As the wheels of our flight kissed the ground in southern Italy, my heart swelled at the thought of the adventures that awaited. Little did I know, it would be a trip that contrasted the rustic allure of the less-traveled south with the vibrant pulse of the tourist-frequented north, a narrative I'm thrilled to share with you. Our journey was a rich tapestry of local customs, from the artistry of mozzarella-making to the intricate craft of cameo carving—living testaments to Italy's cherished traditions. And as I recount these tales, we'll also pay homage to the diligence of folks like Igor from American River Flooring, whose passion for their work mirrors the artisans we met.
This episode has a bittersweet tinge as we remember the legendary Roman Gabriel, whose recent passing at 83 has left an indelible mark. My own childhood memories of watching football with my dad intertwine with Gabriel's storied career, painting a portrait of a man whose influence transcended the sport. From his record-setting days with the Rams to his pioneering role as the first Filipino-American quarterback in the NFL, Gabriel's legacy is a poignant reminder of the heroes that shape our love for the game.
And then, there's the indomitable shadow of Mount Vesuvius—its presence looming over the fertile lands of Pompeii, stirring a blend of awe and apprehension within me. Our expedition through Italy was as much about the country's historical significance as it was about the sensory delights—the music, the serenades of Sorrento, the accordion's melody that seemed to capture the essence of Italian life. As we draw this episode to a close with the serene notes of "Morning Softly," I extend an invitation to join me in reflection, and to stay tuned for more in-depth discussions on the Pat Walsh Show.
As the wheels of our flight kissed the ground in southern Italy, my heart swelled at the thought of the adventures that awaited. Little did I know, it would be a trip that contrasted the rustic allure of the less-traveled south with the vibrant pulse of the tourist-frequented north, a narrative I'm thrilled to share with you. Our journey was a rich tapestry of local customs, from the artistry of mozzarella-making to the intricate craft of cameo carving—living testaments to Italy's cherished traditions. And as I recount these tales, we'll also pay homage to the diligence of folks like Igor from American River Flooring, whose passion for their work mirrors the artisans we met.
This episode has a bittersweet tinge as we remember the legendary Roman Gabriel, whose recent passing at 83 has left an indelible mark. My own childhood memories of watching football with my dad intertwine with Gabriel's storied career, painting a portrait of a man whose influence transcended the sport. From his record-setting days with the Rams to his pioneering role as the first Filipino-American quarterback in the NFL, Gabriel's legacy is a poignant reminder of the heroes that shape our love for the game.
And then, there's the indomitable shadow of Mount Vesuvius—its presence looming over the fertile lands of Pompeii, stirring a blend of awe and apprehension within me. Our expedition through Italy was as much about the country's historical significance as it was about the sensory delights—the music, the serenades of Sorrento, the accordion's melody that seemed to capture the essence of Italian life. As we draw this episode to a close with the serene notes of "Morning Softly," I extend an invitation to join me in reflection, and to stay tuned for more in-depth discussions on the Pat Walsh Show.
Welcome, my friends. It is, we're back. We're back. Pat's Peeps resumes after a two-week stint going international in Italy, southern Italy, with conservative tours. We're back back to it. Thanks for joining us. Appreciate you Actually getting back to my radio show here this evening as well, the Pat Walsh Show Heard everywhere on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1:But here we are in Pat's Peeps, number 83. Number 83. And today it is the 24th of April 2024. Looking out my studio window for the first time in two weeks on another cloudy day here, I thought I'd come back to some sunshine, but actually it's cloudy outside and we have a lot going on. Today I didn't waste any time as soon as we came back Well, I say as soon as I came back from Germany with conservative tours.
Speaker 1:Well, first thing I had was jet lag, which we'll talk about, which was yesterday, where I did virtually nothing except chill all day and sleep and on and off. But you'll hear this morning, like I say, we wasted no time, as Igor is here from American River Flooring and you're going to hear him working in the background. He's putting in the new backsplash and the brick-facing I guess. Is it brick-facing, igor? What is it called Brick-facing? Yeah, brick-style, brick-style facing. Yes, that's Igor back there. You know, the man says he's going to show up at 930. You can keep that open, brother. You can keep that open, igor. It's all good. You keep that open while you're sawing, it's no problem, I like it in the background.
Speaker 1:Another thing American River. These guys are so courteous they don't want to interrupt my podcast. See, listen, this is awesome. I couldn't wait to get back to this. Like I was going to say, you know what American River Flooring is? We support local business here. On Pat's Peeps, igor says he's going to show up at 9 30. He showed up at 9 30. That's the way they do it and he's a very professional guy and a heck of a singer, I might add. He's out there singing. He's a good guy. And so, listen, if you need any work done for your home inside paint, outside paint, you know, new floors, anything like that I'll always tell you that American River Flooring is the best, and Igor is just one of the reasons. He's just a good guy.
Speaker 1:So, anyhow, yeah, jet lag yesterday. So I put off Pat's Peeps number 83. Man, I, you know the jet lag. That's the worst part, man, the jet, the ride over there. But it is worth it. It is worth it to go see other parts of the world and I am so blessed to be able to do that. And again, a great group of people went with us. You know, we really bond over a couple of weeks over there together. It's really amazing, and I could go down the list of all the people that we met, fabulous people who joined us on this unforgettable experience, which I will be talking about in depth tonight on my radio show. I'm kind of just getting back into this. So that's kind of exciting.
Speaker 1:But you know, southern Italy quite a bit different than Northern Italy. Northern Italy a lot of beautiful places in both areas. More of the touristy stuff I think you might find in Northern Italy in terms of Rome, the Vatican, sistine Chapel, the ruins, the Colosseum and all of the things that we know about, the very touristy things, important things for sure. But it's a little different there in southern Italy, where we traveled a lot. We did a lot of traveling, which is also well worth it because you see scenes that you don't see anywhere else in the world At least I haven't, and so that was very nice.
Speaker 1:But the problem is in terms of doing a podcast is you have a lot of people on the bus. They're enjoying the ride. Sometimes it's a two-hour ride, sometimes it can be a longer, four-hour ride, and people are sleeping sometimes, so you don't want to wake them up. So it's all a matter of being here and the tour is pretty busy. Now you do have downtime, and when I say busy, I mean that in a good way, because you get to see all of the sites that maybe you wouldn't see if you were just trying to do this on your own, your own excursion, going and renting a car which, by the way, I would not do that Personally. We'll talk about traffic in Italy, but I would not, personally would not rent a car and try to go through Italy. It is a very different thing over there, traffic wise, than it is here in the United States, the things that we are so used to.
Speaker 1:But the cool thing about it is, you know, with conservative tours you see all of these, the most exciting things and some things that are very offbeat, things that you weren't expecting. For instance, milking water, buffaloes who knew, which turned it right directly into mozzarella cheese, which was really interesting to see them pulling the cheese apart and doing this in these tanks. And I mean, that's just something I thought I would never see. Or going to a cameo, you know, you see these little cameos that are worth so much money. Maybe your mother had one of your grandmother, maybe even your great-grandmother. We stopped at a place where they do the cameos. I never thought about that, but when I get in there, this is a really amazing thing to see, to take a tour of this and see how they do this and how they pass it down from generation to generation. So, just as we talk today and as I get to my show here this evening, I'll let you know about some of the stuff that I saw over there, some of the things that really stood out to me.
Speaker 1:One of the things and I hate to say this, but I've said it before in all of my trips people in Italy or people in France, for the most part and I'm talking a majority of the people, and I would even go as far as to say the same thing in Austria, germany. I will say number one people are slim and trim. They are trim and again, I hate to say this, but you can tell an American sometimes the way they dress, the way we dress. I do do my best to style. I like to style when I'm going over to Europe. I just do, but that's just me. What I might think is styling. Maybe you don't, but I will say that the people in Europe that I've seen are slim and trim and they go out of their way. Whether they're teenagers, whether they're young adults, whether they're older, even the elderly, they dress to look fashionable. It's a really incredible thing, and they do a lot of walking and so, again, people are, and it's the way they eat, it's the, it's the food over there. I think just people have a way of staying slim, slim and trim.
Speaker 1:Another thing I noticed, uh, when I put one only really the only place I noticed this is in Rome, and this is actually a shame, but graffiti in Rome is ridiculously bad. I saw the same thing in Paris, on the freeway, on the divider wall in Paris. It just goes on and on and on, and you have to wonder how people are graffiting the entire center divider wall on the freeway in Paris, but yet they do. They find a way to do that. The entire center divider wall on the freeway in Paris, but yet they do. They find a way to do that. But it's really a shame to see all these incredibly old buildings going through Rome that have been graffitied. Now the entire city isn't like that. I do not see any homeless people. Actually, in Rome I found one spot where we found people sleeping on the sidewalk Going back to episode 82, pat's Peeps, you'll hear us talking about that but for the most part nothing, and the streets are clean.
Speaker 1:The streets are clean, trash free. It's very impressive to see that Very little aggression on the roadways, despite it being somewhat chaotic in certain ways, you know, not quite as orderly as we like to think that we are. I saw very little, if any, maybe one case where someone got mad on the roadways. So not a lot of aggression. Very, very refreshing to see that. I'll talk more in depth on my show tonight.
Speaker 1:I don't want to reveal everything that I saw or experienced in Italy here on the podcast, but I will reveal some of the other things that just kind of come to mind when I've gone to Europe. You know one of the things just as a side note every time that I have gone to Europe, every time I've gone somewhere like this, someone very famous dies. My first trip, when I went to France and visited all the beaches in Normandy, again with Conservative Tours in 2017,. I remember the first leg of our trip, when we landed in Chicago at O'Hare, and first thing when I landed, I looked at my phone. You know how you land and then you get on your phone and you check your phone right away for any messages or any information you may need.
Speaker 1:I remember Tom Petty dying in 2017. And that was shocking to me to see that, because I love Tom Petty, and I think that was either the day and I may have mentioned this on one of the podcasts already, if my recollection serves me, but I think it was the day before that or the day after that at the Jason Aldean concert in Vegas where that shooting took place domestic terrorism, with this murderer, this coward from a hotel room, shot and killed a bunch of people who were just innocently watching a concert. Then I recall going, shot and killed a bunch of people who were just innocently watching a concert. Then, excuse me, then I recall going when I went to Germany and over to Austria. I remember that's when Queen Elizabeth died and I happened to be right there at this one beautiful scene when they rang, rang these bells for for Queen Elizabeth and her honor and it was just an incredible sight to behold where I was standing at that particular time. I have video of that as well.
Speaker 1:Truly amazing this time, this past trip, when we joined conservative tours and a wonderful group to go to northern Italy. That's when I remember Matthew Perry died. That was on the 28th of October. We were over there through Halloween and then came back in early November. Just a few months ago Matthew Perry was 54 years old. That was a bit shocking that the man dies at the age of 54 years old. But I just remember.
Speaker 1:And then this time, on this trip going back to southern Italy, one of the first things that I see is that OJ Simpson died. That'll be talking about more on my show this evening, what I feel about that. Being a good Catholic boy, I don't want to be too harsh, but listen, if you saw my post on social media, uh well, I'll, I'll. I'll save that into my show tonight, I guess. But I'm sure a lot of people were not brokenhearted not trying to be mean or horrible person here, you know, I don't when OJ, when he lost OJ, suffice it to say he could quit looking for the for the quote, real murderer. But then the thing that really got me is on this trip. When we talk about people who passed on, was Roman Gabriel is on this trip. When we talk about people who passed on was Roman Gabriel. Someone sent that to me and my heart just fell Because, as a Northern Californian, I have always been a fan of the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 1:It's okay, a lot of Niner and Raider fans in the area. Well, I mean, are there still Raider fans in the area After they move and leave you? I don't know. Man, that's a hard one to swallow, but nonetheless, I grew up with the Niner and Raider fans in the area and I was always a Ram fan. And you know why I was a Ram fan Because of Roman Gabriel. I may have told the story before, I hate to repeat myself.
Speaker 1:I was about I don't know, maybe six years old when my father told my brothers and I to take a nap one day. And not being a fan of taking a nap, my dad wanted to watch a football game and smoke cigarettes. You know, like they used to do in the 60s have an ashtray, smoke cigarettes in their easy chair or a pipe. My dad wanted to smoke cigarettes, he wanted to watch the game and I was a baseball fan. I knew baseball At six years old. You have limited knowledge, right, but I knew I loved baseball. I was already playing catch with a football and baseball.
Speaker 1:But I didn't want to take the nap so I snuck under the end table next to my dad's recliner while he was watching the game. And I didn't know the teams I didn't really know any football teams at that young age but I saw this game and it was probably against the 49ers, I would imagine in the sixties. I'm sure they showed a lot of. I know they showed a lot of the Rams games, but probably a lot of the Niners games, and that's probably what we were watching. Truth be told, I don't even remember what the logo was on the other helmet. All I remember was that horn on the one team's helmet, the white horn on the blue helmet and Roman Gabriel, this big quarterback, number 18, was the quarterback and they scored a touchdown. It seemed exciting and I bumped my head on the end table, to which then my dad leans down, looks under the end table and sees me and says son, what are you doing under there? And I said, yeah, I don't want to take a nap, I want to watch football. So he let me sit on his lap. And yes, if you're wondering, I'm sure he was still smoking cigarettes. That's what they did in the 60s. No biggie, whatever, didn't bother me. But here I am watching this game and when I saw the white horn on that blue helmet which I'd love to see the Rams go back to put that in the mix as a throwback, to me it's one of the, if not the greatest, certainly one of the top uniforms in the NFL of all time. But I just got hooked on the Rams because of that.
Speaker 1:And Roman Gabriel and I would. You know when I would collect football cards. I was more into baseball cards, but when it came to football cards you could have my. I would trade my whole package of cards away. If you had one Roman Gabriel, I didn't have to give my whole pack of cards. Even if I had the Roman Gabriel, I'll still take your Roman Gabriel. You get all the rest of my cards, whatever. So I had all the great Roman Gabriel cards and I just loved him. He was my hero and that's he's the reason that I'm a Ram fan.
Speaker 1:Well, he passes away at the age of 83 years old, the great Roman Gabriel, the first Filipino quarterback in the NFL. Big size. He was the number two draft pick of the Rams in 62. This was an era when they liked to grind it on the ground man, big running games. And yet even in that era, roman Gabriel still holds the Rams team records with 154 touchdown passes. Amazing, and, like I say, roman was the first. And what a name. By the way, one of the great names in my opinion, roman Gabriel.
Speaker 1:Roman Gabriel, first Filipino-American quarterback in the NFL League, mvp in 69. He was 83 years old when he passed. He played at North Carolina State. He was a two-time player of the year in the ACC, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 89, which I loved, and as far as I'm concerned, this is why they had the in-the-grasp rule with quarterbacks. I might be wrong, but that dude would have two or three dudes hanging off him and he'd still complete passes. He was so big, 6'5", 235 pounds, he was a big quarterback for that era.
Speaker 1:Green Bay coach the great Vince Lombardi once described Roman Gabriel as, quote, a big telephone pole. Vince Lombardi once described Roman Gabriel as quote, a big telephone pole. And Roman played for 11 years for the Rams, five years with the Eagles. I couldn't believe it. When he went to the Eagles, no, and I think he became number five. He just didn't look right to me in an Eagles uniform. No, but that's where he went. After the Rams acquired John Hadle who, by the way, as I recall, was a quarterback and he was number 21, which I always thought was weird. And then that's when they went to the yellow and blue uniforms. That's what I recall. He was number 21 as a quarterback and they went to the yellow and blue.
Speaker 1:After the Roman Gabriel era. He was such a hot prospect. The Rams made him the number two pick in the NFL draft. The Raiders of the rival AFL selected him number one. He could have been a Raider. Gabriel wound up signing with the Rams, though Took until George Allen was hired as coach there in 1966 for Gabriel to start leaving his mark in the league.
Speaker 1:From 67 to 1970, roman Gabriel led the Rams to a 41-14-4 record, A couple of division titles, a couple of division titles, but never won a playoff game, which was very frustrating. Excuse me. He'd play against the Cowboys be like you know Roger Stahl back when Tom Landry was the coach, or he'd play against you know, the Vikings when Joe Capp Joe Capp, please Bud Grant was the coach and somehow they'd lose in that muck in Minnesota after demolishing them in LA during a regular season. As I mentioned, he was an MVP in 69, threw for 2,549 yards, 24 touchdown passes, five rushing touchdowns. He couldn't stop him. So then George Allen then leaves for the Redskins at that time in 1970, and Roman Gabriel was shipped to the Eagles in 73, where he became the NFL's comeback player of the year. He led the league with 23 touchdown passes, 3,219 yards, trying to revive that Eagles offense, called games for CBS. After he retired, went into coaching, had some stints at Cal Poly, pomona, boston, breakers of the USFL, raleigh-durham, the World League of American Football.
Speaker 1:And one of the cool things about Roman Gabriel is that he got into acting a little bit. He actually was in a movie, if you recall, with John Wayne. His movie credits included Skidoo starring Jackie Gleason in 68, and the Undefeated starring John Wayne in 1969. John Wayne in Rock Hudson with Romy Gabriel. He appeared on Gilligan's Island. I love that man. I couldn't believe it when I was a kid. He's on Gilligan's. I'm like Roman Gabriel's on Gilligan's Island. Are you kidding Perry Mason, ironside, wonder Woman. He joined Bob Hope on a US tour of USO tour of Vietnam.
Speaker 1:And on a personal note, I had the opportunity to have a conversation, a wonderful conversation, with Roman Gabriel at one time and it happened to be a friend of mine's my best friend, randy at the time's birthday that day. And, randall, I love you, randy. God bless you. I miss you more than anything. Randall Lamont Ramdello he idolized Gabriel as much, if not even more, than I did, which I did not think is possible, but Randy held this man in such high esteem he held him up there with Elvis Presley and Randy really idolized Elvis. So I was talking, when I was talking to Roman. I says you know Roman, this is the kind of guy he was. I told him that. I said my friend Randy told him how he idolized him and I said, by chance, would you be willing to call his message machine? I know he's at work right now. I'd leave him a happy birthday message, to which Roman replied absolutely, you bet this man holds me in that high esteem with Elvis. You better believe I will. So he does and he calls Randy's answering machine Back in the day, the answering machines, you know you get home and the little lights blinking.
Speaker 1:It means you have a message on your machine, right? So I made sure that I met Randy there. I said hey, randy, I'll stop on by your apartment today and say hi and hang out with your birthday and all. Oh, that sounds good. So he gets off of work and I go over to his apartment, walk into the apartment, I see his message machine blinking and I am so excited I don't want to give it away to Randy, and I remember Randy's. He walks in, doesn't hit the message machine.
Speaker 1:I think he was going to go to hang up his coat in the hallway. I said, randy, you should check your answer machine. It looks like it's blinking. Oh, I'll get to it in a minute. And I'm like, oh God, come on, how am I going to? So I hope I didn't tell the story already. If so, oh well, I don't believe I did. But so again I'm like okay, randy, we should check it out. It might be important. I'll get to it. I'll get to it. I think he was trying to get his coat out and I go well, just check it, he's okay. And he walks back out there and he checks the answering machine and he walks down the hallway to finally hang the coat up and while he's doing it, you hear Roman Randy, this is Roman Gabriel and I just want to wish you a very happy birthday Went on and gave him this beautiful birthday message, to which my friend Randall became truly emotional. He couldn't believe it, told me it was the greatest birthday present that anyone had ever given him in his life, and so I was always very proud of that moment, very happy for Randy and very grateful for Roman Gabriel and being such a good guy. So, yeah, we lost Roman while I was gone and, again, that really hurt.
Speaker 1:Speaking of football and all that, the NFL draft is coming up tomorrow. I think they're up to mock draft 500. At least Everyone's got a mock draft, but I always look forward to the draft that's coming up tomorrow. My team, the Rams, pick at number 19. So we'll see. That's always exciting. People get into that, people love that. So just got back just in time for that. Let's see what else.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one of the things that we did which was remarkable to me, something I've wanted to do ever since I was in elementary school, when teachers showed us a film of Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii. As we went to visit Pompeii, we went to the base of Mount Vesuvius, which I must tell you for me perhaps maybe I don't know if other people felt that I don't know but for me that's a very ominous sight, knowing what happened in 79 AD, and it's surprising to me. As I told a few people, you're not going to believe where I went. I went to Mount Vesuvius, pompeii, and a couple of people went what's that? What's Mount Vesuvius, what's Pompeii? That surprises me, but I guess you know we all didn't all hear about the same history. It's one of the biggest, most explosive volcanoes in history. It is still very active.
Speaker 1:In 79 AD, if you do know the story, when that thing went, it destroyed the city of Pompeii. For years they didn't even know where the city was even located. But now they're excavating it and they only have just a touch of that thing excavated. It's way bigger than I could have ever possibly imagined. The city of Pompeii, I'm going out there. I'm expecting maybe some excavation sites here and there. No, no, no. This is a gigantic city, big, big rocks in these Roman streets, remarkable Roman engineering, but to be in the presence of that mountain is, I don't know. It's a very ominous feeling to be in the shadow of that mountain.
Speaker 1:And the interesting thing is when we were in Sorrento, we have this incredibly gorgeous hotel room up on the fifth floor. You open up the windows to the balcony and what do you see? Right there in front of you is Mount Vesuvius. You go into the shower I've never seen anything like this. You walk into the shower of the hotel and it's got a big window, no screens, it's just wide open. Again, we're way up there. You open up that window, you look outside Bam, there's Mount Vesuvius To see that volcano while you're showering and going about your daily life. It's remarkable and scary in a way.
Speaker 1:And they talk about having these evacuation plans in case this thing goes again. You know I hate to be pessimistic about it, but if that thing goes again, the people that live at the base, at the foot of this, the cities that have been built, hundreds of thousands of people living, or tens of thousands, certainly hundreds, I'm pretty sure it's hundreds of thousands of people living, or tens of thousands, certainly hundreds, I'm pretty sure it's hundreds of thousands all living in cities around this volcano, some at the foot of it, because the soil is so fertile there from the ash, that you can grow wonderful crops, whether it's wine, whatever. It is very lush, it is very lush, but I don't know how you live there with a daily thought, the possibility at least that that thing could do something again. And, yeah, they monitor it. But to try to make an evacuation out of a place like that is, I mean, I think it would be virtually impossible under those kind of conditions. So I'll talk more about that tonight, but again, just to see this mountain outside of your shower window, truly amazing.
Speaker 1:A couple of the other things I want to mention while we're in April. I mean in Italy this April. Some of the music that you hear as you travel around, and some of the hotels, some of the streets, our farewell party as we were leaving Rome Amazing. So we were in. I believe this was in Sorrento. Yes, this was in Sorrento, at that hotel. I'm talking about Train's going by right now. Can you hear it? You know why you can hear it. I have one of my new French doors, open French doors from Southgate Glass, another one of my sponsors. You hear that train off in the distance. These French doors are beautiful. I can't believe I'm getting all this stuff done with my home Absolutely tremendous. So in Sorrento, in the bar. They had a guy singing in there doing a little lounge singing. I thought I would share just some of the music that I recorded from Italy while we were there. Here you go. Here's the lounge. I'm not a fool.
Speaker 2:I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. I'm not a fool. Too bad that you're wrong. Too bad that you're wrong. So what does it mean? So what does it mean that I'm not a fool? Thank you.
Speaker 1:That was in the hotel there in Sorrento. That's a classy hotel when you've got a guy singing like that, that is that talented. Let's see what else we have. Yeah, here's another guy that was out playing. This is amazing Chaos all around him. I think this was in White City.
Speaker 1:I may get some of these mixed up a little bit. To be honest with you. Where I was at the time, so many different places Hard to kind of keep track of. Here's the piano player, though, calming everything down in the midst of a lot of tourism, and this was right in front of an arena that they discovered after many hundreds of years. They discovered this Roman arena and uncovered only part of it, but this thing is underground, held 44,000 people. Here's the piano player sitting out there playing. Thank you, I'll post a video of this I've yet to post this one and show you the arena that he is playing in front of. Remarkable, though, one thing you're going to get in Italy, of course, is you're going to get an accordion player right. Here's an old dude doing the accordion for us, and the other says buongiorno.
Speaker 2:Hey, ha-ha yeah.
Speaker 1:And the Eddie says buongiorno, Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. The final evening there in Rome, when we were getting ready to leave, we went to a spectacular restaurant Absolutely an incredible restaurant and it was a surprise dinner. We didn't know what was going to happen. It was a place called the Tenagra Tenagra Restaurant, so all of us there from conservative tours are sitting down and we're eating like this four or five-course meal. Before I get to that, here's a little guitar player.
Speaker 2:I found on the street here. Hold on, here you go.
Speaker 1:I'll play this with this guy. He's playing in an alley people walking by. By the way, thank you to Jody, who was fantastic to travel with Danny Boy you're the best buddy. Ryan Harris awesome guy to travel with Our friend Don, who has traveled on three of these groups, these tours, with me. What a wonderful man.
Speaker 1:And it's always great to meet new friends there on these trips, which is one of the things I love about conservative tours. Now, like I say, on the final night we went to Tanagra Restaurant and they didn't tell us what it was. They said it was a surprise four or five-course meal, like I said before. But here's what we got to enjoy that night A little bit of opera, opera.
Speaker 2:He loves this, and that you will make love to me, and that you will come to me, and that you will come to me, and that you will come to me, and that you will come to me, and that you will come to me and that you will come to me.
Speaker 1:What a fabulous way to send us off from Italy. I mean, it was so classy, beautiful food, beautiful company, music. I'll get more into that tonight, as I say on my show here this evening, but I hope you can join us. In September we're going to Ireland. So if you are interested in visiting, joining us to go to Ireland, we'd love to have you and you're going to really love the group that goes over there. Thank you to Leah and Sylvia. Leah was our liaison and she was wonderful, absolutely wonderful. K kept everything going very knowledgeable, just like you would expect, you know, kept track of all of us, which was just well, that's, it's so important, uh. So, leah, beautiful, thank you so much, uh. And then Sylvia was our bus driver who, let me tell you, this man took us into some places and through some places that you would be amazed that this guy could get us through, including a couple of accidents we did see on the roads. He squeezed us in through, you know, some very tricky areas. One of the best things that we did on this trip I'll tell you about on the show is sitting on the rooftop in Rome, over on the top of the hotel there on the roof, and just overlooking Rome and listening to the Rat Pack smoking cigars, drinking red wine, looking at the Vatican during the sunset Truly incredible. So, yeah, we'll go into more in-depth on my trip tonight on the Pat Walsh Show, 7 to 10 pm on KFBK, as heard, a free iHeart app everywhere To finish out the Pat's Peeps 83,.
Speaker 1:I have selected a record, like I always do for my Rare 45 collection Today. This is a fun one. I always liked this one and this is from 1967. From 1967. Has a sticker right there on the record promotional copy, not for sale, like all of these are. Like I always tell you, these are all extremely rare, so this one has been sitting now think about this. This one has been sitting in a sleeve on the shelf Again. This is the original since the Summer of Love 1967.
Speaker 1:It's a song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent, recorded by a British singer who had some really great tunes. It was part of an April 1967 single release and it received a 1968 Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Song losing to boy. You remember this song if you were around, up, up and Away by the Fifth Dimension. It lost out to that song. The song was constructed from three different sections of music previously composed by Hatch. It changes in musical style from pop to symphonic and then for the chorus it goes to sort of a Beach Boys type of a melody, which is really cool, and in the lyrics the narrator advising her sweetheart against storming out after an argument due to his quote foolish pride. If he does, he will sleep in the subway or stand in the pouring rain. You know where I'm going with this. Merely to prove his point.
Speaker 1:Although in Scotland there's been long existed the Glasgow subway metro line, in England the term subway refers to a pedestrian underpass rather than to an underground transit system, but Hatch employed the term in the North American sense. So, according to the co-writer, jackie Trent, the title lyric was suggested by the 1961-62 Broadway musical Subways Are for Sleeping. This went to well, this went. Let's see, this was two minutes and 57 seconds long. Went to number one on the US adult contemporary charts, number five on the US billboard hot 100, number one in Australia, number one in Malaysia and Singapore, number seven in New. It did really well all over the world. Petula Clark, don't Sleep in the Subway. Let's give it a play here. Let's give it a play here.
Speaker 2:You wander around on your own little cloud when you don't see the why or the wherefore. You walk out on me when we both disagree. Cause to reason is not what you care for. I've heard it all a million times before. Take off your clothes, my love, and close the door. Don't sleep in the subway, darling. Don't stand in the pouring rain. Don't sleep in the subway, darling. The light is on. Forget your foolish pride. Nothing's wrong. Now you're beside me again.
Speaker 1:Petula Clark said with I Couldn't Live Without your Love. She cited them as the favorites of her hits. Of course, she did Downtown as well. Excuse me, the song has also been recorded by a number of artists. Other artists Patti Page, frank Sinatra, mary Wilson and more.
Speaker 2:You don't realize that it's all compromise.
Speaker 1:Patty Page, frank Sinatra, mary Wilson and more. Well, let's flip it over and see what's on the other side. The other side is a song called here Comes the Morning. Here Comes the Morning by Petula Clark. Let me see if I can flip this one over. Flip it over to see yeah, this is in good shape too. It's in very good shape. Don't sleep in the morning. One of them says softly. Don't sleep in the morning. One of them says softly. Don't sleep in the morning. Hmm, let's see. Okay, trying to get my player to go there.
Speaker 2:Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1:Here we go. Oh, I put the wrong record on on, I had two of them sitting here. I downtown okay, here we. I was chose to play the other one. Okay, here we go. Softly. Here comes the morning, yeah, softly okay. That's emitted from the title on the record. That's what threw me off there.
Speaker 2:One more lonely day, while my life slips away Quietly here in the darkness.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps number 83. We're back. We're doing it just like we were before the trip. Talk more about it. Like I said on my radio show tonight, the Pat Walsh show, kpk in Sacramento and on iHeartRadio everywhere. Thank you for listening. See you on the radio. You don't want me anymore.
Speaker 2:You left when the love was over, but fate held the final score and I'm here alone and softly. Here comes the morning, silent and certain.