Who Ordered the Pie? | Classic Rock Music History & Cocktails
Who Ordered the Pie? is a classic rock music history podcast that explores the hidden stories behind legendary songs and the artists who shaped rock history. Each episode dives deep into rock history, Billboard chart performance, and behind-the-song storytelling, exploring the real-life moments that shaped legendary tracks and classic rock culture. Part narrative storytelling, part music documentary, and part barstool conversation, the show blends classic rock history with craft cocktail culture in a way that feels both nostalgic and fresh. If you love discovering what really happened behind the songs, tracing their rise on the charts, and hearing the stories that shaped music history, pull up a chair. This is your show.
Episodes
Episode 52: Songs You Endure | Part Two | Halloween Special
Some songs give you chills. Others make you wish you'd never pressed play.
Last Halloween, we explored 5 songs that took us into the darker corners of music history. This year, we're going back for more.
In “Songs You Endure | Part Two,” Christopher uncovers the disturbing stories behind 5 unforgettable recordings, from murder and madness to obsess...
Episode 51: When Soul Got Fuzzy: R&B with the Guitar Turned Up
Motown had a sound of its own. Then fuzz guitar started cutting through the polished soul, adding a rougher, louder edge.
In this episode, Christopher follows the Isley Brothers’ “Who’s That Lady?” from its swanky 1964 original to the guitar-driven 1973 reworking, “That Lady.” Then we hear how the Tem...
Have you ever heard something in a song that made you stop, back it up, and wonder, “What the hell was that?”
This week on “Who Ordered the Pie?” we’re exploring the creepy sounds and studio legends hiding inside familiar records. From the haunted streets of The Specials’ “Ghost Town” to the unsettling world of Peter Gabriel’s “Intruder,” we’ll h...
1 year. A lot of music. And a wife whose suggestion to start a podcast turned out to be an excellent delegation strategy.
For this anniversary episode of “Who Ordered the Pie?” I’m sharing how a lifelong love of liner notes and music trivia became a show about the stories behind the songs.
Go behind the microphone to hear how I handpick songs I believe deserve an audience, find the connections that t...
Before Cheap Trick, The Cars, The Knack and the power pop bands that followed, a handful of artists were already combining loud guitars, huge hooks and ’60s-inspired harmonies into something that would help define the genre.
In this installment of “Right Song, Wrong Timing,” Christopher goes back to the power pop pioneers who had the songs and the sound, but ran into bad timing, record label problem...
5 songs. 5 countries. Very different stories on opposite sides of the world.
In this edition of “Right Song, Wrong Timing,” Christopher follows Split Enz, Moving Pictures, Jon Astley, Peter Schilling, and Golden Earring through family connections, missed opportunities, and unexpected second chances.
From the Finn brothers’ story behind “I Got You” to the overlooked voices in “What A...
Why were some of the biggest Canadian rock bands of the 1980s huge at home, yet barely known in the United States?
In Episode 46 of "Who Ordered the Pie?," Christopher heads north for another installment of "Right Song, Wrong Timing" and follows 5 Canadian bands as they try to turn success in Canada into hits south of the border.
The Kings actually charted higher in the U.S. than in Canada with "This Beat Goes On / Sw...
Sunshine Pop is back for Part 2, with 4 more ridiculously catchy records from the late ’60s and early ’70s, and some of the strangest stories behind them.
This time, Christopher digs into Edison Lighthouse, The Cyrkle, The Association, and The Grass Roots, and discovers just how much was happening behind some of the happiest-sounding records on AM radio.
How do you score a massive number 1 hit when your ba...
Some songs challenge you. Others just make you feel good.
In Episode 44, we're diving into the bright, ridiculously catchy world of Sunshine Pop with 4 songs that helped define the happiest side of AM radio in the late '60s and early '70s.
The Foundations turn romantic misery into the irresistible "Build Me Up Buttercup." The Hollies bring their unmistakable 3-part harmonies to "Carrie Anne," along with one of the mos...
Rush, The Police, and ZZ Top became rock institutions. But what about the other great power trios of early ’80s FM radio?
In Episode 43 of “Who Ordered the Pie?,” we explore three bands whose defining moments arrived in three consecutive years: Triumph with “Magic Power” in 1981, Taxxi with “I’m Leaving” in 1982, and Zebra with “Who’s Behind the Door?”...
In the early days of MTV, one unforgettable music video could make a band look like the next superstar. In this episode of Who Ordered the Pie?, we revisit five 1980s bands that had the songs, the talent, the image, and the MTV exposure to become household names, but somehow never reached the level everyone expected.
We dig into the stories behind Big Country’s “In a Big Country,” Haircut One Hundre...
This week marks the 45th anniversary of Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the perfect time to take a deep dive into one of the biggest songs of the 1980s.
What do a stained glass class, a mystery woman, and one of rock's most iconic songs have in common?
In this episode of "Who Ordered the Pie?", Christopher uncovers the incredible true story behind "Jessie's Girl."
D...
Some guitarists become legends.
Others seem destined for superstardom... until something gets in the way.
In this episode of Right Song, Wrong Timing, we're revisiting five incredible guitarists who had the talent, the songs, the look, and the momentum to become some of the biggest rock stars of the 1980s.
From Charlie Sexton and Lita Ford to Andy Taylor, Robin George, and Aldo Nova, we'll explore the moments when ever...
Turn up the radio and roll the windows down.
This week on Who Ordered the Pie?, we're reopening five more musical case files featuring FM rock bands that had everything it took to become arena legends.
Big guitars.
Huge choruses.
Arena-ready production.
Songs people still crank in the car.
So why didn't they become the next Journey, Foreigner, or REO Speedwagon?
Join me as we investigate the stories behind Shooting Star, S...
Have you ever heard a song and wondered, "How was that band not huge?"
In this brand new recurring series, Christopher reopens five musical case files to investigate artists who had the right song, the right sound, and every reason to become major stars, but somehow never reached the level of success they seemed destined for.
This episode features The Smithereens' "Blood and Roses," Marshall Crenshaw's "So...
Every Fourth of July has a soundtrack.
In Episode 37 of Who Ordered the Pie, Christopher explores the stories behind the songs that have become part of America's Independence Day celebrations. Discover the surprising history behind Chicago's "Saturday in the Park," Kim Wilde's "Kids in America," Robert Earl Keen's "The Fourth of July," Robert Vaughn & The Dead River Angels' "4th of July," Bruce Springsteen's "4th...
This is Part 2 of our two-part series on the Parental Advisory label and the controversy that changed music forever.
In Episode 35, we explored Prince's "Darling Nikki," the PMRC, and the infamous Filthy Fifteen. Now the story moves from record stores to Washington, D.C.
In 1985, three unlikely allies found themselves defending artistic freedom before the United States Senate: Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, Frank Zappa...
A simple black-and-white sticker changed music history.
The Parental Advisory label became one of the most recognizable symbols in rock and pop culture, appearing on albums by Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, and countless others.
But where did it come from?
In Part One of this special two-part series, we go back to 1985 and the song that started it all: Prince's "Darling Nikki."
How did one track f...
Some songs say it outright.
Others make you work for it.
In this episode of Who Ordered the Pie?, Christopher explores the lost art of innuendo in rock and pop music. Back when radio stations, television networks, and censors had the power to decide what audiences could hear, songwriters became masters of suggestion, double entendre, and metaphor.
From The Rolling Stones battling The Ed Sullivan Show over "Let's Spend ...
Welcome back to Who Ordered the Pie? In Episode 33, Stutter Rock | When the Hook Trips Over Itself, we're exploring some of the most memorable vocal hooks in rock history. From Bachman-Turner Overdrive's accidental chart-topper "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" to Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets," David Bowie's "Changes," The Who's "My Generation," Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer," and George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone...
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