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Polyester Wonderland: 1977's Cultural Milestones and Music
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Welcome to the 1977 Time Capsule
Speaker 2oh look, it's that time again. Welcome Welcome back to the MT Alternative Podcast, the only show where two guys named Mike and Tom manage to make nostalgia sound like a midlife crisis, set to music. This week they're strapping on their platform shoes, firing up the 8-track and time-travelling back to the polyester wonderland of 1977. That's right, the year Elvis left the building, star Wars took over the galaxy and apparently, fashion was legally required to offend the eyes. Expect riveting conversations on everything from lava lamps to bell bottoms, questionable food choices and cultural moments that may or may not have aged like a dairy product in the sun.
Speaker 2But mostly yes, mostly it's about the music, because Mike insists on playing the deep cuts you never asked for and Tom will passionately defend a song about a muskrat falling in love Again. And just when you thought it couldn't get more chaotic, pip and Squeak, your two favourite pint-sized pundits are back to drop their unsolicited opinions. So prepare yourself for poorly timed jokes, tiny voices with big attitudes and at least one rant about disco. It's the MT alternative, because regular history podcasts just weren't weird enough. Roll it, boys.
Speaker 3Tom? What the hell's going on bud? Not much, mike. What's going on with you? Another Saturday sitting here having a good time. Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody.
Speaker 4I thought Daniel wasn't allowing us to sing anymore.
Speaker 3Well, you know what Daniel can do.
Speaker 4Don't be nasty.
Speaker 3I won't be nasty, but I don't understand what he's got against me defending the song about Muskrat. I just don't get it, that's sad what.
Speaker 4Is Muskrat sad, or him telling you is sad.
Speaker 3Kind of both.
Speaker 4Kind of both.
Speaker 3Yeah well, have you listened to the song?
Speaker 4Anyway, yeah, Anyways yeah, anywho, here we are again.
Speaker 3Lucky y'all. Yeah, anywho, here we are again, lucky y'all.
Speaker 4Anyways, anywho the weather, it's a little hot, eh yeah.
Speaker 3I got a bowl of nut soup setting over here in these shorts.
Speaker 4Well, thanks for sharing a little too much information. I will share no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Thanks for sharing A little too much information.
Speaker 3I will share no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, let's not go there.
Speaker 4Okay, so we'll be discussing 1977.
Speaker 3I was 10 years old. Yee-hee, I remember 10. I lost a tooth.
Speaker 4Yeah, well, last we had to do our redaction on the last episode because of obviously I'm confused. I'm old people, Give me a break.
Speaker 3We're both old.
Speaker 4But you know it is what it is. So we'll be discussing a lot of things from 1977. I'd like to talk about what's going on lately in our lives Anything.
Speaker 3Yeah, well, just lots of bushes, lots of them. At the house we're planting bushes, oh, okay.
Speaker 4I was starting with some weird 70s thing. Well, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3Listen back in the day, I'm listening. Back in the day that was ridiculous. I mean, come on, man, Mow that lawn. No doubt Hire somebody Need some landscape, anyway, there we go again.
Speaker 4There we go again. How do we do that? It just happens, oh yeah.
Speaker 3It's our stuff.
Speaker 4Sorry for everybody out there, sorry, not sorry.
Speaker 3No, really not, because this is what we do, exactly what we do.
Speaker 4So work was a little hot. We've got quite a week coming up. We've got end of the quarter, end of the month. What do they want to try to make this time? To kill us. 13 meals is what.
Speaker 3I'm hearing.
Speaker 4And what do we see of that Pizza Woo? We don't even get that anymore. Oh, I forgot that was our other general manager doing that for us. Someone appreciated us.
Speaker 3Yes, they did, and then they moved on.
Speaker 4People say well, it's pizza, yeah, but this is our own boss higher up doing this for us, because the company won't.
Speaker 3Yeah Well, they will, but they won't.
Speaker 4They can, but they won't.
Speaker 3They would rather build offices and smoking places.
Speaker 4Let's fix the things that the guys need.
Speaker 3How about a battery changer?
Speaker 4How about fix the docks? How about? We can go on, on and on. Let's make this fun now, on and on 1977. What are you doing?
Speaker 3Oh, I just burped. Okay, sorry, it's a podcast, it went away.
Global Events and Political Happenings
Speaker 4That's what we do, all right. So anyways, before we get into the music, probably give a little rundown of the old music situation, of the old uh things that happened in 1977 yeah, we can do. Yeah, that, that sounds good so you had uh, let's see global. We'll start with global and political events. You had jimmy carter becoming the US President January 20th, after defeating Gerald Ford in the 1976 election, carter takes office promising honesty and human rights. What about peanuts?
Speaker 3I don't know, but I cared about Lai Bright. That's all I cared about at that point. Yeah, you weren't supposed to. I was 10. I mean, I knew who it was. Yeah, me too, I'll get it right this time I was 14. Yeah, but Peanuts. I remember the little song. All of the school kids made up what about his brother. Billy, we had a beer.
Speaker 4Billy Beer.
Speaker 3We had a beer. We had a beer of that, but it didn't make it. No, but it didn't make it. No, no, it was sacrificed Well, that's sad To the beer gods. To the beer gods. Yeah, you know, when you wake up and you're hungover and you've got to have that warm beer to get it back out.
Speaker 4Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3Yeah, that was Billy Shot of whiskey or something worked for me Well yeah, well, you know, I have a way to get rid of hangovers altogether.
Speaker 4Don't drink.
Speaker 3No, stay drunk.
Speaker 4Well, that's true too. Alright, so moving on Global things to be had. New York City blackout. A massive power outage plunges New York City into chaos. Looting, fires and arrests spike during a 25-hour outage. I do remember hearing that it was just in the papers.
Speaker 4I wasn't living there, so who cared? It didn't affect me, but it's still kind of fucked up. It is the last naturally occurring case of smallpox was reported in Somalia in October, a major milestone of global health leading to the eventual declaration of smallpox eradication. I didn't realize that was not really that long ago when you think about it. Smallpox, that was done a long, long time ago.
Speaker 3But you know, we're in other countries and have we went from, you know, curing things to creating things?
Speaker 4Yeah, that's what it seems like lately. Right, things are worse than I don't know about worse, but bad. Let's see Spain holds its first democratic election since the Franco dictatorship, a key step in Spain's transition to democracy. And let's see South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Bilko or Biko, sorry about that dies in police custody because death drives international condemnation and fuels resistance to apartheid. Oh, wow, so that was all the political crap that you and I probably were like. You know half that stuff.
Speaker 1Yeah, because see kids were kids.
Speaker 3That was what it was meant to be. Kids were supposed to be kids.
Speaker 4Being 14, I could tell you and I know you were 10 or whatever it was, but being 14, I certainly wasn't thinking about that. That's when you start thinking about. Well, you know.
Speaker 3Yeah Well, see nowadays what's really sad 10-year-olds sad, but 10-year-olds are thinking about stuff like sex change operations, oh God. And 13-year-olds are thinking about they're not thinking about being a kid, they're not thinking about playing soccer and basketball.
Speaker 4You've got some brainwashed parents.
Speaker 3Exactly. It's just terrible, Dan You're the adult, you know best. Anyway, let's not get off track, let's move on. Let's see. So Kids were kids, we could be a kid.
Science, Technology, and Pop Culture
Speaker 4Science and technology. Apple II home computer is released in June, one of the first successful mass market PCs helping launch the personal computer and revolution, the personal computer revolution. Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are launched by NASA in September and August, destined to explore the outer planets and eventually interstellar space. Awesome MRIs, first used on a human oh shit.
Speaker 3MRIs Used on humans.
Speaker 4Revolutionary diagnostic technology begins a journey. Wow, 77. Wow, 77. Wow, good gracious.
Speaker 3MRIs Very useful. Yeah, I had one the other week. Did you A CAT scan?
Speaker 4or an MRI, oh it was a CT scan.
Speaker 3Yeah, it was a CT. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4Hey, harry, kind of all the same in a way, in a way away.
Speaker 3but it's a little deeper with an MRI A little bit Alright, pop culture and entertainment.
Speaker 4Star Wars was released. Tom, here's a big one, buddy. Elvis Presley died. I remember where I was, me too. I was at Riverside Park in Springfield, or Agua, mass, and we heard that while we were in a bus back.
Speaker 3Yep Out with Kansas. I was sitting at a bar eating a smorgasbord. We're at the cafe. My mother worked at A little farming community. It was August of 77. So I was right in the middle of harvest, august 77, wasn't it? Yeah, somewhere around there. But anyway it was in the middle of harvest out with Kansas, and the place was packed when the news came over and I was sitting there.
Speaker 4And I bet you there was silence too.
Speaker 3Well, yeah because that's what I remember the most is everything just died, Got quiet.
Speaker 4That's true.
Speaker 3To me, that's when the music died.
Speaker 4Even as kids. On this thing everybody was like holy crap, alright. So Studio 54 opens in New York City. The stories I've heard about that place holy crap, legendary, yeah disco. The club becomes a symbol of disco excess and celebrity nightlife in the late 70s.
Speaker 3Yeah, see, now we have to go to the omelet shop to snort Coke in the corner table. We do. Oh, I mean other people do.
Speaker 4All right Last on the pop culture and entertainment roots airs on TV. The miniseries drives huge ratings and sparks national conversations about slavery and American history. First time I watched that was actually I was in school Right.
Speaker 3We hadn't reached that point yet.
Speaker 4I forgot what class it was. But yeah, they brought in the old. You know they had that cart with the TV.
Speaker 3Oh, that was like when you're.
Speaker 4I remember my first Chubby, the kids that worked with the AV squad.
Speaker 3Yeah, I remember my first Chubby. We're not having class today. Woo, it's a film.
Speaker 4Let's see oh other strange and notable events. Oh yeah, son of Sam, serial killer, terrorizes New York.
Speaker 3City.
Speaker 4David Berkowitz Arrest in August ends a year of fear in the city. Son of Sam, that's not bad, isn't that something? Let's see. Then we had France bans a Concorde from Paris-New York route due to noise complaints and environmental concerns.
Speaker 3They were screaming about it.
Speaker 4then Disco continues in its rise, with the Bee Gees, donna Summer and more dominating the airwaves, which we'll probably discuss that later too. Any other ones? Let's see Gas prices.
Speaker 3Tom oh boy Gas, well and just.
Speaker 4Average 62 cents a gallon.
Speaker 3And now it's only 280. Yeah, mine went up to 280.
Speaker 4It was 265. I don't know what's going on. Yeah, what's up? Fourth of July? Yeah.
Speaker 3That might be it, or hear me out. We have to change to the summer gas. It costs me Winter fuel and the summer gas. It costs more.
Speaker 4Yeah, the winter fuel and the summer fuel.
Speaker 3Isn't that the crock? Are we listening to this? This is dumb Anyway.
Speaker 4Yeah, so let's see. The energy crisis from early in the 70s was still fresh and Americans were adjusting to higher fuel prices, downsized cars and gas-saving tips. The Department of Energy was created that year to tackle energy concerns. That's where the mistake happened Carpool and cars are starting to shift from big V8s to smaller, more efficient models Dumbasses, toys.
Speaker 3Dumbasses.
Speaker 4You're a dumbass. Okay, we got fashion trends of 1977. Flared jeans, bell-bottoms were everywhere. Polyester, polyester too 1977. Lared jeans, bell bottoms were everywhere, polyester shoes, only thing worse about that is, if you caught on fire, it was over for you. Yeah, because it would melt right on you. Melt right on, yeah. Disco fashion took over Glitter gold.
Speaker 3Yeah, let's all have unicorns and dance around Someone here had platform shoes.
Speaker 4I think Disco Did you have platform shoes?
Speaker 3I did at one time. That's why.
Speaker 4I'm making fun of you right now.
Speaker 3I know, I don't even, I don't even Afro is in feathered hair. Oh wait a minute.
Speaker 4I did have the feathered hair.
Speaker 3I did have the afro.
Speaker 4Not really, I had curly hair, but I made it go. I had to fuck with it. Track suits People are still wearing them, fucking things.
Speaker 3What is a track suit? Is that like you're running track? Yeah, and you?
Speaker 4have the warm-ups. We call them the warm-ups.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4I remember Kids wore underoos Superhero-themed underwear.
Speaker 3They had animals too. Oh, those are garanimals, Garanimals and underoos, Underoos. Yeah, I remember Underoos.
Top 40 Music Countdown of 1977
Speaker 4All right, all this kind of stuff we get into our music now, let's see, let's do top 40, then America's top 40. All right, we're going to start from 40 and work our way down. Yes, all right, enjoy Yourself, the Jacksons. Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, okay.
Speaker 2That was number 40.
Speaker 4All right Dreams. Fleetwood Mac, number 39. Dreams no, that's not it. Oh, nope, nope, not close, all right, 38. So Into you, atlanta Rhythm Section. I am so into you, not you.
Speaker 3Okay, easy there. Yeah, let's not sing these songs.
Speaker 4Looks like we made it. Looks like we made it. Don't look at me when you sing that, though. I'm sorry, that's just weird.
Speaker 3Eye contact. That's what I was talking about.
Speaker 4Blinded by the light. Man for Man's Earth. Band yeah 35,. I've Got Love on my Mind, natalie Cole. Yeah, I bet she did 34, right time of the night. Jennifer wants to run. We ought not be. Yeah, Daniel gets upset. Easy by the Commodores. Easy like a Sunday morning.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, what's his name off of Idol.
Speaker 4Yeah, lionel.
Speaker 3Richie, yeah, dancing on the ceiling. What the hell was he thinking Couldn't get?
Speaker 4it right. Number 32, Climax Blues Band 31. One you and I both love Feels like the first time foreigner. Oh yeah foreigner, stephen Bishop, comes up at 30 with On and On. Oh man, david Soul, which I believe was Hutch Starsky, and Hutch, don't Give Up On Us, don't.
Speaker 3Give Up On Us. There we go again.
Speaker 4At 28 we have Steve Miller Band Fly Like an Eagle. I remember that one Do do, do, do, do, do, do, do we're not allowed to play the music.
Speaker 3So we're going to sing. We're going to sing. Sorry y'all, that's just the way it is.
Speaker 4You don't have to be a star.
Speaker 3To be in my show. To be in my show Car Wash.
Speaker 4Rolls Royce, rolls Royce at 26, the Silvers 25, with Hotline Going on the hotline For your love for your love. Okay, easy there, big fella, Sorry, All right. 24, Leo Sayer, when I Need you.
Speaker 3When I need you, I just close my eyes and I ought to close my mouth.
Speaker 4Rich Girl, Daryl Hall and John Oates. You're a rich girl and you're going too far. Okay, 22 Southern Nights, Glenn Campbell.
Speaker 3Southern Nights.
Speaker 4Alright 21. Theme from Rocky Gonna Fly Now. Gonna fly now. Is that what they say? That's the lyrics in the song Gonna.
Speaker 3I would have been making fun of that forever if I'd have known that's all it was.
Speaker 4Yeah, well, that's one of them songs. Where do I put that lyric? Oh right, here sounds good.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's like last week or the last week, Whatever? Yeah, do the hustle how y'all making millions off of these songs when you're only saying three words.
Speaker 4It's the music. Tom it songs when you're only saying three words. It's the music time, it's the music. You've got to feel it. All right At number 19, we have the Eagles Hotel California. Oh, that was scary, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Speaker 3Here's what I was scared about Stabbed it with their steely knives.
Speaker 4But you just can't kill the beast. No.
Speaker 3How do you get away from that? Shoot it. Well, there you go. See, brought a knife to a gunfight, yeah see how.
Speaker 4About Sir Duke Stevie Wonder? I do love that. I wish those days would come back. All right, do you want to make love, peter McCann? Oh, that wasn't asking. That was a song, number 16, pablo Cruz. What you gonna do when she?
Speaker 3says goodbye Anyway.
Speaker 4Yeah, moving on. Alright, electric Light Orchestra Telephone Line. Telephone Line.
Speaker 3Oh, that one, I thought it was.
Speaker 4No, no, not that one, oh not that one.
Speaker 3We'll get to that one later on.
Speaker 4Okay, okay, jimmy Buffett, margaritaville.
Speaker 3Yeah, that was a big one I didn't care for.
Speaker 4Not me either. A lot of people do, though.
Speaker 3They love that with their drunken shit, all right.
Speaker 2You Make Me Feel Like Dancing Leo.
Speaker 4Sayre comes in at 13. Dancing Queen from Abbott number 12. Dancing Queen.
Speaker 3Yeah, something like that. Strong and lean, she lifts weights all the time. Yeah, strong and lean, she lifts weights, all right.
Speaker 4Number 11. Casey and the Sunshine Band with I'm your Boogeyman, I'm your boogeyman.
Speaker 3I'm your boogeyman, I believe.
Speaker 4Rob Zombie does a remake of that. Really, I'm pretty sure Okay.
Speaker 3That'd be interesting.
Speaker 4I might be wrong, but I think that's the song That'd be interesting.
Speaker 3Okay, how many of interesting.
Speaker 4But I think that's the song That'd be interesting. Okay, people want to like. Correct us at some time.
Speaker 3Go right ahead. Feel free, go right on, we don't bite. Yeah, you go right to the website.
Speaker 4All right. 10. Torn between two lovers. Mary McGregor. Sorry there, buddy. Tom had a little mishap. I said the name of that song while he was drinking his beverage. You all right, bud. This is why we do this. It's the reaction. It's torn between two lovers Feeling like a fool. Loving both of you is breaking all the rules. Wow, All right. Okay, we got number nine. Undercover Angel.
Speaker 3Alan O'Day, so we went torn between two lovers.
Speaker 4Undercover Angel All right. Number eight Rita Coolidge with. Your Love has Lifted Me. Your love has lifted me. You're going to laugh. I like this song, don't Leave Me this Way by Thelma Houston, but the only thing that sucks now is well, I won't get into that part, but anyways moving on.
Speaker 3Wait a minute, don't spark our interest and then walk away. Who's walking?
Speaker 4away you are. I'm not going to go into that. Yeah, you are.
Speaker 3You opened that box.
Speaker 4I don't want to seem like I'm anti-anything at this point. I was okay, yeah, anti. Well, you know, let's put it this way there are a lot of certain parades they have that play that song. I guess it's their theme song Christmas parades. It might be their theme song.
Speaker 3Christmas parades.
Speaker 4Yeah, we'll go with that. Okay, Alright, let's see Number six Kenny Nolan I Like Dreamin'. I Like Dreamin', I like dreamin'. Number five Angel in your Arms from Hot, it's the angel in your arms. Let's see Love Theme from A Star is Born from Barbra Streisand.
Speaker 3See, I don't know that one, I'm not going to sing it. Barbra was weird.
Speaker 4Yeah, it's kind of a dumb song.
Speaker 3Well, she was weird. Yeah, she is weird, all right three she was weird. Yeah, she is weird, all right three. Best of my love the emotions. Wait what.
Speaker 4Best of my love.
Speaker 3the emotions that wasn't the Eagles.
Speaker 4That was a different one.
Speaker 3Oh, you get the best of my love. Nope, different one. That's what that was, the Eagles, no, no, wasn't it?
Speaker 4Oh, darling, you got the best of mine. That's the Eagles. You got the best of mine. You're singing in a different version. Okay, which is that one? Oh?
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 4I just want to be your. Everything at number two with Andy Gibb and number one tonight's the night Gonna be all right, rod Stewart.
Speaker 3That was the top 40. Not from us.
Speaker 4This is top 40 from All these other stupid sites.
Speaker 3And they were pretty good. A lot of good songs in there, a lot of good songs in there, but I didn't hear Black Betty.
Speaker 4You didn't.
Speaker 3Was it in there or did we miss it? Did I skip over it? I don't know.
Speaker 2But I just never heard it.
Speaker 3Oh Black Betty. Oh Black Betty. Sorry it's not in here, miss it. Did I skip over it? I don't know, but I just never heard it, oh, but.
Speaker 4I'm sorry.
Speaker 3It's not in here. See, they're silly, not stupid. There's a difference.
Speaker 4Now, if you want to break down some of the Hotel California song, for instance, we can do that.
Speaker 4The story of meaning this is not our meaning, nope, not ours. This haunting this is not our meaning, nope, not ours. This haunting classic is often interpreted as a commentary on the hedonistic excess of American life, particularly in California. Imagine that, yeah, imagine that, in the 70s. The lyrics tell the surreal tale of checking into a luxurious hotel where you can check out any time of your life but you can never leave. Ooh, scary Metaphor alert, fun fact.
Speaker 4Fun fact Don Feldner wrote the iconic guitar riff while messing around with a 12-string. Don Henley called it our interpretation of the high life in LA Legacy. In the 1977 Grammy for Record of the Year. It has been covered and carried endlessly. The dual guitar solo, one of the most legendary of the year. Yeah Dancing Queen actually released in 76, but the song peaked in the US in 77. It's the only song that ABBA had that hit number one in the US. Really, yeah, still played at weddings, retro nights and drag shows. Drag shows Is that where people drag?
Speaker 3played at weddings, retro nights and drag shows. Drag shows Is that where people drag people? Okay, wait a minute, Wait a minute. How do weddings and drag shows got anything to do with each other? That's not a damn thing. Abba Dancing Wing, come on.
Speaker 4What did you say? Young and lean. What?
Speaker 3This is me Green machine Tore out the neighbors, All right we got another one.
Speaker 4Sir Duke Stevie wrote this joyful jam as a tribute to Duke Ellington and other jazz greats who paved the way. It's a celebration of music itself and you can hear the joy in every horn line. Which is true, it's one of them tunes. Is that the one that Duke? Still used to teach rhythm and brass in music schools and, honestly, it just makes you smile. Let's see.
Speaker 3Yeah, you know breaking down other songs, a lot of good stuff going on in 77. When I was 10, man, there was so much good stuff going on 77. I was, you were 10? Yeah, I was little. All this stuff really comes flowing back. It's just crazy how you forget stuff and you poke it back, but all of a sudden the song Will jar that memory, will go in the back of your mind and pull out something you never thought about for years. And then all of a sudden you're like wow, I remember this day and when we were riding our bikes out at the sand pits and it was 15 miles from the house and our parents never even worried about us unless we weren't home when the streetlights came on.
Speaker 4Right right.
Speaker 3I mean, it was crazy times back then. I enjoyed the hell out of growing up in the 70s. It was so awesome.
Speaker 4It was, the 70s were great Come on people being outside riding my bike all the time.
Speaker 3Prove me wrong.
Speaker 4Tell me your stories of the 70s on our podcast. Think most of our listeners probably our age anyways. So yeah, they can relate. They are any people that are too young that listen. Well, you missed a good time you did miss a great time and you could say well, I couldn't live without this. Back then we knew no different, nope, could, could live with all that shit.
Speaker 3There wasn't anything there to live without.
Speaker 4Exactly. I think it's a good time right now to segue into the little dudes. Let them come in and do their little bit, get that over with Okay, all right, and we'll come back and hopefully they're a little nicer this time.
Speaker 3You just never know what the hell you're going to get.
Speaker 4Well, yeah, because squeak, yeah, well, something wrong with him there, seriously is. Well, I think it's a well, I mean, have you seen the pictures? He likes his snacks?
Speaker 3Pip looks like a dapper, young little dude. Well, you know how they say your appetite rules, your attitude Right. Well, there you go.
Pip and Squeak's Food Commentary
Speaker 4Wow, definitely could have picked up those snacks, though, but anyways, just the way it is. All right, folks, we'll be back in a little bit. All right, here's the little dudes. There you go. Hey, squeak Old Buddy, here we are again man, here we go again.
Speaker 1Oh boy, oh geez, don't. We are again man, here we go again. Oh boy, oh geez. Don't be so excited, man. Well, I'm pretty excited.
Speaker 1You don't sound it. Well, well, see what? What? I sound like a. You sound like you're frickin' dead. Well, well, you know what they say about dead people. Oh, what do they say? Well, they're sound dead dumbass. Oh, damn it. Well, yeah, see what's been happening, buddy, oh, not too much.
Speaker 1Lots of rain, lots and lots of rain. You still living in that stupid little hole in the hill? Not anymore. Why? Well, because the water came out and flooded us all the way. Are we going to go over this? It's pretty funny.
Speaker 1I told you not to build there. It's hurtful, you know, you did it to yourself. You could have lived closer to the studio. You had that option. Well, well, well, then nobody would have to go pick you up.
Speaker 1Listen, listen, okay, I'm listening. This is why. Why? Because I read an article in the newspaper the other day. Wait a minute, hold up for one, just one second. I don't mean to interrupt. You read something In a newspaper article. Oh, crap, man. Okay, about, no, you knew how to read Car accidents. Okay, about, no, you knew how to read Car accidents. Okay, happen within 25 miles of where you live. Okay, by God, I moved, I'm not going to have no car. I moved, I don't. Okay, but it can still happen miles from wherever you are. No, I moved, are you not getting this? But you're still. If you're 25 miles from your house or less, you're still in that. It doesn't matter where you moved to, it does matter. Okay, I read the paper where I was. Okay, so if I'm here at the studio, I live here, let's say you live here I said, let's say Hypothetically Okay, okay.
Speaker 1I'm gonna what? I'm gonna move. I'm 25 miles from here. If I move 50 miles from here, I'm good. No, it's 25 miles from where you are Right, so you move. That doesn't help you. Squeak, sure, it does. No, squeak, squeak. I have a wrench Aunt. Yeah, because Troy's bringing your ass in. Well, he hasn't wrecked and he's got a pretty bad record. I seem to remember someone jumped from the helicopter one time. No, no, he's got a bad record. You don't understand.
Speaker 2And someone was.
Speaker 1You remember? Listen back in the day. Okay, since these dumbasses, mike and Tom, are doing this back in the day. Mike and Tom are respectable guys. Mike and Tom are doing this back in the day. Mike and Tom are respectable guys. Mike, tom, exactly. Oh, that made my ears ring.
Speaker 2Oh sorry.
Speaker 1I hit a note I shouldn't have, probably when you confused me when you said Mike and Tom are respectable people. They are, they're great. That's what I said, but continue, listen, they were talking about all this old stuff, okay, well, now I don't know where I was going with that. I confused you. Yeah, a little. Excellent, my job is done. That's what it was see, but yeah.
Speaker 4So you know them.
Speaker 1Guys are doing stuff from 1977, right, yeah back in the day and it just Now I asked you if you wanted to participate earlier. You said sure. I said let's pick a topic to talk about. Why the hell did it come up to food? I thought you meant partake, not participate. Oh, we're participating in the conversation. Oh, I thought we were partaking. That's why you mentioned food. Well, partaking makes me hungry. It does All right Squeak. So I pulled up some popular foods from 77 for you.
Speaker 2You pulled up what?
Speaker 1Just my weenie. Oh, you want to see it? Nope, all right, then Listen. Just my weenie. Oh, you want to see it? Nope, all right, then Listen to me, not again, all right, first off, slim fast, oh, yeah, yeah, that's how stuff made you slim real fast it did. Did you try it? Nope, oh. Then how do you know what it did? I was little already. I was little already. I didn't need that. You were little, but kind of wide. Well, no, no, that was my girlfriend. No, no, no, I think it's you. You're still kind of wide I am.
Speaker 1Have you not seen the picture we took? Okay, just because I have a different shirt on, it shows my belly. You know, when you're on camera, that count 20 pounds. My belly, ooh, ooh. You know, when you're on camera, it adds 20 pounds. It does. Why do I look the same? You don't.
Speaker 1Have you looked at your socks? Wait a minute, we're not going there again. You will. My socks are fine. They're covering my feet. They're serving the purpose. Yeah, because if you undid your socks, you'd look like you were turning into a werewolf. What are you? What the hell are you talking about those toes? Are you having a climax? Why are you making fun of my toes. I'm just saying I'm hiding them. That's why we wear socks.
Speaker 1All right, let me move on to the next food item. Thank you, jelly belly, jelly beans. I love jelly donuts? Yeah, of course you do. These are jelly beans, beans, beans Made out of jelly. Okay, wait a minute. I like cornbread with my beans, not jelly. These are jelly beans.
Speaker 1Well, that's stupid. Made out of jelly. Yeah, that would be squishy beans. That's not good. People like them. Sweet, really. Yeah, there's different flavors. I suppose they got some kind of stupid-ass flavor like black licorice. Matter of fact, that's one of my favorites. See what you heard me. You knew that. Now wait a minute. Okay, really, yep, delicious. Don't be so proud about that. Why, that's dumb, not really. Yeah, kind of. You know how many people get black licorice and they don't want it. And then I end up getting it. Yeah, that's a bonus for me. Bonus, that's exactly right. That's like getting dirt thrown on you at a damn pitman. Not at all. You should see the stash I have at my house. Yeah, it's a stash I have at my house. Yeah, it's a stash. Anytime you want to come over, I'll give you some. Nope, I'm good. Alright, I'd rather eat testicles. Yeah well, that's another story for another day. I'm going to move on to this one now.
Speaker 1Mcdonald's breakfast menu expands. Oh, there you go. Mcdonald's rolled out more of its breakfast menu. While the Egg McMuffin debuted earlier. Dumbasses McDonald's breakfast. Hey, egg McMuffin. From what I understand, on those drunk nights when you're out partying, those McDonald's breakfasts came in very handy. Okay, okay, that's fine, they did. This is what I heard, not from experience, well, well, this is from experience. Okay, they don't breakfast pretty damn good when you're drunk, right, okay, but what? They don't. Nothing beat the damn Omelette House Three o'clock in the morning. What about the Waffle House? Omelette House, waffle House, omelet House, waffle House, it's all about the same thing. And listen, if you, I just like the bacon at the Waffle.
Speaker 2House Well.
Speaker 1I was talking to this waitress that was at the Waffle House and she was telling me about the lottery and how people are stupid for doing that and everything. And well, I said, well, why, why wouldn't you do the lottery? She said, well, $4 million, what the hell for? Why would I do that? Oh, you're doing so much better here at the damn Waffle House, I guess, because flip a damn burger, well, that's paying the bills. I don't understand the way. Her thinking was that was an honest day's work, yeah, well. And she told me she said, well, maybe, if it got way up there Like way up there, it's $4 million. Well, and then my cousin what an idiot he is, your cousin Vinny. No, oh no, this is a damn dumb cousin.
Speaker 1Oh, you know how people talk about the lottery and how well, this is what I'd do if I won the lottery. Well, listen to what that dumbass said. What did that dumbass say? Well, okay is what I'd do if I won a lot. Well, listen to what that dumbass said. What did that dumbass say? Well, okay, $4 million. Well, if I won $4 million, I'd do one of two things. I'm listening, okay. First off, if I got $4 million, I can do any damn thing. I want not just one of two things. Well, first thing, I would pay off my Bronco. Okay, or there's an, or yeah, or shingle my roof, put a new roof on this. Why can't he do both? Well, that's what I'm trying to explain. My frickin' cousin is a damn idiot. He doesn't understand. Well, and oh, I put a roof on this house and if there was any left, you got four million dollars. How much is that roof costing you? Well, if there's anything left, what a dumbass. Okay, so we established some of your family members aren't too bright. No, no, they're not. We established this. Yes, we established this.
Speaker 1All right, so let's move on to the next little snack. I think you'll love this one. This is very good for you. Go right ahead. Your plate and Dan and yogurt what the hell are you talking about? You should have more yogurt.
Speaker 1Yogurt, yeah, what the hell is yogurt. It's good for you. No, sure is, it's clobbered milk. Okay, no, not. Okay, it's not a flavor. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You get blueberry. Wait, wait, wait, wait, you get pineapple. No, no, no, wait, it's pineapple. No, no, no, no, you've got Cap'n Crunch in a bowl. Okay, okay, you pour clabbered milk in it. Yum, yum, ooh, yogurt. Yum, yum, yum, okay, no, no, it's clabbered milk. Oh shit, I've wasted my Cap'n Crunch.
Speaker 1You're eating yogurt, though, not Cap'n Crunch. Yeah, yogurt, why would I be? Because it's creamy and delicious. Creamy and delicious Yep, sounds like you're trying to get me on a date or something that was another time. Yeah, well, see, that just doesn't even All right.
Speaker 1How about fruit roll-ups, greek? How about them? Do you like those? They're a little hard to get off of the roll and stuff. When they get hot, they stick together and, oh, just eat the whole thing. Well, that's crazy. How is it crazy? Well, then they're gone.
Speaker 1If you unroll them, what are you saving it for? Well, because you don't want to eat it all up. Why, if they're gone, then what are you going to eat? Buy yourself a couple of them, okay, then you eat them all up. And then what? Alright, I'm out. I'm sorry I took this path with you. I really regret it now, do you? Yeah, because it wasn't interesting for me at all listening to you ramble on about food. But I like food, I know you do, but you know what I think. I'm going to cut this now and I'm out. Buddy, what I'll see you next time. Are you out of food? I'm out of everything. Well then, I'm out of here too. All right, buddy Later. Buddy, bye, talk to you later. Have a good life. Hopefully I don't see you again. I mean, I didn't mean that. Wait what?
Speaker 4Well, bye, bye, I'm going to go. Now, I didn't know what I was saying. Yeah, you're going to go, dad, well, well, well, they found something else to talk about at least food, and complain about at the same time.
Speaker 3Well, anyway, leave it to Squeak to bring up snacks from that year Squeak Anyway, yeah to Squeak, to bring up snacks from that year. Anyway, oldie Squeak, that's all I can say.
Speaker 4Yeah well you know, at this point it doesn't even bother me anymore. Now it's just him. Let him do his thing, get a segment over and be on his way.
Albums That Defined 1977
Speaker 3And I gotta tell you everybody has said we like to hear the little dudes. What happened to the little dudes? Here they are, we're hearing them live.
Speaker 4There you go. Well, maybe not live, but you're hearing them, so should we get back into music?
Speaker 3I am ready.
Speaker 4And then we'll throw in some other little weird tidbits from 77.bits tidbits you would like to go first, any songs in particular that stick out to you well everybody knows and people. These aren't going to be necessarily top 40 songs either. These are songs from that year that Tom and I like.
Speaker 3Right, and everybody knows that Dr Hook was one of my go-to bands from that era. No People know this.
Speaker 4I've never heard you speak of this on the podcast, ever.
Speaker 3Goodness, all right, he has dementia, but anyway, alcohol dementia, but anyway, but alcohol dementia. And we went to this Dr Hook song that was out in the 70s that I personally didn't really care for but I thought it was used to bringing up because it's still Dr Hook, all righty, and it's Walk Right In, sit Right Down.
Speaker 4That's Dr Hook yeah.
Speaker 3Walk right in.
Speaker 4Does he do a cover of that? Is that not?
Speaker 3somebody's older song Baby, let your hair hang down.
Speaker 4Is that really their tune? I'm pretty sure it was All right. For some reason I thought it was some oldie song.
Speaker 3It might have been.
Speaker 4But they do a version.
Speaker 3Well, it was an oldies song, whether it's theirs or it was 77.
Speaker 4It was an oldies. I thought it was something older, but again, it just has that sound to it. It does don't. It Absolutely does, but that was the name of their album.
Speaker 3That came on anyway. Okay, but yeah, that was one of the songs and it wasn't, like I said, one of my favorites by them, by no means, but they were there.
Speaker 4Oh, that's why we're doing it. It doesn't have to be.
Speaker 3Yeah, they were there, it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 4Oh, that wasn't a top ten song or a top four.
Speaker 3No, he's a song from that. But it was known. People bought that album and people listened to that song. They loved it.
Speaker 4So nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3There you go. How about you?
Speaker 4All right, I know we said songs, but as I started going through the list of songs, right, I realized a lot of these. I love the albums, every song on the album.
Speaker 4Exactly, you buy that album do that song so my first one I'm going to start up no surprise and I believe it came out late in 76, but it kicked ass in 77, was the Eagles' Hotel California. Oh yeah, you know I like to pick that one song, but there's a lot of great songs on that album. That album I could put on and just play the whole thing and be happy.
Speaker 3That comes later.
Speaker 4I know we said songs I know we said songs. Hotel California was a classic. I didn't mean to jump in like that, but I love the album.
Speaker 3Right and see, and the cool thing about it is I was young enough to realize that later on I was going to hear all of those songs off of that album later on and it was going to be great. Every one of them was going to be pow, pow, pow, pow, pow.
Speaker 4Pow pow Indian. No, no, no, Beef jerky Indian Okay okay, all right, get back to that album, and you know I can honestly say when that came out I actually bought the album. Or let me the cassette.
Speaker 3Was it? See, when I heard it it was probably a cassette Also. Yeah, at 10 years old we had recorders then you could rent them at the library. It was weird.
Speaker 4Being 13, going on 14, had a little paper route, so Right, me too, oh mowed lawns. You know stuff kids don't do anymore. Oh, me too On both lawns Stuff.
Speaker 3kids don't do anymore. Oh, they don't, no. Well, because their parents drive around in a car that barely runs and they'll throw it in your car.
Speaker 4Here's what I don't understand A lot of these parents we grew up with. Let's say, how did the kids get so effed up?
Speaker 3Who knows, we didn't grow up that way Because their kids weren't that.
Speaker 4No, we didn't grow up that way.
Speaker 3No, so how did their kids?
Speaker 4You know they didn't. How do you end up pampered? Anyway, we shouldn't go down that road. Whoops, yeah, let's stick to what we're having fun about.
Speaker 3Almost turned into an animal Sometimes and, like you said, shit it comes out.
Speaker 4Right. So what's your next song there, tom?
Speaker 3Oh mine, yeah, let's see here, or album, whatever Well I have. Who remembers Jennifer Warnes?
Speaker 4That's a chick from. I'm Having the Time of my Life on.
Speaker 3It might be.
Speaker 4The Patrick Swayze there movie. What the hell was it? Well, anyway.
Speaker 3That Patrick Swayze there movie? What the hell was it? No?
Speaker 4that was Jennifer Grey. No, no, not in the movie, the one that sang the song with that guy.
Speaker 3I've had the time of the night. Oh, that one. I don't know. It could have been, but this is the right time of the night.
Speaker 4Okay, I think it's the same lady.
Speaker 3It's the right time of the night. I remember this song from back in the day because when my sister and her boyfriend at the time were getting married, this was one of those songs that they were going to use as a wedding song, and so it was played like 174 hours a day at my house, Good Lord man. So I remember this song and that's one of our—.
Speaker 4That's how you take a song that you like to turn into a song that you hate.
Speaker 3I don't want to hear it anymore, and that is a lot like the song Abracadabra, but that'll come later.
Speaker 4We don't even have to mention that one. Yeah, let's just go on. Go on and hit a sore spot with your buddy. I guess we move on to my next one. Yeah, what's your next?
Speaker 3one All right Again.
Speaker 4Sorry, another album, fleetwood Mac. Rumors Talk about a drama album with a lot of drama, but every song kicks ass, every one of them. To me that's Fleetwood Mac's best album. People can argue that's fine. I'm not a big Fleetwood Mac fanatic so I like it, but I know that Rumors album kicks ass.
Speaker 3It was a good one for you, really good.
Speaker 4And again bought that album. I think I still have that album in my little record collection.
Speaker 3I don't believe. Was that the one that Tusk was on? No, no, that came after Later.
Speaker 4Oh, that came later on.
Speaker 3We'll talk about that later, anyway, but yeah, I like Fleetwood Mac.
Speaker 4But rumors, a lot of songs. There you go, you know what. And before we head out to our other music, I want to interrupt this to talk about our other stuff we wanted to discuss.
Movies, TV Shows, and One-Hit Wonders
Speaker 4Yep, bring some stuff in Different shit like movies that came out in 77. Yeah, yeah, give a little shout out to some of the movies. So I'll start off with number one Star Wars, episode IV. A New Hope George Lucas movie. Why it Matters changed the film industry forever, launched a massive franchise and introduced the world to lightsabers, the Force and Darth Vader. Box office over $775 million worldwide gross at the time.
Speaker 3And what's really crazy to me, what's that? If you look it up, how much did that movie take to make Pennies? Probably Pennies on the dollar, not really sure, but that's something we make Pennies, probably Pennies on the dollar.
Speaker 4Not really sure, but that's something we could actually look up, yeah we could look that up later.
Speaker 3That's just crazy, because you know that that movie didn't cost that much to make, but it drug in. How many billions of dollars over the years? Right, right, what a franchise.
Speaker 4Well, Tom, doing our little research. Because that's what we do To answer your question.
Speaker 3Excuse me, I know it choked me up too.
Speaker 4The production. The budget altogether approximately $11 million. The wild part. Here's the wild part. Initial budget approved by Fox around $8 million. Wow, final cost after overruns roughly $11 million. Lucas had to fight for every cent and the studio wasn't convinced it would do well. Oh, how wrong they were. And the payoff it earned over $775 million.
Speaker 3Yep Chokes me up too.
Speaker 4And over $1.5 billion when adjusted for re-releases and inflation, basically one of the best returns on investments in film history. Wow, lucas also kept merchandising rights and moved. That made him very rich and every kid on earth wanted a lightsaber and an R2-D2 lunchbox Of course they did. Holy crap. Well, that answers that man. That's pretty damn impressive.
Speaker 3No doubt Because you've got to understand. These people are making movies for pennies, but when they put them out there.
Speaker 4It's all about advertising. Well, now it just costs too much to make a damn movie Snow White there with what's a bunch of yeah we'll get into that.
Speaker 3Talk about destroying your legacy Disney. Yeah, what's red and has seven little dents. What's that? Snow White's cherry?
Speaker 4Can we edit that?
Speaker 3You don't have to.
Speaker 4Okay, let's move on to the next movie, Tom Number two Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Great movie.
Speaker 3I missed the first two, though Close Encounters of the First Kind and the Second Kind.
Speaker 4Okay, Thoughtful, awe-inspiring take on Alien Contact with a low-iconic five-note musical motif. Yeah, lots of lights. Annie Hall. Woody Allen movie Big one here. Tom, Saturday Night Fever Made disco really really big. John Travolta star.
Speaker 3Is this where we rant about disco?
Speaker 4Yeah, we can do a little rant about disco Daniel said something about ranting about disco.
Speaker 3They're stupid. What are they doing with this big glass ball?
Speaker 4Having a good time getting down. Come on, half of them are coked out of their minds.
Speaker 2Studio 54.
Speaker 4That's right, there you go, all the big happenings.
Speaker 3You can see pictures of Belushi doing lines and shit, that was blue, bro, let's see Julia.
Speaker 4What the hell movie is that? What Julia, julia the frickin' I never even heard of that one, I guess. Oh, here's why Jane Fonda's in it. Oh yeah, yeah, we'll skip over that. Yeah, the Goodbye Girl.
Speaker 3Yeah, that was a good one, actually, I kind of like the song in that yeah, smokey and the Bandit Tom.
Speaker 4There it is.
Speaker 3There it is.
Speaker 4Smokey and the Bandit great movie.
Speaker 3Some bitches. Some was very smart. Yeah, remind me when I get home. Just slap your bum right in the mouth.
Speaker 4Jackie Gleason. All right, we got a bridge too far.
Speaker 3Oh, John Wayne, wasn't it A race ahead?
Speaker 4I have to admit I've seen that movie. What A race ahead. Oh, what was that? Very strange A race ahead.
Speaker 3Why it matters, it's a cult classic that lost. I have to admit, I've seen that movie?
Speaker 4What Eraserhead, oh, what was that? Very strange Eraserhead. Why it matters, it's a cult classic that lost Lynch's career. Surreal, disturbing and unforgettable. Then New York, new York, martin Scorsese, Right, and that was it for movies.
Speaker 3Yeah, they didn't have too much going on back then.
Speaker 4They didn't.
Speaker 3No, not too much, they didn't no.
Speaker 4Come on, Tom. A lot of the good movies came out then.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 4You want to.
Speaker 3Godfather, you know, we're here.
Speaker 4No, we're here. Let's just talk about some television quick, oh.
Speaker 3I like television.
Speaker 4Let's see you had Laverne and Shirley. Oh yeah, Spin-off of Happy Days.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, okay yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah, happy days. There we go there. It was Three's Company. Oh yeah, jack, I gotta admit I liked them better with the ropers than Parley.
Speaker 2Yeah yeah, parley was good.
Speaker 4But you know, we know, it's Barney.
Speaker 3Reminds me of a Dale Mandy episode.
Speaker 4Oh, here we go. Okay, I got it real quick Okay.
Speaker 3When Andy went over to his girlfriend's house and she had a long lost friend that came over. She's like well, what do you want me to do? He's like, well, I don't know, feed your hunger buzzer. And he got pissed off and he went over there and there old Barney was sitting at the courthouse. And he went over there. He said where's my magazine? He said I'm going home. He said I thought you had a date with Peg. He said I did, but I don't no more. Where's my magazine? You want to talk about it? No, I don't want to talk about it. I want my magazine so I can go home, read, be quiet. So he's like, yeah, she had somebody over there. You know what his name was Don. Can you imagine that, don? I thought that was kind of funny. His name is Don. Yeah, his name is Don. Yeah, that was funny.
Speaker 4Oh, you got to understand. Tom has a lot of analogies that come from Andy. Anyways, 60 Minutes started. Charlie's Angels, the original Charlie's Angels yeah, 60 Minutes started. Charlie's Angels, the original Charlie's Angels yeah, wow. Farrah Fawcett, kate Jackson, jacqueline Smith, jacqueline Smith, I had the Love Boat launched in 77.
Speaker 3My Love Boat launched.
Speaker 4Love, exciting and new.
Speaker 3Well, when you said, jacqueline Smith, my Love Boat launched.
Speaker 4Oh, here we go. There's that path. There it is, Tom. It is enough started, oh yeah. Little house on the prairie Michael Landon.
Speaker 3Really, and Tennessee Island.
Speaker 4Oh.
Speaker 3That was this year 77? 77.
Speaker 4Huh, oh, wait a minute. They continued tugging.
Speaker 3Oh, I continued.
Speaker 4No, no, Never never mind, never tugging. Oh, I continue.
Speaker 3Never mind.
Speaker 4Never mind, don't say it. Oh, hot strings, I forgot to add that part.
Speaker 3The best part about a podcast no HR.
Speaker 4No, there isn't. It's awesome. This is freaking awesome Go ahead. Anyways, that's it. That's some of the TV shows which I thought were pretty cool, pretty cool Laura. Ingalls man.
Speaker 3A lot of kids lost their virginity to her in their mind.
Speaker 4I like Mary better she couldn't see you, I know.
Speaker 3Anyway, here we go again.
Speaker 4Alright, let's move on back to our music. Back to our music, back in the universe.
Speaker 3So I mean just to Back to our music, back to our music Back in the U. Oh, never mind. So I mean just to mention everything that, what really gets me about doing these music things. I'm finding that I have evolved toward harmonizing groups. That's a good sound, groups that have good harmonizing. Good sounds together and this Dave and Sugar group. I'm just it's weird because they have that sound.
Speaker 4You mentioned this earlier to me and I was like what the hell are you talking about? Yeah, Never heard of them.
Speaker 3Dave and Sugar have a lot of that. It's the harmonizing and Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers Love is just a game, or All the Gold in California. These things that you hear they're harmonizing, they're so good. I guess that's why I like the bluegrass music.
Speaker 4That's part of what the Eagles charm is, too Exactly they harmonize.
Speaker 3They have such a beautiful harmony together, all of them and Blackhawk, one of my favorite groups of all time they just harmonize, they just harmonize and I'm finding, through all this research that we're doing, that I evolved toward the groups that have the harmony. Okay, I get that. It's weird, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 4Nothing weird about it at all, tom. Nothing weird at all.
Speaker 3Yeah listen, look up some of these groups that you don't know. Or if you do know them, they have even songs that I've never heard of and I class myself on oh, I know all those songs. You can't give me songs I've never heard. Well, if you would have gave me Elvis Presley's song Down Under, or whatever it was that came out this year, I would have been stuffed. I have no idea what that is. So I don't know everything about the music.
Speaker 4None of us do.
Speaker 3I'm humbled, just don't relate though. I'm humbled by the music.
Speaker 4Alright, I'm going to move to mine now. Another shocker album, now this one. I heard songs, but I didn't actually receive the album until 78, when I was 15. Right, I remember I had a little party in my basement with my friends and everything, but anyways, meatloaf, bad Outta Hell. Oh man, that whole album, two Outta Three Ain't Bad. Paradise by the Dashboard Light, One of the very best songs in the world.
Speaker 3Two Outta Three man, two Outta Three man.
Speaker 4Two out of three. That's a great song. But every emotion on that pretty much all songs go through. All these different Bad Outta Hell. That one's a good song. Oh yeah, motorcycle sound. I know it seems like I'm being weak and not picking songs, but it's hard to watch that album and pick one song that I like. Paradise by the Dashboard is a popular song. Anybody can say that. But that whole album the previous two I mentioned Every song on there pretty much rocks. People can disagree, that's fine, but this is by my picks.
Speaker 3See, it's just exactly like that.
Speaker 4And that album to this day. If I listen to any of those songs, it brings back memories. Every album, all kinds of memories, every song, every song on the album, yeah, no matter how I was feeling at that time, what I was going through at that time, whatever, that's one of those albums.
Speaker 3Medicine, yeah, music, it's medicine. Music is awesome, man. What would we do without it Be?
Speaker 4fucked. Thank God for music. Yes, yes, don't get me wrong people.
Speaker 3I like pretty much all calculus and the classical music, but this is the gong we were talking the other day yesterday. We like Celtic music, celtic, celtic, yeah, celtic.
Speaker 4Celtic. I used to say that too, and it's like no, not the Boston Celtic, it's Celtic. But I like that, especially when it's mixed in with like rock music Right. They just go together. So often.
Speaker 3Yes, they do have a lot of good stuff together too. There's bands out there that mix that.
Speaker 4Well, nightwish is a band, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not what you were telling me about. I think there's a lot of bands like that.
Speaker 3Yes, we had already talked about Nightwish before you remember hearing that song too.
Speaker 4Last of the Mohicans. I've seen some girl do it on a flute and I was blown away by it, but I remember us talking about the group you just talked about. Nightwish. Nightwish you just talked about Nightwish. Nightwish, we had mentioned those guys before. Oh yeah, and I read one of our podcasts about concerts and stuff.
Speaker 3Yeah, I remember those guys. You got another one there, tom. I don't have another one, except for the Sunflower.
Speaker 4Song. Anything you want to talk about.
Speaker 3The Sunflower Song was Glenn Campbell's Sunflower Good Morning.
Speaker 4Right, right, I said I don remember the lyrics, but I could think of the music in my head.
Speaker 3And that's that I just wanted to say a minute. That's why I like doing this stuff, because that song, I hadn't thought about that song probably for 45 years and it just popped up. And then all of a sudden on this radio thing I'm looking up doing some research, bam, I'm like, wait a minute. I remember that song. I loved that song when I was little, right, that's how it works out.
Speaker 3But yeah, I had no idea, it was Glen Campbell and I like Glen Campbell as much as I do. But there you go, and Charlie Pryde, let's give a shout out to Charlie Pryde.
Speaker 4Absolutely.
Speaker 3Now I know who that is, tom yeah and he had a couple in this year too, in 77. Okay, one of them I don't remember, recall it right now, but I do remember he was there. That's awesome then.
Speaker 4Yeah, all right. Well, of course I'm greedy, obviously if it looks that way, because I just name off these two quick no, go ahead Again albums Styx, grand Illusion, another album that kind of blew me away with the sound. I mean Come Sail Away. It was like, if you listen to that, pretty much baked. It was like a journey.
Speaker 3I have a story that I think I told. Wait a minute, I do believe I told this story.
Speaker 4I think so too About your high school, the eighth grade graduation song.
Speaker 3Oh, that's what it was. Yeah, yeah, Because we brought up one song and you said which one would you like?
Speaker 4I said, well, I'm going to go with Come Sail Away. That's what it was, it was James Time in a Bottle, if I could spend time in the park. That was the one If. I could spend time in the park, okay, I thought it was the other one, but anyways, we've got a second singer.
Speaker 4I thought it was one of his other ones, but I do remember you bringing that up Alright Quickly. Foreigner, their first album, that album rocked too. And Tom, I'm going to quickly go to this because you'll appreciate this you were young enough and, I admit, as much as I was getting into rock, I still listen to these guys. Bay City Rollers they came out with an album called it's a Game. Yes, folks, I do have that album too. Not going to lie, these are my Growing pains. It's just songs.
Speaker 3I like man, you know they had that you Made Me Believe in Magic and the Way I Feel Tonight. But anyways, I figured I'd bring up the Basity Rollers, because we don't give them enough love.
Speaker 4Yeah, we don't. I mean, that's part of our youth, a soundtrack of our youth also, everybody's got to know the Bas City. Rollers yeah, corny as may be, but hey, I like them, I'm not denying it, I'm not going to lie, and while you, have Bay City Rollers right there. Girls like them, I like them.
Speaker 3I would like to just slip in a little two or three minutes, Whoa whoa, whoa.
Speaker 4What are we slipping in? We're not slipping in nothing in here.
Speaker 3A in nothing in here, a two or three minute retract.
Speaker 4No, you said that last time.
Speaker 3This is much better.
Speaker 4You said that last time too, the Bay.
Speaker 3City Rollers. I was introduced to them by a friend of mine.
Speaker 4I guess we're done with our music. We could go on forever about stuff.
Speaker 3The music just went on and on, and on.
Speaker 4Did I get a mention, Teddy? Was there any weird toys in that time? I believe there was and I believe I have something for that.
Speaker 3The toys yeah, oh, you always get to bring up toys.
Speaker 4You know what, though, Tom One thing we forgot to bring up One-hit wonders.
Speaker 3There were some one-hit wonders. Yeah, there were.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 4Undercover Angel Alan O'Day.
Speaker 3Who in the world is Alan O'Day? Listen, children.
Speaker 4He hit number one, though damn it.
Speaker 3Yeah, listen, children. Don't ever think you can't do anything. This guy is nothing but this one song.
Speaker 4Oh wow. Well, you know it's kind of sad because he wrote hits for others. But I always thought this one has a solo on it. Here we go. Afternoon Delight Still a vocal band.
Speaker 3Yeah, I can't say stuff. Oh wait a minute.
Speaker 4Wait a minute, Little note here. Technically released in 76, but peaked in 77. It peaked. Technically released in 76, but peaked in 77. It peaked, it peaked. It's soft, suggestive and iconic. Won a Grammy and then radio silence. Soft and suggestive.
Speaker 3Yeah, I have something soft and suggestive.
Speaker 4Yeah, okay, go ahead. What you Gonna Do by Pablo Cruz, oh, what you gonna do? A sunny yacht rock style song that hit number six. But despite other minor hits, they never cracked the top ten. Pablo Cruz had some good songs, though they may not have been number one, but they had some good songs.
Speaker 3They had to have because I know who they are. That's the key. Well, there you go.
Speaker 4You've heard of them before. Here we go with Hutch again. Don't give up on us. David Soul, Yep, that Hutch from Starsky. And Hutch Never even dreamed it. This heartfelt ballad hit number one, and then he was back to crime fighting on TV.
Speaker 3I was this many days old when I realized that.
Speaker 4I knew that because I heard.
Speaker 3Don't give up on us, baby. You can be a star Anyway.
Speaker 4Different lyrics, but you get the melody. Ariel, you remember that one. I took her home with me.
Speaker 3We watched TV a necuna cello and some guy going steady.
Speaker 4I started fooling around with the vertical. We got the munchies and we made some spaghetti. Quirky, nerdy love song that climbed into the vertical hole. We got the munchies and we made some spaghetti. Is this a quirky, nerdy love song that climbed into the top 30 cult classic but he never charted again. All right, tom, here it is the Telephone man by Barry Wilson. Oh I, yeah, yeah, and then my fingers did the walking on the telephone man.
Speaker 3Yeah, because he got it in the bathroom and he got it in the hall and he got it in the hall and he got it in the kitchen and he got it in the wall.
Speaker 4Pure novelty song full of innuendo and 70s cheek. Yeah, got to number 18, but she remained a one-hit story.
Speaker 3Wow, yeah, now don't never bring that chick around here again.
Speaker 4I do like Smoke from a Distant Fire.
Speaker 3Sanford Townsend, Band you rise from the smoke of a distant fire.
Speaker 4That's a great song. Yes, it was a good song, this is a really original huh Float On by the Floaters.
Speaker 3Float On.
Speaker 4What's your song Floaters? Float On.
Speaker 3Yeah, we're all floaters, you idiot.
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Speaker 4Here's one that'll trick you Magic man Heart. Wait, heart wasn't a one-hit wonder, but in 77, the song was their first big one. Just making sure you're paying attention, I saw that I go no. And then, right Time of the Night, jennifer Warnes it's that song.
Speaker 3Yep, see, I had that on my list.
Speaker 2Yay me yes you did.
Speaker 3One hit wonder. One hit wonder. But I remembered the song you do remember the songs.
Speaker 4And quickly let's give a little shout out to some of these toys from Star Wars again from Sabres last year.
Speaker 3Oh my goodness, Micronauts, micronauts. Wait a minute, uncle Jim's cabin ain't on his one, is it?
Speaker 4I haven't seen that yet. Stretch Armstrong on it again. Oh, Mattel's electronic football, oh yeah.
Speaker 3I remember, why aren't?
Speaker 4they going after him.
Speaker 3And everybody's garage has one of those that was in a box that was eat up by damn time. Something would have to be. You can pull it out, I get this man.
Speaker 4We'll put this for a football.
Speaker 3Disintegrated.
Speaker 4Slinky, still going strong. The metal coil from the 40s was still a top seller in the 70s.
Speaker 3Heck yeah.
Speaker 4All right, you got Light, bright, still Evil, knievel again. Damn, I wish I had one of those when I was a kid man doing that. I had one of those when I was a kid. Fisher Price Little People play sets Rebels again. Wait a minute and Simon from Milton Brown.
Speaker 3Surely we didn't have a Little People play set. No, that's why half the people in America are freaking, messed up now probably.
Speaker 4Because Little People, little People did it.
Speaker 3Is that a Little People play set? No, I'm playing with Little People. No, but it's for the Little People, did it? Is that a Little People play set?
Speaker 4No, I'm playing with Little People? No, but it's for the Little People.
Speaker 3Oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 4Not Little Little People, not midgets, oh Little.
Speaker 3People.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, Dwarves.
Speaker 3Yeah, fairies.
Speaker 4Horizontally stunted.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, yeah, Is that better. Yeah, because I dated one one time.
Speaker 4Okay.
Speaker 3And she was going to sue the city, did she? Yeah, well, they built the sidewalk too close to her ass. Oh, that sounds sad, tom.
Speaker 4It was sad. So on that note, tom, I think we're going to end this podcast for this week. Really yeah, I think we're going to end it now, bud. Podcast for this week. Really yeah, I think we're going to end it now, bud. I think, before you go too far the other way.
Speaker 3I was the other way once.
Speaker 4That's alright. Anyways, folks, we want you to listen to us on all our sites. Let's see Amazon, iheart, deezer, deepcastfm, buzzsprout. Don't forget our website, mtalp5.com. Check that out, please. Everybody. Go to that site. But hey, we're on all different platforms. Daniel will probably fill you in at the end anyways, because sometimes we're idiots and forget shit. But I thought any last comments there, tom Well.
Speaker 3I'd just like to invite everybody to tune in to next time when we talk about 1978. Yes, this is correct.
Speaker 4And when we come back it's getting better. I mean not that these songs are bad.
Speaker 3That's not what I mean.
Speaker 4God, no, now we're getting in songs that well, especially for me each, each week.
Speaker 3It gets better and better and better as we go on. But, yeah, tune in and make sure you listen to that. And, as always, I'd like to thank God for the gift of Gab.
Speaker 4All right, tom, and that note. Everyone take care. God bless and later See ya.
Speaker 2Well, folks, you've done it again. You survived another episode of the MT Alternative Podcast hosted by Mike and Tom, the undisputed kings of half-remembered facts and full-blown tangents. Thank you, else. Can I subject myself to this weekly carnival of chaos? You're in luck or not, depending on your taste in audio pain.
Speaker 2You can find the MT Alternative Podcast on Spotify, apple Podcasts, iheartradio, google Podcasts, audible, amazon Music, deezer FM, deepcast FM, pocket Casts, stitcher, buzzsprout and, of course, on the mothership itself, at mentaltpodcom, because nothing says professional operation like a site that still has a coming soon page for merch since 2022. And next week, buckle up, because Mike and Tom are rolling into 1978, the year of grease, glitter and gas shortages. Will they stay on topic? Will Tom bring up his perm again? Will Mike cry over a Bee Gees track? Only time will tell. I'm Daniel, your presenter and emotional support human, reminding you to tune in or don't. I'm not your mum, but if you do, bring snacks and low expectations, see you next week on the MT Alternative Podcast, where history and nonsense hold hands and skip into oblivion. Thank you.
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