Best (and Worst) Sing-Along Songs: Love It or Hate It

Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High. Got another fun one for you today. However, we must say we are a little disappointed and saddened that our buddy Kevin cannot make it today. However, the three of us are here and Kevin can't wait for next week, so all is well. Anyway, I have Dongo here. What's happening? Hello, you farg and ice hole. And Brother Mark, of course. Hey, AJ. Hello, brother. All right. And what we're gonna do today is kind of sing along songs, you know, things we either but it's gonna be a love-hate relationship episode because we're doing, you know, sing-along songs that we love to sing ourselves, and a few in the mix where they're sing along songs for others that we fargin hate. So anyway, as always, we get rolling right out of the gate. However, I do want to uh take Kevin's area today and give a shout out, as he is unfortunately not here to do so. But new listeners we got out there. We have North York, Ontario. Thank you very much. And I gotta do a hard I gotta do a hard one here, or because I need to butcher it as well. And it is Commense Saxony. I have no clue where that is. Also, Kentuck, New Hampshire. So Hopkinton. Yeah, pretty close to you, Mark.

Yeah, it's 10 miles from here. Awesome.

Well, thank you all for for coming aboard.

I was just gonna say, I don't know if it's somebody I know or not. Who knows, right? I do know the person in Saxony or whatever the fuck. Yeah.

Commends. I'm not sure where that's at. But anyway, um, so as always, we'll get rolling right out of the gate unless you guys have anything you have to say.

Negative. Let's roll. All right, Dongo, you have the on hairs. Cool. So I'm gonna start off with one that is both a love and a hate. So it's it's kind of fits in both categories. Um, because I like the song, it just can get a little annoying at times, but I like the memories that the song uh induces, and it's um the name of the song is Escape. Uh and a lot of people, if I say that, probably have no idea what song it is.

But if I sing If you like being a colada, getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain, if you'd like making love at midnight, in the dew, it's on the cake. I'm the love that you've looked for. Write to me and escape.

The pina colada song, um, written by British American singer Rupert Holmes and his Partners in Crime album, 1979. But it is often associated with drunk women. Ah, yes, indeed. Yes, at the end of a night when everybody's feeling loose.

Getting fall in the rain. If you're not into vampires, half your brain. If you like making love at midnight, and uh in a cemetery. Oh fuck.

I'm alone that you've loved it.

Awesome. I would have never known either. We've had a lot of songs like that throughout Mark. When you did uh what is it, Jacama saw, whatever it's called? Don't turn around. I always thought it said I used to think it said the commies are in town.

The commies are in town. Oh, don't forget about the Cold War.

Right.

Yep. All right, Brother Mac to you. All right. Well, I'm gonna start out with uh a song by the Hollies. It's called Bus Stop. And uh I just love it. It you know, bus stop, wet day she's there.

Bust stop, bus go, she stays love, growth under my umbrella. Oh that's not how we get it.

Don't do it. All the people stand.

It's just a fun, fun, fun song. The music's great. Um, I I do believe that's where it started off in uh uh Conjuring 2. They started with that, they were showing the double decker buses. Uh-huh. But you know, it's by August, she was mine. And I I mean that's kind of I mean, with me and Valerie, it was more my Patriots coat that she came up and started giving me shit. It was at this party. I almost wasn't, I mean, I definitely wasn't going to, but I got talked into it. That was the the night of the uh uh Tyson Byton Holyfield's era.

I remember that Patriots coat.

It was very 80s like it was a starter, it was a starter code.

Early Patriots. I remember it as well.

Well, no, no, it was it was the It was like the Parcell's era. It was the Parcel that's exactly.

Didn't it just say Patriots across the back?

No, I'm gonna explain Elvis. It was a really nice jacket. Awesome. And uh so anyway, uh you know, so she gave me a hard time for that, and I haven't gone a single day since March 16th, 1996, without talking to her. But uh but yeah, by August she was mine, you know, and it uh it did that that Patriots coke led to a wedding vow. So there you go.

Awesome.

And it's just a fun, fun song to sing. It's a little tricky, a little tongue-twisty.

But as I said last week, everyone out there, Mark will find a way to get the Patriots in every cast, and which we are going to the Super Bowl next Sunday, baby. That's right. That's right. Four and a half right now. I don't know if it's changed.

Well, no, everyone at ESPN's picking the Seahawks, you know. No chance. I mean, they kept they did that all the way through the playoffs with the Chargers, with the Texans, and with the Broncos, even though we had a backup. But after the game, they're making excuses for the other team. Nobody ever talks about the Patriots defense. Oh, they're playing the best defense in the league, and the next week, oh, they're playing the best defense in the league, and they get no credit. So they're gonna come out with a friggin' hair across their ass, believe me. Fucking ain't right. Warriors come out and play with the game. That was awesome.

Did you see the clip of him walking through? Yeah.

Come out play.

But yeah, that was Matt Collins walking through the airport barefoot with the bottles clinking together, going into Denver, going, Warriors, come out and play. He did it like ten times.

It's fucking great. He's awesome. It's because they were they're 9-0 on the road, so you know, they call them the road warriors. So that's right.

All right, number seven to me, and I'm gonna start with a hate. Okay, and this is gonna be a Neil Diamond song who I happen to who I happen to love. But this is sweet Caroline, and not only am I so fucking tired of it, but like you said, brother, the Red Sox can be down by 10 runs. And is it the seventh inning stretch where they played at Fenway, or is it all the time?

They play it in the uh in the middle of the eighth inning.

Well, anyway, it annoys the hell out of me the uh uh uh and you know what?

It's all the pink cats, AJ, all the pink cats that go down there. The pink cats. Yeah, you know, they go there, oh well, it's a it's a tourist place, oh, it's a place to be seen.

Well, there is something to be said about Fenway Park, man.

You walk in there and you need to go down there for like seven dollars.

Yep, right. You know, damn straight. But anyway, so sweet Caroline and I agree, yeah.

It's overplayed, it's uh you know, we kinda overdone. I've had the radish with it.

Yes, okay, don't go have at it.

Foolish. All right, I gotta start, I gotta do another another hate, which I hate coming out with so much hate, but um, this is a song that is literally sung by every single human being in the United States of America and probably um in a lot of Europe. And uh it's Happy Birthday. Ah, good one! The worst sing along song of all time. Now wait a minute. But can you imagine owning the royalties on it? What's that? Can you imagine owning the royalties on it? Well, that's interesting you said that because there was a copyright um issue with this song. Yes. So it it first uh so it was written by allegedly by a pair of sisters, Patty and Mildred Hill, in 1893, and they were like school teachers. And it um the original song was good morning to all, like good morning to all, good morning to all, good morning, da-da-da-da. Um, and then it turned into happy birthday. But someone did try to gain the the rights to it.

Was it Gene Simmons?

Yeah, so uh it first appeared in print in 1912, and then uh it was literally in like 1998, and then again in 2012. I'd have to look at the history, but um, they the courts basically said that it's uh public domain, yeah.

Um but they did someone did try to copyright it because you're figuring, you know, like Marilyn Monroe singing it to Kennedy or someone sings it in in a in a restaurant, they're supposed to pay a royalty.

Absolutely.

I mean, it's gotta be at least a hundred times diamond, right? Right, right.

But it's just it's just you know everyone's sat through a poor singing of it, you know, and it's always like, you know, somebody who has a weird name, you know, happy birthday, dear Fred. You know.

You know what the best version of that song is on the office space. Womberg's birthday, though.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to Lumberg. Happy birthday to you.

Because I mean they just love Lumberg. They love some Lumberg, you know. This is just terrific.

That's a good pick. I was gonna ask about that uh last night and I forgot, but uh because I had a couple TV songs, but I stuck to just music on this, but I was curious. Um because I was thinking, you know, even though Kevin unfortunately can't be here today, this is something that we could put genres to in the future. You know what I mean? Like hard rock sing-alongs, yeah, you know, heavy metal sing-alongs, and just keep on running. So yeah, he'll be able to take part for certain.

Yeah. I do have an honorable for Kevin in one of my picks. Yeah. Oh, good, awesome. Yeah.

All right, Mark. Okay, well, I'm going with uh I don't think you've ever heard of this song, you guys. It's called New York Groove by Ace Fraley. Gotta tie it to kiss. It's just so fun. It's I mean, in the back of my candle.

In the back of my candle. Stop the birdie three. It's gonna be extra three.

Back in the New York Groove Forty Second Street. Anyway.

But yeah, I I he I had to have a kiss connection, as you know. Oh yeah. And uh good pick, Mark.

Uh thank you, sir. Ace Freely. All right, so six to me. I went with Black Diamond or Black Diamond, as I like to say. Gotta tie it to Kiss. This song to me is not just me, you know, cranking it in the car and singing along to it, but I sing the friggin' music. You know what I mean? I just I sing the whole song, the friggin' instruments and everything. Wow. When a song does that to me, that's when I know I love it. Good old Peter Chris, baby, on vocals, other than the beginning, of course. I fucking love that song. I think that that whole first album in my eyes is so underrated as a debut album. Like you always hear appetite for destruction, you know, blah, blah, blah. Mechanical resonance I love from Tesla, but yeah, ton of great debuts out there. I mean, you go through that album, I think there's six songs on it that were still in the set list. You know, and some of the songs on it that were not big, let me know. I fucking love that too. Yeah, I mean, I could have put any kiss song from the beginning through at least revenge on here. Uh I know most of the words to every kiss song ever out there. But this one I just thought about the music and how, like I said, how I would even sing that in my car.

Anyway, what do you think? You sing the uh end of the uh studio version when there it's bang.

Yeah, yeah, right down to the last second that you can barely hear when it's 40 minutes apart. Oh, I hate that ending. Anyway, all right. So, where are we here?

That's number five to you, Don. All right, so this one is one that I have fond memories of from uh childhood, school, high school, and it was, you know, a sing-along that everyone used to do, you know, during sporting events, and you get you'd have to get that like we will rock you. Nineteen seventy-seven News of the World album. Yes.

I used to love as a kid, it's weird, I mean, yeah, I'm a weird person anyway, but just looking at that robot on the cover with his bloody finger that obviously just poked that person in the stomach. Like it was very intriguing and creepy and made me love that album. Yeah. That's the only album I could name. Yeah. But it's because that fucking robot who kind of looks like Curly in my mind right now.

Curly? Yeah. Curly Howard?

Yeah. I don't know why. It just struck me right now, but looks nothing like that. But anyway, awesome pick, Don. I have I'm gonna have to do an audible now.

Oh no, it's quite all right. All right, Mark. Okay, well, this is, I mean, at the time I hated it, absolutely hate it. I'm gonna explain to you people why I hated it. I don't mind it now, but it's Andrew Gold, thank you for being a friend. That came out in 1978. Now, AJ, how was my life back in 1978? Do you know what town I lived in? That would be Guilford, Mark. Yes, exactly. And uh, yeah, thank I wanna thank you. Thank you for being a friend.

Thank you for being a friend, travel down the road and back again. Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant. I'm not ashamed to say I hope it always will stay this way. My hat is off, won't you stand up and take a bow? And if you to a party invited, I think it's to be a friend.

What are those? What a friend! I didn't have any friends in Guilford, you know, and if it was 2018 or 28 or whatever, I could have stayed in touch with my friends in Littleton. I had a ton of them up there, a mere 67 miles away, but they might as well ban it on Jupiter somewhere, you know? And so I just it was like freaking throwing it in my face. I mean, I was kind of a pathetic figure back then, but at the same time, they didn't have to treat me like they did in that fucking town. But anyway, um, I I did make I made friends with them. Not them, but some people. I actually had a lot of pretty damn good friends. Dean Eddie looking at you, kid. And uh Big Al. Like Big Al, Big Al. He's gonna come up later, by the way. Anyway, uh now I I like the song, you know.

You better like it. It's on your favorites list here.

Well, it's on it.

He said he disliked this song.

Uh love, so it's a love hate relationship. Yeah, yeah.

And the one other thing I want to say about my list it's not necessarily seven to one. It's it's basically they're all over the place. I have All over the place. Yeah. There's one I'm not calling now. So anywho.

Alright, number five to me. And Dungo. This was in one of your one of the podcasts we did. It's one of your favorites. And it's going on my hate list. And that would be Moni Moni.

That's the one they always played at the freaking football games. Maybe that's the one that I was playing.

And speaking of that, I meant to say that when you picked We Will Rock You Dongo, another staple in many, many sporting events. Many, many, like Captain Lassard would say.

For those here, I think you'll find the presentation interesting as well as very, very stimulating.

But Moni Money. I hated it then. I hate it now, the whole, you know, where the crowd had to come in, get laid, get fucked. I know, I know. It bugged the shit out of me for some reason. It still bugs the shit out of me. And quite frankly, I don't like the song to begin with. Love love Billy Idol. And love so much of his stuff. I spun Rebel Yell over and over and over that album. Love him.

Oh.

But there's one of my hates there.

So off to you, Don. Cool. Alright, so I'll do my uh shout out for Kev and I'll try to do a punk because I know he kind of likes the punk. Oh, yeah. The punk rock. So I came up with a punk rock sing-along song, and it's Anarchy in the UK from the Sex Pistols.

Yeah. And he had some goth guy on there who I can't remember his name right now, but they were talking about the Sax Pistols. That they were talking about that song and how he wore out the 45. And that's kind of what got the guy rolling.

Yeah.

So I I actually looked it up on Apple Music and was playing it yesterday. Nice.

Yeah. Yeah. 26th November 1976. Wow. That song. Yeah.

Unbelievable. Yeah.

A lot of fun.

Awesome pick, Don. There you go, Kev. A shout out to you. We miss you, man.

Yes, we do, Kev. My next pick. Um I wanted to mention a band. Uh that the Gagneys from uh Guilford, New Hampshire. Yeah, yeah. It was the best punk. Yeah, they're great guys. Great guys. They had a punk band, and it was my it's my most favorite name for a band ever. For a punk band, and it was Jim Jones and the Guyannes. You know, I don't remember much about their music. I think I probably saw him at a couple parties, you know, punk and everything. But I'm going with Hank Williams, uh, Country Boy Can Survive. Now, interestingly enough, I thought this song was in the 21st century, but it was actually written in 1981. Oh, wow. The video came out probably seven, eight years ago. I live back in the woods, you see. The wife and the dogs and the bunny and me. I mean, I talked to the words a little bit.

I live back in the woods, you see. A woman and the kids and the dogs and me. I got a shotgun, a rifle, and a four-wheel drive, and a country boy can survive. Country folks can survive.

That was good singing, Mike. That was way better than your normal singing. Well done. Country boys can survive.

Country folk can survive. But I mean, I had a friend born in New York City. Never call me by my name, just he'll believe. But yeah, it the video is incredible. You know, they're showing regular folk all over the place. I mean, city folk, what would they do? What would they do? I mean, they they think we're a bunch of hicks out here and everything. Yet we survive. We survive. We're not gonna die. You know, there's a lot of people.

Get you 17 gallons of milk before a snowstorm, and help.

Although I have been quite miserable this last couple weeks. Oh freaking cold.

Probably southern is down there. Negative two this morning when I let the dog out for the first time. It's even colder, but it wasn't. But yeah, not a ton of snow, really. That last storm was mostly powder.

I mean, it was quite fluffy. Yeah.

It was extremely fluffy, but it hasn't really done anything because it's about no more than 22 degrees every day. And that's a heat wave.

So heat wave is right. Alright, so number four to me. Alright. Well, you all know my first pick was a hatred song by Neil Diamond. Well, this is a love song that I I mean, a song that I love to sing along to. I used to sing it with my mom in the car. Anytime I hear it still, I crank it and sing every word to it. And it's Neil Diamond's Girl, you'll be a woman soon.

Love so much, can't count all the ways I died for your girl, and all they can say is it's not your kind. They never get tired of putting me down, and I never know when I come around. But I'm gonna find Don't let them take up your mind. Don't jump no girl. Don't be no take my hand.

It's just so fun to sing along, you know, to listen to the words. Just this poor guy is just hated by her family, and he was put out there like they just think he's a bad seed. Let me tell you about this guy I know, Jack.

Mean kid, bad seed. Hurt people. I like him already.

So it really made me think of myself back then, and you know, I'm a nice guy. Damn it.

And I don't know a single lyric of that word, that song. I love you, so you can't count all the ways I've died for you, girl.

And all I can say is, girl, you'll be a woman soon. So basically, she's in high school. She's not old enough to be eight. Well, she's not old enough to be eighteen.

That makes a lot of sense, right? He's a bad dude, and the parents don't like him, blah, blah, blah. It just made me think of me a lot.

Makes me think of you a lot, too.

It's just a great fucking song that I just sing out loud every time I hear it. Off to you, Donald.

Nice. Sorry, AJ.

All right, so this one was a sing-along in a movie uh made famous in a in a famous sing-along bar scene. And it was from the Righteous Brothers. It's a song that was written by Phil Spector and Barry Mann and Cynthia Wheel in 1964. And it is You've Lost The Love and Feeling. Ah, yes.

Whoa, the love and feeling.

Is this Top Gun? Carson Top Gun, yeah. They they did it in Top Gun. And the second one, I think, too, don't they? Close your eyes.

Excuse me, miss.

Hey, hey, hey. Don't worry, I'll take care of this.

You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lift. No tenderness. Like beautiful, and you'll have to go to the next one.

Sure. But they do a sing along in Maverick, too. The that was an incredible kids on the uh Maverick, whatever.

See, that's the thing. Like Top Gun was awesome, right? It was quintessential 80s, cheese, you know, over the top. Maverick was good, but it's like I just watch it once and then I never go back to it. Yeah, yeah. It's so weird.

I never went back until it was the other day.

I I thought it was great personally.

It's no but don't get me wrong, it's way better than most sequels ever. Or you know, movies that come out later. But 40 years later, pretty much. But was it the first one? No. You know, but it was still fun. But yeah, great tuned on.

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Jack. You've gone back in time. This is past times at 80 high.

Alright, so that's number three to you, Mark.

I fell into a burning ring of fire.

Nice. Went down, down, down. The flames went fire. And it burns, burns, burns. The ring of fire. The ring of fire.

Okay, alright. Well, I was getting out of roll here. I'd love to sing Johnny Cash. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire. Um, it was actually written by June Carter and the Carter sisters. I'm not sure if mom was in it, but they incredible job on the background vocals. It was right to me. I just pulls on the heartstrings in a very happy way.

So many Johnny Cash songs do that.

Oh no, I could have come up with the whole list. Maybe we could do a Johnny Cash episode.

That's a good call.

Can I think of this? Love him.

Yeah.

Love him. Oh god, yeah. I love Johnny Cash. He had a great TV series as well. Yep. Long Black Veil. I always love it. Oh my God, that song. Yeah. With uh Johnny Mitchell. Yeah, incredible. Talk about haunting and just haunting.

Great word for it. It is haunting. Awesome. Great pick, man. All right. Number three to me. This will be my last hatred song. Because I love the band. I like the band a lot. It's ACDC. You shook me all night long. Yeah, good one. I just enough is enough is enough is enough. I hated seeing everyone on the dance floor singing this song, and I'd go sit down. Well, that's because I can't fucking dance to save my life. But at the same time, it just uh it rubbed me the wrong way. It still rubbed me the wrong way when I hear it. It's like okay, and it plays every hour. It's like enough is enough, like I said.

Come on. Most overplayed ACDC song. I I got a little quick story on that. Um do you guys remember the music hall in Concord? It was behind the Dunkin' Donuts. Yeah. Yeah. And they would just play crap all night, and the one rock song they played every friggin' time was You Shook Me All Night Long. And it just Whoopty fucking do. Whoopty fucking do.

Whoopity fucking do.

Whoopity do.

So yeah, it's it's unfortunate that we have to wait forever to hear a rock song, and then it's that one. The same fucking one every time. And that's that. So number two to you, dongo already.

So this one, definitely a sing-along song. It's all from a phone number, just a simple phone number that was on the bathroom wall, and it's 86753099.

86753099.

The name of the song is Jenny. Uh, it was written by Alex Call and Jim Keller from Tommy and the Two Tone, Tommy Two Tone, um, in 1981. And it was the number one song in 1982. You know, 8675309.

I can't remember my daughter's phone number nowadays because the whole cell phone contact thing. Oh, you need to say I'll never forget that number as long as I live.

It's it was funny listening, you know, reading up on it. Like the guitarist says that he wrote it for a girlfriend that he had whose name was Jenny, and and supposedly she got pissed at him for it. And then Alex Call said he wrote it, and and you know, somebody says that they just made it up, you know. So it's like it's hard to tell what's real. Yeah, what's real and what's not. But uh, I I definitely know that a lot of people who had that phone number had to like take it down because they were changing random people calling and prank calling and all that stuff. So is Jenny there?

I've got your number on the wall.

I got it, I got it for a good time. For a good time code!

Yeah, one moment, please.

Too funny. All right, Mark.

Okay, well, I'm uh this is the uh hopefully the only repeat today, but I have to take it. I have to. Because I'm gonna go in a little bit of a heater here. Um the song is Sweet Caroline. Is this a hate or love? Hate. Okay. I mean, I don't mind the song, but I mean you hear it all the time in the eighth inning at Femway Park with real fans like me, fans, normal fans, real ones that bang their head in the wall, take a deep breath! Okay, well, we'll go to football for a minute. I went to Buffalo, the Patriots, made a stupid play, go into half with Valerie, and uh I banged to slam my head against the wall. That is what normal, real fans do. Normal fans when Rich Gedman hits a ball that's clearly inside the foul ball in Kansas City, and they call it a foul ball. And I'll end up finally saying, I've had enough. I can't deal with this anymore. You're too insane when it comes to you know compassion in your your your game. The bottom line is because I'm a real fan, and that's what real fans do.

They act insane. Uh, this is my favorite part of the game. When two drunk guys, each holding a baby, get into a fish fight. You're stupid. No, you're stupid. Oh, now their wives are getting into it. They're gonna put their cigarettes in their mouths and bump boobs.

You got no glass, you bitch! No, you got no glass!

And now here comes security to kick out the wrong person.

Come on, Miyagi, take that karate outside. Yeah, and you know what David did? Do you remember what he did to me?

Did he drug you in some way? He did.

Yes. And you can't go after him, Law. He's he's passed away. God rest his beautiful soul. He slipped me a roofie. And I I couldn't understand why I was so calm.

I don't think it was a roofie.

That's what he told it. That's what he said. It was some kind of roofie. Whatever, yeah.

It was a it was a vulume. Probably a benzodiac. It was, it was a valuum.

So basically, what I'm saying is I, you know, after losing David, it put things in perspective for me. And uh I'm a lot calmer, even today during the playoffs. I've been much calmer. And you know, I get a shot up from Val once in a while because I get a little over excited, but not just kind of like a normal real fan now. In fact, back in the 80s pastimes audience, I was just as big into the Boston Bruins, the Boston Celtics, the Boston Red Sox, and the New England Patriots. But yeah, I mean, I think I'm much better than I used to be. Things are in the fashion.

There's no question about that. And God love Brother David. I'm so proud of him for drugging you. Okay. Uh that's number two to me, yes? Yeah. All right. Well, another repeat here that I couldn't leave off. Um, I found a loophole here because I feel like almost every radio station combines the two. Fire me if you guys want, but I'm taking we will rock you and we are the champions.

You have the soundboard, we can't fire you. That's right.

Anyway, I mean, every time in the car, still to this day. I mean, I'm sick of other songs this band does, but there's something about this that takes me back to my childhood and listening to that album, like you said, Bad Dongo, it's that robot on the front and his bloody finger poking the belly, and just I would sit there and look at that album cover. That remember, guys, that's what we used to do. You know, we'd sit there and spin an album from start to finish while looking and reading. Liner notes and just something that's really gone from this day, unless people like you, Dongo, that are on the vinyl kick. I don't know. It's a passion, a very passionate song to me from that day, and it still takes me back to looking at that album cover, and you hear it just like we said already at so many sporting events.

And we'll keep on fighting till the end. We are the champions of the world.

And it's timeless. And guess what? All the shit that everyone out is out there listening to today, all the pop fucking lip syncing and AI. This song in 50 years from now, when we're dead and gone, is still gonna be played on the radio. That that dungo. Number one to you. Wow.

Yeah, I know. We're cruising right along. So this one I've used in other casts, but I have to have to stick with it because I I love it. And it's a very fond memory of being in the beer tents in in Munich, Germany during Oktoberfest. And it's when everyone sings Country Roads Take Me Home from John Denver. Yes. Just hearing, like, you know, a beer tent full of people slinging the beer, singing Country Roads, Take Me Home to the place I belong, West Virginia. Such an awesome song. It's it's a great feeling. It's a happy happy memory, so that's why I I wanted to go with that.

You gotta do what you gotta do, man. And the beauty of that is it's not in every stadium around the world. So you know you you know, yeah, we're not sick of it. That's just one stadium, and they do it there, Dongo, I think, for almost every event that happens there. I don't think it's just a certain event.

Like, not just Oktoberfest.

No, definitely not. Like soccer games, they do it. It's it's a staple for said stadium.

So that's fucking awesome. Like we said, uh, you know, John Denver's name was John Dussendorf. Yes. German. It was written in April 12th, 1971, was a single.

And like Kevin said, that just doesn't roll off the tongue. Right. Oh, the Broncos. All right, Mark, to you. Great pick, by the way, Dungo. That's awesome.

You gotta knock him down and rock them. I'm gonna take your face and sock them.

We gotta knock them down and rock them. Take your face and sock them.

I'm gonna beat you till you're begging me for mercy.

I'm gonna stretch you from here to New Jersey.

There's all kinds of fun stuff in this. And of course, at the very end, you know, Piper comes out. Okay, stop the music, stop the music.

Okay, okay, okay, that's fun, okay, buddy.

Okay, this is during the WWF cartoon era. This is before they broke K-fade, and all the heels were on one side of the stage, all the baby faces were on the other side, and uh, I think Captain Lual Bana was there. And he goes, You gotta do the mashed potato.

And then Blasy goes, No, do the alligator!

You do the mashed potato!

No, do the alligator!

This is when the WWF dongo was massive, and the WWF, not the WWE, right, yo. They did a full album and released it. It was all Mark was just saying that at that same time, that's when the Saturday morning cartoon was the wrestling cartoon was also out. So that's the Hogan days and like when it was just fucking massive Roddy Piper, the whole Cindy Lauper thing, Mr. T. Yeah. What a fun tune, though. Anyone wants to go back and listen, Mark and I do our wrestling. What it what was that one, brother?

Uh oh, it was uh we called it WWF Heels.

Yes, if you go back, it's one of our first episodes. We didn't know what the hell we were doing, but it's fun. And I I think you can hear a little piece of that song in there and the hoging theme, to be honest. So anyway, take a look. Great pick, Mark. I did not see that coming. Awesome. All right, yeah, I'm wrapping it up. Yeah. All right, well, here I go again with a repeat. But I did this list off the top of my head because I just wanted it to be what I thought of instantly, because I think going through and studying for this one, like I said earlier, we'll be able to have a zillion different things. But I know I just picked this a few weeks ago, too, so I feel wrong doing it, but I can't not because it's important to me for so many ways. I'll try not to bore you guys with the same stories, but it's Brian Adams, summer of 69. I told the Christmas story where David bought this for me, which he really bought for himself. I listened to it nonetheless, and then I listened to it over and over and over. It's an incredible album with so many friggin' great songs on it. What a great songwriter Brian Adams was. And I said in the last one when I talked about it, it doesn't take me back to 1969 because I wasn't born, but it takes me back to 1983-ish. Another song that I know every word to, and I just scream out loud in the car. Thank God no one can hear me because I suck at singing. But that's that. Awesome, boys. That wraps it up. Hope you guys enjoyed it. And Dongo, I thank you much.

Thank you much, brother.

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