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Ep. 253 Today's Peep May Day Flashbacks, High School Driving Simulators & the Highway of Agony, Red Asphalt, Failing My First Driving Test, Driver Instructor's Monkey Business and Green Records
A sun-drenched May Day brings nostalgic memories flooding back as I gaze out at the Northern California foothills from my studio window. Remember when we'd craft heartfelt gifts for neighbors, place them on doorsteps, then dash away before they answered? Mother called it a "kind version of doorbell ditch" – spreading anonymous joy on the first day of May.
I dive into the rich history behind May Day celebrations – those ancient European festivals marking summer's arrival with maypoles, dancing, and flower gathering. Across cultures, from Germany's "Walpurgisnacht" bonfires to Celtic "Beltane" traditions, people have found meaningful ways to celebrate seasonal transitions together.
Speaking of treasures from the past, today's episode features a rare find from my vinyl collection: a pristine 1967 Peaches & Herb single on green vinyl. This gorgeous limited-edition record reveals fascinating insights about colored vinyl history – originally designating music genres before evolving into collectors' items. Did you know seven different women have played "Peaches" alongside the constant "Herb" since the duo's 1966 formation?
The conversation takes an unexpected turn down memory lane as we revisit those terrifying driver's education films from high school. "Highway of Agony" and "Red Asphalt" – who else remembers being traumatized by these graphic cautionary tales? I share my own bizarre driver's training experience, complete with an instructor who made unexpected detours to show us his pet monkeys before resuming lessons with bourbon on his breath!
Mark your calendars for May 6th when Barry Manilow joins me for a special conversation on the podcast. From May Day traditions to vinyl collecting and unforgettable school memories, this episode celebrates the connections between past and present that shape who we are.
hey, welcome to the patch's Peeps podcast. This is number 253. 253 in my podcasts. My name is Pat Walsh, host of the Pat Walsh Show on KPK Radio Sacramento, heard everywhere, everywhere. Live on your free iHeart app.
Speaker 1:You know, as I look out my studio windows today into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, it's beautiful and I can't help but to tell you but it is, it's May Day, yeah, may Day, may Day, may Day. I'm gonna get a pole and put it in my yard and I don't even know why it's Mayday, may 1st. When I was a kid, my mother would convince us to do something kind for people on May Day. It's a festive time of year, may Day, only days away from Cinco de Mayo. I said that with an Italian accent. I just noticed. Cinco de Mayo, oh yeah, and for my birthday, which is coming up soon. Anyhow, it's May Day and, yeah, you know my mother always. Here's what she told us to do. She said you know, what you do on May Day is that you get something really cool. You can make something. Usually it was make something and it could be like a flower arrangement or something really nifty like that when you're a little kid, and then you would take it generally to a neighbor, because you wouldn't be wandering too far away from the home that way, so it'd be generally a neighbor. By the way, it's a thursday today. How are you? And, uh, you would, you would, it's a neighbor, you would like. You would take this little gift basket or the little flower arrangement, or whatever it might be, and you would. Um, it was almost like a, it was. It was like a nice game of doorbell ditch, remember, doorbell ditch. You knock on the door and run. Hi, you little punks, stay off of my yard. Hey, get out of my yard, stop that, you're going to go blind. But this was a good version of it, because you'd set the gift of the little thing on the door, you'd knock and you'd run, Only so the unsuspecting neighbor would open a door and want to think you little, what is this? Well, isn't this sweet, you know. And then they would, you know, they would go. Oh, this takes me back. Oh, I remember the day when people, I remember the day when my husband brought me flowers. Oh, those were good times. But you know, but that was it. He was just doing something nice for someone.
Speaker 1:It's a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer Not, but it's usually celebrated, I mean, first, around halfway between the northern hemisphere, spring equinox and the midsummer solstice. So clearly we are in spring, and boy is it a beautiful spring spring. I remember back in the days of I just want to use that button every now and then, but it's, it is a gorgeous spring day, I have to say. On this may day, festivities would be held the night before may eve. Oh wow, you did. Traditions would include held the night before May Eve. Oh wow. Traditions would include gathering the green branches and wildflowers. Now, I have not done that today, perhaps you have, but I have slipped on my duties doing that today and you would use these to decorate buildings, make them into wreaths, crowning a May Queen. I haven't done that in a number of years. Been a long time since we've crowned a May Queen, sometimes with a male companion decked in greenery, setting up a maypole, a may tree or a may bush around which people would dance and sing, as well as parades and processions involving all of this stuff. Anyhow, that was what it used to be back in the origins.
Speaker 1:Germany celebrates May Day. They have the rural regions of Germany I would give this to but it's first of all May Day, ain't that interesting? Plus, I can't pronounce this crap. Regions of Germany? I would give this to, but it's first of all May Day, ain't that interesting? Plus, I can't pronounce this crap. Waldpurgisnacht. Look, I'm not Sweden. Bonfires and outdoor celebrations on May Eve. On Waldpurgisnacht, you think? All right, you pronounce these things.
Speaker 1:Here's the. Here's the Swedish name v-a-l-b-o-r-g-s-m-a, with one of those amulets. What is that? What is a little thing called with little two dots? What is that called? Maybe not an amulet. What is? Maybe not an amulet? What is it? She had an amulet, never mind S-S-O-A-F-T-O-N, so V-A-L-B-O-R-G-S-M-A-S-S-O-A-F-T-O-N. It involves some kind of maypole dancing.
Speaker 1:The Celtic regions, regions. Biltane marks the beginning of summer. Again, it's not the beginning of summer, but okay, scotland, same thing. They got a big. Uh, they've been celebrating it for centuries. Anyone celebrating it? Wales, bulgar, meanwhile in the Czech Republic? Ah, you know, what I do remember is the days in England, in the UK, celebrating the, you know, may Day. Yeah, england celebrates it as well.
Speaker 1:I almost gave the phone number, I almost actually gave the phone number for my radio show 916, it's like two times in a row. I've done that now, almost so, beyond that, happy anniversary to my brother Steve and my wonderful sister-in-law Mary. I think it's their 21st anniversary or something like that today. So happy anniversary to you too. You know I was looking at this. I pulled this vinyl and, by the way, shout out to my cousin Nick too. My cousin Nick lives in Spokane and he listens to the podcast. So thank you very much, nick, who gets my sense of humor you were picking up on my sense of humor yesterday for sure. Very grateful for that.
Speaker 1:I was looking at when I pulled, pulled this vinyl off my rare from my rare records yesterday, my 45s for Pat's Peeps 253, it initially really caught my eye because it is on green vinyl. Now I mean, talk about how rare that is green vinyl. It's on Date Records. That is so cool. It's a white label. It has green lettering on it that says date records. That is so cool. It's a white label. It has green lettering on it that says date records. It just says date in total 1960 style Radio station copy. It's got a couple of radio station stickers on it 2395 on one side and then it's got plus 8 or whatever that means on a red sticker on the other side. I always like to tell you what the label looks like and looking at the record itself, it looks in pristine condition.
Speaker 1:But I mean, when's the last time, if ever, that you've seen a record, a vinyl record, the where the vinyl was green, particularly this color green? This is almost I'm not going to say a lime green, but it is a very light, almost a lime kind of a green. And these are real collector's items. I mean, these are really worth. You know, these are very collectible.
Speaker 1:So in the past you'd have these different colored vinyl records and if you ever wondered if you've ever seen it but maybe you have not, but what it did is they usually represented the genre of music, like the colors, like green for country, yellow for children's music. The system helped make it easier for consumers to find records, especially before the widespread use of the record sleeves. But, however, the use of colored vinyl also expanded to represent limited edition releases, special editions. Some even use it to promote independent stores, stores, and because, if you, if you think about that guideline right there, where it's see, but you know, green for country, well, I can tell you this one's green and I don't believe it's country. Now, I don't know this song necessarily. Maybe I will when I put it on the turntable. I know the artist and I know the artist isn't country and and I also have a Johnny Cash which is on Sun Records and I also have a Jerry Lee Lewis that is on a Sun Records the original labels which is on yellow vinyl. So obviously that's not children's music. It says red for classical, like I said, but that might be true. But I believe that I have a Bob Dylan very rare Bob Dylan 45 that is on red vinyl. So again, maybe those were limited edition releases and if so, that makes them even more rare, or perhaps they were special edition releases that I have.
Speaker 1:But in the early days, if anyone is interested in records, I've always been very interested. But in the early days of vinyl, colors were used to. You know, again, they were used as a genre for the genre of music, but again, I don't think that was entirely true in the categories they put them into. But it's now often used for limited edition releases. Like I said, some store labels will release different color versions of a record for certain stores maybe online platforms these days and the colors themselves in terms of collectability, they can be a very big selling point for collectors as they're often seen as visually appealing and they really are or as a way to stand out from the standard black vinyl In terms of the sound quality.
Speaker 1:With these records, it's not always the case. There are those who believe that the quality of the colored vinyl can vary some pressings, potentially having maybe more noise or being less durable. However, there are advancements in vinyl manufacturing that's improved the sound quality of colored vinyl, making it more comparable to black vinyl, and I'm looking at this, or I'm feeling this record, and I can tell you that this record's every bit as durable as any of the black vinyl. At least it feels that way. Maybe I'm wrong. We'll have to listen to it and see what it sounds like. But in essence, why. The original use of colored vinyl is practical for organization purposes. It did evolve in a way to add the aesthetic appeal as well. So that perhaps, is just what the records that I have are representing. So I'll play that for you. Not quite yet, though, as I was looking.
Speaker 1:Oh, by the way, just a reminder that, coming up May the 6th, I'm very excited. I announced this on my show last night and maybe I mentioned it here yesterday. I'm not exactly sure. I don't think I did, but even if I did. It's just a reminder that, coming up on May 6th, very honored to have a conversation with none other than one of the best-selling artists of all time, barry Manilow will be on the Pats Peeps podcast May 6th. They reached out to me, by the way, which is really super cool. Looking forward to my conversation with him. I had such a crush on Mandy DeVille when I was in junior high. Super cool, looking forward to my conversation with him.
Speaker 1:I had such a crush on Mandy DeVille when I was in junior high.
Speaker 2:Where are you, mandy? I remember all my life, remember this one. It was huge, raining down as cold as ice, shadows of a man, a face through a window crying.
Speaker 1:You know, in high school I did mention this, I believe, on my show last night Like this wouldn't have been my thing in high school. I wouldn't have been listening to this in high school. You know, for me this was for girls. In high school this kind of music was for girls. But when it would come on the AM radio all I could think in my mind was Mandy Mandy, me and stop me from shaking. And I need you.
Speaker 1:Today I often wonder what happened to mandy mandy. Novell, if you're listening, please let me know if that you're okay. I had such a crush on her. So that'll be on pat's peeps on may the 6th, whatever number that's going to be, probably uh, I don't really know. Uh, right, around 260, 259, whatever. Won't even be earlier than that. But it's nice that they reached out, you know for, uh, for the opportunity for me to have a conversation with barry manilow. That is really cool.
Speaker 1:You know, yesterday it came up. We were taught I was playing a couple of old films about things that did not age. Well, my cousin Nick, like I said, up in Spokane, reached out to me Thanks for listening, cuz I sure appreciate you, man. And he said yeah, I caught that humor there, I you know, and he had some great feedback on what humor there, I you know. And he had some great feedback on what kind of what I was doing yesterday and remarkably noticed the noticed the influences that I've had in my life in terms of people that made me laugh and I think it kind of finds its way into my, my sense of humor these days, which is things like Mystery Science, theater 3000, or some of the old characters played by some of the slimy sales guys or played by Dan Aykroyd on the old Saturday Night Live, things that I just really love that kind of stuff. And so, nick, thank you. And he was talking about yesterday, when I was playing films, the slimy sales guys trying to sell the home to the family right in the midst of the atomic dirt. Yeah, you kids can go down and play in the atomic dirt.
Speaker 1:And then it got me to thinking, you know, yesterday, about the old films they would show you in school. I still remember the lottery. What was her name? Sheila Jackson or something like that. Anyhow, the Lottery, which is one of the most disturbing short story films that I could ever imagine, and they would show it. I must have seen that Shirley Jackson wrote this thing and they did a little film of it. It must have seen that Shirley Jackson wrote this thing and they did a little film of it. It took place in the 1960s. Anyone seen that, the lottery man? I swear they showed that two or three times to us in school and that still stands out as one of the more disturbing short films of all time.
Speaker 1:You know, now we've got these trigger warnings or we've got all these rating systems, that's all time. You know, now we've got these trigger warnings or we've got, you know, all these rating systems, that's all fine. There was no trigger warning, not that I would need one, I could take it. There was none of that. There was no, at least to my recollection. This movie is rated R, and then they would just break out on film day with this movie, the Lottery. And you're like what. I don't want to give it away, but maybe if you see it it's on YouTube, it's a short film by Shirley Jackson, or at least the story is by Shirley Jackson, and it's just called the Lottery. I mean, you talk about bizarre, and so then it started making me think of these other ones, these other films that we used to see in school.
Speaker 1:I don't know about you, but it used to be when I was in school. In high school I could not wait till I was a sophomore, because then you were going to learn how to drive. How are you going to learn how to drive? You're going to learn how to drive. How were you going to learn how to drive? You were going to learn how to drive by. You had a driver's, you know, a train, driver's training instructor who, um, you know, probably worked in metal shop as a teacher or in wood shop or something like that, some other area ag teacher who would then, on the side, be the uh, the, the, the driver training instructor, or you would use some of the. You would use the high school driving simulators as part of the driver's education programs. The simulators were not quite as advanced as today's technology, but they provided students, me and others with a chance to practice driving maneuvers in a controlled environment before you get behind the wheel of a real car. And again, they would always be outdated and just super hokey.
Speaker 3:Where the Drivo trainer simulates all the dangers of the road and teaches the novice how to meet them. That's not my teacher, not at Elk Grove. Anyhow, I say, patrick, you're like Pat, what are you doing? I love these drivers, that's right.
Speaker 1:I love this. Yeah, they play the engine noise for you. Hey you're driving on the wrong side. The wheel's on the wrong side. Dang, uk. This is the sound of the film projector. I love that.
Speaker 3:Not really.
Speaker 1:This is the sound of the film projector.
Speaker 3:I love that, not really.
Speaker 1:Mm-mm. Yeah, this will get you all tuned up for you.
Speaker 3:Get you all ready. I see, patrick, the system may become gentle, with every novice starting on the simulator and many more passing the driving test first time.
Speaker 2:I see Patrick.
Speaker 3:And for the outside instructors, life won't be spent on the brink of a nervous breakdown.
Speaker 1:That's right. The first time I took a DMV test we had to drive at the DMV I had this guy, this you know. Here you are, I'm 16 years old, and this dude who seemed like he was 80, he was the driver's test guy the drivers when you got to take the driver's test and he had this weird thing he was doing. I can only replicate it like this he would be good doing this. A couple seconds he'd go by. I'm like what the heck's going on with this dude? Okay, great, just my luck. He'd be like all right, all right, uh, listen, um, when we okay, you're going to pull out here and we get out here.
Speaker 1:We're going to turn right Anyhow. So you know we swear to you. So we go out on the Broadway, sacramento downtown DMV, and as I'm getting ready to pull out of the DMV and this guy's making that noise I hear out of nowhere like it wasn't a long ways away. Lots of warning to my recollection. But as I go to make a right directly out of the parking lot of the DMV to go to Broadway, and the dude's sitting there doing this making this sound All of a sudden out of nowhere, as I go to make the right, I hear a siren and I don't see any vehicle.
Speaker 1:I'm looking around. I don't see the siren, I don't see where it's coming from. I just hear a siren when turned right, this guy, he's really freaking out. He grabs the wheel, yanks it. I'm like what the pull in, pull in. So I had to pull back in the in the lot of the DMV. You failed, you pulled out. In front of that. I like there was nothing. There was, there was nothing, but you didn't know that there was nothing. Oh, my god, guy's yelling that. I'm like there was nothing. There was nothing, but you didn't know that there was nothing. Oh my God, guy's yelling at me I'm like dang man. Back to you too, pal. I remember that guy, wherever he is. I hope he's doing better Again.
Speaker 1:I was 16 at the time and he already appeared to be a much older gentleman, but God bless him. But that was my first time out there trying to drive on the roads. But the other thing they would show you these creepy movies, you know, like Red Asphalt. They would terrify you. They'd have films like. One of the most infamous of these films that they would have to terrify you from driving recklessly was called Highway of Agony. I know people remember Red Asphalt 2. Red Agony this is 1969. It was made by Highway Safety Films in Mansfield, ohio. This was the filmmaking arm of the Highway Safety Commission, the organization responsible for haunting the dreams of an entire generation of young drivers. That's right.
Speaker 1:Seatbelts were not mandatory. They were not the law back there. Not mandatory Airbags, they weren't even invented. Disc brakes, please, they don't like drums. Don't drive Powered steering. My arse, that's barely even widely adopted. America's highways were the scene of daily carnage, part of the problem. You know you're watching the film. The automobiles of the 40s and 60s were not necessarily built to survive accidents and so they would show you. You know again Highway of Agony. Put it on the film projector Brought to you by the Allegheny County Chiefs of Police Association. Due to the subject matter of this motion picture, it is suggested that all viewers be at least 14 years of age. 14? There's not an R rating on this. 14 years old, you couldn't have this much. An R rating on this. 14 years old, you couldn't have this much. If you had this much carnage in a movie now, you couldn't get in. It would have like an R, almost an.
Speaker 4:X rating. This film deals with one of the most serious problems facing modern man the skyrocketing traffic accident deaths. Every year, traffic accidents account for more deaths than many of our most feared diseases. Law enforcement officials, automobile manufacturers, research groups and legislative bodies are all working constantly to increase the safety of vehicles and the highways. However, the greatest burden must be placed on you, the driver. It is your judgment error, not unsafe vehicles nor poor road conditions that result in the majority of the traffic deaths.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean jeez, the Ohio Highway Patrol Driver's Ed films Gruesome, actual, real footage of these horrendous wrecks, actual, real footage of these horrendous wrecks. In one of these films, dear Lord, god, I can't believe the impression it would leave on us. One of these films they pull a guy out of the car and the trooper says quote are you wondering why this man is wearing red underwear? You get the suspense there a little break, a little pause. Five minutes ago it was white. You're like what, oh God, what, wow. I mean you had state troopers quitting back then because it was hard to handle the accidents and the carnage and things. There was another one called Signal 30. Be like anti-drug movies, but this was just to scare you with cars and you know driver safety. Red Asphalt 1960, probably the most popular, put out by CHIPS, california Highway Patrol.
Speaker 5:I'm Lieutenant Lloyd Sellers of the California Highway Patrol.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 1:I'm Eric Estrada.
Speaker 5:The city won't entertain you. That is not our objective. I hope it will impress you that its message will have a lasting effect upon your driving behavior. The scenes you will see are starkly real. They were filmed by a group of men giving freely of their time and talent who rode many long hours in California Highway Patrol cars for the single purpose of recording the pain and agony of traffic accidents.
Speaker 1:You know you're spending the whole day thinking I can't wait for lunch. I'm going to eat my peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I think Mom put maybe an apple in there. I hope I got one of those scooter pies. Was it a scooter pie? I hope I got one of those in there. And the next thing you know, they're showing you this horrendous accident. No, the story is their story Dear.
Speaker 5:The next thing you know they're showing you this horrendous accident. No, the story is their story, dear God, their thoughts and their reactions as they work side by side with members of the California Highway Patrol at these scenes of needless death and injury. I sincerely hope that their spokesman's closing appeal will be the principle on which your driving behavior is based we are here to scare the living hell out of you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you'd have your lunch pail waiting to eat lunch, but you have to watch this first at a briefing, we were forewarned of what we could expect to see your mom, would she take you out?
Speaker 1:buy a new thing, a new lunch pail. Have a thermos in it, like my Lost in Space, for instance lunchbox. Get out there Now. Whatever you do, son, don't break your thermos on the first day. Don't break the thermos already. Put some milk in there, some Kool-Aid. Get to school. You barely even set the dang thing on the floor of the lunch pail. Get to school you barely even set the dang thing on the floor of the lunch pail and you can hear the thermos just break instantly. You're like no, you pick the thermos up, you listen to it. You can hear the it's all broken, like oh, come on.
Speaker 2:Then it was time to go. A feeling of apprehension swept through each of us, but overshadowing all was the solemn determination to try somehow to help prevent these senseless tragedies.
Speaker 1:Now I want to tell you something very, very interesting about this. This one is in 1960. One of the other reasons why you would have so much carnage, so many people injured so badly no seatbelts. In this training film this one I'm playing for you right now, they get into the police car to follow and to go out and shoot their cameras. They get into the car and the policeman nor the passenger, as they're talking about how to stop all the deaths, neither one are putting a seatbelt on.
Speaker 2:In the beginning the scene over the hood of our patrol car didn't look any different from what any of us see through the windshield of our family car. But the first lesson in safe driving came quickly. The officer pointed out a too relaxed driver. At his speed this man would cover many car lengths before he could react to a sudden emergency, even though he was driving at illegal speed yeah, anyhow, those were scary.
Speaker 1:I couldn't watch him. I just could not watch them. I mean like, first of all, I'm not good at looking at those and second of all, I just feel so terrible for the people there in the vehicles. So they got us some hard lessons. I remember in driver's training, like I said before, you'd have an instructor might have been a PE teacher, wood shop or whatever. I remember in driver's training, like I said before, you'd have an instructor might have been a PE teacher, woodshop or whatever and they would also get saddled with being the and for whatever reason I don't know how that worked they might be saddled with being the driver's instructional guy or lady driver's training and he or she would then be responsible for taking you out in the car and essentially teaching you how to drive, which is what happened for me in Elk Grove. We went from the driver's simulator and once we completed that portion, we got in a car together. There was probably a group of four of us.
Speaker 1:Now this guy who was our driver's training instructor, I'm pretty sure he worked either in metal shop or maybe the science department I don't really remember A diminutive guy wearing a white, almost like a white shop, like a lab jacket or something, to my recollection and we would ride. He'd take that off and then we'd ride out in the country in Oak Grove Back when it was just country, and we'd all be in this car driving. He would drive and then he'd pull over and he'd have one of us take the wheel. We would drive for a while, then the next one would take the wheel. We would drive for a while. Well, he would tell us he'd get us way out there in the country and he'd say, okay, go down this road down here. So we'd go down this road. All right, now make a right up here on it. Okay, we make a right up here. We finally were way out there. We pull into this driveway. And it'd be his house. I'm not kidding, I can't make this up. Get out to his house, pull up this long driveway out in the country. And he would say, all right, kids. He'd be telling us the whole way you kids want to see some monkeys? What? Some monkeys in Elk Grove. We'd get out there and he'd have these cages and there was monkeys in the cages. So we would be fascinated at 15 years old looking at these monkeys in the cage, like whoa, he's got like little spider monkeys. Well, he did, kids, I got to use the restroom, I'll be right back. And he'd come back out a couple of minutes later. We're watching the monkeys, not the group, not the TV show. And I'm pretty sure he'd go in there and consume some old crow or something. You know some Jim Beam. He'd come out in a much happier mood, very, very carefree, got a smell of bourbon or whatever on the breath. All right, kids, let's go. I'm ready. What do you think of the monkeys? Anyone got to use the restroom? All right, let's go, I'm ready. What do you think of the monkeys? Anyone got to use the restroom? Alright, let's get out of here.
Speaker 1:Wish I could remember that guy's name, but certainly left some memories and taught us how to drive, thank you. Well, one of the people that taught me how to drive. So, anyhow, back to this record that I Well, one of the people that taught me how to drive. So you know, back to this record that I pulled off my shelf today, the green vinyl on date records in pristine condition. Now, again, not my cup of tea, perhaps as an artist, but I think this might be like an older song by them that I actually might like a little bit more.
Speaker 1:But, boy, I mean you talk about successful, this duo, very, very successful, created in 1966. Let's see one of the roles. So this is interesting. The duo the male part of the duo, has been consistent in this pairing since 1966. However, the female part of the duo has been filled by seven different women. Female part of the duo has been filled by seven different women, most notably Francine Edna Heard, barker, the original, who lent her nickname to the duo, and Linda Green Tavani, the third of the people to play this, who appeared on the duo's biggest hits Shake your Groove Thing and Reunited. So it's a big mixture of people who played in that particular part. Let's see String of successful singles albums over the next year after this was released.
Speaker 1:Despite burgeoning success as a media image as the Sweethearts of Soul, one of the part of this duo chose to retire from the duo after two years because of the rigors of touring, and that would be Barker who quit the band. Then Francine Edna heard Barker. Just it was too much. Then with Linda Green from 76 to 83. Francine was part of this from 66 to 70. And boy, again writing songs for other people hits on their own. They were reunited. Peaches and herb. Now is it peaches and herb, or is it peaches and herb? It is not peaches and herb, it's peaches and herb, as in herbs American duo. Herb is Herbert Feimster, so he's been the constant On green vinyl. This is a 19. So this goes way back where peaches and Herb original stuff, 1967. There's a song called Close your Eyes.
Speaker 5:Close your eyes. Close your eyes, take a deep breath.
Speaker 4:Open your heart. Open your heart and whisper I love you. Open your heart and whisper I love you, I love you. Tell me you love me, you love me.
Speaker 1:Tell me you love me, you love me, you love me. This went to number eight on the US Hot 100, number four on the US R&B charts. Thank you for listening. That's Beeps 253. A happy sunny Thursday to you. We'll see you on the radio.
