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Coming up… In 1986, these songs didn’t crack the Top 10; some may have thought they were also rans, but over time, they became bigger than songs that did, and some even bigger than the songs that made it to #1, including David Lee Roth, one of the most dynamic frontmen of the Rock Era, released a song about an American symbol of liberty, but there is a bizarre connection with a book that is titled… The Satanic Bible. Plus Tarzan Boy, a song that was sung by a singer who was NOT the person singing in their heavily played music video... and fans are still confused today. Who really sang the hit? You’ll find out. Plus the broadcast from an illegal satellite dish that inspired a song called Russians that many argue Stopped Nuclear War with 1 question. Plus the bitter Van Halen feud between Sammy Hagar and Alex Van Halen about the legacy of the band. Sammy says Alex is erasing his legacy of 4 #1 albums and a dozen massive hits, while Alex recently called Sammy an idiot. We cover the song they recorded together that can’t be denied. We’re counting down the Top 10 In-Betweeners of ’86, songs that peaked between #11 & #22 on the Billboard Hot 100. But they're just as good as the song that hit #1.

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Hey Music Junkies, ya know, some songs burn bright and fast, even if they shoot to #1, and disappear from public memory. But this countdown is full of slow-burning classics that didn’t make the Top 10 then- landing between #11 and #20. But they were Late Bloomers and are now as big as the songs that hit #1; it’s our in-betweeners countdown; this time we’re going back 40 years to 1986. The POR countdown of the Top 10 In-Betweeners of 1986 begins with a song that some in the media tried to cancel back then for having ties to Satanism and for being too much sexual innuendo, but they were way off the mark. It’s “Yankee Rose” by David Lee Roth at #10: Even though the music video comes off as pure, high-energy party chaos, with critics pointing to its overt sexual innuendo, many accused the song as being related to Anton Lavey’s book, The Satanic Bible. But “Yankee Rose” was actually written as a straight-up tribute to the Statue of Liberty. That’s right, it wasn’t about a lady of the night, Yankee Rose” came out in ’86, right when the monument was going through major public renovations leading up to its 100th anniversary:

The lyrics drop tons of American-history and patriotism references—everything from the American Revolution (“the shot heard ’round the world” from Lexington and Concord), to “America the Beautiful” (“sea to shining sea”), and the spirit of the national anthem (“rockets glare”). One of the coolest (and strangest) parts is how the track starts. It sounds like David Lee Roth is literally “talking” to Steve Vai’s guitar. Vai basically used the guitar to reply—using whammy-bar tricks, pick scrapes, and all kinds of sound effects that bounce back to Roth’s vocal lines. Vai later said he and Roth shared a weird sense of humor and loved doing something quirky that most straight-laced rock stars wouldn’t touch:

When DLR hooked up with Steve Vai, he was a rising star who’d played with Frank Zappa, Alcatrazz, and Public Image Ltd., and he was one of the few guitarists who could really match Eddie Van Halen’s creative energy. Plus, like Eddie, he wasn’t just flashy; he just loved to play with great passion. Steve’s songwriting talent helped drive the album’s success. He co-wrote 6 of the 10 tracks on Eat ‘Em and Smile, with Diamond Dave, including “Yankee Rose.”

Ok so let’s tackle the critics' attacks that “Yankee Rose was tied to Satanism.” At the end of Anton LaVey’s The Satanic Bible, he references the song Yankee Rose, but LaVey wasn’t referencing Roth’s song. He was a fan of an older, unrelated 1920s patriotic pop tune with the same name (by Sidney Holden and Abe Frankl), which was also a Statue of Liberty tribute.

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Everybody THINKS This Iconic Band is a 1-Hit Wonder But The've Had 18 HITS! | Professor of Rock

I KNOW YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EPISODE. If you don’t, I’ll eat my Hat live on camera. So everyone has that “one” playlist. You know the one with all the cheesy songs you’re embarrassed to admit you love. The ones you sing to the top of your lungs when no one is looking. Well, today, we’re counting down my picks for the Top 8 feel-good songs that are deemed uncool… but that we secretly love and put on blast when no one is around. For this one, we’ve got the most squeaky-clean family pop group in music history, The Osmonds, who were so fed up with their wholesome image, they snuck off to a basement studio without telling their label and wrote one of the heaviest rock songs of the decade, and it actually influenced proto-metal! And Ozzy and Lemmy loved it. Then, there’s a soft rock duo, Air Supply, that was handed a song they didn't write for a Greatest Hits album that they didn't want to record. But it became a massive hit, and Brad Pitt loved it so much he handpicked it to sing in a big movie. Then there’s Karen Carpenter, who walked into her recording session without knowing the lyrics. Her bandmate scribbled the words on a napkin and handed it to her on the spot. Even though she had a hard time reading the handwritten lyrics, she sang it that one time, and that unrehearsed performance became one of the most heartbreaking vocals in pop history. Let’s get into it.

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Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. Make sure to subscribe, like, and share, and let's get into some cheesy songs that we all know and love. It's OK. You can admit it; no judgment here. To get this one. started, I’m going to turn it over to Chris Farley and David Spade. Do you guys remember that scene from Tommy Boy, where they’re driving along listening to the radio… and they’re both too embarrassed to admit that they love The Carpenters? But once the song gets going, they can’t resist singing along… the reason the scene is so hilarious is because we've all been there. And really, Chris Farley and David Spade taught us to embrace our inner cheesiness… And I think that scene perfectly sums up what we’re getting into with this episode. So why not start with the Carpenters? At #8, I’m going with that very song, Superstar.

Back in 1969, Delaney & Bonnie's Bonnie Bramlett teamed up with Leon Russell to write a song called "Groupie (Superstar).” It was an aching tune about a fan left hollow after a one-night stand with a touring rock star. Eric Clapton played guitar on the earliest recording, and the song later turned up on Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour, sung by Rita Coolidge. And it turns out that Richard Carpenter actually owned that album already, but he just hadn't gotten around to playing it yet. Then, one night in early 1971, Richard came home late from the studio. Karen had already gone to bed, so he flipped on The Tonight Show. Johnny Carson was hyping an unknown singer named Bette Midler, who performed the song. Richard didn't catch the title… but something about it grabbed him, and he knew it could be a hit.

After tracking down the song's origins, Richard pulled out that Mad Dogs & Englishmen record, studied the arrangement, and began reshaping it for the Carpenters. Only there was an issue: the lyrics were pretty racy for a group known for its wholesome image. The original line — "And I can hardly wait to sleep with you again" was rewritten to "be with you again.” But Karen wasn’t sold on the track. At least not at first. She had heard Rita Coolidge's version, and it just didn't click for her. And after Richard insisted they record it, Karen went into the session without even having learned the lyrics. Richard scribbled his revised lyrics onto a napkin and handed it to her. And what came out of that session was pure magic. Karen sang it only once, straight off that napkin, and she nailed every ounce of heartbreak in a single take.

It's 1 of the GREATEST Vocal Performances EVER Recorded & Singer DESPISED The SONG-Professor of Rock

The 1950s gave us the birth of rock and roll — and with it a collection of song stories so bizarre and completely unhinged that they sound made up. Behind the poodle skirts and the sock hops was a decade of scandals, accidents, and twists that will shock you. Today we're counting down the Weirdest and Wickedest songs the 50s ever produced. First… the sweet, childlike duet Tonight You Belong to Me that was recorded as a family keepsake somehow became one of the most chilling songs on the internet thanks to a dark urban legend about girls forced to sing it by a lunatic. It racked up millions of views on social media… even though the real story behind the record is stranger than any ghost story. Then… a female rock pioneer Wanda Jackson recorded a sensually charged song laced with references to nuclear devastation that American radio banned outright and many felt it was truly offensive to one particular country… only to watch it become one of the biggest hits ever in that exact country! And finally… the song Purple People Eater that its writer dismissed as the worst thing ever written was rescued from obscurity by a group of record label employees who couldn’t stop playing it in the lunchroom. Plus the story of Rock Around the Clock by BIll Haley and his Comets....Let’s go.

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Hey Music Junkies, Let’s Get the Strangest Songs and their unbelievable stories on our 50s lovefest. Kicking off the countdown at #7, I’ve got the story of an outer space obsession that got its start as a kid’s riddle and in a record label lunchroom. The song is Sheb Wooley’s Purple People Eater. Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley got his entertainment career going in the late 40s and early 50s as both a Hollywood actor and a country-western singer. Appearing in landmark Westerns like High Noon and TV roles in series like Rawhide, Wooley maintained a parallel career writing comic novelty songs and performing under a number of comedic aliases. Prior to 1958, his musical releases only achieved moderate regional success, specifically within the country market. But he was on the hunt for a national pop crossover hit. Enter the Purple People Eater.

The backstory of the song starts with America’s mid-century obsession with everything outer space, UFOs, and growing Cold War anxiety. Looking for inspiration for a lighthearted record, you know, something to cut the tension… Wooley wrote a song about a bizarre alien creature coming to Earth, hoping to play in a rock 'n' roll band. To capture the alien's distinctive voice, Wooley manipulated the tape speed, playing back recorded vocal tracks at double time. The initial concept for the song started with a joke told to Wooley by the son of another songwriter, Don Robertson. Don’s son posed a riddle about a one-eyed, one-horned flying creature that ate people. Inspired by the joke's absurd imagery, Wooley dashed off the entire song in just minutes… but then dismissed it as a throwaway track. However, he did send a demo disc to MGM's New York offices.

Although the record executives there thought it was Crap, the demo started attracting the attention of some of the younger staff members. And during lunch breaks, something like 50 label employees began gathering around the record player to listen to the eccentric track. After seeing all of this spontaneous enthusiasm, execs realized they had discovered the next big thing and rushed the single to radio stations. Said Wooley about what happened, "I wrote [Purple People Eater] in about fifteen minutes and didn't think much of it. In fact, I thought it was undoubtedly the worst song I had ever written, maybe the worst ever period. But when the kids at the studio started playing it over and over, the executives realized they had something on their hands.” Upon its release in May 1958, "The Purple People Eater" became an enormous commercial phenomenon, reaching #1 on the Billboard pop charts for 6 consecutive weeks and selling over three million copies.

America BANNED Song Cuz it was SO OFFENSIVE to Asians…Hit #1 for 25 Weeks in Asia!-Professor of Rock

Sadly, we lost a great artist recently. Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who wrote one of the best songs of the late 90s and, statistically, the biggest one-hit wonder ever. Barely Breathing spent an all-time record 55 consecutive weeks on the Hot 100, and nobody has come close since. The song was written about a manipulative girlfriend, and Duncan captured his pain perfectly. It’s really one of the more complex pop songs of its time, and Duncan truly had a gift as a songwriter. Coming up, a lost interview that I did with Duncan Sheik many years ago… it’s never been shown or seen. In fact, it was one of my first interviews ever, and I was told it had been accidentally deleted by the channel that my first show was on.

I got my start about 12 years ago on a local ABC affiliate, and their camera guys who normally captured local news stories would sometimes shoot my interviews. This happened at the last second. Somebody called me about 30 mins before the interview was filmed and asked, "Can you run over here and do an interview with Duncan Shiek?" So I raced over and did it. I found Duncan to be a great dude, passionate and articulate, and in this interview we talk about his best songs, including Barely Breathing, She Runs Away, Half Life, and the two musicals that he scored, including the Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening and American Psycho.

In fact, Duncan, who admitted he didn’t even like Broadway music before he started, became a master of the genre, composing for 12 musicals, including Because of Wynn Dixie, Alice by Heart, The Secret Life of Bees, and many more. Duncan passed away on September 17th from heart failure. He is survived by his wife, Nora, and daughter. Rest in peace. I’m really grateful I found this interview. Again, I was told it had been deleted, so when I heard the news, I reached out one more time to see if there was a possibility it was somehow moved or I had made a backup, and my editor spent over a day searching for it and found it. Here it is.

We Just LOST 1 of the GOOD GUYS of Music...So Glad I Found this Lost Interview | Professor of Rock

Coming up, a grand year in music where once again a bunch of legendary Top 10 hits that missed the #1 spot on the charts were actually better than the songs that did. Today we’re rewriting history by putting them where they belong… at #1. We’ll spotlight a classic from an Elton John who got so upset about the cadence a song was written in that he recorded it with an EXAGGERATED AMERICAN ACCENT, and it made the song a classic. Plus the song Longfellow Serenade that stole its idea from a 19th century poem to seduce an older woman, and it ended up becoming a classic. Plus, the cocky college student from Steely Dan who hit on his professor’s pregnant wife and actually got her number, but instead of having an affair, he turned it into his biggest hit on the charts. And the Lynyrd Skynyrd rock icon who ominously predicted his demise, proclaiming that he wouldn’t make it to age 30. His prediction came true when he tragically passed away less than 3 months before his 30th birthday. Then there’s the mysterious man Tony Burrows, who recorded vocals for 5 different bands and strangely enough, each of those songs became a one hit wonder. But we start with the bold teenager Chaka Khan who told the biggest music Icon of his time that the song he gave to her rookie band to record was Trash and he needed to give them something BETTER…

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Hey Music Junkies, Professor of rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. Make to subscribe. It’s time to fire up the time machine and go back to the year 1974. Where we will right the wrongs on the charts and give the songs from that year that missed #1 their due. They were more riveting than the song that did hit the top.

At #10 we have a song that a 19-year rookie coaxed out of Stevie Wonder after telling him the first song he gave for her to record SUCKED. It took guts, but it was the right call. It introduced the world to the incredible voice of Chaka Khan. It’s Tell Me Something Good” by Rufus: Stevie Wonder wrote “Tell Me Something Good” for Rufus after something pretty crazy happened in the studio. Picture this… a 19-year-old Chaka Khan, pregnant and clearly not in the mood to be impressed, told Stevie straight to his face that she didn’t like one of the first tracks he played for the group. In fact, she was quite blunt. I mean… imagine telling Stevie Wonder that one of his songs was “crap.” And honestly, he didn’t seem phased at all. He even asked Chaka for her astrological sign—and when she said she was an Aries, he told her he had just the right track for her. Then he sat down at the clavinet… and played “Tell Me Something Good.”

Chaka jumped into the song the way she naturally works through music, but Stevie stopped her and gave her very specific vocal direction—coaching the exact vibrato and attitude he wanted. Later, Chaka said she actually helped shape the melodies and arrangements, but she was intimidated in the moment and didn’t ask for formal co-writing credit. In the end… Stevie remained the only credited writer. One reason the song became such a hit is that signature guitar sound—created by guitarist Tony Maiden using an early guitar talk box. That effect was pretty rare at the time, so the track was one of the first big hits to really feature it. “Tell Me Something Good” peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974, but it’s a #1 in our hearts. It became Rufus’s breakthrough and won them a Grammy. The success was so massive it led the group to change their name to Rufus featuring Chaka Khan:

We’re rolling out the Top 10 songs of ’74 that should’ve been #1 hits. It’s a song that A British Icon got so frustrated by that he actually recorded his vocals in an exaggerated, mocking American accent, and it made it a classic. It’s Elton John with “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” at #9. “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” is one of Elton John’s most lasting masterpieces, but its studio recording in Colorado was surprisingly tense and frustrating. Although the track later became a

Icon Was SO SICK of Song…He Sang it with a FAKE ACCENT as a Joke…Made it a Classic-Professor of Rock

Voice Actor and Rockstar Jess Harnnell tell the hilarious story about the time that William Shatner mistook him for Gene Simmons of KISS and the crap hit the fan in the best way possible. … It’s a Gag that is still going. When Shatner who played Captain Kirk on Star Trek, asked Jess who he thought was Gene Simmons an awkward question it became a punchline.
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Okay, now its time to introduce my good friend voice actor and rock star Jess Harnell. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Jess, let me give you the rundown quick, because he has a hilarious relationship with Willian Shatner… and you’re gonna be dying laughing after hearing these. Jess Harnell is one of the most prolific and versatile performers in entertainment. He has a massive resume of voice acting credits across television, film, video games, and even theme parks. Rising to prominence in the early 90s, Jess voiced the zany Wakko Warner in Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs. In fact, he was hand-picked by Spielberg for the part. Jess has also voiced character in major pop culture franchises like Transformers, Star Wars, The Tick, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, and Rick and Morty. Parallel to his voice acting career, Jess also has a musical career rooted in hard rock. After releasing a solo album, The Sound of Your Voice, in 1995, he became the lead vocalist for the the mash-up rock band Rock Sugar… which blends heavy metal with classic pop melodies. Jess is the man of over 1000 voices, and is always a blast. Here is telling us the story of how his neighbor William Shatner mistook him for Gene Simmons of Kiss…

When WILLIAM SHATNER MISTOOK This GUY for GENE SIMMONS All HELL Broke LOOSE! | Professor of Rock

Some of the best songs ever recorded were never released as singles. But today, they have become bigger than a lot of these legendary bands’ biggest hits. Today we're counting down the most beloved album cuts that became the band’s signature tracks, and for starters, we have an acoustic track that’s become the most-streamed song in the Beatles catalog… despite being purposely passed over back in the day. It ended up bettering every massive hit the Beatles have ever released, and they had dozens of #1 hits…Then there’s Kurt Cobain, who wrote a harrowing tale about living homeless under a bridge to explain his song's haunting origins… but it turns out the story was totally fabricated and debunked by his bandmate after he passed. Plus the song that you won’t get through without collapsing in complete devastation. The most soul-crushing song in history. Plus the Smashing Pumpkins song that got its bizarre title from a Japanese translation blunder. It was deemed too long and too strange for radio, but has since become one of their most essential songs. And that’s where we’re starting the countdown. Let’s get into it.

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Hey Music Junkies let’s get into the greatest albums cuts in rock history. Make sure to subscribe below Alright so starting things off at #7, it’s a song that came from a translation blunder. it’s the Windy City quartet of Billy Corgan, James Iha, D’arcy Wretzky and Jimmy Chamberlain… known as The Smashing Pumpkins. And the song is Mayonaise. Mayonaise was written in late 1992 and recorded at Tritonus Sound in Georgia, serving as the 10th track on The Smashing Pumpkins' breakthrough Siamese Dream. Clocking in at nearly 6 minutes, the song was as the emotional center of the album, bridging dream-pop acoustic textures with walls of heavy, distorted fuzz guitars. The story behind the bizarre title of "Mayonaise" did not come from a trip to the kitchen refrigerator, but from a translation blunder.

While touring Japan in 1992, the Pumpkins opened a promotional fan booklet printed by their Japanese record distributor… and inside they discovered that a line from their 1991 album Gish had been hilariously mistranslated as "mayonnaise seas." Amused, Billy Corgan and James Iha adopted "Mayonaise" as the working title for an unrecorded instrumental demo, and the name stuck. The recording sessions for Siamese Dream were infamous for Billy Corgan's tyrannical oversight, as he re-recorded nearly all guitar and bass tracks himself… driving bandmates James Iha and D'arcy Wretzky to complete mental breakdowns. But "Mayonaise" was the rare exception to this toxic dynamic. James brought the core chord progression and demo directly to Corgan, who loved it and collaborated on the arrangement and vocals… making it one of the few true team efforts on the album.

Describing the intense pressure that fueled the album's recording, Corgan reflected on his studio obsession, "It's hard to explain without sounding like you're completely insane, but making it was like feeling like you're looking at a distant horizon and knowing that, if you stay focused and true to yourself, you'll get there. I wish from Day 1, people would have looked at me and said, 'You're all right, come on, join the team,' but it's never been that way with me. I don't know why, maybe I'm a dick…” Mayonaise was passed over as an official commercial single during the promotion of Siamese Dream in 1993 and 1994. Instead, the label pushed four shorter, radio-formatted tracks—"Cherub Rock," "Today," "Disarm," and “Rocket.” With its long runtime and unconventional structural shifts, label executives considered "Mayonaise" too long for standard radio rotation. And they kept it as an unreleased album cut for fans to discover on the full LP. But over the years, "Mayonaise" has earned a reputation as the crown jewel of 90s alt-rock, routinely voted by fans as the Pumpkins' greatest track.

In April 2023, 23 years after its release, "Mayonaise" was featured in a pivotal episode of the Emmy-winning Netflix series Beef, triggering a viral resurgence that sent it to #5 on both the

His Band Had 20 #1s But Rejected All of His Songs-But Yrs Later his B-Side Became Their Biggest Hit

You won’t believe this epsidoes. A Rock concert that was so loud and unruly it caused an earthquake from the Foo Fighters? An unfinished 80s instrumental song that sold half a billion copies from an imaginary band who scammed half the world, and a an icon that had a hit song for 7 straight decades Coming up, it’s a countdown that centers on Guinness World Records but for music. And for this episode we’re bringing you six larger than life stories. Including rock band who destroyed the most guitars on a single tour…It’s over 140 by the band Muse. and a band who played 8 concerts in 8 different cities throughout 3 different states in just 24 hours but we start out with the rock band that I mentioned previously who caused an actually earthquake with their insane rock show. can you guess the band? Let’s do it.

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Hey music Junkies It’s time to get into the greatest world records in music history. Make sure to subscribe, like, and share, and if you think you’re subscribed, make sure you are, or unsubscribe and re-subscribe so I come into your feed. Alright, starting things off at #6, it’s the band that rocked so hard they started an actual earthquake, as captured with real seismic equipment. It’s the Foo Fighters and their fans together. Here’s the story and here’s what happened. So, formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1994 by Dave Grohl following the death of Kurt Cobain and the end of Nirvana, Foo Fighters began as a solo project in which Grohl recorded all instruments himself. After the Foos self-titled 1995 debut album went platinum and churned out three Top 10 Alternative chart singles, Dave Grohl recruited a full band to bring the material to live audiences. Their second album, 1997's The Colour and the Shape, produced enduring rock staples like “Everlong," and "My Hero," and established the band's signature sound.

In the following decade, Foo Fighters evolved into one of the world's top-tier stadium rock acts. Releases such as 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose, 2002's One by One, and 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace earned the band multiple Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album. And driven by Dave Grohl's energetic stage presence, the band earned a reputation for performing intense, “can’t miss” live shows… By the early 2010s, the Foos Fighters had become modern American rock headliners, carrying the banner for rock in the new millennium. Okay, now let’s zoom in on December 13, 2011… the Foo Fighters performed a stadium concert at Western Springs Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, before a crowd of 50,000 fans.

As the band performed heavy, driving anthems, the simultaneous jumping of 50,000 attendees generated ground vibrations that registered on GeoNet seismic equipment… which was two kilometers away from the venue. Which is the equivalent of 1.24 miles. Seismologists recorded low-frequency harmonic activity mimicking volcanic tremors and calculated that the crowd’s rhythmic movements exerted a force equivalent to that of 5,000 tonnes. At the highest recorded frequency the ground was shaking 3 times per second in a clear rhythmic motion. Said Dave Grohl about it, "We played at some speedway outside of town and the audience was jumping around so much that it triggered the seismograph. We have that seismograph readout of the show on the wall in the studio. I'm probably more proud of that, then anything we've ever done.”

At #5 I’ve got Oklahoma City’s finest with a world record for the most live concerts performed in a 24-hour window. And these guys are truly strange … in the best way possible. So it’s no surprise that they went after this one. It’s the Flaming Lips… and does anyone have any guesses as to how many concerts they performed in just one day? Just to clarify, in order for these concerts to count for the record, they had to be performed in different cities and had to be officially verified by a Guinness World Records representative along the way…

I’ll tell you the answer in a minute. But here’s the thing…

This Fake Band SCAMMED 500 Million People into Buying Their 30 Second Song | Professor of Rock

The story of the M*A*S*H Theme Song written by #1 director Robert Altman's 14 years old son. And it became an enduring classic—even though he was told to make it sound “stupid.” and it went on to make him a million bucks! The story of the greatest 70s and 80s tv songs.

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#1 Director Told 14 Yr Old Son to Write the DUMBEST SONG EVER...Became a Classic!--Professor of Rock