Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini #130: Gilbert Sings Your Requests, Vol. 2

Episode Date: September 21, 2017

This week: Allan Sherman hangs with Harpo! Frank turns down Snoop Dogg! Gilbert "salutes" Alan Thicke! And Hervé Villechaize tears down the Wall of Sound! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm here with my co-host, Frank Santopadre, and this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsession. Colossal obsessions. I'm going back and forth from being a co-host to a sidekick. Yes. To a boy wonder. Where does that leave me? That's a good questionhost to a sidekick. Yes. To a boy wonder. To a boy wonder. Where does that leave me? That's a good question. Sub-sidekick.

The sidekick sidekick? There you go. Is there such a thing? Yeah, sure. All right. Researcher deluxe? Yeah. Now, this is, we just recently, you know, we interviewed.

Paul Rayburn is here. Oh, yeah. Paul Rayburn, we interviewed- Paul Rayburn is here. Oh, yeah. Paul Rayburn, we're talking to. He's someone who, gee, where would the show be without him? It would probably be on NBC with a budget of like 500 million. Paul, you're bringing us down. Yeah. We were talking to Bill Macy, the very funny Bill Macy.

And every single question that Frank and I would ask him, he'd go, I don't remember that. Where did you hear that bullshit? Yeah. Yeah, that's total bullshit. That never happened. And so someone tweeted me and said, I guess Paul Rayburn prepared the questions for you this week. Oh, I got the same tweets. Did you see the Photoshop that somebody did of you?

Yes, the master of all research or something in that thing. Yes, you've become a minor Internet celebrity. Thanks to you guys. I appreciate it. How do you feel about that? Well, it gives me a warm feeling right in the lower... The cookie gas. Well, Gil and Paul, this is another episode of what we're calling Gilbert Sings Your Requests.

I don't know why I'm doing Art Fern. But we have this little thing on Patreon where people just contribute a couple of bucks, and they get to pick a song for you to, what is the word I'm looking for? Mangle? Oh, okay. Do justice to? And we've had a couple. Last time we had Barry Manilow and, no, it wasn't Barry Manilow.

We had John Denver last time. Oh, yes. Sunshine on my shoulders. And we did. We had John Denver last time. Oh, yes. Sunshine on my shoulders. And we did a little Partridge family last time. And we've got some new ones for you this week. And may I add that Paul is going to redeem himself this week. He's done so much research that you will be apologizing to him by the end of this episode. It's been a long time coming, but I think we're...

Yes. He found out that Barry Manilela was in the music business through his research among other things oh so let's see here's what we're going to start with this comes from fan and listener tom brennan and he would like to hear gilbert sing the classic you've lost that Lovin' Feelin' by the Righteous Brothers. And I just happen to have the lyrics right here. Isn't that odd that you have the lyrics right here? Isn't that weird? It's weird.

So we're going to talk amongst ourselves while Gilbert fishes his glasses out of his pocket. Yes. And Paul has a little trivia. Now I just need my hearing aid. And your iron lung. Yes. And we're ready to go.

Here we are. So Maestro Verderosa is going to call up some music. Is this, this may, correct me if I'm wrong, this may be the first time we featured somebody who's actually behind bars. Yes. To our knowledge. To our knowledge.

Yes, this is a Wall of Sound. That's right. Track. And, to our knowledge. To our knowledge. Yes, this is a wall of sound. That's right. Track. And Gilbert, we know you know this one. Yes. For corn's sake. So what do you think, Frankie? Want to start us off?

Close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips. That was a sudden start. And there's no tenderness like before in your fingertips. You're trying hard to not show it. But baby,

baby, I know it. You lost that love and feeling. Oh, that love and feeling. You lost that love and feeling. Now it's gone. Gone. Gone.

Whoa. The third righteous brother. Yeah. Now there's no welcome look in your eyes when I reach for you. And now you're starting to criticize little things I do. Gilbert is actually coming into the right place.

He's good. It makes me just feel like crying. Exactly. Cause baby, something's beautiful's dying. Go. You lost that loving feeling. Whoa, that loving feeling. You lost that loving feeling.

Now it's gone, gone, gone. Whoa. Rich. Baby, baby. I get down on my knees for you. Do some of this as Hervey. Ha, ha, ha. If you don't leave,

you'll be like you used to do. Love me, love me like you used to do. We are the love, the love you don't find every day. So don't, don't, don't let it it away. Righteous. Baby. Baby. Baby. Please.

I need your love. I need your love. Don't bring it on back. Don't bring it on back. Don't bring it on back. Bring back that loving feeling. Whoa. That loving

feeling. Bring back that loving feeling cause it's gone. Gone. Gone. And I That loving feeling, cause it's gone, gone, gone. And I can't go on, no. I kept wanting to jump in with some harmony there, but I just couldn't find it. That loving feeling.

Whoa, that loving feeling. Beautiful. Now, before Gilbert covered that song. Let me wait. Hang on. I have to wipe a tear. Single tear. Go ahead.

Here are some of the other people who covered that song, setting up the situation that allowed Gilbert to do so well. Would you really call that a cover? Uncover? Yeah. It's like a heavy blanket. Cilla Black covered it. Oh, Cilla Black.

Dionne Warwick. We just lost her. Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Hall & Oates, and Long John Baldry. You know that Elton John took his name from Long John Baldry? Who the hell is he? I'm familiar. He was a British, a British performer, a British singer.

Sounds like a porn name. It does. It does. With Elton John? Reggie Dwight, Reginald Dwight, which is Elton John's name, he took the John

from Long John Baldry. And the, one of the, the writers, who were the writers of that too? In English trivia. Well, the great Barry Mann

and Cynthia Weil. And? Mr. Phil Spector. Phil Spector. English trivia. Well, the great Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. And? Mr. Phil Spector. Phil Spector. Right. Who is serving time for murder in the, let's see, the California health care facility. Health care? That doesn't sound

like a prison, does it? And yet Gilbert sings like that and walks free. And walks free. It hardly seems fair. That's right. They got the wrong man once again. And walks free. And walks free. It hardly seems fair. That's right. That's right. They got the wrong man once again. It's a wall of sound recording. They call that song the ultimate expression of Spector's wall of sound.

Is that correct, Paul? All kinds of people said this was like one of the best produced records and one of the greatest things they ever heard. Yeah. And that's before they heard gilbert well the story goes that that specter brought it to the righteous brothers and they they thought wasn't in their key they thought the range was too high and they thought oh this is great for the everly brothers but not for us wow and they weren't believers in it and

and uh that song it took 39 once they agreed to it, it took 39 takes and eight hours over two days. 39 takes. That's like doing the intro to one of our shows. It's just like it. What take are we on now? He was such an amazing music producer. I think he should be allowed to kill every now and then. Now, this should be a bit in your act.

Yeah, yes. I think we should let him get away with a few murders. He'd always heard that comedians like to be able to say they killed. Oh, yes. But he didn't understand. Well, your reasoning is he's given us things like the Ronettes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and the Phil Spector Christmas album.

So, you know, take that into consideration. Yeah, toss him a murder here and there. He's not the first musician who's, toss him a murder here and there. He's not the first musician who's crossed a couple of lines here and there. You did a nice job with that, Gil. Yeah. I'm not going to say you were on key. But I like what you did with it.

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This was written by this was written by, by the way, did you see Al Pacino plays Phil Spector in that HBO movie? Yes, yes. That was, wow. That was, what do the kids movie? Oh, yes, yes. That was, wow, that was. What do the kids say? Off the hook.

Yeah. Off the hizzy. It was off the hizzy. There's another one from Tom Brennan, and I know you know this one. Listen to Tom Brennan. Let me see if I have this right. People paid to have us do this yes a couple of people said listen i will pay if he doesn't sing they didn't really understand the premise but most people went with the fun of it and said okay here's a couple

of shekels and i this i need to hear gilbert sing My life is incomplete. Speaking of off the hizzy, I did a commercial recently. Yeah? Just about a year ago with Snoop Dogg. You did? Yeah. I don't think I knew that. Yeah. What was it commercial for?

It was for some food website. And yeah? And it was me and Snoop Dogg, I guess as roommates. Was it? And a friend of mine produced that. Really? Did you work together or did your friend produce it? Yeah, we were together in this, I guess, our little apartment, Timmy and Snoop Dogg.

Was it in fact off the hizzy? Yeah. Off the hizzy. I will say we were staying at the same hotel, and when you walk past his room, you got a contact high. Wow. Yeah. Did you know that Snoop lent his name, and Paul, you can look this up. You have your phone handy?

I have it. To a series of X-rated films called Doggy Style. And when I was living in L.A. and on hard times and writing Saturday morning cartoons to pay the bills, I got a call from somebody who said, do you want to write some jokes? I guess they would call it additional dialogue. Oh, yes. Do you want to write some jokes and quips for Snoop who is doing for wraparounds for this XXX porn stuff. And I don't know why I turned it down, but I did.

And there you go. That's neither here nor there, but that's my... You might have found you had a real talent for it. I might have had a calling. I love how you worked hard times into it. That was an unfortunate choice of words. It was called Doggy Style. Doggy Style.

Because that was the name of his first studio album in 1993. Well, maybe I got the name wrong, but he was involved with these porn films. Maybe you can find it by the end of the show. Fat chance. Okay. Paul's currently looking at Doggy Style photos. Yeah, Paul, don't get distracted. I'm up to 1993.

I'm closing in on it. Okay, well, we'll figure it out. And if you don't find it, I'll just cut that whole part from the show. Hey, Gil. Yes? Here's another one by listener Tom Brennan. And this was written by a former podcast guest. Ah.

Your friend Alan Thicke. Wow. Along with his ex-wife Gloria Loring and producer Al Burton, whose name just came up in a Dee Wallace episode, strangely enough. And Paul, not Paul, Frank, is going to favor us with so people know what we're doing here and so Gilbert knows the tune. He's going to give us a refresher. Now the world don't move to the beat of just one drum.

Okay, I'll just let you hear it. May not be right in song. A man is born. He's a man of means. Then along come two. They got nothing but their jeans. But they got different strokes. It takes different strokes.

It takes different strokes to move the world. We're 20 minutes behind. Different strokes. It takes different strokes to move the world. Everybody's got a special kind of story. Everybody

finds a way to shine. It don't matter what you got. Not a lot. So what? They have their mind. And together we'll be fine. Because it takes different strokes to move the world. It takes different strokes to move the world.

That was a looser cover. Oh, my God. Wow. I do my God. Wow. Now, I do have a connection here. What do you got? And when Alan Thicke sung it, it was, But they get different strokes. It takes different strokes.

It takes different strokes to move the road. We should have had you do it as Alan Thicke. So Alan Thicke not only wrote this one, he wrote a lot of it. He wrote the theme songs for Wheel of Fortune, Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Joker's Wild, and more. Now here's a, I don't know if you guys are going to get this right off. This is a reference to a previous podcast guest. Ooh, exciting. So in different strokes, this podcast guest appeared in season one

in every episode. Yeah, I got it. You got it. I'll wait. Did they spin the... And this guest departed the show partway through the second season to star in a spinoff

with a theme written by Alan Thicke. Yep. Gil, you know her. Wow. We talked, I'll give you a hint, we talked to her over the phone in the kitchen in your apartment or the dining room, I should say.

Hey. And here's another hint. Every five minutes, she plugged her book. Oh, my God, yes! Yes, Charlotte Rae. god bless that woman yes we love charlotte ray uh yes well charlotte ray was was mrs garrett right and she got her own series that's right it was like an interview where i go uh so charlotte you know I mentioned the name Charlotte in my book. Bless her. You kept trying to talk about Car 54.

Yes. What was Al Lewis? What about Joey Ross? And she kept saying, you know, on page 12 of my book, did you mention my book? And it became a running gag after a while. She was great. Yeah. You know what I do?

When we get a nice mini up rolling here and we're laughing and having fun, I do like to try to bring things down. Please do. Gary Coleman died at 42 of a brain hemorrhage. That's all I want to say. I just want to put a little sobering reality. That version of different strokes didn't bring the room down enough for you? You know what was so – remember there was that woman who claimed she was his girlfriend? Erin Fleming? Oh, yeah.

And she was saying she was, and there was, I'll never forget, the cover of one of the papers had Gary Coleman lying in the hospital bed, unconscious with tubes in his nose and his mouth and wires in the arms and everything. And she was there with a pose leaning over the bed with her head turned to the camera. I remember this woman. That was so creepy. I remember this woman. That was so creepy. I remember the woman you're talking about. And I heard that Gary Coleman, what he hated, both him and who was the other?

Todd Bridges. No, no. There was another midget who had a show. You mean Emanuel Lewis on Webster? Oh, you mean Emanuel Lewis on Webster? Both of them hated that they were like in their 40s and 50s and they'd be working on something. And like the other people on the set would lift them up and carry them over like you do to a little kid. You go, hey, little guy, come over here to the set. And, you know, here he is. Really?

Show business is a tough thing. Suffering with hardening of the arteries. And his eyesight and hearing is going. Did they hate that as much as being referred to as midgets? Which was more painful. Sometimes I call them munchkins. What'd you find, Paul? Well, let's get things back on track.

Yeah. Off this Gary Coleman thing. Snoop Dogg's Doggy Style is a mixed hardcore pornography and hip-hop music video featuring the music of rapper Snoop Dogg and presented by him, released in 2001. Yeah. It was the first hardcore video ever listed on the Billboard Music Video Sales Chart. There you go. How did we get to Snoop Dogg from... Because he made a commercial with him.

Oh, that's right. I set off the Heezys. Yeah. Now I'm regretting not taking that job. Oh, back in the day. Okay, here's one to close us out. Okay. And I know you know this one.

Can I just... Before Gilbert starts to sing, there's an important point here. If I And I know you know this one. Can I just, before Gilbert starts to sing, there's an important point here. If I can find it. Wait a minute. Page three. You know, we have to hire a page turner for the researcher. And that's when the show came to a grinding halt.

I remember when we interviewed Paige Turner. She was an old actress. Alright, I just wanted to note that this song takes its melody from the great opera by Amilcare Poncielli. I have that on my card. And I knew what Gilbert would want to know, so I did a little more research. Amilcare was Jewish. Yes. Amilcare Poncielli.

Poncielli. The song was, the tunecari Poncello. Yes. Poncelli. Poncelli. Poncelli. The song was, the tune was written in the 1870s. And wasn't he in Chips? I was just going to say. He was one of the cops in Chips. Listen to you two. Oh, yes. It was an opera.

It's from, well, you know what it is. As soon as you hear the music, as soon as I hand you the lyrics. It's one of those operas that everybody knows. Dance of the Hours is the name of the song or the tune. Well, it's going to feel like it when I sing. In the opera. And so it would assume that this parodist who recorded this song took the music because it was in the public domain. Anyway, this comes from listener Frank Salerno.

He wanted to hear Gilbert sing this classic. Hello, father. Here I am at Camp Granada. Camp is very entertaining. And they say we'll have fun when it's not raining. I went hiking with Joe Spivey. He knows Spivey. He's an Ivy.

You remember Leonard Skinner. He got a toe main poison last night. You're way off. Pick it up here. And the head coach wants no sissies so he reads us from something called wait a minute now i don't want this should scare you but my bunk mate has malaria. You remember Jeffrey Hardy? They're about to organize a searching party. Take me.

Wait, what? Okay, you're up to here. Oh. I sunk all those bars. Here's your bridge. Take me home, oh, Madafada. Take me home. I hate Granada.

Take me home. I hate Granada. Don't leave me in the forest where I might get eaten by a bear. Take me home. I promise I will not make noise or mess the house with other boys. Here's my house, my precious little brother. Let me come home. If you miss me, I would even let Unbertha hug and kiss me. Wait a minute.

It stopped hailing. Guys are swimming. Guys are sailing. Playing baseball. Gee, that's better. Mother, mother, kindly disregard this letter. Beautiful. Beautiful.

That. Beautiful. And that was Alan Shure. Alan Shure is how it was. The original composer of that music climbed out of his grave, converted to Christianity, and then buried himself. It's understandable. So he was a Jew? Alan Sherman? No.

Yes. No, he's putting you on. He's putting you on. Poncielli. It was an Italian. The melody is taken from an Italian opera. Yeah, La Gioconda. I'm trying to It was an Italian. The melody is taken from an Italian opera. Yeah, La Gioconda. I'm trying to think of some Italian.

I could think of a lot of famous Irish Jews. Really? Like Jack Warden, Leo Gorce, the guy who played Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe? Oh, yes, he's an Irish shoe. How about the guy in The Bells of St. Mary's? Well, of course, Ben Stiller. Right.

Well, he's half Irish. Oh, and Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford's an Irish shoe? Yeah, I think he's half and half. Why didn't you guys get on? Why did you have such problems with him? He hung out with the wrong half. You're trying to think of an Italian guy who's Jewish?

Yes Oh, I gotta, there's gotta be Oh, well, well, wait, the mayor Fiorello LaGuardia He was a quarter Jewish Yeah, well, that's the only part that matters What else you got on Alan Sherman's song here, Mr. Paul? So the American version is very light. Turns out there was a Finnish version, which was in the Finnish Boy Scouts songbook.

Of course. But the Swedish version is the one I know you're waiting to hear about. I am. The Swedish version notably does not revolve around the camper hating the camp, but it's about the kids running roughshod over the camp, having run off all the counselors, one of whom has committed suicide after they let a snake into the mess hall. Wow.

Now, there's a cheery summer song. Wow. Whoa. You know? And Alan Sherman couldn't deal with his own success. Yes, very self-destructive. We're going to do a future show about Alan Sherman. Yeah.

He has lots of connections. He was a writer on a Steve Allen show. Of course. And didn't he? What game show did he create? The Hollywood Squares. He was a guest on Hollywood Squares. No, but he didn't create it.

No, he didn't create it. I think it was I've Got a Secret. I think so. Yeah. And Sandra Gould, who played Mrs. Kravitz on Bewitched, released a response novelty record to this in 1964 called Hello, Melvin, This Is Mama. How about that? Where she retorted, if you will.

Another one of his classic works was Coming Through the Rye. Oh, there were a million. And he's which would don't make a stingy sandwich. Pile the cold cuts high. Customers should see salami coming through the ride there you go and the song was reportedly based on sherman's own son's experience at camp champlain in upstate new york how about that his kid didn't like camp and then he had that song like herman and sheila herman and sheila herman and sheila it's harvey and sheila and Sheila Herman and Sheila Herman and Sheila.

It's Harvey and Sheila. Harvey and Sheila. Harvey and Sheila. Oh, he had a million. Then it was something like he worked for NBC, she worked for A&P. There was so many.

There was My Zelda, she took the money and ran with the tailor. Yes. Harry Belafonte's parody. There was Pop Hates the Beatles. There were so many. You know, we've done so many, parody. There was Pop Hates the Beatles. There were so many. You know, we've done so many people now.

There are connections. There are threads running through all these things. Alan Sherman lived in the Brentwood section of West Los Angeles. No connection to O.J. Simpson. But he lived next door to whom in the Brentwood section? Who did Alan Sherman live next door to? Now, this is a gimme for you guys. Wow.

Mildred Natwick? He lived next door to Harpo Marx. How bizarre. Who invited him to perform his song Parodies, attended by Marx's showbiz friends. Love it. Wow. That's cool shit.

Wow, that's a great one. We got it. See, I told you he'd redeem himself by the end of the show. What do you think, Gilbert? What do you have to say? No, it's too great one. We got it. See, I told you he'd redeem himself by the end of the show. What do you think, Gilbert? What do you have to say? No, no, it's too much to pay back. We have to find somebody who knows Alan Sherman or who wrote a book about Alan Sherman. Yes.

Get him in here. We'll do an Alan Sherman episode. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a great idea. And we'll play the songs. I used to listen. I was an Italian kid, but I'd listen to those. I had those albums.

My Son the Nut. Oh, that's right. My Son the the folk singer. Yeah. Yeah. I heard when his success happened, everything that he couldn't control to begin with, really. Yeah. His eating, his drinking, all of that.

Sarah Jockman. Yes. How's by you? How's your cousin Sidney? They took out a kidney. He's nice too. How's your cousin Sidney? They took out a kidney.

He's nice, too. Anyway, we'll do Alan Sherman justice and give him his due another time down the road. Paul, what can I say? I hope I've contributed in some small way to this. Smaller than you know. Yes. You contributed by not talking that much. Frankie, thank you for playing DJ. I hope this was fun.

I live to serve. Thank you, Frank Salerno and Tom Brennan for your song suggestions. Gilbert, I think you liked the songs this week. Oh, yes. Yes, I did. suggestions. Gilbert, I think you liked the songs this week. Oh, yes. Yes, I did. Yes. Keep them coming.

Yeah. This has been Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions, I guess. And we once again recorded at that nutmeg with our engineer, Frank Furtarosa. And once again, Paul Rayburn drove the show to a screeching halt. Paul, we love you. See you next time, guys.

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