Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Frank's Record Collection Encore
Episode Date: February 5, 2024GGACP celebrates the birthday of co-host Frank Santopadre (b. February 7) with this ENCORE of a wildly entertaining mini-episode from 2019, as Frank tries to stump Gilbert (and Raybone) with some oldi...es but goodies from his collection of 1960s-70s-era 45s. Also in this episode: the poster boys of one-hit wonders, the versatility of Mel Torme, the genius of Jimmy Webb (and P.F. Sloan!) and the musical stylings of David Soul. PLUS: Johnny Rivers! Zager and Evans predict the future! Gilbert opens for Buster Poindexter! And the tragic tale of Badfinger! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and I'm here with Frank Santopadre and our engineer, Frank Verderosa. And this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions.
And if you've heard about Raybone, people in the neighborhood say it reeks of Albert Decker.
There's a reference.
I love how we always start on a warm note.
I can't tell you how much that means to me.
Albert Decker.
Well, for all the people that are Googling that, it's D-E-K-K-E-R.
And that'll give you some frame of reference of what this sick individual next to me is talking about.
How are you, Paul?
Not too bad.
When I'm with you guys, I'm great.
That shows what a miserable life I lead.
Frank didn't have anything to say.
That may be the saddest thing he's said to date.
How are you, Gilly?
We just had a legend in this room.
Erwin Winkler.
The legendary producer of Raging Bull.
I'm sitting in his chair and I'm starting to feel it.
I'm starting to feel the thing.
You feel like developing a project for De Niro?
By the time we're done tonight, I've got a project.
Yeah, we're buzzing from that appearance.
It was a terrific episode, which you guys will hear soon,
if you haven't already heard it,
because who the hell knows about the timing of these?
Ideal guess.
It was perfect.
Until Gilbert used profanity and he blanched.
I asked about Sharon Stone's pussy.
That's all right.
I'm going to cut it out of the show, so no reason to reference it here.
Here's an idea for a mini episode because the mini episodes about music, people seem to have been responding to them.
Yes.
As I pointed out last week.
Yes.
We had John Fodiatis.
We did fictional bands of the 60s and some of the real bands of the 60s.
We did death songs of the 70s, which Gilbert got into.
And I said to my wife, I'm going to dig into my old 45 box and try to stump Gilbert.
And I'll put Paul to work on some research
and see what he comes up with.
And believe it or not,
these are records.
They're all of the same era
because I'm old.
Yes.
But these,
I thought,
I wonder how many of these he will know
and maybe we could stump you.
Yes.
And then Paul and I
would give you some information.
I actually brought the records with me.
Do you have a 45 player at home?
You know, I have a turntable, but I also have two cats.
So you cannot put a record on.
Yes.
Because the cats are very attractive to the spinning.
And they will jump on the needle.
And it's a bad marriage.
Cats and turntables.
I have a great turntable.
So, no, we can't listen to them at home.
Right.
But I dug them out of the box.
So we're going to call this episode Frank's Record Collection.
If we have fun, we'll do more.
Maybe we'll do Paul's Record Collection in the future.
Do you have 45s in the house?
I do have some 45s.
So, Dara, we'll dig some of these.
Dara's raising her hand.
You have them too?
Are they yours or his?
They're shared.
So we'll do Dara and Gil her hand. You have them too? Are they yours or his? They're shared. So we'll do
Dara and Gil's
record collection
in a future week.
But these are
some that I pulled out
from my childhood
starting in 1959.
And no,
I wasn't even born
in 1959.
But some of these
were my sister's records.
They were older
than me.
And I thought we would see
what you knew.
Okay.
So we're going to go
in chronological order.
So, Frankie, if you know this skill, I'll be impressed.
Oh. with Fred. I said, why don't one of you come up and sit beside me?
And this is what the seven girls
said. All together now.
One, two, three.
Keep your mind on your drive and keep
your head on your back.
Look at the look on his face.
It's like he's developing a serum.
Do you know this song?
I very vaguely.
You were born in 54?
53?
55.
55.
So you would have been four.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's too young even for you.
Yeah.
Yeah, this was my sister had this.
It's seven little girls sitting in the back seat from 1959.
A guy named Paul Evans.
It's got a similar beat to Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. Yes.
Now I wonder why that is.
Same people? Same writer.
See how good he is?
Look at that. Lee Pocris
was one of the writers of this
and he wrote Brian Highland's Itsy Bitsy
Teeny with Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.
I'm so proud of myself.
That's a great one. You're a savant.
He also wrote Johnny Angel.
And Catch a Falling Star.
And a song called Pregnant Again.
Pregnant Again?
Pregnant Again?
Wow.
That one did a chart.
Wow.
Yeah, I don't think so.
He wrote Catch a Falling Star for Perry Como and Tracy by the Cufflings.
I think it was sung by our pal Ron Dante, if I'm not mistaken.
He also, yeah, do you know the Swedish version of this song?
No.
Called Flikor Bak Ebilen.
That's the copy I have.
That was the one you know?
It was recorded, written by Bob Hilliard and Lee Pokras,
who wrote a lot of hits, recorded by Paul Evans,
went to number nine on the charts,
and then covered the same year by a group called the Avons.
This is just an obscure song from my childhood that I remember listening to when I was, I mean, really young.
Two or three or four.
And the flip side, which I won't subject you to.
But I said to my wife, I wonder if Gilbert knows this.
I know he knows the rest of them that are in this stack.
I know he knows the rest of them that are in this stack.
Paul Evans wrote, also the performer on this record, also wrote Roses Are Red, My Love for Bobby Vinton.
Speaking of good fellas, we just had Erwin in here.
I pulled out about 10 or 12 of Hilliard's songs.
They actually make poetry if you read them right.
Yeah, go ahead.
From the 1930s through the 50s, this guy produced such hits as The Coffee Song,
The Big Brass Band from Brazil, Civilization, Bongo, Bongo, Bongo,
The Thousand Island Song, A Strawberry Moon, Mention My Name in Sheboygan.
Oh, I know that one.
You can check that out.
You're in Wisconsin this weekend.
Careless Hands.
And then a couple I actually heard of, Dear Hearts and Gentle People.
Yeah.
And was that Andy Williams?
Who did that? I don't know. And then In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, Dear Hearts and Gentle People. Yeah. And was that Andy Williams? Who did that?
And then,
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning,
the great Sinatra song.
Is the coffee song that Sinatra won about
there's an awful lot of coffee
in Brazil?
I think so.
Yeah, I think that's
a great lyric.
Yeah.
So this guy Hilliard,
who I have to say I didn't know,
has been all over the place.
Yeah, these great old songwriters,
these great old,
I mean, some of these guys
went back
to the 20s and 30s.
Anyway,
good call,
good ears, Gilbert.
Also,
Paul Evans sang
Happy Go Lucky Me,
which was used
in a John Waters movie
called Pecker.
Oh.
Did you see that picture?
No.
Another theme,
another good theme
for Minnie
would be movies
that sound dirty
but aren't.
Yes, yes. Like Pecker aren't. Yes, yes.
Like Pecker and Head.
Oh, yeah.
And Ride a Pink Horse, which I think was Ride a Pale Horse.
Okay.
I think you will know the next one.
This is from 1966.
Oh, Secret Agent Man.
There we go.
No hesitation.
Here's a man who leads a life of danger.
Very good.
Everyone he meets, he's still a stranger.
Every move he makes, another chance he takes.
Look at this guy. I'm sorry he won't another chance he takes. Look at this guy.
I'm sorry he won't live to see tomorrow.
Secret Agent Man.
Secret Agent Man.
I love how he's four minutes behind.
You can't play your number.
I'll end you on it.
The great Johnny Rivers.
Yes.
Secret Agent Man.
That's a great one.
No stomping you.
No stomping.
No stomping you.
No stomping you.
What do you know about Secret Agent Man, Paul?
Well, I could...
Gilbert got immediately.
This shows how promiscuous these writers and performers were
because everybody worked on everybody else's thing.
Flip Sloan, who was one of the writers of Secret Angel Man.
P.F. Sloan.
A legend.
Here are some of the people he worked with that produced.
Barry McGuire.
Yeah, he wrote Eve of Destruction.
A guy that wrote this.
Jan and Dean.
Herman's Hermans.
Johnny Rivers, we know.
The Grassroots.
Remember them?
Yes, he wrote a lot of hits for them.
The Turtles.
Former podcast guest.
We had one.
Howard Key.
We had one turtle.
And the mamas and the papas.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He wrote You Baby for the turtles.
He wrote She's a Must to Avoid for the Hermits.
Oh, okay.
Things I Should Have Said for the Grassroots.
Eve of Destruction, you know.
Yes, yes.
P.F. Sloan, we're talking about the writer.
This was written for a TV show that licensed Danger Man.
Danger Man was supposed to be the name of the show and the name of the song.
Did you know this, Paul?
They changed the title.
Wasn't it a British import?
Correct.
Yes.
Correct.
And they changed the title.
It was shown by a surviving demo of the song, which P.F. Sloan sang.
When the show's title was changed, the lyrics were also changed.
And Lou Adler, who produced Johnny Rivers, was chosen to add the vocals for the TV show.
Well, Rivers was chosen.
And he claimed he came up with the opening guitar riff inspired by the James Bond theme.
Oh, yeah.
Which you can kind of tell.
And they've given you a number and taken away your name,
referred to the numerical code names given to secret agents.
Yeah, like 007.
And who was the star of that show?
You know.
Oh, wait.
Who was the star of Secret Agent, man?
Secret?
Oh!
Oh!
Oh, who was the star of Secret Agent, man? Secret, oh. Oh, who was the star of that?
Did I stump him?
He was also the star of The Prisoner.
Not the, he, Patrick.
Patrick McGowan.
Patrick McGowan.
Very good.
Ah.
Very good.
Covers and other versions include Mel Torme.
I would love to hear Mel Torme sing Secret Agent Man.
Gilbert, there was a Spanish version called Hombre Secreto.
Oh!
Recorded by The Plugs.
It's in the movie Repo Man.
What was the name of that actor?
I met him, and I remembered his show, and he went white and was in shock.
Anthony Zerbe?
It may have been the guy who was the lone earthling who knew about every other body, everybody.
In the Invaders?
Yes, yes.
Roy Finnis.
I met him once.
I think he's around.
I said, yeah, I said, you were in that movie where the aliens had crooked pinkies.
And that's how you could tell.
And he was in shock.
I'll bet.
I'll bet.
And rightly so.
It appears in the movie Austin Powers.
It appears in the movie Bowfinger.
The series My Name is Earl.
It is entrenched in pop culture.
We knew Gilbert would get that one, didn't we?
We should try to get Johnny Rivers.
Yeah.
We should try to get a lot of these people.
This next one, I'm going to give you a hint about it.
It was written by a former podcast guest.
Ooh.
And it's one of my favorites.
It was on a label called Eric Records.
Yes, Eric Records. I don't know the story behind
that but it's a it's a black and red label i sound like daniel stern and diner remember when
he's obsessed with the uh the record labels yeah uh let's see if you know this one gil i know paul
does and i know paul did before the research
from 68 oh
From 68 Oh
I heard you getting married
You got it
You got it
Yeah
But it's the worst
That could happen
He's too good
He's too good
I think you know the writer too And this is the end. Oh. They say you're wearing it.
This guy's the one.
I think you know the writer, too.
Oh.
We had him here.
You sang with him.
Not Webb.
Jimmy Webb.
Jimmy Webb.
Wow.
Whatever you do, don't mention MacArthur Park in front of Gilbert, or we'll be in trouble here.
Well, I'll tell you.
I wrote here, this is a new
sub-segment on the show called
Of Interest to Gilbert.
I wrote this in the margin.
Of Interest to Gilbert, with
three exclamation points, is the fact that
this song was inspired by
the same girl that Jimmy was in love with, a girl
named Susan that inspired
MacArthur Park.
Susie Horton, who moved to Nevada and left him high and dry in California. The same girl that Jimmy was in love with, a girl named Susan that inspired MacArthur Park. Oh.
So there you go.
Susie Horton, who moved to Nevada and left him high and dry in California. How did you know that?
I did the research.
That's nice.
That's nice work, Paul.
Yes.
Also, by the time I get to Phoenix, inspired by the same girl.
Wow.
Yeah.
I love songs about heartache and longing, and this is a great one.
Yeah.
About the girl that got away.
And we know how the group got its name,
Brooklyn Bridge.
Tell us.
Brooklyn Bridge because
Johnny Maestro.
They put together these,
you hear the vocal harmony in the back.
There were three groups
that they put together.
The lead singer was Johnny Maestro,
which is great.
It made me think of Johnny Fontaine.
Johnny Fontaine and the Brooklyn Bridge.
But anyway,
there were 11 people in the band.
And one of the agents said, you know, I've got about as much chance of booking this band as I have in selling the Brooklyn Bridge.
Oh.
And that's how they became Brooklyn Bridge.
Jeez.
Yeah.
It says here it was originally on Buddha Records.
So possibly I don't have an original copy of the song.
But one of Jimmy's great ones.
B.J. Thomas covered it.
Remember B.J. Thomas? Yeah, absolutely.
Raindrops keep falling
on my head. The Lettermen.
You remember The Lettermen? Yes.
They covered it in 69, and
Jimmy recorded his own version of the song
for his 96th album, 10 Easy
Pieces, which is an album worth getting
if you guys like Jimmy Webb
as much as we do.
Can I plug somebody?
Please.
I keep running across
in the research.
I found that bit
about Susie Horton
from a site called
songfacts.com.
I know that site.
Have you seen that?
Yeah, it's a fun site.
They're great.
They got a lot of stuff
and I just wanted to say
that, you know,
give them a plug
and say it's been a great thing
and I also don't want them
to sue me for using their material.
So that's...
Wow, that was very professional of you, Paul.
Let's see what else we have
here. I'm going to try to stump Gilbert,
but these songs are too damn popular.
We will return to
Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing
Colossal Podcast
after this.
Oh, good.
I have something on this one called Also of Interest to Gilbert.
Sharon Stone's Pushy?
Not quite as good.
Not that interesting.
Not quite that interesting.
By the way, worst that can happen was December of 68.
And I have another song here from Frank's record collection
from December of 1968.
Gil, I know you know this one.
Why don't you tell me,
why don't you tell me
about a cup?
He'll get around to it.
He's cornering it.
Turn me around and worst of all
Fill me up
Buttercup baby
Just to let me down
And turn me around
And worst of all
You never call baby
When you say you will
But I love you still
I love you
But anyone, darling.
So build me up.
Buttercup, don't break my heart.
I'll be over at ten.
I told you time.
And I guess.
And you're late.
That ain't true.
Ain't getting no more. It's not you. You. That ain't true. Can't take any more.
It's not you.
Hound again.
Baby, try to find a little time and I'll make you happy.
I'll be home straight by the phone waiting for you.
Ooh, ooh, ooh.
You having a seizure?
Are you enjoying this?
Wow.
I'm impressed.
So who...
Is this in Gilbert and Dara's record collection?
By chance?
What was the group?
What was the group, Gil?
I don't know.
They had another hit called Baby, Now That I Found You, I Can't Let You Go.
Oh, wow.
Baby.
That's the one.
Now that I found you, I can't let you go, let you go.
Yep.
The group was the Foundations.
Oh, okay.
Yes, yes.
Now, you know, if you go to a Yankees game in the seventh inning stretch, they play New York, New York.
That's correct.
In Los Angeles.
But not Kate Smith.
Right.
In Los Angeles, at the seventh inning stretch, they play Build Me Up Buttercup.
At the Angels.
I'm sorry, the Angels.
Not the Dodgers.
They play Build Me Up Buttercup.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Also, what movie used it as its closing credits?
Mary.
Something about Mary.
Look at him.
That's a great scene.
Look at him.
Written by Mike Dabo and Tony McCauley.
Now, Mike Dabo was the lead singer of Manfred Mann.
Oh.
The Mighty Quinn.
Oh, come on without.
Come on within.
That's them.
And he also wrote Handbags and Glad Rags.
Do you guys know that?
That's a good.
Me too.
Rod Stewart did that.
A couple of people did that song.
But this is flagged
and I highlighted it
in yellow
of interest to Gilbert.
The co-writer is a guy
named Tony McCauley.
Why do I bring him up?
Well, he wrote
Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes.
Oh, okay.
Used in another
Farrelly Brothers movie.
Ah, yes.
That's in...
Yes.
Which one?
That's in Shallow Hal.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Because Gwyneth Paltrow's character is named Rosemary. Oh, okay. Because Gwyneth Paltrow's character is named
Rosemary. Oh, okay.
He wrote one
of my favorites, The Fifth Dimension's
Last Night I Didn't Get to Sleep at All.
But of interest to Gilbert,
he wrote, David
Soles, Don't Give Up on Us, Baby.
Don't give
up on us, baby.
Don't give up on us, baby. Don't make the wrong seem right.
The future isn't just one night.
It's written in the moonlight.
Suspended on the stars.
We can change ours.
You know, Tony McCauley's
alive. Yeah!
I'm so
turning on you.
Turning on Sandra Bullock. You are brilliant.
Come here. I will fuck you
down.
Doesn't take much.
That Sandra Bullock.
Who needs an 11-person band
when you've got Gilbert? Nobody.
Nobody.
Nobody.
He's like a human Mellotron.
Tony McCauley's around.
He's British.
Maybe he lives in the UK.
Maybe we should find him.
We should find all these songwriters and just make them listen as you butcher song after song after song.
You know that he was tracked down in the UK and he was seen with Papillon Sousa.
I didn't know that.
Or so the rumor goes.
Build Me Up Buttercup was on Pi Records, P-Y-E,
and also the Uni label.
And here's a little fun trivia about Build Me Up Buttercup,
a song I always loved.
Leaked recordings from the Let It Be sessions
revealed that the Beatles sang the song
along with other covers in between takes
of their own recordings.
Wow, I'd love to hear that version.
Isn't that pretty cool?
That is pretty cool.
Yeah.
Eddie Money covered it.
Eddie Money.
Weird.
Ex-cop.
I wonder if those Beatles
singing Build Me Up Buttercup
things are available anywhere.
That would be great.
Oh, let's see what else we have
in the record collection grab bag.
Okay. Do you remember what you paid for in the record collection grab bag. Okay.
Do you remember what you paid for
these 45s? I can't remember. I wonder.
You know, I'm wondering if I didn't
go back and buy
reissues in the 70s, because this
worst that could
happen is not on the original label,
because I had the originals,
and I probably replaced them after
I sold them or my mother threw them out.
Because they were worn out or something.
Or they wore out or something, or they cracked.
Because records used to crack and break.
When did Meet the Beatles come out?
Was that 64?
Sounds right.
Because I remember that one,
I did something well in school,
and my reward was the Meet the Beatles album,
which I remember cost $1 at that time.
Listen, in Roosevelt Field
in Long Island, they had a store
called Record World, and you could go
in and they would actually label,
I don't know if you remember this, they would
put the numbers, the chart position
of the song on the shelf.
The 45s were stacked in little
shelves, and you would check that the chart
was on display, and you'd look at the billboard chart,
and you'd say, okay, I want the 16 most popular song in the country,
and you'd go there, and there'd be 16.
That's pretty cool.
And you'd pull a stack out.
And I always remember those little plastic swastikas.
Sure, the adapters.
Yeah.
The little plastic swastikas.
We're all about nostalgia here.
Here's one that has some relevance to the show
because this is the first song that we used,
that we played to kick off One Hit Wonders
all those years ago.
Do you know it?
I know you do.
From May of 69.
Well, there's the title.
Okay.
What is it called?
I love the whole
mariachi thing.
Yes.
Nice vibrato.
Yeah.
It was on RCA Records
and Truth Records.
Truth.
Yeah.
You remember this?
Oh, absolutely.
Do you remember the artists?
No.
Paul knows.
I know.
Zeger and Evans.
Oh!
And for bonus points, where were Zeger and Evans both born?
I couldn't tell you.
I'm going to say...
Well, if you think about the song...
I'm going to say they were Texans.
Nebraska.
Well, I was way off.
Okay.
Why Nebraska?
Why is Nebraska relevant?
I don't know.
I don't know, but it doesn't sound like guys from Nebraska.
Well, they're sort of the poster boys because we were doing those one-hit wonder shows.
And when you think of one-hit wonders.
Yeah.
I mean, they are the only artists ever to have a chart-topping number one hit on both sides of the Atlantic and never chart again in either country.
You can get an inkling of why that happened when you see their follow-up single was called Mr. Turnkey.
Wow.
Not really a grabber.
I'm into Mr. Turnkey.
Not really a grabber.
It's an apocalyptic song, Gilbert.
Mr. Turnkey.
Not really a grabber.
It's an apocalyptic song, Gilbert.
The overriding theme of a world doomed
by its passive acquiescence
and overdependence
on its own overdone technologies.
As true now as it was then.
I would say.
And I was about to say
before you interrupted me,
it sounds like a song
about passive acquiescence.
You thought so?
It was about passive acquiescence.
Yeah. You're right again. And we can get
Zager because he's building custom
guitars in Lincoln.
What's Evans doing?
I don't want Zager.
I want Evans. Evans appears to be
either in very bad shape or gone.
It has been covered 60
times in 7 languages.
Oh man. And it was recorded by the Greek singer Takis Antoniadis in the 70s.
Sounds like Fotiadis.
Yes.
I love this, too, and this is kind of dark.
The song was included in the controversial 2001 Clear Channel radio memorandum,
which was a document distributed by Clear Channel to every station owned by the company.
distributed by Clear Channel to every station
owned by the company.
The list consisted
of 165 songs
to be considered
lyrically questionable
following the
September 11th attacks.
Oh my God.
They were not to play it.
I never remember
hearing about that at all.
It also turns up
in the year
in an episode of Futurama
called In the Year
25-25-25
which I mentioned
because our friend
Billy West.
Can I mention
my favorite cover?
Yeah.
It's the Slovenian industrial group.
Laibach.
Laibach covered this?
In their 1994 album.
I have all their records.
From the album NATO.
Gilbert opened for Laibach.
We could do a mini on Slovenian covers.
We sure could.
Do you remember all the bands that you opened for over the years? Not that many.
Belinda Carlyle.
That's a good one. I know that was one.
Can you name two others?
I was booked
a few times with
Buster Poindexter.
That was a lot of fun.
Love Buster Poindexter.
I would go
on first, he'd go on next,
and then I'd walk out in the middle of his show
and we'd play off each other.
We became like Martin and Luke.
I'm pretty sure Buster Poindexter covered Build Me Up Buttercup
as David Johansson in the David Johansson group.
So there's a callback.
So those are the only two you remember?
Belinda Carlisle?
That's, yeah. Did you open for the Trogansson group. Yeah. So there's a callback. So those are the only two you remember? Belinda Carlyle?
That's, yeah.
Did you open for the troggs?
The troggs.
Here's the last song.
And we'll get out of here.
And this is a very, very famous one.
A pretty popular song.
A well-known song by, I don't want to say an obscure group but certainly a tragic group and
it was written for a movie and I think you may know the movie too so here we go
if you want it he didn't hesitate do you want it anytime I can give it but you better
hurry cause it's going fast the minute I hear you say that there must be a catch Will you walk away from a pool and his money?
Stony!
Here it is.
Come and get it.
But you better hurry because it's going.
Okay.
Okay.
This was done by Badfinger.
Look at this.
And it was for the movie The Magic Christian with Ringo Starr.
And I think Christopher Lee may have been in it also.
Is Christopher Lee in The Magic Christian?
It's Peter Sellers.
Peter Sellers.
And Ringo.
And Ringo.
Wow.
I don't know if Christopher Lee. Well, if we had a researcher in the room, we could have him look that up.
This, my friends.
Nice work, Gilbert. This is an original issue. This is an original pressing. You get the picture had a researcher in the room, we could have him look that up. This, my friends, nice work, Gilbert.
This is an original issue.
This is an original pressing.
You get the picture of the apple, the green apple.
This is on Apple Records, my friends.
So in the research, it says that he was, that the band of, pardon me, evolved from an earlier group called the Ivies, which was the first group signed to the Apple label.
That's correct.
But I thought, wasn't James Taylor the first person?
He was one of the.
Do you know who signed James Taylor to Apple?
Peter Asher.
Former podcast guest.
Former podcast guest.
You are good, my friend.
That was a great show.
Peter Asher.
Yeah, Gilbert got to sing with Peter Asher.
Oh, that's right.
He sang World Without Love.
Yes!
Like a fever dream.
And he brought his guitar.
He was so into it.
Yeah.
Badfinger is a band with a tragic history.
Ooh.
Two members of the band, Tom Evans and Pete Hamm,
both took their own lives.
Ah!
It's a cautionary tale.
If you guys want to Google the story of Badfinger,
it's a cautionary tale about the music industry
and not at all a happy one.
But they had a couple of hits.
They had Day After Day, I Remember Finding Out About You. Do you know that song? Oh, yes. industry and not a not at all a happy one uh but they had a couple of hits they had day after day
i remember finding out about you you know that song oh yes yes did we
bad finger now wait wait wait wait did did paul mccartney write... He did. Yeah, he did. I was just going to bring that up. He wrote it for the movie.
Excellent.
Yeah.
Excellent.
And he was the only
Beatle performing
on the track.
It was officially
released as a
Beatle song
on 1996
Anthology 3
compilation.
Did you see this weird
how the group
got its name?
Yes, I know
how the group
got its name.
For the song With a Little Help From My Friends, which we all know,
was apparently the working title was Bad Finger Boogie.
I don't know why, but that's where Bad Finger came from.
According to this, Elton John covered it in the 60s,
and I've never heard that version, but I'm going to track it down.
And I think they once asked one a bad finger, like, do you think you sounded like an early Beatles ripoff?
And they said, oh, we hope so.
One of their other songs was No Matter What.
No matter what you do, I will always be with you.
That's it.
You're good.
They had hits.
And every one of those songs is such a catchy song.
Catchy as hell.
That one sounds like it could have been written by McCartney or one of the Beatles, too.
Absolutely.
They had a lot of problems with their record company.
What was the name of that song?
No Matter What.
No Matter What.
Now, what problems did they have?
It's a long story.
Oh.
And I'll tell you about it after we get off the air.
Oh, that's horrible.
Because it's too goddamn depressing.
Most recently, McCartney shared vocals
with somebody we're trying to get
on this show, Alice Cooper,
in a cover of the song
by the super group
Hollywood Vampires,
which appears on their debut album.
In addition to Cooper
and McCartney on lead vocals,
piano and bass,
the band features
Johnny Depp and Joe Perry.
So I'd like to get my hands on that
and hear that.
I also want...
Paul's apparently been playing it live
on and off over the years.
He played it in Italy
in November of 2011.
So he's put it back in the live show.
I have a single piece of research
before we end the episode.
Quickly, sir.
Finally!
No matter...
I've got to get this in.
No Matter What was written by Ryan Stevenson.
Does that ring a bell?
Does not.
Does not.
There's a dead end there.
Oh, as always.
That's why we called you.
Did you see how fast my fingers were moving?
Closing the show with a thud.
With a whimper, not a bang.
So we'll invite our listeners to dig into your into your 45s post about them
suggest songs
or maybe send some in
see if we can stump Gilbert
yes
we're gonna do one
with Paul's record collection
you got 45s?
I got 45s
we're gonna do one
with Paul's record collection
in the future
and we're gonna do
Gilbert's record collection
yeah
in the future
and you can stump me
yes
you still have them
in the house huh?
yeah
the 45s
yeah
what era are we talking about? well I think mostly 60s and you can stump me. Yes. You still have them in the house, huh? Yeah. The 45s. Yeah.
What era are we talking about?
Well, I think mostly 60s.
Can't wait.
Yeah.
All right, I'm going to sit in your chair next time.
Okay. You get to be with Martindale.
Take us out, boy.
Okay, this has been Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions,
where we studied
a passive
acquiescence.
I think it was a squeeze song.
Yes.
Passive acquiescence.
That's an obscure reference.
See you next time. Colossal Obsessions Colossal Obsessions