What happened to music that meant something?

The Who at the Kingdom or Kiss at the Coliseum?

Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water?

Where is the Iron man of today. Hey, this is not a test. This is rock and roll. Before there was in sync or even glee, there were the monkeys. I'm Jim Deeregatus from

W beZ in Columbia College. And I'm Greg Cuteregatus from W.BeeZ and Columbia College.

And I'm Greg Cott of the Chicago Tribune.

Today we dive into the story of the original made for TV band The Monkeys.

And later we'll review the new album by Indie Folk Artist Andrew Bird that's coming up on sound opinions.

From W.B.E.Z Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions.

And now it's time for some music news.

It's super califragulistic, expi alydosious,

even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious

if you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious

Super califragulistic Xpialiidosius.

Greg it's impossible to hear that song and not smile. It won an Academy Award for

Song of the Year in 1965 when it had been in the Disney film Mary Poppins and the brother duo songwriting team

that had written that song and so many others went up to accept the Academy Award.

They gave a one word acceptance speech, said Robert Sherman, super califragulistic, said Richard

expialidocious.

Robert Sherman died recently at 86 and he is worth remembering because this is the kind of career you just don't see in pop music anymore.

He and his brother started out as a songwriting team with some pop songs.

They had written that hit Toll Paul, recorded and became a hit in 59 by Annette Funicello.

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