Sometimes after the show, usually the next day, I go back and review what people asked for that I couldn't play. Often, it's a good indication that there's a hole in my collection that I ought to fill. Right off the bat, PD brought up "Punk Rock Girl" by the 80's group the Dead Milkmen. Today, I see that I did have that song at one time. Way back when (2009-ish and earlier), I was a lot more judgemental about what I kept in my collection and what I got rid of. At the time, the Milkmen didn't make the cut. Sometime in 2010 I decided that was a shortsighted approach, not to mention time-consuming, so I backed off the active gatekeeping. Disk drive prices were coming down and cost of storage ceased to be an issue. Now I use the mp3 Ratings tag to indicate how much I personally like or dislike a song. Bear in mind, I don't intentionally seek out music I don't like. That would be dumb. But I've learned that my tastes change over time or even from one day to the next depending on my mood of the moment. Also, doing the show in its current format requires me to have some music available that I don't necessarily care for. Regarding "Punk Rock Girl", it looks like I'll be able to get my hands on it again before too long.
Another track we didn't hear was "Baby Come Back" by Hall & Oates per Nismo. I didn't have it, and I learned today that they didn't record it. Instead, "Baby Come Back" was done by a sound-alike group Player. As it turned out, later in the show Jake brought up the same song, this time identifying Player as the artist. For some reason, I confused myself and thought I didn't have the song when I really did. I hate when I do that: think I don't have a song when I really do. Oh well. I messed up. It happens.
By the way, I don't blame viewers if they get the song or artist information wrong. We're just here having fun. I like it when everyone joins in. Perfection is not required. We'll either figure it out or not. No big deal either way.
A few others: Tinkr sugggested "Sock It to Me Baby" by Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels. That's one I'd like to have and expect I will have by next week's show. Ditto for Stebkat's idea for Simon & Garfunkel's "Baby Driver". DFAC came up with "Up All Night" by the Talking Heads. That one was tougher. I came up empty at the time. I now see a 2005 release called Up All Night: Jammin' to the Talking Heads, a tribute album with new artists doing their versions of TH songs. I also see David Byrne as the songwriter for "Up All Night", performed on the Jammin' CD by Dark Star Orchestra. (Thank you, Allmusic.) But I can't find the Talking Heads actually doing that song themselves. However, I do see a song "Stay Up Late" on the 1985 TH album Little Creatures. I think that's what DFAC was after, because the lyrics talk about a baby. As it turns out, I don't have that song ripped, but I do have it on vinyl and could have played it. Whew! Maybe next time.
Finally, at the end of the show we had a request from a new viewer Maxwell who was looking for Ben E King's "There Goes My Baby". Not knowing enough about Ben E King and the Drifters, I didn't put two and two together to realize that the Ben E King version of the song is the one by the Drifters (King sang lead), and we had already played the Drifters earlier in the show. I further learned that Ben E King's birth name is Benjamin Earl Nelson, and it is under that name that the songwriting credit appears. (Thank you, Wikipedia.) The other songwriters of "There Goes My Baby" are George Treadwell (the Drifters' manager), Lover Patterson (King's personal manager), Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller.
So, you can see that sometimes doing requests really well can be kind of complicated. It's not always as easy as typing in the song and artist and then queuing it up. Sometimes one has to dig deeper. What I like is that I learn something new almost every week, and I'm happy to share it.
See you next Monday night!