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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Some of you ask for more Ramone, which I think
is a terrible idea, but occasionally he does contribute something worthwhile.
So this little bonus podcast is some things that Ramone contributed.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
And I will I will leave them here for your enjoyment, aggravation, avoidance,
or whatever else emotion they elicit.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Hey it's Ramone. Hey, let's go to the things that
interest me files and that would be opera. No, no,
not necessarily that kind, more like this. This is a
famous French opera named William Tell. It's French, that's how
(00:51):
you pronounce. It's written in four parts, and I promise
you didn't know that you knew. This one in last
twelve minutes and paints a musical picture of the Swiss Alps.
The composer was Joe A. Keene. This is part one,
called Dawn. You probably don't recognize this, right, Okay, Let's
go to part two. It's called the Storm. Recognize this
(01:15):
probably not all right? This is part three and it's
called rendezvouche. You'll forgive my French, but that translates to
call to the cows. Here it is see, you didn't
know you knew a one hundred and ninety year old opera.
(01:36):
So next time you hear this song, you'll know it
as the Call to the Cows. The third part of
the fourth part classic opera written by Gioquino Rassini called
Gieme Tel. Well, thanks for dropping in for a few
minutes to talk opera. I hope you got a little
knowledge out of it, and I hope to see you again.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Oh oh yeah. The fourth part, well, that's called March
of the Swiss Soldiers, and the third part you'll remember
the name called of the Cows, ways right into part four.
(02:19):
I bet you didn't know that that song Graham Tell,
or as it's pronounced in English, William Tell, is the
epic conclusion of an eighteen to twenty nine French opera.
So next time you request a song, you'll need to
be more specific when you say, play the William Tell overture,
Ask for March of the Swiss Soldiers, or if you
can't remember that, just ask for the theme to the
(02:40):
Lone Ranger. Hey, it's Ramona. Say what you will about
the French, Well, go ahead, say what you will. I'll
give you a second. Okay. The French are passionate about
(03:02):
everything from movies, art, food, and especially wine. France produced
almost fifty million hecta leaders of wine in twenty eighteen.
I don't even know what a hec de leader is,
but that's second in the world, only to Djibouti. What
oh no, not Jibouti, I meant Italy. Here are some
more facts about French wine, Much to the French's chagrin,
they didn't invent wine. It was brought over by the
(03:23):
Greeks six centuries before Christ. French chemists Angelo Marianni, intrigued
with health virtues and economic potential of coco, started marketing
a wine called vin Tonique Marianni that combined Bordeaux wine
with cocoa leaves with wines ethanol, extracting the cocaine from
the cocoa leaves. Vin Marianni was said to provide health
(03:44):
and vitality. Popular among Queen Victoria, Pope Pious a tenth
Thomas Edison in US grant for its energizing qualities, vin
Marianni inspired American John Pemberton's Coco wine drink recipe in
eighteen eighty five, forced to change his recipe due to
the passing of prohibition legislation in Atlanta. Pemberton responded by
developing a non alcoholic version of his French wine, cocoa.
(04:05):
It was eventually renamed Coca Cola. Unlike foreign wines, which
are labeled according to the grape used, French wines are
labeled following the soil on which they are produced. This
is why the same grape variety that is planted in
different regions can produce wines so different from each other.
A monk and an early advocate of organic wine drinking,
(04:27):
accidentally produced a specific type of sparkling wine, champagne. And
this is the meat of our story. In the late
seventeenth century, while experimenting new methods of wine making, this
monk found a way to make wine sparkle. It was
said he exclaimed, come quickly, I'm drinking stars. Indeed, during
the Middle Ages, monks preserved and developed wine making skills,
(04:47):
chiefly for celebrating mass So an important fact about French
wine is that the best vineyards were originally owned by
the monasteries, and their wine was considered to be superior.
Amen to that, and by the way, that monk you
know his name, Don perry On. And finally, let's look
at champagne you may know that there is a region
in France name Champagne. The French were so frustrated with
(05:10):
other winemakers around the world making sparkling wine and calling
that Champagne that they wanted to pass a law stating
that any sparkling wine made outside of Champagne could not
be called Champagne. But how could they do such a task.
How could a little region in France muster up enough
support and power to get such a law passed. Well, conveniently,
some people just outside of Paris were getting together to
(05:31):
make some changes around the region. The group from Champagne
convinced them to put this law into the books, and,
as history would have it, it was signed. However, when
and where this law was finally passed is overshadowed by
other laws written and passed at the same time, such
as creating Czechoslovakia and Poland, Bannon, the alliance of Germany
and Austria, the surrender of all German colonies to control
(05:53):
by the newly created League of Nations, setting up the
League of Nations, making Germany payback thirty three billion dollars,
setting up the trial for the former Kaiser and other
war leaders, and limiting in the size of the German
army to one hundred thousand men, with no conscription, no tanks,
no heavy artillery, no poison gas supplies, no aircraft and
no airships. The limitation of the German navy to vessels
(06:14):
under one hundred thousand tons and absolutely no submarines. But
perhaps the best thing for France was no sparkling winemaker
is allowed to call it champagne unless it's made in
the Champagne region of France. So it was written, voted
and passed in the Treaty of Versailles. Viveistan, I mean.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Victor foe holding that that don't say an don't y sin.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Shows shows, I mean I mean to discog.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Hit Ramone. It was the late nineteen sixties. A pop band,
once sowing with hit after hit, found themselves burnt out
and drifting apart. After nearly two years of separation, they
reunited at the urging of their record label. Their comeback
brought brief success, but soon the magic faded. By nineteen
(07:47):
seventy five, they were struggling, reduced to playing small clubs
to stay afloat, and facing the thread of being dropped
by their label. Meanwhile, a new sound was bubbling up
in Manhattan. They called it disco. Nightclubs were buzzing, and
record companies were scrambling to capitalize on this fresh sound.
(08:08):
But our band was still searching for a lifeline. Then
in nineteen seventy six, a phone call changed everything. Leave England,
come to Miami. The band, desperate took the leaping. What
(08:28):
awaited them was nothing short of destiny. The fusion of
their music with that Miami sound and disco ignited a
resurgence like no other. This band didn't just stay alive,
They dominated the Beiji stormed the disco era with hits
(08:57):
like Staying Alive and Night Fever and How Deep Is
Your Love, all from one legendary album. Their influence was unstoppable,
rewriting the charts and shaping an entire genre. But this
revival hinged on one phone call, one decision. Barry Gibb
(09:22):
called it Heaven sent. He was close. It didn't come
from Heaven. Rather, it came from four to sixty one
Ocean Boulevard in Miami, and it wasn't from God but
from a man often held as a guitar god. The
(09:43):
call that saved the Beg's and reshaped disco. It came
from none other than Eric Clapton.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
If you like the Michael Berry Show and Podcast, please
tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a
nice review of our podcast. Comments, suggestions, questions, and interest
in being a corporate sponsor and partner can be communicated
directly to the show at our email address, Michael at
(10:30):
Michael Berryshow dot com, or simply by clicking on our website,
Michael Berryshow dot com. The Michael Berry Show and Podcast
is produced by Ramon Roeblis, the King of Ding. Executive
producer is Chad Knakanishi. Jim Mudd is the creative director.
(10:55):
Voices Jingles, Tomfoolery and Shenanigans are provided by Chance McLean.
Director of Research is Sandy Peterson. Emily Bull is our
assistant listener and superfan. Contributions are appreciated and often incorporated
into our production. Where possible, we give credit, where not,
(11:18):
we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the
memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple
man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD and
(11:43):
a combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free
counseling
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Some of you ask for more Ramone, which I think
is a terrible idea, but occasionally he does contribute something worthwhile.
So this little bonus podcast is some things that Ramone contributed.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
And I will I will leave them here for your enjoyment, aggravation, avoidance,
or whatever else emotion they elicit.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Hey it's Ramone. Hey, let's go to the things that
interest me files and that would be opera. No, no,
not necessarily that kind, more like this. This is a
famous French opera named William Tell. It's French, that's how
(00:51):
you pronounce. It's written in four parts, and I promise
you didn't know that you knew. This one in last
twelve minutes and paints a musical picture of the Swiss Alps.
The composer was Joe A. Keene. This is part one,
called Dawn. You probably don't recognize this, right, Okay, Let's
go to part two. It's called the Storm. Recognize this
(01:15):
probably not all right? This is part three and it's
called rendezvouche. You'll forgive my French, but that translates to
call to the cows. Here it is see, you didn't
know you knew a one hundred and ninety year old opera.
(01:36):
So next time you hear this song, you'll know it
as the Call to the Cows. The third part of
the fourth part classic opera written by Gioquino Rassini called
Gieme Tel. Well, thanks for dropping in for a few
minutes to talk opera. I hope you got a little
knowledge out of it, and I hope to see you again.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Oh oh yeah. The fourth part, well, that's called March
of the Swiss Soldiers, and the third part you'll remember
the name called of the Cows, ways right into part four.
(02:19):
I bet you didn't know that that song Graham Tell,
or as it's pronounced in English, William Tell, is the
epic conclusion of an eighteen to twenty nine French opera.
So next time you request a song, you'll need to
be more specific when you say, play the William Tell overture,
Ask for March of the Swiss Soldiers, or if you
can't remember that, just ask for the theme to the
(02:40):
Lone Ranger. Hey, it's Ramona. Say what you will about
the French, Well, go ahead, say what you will. I'll
give you a second. Okay. The French are passionate about
(03:02):
everything from movies, art, food, and especially wine. France produced
almost fifty million hecta leaders of wine in twenty eighteen.
I don't even know what a hec de leader is,
but that's second in the world, only to Djibouti. What
oh no, not Jibouti, I meant Italy. Here are some
more facts about French wine, Much to the French's chagrin,
they didn't invent wine. It was brought over by the
(03:23):
Greeks six centuries before Christ. French chemists Angelo Marianni, intrigued
with health virtues and economic potential of coco, started marketing
a wine called vin Tonique Marianni that combined Bordeaux wine
with cocoa leaves with wines ethanol, extracting the cocaine from
the cocoa leaves. Vin Marianni was said to provide health
(03:44):
and vitality. Popular among Queen Victoria, Pope Pious a tenth
Thomas Edison in US grant for its energizing qualities, vin
Marianni inspired American John Pemberton's Coco wine drink recipe in
eighteen eighty five, forced to change his recipe due to
the passing of prohibition legislation in Atlanta. Pemberton responded by
developing a non alcoholic version of his French wine, cocoa.
(04:05):
It was eventually renamed Coca Cola. Unlike foreign wines, which
are labeled according to the grape used, French wines are
labeled following the soil on which they are produced. This
is why the same grape variety that is planted in
different regions can produce wines so different from each other.
A monk and an early advocate of organic wine drinking,
(04:27):
accidentally produced a specific type of sparkling wine, champagne. And
this is the meat of our story. In the late
seventeenth century, while experimenting new methods of wine making, this
monk found a way to make wine sparkle. It was
said he exclaimed, come quickly, I'm drinking stars. Indeed, during
the Middle Ages, monks preserved and developed wine making skills,
(04:47):
chiefly for celebrating mass So an important fact about French
wine is that the best vineyards were originally owned by
the monasteries, and their wine was considered to be superior.
Amen to that, and by the way, that monk you
know his name, Don perry On. And finally, let's look
at champagne you may know that there is a region
in France name Champagne. The French were so frustrated with
(05:10):
other winemakers around the world making sparkling wine and calling
that Champagne that they wanted to pass a law stating
that any sparkling wine made outside of Champagne could not
be called Champagne. But how could they do such a task.
How could a little region in France muster up enough
support and power to get such a law passed. Well, conveniently,
some people just outside of Paris were getting together to
(05:31):
make some changes around the region. The group from Champagne
convinced them to put this law into the books, and,
as history would have it, it was signed. However, when
and where this law was finally passed is overshadowed by
other laws written and passed at the same time, such
as creating Czechoslovakia and Poland, Bannon, the alliance of Germany
and Austria, the surrender of all German colonies to control
(05:53):
by the newly created League of Nations, setting up the
League of Nations, making Germany payback thirty three billion dollars,
setting up the trial for the former Kaiser and other
war leaders, and limiting in the size of the German
army to one hundred thousand men, with no conscription, no tanks,
no heavy artillery, no poison gas supplies, no aircraft and
no airships. The limitation of the German navy to vessels
(06:14):
under one hundred thousand tons and absolutely no submarines. But
perhaps the best thing for France was no sparkling winemaker
is allowed to call it champagne unless it's made in
the Champagne region of France. So it was written, voted
and passed in the Treaty of Versailles. Viveistan, I mean.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Victor foe holding that that don't say an don't y sin.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Shows shows, I mean I mean to discog.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Hit Ramone. It was the late nineteen sixties. A pop band,
once sowing with hit after hit, found themselves burnt out
and drifting apart. After nearly two years of separation, they
reunited at the urging of their record label. Their comeback
brought brief success, but soon the magic faded. By nineteen
(07:47):
seventy five, they were struggling, reduced to playing small clubs
to stay afloat, and facing the thread of being dropped
by their label. Meanwhile, a new sound was bubbling up
in Manhattan. They called it disco. Nightclubs were buzzing, and
record companies were scrambling to capitalize on this fresh sound.
(08:08):
But our band was still searching for a lifeline. Then
in nineteen seventy six, a phone call changed everything. Leave England,
come to Miami. The band, desperate took the leaping. What
(08:28):
awaited them was nothing short of destiny. The fusion of
their music with that Miami sound and disco ignited a
resurgence like no other. This band didn't just stay alive,
They dominated the Beiji stormed the disco era with hits
(08:57):
like Staying Alive and Night Fever and How Deep Is
Your Love, all from one legendary album. Their influence was unstoppable,
rewriting the charts and shaping an entire genre. But this
revival hinged on one phone call, one decision. Barry Gibb
(09:22):
called it Heaven sent. He was close. It didn't come
from Heaven. Rather, it came from four to sixty one
Ocean Boulevard in Miami, and it wasn't from God but
from a man often held as a guitar god. The
(09:43):
call that saved the Beg's and reshaped disco. It came
from none other than Eric Clapton.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
If you like the Michael Berry Show and Podcast, please
tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a
nice review of our podcast. Comments, suggestions, questions, and interest
in being a corporate sponsor and partner can be communicated
directly to the show at our email address, Michael at
(10:30):
Michael Berryshow dot com, or simply by clicking on our website,
Michael Berryshow dot com. The Michael Berry Show and Podcast
is produced by Ramon Roeblis, the King of Ding. Executive
producer is Chad Knakanishi. Jim Mudd is the creative director.
(10:55):
Voices Jingles, Tomfoolery and Shenanigans are provided by Chance McLean.
Director of Research is Sandy Peterson. Emily Bull is our
assistant listener and superfan. Contributions are appreciated and often incorporated
into our production. Where possible, we give credit, where not,
(11:18):
we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the
memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple
man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD and
(11:43):
a combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free
counseling
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