045 - S3E16 "The Four Musketeers" with Matthew Arter

(because Matthew won’t let me take his picture anymore, I am using the above horrible, blurry, red-eyed cropped photo from 4 years ago.)

Here is the original… which I just realized my fives of listeners should all recognize… Pictured: Me, Matthew, Selena (a/k/a Mrs. Rolando Ramos), Philip Nolen, and James Bondy. Beloved members of the LFTF Family, each and every one! ❤️

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Matthew’s Close Personal Friend Lisa Whelchel:

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MY Close Personal Friend Nancy McKeon:

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[ Extras ]

[ Extras ] Matthew sings the BluBlockers jingle as “Blair’s Blue Blazer.” I honestly had never seen or heard of this before… I have learned something new this week. :-)

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[ Extras ] Matthew and I go off on a little ‘novelty tune’ tangent, and thought it would be fun to share these classic gems:

Ray Stevens!

“Ahab The Arab” from 1962… not the most PC by today’s standards…

“Gitarzan” from 1962…

“The Streak” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA, spending three weeks at the top in May 1974. (Nothing like a country song with a laugh track… ?!?!)

In the 1980s, to capitalize on the MTV craze, he re-recorded the songs and made these accompanying videos:

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Steve Martin’s “King Tut” from 1978:

The live version he did on “Saturday Night Live,” May 22, 1978:

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“The Facts Of My Life” by Charlotte Rae (and her son Larry Strauss)!

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