Bobby Cast Ep. 12 (Behind The Music of Making a Record)

with some really cool people. So this won't be a really long one and I'm not playing the full songs. But the good thing about a PODCASTUD you cannot listen to it or you can always just turn it off at any time. So we have a kid's record that we put out. And I told the story before how the whole kid's record started with me at the studio. We're recording our comedy record and Eddie was really late to the studio and so I was like, well, I

always wanted to do a kid's record. So I wrote the Planet song to teach kids the planets, and I wrote that song about myself and like any minutes and it's just like a hip hop song. There's an old song from Sir Mix a lot buttermilk biscuits. He goes, buttermilk biscuits. Here we go. You know that's on it all might and that's where the kind of the this comes from. Mothers. So this is a planet song and uh, I wonder if butter milk biscuits I can find it? And so I wrote that song really quick and it

was just listing the planets. But the weird thing about the planets is you know that they change all the time. There's can I go, well, there's not nine planets anymore. Yeah. Yeah, So here's buttermilk biscuits by the way, from Sir Mix a lot like back in the day. There you go, I got three gwine ones. M hold on, hold on, hold on, I gotta stop one of them. Okay, okay you so here's butter milk biscuits from back in uh okay,

well year were you born? Okay? This is because the mixed lote have like baby got bag posts on Broadway and buttermelk biscuits brands big beating up and I can tell you getting tell the looks I'm taking. I hate guns speakers and seed stop five bed on my bird rock fool my God don't get n gets turned up the so you can hear that. Really now, everybody about bistus with the jam though you never heard this. It's

old school. I was even too young for it. Buttermilk biscuit, here we go, SIPs the power, your si your move, You're still And did you know like my puzzies on Broadway? Do you know that? From Sir mix a lot? So this is old school too, but like the old school hipops stuff was like kind of started the Planet song. You know baby got back that. I'm surprised you know

I post is on Broadway. Yeah, that's a jam like mistill let's go me and kids in section at Home Away from Home and the black Ben's limo with us that you love phone and I'm calling up the pussy. It's time that kids are riffing up, freaking each sunroofed to keep you sucked us tripping. Everybody's looking. I mean, can you imagine talking about I a cell phone that was crazy back heavy Like when I did the Planet song, it was I want to throw it like old school

hip hop and I wanted so again. Now I'll play a part of the Planet song from our kids record. Mother just I just took my voice and sang it and just pitched it up way high, like my very energetic mother. Just so the whole project, the kids record started with the planet song. It was the first thing ever and I wrote about myself and then I get the beat and took it into my label and was like, I under a kid's record. They were like, you're in the middle of recording and other record right now, Like

I know what I gotta do a kids record. So the first song ever was Hey, Eddy, look at this guy? Whoa Bobby? It's cool? Those are all planets? They are? Do you know how to remember their order? Know how easy? My very energetic mother just served us nine pizzas cool. I wrote a song about it. I want to hear it, my very nanner getting mother just served us nine vizzas, my very nanner getting mother, just like you can really hear it now, right and obvious always said that like

it's buttermel bis kits influence. So the chorus is started from the start at planet number one me my good friend Mercury. Read's closest to the sun. It's a little fast and though so hot, a slightly colored gray, and right behind it is venus planet. Do you say the Roman got us some beauty is where it got its name. The whole planet is burning. It's basically a flame, and then we go from planet to the planet number three. Put your hands in there, yo, Earth, Can you hear me? Anyway?

That was a planet song and that's how it all started, and I wrote it was like done, and then I was like, eddiewhere are you Like? I wrote a whole song and that was it, and he came in the studio and records and background vocals. But it's weird. It's the only song that I wrote all by myself because I was just waiting on Eddie Eddie. But it's always late. But if it wasn't later, probably were probably had a kid's record. So I took it to the levels, like I gotta a kids record, and so I called Eric

Passley and I said, hey, I have this song. And I had this voice memo on my phone because I woke up and in the middle of the night, I was like, when I grow up, I wanna be. I was half to sleep because when I grew up came to me in my sleep, and so this song here when I grew up. With the second one that we wrote. I'll play the voice nom on from it. When I grew I want to be a nashtronaut, take walked on the moon with my pet Robody rocket ship and just fly away when I grow up. I want to be

a fire man. And so hopefully by now you've heard that one that's our biggest like playing song, like we play that song and shows people love it, people sing you see. You know how Dirks came on the show and it was like, there's always really embarrassing things inside your phone. It's how songs start. And he was like, oh,

I'm humiliated, and he would play these things. So here's when I have you heard this before me in the middle of the night doing you've heard me do the So here it is me singing to myself the middle night. I want to be a national. I want to get big. I want to go some places no other days I would see the moon to come back to use. I want to be a national when I get so this is the beginning of it. I want to be fire man when I grew up, and that's where I started becomes.

I want to put out fires and drop a big ultra. So I said that the Passay. I was like, Hey'm gonna be a fire man when I grow up, that fire And then Eric comes in with he's very like the woes and the hiss. And so we sat down and it was me, Eric Passlay and Phil Barton. And Phil Barton wrote Lee Bryce's song um, A Woman Like You. I'm pretty sure that's the one that he wrote. You may you may google that. But so we sat and we did when I grow up, you'll see any day

when I go. Yes. So the writer of that is Derek Passlay, who wrote angel E's for Love and Theft, who wrote you Know to number one, his number one Jaco and Barefoot Blue g Night Friday Night. His song uh he got nominated for Like It's c m A for she Don't Love You and then it was the first kid song he'd ever written. And Phil Barton he did write A Woman Like You And so again I'm in here with like real he wrote for Lee Bryce.

And so it's me going, I had this idea for a kid song and I'm bringing like two real great traditional writers. Last night out of the Blue, drifting off to the evening News, You said, honey, but you do if you had never met me and that's a really great song. I love that song. And so that was how When I Grew Up came together because I believe Phil Barton also used to like write for Thomas the Tank the cartoon. Yeah, so that was it, That's what.

And we sat in my living room and wrote When I Grow Up you Don't See And then I had a one of a kid I wrote like this book and it was a really small like pamphlet. It was called Big Head Bobby. Was a story of me and how my head was so big and I was picked on for having a huge head. And so I was like, hey, I want to do the Ballad of Big Head Bobby. Eddie Eddie. Now we're sitting down, and we wanted to do one of those old school like gather around your radio,

old folks. It's the Ballad of Big Head Bobby. And so that's really where Big Head Bobby came from. As a kid, I had Big Head Bobby to character like, caused to make little drawings of him, which was me. And so if you never heard this, it's on the Kid's record and it's like an old school nineteen twenties country song, everybody gather around. I got a story to tell. It doesn't get told often. It's a true window about big Head Bobby. This is the story big Head Bobby.

He was the kid with a big old head back in the eighties. This little kid arrived. His head was so big we were surprised his mom survived. So it's about a kid who ends up saving the town because his head. He gets picked on because his heads so big, but then his head saves the town because the damn busts and they need to plug a hole. And so it was weird that something from second grade that I wrote as a book, Eddie and I sat down and kind of turned it into a song and it's called

the Ballad a Big Head Bobby. This is the story big Head Bobby. He wasn't the kid with a big old head. So that's that. It's funny how things come back around like that. And so there was also a song called people in America, which we this Kid's record, and this is from the EP. This is the song that we started with, like not even the new ones that have been out, And Eddie and I sat down and it was like, let's just come up with a bunch of people that we want to teach kids about.

And so kind of like a funk song, and I wanted to give kids, like some kind of reference. George Washington was the first president, and John Adams was number two, and Neil R. Strong was the first man to take step on the Move and don't forget about to see You back in fourteen ninety two, and Betsy Ross, She's so flagged the old Red, White Blue. I wrote it and Eddie I was doing the guitar, the guitar part.

I just wanted kids to be able to listen this in a classroom and I hate it, but you learn things. But he didn't. You didn't hate it, Like I totally picture this is being a classroom song. These other people left porter to America, but I really had that funk to it, like I want to kind of a funky song here. Steve Jobs didn't reform. Michael J. Fox, Ronald Reagan, not the Bears angle. They locked Rosa Parks, Dark ros playing the Car, SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Stone, Unions, Minions, minions.

Who these other people in important to America. The thing is Michael J. Fox is not in from America. We struggle with that. Songwriters were write stupart songs but we're can we put Michael J. Fox in there? But we were like, he's important to America because in family ties he was born in Canadian but he was still in portant to America, but we put him in there. That that was the big debate where when Eddie, now we are writing that song, can we put Michael J. Fox

in this song? So stupid now to look back at. So those are the early ones we like. We made those and then we put out an EP and it was just that means it's a four songs, and then there was a little track at the end of it where it was kind of like a motivational track where I was just like, hey, listen, follow your dreams. You're awesome. You're awesome, and so I put that on. We put it out and it's the downloads were crazy, and we're like, Wow,

this kid's EPs nuts. So as soon as we finished our comedy record and it had the odd success that it had, I was like, I want to finish this kid's record, and so we kind of started over. We had those same songs. We never put on a hard album. Um, so we were like, Okay, I'm just gonna start over. And so it was all right, who do I call first? And so I called Eric Passley again, and Erica come to the studio and we were doing an interview for him for him, and we were gonna come to the

house afterward and write the song. And it was me, Eric passed Lay and Lindsay L. She came over to because she adds musically. Eric is crazy with lyrics like so good, and lindsay L is so good with music on the guitar. And lindsay was was here and Eric and I were driving from the station and I we didn't even we're gonna write about it yet. Ay, We're in traffic, and I texted him just sitting there, goes, hey, dude, I'll try to song a potty training song and call

it the Potty Party. And I call him and he's already going whoa, whoa, whoa, And I'm like, what are you doing, Goes, I'm singing like the whoa part already. I got it. So we got back to the house and I had the first of it done. It was like, ah, there, you got drink too much milk? Boom boom boom boom bo Did I drink too much water? So the lyric

part was kind of. I kind of figured that out as I was driving home, and he kind of figured out the chorus, and Lindsey was like it all just came together so quick, and there was our first potty training song. But Eric Passy was really good at the even when I grow up, When I go up, up, up, and he's going with the whoa whoa, so potty party party, I really gotta go to the party party. I just can't hold him any longer, Farmy, I really gotta go

through the party party. So, I mean heavily influenced the Eric Passley hooked there, Like that's just his style is so good, it's so catchy. That potty party song probably catch you a song on the record, and so but it was like we just want to do something fun with like a little blues back part of it about a kid like having a pee and learning. I think I drink too much milk or did I drink too much water? Well, I don't know where it is. I hope that is not too much farther to the party party.

I really got it, go to the party party. I just get holding any loggers, I really got it party. So in the background vocals, there's a Nikita Carmen, who is out on the road with us, but she was just in the studio for no reason. I was like, hey, hop on his backgroundvocals, and so that's our background vocals and that for no reason, Like she's not on that track, but she's doing the background vocals, you know when it goes to the chorus, that's our little Australian friend Nikita.

Really we wrote wrote that one, and I love that. It's fine, my favorite song on there, because we play that one out at raging idiot shows and people like, what is that you're thinking about going to the party? That's not potty and party. It's funny. And so we wrote that one here at the house on the couch, me pasted Lay and Lindsay and so I'm like, okay,

we got another one down. And we I don't think we know any songs that we just didn't keep because with every song I always had a title, got newbhere he wanted to go with it, and so I wanted to write a song about recess and like kids, and so I called Lauren Lena and Lauren came over to the house and when I was writing this song, Lauren kept singing it in such a difficult way that I had to Lauren, I have to sing this like you.

I can't sing like you. Should be like, I can't wait for Recess, hey, And I was like, I can't do that. So we took it down a few notches. And this one's called Recess and it's featuring Nikita. The reason it's featuring Nikita Krmon is because I couldn't sing some of the parts even when Lauren dumbed it down. So you're here Nikita sing the chorus because I just couldn't do it. I would be like, I can't wait for Recess, hey, and I couldn't get that high part.

I can't wait for ye I'm sorry, and I can't wait for read. I can do the background parts. I'll be a tall as sky from the top of slide. Gornna go down so fast, I'll fly fly, I will play around the tack and not alone, a bright no boys catching me. That's right, that's right. Hey, I'm so ready to see Cindy marking back the teeter tyers what we laughed? I can't wait for Red he been waiting here. Yeah,

I'm sorry. I think I'm a way wins trying not to finish stuck and it's almost Simon, I can't wait all right, so we're right that and if you'll listen to Nikita, we had to go at four times and have her change her accent in the song. She can't say ward yeah, and it's still in there. We like it. It sounds like you're but she couldn't say Cindy market it. M could be like Cindy mak am. I would be like no, Cindy Mark and Mike Cindy mak and no, no, no. So we had to do an accent thing with Nikita

because she's so Australian. But if I played again You're here to say yeah it, I was like, you're way full, Yeah, I'm so ready yeah, and we were like and she just couldn't get the acts. So we love that party like and you know we hear it unless you hear it. But she's like, you're I'm so ready because she doesn't say yeah the American way yeah yeah, it's like you're

I'm so ready. So you know, we were running through these tracks here and we have these songs and Recess and when I grew up in the Planet song on Potty Party and I'm really a germaphobe. And Eddie and I had written a song called wash your Hands, way way way back in the day, and it was a comedy song and we never really used it for anything, but then we thought, man, we can use as a kids song. We changed the lyrics of it off and

made it, you know, very very kid like teachy. At first, it was like wash your hands, and it was like, I'm sitting in a restaurant, some guy extends his hand and I want to touch it because he's disgusting. It was just a comedy song, um, and so then it turned into this. It's the kids song called wash your hand water, wash them till they're blue. Wash your dirty hands so you don't get non wash your hands. Wow, wow,

wash your hands, you know. And in this too, it's the only video we did, we have a kid band playing full kid bands and like it's like all with big instruments, really funny. You can take that bubble swish and splash and keeps you note and clean. But I am gonna sing about your hands. They touch everything, your

dirty hands. A funny part about this was the first line of that sounds like a you break your heart, Like the very first line of it, it's like you can tell your mom, I moved to Arkansas and you can tell them that. So just the very first of it, and I was like, man, that's not you can break your heart. But the rest of it doesn't. But if you listen to the very first line, I'll play it back to back. It just wash your hands, right, you can take that bubblish and splash keeps you nice and clean.

But I am gonna singing about your hands, So that's that you can take. So I'm gonna play some a you break your heart because I'm always like, oh, what did it sound like? Because I always, you know, call people out when they sound like songs, and we didn't even know it until I have to recorded. But not

so much some music. It's just the very first line to there where it's like you can tell your mom you can do you can burn my clothes wrong, going oh, you can tell your friends, and it kind of loses it, but the beginning of it, it's very achy break your hard issh so you can hear it like I haven't heard. I was like, wow, you know you can take that bubble slice and splash and keeps you nasty clean. But I am gonna singing about your hands? It loses it

about there touch everything, your dirty hands. I'm not too dumb, and the thing sounds similar, so even I was like, man, it's kind. But so that was wash your hands, um. So I mean we're mostly through the record. Now this is be Nice. We wrote this um and this one's featuring Lindsay Out and it was just I would go to so many schools and they would play the song nice because your mom has said, so be nice, even when she says, no, be nice. My grandma's driving too slow.

Let's be nice, be nice. See be nice. We sat around a table and wrote that, just kitchen table. When you sitting at the table and you really hate all the greens on your plate, and you try to pretend that you already ate, and you just want to sit there and stare and complain. Being nice because your mama said, so be nice, even when she says, no nice, grandma's driving too slow. Let's be nice. Hopefully it makes kids be nice that parents would say they play that for

their kids. A lie, um, A couple of it's a couple of songs on here, Like Eddie and I did a song and it was a comedy song for the main record that we did, and we ended up not cutting it because we have a comfortable a couple of the lines, and I was like, man, you would be a really good kids song. In the original line, the song is called We're friends. Right, we're friends Press, friends like Fred flint Stone and Barney like me, most Dad and Dory with you I ever world, I get back

to it. But the original line was where friends friends, friends like Chandler and Joey, like Mick Jagger and Bowie at ye do you never know me? So it was really an adult song about friends and funny references. But it was like, man, it'll be so much better as a kid's song. And that's where this came from. This it's called We're Friends, and it just felt better as a kid's song because it was so much pleasanter and nicer, and it's made sense. Sometimes school is rough and tough.

When my books fall down, you pick him up and there's no place to sit at lunch. You find a chair and share your Hawaiian punch. Because we're friends, Press, friends like Fred flint Stone and Barney, name mos, Dad and Dorry? Were you? I never work? Because we're friends, press, friends like buzz Light here and Woody like sponge Bob and Patrick like friends, and we're magic. Yes, we're friends, friends, friends, You're my friend friend friends, we're best friends, friends, friends

and that we're sure. The line that kind of threw us off to the first one's the original was because we're friends, friends, friends and nothing more. It was and I was like people saying that because it was like nothing more, like we're not gay, because that was the original line. It was like because we're friends, friends, friends and nothing more. And it was funny, but I'm like, I don't want to cut that because that and so

we just didn't. And then it turned into we're friends press, friends like Fred flint Stone and Barney like me, most Dad and Dory with you every world comes, We're friends friends, friends like buzz Light here and Woody like sponge Bob and Patrick like pros and we're magic. Yes, we're friends, friends, friends, friends. It's my favorite one the song. Yeah, best friends, friends, friends and that's for sure. So it changed nothing more

to that's for sure. And I'm so glad you're happy we saved it and redid it for the record, and the good thing that Eddie being a dad. Was he the references that I know is kid cartoons. Had to make sure they still were cool with kids today because he has an eight year old and three year old and so they still watch fun Stone and they so I had to have a fact checker on that one. So, yeah,

we're friends. That's a that's a fun one. We're friends friends friends, And so the only two songs left here, Um, I wanted to do a blue song like I was like, I'm totally doing a blue song. And again, bad guitar player I know is Lindsay l And I got my friend Michael Treo, who is a comedy writer, and we were sitting around. I was like, I want to do a blues song on the kids record. I don't even hear kids do blues if I reason for that because

I don't know kids run the blues. But this is called the bad Man or Blues, and Lindsey to shreds the guitar on the song Whooke Up This Morning? I didn't make my bed, I didn't wash my hands, didn't brush my teeth, didn't change my clothes, didn't blow my nose, didn't run a comb through my head, I didn't pick up my room. No I didn't like my mama says, so now I'm grounded. They safe from my phone in

my game, so no pokey mango. I like share. I said, all my prayers don't want the bad So it's like old school traditional and like Lindsay's killing the guitar, should I sit, thank you and please, I let others go first. So and I lead all my dinner, even all my spinning before I ask for desserts today at recess. You know what I did. I got along with the group and I didn't even laugh that aloud when old Timmy and lunch squeeze to catch you up and it went through.

I like bear, I'll share. I'll say all of my prayers don't want some bad manner blues. No, we don't, no badman and blues le bring it out for you, Gonna good, gonna good, gonna good, gonna good. I got that song with so fun for me because I just love the blues and to put a kids song on it, and I'm telling you, just fascinating to watch our play guitar. And she just sat over there as I was doing it. It was just just killing it. I was just like holy cow and so, uh, that's on there. It's our,

It's our maybe the only blue song. I don't know the kids do blues my prayers. That was a selfish song. I don't know if kids like that or not, but I was like, man, I gotta put that bad guitar player. It's awesome and so and then our our final song was really the the easiest thing to do for us, because every Day Is a Good Day is such a big song on our comedy record. We wanted to do a version for the kids, so we didn't have to really write anything new as far as the chorus and

the music. Every Day the lyrics made a change a bit for kids. How you seeing that you can hear some different instruments in the back it gets it's all happier. There's a little more keys and stuff in the back of it. But instead of like you know, no cat gas in your car, and you know, no money and rent and stuff, it was more like you know every school stuff, you know day. It's how you see it. That's what I say when you wake up with the smile. Being as a Crockett died O, we're standing single file.

Every day is a good day, and so Christian Bush from sugar Land was really mean. We sat down and just nailed it. Twenty minutes leave. Someone sitting in my desk and I can't find my pencil. Teacher sprung the pop test about to go outside. I forgot to bring my code, and I think I have a cold. I got a tickle in my throat. When we're picking teams and the other kids are mean, sometimes I want to stand up the screen. Every day is a good day. It's how you see it. That's what I said. It

wasn't a easy way out to do. Everything is a good day again. Yeah, but I I liked it on the kids record. I like to having another version for the kids to hear. So um, yeah, thanks to Christian Bush because we wrote that together originally and then we just altered some lyrics and I sent it back over to it was like, hey, is it cool for yeah, I change the lyrics and do it again. They're like, yeah, it's awesome. So that's how every day is a good day.

The kids version came together and that's the record. There are twelve tracks on and then like that's kind of the stories behind the songs. If you cared and uh, this has been the Raging Kitty. It's Kitty up behind the music with me your host Bobby Bones and Raging Idiot slash Kittiot. Thank you so anyway, if you got through this, thank you so much. And if you buy the record, that's cool. I hope you hope your kids

enjoy it. Like I don't sit around listening to it myself, and I probably wouldn't buy it because I don't have kids. But it's crazy because teachers will send me videos of kids singing stuff. They'll do the crazy thing they'll do into the year like assemblies and kids will perform when I grow up. I've seen hundred of that. It's a cool, It's so cool. So thank you guys. If you get the record, great, thank you. You can download on iTunes the hard copies of Cracker Barrel. Really proud of it,

really proud of it, and thank you. Everybody here was in on it and writing it. You know, everybody from again from Eric pass Lay he's got a couple of songs on here, to Christian Bush, from sugar Land to Lauren Elena to Lindsay l Um you know, Eddie, me and I think that's pretty much the right. Nikida who's sang on it. Um He said, Nikta's background vocals like three songs, and so it was just a bunch of friends getting together and doing a kids record and so

uh and that's in it. It didn't selling records. It's fine. I'm I'm cool. It's just fun to doing the arts cool on it because it's a bunch of you know, cartoons and stuff. So that's a I mean, any questions at all. I think I pretty much went through everything. It was just fun to do. What song are you like? Are you still most proud of? When I Grew Up? One? I Grew Up was weird because it kind of blew up like then. The video is really cool and it starts video always shot Um, When I grew Up is

the most fun. We always start our raging idiot shows we have for a while with that one because everybody knows that one. Like I think Potty Party is really fun because it's new and it's so like goofy and absurd, like one of the Potty Party. But also I just love the blues, so that Badman or blues, just the guitar and it just kills me. Man, I love it. It's like I can take my voice off of it, just listening to the blues. I just love the blues, the kids blue songs. Look up this morning, I didn't

make my bed, So yeah for someone. And I'm never like proud of things that I do right when I did them. I love the kid I love the kids record. So thank you guys. I thought that we talked about a little bit and that's it. That's it, that's behind the music here on the Bobby Cast, episode number twelve. Yeah, thank you. It's a quick one. How long with listening today? It was a short one, Um, so something that kill time. Appreciate you guys being here. You know who I think

we're gonna have one. I think we have on Noel from Fitting the Tantrums if everything goes right, fits in Tantum is basically two people fits in Noel and they have other like background people. Um, but she's like the Tantrum and so I have her who's supposed to be coming in soon. I hope you go back and listen to, like Craig Campbell, who we've done this with. Amy was a guest on one of them. A lot of people

listen to that one. Chip Beston from Nashville. You know we're trying to spend time with a lot of guests. We'll do something on our own. You know, there really are no rules to this thing. So there was that. Thank you very much. Thanks to everybody listens to the show, and for who bought the record, listen to the record, and um, we'll see you guys soon, see on the next Boby cast. Thank you guys, Thank good bye everybody. Thanks to our sponsor nobody, so I can't wait to

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