Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Milk Crates and Turntables is a Music Discussion Podcast. Each week Scott chooses a different music topic and discuss and debate the good, the bad and the ugly side of that particular topic. Maybe you'll agree or maybe you'll disagree. Listen in and find out.
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Ep. 163 - A Journey Through Funk's Vibrant Past
Could a single track change the way you hear music? This episode of "Milk Crates and Turntables" promises to explore that possibility with a brand-new focus and format. After a busy November that included a cruise and family holidays, I return to my sanctuary with an upgraded microphone and a commitment to break down one standout song each week. Join me and familiar voices like Allison, Jim, Dave, and Patty as we kick off this fresh chapter, inviting you to engage and share your own thoughts on the tracks that move you.
Revisit the golden era of funk as we highlight the Ohio Players' iconic "Skin Tight" album, a defining moment in music history. Whether you're humming along to "Name That Tune" or just vibing with the beats, we’ll explore the band's transformation from the Ohio Untouchables to funk legends. This isn't just a walk down memory lane—it's a deep dive into how bands like Kool and the Gang and Sly and the Family Stone laid the groundwork for today's artists, who continue to keep the funk alive through sampling and reinterpretation.
Nostalgia hits a high note as we wander through the 70s and 80s, sharing personal stories and pop culture moments that left a mark. From the complex ties in the music industry featuring giants like Sean "Diddy" Combs and Andre Harrell, to the timeless tunes of Sade and Al B. Sure, this episode is rich with music and memories that have shaped our lives. As I approach my 61st birthday and near the milestone of 200 episodes, I reflect on this podcast as my personal "church"—a therapeutic ritual that connects us all through the universal language of music.
Welcome to the podcast. You know the name, I'm not going to say it. Streaming live right now over, I don't know, facebook, youtube, twitch, g Live, d Live, a bunch of different. I got a new microphone. This is a good one too. Allison, what's up my friend? To Allison, what's up my friend? Yeah, where was I? I'm streaming live. I'm doing it live. I'm back. I'm back. I'm in my church. I'm in my church. I have to get used to this new mic.
Speaker 1:See, if I talk back here, it sounds different, but if I talk right here, it sounds good. Gives me that bass, that Barry White voice. Patty, good to see you again. That's a new lamp. You know that lamp. Everybody knows that lamp. That's a new lamp. You know that lamp. Everybody knows that lamp. That's my Christmas lamp. Yeah, so it's just me.
Speaker 1:I think you all know kind of what happened and I'm not going to get into that. Jim Harris, king of the villages in Florida, the golf cart king, that's what I'll call him. Yeah, so it's going to be just me. Like I said, I think most of you might know what happened and that's that. We move on from that. We just do things differently. Now this is another iteration. Is that what you say? How come I'm not? Look at this. I like this song. There we go. Yeah, it's another iteration of Milk, crates and Turntables, episode 165 or something it's. The third change Is my microphone too loud. I've come out of exile.
Speaker 1:November was a fucking busy, busy month for me. My mic sound loud, or is that just me? See, this is the thing. When you get a new mic and you and you, you don't really. You can't gauge it because you're talking to yourself, right, but I'll do all, right, I'll be fine. Yeah, yeah, november was crazy.
Speaker 1:I started the month off on a cruise so I couldn't do the show. Then I came back and it was Veterans Day and that week was crazy busy for me. And in the following week I'm glad to be back, allison, allison Lundy says glad you're back. The following week was the infamous Things Are Changing episode. You can go back and listen to it. It stands out, you'll know which one it is. And then again, I got busy Thanksgiving, so I kind of took the month off. Yeah, but I'm back with a new format Now. I'm just. You know, it's a new format.
Speaker 1:Everything is subject to change. Now I'm not freaking out like I used to, and like, what am I going to do? And I used to come into these like when things were changing and I would be all anxious and I hope it works, because I love this. I mean, this month, let me tell you this. This month, let me tell you this this month I really came to the conclusion that this, this show, Milk Crates and Turntables for whatever it is, for whatever it is, with its cult following, as I say, is my church. This is like my church. This is the one time during the week where I get to just fucking talk about music for as long as I want, which that's church to me. And now that I'm doing it alone, I don't care. Hey, church, it only takes one right, just like with an AA meeting, it only takes two to have a meeting. Well, I got allison and jim and dave and patty, so we got a meeting, we got a show, we got a show.
Speaker 1:So this is the new format, this is what I've, this is what I've come up with and and you guys have input now, you've been, you've been watching and listening and if, if you have any ideas, you can always let me know. Uh, you know, I'll give you my, you can read me. You can reach me at the, because I have this milk crates and turntables at gmailcom, but I never really check it. And why do I fucking have it, I don't't know. But if you have any ideas, I guess I can start checking it. Let me know. It's probably got a lot of shit in there. I'm a bad host. I'm a bad podcaster. I should be checking to see if you guys are reaching out to me, but everyone reaches out to me through Facebook and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:So what I'm going to do is I'm taking a particular song. I was driving. This came up last week and I'm driving in the car and I don't know. I'm doing whatever I'm doing, going to whatever meeting or whatever I'm going to and this song comes on the radio. This song comes on the radio. This song comes on the radio and I'm like you know what? Let me see, it's right here. Let me see Mm-hmm, this song right here. Mm-hmm, this song right here. I was like this is a badass, motherfucking song. This is my. This was my jam back in the day. I was just a kid, but it turned this up.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to stop that right there, because I'm going to talk about this song, and so what I'm going to do is maybe from week to week I'm just going to pick a song that I hear and I'm going to break it down. I'm just going to break it down, but first I'm going to give like 10 facts about the song or about the band. You know kind of cool shit. Give you a little background on the song. You know I was getting nope, not Sly, no, dave Phillips, king of the 45s. You just got an F, oh boy, you know the song. You just guessed wrong. I just made that up. Is that my new tagline? Now? You know the song, you just got it wrong. So I'm hearing the song and I'm like you know what? Why don't I just do this? Why don't I just grab a song each week, maybe two, and break it down? Like I said, I'm going to give you 10 facts about the band or the song. I'm going to give you like the lineup.
Speaker 1:This is a 70s song, so it'll appeal to some people. But I also, if any like say, gen Xers are listening. Gen Xers are starting, they're turning out. You know they grew up, gen Xers grew up. Gen Xs are starting to turn in the. You know they grew up. Gen Xs grew up and now, well, okay, they're trying to take credit for the shit that boomers did, but that's okay, that's okay. They act like they invented big wheels jumping over trash barrels. It's all right. It's all right, I'll give it to them. They didn't invent it, but you know, hey, good for you. So gen x is, you know, I noticed a lot of them like older music.
Speaker 1:So what I'm doing is, uh, I'm gonna take the song and, hopefully, like they hear it and go, you know what? That's a pretty fucking cool song. Then they get turned on to either the song or the band or whatever. So, dave phillips, king of the 45s, I'm going to play this bass line and let me see if you can guess it again. Here we go. That's some shit right there. Oh, listen to that. Wow, wow, that's that. That fucking bass line is just is insane, it's insanely good. It might sound simple to you, but that is a fucking groove of a bass line. Now, dave phillips, I'm gonna wait for you to message in. Tell me if you, you know the song, if anybody knows what it is. It's kind of like name that tune.
Speaker 1:Oh see, I just added something to the show. Now I'm going to tell you why I changed things up. This is I'm not beating a dead horse here. I'm not beating a dead horse here. That sounded like I said horse here. Right, I'm not going to beat a dead horse horse, but my ex-co-host Lou, he didn't really like the episode where I just kind of called him out, and well, rightfully, maybe. You know, I don't know right, wrong or indifferent it happened.
Speaker 1:And he leaves this no, not play that funky music, no, no. He leaves this somewhat scathing comment on the YouTube channel right Underneath. You got to go read it. Go to the YouTube channel the milk crates and turntables. It's not sly. No, uh, and, and under that episode I think it's called where you know when politics gets in the way or whatever. He leaves this scathing comment, uh, and he started nope, not hollywood swinging, nope, um, and he's. And he says he says the podcast is um, it relies on ai too much now, because I I played the a, you know the, the, you make the call and I pulled them up through AI. It's easier and they were good anyway. And he says that the podcast Milk Crates and Turntables all right, people just don't get upset. He called it a sinking ship Like this is my podcast was called a sinking ship by a disgruntled ex-employee.
Speaker 1:I shouldn't say that and and I want to let you know I harbor no ill will against, against lou, I don't. I. I was never mad at him, I was never angry, um, and this is just to finish that off because I breached the subject so. But he said I relied too much on ai. The show turned into a game show. He called it a game show, but it was entertaining for the people. I'm not defending, I'm just, you know, and he showed up every week. So and it's a sinking ship. So I said you know what? I will take that criticism. I will take that criticism Absolutely. If that's what he thought it was, then you know what. That's his parting gift to me. In other words, you've got to change your shit up sometime Now.
Speaker 1:I got a little lost in it. This isn't an excuse, but I'm running a nonprofit Now. I started a nonprofit. I'm running it. It's doing pretty good. A veteran nonprofit One man, one Mic Foundation. If you want to see what we're doing, go to onemanonemicfoundationorg. And if you're a see what we're doing, go to one man, one Mike foundationorg. And if you're a veteran and you're interested, reach out to me. You could do it through the website. So I have. I did get lazy. I did get lazy for a little while.
Speaker 1:It's going to happen after 160 plus episodes but for the most part, I'm back and and I'm taking that parting gift and I'm changing it and I'm going to make it informative and at the same time and this is all new so you guys that are watching are helping to kind of mold this. So we already started off with Name that Tune, which isn't that a game show, though Would that be disappointing? Oh, you know what I didn't do for the, for the viewers, for the viewers that don't want the people that are watching. You know, I'm missing something right? What's missing in my screen, what's missing on my that you see every way. It's noticeable. You're probably not going to notice, but if you're watching, this is what I'm missing. Just one get. But if you're watching, this is what I'm missing, this is what. Get rid of that, get rid of that. Get rid of that, get rid of that. No, and got it. I don't know what happened. What the fuck happened. All right, let me get rid of that and try it again. Something happened to this app. Oh, here we go there, you go Behind behind me. I lit up the world. There you go. All right, I don't even know where I was. So, yeah, game show, whatever.
Speaker 1:So we're gonna play uh kind of name that tune and dave phillips is is. Is this bombing? Uh, let me, let me play the beginning again. I'll let it go a little longer. It's not Sly and the Family Stone. It's not play that funky music, white Boy. No, let's hear it.
Speaker 1:This was their first hit. This band is their first album. First hit Came out in 74, 1974. Here we go, you are bad, bad Misses, and don't skin tight Riches. Here we go, you are bad, bad missus, and don't skin tight bitches Running. For I mean, come on, you got to know this song was on the radio. It charted. Come on, come on, dave Phillips. Now, this is funk, okay, but it was on the radio. Dave Phillips was around at 74. I was around at 74 listening to it. Dave's older than me, patty, was around at 74, listen, I'm sure she heard it a number of times, yeah, a lot actually, but I'm not getting anything.
Speaker 1:So the name of the song is Skin Tight by my favorite funk group, oh, alison Lundy, alison Lundy for the listeners on the podcast channels. She said oh my God, my drug-induced ears that a girl. Well, okay, I don't think you're alone there. I don't think you're alone. I'm just gonna reference patty's 45s, like I do almost every show that she sent me. That smell like patchouli and incense because I was covering up the weed smell. I know, here we go again, but patty just had to bring it up.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, the name of the song is Skin Tight by the Ohio Players, by the Ohio Players. Right Now. They formed the Ohio Players formed in 1959. Ah, there you go. Oh Jesus, dave Phillips just absolutely dated himself. He said skin tight was a great bump song. Now, that was a dance back in the day. Do the bump, do the bump? Yeah, that hip check, it's like a little hip check. Right, do the bump? Good one, dave phill, you redeemed yourself. Patty says OMG, yep, yep, the Ohio players. They formed in 1959. Now it seems like a long time ago, and it is, but when they came out in 74, they had put their time in right. They put their time in. They were originally called the Ohio Untouchables.
Speaker 1:Right Now they're known for their funk, soul r&b. Uh, but they're funk, they're, they're a funk band. Uh, the breakthrough album was this one, skin tight. It came out in 74, uh, and they had a couple, couple hits on it. Um, it was in the hot 100 in 1975. Love roller coaster was I'm sorry, I jumped, I jumped, I jumped the coaster uh, they always had these really kind of not like herb albert album covers. But the ohio players had some pretty pretty sexy black girls on the albums of their covers.
Speaker 1:I'll just say that when you're a kid you're looking at that, you're like god damn right, and let me see, and they've, uh, the ohio players have been sampled quite a bit. But rap, rap, kind of. You know, I, I have a, I have a not a love hate with with sampling. I I don't think it's lazy. In a sense, I think the upside of sampling from hip-hop bands is they they bring attention to the song again, like so this song gets sampled. Probably a whole generation never heard it, but all of a sudden they hear it sampled in a rap song. Someone's gonna dig it out, someone's gonna go listen to it, someone's gonna play it on spotify, someone's gonna buy the album. So it kind of gives them a little bit of uh. To use dave phillips word bump gives them a little bump.
Speaker 1:So they had a bunch of lineup changes over the years, but the original lineup was Leroy Sugarfoot Bonner. He was the lead vocalist of guitar and I'm going to get to him in a second because there's somebody Sly, yeah, sly Stone was the father of disco. Yeah, yeah, sly and the Family Stone is in a category all their own. They literally are in a category all their own. They, they, they literally are in a category all their own. Yeah, you can call them funk, uh, but they're just on like the, the highest level, that band that it's fucking genius, just genius. Uh, sly and the family stone.
Speaker 1:But the ohio players you had walter junie morrison on keyboards, vocal and guitar. You have billy beck, keyboards and vocals, clarence satch, satchel, saxophone and vocals. Robert peanut word bass, guitar. That see that shit. Ah, that's like when I hear that, I'm just like damn, that shit's good. And Michael Guitar Smith, michael Guitar Smith on drums, literally on drums. Yeah, so, and they went through a bunch of lineups.
Speaker 1:But this is the thing about where the Ohio players and Kool and the Gang and Sly and the Family Stone, there's one thing that all those bands have in common all their music and it's an integral part of funk and it's really not talked about. Like in funk the bass is like the lead guitar. It really is. The bass is prominent in most all funk songs. But there's another thing yeah, bass guitar, like Dave Phillips said, king of the 45s. The bass is like the, the lead guitar, the horn section. They all have a horn section. That's what adds to that. That horn section in funk bands just gives it that next level of sound. That's what. It's almost what separates it from soul and r&b. That's just my opinion. But horn section is very intricate in good funk bands and you had Clarence Satchel playing saxophone, alto, antenna, walter Junie Morrison, who's the keyboards and vocal guy, but he also played the horn, played horns in the arrangements. But that's what separates it and they have a really good and that horn section is only three people.
Speaker 1:Now they would go on tour and they would have these outstanding musicians go out with them and play and they were a big live band. They were a big live band Like they put on big shows, which was the 70s, right. So if you think about it, the 70s it's all about big shows. You know other than the, you know like the well, even the who and the Rolling Stones, you get into rock. They were big productions. They weren't big productions, they were big shows, loud, action-packed. Now you had like the Ohio players would go out, or parliament, or funkadelic, parliament, funkadelic uh, you know sly and the family stone and you got a lot of people up on stage and there's a lot going on for the, for the, the concert goer. There's a lot going on, uh, which is brilliant because it's not a distraction, it, it just adds to the appeal and the energy of the show for the audience. And that's why they did that and some of them put on some really good shows, some of them.
Speaker 1:So Skin Tight was produced, so they produced this album. The Ohio players were the producers, which is rare back then. Which is rare Jay Giles had a horn section, dave Phillips yep, they did and they got to produce this album and it charted, it sold, it has staying power. April, welcome to the show. April, april, benign earth, wind and fire, exactly exactly now.
Speaker 1:Their horn section and their big shows and they're more r&b, uh, soul than funk. But they have their share of funky songs. But horn section, again, unbelievable. But the horn section in this song it sounds like there's like I don't know. Five, six, seven horns going at the same time. There's only three of them. There's only three of them doing it. And hold on, let me, just three of them. There's only three of them doing it. And hold on, let me just jump this ahead, all right. So I'm going to start this again. We're going to play this and I'm just going to. I might stop it, I don't know. Like I said, this is all new. Oh, and, by the way, I realized that I can play this song.
Speaker 1:Facebook used to shut the video down. They would stop the live stream or interrupt it or it would be muted. But now what they do is I get these messages and it says your video has been monetized by the rights owner of the video, which makes all the sense in the world. Like they should get paid. If I'm playing this song, I'm not paying them, and that's a debate in the podcasting world. If you should play music that's not yours, but I guess it's it's. It's the way you look at it. I'm promoting it, I'm saying who it is, I'm not claiming the rights to it, so they don't take it down anymore. And YouTube the thing you don't want on a YouTube channel is a strike. If you get a strike against your channel, that's not good because it's literally three strikes and your channel is done. They kick it off the platform and what they give me is a lot of copyright violations. That doesn't affect the channel and I think, again, any monetization goes to, you know, the, the creator of the song, but uh, so I'm gonna start playing these songs until they tell me not to so.
Speaker 1:And here we go. I'm gonna play this one. All I'm gonna do commentary during it. But you know, here we go. I just love this fucking bass line. Now the lead singer.
Speaker 1:There's a band that came along in the 80s. It sounds a little like the Ohio Place singer. You are bad, bad, mrs, oh yeah, and those skin-tight bitches, yeah, how could there be people that don't like this? There's that horn section there. It is. Sounds like Chicago, doesn't it? Wow, wow, wow, wow. Little Chicago in that. That's where I get that vibe from, that. Go, go, go, go, go go.
Speaker 1:So there's two versions of this song. I'm going to end up cutting this short because there's two versions. There's the radio edit of this song, which is three minutes and 38 seconds long. But I don't like the radio edit. Love the lyrics Sing it baby, skin tight, yeah. Sing it, baby, skintight, yeah. So the other version of the song is 7 minutes and 54 seconds and I'm not playing the 7 minutes. I have it. That's the version I have when I'm in my car listening to this. It's fuck, it's cranked Windows open Like you're gonna hear this song. There's that Chicago vibe again. Oh, sly Sly. And the Family Stone was fun. Yeah, april, yeah, alright, listen to his voice, right, let's see.
Speaker 1:My favorite part of the song is coming up, right, it's coming up. This little keyboard solo coming, but just fucking Love that shit. This is where it starts Breakdown. Yeah, that. The rest of it is just a jam if you keep listening to this version. No, no, no.
Speaker 1:Patty says do they sing money? No, no, isn't money. Uh, isn't that the? Um, let me, for the love of money, is that? No, it's not the oj's. Ah, fuck, you caught me off guard. Um, let me, let me look. Love of money. It's a song. How can I forget that the O it is the OJs? I was like, okay, all right, it's the OJs, for the love of money. So that song, I'm just saying that is that's that. Shit is just absolute funk, royalty right there. That's fucking perfect, perfect funk song. Turn it up, let's play this. Oh See, I got used to having music in the background.
Speaker 1:Dave Phillips King of the 45s messages in Roxbury Crossing was the band that played Tony C's in the living room back in the day. Okay, all right, that's where I'm originally from, roxbury, right down the street from Roxbury Crossing, actually. Yeah, we were the last white family to move out of the projects, so what, so what I can say? I was oppressed, shit. Here we go. I'm not gonna go down that road. Yeah, they started throwing rocks through our windows, but you know what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Uh, you know what? So this came out in 74. Uh, what else do? We got on this. You know what I'm going to give you now that we kind of the song.
Speaker 1:I could talk about the song all night. I really could, but I think you get it. The bass line, the horns oh, this is what I wanted to pull up. So the guy the singer right, this is what I wanted to pull up. So the guy the singer right, walter Junie Morrison, I'm going to pull this up. And this, this, I don't know, this guy sounds a little like him. A little like him, maybe not, Maybe by design, maybe not, but here we go. Why won't it play now? Let's get out of here. Here we go. Does he sound like him? Skin tight, right Lead singer from Cameo.
Speaker 1:Sounded a little like the Ohio players. Sounded like Junie, I don't know, I'm just saying Sounds a little. But hey, listen Cameo, they had a nice little run too. They had a nice little run. Now this is their big song. I'm going to jump into another song. I'm going to get back in a minute. I have the top 10 songs of the year from 1974. I got some movies that came out in 74.
Speaker 1:Now this podcast, this iteration of Milk, creates a Turntable. I don't know. I don't think it's going to be two hours. It's going to range from what mood I'm in and what I'm talking about. Tonight I might just hit an hour and then we build from there. We build from there and you get to listen to some pretty fucking cool songs. But I'm going to get back to Ohio Players at 9-7-1,.
Speaker 1:But now that I'm on this band right here, I mean, everyone loves Cameo, right, everybody loves Cameo. They're on the radio. I don't care if you were a metalhead or a new wave junkie or whatever you wanted. Everybody liked fucking Cameo. I don't care who. You were right, but this, this song and you know this is an interesting song by them, the one I'm about to play, because they don't do the majority of the singing in the song and it was a minor hit for them, which I found interesting that they don't do the majority of the singing. They have, like they do a little bit of like, uh the hook, uh, dave phillips, a very good show, good, buddy, I'm glad. I'm glad you like the first.
Speaker 1:The new iteration of mill crates and turntables. It's gonna be. It's gonna be a lot, a lot more fun now, now that I'm gonna play music and we can listen to music together and hang out. If you're driving in your car listening, you get to hear some good song and learn a little bit about it, and you know. Then we'll see where it goes from here. But you know what I'm going to do right now. I got this. I'm going to bite my fingernail. Hold on, I had this little piece. You ever have that on your fingernail, like there's just one little corner of your fingernail it's like it's a little sharp and you're too lazy to go get a pair of clippers. You know what I mean. So you bite it off. That's what I just did.
Speaker 1:Now, this song, this song came out. Let me see, I'm going to say, this song came out that I'm about to play, by Cameo. I think it was probably 86. I think the song came out in 86. I'm pretty sure I'm right about that. It's a great song by Cameo, but again, they do not do the majority singing, they do the hook. So here we go.
Speaker 1:Another little bass in there. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. Yeah, it's like candy. I can feel it when you talk, even when you talk. This is a great song and it's the bass yes, I'm down there Carries it right through. Can you feel it too, just like I do? This life is starting now. It's the same feeling I always seem to be. Yeah, love Cameo. Right, they were good club music. I'll tell you that Back in the day, Cameo, they were steady in the clubs and in the bars too. Yeah, maybe I'll talk about them one of these episodes. Cameo is an interesting band, so you know what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1:Let me give you, yeah, groovy. Right, there you go. Look at you, patty Ossie and Dave Phillips throwing out some heavy, heavy hitting, boomer shit tonight, like they've been waiting for the show to come back. Like Dave Phillips brings up the bump. Like what the fuck? I haven't heard about the bump in fucking 40 years. Dave Phillips, then Patty drops the groovy.
Speaker 1:I think we should bring that word back. What do you think Groovy? That shit's groovy. I'm not just going to start saying it, I'm just going to start saying that every once in a while. That shit's groovy man. And just see what people do. Yeah, just act like I say it all the time oh, yeah, yeah, you wanted me for lunch. Groovy man, yeah, groovy. Let's see what they do. What do you mean? Groovy? What I'm just saying, it's fucking groovy. What, what the fuck is groovy? What I'm just saying, it's fucking groovy. What, what the fuck is groovy? Yeah, come on, what does it sound like? And see, the word groovy sounds groovy like.
Speaker 1:When you say it, you kind of know what it means. Even if you don't know what it means, you kind of know, right, it's the way you say it too. You don't say groovy, no, it's groovy, no, you don't do that either. Groovy, no, no, no, you're like groovy is like groovy. Yeah, groovy man, like you know what it is. You know it's fucked up. The more you say it, the more fucked up it sounds Like. Keep saying groovy by about the tenth time, like I just did, you're going to go. That's kind of a fucked up word. It really doesn't mean anything. Cool. Cool's there. Cool's always used. Cool has been around since Fonzie right, so let me give you the.
Speaker 1:Since we're talking about 74, listen to this top 10 songs of the year. What the fuck is groovy? Unless you're in the groove. That's right, buddy. Dave Phillips, king of the 45s, you two guys are rolling. You two made this show. And then Allison with the drug-induced comment you guys own the show tonight. You own it. Came right out, came right out from the gate. Drug-induced years, the bump groovy. If this is not a fucking boomer episode, I don't know what is, but hopefully there's people out there listening that like it, you know. Now listen to this top 10. Listen to how eclectic this top 10 was for the year of 1974. Top 10 songs of 1974. Turn that down a little.
Speaker 1:Number 10 in 1974 was Eric Clapton, his remake, his cover of I Shot the Sheriff. Which one do you like better? By the way, you like the Bob Marley version Wait a minute. Alison Lundy says wait till I put fairy lights on my bong. Oh, that's fucking beautiful. We just had a bong reference.
Speaker 1:This show has already far exceeded my expectations. It has already far exceeded my expectations. It has already far exceeded my expectations. I think this is going to be a good, fun format for a little while and we'll see what evolves. We'll see what comes out of it. So number 10 in 1974 was I Shot the Sheriff and I said you like the Eric Clapton version or the Bob Marley version, right, I don't know.
Speaker 1:All right, let me see 80s R&B hits. Let me just let me throw some shit out here. I don't like these. Sometimes, these playlists. They look good on Spotify. Then you go and you're like they're not real, it's not really that good. Oh, this song, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh shit. I'm going to tell you this. All right, I'm going to tell you. I'm just going to say this, I'm just going to say it Back in the day, back in the 80s, right In my absolute prime, I think most of us had our decade of prime. I don't know how this is going to come across.
Speaker 1:There's two albums, two cassettes. There's two cassettes that, uh, that that that are just big in my catalog. And the first one is if you, if you, if you, you're a girl and we're kind of we're getting together and and and we're, uh, I'm gonna pull up this one, I, I have to play it. So and uh, and you're with me, and uh, and this song comes on. Oh shit, oh shit, this was uh, it was on. Let's see if you know who it is. Oh shit, my girl. Oh shit, my girl. Yeah, april, you're lucky you weren't around me if this song came on. Uh-oh, uh-oh, I don't know, I couldn't be responsible for my actions. Just saying Little hot number, like you Back in the 80s, I don't know.
Speaker 1:The song comes on, I don't know. April, susan, haspel says Hello, hi, susan, I had a nice Thanksgiving. I hope you did too. April says oh, oh, please, I don't know, I don't know. So that song, right, sade popped on my cassette. Then we're in the car, but this one, this one was the. You might not know what this song is. You might not know, but I'm going to tell you this cassette was the jam. Oh, this was like oh shit now.
Speaker 1:Todd Sockman, big head, Todd the Wet Sprocket, I'm hereckman, big Head, todd the wet sprocket. I'm here, entertainment. You're 46 minutes late. Don't interrupt my makeout song. Big Head, todd, oh oh, oh, sucky, sucky. Now this brings back some memories. I don't remember their names, but I remember the song coming on, just saying, not misogynistic, just saying, but if this came on, it was all good.
Speaker 1:Al B Shaw, al B Shaw. Al B Shaw is a Boston boy, he's a Boston boy. Oh, he's caught up in that. In another way, though, this song oh shit, that song can run inches. That's that. That's that. That's that. That was that. That's that, that was that. It was on. Al B Shaw.
Speaker 1:Al B Shaw has a connection to Diddy, all right, but it's not what you think. It's not what you think. So there were four people. There were four people. I'm going to give you a little ditty, ditty, background Cause I'm all, I've been following this shit for a while, right, and I'm a, I'm a, I'm a hip hop head, and uh, and I and I I followed some shit and I didn't know.
Speaker 1:Like, what they're saying is you didn't knew, something wasn't right, but but this is fucking bizarre, right? So this guy, andre harrell, under heroes in in 1986, starts uptown records. Okay, uptown records was you know, they were kind of up and coming, you know like r&b and soul hip-hop in there and they're doing all right, doing all right and uh, in 1990 diddy sean combs at the time gets an internship there and he starts producing Mary J Blige, jodeci, I think, heavy D and the boys right, and Kim Porter. Kim Porter ended up did's wife. That died, right, the mysterious death. Well, kim Porter was originally married to Al B Shaw. All right, kim Porter has a kid with Al B Shaw and then they break and Diddy kind of steals her away, steals her away.
Speaker 1:But then through time, strange shit happens to the four people I just mentioned. Andre Harrell dies of pneumonia slash heart issues, right. Heavy D dies of what they thought was pneumonia but heart issues. Kim Porter dies, he dies a mysterious death. Now let me jump back. They had to let Diddy go. So Andre Harrell got to cut Diddy loose because he had Notorious BIG with him. Now, notorious BIG was pretty raw and they weren't sure they really wanted to do that. So they cut Diddy loose and two weeks later he starts Bad Boy Records with Notorious BIG, who was his money maker.
Speaker 1:But anyway, back to the story. So Andre Harrell dies Pneumonia, slash heart disease. Heavy D dies Pneumonia, maybe Heart disease. Heavy D dies Pneumonia, maybe Heart disease. Kim Porter dies Pneumonia, slash heart disease. Al B Shaw gets pneumonia, doesn't die, doesn't die. Now, they were all kind of intertwined one way or another with Diddy. The weird thing is three of them Harrell, kim Porter and Heavy D were all in the process of doing tell-all books that was going to include Diddy. Al B Shaw was doing a documentary. You know who was probably going to get mentioned in that Dead Dead, al B Shaw. He recovered. But it's just kind of weird, weird right.
Speaker 1:And and I'm going to give you a little tip, if you didn't know this, if you didn't know, um, the whistleblower on Diddy maybe some of you do know this the whistleblower was, of all people, jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx, jamie Foxx was hanging with Diddy. I don't know what happened. I don't know if you remember this. Jamie Foxx got pneumonia. I'm not laughing at that, you know what I'm laughing at. The coincidence got pneumonia, almost died.
Speaker 1:And on the choke no joke podcast he makes the statement did he did something to me? Did he did something right? Diddy did something to me, diddy did something Right. And then, like April says, jamie Foxx disappears Like drops off the face of the earth. Big, fucking big star. Right Drops off the face of the earth. Diddy goes to jail. Right. Who pops up in the Dallas Cowboys owner's box with with Jerry Jones, jamie Foxx, who can? Whose comedy special comes out? Who goes out and does a comedy special after Diddy's in jail? Jamie foxx. Coincidence? I think not, right.
Speaker 1:I, I, I might bring out a little diddy shit every week. I might just start doing that shit, but that that's, that's, that's the lead off to it all. There's a lot more coming, there's a lot of names involved. And now, remember all of this, let me, let me, let me say this is take this all with a grain of salt. I am coming from the rumor zone. Okay, that's all we're gonna say. So I don't get fucking sued or whatever. Get my channel pulled down. It's all rumor, it's all speculation, it's all coincidence, yeah, coincidence. All right, let's get back to this.
Speaker 1:Uh, number 10 in 1974 I shot the sheriff. People said they liked bob molly's version better. Eric claptis is hard to beat, bob Marley's hard to beat, but it's one of those. I guess you could flip a coin. Number nine Waterloo by ABBA. Number nine song in the year 1974. April, the baby oil. I'll give you my theory on that next week. And Patty says everybody keeps up with the diddy shit. This it's amazing, but I'm gonna talk more about it next week. We'll just keep this going, uh. Number nine waterloo. Number eight song in the year 1974 billy don't be a hero by bo donaldson and the haywoods. Now think of those, those three songs in a row. I Shot the Sheriff by Eric Clapton. Waterloo by ABBA. Billy Don't Be a Hero. Those are just the 10, 9, and 8. This is an extremely eclectic group of songs. In 74.
Speaker 1:Big Head Todd the West Rockets says or I might get pneumonia. The funniest part of this whole statement is he actually correctly spelled the word pneumonia. You know that. Does this chat have a spell check? There's no way he spelled that on his own. I don't care if he was a chief of police, some big city in California. He's a big guy, big head, talking to his rock. I was a chief of police. I made it to the top. You still don't know how to spell pneumonia. You fucking look that up. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1:All right, number seven, number seven. So we went the Billy Don't Be a Hero of Bo Donald's Number seven, rock your Baby by George McRae Rock your Baby. Number six Cats in the Crater by Harry Chapin. Could you find five songs more different than those? Right, it just gets better. Number five is Come and Get your Love by Redbone. Come and get your love, which that song actually has some serious legs. You've probably heard it more than you think you have. That shit's in movies like Guardians of the galaxy brought it back to like prominence, but it's been in a lot of songs. It's been in a lot of movies, tv shows. Uh, still gets played on classic rock stations. So good for redbone.
Speaker 1:Number four seasons in the sun by terry jacks. Like what the fuck was going on in 74? Like you know, you had, okay, you had these story songs. That was the thing. Story songs, um, what's the matter with your head? Yeah, right, what's the matter with your head? Uh, april said that. So you Seasons of the Sun at number four.
Speaker 1:Number three Love is a Battlefield by my boys, the Ohio Players. Yeah, look at that, big ups to them. They had the number three song in 1974. Yeah, so in 74, think of this in 74, I was 10 going on 11, right, 73, I turned, or I was 11 going on 12, I think, whatever it was, I was born in 63, so 73. I was 10, I was 11, we'll say I was 11 years old, and I'm 11 years old and I'm listening to the Ohio players. Like that's kind of some advanced shit, I think, for an 11 year old kid. That's why I got all this useless fucking knowledge in my head. Alright, number two.
Speaker 1:Number two song in 1974 Benny and the Jets. Benny and the Jets, benny and the Jets. We all know who sang that. The number one song in 1974 was from a movie. It was from a movie, 1974. And it was with Robert Redford. Robert Redford was in it, I believe, and let me see you know what. Benny and the Jets was actually studio live. All that live sound was added in studio. That was not really a live song. It wasn't recorded live. They made it sound recorded live.
Speaker 1:In case you were wondering, the Way we Were by Barbra Streisand. Number one song of 1974. Yep, april got it the way we were. Yep, yeah, that I mean. Those are 10 absolutely totally different songs, with the exception of Season in the Sun and Billy Don't Be a Hero, story songs, you know.
Speaker 1:But let me give you some movies. Let me get some movies. The number one movie in 1974 was Godfather, part 2. Then you had Chinatown with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. The Exorcist came out in 1974. Those three right there. Oh then. Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway the Exorcist came out in 1974. Those three right there. Oh then Now, where I grew up, everybody that's watching is pretty much in.
Speaker 1:They grew up in the same place. I did Winthrop. That's right outside of Boston. We all saw these movies at the same place Kincaid Cinema Right, small town beachfront community six miles from downtown Boston. It was the greatest place in the world to grow up. We had the beach and we had the city right there, easy access.
Speaker 1:Blazing Saddles came out in 74. And in the same year. I didn't know this, I never really put this together. Two of the funniest movies in the history of movies, right, two of the funniest movies in the history of movies came out in 74. Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. I mean, I dare you. I dare you to come up with two comedies better than those two movies, but yet came out in the same year. I don't know, I don't know. I don't think you can get a year that had two comedies better than that. Maybe, but you'd have to show me the Conversation came out. Francis Ford Coppola starring Gene Hackman Great, great movie. Mel Brooks was Zorro kicking. Yeah, april, yeah, murder on the Orient Express. If you've never seen the original you might want to watch it.
Speaker 1:Murder on the Orient Express came out in 74. I mean, it was a great movie. Great movie. Albert Finney plays Hercule Perrault, perwo perrow I could never say his name the towering inferno.
Speaker 1:Wasn't that the first disaster movie? It's towering inferno the first one, or was the poseidon adventure? Which one came first? Oh, which one did you like better, towering inferno or the poseidon Adventure For you boomers out there, not that shitty remake Poseidon Adventure that I would not waste my time watching and most people don't even know that. It probably was a remake, or there was a remake of it but never went anywhere.
Speaker 1:Alice Doesn't Live here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese. Ellen Burstyn was in that. Jesus 74. All right, uh, let me see. Mash, mash. The movie came out in 74. No, that was the tv show. I'm sorry, the tv show came out in 74. I just jumped past. I never saw the Parallax View. That was the number 10 movie in 1974. Warren Beatty is a reporter investigating a secretive organization involved in political assassinations. Chris Christopherson RIP.
Speaker 1:April MASH came out for TV shows. Mash came out in 74. All in the Family in 74. Mary Tyler Moore Show in 74. The Waltons in 74.
Speaker 1:Come on man, happy Days in 74. Sanford and Son in 74. Columbo in 74. The Rockford Files in 74. Sanford and Son in 74. Columbo in 74. The Rockford Files in 74. Good Times in 74. And Emergency come on man.
Speaker 1:Has TV ever been better than that? What the fuck? Hit after hit. I mean these are all fucking legendary TV shows. Damn, yeah, we had it good, we had it so good back then. Shit, we had it good. Kids today, they don't know, they just don't know. But I'm not going to be that old guy Because I fucking turned 61 in. I don't know, they just don't know. But I'm not going to be that old guy Because I fucking turned 61 in. I don't know. 12 days Fucking 61. What the fuck? Let me see, yeah, anyway. So that's it. I think I just went over an hour. Big Head, todd the wet sprocket, jumped in.
Speaker 1:So things, everything. Patty was there, dave was there, april joined the show. Right, right, we were. I mean Allison. Allison started the show off. I mean we're back to normal. We're gonna be good. We're gonna be good.
Speaker 1:I think I could do this. You think I could do this, think I could do this. I think I could do it by myself. I think I might be able to. Patty says I just turned 69. Oh uh, but you look 49. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Alice says have a very happy birthday. When is the? Let me see? It's the 18th. What's the date today? Will I be able to? Let me see 5, 12. I'll do it. I'll be back next Thursday before my birthday. Yeah, I'll be back next Thursday, 7 o'clock as usual. I'll have another song. I'll have some more stuff to talk about. We'll talk a little more about Diddy. See, what's up with that mess? Patty says aren't you sweet? And then, under her breath, she's like bullshit artist. I don't lie, patty, I don't lie. Allison says okay, then yes, and everybody. I want to thank you for listening.
Speaker 1:On the podcast channels We've gone over 30,000 downloads. It's not bad, considering I never promote this. I always appreciate people listening from the beginning and there's no end in sight. Nothing's going to start. As I said at the beginning of the episode. Let me see something. There we go. This is what I like. I love techno. Yeah, I always loved techno, techno and house music, always this it is. Yes, yes, this is my church, yeah, this is where I heal my hurts.
Speaker 1:And, in case you're wondering, the song is called God is a DJ and it's by a group called Faithless. They're English, they're a British band, but he gets into. Let me see, let me roll this up. There's one good part in this song that I love. Here we go Damn right, he is God is a DJ Tonight. God is a podcaster. Ha ha, I can change the lyrics, I don't care, I just love techno.
Speaker 1:So get used to hearing some of this stuff. I couldn't play it before because there's people Eh, they weren't really into it, but I love this shit. How can you not? It's always upbeat. All right, everybody, like I said, thank you for watching, thank you for listening. If you liked it, share it If you didn't. Well, thanks for watching and listening for an hour and nine minutes. I'll be back next week to do another new iteration of Milk Crates and Turntables and, as I always say, you know it's coming Doing this show for you, to quote my favorite artist, morrissey.
Speaker 1:The pleasure, the privilege is mine and I look forward to a lot more of these shows. This was very fun. This was fun for me, and I mean it when I say it. This is extremely therapeutic for me and sometimes I need that, sometimes I need that and I know I could do this every Thursday night with no one watching, no one listening. It doesn't matter. This is absolutely therapeutic for me and again it's my church. I've come to that. Therapeutic for me and again it's my church. I've come to that, taking almost a month off and everything that happened and, looking back, I really have come to that conclusion that this is my church doing this and I love it.
Speaker 1:It's not going anywhere. I'm 61 in 12 days or something, 13 days, but I'll be doing this when I'm 71. I don't care, I'm coming up on 200 shows doing this when I'm 71. I don't care, I'm coming up on 200 shows, no stop, because it's music, right, fucking music. We can talk about music when you're 90. Although you probably won't want to hear me when I'm 90, because I'll be complaining about everything like my father does, but that's a whole other story. We'll talk about him next week. Alright, everybody, I'll see you next Thursday night for church and I'm going to listen to some techno tonight. Isn't this shit smooth. I'm having a hard time leaving, aren't I? All right, I'm going to cut out Later.