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E69 Food, Funeral Playlists, and American Woman
Step into an engaging episode of *Music in My Shoes*, where we dive into nostalgic memories and family connections cultivated around great music.
We then take a humorous turn examining an article that lists the ten healthiest and unhealthiest fast food sandwiches. We share opinions on our favored guilty pleasures and reflect on health versus taste.
As the episode winds down, we tackle thought-provoking questions about funeral playlists, diving deep into how music speaks to our final moments. What songs would you want to represent your life? This personal segment brings warmth as we ponder the enduring legacy of music, creating connections as we reminisce about the soundtracks that define our experiences.
We look back at Creedance Clearwater Revival's last single from "Cosmo's Factory,' The Guess Who "American Woman,' and The Psychedelic Furs debut album. Join us for an episode rich in laughter, reflection, and music appreciation.
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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 69. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So, jimmy, I got with family over the weekend. I was out of town, went to see an aunt and we were in the car and we're listening to a 60 station on satellite radio and we got into this debate. I'm not sure if it's a debate, but who was better, frank sinatra or tony bennett? Oh, to me it's hands down it's frank sinatra. It's not not even close.
Speaker 1:So I mean yeah, I would go. Frank sinatra too, I mean mean Tony Bennett. I feel like here's the difference Frank Sinatra passed away when he did, and then Tony Bennett suddenly was the number one crooner. He wasn't. There was never a conversation. When they were both alive, frank Sinatra was numero uno.
Speaker 2:I would agree with you on that. I definitely would agree with you. But I mean, if you look at their work, everything that they've done, my aunt honestly didn't think that Frank Sinatra's voice was all that good and I think it's fantastic. Especially when you listen to some live versions of songs. He sounds great to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean he had his own style. He would talk certain phrases you know it was more like his speaking voice and then he would hit a long note or something. You know. He would kind of talk your way through the song sometimes.
Speaker 2:That he would do. And then she kind of mentioned, you know, we got to the point where now we just started playing Frank Sinatra, then Tony Bennett, and we kind of went back and forth and then she was like, well, maybe, and then she goes. Well, what about Dean Martin? Oh yeah, forget that so Dean Martin gets added to the conversation and you know he didn't really do too much his claim to fame was Frank Sinatra being part of the Rat Pack yeah that, that really was yeah, that really was it.
Speaker 1:Now Sammy Davis Jr. That guy was a great entertainer.
Speaker 2:The Candyman Ken yeah.
Speaker 1:No, he was an awesome drummer, dancer, singer, everything.
Speaker 2:I have seen him drum actually. He actually really surprised me when I saw him.
Speaker 1:I was like wow.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like Karen Carpenter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I forget, she was a drummer. She was a drummer.
Speaker 2:She was a drummer at first and then they didn't want her to drum. They wanted her to, you know, be out in the front singing because she has that beautiful voice. But she would get on that drum kit and she could do some things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know it was such an unusual thing, especially for back then. Yeah, I know that was such an unusual thing, especially for back then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree. So when we were kids my mother did not like Frank Sinatra whatsoever, didn't like that. You know he was, thought he was who he was and that you know he was connected and all of that. So around my house Wise guy yeah, it connected to the wise guys my mother would always call him Frank snot nose. That's how she referred to him and growing up that's all you ever heard was Frank snot nose.
Speaker 1:I'd never heard that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but yeah, I just thought that was kind of cool just to kind of break out into a, a topic. Um, you know, frank Sinatra versus Tony Bennett and then all of a sudden you know you've got Dean Martin in the conversation and I really enjoy that stuff with my family. That's a cool thing of different, you know, family members and different conversations, of music and just really cool stuff to me.
Speaker 1:So who was the fourth member of the Rat Pack? You had Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
Speaker 2:Joey Bishop.
Speaker 1:Joey Bishop. You don't really hear about him much anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think Peter Lawford was part of the Rat Pack. Okay, and Peter Lawford, I think now don't hold me to this, but I think he was the connection to JFK, all right, and I think he was the connection to Dennis Hopper and just a bunch of other different people. That's going off the top of my head, all right, that I just whacked myself in the head in the headphones with my hand.
Speaker 2:Oh, you got whacked as I'm talking with my hands here. Yeah, listen, I don't want to the headphones with my hand. Oh, you got whacked as I'm talking with my hands here. Yeah, listen, I don't want to go swimming with the fishes, so maybe we should move on, yeah, Okay. So I read this article online the other day and it was about the 10 healthiest and unhealthiest fast food sandwiches in 2024.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I know we're music in my shoes, but this article kind of fascinated me. Like I'm into what is maybe not what's the healthiest, but I look to see what's on the unhealthiest that I might eat. So, I thought some of the listeners might enjoy it also.
Speaker 1:Like a badge of honor type thing or like maybe I should avoid that.
Speaker 2:As I'm when I was younger, it would be a badge of honor as I'm older now. Maybe I should avoid that. Yes, it's both of them, as I've grown older and wiser, as they say. So it's not sandwiches like ham and cheese, it's more like hamburgers and chicken sandwiches at a fast food place the healthiest by far. They're not on this list, but there was another list I saw, and I think all 10 of them were some sort of veggie sandwich where it was just veggies on a piece of bread. We all know that's the healthiest. There was no sauce, there was nothing on it.
Speaker 1:Wow we all know that's the healthiest.
Speaker 2:There was no sauce. There was nothing on it. We know that's healthy, but that's not what we're talking about today. So the top 10 revenue restaurants that offer sandwiches are what make this list. That's how they looked at it.
Speaker 1:And this is fast food only.
Speaker 2:Fast food, and I'm going to name the 10 restaurants that they looked at Starbucks, KFC, Burger King, McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, Subway, Wendy's, Popeyes, Jack-in-the-Box and Firehouse Subs. Wow, Now, the first thing that and Firehouse Subs. Wow, Now the first thing that I want to tell you.
Speaker 1:No, taco Bell.
Speaker 2:No, taco Bell, they don't have a bunch of sandwiches.
Speaker 1:You know it's more. You know burritos, so this is revenue from sandwiches.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay okay, but Firehouse Subs I love Firehouse Subs, I do, I do too, but I was shocked that they made it in the top 10 as far as revenue producing for sandwiches. I agree, great sandwiches.
Speaker 1:The.
Speaker 2:Italian is my favorite hands down there. Well, we're not going to talk about that because we're going to go into the list. They might or they might not have some on the healthiest or the unhealthiest, all right. So I think we'll start with the 10 healthiest fast food sandwiches. Number 10, the Engineer Sandwich at Firehouse Subs. It's a turkey Swiss provolone. I like that. That's up my alley. Number 9, the Classic Chicken Sandwich at KFC. I never thought KFC would have a sandwich on the healthiest list.
Speaker 1:So is it a grilled chicken sandwich maybe?
Speaker 2:I think it is. I don't know, when I go to KFC I don't get a sandwich. That's not what I'm getting, but I think it must be. Number eight the grilled chicken sandwich at Chick-fil-A. Number seven the hero sandwich at Firehouse Subs, and that is roast beef, turkey ham and provolone. All right, another combination that I like. Number six the Chick-fil-A sandwich, which is the number one on their menu. We just order number one. You get a Chick-fil-A, the fries and the drink. I mean, that's their most popular. That's the sixth most healthiest fast food sandwich. Number five, and correct me if I'm wrong. You know I always have something that I struggle with the word. And correct me if I'm wrong. You know I always have something that I struggle with the word.
Speaker 1:The Asiago Ranch Classic Chicken Club. Okay, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2:From Wendy's. Now, what surprised me about this is usually anything with ranch makes it unhealthy. So the fact that this particular one, you know whatever ranch they use, or maybe they don't put a ton on, I don't know. Number four the deluxe sandwich at Chick-fil-A, which I think is just the chicken with like lettuce and tomato.
Speaker 1:Yeah, lettuce and tomato. Oh, and you know what? I think the deluxe actually has cheese on it too.
Speaker 2:Oh, does it. Yeah, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Because I know that, because I often order a Chick-fil-A sandwich with lettuce and tomato and they're like, oh, you want a deluxe. And I'm like I don't want the cheese on it. I like cheese on a cheeseburger and a sandwich, but on a Chick-fil-A I don't like it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think I want cheese on my chicken either. Now I sound like I'm doing a Barenaked Lady song or something. Chickeny China, yeah. Number three the Cajun Chicken Sandwich at Firehouse Subs. Number two the New York Steamer Sandwich at Firehouse Subs.
Speaker 1:Wow, this place is a health food joint.
Speaker 2:Now, if you ever had it, it's the corned beef and pastrami with provolone. It's actually really good.
Speaker 1:It sounds great and are you sure this is the healthiest list.
Speaker 2:This is the healthiest list. Okay, that surprised me as well that that was on the list.
Speaker 1:Is this list made by, like, the Beef Association of America?
Speaker 2:It is not Okay. No, Number one the sourdough grilled chicken club sandwich at Jack in the Box.
Speaker 1:Oh see, I've never been to Jack in the Box.
Speaker 2:I haven't been to Jack in the Box in a really long time. I used to travel and when I was out in California I would go to Jack in the Box. I don't know if they have any here in Georgia, do they?
Speaker 1:It seems like I heard that they did come this way, or at least close to Georgia. I don't know if they have any here in Georgia, do they? It seems like I heard that they did come this way, or at least close to Georgia. I don't know if they have them in Atlanta or not, but I think they have moved from just being out west to being closer to here.
Speaker 2:What will now happen is the next time I see a Jack in the Box, I will make sure that I stop and have one of those sandwiches, just so that I could have the healthiest sandwich at a fast food chain.
Speaker 1:Now see if I'm in LA. There's no way I'm going to Jack in the Box, I'm going to In-N-Out Burger.
Speaker 2:And you're going to order something from the menu that doesn't exist.
Speaker 1:I've done that, but I kind of just like the stuff that's on the menu.
Speaker 2:It's a very limited menu when you look at what they have.
Speaker 1:You've got to be in the know to really get what you want, but it's just a really good basic cheeseburger and you get the toppings you want on it.
Speaker 2:It's good, I've been there. I like it. It's good Speaking of good. That's what we just talked about. Now we're going to speak about the 10 unhealthiest fast food sandwiches. In other words, not very good for you. Number 10, the Jumbo Jack cheeseburger at Jack in the Box. I think when something starts with jumbo, that's a telltale sign. It's probably not good for you. Number nine the Whopper with cheese from Burger King. Oh, I love the Whopper with cheese. I do too, and I usually get the double Whopper with cheese.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be totally honest I love the double Whopper with cheese.
Speaker 2:So yeah, number nine, that's making me think.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I get the double Whopper with no cheese, just if I'm feeling healthy. But maybe I'm not as healthy as I thought.
Speaker 2:Yeah, After hearing this list, maybe not Number eight the Big Mac from McDonald's.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, another one that I—. Special sauce probably does you in the extra bread in the middle.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's smaller than what it used to be, but it's still the Big Mac.
Speaker 1:Is it smaller than it used to be, or do we just remember it being bigger? They're all smaller, everything's smaller.
Speaker 2:I mean, I got a double cheeseburger the other day. It looked like they had taken corrugated cardboard and cut out round patties. They were so thin. It was just unbelievable. Crazy Number seven the Meatball marinara at Subway. I don't go to Subway a lot, but when I do I get the meatball marinara I normally get it with pepperoni on it.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, that probably makes it even more unhealthy it probably does.
Speaker 2:Number six, the chicken junior sandwich at Burger King.
Speaker 1:How are they getting this list? How is the junior sandwich less healthy?
Speaker 2:Because they look at calories, they look at different types of fats. There's different things that go into this list to make it what it is. All right, Number five the crispy grilled cheese on sourdough at Starbucks. I don't go to Starbucks, I don't know anything about it, Nothing at all. I did see something funny the other day. I was in Charleston in South Carolina and I saw like a little mom and pop coffee shop and they said with a sign it said something to the effect of A fake mermaid doesn't make burnt coffee taste better.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, it took me a sec.
Speaker 2:Wow, that joke went over really well. I think it's hysterical, but maybe you don't, maybe the listeners don't. I just found it funny. Number four on our list the classic chicken sandwich at Popeye's.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that the one that everybody goes out of their way for?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't get sandwiches at Popeye's.
Speaker 1:You didn't hear about that whole craze a couple of years ago that there were lines out the door at Popeye's for their chicken sandwich. No, oh yeah, it was a thing.
Speaker 2:Really, yeah. Well, it made it to number four on our list of unhealthy.
Speaker 1:I mean, it kind of explains why it's so addictive, true Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Number three the original chicken sandwich at Burger King.
Speaker 1:Yeah, overrated.
Speaker 2:It's not very good. No, number two the classic smash jack from Jack in the Box. Classic smash jack from Jack in the Box. It's a burger. You know, smash away. You know, take the ground beef and smash it and do all that. Number two and number one this did actually surprise me, I'm going to be honest. The big fish sandwich at Burger King, now, it's not something that I would eat, but I, in my mind, immediately think something with fish is going to be good for you.
Speaker 1:Now, is this the renamed Whaler, or is this a different sandwich and they got rid of the Whaler? I don't know. I think they probably renamed it because I don't know. You know, it doesn't sound very good. I don't know why they named it a whaler in the first place.
Speaker 2:I don't know, you know what?
Speaker 1:Nobody wants to eat a whale.
Speaker 2:No, I don't think so. We don't even want the oil from a whale anymore, do we? Isn't that what they?
Speaker 1:used to Did you used to want the oil from?
Speaker 2:a whale.
Speaker 1:Isn't that what they used to oh yeah, yeah, the Inuit people live off that stuff.
Speaker 2:I don't.
Speaker 1:No, nor do I, and nor should we, because it's the unhealthiest sandwich, assuming that the big fish is the whaler, anyway.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what, Jimmy? I'm glad that we shared this. I'm going to take a look at some of the unhealthy things I eat. Maybe you should also.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, okay, I didn't know, this was an intervention.
Speaker 2:It's not necessarily an intervention. It's just that I care, and there's just too many things on here on the unhealthy that I eat.
Speaker 1:I'm just glad the Italian from Firehouse Subs wasn't on the bad list.
Speaker 2:There you go. That's a good thing, Jimmy do you know? What time it is. No, yes, jimmy, it's Music in my Shoes. Mailbag time.
Speaker 1:Music in my shoes mailbag.
Speaker 2:So episode 63, Shangri-La over troubled water Matt in Pennsylvania comments. Matt in Pennsylvania comments. Comeback is a great tune, matt, I agree. He's referencing when we spoke about the Jay Giles Band and the 1980 album Love Stinks. I love that album and a bunch of people that I know that listen to the show, that have seen me have talked about Love Stinks, oh good. I know that listen to the show that have seen me have talked about love stinks, oh good. And that you know that that's a good song. That you know, uh, come back, or love stinks, or you know, you know it. Just, it's a great album.
Speaker 2:I really, you know, when I downloaded music for the first time it was one of the first couple albums that I put on my phone that I was like I have to have this. So episode 64, another week, another day. Let's rock this episode. We spoke about getting older and health. Well, hey, on episode 68, we're doing the same thing with the list that we just gave with the list that we just gave yeah, and a listener from Shirts, texas, comments Shirts, that's the way I believe it's pronounced.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's cool, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:Not to be morbid, but as I listen to your stories I realize that I am closer to the end than I am the beginning. This is a real email that we got.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2:This is not something that I'm making up.
Speaker 1:No, no, you never do.
Speaker 2:No, but I want to make sure someone understands if they're listening for the first time that someone wrote to us and is really asking this. I'd like to know your death playlist. Seriously, I'd like to know your death playlist of songs that you would want at your funeral. Have you already built it? Oh, wow, the answer is yes.
Speaker 1:Oh, really Okay.
Speaker 2:I gave my daughter, jessica, a few songs that I would want played. She has it saved on her phone and the other day I said, hey, do you have that list? Because I wanted to make sure she had it handy. And she sent it to me and it's called Dad Funeral Songs.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay. Yeah, that's sad, it makes me happy. Oh, it makes you sad. It makes me happy that she has it. Okay, it was a happy story.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, it's happy because of the fact that, not that anything's going to happen to me now or hopefully in any time in the future, near future, but the fact is that the songs they're ready. Now they can make arrangements and say, say, hey, this has got to be part of what we're doing. Yeah, so the first song, and it doesn't have to be played in this order by any means, just these three songs. I'll let up to them to figure out where each song you know fits into the whole theme. All things must, must Pass by. George Harrison Song that talks about, you know, even though something is like this right now, it's going to pass. It's not going to be that way later. Nothing's good all the time, nothing's bad all the time it doesn't rain, all the time it doesn't. You know, sun's not out all the time. I think that's a fantastic song.
Speaker 1:I don't know it, sorry.
Speaker 2:Broke Down Palace by the Grateful Dead and it just kind of talks about you know water and you know rest in your bones and just a song again. That to me is a good song in the time of a funeral. And then my final one, again not in any order Hell yeah, by Neil Diamond and it talks about this is a song came out later, I think it came out.
Speaker 1:So at your funeral you want a song with the word hell in the title.
Speaker 2:I had to think about it, okay, but yes, I do. Okay, this album came out, I want to say, in 2005. I'm going to say it's about 20 years old. Neil Diamond hadn't done anything in a while. I'm a huge Neil Diamond fan, let's just put that out there. But Rick Rubin wanted to do something with Neil Diamond and to get together and he brings some of the musicians that he used when he did the you know Johnny Cash thing.
Speaker 2:Right, and this song Hell yeah, where he kind of talks about were things worth it and doing this and doing that, and basically he just goes hell yeah, you know, it was all worth it, everything was. And I just think that that song is so inspirational. When you're questioning things in your own mind, you know, should I be doing this or should I go down this normal path that everybody goes down or whatever? And listening to that song just makes me feel fantastic. Now, when I'm in a coffin at my funeral, I'm not sure if it's going to make me feel different, but knowing that people are going to be able to hear that and the other songs and know, kind of what I was thinking and what you know was going through my mind and how I wanted them to remember me that final moment that they get to view me. That's the answer. So I guess for you, do you have any songs? Is that something that you think about or don't think about?
Speaker 1:You know? No, I have not thought about it. I would say we brought up Frank Sinatra earlier and I think my Way is kind of fitting.
Speaker 2:That's a good song.
Speaker 1:And I love Sid Vicious' version of it as well, but the problem was Sid Vicious's girlfriend, nancy Spungen, rewrote the lyrics to try to make them outrageous, and so there's some stuff in there that's just stupid and kind of hasn't aged very well.
Speaker 2:Doesn't it at one point to think I killed a cat or something? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And so there's a few things in there that's like, well, I definitely wouldn't want that played, but yeah, something like that and something that makes people happy. I actually picked out the songs. I unfortunately had a friend that passed away just in the past year and, very unexpected, and my contribution to the service was picking out the music for the service, and so I just picked out, went through his playlist because he was a huge music fan and found some things that made everybody there think of him and so that's what I would hope People would just play stuff that's like, oh, this song makes me think of dad or whatever.
Speaker 2:I like that. That was pretty noble of you to do that.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it was not the easiest thing because, you have to try and choose these ones that you know represent this person and not represent necessarily what you think of this person or your memories, but for for everybody you know. So I've kind of cut out the middleman and I've made my list. Like I said, my oldest daughter, jessica, has it and you know, should something happen, those are the three songs and if anyone ever loses it and something happens to me, jimmy, please make sure you just say, hey, let me listen to that episode again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everybody here listening to the podcast. You know you're on the hook. If Jessica loses the playlist, you got to tell her.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So again, I think you know our person that sent this in didn't leave a name. They are from Texas and I guess I should have asked what their list is, what, what you know, if you're asking us and especially if you're thinking that you're closer to the end than the beginning we are, I mean we're closer as we get older. Every day you get end up, you know, at some point you become closer to the end. It's inevitable, unfortunately. But I guess you know what are some of your songs that you would have since you asked it, and if anyone else out there has any songs you know, please let us know. We would definitely like to hear about them.
Speaker 2:Let's move over to episode 65, vision Quest and Vineyard Vibes. Paul in North Carolina writes Vision Quest is an absolutely epic movie. I lived in. Sp Carolina writes Exclamation point and that's cool to be able to say that you've actually run over that bridge. That's in the movie that Jimmy never saw. That's really cool. Yeah, I just find that really cool and thank you for sending that in. Paul.
Speaker 2:Friend of the show Vinny from Long Island says another fun episode this week Especially enjoyed the Morrison Hotel backstory stuff and on that same episode we talked about Morrison Hotel. We talked about them taking the photos for the album and then we talked about it burning and a fire, which I believe was in December of 2024. A special thanks to Buckley Vineyards for sharing the episode on their social media, got a lot of people that listened to the episode and hopefully some people are new fans. We do appreciate that. That's pretty awesome, and if you want to contact us about any of our episodes or you want to tell us your funeral songs, feel free by emailing us at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom. Please like and follow the Music In my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages and I think, more than anything, if you can share any of the social media that we do with your friends, that would be great.
Speaker 1:Get them turned on. Yeah, let's get more people finding out about the podcast.
Speaker 2:Getting them turned on to Music in my Shoes and maybe they'll like it and maybe they'll want to write in also. So thank you to everybody. So, jimmy, a couple of episodes ago you had asked if there was an update on Matthew Sweet and at the time I did not have one. But I just recently saw that he has posted video of himself at a rehabilitation center making progress and talking about what happened from knowing all of a sudden. You know, I think he said he saw like bright or white lights and you know his hearing was going and knowing something wasn't right. And you know this is in October October 2024, when he had the stroke and the video is.
Speaker 2:It's really cool being able to see what they do to help someone that has had a stroke and they had a machine that, because of, you know, not being able to move. You know one side of his body. This machine holds up your arms. Know one side of his body this machine holds up your arms. The machine makes it so that you can concentrate on your legs and not have to worry about the arms and and and different things to really be able to rehabilitate, you know so is he getting motion back in that other side of his body, or is he just working on working without it?
Speaker 2:he, he's getting, I think you know where. At one point he said he was probably never going to play the guitar again. He's kind of at the fact of I probably won't, but I'm trying. I'm trying to do everything I can. He struggles picking up the arm, and the arm I mean that happened in October. You know he makes a livelihood from being a performer. And just to kind of see him talk about it and talk about what this rehabilitation center's done for him was pretty cool. It really was.
Speaker 1:Good yeah.
Speaker 2:Then we have Brian Setzer, who is the singer-guitarist from the Stray Cats, who can't play guitar anymore, and I'm not sure if you've heard about this. No, he's got an autoimmune disease and he says no pain but feels like he's wearing gloves when he tries to play, and he's just been able to hold a pen and tie his shoes. Oh my gosh, and you know I mean that just sucks.
Speaker 1:I mean no other way to put it he's such a great guitar player too, he is he is I.
Speaker 2:You know I saw the stray cats in 82, you know a long, long time ago, and you know I've seen him do.
Speaker 1:He used to do that christmas show with his christmas show, the brian setzer orchestra right.
Speaker 2:Um fantastic when to me. When I watch him, it reminds me of all those great people from the 50s, you know like you just get to get that same vibe that same feeling rockabilly and swing and everything. So hopefully you know he continues to make progress and he can get back out there again, because I know everybody would like to hear him and hear new music and see him out on the stage. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I hope so.
Speaker 2:So, jimmy, let's revisit some great music from the past. Let's start off with the traveling band Who'll Stop the Rain, double A Side. It was a single peaked at number two March 7th 1970. Love those songs. So on the album Cosmos Factory they released three Double A Side 45s. Meaning that they could have released six singles, but they released three, just double A-side, which you have a lot less in sales. It's a lot different for the radio play what you're promoting and stuff. And I know that people used to say something to him and you know John Fogerty was just like I don't care, I just want to get the music out to the people. I want to get it. You know I'm fine with it. I think you know, know, back then people didn't look at the financial end of it, but today I don't think anyone would do that no, and well you know who was looking at.
Speaker 1:The financial end was the record company, because they got all the songwriting rights and publishing and everything and he didn't even have the rights to play his own songs anymore right, right, I, I mean, you're right.
Speaker 2:You're 100% correct on that. That's why they didn't try and talk him out of anything. Sounds like a great idea? Yeah, sure, let's do it. So Traveling Bands is a throwback to the 1950s. You know the 1950s rock and roll style and you know, maybe a little richer I'm trying to think who else, but you know, it's just good guitar. You know old style rock.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of like Boogie Woogie or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, real good song. Did you have something else to say on it?
Speaker 1:Oh, I saw them play Traveling Band one time live on a TV show and you know it was just an old recording of who knows what it was. It was an American bandstand, but something like that. And they're playing live and it was so good. I mean, I just like his vocals, his guitar playing the bass and the drums. They were such a great band.
Speaker 2:Oh they were. I definitely believe it was great to watch. His voice is so distinctive man, his guitar work just good. Then you have Who'll Stop the Rain, a great folk song that asks many questions and it's not just about the rain, it's about just so many things that are going on in the world at the time and I think you know rain is the metaphor for it. You know who's going to stop it, and I read one time that he played the song and his kid was like, daddy, you're going to stop it. He's like, yeah, no, I don't think I'm the person that's going to be able to do that.
Speaker 2:But I mentioned that it went to number two on Billboard and it was held off by the number one song, bridge Over Troubled Water, and I know we've mentioned that on multiple episodes that it's held off different songs. It was number one, I think, for six weeks and a couple of songs that we've talked about over the last few episodes have been held off by that song. Still, the rain kept pushing, falling on my ears and I wonder Still I wonder Who'll stop the rain? The Guess who. That's not who's gonna stop it. That's the name of this band. American Woman album came out in January 1970, first single no Time, released in November 69 and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the first song on their previous album, so they released an album in 1969. It was called Can Wheat and then they didn't like it so they re-recorded it and put it on the American Woman album.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it became a hit, went to number five.
Speaker 1:That's what Green Day did with Welcome to Paradise.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, what was the album? It was on.
Speaker 1:It was on Kerplunk, yes, yes, yes. And then it was on Dookie.
Speaker 2:Much better on Dookie to me yeah just total better production.
Speaker 2:The song American Woman and no Sugar Tonight were released as a single one on each side. It wasn't double A side, it was A and B yeah, on one on each side. It wasn't double A side, it was A and B, yeah, but they were both on it and peaked at number one on Billboard May 9th 1970. There's two versions of American Woman, also the album version that starts the song off acoustically before the well-known guitar riff kicks in. You know, he's kind of somebody you know plays the guitar it could be Bachman for all I know and playing it, and then the singer is, you know, singing it kind of slow and then all of a sudden the guitar riff comes in and they're full into it. The single just starts with the electric guitar.
Speaker 1:As does the Lenny Kravitz cover.
Speaker 2:Yes, the Lenny Kravitz cover. What year was that? 99?, somewhere around then. So that was definitely a good song. I liked it. I like the song, so hearing someone do it, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1:It fits him very well. He plays it in his live show a lot.
Speaker 2:It does fit him. I think you're right about that. That's good. So would you believe me if I told you no, sugar Tonight has two versions also?
Speaker 1:Do they both have the new Mother Nature in them? They don't. Okay, that's the difference.
Speaker 2:Very good Album version is no Sugar Tonight right into new Mother Nature, and the single version is just the song by itself. The album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 album charts Best album that they ever did. Right there hands down. Whoa. According to my watch, it's Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1:Minute with Jimmy Minute with Jimmy. Okay. So in 1990, 35 years ago, I was in college at University of Georgia and I worked at the radio station and I had a show on Fridays. It was called Fridays Only and we did it live and we would have album reviews and sometimes we'd interview bands and at one point somebody brought in this review for an album by Lou Barlow who had recently left.
Speaker 1:Dinosaur Jr Got kicked out of Dinosaur Jr and he started his own project with Jason Lowenstein doing these bedroom recordings which nobody was really doing at that time, these real lo-fi recordings. But they put out an album with 40 songs on it and they were. I just fell in love with it. Like it's just these really great pop songs but you really have to listen hard to to get past the fidelity of it, you know. But you really have to listen hard to get past the fidelity of it, you know. And then they ended up you know it was called Sebado and Sebado ended up re-releasing the songs as full production, still like lo-fi rock, but on their later albums. And so a lot of great songs on there and Sebado was one of my two favorite bands of the 90s.
Speaker 2:And what was your first favorite?
Speaker 1:Sebado and Pavement were my two favorite bands of the 90s. And what was your first?
Speaker 2:favorite. Sebadone and Pavement were my two favorite bands in the 90s. I knew Pavement was up there. Yeah, well, that was good. I liked that minute with Jimmy. I don't know a whole lot about them so that you know when you bring up stuff that I don't know, just like the listeners when they hear stuff that they don't know that we bring up, I go and I check it out and see what it's all about, because you wouldn't mention it unless you thought it was good.
Speaker 1:That's right. Yeah, so this album was called the Freed Weed and again it's. You know, it's them on acoustic guitars, like in their bedroom on a four track recorder and then, if you like it, maybe listen to some more Sebado. They have a bunch of albums. My name is Jimmy. A bunch of albums my name is Jimmy.
Speaker 2:The Psychedelic Furs self-named debut album the Psychedelic Furs was released on March 7th 1980. Three songs that I really like on this album. The first song is called India. I like that Two of my favorite all-time Psychedelic Furs songs Sister Europe and Fall.
Speaker 1:Oh, I was hoping you were going to say Fall.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love those songs. They are just fantastic. Now, this is another one of those albums where the UK version was different than the US version. There was a bunch of differences on it, but these kind of are my three favorite on there. Any other favorites for you off this album?
Speaker 1:Man, I'd have to look at the track list, but those were. Those are the ones that I would have named yeah Fall I just that song it's. There's no other song like that, you know, no, it's got this like insistent beat and it has the horns in it and it's it's almost like a rap, you know yeah.
Speaker 2:I wonder if they recorded it like he did a few lines at a time and then came back and did it.
Speaker 1:I heard back then, and I don't know if any of this was true, but I heard that Richard Butler would come into the studio after the band had been working on all the instruments and that he would do one take. He would come in after, you know, being at the pub and he would do one take and that would be it. Wow, I don't know if it's true.
Speaker 2:Well, again, we've talked about it before. His voice is a little gravelly, so I think you can get away with stuff. I love his voice, I love it.
Speaker 1:He still sounds great to this day, he does.
Speaker 2:Extremely unique.
Speaker 1:Maybe even better now, because I think he's kind of cleaned up his act.
Speaker 2:That does help. If you get some sleep and clean your act up a little bit, you do sound better. Buy a car and watch it rust. Sisters, see them fall to dust. They fall around In another crowded room. Paint me like the shirt I'm in, honestly, sister of mine, home again. And speaking of home, it's time for me to go home. That's it for episode 69 of Music in my Shoes. I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios located right here in Atlanta, georgia, and 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 our next episode. Until then, live life and keep the music playing. Thank you.
