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@Freeda-Sol gives a lot of love to the freak inside all of us with a mix that reminds us to be our authentic selves and not settle in the boxes people want to put us into - including those pesky genre boxes. She kicks things off with Sugar Hill's “I Don't Know Why” and as we approach the end she goes on a freak run starting with a “Sock It To Me” remix collab from DJ Dan, Mike Balance, and Taurus. The final melodic kiss of the night comes from the Disco Gurls with their sweet edit of “Mama Jamma. XOXO Hear more: @Freeds-Sol Shout out to her collectives: @Antonym_HQ (Liverpool, UK) @famaorlando (Orlando, Fl) @queens-of-noise (Orlando, FL) ⚡️Like the Show? Click the [Repost] ↻ button so more people can hear it!

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Mixtape of various jazzy, funky and eclectic beats, breaks and other things we like. Check out video version on beyondfunk.ru tracklist: 1. Joe Armon-Jones - Sorrowful Rhodes 2. The Brooks - Soon As I Can 3. Laiz - Mena 4. YĪN YĪN - Tokyo Disko 5. The Last Poets and Tony Allen - This Is Madness (feat. Egypt 80) 6. Sonic Interventions - Twasa 7. Common Saints - Sandman 8. Greg Foat - The World of the Red Sun 9. Rowan Oliver People (Not Statues) 10. Richard Spaven - Spaven's Arc (Feat. Wildchild) 11. Brock Berrigan - Wedding in St. George 12. Nômade Orquestra - Mariposa Tigre 13. Blockhead - Dolphin Lundgren 14. The Bamboos - The Bells Of Holly Hill 15. Doctor Bionic - Light Your Path 16. Peki Momés - Rüya 17. Baker Brothers - No Sweat 18. Diego Gaeta - Uprising 19. East Coast Love Affair - I Can't Wait 20. Greg Foat - The Rituals of Infinity 21. Jerome Thomas, Pitch 92 - Sock It To Me

Join us this summer as we give you some short fun minisodes to keep you in Vintersmouth while we prep Season 4! We're back with new episodes on September 4/2024, but until then shop for some new kicks with Alydin at Sock It To Me!- - - - - - - - - -CAST & CREWPlayers: Amy More and Tom LairdSound Design: Russ MoreMusic & Sound Effects: slip.stream, Epidemic SoundCover Art: Matt Garbutt (@artmonkeymg on Instagram)- - - - - - - - - -Enjoying Dumbgeons & Dragons? Consider becoming a Patron of Dumb Dragons Productions for as little as $5 a month with a 7-day free trial and now MERCH after 3-months of patronage! (https://www.patreon.com/dumbdragoncast) Buy our merch! (https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dumbgeons-dragons-podcast-store) Follow our socials and more! - https://linktr.ee/dumbdragons - - - - - - - - - -Advertise on Dumbgeons & Dragons: fableandfolly.com/advertise/Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Join us this summer as we give you some short fun minisodes to keep you in Vintersmouth while we prep Season 4! We're back with new episodes on September 4/2024, but until then shop for some new kicks with Alydin at Sock It To Me! - - - - - - - - - - CAST & CREW Players: Amy More and Tom Laird Sound Design: Russ More Music & Sound Effects: slip.stream, Epidemic Sound Cover Art: Matt Garbutt (@artmonkeymg on Instagram) - - - - - - - - - - Enjoying Dumbgeons & Dragons? Consider becoming a Patron of Dumb Dragons Productions for as little as $5 a month with a 7-day free trial and now MERCH after 3-months of patronage! (https://www.patreon.com/dumbdragoncast) Buy our merch! (https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dumbgeons-dragons-podcast-store) Follow our socials and more! - https://linktr.ee/dumbdragons - - - - - - - - - - Advertise on Dumbgeons & Dragons: fableandfolly.com/advertise/ Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

@Freeda-Sol gives a lot of love to the freak inside all of us with a mix that reminds us to be our authentic selves and not settle in the boxes people want to put us into - including those pesky genre boxes. She kicks things off with Sugar Hill's “I Don't Know Why” and as we approach the end she goes on a freak run starting with a “Sock It To Me” remix collab from DJ Dan, Mike Balance, and Taurus. The final melodic kiss of the night comes from the Disco Gurls with their sweet edit of “Mama Jamma. XOXO Hear more: @Freeds-Sol Shout out to her collectives: @Antonym_HQ (Liverpool, UK) @famaorlando (Orlando, Fl) @queens-of-noise (Orlando, FL) Sol Kissed Sessions mixed by Freeda Sol Week 1, Fridays 03/04 May 2024 (2 a.m. GMT/9 p.m. Eastern) 1. I Don't Know Why (Extended Mix) - Sugar Hill 2. Vibrations - Pexem 3. Whatever - Christian Villa 4. Heart Pieces (Mustafa Israeeel mix) - Ocean vs. Orientals, Idil Mese 5. 55th & Me - Ish D 6. Empire feat. Laura Rogalli (Natema remix) - Natena, Sugar Hill, Laura Rogalli 7. Hustle Tribes - Dave Mayer, Deeplomatik 8. Funk Soul Brother (GENESIS Edit Extended) - MSTRA (IT) 9. Spring Girl (Vintage Culture remix) - Maori, Adam Ten 10. Shook Pt. 3 (Radio edit) - Nick Morgan 11. Run it Up - Loz Seka 12. Sock It To Me - DJ Dan, Mike Balance, Taurus (US) 13. Freaks Don't Fail Me Now - Claude Von Stoke 14. Freak Out - Eugenio Fico 15. San Frandisco (Extended mix) - Dom Dolla 16. Mamma Jamma (Extended mix) - Disco Gurls

Sintonía: "Escape Velocity" - Man Or Astro-Man?"Turn Away" - The Mortals; "Hate Your Way" - The Mono Men; "Kill That Guy" - Von Zippers; "I Know It All Doll" - Splash 4; "Psychodestruct" - Switch Trout; "Make My Way" - The Mooney Suzuki; "Deora" - The Volcanos; "SGWTF" - Von Zippers; "I Want Some More" - No Talents; "New Arsenal" - Fatal Flying Guilloteens; "Sock It To Me" - T.V. Killers; "Do The Skin Crawl" - The Knockout Pills; "Cool American" - Watts; "Hold The Roll" - Gas Huffer; "Good As Gold" - Federation X; "All Night Burner" - The Crown Royals; "Take Me To The Speedway" - The DexateensEscuchar audio

We hear your DM's every weekday at 6:40 & 7:40am. Today's DM Disaster is Sock It To Me, Celia's boyfriend has taken matters into his own hands after he threw away all of Celia's funny socks for work. She loved to wear them because it was the only creative thing she could wear with her uniform, now she wants him to buy all the ones he threw out! Is Celia in the right. Let's help out Celia with her DM Disaster!  All this and more on the ROR Morning Show with Bob Bronson and LBF Podcast. Find more great podcasts at bPodStudios.com…The Place To Be For Podcast Discovery 

SOCK IT TO ME!! Let's talk about sex... The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet, a 1969 softcore sexploitation film. We talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be... strap in folks it's gonna be a bumpy ride. Peter's Insta: https://www.instagram.com/prule_designs/ Peters website: https://rulescenography.com/ Socials! tiktok.com/@iftheshoefitspod instagram.com/_iftheshoefitspod/ ——————————————— Attribution: “Fire” - The Pointer Sisters Indie Folk Acoustic by Coma-Media from Pixabay Ambient Piano & Strings by ZakharValaha from Pixabay

This episode of Sock It To Me is dedicated to Indigenous excellence. Enjoy!Remember Wounded KneeFor set lists and more, check out our IG: @sockittomedaddySock It To Me is an independent podcast designed to be a music exchange, featuring music and DJs from around the world. The artists featured are multicultural, crossing all genres, styles, and times. If you are interested in featuring a mix please email us at sooockittome@gmail.comTune in the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the Month for fresh cuts.

I am Beyond thrilled that this weeks special guest is musician Colleen Green. For years, literally to back when I was in college, I have fangirled hard over Colleen's music for its relatability and honesty. I first feel in love with Colleen's song 'You're So Cool' off of her debut album Sock It To Me. I would play this song over and over again walking down the streets of Chicago. That song was defiantly the story of my life at the time and in many ways still is. Eventually, I moved to NYC and when I was beginning to build my new life here, Colleen released her album I Want To Grow Up. This album literally changed my life and mirrored by new journey in a new city that was often scary and exciting at the same time. I Want to Grow Up is the ultimate Saturn Return album and we talk about this during our interview. Now 5 years since that albums release, I am going through my Saturn Return, so I am finding a new kinship to this album.  Recently, Colleen has released her new album Cool and it defiantly feels like the homecoming I have been waiting for. During our conversation we talk all about the inception, creation, and finalization of Cool and the journey it is yet to take. I am so honored that Colleen was able to share so much insight into her creative process as a musician and be very open about her experiences as an artist.  This conversation is not only one I feel so lucky to have, for it feels like a wish come true, but I know I will cherish this moment for years to come. To listen to and support Colleen's music please see the links in the show notes below.    Find & Support Colleen Green here:  Instagram: @colleengreen420 Website: colleengreen420.com Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0LHZaUvES8NniRWNuhHNJl?si=VSISCu-9QpiI4Iio4jnn0A&dl_branch=1   Follow The Punk Priestess: Instagram: @thepunkpriestess  TikTok: @thepunk_priestess Spotify: @thepunkpriestess   Punk Priestess Shop & Tarot Readings:  Get Yourself Some Punk Swag & schedule a tarot or astrology reading with me: https://www.thepunkpriestess.com Contact: Email & Collab Inquires: thepunkpriestess@gmail.com

Sock It To Me is back with a Hip Hop and R&B remix this week!For set lists and more about our guest, check out our IG: @sockittomedaddySock It To Me is an independent podcast designed to be a music exchange, featuring music and DJs from around the world. The artists featured are multicultural, crossing all genres, styles, and times. If you are interested in featuring a mix please email us at sooockittome@gmail.comTune in the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the Month for fresh cuts.

Welcome back to Sock It To Me! If you are here for an interstellar, cross conscious mix and trip, you came to the right place.This week's discussion focuses on the soul and the spiritual. So take a breath and prepare for a dive into the great unknown with an Indigenous, Arabic, and Latinx trip to the internalized motherland, the subconscious.For set lists and more about our guest, check out our IG: @sockittomedaddySock It To Me is an independent podcast designed to be a music exchange, featuring music and DJs from around the world. The artists featured are multicultural, crossing all genres, styles, and times. If you are interested in featuring a mix please email us at sooockittome@gmail.com

This episode is an explosion of hot, sexy, QUEER  house and freestyle! Featuring a mix entitled "E 12th Fantasy" by the one and ONLY Guerrilla Pump

Sock It To Me presets a mix inspired by none other than....Prince. Here at SITM, the Purple One is one of our greatest inspirations. So to celebrate, we put a lil Something in the Water because it is time to be Welcomed to the Dawn with a purple mix filled with deep cuts and tricks on all vinyl.  For set lists and more info, check out our IG: @sockittomedaddySock It To Me is an independent podcast designed to be a music exchange, featuring music and DJs from around the world. The artists featured are multicultural, crossing all genres, styles, and times. If you are interested in featuring a mix please email us at sooockittome@gmail.com

This episode is an unapologetic love letter to the San Francisco Bay Area. We, here in the Bay, like many communities within this settler-colonial nation, have murderous police forces working within our cities. This episode highlights police brutality with a candid discussion of institutionalized racism within American "justice" while also providing our community locally and globally a 50-minute escape with some souldies and funk. Featured in this mix are several Bay Area based groups and record labels from the 60's and 70's.  Please visit @4dalycity and @justice4mariogonzalez to find out ways in which you can aid and advocate for those most recently lost to this vile system.For set lists and more info, check out our IG: @sockittomedaddy Sock It To Me is an independent podcast designed to be a music exchange, featuring music and DJs from around the world. The artists featured are multicultural, crossing all genres, styles, and times. If you are interested in featuring a mix please email us at sooockittome@gmail.com

This episode is coming at you HOT off the turntables with a mix that has a little bit of everything and the kitchen sink. We got it all - from Blues to Reggae, to R&B and Dancehall to some soulful Oldies and Funk. Please, take some time for yourself and enjoy this eclectic escape!Sock It To Me is an independent podcast designed to be a music exchange, featuring music and DJs from around the world. The artists featured are multicultural, crossing all genres, styles, and times. If you are interested in featuring a mix please email us at sooockittome@gmail.comSet lists can be found on our IG: @sockittomedaddy

Sock It To Me is back this week with a Brazilian twist!This episode features a special guest mix by Selector Sam, a KPISS FM resident DJ. Sam tares this week up with a 30-minute day dream to Brazil. She'll have you feeling like you are tripping into an alternate dimension in São Paulo!You can catch Sam's weekly show Mystery Brew live at 6pm PST every Wednesday at https://kpiss.fm/For set lists and more about our guest, check out our IG: @sockittomedaddySock It To Me is an independent podcast designed to be a music exchange, featuring music and DJs from around the world. The artists featured are multicultural, crossing all genres, styles, and times. If you are interested in featuring a mix please email us at sooockittome@gmail.com

This is a bonus, little XXXtra mix for the month.It is deeply rooted in political and policy discussions revolving around reparations, generational wealth, and  unequal pay in colonial America. In dedication to all that wish to be liberated, fore we cannot be free until we are ALL free. Hope you enjoy!Sock It To Me is an independent podcast designed to be a music exchange, featuring music and DJs from around the world. The artists featured are multicultural, crossing all genres, styles, and times. If you are interested in featuring a mix please email us at sooockittome@gmail.comSet lists can be found on our IG: @sockittomedaddy

This episode features a mix of love and loss songs, conjuring up all the emotions and feelings that go along with love. You know, that kind of love that makes you hate love, all the while dreaming of romance. This episode goes out to all those that have had their heartbroken but got back up and did it all over. We hope this episode can help with dancing through all those emotions. Enjoy!Sock It To Me is an independent podcast designed to be a music exchange, featuring music and DJs from around the world. The artists featured are multicultural, crossing all genres, styles, and times. If you are interested in featuring a mix please email us at sooockittome@gmail.comSet lists can be found on our IG: @sockittomedaddy

This first mix is 55-minutes or so of music designed to introduce our listeners to our resident DJ and host, Cherry. It includes soul, R&B, funk, Indigenous rock, and more. This set is a love letter to BIPOC joy, love, and revolution. This particular mix was the first mix Cherry ever aired live on FM radio and she is hopes you can take a moment to get your groove on. Enjoy!Sock It To Me is an independent podcast designed to be a music exchange and to feature music and DJs from around the world. The artists featured are multicultural, crossing all genres, styles, and times. If you are interested in featuring a mix please email us at sooockittome@gmail.comSet lists can be found on our IG: @sockittomedaddy

Sock It To Me, Episode 2 showcases our first DJ Spotlight featuring Lil Zé aka Lady Z. Zakiya is an Oakland, CA based DJ that creates through many mediums, both in and outside of the music realm. She is one of the most eclectic players in the game, bringing eye-opening and earthquaking sounds. You can find out more about Lil Zé, her art, and music on IG: @aquanettalashanelaboo or on SoundCloud at soundcloud.com/ladyzoakland.Sock It To Me is an independent podcast designed to be a music exchange, featuring music and DJs from around the world. The artists featured are multicultural, crossing all genres, styles, and times. If you are interested in featuring a mix please email us at sooockittome@gmail.comSet lists can be found on our IG: @sockittomedaddy

Betsy Wiersma is the founder of the CampExperience Network. It was started in 2005 and has raised over $1 million dollars and in-kind support for charities in Colorado and around the world. She's the owner of Wiersma Experience Marketing, offering creative strategic solutions for organizations and businesses and is host of Boost Power Podcast. Wiersma was honored as one of the top 25 women in Colorado by the Women's Chamber of Commerce and is recipient of the Francis Wisebart Jacobs award (known as Colorado's” Mother of Charities”) for philanthropy. In 2019 Betsy was a Speaker at TEDx Colorado, Cherry Creek Women on the topic “Choose Your Family, Change Your Life.” She is the author of Exceptional Events: Concept To Completion (Second Edition) (Kari Strolberg) (Chip Books 2003) and The STEW: Smart Talk Exceptional Women: Art & Insights by Women For the World (Vervante, Inc. 2020)Interview Date: 11/16/2020    Tags: Betsy Wiersma, do good have fun, sisterhood, Camp Experience Network, love as a business plan, power of the purse, women who rocks, mentoring, networking, women's network, catalyst for good, choosing joy, lights on energy, Cathy Hawk, Clarity International, fashion as artistic expression, Paralympics, Sock-It-To-Me project, podcasting, Arts & Creativity, Community, Women's Studies

Next up is one of the most humble, talented people I know, my great friend Luca Cazal aka LVCA. The Italian born, Ibiza based artist has had nothing short of an incredible career so far despite his modesty and during our chat you can really see his passion shine through, I believe he is an artist in its purest form. He is apart of the groundbreaking Infinity Ink and Hot Natured, who played a HUGE part in my own musical development in my early stages and I am sure he has influenced a lot of you guys with tracks like 'Infinity' and 'Benediction'.Now Luca is channeling more energy to his LVCA project and I can safely say it is some of the best music I have heard in recent times. He has releases coming on Berlin label 'Partisan' and also a new UK imprint 'Sock It To Me'. I am really excited to see what the future holds!For those that don't know, Luca released my 'EXPLORE' EP on his label 'See Double'. We originally met at an Ibiza after party around 2016 and have been great friends ever since. This year will see us release a collab EP on a very big label.I hope you guys enjoy this podcast as much as I did recording it and I will post links to Luca's instagram below.

We had another 3-way...via phone! Jezula's back, again, and we introduce you to a new and wise friend, Arien. We discussed many things: from the death of Chadwick Boseman to the views of fornication in the Bible (and how they stack up for life in 2020); we breakdown the rules and tips to hooking up and dive deeper on reason's we're all still single and reasons many others are single when they don't want to be. The Butcher's Block is serving icicle dildos; talk about a chilling confession. If you have something you want to bring to our attention or want our opinionated truth about a situation; hit us up. You can curse us out or ask a question if you want to; just contact us: Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/thethrst Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheTHRST Instagram - http://instagram.com/thethrst Snapchat - https://www.snapchat.com/add/thethrst Email: emailthethrst@gmail.com The THRST is the premier entertainment talk show podcast that brings you gay-best-friend conversations on love and relationships, celebrities and pop culture, sex, and social scandals...all flavored with shade, humor, and opinionated-truth! It's raunchy, but real. SUBSCRIBE, so you never miss an episode! The podcast is FREE; simply insert our RSS Feed ( http://thethrst.libsyn.com/rss ) into your podcatcher or find us in popular podcast directories. This has been a production of The THRST. Copyright 2020. All Rights Reserved. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Intro (http://thethrst.com/) 04:03 - New York Minute w/ Arien 06:35 - The Nook 13:25 - The BHive -Chadwick Boseman -Marques Houston's Marriage 31:55 - Chewing The Fat -The Practicality of Fornication Views in the Bible -The Hookup Playbook: How to Play the Game 1:12:10 - Subscribe to The THRST 1:13:00 - Talk Du Jour: More Reasons You're Single 1:43:14 - Mail Bag 1:44:18 - The Butcher's Block 1:47:25 - Review The THRST 1:48:10 - Outro 1:50:10 - Sock It To Me   LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE: The THRST The THRST on Instagram  The THRST on Facebook The THRST on Twitter  Review The THRST in Apple Podcasts 

On this week’s episode BdotHigh and Mariah J discuss what’s in store for season 2, the legendary Missy Elliott and Cinco De Mayo vibes. Grab your tequila and maracas and vibe out with us.Follow Yo Rewind That:Website: www.yorewindthat.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/yorewindthatInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yorewindthat/Follow BdotHigh:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdothigh/Twitter: https://twitter.com/bdothighFollow Mariah J:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_mariah_j Twitter: https://twitter.com/_mariahj

What you want Baby, I got it What you need Do you know I got it? All I'm askin' Is for a little respect That song was a theme song for a generation of women, but today we all could use a little more R.E.S.P.E.C.T. with our content marketing. RESPECT  is defined as a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements (and I certainly offer up my RESPECT to Aretha Franklin - The Queen Of Soul!). But the kind of respect I am talking about here is an acronym and formula... R - Research E - Experience S - Sympathy P - Purpose E - Education C - Context T - Take-Aways In this episode, we will explore how to earn respect with your content marketing and give a little bit... Sock It To Me!

Hey folks, it's time for a brand new Random Old Records Podcast! EPISODE #73 starts out punk rock, ends up pop, and takes a lot of wild detours in between. The original playlist for this one was over four hours, and it took a lot of work to get it down to 59 minutes and 37 seconds. Let's dive in!The punk rock comes from classic tracks by Pansy Division and Sado-Nation and newer jams by BB And The Blips and Negative Scanner. The pop goes all the way back to the Everly Brothers and forward to some brand new Swervedriver, and there's a nice gooey middle with hooky goodness from Colleen Green, The Beths, The Bombpops, and many, many more. In between all the heat, you'll hear excerpts from the classic 60s head movie The Committee, starring Paul Jones of Manfred Mann! Check it out, and I hope y'all dig it!!Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to Random Old Records via iTunes, Google Play, or RSS. If you like the show, please rate it and write a review! More classic episodes from the past ten years are being added to the feed as well, so check those out as well. You can also go the traditional route and stream or download the new episode below. Watch this space next month for the another episode of Random Old Records. As always, thanks for listening!Random Old Records Podcast #73Released 03/27/19DOWNLOAD HERE (Right-Click, "Save As")1. Pansy Division - "I Can't Sleep"(Pile Up, Lookout 1995)2. Pure Hell - "I Feel Bad"(Noise Addiction, Cherry Red 2016)3. Bad Sports - "Comes Close"(Constant Stimulation, Dirtnap 2018)4. Negative Scanner - "Nose Picker"(Nose Picker, Trouble In Mind 2018)5. Sado-Nation - "Messed Up Mixed Up"(We're Not Equal, Brainstem 1983)6. Dasher - "Resume" (Sodium, Jagjauwar 2017)7. BB And The Blips - "Shame Job"(Shame Job, Thrilling Living 2018)--The Committee, Part 1!8. Ethers - "Empty Hours"(Ethers, Trouble In Mind 2018)9. Eric's Trip - "Follow"(Love Tara, Sub Pop 1993)10. Smokescreens - "Jolly Jane"(Used To Yesterday, Slumberland 2018)11. Colleen Green - "Heavy Shit"(Sock It To Me, Hardly Art 2013)12. The Beths - "Future Me Hates Me"(Future Me Hates Me, Carpark 2018)--The Committee, Part 2!13. The Bombpops - "Be Sweet"(Fear Of Missing Out, Fat Wreck Chords 2017)14. Cheatahs - "Get Tight"(Cheatahs, Wichita 2014)15. Swervedriver - "Drone Lover"(Future Ruins, Dangerbird 2019)16. Kevin Krauter - "Suddenly"(Toss Up, Bayonet 2018)--The Committee, Part 3!17. Split Decision Band - "Say Woman"(Split Decision Band, Now-Again 2017)18. Roger Tillison - "Nobody's Lover"(Ain't It Hard! Garage And Psych From Viva Records, Sundazed 2007)19. The Everly Brothers - "Mary Jane"(The Everly Brothers Sing, Warner Bros. 1967)20. The Chicago Loop - "This Must Be The Place"(Fading Yellow Vol. 3, Flower Machine 2002)21. The Razor's Edge - Don't Let Me Catch You In His Arms(My World Of Make Believe, Teensville 2018)22. Ronnie Bird - "Sad Soul" (Salut Les Copains, Mercury 2015)

    Welcome to episode twenty-two of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Today we’re looking at “The Wallflower” by Etta James. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Also, remember I’m halfway through the Kickstarter for the first book based on this series. —-more—-   Resources As always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. I used a few books for this podcast, most of which I’ve mentioned before: Honkers & Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues by Arnold Shaw, one of the most important books on early 50s rhythm and blues Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and David Ritz. Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story by George Lipsitz. This collection of Etta James’ early work has all the songs by her I excerpted here *except* “The Wallflower”.  “The Wallflower”, though, can be found on this excellent and cheap 3-CD collection of Johnny Otis material, which also includes two other songs we’ve already covered, three more we will be covering, and a number which have been excerpted in this and other episodes.    Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I start, a quick content warning — there’s some mention of child abuse here. Nothing explicit, and not much, but it could cause some people to be upset, so I thought I’d mention it. If you’re worried, there is, like always a full transcript of the episode at 500songs.com so you can read it as text if that might be less upsetting. We’ve talked a little about answer songs before, when we were talking about “Hound Dog” and “Bear Cat”, but we didn’t really go into detail there. But answer songs were a regular thing in the 1950s, and responsible for some of the most well-known songs of the period. In the blues, for example, Muddy Waters’ “Mannish Boy” is an answer song to Bo Diddley’s “I’m A Man”, partly mocking Diddley for being younger than Waters. But “I’m A Man” was, in itself, a response to Waters’ “Hoochie Coochie Man”. And, the “Bear Cat” debacle aside, this was an understood thing. It was no different to the old blues tradition of the floating lyric — you’d do an answer song to a big hit, and hopefully get a little bit of money off its coattails, but because everyone did it, nobody complained about it being done to them. Especially since the answer songs never did better than the original. “Bear Cat” might have gone to number three, but “Hound Dog” went to number one, so where was the harm? But there was one case where an answer song became so big that it started the career of a blues legend, had a film named after it, and was parodied across the Atlantic. The story starts, just like so many of these stories do, with Johnny Otis. In 1953, Otis discovered a Detroit band called the Royals, who had recently changed their name from the Four Falcons to avoid confusion with another Detroit band, the Falcons — this kind of confusion of names was common at the time, given the way every vocal group in the country seemed to be naming themselves after birds. Shortly after Otis discovered them, their lead singer was drafted, and Sonny Woods, one of the band’s members, suggested that as a replacement they should consider Hank Ballard, a friend of his who worked on the same Ford assembly line as him. Ballard didn’t become the lead singer straight away — Charles Sutton moved to the lead vocal role at first, while Ballard took over Sutton’s old backing vocal parts — but he slowly became more important to the band’s sound. Ballard was an interesting singer in many ways — particularly in his influences. While most R&B singers of this time wanted to be Clyde McPhatter or Wynonie Harris, Ballard was a massive fan of Gene Autry, the country and western singer who was hugely influential on Bill Haley and Les Paul. Despite this, though, his vocals didn’t sound like anyone else’s before him. You can find singers later on who sounded like Ballard — most notably both Jackie Wilson and Chubby Checker started out as Hank Ballard soundalikes — but nobody before him who sounded like that. Once Ballard was one of the Mindighters, they had that thing that every band needed to stand out — a truly distinctive sound of their own. Otis became the band’s manager, and got them signed to King Records, one of the most important labels in the history of very early rock and roll. Their first few singles were all doo-wop ballads, many of them written by Otis, and they featured Sutton on lead. They were pleasant enough, but nothing special, as you can hear… [excerpt The Royals “Every Beat of My Heart”] That’s a song Johnny Otis wrote for them, and it later became a million seller for Gladys Knight and the Pips, but there’s nothing about that track that really stands out — it could be any of a dozen or so vocal groups of the time. But that started to change when Hank Ballard became the new lead singer on the majority of their records. Around that time, the band also changed its name to The Midnighters, as once again they discovered that another band had a similar-sounding name. And it was as the Midnighters that they went on to have their greatest success, starting with “Get It” [excerpt of The Midnighters, “Get It”] “Get It” was the first of a string of hits for the band, but it’s the band’s second hit that we’re most interested in here. Hank Ballard had been a fan of Billy Ward and his Dominoes, and their hit “Sixty Minute Man”, which had been considered a relatively filthy song for the time period. “Get It” had been mildly risque for the period, but Ballard wanted to write something closer to “Sixty Minute Man”, and so he came up with a song that he initially titled “Sock It To Me, Mary”. Ralph Bass, the producer, thought the song was a little too strong for radio play, and so the group reworked it in the studio, with the new title being taken partially from the name of the engineer’s wife, Annie. The song they eventually recorded was called “Work With Me Annie” [excerpt of The Midnighters, “Work With Me Annie”] That’s certainly suggestive, but it wouldn’t set too many people on the warpath in 2019. In 1954, though, that kind of thing was considered borderline pornographic. “Give me all my meat?” That’s… well, no-one seemed sure quite what it was, but it was obviously filthy and should be banned. So of course it went to number one in the R&B chart. Getting banned on the radio has always been a guaranteed way to have a hit. And it helped that the song was ridiculously catchy, the kind of thing that you keep humming for weeks The Midnighters followed up with a song that was even more direct — “Sexy Ways” [excerpt of The Midnighters, “Sexy Ways”] That, too, went right up the charts. But “Work With Me Annie” had been such a success that the band recorded two direct followups — “Annie Had A Baby” and “Annie’s Aunt Fanny”. And they weren’t the only ones to record answer songs to their record. There were dozens of them — even a few years later, in 1958, Buddy Holly would be singing about how “Annie’s been working on the midnight shift”. But we want to talk about one in particular, here. One sung from the perspective of “Annie” herself. Jamesetta Hawkins did not have the easiest of lives, growing up. She went through a variety of foster homes, and was abused by too many of them. But she started singing from a very early age, and had formal musical training. Sadly, that training was by another abuser, who used to punch her in the chest if she wasn’t singing from the diaphragm. But she still credited that training with the powerful voice she developed later. Jamesetta was another discovery of Johnny Otis. When she was introduced to Otis, at first he didn’t want a new girl singer, but she impressed him so much that he agreed to sign her — so long as she got her parents’ permission, because she was only sixteen. There was one problem with that. She didn’t know her father, and her mother was in jail. So she faked a phone call — “calling her mother” while keeping a finger on the phone’s button to ensure there was no actual call. She later provided him with a forged letter. Meanwhile, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Otis’ former colleagues, were working on their own records with the Robins. The Robins had been through a few lineup changes, recorded for half a dozen small labels, and several of them had, on multiple occasions, had run-ins with the law. But they’d ended up recording for Spark Records, the label Leiber and Stoller had formed with their friend Lester Sill. Their first record to become really, really big, was “Riot in Cell Block Number Nine”. Like many Leiber and Stoller songs, this combined a comedy narrative — this time about a riot in a jail, a storyline not all that different from their later song “Jailhouse Rock” — with a standard blues melody. [Excerpt “Riot in Cell Block Number Nine” by the Robins] That is, incidentally, probably the first record to incorporate the influence of the famous stop-time riff which Willie Dixon had come up with for Muddy Waters. You’ve undoubtedly heard it before if you’ve heard any blues music at all, most famously in Waters’ “Mannish Boy” [Excerpt, Muddy Waters, “Mannish Boy”] But it had first been used (as far as I can tell – remembering that there is never a true “first”) in Waters’ “Hoochie Coochie Man”, which first hit the R&B charts in March 1954: [Excerpt, Muddy Waters, “Hoochie Coochie Man”] The Robins’ record came out in May 1954. So it’s likely that Leiber and Stoller heard “Hoochie Coochie Man” and immediately wrote “Riot”. However, they had a problem — Bobby Nunn, the Robins’ bass singer, simply couldn’t get the kind of menacing tones that the song needed — he was great for joking with Little Esther and things of that nature, but he just couldn’t do that scary growl. Or at least, that’s the story as Leiber and Stoller always told it. Other members of the Robins later claimed that Nunn had refused to sing the lead, finding the lyrics offensive. Terrell Leonard said “We didn’t understand our heritage. These two white songwriters knew our culture better than we did. Bobby wouldn’t do it.” But they knew someone who would. Richard Berry was a singer with a doo-wop group called The Flairs, who recorded for Modern and RPM records. In particular, they’d recorded a single called “She Wants to Rock”, which had been produced by Leiber and Stoller: [excerpt: The Flairs, “She Wants to Rock”] That song was written by Berry, but you can hear a very clear stylistic connection with Leiber and Stoller’s work. They were obviously sympathetic, musically, and clearly Leiber and Stoller remembered him and liked his voice, and they got him to sing the part that Nunn would otherwise have sung. “Riot in Cell Block #9” became a massive hit, though Berry never saw much money from it. This would end up being something of a pattern for Richard Berry’s life, sadly. Berry was one of the most important people in early rock and roll, but his work either went uncredited or unpaid, or sometimes both. But one thing that “Riot in Cell Block #9” did was cement Berry’s reputation within the industry as someone who would be able to turn in a good vocal, at short notice, on someone else’s record. And so, when it came time for Jamesetta Hawkins to record the new answer song for “Work With Me Annie”, and they needed someone to be Henry, who Annie was engaging in dialogue, Johnny Otis called in Berry as well. Otis always liked to have a bit of saucy, sassy, back-and-forth between a male and female singer, and that seemed particularly appropriate for this song. The record Otis, Hawkins, and Berry came up with was a fairly direct copy of “Work With Me Annie”, but even more blatant about its sexuality. [excerpt Etta James: “The Wallflower (Roll With Me Henry)”] The record was called “The Wallflower”, but everyone knew it as “Roll With Me Henry”. The song was credited to Jamesetta, under the new name Johnny Otis had given her, a simple reversal of her forename. Etta James was on her way to becoming a star. The song as recorded is credited to Hank Ballard, Etta James, and Johnny Otis as writers, but Richard Berry always claimed he should have had a credit as well, claiming that his vocal responses were largely improvised. This is entirely plausible — Berry was a great songwriter himself, who wrote several classic songs, and they sound like the kind of thing that one could come up with off the cuff. It’s also certainly the case that there were more than a few records released around this time that didn’t go to great lengths to credit the songwriters accurately, especially for contributions made in the studio during the recording session. “The Wallflower” went to number one on the R&B charts, but it didn’t become the biggest hit version of that song, because once again we’re looking at a white person copying a black person’s record and making all the money off it. And Georgia Gibbs’ version is one of those ones which we can’t possibly justify as being a creative response. It’s closer to the Crew Cuts than to Elvis Presley — it’s a note-for-note soundalike cover, but one which manages to staggeringly miss the point, not least because Gibbs changes the lyrics from “Roll With Me Henry” to the much less interesting “Dance With Me Henry”. [excerpt Georgia Gibbs “Dance With Me Henry”] On the other hand, it did have two advantages for the radio stations — the first was that Gibbs was white, and the second was that it was less sexually explicit than Etta James’ version — “The Wallflower” may not sound particularly explicit to our ears, but anything that even vaguely hinted at sexuality, especially women’s sexuality, and most especially *black* women’s sexuality, was completely out of the question for early-fifties radio. This wasn’t the only time that Georgia Gibbs ripped off a black woman’s record — her cover version of LaVern Baker’s “Tweedle Dee” also outsold Baker’s original, and was similarly insipid compared to its inspiration. But at least in this case Etta James got some of the songwriting royalties, unlike Lavern Baker, who didn’t write her record. And again, this is something we’ve talked about a bit and we will no doubt talk about more — it’s people like Georgia Gibbs who created the impression that all white rock and roll stars of the fifties merely ripped off black musicians, because there were so many who did, and who did it so badly. Some of the records we’ll be talking about as important in this series are by white people covering black musicians, but the ones that are actually worth discussing were artists who put their own spin on the music and made it their own. You might argue about whether Elvis Presley or Arthur Crudup recorded the better version of “That’s All Right, Mama”, or whether Jerry Lee Lewis improved on Big Maybelle’s original “Whole Lotta Shakin'” but it’s an argument you can have, with points that can be made on both sides. Those records aren’t just white people cashing in on black musicians’ talent, they’re part of an ongoing conversation between different musicians — a conversation which, yes, has a racial power dynamic which should not be overlooked and needs to be addressed, but not an example of an individual white person deliberately using racism to gain success which should rightfully be a black person’s. You can’t say that for this Georgia Gibbs record. It was an identical arrangement, the vocal isn’t an interpretation as much as just existing, and the lyrics have been watered down to remove anything that might cause offence. No-one — at least no-one who isn’t so prudish as to actually take offence at the phrase “roll with me” — listening to the two records could have any doubt as to which was by an important artist and which was by someone whose only claim to success was that she was white and the people she was imitating weren’t. Etta James later rerecorded the track with those lyrics herself. [excerpt: Etta James “Dance With Me Henry”] If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, I suppose. After all, “Dance With Me Henry” was an absolutely massive, huge hit. It was so popular that it spawned answer songs of its own. Indeed, even the Midnighters themselves recorded an answer to the answer – Gibbs’ version, not Etta James’ – when they recorded “Henry’s Got Flat Feet, Can’t Dance No More” [excerpt “Henry’s Got Flat Feet”, The Midnighters] And “Dance With Me Henry” got into the popular culture in a big way. The song was so popular that Abbott and Costello’s last film was named after it, in a hope of catching some of its popularity. And it inspired other comedy as well. And here, again, we’re going to move briefly over to the UK. Rock and roll hadn’t properly hit Britain yet, though as it turns out it was just about to. But American hit records did get heard over here, and “Dance With Me Henry” was popular enough to come to the notice of the Goons. The Goon Show was the most influential radio show of the 1950s, and probably of all time. The comedy trio of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, and Harry Secombe are namechecked as an influence by every great British creative artist of the 1960s and 70s, pretty much without exception. Not just comedians — though there wouldn’t be a Monty Python, for example, without the Goons — but musicians, poets, painters. To understand British culture in the fifties and sixties, you need to understand the Goons. And they made records at times – – and one of the people who worked with them on their records was a young producer named George Martin. George Martin had a taste for sonic experimentation that went well with the Goons’ love of sound effects and silly voices, and in 1955 they went into the studio to record what became a legendary single — Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers performing “Unchained Melody”, which had been one of the biggest hits of the year in a less comedic version. [excerpt “Unchained Melody” by the Goons] That track became legendary because it didn’t see a legal release for more than thirty years. The publishers of “Unchained Melody” wouldn’t allow them to release such a desecration of such a serious, important, work of art, and it and its B-side weren’t released until the late 1980s, although the record was widely discussed. It became something of a holy grail for fans of British comedy, and was only finally released at all because George Martin’s old friend, and Goon fan, Paul McCartney ended up buying the publishing rights to “Unchained Melody”. And because that single was left unreleased for more than thirty years, so was its B-side. That B-side was… well… this… [excerpt, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan “Dance With Me Henry”] Whether that’s a more or less respectful cover version than Georgia Gibbs’, I’ll let you decide… Of course, in the context of a British music scene that was currently going through the skiffle craze, that version of “Dance With Me Henry” would have seemed almost normal. Back in the US, Richard Berry was back at work as a jobbing musician. He wrote one song, between sets at a gig, which he scribbled down on a napkin and didn’t record for two years, but “Louie Louie” didn’t seem like the kind of thing that would have any commercial success, so he stuck to recording more commercial material, like “Yama Yama Pretty Mama”: [Excerpt: Richard Berry “Yama Yama Pretty Mama”] We’ll pick back up with Richard Berry in a couple of years’ time, when people remember that song he wrote on the napkin. Meanwhile, Etta James continued with her own career. She recorded a follow-up to “the Wallflower”, “Hey Henry”, but that wasn’t a hit, and was a definite case of diminishing returns: [excerpt: Etta James, “Hey Henry”] But her third single, “Good Rockin’ Daddy”, was a top ten R&B hit, and showed she could have a successful career. But after this, it would be five years before she had another hit, which didn’t happen until 1960, when after signing with Chess Records she released a couple of hit duets with Harvey Fuqua, formerly of the Moonglows. [excerpt: Etta James and Harvey Fuqua, “Spoonful”] Those duets saw the start of an incredible run of hits on the R&B charts, including some of the greatest records ever made. While we’re unlikely to be covering her more as the story goes on — her work was increasingly on the borderline between blues and jazz, rather than being in the rock and roll style of her early recordings with Johnny Otis — she had an incredible career as one of the greatest blues singers of her generation, and continued recording until shortly before her death in 2011. She died three days after Johnny Otis, the man who had discovered her all those decades earlier.

    Welcome to episode twenty-two of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Today we're looking at "The Wallflower" by Etta James. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Also, remember I'm halfway through the Kickstarter for the first book based on this series. ----more----   Resources As always, I've created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. I used a few books for this podcast, most of which I've mentioned before: Honkers & Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues by Arnold Shaw, one of the most important books on early 50s rhythm and blues Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and David Ritz. Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story by George Lipsitz. This collection of Etta James' early work has all the songs by her I excerpted here *except* "The Wallflower".  "The Wallflower", though, can be found on this excellent and cheap 3-CD collection of Johnny Otis material, which also includes two other songs we've already covered, three more we will be covering, and a number which have been excerpted in this and other episodes.    Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I start, a quick content warning -- there's some mention of child abuse here. Nothing explicit, and not much, but it could cause some people to be upset, so I thought I'd mention it. If you're worried, there is, like always a full transcript of the episode at 500songs.com so you can read it as text if that might be less upsetting. We've talked a little about answer songs before, when we were talking about "Hound Dog" and "Bear Cat", but we didn't really go into detail there. But answer songs were a regular thing in the 1950s, and responsible for some of the most well-known songs of the period. In the blues, for example, Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" is an answer song to Bo Diddley's "I'm A Man", partly mocking Diddley for being younger than Waters. But "I'm A Man" was, in itself, a response to Waters' "Hoochie Coochie Man". And, the "Bear Cat" debacle aside, this was an understood thing. It was no different to the old blues tradition of the floating lyric -- you'd do an answer song to a big hit, and hopefully get a little bit of money off its coattails, but because everyone did it, nobody complained about it being done to them. Especially since the answer songs never did better than the original. "Bear Cat" might have gone to number three, but "Hound Dog" went to number one, so where was the harm? But there was one case where an answer song became so big that it started the career of a blues legend, had a film named after it, and was parodied across the Atlantic. The story starts, just like so many of these stories do, with Johnny Otis. In 1953, Otis discovered a Detroit band called the Royals, who had recently changed their name from the Four Falcons to avoid confusion with another Detroit band, the Falcons -- this kind of confusion of names was common at the time, given the way every vocal group in the country seemed to be naming themselves after birds. Shortly after Otis discovered them, their lead singer was drafted, and Sonny Woods, one of the band's members, suggested that as a replacement they should consider Hank Ballard, a friend of his who worked on the same Ford assembly line as him. Ballard didn't become the lead singer straight away -- Charles Sutton moved to the lead vocal role at first, while Ballard took over Sutton's old backing vocal parts -- but he slowly became more important to the band's sound. Ballard was an interesting singer in many ways -- particularly in his influences. While most R&B singers of this time wanted to be Clyde McPhatter or Wynonie Harris, Ballard was a massive fan of Gene Autry, the country and western singer who was hugely influential on Bill Haley and Les Paul. Despite this, though, his vocals didn't sound like anyone else's before him. You can find singers later on who sounded like Ballard -- most notably both Jackie Wilson and Chubby Checker started out as Hank Ballard soundalikes -- but nobody before him who sounded like that. Once Ballard was one of the Mindighters, they had that thing that every band needed to stand out -- a truly distinctive sound of their own. Otis became the band's manager, and got them signed to King Records, one of the most important labels in the history of very early rock and roll. Their first few singles were all doo-wop ballads, many of them written by Otis, and they featured Sutton on lead. They were pleasant enough, but nothing special, as you can hear... [excerpt The Royals "Every Beat of My Heart"] That's a song Johnny Otis wrote for them, and it later became a million seller for Gladys Knight and the Pips, but there's nothing about that track that really stands out -- it could be any of a dozen or so vocal groups of the time. But that started to change when Hank Ballard became the new lead singer on the majority of their records. Around that time, the band also changed its name to The Midnighters, as once again they discovered that another band had a similar-sounding name. And it was as the Midnighters that they went on to have their greatest success, starting with "Get It" [excerpt of The Midnighters, "Get It"] "Get It" was the first of a string of hits for the band, but it's the band's second hit that we're most interested in here. Hank Ballard had been a fan of Billy Ward and his Dominoes, and their hit "Sixty Minute Man", which had been considered a relatively filthy song for the time period. "Get It" had been mildly risque for the period, but Ballard wanted to write something closer to "Sixty Minute Man", and so he came up with a song that he initially titled "Sock It To Me, Mary". Ralph Bass, the producer, thought the song was a little too strong for radio play, and so the group reworked it in the studio, with the new title being taken partially from the name of the engineer's wife, Annie. The song they eventually recorded was called "Work With Me Annie" [excerpt of The Midnighters, "Work With Me Annie"] That's certainly suggestive, but it wouldn't set too many people on the warpath in 2019. In 1954, though, that kind of thing was considered borderline pornographic. "Give me all my meat?" That's... well, no-one seemed sure quite what it was, but it was obviously filthy and should be banned. So of course it went to number one in the R&B chart. Getting banned on the radio has always been a guaranteed way to have a hit. And it helped that the song was ridiculously catchy, the kind of thing that you keep humming for weeks The Midnighters followed up with a song that was even more direct -- "Sexy Ways" [excerpt of The Midnighters, "Sexy Ways"] That, too, went right up the charts. But "Work With Me Annie" had been such a success that the band recorded two direct followups -- "Annie Had A Baby" and "Annie's Aunt Fanny". And they weren't the only ones to record answer songs to their record. There were dozens of them -- even a few years later, in 1958, Buddy Holly would be singing about how "Annie's been working on the midnight shift". But we want to talk about one in particular, here. One sung from the perspective of "Annie" herself. Jamesetta Hawkins did not have the easiest of lives, growing up. She went through a variety of foster homes, and was abused by too many of them. But she started singing from a very early age, and had formal musical training. Sadly, that training was by another abuser, who used to punch her in the chest if she wasn't singing from the diaphragm. But she still credited that training with the powerful voice she developed later. Jamesetta was another discovery of Johnny Otis. When she was introduced to Otis, at first he didn't want a new girl singer, but she impressed him so much that he agreed to sign her -- so long as she got her parents' permission, because she was only sixteen. There was one problem with that. She didn't know her father, and her mother was in jail. So she faked a phone call -- "calling her mother" while keeping a finger on the phone's button to ensure there was no actual call. She later provided him with a forged letter. Meanwhile, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Otis' former colleagues, were working on their own records with the Robins. The Robins had been through a few lineup changes, recorded for half a dozen small labels, and several of them had, on multiple occasions, had run-ins with the law. But they'd ended up recording for Spark Records, the label Leiber and Stoller had formed with their friend Lester Sill. Their first record to become really, really big, was "Riot in Cell Block Number Nine". Like many Leiber and Stoller songs, this combined a comedy narrative -- this time about a riot in a jail, a storyline not all that different from their later song "Jailhouse Rock" -- with a standard blues melody. [Excerpt "Riot in Cell Block Number Nine" by the Robins] That is, incidentally, probably the first record to incorporate the influence of the famous stop-time riff which Willie Dixon had come up with for Muddy Waters. You've undoubtedly heard it before if you've heard any blues music at all, most famously in Waters' "Mannish Boy" [Excerpt, Muddy Waters, "Mannish Boy"] But it had first been used (as far as I can tell – remembering that there is never a true “first”) in Waters' "Hoochie Coochie Man", which first hit the R&B charts in March 1954: [Excerpt, Muddy Waters, "Hoochie Coochie Man"] The Robins' record came out in May 1954. So it's likely that Leiber and Stoller heard “Hoochie Coochie Man” and immediately wrote “Riot”. However, they had a problem -- Bobby Nunn, the Robins' bass singer, simply couldn't get the kind of menacing tones that the song needed -- he was great for joking with Little Esther and things of that nature, but he just couldn't do that scary growl. Or at least, that's the story as Leiber and Stoller always told it. Other members of the Robins later claimed that Nunn had refused to sing the lead, finding the lyrics offensive. Terrell Leonard said "We didn't understand our heritage. These two white songwriters knew our culture better than we did. Bobby wouldn't do it." But they knew someone who would. Richard Berry was a singer with a doo-wop group called The Flairs, who recorded for Modern and RPM records. In particular, they'd recorded a single called "She Wants to Rock", which had been produced by Leiber and Stoller: [excerpt: The Flairs, "She Wants to Rock"] That song was written by Berry, but you can hear a very clear stylistic connection with Leiber and Stoller's work. They were obviously sympathetic, musically, and clearly Leiber and Stoller remembered him and liked his voice, and they got him to sing the part that Nunn would otherwise have sung. "Riot in Cell Block #9" became a massive hit, though Berry never saw much money from it. This would end up being something of a pattern for Richard Berry's life, sadly. Berry was one of the most important people in early rock and roll, but his work either went uncredited or unpaid, or sometimes both. But one thing that "Riot in Cell Block #9" did was cement Berry's reputation within the industry as someone who would be able to turn in a good vocal, at short notice, on someone else's record. And so, when it came time for Jamesetta Hawkins to record the new answer song for "Work With Me Annie", and they needed someone to be Henry, who Annie was engaging in dialogue, Johnny Otis called in Berry as well. Otis always liked to have a bit of saucy, sassy, back-and-forth between a male and female singer, and that seemed particularly appropriate for this song. The record Otis, Hawkins, and Berry came up with was a fairly direct copy of "Work With Me Annie", but even more blatant about its sexuality. [excerpt Etta James: "The Wallflower (Roll With Me Henry)"] The record was called "The Wallflower", but everyone knew it as "Roll With Me Henry". The song was credited to Jamesetta, under the new name Johnny Otis had given her, a simple reversal of her forename. Etta James was on her way to becoming a star. The song as recorded is credited to Hank Ballard, Etta James, and Johnny Otis as writers, but Richard Berry always claimed he should have had a credit as well, claiming that his vocal responses were largely improvised. This is entirely plausible -- Berry was a great songwriter himself, who wrote several classic songs, and they sound like the kind of thing that one could come up with off the cuff. It's also certainly the case that there were more than a few records released around this time that didn't go to great lengths to credit the songwriters accurately, especially for contributions made in the studio during the recording session. "The Wallflower" went to number one on the R&B charts, but it didn't become the biggest hit version of that song, because once again we're looking at a white person copying a black person's record and making all the money off it. And Georgia Gibbs' version is one of those ones which we can't possibly justify as being a creative response. It's closer to the Crew Cuts than to Elvis Presley -- it's a note-for-note soundalike cover, but one which manages to staggeringly miss the point, not least because Gibbs changes the lyrics from "Roll With Me Henry" to the much less interesting "Dance With Me Henry". [excerpt Georgia Gibbs "Dance With Me Henry"] On the other hand, it did have two advantages for the radio stations -- the first was that Gibbs was white, and the second was that it was less sexually explicit than Etta James' version -- "The Wallflower" may not sound particularly explicit to our ears, but anything that even vaguely hinted at sexuality, especially women's sexuality, and most especially *black* women's sexuality, was completely out of the question for early-fifties radio. This wasn't the only time that Georgia Gibbs ripped off a black woman's record -- her cover version of LaVern Baker's "Tweedle Dee" also outsold Baker's original, and was similarly insipid compared to its inspiration. But at least in this case Etta James got some of the songwriting royalties, unlike Lavern Baker, who didn't write her record. And again, this is something we've talked about a bit and we will no doubt talk about more -- it's people like Georgia Gibbs who created the impression that all white rock and roll stars of the fifties merely ripped off black musicians, because there were so many who did, and who did it so badly. Some of the records we'll be talking about as important in this series are by white people covering black musicians, but the ones that are actually worth discussing were artists who put their own spin on the music and made it their own. You might argue about whether Elvis Presley or Arthur Crudup recorded the better version of "That's All Right, Mama", or whether Jerry Lee Lewis improved on Big Maybelle's original "Whole Lotta Shakin'" but it's an argument you can have, with points that can be made on both sides. Those records aren't just white people cashing in on black musicians' talent, they're part of an ongoing conversation between different musicians -- a conversation which, yes, has a racial power dynamic which should not be overlooked and needs to be addressed, but not an example of an individual white person deliberately using racism to gain success which should rightfully be a black person's. You can't say that for this Georgia Gibbs record. It was an identical arrangement, the vocal isn't an interpretation as much as just existing, and the lyrics have been watered down to remove anything that might cause offence. No-one -- at least no-one who isn't so prudish as to actually take offence at the phrase "roll with me" -- listening to the two records could have any doubt as to which was by an important artist and which was by someone whose only claim to success was that she was white and the people she was imitating weren't. Etta James later rerecorded the track with those lyrics herself. [excerpt: Etta James "Dance With Me Henry"] If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, I suppose. After all, "Dance With Me Henry" was an absolutely massive, huge hit. It was so popular that it spawned answer songs of its own. Indeed, even the Midnighters themselves recorded an answer to the answer – Gibbs' version, not Etta James' – when they recorded "Henry's Got Flat Feet, Can't Dance No More" [excerpt "Henry's Got Flat Feet", The Midnighters] And "Dance With Me Henry" got into the popular culture in a big way. The song was so popular that Abbott and Costello's last film was named after it, in a hope of catching some of its popularity. And it inspired other comedy as well. And here, again, we're going to move briefly over to the UK. Rock and roll hadn't properly hit Britain yet, though as it turns out it was just about to. But American hit records did get heard over here, and "Dance With Me Henry" was popular enough to come to the notice of the Goons. The Goon Show was the most influential radio show of the 1950s, and probably of all time. The comedy trio of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, and Harry Secombe are namechecked as an influence by every great British creative artist of the 1960s and 70s, pretty much without exception. Not just comedians -- though there wouldn't be a Monty Python, for example, without the Goons -- but musicians, poets, painters. To understand British culture in the fifties and sixties, you need to understand the Goons. And they made records at times - - and one of the people who worked with them on their records was a young producer named George Martin. George Martin had a taste for sonic experimentation that went well with the Goons' love of sound effects and silly voices, and in 1955 they went into the studio to record what became a legendary single -- Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers performing "Unchained Melody", which had been one of the biggest hits of the year in a less comedic version. [excerpt "Unchained Melody" by the Goons] That track became legendary because it didn't see a legal release for more than thirty years. The publishers of "Unchained Melody" wouldn't allow them to release such a desecration of such a serious, important, work of art, and it and its B-side weren't released until the late 1980s, although the record was widely discussed. It became something of a holy grail for fans of British comedy, and was only finally released at all because George Martin's old friend, and Goon fan, Paul McCartney ended up buying the publishing rights to "Unchained Melody". And because that single was left unreleased for more than thirty years, so was its B-side. That B-side was... well... this... [excerpt, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan "Dance With Me Henry"] Whether that's a more or less respectful cover version than Georgia Gibbs', I'll let you decide... Of course, in the context of a British music scene that was currently going through the skiffle craze, that version of "Dance With Me Henry" would have seemed almost normal. Back in the US, Richard Berry was back at work as a jobbing musician. He wrote one song, between sets at a gig, which he scribbled down on a napkin and didn't record for two years, but "Louie Louie" didn't seem like the kind of thing that would have any commercial success, so he stuck to recording more commercial material, like "Yama Yama Pretty Mama": [Excerpt: Richard Berry "Yama Yama Pretty Mama"] We'll pick back up with Richard Berry in a couple of years' time, when people remember that song he wrote on the napkin. Meanwhile, Etta James continued with her own career. She recorded a follow-up to "the Wallflower", "Hey Henry", but that wasn't a hit, and was a definite case of diminishing returns: [excerpt: Etta James, "Hey Henry"] But her third single, "Good Rockin' Daddy", was a top ten R&B hit, and showed she could have a successful career. But after this, it would be five years before she had another hit, which didn't happen until 1960, when after signing with Chess Records she released a couple of hit duets with Harvey Fuqua, formerly of the Moonglows. [excerpt: Etta James and Harvey Fuqua, "Spoonful"] Those duets saw the start of an incredible run of hits on the R&B charts, including some of the greatest records ever made. While we're unlikely to be covering her more as the story goes on -- her work was increasingly on the borderline between blues and jazz, rather than being in the rock and roll style of her early recordings with Johnny Otis -- she had an incredible career as one of the greatest blues singers of her generation, and continued recording until shortly before her death in 2011. She died three days after Johnny Otis, the man who had discovered her all those decades earlier.

Fresh off the decks and pip­ing hot, this week’s show is a key ingre­di­ent in the process of heat­ing up your win­ter chill. Switch it on and plug in, best to put your phone in Air­plane mode because once it gets start­ed you will be unavail­able for the fol­low­ing hour. Like the Facebook Page here: facebook.com/ontargetpodcast ------------------------------------------------- The Playlist Is: "Gonzo" James Booker - Peacock "I Wanna Be Your Man" Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces - Checker "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby" Marvin Gaye - Tamla "Queen Of Fools" Barbara Mills - Hickory "Number One In Your Heart" The Monitors - VIP "Hope We Have" The Artistics - Brunswick "Sorrow" The Merseys - Mercury "Midnight To Six Man" The Pretty Things - Fontana "Women (Make You Feel)" The Easybeats - Parlaphone "Come See Me (I'm Your Man)" Johnny Maestro & The Crests - Parkway "I'm Ready For Love" Martha And The Vandellas - Gordy "Talkin' 'Bout Soul" Marvin L. Sims - Revue "It's Time To Move" Sam Green - Goldsmith T.C.B. "I Got What You Need" Kim Weston - MGM "I'll Still Love You" Jeff Barry - Red Bird "I Ain't Dead Yet" The What Knots - Dial "(The Best Part Of) Breaking Up" The Symbols - President "Summertime Blues" The Who - Decca "Sock It To Me" Joe Cuba Sextet - Tico "Come On and Stop" Marv Johnson - United Artists "1 2 3 Red Light" B.B. & The Oscars - Guilford

Mod Marty is back from the lake with a box full of new-to-you grooves to add to your summer soundtrack. Get into it. Please like the Facebook page here: facebook.com/ontargetpodcast/ ------------------------------------------------- The Playlist Is: "Wanted" Larose Phillips - Gold Disc "Hi-Diddly Dee Dum Dum" Jimmy James & The Vagabonds - Atco "What's Easy For Two Is Hard For One" Connie Haines - Motown "Mousin' Around" The "D" Men - Veep "That Ain't Where It's At" The Animals - MGM "Sticks & Stones" The Lions - Triola "Just Walk In My Shoes" Gladys Knight & The Pips - Soul "You Can't Dress Up A Broken Heart" The Lovables - Toot "That's When The Tears Started" The Blossoms - Reprise "Sock It To Me" Judy Carne - Reprise "I Like The Way You Dance" Sammy Davis Jr. - United Artists "Goin' Down" The Monkees - RCA-Victor "Hey Sah-Lo-Ney" Mickey Lee Lane - Swan "Where's My Money" Willie Jones - R&B Gold "Sick And Tired" Elton Anderson - Capitol "Baby You've Got It" Frank Dell - Valise "Your Kind Of Lovin'" Jan Bradley - Chess "Boom" Jimmie Haskell - Sparton "New Orleans" Eddie Hodges - Barry "Till The End Of The Day" The Kinks - Reprise "Ride Your Donkey" Byron Lee & The Dragonaires - Soul [Barbados]

On today's episode I talk to musician Colleen Green. Based in Los Angeles (where she was voted best solo artist by LA Weekly), Colleen has recorded three albums in the last seven years, her first, Milo Goes to Compton, in 2011, and two subsequent albums Sock It To Me and I Want to Grow Up, which were both released by Hardly Art. She has toured all over the world, and this summer is playing all around the US. This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter.

Memorial Day marks the start of summer, and if the impending hot weather, hurricanes, and escalating gas prices have you depressed, perhaps stay indoors and cool off with Matt, Claire, and Brad as they record an unnecessary commentary track for the Timothy Olyphant and Jennifer Garner comedy Catch and Release (2006). After her fiance dies under mysterious fish-related circumstances, the unfortunately named Gray finds herself in the nest of three hapless bros, and awash in pro-Boulder, Colorado propaganda. It's barely a movie. | Tags: You're Not Elektra, Lost Wilson Brother, Sock It To Me! Sock It To Me! Sock It To Me!, Mr. Yummy, How Does Anyone Know Anyone In This Film?, I Don't Want To Fuck Jennifer Garner (Well, You're Wrong, Though), Eff You, Sugar Daddy, JonBenet Ramsey, That Time Kevin Smith Stole Doughnuts From Burt Reynolds, Once An Orphan Always An Orphan, Does The Soundtrack Only Get Worse?, This Is Your House You Should Know How To Work A Door, You Live A Little You Love A Little--Whatever, The Stakes Couldn't Be Lower, Shoes Are Optional In Brad's Peace Garden (RSVP Brad) | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded: May 5, 2018. Released: May 28, 2018. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

We ask the questions you've been wanting to ask a travel agent and get deep into the mind of award-winning travel agent and owner of Ace World Travel, Aurelio Giordano. He answers our questions, listener submitted questions, and provides mind-blowing info on travel agents and the benefits of using one -- talk about things we didn't know! Other topics of the show include the elusive and exclusive Mile High Club and airlines that offer "romantic flights," dating preferences and what you do when you don't have many options, how anal sex relates to perceived happiness, the benefits of a sex drought, voyeurism and amateurism, and we put our guest through a few of the usual THRST-y features. Don't worry, there's a new PARCHED reveal, as well; and he's very...well, you know. If you have something you want to bring to our attention…or if you want to curse us out or ask a question; contact us: Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/thethrst Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheTHRST Instagram - http://instagram.com/thethrst Tumblr - http://thethrst.tumblr.com Periscope - https://www.periscope.tv/thethrst Snapchat - https://www.snapchat.com/add/thethrst Email: emailthethrst@gmail.com The THRST is the premier entertainment talk show podcast that brings you gay-best-friend and kitchen-island conversations on love and relationships, celebrities and pop culture, and social scandals...all flavored with shade, humor, and opinionated-truth! It's raunchy, but real. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE, so you never miss an episode! We’re a FREE show, insert our RSS Feed ( http://thethrst.libsyn.com/rss ) into your podcatcher or find us in popular podcast directories. This has been a production of The THRST. Copyright 2016. All Rights Reserved. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Intro (http://thethrst.com/) 06:45 - Chewing The Fat             - Mile High Club             - The P Factor: Preference             - Is anal sex a key to happiness? 22:33 - Subscribe to The THRST 23:31 - New York Minute with Aurelio Giordano 26:35 - The BHive             - The benefits of a sex drought             - Guyspy and voyeurism 37:18 - Parched 38:31 - Talk Du Jour: Inside The Mind of a Travel Agent 57:12 - Mail Bag 61:36 - The Butcher's Block 64:46 - Review The THRST 65:58 - Sock It To Me with Aurelio Giordano 70:48 - Outro   LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE: The THRST The THRST on Instagram Ace World Travel Ace World Travel Facebook Ace World Travel Instagram Ace World Travel Twitter Rainbow Travelers Network Rainbow Travelers Network Instagram   PARCHED: Adrien Kute

(photo inspired by the book, Waiting by Kevin Henkes)Hi, Knitters,I have a lot to share with you today, three new patterns, a podcast and a huge giveaway, so I will get right to it!Pattern Releases and Lower Price Sale!I have 3 brand-new toy patterns that I've just released today. I am running a big discount sale on all three patterns for the first week of their release. Each pattern is regularly priced at $6.00 per pattern but from Jan. 29-Feb. 5, 2016, each pattern is priced at $4.00 per pattern, which is two dollars off! On Feb. 6th the patterns will be regularly priced at $6.00.No coupon code is necessary as the patterns are priced at the discount price for your convenience.All of these patterns, amongst others, are available for wholesale in print form through NNK Press!Click here for more information or to purchase the Octopus Pattern on Ravelry!Octopusby Susan B. AndersonPublished inShop Susan B. AndersonCraftKnittingCategorySofties → AnimalPublishedJanuary 2016Suggested yarnLorna's Laces Shepherd Worsted SolidSchachenmayr Regia Design Line by Arne & CarlosYarn weightWorsted / 10 ply (9 wpi) ?Gauge6 stitches = 1 inchin stockinette stitchNeedle sizeUS 5 - 3.75 mmUS 1 - 2.25 mmYardage100 yards (91 m)Sizes availableSmall ~ 1 3/4 inches tall; Large ~ 3 1/2 inches tallin-the-roundone-pieceseamlesstop-downwritten-patternThis pattern is available for $4.00 USD  buy it nowThis pattern is currently on sale for $4.00 from January 29th through February 5th! On Feb. 6th the pattern will be regularly priced at $6.00. No coupon code is needed as the sale price is set for your convenience.This pattern is available in wholesale print form for yarn shops and the like through NNK Press!The Octopus pattern has instructions for both a fingering weight and a worsted weight version. Both are worked the same, seamlessly, from the top-down. The legs are cleverly worked right into the bottom of the body so no extra finishing is needed. The fingering weight Octopus makes a great ornament!Here is some pattern information for you:Finished size: 1 ¾ (3 ½) – inches tallYarn:Small Octopus: 10 grams of fingering weight yarnLarge Octopus: 30 grams of worsted weight yarnThe samples are made in Regia Arne & Carlos sock yarn color #3653 (small size), and Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Worsted 100% superwash wool in color #412 Campbell (large size).Needles:Small Octopus: US size 1 double-pointed needles, set of 5Large Octopus: US size 5 double-pointed needles, set of 5Use the size needles to achieve gauge.Gauge:Small Octopus: 8 stitches per inch in stockinette stitchLarge Octopus: 6 stitches per inch in stockinette stitchMaterials:Yarn needleDetachable stitch markersSmall amount of fiberfillRuler or tape measureWaste yarn2 - 9mm safety eyesPattern note: Both sizes are worked the same with the exception of a couple of places in the pattern so one stitch count is given throughout. In the places where the directions are different, the smaller size is listed first and the larger size is in the parentheses. Click here for more information or to purchase the Turtle pattern on Ravelry!Turtleby Susan B. AndersonPublished inShop Susan B. AndersonCraftKnittingCategorySofties → AnimalPublishedJanuary 2016Suggested yarnNoro KureyonQuince & Co. LarkYarn weightWorsted / 10 ply (9 wpi) ?Gauge6 stitches = 1 inchin stockinette stitchNeedle sizeUS 5 - 3.75 mmUS 7 - 4.5 mmYardage134 yards (123 m)Sizes availableAbout 5-inches in length from bottom of body to the tip of the nosebottom-upin-the-roundmodularone-pieceseamedseamlesswritten-patternThis pattern is available for $4.00 USD  buy it nowThis pattern is currently on sale for $4.00 from January 29th through February 5th! On Feb. 6th the pattern will be regularly priced at $6.00. No coupon code is needed as the sale price is set for your convenience.Now the Turtle joins the other Woodland Animals group of the Woodland Fox, Hedgie , Raccoon, Bunny, Squirrel and Acorns, and Little Owl! All of these patterns are available in print form for yarn shops from NNK Press.The four legs of the Turtle are knit first, then when the body is worked the legs are knit right in as you go! The turtle body, head and legs are worked seamlessly. The Shell is worked in the round from the center-out and attached with a quick running stitch at the end.Here is some pattern information for you:Finished size: From the bottom of the body to the tip of the nose, 5 ¼ - inches in length.Yarn:Turtle: 100 yards of worsted weight.Shell: 50 yards of worsted weight.Sample is made in Quince & Co. Lark, 100% wool, in Sweet Pea #128, and the shell is made in Noro Kureyon #352.Needles:Turtle: US size 5/3.75mm double-pointed needles or size to obtain gauge.Also needed are two extra double-pointed needles in the same size or a similar size, preferably smaller.Shell: US size 7/4.5mm double-pointed needles or size to obtain gauge.Gauge:Turtle: 6 sts per inch in stockinette stitch.Shell: 5 sts per inch in stockinette stitch.Materials:Yarn needleDetachable stitch markersFiberfillRuler or tape measureBlack embroidery flossWaste yarnClick here for more information or to purchase the Raccoon pattern on Ravelry!Raccoonby Susan B. AndersonPublished inShop Susan B. AndersonCraftKnittingCategorySofties → AnimalPublishedJanuary 2016Suggested yarnQuince & Co. OspreyYarn weightAran / 10 ply (8 wpi) ?Gauge4.5 stitches = 1 inchin stockinette stitchNeedle sizeUS 8 - 5.0 mmYardage170 yards (155 m)Sizes available7-inches tallbottom-upin-the-roundmodularone-pieceseamedseamlesswritten-patternThis pattern is available for $4.00 USD  buy it nowThis pattern is currently on sale for $4.00 from January 29th through February 5th! On Feb. 6th the pattern will be regularly priced at $6.00. No coupon code is needed as the sale price is set for your convenience.Now the Raccoon joins the other Woodland Animals group of the Woodland Fox, Hedgie , Turtle, Bunny, Squirrel and Acorns, and Little Owl!Raccoon is worked seamlessly from the bottom-up for the body and head (worked back to front), all appendages are picked up and knit on. The only whipstitch seam is to attach the head to the body. This is a fun and fairly simple knit that works up pretty fast due to the heavier yarn and larger needles!Here is some pattern information for you:Finished size: 7 – inches tallYarn: Aran weight yarnMain color: 100 yardsContrast colors 1 and 2: 50 yards eachSample is made in Quince & Co. 100% wool, MC - 1 skein each of Storm #104, CC1 - Egret #101, CC2 - Crow #102.Needles:US size 8/5mm, set of four double-pointed needles.Use the size needles to achieve gauge.Gauge: 4.5 stitches per inch in stockinette stitchMaterials:Yarn needleDetachable stitch markersFiberfillRuler or tape measure2 - 6mm safety eyesEpisode 21 ~ New Toy Patterns plus a Huge Arne & Carlos Giveaway! You can subscribe or watch my episodes on YouTube and iTunes.You can follow me on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter for almost daily updates.My very active Ravelry group is Itty-Bitty Knits! All are welcome to join in the fun over there!Episode Links:Agnes sweater by Melissa LaBarreQuince & Co. Puffin and ChickadeeKnit Spin Farm Etsy Shop (my handspun sock yarn was spun by JoAnna)Roving for my handspun socks (spun by JoAnna of the KnitspinFarm podcast - a must watch!) is Cheviot in the Owls colorway from Quillin Fiber Arts on EtsyKarbonz dpnsHow I Make My Socks (my free sock pattern)NNK PressStitches West (patterns will premiere at Alana Dakos' Never Not Knitting Booth!) Alana will have some surprises having to do with my patterns! Be sure to stop by and say hello.Another Crafty Girl ~ Ponky Brewster colorway, fingering weight sock yarnArne & Carlos sock yarn by RegiaKnitter's Pride Pattern KeeperWolf River Sweater by Melissa SchaschwaryJill Draper Makes Stuff ~ huge ball of Empire YarnRegia Trend & Tweed ClassicLowland Originals Etsy Shop ~ dpn keepersRulers:Sock RulerSock It To MeAnn Budd's Gauge RulerThe Loopy Ewe wooden sock blockersSignature Needle Arts double-pointed needlesGigantic Arne & Carlos Giveaway!12 Lucky Winners will be randomly selected!Here are the giveaway instructions:Please leave a comment on this blog post to enter to win 100 grams of the Fantastic Arne & Carlos Regia sock yarn (enough for 1 pair of socks!). In your comment you must leave your Ravelry ID or an email address so you can be easily contacted if you win. Please only click on the Publish button one time, please only enter once! There is a delay before you will see your comment appear on the blog. I will be back next week to randomly select 12 lucky winners for the Arne & Carlos sock yarn. Good luck, thanks for watching and for checking out my new patterns! Thanks for all of the support, as always. Love to you all.Let the comments begin!xo ~ susan

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-328 – Bobby Gill – The Half-Naked-Hilarity of Cupid's Undie Run. (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4328.mp3]Link epi4328.mp3MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - http://www.marathonbq.com/qualify-for-the-boston-marathon-in-14-weeks/Hello and happy holidays from RunRunLive central here at the Mongolian Yak farm. I was going to do a whole bit about the wild reindeer catching the zombie virus, but since it's the holidays I won't mess with you. Today we have a really good talk with Bobby Gill from Cupid's Undie Run about his adventure. I'm always a bit hesitant when a publicist reaches out to me about someone or something. I always worry about doing the same interview as 10 other podcasters. That really doesn't add any value to you folks. But, I resonated with Bobby and really enjoyed our chat. He does this ‘aww-shucks we just got lucky' routine but you can tell there's some focus and talent in the background for him and the Undie run to get so big so fast. In section one I'm going to talk about strength training. In section two I'm going to wax poetic about 9 key moments in the runner's journey. Last time I talked to you folks I was rolling off of the Mill Cities Relay and getting ready for the Jeff Galloway ½ in Atlanta. I've continued to have great training weeks and am feeling fairly strong. I treated the ½ marathon as a pace run and didn't taper for it. I have pivoted my training from speedwork to long tempo. From the races I've done recently it shows me that I have enough speed but I need to work on strength and staying power. I raced the previous Sunday then did two hard 1:20 step up tempo runs during the week. I was also fighting some sort of cold all week. A travel race in the middle of December is just the worst timing, but I had to be in Atlanta all week anyhow so I just went down early. It was an opportunity for me to test out my pacing strategy to meet some old friends from the pod-o-sphere community and to check out a new race. I'm not going to go into full race report mode for you here. And I'm certainly not going to debate the Galloway training stuff. It's not for me, but kudos to Jeff for lowering the barrier to entry to running for so many people. He's doing good work with his flock. Overall the race is extremely well managed – everything went off without a hitch. The weather was good – maybe a little warm if you were back in the pack. I ran in short-shorts and singlet. I was soaked when I finished but it didn't affect my running. The course was actually interesting and had some pretty parts for a city course. The defining feature was the hills. I have worked and run in Atlanta for years. I know it's a hilly place. Running a ½ marathon through it is challenging. Jeff told me that it's actually a downhill course because the finish in Piedmont Park is a bit lower than the start. It's a very hilly course. If you know Atlanta you know that they aren't periodic steep hills, like in a New England race where you might have a 500 foot monster somewhere on the course. They are consistent long, shallow uphills and downhills. You're always either climbing or descending. It made it hard for me to execute my pacing strategy. I forgot my Garmin at home and was pacing old-school off my IronMan watch – which isn't a problem for me. I was intending to try to pace at just under my marathon goal pace of 8 min miles. The hills made pacing kind of impossible so I just ran by feel. This is a course where it would have really helped to know the course. The course is a bit deceptive at the end because they run you by and around the park a couple times. You are essentially circling the finish line for 3+ miles. Tim Cleary had told me there was a big hill at mile 9ish and then a steep downhill into the park. That was the landmark I was looking for. There was a big hill at the 9 mile mark, but that wasn't the one Tim was talking about. There was the steepest hill on the course around 10 miles with a long steep decent after, then you turn into the park. Tactically this is where I screwed up. After climbing the big hill in good order I got to the steep downhill and thought to myself “The turn into the park is at the bottom of this hill so I'll spend what I have here on the downhill and cruise into the finish.” The problem with that was once you turn into the park it's still a couple miles of rolling hills to get to the finish. I struggled the last couple miles in the park on dead legs. Not what I was intending to do but still finished under my target average pace. That tells me I probably went out to fast. I hung around the finishing chute giving out encouraging words and high fives in the warm Atlanta sun. …I'll tell you a couple of ‘big data' stories from the week. Now it's the holiday season so I expect to get my share of junk mail from people trying to sell me stuff. I noticed over the last month I've been getting flooded with targeted advertisements for fancy cars. Every day I get some glossy brochure and personal invite letter from Lexus and Jaguar and Range Rover. I was trying to figure out what demographic inflection point I had tripped in the great consumer database in the cloud. Why did BMW, Mercedes and Audi think that I was ripe for the picking? I figured it was probably my age and my income level. I'm ripe for a mid-life crisis car. But it all seemed rather sudden and targeted. Then I was out on a long run with my friend Ryan in the Town Forest last weekend and we were talking about it. Ryan owns a marketing firm. We figured it out. You see, all the college financial data is public domain data. The great marketing data bureaus know that I just sent my last college tuition check. And that same day the handsome glossies for shiny, new, carefully hand-crafted by Austrian engineers, glinting in the desert sun as a slightly greying athletic male model grins at the abundance of life, while leaning into a challengingly scenic corner in the road from a warm, self-heating leather seat…began arriving by the bundle in my mail box. On with the show! Section one - Running TipsPart Two – Strength Training - http://runrunlive.com/strength-training-to-get-ready-for-a-hard-training-cycleVoices of reason – the conversationBobby Gill – The Half-Naked-Hilarity of Cupid's Undie RunHere is Runner's World's story on Bobby: http://www.runnersworld.com/cover-search/cover-search-winner-bobby-gill Here is a link to a story that ran on a DC radio station: http://wtop.com/other-sports/2015/11/why-a-local-man-is-on-the-cover-of-runners-world-in-his-underwear/ Cupid's Undie Run is the world's largest organized underwear run and must- do Valentine's Day event. The money raised benefits the Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF), a nonprofit organization that funds research to fi nd treatments and a cure for neurofibromatosis (NF). Presented by Sock It To Me as the official underwear sponsor, Cupid's Undie Run combines a pre-race party, a one mi le -ish undie run and an after party. Cupid's Undie Run will take place on February 13 and February 20. In 2010, founders Brendan Hanrahan, Chad Leathers and Bobby Gill set off on a mission to raise awareness and donations to CTF after Chad's brother was di agnosed with NF, a genetic disorder that can cause tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body, which can lead to blindness, deafness, learning disabilities, cancer and chronic pain. Affecting more than two millio n people, NF often requires patients to undergo numerous medical procedures. Since 2010, Cupid's Undie Run has donated nearly $8 million to CTF. A nationally recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit, Cupid's Undie Run held i ts first run in Washington, DC outside of the nation's Capitol Building. In 2016, the run will expand into 36 cities across the nation and three runs in Australia. Each run operates from the support of volunteers - creating an organized and enjoyable experience for its 25,000+ runners. Cupid's Undie Run aims to put the hilarity in charity, raising fu nds for NF research through whatever means necessary. Why run around in undies in the middle of the winter? There is no better "exposure." Runners can fundraise as individuals or teams, earning prizes and recognition for their part in helping to #EndNF. Participants in Cupid's Undi e Run must be 21 -years-old or older. About the Founders After his brother's diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis (NF), Chad Leathers and friends Brendan Hanrahan and Bobby Gill brainstormed ways to raise awareness and money in the fight against NF. The charitable cherubs decided on undies and started to make Cupid's Undie Run a reality. With endless help and support from volunteers, family and friends, this group continues to lead the world's largest organized underwear run - donating millions of dollars to CTF. Section two – 9 transformational moments in the running journey - http://runrunlive.com/9-transformational-moments-in-the-running-journeyOutro - Closing commentsMarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - http://www.marathonbq.com/qualify-for-the-boston-marathon-in-14-weeks/ OK my friends, you have run, maybe in your underwear, to the end of episode 4-328 of the RunRunLive podcast. It will be Christmas when this drops. I hope you all enjoys whatever version of the winter solstice you celebrate. Make sure to be kind to your family. Even if they are testing your patience. I'm in the midst of a couple hard weeks of volume and tempo. I'm going to run the Groton Marathon this weekend as a long training run. I've got a couple listeners who have stepped up and said they're going to come along. I took the week after the Galloway as a step back week. I did a couple of easier Fartlek runs to let my legs get a bit of recovery before this last big push. This week I knocked off a solid 1:30 step up run. My zone 3 and zone 4 efforts are 15 seconds a mile faster than goal pace – so that bodes well. I'm going to do a 2 hour step up tomorrow that should be somewhere in the 14 mile range. Next week I'll repeat those efforts and cap it with a 20 miler. Then I'm going to taper and take a swing at the Rock n Roll Phoenix race on the 17th. It's not ideal, but If I'm going to requalify in time to get reseeded at Boston I'm out of time. If I can work on my strength training and dial in my nutrition to drop a couple pounds I should be right on my goal pace. It's not guaranteed. But I have to commit. If you dither and give yourself outs you'll never accomplish your goals. You need to have the ‘There is no plan B' attitude. So that's it. I'm committed. Over the next 3 weeks I'm going to do the work I can. It's going to come down to a little bit of luck and a disciplined race execution. …Last week. In addition to all the fine automobilia brochures I was getting a bunch of calls on my cell phone from various states. I'd answer them or they'd leave a message. Sometimes they'd ask for ‘Harry' and I'd tell them it was a wrong number. Sometimes they'd ask about my interest in earning an online degree. It wasn't until one of them asked for Harry Potter that I figured out what was going on. Someone had filled out an interest form for colleges using my phone number and Harry Potter's name. At first I was annoyed but then I'd be like “Are you listening to what you're saying? You're asking for Harry Potter, really?” Anyhow I'm just explaining it to them now. I mean if you're an admissions assistance for an online college you don't need me adding to your misery. I joked with my kids that I should start asking about Wizarding classes and such. But – my best story from last week is about ancient smells. I had to pack for a week in Atlanta, including a race. I am a business traveler and I use a small roller-board and I WILL NOT check a bag. I had to figure out how to get all my stuff into the one bag. The item of clothing that takes up the most space is my size 12D Hoka Clifton 2's that I'm currently running in. I decided I'd wear these on the plane and save the space in my bag. Now, I've been running in these shoes since the middle of August. You figure 30 miles a week for 16 weeks is north of 400 miles. Many of these miles were hot and sweaty. These shoes are rather well-used, salt encrusted and aromatic. I get on the plane to Atlanta and get upgraded to 1st class. I kick my shoes off to let them air out a bit and give my feet some breathing room too. The steward comes by with the tray for the meal service – (yes they still serve meals in 1st class). On the tray he's balanced a nice full glass of red wine. As he places the tray on my tray table the nice full glass of red win drops off the front directly between my legs. I have one of those ‘Oh shit!' moments. There is a moment of good natured chaos. But I discover that the wine totally missed my (white) pants and merely glanced off my computer bag.Where did the wine go? Well it neatly filled up my size 12D Hokas. Now I've got a pair of wine-soaked running shoes that I have to race in the next day. The attendant was mortified as I poured wine out of my shoes, but assured them it wasn't the end of the world. They had given me another great story to tell and if that was the worst thing to happen to me I'm leading a charmed life indeed. More noticeable was the incredibly unique aroma of old sweat and cheap wine. I've wandered this planet for many years and I don't think I've ever smelled anything like that. A very rich, full-bodied smell with notes of dead animal carcass, you might say. I smiled when I thought about the race the next day and people wondering what that smell was. Maybe I'd be like the pied piper attracting all the middle-aged Galloway women with my secret wine pheromones. Then I thought, maybe this isn't a unique smell. Maybe this is a very ancient smell. Maybe this is the smell of Greek and Roman warriors. Maybe I had rediscovered the scent of Pheidippides himself. So, think about that when you unwrap your Old Spice Cologne gift set from under your pagan yule bush this year and I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - http://www.marathonbq.com/qualify-for-the-boston-marathon-in-14-weeks/Http://www.marathonbq.comhttp://runrunlive.com/my-books

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-328 – Bobby Gill – The Half-Naked-Hilarity of Cupid’s Undie Run. (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4328.mp3]Link epi4328.mp3MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - http://www.marathonbq.com/qualify-for-the-boston-marathon-in-14-weeks/Hello and happy holidays from RunRunLive central here at the Mongolian Yak farm. I was going to do a whole bit about the wild reindeer catching the zombie virus, but since it’s the holidays I won’t mess with you. Today we have a really good talk with Bobby Gill from Cupid’s Undie Run about his adventure. I’m always a bit hesitant when a publicist reaches out to me about someone or something. I always worry about doing the same interview as 10 other podcasters. That really doesn’t add any value to you folks. But, I resonated with Bobby and really enjoyed our chat. He does this ‘aww-shucks we just got lucky’ routine but you can tell there’s some focus and talent in the background for him and the Undie run to get so big so fast. In section one I’m going to talk about strength training. In section two I’m going to wax poetic about 9 key moments in the runner’s journey. Last time I talked to you folks I was rolling off of the Mill Cities Relay and getting ready for the Jeff Galloway ½ in Atlanta. I’ve continued to have great training weeks and am feeling fairly strong. I treated the ½ marathon as a pace run and didn’t taper for it. I have pivoted my training from speedwork to long tempo. From the races I’ve done recently it shows me that I have enough speed but I need to work on strength and staying power. I raced the previous Sunday then did two hard 1:20 step up tempo runs during the week. I was also fighting some sort of cold all week. A travel race in the middle of December is just the worst timing, but I had to be in Atlanta all week anyhow so I just went down early. It was an opportunity for me to test out my pacing strategy to meet some old friends from the pod-o-sphere community and to check out a new race. I’m not going to go into full race report mode for you here. And I’m certainly not going to debate the Galloway training stuff. It’s not for me, but kudos to Jeff for lowering the barrier to entry to running for so many people. He’s doing good work with his flock. Overall the race is extremely well managed – everything went off without a hitch. The weather was good – maybe a little warm if you were back in the pack. I ran in short-shorts and singlet. I was soaked when I finished but it didn’t affect my running. The course was actually interesting and had some pretty parts for a city course. The defining feature was the hills. I have worked and run in Atlanta for years. I know it’s a hilly place. Running a ½ marathon through it is challenging. Jeff told me that it’s actually a downhill course because the finish in Piedmont Park is a bit lower than the start. It’s a very hilly course. If you know Atlanta you know that they aren’t periodic steep hills, like in a New England race where you might have a 500 foot monster somewhere on the course. They are consistent long, shallow uphills and downhills. You’re always either climbing or descending. It made it hard for me to execute my pacing strategy. I forgot my Garmin at home and was pacing old-school off my IronMan watch – which isn’t a problem for me. I was intending to try to pace at just under my marathon goal pace of 8 min miles. The hills made pacing kind of impossible so I just ran by feel. This is a course where it would have really helped to know the course. The course is a bit deceptive at the end because they run you by and around the park a couple times. You are essentially circling the finish line for 3+ miles. Tim Cleary had told me there was a big hill at mile 9ish and then a steep downhill into the park. That was the landmark I was looking for. There was a big hill at the 9 mile mark, but that wasn’t the one Tim was talking about. There was the steepest hill on the course around 10 miles with a long steep decent after, then you turn into the park. Tactically this is where I screwed up. After climbing the big hill in good order I got to the steep downhill and thought to myself “The turn into the park is at the bottom of this hill so I’ll spend what I have here on the downhill and cruise into the finish.” The problem with that was once you turn into the park it’s still a couple miles of rolling hills to get to the finish. I struggled the last couple miles in the park on dead legs. Not what I was intending to do but still finished under my target average pace. That tells me I probably went out to fast. I hung around the finishing chute giving out encouraging words and high fives in the warm Atlanta sun. …I’ll tell you a couple of ‘big data’ stories from the week. Now it’s the holiday season so I expect to get my share of junk mail from people trying to sell me stuff. I noticed over the last month I’ve been getting flooded with targeted advertisements for fancy cars. Every day I get some glossy brochure and personal invite letter from Lexus and Jaguar and Range Rover. I was trying to figure out what demographic inflection point I had tripped in the great consumer database in the cloud. Why did BMW, Mercedes and Audi think that I was ripe for the picking? I figured it was probably my age and my income level. I’m ripe for a mid-life crisis car. But it all seemed rather sudden and targeted. Then I was out on a long run with my friend Ryan in the Town Forest last weekend and we were talking about it. Ryan owns a marketing firm. We figured it out. You see, all the college financial data is public domain data. The great marketing data bureaus know that I just sent my last college tuition check. And that same day the handsome glossies for shiny, new, carefully hand-crafted by Austrian engineers, glinting in the desert sun as a slightly greying athletic male model grins at the abundance of life, while leaning into a challengingly scenic corner in the road from a warm, self-heating leather seat…began arriving by the bundle in my mail box. On with the show! Section one - Running TipsPart Two – Strength Training - http://runrunlive.com/strength-training-to-get-ready-for-a-hard-training-cycleVoices of reason – the conversationBobby Gill – The Half-Naked-Hilarity of Cupid’s Undie RunHere is Runner’s World’s story on Bobby: http://www.runnersworld.com/cover-search/cover-search-winner-bobby-gill Here is a link to a story that ran on a DC radio station: http://wtop.com/other-sports/2015/11/why-a-local-man-is-on-the-cover-of-runners-world-in-his-underwear/ Cupid's Undie Run is the world's largest organized underwear run and must- do Valentine's Day event. The money raised benefits the Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF), a nonprofit organization that funds research to fi nd treatments and a cure for neurofibromatosis (NF). Presented by Sock It To Me as the official underwear sponsor, Cupid's Undie Run combines a pre-race party, a one mi le -ish undie run and an after party. Cupid's Undie Run will take place on February 13 and February 20. In 2010, founders Brendan Hanrahan, Chad Leathers and Bobby Gill set off on a mission to raise awareness and donations to CTF after Chad's brother was di agnosed with NF, a genetic disorder that can cause tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body, which can lead to blindness, deafness, learning disabilities, cancer and chronic pain. Affecting more than two millio n people, NF often requires patients to undergo numerous medical procedures. Since 2010, Cupid's Undie Run has donated nearly $8 million to CTF. A nationally recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit, Cupid's Undie Run held i ts first run in Washington, DC outside of the nation's Capitol Building. In 2016, the run will expand into 36 cities across the nation and three runs in Australia. Each run operates from the support of volunteers - creating an organized and enjoyable experience for its 25,000+ runners. Cupid's Undie Run aims to put the hilarity in charity, raising fu nds for NF research through whatever means necessary. Why run around in undies in the middle of the winter? There is no better "exposure." Runners can fundraise as individuals or teams, earning prizes and recognition for their part in helping to #EndNF. Participants in Cupid's Undi e Run must be 21 -years-old or older. About the Founders After his brother's diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis (NF), Chad Leathers and friends Brendan Hanrahan and Bobby Gill brainstormed ways to raise awareness and money in the fight against NF. The charitable cherubs decided on undies and started to make Cupid's Undie Run a reality. With endless help and support from volunteers, family and friends, this group continues to lead the world's largest organized underwear run - donating millions of dollars to CTF. Section two – 9 transformational moments in the running journey - http://runrunlive.com/9-transformational-moments-in-the-running-journeyOutro - Closing commentsMarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - http://www.marathonbq.com/qualify-for-the-boston-marathon-in-14-weeks/ OK my friends, you have run, maybe in your underwear, to the end of episode 4-328 of the RunRunLive podcast. It will be Christmas when this drops. I hope you all enjoys whatever version of the winter solstice you celebrate. Make sure to be kind to your family. Even if they are testing your patience. I’m in the midst of a couple hard weeks of volume and tempo. I’m going to run the Groton Marathon this weekend as a long training run. I’ve got a couple listeners who have stepped up and said they’re going to come along. I took the week after the Galloway as a step back week. I did a couple of easier Fartlek runs to let my legs get a bit of recovery before this last big push. This week I knocked off a solid 1:30 step up run. My zone 3 and zone 4 efforts are 15 seconds a mile faster than goal pace – so that bodes well. I’m going to do a 2 hour step up tomorrow that should be somewhere in the 14 mile range. Next week I’ll repeat those efforts and cap it with a 20 miler. Then I’m going to taper and take a swing at the Rock n Roll Phoenix race on the 17th. It’s not ideal, but If I’m going to requalify in time to get reseeded at Boston I’m out of time. If I can work on my strength training and dial in my nutrition to drop a couple pounds I should be right on my goal pace. It’s not guaranteed. But I have to commit. If you dither and give yourself outs you’ll never accomplish your goals. You need to have the ‘There is no plan B’ attitude. So that’s it. I’m committed. Over the next 3 weeks I’m going to do the work I can. It’s going to come down to a little bit of luck and a disciplined race execution. …Last week. In addition to all the fine automobilia brochures I was getting a bunch of calls on my cell phone from various states. I’d answer them or they’d leave a message. Sometimes they’d ask for ‘Harry’ and I’d tell them it was a wrong number. Sometimes they’d ask about my interest in earning an online degree. It wasn’t until one of them asked for Harry Potter that I figured out what was going on. Someone had filled out an interest form for colleges using my phone number and Harry Potter’s name. At first I was annoyed but then I’d be like “Are you listening to what you’re saying? You’re asking for Harry Potter, really?” Anyhow I’m just explaining it to them now. I mean if you’re an admissions assistance for an online college you don’t need me adding to your misery. I joked with my kids that I should start asking about Wizarding classes and such. But – my best story from last week is about ancient smells. I had to pack for a week in Atlanta, including a race. I am a business traveler and I use a small roller-board and I WILL NOT check a bag. I had to figure out how to get all my stuff into the one bag. The item of clothing that takes up the most space is my size 12D Hoka Clifton 2’s that I’m currently running in. I decided I’d wear these on the plane and save the space in my bag. Now, I’ve been running in these shoes since the middle of August. You figure 30 miles a week for 16 weeks is north of 400 miles. Many of these miles were hot and sweaty. These shoes are rather well-used, salt encrusted and aromatic. I get on the plane to Atlanta and get upgraded to 1st class. I kick my shoes off to let them air out a bit and give my feet some breathing room too. The steward comes by with the tray for the meal service – (yes they still serve meals in 1st class). On the tray he’s balanced a nice full glass of red wine. As he places the tray on my tray table the nice full glass of red win drops off the front directly between my legs. I have one of those ‘Oh shit!’ moments. There is a moment of good natured chaos. But I discover that the wine totally missed my (white) pants and merely glanced off my computer bag.Where did the wine go? Well it neatly filled up my size 12D Hokas. Now I’ve got a pair of wine-soaked running shoes that I have to race in the next day. The attendant was mortified as I poured wine out of my shoes, but assured them it wasn’t the end of the world. They had given me another great story to tell and if that was the worst thing to happen to me I’m leading a charmed life indeed. More noticeable was the incredibly unique aroma of old sweat and cheap wine. I’ve wandered this planet for many years and I don’t think I’ve ever smelled anything like that. A very rich, full-bodied smell with notes of dead animal carcass, you might say. I smiled when I thought about the race the next day and people wondering what that smell was. Maybe I’d be like the pied piper attracting all the middle-aged Galloway women with my secret wine pheromones. Then I thought, maybe this isn’t a unique smell. Maybe this is a very ancient smell. Maybe this is the smell of Greek and Roman warriors. Maybe I had rediscovered the scent of Pheidippides himself. So, think about that when you unwrap your Old Spice Cologne gift set from under your pagan yule bush this year and I’ll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - http://www.marathonbq.com/qualify-for-the-boston-marathon-in-14-weeks/Http://www.marathonbq.comhttp://runrunlive.com/my-books

Scientists have decided to reanimate a prehistoric virus. What could go wrong? On today’s show, Phil Hulett is joined in the studio by Brooke Peterson, Gonzo Greg Spillane and Ted “Thrashpie” Prichard. We ask again, what could go wrong? Brooke offers the following stories: Safari Dentist goes back to work, Colbert debuts tonight, Astronauts on the ISS remotely control a robot on earth, Pylon Cams for the NFL, Kim Davis, and Why Cynics make less money. Greg issued the latest speculation on Apple’s scheduled new technology announcement, Marijuana gets a Mascot, and the Fat Shaming YouTube gal. Ted wondered who should get the transgender acting roles in Hollywood, was curious about the government’s big land grab near Area 51, reported on high school football players attacking a referee during a game, and had sad news about the “Sock It To Me” [...]

Categories on this week of the only Pub Trivia Podcast in Utah: Looney Tunes, 2016 GOP Candidates, Sock-It To Me, The Nick-Named Athlete, and Know Your State.

Categories on this week of the only Pub Trivia Podcast in Utah: Looney Tunes, 2016 GOP Candidates, Sock-It To Me, The Nick-Named Athlete, and Know Your State.

FYI, for the first 45 minutes, the board in the studio was malfunctioning and we didn't have sound in the right channel. Which is rad. And then I wiggled some random wires and the problem went away.* Ronnie Dio & The Prophets, Love Potion No. 9* DâM-FunK, I Hope U Know I'm Watching June* James Blake, CMYK* Madvillain, Papermill* Flying Lotus, Nose Art* Ratatat, Party With Children* Silly Kissers, mine u are mine* Blue Hawaii, Dream Electrixra* Spring Break, Cuckoo* Cults, Most Wanted* Youth Crime, Mean Moe Tucker* Avi Buffalo, Summer Cum* Fang Island, Daisy* Dum Dum Girls, PayForMe* Sleigh Bells, Straight A's* Ganglians, my house* Terror Bird, Shadows in the Halls* Missy Elliott, Sock It To Me