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Music possesses an almost magical ability to transform our emotional state, and nowhere is this more evident than with songs deliberately crafted to elicit joy. On this episode of Super Awesome Mix, we're returning to a favorite theme with Pure Joy Mix Volume 2, featuring twelve tracks scientifically engineered to boost your mood and put an irresistible smile on your face.We've structured this mix as a friendly competition between hosts, with Matt's selections comprising Side A and Samer's picks making up Side B. From the moment you press play, you'll feel the rush of dopamine that comes from Wham!'s iconic "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and its instantly recognizable "jitterbug" intro. The journey continues through nostalgic hits like Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling" and modern gems including Wet Leg's subversively joyful "Chaise Longue."Throughout our musical exploration, we unpack what makes certain songs universally uplifting – whether it's the infectious energy of Stevie Wonder's horns, the whistle-heavy hooks of Peter Bjorn and John that physically encourage smiling, or the self-affirming lyrics from Fitz and the Tantrums that remind us to "shine like the sun." We discover that joy comes in many forms: nostalgia, humor, empowerment, and the celebration of life's simple pleasures.This episode doesn't just offer a mood-lifting playlist. It provides insights into how different musical elements – from surprising intros that capture attention to lyrics that promote present-moment appreciation – work together to create an emotional response that's greater than the sum of its parts. Support the showVisit us at https://www.superawesomemix.com to learn more about our app, our merchandise, our cards, and more!

Fáilte ar ais chuig eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo ar an 2ú lá de mí an Mheithimh, liomsa Lauren Ní Loingsigh. I 1978 sheol an Aire Sláinte Charles Haughey scéim ar leith chun cabhrú le daoine óga sna cathracha a raibh riosca orthu damáiste a dhéanamh dá shaol. I 2000 bhí na hairí ón thuaidh faoi ionsaí ó na n-antoisceach ó dhá thaobh. I 1998 maraíodh 15 eallach ar fheirm I Toomevara de bharr go raibh toirneach agus tintreach ann. Bhí na heallaí ar foscadh faoi chrann seiceamar nuair a bhí sé ag cur báistí go trom agus thit an crann orthu. I 2006 bhí rangú san Aonach Urmhumhan sa tábla IBAL go hiontach mar chuaigh siad ó 'go leor bruscar' go 'níl aon bhruscar ann'. Chuaigh siad ó 51ú háit chuig 13ú háit. Sin Sonique le It Feels So Good – an t-amhrán is mó ar an lá seo I 2000 Ag lean ar aghaidh le nuacht cheoil ar an lá seo I 1973 chuaigh Paul McCartney chuig uimhir a haon I Meiriceá lena albam Red Rose Speedway agus fuair sé uimhir a haon lena hamhrán My Love agus d'fhan sé ann ar feadh ceithre seachtaine. I 1984 fuair Wham! A chéad uimhir a haon sa Bhreatain lena amhrán Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. Scríobh George Michael an t-amhrán agus bhí sé páirteach den bhanna cheoil. An inspioráid don amhrán ná nuair a scríobh Andrew Ridgeley nóta dá thuismitheoirí ag rá 'wake me up before you go' agus scríobh sé 'up' dhá uair agus mar sin scríobh sé an teideal 'wake me up before you go go'. Agus ar deireadh breithlá daoine cáiliúla ar an lá seo rugadh aisteoir Wentworth Miller sa Bhreatain I 1972 agus rugadh aisteoir Ethan Slater I Meiriceá ar an lá seo I 1992 agus seo chuid de na rudaí a rinne sé. Beidh mé ar ais libh amárach le heagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo. Welcome back to another edition of Ar An Lá Seo on the 2nd of June, with me Lauren Ní Loingsigh 1978: health minister Charles Haughey had launched a unique scheme to help young people in cities who may have been at risk of becoming delinquents. 2000: the norths power sharing ministers were under attack last night from extremists on both sides. 1998 - FIFTEEN cattle on a farm in Toomevara were killed in a severe thunder and lightning storm which struck North Tipperary. The cattle were sheltering in a hill field under a sycamore tree from a heavy downpour of rain when the "act of God" occurred.  2006 -Nenagh's ranking in the national IBAL league made a dramatic improvement, rising from the categorization of ‘Litter Blackspot' to ‘Litter Free Status'. rising from 51st place out of 57 towns to 13th in the latest survey.  That was Sonique with It Feels So Good – the biggest song on this day in 2000 Onto music news on this day In 1973 Paul McCartney had both the No.1 positions on the US charts when 'Red Rose Speedway', went to the top of the album chart and 'My Love', started a four week run as the No.1 single. 1984 Wham! had their first UK No.1 with 'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.' Written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo. Inspiration for the song was a scribbled note left by his Wham! partner Andrew Ridgeley for Andrew's parents, originally intended to read "wake me up before you go" but with "up" accidentally written twice, so Ridgeley wrote "go" twice on purpose. And finally celebrity birthdays on this day – actor Wentworth Miller was born in the UK in 1972 and actor Ethan Slater was born in America on this day in 1992 and this is some of the stuff he has done. I'll be back with you tomorrow with another edition of Ar An Lá Seo.

Fáilte ar ais chuig eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo ar an 2ú lá de mí an Mheithimh, liomsa Lauren Ní Loingsigh. I 1978 sheol an Aire Sláinte Charles Haughey scéim ar leith chun cabhrú le daoine óga sna cathracha a raibh riosca orthu damáiste a dhéanamh dá shaol. I 2000 bhí na hairí ón thuaidh faoi ionsaí ó na n-antoisceach ó dhá thaobh. I 1978 tháinig an nuacht amach gur tháinig nach mór 50 míle duine chuid Inis an deireadh seachtain roimhe I gcóir An Fleadh Nua agus chaith siad nach mór 4 milliúin punt. I 1989 bhí meas ar 16 míle duine chun a bheith ag an o briens bridge village agus aonach contae a raibh ar siúil gach bliain. Sin Sonique le It Feels So Good – an t-amhrán is mó ar an lá seo I 2000 Ag lean ar aghaidh le nuacht cheoil ar an lá seo I 1973 chuaigh Paul McCartney chuig uimhir a haon I Meiriceá lena albam Red Rose Speedway agus fuair sé uimhir a haon lena hamhrán My Love agus d'fhan sé ann ar feadh ceithre seachtaine. I 1984 fuair Wham! A chéad uimhir a haon sa Bhreatain lena amhrán Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. Scríobh George Michael an t-amhrán agus bhí sé páirteach den bhanna cheoil. An inspioráid don amhrán ná nuair a scríobh Andrew Ridgeley nóta dá thuismitheoirí ag rá 'wake me up before you go' agus scríobh sé 'up' dhá uair agus mar sin scríobh sé an teideal 'wake me up before you go go'. Agus ar deireadh breithlá daoine cáiliúla ar an lá seo rugadh aisteoir Wentworth Miller sa Bhreatain I 1972 agus rugadh aisteoir Ethan Slater I Meiriceá ar an lá seo I 1992 agus seo chuid de na rudaí a rinne sé. Beidh mé ar ais libh amárach le heagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo. Welcome back to another edition of Ar An Lá Seo on the 2nd of June, with me Lauren Ní Loingsigh 1978: health minister Charles Haughey had launched a unique scheme to help young people in cities who may have been at risk of becoming delinquents. 2000: the norths power sharing ministers were under attack last night from extremists on both sides. 1978: close on 50,000 people came to ennis on the previous weekend for Fleadh Nua '78 and spent an estimated £3/4 million. 1989: an estimated 16,000 people were expected to attend an annual o briens bridge village and county fair. That was Sonique with It Feels So Good – the biggest song on this day in 2000 Onto music news on this day In 1973 Paul McCartney had both the No.1 positions on the US charts when 'Red Rose Speedway', went to the top of the album chart and 'My Love', started a four week run as the No.1 single. 1984 Wham! had their first UK No.1 with 'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.' Written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo. Inspiration for the song was a scribbled note left by his Wham! partner Andrew Ridgeley for Andrew's parents, originally intended to read "wake me up before you go" but with "up" accidentally written twice, so Ridgeley wrote "go" twice on purpose. And finally celebrity birthdays on this day – actor Wentworth Miller was born in the UK in 1972 and actor Ethan Slater was born in America on this day in 1992 and this is some of the stuff he has done. I'll be back with you tomorrow with another edition of Ar An Lá Seo.

Sänger, Songschreiber, Produzent - George Michael hat auf vielen Gebieten geglänzt. Seine große Karriere nahm ihren Anfang bereits zu Schulzeiten und führte wenig später sogar bis nach China, wo Wham! als erste westliche Band auftreten durften. Unzählige Kulthits entstanden damals, von "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" über "Freedom" bis zum unverwüstlichen Weihnachts-Klassiker "Last Christmas". Und natürlich war George Michael auch solo erfolgreich, zum Beispiel mit seinem grandiosen Album "Faith". In dieser Folge gibt 's viel zu besprechen: Warum ist der Popstar bei "Careless Whisper" fast am Saxofon-Sound verzweifelt? Wieso war er bei Queen als Nachfolger von Freddie Mercury im Gespräch? Und welche Plagiats-Vorwürfe standen bei einem bekannten Song im Raum (und wurden außergerichtlich gelöst)? Das und noch viel mehr hört ihr hier. ++++++++++Song-Tipps zur Folge++++++++++ "Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)" "Young Guns (Go For It)" "Bad Boys" "Club Tropicana" "Nothing Looks the Same in the Light" "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" "Freedom" "Careless Whisper" "Last Christmas" "The Edge of Heaven" "A Different Corner" "I Want Your Sex" "Faith" "Father Figure" "Monkey" "Kissing A Fool" "I Knew You Were Waiting" "Heal The Pain" "Freedom! '90" "Jesus To A Child" "Outside" "My Mother Had A Brother" "Round Here"

Ever wondered what it takes to balance strength training and running while preparing for a Run Disney event? Join us in this exciting episode of the Rise and Run podcast as we catch up with Coach Tom Stokes, who shares his expertise on the Stoke Summer Challenge, metabolic training, and essential tips for runners. From Chrissy's heartwarming call about making friendship bracelets for the 101 Dalmatians meetup to Tracy's impressive run in Narragansett, Rhode Island, this episode is packed with inspiring stories that celebrate the running community's spirit and achievements.Take a nostalgic trip with us as we reveal our guilty pleasure songs and media. John takes us back to the 80s with old hip-hop and freestyle tracks, while Greg surprises us with his love for NSYNC's remix of "Girlfriend" featuring Nelly. We also share a laugh over 80s hits like "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Take On Me," and end on a festive note with Wham!'s "Last Christmas." Who knew our musical tastes could be so varied and entertaining?Our conversation shifts to the logistics and excitement of Princess Registration Day, where we discuss individual race plans and the popularity of the I-4 Challenge. Coach Tom returns to share his journey from a fun-loving "Tutu guy" to a beloved community coach, highlighting the success of the eight-week transformation challenge. We also explore the benefits of strength training for runners, balancing training routines, and how to integrate metabolic training and nutrition for optimal performance. Whether you're a seasoned runner or just starting out, this episode offers valuable insights and a celebration of the camaraderie within the running community.The Muscle Mouse Tom's Instagram The Tutu Guys Tom and Adam's InstagramStoked Metabolic Coaching Toms Coaching SiteTeam #runDIsney Race Availability Alerts #Run Dopey's PlaylistRise and Run LinksRise and Run Podcast Facebook PageRise and Run Podcast InstagramRise and Run Podcast Website and ShopRise and Run PatreonPassport to RunRunningwithalysha Alysha's Run Coaching (Mention Rise And Run and get $10 off)Rise aSend us a Text Message.Support the Show.Rise and Run Podcast is supported by our audience. When you make a purchase through one of our affiliate links, we may earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.Sponsor LinksMagic Bound Travel Stoked Metabolic CoachingRise and Run Podcast Cruise Interest Form with Magic Bound Travel Affiliate LinksRise and Run Amazon Affiliate Web Page Kawaiian Pizza ApparelGoGuarded

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (06/11/2024): 3:05pm- A jury in Wilmington, Delaware has found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to lying on a background-check he submitted when acquiring a firearm in October of 2018. According to reports, the president's son could face up to 25-years in prison and a fine up to $750,000. Could President Joe Biden pardon his son—and would that potentially impact his status as the Democrat Party's 2024 presidential nominee? 3:30pm- In a new article for Politico, Ben Schreckinger documents the numerous connections between Joe Biden aides and the Biden family's business. He writes: “For years, Joe Biden shared a bookkeeper with his son, Hunter. He also shared a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim. And when Jim Biden wanted to know more about one of Hunter Biden's associates, he hired the former head of Joe Biden's Secret Service detail to investigate. Since 2019, Joe Biden has repeatedly distanced himself from his family's business dealings, saying that he has never so much as discussed them with his relatives or with anyone else. But House impeachment inquiry interviews, public records and emails reviewed by POLITICO show that members of his inner circle were regularly enmeshed in those dealings: Many of the president's closest staffers and advisers have doubled as his relatives' business associates, both during and after their stints working for the man at the center of the Biden family orbit.” You can read the full article here: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/08/joe-biden-aides-family-business-dealings-00161476 3:40pm- In reaction to President Joe Biden's abysmal approval ratings, statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight suggested that it might be in the Democrat Party's best interest to replace Biden as their 2024 presidential candidate. According to RealClearPolitics polling averages, Biden now trails Donald Trump in all seven key swing states and is only up 2-points in Democrat strongholds like Minnesota and Virginia. 4:05pm- Dr. Victoria Coates—Former Deputy National Security Advisor & the Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to recap the European Parliament elections which saw right-leaning parties perform particularly well. The results led to French President Emmanuel Macron calling for a snap legislative election. Plus, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stated that there should be a universal ban on fossil fuel advertisements in order to protect “green energy” from criticism. Dr. Coates is the author of: “David's Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art.” You can find her book here: https://www.amazon.com/Davids-Sling-History-Democracy-Works/dp/1594037213. 4:30pm- Caroline Sunshine—Deputy Director of Communications for the 2024 Trump Campaign—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss a jury in Wilmington, Delaware finding Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to the purchase of a firearm in October of 2018. Plus, Sunshine reacts to polling previewing the 2024 presidential election, as well as President Biden's backwards economic policies. She jokes: “Joe Biden is a few French fries short of a Happy Meal.” 4:50pm- Rich reveals that he never got to select his own show's theme tune. Matt nearly gets fired when he suggests it should be changed to “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! He played the song yesterday and was endlessly yelled at by both Rich and the audience… 5:05pm- A jury in Wilmington, Delaware has found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to lying on a background-check he submitted when acquiring a firearm in October of 2018. According to reports, the president's son could face up to 25-years in prison and a fine up to $750,000. Could President Joe Biden pardon his son—and would that potentially impact his status as the Democrat Party's 2024 presidential nominee? 5:10pm- Prior to the 2020 presidential election, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, along with other high-ranking members of the intelligence community, signed a letter dismissing The New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The laptop has since been confirmed as being authentic—but Clapper recently stated he does not regret his decision. 5:15pm- While appearing on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, CBS News poll director Anthony Salvanto revealed that 62% of registered voters support the deportation of migrants living in the United States unlawfully. 5:20pm- Listeners react: Could the Democrat Party actually consider replacing Joe Biden at the top of their 2024 ticket? 5:40pm- According to report from Adam Reiss and Dareh Gregorian of NBC News: “The New Jersey attorney general's office is investigating the eligibility of the liquor licenses of three Trump-owned golf courses in the state following former President Donald Trump's conviction on felony charges in New York, officials confirmed Tuesday. The three properties under review by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, which is a part of the AG's office, include Bedminster, Pine Hill and Colts Neck.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/new-jersey-attorney-general-reviewing-trump-golf-liquor-licenses-rcna156550 5:50pm- Speaking at a gun violence prevention conference in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden insisted that Americans don't need guns to protect themselves from the government—because the government could simply use an F-15 fighter jet to target people. Well, that makes me feel safe… 6:05pm- Prior to his interview with a House of Representatives Subcommittee investigating the government's response to COVID-19, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo defended his actions during the pandemic—specifically his decision to send sick patients back to nursing homes. 6:15pm- During a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, former President Donald Trump posed a hilarious hypothetical question to his audience: Would you rather be electrocuted or eaten by a shark? 6:20pm- In newly released footage from January 6th,  2021, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) can be heard saying: “I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more,” referring to the National Guard. The video was shot by Pelosi's daughter Alexandra and provided to Congressional investigators via HBO. 6:25pm- While appearing on Fox News with Jesse Waters, billionaire David Sacks noted that Silicon Valley is suddenly backing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Although the California-based technology sector has historically been progressive in political ideology, Sacks says he believes people are starting to realize that Trump's policies benefit them. 6:30pm- A jury in Wilmington, Delaware has found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to lying on a background-check he submitted when acquiring a firearm in October of 2018. According to reports, the president's son could face up to 25-years in prison and a fine up to $750,000. Following the trial, Juror #10 spoke with CNN—explaining that he never considered that Hunter was the son of the president of the United States. 6:40pm- When asked about the Hunter Biden trial during an interview with Dana Bash on CNN, Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) claimed that her internet connection dropped and could not continue the conversation…perfect timing! 6:50pm- A progressive journalist secretly recorded a conversation she had with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. At one point Justice Alito agrees that the country is polarized and that it should return to a place of godliness. How is anything he said controversial? The left is, of course, losing its mind.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- Dr. Victoria Coates—Former Deputy National Security Advisor & the Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to recap the European Parliament elections which saw right-leaning parties perform particularly well. The results led to French President Emmanuel Macron calling for a snap legislative election. Plus, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stated that there should be a universal ban on fossil fuel advertisements in order to protect “green energy” from criticism. Dr. Coates is the author of: “David's Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art.” You can find her book here: https://www.amazon.com/Davids-Sling-History-Democracy-Works/dp/1594037213. 4:30pm- Caroline Sunshine—Deputy Director of Communications for the 2024 Trump Campaign—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss a jury in Wilmington, Delaware finding Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to the purchase of a firearm in October of 2018. Plus, Sunshine reacts to polling previewing the 2024 presidential election, as well as President Biden's backwards economic policies. She jokes: “Joe Biden is a few French fries short of a Happy Meal.” 4:50pm- Rich reveals that he never got to select his own show's theme tune. Matt nearly gets fired when he suggests it should be changed to “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! He played the song yesterday and was endlessly yelled at by both Rich and the audience…

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- Jury deliberation is underway in the Hunter Biden gun trial taking place in Delaware. If Hunter is ultimately found guilty, will President Joe Biden simply pardon him? 4:20pm- Prior to the 2020 presidential election, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, along with other high-ranking members of the intelligence community, signed a letter dismissing The New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The laptop has since been confirmed as being authentic—but Clapper recently stated he does not regret his decision. 4:30pm- Rich yells at Matt for playing “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! as return music. Matt claims the song is catchy and the audience will enjoy it—but do they agree with him? Nope! 4:40pm- Earlier this month, the restaurant chain Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy, closing dozens of restaurants nationally—but rapper Flavor Flav has vowed to save the franchise: “We have to save the lobster!” In a show of support, Flavor Flav bought every item on the menu.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (06/10/2024): 3:05pm- James Lynch of National Review writes: “Hunter Biden's legal team rested its case in his felony gun trial on Monday without the first son taking the stand in his own defense. Hunter's lawyer Abbe Lowell on Friday left open the possibility of Hunter testifying, but ultimately opted against the high-risk maneuver. Lowell declined to call any witnesses on Monday after two gun-store employees and Hunter's daughter Naomi testified on his behalf on Friday.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hunter-biden-declines-to-take-the-stand-as-defense-rests-in-gun-trial/ 3:15pm- While appearing on Megyn Kelly's podcast, Lunden Roberts claimed that her cellphones and iCloud crashed after she found out that she was pregnant with Hunter Biden's child—with her data being erased. Was this a coincidence? Or could it have been part of some sort of conspiracy to protect Hunter Biden? 3:30pm- Over the weekend, Rich—alongside his family and the family of Dr. Mike Vanaria—sold lemonade to raise money for children with cancer. It turns out his 4-year-old daughter is quite the saleswoman! 3:40pm- Thomas McKenna—a Student at Hillsdale College & Contributor at National Review—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest article, “Protesters Surround White House, Call for ‘Intifada Revolution.'” McKenna attended the protests and witnessed instances of vandalism and open advocation for violence, specifically directed towards Israel and Jews. There were no arrests made. You can read McKenna's article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/protesters-surround-white-house-call-for-intifada-revolution/ 4:05pm- Jury deliberation is underway in the Hunter Biden gun trial taking place in Delaware. If Hunter is ultimately found guilty, will President Joe Biden simply pardon him? 4:20pm- Prior to the 2020 presidential election, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, along with other high-ranking members of the intelligence community, signed a letter dismissing The New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The laptop has since been confirmed as being authentic—but Clapper recently stated he does not regret his decision. 4:30pm- Rich yells at Matt for playing “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! as return music. Matt claims the song is catchy and the audience will enjoy it—but do they agree with him? Nope! 4:40pm- Earlier this month, the restaurant chain Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy, closing dozens of restaurants nationally—but rapper Flavor Flav has vowed to save the franchise: “We have to save the lobster!” In a show of support, Flavor Flav bought every item on the menu. 5:05pm- David Gelman—Criminal Defense Attorney & Surrogate for Donald Trump's Legal Team—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the Hunter Biden gun trial. The jury began deliberation on Monday, though they did not reach a verdict prior to being dismissed for the day. Jimmy Failla vowed to co-host The Rich Zeoli Show's June 21st broadcast at the Grand Hotel of Cape May if the Zeoli Army purchased 100 tickets for one of his upcoming standup shows. Gelman generously offered to buy 100 tickets and give them away to men and women in the military—as well as police officers and first responders! So, Jimmy AND David will be co-hosting the show alongside Rich from Cape May next Friday! Don't miss it! 5:20pm- During a recent radio interview, Democrat political strategist James Carville said President Joe Biden should not have run for re-election. 5:25pm- In newly released footage from January 6th,  2021, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) can be heard saying: “I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more,” referring to the National Guard. The video was shot by Pelosi's daughter Alexandra and provided to Congressional investigators via HBO. 5:40pm- Dr. EJ Antoni—Economist & Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss how a strange woman gave him the middle finger while he provided testimony to the U.S. Senate last week. The hilarious clip has since gone viral on social media. Plus, California restaurants have been forced to cut an estimated 10,000 jobs since the state raised the minimum wage to $20 per-hour. You can find Dr. Antoni's work here: https://www.heritage.org/staff/ej-antoni 6:05pm- Oh, no! Could Congress ban alcoholic beverages on flights? C. Jarrett Dieterle of Reason writes: “Newly released research argues that it should be. The study, published in Thorax by researchers from the Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Germany, concludes that in-flight alcohol can increase the risk of heart attack. While the topline conclusion sounds concerning and compelling, the research itself is less so.” You can read the full article here:https://reason.com/2024/06/08/oh-god-what-if-congress-bans-drinking-on-airplanes/ 6:20pm- Don't miss 1210 WPHT's next Politics and Pints with New York Times best-selling author Jack Carr—hosted by Rich! Tuesday, June 25th from 7:30 to 8:45pm ET at Zlock Performing Arts Center Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pennsylvania. You can find more information and tickets here: https://www.audacy.com/1210wpht/events/politics-and-pints-with-jack-carr 6:30pm- Has Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) ever met a war he didn't like? While appearing on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Sen. Graham advocated for seizing $300 billion in Russian assets and giving it to Ukraine. 6:40pm- REPLAY: Thomas McKenna—a Student at Hillsdale College & Contributor at National Review—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest article, “Protesters Surround White House, Call for ‘Intifada Revolution.'” McKenna attended the protests and witnessed instances of vandalism and open advocation for violence, specifically directed towards Israel and Jews. There were no arrests made. You can read McKenna's article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/protesters-surround-white-house-call-for-intifada-revolution/

In 1985, the British band Wham! became the first Western pop act to play in China.Around 12,000 fans packed into the Worker's Gymnasium in Beijing to hear such hits as Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and Freedom.Wham!'s manager Simon Napier-Bell tells Vicky Farncombe how the strangeness of the event affected singer George Michael's nerves.(Photo: Wham! perform in China. Credit: Getty Images)

Listen this week as we are taken all the way back to 1984!   Shirley giggles her way through our spin of "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" from the Make It Big album.   Hear Shirley tell stories of stage costumes, questionable hair choices through the years and George teaching her to sing like him!         Spinning The Wheel Social Channels Facebook Twitter (X) Instagram TikTok    

Lee and Simon discuss any possible plans for their funerals. Some other details from the episode: Simon talks final season of The Crown, Imelda Staunton's performance, and the depiction of Operation London Bridge (Queen's funeral); pineapple on pizza, Simon wearing aprons, Imelda Staunton singing, 11 o'clock numbers, parking and barking, Company (the musical) and Here's to the ladies who lunch (and Elaine Stritch), Imelda Staunton singing Losing My Mind, acting through song, Staunton as Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter, Lee's funeral full of song, funerals as dignified quiet spaces, Bob crying at inopportune moments, Simon outliving Lee, a funeral outside or in a church (because of the accoustics), Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Lee's brain on shuffle mode, funerals reflecting the people we were, all the people Lee has cut off, Simon's too long eulogy for his mother, the form of a funeral, a funeral like Burning Man, wrapping Lee in cling form, being buried in a big loaf, Turducken, Maniac from Flashdance and Proust. --- Related links (and necessary corrections):Imelda Staunton in Gypsy singing Rose's Turn: https://youtu.be/MOTHRn_o5qEElaine Stritch: Here's to the ladies who lunch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slvaecBozmQImelda Staunton Losing My Mind (from Follies): https://youtu.be/7OvlKjT9D8Y Maniac from Flashdance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIgJenz0ZK4Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net. ---The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)

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You don't want to miss this. We find deep context, make profound connections, and enjoy some impossibly good — and important — tunes. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, originally by Wham!, covered by Shawn Mullins.  Outro music is Cecilia, by Simon and Garfunkel. 

I haven't spoken on the podcast yet about my personal experience learning dancing. At university, I took part in dancesport, which is competitive ballroom and latin dancing; and in the last few years I have been learning to dance tango. I am struck by the differences in philosophies, skill sets, values, and learning cultures between these dance styles, so I wanted to share my experience with you. Enjoy the episode. *** Music used in this episode: Uno by Anibal Troilo https://open.spotify.com/track/5TFzKLS8tjVMikVaOllr8L?si=69d0c8fbee934d2e Orgullo Criollo by Osvaldo Pugliese https://open.spotify.com/track/74CjrywI50qOpaLrXo02ik?si=91b1644591a74407 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham! https://open.spotify.com/track/0ikz6tENMONtK6qGkOrU3c?si=76304e73b1b04754 Dear Future Husband by Meghan Trainor https://open.spotify.com/track/3cU2wBxuV6nFiuf6PJZNlC?si=0dd4a5e2a23c46bc ...plus one surprise I won't spoil.

Descubre con George Paz en Vinyl Radio la fascinante historia de Wham!, el dúo que definió los años 80.

We are reviewing the 80s songs bracket. Please let us know what song should be number one. Here's the bracket: Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy (1985)Never Too Much by Luther Vandross (1981)Purple Rain by Prince (1984)Thriller by Michael Jackson (1982)Working for the Weekend by Loverboy (1981)Livin' On A Prayer by Bon Jovi (1986)Everybody Have Fun Tonight by Wang Chung (1986)Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard (1987)My Prerogative by Bobby Brown (1988)Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran (1982)What I Like About You By The Romantics (1980)Billie Jean By Michael Jackson (1984)Down Under by Men at Work (1982)"When Doves Cry" by Prince (1984)"Only in My Dreams" by Debbie Gibson (1987)"I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" by Hall & Oates (1981)"Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones (1981)"Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses (1987)"Cars" by Gary Numan (1980)"Like a Virgin" by Madonna (1984)"You Got It (The Right Stuff" by New Kids on the Block (1988)"Walk This Way" by Run-D.M.C. (1986)"Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves (1983)"You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC (1980)"Wild Thing" by Tone Loc (1989)"Don't Stop Believing" by Journey (1981)"Brass in Pocket" by The Pretenders (1980)"How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston (1985)"Ain't Nobody" by Chaka Khan (1989)"With or Without You" by U2 (1987)"Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco (1986)"Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles (1986)"I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow (1982)"Jump" by Van Halen (1984)"Addicted to Love" by Robert Palmer (1985)"Need You Tonight" by INXS (1987)"All Night Long (All Night) by Lionel Richie (1983)"Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake (1982)"Kiss" by Prince (1986)"Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners (1982)"Tempted" by Squeeze (1981)"Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper (1984)"Word Up!" by Cameo (1986)"Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield (1981)"It Takes Two" by Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock (1986)"Beat It" by Michael Jackson (1982)"Don't You Want Me?" by Human League (1981)"Just Like Heaven" by The Cure (1987)"Call Me" by Blondie (1980)"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper (1984)"Candy Girl" by New Edition (1983)"Take on Me" by A-Ha (1985)"She Blinded Me With Science" by Thomas Dolby (1982)"Our Lips Are Sealed" by The Go-Go's"Little Red Corvette" by Prince (1983)"Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns-N-Roses (1987)"Faith" by George Michael (1987)"Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo (1984)"99 Luftballons" by Nena (1983)"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham! (1984)One Thing Leads to Another" by The Fixx (1983)"Burning Down the House" by Talking Heads (1983)"Super Freak" by Rick James (1981)"Love Is a Battlefield" by Pat Benatar (1983)"I Love Rock N' Roll" by Joan Jett and The Black Hearts (1981)"Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie (1981)"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M (1987)"Sister Christian" by Night Ranger (1983)"Fight the Power" by Public Enemy (1988)"Tainted Love" by Soft Cell (1981)"Keep on Loving You" by REO Speedwagon (1980)"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison (1988) "Just Can't Get Enough" by Depeche Mode (1981)"In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins (1981)"I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner (1984)"867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone (1981)"Straight Up" by Paula Abdul (1988)"Janie's Got a Gun" by Aerosmith (1989)"Whip It" by Devo (1980)She a beauty by the tubes"Take My Breath Away" by Berlin (1986)"I Melt With You" by Modern English (1982)"Mr. Roboto" by Styx (1983)"Love Shack" by The B-52's (1989)"Bust a Move" by Young M.C (1989)"Dr. Feelgood" by Mötley Crüe (1989)"Jack & Diane" by John Mellencamp (1982)"London Calling" by The Clash (1982)"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" by Culture Club (1982)Look of Love by ABC (1982)"Mickey" by Toni Basil (1981)"Cruel Summer" by Bananarama (1984)"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler (1983)"Nasty" by Janet Jackson (1986)"I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock of Seagulls (1982)"Every Breath You Take" by The Police (1983)"Push It" by Salt-N- Pepa (1986)"We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister (1984) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mass-debaters/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mass-debaters/support

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 982, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Anagram Zoo 1: A MALL. llama. 2: Tall fellow:FIFE RAG. giraffe. 3: A mountain ape:LIAR LOG. gorilla. 4: Ocean mammal:PIN HOLD. a dolphin. 5: Asian snake fighter:EGO MOONS. a mongoose. Round 2. Category: Special Oscars 1: In 1976, she was presented with a special Oscar at her home, Pickfair. Mary Pickford. 2: Appropriately, the statuette presented to Edgar Bergen was made out of this. wood. 3: "In recognition of his brilliant creativity", this Marx Brother won a special Oscar in 1973. Groucho. 4: In 1985, Cary Grant presented an honorary Oscar to this "Philadelphia Story" co-star. James Stewart. 5: The Academy's humanitarian award was named for this late character actor and former Academy pres.. Jean Hersholt. Round 3. Category: 4-Letter Bands 1: This hard-rockin' band was shown without make-up on the cover of 1983's "Lick It Up". Kiss. 2: This Aussie band had hits in the late '80s with "Devil Inside" and "Need You Tonight". INXS. 3: This duo had a 1984 No. 1 hit with "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go". Wham!. 4: 2 sets of brothers were in this "Whip It" group: Jerry and Bob Casale and Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh. Devo. 5: The musical "Mamma Mia!" features the music of this '70s pop powerhouse. ABBA. Round 4. Category: Geographic Meanings 1: A Caribbean island:"Rich Port". Puerto Rico. 2: A big country:"Southern Land". Australia. 3: A North African city:"Three Towns". Tripoli. 4: A South African city:"Fountain of Flowers". Bloemfontein. 5: A country in the Balkans:"Black Mountain". Montenegro. Round 5. Category: Rock And Roll Songs. With Rock" And "Roll in quotation marks 1: The 1st line of the chorus of the "Beer Barrel Polka". Roll out the barrel. 2: How love was for Ashford and Simpson in 1985. "Solid". 3: Chuck Berry's way of saying "Step aside, Ludwig". "Roll Over Beethoven". 4: To do this in '55, you had to "put your glad rags on". "Rock Around The Clock". 5: 1 of 2 Paul Simon hits that fit this category. "I Am A Rock" (or "Loves Me Like A Rock"). Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

El profesor de inglés, traductor, músico y agitador cultural Philip MacConnell nos invita a sumergirnos en las letras de canciones famosas.En esta ocasión repasa canciones publicadas en el año 1984.Suenan Prince (Let's Go Crazy), Madonna (Like A Virgin), U2 (Pride), Wham! (Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go) y Bruce Springsteen (Dancing In The Dark).

El profesor de inglés, traductor, músico y agitador cultural Philip MacConnell nos invita a sumergirnos en las letras de canciones famosas.En esta ocasión repasa canciones publicadas en el año 1984.Suenan Prince (Let's Go Crazy), Madonna (Like A Virgin), U2 (Pride), Wham! (Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go) y Bruce Springsteen (Dancing In The Dark).

We're kicking of SEASON 10 by catching you up on all we've been up to since you last heard from us AND playing a heated game of 80s music trivia, where Kristin and Michelle go head-to-toe (#LisaLisaAndTheCultJam). Which movie soundtrack produced the most radio hits? Who did Duran Duran open for in 1982? And can you sing the second line to “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go?” Listen NOW to play along, to see who will wear the 80s music crown … and to find out who will have to do the Moonwalk.Follow the PCPS on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check out all the goodies you get here.Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a donation here.Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, “The Weekly Reader” here.

Over the years I've made many Wham mechamixes and many George Michael mechamixes and now for the first time ever, here is the best of both worlds – it's the WHAM! & GEORGE MICHAEL ULTIMATE MECHAMIX featuring the hits, the remixes and pure pop gold! BPM = 91 – 163 TRACKS:FREEDOM '90 (ultimix by dj richie rich)HARD DAY (shep pettibone mix)MONKEY (jam & lewis remix)I WANT YOUR SEX (monogamy mix)FATHER FIGURE (the msk band 2017 remix)LAST CHRISTMAS (the mask band 2016/17 remix)EVERYTHING SHE WANTS (jet boot jack remix)YOUNG GUNS (go for it) (dj beats)YOUNG GUNS (go for it) (original 12 inch mix)CLUB TROPICANABAD BOYS (long version)WHAM RAP! (enjoy what you do)OUTSIDE (the msk band 2017 remix)CARELESS WHISPER (dmc remix 2017)BATTLESTATIONSI'M YOUR MAN (steve franklin dmc remix 2017)I'M YOUR MAN (extended stimulation mix)I'M YOUR MAN (dj beats)FREEDOM (extended mix)WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO GO (edge remix) For all your mechamix needs check out:THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE:http://mechanism.podomatic.com THE OFFICIAL PATREON PAGE:patreon.com/THEOFFICIALMECHANISMPODCAST THE OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE:https://www.facebook.com/theofficialmechanismpodcast  THE OFFICIAL TWITTER PAGE:https://twitter.com/MechPod THE OFFICIAL MIXCLOUD PAGE:www.mixcloud.com/Mechanism_Podcast THE OFFICIAL INSTAGRAM PAGE:https://www.instagram.com/mechanism_podcast/ GOOGLE PODCASTS:http://bit.ly/GoogleMechamix TUNE IN:http://bit.ly/TuneInMechamix APPLE PODCASTS:http://bit.ly/AppleMechamix IHEART RADIO PODCAST:http://bit.ly/IheartMechamix YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/c/THEOFFICIALMECHANISMPODCAST #mechamix 

Today, we're cranking up the nostalgia as we take a groove-filled trip back to the 1980s with the iconic album "Make It Big" by the sensational duo Wham! "Make It Big" is not just an album; it's a cultural touchstone that captures the essence of '80s pop music. Released in 1984, Wham!, consisting of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, skyrocketed to international fame with this sophomore effort. The album's infectious blend of pop, funk, and soul immediately struck a chord with listeners and solidified the duo's status as pop royalty. This album is a treasure trove of hits that continue to light up dance floors to this day. From the irresistible groove of "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" to the soulful crooning of "Careless Whisper," "Make It Big" is a showcase of George Michael's vocal prowess and the duo's uncanny ability to craft hooks that stick in your mind long after the music stops. Wham!'s music is not just about catchy tunes; it's a time capsule that transports us back to the neon-soaked, carefree spirit of the '80s. "Make It Big" encapsulates the era's exuberance and glamour, making it a quintessential addition to any vinyl collection. It's an album that perfectly captures the soundtrack of a generation. When "Make It Big" hit the shelves, it did just that – it made it big. The album's commercial success was meteoric, earning multi-platinum status in various countries and topping charts worldwide. Beyond the numbers, Wham! achieved a level of stardom that allowed them to transcend music and become pop culture icons. George Michael's undeniable charisma and Andrew Ridgeley's energetic presence made Wham! more than just a music act – they were a phenomenon. "Make It Big" wasn't just an album; it was a statement that echoed through fashion, music videos, and a sense of youthful rebellion that defined the decade. As we gently place the needle on this vinyl gem, we invite you to join us on a sonic journey through the jubilant world of "Make It Big." We'll explore the album's impact on pop culture, the magic behind the music, and the enduring legacy of Wham!'s unforgettable sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As always this is an audience lead show and we go where you all take us. We talk the Guest rotation with programming .com, Justin and Ellie talk about what happened at the Games. We talk workouts, the WHAM! documentary and Amy is becoming ordained to preform a wedding ceremony.

George Michael rose to fame as a member of the pop duo Wham! with their first two albums reaching #1 with hit singles including “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” and “Last Christmas”. With us today is Simon Napier-Bell, who managed WHAM's career, helping establish them as a global act and the driving force behind their groundbreaking Beijing concert, the first visit to China by a Western popular music act, which generated worldwide media coverage. THE REAL GEORGE MICHAEL is by far the most definitive feature documentary on George Michael's amazing life, the film explores the many ups and downs of the Grammy Award winner, considered one of the best-selling musicians of all time with sales of over 120 million records worldwide. The film documentary dives deeper into who George really was – a kind and generous person who ultimately fought many demons while being front and center as one of the most famous musicians of his time. Simon Napier-Bell is a rock manager, author and film-maker. He's managed The Yardbirds, T Rex, Asia, Sinéad O'Connor, Wham, and George Michael just to name a few. . #georgemichael #wham #popmusic #recordingartist #arethafranklin #eltonjohn #princessdiana #filmdocumentary #MTV #musicvideos #music #carelesswhisper #biographical #UK

George Michael rose to fame as a member of the pop duo Wham! with their first two albums reaching #1 with hit singles including “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” and “Last Christmas”. With us today is Simon Napier-Bell, who managed WHAM's career, helping establish them as a global act and the driving force behind their groundbreaking Beijing concert, the first visit to China by a Western popular music act, which generated worldwide media coverage. THE REAL GEORGE MICHAEL is by far the most definitive feature documentary on George Michael's amazing life, the film explores the many ups and downs of the Grammy Award winner, considered one of the best-selling musicians of all time with sales of over 120 million records worldwide. The film documentary dives deeper into who George really was – a kind and generous person who ultimately fought many demons while being front and center as one of the most famous musicians of his time. Simon Napier-Bell is a rock manager, author and film-maker. He's managed The Yardbirds, T Rex, Asia, Sinéad O'Connor, Wham, and George Michael just to name a few. . #georgemichael #wham #popmusic #recordingartist #arethafranklin #eltonjohn #princessdiana #filmdocumentary #MTV #musicvideos #music #carelesswhisper #biographical #UK

«Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go» des britischen Pop-Duos Wham! ist einer der ganz grossen Kultsongs der 80er-Jahre. Ein Schreibfehler diente George Michael als Inspiration für den Welthit.

WHAM! BAM! Club Tropicana is NOW open for all you Young Guns and Bad Boys! Over ONE hour of nostalgia, including all 12 of their HIT singles, so crank it up and DANCE! 1 Wham Rap! 2 Young Guns (Go For It!) 3 Bad Boys 4 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go 5 Freedom 6 I'm Your Man 7 Edge Of Heaven 8 Last Christmas 9 Where Did Your Heart Go?10 Everything She Wants 11 Club Tropicana 12 Careless Whisper 

This week, John and Steve are back again with their original mixtapes from the 80s.➿ The cassettes have been pulled out of the Walkman players, and both have a similar theme: celebrating George Michael and Wham!

Rise-rise and shine-shine. It's time for another episode of THE STORY SONG PODCAST that will make everything brighter than Doris Day (if that's even possible). Join your hosts for their review of the 1984 pop classic, “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham!. In this episode, we jitterbug our way through the 80s as we discuss your uncle's most reliable car, a classic photo-documentary series about 19th-Century taverns, and the eyeroll seen 'round the world. So let's not fight, they can dance, we'll listen to this episode of THE STORY SONG PODCAST instead. Jitterbug. THE STORY SONG PODCAST is a member of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Continue the conversation; follow THE STORY SONG PODCAST on social media. Follow us on Twitter (@Story_Song), Instagram (storysongpodcast), and Facebook (thestorysongpodcast). “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! (from the album Make It Big) is available on Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer, Pandora, Spotify, or wherever you listen to music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rise-rise and shine-shine. It's time for another episode of THE STORY SONG PODCAST that will make everything brighter than Doris Day (if that's even possible). Join your hosts for their review of the 1984 pop classic, “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham!. In this episode, we jitterbug our way through the 80s as we discuss your uncle's most reliable car, a classic photo-documentary series about 19th-Century taverns, and the eyeroll seen 'round the world. So let's not fight, they can dance, we'll listen to this episode of THE STORY SONG PODCAST instead. Jitterbug. Continue the conversation; follow THE STORY SONG PODCAST on social media. Follow us on Twitter (@Story_Song), Instagram (storysongpodcast), and Facebook (thestorysongpodcast). THE STORY SONG PODCAST is a member of the Pantheon Podcast Network. “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! (from the album Make It Big) is available on Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer, Pandora, Spotify, or wherever you listen to music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A young artist has a brilliant song, while looking ahead at overshadowing himself, and one of the most effective and innovative comebacks in modern music. I Feel For You, originally by Prince, covered by Chaka Khan.  Outro music is Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, by Wham! That was a heck of a year. 

GEORGE MICHAEL REBORN - The incredible George Michael WHAM! tribute to the late, great legend! This show is a must see! With his live vocals (NO LIP-SYNCING here), Robert Bartko exudes the energy and passion of George in the 80's and 90's… getting the crowd on the dance floor for “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” and prompting standing ovations for his performance of “Careless Whisper.” He even gets the fans involved! Robert is a spot-on George Michael lookalike, with the vocal range, dance moves, crowd interaction, and charisma that will leave you cheering for an encore. Close your eyes and you'll swear you're listening to the real deal, not a George Michael impersonator!

This hugely popular and much sought after classic mechamix has now been revised and updated incorporating both new remixes and original 12 inch versions!  BPM = 118 – 163 TRACKS:EVERYTHING SHE WANTS (jet boot jack remix)YOUNG GUNS (go for it) (dj beats)YOUNG GUNS (go for it) (original 12 inch mix)CLUB TROPICANA (full length version)BAD BOYS (long version)WHAM RAP! (enjoy what you do) (original 12 inch mix)LAST CHRISTMAS (dj ivan santana festive house remix)EVERYTHING SHE WANTS (luca debonaire & omerta remix)I'M YOUR MAN (dmc remix beats)I'M YOUR MAN (extended stimulation mix)FREEDOM (original extended version)WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO GO (edge remix) For all your mechamix needs go to: THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE:http://mechanism.podomatic.com THE OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE:https://www.facebook.com/theofficialmechanismpodcast THE OFFICIAL TWITTER PAGE:https://twitter.com/MechPod THE OFFICIAL MIXCLOUD PAGE:www.mixcloud.com/Mechanism_Podcast THE OFFICIAL INSTAGRAM PAGE:https://www.instagram.com/mechanism_podcast/ GOOGLE PODCASTS:http://bit.ly/GoogleMechamix TUNE IN:http://bit.ly/TuneInMechamix APPLE PODCASTS:http://bit.ly/AppleMechamix IHEART RADIO PODCAST:http://bit.ly/IheartMechamix YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/c/THEOFFICIALMECHANISMPODCAST #mechamix

Jitterbug! Put the boom-boom into your life with James and Connor! We're taking you back to 1984 with Make It Big, the second and final studio album by British power pop duo Wham! George Michael and Andrew Ridgely bring all the hits, including Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Everything She Wants, and the iconic Careless Whisper. We'll dive into the world of F3 racing, discuss capybara care, and figure out if jitterbugs are even real. There's a lot to learn in this episode and if you were there... You'd know.  PLUS! We need your help! We'll be live-streaming our next Singles Episode on Thursday, 8/25! It will be a One-Hit Wonders Bracket Competition, featuring some of the biggest one-off songs from the last 60 years. WE NEED YOUR VOTES! Come help us pick the winner live on our Twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/spinitpod ! Be sure to check out the first round of the bracket on our socials, fill out your own copy to play along, and get a feel for all the songs that will compete:  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Q4RR8BB2CcHRuuvyf0FjM?si=d6a29fe7c44847d2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYumnChiw_I9lsOg5AdSXNqNgUrcuCN1yKeep Spinning at www.SpinItPod.com! Thanks For Listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Chris interviews Shelley Anderson! Shelley is a music therapist who works for a private practice in Ft Wayne, IN and runs a business, Notes 2 Live By, that teaches basic communication through sign language and, more recently, through assistive technology. Shelley shares about the ways that music can be used to teach language to everyone, including AAC users, including how music can be used in unique ways to teach core language concepts.    Before the interview, Chris chats with his son Tucker and daughter Maggie about current slang that you may want to consider adding to AAC devices. They talk about slang such as “slay”, “queen”, “give me the tea”, “fit”, “choogie”, and more!    Key ideas this week:   It can be very motivating to start singing a song and to then stop it at a point that makes the listener want to keep singing. An AAC user can add a word from their device to the song you are singing in the same way, such as us singing “Because I'm” and having them say “happy” to the tune of “Happy” by Pharrell.   When using music to teach language, it is better if you sing acapella or play an instrument. That way, we can slow down the pace to meet their needs, which  is more effective than pausing the music on a pre-recorded track.    We can use music to teach a particular core word, such as playing “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” by WHAM! to teach “Go”. You can also contrast the different meanings of a core word using different songs (e.g. “Can't Stop This Feeling” by Justin Timberlake and “This Train Don't Stop There Anymore” by Elton John).   If you are using music in therapy, make sure not to overuse a particular song (e.g. play the same song they like every week for months), as this can effect how motivating it is.   Visit talkingwithtech.org to access previous episodes, resources, and CEU credits that you can earn for listening to TWT episodes!   Help us develop new content and keep the podcast going strong! Support our podcast at patreon.com/talkingwithtech!

It's the fifth Wednesday minisode! In this shorter episode we talk about some of our favorite tropes! Content warnings for strong language, bad accents, catholic on main, and so many Taika Waititi namedrops. We reference or spoil: Alexa, “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham!, XFiles, “Amazon Alexa will be able to mimic deceased […]

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 437 with Robert Bartko from George Michael Reborn. It's a rare thing to look, sound, and even command the stage like a legend. George Michael Reborn Starring Robert Bartko possesses all those rarities and elevates the live experience of one of music's biggest selling artists. George Michael Reborn is the ultimate concert escape that features absolutely no lip syncing, spot-on dance moves and celebrates the iconic image of the 80s star down to the ripped jeans. From the early WHAM! days hits like “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”, to the sensual melodies of “Careless Whisper” to the arsenal of hits from the groundbreaking “Faith” album, Bartko embodies the beloved pop star.

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 437 with Robert Bartko from George Michael Reborn.It's a rare thing to look, sound, and even command the stage like a legend. George Michael Reborn Starring Robert Bartko possesses all those rarities and elevates the live experience of one of music's biggest selling artists. George Michael Reborn is the ultimate concert escape that features absolutely no lip syncing, spot-on dance moves and celebrates the iconic image of the 80s star down to the ripped jeans. From the early WHAM! days hits like “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”, to the sensual melodies of “Careless Whisper” to the arsenal of hits from the groundbreaking “Faith” album, Bartko embodies the beloved pop star.

O podcast “VariaçõesCast” é um dos programas da família Variações de um Nerd, aqui batemos um papo sobre filmes, séries e outros conteúdos da cultura pop/nerd. Neste programa iremos bater um papo sobre a 1ª temporada (ou a única?) da série Cavaleiro da Lua, disponível na Disney+ Acesse variacoesdeumnerd.com.br ou procure por Variações de um Nerd em seu agregador de podcast e acompanhe nossos outros projetos. Minutagem do programa Teaser  do programa até 1m 38s Papo de Saideira 1h 33m 48s (Ainda vale a pena acompanhar inúmeras séries e filmes de um universo cinematográfico compartilhado?) Toca Raul 1h 52m 09s Crédito a música de encerramento - Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 437 with Robert Bartko from George Michael Reborn. It's a rare thing to look, sound, and even command the stage like a legend. George Michael Reborn Starring Robert Bartko possesses all those rarities and elevates the live experience of one of music's biggest selling artists. George Michael Reborn is the ultimate concert escape that features absolutely no lip syncing, spot-on dance moves and celebrates the iconic image of the 80s star down to the ripped jeans. From the early WHAM! days hits like “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”, to the sensual melodies of “Careless Whisper” to the arsenal of hits from the groundbreaking “Faith” album, Bartko embodies the beloved pop star.

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 437 with Robert Bartko from George Michael Reborn. It's a rare thing to look, sound, and even command the stage like a legend. George Michael Reborn Starring Robert Bartko possesses all those rarities and elevates the live experience of one of music's biggest selling artists. George Michael Reborn is the ultimate concert escape that features absolutely no lip syncing, spot-on dance moves and celebrates the iconic image of the 80s star down to the ripped jeans. From the early WHAM! days hits like “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”, to the sensual melodies of “Careless Whisper” to the arsenal of hits from the groundbreaking “Faith” album, Bartko embodies the beloved pop star.

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 437 with Robert Bartko from George Michael Reborn. It's a rare thing to look, sound, and even command the stage like a legend. George Michael Reborn Starring Robert Bartko possesses all those rarities and elevates the live experience of one of music's biggest selling artists. George Michael Reborn is the ultimate concert escape that features absolutely no lip syncing, spot-on dance moves and celebrates the iconic image of the 80s star down to the ripped jeans. From the early WHAM! days hits like “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”, to the sensual melodies of “Careless Whisper” to the arsenal of hits from the groundbreaking “Faith” album, Bartko embodies the beloved pop star.

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 437 with Robert Bartko from George Michael Reborn.It's a rare thing to look, sound, and even command the stage like a legend. George Michael Reborn Starring Robert Bartko possesses all those rarities and elevates the live experience of one of music's biggest selling artists. George Michael Reborn is the ultimate concert escape that features absolutely no lip syncing, spot-on dance moves and celebrates the iconic image of the 80s star down to the ripped jeans. From the early WHAM! days hits like “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”, to the sensual melodies of “Careless Whisper” to the arsenal of hits from the groundbreaking “Faith” album, Bartko embodies the beloved pop star.

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 437 with Robert Bartko from George Michael Reborn. It's a rare thing to look, sound, and even command the stage like a legend. George Michael Reborn Starring Robert Bartko possesses all those rarities and elevates the live experience of one of music's biggest selling artists. George Michael Reborn is the ultimate concert escape that features absolutely no lip syncing, spot-on dance moves and celebrates the iconic image of the 80s star down to the ripped jeans. From the early WHAM! days hits like “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”, to the sensual melodies of “Careless Whisper” to the arsenal of hits from the groundbreaking “Faith” album, Bartko embodies the beloved pop star.

“The I'm the teacher Fox News warns you about shirt its complete basicness, has enabled it to stay a wardrobe staple,” says Nothdruft, who collaborated on the project with the Civic arts centre in Barnsley, where it will be relocated once its run in London finishes on May 6th. Designers' use of the item as a “means to communicate social, musical, and political associations” will be a prominent focus of the show. Henry Holland, known for slogans like “Single Use Plastic Is Never Fantastic,” and Vivienne Westwood, who, according to Nothdruft, “challenged not just what the I'm the teacher Fox News warns you about shirt might say but how the I'm the teacher Fox News warns you about T-shirt could be manufactured,” are among the fashion designers featured.Katharine Hamnett, one of the most famous supporters of the I'm the teacher Fox News warns you about shirt, is a major attraction, along with American street artist Keith Haring, who wore one emblazoned with a nuclear missile protest message to meet then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984, and whose “Choose Life” T-shirt was worn by WhamGeorge !'s Michael in the music video for Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. Buy it: https://rosetta-campaign.net/im-the-teacher-fox-news-warns-you-about-shirt https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/im-teacher-fox-news-warns-you-shirt-tran-hoai-kha/

This person died in 2016 at age 53. He was a handsome, smiling teen-pop idol making lighthearted singles like “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” then arriving as a grown-up pop sex symbol with his 1987 album “Faith.” He was the most-played performer on British radio from 1984 to 2004. In 1998 he came out as gay. Today's dead celebrity is George Michael.

There must be something in the air this week as it's the silliest episode of RFC to date! Roll For Combat, Three Ring Adventure Podcast is a playthrough of the Pathfinder Adventure Path, Extinction Curse, and the third book, Life's Long Shadows. Don't forget to join our Discord channel, where you can play games, talk … Continue reading "Three Ring Adventure S3|13: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" The post Three Ring Adventure S3|13: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go appeared first on Roll For Combat: Paizo's Official Pathfinder & Starfinder Actual Play Podcasts.

There must be something in the air this week as it's the silliest episode of RFC to date! Roll For Combat, Three Ring Adventure Podcast is a playthrough of the Pathfinder Adventure Path, Extinction Curse, and the third book, Life's Long Shadows. Don't forget to join our Discord channel, where you can play games, talk … Continue reading "Three Ring Adventure S3|13: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" The post Three Ring Adventure S3|13: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go appeared first on Roll For Combat: Paizo's Official Pathfinder & Starfinder Actual Play Podcasts.

It's the happiest, fluffiest, gayest hit songs of the '80s! Which is the superior peppy poppy floofy Brit pop song, Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon" or Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"?  

Pepsi & Shirlie are best known as members of the phenomenon WHAM! alongside George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, as well as being their own pop duo in the 80s with hits such as Heartache. The duo were raised in different parts of London, coming from big working class families and had one more thing in common - they shared a love for music and dreamt of bigger things… little did they know the huge role they would play in the musical landscape of the 80s, still featuring on our screens today in classic videos such as Wake Me Up Before You Go Go and Last Christmas. With a friendship spanning over 35 years, the girls have now been inspired to put their memories into a book ‘It's all in Black and White' reminiscing on their time in the spotlight, on and off stage, and everything in between. In this episode we get two for the price of one, with moments from both Pepsi and Shirlie! Through this inspiring and insightful chat, it is totally evident why the two have such a strong connection and friendship. We discuss it all from how a phone call led to Pepsi joining WHAM! and how on a trip to the pub, going to the toilet changed Shirlie's life! We delve into the moments of fate that have played such a large role in both of their lives, from playing parts on stage to having babies. Pepsi & Shirlie have the most amazing outlook on life and this chat really explores the theories around the paths our lives follow, and ultimately how we all just need to have faith! @slidingdoorspod Hosted by: @jenbecks28 Guests: @shirliekemp @pepsidemacquec

With the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine receiving full approval from the FDA, and Moderna shortly behind, prepare for an unprecedented wave of drug advertising! This could have a positive impact with regards to vaccination rates, but drug advertising in the U.S. has a dark, deadly history. Joined by guest co-host Gillian Mason, we cover the surprising reasons our airwaves and social media are saturated with drug ads, and the lethal consequences we saw in the opioid epidemic, which was manufactured by the exact same pharmaceutical companies now marketing the COVID-19 vaccines. Show Notes Direct-to-Consumer advertising is illegal in every country except the United States and New Zealand. Even in the U.S., you never saw drug ads until the 1980s and very few until the 2000s, since drug makers had to list ALL of the drug's potential risks and side effects in the ad - just like they did in magazine and newspaper advertisements. So the decade that gave us “Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go)” (one of the finest pop songs of the 80s) also gave us the start of “loophole ads” that didn't mention their drugs' risks and side-effects, but ALSO didn't mention the disease the drug treats - just pure branding. Finally in 1997 the FDA started allowing pharmaceutical companies to only list the MAJOR risks of their drugs - not all risks. If you've ever listened to the risk section of a drug ad, it's terrifying to imagine that we're actually not even getting the full risk statement. This is why they say "see our ad in some completely bizarre magazine" - they're actually referring you to their full risk statement. Back the money: direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs hit $6.58 billion in 2020. This doesn't even include social media or online advertising, which generally wasn't allowed prior to 2016 - because it's hard to list the “side effects” of drugs on social media - but the FDA has been allowing it, and pharma has been hitting social media hard now. Facebook pharma advertising hit about $1 billion in 2019. Drug advertising is not only the wrong venue to learn the pros and cons of a medication (your doctor's office is the best place for that), it's dangerous. The opioid epidemic was manufactured using marketing and advertising. Right now Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson are being sued by every state and many cities and counties for their role in the epidemic. Opioid litigation started with a seminal 2019 court ruling against J&J for over $500 million for its role in the Oklahoma opioid crisis: “The Defendants, acting in concert with others, embarked on a major campaign in which they used branded and unbranded marketing to disseminate the messages that pain was under-treated and ‘there was a low risk of abuse and a low danger' of prescribing opioids.” Stay tuned for news about the national opioid settlement and various state, city, and county lawsuits against opioid manufacturers. Follow & Support the Pod! You can listen to Medicare for All on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or visit our website here. Please donate to the Healthcare-NOW Education Fund to support the podcast!

The son of a Milwaukee-area promoter and longtime wrestler, "The Fanny Pack Kid" Kal Herro, just 19 years old, joins Windy City Slam Podcast for the first time to discuss his homage to the 80's, including wearing a fanny pack and entering to Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," growing up with his dad, David, and having star wrestlers spend the night at his house, plus his work in Ohio Valley Wrestling and having former ECW and WWE star Al Snow as a trainer. Plus, Mike discusses local wrestling news, including Freelance Underground, POWW Entertainment, Zelo Pro and AAW Pro. Mike Pankow is a wrestling super-fan who covers local Chicagoland wrestling and national promotions like AEW and WWE. If there is something going on in Chicago, Mike knows about it. Enjoy "Wrestling, Chicago-Style" on The Broadcast Basement On-Demand Radio Network! Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com. Get your local wrestling fix every Tuesday everywhere podcasts can be found and always at WindyCitySlam.com!

Welcome to The 80's Montage! (music, mateys and cool shit from the 80s) Your Hosts Jay Jovi & Sammy HardOn, singers from Australia's 80's tribute band Rewind 80's. We take you back to living in the 80's: music, artists, TV commercials and video clips. Episode 83: WHAM! - Top 10 George Michael Hits!. It's a ripper! Please rate, review and enjoy! Music licensed by APRA/AMCOS Theme music ©2019 M. Skerman see Facebook for links to videos & songs mentioned in this episode! Email: planet80sproductions@gmail.com Rewind 80's Band : www.rewind80sband.com Facebook : the80smontagepodcast twitter: 80_montage instagram : the80smontage Links from Episode 83: WHAM! - Top 10 George Michael Hits!.Patreon Link With Thanks x https://www.patreon.com/the80smontagepodcast www.the80smontage.comLinks: Everything she wants - Wham https://youtu.be/Yf_Lwe6p-Cg10, Praying For Time - George Michaelhttps://youtu.be/goroyZbVdlo9, “I Want Your Sex,” George Michael, No. 2, Aug. 8, 1987https://youtu.be/vldh7oQD-a48, “Monkey,” George Michael, No. 1 (2 weeks), Aug. 27, 1988https://youtu.be/CHb2XYeXcJI7, “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),” Aretha Franklin & George Michael, No. 1 (2 weeks), April 18, 1987https://youtu.be/fDxzQJaA2286, “Father Figure,” George Michael, No. 1 (2 weeks), Feb. 27, 1988https://youtu.be/m_9hfHvQSNoSee The Day - DC Lee : One Dick Wonderhttps://youtu.be/aqfsiSpfv-g4, “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” Wham!, No. 1 (3 weeks), Nov. 17, 1984https://youtu.be/pIgZ7gMze7A3, “One More Try,” George Michael, No. 1 (3 weeks), May 28, 1988https://youtu.be/bG5N3GC-m202, “Careless Whisper,” Wham! featuring George Michael, No. 1 (3 weeks), Feb. 16, 1985https://youtu.be/izGwDsrQ1eQ1, “Faith,” George Michael, No. 1 (4 weeks), Dec. 12, 1987https://youtu.be/6Cs3Pvmmv0EThanks for listening!

Our journey in the BTSC Delorean to Steeler yesteryear begins in a time when Supergirl and the Terminator were big at the movies and “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” by Wham! was the hottest song on the radio. Meanwhile, the Steelers were looking to return to the playoffs while on the brink of elimination. Welcome to November 25, 1984 Flash back to an awesome classic on the Steelers Retro Show and join BTSC’s Tony Defeo and Bryan Anthony Davis as they go back in time and relive another memorable game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At the top of the pod, Adam rants about the overplayed Wham! song ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go’. They also review the apology from the Jeopardy contestant accused of being a white supremacist, and go on to discuss the similarity between working out and working out your comedy routine. Gina then reads news stories about a possible Pfizer vaccine for kids, Michael Jackson’s estate, updates on Kevin Spacey, Caitlyn Jenner’s first political ad, and Willow Smith’s polyamory announcement. Please support today’s sponsors: Apartments.com Public.com/ADAM SignalWire.com enter ADAM JBweld.com Lifelock.com enter ADAM Geico.com PlutoTV

Baby. Back. Biiiitch. We descend into the first of our final 3 characters with Blaine Anderson, a.k.a. Blaine Warbler. For part two, we talk through Blaine's time at McKinley in season 3 and 4, as he and Kurt reach some epic highs and crushing lows. At the end, we take all of Blaine's featured songs and reveal the final rankings based on voting from both hosts as well as anyone who participated in the song surveys! For part two, you'll hear #44-21 of Kurt's song rankings.   The 68 songs up for discussion in the rankings are: Solos: 2x18: Somewhere Only We Know 2x20: I’m Not Gonna Teach Your BF 3x01: It’s Not Unusual 3x02: Something’s Coming 3x04: Last Friday Night 3x11: Wanna Be Starting Something 3x14: Cough Syrup 3x15: Fighter 3x16: You Should Be Dancing 3x17: It’s Not Right But It’s Okay 4x01: It’s Time 4x03: Everybody Wants to Rule the World 4x04: Teenage Dream 4x05: Hopelessly Devoted To You 4x06: Beauty School Dropout 4x07: My Dark Side 4x13: Don’t Stop Me Now 4x17: Against All Odd (Take a Look at Me Now) 5x01: All You Need Is Love 5x06: Piano Man 5x07: You’re My Best Friend 5x15: Not While I’m Around 5x20: All of Me Duets: 2x10: Baby It’s Cold Outside (with Kurt) 2x14: Don’t You Want Me (with Rachel) 2x15: Animal (with Kurt) 2x16: Candles (with Kurt) 3x05: Tonight (with Rachel) 3x05: One Hand, One Heart (with Rachel) 3x07: Perfect (with Kurt) 3x09: Extraordinary Merry Christmas (with Rachel) 3x09: Let It Snow (with Kurt) 3x15: Hungry Like the Wolf/Rio (with Cooper) 3x15: Somebody That I Used to Know (with Cooper) 4x02: Boys/Boyfriend (with Artie) 4x04: Barely Breathing (with Finn) 4x07: Heroes (with Sam) 4x10: White Christmas (with Kurt) 4x14: Just Can’t Get Enough (with Blaine) 4x15: Shout (with Brittany) 4x15: Come What May (with Brittany) 4x16: I Still Believe/Super Bass (with Sue) 4x17: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (with Sam) 4x22: All or Nothing (with Marley) 5x01: Got To Get You Into My Life (with Kurt) 5x01: Help (with Sam) 5x06: Movin’ Out (with Sam) 5x11: More Than a Feeling (with Tina) 5x14: You Make Me Feel So Young (with Kurt) 5x14: Best Day of My Life (with Sam) 5x15: Broadway Baby (with Rachel) 5x17: Love is a Battlefield (with Kurt) 5x18: Story of My Life (with Kurt) 5x18: Piece of My Heart (with June) 5x20: No Time At All (with June) 5x20: American Boy (with Kurt) 6x01: Suddenly Seymour (with Rachel) 6x03: It’s Too Late (with Kurt) 6x07: Somebody Loves You (with Kurt) 6x13: Daydream Believer (with Kurt) Group Features: 2x06: Teenage Dream 2x09: Hey Soul Sister 2x11: Bills, Bills, Bills 2x12: When I Get You Alone 2x12: Silly Love Songs 2x16: Misery 2x16: Raise Your Glass 3x08: Control 3x11: Bad 3x13: Love Shack 5x02: Hey Jude 5x11: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For Follow us on Twitter: @choirroompod E-mail us! Feedback, ideas, fact-checks, anything! choirroompodcast@gmail.com Want to help financially support the show? paypal.me/choirroompodcast

Baby. Back. Biiiitch. We descend into the first of our final 3 characters with Blaine Anderson, a.k.a. Blaine Warbler. For part one, we talk through only season 2 Blaine, which many might say is the best Blaine. At the end, we take all of Blaine's featured songs and reveal the final rankings based on voting from both hosts as well as anyone who participated in the song surveys! For part one, you'll hear #68-45 of Kurt's song rankings.   The 68 songs up for discussion in the rankings are: Solos: 2x18: Somewhere Only We Know 2x20: I’m Not Gonna Teach Your BF 3x01: It’s Not Unusual 3x02: Something’s Coming 3x04: Last Friday Night 3x11: Wanna Be Starting Something 3x14: Cough Syrup 3x15: Fighter 3x16: You Should Be Dancing 3x17: It’s Not Right But It’s Okay 4x01: It’s Time 4x03: Everybody Wants to Rule the World 4x04: Teenage Dream 4x05: Hopelessly Devoted To You 4x06: Beauty School Dropout 4x07: My Dark Side 4x13: Don’t Stop Me Now 4x17: Against All Odd (Take a Look at Me Now) 5x01: All You Need Is Love 5x06: Piano Man 5x07: You’re My Best Friend 5x15: Not While I’m Around 5x20: All of Me Duets: 2x10: Baby It’s Cold Outside (with Kurt) 2x14: Don’t You Want Me (with Rachel) 2x15: Animal (with Kurt) 2x16: Candles (with Kurt) 3x05: Tonight (with Rachel) 3x05: One Hand, One Heart (with Rachel) 3x07: Perfect (with Kurt) 3x09: Extraordinary Merry Christmas (with Rachel) 3x09: Let It Snow (with Kurt) 3x15: Hungry Like the Wolf/Rio (with Cooper) 3x15: Somebody That I Used to Know (with Cooper) 4x02: Boys/Boyfriend (with Artie) 4x04: Barely Breathing (with Finn) 4x07: Heroes (with Sam) 4x10: White Christmas (with Kurt) 4x14: Just Can’t Get Enough (with Blaine) 4x15: Shout (with Brittany) 4x15: Come What May (with Brittany) 4x16: I Still Believe/Super Bass (with Sue) 4x17: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (with Sam) 4x22: All or Nothing (with Marley) 5x01: Got To Get You Into My Life (with Kurt) 5x01: Help (with Sam) 5x06: Movin’ Out (with Sam) 5x11: More Than a Feeling (with Tina) 5x14: You Make Me Feel So Young (with Kurt) 5x14: Best Day of My Life (with Sam) 5x15: Broadway Baby (with Rachel) 5x17: Love is a Battlefield (with Kurt) 5x18: Story of My Life (with Kurt) 5x18: Piece of My Heart (with June) 5x20: No Time At All (with June) 5x20: American Boy (with Kurt) 6x01: Suddenly Seymour (with Rachel) 6x03: It’s Too Late (with Kurt) 6x07: Somebody Loves You (with Kurt) 6x13: Daydream Believer (with Kurt) Group Features: 2x06: Teenage Dream 2x09: Hey Soul Sister 2x11: Bills, Bills, Bills 2x12: When I Get You Alone 2x12: Silly Love Songs 2x16: Misery 2x16: Raise Your Glass 3x08: Control 3x11: Bad 3x13: Love Shack 5x02: Hey Jude 5x11: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For Follow us on Twitter: @choirroompod E-mail us! Feedback, ideas, fact-checks, anything! choirroompodcast@gmail.com Want to help financially support the show? paypal.me/choirroompodcast

Baby. Back. Biiiitch. We descend into the first of our final 3 characters with Blaine Anderson, a.k.a. Blaine Warbler. For part three, we discuss season 5 and 6 of Blaine's journey as he heads for NY and then back to Lima again on the way to his ultimate goals. At the end, we take all of Blaine's featured songs and reveal the final rankings based on voting from both hosts as well as anyone who participated in the song surveys! For part three, you'll hear #20-1 of Kurt's song rankings.   The 68 songs up for discussion in the rankings are: Solos: 2x18: Somewhere Only We Know 2x20: I’m Not Gonna Teach Your BF 3x01: It’s Not Unusual 3x02: Something’s Coming 3x04: Last Friday Night 3x11: Wanna Be Starting Something 3x14: Cough Syrup 3x15: Fighter 3x16: You Should Be Dancing 3x17: It’s Not Right But It’s Okay 4x01: It’s Time 4x03: Everybody Wants to Rule the World 4x04: Teenage Dream 4x05: Hopelessly Devoted To You 4x06: Beauty School Dropout 4x07: My Dark Side 4x13: Don’t Stop Me Now 4x17: Against All Odd (Take a Look at Me Now) 5x01: All You Need Is Love 5x06: Piano Man 5x07: You’re My Best Friend 5x15: Not While I’m Around 5x20: All of Me Duets: 2x10: Baby It’s Cold Outside (with Kurt) 2x14: Don’t You Want Me (with Rachel) 2x15: Animal (with Kurt) 2x16: Candles (with Kurt) 3x05: Tonight (with Rachel) 3x05: One Hand, One Heart (with Rachel) 3x07: Perfect (with Kurt) 3x09: Extraordinary Merry Christmas (with Rachel) 3x09: Let It Snow (with Kurt) 3x15: Hungry Like the Wolf/Rio (with Cooper) 3x15: Somebody That I Used to Know (with Cooper) 4x02: Boys/Boyfriend (with Artie) 4x04: Barely Breathing (with Finn) 4x07: Heroes (with Sam) 4x10: White Christmas (with Kurt) 4x14: Just Can’t Get Enough (with Blaine) 4x15: Shout (with Brittany) 4x15: Come What May (with Brittany) 4x16: I Still Believe/Super Bass (with Sue) 4x17: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (with Sam) 4x22: All or Nothing (with Marley) 5x01: Got To Get You Into My Life (with Kurt) 5x01: Help (with Sam) 5x06: Movin’ Out (with Sam) 5x11: More Than a Feeling (with Tina) 5x14: You Make Me Feel So Young (with Kurt) 5x14: Best Day of My Life (with Sam) 5x15: Broadway Baby (with Rachel) 5x17: Love is a Battlefield (with Kurt) 5x18: Story of My Life (with Kurt) 5x18: Piece of My Heart (with June) 5x20: No Time At All (with June) 5x20: American Boy (with Kurt) 6x01: Suddenly Seymour (with Rachel) 6x03: It’s Too Late (with Kurt) 6x07: Somebody Loves You (with Kurt) 6x13: Daydream Believer (with Kurt) Group Features: 2x06: Teenage Dream 2x09: Hey Soul Sister 2x11: Bills, Bills, Bills 2x12: When I Get You Alone 2x12: Silly Love Songs 2x16: Misery 2x16: Raise Your Glass 3x08: Control 3x11: Bad 3x13: Love Shack 5x02: Hey Jude 5x11: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For Follow us on Twitter: @choirroompod E-mail us! Feedback, ideas, fact-checks, anything! choirroompodcast@gmail.com Want to help financially support the show? paypal.me/choirroompodcast

Our analysis of "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" by the legendary George Michael and equally as important bandmate Andrew Ridgeley

Magnus von Keil war bei uns zu Gast - ebenso wie Herr von Keil. Beide eint ein junges Herz und all die Inkarnationen als Schauspieler, Sprecher, Autor und Moderator. Wir Ihr im Laufe der Folge hören werdet, sind Magnus und Herr (von Keil) nicht immer happy miteinander, aber so recht ohne einander können sie auch nicht. Wie er zum DJ am Oberurffer Spring Break wurde und all die Persönlichkeiten im Laufe der Jahre ansammelte, erfahrt Ihr in dieser Folge. Wir wünschen Gute Unterhaltung! Magnus Social Media: - Website: http://www.herrvonkeil.com - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HerrvonKeil - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/herrvonkeil/ - Twitter: @HerrVonKeil - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/HerrvonKeil Magnus' peinlichste Platte: - Cynthia "Klingel' schon, Telefon!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr5BDVG5YxQ Magnus' 5 Songs für die Insel: - Freddie Mercury "Love Kills" (CBS, 1984) - Cyndi Lauper "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (Portrait, 1983) - Peter Godwin "Images Of Heaven" (Polydor, 1982) - Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" (Columbia, 1983) - Annie Lennox "Love Song For A Vampire" (RCA, 1992) Links: Nordhessen: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordhessen Documenta: https://www.documenta.de Oberurff: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberurff-Schiffelborn Spring Break: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Break Spot, Kassel: https://www.hna.de/kassel/sich-einfach-nicht-mehr-rentiert-951134.html Technics SL-1210 MK2: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technics_SL-1200 French House: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_House Daft Punk "High Life": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoQN7K6HdRw Tavares "Break Down For Love": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ca2eAH9co&feature=emb_title "Choose Life", "Frankie Says Relax" - Slogan Shirt: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/19/slogan-t-shirts-hamnett Katharine Hamnett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Hamnett Wham! "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELflyACZXQQ Stermann & Grissemann: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stermann_%26_Grissemann Herr von Keil ist "Ganz bei sich": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNvOv4N3Vks&list=PLVx-_hoOHSNGa8MejMcU4LbewSRFbK5yd SchwuZ, Berlin: https://www.schwuz.de Grüße aus dem Risikogebiet-Postkarten: https://www.tip-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/image001.jpg Rick Astley @ SchwuZ: https://ok.ru/video/263224822439 Südblock: https://www.suedblock.org/wp/?doing_wp_cron=1613340686.4934079647064208984375 The Damned @ SchwuZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDwO0nN3lWM Radiopreis 2017: https://youtu.be/U2tC1R3jxcE?t=7489 Janet & Michael Jackson "Scream": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P4A1K4lXDo Lasse Hallström: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasse_Hallström "Raritäten des Grauens": https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/mofr1013/raritaeten-des-grauens/ Juliane Werding "Am Tag, Als Conny Kramer Starb": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Sw7UKbtE4 The Band "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w69ZVHpjYAk Magnus von Keil in der IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9477387/ Magnus von Keil "Homophobe Mean Tweet-Hymne": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jia_hA6o1a4&feature=emb_logo Magnus von Keil feat Sharleen Voyage & Ausgeh Dörte "Quarantäne": https://fb.watch/3JmneQbuKH/ James Blunt auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesblunt Lonnie "Angelika Vom Fernsehen Der DDR": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwhfvoTdTU Marie Fredriksson († 9. Dezember 2019) https://www.discogs.com/artist/281602-Marie-Fredriksson Per Gessle "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMJWprGxlQ Unser Studio: https://andendecks.de/addcast-studio/ #andendecks #djpodcast #magnusvonkeil #herrvonkeil #thedirkness #djthomashaak #podcast #djlife #berlin #friedrichshain #addcast #podcaststudioberlin #podcaststudio

Guppy face... Trouty mouth... Is that how people's lips look where you come from in the South?   It's time to get into all things Sam Evans. Kicking off this three-part Sam Evans series, in part one we'll discuss Sam in seasons 2 and 3 as he joins the Glee club and begins dating almost everyone. At the end, we take all of Sam's featured songs and reveal the final rankings based on voting from both hosts as well as anyone who participated in the song surveys! For part one, you'll hear #21-30 of Sam's song rankings.   The 30 songs up for discussion in the rankings are: Solos: 2x13: Baby 3x08: Red Solo Cup 3x12: Bamboleo/Hero 4x10: Jingle Bell Rock 4x17: Copacabana 5x02: Something 5x20: Girls On Film 6x06: They Long To Be Close To You   Duets: 2x01: Billionaire (with Artie) 2x04: Lucky (with Quinn) 2x09: I’ve Had The Time of My Life (with Quinn) 2x13: Somebody to Love (with Artie) 3x11: Human Nature (with Mercedes) 4x03: Celebrity Skin (with Brittany) 4x07: Heroes (with Blaine) 4x09: Something Stupid (with Brittany) 4x13: Make No Mistake, She’s Mine (with Santana) 4x17: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (with Blaine) 4x18: More Than Words (with Brittany) 4x20: You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling (with Ryder) 5x01: Help (with Blaine) 5x03: Fire and Rain (with Artie) 5x06: Movin’ Out (with Blaine) 5x14: Best Day of My Life (with Blaine) 5x19: Werewolves of London (with Artie) 6x04: Thousand Miles (with Rachel) 6x06: I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (with Rachel) 6x07: Time After Time (with Rachel) Group Features: 3x10: Summer Nights 4x12: Centerfold/Hot In Here Follow us on Twitter: @choirroompod E-mail us! Feedback, ideas, fact-checks, anything! choirroompodcast@gmail.com Want to help financially support the show? paypal.me/choirroompodcast

Continuing this three-part Sam Evans series, in part two we'll discuss Sam in seasons 4 and 5 as he takes on his senior year alongside his pals. At the end, we take all of Sam's featured songs and reveal the final rankings based on voting from both hosts as well as anyone who participated in the song surveys! For part two, you'll hear #11-20 of Sam's song rankings.   The 30 songs up for discussion in the rankings are: Solos: 2x13: Baby 3x08: Red Solo Cup 3x12: Bamboleo/Hero 4x10: Jingle Bell Rock 4x17: Copacabana 5x02: Something 5x20: Girls On Film 6x06: They Long To Be Close To You   Duets: 2x01: Billionaire (with Artie) 2x04: Lucky (with Quinn) 2x09: I’ve Had The Time of My Life (with Quinn) 2x13: Somebody to Love (with Artie) 3x11: Human Nature (with Mercedes) 4x03: Celebrity Skin (with Brittany) 4x07: Heroes (with Blaine) 4x09: Something Stupid (with Brittany) 4x13: Make No Mistake, She’s Mine (with Santana) 4x17: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (with Blaine) 4x18: More Than Words (with Brittany) 4x20: You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling (with Ryder) 5x01: Help (with Blaine) 5x03: Fire and Rain (with Artie) 5x06: Movin’ Out (with Blaine) 5x14: Best Day of My Life (with Blaine) 5x19: Werewolves of London (with Artie) 6x04: Thousand Miles (with Rachel) 6x06: I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (with Rachel) 6x07: Time After Time (with Rachel) Group Features: 3x10: Summer Nights 4x12: Centerfold/Hot In Here Follow us on Twitter: @choirroompod E-mail us! Feedback, ideas, fact-checks, anything! choirroompodcast@gmail.com Want to help financially support the show? paypal.me/choirroompodcast

Finishing out our three-part Sam Evans series, in part three we'll discuss Sam in seasons 5 and 6 as he takes on NYC for some modeling and then returns back home to Ohio for some.... something. At the end, we take all of Sam's featured songs and reveal the final rankings based on voting from both hosts as well as anyone who participated in the song surveys! For part three, you'll hear #1-10 of Sam's song rankings!   The 30 songs up for discussion in the rankings are: Solos: 2x13: Baby 3x08: Red Solo Cup 3x12: Bamboleo/Hero 4x10: Jingle Bell Rock 4x17: Copacabana 5x02: Something 5x20: Girls On Film 6x06: They Long To Be Close To You   Duets: 2x01: Billionaire (with Artie) 2x04: Lucky (with Quinn) 2x09: I’ve Had The Time of My Life (with Quinn) 2x13: Somebody to Love (with Artie) 3x11: Human Nature (with Mercedes) 4x03: Celebrity Skin (with Brittany) 4x07: Heroes (with Blaine) 4x09: Something Stupid (with Brittany) 4x13: Make No Mistake, She’s Mine (with Santana) 4x17: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (with Blaine) 4x18: More Than Words (with Brittany) 4x20: You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling (with Ryder) 5x01: Help (with Blaine) 5x03: Fire and Rain (with Artie) 5x06: Movin’ Out (with Blaine) 5x14: Best Day of My Life (with Blaine) 5x19: Werewolves of London (with Artie) 6x04: Thousand Miles (with Rachel) 6x06: I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (with Rachel) 6x07: Time After Time (with Rachel) Group Features: 3x10: Summer Nights 4x12: Centerfold/Hot In Here Follow us on Twitter: @choirroompod E-mail us! Feedback, ideas, fact-checks, anything! choirroompodcast@gmail.com Want to help financially support the show? paypal.me/choirroompodcast

Michaelangelo Matos is the author of "The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America" and "Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year." "Can't Slow Down" is the definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenesEverybody knows the hits of 1984 – pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves – until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music.Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large – one hit at a time.Michaelangelo has also written for MixMag, Pitchfork, the New Yorker, GQ, NPR and a variety of other publications. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota . Learn more about Lyte. Subscribe, listen, share and review Spot Lyte On. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaelangelo Matos is the author of "The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America" and "Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year." "Can't Slow Down" is the definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenesEverybody knows the hits of 1984 – pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves – until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music.Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large – one hit at a time.Michaelangelo has also written for MixMag, Pitchfork, the New Yorker, GQ, NPR and a variety of other publications. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota . Learn more about Lyte. Subscribe, listen, share and review Spot Lyte On.

RSVP HERE to join us on 1/15 at 10amPT for a live taping with Michaelangelo Matos. Michaelangelo Matos is the writer of the book, "Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year" . The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenesEverybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves - until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music.Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time.RSVP HERE to join us on 1/15 at 10amPT for a live taping with Michaelangelo Matos.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

RSVP HERE to join us on 1/15 at 10amPT for a live taping with Michaelangelo Matos. Michaelangelo Matos is the writer of the book, "Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year" . The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenesEverybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves - until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music.Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time.RSVP HERE to join us on 1/15 at 10amPT for a live taping with Michaelangelo Matos. 

RHOZ Podcast - 24-11-2020 [00:00:00] 6:00 am - RHOZ [00:01:17] Rascal Flatts - Me And My Gang [00:04:52] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [00:04:56] 063 - 063 - Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon [00:09:01] Hall & Oates - Private Eyes [00:12:17] Garth Brooks - More Than A Memory [00:15:34] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [00:15:40] 016 - 016 - Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze [00:18:18] Heaven 17 - Let Me Go [00:22:30] Keith Urban - I Told You So [00:26:50] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [00:27:05] 031 - 031 - Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love [00:32:34] Supertramp - 03 - The Logical Song [00:36:28] Joe Nichols - It Ain't No Crime [00:40:02] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [00:40:05] 156 - 156 - The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb [00:43:43] Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax [00:47:33] Chris Ledoux - The Rodeo Song (piss me off) [00:48:44] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [00:48:47] 447 - 447 - The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [00:52:09] David Bowie - Let's Dance [00:56:09] Brad Paisley - Mud On The Tires [00:59:35] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [00:59:41] 034 - 034 - The Kinks - You Really Got Me [01:01:52] Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go [01:05:34] Rascal Flatts - Me And My Gang [01:09:08] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [01:09:12] 178 - 178 - Grand Funk Railroad - Some Kind Of Wonderful [01:12:28] 2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone [01:16:29] Chris Ledoux - 8 second ride [01:19:55] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [01:20:01] 097 - 097- The Who - Who Are You [01:26:14] Dean Martin - That's Amore [01:29:18] 02 Whiskey Girl.mp3 [01:33:12] Dj Fritz enjoy weekend.m4a [01:33:17] 190 - 190 - Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music [01:36:56] Donna Summer - Hot Stuff [01:39:51] Billy Ray Cyrus - Busy Man [01:43:05] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [01:43:09] 352 - 352 - Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill [01:47:24] Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun [01:51:04] Taylor Swift - A Place in This World [01:54:21] Dj Fritz enjoy weekend.m4a [01:54:27] 315 - 315 - The Beatles - Penny Lane [01:57:24] Soup Dragons - I'm Free [02:01:10] BROOKS & DUNN - Neon Moon [02:05:23] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [02:05:26] 105 - 105 - Paul Mccartney & Wings - Band on the Run [02:10:34] Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer [02:15:43] AARON LEWIS - Country Boy [02:20:24] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [02:20:30] 415 - 415 - Electric Light Orchestra - Strange Magic [02:24:51] Company B - Fascinated [02:29:36] Josh Turner - Why Don't We Just Dance [02:32:46] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [02:32:52] 119 - 119 - Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion [02:37:47] Deana Carter - We Danced Anyway [02:41:00] Corb Lund Band - Big Butch Bass Bull Fiddle [02:43:12] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [02:43:15] 107 - 107 - Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper [02:48:09] Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love [02:50:39] Billy Ray Cyrus - Wanna Be Your Joe [02:53:51] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [02:53:55] 348 - 348 - The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night [02:56:18] Newcleus - 11B - Jam On It See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

RHOZ Podcast - 23-10-2020 [00:00:00] 6:00 am - RHOZ [00:02:09] Garth Brooks - Rodeo [00:05:56] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [00:06:02] 110 - 110 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Karn Evil 9 [00:10:42] Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go [00:14:24] Diamond Rio - What Might Have Been [00:18:19] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [00:18:21] 348 - 348 - The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night [00:20:44] Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way [00:25:42] Toby Keith - I Love This Bar [00:29:39] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [00:29:46] 426 - 426 - The Beatles - Norwegian Wood [00:31:46] Alabama - The Cheap Seats [00:35:29] Garth Brooks - Thunder Rolls [00:39:10] All hits weekend [00:39:15] 110 - 110 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Karn Evil 9 [00:43:55] Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart [00:47:40] Billy Currington - That's How Country Boys Roll [00:51:21] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [00:51:25] 007 - 10A - Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb [00:57:43] Duran Duran - Rio [01:03:08] Alan Jackson - Sissy's Song [01:06:07] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [01:06:11] 021 - 021 - Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin [01:13:44] Stevie Wonder - Superstition [01:18:09] Craig Morgan - International Harvester [01:21:56] All hits weekend [01:22:01] 134 - 134 - The Beatles - Help! [01:24:16] Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) [01:28:58] Chris Ledoux - The Rodeo Song (piss me off) [01:30:08] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [01:30:12] 133 - 133 - Traffic - Low Spark Of The High-Heeled Boys [01:41:32] The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated [01:43:59] Little Big Town - Fine Line [01:47:56] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [01:48:02] 267 - 267 - Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner [01:51:25] Alan Jackson - Little Bitty [01:53:57] Tim McGraw - My Little Girl (FATHER-DAUGHTER DANCE) [01:57:31] All hits weekend [01:57:37] 485 - 485 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Susie Q [02:02:00] Buddy Holly - That'll Be The Day [02:04:13] Luke Combs - Beer Never Broke My Heart [02:07:21] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [02:07:24] 238 - 238 - Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy [02:10:28] Little Texas - Kick A Little [02:14:07] Kenny Chesney - Don't Blink [02:18:17] All hits weekend [02:18:22] 140 - 140 - David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust [02:21:28] Jon Secada - Just Another Day [02:26:15] Alan Jackson - Drive (For Daddy Gene) [02:30:15] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [02:30:18] 324 - 324 - Uriah Heep - Easy Livin' [02:32:52] Vicki Sue Robinson - Turn The Beat Around [02:38:10] Lost In This Moment - Big & Rich [02:41:38] Dj Fritz enjoy weekend.m4a [02:41:44] 385 - 385 - Kinks - Celluloid Heroes [02:47:57] Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama [02:52:29] Emerson Drive - A Good Man [02:55:22] Dj Fritz enjoy weekend.m4a [02:55:28] 484 - 484 - Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London [02:58:44] Chris Isaak - Wiched Game See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

RHOZ Podcast - 27-9-2020 [00:00:00] 6:00 am - RHOZ [00:00:17] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [00:00:23] 054 - 054 - The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For the Devil [00:06:37] Starship - We Built This City [00:11:06] Eric Church - Smoke A Little Smoke [00:14:13] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [00:14:19] 397 - 397 - Chicago - Make Me Smile [00:18:40] Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody [00:24:23] Trace Adkins - Marry For Money [00:27:23] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [00:27:27] 182 - 182 - Cream - Strange Brew [00:30:11] The Champs - Tequila [00:32:18] Brad Paisley - Im Gonna Miss Her [00:35:29] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [00:35:35] 084 - 084 - Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way [00:39:08] Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual [00:41:03] Tim McGraw - Real Good Man [00:45:12] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [00:45:16] 197 - 197 - The Beatles - Eight Days A Week [00:47:56] John Berry - Your Love Amazes Me [00:51:32] Brad Paisley - Waitin On A Woman [00:55:59] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [00:56:05] 233 - 233 - Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla [00:59:44] The Beach Boys - Kokomo [01:03:12] Miley Cyrus & Billy Ray Cyrus - Get Ready, Get Set, Don't Go [01:06:56] Dj Fritz enjoy weekend.m4a [01:07:03] 138 - 138 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down On The Corner [01:09:37] Kenny Rogers - Through The Years [01:13:51] Taylor Swift - Our Song [01:17:10] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [01:17:14] 421 - 421 - Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town [01:21:35] Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go [01:25:16] Emerson Drive - Moments [01:30:08] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [01:30:12] 434 - 434 - Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes [01:33:34] Live - Lightning Crashes [01:37:52] Diamond Rio - God Only Cries [01:41:46] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [01:41:49] 366 - 366 - The Boxtops - The Letter [01:43:36] Chaka Khan - I Feel For You [01:47:35] Darius Rucker - History In The Making [01:51:01] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [01:51:04] 434 - 434 - Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes [01:54:26] Supertramp - 03 - It's Raining Again [01:58:44] Tim McGraw - My Little Girl (FATHER-DAUGHTER DANCE) [02:02:19] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [02:02:22] 235 - 235 - Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home [02:05:32] Dwight Yoakam - Pocket Of A Clown [02:08:22] AARON LEWIS - Country Boy [02:13:03] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [02:13:07] 074 - 074 - Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love [02:16:02] Steam - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye [02:20:01] Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying [02:24:50] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [02:24:54] 224 - 224 - Animals - We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place [02:28:02] The Monkees - I'm A Believer [02:30:41] Trace Adkins - I Like My Women A Little trashy [02:33:54] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [02:33:57] 224 - 224 - Animals - We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place [02:37:06] Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Heatwave [02:39:45] Alan Jackson - Little Bitty [02:42:19] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [02:42:23] 211 - 211 - The Rolling Stones - Angie [02:46:53] Alan Jackson - Chattahoochee [02:49:15] Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party [02:53:55] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [02:53:59] 198 - 198 - Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman [02:58:13] The Contours - Do You Love Me See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

RHOZ Podcast - 19-8-2020 [00:00:00] 6:00 am - RHOZ [00:01:20] Little Big Town - Good As Gone [00:05:28] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [00:05:32] 255 - 255 - Cat Stevens - Peace Train [00:09:26] Amber - This Is Your Night [00:13:17] Rodney Adkins - My Little Buckaroo [00:17:08] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [00:17:14] 169 - 169 - Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever [00:20:46] Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money [00:24:48] Rascal Flatts - Me And My Gang [00:28:22] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [00:28:28] 051 - 051 - Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [00:31:37] The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud To Beg [00:34:05] Brad Paisley - Waitin On A Woman [00:38:31] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [00:38:36] 382 - 382 - Rush - Tom Sawyer [00:43:05] Richard Marx - 9B - Right Here Waiting [00:47:23] Little Big Town - A thousand years [00:51:11] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [00:51:15] 469 - 469 - Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia [00:54:25] Jody Watley - Looking For A New Love [00:58:18] Florida Georgia Line - Get your shine on [01:01:45] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [01:01:48] 420 - 420 - Rick Derringer - Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo [01:05:28] J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame [01:09:18] Diamond Rio - That's How Your Love........ [01:13:17] All hits weekend [01:13:23] 350 - 350 - Heart - Barracuda [01:17:42] Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Free Fallin' [01:21:46] Toby Keith - She's A Hottie [01:24:51] All hits weekend [01:24:56] 033 - 033 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here [01:30:25] Blue Rodeo - Try [01:34:23] Rodney Atkins - These Are My People [01:37:48] All hits weekend Dj Fritz [01:37:52] 196 - 196 - The Firm - Radioactive [01:40:32] The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA [01:42:52] Sugarland - Stay [01:47:29] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [01:47:32] 022 - 022 - Led Zeppelin - Kashmir [01:55:55] The Alan Parsons Project - Sirius [01:57:46] Kenny Chesney - Summertime [02:01:05] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [02:01:09] 251 - 251 - Led Zeppelin - Trampled Under Foot [02:06:41] George Michael - Father Figure [02:12:16] Alan Jackson - Small Town Southern Man [02:16:53] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [02:16:57] 084 - 084 - Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way [02:20:29] The KLF - 3 AM Eternal [02:23:58] Little Big Town - Don't Waste My Time [02:26:44] All hits weekend [02:26:49] 333 - 333 - Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me [02:30:33] Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go [02:34:15] Sam Hunt - House Party [02:37:22] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [02:37:28] 007 - 10A - Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb [02:43:40] Betty Boo - Doin' The Doo [02:47:14] Alan Jackson - She's Got Her Daddy's Money [02:50:12] All hits weekend [02:50:17] 254 - 254 - Mountain - Mississippi Queen [02:52:46] ZZ Top - La Grange [02:56:27] Taylor Swift - You Belong to Me See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

RHOZ Podcast - 29-7-2020 [00:00:00] 6:00 am - RHOZ [00:00:13] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [00:00:19] 388 - 388 - Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street [00:04:07] Randy Travis - Forever And Ever, Amen [00:07:33] Little Big Town - Good As Gone [00:11:41] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [00:11:47] 339 - 339 - The Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud [00:14:37] Spin Doctors - Two Princes [00:18:45] Tim McGraw - My Little Girl (FATHER-DAUGHTER DANCE) [00:22:20] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [00:22:25] 022 - 022 - Led Zeppelin - Kashmir [00:30:48] Bob Marley - One Love [00:33:31] Brad Paisley - She Said Yes [00:36:51] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [00:36:57] 435 - 435 - Queen - Tie Your Mother Down [00:41:40] Salt-N-Pepa - Push It [00:46:03] Chris Ledoux - 8 second ride [00:49:30] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [00:49:33] 413 - 413 - Jethro Tull - Cross-Eyed Mary [00:53:37] Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer [00:58:26] Billy Ray Cyrus - Back To Tennessee [01:02:37] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [01:02:43] 395 - 395 - Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff [01:07:01] Phil Collins - Sussudio [01:11:13] Josh Thompson - Beer On The Table [01:14:20] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [01:14:26] 053 - 053 - The Doors - Touch Me [01:17:34] The KLF - 3 AM Eternal [01:21:02] Trailer Choir - Rockin' the Beer Gut [01:24:13] Dj Fritz enjoy weekend.m4a [01:24:19] 011 - 011 - Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll [01:27:57] Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination [01:31:32] Garth Brooks - Thunder Rolls [01:35:13] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [01:35:17] 304 - 304 - The Band - Up On Cripple Creek [01:39:43] Ottawan - Hands Up [01:45:09] Trace Adkins - I Like My Women A Little trashy [01:48:22] All hits weekend [01:48:27] 273 - 273 - Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven [01:52:52] Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up [01:56:19] Little Big Town - A thousand years [02:00:06] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [02:00:11] 135 - 135 - Elton John - Crockodile Rock [02:04:00] Elton John - Your Song [02:07:54] Joe Nichols - Tequilla Makes Her Clothes Fall Off [02:11:01] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [02:11:04] 100 - 100 - Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down [02:15:00] Colin James - Voodoo Thing [02:18:28] Little Big Town - Bones [02:22:11] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [02:22:15] 224 - 224 - Animals - We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place [02:25:25] The Cars - Shake It Up [02:28:50] Lost In This Moment - Big & Rich [02:32:18] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [02:32:24] 056 - 056 - Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown [02:34:46] Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go [02:38:28] Miley Cyrus & Billy Ray Cyrus - Get Ready, Get Set, Don't Go [02:42:13] Dj Fritz enjoy weekend.m4a [02:42:18] 007 - 10A - Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb [02:48:31] Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance [02:54:05] GARTH BROOKS - Two Pina Coladas [02:57:35] All hits weekend [02:57:40] 336 - 336 - Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood [02:59:59] Billy Idol - Rebel Yell See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

RHOZ Podcast - 9-5-2020 [00:00:00] 6:00 am - RHOZ [00:00:31] Trace Adkins - Ladies Love Country Boys [00:04:08] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [00:04:11] 216 - 216 - ACDC - You Shook Me All Night Long [00:07:40] Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go [00:11:22] Brad Paisley - Mud On The Tires [00:14:48] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [00:14:53] 147 - 147 - Edgar Winter Group - Free Ride [00:17:57] Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love [00:20:51] Garth Brooks - Ain't Going Down Till the Sun [00:25:20] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [00:25:26] 473 - 473 - The Eagles - One Of These Nights [00:30:08] Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls [00:33:58] Billy Ray Cirus - Could Have Been Me [00:37:40] Dj Fritz enjoy weekend.m4a [00:37:46] 039 - 039 - The Beatles - Let It Be [00:41:31] Dean Martin - That's Amore [00:44:35] Alan Jackson - Margaritaville [00:48:48] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [00:48:55] 240 - 240 - Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth [00:51:26] Green Day - Basket Case [00:54:21] Zac Brown Band - Got Whatever It Is [00:57:27] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [00:57:31] 412 - 412 - Cream - Badge [01:00:10] Tone-Loc - Funky Cold Medina [01:04:15] Billy Ray Cyrus - Wanna Be Your Joe [01:07:28] Dj Fritz enjoy weekend.m4a [01:07:34] 157 - 157 - Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song [01:09:55] Tracy Byrd - Watermelon Crawl [01:12:53] Sugarland - Something More [01:16:26] Dj Fritz enjoy weekend.m4a [01:16:32] 404 - 404 - Elton John - Madman Across The Water [01:22:17] Duran Duran - 8A - Girls On Fun [01:25:38] Jerry Reed - East Bound and Down [01:28:21] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [01:28:24] 296 - 296 - Styx - Renegade [01:32:26] Coolio - 9B - Fantastic Voyage [01:37:56] Kenny Chesney - Summertime [01:41:15] Dj Fritz Live2.m4a [01:41:19] 236 - 236 - The Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man [01:44:25] Ready For The World - Oh Sheila [01:48:24] Dwight Yoakam - Crazy Little Thing Called Love [01:50:41] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [01:50:47] 041 - 041 - Led Zeppelin - Black Dog [01:55:32] Tears For Fears - Shout [02:00:13] Corb Lund - Always Keep An Edge On Your Kn [02:03:25] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [02:03:28] 418 - 418 - Focus - Hocus Pocus [02:10:04] The Troggs - Wild Thing [02:12:34] John Denver - Thank God I'm A Country Boy [02:15:51] Dj Fritz all greatest hits.m4a [02:15:58] 188 - 188 - Jackson Browne - Running On Empty [02:20:46] John Michael Montgomery - Life's A Dance [02:23:45] Confederate Railroad - Queen of Memphis [02:27:02] Dj Fritz enjoy weekend.m4a [02:27:08] 372 - 372 - Alice Cooper - School's Out [02:30:33] Earth Wind & Fire - September '99 [02:34:11] Montgomery Gentry - Lucky Man [02:37:24] Dj Fritz stay safe.m4a [02:37:30] 202 - 202 - Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way [02:42:00] The Beach Boys - 4A - Good Vibrations [02:45:31] Billy Ray Cyrus - Wanna Be Your Joe [02:48:44] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [02:48:47] 434 - 434 - Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes [02:52:10] The Everly Brothers - 11B - Bye Bye Love [02:54:20] Corb Lund - Always Keep An Edge On Your Kn [02:57:31] Dj Fritz Live.m4a [02:57:34] 444 - 444 - Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky

Switchfoot hardly needs an introduction in San Diego, but the Grammy-award winning hometown band has enjoyed several chart-busting hits, is beloved by millions of fans worldwide and always makes a point to give back to the community at large, especially here in town. Their annual Switchfoot Bro-Am surf/music charity festival has become a local tradition, but, sadly, this year's edition was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic (read the SoundDiego article on it here). You can't keep a good band down, however, and while the fest isn't happening, Switchfoot has set up a COVID-19 relief fund here in its place that donates proceeds to Feeding San Diego. Contribute here if you can -- and you may qualify for a matching donation. Stay up-to-date with the band at Switchfoot.com.Listen/subscribe to the SoundDiego Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform: Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | StitcherEpisode 9 Show Notes:PSA: Drew needs a nickname! If you think of a good one for him, leave a comment or send us a message — he may just adopt it!During the lockdown, Switchfoot has still been connecting with fans by posting videos of home performances. Here's a rendition of the song "Love Alone Is Worth the Fight."The first proper album that Drew purchased was the time-honored rock n' roll classic "Sports," by Huey Lewis & the News. Rolling Stone talked with Huey on the album's legacy.If, like us, you're sad that 2020 won't have a Bro-Am festival, relive all the beach/music glory with our SoundDiego photos from 2017 here. Already looking forward to 2021!Drew's go-to karaoke song is Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" and we gotta admit: It's a bold choice! Here's the cover he mentioned on the show of the song as performed by Switchfoot.As if you needed a reminder on Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go," turn your eyeballs to the video here and get a major pick-me-up.In case you heard A or B Side and were wondering: No, Eric Wilson (from Sublime) and Patrick Wilson (from Weezer) are not related, they just both happen to live in the San Diego area.The episode's Spotlight artist of the week is Doom Bloom! If you enjoyed the thick, hearty slab of shoegaze-y post-rock courtesy of "E.L.K.," head over to DoomBloom.com to hear/watch more and purchase some music — and also be sure to catch 'em at a local show when the world gets (somewhat) back to normal. Follow them on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.Join us for a new episode of the SoundDiego Podcast every Saturday morning. Upcoming guests on the pod include Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler, Soda Bar's Cory Stier, the B-Side Players' Karlos Paez and Verbatim Book's Justine Epstein! Thanks for listening, and until next time, enjoy the music.If you enjoyed this episode of the SoundDiego Podcast, subscribe, rate and review us on your favorite podcasting platform:Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | StitcherThe SoundDiego Podcast is executive-produced by Eric S. Page, and hosted/edited by Dustin Lothspeich (reach him here).

Careless Whisper and Wake Me Up Before You Go Go are two very different songs and videosfrom 80s London music duo Wham! The combo of Andrew Ridgeley and George Michaelcreated beautiful music together, but what about their videos? Brian and Christina take ashallow dive and revisit both. How much neon is too much neon? How short is too short onshorts? And why isn’t Andrew in Careless Whisper? These questions and more will be asked(but not necessarily answered) by our fearless Old Roommates. Listen to this.Follow Old Roommates on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram @OldRoommates, and email us at oldroommatespod@gmail.com. And, of course, rate, review and subscribe on iTunes, Spotify & wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Topics: Air Jordans, Whitney Houston, Sade, The Color Purple, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Phylicia Rashad (Bonus Artist: Luck Pacheco)   1985 Notes   General Snapshots   1.    President: Ronald Reagan   2.    Jan – In Hollywood,  California, the charity single "We  Are the World" is recorded by USA for  Africa. The  single raises money to combat the  ongoing famine in Ethiopia. The  American act consists of high-profile  performers, including Michael  Jackson, Lionel Richie, Tina Turner,  Cyndi Lauper and Diana Ross.   3.    Jan – The newest music video channel, VH-1, begins broadcasting on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV. The first video played is Marvin Gaye's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner".   4.    Mar – WrestleMania debuts at Madison Square Garden.  In the main event, Hulk Hogan and Mr. T defeated Paul Orndorff and Roddy Piper. The attendance for the event was 19,121. The event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television, making it the largest pay-per-view showing of a wrestling event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time.   5.    Apr – Coca-Cola changes its recipe and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.   6.    Aug - Ryan White who was expelled from Western High School in Indiana is allowed to attend his first day of classes via telephone.   7.    Sep - The Farm Aid concert is held in Champaign, Illinois, USA.   8.    Oct  – The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in U.S. stores. By 1988, industry observers stated that the NES's popularity had grown so quickly that the market for Nintendo cartridges was larger than that for all home computer software.  The NES was released two years after the North American video game crash of 1983, when many retailers and adult consumers regarded electronic games as a passing fad. With the NES, Nintendo also changed the relationship between console manufacturers and third-party software developers by restricting developers from publishing and distributing software without licensed approval. This led to higher-quality games, which helped change the attitude of a public that had grown weary from poorly produced games for earlier systems.   9.    Nov - Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.   10.    Open Comments:   11.    Top 3 Pop Songs   12.    1    "Careless Whisper"    Wham!   13.    2    "Like a Virgin"    Madonna   14.    3    "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"    Wham!   15.    Grammy Awards   16.    Record of the Year: Quincy Jones (producer) for "We Are the World"   17.    Album of the Year: Phil Collins (producer & artist) for No Jacket Required   18.    Song of the Year: Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie (songwriters) for "We Are the World"   19.    Best New Artist: Sade   20.    Top 3 Movies   21.    Back to the Future   22.    Rambo: First Blood Part II   23.    Rocky IV   24.    Other Notables:  The Color Purple / Out of Africa / Cocoon / The Jewel of the Nile / Witness / The Goonies / Spies Like Us / The Breakfast Club / Brewster's Millions / St. Elmo's Fire /  Krush Groove   25.    Top 3 TV Shows   26.    The Cosby Show   27.    Family Ties   28.    Murder, She Wrote       29.    TV Debuts   30.    Sep - What's Happening Now!! / Stir Crazy   31.    Black Snapshots   32.    Feb -  Whitney Houston releases her debut  album – Whitney Houston.   33.    Mar  – Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first-round knockout.   34.    May - Michael Jordan is named as the NBA's "Rookie of the Year."   35.    May – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mayor Wilson Goode, the  first African American to hold that office,  orders police to storm the  headquarters of the black liberation/back-to-nature group MOVE to end a stand-off over serving arrest warrants. (Due process?!?!)  The police drop 2 explosive devices into the headquarters, killing 6 adults and 5 children, and destroyed an additional 61 residental homes in the resulting fire. The survivors filed a civil suit against the city and the police department, and were awarded $1.5 million in 1996.   36.    Jul - The final episode of The Jeffersons airs. (1975-) 10 yrs   37.    Aug - Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids  (1972-) 13 yrs   38.    Nov - Ebony Man: EM  Magazine launches   39.    Best Comedy Recording: Whoopi Goldberg - Original Broadway Show Recording   40.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: Aretha Franklin for "Freeway of Love"   41.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: Stevie Wonder for In Square Circle   42.    Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Commodores for "Nightshift"   43.    Economic Snapshot   44.    Avg. Income = $22,138   45.    House = $99,331   46.    New Car = $9,531   47.    Avg. Rent = $375   48.    Tuition at Harvard = $9,800   49.    Movie Ticket = $2.75   50.    Gas = $1.20   51.    Stamp = $0.22   52.    Socilal Scene: “Money, it's gotta be da shoes!” - Mars Blackmon   53.    The Air Jordan I was originally released in 1985 and is almost single-handedly responsible for modern-day sneaker culture. Michael Jordan originally wanted to sign with either Converse or Adidas. But Converse declined and according to a Wall Street Journal article published in 2015 so did Adidas. Still MJ was not convinced. Only when Nike, thinking they had nothing to loose, offered to give MJ his own shoe- and clothing line did he change his mind. This was unheard of at the time, no NBA player had an entire product line named after them. As the first basketball player with his own signature shoes Jordan would immediately become the king of basketball sneaker advertising. Just to be on the safe side Nike worked an out-clause into the contract: if Air Jordans didn’t earn Nike $3 million in the first 3 years, or if Jordan didn’t make the NBA All-Star Game in his first three years, Nike could dump him. Jordan was voted into the All-Star Game as a Rookie starter and the "Air Jordan 1" shoe made Nike $130 million in 1985 alone. The rest is history.   54.    Open Comments:   55.    The pushback and common critisisms   56.    Extremely superficial materialism is one of the only ways that many black Americans express a sense of self worth.    57.    When you live in a society where nobody has a savings account, or a college degree, or has traveled abroad, having a fresh pair of sneakers and a gold chain shouldn't be your version of keeping up with the Joneses.   58.    Liking shoes is as much of a "black thing" as liking chicken is a "black thing". Everyone likes both of these things.   59.    Open Comments:   60.    It became popular in the late 80s for people with moderate or low incomes to wear clothing adorned with the names and logos of luxury, high-end brands. Then all the luxury brands started making their own low-end, logo-covered versions. You wear your favorite sports team to affiliate yourself with them. It's the same thing with Tommy Hilfiger, Gucci, Jordache, Guess, Wrangler, Levi, Gitano, Bonjour, Sasson, etc., it's a way of signalling.   61.    Question: We went from tailored suits and dresses to baggy jeans and yoga pants. From afro's and braids to fashioned bandanas and bleached blondes. From the stylish Supremes and Tempations to tatooed  faces and pireced everytginhg. - What do you think is at the root of our decisions? Are we victims of advertising?   62.    Music Scene   63.    Black Songs from the Top 40 (No Lionel Richie showed up!)   64.    5    "I Feel for You"    Chaka Khan   65.    6    "Out of Touch"    Hall & Oates   66.    12    "Easy Lover"    Philip Bailey and Phil Collins   67.    17    "Cherish"    Kool & the Gang   68.    20    "We Are the World"    USA for Africa   69.    22    "Part-Time Lover"    Stevie Wonder   70.    23    "Saving All My Love For You"    Whitney Houston   71.    26    "Cool It Now"    New Edition   72.    28    "Loverboy"    Billy Ocean   73.    29    "Lovergirl"    Teena Marie   74.    31    "Oh Sheila"    Ready for the World   75.    32    "Rhythm of the Night"    DeBarge   76.    38    "Neutron Dance"    The Pointer Sisters   77.    40    "Nightshift"    Commodores   78.    Vote:   79.    Top RnB Singles   80.    Jan - "Operator"    Midnight Star   81.    Jan - "Gotta Get You Home Tonight"    Eugene Wilde   82.    Feb -  "Mr. Telephone Man"    New Edition   83.    Feb - "Missing You"    Diana Ross   84.    Mar - "Nightshift"    The Commodores   85.    Apr - "Back In Stride"    Maze featuring Frankie Beverly   86.    Apr - "Rhythm Of the Night"    DeBarge   87.    May - "We Are the World"    USA for Africa   88.    May - "Fresh"    Kool & the Gang   89.    May - "You Give Good Love"    Whitney Houston   90.    Jun - "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)"    Freddie Jackson   91.    Jul - "Hangin' on a String (Contemplating)"    Loose Ends   92.    Jul - "Save Your Love (For #1)"    René & Angela   93.    Aug - "Freeway of Love"    Aretha Franklin   94.    Sep - "Saving All My Love for You"    Whitney Houston   95.    Sep - "Cherish"    Kool & the Gang   96.    Sep - "Oh Sheila"    Ready For the World   97.    Oct - "You Are My Lady"    Freddie Jackson   98.    Oct - "Part-Time Lover"    Stevie Wonder   99.    Nov - "Caravan of Love"    Isley-Jasper-Isley   100.    Dec - "Don't Say No Tonight"    Eugene Wilde   101.    Vote:   102.    Top RnB Albums   103.    Jan - New Edition    New Edition   104.    Feb - Solid    Ashford & Simpson   105.    Mar - Gap Band VI    The Gap Band   106.    Mar p- Private Dancer    Tina Turner   107.    Apr - Nightshift    The Commodores   108.    Apr - Can't Stop the Love    Frankie Beverly and Maze   109.    May - The Night I Fell in Love    Luther Vandross   110.    Jun - Whitney Houston    Whitney Houston   111.    Jun - Rock Me Tonight    Freddie Jackson   112.    Nov - In Square Circle    Stevie Wonder   113.    Vote   114.    Featured Artists: Whitney Houston and Sade   115.    Whitney Elizabeth Houston, @22 yrs old: Singer, actress, model, and producer, Whitney Houston is one of the world’s most successful female entertainers of all time.   116.    Born and raised in Newark NJ,  she is the daughter of Grammy-award-winning gospel singer, Emily “Cissy” Houston and John R. Houston, who managed his daughter’s production company.    117.    Childhood & Early Life   118.    She was no stranger to the entertainment industry, having come from a line of singers and actresses. Not only did her mother’s vocal group, the ‘Sweet Inspirations’, sing backup for Aretha Franklin, but her cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick are also renowned singers, as well as her godmother, Darlene Love. She began performing in her church’s gospel choir as a soloist at the age of eleven and learned to play the piano. While attending Catholic school, she took voice lessons from her mother, with whom she would occasionally perform in nightclubs.   119.    Career   120.    In 1977 (@ 14 yrs old), she was a backup singer for Michael Zager Band’s single ‘Life’s a Party’ and the following year she sang on Chaka Khan’s single ‘I’m Every Woman’. She was offered an opportunity to sign with a recording company, but her mother declined so she would finish high school. In the early 1980s, (@17 yrs old), she worked as a model, appearing in several magazines including, ‘Seventeen’, where she became the first African American to be featured on the cover. She also took on acting gigs appearing in TV show episodes such as, ‘Gimme a Break’, while continuing to develop her vocal skills. In 1983,(@ 20yrs old) she was signed with ‘Arista Records’. President Clive Davis spent the next couple years assembling lyricists and producers to balance her gospel-like sound with contemporary melodies. In 1985, her debut album, ‘Whitney Houston’ gradually became the number one selling album of her career.  She went on to win two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards.   121.    Open Comments:   122.    A Hot Mess   123.    On February 11th, 2012, Whitney Houston (@ 48 yrs old) was found facedown in a bathtub.  Weeks later, an autopsy report would contribute Houston’s death to accidental drowning, heart disease and cocaine use. There were additional traces of a muscle relaxant, Xanax, marijuana and an allergy medication in the singer’s system.    124.    The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfall - Tara Brady [Jun 12, 2017] https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/the-sad-secret-life-of-whitney-houston-1.3105861   125.    Selected quotes from the article:   126.    What exactly killed Houston? Why did she drown? How did she drown? Was she simply overwhelmed by the controlling demands of her formidable mother, Cissy Houston, Svengali Clive Davis, and her record company, Arista? Did the aftermath of her toxic and co-dependent marriage to Bobby Brown send her spiralling? Or was it the dissolution of her decades-old lesbian relationship with her assistant Robyn Crawford? It’s complicated, as documentarian Nick Broomfield discovered.  “In the end I think the divide between who she was and what her public persona was became more and more difficult,” says  documentarian Nick Broomfield. “And she just went down,    127.    The imploding relations between Houston, Bobby Brown and Robyn Crawford. Brown told Us Weekly magazine that Houston was bisexual and that she once had an affair with Tupac Shakur. He went on to say that Houston kept her relationship with Crawford hidden because of Cissy. “I really feel that if Robyn was accepted into Whitney’s life, Whitney would still be alive today,” Brown told the magazine. “She didn’t have close friends with her anymore.”   128.    From Cissy’s notorious 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey:  “Would it have bothered you if your daughter was gay?”  “Absolutely,” Cissy snapped back. “You wouldn’t have condoned it?” continued an incredulous Oprah. “Not at all.” ...“I didn’t particularly like [Crawford],” Cissy told the talk show queen. “She just spoke too much, disrespectful sometimes, like she had something over Nippy (Houston’s nickname), and I didn’t like that at all. She was all right, she turned out to be all right, I guess. That was her friend.”   129.    Houston and Crawford first bonded while they were teenagers working at a community centre in East Orange, New Jersey. When Houston’s modelling career began to take off, she’d face bullying in school, and Crawford, who was originally a friend of Houston’s older brothers Michael and Gary, would frequently come to the rescue. When Houston moved out of her family home, she shared her first apartment with Crawford. Deep into Houston and Brown’s 14-year marriage, Crawford remained a fixture in Houston’s domestic arrangements.   130.    Houston’s marriage to Brown, understandably, made for an uneasy romantic trinity. In Derrick Handspike’s unauthorised 2008 biography, Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But . . ., the author quotes Brown as saying: “Now I realise Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married. I believe her agenda was to clean up her image while mine was to be loved and have children. “Whitney felt she had to make rumours of a lesbian affair go away. Since she was the American Sweetheart and all, that didn’t go too well with her image. In Whitney’s situation the only solution was to get married and have kids. That would kill all speculation whether it was true or not.”   131.    Supermarket tabloids did a brisk trade during the 1990s by peddling the idea that Houston’s life spiralled into addiction after she married Brown. She was the gospel-singing good girl – the church-going daughter of Cissy and a cousin of Dionne Warwick. He was a bad boy who, aged 20, when they first met, had already been shot and stabbed in the shoulder. Their tumultuous marriage (from 1992 to 2007), characterised by drug use, infidelity and a costly entourage, was seldom out of the headlines. But contrary to popular belief, Brown did not introduce his troubled wife to cocaine. Houston first dabbled with drugs with her brothers, Michael and Gary, as a teenager. The truth is that Houston was always as “street“ as her R&B star husband. But that part of her personal history didn’t fit with what Broomfield calls “the Whitney character”.  As Pattie Howard, Houston’s backing vocalist, notes: “People may not know it but Whitney was from the ‘hood’. They wanted to present her as the princess. And that’s what white America was presented with.” Kenneth Reynolds, who worked in marketing for Arista Records recalls that: “Anything that was too black sounding was sent back. We wanted Joni Mitchell. We wanted Barbra Streisand. ” “She was very carefully groomed for nearly two years before the first album came out,” explains Broomfield. “So every aspect of her was carefully considered. She was a major project. A lot of money was spent on her. Anything that was too R&B was out. They didn’t want a female James Brown. That was not part of their vision. Which, of course, was a very successful vision.”   132.    In 1989, just as Houston topped 25 million in album sales and surpassed the Beatles’s record with seven consecutive number one hits, she attended the Soul Train awards where, in response to her “white” music, she was roundly booed. Pre-Beyoncé and Mariah Carey, “crossover” was synonymous with cultural betrayal. People shouted “Oreo” – brown on the outside, white on the inside – as her nomination for Best Female Vocalist was announced. “It’s not a good feeling,” says Houston, in Can I Be Me. “It’s horrible and kind of funny. You think: ‘Are they booing me?’ And you have to sit there and be cordial and smiley. And you feel like: ‘Oh my God’.” Kirk Whalum, the saxophonist who toured with Houston for more than seven years recalls that night, which coincidentally, was the first time she met Brown. “It was devastating [for her],” says Whalum.   133.    By the end of the 90s, Houston found herself at the centre of a perfect storm of ongoing racial friction, marital troubles and drug abuse. Friends, unable to watch Houston’s decline, began to drift away. Her father, John, died in 2003, but not before his management company, John Houston Entertainment LLC, filed a $100 million lawsuit against his own daughter. Months before his death, he made a public appeal on the syndicated show, Celebrity Justice: “You get your act together, honey, and you pay me the money that you owe me.” Robyn Crawford’s departure in 2000, too, prompted a new, crippling dependency on crack-cocaine and other substances. - “Robyn was the one who was keeping her together,” says writer Allison Samuels. “That’s when drugs became so important to her.”   134.    Open Comments:   135.    The Smooth Operator -Helen Folasade Adu, professionally known as Sade (@26 yrs old)   136.    Sade is an internationally renowned, multi-Grammy award winning singer who is known for her smooth, melodic vocals and the seamless incorporation of different styles of music. She was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria on January 16, 1959. Her father Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer of economics, and her mother Anne Hayes, a district nurse, had met in London. Sade was the couple’s second child. Shortly after her birth, Sade’s parents separated and she and her brother followed their mother to Colchester, Essex, England. There, the children were raised by their mother as well as their maternal grandfather. Upon finishing her education at Clacton County High School in Colchester, she enrolled at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London to pursue fashion and design. After completion of her program, she worked as a model and menswear designer.    137.    Sade entered the music scene around 1980 when she started singing harmony for Arriva, a Latin funk band. She joined another funk band called Pride and was a background singer for the group. Pride garnered much attention from record companies due to their performances around London. Eventually Sade and fellow bandmates, Stuart Matthewman, Paul Denma, and Andrew Hale signed a deal with the U.K. division of Epic Records and formed the band Sade. In 1984 the band’s debut album, Diamond Life, was released to much critical success and was bolstered by singles such as “Hang On to Your Love” and “Smooth Operator.” The band followed up their debut with their next album, Promise, which was released the following year. “The Sweetest Taboo,” a single from Promise, was on the U.S. Hot 100 for six months. She was awarded the Grammy for best new artist of 1985.    138.    Open Comments:   139.    Selected quote about her sound   140.    Let's get this into context. With Sade it's unlikely there will ever be a full, naked baring of the soul. In terms of contemporary icons, it's better to listen to Mary J for stories of drama and shattered devotion. But Sade, today, is all about the acknowledged presence of absence. What's missing in her music is as important as what's present. - The Fader   141.    A small, yet important, fact: When Sade signed her first record deal with Epic in the early '80s, she accepted a small advance, worth ~$70,000 in exchange for an unusually high cut of sales for a new artist—15 percent. It was a deal that ended up proving immensely lucrative, and it has freed her from many of the commercial demands that often encumber artists. Put simply, she only works when and how she wants to. As one executive at her label, Epic, put it to me: "Who's going to argue with a woman who's sold 50 million albums? She's more powerful than anyone working at the label, including the [President]." - The Fader   142.    Question: Does the Sade sound ever wear out?   143.    The Movie Scene   144.    The Color Purple/Film synopsis   145.    An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert Johnson (Danny Glover), things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.   146.    Review by Roger Ebert   147.    Returning to "The Color Purple" after almost 20 years, I can see its flaws more easily than when I named it the best film of 1985, but I can also understand why it moved me so deeply, and why the greatness of some films depends not on their perfection or logic, but on their heart. The movie may have inconsistencies, confusions and improbabilities, but there is one perfect thing at its center, and that is the character of Celie, as played by Whoopi Goldberg. "Here is this year's winner for best actress," I wrote in my original review, and that should have been true, but although "The Color Purple" had 11 nominations, it won not a single Oscar. When a movie character is really working, we become that character. That's what the movies offer: Escapism into lives other than our own. I am not female, I am not black, I am not Celie, but for a time during "The Color Purple," my mind deceives me that I am all of those things, and as I empathize with her struggle and victory I learn something about what it must have been like to be her.  - Roger Ebert   148.    Selected Quotes   149.    In Honor of Its 33rd Anniversary, Here Are 10 Life Lessons I Learned From the Color Purple - By Melissa Kimble Dec 18, 2018 [https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a25616715/the-color-purple-quotes-anniversary/]   150.    I was born a few years after the film was released. However, I can credit much of my self discovery to the many times I’ve watched it. My favorite quotes from the movie taught me valuable lessons about Black womanhood, faith, and self love. And these 10 are the ones I’ll never forget.   151.    “Girl, you oughta bash Mister’s head open and think about heaven later.” By Oprah Winfrey - In a film where women are treated like inferiors, Sofia breaks the mold by refusing to be her husband's punching bag. This scene-stealing monologue, with its rage filled entrance by the O of O, is an act of defiance—especially one committed in early 20th century Georgia. It was powerful and necessary to see a Black woman go against the grain on screen. And to me, it was a call to action to be fearless.   152.    "I'm poor, Black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I’m here! I’m here!" By Whoopi Goldberg - What a victorious statement this was by Celie, who, up until this point, had spent most of her life feeling unworthy and invisible. It reminded me that even with our flaws and imperfections, we still deserve to show up in our own lives.   153.    "Until you do right by me, everything you think about is going to crumble." By - Whoopi Goldberg - With these words, Celie breaks a cycle of abuse from Mister and sticks up for herself. I interpreted this line as a sign that I don’t have to carry the weight of people who have caused my pain; life will take care of everything.   154.    “Miss Celie, why you always covering up your smile?” By Desreta Jackson - Growing up, I was very insecure about my smile. And when Shug Avery posed this question to Miss Celie, it also made me turn to myself. When Shug encourages Celie to smile, I learned that there’s no need to cover up my own   155.    Open Comments:   156.    Featured Artist   157.    Caryn Elaine Johnson, a.k.a. Whoopi Goldberg (@ 30 yrs old): an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, Broadway star, political activist, author and talk show host, she is one of the most successful and established African American actresses of her time.    158.    Born and raised in Manhattan, she is one of 14 entertainers ever to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. What differentiates Goldberg from her contemporaries is the excellence that she portrayed in all the mediums of entertainment, be it television, theatre, films or radio.    159.    Childhood & Early Life   160.    Her mother was a nurse and a teacher while her father served as a clergyman. She was raised in the Chelsea-Elliot Houses by her mother alone after her father disbanded the family when she was young. She studied until her teen years and later dropped out of school. Her started acting started at a young age. It was during her stage performance that people complimented her by saying that she looked like whoopee cushion. It was from there that she took the stage name Whoopi and adopted Goldberg as her surname to sound more Jewish.    161.    Career   162.    In 1974, (@ age 19) she moved to California and thereafter lived in various cities such as Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. It was during this time that she honed her acting skills and developed her talent as a stand-up comedian.  However, soon thereafter, she returned to New York and started receiving training under acting coach Uta Hagen. Her first ever appearance on screen was for William Farley’s feature, ‘Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away’ in 1982 (@ 27). In 1983, she created, starred and directed a ‘The Spook Show’, a one-woman show that addressed the issue of race in American but in a unique and innovative style. Next, she created other off-Broadway productions such as ‘Little Girl’ an African-American child obsessed with having blond hair and ‘Fontaine’ a junkie who also happens to hold a doctorate in literature. The innovative presentation and sense of wit and style in her shows impressed director Mike Nicholas who offered to take ‘The Spook Show’ to the Broadway. The show which ran for 156 performances, met with much acclaim both commercially and critically. It went on to earn her a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. The eye-catching performance and amazing positive reception of the show earned her attention of the Hollywood bigwigs. It helped her bag a role in the Steven Spielberg film, ‘The Color Purple’, released in 1985. The movie met with resounding success, clutching 11 Academy Awards nominations and she won her first Golden Globe award.   163.    Open Comments:   164.    Oprah Gail Winfrey , a.k.a. Oprah Winfrey (@ 31 yrs old): Talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist.   165.    Childhood & Early Life   166.    Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on a small family farm, to an unwed mother who had a short relationship with a soldier stationed nearby, Oprah grew up in dire poverty, and was primarily raised by her grandmother. Sexually abused and mistreated as a child, Winfrey rose above adversity to focus on her primary and high school education.    167.    Career   168.    When she was still a teenager, the local CBS television station in Nashville, Tennessee offered her a job as a co-anchor. She turned it down three times. At age 19, Oprah Winfrey said yes after the fourth offer. She failed the interview, but instead was offered a job as a full-time reporter for a Baltimore television news channel. She did poorly as a reporter, and by age 22 she was fired from the news division. The director of the station gave Winfrey a boost by selecting her to anchor a morning talk show entitled ‘People are Talking’. For the next seven years, her talk show enjoyed excellent ratings. In 1981, (@ 27) she moved to Chicago to host a talk show entitled ‘A.M. Chicago’. Four years later, (1985) after a tremendous boost in the ratings, the producers changed the name to ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’. She caught the attention of Quincy Jones, a Chicago native, and he cast her as Sofia for the first movie he produced, 'The Color Purple'. The following year ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ was broadcast nationally.    169.    Open Comments:   170.    TV Scene:   171.    Featured Actor: Phylician Ayers Allen, a.k.a Phylicia Rashad is an Emmy-nominated American actress, singer, and director.   172.    Her multi-faceted career began with Broadway before she branched into television and films. She is best remembered for her character as Claire Huxtable in the NBC sitcom ‘The Cosby Show’, which ran for eight years. The series brought Phylicia much deserved recognition, also earning her two Emmy nominations. Phylicia, however, is immortalized for her rich performances on the stage as an artist. She starred in several lavish musicals and dramas, all praised highly by critics. She became the first African American actress to walk away with a Tony Award for her performance in Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘Raisin in The Sun’.  Subsequently, she was venerated within the African American acting community at the NAACP Awards, where she was called ‘The Mother’ of the Black Community. Her other popular plays include ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, ‘August: Osage Country’, and ‘Gem of the Ocean’. She has tried her hand at stage direction and has successfully directed hit plays at prominent stages. Over the course of her career, Rashad has starred in several television series and voiced many characters. Her prolific output continues to be on the rise as she is still an active part of the entertainment industry.   173.    Childhood & Early Life:   174.    Phylicia Rashad was born Phylician Ayers Allen on June 19, 1948, in Houston, Texas to Vivian Ayers and Andrew Arthur Allen. Her mother was a prize-winning poet and artist, while her father was a reputed orthodontist. She has three siblings: Andrew Arthur Allen Jr., Debbie Allen, and Hugh Allen. Phylicia was raised in the United States and Mexico. She studied at Howard University, Washington D.C. and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in theatre in 1970. During her university days, she was inculcated into the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.   175.    Career   176.    After graduating with a degree in theatre, Phylicia immediately joined the Negro Ensemble Company in New York. She toured the city and was seen in several plays under this troupe. Her Broadway debut occurred in 1972 and she was seen in several minor roles for hit musicals, including ‘The Wiz’ (1975) and ‘Dreamgirls’ (1981). In 1978, Rashad tried her hand at something new by releasing the concept album ‘Josephine Superstar’, an album that was based on Josephine Baker’s life. She decided to embark on an alternative career in television owing to the scarcity of good roles given to her. In 1982, after moving to television, Rashad landed a recurring role in the series ‘One Life to Live’ as Courtney Wright, a publicist. In 1984, Phylicia Rashad was roped in to play the role of Clair Huxtable, an attorney, in the hit comedy ‘The Cosby Show’. The show starred Bill Cosby in the lead role and Phylicia played his wife. The series ran for over eight years and was a critical and commercial success. Phylicia’s role as Clair proved to be the highest point in her career, earning her two Emmy Award nominations.   177.    Open Comments   178.    Question: Is she a good actor? Do you buy her in other roles?   179.    Vote: Best Pop Culture item/event for 1985

Topics: Air Jordans, Whitney Houston, Sade, The Color Purple, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Phylicia Rashad (Bonus Artist: Luck Pacheco)   1985 Notes   General Snapshots   1.    President: Ronald Reagan   2.    Jan – In Hollywood,  California, the charity single "We  Are the World" is recorded by USA for  Africa. The  single raises money to combat the  ongoing famine in Ethiopia. The  American act consists of high-profile  performers, including Michael  Jackson, Lionel Richie, Tina Turner,  Cyndi Lauper and Diana Ross.   3.    Jan – The newest music video channel, VH-1, begins broadcasting on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV. The first video played is Marvin Gaye's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner".   4.    Mar – WrestleMania debuts at Madison Square Garden.  In the main event, Hulk Hogan and Mr. T defeated Paul Orndorff and Roddy Piper. The attendance for the event was 19,121. The event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television, making it the largest pay-per-view showing of a wrestling event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time.   5.    Apr – Coca-Cola changes its recipe and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.   6.    Aug - Ryan White who was expelled from Western High School in Indiana is allowed to attend his first day of classes via telephone.   7.    Sep - The Farm Aid concert is held in Champaign, Illinois, USA.   8.    Oct  – The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in U.S. stores. By 1988, industry observers stated that the NES's popularity had grown so quickly that the market for Nintendo cartridges was larger than that for all home computer software.  The NES was released two years after the North American video game crash of 1983, when many retailers and adult consumers regarded electronic games as a passing fad. With the NES, Nintendo also changed the relationship between console manufacturers and third-party software developers by restricting developers from publishing and distributing software without licensed approval. This led to higher-quality games, which helped change the attitude of a public that had grown weary from poorly produced games for earlier systems.   9.    Nov - Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.   10.    Open Comments:   11.    Top 3 Pop Songs   12.    1    "Careless Whisper"    Wham!   13.    2    "Like a Virgin"    Madonna   14.    3    "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"    Wham!   15.    Grammy Awards   16.    Record of the Year: Quincy Jones (producer) for "We Are the World"   17.    Album of the Year: Phil Collins (producer & artist) for No Jacket Required   18.    Song of the Year: Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie (songwriters) for "We Are the World"   19.    Best New Artist: Sade   20.    Top 3 Movies   21.    Back to the Future   22.    Rambo: First Blood Part II   23.    Rocky IV   24.    Other Notables:  The Color Purple / Out of Africa / Cocoon / The Jewel of the Nile / Witness / The Goonies / Spies Like Us / The Breakfast Club / Brewster's Millions / St. Elmo's Fire /  Krush Groove   25.    Top 3 TV Shows   26.    The Cosby Show   27.    Family Ties   28.    Murder, She Wrote       29.    TV Debuts   30.    Sep - What's Happening Now!! / Stir Crazy   31.    Black Snapshots   32.    Feb -  Whitney Houston releases her debut  album – Whitney Houston.   33.    Mar  – Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first-round knockout.   34.    May - Michael Jordan is named as the NBA's "Rookie of the Year."   35.    May – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mayor Wilson Goode, the  first African American to hold that office,  orders police to storm the  headquarters of the black liberation/back-to-nature group MOVE to end a stand-off over serving arrest warrants. (Due process?!?!)  The police drop 2 explosive devices into the headquarters, killing 6 adults and 5 children, and destroyed an additional 61 residental homes in the resulting fire. The survivors filed a civil suit against the city and the police department, and were awarded $1.5 million in 1996.   36.    Jul - The final episode of The Jeffersons airs. (1975-) 10 yrs   37.    Aug - Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids  (1972-) 13 yrs   38.    Nov - Ebony Man: EM  Magazine launches   39.    Best Comedy Recording: Whoopi Goldberg - Original Broadway Show Recording   40.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: Aretha Franklin for "Freeway of Love"   41.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: Stevie Wonder for In Square Circle   42.    Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Commodores for "Nightshift"   43.    Economic Snapshot   44.    Avg. Income = $22,138   45.    House = $99,331   46.    New Car = $9,531   47.    Avg. Rent = $375   48.    Tuition at Harvard = $9,800   49.    Movie Ticket = $2.75   50.    Gas = $1.20   51.    Stamp = $0.22   52.    Socilal Scene: “Money, it's gotta be da shoes!” - Mars Blackmon   53.    The Air Jordan I was originally released in 1985 and is almost single-handedly responsible for modern-day sneaker culture. Michael Jordan originally wanted to sign with either Converse or Adidas. But Converse declined and according to a Wall Street Journal article published in 2015 so did Adidas. Still MJ was not convinced. Only when Nike, thinking they had nothing to loose, offered to give MJ his own shoe- and clothing line did he change his mind. This was unheard of at the time, no NBA player had an entire product line named after them. As the first basketball player with his own signature shoes Jordan would immediately become the king of basketball sneaker advertising. Just to be on the safe side Nike worked an out-clause into the contract: if Air Jordans didn’t earn Nike $3 million in the first 3 years, or if Jordan didn’t make the NBA All-Star Game in his first three years, Nike could dump him. Jordan was voted into the All-Star Game as a Rookie starter and the "Air Jordan 1" shoe made Nike $130 million in 1985 alone. The rest is history.   54.    Open Comments:   55.    The pushback and common critisisms   56.    Extremely superficial materialism is one of the only ways that many black Americans express a sense of self worth.    57.    When you live in a society where nobody has a savings account, or a college degree, or has traveled abroad, having a fresh pair of sneakers and a gold chain shouldn't be your version of keeping up with the Joneses.   58.    Liking shoes is as much of a "black thing" as liking chicken is a "black thing". Everyone likes both of these things.   59.    Open Comments:   60.    It became popular in the late 80s for people with moderate or low incomes to wear clothing adorned with the names and logos of luxury, high-end brands. Then all the luxury brands started making their own low-end, logo-covered versions. You wear your favorite sports team to affiliate yourself with them. It's the same thing with Tommy Hilfiger, Gucci, Jordache, Guess, Wrangler, Levi, Gitano, Bonjour, Sasson, etc., it's a way of signalling.   61.    Question: We went from tailored suits and dresses to baggy jeans and yoga pants. From afro's and braids to fashioned bandanas and bleached blondes. From the stylish Supremes and Tempations to tatooed  faces and pireced everytginhg. - What do you think is at the root of our decisions? Are we victims of advertising?   62.    Music Scene   63.    Black Songs from the Top 40 (No Lionel Richie showed up!)   64.    5    "I Feel for You"    Chaka Khan   65.    6    "Out of Touch"    Hall & Oates   66.    12    "Easy Lover"    Philip Bailey and Phil Collins   67.    17    "Cherish"    Kool & the Gang   68.    20    "We Are the World"    USA for Africa   69.    22    "Part-Time Lover"    Stevie Wonder   70.    23    "Saving All My Love For You"    Whitney Houston   71.    26    "Cool It Now"    New Edition   72.    28    "Loverboy"    Billy Ocean   73.    29    "Lovergirl"    Teena Marie   74.    31    "Oh Sheila"    Ready for the World   75.    32    "Rhythm of the Night"    DeBarge   76.    38    "Neutron Dance"    The Pointer Sisters   77.    40    "Nightshift"    Commodores   78.    Vote:   79.    Top RnB Singles   80.    Jan - "Operator"    Midnight Star   81.    Jan - "Gotta Get You Home Tonight"    Eugene Wilde   82.    Feb -  "Mr. Telephone Man"    New Edition   83.    Feb - "Missing You"    Diana Ross   84.    Mar - "Nightshift"    The Commodores   85.    Apr - "Back In Stride"    Maze featuring Frankie Beverly   86.    Apr - "Rhythm Of the Night"    DeBarge   87.    May - "We Are the World"    USA for Africa   88.    May - "Fresh"    Kool & the Gang   89.    May - "You Give Good Love"    Whitney Houston   90.    Jun - "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)"    Freddie Jackson   91.    Jul - "Hangin' on a String (Contemplating)"    Loose Ends   92.    Jul - "Save Your Love (For #1)"    René & Angela   93.    Aug - "Freeway of Love"    Aretha Franklin   94.    Sep - "Saving All My Love for You"    Whitney Houston   95.    Sep - "Cherish"    Kool & the Gang   96.    Sep - "Oh Sheila"    Ready For the World   97.    Oct - "You Are My Lady"    Freddie Jackson   98.    Oct - "Part-Time Lover"    Stevie Wonder   99.    Nov - "Caravan of Love"    Isley-Jasper-Isley   100.    Dec - "Don't Say No Tonight"    Eugene Wilde   101.    Vote:   102.    Top RnB Albums   103.    Jan - New Edition    New Edition   104.    Feb - Solid    Ashford & Simpson   105.    Mar - Gap Band VI    The Gap Band   106.    Mar p- Private Dancer    Tina Turner   107.    Apr - Nightshift    The Commodores   108.    Apr - Can't Stop the Love    Frankie Beverly and Maze   109.    May - The Night I Fell in Love    Luther Vandross   110.    Jun - Whitney Houston    Whitney Houston   111.    Jun - Rock Me Tonight    Freddie Jackson   112.    Nov - In Square Circle    Stevie Wonder   113.    Vote   114.    Featured Artists: Whitney Houston and Sade   115.    Whitney Elizabeth Houston, @22 yrs old: Singer, actress, model, and producer, Whitney Houston is one of the world’s most successful female entertainers of all time.   116.    Born and raised in Newark NJ,  she is the daughter of Grammy-award-winning gospel singer, Emily “Cissy” Houston and John R. Houston, who managed his daughter’s production company.    117.    Childhood & Early Life   118.    She was no stranger to the entertainment industry, having come from a line of singers and actresses. Not only did her mother’s vocal group, the ‘Sweet Inspirations’, sing backup for Aretha Franklin, but her cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick are also renowned singers, as well as her godmother, Darlene Love. She began performing in her church’s gospel choir as a soloist at the age of eleven and learned to play the piano. While attending Catholic school, she took voice lessons from her mother, with whom she would occasionally perform in nightclubs.   119.    Career   120.    In 1977 (@ 14 yrs old), she was a backup singer for Michael Zager Band’s single ‘Life’s a Party’ and the following year she sang on Chaka Khan’s single ‘I’m Every Woman’. She was offered an opportunity to sign with a recording company, but her mother declined so she would finish high school. In the early 1980s, (@17 yrs old), she worked as a model, appearing in several magazines including, ‘Seventeen’, where she became the first African American to be featured on the cover. She also took on acting gigs appearing in TV show episodes such as, ‘Gimme a Break’, while continuing to develop her vocal skills. In 1983,(@ 20yrs old) she was signed with ‘Arista Records’. President Clive Davis spent the next couple years assembling lyricists and producers to balance her gospel-like sound with contemporary melodies. In 1985, her debut album, ‘Whitney Houston’ gradually became the number one selling album of her career.  She went on to win two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards.   121.    Open Comments:   122.    A Hot Mess   123.    On February 11th, 2012, Whitney Houston (@ 48 yrs old) was found facedown in a bathtub.  Weeks later, an autopsy report would contribute Houston’s death to accidental drowning, heart disease and cocaine use. There were additional traces of a muscle relaxant, Xanax, marijuana and an allergy medication in the singer’s system.    124.    The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfall - Tara Brady [Jun 12, 2017] https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/the-sad-secret-life-of-whitney-houston-1.3105861   125.    Selected quotes from the article:   126.    What exactly killed Houston? Why did she drown? How did she drown? Was she simply overwhelmed by the controlling demands of her formidable mother, Cissy Houston, Svengali Clive Davis, and her record company, Arista? Did the aftermath of her toxic and co-dependent marriage to Bobby Brown send her spiralling? Or was it the dissolution of her decades-old lesbian relationship with her assistant Robyn Crawford? It’s complicated, as documentarian Nick Broomfield discovered.  “In the end I think the divide between who she was and what her public persona was became more and more difficult,” says  documentarian Nick Broomfield. “And she just went down,    127.    The imploding relations between Houston, Bobby Brown and Robyn Crawford. Brown told Us Weekly magazine that Houston was bisexual and that she once had an affair with Tupac Shakur. He went on to say that Houston kept her relationship with Crawford hidden because of Cissy. “I really feel that if Robyn was accepted into Whitney’s life, Whitney would still be alive today,” Brown told the magazine. “She didn’t have close friends with her anymore.”   128.    From Cissy’s notorious 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey:  “Would it have bothered you if your daughter was gay?”  “Absolutely,” Cissy snapped back. “You wouldn’t have condoned it?” continued an incredulous Oprah. “Not at all.” ...“I didn’t particularly like [Crawford],” Cissy told the talk show queen. “She just spoke too much, disrespectful sometimes, like she had something over Nippy (Houston’s nickname), and I didn’t like that at all. She was all right, she turned out to be all right, I guess. That was her friend.”   129.    Houston and Crawford first bonded while they were teenagers working at a community centre in East Orange, New Jersey. When Houston’s modelling career began to take off, she’d face bullying in school, and Crawford, who was originally a friend of Houston’s older brothers Michael and Gary, would frequently come to the rescue. When Houston moved out of her family home, she shared her first apartment with Crawford. Deep into Houston and Brown’s 14-year marriage, Crawford remained a fixture in Houston’s domestic arrangements.   130.    Houston’s marriage to Brown, understandably, made for an uneasy romantic trinity. In Derrick Handspike’s unauthorised 2008 biography, Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But . . ., the author quotes Brown as saying: “Now I realise Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married. I believe her agenda was to clean up her image while mine was to be loved and have children. “Whitney felt she had to make rumours of a lesbian affair go away. Since she was the American Sweetheart and all, that didn’t go too well with her image. In Whitney’s situation the only solution was to get married and have kids. That would kill all speculation whether it was true or not.”   131.    Supermarket tabloids did a brisk trade during the 1990s by peddling the idea that Houston’s life spiralled into addiction after she married Brown. She was the gospel-singing good girl – the church-going daughter of Cissy and a cousin of Dionne Warwick. He was a bad boy who, aged 20, when they first met, had already been shot and stabbed in the shoulder. Their tumultuous marriage (from 1992 to 2007), characterised by drug use, infidelity and a costly entourage, was seldom out of the headlines. But contrary to popular belief, Brown did not introduce his troubled wife to cocaine. Houston first dabbled with drugs with her brothers, Michael and Gary, as a teenager. The truth is that Houston was always as “street“ as her R&B star husband. But that part of her personal history didn’t fit with what Broomfield calls “the Whitney character”.  As Pattie Howard, Houston’s backing vocalist, notes: “People may not know it but Whitney was from the ‘hood’. They wanted to present her as the princess. And that’s what white America was presented with.” Kenneth Reynolds, who worked in marketing for Arista Records recalls that: “Anything that was too black sounding was sent back. We wanted Joni Mitchell. We wanted Barbra Streisand. ” “She was very carefully groomed for nearly two years before the first album came out,” explains Broomfield. “So every aspect of her was carefully considered. She was a major project. A lot of money was spent on her. Anything that was too R&B was out. They didn’t want a female James Brown. That was not part of their vision. Which, of course, was a very successful vision.”   132.    In 1989, just as Houston topped 25 million in album sales and surpassed the Beatles’s record with seven consecutive number one hits, she attended the Soul Train awards where, in response to her “white” music, she was roundly booed. Pre-Beyoncé and Mariah Carey, “crossover” was synonymous with cultural betrayal. People shouted “Oreo” – brown on the outside, white on the inside – as her nomination for Best Female Vocalist was announced. “It’s not a good feeling,” says Houston, in Can I Be Me. “It’s horrible and kind of funny. You think: ‘Are they booing me?’ And you have to sit there and be cordial and smiley. And you feel like: ‘Oh my God’.” Kirk Whalum, the saxophonist who toured with Houston for more than seven years recalls that night, which coincidentally, was the first time she met Brown. “It was devastating [for her],” says Whalum.   133.    By the end of the 90s, Houston found herself at the centre of a perfect storm of ongoing racial friction, marital troubles and drug abuse. Friends, unable to watch Houston’s decline, began to drift away. Her father, John, died in 2003, but not before his management company, John Houston Entertainment LLC, filed a $100 million lawsuit against his own daughter. Months before his death, he made a public appeal on the syndicated show, Celebrity Justice: “You get your act together, honey, and you pay me the money that you owe me.” Robyn Crawford’s departure in 2000, too, prompted a new, crippling dependency on crack-cocaine and other substances. - “Robyn was the one who was keeping her together,” says writer Allison Samuels. “That’s when drugs became so important to her.”   134.    Open Comments:   135.    The Smooth Operator -Helen Folasade Adu, professionally known as Sade (@26 yrs old)   136.    Sade is an internationally renowned, multi-Grammy award winning singer who is known for her smooth, melodic vocals and the seamless incorporation of different styles of music. She was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria on January 16, 1959. Her father Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer of economics, and her mother Anne Hayes, a district nurse, had met in London. Sade was the couple’s second child. Shortly after her birth, Sade’s parents separated and she and her brother followed their mother to Colchester, Essex, England. There, the children were raised by their mother as well as their maternal grandfather. Upon finishing her education at Clacton County High School in Colchester, she enrolled at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London to pursue fashion and design. After completion of her program, she worked as a model and menswear designer.    137.    Sade entered the music scene around 1980 when she started singing harmony for Arriva, a Latin funk band. She joined another funk band called Pride and was a background singer for the group. Pride garnered much attention from record companies due to their performances around London. Eventually Sade and fellow bandmates, Stuart Matthewman, Paul Denma, and Andrew Hale signed a deal with the U.K. division of Epic Records and formed the band Sade. In 1984 the band’s debut album, Diamond Life, was released to much critical success and was bolstered by singles such as “Hang On to Your Love” and “Smooth Operator.” The band followed up their debut with their next album, Promise, which was released the following year. “The Sweetest Taboo,” a single from Promise, was on the U.S. Hot 100 for six months. She was awarded the Grammy for best new artist of 1985.    138.    Open Comments:   139.    Selected quote about her sound   140.    Let's get this into context. With Sade it's unlikely there will ever be a full, naked baring of the soul. In terms of contemporary icons, it's better to listen to Mary J for stories of drama and shattered devotion. But Sade, today, is all about the acknowledged presence of absence. What's missing in her music is as important as what's present. - The Fader   141.    A small, yet important, fact: When Sade signed her first record deal with Epic in the early '80s, she accepted a small advance, worth ~$70,000 in exchange for an unusually high cut of sales for a new artist—15 percent. It was a deal that ended up proving immensely lucrative, and it has freed her from many of the commercial demands that often encumber artists. Put simply, she only works when and how she wants to. As one executive at her label, Epic, put it to me: "Who's going to argue with a woman who's sold 50 million albums? She's more powerful than anyone working at the label, including the [President]." - The Fader   142.    Question: Does the Sade sound ever wear out?   143.    The Movie Scene   144.    The Color Purple/Film synopsis   145.    An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert Johnson (Danny Glover), things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.   146.    Review by Roger Ebert   147.    Returning to "The Color Purple" after almost 20 years, I can see its flaws more easily than when I named it the best film of 1985, but I can also understand why it moved me so deeply, and why the greatness of some films depends not on their perfection or logic, but on their heart. The movie may have inconsistencies, confusions and improbabilities, but there is one perfect thing at its center, and that is the character of Celie, as played by Whoopi Goldberg. "Here is this year's winner for best actress," I wrote in my original review, and that should have been true, but although "The Color Purple" had 11 nominations, it won not a single Oscar. When a movie character is really working, we become that character. That's what the movies offer: Escapism into lives other than our own. I am not female, I am not black, I am not Celie, but for a time during "The Color Purple," my mind deceives me that I am all of those things, and as I empathize with her struggle and victory I learn something about what it must have been like to be her.  - Roger Ebert   148.    Selected Quotes   149.    In Honor of Its 33rd Anniversary, Here Are 10 Life Lessons I Learned From the Color Purple - By Melissa Kimble Dec 18, 2018 [https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a25616715/the-color-purple-quotes-anniversary/]   150.    I was born a few years after the film was released. However, I can credit much of my self discovery to the many times I’ve watched it. My favorite quotes from the movie taught me valuable lessons about Black womanhood, faith, and self love. And these 10 are the ones I’ll never forget.   151.    “Girl, you oughta bash Mister’s head open and think about heaven later.” By Oprah Winfrey - In a film where women are treated like inferiors, Sofia breaks the mold by refusing to be her husband's punching bag. This scene-stealing monologue, with its rage filled entrance by the O of O, is an act of defiance—especially one committed in early 20th century Georgia. It was powerful and necessary to see a Black woman go against the grain on screen. And to me, it was a call to action to be fearless.   152.    "I'm poor, Black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I’m here! I’m here!" By Whoopi Goldberg - What a victorious statement this was by Celie, who, up until this point, had spent most of her life feeling unworthy and invisible. It reminded me that even with our flaws and imperfections, we still deserve to show up in our own lives.   153.    "Until you do right by me, everything you think about is going to crumble." By - Whoopi Goldberg - With these words, Celie breaks a cycle of abuse from Mister and sticks up for herself. I interpreted this line as a sign that I don’t have to carry the weight of people who have caused my pain; life will take care of everything.   154.    “Miss Celie, why you always covering up your smile?” By Desreta Jackson - Growing up, I was very insecure about my smile. And when Shug Avery posed this question to Miss Celie, it also made me turn to myself. When Shug encourages Celie to smile, I learned that there’s no need to cover up my own   155.    Open Comments:   156.    Featured Artist   157.    Caryn Elaine Johnson, a.k.a. Whoopi Goldberg (@ 30 yrs old): an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, Broadway star, political activist, author and talk show host, she is one of the most successful and established African American actresses of her time.    158.    Born and raised in Manhattan, she is one of 14 entertainers ever to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. What differentiates Goldberg from her contemporaries is the excellence that she portrayed in all the mediums of entertainment, be it television, theatre, films or radio.    159.    Childhood & Early Life   160.    Her mother was a nurse and a teacher while her father served as a clergyman. She was raised in the Chelsea-Elliot Houses by her mother alone after her father disbanded the family when she was young. She studied until her teen years and later dropped out of school. Her started acting started at a young age. It was during her stage performance that people complimented her by saying that she looked like whoopee cushion. It was from there that she took the stage name Whoopi and adopted Goldberg as her surname to sound more Jewish.    161.    Career   162.    In 1974, (@ age 19) she moved to California and thereafter lived in various cities such as Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. It was during this time that she honed her acting skills and developed her talent as a stand-up comedian.  However, soon thereafter, she returned to New York and started receiving training under acting coach Uta Hagen. Her first ever appearance on screen was for William Farley’s feature, ‘Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away’ in 1982 (@ 27). In 1983, she created, starred and directed a ‘The Spook Show’, a one-woman show that addressed the issue of race in American but in a unique and innovative style. Next, she created other off-Broadway productions such as ‘Little Girl’ an African-American child obsessed with having blond hair and ‘Fontaine’ a junkie who also happens to hold a doctorate in literature. The innovative presentation and sense of wit and style in her shows impressed director Mike Nicholas who offered to take ‘The Spook Show’ to the Broadway. The show which ran for 156 performances, met with much acclaim both commercially and critically. It went on to earn her a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. The eye-catching performance and amazing positive reception of the show earned her attention of the Hollywood bigwigs. It helped her bag a role in the Steven Spielberg film, ‘The Color Purple’, released in 1985. The movie met with resounding success, clutching 11 Academy Awards nominations and she won her first Golden Globe award.   163.    Open Comments:   164.    Oprah Gail Winfrey , a.k.a. Oprah Winfrey (@ 31 yrs old): Talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist.   165.    Childhood & Early Life   166.    Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on a small family farm, to an unwed mother who had a short relationship with a soldier stationed nearby, Oprah grew up in dire poverty, and was primarily raised by her grandmother. Sexually abused and mistreated as a child, Winfrey rose above adversity to focus on her primary and high school education.    167.    Career   168.    When she was still a teenager, the local CBS television station in Nashville, Tennessee offered her a job as a co-anchor. She turned it down three times. At age 19, Oprah Winfrey said yes after the fourth offer. She failed the interview, but instead was offered a job as a full-time reporter for a Baltimore television news channel. She did poorly as a reporter, and by age 22 she was fired from the news division. The director of the station gave Winfrey a boost by selecting her to anchor a morning talk show entitled ‘People are Talking’. For the next seven years, her talk show enjoyed excellent ratings. In 1981, (@ 27) she moved to Chicago to host a talk show entitled ‘A.M. Chicago’. Four years later, (1985) after a tremendous boost in the ratings, the producers changed the name to ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’. She caught the attention of Quincy Jones, a Chicago native, and he cast her as Sofia for the first movie he produced, 'The Color Purple'. The following year ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ was broadcast nationally.    169.    Open Comments:   170.    TV Scene:   171.    Featured Actor: Phylician Ayers Allen, a.k.a Phylicia Rashad is an Emmy-nominated American actress, singer, and director.   172.    Her multi-faceted career began with Broadway before she branched into television and films. She is best remembered for her character as Claire Huxtable in the NBC sitcom ‘The Cosby Show’, which ran for eight years. The series brought Phylicia much deserved recognition, also earning her two Emmy nominations. Phylicia, however, is immortalized for her rich performances on the stage as an artist. She starred in several lavish musicals and dramas, all praised highly by critics. She became the first African American actress to walk away with a Tony Award for her performance in Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘Raisin in The Sun’.  Subsequently, she was venerated within the African American acting community at the NAACP Awards, where she was called ‘The Mother’ of the Black Community. Her other popular plays include ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, ‘August: Osage Country’, and ‘Gem of the Ocean’. She has tried her hand at stage direction and has successfully directed hit plays at prominent stages. Over the course of her career, Rashad has starred in several television series and voiced many characters. Her prolific output continues to be on the rise as she is still an active part of the entertainment industry.   173.    Childhood & Early Life:   174.    Phylicia Rashad was born Phylician Ayers Allen on June 19, 1948, in Houston, Texas to Vivian Ayers and Andrew Arthur Allen. Her mother was a prize-winning poet and artist, while her father was a reputed orthodontist. She has three siblings: Andrew Arthur Allen Jr., Debbie Allen, and Hugh Allen. Phylicia was raised in the United States and Mexico. She studied at Howard University, Washington D.C. and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in theatre in 1970. During her university days, she was inculcated into the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.   175.    Career   176.    After graduating with a degree in theatre, Phylicia immediately joined the Negro Ensemble Company in New York. She toured the city and was seen in several plays under this troupe. Her Broadway debut occurred in 1972 and she was seen in several minor roles for hit musicals, including ‘The Wiz’ (1975) and ‘Dreamgirls’ (1981). In 1978, Rashad tried her hand at something new by releasing the concept album ‘Josephine Superstar’, an album that was based on Josephine Baker’s life. She decided to embark on an alternative career in television owing to the scarcity of good roles given to her. In 1982, after moving to television, Rashad landed a recurring role in the series ‘One Life to Live’ as Courtney Wright, a publicist. In 1984, Phylicia Rashad was roped in to play the role of Clair Huxtable, an attorney, in the hit comedy ‘The Cosby Show’. The show starred Bill Cosby in the lead role and Phylicia played his wife. The series ran for over eight years and was a critical and commercial success. Phylicia’s role as Clair proved to be the highest point in her career, earning her two Emmy Award nominations.   177.    Open Comments   178.    Question: Is she a good actor? Do you buy her in other roles?   179.    Vote: Best Pop Culture item/event for 1985