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Ep. 119 Today's Peep Combats a Heatwave, Recalls National Lampoon's Comedic Genius, Exposes The Gay Alliance, "Slips" Into a Classic, and Reviews Funky Nassau Parts 1 & 2
Ever wondered what happens when you mix a heatwave, first-time callers, and pure comedic gold? On this episode of Pat's Peeps Podcast, we reminisce about the value of engaging with our radio audience on the Pat Walsh Show while basking in the comedic brilliance of National Lampoon. With hilarious selections featuring Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Christopher Guest, and Gilda Radner, this episode offers a nostalgic escape from the sweltering Northern California sun and the usual political chatter.
Get ready for a laugh-out-loud discussion as we dive into exaggerated stories about celebrities like Dick Butkus and Jerry Garcia. We reflect on the influence of 70s comedy, especially the iconic National Lampoon, and share a sidesplitting mock interview with Bill Murray playing a quirky bass player and Christopher Guest as the ever-charming Mr. Rogers. Their humorous exchange about musicianship and early morning routines is sure to keep you smiling.
In a special segment, we explore my rare 45 collection with a surprising find—two records in one sleeve! Recalling a memorable moment with the band War, we discuss their hit "Slippin' Into Darkness" and their unique sound. Plus, we compare "Funky Nassau Part 1" and "Funky Nassau Part 2," noting the James Brown influence and unexpected interruptions that add an extra layer to the listening experience. Tune in, stay cool, and join us for more music and memories on our next episode!
yeah, buddy, we are back. It is the pats peeps podcast. We didn't go anywhere, just needed a respite. I think I was losing my voice. Yesterday I was exhausted. Being straight up, honest with you. So today being a Wednesday, I'm feeling way better, more energy. Thanks for always checking on the latest peep here at the Pat's Peeps podcast.
Speaker 1:Again Wednesday, july the 24th 2024. I'm staring out my studio window under the beautiful foothills of Northern California. It's hot again, I'm telling you. It's like 106. Like 106 yesterday. I think that's going to be again today. So we're in the midst of a heat wave and I want to say thank you to Tony, the Tiger Lopez, the champion, for coming into my show last night.
Speaker 1:In case you don't know, I'm the host of the Pat Wall Show. It's heard on the iHeartRadio app, nationally and internationally and, of course, locally in Sacramento on KPK Radio. This is an extension of that Completely different thing, but I love when you tune into my show. We got so many first-time callers last night. That's a big deal in a radio show. First of all, when people call and it's a nighttime show, you know people can be at home watching television. How exciting is that with all the wonderful things on TV now you have so many options and somehow people you know we get so many people listening to the show and to get first, first time callers. That's pretty astounding, and so thank you very much for calling my radio show and if you're new to the podcast, if this is the first time you've checked it out, I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 1:We just kind of. We are just kind of we talk about random stuff, just like we do on my show, and please tell a friend if you do like it. So today is going to be a little bit different. I always try to do something a little bit different. So today, along with the 45 that I'm going to play at the end, like I always do, tell you about some music that I've had sitting on my shelf for decades, today's a really funky one. It was very unusual and I'll tell you why, but I don't know about you.
Speaker 1:I kind of felt last night doing my radio show like I needed a break from politics. You know my radio show is not a political show. It's exactly the same as this, my podcast, but both of them lately have taken on a political tone because we can't ignore it. But not today. I feel the pulse of the audience. It seems like I can tell kind of where we all are Like, okay, we've heard about this, you know, we've listened to this, not just not from me, but from everyone. Really, even amongst themselves it's like, yeah, okay, all right, here we go. Can we get to something else? And I really felt that last night. So, even though there was the resignation of Kimberly Cheadle from the Secret Service and we talked about that at length on our previous podcast here at the Pat's Peeps, I just mentioned it last night because we need to lighten the mood, which is exactly precisely where I'm going today. So, if you don't mind, again I'm going to do something a little bit different Now.
Speaker 1:I told you I had this box set from National Lampoon. I'm also a big fan of National Lampoon. This box set is CDs. It's a collection of their original albums on CD put out in the 90s, probably the 80s and 90s. Excuse me and anyhow, but way before that I was a fan of the National Lampoon Chevy Chase, christopher Guest, john Belushi, bill Murray, brian Doyle Murray. There was, I mean, you know, gilda Radner, Lorraine Newman so many great original Saturday night live voices that were part of the National Lampoon, and I mentioned.
Speaker 1:There's things back then that they would do that were hilarious and they were with the times and they were satire. I already did that spiel, so I'm not going to go back into it, but as I got to thinking about it I thought, well, why not play some of that stuff, lighten the mood and play some of this stuff. So the first thing I'd like to do is just kind of introduce you, because I cannot assume that everyone knows even who I'm talking about when I talk about the National Lampoon. Hopefully you've heard of the people I just mentioned, those big celebrities, big stars. Some of them are still with us, others not.
Speaker 1:But these guys, the National Lampoon, but these guys, the National Lampoon. Originally it was a humor magazine from 1970 to 1998. And the spinoffs that they did on audio because I'm an audio guy these were related to the magazine, they were related to the Times, they were related to the times. Everything on this was very acceptable. I have things on here right now.
Speaker 1:I know if I played it for you you'd be like what, because it's a different time Back then. They'd be like this is making a great point in a satirical way. That's what I'm a fan of. I want to play three selections today of the National Lampoon. I collected National Lampoon albums way before this box set ever came out. By the way, the name of the box set speaking of satire, and you can't say that the name of this like 40 cd set, it was a three or four cd set is buy this box or we'll shoot this dog. It's got a gun, a revolver on the front, a dog, a dog's face, looking over the gun like whoa god, please buy this, but you believe it or not even though now you go oh, that's awful.
Speaker 1:There was a time where they're making a point. They literally have an album called. That's Not Funny, that's Sick. They've got a frog I mentioned this last time coming out of the kitchen. He's got no legs and he's on a little board scooting along on his hands at a restaurant and above him in the kitchen. Above the kitchen it says frog legs. Come on, it's funny. It was funny then, and I really always enjoy these guys.
Speaker 1:So again I thought I'd bring some of these to you. Now I'm going to play one for you, that is, and I'm not going to censor this, I am not going to censor this. I am not going to censor this. I'm going to play this exactly as it was when it came out on the record. If I play this on radio, obviously I would have to bleep it out, but here on my podcast, no, this is original material, as done by National Lampoon. All right, here we go. All right. By the way, this is from the album. Okay, so the album cover. It's got a frog rolling out of the door of the kitchen at a restaurant. It's got a frog rolling out of the door of the kitchen at a restaurant Next to that. It says try our frog legs. And it's got a man and his wife's looking down. They're holding a menu at a table. She's looking down at the frog and the frog's looking up at her. But here you go, strap in on for this one. Here you go.
Speaker 4:This is called Pulp from that album by National Lampoon. Here, honey, try this.
Speaker 2:Mmm. Looks like our regular orange-colored frozen substitute for artificial morning breakfast beverage with pulp-like particles added Wrong honey, but look pulp-like substances. Just like the concentrate that tastes almost like fresh but doesn't cost. Like the concentrate that tastes almost like fresh. You mean this natural-tasting morning breakfast beverage with a flavor almost like fresh squeezed, that tastes better than frozen and better than those reconstituted substitutes for artificial morning breakfast drink is actually pennies less preserving than those concentrates that taste almost like fresh and have pope-like substances. Wrong again honey. Wrong again honey. Wrong again honey. Why the fuck did you stop saying wrong again honey and throw this fucking stuff in the toilet and get out there and get me some fucking orange juice?
Speaker 1:Vintage National Lampoon. I'm going to continue on with this Unedited. Unedited. Here we are. This is john belushi and the crew. This is called the national lampoon radio. This is interview with the hollywood gay alliance good evening.
Speaker 5:Uh, this is john belushi, and this is the national lampoon radio hour. Today, we're going to be interviewing three of the greatest superstars Hollywood's ever produced. You're too kind, why don't you introduce yourselves? Hi, chuck.
Speaker 6:I'm sorry, go ahead. Oh no, go ahead, chuck, chuck Bronson.
Speaker 4:Clint Eastwood. John, Delighted to be here, Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 5:Chuck Bronson, you are so coy, dear. I'm Lee Marvin Hi and Lee Marvin Louie. They're here today, today, to talk to you about something that's been on their mind for years, and they're they're, they're coming out with it here. For the first time, they have formed a group called the Hollywood Alliance. What did I get that wrong? Gay alliance, gay alliance. Now, I can't believe that you, gentlemen, are really gay. I mean, charles Bronson, how could you be gay?
Speaker 4:I'm an actor, if I may speak for Chuck, who are kind of the finest actors in the business, clint Eastwood. Yes, gay, he's an actor. He's an actor, if I may speak for Chuck, who is one of the finest actors in the business, clint Eastwood. Yes, yes, chuck's an actor and what he does and what he's been doing is a wonderful act. Oh, you're beautiful, but it's time to be real, isn't it Chuck?
Speaker 3:Excuse me, it's time to knock the closet doors down.
Speaker 6:It's the Hollywood Superstar Gay Alliance, John, and we have been thinking about this for years, and it's an organization that we've started recently, I would say in the last nine months.
Speaker 5:It just seems amazing to me. Here you are, charles Bronson, mr Macho of the Screen, how could you be gay?
Speaker 6:In the first place. You're presuming right off the bean that because I'm gay, I can't be macho. And this is a fallacy, a myth.
Speaker 4:It's also a myth, if I may break in, to assume that what we are on the screen is what we are off the screen and we're not. We're actors doing an honest day's work.
Speaker 3:I think the assumption is that if you're gay, you're bad.
Speaker 4:I mean it's wrong. And I think our biggest problem, if I may, lee, is convincing some of our peers to come out with us.
Speaker 5:It's amazing what other people in Hollywood are gay. I know you hear rumors.
Speaker 4:Who isn't John? Let's put it that way no?
Speaker 6:I think that's really stepping over the line. There are many heterosexuals in Los Angeles County.
Speaker 5:Name one sweetheart, Rod McEwen, For instance. Who are these Rod McEwen?
Speaker 3:Let's uh, rod mckeown. Well, for instance, who are you just get out in the open? This girl's heels are worn down with to a frazzle. Just number one who I live with, jimmy pierce, say rod mckeown for two years, and I'm saying it now, lee.
Speaker 5:That's a real shock. That's a real shock. No shock to me, lee.
Speaker 6:It's no shock to me either there are a lot of little girls. What did lee say?
Speaker 5:lee, that's a real shock. That's a real shock, that's a real shock.
Speaker 3:I interrupted him when he said this girl's heels are worn down with the frazzle. Just to number one, I lived with Jimmy Pearsall for two years and I'm saying it now.
Speaker 5:Lee, that's a real shock. That's a real shock. No shock to me, Lee.
Speaker 4:It's no shock to me either. There are a lot of little girls on the set coming up now who just can't, who just can't step forward like we can, and we're so happy to be able to help them out.
Speaker 5:Uh, like who? Just Ken Howard, for instance.
Speaker 3:Ken Howard. Right, ken came up to me he was shooting that dreadful series whatever that was called about the two, uh, solicitors, whatever they're called. Ken came up to me crying her eyes out, said where do I go? Who's going to take me? And I just held him and said it'll be all right. And it was, it was. I mean, the show flopped, didn't it? Did they pick it up?
Speaker 6:It's that kind of compassion that Lee, for instance, has, and Clint here and Paul Newman, who's been doing a tremendous amount of work for us. Paul Newman is gay, Of course.
Speaker 5:I don't believe that for a minute.
Speaker 4:Well, go down to headquarters and ask him.
Speaker 1:By the way, I don't have the rights to this. Okay, I'm just educating the audience. Come on now. National Lampoon.
Speaker 3:I'm telling you, he's right there, he's typing right now.
Speaker 5:Well, I know you've made movies with a lot of actors. There was a movie called the Magnificent Seven. It had Yul Brynner and Yul Brynner you had. James Colburn, eli Wallach.
Speaker 6:Now they weren't. Everybody in the film was gay, and I think that's how it worked, except for Horst.
Speaker 5:They called that the summer of sin. When they made that movie and we were, so Horst Buchholz was the only one in that movie who wasn't gay, charles Bronson. Now you made a movie, the Great Escape.
Speaker 6:May I just ask where you got that belt, John? I'm sorry to interrupt.
Speaker 3:It's not fair. You should describe it.
Speaker 6:The buckle sort of looks like a snake.
Speaker 5:I got a leather store on 10th Street somewhere. Oh yes.
Speaker 1:By the way, that Great Escape right is the motorcycle in that right. Isn't that the Great Escape? The motorcycle in that Same motorcycle Fonzie rode in Happy Days. The very exact same motorcycle.
Speaker 5:Anyway, um. The Great Escape, the Great Escape you made that film with a number of James Garner. You made it with Steve McQueen, Steve.
Speaker 4:I'll never forget you and Steve McQueen on that cart when you were stuck. You'll never forget.
Speaker 6:I think that's why I really got to know Steve. Well, steve came out just after that. No, you see Steve's, another small man. He's not gay now is he Well, but Steve is gay, you see he is. There are some small men who are gay, oh yeah. I'm sure you'd like to know about a lot of people who are gay and, of course, we're not here to spread the word on people who are gay. People who are gay and who don't want other people to know about it.
Speaker 5:It's not a gossip, that's their business.
Speaker 6:But we are here to say that we're gay and we are the head of a rather large organization now of gay people who are proud to be gay.
Speaker 3:If we told you right now who people were, I mean who, for instance? Walter Cronkite? Walter Cronkite is gay. Casey Stangle, casey Stangle. I can't believe you, the old dog, you know she has the biggest collection of tiaras I've ever seen, really, for instance, there are people that you just wouldn't expect. You know couples. I mean people that don't know about couples, for instance Linus Pauling, and guess who? Just try to match them, dr Spock, dr.
Speaker 6:Spock, but you know.
Speaker 3:It's not important who's gay or? Who isn't gay. What's important to us is that. That's how gay they are.
Speaker 5:No, you're making a joke of this. Is this a serious organization or?
Speaker 1:There's a lot of other gay groups.
Speaker 6:He is always making jokes he's always a little bit out of touch this girl is the boozer and she's not ashamed of it.
Speaker 3:Bottle of wild turkey, and I'm happy now what about?
Speaker 5:are there any sports people that are gay? Nitschke.
Speaker 3:I went out with Nitschke for two summers.
Speaker 6:Karim Abdul-Jabbar, who used to be known as Luau Cinder, is gay, oh boy. Everybody knows that, of course.
Speaker 5:That's amazing. I didn't know that.
Speaker 6:When he swims it's a sight to behold.
Speaker 5:Now, you can't tell me a guy like Dick.
Speaker 3:Butkus is gay. Dick Butkus is gay. You've never seen Dick Butkus in a muumuu Incredibly gorgeous.
Speaker 5:What about some rock stars? Jerry Garcia's?
Speaker 3:Jerry Garcia's gig.
Speaker 5:This is incredible. What about the?
Speaker 6:Beach Boys, all of them. They've been going steady for years.
Speaker 5:They're going together. Bobby Rydell, what about Dr Stillman? Dr Stillman's gig, but the whole point of she certainly is. I'm sorry, jay Silverheels once said to me silver heels when said to me oh God, okay, One more.
Speaker 1:I got one more. It's another one of my favorites. This is the National Lampoon, this one here. I actually got a little bit of air time on FM radio back in the 70s. This is. I was so influenced by that era and the fact that they would play stuff like this. It really caught my attention and I still love it. So this is Bill Murray and Christopher Guest. Now Christopher Guest is playing Mr Rogers, the late, great Mr Rogers. Bill Murray is playing the bass player. If you've ever heard this, you know how good this is. So this is bass player being interviewed by none other than Mr Rogers. Here we go.
Speaker 7:Hi, we're going to talk about some nice things today. Did you know that? Sure, some special things for you, some special things for me too, and we have a special guest here today. Can you say that guest, sure? I knew you could.
Speaker 8:We're gonna talk today to a musician, the guy who plays the bass. You know what a bass is, don't you? Can you say that? Don't Sure you can. Base is, don't you can you say that? Don't sure you can't?
Speaker 7:hello how are you? You seen you get somebody give me a cup of coffee or something. You're not used to getting up early. I'm not here yet. What time do you usually get up?
Speaker 8:I usually get up when the sun is warm, like 1, 30, 2 o'clock in the afternoon I like to get around 6 30. That's insane. You're stupid. You should sleep late, man. It's just much easier on your constitution.
Speaker 7:We're going to talk about your bass and how big it is and things like that. It looks like a violin, but it's bigger, isn't it? It's a hell of a lot bigger. Can you say it? Violin's a little wimpy thing. Can you say wimpy, wimpy? That's right, wimpy thing.
Speaker 8:I like the way you say that. Did you know that I do? Now the hell. You're easily amused, aren't you? I say wimpy, wompy, wambly.
Speaker 7:I know what you mean. You know something I like what your face does when you play.
Speaker 8:It kind of gets all sort of squinched up, yeah somebody told me once that my face when I play the bass it looks like some sort of a big jellyfish or something like that. It just keeps moving. Sure you can never identify what the face is. It's real ugly sometimes and when you're aware it looks like a fruit or something, it just keeps flashing. Yeah, it's really rubber or something.
Speaker 7:Tell me some of the things you think about when you're playing the images, because, of course, when you're playing, I thought of things like sheep and things like that little candies, fresh little candies and things like that. Do you think of those things too?
Speaker 8:Oh, I basically think about my financial situation. I count every beat I play, every note I play and I figure out how many notes I'm giving into the space.
Speaker 7:You know out in the space for how much I'm getting paid and I am working cheap Must be hard to sort of struggle to get your band together.
Speaker 8:Oh man, especially when you be lifting piano man, that is the worst. I worked as a mover for two years while I was first getting a band together, and I've also made pizza.
Speaker 7:But now you're playing music, and so the story sort of has a happy ending, doesn't it?
Speaker 8:Yeah, it's sort of a happy ending. We just got the share from a record company that had promised to pay us a certain amount of royalties. Oh that's too bad. All sorts of stuff went into pre-production, that's too bad. They be charging us for stamps. They say how much is a stamp? You know?
Speaker 7:Sure.
Speaker 8:I'll buy the goddamn stamp.
Speaker 7:Sure, I know what you mean. I'm sure a lot of people out there would like to know how a big, strong guy like you plays the bass so well, gets to be so strong, what it eats to be like that. Can you tell us that?
Speaker 1:Can I just interject Egg and muffin?
Speaker 8:Well, I eat a lot of garbage food, but I mainly consist on stuff like sandwiches and tins of tuna chicken something like that from a chain store soda.
Speaker 7:Do you ever have Egg McMuffin?
Speaker 8:Sometimes Dad or cheese praters.
Speaker 7:Can you say Egg, mcmuffin, egg-a-muffin? Yeah Well, I know what I'd like to do now. I'd like to hear you play some bass.
Speaker 8:Yeah.
Speaker 7:I'd like to do that.
Speaker 8:Well, we're going to go to the Magic kingdom. Oh no, it's too early for me.
Speaker 1:I gotta drive oh, that is a classic christopher guest bill murray National Lampoon. I'll play some more of those as I move along in the podcast, but here at number 119, which, by the way, that's pretty cool we're all the way up to 119 and we're picking up listeners all the time. I was just looking online and we're picking up more and more listeners. So again, let me just interject and say thank you for that. Now I'm going to get to some music. All right, today it was very interesting.
Speaker 1:I pull a record off of my shelf, as I always do. I have this Rare 45 collection and many times, as I've said before, there are two records per sleeve. Neither one of them have ever been played and they're in one sleeve together. And I've explained this numerous times. But for those of you not heard it, you know you think it's going to be a hit. You send it same song both sides. If it's a hit, you can play. One side gets needle burn, you flip it over and if it's still a hit, you have the other record to go to. So anyhow, but today there was two records in this sleeve and they're not the same record. Now, that's the first time in my record collection that I've come across this. They're usually identical or it's the same song, but maybe it was. You know one. Maybe one record was all stereo, one was all mono, or maybe one, maybe they were the same one side stereo, one side mono, what have you? Or all side stereo. Anyhow, this one is two different songs, or two different records, four different songs, sort of kind of. Let me explain.
Speaker 1:And it's one of my very favorite bands. When I was a kid I loved these guys. I still love them and it was an honor when I was interviewing them on my radio. I can't remember who I had on my radio show from this band, but they said Pat, you ought to come out and introduce us because you really know our music. And I said you got to be kidding me. So I got to introduce this band and I was just blown away. So this song is a song written and performed in 1971 by this group, produced by Jerry Goldstein. Live version of the song was featured as the B-side to their 74-single Bolero.
Speaker 1:Now this song is in very unusual blues form. This is one of the reasons I love this band their harmonica player. If I say his name you might know it right away. And there was another harmonica player, magic Dick, that played in Jay Giles, who were my favorites at the time. I'll just tell you the guy's name in this band, lee Oscar, who went on to make his own harmonicas. So you probably know who I'm talking about if you know the band, or Lee Oscar.
Speaker 1:And so, anyhow, the song Unusual Blues, with the first lines being repeated in an African and Latin rhythm. It is from the perspective of someone whose friend's life was taken away and so they're trying to now be a recluse, or, you know, withdrawing from reality, normal everyday life. The song on the album was much longer. It was almost seven minutes long, like 6.59, I think it clocked in, so they had to cut it down. For radio there were some long songs like, well you know, american Pie and some others, hey Jude, but this one they cut it down to 3.59, so they shaved three minutes off of it, which was fine. I love the song, but if you listen to the long version you can understand why it omits the lower introduction and the second verse of the song.
Speaker 1:But it did very well and I loved it. It was just a string of hits by this band that I loved in the 70s. It went to number 12 on the US R&B chart. Number 16 on the US pop chart in 72. 22 weeks on the chart, tied for the most total weeks inside that year with the song by Gallery oh, it's so nice to be with you. Remember that one, featured on the 71 album All Day Music, ranked 23 on Billboard Magazine's top 100 singles of 72. Canada reached number 13. It is from the band War and it's a song called Slippin' Into Darkness.
Speaker 3:Slippin' Into Darkness Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well.
Speaker 2:Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, take my mind beyond the trees. I was slipping into darkness.
Speaker 4:Yeah, take my mind Beyond the tree, where I talk to my brother, oh, oh, oh, oh. Where I talk to my brothers who never said their name.
Speaker 1:I just think they had such a different groove, they were just unique. They're still unique. Hard to explain it in my mind what it's like, but I loved it growing up. World is a Ghetto Cisco, kid Me and Baby Brother. I mean just song after song. So many great ones. Why Can't we Be Friends which had a little bit of a different sound to it? Lowrider, of course, the classic, but I like their lesser-known songs. By the way, listen to War Platinum double album. By the way, it's called Platinum. Check it out sometime. River Niger, four Cornered Room Slippin' in the darkness.
Speaker 4:Pretty soon you're gonna pay.
Speaker 1:And Lee Oscar, lee, oscar, lee, oscar. The harmonica player just had such a different sound, unique sound for harmonica. So you're probably familiar with that tune. But let's flip it over the other side again. You know when I say I like these deeper songs, like Beatles on the Bog, which I bought as a 45. I remember that it was the flip side of the Cisco Kid. Hey, cisco, I love that tune, I love that one. I love Outlaw by. I love that one, I love Outlaw by them by War All day music. But here's a good deep cut Flipping that record over. It's a song called Nappy Head. Here we go, flip side of Slipping Into Darkness. Cool, I love it as summertime music, for whatever reason it reminds me of summer. This is a groovy tune though. Come on, this is one of my favorite songs by the band and it's the B-side to a 45, you know, oh, I love what he just said Thank you.
Speaker 1:I always thought it would be really cool to somehow see war with Cheech and Chong. I love that, yeah, come on. I thought, man, how cool would that be to be able to see somehow a concert with War and Cheech and Chong together. Then one day I pick up a newspaper and what do I see In front of my very eyes, war playing with Cheech and Chong. Went to San Francisco and saw him on a foggy, dreary day and it was so absolutely awesome. You'd have War playing, grooving, and when they would finish the lights would go down and lights ahead of them would come on in front of them and it would be Cheech and Chong sitting there getting ready to do a skit. Hey, what you doing, man? Hey man, you know, I tried to call you, man, I ain't got no phone. Man, I mean, it was awesome.
Speaker 1:Then they came out and I'll never forget he did the encore, they did the encore, war does the encore. And what do they do? First, before they start playing for the encore, cheech Marin comes out here we are in San Francisco, comes out a beautiful white Dodger jersey. Yeah, buddy, I'm like. Yeah, baby, because I'm a Dodger fan, right? Yeah, baby, way to represent. And the crowd starts going boo Boo and he starts smiling. And the crowd starts going boo Boo and he starts smiling. And when he starts smiling they break into bum, ba-bum, bum, they start playing. Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? So he got the Dodger fans, got all the Giants fans singing. Why can't we be friends? Like I said, today there was two records in the sleeve.
Speaker 1:I was totally surprised by this, and it's not even war, it's funky NASA. I'm just going to tell you right up front, because I don't know anything about these. Maybe I do. Anyone know this? I don't. Maybe when I put it on, I haven't listened to it yet. Maybe I'll go. Oh yeah, I know that song, but it's a song written by Ray Munnings and Tyrone Fitzgerald, performed by the Beginning of the End, a song recorded in Criteria Studios, miami. Chuck Kirkpatrick engineered the thing, Marlon Productions produced it and Beginning of the End arranged it and it went to number seven. So maybe I have heard this and this is right in my wheelhouse. 71, even though I was a little little kid, I still knew my music, so maybe I will know this. This might be one of those ones I haven't heard forever. Reached number seven on the US R&B chart, 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100. This week, july 17th of 71, went to number 31 on the UK singles charts in 1974.
Speaker 1:Featured on the 71 album Funky Nassau, the single reached number 75 on the Billboard year-end Hot 100 singles in 1971. So let's put the platter on the table here and let's see what happens. One side is this is on a green label Alston label. By the way, the war record was on United Artist with a stamp January 20th of 72. This one here by Funky Nasa has a stamp on it May let me see, may 20th of 71. And it was released March of 71. So that makes sense All right, but it's part one on the flip, on the flip side, part two. Here we go. Part one, funky NASAassau, part 1. Now we're gonna call our very own that's all rock and that's all roll nassau's got a whole lot of soul feel all right.
Speaker 1:Mini skirts, maxi skirts and afro hair do I love it, but I don't? But I don't know if I remember this Mini skirts, maxi skirts, afro hairdo. Remember that for sure. Oh, this is one of those songs where they let each guy in the band get their little piece of the pie. Go, get that same groove. Bob is on the keyboards. Baby, let it go, bob.
Speaker 2:You know that kind of song.
Speaker 1:There's the bass. Listen to the guitar. Give that soul some tune. Oh yeah, James Brown-esque, Kind of a James Brown wannabe in a way. Huh.
Speaker 8:My cat.
Speaker 1:Maceo. All right, let's see if Funky NASA Part 2, flip it over here. See if Funky NASA Part 2 is any different than Funky NASA Part 1. Iunky Nassau Part 1 must be the hit side. Let's try Funky Nassau Part 2, see if there's any difference here we go.
Speaker 4:That's straight up James Brown, right there.
Speaker 1:That's straight up James Brown, right there.
Speaker 4:Uh-oh.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, that's awesome. I don't think that's part of the song, although it works. Kind of works with the song. Forgot the term, I just do not disturb on. Goes with the song, though. Yeah, it's going to do it for us right here. Pats Peeps 119. Had a good time. Hope you did Back for 120. I can't believe it Tomorrow. Stay cool, see you on the radio. See you on the radio.
