First-Name Basis, Episode 1: The First 10

Our First-Name Basis season is underway! Our mission: to identify the most iconic song associated with a first name. But how? It starts right here, as we look at the first 10 in our FNB Top 40 and decide which songs/names move on to the next round. Along the way, we make predictions, remember Just One Of The Guys and American Crime Story, stand too close to you with Chardonnay breath, re-scan upstate towns to fit into country songs, and pay tribute to the car trips and roller rinks of our youths. Come on, Eileens: it's an all-new MASTAS season!

Our intro is [deep breath] Elliott Smith, Ben Folds, Andrew Byrne, Laura Barger, AND Jack Baldelli, and our outro is De La Soul. For more information/to become a patron of the show, visit patreon.com/mastas.

SHOW NOTES

• Snopes fact-check on MB's assertion about people with the 867-5309 phone number: true!
• "Santa Jenny"
• King Killer Studios
• Episode 108: Elvis Costello and Duran Duran, "Watching The Detectives"
• ...These Are Their Stories
• SDB keeps getting Looking Glass and The Lovin' Spoonful confused
• Episode 220A: Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," Ranked
• Episode 76: George Michael, Elton John, and George Michael and Elton John
• The Lost Songs Project on Laura Branigan's "Solitaire"