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Speaker 2: What's Up, Good People? This is quest Love.
Speaker 1: In addition to our weekly interviews of The Quest Love Show,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be doing some things periodically where I'll
Speaker 1: tell you a little bit more about a guest or
Speaker 1: what's going on in my life.
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Speaker 1: And you know, We'll be recording these a few times
Speaker 1: a month where I'll basically, you know, answer letters. So
Speaker 1: we have a message from executes on ig as. What
Speaker 1: are my top five TV theme songs no particular order.
Speaker 1: The theme to Barney Miller funky bassline, but we used
Speaker 1: to do the Barney like Google or YouTube Barney Miller theme,
Speaker 1: very funky number four.
Speaker 2: You know it's weird one.
Speaker 1: It has a very odd title, which is a song
Speaker 1: called Suicide Is Painless. Suicide is Painless is also known
Speaker 1: as the theme for Mash. Mash was I've never watched
Speaker 1: one episode of Mash, but the second you heard that theme,
Speaker 1: no matter where you were, if you were.
Speaker 2: My age, you didn't it was time to go to bed.
Speaker 1: So whenever I hear Mash, suddenly the next thing that
Speaker 1: happens is.
Speaker 2: Go to bed. So suicide is Painless the theme to match.
Speaker 1: The third theme I will mention is the Bobby McFerrin
Speaker 1: version of the comedy show now known as The Huxtable Household.
Speaker 1: I can say Huxtable right, yeah, as you know each
Speaker 1: season there would be uh. I love shows that do
Speaker 1: new title cards each season or spices it up and
Speaker 1: does new things. So the all a cappella Bobby McFerrin
Speaker 1: version of that comedy show with the Huxtable family and
Speaker 1: it that, to me is a very notable when you
Speaker 1: start harmonizing with the theme that that means you onto something.
Speaker 1: So I will say that that's number three. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is weird. There's a piano player named John Costa. I
Speaker 1: believe he's Pittsburgh Late it and jazz musician and he's
Speaker 1: the sound of Fred Rogers, which we effectually known as
Speaker 1: Mister Rogers Neighborhood Show. As a child of the seventies,
Speaker 1: that's one of the shows I was allowed to watch,
Speaker 1: a very friendly you know, like it's so weird that
Speaker 1: it with just very little, very little to work with
Speaker 1: in terms of instrumentation.
Speaker 2: Somehow, John Costa.
Speaker 1: Just absolutely sort of conveys warmth and emotion and his
Speaker 1: entire scoring, the theme song and the closing song and
Speaker 1: things in between as well. Probably my favorite thing of
Speaker 1: that whole show is the sort of sign off production tag,
Speaker 1: which is the last thing that you hear. There's a
Speaker 1: really long our peggio at the very end of the show.
Speaker 1: It's like seven eight seconds, and that is the comforting
Speaker 1: like if I think of a comforting moment in my childhood,
Speaker 1: that's the soundtrack to it, just that last eight second
Speaker 1: arpeggio thing. But my number one theme song of all
Speaker 1: time comes courtesy of my all time favorite television show,
Speaker 1: which is Soul Train. Now, Soul Train is going through
Speaker 1: various themes. The most iconic of them, of course, was
Speaker 1: written by two legendary Philadelphian producers, Gamble and Huff.
Speaker 2: The sound of Philadelphia Soul Trained Soul Train.
Speaker 1: That's the most iconic one. But that's not my favorite
Speaker 1: soul train theme. The best soul training theme of all
Speaker 1: time comes courtesy of an artist named O'Brien, and that's
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty three to nineteen eighty seven Soul Train's
Speaker 1: a Coming theme.
Speaker 2: There's two versions of it.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my boy DJ Nick Puzzo, who likes
Speaker 1: the original version, only the LP version, which is cool.
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like zap or like West Coast, you.
Speaker 2: Know, trunk music.
Speaker 1: But the remix version of Soul Trains Are Coming, the
Speaker 1: late eighty three to the spring of eighty seven version,
Speaker 1: to me, is the best. And actually, to add on
Speaker 1: to Adilla theory, j Dill's mom made note that the
Speaker 1: sort of offbeat clapping of the final scene in the
Speaker 1: Cosby Portier trilogy movie a piece of the action. If
Speaker 1: you're a movie theater of ficionado of the seventies, you
Speaker 1: know that Bill Cosby Sidney Poitier made.
Speaker 2: Some classic films together.
Speaker 1: I'm not counting Ghost Dad, well, I think Portier The
Speaker 1: Ghost Dad, but of course I'm talking about Uptown Saturday Night,
Speaker 1: absolute classic.
Speaker 2: Let's do it again, absolute classic. A piece of action.
Speaker 1: Is not as strong as the first two, but it'll do.
Speaker 1: I believe that's the acting debut of Shirley Ralph. I
Speaker 1: mean winner Shirley Ralph as a teenager. But at the
Speaker 1: very end, it's a story about a school teacher in
Speaker 1: the public school system, and there's a scene at the
Speaker 1: end where someone brings out a boombox and they all
Speaker 1: start dancing. But you know, when they make movies, they
Speaker 1: have not admitted a device that will let you listen
Speaker 1: to music in real time and also have dialogue without
Speaker 1: bleeding music bleeding or dialogue bleeding. So oftentimes what they
Speaker 1: used to do was just have people dance to nothing.
Speaker 1: So if you're ever watching a movie and the music's
Speaker 1: not matching the movement, it's often because the directors says
Speaker 1: and and they'll just dance to anything. Nowadays, I just
Speaker 1: did a cameo on the new Mandy Kaling show, her
Speaker 1: new project, and there's a music scene in there, and
Speaker 1: what they do is they just play a click track.
Speaker 1: So they'll be in like a nightclub setting or whatever,
Speaker 1: and you'll just hear and you're supposed to respond to that.
Speaker 1: But when the editing happens, then they'll insert the song
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be in there. But in this case
Speaker 1: PC of Action, they're clapping to a song. But once
Speaker 1: they added the staple singer song to it, the clapping
Speaker 1: started to drag and a ten year old James Yancey
Speaker 1: took a note that wow, why are they clapping off rhythm?
Speaker 1: And that was his eureka moment. So for me, in
Speaker 1: Soul Train, there's a half hour mark in the theme,
Speaker 1: and in that theme there's an editing glitch, and that
Speaker 1: editing glitch causes the clap to be delayed as well.
Speaker 1: That's sort of the reason why I like playing offbeat,
Speaker 1: like just as a tribute to that my favorite theme.
Speaker 1: So they are my five favorite themes executes. All right, okay,
Speaker 1: next Mario, what's up?
Speaker 2: Mario?
Speaker 1: Mario says question from the mailbag? All right, what's respect
Speaker 1: for you? Having the late great legend Frankie Beverly. But
Speaker 1: it was a hard listen because he really wasn't providing
Speaker 1: much in the way of details and his answers. Since
Speaker 1: you've always been finding your way with interviewing, how do
Speaker 1: you feel when you have.
Speaker 2: A difficult interview?
Speaker 1: Do you do anything special when the Frankly Beverly interview
Speaker 1: was done, or do you just treat it like it
Speaker 1: was any other show. It's hard to know what type
Speaker 1: of guest you're going to have when you're in this
Speaker 1: type of situations. Oftentimes there is kind of a cigh
Speaker 1: of relief on the end of the artist, who will
Speaker 1: usually give note back that wow, I never did an
Speaker 1: interview like that. Oftentimes I like to ask questions that
Speaker 1: no one asks. I learned this probably during Sli in
Speaker 1: the Family Stone. There was a two members of that
Speaker 1: group that I interviewed that started to tear up at
Speaker 1: the end because they said.
Speaker 2: To me, like, wow, I never.
Speaker 1: Knew how important it was for someone to ask me
Speaker 1: how do I feel? I purposely in the Sly in
Speaker 1: the Family Stone documentary, asked, hey, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about something which is different than tell me about when.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah happened?
Speaker 1: Because how you feel causes you to question yourself and
Speaker 1: your emotions. That's how you know a person's human, and
Speaker 1: oftentimes we're not treated as human. We treat his product,
Speaker 1: and artists are especially treat his product. Tell me about
Speaker 1: your new album now. Sometimes I just want to ask
Speaker 1: where do you have for breakfast today? But in the
Speaker 1: case of Frankie Beverley, Frankie was, yeah, kind of north
Speaker 1: of seventy. But regardless, we felt it was necessary to
Speaker 1: give him his flowers, so that's why we titled it
Speaker 1: Frankie Beverly Gets his Flowers. Previously, I will say that
Speaker 1: the Roy Airs interview was a little bit difficult. We
Speaker 1: weren't prepared because he had sort of spotty memory on things,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you just gotta go with it. I too,
Speaker 1: had a lot of questions. I had read Jan Gay's book.
Speaker 1: Jan Gay is a wife widow. She just recently passed
Speaker 1: of Marvin gay and in her book, I believe it's
Speaker 1: called After the Dance, I think, and she talks about
Speaker 1: her time with Frankie Beverly and that was.
Speaker 2: Her version of stuff. Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, I had a lot of questions pertaining
Speaker 1: to Marvin Gaye discovering him and also his time in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and all that stuff. But nevertheless, I'm glad to
Speaker 1: have gotten one of his last interviews.
Speaker 2: Very honored for that.
Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes you just it makes you a
Speaker 1: better communicator. I just say that having a conversation with
Speaker 1: people sometimes you're just not prepared for how open someone is.
Speaker 2: But I enjoyed nevertheless. But thank you for your question,
Speaker 2: Mario