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So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ross Bicknell
33 episodes
1 week ago

Join us as we investigate collaborations in the universe of pop via the art of the vocal duet. Following the 6 degrees of seperation theory, we find a duet, jump off via one of the artists and follow the star trail until we get back to our original point. A previously uncelebrated pop constellation is thus created.


Voted No.3 in ‘15 Best Duet Podcasts in 2024’ List compiled by Feedspot.com. https://podcasts.feedspot.com/duet_podcasts/


See other platforms for full music & video playlists plus all references and sources:


https://www.instagram.com/soicalledzucchero?igsh=MXBzM241Z201ODd0bw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr


https://youtube.com/@soicalledzucchero


https://www.mixcloud.com/SoICalledZucchero/


https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hYXiY5oxaBI3IbNZR7uqy?si=0f3L_zXGQMWPX8I_T87qCg&pi=e-IUwMZjfARzC_


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Join us as we investigate collaborations in the universe of pop via the art of the vocal duet. Following the 6 degrees of seperation theory, we find a duet, jump off via one of the artists and follow the star trail until we get back to our original point. A previously uncelebrated pop constellation is thus created.


Voted No.3 in ‘15 Best Duet Podcasts in 2024’ List compiled by Feedspot.com. https://podcasts.feedspot.com/duet_podcasts/


See other platforms for full music & video playlists plus all references and sources:


https://www.instagram.com/soicalledzucchero?igsh=MXBzM241Z201ODd0bw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr


https://youtube.com/@soicalledzucchero


https://www.mixcloud.com/SoICalledZucchero/


https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hYXiY5oxaBI3IbNZR7uqy?si=0f3L_zXGQMWPX8I_T87qCg&pi=e-IUwMZjfARzC_


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So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 5 prt 6 - Well Did You Evah!

Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop - Well Did You Evah!


Did you know that our Iggy, the Godfather Of Punk, who grew up in a trailer park, could have been the president of the USA? He was hobnobbing in the right circles for a while.. I guess there’s still time. Fingers crossed. And Debbie Harry aka ‘Dirty Harry’ could & should have been a queen of the silver screen like her fairy godmother Maryline Monroe. Here they both get to play at being part of High Society, and well do they evah! Punk rock style. Alex Cox does a good job of concocting a visual feast of post punk pomp as punk royalty stride their way into the 1990s as the king and queen of the music world. A grand way to complete our wheel of intrigue this time round. I must say it’s been absolutely ‘swellegant!!’.


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1 week ago
1 hour 3 minutes 27 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 5 prt 5 Heart Of Glass

Dolly Parton & Debbie Harry - Heart Of Glass.


Dolly, not satisfied with the almost perfect union of souls and haircuts she was blessed with in the last visitation, puts her feelers out in search of an even more kindred of spirits, if only there was a singer her age, a woman, who was also BLOND. Like Dolls herself!! Hmm…Ahh, yeah, we got one, her management delivers, ‘and she conveniently fits into the rock genre!’ Great! Blondie you say?!! How can it go wrong! So who is this sister from another mister they talk of? Deborah!! Who? Harry?? Ermm. Listen! Oh. Boxes ticked. But this aint country. Or soul. Or even rock???

Its tech… no? Tech what? Tech. No. Yes. Ohh alright. But i thought this was gonna get me into the ROCK N ROLL hall of fame? Dont worry Dolly, its all good. Times is changin Dolly, times changed. Right, I guess we aint gonna be shortnin bread together..


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2 weeks ago
48 minutes 45 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 5 prt 4 Up Above My Head

Dolly Parton & Patti La Belle - Up Above My Head.


…they hear music in their hair. And it sure sounds angelic. If god were a hairdresser this is the music to help you tolerate the holy one’s latest cosmic holiday horror stories from the southern regions. It truely is the music of the shears.

This phonically (and folically) gifted pair of belters have also been to hell and back. So do they still believe? Oh yes. They really do believe. Oh yes they do believe!! But do they believe? They really really do believe!!!! Wow, they really do gel.


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2 weeks ago
1 hour 10 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 5 prt 3 Time To Kiss

Fred Schneider & Patti La Belle - Time To Kiss


Not having to pow-wow any more with his right-on college buds on campus who say sex is for fascists, Fred has decided to fly the nest and is officially, now, OFF THE LEASH. Giving James Elroy a run for his money, would-be marmalade patterned panty sniffer extraordinaire monsignor Fred Schneider has become entrenched in a dazzling new obsession. Patti La Belle. And who can blame him. With about 17 octaves of lazer-precise sonic artillery in her armoury and pipes that would outshine those in the Notre Dame Cathedral, there is nobody out there worth their hoistered socks who would not want to light that snuggly fire, get this girl onto the sheepskin and give her a good KISSING. He’s just gotta say the word, but not blessed with quite the same expressive range of pipage, the whole affair seems to be considerably more difficult to consumate.


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2 weeks ago
44 minutes 17 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 5 prt 2 Private Idaho

The B52s (Fred Schneider & Kate Pierson) - Private Idaho


Leaving Iggy to lick his wounds after his destined to failure, triumphalist girly mission inevitably collapses, Kate, who was absolutely having none of it, goes back to her day job. Cleaning the pools in the snazzy properties of IDAHO, yes, idaho. Orange groves as far as the eye can see. Patios glistening in the bake it to make it suburban meadow. A guy without a child sitting ON A BENCH. Call 911. Oh hes a pop star? Lock him up anyway. And her. Teach them a lesson. What were these freakishly pimpled Athens college kids doing there in the first place?


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3 weeks ago
48 minutes 21 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 5 Prt 1 Candy

Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson - Candy


It’s been so long…jeez… nearly a year… i recall, a rainy afternoon. You were only 5, if that, my SICZ subscribers. But I cant stop thinking about you. And ive decided we should all marry. Yes now. I dont care if you only listened once. You’re one of us now, and here is our passionate prose to prove it.

Old sinewy alien grandpa Iggy is also on a dodgy one and is heading home to hunt down a whimsical memory of a devotee unfettered by nasty cynical cityboy criticism and the evils of age, after being burnt by the bright lights again. Oh no. Mum and Dad lie shuddering in their shawls after the call, they had such good intentions rearing his middle class ass up in a trailer park, little did they know that trailer park, well of course it equals:::: trailer trash. Nice idea though.


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3 weeks ago
46 minutes 18 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 4 prt 6- Love Song

Love Song - Madonna & Prince.


We reach the last song in this episode’s 6 degrees. Although prt 5’s Purple Rain would probably have been a more fitting finale. Prince of course is featured, but is he really here? He was more present in the last one, and he was dead…

Madge also is struggling to seem interested, and it’s the 3rd song on her last big 80s hit album. Love song? I dont think so. Dont worry though, bad song does not mean bad Zucchero. Tom & Ross wax lyrical on this turd until the sun comes up.


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11 months ago
20 minutes 35 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 4 Prt 5 - Purple Rain

Stevie Wonder & Madonna - Purple Rain


Stevie’s off to better things, hollywood prems, grammy parties and adoring fans, and then does some other stuff. And so does George. But this is later, muchhh later. Its a grammy, but Stevie’s not the focus and looks a little weary. Luckily Granmadonna is there to take him in hand, into the purple dawn, just where Prince would have wanted them. A fitting send off, but wait.. is that Brian over there next to the free donuts?


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11 months ago
48 minutes 15 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 4 Prt 4 - Part Time Lover

Stevie Wonder & Boy George - Part Time Lover


Rewind time. Ross & Tom whisk you away from the covid bubble to a time where artists occupied real stages together like, and shared pure moments, and everything was great, even if below the surface motives are perhaps a little more murky.. What’s underneath the bonnet of Stevie’s massive synth, is he cheating? Why is Boy looking so uncharacteristically uncomfortable despite wearing his chosen fineries? Does he know what’s going on!? Listen to find out.


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11 months ago
46 minutes 33 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 4 prt 3 - Patience

Gary Barlow & Boy George - Patience.

After hope, comes glory, or so some scriptures might suggest. After hope, sometimes comes pain, and sometimes tragedy, and sometimes success, like what’s sposed to happen. But mostly just normal shit. Anyway, a thin white gauze has been pulled across the world’s breathing apparatus, and Tom & Ross must peer within to see what extracurricular meanderings artists have embarked upon under it’s heathen weight. Split-screen Brian-ism seems to have filled a gap in the international psyche. And our beloved duet heroes are leaping in to the badly lit, limeylight, to occupy hard left or hard right of centre. Please, be patient with them (it’s mostly Brian’s fault).


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1 year ago
34 minutes 27 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 4 Prt 2 - Hang On In There Baby

Gary Barlow & Rosie Gaines - Hang On In There Baby


It’s the highlight of anybody’s career worth it’s salt on the English celebrity charity gig scene. YES, it’s THE CONCERT OF HOPE. If you’re here, it means hope is your friend, and you’re it’s friend too, so u can get into all it’s parties, snort sugar off it’s earlobes, tickle it’s mum, whatever u like. You’re basically MADE. HOPE shines on you. Both of our beautful duetaflys dance and sing naked, (metaphorically i’m afraid) bathing in it’s godlike dazilence and building to a righteous climax worthy of the holy one, the holy HOPE. All shall bathe as one. Be thou grateful. Amen.


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1 year ago
35 minutes 57 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 4 prt 1 - Nothing Compares 2 U

Prince FT Rosie Gaines - Nothing Compares 2 U.

Tom and Ross have been away. And they’ve missed each other. Eating dinner in fancy restaurants, seeing whomever they choose, yeah sure, great, but 2 is always better than 1. And U, well it’s better than just me. A man who knows this all too well is The Purple One. And he knows there’s much to be Gained from a team up, yup there’s a whole lotta Rosie right here too. Which is a good job because he is thoroughly bereft.


Voted No.3 in ‘15 Best Duet Podcasts in 2024’ List compiled by Feedspot.com. https://podcasts.feedspot.com/duet_podcasts/


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1 year ago
39 minutes 25 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 3 Prt 6 - Learning The Blues

Frank Sinatra & Alicia Keys - Learning The Blues                

    ‘Crocetti wake up ya no good bum!’ A glass of water hits Deano square in the face jolting him out of his sauce addled slumber. He makes a few quintisentially Dean sounding moans and pulls the blanket back over his head. ‘You gotta get off the sofa and get outta here or Consuela will have me for breakfast, instead of cooking mine!’ Says Frank as he leaves, dressed sharp as ever, and on his way to an early morning screen test he will think nothing of once he’s back at Piero’s later that evening sippin whiskey with the boys and lamenting lost love. But….. unbenknownst,… in fact never to be knownst to Frank. 7 or 8 decades from now via that very test, he will be dueting sensually over a piano with the beautiful, young starlet Alicia Keys practically begging for his love. He will already be 10 years dead by this time, which makes the union a little strange so hold on to your fedoras.. What? How? Why!?? Listen on to find out.                       


Voted No.3 in ‘15 Best Duet Podcasts in 2024’ List compiled by Feedspot.com. https://podcasts.feedspot.com/duet_podcasts/


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1 year ago
44 minutes 15 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 3 prt 5 - The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else
The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else - Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin. After an awkward return to Nashville to sheepishly give back the stolen horses, Ross & Tom limp out of the saloon, steal them again and head for Las Vegas in a hail of gunfire. They arrive just before closing time but Dean has beaten them to it, and having travelled by executive chopper complete with minibar he is already in full flow. He seems to be attempting to give an old friend a bit of advice over last orders, or is he…?

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1 year ago
37 minutes 1 second

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep3 prt 4 - My 1st Country Song
It’s a quick exit out through the barn door and a full pelt across the fields on stolen horses, all with stinking whiskey n rye hangovers from hell for Ross and Tom. Now it’s off to Las Vegas to team up with Dean Martin for our next duet masterclass ‘my 1st Countr…’ screech, nay, yinny (?) Sunnies pulled down over nose, ‘country song’!? Sheeeeiiittt.

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1 year ago
34 minutes 57 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 3 prt 3 - Louisiana Woman Mississippi Man
Ross & Tom burst through the swing door of the countryville saloon, suspicious silence fills the room, but they start babbling anyway with the help of some whiskey chasers. The locals warm up eventually and seem to approve.

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1 year ago
30 minutes 21 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 3 prt 2 - Portland
We follow the Jack White star trail and it’s leading us straight into countryville..

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1 year ago
42 minutes 55 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep 3 prt 1 - Another Way To Die
We start a new round inspired by the question Ross asked last time.. Are there any Bond duets?? Bond geekery threatened to ensue, and was difficult to contain. Luckily we created a safe word.. ‘Spectre’.

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1 year ago
36 minutes

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep2 prt 8 - Snowed In At Wheeler Street

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2 years ago
44 minutes 6 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast
Ep2 prt 7 - A Woman’s Needs

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2 years ago
35 minutes 17 seconds

So I Called Zucchero - The Duets Podcast

Join us as we investigate collaborations in the universe of pop via the art of the vocal duet. Following the 6 degrees of seperation theory, we find a duet, jump off via one of the artists and follow the star trail until we get back to our original point. A previously uncelebrated pop constellation is thus created.


Voted No.3 in ‘15 Best Duet Podcasts in 2024’ List compiled by Feedspot.com. https://podcasts.feedspot.com/duet_podcasts/


See other platforms for full music & video playlists plus all references and sources:


https://www.instagram.com/soicalledzucchero?igsh=MXBzM241Z201ODd0bw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr


https://youtube.com/@soicalledzucchero


https://www.mixcloud.com/SoICalledZucchero/


https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hYXiY5oxaBI3IbNZR7uqy?si=0f3L_zXGQMWPX8I_T87qCg&pi=e-IUwMZjfARzC_


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