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All Shook up
In a playful, musical twist, Tim and Lj find themselves in a friendly disagreement over who picked this week's musical selection. With whimsical banter and cheeky exchanges, they each point fingers and conjure up comical accusations. In the spirit of fun, one of us might just be sent on a one-way cruise for some peace and quiet! As the laughter rolls on, we prepare to tackle the mysterious Musical of "All Shook Up" featuring music from Elvis Presleys Back Catalogue.
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Uh-huh, hello and welcome to Musical Lyrical Lingo. We're your hosts, tim and LJ.
Lj:Today and every week we will be discussing musicals, but specifically what they taught us.
Tim:That was a really enthusiastic LJ.
Lj:It was. I was like I know what I'm saying.
Tim:I've never seen you so animated for a long time. Lj.
Aaron:Which is a real love.
Tim:You did like a wee head flick and all you did it. Lj.
Lj:She's really feeling it tonight. I'm just so excited she's on it Meanwhile.
Tim:I'm ready to go to bed.
Lj:I know.
Tim:Anyway, I'm not complaining, as I said this week. I am not complaining. As I said this week, I am not complaining I've told this to everybody because I kind of feel like I've gone through a period of being a moany, so-and-so, like every day. Okay, you know, like this phone call she have at the end of the day where you're like catching up on how your day's been and I just feel like a moon for about 45 minutes and I'm like I'm not doing that anymore.
Lj:Yeah, I think it's important to stay positive, because when you're like catching up on how your day's been and I just feel like a moon for about 45 minutes and I'm like I'm not doing that anymore. Yeah, I think it's important to stay positive, because when you're positive, more joy and light and glimmers are more evident than whenever we are negative. Then it is hard to see those glimmers.
Tim:Okay, LJ.
Lj:Okay, and look for the glimmers in life One year.
Tim:my New Year's resolution was to be a more positive person and one of my colleagues went. I preferred the more negative Tim to be fair.
Lj:I was like oh, jeez, right, okay, Well, I love that.
Tim:And that was after two weeks of positivity, and they were like do you know what it is? I preferred the negative, tim.
Lj:Oh, that's awful, Especially if you were trying something new.
Tim:I think she was right. I think I was highly annoying, being very positive and optimistic. Oh, I'm much better as a cynical, so-and-so.
Lj:Well, one of your best New Year's resolutions was saying yes to things because you've led this podcast, I know that's true. And I've got a couple of things. So hello, because we seem to have quite a lot of new listeners.
Tim:Do we who?
Lj:have discovered our entire back catalogue.
Tim:No.
Lj:So hopefully.
Tim:That's when we were really good.
Lj:Yeah, not, not like We've had somebody that has been just or not just somebody, sorry, we've had like in like Vienna and New York We've had just different, like little towns like popping up that have new locations that haven't downloaded before and they're downloading like a couple of episodes at once. Um, it's amazing it's class.
Tim:Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Lj:I love my stats and love looking at. I know you do. That's very exciting.
Tim:and listen, christmas is coming and the turkey's getting fat, and there's still the merchandise store sitting there.
Lj:There is.
Tim:Ready for you to spend, spend, spend. There is yeah, I mean who doesn't want a Musical, Lyrical Lingo mug for Christmas?
Lj:I could make a list of who wouldn't.
Tim:Oh right, okay, I'm trying to sell the bloody merchandise here.
Lj:LJ. Do you want to? I think I said that wrong. You did Also. I just want to highlight how amazing it is that we have a you know nominated podcast in the Irish Pod Awards. But over time you know we've had some really nice things come into our mailbox have we?
Aaron:yeah, well, you read the mailbox.
Lj:We've had people like just saying that they really listen and it's fun and it gets their mondays going. We've had some lovely people buy us coffee I know thank you for buying us coffee.
Lj:Um, we've had people who want to advertise on our podcast, which is all fun, obviously. We've got all our lovely guests. We've had people who write new musicals and they would like to be on at some point. So, like season 3 is definitely shaping up, it'll be fun. This week was the best email we got invited to go on to a cruise sorry what?
Tim:this is the first time hearing of this what?
Lj:because I wanted to do it live on pod. Um, it was like massive opportunity only like be released now and we could pay three thousand dollars each and we could go on a cruise where there would be some performers singing. I just didn't quite reply to that email yet, because I'm not sure if you just have three thousand dollars just to whip out there and go to the performers oh, I'll tell you just sounds like a holiday deal. It um. I mean holiday deal would definitely be a push there. Ep Cabaret stars at sea.
Tim:I mean the cabaret stars would need to be.
Lj:OK, Anne Hampton Calloway.
Tim:No, don't name them, because that's not fair, ok.
Lj:Well, you just asked me who they were. No, don't name them, because that's not fair.
Tim:Okay, well, you just asked me who they were.
Lj:No, but like it is a celebration of Broadway and American popular songbook.
Tim:And what do they want us to do on?
Lj:the cruise. Oh, just go on the cruise, it's a package holiday Right, I'm busy. So can I start See activities classic drink package package all taxes, fees and gratuities and grip lunch at a special dining venue um. We would get a 50 dollar store shore excursion credit if we went and where are we going? Um, I'm not sure, but some of the singers have been in like Fame and Swing and Merrily, we Roll Along. Miss Saigon, anastasia, we are going. Does it even say, oh, miami?
Tim:We're going to Miami. The Cruisel Make Stops. Dominican Republic, st Thomas.
Lj:Oh, miami, we're going to Miami. The cruise will make stops Dominican Republic, st Thomas, great Stirrup Cay and the Bahamas.
Tim:I got dead excited there. I thought oh my goodness, we've actually made it, we have Beautiful minute on day cruise. Aye, we'll have to pay for it, lauren, so there, you go, that's disappointing. Well, thank you for the offer.
Lj:Oh, no thank you. We're just very busy.
Tim:Unfortunately not this time.
Lj:Yeah, maybe next time.
Tim:Oh, I hope we don't sound too ungrateful being asked if we would be interested in paying money to go on a cruise. Oh, it's a weird world we live in.
Lj:I'm going to pass it on to your dad. Your dad loves a wee cruise.
Tim:He loves a wee cruise aye, but he doesn't do a podcast like he's not going to be much help to them. No.
Lj:Yeah, so I thought I thought I would just share that.
Tim:That's amazing, isn't it?
Lj:We just do not know what will show up in our Were they looking famous people to go on their cruises?
Tim:Is that why they asked us? Obviously they want a few like names to appear.
Lj:Yeah.
Tim:And they asked us yeah, great. They clearly think we're doing really well out of this podcast too. £3,000. I don't know. I've never been on a cruise before. Is that like the given rate, or is that? Quite expensive, that is I mean it sounds a bit of us, but uh, not that place, not at the moment. I would need to, maybe next year, maybe next year. Yeah, people need to buy more merchandise.
Lj:Buy your merch people.
Tim:Anyway, I'm a wee bit all shook up after that news. You're so cute, that's why people invite us on the cruises, Lauren. That is. That's the segue.
Lj:Well, can anybody guess what we're doing?
Tim:Uh-huh.
Lj:Timothy, why did?
Tim:you choose this musical, don't you start?
Lj:why are you saying that to me?
Tim:you did choose this musical no, no, no, not a chance. There's no way you chose this. I did not. No, I did not no, you did you were like what? No, we have a list you did? We have a list and we worked our way down the list and we were like what about this, what about this, what about this, what about this?
Lj:And then you suggested this one.
Tim:No, no, I think you shortlisted this.
Lj:I would never, not in a million years. Uh-huh I didn't even know it existed.
Tim:Yes, she does. You are talking nonsense, I'm not. You're talking nonsense.
Lj:Well, no, I'm not. Anyway, we've chosen it.
Tim:Anybody want to donate some money to me so I can send her on this bloody cruise? Get rid of her One woman ticket there and not back.
Lj:Anyway.
Tim:We're talking about all shit cup.
Lj:Yep 2004, american jukebox musical. I'm not back, anyway, we're talking about all shit cup. Yep 2004, american Jukebox Musical.
Tim:The music is Elvis Presley's song book. Yeah, elvis Presley's song book, and the book is by Joe DiPietro.
Lj:Joe DiPietro.
Tim:Pietro, he's actually a Tony Award winning person. He is.
Lj:He wrote the Tony Award winning musical Memphis.
Tim:Yeah, a.
Lj:Gershwin musical Nice work, if you can get it. Starring Matthew Boderick, kelly O'Hara One of my faves. I love you, you're perfect.
Tim:Now change Two 2021.
Lj:He wrote Tom Jones's what's New Pussycat? Whoa, whoa whoa. And Diana the Musical? Oh no.
Tim:It was going so well.
Lj:That's one for.
Tim:That is one for season three.
Lj:Yes, a thousand percent.
Tim:As is. I Love you. You're Perfect. Now Change, because I love that musical. I love that too. We could do those back to back, couldn't we? How to write a musical and how not to write a musical. This is terrible. This is not us. We do not rip people down. No, we're not. Well, we've been a wee bit passive, like with regards to the cruise and now with Joe.
Lj:I feel bad. Joe is amazing, just like everybody's got something. That's not great and Diana just happens to be that, but we'll.
Tim:We'll see that for another day, but all shook up's fine, you like all shook up? No well then, what did you just say? Okay?
Lj:sorry. Well, I don't even think I would put All Shook Up and Diana in the same.
Tim:Not at all, no, okay well, all Shook Up tells the story of the mysterious leather jacketed stranger who shakes up a small midwestern town in 1950s. It's a tale of cross-dressing, mistaken identity and romance, and was strangely inspired by William Shakespeare, shakespeare's twelfth night and other comedies which I think is an insult to william shakespeare. Yeah, is that the problem? It's a story of romance, rebellion and rock and roll. What more could you want?
Lj:it also gave me like footless vibes, and I'm not a lover of footless either, but I think wash your mouth out with soap like, I like it, but it wouldn't. It definitely wouldn't ever be in a top 10 of anything, so yeah, well, that'll be the first episode for next year it premiered in Broadway in 2005 at the Palace Theatre. Yep, it did a total of 213 performances 213 too many the original now, lauren, have you seen it live?
Tim:no, I haven't. Well, then you can say that Okay.
Lj:The original Broadway cast did include the gorgeously talented Cheyenne Jackson as Chad.
Tim:He's excellent.
Lj:I love that man. He is beautiful.
Tim:Is that the reason why you like him?
Lj:No, he's super talented, but he makes an excellent Hades. He plays Hades in Descendants, oh. I've never watched it Jen Gambleys, gambleys.
Tim:Yes, that one.
Lj:She was the original Natalie slash Ed and she played Glinda and she is currently Miranda Hillard in Mrs Dijkvaart on.
Tim:Broadway oh, very good.
Lj:And then Jonathan Hadry as Tim and he's done loads and loads of tv work and stuff, so it did have some really good people people yeah um, it did. I did wonder why, if it was heavily, well, loosely, inspired by 12th night, did they not just keep the names like I love viola and juk and Sebastian, like I love those names in Twelfth Night? Like, why did Chad Natalie Ed?
Tim:Yeah, is it not probably in keeping with Midwestern town in the 1950s? And also, I don't think it was solely based on Twelfth Night. I think it was Twelfth Night and some of William Shakespeare's other comedies.
Lj:But it's the majority of it.
Tim:The majority is Twelfth Night. See, it's not a wee William Shakespeare-y one. I'm familiar with Twelfth Night.
Lj:No, you would actually love Twelfth Night. In fact, a good way to introduce yourself to Twelfth Night is the movie she's the man, starring Amanda Baines and Channing Tatum.
Tim:Yes, I think I know the film you're talking about. That is a modern day.
Tim:Twelfth Night as a as a jukebox musical based on the music of Elvis Presley, you know, like rock and roll singer, who is so famous and was so successful. I'm really surprised this musical hasn't had more outings, like it's had relatively little. It had tryouts in Chicago in 2004, broadway run in 2005, and then a US national tour from 2006 to 2007. But it only played 35 cities in that US national tour and then it didn't come to the UK until 2015,. A UK tour and interestingly, that UK tour commenced in Manchester Opera House under a different name. I know Like they changed the name to Love Me Tender.
Lj:Yeah.
Tim:I don't get the name change. What's wrong with All Shook Up, like? I mean, mean they just changed one elvis track to another elvis song, like yeah, interesting, yeah, no. I just kind of thought it must be plot wise and show wise.
Tim:It must be so ridiculous that it just hasn't yeah, I mean I struggle because I haven't seen it and like listening to it and reading the synopsis, it's highly like confusing. I'm going oh she, she wants to get closer to him, so she dresses like a man and then they both fall in love and then he realizes that it's not actually a guy, it's a girl, and he falls in love with her. I'm like that's not actually a guy, it's a girl and he falls in love with her. I'm like that's right. I'm very confused I think.
Lj:Well then, if you're not familiar with twelfth night, it is quite hard is that all happening? Yeah, yeah, so um viola pretends to be her brother sebastian oh and um befriends jick and jick um, but jick is in love with olivia and olivia is in love with um viola, who is dressed as sebastian.
Tim:So it's all the big yeah we see that was my first musical lyrical lingo, that it was based on shakespeare okay I was like who knew?
Lj:um, yeah, I just I would listen to even the music, but I'm not a massive elvis fan okay, so yep I, I struggle I aaron loves elvis, don't you? Sweetheart, you love elvis he's.
Tim:He's honest to goodness. The lick he's given us is of sheer, sheer disdain. He's like who are these two people in my front living room?
Lj:get out and plays it often. Like plays elvis often not like oh, I must listen to elvis, but like if he has a wee song in his head and I, oh, I don't know. My mom was a massive elvis fan, loved elvis um that's the wonder, the wonder of you.
Aaron:Elvis couldn't sing that high, to be fair I started in the wrong key.
Tim:Elvis couldn't sing that high, to be fair, I started in the wrong key.
Lj:I think Elvis was a lovely person and I think I'm more interested In his story. Interesting and of course, just his music. I just wasn't, I just wasn't a fan. I never was a fan. But then I don't like Tom Jones either.
Tim:Oh, careful now.
Lj:I don't like that style of music. Oh, okay.
Tim:Right, is that how it goes?
Lj:I don't like that style of music.
Tim:Oh, okay, right, is that how it goes? I don't enjoy it, listen. I mean, I can sit here and say I'm an Elvis fan because actually a lot of the songs that are in All Shook Up I didn't realise were Elvis songs. Okay, so I'm not averse to Elvis Presley's back catalogue. However, in researching this musical, it came to my attention just how little of his music he actually wrote.
Lj:Oh no, but that's why that line from Eminem. Like you know the fact that he took rap music and made money. He's a white guy doing it and he's just like Elvis Presley did it, like Elvis didn't write very many of his songs and it was previous R&B artists had recorded songs and he just then came along a few years later, made lots of money.
Tim:You, oh, oh Aaron stirring.
Aaron:I think you still not hear me anyway. But Elvis was heavily inspired and was so raised in a. But Elvis was heavily inspired and was raised in a black community and was heavily inspired by gospel music and the black church and things like that. And then with that inspiration he started recording songs that were traditionally known in the community of black people. But he put his own spin on it and that's where that comes from.
Lj:It's not that he was oh, no, no, no, sorry, but later on in his career, his manager was yes and picking out songs that he liked, so you know.
Aaron:And he started doing a lot of covers, but with the royalties that was, he got all the money. So Timothy had recorded the song first and then Elvis came along and recorded it. Elvis got the royalties from Timmy's song down on the radio as well.
Tim:From my dead body.
Aaron:Well, exactly that's what Dolly Parton and others told him whenever he wanted this to happen.
Lj:Yeah to do. Yeah, I Will Always Love you. There you go. And she said no, she wasn't giving her rights away and her musical is better than All Shook Up. Oh 100%.
Tim:Yeah, just going back to about five minutes ago, you blow my mind. Why, as my co-host, why the fact that you can drop Eminem into a musical theatre podcast Like how? How is that a thing? Yeah, I'm just telling You're amazing, I'm just so shall we talk about what we've learned from this. Um, actually, you know what?
Lj:I'm gonna say I did learn a bit because it made me go into the songs a bit more yes, because I don't have a love of the songs. I never really listened to the lyrics yeah, no, I don't have a huge amount, but but I did learn something.
Tim:Yeah, do you know the one that my biggest upset about this musical?
Lj:What.
Tim:Was it didn't have Great Balls of Fire, because that is the only Elvis Presley song that I have actually performed in the world of musical theatre. Do you remember that? That pantomime we did that year?
Lj:Oh, okay, right Do you remember, I didn't know that that was an Elvis song.
Tim:Is it not? No, I was going to say no. Okay, it should be. It sounds very Elvis. You shake my nerves and you feel in my brain yeah, oh, that's hilarious. There we go, and that proves my point. I haven't a blooming clue what I'm talking about this week, because I've never listened to an elvis record in my life. No, I have but that yeah, no, that's I'm thankful because I was like well, now I did
Tim:not know that there's there's a clanger for our um highlights reel of season two stick that in with the In the Heights episode, we're doing a great job.
Lj:Well, the first thing I learned was one of our songs is called Rustabout.
Tim:Just a lounge in Rustabout. I learned that too.
Lj:So a rustabout is a manual labourer who works in oil and gas drilling fields or traditionally is referred to a worker with a broad-based, non-specific skills. So in my head then I just thought of do you know the workers from Armageddon who have to go on to the moon to save the planet?
Tim:Yeah, interesting that that's what you thought about. Yeah, and just a roster about shifting from town to town. Yeah, they sing. Yeah, I got that too.
Lj:And that was roving R-O-V-I-N-G, so I'm maybe somebody will be able to explain this. Roving means travel from place to place.
Aaron:Yeah.
Lj:But the noun of roving. Why is there a different meaning? I don't understand. I don't understand.
Tim:English. Well, you could be roving roving around, and that's a verb, isn't it? That's the doing word or the action word. My God, I feel like I'm back in my first job. Okay, sorry, Well. I looked it up okay, so what's the noun roving it?
Lj:said right roving, and then it said noun, and then it said a sliver of cotton, wool or other fibre drawn out and slightly twisted, especially prepared for spinning there you go but how is that a different word?
Tim:because it's a material that roving that you're talking about is clearly a material is annoying, or you could be roving around like this roister bite which is a verb roving reporter yes, somebody said that.
Lj:as an example too, and to our roving reporter.
Tim:So the reporting is. The reporter is roving is going from place to place Like a travel reporter yeah.
Aaron:Not a travel reporter like a cruise ship.
Tim:No, we just get emails about that, Aaron.
Lj:Yeah, so actually I learned a lot there.
Tim:Interesting, and you've also had a literacy lesson as well, so fabulous job. Come on, everybody, let's move your hands. I'm singing the wrong words, aaron. Maybe he shouldn't be in the room.
Lj:Because I think he's just going to get really annoyed Every time I see, come on everybody. I think, come on everybody. I've completely lost it in there.
Tim:Yeah, I know that song really well.
Lj:Come on, everybody Gather round. I'm gonna show you how to knock them down From Grace T.
Tim:Fair enough.
Lj:I have not. I'm like this song. I can't get that song out of my head and get the proper Elvis song into my head, for come on everybody.
Tim:I think we're really losing the plot in these episodes at the moment.
Lj:Anyway, it says well, there ain't nothing wrong with the long-haired music like Brahms, beethoven and Bach.
Tim:That's right. So long-haired music is concerning or characteristic of classical music. And then he goes on to mention many classical composers like Brahms, Beethoven and Bach.
Lj:Yeah, so I discovered a really good article on mentalflosscom which talks about long-haired music, which was the Viennese classical school. And then some nowadays refer to the 70s as long-haired music. But obviously this was set in the 50s, so the 70s as long-haired music, but obviously this was set in the 50s, so the 70s hadn't happened yet. So, obviously I know he goes on to mention but Brahms. I had no clue who he was. Johannes Brahms was a German composer from 1883 to 1897. Yes.
Tim:And Beethoven.
Lj:Was the dog.
Tim:I hope my father's not listening to this episode. He will not be happy. I think Beethoven did the knock at the door, didn't he? Bum bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum is he not like the sick of symphony or something? Oh no if you're right, that's very impressive. I'm not so sure.
Lj:I think you're just talking nonsense Johannes. I don't know what I said, johannes. He's off strictly. I think you're just talking nonsense, johans. Yeah, I don't know what I said, johans, oh he's off, strictly you're.
Tim:you're having a great episode, oh dear, shall we talk about teddy bear? Forward, forward, slash hound dog, yes, so this, like actually at times it's quite clever, like some of the songs are cleverly written.
Aaron:Do you?
Tim:know, what I mean or fit in to the storyline this one has taken like two of his hits and kind of glued them into one, which is kind of cool and I love. I do love like musical numbers where there's like different parts singing at the same time, like against each other. It makes me excited. It takes me back to and juliet, you know, where there's like like two or three pop songs going at the same time and it's like, oh, this is cool. So teddy bear, he sings, put a chain around and I wish I could sing it. Put a chain around my neck and bring me anywhere. Oh, oh, let me be your teddy bear.
Tim:Yeah, that was awful. I can't sing Elvis, I don't know if I haven't listened to it. In a relationship, a teddy bear can symbolise love, comfort and security.
Lj:Aww.
Tim:The opposite of that is a hound dog.
Lj:Uh-huh yeah.
Tim:And the term hound dog was used in the South US to describe a person who is unpleasant, mean and despicable. It can also refer to a man who chases a woman or is promiscuous. The hound dog referred to in the song is about a woman rejecting a selfish, exploitive man.
Lj:Okay, really interesting so. You ain't nothing but a hound dog. Ah, that was good.
Aaron:That was a good.
Tim:Elvis impression yeah, that was good, crying all the time so.
Lj:Hound Dog was actually written by Gerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, and they wrote quite a lot Of the songs that Elvis later recorded. It was first recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1952, who was very popular within the R&B genre. Elvis recorded it then on the 14th of March in 1956.
Tim:So not too long after.
Lj:The song is a scaling critique, actually, of a person who is all bark and no bite. Ooh.
Tim:See what they did there.
Lj:Yeah, hound Dog is a lazy, always complaining person. Never they've never caught a rabbit, which means they have no ambition for success.
Tim:You never caught a rabbit, so you ain't no friend of mine.
Lj:Oh, that was impressive. All three of us joined in there.
Tim:Presley's version of that sold about 10 million copies globally and was one of his best-selling singles of all time and was, in quotation marks, an emblem of the rock and roll revolution.
Lj:Yeah and it is in what other musical go five four three two, one hound dog grace.
Tim:There's like a little video you ain't nothing but a hound dog in the film. Yeah, oh, okay, I know that. Was it the TV, the live TV version of Grease, didn't they? It wasn't Marley like obsessed with Elvis or something? I'm almost sure there was something about Elvis in that one. Okay, yeah, shall we move on to.
Aaron:It's now or never.
Lj:No, no, yes, shall we move on to it's now or never. No, yes, it's not.
Tim:Seriously, that was Elvis.
Lj:Like in person.
Tim:I thought it was just the ice cream. Mad, Isn't that Just one cornetto? Give it to me. So I thought in research, and I was really stupid. I was like I didn't realise they just ripped off an Elvis song. However, when you look into it, it wasn't an Elvis song to start off, with what it was released as a single in 1960, but it was, however, based on an Italian song.
Lj:Ah, there you go oh.
Tim:Sol Mio. You see my Italian's good, because that's where I holiday now. And oh, Sol Mio was music by Eduardo de Caprio.
Lj:Yep.
Tim:I might have said his surname wrong. However, it was also used and recorded by the US singer Tony Martin in 1949. Version and it's likely that he was inspired to then record this because of his fondness for Mario lanza, who had first popularized also meo to American audiences and who died a year before. It's now or never was recorded. Okay, it's now or never was a number one record in the US for Elvis, spending five weeks at number one and sold excess 20 million physical copies worldwide.
Aaron:Hmm.
Tim:So aren't you glad we talked about it's Now, did you know that one, aaron?
Aaron:No, he knows them all.
Tim:We're going to have a karaoke one night. I want to hear Aaron singing Elvis back to back. Do you get Elvis on that thing that you and CJ were singing Hamilton on the other week? Do you right deal when you're feeling better. Go on perfect though?
Lj:does not some Elvis songs not remind you of working in the restaurant, especially that about being an angel and a devil. What's that one?
Tim:You're the angel in disguise.
Lj:You're the devil in disguise.
Tim:You're the devil in disguise. Oh, yes, you are the devil's in disguise. Oh, I'm getting into it now. I didn't think.
Lj:I was an Elvis fan, but actually it's back up and running and running will be great, but you've all just missed Aaron and Tim.
Tim:So that's another one that's not in the musical, then A bit like Great Balls of Fire.
Lj:No, that is in the musical, is it? You're just?
Tim:a devil in disguise. Oh yeah, it is, you're right, because they're talking about him when he arrives into town. Sorry God, the look you just gave me there, like I was stupid with four heads.
Lj:Well, I looked at it on some sort of song list.
Tim:Shall, we move on.
Lj:I looked at it on some sort of song list Blue Suede Shoes, uh-huh, this is a Carl Perkins song. I know Elvis loved the Carl Perkins version and did. I think they were friends. So I think he did wait until Carl was dead Before he recorded it. But the One for the money, two for a show, three to get ready now go. Did you know that? That Is a children's rhyme From the 1820s? It was said before race or activity.
Tim:One for the money, two for a show, Three to get ready. Now go, cat go.
Lj:Now go.
Tim:Oh, now go.
Lj:That's cool. Yeah, that's very cool. It's a children's round.
Tim:Do you know what size Elvis Presley's feet were?
Lj:11.
Tim:Oh were they no.
Lj:No, I just made that up.
Tim:I thought I got my research wrong there. Apparently, Presley did own a pair of blue suede shoes and he gave his ten and a half.
Lj:I was close.
Tim:You were close. That's why I was like, oh, did I get it wrong? Apparently he was ten and a half, so he gave his blue suede shoes to a friend after he was called to join the US Army.
Lj:Oh, and speaking of that, my grandparents were friends with a guy who served with Elvis.
Tim:Nah, yeah, stop it. Yeah, that's cool.
Lj:He used to catch them lobster.
Tim:Do you know how much the shoes were sold for at auction?
Lj:No 95,000.
Tim:But then once all the I don't really understand auctions, but then apparently, once all the I don't really understand auctions, but then apparently, once all the processing and all of that was done, it was in excess of £125,000.
Lj:So why would it go up? Oh, okay.
Tim:As I said to you, Lauren, I'm not really understanding of the process.
Lj:Don't ask me questions like that. Oh, I knew he would jump in. It says drink my liquor from an old fruit jar. So I knew he would jump in. It says drink my liquor from an old fruit jar. So is that homemade liquor Like moonshine? Is that what that means? Oh, I've made that up?
Tim:Did you not do your research now?
Lj:No, I couldn't find anywhere where it says drink.
Tim:I'm joking, I'm just being passive.
Lj:But when it says like my old fruit jar, it was like Like bread punch or something. Yeah or maybe is it just like homemade liquor, like I don't know. Anyway, there we go. Did you get any information about jailhouse rock? No, um, it says about spider murphy playing the saxophone or something, and I was trying.
Tim:I think they were made up names. I looked that up too. Yeah, I was trying to find.
Lj:I did find that a german rock band, but they named themselves after Jill House Rock.
Tim:I'm not so sure that he was quoting them.
Lj:No, he definitely wasn't, shall we talk about the title track.
Tim:I mean, I only really researched the title track because it was the title track, you know. There was nothing in it that I went. Oh, I don't really understand. Most of it was quite self explanatory lyrically For this, this musical. Do you know what I mean?
Lj:But and also Some of the songs that Elvis was singing Were a little Sexual.
Tim:Yeah, greatly disturbed or upset, that's all Shake up.
Lj:Oh right, okay yeah.
Tim:It. The single Topped the billboard Top 100 on the 13th of April 1957 and stayed there for nine weeks.
Lj:Whoa.
Tim:There you go. That's the last Elvis fact I have.
Lj:Well, that's me out too. That's it. Yeah, can I just say though, yeah, We've been very harsh on this and we haven't's it yeah.
Tim:Can I just say though yeah, we've been very harsh on this and we haven't seen it. It's a big hit amongst the amateur theatre world.
Lj:And it would probably be great with young folks and I know that some of our lovely friends have done it.
Tim:Yeah, I haven't seen one production of it now, I have to say, but it has been a fan favourite.
Lj:But then I think, if you're, you know, we are not albus lovers, yeah so yeah, that's true how I I first.
Tim:You know what I first came to this musical when I was asked to choreograph at ames concert. So all the the irish companies were putting on a concert in the Opera House and it just needed to be like a musical variety concert. And the MD who's now my great friend, adam Darcy, came up with an all shook up section. So we did Jailhouse Rock and then the company sang Help Falling in Love and it Jailhouse Rock and then the company sang Can't Help Falling In Love and it is one of the best arrangements of that song. It is absolutely beautiful.
Tim:Aaron, please do listen to the musical version of that song. It is so beautiful, like the like. It's almost like a choral, like treatment that's given. It's really beautiful and the harmonies are gored, like it's a and it starts chilled, quiet and then builds and builds and builds until, like the last chorus of take my hand. It's really class. That was really high for me. That was a bit high for me. It was lovely but a beautiful arrangement. I just feel on an episode where we've had a bit of a downer on Pearl Elvis, I felt we needed to say something nice to round it off and it comes from the heart I truly love. Like I don't really listen to the soundtrack very often, but every so often I do have a wee listen to that.
Lj:That track because it is that's nice have you heard it?
Tim:you should go and listen to it.
Lj:It's lovely no, I don't think I have heard it.
Tim:Nor are you gonna. No, I will. I know, I know from your body language no.
Lj:I will. I'll go by your recommendation. She's closed her book guys.
Tim:She's over this episode. But I don't understand why did we choose this then? Like? Because I didn't like go out of my way to pick this one. Trust me, I feel like it was on your list and you were like Well, I just went down a list of musicals and called them out and you went yeah, let's do that one.
Lj:Yeah, because let's do that one.
Tim:All right, we've done it. It's done, it's one less.
Lj:Yeah.
Tim:Clanger.
Lj:No, I'm sure young kids would love doing it. Yeah, I think it actually did cause a bit of controversy. There was a young group in America did it and they took out all of the stuff in it.
Tim:Well, it kind of goes back to it's quite interesting what some particularly American high schools do for their school shows, isn't it? It's like ew, okay, that is a brave choice. Is that appropriate for the school show? So it's not. It's like ew, okay, that is a brave choice yes, interesting.
Lj:Is that appropriate for the?
Tim:age group that you're doing this show with.
Lj:Yeah, yeah, well, you know, if you like Elvis, you might like All Shook Up or Love. Me Tender whichever side of the Atlantic Ocean you decide to, or something like that yeah, I still don't get that like name, name change um, but yeah shall we move on to next week, then, an episode that you're maybe more excited about, lauren? Yeah, what are we doing next week?
Tim:we've got a challenge week it's the challenge week, it's back and um. I clearly have issues because I thought the last time we had our challenge week which, in case our viewers can't remember, is when we give each other like a handful of musical titles and you have to choose one I thought we did that the last time in season one, but actually it was the beginning of season two. And here we are coming to the end of season two and we're doing it again because I, I, I mucked up.
Lj:I know, but you know what? We had such an amazing experience with that. Yeah, Like we we discovered Millennials. Yep, I fell in love with it. We got to hear some raw footage like I mean, it's, it was fab. So I think, it's a great way. There's so many musicals right there, yeah, it kind of is impossible sometimes to notice them all, so it's a great way to maybe see once. I would just slip through the net.
Tim:There's something you sent me I've never heard of before, so I have to say, and we'll save it for next week, but I think I think the ones I gave you were proper in other words, you did a better job than I did oh, 1000%. I'm I'll put it out there for sure like the five you had to choose from. Every single one of them are, I think, class yeah anyway. So that's next week's, and look, she's already smiling, which is much better than this episode because, she's had a face on her the whole way through the episode.
Tim:Why are we doing this? Until next week, bye.
