In this episode, Forrest Kelly takes us on a nostalgic journey through music and wine, highlighting how both evoke powerful emotions and memories. He shares a personal story about his early days as a DJ and connects it to the experiences we have with wine, emphasizing the stories behind each glass.
Forrest presents an intriguing guessing game about a famous song that has an unexpected link to inexpensive wine. As he drops hints about the artist and the song's background, listeners are invited to explore the relationship between music and wine, culminating in the revelation of the song that made its mark through simplicity and charm.
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Welcome, welcome to the best five minute wine podcast with Forrest Galley.
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All right, if you'll let me indulge for a moment before streaming, before playlists,
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back when if you wanted to hear a song, you had to wait for it.
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I was a kid with a cassette player sitting by the radio with my finger hovering over
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the record button like it was a high stakes operation.
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Timing was everything.
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You either caught the song clean or you got the DJ talking over the intro.
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And honestly, that was part of the charm.
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And I didn't just listen to music at home.
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I'd strap the cassette player to my bike and ride all over town.
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No plan, no destination, just me, the road and whatever songs I managed to capture that
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It wasn't in my pocket for mowing lawns or washing cars.
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That was the freedom.
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Now, fast forward a few years, somehow that same kid ends up as a full time DJ at a local
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And I still remember one of my first shifts.
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They handed me a new album to play, brand new, fresh, untouched vinyl.
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It was Face Value by Phil Collins.
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And when I played In The Air Tonight for the first time, man, that wasn't just a song.
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That was an experience.
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That drum break didn't just hit, it changed something.
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It made me realize music isn't just background music, it's memory, it's emotion, it sticks
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And if I'm being honest, that's probably why I end up doing a wine podcast.
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Wine hits a lot of those same notes.
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Not just what goes in the glass, it's where you were, who you were with, what was happening
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Which brings me to this one.
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Let me ask you something.
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See if you can guess the song before I give it away.
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So I'm combining my love of music and wine here.
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This one comes from an artist who knew how to write a hook that sticks in your head for
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The kind of voice you recognize in about half a second.
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Big sing-alongs, big personality.
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Here's your first clue.
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This was the song that gave him his first number one hit.
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Not the one people always shout at parties, not the one everybody thinks of first, but
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the one that got there first.
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Here's another little clue and nugget for you.
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The phrase at the center of the song, it wasn't originally written as some romantic
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It was slang for inexpensive wine.
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The kind that was often a blend, sometimes even with a little fruit added in.
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Just made to be easy drinking.
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So now you've got the artist, you've got the milestone, you've got the wine connection.
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Have you got an idea who it is?
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The song is built around a phrase that sounds like it could be a person, maybe a woman.
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Maybe someone a little wild, a little unpredictable.
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People first heard it.
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That's exactly what they thought, but it wasn't.
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It was about that kind of wine.
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Simple, cheap, easy, social.
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The kind you don't overthink.
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The kind that shows up, does its job, and somehow becomes part of a great night anyway.
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Here's one more fun detail.
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The rose in the title, not a person at all.
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It's a nod to rosé wine, which makes the whole thing even more on the nose once you
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And what makes the song so great?
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It doesn't try too hard.
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It's not pretending to be something it's not.
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It just shows up, makes you feel good.
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Kind of like the way best wines do it.
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From recording songs off the radio, to playing them on the air, to sitting here talking about
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It's always about chasing that feeling, that moment when something just clicks.
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And if you haven't guessed it yet, the song I've been talking about, the one inspired
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by a nickname for cheap wine, the one that gave him his first number one hit, that would
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