Before the "Hey Nows", the belching and the craziness begins the Stern show listeners are treated each morning to one of the many great songs that has been performed on the show. The Stern show has showcased some great musical talent over the years. From the music stylings of classic rock and roll cover bands like The Losers to the soothing acoustic sounds of James Taylor I look forward to hear which song Fred pulls to start the show and my day. One of my personal favorites was performed by today's featured artist and shrine inductee, the talented and beautiful Nancy Sirianni and the rest of the talented and not so beautiful JC, Jack, and Ted collectively known as The Scoldees. "Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me."Their birthday tribute song to Gary the Retard became a household Stern favorite and was #1 with my boys for a very long time- losing the top spot only recently to Mr. Methane's " I Just Called To Say I Love You". With a wall now covered with porn stars, whores, and hot chicks, Nancy was the very first lady of the shrine. Visiting her website, I e-mailed her and with tongue firmly in place asked if she would record a personalized happy birthday song for one of the boys, her biggest fan. She wrote back that the production cost would not make that feasible and politely declined but my quirky request started a period of e-mail correspondences that ultimately resulted in me receiving an awesome autographed 8x10 of Nancy wearing nothing but an opened robe, a hand bra and a smile and one from her husband, whatshisname. Nancy, despite a very busy schedule, was even nice enough to hand deliver an autograph request and SASE I sent her to her then neighbor Stuttering John..to no avail.

Having not heard from Nancy in quite some time, just a few weeks ago I received an e-mail promoting The Scoldees's new CD, Nightcap World, to be released Feb. 4th. Hmmm... I thought maybe this would be a good time to see if she would agree to an interview and replied back with my request. I got a response back from a spokesman for the band, "Send the questions and I'll get them to the band- you get two Jackie questions and try to be creative." Nice!!! I fired out a bunch of questions including "Who are you and what made you famous?" and to whatshisname, "Is there anything you would like to say to Howard and the show?" HAHAHAHA I knew it would be a long shot but I had to give it a try. Unfortunately all Stern related questions were not answered but the final interview I think is a nice little peek into the world of The Scoldees. Big thanks to Nan, Ted, JC, and Jack.

Nan: Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, ACDC
Jack: In the mid 70s, I was really influenced by CSNY, especially when they did acoustic stuff. When I was eleven I used to love the Carpenters. Does that make me a dick now?
Ted: The Beavles. You know, "yeah, yeah, yeah..."

Doc: Thanks again guys and good luck with the new CD.

If you would like to find out more about The Scoldees visit their website and pick up your copy of their newest release, Nightcap World, available at fine music stores everywhere.