Brian & Toto Ask, "Is Shady's Place Going to the Dogs?" SPMM's Deejay Dawgs Bark "3 Cheers for 13 Years!"

Hi, Folks!

I'm Brian Griffin.

As I'm sure you know,

I'm the personable pooch

from Family Guy and a

Shady Bunch deejay...

host of Eclectic Avenue

right here on S-P-M-M

Retrosonic Radio.

And I'm Toto Moto.

I make no bones about the fact that I'm

Shady Del Knight's dog. I'm also the blog

mascot, Chief Petting Officer and a DJ -

The Hound of Sound on S-P-M-M, host

of Toto's Top Tunes Time Tunnel.

My motto: "I aim to fleas!"

Today Brian and I are gonna start from
scratch (BA-DUM-BUMP) and help
Shady salivate his 13th anniversary
as a blogger including three years
of bringing you music and fun

here at Shady's Place.

Toto and I will each play a favorite song,

and we will be introducing three exciting

radio personalities who will be joining

The Shady Bunch deejay staff full time

beginning next year. I'll start us off.

In 1990, rapper M.C. Hammer topped

the R&B chart with his signature song

"U Can't Touch This." Here to do a

parody of the song is Peter Griffin,

my human on Family Guy. Peter

sings-- "Can't Touch Me!"

"Can't Touch Me" - Peter Griffin

(sung to the tune of "U Can't Touch This" by M.C. Hammer,

orig. May/June 1990, highest chart pos. #1 R&B/#4 Cash Box,
#8 Hot 100, scene from ep. of TV series Family Guy)

Hi everyone!

I'm Morgan Brody.

You might recognize me as the CSI level III on
the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
I'm happy to let you know that, beginning
next year, I'll be the host of a new radio
show here on S-P-M-M. It'll be called
CSI: Cool Song Investigation.

Now I might look like the typical

girl next door, your kid sister

or a fashionista mall rat,

but I assure you that I'm

a seasoned professional.

I'm meticulous in my work. I dot every
"i" and cross every genre to bring you the
best and coolest tunes in the music world.

As a preview of my show I dug up a great performance by an exciting young English

vocalist named Amelia Rendell. In 2016,

Amelia sang lead for the Stanley Dee

tribute band in a live show at a London

pub. Watch and listen as Amelia and the

band delight the crowd with their cover

of "Do It Again," the Steely Dan song

that brushed the top 5 in 1973.

START PLAYING VIDEO AT 1 MIN MARK!

"Do It Again" - Steely Dan cover by Stanley Dee tribute band
feat. Amelia Rendell (Aug. 2016 perf. at Half Moon Pub
in Putney, SW London, UK)

Isn't Amelia great? Okay, I uncovered

another fantastic cover song for you.

It was recorded by Eden's Crush, a

Los Angeles based pop girl group

created in 2001 on the now defunct

WB Network's TV series Popstars.

The Eden's Crush lineup included

Nicole Scherzinger who found fame

a few years later as lead singer of the

Pussycat Dolls. In 2001 Eden's Crush

released an album that contains their

version of "The Glamorous Life," the

song written by Prince and first waxed

by singer and percussionist Sheila E.

In 1984 Sheila E.'s single reached the

top 10 on the pop chart and went all

the way to number one on the Dance

survey. The cover by Eden's Crush

is way cool. Let's investigate!

"Glamorous Life" - Sheila E. cover by Eden's Crush

(from May 2001 album Popstars)

Hi, I'm Evie Barret.

I'm the new sheriff in the tiny town

of Willard's Mill, New Hampshire,

on the comedy horror TV series
Stan Against Evil.

My new radio show, coming in 2022,
is called Good Verses Evie, get it?

On Good Verses Evie I'll play songs with
lyrics that inspire, stir your emotions and
make you think, and I've got a couple of

Beatlesque samples. The first is a famous

show tune performed by Emily Linge, a

gifted young singer & musician in Dubai.

Originally recorded in 1950 and used in

the 1957 musical The Music Man, the

song was made even more famous by

The Beatles who waxed it in 1963.

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

Here are Emily Linge and her music teacher

Simon Tomkins doing-- "Till There Was You." 

"Till There Was You" - The Music Man

The Beatles Cover by Emily Linge & Simon Tomkins

(Sept. 2020)

Here's another one I'm sure you
remember. In the late summer
and early fall of 1971, ex-Beatle
Paul McCartney and his wife

Linda topped the U.S. chart
with a lyric rich song that

was the first in a string of
post-Beatle number one hit
singles for Paul in America.

Here are Paul & Linda with--

"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey!"

CLICK TO START
THE VIDEO NOW!

"Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey" - Paul And Linda McCartney

(Sept. 1971, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

Well hello there, Shady. That's right,
it's me, your old buddy, you old pal,

The Guy

Under the Seats.

Bet you conveniently forgot all about me since

the last time I was here. Bet you wish I didn't

even exist so that you could continue your

reign as self-proclaimed leader of the free

blog world unopposed. Well I got news, pal.

You're gonna regret the day your were born,

Mr. Poopy Pants, because I'm back and I'm

here to stay, here to make your life a living

hell as a new member of your illustrious

Shady Bunch DJ squad starting in 2022.

My show, the one you sorely neglected for years, the one
I adopted as my own and made a lot better, will still
be known as Eighties Greaties.

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

I'll keep playing songs and vids from what I think we

can all agree was the last great decade in music.

Here's a sample spinning on my turntable and

simulcasting on YouTube. The Steve Miller

Band with their biggest hit, #1 in the late

summer of '82-- "Abracadabra!"

"Abracadabra" - The Steve Miller Band

(Aug./Sept. 1982, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

Hi again, folks. This is your old hi-fi fido,
Toto Moto. On Top Tunes Time Tunnel
I spin the super sounds of the Swingin' 60s.
Here's a hit single that bridged the gap
between two musical eras, the innocent
teen pop years of the 50s and early 60s,
and the rock band years of mid to late 60s
when pop music turned harder and heavier.

Believed to be dirty, the ditty was banned
by radio stations all across the country.

CLICK TO START VID!

S-P-M-M's got the slab and your Pooch with
the Hooch isn't afraid to play it. Here are

The Kingsmen with their garage rock

classic-- "Louie Louie!"

"Louie Louie" - The Kingsmen

(Dec. 1963, Jan. 1964, highest chart pos. #1 Cash Box,
#2 Hot 100, perf. on Jan. 22, 1966, ep. of Hollywood a Go Go)

Louie Louie, oh no,

me gotta go,

yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, baby

Louie Louie, oh baby,

me gotta go

I said me gotta go now

Make that we gotta go now, Toto.

Ooops, I just splashed my drink on
Chris Elliott. That's gonna mean
50 years of bad luck. Hey lishen,
I'm not as drunk as some thinkle

peep I am, okay? Anyway, thanks
for coming to Shady Del Knight's
13th anniversary party featuring
some of the new faces, voices and

personalities coming to S-P-M-M

Retrosonic Radio next year. Now
for Toto Moto this is Brian Griffin
saying so long and see you soon!

Beth Boland's ADRENALINE RUSH..... Vol. 1: Cold as Ice is More Than a Feeling!

BOOTH ANNOUNCER GARY OWENS:

...and the cow was returned to its rightful owner.

And that's the latest from S-P-M-M news...
fast, up-to-the-minute, completely fake
and proud of it. Now stand by for

 BETH BOLAND'S 
 ADRENALINE RUSH 

on the station that's #1 for music and fun - S-P-M-M!

PIGGYBACK COLD OPEN:

CLICK TO PLAY FIRST VIDEO

AND AT 8 SEC MARK, CLICK
TO START SECOND VIDEO!

"Some Guys Have All The Luck" - Rod Stewart

(Sept./Oct. 1984, highest chart pos.

#10 Hot 100/#16 Cash Box)

You know what they say. Spare the rod, spoil the show.
I say... let there be Rod!

That was British lightning rod Rod Stewart feeling his

oats and knocking me out with one of his top 10 hits

of the 80s, "Some Guys Have All The Luck." 

CLICK TO START VIDEO!

Hi, I'm Beth Boland from the

NBC TV series Good Girls.

Think I look like Joan from

Mad Men? I get that a lot.

I'm an average suburban

housewife and mother who

leads a secret life. In fact,

my girl pals and I have a

lot of secrets. Is our show

a comedrama or is it a

dramedy? Who's to say?

This I can tell you. It's a

hoot, a guilty pleasure.

You need to watch, and

girlfriend, here's a hint...

wait till you lay eyes

on my "Loverboy."

Here's Billy Ocean!

"Loverboy" - Billy Ocean

(Jan./Feb. 1985, highest chart pos. #2 Hot 100,

#4 Cash Box/#20 R&B, perf. on American Bandstand)

That was loverboy Billy Ocean, the Trinidad born,

England raised singer/songwriter, appearing on

American Bandstand and doing his top 3 hit.

Speaking of secrets... one of my

best kept is that I am moonlighting
as a Shady Bunch deejay here on

S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio, and
and you're tuned to my very first

show! Here's the thing to remember:

Beth's bigger on beats than ballads.

The songs I will play are intended

to give you an Adrenaline Rush

that'll get you up on your feet,

out of your seat and rockin'

till you drop. Got it?

A little more about me.

CLICK TO

START VIDEO!

To make a long story short,

on Good Girls I went from

being an average play-by-

the-rules soccer mom to

gun toting gangster moll

in two shakes of a jiffy.

Don't ask 'cause I'm not

gonna tell! Let's just say

bad boy Rio gives this

  Good Girl everything 

she needs, honey... and

"Everything She Wants!" 

"Everything She Wants" - Wham!

(May/June 1985, highest chart pos.

#1 Hot 100 & Cash Box/#1 Canada) 

Topping the pop charts in the U.S. and Canada in the spring

of 1985, that was WHAM!... the English pop duo cosisting

of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. Meanwhile, that

smooth criminal Rio and that redheaded bombshell Beth

(that's me) make a dynamite duo every week on NBC's

Good Girls, so be sure to watch! 

BB - Beth Boland - keeping

you company and pumping

you full of adrenaline here

on S-P-M-M... where the

 classic rock hits just

keep on comin'!

CLICK TO

START VIDEO!

Ever since I started breaking

bad on Good Girls, people say

I'm cold as ice. Maybe so...

but it gets the job done.

Foreigner recorded a

song about it!

"Cold As Ice" - Foreigner

(Sept/Oct. 1977, highest chart pos.

#6 Hot 100/#10 Cash Box)

From 1977 that was "Cold As Ice," a hot one by Foreigner,

the part-English, part-American band that achieved most

of their hits on this side of the pond. That single brushed

the top 5 in the U.S. and made the top 10 in Canada.

CLICK TO START

THE VIDEO NOW!

If you're just tuning in I'm Beth,

Good Girl turned naughty and

lovin' it, and I'm playing the

classics of the 70s and 80s.

We're in the middle of a

7-in-a-row commercial-

free Adrenaline Rush

and to keep the juices

flowing here are--

Hall and Oates!

"Did It In A Minute"

- Daryl Hall And John Oates

(Apr./May 1982, highest chart pos.

#9 Hot 100/#10 Cash Box)

CLICK TO START VIDEO!

You just heard Daryl Hall

and John Oates doing it

right with "Did It In A

Minute," a top 10 hit

for the duo in 1982.

We're going for an

Adrenaline Rush

with one classic rock

nugget after another,

the good stuff from

the Good Girl on

S-P-M-M... your

station for pure

rock and roll!

"More Than A Feeling" - Boston

(Oct./Nov. 1976, highest chart pos.

#4 Cash Box/#5 Hot 100)

S-P-M-M... the station that never stops rockin'...

and that was a dose of FM rock nirvana from the

fall of '76-- Boston with "More Than A Feeling."

The song was the first single released from the

band's self-titled debut album. It spent 19 weeks

on the chart and is considered a classic rock staple.

"More Than A Feeling" made the Rock & Roll Hall

of Fame's list of 500 Songs That Shaped Rock & Roll

and Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

I've got more than a feeling I'm out of time and the show's over.

The clock on the wall proves it. I need to fly on outta here and

I'm going to do it on The Steve Miller Band's "Jet Airliner,"

a top five hit in the summer of '77. I give it to you straight,

and this is the real deal, the album version, not the edited,

sanitized single version played on ordinary radio stations.

I hope by now I've got you feeling that Adrenaline Rush.

Stick around. Coming up on the flip side of news, it's

those other Good Girls - Patti, Cindy & Jane - from

Good Girls Revolt. They'll be here with the second

edition of their S-P-M-M show Libbin' It Up with

The Good Girls, and I'll be back soon to give you

another Adrenaline Rush with classic rock of the

70s and 80s. Now this is Beth Boland saying

take care, watch your back, be good... and if

you can't be good... be careful. So long!

"Jet Airliner" - The Steve Miller Band

(May to July 1977, highest chart pos.

#3 Cash Box/#8 Hot 100)