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Jeg forstod ikke helt, hvorfor der blev blev rynket på næsen af, denne musik form både i tiden og senere hen. Den blev/bliver lyttet til og købt i million oplag. Det var grupper som Loggins and Messina, America, Boston, James Taylor med flere. De kunne om nogen skrive ørehængere og radiovenlige hits. Lyt med til: Jackson Browne, Three Dog Night, Squeeze, Don McLean og mange flere.
Today's program features tuneage from Otis Redding, Pink Floyd, Peter Green, King Crimson, Pacific Gas & Electric, Radiohead, Red House Painters, The Four Tops, Supremes, Three Dog Night, Procol Harum, Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones, Walker Bros, Righteous Bros, Brian Auger w Julie Driscoll, Fortunes, Beatles, Tears For Fears, Chicago, Colin Winfield Blues Band, Ray LaMontagne, Van Morrison and Blood Sweat & Tears.
Kruser honors the passing of Chuck Negron of the band Three Dog Night for this edition of musical anatomy and LEX18's Bill Meck joins the shoe to talk about how big is too big when it comes to your television. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Grief has a soundtrack—and so does joy. We open with a heartfelt salute to Catherine O'Hara, tracing how a single scene, a laugh line, or a voice can linger long after the credits, then wander into the wild terrain where memory and music meet. From Beetlejuice's dinner table possession to Home Alone's enduring comfort, we reflect on how film and song become the waypoints we use to navigate time. That doorway leads us to a run of resonant passings and timeless cuts: Demond Wilson's place in Sanford and Son and the instant-transport power of Quincy Jones' Street Beater, the exuberant lift of Three Dog Night's Joy to the World, and a trip through New York's CBGB with Television's Fred Smith, Marquee Moon, and the creative stubbornness that forged a landmark record.We trace another kind of legacy through Lynn Blakey—muse behind Left of the Dial—and the thrill of literally finding a friend on college radio while touring dark highways. Her voice in Salt Collective's recent release becomes proof that “new” music thrives when veterans share a room, a pen, and superior instincts. Along the way we spotlight the Pretenders' crisp poetry, Dolly Parton's ever-true 9 to 5, and Siouxsie and the Banshees turning the ash of Pompeii into a dance-floor revelation. These are touchstones that explain why a Pink Floyd joke can still land and why Mount Vesuvius can power a chorus.Then the lens widens to the Blitzkrieg Bop at 50—a hook first shouted in downtown clubs that now rattles stadiums and commercial breaks—and ask how simple phrases become lifelong companions. It's a tour through what lasts, why it lasts, and how it keeps finding us—left of the dial and right in the heart.If this journey moved you, tap follow, share it with a friend who loves great stories about music and film, and leave us a quick review with your favorite “timeless” track—we'll feature picks in a future mailbag.Learn Something New orRemember Something OldPlease like and follow the Music in My Shoes Facebook and Instagram pagesReach out to us at musicinmyshoes@gmail.comSend us a one-way message. We can't answer you back directly, but it could be part of a future Music In My Shoes Mailbag!!!
Chuck Negron, the hitmaking singer for Three Dog Night, is dead at 83 years old. Mike North is here to deliver his eulogy. Brought to you by Cumberland Chapels and Pennyville Station restaurant. Visit: https://www.cumberlandchapels.com/ Visit: https://www.pennyvillestation.com/
HUGE announcement on KFI: Conway, John Kobylt and iHeart LA Division President Paul Corvino unveil the station’s new weekday lineup, kicking off Tuesday, February 17 — with Monks & Merrill (12–3p), Kobylt back to afternoon drive (3–6p), and Tim Conway Jr. back in evenings (6–10p). KFI’s Michael Monks and Chris Merrill join to break down the brand-new Monks & Merrill midday show (12–3), what they’re bringing to the slot, and what listeners can expect starting 2/17. Mark Thompson shares a personal story from the funeral of Chuck Negron, the Three Dog Night founding member and voice behind classics like “Joy to the World,” who has died at 83. A “Joy to the World” tribute — plus how Mark and Chuck knew one another, the memories behind the music, and why that iconic track still hits decades later.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The always enjoyable and in-depth conversation dives into Super Bowl music, Grammy analysis, special anniversaries, and significant passings. In the spotlight Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, The Beatles, Laufey, Jelly Roll, Three Dog Night, Carol KIng, Chris Stapleton, Billy Joel, Three Doors Down, and more. Come along for the ride!
Will and Jon discuss new releases by Sunday Mourners, Whitelands and Victoryland, plus a live report, deaths of the week, and bonus songs.
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever doTwo can be as bad as oneIt's the loneliest number since the number one"Please be my number 2 and join me this afternoon, Super Bowl Sunday, for Super Sounds Of The 70's. Stopping by are David Bowie, Boz Scaggs, Pink Floyd, Peter Frampton, Yes, Robin Trower, Renaissance, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Michael Bloomfield, Blues Image, Phil Manzanera, Procol Harum, Mountain, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Chicago, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and Three Dog Night with a brief tribute to Chuck Negron who passed away last week.
Unredacted exchanges about the rock and roll underworld this week highlight the following … … real or made-up stars' kids' names: Speck Wildhorse? Blue Ivy? Everly Bear? Motorhead Michelob? … man plays drum solo with his head! … Olivia Dean, Lola Young, FKA Twigs: what do today's ‘professionals' learn at the BRIT School and what happened to the age of the amateurs? … why Joni Mitchell's life was even more extraordinary before she was famous … Three Dog Night, Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad, Linda Ronstadt: American acts that never broke Britain … rude, racy, naughty, delightful: our love of old pulp paperbacks … “Go to your room, young lady, and play a Nick Drake album in its entirety!” … and when Dandelion became Angela. Plus birthday guest Paul Higham and why most stars' stories need a lively biographer.Help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Send us a textThis week,we are paying tribute to the 3 Dog Night who gave us so much. Today we are honoring their commitment to rock and roll. Enjoy this episode as we look back on their legacy....This episode dives into the sunny harmonies, unexpected grit, and hit-making magic of Three Dog Night, one of the most successful bands of the late '60s and '70s. From radio staples you know by heart to the fascinating way they built their sound around other people's songs, Three Dog Night carved out a lane that was both wildly commercial and quietly influential.We talk about how having three lead vocalists gave the band its signature power, why their version of a song often became the definitive version, and how their music soundtracked everything from road trips to movie montages to your parents' living room.Whether you're a lifelong classic-rock fan or just realizing how many of these songs you already love, this episode is a reminder that Three Dog Night wasn't just on the radio — they were the radio.Songs & moments discussed may include:“Shambalaget ready for more in this all inclusive episode....
Unredacted exchanges about the rock and roll underworld this week highlight the following … … real or made-up stars' kids' names: Speck Wildhorse? Blue Ivy? Everly Bear? Motorhead Michelob? … man plays drum solo with his head! … Olivia Dean, Lola Young, FKA Twigs: what do today's ‘professionals' learn at the BRIT School and what happened to the age of the amateurs? … why Joni Mitchell's life was even more extraordinary before she was famous … Three Dog Night, Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad, Linda Ronstadt: American acts that never broke Britain … rude, racy, naughty, delightful: our love of old pulp paperbacks … “Go to your room, young lady, and play a Nick Drake album in its entirety!” … and when Dandelion became Angela. Plus birthday guest Paul Higham and why most stars' stories need a lively biographer.Help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Unredacted exchanges about the rock and roll underworld this week highlight the following … … real or made-up stars' kids' names: Speck Wildhorse? Blue Ivy? Everly Bear? Motorhead Michelob? … man plays drum solo with his head! … Olivia Dean, Lola Young, FKA Twigs: what do today's ‘professionals' learn at the BRIT School and what happened to the age of the amateurs? … why Joni Mitchell's life was even more extraordinary before she was famous … Three Dog Night, Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad, Linda Ronstadt: American acts that never broke Britain … rude, racy, naughty, delightful: our love of old pulp paperbacks … “Go to your room, young lady, and play a Nick Drake album in its entirety!” … and when Dandelion became Angela. Plus birthday guest Paul Higham and why most stars' stories need a lively biographer.Help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Co-founder and former Three Dog Night frontman Chuck Negron (1942-2026) discusses the collectible records of his career, the early releases on small labels, the rare and recalled albums of Three Dog Night and mega-smash excesses and turnaround of his life and career. Interview from July 2022 Topics Include: Chuck's autobiography Three Dog Nightmare . Basketball was first passion growing up in Bronx schoolyards. Made first record "Oh Baby" in 1958 at age fifteen. Early releases on tiny Bronx Records label extremely rare today. Progressed through Rondelles, Marlinda, and Heart Van regional California labels. "I Dream of an Angel" became regional hit across central California. Columbia Records offered deal while playing college basketball at Hancock. Chose to finish basketball season, damaging initial Columbia Records excitement. Learned hard lesson about commitment after squandering early industry enthusiasm. Bill Sharman offered Cal State LA scholarship but chose music. Left school permanently, ending high-level basketball career for music industry. Three Dog Night formed with three lead singers sharing spotlight. Band's strategy: find great songs, not write them themselves exclusively. "One" by Harry Nilsson became breakthrough hit launching massive success. Achieved 21 consecutive Top 40 hits selling over 60 million records. "Joy to the World" became worldwide number one, band's biggest success. "Black and White" addressed racial integration as mainstream social statement message. Hard Labor's controversial birthing cover recalled after hundreds of thousands distributed. Now hosts weekly WhatNot show selling rare Three Dog Night collectibles. At 80, credits basketball training for vocal stamina and survival. High resolution version of this podcast is available at: www.Patreon.com/VinylGuide Apple: https://tinyurl.com/tvg-ios Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/tvg-spot Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/tvg-amazon Support the show at Patreon.com/VinylGuide
From the Archives Special Episode With the recent passing of Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) we are re-releasing our interview with Chuck that we did on Friday, July 24, 2020. Rob & Matt interviewed Chuck Negron and this was only their second interview and most memorable. Chuck had such great stories and memories to share from his early beginnings and his time in Three Dog Night (one of the greatest bands to ever form) Chuck tells us of his beginnings playing basketball, his first group, three dog night, puppets, John Wayne.. we also play one of chuck's recent recordings. Sit back and enjoy the time we got to spend with one of music's great singers CHUCK NEGRON. You will be greatly missed. RIP Chuck.
Listen without Ads at www.patreon.com/dopeypodcastThis week on the replay we remember supreme Dopey Legend, Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night! Chuck was a world class drug addict in the height of sex, drugs, and rock and roll debauchery in the 1960's and 1970's! He smashed his face whilst on seconals and his legendary penis exploded from too much sex with loving fans! Most importantly Chuck was a beautiful soul who helped scores of people to get better and to enjoy their lives! Rest in Peace Chuck Negron and Thank you!Also Rest in Peace to Chris who is on the show too. PLUS emails, voicemails and more on a super fun and legendary trip down memory lane! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
A tribute to lead vocalist and co-founder of Three Dog Night, Chuck Negron, who passed away earlier this week. (48 minutes)
Lionel dissects the bizarre allegations linking Bill Gates to Jeffrey Epstein and "Russian hookers," asking the questions no one else will ask. The conversation shifts to a mysterious disappearance case, scrutinizing the family, the brother-in-law, and the strange lack of evidence in a potential kidnapping. Between calls about the Clintons, Three Dog Night, and old murder mysteries, Lionel and his listeners debate the terrifying and miraculous potential of Super AI—from curing cancer and analyzing X-rays to the existential threat of a machine that refuses to be turned off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A tribute to lead vocalist and co-founder of Three Dog Night, Chuck Negron, who passed away earlier this week. (48 minutes)
Send us a textOn this episode we discuss the upcoming release of Van Halen's 5150 Box and all its glorious extras, the passing of Chuck Negron from Three Dog Night and remember their best songs, we hear new music from Roger Taylor of Queen and the latest Peter Gabriel offering. We play “Poorly Explained Movies” and MixTape (sorry Miss Judgeness, we're dumb!), and climb the Wall of Tunes for a band of regular dudes from South Carolina who became pop stars. #vanhalen #threedognight #hootiehttps://www.facebook.com/obrienanddoug/ https://instagram.com/obrien_and_doug
National pork rinds day. Entertainment from 2006. 3rd manned mission landed on the moon, largest gold nugget was found, largest Jell-o mold ever. Todays birthdays - James Dewar, Cory Wells, Barbara Hershey, Nolan Bushnell, Tim Meadows, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Laura Linney, Chris Barron, Bobby Brown, Sara Evans. Kirk Douglas died.Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran Dianna on SpotifyI love my pork rinds - John CampbellCheck on it - Beyonce Slim Thug Bun BJesus take the wheel - Carrie UnderwoodBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/Mama told me (not to come) - Three Dog NightTwo princes - Spin DoctorsEvery little step - Bobby BrownSuds in the bucket - Sara EvansExit - Sweet Rebellion - Blue Honey bluehoneymusic.comcountryundergroundradio.comHistory and Factoids about today webpagecooolmedia.com
"Jack Riccardi talks about the silence is violence demand that every one take a side, stolen land/no borders trap, special guests include congressional candidate Kyle Sinclair and Dr. Willie Ng, don lemon and we remember Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night."
Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night has passed away at 83. Kelly Clarkson and Sherri Shepard both announce the end of their talk shows. Kim Kardashian reportedly has a new boyfriend - Lewis Hamilton, an all-time great F1 driver. The plane ride from hell: Los Angeles to Manila with no bathrooms.
Hour 1: Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night has passed away at 83. Kelly Clarkson and Sherri Shepard both announce the end of their talk shows. Kim Kardashian reportedly has a new boyfriend - Lewis Hamilton, an all-time great F1 driver. The plane ride from hell: Los Angeles to Manila with no bathrooms. Hour 2: Are Super Bowl ads still worth their GIANT price tags? The OG Jurassic Park cast is back… in this Xfinity ad. It's time to place your Super Bowl bets - please be careful. George Clooney has made his Super Bowl ad debut, and he's doing the bare minimum. Three highly anticipated movies will premier trailers during the game. You might have a collector's item in your freezer. Vinnie has a story dating back to World War 1. (50:54) Hour 3: Police are now saying Savannah Guthrie's mother was likely abducted. The first ‘Stranger Things' spin-off will already be here in April. Bob is insisting everyone watch ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.” The Siegfried and Roy show ‘Wild Things' will star Jude Law and Andrew Garfield. Ethan Hawk is mad at Tom Cruise, but Sarah and Vinnie aren't. Bob is heading to the Super Bowl streets on Thursday. Vinnie's warning of the luxuries you can never go back from - be careful. (1:33:17) Hour 4: The Michael Jackson biopic has its first trailer, and it's starring his nephew. It sounds like it will be leaving out the murky parts of his life. Meryl Streep has been cast to play an older Joni Mitchell in her biopic. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are distancing themselves from their documentary. BTS is back, their new album and a documentary is out in March. Mason is on the show! Google Translate delivered a baby. Should people have to pay to get their selfie at the Trevi Fountain? Plus, how old is that guy? (2:14:48)
In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, lefty pop star Billie Eilish is facing calls to hand over her ritzy Los Angeles digs to a Native American tribe or illegal immigrant after she declared “No one is illegal on stolen land” at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony. The 24 year-old singer is being accused of virtue signaling for the anti-ICE remarks she made while accepting the award for Song of the Year on Sunday night. Also Chuck Negron, a founding member of Three Dog Night whose lead vocals powered a string of hits including “Joy to the World,” “One” and “An Old Fashioned Love Song” for one of the top rock acts of the late 1960s and early ‘70s, died Monday. He was 83. Plus Gavin Newsom called ‘embarrassingly handsome' in a cringeworthy Vogue magazine spread as writer Maya Singer admits to not asking hard questions, Zohran Mamdani is off to a rough start as NYC Mayor, media coverage of gender transition trials and the Senator John Kennedy audio cut of the day! For more talk on the issues that matter to you, listen on radio stations across America Monday-Friday 12am-5am CT (1am-6am ET and 10pm-3am PT), download the RED EYE RADIO SHOW app, asking your smart speaker, or listening at RedEyeRadioShow.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Join Lionel on The Other Side of Midnight for an eclectic mix of conspiracy, nostalgia, and sharp-tongued commentary. In this episode, Lionel bypasses the "boring" government shutdown news to explore unexplained aerial phenomena and classic cryptid legends like the Flatwoods Monster. He celebrates the visual genius of Ernie Kovacs and the soulful rock of Three Dog Night, while offering a cynical guide to media success: steal, fake honesty, and hide. The conversation takes a dark turn as Lionel dissects the Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein saga, theorizing that Maxwell was the true "guiding force" behind the operation. He also reminisces about Rudy Giuliani's NYC, from the failed "Let's Be Nice" campaign to the eradication of squeegee men,. Finally, Lionel rails against the horrors of cruise ships—preferring to "lick a belt sander" than endure norovirus and forced fun,—and interviews a bartender who claims to be a "functional" alcoholic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Three Dog Night" icon Chuck Negron passed away last night at age 83 - how he survived the heyday of the band's successes is a helluva story
The iconic "Three Dog Night" singer passed away last night - we remember his legacy and his music
Andy plays listener talkbacks and dives into the Rams rewarding Sean McVay and Les Snead with big extensions, Lululemon’s leggings controversy, and a celebrity chef’s over-the-top Portland steakhouse. The show also remembers Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night, the unmistakable voice behind “Joy to the World,” who has passed away at 83.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dean Richards, entertainment reporter for WGN, joins Bob Sirott to provide the latest news in entertainment. Bob and Dean talk about the death of musician Chuck Negron, Tim McGraw’s tour stop in Tinley Park, and which daytime talk shows are coming to an end. They also share details about a Netflix special for BTS, an […]
Joe talks about "Three Dog Night" and who's Finding Out in Minnesota after the church riotSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Here we are, with six more weeks of winter to look forward to, according to the Groundhog. In the news this morning, Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night died, they're charging money to take selfies at the Trevi Fountain, and Wordle is now reusing words. In sports, the Bucks play tonight against the Bulls, the Badgers take on Indiana on Saturday, the NFL is going to reevaluate the "Rooney Rule" after the most recent round of coaching hires, the Saints are going to be playing in Paris next season, and a college basketball coach gets arrested on the court right after a game. We talked about what's on TV today/tonight & what's new on New Release Tuesday. Great story about a kid in Australia who saved his family from drowning, and Google Translate recently helped deliver a baby in New Jersey! Grant Bilse from the Wisco Sports Show joined us live from the Super Bowl. In other Super Bowl news, a look at the record amount of money people are wagering on the game, and a list of the worst halftime performances. Apparently, there's a new TikTok health "hack" involving hot water. And speaking of a trying to get healthy, check out this guy who's locking himself in his room for an entire year and streaming it. Have you seen McDonald's is releasing caviar for your nuggets on Valentine's Day? What's a luxury you could never give up once you've experienced it? And in today's edition of "Bad News with Happy Music", we had stories about a guy on meth who stole a couple of airplanes, a naked man on a Universal Studios tour, another naked guy on a plane, a couple who's suing a fertility clinic, and a hospital that had to be evacuated after a guy showed up with a WWII bomb in his ass.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Joe talks about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, "Three Dog Night," the fight over Real ID, MTG ripping off her mask, big news in the fight against radical transgenderism, and plenty more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Joe talks about his connection to "Three Dog Night," the big anniversary today, and some justice coming for someone who definitely deserves it See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chuck Negron from Three Dog Night is dead at 83!
The lead singer of Three Dog Night, Chuck Negron is dead at 83! He lived a pretty wild life and his book "Three Dog Nightmare" gave us a couple stories of excess today!
In this episode of The Daily Grateful with Michael Crose, we take a soulful trip back in time to celebrate the incredible history of Three Dog Night. From their early days in Los Angeles to dominating the charts with unforgettable hits, this legendary band helped define a generation. We'll spotlight their powerful appearance at the 1968 Miami Pop Festival, where their raw energy and harmonies captured a nation's attention. Along the way, we'll reflect on gratitude, creativity, and the lasting power of great music. Tune in, turn it up, and relive the magic.#TheDailyGrateful #MichaelCrose #ThreeDogNight #ClassicRock #MusicHistory #MiamiPopFestival #1968Music #GratefulLiving #RockLegends
Send us a text and chime in!The Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley has an exciting lineup of events this February, offering something for all interests from live music and high‑energy motorsports to family‑friendly entertainment. North America Arenacross Championship – February 6 Start the month with thrilling indoor motocross action as the North America Arenacross Championship returns for high‑speed racing and edge‑of‑your‑seat competition. On Friday, February 6th, fans can expect intense laps, spectacular jumps, and a family‑friendly atmosphere at this exciting motorsports event. Three Dog Night – February 21 Classic rock fans won't want to miss Three Dog Night on Saturday, February 21. This legendary band... For the written story, read here >> https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/upcoming-february-events-at-the-findlay-toyota-center/Check out the CAST11.com Website at: https://CAST11.com Follow the CAST11 Podcast Network on Facebook at: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network
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WKXL is celebrating 80yrs of community radio in 2026! WKXL's NH Unscripted is growing and as part of that growth is that starting on January 19th we're adding a new Monday morning program we're calling NH Unscripted in the Wayback Machine. Break out those black light posters, kick back on your waterbeds, light the incense and turn on those lava lamps because at 9am on Monday mornings we'll be taking you back to the tunes of the 60's & 70's! Oldies are new again! Today you'll get a taste of The Osmonds, James Brown, The Cowsills, Three Dog Night, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs and so much more!!!
WKXL is celebrating 80yrs of community radio in 2026! NH Unscripted is growing and as part of that growth starting on January 19th we're adding a new Monday morning program we're calling NH Unscripted in the Wayback Machine. Break out those black light posters, kick back on your waterbeds, light the incense and turn on those lava lamps because at 9am on Monday mornings we'll be taking you back to the tunes of the 60's & 70's! Oldies are new again! Today you'll get a taste of The Osmonds, James Brown, The Cowsills, Three Dog Night, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs and so much more!!!
Today on another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are speaking to musician Matt Axton about his larger-than-life actor, musician, spokesman and songwriter dad, Hoyt Axton. Now if you grew up in the eighties, you would know Hoyt from Gremlins. If you grew up in the 70s, you'd know him as the songwriter to the smash hit "Joy To The World" made popular by Three Dog Night and in the sixties perhaps the hit show Bonanza. As Matt explains to us, his dad was many things to many people, a shit kicking psychedelic cowboy, a Busch beer pitchman and even Mogwai's dad. Everyone could relate to Hoyt. We also talk about the fact that Matt is a third generation musician, as his grandmother was known as the Queen of Nashville. Mae Boren Axton, was a well-known songwriter of more than 200 songs including – get this – "Heartbreak Hotel". Now that's some serious lineage. To know that your grandmother introduced Elvis Presley to his manager, Colonel Tom Parker is just a bit of a mind fuck. Our conversation with Matt was both melancholy and prideful. Matt was fiercely proud of his dad's legacy in country music and in film and television but he also let us know that for reasons you will hear, he has almost nothing of his father's possessions but his own memories. But he's not bitter. In fact, he's got a terrific outlook and draws on his dad's legacy to push him in his own career. Matt loves the one nighters, the travel, the live music and the recording. After all, it's in his blood. This is the Rarified Heir Podcast and everyone has a story.
By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Chris Dalla Riva, author of the new book Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves. Chris is a fixture here at Numlock, we're big fans of his newsletter Can't Get Much Higher and have been eagerly waiting for this book, which tracks the history of music by coasting along the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The book can be found at Amazon and wherever books are sold, grab a copy!This interview has been condensed and edited. Chris Dalla Riva, it is great to have you back on. Especially great this week, because you are finally out with a book that I know you've been working on for a very long time, Uncharted Territory. Thanks for coming back on.Yeah, thrilled to be back, but also thrilled to have the book come out. The book publishing world is one of the only worlds left in the world that moves slow enough where you're waiting for so long for something to happen.You have guest-written for Numlock before; you have been a staple of the Sunday editions in the past. You are definitely familiar to the audience at this point because you are doing some of the best music data journalism out there. You've been working on this thing for, I feel like, as long as I've known you, and it is just great to have it come out finally, man.Yeah, actually, I met you because I was working on this project. I was trying to track down some data that you'd used at FiveThirtyEight, and you responded to my email with your phone number. You were like, “This is easier to explain over the phone.”Yeah, I remember I had scraped the radio for months at FiveThirtyEight just to see where it went, and you hit me up with that. I think that you focused some of your energies on the newsletter, and that's been so fun to follow, but this is truly what you've been working at. It is great to get you on finally to talk all about it.What would you describe this book as? How would you describe it, either to folks who might be familiar with your newsletter or unfamiliar with your newsletter, about what you're setting out to do with this particular project?The subtitle, I think, is helpful. It's What Numbers Tell Us About the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves. My typical pitch is that it's a data-driven history of popular music that I wrote as I spent years listening to every number one hit song in history. You get a balance of music history, data analysis, just random music chart shenanigans. I wrote it over such a very long period of time that you get a little bit of how my life was intersecting with this book over the years as I tried to get it published.I love the angle on the No.1s being a place to go with, because it gives you a pulse on what's popular at the time and not necessarily what's the most influential at the time. You can see there's a lot of stuff that hit number one at one point or another that have no musical legacy whatsoever, but nevertheless are still interesting. It's dipping your toe in the stream, right? You can see that a lot of things that we assume about how the music industry works weren't always the case.You wrote a little bit about the early transition from big bands to singers as the front-facing people in their operation. That was informed in no small part by what was performing on the charts, but also, I think, labor action, right?An under-discussed part of music history in the last 100 years is that when thinking of any band now or any musical artist, you almost certainly think of the front person being the singer. But if you go look back at big bands of the 1930s and 1940s, anyone whose name was attached to the band was often not a singer. Some that come to mind are Glenn Miller, the Glenn Miller band. Glenn Miller was a trombone player. Artie Shaw was a clarinet player. If none of these names are familiar to you, that's okay. But you can ask your grandparents.Why does this transition happen: suddenly, the lead singer is always getting top billing in a band? There are a bunch of things that contributed to this. One thing I talk about pretty extensively is just the advent of better microphones. If a voice cannot be heard over the roar of an orchestra or a big band, you need a choir of people to sing. It makes the singer less identifiable. As we get better amplification, better microphones, you can get a wider range of vocal styles. Those vocalists can now compete with the sound of a ton of instruments.At the same time, something you mentioned that I think is a fun bit of history is how music used to be much better organized. They had better labor organization, the same way that Hollywood has much better labor organization than music these days. There still exists a group called the American Federation of Musicians. For two years, they had a strike for a work stoppage, when no new music was being recorded. This was during World War II. You weren't allowed to strike during World War II.They were frowned upon very much, it seems, yes.Yes, even if you were a musician. People were like, “Come on, why are the musicians striking?” There's a lot of interesting history there. One of the weird loopholes was that singers could not join the American Federation of Musicians. Because of that, some labels would get around the strike by just recording acapella songs or songs with instruments that were not eligible to be membership because they weren't “serious” enough, like the harmonica. There were weird harmonica songs that were popular at this time. By the time the strike ended, by the time World War II ended, suddenly, singers had a much more prominent role because they were the only ones allowed to perform.There is tons of weird stuff about this strike. Like, labels backlogged tons of recordings because they knew the strike was coming. “White Christmas,” maybe the best-selling record of all time, was one of those backlogged recordings — recorded in July of 1942 and put out however many months later.That's fun. That's basically why Tom Cruise is in a union but Bad Bunny isn't?I guess so. Music and labor have a history that I'm not an expert on. For some reason, musicians have had a much more difficult time organizing. It seemed to be a little bit easier back when there were these big bands that needed to be rolled out to perform in movie theaters or local clubs. You needed a tuba player and a trombone player and a sax player. I guess it was easier for those musicians to organize. Whereas now, things are so scattered and productions can be super small, and you could record something in your bedroom. They never got that level of organization. I think it's actually hurt artists to some degree because they don't have the protections that the film industry does.Because you're able to just coast along at the top of the charts throughout basically the century, you're able to get lots of different interweaving stories of labor and also legal disputes/legal outcomes, as well as this technological evolution. What are some of the ways that technology has informed how the music that we listen to changes or evolves over time? Or even some of the litigation that we have seen over the course of the century of musical creation. It just seems like it's a really fun way to track some of these bigger trends that we don't even know are really trends.Yeah, totally. I think one of the key themes of the book is that musical evolution is often downstream from technological innovation, which has a nice little ring to it. But in general, there's this idea that creativity is being struck by the muse, and you create something. Whereas in reality, there are usually physical constraints or technological constraints that shape the art that we make. One of the most basic examples is the length of songs. From the '40s up till the early, mid-60s, the pop song sits around 2.5 to three minutes. The reason for this is that vinyl singles could literally not hold more sound without degrading, which is completely backwards from the idea that there was an artist who chose to write a 2.5-minute song.I was like, “Well, you had to work within the constraint.” Then technology gets better, singles start to get longer. During the disco era, they actually made bigger discs to put out these long dance mixes. The single sat around like 3.5 to 4.5 minutes for decades until about 10 years ago, when it started to shorten again. People typically point to music streaming for this reason, because artists are paid if a song is listened to for more than 30 seconds, so it's really just a volume game. If you have a 14 minute song that someone listens to one time, they get paid once. But if I listen to a two-minute song seven times (which is again, the same amount of time spent listening), I will be paid out seven times. There is this financial incentive to shorten songs.I don't think artists are sitting in the studio thinking about this constantly. But what I see, what I saw again and again, is that artists were rational beings to some degree and would work within the constraints that they were given. They would usually push against those constraints. That's where a lot of great art comes out of.Even new mediums are offering new opportunities. You wrote a little bit about MTV and how that really changed a lot of what was able to be successful at the time. You had new types of acts that were able to really start competing there, and other acts that just weren't. Do you wanna speak a little bit about like what video did?Yeah, video certainly changed the game. There were artists who had visual presences earlier. The Beatles had a very visual presence. I think part of their success is tied to the fact that television was becoming a thing, and mass media was really becoming a thing. However, we associate musicians with visuals so much these days. That really emerged in the 1980s, where you needed your visual concepts to be as strong, if not stronger than, your musical concepts. I think because of that, you start seeing some artists break through who I don't think are considered great musicians.I always sadly point to the song, “Hey Mickey” by Tony Basil. If it's your favorite song, sorry. I don't think it's a masterful musical creation, but it had this fun music video where she's dressed up as a cheerleader. A lot of that song's success was just the fact that MTV was willing to put that in heavy rotation because it was a fun video to watch. We live in the shadow of that era where visuals matter just as much as anything else.When you think about the most popular artists, outside of maybe a handful, you think of their visual concepts. You think of what Beyoncé looks like, what her videos are like, same with Taylor Swift, as much as you think about their music. That really reshaped our relationship with popular music. We expect to know what artists look like. It's odd to think about that; it really wasn't a thing decades before. You could be a fan of an artist and not really know what they look like. How would you know? Maybe you saw them in a magazine. Maybe you caught them on one television show. The idea that we have access to what everyone looks like is a pretty new phenomenon.That's fun. It's just so interesting to see how a simple change, whether it's today an algorithm or then a medium of distribution, can just have material impacts on the popularity of British synth music in America.Yeah, that's the perfect example. There's a great book called I Want My MTV, and it's an oral history of MTV. They talked to one of the founders. Early MTV would play, as you're saying, all these British new wave acts. Think A Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran or even someone like U2. They asked the founder, “Why were you playing so many British artists on early MTV?” He was like, “For some reason, British artists happened to make music videos. And there were about 200 music videos in existence. We had to fill 24 hours of programming.” A Flock of Seagulls was gonna get played a bunch of times just because they happened to make music videos.It is a weird thing. Why would anyone make a music video if there was nowhere to really play them? I don't know why specifically the British had more videos, but there were occasional times where television shows might show a video.They do love that over there, like Top of the Pops. I can see why.Music and television have always been connected. You even think Saturday Night Live still has musical acts. Back then, say your label didn't wanna send you out to Britain to go on Top of the Pops. Maybe they would send a video of you instead. There were videos that would float around on these variety shows, and some early videos were just concert footage. It was like, it was a chicken or the egg thing. Once some people had success on MTV, everyone started producing videos. MTV somehow pulled off the miracle of convincing labels that they needed to make videos and that they needed to front the cost for that. Then they had to give MTV the video for free. I don't know how MTV managed to do that.Well, all of Gen X can't be wrong. If you do wanna get it out there, you do have to get it out there. One really fun recurring thing in the book — which again, like I really enjoyed. I think it's a phenomenal work. I think it's a great history. I'm telling stories that I learned in your book to everybody. It is a really fun read in that regard, I wanna say.I do love how you occasionally clock a genre that really only exists briefly. There's one that always goes around for like the strangest things to hit number one, like the Ballad of the Green Berets. I think like there's a Star Wars disco track that I definitely have on vinyl at home about that. You wrote a lot about like teen tragedy songs. What are some of the fascinating like brief trends that only made a small splash and that all of us have forgotten ever existed, but nevertheless achieve some measure of immortality?Yeah, the teen tragedy song is a good one. That actually inspired the writing of this whole book because I got 50 No. 1s, and I was like, “Why are there so many number ones about teenagers dying? That's a little weird.” And then I did a little digging and tried to piece together why that was. The teenage tragedy song, late '50s, early '60s, there are all of these songs about two teenagers in love, usually high schoolers. One tragically dies often in a car crash, and the other is very sad and maybe says that they'll reunite again one day in the afterlife. Some of the big ones are “Leader of the Pack” by the Shangri-Las and “Teen Angel” by Mark Dinning.It's a very weird blip in popular music history. I won't say it has cast a long shadow, but there are some occasional people who pull from that tradition. The craziest teen tragedy song ever was “Bat Outta Hell” by Meatloaf, in which Jim Steinman tried to write a nine-minute motorcycle crash song. I think that's a really interesting one.Disco: bizarre in the amount of people that made disco songs. I really came to like disco and the best disco music, I'm like, “These are the greatest sounds that have ever been recorded.” But it got so big and so popular that everyone felt the need to record disco songs.Not everything is “I Feel Love,” right?No, most things are not. It strikes me that this happened with disco, but has not happened with other genres. Frank Sinatra recorded disco songs. Basically, every television theme song got a disco remix. I Love Lucy had a disco remix. The Rocky theme song had a disco remix.What? I'm sorry, Frank Sinatra did a disco song? Is it good?It's not good. It's “Night and Day” over a disco beat. And it's not clear to me if they just remixed it or if he actually recut the vocal because I just cannot imagine him doing that. In the mid-60s, there was a nun who topped the charts, The Singing Nun with a song called “Dominique.” Of course, during the disco era, it was remixed as a disco song. There are examples of this where people went sort of disco. The Rolling Stones record “Miss You” and it has the disco beat, or Pink Floyd does “Another Brick in the Wall” or Queen does “Another One Bites the Dust.”Everyone was gonna give it a try. There was so much money being made in the disco world at the time. You can always find some artists you would never think would do a disco song probably tried. They probably gave it their best.That's great. It's just fun because the things that hit number one for a week don't necessarily have to be good. They just have to be popular for like a week. Even the construction of the Top 40 chart, which you get into in the book, isn't exactly science. A lot of times, it's a little bit of intuition. It's a lot of what's selling and what's selling where specifically. It is a little bit woo woo, right?Yeah, definitely. The goal of this chart is “What's the most popular song in America in a given week?” Back in the day, that meant what were people buying? What were people listening to on the radio? What were people spinning in jukeboxes? Today, most music is done on streaming. It's consumption-based, rather than sales-based. So the chart's the same in name only, but it's really measuring very different things. The equivalent would be if we knew after you purchased your copy of “I Feel Love,” how many times did you actually play it at home? You could have purchased it, went home and never played it again. Something like that would not register on the charts these days.I respect the people at Billboard because they have an impossible task. It's like “We're gonna take all the information and we're going to boil it down into choosing or measuring what the most popular song is.” It's an impossible task to some degree.I have watched the evolution of the chart, and I go back and forth on whether they have given up on actually trying to rank stuff or if they are just ranking things in a different way. I think that the apples-to-apples between the era stuff is just so hard to do.One thing I really enjoyed about your book, in particular, is that it's not a story of why these songs are the best. It's a story of why these songs were popular at the time, just dipping the toe into the river of human sound. One thing that I'll ask as you wrap: as you were going through these eras, who did you hear a lot more of than you thought? Who did you hear a lot less than you expected?I joked with some people that if you just looked at the top of the charts, the greatest rock band of the 1970s is either Grand Funk Railroad or Three Dog Night because they both had three number one hits, and many other bands in the classic rock canon have none. Led Zeppelin does not really exist on the pop chart, the singles chart. Led Zeppelin really only put out albums. The Eagles were also big during the '70s on the music charts. But Three Dog Night, they're the legends.There are tons of people that I didn't realize how much I would see of them. Someone like Lionel Richie and Phil Collins, of course, they're tremendously popular, but they were so popular. Phil Collins was popular at the height of the bald pop star era, which I think is a thing of the past. You had multiple bald men who were regularly topping the charts in the mid-80s. You see a ton of Phil Collins, more than I was expecting, even though I know he's very popular.Who don't you see a ton of? Sometimes you don't see people until a bit later in their careers. This is actually an interesting phenomenon. Artists do not score a number one hit during their most critically acclaimed period, and then a decade later, they do. For example, Cheap Trick. They have a number one hit, but it's at the end of the '80s song called “The Flame.” Whereas if you hear Cheap Trick on the radio, it's probably their live album from the 1970s. This is a phenomenon you see again and again. Some old timer will get their number one much later in their career. Tina Turner gets her number one when she's probably in her 40s. It's always interesting to see that.There are also some artists where I feel like there's a divergence between what their most popular songs are these days and what was topping the charts. Elton John is a good example there. “Benny and the Jets” was a number one hit, still a tremendously popular song. But he's got a lot of weird No. 1s that I don't think have as much street cred these days. He has a song called “Island Girl.” Did not age like fine wine. I don't even think he plays it live anymore because it's considered somewhat racially insensitive. But it was a No. 1 hit at the time. “Philadelphia Freedom” is another one by Elton John. I feel like when people think of the Elton John catalog, it's probably not the first song that comes to mind. But it was a No. 1 hit, huge smash. His cover of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was a No. 1. Elton John has been very popular throughout the decades, but I feel like the reasons he's been popular have changed.People have just gravitated towards different songs as time has gone on. You get distortions at the top of the charts. But I think, as you mentioned, it provides a good sample of what was actually popular. You have the good, the bad, and the ugly. Whereas if you look at some other sources, people are just gonna be like, “Oh, listen to these records. These are the best records.” In reality, the bad records are important, too.Yeah, bad records are great. They're at least interesting. I imagine also some of this process must have been missing out on a lot of interesting music because one song was just dominating the charts. Were there any songs in particular that come to mind that wooled the roost for potentially a little bit too long?Yeah, the quintessential example is the “Macarena” in the ‘90s.Oh, no!I think it was No. 1 for 13 weeks.Christ!There's a great clip of people at the Democratic National Convention and '96 dancing the “Macarena.” It's so bad. Yeah, so a very popular song. There are tons of stuff that gets stuck behind it. There's a great No.1 hit in the '90s called “I Love You Always Forever.” It's a very nice song by Donna Lewis. It's stuck at No. 2 because it just happened to be popular during the “Macarena's” very long run. YYour life's work, your greatest accomplishment, being stymied by the “Macarena” feels like a level of creative hell that I have never envisioned before.Yeah, there are other artists who got unlucky. Bruce Springsteen never performed a No. 1 hit. He wrote a No.1 hit for another artist. His closest was “Dancing in the Dark” got to No. 2, but that was also when Prince released “When Doves Cry,” so it's a tough, tough week. Bob Dylan, similar thing. He wrote a No. 1 hit, but he only ever got to No. 2. I think he got to No. 2 twice. Once, he got stuck behind “Help” by the Beatles, and another time he got stuck behind “Monday Monday” by the Mamas and the Papas.This is another thing when I talk about the charts. There could be many fewer units sold in a given week, or there could be many more units sold. There's a lot of luck involved if you're gonna go all the way to No. 1. You could be Bruce Springsteen: you release the biggest record of your life, and Prince also releases the biggest record of his life at the exact same time.Incredible. So again, I have read the book. I really, really like it. People are doubtlessly familiar with the newsletter at this point, but I am also a big fan and booster of that. But I guess I'll just throw it to you. Where can folks find the book, and where can folks find you?Yeah, you can find me, Chris Dalla Riva, basically on every social media platform under cdallarivamusic. I'm most active on TikTok and Instagram. The book, Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us About the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves, should be available from every major retailer online. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Booklist, all that good stuff. Not available physically in stores, so definitely order it online.Like I said, I spent years listening to every No. 1 hit in history, built a giant data set about all those songs and used that to write a data-driven history of popular music from 1958 to basically 2025. So go pick up a copy, buy one for your mother for Christmas. Or your father, I don't discriminate. Yeah, check it out. I'm hoping people enjoy it, and I'm really excited to finally get it out in the world. It's been a long, circuitous journey to get it published.It's a really fun read, and I wish it nothing but the best. And yeah, congrats, thanks for coming on.Yeah, thanks for having me.Edited by Crystal WangIf you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips or feedback at walt@numlock.news. 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The lying liars that tell lies for fun and profit are really puffed out and feeling good about their life choices in 2025. Hopefully their lies won't stop the pendulum from swinging back in their faces. Thanks to social media and the ever-expansive list of people willing to be lied to, liars are having such a moment that it got us thinking it was a good time to give them their own episode. The great Gabe Scalone is back for Top Ten Songs About Liars Part 2 where we guilelessly reveal picks 5-1. If you missed Part 1, you don't have to lie and say you didn't. Just go back and listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-688-top-ten-songs-about-liars-part-1-w-gabe-scalone/id573735994?i=1000729093502Please be enjoying the official Top Ten Songs About Liars playlist, featuring every song heard in Parts 1 & 2:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4GI9pEyfmZCDqCnYN6NCLE?si=56fbca5383db4165We've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air. The Queen Of Emergency Pod Shannon Hurley returned for Volume 20 on October 1st! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetoptenWe're having a blast chatting it up about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation about music!https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295
When "How We Heard It" was just a few weeks old in the summer of 2024, we posted an episode about guilty pleasures, featuring your veteran entertainment critics/hosts Wayne Bledsoe and Chuck Campbell confessing their love for art that other critics frown on - including Wayne's love of sunshine pop and westerns and Chuck's love of exotica and techno music. Some 15 months and 65 shows later, the guilty-pleasures episode remains one of the three most-listened-to episodes of "How We Heard It." So Wayne and Chuck - plus their engineer, songwriter/musician John T. Baker - decided to revisit the topic and own up to more embarrassing affections about what they find entertaining, including artists who often get looked down on (from New Age acts on Windham Hill Records to Peter, Paul and Mary), as well as mainstream musicals and novelty bands. Find out who likes Donna Summer, who likes the Pointer Sisters and who can't hide his love of high-voiced women. One of the guys loves the "bubblegum" rock of Three Dog Night, another loves the "yuppie rock" of Counting Crows and one of them can't tear himself away from those social media video compilations where people scare their loved ones, friends and family. These admissions may ding your hosts' credibility, but they aren't ashamed and don't think you should be ashamed of your guilty pleasures either. Well ... maybe they're a little ashamed. And maybe you should be too. But whatever: Life's too short to worry about the opinions of snobs.
TVC 705.3: From August 2018: Chuck Harter and Ed remember The Music Scene (ABC, 1969), the short-lived music comedy series from the fall of 1969 that featured such top Billboard artists as The Beatles, James Brown, Neil Diamond, Three Dog Night, Tom Jones, Janis Joplin, Sly and The Family Stone—all performing live every week. Hosted by comedian David Steinberg, and also featuring a house band led by Patrick Williams and a regular improvisational comedy group that included a pre-Laugh-In Lily Tomlin, The Music Scene is mostly remembered today for its odd length (45 minutes).
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(00:00 - 25:21) – Query & Company opens this Tuesday with the sad news of the passing of Hall of Fame Second Baseman Ryne Sandberg. Jake relives the “Sandberg Game” that happened on June 23, 1984, then shares in a remembrance of his impact on the Chicago Cubs, along with his analysis on the change of an era in baseball. Then, Colts Running Back Jonathan Taylor joins the show after training camp wraps for the day and shares his takes about quarterback styles, roster growth over the offseason, and his recollection of a moment during practice today that James Boyd described on Twitter/X as, “DT Grover Stewart just threw RB Jonathan Taylor to the ground after Taylor made a short catch. Obviously, JT took exception and shoved Grove in the chest. And then LG Quenton Nelson came over and had some words for Grove, too. Second day of pads has been physical.” (25:21 - 37:10) – Jake shares an analysis between Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson as quarterbacks and gives this QB battle a comparison to racing and how we need to “not overthink it.” (37:10 - 45:48) – Too many coincidences with Indianapolis Colts players who have joined Query & Company; Jake goes through them. Then, should Jake get 3.5% of Colts Left Tackle Bernhard Raimann’s $100 million deal with his 4-year contract extension? (45:48 – 1:12:39) – Jake begins this segment sharing Colts Training Camp injury updates and how this will affect practice this week and the rest of the offseason. Why do injuries happen, and can we determine when they happen? Jake talks through some theories around the injuries that are happening. He finishes this segment sharing more about Ryne Sandberg’s passing and how much baseball has changed over the years. Jake takes a call with Listener Tom who reminisces with him (1:12:39 – 1:26:40) Indiana Fever Head Coach Stephanie White joins the show to talk about their 93-78 win over the Chicago Sky, with Kelsey Mitchell racking up 35 of those points. She shares her thoughts ahead of their next game against Phoenix Mercury on Wednesday, along with how she feels about playing against DeWanna Bonner. She shares updates on Caitlin Clark’s injury and the plan for moving her forward. Jake finishes the conversation with Coach remembering Ryne Sandberg. (1:26:40 - 1:35:58) – Ticket Giveaway to Three Dog Night’s performance at the State Fair, with a get-to-know-your-listener with Tony. (1:35:58 - 1:59:11) – ESPN.com’s Indianapolis Colts beat reporter Stephen Holder joins the show with an in-depth recap of Colts Training Camp so far, what players are standing out to him in both good and bad ways, and his thoughts on what he’s watching for and wanting to see through the rest of camp. (1:59:11 - 2:08:33) – Jake shares Jonathan Taylor’s conversation from earlier again for anyone who missed it. (2:08:33 - 2:16:49) – Ticket Giveaway to Dropkick Murphy’s performance at the White River State Park Everwise Amphitheater next Tuesday, with a get-to-know-your-listener with Jeff. JMV joins to finish out the show with Jake. Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/query-and-company/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
(00:00-25:52) – Query & Company opens on a Monday with Jake Query live from Grand Park at Colts Training Camp and producer Eddie Garrison back in the studio. They start the show by discussing some of the takeaways from today’s practice for the Indianapolis Colts. They also touch on their weekends, the Fever winning again without Caitlin Clark, and the historic racing weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (25:52-36:55) – Indianapolis Colts defensive back Jaylon Jones joins Jake Query at Grand Park to discuss what his mindset was entering the season with the competition for the second outside starting corner position, shares what’s different from Lou Anarumo’s defense compared to Gus Bradley’s scheme, weighs in on he’d rather play man coverage or zone coverage, and accesses what he has seen in the quarterback competition between Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones. (36:55-46:13) – Jake closes out the first hour of the show by discussing the three big celebrity deaths this week and explains how they had an impact on how we view things today. (46:13-1:13:47) – The second hour of Query & Company with Jake Query and producer Eddie Garrison tips off by them discussing an ESPN article where someone gave grades to each team in the NBA for how they operated this offseason. They give their grades and recap what happened today at Colts camp. (1:13:47-1:29:16) – Jake comes back from break and discusses Bubba Wallace becoming the first African American NASCAR driver to win the Brickyard 400 and ties it to a story that Willy T. Ribbs told him. Plus, he gives away tickets for Three Dog Night concert at the state fair! (1:29:16-1:36:40) – The second hour of the program concludes with Jake discussing the heat because people in Missouri are concerned about corn sweat. It leads to Jake being worried about the corn at the Indiana State Fair. (1:36:40-2:02:17) – The Dean, Mike Chappell, from CBS4 & FOX59 makes his weekly appearance on Query & Company and discusses the first padded practice of training camp, identifies Adonai Mitchell as a player that needs to step up his performance in camp so far, notes a couple of players that have stood out so far in camp, accesses if Shane Steichen has changed his approach this season in camp compared to others, and discusses Bernhard Raimann’s response on the show last week about where contract negotiations are at. (2:02:17-2:12:41) – Jake and Eddie discuss whether or not they hate listening to their voices because Jake realized something that he does that he doesn’t know if he needs to do or not. Plus, they give away tickets for the Dropkick Murphys concert next week! (2:12:41-2:23:44) – Today’s show closes out with Eddie mysteriously leaving resulting Jake admits his admiration for the people who produce his shows. Plus, JMV joins to preview his show and recap Brickyard weekend!Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/query-and-company/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.