Sad to Say...This Will the Last Episode of This Show... | Professor of Rock

Go to https://buyraycon.com/PROFESSOROFROCKBC to get up to 50% off sitewide! Thanks to Raycon for sponsoring! Coming up, it’s the closest thing we have to a time machine. It’s our latest Time in a Bottle countdown where we feature 10 tracks that take you back to the exact moment they came out on radio. Along the way, we’ll tell the story of how Sophie B Hawkins accidentally wrote her signature song when her hand slipped on a piano. That same song went on to make history as the first song title with profanity to become a massive hit on the charts. We’ll also cover Sir Mix A Lot, whose music video was banned from MTV for celebrating full-figured women. So he stalked an MTV network executive at a restaurant, and railed on him until he convinced him to air the video. And then there’s Shakespears Sister that should have been a sisterhood after they scored a big time hit, but their creative partnership came to an embarrassing end when one of the member had her publicist fire the other on national television. And finally, we have Jon Secada, who sang backup for a legend for years until he stepped into the spotlight and amazingly outsold his iconic mentor. Let’s do it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Kimberley Rumburg, Brent Gephart, Glenn Beardmore, Jennifer Selvidge, Carl Curcuruto, Thomas Williams ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast Apple: https://apple.co/445fVov Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42JpfvU Amazon: https://amzn.to/44b5D6m iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/444h8MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Merch Store: https://professor-of-rock-lsn-shop.fourthwall.com/ Instagram: https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of_Rock #classicrock #rock #vinylstory #onehitwonder Hey Music Junkies… I tried an experiment, and today is the Final Episode of our Time in a Bottle Countdown, unless you want more. Let me know below. We did this countdown for about 9 months and then took 3 months off, and I decided to try 3 more EPISODES SO VOTE with your comments and likes and views if you want more. Today’s countdown will take you back to the songs that sound so much like the year they came out; it hurts…We’re going back to 1992 in our nostalgic time in a bottle extravaganza. So let’s get right into it. Kicking off our trip back to 92 at #10 is House of Pain’s “Jump Around,” the Irish-American rap anthem whose wailing horn sample is still the loudest call to action in any stadium. House of Pain started in Los Angeles around 1990, when Erik Schrody, aka Everlast, teamed up with DJ Lethal and his high school friend Danny Boy O’Connor. Everlast had already released a solo album that flopped. But the trio shopped a demo around and ultimately signed with Tommy Boy. Jump Around was their biggest hit, but it began as someone else’s beat. DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill made it at his aunt’s house in Bell Gardens. He first took it to his bandmate B-Real, who couldn’t come up with lyrics. So Muggs and Everlast teamed up and Everlast wrote the words in Muggs’ driveway. His first hook was longer, something like “Jump around, if you love culture,” but Muggs had him trim it back to “Jump Around.” Everlast said, “I went out to the driveway and wrote it. As I was writing it, he found the horn. And then we all kind of got chills.” That horn is the song’s biggest mystery. The fanfare at the start is sampled from Bob & Earl’s 1963 hit “Harlem Shuffle.” But the piercing squeal that loops through the song is still up for debate. “Jump Around” reached #3 on the Hot 100 in 1992. It garnered seemingly endless airplay on MTV and pop radio, and became a fan favorite in bars and clubs. The single went Platinum, selling over a million copies in America, as did the album. Leaning heavily into their record label's push for an aggressive Irish-American image, House of Pain filmed the Jump Around music video on a shoestring budget during the 1992 St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City. Operating without permits or reserved filming locations, the group and their crew crashed the live parade, causing real-time commotion in the streets and drinking in authentic Irish pubs to capture the chaotic energy of the song. Jump Around later turned up in movies like Mrs. Doubtfire and Happy Gilmore, and more recently Ted Lasso Season 4. Everlast left House of Pain in 1996, and then, in 1998, he suffered a near-fatal heart attack from a congenital defect, right after finishing his solo album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. It went multi-platinum, with the hit “What It’s Like.”