[Editor’s Note: This is the latest edition of Tick’s Notes and Tunes. It is a transcript of a fictional radio broadcast with direct links to the tunes being played. The transcript is in 3 parts.
(1.)The first is the first half of a transcript of the radio broadcast with tune links; (2.) The Editorial: (which normally deals with the subject in the title of this post or College Football Re-Alignment; and (3.) The second half of the radio broadcast with tune links.
The purpose of this blog is to discuss, enlighten and educate the reader about relevant political, economic and business matters and to help maintain both a record and an appreciation for good old man-made music before AI makes man and real music a mere afterthought. ]
Good evenin’ folks
Stony here
Along with the rest of the crew
Here at DJ Ltd
Hope all of yinz have good AC
‘cos it has been pretty
Fricken hot here.
So hot…I don’t think it
Wise to talk much
Because it just creates more hot air.
Which is somethin’
We definitely don’t need.
The Oracle
Meanin’ the Oracle of Wiki says that
Our first group was
A soul and R&B group
In the 60s and 70s.
In fact according to the Oracle
Little Royal was/is often called
James Brown’s little Brother
And we know that Red Dog would like that
So let’s kick off tonight’s festivities with
A tune that requires everyone to
Use their imagination
I guess visions of Mr. Brown
…or in this case Little Royal…
Dancin’ with a razor in his hand
Might do the trick
Here’s
Little Royal
Presumably dancin’ to
Razor Blade
https://youtu.be/LStgcE0g6gY?si=sr8_omSz2UQbpJXr
Next we have a band originally from
Sacremento that really needs no real introduction
Because it’s had it’s albums go platinum
One of the band’s
most famous tunes
is Going the Distance.
Our next tune is by them
And it just so happens to be
one of our very favorites
Simply because
…not only is the tune awesome
But the video is too.
Especially the guy
In the ballcap who wants “2”.
Be prepared to chortle and groove for this one
Here’s
CAKE with Short Skirt/Long Jacket
https://youtu.be/X5KmB8Laemg?si=8PW5lE3gH9ZX3bgD
Well, if that didn’t put Yinz
In a good mood
It might be that
Nuthin will.
But that doesn’t mean
We won’t try
Last time we played a tune that was
Sung by one of our all-time favs
For singin’ Western Tunes
His name was Frankie Laine
This time we are gonna hear from the other artist
Who sits on Mount Olympus
When it comes to singin’
These types of tunes
Marty Robbins wrote a lot of his own tunes
But for this one
Which was the theme song for a movie
By the same name
It Was written by
Jerry Livingston, with lyrics by Mack David
The movie itself starred an great great actor
…who needs to get mentioned more often than he does these
days…
Coop
Talkin’ about the none other than Gary Cooper
…sorta the tall silent “everyman” type
In any event, here’s the theme song to a movie
called
the Hangin’ Tree
sung by none other than the one and only Marty Robbins
https://youtu.be/LT7iTxnLbgA?si=OzmiAQRojPuoOtu9
Ah yes,
back in simpler
But much more charming days
when there were Good Guys and Bad Guys
wearin’ the correct color hats
and, they actually wrote good musical scores for movies.
Well, Buck is now
being shooed out of his seat in the control booth
By some shall we say
Vision from yester-year
Hmmmm …what is this Rufus?
Slightly faded pull-over
Dirty ole gold sweater with a big blue “P”
All To match his warmup blue pants
Perhaps a bit of a bulge around the waste
…too many nights
At the “Big O” perhaps
Or maybe Primanti Brother’s
Anyway, I’ll let Rufus tell yinz more
Take it away Rufus…
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Hello folks:
It seems that daily, if not hourly, we get inundated with news about college football and conference realignment. Of course, it’s all about the money. The notion that major college sports like football and basketball are for amateurs is, to borrow a famous Kansas lyric, dust in the wind.
It’s all quite sad. The SEC, the Big Ten and who knows whatever other conference comes along and wants to turn the whole show into the Super 2, Super 3 or may Super 4 conferences. The ACC with traitorous …yes I said traitorous teams like Clemson and Florida State want to break their ACC contract and leave for allegedly greener– meaning more money soaked– pastures.
The rule of law. Ha. What a joke. Don’t get me started about bribes to Supreme Court Justices.
I guess if pressed I’d have to admit that its wrong for the Universities to make big time money and not pay these kids. I don’t pretend to understand the ins and outs of name image and likeness, and how the money really works because frankly I’m so disgusted by sports anymore that I find myself paying less and less attention to any of it. And frankly, I hope everyone else pays less attention too. Big time college sports is becoming like real life. The rich keep getting richer and richer and leaving everyone else behind—or at least that’s what the Big 10 and the SEC seem to want to do. And the likes of Clemson and Florida State seem more than willing to go along. And all of this is not to mention the more successful Benedict Arnolds like USC and UCLA leaving the venerable old Pac 10 or 12 or whatever it was for the bigger money of the Big 10 which is now the Big teen something. Other dominoes have, sadly followed suit as well. And yeah. Stanford, Cal and SMU in the ACC. It all boggles the mind.
Where have the old rivalries gone? Those were the games that really mattered for the local folks. Not the money. Friendly rivalries at Thanksgiving are no more.
What are these new super conferences going to do anyway. Have their own playoffs within playoffs? They are simply going to be too big to truly resolve which teams are the best within the respective conferences.
One thing I will say, I hope that these kids that get lots of Name Image and Likeness money will be required to reimburse their respective Universities for the full cost of their room, board and tuition. To give highly compensated kids making big NIL money free tuition and free room & board grants and scholarships would be nothing short of a crime, and would rightfully be highly offensive to taxpayers and/or other full tuition paying parents and students.
Speaking of which, my alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh, which seems to be getting overlooked by many in the conference re-alignment discussions, was named by CBS Sports commentator as having the greatest all-time “Mount Rushmore” of big name football stars. Yes, Pitt’s football stars are #1 and were put ahead of all today’s big name schools like Alabama, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Michigan, Oklahoma, Southern Cal etc etc. And, of course, ahead of Penn State. After all, Pitt grads include Aaron Donald, Tony Dorsett, Dan Marino, Larry Fitzgerald, Curtis Martin, Mike Ditka, Darrelle Revis, Rickey Jackson, Chris Doleman, Russ Grimm, Jimbo Covert and, that great middle linebacker from those great 50s Detroit Lions teams, Joe Schmidt. Pitt also claims 9, count ‘em 9 national football titles (albeit 8 were before WWII). See Bryan McArdo https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-college-footballs-mount-rushmores-based-on-nfl-success-pitt-takes-top-spot-usc-miami-right-behind/
Go Panthers !! See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPZmXToffZQ
In any event, that’s all I’ve got right now. Thanks for listening.
And oh…yes, the outfit. My old Pitt cheerleader outfit.
I won’t tell yinz from when.
Anyway, this is Rufus Coldwater
Back to you Stony
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Okay thanks Rufus
I was wonderin’ why you were wearin’ that Gawd awful
Blue and yeller outfit today.
…you look like…
Well I don’t know what
…how old is that outfit anyway
…don’tchya think it looks a might snug
ya might wanna think about a diet !
I don’t think Pitt’ll be beatin’ the door down
To get your cheerleading services again
…at least not any time soon….as in ever.
But don’t worry
we still luv ya
Okay next up is a tune
That Suzi brung us from the garage
And when I think about it
It’s a perfect follow up
To Rufus’s editorial
And the way he’s dressed.
Looking at the liner notes…
Peter Kelaher who posted
This next video
tells us that this tune was
to use his words:
“Released in 1966 on Parlophone,
this was The Morloch’s 2nd of three 45s.
The band was named
after “morloch” in H.G. Well’s classic,
“The Time Machine”. The song was written
by band members, Noel Neates & Laurie Crooks.
Sometimes regarded as the
1st psychedelic record produced in Australia,
the song, sadly, did not dent the Top 40”
With that said here’s
The Morloch
with
Time Machine
https://youtu.be/n07kcWHMqoE?si=595i1gpppv7Lc3iB
Yeah, I can dig that as they used to say…
Next up is another garage special
That our Assistant Executive Producer
Of Everything Suzi
has brung us up from downstairs
in our own garage
Trouble is the label is scratched off
Except someone has scrawled
In ink
Fruit Machine Willow Tree
On it
She says it’s great…
And since Suzi
Has such good tastes
We’ll take it on her recommendation alone
And give this tune a whirl
So here goes….
https://youtu.be/2MrV3kPlmcQ?si=ffol3lcSgt_ieSxq
Okay now that we’ve given Yinz
Somethin’ a little on the smooth side
It’s time to windup tonight’s show with
A tune that
Wikiwand.com tells us
And we quote:
“Nutbush City Limits” is a
semi-autobiographical song written
by Tina Turner
which commemorates her rural hometown
of Nutbush in Haywood County Tennessee
Originally released as a single
On
United Artists Records
in August 1973,
it is one of the last hits
that husband-wife R&B duo
Ike and Tina Turner
released together.”
Here’s singer Beth Hart does a killer version
Of this tune
Along with one of GURU’s geeetttarr heroes
Joe Bonamassa
Here they give us a fabulous joint effort
Hart’s vocals are absolutely killer on this…
So let’s bring home tonight’s show with
Nutbush City Limits
https://youtu.be/b6VEHUJwUho?si=zISKKVSiN4CdPRnY
Well, that’s it
There ain’t no more
I sure do hope that you folks
Enjoyed tonight’s show
as much as I did.
So for Suzi, Buck, GURU
And Rufus
And all the other folks
…and critters
here at station DJ Ltd
Goodnight
And don’t ever let
Those gosh darned
nasty bed bugs Bite.
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