Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - #TOAST41: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1699

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

In this 1699th episode of Toronto Mike'd, and 41st episode of Toast, Mike is joined by Rob Preuss and Bob Willette as they kick out jams they don't think the average FOTM knows is actually a cover. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball, Yes We Are Open, Nick Ainis and RecycleMyElectronics.ca. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail]

I wanna rock the mic. There we go. Hey, do you rap, Rob? I do. No, I don't. Are you kidding? I can do a fake, I can present. I'm on the bass and I came to get down.

All right, here we go. Okay. Okay. Just toast. I'm gonna think about it, so. F-O-T-M's, do you know what time it is? It's two,

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Corp Construction Management Inc. and Ridley Funeral Home, pillars of the community since 1921. Joining me today for this 41st episode of Toast, it's Bob Willett. Hello. And Rob Pruse. You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, don't bring me down.

Pruse. Did you guys feel like it was a longer gap between the last toast and this toast? I think so, yeah. I did. I felt like I was missing it a couple of weeks ago. I did too. And I checked my calendar, did we fuck up?

Did we miss a month? But this is our May toast recording. I think last month we were like more in the middle of the month. Yeah. And now we're closer to the end of the month. And that's. That'll do it.

That'll do it. And we could do like an early June and just be back next week. Exactly, exactly. See you on the weekend. Now, I wanna say a happy birthday to a valued FOTM who is very excited because today is the day he turns the big 6-0. Midtown Gord is 60 everybody. Happy birthday Midtown Gord. So happy birthday from the greatest keyboardist

Spoons ever had. From all of us to all of you and indy88's own bob will let who's going to open up this episode of toast i have some stuff i want to get to but i first want to hear the the great voice of bob will let because he has a story to tell us okay ready rob hit it are you talking about my trip yeah there's a car involved. Oh yeah. So, so a while ago when Pearl Jam announced their their spring tour, I had bought tickets to go see them in Pittsburgh over the Victoria Day weekend. So that's fine. My wife and I were gonna go. We're gonna go to the Andy Warhol Museums there and it was remember this. Yes, I remember we say he was going into enemy territory. Yes. And

then a couple of weeks before that, my buddy, my Pearl Jam buddy, Mark Pearl Jam buddy, Mark calls me and says, Hey, I got, I got front row tickets, like side stage, but I got front row tickets to Pearl Jam in Nashville. He goes, do you want to go? And I'm like, yes, yes, I do. So, uh, we decided that we were going to drive down. Uh, I was on in 88 on the Monday night. The show's Tuesday. We're going to drive twelve hours straight overnight and my buddy doesn't drive. I he's yeah, but we stopped in Ohio. Anyways, we stopped his wife on this trip. No, no, no.

This is just this is Pearl Jam buddy, Mark and me and we get down. Anyways, long story short, the beginning part of the story we get across the border. No problem. We get to the we get to Nashville, no problem. Go to Broadway, check it out, check out all the bars, go to a honky tonk and go to Bon Jovi's place. Cause his wife loves Bon Jovi and like every bar there has somebody attached to it. Anyhow. So we go and we see the show was terrific side stage side. Yeah.

Like you're like, right. Yeah. Really good seats. Wow. And, um, they opened as a Pearl Jam fan. You know what, what they opened with is a very big thing because they, they have, can I guess, uh, yeah, you can order. No, they won't. You won't guess it. That's the problem. They opened with indifference, which they never open with. So that was kind of neat. Anyways, we saw the show next day. We're driving home. We got, we're going to go straight through. We're coming just north of Cincinnati and I'm on the I 75 and my car decides all the flight. All the lights start flashing. Yeah. It's like four in the afternoon on a, on a Wednesday. All the lights start flashing. I lose my power steering on the I 75. I cranked the car over. I end up, I park in a kind of car as it's a good car. It's an Acura. Okay. And like it's, but it years old. Yeah. It's 10 years old with like over 200,000 kilometers on it.

Wow. I had just had it. I just got into a car accident with it though, and had it repaired and everything was fine. I thought they were going to write it off. Anyhow, end up. So now we're like, okay, it's five o'clock. I have CAA. So AAA comes out.

They were terrific. It was saving me a lot of money. They came out. They boosted the car. They said the battery is fine. It's the alternator. We're pretty sure it's the alternator. Okay. So I find a garage that's open till 8 PM. I find one, I called them up. They're like, yeah, we will, we were probably not be able to fix it tonight. I'm like, yeah, I figured as much. So we go, we go the guy, we actually drive it there because we keep the guy, the CA or the AAA guys

behind us, we drive it there slowly. Uh slowly the garage moved and they didn't update their Google just add to the drama what yeah and anyways we end up finding finally getting it to the place we get a towed to the place end up spending time in Sharonville Ohio more so than I ever wanted and turned out yeah alternator and then also the transmission cooler needed to be replaced. Took two days to get the part the second, not the alternator, but the second, the transmission cooler over there for two days. I was there in Sharonville. So we walked to target. That was five kilometer walk. We're the only people walking anywhere. I will

say, I will say this. There were two cool things in the, in Sharonville. One is an amazing arcade that like they have like a rig where they actually live stream their pinball like playing it's amazing. It's 10 bucks. All you can play. It was really great. And then we went to an amazing barbecue, like a, like a shop. We were the only white people in there. As soon as you walk in, the woman's miss, misty, misty, and she's like, nice to see you again. And'm like I know we all look alike but we're the only way regular or the only white dudes it was good it was terrific it was the food was amazing the service was amazing and then yeah so I ended up spending an extra two days in state

spending it was a $1,500 American to get the car fixed and worse could have been worse wasn't yeah you bracing yourself? I was fifteen to fifteen. Wasn't so bad. And then the other part of the story that's kind of interesting was coming back. I told this on in the eighty eight coming back into Canada. Now I had a couple things. I bought my mom a carton of smokes and I go, you know, and I bought I had one bottle of bourbon from Nashville and but nothing. We were there for a few days, so it didn't really matter. We lovely French Canadian guy at the border.

He comes out and he slaps this yellow yellow piece of paper and he's like, uh, he's, I'm very sorry. He's like, it's just random, but you need to go over there and we got detained at the border. Oh yeah. We had to at the Canadian border coming in. They can't take us out of the car. They separate us. They, oh yeah, they, they start questioning us about everything. They're going through the car. We have to leave our phones in the car. They take our license. The Canadian guys, the Canadian guys are doing this. And as we're doing, I'm less like, okay, this is interesting. They're not looking.

This is not about the tariffs. This is about, they're asking about a bear spray. Um, like nun chucks weapons. No, I did not. Cause you usually get it delivered. Of course. Well, yeah, exactly. So they, but as we're doing this and it's like in this, you know, we're, we're crossing in Detroit where the ambassador bridge, uh, there's a couple, this is this, these, these two women are together as a couple. One has an elbows up t-shirt. They're clearly Canadian. One of them is not happy with what's happening and they start lipping off and

right next to us, these two women get like aggressively arrested right next to us like roll on. Yeah, like full on like handcuffs, the whole part of the story was good with the broken down car. This is just like another level. Yeah, I know it took it to another level. Yeah. So that was uh yeah. So that was my first time taking any time off at Indy 88 since I've been doing six days a week and that's what I ended up doing. So I ended up selling my, I did not go to see them in Pittsburgh because it was just too much money. Yeah. So off we went to that was that was my, uh, that was my, my

little trip. It was fun. Um, I will say that, uh, the show was really good. Uh, my car now, so here's the thing. What happened was the damage that happened on the car was likely related to the car accident that I was in. So I'm actually working with my insurance to get some of the money back because because I've seen a photo of your car being towed away in your trot. Yes, twice now. Yes. So once. Yeah. So what happened was, yeah. So anyway, so I'm in the process of getting things, get a bicycle. I do have a bicycle. I'm actually go. Yeah. My kid just got a bike.

My my my youngest just turned 10 and she got herself her firsthand break. The same age. Our youngest. Yeah. I don't know if I clued into that. OK, are you going to start recording the episode now? OK, can you turn my mic up a little bit? Your headphones or maybe just my headphones?

Yeah. Of course I can do that. If I can figure out which. Oh yeah. And Bob likes it. I always like it. Oh, there it is. Is that OK? Yeah. So that's you. Yeah. Yeah. Of course I can do that. If I can figure out which, oh yeah. And Bob likes it higher too. I always like it. Oh, there it is. Is that okay? Yeah, that's great.

So that's you, remember that. Yeah, that's fantastic. So anyway, that was my story. Oh my God. I didn't mean to take up so much of the beginning, but that was, that's the, that's the truncated version. That was nearly Kevin Shea at TMLX story size.

Oh, get out of here. Actually, he went 22 minutes. I know he did. And Bob only went 10 minutes. So take, take back those words. It's a good story though. That was not 10 minutes. No. I have to extract the intro from that 10 minutes. So I wanted that story though, because I had a taste. Remember I texted you and said,

I'm on the air today and I can't remember why, but I was hanging around Liberty village. Yes. That's right. And you're like, no, I'm stuck in Ohio or whatever. That's right. Okay. So you're not on the air. I know that's what I said. Okay. So glad it all worked out. You're back on the good side of the border and you're looking good Thank you. You look trim like you you're less belly like far less far less belly Yeah, and I'm wearing a this actually this is from target. I sure it's a nice show It's funny my my cousins made fun of me on the weekend. Is there anything under it? No, cuz it's got it's like Yeah, it's like we can see your shame. It's like crocheted

Yeah, exactly, I thought you guys might enjoy that. Rob Bruce. How the hell are you doing? I'm good. It's my wife's birthday today too. Oh, another birthday. I'm 26 and I have become friends on Facebook and we've been talking quite a bit. Yeah. You nervous about that? Not at all. She's very excited to meet Bob. She's lovely. But yeah, are you married to Midtown Gord? That's what people are wondering. Oh yeah, that's true. May 26th. It's a good day for birthday. There's lots of good. I mean, my wife is an FOT yet when she's lovely. But yeah. Are you married to Midtown Gord? That's what people are wondering. Oh yeah, that's true. May 26th, it's a good day for a birthday.

There's lots of good, I mean, my wife is an FOT, when she's not a FOT. She's an FOTM listener. Has she ever heard an episode of Toronto Miked? All the time she listens. She tunes into the live streams. Oh yeah, no, she does, absolutely. What's her name?

Her name is Leia. Leia, okay, so happy birthday Leia. Like Princess Leia? Like Princess Leia. I mean, it really, her family calls her Leah. She turned it into- Was she born after 77? She was born in 77.

Oh, so she's almost same age as me almost. This month, I know. What month? Today. And the funny thing with the Leah connection- She could have been named after Princess Leah. Star Wars opened May 25th, 1977. She was born May 26th, 1977.

Rob, she was absolutely named after Princess Leah. She did it herself. She had an AOL account and her AOL was like Princess Leia. So she started the pronunciation. Is it on her birth certificate? Does it say Leia? No, it's L-E-A-H. Okay.

It's not L-E-I-A. You blew it all up, buddy. Okay. I have breaking news too. Okay, let's hear it. I'm going back to Broadway this summer. Really? Okay.

This is exciting. Tell us more info. I'm going to be playing Mamma Mia, the show that I did a thousand years ago, and it's coming back to Broadway for just six months. Wow. I'm going to be in the band. Congratulations. Excited about that. I am excited. I'm excited because I'm going to be just in the band. I'm actually not director or director. A friend of mine who we did Mama Mia together on Broadway all those years ago, he's in charge of the,

it's the touring production, but it's coming to New York just to sit down for six months. And he's like, we need a keyword player if you want to come sit in. I'm like, yes! Amazing! That's so fun. Starts at the end of July and runs until like February.

Oh, see, now next summer my daughter turns 16 and I turn 50 next year. We were gonna come, we were gonna go to Broadway together. Come down anyways. Maybe we'll come down. It won't be there, but you'll see something else. No, no, no, but we might, maybe we'll come down and see Broadway together. Come down anyways. Maybe we'll come down. It won't be there but you'll see some. No, no, no, but we might maybe we'll come down and see Mama Mia.

Come for Christmas. Yeah. Exciting news from Rob Chris. Although you're not allowed to cross the border. That's is that still a thing? Like we're still boycotting. Well, you live, well, Bob is just there. I know Bob is there.

I was the Canadian border that gave me the hard time. That is the weirdest thing ever. Hey, East York John is on the live stream, live.tronymike.com. I wanted to introduce the topic of toast and then go in a little detour and then get back to it. But East York John is wondering, which pinball tables did you plan?

There were like, so there's a new pulp fiction pinball machine. It's at $8,000 American to buy it. I've looked into it. It's so much fun. And they had that there. So I break your concentration. Yes, exactly that. And it's very, actually very hard. Um, I'll find the name of this place East

York, John, because it was the most diverse collection of pinball machines from all the way back to the sixties to current. It was amazing. And there was like, so there was the, the main group where you could pay 10 bucks and pay unlimited, but then there was the elite ones that you had to pay and they're all actual pinball machines, actual pinball machines. And then they also had arcade machines. Yes. Moose grumpy says you posted pictures of white castle during your Ohio pit stop and she was jealous of that. Yep. That was our first night.

That was Wednesday night. We watched the hockey game in our room and got white castle. Uh, we also, uh, I, if you want to know my opinion on Bob Evans versus waffle house versus cracker barrel, I can give you that. We, uh, if you want to know my opinion on Bob Evans versus Waffle House versus Cracker Barrel, I can give you that. We did the tour of those places too. They charge 50 cents an egg right now because of the avian bird flu. Yeah. Yeah. At a Waffle House, it's 50 cents an egg extra on top of them.

Okay. Quick, uh, for one year off and on, people have sent me this audio and asked me if I know who's singing. Oh yeah. Okay. And I know I went through this with you like a year ago, Rob. Yeah. I'm sure Bob's heard it, but this is having a resurgence like somebody else has brought

it up. And I, by the way, I've talked to Ivor Hamilton and Scott Turner and people who might know from CFNY. So I just want to play a little bit of this song. They're calling it CIA. I don't know where that title comes from. But just listen for a moment and tell me if you have any clue who the artist might be. Rob, I'm starting with you since you were keyboardist for The Spoons. What era do you think we're talking here?

Is this mid-80s? What is this? I don't have answers I'm actually curious it doesn't I mean it actually reminds me a little bit of a band in the 2000s called Midlake as well which was like a 2000 apparently it was recorded from CFNY in the eight I know people say that who knows like okay this sounds to me like a like a mid to early eighties, like a ball house kind of sound, a little bit of a

Bella Lugosi is dead kind of a Peter Murphy vocals there, but I would say like could this not be like this could be images in vogue like it could be like I don't know. It's got like that. I don't when why do they assume it's a Canadian band because they don't see it why yeah and if that's so someone recorded it off CF and why yeah as Dave Marsden heard it I don't know back a year ago when somebody first came to me I know I sent it to the obvious the usual suspects I'm sure David Marsden Scott Turner heard it's

all you know the thing is I've heard for sure CF and why used to have all their talent contests and things and people said they did good recordings. This could have been just some band. Not a great recording either. Like the quality's not great. Yeah. So I want to get it out there.

So just so we do this now, I promise I do it. So if anyone listening knows who this is, Mike at torontomike.com. If anyone on the live stream knows what we're listening to, obviously please tell us. It's been a year this mystery crazy It's probably like some homebrew. Is it vampire beach babes? Do you know them? They're from the 90s. They're from the 90s Hearing this part So I have no idea.

No. We're listening to. All right. So there you go. If you know, let us know and then we'll let the world know and this mystery will be solved. Hey, I wanted to... Perfect harmony, perfect harmony. I like to buy the world a coke, and keep it company. And the real deal, I like to teach the world to sing the wrong thing.

Perfect harmony. I'm older than Bob O'Lett, so I'm going to ask you, Rob, do you remember seeing this ad on television? I remember when there was a Christmas version of it, yeah. That was a redo, right? Yeah. OK so oh yeah I'm not gonna teach the world to sing and buy them a Coke or whatever but I have a Great Lakes in my hand so Bob what do you got there I got the por favor refrigerate out now the dos laves logger Mexicana okay so Mexican lager crack that bad boy open

sorry okay so good morning to you gentlemen here. So why am I playing that? Okay. Oh, it's more of a dosa ques kind of. You need a lemon. Give us a review, because normally I give you the premium lager, but that's a Mexican lager.

It's not a Corona ripoff. It is more of a Modelo flavor. If you're going to go Mexican beer flavors, it's got more body than a Corona. Don Draper, has everybody in this room seen Mad Men? Yes. Currently watching it. Are you? What's he's doing?

Two. So lucky. We're jealous of you. Are you really? Are you not enjoying it? I'm loving it. Well yesterday in the not so secret WhatsApp group for FOTM, I declared it my fourth favorite

show of all time. I love that show. I've seen it multiple times. I'm really enjoying it. I don't know. I won't spoil it. Okay. Don't spoil it.

So I won't say any more about Mad Men and that. Okay. I won't spoil it. That's the worst. Anyways, go ahead. See, I don't even know. No, you won't. Pretend I didn't bring up Mad Men. Can you do that, Rob? Yeah. I am really enjoying it. That's a top three show for me, I don't even know. No, you won't. Pretend you won't until, yeah, it's fine. Pretend I didn't bring up Mad Men.

Can you do that, Rob? Yeah, I am really enjoying it. That's a top three show for me, I think. Yeah, well, we're in the same. One of the greatest shows ever. You guys, yesterday, were giving your top five shows of all time lists. I'm like, what kind of people?

Somebody asked. Why do you have such good taste? And you're so all serious. My top five shows are Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, and fun shows. And you've got all these serious, like The Wire and ba-da-ba-da-ba-da. Yeah, well, we like what we like.

I know you do. You like Shlopp. I really do. More on that in a moment, by the way. I sure do. I like Shlopp too, but I mean, I'll be honest, one of my favorite shows that's never listed is MASH. MASH would be on.

Oh yeah, but that's not Slopp. No, it's not. But it's from the era of Slopp. But it's not Slopp. No, I know it's true. Have you ever, so there's obviously there's a, there's a trend on Tik TOK in different places for people watching, going back and watching things.

Yeah. So there was a couple of guys watching the very first, the pilot episode of mash. Oh wow. And just how racist it is and how misogynistic it is. Like Hawkeye's practically raping the nurses. It's crazy. Based on the Robert Altman films.

It's sort of like how the office in America was really like the British office and then it found its own kind of tone and voice or whatever. That's right. Yeah, by the way, Robert Altman said his son who wrote the lyrics to Suicide Is Painless made more money from mash than he did.

Wow. Oh my God. John Ham's in a really good show right now called Friends and Neighbors on Apple TV. It's quite good. I love John Ham. So again, we're not gonna connect Mad Men to that ad we just watched.

I have a John Ham fun fact. My wife used to work with him in a restaurant in LA. Did that make you nervous? No, well before he did Mad Men, they were like, they were waiters together. Amazing. Isn't that funny? He's a St. Louis guy, I know this. Your wife was in LA, she did did Mad Men, they were like, they were waiter. They were waiters to go. Amazing. Funny.

That's so great. Louis guy. I know this. He's like your wife, your wife was in LA. She did a, I think she did Joseph in LA. She told me. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, she grew up in LA, but then she was on the road doing shows as well. But yeah, cause my kid just finished her run of how did it go? Yeah. It was very good. It was. Yeah, it was good. She's a, she is, she loves being on the stage. Good for her.

Can't imagine where she gets that from. Before I say another word about that Coca-Cola ad, let's tell the listenership what the theme is for today's toast, which we're gonna get to shortly. I've been thinking about how to word it. So the way I word it is like this. We're kicking out songs. We don't believe the average FOTM listening

knows is actually a cover. So the average listener of Toronto Mic'd doesn't realize the songs we're kicking out are covers, but we're excluded. We've done this on pandemic Fridays, Cam Gordon and Stu Stone and I. So we're excluding anything we kicked out in that episode of pandemic Friday, which I will, when we get to this,

I'll actually read out what we kicked out quickly. And you won't hear those songs, which are like songs you don't know our covers. So like, I can't wait to discuss whether like, does the average listener of this podcast know that's a cover? Right. I think that's the interesting part. Yeah. Yeah. And by cover, you mean a re-recorded version, a song that was already previously recorded and released, not their original release. Cover is a cover. To be discussed To be discussed how you qualify a cover. OK. So this jingle I just played is By the World of Coke,

which a guy whose name is Bill Backer, he worked for McCann Erickson, probably a big firm in New York that Mad Men was based on, right? McCann Erickson there. And they had the Coca-Cola account and they basically they're at an airport in Ireland an airport I've been to which is called Shannon Airport not to be confused of Shannon Sharon Ohio or where the hell Sharon was right okay so basically there's an idea here so I'm going to share a few fun facts about that jingle that you heard

advertising coke. Okay, so firstly I'd like to build the world. This was the radio version Was one of them one of them I remembered on the radio too. Yeah, can you name the band, Rappus? The new Christy Minstrel, sorry, close, very close. The Swingles. The New Seekers. The New Seekers, that's right. Their whole album is really good. So The New Seekers made a song out of a jingle and it was a hit. Played on 1150, right? Yeah, yeah. Totally, 1970. So you're hearing the new seekers They do take the coke out of it by the way, yeah Rob did you hear this song on 1150? Which version is this? The Hillside Singers.

No, but I know of the Hillside Singers from other songs as well. I love this era of cheesy music like this. Early 70s? Yes. It's my childhood. So the New Seekers are a British pop group and they had a hit with this song, which is of course a reworking of the Coca-Cola jingle. And then these are the hilltop singers.

Okay, wait, but the jingle comes first? Yeah, the jingle comes first. And I'm going to blow your mind in a minute where the jingle comes from, okay? And I have the name of the people who wrote it, which is a guy named Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook to Rogers. Yeah. Roger and Roger. Roger that.

Actually, I'm changing that. Fuck that. I got to hit this right. This is very, very important. Very important. Roger Greenaway for sure. Yes, and Roger Cook. I'm going to stand by my initial fun fact delivery there. Okay. So a couple of things, but on our way there because this is primarily a Gen X show, not necessarily. Oh my god. I want to build myself a house out of plasticine

I should build me 90s jam for you though, same damn tune. It really is, isn't it? Absolutely. So the Coca-Cola jingle that inspired the two songs that were hits in the early 70s and of course this Oasis song. Yeah. Amazing. Was based on a song. You ready for this?

Yeah. Do it. I just love you, me, no fancy cars, I'm no celebrity. Just a total down shack in the way out back is good enough for me. All to your house. All right, so Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, they wrote this song called True Love and Apple Pie that was recorded in 1971 by Susan Shirley. Oh, simpler times. I know, and they just took this song they wrote and wrote new lyrics, basically.

That's the history of pop music in those days, though. Back in the 60s as well, if you had a hit with a song, they would say, write another song just like that, and they would just change the word. It's like all the twist versions, all the chubby checkers, right all the twists. I think platinum blonde did that Situation critical and what's the other one? There were two back-to-back big hits on CFTR that were the same song different lyrics here Okay, so there you go. I'd like to buy the world a coke Well, we'd like to buy the world a Great Lakes beer I love when you bring up things like this cuz because like now I'm looking up Roger Greenway

and now my mind is getting blown by the connections that he's got. Well, tell me. Well, he wrote a song called Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress, which was a Holly song. Of course, he wrote that song as well, which to me is super cool. Yeah, you never know who's out there. OK, I love that. Shout out to the new seekers and shout out to the hilltop singers

and anyone who wants to get a hit from that Coca Cola ad. Coke, but they must love it when I mean, they took Coke out of the lyrics, but when that song's played on 1150 and costs Coke nothing, people are thinking of those hillside singers. For sure. Yep. For sure. For sure. It's so cool. You know, I can't believe this version. This is the funniest thing. Like they basically just rewrote the lyrics. Yeah, this was the original. So kind of ties into our theme today. And I have another mind blow here. And then we're going to get to these jams. We don't think people They basically just rewrote the lyrics. Yeah, this was the original. So it kind of ties into our theme today. And I have another mind blow here, and then we're going to get to these jams. We don't think people know our covers.

Okay. So I think this is a mind blow. Could you play this on piano, Rob? Yes, and I have. I love this song. I bet you, you know, would you play it at TMLX 19? If you want, sure. Somebody's got to sing it. My daughter sings. Okay, get her up. She play it at TMLX19? If you want, sure. Somebody's gotta sing it.

My daughter sings. Okay, get her up on the tone. She's singing at Javajos on Friday. Really? So the mind blow and then we're gonna ask Rob a question about the spoons, okay. I heard that your dreams came true So the mind blow, and then we're gonna ask Rob a question about the spoons, okay? The mind blow is, did you know this song by Adele, Someone Like You, is the very first song that is strictly voice and piano?

There's nothing on this song but a voice and a piano. It's the first time a song that's only voice and piano reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Seriously? Really? Yeah. This is the first time. That's amazing.

Isn't it? Yeah, because you, I mean, you could think of a thousand songs with piano and voice. But can you think of one? Yeah, maybe not. Well, if you could then my fun fact would be wrong. Interesting. I know.

So when I heard this fact, hold on, hold on. She comes, Here she comes. It's such a great song. It is a great song and she's a great singer. And I can't wait to hear you play this on piano. So could I just tell the listenership? TMLX 19 is June 26th from six to nine PM at Great Lakes Brewery, which is 30 Queen Elizabeth Boulevard down the street from the Costco in South

Etobicoke. Rob, will you be there? I will be there. Okay. Come and see Rob play someone like you. Okay. Are you providing a keyboard? I'll bring a keyboard. He brings his own keyboard. He did it before. Well, Bob will let be there. I think so. I don't see. Here's the thing. I'm right now. I'm right now. I'm in the process of meeting with the owner of Indie 88 tomorrow to, uh, to kind of solidify what my, my, my regular schedule looks like, because while we've been in ratings,

I've been doing six days a week and been doing a bunch of extra stuff for them. So one of the things that I might have is Thursday nights off. So we'll see. Unbelievable. You could bring back the Thursday 30. Can I make my merch suggestion for you? Oh yeah, please do. Yes. Yes. Yes. Because when I listened, I've listened to you in the last couple of days and they've even got a jingle for you. They got a couple of ideas. It just says, it's Bob. Yeah. Which is what you say.

It's Bob. It's Bob. Why don't you make it's Bob t-shirts? Good. Yeah. We need like a like a what you like a caricature of your face. No, nobody needs that. Yeah, they do.

No, nobody really fun. It would say it's Bob and it would say in the 88. I do say it's Bob. Yeah. No, it's true. Yeah, I like that. It's Bob. Yeah, it's you.

Yeah. Remember, like Bob was a thing in the late 80s, early 90s, like like Bob loves Doritos and all that. And where's Bob. Yeah. Remember like Bob was a thing in the late 80s, early 90s, like Bob loves Doritos and all that. And where's Bob? Yeah. And what's the Richard Dreyfuss, Bill Murray? What about Bob? What about Bob?

Yeah. That's right. It's a good movie. I have a fun fact on this song now, too. Because now you always make the interest to find songwriters. The co-writer of this song is written by Adele and Dan Wilson. You know who Dan Wilson is?

Does the band Semisonic mean anything to you? Of course. They're semi-charm life. No, no. Closing time. Oh yeah. It's all the same. You know what?

Because they both have semi in the name. Did you hear that one time, just recently, the Gin Blossoms played a whole set of Goo Goo Dolls music just to see if anybody noticed? Is it really true? No, it's a joke. Oh! It's a meme. It's becoming difficult. I believe it. It's a differentiate between parody and

reality. We can't tell anymore. Like between what's real and what's not. Somebody posted in the group about a, um, a screen cap of Fox news saying, Oh yeah, Springsteen can't call. It was so clearly. I talked about that on air. I was like, I literally had to Google it because this this did they actually say he can't go to the boss? Yes. Yeah. The chiron was off too. I mean, you know, you shouldn't pass your sniff detector, but okay. No, but next thing you know, there'll be robots making music.

The president of the United States posted a video of him hitting a golf ball and virtually hitting it into a Bruce Bernstein falling down on stage. He posted that. I saw that actually happened. Not that he actually hit him with the golf ball, but he posted the stupid video. We live in interesting times. Okay, end of you know who's gonna feed us at TML X 19. I'm gonna bet there's a right one guess. Does it rhyme with palma pasta correct? Amando. Can I

just say Saturday night after my kids show my cousins who came to see their show see her show with their wives we serve them a we serve them a palm is and they and with out fail across the board all said the best pre-made poss a pre-made lasagna they've ever had no joke Peter Gross agrees yeah they said there's no you couldn't even tell that it was I'm not like I didn't you couldn't even tell That it was a frozen lasagna Len. What's up with Len? Okay, so I had on the show since last year I had not a cover but we'll get there's a sample in there, but Brendan Can't Brendan can all right of broken social see a broken social scene in head and other bands

But he was part of this Len group when this was coming on He was doing DJ stuff. You can hear his voice on the album version of Steal My Sunshine. That's really cool. I'm sorry, Brendan Canning's on this song? That's so cool. In the album cut, this is the radio cut. Wow.

Yeah. So he was in here, we actually, we talked about it because... That's hilarious. He's talking to, there's two guys talking and he's one of the guys talking. But he's claiming, he introduced to Len the sample that makes this song. Because if you take the sample out of this song, it's not the same, right? So I will just have a quick moment to give some props. Let's put it in the background here. Because this song.

Gives us steel my sunshine. Well, this is like it sounds like Scissor Sisters. I'm gonna drink some GLB and then I'm gonna tell you a few things and we're gonna get to our host jam. Ooh, hey look you're there But if you want to know how I really feel Get the camera shot Can you name the artist Rob Pruce? Andrea True Connection. Correct.

More, more, more. Okay, do you know what her day job was? Andrea? No. Bob, do you have a clue what Andrea True's day job was? She worked at Dairy Queen. Did she? No, I don't know.

I just made that up. No, I just made that up. Porno actress. Really? More, more, more. No, I just made that up. Porno actress. Really? More, more, more. You might know her better, Bob, as Ingerkissen, Singelo, Sandra Lips, Andrea Travis, or Katherine Warren.

Well, you know, I am the expert. No, I'm not. Wow. But she had a little parlay into the disco music, and in 1976 she had a hit with this song In a moment will turn it up for the the huge sample that yeah such a great song And so Brandon canning is taking credit for the sample. He was doing DJ work for the crew there and the guy Nori is a part of this story Craig Nori, but he introduces this song to Len And next thing you know, they're sampling

it heavy here. It's coming in a moment here. But this song went to number four on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was a big hit in Hamilton. This song gets stuck in your head. Where I've been going more and more and more for the last few weeks. Wait, here comes hold on. Here comes the trumpet. It's like love boat. I think it's coming gentlemen. Sure it is. After the trumpet solo. Speaking of porno movies.

Here it comes. There it is. There it is. after the Actually, no, we start with Rob. Your names are too similar. Rob Proust. What was it like being in Spoons while Sandy Horn and Gord Depp were breaking up? What was it like? It was fine. Has anyone asked you that before? You were like a child. Well, I was 18. Yeah.

But you know, this is interesting when... Well, we, the band, because there was the four of us, it was always sort of like two camps. It was like Gordon, Sandy, because they were a couple for so long. And then Derek and I, it was like, you don't talk about Derek much. No, he's got to come on this. He's got, he's got, he's never, Derek's never come on. Derek's a really interesting guy. He runs Gary Slate's now like he's, he's, he's in charge of a lot of, a lot of money for artists. He's been an interesting guy for years and years. It's amazing. Did you say money? I'm booking them from, but it was always Gordon with Gary for years and years. It's amazing. Wait, did you say money? I'm booking him from October.

But it was always Gordon, Sandy and Derek and Rob. That was sort of the way the band, sort of the hierarchy kind of came because- Cause they were lovers and you two were lovers. We were lovers, exactly. And we kept that as a couple of fellows. We were lovers and we kept that under covers. But so when they were breaking up,

it got a little bit awkward, but I think they, and they always tell this story now that they decided that the band was more important at that point, like to kind of keep the trajectory happening with- Although I heard, so Sandy Horne's been on Toronto Mike and I met her at your event in Oakville, but she was on Toronto Legends. Yes.

And I heard her talk about how she decided the band was bigger than their relationship. That's what they decided. And I mean, we all knew because, you know, we were all feeling the effects, because we were like, there was a real unit on the road at that time It was the four of us. We had a tour manager. We had like off the crew guys We were in section. We had like all that stuff happening. So this was like a machine that was moving

so as they were breaking up we're like Hang on. We got to just deal with this. This is right. Yeah. Yeah, this is bigger than We would Mac or something. It was a little flea of Mac It's like half a flea of Mac, it's Stevie Nicks birthday today. It is. That's right. Midtown Gord told us this. Also, Lenny Kravitz's birthday.

Lenny Kravitz, fun fact, one year older, maybe two years older, at least one year older than Midtown Gord. Yeah, only one year, that's right. They look like fucking twins. It's unbelievable. Yeah, you're right. Lenny was born in 64.

Unbelievable. Hilarious. Leslie Villians asking, how come we're right. My name is Warren64. Unbelievable. How hilarious. Leslie Villians asking, how come we're not seeing you on camera? I was wondering the same thing. Well, I can show her me if she wants to see me. I'm as good looking as ever. I saw Leslie, she was at TMLX 18,

and that was not that long ago. We had an event at Christie's. Oh, you did, that's right, two weekends ago. Can I tell you the game was actually unplayable yesterday due to field conditions. Cause we got a lot of rain and they have like, it's a pit, I guess. So I don't call pits. Did you know, do you know, I keep seeing pit spelled there it is again. I'll play this team. I know too. I know. It's nice. Don't you steal my sunshine.

Okay. We need some sunshine to dry up, uh, Christie Pitts. I keep seeing Christie Pitts spelled with two T's and pits. It's one T, right? Unless you're Brad. Or the pit. Or the pit. Which actually I like so much the pit.

I started watching on, uh, the, um, Stella secret Canada cab server. I've been watching every night. I watch an episode with my wife. I've been watching ER and I'm in like late in season two. And I watched it in real time in the nineties. I used to watch it with my first wife on a Thursday nights at 10 o'clock. I'm enjoying this like 45 minutes in like 1990s

network drama. Ville of that. It's unbelievable. That's like me watching Mad Men on. I'm watching Mad Men on Stella as well. But at least once in a while, couldn't Mad Men drop a swear? Like once in a while, they didn't swear in the sixties. No, but I feel like they had a rule in AMC because AMC had a breaking bad, the walking dead as well. And I think they had a rule where they could get a swear a year or something like that. Like it's not like HBO where you can swear a hundred times an episode,

but they could do a swear a year ER something like that. Like it's not like HBO where you can swear a hundred times an episode, but they could do a swear a year ER, no swears. Right. No. Although now you can like, wow, I haven't seen, I have not seen a regular on NBC at 10 o'clock in 20 years. Is it NCIS something? Something? I don't know. I bet you can't. Yeah. I don't know. What do I know? Middle America. Okay. Yeah. But I do want to tell everybody great baseball at Christie pits. Come on out. We had snow day a couple of Sundays ago. I was hanging with the snowman. It was fucking wild. It was unbelievable. I had a great time and I urge FOTM is to get their ass to Christie pits. If mother nature cooperates, there's no better place to be. It's free ticket, there's no ticket. And then you can buy a beer, you can drink it. It's legal to drink the beer on the hill

and get a hot dog or something and watch some high caliber baseball. Does that sound like a plan? Sounds like a plan. No, it looks like, yeah, it's a good time. And yesterday was supposed to be against the what? The Hamilton- Rodney, yeah, yes, it was Hamilton.

Yeah, the Cardinals, the Hamilton Cardinals. Yes, but I don't think they played Okay, but they'll be back and you should come out to Christie Pitts and check it out with me Okay, let's get to some fucking toast jams here boys. Any words to say Rob Bruce before your first song? So we're gonna do this. Okay, I'm gonna ask you. Yeah, we're gonna play the hit. Yeah, and Obviously when people hear the hit they'll be like, I guess that's not an original Right because you're gonna and then you're gonna argue basically gonna tell us about it and tell us why you believe the average listener of this podcast thinks that's an original, not a cover.

Hit it. Okay. Hit it. Hit the post you mean? I can talk it up here and tell people, yes, we are open an award winning podcast from Al Grego and Meneris. He's an FOTM. They went to Regina. I could talk it up here and tell people yes, we are open an award-winning podcast from Al Grego and Manaris. He's an FOTM. They went to Regina

I'm gonna get back to the AI. I didn't hit the post. I fucking suck. That's why any 88 won't I don't get a meeting with The owner of Indy 88 brutal She'll be the way I am embarrassed. I watched it happen in real time. Ha But you do I've seen in the 88 setup. There's a countdown clock. I don't have any fucking countdown clock. You don't have a countdown. I don't need one. Okay, we'll cover it up with black tape and see how you do. I'd be fine. With this song?

Yeah. Sure. You just feel it, man. He's the 90s alt rock. Just feel it. Okay, here we go. Ooh, fire Oh, a pointer sisters fire. Rob speak to us. It was a big hit in 1978.

So this is pre jump. Oh yeah. Yeah. Five years before that. So this was them onto the charts. I mean, I think this might've been the first song of theirs that I knew, but a huge hit. I didn't learn until many, many, many, many years later that it was my song. I still don't, I did not know this was a cover.

Alright. There you go. I actually never thought about it. Why? I know because... No, you don't think about it, right? It's not a band I really think about. Right.

It's just they're there and they're good. Exactly. But I've never like owned a CD. No, wait, I think what was what was surprising was that once you realized who wrote the song, it make it made it more interesting because you're like, Oh, I know. You know what? So I know I have the song loaded up. But I know the gentleman you're speaking of who wrote the song.

Like, I know this is like a fun fact in the back of my head. Yeah. But Willie, let's just say have this chat Bob before we play the original Bob. Do you think the average FOTM listening would hear this song and say oh, that's a cover. No, no, this is I think most people would think this is an original point or sister song. I think my I think this passes the sniff test for sure. It goes back to the guy we talked about with the fake Fox News Chiron that said he can't call himself the boss. And I think that there's a list of songs that are big hits written by that guy. And this is one of them. And I think there's an awareness there. But will the average listener know that?

I'm a music person. I do this for a living. I didn't know this was a cover. So no, I don't think so I think the average doesn't know questions Bob and I'm answering but the challenge too though is because the Pointer Sisters didn't really write their songs Anyway, right. So the fact that it was Recorded and released previously it makes it an actual cover. Yeah, there is they would pick songs They might record songs that had never been recorded. They didn't write jump exact jump for my love or whatever They didn't write that but I don't think anybody performed that before that's never been recorded. They didn't write Jump, Jump for My Love or whatever. They didn't write that. But I don't think anybody performed that before that. That's right.

Right. This is a true co- Yeah. So who was the original? Was it- You know what? Play the hit, not the hit. Play the original and then blow our mind as to who the-

Because the original isn't even the writer. Right. That's an important distinction. One more step. Not. What a train wreck you're doing. What the hell are you doing? But you just say no You say you don't like it Good girl, I know you're alive. I did not know about this version because was this the first recorded version He's Elvis fucking president he's a rockabilly singer

His name is Robert Gordon and you might know his name, but not know of him, but he was fairly well known. Any relation to Cam Gordon? Distantly, distantly related. Like if you do, yeah, 23andMe, I think there's in the back. Yeah. What year is this from? 78.

So they're almost, so like not much earlier. This happened a lot back in the day where songs were released at the same time with two different versions. People would use a song. Yeah. And then they'd say, oh my God, that's amazing. And then they would quickly do it. The last time that kind of happened in pop culture was like more like All for One

and John Michael Montgomery that I swear. Yes. Do you remember that? Like the R&B in the country version? Absolutely. That was in the late 90s or mid 90s. It happened with the Coca-Cola jingle we were talking about. Two bands recorded it, had hits in the same time period.

You're really pushing this Coca-Cola jingle today, man. What's up with that? It's called a callback. You learned it in radio school. Cool. No, I didn't go to radio school. You had gone to radio school. I taught radio school.

You got to do callback. If you listen to this version, you can almost guess who the original might be, or who the writer might be. He recorded it, but he sort of copied this. And I think he was inspired by this. So the writer is Bruce Springsteen. So it's not I'm on fire, it's just fire. Exactly.

It all leads to the same place, though, right? So Springsteen wrote this, and it ended up. So how does that happen? How does he write it? He never records it? He never records it. He used to give away a lot of his songs, right? Well, because what happens is when you're a songwriter

and your career is blossoming, you'll have a publisher who will say, give us songs. And then the publisher is trying to sell the songs to artists. Because the night is the biggest song Patty Smith ever had. And that was a year before this even to man went to number one was blinded by the light. Yep. Exactly. So it's that same era of Springsteen. As he was breaking through in his own world, right? He had these, put these cameras. I think I'm all emphatic over here, but you guys can see me. I don't know what character that is. That's my Mark Wise. But,

but Springsteen recorded the song and it came out like, like only 10 years ago. See now that you're saying it, I feel like I actually, somewhere in the back of my mind, that exists probably heard it, but I didn't know. Blinded by the light because the night fire. These are the songs we know are hits for other artists that Bruce Springsteen wrote. But that I like this opening. And I think the average FOTM is learning today that point pointer sisters song was a cover. Were they really sisters? I think two of them were sisters. There were definitely sisters.

I'm not sure about the points. What the point was. Yeah. What's the point of it? Nobody in the Ramones was named Ramone except none of them, but Ramone Ramone. There are no Ramones. This is the mind blow. There were no Ramones and the Ramones. Okay.

Take that to the bank and smoke it or something like that. Okay. So great start Rob Bruce. So we've laid the groundwork here and now I'm telling you this is a banger You ready? Can I dive in or do you want to say something? I just do it. Oh, it's a good one Crackling pop there This is mumbo number five Little bit of Jessica a little bit of Tina. Well, there's a Monica in there. I know, I married one.

One, two, three, four, five, everybody in the car. So come on, let's ride to the liquor store off the corner. The boys say they want some gin and juice, but I really don't wanna. Beer buzz like I had last week. I must stay deep, buzz talk is cheap I like Angela, Pamela, Sandra, and Rita And as I continue, you know they're getting sweeter

So what can I do? I really beg you, my lord Denise, learn this just like a sport Anything's fine, it's all good Let me jump in, please send in the trumpet A little bit of Monica in my life A little bit of Erica by my side a little bit of Erica by my side This is a bop right huge 1999. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He did you know Lou Begg is German No, yeah, you know it that's the fucking right there Lou Begg is Yeah. You know what? That's the fucking mind blow right there. It's a blue bag is German. I did not know that. Yeah. And you know,

this song is good. I think full circle of like, like when it came out, it was so massive, kind of like in that same era of like, like right? Said Fred, I'm too sexy. And like, it was like, it's like a parody song or like, or it's a, that's a satire. So yeah. So, and it got so big and then everybody hated it. I think people love it now. I love it. I actually think people, if you play it at a wedding, people still go nuts for it. Is it like a Macarena adjacent? Yeah, I would say so. I would say- You know what else it makes me think of? Do you remember the song Lucas with the Lid Off?

Of course. I play it whenever Lucas Aionetta comes to the TMLX of Ben Rico. I don't know it. You probably would if you heard it. I would if I heard it. Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablan. I would have heard it. Casablanca vibe, whoa, it's Lucas. Novelty song. That's the word I'm looking for. Novelty song. Not parody. Novelty song. This is a novelty song. Totally. But yeah, so in, yeah, so he releases it in 1999. There's a five minute extended version, a radio edit. Huge, huge hit like all around the world. It actually, did it go to number I went to number two and the billboard hot 100 blocked it you know I don't I didn't I I hear 99 April of 99 is when it was released so it's by how you remind me by

nickel but yeah there you go back someday or something or so this is this is. We could have this is up for a conversation now the original song is by a gentleman by the name of a plant. Yeah, sure is my dama so perez prado from nineteen forty nine and it's called number number five. called Mambo number five. It is. But it's instrumental. Sure. So, so this is what this is with the controversy that I'm inviting. I'm inviting. Does this count as a cover? Because it's the same. It's called Mambo number five. It is the exact same song. It's called Mambo number five. Wow. This is interesting. Although his next jam is more interesting, in my opinion.

But OK. I think it's a cover. But it does all the sounds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen. And he slowed it down a bit, too, right? He slowed it down a little bit. But it is.

Give it a groove. But he never says, a little bit of Monica. So is it a cover, or is it a groove, but he never says a little bit of Monica. So is it a cover or is it a sample? It rides a fine line. I know, right? It's worth the conversation. I think it is a cover. I would say I would accept it. It's great. It's cool. And when you make grunts like that, is it still an instrumental? Well, yeah, that's true. That's a good point. It's a little, it's a little bit like you feel like, like, so I don't know who heard it first. Was it German Lubega? Some, you

know, heard this in the, so I'm going to put these lyrics on top of it and, but it still has the same feel. We have a ruling from the birthday boy. Oh yeah. Lenny Kravitz says, just kidding. It's Midtown Gordon the live stream who says yes, Bob This counts. Oh, here's words but different words Mambo Mambo He's saying five five Sure because because they threw words in here It's called Mambo number five is the both are called the album that this guy did this Perez Prado

It's called a little bit of mambo. I Don't know I think but what's the difference between this and steal my sunshine where they just Because that's just a sample that they repeat over and over for Barth and that's a sample Yes, it's not a sample. I look, I'm up for, uh, for, for, uh, the conversation. That's why I did it on purpose. What do you think? I, I would accept it as a cover because he's got a, he must have given this guy a credit as well as a composer, co-composer of the song. So he's only covering the melody. Of course he had to cover it. Yeah, he's totally got the co-writer. Well, he's added on top of it.

So he took an instrumental, basically wrote the song around the instrumental. But when you hear a modern song and they got an Elton John song going and then it's whatever, D'Aloopa is going into something else or whatever. D'Aloopa. What's her name? Lipp Duppa.

What's her fucking name? Lipp Duppa. Dua Lipa. What did I say? Dua Lipa. What did I say? Dupa. I don't even know what you said. It was amazing.

I call her Lip Dupa. It's like when John Travolta said the chick who sings from. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty good. Okay. But, but, uh, do you know her?

No, you never met. Okay. She has a, she's in that, uh, movie. My daughter, uh, took me to, which I should know this. It's the wizard of Oz movie. Wicked. You're like, how do you know? So, uh, anyway, so I think I did stay for the whole, I think that this, I think it's a cover. Um, I think it's an interesting cup. I think it's a cover because with an interesting angle that he added those

lyrics to it. So it's like an enhanced with an interesting angle that he added those lyrics to it Yeah, so it's like an enhanced cover. It totally is. Yeah. Yeah You know what? I never did I never said what songs are excluded. Oh, yeah I'm just chiming to say if a cover where lyrics are changed is still a cover then why not lyrics being? Added music is just as if not more important than lyrics. Okay. Um, what more time in English? I just can't read it. I get it. My apologies. Uh, I never learned to read. It's my great shame. Okay. I'm going to read these songs that cam Gordon, Stu stone and I kicked out as songs we didn't know were covered.

So it's a little different. So that was songs. I didn't know these recovers. It can't be right. And now we're doing songs. We don't think the average FOTM's a little different. So that was songs I didn't know these were covers. It can't be right and now we're doing songs We don't think the average FOTM knows is a cover so slightly different But I did exclude these songs from today's episode. So we were not allowed to kick out the following songs I'll do this very quickly and I'm doing the originals actually. Okay, so the original the best it wasn't Tina Turner. It was Bonnie Tyler Okay, I've got my mindset on you. That was what I was going to do because I didn't know that it was like a 50s.

I just recently found out that James Ray did it. Okay. Video killed the radio star. That's not a bugle song. That was Bruce Woolley and the camera club. Everybody knows them. All right. Ready for this? The crying game. I'm a cover boy. George, not boy. George. It was a guy named Dave Barry. Okay.

Love buzz. This is a Nirvana song. It was actually shocking blue angel of the morning was originally by an artist named Evie Sands. Okay. Saving all my love for you is not a Whitney Houston song. It was by a close Marilyn McCue and Billy Davis. Oh, a little solid gold action. Yeah. Whitney Houston song by close Marilyn McCue and Billy Davis.

Oh, a little solid gold action. Yeah. Mamas and Papas, you're covering California dreamin. That's not your jam. That actually belonged to adjacent artist, Barry McGuire. Oh, Eve of destruction. Right. Watch I still dig Eve of a destruction.

Absolutely. Gloria was actually by Umberto Tosi. It's an Italian song. Right. I knew that. What A Man is not a original song by En Vogue. It is Linda Lindell. Never Ending Story.

It's a never ending story. That's a cover. Lee Moll. Right, Lee Moll. He's got it. Oh, okay. This is gonna be coming back later. That's a teaser, okay? Heart and Soul. But wait, wait, you, you, you glossed over L'Oreal there with,

with, okay. I didn't know. I was, I said, I was going quickly. What do you want to say? No, L'Oreal is the original. What's the original? I just have the original. I only have the, no, the mall is the cover, right? I have the, uh, Tyler Campbell maintained a kick out the jam spreadsheet that I copy and paste it here. So I can't speak. You have to figure it out. Heart and Soul is not a Huey Lewis and the News original. Really?

It's by a band named Exile. More on that later. Exile, the Kiss You All Over? The Kiss You All Over, you like so? Possibly. Obsession, you're my obsession. That's Michael DeBar and Holly Knight. Don't turn around.

That's not Ace of Base. That's a Tina Turner song. Ace of Base is covering it. And ready for this? I hope you're all sitting down, but Millie Vanilli, girl, you know it's true. That's a cover. What? A band named New Marks with an X at the end.

So all of those songs that we didn't know were covers, we kicked out, are ineligible for today's tell us. You know what's interesting? I felt like we had already done this topic ourselves, but it's because I did one song like this a year ago. We did a we did, um, I don't know what the topic was. The jam, maybe we did a kick out. No, it wasn't a kick of jam.

Whatever the topic was, I picked the song step by step by new kids on the block, which was recorded earlier and released by their producer, Maurice Starr. Right. And I because I had this one song in my list of three. Yeah, I dedicated to Andy, I did. Can I just, can I just say, um, without like, without a doubt, our list is so much better than that garbage list from, from Stu and Cam.

What was that? And yourself? Like, what are you at? You should be embarrassed. I'm tired of those guys mailing it in the COVID era. Really elevated things over here. I'm telling you, speaking of Stu stone, he made a movie and it had a woman named Jan Arden. And the person who promotes his movie, Vandit, reached out and said, would you have Jan Arden on Toronto Mic to promote Vandit? And I said, yes, I would have Jan Arden on the thing. No, this was actually, I was probably going to zoom with this woman to be honest. That's how badly I want to Jan on.

Okay. But. How do you cool your lips after a summer's kiss? How do you rid the sweat after the body bliss? I tweeted, I was on Twitter at the time, and I said, hey, Jan Arden coming to Toronto Mike soon after this engagement with the PR person. And Jan replied something like either, who are you? What is this? Yeah.

And I lost all interest in it and it never happened. I vaguely remember that. That's too bad because she's actually like really, really engaging and funny and smart. But I didn't say no. She just never, it never got to another level and I didn't like. Is this a cover?

This is a fucking cover. I know it's, I know she didn't write it, but. Well, that's what you can talk about what's a cover, but okay, we're going to talk about this right now. So this is a big hit for Jan Arden. This is insensitive. It's from 1994's Living Under June. This is her second big hit.

Can you name her first big hit? It's Good Mother? No. Good guess, good guess. Could I Be Your Girl? Oh yeah. She wrote Could I Be Your Girl? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. She wrote Could I Be Your Girl? Yep.

Jan Arden. So because Jan Arden writes her own stuff, she wrote Could I Be Your Girl? You just assume she wrote this big hit, Insensitive. Yep. Well, there's a woman in Calgary named Anne Laurie who wrote the song you're listening to right now. Anne wrote Insensitive because she

had an unhappy tryst with a chef at a Calgary restaurant where she was waiting tables and she wrote this lovely song. Jan Arden heard her singing this at a bar or a club or something she heard in Calgary. What a small world. Ann is singing her song live, insensitive, and Jan options it to record it for Living Under June. That's awesome. Oh, she heard it at a local club. I don't have the name of the club. Sorry to Calgary here. This became Jan Arden's most successful single ever. That's really cool.

Number one in Canada, obviously. It went all the way to number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100. That's right. You're listening to a top 20 American hit. Wow. Do you know what helped it? It was on it was heavily featured in a movie called Bed of Roses. Bed of Roses. Is also promoted using this song and entertainment tonight. All of Roses. Bed of Roses is also promoted using this song on Entertainment Tonight. All of this helped. Bed of Roses, by the way, is a 1996 romcom. I don't know if it's a com. It's a romantic drama thing and it starred

Christian Slater and Mary Stuart Masterson and Rod and Tomatoes gives bed of roses 19%. Ha! Okay. Let's listen to Anne Laurie because this is her song. Is this your first cover jam? Yep. Yeah. We're going slow today. No, I just, because we've had lots of diversions and I didn't realize that this was actually your first choice. Cause it's good.

Okay, I'll go faster. No, it's good. Is it? Cause Bob just said we're going slow. I just heard him fucking say it in my headphones. No, it just seems like we're, I don't know. It seems like we're just being talked about. We have good detours happening. Every toast, you know?

This is the 41st toast, always like that. This is the original. Yeah, this is, well, this is the original artist recorded it. So this is where, yeah, host, always like that. This is the original. Yeah, well this is the original artist who recorded it. So this is where, yeah, let's talk about that. Yeah, because I tell you now, Jan heard her sing it in a club and said, "'I Want That Song.'" How do you cool your lips

Oh wow. After the body bliss Okay, we get the idea. It's a little slower. It's beautiful. Just piano and voice. It is beautiful, but it's tough to go from Jan's version to this version. Because, hey, Jan is the one you know. But you hear the foundation. But you hear the bones of the song. This woman had to write the thing.

Yeah. Okay, Bob, let me have it. Tell me what you want to say. This song was never released as a recording until insensitive by Jan Arden. Correct. So it's not a cover. Well, she wasn't because she's just somebody else. Let me ask the obvious. If this woman writes this song and sings it at a club and it's heard by Jan Arden at the club and Jan says I'd like to record that for my album. Is she not covering this woman? So, Bob, I ask you.

I don't think it's not recorded. I mean, that's like any songwriter giving a song. But you didn't read it on a sheet of paper. You heard her sing it live. She heard it live, but she didn't hear a recorded version. So this was recorded after the fact? Yeah, this is, no, yeah, she had no, this woman never had an album. She never released it. No, I see, no no but she made a lot of money this calgarian i hope so i hope so i don't

have that detail but yeah this calgarian this lovely calgarian and lore i think she's lori i'm sure she's a great person wrote this yeah it's based on her uh broken heart actually yeah we get the idea we know we know the story in a calgary club fuck I get Jesus not a cover Jan hears it and says I'd like to option that for my yeah album we need to cover Whitney Houston doing I will always love you Dolly Parton song is a cover cuz Dolly Parton wrote it and she sang what if Dolly had never recorded it and she just put it alive I would say it wouldn't be a good it's not a Yeah. So you're saying it can't be a cover if it's not recorded. Yeah. I say that's bullshit. That's okay. That's gatekeeping. You guys are just gatekeeping.

No, it's called fact checking. You're covering a song. It just means someone else wrote this song and you heard it and now you're going to do it it. You gotta hear the fucking CD to cover a song or an album? No, it's not fucking 1990. You don't need a CD, you need to hear the song recorded. So you're saying if you hear a song on Indie 88 today and you go record it, did you cover that song? Yes, yeah. Okay, so what's the difference between hearing it

on Indie 88 and hearing it, the artist play it live in a club? She's just a singer songwriter at some cafe doing her thing. If you hear it live. She heard it live at a local club. I would give it a point for sure. Rob, listen, Rob. Why should there be this rule you can't cover a song unless it's been recorded?

No, you can cover it. Sure you can. But I think that's the terms that we've set for this. I think for you guys just pull this out of your ass right now. We didn't talk about this beforehand. No, we didn't you're right? I mean apology. No, you know what? I'm gonna give you a point cuz I'm gonna give mom one number five a point because it's also a cover That's like sort of he wrote lyrics to another existing song. Yeah, so it's kind of a cover But it's kind of brand new at the same time. Sure. So you both have some weak, you know, yeah

I don't want you both. You know, Mike? It's okay to be wrong. It's okay. I've been wrong, brother. I've been wrong on the ring. Not wrong about this. You know what? I, I, I just think it's, it's somebody else's song that she's actually made her own, you know, like Jan's version is so iconic. That's why I didn't include include Bruce Springsteen's version of fire because he recorded it after Robert Gordon. That's what this is! Yeah, sort of. Yeah.

Exactly. What are you doing now, Tremor? Something's happening. This one's much better. What is this? How many things are playing at once? There. there how do you know you're me oh who's that live version

from the voice or something yeah how do you this is lianne fucking rhymes you name checked in a number one billboard hit after the birchmount stadium home of the robbie This is lian rhymes, okay, and she put this on a late 90s album. I'm sure it sold a ton of covers So she covers this song And uh, she changes a lyric. I just thought it was fun to tell you the change you want to hear the change Yeah, so jan sings is a lyric. I just thought it was fun to tell you the change. You want to hear the change? Yeah. So Jan sings, how do you teach your heart? It's a crime to fall in love again. Jan sings that line. How do you teach your heart? It's a crime to fall in love again.

Leanne rhymes, sings, how do you teach your heart? It's time to fall in love again. It's time to fall in love again. So Leanne changed it from it's a crime to it's time. And that is my final fun fact about insensitive, which is used in bandits by this non FOTM Jan Arden who doesn't know what she's missing. Tobias von Bob's right. Not a cover. Leslie Ville agree. Not a cover. Theyille agree not a cover wrong

I'm gonna block and block. That's a punch. That's a punch What else you got lots of bands here demos of a song and record it But it's not a cover if the demo was not released. What if they heard it live in a club at Midtown Gord? Thank God the cameras not I am a For a red A for angry. Yep. All right, well this is Leann Rimes.

But this, I would have to say that this, the fact that we're ruling on this, is a lighter sentence than what happened with the sample. Remember the sample? Oh, well, no, no, that was a huge L for him. Let's move on now. That was a huge L for him. Yeah.

Let's move on from this. That was an epic L. That might have been the biggest L ever on Toast. But you keep it up really well, other than that one. Leann Rimes was name checked in a Billboard number one, the second Canadian rap song to go number one. Amazing. After?

Yep. What song went to number one? What Canadian rap song went to number one first? Informer. The Snowman. The Snowman. Correct, Bob, with that. F-O-T-M, Snowman. The Snowman. Correct, Bob, with that. F-O-T-M, Snowman.

The Snowman confirmed for TMLX 19 on June, I want a photo of the Toast Crew with the Snowman. I'm gonna work up a version of Informer on the piano and we should do it together. How about that? He'll do it. He'll do it. I'm gonna work it up.

I've never met Snow. I actually would look forward to meeting him. You'll love him. Yeah. Nick Aines wants me to charge admission to TMLS. I know he does. He's a Scarborough guy, right? I guess Snow is originally. North York, I want to say. North York, okay.

Where's Fairview Mall? Yeah, no, so Don Mills. Yeah, so it's technically Scarborough. Scarborough, okay. Yeah, one side is Scarborough, North York, which is like one, it's the Don Mills 25 bus away from where I got. He's right beside Apple, Appleberry? Appleberry? I don't know. It's right beside Fairview, but that's out of my comfort zone.

That's my area. Okay. You're going to do my song next, right? No, he's, he's the one that keeps talking about this guy. Well, I'm going to say something about Nick Ainey's real quick. So how much should I charge for TML? $85. Plus, uh, plus like a- I don't think you should charge anything. Ticket subsidy. or you know what you

should do? You should make it a donation thing for like a charity. The human fund. Yeah. I need another kayak. Right. Okay. So there's, okay.

I'm obviously I'm not charging for T-Mobile X 19. Cause I'm a bad businessman, but Nick Aini is just chatted with Bob's favorite politician, Brad Bradford. And it's the most recent episode of building Toronto Skyline. So listen to Nick Aini. So this was recorded last Friday, Brad Bradford, Nick Aini is talking about affordable housing. Very interesting to be quite honest with you. She played my jingle that I did for Building Toronto Skyline. Can I ask you about your jingles real quick here? Yeah, sure. Real quick. And then we're going to get right back to the jams because Bob says we're going to select today. So we're gonna get right

back there. We're diverging. But I'm actually gonna play a different jingle and just ask Bob about it if that's okay. You ready? Committing to our planet's future means properly recycling our electronics of the past, we need to do it today. That means we need Recycle My Electronics.ca Nice. Today, today. What do you think, Bob, would that? It's beautiful. It's got a buble feel to it. I like it a lot.

Okay. Again, I think of Rob Pruess as like a brother now. Yeah. Okay. Love you like a brother. Yeah. Would you kiss me right now? I don't mean to be insensitive, but I fucking hate it. Like I actually hate it. Why do you hate that?

I know. You know. There's no human singing that. Yeah. And I feel like there's no soul. I feel like the one of the great musicians of all time, Rob Pruess gets AI to create the music and the lyrics and it's AI slop and I just can't stand the sound of AI.

I appreciate you playing them though. It's inhuman. I've been playing them because I fucking love you. But I don't want to play this AI slop on Toronto Mite. No, I know. It's- Is that rude? No, it's not.

Like you can't you, I'd rather hear you sing it off key than hear AI do that. The most fun thing for me was that it was like a little challenge I set myself to see if I could get anything out of the robots. So I spent some time like actually creating these things. Yeah. Or I mean-

Well, here's the one I think Brad Jones himself- They're just tools. They're just tools. They're just tools. Tools? Shout out to Redleaf Funeral Home. Shout out to red leaf funeral home Pillars of the community since

1921 What website did you do this? It's called su no su no, I'm gonna make you jingles if you want no No, yeah, here's the thing If you didn't know if you you didn't know, Mike, like did he know when you played them for him that they were- I knew right away. Oh, you knew right away. I knew right away.

And it almost doesn't, excuse me, it sounds terrible. It almost doesn't matter whether you think they're human or not. The fact they're not human, I don't wanna play them on Toronto Way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you have an ethical standard that you're willing to have to.

It's not even ethical, it's just I don't want, you know when you're on Facebook or something and there's, I don't know, Donald Trump's getting his diaper changed by like, and it's like, I don't want any more AI slop. I don't want the pictures. I don't want the audio. Like give me a flawed human over these fucking bots every day of the week and twice on Sunday. I think for me it was like an experiment because I feel the same way when I see AI art and I feel like people can make things look so realistic and it starts to really bother me

because I'm like, it's not fun anymore. It's cute for a second, but then you can smell it. And I think I feel the same way with this music, but I had to get through all these jingles to get to that point. So we're now a green, I don't have to play them anymore. No, no, no, no, for sure. But I loved, but I loved it.

I'm not ungrateful. No, no. Like you spent a lot of time. I did it only for myself. Because my- You selfish bastard. Remember I had mentioned to you that I loved these, on'm not ungrateful. No, no. Like you spent a lot of time. I did it only for myself. Okay. You selfish bastard. Remember I had mentioned to you that I loved these on Rick Rubin's podcast.

He has these jingles that I think are AI as well. And they sound like old fashioned jingles. And I'm sure he just made them up. So my challenge to myself was, see if I can input the right stuff to make a jingle for your sponsors. What's the name of this thing again? It's called Suno, S-U-N-O dot com.

Interesting. So that'll be the last time I play the AI Slop on Tron. So what I did was I typed in the lyrics. So basically I wrote the lyrics based on your things that you say about your sponsors. And then I tried to put in keywords and whatever they call them, prompts, to see if I can get something out of it.

And it was a fun challenge. But I knew it was, as soon as I heard them, I was like, it feels a little creepy. It feels a little weirdly. It just, I don't know why I have a prodigy. I watched on CBC when he was like 14 or something. I don't know, but you were on CBC as this piano prodigy, this keyboardist who would go on to play with the spoons. Okay. One of Burlington's great bands next to the rainbow butt monkeys. Next to. And I, uh, that's the guy who's delivering me AI slaw. It's like, no, I expect this kind of shit from maybe like

mid-tem gourd or something. But you know what's funny is some of the, some of the little bits are good. Happy birthday. Do you have them all queued up? Well, there, yeah, I have them. You want to hear something? My favorite is,

um, Great late? No, no, the one I did for Al. Al, okay. So this is Al Greco. This is my favorite. I'm going to learn. Yes, we are open. Al, okay, so this is Al Grego. This is my favorite. I'm gonna learn. I'd love to see.

The robot didn't, I had nothing to do with that except the lyrics. I love, I was going to say, I'd love to see what the prompts were. It was just the lyrics and a style. I put in like, I can't even remember now exactly. I put in like vintage, 1940s, easy listening jazzy like vocal harmonies all these kind of Yes, like I didn't know how it was gonna come out All right. No, no, let's hear this is my next let's do it. Let's go. Yeah, I thought you might want to hit the post Well, this is my song. That's a cover and it goes now. And the night goes by so very slow Oh I hope that it won't end though Alone

Till now I always got my eye on my own I never really cared until I met you Nice. Who knew it was the same album or not. I'm gonna say it's the next album. I think it has this, this album I think has the song Never on it. Okay. That was another big hit. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album.

I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album.

I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the next album. I think it's the nextibly. I don't even. I feel like that comes later. It does come later. Okay. But I don't know if it's the same album or not. I'm gonna say it's the next album. I think it has this album,

I think it has the song Never on it. Okay. That was another big hit. And we adopt, this is an American duo, but we adopt. But Heart as a kid. We sure, a bunch of their music counts as Cancon. Yeah.

Because they fell in love with Draft Dodgers. Yes. As discussed in the most recent episode of Toronto Mike with Adam Bunch. That was a great episode. Really was, right? I listened while I was driving. I love it. Oh my God.

The draft Dodgers or the story, the, the war evader war. What's the proper term? The, I don't know what you call it. Anyways, the people who didn't go to Vietnam. Yeah. Heart fell in love with a couple in Vancouver. That episode though, he went back in history, like 200 years. He's good.

The same stories, like the same thing's been happening over and over. Yeah. It was so cool. I thought it was interesting for these times we live in. People should listen to the ongoing history of Canada versus the United States of America of Adam Bunch. But I'm going to tell you the name of the band I thought this was tied to in a minute. But do you want me to play the song you sent me by the... Tell me the band you thought it was connected to. I always heard this story. This was a Toronto song. Interesting. Toronto, not a city Toronto.

The band Toronto. Your daddy don't know Toronto. Right. So you're saying it's got nothing to do with Toronto? Are you sure? Yes. Is there another heart song that covers Toronto? There probably is. There probably is. Okay. I'm going to Google that while I play. You ready?

Kick the original. So this was released in 1983. I just looked at something. Sounds similar. Sounds like the original, brother. I hear the ticking of the clock. I'm lying here, the clock, I'm lying here the ones bitched up I wonder where you are tonight, no answer on your telephone And the night goes by so very slow Oh, I hope that it won't end though

What about love? I am Is the heart song covered from a Toronto song, so pick it up Rob We're listening So the band was called I-10. I've got you alone So the band was called I-10. The album was released in 83. The best bit of information about these guys in the band is that they wrote so many songs for people

that are not covers other than the songs on this album. But they, so Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly are the two main songwriters in this band. They released this album, but meanwhile, they already had written hits for Madonna and the Bangles and Cyndi Lauper. Which Madonna song? Like a Virgin.

What? Yes, so check it out. They wrote Like a Virgin. Now I'm thinking of Reservoir Dogs, Like a Virgin. They wrote True Colors for Cyndi Lauper. They wrote Eternal Flame for the Bangles. Wow. That's a huge hit.

They wrote So Emotional for Whitney Houston. True Colors. Yeah, I drove all night for Cyndi Lauper as well. I touched myself by the Divinals. What? And I'll Stand By You by The Pretenders. I'll stand by you. So these two guys had this band called I-10.

They released this album in 83. Alone was on the album and Heart, their producer probably heard it and said, Oh my God, we got to do this song. Well, they had just, just to give it a bit of context with my mistake, which is that what about love is a Toronto song from 82. But that's released as a big hit by Heart in 85. And this is 87 when Heart releases the cover of this. So Heart just had success covering like a smaller rock band. That's what bands did.

So bands in those days would look for songs. In Honeymoon Suite, we recorded a song off this album as well. We did a song. The album was called Taking a Cold Look. And we recorded the song Taking a Cold Look because our producer said these guys just had a huge hit with Alone. Now producers go back to the record and go, what else can we use? So our producer came to us and said, if you record this song, it's going to be a huge hit with Alone. So now producers go back to the record and go, what else can we use? So our producer came to us and said,

if you record this song, it's gonna be a huge hit. And it wasn't a hit. It was a great song though. I remember this story. What song was it again? It was called Cold Look. So we released it, we recorded it for the third album that we did in 88.

And they did a video for it. It was released in the UK, but it was like a minor hit in England. But it came off the same album that Alone came from, which is so weird. I think I-10 is a bad name for a band. Terrible name. But I just love the fact that these two songwriters,

they were just writing songs and doing whatever. And then you see it, it's like Itin or something. Yes, exactly. But the album, the players are all guys from Toto, it's all the Toto. This is produced by Steve Lukather. Okay, now you got Stu Stone tuning in. Exactly. You kidding me? By the way, me fucking you kidding me by the way fun fact

It's not a real fun fact but fun fact the the first release by Pearl Jam named after this band what oh, yeah Okay now that's a I for Bob That's a smoky Blaylock's number, but I thought it'd be fun to pretend like ten was named after that's your version You can borrow that thank you for in appreciate it. I'll write it down right now. I'm on it. There's no other versions of that song. I mean, I feel like that really stands for itself. Like the perfect example of a song that was originally recorded. Somebody wrote a lot of their big hits, right? I think there's two in a row. We talked about that. But they wrote like, um, Barracuda, the earlier songs for sure.

Yeah. That's right. And that was like 10 years before this. It's amazing to think that 10 years later, they had a hit with this. It was really the second part of their career. Really. I saw them open for deaf leopard once. At the Budweiser stage. Cool. All right. Speaking of cool. I can't wait to kick out this Bob Willett jam. I just need his blessing. This is a controversy. Oh, another more controversy.

You know, you guys, everything is a controversy to think on it too long. So here we go. Yeah. The controversy is do people know? Oh, yeah. I think so. Bob and I had a little chat and we'll discuss. I think the average listener knows this is a fucking cover.

I see. So, but that's a rule we didn't. We did forget to discuss that with every song. We didn't set that rule. Because for insensitive, people don't know that's a cover. I think the average savvy, intelligent listener of Toronto Mikes is well aware. Now you've added savvy and intelligent.

You've added. That's right. Oh, I can do what I can. I'll be shocked if there's anyone on the live stream right now who doesn't know this is a cover. And I'm going to go check and see. There's like the 2 and 1.5 minute version, the single version.

But there's this version, I think is the one I gave you, which actually has like the red, red one in the middle. It feels so fine. They added that. That's not the from the original Right, which is by the way my favorite part of the song. Yeah, me too. Yeah, it is All right, and I didn't check for a while the live stream, but I was being told when I got confused With that alone song and what about love why's bought was there to correct me?

Andy didn't know All right one there's always one, right? Come on, Andy. Everybody knows this is a I don't want to name the artist. Yeah, I want to hear the red, red one. I'm at my feels of my heart. No, I'm glad the midtown Gord is joining us on his birthday. Remember, he was like a better way to spend your birthday.

He was going to be there. Yeah, he wasn't sure that he was going to attend. And I'm glad he Midtown Gord is joining us on his birthday. Remember, he was like all much. Is there a better way to spend your birthday? Yeah, he was gonna get laid or something. Yeah, he wasn't sure that he was gonna attend and I'm glad he's with us. Maybe he's getting laid while he listens. Oh. Is he watching while he listens? You know. Oh. What's the song where they do a doggie style

to watch X-Files together? It's Bloodhound Gang. Really? Yeah. Big hit, Rob. Yeah, Bloodhound Gang. Really? Yeah. Yeah. It's a big hit, Rob. Yeah. Bloodhound gang, uh, sex, baby, sex, baby, sex, the bad touch. We got nothing, but, Oh yeah. I guess we don't have to wait for dude to come in. Uh, it's worth mentioning for the record, uh, East York, John also like

Andy didn't know this was a cover. So yeah, I think I think more people than you know. So there's no like scientific way to prove this. I feel like the majority of listeners know this is a cover. Here we go. But you know, I think they talked about it a lot of the time. Really. Remember, feel so fine. You keep me rocking all of the time. Red, red wine, remember, feel so fine. A Philly million dollar when you just hit me on. Red, red wine, remember, feel so fine. Is that Patois you're doing?

Yeah. Snow? Me and snow. I'm hanging with the snowman. Me and snow. Red, red wine, remember, feel so fine. I grew up like five Jamaican families on my floor. You got the snow story.

Yeah. You, Rob Ford. You, Rob Ford. You let me do my own thing. Red wine, you're really not on your own, fellow. Yorker. Actually, it's interesting doing Joseph in the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat right now, which my daughter just did with the Calypso song.

Oh, yeah. And whether or not my daughter was actually very worried about cultural appropriation. Oh, yeah. Red wine. Oh yeah, why go to my hand?

Make me forget that I still need her soul. You know, Barry Manil is playing a Scotiabank Arena on Saturday. Yeah, he did like five nights at Radio City Music Hall. I would like last month. Oh, sorry. I know some people who went actually lobster boy. Craig Venn went to go see Neil Diamond last time he came through, and he said not so good. Oh, really didn't quite hold up.

But I would I would I'm actually at an unfortunate amount of town for the weekend. I would look. You'll be a woman soon. Did you know that's a cover? Urge Overkill? It's Neil Diamond too, right? We talked about Pulp Fiction earlier. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, so there you go. I knew this would be a point of contention whether or not people knew, but just, you know, small sample size, but people in the chat right now, at least

a few people did not know that Red Red Wine by UB40 is a cover of a Neil Diamond song. Yeah. There's always, you know, you're always telling somebody, so it's impossible to prove. I feel like most, like over 50% of listeners will know this was a cover, but maybe... Take away the percent and you're still correct. Over 50. Yes. Listen over 50. Yes, I bet you. So we play, we play, we play a red, red wine on indie 88.

And I bet you there's a very, uh, I bet you more people who listen to in 88 more do not know that I do know for sure. But that's a dumb or listenership. Well, it's, it's a different generation. You have to figure out how to listen to a podcast. What's interesting is, people who are listening right now, I'm getting a ton of moms and their daughters. I gave away Lord tickets all weekend. Oh yeah, it was the Lord weekend. It was crazy how many great winners there were.

Do you play Soup Dragons, I'm Free? No. Add that, I know you don't pick the music. I'm not in the programming department. Not yet. I feel like that song needs an indie resurgence and that is a cover and I feel like some people don't know that. I considered it. Do needs an Indian resurgence and that is a cover. And I feel like some people don't know that I considered it. Do you guys play the new Lord song?

Not yet. I want to. We did. We tested it. It's funny. Right? I like it. She's got such a reputation. Like this is the new music business, right? So like she releases one new song after years and years, but she's still riding on the first song on Royals. Royals is going to lat is like going to make her career forever. Oh yeah, she's coming back to new york. She's playing like, you know, masses regard, whatever scush bank arena here in september like it'll sell out. It's putting the trust in the fact that people are gonna go. Oh my god, I love lord and it's a generational thing. They remember royals. They don't most people won't know so many of her other songs, but it's based on that faith of the gate, a phone call

it's fine. I take it take it. Somebody phone in sick yeah, but it was cool. You guys were giving's getting a phone call. It's fine. I just take it. Take it. Somebody phoned in sick. But it was cool. You guys were giving away tickets all weekend. All weekend long. Yeah. That's right. Good promo. It was a fun one.

Yeah. So there you go. You know, I didn't blow anybody's mind with that. No mind blows with that. But it's a good one. Yeah, I think so. Absolutely. Good song. But back to soup dragons from woman,

cause they do a similar reggae thing in there, but it's like, you know, similar. It was a bit later than that, but, but yeah. 1990 or something like that. Big CF and why song. And that is a Rolling Stone song. similar reggae thing in there, but it's like, you know, similar as a bit later than that, but, but like 1990 or something like that, a big CF and Y song. And that is a Rolling Stone song. I'm free, you know this, right Rob? No. Okay. So there you go.

I'm free to do what I want. Oh yeah. I've been listening to a Peter Tosh album that's produced by Mick Jagger. Which one do you know what it's called? Bushman. Wow. Is it good? It's crazy good.

You can, and Keith plays on it. It's really, yeah, yeah. I just found, I have all this vinyl again. I was that guy who everybody's uncle was getting rid of their vinyl in the 90s and I ended up with it. And I was like, Oh, Peter Tosh. I love Roots Reggae. I had a favorite Peter Tosh album when I was like 18.

I mean, is this the Legalize It guy? I don't know. Legalize It. The album was called Wanted, Dread or Alive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was so good. Like it was my teenage summer, like with my first girlfriend and like that album I loved't know. Legalize it? The album was called Wanted, Dread or Alive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was so good. Like it was my teenage summer, like with my first girlfriend and like that album I loved so much.

So wait, what's the Mick Jagger one called? I think it's, I'm gonna double check it. I think it's called, would you use Bushman? Or no, you used called it. Bush Doctor. Bush Doctor, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, hang on, let me just double check.

I'm gonna listen to it on my drive home today. Yeah. It's really. Swackers. Love it. All right. While you guys work that out, that's amazing. I'm going to play my second jam that I don't think

the average listener knows is a cover. Yeah. Also we should say whether any of us are being educated about a cover for the first time. I don't know if we've been doing that. I know we touched on it, but like... I'm being educated right now. I didn't know this was a cover. No.

But I do know who wrote it. I am crazy, crazy for feeling so good. I knew you'd love me. How old do you two think Patsy Cline was when she died? Shout out to Ridley. She's not in the 27 club. Is she? I have no idea actually she was 30 years old when her plane went down You can visit the place where the plane went down in Tennessee. Yes, you can it's just at the end of a road somewhere Yeah, there's all kinds of people Wow of people. Bobby are the only 10 I see. 10 I see. Oh, nice. You can use that on India. So are you trying to destroy my career?

Rob liked it. I did like it. That's what my wife, my wife would call that an old man joke. That's a dad joke. Yeah, for sure. I don't bring that out every episode. That's right. It was worth it. I felt this episode warranted it.

Okay. So this version by Patsy Cline, Crazy, went all the way to number two on Billboard's Hot Country singles. In which year? 19, I'll come up with that in a minute. Okay, so it's one of the country music standards. This song we're listening to right now

is the all time most played song in jukeboxes in the United States. Think about that for a minute. How do you quantify that? It's on Wiki. I found that one on Wikipedia. Okay, many artists have covered it. How do you quantify that? It's on Wiki. I found that one on Wikipedia. OK. Many artists have covered it.

This version is in the National Recording Registry. By the way, she had been in a car accident when she recorded this. So just before she recorded this, she was in a car accident, and she bruised her ribs. And she couldn't reach the notes that she needed to match the unique phrasing by the artist I'll mention in a minute who originally recorded this song.

So she worked with a guy named Owen Bradley and the country heads know the name Owen Bradley to record the music for this song and work on those arrangements that you hear. So she kind of used her own style rather than going with the original artist's style. And I'm going to play that right now. By the way, she did that on her first take. I'll have you know. Did she really? Yeah.

Wow. Only a couple of weeks after, a few weeks after. Cause her ribs were sore. Her ribs recovered. Yeah. Wow. And 1906, so she laid down that track during a session on September 15th, 1961.

That's amazing. And this song came out, I mean, they spent a lot of time. They didn't put it out until October, 1961. That's how quickly things used to work back in the day. Okay. Without further ado. And I think that song and I fall to pieces are like the two big Patsy fans would even recognize but here we go Crazy for feeling so lonely I'm crazy Crazy for feeling so blue I live I knew you'd love me as long as you wanted And then someday you'd leave me for somebody new

somebody new Worry Why who wants to name this artist? It's Willie it's Willie it's Willie Nelson everybody and there's a lot of web speculation And I couldn't really find any like good source to confirm this but the speculation is that Willie Nelson sold the rights to crazy for either like 50 bucks or a hundred bucks or maybe I've even seen ten dollars really so you know he needed some cash and there you go but this is a Willie Nelson song and so this he recorded this first yeah like he's got a deal with a guy named Pappy Daly you know this name nope so happy daily I feel like he was maybe

parodied in like Oh Brother where are you now yeah right so you got like in 1958 he's hosting the Western Express and he's working as a DJ in Fort Worth Texas I'm talking about Willie Nelson and Pappy Daly hears him and he's working as a DJ in Fort Worth, Texas. I'm talking about Willie Nelson and Pappy Daily hears him and he offers him a recording contract those kind of records and those kind of things happen in those days all the Time right like people selling their publishing for like 10 bucks or whatever they could get right and he was only 28 Like I mean really it's funny to think now like Willie's 90 whatever 92 or something. It's amazing He's still with us of course the great Willie Nelson he used to uh he moved to Pasadena with his family he would teach guitar when he was

commuting from Pasadena to the Esquire ballroom he would write songs you know apparently in one week he wrote this song night life funny how time How Time Slips Away. Yeah, such great songs. Great songs. We're having a great time today. This next song, I'm going to put in the same category as the, I mean, I personally have known for a very long time that this was a cover, but I think it might be because I listened to the Howard Stern show and Howard Stern had somebody on who had recorded it before and they were talking about how nobody knew it was a cover. This is way back in the day. But may I play your hit?

Are you talking about me now? Yeah. Sure. Okay, here we go. It's your hit. Hit it. I thought I saw a man born to lie But he was warm, he came around like he was dignified He showed me what it was to cry Well you couldn't be that man I adore

You don't seem to know, you seem to care What your heart is for I don't know him anymore There's nothing where he used to lie But conversation has one drive That's what's going on Nothing's fine untill I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel I'm cold and I am changed, lying naked on the floor Illusion never changed, into something real

I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late. I'm already torn. This is the one we all know and love. I don't think I knew that it was a cover. Originally. I didn't. Did you not know? No, no. I would have said this was a Natalie and Borgoglio song. Yeah. Yes. She's Australian, right didn't. Did you not know? No, no, I would have said this was a Natalie and Buggalio song. Yeah. Yes. She's Australian, right? Yeah. She was on neighbors. No, I see. No, that was a kind of an oak. No, I think

she might've been on neighbors too. British and she married Daniel Johnson. No, I thought she was Australian on like an actress on like neighbors or something. Australian and British singer songwriter. Oh, she was born in new South Wales. Okay. She's Wales. Okay. She's Welsh. New South. No, no, no. Like Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales. Oh, Australia. Okay. But we're hijacking this from the great Rob Proust. So Rob Proust. Yeah. So it came out. I think the average listener does not know this is a cover. I'm a hundred percent the average listener because I love this on the radio and I had no idea like like you think back to

1998 now there was some internet action in those days but not like it is now we still didn't know shit about shit right so we definitely don't know shit about shit now but yeah in 98 this was the hit and I didn't know until probably the last couple of decades I guess. I didn't know until the last two minutes. Really? Yeah no I didn't know who's the original. So well you tell me I could I have two things loaded. I sent you the one this morning. You want me to play that? That was my funnest fact for myself that I learned this morning. Which of these two the one you sent previously the one you sent today? The one this morning is Okay. Yeah. Same tempo. Exactly. Yeah. How's our French? Norwegian or Danish.

Do you like a Danish? Not a big Danish. You like a nice Danish? Do they have raisins in Danish? I think I like Danish. Is it like a Dutchie? Past the Dutchie. Hey, because, because our Dutchie's the one that are like glazed

doughnut with raisins and maybe chunks of something in there. Isn't that a crueler? Well, what's a Dutchie? I don't know. What's a Danish? So here's the chorus, and now it's the same. Oh yeah, it's exactly the same. Right?

You know, other than the language is different. But for me, the mind blow was that the Dutchie was the one that was like, I'm going to go to the Dutchie. I'm going to go to the Dutchie. I'm going to go to the Dutchie. I'm going to go to the Dutchie. I'm going to go to the Dutchie. I'm going to go to the Dutchie. I'm going to go to the Dutch. Oh, yeah, it's exactly the same, right? You know other than the language is different But for me the mind blow was that this came before the next version I sent you because I thought that was so So this is originally a hit in its whatever. This is in 1993 Wow

Yeah, so five years before we should find out what country this is. Okay, we know what? Lisa Sorensen soaring soaring dish yeah yeah no I think she's from Denmark okay I'm Michael shut out the Copenhagen okay very good sounds like beginning of higher love right totally Steve Winwood from traffic romantic traffic a little darker I like this one this version this is the woman who is on Howard Stern she was actually on the late 90s the late 90s. That's cool.

So they took the original version and tried to like make it a little more alt sounding. Right. Because they sort of stripped it away. Like a little Mary Brooks or something. Yeah. Post Lilith Fair. This came out in 95. Oh, so this is like Jack and the Little Pill era.

Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah. Oh, but she can't sing. Not like, you know, like, she can't sing. Exactly. Oh yeah. But she can't sing. Not like the Natalie and Brulia. So they took away the harmony. Bit of a Melissa Etheridge vibe.

So they stripped away all the beauty of the original, the Danish version. They took out the harmonies and stuff. But to me, the Natalie and Brulia version is more like that first. Sure, absolutely. So who is this, we haven't said. This is a band called Edna Swap. Edna Swap. Edna Swap. That's actually a worse name than I-10.

I know. It's really bad, yeah. Was it named after Edna Garrett, right, who was the housekeeper on Facts of Life? But on SCTV, there was Tex and Edna Boyles. Not housekeeper. What do you call that when you look after all the? The maid. Yeah. No, but on Facts of Life. But on SCTV there was Texan Edna Boyles. What do you call that when you look after all the- The maid.

Yeah. No, but on Facts of Life you have like- She's like the house mother. Yeah, house mother. Right. We'll call it a house mother. Okay. Edna's Edibles was a great shop.

You could shop. And that's actually the first time I ever saw George Clooney. He was working, I think they changed Edna's Edibles to Over Our Head or something. And they brought in, they replaced Edna's edibles to Over Our Head or something. And they brought in, they replaced Edna Garrett with a new act, the actress from the Mary Tyler Moore show, okay? And then, Cloris Leachman, yes.

And then George Clooney shows up, like young George Clooney's working at Over Our Heads with like Mackenzie Astin or something, okay? George Clooney, the first, when I first saw E.R. in 1994, I remember thinking there's the guy from Facts of Life. That's funny. And Roseanne. It all comes around. Yes, but first Facts of Life, then Roseanne and then eventually E.R.

Handsome fucker, by the way, we talked about Don Draper earlier and you watch Mad Men, you're like, that's a handsome son of a bitch. Now that I'm watching ER, I'm like, he's got this smirk and I'm like, what a fucking handsome guy. Like this George Clooney is good looking. He knows he's good. Breaking news. Tell the world.

Who's better looking, George Clooney or Jon Hamm? Discuss amongst yourselves. What's your type, Rob? I think that's an AB, like that's a toss up. They're both good looking. They both are in their own special ways. I think I think for straight ahead like handsomeness, I it's funny they both have like a like a humorous side to them. Yeah, but I think John Hamm is a little more goofy. Yeah, yeah. He plays a little more goofy than for sure and George is cooler.

Yeah, so I would have to say like if you, I, I would put George above John Ham. Okay. Then let me ask you for the next round here, George Clooney or Brad Pitt. I'd say Brad. Yeah. I mean you've seen the, have you seen the Tom Sager a bit about meeting Brad Pitt? Like it just, it's, no, it's really funny. Yeah. Oh yeah. He's just, he's like, he's uncomfortably handsome. He, yeah. He's like, he was like, I don't even want, I can't even look him in the eye. He's like, he's like, why would you look at me? He's done one. Oh yeah. No, he's, he's that good looking.

He's like, I don't know how many babies he eats a week, but that man is beautiful. That's he's like other worldly. Okay. So do we agree? It's Brad Pitt, George Clooney, then John Ham. That's your Mount Rushmore. We'll throw in a Rob Proust to make it four. Sure. Yeah. I would put John above George. You would, eh? Yeah. For handsomeness. Yeah. And do we throw a JFK Jr. in there? No. No. Cause he's dead. I want to hear my JFK Jr. pressure. Okay. So he's got no. Oh, you mean not.. Yeah. No, you're doing RFK Jr. Don't confuse these two people. I'm like, I didn't mean to. I'm not fixing that in the post.

Don't care if you beg me. Don't fix it in post, but really, I think I'm going to make America feel really good. Okay. He's been Americanized Bob. A little unhinged. I know. I will fit. You know what? I never do this. I will remove that and post. Thank you. Thank you. Bob, your last jam buddy. I know we went too slow for you today, but you ready? Yeah, go for it. I don't remember. Good. Because I'm going to pee during this. Yeah, do it. Oh, I do remember. Hey, listen, it's another great show, folks. I mean,

tonight our guest star is one of the truly great dancers of the world, the one and only Miss Julia Prouse. And if that weren't enough, we've also got Mina Mina, whatever that means. This is the pilot. It's like the opening of Muppet Show. Oh, this is a good one. Mina Mina. Mina Mina. Come on. Yeah So I think that's pretty sure this is a like on the I'm almost positive. It's the pilot episode. It's the very first episode of the Muppet Show with that.

And that's the first musical number. Was that like 1976 or something? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um, let me see if I can. I can find out where it was. Um, but this is a, this is not a, a creation of Jim Henson. No, that's right. No, it is not. And now, so the question is, do people know that this is actually a huge hit in Italy in 1968? And it was used also on the Red Skeleton show. It was used on Sesame Street. It was used on Benny Hill. I knew it from Sesame Street. Yeah. Originally, when I was a kid. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know it was on Benny Hill. Yeah. No, me neither.

I thought it was just Yakety Sax over there. No, Manamana is part of the background melody of a bunch of different things on Benny Hill, too. Is Yakety Sax a cover? I would imagine. So this was actually, yeah, so it was released by Piero Umilani. Oh, yeah.

Piero Umilani. It originally appeared- Wait, say the first name again. Piero. Okay. Piero Umilani and originally appeared. Say the first name again, Piero Piero umilani piano Piero. It was in a it was a it was an Italian film called Sweden, Heaven and Hell. This is the original. Premier episode. Apparently I didn't close the door of the bathroom and people saw me in the live stream, but they only saw my back.

The stream was live. No sausage was seen by the camera. So I feel like I knew this a while ago, but I don't know if people do. Yeah that's the toughest part of this is like does the average listener know? I knew. Yeah, yeah. But I am a gifted student. That's right. Nothing about me as average as they saw in the live stream.

Did I tell you? I recently found my letter of your child as being considered for the gifted program. And then like three weeks later, your child is no longer being considered for that. We fixed it in post. So there you go. Yeah, it's covered.

Earworm, a lot of fun to listen to Minamina. Oh yeah. Good stuff. You know what else is in earworm, a lot of fun to listen to, manamana. Oh yeah. Good stuff. You know what else is in earworm? The song I'm going to finish with. OK, so I'm going to check the clock. It says, OK, we're one fifty one. So we might go a little over, but we're on the last jam now.

No, it's good. You guys ready? We've got two and a half before. We shouldn't do that, though. We have no restraint. Here we go. You blow my mind, hey Mickey! Hey Mickey! Oh Mickey, you're so fine You're so fine, you blow my mind, hey Mickey! Hey Mickey! Oh Mickey, you're so fine

You're so fine, you blow been around all night and that's a little long. You think you got the right but I think you got it wrong. Well can't you say goodnight so you can take it home, Nicky? Hey Mickey! Tony Basil! Tony Basil! Only hit, right? One hit wonder, right? One Hit Wonder, right? One Hit Wonder, yes.

And this was recorded by Tony with an eye. For 1981's Word of Mouth, that was her debut studio album, she recorded this. It's still like if you're watching something and they need to place it in the early 80s, they might license this song. This is still all over the place. Does Indie88 play Hey Mickey? No, we haven't, we have not played that, no. Not in the months that I've been there.

Boom's playing it. Boom would play the hell out of it, yeah, for sure. Probably playing it right now. Could be playing it right now. KJ's kicking it out right now. That's right. I don't know what his time slot is there, but okay. No, that seems a little right.

Well, no, he wouldn't be on right now. It's actually May Potts would be on right now. May Potts! May Potts would be on right now. Have you been over since I got that jacket that's hanging over there? I haven't. It's the first time I've seen it. Do you own a similar jacket?

No. No. Describe the jacket for the listeners. So it is the era of, I would say like 96, 97 of the Edge when it went 102.1 the Edge, Toronto's new rock 97 is when they had edge 102 which was the within this was the purple this one it's a leather jacket I a lot of people when I worked there had that jacket and they also had a version that was all black so you couldn't really see it actually well

yeah who is that is that from a pots no, but that's what made me think of it. So that was a gift to me from Sandra Plagakis. Wow, so nice shipped it over as like a thing. I guess she was getting rid of shit. Yeah, and she's like who would want this? And I guess I came to mind. That's amazing. So it hangs. I love saying she's the best. She's so cool and yeah, that's a leather jacket. When I was there, we had a great, it was an Indian motorcycle. Remember?

We had a couple of really good jackets. I still have a few somewhere, but I can't wear them now. Because they're the enemy. They're the competition. Although it's not really a competition. We're kind of destroying them. Is that right? Because I don't know the current like...

It's way too weeks, I'll tell you. You'll find out. So next toast, will you reveal all about the ongoing... Sure. ...in P88 versus 102.1 The Edge? Not even a consideration, but yeah. Yeah, we're... Wow.

Yeah, no, not to... Yeah. So Rob Bruce, because I wanted to save my, uh, Tony Basil talk for you. I heard it all while I was in there. Did you close the door when you peed? I did. Cause they watch. Yeah. No, I turned it off. They watched. You shouldn't put a camera in there. That's right. You know, I never think about it because I'm, I'm, uh, they're only gonna say, it's not like I pull. What's that cartoon with the frog Peppy,

where he pulls down his pants to go pee. So he pulls them to his ankles like you do like a like a three-year-old Yes, really like a like Jarvis or James would have done when they were three or four pulling your pants all the way and he Goes feels good, man And I'm like, you know, it does feel good like we never you know, we keep our my point is my bum's not exposed No when I'm peeing, okay, so you only see me from the back but that feeling good I think you didn't if you're ever alone and you bring it all the way down to the ankles, you want to pee?

It feels good, man. Seriously, give it a go. Give it a go. Okay, so what's the Simpsons line? I'm peeing of the door open and I love it. That's when he starts his own religion or whatever. Okay, so do you think the average listenership of Toronto Miked, fiercely independent podcast, did you think the average listenership of Toronto Miked, a fiercely independent

podcast, do you think the average listener knows that Hey Mickey from Tony Basil is a cover? No, no, no, I don't think so. You guys buckled up? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. ["Cocoon"] You've been around all night, that's a little long You think you got it right, but I think you got it wrong Why can't we say goodnight, so I can take you home? Kitty!

Cause when you say you will, it always means you won't You're giving me the chills, please baby don't But every night you still leave me all alone Kitty! You're giving me the chills, please baby don't But every night you still leave me all alone, kitty Oh kitty what a pity you don't understand You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand Oh kitty you're so pretty can't you understand It's girls like you kitty Oh whatcha do kitty, little kitty

Don't break my heart kitty Well, this is called Kitty. Weird. So it's not Mickey, it's Kitty. K-I-T-T-I. And the band is a British pop band called Racy. So Racy records Kitty in 1979 for their debut album, Smash and Grab. And then Tony Basil records Mickey or Hey Mickey,

depending on which 45 you're looking at. I love it. So there's no, oh, Mickey, you're so fine, so Basil adds that part, but yeah. That's so cool. I did not know that. Nope. That's a good one. That's a good one.

Finally, a good one. Finally, praise from Caesar. An educated consumer is our best listener. So I, right. Sure. Okay. I don't know where to go with that, but this song is written by a duo. I want to talk about these guys on our way out here.

Okay. It's going to tie up a nice bunch of loose pieces here. Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. Chinn has two N's in it. Okay. So do you know this duo, Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn? I do. Nope. They wrote this song, Kitty for Racy. I didn't know that. And of course, therefore they have songwriting credit on Hey, Mickey by Tony Basil. See how this works? Because that is a copy or a cover of What Will You. So Mike Chapman and Nicky Chin wrote a bunch of hits.

And I thought I might just, you know what? Pause, I'm gonna come back to those two. I realized there's a couple other places real quick here I wanna go. One is I wanna kick out this song. ["Hey Mickey"] here I want to go one is I want to kick out this song. It's tricky to rock around, to rock around That's right on time, it's tricky Tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky I met this little girly, her hair was kinda curly Went to her house and bust her out, I had

to leave real early It feels really sleazy, all they just say is pleasey I'll spend some time and rock a rhyme, I said it's not that easy It's tricky to rock around, to rock around, that's right, on time it's tricky. How is it, D? It's tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky, it's tricky to rock around, rock a rhyme, and the entire structure of this song was consciously lifted from Mickey by Tony Basil. DMC himself, this is a quote from DMC. I just changed the chorus around and we were,

we just talked about how this rap business can be tricky to a brother. So that is from DMC himself. And I hear this song knowing that they say basically it's Mickey rearranged. But you know what song I hear? What song do you guys hear? Okay. Others are Mickey. Yeah. So I get that this is Mickey. Okay. But I don't hear Mickey. I hear this song right here. Oh, really? Yeah. And then I'm gonna lead to a little, gonna wrap this up in a nice package for you. My buddy used to drive a Toyota Corolla. My Corolla! So my question is, if Run DMC is taking Hey Mickey to make it's tricky, and I hear my Sharona, how much of Hey Mickey by Tony Basil is basically Kitty plus my Sharona? Like my Sharona is from 79.

Like if I play again, Tony Basil gets, and now you've heard my Sharona again, which you probably heard earlier today on boom or something like that. So or my Sharona is Indy play my Sharona. No, no, I don't. Oh, maybe we played it. It might be in it might be on a spice category. Okay. So again, hold on one more time. I would have DJed and played these back to back for sure. Oh, Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind. Hey, Mickey. Hey, Mickey. Oh, Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind. Hey, Mickey.

My point is next time you hear Hey Mickey from Tony Basil, think about my Sharona. There's a similarity to the beat for sure. Sounds and elements are reused in each. But it's the sound of the new wave And then in the 7980 era to write You were there brother. I was there it was in the air That rhymes You know who else was there? No Oh, my little hungry one, hungry one, open up a package of MyBalona.

Oh, I think the toast is done, the toast is done, topping with a little of MyBalona. Never gonna stop, eat it up, such a tasty snack, I always eat too much, it's a wrap, but I'll soon be back with My, My, My, Yeah, Yeah, Woo! My, My, My, MyBalona., 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, know what we should maybe, well one month from today is TMLx. You want to tie the events together? Yes. Bob doesn't work Thursdays. Like we could do Toast or will it be too tiring to do Toast? And then go to TMLx? What if we did Toast with special guest Snow and then we all made our way, it's not very far as you know, five kilometers north or whatever to 30 Queen Elizabeth Boulevard for TMLX19. Maybe we could do something like that.

Could you imagine toast? We could pick a toast theme that all Snow has to do is listen and then comment. He doesn't have to bring any jams. That belch in this song makes me laugh. So this is Weird Al Yankovic's My Balona. But here's how we're going to close on our wheels. I want to say thank you to Bob Willett. You can hear him.

Remind us when we can hear you on Indie 88. Tonight at 6 PM. I'll be on right after. Actually at 5 30, we're giving away a trip, a Sunwing vacation. Yeah. Daily destination. Sunwingvacations.com. That's right.

Yeah. It's selloffvacations.com. It's not Sunwing. Do they have a jingle? Sunwing? No, I don't think so. But it's selloffvacations.com is what you're talking about. My apologies to the Sunwing Corporation.

So yeah. So as of right now, weeknights from 6 to to 10 and then weekends during the day on Saturdays and Sundays in the afternoon. But we'll see. And Rob, when does this, remind me when the Broadway Stint starts? Not till the end of July. So early August will be running until like February. Okay. Congrats on that. Thank you. That's exciting. So remember those two names I told you about? Yep. Okay. So do you remember those names? Nope. Somebody showed. Okay. Mike Chap Mike Chapman. Yeah. And chinny chin and Nikki chin and chinny chin, chinny chin, chin, chin. And I remember I told you, they wrote Kitty for racy, which means they wrote Mickey for Tony Basil, which in my mind means they fucking wrote, uh, my Sharona as well for the knack, but that's another,

uh, to be determined. But they also wrote, I'm just going to do really quickly just some other songs from that duo. Okay. There were lots of good songs. Yes. I was going to say sweet songs. Andy, Andy, man. All right, fellas. Let's go. Ready? Steve. You know what? Wayne's world fans know this song. Okay. All right. Fellas. You see, she just put the dress on recently, Tia Carrera. She did. She's still smoking.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So you can look it up. I had a huge crush on her. I think most of us did, right? Tia Carrera. She's no John Hamm, but she, uh. Tia Carrera, she recently just put the dress back on

from that. With the snake? Yeah, yeah. This is the video? Yeah. No, the red dress. Yeah, yeah. The gas works thing dress. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Ship three movie. OK, so yes, they go. They wrote this is a sample that Beastie Boys use. Come back. The matter of fact, his eyes are as red as the sun and the girl in the car. No one ignored. She says she's a passionate. Well, that part just fans know it from Hey Ladies, right?

OK, so here's one. Earlier today, do you remember me mentioning Exile? Yeah. Do you remember this? Yeah. And then Bob, what did you say? Do you remember? Rob said, I want to kiss you all over.

And over again. Rob said that. Rob said it. Well, we both did. I can't believe they wrote this song. I don't think I knew that. It's amazing. This almost sounds like whenever I hear the beginning of this.

I believe in miracles. Oh yeah. I was going to say a Kenny Rogers Dolly Parton. I looked into my face. You know? You know? Or the odds. We'd mention Exile in this episode.

When have we ever mentioned Exile? I don't think ever. That's like the first time in the history of the podcast Exile was mentioned and it was twice I had it already loaded up to kiss you all over because Mike Chapman and Nikki Chin who wrote The Ballroom Blitz. This actually sounds like so there's a Canadian band called Destroyer and it's called Tinseltown. You're gonna love it. It's actually one of the guys from New Pornographers. Really? Not the bad one. Yeah. I'm gonna send it. It's actually one of the guys from new pornographers. Not the bad one. Yeah Yeah It's I'm gonna send it to you. The band is called it's all town. No, no the destroyers

And he does It's so good Tinsel town burning at night if it gets called Tinsel town swimming in blood. Yes. You can see it in my eyes. I can feel it in your touch. You don't have to say a thing. Just let me show how much.

Yeah, he's got a new album. Each of his albums have a style. Oh, cool. I have a new favorite Canadian band. Oh, wait. Can I slow down? I need to jump, drum roll for this. Bourne Ruffians.

Oh, Bourne Ruffians are great. I love them jump drum roll for this. Born Ruffians? Oh, Born Ruffians are great. I love them. So yeah, you know what? We play them a lot on 88. I might have heard them actually on your station. Yeah, you probably did. Better than Rusty? I don't know. Too all over.

Yeah, they have a new album coming out and I'm so excited. Do you like The Watchmen? Yes. I know you do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you like The Watchmen? Yep. I don't know them a lot, but I do like them. I complete the collection tomorrow.

Tomorrow, Joey Serlin is here. Really? I have the whole band then? Then I have everybody. Wow. Congratulations. Thank you very much. In fact, you opened for Danny Graves. You and Blair Packham. Well, we played together. I played with Danny, remember?

I did a song with him. Yes, I know. I think we did this last toast. Yes, we did. I forget you played again. Okay. Fuck. Great. Okay. So a couple more quick. I know I said quick and I didn't go quick because I get excited by the music. Second time this artist was mentioned today. Okay, fuck, great. Okay, so a couple more quick. I know I said quick and I didn't go quick because I get excited by the music. Second time this artist was mentioned today.

Small World, right? I don't know what this is. You will. It was a hit. All of us will remember this. He wrote this. Oh, Tina Turner. Better Be Good To Me. Better Be Good To Me. Oh Tina Turner, yeah better be good to me Better be good to me

I wish I had a song Who'd been amazing about maybe you'll see her in heaven sir, maybe maybe I will I'm touched by this show of emotion Should I be fracking bad? Should I? Should I? Should I? Should I? Oh, you better be good Oh, you better be good

The time's gotta be now And you better be good And you better be good And you better be good And you better be good So this is also Mike Chapman and Nicky Chibbs. Amazing. And they did songs with Blondie too, right? They had a bunch of hits with Blondie. Well no, because I would have loaded them up if they did. Oh yeah, they did. How sure are you? They produced Parallel Lives.

But wrote? I can't confirm that, but I'm pretty sure. Come up with one because I'm going to blow your mind of another artist, okay? Speaking of the jitters. Alright, Hard and Soul, you said it was good. Okay, okay, speaking of the jitters, okay, all right, hard and soul, you said, hard and soul. I love you. He's in the handsome man club. He's got a fine chin. Yeah, yeah, very handsome man. Apparently also in the same John Ham category as well. Big penis?

Yeah. Around here we say the Rob Bruce category. There you go. It's, yeah. Chinny chin chin. Ask Steve Anthony about the, with Huey Lewis. You know what I mean? Huey Lewis and the news.

You know what the news is? The news is huge penis. The news. It's funny that it's... With me? Hewie Lewis has that great shin. But wait, did Mike Chapman write this song? Is that the connection?

So yeah, that's where I'm still there. I have to remind people, I have to reset. So Mike Chapman and Nicky Chin. Chinny Chin Chin wrote this song. Wrote this song as well. Mike Chapman produced a Blondie album, didn't write the songs, you're right. He was the producer for Parallel Lines.

I know, because I did a lot of homework. What are the best songs to play? I'm going to play one more song. And it's kind of a fun fact because this song is a modern song. OK, a modern song. That means from 2025, you would hear this on the radio on the reg. And of course, it has a writing credit to Mike Chapman and Nicky Chin,

because the song I'm about to play Sounds a lot like Tony Basil's Mickey, which of course is a cover of Racy's kitty kitty with me Yeah, so you start with Racy's kitty then you get Tony Basil's Mickey and then you get this song right here Massive fucking hit and this will be the last song we play today The song that Jungie likes, Nendome Game, Nendome Game, Game start Ah, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah I want you baby, don't you need me like I need you now See tomorrow but tonight go crazy All you gotta do is just meet me at the Ah-pata, ah-pata, ah-pata, ah-pata, ah-pata Hey Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine Uh-huh, uh-huh

Hey Mickey Ah-pata, ah-pata, ah-pata, ah-pata, ah-pata So they got a writing credit on this song Uh-huh, uh-huh They actually gave them a... Did they get a writing credit? They did get a credit? Yep, Bruno had to give them a writing credit on this song. They actually gave them a writing credit. They did get a credit. Yep.

Bruno had to give them a writing credit. Amazing. Yeah. Isn't it wild? So all those songs we heard are all attributed to this duo. Amazing. Mike Chapman and Nicky Chin. Chapman and Chin.

I want to know what you guys think of this song. I love this song. It's okay. It's okay. I mean, it's a fun pop song. I love fun. I love fun pop songs. I actually find this one kind of, I don't know. It doesn't have any juice for me, to be honest.

To me, it's a little new wave for the new generation because the kids don't get a lot of edge in a lot of their music. And this has, like, I like the fact that Rick, you know, Rick Beato does a lot of music stuff. He was talking about the song and he didn't like it because he was like he didn't understand it I thought that's good. That's a good sign because the kids need shit that pair that pair's gonna understand Oh, well, there's no I mean, yeah Well, I mean all you got to do is it's funny You pass by history in in the beaches there or at Danforth musical

Yeah, and there's these artists that we've never heard of. Yeah, they're selling out these venues Yeah, and then you go you Google them, they're YouTube stars. And then you're like, that's their music. This woman's a K-pop star. Yeah, that's right. Because one of the members of her K-pop band, Black Pink. Black Pink, is she from Black Pink? Yes.

Oh my God, that's way. My daughter loves Black Pink. And one of the singers from Black Pink was in the most recent season of White Lotus. Okay. As the Thai woman who was kind of wasted on the show to be honest. I didn't watch season three. No.

I did. But it's hard to keep up with the new music and if you don't take baby steps now and then you'll fall behind really easily. So I love, like when my wife and I go into all these public schools and work with little kids, they're up on all this all the time I play two chords with this song and they go crazy and they all start singing it My only frame of reference for all this like kind of like Bob O'Lett is yeah Hello my kids singing in the house or whatever and Morgan who sings that Java Joe's on Friday live performance this song

Not now. It's kind of dusty and done now, but when this song was hot She was singing this song all the time. Yeah, and it's only a few months later, right? Because like, like it was back in February and March when the kids all knew this song. Okay, breaking news here, breaking news. If you guys whip out your DVD of shortcuts by the guy who directed MASH, Robert Alvin. See how it all comes together? Robert Robert and I loved shortcuts very much. Apparently you get a brief glance of Huey Lewis's dong. He whips it out briefly in shortcuts. There you go. So if you ever have a VHS copy of shortcuts and you see it's kind of messed up during the dong exposure, press pause because Bob kept pausing it and rewinding it. I wanted to... Fast times at Ridgemont High. rewinding it. I wanted to fast times at Ridgemont High. You don't want to see my VHS copy. I want a new drug. I want a new Dick and Ghostbusters guy was sued by Huey Lewis because I mean Ray

Parker, Ray Parker Jr. Oh yeah. Ghostbusters. Yeah. Well, sometimes you start talking and then it comes to you and you can slip it. I want a new ghost ha Right. I want a new ghost. Okay. Did we have fun fun? Wow. Good one. That's all that fucking matters Thank you for having us. You know what makes it more fun the live streamers. I got a shout out 1236 thank you 1236 bring back the newsletter brother. Oh, I was hanging with him and the snowman last Sunday Oh, he was a Christie as well. He was there too Andy and the snowman last Sunday. Oh, he was a Christie as well. He was there too. Andy, we love Andy. She was on this show recently with a Mike Willner's girlfriend who made me a pie, baked me a pie. East York John, I hope to see you at TMLX 19. Jeremy Hopkins, he's the official historian of Toronto Mike and he was on recently talking about old city hall. Oh, that was good too.

Thank you. From now on, I want you to spend more time on toast telling me what was good. Enough talk about me. Tell me more about me. Jay Ho's enough enough about me talking about me. Why don't you talk about me for a while? Okay. Moose grumpy. We love Moose grumpy. Leslie. We love Moose Grumpy. Leslie, I was in Leslieville two days ago. Tobias Vaughan, who gave us this information about Huey Lewis's penis in the Uncle Milti category, as J Ho says. Lots of fun. See you all. Okay. Tobias Vaughan, I'm deleting that comment. How dare you? How dare you after all the free entertainment I've given you? How dare you? And that brings us to the end of our 1,699th show.

Go to torontomike.com for all your Toronto Mike needs. Much love to all who made this possible. Where's our new version? You promised last host. You did say you were gonna have it ready. Did I say that? You son of a bitch. Rob Pruse. It's coming. By the way,

listen to the recent last week's episode of Ron Hawkins. I listened to it. I don't think he likes this cover. No, he did not. I think Lawrence liked it a bit more, but I don't think Ron likes this cover. No, what are you gonna do? It doesn't, the robots don't.

Did the AI make this? No, I made it myself. With my hands. Will the new version be by AI or you? It's going to be about a hundred percent by me. Okay, then I want it. I want it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going to bring a next host?

Yeah. Maybe the day of TMLX 19? Maybe TMLX. We'll play it over with the speakers. Oh, shit. I have a plan, okay? Thank you, Great Lakes Brewery. You're going to host us on June 26th. Thank you Palm A Pasta. You're going to feed us on June 26th. Thank you Manaris. I didn't tell you about the new episode, but it's with the guy Jim

Baiton from Tumblr's Pizza in Regina, Saskatchewan. People should subscribe and listen to season eight of Yes We Are Open. Much love to Nick Aini's Building Toronto Skyline with Brad Bradford. Ridley Funeral Home. I hope Brad Jones is at TMLX19. That guy's podcast is called Life's Undertaking. See you all tomorrow when I complete my Watchmen collection with Joey. Joey. Joey Serlins here. We're going to talk about the ongoing history of the Watchmen. Aub and I both love All Uncovered. It's one of my favorite songs. I'm going to get some fun facts about who's singing the backup vocals on that song.

There's some discussion online about who it is. I'm going to find out. See you all tomorrow on the live stream at 2 p.m. And that and that and that.