DISGRACELAND - Bonus Episode: Lady Gaga, Elvis Presley, and the Orion Conspiracy
Episode Date: January 8, 2026What do Lady Gaga and Elvis Presley conspiracies have in common? Maybe the story of the mysterious Sun Records artist known as Orion will help us understand. This story and your voicemails, texts, and... more in this bonus episode of Disgraceland. (14:26) - Pokerface: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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This is exactly right.
Double Elvis.
Hey, Discos, need a little more disgrace land in your life?
Just a touch to get you through?
Yeah, me too.
This is the podcast that comes after the podcast.
Welcome to Disgraceland, the After Party.
Welcome to the Disgraceland bonus episode,
a little thing we like to call the after party.
This is the show after the show,
the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one full episode of Disgraceland to the other,
the backyard to dig into the dirt.
Our mission to uncover the truth, to confront the myth and to reclaim the story on this bonus episode.
We are discussing Lady Gaga and Elvis Presley related crimes and conspiracies,
highlighting some special Disgraceland community members, giving away some merch because it's always a season of giving here in Disgraceland.
And we get into your emails, comments, DMs, and as always, a whole lot of Rosie.
This is the podcast for the musically obsessed, the outsiders, the independent thinkers who know that the best history is the history that gets buried.
Disgraceland is where I tell the stories they didn't want told,
the kind you'll end up telling someone else.
All right, discos, let's get into it.
Happy New Year.
We are back.
We are shooting out of this canon called 2006,
and I am so excited to be with you guys.
Happy that you're here with me as well.
Now, listen, I don't know about y'all,
but my algorithm served up a small handful of 2006 music prediction articles
over the past few weeks, over the holidays, at the end of the year.
Now, I never read these articles because no one really knows what's going to happen.
And it's just because, you know, the future of music, it's way less interesting to me than the history of music.
Now, one thing I think I know, however, is that at the end of 1976, nobody that I'm aware of anyways was predicting the death of Elvis Presley in 1977, which, let's be honest, given the king's physical shape, that was.
wouldn't have been in unsurious prognostication. But with Elvis's passing, came the conspiracies
about his death and the conspiracy claims that he was still alive. And after all these years,
this morning, I wake up, I open my laptop. I'm trying to research music predictions from the
past that went wrong. And somehow I end up on this total other path of research where I come across
this event for music history, this spark, this single event that ignited all of these wild
theories about Elvis Presley still being alive. You remember these theories, these sensational claims
that screamed from tabloid newspaper covers and supermarket checkout lines for decades. Elvis
spotted working at Burger King. Elvis seen in New Mexico. Elvis is alive and pretending to be an Elvis
impersonator. That last one from the weekly world news is my favorite. These headlines, though,
these conspiracies, all right, as I'm going through them this morning, and I'm thinking about my
childhood and trying to make sense of all this as I'm standing in the checkout line with my mom,
you know, we're getting our box of fruity pebbles and our sunny delight. And, you know,
she's probably got a carton at Winston's. She's getting for a little bit cheaper at the grocery store
than she would at the, I don't know, the corner store.
And, you know, I'm just staring at the magazines on the rack there.
And, you know, the whole Elvis thing is just fascinating to me.
I mean, if you were alive in the 80s and a kid in line at a grocery store,
it seemed that every damn magazine cover was just plastered with these headlines.
And I don't know what the hell to make of it.
I didn't believe it, that's for sure.
But, you know, reconsidering them now as an adult, these headlines,
These conspiracies, I should say, they remind me of the conspiracies that I'm currently researching
this week, these conspiracies surrounding Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga is just too damn famous and too compelling, too interesting for the public to not
fabricate wild stories that supposedly explain her success.
Lady Gaga is part of the Illuminati.
Lady Gaga stole her musical identity from Lena Morgan.
and now Lena Morgana's dead. Lady Gaga has a penis. All of these are real conspiracy theories.
Even that last one, I swear to God, and wait to hear what she had to do to disprove it.
So there's a correlation, I think, between the conspiracy theories around Lady Gaga and Elvis.
Okay, but back to Elvis. Now, I believe for years, as I'm sure that a lot of you have,
that the reason that these conspiracies about Elvis still being alive, the reason that they sprung up
is because, like, like Lady Gaga, Elvis was just too damn famous, too.
big. And when he died, he was too beloved for the, for the public to fully let go of him. And I think,
I think there's some truth to that assumption of mind, that hypothesis, that that's why
Elvis's alive theories continued to thrive. But I didn't know until today that there was
another reason. An event, an actual event that took place the year after Elvis passed,
that kicked off this crazy thinking that allowed the conspiracies to first take root. And so,
spread like these wicked weeds throughout our culture. And that event is the bizarre story of
Orion. Who was Orion? Well, in 1978, the year after Elvis Presley died,
Orion was a Sun Records musical artist who looked and sounded a lot like Elvis Presley. And I mean
a lot. Sun Records was, of course, the label that first recorded Elvis Presley.
the record company that made Elvis Presley famous,
the record company that put Elvis's hometown of Memphis, Tennessee on the map.
And here it was Sun Records in 1978, again just a year after Elvis died.
And Sun was promoting one of its new artists,
an artist who looked and sounded an awful lot like the king.
The only difference being that this artist, Orion, wore a mask.
and that this masked man who looked and sounded like Elvis
refused to answer the question of whether or not he was Elvis
answering only the quote, he was Orion.
Now, despite how much Orion looked, even with the mask,
and sounded like Elvis Presley,
it was obvious to anyone of sound mind
that this was not Elvis Presley
and that Elvis by 1978 was dead and in the ground.
But the name Orion,
The name Orion, O-R-I-O-N, had a special significance in 1978.
The name Orion in 1978 wasn't just the name of what looked to be like the first Elvis
impersonator of note.
Orion was also the name of a character in a recently published work of fiction about a rock star
trapped by his own fame who kills himself to escape.
Now, all of this may seem strange, but in the case of Orion, the truth, as I say, is stranger
than fiction because the man who was Orion, who many claimed to be Elvis, that dude was murdered.
And by the time that happened in 1998, it was too late. Part of the public had already taken
the bait and firmly believed that Elvis Presley was, as Orion established back in 1978, alive.
Elvis spotted at Butte Montana gas station. Elvis's tomb is empty. Elvis dead at 63. That last
headline, Elvis dead at 63. That came in 1998. Elvis Presley would have been 63 years old in 1998.
1998, the same year Orion died. And to put a finer point on it, the same year that Orion was murdered.
more on this incredible story, the story of Orion, the artist who launched the many Elvis's
alive conspiracy theories, including the music that Orion made, the life that Orion lived,
why folks firmly believed Orion was Elvis, how he ended up on Sun Records, and the true
crime that resulted in this musician, Orion's death, all that coming up in the exclusive section
of this bonus episode. So go to disgracehandpod.com to sign up to become a member.
you can hear this exclusive content and more and unlock ad free listening as well.
All right.
This week in disgrace land, we did something different.
We previewed the coming season of new episodes that are on their way to you in the next few months.
Stories on Johnny Thunders are the New York Dolls, the runaways, Mia Zapata of the Gitts, and a bunch more.
If you want to hear all about the approach that we're taking to these subjects and the crimes and the transgressions that we're going to detail, make sure you listen to the latest.
episode of Disgracing. Now, coming up in the rewind slot right after this bonus episode,
we're diving back into the story of Chet Baker in Chet's mysterious death and life of true crime,
a story that happens in and around Chet Baker's incredible output as one of the greatest,
I'll say it, one of the greatest voices in jazz music history. I know people don't agree
with me on that, but, you know, whatever, we're just going to have to disagree. Now, I chose
this story to rewind this week because of its similarities with,
our new Disgraceland episode next week on Johnny Thunders.
Johnny Thunders and Chet Baker both were intense junkies,
both were avatars of musician excess,
both were, as Johnny Thunders famously said,
born to lose, and both of their deaths are shrouded in mystery.
In the case of Chet Baker, I'm not sure anyone really knows how he died,
which, after all these years, is pretty incredible.
Now, when you're listening to the Johnny Thunders episode,
the new one, be thinking about those first-generation punk bands, many of whom loved
Jet Baker, by the way. Now, of course, Johnny's band, New York Dolls, the Sex Pistols,
the Ramones, the Stooges, even Velvet Underground. And let me know which of these bands,
which of these first-generation punk bands you think had the biggest influence on the future
of rock and roll, on what rock and roll became afterward, in the A's, in the 90s, and the 2000s,
and what rock and roll is now.
Whose legacy of those first generation punk bands?
Whose legacy is most important?
Was it the New York Dolls?
Was it the Stooges?
The Ramones?
Was it somebody else that I'm not mentioning here?
I want to know.
Let me know.
617-906-66-6638, voicemail and text.
I'm also taking questions on how you think Johnny Thunders died,
how you think Chet Baker died.
And as always, we're going to feature your answers
in next week's after-party bonus episode.
Okay, coming up, right after this short break,
we hear from you with your text, your voicemails, all that stuff coming up in just a bit.
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I'll be thinking about this story today.
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So yeah, the reviews are helpful in addition to stoking our egos. Also, I've got a storage space
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I got some pins.
I get some books.
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I'm not just talking to Matt Bell.
I'm not just talking to lazy R.
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I'm talking to all of you guys.
Leave a review.
Even if you've left one in the past, leave a new one.
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I'm going to see it.
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Spotify. Listen to the after party next week. If I read your review, get in touch with me by sending me a
text to 617-90666-66-638, and I will send you some merch. It's that simple. All right, speaking of your texts,
the 303 writes in, Jake, literal lull when you said you mix up Bet Midler and Barbara
Risenant. I can see it. I can't remember what I was saying this in relation to 303. Was it in relation to
Lady Gaga? I can't remember because she kind of reminds me of a modern day version of both,
both those incredible artists in her own way. I mean, Lady Gaga is so versatile. I know some of you
hear that they're like, what the hell are you talking about? But I don't know, I see it. I'm reading
an incredible book, right? I mentioned earlier that I'm researching Lady Gaga. I'm reading it. The book
is so good, so good. A great book called Pokerface, The Rise and Rise.
of Lady Gaga by Maureen Callahan, who I think is just fantastic. And a lot of you may already know
this about Lady Gaga, but she's got this fascinating backstory, much of which she's mythologized
herself. And there's a lot of sketchy details in there. What's true? What's not? What does she make
up, et cetera? But one thing that is for certain is that Lady Gaga was down in the Lower East Side
of New York in the mid-aughts, 2006-ish, 7-ish, 2005, 6, 6, 7-7.
in that era.
The same era that I was down there playing a bunch of shows,
had a bunch of friends who were living down there
and a bunch of friends from Boston
who were also traveling down there and playing shows.
And I know that era and location of New York very well,
because like I said, it was there,
in the way that Marine Callahan, the author here of Poker Face,
the way she depicts that time and place
is as good, if not better than Meet Me and,
in the bathroom, which is a fantastic book about that era by Lizzie Goodman, another fantastic
author.
Like I said, this book, it's, it's, I don't want to say it's better, but it depicts the era
in a different way, a completely compelling way.
And specifically, I don't know what it was like for you guys, but I remember waking
up in like 2006, 2007, and just looking around and going, wait a minute, dance music is
cool with indie kids, with pun, how did this happen? Because I've always thought the dance music was
cool, but it was something that was completely derided by the underground scene, the underground
scene, the underground hardcore punk, indie scene, et cetera. And then all of a sudden, you know,
we had in the early 2000s, in New York, you have the whole electro-clash thing. But then, you know,
by the mid-2000s, the mid-aughts, I should say, it kind of transitions into this, this dance thing
that is no longer ironic. And it was a weird thing that I've never really been able to fully articulate
in my head. And Maureen Callahan articulates that transition within the context of Lady Gaga's
come-up story down there in the Lower East Side at that exact moment. It's fascinating. I'm about,
I don't know, a chord, maybe a third of the way through the book. And I can't wait to get back to it
later this afternoon. Again, that's Pokerface, the Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga. I'll have our Lady Gaga episode
for you guys in a couple weeks.
Can't wait for you to hear that.
617-906-66-6-36-3-8.
You want to get at me with anything,
voicemail or text the 514.
Hey, Jake, it's Davis from the 514.
Hope all is well and all the best to you
and the team at disgrace.
I'm looking forward to what's coming our way in 2026.
I've been thinking it would be cool
to hear an episode about Black Flag.
The really important piece of American punk
and hardcore history
and played a huge role in establishing
the DIY touring circuit in the country.
Yes.
they have. And I really want to do an episode on Black Flag. I also want to do an episode on Henry
Rollins himself. And, you know, he's not, they're not, neither are on the schedule right now.
However, I was looking at the schedule for the middle and later part of the year this morning,
actually. And I saw a couple artists on there. I was like, I don't know if I want to, I don't
want to do that. So maybe Davis, maybe Black Flag will be slotted in instead. Davis,
if you or anyone else wants a more formal role in the deciding of what episodes we cover,
become a Patreon member. And we're developing a way for us to all beyond the after party,
get together a couple times a year to meet up and to roll up our sleeves and talk about
which episodes we want to talk about. And this is going to give a handful of you or however many
of you who sign up, direct access in the choosing of our programming and which episodes we cover.
All right. 805. Sherry F. Texan, hey, what actor's death hit me the hardest is Matthew Perry.
As a baby of Gen X, friends raised me. I literally have the same tattoo as Rachel. And out of everyone's
character Chandler was the most relatable. It was more than just a show.
In reading Matthew's book, you could feel his pain. It took a piece of my adolescence and
young adulthood when he passed. And I still get emotional watching him. And you can see his pain
and growth season to season. That's from Sherry F in the central coast of California.
Sherry, I'm not sure if you're responding to an older afterparty episode or if you're
responding to something that Zeth might have asked in this week's Hollywoodland, which I haven't
listen to the whole thing yet. I don't listen to the beginning. I know it's on River Phoenix.
The rap party episode is on the River Phoenix episode of Hollywoodland. Both are in that feed this
week. I suspect maybe Zeth posed that question, but I wanted to, I wanted to read your text,
Sherry, because I'm not sure if you're aware or not that we have an episode on Matthew Perry. I'm
quite proud of it. It's one of those, you know, I heard this thing the other day. I was at Mass,
actually on Sunday. And I heard part of the homily was that a lot of people think that they need to
use their work to do well. And of course, that's true. But there's also another piece of our work.
And that sometimes we can hear, we can hear bigger truths. We can hear directly from the big man
through our work. And this Matthew Perry episode that we did was an example of that, was a example of that,
an example of me learning a lot, not only learning a lot, but about Matthew Perry and about
addiction, but also learning a lot about myself and some past grief. And I don't get heavy
with, you know, any of the me stuff. I'm not, not in that episode talking about me very much at
all. But it really kind of unlocked, unlocked some things about myself that I wasn't aware of and
about this horrible, horrible disease. I think Matthew Perry was a pretty incredible guy. And,
beyond his talent, I think what he did for people who suffer from this disease is pretty
impressive. And I think the way that he died was pretty disgraceful. I invite you, Sherry, to
check out that episode if you haven't already. And to anyone who hasn't listened to that episode,
go ahead and listen. I believe it's still in the disgrace land feed, not in the Hollywood land feed.
It's in the disgrace land feed. Just search up Matthew Perry and Matt will have the episode notes
for you in the show notes section of this here bonus episode.
Speaking of Hollywood land, one thing I have to mention is Zeth, who's doing a real bang-up job over there.
This happens. You know, he got on the mic to record the rap party. And, you know, we sit at these desks and we have multiple microphones set up for multiple things that we're doing. And Zeth recorded that entire episode with the wrong mic. So it might sound a little DIY. It might sound a little mid-a-auts lower east side for you guys. But it's not about the sound. It's about what the sound. It's about what,
the man is saying. So if you're hearing that and you're wondering what the hell's going on,
it's just, you know, Zeth was using one of his distortion pedals for this episode. And, you know,
sounds pretty badass. So that's what's happening there. But again, it's about what the man was
saying. Here's a little taste. Matt, why don't you give the discos a little taste of what's going
on in Hollywoodland in the rap party this week? In the introduction to this week's full episode on River
Phoenix, hopefully you've heard that already. I'm talking, of course, about the short intros I
record for each of our fully scripted sound design episodes that come out on Mondays that are
narrated not by me, but by Jake Brennan. I basically in this intro quickly made the case for
River Phoenix being a one of one, not only an incredible actor, but also that rare representation
of popular culture in the very moment that culture is shifting into something different.
For River, it was the transition from the 1980s into the 90s, and his screen presence, his
taste in the movies and roles he took on, it was that era. He wasn't Corey Feldman or Fred Savage or
Alyssa Milano or Drew Barrymore. Absolutely no shade thrown at any of those actors, by the way. But River
found a different gear, and I think they would all probably agree with that if they were being
honest. Probably the actor who comes closest, probably Ethan Hawk, I guess, now that I'm thinking
more about that, but I stand by what I said about River, and I also stand by what I said about how
when he died on Halloween night in 1993, and then his death was followed very quickly by the death
of Kurt Cobain, that something in the culture was forever changed. It was the end of an era,
so to speak, a very short era that had barely lasted a decade. All right, that is Hollywoodland.
Make sure you are subscribed to the Hollywood Land feed on Apple Podcast, Spotify, the
iHeart radio at wherever you get your podcast. You're not only going to get archive episodes of
Hollywoodland with me behind the mic, you're also going to get our commentary on those episodes.
You're going to get every week Zeth's rap party in our new addition to Hollywoodland,
the screening room, which is going to tie everything together for you. Okay, you're going to get a full
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Lundy, subscribe to Hollywoodland.
I'll be back in a flash with exciting news for one particular member of the disco community.
You're not going to want to miss this.
All right, we are halfway through this bonus episode.
I've got to say, it's flying by.
I'm drinking some incredible coffee.
Great.
I love that.
I love when the espresso machines just working perfectly.
It's got the right amount of pressure.
The Americano comes out like, it's just like, it's a little extra.
I can't, I don't know what I did different.
Same beans I've been using for the last week with this cup of coffee just magnificent.
Anyhow, not what I'm here to talk about.
What I'm here to talk about is that last week, if you listened to the after party,
you heard me discussing this disgrace land listener named Mark.
Now, Mark wrote in, texted actually, 617-90666-6-638.
Mark knows the number.
Mark texted and shared a playlist that he's been curating
that is a collection of all the songs mentioned in our episodes of disgrace land going all the
way back to episode one. This is incredible. This is so much work. This playlist is amazing.
I shouldn't say it's all the songs. Excuse me. He hasn't finished this yet. Okay. But again,
Mark is pulling every tune that we mentioned that he can find on Apple Music. Every tune that we
mentioned in our episodes and putting them into what is so far a 10-hour playlist. Now, I just
checked the playlist again a moment ago on Apple Music, and it's already been updated today. All right?
Here's just a handful. Let's talk a handful of songs that are on this playlist. And again,
it's not just songs by the artist. It's not just the number one songs that I mentioned, although they're
all in there. Okay, let's just see. Gloria by them. Waterfalls, by,
TLC. Let's talk about sex by Salt and Peppa, Cocksucker Blues, by the Rolling Stones,
Shape of You by Ed Shearing, The Race, by Taked, Night Fever, by Beegis,
You and I by Rick James, I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred, Territorial Pissings by Nirvana,
the sign by Ace of Base. I mean, this goes on and on and on. Grateful Dead, Post Malone,
XXXTentacion, Drake, Amy Winehouse, the Beatles, just in,
incredible playlist that is encompassing the world that we have built here in disgrace land.
I'm going to share this playlist in the Patreon chat for our all-access members to grab,
and I'll share it on Instagram, perhaps X as well later this week.
Now, Mark, he writes, is a courier who drives 2,500 miles a week and boasts an oil change
every two weeks. So dude has some time to listen to some disgrace land and he's putting it to good use. Mark,
I'm super grateful, man. Mark writes that, hey, I'm absolutely going to keep going with the playlist.
It's such a cool cross-section of popular music like if the guy from high fidelity was alive today.
This would be the record collection. He's snorting. Sording. Excuse me. Wait, the guy from high fidelity died?
He didn't die. But I know what you mean. Anyhow, yeah, I love that. I could hear. I
I could see those dudes in high fidelity listening to this playlist in champion records.
They're a record store.
Or is it top five records?
I can't remember.
I think it's a champion, isn't it?
I don't know.
Someone let me know.
617-906-66-6-3-8.
Maybe Mark, you can...
No, Mark, you got...
Sounds like you get a lot to do.
Anyhow.
Again, I'm putting Mark's playlist in the Patreon chat, or I'm going to make it a post.
I'm not sure which, but you'll be able to get it there in Patreon.
and Mark, we're going to gift you a year-long subscription to Patreon.
So you can listen, ad-free, and you can engage with your fellow disgrace and all-access members in the community chat.
Hear what they have to say about your playlist.
We're so grateful that you did this.
This is incredible.
And I want the rest of the community to have access to it.
And for that, I hope you were giving you this subscription.
I hope you enjoy it.
Speaking of All Access membership and members, I would like to shout out new disgrace
and All Access member Jessica Brown, who is supporting us as a Sound in Fury member at our $10
tier.
And as such, Jessica will be receiving our new monthly video podcast.
This film should be played loud in a couple weeks.
The next movie soundtrack and score that we are covering is train spotting.
Jessica will be first in line to receive that.
Jessica, thank you for your support.
We appreciate you.
Everyone else, be like that.
Jessica. Sign up for our Sound and Fury tier on Patreon so you too can watch and listen and watch,
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and all other exclusive disgraceland content, many episodes, and of course the exclusive section
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member, Disgraceland, cop that exclusive ad-free community content. Like, who the hell
was Orion and why did Elvis's
former record label release Orion's records
and how did Orion die and why
is it that I'm hearing this Orion insanity
now and I haven't heard it before
because this right here
disgrace land is where all the music history
insanity lives and breeze
and we're going to get into it right now
all right guys welcome back
as you know we've got over 250 episodes
in the disgrace land archive I mentioned
I mentioned the Matthew Perry episode
which I encourage you to check out I also mentioned
the Ramones mentioned
And the Stooges, we don't have a Stooges episode, but we have an Iggy Pop episode.
Matt's going to have info, show info for all these archive episodes in the show notes.
So you can easily navigate your way through the archive to listen to any of our past episodes.
All right, let's recap.
Shall we?
Number one, this week, we are previewing the next season of subjects in disgrace land.
Number two, our rewind episode this week is on Chep Baker.
Number three, next week, a new episode coming your way on Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls.
Number four, Zeth gives you those Hollywood and crime vibes in Hollywoodland, so make sure you're subscribed.
Number five, this film should be played loud.
Our new video podcast with our new episode on Goodfellas is available for you right now.
We've got a new one coming up on train spotting in a couple weeks.
You're going to be a Patreon member to cop that.
So go to disgracelandpod.com to become part of the disgraceland community.
Number six, six one seven, nine, six, six, six, three, eight, your voice keeps us digging.
into the dark corners of music history, Orion.
So keep calling, texting with your answers
to this week's question of the week
or with whatever else you want to talk about.
Don't forget this goes.
This isn't just content.
It's a community, a community of the obsessed.
No one cares about music books, records,
and the crime and grime that ties them all together
like you do.
And well, that's a disgrace.
All right, the king, Elvis Presley, died for real.
He really did.
He died on August 16th, 1977.
And here's what America was listening to.
on that day.
Number one, best of my love, the emotions.
Last week, one.
Weeks on chart, 12.
Peak position, one.
Number two, jet airliner, Steve Miller band.
Last week, two, weeks on chart, 12.
Peak position, eight.
Number three, looking for a love, Bobby Womack and Valentinos.
Last week, number four, three, weeks on chart, 11.
Peak position, five.
Number four, what you're going to do?
Pablo Cruz.
Last week, five.
Weeks on sharp, 11, peak position, five.
Number five, you and me, Alice Cooper.
Last week, nine.
Weeks on charm, eight, peak position.
Talking and start mixing.
Cut it!
