Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - One-Hit Wonders of 1968-'69

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

GGACP presents this ENCORE of a 2016 mini-episode celebrating the bands and musicians that made a single appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 charts -- 55 (and 54) years ago. In this episode: Zager and Evans predict the future, Iron Butterfly garbles a rock classic, Jimmy Webb pens a hit for The Brooklyn Bridge and Gilbert reinterprets "Angel of the Morning." PLUS: "Dark Shadows"! Strawberry Alarm Clock! Paging Mason Williams! The musical stylings of Pigmeat Markham! And Olivia Newton-John's grandpa wins a Nobel Prize! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Gilbert Gottfried, and I'm here with my co-host, Frank Santopadre, and this is Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions. You betcha. Ah. I'm sorry. I'm still laughing at what you just said off mic. Unfortunately, people don't know the names of the parties involved. Let's not repeat it.

This is part two. You really missed something, ladies and gentlemen. You'll have to try to find the tape of what you were talking about. They could take me out and get me drunk. Or Paul Rayburn is here. So last week we did an episode of One Hit Wonders. Yes. As a response to our millions of fans who requested that we do some kind of music.

Demanding it. They were marching on watching it. With pitchforks and torches. Yes. Please do a music episode. And to give it a little back story, I was telling you guys about the anniversary of the song Zeger and Evans in the year 25. Oh, yes. And we got to talking about songs from the 60s,

one hit wonders, and we went through 66 and 67, and this is 68. This is the beginning of 68, January 20th, 1968, and our trusty engineer, Frank Verderosa, is here, and Frank kindly cued some of these up.

So we're going to see if you have a reaction to these. Much like I have to pen a shill. Yes. Oh, Lord, this is a silly episode. So, Frankie, if you will, this is John Fred and his Playboy Band. Does this mean anything to you, Gilbert? That sounds familiar. What was the name?

Here we go. Oh, God. Judy in Disguise. Oh! Paul got it. Judy in disguise. That's what you are. A lemonade pie and a brand new car.

Come to me tonight. Come to me tonight. Judy in disguise. With diamonds. With glasses. With glasses. And a brand new car. That's it.

All right. And, you know, the reason for the mix-up was actually quite a deliberate one on their hand. Yes. Because at the time, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was a big hit. Right. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was a big hit. Right. So they decided on Judy in the Skies with Glasses. Which completely eclipsed the Beatles song once it had appeared.

A far superior work of art. Oh, yes. And yet this song went to number one. It went to number one. There you go. January 1968. John Fred and his Playboy Band. And I'd like to throw in something since you brought up Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

On the subject of misheard lyrics. Okay. You know, people have been whole books about it. Like the Creedence song, There's a Bathroom on the Right. Oh, yeah. My mother's best friend Connie thought the line in The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes was a girl with kaleidos goes by.

And I remember thinking, why would anyone write a lyric about someone with an intestinal disorder? But there you have it. Now, in that song in Greece. Yes. You know, Beauty School Dropout? No, no no no the other one more upbeat number grease lightning no uh you're the one that i want i think it is i think it's the one that i'll just keep guessing uh there is one line one lyric in there that olivia newton john sings that i always think uh that she's saying

your erection really yeah there's paul you want to look that up and we'll get to the bottom are you sure that's the that's the song i think so yeah this is the one this is the one jeez This is the one. This is the one? Jeez. Thank you, Frankie. Okay, at the end of the song, she sings, if you're filled with affection and you're too shy to convey, meditate my direction. Meditate my direction? Yeah, I that i was always thinking like masturbate my erection on your part yeah i would watch olivia newton

john and thinking oh my god she's saying masturbate my erection that's far superior to what they actually... Very important. Yeah. Olivia Newton-John, I believe, is a Jew. Oh, come now. Yes. Olivia Newton-John is, I heard, is a Jew and has these Jew intellectual parents. Well, I think her grandfather was a famous scientist. Brilliant scientist. Isaac Newton. No, no no no no not back that

far i think it was einstein that would explain the jew part frank frank i don't know my own name paul rayburn is here our researcher and he can look that up she is a jew and find out who her grandfather was i believe her grandfather was uh in fact i saw in some article somewhere, they said about the school he went to, and they said that school, the people who go to that consider people who go to Harvard cute. Really? Yeah. What do you found? I will report back.

All right, you'll come back to us. I got the Wikipedia up. We'll move on. Just look up Olivia Newton-John Jew. That's all I want to know. That's all I want to know. Go to Jewpedia. Let's see. Where is her

life and career? All right. You guys, let's go to the next one. Go to Jugal. All right. Frankie, here's another one.

I don't know what you called up here, Frankie. I'm the president of my company. Jugal it. Okay. Oh,

he's got something. So we got, she was born to a Welsh father and a Berlin-born mother, but her mother's family had left Germany before World War II because her maternal grandfather

was Jewish. How about that? And her maternal grandmother was of paternal Jewish ancestry. I can't find a scientist yet, but I'll keep working on it. Yeah, look for the scientist. Olivia Newton-John, Jew.

Gilbert, right again. Yes. Don't you ever get tired of being right? All right, Frankie, what do we got here? Do you have this Hugo Montenegro song? Oh, oh God. From 1968. Oh, what's the name? I don't think we cued that one up. You didn't cue that one up? Let's skip it. But what's the

name? Oh, here, I got one for you. That was the good, the bad, and the ugly theme. It charted. Oh, da-da-da-da-da. Yeah, 1968. Let me close off Olivia was the good, the bad, and the ugly theme. It charted. Oh. Yeah, 1968. Let me close off Olivia Newton-John. Go ahead. Her mother was the eldest child of the Nobel Prize winning atomic physicist Max Born. How about that?

Frank. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Olivia Newton-John's grandfather was a Nobel Prize winner. Have we had any Nobel Prize winners on the show? Artie Lange. Gary Busey. Okay, Gil. Wait, I actually had the Good, Bad, and the Ugly queued up. Okay.

This one I can't sing along to. But you remember that this charted. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Hugo Montenegro, 1968.

Here's one that I know you'll know and love. This is from, thank you, Frankie. This is from July of 1968. July 6th was its peak date, its peak position date, by Shorty Long. Hear ye, hear ye, the Colt's in session. Oh, my God. Here comes your judge. Here comes the judge.

Here comes the judge. Here comes the judge. Here comes the judge. Here come the judge! Here come the judge! Here come the judge! Here come the judge! Here come the judge! Yeah, I remember. Yeah. Because on Rowan and Martin's laughing, they were having both, like, Sammy Davis Jr.

and Flip Wilson going, here come the judge. Right. That's right. And then they dug up, he was still alive, Pigmeat Markham. That's right. The original. Yes, the original. Here come the judge. And it used to be something like, you know, everybody, he is coming. Now, he is coming. You better not be loud because he come to judge and he's looking pretty proud.

He come to judge. They should have gotten Nipsey. Yeah. Oh, my God. Because it was rhyme and rhyme. Now, didn't Pigmeat's version also charge? Funny you should say that, Paul. You've been looking at the list. You've been cheating at our notes.

Here we go. Shorty Long charted with this song in July. It shows you how popular Laugh-In was. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because this is purely. And then Pigmeat himself makes the charts in July 27th of 1968 with his version. Oh, my God.

Which we have. Frankie. Oh. Stand by. Okay. Yeah, he, yeah, he, this coat is now in session. And? Stand by. Okay. And this is Pigmeat. I don't want no tears, I don't want no lies. Above all, I don't want no alibis. This judge is hip, and that ain't all.

He'll give you time if you're big or small. Fall in line, that's Cody's name. That's great. Wow. You remember Pigmeat? Oh, yes. Here come the judge. Here come the judge. Yeah, I know that he is the judge.

I think I saw Pigmeat, Markham, and I want to say Mom's Mabley in an episode of the old Cosby show from the 70s where he was the gym teacher. Yes. You remember that show, Paul? I don't remember that one. The Bill, I think it was called the Bill Cosby show. They used to have weird people popping up. I think Henry Fonda popped up on an episode and Elsa Lancaster. Elsa Lanchester.

Lanchester. I always get it mixed up. Charles Lawton's beard. Oh, yes. Here's another one from August 3rd. And he would get sometimes shit caught in his beard. Now cut that out! I gotta work on my Benny. August 3rd, 1960.

Now cut that out! That's better. Do we have this one, Frankie? Gilbert, can you name this? Oh, Dan. Oh, Classical Gas. Yes. By, oh, what the fuck's his name? He was a Smothers Brothers writer.

Yes, I know that. Starts with an M. Starts with an M. Matthew Mason. Mason William. Yes. Not Mason Reese. Yeah, Mason Reese.

He was a midget who used to play. Classical gas. You know what was interesting? There were a lot of instrumentals in the 60s. Cast Your Fate to the Wind. Love is Blue. This was a great one. It's great.

It's great. I think Mason is around. I think we should find him. And I think on the Smothers Brothers, they did actually a video where they had all these classical paintings that they showed each one for a quarter of a second and played this. It was great. I got to find that. I think he's around.

I think Mason Williams, yeah, he was a writer on the Smothers Brothers with Steve Martin. Yeah. Oh, really? And future guest, Bob Einstein. Oh, that's right. And there, yeah, I remember watching that video. Yeah. Yeah, that was watching that video. Yeah. Yeah.

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Call 1-866-531-2600 or visit connectsontario.ca. Please play responsibly. Here's a guy. I haven't stumped you yet. Yeah. Have I stumped you? Nope, I haven't in two episodes so far. Here's one, and this is, of course, an iconic song from October of 1968.

No, but I wish you would stump me. Oh, my goodness. Did you see the fan who synced your voice to the Paul Lynn clip from Bye Bye Birdie? No. Oh, I'm going to show it to you. Oh, I got to see that. And we'll post it on social media. It's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. And we'll post it on social media. It's wonderful.

It's absolutely wonderful. So I'll share it with the fans. But this is from October of 1968. And of course, everybody knows this one. Frank, let it rip. Paul knows. Inigata De Vida. Oh, yeah! But, you know, I can't believe this is all Paul knows. In a garden of Eden. Oh, yeah!

But, you know, I can't believe this is all they had. These guys were great. Why didn't they come back? Iron Butterfly. Yeah, why didn't they come back? What happened? I don't know. They sound like the flower people from Spinal Tap.

To me. And, you know, the story behind this one is the lyrics were, in the garden of Eden. Right. But he was stoned out of his fucking head. And his mouth didn't operate. So it was like. That's the story.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I hope that's not apocryphal because that is a great rock and roll story. And then I heard they used to shit on each other. Yeah, yeah. I hope that's not apocryphal, because that is a great rock and roll story. And then I heard they used to shit on each other, which may be apocryphal. Well, maybe you would talk funny, too, if somebody was doing that to you. Just maybe.

That was from the second studio album of Iron Butterfly. Yeah, and you're like a hardcore Iron Butterfly fan. The first album is barely lost to history. I think it's gone. It was unintelligible. That's a great one. Yep, yep, yep. That was October of 68. And that takes us through 68.

Did we load up 69, Frank? I don't know. What song you got next? Did you do, well, here, let's. Hey. Smile a little, smile for me, Rosemary. That's the one. Rosemary.

Smile a little, smile for me. Now, I got to read some of these to you, Gilbert. Yes. Some of these songs, some of these band names. 68 and 69, I think, are my favorite for band names. We talked about John Fred and his Playboy band. Green Tambourine by the Lemon Pipers. Oh, is it Green Tambourine?

Not really your key. Yeah, no. Well, if I had a chance to work on it. Nobody But Me by the Human Beans. Oh, geez. The Human Beans. Paul mentioned Love is Blue. We were talking about orchestra.

Instrumentals. Instrumentals, excuse me. Boy, boy. A Question of Temperature by the Balloon Farm. Angel of the Morning, of course, by Merrily Rush. That was recovered by Juice Newton. Just call me Angel in the Morning, of course, by Marilee Rush. That was recovered by Juice Newton. Just call me angel in the morning. Angel.

Appropriate because we just had Stuart Margolin. Just kiss my dreams before you leave me. Kiss my dreams? Just kiss my erection. Just masturbate my erection. Before you leave me, baby. Oh, God. Grazing in the Grass by Eumassikela.

Oh, yes. Grazing in the grass is a gas. Sure. Can you feel it? Journey to the Center of the Mind by the Amboy Dukes. Listen to the names of these groups. How did that one go? Fire by the Amboy Dukes. Listen to the names of these groups. How did that one go? Fire by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

I love that. Shape of Things to Come by Max Frost and the Troopers. Does any of this mean anything to you? The Funky Judge by Bull and the Matadors. I love these. The Worst That Can Happen. I love that song worst that can happen I love that song Johnny Maestro

and the Brooklyn Bridge That's a great song That's a Jimmy Webb song Yeah it's Jimmy Webb Oh and then they put in the wedding thing That's right

because his girlfriend gets married That's a good one That's right Hot Smoke and Sassafras by Bubble Puppy Oh you're a real bubble puppy That's a good one. That's right. Hot Smoke and Sassafras by Bubble Puppy. Oh, you're a real bubble puppy.

Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' by May of 69 by Crazy Elephant. Yes. I mean, how's the psychedelic? Will You Be Staying After Sunday by the Peppermint Rainbow? Oh. That's for mine. Remember the Strawberry Alarm Clock? Sure.

Yes. Incense and peppermint. Well, I think, wasn't it Corey Feldman's father was in the strawberry alarm clock? Yes, I think so. Yes, yes. I think that's right. We talked about it. I love you more today. What do we got?

Incense and peppermint. Incense and peppermint. Frankie, you're up. Incense, peppermint. Da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da. Something like that. Yeah.

A song I love, Love Can Make You Happy by Mercy. Do you know that song? It's a very, very slow ballad. It's sweet. I love you more. Love can make you happy. I love that song. I Love You More Today Than Yesterday by Spiral Staircase.

I love you more today than yesterday. Played at a lot of weddings. But not as much as tomorrow. Don't sue us. How about Israelites by Desmond Decker and the Aces? The Israelites wake up in the morning begging for breakfast so that every mouth can be fed. Sounds like Barry Gibb. Yes!

Never heard this song in my life. You never heard this song? Nowhere have I been. Wow! Number nine. This was a big one. Went to number nine in June of 1969. Nice work, Frankie. They were from, I think they were from New Orleans, weren't they?

The Israelites were from New Orleans. Who was the group? So a place where Jews aren't allowed. Desmond Decker. What did you say, Frankie? The artist is Desmond Decker. Desmond Decker and the Aces. It was Albert Decker.

How about Quentin's theme in 1969? Oh my God, from Dark Shadows? I was going to guess that. David Shelby! Yes, I was going to guess that. How about that? Yes. Does this mean anything to you?

Whenever Quentin would show up, this would play, and he never spoke. He was the werewolf, Clinton, wasn't he? No, he was this like kind of old military guy and he would like, all the girls were crazy about him back then. I'm wrong. He was in that,

just recently, he was in that movie with Eisenberg, Jesse Eisenberg. The Social Network? Yes. He was in that? Yeah, he was like

the head of the university. How about... Oh, and he was in, what, I think Super Cops with Ron Liebman. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Ron Liebman. That's right, he was in Super Cops. David Selby.

Can I correct Desmond Decker? I was completely wrong. He's a Jamaican. Okay, well, Jamaican New Orleans. The Israelites was one of the He's a Jamaican. Okay, well, Jamaican New Orleans. The Israelites, you know, was one of the first international reggae hits. Nice work.

There you go. Nice work, Paul. Okay, here's a, I'll take you out with two more. Okay. And Pork Salad Annie by Tony Joe White.

Poke Salad Annie. I'm sorry? That's something that Poke Salad Annie. Yeah, not Pork Salad. I'm getting punchy. Yeah, the grandma... Poke salad, Annie.

The gator ate my grandma. That's the line. Remember that? This is something that Danny Kaye and Lawrence Olivier used to do. Oh, I know this song. He goes, shame on me. The gator got your granny. Poke salad, Annie.k salad, Andy.

Polk salad, Andy. Don't sound too much. I'm going to tell you a little bit about this so that you understand what I'm talking about. Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields. Amazing. I'm impressed by you every day. More than I ever was, Paul. Okay, we're finishing up 1969.

Keem Osabi by the Electric Indian. Went to number 16 in September of 69. I love these songs. That's going to get us sued right there. Does this mean anything to you, Gil? Wait. Oh, that I remember. Is this an instrumental?

Yeah, I don't know what it is. Kimo Sabe by the... I hear a xylophone. Maybe some vibes. Yeah. See, the beginning is, I think, from an old TV show. Really? Or maybe it was in every fucking Western. It's sort of a cousin of Indian Reservation by Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Oh, yes. Cherokee Nation? Yeah. Remember that one? Yeah, I do. That's the Raiders. Oh, yes. Cherokee Nation? Yeah. Remember that one? Yeah, I do. That's the 70s now. Here's another one on the list, and we'll get closer

and wrap it up here. Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman. Oh, that sounds very familiar. Went to number 37. Does that ring a bell? It does ring a bell. I know this song.

Oh, okay. The revolution's grand. Oh, okay. The revolution's Oh, yes! Yes! The revolution's I like this version of MacArthur Park better. How about you, Paul? Thunderclap Newman.

I wonder if he's around. Should give Thunderclap a call. Well, Gilbert's keeping the memory alive. Oh, my God. My head hurts. So this was our, these last two episodes were our attempt to do musical episodes. Which we should never

attempt again. Never attempt it again. But these were one hit wonders of the 1960s. We only started in 66 when, you know, I'm not that old. Yeah. And I think if we get a popular, if we get a good reaction or a good response to these, we'll

move on and do the 70s. I think that'd be a good idea. And maybe Frankie will take us out. Or we could do the later 60s. Well, we're done. Yeah, we're done. That was it. There's no 68 or 69. I did 68 and 69. You just did it. Okay. Well, we're doing another version no matter what

because I want to sing these songs. We'll do this. Why don't we just turn this show into a karaoke night? Gives me an idea. Gilbert and Frank's karaoke. We could do a live event, karaoke. You want to take us out with Steam once again, Frankie? We'll all do it together.

The second to last one-hit wonder of the year 1969. So of the decade. It was only followed by Groovy Grubworm, by Harley Wilcox and the Okies. So we'll go out on

Steam, which peaked at number one, December of 1969. Thank you, Paul. Thank you, Frankie. Thank you, Paul. Thank you, Frankie. Thank you, Gilbert. Okay, this has been Gilbert and Frank's amazing, colossal podcast. Obsession. Ah, fuck it. Na, na, na, na.

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