July 1, 2025 • 57 mins
Nothing takes you back to the good ole Summer time like music!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, buzzheads, Welcome to the Seventies Buzz Podcast. I'm Curtis Tucker.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Todd Wheeler, bringing you our memories or lack thereof,
of growing up in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We are not a history podcast. We just want you
guys to know that sometimes we get things wrong, and
if you listen to us long enough, you're going to
be screaming at your device trying to give us the
right answers.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Listen up as we recount growing up in the Midwest
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
Intro, dummy, Take three, Oh, seventies buzz Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay, we'll get it right. We'll get it right. Can
you guys hear that? Anybody there?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Hello, knock it off, knock it off.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Pat your computer fish, it's fucking it's not working.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I've had too many I've been so busy, You've been
so busy. I've been so busy. I haven't even been
able to listen to Christopher Todd's album. I mean, my
sister was here last week and then and then I
had to get back to work. I worked every I
worked all weekend. I worked all day Saturday, all day Sunday.
What is day? Yesterday? Yeah, yesterday. I actually took off
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at two o'clock because it was my birthday's birthday.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It was I had a birthday.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I have a birthday every year, every year.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, hey, welcome to another episode.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The seventies bus but day.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Are you sure this is a buzz hit radio one
of those two they're interchangeable these days. Hit us up
at five eighth five for one three five or buzz
at bussidmedia dot com. Many of you called, thank you
guys for calling in and wishing Toddy a little birthday there.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, Shelley called her, She's hung happy birthday to move Shelley,
you singing really well? Thank you, thank you. Steve called Yes,
we would have fit right in with the what they
called the shack the Shack.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Breeze. Breeze called yeah, good to hear from Breeze.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Dave called Toby called Richard, Quavis called now Dave had
some comments on the seventy oh. He asked if I
was eligible, if I was eligible for Social Security, Yeah,
I am.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
At sixty two. You definitely are minus thirty percent.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, So I'm gonna wait a minute or so, we'll see.
As far as last week's episode, his favorite shoot is
there every Movies Animal House? Uh, what was that two
weeks ago? Heck, got it?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I mean yeah, I think that was last week.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Blazon Saddles and Young Frankenstein.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
In that order, he said, yeah, in that order, and.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Everything else's bust said radio.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Toby asked about if we if I still had my
fire extinguisher. I do not. I do not know what
I do with it. Curtis still has his.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I just have mine in the garage ready and awaiting,
ready for you guys to go squirt somebody.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And then apparently the class preceding us destroyed the school bus.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
According to Toby, the class of nineteen eighty. It was
the band. So back in the day, the band would
get a big band trip every year, and their band
trip was to Maint Saint Mount Saint Helen's was actually
Mount Saint Helens is in that area, but it was
when it exploded. According to Toby, it ruined the motor
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on the bush on the way back.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, well, so, oh well are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I mean, I don't know you got to drive back.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, I didn't know. Didn't you know that? I didn't
know they were up there during that time?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Oh you didn't, Yeah I did. Yeah, it was a
big deal because the volcano happened when they were up there.
It was like big end news. It's like, yeah, pretty
cool and real quick. Because you mentioned Christopher Todd's album,
he has released it, Yes, and so we will be
talking in depth with Christopher Todd on but said radio
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tonight about the album. So again, we talked a little
bit about it last week, but so be sure and
catch us over there. And then Richard Quavis he kind
of agreed he didn't really listen. I don't think anybody
really listened to the Beach Boys in the seventies. Apparently
one of his favorite comedies was meat Balls, and his
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parents took him to see Blazing Saddles at a very
young age. He doesn't think they knew exactly what it
was about. He thinks they thought it was a Western.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, it kind of was. It was It was kind.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Of was, Yeah, And if you want to if anybody
wants to mail, or you want to mail, our official
address is PO Box five two, en At, Oklahoma, seven three,
seven oh two. But if it's something you're mailing that
you don't think can be mailed to a PO box,
you can just send it to nineteen twenty five Indian Drive,
(05:29):
en At, Oklahoma, seven three, seven oh three.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So that's cards there you go, Richard.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, so, and I'm home all day so that way
all deliveries, I snag them before the porch pirates get them.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So yeah, yeah, I don't have porch pirates here any anyway,
don't have any pirates there, no pirates run here, hey maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah? So uh yeah, So that was all all our
phone calls. And I don't I don't know that I
had any email else.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, I don't think if.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I had an email, I've missed it somehow.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah. So, and no Gretchen call. But she's I checked
on her.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
She's okay, she's doing good. Yeah, she's good out there.
And like I said, yeah, Christopher Todd is on hold
for bush Head Radio.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Hold.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
He's doing stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I'm sure doing stuff. I'm trying to think. Was her
seventies news. What was I thinking there was some kind
of suff Oh kind of, but I'm going to mention
that on Bushead Radio. So yeah. AnyWho, Yeah, so Todd's
a big sixty.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'm an old man.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It's uh so TikTok's really getting into the age thing.
A lot of people they've got this new One of
the new things is what does a woman at fifty
years old look like?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And then they show a video of themselves and some
of them like whoa.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I'm like, oh, yeah, well, you know, like the Old
Shell Golden Girls, those they were all in their like
forties and fifties.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah? Yeah, the characters were I guess I don't I
don't know if they really were not. Yeah, I know
the Old Lady was actually younger than b Arthur. Yeah,
it's just the way they dressed them up and stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So yeah, so we're all getting old. If you're listening
to this podcast here, you're probably getting old just like
we are. But that's all right, nothing wrong with getting old.
That's better not getting old.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, the alternative is not a good thing. Yeah, but
I'll tell you you know, in the mornings, it's a
little hard to get out of bed. Sometimes get little
stiff and it's like over gird.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I haven't gotten to that stage yet, So I hop
up and pew them out on the trail.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I hop up and pew go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I do that too, and then I'm off on the trail. Okay,
yeah really, I let the dog out?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Who dog?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
My tennis shoes on, and I'm off.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, so I hope you put your clothes on.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
No, sometimes sometimes not. Did you see? No, that's not
seventies related. But poor guy was running the hurdles the
other day, I guess, and he had he had some
junk and he had some short shorts and he came
out during the hurdles. Oh he kept trying to put
it back in and he couldn't. But he won the race.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, good for him.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I mean it was like it was everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Oh, it was one of the craziest videos I ever saw.
So it wasn't like getting hung up on the hurdle.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So I'm like, wow, that's crazy you guys. Goo uh TikTok.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
That good TikTok.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's kind of crazy, guys.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Junk and hurdles.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
There you go. You will find it. Very quickly.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
So I kept thinking, I wish we could do more
shows on summer stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh well, it's summertime.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's summertime. And so I was thinking, what what haven't
we done as far as summer And then I thought,
you know, every summer, not every summer, but most you know,
And for us, we had a lot of summers when
we were younger, and because we didn't have phones and walkman's,
we didn't listen to as much music in the summer
when we were younger as we did as we got
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a little older, because maybe we had a radio or stayon,
had a stereo in the window. But all you know,
every summer, because you're out of school, you do get
the opportunity to listen to more music, especially if you're
listening to it on the radio or if you're in
in the car with your mom. We hear the same
songs over and over. So I was thinking, what are
the most memorable, the most high ranking, the most out
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there summer songs in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, they want songs were reminded you of summer? I
mean not there there are some summer songs that are like,
you know, like summer.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Nights in the summertime.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, yeah, summer.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah. But these are songs that were, like you you
just heard them in the summer. They they'll I've kind
of wanted to come up with a list of songs
that would take you back to the summer, like Magnet
and Steel when yere was that that had to be
maybe eighty eighty one and life is Good. Those two songs.
(10:31):
Anytime I hear them, they take me back to Oakwood
Country Club swimming pool when Steerman used to take us
out there. But I think those were like I think
they were like eighty probably eighty ye. But anyway, that's
what I was looking for for seventies and so, and
I found a really great list. Yeah, and then but
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then I wanted to put my own spin on that list.
So I've got a list of songs that I remember
in the summer. And then I mean literally this was
like the best list. Seven hundred songs.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
We're not gonna play all seven hundred songs. We're not
gonna play all seven hundred thongs because for surely we'd
be sued.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Then I I did list fifty and I look at
the fifty I'm like, yeah, those yeah, yeah, I remember that.
I remember that. I remember that. So anyway, so, uh
so we're basically starting from nineteen seventy we're going all
the way to nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah, we're not gonna include any songs from sixty nine. No,
we're not gonna include Magnet Steel or anything from nineteen eighty.
Only songs from the summers and the seventies.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And why is that, mister Wheeler, because.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That was a good man, Yes, it was.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Okay, I made a little list, you did, like one.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Actually I got two lists. I got two I got
two platelists. One was I wonder what because it was
my birthday after day. Yeah, it was like, I wonder
what the number one song was?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Oh during your birthday?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Birthday?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, we can get to that one ever.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh okay, uh yeah. What I tried to do was,
I'm kind of like you. I've got two lists. I've
got a list of ones that I distinctly remember and
then ones that I think everybody else will remember. But
so I'm going to just throw one out there, and again,
most of the ones that I personally remember are going
to be in the later seventies.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah. Oh yeah, there's yeah, seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, because in the earlier seventies, again, I wasn't listening
to records and radio is because we were always out
playing at Boggy Creek, and you didn't have a way
of listening to music when you were at.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Bogging Creek, which was a shame exactly.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
But My Sharona nineteen seventy nine the debut single by
the American power pop band The Kanak.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Such a cool name, The Kanak. It was released in
seventy nine from their debut album. It reached number one.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Hang on, that's actually on my list too. Not that's
on my personal list.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh okay, where'd it go?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Where you go? I got so many I got some,
I got so much corn.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
It is a good song. It's a good seventies song,
but it was starting to enter that eighties sound. I
remember this was now again in seventy nine. We were
in cars and driving and it was on the radio
all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, my three new Woe when You're Gonna get Me
sometime Sharona. There's as actually you know the album, you know,
the famous album cover. Uh huh, that's Sharona on the calvert.
That's actually his girlfriend. He met her she was seventeen.
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They were to get for quite a while. She is
now a successful real estate agent. Yeah, I want to
say California. So I looked her up. Start really still hot.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well, this one reached number one on the Billboard Hot
one hundred Singles chart, where it remained for six weeks.
That's why we heard it all the time on the radio.
It was number one on Billboards nineteen seventy nine Top
Pop Singles Year end chart. It was certified gold by
the Recording Industries Association America, representing one million copies sold.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And if anybody's curious, sir on his last name is
Alparim alper, I look her up.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Cool and this was Capitol Record's fastest gold status debut
single since the Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand
in nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Wow, yeah, this is this was everywhere you couldn't swing
your dead cat with that here in this song that
didn't sound great. This is the way it is.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yep, So good to know we had that. Yeah, So
there's no you know there, it's real random because there
was a boatload of popular songs in the summers. Sure so,
but again, I think there was some songs that everybody's
gonna recognize as Oh yeah, that was definitely a song
that was popular in the summer.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I have one from nineteen seventy three that I don't
think anybody would suspect would it reminds me of summer
because it well, I'll just I'll just tell you. In
nineteen seventy three, it was summertime, it was getting into August.
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My mom comes into my bedroom and she's like, hey,
it was gonna let you know, we're going, we're gonna go.
We're going on vacation. And I've told the story before,
but like vacation and we went to went to see
our friends and in Louisiana we'd met him here, but
this song had just came out on the radio and
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we listened to it all the way there. It's it's
still a great song, reckon.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh yeah, did you happen to see them?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Nineteen seventy three August Girl in the World And I
never got tired of listening to it.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And if you did, what cry.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Cry?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, this one did not make my list.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well that's what I said, you know, it's it's yeah,
nobody was say like that.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Lets just say it's kind of what.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You remember that's what I remember back in summer of
seventy three, this song right here, I.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Need five baby back, Well, Charlie Rich Let's stick with
seventy three real quick now.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
This one I don't remember from the summer, but it
was a big summer hit, Jim Croche's Bad Bad Leroy Brown,
And unfortunately it was one of his top songs, except
it happened it coincided with his tragic death in a
Louisiana plane crash. Yeah, he was going from college to
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college September twentieth, nineteen seventy three. It was a song
number one hit for him, spending two weeks at the
top of the Billboard Hot one hundred and July of
seventy three, Billboard ranked it his number two song for
the whole year. The inspiration for the song was a
friend he met in his brief time in the United
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States Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey. They were both
telephone linemen in telephone lineman school together. He stayed there
about a week and one evening he turned around and
he said, and this other guy said that he was
fed up. So he went a wall left, But then
he came back to pick up his paycheck like a
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month later, and when he came to get his check,
they handcuffed him and took him off to the brig.
To the brig. Yeah, and so Jim thought he was
such a bad bad you know, he was bad. And
so that was the inspiration for the song what an Idiot,
bad bad levery Brown. He was so bad that he
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thought he could come back and get his check and
nothing would happen.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, okay, well that wasn't very right. Yeah, okay, here
I'm going what you got what to me? Well, here
I'll display it. It's gonna take a minute. It's gonna
take a minute to spool up. I don't hit the
play button. Got to hit the play button, got to
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hit it, got to hit it. This is from July
of seventy seven, is Mark Minkoin's house. It's hey, it's playing.
I promise it's playing.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It's one of those songs. It starts re quiet.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, I sped. I jumped ahead a little bit. Of course.
Everybody recognizes this, don't you.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I do, Okay, And I only recognize it because that
was probably the summer we were over here and you
were playing it all the time. Yeah, because I'd never
heard of it.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm either until marks. I mean, I wrote Alan Parsons,
let me get to that.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Here you go, now they'll recognize it. Yeah, it was
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kind of different. It was not one that you were
gonna hear on the radio a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
No, man, that guys get I remember the first time
I heard it, I was like, what are they gonna
start singing anyway? I robot, that's my summer song of
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seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
How about this one? This one could be the ultimate
seventies summer song. Oh are you guys ready?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Ready waiting?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Jimmy Buffett's Margerideville. Does it get any more summary than
that his career was a drift, like a yacht without
a compass, His only top forty hit years behind him
when he released his seventh album in the winter of
seventy seven. That summer, Margueriteville rose along with the temperature,
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eventually birthing a cottage industry of restaurants merchandise for the
tropical troubadour.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So let me play a little Let me play a
little Margariteville. That's worth that's worth waiting a second.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, it's a definitely. I don't know that I can
find any song any more summary than Margaritaville. And they
did play the snot out of this song.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
What year was that?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
He was seventy seven, But you know they were still
playing it in the eighties when I went off to college,
because you couldn't go out dancing without this song being played?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Can you two step to this?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeh had Norms.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
This is where we are.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We two stepped to this at Norms.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, one of your female friends try to teach me
one night. It didn't work, It didn't take. I could
have been ald a beer.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah maybe so anyway, Yeah, there you lied again Margarita video.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, very close song, very close song. Get back to
my list here? Oh oh oh nothing, I gotta go
back around. I gotta circle back around.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay, Uh do do do do? I got all kinds here?
What the hell I'm gonna say one? I'm gonna throw
one out there? How about uh Don't Bring Me Down?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Bring Me Down?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Brush Again? Nineteen seventy nine, uh el O. It was
their ninth and final track on their seventy nine album Discovery,
their highest charting hit in the United States, Uh the
second highest charting in the UK. It peaked at number three,
Their biggest hit in the United States, speaking at number
four on the Billboard Hot one hundred. The common misheard
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lyric in the song is his perception that Lynn shouts Bruce.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
But he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
But he doesn't. He was actually saying groose, which was
a made up word that he was trying to fill
space with. But then he found out that there was
a German expression called it was kind of like groose
and so and it meant greeting. So he basically decided
to leave it as groose. But because so many people
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thought it was Bruce, he would actually sing Bruce at
concerts when they were live, so that's why even more
people thought it was Bruce.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well, he was perpetuating the yes purpose perp he shouldn't have,
don it. Yeah whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, So there's your little trivia on Don't Bring Me
Down nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Here's another one from seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Oh yeah, them them, them, them sisters.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Sisters, sisters about it. It's really south. I don't have that.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah. This is a uh, definitely a summer song.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Cruising around.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
I think.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Today holiday m.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Sounds like a galloping horse.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Okay, I didn't get too barcoda.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Now, okay, it just wouldn't be right.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I think they knew what it was.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I know that, but I want to hear them say, Barracuda,
we can't play every the whole song of every song
be here on that along.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
How about the Eagles. The Eagles were very, very popular
in nineteen seventy five, especially their hit One of These Nights.
But you don't really think of as like one of
their mega hits, but it actually was. Yeah, but this
so they were kind of thought of as a country
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rock ballad type band and they wanted to break out
of that, so they wrote One of these Nights.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Well, I tell you the reason. Do you remember the
reason we didn't do any Eagle songs?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, because you say Kyle said they were two countries.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Kyle did say that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay, well that's maybe why we didn't do them.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
That is.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Don Henley said, we like to be a nice little
country rock band from La half the time, but we
wanted to get away from the ballad syndrome with One
of these Nights. They wanted to have a lot of teeth,
a lot of bite, a nasty track with pretty.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Vocals who sings this?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I think I think.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
One of these.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
That sounds like.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
What's the other not Felder, not Henley, the one that died. Yeah,
I can't be I'm not sure who. I'm not sure
who sang this one. This We could google that. Somebody's
screaming at their device.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Somebody let us know who actually seen.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
But yeah, it's just it's a good song, but it
was just never I don't know. It's just one of
those songs where I remember hearing it a lot, but
it wasn't like one of my It wasn't like a
hotel California.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Oh, speaking of which, speaking of which, that is on
my list, That is on my list. That's gonna take
me a second to get bugger.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Well, I'm gonna throw a quick one in here. I
remember this one really. Every time I hear this song,
it takes me back to the summer of nineteen seventy six,
and it was Elton John and Kiki D. Don't Go
Break in My Heart Yeah, Rocket record Company. It was
released June twenty fifth, nineteen seventy six. It was the
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first number one single in the UK for both John
and Kiki D, topping the chart for six weeks in
mid nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah good Back to the Eagles. This would have been
so we did do this song?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Now this is the only I think this is the well. No,
we did Life in the.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
FASTI oh, yeah, I guess we did do some Eagles.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
We did a couple of Sorry, now we didn't do
these very often. I don't know that we ever. It's
kind of like we just practiced these more.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, because I remember every time I sang the line
h warm smell of khalitas, I was like, what the
is khalida? I had to look it up.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, this song just I mean, I'm back in the
seventies with my headphones on in my green bean bag chair.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Another song from seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
God that I listened to this song eight thousand times. Yeah, summertime, summertime, smertime.
Here's another summer song.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
How about nineteen seventy six the Starland Vocal Band.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
How Come I didn't do that well?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Afternoon to Light In the US, it became a number
one single on July tenth, nineteen seventy six. It earned
a gold record. The title came from a happy hour
menu at Clyde's Restaurant in Georgetown, Washington, d C. They
were eating there and they saw that, and then the
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guy that wrote it, he said, I didn't want to
write an all out sex song. I just wanted to
write something that was fun and hinted.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
At sex handed pretty hard.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And this was this was one hit. Wonder this was
their only but this definitely was a summer song.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
And now I can't hear this without thinking about Ron
Jeremy with Paul Rudd and.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
We everything a little clear in the.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
Light of days, and we.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Know that that is always gone to bear anyway. And
I think they won a like a Grammy or something,
didn't they They knocked somebody, some big group off.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
What year?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
What year was.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Seventy six rockets? Yeah, I remember this one. It was
because it had such innu window in it as a
as a ute it was it would make you giggle.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, yeah, not quite blush, but giggle, more of a
giggle because we know we're getting there. We're getting there. Okay,
how about this one?
Speaker 5 (31:00):
I decided to do a live one.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
This was recorded live in Michigan in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
And I tell you what, the seventies the best freaking
decade ever.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Man, crazy, keep a shout of you. We're gonna get
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a letter from Paul and Jean. You know, Gene was
they had another new casino they opened.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I think so, well wherever it was a new rock
and brew somewhere really, Yeah, I'm assuming Oklahoma. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Okay, let's go back a little further, go back. So
when I first, you know, my sister had some songs
like the Hustle and do some disco songs. But then
I started hanging out when I was hanging out with
Eric Wright, his brother had some songs and this was
one of the songs, one of the first songs that
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was a hit that I really liked, really really really remember. Yeah,
nineteen seventy four by the British group Paper Lace.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Oh The Night She Go Die.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah reached number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred
chart for one week in seventy four, to reach number
three in the K charts and number two in Canada.
It's a fictional shootout between Chicago police and members of
the al Capone Syndicate. But I just remember hanging out
at Eric's house well, and he would play this all
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the time and Billy don't be a hero.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Daddy was a cop on the East side of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And so and this was even before I started buying music.
You know, this was like just before I started buying
my own music.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
So what year is this?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Seventy four?
Speaker 8 (33:43):
Chicago.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
But I just remember, I'll never forget this song. I mean,
it's just it takes me back to Eric Wright's house.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
It's amazing. Powerful music is as far as memories my
mom cry pray the nine shit talk Time brother on
a really won, very cool song, very cool song.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
You know that's funny because I'm gonna I'm gonna jump
into another song real quick. So that was seventy four.
This next song is from seventy five, and this was one.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
And I don't know why, why, why why?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
But this was one of the first forty fives I bought. Yeah,
I don't know why I bought.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
This is it?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I guess because it was so popular. Glenn Campbell nineteen
seventy five.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Oh not which Tall Island?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
The other one?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Rhinestone can Cowboy Yeah, May nineteen seventy five. It basically
caught on on the country and pop charts, climbing both
Billboard Hot Country and Billboard Hot one hundred charts before
peaking at number one by seasons in three im executive
weeks on the country chart. I've been walking these streets.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
He was a hell of a musician.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah he was. But I don't know why I why
would I buy this song? But I did. I remember
it had where Curtis's having a I told you it's that.
It's that instrumental on the other side of the forty five.
Uh William tell overture on the other side of it.
That was on the other side of this one. There's
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been Loise you know what may have been I went
over to I was buying my forty fives at WOCO.
It may have been like the only one. It may
have been like one of the only ones they had,
because I'm sure they only had like the top ten
or you know, songs from because I'm still trying to
(35:54):
figure out why would I buy this song?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I remember one of the first forty five's I bought
was that one with the singing none. Remember that song?
She was actually none and she had like a number
one it hit uh huh uh. I can't remember the
name of the song. And boom, Yeah, that's a great song.
(36:18):
And talk about a guitar player, Oh my god, he
could play a guitar. Yeah, he's I think he's probably
one of the most underrated.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Guitar I will say, yeah, definitely an underrated musician.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah. He was more than just a pretty face, more
than just a productor it was a good looking man too.
Uh okay, here's another one of mine that reminds me
of summertime later seventies.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Oh if this does not remind you of summer in
the seventies, you were living in a cave.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I tell you what. In every song on this album,
I mean I was looking at those like colleague, Oh yeah,
Collie either I can't play like eight Grease songs, but.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, but it was definitely the summer of Greece. Yeah,
I mean, without a doubt.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah. And Frankie Palley's still on stage. Have you seen him?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, it's awful, terrible, it's awful. I don't even think
he's singing. I think he's just mouthing.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah, he's absolutely not singing.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, he just it's like weekend at Bernie's. Yeah, it
is so sad.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It is. I'm like, oh, come on, somebody, and I
can't remember who I was talking to. Maybe it was
Cindy or somebody. And she's like, well, maybe they're maybe
he likes getting out, maybe he's enjoying him.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
So say, if it keeps him alive, keep him up there.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Sure, And apparently he don't care if he looks he
looks good.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
He's just you just know, he's a zombie and he's
not singing. You know.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
He reminds me of Hope Joe Black.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Oh yeah, yeah when he gets lost.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah right, okay, great soundtrack, great movie too.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah. Okay, And did you just see where John Travolta.
They had like a fifty year thing or something, and
John Travolta surprised him and came up on stage with
his leather jacket on and his hair was.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
In the like that air.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what it was for. But yeah,
I've seen the video like three or four times this week. Okay,
So go back to nineteen seventy four and again. Nineteen
seventy four is when I first started discovering music that
just wasn't on the radio in my mom's car. This
was like people had songs. This was one of the
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songs my sister had from the Hughes Corporation. Nineteen seventy
four Rock the Boat, Oh yeah, and I think my
sister might have had the forty five because she played
the song a lot. It was a disco favorite in
New York, did not top the forty radio until it
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was finally put on the I Think an album You
got the notion guy can read, I can see I
just I'm back in my sister's room and my sister's
singing it. Oh love, those are coming back. Ever since
(39:35):
it shot up the chart week of July sixth, nineteen
seventy four, he was considered one of the earliest disco songs. Yeah,
I could see that, and some people proclaim it to
be the first disco song on the Billboard Hot one
under chart.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
I could see that.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, So I guess I guess my music discovery was
around nineteen seventy four, because before that it was just
whatever my mom was playing on the radio in the car.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
You were like, hey, I can listen to other stuff
besides what mom means exactly. Well, when you get you know, devices,
when you get record players, and that's a whole that's
a liberating experience, getting being able to you know.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yeah. So when I finally, like my grandma like gave
me her old record player, it was like the like
a square box, you know, and you took the lid
off and.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
You could slide it off. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
And so because I had a record player, and this
must have been like seventy four, seventy five, probably seventy five.
So for Christmas, my mom bought me my first album.
My mom bought it and it was The Clowns spelled
with a K.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
That's kind of creepy.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
It is kind of creepy, but that was my first out.
And now I didn't buy my mom got it for me.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah, make sure you reiterate that.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, but it's funny listening to it now because it
brings back so many memories. It is the only album
I had, so I played it all the time. So
if you guys check it out, The Clowns from probably
seventy five. No, I'll have to. Yeah, I think I've
looked it up. I may try to buy it just
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to get the vinyl what you got over there.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Okay, so that's on my personal list. But my list,
my birthday number one list. We can't we really don't
have time to go through all these. But June of
seventy The Love you Share with Michael Jackson or the
Jackson five side note. The number one song at that
time was in the Summertime by Mungo Jerry, but it
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was only number one in UK. Seventy one It's Too
Late by Carol King seventy two, with song sung Blue
by Neil Diamond seventy three. Give Me Oh, I want
to play this one, this one. I really liked this song.
This was the number one song on my birthday in
(42:13):
nineteen seventy three. Love Give Me I, Love gels Me, Sona, give.
Speaker 8 (42:37):
Me Life, every live keeping stream, give me a whole hell,
help me cole with this heavy load Chiney do screet it.
Speaker 5 (42:54):
On So.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Seventy three. It seems like not that old. There's some
I don't remember. I don't know why it doesn't seem
old to me. Maybe because it's timeless.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
It's will Willberry ish it is.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
I wonder why how I don't know anyway? Give Me
Love George Harrison, good song.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Good song. How about trying to pick out some that
everybody would kind of?
Speaker 9 (43:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Donna Summer Back to seventy nine Bad Girls. Bad Girl
topped the chart for five weeks in July and August
of nineteen seventy nine. So if you were hanging out
by the pool in seventy nine. You definitely heard bad Girls.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Oh shoot, I'm going to do about.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
A bazillion time. I got several from the early seventies,
but oh, here was another one real quick. I think
my sister had this forty five as well. Now this
was a little bit later, though, Walter Murphy and the
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Big Apple Band a fifth of Beethoven from nineteen seventy
six disco instrumental. The song debuted at number eighty on
the Billboard Chart one hundred, climbed to number one within
nineteen weeks, remaining there for one week. In nineteen seventy seven,
it was licensed to RSO Records for inclusion on Saturday
(44:42):
Night Fever soundtrack and the song. It was one of
Murphy's few top forty hits.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Where can I find that? I want to hear that.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Fifth of Beethoven?
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Oh good song.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Maybe I'm spelling row hopeful.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yeah. I remember my sister playing that one a lot
as well. Dam damp, damp my mine.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
What part of the movie was this? They danced this?
I guess they danced to this.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Yeah, I don't know. Wow, here was here's the cover
of the Clowns.
Speaker 5 (46:06):
Oh, it's a little creepy.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Let's see if I can find one of their songs
real quick. Well, I guess I need to find.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Out that clowns are creepy. Anyway, the year real quick?
What year was that?
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Go ahead and continue on with your litters.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
So seventy three was give Me Love, seventy four was
Sunndown by Gordon Lightfoot, seventy five will was Love Love,
We'll just keep us together, Captain. You know they sing
it much better than I did. Seventy six was Silly
Love Songs by the Wings, another one of my favorite songs. Yeah,
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he's a former Beatle. Let me put that real.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Quick, Oh, so real quick. The Clowns Actually that album
came out in nineteen seventy, but my mom, I'm sure
it had been sitting on the shelf a while because
she didn't give it to me in seventy. Oh yeah,
this is definitely a summer seventy summer sound.
Speaker 9 (47:16):
And by.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
The story I heard about this song was, you know,
the the Beatles broken up and Paul was talking about
writing a love song, and John Lennon was like, nobody
wants to hear another love song, or nobody wants to
hear a silly love song. I guess, I guess it
was right on Mountain. Uh yeah, Look how young he
(47:49):
is there?
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Oh wow, Yeah, it's like a teenager.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Another incredibly talented person. I love all those songs. Seventy
seven was Gonna Fly Now by Bill Conti. I won't
bother you with that one.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
I had the both for There was two versions of
that song, and I had both forty fives Oh yeah
for that song for some weird reason, and loaned them
to Cammy Cammy Budminster so she could do it for
her twirling routine. And I never got him back.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
So in my birthday nineteen seventy eight, this was number one,
and again Shadow Dancing.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Andy was a good looking dude.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
And he was just getting ready to join the b Jesus,
what a shame.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Yeah he had. Isn't that crazy to be that talented
and good looking and rich and famous?
Speaker 2 (48:59):
And how did he does?
Speaker 5 (49:01):
So?
Speaker 1 (49:02):
I believe so he'd broken up with Victoria, Prince of Victoria.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
Is that did to you?
Speaker 1 (49:11):
I believe that's how he passed away. I hate to
say that.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
If you didn't, you may look that up where you
got lots of give me do the nine Shadowed Nothing,
and so that was seventy eight and seventy nine Ring
My Bell by Anita Ward. And I won't make you
listen to that either, because that's kind of a I
(49:36):
don't know, I never know it not. I don't think
it was. I think he had a heart condition or something,
but it was. I think it was brought on by
or was what do you call it when you have a.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
Yeah, chest paint is a myo carditis information caused by
a virus. Oh well he did, but yeah, okay, that's
what the deal. He had struggle with fame, which went
to addiction, which probably led to.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Yeah, it exasperated this situation.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
I knew there was something in there that he was
going through. He yeah, some conflict.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
Yeah, if he'd have been if he'd have been wiser,
if he'd ha stayed healthy, if he had stayed healthy,
probably would have that probably would not have been such
an issue for him.
Speaker 1 (50:23):
Yeah, how about nineteen seventy six? How about could you
go through nineteen seventy six and not remember the song
by Wild Cherry play that funky music No You Could
Not dis single hit number one on the Billboard Hot
(50:43):
one hundred and September of seventy six. This is like
the song when I got my guitar, which must have
been in seventy six. Stayton taught me how to play
this song.
Speaker 10 (51:00):
Are so I've betta got my guitar in Christmas of
seventy six.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Problem Yeah, no one night stands nothing. Yeah, you stop
to feeling so low.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
Quickly?
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Album cover.
Speaker 7 (51:36):
Oh yeah, that's that's like.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Somebody shouted.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
Some good songs from the seventies.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
There. Oh, there's two minutes.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
How we doing on?
Speaker 2 (51:57):
Time over the it's getting listen, getting a little late,
getting a little we got time for gun more. My
list is exhausted. Oh it is, well, I didn't play
on I could have played a lot more.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
Yeah, so we've gone through. Let's see uh three dog Night.
Mama told me it was a big hit. Brandy by
looking Glass was a big summer hit. Don't let the
Sun Go Down on Me. It was a big summer hit.
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Take Me Home, Country Roads, Like I said it was serious.
XM came out with a list of seven hundred of
the top summer songs from seventy through seventy nine, and
they ranked him My Sharona was number one.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
Speaking of serious remember I told you I was worried
about losing my serious because I had to get into cars.
I thought, well, here, pretty sudents can get shut off.
And I was griping because I realized I was paying
twenty five bucks a month and I didn't realize it's so.
But you know, it just kept playing, it just kept playing,
it just kept playing. I was like, well, maybe they forgot,
(53:14):
maybe they maybe they didn't catch it. Maybe I'm getting
serious for free. And I look at my bank statement. No, no,
apparently it was attached to my checking account, not my card,
and it was twenty dollars. But I did go back
and I changed it. Now it's down to seventeen dollars.
There you got some saving seven bucks a month.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
But I think I needed did I ever? I don't
know that I ever did that on mone, I need
to go do it.
Speaker 2 (53:34):
I don't think it did all right anymore? Something you
want here, and whe you want here? Where you went here?
Speaker 1 (53:45):
Take a chance on me. My allba was big. I
remember that in the summer Saturday in the park by Chicago. Oh,
and then here's one I remember do you have three
times a lady?
Speaker 5 (54:00):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (54:00):
Hang on goo, why is this oh, because it was.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
And do you know that I cannot hear three times
a Lady without thinking of being in this very house
with mister Todd Wheeler. Why is that because you always
played it?
Speaker 2 (54:15):
He was not always played that robot.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
Well, you know you played this one when it came
out because he'd always sing it and play it.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
Sorry, I'm just a singer. This was seventy seven, wasn't
it you?
Speaker 1 (54:37):
Yeah, I didn't have that.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
I think it was memory.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
It may almost had to.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
Be seventy seven or seventy eight. I think it was
seventy seven and maybe seventy come on seventy eight. Yeah
to the end rain boo.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Yeah. I don't know why. I just remember every time
we'd come over, it'd be playing in your room or
something way back in the day.
Speaker 2 (55:09):
Way back in the day.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
Okay, Yeah, So anyway, you guys, what you guys listen
to in this think about your favorite summer song in
the seventies, and let us.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
Know, I think I'm want to title this one a
little different, you know. So that's like sometimes it just
gives it away and they it's like there's no element of.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Surprise, like you like, what's it going to be about.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
What's it going to be about? But you want to
you gotta title something.
Speaker 9 (55:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
Yeah, I'll think about that. Send us your choice five
eight h five four one three EIGHTHO five or buzz
at buzzeadmedia dot com. We would love to hear and
I'm sure we left and again it just basically the
songs that you remember or heard or were popular in
the summertime in the seventies. So you know, again, we
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got to play outside or sit by a pool, so
there was some of those songs that you just heard
over and over and over and over, like you on
your trip to Louisiana, you know, So let us know
what that song was for you guys in the summer
in the seventies. And don't forget to come over to
Buzzhead Radio tonight. We're gonna talk to Christopher Todd. He
has released his album and I've been listening to it.
(56:27):
I actually funny thing. I listened to it again last night.
It's definitely a listenable, listenable to album. It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (56:37):
Yeah, I'm gonna I gotta go to the city tomorrow
to pick up a door. It'd be a good time
to listen to it.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
It would be a very good time now, Yeah, So
join us over there and we're gonna get out of here.
Speaker 5 (57:00):
M
Hey, buzzheads, Welcome to the Seventies Buzz Podcast. I'm Curtis Tucker.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Todd Wheeler, bringing you our memories or lack thereof,
of growing up in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
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if you listen to us long enough, you're going to
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
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Speaker 1 (00:50):
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you guys hear that? Anybody there?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Hello, knock it off, knock it off.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Pat your computer fish, it's fucking it's not working.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I've had too many I've been so busy, You've been
so busy. I've been so busy. I haven't even been
able to listen to Christopher Todd's album. I mean, my
sister was here last week and then and then I
had to get back to work. I worked every I
worked all weekend. I worked all day Saturday, all day Sunday.
What is day? Yesterday? Yeah, yesterday. I actually took off
(01:48):
at two o'clock because it was my birthday's birthday.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It was I had a birthday.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I have a birthday every year, every year.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, hey, welcome to another episode.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The seventies bus but day.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
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at bussidmedia dot com. Many of you called, thank you
guys for calling in and wishing Toddy a little birthday there.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, Shelley called her, She's hung happy birthday to move Shelley,
you singing really well? Thank you, thank you. Steve called Yes,
we would have fit right in with the what they
called the shack the Shack.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Breeze. Breeze called yeah, good to hear from Breeze.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Dave called Toby called Richard, Quavis called now Dave had
some comments on the seventy oh. He asked if I
was eligible, if I was eligible for Social Security, Yeah,
I am.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
At sixty two. You definitely are minus thirty percent.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, So I'm gonna wait a minute or so, we'll see.
As far as last week's episode, his favorite shoot is
there every Movies Animal House? Uh, what was that two
weeks ago? Heck, got it?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I mean yeah, I think that was last week.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Blazon Saddles and Young Frankenstein.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
In that order, he said, yeah, in that order, and.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Everything else's bust said radio.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Toby asked about if we if I still had my
fire extinguisher. I do not. I do not know what
I do with it. Curtis still has his.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I just have mine in the garage ready and awaiting,
ready for you guys to go squirt somebody.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And then apparently the class preceding us destroyed the school bus.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
According to Toby, the class of nineteen eighty. It was
the band. So back in the day, the band would
get a big band trip every year, and their band
trip was to Maint Saint Mount Saint Helen's was actually
Mount Saint Helens is in that area, but it was
when it exploded. According to Toby, it ruined the motor
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on the bush on the way back.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, well, so, oh well are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I mean, I don't know you got to drive back.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, I didn't know. Didn't you know that? I didn't
know they were up there during that time?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Oh you didn't, Yeah I did. Yeah, it was a
big deal because the volcano happened when they were up there.
It was like big end news. It's like, yeah, pretty
cool and real quick. Because you mentioned Christopher Todd's album,
he has released it, Yes, and so we will be
talking in depth with Christopher Todd on but said radio
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tonight about the album. So again, we talked a little
bit about it last week, but so be sure and
catch us over there. And then Richard Quavis he kind
of agreed he didn't really listen. I don't think anybody
really listened to the Beach Boys in the seventies. Apparently
one of his favorite comedies was meat Balls, and his
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parents took him to see Blazing Saddles at a very
young age. He doesn't think they knew exactly what it
was about. He thinks they thought it was a Western.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, it kind of was. It was It was kind.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Of was, Yeah, And if you want to if anybody
wants to mail, or you want to mail, our official
address is PO Box five two, en At, Oklahoma, seven three,
seven oh two. But if it's something you're mailing that
you don't think can be mailed to a PO box,
you can just send it to nineteen twenty five Indian Drive,
(05:29):
en At, Oklahoma, seven three, seven oh three.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So that's cards there you go, Richard.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, so, and I'm home all day so that way
all deliveries, I snag them before the porch pirates get them.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So yeah, yeah, I don't have porch pirates here any anyway,
don't have any pirates there, no pirates run here, hey maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah? So uh yeah, So that was all all our
phone calls. And I don't I don't know that I
had any email else.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, I don't think if.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I had an email, I've missed it somehow.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah. So, and no Gretchen call. But she's I checked
on her.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
She's okay, she's doing good. Yeah, she's good out there.
And like I said, yeah, Christopher Todd is on hold
for bush Head Radio.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Hold.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
He's doing stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I'm sure doing stuff. I'm trying to think. Was her
seventies news. What was I thinking there was some kind
of suff Oh kind of, but I'm going to mention
that on Bushead Radio. So yeah. AnyWho, Yeah, so Todd's
a big sixty.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'm an old man.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It's uh so TikTok's really getting into the age thing.
A lot of people they've got this new One of
the new things is what does a woman at fifty
years old look like?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And then they show a video of themselves and some
of them like whoa.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I'm like, oh, yeah, well, you know, like the Old
Shell Golden Girls, those they were all in their like
forties and fifties.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah? Yeah, the characters were I guess I don't I
don't know if they really were not. Yeah, I know
the Old Lady was actually younger than b Arthur. Yeah,
it's just the way they dressed them up and stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So yeah, so we're all getting old. If you're listening
to this podcast here, you're probably getting old just like
we are. But that's all right, nothing wrong with getting old.
That's better not getting old.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, the alternative is not a good thing. Yeah, but
I'll tell you you know, in the mornings, it's a
little hard to get out of bed. Sometimes get little
stiff and it's like over gird.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I haven't gotten to that stage yet, So I hop
up and pew them out on the trail.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I hop up and pew go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I do that too, and then I'm off on the trail. Okay,
yeah really, I let the dog out?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Who dog?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
My tennis shoes on, and I'm off.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, so I hope you put your clothes on.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
No, sometimes sometimes not. Did you see? No, that's not
seventies related. But poor guy was running the hurdles the
other day, I guess, and he had he had some
junk and he had some short shorts and he came
out during the hurdles. Oh he kept trying to put
it back in and he couldn't. But he won the race.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, good for him.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I mean it was like it was everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Oh, it was one of the craziest videos I ever saw.
So it wasn't like getting hung up on the hurdle.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So I'm like, wow, that's crazy you guys. Goo uh TikTok.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
That good TikTok.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's kind of crazy, guys.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Junk and hurdles.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
There you go. You will find it. Very quickly.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
So I kept thinking, I wish we could do more
shows on summer stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh well, it's summertime.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's summertime. And so I was thinking, what what haven't
we done as far as summer And then I thought,
you know, every summer, not every summer, but most you know,
And for us, we had a lot of summers when
we were younger, and because we didn't have phones and walkman's,
we didn't listen to as much music in the summer
when we were younger as we did as we got
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a little older, because maybe we had a radio or stayon,
had a stereo in the window. But all you know,
every summer, because you're out of school, you do get
the opportunity to listen to more music, especially if you're
listening to it on the radio or if you're in
in the car with your mom. We hear the same
songs over and over. So I was thinking, what are
the most memorable, the most high ranking, the most out
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there summer songs in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, they want songs were reminded you of summer? I
mean not there there are some summer songs that are like,
you know, like summer.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Nights in the summertime.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, yeah, summer.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah. But these are songs that were, like you you
just heard them in the summer. They they'll I've kind
of wanted to come up with a list of songs
that would take you back to the summer, like Magnet
and Steel when yere was that that had to be
maybe eighty eighty one and life is Good. Those two songs.
(10:31):
Anytime I hear them, they take me back to Oakwood
Country Club swimming pool when Steerman used to take us
out there. But I think those were like I think
they were like eighty probably eighty ye. But anyway, that's
what I was looking for for seventies and so, and
I found a really great list. Yeah, and then but
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then I wanted to put my own spin on that list.
So I've got a list of songs that I remember
in the summer. And then I mean literally this was
like the best list. Seven hundred songs.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
We're not gonna play all seven hundred songs. We're not
gonna play all seven hundred thongs because for surely we'd
be sued.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Then I I did list fifty and I look at
the fifty I'm like, yeah, those yeah, yeah, I remember that.
I remember that. I remember that. So anyway, so, uh
so we're basically starting from nineteen seventy we're going all
the way to nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah, we're not gonna include any songs from sixty nine. No,
we're not gonna include Magnet Steel or anything from nineteen eighty.
Only songs from the summers and the seventies.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And why is that, mister Wheeler, because.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That was a good man, Yes, it was.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Okay, I made a little list, you did, like one.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Actually I got two lists. I got two I got
two platelists. One was I wonder what because it was
my birthday after day. Yeah, it was like, I wonder
what the number one song was?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Oh during your birthday?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Birthday?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, we can get to that one ever.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh okay, uh yeah. What I tried to do was,
I'm kind of like you. I've got two lists. I've
got a list of ones that I distinctly remember and
then ones that I think everybody else will remember. But
so I'm going to just throw one out there, and again,
most of the ones that I personally remember are going
to be in the later seventies.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah. Oh yeah, there's yeah, seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, because in the earlier seventies, again, I wasn't listening
to records and radio is because we were always out
playing at Boggy Creek, and you didn't have a way
of listening to music when you were at.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Bogging Creek, which was a shame exactly.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
But My Sharona nineteen seventy nine the debut single by
the American power pop band The Kanak.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Such a cool name, The Kanak. It was released in
seventy nine from their debut album. It reached number one.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Hang on, that's actually on my list too. Not that's
on my personal list.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh okay, where'd it go?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Where you go? I got so many I got some,
I got so much corn.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
It is a good song. It's a good seventies song,
but it was starting to enter that eighties sound. I
remember this was now again in seventy nine. We were
in cars and driving and it was on the radio
all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, my three new Woe when You're Gonna get Me
sometime Sharona. There's as actually you know the album, you know,
the famous album cover. Uh huh, that's Sharona on the calvert.
That's actually his girlfriend. He met her she was seventeen.
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They were to get for quite a while. She is
now a successful real estate agent. Yeah, I want to
say California. So I looked her up. Start really still hot.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well, this one reached number one on the Billboard Hot
one hundred Singles chart, where it remained for six weeks.
That's why we heard it all the time on the radio.
It was number one on Billboards nineteen seventy nine Top
Pop Singles Year end chart. It was certified gold by
the Recording Industries Association America, representing one million copies sold.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And if anybody's curious, sir on his last name is
Alparim alper, I look her up.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Cool and this was Capitol Record's fastest gold status debut
single since the Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand
in nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Wow, yeah, this is this was everywhere you couldn't swing
your dead cat with that here in this song that
didn't sound great. This is the way it is.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yep, So good to know we had that. Yeah, So
there's no you know there, it's real random because there
was a boatload of popular songs in the summers. Sure so,
but again, I think there was some songs that everybody's
gonna recognize as Oh yeah, that was definitely a song
that was popular in the summer.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I have one from nineteen seventy three that I don't
think anybody would suspect would it reminds me of summer
because it well, I'll just I'll just tell you. In
nineteen seventy three, it was summertime, it was getting into August.
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My mom comes into my bedroom and she's like, hey,
it was gonna let you know, we're going, we're gonna go.
We're going on vacation. And I've told the story before,
but like vacation and we went to went to see
our friends and in Louisiana we'd met him here, but
this song had just came out on the radio and
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we listened to it all the way there. It's it's
still a great song, reckon.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh yeah, did you happen to see them?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Nineteen seventy three August Girl in the World And I
never got tired of listening to it.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And if you did, what cry.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Cry?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, this one did not make my list.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well that's what I said, you know, it's it's yeah,
nobody was say like that.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Lets just say it's kind of what.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You remember that's what I remember back in summer of
seventy three, this song right here, I.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Need five baby back, Well, Charlie Rich Let's stick with
seventy three real quick now.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
This one I don't remember from the summer, but it
was a big summer hit, Jim Croche's Bad Bad Leroy Brown,
And unfortunately it was one of his top songs, except
it happened it coincided with his tragic death in a
Louisiana plane crash. Yeah, he was going from college to
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college September twentieth, nineteen seventy three. It was a song
number one hit for him, spending two weeks at the
top of the Billboard Hot one hundred and July of
seventy three, Billboard ranked it his number two song for
the whole year. The inspiration for the song was a
friend he met in his brief time in the United
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States Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey. They were both
telephone linemen in telephone lineman school together. He stayed there
about a week and one evening he turned around and
he said, and this other guy said that he was
fed up. So he went a wall left, But then
he came back to pick up his paycheck like a
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month later, and when he came to get his check,
they handcuffed him and took him off to the brig.
To the brig. Yeah, and so Jim thought he was
such a bad bad you know, he was bad. And
so that was the inspiration for the song what an Idiot,
bad bad levery Brown. He was so bad that he
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thought he could come back and get his check and
nothing would happen.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, okay, well that wasn't very right. Yeah, okay, here
I'm going what you got what to me? Well, here
I'll display it. It's gonna take a minute. It's gonna
take a minute to spool up. I don't hit the
play button. Got to hit the play button, got to
(18:58):
hit it, got to hit it. This is from July
of seventy seven, is Mark Minkoin's house. It's hey, it's playing.
I promise it's playing.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It's one of those songs. It starts re quiet.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, I sped. I jumped ahead a little bit. Of course.
Everybody recognizes this, don't you.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I do, Okay, And I only recognize it because that
was probably the summer we were over here and you
were playing it all the time. Yeah, because I'd never
heard of it.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm either until marks. I mean, I wrote Alan Parsons,
let me get to that.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Here you go, now they'll recognize it. Yeah, it was
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kind of different. It was not one that you were
gonna hear on the radio a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
No, man, that guys get I remember the first time
I heard it, I was like, what are they gonna
start singing anyway? I robot, that's my summer song of
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seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
How about this one? This one could be the ultimate
seventies summer song. Oh are you guys ready?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Ready waiting?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Jimmy Buffett's Margerideville. Does it get any more summary than
that his career was a drift, like a yacht without
a compass, His only top forty hit years behind him
when he released his seventh album in the winter of
seventy seven. That summer, Margueriteville rose along with the temperature,
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eventually birthing a cottage industry of restaurants merchandise for the
tropical troubadour.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So let me play a little Let me play a
little Margariteville. That's worth that's worth waiting a second.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, it's a definitely. I don't know that I can
find any song any more summary than Margaritaville. And they
did play the snot out of this song.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
What year was that?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
He was seventy seven, But you know they were still
playing it in the eighties when I went off to college,
because you couldn't go out dancing without this song being played?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Can you two step to this?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeh had Norms.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
This is where we are.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We two stepped to this at Norms.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, one of your female friends try to teach me
one night. It didn't work, It didn't take. I could
have been ald a beer.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah maybe so anyway, Yeah, there you lied again Margarita video.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, very close song, very close song. Get back to
my list here? Oh oh oh nothing, I gotta go
back around. I gotta circle back around.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay, Uh do do do do? I got all kinds here?
What the hell I'm gonna say one? I'm gonna throw
one out there? How about uh Don't Bring Me Down?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Bring Me Down?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Brush Again? Nineteen seventy nine, uh el O. It was
their ninth and final track on their seventy nine album Discovery,
their highest charting hit in the United States, Uh the
second highest charting in the UK. It peaked at number three,
Their biggest hit in the United States, speaking at number
four on the Billboard Hot one hundred. The common misheard
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lyric in the song is his perception that Lynn shouts Bruce.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
But he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
But he doesn't. He was actually saying groose, which was
a made up word that he was trying to fill
space with. But then he found out that there was
a German expression called it was kind of like groose
and so and it meant greeting. So he basically decided
to leave it as groose. But because so many people
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thought it was Bruce, he would actually sing Bruce at
concerts when they were live, so that's why even more
people thought it was Bruce.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well, he was perpetuating the yes purpose perp he shouldn't have,
don it. Yeah whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, So there's your little trivia on Don't Bring Me
Down nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Here's another one from seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Oh yeah, them them, them, them sisters.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Sisters, sisters about it. It's really south. I don't have that.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah. This is a uh, definitely a summer song.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Cruising around.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
I think.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Today holiday m.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Sounds like a galloping horse.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Okay, I didn't get too barcoda.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Now, okay, it just wouldn't be right.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I think they knew what it was.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I know that, but I want to hear them say, Barracuda,
we can't play every the whole song of every song
be here on that along.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
How about the Eagles. The Eagles were very, very popular
in nineteen seventy five, especially their hit One of These Nights.
But you don't really think of as like one of
their mega hits, but it actually was. Yeah, but this
so they were kind of thought of as a country
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rock ballad type band and they wanted to break out
of that, so they wrote One of these Nights.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Well, I tell you the reason. Do you remember the
reason we didn't do any Eagle songs?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, because you say Kyle said they were two countries.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Kyle did say that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay, well that's maybe why we didn't do them.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
That is.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Don Henley said, we like to be a nice little
country rock band from La half the time, but we
wanted to get away from the ballad syndrome with One
of these Nights. They wanted to have a lot of teeth,
a lot of bite, a nasty track with pretty.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Vocals who sings this?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I think I think.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
One of these.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
That sounds like.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
What's the other not Felder, not Henley, the one that died. Yeah,
I can't be I'm not sure who. I'm not sure
who sang this one. This We could google that. Somebody's
screaming at their device.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Somebody let us know who actually seen.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
But yeah, it's just it's a good song, but it
was just never I don't know. It's just one of
those songs where I remember hearing it a lot, but
it wasn't like one of my It wasn't like a
hotel California.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Oh, speaking of which, speaking of which, that is on
my list, That is on my list. That's gonna take
me a second to get bugger.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Well, I'm gonna throw a quick one in here. I
remember this one really. Every time I hear this song,
it takes me back to the summer of nineteen seventy six,
and it was Elton John and Kiki D. Don't Go
Break in My Heart Yeah, Rocket record Company. It was
released June twenty fifth, nineteen seventy six. It was the
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first number one single in the UK for both John
and Kiki D, topping the chart for six weeks in
mid nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah good Back to the Eagles. This would have been
so we did do this song?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Now this is the only I think this is the well. No,
we did Life in the.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
FASTI oh, yeah, I guess we did do some Eagles.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
We did a couple of Sorry, now we didn't do
these very often. I don't know that we ever. It's
kind of like we just practiced these more.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, because I remember every time I sang the line
h warm smell of khalitas, I was like, what the
is khalida? I had to look it up.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, this song just I mean, I'm back in the
seventies with my headphones on in my green bean bag chair.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Another song from seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
God that I listened to this song eight thousand times. Yeah, summertime, summertime, smertime.
Here's another summer song.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
How about nineteen seventy six the Starland Vocal Band.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
How Come I didn't do that well?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Afternoon to Light In the US, it became a number
one single on July tenth, nineteen seventy six. It earned
a gold record. The title came from a happy hour
menu at Clyde's Restaurant in Georgetown, Washington, d C. They
were eating there and they saw that, and then the
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guy that wrote it, he said, I didn't want to
write an all out sex song. I just wanted to
write something that was fun and hinted.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
At sex handed pretty hard.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And this was this was one hit. Wonder this was
their only but this definitely was a summer song.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
And now I can't hear this without thinking about Ron
Jeremy with Paul Rudd and.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
We everything a little clear in the.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
Light of days, and we.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Know that that is always gone to bear anyway. And
I think they won a like a Grammy or something,
didn't they They knocked somebody, some big group off.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
What year?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
What year was.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Seventy six rockets? Yeah, I remember this one. It was
because it had such innu window in it as a
as a ute it was it would make you giggle.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, yeah, not quite blush, but giggle, more of a
giggle because we know we're getting there. We're getting there. Okay,
how about this one?
Speaker 5 (31:00):
I decided to do a live one.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
This was recorded live in Michigan in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
And I tell you what, the seventies the best freaking
decade ever.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Man, crazy, keep a shout of you. We're gonna get
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a letter from Paul and Jean. You know, Gene was
they had another new casino they opened.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I think so, well wherever it was a new rock
and brew somewhere really, Yeah, I'm assuming Oklahoma. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Okay, let's go back a little further, go back. So
when I first, you know, my sister had some songs
like the Hustle and do some disco songs. But then
I started hanging out when I was hanging out with
Eric Wright, his brother had some songs and this was
one of the songs, one of the first songs that
(32:41):
was a hit that I really liked, really really really remember. Yeah,
nineteen seventy four by the British group Paper Lace.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Oh The Night She Go Die.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah reached number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred
chart for one week in seventy four, to reach number
three in the K charts and number two in Canada.
It's a fictional shootout between Chicago police and members of
the al Capone Syndicate. But I just remember hanging out
at Eric's house well, and he would play this all
(33:15):
the time and Billy don't be a hero.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Daddy was a cop on the East side of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And so and this was even before I started buying music.
You know, this was like just before I started buying
my own music.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
So what year is this?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Seventy four?
Speaker 8 (33:43):
Chicago.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
But I just remember, I'll never forget this song. I mean,
it's just it takes me back to Eric Wright's house.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
It's amazing. Powerful music is as far as memories my
mom cry pray the nine shit talk Time brother on
a really won, very cool song, very cool song.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
You know that's funny because I'm gonna I'm gonna jump
into another song real quick. So that was seventy four.
This next song is from seventy five, and this was one.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
And I don't know why, why, why why?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
But this was one of the first forty fives I bought. Yeah,
I don't know why I bought.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
This is it?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I guess because it was so popular. Glenn Campbell nineteen
seventy five.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Oh not which Tall Island?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
The other one?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Rhinestone can Cowboy Yeah, May nineteen seventy five. It basically
caught on on the country and pop charts, climbing both
Billboard Hot Country and Billboard Hot one hundred charts before
peaking at number one by seasons in three im executive
weeks on the country chart. I've been walking these streets.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
He was a hell of a musician.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah he was. But I don't know why I why
would I buy this song? But I did. I remember
it had where Curtis's having a I told you it's that.
It's that instrumental on the other side of the forty five.
Uh William tell overture on the other side of it.
That was on the other side of this one. There's
(35:32):
been Loise you know what may have been I went
over to I was buying my forty fives at WOCO.
It may have been like the only one. It may
have been like one of the only ones they had,
because I'm sure they only had like the top ten
or you know, songs from because I'm still trying to
(35:54):
figure out why would I buy this song?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I remember one of the first forty five's I bought
was that one with the singing none. Remember that song?
She was actually none and she had like a number
one it hit uh huh uh. I can't remember the
name of the song. And boom, Yeah, that's a great song.
(36:18):
And talk about a guitar player, Oh my god, he
could play a guitar. Yeah, he's I think he's probably
one of the most underrated.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Guitar I will say, yeah, definitely an underrated musician.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah. He was more than just a pretty face, more
than just a productor it was a good looking man too.
Uh okay, here's another one of mine that reminds me
of summertime later seventies.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Oh if this does not remind you of summer in
the seventies, you were living in a cave.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I tell you what. In every song on this album,
I mean I was looking at those like colleague, Oh yeah,
Collie either I can't play like eight Grease songs, but.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, but it was definitely the summer of Greece. Yeah,
I mean, without a doubt.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah. And Frankie Palley's still on stage. Have you seen him?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, it's awful, terrible, it's awful. I don't even think
he's singing. I think he's just mouthing.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah, he's absolutely not singing.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, he just it's like weekend at Bernie's. Yeah, it
is so sad.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It is. I'm like, oh, come on, somebody, and I
can't remember who I was talking to. Maybe it was
Cindy or somebody. And she's like, well, maybe they're maybe
he likes getting out, maybe he's enjoying him.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
So say, if it keeps him alive, keep him up there.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Sure, And apparently he don't care if he looks he
looks good.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
He's just you just know, he's a zombie and he's
not singing. You know.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
He reminds me of Hope Joe Black.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Oh yeah, yeah when he gets lost.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah right, okay, great soundtrack, great movie too.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah. Okay, And did you just see where John Travolta.
They had like a fifty year thing or something, and
John Travolta surprised him and came up on stage with
his leather jacket on and his hair was.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
In the like that air.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what it was for. But yeah,
I've seen the video like three or four times this week. Okay,
So go back to nineteen seventy four and again. Nineteen
seventy four is when I first started discovering music that
just wasn't on the radio in my mom's car. This
was like people had songs. This was one of the
(38:42):
songs my sister had from the Hughes Corporation. Nineteen seventy
four Rock the Boat, Oh yeah, and I think my
sister might have had the forty five because she played
the song a lot. It was a disco favorite in
New York, did not top the forty radio until it
(39:04):
was finally put on the I Think an album You
got the notion guy can read, I can see I
just I'm back in my sister's room and my sister's
singing it. Oh love, those are coming back. Ever since
(39:35):
it shot up the chart week of July sixth, nineteen
seventy four, he was considered one of the earliest disco songs. Yeah,
I could see that, and some people proclaim it to
be the first disco song on the Billboard Hot one
under chart.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
I could see that.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, So I guess I guess my music discovery was
around nineteen seventy four, because before that it was just
whatever my mom was playing on the radio in the car.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
You were like, hey, I can listen to other stuff
besides what mom means exactly. Well, when you get you know, devices,
when you get record players, and that's a whole that's
a liberating experience, getting being able to you know.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yeah. So when I finally, like my grandma like gave
me her old record player, it was like the like
a square box, you know, and you took the lid
off and.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
You could slide it off. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
And so because I had a record player, and this
must have been like seventy four, seventy five, probably seventy five.
So for Christmas, my mom bought me my first album.
My mom bought it and it was The Clowns spelled
with a K.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
That's kind of creepy.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
It is kind of creepy, but that was my first out.
And now I didn't buy my mom got it for me.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah, make sure you reiterate that.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, but it's funny listening to it now because it
brings back so many memories. It is the only album
I had, so I played it all the time. So
if you guys check it out, The Clowns from probably
seventy five. No, I'll have to. Yeah, I think I've
looked it up. I may try to buy it just
(41:25):
to get the vinyl what you got over there.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Okay, so that's on my personal list. But my list,
my birthday number one list. We can't we really don't
have time to go through all these. But June of
seventy The Love you Share with Michael Jackson or the
Jackson five side note. The number one song at that
time was in the Summertime by Mungo Jerry, but it
(41:52):
was only number one in UK. Seventy one It's Too
Late by Carol King seventy two, with song sung Blue
by Neil Diamond seventy three. Give Me Oh, I want
to play this one, this one. I really liked this song.
This was the number one song on my birthday in
(42:13):
nineteen seventy three. Love Give Me I, Love gels Me, Sona, give.
Speaker 8 (42:37):
Me Life, every live keeping stream, give me a whole hell,
help me cole with this heavy load Chiney do screet it.
Speaker 5 (42:54):
On So.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Seventy three. It seems like not that old. There's some
I don't remember. I don't know why it doesn't seem
old to me. Maybe because it's timeless.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
It's will Willberry ish it is.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
I wonder why how I don't know anyway? Give Me
Love George Harrison, good song.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Good song. How about trying to pick out some that
everybody would kind of?
Speaker 9 (43:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Donna Summer Back to seventy nine Bad Girls. Bad Girl
topped the chart for five weeks in July and August
of nineteen seventy nine. So if you were hanging out
by the pool in seventy nine. You definitely heard bad Girls.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Oh shoot, I'm going to do about.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
A bazillion time. I got several from the early seventies,
but oh, here was another one real quick. I think
my sister had this forty five as well. Now this
was a little bit later, though, Walter Murphy and the
(44:19):
Big Apple Band a fifth of Beethoven from nineteen seventy
six disco instrumental. The song debuted at number eighty on
the Billboard Chart one hundred, climbed to number one within
nineteen weeks, remaining there for one week. In nineteen seventy seven,
it was licensed to RSO Records for inclusion on Saturday
(44:42):
Night Fever soundtrack and the song. It was one of
Murphy's few top forty hits.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Where can I find that? I want to hear that.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Fifth of Beethoven?
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Oh good song.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Maybe I'm spelling row hopeful.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yeah. I remember my sister playing that one a lot
as well. Dam damp, damp my mine.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
What part of the movie was this? They danced this?
I guess they danced to this.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Yeah, I don't know. Wow, here was here's the cover
of the Clowns.
Speaker 5 (46:06):
Oh, it's a little creepy.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Let's see if I can find one of their songs
real quick. Well, I guess I need to find.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Out that clowns are creepy. Anyway, the year real quick?
What year was that?
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Go ahead and continue on with your litters.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
So seventy three was give Me Love, seventy four was
Sunndown by Gordon Lightfoot, seventy five will was Love Love,
We'll just keep us together, Captain. You know they sing
it much better than I did. Seventy six was Silly
Love Songs by the Wings, another one of my favorite songs. Yeah,
(46:46):
he's a former Beatle. Let me put that real.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Quick, Oh, so real quick. The Clowns Actually that album
came out in nineteen seventy, but my mom, I'm sure
it had been sitting on the shelf a while because
she didn't give it to me in seventy. Oh yeah,
this is definitely a summer seventy summer sound.
Speaker 9 (47:16):
And by.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
The story I heard about this song was, you know,
the the Beatles broken up and Paul was talking about
writing a love song, and John Lennon was like, nobody
wants to hear another love song, or nobody wants to
hear a silly love song. I guess, I guess it
was right on Mountain. Uh yeah, Look how young he
(47:49):
is there?
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Oh wow, Yeah, it's like a teenager.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Another incredibly talented person. I love all those songs. Seventy
seven was Gonna Fly Now by Bill Conti. I won't
bother you with that one.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
I had the both for There was two versions of
that song, and I had both forty fives Oh yeah
for that song for some weird reason, and loaned them
to Cammy Cammy Budminster so she could do it for
her twirling routine. And I never got him back.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
So in my birthday nineteen seventy eight, this was number one,
and again Shadow Dancing.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Andy was a good looking dude.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
And he was just getting ready to join the b Jesus,
what a shame.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Yeah he had. Isn't that crazy to be that talented
and good looking and rich and famous?
Speaker 2 (48:59):
And how did he does?
Speaker 5 (49:01):
So?
Speaker 1 (49:02):
I believe so he'd broken up with Victoria, Prince of Victoria.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
Is that did to you?
Speaker 1 (49:11):
I believe that's how he passed away. I hate to
say that.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
If you didn't, you may look that up where you
got lots of give me do the nine Shadowed Nothing,
and so that was seventy eight and seventy nine Ring
My Bell by Anita Ward. And I won't make you
listen to that either, because that's kind of a I
(49:36):
don't know, I never know it not. I don't think
it was. I think he had a heart condition or something,
but it was. I think it was brought on by
or was what do you call it when you have a.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
Yeah, chest paint is a myo carditis information caused by
a virus. Oh well he did, but yeah, okay, that's
what the deal. He had struggle with fame, which went
to addiction, which probably led to.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Yeah, it exasperated this situation.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
I knew there was something in there that he was
going through. He yeah, some conflict.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
Yeah, if he'd have been if he'd have been wiser,
if he'd ha stayed healthy, if he had stayed healthy,
probably would have that probably would not have been such
an issue for him.
Speaker 1 (50:23):
Yeah, how about nineteen seventy six? How about could you
go through nineteen seventy six and not remember the song
by Wild Cherry play that funky music No You Could
Not dis single hit number one on the Billboard Hot
(50:43):
one hundred and September of seventy six. This is like
the song when I got my guitar, which must have
been in seventy six. Stayton taught me how to play
this song.
Speaker 10 (51:00):
Are so I've betta got my guitar in Christmas of
seventy six.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Problem Yeah, no one night stands nothing. Yeah, you stop
to feeling so low.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
Quickly?
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Album cover.
Speaker 7 (51:36):
Oh yeah, that's that's like.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Somebody shouted.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
Some good songs from the seventies.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
There. Oh, there's two minutes.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
How we doing on?
Speaker 2 (51:57):
Time over the it's getting listen, getting a little late,
getting a little we got time for gun more. My
list is exhausted. Oh it is, well, I didn't play
on I could have played a lot more.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
Yeah, so we've gone through. Let's see uh three dog Night.
Mama told me it was a big hit. Brandy by
looking Glass was a big summer hit. Don't let the
Sun Go Down on Me. It was a big summer hit.
(52:33):
Take Me Home, Country Roads, Like I said it was serious.
XM came out with a list of seven hundred of
the top summer songs from seventy through seventy nine, and
they ranked him My Sharona was number one.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
Speaking of serious remember I told you I was worried
about losing my serious because I had to get into cars.
I thought, well, here, pretty sudents can get shut off.
And I was griping because I realized I was paying
twenty five bucks a month and I didn't realize it's so.
But you know, it just kept playing, it just kept playing,
it just kept playing. I was like, well, maybe they forgot,
(53:14):
maybe they maybe they didn't catch it. Maybe I'm getting
serious for free. And I look at my bank statement. No, no,
apparently it was attached to my checking account, not my card,
and it was twenty dollars. But I did go back
and I changed it. Now it's down to seventeen dollars.
There you got some saving seven bucks a month.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
But I think I needed did I ever? I don't
know that I ever did that on mone, I need
to go do it.
Speaker 2 (53:34):
I don't think it did all right anymore? Something you
want here, and whe you want here? Where you went here?
Speaker 1 (53:45):
Take a chance on me. My allba was big. I
remember that in the summer Saturday in the park by Chicago. Oh,
and then here's one I remember do you have three
times a lady?
Speaker 5 (54:00):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (54:00):
Hang on goo, why is this oh, because it was.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
And do you know that I cannot hear three times
a Lady without thinking of being in this very house
with mister Todd Wheeler. Why is that because you always
played it?
Speaker 2 (54:15):
He was not always played that robot.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
Well, you know you played this one when it came
out because he'd always sing it and play it.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
Sorry, I'm just a singer. This was seventy seven, wasn't
it you?
Speaker 1 (54:37):
Yeah, I didn't have that.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
I think it was memory.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
It may almost had to.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
Be seventy seven or seventy eight. I think it was
seventy seven and maybe seventy come on seventy eight. Yeah
to the end rain boo.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Yeah. I don't know why. I just remember every time
we'd come over, it'd be playing in your room or
something way back in the day.
Speaker 2 (55:09):
Way back in the day.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
Okay, Yeah, So anyway, you guys, what you guys listen
to in this think about your favorite summer song in
the seventies, and let us.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
Know, I think I'm want to title this one a
little different, you know. So that's like sometimes it just
gives it away and they it's like there's no element of.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Surprise, like you like, what's it going to be about.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
What's it going to be about? But you want to
you gotta title something.
Speaker 9 (55:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
Yeah, I'll think about that. Send us your choice five
eight h five four one three EIGHTHO five or buzz
at buzzeadmedia dot com. We would love to hear and
I'm sure we left and again it just basically the
songs that you remember or heard or were popular in
the summertime in the seventies. So you know, again, we
(56:04):
got to play outside or sit by a pool, so
there was some of those songs that you just heard
over and over and over and over, like you on
your trip to Louisiana, you know, So let us know
what that song was for you guys in the summer
in the seventies. And don't forget to come over to
Buzzhead Radio tonight. We're gonna talk to Christopher Todd. He
has released his album and I've been listening to it.
(56:27):
I actually funny thing. I listened to it again last night.
It's definitely a listenable, listenable to album. It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (56:37):
Yeah, I'm gonna I gotta go to the city tomorrow
to pick up a door. It'd be a good time
to listen to it.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
It would be a very good time now, Yeah, So
join us over there and we're gonna get out of here.
Speaker 5 (57:00):
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