Episode 4

Triple Tune Challenge Episode 4 Last week the challenge was to find the connection between Steely Dan's - Aja, Barbra Streisand's cover of - Grandma's Hands, and Henry Mancini's - Love's Theme/TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) Medley . Similar to week 2, we received a submission with a connection that I hadn't considered, "each artist has won the Grammy for album of the year". Steely Dan for Two Against Nature in 2001, Barbra Streisand for The Barbra Streisand Album in 1964 and Henry Mancini for The Music from Peter Gunn in 1958, Breakfast at Tiffany's in 61, and again in 63 with Our Man in Hollywood. Great job Paul. Here are TTC we count that as a win. Your prize, a big pat on the back as we continue to think about building a budget to maybe have prizes one day. As I was building out this challenge for the intended connection, Larry Carlton plays guitar on each song, I literally had 100 artists and songs to choose from. The fact that we have two connections identified shows how intertwined the popular music ecosystem has become. Carlton is a jazz fusion guitarist with over 50 albums of his own released between 1968 to today and over 3,000 studio session credits. Over the years he's played with artists ranging from The Fifth Dimension to Michael Jackson, John Lennon to Dolly Parton, and of course the three artists from last week's challenge. Among his numerous awards are 4 Grammys, one of which was for The Hill Street Blues Theme shared with Mike Post. We are 4 episodes in and I am going to introduce a few changes to the podcast. The Triple Tune Challenge operating committee have approved the following amendments, the first being to accommodate varying degrees of difficulty by doing one of two things each episode. Either having two challenges, a regular Triple Tune Challenge set to moderate difficulty alongside an expert level one, or having one challenge with two connections, one somewhat easy to identify and one much trickier. They also allowed me to fill each episode with hidden clues to the answers. You might have noticed I've purposely selected background music related to the challenges. For example on the Long Beach episode I used The Nitty Gritty Dirt Bands song It's Raining Here In Long Beach and last week the background song was Larry Carlton's Sleepwalk. I'll continue to try to be clever with background music and on top of that will add hidden clues in my scripts. The committee rubber-stamped these additions but I had to veto one of they're proposal of adding a subliminal hypnotic vocal track repeating the answer over and over using my best meditation voice.