TuNesDay Celebrates the 74th Anniversary of the 45!

waters here from the waters wake up call this morning we were celebrating the 74th anniversary of the 45 rpm and remembering the quest sometimes you'd have to go on in order to find what you were looking for

here's one that I had as a kid and you would like to invite a beetle

I love them

lady Madonna

sure hey do you know what the B side of lady Madonna was

I don't remember.

It was a song that wasn't on any other album.

It was only on the B side of Lady Madonna.

It was by George and it was called The Inner Light.

I don't think I enjoyed it as much as the other one.

Yeah, you know, either you liked that sitar thing he got into in the late 60s or you really didn't that much.

That was like one of my mom's records and we got it as a kid.

And as we grew and it probably got put away and boxed up, throwed away, you know, or something.

Right.

don't know what ever happened to it but I remember using that because in a school in a class in a street we had to use some kind of song and bring a record of course that was about the only thing it had so we had to bring that to school and play that and sing it mouth at the class so that was

good.

So you had the lip sync lady Madonna.

Yep yep that's funny.

The baby at the breath so yeah.

And I'm sure all the kids went

remember, but in LA that was a long time ago.

Anyway, well keep up the good work.

I can remember here in Cedar Rapids There was a store called the giant and right when you'd walk in there was that record stand you were talking about Yeah, and it would have like the top 20 and you could go in and pick out your 45 that you had heard on the radio They got you so excited to buy that stuff

right,

right?

That's exactly how it was.

I thought it just brought back all those memories

There was something about having to go out and search for the 45 and have

Having that sense of, I found it, I found it, I'm so excited and you get it, you're excited to bring it home and put it on the turntable, whereas now it's like, eh, big deal, I just download that, boom.

Alright, there I got it.

Yeah,

the sense of discovery.

Ah, that's a beautiful thing.

Yeah,

there's none of that anymore, none of that.

Yeah,

boom, there it is.

I was always trying to find popcorn by hot butter.

You were having trouble finding that one?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And when they come on the radio, you scramble to get your recorder.

That was one of the solutions that everybody would do was try and record the thing, whether you...

Yeah, and then you'd want the whole song and the DJ had cut in at the end.

I know

that annoying DJ talking over the song.

What are they thinking?

Shut up!

Shut up!

Play the song!

Don't talk over it!

You're ruining it!

Now I gotta wait till it comes on

again.

Well, I'll tell you what, I will make you this promise.

I will play popcorn by hot butter and I will not talk over one second of it.

Okay, all right.

Then I

can record it.

Yeah, get your boombox out or whatever you got.

And then you

have... Okay,

I didn't have one of those.

I never had the 8-track thing.

I only had the cassette.

Hey, to each his own.

Do you still have an 8-track recorder?

Yes, I do.

Alright, that's cool.

Do you still have the Hot Mudder 45?

I never found it.

You never found it?

But I

have.

But I have the album.

How's the rest of the album?

I've never heard anything other than popcorn.

Probably not worth the time.

Good morning, this is Carol.

Carol, how are you Carol?

I'm great.

How are you?

I'm doing all right.

Thanks for asking.

Well, I'm glad you're doing all right because we missed you when you were off.

Well, thanks.

I appreciate that.

It's always good to get back and sit on my butt and play tunes.

Hey, I have a favorite 45.

Oh, good.

What was it?

Is it?

It might be a one hit wonder.

It's young blood.

And I can't remember how, what, how they place the title.

Is it come together right now?

Get together.

Come on people now.

Smile on your brother.

Everybody get together.

Everybody get together.

Yeah.

Going to love one another right now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's that.

I always say play that song at my funeral.

That's mine.

Yeah.

Speak

to the flower child.

My wannabe girl.

Yeah, man.

It's so hippiest, man.

It just makes you want to love everybody, you know, and give everybody.

buddy a flower yeah

yeah

pilgrimage to San Francisco man

I missed it I was a little too young to be a hippie but

yeah

I met a guy one time that had lived a life with the communes and everything

and

and

It was, it was not what I pictured at all.

It was very disappointing.

Yeah, that's what you hear.

Kind of like, I think George Harrison felt when he went to Haydash Berry and thought was garbage everywhere.

Yeah, he's- Good

morning, Mike.

How are you?

Well, I'm pretty good there, Carrie from Dicert.

How are you?

I

am doing fabulous.

Wondrous.

Wondrous and phantasmic, Carrie.

Yes.

Yep, yep.

You want to talk 45s, huh?

Huh?

Do you,

huh?

Yes, sir.

Good.

Yeah,

so...

What was your first, or what was, what's your story, lady?

I don't know if you remember Music Land.

Oh, of course I do.

Yes, the big corporate place.

Yeah,

Music

Land, it was in the Marshalltown Mall.

It was only in the malls, I think.

There were never any standalone Music Lands.

It was always in a mall.

Right, so

you walk in there and it's just...

filled with all kinds of records and albums and they were actually I think from what I remember they actually had like you know the big plastic sleeves that said like rock and country and that type of thing

yeah

but I was looking for Eric Clapton

Laydown Sally.

Oh Yeah, about 78.

I think.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

That was

my very first 45 that I bought.

Yeah?

At Musicland.

You still have it?

No.

Wow, Carrie.

My

goodness.

I know.

That's a thing.

We all

do dumb things, don't we?

Yeah, we do.

Mine was Lil' Willie by Sweet.

I have that somewhere.

I know I still own it.

I just, I looked for it yesterday when I knew I was gonna do this, but I couldn't find it.

That's cool.

And it was on this label that

No longer exists.

It's called Bell.

The Bell record label.

It had a big picture of a bell.

And there were certain, certain songs on this label.

Usually one hit wonders, small time.

Okay.

Kinds of things, but I don't know.

You see that label and it's like, boom, brings you right back.

It wasn't like Atlantic Records or Arista or any of those.

or Arista, I

should say.

Was it RCA?

Was it RCA that had the little red bull on it?

Am I thinking the right thing?

The little red

bull?

Yeah, there's a little red bull, I remember.

I

think it was a bull.

It had like a tan background.

I don't know why that's so vivid to me.

Yeah.

I don't know what that is, man.

But it was like, it

was tan and I'm sure it had a red bull on it and it was like down at the bottom.

It was underneath like all the, um, the late or not the label, like the name of the song and all that.

Well, you know what I should do?

I should look for the, uh, you lay down.

Sally record label

Liberty

look at that I yes it's RSO records now it makes total sense okay Robert Stigwood that's Robert Stigwood organization or something Robert Stigwood is the guy that owned the record label and produced Saturday Night Fever and grease a lot of that

probably why because I loved grease

I love

Saturday Night Fever I've got all those so yeah that's probably why

I guess I love

at it and don't think bull I think cow which is you know close no I just thank the good Lord that the mystery is over me

too

good morning good morning

I

am

yes

Tommy

James

at Woolworth

and Clinton did you say

yeah

Woolworth I forgot about Woolworth and it's like every place sold 45s back then Target and Kmart and Montgomery Ward Woolworth and Walgreens.

I think sold 45s, but that is a great

tune

like the solo he did drag in the line

that's a great one too somebody had brought that one up earlier yep yeah my all my favorite was always uh crimson and clover i like that one a lot oh

yeah that was a good one too we always loved going to ben franklin

i forgot about that one they had 45 zero too that's awesome

75 cents

yeah

that was a lot

I know.

A lot of times you couldn't afford it.

It's like I only got like 37 cents and some lint in my pocket.

That's right.

Yeah.

And of course, one of those ice cube chocolates is sticking your pocket.

Forget it.

Yeah, and it melts all over your money.

The first one that I remember buying was the Monkey's Daydream believer.

Yeah.

I would play it two lines.

Do you hate her

for

it?

Maybe I should phrase it a little more delicately.

When she does that, do you feel like punching her in the face?

I think it's Daydream believer in a hog calling queen or something.

Your ears are a little screwed up like

mine.

Yep, there's

a bathroom on the right.

I

thought that too.

Or have you ever seen Lorraine?

Or who'll stop Lorraine?

You

know, I don't know if you've ever heard my Tuesday topic of misheard lyrics, but we get into all of that.

Bacon carrot biscuits instead of taking care of business.

30 Thieves and the Thunder Chief instead of Dirty Deeds.

Oh my god!

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