Music In My Shoes

E23 It's the Swing Like a Pendulum

April 14, 2024 Jim B Episode 23
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Who says you can't time travel? Buckle up as we whisk you back to the raucous energy of a 1984 Clash concert at Hofstra University, where teenage antics led to an epic grounding, but the memory of Joe Strummer's rallying cries in "London Calling" remains unscathed. This isn't just a walk down memory lane; it's a tribute to the live performances that define us, complete with personal tales and treasured keepsakes like a framed setlist that still echoes the pulse of that night.

Up next, we look back at the 40th Anniversary of INXS - The Swing, including the songs "Original Sin," "Dancing on the Jetty," and "Johnson's Aeroplane'.

Then, we crack open the 'Music in My Shoes Mailbag' and let the tunes tell their stories, from the cosmic alignment of Pink Floyd's "Eclipse" to the confessions of our guiltiest musical pleasures—Jimmy's soft spot for Anne Hathaway's raw performance in "Les Misérables" might just surprise you. We round off our sonic adventure by tipping our hats to the Pixies' "Doolittle" album, savoring the rebellious spirit of "Monkey Goes to Heaven." Join us for a melody-rich ride that proves the right song can freeze a moment, spark a revolution, or simply make us feel alive.

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Who says you can't time travel? Buckle up as we whisk you back to the raucous energy of a 1984 Clash concert at Hofstra University, where teenage antics led to an epic grounding, but the memory of Joe Strummer's rallying cries in "London Calling" remains unscathed. This isn't just a walk down memory lane; it's a tribute to the live performances that define us, complete with personal tales and treasured keepsakes like a framed setlist that still echoes the pulse of that night.

Up next, we look back at the 40th Anniversary of INXS - The Swing, including the songs "Original Sin," "Dancing on the Jetty," and "Johnson's Aeroplane'.

Then, we crack open the 'Music in My Shoes Mailbag' and let the tunes tell their stories, from the cosmic alignment of Pink Floyd's "Eclipse" to the confessions of our guiltiest musical pleasures—Jimmy's soft spot for Anne Hathaway's raw performance in "Les Misérables" might just surprise you. We round off our sonic adventure by tipping our hats to the Pixies' "Doolittle" album, savoring the rebellious spirit of "Monkey Goes to Heaven." Join us for a melody-rich ride that proves the right song can freeze a moment, spark a revolution, or simply make us feel alive.

Please Like and Follow our Facebook page Music In My Shoes. 
You can contact us at musicinmyshoes@gmail,com.

Speaker 1:

He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.

Speaker 2:

He's got the feeling and it's out there growing. Hey everybody, this is Jim Boge, and you're listening to Music In my Shoes. That was Vic Thrill kicking off episode 23. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So back in February or March 1984, it was announced that the Clash was going to be playing Hofstra University in April. When tickets went on sale a few days later, my friend Ronnie Corrente, who was a huge Clash fan, and I went to wait in line at the Hofstra University ticket office so that we could definitely get these tickets. This meant not going to school that day, so I had another friend, jeff, call up my high school and say he was my dad and that I was sick and I would not be in.

Speaker 1:

This is like Ferris Bueller's Day Off right.

Speaker 2:

Kind of. It kind of was. We end up getting the tickets and I'm like I can't believe I'm actually going to see the Clash Now. Mick Jones had been kicked out of the band a year before, but a clash with Joe Strummer was still better than no clash at all.

Speaker 1:

And Paul Simonon.

Speaker 2:

Yes, that's the way I looked at it. So I get home about the regular time that I should be getting home from school and my dad was there and said the school had called asking him if I was sick. He said I wasn't and they said they didn't think so. When my friend Jeff made the call, he used a pay phone that was in the hall outside of the gym so the attendance office could hear in the background basketballs bouncing and kids talking. So I end up getting grounded and I wasn't allowed to go out after school or on weekends and I was also told I wouldn't be going to the show and to sell my ticket. Can you imagine that?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I can. Unfortunately that sucks.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but a few days before the show, I'm told my grounding is over, so glad I didn't sell my ticket. Yeah, because that Saturday night I was headed to the Hofstra Physical Fitness Center to see the Clash and they had some band that opened up. I don't even remember who they were and it was about 1045 before the Clash got on stage. First song was London Calling. It was excellent. They sounded so good. It was like I can't believe I'm here, joe Strummer's playing away and he's singing and playing the guitar. It was just so awesome watching them. And they followed it up with Safe European Home and just a rockin' one-two punch to open up a show. Really really good, right. And then some of the other songs they played were Career Opportunities Rock, the Casbah Guns of Brixton, which is one of my favorite Clash songs. Magnificent Seven, clampdown Police on my Back, janie Jones. I mean, I'm naming all these songs because you can be like, wow, that's a good selection, yeah.

Speaker 1:

I saw that tour too. Yeah, did you. Wow, that's a good selection.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I saw that tour too. Yeah, did you. Yeah, where'd you see it? The fox in atlanta?

Speaker 1:

wow, it was, was, it was the cut the crap tour, the out of control tour out of control. Supporting the album cut the crap that is correct.

Speaker 2:

Um, I fought the law. Tommy gunn brand new catalan. What a show, and I'm assuming that the version of the show that you saw here in Atlanta was just as good.

Speaker 1:

It was amazing, and I remember the last song they played was Garage Land. I don't know if they closed out the tour every time with that, but it was a great closer.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, they played the same songs. It looks like. I took a look at it and it looked like almost every night they played the same songs. A look at it and looked like almost every night they played the same songs. So a guy that went actually got the sheet off the floor that listed all the songs that the band was going to play and he put that online and I made a picture of it and put it in a frame so that I have it. It's the actual Hofstra University show. Oh, that's great, but it's pretty cool. I mean I didn't get it. It's not an original, but it's something that someone put out there and you know. Either way, I just think it's a lot of cool memories that I can look at that and, just, you know, bring me back to it.

Speaker 1:

That's really cool. I never thought of doing that. If somebody that posted a set list that I was at, I might have to look one of those up.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I only got a set list for real one time. I got a squeeze set list I think it was either 92 or 93. And I asked them while they were breaking down the stage after the show if I could get it and they handed it to me and I framed that also. But, like I said, my friend Ronnie, he was a huge Clash fan and I learned so much about the band from him. It wasn't just like the, the hit songs, but going all the way back to the first album, I mean, he just knew everything about it and I think it's probably you know. He had an older brother, but Ronnie unfortunately passed away in September of 2002 and then Joe Strummer passed away a few months later, december 22, 2002. And I always thought that that was kind of, you know, a coincidence. It was unbelievable in such a short period of time that we lost both of them.

Speaker 1:

Joe Strummer kept making good music too, all the way to the end, like that. Last Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros album was awesome.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, real good. I mean real good. I know a friend of the show, chris Cassidy, ran into him one time. He was somewhere at a place I think he was getting something to eat, something to drink, and Chris happened to have a camera and just said hey, is it okay if I get a picture of you? And it was right before Joe passed, so it's a pretty cool picture. But, yes, a good time. I'm glad that you got to experience that.

Speaker 1:

Me too. I mean, I never got to see the Clash with Mick Jones, so that was a lot better than not seeing them at all. They sounded amazing.

Speaker 2:

They did. I mean, they really really did. Sound like this is unbelievable To me. It's one of the shows that when people say what's your favorite show, I don't say it's my favorite show, but I say it's one of those shows that I'm so glad that I had the opportunity, because obviously with Joe not with us any longer you can't go see the Clash and that that show just kind of meant so much because I was so into them and it takes me back to hanging out with Ronnie and it just has a lot of meaning towards it. That's great.

Speaker 2:

Yes, so in March of 1984, just before the Clash show, while I was grounded and sitting at home in excess, the Swing album came out. Now, this was a good album. I used to listen to it completely from side A to side B, and I think we've mentioned before Jimmy to people that one of the reasons that we would listen to a record complete was not necessarily because we wanted to hear all the songs it go through. Then you didn't risk, you know, any scratches on it. Now I think the sequencing of the tracks are perfect, like they put the songs in the right order that it should have been.

Speaker 2:

While I love this album, it definitely is one of those albums. As you go on through time, you know it struggles at some point. Some of the songs you know that stand that test of time. You know they probably should have put a little bit more guitar in it. They have a lot of synthesizers but the sound wasn't necessarily full okay. So I actually got this album through Columbia House where you know you get a bunch of records for a penny. I don't know what it was.

Speaker 1:

I was a BMG man myself.

Speaker 2:

And you know what it could have been. Bmg Columbia House was the first one that came to mind, but I got it through one of those places. So I got it and you know you buy it for a penny and you get I don't know six, seven, eight, I don't remember what it was.

Speaker 1:

I mean on BMG, you got six CDs for the price of a half a CD. Jim.

Speaker 2:

Oh, this was records. We weren't even up to CDs yet. This was true vinyl.

Speaker 1:

You actually taped the penny to the thing right. Yes, you would tape the penny to the thing right.

Speaker 2:

Yes, you would tape the penny to the card and then you would mail it in and then they just had you. They did, they really did. You had to agree to buy several more within a certain time. I don't think I ever did that. I'm going to be as transparent as I can be. So I probably did Columbia House, I probably did BMG. I probably used my middle name instead of my first name at times. I really think that I did so.

Speaker 2:

Lead off track was the first single as well Original Sin, and they worked with this with Nile Rodgers. So Nile Rodgers was in the band Chic. They released it in December of 1983, and this had the best full sound of the album. If you listen to the whole album, this song, it sounds full. The rest of the songs don't sound as full and it's tough to explain that what it is like, the sound. But with the Nile Rodgers it's like you heard the bass, you heard the drums, you could hear all these things. It was a bit louder, it was just more full than what the rest of the songs were, which they use a different producer and did it in Australia. It was followed up by Melting in the Sun, I Send a Message, which was the second single in March 1984. And I'm surprised this song wasn't a WLIR Screamer of the Week. As a matter of fact, none of the songs on this album made Screamer of the Week and I was kind of surprised when I looked at the list. These are the songs that you would think would be on that list.

Speaker 2:

Dancing on the Jetty was the fourth single from October 84, and the song the Swing ended side A, the most rocking song on the album. Now, if you listen to it, I think the opening drums and music remind me just a bit of Everybody Wants Some by Van Halen, and I listened to it multiple times and I was like, yeah, this really sounds very, very familiar. Side B opens up with Johnson's Airplane and this is one of my favorite NXS songs and it's been since I first heard it. If you look back on all the episodes where I talk about songs that are my favorite, most of the time it's been right from the beginning when I first heard it Maybe not necessarily the first time, but the second time or whatever, but really it just has stuck with me or whatever, but really like it just has stuck with me. Next up was Love, is what I Say Face the Change, burn for you, which was the third single and that was released in July of 1984.

Speaker 2:

So, singer Michael Hutchence, he died on November 22, 1997. And at the November 26, 1997 U2 show at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta a group of concert goers had this sign and it was like 15, maybe 20 feet long and it said watch the world argue, argue with itself, which is from the song Dancing on a Jetty. Bono dedicated the song One to Michael Hutchence After speaking a few words about him and kind of like he was oxygen in a room. I actually listened to the show last night, the whole concert, and it was kind of cool listening to it. But the last song was just Bono and the Edge playing 40, for the first time that they had played the song in almost eight years.

Speaker 1:

And.

Speaker 2:

I think that was part of their little tribute to Michael Hutchins, first dedicating one and then going into 40. And, you know, definite nod to their friend, because Bono mentioned multiple times that he was a friend of his. He was a friend of the band's. So I think that was something that was pretty cool and if you know the song 40, it makes sense. If you don't know the song 40, you definitely need to listen to it. Great song. Listen to the version from Under a Blood Red Sky. Yeah, hey, jimmy, guess what time it is.

Speaker 1:

Music in my shoes mailbag.

Speaker 2:

Yes, it's music in my shoes, mailbag time. We have gotten a lot of people reaching out to us Again music in my shoes, at gmailcom, the Facebook page, a lot of things. Facebook people have left all kinds of comments about all different episodes. We're going to start off with Kevin in Cumming, georgia, and he says I've added Gordon Lightfoot and Elvis Costello songs and Skate Away. So he's referencing episodes 13, 16, and 18. Skate Away is the dire straight song that we talked about roy bitten playing piano on that after he was the guy that did the keyboards on runaway by bon jovi. And we talked about gordon lightfoot and elvis costello. We talked about when you went and saw elvis costello in concert. So it's real cool when people do that, that they start to put music on their phone that they don't normally listen to and they're doing it because of the show, and I think that that's a real big thing what the show is all about. You know, devoted people taking that stuff and just learning something new. I mean, I know it sounds funny when we say it, but in the end it's really. You know what we're trying to do. So, kevin, we definitely appreciate that.

Speaker 2:

Randy in New York talking about episode 21. What a fantastic episode. I really enjoyed listening to Ted tell stories and, jim, you did a great job with the interview, really well done. So he's talking about the material issue interview that we had with Ted Ansani, which was a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun. Yeah, I know that Ted had a lot of fun. He got to answer questions that he doesn't normally answer and he really got a kick out of that.

Speaker 2:

Sticking with that episode, daria says Excuse me, but Valerie Loves Me is one of my all-time favorite songs. How did that not make the list? Well, it didn't make the top five favorite Ted Ansani songs because it wasn't in his top five. He picked the five favorites that he liked and, just to remind people, number one was Renee Remains the Same Two, diane Three. Next Big was Renee Remains the Same Two, diane Three. Next Big Thing Four Destination U. Five was she Was an Actress From Barbara. She says I love Valerie Loves Me and the debut album International Pop Overthrow A band that should have been bigger than they were, in my opinion, and I think that we've all come to that conclusion that you know they definitely should have. Yeah, it just didn't happen For the Eclipse.

Speaker 2:

The other day I posted on the Music in my Shoes Facebook page the last five lines of Pink Floyd's song Eclipse. The last two are and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon. From Mary in Levittown, new York she wrote of course I played that while I was watching and Andrew in Ohio said the local radio station played the whole album here in Dayton, ohio area. Eclipse hit during the eclipse. That must have been really cool to be listening to that. Yeah, but you know we appreciate everyone reaching out and giving us this feedback and you know things that are going on. It's awesome. So we have one more that I'm going to go through here Jimmy for the Music in my Shoes mailbag, and it's a repeat customer, all right, someone that that has sent to us before. So this is Robert in Athens, georgia.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, From last week.

Speaker 2:

Yes, from last week. He says hey guys, I poured my heart to you both last week and told you Yanni was my embarrassing music guilty pleasure. Jimbo's went even deeper with Debbie Gibson. Well, I appreciate that, robert. That makes me feel good that you think I picked someone that was more embarrassing than who you picked. But, jimmy and he's talking about you, jimmy, not me, you- oh, I know, I'm not Jim.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, there you go. I'm glad that we know who is who, but Jimmy went with Cowboy, the awesome song by Kid Rock. Come on, man, you can spill your guts better than that, wow, I'm getting called out Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

All right, so you know, I think Richard is that his name. No, Robert, Robert. I think Robert's got a point and I will submit Anne Hathaway in Les Mis singing. I Dreamed a Dream Now that was recorded live on set. They actually didn't pre-record it and lip sync it and she is actually going through all the emotions of this song and it's very moving. So that's my guilty pleasure, that's my embarrassing song.

Speaker 2:

I'm not familiar with it at all.

Speaker 1:

You should listen to it. Try not to weep people. Try not to weep.

Speaker 2:

There you go. You heard it from Jimmy, yeah. So when you said Anne Hathaway, it reminded me of this movie, begin Again, and it's got the dude from 30 Going on 30. So when you said Anne Hathaway, it reminded me of this movie Begin Again, and it's got the dude from 30 going on 30. I can't remember what his name is 30 going on.

Speaker 1:

30 is not very far.

Speaker 2:

All right, the movie is called 13 going on 30. Yes, it reminds me of this movie, begin Again, where the dude is from 13 going on 30.

Speaker 1:

Are you talking about Mark Ruffalo?

Speaker 2:

Yes, that is exactly who I'm talking about. But Keira Knightley is in there. She sings a song called Lost Stars, and anyone, I have it on my phone. If you look over here, jimmy, you can see. It's right on my phone. It's a song that I play often and nobody has ever liked it. They think she sings terrible. I don't think that. So, kira, if you're listening, I am a fan of yours. I think this is a great thing, but it's also done by Adam Levine. He's in the movie also. He sings it and does it like the Adam Levine way, where she kind of does it more of like a ballad type thing. So I could add this along to my Debbie Gibson that I talked about on the last episode.

Speaker 1:

All right, there you go. You had to one-up me, didn't you?

Speaker 2:

No, not at all. Anne Hathaway definitely takes the cake. So he didn't finish. He says says, as the great Christopher Walken once said more xylophone please okay, alright, hold on. I have to get the xylophone that sounded like a cure song right there in itself Violent Femmes, that would be.

Speaker 1:

Gone Daddy, gone by Violent Femmes that would be Gone Daddy, gone by Violent Femmes.

Speaker 2:

Very good, very good. I like that.

Speaker 1:

Enjoy that, Richard.

Speaker 2:

It's Robert.

Speaker 1:

Sorry.

Speaker 2:

Robert. Well, that's it for Music in my Shoes Mailbag Again. Musicinmyshoes at gmailcom. Or you can reach us on the Music in my Shoes Facebook page.

Speaker 1:

Music in my Shoes Facebook page.

Speaker 2:

Music In my Shoes mailbag. So, jimmy, yes, april 17th 1989. 35th anniversary of this classic alternative album. Pixies Doolittle First single, monkey Goes to Heaven, came out in March of 1989. I know that Frank Black Black Francis, whatever you want to call him is not a fan of this song at all.

Speaker 1:

Oh, okay.

Speaker 2:

I love the song. I could listen to it over and over. It definitely was one of those songs. When it came out it was so different than everything that was happening at the time and you were just drawn into it. And you know how they do a lot of their songs where they're singing part of it low and then all of a sudden they go full force on the guitars and the bass and you know loud singing.

Speaker 1:

It just really reminds me a little bit of a band that came a few years later, called Nirvana.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and you know that is a band here that Kurt Cobain would talk about this album, saying that it was definitely one of his favorites and it was an influence on him personally on what he was doing. Here Comes your man, second single, a little bit different, but some of the other good songs from the album Debaser Tame I think Tame is a fantastic song on that album Way of Immutilation, la La Love you. I think the band live. All right, the band live, not this band, but the actual band live.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I got you.

Speaker 2:

That's why I keep saying it over, to make sure that you understand what I'm saying. I think the band live may have listened to this before they recorded Pain Lies on the Riverside, because the drums in the beginning of both songs are really, really familiar. That's all I'm going to say. You listen to one, you listen to the other. They sound pretty close. This is a very non-Pixies type of song to me. Lots of whistling, lots of I love you. Not Pixie-ish whatsoever, but you know, on LIR it was a song that they played all the time. It was a big song for them up in New York.

Speaker 2:

Album ends with Gouge Away, another good song and, as I mentioned, kurt Cobain talked about you know this being one of his favorite songs that he would listen to a ton. So, jimmy, you know what, last week, when we did our episode and Minute with Jimmy seemed to be something that people liked, I got a few texts from people. They thought it was a cool new thing that we do on the show. So I'm not sure if you have anything planned, but we're going to do it again. It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy.

Speaker 1:

Minute with Jimmy. Okay, here we go, setting the timer and go. So today we're going to talk about Drivin' and Cryin' album Mystery Road 40th anniversary. It just came out, right over 40 years ago. It is the song that has their two biggest songs that they play in their set, the two most played songs they have, and this for a good reason. But other songs on the record it's got. Ain't it Strange? Which is kind of like a bluegrass intro to the album, toy, never Played With With the People, wild Dog, moon House for Sale, peacemaker, you Don't Know Me, malfunction Junction, and they close out the album with Syllables, which is kind of a throwback to their first album, almost like a Ramones-ish punky kind of a song. But the album also has Straight to Hell, which is a classic song. I remember they played it live for about six months before they actually released it and I was hoping it would come out. I mean it wasn't long enough this time.

Speaker 2:

That's all right. You know what, Jimmy?

Speaker 1:

Because I like the album You're extending me.

Speaker 2:

We'll extend it a little bit.

Speaker 1:

Okay, we'll extend it a little bit. So the other song on there that they play every single show it's always the climax of the show is honeysuckle blue, and that song they just did such an incredible job of blending their alternative style and giving an update to southern rock. So it's, it's somewhere in that riff rock thing of leonard skinnerd and, uh, the almond brothers or or molly hatchett or something, but with kevin's distinctive voice and kind of like you talked about with the pixies, kind of like the quiet verses and then this like great riff that comes in and the choruses and then this fantastic vamp out outro where he's kind of preaching these, uh, these lyrics and singing them over and over with background vocals. So yeah, honeysuckle Blue is their signature song and that's on that record.

Speaker 2:

So I moved here to Atlanta in 1990, June of 1990. And when I moved here I remember asking people hey, what's an Atlanta thing to do? What should I know and everything. And most people said, listen to Driving and Crying. And I'm like what? I've never even heard of them before. It was the best advice I think that I took when I first moved here, because you're 100% correct.

Speaker 2:

I mean, those two songs are unbelievable. I mean the guitar work on Honeysuckle Blues, like you said, going out, that is straight up rock and roll like no other rock and roll is happening and Stands the Test of Time. We talk about Standing the Test of Time a lot. I put that song on a lot. Straight to Hell, great song. I mean that is a song you put on and the next thing you know, everybody around you is singing with you. Fantastic, yeah. First song you mentioned, what is it? Ain't it Strange, Right? I think that that's the opening song, right it is. That's another great thing and that's what I like about them. I think Driving and Crying, I think music in my shoes, is kind of like Driving and Crying, because it's all different types of music that they do and they do all different types of genres and we're doing that and maybe that's kind of similar in what we're about.

Speaker 1:

And I think their name is kind of perfect because they've got the drive-in rock songs and then they've got kind of the crying, you know, tender songs, songs and uh, and that can. That can be anything from like real folky stuff to uh things that are that are just kevin on acoustic guitar or whatever, but uh, they've got a big range and I think that driving and crying is another one of those bands kind of like material issue.

Speaker 2:

How did they not hit it big all over? You know, I think driving and crying is kind of a regional type band that probably should have been much bigger than what they are.

Speaker 1:

But the only national hit that they had was fly me courageous, which was, I think, their next album, and to me that that record wasn't nearly as good as mystery road I mean it's it's still got some good songs on it and everything. But I saw Driving and Crying when I was with my friend Mo in Chicago and everybody in Chicago like the song they know the most is Fly Me Courageous. They don't even really think of Straight to Hell and Honeysuckle Blue as being their signature song, like they are.

Speaker 2:

That's kind of fun, that was a big national radio song.

Speaker 2:

Wow, that definitely is kind of funny. Well, I know that we've gone over the minute, but I'd have to say it was definitely worth going over the minute. If you're not familiar with Driving and Crying, if you're not familiar with the album, if you're not familiar with the songs we talked about as you can see, jimmy and I definitely recommend it Please go listen to them and you'll understand what we're talking about. So the Walkman, the single the Rat, came out April 19th 2004. This is a song that multiple media outlets have in their top 20 songs from the decade of the 2000s. It's a great song, another one where you can feel the singer's emotion with every word. Parts of it remind me of Joy Division. And, this all being said, it's the 20th anniversary of the song and the first time I ever heard it was September 2023. Just heard it this past September, for the first time it's celebrating its 20th anniversary. First time I heard it, I was in Asbury Park, new Jersey, after a squeezed Psychedelic Furs concert. I heard it at a house that the band the Hold Steady had rented for a week to do some writing for what would become their 2010 release Heaven Is Whenever. Wow, I know that was a lot. But the bottom line, the rap by the Walkman is a song you should check out. If you haven't already, I will. So, jimmy, I'm going to go back to 1969.

Speaker 2:

The song Aquarius, let the Sunshine In by the Fifth Dimension 55 years ago, four months before Woodstock, when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, it was the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 singles April 12th 1969. Then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars. Jimmy, I love that song. I used to listen to that song as a kid I mean a young kid. I remember hearing it as a young kid. I still love that song. It takes me back to that whole 1969 Woodstock hippie vibe thing. All I have to do is put that song on and it takes me right back All these years later.

Speaker 2:

That's another good song. Well, that is a good song, but unfortunately that's it for episode 23 of Music in my Shoes. I'd like to thank show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios located here in Atlanta, georgia, and to Vic Thrill for our podcast music. This is Jim Boge, and I hope you learned something new or remembered something old. We'll meet again on the next episode. Until then live life and keep the music playing. Thank you.

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