Nic and Vince talk about Montell Jordan's hit single This is how we do it and the 69 Boys instant classic Tootsee Roll. We talk about the history of the songs and how they made us feel plus our experience with them over the years and Karaoke singing.
Nic and Vince talk about Montell Jordan's hit single This is how we do it and the 69 Boys instant classic Tootsee Roll. We talk about the history of the songs and how they made us feel plus our experience with them over the years and Karaoke singing.
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Nic (00:07):
Welcome to the Nostalgic Jukebox podcast. I'm Nick here with Vince, my brother-in-law.
Vince (00:15):
Hey. Hey y'all.
Nic (00:17):
Vince and I have a funny story. We go back probably, I dunno, what is this?
Vince (00:23):
25
Nic (00:24):
Years.
Vince (00:26):
Keep going. 30.
Nic (00:29):
I think I've known Vincent since I was 12.
Vince (00:31):
Yes, you have.
Nic (00:32):
So we kind of go back a long ways. We have a very eclectic music genre that we're kind of into. We both understand a lot of different musics and enjoy them. And so yeah, I think over the years we always remember certain songs at certain situations. And so that's kind of what today is. We're always going to kind of dive into some of these songs.
Vince (00:58):
Oh yeah. Certain songs that stay with you at a time in your life. I mean, as you get older, you remember these songs, 'em by Heart. And we've become karaoke junkies,
Nic (01:13):
Oh yeah.
Vince (01:14):
And
Nic (01:15):
These songs kind of dive into our karaoke experiences as well.
Vince (01:18):
And they always seem to make people happy. So we just wanted to talk a little bit about 'em. Oh, what songs you got for us today, Nick.
Nic (01:28):
All right. I think this is the one of those jams that is always my go-to karaoke experience for pumping the Crowd up. Oh,
Vince (01:38):
I think I know which one this is. All
Nic (01:40):
Right hit. It's the classic intro. This is how we do, this is how we do
Vince (01:50):
It.
Nic (01:52):
Who doesn't remember Monte Jordan? And this is how we do it, which I think we had talked about. So came out in 95, 94,
Vince (02:02):
I believe, and then it hit the chart to 90. Oh, no, no, I think you're right. It was 95. Cause then it topped the charts in 95.
Nic (02:10):
For me. That was the start of high school for me. So that this song always brings me back to high school because yeah, 95, 96 is all the high school dances and it's a clean song that they could play. Like a clean rap song that they could play. But it still has that nostalgic feel. But since you were 10 years older than I am, this was a high school. This was College Days for You.
Vince (02:38):
Nic (03:07):
Thank God. Thank God. That thing overthrew. Take a bow. I
Vince (03:13):
Take a bow. I
Nic (03:14):
Was all, it was fine, but it wasn't no Monte Jordan.
Vince (03:19):
Well I get that, but it's Madonna. Come on, come on. It was Peak Madonna at that point. But yeah, it was number one for, what is it? It was number one for seven weeks in a row. So let's see. And both songs were platinum. They were certified platinum. And we kind of got that. So but yeah. Oh, one more thing. I went down a hole with this one, but with This is how we do it. When I said he sampled children's story from Slick Rick, but Bob James track called Nautilus
Nic (03:59):
Was that jazz?
Vince (04:00):
Yeah. His jazz keyboardist. And that song, Nautilus, if you look it up and listen to it, you'll hear so many different songs in that song that you would know.
Nic (04:13):
Oh, so many people sampled it. Oh yeah. It's been sampled all over the place.
Vince (04:17):
Oh my God. Yeah. And to the point where well, according to Vice Music it's often, his first seven albums have been sampled countless times and he's believed to have contributed to the formation of hip hop in general with his music. So I thought that was kind of cool and fun fact, he also wrote the theme to my favorite TV show Growing Up Taxi Back in the Day. And that should tell you about how old I am
Nic (04:50):
Right now. Yeah, that doesn't age you. I don't know what will
Vince (04:55):
Was young when I was watching Taxi. Okay. I was super young. But yeah, love that jump.
Nic (05:00):
Yeah. And Montel was I think Def Jam's first r and b release his first. They're the Def Jam music thing. He was the first r b artist that they had
Vince (05:10):
First r and b artist other than rap.
Nic (05:11):
Yeah. Yeah. So cool. Yeah, definitely like that.
Vince (05:16):
But yeah, this was a banger in the clubs, man. This got everybody going. And it still does to this day when Nick usually busted out during karaoke. Everybody has a ball.
Nic (05:28):
It just has that classic intro everybody, everybody just knows the intro of just the chatting of the crowd and the background as a song kicks in. And then just the classic, this is how we do with, it's just like, it's just iconic. Everybody knows the rest of the song.
Vince (05:45):
Everybody goes nuts.
Nic (05:46):
Yeah. It's always fun. But yeah, I just will remember just being able to just listen to it in the clubs or listen to it in the car, listening to it everywhere you could possibly go. Cuz that back in the days where we had to go to buy a cd
Vince (06:05):
Is that single?
Nic (06:07):
Yeah, this was, for me, it was definitely the Warehouse days of buying a cd, a single, and then listening in the car.
Vince (06:15):
Anybody over the, or hovering around the 40 ish or mid 30 ages remembers the cassette singles, all these youngins nowadays and those who are out there, no offense but man, it took a lot to get music back then. It wasn't just on your phone and just had a click of a button. You have it. Oh no. You had to go to the Warehouse. You had to go to the mall, get a cassette single. Oh man. And then you played it over and over and over again. And this was one of the songs that we must have at least bought two or three cassette singles cuz we wore out each one
Nic (06:54):
For sure. I don't think I've ever bought an actual cassette. I think I was in the CD days, but
Vince (07:02):
There were CD singles.
Nic (07:03):
Oh yeah, that's what I'm saying. CD singles. But yeah, I don't think I've ever bought an actual cassette cassette unless I was recording something.
Vince (07:11):
Oh
Nic (07:11):
Yeah. Off of the radio back in the day when you had to record off of the radio to get something. The bootleg stuff. Oh,
Vince (07:21):
Bring me back down that road again man. Having to your tape ready, listening to the radio and hoping the DJ didn't talk over the beginning of the song. Yeah.
Nic (07:31):
That everybody always had that.
Vince (07:32):
Oh geez.
Nic (07:40):
True. Alright. Yeah, this was always a good one. I just do definitely enjoy singing that song and karaoke, it's definitely in the rotation for when the crowd is wanting to dance and sing along. That one always seems to go over pretty well. Everybody, it's one of the songs that every just knows. So it's one of those fun karaoke songs. And it's pretty easy too. It's not a very difficult song to remember.
Vince (08:04):
Oh yeah. Just that rap part gets a little fast toward the end of the song. But man, again, that song transcends generation. So you have the youngers, the older, everybody just gets up and starts having a good old time when that song starts.
Nic (08:23):
Yeah. I was like yeah, that rap, I think if you know that rap part, it's not too bad. I just seem to have it pretty much memorized by this point. So
Vince (08:32):
Yeah, I would hope so.
Nic (08:34):
Vince (08:42):
The Butterfly? Oh that's, see the,
Nic (08:46):
Yeah. All right, so everybody, if you've never heard the Tootsie Roll by the 69 Boys,
Vince (08:53):
Can you let me go and let me see
Nic (08:56):
The Tutsi roll every, that is another gem. I have not sang that song Karaoke, but I do. It's a tough, it one's a song cuz it's fast and so isn't lend myself easily to singing that, but
Vince (09:11):
I think you Yeah, can handle it. Get there. I thought about it, I thought about doing it myself too, but
Nic (09:17):
Got it. It's just such a fun song. So this was, again, same time as Montel Jordan like nor 94, 95. But this one is definitely very funny cuz we all thought as early teenagers that it's a, about the Tootsie Roll about a song. It was just funny that somebody made a rap song about the Tootsie Roll candy. And so we're out there singing, let me see your Tootsie Roll at school and getting some weird looks obviously from the teachers. But we just saw, you were just talking about candies and stuff.
Vince (09:53):
Oh yeah. But when you saw what the dance was oof, you're like, oh wait a minute. Hey, that's not about candy. Then when you started seeing the girls do it well yeah, it was all over.
Nic (10:07):
I don't think I've ever knew that there's an actual Tootsie Roll dance.
Vince (10:12):
I didn't either until I saw the video.
Nic (10:16):
What's the dance?
Vince (10:18):
It's pretty much J wow. I wanna say it was right. It was before it was twerking. Before twerking. It had a okay twerk with a little roll to it and the girls would get down though and it was hard. It looked like an easy dance, but it was hard to master if you wanted it to look at.
Nic (10:41):
Oh yeah, I bet. So it was getting low before Get Low, get
Vince (10:47):
Low. Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm sure there were some dances even before this one that can claim the whole twerking crown. But yeah, you see it done now. Well and it actually looks like a pretty cool dance when you see people that actually know how to do it and do it well. I
Nic (11:05):
Bet
Vince (11:32):
Meaning
Nic (11:33):
Thoughts or thoughts of the song are, and you're like, I had no idea.
Vince (11:38):
Oh yeah, you should start growing up man. And things make sense as you start growing up. You're like, oh okay,
Nic (11:45):
I, so I would replace Montel Jordan. This is how we do it with the Tootsie Roll, like the 69 Boys. If I was going to karaoke, I feel like the 69 boys would get the crowd way more pumped up than this is how we do it.
Vince (12:03):
I don't know, I kind of begged the difference cuz I mean there's a lot of people that I think this is how we do it is more known the two more generations than Tootsie role. Tootsie role. I, yeah, I, I'd have to disagree with you on that one. I think you think so. And do it.
Nic (12:23):
I feel like, I don't know, I go, I feel like there's a better chance of that. The Tootsie Roll song is played at a wedding then than Jordan.
Vince (12:33):
No. Really? You think?
Nic (12:35):
I don't know. It'd be fun
Vince (12:36):
What you saw. I think, I'm pretty sure both are in heavy rotation at weddings. If you ask me. I've heard both songs played at numerous weddings.
Nic (12:45):
Vince (12:46):
The tootsee roll. But yeah, well hey, and if you know how to do it and you're singing it too, oh baby, you get everybody else out there trying to do it.
Nic (12:54):
I don't think I've ever heard somebody sing 69 Boys Tootsie Roll at a karaoke event. Ah,
Vince (13:01):
Wow. Yeah, I think I'm with you. I don't know,
Nic (13:04):
I don't where it spans on the karaoke list, but
Vince (13:10):
The pantheon of karaoke songs,
Nic (13:13):
It's definitely, definitely not anywhere near the top. I don't think I've ever really heard
Vince (13:17):
It. Yeah, no. Well hey, it all depends on where you're doing karaoke. I mean, cuz you always gotta play to the crowd and if you have a certain crowd that would know the song, I mean, I think it would do well. But at a country karaoke bar, eh you might, because they like land dancing and there is a little bit of line dance to the song.
Nic (13:42):
I think if people just want to dance, even if they don't know the song, it's, it's a very dance heavy, it's definitely easy song to dance to. So I can see what people do would when you would sing it, people just dancing that they didn't know the song.
Vince (13:54):
Oh yeah. And it also has that sound of, this is around the time, whoop, there it is. And whoop, there it is. And I feel a Whoop Coming On is even in the song. So I
Nic (14:07):
Mean tag team,
Vince (14:08):
So everybody knew that little part because that's another song that's pretty iconic.
Nic (14:15):
Yeah. Tag team back again, check Trick, let's begin. Yeah.
Vince (14:18):
Yeah. That's
Nic (14:19):
Another show. Yeah,
Vince (14:52):
I can't wait to see this. I gotta be there when he tries this
Nic (14:56):
One. Yeah, the dance. The dance and the song at the same time.
Vince (14:59):
I don't know if our old knees can actually take the dance these days.
Nic (15:04):
Yeah. But you know, gotta get the people what they want. You gotta give 'em a show. They wanna stage show too nowadays. Well
Vince (15:09):
We don't want to end up in the hospital either.
Nic (15:12):
I really gotta look this up before I get too far into making
Vince (15:15):
Promises. Oh it's not that bad. I'm just just playing. But yeah, but if you go down and you start to actually dip like they do in the song,
Nic (15:25):
Yeah, it's might not, you gotta
Vince (15:27):
Be flexible. Let's just put that way and yeah, just a few stats looking up these songs and checking 'em out. Tootsie Roll, it reached number eight on the billboard hundred chart in early January 95 so I'm sure it was 94 during the wintertime. That was hot at that time. Yeah. Number nine on the r and b. But it took 27 weeks for it to peak at number eight and it was actually on the top 20 charts for four months, which was kind of, I mean back then it's like holy moly for a dance song like that. I thought that was pretty good.
Nic (16:12):
I was listening to that and yeah, you basically heard every time I was you heard on the radio on to wild 94 9 or km e o or any of those. It was, oh it was always on. You can always find that
Vince (16:23):
Song. That's true. That's true.
Nic (16:27):
Alright everybody, well enjoy the rest of your day. We appreciate you being here with us and talking about a couple songs that we're thinking about during our karaoke days and giving a little background, just a little bit of information about 'em. And yeah, we'll see you next time
Vince (16:42):
Later.
Nic (16:44):
Thanks for tuning in and as always, new episodes every Monday, follow us on Instagram, YouTube, hit the likes with all the buttons that all the follows, do all the things you need to do and we'll see you next week.