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Speaker 1: Buzzsnight, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to another edition of This Week in Music History.

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Speaker 1: It's for the week of June the second, and we

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Speaker 1: go over to the music history desk to the Maestro

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Speaker 1: of Mayhem, the master of music history.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Harry Jacobs.

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Speaker 3: It was a pleasure to be here for another week,

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Speaker 3: and a fairly interesting week, a busy week in terms

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Speaker 3: of music history. So I'm glad to be here. But

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Speaker 3: you know, it's never a week without some Beatles news.

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Speaker 2: Bring it on. We're gonna start on June second.

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Speaker 3: We talked about this last week that Sergeant Pepper's was

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Speaker 3: rushed by EMI for release in the UK. Well, the

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Speaker 3: following week it was officially released, you know, in the US,

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Speaker 3: and that was, you know, the beginning of this monster album.

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable artwork, unbelievable music. Who and I talked by the way,

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Speaker 3: about the White Album last week, which came out after

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Speaker 3: Sergeant Peppers, and think about the you know, you had

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Speaker 3: an observation the cover work on Sergeant Peppers was amazing.

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Speaker 3: You you said to me, it caught me off guard. Well,

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Speaker 3: think about the White album and how you know how

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Speaker 3: amazing that cover was and I had to think about.

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Speaker 2: It for a minute. I thought it was there something in.

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Speaker 3: Boston that that I didn't see.

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Speaker 1: I feel like they poured so much work creatively into

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Speaker 1: the artwork of Sergeant Pepper that then the White Album.

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Speaker 1: They were like, Okay, we're the Beatles, we can do

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Speaker 1: exactly what we want, and we're gonna call it the

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Speaker 1: White Album.

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Speaker 2: Let's get it out there, brilliant. If you're the Beatles,

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Speaker 2: you can get away with it.

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Speaker 3: We don't care. We did enough on Sergeant Peppers. Here's

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Speaker 3: the new album. It's the White Album. Deal with it,

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Speaker 3: take it or leave it. June second, two thousand and two,

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Speaker 3: Eminem reached number one with The Eminem Show in the

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Speaker 3: US and the UK, and this kind of began his

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Speaker 3: dominance in hip hop.

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Speaker 2: Do you like Eminem? I definitely some of his music,

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Speaker 1: I will tell you I was once in a room

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Speaker 2: Oh how long ago was that? Oh this was back

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Speaker 2: in the early.

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Speaker 1: Was around It was mid two thousands when I used

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Speaker 1: to have to you remember, go to year old Stomping Grounds, Detroit,

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Speaker 1: Michigan for a lot of work business work with our

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Speaker 1: radio stations. I stayed at my favorite spot there the

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Speaker 1: Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, Michigan. And I remember the workers

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Speaker 1: there were not supposed to do this, but one of

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Speaker 1: the workers came over to me and went, just take

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Speaker 1: a look over there in the corner, Look who's over there?

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Speaker 1: And there was mister M and M yeah with us,

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Speaker 1: with a couple of other people, kind of shrouded in mystery.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was back in his drug days too, right, probably. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: June third, nineteen sixty seven, Aretha Franklin's Respect, which was

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Speaker 3: originally covered or not covered, but it was originally Otis

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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty five, and it was a.

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Speaker 2: Number one song here in the US.

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Speaker 3: An anthem, a rally cry for women.

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Speaker 2: Just a great song. You know.

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Speaker 3: I defy you to not turn it up when it

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah? I mean?

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Speaker 1: And Areta my God with a voice Got Crazy.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen sixty seven, The Doors released a radio friendly version

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Speaker 2: There wasn't really any album rock at that point. In time.

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Speaker 1: People and you know, we never would play the edited versions,

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Speaker 2: We never played those. We played the long one.

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Speaker 3: Did we play the the unedited version? I'm sure we

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Speaker 3: did the unedited version of Jet Airliner by Steve Miller

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Speaker 1: And then and then eventually, you know, as we know

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Speaker 3: There's one of those things with a horrible word in

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Speaker 3: about a guy that gets caught with not his girlfriend

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Speaker 3: and there's gonna be a fight Ronnie van Zant and

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Speaker 3: his blank can't say the word. I wouldn't utter the

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Speaker 3: word here. It's a word that women hate. If you

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Speaker 3: go back and listen to Gimme Three Steps. How did

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Speaker 3: that song, the live version of that song, ever get played?

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Speaker 2: Someone was probably not? I mean, you're aware of that, right,

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Speaker 3: Live version of it. Okay, the live version, and you

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Speaker 3: I don't know what caused me to think about that,

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Speaker 3: Every rock station in America played that one more for

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Speaker 2: Wow. I didn't realize that. All right, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: Anyway, the radio edit. I'm surprised that never got edited down.

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Speaker 3: In twenty nineteen, on June third, Forbes declared Jay Z

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Speaker 2: His steak in that champagne that he had. I didn't,

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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, Lauren Hill stage a surprise Fuji's

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Speaker 2: I mean she was Lauren Hill. But you think about

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Speaker 3: You remember Lauren Hill from from Boston. No, okay, You

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Speaker 3: Record companies would routinely create showcases, right, so they like

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Speaker 2: You and I.

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Speaker 3: Went to that show and we heard Lauren Hill and

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Speaker 3: the Fugis play Killing Me Softly for the first time,

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Speaker 1: This is now coming back to me as you're telling

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Speaker 3: the memory of Patrick Murray. Those of you from Boston

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Speaker 3: June fourth, this is the next three and this is

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Speaker 3: both Springsteen fans. But this is what popped up during

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Speaker 3: this week. Nineteen eighty four, June fourth was the release

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Speaker 3: that changed the world for Bruce in nineteen eighty four,

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Speaker 1: I remember, I remember all of that time with that

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Speaker 3: So two years later, after the Born in the USA

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Speaker 2: And then in two thousand, Bruce.

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Speaker 3: Released American Skin forty one shots and had a years

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Speaker 3: on the New York City concert the dvd a very

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Speaker 3: The message from you know, the mother to the son,

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Speaker 3: There you go with this week and music for the

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Speaker 2: Well good and ending it in a Springsteen fury. I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so well, Thank you Harry Jacobs for another look

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Speaker 1: at this week in music history. And it was quite

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Speaker 1: a week the week of June the second, and we

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Speaker 1: love talking about it. And thanks for listening to the

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