Speaker 1: Lucky Dip time, Lucky Lucky Dip time? What it is
Speaker 1: in your lucky dip today? Emel?
Speaker 2: Hello, Hi, how are you great?
Speaker 3: And you.
Speaker 2: Wonderful?
Speaker 1: It's weird because we've just chatted so much beforehand, to
Speaker 1: then say how are you is the weirdest thing of
Speaker 1: all time.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm going to do today's lucky dip, and
Speaker 2: you know this. I really enjoy finding out meanings behind songs. Yes,
Speaker 2: you do, right, Yes, I'm going to play you a
Speaker 2: little bit of a song that has such an unbelievably
Speaker 2: sad backstory. Oh my god, but you would never think it. Okay,
Speaker 2: remember this song.
Speaker 3: When Buelvigamonacha wom badel.
Speaker 2: The Yes So that was Dancing in the moon Light
Speaker 2: by Top Load Up, which came out in two thousand.
Speaker 2: That's not that old.
Speaker 1: I mean it's old, but not that old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well twenty four years old. I know it doesn't
Speaker 2: seem like that long ago, doesn't nu. Okay, but that's
Speaker 2: not the original. The original version of that song was
Speaker 2: written in nineteen sixty nine by a man named Sherman Kelly.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, okay, so it was written in nineteen seventy. Actually, sorry,
Speaker 2: but this is what that song is about. In nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty nine, Sherman Kelly and his girlfriend and some friends
Speaker 2: rented a yacht and they traveled to this island called
Speaker 2: Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands with their friends and
Speaker 2: the girlfriend and Sherman got really really seasick on the
Speaker 2: way there. That'd be me, yeah, like nothing worse than
Speaker 2: being seizing. So you can understand they didn't want to
Speaker 2: get back on the boat to go back to where
Speaker 2: they were staying. So they said to their friends, you
Speaker 2: know what, you guys, go off, come back and get
Speaker 2: us tomorrow. They thought, we'll just stay here for the night.
Speaker 2: So anyway, because he'd been feeling so shit, he didn't
Speaker 2: think to get his wallet and all that stuff from
Speaker 2: the boat. So they're there thinking, fuck, he's got nothing,
Speaker 2: no money, no nothing, none of them. So they're like okay.
Speaker 2: They go to a couple of hotels and ask, you know,
Speaker 2: if they can stay the night, they'll pay them back
Speaker 2: the next day. One guy was like absolutely not. The
Speaker 2: other place they went to, the guy's like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: let me have sex with you girlfriend, and they're right,
Speaker 2: So it was like a no go, and the girlfriend's
Speaker 2: like you know what, it's such a beautiful night. Let's
Speaker 2: just sleep on the beach. Fine, that's what they do
Speaker 2: when they're asleep. They were attacked by this street gang
Speaker 2: who'd been operating in the neighborhood. This is really horrible, okay.
Speaker 2: They were called the Fountain Valley Gang. Five gang members
Speaker 2: bashed Sherman with baseball bats while they raped his girlfriend.
Speaker 2: So she was gang raped while he was beaten to
Speaker 2: the point where they assumed he was dead and they
Speaker 2: ran off. Oh my god. Somehow Sherman and the girlfriend
Speaker 2: were able to get themselves to the one hospital in town. Now,
Speaker 2: Sherman says he obviously survived. He says of when he
Speaker 2: was in the hospital, this is his quote. I woke
Speaker 2: up to the sound of my hospital roommate screaming in pain.
Speaker 2: Finally the screaming stopped, and I heard two doctors talking
Speaker 2: about him. That's it, he's gone, said one doctor about
Speaker 2: the other patient. What about him, You think he's gonna
Speaker 2: make it? And the other doctor said no, I doubt it.
Speaker 2: And I realized they were talking about me.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And also, it's one of those islands where, like I
Speaker 2: don't think it's a top notch hospital situation. So his
Speaker 2: drifting sort of in and out of consciousness for a
Speaker 2: few days ends up having to stay with a friend
Speaker 2: there for quite some time to recover until he's well
Speaker 2: enough to go back to the States, where then he
Speaker 2: had to have like he was beaten so badly that
Speaker 2: when he got to the States and the doctors saw him,
Speaker 2: they had to reset all his bones and everything because
Speaker 2: he was fucked. Oh my god, anyway, that song, you
Speaker 2: would think, Oh my god, dancing in the moonlight, everybody's
Speaker 2: feeling warm and bright. He wrote that song as like
Speaker 2: he said, this is his quote. I envisioned an alternate reality,
Speaker 2: the dream of a peaceful and joyous celebration of life.
Speaker 2: It was just me imagining a better world than the
Speaker 2: one that I had just experienced in Saint Croix. So
Speaker 2: like how that night should have been as opposed to
Speaker 2: what it was.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Whenever I hear that song, oh that's all you'll think
Speaker 2: about bumps. Yeah, isn't that unbelievable?
Speaker 1: Yes, it sounds like such a happy, happy every bad Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know one I'll ever listen to it to the
Speaker 1: same that never never, How did you? Out of all songs,
Speaker 1: I decide to deep dive on that one.
Speaker 2: I think because I had thought, because I like this
Speaker 2: behind the song thing. You know, you're just watching something,
Speaker 2: and then it'll be oh, and then this is a
Speaker 2: meaning for this song, and I thought right, And then
Speaker 2: when I read it, I was like, oh, fuck, surely
Speaker 2: not many people know that.
Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't know that.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Wow. You like to find either the really sex related
Speaker 1: ones or the really grim ones loo.
Speaker 2: When it comes to stories, either end of the spectrum,
Speaker 2: isn't it?
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