Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini #203: In Memoriam, 2018: Musicians

Episode Date: February 14, 2019

This week: "Schoolhouse Rock"! Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show! Charles Aznavour works Jewish! The Queen of Soul bids farewell! And Vic Damone turns down "The Godfather"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Made with just vodka, soda, and natural flavor. Neutral. Refreshingly simple. Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried, and I'm here with my co-host Frank Santopadre. And this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions with the late Ray Vaughn. I just did an actual spit take. Wow. I'm speaking to you from beyond the gaze. I'm Danny Thomas. Paul, people write in and they're inquiring about your health.

Yeah, well, did you notice that Michael Weber was here? I walked in the door, the first thing he said was, how are you feeling? And? And I told him, you know, metzah metz. You're not an anti-vaxxer, are you? No. Okay, good. How are you, Gil?

Ah. Well, there. How are you, Gil? Ah. Well, there's a Jew football hero, so I'm happy. Julian Edelman. Yes. Yeah, yeah. And I don't watch football. I don't know what he did, but I guess he's good. There have been some great Jewish athletes.

Yeah. Oh, well, Sandy Koufax. Sure, sure. Hank Greenberg. Oh, okay. That's right. Yeah, there's two. Okay. There's two. Oh, a Jew. Do converts count? Like Rod Carew? No. Whatchamacallit played him. Ah, fuck. Mark Spitz was Jewish, I think. Oh, Mark Spitz was Jewish. Yeah, he's a Jew. Was a Jew. And the fighter, of course, Max.

Oh, Max Bear. Max Bear. Right, that's right. That's right. And? He even wore a Star of David on his trunks. Oh, yeah. Max Bear, as I recall.

Oh, yeah. Played by our friend Craig Bierko in the movie Cinderella Man. But that's neither here nor there. We're going to do music. We're going to do musicians in memoriam because we ran out of time. Oh, okay. We were doing our 2018 deaths, as I recall. Right, Paulie? That's right.

Did any of these musicians work on the Wolfman? Yeah, Franz Waxman died in 1960. S.J. Salter. We did character actors. Our friend Mike Weber was here. We did character actors. We did actors. We did directors.

We did writers. But we ran out of time. We did not do musicians, so we thought we'd have Paulie in to do that because he knows an awful lot about music. Don't you, Paul? I certainly do. All right. We'll see you next week.

Okay. So Paul did a little research, Gil. Yeah. You're going to be knocked out of your socks. Took me two weeks, but I got it done. Let's start with someone Gilbert knows. Okay. Vic Damone.

Wow. Oh, him with his rock and roll music. Vic DeMone passed at the age of 89. He made his debut You'll Love This Gil at 17 on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. The biggest Jew hater

ever in show business. Do you get tired of people saying Gilbert Godfrey? Oh, yes. I get... I see that a lot yeah they write down godfrey yeah it's disturbing yeah yeah yeah i i wanted they've heard of arthur godfrey and yet they don't know who he is exactly that's disturbing paul so he this is another one of the great classic turn down a role veto stories rocco farinola Victim owns real name, Gilbert. One of mine, as I like to say.

In 1972, he was offered a role in an obscure movie. I think it was called The Godfather. Yes, indeed. He turned down Johnny Fontaine. Oh, jeez! And who played the... Who took the part? Well, Al Martino. Al Martino.

Yeah. Oh, God! That's painful. When I first saw Victimone, I thought, I couldn't remember the two of them or who it was. Sinatra said he had the best pipes in the business, Victimone. Can you name one Victimone song, Gilbert? I'm waiting for one to flash up on the screen. How about On the Street Where You Live, My Fair Lady? Oh, that was his?

No, he did a very popular cover of that. He had a tumultuous personal life. I don't know Street Where You Live, My Fair Lady? That was his? No, he did a very popular cover of that. He had a tumultuous personal life. I don't know if you found that, Paul. Many hits. Appeared in musicals. He hosted two variety shows. He was once dangled out a window by a mob boss. Excellent! There you go. There's one for Gilbert. Excellent!

A great fear of provoking Sinatra. Yeah, well, who didn't? Who didn't? Who didn't? In the still of the night There you go. Some victim moan. Nice, Frankie. Very smooth.

He had good pipes. Frankie was right. When he was on the Arthur Godfrey show, he met Milton Berle. Uh-huh. It's a shame he's not around for us to ask him about.

Where's this going? This is going to Milton Berle. Yeah, where does it always go? Anyway, Milton Berle got him gigs at a couple of nightclubs and was instrumental in getting him started. He lasted a long time, Victor Moan. Is he still alive kind of guys? Crooners last a long time.

Tony Bennett's still kicking around. So did Victor Moan ever describe Milton Berle's cock? Only in song. Only in song. On the street where you live, if you read between the lines. Yeah, it's the tree line street. He actually recorded 2,000 recordings in his career, which is pretty impressive. And the programs he was on, he's another one of these guys with 1,000 credits.

Yeah, he did a lot of stuff. What's My Line, Jackie Gleason, Steve Allen, Perry Como. Real old school showbiz. All that stuff. Here's another name that people will not necessarily know. Bob Durow, or Bob Durow, D-O-R-R- D-O-R-O-U-G-H. Do you know who that is, Gilbert? No! He was a jazz man.

He worked with Sugar Ray Robinson. He worked with Lenny Bruce. He worked with all kinds of interesting people. Miles? Yes! Yes, Miles Davis, too. But he is best known for writing and directing episodes of Schoolhouse Rock. Wow! Do you remember Schoolhouse Rock?

Yes. Three is a magic number. Yeah. Right. Written by Bob Durow. How did you do that, Frank, so fast? Do we even know if this is one of his compositions? I don't think so.

I think this is a whole page of the Bob Durow classics. Oh, it is. I stand corrected. Shame on me. The lesser known one. Nice work. I think one of the more famous ones, Gilbert, is Conjunction Junction, What's Your Function? Oh.

Do you know that one? Yes. Yes. Here, we'll listen to a little of it. Function. Oh! Do you know that one? Yes, yes. Here, we'll listen to a little of it. Conjunction, junction, what's your

function? That's Jack Sheldon singing. Oh, yeah! Murph's old band leader. Oh, my God! He used to do all of those, like, educational... This is them.

Yeah. My Hero Zero was another one. Lolly, lolly, lolly. Get your adverbs here. It's the work of Bob Durow. So he had a whole second life. My daughter's teachers now still play these. Are they still in circulation?

These things, wow. Well, the teachers that are older remember them and play them. And my daughter uses three as a magic number to remember her threes all the time. Pretty cool. In her head, she does it. How about your kids, Paulie? No. They were schoolhouse rock kids?

Mine were too old and too young. Dara, do your kids know schoolhouse rock? Did you turn them on to this? Not really. Yeah. Not really. They just go to Gilbert for help and they get everything they need? No, they learn their ABCs from the Three Stooges.

Ah, those are your kids, Gil. Yeah. So he had a whole second career and influenced a lot of children. Bob Durow. Let's move on to somebody Gilbert knows well. Knows his work. Roy Clark. Yes. From Hee Haw.

Yes, and he even popped up on that episode of The Odd Couple. You are good. Playing Wild Willie Boggs. Yes. Yes. Country music ambassador and country music hall of famer, Roy Clark. Played the banjo, played the guitar, played the mandolin. A great talent.

Co-host of Hee Haw, of course. An iconic show. What do you got on him, Mr. Rayburn? Now, tell me if this is right, because this sounds flaky. Beverly Hillbillies. He played businessman Roy Halsey and Halsey's mother. Is that possible? Wow.

That's good research. That's good research. I'm going to hope that's true. He had a big hit with Yesterday When I Was Young. Yes. Which is going to come back again before we're done. It comes back. That's interesting.

I just realized that two of the people we're eulogizing hit with the same song. Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. That Odd Couple episode is a great one. Yes. Because I remember he sings Yesterday When I Was Young on the couch with Jack Klugman listening to it. Yep, that's right. Toward the Soviet Union.

Can you imagine? Oh, my God. Roy Clark. Yeah. Country star. And guest, did you already say this? Guest hosted for Johnny Carson. I didn't know he did that.

On many occasions. That's good stuff. He was a regular. All right. He was a regular? Well, as he was, you know, he was a regular. Oh, I thought you said he was irregular. Not a lot of brand at the Grand Ole Opry.

This is good information. Died in 85, Roy Clark. Yeah. You a fan of country music, Gilbert? Oh, big. Growing up in Coney Island, I would figure, you know. Hey, you know what country song I like? Tell me.

And I always forget this guy's name, and I don't know if this one was even a hit. Okay. I think I have it. I think I know exactly what Gilbert's going to say. You're reading his mind? Yep. That's not it. Oh, I thought for sure

this was it. Hello there. Hello there. Marty Allen was not in the Grand Ole Opry. Yes. Yeah. What was that song?

Good guess, though. Oh, um, um, um, um. How'd it go? Oh, wait, wait. Hold it. I'm trying to. You talk amongst yourselves. Male singer?

Female? Yes. And he was in a nut house in the song. And he goes, oh, God. You, yeah. Oh, wait. Let me try to remember this. Fuck. It's only a half hour show. Yes, yeah, oh. Wait, let me try to remember this. Fuck.

It's only a half hour show. Yes, I know. Oh. It's a country song? Yeah, we'll come back to it. As Gilbert stars in his own version of A Beautiful Mind. We'll come back. We'll come back to this.

The password is. Yes. Oh. The Ed Harris character's not real, Gilbert. Well, everybody in this place is looking very strange. If you hand me a paper, I'll be glad to take your name. In case I run into the guy you knew, I don't remember loving you. Ooh, that's good. I don't remember loving you. Ooh, that's good.

I don't remember loving you. Paul, what do you got? Is that Marty Robinson? I don't know. I don't recall the things you say you put me through. You say you walked out on me and let me out. Our listeners in Nashville are screaming at their devices. Both of them, yeah.

Yeah, both of them. We'll come back to that. Oh, you tell me that I quit my job and drank myself insane. Well, that don't sound like something I would do. I don't remember loving you. So the first name that pops up is John Conley. I think that's it. I think he was shot in the motorcade with JFK, John Conley.

Yeah, he was shot in the knee, in the rib. On the B-side, it's a song by Jack Ruby. I didn't realize that. It's a dance number called Back and to the Left. Wow. Here you go, though. It was written by two people, Bobby Braddock, I don't know, but Harlan Howard, who was a great country songwriter. Look at this.

Hit after hit after hit. Gilbert, you're a savant. Wow. Let's move on. Well, I'm an idiot. Why should we move on? We're doing so well. Well, we got only 20 minutes to go, and I want to get through these names.

Speaking of yesterday when I was young, Paul. Yes. You know who I'm thinking of. I know who you're thinking of. Who also passed this year. The French Frank Sinatra. Yes. And who who I'm thinking of. I know who you're thinking of. Who also passed this year. The French Frank Sinatra. Yes. And who would that be?

Charles Aznavour. Charles Aznavour died, Gilbert. Oh, okay. Yes. Legendary French vocalist. He has written, again, I don't know. Do you trust the internet? He has written 1,300 songs.

It's incredible. It's amazing. What's in output? He's sung in eight languages, including Yiddish, actually. Oh, jeez. Career spanning 80 years. Yeah. There's a little Charles Aznavour right now.

Just happened to pop up. There you go. I cut this out of the back of an Alphabetabets box when I was a kid, this 45. Now, there's another connection here. Hit me. One of his inspirations was Edith Piaf. Yes, of course. Another was Maurice Chevalier, who was also an inspiration to the Marx Brothers.

Well. So to speak. Are there... Vernerosaosa can you find Charles Asnavour singing in Yiddish if you can you're a genius

let me see his version of She which Elvis Costello covered is beautiful a heartbreaker sang in many different languages

and Gilly was only five foot three wow weird yeah I could have stole his milk money you could have you could have stole his milk money.

You could have. You could have. Career spanning 80 years. Here you go, Gil. Here is Charles Aznavour singing My Yiddish Mama. Oh! Gilbert's excited. I am. Beautiful Beautiful. It's beautiful.

Didn't we play Tom Jones singing that on a previous... Tom Jones did a version of... And we had Dom Keeney. Billy Holiday. That's right. Did a version of Ayida Shemama. It's beautiful. But Charles Asimov, when I get home, I want to devote the entire show to him singing Yiddish shaman.

Also acted in films like Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player. He had a big career. We were talking recently about Bob Dylan on another show, the Larry Charles show. But Bob Dylan said at one point he saw Charles Aznavour at Carnegie Hall in 60-something, and he said, Aznavour blew my brains out. How about that? Typical Bob Dylan. Getting back to Kennedy again.

Yeah. Here's another name that you might not know, Gil, but you'll know the songs. Does the name Ray Sawyer mean anything to you? Not all of that. Ray Sawyer had an eye patch and a cowboy hat. He was the lead singer of Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show. Oh, okay. Do we know anything about Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show?

Sylvia's mother? I bet. You know that song? Oh, wasn't that Shel Silverstein? No. Well, I think Shel Silverstein wrote their big hit, which was the cover of The Rolling Stone. I was going to say, I bet Gilbert knows that one. But didn't he also write?

I think he wrote. He may have written Sylvia's Mother, too. I think he wrote Sylvia's Mother. What do you think? Let's see what we can find. What do you got there, Frankie? You got Sylvia's Mother? That ain't Sylvia's Mother.

Sylvia's Mother says, thank you for calling. Yes. It's a song that references a payphone. Yes. Yes. It's a song that references a payphone. Yes. Yes. Oh, and the operator says 20 cents more. Right, automatically dates itself. For the next three minutes.

You guys all know this song. Dr. Hook in the Medicine Show. Here he is. There's Ray Sawyer. I think Shell may have written this one, too. Gilbert may be onto something. Here's Sylvia's mother. Shell Silverstein-Lear.

Look at that, Gilbert. Yes! Sylvia's mother said Sylvia's busy Distinct voice for rock and roll. Too busy to come to the ball I thought it was Adam Sandler. Sylvia's mother said

Sylvia's trying To start a new life It was the group's first hit song, 1972. Shel Silverstein was the best thing that happened to them. Yes. Yeah. So why don't you be her? They had later hits.

They had When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman. Oh my God, yes! Sharing the night together. Sharing the night together. But they were at their biggest in the 70s. They had one called Only 16, which I guess wouldn't fly too well right now. I think that was a cover. I think that's a Sam Cooke cover.

My favorite is the cover of The Rolling Stone. A wonderful lyric. A wonderful, funny lyric by Shel Silverstein. Anyway, Ray Sawyer died, Gilbert. Dennis Edwards, the lead singer of The Temptations oh wow Ball of Confusion and Papa Was a Rolling Stone

yeah passed away these are the hits of your childhood yes I was I always get it confused like

who is alive now of The Temptations Eddie is still alive Eddie Kendricks yeah he's gone he's gone he's gone

I think I think Eddie Kendricks died a few years ago. Yeah. I'm not sure how many of the Temptations are still around. I think many of the big guys are gone. Jeff Emrick. Paul, there's a name you know. There we go.

Somebody we thought about for this podcast. He was a friend of Bill, your friend Bill Porcelli's. Yeah. Our friend Bill Porcelli's. They were close. Bill Porcelli, by the way, to our non-enlightened listeners, is the man who introduced Dara and Gilbert. Or is the man who is responsible for meeting your wife. I don't like to talk about him.

Gilbert has a blind spot. We love Bill. Bill worked for Paul McCartney for many, many years. We don't talk about him On this show Jeff Embrick Bill's friend Was nothing short of The engineer

On Revolver On Sgt. Pepper On Abbey Road He's a giant And he Gilbert started Show business At age 15

Right Yes He started at Abbey Road With the Beatles At 16 Love it Amazing enough

And won a Grammy For Sgt. Pepper's And after the Beatles Bro 16. Love it. Amazing enough, and won a Grammy for Sergeant Peppers. And after the Beatles broke up, he engineered for Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello. Sure, yeah. Cheap trick. Kate Bush. Kate Bush. Many other people.

Worked with the zombies. He had a lot of stories. He wrote a memoir called Here, There, and Everywhere, My Life Recording the Beatles, which is a great book. Yeah. Which I recommend to anybody who's a Beatle-phile. But he was somebody we thought about for the show, and for whatever reason, we didn't get to him in time, and he passed away suddenly.

Well, I think I said, what's the rush? I think Frank said, you know who should we get on the show? Yeah. And that's the kiss of death. That's the kiss of death, I guess. Yes. I'm not saying anybody anymore. Yes.

I'm not saying anybody anymore. He famously quit during the White Album Sessions, walked out during one of their famous battles. Oh, wow. It's all in the book. I'm sure he would have had very, very interesting stories to tell. And we haven't had a lot of British guests on the show. We have Peter Asher, Billy J. Kramer, and we had David McCallum in here. Yes.

A couple of weeks ago. He's Scottish. Yeah, but I think that's it. He doesn't count. Okay. Here's a name. And I think we had David Niven on the show. Did we have David Niven? Was he in Blackface from Black Dilla? We will return to Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing

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Yeah. Did his work and did it extremely well. Yeah, but important to their success. Norman Gimbel, Gilbert, does this mean anything to you, this name? I bet Norman's Corner was based on it. Really? Yeah.

On the life of Norman Gimbel? Yes. I didn't realize that. Norman Gimbel was born in Brooklyn. He's a lyricist. He was a lyricist. We just lost him. He wrote with our friend Charlie Fox.

Frank Lesser was a mentor of his. Charlie Fox said he won't come on this show if I sing one of his songs. Well, guess who wrote the lyrics with Charlie to Ready to Take a Chance Again? This gentleman. Ah! Norman Gimbel. Okay. Charlie, if you're out there, and I'm ready to take a chance again.

We'll never get him. Ready to put my love on the line with you. You're living with nothing to show for it. You get what you get when you go for it. Beautiful. If he wasn't dead already. That's it. That is the clincher.

He also wrote Canadian Sunset. He wrote Sway. You know the Dino song? Oh, how does that one go? When the music's... Oh, okay. Swaying with me. Yes.

Swaying with me. Is Frank singing now too? Yeah, I'm not saying. I can barely carry it to him, but I'm just trying to give Gilbert the idea. I think that was like one of those songs we even may have been considering for the theme song of this show. Did we consider Sway? Yeah, because it's da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Oh, to get that.

I think our friend Bobby Rydell covered that song, too. He also wrote the lyrics for Killing Me Softly with his song. And probably one of my top five songs. Which is about what? Roberta Flack. Killing Me Softly is about, what's his name? Starry, Starry Night. It's very good.

It's about Don McLean. Don McLean, yes. It's a song about Don McLean. You know, a couple of days ago was the 50th anniversary of the day the music died, actually. I believe it was yesterday. or the day before yesterday. He also wrote the lyrics for The Girl from Ipanema. That's what I was going to say. Oh, and what's her name?

Gilberto. Astrid Gilberto. Yes. Yes. That's right. That's on my top five songs. We haven't had too many lyricists on this show. Paul Williams is a lyricist and also a songwriter, but we haven't had too many.

I think we need to pursue a couple. Rupert Holmes. Rupert Holmes, certainly. He also wrote I Got a Name, the Jim Croce song. And you'll love this, the theme songs for Wonder Woman. Oh, Wonder Woman. You're a wonder. Also the Laverne and Shirley theme. Oh, Wonder Woman! You're a wonder! Also the Laverne and Shirley theme.

Oh, yes. Which we put up on the main episode this Monday because we lost Penny Marshall. And I thought that would be a two-for-one to honor Norman as well. And the Happy Days theme. And let's not forget, we also lost Julianne Shirt. Oh, stop it! It brings

a tear to my eye every time you mention it. But Charlie Fox, who is a friend of our friend Norman Steinberg, who refuses to do this show unless Gilbert stops singing. So he will never do this show. We should also give Charlie. Charlie co-wrote those songs, the Laverne and Shirley theme and the Happy Days theme. He also wrote the Love American style theme, but not with Norman.

A real talent. Yes. And last but not least, you know where I'm going with this, Paul. And Charlie, if you're out there. Who have we not done? Oh, I know where you're going. Where the king and queen of hearts hold me when the music starts. That's from Zach.

Oh, poor Charlie. I hope we get him. We'll keep trying. What does one say about this artist? I had the honor, the special honor of working with her once, which I will never forget, on the TV Land Awards. And I have to thank my friends, Michael Levitt and Dave Boone, by the way, for making that happen. Singer, musician, songwriter, civil rights activist, the great Aretha Franklin.

Queen of Soul. And the Queen of Soul. Gilbert, you were on a roast or two with the Queen of Soul. Yes, I remember also I did a Saturday Night Live where she was the musical did you interact with the queen of soul i don't think so but i remember nothing to do with you i i remember at one of the roasts uh it it opened she sang a song and then jeff ross came up and said i thought

the fat lady's supposed to sing at the end of the show. And I was at that roast. And she famously leaned over the dais and gave him the finger. Yep, yep, yep. See, I have a good anecdote here from 1967. She was struggling to record I Never Loved a Man the Way That I Love You. I love that one. And it just was not coming together.

This is Atlantic. And finally, as she would tell the story later, something wasn't clicking. demand the way that i love you and it just was not coming together this is atlantic and finally as she would tell the story later uh something wasn't clicking and someone said aretha why don't you sit down and play she took a seat at the piano and quickly cut the smoldering track that we would become her first number one r&b hit right there amazing learn piano by ear is that right yeah yeah yeah some people you can't you can't shut them down. You can't stop them. Well, her mother was a piano player. Her father was a minister. And she went on these...

She got into show business very early. She went on these caravan tours around the South with her father. And I think she got her first record contract. She was very young. I think she was a teenager. She moved to New York at 18 and she signed with Columbia. And it didn't really kick in big time, although the Columbia songs are very interesting.

The real turning point came when she signed with Atlantic. And Jerry Wexler came into her life and the rest is showbiz history. And who gave her the name Queen of Soul? Do you know? No. A radio host named Purvis Spann. That doesn't sound like a joke. But Rock Steady and Daydreaming and Think and Until You Come Back to Me and Spanish Harlem.

Here's a weird one. So many hits. She was the first female inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rightly so. Rightly so. Rightly so, but 1987. That's late for no women in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Well, I think it opened not too many years before that. But she's been eulogized everywhere and much better than she's going to be here.

But what a giant. What a giant talent. And I suspect we will not see the likes of her again. Those are the people that I wrote down. There were many, many other musicians, but in the interest of time. I can just mention, I've got DJ Fontana, Elvis' drummer. Yeah, go throw in the rest of the names. DJ Fontana, sure.

Matt Guitar Murphy, who's in the scene with her, who plays her husband in the Blues Brothers. They passed in the same year. That's right, that's right. And who else did we have here? Yvonne Staples. Yes, from the Staples Singers. Mavis Staples became famous.

Yvonne didn't want the fame. She wanted to be a backup singer. Good mention. Yeah, love the Staples Singers. Yeah, so a sad year for musicians. Yes. Gilly, what do you got? I guess that's it.

Are you going to take us out on Ready to Take a Chance again or My Yiddish Mama in French? Oh. You know what? He will go home and learn French just to save you. I say we go out on My Yiddish Mama in French. Okay. I can't believe that. That's amazing.

Frank will make it happen. Thank you, guys. Thank you for another episode. This has been Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions, and Raybone's funeral was earlier this morning. I'm happy to say that jazz man, blues man, Paul Raybone, is not one of the people who passed during 2018. Julia Andrews and I

were going to have a joint funeral. Julia Andrews is alive and well. Damn you, Gottfried! You're blowing up! Ha ha ha! C'est de l'amour à l'état pur Prêt pour ses enfants à faire bien des sacrifices Veillant, bonant, malant Sur leur chagrin, sur leur caprice

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