Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toast 12: Toronto Mike'd #1173

Episode Date: December 21, 2022

In this 12th episode of Toast, Mike is joined by Rob Preuss and Bob Willette as they kick out December jams. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Yes, We Are Open, The Advantaged Investor, Canna Cabana, StickerYou, Ridley Funeral Home and Electronic Products Recycling Association.

Uncle Jesse, you know, after six years, I don't think I'm going to recognize my own cousins. Oh, I think you'll recognize them. Now do you recognize them? Daisy, Uncle Jesse. Daisy. Uncle Jesse. Hey, Prince. How are you?

It sure beats any port I've ever seen in the Merchant Marine. Sam, we're forgetting to wonder if you'd ever get here. I don't know who's going to get a welcome like this. We would have come back years ago. Isn't that right, Coy? Shoot, we never would have left. Just toast. I'm going to think about it some.

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Ask Sammy any real estate questions at sammy.cone at properlyhomes.ca. Joining me today, playing the roles of Coy and Vance for this 12th episode of Toast, are Bob Willett and Rob Pruce. Look at that. Bob and Rob. Yeah, welcome Bob and Rob. I love that it's a Bob and a Rob

and sometimes a Bob can be a Rob and sometimes a Rob can be a Bob. Very true. I was a Bobby most of my childhood. Uncle Bobby. Spoiler. I have so much ground I want to cover with both of you, but first I need to make sure you guys know who each other are, and then we're going to explain, like,

why isn't this Cam Gordon and Stu Stone? We have some explaining to do. But let's begin. Bob, will I introduce yourself to the great Rob Pruce? Well, my name is Robert Richard Timothy richard timothy willett if you must say there you go um yeah i am a toronto guy as well i'm the uh east end version of toronto mike i would i would say um i grew up in uh in toronto and uh kind of got to know mike through the humble and fred show and i started out i was bingo bob on the humble and fred show

for a long time. I still don't see you. No, you won't because Mike won't let you. You're just a voice. Yes. Mike won't allow it. Although you do have a camera on me, you said. There's a camera. No, we see Bob. We don't see Rob. So Bob Ouellette is in my basement.

You're physically here. I could reach out and pinch your cheeks. Where I sat when I was with you also. Correct. Yes. I drove across this fine city of ours and came here to visit the basement once again, mostly just so I could crack a Great Lakes beer. Okay, do that now. Crack the Great Lakes beer, then

I'll introduce Rob, and I have a song for Rob. So what are you going to crack open, Bob? I brought over three beers. Thank you. Yeah, I'm looking. There's a Hayes Mama. I'm going to probably go with the Canuck Pale Ale. Thank you. You're not alone. Go ahead.

There we go. Thank you. Okay. So Bob Lulet's cracked open his fresh Great Lakes beer. I'm going to crack open my burst right on the microphone. I'm citrusy on the nose. You're like a sommelier. What are they called?

Sommelier. That would be the wine. An onophile, if you will. I'm so cultured. I'm so cultured. But enjoy, Bob. I'm cracking open an IPA. Thanks for having me.

All the best of the holiday season to you. Same to you, Bob, and your family. Now, Rob, I'm going to call you Proust from now on. Okay, I'm going to play a little music, and then we're going to introduce who the heck you are. This is exciting. Here we go. Okay. Okay, Bob, we're going to tell you. Okay, Bob, we're going to do this. Ready?

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. All right, I'll bring her down here. So, Mr. Rob Pruce, what would you have, if anything, to do with this fantastic spoons jam romantic traffic? Co-wrote it, played piano on it, didn't sing on it,

but yeah, played keyboards. Didn't, didn't, did not sing, but piano and synthesizer. Dude. That's a lot of synthesizer, so, you know, that's a good part. Actually, there's piano and synthesizer. Dude. That's a lot of synthesizers. So, you know, that's a good part. That's a good part.

Actually, there's not much synthesizer. It's, this song is more about the piano for us. Cause it was, you know, we were a synth band, but I was very excited to like play lots of piano in this song.

Nice. You're the guy, you're the keyboardist for the spoons during their, I would say their, shout out to Bruce Springsteen, their glory days. Thank you. Yes.

I like how humble he is. You're still Canadian. Can I bring this all full circle and then we're going to get into, we're going to do some catching up and we're going to kick out December jams. But here, this is fascinating to me. Bob Ouellette, aren't you going to be connected somehow to

the Spoons on New Year's Eve? Possibly. Oh, what? I thought it was a done deal. Well, they are playing the Elma Combo. The remaining members of the Spoons. Sandy and Gord will be there. Sandy and Gord are playing

along with Images in Vogue, which will be fun. Yeah, and honestly, it really just comes down to how many tickets they sell on the... I'm going to DJ the main floor possibly. Like the Starlight Room. Yeah. So do an 80s night.

But it's all about ticket sales. If they have enough ticket sales, then they can afford me. And if they don't have. So let's do the pitch now. Like, okay. So it's New Year's Eve. Yeah. So general admission main level is like 50 bucks.

And then go upstairs, 150 bucks to see the spoons and images of Vogue at an open bar. 150 bucks. Amazing. Pretty good deal on New Year's Eve. And you're on the main floor. Yeah, so as you go in. Yeah, that area is super cool. It's really cool.

Yeah, I've been to a few different events there. And I'm looking forward to playing the room. The sound in that place is insane it really is i i played uh at the beginning of september i did a gig with rough trade i played keyboards right and you know fotm carol pope that's right we were we were upstairs and after we were done i was sort of hanging out talking to some friends and some people and i went downstairs and a friend of mine was was down there with a band from montreal that he was managing and i'd never seen that room downstairs and it's cool.

I almost like, I mean, I wouldn't say I liked it more than the upstairs room, but it has a different sort of a low, cool vibe to it. Yeah. It's very, it's almost reminiscent of the original Elmo with the lower ceiling and

everything, which is kind of cool. Rob, we also, we have a common friend then is Tim Welch. Oh, cool. Tim is a very good friend of mine.

Nice. Tim used to be the, he was at one point, he was the lighting guy at the Phoenix Concert Theater. And so all those years that I was producing, I used to produce the live to airs with Martin Streak. Amazing. And Tim was there. And so Tim Welch is a good friend of mine.

He's a fellow East Ender as well. Oh, my God. He sure is. And he's going to be playing with Images in Vogue, actually, on New Year's Eve. Yeah, of course. That's right. Yeah. He's amazing. Yes.

Okay. And he's in Rough Trade. And he plays with Carol Pope. Yeah, of course. That's right. He's amazing. Yes. Okay. He plays with Carol Pope, so that's why I brought him up. It's kind of neat that you might have a gig with spoons on New Year's Eve, Bob. Yes. And meanwhile, we're now connecting with no longer with spoons, but the keyboard is during the glory days.

It is very cool. Once a spoon, always a spoon. That's what I say. There you go. For me, anyways. I thought maybe before we... We're going to do a little catching up here, but I thought... Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. Maybe we could remember just a couple of people

we lost recently that I think, Rob, I think you'd have a little personal connection with. Is that cool if I play a little music and we just talk about some people? Yeah, of course, of course. A little bit here. Yeah. I'm falling, falling, falling at your feet I'm tingling right from my head to my toes So help me, help me, help me make the feeling go Cause when the loving starts and the lights go down

There's not another living soul around You'll be here till the sun comes up And you say that you love me Rob Pruce, this is obviously a Fleetwood Mac cover, but who is singing this version of Say You Love Me? Well, I was going to say, it's a double sad shout out to Ridley Funeral Home because it's a Christine McVie

composition, rest in peace, sung by the beautiful Shirley Eichardt, rest in peace. And what a fantastic version of the song that was. I always loved that song when I was a kid. I follow you on social media and I loved your recollections of hearing this on CKOC. Give us that story. And this is a song, social media, and I loved sort of your recollections of hearing this on CKOC.

Like, give us that story. And this is a song, I think Bob and I, we're similar vintage, which is like a couple of years younger than you. So I think I can speak for Bob. Like, we missed the Shirley Eichhardt, is that how you say it? Yep, Eichhardt. The Shirley Eichhardt Say You Love Me chart period was just before we were still listening to Big Bird and Oscar and all that stuff. But tell us a story.

I was listening to that too. I was listening to that. Well, I was a little, I mean, I was like nine or 10 when it was on the radio, but I was already well into my obsession with the top 40. So 75, this was on the radio in 75, 76. So I was- 76, I'd already been-

76. Yeah, so I'd already been playing piano uh summer of 75 when i was nine years old that's when i decided i wanted to play in a band so i was already like tuning into any song on the radio that had a piano on it or whatever right and this song shirley's version is is not quite as keyboard heavy as the fleetwood mac version but it's close but i just loved this song because it was, it was moving up the charts. And like later on that summer, they swapped it out with the Fleetwood Mac version. And so the story that I heard was that Shirley kind of beat them to the release in Canada,

as far as releasing it as a single. I mean, in the seventies, this was a time when different territories could release versions of the same songs, depending on which record company got to it in time you know the world moved much slower right and like one of my favorite songs from when i was even a few years younger was billy don't be a hero by paper lace and there was a huge version in north america sung by beau donaldson and the haywoods which more people remember and i don't like that version because paper lace was the original but so shirley released say you love me and i think then fleetwood mac released their version and then at some point they sort of swapped them on the canadian radio but in hamilton on ckoc surely got all the airplay

so and you as a burlington guy ckoc was your top 40 station right sure was 11 50 right yeah yep 11 50 I actually regret now if I could go back in time I would do a special you know what I'm just gonna say next right like cause I did 1050 for Chum

I did 1071 for Q and then 1150 came and went cause I didn't have any personal connection to 1150 right of course but now that I know your connection

like I would I would have you know connected with you to pay tribute to CKOC yeah and see if I'm CKOC has some connections to like CFNY as well like Jim Reed who was a was a CFNY alumni he was also on CKOC when I was a kid Jim Reed was the guy and I one of the very first interview that Gordon and I ever did when we released our first Spoons album was with Jim Reed we went to CFNY in Brampton and it was jim reed and i remember thinking that's so weird

because i used to listen to you when i was seven or eight years old and his voice was the voice of me sort of discovering pop music and knowing that this is something i wanted to do you know you know now bob willett was on episode 1021 because bob spent many years at cfny through uh when did you show up 1997 when did you show up? 1997? When did you show up? 98 actually. So a few years at CFNY. Yeah, yeah. 98 to 2001 with CFNY

and then stayed with Chorus 640. 640 and talk and then I've also been at Mixed 999 and Virgin Radio and then actually Shirley Eichart, you bring her up whether or not I know much about her, I didn't until I started working, I was running Proud FM

because Shirley was a very active and out member of the community, of the LGBT community. And I was the program director at that radio station for eight years. Okay, Rob, I got to tell you one other interesting fun fact about Bob Ouellette and I, okay?

I think we're the only two humans on the planet who have produced both the Humble and Fred show and Mary Jo Eustace because when Bob mentioned Proud FM, he was a producer of the Mary Jo, what's it called? Ken Kostick and Mary Jo Eustace, they had their TV show called

What's for Dinner and we put it on the radio called What's for Breakfast. Wow. Yeah. That's cool. Mary Jo and Ken Kostick, RIP Ken Kostick, great guy. Taken too soon. But yeah, so Mary Jo. And then Mary Jo came on my podcast,

Bob's Basement, to talk about change and asked do you know anybody who produces podcasts? And I was like, yeah, I know somebody. And I pointed her in Toronto Mike's direction. And just to put a bow in this story, and I told this Bob privately a couple of times, but I listened to Bob's Basement, Bob Ouellette's podcast,

and my favorite episode of Bob's Basement, and this is because I knew nothing about her. I didn't know her at all. Complete blind spot for me. I didn't watch the dinners. What's for dinner? I didn't listen to What's for Breakfast. But I found this Mary Jo Eustace person on Bob's

podcast. Fascinating. She was funny. She's hilarious. I just loved her persona. I told Bob, I said, I love your Mary Jo Eustace episode. It's just wild that now MJ, we're on the phone. I was on the phone with her for an hour today. Okay. Lots of ground to cover. We need to, at some point

very soon, address why am I talking to Bob Ouellette and Rob Pruce and where the hell is Cam Gordon and Stu Stone? We're going to address that in a moment. But there's one more death I want to address. Are you smiling when you say that? I don't mean to. This is a fresh one. No, I know.

I don't mean to. I don't think I know who you're going to say. I don't mean to, but this is a shout-out to Ridley Funeral Home. One more I'm hoping to hear, particularly you rob but let's let's get to this oh yeah This time This time This town is coming like a ghost town All the clubs are being closed down This place is coming like a ghost town Bands won't play no more Too much fighting on the dance floor

Terry Hall passed away only 63 years young from the specials. Rob Pruce, what say you, my friend? Sad news, sad news. Yeah, I mean mean he was involved in you know several different projects that were pretty iconic 80s kind of

sounding things and for me the biggest mind blow with Terry Hall was the fact that he co-wrote the Go-Go song Our Lips Are Sealed

which I didn't know until many years for some reason many years later like even when it came out it was one of my favorite songs like I had this the 45

before I had it like I never really owned gogo's albums yeah great song you ready for this so they know this like i'm learning this now i'm just right now processing this yeah so and i think the story is that he was they were having they were touring together the gogos and the specials were touring they actually played in oakville ontario at the very first police picnic in 1981 um but apparently they they co-wrote the song and it might have been sort of surreptitiously about their affair that they were having or their love affair or whatever.

But I loved the Go-Go song. And it was probably years later that I remembered or that I learned for the first time that Terry had co-written it with Jane Weedland from the Go-Go's. Mind blow, Bob. I hope you brought some mind blows today. I feel drastically underprepared

when listening to Rob talk about music. I'm always in awe. I'm always in awe of musicians. I love music and I love playing other people's music. I've been a DJ and I work in radio, but I can't play music to save my life. In the same boat, Bob. You and I together, we're going to be fine.

I'm going to get back to that police picnic because I have a question from a listener from your last appearance, Rob, and I'm going to get back to police picnic. But let's just address the gorilla in the room real quick. Toast, this is the 12th episode of Toast, so that means this is the 12th month of 2022. I'm doing quick math and I

realize we did one a month for all of 2022. See how smart I am. But the first 11 were me, Cam Gordon, and Stu Stone. And here we are, number 12, and I'm with Bob Ouellette and Rob Pruce. I jokingly have been referring to you guys for the last month as

Coy and Vance. I was very confused. Can we talk about this? Because I had drinks with Cam Gordon last week. Yeah, Friday at Great Lakes Brewery, actually. The Jarvis and Queens Quay location. I wasn't having drinks with my eight-year-old Jarvis. This is the street Jarvis.

Okay. So we're having drinks and he's like, I don't get the reference. Like, is this too obscure? I just thought like Gen Xers from this continent would get the Koi Advance reference. But you guys tell me because I get the feeling Bob's a big Dukes of Hazzard guy. I was a big Dukes of Hazzard guy when I was a kid. Absolutely loved that show. And I can remember

turning it on as a child and seeing these two other guys and immediately turning it off. I don't ever remember their names. I couldn't have told you their names. I just knew it was other guys that weren't Bo and Luke Duke. And that's all I wanted to know. I don't ever remember their names. I couldn't have told you their names. I just knew it was other guys that weren't Bo and Luke Duke. And that's all I wanted to know.

I wanted to watch Bo and Luke Duke. I'm with you 100%. So I couldn't name them. How do you know their names? I don't think I knew it at the time. I'm not sure I knew the name. I think it's just like as a guy who's been blogging since 2002

about shit he's interested in. At some point, I got the reference. But I'm going to play something very quickly here. Let's listen to this. Friday, it's the all-new season premiere of The Dukes of Hazzard with the return of Enos.

Same old Enos. Come on, Vance Duke. Along with two new dukes. Somebody up there hates me. And they could be too hot for Hazard to handle. Then, a special preview of Bring Him Back Alive takes you to Singapore where the prize is gold and the price is danger for the intrepid Frank Buck.

Bring him back alive. Following the season premiere of the Dukes of Hazard Friday. So there was a contract. I don't know, 83 or something like that. But there was a contract dispute and the actors who played Bowen, Luke, Duke, one of whom is now the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays. John Schneider.

And the other guy, I just got an email. Tom Wolpat's got a new album out. He's making music now. He's like a singer. Wow. Oh yeah, he was a Broadway guy too though. He did shows. Yeah, he's been on Broadway too.

Okay. And for those who are not sure, it's a different John Schneider. I don't want anyone to get really confused or whatever, but I like to jokingly say that one of the dukes is managing the Blue Jays. Okay, so in the real world, they held out for more money, so they got these scab

dukes, okay, which is like another blonde handsome guy and another brunette handsome guy who were the cousins, Coy and Vance. Now, this didn't work at all. Like, I don't know how long they lasted. They had to pay up and get the real Dukes back. But they were like scab imposter Dukes, right? So I basically, without saying too much,

because I'm going to give them a bit of privacy, but one of the Toast members asked for a little break for professional reasons. And then the other Toast member, people are going to do process elimination. But the other guy is on the road filming something. You guys can figure it all out. Bottom line is, I had a choice to make.

I can pause Toast for a few months until we get Bowen Luke back. Or I can keep it going because I actually love it very much. And I could just get substitute Bowen Luke, like a coin advance. And then when they're ready to come back, the doors open.

I'm so glad you two accepted the invitation. You're the scabs. We're the scabs. You're going to keep this going and it makes my life better. Thank you, Rob Pruess and thank you, Bomboulette. Thanks for the beer.

Honored. Happy to be here. Now to a couple of questions. Rob, this question's for you. This came in from a Jay Cruz who listened to you on Toronto Mike, your last appearance. And he said,

if you have him on again, you got to ask him about being on the police picnic bill. He goes, I think it was police picnic number three. Can you just give us the details? Which police picnic was it? And any memories you have

of this Gary's presentation? It was police picnic number two. Two. Two, number two. Two! Two number two. So the first one took place summer of 81 in Oakville, Ontario at The Grove, which was like a field.

And so my memories of the transition from 81 into the 82 police picnic is like one of those from a distance, it gets even cooler because the summer of 81, I was in my bedroom in the basement at my parents' house,

listening on the radio to the CFNY live broadcast of the police picnic and like reporting from the Grove in Oakville. And it's the police picnic and it was killing joke and the go-go's and the specials and the police. And one year later, August of 82, we were the first band on the bill. So we had released Nova Heart in theust of 82 we were the first band on the bill so we had released nova heart in the spring

of 82 and uh the gary's were huge supporters of us um and they got us on the bill and so we we opened the show at the cne stadium uh it was august the 13th 1982 and we went on at like 4 30 or so and it was so we were the first band and then it was i want to say like joan jett went on and flock of seagulls in the english beat and talking heads played and then the police of course it was the police picnic so it was like an amazing experience it was our first big gig but it was like an extra big gig because it was the seeing these stadiums so like walking onto the stage felt so bizarre because it sort of looks like I was just heading to my keyboard, right? So I'm just like doing what I always do,

whether it's the Riverside in Oakville or Larry's Hideaway or whatever, but it happens to be C&E Stadium. So for me, I'm like comfortable behind my synthesizer. But then I go, oh, there's like, you know, 20,000 people out there or whatever. Now, Rob, was it the big stage that they trucked out in front of the grandstand when there was a concert, that, that huge thing that sat at the side during a blue Jay game or a girl game.

Yes. So they, they wheel it around. Oh, cool. Exactly. That's amazing. Yep.

So that, yeah. So that it was one end of the, of the stadium. Um, and of course people were still coming in cause we were the first band. So, you know what everybody always does.

They're like, ah, whatever. Um, but for us it was filled enough that it was still like like one of our biggest gigs to that point for sure um and it was super exciting so and it really felt like like this was the first step in the next progression of our career because we had just finished or we were finishing recording our album aries and symphonies as well we had spent the summertime working on the album so you know all

these elements were coming together, but to have been a part of that gig was super cool for us. This sounds like a conversation on Bob's Basement about change, you know?

It was like talking about what that one gig meant, you know? Oh, yeah. My podcast is all about the idea of like, do you have a moment where you knew you made it?

I talk to musicians about that all the time. It's kind of the thing I like to talk about. And this sounds like it. It's amazing. It's very cool the thing I like to talk about. And this sounds like it. It's amazing. It's very cool. So let's book a date.

Yeah, for sure. Absolutely, Rob. For sure. Yeah, we'll make that happen. Yeah, yeah, we'll make that happen for sure. That's a slam dunk. But to pull on that thread of the moment things change, Little Birdie tells me that the first time Rob Proust ever plays with the spoons

is the night John Lennon dies. That Birdie's told you the truth. That's crazy. Like, okay, so we talked about Police Picnic, a Gary's presentation, okay? They're both FOTMs. We love the Garys on this show. Your first performance with The Spoons,

which I now know was December 8th, 1980. That is at The Edge, a Gary's presentation. Yeah. So are you on stage when you find out? I'm just curious. Do you guys are you on stage when you find out? Like, I'm just curious, when, when do you guys find out on stage or after the show? We were actually on a break between sets. So we had, we had prepared, we probably had to play, it was either two or three sets, but we were on a break. It's one of the, again, it's one of those things. It's like so vivid in my mind that we were upstairs. Like you would go upstairs from the main floor of of

the club and gary's had an office there with all their stuff and there was a small room that was like the dressing room and so you'd sort of hang out between the two rooms and i remember being in the room which was like the gary's office and a call came either from gary because gary top i've learned subsequently because i didn't really remember this but he wasn't there that night he was hosting like an annual Christmas party. So he probably, I don't know if it was Gary, but somebody called the club to say, we just heard that John Lennon has been shot in New York.

We don't know anything else. And so we were like, wow, that's weird. And then, but then the radio was also playing in the room. It was whatever station it was. And like 10 minutes later or something, they came on to say, we just got news that John Lennon has been shot so i think the call that came to the edge was was either from gary or for somebody in new york trying to get a hold of the gary's to tell them as well like many people

learned that john lennon was dead because they were watching monday night football and howard kusel broke that news right so so we had the news up in the dressing room and then we went back out and i i have again, a vague memory that Gordon might've said something that like, he might've dedicated a song and said, this is for John or something, but left it at that because we didn't know more. We didn't know he was even dead at that point.

We just knew that he had been shot and was taken to the hospital. So as the years have gone on, for me, it's always been this weird, bittersweet memory because the world mourns John Lennon. But in my private world, I'm like, God, it was the greatest night of my life because of my first gig, you know, in that way. No, Matt. Yeah.

And you'll never, you know, every December 8th when we're talking about John Lennon and we're playing Imagine and you're going to remember that. But then you're going to remember where you were at the edge. And I can imagine. imagine and you're gonna remember that but then you're gonna remember where you were at the edge and uh yeah exactly and it's some of and i and over the years and i've learned that some friends of mine were also there like paul myers mike myers brother paul who was an author yeah yes okay he was at the show that night too like he would come and hang out like like i i don't know if he lived close by but you know would always want to go to the edge to check out new bands sure and i had seen him at some point over the last few years and he said oh yeah we wanted to check you guys out because we'd sort of heard

about you so he was there that night as well so that's in his memory of the night as well you know wow all right uh to turn the channel there we got to save uh all other deaths for when mark wiseblood visits next week okay for his really funeral home segment but i do want to shout out some fotms on the live chat right now so we are live at live.torontomic.com i just want to shout out some FOTMs on the live chat right now. So we are live at live.torontomike.com. I just want to quickly say hi to YYZ Gord. I mentioned I had beers with Cam Gordon. We love Cam Gordon. Can't wait to get him back on toast.

And I had beers with him on Friday. I want to make sure people know there's no rift between Cam and I. We've never been closer. We had beers last Friday. And joining us was YYZ Gord. So hello. In fact, I got to find out somebody. I had to go to another meeting and I had two octopus wants to fight.

And I can't remember. I gave someone five bucks and I know that doesn't cover two octopus wants to fight. So at some point I have to find out who paid for my beers. Okay. So hello, YYZ Gord. Let me know if I owe you 20 bucks or whatever. Lieve Fumka back from her vacation. Bob, you're back from a vacation to Jamaica, right?

Yeah, I was in Jamaica from November 30th till the 8th or so or something. You look, you got some color, you got some tan, you got some sun. It was... Vitamin D. It was the first vacation without kids. Really?

We've been to New York City a couple times for a few days, but this was the first full-on week in 12 years without children. Good for you. Who am I quickly here? Lieve Fumka back from her vacation. Good to see you, Lieve. Moose Grumpy in the live chat. Hello, Moose. Hey Ref is there.

Hey Ref points out when he hears us talking about death, he thinks of 1236 as well. Ian Service, he says Bob is short for bobert and can be he points out and i'm glad to hear this he says for a zoom guest he says rob sounds amazing so high praise from ian service there is that a technical compliment yeah like the mic the microphone sounds good the microphone yeah your content could use more no you need to drop more fotm names like paul myers okay no no cambrio's here as well i want to get that out of the way uh he says hi bob

he says hi rob he says hello moose hello tim because of course stew stone would refer to ian service as tim that's an inside joke uh let me see just catching up here uh my daughter morgan was testing this mic before bob got here and people seemed to enjoy that. Okay. So hello to all the FOTMs at live.torontomic.com. Rob, I wish you were here because that's not just a Pink Floyd song, but I wish you were here because I would give you a lasagna from Palma Pasta if you were here. I need another one.

I know. I need to come back in real life because I donated the last one to my sister and her family. Did she enjoy it? And I didn't get to try it. They loved it. Good answer. I know. They loved it.

Hello to Greg. I see Greg is also on the live stream even though I was just checking the chats. And O'Brien is here as well. And Tobias Vaughn who went to I've been practicing this all week. You ready? Cutter. How am I doing, Bob? You mean not Qatar? Cutter. Sure.

Because I said Qatar and Dave Hodge shamed me immediately. cutter how am i doing bob do you mean not qatar cutter sure because i said qatar and dave hodge shamed me immediately and he says well if anybody's here i've heard it's called qatar cutter so i'm trying to get it right but anyway hello to tobias vaughn who spent a couple weeks by the way that world cup final was fucking bananas insane just insane i loved it i loved it too i'm a huge soccer fan in general and wow it was I was literally falling asleep in the 65th minute like I was just like okay. It all changes that. Yeah.

Oh my God. It was nuts and it was but it was a hell of a game. It was and I didn't have a horse in the race really. No, no, no, no. Hello Tobias. I didn't have a horse in the race, but it was just a fun game. I didn't care to gross. He watches the horses race at Woodbine all the time. I do too, actually.

Okay, so I want to give you more gifts. Ridley Funeral Homes, speaking of them, this measuring tape is for you, Bob. Oh, thank you. How many phones do you have, Bob? I have two phones with me right now. What's that about? Well, so... You're a drug dealer?

Yeah, yeah. One's a burner. No. So this girlfriend? This particular phone is a iPhone 8 from 2015, and it was my parting gift from Bell Media the first time I got fired. They didn't ask for it back? No.

It was the second time I got fired from 99.9. But, yeah, the only time I got fired by Bell. But it was me. Because it was standard the first time? Yeah, yeah. It was 99.9. Life lesson, don't go work at time? Yeah, yeah. It was. Yeah, it was 99. Life lesson. Don't go work at 99.

Bob, it's just not going to work for you. But so this phone is my personal phone. They said to me, my boss at the time, she said, you know, you can keep your phone. And I was like, oh, thank you very much. Anyways, this replacement value of 20 bucks. And this is my work phone from my friends at Chorus Entertainment for my two radio stations that I run.

So what is work? But you need the work one on the desk right now? That's how important you are? Always, of course. You never know if there's... They can't turn the lights on at Chorus Kingston? You never know. That's right.

You never know. I might win another Program Director of the Year award. I got to get to jams. I got to get to jams. I got to get to jams. Get to the jams. I just want to say, Bob, you've got the best voice, but you know who your voice reminds me of a little bit? Who's that?

Seth Rogen. Oh, do I sound a little stoner-ish today? Shout out to Kana Cabana. It's interesting because I'm good at recognizing similarities between faces or voices and different things like that. But I've been listening to you thinking, who do you sort of remind me of? And I just realized it's a little Seth Rogen. He's got to slack it up a bit though, right?

Like a little more slack. I think I speak a little fast for a Vancouverite. You know who I get a lot? Who I actually get, and maybe if you saw, and I used to, maybe not so much anymore, but I used to get Strombo all the time. I used to get comparisons. Oh, really? I used to get comparisons to Strombo all the time. Canada's boyfriend.

Yeah. I was like, I'll take it, you know. I just had a Zoom with Strombo and Mary Jo Eustace. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. Wow. Yeah. What a small world we live in.

Okay, my mind's blowing. We got to get to December jams before it's January. Okay, guys? This was a tough one. Yeah. This was a tough one. But I do want to thank- This was a tough one. This was a tough one.

I phoned Bob last week because Fred Patterson from the Humble and Fred show, we were on Zoom and he's like, Mike, I've got a whole box of dat tapes. He goes, we have to digitize these dat tapes. And I said, oh, I don't have anything that plays dat tapes. So I make a phone call to my

friend Bob Ouellette and I'm like, Bob, do you know how I could get a dad player? And Bob, I think, did you start making calls? I would have had one before you within a half an hour. Because you'd be bringing it to me today. Yeah, I would have. My buddy, Adam Robinson, he could have got us one. So, okay. So I'm getting a dad tape.

I'm doing this whole thing. Then Freddie P calls back, like, I don't know, 20 minutes later. Mike, Mike. Mike, Mike. Mike mike i can't do a fred patterson but mike they're not dad tapes they're cassette tapes that's a lot easier i have i know you can't see but i have i have a cassette player i kept one just you know because uh for nostalgic purposes i can digitize these cassette tapes with the hardware i have in-house so thank you bob though that you could have got-house. So thank you, Bob, though,

that you could have gotten me a dad tape. Do you want my mini player, mini disc player, too? Because I've got some old Humble and Fred bits on the mini disc. I need the content. We have an idea for the new year. Oh, good. We'll talk more about that one. All right, my friends, this is the order. So typically it's like Cam, then

me, then Stu. By the way, Levi Fumka is asking on the live chat which one of you is stew and which one of you two is uh cam i well i think um i think rob's got to be stew like like he brings the energy well he's just infinitely cooler and no offense to cam no offense to camp i mean cam's a good guy i I'm a good guy, but I'm not Hollywood movie or wrote Nova Heart cool. That's true, because Stu has written great pieces of music. He's a musician. I think the correlation is easy to figure out.

Creative types. I see. Stu Stone and Rob Prues are creative types that bring the energy. But I actually like to laugh at things. I'm like Cam, so that's different. Do you like comedy? Will you watch a comedic movie? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell me things. I'm like Cam, so that's different. Do you like comedy? Will you watch a comedic movie? Yeah, yeah.

Tell me why that's funny. Tell me why that's funny. Tell me why that's funny. Let's talk about Spinal Tap. I was just listening to that on the way in today. I think Cam's laughing on the inside, though. I think he's business on the outside, laughing on the inside. That's a good possibility.

For sure. I totally see that. He's got that face. I totally see that. You know what that face. I totally see that. You know what? One thing that Bob has in common with Cam, they're both very handsome men, so I'll give them that much.

Okay, so here's the order we're going to go in, guys. This is important. It's my show, so I've decided I get to, finally, I get to close, okay? So it's going to go Rob, then it's going to go Bob, then it's going to go Toronto Mike, in that order.

Rob did something strange where I asked for three jams and he gave me four. So when it's his second jam, we're going to go back to back just because I'm a nice guy. But I'm going to start with Rob Pruce's first December jam. Are you folks ready? Do it. Ready. High energy starter Start with a bang

A little on the nose, isn't it? I like it on the nose. you be why can't you believe how much you really mean

December All right, Rob, I know this song's called December, but let me know, who's the artist we're listening to right now? This is Nora Jones. And do you know who her father is? He's got a Beatles connection, actually, I think. Yeah, well, he was in the concert for Bangladesh with George. That's right. So he's somehow connected to George Harrison, I think.

Big time, yeah, big time influence. That's why George brought the sitar and all that great instrumentation from India to the Beatles. Exactly. So it must be Ravi Shankar. I'll take Ravi Shankar. You are correct, sir. So tell me about this song, why you dig it. Well, first of all,

the job of finding songs with December jams, and I thought, well, okay. I looked in my iTunes library, and I typed in December to see what would come up and there wasn't a lot that came up. So I felt a little bit nervous about finding songs. And this song came up actually just called December. And so then I remembered, oh, I forgot about the song. And I've been trying to figure out where it came from. And I believe that it might've been an iTunes promotion. Like, do you remember in the early like mid 2000s they would release songs i don't know if it was like

a free download every week they were like when the music business was still trying to find itself in the new digital universe they would give away songs and i believe that this might have even been like a promotional thing for the new norwich i'll say this it sounds to me like i'm sitting in a starbucks exactly but in 2009 that was still not an unheard of thing for people to enjoy doing because we were all started sort of getting used to this this sound and starbucks was trying to get into the music business and they probably sold this at the front counter so this was the like a lead-in song to an album she released in 2009 i believe and it came up on my iTunes and I was like,

well, it's called December and we need December jams. So there it is. But here's my thing. So you remember, you submitted four jams, even though I very clearly asked for three. So you like this so much that it wasn't going to be left on the cutting room floor. Like this was going to be-

Because it's got December in the title. I thought that was part of the mission. So Bob, any thoughts on Nora Jones? I love Nora Jones. In 2005, when my wife and I got married, our last song of the evening that we danced to was Come Away With Me by Nora Jones. Big hit.

Yeah, she's phenomenal. She really is. Yeah. I think she's got a great Christmas album too, actually, ironically. That is, you know, again, we'll get into this, I'm sure, as we go along. Our Christmas songs, December Jams,

is I think something that we will talk about. Absolutely, we'll talk about that. Hey, quick note coming in here. Moose Grumpy has deduced that both Cam Gordon and Bob Ouellette are East End Toronto guys. It's true, it's true. Actually, Cam and I live quite close to each other, and yet we've

never had a cocktail together or anything. We've got to figure that out. Well, if you came out for our Bentway beers that we had, but that was not... It's in the West End, though. Well, it's East of Yonge. We did it at Jarvis and Queen's Quay. Oh, Jarvis. Okay, Jarvis. It is

East of Yonge. It's across from the Chorus building. Well, that's not Bentway. Oh, Jarvis. Okay, Jarvis. It is east of Yonge. Like it's across from the Chorus building. Well, that's not Benway. No, no. We moved it because of weather. I was going to say the Benway is... Benway is Fort York. Yes. So like you're right.

You're still west of Yonge, but we moved it to the Great Lakes Brewery. Thank you, Great Lakes, by the way. I'm enjoying my beverage and I'm enjoying Bob's company and Rob sounds like he's sitting in our basement here. So this is awesome. Coy and Vance saving the toast.

Which one is my Koi or am I Vance? That's to be discussed. We'll see that. All right. All right. So that's a great start. Cause I did not know that song. I like it when someone picks out a song.

I don't know. Well, for me, the tricky thing too was that because December was in the title and I was trying to think, well, like I was a little nervous trying to like find the theme, which is also why I gave you a couple of songs that don't even have december in the title either

but for me they became the sound of december but okay well you'll have to go to bat for all your jams obviously and we'll we'll be tough critics here but there's by no means does the word december have to be in the title like it has to be see that's what i december jam so apparently mike you weren't clear with the instructions. No, I said December jams. You then take that and you decide what that means to you and then you come and justify it to me. So, for example,

I'm going to kick out a Bob Ouellette December jam. That was also on my list. You ready, Bobby? What a shock. Here we go. Because I love this song. It's a great song. Even though it's very sad.

6 a.m. day after Christmas I throw some clothes on in the dark. The smell of cold, car seat is freezing, the world is sleeping, I am numb. No. Up the stairs to her apartment, she is balled up on the couch. Mom and dad went down to Charlotte. They're not home to find us out. And we drive. Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone than I ever have before.

She's a-breaking, I'm drowning slowly. Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere. She's a-breaking up, drowning slowly. So pretty, Bob. I want to ask Rob what he thinks of the piano on this. I love Ben Folds. Yeah, Ben Folds 5. Yeah, I was just having a flashback.

I remembered seeing Ben at Lee's Palace. Oh, wow. I just Googled it real fast because I was like, God, I don't even remember when it was. It was June 1997. Yep. And I don't know if that was one of the first times he came to toronto but i was blown away like i loved whatever album came out that year but this came out at the end of that year right um but yeah love him no it's uh this this is december right like the 6 a.m day after christ, the smell of cold, like everything about this song is just easy. He builds such a beautiful picture.

He paints such a beautiful picture. And, you know, again, it is 97. We were playing another song on the edge on the Home Alone show. Army, yeah. Dad said, son, you're fucking high. That's right. So maybe it was 97 I started, not 98. Anyways.

I know more about this guy's career than he does. Apparently, yeah. But here's your fun fact. I love it. Ben Folds Five, a trio, not five of them. See? There you go. Now you get it.

That's what I'm looking for. There you go. There's your fun. There's your mind blow. Also, here's another mind blow. Sade is the name of the band. Isn't that the same thing with the Lee Aaron Project? Lee Aaron is the name.

And Alice Cooper, too. Right. That's right. I will say, here's my little, it's not a mind blow, but 97 is also the year that a band that most people would think is a one-hit wonder, Harvey Danger. Harvey Danger. You know, I talk about this album all the time when I'm on. Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone has a song. You love that album.

It's one of my favorite albums of all time. But it has a song called Problems and Bigger Ones, which is also about an abortion. And they both came out in the same year. Can I ask a question about Brick for a moment on that note? So when I always interpreted this as an abortion song, is it possibly a miscarriage song? Maybe. Only because now I'm listening to it

and now I'm really getting into it because clearly there's a baby being lost in utero. Shout out to Nirvana. Okay. But is it clearly an abortion song or could it be a miscarriage? Well, they drive some. Maybe for a DNC. You know, I've been there.

I've been there. Yeah, yeah. I mean, maybe. Did you see Ben's? I just went to the Wikipedia. Ben's quote on Brick. Okay, let's hear it. He says, people ask me what the song's about.

I was asked about it a lot, and I didn't really want to make a big hairy deal out of it because I just wanted the song to speak for itself. But the song is about when I was in high school, me and my girlfriend had to get an abortion, and it was a very sad thing. And I didn't really want to write the song from any kind of political standpoint or make a statement.

I just wanted to reflect what it feels like. So anyone who's gone through that will know what the song from any kind of political standpoint or make a statement. I just wanted to reflect what it feels like. So anyone who's gone through that, we'll know what the song is about. It's hauntingly beautiful. Like it is so sad and so gorgeous. And I, I've always loved that song. Oh,

absolutely. I have a, um, I have a sad Bob playlist, you know, if I ever want to be in that's like tops, tops right on it for sure. Uh,

I want to hear the boss side. That'll be our January toast. Sad jams. Sad jams. Oh, I love sad jams. I do too. Me too. I love sad songs and I love ballads.

I love, we've talked about this before. I love 80s ballads. I love sad songs. I think sad songs, much like Billy. Well, like as Elton John says, sad songs say so much. And sad songs that make me cry yeah billy ocean doesn't he have a sad song there you go yeah okay i think we have a good topic for next uh for next month but thank you for kicking that out because if you didn't kick it out i was

gonna kick it out because it's true it does set you in that boxing day vibe yeah very very sad all right my turn this is exciting uh again I heard Bob say that your jam Rob was a little on the nose well you want something on the fucking nose Bob Willett you ready I saw this and I said no I'm not going to do that low hanging fruit I felt like someone should pick it

I didn't want to get Hanson'd. Just took my son to reach up the man You can't run it over again Don't scream about, don't think aloud Turn your head now, baby, just spit me out Don't worry about, don't speak about Turn your head now baby, just spit me out All right, everybody. This song is called December by Collective Soul. And I think it's probably an obvious pick for us Gen Xers

to kick out December by Collective Soul. 1995. 1995, absolutely. This is on the album entitled Collective Soul. Self-titled. Self-titled, right. The first one was Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid. And that first album, which I bought on CD because of how much I love the song Shine.

That's right. Oh, yeah. It's got a classic 1995 vocal though doesn't he like Ed Roland is a really interesting guy I actually interviewed him when I was at

tell us about that when I was at 94.9 The Rock and he was doing a solo project and I had a really interesting conversation with him

and the thing that stands out to me is like how do you know something is an Ed Roland song or is something a collective soul song

and his answer was oh the band will tell me. Oh, wow. He'll write it. He'll play a song as an Ed Rowland song. They're like, no, no. That's fucking Collective Soul, dude. Get out of here. Oh, that's cool. So you guys, I don't know if you have the same, but when Shine broke,

it was like the song of the summer. Oh, it was huge. Was it 93? I can't remember what summer that was. Maybe 93. I don't know, but that was 94 maybe 93 I don't know but that summer Shine was everywhere and I once we once did a thing

where you had to kick out three jams that had the same title and I went with Shine because I love that Shine Junk House Junk House is Shine I kicked out

and the Doughboys have a great Shine right like is that a great trifecta of Shines it really is there you go you could have played Shinehead, too.

Don't give me none of that. Don't give me none of that. Don't give me none of that crack crack. I was like, am I crazy? But I don't smoke crack. That's right. Big Munch Music Jam. I love that jam.

Okay. So this was their highest charting single until The World I Know. Same album, right? Which I think that came out, yeah, that was later in 1996. That comes out March 96. It hits number one, I think. But Collective Soul, I have a little mind, not really a mind blow,

but I do want to play a little something here, just a little take from it. You see, when you're the host, you can do that. Well, you can send it to me. I know Rob sent me one. Thank you. Who's this? This is Iron Cross.

Myanmar. Am I saying that right? A Myanmar rock band. Wow. A little taste of Iron Cross. It's a little stereo action here, right? Got the vocals just in the right. Until I'm nearly There's a little, there's a cover by Iron Cross.

See, I thought you were going to tell me that this was, they did this first. There's a little, there's a cover by Iron Cross. I thought you were going to tell me that this was, they did this first. And then, you know, and then Ed Roland stole it. No, that would be a big mind blow. This is actually a collective soul original. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, any, you said you interviewed them, you interviewed ed right yeah with the soul project uh have you had any interactions with the good people that collective soul mr rob pruse

i have not just just appreciated their music from afar but it does make me reflect on the mid 90s and the sound of the mid 90s because there's something in his voice that's so familiar from a lot of the music that was being released. There's a little Smashing Pumpkins in his voice. Live? Do you hear live in there? Live as well. He puts this little grunge, this little push

in his voice that reminds me of Billy Corgan in a way as well. It was just sort of the thing that guys did at that time. It's super cool, but I sort of forgot about this song. I love it. So this is Collective Soul. I always wondered if anyone got confused between Collective Soul and Soul Asylum because they're kind of on the same stations at the same time.

Right. Runaway Train, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. And more. Misery Loves Company. And that great cover of the Victoria Williams song, Summer of Drugs.

Do you know this song? Do you know? Okay, I'm sitting beside the world's biggest Pearl Jam fan. So you, of course, know Crazy Mary. Yes. He might be familiar with Crazy Mary. Okay. Crazy Mary is, of course, for the benefit,

the sweet relief, a benefit for Victoria Williams. That's a Victoria Williams song. On that same CD, which I'm sure you probably own, because I do, is Soul Asylum covering Summer of Drugs and it's my second favorite song on the album and it's like the best

Summer of Drugs by Soul Asylum. That's cool. So Bob's going to go home and stick that CD in there. Well, it's interesting. Well, my second favorite song besides Crazy Mary on that album

is actually Is it Buffalo Tom? No, it's Frying Pan by Evan Dando. Okay. Of the Lemonheads. Of course. Of the Lemonheads. But all that being said, going back to what Rob's talking about there, about that affectation a little bit of the voice,

I think a lot of people blame Eddie Vedder for that. I mean, you know, all of a sudden Creed and Three Doors Down and all these guys come along and they're gonna... Don't forget Scott Weiland. Scott Weiland. Yeah, Scott Weiland. Absolutely. When Plush came out, my buddies all joked it was a Pearl Jam song.

Eddie just kind of did that. It was kind of one of the things that separated the band from everybody else. And he actually went back. I don't know if you know, all these remasters from 2009, he went back and re-voiced them all so he's not quite as... He actually has gone back

because he doesn't want to be remembered as that guy who went... Interesting. Yeah. So, Bob, let me ask you. I know you probably would sing Pearl Jam to your kids when they were young. I did.

So the song I used to always sing was Black, okay? That's a sad one. Yeah, well... I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. Why can't it be mine? That's not sad one. Yeah, well. I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. Why can't it be mine? That's not good. But it is.

Well, you don't need to know the lyrics, at least that one. By the way, Ben Rayner in the calendar. He's coming into the basement on December 10th, and we're going to kick out more jams and catch up. I've only mentioned Ben Rayner. Did you say December 10th? That's like past. January 10th. He's going backwards in time.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. These are January jams. Okay, we got to get moving here. And if anyone has to pee, just let the song start and then go pee because that's how we roll on this program. Look at how comfortable you are. Okay, so we're going back to back because Rob broke the rules. Okay. Oh, right.

So we're going to start with this one, his second jam. He has two here. He likes the high tempo jams. That's right. I'm bringing it up for December. Oh, my heart rate. That's good. Terima kasih telah menonton talk to me Robbie there's no way to fade out of this in an easy way right because it just goes on

and it just it keeps a mood. I can't miss the post at least. Yeah, you're not going to walk the vocals. Yeah. This, for me, like the whole idea of summer song, I mean, December songs and summer songs, December songs, like it's a bit, like it's a reflective time of year, right?

Like, I mean, we're getting into the Christmas season and like there's something in there that's, you're starting to like it's the, it's a reflective time of year, right? Like, I mean, we're getting into the Christmas season and like, there's something in there that's you're, you're starting to like head into the new year and you're sort of winding it up, but, but you know, it's, it becomes like more of like a traditional sort of a feeling.

And this album is by George Winston and it was released in the fall of 82. It's called December. This piece of music. it's so it's an instrumental piano album and this was like a huge million selling album that came out in the fall of 82 and it was sort of like like early days in the whole I guess what people would now maybe call ambient slash new age sounding records this was released on a label called windham hill which has released lots and lots and lots of beautiful records and this this album was such a big seller that it helped them get a larger profile because it was such a big selling album

and george winston he made this album you know it's it's just solo piano music it's variations on classical music and on christmas some christmas carols and some original music and i have like a um a memory of this album listening to it on a cassette in the christmas winter of 82 because we were doing our first spoons tour across canada and when we went first time leaving ontario and going out to vancouver and going to calgary and edmonton and playing it was like a week and a half and then down the west coast of the u.s for first time as well. And I had a few cassettes with my Walkman. And this was one of the things I listened to nonstop. So for me, it's like, it's a wintry feeling playing this album. Um, but then I went to the Wikipedia page just to sort of look at it as well to see, like, I couldn't find any like, like mind blowing facts, but there were good old reviews where people say

this one review said, this is the mother of all solo instrumental albums um for good reason winston produces a solo album of unparalleled and undeniable beauty music that is simultaneously stirring and soothing relaxed get exalted and that's exactly what i feel like it is so that's it's beautiful and i kind of recognized it and i'm not a instrumental music guy but in 1985 my, I was nine, my dad became a mobile DJ with a company here in Toronto called Disc Jockeys Unlimited, which was the biggest DJ company in the city at the time. And this would have been in his kit because the company actually gave him a library of music, and I can remember this being in his kit for dinner music for sure yeah it totally sounds familiar well especially because at that time there weren't a lot of sort of mainstream instrumental piano albums in that way right like even like of course for us now in this season charlie brown christmas vince guraldi gets played to death yeah which is a

fantastic thing but this george winston album I think was one of those slow burners that over the years people have realized, oh, that was one of the first piano, like solo piano instrumental albums that I had that wasn't strictly classical music. It was sort of like merging into a new world. Like we've come to learn through the 80s and into the 90s.

Like a David Foster type thing? Yeah. Kind of, yeah. I remember like compilations, like cool piano moods or something, you know, like that kind you know shout out to joe and tash yeah yeah so this this is really like the beginning of all that kind of sound and george winston is a real groundbreaking guy in that way especially this piece that we played called joy was based on a classical piece by j.s bach called jesu uh joy of man's des, which is a very famous classical piece which has been played

and was done on organ and piano and everybody does it. We all know Bach. He was a lead singer for Skid Row. Sebastian, yeah, exactly. Hey, I got a shout out by COVID brother Tom, who's married to YYZ Gord. I'm getting this update from YYZ Gord, but he

lets me know that Tom knew that was George Winston. They were guessing, is it Rick Wakeman? There was some conversation in the chat. I'm getting this update from YYZ Gore, but he lets me know that Tom knew that was George Winston. So he, they were guessing, is it Rick Wakeman? There was some conversation in the chat, but George Winston, and he also knew that he had an album called December.

Nice. I love it. Again, second jam you kicked out, I'm unfamiliar with. So thank you, Rob Bruce. Well,

you got to listen to the whole album, the whole, I mean, it was hard to pick one song just because the album is called December. I just thought this is, something from this album is going to be good. So I sort of went with this, but the whole thing just start to finish is gorgeous.

And remember, you're getting a twofer here. So you're getting another jam here since you broke all the rules here. And I'm too nice to tell you to go F off, Mr. Pruce. Here we go. This one's going to lift it up. Okay. Oh yeah, it sure is. I'm going to just do that.

Bob's cracking open his 666, his pale ale. Oh, yeah. Rob's really rocking here. He's a piano player. I know, but... Elton John's a piano player. I know, but Elton John's a piano player. Where's the Billy Joel?

It's coming up. So this is evidence Rob is not our stew stone. Because he'd find a Toto song that had something to do with December. find a Toto song that had something to do with December. Could I ever explain This feeling of love It just lingers on The fear in my heart that

Keeps telling me which way to turn. Well, wonder again how close they are well. The End The width of a room that can hold so much pleasure inside You can fade it out if you want. You're the boss, Pruce. Talk to me. Yeah, yeah. So the sound of this record is a December sound for me. And it's sort of related to George Winston, I guess. It's that same...

I'm going back so long. You know, when I was a kid and it was our first cross-Canada tour with The Spoons. And remind us, you're only 15, right? No, by that time I was getting old. I was 17. 17! You're an time I was getting old. I was 17. 17! You're an old bet.

I was starting to take life more seriously, yeah. But this is the band Japan, and this is a song called Night Porter, which was on an album that they released in 1980 called Gentlemen Take Polaroids. But they released this song as a single in the fall, winter of 82. I think the band might have even already broken up at that point. But I already knew this song.

But I had this song on a mixtape that I had made in that winter of 82. So as I was listening to George Winston and traveling the country for the first time and all those things, the sound of this record is just one of those things that feels like wintertime. Like, I think there are songs, I mean, like, Brick is a December jam, but I guess I went a little selfishly

into my own memories of December as well. As is your right. Be selfish. It's okay. Because I didn't know all the rules. But that's why I stuck

two extra, I put those two back to back. Let's put it this way. Cam Gordon once kicked out, what's the Nine Inch Nails song? March of the Pigs for Spring Jams.

Well, that's something. All you need to know is that to know that anything can go here on the show. I'll just tell you a quick story because I have on these old CFNY guys all the time. Japan was a big band for CFNY so you'll hear like Ivor Hamilton or David Marsden

talking about when Japan visited and big deal, big deal. And they were a big band. And so the other thing is that their producer, John Punter, produced our album, Aries and Symphonies. Oh, wow. And produced Nova Heart for us. That was the first song we did together. And then he came back later the same year to do Aries.

But I used to listen to this record in, in like early spoons days and think, God, these records are amazing. So when we knew we were going to work with Japan's producer, it was super exciting for us as well to think that this guy that was helping create that sound was going to come and work with us. So. When I was at AM 640 and they were moving a Q107 and 640 down from Young and Norton, I scooped a whole bunch of vinyl from the old

Q107 library. And I am 99% sure I have this album from the Q107 library. I have a bunch of Japan. It was just stuff that Jeff Woods and Alan Cross didn't want. The two guys who took most of it, because I've had the story from both of them,

is, you're right, it's Alan Cross and Ivor Hamilton Are you talking about the CFNY one? Oh, I'm talking about the CFNY No, this is the Q107 This is the Q107 one It's amazing all the stuff that Q107 didn't play That they had in the library anyway All this old

And it's got the tape around it So you have it now in your basement? Yes I have at least And it's got the tape around it. So you have it now in your basement? Yes. Yes. I'm 90. I have at least two different Japan albums, and it might be this one. Wow. I got to admit, I've never put it on, but now I'm going to put it on because that's beautiful.

And that's it. Japan is, I will say this, again, Bob and I are a little similar vintage. Although, and even though Rob's not that much older than us, he musically matured so much younger than us. Rob, were you born in like 72? Oh, 65. 65. I'm old born in like 72? Oh, 65. 65. Oh, okay. I find people who are

like, so being born in 76 versus the early 70s, the musical landscape is so different. Oh, yeah. I just actually was just traveling with somebody who it was his 50th birthday and he finished high school in 86 and i

finished and i finished high or um no he finished high school in 90 and i finished high school in 94 and the difference of music between 90 and 94 is ridiculous anyways oh yeah no good point well but but well and for me the thing is with with because i am a musician and i've stayed i've tried to stay current with listening to music and being aware of new music, the music you guys talk about, which is maybe why I've always loved listening to Mike and like all the people you talk about music with it's, it's the era of music that I continued listening to while I was in the world of musical theater. So yeah, I spent the eighties, you know, being in the rock bands and doing all this stuff. But then I got into the world of musical theater as a, as a pit musician, but I stayed current

listening to music, not really making the music, though. So I listened to it all from a different perspective, but still sort of like with professional ears at the same time, you know? Love it. And you are being born in 65, that does qualify you to listen to Toronto Mike because you are Gen X. So you satisfy that criteria. Exactly.

That's right. I want to hear more about that musical stuff because I love musicals in the 90s. Proust is a big deal in the Broadway scene. Like, Proust is a big deal. I'm telling you.

More than just a pretty face. Okay, Bob Ouellette, anything to say before, and I love that you were kicking this out. I love this song. Can I, do you want to say anything

before I kick it or do you just want me to do it? No, we could have an argument whether or not it's a December song or a Christmas song, I suppose. Okay, let's play it, and then we'll get into that fight.

Yeah. But I love his voice. Lost Nowhere to go Oh, when I was a kid Oh, how magic this seemed Oh, please let me sleep It's Christmas time Eddie Vedder! Oh, Pearl Jam, Let Me Sleep. Do you think it's called... Isn't It's Christmas Time, that's in parentheses, right?

Yeah, it's actually called Let Me Sleep, and in parentheses, It's Christmas Time. We once kicked out yeah it's actually called let me sleep and in parentheses it's Christmas time when we once kicked out parentheses jams would have been a good one okay tell me why as if I need to ask well I mean here's the thing it is it was the very first Christmas single that Pearl Jam did about you know they

were 10 club single they do it every year they actually just say this they're not doing it now they just announced that they are not going to be doing the Christmas singles anymore. You get a 45. Even all through the early 90s, when nobody was making vinyl, you would get a 45

if you were a member of the Pearl Jam 10 Club. Which was awesome. And this was the very first one. This particular song was written, my understanding is, I don't know if this is a mind blow or not, but you know that famous show with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam?

Yeah. Bruce, you getting a phone call? What's going on there? Sorry. Is that Gord? Yeah. This song was written on that tour apparently, is what they say. Before they really broke big, they were opening for the Chili Peppers

across North America and then it really came to light again when it was featured on Lost Dogs which was their B-Sides release double CD set but it was also featured in Imagine and Cornice which was the film they did of their

Italian tour and there's a scene with just Eddie and Mike McCready at the top of this old, essentially Roman ruin place. And they sing it. And it kind of, it's not, this is what makes me think it's not necessarily a Christmas song because this was like in the middle of the summer

they played it. But it is, you know, I mean, the lyrics, it does say, please let me see. Okay, let's have that chat right now because many a time I would say like during, I don know a uh festivus episode of elvis or something we'll kick out our favorite christmas songs and i always include that that's one of my favorite christmas songs so i would say it's a bit of a russian dolls thing here like uh christmas songs are also december jams yeah i think we could i think they could they could live in both worlds. I chose not to go the Christmas route,

except for this one, I guess. Only 33.3% of your jams are Christmas songs. Right. There you go. Well, I mean, is it Die Hard a Christmas movie? I guess this is a Christmas song. I mean, it's Christmas time, but it just has that feel for me.

I mean, I know. You know what's great? I'm going to do this again with Retro Ontario on Thursday, by the way. Don't miss Christmas Crackers Volume 5. There there'll be some overlapping content but one thing i want to say is i just watched on uh what's damn it what's the streaming service canopy canopy you get it when you uh when you have a toronto uh library card okay you can stream movies on canopy i just watched uh Silent Partner on Canopy on the weekend and I feel like that was like

the diehard origin thing. Like it's a Christmas movie. There's Santa, Christopher Plummer, some shit goes down. So Toronto, this is like the most Toronto movie

this side of Strange Brew. Like it's so unabashedly Toronto and I'm just here to recommend it to everybody. 1978. That's cool.

Check it out. Okay, now I'm going to be, I'm going to to recommend it to everybody. 1978. That's cool. Check it out. Okay, now I'm going to actually bring it up because John Candy's in this movie but he's not with somebody who directed a Stu Stone movie who passed away in 2022 and that's the gentleman Lawrence Dane that I'm going to talk to Ed Conroy about on

Thursday. So we'll tease that and I'll tell you, Bob, I enjoyed your choice there of Let Me Sleep by Pearl Jam. Oh, thanks. I think it's a unique song for them. As you know, I don't think I can kick out jams without including a Pearl Jam song. You like Pearl Jam?

Just a little bit. I've seen them 40 plus times. Don't you think it's neat when you think about bands from our youth, Bob, and of course you as well, Mr. Proust, but like so many bands have a member or two

or three who have passed away by this point and nobody in Pearl Jam has died. Knock it on wood here. I'm not saying it. Jesus Christ, man. Name another band

like, you know, the Pumpkins lost somebody. Of course, Soundgarden lost their lead singer. You know, Lane Staley's long gone. Wyland's gone gone they have some longevity

and all lost bassist too like there's not many grungy bands that have their full lineup intact no and I will thank you to shut your mouth right now I don't have the power shout out to Ridley Funeral I don't have the power to kill anybody

I want to get to my jam you guys have one more i've got two more and i got a little mind blow here let's mix it up a bit something a bit different here sean carter was born december 4th weighing in at 10 pounds 8 ounces He was the last of my four children. The only one who didn't give me any pain when I gave birth to him. And that's how I knew that he was a special child. Hi baby. What's wrong? You look like you've lost your best friend.

Tell me. Is it something that I've done again? You look like you've lost your best friend. They say they never really miss you till you dead or you gone So on that note, I'm leaving after the song So you ain't gotta feel no way about Jay so long But at least let me tell you why I'm this way, hold on I was conceived by Gloria Carter and Agnes Reeves

Who made love under the sycamore tree, which makes me A more sicker MC and my mama would claim At ten pounds when I was born i didn't give her no pain i'll go through the years i gave her her fish yeah i gave her first real skin i made it for birth when i got here she knows my purpose wasn't purpose i ain't perfect i care but i'm for purpose because my shirts wasn't matching my gear now i'm scratching the surface because what's buried under there was a kid torn apart once his pop disappeared i went to school got good grades could behave when i wanted but i had demons deep inside that would raise me and get fronting.

Hold on. Sean was a very shy child growing up. He was into sports. And a funny story is... That's Jay-Z's mom. So, this song is called December 4th. It is a Jay-Z song that appears on his eighth album, which is called The Black Album.

And the big news at the time, I remember this came out in 2003. He was kind of promoting it as his final album before he retired. Spoiler alert. He unretires like, I don't know, two or three. He comes back. He did not stay retired, but he promoted this as his final album and he was retiring but okay

so this is called The Black Album and I enjoy The Black Album he's got a whole bunch of different producers on this album but I'll get to that in a minute

but there was a another album that came out which was a guy named Danger Mouse so I'm glad Bob is back from draining his main vein here because

there was a mashup album by Danger Mouse that came out in 2004. The Grey Album. The Grey Album. Bob knows this, and it was amazing. I know it too. You know it too, Robbie. He took the Black Album. Okay, everybody stay with me here.

He took Jay-Z's The Black Album, and he took The Beatles' self-titled album, which we know as The White Album, and he smashed them up. And if we could all self-titled album, which we know as the White Album, and he smashed them up. And if we could all listen for a moment here as your DJ. They say they never really miss you Till you dead or you gone So on that note I'm leaving after the song So you ain't gotta feel no way about Jace so long But at least let me tell you why I'm this way Hold on I was conceived by Gloria Carter and Agnes Reeds

Who made love on the sycamore tree Which makes me a more sicker MC My mama would claim at 10 pounds when I was born I didn't give her no pain My soul through the years I gave her her fish Yeah, I gave her a first real scare i made it from birth when i got here she knows my purpose wasn't purpose i ain't perfect i care but i feel worthless because my shirts wasn't matching my care now i'm scratching the surface because what's buried under there was a kid torn apart once his pop disappeared i went to school got good grades could be hate

when i want it but i had demons deep inside that were raised from confronting. Hold on. Sean was a very shy child growing up. He was into sports. And a funny story is, at four, he told us about... Okay, so if people have not heard the Grey album, just stop what you're doing, because I'm about to ruin... The image and the style that you're used to?

I look funny. But you're making money. See? Yo, world, I hope you're ready for me. Now gather round. I'm the new fool in town in the South Lake

down by the underground. I drink a bowl of Hennessy you got on your shelf. So just let me introduce myself. All right. Don't bother. We could do the whole song. I could do it all day.

I could do that entire album. I could do that entire album. I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom. Okay. They call me crazy. Allow me to amaze you. Get going.

You say I'm ugly, but just don't faze me. Okay. Let's get serious for a moment. Go find the Grey album. Danger Mouse. He's still putting out great shit, by the way. Danger Mouse. This guy's talented.

But I just want to say an interesting fun fact about the Grey album is that EMI wanted to stop this. You don't have the rights to distribute this black album, these samples, you know, the Beatles and White Album. EMI tries to stop this. And Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the two

surviving Beatles, step up and say, we love this. Leave it alone and that's a cool move by Paul and Ringo so also if anybody's interested in finding it today there's a website called the internet archive

and you can listen to the whole thing and get it there it still exists and it's still alive go listen because it spent a lot of time being spun in my win amp yeah that's amazing that's right did you download it from uh limewire limewire so okay there's a little bonus fun fact go ahead bob no no so so your december track is the original version yeah the original black is that produced by rick rubin like no but here i got a fun fact about the

production so jay-z for this black, he wanted like all these different producers. Like I think almost every song is a different producer. And a lot of names you know. A lot of names we used to respect and we don't respect as much now. But a lot of people you know are producing. This particular song, December 4th, is produced by a guy named Jest Blaze. So shout out to Kenna Cabana, Jest Blaze. I almost shouted out the wrong people and he's still alive, Jest Blaze. So shout out to shout out to Kana Cabana. Jess Blaze. I almost shouted out

the wrong people and he's still alive. Jess Blaze. I'm going to just play a little bit of another banger that Jess Blaze produced. Are you guys sitting down?

Are you ready Rob Pruse? Ready. This is a banger. Go let's go. This is special what's happening to all my all my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, and start being thankful for what you do, guys. Let's give it to them, baby girl. Hey. DJ Bingo Bob, is there a better fucking jam to get people hyped? Come on. Oh, yeah. But I mean, yes.

Don't take it so literally. Well, it's a fine song. It's a banger. Did I ever tell you when I saw Rihanna at the Danforth Music Hall? Tell me that story right now. Yeah. She was doing a promo tour. I was with Proud FM at the time, and she was doing a seven nights and seven continents thing,

and it was night two. She was flying all around the world, or seven countries, not continents, and saw her at the Danforth Music Hall, and she was... Yeah, it was very cool to see her. She seemed so disinterested to be there, though. It was ridiculous. It was like, oh, nah, nah.

She just kept... What's my name? there, though. It was ridiculous. It was like, oh, nah, nah. She just kept... What's my name? Yeah. But yeah, phenomenal artist. And just blazing. I've heard a bunch of stuff. I think she's doing Super Bowl this year. I think.

Wow. Quote me on that, because I'm pretty sure it's true. Now, of course, just to let us know, this is actually... Yeah, the feature is Rihanna, but this is a TI song. It's on the TI album. And that was a great album, as I recall. And live your life, man. I always thought that was a great pop song.

Like, Rob, I don't know. You have a good year for pop, but it's like. Yeah. Let's go. Yeah. Yeah. So, anyway, this is the same producer as the December 4th jam. So, I thought I'd kind of tie it all together here.

Okay, everybody, we're down to one more jam each man rob and i have like mind blows to tie to ours but uh we start with you anything to say rob pruse before we kick out your final jam before we begin it yeah uh no but it's a little it's another one you understand would have a whole speech to say before i kicked out really yeah well i don't have a whole speech, but December is in the title. And as soon as you said December jams and in my head, when I thought, Oh my God,

I have to think of songs with December in the title. This was the first song that came into my head because for most of my life as a musician, as a pop musician, this song has been in my life and I I play it often because I learned to play it when I was like 10 years old. So now you know it's an old pop song. But it was on the radio, and I always wanted to play whatever song had a piano. My ear was tuned to the radio. If it was Elton John or Queen, of course, I knew there was piano. But any other songs that would come up,

I would be like, I need to learn to play this song. So one of the first songs that I had sheet music for to learn how to play was this jam. Oh, what a night Late December back in 63 What a very special time for me As I remember what a night Oh, what a night You know I didn't even know her name But I was never gonna be the same What a lady, what a night Oh, I

Got a funny feeling when she walked in the room And my time recorded ended far too soon One night Hypnotizing, mesmerizing me She was everything I needed It's absolutely a December jam and it's a good one. Well done, Rob Bruce. Woo-hoo! Woo!

Okay, now that we're all awake again, first up, tempo jam from Rob Bruce tonight, by the way. Okay. Talk to me more. I know you put it on the preamble here, but what? 10-year-old rob is learning to play like piano to this uh song learning pop songs because i had already been playing i i had a teacher that was teaching me classical piano oh yeah you already knew your rockman off yeah rockman enough

no oh is that say it again rockman and all i only know it for the movie speaking of shine remember we talked earlier but yeah shine exactly that's right. Jeffrey Rush. Jeffrey Rush. I loved that movie. Oh my God, yeah. That's fucking great, right? Uh-huh. So I had started piano lessons when I was five, five and a half,

learning the basics and learning scales and then my teacher took me through the Royal Conservatory stuff where you have like really simple piano songs but then when I was like eight or nine,

actually when I was eight, I wanted to learn The Entertainer by Scott Joplin because it was on the radio, because there was a movie that came out called The Sting, and Marvin Hamlisch did all the music, and so I was like this song is on the radio, it's solo piano, I need to learn it. And I learned it.

Is that Paul Newman? Paul Newman and Robert Redford, yeah. But the song, this solo piano song was on the radio like as a single, like a hit song almost. And I took it to my teeth. Exactly. I played that on your piano.

Didn't I play that on your piano in your living room? I think I did. You did. I played Mr. Dress Up. Well, you did that at TML. Yes, you also played that at TMLX. That's right. No, 10.

10, 10, 10. X, that's right. But this song was one of the first pop songs I started to teach myself because now that I was getting able to read sheet music I would get the song

get the music and could play along with the records But of course it's like one of the few songs that I think of that has December in the title What's the credit to? Is it to Frankie Valli

in the Four Seasons? No This is just the Four Seasons And so the four seasons no this is just the four seasons and so the weird thing with this song is that it was written by bob gaudio who wrote all the frankie valley in the four seasons hits in the 60s and he was the original like the main guy for the band he wrote the song with with this woman named judy who became his future wife and the song was sort of about the beginnings of their relationship and i went to the wikipedia page and it says that originally he wanted to call it december 5th 1933 because it

was celebrating the repeal of prohibition so from from our day today we're dealing with with a song idea from 90 years ago which is crazy and so he changed it yeah oh frankie valley was like like this is too old. We can't, we can't deal with something from prohibition. So he changed, changed it to 63, even though the song didn't come out until 75,

76, it was a number one hit in America and a number one hit in Canada. That's a big jam. And, and there's three different singers on this song as well. So, so it's not, okay,

because, okay, so Jersey boys is, that was on Broadway, right? Jersey boys. Yep. Yep. production rob pruse i did not i have many friends who worked on it but but i have a fun weird fact about this that i only learned this week about jersey boys so the main singer on this song was the drummer there There's three different singers on this song. Frankie Valli only sings on the bridge of the song, which is the middle section. Because he's the falsetto guy, right?

Well, there's another falsetto. The bass player, his name is Don Ciccone. He sings the falsetto parts. I felt a rush like a rolling ball of thunder. That's Don, the bass player. Frankie sings, I got a funny feeling when she walked. But, you know, higher. And then Jerry, the drummer, sings bass player. Frankie sings, I got a funny feeling when she walks. But, you know, higher.

And then Jerry, the drummer, sings the verses. Oh, what a night, ladies. That's Jerry. So there's three different singers. So what I learned from doing my research for the song is that Jerry, the drummer,

married Frankie Valli's daughter. Oh. That's awkward. And the daughter... Yeah, well, in the the night this was like in the late 80s or in the 90s he married frankie's daughter and they had a daughter and the daughter became went on to become a broadway performer and she she did musicals like wicked but she did jersey boys the musical and she played her own grandmother wow she became She became, yeah, in the musical. So Frankie's granddaughter played his wife,

which is like bizarre. And of course, I never actually saw Jersey Boys, but the history has it. Early in the origin of the four seasons, that's where Joe Pesci shows up, right? Exactly, that's right. I just imagine he was in the group and then he said, I'm going to act.

And he just kind of quits the band. Is that right, Bob? Have you seen Jersey Boys? I actually have not. I've seen a lot of musicals and I never did see it. We're 0 for 3 here. I've never seen it either. I mean, I saw...

It was at that North York Theatre forever, the North York at Shepard and Young. Oh, yeah, it was for the Ford Theatre for a while. Were you talking about the North York Centre for the Arts? Yes, that's the one. That's where Show Boat and Sunset Boulevard was played. And Ragtime began there as well.

I actually saw the Million Dollar Quartet there. And I think I saw Shrek the musical there as well. Oh, wow. Is that featuring the music of Smash Mouth? Speaking of, see, we talked about Paul Myers.

Yes, right. We talked about Paul Myers earlier, and there's a Mike Myers role, Shrek. That's right. So to get us back on track, there's a bit of a mind blow here. Do you want me to just start playing this little? Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.

Okay. Poison. A little new Jack Swing. Yeah. Poison. New Jack Swing. Yeah. Poison. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I hear it.

I hear it. Bob's going to add this to his DJ playlist. Bingo Bob on a Saturday night. On the wheels of steel. In 1993. Whoa. Come on now. Come on now. You can talk it up if you know how to hit the post here I have no idea where that post is going to be

Is this Candy Girl? It sounds like Candy Girl by New Edition Right? Doesn't it? Big time There it is. Same song. So what is this? Like a dance remix? What are we listening to here?

So they did this remix. There was a European DJ named Ben Liebrand. He did this mix in 1988. And there was a label in the US that re-released it in 1993. And it went back onto the billboard charts again in 93 and it got up to like it got pretty high on the charts um but collectively between the chart action of the song originally in 76 and the chart action in 93 at that time it was the longest

running chart charted song on billboard wow Wow. Which is crazy. Like on the singles chart. Yeah, it beat like White Christmas and whatever had the record at that point. This song took it over, which is crazy. Between those two. But this version to me is hilarious. Like when I played it earlier,

I thought, oh my God, I vaguely remember this on the radio because of course the original is so old, but once you get into the 90s, that beat, it's like Bobby Brown or it's like Tone Loke or something, right? It's got that really hippity hop.

It's got that Belvedere DeVoe thing. Yes, totally. New Jack Swing. Totally. Yeah, exactly. All right. Amazing. So it's basically the same song with just a new beat.

So here's a confession. I'm open book here, but I used to, as a kid, I'd get my Frankie Valli mixed up with my Frankie Avalon because Avalon was the surfer guy. I saw a movie as a young man. Maybe someone here has the same experience. I saw Back to the Beach.

Oh, yeah, right. Annette Funicello. Rest in peace, Annette Funicello. Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. Frankie Avalon. Frankie Avalon. Right. And they're back to the beach and you got like Pee Wee Herman's in this. Pee Wee Herman. That's

right. Pee Wee had a song in that I think. Yeah. I think it was just like a tequila remix or something. All you ever do is tequila or whatever. But then there was also like the Skipper and Gilligan were in this thing. Oh my God, that's right. And I want to say Beaver, Wally

and June Cleaver are in this thing. Oh my God, that's right. I don't know. I'm trying to think now. Was this like on the movie network or something? Like First Choice Super Channel back in the 80s? Can I tell you something? When I saw this movie, and I think I saw it in theaters. Yeah, it was in theaters for sure.

I left the theater and thought to myself saw it in theaters. I left the theater and thought to myself, that's the greatest movie I've ever seen. It's about the son of Annette Funicello and Frank Avalon who's like this modern, I don't know, 1990 guy, teenager, leather guy, whose parents are stuck

in the beach era, beach blanket bingo. It's actually high concept and they're throwing this last bash on the beach and it's actually kind of high concept and they're throwing this last bash on the beach and it's just ridiculous and i'm i haven't watched it in many decades but i'm now gonna make a point i'm gonna seek it out and watch me too and you know who's in it actually because my youngest has discovered and i never watched this because i felt too old for it i didn't watch it but full house is on netflix and my six-year-old has discovered full house and she watches a lot of full house and i see it oh there's the beach boys or whatever so laurie

lachlan who i believe went to jail for bribing universities and becky becky she's in this back to the beach like before full house so she's isn't she also in summer school isn't that isn't that the one from Melrose Place isn't that the blonde you're right yes sorry sorry I'm yes you are right who's also a sweetheart but okay

they're both lovely ladies you know what Becky was in a movie called Rad it was about a BMX movie oh I just love the word Rad it was called Rad and it was about BMXers and it was about a bmx movie oh i i just love the word yeah it was called rad and it was about bmxers and it was around the same time oh so thank you mark wiseblood has shown up in the live chat now i know it's really toast is really happening okay i was worried he'd boycott because it's coy and vance but he's here there was another four seasons revival this year

he says uh begging by maniskin that's the italian group right yeah yeah uh he says it came out in late 2021 wow so look at this all coming foot by way uh mark wiseblood if you're listening i will see you next week buddy we missed our monthly and uh i'm going through withdrawals so bring the heat next week and everybody we all going to maybe do a live viewing together of Back to the Beach and see if it's as good as I remember. That's the thing, for sure. Peewee's in this thing! Yeah! Like the Skipper and Gilligan

are hitting each other with their hats or whatever. It's amazing. Gilligan little buddy? Yeah. He's there. Okay. I've got to collect myself. I'm very excited. Thank you, Rob Pruess. That concludes your jams. You did a great job. I'm going to let...

There's only a few beats left in this, and I'm going to roll right into... How long is this version? Oh, it's forever. But here, we're going to roll right into... It's the Z103.5. That's right. Here we go.

We'll change it up here. A little different. If we make it through December Oh, yeah. Woo! Yee-haw! Everything's gonna be all right, I know. Love it.

It's the coldest time of winter And I shiver when I see the falling snow If we make it through December Got plans to be in a warmer town come summertime Maybe even California If we make it through December we'll be fine Got laid off down at the factory Of course you did. Of course you did. That's why you got to get a university education, right Bob?

That's right. Not in 1973 and you were Merle Haggard. You didn't have to. Tell me why you chose this jam and remind us exactly what we're listening to. Merle Haggard has been recently covered by Phoebe Bridgers. Yeah. Yeah, Phoebe Bridgers just did it. Holly Cole did it in the early 2000s. Wow.

If we make it through December. Amazing. For me, you know, we always talk. It's interesting. You know, you talk about your specials with the radio stations. So my grandparents on my mom's side, my nan and my pa, they always had music on all the time. And it was CFGM 1320 or the country station here in Toronto.

And it was 1431st, then 1320, and the country station here in toronto and it was uh 1431st then 1320 and it moved around but it was the country station um so i have real uh i have a real affinity to classic country music and uh merle haggard um you know obviously johnny cash and stuff but um merle haggard boxcar willie and uh tom t hall and all this. These are Farron Young. These are guys... Oh, Farron Young is amazing. Isn't he, though? He really is. Yes. And completely

doesn't get the respect. Just not very well known. So these are the stuff that I listen to. My grandparents would always order those quality record K-Tel compilations of different country stuff. My grandparents would always order those quality record K tell, uh, compilations of different country stuff. And so they always, if the radio wasn't on a record was on and it could have,

it was often Merle Haggard. It was, um, you know, into the eighties. They like guys in the eighties too. Like they would like, uh,

you know, they liked a Randy Travis and a Ricky Skaggs and whatnot. But, uh, that's one of the good things about grandparents is that you, if you're around them and they're, and they are music music lovers you get to hear what they grew up listening to and loving and it if it gets into you right and it becomes a part of you as well because i love this story 100 so you know like i um i mean i was around music my whole life nobody played music

in my house my mom loved country my mom loved my mom actually loved really kind of punky cool stuff too i still have all her old 45s. She had Rough Trade and all these different things. My dad loved pop music. My dad was a pop guy. Again, he was the guy who DJ'd for Disc Jockey's Unlimited. Do we have a country station now in Toronto? We do not have a country station in Toronto.

We have KX96 out of Oshawa would be the closest you can get, or 94.7 out of Hamilton, which are both owned by Durham Radio. Can I pull any of those in right now? You might get 94.7 out here. Okay.

Chat amongst yourself about this country memories here. Say 94.7? Yeah, 94.7. I mentioned I'm going to rip these cassettes to MP3, right? So I've got my cassette player hooked up here. So he's using a Sony circa 1999 mini shelf system here.

I love those little systems. He's trying to dial in a country station. But yeah, you know, Rob, you're from Hamilton originally, right? So like, I mean, Burlington. 94.1? What is it? 94.7. I think. I don't know. I'm just going to see what's at 94 at 94 so what was the country station in hamilton there was one um

oh there was a country um but they would sometimes if they didn't like what was going on they would uh yeah i can't remember what the number was yeah okay hold on here that's not it's true you know what you could just stream it eh you know you know what you could just stream it a you know you know that I have this radio player Canada or something no interest in streaming it this is a says the podcaster yeah maybe I could snatched roasted baked 95.1 what do you

just not even a radio station it's not even a radio station. It's never been a radio station in our lives. It's not going back, so it's like... You mean to tell me your 30-year-old player is not working properly? Sorry to hear. That's not country music, Bob. That's 94.1.

Okay. This experiment has failed, but in real time, I could bring in some radio. I thought it might be fun, but it real time, I could bring in some radio. I thought it might be fun, but it did not work out. Anyway, CFGM was the big country station in Toronto, and they would play classic country all the time. And, you know, like I said, I have a soft spot in my heart for classic country. Not the biggest fan of, you know, new country, bro country that's out there.

I mean, there's some good pop tunes out there, actually. Nelly did a really good song with Tim McGraw, if you want to talk good, fun pop music. But yeah, so when we started talking about December Jams, I was like, well, this is actually, it's on Merle Haggard's Christmas album, but I don't- That's amazing. But it's not a Christmas song, in my opinion.

It is a December song. It's a December song, and it's appropriate for today. You did a great job, and I love the memories of your grandparents and everything. And I told you I was growing up all I heard was that fucking Kenny Rogers greatest hits and now it's like I have the softest spot

in my heart for that any song on that Kenny Rogers. Yeah Lady for sure. Okay. My last December jam. Are you two folks ready for this one? I didn't want to Hanson this so let's kick it! Let's do it. Kick it. December When there's reason to believe Maybe this year Will be better than

The last I can't remember The last thing That you said As you were leaving All days go by So fast But it's one more day up in the canyon

And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think that I could be forgiven I wish you would. Na, na, na, na. Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, the December Jam.

This is a long December by Counting Crows. Yeah. By the way, on the live chat, VP of Sales says, Cham 820 in Hamilton, West Country. Thank you. Aha, Cham. That's right, C-H-A-M. Which is funny 820 for a while, and Humble and Fred wanted to run it or something.

Well, they had a morning show there until they were told to get off that station. Okay. And now we're a podcast like we should be. Okay. And now we're a podcast like we should be. Okay. So, this was ineligible. It's kind of fun

when you look at Billboard Hot 100 facts and you learn, okay, there was a rule for a long time that if you didn't release your song as a physical single,

you were not eligible to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Along December, it never came out as a physical single, therefore was ineligible to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard's useless.

Billboard's useless. Well, now it's really useless with the streaming. Well, yeah, exactly. They did not change the times, as it were. Who here can tell me what actress appeared in the video for A Long December? Courtney Cox, wasn't it? No. He was screwing her.

Oh, Bobby, watch your language. No, I cannot tell you the actress, but I can tell you do your thing and then I have a thought. Well, you're correct. And he was screwing her. I'm sure they were also friends. I don't know the personal details,

but she appeared in the video for A Long December, Courtney Cox. Ironically, dancing like she did in Dancing in the Dark video. No, I'm kidding. Courtney Cox was in it. There you go. Two videos for her. I'll bring it down for a moment to say that, can you name another video that featured Courtney Cox?

Oh, Jesus. Oh, my God, no. It is Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen. Okay, so I know I went quickly off of Counting Crows, and that's a pretty good jam in long December. I think it might be my favorite Counting Crows song, to be honest, but I'm not a huge Counting Crows guy. But, Rob Pruce, what do you think of the Counting Crows, and that's a pretty good jam in long December. I think it might be my favorite Counting Crows song, to be honest, but I'm not a huge Counting Crows guy.

But Rob Pruce, what do you think of the Counting Crows? Nothing at all. First thing I always think of is this dude, singer with his dreadlocks. Yeah, that didn't age well. Adam Duritz, yeah. Actually, my ex-sister-in-law had a photograph that was used on the cover of one of their albums, and I just flashed it into my head, and I don't remember which album it is, but I think that it was like a front or back cover of one of their albums in the late nineties.

So that's all I think of with them. Yeah. I always think of that terrible, I mean, in my opinion, cause you can't, you know, subjective art and all that stuff. But, uh, the cover of, uh of the Joni Mitchell song, right? Oh, Big Yellow Taxi with Vanessa. Oh, yes. Whatever her name is who did A Thousand Miles.

She's also on it. Vanessa Carlton is also a voice on that. Vanessa Carlton's on that too. I always, when it came out, I was thinking. Kansas CanCon. Does it? Okay. Oh, yeah.

It's CanCon. See, Bob's an expert on what's CanCon. We've done episodes about it. I kicked out a jam of songs. You didn't know we're CanCon. Yeah, yeah. That's on what's CanCon. We've done episodes about it. I kicked out a jam of songs you didn't know were CanCon. So I always hated that cover. It's almost as bad as when Madonna covered American Pie, which I thought was a terrible cover

as well, but we should do worse covers or whatever. Okay, I digress. Bruce Springsteen, and I've dropped this fact on Pandemic Fridays many times, but you guys are not from there. This is for you. He's never hit number one as a singer.

In the history of the Billboard Hot 100, there's no Bruce Springsteen song songs where he gets number one. He did write a song that went to number one. Does anyone have a guess as to what that song was? Pink Cadillac. That's a good guess. Or Blinded by the Light.

That's it. By Manfred Mann. Blinded by the Light. That's it. By Manfred Mann. Blinded by the Light is the Bruce Springsteen penned song that went to number one. But this is the actual... This song we're listening to right now is the highest ranking Bruce Springsteen song on the Billboard Hot 100. Wow.

It went to number two. What kept it out? That's a great... Bob, you might just get the Cam Gordon spot permanently because that's how great you're doing. So I thought it would be fun if I kicked out a couple of the songs because two songs kept Dancing in the Dark out of number one. This is the biggest selling single of Bruce Springsteen's career. So I'm going to kick out this first song because the gentleman behind this song worked with Rob Pruce. And I'm going to kick out this first song because the gentleman behind this song

worked with Rob Pruce, and I'm hoping Rob could tell us a little more detail about this legend. But here's a jam that kept Dancing in the Dark out of the number one spot. I knew that's what it was going to be. Ha ha ha. I'll be dropping this one at the El Macombo.

I'll bet you will. Number one jam. You've got your father's time But I'm dancing on the valentine I tell you somebody's fooling around With my chances on the danger line I'll cross that bridge when I find it Another day to make my stand

Oh, oh High time is no time for deciding If I should find a helping hand Oh, oh Why don't you use it? Try not to bruise it. Buy time, don't lose it. Why, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What, what?

What, what? What, what? What, what? What, what? It's coming, it's coming everybody You're really Nothing to say But it works Here it comes Oh my god Hold on Here comes Niall

Oh my god Wait here it comes Not the radio edit Oh not yet Here comes Niall. It's not the radio at it. Hold on. Here it comes.

It's worth the wait. Here it comes. And then I got questions. Okay, this is Niall. Here it comes. Yeah, that's Niall. Okay. I know Rob knows where I'm going with this,

but of course, if you got Seven and the Ragged Tiger as I did, the version is boring compared to the one you heard on 680 CFTR. Okay? Oh, yeah. I wanted the version from 680 CFTR. This, of course, is a remix by Niles Rodgers. Rodgers with an S, right?

Niles Rodgers. One Nile and multiple Rodgers. Niles Rodgers. One Nile and multiple Rodgers. Nile Rodgers. I got to get that right. Okay. Rob, have you ever worked with Nile Rodgers? A couple of times, yeah. Tell me about your experience working with Nile Rodgers. You took this song, which was great on Seven and the Ragged Tiger,

and made it next level number one smash totally and he was experimenting like this song was a real experiment for him in terms of using a lot of modern technology at the time with sampling devices and and like like modules that would like like repeat things and like do all you know playback stuff and i think nile was so good with using the technology of the time this song was him sort of experimenting with some sampling stuff with with with the voices and the instruments and layering different elements so he took the original duran duran track and he basically stripped it down and then built it back up but like it's just to me it's one of the oh yeah coolest things he ever did

for sure and he stuck his voice in there too. I was hoping you were going to play that version that's now going, somebody's fooling around. That's him. He's fucking around. Yeah, it's tough. You know, there's so many versions out there. When I grabbed one, I thought I was getting, actually I thought I was getting the radio remix that Niall Rogers did.

This is the extended remix. It's like when I grab Nova Heart, I always grab that 12 minute version or whatever the hell This is the extended remix. It's like when I grab Nova Heart, I always grab that like 12-minute version or whatever the hell it is. 12-inch, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The long 12-inch. Okay.

So, Nile Rodgers. Oh, yeah. So, I'm just watching my file. It's like it's going again. Yeah. We did the same thing when we worked with him. We did the song Tell No Lies and did like a long

extended version I love Tell No Lies it was similar it was similar in a way that we sort of took the bare bones of the song and just mixed it up and edited it

and cut it and moved it all around like that so we love Nile Rodgers I love that you worked with Nile Rodgers and Bob and I we're going to break dance

to this song later pop and lock. Get out the cardboard. Put down the cardboard. Okay. I had a routine to this jam. Okay. But this is not the only song that blocked Bruce from the number one spot in the Billboard Hot 100.

So one more jam. Oh, wow. Wow. Look at these juggernauts keeping Bruce out of the number one spot. Wow. Wow. This is my favorite Prince song, by the way. Fun fact.

Interesting. Thank you. The heat between me and you I just need you standing Alone in a world that's so cold Maybe I'm just too demanding Maybe I'm just like my father Too bold, maybe I'm just like my mother She's never satisfied Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like When the doves cry

Okay, shout out to Millhouse Van Houten. This is When Doves Cry by Prince and the Revolution. To either of you, and if anything you want to say about the mighty prince, shout out to Ridley Funeral Home, and this fantastic jam that blocked Bruce from the number one spot? Summer of 84? Yeah.

Yes, because it's 84, 85. I get those. Yeah. Oh, this is definitely summer. This is, again, one of those songs. When does Born in the USA come out? 84, 85. Yeah. You're too young. You does Born in the USA come out? 84, 85. Yeah.

You're too young. You're too young. Can you imagine? I will not imagine. I know because my dad was DJing at the time and listening to the radio. Like, pop music in 84? Ridiculous. Hall & Oates, Tina Turner, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Kiss, Prince.

It's just ridiculous how it was a golden era for pop music. It was just amazing. I wanted to ask... Sorry, go ahead. This is one of those songs, like in my memory of the summer, spring of 84, was lying outside in the backyard of my parents. I was trying to get a tan because we were like, you know, in the spoons era, probably making videos

or getting ready to go back on the road or whatever. And listening probably to TKkoc and they said this is this is the new single from prince and hearing when doves cry for the first time lying outside in the backyard wow and like just freaking out like what the hell is going on there's no bass guitar on this song and and to be in that moment at that time hearing it for the first time like that's i mean i'm sure you guys had that same feeling with a song where you know where you were the first time you heard a song because it stops you in your tracks and it happens to all of us at different times but it's the same feeling because we know what that feels like well being in the spoons doesn't that just entail you lying in the backyard in burlington trying to

get your hair to grow yeah or trying to like get the dot get the highlights to like sink in I think I would have been great I can do that

now that I've lost the pigmentation it would be ridiculous but back when I was younger and I had pigmentation I had very thick hair that would kind of go up and I would

be right in I know you did I know you did I've seen you on Toronto Rocks GD Roberts oh yeah listen the stories that Rob John Major man fit right in. I know you did. I know you did. I've seen you on Toronto Rocks. JD Roberts? Oh, yeah. Listen, the story is that John Major, man. John Major.

Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. That's right. Lost that man too young. Bob, any Prince thoughts before we say farewell? You know what? What can you say about Prince that hasn't already been said? He's ridiculous. His entire catalog is insane. I did want to say something about Duran Duran, going back to Duran Duran quickly.

I think people forget, I mean, at least Navari, how massive Duran Duran was. They were the Beatles of the 80s. They were the biggest band, and this is not my theory. I didn't come up with this. They were the biggest band in the world until Live Aid, and they booted A View to a Kill, and U2 had opened the day, and U2 killed that stage that day. biggest band in the world until Live Aid. And they booted a view to a kill. And U2 had opened the day. And U2 killed that stage that day.

And Duran Duran was horrible that day. If you go back and watch it. I mean, they didn't have a good day. Let's put it that way. And U2 killed it. Again, this isn't necessarily my theory. I've heard it a few different times. But that was the pass off of the torch from Duran Duran to U2 as the biggest band in the world.

Unless we forget there was the Troubles in the band, right? Because then you had Arcadia and the Power Station. That's like four or five years later. Well, Arcadia would have been like 88 maybe. When's Wild Boys? Can you help me out?

Wild Boys was like 85, 86. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, okay. And Arcadia was around the same time. I think that Arcadia happened at the same time as Power Station. Remember, Bob, I'm older than you. I remember this. You got a year on me.

I'm older than you. I remember it even better. Rob Pruce remembers everything. Gentlemen, okay, we cannot and we will not strive to replace. I need to be clear about this. Stu Stone and Cam Gordon. No. I didn't tell them, guys, you're out.

I'm replacing you with the great Bob Ouellette and the great Rob Bruce. No. They made a decision to pause for a little bit. I've decided to keep it going in the interim. They're welcome back the minute they're welcome back. Maybe I'll have to do one kind of a crossover episode when we pass the baton. Have you ever had four people?

I would have to do it to pass it back. But I will say, so Stu Stone, we love you, man. Bandits available now on Hollywood Suites. Have you seen it yet, Rob? Not yet. I'm looking for it. I'm trying to find a way to find it. Yes.

Okay, now I'm going to embarrass Mr. Bob with it. Bob, have you seen Bandits yet? I've seen the trailer several times. Okay, you've got homework. You've got homework, okay? It stars the great Jane Arden. I know, I know. Okay, so we're all going to watch Bandits numerous times.

Write David Kynes and tell him how much you loved it. Cam Gordon, we love you. Can't wait to get you back on toes. But I want to say sincerely, I couldn't have found two better coys and dances than Rob Pruce. What a wonderful FOTM. Thank you, Rob. Thank you. to say sincerely i couldn't have found like two better coys and dances than rob pruse what a wonderful fotm thank you rob thank you thank you for asking it's an honor to even be considered as a pleasure to kind of meet you rob even though we don't really see you too you know what don't

leave the zoom because i'll do the music and we'll finish up and then i want to change the camera so you can see bob willettette. Cool. Alright. Nice. Bob Ouellette, though, what a pleasure it is to have you back on the program. You're a good FOTM yourself, buddy. Thanks, man. And you are getting a lasagna. Oh, you know what? I got so excited by all these jams. I didn't do

some of my homework, so I'll do it very quickly. Very quickly. Yes, we are open. Go to Yes, We Are Open podcast and subscribe. That's the great FOTM. do some of my homework so I'll do it very quickly very quickly yes we are open go to yes we are open podcast and subscribe that's the great FOTM Al Grego hosting a Moneris podcast he's been traveling the country interviewing small businesses and what they've learned and it's really

insightful human interest stuff it's very well produced good job Al everybody listen to yes we are open the advantaged investor from Raymond James Canada that's hosted by Chris Cooksey. Make sure you subscribe and listen to that. I already shouted out Ridley Funeral Home, but I am recording

tomorrow. We're going to kick out Brad Jones' three favorite Christmas songs of all time and talk about it. That'll be the next episode of Life's Undertaking. And last but not least, we have a keyboardist on this Zoom, but of course,

the drummer for The Watchmen is Sammy Cohn. And if you have any questions whatsoever about real estate, you need to, yeah, the award-winning Yes, We Are Open podcast. My mistake, everybody.

Thank you, YYZ, for correcting me. But right, Sammy Cohn. You have a question about drumming or real estate. He's Sammy.Cohn, K-O-H-N at properlyhomes.ca. Any last words, Rob,

before I say goodbye to the FOTM? I wish you all the best for the end of the year and I look forward to more of our get-togethers in 2023 and Bob, you as well. Yeah, yeah, for sure. We're going to get you in the basement for sure. Yeah. Can we afford that flight? I don don't know is that in the budget here

where are you in Brooklyn or Manhattan where are you I'm in Queens actually nice very cool but I'll be in Toronto lots next year I've got some shows coming up in the new year and so I'll be up I'll get you back here yep and that here's Stu Stone

in my mind and that brings us to the end of our 1173rd show you can follow me on Twitter I'm at Toronto Mike Bob is at Bob Willett Rob remind me again there's X's in there what is your handle on Twitter

Rob Pruse R-O-B-P-R-E-U-S-S X there's an X at the end that's what I always forget your handle on Twitter? Rob Pruse, R-O-B-P-R-E-U-S-S X. X, there's an X at the end. That's what I always forget. At Twitter, yeah. Our friends at

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are at Canna Cabana underscore. And Sammy Cone Real Estate is at Sammy Cone. See you all Thursday for Christmas Crackers Volume 5 with FOTM Hall of Famer. You're going to love it, Rob.

Ed Conroy, a.k.a. Retro Ontario. Yes! ¶¶ ¶¶ Rosie and Gray Yeah the wind is cold But the smell of snow Warms me today And your smile is fine And it's just like mine And it won't go away

Cause everything is Rosie and Gray Well I've kissed you in France And I've kissed you in Spain And I've kissed you in France and I've kissed you in Spain And I've kissed you in places I better not name And I've seen the sun go down on Chaclacour But I like it much better going down on you Yeah, you know that's true

Because everything is coming up rosy and green. Yeah, the wind is cold, but the smell of snow warms us today. And your smile is fine, and it's just like mine. And it won't go away. Because everything is rosy now. Everything is rosy, yeah. ¶¶ Music Music Music Music