Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini #216: Frank's Record Collection

Episode Date: May 16, 2019

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Product availability may vary by Regency app for details. Here we go boys. One, two, three. here we go hi this is gilbert godfrey and i'm here with frank santo padre and our engineer, Frank Verderosa. And this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions. And if you've heard about Raybone, people in the neighborhood say it reeks of Albert Decker. There's a reference. I love how we always start on a warm note. I can't tell you how much that means to me. Albert Decker. Well, for all the people that are Googling that,

it's D-E-K-K-E-R. And that'll give you some frame of reference of what this sick individual next to me is talking about. How are you, Paul? Not too bad. When I'm with you guys, I'm great. That shows what a miserable life

I lead. Frank didn't have anything to say. That may be the saddest thing he's said to date. How are you, Gilly? We just had a legend in this room. Erwin Winkler. The legendary producer of Raging Bull.

I'm sitting in his chair and I'm starting to feel it. I'm starting to feel the thing you feel like developing a project for De Niro by the time we're done tonight I've got a project yeah we're buzzing

from that appearance it was a terrific episode which you guys will hear soon if you haven't already heard it because who the hell knows about the timing of these ideal guess

it was perfect until Gilbert used profanity and he blanched i asked about sharon stone's pussy that's all right i'm gonna cut it out of the show so no reason to reference it here here's an idea for a mini episode because the uh the mini episodes about music people seem to have been responding to them yes as i pointed out last week. Yes. We did, we had John Fodiatis, we did fictional bands

of the 60s, some of the real bands of the 60s. We did Death Songs of the 70s, which Gilbert got into. And I said to my wife, I'm going to dig into

my old 45 box and try to stump Gilbert. And I'll put Paul to work on some research. And see what he comes up with. And believe it or not, these are records. They're all of the same era because I'm old. Yes. But these, I thought, I wonder how many of these he will know.

And maybe we could stump you. Yes. And then Paul and I would give you some information. I actually brought the records with me. Do you have a 45 player at home? You know, I have a turntable, but I also have two cats, so you cannot put a record on.

Because the cats are very attractive to the spinning, and they will jump on the needle, and it's a bad marriage. Cats and turntables. I have a great turntable. So, no, we can't listen to them at home.

Right. But I dug them out of the box. So we're going to call this episode Frank's Record Collection. If we have fun, we'll do more.

Maybe we'll do Paul's Record Collection in the future. Do you have 45s in the house? I do have some 45s. So Dara, we'll dig some of these. Dara's raising her hand.

You have them too? Are they yours or his? They're shared. So we'll do Dara and Gil's Record Collection in a future week. But, these are some hand you have them too are they yours or his they're shared so we'll do we'll do darrett and gill's record collection in a few in a future week but these are some that i pulled out from my childhood starting in 1959 and no i wasn't even born in 1959 but some of these were my sister's records they were older than me and i thought we would see what you knew okay so we're going to go

in chronological order so frankie if you know this skill i'll be impressed seven little girls sitting in the back seat hugging and kissing with fred i said why don't one of you come up and sit beside me? And this is what the seven girls said. All together now. One, two, three. Keep your mind on your drive and keep your head on your back. Look at the look on his face.

It's like he's developing a serum. Do you know this song? I very vaguely. You were born in 54? 53? 55. 55. So you would have been four.

Yeah. Yeah, it's too young even for you. Yeah, this was, my sister had this. It's seven little girls sitting in the back seat from 1959. A guy named Paul Evans. It's got a similar beat to Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. Yes. Now, I wonder why that is.

Same people? Same writer. Same writer. Oh! See how good he is? Look at that. Lee Pocris was one of the writers of this and he wrote Brian Highland's Itsy Bitsy Teeny with Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. I'm so proud of myself.

That's a great one. You're a savant. He also wrote Johnny Angel and Catch a Falling Star and a song called Pregnant Again. Pregnant Again? Pregnant Again? Wow. That one did a chart.

Yeah, I don't think so. He wrote Catch a Falling Star for Perry Como and Tracy by the Cufflings, which I think was sung by our pal Ron Dante, if I'm not mistaken. He also, yeah, he, do you know the Swedish version of this song? No. Called Flikor

Bak Ebilen. That's the copy I have. That was the one you know? It was recorded, written by Bob Hilliard and Lee Pockriss, who wrote a lot of hits, recorded by Paul Evans, went to number nine on the charts, and then covered the same year by a group called the Avons. This is just an obscure song from my childhood that I remember listening to

when I was, I mean, really young, two or three or four, and the flip side, which I won't subject you to. But I said to my wife, I wonder if Gilbert knows this. I know he knows the rest of them that are in this stack. Paul Evans wrote, also the performer on this record, also wrote, Roses are Red, My Love for Bobby Vinton.

Oh! Speaking of good fellas, we just had Erwin in here. I pulled out about 10 or 12 of Hilliard's songs. They actually make poetry, if you read them right. Yeah, go ahead. From the 1930s through the 50s,

this guy produced such hits as The Coffee Song, The Big Brass Band from Brazil, Civilization, Bongo, Bongo, Bongo, The Thousand Island Song, A Strawberry Moon, Mention My Name in Sheboygan. Oh, I know that one. You can check that out. I'm in Wisconsin this weekend. Careless Hands.

And then a couple I actually heard of, Dear Hearts and Gentle People. Yeah. And was that Andy Williams? Who did that? I don't know. And then In the Wee Who did that? And then, In the wee small hours of the morning, the great Sinatra song.

Is the coffee song that Sinatra won about there's an awful lot of coffee in Brazil? I think so. Yeah, I think there's a great lyric. Yeah.

So this guy Hilliard, who I have to say I didn't know, has been all over the place. Yeah, these great old songwriters, these great old, I mean, some of these guys

went back to the 20s and 30s. Anyway, good call, good ears, Gilbert. Also, Paul Evans sang Happy Go Lucky Me, which was used in a John Waters movie called Pecker. Oh. Did you see that picture? No.

Another good theme for Minnie would be movies that sound dirty but aren't. Yes, yes. Like Pecker and Head. Oh, yeah. And Ride a Pink Horse, which I think was Ride a Pale Horse. Okay. I think you will know the next one. This is from 1966.

Oh, Secret Agent Man. There we go. No hesitation. Here's a man who leads a life of danger. Very good. Everyone he meets, he's still a stranger. Every move he makes, another chance he takes. Look at this guy.

I'm sorry he won't live to see tomorrow. Secret Agent Man. Secret Agent Man. I love how he's four minutes behind. Secret Agent Man. The great Johnny Rivers. Yes. Secret Agent Man.

That's a great one. No stomping you. No stomping. No stomping you. No stomping you. What do you know about Secret Agent Man, Paul? Well, I could... Gilbert got immediately.

It shows how promiscuous these writers and performers were, because everybody worked on everybody else's thing. Flip Sloan, who was one of the writers of PF Sloan, PF Sloan legend. Here's, here are some of the people he worked for with the produced, uh,

Barry McGuire. Yeah. He wrote Eve of Destruction. Jan and Dean wrote this. Jan and Dean, Herman's Hermans, Johnny Rivers, the,

you know, the, the grassroots. Remember them? Yes. He wrote a lot of hits for them. The Turtles. We had.

Former podcast guest. We had one. Howard. We had one turtle. And wrote a lot of hits for them. The Turtles. We had. Former podcast guest. We had one. Howard Key. We had one turtle. And the mamas and the papas. Yeah. Yeah. He wrote You Baby for the Turtles. He wrote She's a Must to Avoid for the Hermits.

Oh, okay. Things I Should Have Said for the Grassroots. Eve of Destruction, you know. Yes. P.F. Sloan. We're talking about the writer. This was written for a TV show that licensed Danger Man. Danger Man was supposed to be the name of the show and the name of the song.

Did you know this, Paul? They changed the title. Wasn't it a British import? Correct. Yes. Correct. And they changed the title. It was shown by a surviving demo of the song, which P.F. Sloan sang.

When the show's title was changed, the lyrics were also changed. And Lou Adler, who produced Johnny Rivers, was chosen to add the vocals for the TV show. Well, Rivers was chosen. And he claimed he came up with the opening guitar riff inspired by the James Bond theme. Oh, yeah.

Which you can kind of tell. And they've given you a number and taken away your name, referred to the numerical code names given to secret agents. Yeah, like 007. And who was the star of that show? You know.

Oh, wait. Who was the star of Secret Agent, man? Secret? Oh! Oh, who was the star of that Agent, man? Secret? Oh! Oh, who was the star of that? Did I stump him? He was also the star of The Prisoner. Not the...

Patrick. Patrick McGowan. Patrick McGowan! Very good. Ah! Very good. Covers and other versions include Mel Torme. I would love to hear Mel Torme sing Secret Agent.

Gilbert, there was a Spanish version called Hombre Secreto. Oh! Recorded by The Plugs. It's in the movie Repo Man. What was the name of that actor? I met him, and I remembered his show, and he went white and was in shock. Anthony Zerbe? and he went white and was in shock. Anthony Zerbe?

It may have been the guy who was the lone earthling who knew about every other body, everybody. In the Invaders? Yes, yes. Roy Finnis. I met him once. I think he's around. I said, yeah, I said, you were in that movie where the aliens had crooked pinkies.

And that's how you could tell. And he was in shock. I'll bet. I'll bet. And rightly so. It appears in the movie Austin Powers. It appears in the movie Bowfinger. The series My Name is Earl.

It is entrenched in pop culture. We knew Gilbert would get that one, didn't we? We should try to get Johnny Rivers. Yeah. We should try to get a lot of these people. This next one, I'm going to give you a hint about it. It was written by a former podcast guest. Ooh.

And it's one of my favorites. It was on a label called Eric Records. Yes, Eric Records. I don't know the story behind that, but it's a black and red label. I sound like Daniel Stern in Diner. Remember when he's obsessed with the record labels? Let's see if you know this one, Gil.

I know Paul does. And I know Paul did before the research. From 68. Oh. Oh. I heard you getting married. You got it. You got it.

Yeah, but it's the worst that could happen to me. He's too good. He's too good. I think you know the writer too. We had him here. You sang with him. Not Webb. Jimmy Webb.

Jimmy Webb! Wow! Whatever you do, don't mention MacArthur Park in front of Gilbert or we'll be in trouble here. Well, I'll tell you, I wrote here,

this is a new sub-segment on the show called Of Interest to Gilbert. I wrote this in the margin. Of Interest to Gilbert with three exclamation points is the fact that this song was inspired by the same girl

that Jimmy was in love with, a girl named Susan that inspired MacArthur Park. Oh! So there you go. Susie Horton, who moved to Nevada and left him high and dry in California. How did you know Susan that inspired MacArthur Park. Suzy Horton, who moved to Nevada and left him high and dry. How did you know that? I did the research. That's nice. That's nice work, Paul.

Yes, also by the time I get to Phoenix, inspired by the same girl. Wow. Yeah. I love songs about heartache and longing, and this is a great one. Yeah. About the girl that got away. And we know how the group got its name brooklyn bridge i should tell us brooklyn bridge because johnny maestro put together these the you hear the vocal

harmony in the back there were three groups uh that they put together one the lead singer was johnny maestro which is great it made me think of johnny fontaine johnny fontaine and the brooklyn but anyway uh there are 11 people in the band and And one of the agents said, you know, I've got about as much chance of booking this band as I have in selling the Brooklyn Bridge. Oh. And that's how they became Brooklyn Bridge. Jeez. Yeah. It says here it was originally on Buddha Records.

So possibly I don't have an original copy of the song. But one of Jimmy's great ones. B.J. Thomas covered it. Remember B.J. Thomas? Yeah, absolutely. Raindrops. Raindrops keep falling on my head. The Lettermen.

You remember The Lettermen? Yes. They covered it in 69, and Jimmy recorded his own version of the song for his 96th album, 10 Easy Pieces, which is an album worth getting if you guys like Jimmy Webb as much as we do. Can I plug somebody? Please! I keep running across in the research. I found that bit about Susie Horton

from a site called songfacts.com. I know that site. Have you seen that? Yeah, it's a fun site. They're great. They got a lot of stuff, and I just wanted to say that, you know, give them a plug

and say it's been a great thing, and I also don't want them to sue me for using their material, so that's... Wow, that was very professional of you, Paul. Let's see what else we have here. I'm going to try to stump Gilbert, but these songs are too damn popular. We will return to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast after this. Want visibly glowing skin in 14 days? With new Olay Indulgent Moisture Body Wash, you can lather and glow.

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mm-hmm mm-hmm ooh good I have something on this one called also of interest to Gilbert this may also become yeah not quite as good not that interesting Gilbert. Sharon Stone's Pussy? Yeah. Not quite as good. Not that

interesting. Not quite that interesting. By the way, worst that can happen was December of 68.

And I have another song here from Frank's Record Collection from December of 1968. Gil, I know

you know this one. Why don't you tell me? Why don't you tell me a vodka? He'll get around to it. He's cornering it. Turn me around and worst of all, give me a vodka, baby, just to let me down. And turn me around and worst of all worst of all

you never call baby when you say you will say you will but i love you still i love you but anyone darling so build me up butter cup don't break my heart i'll be over at 10 i told you time i can't take any more not you Down again. Baby, try to find a little time and I'll make you happy. I'll be home straight by the phone waiting for you. You having a seizure? Are you enjoying this?

Wow. I'm impressed. So who... Is this in Gilbert and Dara's record collection? By chance? What was the group? What was the group, Gil? I don't know.

I don't remember. They had another hit called Baby, Now That I Found You, I Can't Let You Go. Oh, wow. Baby. That's the one. Now that I found you, I can't let you go, let you go. Yep. The group is The Foundations. Oh, baby. That's the one. Now that I found you, I can't let you go. Let you go. Yep. The group is the Foundations.

Oh, okay. Yes, yes. Now, you know, if you go to a Yankees game in the seventh inning stretch, they play New York, New York. That's correct. In Los Angeles. But not Kate Smith. Right. In Los Angeles, at the seventh inning stretch, they play Build Me Up Buttercup.

At the Angels. I'm sorry, the Angels. Not the Dodgers. They play Build Me Up Buttercup. At the Angels. I'm sorry, the Angels. Yeah, they play Build Me Up Buttercup. Yeah, yeah. Also, what movie used it as its closing credits? Mary. Something about Mary.

No, look at him. That's a great scene. Look at him. Written by Mike Dabo and Tony McCauley. Now, Mike Dabo was the lead singer of Manfred Mann. Oh. The Mighty Quinn. Oh, come on Quinn. Oh! Come on without, come on within.

That's them. And he also wrote Handbags and Glad Rags. Do you guys know that? That's a good, Rod Stewart did that. A couple of people did that song. But this is flagged, and I highlighted it in yellow, of interest to Gilbert. The co-writer is a guy named Tony McCauley. Why do I bring him up? Well, he

wrote Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes. Oh, okay. Used in another Farrelly Brothers movie. Ah, yes. That's in, uh, which one? That's in Shallow Hal. Oh, okay. Okay. Because Gwyneth Paltrow's character is named Rosemary. Oh, okay. Uh, he wrote

one of my favorites, The Fifth Dimensions Last Night I Didn't Get to Sleep at All but of interest to Gilbert he wrote David Soles Don't Give Up on Us Baby Don't give up on us baby Don't make the wrong

seem right The future isn't just one night It's written in the moonlight Suspended on the stars We can change ours You know, Tony McCauley's alive. Yeah! I'm so turned on.

Turning on Sandra Bullock. You were brilliant. Come here. I will fuck turning on you. Turning on Sandra Bullock. You are brilliant. Come here. I will fuck you. Doesn't take much. That Sandra Bullock. Who needs an 11-person band when you've got Gilbert? Nobody.

Nobody. Nobody. He's like a human Mellotron. Tony McCauley's around. He's British. Maybe he lives in the UK maybe we should maybe we should find him

we should find all these songwriters and just make them listen as you butcher song after song after song you know that he was tracked down in the UK

and he was seen with Pepe Ansu I didn't know that or so the rumor goes Build Me Up Buttercup was on Pi Records P-Y-E and also the Uni label

and here's a little fun trivia about Build Me Up Buttercup was on Pi Records, P-Y-E, and also the Uni label. And here's a little fun trivia about Build Me Up Buttercup, a song I always loved. Leaked recordings from the Let It Be sessions revealed that the Beatles sang the song along with other covers

in between takes of their own recordings. Wow. I'd love to hear that version. Isn't that pretty cool? That is pretty cool. Yeah. Eddie Money covered it.

Eddie Money. X-Cop. I wonder if those Beatles things are available anywhere. That would be great. Let's see what else we have in the record collection grab bag. Okay. Do you remember what you paid for these 45s? I can't remember.

I wonder. I'm wondering if I didn't go back and buy reissues in the 70s. Because this, worst that could happen is not on the original label. Because I had the originals. And I probably replaced them after I sold them or my mother threw them out. Because they were worn out. Or they wore out or something. Or they cracked.

Because records used to crack and break. When did Meet the Beatles come out? Was that 64? Sounds right. Because I remember that one. I did something well in school, and my reward was the Meet the Beatles album, which I remember cost $1 at that time. Listen, in Roosevelt Field in Long Island, they had a store called Record World.

And you could go in, and they would actually label. I don't know if you remember this. They would put the numbers, the chart position of the song on the shelf. The 45s were stacked in little shelves. Oh, that's great. And you would check that the chart was on display. And you'd look at the billboard chart and you'd say, okay, I want the 16 most popular song in the country. And you'd go there and there'd be 16.

And you'd pull a stack out. And I always remember those little plastic swastikas. Sure, adapters. Little plastic swastikas. We're all about nostalgia here. Here's one that has some relevance to the show because this is

the first song that we used that we played to kick off One Hit Wonders all those years ago. Do you know it? I know you do. From May of 69. Well, there's the title. Okay. What does it go?

I love the whole mariachi thing. Yes. Nice vibrato. Yeah. It was on RCA Records and Truth Records. Truth. Truth. Ain't gonna need to tell the truth Tell no lies Everything you think, do and say

Is in the bill you took today In the year 4545 Yeah. You remember this? Oh, absolutely. Do you remember the artists? No. Paul knows.

I know. Zager and Evans. Oh! And for bonus points, where were Zager and Evans both born? I couldn't tell you. I'm going to say... Well, if you think about the song... I'm going to say they were Texans.

Nebraska. Well, I was way off. Okay. Why Nebraska? Why is Nebraska relevant? I don't know. I don't know, but it doesn't sound like guys from Nebraska. Well, they're sort of

the poster boys, because we were doing those one-hit wonder shows, and when you think of one-hit wonders, I mean, they are the only artists ever to have a chart-topping number one hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and never chart again in either country.

You can see, you can get an inkling of why that happened when you see their follow-up single was called Mr. Turnkey. Wow. Not really a grabber. I'm into Mr. Turnkey. Not really a grabber. It's an apocalyptic song, Gilbert. The overriding theme of a world doomed by its passive acquiescence

and overdependence on its own overdone technologies. As true now as it was then. I would say. And I was about to say before you interrupted me, it sounds like a song about passive acquiescence. You thought so? It was about passive acquiescence. Yeah. You're right again.

And we can get Zager because he's building custom guitars in Lincoln. Yeah. Do we have a Lincoln Bureau? What's Evans doing? Evans is... I don't want Zager. he's building custom guitars in Lincoln. What's Evans doing? I don't want Zager. I want Evans. Evans appears to be either in very bad shape or gone. It has been covered 60

times in 7 languages. Oh man! And it was recorded by the Greek singer Takis Antoniadis in the 70s. Sounds like Fotiadis. I love this too and this is kind of dark. The song was included in the controversial 2001 Clear Channel radio memorandum,

which was a document distributed by Clear Channel to every station owned by the company. The list consisted of 165 songs to be considered lyrically questionable following the September 11th attacks. Oh my God. They were not to play it. I never remember hearing about that at all.

It also turns up in the year, in an episode of Futurama called In the Year 252525, which I mentioned because our friend Billy West. Can I mention my favorite cover? Yeah. It's the Slovenian industrial group. Laibach.

Laibach covered this? In their 1994 album. I have all their records. From the album NATO. Gilbert opened for Laibach. Laibach covered this? In their 1994 album. I have all their records. From the album NATO. Gilbert opened for Laibach. We could do a mini on Slovenian covers. We sure could.

Do you remember all the bands that you opened for over the years? Not that many. Belinda Carlyle. Belinda Carlyle. That's a good one.

I know that was one. Can you name two others? Oh, I was booked a few times with Buster Poindexter. Oh, was that? That was a lot of fun. Yeah. Love Buster Poindexter. Yeah, because I would go on first, he'd go on next,

and then I'd walk out in the middle of his show, and we'd play off each other. We became like Martin and Lewis. I'm pretty sure Buster Poindexter covered Build Me Up Buttercup as David Johansson in the David Johansson group. There's a callback. So those are the only two you remember?

Belinda Carlyle? Did you open for the troggs? No. The troggs. Here's the last song And we'll get out of here And this is a very very famous one A pretty popular song

A well known song by I don't want to say an obscure group But certainly a tragic group And it was written for a movie And I think you may know the movie too So here we go If you want it He didn go. If you want it. He didn't hesitate.

Do you want it? Here it is. Come and get it. Make your mind up fast. If you want it, anytime. I can give it. But you better hurry, cause it's going fast. The minute I hear you say that there must be a catch,

will you walk away from a pool and his money? Sonny! Here it is. Come and get it, but you better hurry cause it's going fast. Here it is. Come and get it. But in a hurry, because it's going. Okay. Okay. This was done by Badfinger. Look at this.

And it was for the movie The Magic Christian with Ringo Starr. And I think Christopher Lee may have been in it also. Is Christopher Lee in The Magic Christian? It's Peter Sellers. Peter Sellers. And Ringo. And Ringo. Wow.

I don't know if Christopher Lee. Well, if we had a researcher in the room, we could have him look that up. This, my friends, nice work, Gilbert. This is an original issue. This is an original pressing. You get the picture of the apple, the green apple. This is on Apple Records, my friends. So in the research, it says that he was, that the band of, pardon me, evolved from an earlier group called the Ivies, which was the first group signed to the Apple label.

That's correct. But I thought, wasn't James Taylor the first person? He was one of the, and do you know who signed James Taylor to Apple? Peter Asher. Former podcast guest. Former podcast guest. You are good, my friend. That was a great show. Peter Asher. Yeah, Gilbert got to sing with Peter Asher. Former podcast guest. Former podcast guest. You are good, my friend. That was a great show.

Peter Asher. Yeah, Gilbert got to sing with Peter Asher. Oh, that's right. He sang World Without Love. Yes! It's like a fever dream. And he brought his guitar. He was so into it.

Yeah. Badfinger is a band with a tragic history. Ooh. Two members of the band, Tom Evans and Pete Hamm, both took their own lives. It's a cautionary tale. If you guys want to Google the story of Badfinger, it's a cautionary tale about the music industry and not at all a happy one. But they had a couple of hits. They had Day After Day, I Remember Finding Out About You.

Do you know that song? Oh, yes. Yes. Did we? out about you. Do you know that song? Oh, yes. Yes. Did we? Bad finger. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Did Paul McCartney write? He did. He wrote it for the movie. Excellent. He was the only Beatle performing on the track. It was officially released as only Beatle performing on the track. It was officially released as a Beatle song on 1996 Anthology 3 compilation. Did you see this weird, how the group got its name?

Yes, I know how the group got its name. For the song, With a Little Help from My Friends, which we all know, was apparently the working title was Bad Finger Boogie. I don't know why, but that's where Bad Finger came from. According to this, Elton John covered it in the 60s, and I've never heard that version, but I'm going to track it down. And I think they once asked one of Bad Finger, like, do you think you sounded like an early Beatles ripoff?

And they said, oh, we hope so. One of their other songs was No Matter What. No matter what you do, I will always be with you. That's it. You're good. They had hits. And every one of those songs is such a catchy song. Catchy as hell.

That one sounds like it could have been written by McCartney or one of the Beatles, too. Absolutely. They had a lot of problems with their record company. What was the name of that song? No Matter What. No Matter What. Now, what problems did they have?

It's a long story. And I'll tell you about it after we get off the air. Oh, that's horrible. It's too goddamn depressing. Most recently, McCartney shared vocals with somebody we're trying to get on this show, Alice Cooper, in a cover of the song by the supergroup Hollywood Vampires, which appears on their debut album. In addition to Cooper and McCartney on

lead vocals, piano and bass, the band features Johnny Depp and Joe Perry. I'd like to get my hands on that and hear that. Paul's apparently been playing it live on and off over the years. He played it in Italy in November of 2011.

He's put it back in November of 2011. So he's put it back in the live show. I have a single piece of research before we end the episode. Quickly, sir. Finally! No matter what. I've got to get this in. No Matter What was written by Ryan Stevenson.

Does that ring a bell? It does not. There's a dead end there. Oh, as always. That's why we called you. Did you see how fast my fingers were moving? Closing the show with a thud. With a whimper, not a bang. So we'll invite our listeners to dig into your 45s, post about them, suggest songs,

or maybe send some in, see if we can stump Gilbert. Yeah. We're going to do one with Paul's record collection you got 45s I got 45s we're going to do one with Paul's record collection in the future

and we're going to do Gilbert's record collection yeah in the future and you can stump me yes you still have them in the house huh

yeah the 45s yeah what era are we talking about well I think mostly 60s can't wait yeah

alright I'm going to sit in your chair next time okay you get to be with Martindale take us out boy Mostly 60s. Can't wait. Yeah. All right, I'm going to sit in your chair next time. Okay. You get to be with Martindale. Take us out, boy. Okay, this has been Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions where we studied passive acquiescence. I think it was a squeeze song. Yes. Passive acquiescence I think it was a squeeze song Yes

Acquiescence That's an obscure reference See you next time Colossal Obsessions Colossal Obsessions