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New «Pirates of the Caribbean»: Johnny Depp is in the script and Disney «does not rule out» his return to the role of Jack Sparrow Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio

On his daily First 10 podcast, Post-Gazette sports columnist Jason Mackey reacts to the Pirates' hiring of a new hitting coach (Matt Hague) and assistant pitching coach (Brent Strom.) How can Hague help hitters like Henry Davis, Ke'Bryan Hayes and Jack Suwinski, who struggled under Andy Haines? Can he get more out of stars like Bryan Reynolds and Oneil Cruz? And what can Strom do for a young pitching staff that includes Paul Skenes, Jared Jones and Mitch Keller? Jascon tackles those questions, then talks a little Steelers. What's his latest read on the NFL Week 11 matchup with the Baltimore Ravens? And what are his thoughts on MMQB selecting the New York Giants' Dexter Lawrence as midseason defensive player of the year over the Steelers' T.J. Watt?

The new Pirates of the Caribbean movie now has a date to start filming, but Johnny Depp won't be in it Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio

New Pirates top 30 and MLB Pipeline top 100. Jared Jones will make his first rehab start in Indy. Browns extend JOK. Auston Matthews is now the Maple Leafs' captain.

Hour two with Joe Starkey. New Pirates top 30 and MLB Pipeline top 100. Jared Jones will make his first rehab start in Indy. Browns extend JOK. Auston Matthews is now the Maple Leafs' captain. Austin is significantly frustrated that people think Ben Cherington is completely fine with losing and getting higher draft picks. How does that make sense? Joe believes the Pirates would have been content with a season competitive into September and a few wins better than 2023.

Hey there, and a very happy Monday! This is your Disney News for Monday, August 12th, 2024. I hope you're ready to kick off your week with some enchanting Disney updates! - "Inside Out 2" digital streaming debut on August 20, 2024; available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on September 10, 2024 - New Pirates of the Caribbean lounge added to the classic attraction at Magic Kingdom, part of broader modernization - James Cameron honored with the Disney Legend Award at this year's D23 Expo - Disney investing $5 billion over five years on new movies and TV shows in Europe and the UK Have a magical day and tune in again tomorrow for more updates.

TribLIVE Pirates beat writer Kevin Gorman joins me to discuss ben Cherington's deadline moves, Oneil Cruz's fielding issues, and the huge back-to-back series at PNC Park vs. the Diamondbacks and Padres Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Speier of the Boston Globe joins me to discuss the trade of Quinn Priester to the Red Sox for Nick Yorke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey there, and a very happy Saturday to you! This is your Disney News for Saturday, July 13th, 2024. Ready to dive into some fascinating Disney updates? Let's get started! - Disneyland cast members, represented by the Disney Workers Rising Bargaining Committee, are threatening to shut down the park if demands for better working conditions and wages aren't met. Strike vote scheduled for July 20th. - CEO Bob Iger announces exciting plans for Disney park expansions with new offerings annually starting in 2025, including potential "Beyond Big Thunder" expansion and new attractions in EPCOT and Animal Kingdom. Disney Cruise Line also expanding. - Fifteen Disney restaurants have added delicious new menu items, from Ocean-inspired Charcuterie Board at Narcoossee's to Lemon-Blueberry Lunch Box Tart at Woody's Lunch Box, perfect for planning your next Disney dining adventure. - Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom sees significant updates just days after its grand opening. New Pirates of the Caribbean-themed lounge and potential return of Johnny Depp to the franchise creating a buzz. That's all for today! Thanks for tuning in, and I hope you have a magical day. Remember to check in tomorrow for more Disney updates. See you tomorrow!

Iso Rampulla delivers the latest entertainment news on - Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's relationship - New Pirates of the Caribbean films - Maren Morris' most recent instagram post

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Who's gonna make it out of Stranger Things Season 5? Not sure?! Well, Zac and Nicole give their picks for who's gonna survive, alongside a heated discussion about the Super Bowl. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you like our content, please leave a review. It's helpful for us and lets us know what you'd like to hear. Also, please consider following us on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ to continue conversing with us! For full videos of our episodes, please consider becoming a patron on ⁠⁠Patreon⁠. ⁠Thank you for listening!

Austin Bechtold breaks down the Aroldis Chapman signing for the Pirates. Yes, you read that right. The Pirates signed Aroldis Chapman. You might not like the guy, but Chapman is still a good player capable of helping the bullpen. The Penguins scored an own goal on a delayed penalty against Arizona. It's not good. 

We discuss the Pirates additions from the transfer portal.

After quite the haul during the first portal period, East Carolina continues to reel in key pieces via the transfer market to satisfy needs on both sides of the ball as the second semester gets underway. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thesportsobj/support

Welcome to a very full episode of GEEKS CORNER! This week the Geeks are joined by Clock from @sentfromdisneyland. We hope you enjoy this week's episode of GEEKS CORNER and join the conversation in the comments. We'll see you 'round the corner! THE WEEK IN GEEK A Quick Look Back at Oogie Boogie Bash https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/photos-videos-oogie-boogie-bash-brings-out-the-baddies-at-disney-california-adventure/  An Updated Food Review of Tiana's Palace https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/its-all-about-the-food-at-tianas-palace/  Adventureland Treehouse to Open This Fall at Disneyland https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/adventureland-treehouse-inspired-by-walt-disneys-swiss-family-robinson-opening-at-disneyland-this-fall/  Hong Kong Disneyland Reveals More Details of World of Frozen on 18th Anniversary  https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/hong-kong-disneyland-reveals-first-look-at-elsa-animatronic-along-with-other-frozen-details-on-18th-anniversary/  D23 Expo to Become D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/d23-expo-to-expand-to-become-the-d23-the-ultimate-disney-fan-event/ Country Bear Jamboree to Get New Acts and New Songs https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/new-songs-and-acts-coming-to-country-bear-jamboree-at-walt-disney-world-resort-in-2024/  Figment Returns to EPCOT https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/figment-is-back-at-epcot/  New Details and Opening Date Announced for EPCOT's New Nighttime Show https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/new-details-and-opening-date-unveiled-for-new-epcot-nighttime-spectacular/  Opening Date Announced For Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/adventure-awaits-when-journey-of-water-inspired-by-moana-opens-oct-16-2023-at-walt-disney-world/  EPCOT's World Celebration Neighborhood to Be Completed Before End of Year https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/epcots-world-celebration-to-be-completed-before-end-of-year/  Test Track to Be Reimagined World of Motion Inspiration https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/test-track-to-get-world-of-motion-reimagining-at-epcot/  Soarin' Over California Returning to EPCOT For Limited Run https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/soarin-over-california-returning-to-epcot-for-limited-run/  Dinoland U.S.A. to Be Reimagined with Tropical Americas Inspiration https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/dinoland-u-s-a-to-be-reimagined-with-tropical-americas-inspiration/  Zootopia Show Heading to Disney's Animal Kingdom in Tree of Life Theater https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/zootopia-show-headed-to-tree-of-life-theater-at-disneys-animal-kingdom/  New Pirates of the Caribbean-themed Lounge Heading to Magic Kingdom https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/new-pirates-of-the-caribbean-themed-lounge-heading-to-magic-kingdom/  Hatbox Ghost to Materialize at Magic Kingdom's Haunted Mansion in November https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/hatbox-ghost-to-materialize-at-haunted-mansion-in-magic-kingdom-in-november/  Avengers Campus Ride Vehicle Revealed https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/disney-reveals-ride-vehicle-for-new-avengers-campus-attraction/  Disney Cruise Line's Singapore-Based Ship to Be Named Disney Adventure https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/disney-cruise-lines-singapore-based-ship-to-be-named-disney-adventure/  Disney Lookout Cay at Lighthouse POint Announced as Name for Disney Cruise Line Second Island Destination in the Bahamas https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/disney-lookout-cay-at-lighthouse-point-announced-as-name-for-disney-cruise-lines-second-island-destination-in-the-bahamas/  Avengers Campus Ride to Include Physical Sets and Immersive Media https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/new-avengers-campus-attraction-to-utilize-both-large-scale-physical-environments-and-immersive-media/  New Star Tours Adventures Coming in Spring 2024 https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/new-adventures-coming-to-star-tours-in-spring-2024/  Disney Wish Character Asha Heading to Disney Parks https://dapsmagic.com/2023/09/disneys-wish-character-asha-coming-to-disney-parks/  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geeks/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geeks/support

Remember the time Netflix made an anime adaptation and people didn't immediately start crying and vomiting? That's right it was last week with the release of One Piece Season 1. In addition to review that we talk the big Rotten Tomatoes scandal, big monetary losses for Warner Brothers, Sam Raimi potentially directing Avengers: Secret Wars, Marvels What If Season 2 episodes revealed, Taylor Swift breaking records, trailers for Gen V, Godzilla Minus One, a new Pirates Of The Caribbean movie and more! Thanks for listeningThe Flash movie commentary out now on bigsandwich.co - also featuring bonus weekly shows, video let's plays, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.Please be aware timecodes may shift due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start05:11 Big Losses at Warner Bros.15:30 The Rotten Tomatoes Scandal26:31 Sam Raimi for Avengers: Secret Wars29:15 Marvel's What If? Season Two Episodes33:58 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Box Office Success35:24 Gen V (The Boys Spin-Off) Trailer38:48 Godzilla Minus One Trailer40:29 No One Will Save You Trailer43:06 New Pirates of the Caribbean Movie?45:51 One Piece Live Action Series Review (post credits and spoilers 01:01:11 to 01:04:01)01:04:01 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:15:40 Letters, It's Time For Letters (Feat. Ahsoka Episode Four Review)James' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownMaso's Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/nickmaseauThe Weekly Planet Twitter ► https://twitter.com/theweeklyplanetPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesTWP iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767TWP Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetTWP YouTube Channel ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGHAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2QbmwGjT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us LIVE Sunday @ 12pm CST as we discuss the following! 0:00 - Intro/Honorable Mentions: (WGA Strike, Gen V Trailer, Castlevania Trailer) 31:45 - Fantastic Four Rumor: Has Josh Hartnett Been Cast as Doctor Doom? 48:50 - Marvel Netflix Director Teases Cancelled Spin-Off: Daughters of the Dragon 1:02:56 - Netflix Co-Chief Praises One Piece | Director Teases Season 2 Script! 1:19:00 - Rotten Tomatoes Caught Paying Critics for Reviews?? Certified Rotten? 1:52:13 - New Pirates of the Caribbean in Development from "The Last of Us" Director2:04:55 - Lionsgate Picks Up Reboot of "The Crow" in Eight Figure Deal! 2:12:43 - LIVE VIEWER QUESTIONS Spotify (Audio & Video): A+ Hero Report Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/6gwHfTopIa38HQdgtx4Bk9?si=bb5cc27239a4419a Join Our Discord Forum Community: https://discord.gg/uKstHsY A+ Amazon Wish List: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/22BG60615YS0M?ref_=wl_share Contact/Email: aplusopinions@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/aplusopinions Twitch: Twitch.tv/aplusopinions Twitter: @aplusopinions IG: @aplusopinions IG: @animeassembled --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aplusopinions/support

In this What's On Disney Plus Podcast episode, Roger discusses some of today's biggest Disney+ news, including: “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” Possibly Delayed Until 2024 New “Pirates Of The Caribbean” Film In Development New Marvel's “Loki” Season 2 Teaser Trailer Released What's New On Disney+ Today Question Of The Day If you enjoy our podcast, please consider supporting it via our Patreon or as a YouTube Channel Membership from as little as $2 a month and get access to exclusive content and much more.

In this What's On Disney Plus Podcast episode, Roger discusses some of today's biggest Disney+ news, including: “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” Possibly Delayed Until 2024 New “Pirates Of The Caribbean” Film In Development New Marvel's “Loki” Season 2 Teaser Trailer Released What's New On Disney+ Today Question Of The Day If you enjoy our podcast, please consider supporting it via our Patreon or as a YouTube Channel Membership from as little as $2 a month and get access to exclusive content and much more.

In this What's On Disney Plus Podcast episode, Roger discusses some of today's biggest Disney+ news, including: “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” Possibly Delayed Until 2024 New “Pirates Of The Caribbean” Film In Development New Marvel's “Loki” Season 2 Teaser Trailer Released What's New On Disney+ Today Question Of The Day If you enjoy our podcast, please consider supporting it via our Patreon or as a YouTube Channel Membership from as little as $2 a month and get access to exclusive content and much more.

Jeff Hathhorn joins the show to discuss Steelers training camp. Tuesday is the first day of padded practice in Latrobe. Who is most excited to put on the pads? A Dodgers insider said, and acknowledged it might not be public knowledge, that there was a stall between Mitch Keller and the Pirates in contract talks. 

The Outlaws are here to help with some comedy!...but we may need some help ourselves after all these stories. Mike Tyson & Evander Holyfield start selling CBD gummies..shaped like ears.. Margot Robbie says the new Pirates movie is sunk underwater! Joe Biden cancels canceling student debt! Jeff Bezos gives money to Dolly Parton! And companies around the world are doing mass layoffs. What a time to be alive! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/outlaws-entertainment/support

Jason is joined by his teammate Aikado for a chat regarding their seasonal lineups & expectations, as well as talking about the new iteration of Pirates. Brought to you by https://masteringruneterra.com/ 0:00 Intro 0:43 The Meat & Potatoes Patreon Team: https://www.patreon.com/MasteringRuneterra Join Discord! https://discord.gg/TqnntWF728 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/mastering-runeterra/id1556960343 https://open.spotify.com/show/49xjHNbzVwG9ZEurUQH8Qn Twitter: https://twitter.com/MasterRuneterra Bae's Socials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPWvMRZq__Q-LaCNui9budg Twitch.tv/majiinbaelor https://twitter.com/MajiinBaeLor Jae's Socials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpsFhsgLk7YwxdweckTZx1g https://www.twitch.tv/jasonfleurant​​​​​ https://twitter.com/JasonFleurant Aikado's Socials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfXV-V3OyHymQjkKtd7CjsQ https://www.twitch.tv/xaikado https://twitter.com/AikadoLoR

It's really happening, new monthly chapters of Saga, next up: Chapter 56! WARNING WARNING WARNING - if you have not read ALL 55 previous chapters AND newly-released chapter 56, SKIP THIS EPISODE. If you have read them all, then enjoy hearing Abu and Alan share all their first reactions and thoughts on newest issue of Saga, PLUS we both answer all the questions from the Chapter 56 Reader Survey.For more great shows from the Lore Party Podcast Podcast Network head to https://loreparty.comAlso huge thanks to Lawerence Kelly for composing all the amazing music on our show, you can check out more of his great work here: https://solo.to/producedby_lk. And you can find our hosts here as well: https://twitter.com/ahaburchak & https://twitter.com/abu_zafar

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On today's show: Alex Stumpf and Noah Hiles of DK Pittsburgh Sports rank the 11 players the Pirates received this offseason from trading Josh Bell, Joe Musgrove and Jameson Taillon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This show is two friends talking movies they love to watch, games they love to play, and comics they sometimes read. Come join us in discussions and opinions that can shake up conversation. Twitter - Chico @killingjoke127 -Tanman @VicDaTanman Twitch - Find Mo at evilmortyJRX Music: https://www.purple-planet.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Margot Robbie and Cristina Hodson join a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thenerdcorps/support

Juicy Jawns, weekday mornings at 6:35, 7:35, 8:35 & 9:35! We're talking Khloe Kardashian's BDay extravaganza, Malls re-opening in The Delaware Valley, A brand new Pirates of the Caribbean with a BIG female lead and more! Mornings with Coop on 96.5 TDY Follow Coop - Instagram l Facebook l Twitter l TikTok

THE MOVIE PODCAST is a film news and entertainment podcast that covers the week's biggest movie stories and a unique topic of the show. You can catch Daniel, Shahbaz and Anthony in a new episode every Monday! Please be sure to rate the show and subscribe.Got a topic request? Have a movie suggestion? Did we get something wrong? Let us know at ThisTimeWith.com/talk EPISODE #65: It's A Pirate's Life for Margot Robbie and TIFF 2020 Announced - June 28, 2020 ANNOUNCEMENTSCOMMENTARIES: Game Night, Sicario, and Spider-Man (2002) NOW AVAILABLE ON THE MOVIE PODCAST FEED!CATCH UP: Black Lives Matter, Zack Snyder's Justice League ‘Snyder Cut' Coming to HBO Max in 2021 and Interview with Kevin Lima, Director of A Goofy Movie, Tarzan, and Enchanted and more!CHECK OUT: THE LAST OF US PART II SPOILERCAST COMING JULY 1ST NEWSJoel Schumacher, Director of Batman Films and ‘Lost Boys,' Dies at 80 - Carmel Dagan / VarietyMargot Robbie, Christina Hodson Partner on New ‘Pirates of the Caribbean' Movie - Dave McNary / Variety'The Simpsons' to Recast Characters of Color, 'Family Guy' Actor Stops Voicing Black Role - Rick Porter / THRToronto International Film Festival Plans Scaled Down Event, Virtual Red Carpets - The Associated Press / CBCLord and Miller Set Murder Mystery Comedy Series ‘The Afterparty' at Apple - Kylie Hemmert / ComingSoon.net NEW DATESTenet - August 12, 2020Mulan - August 21, 2020Unhinged - July 31, 2020Sound of Metal (Amazon) - August 14, 2020The Boys Season 2 (Amazon) - September 4, 2020 BOX OFFICEJurassic Park Roars To No. 1 Again At Weekend Box Office, 27 Years After Original Release - Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline TRAILERSHamilton (Disney+)Foundation (Apple TV+)AvaLittle Voice (Apple TV+)Pixar's Soul WHAT WE'RE WATCHINGAnthony: Snowpiercer, Constantine, The Raid, Doctor Sleep, Last of Us Part IIDaniel: The Last of Us Part II, Interstellar, Harley Quinn, Eastern Promises, IrresistibleShahbaz: The Last of Us Part II, Shrek 2, Modern Family, Harley Quinn, The Bourne Supremacy TRIVIADANIEL - 5SHAHBAZ - 3ANTHONY - 6 FOLLOW US:Follow Daniel on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdFollow Shahbaz on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdFollow Anthony on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdFollow The Movie Podcast on Twitter, Instagram, Discord, and YouTube  WAYS TO HELP BLACK LIVES MATTERhttps://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co

Whaaats up everyone and welcome to episode 201 of The Chumpcast! The crew is all together this week as we discuss the movies that scarred our childhoods and Will Ferrell's latest Netflix Romp, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Timestamps 0:28 - Smithers is a Sleepy Peepy 1:57 - Voicemail (What movie traumatized you as a kid?) 5:36 - Brick is getting SWOLL 9:30 - Childhood Mark Was Scared Shitless of Beauty and the Beast 9:57 - The Start of Mark's Batman Obsession 10:54 - New Trailers (Muppets Now, The King's Man, The Boys S2, Kids See Ghosts, Greenland) 19:23 - Rasputin's Death and Big Weenie 28:12 - Micheal Keaton Returning as Batman / Flashpoint (Nerd News Segment) 33:05 - Harley Quinn Animated Show Leaving DC Universe? 34:01 - Margot Robbie in New Pirates of the Caribbean Movie 38:11 - Twister Movie Remake in the Works 40:10 - Best Man Alive Segment (NBA Jam Developer, Ninja Studies Degree, Sacha Baron Cohen) 47:45 - Netflix's Eurovision Movie Review 1:01:43 - Dr. Disrespect Banned from Twitch 1:03:34 - Weekly Recommendations Segment (Comics, Handmaid's Tale, Netflix's The Floor is Lava)   If you want more fresh content before everyone else, check out patreon.com/thechumpcast! You can find us on all social media platforms @thechumpcast. You can also call or text us at 847-920-6107. If you leave us a good enough voicemail, you might hear your voice on a future episode. If you're looking for merch, you can check out our website, thechumpcast.com You can also support us by using our Amazon Affiliate link, thechumpcast.com/amazon.If you like us, tell a friend! Subscribers help us grow and bring you more of the content you love. We also appreciate ratings and reviews on iTunes. Thanks to Broke For Free for the intro song "If".  You can find more of them at the Free Music Archive here.

On this weeks episode, we have our great friend, Casey Jones, on the show for his birthday! We are happy to have him on for this week. We talk about everything from Indiana Jones, to Scooby Doo, and Chicken Run! Please subscribe, and check us out on Twitter @VidStoreClerks! - A.I. Starring and Acting in New Movie "b" - 02:12. - Christopher Nolan Partner's with Fortnite, Again, to Show his Older Works - 08:39. - Chicken Run 2 Is Coming to Netflix with Aardman Animation - 14:10. - Margot Robbie Stars in New Pirates of the Caribbean Movie with Birds of Prey Writer Christina Hodson - 22:22. - Scoob! - 27:36.  - Twisted Pair - 54:12. - Indiana Jones Quadriliogy - 1:08:25. - The Crystal Skull Debate - 1:32:26.

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Disney drops the cannonball that more Pirates of the Caribbean films are headed our way. In this Season 3 bonus episode, Scott and Heather chat about the latest news that Margot Robbie (who brought Harley Quinn to life) and Christina Hodson, writer of Birds of Prey, are developing a new Pirates of the Caribbean universe movie. Like the previously announced Pirates of the Caribbean 6 that continues the saga, both films will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The new film to star Margot Robbie will be an original story with new characters inspired by the long-running Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland. We’d also be VERY grateful if you could rate, review, and subscribe to Pirates of the Caribbean Minute (Black Pearl Show) on Apple Podcasts. You can also listen and review via iHeart Radio, Stitcher, Tune In, Google Play and more. For questions or comments, you can call the show at 86-37-PIRATE or send an email to podcast@blackpearlshow.com. We just might feature your questions on future episodes. If you’re looking for a podcast that discusses Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise (in a movies by minutes format), integrates historical pirate and the golden age of piracy facts, analyzes and entertains, then Pirates of the Caribbean Minute is for you. Website: http://blackpearlshow.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/PiratesoftheCaribbeanMinute Cursed Listeners’ Crew (A Pirates of the Caribbean Minute Facebook Group): https://www.facebook.com/groups/272990339778981/

Evan and Jay discuss the new 40k mat size, another pirate game and more! Support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefifthtrooper

Episode eighty-four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Shakin’ All Over” by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, and how the first great British R&B band interacted with the entertainment industry. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a fifteen-minute bonus episode, on “Under Your Spell Again” by Buck Owens. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ —-more—- Resources   As usual, I have put together a Mixcloud mix with every song excerpted in this podcast. Only one biography of Kidd has been written, and that’s been out of print for nearly a quarter of a century and goes for ridiculous prices. Luckily Adie Barrett’s site http://www.johnnykidd.co.uk/ is everything a fan-site should be, and has a detailed biographical section which I used for the broad-strokes outline. Clem Cattini: My Life, Through the Eye of a Tornado is somewhere between authorised biography and autobiography. It’s not the best-written book ever, but it contains a lot of information about Clem’s life. Spike & Co by Graham McCann gives a very full account of Associated London Scripts. Pete Frame’s The Restless Generation is the best book available looking at British 50s rock and roll from a historical perspective. Be warned, though — his jokey and irreverent style can, when dealing with people like Larry Parnes (who was gay and Jewish) very occasionally tip over into reinforcing homophobic and anti-semitic stereotypes for an easy laugh. Billy Bragg’s Roots, Radicals, and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is one of the best books I’ve read on music at all, and gives far more detail about the historical background. And a fair chunk of the background information here also comes from the extended edition of Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In, which is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the Beatles, British post-war culture, and British post-war music.   Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript As we get more into this story, we’re going to see a lot more British acts becoming part of it. We’ve already looked at Lonnie Donegan, Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, and Vince Taylor, but without spoiling anything I think most of you can guess that over the next year or so we’re going to see a few guitar bands from the UK enter the narrative. Today we’re going to look at one of the most important British bands of the early sixties — a band who are now mostly known for one hit and a gimmick, but who made a massive contribution to the sound of rock music. We’re going to look at Johnny Kidd and the Pirates: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, “Shakin’ All Over”] Our story starts during the skiffle boom of 1957. If you don’t remember the episodes we did on skiffle and early British rock and roll, it was a musical craze that swept Britain after Lonnie Donegan’s surprise hit with “Rock Island Line”. For about eighteen months, nearly every teenage boy in Britain was in a group playing a weird mix of Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie songs, old folk tunes, and music-hall numbers, with a lineup usually consisting of guitar, banjo, someone using a washboard as percussion, and a homemade double bass made out of a teachest, a broom handle, and a single string. The skiffle craze died away as quickly as it started out, but it left a legacy — thousands of young kids who’d learned at least three chords, who’d performed in public, and who knew that it was possible to make music without having gone through the homogenising star-making process. That would have repercussions throughout the length of this story, and to this day. But while almost everyone in a skiffle group was a kid, not everyone was. Obviously the big stars of the genre — Lonnie Donegan, Chas McDevitt, the Vipers — were all in their twenties when they became famous, and so were some of the amateurs who tried to jump on the bandwagon. In particular, there was Fred Heath. Heath was twenty-one when skiffle hit, and was already married — while twenty-one might seem young now, at the time, it was an age when people were meant to have settled down and found a career. But Heath wasn’t the career sort. There were rumours about him which attest to the kind of person he was perceived as being — that he was a bookie’s runner, that he’d not been drafted because he was thought to be completely impossible to discipline, that he had been working as a painter in a warehouse and urinated on the warehouse floor from the scaffolding he was on — and he was clearly not someone who was *ever* going to settle down. The first skiffle band Heath formed was called Bats Heath and the Vampires, and featured Heath on vocals and rhythm guitar, Brian Englund on banjo, Frank Rouledge on lead guitar, and Clive Lazell on washboard. The group went through a variety of names, at one point naming themselves the Frantic Four in what seems to have been an attempt to confuse people into thinking they were seeing Don Lang’s Frantic Five, the group who often appeared on Six-Five Special: [Excerpt: Don Lang and his Frantic Five, “Six-Five Hand Jivel”] The group went through the standard lineup and name changes that almost every amateur group went through, and they ended up as a five-piece group called the Five Nutters. And it was as the Five Nutters that they made their first attempts at becoming stars, when they auditioned for Carroll Levis. Levis was one of the most important people in showbusiness in the UK at this time. He’d just started a TV series, but for years before that his show had been on Radio Luxembourg, which was for many teenagers in the UK the most important radio station in the world. At the time, the BBC had a legal monopoly on radio broadcasting in the UK, but they had a couple of problems when it came to attracting a teenage audience. The first was that they had to provide entertainment for *everyone*, and so they couldn’t play much music that only appealed to teenagers but was detested by adults. But there was a much bigger problem for the BBC when it came to recorded music. In the 1950s, the BBC ran three national radio stations — the Light Programme, the Home Service, and the Third Programme — along with one national TV channel. The Musicians’ Union were worried that playing recorded music on these would lead to their members losing work, and so there was an agreement called “needletime”, which allowed the BBC to use recorded music for twenty-two hours a week, total, across all three radio stations, plus another three hours for the TV. That had to cover every style of music from Little Richard through to Doris Day through to Beethoven. The rest of the time, if they had music, it had to be performed by live musicians, and so you’d be more likely to hear “Rock Around the Clock” as performed by the Northern Dance Orchestra than Bill Haley’s version, and much of the BBC’s youth programming had middle-aged British session musicians trying to replicate the sound of American records and failing miserably. But Luxembourg didn’t have a needle-time rule, and so a commercial English-language station had been set up there, using transmitters powerful enough to reach most of Britain and Ireland. The station was owned and run in Britain, and most of the shows were recorded in London by British DJs like Brian Matthew, Jimmy Savile, and Alan Freeman, although there were also recordings of Alan Freed’s show broadcast on it. The shows were mostly sponsored by record companies, who would make the DJs play just half of the record, so they could promote more songs in their twenty-minute slot, and this was the main way that any teenager in Britain would actually be able to hear rock and roll music. Oddly, even though he spent many years on Radio Luxembourg, Levis’ show, which had originally been on the BBC before the War, was not a music show, but a talent show. Whether on his original BBC radio show, the Radio Luxembourg one, or his new TV show, the format was the same. He would alternate weeks between broadcasting and talent scouting. In talent scouting weeks he would go to a different city each week, where for five nights in a row he would put on talent shows featuring up to twenty different local amateur acts doing their party pieces — without payment, of course, just for the exposure. At the end of the show, the audience would get a chance to clap for each act, and the act that got the loudest applause would go through to a final on the Saturday night. This of course meant that acts that wanted to win would get a lot of their friends and family to come along and cheer for them. The Saturday night would then have the winning acts — which is to say, those who brought along the most paying customers — compete against each other. The most popular of *those* acts would then get to appear on Levis’ TV show the next week. It was, as you can imagine, an extremely lucrative business. When the Five Nutters appeared on Levis’ Discoveries show, they were fairly sure that the audience clapped loudest for them, but they came third. Being the type of person he was, Fred Heath didn’t take this lying down, and remonstrated with Levis, who eventually promised to get the Nutters some better gigs, one suspects just to shut Heath up. As a result of Levis putting in a good word for them, they got a few appearances at places like the 2Is, and made an appearance on the BBC’s one concession to youth culture on the radio — a new show called Saturday Skiffle Club. Around this time, the Five Nutters also recorded a demo disc. The first side was a skiffled-up version of “Shake, Rattle and Roll”, with some extremely good jazzy lead guitar: [Excerpt: Fred Heath and the Five Nutters, “Shake, Rattle, and Roll”] I’ve heard quite a few records of skiffle groups, mostly by professionals, and it’s clear that the Five Nutters were far more musical, and far more interesting, than most of them, even despite the audible sloppiness here. The point of skiffle was meant to be that it was do-it-yourself music that required no particular level of skill — but in this case the Nutters’ guitarist Frank Rouledge was clearly quite a bit more proficient than the run-of-the-mill skiffle guitarist. What was even more interesting about that recording, though, was the B-side, which was a song written by the group. It seems to have been mostly written by Heath, and it’s called “Blood-Red Beauty” because Heath’s wife was a redhead: [Excerpt: Fred Heath and the Five Nutters, “Blood Red Beauty”] The song itself is fairly unexceptional — it’s a standard Hank Williams style hillbilly boogie — but at this time there was still in Britain a fairly hard and fast rule which had performers and songwriters as two distinct things. There were a handful of British rock musicians who were attempting to write their own material — most prominently Billy Fury, a Larry Parnes artist who I’m afraid we don’t have space for in the podcast, but who was one of the most interesting of the late-fifties British acts — but in general, there was a fairly strict demarcation. It was very unusual for a British performer to also be trying to write songs. The Nutters split up shortly after their Saturday Skiffle Club appearance, and Heath formed various other groups called things like The Fabulous Freddie Heath Band and The Fred, Mike & Tom Show, before going back to the old name, with a new lineup of Freddie Heath and the Nutters consisting of himself on vocals, Mike West and Tom Brown — who had been the Mike and Tom in The Fred, Mike, & Tom Show, on backing vocals, Tony Doherty on rhythm guitar, Ken McKay on drums, Johnny Gordon on bass, and on lead guitar Alan Caddy, a man who was known by the nickname “tea”, which was partly a pun on his name, partly a reference to his drinking copious amounts of tea, and partly Cockney rhyming slang — tea-leaf for thief — as he was known for stealing cars. The Nutters got a new agent, Don Toy, and manager, Guy Robinson, but Heath seemed mostly to want to be a songwriter rather than a singer at this point. He was looking to place his songs with other artists, and in early 1959, he did. He wrote a song called “Please Don’t Touch”, and managed to get it placed with a vocal group called the Bachelors — not the more famous group of that name, but a minor group who recorded for Parlophone, a subsidiary of EMI run by a young producer named George Martin. “Please Don’t Touch” came out as the B-side of a Bachelors record: [Excerpt: The Bachelors, “Please Don’t Touch”] One notable thing about the songwriting credit — while most sources say Fred Heath wrote the song by himself, he gave Guy Robinson a co-writing credit on this and many of his future songs. This was partly because it was fairly standard at the time for managers to cut themselves in on their artists’ credits, but also because that way the credit could read Heath Robinson — Heath Robinson was a famous British cartoonist who was notable for drawing impossibly complicated inventions, and whose name had become part of the British language — for American listeners, imagine that the song was credited to Rube Goldberg, and you’ll have the idea. At this point, the Nutters had become quite a professional organisation, and so it was unsurprising that after “Please Don’t Touch” brought Fred Heath to the attention of EMI, a different EMI imprint, HMV, signed them up. Much of the early success of the Nutters, and this professionalism, seems to be down to Don Toy, who seems to have been a remarkably multi-talented individual. As well as being an agent who had contracts with many London venues to provide them with bands, he was also an electrical engineer specialising in sound equipment. He built a two-hundred watt bass amp for the group, at a time when almost every band just put their bass guitar through a normal guitar amp, and twenty-five watts was considered quite loud. He also built a portable tape echo device that could be used on stage to make Heath’s voice sound like it would on the records. Heath later bought the first Copicat echo unit to be made — this was a mass-produced device that would be used by a lot of British bands in the early sixties, and Heath’s had serial number 0001 — but before that became available, he used Toy’s device, which may well have been the very first on-stage echo device in the UK. On top of that, Toy has also claimed that most of the songs credited to Heath and Robinson were also co-written by him, but he left his name off because the credit looked better without it. And whether or not that’s true, he was also the drummer on this first session — Ken McKay, the Nutters’ drummer, was a bit unsteady in his tempo, and Toy was a decent player and took over from him when in April 1959, Fred Heath and the Nutters went into Abbey Road Studio 2, to record their own version of “Please Don’t Touch”. This was ostensibly produced by HMV producer Walter Ridley, but Ridley actually left rock and roll records to his engineer, Peter Sullivan: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, “Please Don’t Touch”] It was only when the session was over that they saw the paperwork for it. Fred Heath was the only member of the Nutters to be signed to EMI, with the rest of the group being contracted as session musicians, but that was absolutely normal for the time period — Tommy Steele’s Steelmen and Cliff Richard’s Drifters hadn’t been signed as artists either. What they were concerned about was the band name on the paperwork — it didn’t say Fred Heath and the Nutters, but Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. They were told that that was going to be their new name. They never did find out who it was who had decided on this for them, but from now on Fred Heath was Johnny Kidd. The record was promoted on Radio Luxembourg, and everyone thought it was going to go to number one. Unfortunately, strike action prevented that, and the record was only a moderate chart success — the highest position it hit in any of the UK charts at the time was number twenty on the Melody Maker chart. But that didn’t stop it from becoming an acknowledged classic of British rock and roll. It was so popular that it actually saw an American cover version, which was something that almost never happened with British songs, though Chico Holliday’s version was unsuccessful: [Excerpt: Chico Holliday, “Please Don’t Touch”] It remained such a fond memory for British rockers that in 1980 the heavy metal groups Motorhead and Girlschool recorded it as the supergroup HeadGirl, and it became the biggest hit either group ever had, reaching number five in the British charts: [Excerpt: Headgirl, “Please Don’t Touch”] But while “Please Don’t Touch” was one of the very few good rock and roll records made in Britain, it wasn’t the one for which Johnny Kidd and the Pirates would be remembered. It was, though, enough to make them a big act. They toured the country on a bill compered by Liverpool comedian Jimmy Tarbuck, and they made several appearances on Saturday Club, which had now dropped the “skiffle” name and was the only place anyone could hear rock and roll on BBC radio. Of course, the British record industry having the immense sense of potential it did, HMV immediately capitalised on the success of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates doing a great group performance of an original rock and roll number, by releasing as a follow-up single, a version of the old standard “If You Were the Only Girl in the World and I Were the Only Boy” by Johnny without the Pirates, but with chorus and orchestra conducted by Ivor Raymonde: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd, “If You Were The Only Girl in the World”] For some reason — I can’t imagine why — that didn’t chart. One suspects that young Lemmy wasn’t quite as fond of that one as “Please Don’t Touch”. The B-side was a quite good rocker, with some nice guitar work from the session guitarist Bert Weedon, but no-one bothered to buy the record at the time, so they didn’t turn it over to hear the other side. The follow-up was better — a reworking of Marv Johnson’s “You’ve Got What it Takes”, one of the hits that Berry Gordy had been writing and producing for Johnson. Johnson’s version made the top five in the UK, but the Pirates’ version still made the top thirty. But by this time there had been some changes. The first change that was made was that the Pirates changed manager — while Robinson would continue getting songwriting credits, the group were now managed through Associated London Scripts, by Stan “Scruffy” Dale. Associated London Scripts was, as the name suggests, primarily a company that produced scripts. It was started as a writers’ co-operative, and in its early days it was made up of seven people. There was Frankie Howerd, one of the most popular stand-up comedians of the time, who was always looking for new material; Spike Milligan, the writer and one of the stars of the Goon Show, the most important surreal comedy of the fifties; Eric Sykes, who was a writer-performer who was involved in almost every important comedy programme of the decade, including co-writing many Goon episodes with Milligan, before becoming a TV star himself; Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who wrote the most important *sitcom* of the fifties and early sixties, Hancock’s Half Hour; and Scruffy Dale, who was Howerd and Sykes’ manager and was supposed to take care of the business stuff. In fact, though, most of the business was actually taken care of by the seventh person and only woman, Beryl Vertue, who was taken on as the secretary on the basis of an interview that mostly asked about her tea-making skills, but soon found herself doing almost everything — the men in the office got so used to asking her “Could you make the tea, Beryl?”, “Could you type up this script, Beryl?” that they just started asking her things like “Could you renegotiate our contract with the BBC, Beryl?” She eventually became one of the most important women in the TV industry, with her most recent prominent credit being as executive producer on the BBC’s Sherlock up until 2017, more than sixty years after she joined the business. Vertue did all the work to keep the company running — a company which grew to about thirty writers, and between the early fifties and mid sixties, as well as Hancock’s Half Hour and the Goons, its writers created Sykes, Beyond Our Ken, Round the Horne, Steptoe and Son, The Bedsitting Room, the Running, Jumping, Standing Still Film, Til Death Us Do Part, Citizen James, and the Daleks. That’s a list off the top of my head — it would actually be easier to list memorable British comedy programmes and films of the fifties and early sixties that *didn’t* have a script from one of ALS’ writers. And while Vertue was keeping Marty Feldman, John Junkin, Barry Took, Johnny Speight, John Antrobus and all the rest of these new writers in work, Scruffy Dale was trying to create a career in pop management. As several people associated with ALS had made records with George Martin at Parlophone, he had an in there, and some of the few pop successes that Martin had in the fifties were producing acts managed by Dale through ALS, like the Vipers Skiffle Group: [Excerpt: The Vipers Skiffle Group, “Don’t You Rock Me, Daddy-O”] and a young performer named Jim Smith, who wanted to be a comedian and actor, but who Dale renamed after himself, and who had a string of hits as Jim Dale: [Excerpt: Jim Dale, “Be My Girl”] Jim Dale eventually did become a film and TV star, starting with presenting Six-Five Special, and is now best known for having starred in many of the Carry On films and narrating the Harry Potter audiobooks, but at the time he was still a pop star. Jim Dale and the Vipers were the two professional acts headlining an otherwise-amateur tour that Scruffy Dale put together that was very much like Carroll Levis’ Discoveries show, except without the need to even give the winners a slot on the TV every other week. This tour was supposed to be a hunt for the country’s best skiffle group, and there was going to be a grand national final, and the winner of *that* would go on TV. Except they just kept dragging the tour out for eighteen months, until the skiffle fad was completely over and no-one cared, so there never was a national final. And in the meantime the Vipers had to sit through twenty groups of spotty kids a night, all playing “Don’t You Rock Me Daddy-O”, and then go out and play it themselves, every night for eighteen months. Scruffy Dale was unscrupulous in other ways as well, and not long after he’d taken on the Pirates’ management he was sacked from ALS. Spike Milligan had never liked Dale — when told that Dale had lost a testicle in the war, he’d merely replied “I hope he dropped it on Dresden” — but Frankie Howerd and Eric Sykes had always been impressed with his ability to negotiate deals. But then Frankie Howerd found out that he’d missed out on lucrative opportunities because Dale had shoved letters in his coat pocket and forgotten about them for a fortnight. He started investigating a few more things, and it turned out that Dale had been siphoning money from Sykes and Howerd’s personal bank accounts into his own, having explained to their bank manager that it would just be resting in his account for them, because they were showbiz people who would spend it all too fast, so he was looking after them. And he’d also been doing other bits of creative accounting — every success his musical acts had was marked down as something he’d done independently, and all the profits went to him, while all the unsuccessful ventures were marked down as being ALS projects, and their losses charged to the company. So neither Dale nor the Pirates were with Associated London Scripts very long. But Dale made one very important change — he and Don Toy decided between them that most of the Pirates had to go. There were six backing musicians in the group if you counted the two backing vocalists, who all needed paying, and only one could read music — they weren’t professional enough to make a career in the music business. So all of the Pirates except Alan Caddy were sacked. Mike West and Tony Doherty formed another band, Robby Hood and His Merry Men, whose first single was written by Kidd (though it’s rare enough I’ve not been able to find a copy anywhere online). The new backing group was going to be a trio, modelled on Johnny Burnette’s Rock and Roll Trio — just one guitar, bass, and drums. They had Caddy on lead guitar, Clem Cattini on drums, and Brian Gregg on bass. Cattini was regarded as by far the best rock drummer in Britain at the time. He’d played with Terry Dene’s backing band the Dene Aces, and can be seen glumly backing Dene in the film The Golden Disc: [Excerpt: Terry Dene, “Candy Floss”] Gregg had joined Dene’s band, and they’d both then moved on to be touring musicians for Larry Parnes, backing most of the acts on a tour featuring Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran that we’ll be looking at next week. They’d played with various of Parnes’ acts for a while, but had then asked for more money, and he’d refused, so they’d quit working for Parnes and joined Vince Taylor and the Playboys. They’d only played with the Playboys a few weeks when they moved on to Chas McDevitt’s group. For a brief time, McDevitt had been the biggest star in skiffle other than Lonnie Donegan, but he was firmly in the downward phase of his career at this point. McDevitt also owned a coffee bar, the Freight Train, named after his biggest hit, and most of the musicians in London would hang out there. And after Clem Cattini and Brian Gregg had joined the Pirates, it was at the Freight Train that the song for which the group would be remembered was written. They were going to go into the studio to record another song chosen by the record label — a version of the old standard “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby” — because EMI had apparently not yet learned that if you had Johnny Kidd record old standards, no-one bought it, but if you had him record bluesy rock and roll you had a hit. But they’d been told they could write their own B-side, as they’d been able to on the last few singles. They were also allowed to bring in Joe Moretti to provide a second guitar — Moretti, who had played the solo on “Brand New Cadillac”, was an old friend of Clem Cattini’s, and they thought he’d add something to the record, and also thought they’d be doing him a favour by letting him make a session fee — he wasn’t a regular session player. So they all got together in the Freight Train coffee bar, and wrote another Heath/Robinson number. They weren’t going to do anything too original for a B-side, of course. They nicked a rhythm guitar part from “Linda Lu”, a minor US hit that Lee Hazelwood had produced for a Chuck Berry soundalike named Ray Sharpe, and which was itself clearly lifted from “Speedoo” by the Cadillacs: [Excerpt: Ray Sharpe, “Linda Lu”] They may also have nicked Joe Moretti’s lead guitar part as well, though there’s more doubt about this. There’s a Mickey and Sylvia record, “No Good Lover”, which hadn’t been released in the UK at the time, so it’s hard to imagine how they could have heard it, but the lead guitar part they hit on was very, very similar — maybe someone had played it on Radio Luxembourg: [Excerpt: Mickey and Sylvia, “No Good Lover”] They combined those musical ideas with a lyric that was partly a follow-on to the line in “Please Don’t Touch” about shaking too much, and partly a slightly bowdlerised version of a saying that Kidd had — when he saw a woman he found particularly attractive, he’d say “She gives me quivers in me membranes”. As it was a B-side, the track they recorded only took two takes, plus a brief overdub for Moretti to add some guitar shimmers, created by him using a cigarette lighter as a slide: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, “Shakin’ All Over”] The song was knocked off so quickly that they even kept in a mistake — before the guitar solo, Clem Cattini was meant to play just a one-bar fill. Instead he played for longer, which was very unlike Cattini, who was normally a professional’s professional. He asked for another take, but the producer just left it in, and that break going into the solo was one of the things that people latched on to: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, “Shakin’ All Over”] Despite the track having been put together from pre-existing bits, it had a life and vitality to it that no other British record except “Brand New Cadillac” had had, and Kidd had the added bonus of actually being able to hold a tune, unlike Vince Taylor. The record company quickly realised that “Shakin’ All Over” should be the record that they were pushing, and flipped the single. The Pirates appeared on Wham!, the latest Jack Good TV show, and immediately the record charted. It soon made number one, and became the first real proof to British listeners that British people could make rock and roll every bit as good as the Americans — at this point, everyone still thought Vince Taylor was from America. It was possibly Jack Good who also made the big change to Johnny Kidd’s appearance — he had a slight cast in one eye that got worse as the day went on, with his eyelid drooping more and more. Someone — probably Good — suggested that he should make this problem into an advantage, by wearing an eyepatch. He did, and the Pirates got pirate costumes to wear on stage, while Kidd would frantically roam the stage swinging a cutlass around. At this point, stagecraft was something almost unknown to British rock performers, who rarely did more than wear a cleanish suit and say “thank you” after each song. The only other act that was anything like as theatrical was Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, a minor act who had ripped off Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ act. The follow-up, “Restless”, was very much “Shakin’ All Over” part two, and made the top thirty. After that, sticking with the formula, they did a version of “Linda Lu”, but that didn’t make the top forty at all. Possibly the most interesting record they made at this point was a version of “I Just Want to Make Love to You”, a song Willie Dixon had written for Muddy Waters: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, “I Just Want to Make Love to You”] The Pirates were increasingly starting to include blues and R&B songs in their set, and the British blues boom artists of the next few years would often refer to the Pirates as being the band that had inspired them. Clem Cattini still says that Johnny Kidd was the best British blues singer he ever heard. But as their singles were doing less and less well, the Pirates decided to jump ship. Colin Hicks, Tommy Steele’s much less successful younger brother, had a backing band called the Cabin Boys, which Brian Gregg had been in before joining Terry Dene’s band. Hicks had now started performing an act that was based on Kidd’s, and for a tour of Italy, where he was quite popular, he wanted a new band — he asked the Pirates if they would leave Kidd and become the latest lineup of Cabin Boys, and they left, taking their costumes with them. Clem Cattini now says that agreeing was the worst move he ever made, but they parted on good terms — Kidd said “Alan, Brian and Clem left me to better themselves. How could I possibly begrudge them their opportunity?” We’ll be picking up the story of Alan, Brian, and Clem in a few months’ time, but in the meantime, Kidd picked up a new backing band, who had previously been performing as the Redcaps, backing a minor singer called Cuddly Dudley on his single “Sitting on a Train”: [Excerpt: Cuddly Dudley and the Redcaps, “Sitting on a Train”] That new lineup of Pirates didn’t last too long before the guitarist quit, due to ill health, but he was soon replaced by Mick Green, who is now regarded by many as one of the great British guitarists of all time, to the extent that Wilko Johnson, another British guitarist who came to prominence about fifteen years later, has said that he spent his entire career trying and failing to sound like MIck Green. In 1962 and 63 the group were playing clubs where they found a lot of new bands who they seemed to have things in common with. After playing the Cavern in Liverpool and a residency at the Star Club in Hamburg, they added Richie Barrett’s “Some Other Guy” and Arthur Alexander’s “A Shot of Rhythm and Blues” to their sets, two R&B numbers that were very popular among the Liverpool bands playing in Hamburg but otherwise almost unknown in the UK. Unfortunately, their version of “A Shot of Rhythm and Blues” didn’t chart, and their record label declined to issue their version of “Some Other Guy” — and then almost immediately the Liverpool group The Big Three released their version as a single, and it made the top forty. As the Pirates’ R&B sound was unsuccessful — no-one seemed to want British R&B, at all — they decided to go the other way, and record a song written by their new manager, Gordon Mills (who would later become better known for managing Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdinck). “I’ll Never Get Over You” was a very catchy, harmonised, song in the style of many of the new bands that were becoming popular, and it’s an enjoyable record, but it’s not really in the Pirates’ style: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, “I’ll Never Get Over You”] That made number four on the charts, but it would be Johnny Kidd and the Pirates’ last major hit. They did have a minor hit with another song by Mills, “Hungry For Love”, but a much better record, and a much better example of the Pirates’ style, was an R&B single released by the Pirates without Kidd. The plan at the time was that they would be split into two acts in the same way as Cliff Richard and the Shadows — Kidd would be a solo star, while the Pirates would release records of their own. The A-side of the Pirates’ single was a fairly good version of the Willie Dixon song “My Babe”, but to my ears the B-side is better — it’s a version of “Casting My Spell”, a song originally by an obscure duo called the Johnson Brothers, but popularised by Johnny Otis. The Pirates’ version is quite possibly the finest early British R&B record I’ve heard: [Excerpt: The Pirates, “Casting My Spell”] That didn’t chart, and the plan to split the two acts failed. Neither act ever had another hit again, and eventually the classic Mick Green lineup of the Pirates split up — Green left first, to join Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, and the rest left one by one. In 1965, The Guess Who had a hit in the US with their cover version of “Shakin’ All Over”: [Excerpt: The Guess Who, “Shakin’ All Over”] The Pirates were reduced to remaking their own old hit as “Shakin’ All Over ’65” in an attempt to piggyback on that cover version, but the new version, which was dominated by a Hammond organ part, didn’t have any success. After the Pirates left Kidd, he got a new group, which he called the New Pirates. He continued making extremely good records on occasion, but had no success at all. Even though younger bands like the Rolling Stones and the Animals were making music very similar to his, he was regarded as an outdated novelty act, a relic of an earlier age from six years earlier. There was always the potential for him to have a comeback, but then in 1966 Kidd, who was never a very good driver and had been in a number of accidents, arrived late at a gig in Bolton. The manager refused to let him on stage because he’d arrived so late, so he drove off to find another gig. He’d been driving most of the day, and he crashed the car and died, as did one person in the vehicle he crashed into. His final single, “Send For That Girl”, was released after his death. It’s really a very good record, but at the time Kidd’s fortunes were so low that even his death didn’t make it chart: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the New Pirates, “Send For That Girl”] Kidd was only thirty when he died, and already a has-been, but he left behind the most impressive body of work of any pre-Beatles British act. Various lineups of Pirates have occasionally played since — including, at one point, Cattini and Gregg playing with Joe Moretti’s son Joe Moretti Jr — but none have ever captured that magic that gave millions of people quivers down the backbone and shakes in the kneebone.

Episode eighty-four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Shakin' All Over" by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, and how the first great British R&B band interacted with the entertainment industry. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a fifteen-minute bonus episode, on "Under Your Spell Again" by Buck Owens. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ ----more---- Resources   As usual, I have put together a Mixcloud mix with every song excerpted in this podcast. Only one biography of Kidd has been written, and that's been out of print for nearly a quarter of a century and goes for ridiculous prices. Luckily Adie Barrett's site http://www.johnnykidd.co.uk/ is everything a fan-site should be, and has a detailed biographical section which I used for the broad-strokes outline. Clem Cattini: My Life, Through the Eye of a Tornado is somewhere between authorised biography and autobiography. It's not the best-written book ever, but it contains a lot of information about Clem's life. Spike & Co by Graham McCann gives a very full account of Associated London Scripts. Pete Frame's The Restless Generation is the best book available looking at British 50s rock and roll from a historical perspective. Be warned, though -- his jokey and irreverent style can, when dealing with people like Larry Parnes (who was gay and Jewish) very occasionally tip over into reinforcing homophobic and anti-semitic stereotypes for an easy laugh. Billy Bragg's Roots, Radicals, and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is one of the best books I've read on music at all, and gives far more detail about the historical background. And a fair chunk of the background information here also comes from the extended edition of Mark Lewisohn's Tune In, which is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the Beatles, British post-war culture, and British post-war music.   Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript As we get more into this story, we're going to see a lot more British acts becoming part of it. We've already looked at Lonnie Donegan, Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, and Vince Taylor, but without spoiling anything I think most of you can guess that over the next year or so we're going to see a few guitar bands from the UK enter the narrative. Today we're going to look at one of the most important British bands of the early sixties -- a band who are now mostly known for one hit and a gimmick, but who made a massive contribution to the sound of rock music. We're going to look at Johnny Kidd and the Pirates: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, "Shakin' All Over"] Our story starts during the skiffle boom of 1957. If you don't remember the episodes we did on skiffle and early British rock and roll, it was a musical craze that swept Britain after Lonnie Donegan's surprise hit with "Rock Island Line". For about eighteen months, nearly every teenage boy in Britain was in a group playing a weird mix of Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie songs, old folk tunes, and music-hall numbers, with a lineup usually consisting of guitar, banjo, someone using a washboard as percussion, and a homemade double bass made out of a teachest, a broom handle, and a single string. The skiffle craze died away as quickly as it started out, but it left a legacy -- thousands of young kids who'd learned at least three chords, who'd performed in public, and who knew that it was possible to make music without having gone through the homogenising star-making process. That would have repercussions throughout the length of this story, and to this day. But while almost everyone in a skiffle group was a kid, not everyone was. Obviously the big stars of the genre -- Lonnie Donegan, Chas McDevitt, the Vipers -- were all in their twenties when they became famous, and so were some of the amateurs who tried to jump on the bandwagon. In particular, there was Fred Heath. Heath was twenty-one when skiffle hit, and was already married -- while twenty-one might seem young now, at the time, it was an age when people were meant to have settled down and found a career. But Heath wasn't the career sort. There were rumours about him which attest to the kind of person he was perceived as being -- that he was a bookie's runner, that he'd not been drafted because he was thought to be completely impossible to discipline, that he had been working as a painter in a warehouse and urinated on the warehouse floor from the scaffolding he was on -- and he was clearly not someone who was *ever* going to settle down. The first skiffle band Heath formed was called Bats Heath and the Vampires, and featured Heath on vocals and rhythm guitar, Brian Englund on banjo, Frank Rouledge on lead guitar, and Clive Lazell on washboard. The group went through a variety of names, at one point naming themselves the Frantic Four in what seems to have been an attempt to confuse people into thinking they were seeing Don Lang's Frantic Five, the group who often appeared on Six-Five Special: [Excerpt: Don Lang and his Frantic Five, "Six-Five Hand Jivel"] The group went through the standard lineup and name changes that almost every amateur group went through, and they ended up as a five-piece group called the Five Nutters. And it was as the Five Nutters that they made their first attempts at becoming stars, when they auditioned for Carroll Levis. Levis was one of the most important people in showbusiness in the UK at this time. He'd just started a TV series, but for years before that his show had been on Radio Luxembourg, which was for many teenagers in the UK the most important radio station in the world. At the time, the BBC had a legal monopoly on radio broadcasting in the UK, but they had a couple of problems when it came to attracting a teenage audience. The first was that they had to provide entertainment for *everyone*, and so they couldn't play much music that only appealed to teenagers but was detested by adults. But there was a much bigger problem for the BBC when it came to recorded music. In the 1950s, the BBC ran three national radio stations -- the Light Programme, the Home Service, and the Third Programme -- along with one national TV channel. The Musicians' Union were worried that playing recorded music on these would lead to their members losing work, and so there was an agreement called "needletime", which allowed the BBC to use recorded music for twenty-two hours a week, total, across all three radio stations, plus another three hours for the TV. That had to cover every style of music from Little Richard through to Doris Day through to Beethoven. The rest of the time, if they had music, it had to be performed by live musicians, and so you'd be more likely to hear "Rock Around the Clock" as performed by the Northern Dance Orchestra than Bill Haley's version, and much of the BBC's youth programming had middle-aged British session musicians trying to replicate the sound of American records and failing miserably. But Luxembourg didn't have a needle-time rule, and so a commercial English-language station had been set up there, using transmitters powerful enough to reach most of Britain and Ireland. The station was owned and run in Britain, and most of the shows were recorded in London by British DJs like Brian Matthew, Jimmy Savile, and Alan Freeman, although there were also recordings of Alan Freed's show broadcast on it. The shows were mostly sponsored by record companies, who would make the DJs play just half of the record, so they could promote more songs in their twenty-minute slot, and this was the main way that any teenager in Britain would actually be able to hear rock and roll music. Oddly, even though he spent many years on Radio Luxembourg, Levis' show, which had originally been on the BBC before the War, was not a music show, but a talent show. Whether on his original BBC radio show, the Radio Luxembourg one, or his new TV show, the format was the same. He would alternate weeks between broadcasting and talent scouting. In talent scouting weeks he would go to a different city each week, where for five nights in a row he would put on talent shows featuring up to twenty different local amateur acts doing their party pieces -- without payment, of course, just for the exposure. At the end of the show, the audience would get a chance to clap for each act, and the act that got the loudest applause would go through to a final on the Saturday night. This of course meant that acts that wanted to win would get a lot of their friends and family to come along and cheer for them. The Saturday night would then have the winning acts -- which is to say, those who brought along the most paying customers -- compete against each other. The most popular of *those* acts would then get to appear on Levis' TV show the next week. It was, as you can imagine, an extremely lucrative business. When the Five Nutters appeared on Levis' Discoveries show, they were fairly sure that the audience clapped loudest for them, but they came third. Being the type of person he was, Fred Heath didn't take this lying down, and remonstrated with Levis, who eventually promised to get the Nutters some better gigs, one suspects just to shut Heath up. As a result of Levis putting in a good word for them, they got a few appearances at places like the 2Is, and made an appearance on the BBC's one concession to youth culture on the radio -- a new show called Saturday Skiffle Club. Around this time, the Five Nutters also recorded a demo disc. The first side was a skiffled-up version of "Shake, Rattle and Roll", with some extremely good jazzy lead guitar: [Excerpt: Fred Heath and the Five Nutters, "Shake, Rattle, and Roll"] I've heard quite a few records of skiffle groups, mostly by professionals, and it's clear that the Five Nutters were far more musical, and far more interesting, than most of them, even despite the audible sloppiness here. The point of skiffle was meant to be that it was do-it-yourself music that required no particular level of skill -- but in this case the Nutters' guitarist Frank Rouledge was clearly quite a bit more proficient than the run-of-the-mill skiffle guitarist. What was even more interesting about that recording, though, was the B-side, which was a song written by the group. It seems to have been mostly written by Heath, and it's called "Blood-Red Beauty" because Heath's wife was a redhead: [Excerpt: Fred Heath and the Five Nutters, "Blood Red Beauty"] The song itself is fairly unexceptional -- it's a standard Hank Williams style hillbilly boogie -- but at this time there was still in Britain a fairly hard and fast rule which had performers and songwriters as two distinct things. There were a handful of British rock musicians who were attempting to write their own material -- most prominently Billy Fury, a Larry Parnes artist who I'm afraid we don't have space for in the podcast, but who was one of the most interesting of the late-fifties British acts -- but in general, there was a fairly strict demarcation. It was very unusual for a British performer to also be trying to write songs. The Nutters split up shortly after their Saturday Skiffle Club appearance, and Heath formed various other groups called things like The Fabulous Freddie Heath Band and The Fred, Mike & Tom Show, before going back to the old name, with a new lineup of Freddie Heath and the Nutters consisting of himself on vocals, Mike West and Tom Brown -- who had been the Mike and Tom in The Fred, Mike, & Tom Show, on backing vocals, Tony Doherty on rhythm guitar, Ken McKay on drums, Johnny Gordon on bass, and on lead guitar Alan Caddy, a man who was known by the nickname "tea", which was partly a pun on his name, partly a reference to his drinking copious amounts of tea, and partly Cockney rhyming slang -- tea-leaf for thief -- as he was known for stealing cars. The Nutters got a new agent, Don Toy, and manager, Guy Robinson, but Heath seemed mostly to want to be a songwriter rather than a singer at this point. He was looking to place his songs with other artists, and in early 1959, he did. He wrote a song called "Please Don't Touch", and managed to get it placed with a vocal group called the Bachelors -- not the more famous group of that name, but a minor group who recorded for Parlophone, a subsidiary of EMI run by a young producer named George Martin. "Please Don't Touch" came out as the B-side of a Bachelors record: [Excerpt: The Bachelors, "Please Don't Touch"] One notable thing about the songwriting credit -- while most sources say Fred Heath wrote the song by himself, he gave Guy Robinson a co-writing credit on this and many of his future songs. This was partly because it was fairly standard at the time for managers to cut themselves in on their artists' credits, but also because that way the credit could read Heath Robinson -- Heath Robinson was a famous British cartoonist who was notable for drawing impossibly complicated inventions, and whose name had become part of the British language -- for American listeners, imagine that the song was credited to Rube Goldberg, and you'll have the idea. At this point, the Nutters had become quite a professional organisation, and so it was unsurprising that after "Please Don't Touch" brought Fred Heath to the attention of EMI, a different EMI imprint, HMV, signed them up. Much of the early success of the Nutters, and this professionalism, seems to be down to Don Toy, who seems to have been a remarkably multi-talented individual. As well as being an agent who had contracts with many London venues to provide them with bands, he was also an electrical engineer specialising in sound equipment. He built a two-hundred watt bass amp for the group, at a time when almost every band just put their bass guitar through a normal guitar amp, and twenty-five watts was considered quite loud. He also built a portable tape echo device that could be used on stage to make Heath's voice sound like it would on the records. Heath later bought the first Copicat echo unit to be made -- this was a mass-produced device that would be used by a lot of British bands in the early sixties, and Heath's had serial number 0001 -- but before that became available, he used Toy's device, which may well have been the very first on-stage echo device in the UK. On top of that, Toy has also claimed that most of the songs credited to Heath and Robinson were also co-written by him, but he left his name off because the credit looked better without it. And whether or not that's true, he was also the drummer on this first session -- Ken McKay, the Nutters' drummer, was a bit unsteady in his tempo, and Toy was a decent player and took over from him when in April 1959, Fred Heath and the Nutters went into Abbey Road Studio 2, to record their own version of "Please Don't Touch". This was ostensibly produced by HMV producer Walter Ridley, but Ridley actually left rock and roll records to his engineer, Peter Sullivan: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, "Please Don't Touch"] It was only when the session was over that they saw the paperwork for it. Fred Heath was the only member of the Nutters to be signed to EMI, with the rest of the group being contracted as session musicians, but that was absolutely normal for the time period -- Tommy Steele's Steelmen and Cliff Richard's Drifters hadn't been signed as artists either. What they were concerned about was the band name on the paperwork -- it didn't say Fred Heath and the Nutters, but Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. They were told that that was going to be their new name. They never did find out who it was who had decided on this for them, but from now on Fred Heath was Johnny Kidd. The record was promoted on Radio Luxembourg, and everyone thought it was going to go to number one. Unfortunately, strike action prevented that, and the record was only a moderate chart success -- the highest position it hit in any of the UK charts at the time was number twenty on the Melody Maker chart. But that didn't stop it from becoming an acknowledged classic of British rock and roll. It was so popular that it actually saw an American cover version, which was something that almost never happened with British songs, though Chico Holliday's version was unsuccessful: [Excerpt: Chico Holliday, "Please Don't Touch"] It remained such a fond memory for British rockers that in 1980 the heavy metal groups Motorhead and Girlschool recorded it as the supergroup HeadGirl, and it became the biggest hit either group ever had, reaching number five in the British charts: [Excerpt: Headgirl, "Please Don't Touch"] But while "Please Don't Touch" was one of the very few good rock and roll records made in Britain, it wasn't the one for which Johnny Kidd and the Pirates would be remembered. It was, though, enough to make them a big act. They toured the country on a bill compered by Liverpool comedian Jimmy Tarbuck, and they made several appearances on Saturday Club, which had now dropped the "skiffle" name and was the only place anyone could hear rock and roll on BBC radio. Of course, the British record industry having the immense sense of potential it did, HMV immediately capitalised on the success of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates doing a great group performance of an original rock and roll number, by releasing as a follow-up single, a version of the old standard "If You Were the Only Girl in the World and I Were the Only Boy" by Johnny without the Pirates, but with chorus and orchestra conducted by Ivor Raymonde: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd, "If You Were The Only Girl in the World"] For some reason -- I can't imagine why -- that didn't chart. One suspects that young Lemmy wasn't quite as fond of that one as "Please Don't Touch". The B-side was a quite good rocker, with some nice guitar work from the session guitarist Bert Weedon, but no-one bothered to buy the record at the time, so they didn't turn it over to hear the other side. The follow-up was better -- a reworking of Marv Johnson's "You've Got What it Takes", one of the hits that Berry Gordy had been writing and producing for Johnson. Johnson's version made the top five in the UK, but the Pirates' version still made the top thirty. But by this time there had been some changes. The first change that was made was that the Pirates changed manager -- while Robinson would continue getting songwriting credits, the group were now managed through Associated London Scripts, by Stan "Scruffy" Dale. Associated London Scripts was, as the name suggests, primarily a company that produced scripts. It was started as a writers' co-operative, and in its early days it was made up of seven people. There was Frankie Howerd, one of the most popular stand-up comedians of the time, who was always looking for new material; Spike Milligan, the writer and one of the stars of the Goon Show, the most important surreal comedy of the fifties; Eric Sykes, who was a writer-performer who was involved in almost every important comedy programme of the decade, including co-writing many Goon episodes with Milligan, before becoming a TV star himself; Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who wrote the most important *sitcom* of the fifties and early sixties, Hancock's Half Hour; and Scruffy Dale, who was Howerd and Sykes' manager and was supposed to take care of the business stuff. In fact, though, most of the business was actually taken care of by the seventh person and only woman, Beryl Vertue, who was taken on as the secretary on the basis of an interview that mostly asked about her tea-making skills, but soon found herself doing almost everything -- the men in the office got so used to asking her "Could you make the tea, Beryl?", "Could you type up this script, Beryl?" that they just started asking her things like "Could you renegotiate our contract with the BBC, Beryl?" She eventually became one of the most important women in the TV industry, with her most recent prominent credit being as executive producer on the BBC's Sherlock up until 2017, more than sixty years after she joined the business. Vertue did all the work to keep the company running -- a company which grew to about thirty writers, and between the early fifties and mid sixties, as well as Hancock's Half Hour and the Goons, its writers created Sykes, Beyond Our Ken, Round the Horne, Steptoe and Son, The Bedsitting Room, the Running, Jumping, Standing Still Film, Til Death Us Do Part, Citizen James, and the Daleks. That's a list off the top of my head -- it would actually be easier to list memorable British comedy programmes and films of the fifties and early sixties that *didn't* have a script from one of ALS' writers. And while Vertue was keeping Marty Feldman, John Junkin, Barry Took, Johnny Speight, John Antrobus and all the rest of these new writers in work, Scruffy Dale was trying to create a career in pop management. As several people associated with ALS had made records with George Martin at Parlophone, he had an in there, and some of the few pop successes that Martin had in the fifties were producing acts managed by Dale through ALS, like the Vipers Skiffle Group: [Excerpt: The Vipers Skiffle Group, "Don't You Rock Me, Daddy-O"] and a young performer named Jim Smith, who wanted to be a comedian and actor, but who Dale renamed after himself, and who had a string of hits as Jim Dale: [Excerpt: Jim Dale, "Be My Girl"] Jim Dale eventually did become a film and TV star, starting with presenting Six-Five Special, and is now best known for having starred in many of the Carry On films and narrating the Harry Potter audiobooks, but at the time he was still a pop star. Jim Dale and the Vipers were the two professional acts headlining an otherwise-amateur tour that Scruffy Dale put together that was very much like Carroll Levis' Discoveries show, except without the need to even give the winners a slot on the TV every other week. This tour was supposed to be a hunt for the country's best skiffle group, and there was going to be a grand national final, and the winner of *that* would go on TV. Except they just kept dragging the tour out for eighteen months, until the skiffle fad was completely over and no-one cared, so there never was a national final. And in the meantime the Vipers had to sit through twenty groups of spotty kids a night, all playing "Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O", and then go out and play it themselves, every night for eighteen months. Scruffy Dale was unscrupulous in other ways as well, and not long after he'd taken on the Pirates' management he was sacked from ALS. Spike Milligan had never liked Dale -- when told that Dale had lost a testicle in the war, he'd merely replied "I hope he dropped it on Dresden" -- but Frankie Howerd and Eric Sykes had always been impressed with his ability to negotiate deals. But then Frankie Howerd found out that he'd missed out on lucrative opportunities because Dale had shoved letters in his coat pocket and forgotten about them for a fortnight. He started investigating a few more things, and it turned out that Dale had been siphoning money from Sykes and Howerd's personal bank accounts into his own, having explained to their bank manager that it would just be resting in his account for them, because they were showbiz people who would spend it all too fast, so he was looking after them. And he'd also been doing other bits of creative accounting -- every success his musical acts had was marked down as something he'd done independently, and all the profits went to him, while all the unsuccessful ventures were marked down as being ALS projects, and their losses charged to the company. So neither Dale nor the Pirates were with Associated London Scripts very long. But Dale made one very important change -- he and Don Toy decided between them that most of the Pirates had to go. There were six backing musicians in the group if you counted the two backing vocalists, who all needed paying, and only one could read music -- they weren't professional enough to make a career in the music business. So all of the Pirates except Alan Caddy were sacked. Mike West and Tony Doherty formed another band, Robby Hood and His Merry Men, whose first single was written by Kidd (though it's rare enough I've not been able to find a copy anywhere online). The new backing group was going to be a trio, modelled on Johnny Burnette's Rock and Roll Trio -- just one guitar, bass, and drums. They had Caddy on lead guitar, Clem Cattini on drums, and Brian Gregg on bass. Cattini was regarded as by far the best rock drummer in Britain at the time. He'd played with Terry Dene's backing band the Dene Aces, and can be seen glumly backing Dene in the film The Golden Disc: [Excerpt: Terry Dene, "Candy Floss"] Gregg had joined Dene's band, and they'd both then moved on to be touring musicians for Larry Parnes, backing most of the acts on a tour featuring Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran that we'll be looking at next week. They'd played with various of Parnes' acts for a while, but had then asked for more money, and he'd refused, so they'd quit working for Parnes and joined Vince Taylor and the Playboys. They'd only played with the Playboys a few weeks when they moved on to Chas McDevitt's group. For a brief time, McDevitt had been the biggest star in skiffle other than Lonnie Donegan, but he was firmly in the downward phase of his career at this point. McDevitt also owned a coffee bar, the Freight Train, named after his biggest hit, and most of the musicians in London would hang out there. And after Clem Cattini and Brian Gregg had joined the Pirates, it was at the Freight Train that the song for which the group would be remembered was written. They were going to go into the studio to record another song chosen by the record label -- a version of the old standard "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" -- because EMI had apparently not yet learned that if you had Johnny Kidd record old standards, no-one bought it, but if you had him record bluesy rock and roll you had a hit. But they'd been told they could write their own B-side, as they'd been able to on the last few singles. They were also allowed to bring in Joe Moretti to provide a second guitar -- Moretti, who had played the solo on "Brand New Cadillac", was an old friend of Clem Cattini's, and they thought he'd add something to the record, and also thought they'd be doing him a favour by letting him make a session fee -- he wasn't a regular session player. So they all got together in the Freight Train coffee bar, and wrote another Heath/Robinson number. They weren't going to do anything too original for a B-side, of course. They nicked a rhythm guitar part from "Linda Lu", a minor US hit that Lee Hazelwood had produced for a Chuck Berry soundalike named Ray Sharpe, and which was itself clearly lifted from “Speedoo” by the Cadillacs: [Excerpt: Ray Sharpe, "Linda Lu"] They may also have nicked Joe Moretti's lead guitar part as well, though there's more doubt about this. There's a Mickey and Sylvia record, "No Good Lover", which hadn't been released in the UK at the time, so it's hard to imagine how they could have heard it, but the lead guitar part they hit on was very, very similar -- maybe someone had played it on Radio Luxembourg: [Excerpt: Mickey and Sylvia, "No Good Lover"] They combined those musical ideas with a lyric that was partly a follow-on to the line in "Please Don't Touch" about shaking too much, and partly a slightly bowdlerised version of a saying that Kidd had -- when he saw a woman he found particularly attractive, he'd say "She gives me quivers in me membranes". As it was a B-side, the track they recorded only took two takes, plus a brief overdub for Moretti to add some guitar shimmers, created by him using a cigarette lighter as a slide: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, "Shakin' All Over"] The song was knocked off so quickly that they even kept in a mistake -- before the guitar solo, Clem Cattini was meant to play just a one-bar fill. Instead he played for longer, which was very unlike Cattini, who was normally a professional's professional. He asked for another take, but the producer just left it in, and that break going into the solo was one of the things that people latched on to: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, "Shakin' All Over"] Despite the track having been put together from pre-existing bits, it had a life and vitality to it that no other British record except "Brand New Cadillac" had had, and Kidd had the added bonus of actually being able to hold a tune, unlike Vince Taylor. The record company quickly realised that "Shakin' All Over" should be the record that they were pushing, and flipped the single. The Pirates appeared on Wham!, the latest Jack Good TV show, and immediately the record charted. It soon made number one, and became the first real proof to British listeners that British people could make rock and roll every bit as good as the Americans -- at this point, everyone still thought Vince Taylor was from America. It was possibly Jack Good who also made the big change to Johnny Kidd's appearance -- he had a slight cast in one eye that got worse as the day went on, with his eyelid drooping more and more. Someone -- probably Good -- suggested that he should make this problem into an advantage, by wearing an eyepatch. He did, and the Pirates got pirate costumes to wear on stage, while Kidd would frantically roam the stage swinging a cutlass around. At this point, stagecraft was something almost unknown to British rock performers, who rarely did more than wear a cleanish suit and say "thank you" after each song. The only other act that was anything like as theatrical was Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, a minor act who had ripped off Screamin' Jay Hawkins' act. The follow-up, "Restless", was very much "Shakin' All Over" part two, and made the top thirty. After that, sticking with the formula, they did a version of "Linda Lu", but that didn't make the top forty at all. Possibly the most interesting record they made at this point was a version of "I Just Want to Make Love to You", a song Willie Dixon had written for Muddy Waters: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, "I Just Want to Make Love to You"] The Pirates were increasingly starting to include blues and R&B songs in their set, and the British blues boom artists of the next few years would often refer to the Pirates as being the band that had inspired them. Clem Cattini still says that Johnny Kidd was the best British blues singer he ever heard. But as their singles were doing less and less well, the Pirates decided to jump ship. Colin Hicks, Tommy Steele's much less successful younger brother, had a backing band called the Cabin Boys, which Brian Gregg had been in before joining Terry Dene's band. Hicks had now started performing an act that was based on Kidd's, and for a tour of Italy, where he was quite popular, he wanted a new band -- he asked the Pirates if they would leave Kidd and become the latest lineup of Cabin Boys, and they left, taking their costumes with them. Clem Cattini now says that agreeing was the worst move he ever made, but they parted on good terms -- Kidd said "Alan, Brian and Clem left me to better themselves. How could I possibly begrudge them their opportunity?" We'll be picking up the story of Alan, Brian, and Clem in a few months' time, but in the meantime, Kidd picked up a new backing band, who had previously been performing as the Redcaps, backing a minor singer called Cuddly Dudley on his single "Sitting on a Train": [Excerpt: Cuddly Dudley and the Redcaps, "Sitting on a Train"] That new lineup of Pirates didn't last too long before the guitarist quit, due to ill health, but he was soon replaced by Mick Green, who is now regarded by many as one of the great British guitarists of all time, to the extent that Wilko Johnson, another British guitarist who came to prominence about fifteen years later, has said that he spent his entire career trying and failing to sound like MIck Green. In 1962 and 63 the group were playing clubs where they found a lot of new bands who they seemed to have things in common with. After playing the Cavern in Liverpool and a residency at the Star Club in Hamburg, they added Richie Barrett's "Some Other Guy" and Arthur Alexander's "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues" to their sets, two R&B numbers that were very popular among the Liverpool bands playing in Hamburg but otherwise almost unknown in the UK. Unfortunately, their version of "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues" didn't chart, and their record label declined to issue their version of "Some Other Guy" -- and then almost immediately the Liverpool group The Big Three released their version as a single, and it made the top forty. As the Pirates' R&B sound was unsuccessful -- no-one seemed to want British R&B, at all -- they decided to go the other way, and record a song written by their new manager, Gordon Mills (who would later become better known for managing Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdinck). "I'll Never Get Over You" was a very catchy, harmonised, song in the style of many of the new bands that were becoming popular, and it's an enjoyable record, but it's not really in the Pirates' style: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, "I'll Never Get Over You"] That made number four on the charts, but it would be Johnny Kidd and the Pirates' last major hit. They did have a minor hit with another song by Mills, "Hungry For Love", but a much better record, and a much better example of the Pirates' style, was an R&B single released by the Pirates without Kidd. The plan at the time was that they would be split into two acts in the same way as Cliff Richard and the Shadows -- Kidd would be a solo star, while the Pirates would release records of their own. The A-side of the Pirates' single was a fairly good version of the Willie Dixon song "My Babe", but to my ears the B-side is better -- it's a version of "Casting My Spell", a song originally by an obscure duo called the Johnson Brothers, but popularised by Johnny Otis. The Pirates' version is quite possibly the finest early British R&B record I've heard: [Excerpt: The Pirates, "Casting My Spell"] That didn't chart, and the plan to split the two acts failed. Neither act ever had another hit again, and eventually the classic Mick Green lineup of the Pirates split up -- Green left first, to join Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, and the rest left one by one. In 1965, The Guess Who had a hit in the US with their cover version of "Shakin' All Over": [Excerpt: The Guess Who, "Shakin' All Over"] The Pirates were reduced to remaking their own old hit as "Shakin' All Over '65" in an attempt to piggyback on that cover version, but the new version, which was dominated by a Hammond organ part, didn't have any success. After the Pirates left Kidd, he got a new group, which he called the New Pirates. He continued making extremely good records on occasion, but had no success at all. Even though younger bands like the Rolling Stones and the Animals were making music very similar to his, he was regarded as an outdated novelty act, a relic of an earlier age from six years earlier. There was always the potential for him to have a comeback, but then in 1966 Kidd, who was never a very good driver and had been in a number of accidents, arrived late at a gig in Bolton. The manager refused to let him on stage because he'd arrived so late, so he drove off to find another gig. He'd been driving most of the day, and he crashed the car and died, as did one person in the vehicle he crashed into. His final single, "Send For That Girl", was released after his death. It's really a very good record, but at the time Kidd's fortunes were so low that even his death didn't make it chart: [Excerpt: Johnny Kidd and the New Pirates, "Send For That Girl"] Kidd was only thirty when he died, and already a has-been, but he left behind the most impressive body of work of any pre-Beatles British act. Various lineups of Pirates have occasionally played since -- including, at one point, Cattini and Gregg playing with Joe Moretti's son Joe Moretti Jr -- but none have ever captured that magic that gave millions of people quivers down the backbone and shakes in the kneebone.

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The additions of Oscar Marin at pitching coach and Luke Maile at catcher should help Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers in 2020 and beyond. The guys break down why Pirates fans should be happy with these "minor" moves as they show a deliberate move towards long-term goals through a rebuild. Listen as we get drunk with power at a 9-foot basement bar talking Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball. Listen. Subscribe. Share. It's "30 Minutes Of Bucs" and the NEW Pirates Fan Podcast called Bucs In The Basement! #Pittsburgh #Pirates #Podcast

Following recent comments by Pittsburgh Pirates General Manager Neil Huntington, Craig makes a strong case for new leadership at the top of the organization. Find out who has to move on for the team to be successful in 2020, and why. Listen. Subscribe. Share. It's "30 Minutes Of Bucs" and the NEW Pirates Fan Podcast called Bucs In The Basement! #Pittsburgh #Pirates #Podcast

Welcome to this special episode of Brand&New in Boston, Massachusetts recorded during INTA’s 2019 Annual Meeting. This unique event, a must for education and networking, is attended each spring by more than 10,000 members of the IP community and beyond, from over 150 countries. So Brand&New could not miss it!Counterfeiting is no less than one of the biggest issues of our times. It is self-evident to say that it is linked to crimes, that it costs billions to companies and societies every year in all areas. So relevant actions are more essential than ever, particularly to tackle illicit sales. Our episode today is about the most efficient ways, with the development of innovative tools, to fight these new pirates. Our focus will be China, and its challenges about IP, including the impact of so-called trade war with the US.Our guest is partner at one of the largest law firms in the world, Baker & McKenzie, present in more than 40 countries. Loke Khoon Tan leads the IP Practice Group in Hong Kong and China and co-leads the firm’s luxury and fashion industry practice. He works with global brands, helping them to structure and implement anti-counterfeiting strategies. Loke is the author of the “Pirates” trilogy and other publications about IP protection. So who else to talk about this hot topic?Every two weeks, on Tuesday, Brand & New gives the floor to inspiring individuals, with a 360-degree vision, to help brand owners, intellectual property lawyers, and marketing and finance professionals (and beyond!) stay curious and agile in an ever-evolving business environment. Brand & New is a production of the International Trademark AssociationHosted by Audrey DauvetContribution of M. Halle & S. Lagedamond - Music by JD BeatsFOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT INTA.ORGTo go further:About Loke Khoon Tan (link to https://www.linkedin.com/in/lokekhoontan/ and https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/people/t/tan-lokekhoon)Also of interest:- INTA Study "Addressing the Sale of Counterfeits on the Internet" (link to https://www.inta.org/Advocacy/Documents/2018/Addressing_the_Sale_of_Counterfeits_on_the_Internet_021518.pdf)- INTA’s new attitudinal study, Gen Z Insights: Brands and Counterfeit Products (link to www.inta.org/impactstudies)- Trademark Law in China - Pirates in the Middle Kingdom, by Loke Khoon Tan (link to https://www.pbookshop.com/trademark-law-in-china-pirates-in-the-middle-kingdom-the-new-frontier-3rd-edition-9789626619032.html)

The impact of Venezuela's economic crisis is being felt far beyond its shores; Colin Freeman hears how some former Venezuelan fisherman have turned to kidnap and smuggling guns and drugs into Trinidad to make money. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world: How will the Trump administration judge its allies in the Middle East, wonders Barbara Plett Usher. She joined the US Secretary of State on part of his rapid round of diplomacy in the region where one word kept cropping up – Iran. 63,000 jobs and 19 million applicants – Rahul Tandon joins some of the people hoping to work on India’s railways. Juliet Rix joins the celebrations to mark 100 years since the Bauhaus school of art and design was founded. And Bethany Bell struggles through the snow in Austria to report on record falls in the Alps.

Pirates CSG Master Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Z-x-z9gaWiKFLk-kw1weamc0A1-NxMN3xLjWWKsUmA/edit?usp=sharing I will also release the documents that led to this episode that Woelf has shared with me, so everyone can look at them! Question of the Day: Which of these game pieces would you most want to use? Which ones excite you the most? Information about Miniature Trading: http://m.miniaturetrading.com/im/forum/viewtopic/t=9350/// Audio version of the podcast: http://shoutengine.com/PiratesCSGPodcast/ The Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/165340696838921/ Woelf has shared some original Wizkids spreadsheets with me to help in my process to create a "master spreadsheet" that I hope to turn into a second database, similar to the one at Miniature Trading. In these incredible documents are many "juicy tidbits" of information, a true treasure trove of cool stuff for a Pirates fanatic like me.  How crazy is this?! New Pirates information 13 years later! XD I can't wait to use some of these new game pieces in games sometime. Pros of my spreadsheet: -Don’t have to scroll to the right for anything important (flavor text and treasure values off to the right) (Basically a rule of Pirates CSG spreadsheets in my opinion - if you can’t easily see all gameplay-relevant data without scrolling, columns should be shrunk down for ease of use.) -All flavor text included -Factions color coded for maximum ease of use (I like the new design so much that I think I will be converting my custom sets to the same color scheme!) -Took the best stuff from each resource used (Holofernes’ notes from Jolly Roger + filtering, flavor text from Wizkids spreadsheets, Miniature Trading database for cannons and some flavor text (a/b for crewfer twofers/etc are lowercase because that is how they appear on the WK documents) -Includes unreleased and “lost” items from official Wizkids documents Cons: -Some columns do not display well at all with the filter view. Those are the ones I slanted so they would be more legible (it gets worse if they are horizontal). -Filter view does not seem to work with Google Sheets version for online viewing, unless you create a temporary filter view yourself. Even tried allowing editing mode and locking the sheets, but that didn’t work either. (https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/docs/68RwOGYUCqA/PFFYjiaKBwAJ) To view filters in online version: Data-Filter Views-Create new temporary filter view The .xlsx file of the spreadsheet has the filters. -Likely some minor mistakes due to copy/paste errors or excessive dragging of cell data. (please point out so I can fix them) Listened to this playlist while working on the master spreadsheet: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR_xCgMZxpEhsLTENwBgZUWQ2FnpuZCnW Take the podcast survey! https://goo.gl/forms/CsnwVmi3qhtqik323 Podcast length poll on MT: http://m.miniaturetrading.com/im/forum/viewtopic/t=9155/// Sign the Petition! https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bring-back-pirates-of-the-cursed-seas eBay is often the best place to find Pirates stuff: https://goo.gl/SQ5Kca Hill's Wholesale Gaming (HWG) often has the best prices on packs: http://www.wholesalegaming.biz/pirates/ My fansite: https://pirateswithben.com

New Pirates acquisition & two-time All-Star, Chris Archer, is feeling the love from Pirates Nation already. Arch takes you inside the moment he was traded, details what it was like to see his Pirates jersey for the first time, and much more. And his manager, Clint Hurdle, shares his thoughts on this new Pirates era and explains the philosophy behind showing his players so much love..  Head over to BetOnline.AG and use promo code PODCAST1 to receive a 50% sign up bonus

In this episode, we saw INCREDIBLES 2! We also talked about our NEW STUDIO, AP HOLDERS DISCOUNT, McDONALD's INCREDIBLES HAPPY MEAL, DUMBO TRAILER, THE MINNIE MICE BENCH, Anyssa being featured on DISNEY STYLE's Instagram account, DOWNTOWN DISNEY NEWS, THE NEW PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN RIDE, UNVEILED OUR NEW BRANDING and new show format. We also answered tons of questions from our Instagram Live and announced this week's TRIVIA winner. See ya next week!

In this episode, the team reviews Fantasmic! 2.0, and discuss the Pirates of the Caribbean controversy. We also go over the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and the Star Wars Resort announced at the D23 Expo. News Halloween Time Expands to Disney California Fantasmic is BACK! New Pirates set to join the crew of Pirates of the Caribbean MaxPass Debuts Fun fact - the disclaimer is longer than the article Feature D23 announcement part 1 - Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Twitter Daniel @disgeekpodcast  Tommy @tommypix Chris @dizchris Jes @jesjones1976 Email us at- disgeekpodcast@gmail.com Call us at 661 450-8290. If you enjoy the show take a minute and Review us in itunes.  

In todays episode we discuss the latest in movies & TV. We talk about the horrible decision Sony is making rebooting Fantastic 4...AGAIN! Then give our thoughts on the newly debued Wonder Woman film & Pirates of The Caribbean movies & rate them. We then drool over the latest Black Panther trailer and talk expectations. From here we go all over the map from trailers we love to Spiderman, to Memes, and end it on some awesome Godzilla 2 News! enjoy

In this mini episode Shifting Focus Recommends, Ryan gives his review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, spoilers, its BAD! Mike runs down some Netflix movies he went digging through hoping to find something good ... and due to technical issues half of what we recorded is gone :-( so poor Dave didn't get a chance to weigh in on what he's been watching lately. Look forward to episode 9 where we will be reviewing WONDER WOMAN! Search for us as "Shifting Focus podcast" on Google Play Music or iTunes. iTunes: goo.gl/1pl6eH Google Play: goo.gl/UiCkgi Please visit our website at www.shiftingfocuspodcast.com email: contact@shiftingfocuspodcast.com Twitter: @ShiftFocusPod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCEC-G3ie6unw0nJY0BfboQ Patreon: patreon.com/ShiftingFocus

Howdy Partners! On this Glorious episode Tommy and Rich JUST TALK... DAN STEVENS is everywhere. Hugh Jackman makes a phone call and dances for Limpton. THE LOGAN MOVIE REVIEW !!! DEADPOOL 2 Teaser Trailer !!! Who is the next YOUNGER WOLVERINE ?! New Thor Movie Sneak peak. MORGAN FREEMAN'S favorite BATMAN movie is the LEGO BATMAN MOVIE !!! New PIRATES of the Caribbean Rant. 2 INDIAN movies to watch. SAW Movie Rant. Epic midnight MOVIE EXPERIENCES !!! SLEEP rant. New Movies Trailers coming out to watch. What were watching on NETFLIX. Like him or hate him, MEL GIBSON that knows how to "make action emotional." HACKSAW RIDGE. nuf said. go see it. Spider man saves Johnny Utah. Soap Opera-Guilty pleasure shows we still watch...that are not the show they were before. IRON FIST rant. KONG Movie Review next week.... MAHALO! JUST TALK.

Author of "The Walt Disney World That Never Was" ~ Chris Smith!!!!   Bio:   Chris is an Attorney with the passion for Disney! He's taken that passion and penned an incredible book titled "The Walt Disney World That Never Was" based on what could have been at WDW. His book brings to light some of the most outrageous concepts that really could have been reality and some concepts that we totally wish would come to fruition! Enjoy the show!    For more on our Guest:  Here's and excerpt from Chris' book:  The Imagineers who worked on the Fire Mountain concept wanted to stay loyal to the Jules Verne theming reflected in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. They developed plans for an innovative roller-coaster thrill attraction set inside a massive show building that would be themed as a smoking volcano. The volcano itself would have been enormous and dramatic, dominating the skyline of Fantasyland behind Cinderella Castle.   You can find Chris on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/chris.smith.562329?fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab&pnref=friends.recent And You can find his book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-World-That-Never-ebook/dp/B01MXH25P2    EARS the NEWS:  BB-8 meet and greet premieres New Pirates preview Dates for MNSSHP & MVMCP New details on Fireworks show - Happily Ever After The Rock skippers the Jungle Cruise! Disneyland Legends     Divas Dish Diz Sponsors: Upon a Star Travel & Concierge ~ Customized Disney travel planning for your family! Let our team customize a magical vacation for your family - there is no additional cost to you when you book a package with our team! Sugar Fox Flowers ~ Customize your wedding/event cakes with our made to order edible Sugar Flowers. Turn your DIY cakes into Show Stoppers! Need more Dish from our Divas???  Co-Host: Jennifer Novotny: Upon A Star Travel & Concierge ~ www.UponAStarTravel.com Co-Host: Christine Fox: @ChristineFox @SugarFoxFlowers @Foxmomof4 ~ www.sugarfoxflowers.com Social Media: KallyLavoie: @Miss_K_Lavoie Disneyland Expert: KatrinaRios: @katrinarabbit87

The Fork In Your Ear Podcast EP#4 Tales From PAX PRIME 2016, New Pirates of The Carribbean Trailer, Astroneers & Worlds Adrift Come joing Tim, Jessica and Keenan as we excite and induldge you all with stories of things! Remember to give us a review on iTunes or wherever you downloaded this podcast from. And don't forget you can connect to us on social media with, at, on or through: Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theforkinyourearpodcast/ Twitter Handle: @getforkedpod eMail Address: theforkinyourearpodcast@gmail.com iTunes Podcast Store Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dynamic-works-productions/id703318918?mt=2&i=319887887 If you would like to catch up with each of us personally Online PSN/XBL/Twitch/Twitter: Mike List's Youtube ID: Buster Knuckle  Mike List's Twitch ID: Buster_knuckle Mike List's Twitter ID: therealmikelist Mike List's PSN ID: Blisterlister113 Damian Newman's YouTube ID: Iam SelfmadeDame  Damian Newman's Twitter ID: @IamSelfmadeDame Damian Newman's Twitch ID: IamSelfmadeDame Damian Newman's PSN ID: SelfmadeDame Tim K.A. Trotter's Youtube ID: Dynamicworksproductions Tim K.A. Trotter's Twitter ID: Tim_T Tim K.A. Trotter's Twitch ID: Tim_KA_Trotter Tim K.A. Trotter's PSN ID: Linuxisthedemon Tim K.A. Trotter's XBL ID: Tim T Also remember to buy my Sc-Fi adventure book “The Citadel: Arrival by Tim K.A. Trotter” availible right now on Amazon Kindle store & iTunes iBookstore for only $2.99 get a free preview download when you visit those stores, it's a short story only 160-190 pages depending on your screen size, again thats $2.99 on Amazon Kindle & iTunes iBookstore so buy book and support this show! Additionally if you want more podcasts but different subjects. Tim K.A. Trotter also hosts a weekly show called Rising Tide: A Marvel Cinematic Universe Podcast, your one stop shop for all things Marvel for movies, TV shows and comics and more! So give it a listen! Mike and Damian frequently guest star on that show too. Finally, you can find our company by any of these links> Company Website: http://www.dynamicworksproductions.com/ Company Facebook: www.facebook.com/dynamicworksproductions Company Twitter: @DynamicWorksPro Company eMail Address: dynamicworks@mac.com

The Two Gay Geeks have actor, Stephen Manley, who is in the recently released, Ghost Hunters. Stephen also has a very interesting background and has a claim to fame some of our listeners will be very familiar with. We have our birthday segment and of course our feedback segment. In our second segment we talk about a couple of Netflix Marvel entries. As always we welcome your feedback, let us know what you think, good or bad we want to know. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.     Our YouTube channel is Two Gay Geeks (audio only):  Show Notes / Links:    Trailer for New Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is here! The teaser trailer for Doctor Who spin-off series, Class is here! Live-Action Remake of Mulan To March Into Theaters for 2018 Aliens in new Star Trek seizes to change when new series Discovery premieres Dr. Zombie’s Movie Lab of Terror Madam Gao confirmed to appear in Iron Fist Luke Cage’s Facebook Live Chat Crashed by his Fellow Defenders   Featured Podcast Bumper of the Week Vox Box Star Wars PodcastIf you have a podcast or know of a podcast we should be aware of, please use the contact form below and send us the information and we will take a look.   Phoenix Comicon InfoPhoenix Comicon Fan Fest 16 will be October 22nd and 23rd at the Convention Center in Downtown Phoenix. More info at www.phoenixcomicon.com .   Cottonwood Comic Book Show Thank You The Arkle Times Post Dispatch News - Social Justice Skald on Twitter @arkle Please have a look at Arkle’s other venture: Incorrect Voyager Quotes Doctor Who Fancast Guide - Dr Who: Talking Who on Twitter @TalkingWho SciFi Obsession on https:www.facebook.com/scifiob/ Thank you to The Lookie Show for their continued support on Twitter. @LookieShow Check them out on Youtube as well here We want to give a special shout out to the Facebook Group “The Gay Geek” for graciously allowing us to post our episodes to their page. Look for them at www.facebook.com/groups/thegaygeek. And a special Thank You to Jeramiah Reeves, the moderator, for being such a great guy.   Are you a writer?The Two Gay Geeks have recently been deemed “worthy” by the PR houses to attend film press screenings, but we can’t view every film that gets released. So, if you fancy yourself as a movie reviewer, and wish to write a review of a new film, get in touch with us using the contact us page and use the subject line of "Movie Review Options." We can then contact you and work out the details. Thank you.   Support Independent CreatorsAs you may know by now, we have become huge supporters of Independent Creators, not just film, but any kind of creative outlet that is of an independent nature. We know we are always pushing something, but this is what we have become passionate about. We just ask you to take a look at those independent creators that we talk about and others you may discover on your own and give a helping hand. It doesn’t always have to be much, usually as little as five dollars helps in the scheme of things. Please consider supporting Independent Creators.   Social MediaWe can now be found on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Google +, see the links on the right sidebar.   You are Important To UsWe welcome your suggestions. Let us know what you like or don’t like or if you have an opinion or comment on an article or the show. You may email us below, comment on Facebook, or call our listener line at 469.TG Geeks (469.844.3357). Let us know if there is something we should be watching and why, and we may just give you a shout-out in a future episode. We will not publish or use your email address to spam you. Please be sure to read the Privacy / Terms and Conditions Of Use.   About Amazon AdsWe have placed ads in our articles to help us defray the cost of this venture.

Bryon and Marc talk about the lame Rogue One toys, SNL starts with a bang, Tom Brady is back in the NFL and Marc reviews Luke Cage (No Spoilers). Topics & Spoilers:          Board Game Night, Rogue One, Wonder Woman, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, SNL, VP Debate, Luke Cage, Tom Brady, Batman, New Pirates trailer and Jeremy's Footgate comes to a close. #LukeCage #TheBatman #RogueOne #SNL #TomBrady #Pirates You can reach us on any of these social media platforms: Twitter: twitter.com/BMBakedPodcast   Facebook: www.facebook.com/BandMBakedPodcast   Youtube: www.youtube.com/BandMBakedPodcast Also visit our friends:   Listen to Bryon & Ben talk Twin Peaks every week:www.twinpeaksunwrapped.com   Hear more from Eric & Nate on The Beanholes Podcast: beanholes.com/   See more of Matt & Wally's work at Free Lunch Studios:www.freelunchstudios.com   Also check out the Turnstile Tyrants Christian & Ryan on Not Fit to Print:notfittoprint.podbean.com

Jason, Tyler, & Steve from rumbunter.com hop on to analyze the two newest Pittsburgh Pirates - Joe Blanton and Joakim Soria!

Jambeaux, everyone!!! Welcome to another episode of the Magic Our Way podcast. We appreciate your listening to our show and we hope it brings a smile to your face. We also appreciate your feedback and are committed to listening to our listeners. Factoid of the day: from groundbreaking to opening day, Disneyland was built in just 365 days! We invite two past guest to come on our show and join in our discussion regarding who is the smarter of the two sisters, Anna or Elsa? Please note: the Magic Our Way Podcast is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company or its entities and all opinions expressed therein are solely those of the Magic Our Way podcast. No animals were harmed in the making of this podcast. But first, some news. In the Queue. we cover the following news stories: New Pirates of the Caribbean boats at Walt Disney World Launch date for Rivers of Light at Animal Kingdom MOW Podcast’s new Speakpipe application and much, much more! This week’s Hub was born out of constant discussions between Danny and his wife, Anna, after having viewed the movie Frozen numerous, numerous times. We invited Jackie back on our show to participate with us. The discussion revolves around the quest to figure out who is the smarter (or who is the dumber) sister in the Frozen universe. We explore numerous points and even read an email from a listener who responded to our Twitter and Facebook requests for thoughts regarding this topic.  If you enjoy this show or have something to contribute to our discussion, please let us know by contacting us at magicourway@gmail.com. We would love to hear from you.  As always, we promise to give the Disney fan a voice! If you have ideas for shows that you want to hear in the future, any thoughts you would like to share, or questions for any of our guests, send us a message at magicourway@gmail.com. You can also leave us a quick voicemail from your computer or mobile device through our new program, Speakpipe. All you have to do is go to the website, http://www.speakpipe.com/magicourway, click the button, and record your brief message. Speakpipe will automatically send your voicemail to us via email. It is that easy…try it today!!!! As always, if you like the show, please rate us and leave a review in the iTunes Store. We do appreciate you taking the time to do so. Also, you can find us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/magicourway) and follow us on Twitter (@magicourway). With Facebook and Twitter you will be able to find out when we are recording our show and ask us a question while we are recording. You may hear a shout out for you and your question being answered on that week's show. If you have any suggestions or comments for the show, please do not hesitate to contact us at magicourway@gmail.com. We will be sure to read your email on the air, unless you tell us not to. We do want to hear from our fans and we want you to be part of our discussion. Also, check out our slowly growing website at www.qmarkproductions.com and our soon to be website on www.magicourway.com. Also, you can now find us on Stitcher, Blackberry, Blubrry, and Double Twist for your listening convenience. Please leave us a rating and a review in whatever platform you download our show. We would just love you for it!   Thanks again for listening to us. We do realize that you have many choices when it comes to Disney podcasts and we appreciate your attention. The Magic Our Way Podcast is otherwise know as Simba 1.5.

Broken News: (NSFW!) Thor is kinda awesome…for women who like men who like men that like women and everyone inbetween. Only SOME of Kerry's stories from the New Pirates premiere trip to Disneyland. Episode: Recorded live at Brewvies. (NSFW!) Tired of Jeremy Renner yet? You will be. The Purple Arrow! No Homo! The Things c*ck. … Continue reading "0155 – New Episode is a lawsuit!"

Broken News: (NSFW!) Thor is kinda awesome…for women who like men who like men that like women and everyone inbetween. Only SOME of Kerry's stories from the New Pirates premiere trip to Disneyland. Episode: Recorded live at Brewvies. (NSFW!) Tired of Jeremy Renner yet? You will be. The Purple Arrow! No Homo! The Things c*ck. … Continue reading "0155 – New Episode is a lawsuit!"

On this extrememly special episode of Jungle Cruise News, we talk about an upcoming NEW Pirates of the Caribbean ride at the Disneyland Resort, a possible sequel to Monster Inc., and the reported extinction of Splash Mountain at Magic Kingdom.