Junk in the Trunk: Drive’s Daily Blog for Friday April 17th 2015

Published: April 17, 2015

Each day, Rich Terfry and Radio 2 Drive wraps up your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world. Here are the stories we're talking about today. 

Rich's Pick:

In honour of International Ford Mustang Day this is my Pick

Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin "Ford Mustang" 

Junk In The Trunk: 

Argument with a boxer

Cool cats

Why a dumpster fire is no place for a selfie

Rear View Mirror:

Each week on Rear-view Mirror, Rich Terfry and the Radio 2 Drive team look back at a great R&B/soul song from the good ol’ days. 

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Listen to Rich tell you the story behind Bobby Womack!

So many talented musicians never find a break and are doomed to obscurity. Bobby Womack had the opposite problem. He couldn’t get away from the musical spotlight, even when he tried.


Womack’s father was a man named Friendly, and he was a gospel singer. Taking after his old man, Womack and his brothers formed a gospel quintet named, appropriately enough, the Womack Brothers. One night, as fate would have it, the group was spotted and heard by legendary soul singer Sam Cooke, who was blown away, and offered them a contract on his label SAR Records on the spot.

Cooke encouraged them to try their hand at secular music and the outfit’s name was changed to the Valentinos. They had a few hits, including one young Womack wrote called “It’s All Over Now.” Shortly afterward, a new young band from the U.K. scored their first hit with a cover of that song, and that band was the Rolling Stones.

Cooke passed away in December of 1964 and, having taken the Valentinos under his wing, the band’s career dwindled. They soon broke up and when Womack struggled to make headway in the business on his own, he retreated into the shadows and sought work as a session musician and songwriter.

He did quite well, to say the least. He wrote songs for Wilson Pickett and Janis Joplin and played on classic recordings by Sly and the Family Stone and Aretha Franklin. After applying his golden touch to several hit songs, Womack was pulled from the shadows and into the spotlight again in the early ’70s, close to 10 years after the death of his mentor, Cooke, and the demise of the Valentinos.

After signing a new record deal and scoring a few hits under his own name, Hollywood came calling. Womack was tapped to create the soundtrack to the critically acclaimed 1973 film Across 110th Street. The title track became one of his signature hits.

Throughout the 2000s, Womack still had a hard time escaping the spotlight. His music has been used in recent blockbuster films, TV commercials and video games. In December 2010, he became a member of Daman Albarn’s supergroup the Gorillaz, and joined them on their world tour. 

Bobby Womack passed away in 2014.

Here’s some signature Womack, the classic “Across 110th Street.”


Here are some other great editions of Rear-view Mirror:

Buddy Holly/Peggy Sue

Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto/The Girl From Ipanema

Norman Greenbaum/Spirit in the Sky

Elvis Presley/Blue Suede Shoes

Johnny Cash/Ring of Fire

The Kinks/You Really Got Me

The Beatles/Yesterday

Al Green/Let's Stay Together

Simon and Garfunkel/The Boxer

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles/Tracks of my Tears

Elvis Presley/Heartbreak Hotel

Bruce Cockburn/Lovers In A Dangerous Time

The Doors - Light My Fire

Bob Dylan & Jimi Hendrix/All Along The Watchtower 

The Clash/London Calling

Phil Spector and the Ronnettes/Be My Baby

Os Mutantes/Ando Meio Desligado

The Diamonds/Little Darlin

Captain Beefheart/Yellow Brick Road

Elton John/Bennie and the Jets

Hank Williams/Long Gone Lonesome Blues

R.E.M./What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

Tom Waits/Jockey Full of Bourbon

Neil Diamond/Sweet Caroline

The Who/Pinball Wizard

Buffalo Springfield/For What It's Worth

Five Man Electrical Band/Signs

Band Aid/Do They Know It's Christmas

John Lennon/Imagine

The Ugly Ducklings/Nothin

Bob Dylan/Tangled Up In Blue

The Beatles/Norwegian Wood

The Pursuit of Happiness/I'm An Adult Now

Bruce Springsteen/Born To Run

Arcade Fire/Wake Up

Gnarls Barkley/Crazy

Big Joe Turner/Shake Rattle and Roll

Martha and the Muffins/Echo Beach

Wilson Pickett/In The Midnight Hour

The Band/The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Fleetwood Mac/Go Your Own Way

The Animals/House of the Rising Sun

Ian and Sylvia/Four Strong Winds

James Brown/Please Please Please

John Cougar Mellencamp, 'Pink Houses'

Leonard Cohen/Suzanne

The Ramones/I Wanna Be Sedated

Blue Rodeo/Try

The Guess Who/American Woman

U2/I Still Have't Found What I'm Looking For

Janis Joplin/Me and Bobby McGee

Gordon Lightfoot "If You Could Read My Mind"

The Byrds "Eight Miles High"

Simon and Garfunkel "The Sound of Silence"

Bill Haley and his Comets "Rock Around The Clock"

The Velvet Underground "I'm Waiting For The Man"

Johnny Cash "Folsom Prison Blues"

Bobby Fuller "I Fought The Law"

Big Star "September Gurls"

The Hollies "Bus Stop"

Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

Booker T and the MGs "Green Onions"

Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe"

Neil Young "Rockin' in the Free World"

Dolly Parton "Jolene"

The Left Banke "Walk Away Renee"

Lou Reed "Walk On The Wild Side"

James Taylor "Fire And Rain"

The Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go"

Marvin Gaye "Sexual Healing"

Radiohead "Paranoid Android"

M.I.A. "Paper Planes"

The Animals "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"

Dusty Springfield "Son of a Preacher Man"

Screamin' Jay Hawkins "I Put A Spell On You"

Cheap Trick "Surrender"

Mott The Hoople "All the Young Dudes"

Beach Boys "Sloop John B"

Amy Winehouse "Rehab"

New York Dolls "Personality Crisis"

Modern Lovers "Roadrunner"

George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

Bruce Springsteen "Born in the USA"

The Beatles "With A Little Help From My Friends"

Rolling Stones 'Miss You'

The Coasters 'Run Red Run'

Elvis Costello, 'Alison'

James Brown, 'Hot (I Need to be loved loved loved)'

Inner Circle, 'Tenement Yard'

Ray Charles, 'I Don't Need No Doctor'

Curtis Mayfield, 'Freddy's Dead'

Gang Starr, 'Beyond Comprehension'

Bo Diddley, 'Bo Diddley'

Aretha Franklin, 'Rocksteady'

CCR, 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain'

Howlin' Wolf, 'Smokestack Lightning'

Bobby Womack, 'Across 110th Street'

Roy Orbison, 'In Dreams'

Foggy Hogtown Boys, 'Man of Constant Sorrow'

Pink Floyd, 'Wish You Were Here'

Neil Young, 'Cortez The Killer'

Bob Dylan, 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'

Little Eva, 'Loco-Motion'

Elvis Costello, 'Watching the Detectives'

Jimmy Cliff, 'The Harder They Come'

The Verve, 'Bittersweet Symphony'

Roberta Flack, 'Killing Me Softly with his Song'

R.E.M., 'Radio Free Europe'

Radiohead, 'No Surprises'

Led Zeppelin, 'Ramble On'

Rolling Stones, 'Beast of Burden'

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