What? Oh, I pretend moody Paul. No, I don't know if you're laughing at that. You?
Why? Because when you... What? Well, you stare into the middle of this.
Like the little for Lorne. Lorne D'Aubre. Welcome to Cheap Show. My name is Paul Gannon and this is a podcast all about living the best life you can with at least the money in your pocket.
It's not that easy. It's not really. No, it's just two mucky boys being dirty. Here we are with the House of Pickles today, Paul.
Welcome back. Thank you. It's been a while since we've been in the HOP and war. It's right today.
It's very right today. Today is a bit of a dog day afternoon in some respects. What are you doing? What does that mean?
You don't know what that means. Dog day afternoon. I don't know. It sounded right in my head.
It came out and it was like, you know that's a film about a man who holds up a bang to pay for a sex changer as a partner. Yes. Good film. Yeah, very good film.
So, so, engineer it backwards, Paul. How does that relate to what you're saying? Because it's a human room. I think it's just a reference that he makes to some work of literature or something in the film.
No, I don't know. Anyway, the dog days of summer. That's Shakespeare. My dog's Englishman go out in the midday sun.
What's your children? No, no, it wasn't good enough. None of this was good enough. Let's not get bancers at a low point.
Let's not again. Hello, Paul. No, let's not again. Let's not again.
No, come on. I'll do a run up. Hello, Paul. No, no, no, no, no.
You said let's do a run up. Hold your head away from the microphone and go, fff, fff, fff, fff, fff. I don't know what that meant. You could have done this.
I'll take a run up, Paul. Hello, everyone. Is this a game? It was better than your wolf war for this.
Stop going to fall, fff, leaning back. My technique, my friends. Hello, welcome to Cheep Show with the economy podcast. We go through the bargain bins and charity shops, the thrift stores, the basement bargain alleys.
The basement bargain alley. John will say that's a urban, urban, urban, urban, well, that doesn't exist. Good will is not charity. Is it not?
No, it's a corporation. Welcome to GBO. Hey, you and your fucking mood are positive. What love mood?
What's a factor cheat show? Look at how fucking percent? I'm doing it. Tell us what it does.
Kevin, say hello. We're doing something a little bit different, aren't we, Mr. Silver? I don't know.
What are we doing this week? Well, sometimes we have so much platter. We don't know what to do with it. And so today we thought we'd explain this with a backlog of platter in our system.
And just making it all about the wheel and the full vinyl app we find long old way in charity shop hunting. Are you saying there's a bit of build up of platter in the colon of Cheep Show? Yeah. And it's impacted.
A little bit of colon. So we're going to die like Elvis on the loo. No, we don't. Exponge.
Did you just say exponge? No, I said exponge. Exponge. Good work.
Thank you. Exponge, this dirty compacted platter block. Yeah, with what? A nice bit of a diarrhea medicine.
Tell us all about vinyl goodness. That's what I was looking for. So we're going to be an oral laxative today as we pour through your ears via your brain and out your bum. And out your bum full of music.
There you go. That's not good. Let's do it. Start the whole thing again.
Welcome to Cheep Show. Welcome. I'm Paul Gannon. I'm Eli Silverman.
And this is the Economy Comedy Podcast. We're meaning like over the bargain into charity shops, the powerlands, the discount stores, off Great Britain. And deliver. Some of the treasure we find amongst that trash.
And today we have a platter special. It's not all charity shop bought, Paul, but at most of it's second hand. Well, let's get this show started. Welcome to the show.
We're not going on a nozzle. So yeah, we thought we'd do a music special. Yeah. Welcome to the show.
So where do we start? I don't know. Oh, well, I know from a previous episode a lot of people were hoping. Yurning.
Eli, yurning. Hoping, praying, yurning, leading. A follow up to your MOOC. My first entry on the MOOC.
I won't promise MOOC today, Paul, but it's very synthesising my selection. You said to me, MOOC. I've told you to MOOC. MOOC's very narrow definition, isn't it?
Is it? Firstly, it's a MOOC. Okay. Well, you said he wasn't bothered.
Did he say he wasn't bothered? He went, I can't be fine. Bob MOOC. He counted his money in his bank account.
He went, you can call me anything. You're like, Bob, meowogue, Og. Bob was reading a bit about the origin of the MOOC synthesiser. And there was another guy, the Boogler Box.
He had this Boogler Box. Which was a very early synth that competed with the MOOC, but didn't have a... What makes a MOOC different from the regular synth? You know nothing.
You're a liar. It was the first synth. Oh, I was it. Yes.
So the Boogler Box. A lot of it just came out electronics. Right. And the Boogler Box didn't have a keyboard.
What MOOC wanted to do was make a playable electronic. So there was all dials and knobs and just dials and knobs and just a tone, you know, that you just did your knob on. Sorry. You did your knob on tone.
I do a knob on a tone. It's six minutes in, leave the document. I have sweating. It's sweaty day today.
I poisoned pouring from my forehead. Yeah. Oh, I've got to tell you something the dance floor. Ah, I was DJing the other day.
And this woman gave up to me and she just chapped me up. And I was all for it. And then she said she was married. And I went, warning signs.
She had to have divorced. This is my story. What do you know about it? It's not my story.
So then I went to the bathroom. And I had to vomit and shit at the same time. Yeah, no, I don't know about you, ladies and gentlemen. But you may be guessing, Paul, that's not your story.
It's not your story, isn't it? It's a lie story, isn't it? Well, it actually forced me to say it. Yeah, I got to do it.
DJing. Yeah, this woman. So, it's coming on to me. Before this show, I'm not telling you this.
I'm not going to tell you the podcast. She's kind of coming on to me. How do you know? How do you know?
What way was she coming on to me? Really? Yes. So you're sitting there, head phone on, getting ready, and she's leaning and going, it's on the forehead.
It was on the cheek. On the cheek. Hugging and kissing me. All right.
And you were like, oh, get her off. No, it wasn't. I was very drunk. Oh, so, hashtag me too.
It wasn't like that at all. And then she's kept bringing her divorce up. Which is always a good shot at line. And then I had to go to the loop with some urgency.
And I had a little bump on. But I realized, as I was, you know, about to hurl, that there was pressure at the other end. And he felt a wet sensation. I needed, it was emergency time.
I needed to get on the bog. But unfortunately, I was vomiting and shitting at the same time. Here's the thing in that situation. What do you rank more important in terms of clean up?
You don't want to get the shit in the loop. You'd rather be sick on the floor. I mean, sick in the toilet and poo on the floor. I think that would be a disaster.
That would be a sort of career ending. If I came out with a shot on the floor. We're not going to bring you back. It'd be a big embarrassment.
It's worse to clean up when you think about it. I've got my orifice priorities right in the spare of the moment. But horrible. Yeah.
And then I came out of the foot. Oh, God. I hope she doesn't try and kiss me now because I'm covered in vomit. She's gone.
Oh, she's lucky. In an Uber. Yeah. I'm going to put her in the water.
I'm going to put her in the water. I'm going to put her in the water. I'm going to put her in the water. I'm going to put her in the water.
I'm going to put her in the water. Yeah. It was a great moment, Paul. I'm glad you brought it up.
And she went to Uber. Yeah. There was no music. It was probably just the sound of me expunginging.
Growning out of both ends. Well, that tells sort of the downfall of the way. Let's crack on with the rest of the show. Eli, let's talk about Moo.
Okay. And we did. But then I interrupted. So Moo synthesized playable sounds.
Yes. The first one, basically. There was a guy called Boogler. Boogler.
He came much more from a sort of experimental background. It's kind of like the radio phonic workshop. Yeah. Yeah.
But much more sort of the art scene. There was the tape center, which was a sort of avant garde art collective in California. And there's been doing experimentation with tape, which is what the radio phonic orchestra workshop did. It used take loops.
Okay. And there's a famous type of synthesizer called a melodron. Oh, I know the melodron which uses take loops. That only used in tell star.
I believe so. It's very early. Before synthesizer. Yeah.
And melodron can be beautiful. Is that when you try and do an impression of it and you just sun like a cat? Into my meters. Yeah.
And a fancy treat. Oh, Biki, you're making me feel so good. But so shameful. Oh, Biki's having a nibble at my meters.
All right. Now you can go. Yeah. Biki just had a 48.
Right. Moo. Yeah. So yeah.
My selection today, Paul, I can't guarantee 100% that they all contain Moo. But they do contain synthesizer. Well, let's start. What do you want to start with?
I'm starting. Yeah. I thought we'd start with a Moo. We're leading with the Moo.
People were crying out for playing the Moo. Okay. Hit the Moo as a deceased ex member of cheap show. You used to say now.
Moo was very much associated with easy listening. There's a whole and the character. Sean. Yeah.
That's a thing. He's called Moo. Does he make a Moo noise? I don't believe he does.
It's just the same name. But those four are you might be called Moo. There's a whole genre of records which arose late 60s early 70s. Yeah.
Where they did easy listening. They did Moo interpretations of things. Was Moo like mainstream ever? Or is it like, it was like, you know, Moo versions of like easy listening chains.
Moo, turn up a lot in charity shops. Not as much as a Barry Manlow or a top of the pops. Yeah. It's a big crossover for easy listening.
And I love those kind of records. And our first choice today has to be the apophysis of easy listening meets Moo. Right. It is the tune.
This is off an LP I picked up called Moo ispania. Okay. So what is this? Is this different Moo playing or bands like Completion Album?
No. It's all just Moo versions of Spanish trims. Okay. So you've got all the rage and conducted by Sid Bass and produced by Andy Whizwell.
You've got a Boofizer on the back. Andy Whizwell. He whiz as well. Yeah.
I just like the name Whizwell. Sounds like a Harry Potter character. I like the name Harmin de Batty. Okay.
Well, let's move on. And so this is not really a Spanish dream. No. But it's Spanish flea, which has got to be one of the biggest easy listening records of all time.
It is, you know, when you do like comedy hard cuts to like quieter scenes and comedy moves or action films. Like there's an explosion that comes them in a little bit down later. Yeah, because it's a music thing. Yeah.
It's a shorthand for music. But it is an actual song. Yeah. So let's listen to this version of Spanish flea.
I do like that though. It's pretty mooky in it. Because that song is like really cheesy and silly. It kind of always brings a smile to your face.
And the Moo kind of just brings out the silliness of it. It's a marriage made in heaven. It's easy listening with the Moo. And it's a great love making song.
You can have really quite passionate sex to that. Now the most, I think the most famous version of Spanish flea. Why would that be good? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, she's gone. She was never there. She was never there. Yeah.
But the most famous version of Spanish flea is her pallets. Her pallets. That's the one that why do I keep thinking Quincy Jones? It's not though.
Is it Quincy Jones didn't do a version of that? No, but Quincy Jones was on her pallets label A and M. Oh, did he do the elephant walk? No, the other one's the same thing.
The monster thing was singing. I've got a scarf. That's not Quincy Jones. No, it's also an L.E.
scarf version of it. Okay, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about all those kind of songs, isn't it? Easy listening is for mental, I think.
It's the short read. But Spanish flea is definitely one of the most recognisable ones. Mainly like you say, because it's used as a shorthand for sort of music or... Okay, so this happened here.
Is it one hand doing all the tracks? It's all this guy. Oh, it's one guy. Okay, so it's a band.
And is he Spanish? No, no. He's not. And you know what?
Spanish fleas and Spanish. No, I know that. There are some actual Spanish tunes on it. Is it Spanish canny, playera, granada, mantío, mamma ines?
That's where we go. Tia, mamma ina. The peanut vendor. I wonder if he wears them from out of his meter.
Well, every morning that man wakes up and loads his car. Oh, me or we go. Jesus God. Oh, I just have to nudge his peanut out of my meter.
It's down the road. I'll plop. And I'll... There's a peanut for you.
Well, don't look like you quite like it for the moment. Thank you for coming in. Oh, you know what? I like the idea of a man waking up every morning with videos to work.
And he takes a bowl of peanuts and like filling a gun clip full of bullets. He just pops a peanut into his dick. He'd be dead. He'd have infections.
Yeah. You know what? You know what? It made me start thinking about it.
Then, if you know this is an elephant five peanuts up. Do you know what this has made me think about? Go on. That infected horse car ball.
Oh, your favorite memory. It's a waxy ball. Yeah. Moving on.
Oh, we are moving on. Okay. I would give that out of five. A nice, hearty three point date.
I'll go for it for there. Yeah. Now, we covered in the first movie episode. We covered Walter Carlos.
Wendy Carlos. Yeah. So Walter Carlos originally and then changed, changed gender and became Wendy. Still dealt in the same music genre.
Yes. Continued as a musician. So when you're looking for the artists then online, I'll presume it's all under the same title. It's...
Yeah. Because what did you say we first listened to each other? Well, from this, Walter Carlos by request is the name of this album. Okay.
So that's the name of the album. That's where the Lilacame from when we played it last on the show. All right. What's new pussy cat?
Not the Lilacame? I'm looking back at that. We've arranged version of what's new pussy cat. It's like a nightmare version of the track.
It's all sort of distorted and wonky. Yeah. I don't know. But this one is actually really nice and I think really fits the composition.
It's a version of Enel and Rigby. Oh, yeah. Let's play a little bit of that before the copyright ban. It's a lovely version of it.
It fits it, doesn't it? Well, I think I was going to say too well. I think I was going to say too well. I thought it was famous.
Most famous stuff would probably be the soundtrack for... It's Wendy's Alive. She's still making work. I think she is.
No, I think she died a few years ago. Oh, okay. I don't know. She should be really famous.
Yeah. She's most famous for the music from Kubrick's Clockwork Orange. Oh, really? Yes.
I thought that was like Van Jellus or Tangerine Dream. No, it's her. Oh, I'm just looking at Wendy Carlos now so we can give you the accurate information. Oh, by the way, Derek's dead, everyone.
No, we know all that. We've had a few complaints about the quality of that Derek story. And fair enough, it wasn't a great story. It wasn't a great story.
It wasn't a great story. Like the audio. Like listening to it. Come on.
It's always a good story. They don't know what they're in for, do they? No, true. But at this point, I think it was just the audio quality in general.
And it's tricky. You know, we did our best. But we are going to do it one last episode with Derek. We're going to tie it all up.
We're going to get a biog. We're going to read that news, article that was in that newspaper. It was amusing. So we're going to go through all that.
We're going to tap our hat to Derek one last time. Tip some time before the one on the paper. Just shut up. Imagine someone tapping their hat.
You think they're nuts. No, tap your hat. Tip your hat. He's saying something over and over again.
Doesn't make it a legitimate phrase. Wendy Carlos is still alive. Sorry, Wendy. 79 lives in Portoqui to Rhode Island.
Okay. The prominence was switched on Bach in 1968. Is that the one you got there? No, this is Walter Carlos by request.
Okay. Obama back her back, the Beatles. So it's a bit of everything. Yeah.
Okay. Did the scores for clockwork, orange and the shining also, Tron. I don't believe she did. No one soundtracks.
It's fucking amazing. Did she do the Shining? I don't think she did. Well, the shining is Wikipedia.
Yeah. I don't think that's correct. Oh, look what you're going to say, look at the shining. Hey, look at the bloody shining.
Why would it lie to me music by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Echle. Okay. Anyhow. Yeah, it's really a prolific career.
I do think it kind of fits. And it really kind of fits with that. Yeah, that move style. And do you know the story about that song?
Paul McCartney said that he just thought of the name, but there's a graveyard near where he lived, grew up, and there's a gravestone with Eleanor Rigby on it. No, no, no, no, no, because apparently he also was going through past the shop. Because he knew it was going to be Eleanor, but he might be watching Rising Dam. That's cool, Rigby, any in that?
Yeah, but the Eleanor bit. He'll be like the haunting. And that's called Eleanor. Talking of great singers.
No, are we finished on that when the Walter Carlos? Yeah, that's it. Yeah. OK, great.
That was good. I like that one a lot. Because that thing I said to you, weirdly, that track, it points reminds me of the Exorcist. And it gives that song an E-uito.
It's quite a sort of, because Bell and Colly saw it. Because when you drop the strings and you add the move bit to it, it sounds more like the Exorcist. Yeah. Do you know that?
Is that spot? It is. Mike Oldfield. Oldfield.
Tubular Bells. Tubular Bells. And that's all he's ever done. Tubular Bells 3, Tubular Bells 4, Tubular Bells 5.
He did it. He did it. Tubular Bells 7, Tubular Bells 9, Tubular Bells 10, Tubular Bells 10, Tubular Bells 11. Tubular Bells 10, Tubular Bells.
Good. I give that one a nice four out of five. Now here's Demi Roussos. Demi Roussos.
Now you desperate to put this track into your song. Demi Roussos. Semi Roussos. Semi Roussos.
Semi Roussos. Semi Roussos. Semi Roussos. Now he's well known for wearing tents.
Not the being on TV. He was in a band with Van Gellis. Oh. Van Gellis, one of the big names in keyboard synthesizer music.
Literally and figuratively. And he was in a group called Aphoditesy Child with Van Gellis. A Greek psych rock band. Yeah, a psychedelic rock.
And then they worked together in the early 70s and they produced this album, Demi Roussos Magic. He looked like Barry. That's a lot. And it has a delightful gate fold.
Yeah, illustration, which is a... Please describe the gate fold because it reads a v-go. What's that famous? That famous, it's the Sistine Chapel, isn't it?
Like a language like... Like giving the knowledge thing a thing. The God giving. The man half of that.
The God half or something. But it's got Demis's beardy face. And it's like a real look like he's pushing out an uncomfortable poo poo, doesn't he? Yeah.
Look at that look on his face. Oh. But he was. He had some real cheesy hits in Britain in the 70s.
Right. Because there was that whole thing, that whole sort of cultural phenomenon of women like being going on package holidays to Greece and go to other places and being swept off their feet by the local Vothario. I mean, he kind of represented that. Right.
Exotic sort of, macho exotic. Like the kind of... What's our film? Mediterranean Lover.
Yeah. Surely Valentine. Exactly. That kind of thing.
It says here, his first UK single to chart was in 1975. Happy to be on an island in the sun. Yeah. Written by Northern Irishman David Lewis with a record reaching number five on the charts.
Pretty good. Yeah. Hit with a cover of Air Supplies Lost in Love as well. But here's a story that fascinates me.
In June 1985, Roussos was among the passengers of the TWA flight 847 from Athens to Rome, which is hijacked by members of Hezbollah and the Islamic Jihad. I did not know that. But he was released along with four other Greeks after five days while most of the other hostages were running there for 17. He spent his 39th birthday on the plane and when released on Hamed thanked his captors at a press conference for giving him a happy birthday cake.
Weird. That is weird though. And also it's like women children first, no I am Denny Roussos and I was going to make the ladies have a good day. My friend Bert worked with him.
Really? He did a session and also toured life with him. The music and terminally boring to do. Well, yeah, but this was like in the 2000s.
There was a lot of past like a few years ago. But yeah, they did French TV appearances and stuff and he had a big stick. Apparently was extremely eccentric. They missed Roussos.
But they sang. Should we have played the song? Yeah. We've got some extreme, we've got some lovely keyboard which is by Van Galis.
Really? He's on the double. Oh, no, wait. I'll fix you.
I'll fix you. I'll put him in the double. And he was in the double. There's two tracks.
Go on, Paul. There were two tracks that are good. And they both have keyboard. Well, what's this one we're going to play right now?
Who's going to play? I dig you. I dig you. Yeah.
Very m oogie. It's a weird one. That is you guys. I dig you.
I dig you. And then he says about when you die. We'll get a lot of the way. You do we.
I like the way, you die. You're go go the way. You're go the way you die. You don't like it.
I do you do you think you do it. do it. I think I should. Eli Silverman is Demis Roussos.
Oh I like the way. You boo-ee. I hope they bring back stars in their eyes because I'm gonna put you on it. Tonight Matthew.
Tonight Matthew I'm gonna be Demis Roussos and then not even go backstage just carry on just more straight on because you'll even fit to stop. He used to, some of the stuff he used to wear in the 70s were like these sort of dresses, like these two things, like very bad. Well the whole thing was like an animoscorey famous for big smocks and movements or whatever. Yeah, yeah she was quick.
That sounds as long as I know. I liked the way my brain goes. I liked me. You got motion and I love it.
I think it's really good. I dig it. Rock the boat baby. Rock the boat.
Don't make it sound like a flute. I'll be like don't rub the man in the boat. Don't rub the man in the boat. What's that even mean?
It's clitoris. Don't you call it clitoris? The man in the boat. Make it sound like some kind of great American novel.
Come on. Come on. Let me rub the little man in the boat. That's it.
No. That's just legitimate. I've never heard about it. Well you know how to find a lady clitoris obviously.
You have to look for the man in the boat. I would say to a lady who I'll be an iminaments. I don't want to say to a lady when I'm intimate. Oh, where's your little man in the boat?
Get your man in the boat. Come on. I'm going to see your little man in the boat. Yeah.
Fwop out the man in the boat. No, you can't fwop out anything. You could. If you had a big flopper.
Right. Well, we're moving on. A big fwop button. What else have we got?
Red hot button. What else have we got? Okay. So that's that.
You didn't like that very much. No, I'll give that to you. Why don't you like it? No, it doesn't catch me.
I'm a bit strange one now. Oh, this is a Dutch record I picked up. Yes. Oh, no.
I love the Dutch day on my favourite people. Yes, actually all my favourite people. Let's go on. Oh, it's a Clif-Rit-E-Bling.
Why for a Shound? Right. Okay. So, yeah, this is Oscar Harris and the Twinkle Stars.
What can you tell us about that? I got it in the same shot that I bought at Mooger-Spania. It was that big haul. I was going downstairs and look at the reference.
Oh, the cherry shot with the downstairs. Yeah. With the box at the very far end, we just a lump pitched carefully over the top of it, shining a weak yellow beacon of light upon a box of mysterious vinyl. And I found it in there.
And yeah, it's very peculiar. Let's have a little bit of it. This is Mr Astronaut. But the problem is, is that this song, I said this to you before.
And this sounds like a song that was originally just a regular kind of King C Songs. It's got a bit of a King That the producer came in and, oh no, space stuff's popular now. So how about we put this weird pointless kind of wibbly wobbly 90s at the beginning and then at the middle for no reason and at the end. Yeah.
And then he said, guys, Mr. Astronaut, he's saying to Mr. Astronaut. So the lyrics, yeah, they tell them the lyrics.
He says, Mr. Mr. Astronaut, have you seen my baby on the moon? She's so good looking.
She's so fine. She's the girl that works in a saloon in a saloon because that rhymes with moon. That's it. That's it.
Many other way. And she's their baby. I like it. I got some great picture parts in it.