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Speaker 1 (00:15):
welcome to the pats peeps podcast.
Happy friday to you.
My name is pat walsh.
I'll be your host.
Thank you so much.
By the way, I'm also the hostof the pat walsh radio show,
heard kpk news radio insacramento, 93.1 fm, 15 30 am,
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And of course, you can hearthis podcast, the pat's Peeps
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There we go.
It's Friday.
I woke up.
I woke up this morning.
I looked out my window.
It was snowing.
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I couldn't believe it.
There was snow on the ground.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm rightat the as I look out my studio
window into the beautifulfoothills.
It's melted though.
The snow is melted, but it wasthere this morning and
apparently there is more on theway, more snow to come.
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It's always kind of a surprisewhen you wake up and see snow,
like I'm right at the snow line,like if, when they say that
well, it could snow at lowerelevations generally they're
kind of talking about where Ilive.
It's an interesting thing whereI live Because, again, if it's
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like six miles above me, they'llhave the road closed when it's
snowing big time over the pass,but right here maybe not, may
not be any snow.
Other times you get snow here,but we're like the lowest part
of the.
You know in terms of elevation,where they're going to get snow
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, although not every time.
Sometimes they get it 9, 10miles down the road from me, but
the fact is it's kind of apleasant surprise usually most
of the time when you get somesnow.
Other times I've been snowed infor six days at a time and that
was just a couple of years ago,so not too bad today today, but
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again we're expecting more snowtonight.
You know I was talking to mysister Stephanie.
She lives in Clovis.
For those of you don't knowwhere Clovis is central, I guess
you'd call that centralCalifornia.
Clovis and Fresno are sort ofattached right there and my
sister Stephanie lives there andshe was telling me that they're
expecting snow in Clovis andFresno, which now that I don't
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think that's happened for years,for a very long time, so that
would be rather surprising.
She was going to come up andvisit this week in light of my
son's passing and we were goingto have a little family
gathering.
But of course, with the roadsbeing like this treacherous, I
don't know that that's gonnahappen.
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But anyhow we were having thisconversation, she said it might
snow in Fresno or Clovis, whichI thought was pretty remarkable,
very unusual.
Of course we were talking abouta variety of things.
One of the things I can'tbelieve we're podcast 227.
By the way, I will be doing mypodcast when we go to Italy, go
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back to Italy.
There may be a day of jet lag.
I've never done a real jet lagpodcast.
Sounds great now, but whenyou're jet lagging it doesn't
sound so great.
You just want to sleep.
But I will continue as I'vedone in Ireland and Italy.
I'll continue my podcasts whileI'm there and we'll be leaving
on the 3rd of April, which is myother sister, michelle's
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birthday there.
I've got both of my sister'snames into the first part of the
podcast here.
But Stephanie and I were talkingabout a variety of things and I
was telling her you know thatthere was.
I saw this.
We're like-minded politically.
Without getting too much intothe politics, I'll just make
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this statement that we are verylike-minded when it comes to
political stuff.
And I told her you know it'samazing because I saw this movie
trailer, which I'm not evengoing to play for you.
There's a reason why, but I sawthis movie trailer and I told
her.
I said, you know, years agothis has been like I don't know.
20 years ago I would haveimmediately watched this movie.
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Immediately.
I said, yeah, this is my kindof movie, but now, no, there's
not a chance I'm going to watchit.
And it's really a shame,because this movie, the reason
that I would watch it 20 yearsago I'm reaching maybe 15 to 20
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years ago the reason I wouldwatch it is not just because
sort of what the movie was aboutmainly, but also mainly that
and the fact that this actor Ifelt was always taking good
movies Up until a certain point.
Then that's where I jumped offboard.
I was done sort of.
I don't know if that makes anysense.
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Let me explain.
Robert De Niro he's got thisnew movie.
In fact, they're looking forextras for this new movie in
Jersey God, it's a sucky thingbeing an extra sometimes If
you've ever done that Long daysAnyhow, very little pay.
But they've got this Netflixupcoming movie, the Whisper man,
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based on the best-selling bookRobert De Niro, michelle
Monaghan from White Lotus, adamScott from Severance Okay, I
don't know these people exceptDe Niro, and production, they
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say, is going to begin in Apriland it's going to be filmed in
June in parts of New Jersey.
The only reason I know about itis because I was watching some
television and a trailer forthis popped up and I thought,
well, see, now that's the kindof movie a crime thriller
starring De Niro that I wouldhave wanted to watch.
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My favorite movie of all time isRaging Bull with De Niro.
I don't think there's a betterperformance on behalf of an
actor in any movie than hisperformance in Raging Bull.
I was a big fan, of course.
I just watched the Godfatherstalked about that.
He was in Godfather II, youngRobert De Niro, some of my other
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favorites, I mean I like movieslike Goodfellas and Cape Fear.
There was just a lot of moviesthat I liked De Niro.
But then he started getting intothese other movies, like I
don't know things like if you goback to, I think, 2000 or
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something like that, you knowMeet the Parents, all right,
whatever, you know things likethat.
I just I wasn't too interestedin meet the Fockers or whatever
that was, yeah, just um.
And even even though in themidst of that he I think he had
some good movies, I can't reallyrecall a lot of the movies.
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There was little Fockers and Ijust thought what are you doing?
My gosh, you need a paycheck.
Was little Fockers, and I justthought what are you doing?
My gosh, you need a paycheck,little Fockers, anyhow.
So there was these kind ofmovies, but then what solidified
it for me is when he came outat the was it the 2018 Tony
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Awards?
And came out and said F Trump.
At the was it the 2018 TonyAwards?
And came out and said F Trump.
It was such a low-life move andit's the reason I don't watch
these award shows, the Oscars,any of it.
The Grammys, forget it.
I'm so sick of the messagingand these, you know using these
shows to get their messageacross.
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And ever since then, these, youknow using these shows to get
their message across.
And ever since then, you know,and and I don't care if you
don't like someone, whether it'sa politician, whomever it is, I
mean, unless you're talkingabout a stone cold criminal,
someone that committed heinouscrimes, I'm talking about, yeah,
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see, now, if you're listeningto me and you hate Trump, you're
going to go.
Yeah, I did smoke those guys.
I'm talking about murderers andI'm talking about dirt bags.
Okay, I don't even want to godown that path.
I'm just giving you my opinion.
It was a low-class thing to doand the honest truth, it was
political, we, political, we, ofcourse.
And just so you know, I wouldfeel the same way if it would
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have been during the Clintonadministration or during the
Obama administration or duringthe Bush administration, and
they come out and they say FObama, you call him a Nazi or
whatever he's done, becausewe've seen all the remarks since
then.
Any of them, I mean I may ormay not have agreed with NAFTA
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or you know whatever policies byeither Clinton or Obama, or
what have you bailing outGeneral Motors?
I mean this whole litany ofthings, may or may not have
agreed with him, but to callthem fascists and to call them
Nazis, that's a little much.
And you know what?
He just keeps pushing it andpushing it, and pushing it and
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pushing it.
My sister says there's a show, aNetflix show, which apparently
is getting good rave reviews.
Of course they are, because weknow the media, for the most
part, is going to love what DeNiro does.
And they say it's doing well onNetflix.
Okay, all right, fine, I getthat not everyone will be
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affected or care as much aboutthe low-class comments he made,
like I do, and some people justgo.
Yeah, well, I don't let thatinterfere with what I'm watching
and I do get that.
I mean the same thing that'shappened with me with Roger
Waters of Pink Floyd.
You know.
You go see Waters.
Roger Waters, I've seen him twoor three times.
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The first time I saw him doingthis very anti-American rhetoric
and all I mean.
It bothered me then and Ithought, well, I hope he got
that.
I figured he got it out of hissystem, and I think this was
back when George Bush was thepresident.
And then I thought, like I say,he got out of his system, so
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he's going to play again.
I got invited to a show at AT&TPark, an otherwise incredible
show, but it was just filledwith anti-American rhetoric and
comparisons to Hitler and we'retalking what this might have
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been.
I think this was 2012, so thatturned me off and Roger Waters
continues to spew his rhetoric.
So I don't know it.
Just it's my point being thatit's too bad.
I don't get to see this movie.
I won't see the movie or theIrishman.
I didn't see that because ofthe same reason.
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I don't know if anyone else isnot watching De Niro movies, or
perhaps there's another actor oractress out there.
I mean, I probably can think ofa few that I will not be
watching their stuff anymore.
I'm just torn because I alwaysjust thought he was a great
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actor.
Then he made some bad choicesin my opinion, you know.
Another one I liked was CapeFear with De Niro.
That guy was scary.
So was Robert Mitchum in theoriginal Cape Fear, by the way.
I don't know which one, I wasalways a Robert Mitchum fan as
well.
Wherever you are, thank you forlistening to my podcast today.
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Thank you for listening.
We had 227 podcasts.
It's a Friday.
You know what I used to like.
My sister and I were talkingabout this.
I don't know how this came up.
I used to like oh, what was it?
Oh God, I made a reference.
I can't remember what it was,but it was in regards to this
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gentleman right here.
If anyone remembers the DrDemento show, remember Dr
Demento.
I liked Dr Demento.
I was a big fan of Dr.
It's the good doctor Barrett,eugene Hanson, dr Demento.
You know, I'd like to get himon my podcast.
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I think I'm going to try to get.
I hope he's doing all right.
He's 83.
It's almost his birthday.
I would love to get him on thispodcast for his birthday.
His birthday is the day beforeI leave for Italy, april 2nd.
Of course, long time radiobroadcaster, record collector,
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just like myself, play myrecords.
I have one right here in myhand.
I'll play it today.
But Dr Demento the good doctor,he specialized in novelty songs.
If you listen to his show youknow what I'm talking about
Comedy, strange, unusualrecordings dating back to the
early days of the phonographrecord, and he had it all the
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way to present day.
Man.
He turned me on to some weirdmusic, turned a lot of us on to
some weird stuff.
He created Hanson creates theDemento persona back in 1970.
He was working in Pasadena atthis radio station, kppc-fm.
He once played Transfusion byNervous Norvus on that station.
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Dj the Obscene Stephen Cleansaid that Hanson had to be
demented to play it In thisevent that inspired his stage
name.
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His weekly radio show goes intosyndication in 1974, and he was
syndicated by the Westwood OneRadio Network from 1978 to 1992.
Broadcast syndicated by theWestwood One Radio Network from
1978 to 1992.
Broadcast syndication of theshow ended June 6th of 2010, but
the show does continue to beproduced weekly in an online
version.
I should try to find that foryou.
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The Nervous Norvus the songthat the other DJ said he had to
be demented to play.
See if I can find that.
Here you go.
So here's the song he played onthe air at the radio station.
They said this guy's got to bedemented.
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Tooling down the highway doing 79.
I'm a twin pipe popper and I'mfeeling fine.
Hey man, dig, that, was that ared stop sign?
Fusion transfusion?
I'm just a solid mess ofcontusions.
Never, never never gonna speedagain Slip the blood to me bud.
I jump in my rod about aquarter to nine.
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I gotta make a date with thatchick of mine.
Oh wow, I've never heard thisone, 1956.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Transfusion Nervous, norvis, I can see where the guy
thought he might be Demented theobscene Stephen Clean.
Clean, by the way, barrettEugene Hanson.
Dr Demento holds a master'sdegree in ethnomusicology.
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He's written a magazine,magazine articles, liner notes
and recording artists outside ofthe novelty genre.
He was credited withintroducing new generations of
listeners to artists of theearly middle 20th century whom
they may not have otherwisediscovered, which is absolutely
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true.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Woo, woo, woo, woo Woo.
Wind up your radios, dimensionsand the bedtides.
It's time once again for the DrDemento Show, coming to you
from under the strawberry treesof woo-woo wonderful Westwood.
And we're right here with LuckyLindsey and Crazy Quail and two
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hours of mad music and crazycomedy, some sounds you never
heard before on the radio and,who knows, probably some sounds
you'll never hear again.
So, without further ado, let'sget the party going with a blues
.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, that's right, and you would hear like he's
going to play the Blues BrothersRubber Biscuit.
That became a hit song, thoughthis one became a hit song, dan
Aykroyd.
This was on the radio a lot,though A lot of people remember
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that one.
But here's some other ones thatpeople would remember from dr
demento, but these are morecommon.
All right, these are more.
This is.
These are like the uh, the tamesongs from demento, before I
get to the really absurd,bizarre, at least in my opinion,
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the ones that stand out to me.
So this one many people haveheard it Alan Sherman, hello
Mudder, hello Fodder, dr Demento, staple Pats Peeps 227.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Hello Mudder, hello Fodder, 227, hello mudda, hello
fada.
Here I am at Camp Granada.
Camp is very Entertaining andthey say we'll have some fun If
it stops raining.
I went hiking With Joe Spivey.
He developed poison ivy.
(19:18):
You remember Leonard Skinner?
Leonard Skinner, he gotpoisoning last night after
dinner.
All the counselors hate thewaiters and the lake has
alligators and the head coachwants no sissies, so he reads to
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us from something calledUlysses Head coach wants no
sissies.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You probably couldn't even say that.
Now, dr Demento Show.
Here's another common one thatyou would hear on the Dr Demento
Show.
Here's another common one thatyou would hear on the Dr Demento
Show.
Kind of transcended the gooddoctor show Got played in
various settings.
This is Napoleon XIV coming totake me away, ha ha.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and
begged you not to leave becauseI'd go berserk.
Well, you left me anyhow, andthen the days got worse and
worse.
And now you see I've gonecompletely out of my mind.
And they're coming to take meaway.
Ha-ha, they're coming to takeme away, ho-ho, he-he, ha-ha, to
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the funny farm where life isbeautiful all the time.
To take me away, ha-ha.
They're coming to take me away,ho-ho, he-he, ha-ha, to the
funny farm where life isbeautiful all the time, and I'll
be happy to see those niceyoung men in their clean white
coats.
And they're coming to take meaway, ha-ha.
You thought it was a joke andso you laughed.
You laughed when I had saidthat losing you would make me
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flip my lid, right, you know,you laughed, I heard you laugh,
you laughed, you laughed andlaughed and then you left.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
But now you know I'm utterly mad.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
And they're coming to take me away.
Ha-ha, they're coming to takeme away.
Ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
To the happy home with trees and flowers and
chirping birds and basketweavers who sit Napoleon the
14th.
That's still pretty funny evenafter all these years.
That was a classic on the goodDr Demento show.
Then I, when I really startedcatching on to it, then I recall
him playing some really strangestuff, really weird.
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Remember that word weird,because that'll become very
clear momentarily.
First, though, here's one ofthe ones that really caught me
off guard when I first heard it,and I did first hear it on the
Dr Demento show, and this songfeatures Billy Mummy, who was I
can't remember the character'sname, but he was the kid in Will
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Robinson, right Lost in Space.
Danger Will Robinson.
Danger Will Robinson, rightLost in Space.
Danger Will Robinson, dangerWill Robinson.
Billy Mummy, who was Barnes,and Barnes, oddly enough, who
created this song that is sobizarre, and Dr Demento loved it
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.
It's called Fish Heads.
Maybe you've heard this.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Fish heads, fish heads.
Roly poly, fish heads, fishheads, fish heads.
Eat them up, yum.
Fish heads, fish heads, rolypoly, fish heads, fish heads,
fish heads eat them up, yum.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
In the morning slapping happy fish heads.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
In the evening floating in the soup.
Fish heads, fish heads,roly-poly fish heads, fish heads
, fish heads eat them up, yum.
Ask a fish head anything youwant to.
They won't answer, they can'ttalk.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Remember, I don't have the rights to this music.
I'm exposing and critiquing themusic.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
I'm allowed to do that I took a fish head out to
see a movie.
Didn't have to pay to get himin.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Fish heads, fish heads, birdie birdie fish, I did
find out.
They don't wear sweaters andthey don't play drums From this
song.
I never knew that until theycan't play baseball.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
They don't wear sweaters, they don't wear
sweaters, they're not gooddancers.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
They don't play drumsy mummy, it's barnes and
barnes from the essential drdemento.
Here's why I brought up denirotoday with my sister.
This is the thing that got methinking about Dr De Niro.
Dr De Niro, dr De Niro, that'skind of worked, actually.
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Dr Demento De Niro on Demento,or the Demented De Niro, come on
, some things are just happyaccidents.
Pat's Peeps 227.
This is what made me think ofhim, dr De Niro, because I
called him a pencil neck.
Geek Fred Blassie from the DrDemento show.
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Geek Fred Blassie from the DrDemento show.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Happy Friday to you.
Back when I was a kid, life wasgoing swell till something
happened, blew everything tohell.
That night my daddy stumbled inall pale and weak, said a woman
up the block just gave birth toa geek.
Mom said sell it to the circus.
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What the heck Dad said nope,this one's a pencil neck, and if
there's one thing lower than asideshow freak, it's a gritty,
scum-sucking pencil neck geek.
You see, if you take a pencilthat won't hold lead, looks like
a pipe cleaner, add abuggy-whip body with a brain
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that leaks, you got yourself agrit-eating pencil neck geek.
Pencil neck geek.
Grit-eating freak, scum-suckingPF with a lousy physique.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
He's a one man no cut , otherwise known as the Chuck
Schumer song, but a Pantselneckgeek.
Pantselneck geek.
Yeah, that's a classic FredBlassie Dr Demento favorite.
That time I almost called himRobert Demento, which actually
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fits Robert Demento All right.
Then there was this one.
Now there's a lot of weirdsongs.
You could probably think ofanother 20 if you're a Dr
Demento fan that are very, verystrange.
This one is right there at thetop of the hill.
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Now there's others that mightbe as weird as this, but
literally, like I said a coupleminutes ago talking about weird,
this is from John W Christensen.
Beat Brothers presents John WChristensenen.
I first heard this in the early80s on the show and I'm still
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not.
Well, I get weird.
I got weird Every time I seeyou.
I got weird.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Wanna find a place to bite you.
I got weird when I found outyou don't like me.
I got weird Cause you know thatyou excite me.
Alright.
Weird, weird, weird In mylittle room.
Weird, weird, weird.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Wanna find something obscene to do?
How bizarre.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Pull the wings off butterflies, salt some snails
and wash them.
Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble,bubble, bubble, boiling bubble.
Told ya Weird, weird, weird,weird, weird, weird.
I get weird.
Every weird, weird,w-w-w-w-weird, w-w-w-w-w-weird,
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w-w-w-w-w-i got weird.
Every time I call you, you knowI get weird.
Gonna go play with my chainsaw.
I got weird, cause you laughedat my wolf whistle.
I got weird.
Gonna go and get my waterpistol Sitting in my little room
.
Want to find something obsceneto do.
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Pull the wings off butterflies,call some snails and watch them
bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble,bubble, bubble, bubble and
bubble.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Oh jeez, I haven't heard that in forever and that
is just as weird as it has everbeen right there.
Wow, wow, anyhow, I need tocleanse the palate from that.
So I pulled this record from myrare record collection today,
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this 45.
I'm going to pull it out of thesleeve.
This is a really heavy dutykind of 45.
See what condition this one'sin the label looks like.
It's kind of seen a few days.
But the record itself, let mesee A couple of little tiny
flaws on one side.
Maybe not bad, it looks verynice.
(29:09):
It's on tomla, black and whitelabel.
Tomla and this is um same songboth sides, trademark Trademark
of Motown.
Two people singing on this.
And what's the date?
It is 1960.
(29:30):
It says 68.
I for some reason thought thiswas 1967.
I think the record says 68.
Anyhow, it is 68.
Okay, I thought it was 67.
68.
Released, obviously, 68.
Okay, I thought it was 67.
68.
Released, obviously on Tomla.
Motown R&B Soul Duo.
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The B-side of the single whichI don't have because this is the
same song both sides, radio DJcopy is Little Old Boy, little
Old Girl from the duo's UnitedLP, the first release of the
duo's second album, you're All INeed, the song written and
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produced by the regularcollaborators Get a drink of
water here, pardon me,collaborators Ashford and
Simpson Became a hit withinweeks of the release, eventually
peaked at number eight on theUS Billboard Hot 100, number one
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on the Hot Soul Singles Chart,the first of the duo's two
number one R&B hits.
In the UK the song reachednumber 34.
Cashbox calling it a potentballad, saying the Detroit
backing puts a beat into thesession praising the splendid
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vocals, and it is ranked as the57th biggest US hit from 1968.
Went to number nine in Canadaas well.
So this did very well.
It did real well, becauseMarvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell
teamed up and gave us this greattune.
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Ain't nothing like the realthing.
Baby Pats Peeps 227.
Happy Friday.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby.
Ain't nothing like the realthing, no, no, ain't nothing
like the real thing, baby.
Ain't nothing like the realthing.
No, honey, I've got yourpicture hanging on the wall but
(31:52):
it can't see.
Come to me when I call yourname, I realize it's just a
picture in a frame.
I read your letters and you'renot near, but they don't move
and they don't move.
And, like men, I hear yoursweet voice whispering In my ear
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, don't you know?
Ain't nothing like the realthing, baby.
Ain't nothing like the realthing.
I play my game of fantasy.
I pretend, but I know inreality.
I need the shelter of your armsto comfort me.
(32:37):
No other sound is quite thesame as your name.
No touch can do half as much Tomake me feel better, so let's
stay together.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Thank you so much for listening to my Pats Peeps
number 227.
Greatly appreciate you.
Sure would appreciate it ifyou'd give us a chance to go to
patspeepscom and support localbusiness and get exclusive
offers.
I'd be so grateful.
All right, have a wonderfulweekend.
See you tonight on the radio.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't
nothing like the real thing.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Talk to me Ain't nothing like the real thing.
Talk to me, ain't nothing likethe real thing, baby.
welcome to the pats peeps podcast.
Happy friday to you.
My name is pat walsh.
I'll be your host.
Thank you so much.
By the way, I'm also the hostof the pat walsh radio show,
heard kpk news radio insacramento, 93.1 fm, 15 30 am,
(00:35):
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There we go.
It's Friday.
I woke up.
I woke up this morning.
I looked out my window.
It was snowing.
(00:56):
I couldn't believe it.
There was snow on the ground.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm rightat the as I look out my studio
window into the beautifulfoothills.
It's melted though.
The snow is melted, but it wasthere this morning and
apparently there is more on theway, more snow to come.
(01:18):
It's always kind of a surprisewhen you wake up and see snow,
like I'm right at the snow line,like if, when they say that
well, it could snow at lowerelevations generally they're
kind of talking about where Ilive.
It's an interesting thing whereI live Because, again, if it's
(01:40):
like six miles above me, they'llhave the road closed when it's
snowing big time over the pass,but right here maybe not, may
not be any snow.
Other times you get snow here,but we're like the lowest part
of the.
You know in terms of elevation,where they're going to get snow
(02:02):
, although not every time.
Sometimes they get it 9, 10miles down the road from me, but
the fact is it's kind of apleasant surprise usually most
of the time when you get somesnow.
Other times I've been snowed infor six days at a time and that
was just a couple of years ago,so not too bad today today, but
(02:25):
again we're expecting more snowtonight.
You know I was talking to mysister Stephanie.
She lives in Clovis.
For those of you don't knowwhere Clovis is central, I guess
you'd call that centralCalifornia.
Clovis and Fresno are sort ofattached right there and my
sister Stephanie lives there andshe was telling me that they're
expecting snow in Clovis andFresno, which now that I don't
(02:48):
think that's happened for years,for a very long time, so that
would be rather surprising.
She was going to come up andvisit this week in light of my
son's passing and we were goingto have a little family
gathering.
But of course, with the roadsbeing like this treacherous, I
don't know that that's gonnahappen.
(03:09):
But anyhow we were having thisconversation, she said it might
snow in Fresno or Clovis, whichI thought was pretty remarkable,
very unusual.
Of course we were talking abouta variety of things.
One of the things I can'tbelieve we're podcast 227.
By the way, I will be doing mypodcast when we go to Italy, go
(03:29):
back to Italy.
There may be a day of jet lag.
I've never done a real jet lagpodcast.
Sounds great now, but whenyou're jet lagging it doesn't
sound so great.
You just want to sleep.
But I will continue as I'vedone in Ireland and Italy.
I'll continue my podcasts whileI'm there and we'll be leaving
on the 3rd of April, which is myother sister, michelle's
(03:50):
birthday there.
I've got both of my sister'snames into the first part of the
podcast here.
But Stephanie and I were talkingabout a variety of things and I
was telling her you know thatthere was.
I saw this.
We're like-minded politically.
Without getting too much intothe politics, I'll just make
(04:14):
this statement that we are verylike-minded when it comes to
political stuff.
And I told her you know it'samazing because I saw this movie
trailer, which I'm not evengoing to play for you.
There's a reason why, but I sawthis movie trailer and I told
her.
I said, you know, years agothis has been like I don't know.
20 years ago I would haveimmediately watched this movie.
(04:37):
Immediately.
I said, yeah, this is my kindof movie, but now, no, there's
not a chance I'm going to watchit.
And it's really a shame,because this movie, the reason
that I would watch it 20 yearsago I'm reaching maybe 15 to 20
(05:00):
years ago the reason I wouldwatch it is not just because
sort of what the movie was aboutmainly, but also mainly that
and the fact that this actor Ifelt was always taking good
movies Up until a certain point.
Then that's where I jumped offboard.
I was done sort of.
I don't know if that makes anysense.
(05:22):
Let me explain.
Robert De Niro he's got thisnew movie.
In fact, they're looking forextras for this new movie in
Jersey God, it's a sucky thingbeing an extra sometimes If
you've ever done that Long daysAnyhow, very little pay.
But they've got this Netflixupcoming movie, the Whisper man,
(05:43):
based on the best-selling bookRobert De Niro, michelle
Monaghan from White Lotus, adamScott from Severance Okay, I
don't know these people exceptDe Niro, and production, they
(06:05):
say, is going to begin in Apriland it's going to be filmed in
June in parts of New Jersey.
The only reason I know about itis because I was watching some
television and a trailer forthis popped up and I thought,
well, see, now that's the kindof movie a crime thriller
starring De Niro that I wouldhave wanted to watch.
(06:28):
My favorite movie of all time isRaging Bull with De Niro.
I don't think there's a betterperformance on behalf of an
actor in any movie than hisperformance in Raging Bull.
I was a big fan, of course.
I just watched the Godfatherstalked about that.
He was in Godfather II, youngRobert De Niro, some of my other
(06:53):
favorites, I mean I like movieslike Goodfellas and Cape Fear.
There was just a lot of moviesthat I liked De Niro.
But then he started getting intothese other movies, like I
don't know things like if you goback to, I think, 2000 or
(07:17):
something like that, you knowMeet the Parents, all right,
whatever, you know things likethat.
I just I wasn't too interestedin meet the Fockers or whatever
that was, yeah, just um.
And even even though in themidst of that he I think he had
some good movies, I can't reallyrecall a lot of the movies.
(07:40):
There was little Fockers and Ijust thought what are you doing?
My gosh, you need a paycheck.
Was little Fockers, and I justthought what are you doing?
My gosh, you need a paycheck,little Fockers, anyhow.
So there was these kind ofmovies, but then what solidified
it for me is when he came outat the was it the 2018 Tony
(08:03):
Awards?
And came out and said F Trump.
At the was it the 2018 TonyAwards?
And came out and said F Trump.
It was such a low-life move andit's the reason I don't watch
these award shows, the Oscars,any of it.
The Grammys, forget it.
I'm so sick of the messagingand these, you know using these
shows to get their messageacross.
(08:24):
And ever since then, these, youknow using these shows to get
their message across.
And ever since then, you know,and and I don't care if you
don't like someone, whether it'sa politician, whomever it is, I
mean, unless you're talkingabout a stone cold criminal,
someone that committed heinouscrimes, I'm talking about, yeah,
(08:47):
see, now, if you're listeningto me and you hate Trump, you're
going to go.
Yeah, I did smoke those guys.
I'm talking about murderers andI'm talking about dirt bags.
Okay, I don't even want to godown that path.
I'm just giving you my opinion.
It was a low-class thing to doand the honest truth, it was
political, we, political, we, ofcourse.
And just so you know, I wouldfeel the same way if it would
(09:10):
have been during the Clintonadministration or during the
Obama administration or duringthe Bush administration, and
they come out and they say FObama, you call him a Nazi or
whatever he's done, becausewe've seen all the remarks since
then.
Any of them, I mean I may ormay not have agreed with NAFTA
(09:34):
or you know whatever policies byeither Clinton or Obama, or
what have you bailing outGeneral Motors?
I mean this whole litany ofthings, may or may not have
agreed with him, but to callthem fascists and to call them
Nazis, that's a little much.
And you know what?
He just keeps pushing it andpushing it, and pushing it and
(09:56):
pushing it.
My sister says there's a show, aNetflix show, which apparently
is getting good rave reviews.
Of course they are, because weknow the media, for the most
part, is going to love what DeNiro does.
And they say it's doing well onNetflix.
Okay, all right, fine, I getthat not everyone will be
(10:19):
affected or care as much aboutthe low-class comments he made,
like I do, and some people justgo.
Yeah, well, I don't let thatinterfere with what I'm watching
and I do get that.
I mean the same thing that'shappened with me with Roger
Waters of Pink Floyd.
You know.
You go see Waters.
Roger Waters, I've seen him twoor three times.
(10:40):
The first time I saw him doingthis very anti-American rhetoric
and all I mean.
It bothered me then and Ithought, well, I hope he got
that.
I figured he got it out of hissystem, and I think this was
back when George Bush was thepresident.
And then I thought, like I say,he got out of his system, so
(11:01):
he's going to play again.
I got invited to a show at AT&TPark, an otherwise incredible
show, but it was just filledwith anti-American rhetoric and
comparisons to Hitler and we'retalking what this might have
(11:22):
been.
I think this was 2012, so thatturned me off and Roger Waters
continues to spew his rhetoric.
So I don't know it.
Just it's my point being thatit's too bad.
I don't get to see this movie.
I won't see the movie or theIrishman.
I didn't see that because ofthe same reason.
(11:43):
I don't know if anyone else isnot watching De Niro movies, or
perhaps there's another actor oractress out there.
I mean, I probably can think ofa few that I will not be
watching their stuff anymore.
I'm just torn because I alwaysjust thought he was a great
(12:05):
actor.
Then he made some bad choicesin my opinion, you know.
Another one I liked was CapeFear with De Niro.
That guy was scary.
So was Robert Mitchum in theoriginal Cape Fear, by the way.
I don't know which one, I wasalways a Robert Mitchum fan as
well.
Wherever you are, thank you forlistening to my podcast today.
(12:27):
Thank you for listening.
We had 227 podcasts.
It's a Friday.
You know what I used to like.
My sister and I were talkingabout this.
I don't know how this came up.
I used to like oh, what was it?
Oh God, I made a reference.
I can't remember what it was,but it was in regards to this
(12:48):
gentleman right here.
If anyone remembers the DrDemento show, remember Dr
Demento.
I liked Dr Demento.
I was a big fan of Dr.
It's the good doctor Barrett,eugene Hanson, dr Demento.
You know, I'd like to get himon my podcast.
(13:14):
I think I'm going to try to get.
I hope he's doing all right.
He's 83.
It's almost his birthday.
I would love to get him on thispodcast for his birthday.
His birthday is the day beforeI leave for Italy, april 2nd.
Of course, long time radiobroadcaster, record collector,
(13:39):
just like myself, play myrecords.
I have one right here in myhand.
I'll play it today.
But Dr Demento the good doctor,he specialized in novelty songs.
If you listen to his show youknow what I'm talking about
Comedy, strange, unusualrecordings dating back to the
early days of the phonographrecord, and he had it all the
(14:00):
way to present day.
Man.
He turned me on to some weirdmusic, turned a lot of us on to
some weird stuff.
He created Hanson creates theDemento persona back in 1970.
He was working in Pasadena atthis radio station, kppc-fm.
He once played Transfusion byNervous Norvus on that station.
(14:27):
Dj the Obscene Stephen Cleansaid that Hanson had to be
demented to play it In thisevent that inspired his stage
name.
(14:47):
His weekly radio show goes intosyndication in 1974, and he was
syndicated by the Westwood OneRadio Network from 1978 to 1992.
Broadcast syndicated by theWestwood One Radio Network from
1978 to 1992.
Broadcast syndication of theshow ended June 6th of 2010, but
the show does continue to beproduced weekly in an online
version.
I should try to find that foryou.
(15:09):
The Nervous Norvus the songthat the other DJ said he had to
be demented to play.
See if I can find that.
Here you go.
So here's the song he played onthe air at the radio station.
They said this guy's got to bedemented.
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Tooling down the highway doing 79.
I'm a twin pipe popper and I'mfeeling fine.
Hey man, dig, that, was that ared stop sign?
Fusion transfusion?
I'm just a solid mess ofcontusions.
Never, never never gonna speedagain Slip the blood to me bud.
I jump in my rod about aquarter to nine.
(15:54):
I gotta make a date with thatchick of mine.
Oh wow, I've never heard thisone, 1956.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Transfusion Nervous, norvis, I can see where the guy
thought he might be Demented theobscene Stephen Clean.
Clean, by the way, barrettEugene Hanson.
Dr Demento holds a master'sdegree in ethnomusicology.
(16:40):
He's written a magazine,magazine articles, liner notes
and recording artists outside ofthe novelty genre.
He was credited withintroducing new generations of
listeners to artists of theearly middle 20th century whom
they may not have otherwisediscovered, which is absolutely
(17:02):
true.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Woo, woo, woo, woo Woo.
Wind up your radios, dimensionsand the bedtides.
It's time once again for the DrDemento Show, coming to you
from under the strawberry treesof woo-woo wonderful Westwood.
And we're right here with LuckyLindsey and Crazy Quail and two
(17:32):
hours of mad music and crazycomedy, some sounds you never
heard before on the radio and,who knows, probably some sounds
you'll never hear again.
So, without further ado, let'sget the party going with a blues
.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, that's right, and you would hear like he's
going to play the Blues BrothersRubber Biscuit.
That became a hit song, thoughthis one became a hit song, dan
Aykroyd.
This was on the radio a lot,though A lot of people remember
(18:09):
that one.
But here's some other ones thatpeople would remember from dr
demento, but these are morecommon.
All right, these are more.
This is.
These are like the uh, the tamesongs from demento, before I
get to the really absurd,bizarre, at least in my opinion,
(18:31):
the ones that stand out to me.
So this one many people haveheard it Alan Sherman, hello
Mudder, hello Fodder, dr Demento, staple Pats Peeps 227.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Hello Mudder, hello Fodder, 227, hello mudda, hello
fada.
Here I am at Camp Granada.
Camp is very Entertaining andthey say we'll have some fun If
it stops raining.
I went hiking With Joe Spivey.
He developed poison ivy.
(19:18):
You remember Leonard Skinner?
Leonard Skinner, he gotpoisoning last night after
dinner.
All the counselors hate thewaiters and the lake has
alligators and the head coachwants no sissies, so he reads to
(19:40):
us from something calledUlysses Head coach wants no
sissies.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You probably couldn't even say that.
Now, dr Demento Show.
Here's another common one thatyou would hear on the Dr Demento
Show.
Here's another common one thatyou would hear on the Dr Demento
Show.
Kind of transcended the gooddoctor show Got played in
various settings.
This is Napoleon XIV coming totake me away, ha ha.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and
begged you not to leave becauseI'd go berserk.
Well, you left me anyhow, andthen the days got worse and
worse.
And now you see I've gonecompletely out of my mind.
And they're coming to take meaway.
Ha-ha, they're coming to takeme away, ho-ho, he-he, ha-ha, to
(20:32):
the funny farm where life isbeautiful all the time.
To take me away, ha-ha.
They're coming to take me away,ho-ho, he-he, ha-ha, to the
funny farm where life isbeautiful all the time, and I'll
be happy to see those niceyoung men in their clean white
coats.
And they're coming to take meaway, ha-ha.
You thought it was a joke andso you laughed.
You laughed when I had saidthat losing you would make me
(20:52):
flip my lid, right, you know,you laughed, I heard you laugh,
you laughed, you laughed andlaughed and then you left.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
But now you know I'm utterly mad.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
And they're coming to take me away.
Ha-ha, they're coming to takeme away.
Ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
To the happy home with trees and flowers and
chirping birds and basketweavers who sit Napoleon the
14th.
That's still pretty funny evenafter all these years.
That was a classic on the goodDr Demento show.
Then I, when I really startedcatching on to it, then I recall
him playing some really strangestuff, really weird.
(21:45):
Remember that word weird,because that'll become very
clear momentarily.
First, though, here's one ofthe ones that really caught me
off guard when I first heard it,and I did first hear it on the
Dr Demento show, and this songfeatures Billy Mummy, who was I
can't remember the character'sname, but he was the kid in Will
(22:10):
Robinson, right Lost in Space.
Danger Will Robinson.
Danger Will Robinson, rightLost in Space.
Danger Will Robinson, dangerWill Robinson.
Billy Mummy, who was Barnes,and Barnes, oddly enough, who
created this song that is sobizarre, and Dr Demento loved it
(22:31):
.
It's called Fish Heads.
Maybe you've heard this.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Fish heads, fish heads.
Roly poly, fish heads, fishheads, fish heads.
Eat them up, yum.
Fish heads, fish heads, rolypoly, fish heads, fish heads,
fish heads eat them up, yum.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
In the morning slapping happy fish heads.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
In the evening floating in the soup.
Fish heads, fish heads,roly-poly fish heads, fish heads
, fish heads eat them up, yum.
Ask a fish head anything youwant to.
They won't answer, they can'ttalk.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Remember, I don't have the rights to this music.
I'm exposing and critiquing themusic.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
I'm allowed to do that I took a fish head out to
see a movie.
Didn't have to pay to get himin.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Fish heads, fish heads, birdie birdie fish, I did
find out.
They don't wear sweaters andthey don't play drums From this
song.
I never knew that until theycan't play baseball.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
They don't wear sweaters, they don't wear
sweaters, they're not gooddancers.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
They don't play drumsy mummy, it's barnes and
barnes from the essential drdemento.
Here's why I brought up denirotoday with my sister.
This is the thing that got methinking about Dr De Niro.
Dr De Niro, dr De Niro, that'skind of worked, actually.
(24:21):
Dr Demento De Niro on Demento,or the Demented De Niro, come on
, some things are just happyaccidents.
Pat's Peeps 227.
This is what made me think ofhim, dr De Niro, because I
called him a pencil neck.
Geek Fred Blassie from the DrDemento show.
(24:42):
Geek Fred Blassie from the DrDemento show.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Happy Friday to you.
Back when I was a kid, life wasgoing swell till something
happened, blew everything tohell.
That night my daddy stumbled inall pale and weak, said a woman
up the block just gave birth toa geek.
Mom said sell it to the circus.
(25:10):
What the heck Dad said nope,this one's a pencil neck, and if
there's one thing lower than asideshow freak, it's a gritty,
scum-sucking pencil neck geek.
You see, if you take a pencilthat won't hold lead, looks like
a pipe cleaner, add abuggy-whip body with a brain
(25:34):
that leaks, you got yourself agrit-eating pencil neck geek.
Pencil neck geek.
Grit-eating freak, scum-suckingPF with a lousy physique.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
He's a one man no cut , otherwise known as the Chuck
Schumer song, but a Pantselneckgeek.
Pantselneck geek.
Yeah, that's a classic FredBlassie Dr Demento favorite.
That time I almost called himRobert Demento, which actually
(26:08):
fits Robert Demento All right.
Then there was this one.
Now there's a lot of weirdsongs.
You could probably think ofanother 20 if you're a Dr
Demento fan that are very, verystrange.
This one is right there at thetop of the hill.
(26:29):
Now there's others that mightbe as weird as this, but
literally, like I said a coupleminutes ago talking about weird,
this is from John W Christensen.
Beat Brothers presents John WChristensenen.
I first heard this in the early80s on the show and I'm still
(26:50):
not.
Well, I get weird.
I got weird Every time I seeyou.
I got weird.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Wanna find a place to bite you.
I got weird when I found outyou don't like me.
I got weird Cause you know thatyou excite me.
Alright.
Weird, weird, weird In mylittle room.
Weird, weird, weird.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Wanna find something obscene to do?
How bizarre.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Pull the wings off butterflies, salt some snails
and wash them.
Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble,bubble, bubble, boiling bubble.
Told ya Weird, weird, weird,weird, weird, weird.
I get weird.
Every weird, weird,w-w-w-w-weird, w-w-w-w-w-weird,
(27:49):
w-w-w-w-w-i got weird.
Every time I call you, you knowI get weird.
Gonna go play with my chainsaw.
I got weird, cause you laughedat my wolf whistle.
I got weird.
Gonna go and get my waterpistol Sitting in my little room
.
Want to find something obsceneto do.
(28:10):
Pull the wings off butterflies,call some snails and watch them
bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble,bubble, bubble, bubble and
bubble.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Oh jeez, I haven't heard that in forever and that
is just as weird as it has everbeen right there.
Wow, wow, anyhow, I need tocleanse the palate from that.
So I pulled this record from myrare record collection today,
(28:48):
this 45.
I'm going to pull it out of thesleeve.
This is a really heavy dutykind of 45.
See what condition this one'sin the label looks like.
It's kind of seen a few days.
But the record itself, let mesee A couple of little tiny
flaws on one side.
Maybe not bad, it looks verynice.
(29:09):
It's on tomla, black and whitelabel.
Tomla and this is um same songboth sides, trademark Trademark
of Motown.
Two people singing on this.
And what's the date?
It is 1960.
(29:30):
It says 68.
I for some reason thought thiswas 1967.
I think the record says 68.
Anyhow, it is 68.
Okay, I thought it was 67.
68.
Released, obviously, 68.
Okay, I thought it was 67.
68.
Released, obviously on Tomla.
Motown R&B Soul Duo.
(29:51):
The B-side of the single whichI don't have because this is the
same song both sides, radio DJcopy is Little Old Boy, little
Old Girl from the duo's UnitedLP, the first release of the
duo's second album, you're All INeed, the song written and
(30:12):
produced by the regularcollaborators Get a drink of
water here, pardon me,collaborators Ashford and
Simpson Became a hit withinweeks of the release, eventually
peaked at number eight on theUS Billboard Hot 100, number one
(30:33):
on the Hot Soul Singles Chart,the first of the duo's two
number one R&B hits.
In the UK the song reachednumber 34.
Cashbox calling it a potentballad, saying the Detroit
backing puts a beat into thesession praising the splendid
(30:54):
vocals, and it is ranked as the57th biggest US hit from 1968.
Went to number nine in Canadaas well.
So this did very well.
It did real well, becauseMarvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell
teamed up and gave us this greattune.
(31:16):
Ain't nothing like the realthing.
Baby Pats Peeps 227.
Happy Friday.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby.
Ain't nothing like the realthing, no, no, ain't nothing
like the real thing, baby.
Ain't nothing like the realthing.
No, honey, I've got yourpicture hanging on the wall but
(31:52):
it can't see.
Come to me when I call yourname, I realize it's just a
picture in a frame.
I read your letters and you'renot near, but they don't move
and they don't move.
And, like men, I hear yoursweet voice whispering In my ear
(32:14):
, don't you know?
Ain't nothing like the realthing, baby.
Ain't nothing like the realthing.
I play my game of fantasy.
I pretend, but I know inreality.
I need the shelter of your armsto comfort me.
(32:37):
No other sound is quite thesame as your name.
No touch can do half as much Tomake me feel better, so let's
stay together.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Thank you so much for listening to my Pats Peeps
number 227.
Greatly appreciate you.
Sure would appreciate it ifyou'd give us a chance to go to
patspeepscom and support localbusiness and get exclusive
offers.
I'd be so grateful.
All right, have a wonderfulweekend.
See you tonight on the radio.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't
nothing like the real thing.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Talk to me Ain't nothing like the real thing.
Talk to me, ain't nothing likethe real thing, baby.
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