Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini-Episode #108: One Hit Wonders, 1972
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Give it a crack, come on some obsessions. Hi, this is...
I want a separate recording.
I want a bootleg of all your false starts.
Because I want to listen.
I'll listen to it in my dotage.
Well, I've only done it like about 50,000 times.
I'll have the time.
I still need practice.
I'll have the time to listen.
Okay.
Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrey,
and this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions
with my co-host Frank Santopadre,
once again at Nutmeg,
and our engineer is Frank Berterosa
and
Paul Rayburn
Yes
See I
I'm sure
if you were to ask Paul
his own name he would be looking
it up for the next three hours
and he wouldn't be able
to find it. You have selective Alzheimer's.
Yeah, yes.
That's what you have.
You bring a tear to my eye.
I don't know if I can go on.
Well, we haven't done one of these in a dog's age, and that is one-hit wonders, which our fans are demanding.
Yes.
At least four of them.
which our fans are demanding.
Yes.
At least four of them.
We started this a while back as a lark.
I remember the first one we did was we were talking about Zeger and Evans in the year 2525.
Oh, yes.
And I don't know.
I got just a thought one day that we would have fun doing these,
and I didn't know you would take to it as well as you did,
and you fell in love with the format.
Oh, yes.
Oh, can I jump in on something that has nothing to do with what we're talking about?
Now's the time.
Last, on one of our previous shows, I mentioned I recommended the documentary Best Boy.
Oh, yeah.
Ira Wall.
And said there was a sequel made.
Right.
And I couldn't think of it, so of course our fans...
Of course.
And a bunch of you wrote in and said it was a sequel,
was called Best Man.
Right.
And so how old is Philly now?
Philly...
He was 53 when they made Best Boy?
He is still alive, and I think he's like 87.
Right.
He's in assisted living, and he's 80.
He's pushing 90.
How about that?
That's amazing.
Yeah.
I haven't seen the original film, but now I'm dying to see it.
Yeah.
As long as you stop me in my tracks to completely in a different direction.
There's something I wanted to just throw out there, too, to our listeners,
and then we'll get back to One Hit Wonders,
and that is that we get all of the Photoshopps that people send.
Have you seen them recently?
Oh, yes.
Somebody did us in Of Mice and Men.
Oh, no, I didn't see that.
I'll share it with you after we record.
Yeah.
I think I was Lon Chaney and you were.
Or maybe it was the other way around.
But sometimes we don't respond to them.
We get a lot of stuff from people.
We're very great.
Amazing stuff.
Amazing art, the original art, the Photoshop's, the all kinds of things that people post on
the listener society that Eric runs.
Eric Fusco runs with Rob Smentek.
And we're really grateful.
We don't, we don't acknowledge all of them because there's so many of them coming in
and we don't have the time.
We'll do an episode where we basically will talk to these people.
We'll acknowledge these people individually.
A lot of them just make me laugh when I see it.
Really funny stuff.
It's a great Cesar Romero drawing that showed up recently.
I think that was recently.
Oh, that one.
Yes.
That was done by a comic book artist.
His name is escaping me at the moment.
But that's a case.
That's just a great example of where I can't remember the name of the person that did it, but we'll compile these things.
And if someone could do an artwork of Danny Thomas.
Oh, no.
Don't put that out there.
They could just use the poop emoji.
That would come in handy.
You've just opened up Pandora's coffee table.
Just opened up Pandora's coffee table.
And the other thing I wanted to add to that, too, is if anybody has written us on the Facebook page on instant messaging or there's the Gilbert page, there's my page, there's the Listener Society.
There are so many messages that have backed up. I apologize.
I will eventually, I or someone eventually will get to them.
I try to respond to as many of them as I see or as I can get to.
There are hundreds.
I just found a bunch of them.
I don't work Facebook that well.
And I just said to my wife the other day, I just found a bunch of fan emails that I got for the show from 2014.
Yeah, hey, could you guys do our podcast?
It's next week.
Hey, could you guys do our podcast?
It's next week.
So I apologize, and I stumble onto a lot of them.
I'm terrible.
He's terrible at it.
You know, a lot of them are bill collectors, so don't even worry about it.
We don't have a staff, too, so we'll get to as many as we can when we can.
So I apologize, but keep them coming.
So let's get back to one hit wonders we never got to we started with 1966 and we worked our way all the way up through 71 and this is 1972
and i know you had your transistor radio in 1972 and you were listening to some of these songs
some of them frankie has queued up some of them we'll just talk about. Some of them Paul will look up. But January 1st, 1972, this is a one-hit wonder.
An American Trilogy by Mickey Newberry.
Do you know this one at all?
We don't have it queued up, but we have the next one queued up.
This was Dixie, All My Troubles, All My Trials, and Battle H battle him in the Republic as a montage.
Does this mean anything to you?
Not so far.
Went to number 26, and it was actually covered by Elvis and appears in the movie Elvis in
Concert, or Elvis on Tour.
That was the first one-hit wonder of 1972, January 1st.
Mickey Newberry, I don't remember that.
Excuse me.
Thank you, Frank, for cleaning
this up.
It's all staying in there, by the way. I'm not cutting
any of this up.
I know Mickey Newberry, and he has a great song.
I mean, I don't know him personally, but he had
another great song about
the whore who tried to find
the guy. Do you know this one? No, I don't,
but look it up. I will look it up. Let me look
it up and tell you about it.
Oh, good.
He won't say anything else for the rest of the show.
I'll get back to you next episode.
This next one appeared in the movie Anchorman, believe it or not.
Went to number four.
Wait, would this be Afternoon Delight?
No, your years are off.
That's coming in a later episode.
Oh, okay.
This is a song called Sunshine by Jonathan Edwards.
Sunshine's gone, she's tried to run my...
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
1972.
How much does it cost?
I'll buy it.
We found one he knows.
Time is all we've lost.
I'll try it.
You can't even run your own life
I'll be damned if you run mine
Nicely done.
He's got it.
You didn't have to cue that one up.
You knew it.
This one we do have cued up.
And this is more timely than ever
as the awful Pepsi commercial has been in the news.
Oh, jeez.
And I think people know where we're going with this one.
It went to number 13,
January 15th,
way back in 1972.
Frankie?
I'd like to build the world to sing
and perfect up
but oh!
Grow apple trees
and honeybees
and blue-eyed
turtle doves.
I'd like to teach She's got the lyrics there.
Wait a second.
Perfect harmony
with the lyrics.
I'd like to hold it
in my arms and
keep it calm.
Yeah, that was I'd like to teach the world
to sing in perfect harmony by the
Hillside Singers.
And that was for Coca-Cola.
For Coca-Cola, which a lot of people, it's funny because we planned this episode even before that crazy Pepsi commercial with Kendall Jenner aired.
Now everybody's talking about this.
They're comparing it to the classic Coke commercial.
Well, because one made sense and one was an insult to everyone.
Yes, yes.
The Kendall Jenner commercial has turned
out to be quite the debacle. This has an interesting story. In the In Memoriam episode this year,
one of the guys who passed that we talked about was Bill Backer, who was the ad man who worked
for McCann Erickson, who came up with this. And the story goes, he was at an airport in ireland he was on a layover with a songwriter
named roger cook a roger cook wrote long cool woman in a black dress for the hollies and they
were at a layover and he scrawled this on a napkin i'd like to buy the world a coke and roger cook
as the story goes uh put it to music. And the rest is history.
And then it was recorded again by the New Seekers.
So it was recorded twice.
Well, it was originally recorded for the commercial.
I think so.
And then when it was so popular, they reworded it and released it as a single.
But it's also like one of those classic earworm songs.
You get it in your head and you got it for weeks.
Oh, it's horrible.
Oh, yeah.
But scrawled on a napkin during a layover and became an iconic ad.
So that's the story of that one.
And I love that it became the Mad Men series finale.
That's right.
That's right.
And I was saying to you, Frankie, that I think that and somebody could look this up
if we had a researcher here who was in the
room with us.
That I think Don Draper
was loosely based
this may be bullshit, but I saw it somewhere
loosely based on this guy Bill Backer.
And it's interesting that they both have alliterative names.
Or that he
was an amalgam of lots of people, but this guy
Bill Backer being one of them. If only there was a way to Google that.
If only there was a way to figure it out.
Craig, not you too.
So I'm going to fly through some of these other songs.
Once You Understand by Think, January 15th, went to 23.
White Lies, Blue Eyes by Bullet.
Gilbert, just raise your hand if you know any of these.
These didn't chart very high.
Kiss an Angel Good Morning by Charlie Pryde.
That one I remember vaguely.
Charlie Pryde, who's I think still with us.
I think so.
Black country star.
Did a lot of work.
I think he had his own summer variety show or something of that nature.
Here's another one that we have queued up.
And the lead singer of this, Sonny Garacci, just passed away a couple of that nature. Here's another one that we have queued up. And the lead singer of this, Sonny Garacci,
just passed away a couple of weeks ago.
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Quiet and blue like the sky among over you.
Close enough.
And if I can't find my way back home, It just wouldn't be fair
Cause branches and you are the moments we two can share
Nicely done.
Wow.
You know, it's a shame people can't see the emotion on Gilbert's face.
It is.
It's staggering.
Yeah, he's like Celine Dion.
You sang that originally?
It was sung by Climax.
We should probably keep it that way.
If Sonny Garacci wasn't dead now,
or wasn't dead before, he really...
The thing is, I didn't expect Gilbert to come in.
I was looking at the computer.
He has that effect on people. expect Gilbert to come in. I was looking at the computer. Yeah. And he jogged you.
He has that effect on people.
Sonny Garacci was
also the lead singer from a band
called The Outsiders. Time Won't
Let Me. Oh, great one.
Time won't let me.
Time won't let me.
Time won't let
me.
He's feeling it tonight, Paul.
He is a man on a mission tonight.
We don't need to print out any lyrics.
We're good.
Precious and Few was also my prom theme, I'd like to point out. Back in Mineola High School.
Oh, that's perfect.
Yeah, I did not attend, but I was told.
We will return to Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast after this.
And now back to the show.
Here's another one.
Joy.
And this was the instrumental to Beethoven's, do you know this?
Ode to Joy.
Oh.
By Apollo.
Oh, sorry.
Apollo 100 featuring Tom Parker. Yes. Used very prominently in Boogie Nights. Oh, sorry. Apollo 100 featuring Tom Parker.
Yes.
Used very prominently in Boogie Nights.
Oh, yeah.
Actually.
We don't have it queued up.
But this next one, I think you do know.
And this one has Gilbert Gottfried Amazing Colossal Podcast relevance.
This went to number 10, March 4th of 1972.
relevance. This went to number 10, March 4th of 1972.
Oh, I don't know the words to this.
Big hit.
Da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da
Caddy Mac told me back
that I love you You're dirty and sweet I'm mad It's Bang-A-Gong, Get It On.
Oh, yeah.
Bang-A-Gong, Get It On.
That's it.
Get It On.
Right, by the late Mark Bolan and T-Rex.
Do you know why this song has Gilbert Gottfried significance, podcast significance?
Because two of the backup singers are Mark Volman and Howard Kalin.
Wow.
How cool is that?
Yeah.
Where did you dig that one up?
Yeah.
In my research.
Background singers and T-Rex.
In my research for Howard Kalin when we had him on the show.
Yeah, bang-a-gong, get it on.
Went to number 10.
And Mark Boland died tragically at the age of 29 in a car accident.
A glam rocker.
Next up was Softly Whispering I Love You by the English Congregation.
You should see the way Gilbert's staring at me as I say these titles.
That was March 4th.
You know, it's funny so that makes at
least two groups called congregation yeah because there was the uh dave oh there was the mike curb
congregation mike curb congregation he became the lieutenant governor of california oh wow yeah Mike Curb. And Mike Curb. Good trivia, huh? Yeah. Mike Curb sang, oh, wait a second.
Feels like I'm made out of gingerbread.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Lip smacking.
Oh, oh.
Lip licking, crumb picking gingerbread.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Can't talk about rainy
weather now.
I finally got
myself together now.
Sweet, tasty, and
tan, sweet gingerbread
man.
Wow. Sweet, tasty, and
tan, sweet gingerbread
man. You have completely stumped me.
Was it called sweet gingerbread man. You have completely stumped me. Was it called Sweet Gingerbread Man?
Yes.
My Curb Congregation?
Yes.
I know Burning Bridges only from Kelly's Heroes.
Wow, that was impressive.
That was used in the movie The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart.
I know the movie.
With Don Gordon.
Yeah, I know the movie.
Wow, what a reference.
Yeah.
Gil, you impress me more each week.
Yeah.
Moving forward, we'll do Jungle Fever by the-
I got a feeling couldn't trade for anything for Ola Beans.
Is this Jungle Fever?
In Ola world, feel like I'm made out of gingerbread.
Okay, go ahead.
So here's something.
Go ahead.
I can throw something in there.
You laugh at Sweet Gingerbread Man.
Yes, I did.
It was recorded later by Sarah Vaughn and Michelle Legrand.
Wow, impressive.
How can that be?
That can't be right.
Impressive.
Twirl in a cane made of peppermint.
All right, let's move on.
Jungle Fever went to number eight by the Chakachas or the Chakachas.
Ain't Understanding Mellow by Brenda Lee Eager.
Gilbert, wave your hand.
Oh, wait a second.
That one sounds very familiar.
How about Crazy Mama by J.J. Cale?
Hmm.
April 8th.
J.J. Cale was a folky kind of guy.
I believe so.
Suavecito by Malo.
Run, Run, Run by JoJo Gunn.
That vaguely I have.
Mr. Can't You See by Buffy St. Marie.
Buffy St. Marie became a bitch.
Oh, yes, yes. Can't you see? Oh, can't you see? No, that's a different one. I don't know See by Buffy St. Marie. Buffy St. Marie became a... Oh, yes, yes.
Can't you see, oh, can't you see.
No, that's a different one.
I don't know.
I don't know.
She was a Cree Indian, a Canadian Indian.
I remember Buffy St. Marie.
Yeah, she had a big career in variety.
Who sang that one out of Joe something?
He was the Indian guy.
Joe something? Yeah, no Indian guy. Joe something?
Yeah.
No, I don't know.
He was like, they made more than one.
Billy Jack?
Billy Jack.
Yeah, that was the, no, that was.
That was another Indian girl.
Yeah, I don't know who that is.
Buffy St. Marie had a great song called Universal Soldier.
You remember that about the sort of soldier who appeared in every war, you know,
decades of war? She wrote up Where We Belong,
the song with Joe Cocker,
Jennifer Warnes.
Officer and a Gentleman.
Really? She wrote that. She had talent.
She did it in a TV career, too.
Buffy St. Marie, that one went to
38. Hot Rod Lincoln by
Commander Cody. Cody and the Lost Planet
Airmen.
Something I've been thinking about.
I'm going to get mistaken, but I can't stop thinking about my Hot Rod Lincoln.
Hot Rod Lincoln.
Drive me to drinking, but I can't stop thinking about my Hot Rod Lincoln.
My sister used to love that song and play it endlessly.
Now, here's one I know you like, Gil, and that is Crosby and Nash.
Oh, yes.
June 17th, 1972.
There I am.
Oh, I was.
Great.
She's my aunt.
Hey, hey.
Dara's feeling it.
Oh, you know what?
You know what?
Can we?
Yeah, Frank.
Yeah.
I don't know the first part.
Can you print that out?
Paul didn't get it to you?
No.
I'm really enjoying this evening.
This is turning into an hour episode.
We've got to move through this if it's going to be a mini.
I know, but I still want to sing Immigration.
Okay, we'll do it at the end.
Yeah, because Gil is a very political guy.
Let me pull it up. Thanks, i'm gonna keep going uh that went to 36 barely charted it was
the only time that nash and crosby uh charted as a duo top 40 and just barely made it in they
seem like they would have had like you know know, 500 hits. Right, right, right.
Let's see.
Long-haired lover from Liverpool by little Jimmy Osmond.
The littlest Osmond.
Oh, yes.
Jimmy, who was the youngest performer to have a number one hit at the age of nine.
Would Billy J. Kramer have known these guys?
I don't think so.
Fellow Liverpudlians, wrong generation.
No.
Well, yeah.
I think it was just a song
about a guy from Liverpool.
Little Jimmy Osmond
was from Utah.
Like the rest of the Osmonds.
Amazing Grace
by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
Anything?
Went to 11?
I have all their albums.
I know you do.
I've Been Lonely for So Long
by Frederick Knight.
And if we're going to do Immigration Man at the end, I was going to skip this one and bring it back.
But we'll bring it up, Frankie.
Oh!
Oh!
I said I love you.
I don't know why.
I wonder if it's true
And you make me cry
I know that you're a ghost
And I love you too
But I got one solution
Gotta start anew
How do you do?
Oh no
I think I'm not enough if I can be the poor.
And he can say, well, I've been doing.
And he will know.
And I can go for driving, boy.
And you will see that I can do anything
for. I'll do
you too.
Are you finished?
I looked it up
on Paul's computer. It turns out Malfin
McNeil went on to become a long-running
detective series on CBS. Malfin McNeil.
Yes, exactly.
A big hit in the 70s
i didn't know that
i think mouth is dead
we lost mouth
but we talked about this
sadly we lost mouth
this came up in a previous episode
we weren't even on the year
and somehow you started singing this song
and i'm trying to remember the context
i think they were from new zealand
either that or norway or some strange singing this song. And I'm trying to remember the context. I think they were from New Zealand.
Either that or... Or Norway or some strange...
Or Holland.
I hear a call for research.
It was.
I think Holland.
I think it was the Netherlands.
You're right.
I think it was the Netherlands.
But she's around.
I did the research at the time.
We got to talk to her.
We got to call McNeil and ask about mouth?
She was cute back then.
Well, that was 1972, my friend.
All right.
But Frank, while Paul's looking that up, we're going to keep plowing through this.
Day by day from Godspell.
Oh, day by day.
Day by day.
Oh, dear Lord.
These things I pray.
Written by Stephen Schwartz, who went to my high school.
A little trivia.
See, leave it to the Jews to write this Christ music.
Isn't that interesting?
Yeah.
The Netherlands is right.
Yeah, Mouth of Mania.
The Netherlands is right.
How Do You Do, 1972.
Topped the Dutch chart and became a top ten hit in the U.S.
I think it was a Eurovision Song Contest winner, too.
And just to be clear, the Dutch chart only has three songs.
Really?
Not much of an achievement.
Very good.
Layla by Derek and the Dominoes.
Layla.
Iconic song.
Layla was one of those in competition with MacArthur's Park as the longest song.
Seven plus minutes.
Yeah.
Inspired by a seventh century love story,
Layla and Majnoon.
And don't they, Layla, I think is what they're playing
in Goodfellas.
It is.
When he thinks the helicopters are chasing him.
At one point, yeah, I think so.
And also Harry Nielsen's Jump in the Fire.
Oh, yes.
Is also used in that.
In Goodfellas, isn't it when they start finding all the bodies as the instrumental part from
Lady and the Beast?
Oh, yes.
Yes, it is.
Yes, that's it.
They find, what's his name in the frozen truck?
Yeah.
Carbone.
Yeah, that's when it starts playing.
Ding, ding.
Right.
Ding.
But, of course, written by Clapton about his unrequited love for Patty Boyd, for George
Harrison White.
He did the wonderful redo of that for MTV Unplugged.
It's great.
He did the acoustic version.
It's a much more down, quieter thing.
It's terrific.
They're both good.
We're going to fly through this so Dara doesn't kill me for doing a 60-minute mini-episode.
Joey Heatherton charted, Gil, with Gone, the song Gone Gone Joey is still with us at the age of 72
She once punched a woman at the passport
I remember
Yes
Yes, and her husband, her ex-husband Lance Renssel also got into some trouble
Hold your head up
And her father, of course, was the merry mailman.
The merry mailman, Ray Heatherton.
Hold Your Head Up by Argent.
Oh.
Hold your head up.
Hold your head up.
Yeah.
Hold your head up.
That went to number five.
Motorcycle Mama by Sail Cat.
A song I always liked, but I didn't cue it up.
Interesting because it was a concept album, part of a concept album with a biker theme.
And this is interesting.
The art on the album was done by Mad Magazine's Jack Davis.
Wow.
Al Jaffe's old friend, the legendary Jack Davis.
Small Beginnings by Flash.
And then this one by Daniel Boone from September.
I think I'll take a walk in the park.
I don't remember
any of the words to this.
I remember the song.
It's a beautiful day.
Oh, okay.
Remember this one?
Yes, I remember the song, but I never knew the words to it. I remember the song. It's a beautiful day. Remember this one? Yes, I remember
the song, but I never knew
the words to it.
If you're going to play
it, though, you've got to turn the damn thing up.
It's a great song. It's a great feel-good song.
Trying to get through these in 72 is
a long year of one-hit wonders.
Uriah Heep with
Easy Livin' in September.
September 23rd.
Popcorn by Hot Butter, which we've talked about.
Another instrumental.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
That's right.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Hot Butter.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
And there was even, I even know the bridge to that.
Yeah, oh yes.
Very good.
Thank you.
But the bridge was. Yeah. Oh, yes. Very good. Thank you.
But the bridge was... Very good.
He remembers the bridge to Popcorn by Hot Butter.
That was also the theme of the Sunday morning movie that used to play Abedin Costello on PIX Channel 11.
Here's another classic by Arlo Guthrie.
And the only time he charted.
Written by the great Steve Goodman.
Frankie?
Oh, yes.
A classic.
Nice groove there.
Steve Goodman, yes. A classic. Nice groove there. Oh, Steve Goodman, great.
Riding on the city of New Orleans.
Illinois Central Monday morning train.
Great stuff.
You got information on this one?
City of New Orleans.
On the city of New Orleans?
Do we think it was a real Orleans. I don't know. On the city of New Orleans? Do we think it was a real train?
I don't know.
There's some story about Steve Goodman.
Good morning, America!
How are you?
I'm proud to know you.
I'm your native son.
Wow.
That one shocked me almost as much as the way Daniel Moon started.
On some of these tunes, I don't know if you noticed,
there are three of us and we're getting five and six part harmony.
It's just way the hell off.
But I love that song.
And Steve Goodman, another guy we lost very young,
didn't live to see his beloved Cubs win the
World Series.
From the Beginning by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.
That's a good one.
39. I mean, that's like an album cut
kind of song.
That's a rock anthem. I don't think of it as a
top 40 song, but it was. Good Time
Charlie's Got the Blues by Danny...
Some gotta win,
some gotta lose.
That's it.
Good time Charlie's got the blues.
You ain't kidding.
Danny O'Keefe.
You play too long, you lose your
wife. You play too long,
you lose your life.
That's it. You don't know which ones he's gonna know.
Yeah. All the Young Dudes by Martha Hoople.
Martha Hoople.
Can I go back to City of New Orleans very quickly?
Just to say that that was actually the train at Illinois Central Railroad from Chicago to New Orleans.
There you go.
And Goodman used to travel.
Well, he was a Chicagoan, Steve Goodman.
That's right.
But he used to travel on a train to visit his wife's family, which must have been down the other end of the line.
How did he get Arlo Guthrie to record the song? I think there's a story attached to that.
Let me check that out.
As I fly through these. Convention 72 by the Delegates. And that was one of those novelty
records where they would basically set up the interview and then play a snippet of music.
Oh my God! Now, was that one company that put all those out?
The guy that did them was Dickie Goodman. But I'm not sure he did this.
This may have been a precursor to Dickie Goodman.
But it's like Senator Eagleton is here with Governor McGovern.
How did Senator McGovern?
Put the bomb in.
Right.
Yeah.
They'd start singing Rocket Man for no reason.
And we've got a Martian who's just landed.
Well, Dickie Goodman did them a little later, but this
may have been the first one of those. The Delegates
1972.
Convention 1972 by the Delegates.
Then there was Thunder and Lightning
by Chai Coltrane
or Shy Coltrane.
And finally,
American City Suite by
Cashman and West. Terry Cashman
better known for talking baseball. There was also Cashman, Pastilli, and West. Terry Cashman, better known for talking baseball.
There was also Cashman, Pastilli, and West.
Well, look at you.
There you go.
Look at you, Mr. Researcher.
Who did that.
So they're at the Quiet Night Bar in Chicago.
There you go.
That's the story.
All right.
Goodman saw Arlo Guthrie.
Steve Goodman saw Arlo Guthrie, asked to play a song for him.
Arlo Guthrie said, buy me a beer, and I'll listen until I finish the beer.
And Steve Goodman bought him a beer, played the song, and before he finished the beer,
he said he wanted to record it.
And the only time he hit the charts.
There we go.
Pretty good story.
Son of Woody Guthrie.
It was from the album Hobo's Lullaby.
Yeah.
There you go.
I urge our listeners to check out the music of Steve Goodman.
So what do you want to take us out on, Gil?
Which do you wish you want to close on?
Okay.
Pick one.
Make it one that you have the lyrics for.
I'm going to...
This one I actually know a lot of.
Okay.
But, yeah.
Because I always like this song.
Okay, Frankie, we're going to do it.
Okay.
You want to sign off before?
Oh, okay.
This has been Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions.
Go for it.
I was at the immigration scene
Shining and feeling clean
Could it be a sin?
I got stopped by the immigration man
He says he doesn't know if he can I got stopped by the immigration man.
He says he doesn't know if he can.
Let me in.
Let me in.
Immigration man.
Can I cross the line and pray I can stay another day? Let me in.
Immigration man.
I won't tell you a line today.
I can't see it anyway.
There he was with his immigration face
Giving me a paper chase
But the sun was coming
Cause all I want
He looked into my eyes
Under over my face
And sent me running.
Won't you let me in? Don't leave me.
Immigration man,
can I cross the line and pray
I can stay another day?
Won't you let me in?
Immigration man,
I won't tow your line today.
I can't see it anyway
with my integration form
it's big enough to keep
me warm when the
cold winds coming
so go where you will
as long as you think you can
you better watch out
watch out for the man
Anywhere you're going