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Speaker 1: Buzzsnight, the host of the Taking Oak podcast, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to another look at this week in music history. It's

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Speaker 1: for the week of September eighth through the fourteenth, And

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Speaker 1: there I turned to the maestro of magic, the maestro

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Speaker 1: of music magic, Harry Jacob's over at the music history desk.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Harry, pleasure to be here, Buzz.

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Speaker 3: Through the miracle of modern technology, we are several, probably

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Speaker 3: twenty five hundred miles away from each other, that's right, But.

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Speaker 2: This is the way we do it these days. We're

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Speaker 2: so close, but yet we're so far.

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Speaker 3: And Carol King, September ninth is the first day we

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Speaker 3: will cover in music history for the week of the

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Speaker 3: eighth to the fourteenth. Nineteen seventy one big day. John

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Speaker 3: Lennon released Imagine and that was just a monster of

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Speaker 3: a song this day, you know, yeah, just a just

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Speaker 3: a really really lovely song.

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Speaker 2: Yep Hetty I might add too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, this you know, this is a you know,

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Speaker 3: as you said, this is a you know, a short week.

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Speaker 2: This is a quick one.

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Speaker 3: In nineteen sixty five, again, we never get through one

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Speaker 3: of these without something for the Beatles. But September thirteenth,

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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty five Beatles won their first Grammy for Best

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Speaker 3: Performance by a Vocal Group for A Hard Day's Night.

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Speaker 3: This solidified their dominance in global pop.

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Speaker 1: For them to win a Grammy big deal. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if they thought of Grammy was a big deal.

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Speaker 3: You know, this is before they were saying they were

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Speaker 3: bigger than Jesus, before Lennon said that they were, you know,

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Speaker 3: as bigger, bigger.

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Speaker 2: I forgot what the que what's the quote?

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Speaker 1: I think it was taken out in so many contexts.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but bigger, bigger than Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Think yeah, and this, you know, sixty five think about it.

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Speaker 3: Two years after they landed here. They were at the

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Speaker 3: height of their fame and fortune. So I don't think that.

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Speaker 3: I think the Grammy was just like, oh that's.

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Speaker 2: Cool, yeah, probably right, not like we both.

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Speaker 3: Really like Steven Wilson, who, by the way, we want

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Speaker 3: to come on taking a walk podcast with you. But

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Speaker 3: if Stephen Wilson won a Grammy, it'd be a huge deal. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: for Steven Wilson. It wasn't a big deal for the

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Speaker 3: Beatles two years after, you know, really their explosion, so

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Speaker 3: you know, it wasn't important to them. Probably and I'm

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Speaker 3: sure McCartney would would say something, you know, gentlemanly about

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Speaker 3: what an honor it was at that time. But you know,

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Speaker 3: go back, you know, sixty one years at this point

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Speaker 3: or fifty sixty years, and I don't know that they

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Speaker 3: thought thought it was a huge deal.

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Speaker 1: I'll bet mister George Martin level set them on that

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Speaker 1: and put some perspective in their head about that if

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Speaker 1: they you know, if they had been thinking otherwise, I

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Speaker 1: would bet he he had a profound influence in that

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Speaker 2: Let me say that another way.

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Speaker 3: I bet there was a come to Jesus meeting about

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Speaker 3: the Grammy probably at that point in time, right, yeah, yeah, But.

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Speaker 1: I mean they were listen, they had the theatrical side

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Speaker 1: of things. They knew how to kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, just their whole vibe. But I think deep

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Speaker 1: down they must have understood the depth of that at

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: There's a kind of a New England, Massachusetts connection to

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Speaker 3: the next story, and really it's the last one for

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Speaker 3: the day. We just have three stories for the week

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Speaker 3: of September eight through the fourteenth eighty one. The Stones

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Speaker 3: began their iconic American tour with the show in Philly.

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Speaker 2: Do you know why I.

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Speaker 3: Say it was a there was a tie to Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: I know you do.

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Speaker 1: No, Oh, okay, I'm gonna I oh, I do, yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: the Wistard connection.

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Speaker 2: That's correct, Thank you. It took me a while. There's

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Speaker 2: been years of impacting the brain cells.

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Speaker 1: Yes, talk about that because you you could talk about it,

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Speaker 3: And in nineteen eighty one, when the Stones were rehearsing

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Speaker 3: of ways, Slave was on that right. They rehearsed for

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Speaker 3: their world tour at Longview Farms in north Brookfield, Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: Gil Mark our Goal.

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Speaker 3: Owned Longview Farms, and it was a very interesting place

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Speaker 3: it was a big deal when the Stones came through

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Speaker 3: and decided they were going to rehearse there. I don't

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Speaker 3: think they recorded there. I think they've just rehearsed. I

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Speaker 3: don't think that's where Tattoo You was recorded. But I'll

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Speaker 3: tell you this, it was a big deal if you

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Speaker 3: were in in or around Worcester, mass at that point.

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Speaker 3: Our friend Rob Barnett, who you've had on taking a walk,

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Speaker 3: But what happened was and while they were recording there

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Speaker 3: set list. But Rob Barnett coordinated with the Stones to

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Speaker 2: Rob was the program director of WAAF.

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Speaker 3: At the time. AF had all these Volkswagen beetles that

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Speaker 3: of things in his life, and you ask him about

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Speaker 3: his life. The Stones thing in Worcester, I'm sure would

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Speaker 1: And I can't believe when you asked me about the significance.

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Speaker 1: I was like wrestling with all this and then I'm like,

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Speaker 1: of course, that magical moment in Worcester, mass which you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Worcester has struggled, and that's where I was born,

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Speaker 1: Cleveland, you yeah, yeah, working in class, places that are

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Speaker 1: don't That's why I hesitated. I wasn't meaning to knock Worcester. Uh,

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Speaker 3: Yeah listen, well, you know when you programmed it in Boston,

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Speaker 3: But I think it's a wonderful place. And I when

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Speaker 3: I go home, I don't, you know, I don't go

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Speaker 2: I will go. I'll go to Boston for a visit.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: Last I was home around COVID with you and we

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just I just I love Worcester. I'm

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Speaker 2: proud that I'm from Worcester. Great people too. Yes.

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Speaker 3: gil markle Rob Barnett. And that is our last story

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Speaker 3: for the very short week September eighth through the fourteenth.

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Speaker 1: Harry thank you so much for another look at this

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Speaker 1: week music history. A short week but still an eventful week,

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Speaker 1: a great story on Worcester and the Rolling Stones, and

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Speaker 1: thank you for it, and thank you to all of

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Speaker 1: you for listening to the Taking a Walk podcast. This

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