Hello and welcome to Mini Music Monday. Yes, welcome everyone to the short form music related edition over impressions entitled Mini Music Monday, unless it's Tuesday. And then it's Tiny Tunes Doozy. Mm hmm.
Really occasionally miss it. We try to do it as often as we can every week. We do. Although I'm happy to know that in a pinch I can do it Tiny Tunes Tuesday.
I was thinking though, what if I had to do it on Wednesday? What would it be if it was on Wednesday? And I couldn't figure out anything pleasingly illiterative. I don't know why I try to say I'm a little over caffeinated right now.
Yes you are. It's fantastical for me to pronounce things correctly because my mind's moving fast. I'm tongue is a little slow. You talk fast.
You talk fast. You move fast. You, your face gets a little more pinched. You seem to think that I'm agitated.
Yes. And it's true. Okay. Kathy and agitated me.
Right. But it's a mystery. Why do I do it then? Why four shots of espresso?
Why not just two? What prevents me? And just doing two? Hmm.
I sometimes over caffeinate two. I'm a black coffee drip gal. And sometimes I also poke the bear and I have more than I should. And I immediately regret it every time.
I also get shaky and irritable. I don't know why we do these things. Maybe it's an addiction. Yeah.
I think 2024 is definitely my year to address some habits that are addictions. Sure. You can call it a habit. You can try to sort of soft pedal it.
Soft pedal it boy comes down. So very pretty excited. Although this was a really difficult one. This was the most difficult song to recreate.
That's saying a lot. Actually super jazzy. This one I could really only imitate the bass line. Even harder than John Mayer.
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The family ties theme as requested by my beautiful wife Adele. Thanks. I thought I'd run out of themes and even commercials to recreate because I've kind of gone through and sort of methodically like knocked each one down. That was one of my main purposes.
They were meaningful to you. Yes. One of my main missions when we started this podcast was to recreate as many commercials that I could remember or that I wanted to recreate. And I did the Land of the Lost theme, which was really the only TV show that I wanted to recreate.
But when you brought up family ties, I was like, yep. Because right away I heard, shalala. Going for that one. I actually I was gonna go really hard on the shalala.
Like just layer it like 50 times. I pulled back a little bit. Thank you. Because it also took a really long time to do the song.
And I was like, do I want to spend another half an hour really pounding the shalala. I'm like, you know, what are you gonna be like that? I didn't want to do that. Yeah, thank you.
I didn't want to go the ironic way because why you gotta be better than that shalala. You're not better than that. Shalala. I'm absolutely not better than that.
However, in 1983, I thought he was I thought I was better. Old Lou thought he was. I thought I was a little bit I thought family ties was a little bit I wasn't engaged. Wasn't for you.
Wasn't for me. Although I watched it. Mm-hmm. Judged it.
Probably every episode. I watched it and I I hate watched it. I hate watched it back in 1984 or whatever. I I watched it and I enjoyed it and it spoke to my little heart.
Yeah. And I just really, I don't know, like I was telling you that I kind of really related to this family. You know, artist hippie parents, that's mine. And growing up in a house that's not too big and they don't have a lot, you know, they're they're getting by, they're doing okay, but they're not like the Cosby family.
They're not lawyers and doctors and well off and they're just kind of like a middle-class family and a... Exhippies. And artistic hippies. Yeah, right.
And so it just it was sort of like seeing something that it felt relatable, I guess, to me, you know. Alex B. Keaton was my age. I mean it was like, I mean that family was like my family.
Yeah. Right. You're the oldest and then you have two younger sisters. Yeah, well and I have one that's like only a year younger than me, which would be kind of like Mallory, right?
Yeah. My sister Mandy would be Mallory. Yes. And then whatever the fuck Jennifer.
Jennifer. Jennifer. I think. Yeah, Jennifer is the baby sister who's younger.
Kind of something about her. I didn't like. But you like your baby sister. I love my baby sister.
I know. You were so excited when she was born. I, yeah, Tina Yothers was the actress. Is.
Is she still with us? What? Right. Is she dead?
I don't know. Let's leave her alone. I, uh, oh my gosh. But can I just say the hair on some of these 80s women?
So luscious, so dreamy. And I know we talked a little bit about my hair in the last one and how my grandma tried to give me curls. And uh, but I couldn't achieve this full, just satiny, silky hair that they did. Remember those commercials?
There was always commercials too. Like what's that one where they would like flip their hair? I really did. Not so much in 1983 and 84.
I was punk rock by that time and I was happy with the short haircut. Hello. Hello. Hello.
Here comes a surprise. A sweet ass instrumental version of the family ties theme commencing in three barks. Shalala. You just had to, huh?
Yeah. So can I say that that line also from family ties? What would I do baby without us? Uh huh.
It makes me want to cry. Really? Yeah. I find that really like the ultimate kind of love like line.
I think the first line of the song confuses me a little bit. I bet we've been together for a million years. It almost sounds like a complaint. No, I think that that means it feels like you've always been here.
You're my like soulmate. We're, you know, I think it's romantic to me. It could have been a little more romantic. Oh, okay.
You could do a more romantic version of the family ties. No, I'm done with the family ties theme. Okay. Probably forever.
It was really hard to do. Well, thank you for doing that. I feel so honored. It was like a gift to me.
Well, the original version was done by Dennis Tofano and Mindy Sterling. Mindy Sterling pointing this out on my little factual, my fact notebook. Yeah, lose it. Pod fact book.
Yep. It was then redone because the producers hated the original version. Oh, okay. I liked it.
And it is a bit sloppy. I examined it. I really like it. You said it was really hard to learn.
It's really hard to learn. Not because it was sloppy, but because, but there were there are things that happened within it that are like, I had to add choices. It was not intuitive for me, but that's that means nothing because I'm a total primitive, primitivist. But um, so, um, I forgot where they wanted a new song.
They've got a new version of the song. This is my first podcast, Blank Out. Weird. Your eyes actually did look completely blank.
You looked like, I don't know, almost as if you're a different person, as if like a different loop plop down in front of me and your eyes just went like, I had some fun. Quick episode there. Anyway, the producers did not like the original version. And I, you know, it is a little sloppy.
Yeah. It was redone by Johnny Mathis and Denise Williams and that became the theme that we know. Just handed on over to Johnny Mathis and he's like, I'll take care of this guy. Johnny, he'll take care of it.
Incredible. Wow. Well, I, I love that show. And that was one of my favorite ones to watch when I was younger, along with Cheers.
Cheers was also very important to me. And again, I think I'm just a real sentimental fool guys. I cry over everything. And I mean, the theme song to Cheers.
I might have to do that one because when I was working on this one, I kept hearing the Cheers theme in my head. It was leading you. It was leading you to next. It was the thread.
And then I was even thinking like, is that our way to put the two together? Oh, a man shot. That would take fucking forever. And we want to keep this on.
I wanted to do it on Monday. That was important to do a mini music Monday. That would have been pushing it into like Wednesday territory. I don't know what I would possibly name.
I'd love to hear you to Cheers. Gosh, I want to dump you dump a whole pile of ideas on you now, but I also, and I don't even know what the theme song is for this, but I adored the show moonlighting. When I got to watch that one with my mom, it would be like at night. She like you say for that.
Yeah. And I would like curl up you know, her leg. You would have been like little like it's like, maybe I was like, is he like, I didn't like going to better late. Maybe that's where that came from.
I don't know. Yeah, Izzy is. But Cheers is also on a night too. That felt like adult television, whereas like family ties felt like kind of the that's the family one.
And then Cheers was more like maybe at eight or nine, right? Like that would be after because it would must have been like family ties Cosby show. I would love to consult a TV guide and for you. Holy shit.
What I love a TV guide right now. Yeah. Goddamn. I used to read the TV guide as if it was like the fucking Bible.
Exactly. It was the Bible. I love that book. Did you read when you were a little?
Yes. The TV guide. It was so good. It's actually was a really big deal.
Yes. That's something I should look for. You know, when Hendricks hasn't been dragging me to thrift stores as often, but next time, yeah, it's got to be some vendor that's got some pile of moldering TV guides. TV guides.
One, just one love to 1980. Oh, I actually like a sampling from the early 80s. I'd like a sampling. That would be great.
That was great. We should get a bunch of them and then just cut out the most. I love it. You know, yeah.
I'm going to highlight some of my favorites with like highlighters. Yeah. I have a piece of artwork in our house, which is just TV guide from the pivotal years. The ones when the TV was another member of the family.
It really was. And there was there was an MTV came out. My family, my dad, you know, he got cable TV right when it came out. He was like, no, we're doing it.
It's done. We're getting it. And like I said, we were not a rich family at all. But it was like, you know, but you know what to get and it's TV.
And Doc Martens, you got to get some dark arms. Yeah. Yeah. That was a school.
Yeah. My one pair of shoes. But yeah. That Martens.
And on that, shall, all, all. Many music Monday concludes. Thank you for listening.