Pat's Peeps Podcast
Ep. 99 Today's Peep Celebrates Episode 99 as Worn by Aaron Donald and Aaron Judge, Pays Tribute to Friends, Birthdays, and Musical Journeys, Updates on a Hip Injury, and we go 'Barefootin' in Today's Record Spin
What if the number 99 held the key to some of the greatest sports memories and friendships of your life? Join us as we celebrate our 99th episode, shining a spotlight on legends like Aaron Donald and Aaron Judge. I’ll take you behind the scenes to share a heartfelt thanks to my neighbor Brett for his stellar weed-eating skills that keep our Northern California property pristine. And let's not forget a special shoutout to Ted on his birthday! Plus, I’ll give you an update on my recent hip injury and the road to recovery, all amidst the beautiful Northern California weather.
But that's not all—we’re honoring the birthday of my best friend, Keith Welch. Reminisce with us about how a simple game of catch in Elk Grove sparked a lifelong friendship filled with musical discoveries, from Columbia House records to rock classics. Hear about Keith's bold decision to join the Marine Corps, contrasting with my college journey, and how our musical tastes have evolved over the years. As a bonus, I’ll introduce plans for a new podcast focusing on my rare 45s collection and share a classic 1966 hit by Robert Parker. Don't miss this heartfelt celebration of milestones, friendships, and musical vibes!
What if the number 99 held the key to some of the greatest sports memories and friendships of your life? Join us as we celebrate our 99th episode, shining a spotlight on legends like Aaron Donald and Aaron Judge. I’ll take you behind the scenes to share a heartfelt thanks to my neighbor Brett for his stellar weed-eating skills that keep our Northern California property pristine. And let's not forget a special shoutout to Ted on his birthday! Plus, I’ll give you an update on my recent hip injury and the road to recovery, all amidst the beautiful Northern California weather.
But that's not all—we’re honoring the birthday of my best friend, Keith Welch. Reminisce with us about how a simple game of catch in Elk Grove sparked a lifelong friendship filled with musical discoveries, from Columbia House records to rock classics. Hear about Keith's bold decision to join the Marine Corps, contrasting with my college journey, and how our musical tastes have evolved over the years. As a bonus, I’ll introduce plans for a new podcast focusing on my rare 45s collection and share a classic 1966 hit by Robert Parker. Don't miss this heartfelt celebration of milestones, friendships, and musical vibes!
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Speaker 1:Number 99 on the pats peeps podcast 99. I've been waiting so long. Remember that. Toto 99. Hey, now, hey, it's the Pats Peeps podcast. Thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 1:We are in the final podcast, in double digits, soon to be in triple digits tomorrow. Not just the weather, but the podcast Number 99, the number by the way of a couple of great errands in sports. Number 99, the great just retired, which I hated to see, aaron Donald. Number 99, aaron, one of the best ever. Please un-retire, please un-retire Number 99. Then a guy I saw yesterday who had an upper deck smash in the Bronx, hailing from Stockton, California. Please welcome. Number 99, aaron Judge. Hey, now, aaron Judge. Nice guy, wrong team in my opinion. Sorry if you're a Yankee fan. Sorry, sister, my sister Michelle's a big Yankee fan. It's okay, dodgers, my boys took two out of three in the Bronx. Could be a World Series preview.
Speaker 1:Anyhow, I haven't even mentioned that today is the 10th day of June 2024. We are back for the 99th of the Pat's Peeps podcast, so 100 coming tomorrow and then very soon we're going to be building on that. I know I keep saying that, but please stay tuned If you're part of our podcast family. Thank you. I look out the studio windows into the beautiful foothills of Northern California and I see a lot of sunshine, beautiful day out there, warm, not too breezy today. So, by the way, today is a big day, not only the Pat's Peeps podcast front front more on the pats peeps front has something nothing to really do with the podcast, but another part of the show but also my neighbor brett. Another big round of applause. Thank you so much, brett. He's a good neighbor.
Speaker 1:Brett has some of this big machinery next door. He's got you. He's got your bulldozer, he's got your whatever. You know, I don't know all the machines just got your, uh, backhoes, your bulldozer. He's got your whatever you know. I don't know all the machines. He's got your backhoes, your bulldozers. I don't think he has a crane. I don't know what that machine is over there that he uses.
Speaker 1:But thank you to my neighbor Brett, who each time this year takes his big machinery. We together live on this property. Well, not together, but we're up here on this property where I live in Northern California, and at this time of year it really needs to be weed-eated, especially this year it's been with all the rain and the snow. I mean it's just so we have to do that every year. It's a big deal. I finished mine what last week, couple of weeks ago Thank you to JT for doing that but my neighbor Brett, bringing out the big equipment today and doing like two or three acres over there, probably a couple of acres across from the easement which is my property and his property, they kind of they join up right there, so he just does the whole thing. He's a real nice guy. So, yep, thank you for that. Another part, another reason that today has been a good day. Here's another reason.
Speaker 1:Just on another note, I missed a few days a couple of weeks ago because I was on the injured list man, and I'll tell you, I was starting to get very worried about my injury, something to do with my hip. I told you the whole story, I'm not going to whine about it. I tried to help, tried to be a good Samaritan, tried to push a big old flatbed. Didn't work out for me, didn't work out for the truck either, didn't start. I hope the guy finally made it home. But I injured myself, did something inside my hip.
Speaker 1:Go ahead and make old jokes if you want, whatever, but I was getting pretty nervous there, to be completely honest with you, like, yeah, something's wrong and I don't want to be that guy, that self I'm not. I'm not a guy that's going to self-diagnose everything. I believe me, I go to the doctor. I'm not afraid to go to the doctor get my blood test every year. I get it, which, I'm a matter of fact, I'm going to call tomorrow get my physical set up. So I'm not afraid of the doctor. I do my colonoscopy every five years, all that stuff. But I but you know, just like maybe you and maybe a lot of people, some people just run right to the doctor, others like, well, let me see how this is working out. So I don't want to belabor the point, but I've been kind of seeing how it's working out.
Speaker 1:I've been doing some research and I'll tell you I know exactly what I would say hip flexor. If any of you have the hip flexor, that's what I have. And so just did a lot of research. Listen to a couple of doctors, and that's what I have when I say I listen to. I did some research on hip specialists. Watch a couple of the things they're describing motion people. Any, I'm not. Again, I don't want to belabor the point, I'm just that that's what I'm.
Speaker 1:But here's the good news. I think today I'm starting to get better, like yesterday, and I'm sorry. You know sometimes you have to say no to people you don't want to say no. Happy belated birthday. Yesterday was Ted's birthday, robin's son, ted and I got a, and the only time I've been out and about, let's say, in the last few days, as I'm trying to rest this injury because and even I found out by the way that's what you're supposed to do. So I was doing the right thing was to just not be active, just to kind of rest, put ice, anti-inflammatories and rest, and that's what I've been doing. But I went out and got Ted a birthday present and I cannot wait to give it to him. So happy birthday to Ted.
Speaker 1:But I've had to say no to a couple of things, which I'm sorry for. Kenny Fry's band played this weekend. I'm sorry, kenny, and Ani Fry, great country artist in the Sacramento area, which is where I'm from, by the way, I'm a host on KFPK in Sacramento Monday through Friday, heard nationally and internationally on the iHeart app. But I'm sorry, I couldn't make it those to those things. But it's a good thing I didn't, because I think that I did the right thing and I honestly believe today which I did this on the 17th of May and now it's the 10th of June.
Speaker 1:I'm starting to feel a little bit better, thank God, not completely, but I'm. I'm getting a sense anyhow, anyhow. So enough on that. What else? Oh yeah, I mentioned Aaron Judge last night at number 99, and he crushed one of the upper decks. So that was one of the good things about just kind of sitting around on my weekend. Really wanted to do some things.
Speaker 1:But yesterday was a good sports day, at least for me in terms of the teams I like. So maybe not for you and I get that whatever. That's what makes the world go around, right, but for me it was a good day, because you know what I watched yesterday. I watched two races. I watched the Canadian Grand Prix, which was really cool rainy conditions, and then I watched the Save Mart 350 at Sonoma, the race course up there at Sonoma, or the road course, I should say, at Sonoma Raceway, which I was fortunate enough to been there many, many times watching races, whether it's the NASCAR, whether it's the NHRA, love them both, particularly the NHRA. But I also had a chance. You may know maybe you don't but had a chance, got an invitation to go to Sonoma Raceway and was able to race in the car with Mario Andretti. Yeah, no joke, a two-seat Indy car that I got to ride in with Mario Andretti. He was 73 years old at the time and it was like a dream come true. I should have pulled that up. If I'd known I was gonna be talking about that, I would have tried to pull that up, but yeah, I rode around the track there at Sonoma with Mario Andretti.
Speaker 1:So I watched a couple of races yesterday, and then I which I don't usually watch two races in a day, I'll be completely honest with you. But then I watched baseball, and I watched the Dodgers and the Yankees, and that was, of course, a great game. Two great rivals well I say rivals. Two of the legendary. A great game, two great rivals Well I say rivals. Two of the legendary teams in baseball going at it yesterday. Yesterday, though, the Dodgers ended up losing that game. Good game, but they did take two out of three in the Bronx. So go Dodgers. Like I said sorry to my sister, michelle, but go Dodger Blue. Sorry, giants fans Love ya.
Speaker 1:Watch that game, and then I'll tell you the other game I watched, but during the game yesterday, something happened that was really cool, and so you had Aaron Boone, who was the manager for the Yankees, and he's out there arguing with the umpire during the game, and it's in the seventh inning, and so they're playing God Bless America. You're going to hear this. They're playing God Bless America in the background, and here's Boone and the ump and they're just going at it yelling. But I love the fact that when they realize, oh wait, a second, god Bless America is being played, one at it yelling. But I love the fact that when they realized, oh wait, a second, god bless america is being played, we need to stop and honor america and put our hats over our hearts. This is a very good moment here you go there, you go bless america.
Speaker 3:Look, takes the hat. We're gonna stand here all right. Hold on a minute, hold, hold that thought I'll play it again.
Speaker 1:Hold on a second. Let's play this again.
Speaker 3:There you go play god bless america, look takes the hat. We're gonna stand here all right, hold on a minute, hold, hold that thought and let's get back to it. Yeah, claps for the veteran of the day. And then, hey, wait a minute Now about this. They play God Bless America, look takes it. That is so great.
Speaker 1:Oh, that is good. Yeah, I love that. They honored America even during the heated argument there. Nice job.
Speaker 1:The other game that I watched yesterday was the Celtics and the Mavericks and my beloved Celtics. They could be perhaps on their way to an 18th championship. They're up two games. None. You never know what can happen Long way to an 18th championship. They're up two games. None, you never know what can happen Long way to go. But the Celtics, victorious yesterday beating the Dallas Mavericks, and so way to go Celtics. And when they resume that series, I mean, look, doncic is a heck of a player. But the Celtics, I mean I think they just have it going on. So they're up two games to none in that series.
Speaker 1:Now what else is going on? What else is going on? Well, oh, the Bluegrass Festival is coming up this week, the Father's Day Bluegrass Festival, one of my very favorite weekends of the entire year. That's going to begin on this, it's going to begin this Thursday and that goes through Sunday. I look forward to that almost as much as I look forward to Christmas. Honestly, it is just one of my favorite times of the year. Like I said, strawberry Music Festival, which is up at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley and then the Father's Day Bluegrass Festival, which is going on there as well, and we're hoping to have some guests on from either some artists there from the Bluegrass Festival.
Speaker 1:What's really cool is I was doing my show. If you know anything about bluegrass, you know that Rhonda Vincent is big time bluegrass. I mean, she is one of the best. So it was really an honor to me a couple of years back doing in my show and I was talking about the bluegrass festival, this very bluegrass festival and I looked down on my screen on my show doing my show and look at my screen and it's Rhonda Vincent. I'm talking about Rhonda Vincent and Vincent at the bluegrass festival and she happened to be listening it was amazing Called my show from her tour bus and said, hey. I said, is this really Rhonda Vincent? She said yeah, we're listening to your radio show here and we heard you talking about bluegrass and about us and I thought we'd just pick the phone up and give you a call, which was just awesome. And then she said you know, when you go to the Bluegrass Festival, look me up, look for my tour bus and you and I can sit down and we can have a chat and just say hi and all that. And so we did do that. That's one of the things I really love about Bluegrass and the people who are kind of into Bluegrass is that they are very down-to-earth, you know. And so, yeah, I got the opportunity to meet Rhonda Vincent. So, anyhow, that's going on this Thursday. It's just a great time, a way to relax, beautiful meadow out there.
Speaker 1:Thursday, friday, saturday and Sunday the Nevada County Bluegrass Festival, the Father's Day Bluegrass Festival at the Nevada County Fairgrounds and Grass Valley, put on by the CBA, the California Bluegrass Association. Also, today being June the 10th, today is the birthday of my best buddy, keith Welch. Keith, I just called him this morning. I never forget his birthday. Called him this morning to wish him a very happy birthday.
Speaker 1:Now I'd like to just tell you a little story, if I may, about Keith Welch. Now I'd like to just tell you a little story, if I may, about Keith Welch. Keith and I have been friends for well since we were 15 years old. I just found a video of the Bluegrass Festival. Maybe I'll play that for you, but Keith and I have been friends since we were 15 years old, if you can imagine. So we lived in Elk Grove which to me was like Mayberry back then, really was a small town, very small town, feel like Mayberry.
Speaker 1:I was very into sports baseball, football, what have you into music, just like I am now. And I'm out in the front yard one morning and I'm throwing a football up. I got no one else to play catch with. I don't know where my brothers were that day or that morning Played catch with myself. And here comes this dude with long hair walking down the center of the street. And I'd seen him before. You know he's about my age, I thought, long blonde hair and I look just like Opie Taylor on the Andy Griffith Show. Just like him, parted on the hair, parted on the side, flipped up, opie Taylor style. And as this guy's walking down the road, I said I called him a hippie. I said, hey, hippie, I'll bet you can't catch a football. And, as I said that, I threw the football to him and, by God, he caught it. He caught the football. So I was very impressed.
Speaker 1:Well, keith and I became quickly became friends after that and Keith really wasn't so much a sports guy, he wasn't really into sports, he was into playing guitar. Which man going looking back at it. I wish I was into playing guitar. I would have been if I weren't so busy playing sports and into girls. Probably I would have been playing guitar, because now I wish I could play guitar. I wish I could pick up an electric guitar and just jam even an acoustic guitar, which I've tried to learn Anyhow. That's beside the point. So I'm telling you this because Keith and I really changed each other's lives in so many ways. As 15-year-old kids, we get to meet each other, we start to hang out First off musically. We changed each other's life.
Speaker 1:This was a turning point in my life, one of the things that Sean Jeske, another friend of mine, has asked me to do recently if you've been following me on social media on Facebook, on Instagram and all that is. He asked me and others asked him. So he asked me you pass it on sort of a thing to post 20 albums that helped to inspire or helped helped your musical tastes to develop, not your 20 greatest albums of all time, your 20 favorite albums of all time. Not what you would put up there, as you think people would say. I'm talking about albums that, for whatever reason, maybe no one else even knows about this record Some, of course they do, but others. But it's just a record that helped in whatever way. You put it on and in your mind something clicked and you went wait a minute, I like this style, what is it about this style? And you begin to explore new styles based off of that. So that's what it is. So that comes into play with Keith and vice versa. So 15 years old, I meet Keith.
Speaker 1:Like I said, one of the things that seemed like a requirement as a sneaky teenager back in the 70s or even into the 80s was you would see the 13 records or tapes for a penny right, remember that Columbia House records and tapes and you're like, man, a penny, wow. Then you have to buy, you know, the tape or the record. Every month that they start sending you stuff, crap, that you don't want. Like in my case, I didn't want Kenny Loggins. They sent me Kenny Loggins. I'm like no, I don't want Kenny Loggins. Then they start harassing you. Remember that they start harassing. You Start calling your parents.
Speaker 1:Collection agencies would call Anyhow one of the records that I got off the 13 records. I some good ones, bto, not fragile. I mean I could go down a list Queen Jazz, I could go dumping down the list. One of the ones I got was Earth, wind and Fire. I mean, this was back when Shining Star came out. They had the album called that's the Way of the World, shining star, for you to see what your life can truly be right. They'd finish an acapella and they'd shoot right into that's the Way of the World, the title track. Remember they used to connect that. There used to be songs like Heartbreaker by Zeppelin into Live and Love and Made, or Ooh, any way that you want me I mean Journey used to do it Feeling that way, ooh, remember, they'd always connect it Anyhow. They used to do that back in the day. So I bought that album.
Speaker 1:So Keith and I decided we're hitting it off musically, we're going to go into my bedroom and I'm going to show him some of my records, because I'm going to stereo in there. Man, my stereo, let's go listen to records. Man, my stereo, let's go listen to records. And then we'd go to his bedroom, you know, over at his house we'd listen to his records. But it started off like this because I was listening to AM Top 40, I mean, like on my mom's record collection, like I've talked about it Nauseam, you know and then Top 40, I knew everything about Top 40, and I says, hey, man, you gotta hear this saxophone solo. So with that Earth Wind Fire record of mine we sit down. He's like, all right, play it for me. Now, keep in mind, I'm into AM music and I'm fine a deep cut.
Speaker 1:So I play this song called Africano, a deep cut off of Earth Wind Fire's. That's the Way of the World. I'll play the middle portion of it, the sax solo, for you. As I play it, I'll preface it with saying this To me it was so cool back in 75.
Speaker 1:Now when I listen to it it's still cool, but it kind of has the sound of the streets of San Francisco. Remember the 70s? Like all the cop shows, swat, the Rookies, all Cannon, all of those shows. Barnaby Jones in the 70s had that theme song. That sort of kind of reminds me of that. So, anyhow, this is what I played from Earth Wind Fire for Keith. That's a good percussion going with the, you know. And then it goes into that sax. So I'm like, all right, man, check this out, keith, you're going to dig this. Here we go, man, there you go. See that that whole sound right there, very 70s, the Streets of San Francisco Starring Carl Malden, michael Douglas right, check it out.
Speaker 1:Starsky and Hutch, but good horns, quinn Martin, production, this week's special guest. They'd have all these non-descript actors Peter Feinsel, teresa Hatcher, bob Claiborne You're like who? I don't get it Anyhow. So I played that for Keith. He's like yeah, groovy man, groovy, that's groovy man. He goes. Now I'm going to play a solo for you, a saxophone solo. I said, all right, now I'd never heard of this band. Now we've heard it a million times. Back then I'd never heard of it. So he slaps this one on me. Changed my life, thank you. Ah, this is pretty good, this is alright, man.
Speaker 1:Then this album became my all-time favorite album, once I figured out what it was. So that changed my life and put me on a rock and roll trajectory that I've never turned away from. That inspired me to listen to so many other things, particularly groups like, well, the Alan Parsons Project who, by the way, engineered that album, engineered that record, engineered like Holding On to Yesterday, ambrosia, anyhow, it opened up a whole like Camel and all of these other. Yes, I got into yes, I got into some more progressive stuff thanks to that, and in return, keith got into music that I was turning him on to and so that really really helped change my life dramatically musically, and that's why I put that record in and that's one of the reasons I will always appreciate my friend Keith.
Speaker 1:When Keith and I were 16 years old, my dad was the assistant plant manager at Campbell Soup in Sacramento the Campbell Soup plant and we wanted money and Keith and I wanted to earn money. The reason we wanted to earn money is because we wanted to buy records. Like, how are we going to buy records? We need to earn some money. So my dad tells us one summary. He says, hey, so I'm going to get you guys a job working for Campbell Soup. And we were so excited.
Speaker 1:And he says I don't want you to mess it up. And I said well, what are you talking about? I don't want you messing it up. I said well, I'm not going to mess it up, I don't really plan on messing it up. He says I don't want because I was such a baseball player. He says because I would throw anything rocks, anything I could pick up I would throw. He said I don't want you throwing tomatoes and I said well, what do you mean throwing tomatoes? I'm not going to be throwing tomatoes. What do you mean? Throwing tomatoes? I don't want you throwing tomatoes, I don't care what happens, I don't even care if someone throws a tomato at you.
Speaker 1:Well, we go out there there and we get out there. We'd have to get out there at four o'clock in the morning out of Woodland and we get out there and we get on this tomato harvester every morning. Now this is with all Mexicans that came over to work the fields. None of them spoke English. I mean literally no one there except us spoke English that I can recall. So we'd be going up and down these rows on this tomato harvester and after about a week or two weeks or whatever, there'd be a conveyor belt and your job was to look down, get the bad tomatoes out, throw them into the trash thing there or this little slot where the bad tomatoes go. Yeah, bad tomato man.
Speaker 1:And so one day, splat tomato gets thrown at me right across the harvester. Dude throws a tomato. A Mexican dude throws a tomato and hits me in the chest, like Otis in the Andy Griffith show when Barney throws a tomato. Why'd you throw that tomato at me, andy? Why'd he throw that tomato? Ask him why he threw that tomato at me Anyhow, and I'm thinking.
Speaker 1:Dad told me not to do anything but I was mad. Keith says don't do. Keith's working on the harvest. He says don't do anything, don't do anything, I'm not going to do anything. Whatever Happens again, happens again. Now I'm starting to get tired of it.
Speaker 1:Day three, day four, whatever it was. One day big old, splatty green tomato hits me right in the face. I'm working and splat hits me in the face. That was it. I lost it. He's like no, I go. No, I started firing tomatoes. I'm chucking tomatoes like no one on this harvester's got a tomato arm like me. I'm chucking tomato. You throw a tomato at me. Here you go, how you like this I'm just targeting and I can throw to which I got fired.
Speaker 1:The guy that threw the tomato in my face, no problem, no problem, me fired. I remember the guy going lunch. He calls lunch lunch and he stops the harvester, get off and he fires me. I didn't even know what he said, but I knew we were fired. My dad was so pissed off. I'm trying to appease him, I'm trying to tell him well, now he didn't care. I had a rock and roll shirt I had handmade Back then. You couldn't get really great rock t-shirts. You couldn't buy them anywhere, you couldn't really find them. So couldn't really find him. So I had one made Leonard Skinner and he's got a cowboy hat, sunglasses, and my dad just ripped it off of my back.
Speaker 2:I don't like this.
Speaker 1:He just ripped it off of my back for getting fired. He was so mad. He's like man. I knew as soon as that dude told that. He said I knew as soon as that hit you in the face, patrick, you were going to throw tomatoes and he goes. I'm sorry, I started laughing because you were tagging him. You were tagging him, man, you weren't missing, that wasn't gonna miss. I was an all-star. Anyhow, keith, you're in North Carolina now. We've been friends a long time.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the other thing I used to tell him I used to draw Harleys. I used to look at Ed Mann posters and Easy Rider and I used to want to do that. I wanted to be a biker. All of a sudden, I'd draw these Harleys with pencil. I would do pencil drawings and Keith would see them and he'd be like God, pat, you can really draw a motorcycle. I said, yeah, it. So then I gave them all to Keith as a collection. I don't know if he still has them. I heard that he left them behind somewhere, which I'm sad about, because I was pretty proud of those motorcycles Anyhow.
Speaker 1:So in our formidable years 17, 18 years old, 16, 17, 18, I had the brilliant idea that I was going to go into the military, into the army. I'll go into the army, into communications or something. Even then I was interested in that and we could go in, as in the buddy-buddy system, keith, let's go into the army and let's go get us a Harley, each get a Harley and we'll go. And he was like, nah, man, I don't know about that, I think I'm going to go to college or do something else or do this or that. And I said, oh man, all right, I couldn't talk him into it. What happens? A couple of years go by, I end up going to college, I do not get a Harley, I do not enlist into the army. Keith, on the other hand, completely flips, goes and gets the Harley and enlists in the Marine Corps Unbelievable. And at that point he's like okay, let's get to Harley. And I said nope, no, no, you should have jumped on that opportunity earlier because I'm out, otherwise I would have been in the military. But nope, he didn't want to do it. Then he ended up doing it and then we did the complete opposite. Then I went to college like he was going to. And thus, here I am doing this now and Keith is now retired from the military.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm still working, enslaving behind a microphone till I'm 100. I'll have 10,000 podcasts done by the time I retire. And that musical experience, by the way, with the Earth, wind, fire and the Pink Floyd, that's what kind of flipped me over to FM radio. You know, now I started getting a Deep Purple and Skinnered and Robin Trower and people you know, elvin Bishop and UFO and Jay Giles and ACDC and Zappa all the stuff, man, that I had never. You know Aerosmith Rocks Toys in the Att attic. It opened up a whole new thing for me. So now, thank goodness, I have retained all these years all that Top 40 pop stuff that I absolutely love Dionne Warwick, burt, bacharach, tijuana Brass, you name it Jackie DeShannon and I love all of the rock stuff that I just named.
Speaker 1:Happy birthday, keith. I love you, brother. You are my brother and you are now my longest friend in life. We've known each other, you and I, longer than anyone else in life and I hope, if you're listening, that you have that as well, that you have someone that you've been able to be friends with for many, many years, decades, and that that has remained strong.
Speaker 1:Like I said, I am considering, not even considering. I will be starting as if I need to do anything more than this. I don't even know if I have time, but I am well. I want to do another podcast which will feature my records I mentioned that before where it'll be kind of what I'm doing at the end of this. The only problem with that is, well, it's no problem at all. There is no problem. It's time-wise. I better have some more time. I already anyhow, life gets in the way. But, uh, so what we do at the end is, of course, we play a record for my record collection, my rare 45s, and I might do that to where, if you just want to listen to very short podcasts as well, just the music part, we can do that.
Speaker 1:But today I'm going to continue with my tradition as I wrap up these peeps today, number 99, 99. I'm thinking about songs that had 99 in it. What was the? Uh? Was there question mark and the medallions? It was that it was. Was it question mark? And then it Question Mark and the Mysterians, right, something like that. That did 99 Tears, didn't they do that? All the 99s out there? Pretty sure that's what they did. Yeah, 99. Yeah, yeah, 99 Tears, 99, tears.
Speaker 2:Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying. Too many teardrops for one heart to carry on. You're way on top now, since you left me.
Speaker 1:You're always laughing. I love that keyboard in that song, that Hammond organ oh, it's 96 Tears. That's right, 96 Tears. It just occurred to me. It's 96 Tears. We already did 96. It's not 99, it's 96 Tears. That's right, 96 Tears. It just occurred to me. It's 96 Tears. We already did 96. It's not 99, it's 96. Toto did 99, though, right, toto, that just occurred to me as I was singing along. It's not 99, it's 96 Tears. All right, but I know this one Toto is 99. 99. Yeah, coming at you, baby, on the Pat's Peeps podcast 99.
Speaker 2:I've been waiting so long, oh 99. Was we the wrong?
Speaker 1:Oh, 99. I love you, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it. Then there was CCR, remember. 99 and a half won't do, it just won't do. 99 and a half won't do. From the first album, baby, featuring Suzy Q.
Speaker 2:You're back to 1968,edens clearwater with their debut not just a little part, with all of your heart, with all of your hard work.
Speaker 1:99 and a half. Just a one dude. That's a good first album by Creedence, by the way. Good first album, porterville Gloomy Suzy Q Anyhow. So let's get to our 45 that we pulled from the shelf today. Today it's a two-sider, this song from 1966, and I'm looking at the record. It still has the little sticker on it from the radio station that says 1966. Looks like it's in very good condition. This one may have been played. Doesn't look pristine, but it looks in great condition.
Speaker 1:1966 song written and performed by Robert Parker. I figured that wouldn't give anything away right away. Maybe it did to you, but this was arranged and produced in 1965. And the record label is NOLA Records and it claimed that the record sold over a million copies. It's the first record I've come across is NOLA Records and it claimed that the record sold over a million copies. It's the first record I've come across on NOLA. This particular song reached number two on the US Hot Rhythm and Blues singles chart, number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, peaked at number 11 on the Cashbox Top 100 in June of 66. Outside the US, the track reached number seven in Canada in June of that year, 24 in the UK singles chart in September of that year and there were some other versions of the song, but without further ado, robert Parker, this is a song called Barefootin' Barefootin' Remember this one?
Speaker 2:Barefootin', we, barefootin', we, barefootin', we barefootin'. Went to a party the other night. Long Tall Sally was out of sight, threw away a wig and a hot sneakers too. She was doing a dance without any shoes. She was bad footin', she was bad footin', she was bad footin', she was bad footin'. Hey, little girl.
Speaker 1:Again, I don't have any rights to this. I'm playing it for not, I'm not, you know. Listen, I'm doing it to promote the artist that a lot of people may not have even heard of, or the song for that matter, or forgotten about. Trying to educate is all I'm trying to do. We barefoot, we barefoot, we barefoot.
Speaker 1:All right, let's turn it over, flip it over and see what's on the other side, on the other side of this, a red label. By the way, this got three stickers on it, 445. It's got four stickers. One's covered up. Those are all radio station stickers 445, I don't know what. The other one, 890. I guess this is all inventory stuff, but the and then the other sticker is 1966, that this radio station wanted on there. Uh, let's see. So the other flip it over. The other song is called the flip side is called let's go baby, where the action is. Robert palmer, I mean robert palmer. Robert parker, parker. Let's go baby where the action is. Here we go, robert Palmer, I mean Robert Palmer, robert Parker, let's go baby, where the action is.
Speaker 2:Here we go. Let's go, baby, where the action is when the action is. Put on your wig and your high heel sneakers and your new red dress. I want you to look the best. So let's go, baby, where the action is. Where the action is. Where the action is, they're doing the bony, the bony morony.
Speaker 1:They did a lot of songs like this back in this era, all the dance names. It's a good B-side, what do you think? So let's go, baby, where the action is All right.
Speaker 2:That's a good B-side, what do you think? So let's go, baby, where the action is All right.
Speaker 1:Plats peeps number 99. Where the action is Next up on deck 100.
Speaker 2:Number 100. Yeah, baby, she'll be there.
Speaker 1:Looking forward to it. I certainly thank you for listening all the way up to 100 now and beyond. We'll see you for 100 and we'll see you on the radio.
Speaker 2:Get there soon, we don't want to be late.