The Smithereens
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Oct 29, 2026
Mark GoodmanHOST
But he's worked with other people here and there as well.
Mark GoodmanHOST
He is the current lead vocalist with Smithereens.
Mark GoodmanHOST
And he sounds great.
Mark GoodmanHOST
Now, he was a backing vocalist with the Beach Boys.
Alex AldridgeHOST
A small part of a person or something.
Alex AldridgeHOST
Smithereens.
David SmillieHOST
Smithers.
Alex AldridgeHOST
The Smithereens are an American power pop and alternative rock band.
Alex AldridgeHOST
Okay, good.
Alex AldridgeHOST
Don't think so.
Alec CummingHOST
I wish I had spoken with him more.
Alec CummingHOST
But in my scene specifically of musicians or, you know, friends of friends of musicians, including some really pretty legendary ones like Steve Wynn of the band Dream Syndicate and Dennis Dykin, who I worship from the band The Smithereens.
Alec CummingHOST
Sal was often involved with all sorts of great musical projects and musical salutes, one-offs in bands and was just the nicest, sweetest, most approachable guy who actually played in some legendary bands and played brilliantly and was a brilliant bassist all throughout.
Alec CummingHOST
He always was profoundly on the money with what he needed to play and how he played, how he would adjust to the different bands he did and how he played great Roxy music bass and great Sparks bass.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
It's actually, if you want to see it, you can still see it.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
It's in the Smithsonian Museum of Black History in Washington, D.C. It's fantastic.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
I went and saw it a few years ago and it was like, it looks a little small today by comparison to what you see at some of these big stadium shows.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
But for the time and what was filling arenas, it was groundbreaking.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
They had a show and, you know, certainly compared to anything out there and some of the sort of progressive rock and rock shows out there but there was nobody else doing shows like that in in uh in funk music either like they it was just it was just so far ahead of their time
Scot TurnerHOST
but i do go to washington i and i have been there when i go back someday uh when things settle down in the u.s uh the smithsonian which you just mentioned i'd love to go in there i'm into all that shit
Ivar HamiltonHOST
You'd love it.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
And they've got a, they've got a, a replica 1970s record store in there too, which I just think is so great.
Jay PoundersGUEST
We showed up.
Jay PoundersGUEST
You know, that's where, like, the Smithereens got their start.
Jay PoundersGUEST
A lot of bands from the time in New Brunswick, that central Jersey.
Jay PoundersGUEST
It was a happening thing.
Marshall CrenshawGUEST
That's great.
Will HarrisHOST
I'm in the homestretch here, but I want to ask you, how did your collaboration with the Smithereens come about after Patanizio passed away?
Marshall CrenshawGUEST
Okay, well, let me see.
Marshall CrenshawGUEST
I knew them always, you know, like from before they were, known by anybody outside of New Jersey.
Glenn GardnerHOST
When I went back and was able to listen to some of that stuff, that Tempe sound really kind of comes through loud and clear, whether you're listening to Gin Blossoms or, you know, Mr. Mr. was another band that kind of came out of Tempe.
Glenn GardnerHOST
And, you know, and the Pistoleros and, you know, all those bands that were influenced even by the Tempe thing, like the Smithereens we're talking about.
Glenn GardnerHOST
So that should be a great show on Saturday that you're involved with down there.
Walt RichardsonHOST
Well, it's tomorrow.
Ken KesslerHOST
William Shatner even included it on his recent Christmas album, And before the Simpsons had their own TV show, they had a short on Tracy Allman's show that featured Bart rapping his own version of The Night Before Christmas.
Ken KesslerHOST
It's very well represented by singers and musicians as artists from every era and every genre have recorded versions of it, including Louis Armstrong, the Smithereens, Jimmy Buffett, Michael Bublé, Perry Como, and Bob Dylan.
Ken KesslerHOST
They've all done it.
Ken KesslerHOST
joss stone opens her new christmas album with a piece of it and elton john even recorded a version for an atlanta radio station about 25 years ago but there's a lot more music for the night before than just the poem of the night before christmas gene autry has the night before christmas song which he recorded with rosemary clooney in 1952 and the Ames Brothers covered it about five years later.
Susan CowsillHOST
Yeah, [laughs] you have to have-
Bob CowsillHOST
What are you going to do in Pan- Cancun with The Smithereens?
Susan CowsillHOST
Yeah.
John CowsillGUEST
Well, don't say it like that.
John CowsillGUEST
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John CowsillGUEST
I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna tell you about this gig and how I learned about it.
John CowsillGUEST
Because when somebody asks, if The Smithereens ask me, "Do you, you know, can you do this date?" I just look at a calendar, and if there's nothing up, I go, "I'll do it." I'll say, "Yes, I can do that date." And so that's how that works.
John CowsillGUEST
And so who...
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