Rock School; Tribute To John Hughes

This is Joe Burns. And Chad P. Hey, thanks for listening to The Rock School Podcast. We think you'll learn something. Now remember, if you want to hear the show with all the music in place, go to KSLU .org and stream the show live Thursdays at five. Sundays at four. It's a new show every week. Now enjoy this week's Rock School Radio Show. It's time for school. Rock School. With your host, Dr. Joe Burns, he grabbed me and said you're going to do pretty in pink or I will divorce you. And Chad P. Toy chemistry set when I was little and there's no way that that thing was going to generate a female. Well, mine made him a female frog. It was really a let down. Out of a male frog? Yeah. Really was a let

down. Class. Is it? Don't mess with the bull, young man, or you'll get the horns. This is Rock School for a lovely afternoon. My name is Joe Burns, a professor in the Communication Department, sitting to my immediate right, a NeoZoom DweeBee. This is RetroP. Ah, no. Don't make fun of this. I'm not a good show here. I'm looking forward to this show. I'm not making fun. John Hughes, director and writer John Hughes died on August 6. Had a heart attack while walking in New York City. He was just walking down the street, visiting friends, had a heart attack, dropped and died. Well, how old was he? 59. Okay. 59. John Hughes in the 1980s, now you're a lot younger than I am. Yeah. So in the 1980s, I was in high school. I was coming in through college. And the movies of

John Hughes were, I don't know how else to say it, I mean, seminal. They were everything about my life growing up. The breakfast club, Ferris Bueller, weird science. They were our lives. And when you listen or watch the movies of John Hughes, it was weird. It was as if he was hanging out with you and your friends. This guy understood how you spoke. It wasn't like you were watching a commercial. And when they tried to speak hip language, it didn't fly. John Hughes' dialogue was so well crafted. Spot on, as they say. Oh, sure. And the elements that happened in the movie were so well thought out that you identified with every character. You knew each kid. It wasn't just that Ducky was on the screen. Ducky was that kid in your high school. So what I did was, again, I have time. So

over the past two nights, I went and I looked at all of the music, the soundtracks to all of John Hughes, great, great movies. And I decided to do a short little tribute to him over the next hour. One rock school. With some clips from the movies. This is the one that, when you think John Hughes, it probably jumps right to mind. The Breakfast Club. Oh, yeah. The Breakfast Club. I have that movie on VHS, by the way. And it's really bad because I wrestled the whole way through high school. Oh, see, you're that guy. I am. And girls even said to me, after the movie came out, you wrestled? Do you wear tights? I wear the required uniform. So from the Breakfast Club, Carla DeVito will sing the song, We Are Not Alone, and a song. What are we having? Just your standard regular lunch, I guess. Milk? Soup.

I don't know, that's apple juice. I can read, PB &J with the crusts cut off. Well, Brian, this is a very nutritious lunch. All the food groups are represented. Did your mom marry Mr. Rogers? Oh, no, Mr. Johnson. Huh. Here's a clear and black and white, The living color tends to tell our sight. The light turns light. Just imagine my surprise when I looked into your eyes. Carla DeVito, We Are Not Alone, Breakfast Club. They already looked at the music. John Hughes and some of his movies. What do you say? I expect it more from an athlete. Something like that. That's Paul Gleason, who played the principal. Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd

Nielsen, Molly Ringwald, Ali Shiti, who, by the way, came to the Saturday detention because she had absolutely nothing else to do. It's true. John Hughes died on August 6th, heart attack, while walking in New York City. Vacation. He wrote it back in 1983. Actual title was National Lampoon's Vacation. The Griswald family. Oh, yeah. I love the Griswald family. Clark, Elwin, Audrey, and Rusty. We're going to make their trip all the way from Chicago out to, can you name it? Can you name the theme park? Well, Wally Ward. Wally Ward. But I don't know where it was located. Well, they ran into Aunt Edna and Phoenix, and of course his nasty, nasty brother in law. We'll hear from him in just one moment. Blitzkrieg, Bob, was in there by the Ramones. And of course, the one we're going to play from Lindsay Buckingham, as we on Rock School, tried to play as many songs as we can from the soundtracks of the movies of John Hughes, this one from Vacation. Rock School? Vicki, can I help you with that cool aid? Please?

Mmm, mmm, mmm. I don't know when they call this stuff hamburger helper. It's just fine by itself, huh? I like it better than tuna helper myself. Don't you, Clark? You're the gourmet around here, Ed. Lindsay Buckingham. I like the Griswals. Oh, yeah. Lindsay Buckingham out of Fleetwood Mac, as we look at the music of John Hughes movies. By the way, we're sticking with the 80s. That's really where the John Hughes movies were so moving to me at least. And I'm the guy that put the show together. So let me tell you some of the other ones he did. And these are all from

the 90s. Drillbit Taylor. Well, I'm sorry, that's from the 2000s. Beethoven's Fifth, Maiden Manhattan. I'm just reading these. Home Alone 4. Home Alone 4. Oh, yeah. Home Alone 3. Yeah. Home Alone 3. What else we got here? Babies day out. Dennis the Menace. Curly Sue. Dutch. Dutch is not bad. That's what Ed O 'Neal. Yes, it is. Career opportunities. And the regular home alone. Those are all 90s up through Drillbit Taylor, of course, in 2008. But it was the movies in the 1980s that really moved. Chad looks at me and he says, okay. You got home alone, but do you have or not home alone, but you have a regular vacation? Yeah. Do you have Christmas vacation? Which I think is the popular of the vacation because there's also European vacation. Of course, I have Christmas vacation. Clark Griswold, once again, Beverly DeAngelo is back. Juliet Lewis, Audrey Griswold, and also Rusty is back. But now you've got, you know, EG Marshall there as Art Smith, Randy Quaid is back as Eddie.

And the whole thing, just again, Clark just tries to be the greatest guy in the world. Every time my wife and I drive around looking at the lights of people's houses. Yeah. And somebody has covered their house in so many lights that it is sort of the beacon, the shining star. Oh, yeah. We give them the Griswold award. Oh, yeah. Yeah, my family does the same thing. It's like, oh, Lord, we had so many lights over here. We look like the gray as well. Yeah. And you actually want that title when you're going to decorate your home in lights. You want that title? Sure you do. You're supposed to do something tasteful. You're not supposed to like have people and camels show up and say, we saw this. We saw the nine miles away and we showed up. So here's a clip from the movie right into, I think the one everyone knows from the movie, Mavis Staples Christmas Vacation. Rock School. Any of you are looking for any last -minute gift ideas for me? I have one. I like Frank Shirley, my boss right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber

over there. A melody lane with all the other rich people. And I want him brought right here with a big ribbon on his head. And I want to look him straight in the eye. And I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no good, rotten, foreflushing, low -life snake -looking, dirt -eating, and bread. Overstuff ignorant blood. Sucking dog -kissing brainless, soulless, hopeless, heartless, fat, bug -eyed, stiff -like. It's body -lip. We're headed sack of lucky. He is. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Where's the Tylenol? Is that time? Christmas times here. Everybody knows they're not a bit of time with you. You're that slave. I want to thank this opportunity. Thank you for doing those edits for me. I know what clip you were going to be playing in. As soon as you started, I

said, oh, great. Oh, the cursing. We're looking at John Hughes, the writer and director who died August 6th of a heart attack while walking in New York City 59 years old. The movies in my life at least, now I'm 44, about to turn 45. And it was just something else. The movies were just everything to my generation. And hopefully a lot of listeners out there, the same way. The next one, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 1986. Matthew Broderick starring as Ferris and past that. What happened to Matthew Broderick? Has he been in any other hits? Yeah. What? I'm as good as I think he's become sort of the death nail of the movies that he's been in. I wasn't here in Godzilla. Was that him? I rest my case right there. Alan Rock was in, of course, Mia Sarah. And Jeffrey Jones played the principal. Loved the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. And of

course, Ben Stein was all the way through it. Cameron Sloan and Ferris, of course, take Cameron's father's Ferrari out and then try to make the speedometer go backwards by putting it in reverse and destroy the whole thing. Wonderful. Greatest scene. This is going to sound really strange. I know they sing twist and shout in a parade and they go to a ballgame. For me, the greatest scene inside of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. And I know this is really weird. Is when Cameron is sitting in, I think it's the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He's sort of pretending to trade with people and people on the floor are trading back. But he hits the side of his cheek and makes it sound like a raindrop. Oh, yeah. And it took me like two weeks, but I finally figured out how to do it. Can you hear it? That's from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. That's the thing that I remember most from the movie. That's how this movie has had an effect on me. What else you got for us there, Michael Winslow? I got nothing. What can you do?

I got absolutely nothing. I wish I could do more. I could maybe do a car starting off. So clip first and then something from the movie. Oh, yeah. By yellow. Clip first, though. Rock school. Bueller. Bueller. Bueller. Bueller. He's sick. My best friend, Sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend, heard from the sky who knows this kid is going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious. Thank you, Simone. No problem whatsoever. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh,

yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Not bad, huh? I got a question for you. Yes, sir. Who would win in a strategy contest? A strategy contest. A strategy contest. A strategy contest. A strategy contest. Yes, sure. Ferris Bueller or Zach Morris? Oh, Ferris Bueller. Oh, yeah. He's unbeatable. Is he? Completely unbeatable. Oh, when he came up with the whole concept of his grandmother dying and then the principal said wheeler in. Oh, it's fantastic. Do you know the movie? Yeah. Oh, it's wonderful. If you haven't seen, if you're looking for a John Hughes film, give you think, you know, I'm young because I know there are a lot of young kids that are listening to this. In fact, I know some professors who told me some fellow professors of mine that say my kid listens to the show. If you don't know who John Hughes is, I urge you to go get the breakfast club right off. It has comedic points in it, but it's emotional. If you're looking for straight comedy, you want to get hold of Ferris Bueller's day off. So those are the two. Go to the blockbuster, you know, run to

your Netflix list, get those two on there. My wife on the other hand, if you're a woman listening to this show, she saw me putting this together and I was grabbing these clips and she said to me, when are you going to play pretty in pink? Are you going to start with it? No, I'm not going to start with it. She's you're going to play it or I will divorce you. Wow. I said, well, I don't know about pretty in pink, but I was going to do 16 candles and she grabbed me and said, you're going to do pretty in pink or I will divorce you. Coming up after the break is pretty in pink. So hello KLSU. Thanks for running this fine, fine radio show. Hey, get us on iTunes. Sign up for the Rock School podcast. It's free. And we might be overcharging. Possibly. Back in one minute, Rock School. Okay, here we go. Once again, to spare Doc's marriage. We're going to have to we're going to do this. I can't tell you how many bottles during the mid 1980s, how many bottles of red hair coloring were sold simply because of Molly Ringwall, the brat pack put together by John Hughes. Pretty in pink was from

1986. Some of the other songs that were on the soundtrack, Copacabana, Barry Manolo. If you leave by orchestral maneuvers in the dark, in excels had one called Do What You Do and of course, Otis Redding because Ducky sings Trial Little Tenderness to Andy Young Andy in Pretty in Pink. Listen to these names. Ringwall, Harry Dean Stanton, John Krier, Annie Potts, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy. All these names started inside of John Hughes. So cool. But Pretty in Pink by the psychedelic Furs is the song that I remember from the movie at least and to save my marriage. Here's a clip. And then Pretty in Pink, Rock School. I love this woman. I love this woman and I have to tell her. And if she laughs, she laughs. Do you only better if I ask you to do the prom? Seems Blaine. So beautiful. Blaine? Oh! Stop, stop, stop! That's not a major appliance! That's not a name! This is that

sounds a lot like Heroes. Does it really? Why? The psychedelic furs. You can't talk like that. You can't pick them out at all when they sing, can you? He's been talking like this the whole off -pike. There's just certain people that David Bowie, every time I hear David Bowie's speakers sing as well. I ain't talking like this a lot. Because that's the way he comes out to me all the time. Bottom of the hour. We're going to take a quick break from playing the music of John Hughes and do something. We call seven days in 70 seconds. My name is Joe Burns. Hi, Chad. There you go. And we are going to talk about the dates. August 10th. That's a Monday all the way through Sunday. August 16th. Something that happened on these dates in music history. Yep. Chad has Monday. Yes, I will start August 10th on Monday. Happy birthday, my dear wife. 1970 Jim Morrison goes on trial for in -decent exposure after allegedly dropping his pants on stage in Miami. You can't do that. Well, some people say he didn't. That's the thing. It's not been proven where he actually did it. August 11th back in 1985. A boat. Carrying Durant. Durantins. Simon Lebon

capsizes off the English coast during a race. The Royal Navy rescues him after he spends dig this. 40 minutes trapped upside down in the boat in an air pocket. Wow. Honest to goodness. I'd have been confessing my sins. August 12th. We're going way back. 1877. Mr. Thomas Edison invented sound recording with his Edison phone, which was a tin foil wrapped cylinder on which sound from a megaphone can be etched with a thin metal needle. Any idea what were the first words he recorded? Mary had a little lamb. Really, really. Oh, I wasn't kidding. I was going to make anything up. He recorded running with the devil by Van Halen. August 13th, 1976. The clash debuts in London at a recurso hall in chalk farm. August 14th, 1994. The three -day Woodstock 94 festival came to a close. Beechard artists included live. Bison Femmes. The cranberries. Salt and Peppa.

Blind melon. The Henry Rollins van. Melissa Etheridge. Nine -inch nails. Metallica. And Erosmith. Now, that was Woodstock 94. Yes. Back in August 15th, 1969. Original Woodstock Music and Arts Fair begins on Max Yazger's Farm near Bethel, New York. And on the 16th of August back in 1962. The Beatles fired their original drummer Pete Best. He says because he was too good looking. Ringo Starr debuts as a beetle two days later. And as I talk for a little while, Chad switches out a compact disc. That's right. We go back to 1985. Another one written by John Hughes, who just left this earth on August 6th. Heart attack while walking around in New York City. He was 59. We're going to talk about weird science. And there it was. Oh, yeah. But real fun to watch. Anthony Michael Hall played by Gary. And Ian Michael Smith, who played Wyatt and Kelly LeBrock, who played Lisa. Apparently, Gary and Wyatt were really into computers. And at that point in time in the 80s, it was believed that computers could do a whole

lot more than they actually could. Another Matthew Broderick one. He actually thought that he could play war games on all of that. When you fire up my computer, it actually says greetings, Professor Falcon. Shall we play a game? But this is a better one because they actually made a woman. Weird science. Another John Hughes one. And we'll go into the Oingo Boingo song. But first, the clip. What? Oh, I was going to say, for those of you who cannot see us, we're actually conducting this radio broadcast with Braziers on our heads. Interesting. Interesting. Mine's far smaller. Here's the clip. Rocksicle. You know, it's not a bad idea. What? Making a girl. Actually, making a girl. This is Wyatt and Gary. Something's about to change their world. Something. Out of this world. She's alive. What would you little maniacs like to do first?

It's all in the name of science. Weird science. From my heart and from my hand, what do people understand my intention? Weird science. The last thing to do to bottom is. But some pieces end magic from the hands of me. Weird science. Oh. So I've never seen people. I don't know. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird

science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Where did you see that ?ольшlund forecast. Weird science. Yes. Weird Weird science. Weird science. Weird science. Andre composed woven by her even variousbabyfuks. Weird physics. Weird science. Deep inside me. beginning of the movie when they're all at school and the poor headgear girl is trying to just she's just trying to drink some water you know the drinking fountain and she can't and Stephanie's like that's how she was that's how she was oh yeah I had teeth that looked like a bad picket fence and now at least now they're straight but yeah apparently Molly Ringwald Samantha her sister's getting married with all the excitement everybody forgets her birthday yeah they blanking forgot her birthday yeah and

that's the blanking clip that I actually have no it's not yes it is yes it is killing me and I've already blanked it for you thank you so we have the clip and we're going right into Bowie right after that because this was a real rock soundtrack but the idol was on it Patty Smith the vapors Stevie Ray Vaughan Spandell about well night ranger so 16 candles clip first rocks go that's it you don't have anything else to say to me today what would you like me to say Sam come on honey you're gonna miss the bus have a good day I can't believe this they forgot my birthday I love it when we're sitting here having a

fine conversation and one of us realizes the songs over oh yes we we're talking about John Hughes who died at the age of 59 heart attack in New York City we have a little bit of time left for going in late so let's quickly get into the break hello university dad in Salamonca Spain a radio university dad Salamonca Spain thanks for running a rock school in one more KSCL in Shree Portland Louisiana thank you so much Uncle Buck is next in one minute rock school that Simpsons bed now we are again talking about the movies of John Hughes and we're running out of time real quicks from a place some short ones here for you John Candy apparently was the darling of John Hughes during the late 1980s in 1987 he was in the great outdoors along with a netbending in Dan Acroid then in 1988 along with Steve Martin planes trains and automobiles which is one of my favorites is a great trivia question name movies that deal with thanksgiving thanksgiving yeah because that that

runs you into a whole lot of trouble and planes trains and automobiles is one of the few that deals with thanksgiving and then when we're gonna do in 1989 Uncle Buck this is with Lori Metcalf you might remember her from Roseanne Barr's show and McCulley Culkin and John Candy who plays Uncle Buck so we're gonna play laugh laugh by the bow brumbles also on that was Mr. Sandman the court debts Tweedled E by Laverne Baker and young MC's busta move but we'll do laugh laugh by the bow brumbles and clip first if I'm not mistaken here rock school what do you live in the city do you have a house apartment rent rent what do you do for a living lots of things what's your office I don't have one how come I don't need one what's your wife don't have one how come it's a long story do you have kids no I don't come it's an even longer story oh my dad's brother what's your record for consecutive questions asked 38 on your dad's brother all right you have much more hair when you know some of my dad I'm nice of you to notice I'm a kid that's my job yeah bow brumbles here on rock school we're sitting here trying to figure out how we're gonna end this thing up

we have two more movies that we haven't played clips from some kind of wonderful and she's having a baby but we can't finish up without playing the song that I think is is really I don't know aligned if you will and it also comes from the breakfast club and that's simple minds don't you forget about me so that's the one we're going to end on but I didn't get to play it and it's my favorite clip of any of them so I want to play up this is from planes trains and automobiles we're gonna play the clip and then we're gonna come back this is clip number what is a plane's trains and automobiles number nine number nine okay this is from planes trains automobiles we'll come back say goodbye real quick and then finish up with simple mind so Steve Martin John Candy go ahead now hmm hmm why did you kiss my ear why are you holding my hand there's your other hand between two pillows those are pillows yeah one of my

favorites so we got to wrap it up again from the 1985 the breakfast club goodbye John Hughes August 6th out of a heart attack while walking in New York City 59 years old Gilbert Taylor was his last one as far as as far as I could find but great great through the 1980s and we'll finish up with simple minds I'm Joe Burns I'm Chad P class is dismiss all we know dancing you know it baby tell me you're