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Thirtieth anniversary tour for Sarah McLachlanâs album âFumbling Towards Ecstasyâ! Great job in Bridgeport Connecticut last night! This entrance!
Madonna's Summer Song -- Holiday
An artistâs first hit!  For some itâs also their last hit.  For some talented artists, itâs the first of many.  But, thereâs a lot that the first hit often tells you about the artist.  Consider Madonnaâs first hit âHolidayâ.  Madonna was living in New York and frequented nightclubs to get disc jockeys to play her demo songs.  Mark Kamins a DJ at Danceteria (and friend of Madonna) arranged a meeting for her with Seymour Stein of Sire Records (part of Warner Brothers). He gave her a three single deal, with an option for an album.  Her singles cracked the top 10 in Billboardâs âHot Dance Club Songsâ chart. With that success, Warner Brothers hired a producer and they began to cobble together the album that would become her first, the self-titled âMadonnaâ. Â
Madonna was unhappy with the way the album was progressing and the way the songs were moving away from the sparser beat-based form of the original demos. This is the fork in the road where things changed. As a New York dance club aficionado Madonna asked John Benitez the DJ from The Fun House to do some remixing of the tracks.  The Fun House was a 26th Street Manhattan dance club, with a decidedly anti-Studio 54 club vibe, full of younger less affluent clientele.  Benitez knew the pulse of the cityâs youth. Nicknamed âJellybeanâ because of his initials, he remixed her singles âBurning Upâ, âBorderlineâ and âLucky Starâ. They needed one more song for the album and âJellybeanâ knew of the song âHolidayâ written by Curtis Hudson and Lisa Stevens-Crowder for their own musical act Pure Energy. They refused at first, but agreed after meeting with Madonna.  Again, another game changing moment. Benitez then produced the track.
Released in August 1983 âHolidayâ hit #1 a month later on Billboardâs âDance Club Songsâ chart and then #16 on Billboardâs Top 100.  It also hit #25 on Billboardâs âHot R&B/Hip-Hop Songsâ chart. By the time of Live Aid on July 13, 1985 Madonna was an international star with a #1 hit song, multiple top 5 songs and the title role in the movie âDesperately Seeking Susanâ. But, with all that going for her, she reached back to her first big hit "Holiday" for her set at Live Aid.  The huge crowd and the mood of the song and her âno auto-tuneâ singing makes it the very best version of a great song.  Itâs a great summer song!Â
Southern California Rock's Spark
In a small complex of bungalows in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park in the early seventies three future Rock and Roll Hall of Famers lived side-by-side.  Linda Ronstadt at the time was living with JD Souther, who lived next door to Glenn Frey, who lived above Jackson Browne.  Jacksonâs basement apartment was only 35 dollars a month!  As Linda says in her autobiography âJackson was youngerâŠbut he was a little smarter, a little further evolved in this thinking, a little more refined in his writing practice.  He was 16 when I met him, but he had already written [the song] âThese Daysâ.Â
Living above Jackson proved to be fruitful to Glenn Frey.  He credits listening to Jackson pound away on the piano perfecting the same verse over and overâŠand he realized:  âSo thatâs how you do it⊠elbow grease⊠time⊠thought⊠persistence.â One of the first songs Glenn wrote was helping Jackson finish âTake It Easyâ.  And, he did help, because according to Jackson Browne, he didnât even know what a âflatbed Fordâ wasâŠso Glenn added a bit of Midwestern grit to Jacksonâs California cool. Â
One night at the Troubadour for Hoot Night, Linda went scouting for musicians to back her up.  Linda was impressed by the drummer on stage; she recalls âThey were playing my arrangement of âSilver Threads and Golden NeedlesââŠand they were playing it really well.â  His âunfussyâ, âbluegrass styleâ won her over.  And his name was Don Henley.  With the drummer set, Linda asked Glenn Frey if he could also join her for the next few shows she had booked in Washington DC at the Cellar Door.  On the road, rooms had to be sharedâŠand future Eagle bandmates Glenn and Don shared a room.  A friendship was struck, a new band was planned by the two and they got to writing and rehearsing.  Linda and JD offered to let them and two other bandmates (Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon) rehearse in their living room while they were at the movies, when Linda came back, she says, âa few hours later, they sounded fantastic.  They had worked out a four-part-harmony arrangement of a song Bernie and Don wroteâŠwith only acoustic guitars and four really powerful voices, the sound was huge and rich.â  The song was âWitchy Womanâ and Linda knew it was a hit. Â
The musical inspiration and collaboration between Linda Ronstadt, Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne was the spark that lit the fuse, to what would become the Southern California Rock sound of the seventies. Â
Wah-Wah -- "You Made Me Such A Big Star"
The âwah-wahâ pedal â a small piece of guitarist gear â created a wild stir when it hit its commercial stride back in 1968, as Jimi Hendrixâs âVoodoo Childâ first burst through the worldâs transistor radios. But how did it come about and how did a project that began in an effort to make one four dollar switch into a thirty cent part go on to weave itself into almost every corner of rock music for decades?
Often referred to as the cry pedal for itâs almost human sound the âwah-wahâ effect was first heard in recorded music in the late 50s when country artist Chet Atkins was using a self designed device.Â
In the sixties, the British Amp maker Vox was looking for ways to capitalize on âBeatlemaniaâ and on the cusp of the psychedelic era in 1965 was looking for something new. In a crazy accidental âmash-upâ of the Vox Organ and the Vox Super Beatle Guitar Amp a âonce in a lifetime momentâ occurred. Warwick Electronics â who also owned the Thomas Organ Company â were in the throes of knocking out a new product line, the Vox Amplifonic Orchestra.  Vox assigned Brad Plunket â who was a junior electronics engineer there at the time â to replace an expensive âfour-dollar â âmid-range boostâ switch somehow.
Well Plunket came up with a âsweepableâ EQ switch â that cost 30 cents â which variably cut or boosted the base and the treble.   Plunket had guitarist John Glennan plug it in to his guitar as a test.  It sounded âsweetâ but a guitarist would need three hands to work it and the guitar.  So then Plunket grabbed a volume control pedal from a nearby Vox Organ.  The resulting sound and ease of use produced a âeurekaâ momentâŠwith some swear words that Plunket chooses to not repeat. This unique âCry Babyâ sound was something that guitarists the world over would want a piece ofâŠÂ
The âwah-wahâ pedal has been used to wondrous effect by many of our most loved rockers and bands; Cream, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Led Zeppelin, Living Colour and of course through base guitar Metallicaâs Cliff Burton.Â
Hereâs some homework youâll hopefully enjoyâŠcheck out âWhite Roomâ by Cream, âTheme from Shaftâ by Issac Hayes, â25 or 6 to 4â by Chicago, âSomebody to Loveâ by Jefferson Airplane, âEnter Sandmanâ by Metallica, âSweet Child oâ Mineâ by Gun ânâ Roses and of course âWah-Wahâ and âVoodoo Childâ by George Harrison and Jimi Hendrix respectively.   Whatâs your favorite âwah-wahâ song?Â
John Fogerty -- Back In CenterfieldÂ
After the dissolution of Clearance Clearwater Revival in the early 70s, John Fogerty âspent some time in the Mudville Nine, watching it from the benchâ.  But, as he said in this video of him and The Grateful Dead playing the song Centerfield in 1989, âThey sent me down and I learned to hit a curve real good. So, I wrote a song about what it might be like to get back.âÂ
First the clapping and then the familiar guitar riffâŠJohn Fogertyâs Centerfield quite simply blasts out of the speakers with a the universal âfeel good â belief that YES IâM GOOD ENOUGH, âput me in coach!â  His years as the front man for Clearance Clearwater Revival nearly a decade in the past, Centerfield is a great title track for an album that welcomed Fogerty back to the music business in 1985. Yes, he was good enough (by far) and yes, he belonged on the largest stage again.Â
Combining Fogertyâs two passions rock and roll and baseball, he was a bit worried others might not find it ârockâ enough.  But itâs universally loved and played at nearly every major and minor league ballpark in America, as well as at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Growing up in California, his team was the New York Yankees, because of San Francisco native Joe DiMaggio in centerfield.Â
With baseball about to hit its second weekend of the season, itâs safe to quote Centerfield, âBeat the drum, hold the phone, the sun came out todayâŠthereâs new grass on the field.â And as he says when introducing Centerfield in this video, âNever give up hope, as long as thereâs life thereâs hope.âÂ
Youâre Wrong About -- Karen Carpenter
When you mention Karen Carpenter thereâs always a bit of a wince. Â She died young. Â She died of a disease that is difficult to understand. Her music was a little âsoft ACâ, which is not everyoneâs bag. But, thereâs an exceptional two-part episode of the podcast âYouâre Wrong Aboutâ on Karen Carpenter. The host (Sarah Marshall) and musician (Carolyn Kendrick) get into all the tragic details. Â
As you might expect, thereâs not an easy answer to âwhat went wrongâ. Â According to the Mayo Clinic, one of the ârisk factorsâ for eating disorders is stress, which they define this way:
âStress. Whether it's heading off to college, moving, landing a new job, or a family or relationship issue, change can bring stress. And stress may increase the risk of an eating disorder.â
Carolyn takes the listeners on Karenâs journey that could be considered âall of the aboveâ. Karen and her older brother Richard were from a tight knit family, whose mom could be judged to be demanding and controlling. Richard was the golden boy, of whom much was expected. Â But it was Karenâs inclusion in their band that jump started their acceptance into popular music. In Richard and Karenâs early adulthood they continued to live with their parents. Even after buying two houses for their parents, mom and dad wanted to continue to live with them.
Like a slow motion 20-car pile-up, youâll hear about Karenâs stage shyness and being taken from her drums and forced out-front. Karen then bungles relationships, but also has one sabotaged. Then she cuts a new solo album with Phil Spector in the late-70s. Â Her record label and brother Richard reject it and the album is âshelvedâ, only to be released after her death.
Carolyn gives credit to the author Randy Schmidt who wrote the book âLittle Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenterâ. Check out Randyâs book as well as Sarah and Carolynâs excellent two-part podcast about Karen Carpenter. Â
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Saturday Nightâs Alright for Fighting, by Elton John
Elton Johnâs 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is the pivotal album in Elton Johnâs career. The band recorded the masterpiece in Chateau DâHerouville just outside Paris. Lyricist Bernie Taupin says Saturday Nightâs Alright for Fighting is intended to be an American style rocker, that takes place in Britain. Â It was inspired by his fistfight filled nights as a teenager in his local pub, the Freeman Arms in Grimsby.
During the two-week recording session for the album, breakfast would be served in the morning, a grand piano sitting in the corner of the room. Elton would begin playing and writing immediately and one-by-one the band would walk over and join in. They would have rehearsed and recorded two tracks before lunch.
So, if youâre in Grimsby, put on your boots, get on your motorbike and donât forget the handful of grease in your hair.
Savana Santos â Singer, Songwriter & Producer Who Nailed the Pandemic Vibe
Three years ago, March 12th 2020, is remembered by many as the day the âonce-in-a-centuryâ global pandemic became real. It was the day after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. NCAA cancelled March Madness. Major League hockey, soccer, baseball and golf hit pause on their seasons and/or pre-seasons. And Tom Hanks and his wife announced that they were diagnosed with the coronavirus.
It wouldnât be until late June that year that a relatively unknown Nashville band called Avenue Beat quietly loaded F2020 to TikTok. They went to sleep and as the lead singer Savana Santos says, the song âpopped offâ, with 4.5 million views by the next morning.  The lyrics hit hardâŠand hit in a place that everyone could feel.
Yo, my cat died and a global pandemic took over my life And I put out some music that nobody liked So, I got really sad and bored at the same time And that's why I'm like Lowkey f**k 2020
About producing F2020 Savana explains that âvocals are everything, I just stack until I canât stack no moreâ. Her âvocal wall-of-soundâ would make Phil Spector envious. The New York Times would go on to call F2020Â the âSong of The Yearâ, saying âItâs delivered with a droll, self-conscious shrug, airy harmonies and twitchy percussion.â
Avenue Beat would later release an album (The Debut Farewell Album), with some fantastic songs including Woman and This Is Goodbye. Â If you are a sucker for âend of an eraâ songs like George Harrisonâs All Things Must Pass and Green Dayâs Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), then youâll get the vibe on This is Goodbye. Â
With Avenue Beat now disbanded, Savana is still in Nashville and producing music, writing and singing. Â Sheâs released some music under the pseudonym "shmavana shmantosâ, which you can find on Spotify. Her Instagram account has posted two song-shorts since February 27th (tagged #NewSong) with promises to her fans that the full songs will be posted âsoon, soon, soonâ.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
I'm a fan of the early days of rock 'n' roll, which this early eighties song really replicates. The song âCrazy Little Thing Called Loveâ was written by Freddie Mercury in 1979 and appeared on their 1980 album The Game. According to Freddie, the song took him âfive or ten minutesâ to write, using a guitar. He explained âI was restricted, knowing only a few chords. I simply had to write within a small framework.â That accounts for the simplistic 1950s feelâŠalong with Freddieâs respect for Elvis and the pre-Beatles British rock-star Cliff Richards.
On the single, Queen guitarist Brian May wanted to emulate Rick Nelson's and Presley's longtime guitarist James Burton, and at producer Reinhold Mackâs suggestion used a Fender Esquire rather than his regular Red Special for the recording session. Itâs one of the few songs where Freddie played the guitar live, check out his Live Aid performance. As Freddie said at Live Aid. This song âis dedicated to beautiful people here tonightâŠthat means all of you.â
Gimme Three Steps
One night in The Little Brown Jug in Jacksonville Florida, an underage Ronnie Van Zant, got in using a fake ID.  Being young, he might not have understood exactly how to behave in a bar.  He began to dance with a young lady, whose name was Linda, referred to as Linda Lou in the lyrics of the song âGimme Three Stepsâ. A man, perhaps her boyfriend or husband, approached and began to reach into his boot.  Ronnie didnât bother to wait to see what he was pulling outâŠand just âhightailed itâ for the door double-time, shouting âjust gimme a few steps and I'll be goneâ. He met his bandmates (Gary Rossington and Allen Collins) in the parking lot.  And they wrote the song that night. The song made it to Lynyrd Skynyrdâs first album and was also released as a âliveâ single.  So, even a bit of a frightening nightâŠcan have a good outcomeâŠas long as you get a three-step lead.
YouTube Reaction Podcasts â Rob Squad Reactions
As reported by Ariel Shapiro last year on TheVerge.com âLuminate surveyed 3,000 US podcast listeners 13 and older for its Podcast 360 Report, and shared exclusively with Hot Pod that YouTube is the most-used platform for podcasts. Of those aware of the platform, 78 percent said they have used the free version of the streamer to consume a podcast.  That puts it ahead  of heavyweights like Spotify and Apple Podcasts.â
One of the most powerful video-podcast types is the âreaction podcastâ.  This is where someone watches a television series (e.g. - Brad Evans did for Bridgerton, 549K views) or movie (e.g. - Monica Catapusan for Encanto, 3.2M views). As a music / radio guy Iâm currently really enjoying Rob Squad Reactions videos.  This is where Oklahomans Jay and his wife Amber listen to and react to musicâŠcutting a wide swath through many classic rock super hits. Jay admits to being a big rap and heavy metal fan.  He and Amber know a lot about musicâŠbut come completely naively to what many rock fans consider âfive-note familiar classicsâ.
Thereâs something smile inducing that allows you to watch them experience The Beatles, The Mommas and The Poppas, Sheryl Crow, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Journey for the first time. Usually prefaced by âIâve never heard of this personâŠor this song.â  They show surprise that The Beatles could rock (Revolution), Denny Dohertyâs big voice (California Dreaming), Sheryl Crowâs rasp (If It Makes You Happy)âŠand then their shock as they look at each other when âBilly Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.â Â
Jay and Amber comment on vocal ability, instrumentation and lyrics. Jay had to hear back John Lennonâs opening riff to Revolution and Amber wanted to hear Paul McCartneyâs scream again. Jayâs favorite female voice is Amy Winehouse, proclaimed  immediately after his first listen to Valerie.
Just a sample of some of the lyrics that hit them hard were:
Janis Ianâs Seventeen â âTo those of us who knew the pain, of valentines that never came. And those whose names were never called, when choosing sides for basketball.â An arrow to the heart for Jay when the basketball reference cameâŠand Amberâs voice cracked a bit as she remembered there were guys in high school that werenât allowed to date her because of her race.
Bob Dylanâs Subterranean Homesick Blues â  âTwenty years of schoolinâ and they put you on the day shift.â They had to hit pause after that one. And Amber saidâŠâI want to listen to this five times, every time he hits me with a really cool lineâŠthen I miss the three things he said after that.â We can all relate Amber.
Sheryl Crowâs If It Makes You Happy â âIf it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?â As Amber said, âDoes anybody else feel that chorus to their core?â
So, in short, check-out Rob Squad Reactions. But for those of us in the podcast business, âYou donât need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.â We must utilize YouTube to its fullest extent and realize that these cool reaction videos are delivering tons of impressions, which are extremely valuable to advertisers and agencies. Â
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Tell Me Why
Today February 9th, 2014 is the much-celebrated 50th anniversary of The Beatles first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. The Beatles had been working hard since 1960 for this moment. To break America, The Beatles tried various label efforts including Vee-Jay, Swan and Capital to initial poor results. But when âI Wanna Hold Your Handâ hit number one on February 1st (eight days before their previously planned Ed Sullivan appearance) the tide was turning their way.  But, it wasnât luckâŠit was the residue of talent, hard work and aggressive management. Their manager Brian Epstein took a much smaller payment from Ed SullivanâŠknowing the exposure would pay off. And it did. On March 2nd, 1964 filming began for A Hard Dayâs NightâŠand the concert scene for the TV program in the film (video above), is incredibly reminiscent of their Ed Sullivan show appearance less than a month earlier.Â
Filming began at Marylebone station in London. The Beatles had just joined the actorsâ union, Equity, that morning. The first week of filming was on a train travelling between London and Minehead.  Roger Ebert said in his 1996 review of the film: âWhen it opened in September, 1964âŠThe Beatles were already a publicity phenomenon (70 million viewers watched them on âThe Ed Sullivan Showâ), but they were not yet cultural icons. Many critics attended the movie and prepared to condescend, but the movie could not be dismissed: It was so joyous and original that even the early reviews acknowledged it as something special. After more than three decades, it has not aged and is not dated; it stands outside its time, its genre and even rock. It is one of the great life-affirming landmarks of the movies.â The full movie is available at Amazon.com here.
So lets just say that in the space of February 1st to March 2nd of 1964 The Beatles literally conquered records, radio, television and film. Proceeded of course by four years of grinding gigs in which they greatly prepared for thisâŠtheir moment.
Quite an achievement in the space of February 1st to March 2nd of 1964.
Brass in Pocket, The Pretenders
The Pretenderâs break-out hit, Brass in Pocket was written by bandmates James Honeyman-Scott and Chrissie Hynde. Hynde explained to American Songwriter that the Brass in Pocket vibe âis that you're supposed to be kind of cocky and sure of yourself.â  It was an attitude she felt was important to project on-stageâŠalthough the song lyrics and the accompanying video (one of the first 10 to air on MTV) certainly emphasized a cockiness in the relationship sense.
Speaking of the lyricsâŠHynde indicates that she has many fine attributes including, arms, legs, style and imagination.  But, perhaps the most difficult to decipher is âI got bottle, Iâm gonna use it.â  Chrissie explains that according to Cockney rhyming slang. It means bottle and glass. Which means she has something that rhymes with the word âglassâ.  Iâll let you figure it out.
Thereâs no doubting another lyric: She is special!
The Wallflowersâ One Headlight
Movie director Judd Apatow told Variety why The Wallflowerâs song One Headlight came to be included in the film The King of Staten Island. Â Said Judd âWhen [my wife] Leslie and I drove to Ralphs to buy pregnancy kits -- when we discovered Maude was coming -- that was the song we heard on the radio.â Â And, âthat song was very popular when Pete [Davidson] was young, and he would listen to it in the car with his dad all the time. [So], it is a very special song to him.â
The King of Staten Island was a somewhat autobiographical film by the writer and comedian Pete DavidsonâŠit mirrors Peteâs life, where his firefighter father passed away way too early. And the lyric from One Headlight âThat's when they said I lost my only friendâ surely resonated with Pete.
The sing-a-long to One Headlight in the bar is a bit of a comical scene, because not everyone is clear on the all of Jacob Dylanâs lyrics. Â But they do nail the chorus: Â Hey, come on try a little / nothing is forever / got to be something better than in the middle
On that we can all agree.
The Story of âWoke Up This Morningâ
Track: Â Woke Up This Morning, by Alabama 3
The beat kicks in and James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano, reaches out and grabs the â now defunct â New Jersey Turnpike ticket. Itâs a perfect pairing of music and drama. Â The song Woke Up This Morning is from the British band Alabama 3. Â It was on their 1997 album âExile on Coldharbour Laneâ and was co-written by bandmates including Rob Spragg. Â It was based on the 1996 second trial of British woman Sara Thornton for the 1989 murder of her husband. Â
Already, sentence to âlifeâ, the second trial occurred because Thornton's case was taken up by âJustice for Womenâ. That group believed that her case had not been handled correctly due to the domestic violence she suffered throughout her marriage.
A bit of license was taken in the lyricsâŠsince Sara killed her husband with a knifeâŠso technically she never âgot herself a gunâ. Â