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Ep. 251 Today's Peep Twizzlers... the "Ugly Cousin" of Red Vines, the Painfully-Slow Unwrapping of a Red Rope at the Movie Theater, Listener Content, Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Snubs, Recognizable TV Sounds, and Clyde McCoy in the "Wayback Machine"
The licorice wars have been officially declared, and Pat Walsh is taking a firm stand in the Red Vines camp. "They're the beautiful cousin to the ugly Twizzler," he proclaims, launching into a delightful exploration of candy preferences that somehow connects to one of the funniest movie theater experiences ever shared on the podcast.
His brother Steve's painfully slow unwrapping of a Red Rope candy during a quiet film moment creates an unexpectedly hilarious memory that serves as the perfect gateway into a nostalgia-filled episode. This small moment exemplifies how everyday experiences become the stories we cherish decades later.
Listener submissions transport us through time with clips of Father Guido Sarducci, a glimpse of 18-year-old Karen Carpenter performing with the original Dick Carpenter Trio (sounding nothing like their later incarnation), and the first home run in Toronto Blue Jays history. These cultural artifacts weave together into a rich tapestry of shared memories that transcend their original contexts.
The podcast shifts into high gear when Pat tackles the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's controversial selections. His passionate defense of snubbed legitimate rock bands like Boston, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and Beck contrasted against pop inductees sparks a compelling argument about musical categorization and recognition. "No one was scratching bread or America into picnic tables when cutting school," he argues, painting a vivid picture of authentic rock culture that certain Hall of Fame inductees simply don't represent.
The episode culminates with a musical archaeology expedition as Pat shares Clyde McCoy's 1931 "Sugar Blues" from his rare record collection, connecting this jazz trumpeter to the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud and demonstrating how musical history intertwines with broader American culture.
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Welcome to the Pats Peeps podcast 251. We're well on our way to 500 and onto 1,000. How are you? It's Tuesday, happy Tuesday, april 29, 2025. It's a beautiful day as I look out my windows in my home studio under the beautiful foothills of Northern California. Thank you, sean Moody, for the intro. It's a gorgeous day. I might have to get out there and do a little work around the yard. I'm going to be using Roundup for the first time. I'm terrified. It's perfectly safe. Yeah, sure it is. I've never used this chemical before. I don't like it. Not a big chemical guy, never been a big chemical guy. But yep, I'm going to use it there today because the weeds are out of control. It's just something a little different versus the weed eating and all. How are you? It's a pleasant day. I hope it's a pleasant day. I hope it's a pleasant day wherever. You are Very happy about our 250th podcast yesterday Coming up. We have listener content on this Tuesday.
Speaker 1:You know what? I probably mentioned this before though I'm not a big sweets guy Occasionally, you know what it is. It's one of those. What do they call those when you're in line? It's well, what do they call those? Now it's escaping me. You see something in line, just spontaneously you go, oh yeah, yeah, did I need this? No, but there it is, right there in front of me, there's a name for it which I'm completely spacing off and you just grab it.
Speaker 1:And yesterday I was in line with my groceries and right there at the cash register, you see, they get you, they get you. They get the red vinesines, the original red twist, sitting right there, little boxes of them, not the big container. You can't get the big container because I cannot eat that much candy and with the red vines you can only keep them soft for so long and the best time for the red vine is in the early stage, when it's still soft. You know, by the way, don't give me the. What is it? Twizzles, twizzlers, please, twizzlers. That is like plastic candy made out of again chemicals of some kind, some kind of weird. It's all shiny Twizzlers, ugh, twizzlers.
Speaker 1:You know they try to be red vines but they're not. They're the ugly cousin to the red vine. You know, the other cousin is the red rope, which is the beautiful cousin to the red vine. They used to get those in Little League, the red rope, remember those? Be the long, kind of a long version of the red vine, but it didn't have those little lines, it was just that it came in that cellophane. You go to the ballpark, little League Park, and you'd be at the. Yeah, I got a red rope, get a red rope.
Speaker 1:I just thought of a story with a red rope. I just thought of a story with a red rope. I haven't thought of it in years. That Rolodex in my head just flipped the card over when I was talking about red ropes. It made me think of a memory. So you have the red vines and then you have the red ropes, you know. So you have the red vines and then you have the red ropes, which essentially is the same flavor. And then the ugly cousin, the Twizzler, the black sheep. In a family no one wants the Twizzler.
Speaker 1:So my brother Steve, many years ago, my brother Steve and I we go to the movies and I don't know what God knows what movie, I don't know what a God knows what movie I don't know. I don't go to the movies at off but no idea what movie it was. And for my brother Steve and I to go to the movies together, that really does not happen that often, but anyhow, we're in this movie. And again, before we went in, steve got a red rope. Now, you know the red rope, it's probably I don't know, maybe I'm just guessing here maybe 24 inches, something like that long, and it's sealed in that cellophane. Now Steve decides to wait until the movie starts before he digs into the red rope. But as he decides to take the cellophane off of the red rope, he forgets apparently that, you know, the cellophane makes some noise. And instead of just peeling back a little bit of the cellophane and realizing it makes noise, instead of just giving it the old Band-Aid rip just to kind of pull it once and get it over with.
Speaker 1:It gets to the quiet part of this movie. All of a sudden Steve had opened the red rope, cellophane, and it's just really a quiet part of the movie. But Steve God bless him he's trying to be so courteous, he does not want to interrupt the movie. So he is slowly. He's slowly ripping this cellophane off the red rope, like this. And at some point this is going on and I'm like, hey, why don't you just give it the all and be done with it? But I started laughing and afterwards I said, steve, that was so funny. I think we started laughing during the movie. It may have even been an inappropriate time, I don't know. It was just quiet and he had that cellophane. So anyhow, yeah, I've got my red ropes. Can't eat I mean the red vines. Can't eat them.
Speaker 1:While you're doing a podcast, though. Yeah, twizzlers please. Hey, we have some listener content here on Pat's Peeps 250. Thought we'd share some of that. By the way, in case you don't know some of you don't know others of you do know that my name is Pat Walsh. I'm the host of the Pat Walsh Show, as heard at KFPK Radio in Sacramento, 93.1 FM, 1530 AM, live on your free iHeart app. Okay, my show is Monday through Friday, 7 to 10 pm. We just have a little fun. It's basically what we do. Listener content today. Let's see what we have. Let's start with Ryan. Ryan has sent some content here. Let's just dig right in here. Let's start with this here.
Speaker 3:See what we got Then you need a K-Tel tape selector. Yes, With special attachments. It fits conveniently in your car. Stores all your tapes, neatly Ready for easy selection. Tilt the first tape forward, the others follow automatically. Take your selection when it appears when replacing tapes. Tape selector automatically finds the proper place For your eight tracks.
Speaker 1:For your eight tracks yes, Tape selector, Meanwhile from Ryan, here's another one. Oh no, I don't want to hear that one. I want to hear Father Guido Sarducci.
Speaker 4:Thank you to Ryan for this one the patron saint of Italy. He's a great saint and not just a good saint. Oh yeah, I got to hear Father Guido Sarducci. Thank you to Ryan for this one. The patron saint of Italy is a great saint, not just a good saint.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I've got to start him over, father Guido Sarducci.
Speaker 4:You know, st Joseph's name day is coming up, March 19, only two days away. But there won't be no parades, no parties, not even a song for St Joseph, and the reason is because of a Saint Patrick. You know, it's just like having a birthday two days after Christmas. You just don't get it the same attention. You know, and it just breaks my heart, that he was a great Saint and this is a good, mediocre Saint to get to all of the glory glory.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love it, father Guido started doing two.
Speaker 3:Maybe you have all the answers. What do you call a girl whose measurements are 32, 24, 36, and?
Speaker 1:9?. Oh, I missed the beginning of that one. Oh, I missed the beginning of that one. Oh, I missed the beginning of that one. Doggone it. All right, the girl was something extra.
Speaker 4:Making their own answers.
Speaker 3:What do you call a girl whose measurements are 32, 24, 36, and 9?
Speaker 1:Great Carnacac, the magnificent. Uh, oh, here is american stories with lee habib. Thank you to ryan. I think this is, uh, I believe this is dennis james doing hosting this, but check it out 18-year-old Karen Carpenter. This is she's 18 years old and this is, I think, the Carpenter. Well, our first contestant tonight comes from California.
Speaker 7:State College at Long Beach. They're the Dick Carpenter Trio.
Speaker 1:Dick.
Speaker 7:Carpenter Trio. This gentleman right here, this handsome boy, is the leader. He is Dick. He plays the organ Actually, it's not an organ, is it Electric piano? And of course, the young lady on the drums is Karen, his younger sister Now. Karen used to hear Dick play, and she used to get so filled with rhythm that she'd play on the kitchen chairs and the table and finally she decided well, what, I better get some drums. She did that and decided to play along with dick. So that was two of them. She's 18 years old there. She's a fine singer too. You're going to find out now. The third member of this group is a man who has a name that's a little bit difficult for me to pronounce, but it's bill soy sis. Oh yeah, I did it, sis. Oh yeah, sis-oyef, I did it, sis-oyef. All right, these people play rock and roll and they play jazz and they play blues, you name it. Right now they're gonna play Dancing in the Street from California State at Long Beach the Dick Carpenter Trio. Here they are.
Speaker 1:Ah, the original incarnation of the Carpenters. How different, for the Carpenters huh, so different. Wow, it's hard to believe that's the Carpenters. Oh my god. Of course they went on to all those great hits, but wow, that's interesting. Speaking of, I mean just because it doesn't sound anything like the Carpenters, nothing, I mean, that song had been covered by a million people.
Speaker 1:Here's something interesting. This is from Ralph. I thought this was cool. So this is the first home run. Now hold on with me If you're not a sports fan, but if you're.
Speaker 1:First home run in the history of the Toronto Blue Jays franchise was by Doug Alt. Doug Alt, now, I'll play this for you and then I'll give you a little background as well. First home run April 7th 1977. Doug Alt here. Well, I'll give you a little info before I even really actually play it.
Speaker 1:But part of the reason I'm playing this, because I'm a Sacramento guy in 1976, so the year before this happens, doug Ault played in 143 games for the Sacramento Solons of the Pacific Coast League. My father played for the Sacramento Solons, but he played there in the late 50s. But I remember going to the games at Hughes Stadium, the Sacramento Solons of the Pacific Coast League, and Doug Ault led the league in runs with 112, and he also led the league in total bases with 278. And he finished third in home runs with 25. Short porch, very short porch at Hughes Stadium Really wasn't designed for baseball. But also in hits with 168. So he was a league leader in so many areas.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile he worked the offseason on an oil platform, can you imagine? But on November the 5th, the Blue Jays select him with the 32nd overall pick in the 1976 MLB expansion draft. He considered that day as grateful, as it gave him the opportunity to play every day in the major leagues. So he goes from Sacramento and goes to the Toronto Blue Jays. Also played for the Rangers, by the way, played for the Rangers before he played for the Blue Jays. But he is best known for hitting the first two home runs, the first two in Blue Jays history. April 7, 1977, former Sacramento Solon Doug Ault.
Speaker 2:Usually after a strikeout the catcher will throw it down to third and he'll throw it around the infield, but I noticed today it goes right down to the third baseman and back to the pitcher. When you get a two-run lead, you like to get that game over with as quick as you can and not delay it at all.
Speaker 5:Doug Ault, picked up from Texas in the expansion draft, hit 313 for Sacramento and Texas last year, mostly with Sacramento, brett had that pitch get away on him. It's a ball 1-0. He joined them for nine games. There's Ann Murray, ann Murray, canadian, signing the national anthem, probably wondering about that big song of hers. Snowbird Roger, what's happened today? Ball one strike one.
Speaker 1:Snowbird. I remember that my mother had that record.
Speaker 5:Struck out. On their first two appearances they trailed two. Nothing to the Chicago White Sox. Brett Deals Hard hit ball Power alley Left center field Home run. Doug Olt hits the first homer in Blue Jay history and will score the first one.
Speaker 2:Don Bobby Durr, the batting coach for the Blue Jays, was telling me about Doug Oult during batting practice. Very strong, he hit that ball real well over the 375-foot sign. Probably went close to 400 feet.
Speaker 5:What a thrill for this crowd. There he is, doug Ault, hard-hitting first baseman. This crowd roaring like a whirlwind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you, ralph. That's really awesome Brought to you by some old TV. That's really awesome Brought to you by some old TV. Thank you, ralph Kellogg. Back to you. Oh the monkeys, oh the monkeys.
Speaker 3:Hey, and Tony the Tiger, wow double bill Brought to you by Kellogg. Yeah, k-e-l-l-o-w-g-double-good, come on, bet to you.
Speaker 7:That reminds me Gotta have my big crisp flakes of corn with that toasted-in sugar frosting.
Speaker 8:Hey, a big cat, daddy, he's a tiger on a king Sugar frosting flakes are to swing and sing.
Speaker 6:Sugar-frosted flakes are real bad flakes. One more time? Oh no, I'll give you some more sugar-frosted flakes.
Speaker 1:They're great. Thank you, ralph. Appreciate that. Appreciate that. Let's see, what else do we have today? What else? Oh, I've got a couple of oh. Let's see. Um, oh, I have. Oh, here you go. I'll do this on my show tonight. I'll let people guess these. See, if anyone remembers these sounds here from TV, these will just be random sounds. Recognize that one, these little tv bumpers and network ids. How about this? Would you know what that is? This one's simple yeah how about this one.
Speaker 7:This is abc. Yeah, this is nbc, that's.
Speaker 1:This is CBS Old school. How about this one? Would you get that one Boy that's cartoons there, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Ha sit, ubu sit good dog isn't that funny how these, these really become you kind of memorize. You may not memorize them, but they're so familiar when you hear them, like, what was that? If you heard each one isolated, you go okay, what was that? I mean, with the exception of this is NBC or CBS or ABC, whatever, when they just give it away, but if you just hear the ones with the little sounds. I play one at the end of my show every day on my radio show.
Speaker 1:Speaking to that, let me see, I'll, let's play it here. I'll just bring this up, see, see if you could hear this. Or if you hear this isolated, isolated, would you know? Would you know? Let's see, give me a second here, would you know? But you have to be old school. I keep forgetting that. Like, you have to be around for a long time to get these. God, been around a long time, boy. Yeah, I have All right, I'll play a couple of these for you, like, would you know this?
Speaker 1:Let me see? Here we go. Oh, that's the end of the show. Let me try this one. All right, how about this one? No, this one. Okay, try this one, see if it plays it. There you go. I play that at the end of my show every night. This right here, this right here. Do you know what that is? Just that isolated sound. Let's see, I'll see if I could do one more. Huh, see, now I start thinking about all of old school. Yeah, I'll, yeah. How about this one? What is that one? Oh you know. How about this one? See, now, I don't even. Oh yeah, I wonder if they'll have this. Okay, how about this one? See, now, I don't even. Oh yeah, I wonder if they'll have this. Okay, how about this one? See, if they'll do the little intro boy? This one brings back saturday morning memories to me in the news. Remember that before you even said anything, remember that In the news.
Speaker 3:In the news, an ice skating superstar At the Winter Olympics this year, Diane DeLue won a silver medal.
Speaker 1:They would do these little things. It would be during cartoons, saturday morning cartoons, be watching the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Hour, and then this thing would pop on.
Speaker 3:In the news Wow.
Speaker 1:That brings back some memories as to tonight, by the way we're going to be doing speaking of TV. We're going to be doing as seen on TV Products that perhaps you bought from TV, that you may not have ever used, or maybe you used it for a year or so, but you know, then maybe you just sat there in a corner forever. Anyone remember the blue blockers? Remember this, I loved this one. The blue blockers, all right, remember this, I loved this one the Blue Blockers.
Speaker 8:All right, now I'm real fast. Let me tell you what I'm thinking. This shall come to pass. My name is Geek.
Speaker 1:They were giving out sunglasses the Blue Blocker sunglasses on the beach, Put them on as a shocker man.
Speaker 8:I love these Blue Blockers. Everything is clear, they black out for some. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I got to get me some. They handed him some of this guy and he just starts rapping.
Speaker 8:He's got his sombrero on. Everything is groovy. Now I'm the bull in my speech. This is what I do up and down Venice Beach. My name is Geek, I'm more than a hip hopper and I'll be cheeky. My blue blockers yeah. Now what do I mean? Yeah, these sunglasses are really Really keen. So there you have it out there in TV land. Get you some glasses.
Speaker 1:Sweep in the land.
Speaker 8:Remember what I said? I'm a hip hopper. Yeah, we'll get you some blue blockers. Nah, you got this week. I'll see you later. I got to make some money on the beat.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Remember the Flobie? Maybe someone bought the Flobie. It's going to save money on haircuts.
Speaker 1:Last night on the show on the Pat Wall show I did talk extensively about because it was the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was in the news and I can never hear that without letting everyone know my feelings about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and how bogus it is. I'm sorry, it just is. They don't treat it like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You know, long live rock. Yeah, unless it's actual rock then it doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame. And just talk about some of the people you know I mean they even nominate like Mariah Carey or Outkast, come on, I mean I always say give me one song, one song, one album by Mariah Carey or Outkast. That's rock and roll. You know they put hip-hop artists in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Do you think, other than maybe Aerosmith we did talk about that or perhaps Anthrax, because they teamed up with Public Enemy Aerosmith, with Run DMC, to do Walk? This Way they might be able to be considered somehow influential, certainly in both rock and obviously in rock but in rap. But other than that, come on, I mean you're not going to put Led Zeppelin in the hip-hop hall of fame, but anyhow, I belabored the point and I started looking at just the people that, uh, that are snubbed, you know, like the band Boston. I mean no disrespect to Donna Summers fine Donna Summers, or Abba, or someone like that, or you, mariah Carey, but you don't have Boston, which isn't, you know, I don't know an actual rock band. You know, some of these other bands, like some of the snubs, some of the bands that other people would consider snubs, I may or may not agree with.
Speaker 1:For instance, america love America great band, and you know what, with hits like Ventura Highway, lonely People, horse With no Name, sister Golden Hair. You know, if they had a pop hall of fame, I'd be right there voting for them. Rock and roll Eh, look, here's the facts. I was there for rock and roll, all right, I was there during rock and roll and I can assure you, when people who are into rock and roll All right, I was there during rock and roll and I can assure you, when people who are into rock and roll sit around and they're talking about best rock concerts or the top rock bands, no one's saying America, they're not. Not that, america is not a a great band, but they're great at what they did, which was kind of 70s pop. I actually have seen america. Um, they're great in concert.
Speaker 1:I love, I enjoy their music, but it's like putting bread in the rock and roll. Bread's probably in there, I don't know, but like bread wouldn't belong in there because it's really, it's just not rock. No one was sitting around Elk Grove Park when I was cutting school going and we're all hanging out cutting school together, uh, drinking a beer and saying, uh, yeah, man, and scratching you know, led Zeppelin and Montrose and Pink Floyd and Ted Nugent into the picnic table with a knife. No one was scratching in bread or America, we weren't. We didn't like disco. We still don't. All right, golly. Other people.
Speaker 1:I don't want to go down the whole list, I'm just looking at one of these. This is classic rock culture VCR they're talking about snubbed bands. Anthrax is on their list. You know, vcr, they're talking about snubbed bands. Anthrax is on their list. You know, come on. I mean I like Anthrax, but Argent, yes, oh my God, if you're going to talk about rock influence, argent, rod Argent I mean he was included in 2019 as a member of the Zombies, but you talk about a guy that influenced music.
Speaker 1:You know they put Asia on the list. You know I can't do it. In case you remember or don't remember, you know Asia was made up of members of King Crimson yes, emerson Lake and Palmer Steve Howe only Steve Howe, by the way, has been recognized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of yes, but Howe and his Asia bandmate, jeff Downs, are also both members, 2017 inductees, but Downs was not recognized by the others. But they achieved quadruple platinum success John Whetton, carl Palmer, on Asia's 1982 self-titled album. There was frequent lineup changes.
Speaker 1:Dipping commercial success may have made them an unlikely candidate again. Look, they might have sold quadruple platinum albums. That's pretty amazing and people could argue hey, just that alone puts them in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame In their previous bands. I could see it, but that's just really an opinion. Okay, that's an opinion and I get it, some people, and it's fine if we disagree. This band's got to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and they're not. Come on, come on, come on. Canada's very own Bachman Turner Overdrive. Come on, I'm going to have to eat one of my red vines. Listening to this Takes me back to the day Little League. This would be the hard. This would be a hard song to do. I've always thought karaoke, because you've got to go, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-baby, you've got to figure out how he does it. How are they not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Give me a break. Any love is good love.
Speaker 2:Here's where it gets difficult. On the karaoke stage, bachman, turner, overdrive, hit after hit, after hit. But baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet?
Speaker 1:Nothing yet you ain't been around Bachman-Turner overdrive, hit after hit after hit. Not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, though you think they'd put him in the Disco Hall of Fame. No, what about Badfinger? You know why? Because it's not disco. You know, just like some of the people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aren't rock and roll Like Dolly Parton, they wanted to put her in there. I mean, I love Dolly, but rock and roll, come on Country. Oh yeah, one of the best. Bad Finger became eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 96.
Speaker 1:The original incarnation existed for a relatively brief time, from 68 to 73. They released five albums with the Beatles Apple label. Beatles aren't just putting anyone on their label. Toured extensively, became a well-known as a power pop group, though Sold an estimated 14 million records before their legacy was clouded with tragedy and I mean terrible I've talked about on my podcast before. I mean these guys were ripped off. Pete Hamm commits suicide in 75. Tom Evans commits suicide in 83. They've never been even nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and they were ripped off. They couldn't even play their own music in concert because of a terrible contract that they signed. It's a whole story. And you know, when they say it's a power pop group, yeah, yeah, they might be a power pop group but at the same time, you know, badfinger was a rock band. It was a little poppy, but they were produced by. You know, badfinger was a rock band. It was a little poppy, but they were produced by. You know. I mean, paul McCartney produced a song. George Harrison produced one of the songs. You know they were. I always looked at them as a rock band, but I understand they were a power pop. I think it's probably a very good description.
Speaker 1:Beck is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Give me a break. A very good description. Beck is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Give me a break, because this guy, beck, to me is the guy I would hear him on the radio when I first became aware. It's more than two turntables and a microphone. His debut Mellow Gold. Since that arrived in 94, he's been one of the most consistently popular forces in music 14 songs in the top 20 of Billboard's alternative chart. Loser when it's At E-Pro Blue Moon Dreams first time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee in 2022, still awaiting induction.
Speaker 1:If you're looking for someone who is influential and extremely creative and unique with his music, he's the guy for me. Maybe you know we're all different. Obviously, a song will come on and I'm like man, who is that? Now I would know. But initially I'm like who is this? I come out. It'd be Beck, just like I used to do with the drive-by truckers. Who is this? Come out? Drive-by truckers oh, same. Just like I used to do with the drive-by truckers. Who is this? Come out. Drive-by truckers oh, same thing I did with Sublime when I first started hearing Sublime B52s are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1:You're going to put Mariah Carey, but not the B52s. I think they should be in there. I mean, they've been eligible since 2004. How are they not in the Rock and Roll Five? Again, if you're looking for an influential sound, something different, be 52s. I got to go Black Crowes now Maybe give it a couple of years, particularly after this year's album they released. They were initially. They were eligible in 2016. They debuted in 90.
Speaker 1:Chris and Rich Robinson you know there's been conflict throughout their career, but I'm telling you, man, they put out to me my brother, steve, feels the same way the Black Crows are are to me one of the best bands in in music, one of the most genuine, one of the best bands. Going, by the way, chris Robinson, who is one of my favorite singers, told Howard Stern that he would not attend the ceremony. Says I'm not going, says look, ceremony. He says I'm not going. He says, look, jerry Garcia didn't go, I'm not going. He got into Chris Robinson's brotherhood, which was very Jerry Garcia dead, like I love it. He said the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to me is like going to the mall or something. I love it, chris Robinson, that's one of the reasons.
Speaker 1:But there's an extensive list. You know, like they say blind faith, that'll be on some people's list. And man, I love blind faith. And it's a super group. I mean this was a super group with Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton was in this, jim Gordon was in this band band it was a super group. I mean ginger baker, excuse me, uh, but I don't really put super groups into really the rock and roll hall of fame for some reason. To me that's kind of a collection of people. Anyhow, I could go down the whole list. Blue Oyster Cult, I think should be there, absolutely for sure. Blue Oyster Cult, anyhow. Bon Jovi's not there. I'm not a big fan. Boston definitely needs to be there. Not so sure about Brownsville Station, anyhow. The list goes on and on and on. I got to wrap things up here because I would just go on and on and on about all this stuff.
Speaker 1:I pulled a record from my rare record collection my rare 45 collection today, and this one is really rare. I'll tell you the first thing that I thought of when I saw this the label, was this. The only other time, really, that I maybe I've seen it somewhere else, but I instantaneously recognize this label. It's gold and it is Capitol Records and it's got this I don't know, almost not quite a star shaped. It's got this logo on there and it just reminds me of when I was a kid and I'd go through my mother's record collection and one of my favorite albums that I would play of hers was Hank Thompson and this was like Hank Thompson's golden hits or something like that. He's kicking bags, he's got his cowboy boots and I used to love that record and it would be on this label. So it reminded me of that instantly.
Speaker 1:On this particular label there is nothing except, well, there is a sticker from the radio station, a white sticker. It says 1366. They used to number these, obviously, 1366. They used to number these, obviously 1-3-6-6.
Speaker 1:But I have the sneaking suspicion that this is a best of, like a re-release. The record, by the way, in impeccable condition, wow, I mean, the vinyl itself is just beautiful. But I have a feeling that this is like you know what they would re-release, like golden, like you know what they would do the re-release like golden hits you know where that years later. Because this is this was. This is not from 1936 or 19, whatever this came out initially, there's just no way 1935 or whatever. So this has to be a re-release and that's why I think it's this cause it says the star line, which is, I think, what that logo is is I was trying to describe almost like a star, the star line. So that that's what this is on. Anyhow, because this, I mean, this is old. This is probably the oldest 45 that I played in terms of the music but not in terms of the actual record.
Speaker 1:So American Jazz trumpeter popularity spanned seven decades, best remembered for his theme song, which is this song written by Clarence Williams and Lucy Fletcher, also had a co-founder of Downbeat magazine as the co-founder written by oh, this was in 1935. So the song hit in 1931 and 1935 in Columbia and Decca versions, then returned to Billboard magazine's country hillbilly chart in 1941. It was also played with vocals by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys Fats Waller and Ella Fitzgerald. Johnny Mercer had a vocal hit in 47.
Speaker 1:And this artist was a member of the one time one of the families of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. How about that? Isn't that interesting? He was a member of one of the families of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. That's so cool. At Chicago's Drake Hotel he first performed this song in 1930. Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6426 Hollywood Boulevard, at 6426 Hollywood Boulevard. So he performed this song at the Drake Hotel. Like I said, in Chicago 30. He also did. A solo rendition of the song would draw enthusiastic approval from the patrons at that hotel, provided national broadcast exposure for the band on the radio and would help this artist get signed to a recording contract with Columbia Records. Song recorded January 22, 1931, was an instant retail success. Continued to enjoy successful sales over the years. It's Clyde McCoy, sugar Blues, pat's Peeps 251. Time for another Red Vine. © BF-WATCH TV 2021.
Speaker 1:All right, I think I'm going to flip it over so we can check out what's on the other side. All right, let's flip this over. This is called Tear it Down. Two minutes and 25 seconds. All right, here we go. Tear it Down, clyde McCoy. Sometimes I think I should have been a tuba player. Sometimes I pick up on the tuba parts.
Speaker 6:Imagine being a teenager Back up on the tuba part.
Speaker 1:Imagine being a teenager. Your friends are playing the guitar and drums. You're practicing tuba.
Speaker 6:Sounds like a cartoon song. I can see cartoon going with this. I love it.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening. I surely appreciate it. To Patats Peeps 251. Hey, thank you very much. Thank you, have a beautiful Tuesday. We'll see you On the radio. I'm gonna have another red line. I'll call it a twizzler.
