Hello and welcome to Vinyl-O-Matic. I am Your Old Pal Will, and I'm all set to continue our journey through singles with a-sides beginning with the letter T as in Tango. How about you? Are you comfortable? Well then, let us waste no time and get things moving along with this number one single from 1983. It's a promo single, and while it would be so nice I'd have to play it twice, both sides are the same stereo mix, so oh well.

That was Mr. Todd Rundgren and his most excellent 1981 tune "Time Heals", which was released a bonus disc to his album Healing. Fun fact: the a-side is to be played at 33 1/3 rpm and happens to be 3 minutes and 33 seconds. Fun fact, but not terribly surprising: Todd Rundgren plays all the instruments. Prior to that, we heard Cyndi Lauper and her collaboration with the Hooters' Rob Hyman.
Next up, we have an excellent early 90s split from North of the border.

Welcome back to Vinyl-O-Matic. If you cast your minds back to the top of that last set, you will recall that we heard a split on Cargo Records from 1991. The 33rpm a side was Change of Heart and their songs "Tired of Waking Up Tired" and "Mythology". The 45rpm flipside was, yes, Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet bringing us their version of "Tired of Waking Up Tired" as well as a number called "The Alouette, She Was Canada's First Satellite, Way Before the Americans Even". We followed that up with Lulu and her 1967 chartbuster "To Sir with Love" backed with a mighty fine version of Neil Diamond's "The Boat That I Row". Fun fact: Another Neil Diamond song dominated the charts at Number 1 in 1967, The Monkees version of "I'm a Believer". Interested listeners can see Lulu's fine acting skills in James Clavell's 1967 film To Sir with Love.
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And now for some artisanal bubblegum.

Wait, American rocksteady? Yes, it's true. We just heard Eddie Lovette's rendition of Bob Andy's "Too Experienced" on Steady Records from 1969. Some listeners may be familiar with 2 Tone recording artists The Bodysnatchers version of the same song. Before that, we heard The Archies and their 1969 single "Together We Two" along with "Everything's Alright" on Kirshner Records of course. Fun fact: Did you know Billboard had a chart called Bubbling Under the Hot 100? It's true, and this song made it to number 22 on that chart in 1970, which I suppose means that it made it to number 122?
Let's keep things rolling along. For this next set, we travel way back to the heady days of Seattle in 1988, with a side trek to NYC.

I have probably mentioned this before, but one of my favorite places to have a drink and drop quarters into a jukebox as a twenty-something was at Downtown Beirut in NYC's East Village. Mudhoney's 1988 Sub Pop single "Touch Me I'm Sick" was always my second selection on their jukebox, right after X's "Your Phone's Off the Hook". This is the 2nd pressing of SP18 for those of you playing along at home. We followed that up with SP26, featuring Sonic Youth covering "Touch Me I'm Sick" on the 45rpm a-side featuring Alex Damen of Das Damen on lead guitar, and Mudhoney covering Sonic Youth's "Halloween" on the 33rpm b-side. How's that for more rpm shenanigans.
That about wraps it up for our show this time. If you have any questions or comments about what you have heard, feel free to drop me a line: will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. Keep in mind that you can always find show notes, RSS feeds, podcast platform links, and many many many archived episodes of this very program at vinylomatic(dot)com.
For our next meeting of vinyl nerds like you and I, we will round out our journey through singles with a-sides that begin with the letter T as in Tango. No, really, I promise. Join me, won't you?