K-Chuck Radio: How a vintage doo-wop song turned into the OTHER Kingsmen hit

If the Kingsmen never had another recording, they would always have “Louie, Louie” – the classic party song with the barely audible lyrics that could be mondegreened into other meanings. You know “Louie, Louie.” Of course you do. Now the original “Louie, Louie” was recorded by Richard Berry, and the lyrics are pretty clear. Here’s…

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K-Chuck Radio: The hidden evolution of Black Betty

You most likely know the classic 1978 rock song “Black Betty,” as performed by the one-hit wonder group Ram Jam. You can hear it now as you’re reading this blog post. But what if I told you that the Ram Jam version not only isn’t the most unique version of the classic blues song ……

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Nina Conti likes to play with her monkey

Ventriloquism is fun. The ability to throw your voice into an inanimate object, and then convince an audience that the object has its own personality and essence separate from your own, while trying NOT to move your lips throughout the whole performance – that’s tough. And there are a few legendary and famous ventriloquists who…

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“Groundhog Day” on the Royale With Cheese Movie Club

The “Royale With Cheese Movie Club” is a section of my blog where I finally get around to watching films that EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD has already seen. The category was named after the classic dialogue in Pulp Fiction, where Vinnie and Jules talk about what Quarter Pounders with Cheese are called in France. Now…

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It’s “Subways Of Your Mind” by FEX? Well, that explains EVERYTHING.

You have to love those Internet mysteries. The ones where someone uncovers some mysterious fragment of a historic artifact, and the Internet’s hive mind tries to uncover the mystery. Well, such a mystery was revealed last weekend. Follow along with me. In 1983, a German radio station played its usual mix of new wave and…

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