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00:00I'm a full-time producer. Her name is Sarah. How you doing, kid?
00:03I'm doing all right, kid.
00:04All right. Now, yesterday we had a lesson to teach Sarah how to cue up a record,
00:08and you, you know, it was a little bumpy.
00:10Right. I would give it, like, B minus-ish?
00:14I'd say C minus.
00:15Okay, fair enough.
00:16All right. And today, in part one of your lesson today, which is part two of your overall lessons,
00:21you cued a song that was three or four songs in, which was Crocodile Rock.
00:24Yes, that was a step up in difficulty.
00:27Okay.
00:27But we eventually got it on the air, so it was a success, a bumpy one, but a success.
00:32You're on the right path. I think, you know what we ought to do? Let's make this a double shot.
00:37So are you ready to do just one more?
00:39I think so, yes. Let's do or die.
00:40All right. I think because it's, you know, Elton and Bernie, you can't go wrong with that.
00:44I thought we'd go back to the very beginning.
00:46This is an early picture of Elton John, and the whole band, including Bernie Taupin, is displayed on the back.
00:52It just says Elton John. It's from 19, I can't remember what year it even came out.
00:56All right, so it's going to be the first song in, okay?
00:59Okay, that's good.
01:00All right, take the record.
01:01Here we go.
01:02Put it on the turntable.
01:03She's walking to the turntable, and she's going to start up the record.
01:08Put it down.
01:09Now, I made this mistake last time.
01:11Before I do anything else, I have to turn the record on the record player.
01:15Yes, very good.
01:16Here we go.
01:16Okay, now, the next thing you do is...
01:19Take the needle carefully and put it on the...
01:22Well, since this is the first track, it's the very outer groove.
01:26Is that correct?
01:26How old are you?
01:2725.
01:28I'm only 29, and I know how to do this.
01:30I'm sorry, I'm 30.
01:32No, I'm 31.
01:33I'm trying to make you proud, Pierre.
01:35No, you're doing good.
01:36All right, here we go.
01:36As if my little baby's riding her bike for the first time.
01:39Oh, my goodness.
01:40All right.
01:41Here we go.
01:41It keeps bumping back.
01:48What's the matter?
01:49See how it's moving?
01:51What'd you do to it?
01:52I don't know.
01:53Just pick it up and put it a little further down into the song.
01:56A little further into the song.
01:58Here we go.
01:58All right, here.
02:02Put it a little further into the song, just like halfway through.
02:06That just does it out.
02:11Do you know what's happening?
02:14I think it's skipping.
02:15You've got a skipping record!
02:17Is that a good thing?
02:18That's the best thing of all time.
02:19How is that good?
02:21When's the last time you heard a skipping record?
02:24Probably the last time.
02:24You've never heard one.
02:26You child of child.
02:28You've never heard one.
02:29This is your song, and it's skipping.
02:36Well, I guess this is a milestone in my career.
02:39All right, now let's take the needle off.
02:41Let's do that, yes.
02:42All right.
02:43A skipping record, live on MMR.
02:45That is like music to my ears.
02:47We used to have so many records skipped that one of our program directors, George Harris,
02:51wrote a memo and said,
02:52I have never worked at a radio station with so many skipping records.
02:55Clean these records before you put them on.
02:57Take that off.
02:57All right.
02:58As fate would have it.
02:59This is the done.
03:00All right.
03:00I happen to have a Greatest Hits album from Elton.
03:03Oh, good.
03:03Why don't you lift that up from the bottom?
03:06We'll take the Greatest Hits album, and your song is also on that one.
03:09It says Greatest Hits on it.
03:11That's how you know which one it is.
03:12Sorry.
03:12Apparently, I need a literacy lesson.
03:14No, you're doing fine.
03:15I'm just making you nervous because all this is quite public.
03:18All right.
03:18Elton's Greatest Hits album has your song on it and some of his other great tunes.
03:22It's Bernie Taupin, his songwriting partner's birthday, and so for his 64th birthday,
03:28and it's Sarah's opportunity to learn how to work vinyl.
03:31All right.
03:32You see your song?
03:34What are we playing again?
03:34Your song.
03:35The big hit.
03:36Your song.
03:37Your song.
03:37Okay.
03:38Side two.
03:39You already passed it.
03:40Other side.
03:40Okay.
03:41Other side.
03:42Side one.
03:43Oh, it's number one.
03:44Perfect.
03:44Okay.
03:45Yeah.
03:45All right.
03:46She's doing fine.
03:47All right.
03:47Now, put it on, and we're going to start it up.
03:50Okay?
03:50And we hit start.
03:51All right.
03:52Now, what do you do?
03:53Now, I take the needle and hope that it doesn't skip.
03:56Right.
03:57Put on the first groove.
03:59All right.
04:00Now, you started a little fast, so take it to the very beginning.
04:04Yeah.
04:06All right.
04:07Now, as soon as you hear it, stop it.
04:09Oh, my gosh.
04:10It's so nerve-wracking.
04:11Stop.
04:12Good.
04:12Good.
04:13Now, back it up a quarter turn.
04:14Just gently back it up.
04:18Okay.
04:19A little more.
04:20A little more.
04:20A little more.
04:21That's like a half turn.
04:22Well, it's a half turn.
04:24All right.
04:24This is an interesting science.
04:27It's fascinating.
04:28And isn't it magnificent?
04:30Absolutely.
04:30It's tactile.
04:31It's three-dimensional.
04:32You're experiencing it with every sense that you have.
04:35Right?
04:36She hates me.
04:37All right.
04:38Let us press the button.
04:39And I want to send this out to all the couples that can legally get married as a result of
04:43the wonderful ruling that just took place a couple of days ago.
04:47It's your song.
04:48It's a love song.
04:49Sarah, you cued the record.
04:50I did.
04:51Yay!
04:52Right?