):
Number 10, Patsy Klein.
Yeah.
All right.
Crazy, I Fall to Pieces.
I Fall to Pieces was a Walmartcommercial, I believe, for quite
some time as the prices werechanging.
Number nine, Adele.
Hello.
Someone like you.
SPEAKER_03 (21:41):
I like that pick.
SPEAKER_02 (21:42):
I'm not a huge Adele fan, but I I can't say that I
disagree with it.
She's she's pretty, you know,popular and has a great voice.
She does.
Yeah.
Number eight, Billy Holiday.
SPEAKER_03 (21:54):
I was expecting that.
SPEAKER_02 (21:56):
All right.
So Billy Holiday.
Number seven, Mariah Carey.
All right.
Her big song back in the day wasHero.
She's got that voice.
I can't name all of the songsthat she does, you know, but
she's got that voice.
SPEAKER_03 (22:10):
Yeah, she could hit like higher notes than anybody
could, too.
SPEAKER_02 (22:13):
Oh, yeah.
I don't know if she can still doit, but back in the day, you're
like, how does she do that?
You know?
Number 16, Celine Dion, My HeartWill Go On.
That's from uh the Titanicmovie.
What was that?
Like here, uh far, wherever youare.
SPEAKER_03 (22:29):
Here, far, wherever you are.
SPEAKER_02 (22:30):
Yes.
SPEAKER_03 (22:31):
I know that my heart will go on.
SPEAKER_02 (22:33):
You know more about it than me.
That surprises me.
SPEAKER_03 (22:36):
Um I am not a Celine Dion fan, but I do have to say
that I think that song wasperfect for the movie.
Like even at the beginning ofthat movie, when they're showing
the wreck, and then that likethe um flute version, you know,
like the intro notes come in.
It was like, okay, I'm all in onthis.
(22:57):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:58):
There you go.
I like that, Jimmy.
Number five, Etta James.
The song at last is one of thebest songs of all time.
That song is just a killer song,okay?
Love that.
Number four, Karen Carpenter ofThe Carpenters.
Okay.
I love her voice.
I think she's got a great.
(23:18):
I really do.
Uh they long to be close to you,superstar.
We've only just begun.
She always seems sad to me.
She was.
SPEAKER_03 (23:26):
Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_02 (23:27):
That's why she seemed it, because she was.
SPEAKER_03 (23:29):
I know, but I don't want to listen to her to sad
person.
SPEAKER_02 (23:32):
Well, you know what, Jimmy?
SPEAKER_03 (23:33):
I mean, if I want to listen to a sad person, I'll
listen to Kirk Cobain.
SPEAKER_02 (23:37):
I thought you were going to say Morrissey.
SPEAKER_03 (23:40):
I won't even do that.
SPEAKER_02 (23:42):
Number three, Ella Fitzgerald, the first lady of
song.
A jazz great.
Uh you know, she was around, Ibet she was around 50 years or
so.
I mean, she really is fantastic.
SPEAKER_03 (23:58):
I'm I've got to guess at number one.
SPEAKER_02 (24:00):
Well, I've got to go to number two first.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (24:02):
I mean Well, we'll see if she's number two.
SPEAKER_02 (24:04):
Is that the new thing?
We go to number one and thenlike ladies and gentlemen,
number two is number two, ArethaFranklin.
Respect a natural woman, youknow, just a great voice.
So number one on the top 340plus female vocalist of any
(24:26):
genre is Whitney Houston.
Whitney Houston.
I want to dance with somebody.
I will always love you.
Greatest love of all.
I will always love you.
That was from that movie withthe bodyguard.
SPEAKER_03 (24:43):
And that was a cover of Dolly Parton.
SPEAKER_02 (24:45):
And it was a cover of Dolly Parton, correct.
Which I didn't know at first.
It took me a while before Ifound that out.
I've never seen The Bodyguard,but that song, I Will Always
Love You, that is a good song.
SPEAKER_03 (24:56):
To take a song like that that somebody as good as
Dolly did and like remake it andmake it your signature song,
that says a lot about her.
SPEAKER_02 (25:04):
It does.
I mean, it really does.
SPEAKER_03 (25:07):
So Dolly Parton was on this uh TV show called The
Porter Wagner Show, and that'swhere she got her start.
She was like the pretty girl,and he was like the old guy that
had his own show, and they thatwas kind of their shtick.
And she would sing on there, andeventually she decided she
needed to go off on her own, andshe wrote that song for him to
(25:28):
sing as her final song on theshow to let him know, you know,
um, I'll always love you.
unknown (25:34):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (25:35):
Wow.
SPEAKER_03 (25:35):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (25:36):
I did I didn't know that.
That's pretty cool, Jimmy.
I like that.
SPEAKER_03 (25:41):
If you listen to the words, it kind of makes sense.
SPEAKER_02 (25:43):
Uh we'll do it now.
I'll listen to it and maybedarken the lights a little bit
and just kind of listen to itand see what it says to me.
SPEAKER_03 (25:52):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (25:56):
Hey, so Jimmy, that was a pretty cool list.
I enjoyed going over that.
I've enjoyed some of the listswe've gone over the last few
episodes.
It's kind of fun to hear somedifferent things, especially
trying to guess who's in the topfive, top ten, top twenty,
whatever it may be.
SPEAKER_03 (26:10):
Yeah, it's been a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_02 (26:19):
Tick, tick, tick.
It's Minute with Jimmy.
SPEAKER_01 (26:21):
It's time for a minute with Jimmy, Minute with
Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy.
It's time for a minute withJimmy, Minute with Jimmy, Minute
with Jimmy.
SPEAKER_03 (26:30):
So I know that we've talked about the Shaky Knees
Music Festival, and it was justin Atlanta this weekend, and I
didn't have tickets because it'sjust so expensive.
And I was sitting there onSunday afternoon.
My uh wife and son and I arehaving lunch at a place nearby,
and I was like, you know, Iheard from somebody that
actually people are selling thewristbands on the street, and
(26:53):
you can get in relatively cheap.
Like, if we could get three ofus in for the price of one, like
let's go over there and do it.
So we my son drove me over fromthe restaurant.
I jumped out of the car, wentdown the sidewalk to see if I
could get some wristbands, and Iended up getting three.
So uh we we had a blast there.
We got to see Devo.
(27:14):
Nice, they were fantastic.
Um, a little bit of weird owl,you know.
Hey, it's fun.
Uh wet leg was really good.
Um and Vampire Weekend was good.
So it was it was a lot of fun.
It was a good uh littlespur-of-the-moment thing.
(27:34):
So yeah, it was it was a blast.
SPEAKER_02 (27:38):
Well, awesome.
That sounds pretty cool.
I love when you're able to dothings like that and you know,
get into a show cheap, however,you know, that comes about.
And nothing like seeing Devo.
That is pretty cool.
I'm gonna try and go see them.
They're playing with uh LenaLovich and the B-52s next month,
(27:59):
and I'm hoping to go see thatshow.
SPEAKER_03 (28:01):
Where's that?
SPEAKER_02 (28:02):
That's in Alpharetta at the umiris?
Yes.
I always struggle with the nameof that place.
But, you know, to uh see wetleg, you know, there's been a
lot of talk about wet leg.
Um a guy at work turned me on towet leg a few months ago, and um
it would have been cool to seethem and you know weird Al.
(28:23):
What can I say?
SPEAKER_03 (28:24):
It was fun.
He had um, you know, sometimeshe would go back to do like a
costume change, and so theywould just show some video
stuff, and it was clips of likeall these different TV shows
that have had him on it, youknow, The Simpsons and this
animated show Close Enough andeverything in between, just all
all kinds of funny clips of himthroughout the years.
(28:47):
So that that added to it.
And also when he would do likeMy Bologna or you know, one of
those a lot of his songs, hewould only do one verse and
chorus of it, and then he'd moveon to something else.
Oh, really?
So he didn't have to sit andlisten to a four-minute version
of Eat It.
SPEAKER_02 (29:05):
Um was it just him with the um accordion or did he
full band?
Was it a full band?
SPEAKER_03 (29:11):
He came out and did he came out in Nirvana attire
with a wig and everything, anddid his smells like teen spirit
spoof.
And yeah, what they went fromthere.
SPEAKER_02 (29:25):
My Bologna.
SPEAKER_03 (29:28):
I think that was the original that was what put him
on the map.
SPEAKER_02 (29:30):
I think it was.
I think it was.
My name was Jimmy.
Hey, not that we can top that,Jimmy, but let's revisit some
more music in my shoes.
September 12th, 1980, DavidBowie's Scary Monsters and Super
Creeps album came out.
First single off it was Ashes toAshes, that came out August 1st
(29:51):
of 1980.
Fashion was released in Octoberof 1980, so 45 years ago, but
But it only peaked at number 70on January 10th, 1981.
And then Scary Monsters andSuper Creeps, the single, was
released in January of 81.
And it did nothing, just likeAshes to Ashes did nothing.
(30:14):
I think this is a really goodalbum.
I'm not sure why it wasoverlooked.
I'm not, you know, I don't know.
SPEAKER_03 (30:20):
I remember the music video for Ashes to Ashes.
He was like kind of dressedalmost like Puddles the Sad
Clown.
You remember you ever seen that?
Yes.
Kind of looked like that, likewalking along the beach and
maybe in black and white orsomething.
SPEAKER_02 (30:32):
Yeah, I just don't know.
I mean, this is it's a goodalbum.
It really is.
I mean, fashion is a fantasticsong.
Ashes to Ashes, really good.
Scary monsters, I get it.
You know, it's a little bit outthere, but that's okay.
SPEAKER_03 (30:46):
He did a little callback to Major Tom.
Yes.
SPEAKER_02 (30:50):
Yes.
How to reach back out to go tothe past to bring it to the
future.
Genesis, Turn It On Again,peaked at number 58, October
4th, 1980.
Now, I'm not a huge Genesis fan,but I love this song.
I don't just like this song.
I love this song.
And I'm not even sure why.
(31:11):
It kind of starts off, you know,it's low, slow, but it's like,
you know, building up is like,dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,
you know, like, and it justcaptures me until they're ready
to sing, and then all of asudden Phil Collins belts out,
all I need is a TV show, thatand the radio, down on my luck
(31:34):
again, down on my luck again.
And I love those words.
I think everybody can relate atsome point to that song, you
know, with those words.
And it is something that, again,I'm not a huge Genesis fan, but
this song has always been like,you know, I don't know, like
(31:56):
turn it on again, and I know ithas to do with turn on the radio
and turn on the TV andeverything.
But for me, personally, a lot oftimes it's a song that helps,
like, you know, if I'm downabout something, I can put it on
and turn it on again.
Means to me to turn it on tobring it back to something else,
to get back out of this, to getout of this slump type of thing,
(32:18):
you know, and that's the wayI've always looked at it.
It's driving me mad.
It's just another way of passingthe day.
I, I get so lonely when she'snot there.
And I just love this song.
I do.
So the same day, October 4th,1980, that was number 58.
(32:41):
At number 53, split ends, I gotyou.
Two so totally different songs.
All right, five spaces away onthe Billboard Top 100.
SPEAKER_03 (32:55):
Yeah, one one from like a classic prog rock band
and one from a total new waveband.
SPEAKER_02 (33:01):
From Australia.
Yeah.
And it's just like it's like theguy singing I got you, kind of
like a paranoid, worried,distressed, but it's the music
also when you when you listen toit and you think about it, the
music sets you into that wholething, like, oh my like
something's you know, not righthere.
(33:24):
But it just pulls you into it.
I got you, that's all I want.
I won't forget that's a wholelot.
I don't go out, not now thatyou're in.
Sometimes we shout, but that'sno problem.
I just find it like I love it.
(33:47):
He thinks his girlfriend ischeating.
He's not going out because she'shome, so he doesn't want to
leave her.
When she's out, he's doesn't,he's, you know, like, what's
going on?
You know, and it's just allcrazy.
But listen to the song andlisten to it, you know, thinking
about how paranoid he is, buthow the music reflects it also.
(34:07):
It's not just him singing it,it's the music.
I don't know why sometimes I getfrightened.
You can see in my eyes, you cantell that I'm not lying.
Love the keyboards and the synthon the song.
Just love it.
Great song.
Again, one of the songs, notlike We Built the City, which
(34:29):
has stood the test of time ofsuckiness.
This song has stood the test oftime of being a really good
song.
Yeah, it really has.
The Cure, Close to Me, W-L-I-R,Screamer of the Week, fourth
week of September 1985.
I've waited hours for this.
I've made myself so sick.
(34:51):
I wish I'd stayed asleep today.
I love this song.
It was the last single off TheHead on the Door.
You know, they had a ton ofsongs in 1985.
Great album, great song.
They did just such a good job ofbeing able to bring in a whole
new audience to what they did.
(35:13):
Still love this song.
Yeah.
I never thought this day wouldend.
I never thought tonight couldever be this close to me.
Jimmy Bariah Carey Fantasy,number one on Billboard Hot 100
from September 30th to November18th, 1995.
Eight straight weeks.
(35:35):
All right, I mentioned before,you know, she had the song Hero.
I couldn't really tell you muchabout that song.
But this song samples Tom TomClub's Genius of Love.
Tom Tom Club were members of TheTalking Heads.
The remix, because there'sseveral of them, the remix with
(35:56):
ODB, Old Dirty Bastard, of theWu-Tang clan, is absolutely
fantastic.
And the sound quality and andthe song and everything, he
starts it off, and oh my lord.
So my 40th birthday back in2006, buddy of mine was a DJ,
(36:18):
and he couldn't DJ my birthdayparty, but he had something else
to do.
He says, But I can get you theDJ equipment for like 30 bucks.
You just got to DJ yourself.
I said, I can do it.
He gets me, Jimmy, the big hugespeakers that you put on the
(36:38):
stands.
Wow.
It was the whole getup.
Okay?
And the first song, I set it upin my garage because I want to
test it out.
The party's gonna be in mybasement, but I want to test it
in the garage.
And I set everything up, and Iplay that song first.
(37:00):
And I had it so loud, there werepeople probably 14, 15 houses
down coming out of their houseand looking to see what the heck
was going on.
Imagine ODB starting off aMariah Carey song and you know,
(37:20):
New York in the house and blah,blah, blah, blah, and it was so
loud.
It was like spinal tap.
I had it on 11.
It was great.
It was a great time, it was agreat memory.
Hey, listen, if you have anycomments on our list or any of
the songs that we talked abouttoday, you can reach us at
(37:42):
musicinmyshoes at gmail.com.
Please like and follow the Musicin My Shoes Facebook and
Instagram pages.
That's it for episode 98 ofMusic in My Shoes.
I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie,show producer, and owner of
Arcade 160 Studios, located herein Atlanta, Georgia.
And big thrill for our podcastmusic.
(38:03):
This is Jim Boj and I hope youlearned something new or
remembered something old.
We'll meet again on our nextepisode.
Until then, live life and keepthe music playing.
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