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Speaker 1: I'm Buzzsnight, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to another look at this week in music history.

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Speaker 1: We are going to tackle the week of August eighteenth

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Speaker 1: to the twenty fourth, and nobody better to tackle it

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Speaker 1: than Harry Jacob's over at the Music History Desk.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Harry, Buzz, Happy to be here for another week,

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Speaker 2: A great week, A lot going on. We begin on

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Speaker 2: the eighteenth and nineteen sixty nine, the final day of

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Speaker 2: Woodstock happened and Jimmy Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner,

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Speaker 2: a legendary version, a rippin'.

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Speaker 3: Version of the Star Spangled Banner.

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Speaker 2: And you know that was I don't remember hearing anyone

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Speaker 2: play it on guitar before that.

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Speaker 3: Prior to that, you at.

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Speaker 1: All, no, And that was it was a bit, you know, audacious. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was considered audacious for him to do that. But

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Speaker 1: I guarantee those that had their senses at the moment,

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Speaker 1: that's a debatable question for all that were there having

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Speaker 1: their senses, but those that had their senses at that

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Speaker 1: moment certainly had those senses really firing out all cylinders

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Speaker 1: witnessing that.

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine that a lot of people copied Jimmy

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Speaker 2: in a lot of different ways, but the star Spangled

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Speaker 2: banner is one you know we saw. I think I

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Speaker 2: just saw the click come up on Instagram of Steve

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Speaker 2: Vai doing it at one point. But you know a

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Speaker 2: bunch of other guys have done it, and it's haunting

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Speaker 2: and it's great, and it really is, you know, an

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Speaker 2: attention getter. When you hear it, it's immediately recognizable. On

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Speaker 2: August eighteenth, nineteen seventy seven, the Police began recording Outlandis

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Speaker 2: Dear More if I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: That right, But that's pretty good. Roxanne was on that album.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: What's funny thinking about that, then, what were the Police considered,

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Speaker 1: especially in the early days of their album releases. What

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Speaker 1: genre did people kind of consider them this?

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Speaker 2: You know, this was this is an interesting I think

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Speaker 2: I think probably more new wave than traditional rock, right. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was a different, different sound for sure, but great.

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Speaker 2: I remember being you know, I wasn't we talked about this.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't really a sex pistols punk kind of person,

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Speaker 2: but this, you know, it straddled that line.

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Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, it was definitely considered new wave and

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Speaker 1: then just to think about it, you know, now, to

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Speaker 1: this day you hear a song like Roxanne either on

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty funny, I can think about it.

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Speaker 2: My favorite version of Roxanne, maybe one of yours as well,

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Speaker 2: is in the movie forty eight Hours. We're Reggie Hammond

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Speaker 2: sitting in his cell and Jack Kates played by Nick

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Speaker 2: walkman on and he's screaming, Roxanne, you don't have to

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Speaker 2: put I wish I could do. I wish I could

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Speaker 3: That's a good one. That's good. I remember that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety two, Kurt Cobaine Courtney Love became parents to

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Speaker 3: And I have not heard.

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Speaker 3: Through to this day. Yeah. Nineteen sixty four, another Beetle story.

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Speaker 3: Dovetelling on that one. They began their.

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Speaker 2: First tour of the US and their first date was

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Speaker 2: San Francisco, all right in nineteen sixty four. In seventy eight,

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Speaker 2: I got to do this because you know, I'm a

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Speaker 2: The Commodore is hit number one with once twice, three

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that one.

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Speaker 1: Look, the Convodores were of a different flavor. He'll kilk yeah,

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Speaker 2: Love, oh yeah, oh yeah. And he still plays those

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Speaker 2: He still embraces his Commodore history.

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Speaker 1: Never had the privilege to meet him, but those who

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Speaker 3: He's just wonderful. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: August twentieth, nineteen sixty nine. Another another Beatles story. Here,

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Speaker 2: Buz Surprise Surprise Beatles recorded together for the last time

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Speaker 3: Probably like, yeah, that's it, We're done. That's it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty three, the Police top the Billboard charts. We go,

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Speaker 2: we go again, back to the Police, with every breath

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Speaker 3: More of that new wave of music.

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Speaker 2: I remember being in Massachusetts somewhere and seeing an ad,

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Speaker 2: maybe a full pager from the Massachusetts State Police, an

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Speaker 2: the ad, Oh every breath you take, every step you take.

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Speaker 3: Will be watching you. Pretty brilliant. Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety one, Metallica released the black album Legendary antwer samman.

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Speaker 2: August twenty first, nineteen sixty one, Patsy Climb Recordy Crazy

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Speaker 3: What a song had gotten that I had forgotten?

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Speaker 1: Written by Willie you know.

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Speaker 2: Really two great songs on this day on August twenty fourth,

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Speaker 2: She got Crazy and then you got nineteen seventy nine,

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Speaker 2: speaking a new wave, Gary Newman's Cars.

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Speaker 3: That's a catchy that's a catchy number. It sure is

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Speaker 1: That it has never been used in a car commercial

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Speaker 2: whether it was or wasn't used. I have a tough

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Speaker 2: time believing that you can explain music licensing rights while

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Speaker 2: I'm doing this and why may not have been used?

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Speaker 1: Well, music licensing rights are the lifeblood for you know, artists, publishers,

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Speaker 1: And ultimately, when commercials are made radio commercials, TV commercials,

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Speaker 1: occasionally showing up at a lost eighties tour of some type.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, I gave you enough time to look. Did

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Speaker 2: Did, And what do you know, what else is he

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Speaker 2: playing besides cars on one of those tours. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: so the answer to that is we did not have

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Speaker 2: accurate information. It was used in a car commercial, in

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Speaker 2: a Nissan commercial in two thousand and two, okay, right,

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Speaker 2: and was also used in a Diehard battery commercial.

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Speaker 3: Okay as well? Yeah it was you, I mean it would.

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Speaker 3: It's a it's a natural kind of thing to be used.

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Speaker 2: But two thousand and two a Nissan Ultima commercial and

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Speaker 3: We so corrected, Harry, Yeah, there we go.

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Speaker 2: It was Gary Newman actually performed the song using the

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Speaker 2: That crazy Gary Neuman did it for that commercial.

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Speaker 3: That is the epitome of a gearhead. Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 2: August twenty second, nineteen sixty six, the Beatles played their

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Speaker 2: last concert at Shay Stadium. I think I've asked you

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Speaker 2: this before, but you never saw them, right?

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Speaker 1: I never saw them? Brothers did. My brothers went to Shay,

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Speaker 3: Crazy yep. In nineteen seventy.

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Speaker 2: August twenty second, Elton John made his US debut, playing

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Speaker 2: He and Billy Joel ended up playing the same venue,

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Speaker 2: Billy after Elton. Pretty cool again, that competition between Elton

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Speaker 3: It started, right there at the beginning for both of them.

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Speaker 2: August twenty third, nineteen ninety, Tonad O'Connor refused to perform

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Speaker 2: the mandatory national anthem.

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Speaker 3: I's see that's Saturday Live. Are you aware of that?

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Speaker 1: No, not at all, but just yesterday just because we

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Speaker 1: If you want to see one of the sweetest performances

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Speaker 1: sweet with this person Van Morrison, look for the version

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Speaker 1: of have I Told You Lately that I Love You

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Speaker 1: that Van does with Shanade. It's heartwarming and heartfelt and

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Speaker 1: she's a nervous wreck. You could tell she is so

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Speaker 1: uncomfortable in her skin at that performance, and Van makes

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Speaker 1: It is one of the most authentic, beautiful and sweet

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Speaker 1: performances of a great song.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've got to go back and look for that.

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Speaker 2: You know, I do love that song, and you know

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Speaker 3: It's wonderful. It's a good endorsement.

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Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy four, John Lennon testified in court that

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Speaker 3: You think this was conspiracy stuff or you think it

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Speaker 1: paranoia that was just paranoia. But I think it was real.

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Speaker 2: and a lot of that stuff was going on. You know,

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Speaker 2: August twenty fourth, nineteen seventy five, Queen began recording Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Speaker 2: You ever seen anything on the recording of this, You

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Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty one, Mark David Chapman was sentenced twenty years

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Speaker 3: For murdering John Lennon.

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Speaker 2: I don't even like I don't even like doing the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's impossible to walk by that area in Central

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Speaker 3: On a sad note. But it is what it is.

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Speaker 3: It happened, and that is.

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Speaker 2: This Week in Music History for the weekend in August

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Speaker 2: twenty fourth plus.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, this week in music History covers the good,

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Speaker 1: the bad, the indifferent, and the tragic and the ugly,

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Speaker 1: so we got to cover it. So thank you Harry

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Speaker 1: Jacobs for another look at this week in music history,

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Speaker 1: and well thank you for listening to the Taking a

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