2023 - Year of the Dell Rat ???

...or is it the year of the

Belle Rat?

...or could it be the year of the

Platterpus?

 Ainsley, Zoe, Adalind, Twisty, 

 Jess, Stephanie and Dot 

 Join The Shady Bunch! 

 CAN SHADY DEL KNIGHT KEEP YOU 
 ENTERTAINED IN THE COMING YEAR? 

 DO YOU NEED A 

 WACKY, WAVING, 

 INFLATABLE, 

 ARM FLAILING 

 TUBE MAN? 

 WELCOME BACK, DEAR FRIEND! 

 AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

I'm delighted to have you along for the ride
as I begin another year of blogging here
at Shady's Place Music & Memories.
This year I am excited to launch more

new S-P-M-M radio shows hosted by

some of my favorite celebs from

TV and movies. You met some of

them last year in sneak previews,

and they're back in this special 2-

part post to help me kick-off 2023.

The first seven new members of

The Shady Bunch are ready to

play tunes ripped from their

SPMM radio play lists, so

let's meet them right now!

Hello, I'm Dot Everest on the Amazon

TV series The Tick. By day, I work for

The City as an EMT. By night, you'll

find me breaking badass, a crime-

fighting super-powered vigilante

heroine on Team Tick. My new

show on S-P-M-M will be called

7 on the Dot...

TICK TICK TICK.

That means every song I play will

make reference to time. You won't

find my show on TikTok... only

here at Shady's Place. Time is of

the essence, so let me give you

a sample song from my show,

a 1965 clip of The Rolling Stones

performing on Top Of The Pops. 

START VIDEO NOW!

This is the band's first UK single written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards,

a record that hit #1 in the UK and made the top 10 in the U.S.

Here now are The Stones and-- "The Last Time!"

"The Last Time" - The Rolling Stones

(Apr. 1965, highest chart pos. #1 UK/#9 Hot 100,

#10 Cash Box, 1965 perf. on Top Of The Pops) 

Hi there, and Happy New Year!

My name is Stephanie Smothers.

Think I look like Anna Kendrick?

I get that a lot. I'm main character

of the 2018 black comedy crime

thriller A Simple Favor. In the

movie, I host a crafts and recipes

vlog that caters to moms. On the

sly, I'm an amateur sleuth who

does lots of digging, gets lots of

questions answered and solves

a murder mystery. This year,

I'll bring that skill set to my

new radio show on S-P-M-M. 

CLICK TO START

THE VIDEO NOW! 

My show is called Stephanie Knows Who (What, When, Where, Why and How).

Every song I play asks a question, and here's one now. It's Heart with their

1985 comeback single, the band's first top 40 hit in three years and the

first to make the top 10 in five years. Watch and listen as sisters Ann

and Nancy Wilson ask the musical question-- "What About Love?" 

"What About Love?" - Heart

(July/Aug. 1985, highest chart pos. #8 Canada/#10 Hot 100,

#17 Cash Box/#3 U.S. Mainstream Rock & Canada Adult Contemporary) 

Hello, mate! I'm Jess Parker on the British

science-fiction television series Primeval.

 I'm the field coordinator of a team that

battles prehistoric creatures when they

break through time/space portals and

attack humans. My new show on

S-P-M-M Retro Radio is called

Primeval

Platterpus. 

I will be resurrecting groovy

platters from the 60s, 70s and

80s, records that might sound

like dinosaurs to younger ears,

but to Boomers, they're the

latest and the greatest.

It's yesterday once more!

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW! 

Here's a sample of what I'll be playing on Primeval Platterpus.

The blokes and birds of the Swedish pop supergroup ABBA punctuate

our plight as we battle the beasts to save the human race. This is the

flip side of their 1974 hit "Waterloo," the first single released by

the group using the name ABBA. What do you do when

those primeval monsters appear? "Watch Out!" 

"Watch Out" - ABBA

(June/July 1974, B side of "Waterloo")




Editor's note: Meet Twisty, the deranged killer clown on

American Horror Story: Freak Show. Twisty is proud to join

The Shady Bunch in 2023 as the "silent DJ" of SPMM radio.

That's right. Twisty doesn't speak.

He simply stares at you, smiles,

does a little magic trick for you,

and then proceeds to kill you.

Nothing personal, but yeah...

you really need to die.

Twisty's new show on

SPMM will be called

Twisty the

Night Away

...and Twisty wants you

to hear a sample from

his play list. It's Elvis

the Pelvis in a scene

from his hit 1957

film Loving You!

"Twisty's Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do

(and You've Got a Lot O' Dyin' To Do)"

- Elvis Presley (scene from July 1957

movie Loathing You) 

I'm Adalind Schade a witch-like Hexenbiest on the fantasy police drama Grimm.

I'll be here in April 2023 along with six other celebrity contestants to take

The A to Z Challenge, a new trivia game series at Shady's Place.

It's called the A to Z Challenge

because four of the players have

names that begin with the letter

"A" like me, and the other three

players have names that begin

with "Z." The game proceeds

through the alphabet with

players taking turns naming

a recording artist whose name

begins with the corresponding

letter. For example, if it's my

turn to name a "B" music act,

 I could pick rock 'n' roll star

Johnny Burnette and score

10 extra points for playing

a Johnny Burnette song that

has a number in the title. 

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

And here it is, from the soundtrack of American Graffiti

Johnny's top 10 hit-- "You're Sixteen!" 

"You're Sixteen" - Johnny Burnette

(Dec. 1960/Jan. 1961, highest chart pos. #7 Cash Box/#8 Hot 100)

Hi, I'm Zoe Baker, Beth Pearson's cousin

and Kevin's girlfriend on the hit family

TV drama This Is Us. I'm one of the "Z"

name players on the A to Z Challenge.

Let's suppose it's my turn to pick an

artist whose name begins with "M." 

CLICK TO START VIDEO NOW!

I could score 10 bonus points by choosing a

song by Mandy Moore, because the artist's

 first and last name both begin with "M."

Then I could gain 10 additional points

by making a Six Degrees connection,

because Mandy and I are on the same

TV show This Is Us. Here's Mandy

with her 2001 hit-- "In My Pocket!"

"In My Pocket" - Mandy Moore

(June 2001, highest chart pos. #11 Australia/#26 New Zealand,

#21 U.S. Mainstream Top 40/#102 Bubbling Under)



Hi, I'm Ainsley Whitly, an ambitious television news reporter on the hit

TV series Prodigal Son. This year, I and my colleagues, who are also

investigative journalists, will host a new S-P-M-M radio show called

The I-Team.

In this case, "I" does not stand for investigation, as in investigative

reporting. The title of every song we play on I-Team will start

with the letter "I"... We'll be spinning some uber cool tunes,

so "I" hope you'll join us. I also hope you enjoyed Pt. 1

of Shady's annual New Year's Day celebration.

Stick around for Pt. 2 coming up on Thursday. 

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

To play us off, here again is This Is Us star Mandy Moore with

the "I" song "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of The Week."

Now for Zoe, Adalind, Twisty, Jess, Stephanie and Dot,

this is Ainsley saying goodbye and see you soon! 

"I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of The Week" - Mandy Moore

(Apr./May 2009, highest chart pos. #14 Ukraine/#90 Hot 100) 

Twisty the Night Away!

premiering this year at Shady's Place!

Symphony of Destruction! Halloween Rocktoberfest Pt. 2 Featuring G.L.O.W. - the (Gorgeous Ladies of WOW!)

FIRST TO ELEVEN 

KISS 

"I Was Made For Loving You"

Kiss cover by First To Eleven (Oct. 2020) 

Kiss and makeup - that was Audra Miller and her Erie, Pennsylvania,

band First to Eleven with a Halloween hoot, a cool and capable cover

of "I Was Made For Loving You," a discofied hit for Kiss in 1979. 

Hi, I'm Kelly "That's a hard pass" Maxwell... a young woman dragged

into the fight against evil on the comedy horror television series

Ash vs Evil Dead... (not to be confused with Romper Room). 

You've heard of tough love. With Ash, it's chainsaw love.

I've learned that when dealing with the undead it's

best to follow Ash's golden rule - shoot first

 and ask questions never. 

Welcome to Pt. 2 of Shady Del Knight's 

Halloween Rocktoberfest featuring the

gorgeous ladies of rock and metal with

introductions by the gorgeous ladies of

TV and movies that will soon be joining

The Shady Bunch DJ team on S-P-M-M.

If you liked Pt. 1 of this series, you're

 gonna love Pt. 2. You axed for it -

you got it! (See what I did there?)  

I think it's high time to bury

the hatchet... (in some scary

evil dead dude's back), so I

need  to get outta here. 

Join me for my brand new S-P-M-M radio show

Grace Kelly Rear Window,

coming soon to Shady's Place!

I'm Ainsley Whitly from the TV crime drama Prodigal Son. 

I'm the ambitious younger sister of Malcolm Bright, a brilliant police profiler

with the ability to view crimes from the killer's P.O.V. I work as a TV news

reporter and have deep, dark secrets of my own. Come over to my crib

sometime and meet the skeletons in my closet. In the meantime,

join me and other fictional news women on our S-P-M-M

radio show The I-Team, coming soon to this station.

DARYA TYUSHEVA 

KISS

You just heard First To Eleven cover

a monster hit by Kiss. Now, here to

do another Kiss killer is a Gorgeous

Lady of Wow that you met in part 1.

Watch and listen as Russian rocker

Darya Tyusheva performs a guitar

cover of the seductive Kiss klassic

"Let's Put The X In Sex!"   

"Let's Put The X In Sex"

Kiss guitar cover

by Darya Tyusheva

(June 2020) 

Good day (or maybe not), my name is Sarah and my last name is a mystery.

I'm the star of the 2019 horror movie 1BR, the story of an aspiring costume

designer who moves into a one-bedroom apartment in LA, unaware that the

complex is owned by a cult that uses torture to force new residents to join

their community. Hey, as long as the manager cuts me a deal on the rent,

I'm there, dude! I hope you'll join me on the new Shady's Place radio

series Thru the Spooking Glass, coming your way soon!

SONIA ANUBIS &

ESMEE VAN SINDEREN 

POISON 

I have two Gorgeous Ladies

of WOW for you - two more

hot rock guitarists. You met

Dutch guitar siren Sonia

Anubis in part one. Today,

Sonia is joined by Esmée

van Sinderen, also based

in The Netherlands. The

WOW women perform a

guitar cover of a hit by

those rowdy boys from

up Shady's way in PA--

Mechanicsburg to be

exact. They're the glam

metal band Poison, and

Sonia & Esmée do justice

to their nasty nugget--

"Talk Dirty To Me!" 

"Talk Dirty To Me"

Poison guitar cover by

Sonia Anubis & Esmée van Sinderen

(Apr. 2021) 

Hi there, I'm Alice! That's me, bound and  gagged above, in a scene from

the 2019 horror movie The Cleaning Lady. I'm a young woman who made

two big mistakes. One was having a fling with a married man. The other

was hiring a creepy cleaning lady whose face is scarred from severe burns.

Seems the cleaning lady has taken a shine to me. (See what I did there?)

She's become obsessed with me - a new best friend from hell. She wears

my clothes and makeup, and basically wants to trade lives with me. 

BLOOD BATH & BEYOND

All hell breaks loose. Blood is spilled. Yep, it's hard to find good help these days.

Let's put it this way - Norman Bates was safer to be around than this psycho!

Before I get chloroformed in my sleep again and forget, be sure to tune in

for the debut of my S-P-M-M radio show Thru the Spooking Glass...

starting soon exclusively here at Shady's Place Music & Memories!

LILIAC 

MEGADETH 

Alice here, in case you didn't recognize

me without the gag. It's time for me to

introduce the next two Gorgeous Ladies

of WOW! You met these Transylvanian

transplants in part one.  Today they're

back in black and ready to, in their

own words, "rock on and rock hard."

 They're the LA-based family band

Liliac featuring not one but two

G.L.O.W. nominees - lead zinger

Melody Cristea, and sister Abigail

who plays and slays on the drum kit.

The band performs their version of

a song covered in part one by UK

guitarist Sophie Burrell. Here are

the rockin' Liliac siblings doing

Megadeth's "Symphony

of Destruction!"

 

"Symphony Of Destruction"

Megadeth ciover by Liliac

(May 2021) 

ANNA ELISE 

MOTIONLESS IN WHITE 

Ello, hey up and all that rot.

I'm D.I. Kate Bishop from

the BBC comedy-drama

police procedural Vexed,

a TV series set in present

day London. Join me and

my English sisters from

other misters on our new

S-P-M-M radio show

British British Swag...

Our next Gorgeous Lady

of WOW is YouTube drum

sensation Anna Elise. Anna

has been performing since

age ten. She specializes in

doing covers of hard rock

and heavy metal anthems.

Anna's channel is called MistakesHaveBeenMade

but, make no mistake, this

young woman kicks butt.

Behold Anna as she beats

her skins into submission

with a drum cover of the

Motionless In White song

"Necessary Evil!" 

"Necessary Evil" - Motionless In White drum cover

by Anna Elise aka ANNA (Nov. 2020)

Hello! I'm the lady in red (above) - Jess Parker - from the British sci-fi

TV series Primeval. I'm field coordinator of a team that battles prehistoric

and futuristic creatures that emerge from Anomalies, time/space portals,

and attack humans in London town and all around. Madcap hijinks ensue. 

Coming soon, I'll be hosting

a new show here on S-P-M-M

Tyrannosonic Radio called

Primeval Platterpus.

The records I'll play from the

60s, 70s and 80s might seem

like dinosaurs to younger

listeners but, to Boomer

ears, they're the latest

and the greatest. It's

yesterday once more! 

SOPHIE BURRELL 

AC/DC

You met this next Gorgeous lady of

WOW in part one. She's another

fine UK guitarist by the name of

Sophie Burrell. Sophie's back

to rock your world again

with an electrifying

guitar cover. 

Listen as Sophie plays along

to one of AC/DC's great rock

songs-- "Shoot To Thrill!"

"Shoot To Thrill"

AC/DC guitar cover

by  Sophie Burrell

(July 2021)

 

SERSHEN & ZARITSKAYA 

RAY PARKER JR. 

Hi, I'm Meredith Harlow, a burlesque

dancer on Reprisal, the action drama

that follows a relentless femme fatale

who, after being left for dead, leads

a vengeful campaign against a

bombastic gang of gearheads.

Fun for the whole family!

Catch me in my new role as

a DJ on the S-P-M-M radio

show M Squad coming soon!

The last of our Gorgeous Ladies of

WOW is Ukrainian rock goddess

Daria Zaritskaya. Together with

guitarist Sergey Sershen, Daria

formed the dynamic duo Sershen

& Zaritskaya. Recently, the act

expanded to a quartet with the

addition of drummer Dmitry

Kim and Alex Shturmak on

bass. To conclude Shady's

Halloween Rocktoberfest,

S & Z gives a rock make-

over to "Ghostbusters,"

OST theme song of the

1984 blockbuster movie.

"Ghostbusters OST"

Ray Parker Jr.

cover by Sershen & Zaritskaya

feat. Kim and Shturmak (Oct. 2020)

SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!