Silly Love Songs, Will Ferrell / Paul McCartney SNL, and The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers E134

Paul McCartney got dragged for writing “silly love songs” and then turned the criticism into a No. 1 anthem. We start with that 1976 chart run, the irony baked into the lyrics, and the way one summertime hit can glue itself to your memory, right down to the bicentennial vibe and what was playing everywhere you went. 

From there we jump 50 years forward to McCartney closing out Saturday Night Live with Will Ferrell, and we get real about what it means to watch a living legend perform at 83. We talk vocals, stamina, song selection, and why it matters that Paul isn’t trying to “fix” aging with tech. Then the night gets even better: the Chad Smith confusion joke, the classic Ferrell deadpan, and the surprise after-show energy where cowbell and Beatles staples (“Help” and “Drive My Car”) light up the room. 

We round things out with what we’re listening to now and what still holds up, including our new “What’s Mooving Me” pick from Drivin N Cryin, plus “Minute with Jimmy” on The Rolling Stones’ “In the Stars.” That opens the door to Sticky Fingers at Muscle Shoals, the legacy issues around “Brown Sugar,” the story behind “Wild Horses,” and a quick run through Heart, Yoko Ono, Pet Shop Boys, and Depeche Mode’s media critique in “New Dress.” 

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Welcome And A No. 1 Memory

SPEAKER_02 0:12

Got the feel in it out go. Got to feel it in it out there, growing.

SPEAKER_00 0:22

Hey everybody, this is Jim Bog, and you're listening to Music in My Shoes, Podcasting Worldwide. That was Vic Thrill kicking off episode 134. I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. So May 22nd, 1976, 50 years ago, Paul McCartney and Wings' silly love songs reached number one on Billboard. And it was number one until July 3rd, 1976, except for two weeks. For two weeks, another song was number one, and for the life of me, I can't think of what it was. So it's this run of where, you know, Wings had done a lot with band on the run. And then, you know, they had some, you know, silly love songs, and people were kind of getting on Paul McCartney about the type of music he was doing, and it was not like the Beatles anymore. The Beatles were progressing. They started with love songs and then they progressed. And a lot of people were getting on Paul with wings because it was just silly love songs, including John Lennon, who would say in the media about his silly love songs. So he decided to write a song about it, and it ends up going number one. Ah What is the you know, the irony in all of that?

SPEAKER_01 1:47

It's a great song. I mean, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

It's a great song, and it just goes to show people want to hear the silly love songs.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

I look around, oh never mind.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

You'd think that people would have enough of them.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

Yes, you would.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Uh that song, though, being a summertime song and number one in June and July, it's like, don't you remember that year, 1976? Because it was a big year because of the bicentennial. You know, you had your bike all tricked out with the red, white, and blue and everything. And that song was always on. It's like just like a summertime song.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

And it is. I agree with you. I also had on my bike, I had gotten like that little mini license plate, the bicentennial license plate.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

I think it was like white, and then it had like a little red, white, and blue, maybe like a star emblem or something. I don't remember exactly, but it was something like that. I think I got it in 1975 because I've talked about it before. It seemed like the bicentennial started in 1975 and was just this big thing.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

It was a lot bigger deal than the whatever it's called this year is, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:55

It's gonna be the 250th, and they have a name for it. I don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

Yeah, it's something centennial.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

Yes, but it is definitely not is, was definitely a much bigger deal coming up to the 200th anniversary.

SPEAKER_01 3:09

I'm sure we'll hear more about it as we get closer to July 4th, but it does feel like in the bicentennial, you were hearing about it a year out. And at the end of the Hardy Boys Mysteries, they would have the bicentennial minute. You remember that?

SPEAKER_00 3:22

That I don't remember.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

Yeah, they would have a minute that would teach you about the Founding Fathers and that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

And all of this because some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. Yes. So,

The Boom Box Test At School

SPEAKER_00 3:34

Jimmy, let me tell you about the song. I started hanging out with a different group of people when I was in 11th grade and around January of my 11th grade year. And I played music, I had my boom box, and we would hang out at the high school bleachers, and that's what we would do if there wasn't a party on Friday and Saturday night. We would go hang out at the high school bleachers. And I would play the music. I'd have my boom box, and there'd be a bunch of people there. And I had music that everyone liked, all the L I R music that I've talked about. Well, one day I said, you know what? I'm gonna put silly love songs on my cassette and see what happens. Because it's my boom box. They can't tell me to turn it off. Yeah, that's true. I put it on and I couldn't believe how many people knew the words. Like it's almost like people didn't want other people to know that they knew the song. But when you guarantee pleasure, yeah. But when you're together, everybody's singing it. And it's just so funny how many times I played that cassette throughout my junior year, and it just seemed like more and more people just seemed to know that song. And I just always thought that was kind of cool, you know? Yeah. So

Wings Tour Hype And Beatles Songs

SPEAKER_00 4:54

Wings, their only tour of the U.S. was 1976. They never toured any other year. And it was 10 years since the Beatles last played in San Francisco on their, you know, final show. I believe it was August of '66. So America was definitely like, you know, really into Paul McCartney. He didn't really play Beatles songs up until that tour, because he was touring Europe and UK. He comes to America, he starts playing. He probably played four or five Beatles songs in the world.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Oh, I didn't know he would do that.

SPEAKER_00 5:30

And the crowd just went crazy. They ended up releasing an album later in the year, Wings Over America, three-record live set. And then in 1980, they released a movie called Rock Show, and it was about the 76th tour, and it was in theaters, you could go see. It was something that was really cool. And the opening song, I believe, from the tour was Rock Show. And, you know, it talks about going to different arenas and, you know, kind of what it's all about and stuff. So cool. Yeah, definitely kind of cool. So I mentioned that was 50 years ago. Fifty

McCartney Returns To SNL

SPEAKER_00 6:08

years later, almost to the day of Silly Love Songs hitting number one, Paul McCartney was the musical guest on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, season 51. Will Farrell was host. Jimmy, did you get a chance to watch that at all? Yeah, it was great. It was. Now, before I go any further, what I want to say, it was great because I think it catered to people like us that like Will, that like Paul McCartney. And, you know, I'm not of the younger generation. A lot of the things that they put on aren't things that I necessarily want to watch. But when I was younger, I watched it all the time because they catered to me when I was younger.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

And I love when they do a show every year, it seems, that they do this show that for people like myself, we can enjoy it because that episode was fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

Yeah. What did you think of Paul's performances?

SPEAKER_00 7:09

So you know, I go see him when he comes to town, and I know his voice is going, and I've mentioned that before. And I know that they're doing more with having people with, you know, uh backing vocals, uh, much more than what they used to do before. He's about to turn 84. And the fact that he could sing as well as he did, as long as he did, which was much better than a lot of musicians, right, is something that's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

And that he's not using technology to fake it that he can sing better than he can. He's just being himself.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

Yeah. I I don't have a problem with it at all. I really don't because he is a former Beatle, and being able to go see him, even though at some points he strains, it's an honor still to be there. I think sometimes, and I've mentioned this before, that maybe he should take a look at his song selection. There's certain songs that I think are more of a a trouble for him to sing.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Yeah, he can sing the lower register ones better.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Right. So Silly Love Songs, he hasn't played it since the 76th tour.

SPEAKER_01 8:27

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

And if you think about it, all the high in there, can you imagine him trying to do that now? No. You know? So I can't sing. And I've never never been able to sing, but I sound worse as I get older of not being able to sing. Okay? Okay. Whereas Paul McCartney could sing, and as he's gotten older, he he held his own. He's struggled in the last few years. Right. I'm okay with it because if you say he's coming to Atlanta or to New York next week or next month, I'm gonna do everything I can to go. I enjoy it, and I want to enjoy it as long as I can until the point that he's not able to do it anymore.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

I wonder, like, does he have a son that sounds like him or anything like that? You know how Val Kilmer has the son that did his voice for the documentary about Val Kilmer, and sometimes there are people like uh Glenn Fry's son really sounds a lot like him when he sings Take It Easy and some of those old songs.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

Yeah, he's got a son, James McCartney, but he doesn't sound like him. Kind of like Julian Lennon did sound a lot like John Lennon, especially when he released that Velat album. Uh James does stuff. I mean, James has done stuff with the cure. He's done stuff with a bunch of different bands, but I don't think he sounds like Paul McCartney at all.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Yeah, it's just too bad there's not a family member that could like sing along with him and just help out on a few of those notes. Like like Brian Wilson used to tour, and he had Al Jardine and Al Jardine's son, and they were just bringing that Beach Boy sound because Brian was, you know, getting a little shaky.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

Right. Yeah, I agree with you. But I think, you know, I I read a lot of posts, a lot of things on social media, and it's funny, so many people I think felt the same way I did, but just as many people were like, it's sad to see that. I mean, you know what? He's almost 84. Like you have to expect nobody is going to sound like they did when they were in a band in the 60s.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

Nobody. You know?

SPEAKER_01 10:39

And he's a lot older than Don Henley, and Don Hakes it every night.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

There you go. You know. You know, I talked about Rod Stewart, who I saw last year, and I was amazed he was 80 at how good his voice sounded, but he's always had that raspy sound, so his voice didn't change a whole lot from that raspiness that your voice gets as you get older.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

Yeah, but Rod Stewart actually sings surprisingly high. He makes it sound huskier because his voice is raspy, right? But like he's hitting high notes.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

He does a good job. But he's only eighty, okay? He's only eighty. Yeah. Maybe eighty-one now. Okay. Wait till he gets to be eighty-four. We'll see what happens.

SPEAKER_01 11:23

When I'm eighty-four.

SPEAKER_00 11:25

There you go. Hey, you can hit the high notes. I like that. So, Jimmy, real quick, I mean, what did you think about his singing? I mean, his performance was great. Uh he got the audience into it.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

I mean, I think if you if you look at him, if you look at what great physical shape Paul McCartney is in, he's up there playing bass like a pro, you know, and he's like I've said before, Paul McCartney invented what it's like to play electric rock and roll bass. You know? And and it's just incredible. Uh so but his vocals, yeah, you know, his vocals can't do what they used to do. But he's still uh just amazing.

SPEAKER_00 12:06

Yeah, and he's not afraid, like you said, he's not using the technology. He's going out there, he's like, hey, this is me. And people still love it. They do. I mean, he sells out everywhere he goes. Right. Without a doubt. So

Will Ferrell Monologue And Song Picks

SPEAKER_00 12:19

the show, the monologue, Will Ferrell comes out, and you know, he starts talking about, you know, all this stuff, but it's really Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers who they look alike, and they really do look alike at times. They do. I don't think they look as much now as they're getting older as they once did, but they do look very similar. And do you remember when they did that drum off on the Jimmy Fallon tonight show with Jimmy Fallon back in 2014? That that's a whole nother story, but that thing was super cool. Back to the Saturday Night Live special. You know, the monologue's going on. Will Farrell comes out, and he says, like so seriously, something to the effect of, hey, you're Chad Smith. You you just pushed me down backstage. And it says it like it's, you know, like a real thing that actually happened, and, you know, finally gets Chad Smith, you know, off of the um the stage. And then Paul McCartney comes on, and Will just starts naming all these great songs that Paul McCartney wrote, you know, uh Here, There, and Everywhere, Rocky Raccoon, Let It Be, Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby. I mean, he went on. He just kept going on. But then when he says they're not as great as the alphabet song or some song by Pitbull, I was hysterical. I just thought, because he just does a deadpan, you know, and it's just so funny to hear him that. He even said all of the Smash Mouth stuff. Like it was just crazy. You know, it just made me laugh. You know, I had a a lot of good laughs. I thought, you know, really thought it was funny. So Paul does three songs on the show Days We Left Behind, which is a new single, new album coming out, Band on the Run, and then at the end of the show, a surprise with doing Coming Up, a song we've talked about a bunch. Right. And after the show, he plays two more songs. So TV's off, everybody in TV land is doing whatever they want to do, and he belts out help and drive my car. Now, I've watched the videos, you know, I went to YouTube to check them out to see what they look like. When he does help, he starts playing, and all of a sudden, Will comes out with the freaking cowbell and starts jamming on the cowbell with them. And at one point, Paul McCartney just starts laughing.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:03

And I love that moment of, you know, just like he's enjoying it and he's enjoying it and everybody's enjoying it. And what they did, I don't know if you saw those videos, but they pan out to the crowd. The crowd is the cast members as well as the actual audience. Everybody's standing up, everybody's dancing, everybody's having this fantastic time. And then they do one more song, like I said, drive my car. And those two songs, they sounded really good. They should have replaced, you know, some of what they did in the show with that.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

Yeah, he should pick those songs for the featured ones.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

Yeah, you know, I I I think so. But really, you know, he's a former Beatle. I again, uh I could say this forever. You know, I'm wearing a Paul McCartney shirt now as we speak. I would go see.

SPEAKER_01 15:57

I wouldn't even call him a former Beatle. I mean, he's a Beatle.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

He's a Beatle. Once a Beatle, always a Beatle. Yeah. I would go see him as often as I could. Because one day we will not have that opportunity, and that will be kind of a sad time, you know? Very.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

So Living Legend.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

Yeah, living legend. So, real quick, you know, I just talked about the Tonight Show with Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Will Ferrell, and they did the drum off. And, you know, it was funny. Like, I remember Will trying to make it seem like, you know, he's this big bad drummer, and Chad Smith would, you know, and it's like, hey, take that funny man or or whatever. But at the end, when Will realizes he's beat and he just gets the cowbell out and he starts playing the cowbell, and out of nowhere, the red-hot chili peppers jump out of nowhere, seriously, out of nowhere, and they start playing Don't Fear the Reaper. And, you know, that's what started the whole thing back in 2000 on Saturday Night Live. More cowbell. And it's just amazing. Twenty-six years later, we're getting the cowbell with Paul McCartney, and we had in 2014 with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chad Smith. It doesn't get old for me. I love it. We talked about it, I'm going to say it was about episode 73, a little bit over a year ago, that we talked about an episode, and I think we called it More Cowbell and Six Degrees of Don't Fear the Reaper, I think was the title of the episode. It does not get old for me. I like it. I love Paul McCartney. I'll go see him any day. So,

More Cowbell And A New Segment

SPEAKER_00 17:52

Jimmy, all this cowbell talk has got me thinking about a new segment to add to the show. Oh, cool. Yeah, I it just kind of came to me like I don't know why, but you know, thinking about the cowbell and blah, blah, blah, blah. I think I'm gonna talk about a song or an album or something musically related, you know, maybe every week or we'll see. But something that is kind of like moving me. So it doesn't have to be a new song or new album. It could be something old that I'm just re-listening to or I just discovered or whatever it might be. So I'm going to call it What's Moving Me.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

That was really, really good.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

So for the first What's Moving Me, I'm gonna go with Driving and Crying, Dead End Road, not because Kevin Kinney is a friend of the show, but because it's a great song off their new album, Crushing Flowers. The video just came out. I saw the video yesterday for the first time. And it's kind of cool to see a video from 2026 as compared to the videos that you know from the 80s and the 90s and so forth. And Kevin wrote this, he was walking his dogs, you know, near his home, and you know, you go in these trails and you think that the trail is gonna be a dead end, and all of a sudden there's like another trail that he didn't realize, and you know, kind of put it with what kind of like life is, you know? And I it makes me think it's a very happy-go-lucky song. It's a great sing-along song. Uh I've seen him play it multiple times, whether he's done it solo or with driving and crying, and I love it every single time I hear it, and I love the video. There's no such thing as a dead end road, maybe on a map, but not in my soul. I love those lines. I think it's just super cool. Yeah. And Jimmy, that's what's mmming me.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

Now I could add a cow sound to it, or we can just make you the cow.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

I think I'm gonna be the cow.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

All right, we got it.

SPEAKER_00 20:13

I think I'm gonna be the cow. Jimmy,

Minute With Jimmy On The Stones

SPEAKER_00 20:15

I gotta be honest, after all that, tick-tick tick, it's Minute with Jimmy. It's time for a minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy. It's time for a minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy, Minute with Jimmy.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

So I want to talk about a band that I think you've heard of, The Rolling Stones.

SPEAKER_00 20:33

And The Rolling Stones? Yeah. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

An old band from I believe they're from uh Jolly Old England.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

But they came across my radar. They have a thing on Spotify called release radar, song artists that you follow and their new stuff. And uh the new song In the Stars came up. Have you heard this one? I have. I think it's just a great song. I think it's the best song the Rolling Stones have put out in decades. Really? Yeah, I think it's fantastic. I love uh I love mixed vocals on it, I love the guitar on it. I mean, it's just a classic Rolling Stones song to me.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Yeah, I think it's more um old school Rolling Stones. It's not a slick production. Yeah. If that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

It does, yeah. It feels it feels more like an old stones song rather than trying to be too current. The chorus makes it feel a little bit different than a traditional Rolling Stones song, but I don't mind that. Almost has a little bit of U2 feel in the chorus to me. But then the verses are are very much, you know, just like that honky tonk kind of guitar, you know?

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Yeah, I I do like it. At first, when I heard it, I was like, whoa, this is definitely different. And you know, they're not trying to be the same. They sometimes they are, sometimes they're not. But I think that they've gone in a different direction with this album, which is kind of Of cool. They're not touring for it. I wish they were. But it's a good song. I'm waiting for the whole album to come out. They do a cover of Amy Winehouse, I'm No Good, that I'm really waiting to hear how Mick pulls it off.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

Yeah, I bet he is good.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

I think you're right. You know what? That was a good minute with Jimmy.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Thanks.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

My name is Jimmy. Let's revisit some more Music in My Shoes.

Sticky Fingers Stories And Muscle Shoals

SPEAKER_00 22:24

And speaking of the Rolling Stones, April 23rd, 1971, Sticky Fingers, the album came out. First single was Brown Sugar, reached number one on Billboard, May 29th, 1971. The music is great, it really is, but the lyrics are not. In 2021, the Rolling Stones announced they would not play the song live anymore. And Mick says, you know, as he's older, it's kind of cringy and he would do it differently if he was to write the song today.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Aaron Ross Powell I was I'm surprised they played it as long as they did. That shows that the Rolling Stones kind of get a get out of jail free card sometimes because uh I don't know. I thought it would be people w would have a problem with it sooner.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

Aaron Powell And they didn't. Yeah. Until they did. Right. So it was recorded December 2nd through 4th, 1969, at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama, and they performed it live for the first time, December 6, 69, at the Altamont Speedway. We've talked about that chaos back on episode 56 of everything that happened there. But due to legal issues with Alan Klein, they couldn't release it. So it's recorded in 69. It doesn't come out until 1971. I remember when I was younger and didn't know about that. I always was like, this song sounds like it's out of time, out of order. This song sounds like it's supposed to be a couple of years earlier. And it makes sense now, understanding all of this.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

Now, did you see the the Muscle Shoals documentary?

SPEAKER_00 24:06

I have not. I I I want to see it, but I have not.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

Yeah. It talks about that song in particular. And, you know, just the recurring theme with the Muscle Shoals studio there is that things just turned to gold in that studio. People would record and it just got this amazing sound, and the Rolling Stones felt that way.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

Aaron Powell Yeah, I had some bootleg cassettes of when they were there, but I believe when I had a flood that I lost those. They were some of the things that were soaked underneath water, literally underwater. They weren't the best sounding, but it was still cool to have them. Trevor Burrus, Jr.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

It sounded like they were underwater before they were actually underwater. Trevor Burrus, Jr.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

True. That would be a good way to put it. So the second single, Wild Horses, peaked at number 28 on Billboard, July 24, 1971, and another song recorded at Muscle Shoals in December of 1969. And it still had to go through the legal process, just like brown sugar. Song was inspired by Mick Jagger's girlfriend, singer Marion Faithful, because she was in a coma, drug overdose. She was in a coma. She wakes up and she said to him, Wild horses couldn't drag me away. And that was how the beginning of the song all came about. In October 92, the Sundays released a version of the song that was played on alternative radio. I thought they did a great version of it. I enjoyed listening to it. I'm surprised that it didn't get bigger than what it was. I've mentioned the original album cover for Sticky Fingers had the zipper. Remember we talked about that? And it was causing uh albums to get ruined because they would put them in the display thing and they would kind of warp because of the zipper sticking out, and they ended up having to go to a picture instead of that. Other songs I like on the album are Can't You Hear Me Knocking. It's like a seven-minute rocker. I remember just hearing that song on the radio. It wasn't a song I was familiar with when I was a kid, and I was like, this is unbelievable. You know, Keith on guitar, Mick Taylor on guitar, Bobby Keys on saxophone, great jam. And it turns out that jam was literally just the jam that they thought they were going to cut the song short and not have that whole jam be part of it. But they were like, this sounds so good, we got to keep it. And I don't think that song is anything without the jam.

SPEAKER_01 26:42

That was right at the beginning of album rock, too.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

So that would be, yeah, let's play it. This is something cool that the kids will listen to. Well, uh me, I listened to it as well. Um did a cover of the blues songs, You Gotta Move, really good song. They do a good version. Sister Morphine, uh Dead Flowers, kind of a country-inspired song. Years later, he did a duet, Mick did a duet with uh Jerry Lee Lewis of it. Um really good song. I I like it a lot. Album is ranked number 104 on the 2020 version of the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. And you can send me Dead Flowers every morning. Send me Dead Flowers by the mail, send me Dead Flowers to my wedding, and I won't forget to put roses on your grave.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

So

A Local Gig Plug And Heart Classics

SPEAKER_01 27:35

uh Concord Grapes are gonna be playing at Virginia Highlands Summerfest on Saturday, June 6th, and we're gonna be doing Dead Flowers.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

Really? Yeah. Is that a song you normally do with Concord Grapes?

SPEAKER_01 27:47

No, it'll be our first time. We actually haven't even rehearsed it yet, but I heard it the other day and I suggested it to Tim, and so we're gonna give it a shot. We're playing from 3 30 to 5 on their uh main stage. Should be fun.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

Excellent. If you get a chance, if you're in the Atlanta area to go see Concord Grapes, it is a lot of fun. We saw you play a few weeks ago at Porch Fest. It was great. My whole family enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

Yeah, it was so great to see your family.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Yeah, friends came, everybody had a good time. So thank you for thank you for being the Concorde Grapes. You're welcome. The way that you are. And speaking of heart, I don't know where that came from, Jimmy, but Crazy on You peaked at number 35 on Billboard, June 5th, 1976. Great acoustic opening, then a straight-up rock song, and Ann Wilson's voice is just absolutely unbelievable in this song. Talk about hitting high notes. I mean, she can really belt them out. We may still have time, we might still get by. Every time I think about it, I wanna cry. Hart with the Wilson Sisters was like a great band in the 70s. When you talk about 70s bands that are top of the line, they are. I mean Magic Man, Barracuda, I mean, we could go on.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

And there weren't very many 70s bands with female singers, and there weren't any I can think of with female lead guitarists, and they had both.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

They had them both. But I tell myself that I'm doing all right. There's nothing left to do tonight but go crazy on you. Yoko

Yoko Ono And Pop Culture Distractions

SPEAKER_00 29:29

Ono's Season of Glass was released June 3rd, 1981. I can't tell you much about this album, but I remember the cover. It was released six months after John Lennon was shot and killed at the Dakota Apartments in New York City. And the album cover is a photo taken from their apartment bedroom window with the bloodstained glasses that John was wearing that night when he was shot and killed, a half empty, half full glass of water with Central Park in the background, and then the buildings that are on the east side of Central Park, you know, in the very background. And she got a lot of heat for doing that. And I gotta be honest with you, I have no problem with it. One of the things that Yoko said is that it was all she had left of John, and she wanted people to see what had happened, the violence, that she wanted people to understand what was left of him. And I don't have a I I I really don't have a problem with it, you know? I don't think she sensationalized it. I don't think that she was doing it to get m more money because she didn't sell a ton of albums, and you know. And it's something that is I think very personal to her, and at that point in her life, that was something I think she felt she needed to do to heal. And who am I to say what people are to do to heal and and so forth?

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Yeah, I agree.

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You know, I I don't have a problem with it. And I look at that album cover, and sometimes I'm like, you know, wow, that's what he had on, and and that's his blood, and that was what happened. And I think it becomes a little bit more real when you see that. Right. On May 10th, 1986, Pet Shop Boys had the number one song on Billboard with West End Girls. We first mentioned this when talking about the song being the LIR Scream Over the Week, the second week of November 1984. That was episode 54 of the show. This is episode 134. That gives you an idea of how long from Scream Ever the Week on LIR to this song becoming number one in America. Wow. Like an incredible amount of time. During the fourth week of May 1986, Pet Shop Boys once again had the LIR Screamer of the Week with Suburbia, a song that peaked at only number 70 on January 24th, 1987. This is actually one of my favorite Pet Shop Boy songs. I really like Suburbia. Let's take a ride and run with the dogs tonight in Suburbia. You can't hide, run with the dogs tonight in Suburbia. Depeche Mode, New Dress, WLIR, Screamer of the Week, first week of June 1986. I'm not a big fan of this song, but it's the message that's always kind of grabbed me. Jet Airliner, shot from sky, famine, horror, millions die. Earthquake, terror figures rise, Princess Die is wearing a new dress. And the song is that no matter what was going on in the world, the media just wanted to focus on Princess Diana, who was a sensation back in 1986, and what dress she was wearing, and what hat she had on, and you know, what she was doing. Did she smile big or did she not? That's what I like about this song. I think it's kind of a drab and dreary song. I do like the peche mode, but I don't necessarily like this. But I listen to it because, you know, it's like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And then also it's like princess died. Like it's, you know, just jovial about that point. And it's just crazy how we do that as people, that sometimes we forget about what's real and we focus on something that is who cares, you know, who cares what shirt I have on, you know? Who cares what headphones are on you right now? If there's other things that are more important, and we can make other things less important by focusing on certain things. And that's really what I've thought for 40 years about, you know, this song. I'll tell you what I think now. Unfortunately,

Thanks And How To Reach Us

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we have to go because that's it for this episode of Music in My Shoes. As always, I'd like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios, located right here in Atlanta, GA, and Vic Thrill for our podcast music. You can reach us at musicinmyshoes at gmail.com. Please like and follow the Music in My Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages. This is Jim Boj, 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. Princess Die is wearing a new dress.