Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini #210: Death Songs of the 1970s

Episode Date: April 4, 2019

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He pulled them away from me. He doesn't want me eating during the show. I need Craig Gilbert to perform. The lack of professionalism around here. So this has been, this has been. Shortest episode ever. This shows what a hurry I am to go home. This has been... You really want those edible crackers.

Yeah, yeah, I want... Yes. This will be... Gilbert... Or it is right now. Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions. Yes. And the man in the final stages

of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. These final stages. All black, blind, skinless, toothless, eyeless. Eyeless and skinless. Yeah. Fingernail-less. One of my favorites was napkin-less. I still don't know what that means. Napkin-less. Origami-less. Yes. Paul favorites was napkinless.

Napkinless. Origamiless. Yes. Paul Raybone, ladies and gentlemen. Tracing paperless. Seems to be a paper obsession with him. I have something for you, Mr. Gottfried. Okay.

This is a gift sent by a former guest. Can you open it up and see what it is? What's in there? That's yours. I got one. And now you have one. Ah! Mr. Skin.

The latest Mr. Skin. It's Mr. Skin's memoir. How about that? From our friend. We'll have to have him back on the show. Our wonderful friend, Jim McBride. Thank you, Jim, for the book. Yeah.

Now he's going to be distracted looking at the book for the entire episode. Yeah, we'll have to have him back on the show because it's like, that's one I feel like my whole life has been researching. Written by Jim McBride with Matthew Clickstein, forward by Adam Carolla. And what is the publication date on that? I guess we'll find out. But that's an advanced proof. See, Gibler, he loves you. Yeah.

He sent you an advanced proof. Were you doing a Beatles thing that I saw on Facebook? You had to pick favorite Beatles songs? It wasn't anything big. I don't even know what it was. I was there to do an interview. At Sirius? Yeah.

Okay. And then they grabbed me and said, oh, could you do this? Okay. It turned up on Facebook. We all, speaking of music, we have a surprise for you. Now, I was supposed to play this during the call-in show, which was on your birthday. But I aired. I had a lot on my plate that night, and I forgot.

This is a special gift to you from a listener named Jim Wright. And Frank is going to cue it up. Have we ever met Mr. Wright? I don't believe we have. I humor him. Happy birthday to you. I have orange

wedges for you. They are under this glass coffee table. Happy birthday to you. Big finish. How about that? Yeah. The guy's an opera singer. Yes. He about that? Yeah. The guy's an opera singer.

Yes. He's the real deal. That's amazing. I like the way he worked the wedges and the table together. The wedges and the coffee. He got Caesar and Danny in there. Yeah. And we're picturing Danny Thomas under the table.

Get your scandals right. Yes. And Cesar Romero's juice-covered ass. Jim Wright is a professional opera singer. Wow. And he said he wrote me on Twitter, and he said I recorded a special birthday message for Gilbert. So it's two weeks later. Yeah, that's fine.

So happy birthday. That's fine. Pretty impressive, huh? So if he's recording a song for Gilbert, where do we think he is in his career right about now? Maybe we shouldn't use his real name. I thought we would start this mini. We're going to do a music mini inspired by the Casey Kasem meltdown.

We did the Casey Kasem a couple of weeks ago. It was very popular. The fans loved it. Yeah, Verteroso has promised that he has other celebrity meltdowns. I thought it was fucking ponderous. It was fucking ponderous. We're building a future,

a follow-up episode with other celebrity meltdowns, but we were talking about the fucking dog dying dedication. Yes, yes. And we got to talking about what song it was, and you said somehow or other we started singing Patches by Clarence

Carter's Patches. We were talking I was born and raised down in Alabama in a shack way down in the woods. I was so ragged my papa used to call me Patches. But I knew he was hurt because he done all he could. My papa was a brave old man. I used to see him with a shovel in his hand. Education he never had.

I still remember my dear old dad saying, Patches, we're depending on you, son. We got the idea. You're borrowing from Ray Bones. I didn't see that in my script. Was that in the script? No. We started talking about depressing songs from the 1970s,

specifically what I call death songs of the 1970s, which seemed to be a sub-genre. Yeah. This one, Shannon, was the, in fact, was the death dog. Oh! The fuck? I got to talk about a fucking dog dying. That's the line you love so much.

This is the actual song. A listener from Cincinnati had requested Shannon as one of Casey's the line you love so much. This is the actual song. A listener from Cincinnati had requested Shannon as one of Casey's long-distance dedications. So I thought we'd play some of these. Oh.

And see what your memories of them were. I got one other tidbit I can add to that. Go. So the song went gold, became a worldwide hit. The second single,

Springtime Mama, just short of gold. But who or what was Shannon? Well, you'll tell us after we listen to a little bit of it. Frankie? Do you remember this one, Gil? Oh, yes!

By Henry Gross. Jew. From Brooklyn. And other days at end Mama says she's tired again No one can even begin to tell her I hardly know what to say But maybe it's better that way

If Papa were here, I'm sure he'd tell her I love you. The whole Beach Boys kind of a thing. The whole Beach Boys thing. Yeah, and why was it a Beach Boys thing? Why was it a Beach Boys thing? Can I reveal the secret? Go for it. Yes. Shannon was a song written about the passing of Beach Boy Carl Wilson's Irish setter.

There you go. Of the same name. That's the story. Song became a worldwide hit. Worldwide hit in 1976. Most importantly, it was sung and written by a Brooklyn Jew. Did we say that? Absolutely, yeah.

Henry Gross. I got a quibble here. Go ahead. It's a she-dog, right? Maybe she'll find an island. With a shady tree. A she-dog doesn't need a tree. A boy-dog needs a tree.

Wow, now that's... What about shade, Paul? Am I right? Don't't need a tree. A boy-dog needs a tree. Wow, now that's... What about sheep, Paul? Am I right? Don't dogs need a tree? Wow. Wow. How about this? All of a sudden, Raybone has run weather wax.

Okay, that's a lot of information, Paul. You should get a crayon and send a letter to Henry Gross. Yeah, you're just killing the mood in the room. He was touring with Carl Wilson, and yes, he heard the story about the Irish setter dying. That's sad, but the upbeat part of the story is that it became lore on the Casey Kasem show. Oh my God, yes. And it's one of the death songs of the 70s. Is that Don on the phone?

Where was Don on the pictures? I was supposed to see. This song was a certified hit. Number one in Canada. Number one in New Zealand. You can't get bigger than that. Yeah, did very, very well. I went to the website, the Henry Gross website, and learned all about it.

So I have some more here for you, Gilbert, but I'm going to stump you. I'm not going to tell you the name of this one. Okay. This is what they call, this is from, by the way, Shannon was from 1976. This is from July of 1975 by an artist named David Geddes, who appears on our countdown tonight twice. It's what's called a teenage tragedy song. Do you know this one?

There's been a couple of teen tragedies. I know this. What's that song where someone gets shot? That could be this one. Here we go. They sound like angels. They are, in fact, angels. I believe so.

I believe that's correct. They had to record it in the 16th century. Daddy, please don't. It wasn't his fault. He means so much to me. Oh, my God! Yes! Daddy, please don't.

We're gonna get married. Just you wait and see. That's the black boyfriend, isn't it? No, I don't think so. I thought, maybe I always thought that. Rather politically incorrect. She called me up late that night. She said, Joe, don't come over.

My dad and I Just had a fight And he stormed out the door I've never seen him act this way My God, he's going crazy He says he's gonna make you pay For what we've done He's got a gun So run, Joey, run

Everybody! Run! Daddy, please don't! He's got a gun, so run. Joey, run. Everybody, run. Hi. Daddy, please tell me it wasn't his fault. Our listeners are screaming. There's one song. It might be this one where the music goes, da-da-da-da-da-da. You know, it sounds like a gun being fired.

I don't think it's this one. Are you thinking of Indiana Wants Me? The one with the bank robber? No, it wasn't. I mean, it might have been in there too, but it had to do with also a girl splitting with a guy. Well, Joey, I guess Julie accidentally gets shot. You know the story of this song?

She runs to try to tell him to run, and at the critical moment, she steps in front of him and takes the bullet. Now, there might be a sound, a musical sound that sounds like a gun in there then. Wow. When she gets shot. Yeah, that's the last verse. I'm sure we'll get like 5,000 tweets.

When she fell, here's the poetic line. I ran to her, I held her close. When I looked down, my hands were red. There you go. David Geddes with Run Joey Run. They were doing tie-dye shirts. Excellent. Another death song from 1975. Is there a way

that you could find the ending of that song? We'll see. We'll cut this up. See if you can get there, Frank, and see if he hears his gunshot. Now you went too far. It's before this. Oh, yeah. Before. It's before that.

Yeah. Daddy, please don't. We're going to get there. No, she's clearly dying there. Yeah, yeah. Before. I saw him there sneaking up behind me. Watch out!

Then Julie yelled, he's got a gun, and she stepped in front of me. Suddenly, a shot rang out, and I saw Julie fall. No! That's not the song. Wow! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! There is a song with...

It was close to the end, and by the end I mean the middle. Yeah, there is a song with a gun sound. Well, I like to create a mystery with the mini-episodes, so we'll figure that out. We will return to Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast after this. That's the sound of fried chicken with a spicy history. Thornton Prince was a ladies' man. To get revenge, his girlfriend hid spices in his fried chicken.

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and Maddie Matheson is ready to heat up screens once again. All new episodes of FX's The Bear are streaming June 27, only on Disney+. Uh, Mr. Geddes will return, but here's one from 1975, July of 1975. I don't know what it is about the 70s, but maybe you know this one, Frank. This is a cover. The original was by Dickie Lee till my 18th year we met for spring to go

always like this one she was shy I think she did not know but we got it all together in such a super way. We held each other close at night and traded dreams each day. And she said, Rocky, I've never been in love before. Don't know if I can do it. You know this song? This one, I'm not that familiar with.

This is called Rocky. By the way, you guys will appreciate the singer, Austin Roberts, was the singer of the Scooby-Doo theme in 1969. Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you? We got some work to do now. That's Austin Roberts. He had another hit called There's Something Wrong With Me. This is a cover.

Paul, what can you tell us about Rocky? Well, not too much, except I didn't know Rocky Balboa could sing. That was the surprise to me. Oh, the final verse is his wife. It's a story of young love. She accepts his marriage proposal. They have a baby. And she keeps saying, Rocky, I never had a baby before.

Don't know if I can do it. And then it turns tragic because she gets sick and dies. And she says, Rocky, I never had to die before. I don't know if I can do it. And then they realize together they have the strength to meet the challenge. So it's a total downer of a song about young love snuffed out. Austin Roberts was nominated for four Grammys. He was not just a one-hit wonder.

He was not. But this song was not written by him. It was a country hit by a guy named Dickie Lee. Jumping to a different, I think the song, where the boyfriend may have been black, is Can't See You Anymore, Baby. Oh, what is that? Can't, that was like Janis Ian. Was that Janis Ian? See you anymore, baby. Oh, what is that? Can't see you anymore baby.

I don't know, but it's not a death song and it doesn't apply to this episode. He's not killed? We'll look it up. Can't see you anymore. Let's look it up. Let's plow ahead. Well, maybe I'll play it at home and I'll put a gunshot.

It'll be like Spike Jonze. Put a kazoo in it and a gunshot. And a slide whistle. I know you know this one. This is arguably the most popular death song of the 1970s from 1973. You got to know this one. It is an Americanized version of a French song called Le Moribond.

Frank? Oh, my God. Yeah. Goodbye to you, my trusted friend. Oh, yes. Yeah. You know this song? Yes.

Dara knows it. Dara's waving. Big hit. Together we've climbed hills and trees. Oh, I bet. And then the hills and the seas and the sun. And the things that we know. Jerry Lewis is covering season eight.

And there's hills and there's valleys. And we go. Here comes the title. Pretty girls are everywhere. Think of me and I'll be there. We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun. But the hills that we climbed're just seasons out of time. Okay.

You knew one. Yes, here, here. And I also know, I don't know his name. I think it may have been something Lucas. Okay. There was a serial killer who liked this song. Okay. There was a serial killer who liked this song. Yes.

I think it's William Henry Lucas. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Oh, so I was right. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah. He was a serial killer and this was his favorite song.

I'm so sorry that I know that. Yeah, that's his favorite song. It's not in the wiki write-up of this song, but I don't know why I know that, but I do. This is Terry Jacks, who was in the Poppy family. Remember Which Way You Going, Billy? Oh, my God, yes! Now, no one dies in Which Way You Going. No, no.

It seems like someone should die. But, Billy, don't be a hero. Oh, absolutely. Somebody dies, which I don't have this week, but we'll do another part two down the road. Don't be a fool

with your life. That's it. I got a tidbit here I pulled out for Gilbert, especially. There were 47 covers of Seasons in the Sun. Amazing.

But the original was 1973 and what most people don't know is that the flip side was put the bone in another song about a dead dog by the way it was about burying a pet dog put the put the put the bone yeah it was oh that bone it was put the ray bone in yes yeah i had a totally different picture with yeah yeah i think we had the same picture. I think so.

I think it was a film with Harry Reams and Tracy Lord. I'm starting to think like Gilbert. You are way off course. And it was called Put the Bone In. Yeah. There it is. Put the Bone In on Bell Records. Came out in December of 1973.

Terry Jacks, these lyrics were written by the famous poet Rod McEwan. Remember Rod McEwan? And it was an Americanized adaptation of a French song called Le Moribond by the Belgian singer Jacques Perrault. That's a very good French accent.

That's a terrible French accent. But it has been called one of the worst pop songs ever recorded. Ranking number five in a CNN, a 2006 CNN poll. Boy, I liked this song when I was a kid. So what do I know? Went to number one in Switzerland, number one in Canada, number two in the U.S. And if a serial killer liked it, it has to be good. Yeah, 12 countries it went to number one.

Sold a lot of records. Got the Juno Award for best single in Canada. You bet. Canada has come up a lot tonight for some reason. I don't know why that is. And I was researching this today and I wrote to Paul and I said, let's switch up. We were going to do something different. And I thought, man, there are more death songs from the 1970s.

I didn't even bring Billy Don't Be a Hero or any of the other ones. There are a lot of tragedy songs. The Night Chicago Died. Night Chicago Died. That's right. Great. Another one. And was the Leader of the Pack?

Did you tell me that was a different time? That's the 50s or the early 60s. Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road. Oh, you know something? No, but I will accept Candle in the Wind. You know something? I think Leader in the Pack has kind of like a sound effect in it. They gun the motorcycles. Yeah, it's a motorcycle.

Yeah, but not a gunshot. It might be a backfiring motorcycle. Maybe. All right, we're going to put it out to our listeners. What is Gilbert's gunshot song that Gilbert's trying to think of? There's another song. You might be getting to it soon or maybe on a future one about throwing the strange thing over the bridge. Oh, Billy Joel. The Ode to Billy Joel.

Yes. That's another one. Yes. Bobby Gentry. Yeah. The Ode to Billy Joel, which. That's another one. Yes. Yeah, Bobby Gentry. Yeah. Billy, Billy, yeah, Ode to Billy Joel, which Max Baer made the movie out of. Yeah. Yes, also counts as a death song.

I did not choose that one. No. But we can do a part two. That was a big death song. I can't see you anymore. Could that have been Janice Ian, Society's Child? Oh, I think so. It sounds like Janice Ian.

It could be. Don't bother looking for a gunshot in it. We'll do it later. Here, Gil, here's another one by David Geddes of Run Joey Run fame. This one came out in 1975. It was also a country hit for an artist named Kenny Starr. Do you know this one? The video

hands moving is disturbing. It's a little like Patches. In terms of melody. He's just the blind man in the bleachers. It's not about Ray Bones. It's about the same thing. Way back in the stand.

And he listens to the play-by-play just waiting for one name. Sounds like Andy Kaufman. He wants to hear his son get in the game. You know this song? The Blind Man and the Bleachers? But the boy's just not a hero.

He don't think so. He's strictly second team. We'll play a little of it. Though he runs each night for touchdowns in his daddy's sweetest dreams. He's gonna be a star someday, though you might never tell. But the blind man in the bleachers knows he will. The blind man in the bleachers knows he will. It's the last game of the season on a Friday night at home.

And no one knows the reason why the blind man didn't come. And this boy looks kind of nervous, sometimes turns around and stares. Just as though he sees the end of the story. No, I guess he wins the game. He's got to win the game. Paul, do you want to explain? No, I didn't know there was a new one. Now, was the blind man dead? The boy eventually helps rally his team from a deficit and get a come from behind win.

But in the post-game huddle, the boy becomes emotional. And when asked to explain why he played so well, he reveals that his father had died earlier in the evening, which is why he was not at the game because his dad has attended every game, the blind man and the bleachers. Presumably, he has gone to heaven and now granted eyesight to watch his son play.

Oh. Oh. Get down on the phone. Get down on the phone? Fucking ponderous. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 70s idea of pop songs. Blind man watching his child play football and dies. I'm kind of hung up on a couple of things Gilbert raised. Unrewarding.

Unrewarding. What can you tell us about Blind Man and the Bleachers? And we'll move on to our last one. It's my new favorite song. I wanted to plug a couple of holes, things that Gilbert raised. Can't See You Anymore is definitely Society's Child. Yeah, Genesee, great Genesee.

And here's how it starts. Come to my door, baby. Face is clean and shining, black as night. Yes! Yes! So it's a story of a forbidden interracial romance? Yeah, that's right. That's exactly what it is.

I never knew what that song was about. I came to the door. She called you boy instead of your name. Ah! About that. Wow, I knew that one. You got that one. Still, I don't think there's a gunshot.

There's no gunshot? We're going to leave that open. What do you know about the blind man and the bleachers, Paul? I don't know anything. David Geddes was the American singer. Was the same guy who did uh who did run joey run yeah so apparently uh death songs were his thing and uh it was covered the same year gilbert by country music artist kenny star and the song peaked at number two on the hot

country singles chart how about that oh boy i stumped you with a death song? Yeah. All right. Is it your new favorite? Does it replace Patches? You know, I mean, once he starts off by saying the blind man and the bleachers, I said, this is the best opening for any song ever. And ironically, Raybone didn't know anything about the blind man and the bleachers. Well, I couldn't see the guy. Exactly. My friend, Ann Brooks, I want to give a shout out to, turned me on to that song years ago.

Why? And it makes me think of her. That's a great one. Okie doke. And we'll do more as we go forward, but that's it for what I compiled from the 70s. But I brought you one bonus song from the 1960s. Oh, oh. It did not make the cut because it's 1968 so it would be a whole separate episode it would be death songs of the 60s which we don't have

time for but down the road so i know you know this one gil mr vertorosa if you will. See the tree, how big it's grown. Oh, yes. It hasn't been too long. Oh, is it a girl's name? Yeah. Oh, I know this one. I laughed at her and she got mad. The first day that she planted it was just a twig.

Then the first snow came and she ran out to brush the snow away so it wouldn't die. Came running in, all excited, slipped and almost hurt herself, and I laughed till I cried. She was always young at heart, kind of dumb and kind of smart, and I loved her so. And I surprised her with a puppy Kept me up all Christmassy Two years ago And it would sure embarrass her He's never going to get to it. The chorus comes at the very end.

The chorus is the end with a gunshot. I bought a pair of shoes, but they were a hand size too small. Here comes the title. And honey, I miss you. I miss you. Honey, it's called Honey. And I'm being good.

It's a very sad song. And I'd love to be with you. If only I could By the great Bobby Goldsboro. In 1968. What can you tell us, Mr. Ray Bone? Well, first of all, I would not play that with Casey Kasem trying to come off of a temple. A goddamn death dedication. A temple song.

Fucking conjurious. I would get down on the phone immediately. Yeah. No, not too much. I did pull out, can anyone name any of Bobby Goldsboro's other songs? I have two here. Gosh. Oh my gosh.

Well, there was Autumn of My Life. Autumn of My Life. That's one. Yeah, I remember that one. I think Gilbert can get the other one. Ooh. Hit me. See the funny little clown

Bobby Goldsboro The song's narrator Mourns his deceased wife Beginning with him looking at a tree in their garden And remembering how it was just a twig On the day she planted it I'm going to go home and kill myself That's the object

There is a book I will say to our listeners I think it's called I Hate Myself and I Want to Die or something. Maybe you can look it up, Paul, if you've got internet over there. Somebody did a book, a paperback book, about the death songs of the 1970s. And I think it's called that. I think it's called I Hate Myself and Want to Die or something very similar. The single about the loss of a spouse

hit number one the week after Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968 and spent five weeks at number one. How about that? Do you know how many people have covered this song? Ed Ames, Eddie Arnold, Percy Faith, Frankie Lane, Dean Martin, Roger

Miller, Patty Page. And Kiss. No, not Kiss. Kiki D. Nope, not Kiki D. Captain Antony. Kiki D. Where does he come up with them? Roger Whitaker, Lawrence Welk, John Neville.

Wow. Hank Snow. Yeah. My memory of Bobby Goldsboro, remember the old Mike Douglas show? They used to have co-hosts? Yes. A guest would co-host for a week. I never, the things that stay with you, I never forget, I'll never forget Bobby Goldsboro

telling a story of how he came downstairs in the middle of the night barefoot to investigate a noise and cut his toe on a Rice Krispie. See, that was exciting. Worse than death. This was television of the 70s. Death television of the 70s. Can I just put one out here? Go ahead.

Just as a teaser for the next time we look at some of these things. And I'll just give you the title. My baby's character in the Driver's Ed movie. What are you talking about? This is a death song. Does he know which podcast this is? No. He has no idea.

It's a death song. Don't wake him up. This is going to get good. She's the unfortunate victim in the Driver's Head movie. It's just what this... What are you referring to? Is this Janice Ian again? No.

I think he's finally gone out of the edge i think dara paul snapped you know we don't have time for it in this episode but i did get an email earlier with a lot of links to a bunch of songs written in the early 2000 by a neurologist in chicago no kidding i think he was in oh. Yeah, Ohio, right. Well, I will bring you... Kiki D. I will bring you another batch... I got the music in me.

I will bring you another batch of death songs the next time we do this. Okay. Like, Billy, Don't Be a Hero, and what was the other one you brought up? Oh, I... Oh, To Billy Joe. Yes. The list goes on and on. Did you find that book, I Hate Myself and Want to Die?

I can't. That's when I came across the driver's head movie, so I stopped right there. Okay. I think that's the name of the book, but I'll put it up on social media. What is it? I Hate Myself and Want to Die. I think that's the name of it. Now, who was in Oh, To Billy Joe?

Robbie Benson, of course. Yeah, that's who I thought. And Glynnis O'Connor. Oh, my God. Yes. I was picturing Robbie Benson in my mind. And I was saying, oh, this is going to fucking kill me. There you go.

Yeah. Oh, Frank's got a good one to take us out with. All right, Frankie. Perfect. I hate myself and want to die. That's the book. That's the one. Okay.

Who's the author? Let's see here. It's the 52 most depressing songs you've ever heard. Let me find the author here. Well, while Paul is finding the author... Tom Reynolds. Tom Reynolds. We'll sign off.

We're to the tones of Geeky D. And Reggie Dwight. Thank you, Francis. This has been Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions. Look at Paul dance. Look at those moves. I saw them do this live in 1974. Wow.

Dating myself. Now, did she do a song with Paul McCartney, too? No She had a hit called I Got the Music in Me Yeah On Elton's label Oh, maybe Elton John pops up in one of her songs I know there's something that they do something after

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