This weekend the Twitters were all abuzz with #verzuz: “Gladys Knight V. Patti LaBelle” and apparently a fair amount of people got schooled on the fact that Michael McDonald was 1) A Doobie Brother and 2) there’s a story Ms. Patti would not share on the air about him…
(Dying to know what that was, if I’m honest!)
While I’m not 100% sure where I’m going with this, I know you guys will come through with your best yacht rock or Patti or Gladys…
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Mmmm that low-hanging fruit is delicious. Hues Corporation Don’t Rock The Boat:
If you haven’t seen the series “Derry Girls” you must. There’s an episode where everyone’s at a wedding and all action comes to a halt when the DJ plays “Rock The Boat.” EVERYONE sits on the dance floor in lines and does this choreographed rowing, seated line dance.
The thing is, a few (maybe more than a few) years ago I was at a big party among Brits and they did it, so the creators weren’t making this up.
I’m too exhausted to find this but it might be on YouTube.
here you go,
many rockers:
I had no idea that this was a thing; fun!
That’s hysterical!
Derry Girls is hilarious!
Glad someone can pick up my slack when I host!
Confession, Loveshaq used to like the Love Boat as a kid
but all he got to cruise on was his friends Leaky Little Boat
A doo-wop for every theme.
Haircut One Hundred – Boat Party
Haircut 100! Love Plus One from Cousin Mattie.
Under-rated band that gets lost in the dregs of 80’s music.
More low hanging fruit
Harry Belafonte – The Banana Boat Song
Bette Midler · Barry Manilow – On A Slow Boat To China
and,
The Lonely Island – Jack Sparrow (feat. Michael Bolton)
The Makings of You
…hold on…I count two claims to picking up low hanging fruit but I see neither Enya’s Orinoco Flow nor Duran Duran’s Rio…not even Rod Stewart’s Sailing out here…so I’m all sorts of confused
or Coco Steel & Lovebomb’s – Yachts (I think this was used in a wine commercial)
I thought for sure you’d throw this one out there. I’m a little disappointed.
…I actually was going to do exactly that…so I’m pretty much exactly as predictable as you thought
…I just got distracted wondering where all that low hanging fruit was & for some reason that reminded me of the Bowie thing
John Prine introduces Lyle Lovett – If I had a Boat
2020 is a garbage fire if only because it took away so many great artists…
Double Trouble with Susan Tedeschi – Rock and Roll
…let’s face it…you’d think the safe money would be on something going wrong with the whole fire-in-your-beard-while-around-canons thing
Wow, Lemmy. That one curled the hairs on the back of my neck.
You would have to downtune a 7-string guitar to get it as low as his 6-string. He’s in drop-A if you’re keeping score.