Pops on Hops

We are excited to share this bonus episode with all of you. Several musicians who have appeared on the podcast or will be making their debut in early 2023 were kind enough to share their Christmas greetings… and their Christmas songs… for our Pops on Hops fans! Some of these are older songs, and some were recorded specifically for this episode.

First up is “The Christmas Song” performed by Connie and Nick Martino (feat. Daphne Martino). Nick will be joining us next season to discuss his work with New York Funk Exchange.

Our second entry is from Matt Carlson of Harborcoat. Matt produced a new Christmas single for 2022, a cover of Valley Winter Song by Fountains of Wayne. Listen to Matt’s interview in our episode Friends are Inclusive.

Up next is Jack Cornell, who shared an old Olympic Ass-Kicking Team song, “Christmas on the Faces.” Listen to Jack’s interview in our episode Friendship Wins.

Rounding out our special is a song by Grammy-winning artist Jon Carroll, formerly of Starland Vocal Band. Jon shared his recording of Going Home For Christmas, a song he has long played at the Annual Jingle Jam Concerts in Leesburg, Virginia, to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Listen to Jon’s interview in our episode Today (With Jon Carroll).

We will see everybody when season three begins in March 2023. We will kick things off with a discussion of Xanadu by ELO, submitted to our Virtual Jukebox by Greg Jong of The Procession. This episode will be released on March 3, 2023.

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It’s time for “Pop’s Pop on Pops on Hops!” Barry, Abigail, and special guest Barry Hummel, Sr. (Barry’s pop and Abigail’s pop-pop) discuss A Christmas Album by The Platters and sample three Christmas beers: Merry Monkey from Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown, Pennsylvania; St. Nikolaus Bock from Penn Brewery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Peppermint Porter from Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co. in Lexington, Kentucky.

Barry put in a plug for A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs’ Episode 31: “Only You” by the Platters.

Barry, Sr.’s favorite song by The Platters is My Prayer, as canonized in our series of Hummel family favorites albums. (His favorite Christmas song is The Greatest Gift of All by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.)

Barry loves The Beach Boys’ version of Auld Lang Syne. The Platters included a version of For Auld Lang Syne on their original Christmas record.

The Platters appeared multiple times on American Bandstand, music-performance and dance television program that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989. Watch their Bandstand performance from 1959 and their Bandstand interview from 1967.

Up next… Xanadu by ELO, submitted to our Virtual Jukebox by Greg Jong of The Procession. This episode will be released on March 3, 2023.

Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe.

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Barry and Abigail discuss Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos and sample Gardens Gold, Papa Pump, and Beer:30 from Twisted Trunk Brewing in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Before her solo career, Amos was in a band called Y Kant Tori Read. Their eponymous debut album was a commercial failure and the band disbanded shortly after. However, Amos still had to comply with her six-record contract. Early versions of Little Earthquakes were rejected by the record company before the album was reworked with a new producer and eventually released.

Abigail heard elements of My Same by Adele in Happy Phantom.

Beer:30 features the experimental YQH-1320 hop!

Up next… A Christmas Album by The Platters

Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe.

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Barry, Abigail, and special guest Jeff “Jafo” Shettler discuss some Pink Floyd songs and some beers that were “left over” after Jafo’s Jukebox episode, Wish There Were Beer. We sample Uncertainty Reigns and Sweet Zombie Jesus from brewLAB in Carpinteria, California, as well as one of Jafo’s own homebrew creations, Ukrainian Imperial Stout.

At the time of recording, Wish There Were Beer was tied for our fifth-most-listened-to episode.

Tracks we discuss include Hey Hey Rise Up, a single featuring Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band BoomBox. The vocals are lifted from a viral video of “Khlyvnyuk singing Oi u luzi chervona kalyna (Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow)”, a Ukrainian patriotic march written in 1914 to honor the Sich Riflemen. Proceeds from the single support the charitable organization Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.

We also discuss When the Tigers Broke Free and What Shall We Do Now?, two tracks that appear in the film Pink Floyd: The Wall but do not appear on the album The Wall by Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd, the main character in Pink Floyd: The Wall was played by Bob Geldof of The Boomtown Rats. He later wrote Do They Know It’s Christmas? by Band Aid and organized the Live Aid concert held simultaneously in London, England, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Up next… Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos

Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe.

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Barry and Abigail discuss Songs About Jane by Maroon 5 and sample “leftover” beers from previously reviewed breweries: Eau Melon from Intracoastal Brewing Company in Melbourne, Florida; Fall Shakecation from Mastry’s Brewing Co. in St. Pete Beach, Florida; and Double Vanilla Scoop Shake from 3 Sons Brewing Co. in Dania Beach, Florida.

Abigail and Barry recognized similarities in the stories told in This Love and Twice as Hard by The Black Crowes.

Abigail compared the chorus of The Sun to some of the lyrics in What I Did For Love from the musical A Chorus Line.

The imagery in Must Get Out reminded Abigail of Love Comes Tumbling Down by Matt Nathanson.

Double Vanilla Scoop Shake was a collaboration with Mikkeller, a brewery based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and featured Mostra Coffee (based in San Diego, California) as an ingredient.

Up next… Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos

Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe.

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Barry and Abigail discuss Hindu Love Gods by Hindu Love Gods and sample Porch Pineapple, ...and There's Your BFF, Enough Space - Collab With Hilton Head Island Coffee Roasters, and Rocket Emoji from Side Hustle Beer Company in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Hindu Love Gods was a side project of Bill Berry, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills of R.E.M. with Warren Zevon (whose most famous song is Werewolves of London).

This album contains a cover of Battleship Chains, a song written by Terry Anderson for The Woodpeckers. We covered this story in detail during our interview with Jack Cornell, Friendship Wins (Jack Cornell and Tripping Animals Brewing). The Woods’ recording of Battleship Chains is not available on the internet, but The Georgia Satellites’ recording is.

Bill Berry’s first musical group since R.E.M., The Bad Ends, recently released a single (All Your Friends Are Dying) ahead of their debut album to be released in January.

The only two other Hindu Love Gods songs available are Gonna Have a Good Time Tonight and Narrator, the latter of which was written by Bill Berry.

Up next… Songs About Jane by Maroon 5

Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe.

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Barry, Abigail, and special guest Jon Carroll (Starland Vocal Band) discuss Jon’s musical past, present, and future and review three of his recent singles: Today (Not Tomorrow), (You Gotta) Stand Up!, and Rich Man’s Daughter.

Jon and Barry met in the wonderful Patreon community of Stand Up! with Pete Dominick.

Jon recalled some of his favorite tracks from his youth: Mahalia Jackson’s If I Can Help Somebody and The Chimes’ Let Your Hair Down, and the track that made his mother appreciate soul music: Brook Benton’s Rainy Night in Georgia. Jon also remembers where he was the first time he ever heard Dire Straits’ Money For Nothing.

Jon suggested we listen to Harry Nilsson’s Nilsson Sings Newman… so we added it to our Virtual Jukebox!

Jon listened to our episode on The Black Crowes! He thought we should have compared the Crowes to Faces or Humble Pie instead of to The Rolling Stones (no one is safe!).

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We closed with Jon Carroll’s Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love), a Bob Dylan cover.

Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe.

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Barry and Abigail discuss Oktoberfest ist Wunderbar by Jimmy Horzen and sample three German festbiers: Weihenstephaner Festbier from Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan, Oktoberfest Märzen from Hacker-Pschorr, and Oktoberfest Märzen / Original Münchner Märzen from Paulaner Brauerei.

Read the Untappd article that inspired Barry’s beer choices for this episode, including information on the “big six” Munich breweries that can use the Oktoberfest label on their beers.

Watch as the wonderful Latvian-born accordionist Ksenija Sidorova introduces her instrument as part of Classic FM's new video series Discover Instruments.

Watch Anders Flanderz One Man Band perform the Harry Potter Theme (featuring an accordion!).

Watch relative of the pod Zachary “Def Poppa” Hummel play the tuba.

Schnitzelbank is a cumulative song that reminded Abigail of Children Go Where I Send Thee (the version she is most familiar with is by Natalie Merchant).

Why do beer steins have lids?

Up next… Hindu Love Gods by Hindu Love Gods

Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe.

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Barry, Abigail, and guest Derek Hummel, Sr. (Abigail’s uncle and Barry’s brother), discuss Make Yourself by Incubus and sample Sap Tap, Mabel's Monster Mangos, AIS Chief, and Smoked Pumpkin Habanero from Hell 'n Blazes Brewing Company in Melbourne, Florida.

Three Incubus songs were on Abigail’s core musical rotation in high school: Drive, Megalomaniac, and Anna Molly.

Sap Tap reminded Abigail of Blueberry Maple Gose by Pompano Beach Brewing Company.

Privilege reminded Abigail of the music of RENT (especially the titular song Rent).

The “mental piracy” mentioned in When It Comes reminded Abigail of the themes in Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5.

Listen to Remake Yourself, our resequencing of this album.

Up next… Oktoberfest ist Wunderbar by Jimmy Horzen

Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe.

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Barry and Abigail discuss Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes and sample Nefarious Nebulas, Norwegian Wizard Crisis, I Ain’t Afraid of No Roast, Sourmanjaro, and The Desert Spoon from Deviant Wolfe Brewing in Sanford, Florida.

This album reminds Barry of 70s Rolling Stones albums such as Exile on Main Street (you might know Happy), Beggars Banquet, and Let It Bleed, as well as the single Bitch. Barry introduced Abigail to a new genre term, roadhouse blues, encapsulated by The Doors’ song Roadhouse Blues.

The Black Crowes originated as Mr. Crowe’s Garden, a name based on Johnny Crow’s Garden, a children’s book written and illustrated by Leonard Leslie Brooke.

Ageusia is the loss of the sense of taste.

Thick N’ Thin has some piano elements that remind Barry of Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis.

Read about sotol.

Up next… Make Yourself by Incubus, submitted to our Virtual Jukebox by Derek Hummel, Sr.

Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe.

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