Have You Heard of Me: Recent Episodes
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This podcast highlights and spotlights Movies and Actor/Actresses who arent talked about in mainstream culture today in 2020's.
How Gay Is Pakistan? is a 2015 British documentary presented by British-Pakistani comedian, actor, and writer Mawaan Rizwan. Rizwan, who is gay and was born in Pakistan, returns to his birth country to investigate what life is actually like for LGBTQ+ people there. It was directed by Masood Khan and runs about 50 minutes. Apple TV and Amazon Prime
The shortest film to be released in Hollywood as a feature film. (Guiness Book of World Records).
James has a great convo with the amazing, still working actress of the hit 60s tv show.
The first crossover episode with the podcast Forgotten Hollywood. James Lott Jr talks about 10 episodes from TV's past that tackled Memorial Day or PTSD, casualties of war, etc. We honor the fallen who served!!
James discovers a Gloria Estefan Target store only released album from 2011, called Miss Little Havana!
In honor of the legacy of the now late James Van Der Beek, we highlight this TV series that was too smart for TV! It is so smart and funny on several levels and James was so good at playing a version of himself. I have it on DVD.
James talks about one of his fav artists of the early 2000s, Blu Cantrell and two of her big hits, Hit em Up Style Ooops (2001) and Breathe (2003).
I do not own the rights to the music!
The January Man plays like a quiet, character-driven film about endurance, restraint, and the weight of beginnings. Set against gray skies and long winter shadows, the story follows a man who moves through the world with discipline and emotional control, shaped by loss, responsibility, and the belief that survival requires structure. He isn’t loud or flashy; his power comes from patience, from showing up when others fade, from carrying burdens without applause. As the film unfolds, small moments—missed calls, silent rooms, early mornings—reveal the cost of always being the steady one. By the final act, The January Man becomes less about coldness and more about resilience, suggesting that strength isn’t found in warmth alone, but in the ability to endure the season until change arrives.
* Kevin Kline as Lt. Nick Starkey — the quirky ex-NYPD detective brought back to help catch a serial killer.
* Susan Sarandon as Christine Starkey — Nick’s former lover and his brother’s wife.
* Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Bernadette Flynn — the mayor’s daughter who becomes involved in the case and Nick’s life.
* Harvey Keitel as Commissioner Frank Starkey — Nick’s brother and police commissioner.
* Danny Aiello as Captain Vincent Alcoa — part of the police hierarchy Nick deals with.
* Rod Steiger as Mayor Eamon Flynn — the panicked mayor desperate to catch the killer.
* Alan Rickman as Ed — Nick’s eccentric neighbor who helps in the investigation.
James talks about several songs that music artists did that addressed fans and/or critics. Included are smippets of My Opinion is the Only Opinion by ME (james Lott jr) and Yesterday When I was Mad by the Pet shop Boys!
Rob Reiner passed away at the age 78 and this is my favorite movie of his that he directed. His direction in this film is to be studied! Great performances from Kathy Bates (who won the Oscar) and James Caan. Rob will be missed for so much of his work and humanity!
35 years ago this week, this show was the number 10 show of the week. James talks about Unsolved Mysteries.
I don't own the rights to Stranger in Paradise from the album we are featuring, Red Hot Rhythm and Blues!
James speaks of the underratedness of Diana's vocal and acting peformance. Yes she got an Oscar nom, but there are some truly great moment no onetalks about enough!
On Amazon Prime now! James talks about the Ted Danso/Holly Hunter lead, Tina Fey produced Sitcom!
Britney Spears & Ying Yang Twins- I've Got That Boom Boom (2004), an album track from IN The Zone.
Part 1 of the song was the biggest song of the Miracles career. But there was a Part 2. James talks about it and plays a snippet. James does not own the rights to the song!
Danielle Spencer who play sarcastic little sister Dee, died August 11th, 2025. We play a snippet of her comic genius from the show (I do not own the rights) and talk about the show itsself.
James reacts to the new song that is on Barbra Streisands new album. We alos play a snippet of the song. ( I do not own the rights to the song)
JLj went into this documentary thinking it would be one thing and fond out it was completely different!
HBO Docs 2017
JLJ spotlights the son and namesake of Kenny Rogers and his one and only commercial album.
This is a special edition! The GRANDSON of the 10th President John Tyler dies at age 96. This is a historic occassion for many reasons. JLJ gets into it!
Special mention to People magazine!
I do not own the rights to Find a Way by Amy Grant.
We talk about the first female to crossover from Christian music to the pop charts! She was a trailblazer!
One of my favorite albums of all time! Out of print but I have it! Rozalla had a string of hits in the early 90s. JLJ is the host!
JLJ talks about a rare song and a rare remix of the song that is still one of his favs today!
A historic recording happened in 1995 for the Soundtrack to the film Panther! JLJ talks about it!
"Pink Cookies in a Plastic Bag Getting Crushed by Buildings" is a single from LL Cool J's fifth album, 14 Shots to the Dome. It was released on June 1, 1993, along with "Back Seat (of My Jeep)". The original version was produced by Marley Marl; however the more popular remix was produced by Easy Mo Bee. The song reached #2 on the Hot Rap Songs and #24 on the Hot R&B Songs charts.JAmes Lott Jr revisits the song.
I do not own the rights to the song!
Coverdale–Page (stylised as Coverdale • Page) is a collaborative studio album by English singer David Coverdale and guitarist Jimmy Page. It was released on 15 March 1993 by EMI in Europe, 16 March by Geffen Records in North America and 18 March by Sony Music Entertainment in Japan. The album's production was handled by Coverdale, Page and Mike Fraser. Following the disbandment of Coverdale's band Whitesnake and a failed reunion attempt by Page's band Led Zeppelin, John Kalodner proposed the idea to Page of the musicians working together. After meeting each other, they began writing songs, which were then recorded over the course of 1991 and 1992.
I do not own the rights to the song!
I do not own the rights to the song!
The Firm were a British rock supergroup formed in 1984, featuring singer Paul Rodgers, guitarist Jimmy Page, drummer Chris Slade, and bassist Tony Franklin.[1][2][3] The band released two albums in 1985 and 1986 and eventually saw their greatest chart success with the songs "Radioactive", "All the King's Horses", and "Satisfaction Guaranteed".
City of Angels is an album by the Motown soul group The Miracles, released on Motown Records' Tamla label in September 1975. The group's fourth album recorded after replacing lead singer Smokey Robinson with Billy Griffin in 1972, City of Angels is a concept album, depicting of a man from "Anytown, U.S.A." who follows his estranged girlfriend Charlotte to Los Angeles, where she has gone in hopes of becoming a star. All of the tracks on the album were written by Billy Griffin and Miracles bass singer Pete Moore. Freddie Perren and Moore served as the album's producers.The album's first single, "Love Machine", peaked at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 6, 1976, and was a multi-million-selling platinum single,[3] becoming the most successful single of The Miracles' career. Its success coincided with the rise of the disco craze of the late 1970s. Another song on City of Angels, "Ain't Nobody Straight in L.A.", caused controversy due to addressing the subject of homosexuality: "Ain't nobody straight in L.A./It seems that everybody is gay."[4]City of Angels reached 33 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States, and peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Black Albums chart.[5] The Miracles' City Of Angels was also a Platinum album with over one million records sold.[3]The song "Overture" from that album, co-written by Moore and Billy Griffin, was used as the official theme on Radio Monte Carlo in France from 1978 to 1979.[6] While not available on CD in the U.S. until more recently, City of Angels was available in its entirety on the Motown import release, The Miracles – The Essential Collection.
I do not own the rights to the song!
"Nightshift" is a 1985 song by the Commodores and the title track from their album of the same name. The song was written by lead singer Walter Orange in collaboration with Dennis Lambert and Franne Golde as a tribute to soul/R&B singers Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye, both of whom died in 1984. The song was released as the album's first single in January 1985 by Motown Records.[2] "Nightshift" was recorded in 1984 and became the Commodores' first hit after Lionel Richie's departure from the group. Bruce Springsteen covered the song in his 2022 studio album, Only the Strong Survive.
I do not own the rights to the song!
In addition to his work as a visionary, award-winning director, writer, producer, and sound designer, music is a vital part of David Lynch's artistry. Working with composer Angelo Badalamenti on the music for 1985's Blue Velvet, he realized music could be another rewarding form of expression, and that movie's soundtrack set the standard for the Lynchian style: twangy guitars, clouds of synths, and gauzy vocals that coalesced in a dreamlike blend of familiar and strange. The music for the beloved television show Twin Peaks took that sound into the mainstream, with its soundtrack going gold in the U.S. Lynch's palette expanded to blues, jazz, and experimental rock on 2001's Blue Bob and to shadowy electronic pop on 2011's Crazy Clown Time. The director's later releases included collaborations with Flying Lotus and Donovan and 2024's Cellophane Memories, an album with Chrystabell that reimagined the surreal pop that started it all. RIP Mr Lynch 2025
Avril Lavigne- I'm WIth You/Losing Grip (2002-2003)
James Lott Jr shares the love he has or the songs.
I do not own the rigths to the songs!
Norman Lear created the series during the time when conservative talk radio was experiencing its initial upswing in popularity in the United States, particularly in the form of Rush Limbaugh. Lear felt that the time was right for a new show to explore new issues, making 704 Hauser even more explicitly political than All in the Family. John Amos, a veteran of the earlier Lear sitcom Good Times (itself a spin-off of the All in the Family spin-off Maude), starred as Ernie Cumberbatch, while Lynnie Godfrey played his wife, Rose.[1] The show features a reversal of the original All in the Family formula. Ernie and Rose Cumberbatch are working class Democrats, while their son Goodie is a conservative activist and his girlfriend, Cherlyn Markowitz (Maura Tierney), is white and Jewish.The show attracted middling ratings, and was cancelled after five episodes (with one episode remaining unaired).
Lets talk about the brillance of Singer Karyn White!
I do not own the rights to the song Secret Rendevous.
James revists the legendary Ellen Show from the 90s and its impact on all the future LGBTQIA shows and characters. Ellen is Ellen DeGeneres. And we are talking about the TV show not the talk show that came later.
Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters is an American variety show starring American country artist Barbara Mandrell, along with her sisters Irlene Mandrell and Louise Mandrell. The show ran for two seasons on the NBC network between November 1980 and June 1982. The program mixed both music and comedy sketches. The siblings often engaged in sketches involving their family relationship. The music of the show featured the sisters singing and playing a variety of musical instruments. Guest performers were also a part of every show. The show ended its run after Barbara Mandrell decided to step away due to the constant workload.
I do not own the rights to the audiof. Mel Tillis and the show
James lovingly talks about the number 1 from 1976 from Rick Dees!
I do not own the rights to the song!
In honor of this episode being released on Saturday the 14th, Sept 2024, we look at the comedy horror spoof of the same name. Starring Richard Benjamin
James talks about hit Dark comedy War of the Roses from 1989. Starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner!
Thye had a big hit with the video and song in 2001. James Lott jr looks back at the Robbie and Nicole hit!
Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis had a number one hit with Crusin and a dramedy film with Duets in 2000. James Lott Jr looks back at both!
James Lott Jr fondly looks about to the John Travolta/Olivia Newton John Film and soundtrack to Two of a kind! I do not own the rights to the music.
James Lott Jr fondly looks back at the film and soundtrack from Rick Springfield.
I do not own the rights to the music!
The TV movie that had a large impact on James Lott Jr as a teenager, he rewatches it 40 years later and shares all of his feelings then and now! The Day After was on ABC.
Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty (Golden Girls) as Son and Mom! Sly said its the movie he regrets the most. James Lott Jr gives HIS take!
One Season (2014-2015). Kate Walsh starred. On NBC! James has the DVD and explains why he loves the series!
One of my fav shows of the last 2 decades! LA to Vegas was on FOX for 1 season. It is on DVD! Host James Lott Jr explains!
From the album Passionfriut by Michael Franks, James Lott Jr explains this song!
James does not own the rights to song.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Paul Mazursky, written by Mazursky and Larry Tucker, who also produced the film, and starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, and Dyan Cannon. The original music score was composed by Quincy Jones. The cinematography for the film was by Charles Lang. The film received four Academy Award nominations, including ones for Gould and Cannon. Patricia Welles wrote the paperback novel from Mazursky and Tucker's screenplay. James Lott Jr gives his take on the film!
One of my favorites songs of the 80s and still in my rotation today in 2024, Seduction from 1985 from Val Young is the spotlight!
"Let's Clean Up the Ghetto" is a song released in 1977 by Philadelphia International Records, a soul music label based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The song features vocals from a collective of artists associated with the label, including The Philadelphia International All-Stars. Some of the prominent artists who contributed vocals to the song include:* Teddy Pendergrass * Lou Rawls * Archie Bell * Dee Dee Sharp Gamble * Billy Paul * Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes * The O'Jays
These artists, among others, came together to perform the song as part of a collaborative effort to raise awareness about the need to address urban blight and poverty in inner-city neighborhoods. "Let's Clean Up the Ghetto" was not only a hit song but also served as a call to action for social change.
When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for the fame and fortune of show business. But before stardom, he needs a place to stay. Looking in the personals, he notices GWM. And thinking it "Guy with Money," he heads to the Village and the apartment of gay actor Warren, who's in desperate need of this month's rent. James Lott Jr looks back at the movie from 1997 starring Nick Scotti and Anthony Barrile.
James Lott Jr talks about the series with 2 and 2 and a fifth...if you were on the show, contact him at jlottjr@aol.com
DO the couples stay together or do they have a....James Lott Jr talks about the show! If you were on, contact him at jlottjr@aol.com
The thought bubbles, the hot tubs, the confessions, Blind Date was one of JLJ's favs! If you were on the show, contact him at jlottjr@aol.com
If you were on the reality dating show ElimiDate contact host James Lott Jr at jlottjr@aol.com
He discusses the show!
"There's the Girl" is a song recorded by the American rock band, Heart. It was composed by Holly Knight and Heart band member Nancy Wilson. "There's The Girl" was released in a remixed version as the third single from Heart's ninth studio album, Bad Animals. Knight is known as a very successful songwriter who was responsible for penning many hit singles during the 1980s.Like Heart's 1986 #1 single "These Dreams", the lead vocals on "There's the Girl" were performed by Nancy Wilson, rather than Ann Wilson, the usual lead singer for the group (though most fans did not realize this until the video was released or they saw the song performed live). The single climbed to #12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was also a Top-40 single on the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at #34.Cash Box called it a "gorgeous pop/rock number."[2]
Romantic Comedy from 2007 starring Michelle Pfeifer, Paul Rudd and Saiorse Ronan, and Tracey Ullman!James Lott Jr talks about why he like the movie!
Host James Lott Jr spotlights Courtney Loves award winning debut in The People Vs Larry Flynt from 1996. And JLJ shares a Larry Flynt story!
Host James Lott Jr spotlights Tom Cruise's Oscar Nominated perfomance in Born on the Fourth of July from 1989!
Aug 3rd 1900 was when War Correspondent Ernie Pyle was born! There is a Documentary GI Joe: The Ernie Pyle Story (clip courtesy of Mymarfilms.com) and the 1945 Film The Story Of GI Joe with Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum! Check out our Podcast Ernie Pyle WWII Museum Podcast where you get your podcasts!
James Lott Jr looks back on the Sci Fi channels Tin Man, a darker version of The Wizard of Oz!
"Hold Me" is a 1987 song by Sheila E., and the first single released from her third album, Sheila E.. The song is an R&B ballad and the B-side is the non-album track "The World Is High". James Lott Jr talks about its place in James' Heart!
Its May 2023 and James Lott Jr is looking back to May 1983 and talking about a movie that he saw IN the theaters and forgot abotu, the ONE week at number one Spacehunter! Starring Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald and Ernie Hudson!
Its May 2023 and James Lott Jr is looking back to May 1983 and the Top 5 show on Television, Simon and Simon!
Its May 2023, host James Lott Jr looks back to May 1983 and talks about hit Song, She Blinded Me With Science byThomas Dolby. The song and the album it came from have personal meaning to James, he explains!
Vanity (Denise Matthews) left Prince and Vanity 6 and started to have a movie and music careers, like The Last Dragon (movie) and Under the Influence (music). Host James Lott Jr shares thehistory and his feelings of her career.
The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was an American committee formed in 1983 with the stated goal of increasing parental control over the access of children to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes via labeling albums with Parental Advisory stickers. The committee was founded by four women known as the "Washington Wives"—a reference to their husbands' connections with government in the Washington, D.C. area. The women who founded the PMRC are Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore; Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker; Pam Howar, wife of Washington realtor Raymond Howar; and Sally Nevius, wife of former Washington City Council Chairman John Nevius. The PMRC eventually grew to include 22 participants before shutting down in the mid-to-late 1990s.
James Lott Jr lists the list they complied as an example of songs. called the Filthy 15.
Enjoy!
Host James Lott Jr gets teary eyed talking about this film!
The Red Turtle (French: La Tortue Rouge; Japanese: レッドタートル ある島の物語, romanized: Reddo Tātoru: Aru Shima no Monogatari) is a 2016 animated fantasy drama film co-written and directed by Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit and produced by Toshio Suzuki from Japan. The film is a co-production between Studio Ghibli and several French companies, including Wild Bunch,[a] and tells the story of a man who becomes shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and meets a giant red female turtle. The film has no dialogue.[5] It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.[6][7] The film was nominated for the Best Animated Feature Film for the 89th Academy Awards.
The German Techno Soundtrack. The lead with the bright red hair. James Lott JR spotlights on of his fav films of the past 30 years, Run Lola Run. There are spoilers here!
When a small-time courier for a big time gangster loses 100,000 marks in cash, his girlfriend Lola has 20 minutes to race around town replace the money forcing her to make life altering decisions that blur the fine line between fate and fortune. Franka Potente is the star. She is Lola!
Kay Toinette Oslin (May 15, 1942 – December 21, 2020) was an American country music singer-songwriter. She had several years of major commercial success in the late 1980s after signing a record deal at age 45. Oslin had four number one hits and placed additional singles on the Billboard country chart during that timespan; in addition, she won three Grammy Awards and is an inductee of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Host is James Lott Jr
I'm IN this movie! You can watch on Amazon Prime! thanks to Gerald Webb and Kelly V dolan!
The hit book came out in 2004 and the hit movie came out in 2009! James Lott Jr talks about both and its impact!
James talks about the movie (briefly) but really gets into the Best selling books of Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch.
One of my favorite films! Apartment Zero starringa young Colin Firth and mysterious Hart Bochner! UK_Argentine production! Listen to why I think you NEED to check it out!
James Lott Jr's favorite documentary series!The Up series of documentary films follows the lives of ten males and four females in England beginning in 1964, when they were seven years old. The first film was titled Seven Up!, with later films adjusting the number in the title to match the age of the subjects at the time of filming. The documentary has had nine episodes—one every seven years—thus spanning 56 years. The series has been produced by Granada Television for ITV, which has broadcast all of them except 42 Up (1998), which was broadcast on BBC One.
James revists the 80s hit show Night Court and declares the Pilot Episode, one of the BEST pilot episodes EVER!
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LIl Wayne feat Cory Gunz, 6ft 7ft song went to the Billboard Top 10 on several charsts. James Lott Jr talks about the song!
James talks about the show that is the Highest Rated show to be cancelled by a network after airing one season! Listen to why that happened 50 years ago!
Domenic Priore wrote a book about the music and social scene of 1965-1966 on the Sunset Strip! James Lott Jr is the host!
James Lott Jr heard Touch ME by the 49ers in a movie and it reminded him of another song that is close to his heart!
Princes Purple Rain was the winner but check out the other nominees! James Lott Jr is the host
The Late Kobe Bryant with Glen Keane, won the Oscar in 2018 for the Short Film Dear Basketball! Host James Lott Jr talks about that! Kobe passed away in Jan 2020.
Nominated for 3 Academy Awards in 1970, I Never Sang For My Father was a play then a movie. Starring Melvyn Douglas and Gene Hackman! Host James Lott Jr tells us why he loves it!
The winner of Best Song at the OSCARS in 1979 was Last Dance by Paul Jabara for the film Thank God Its Friday. Song sung by Donna Summer! But what were he other four nominees, take a listen..
Host James Lott Jr talks about the Hit 1989 Soundtrack to the Hit movie Batman, by Prince!
Grammy and Oscar Winner Irene Cara sang, danced, acted and wrote songs in the 1980s in the movies!! From Fame, to Flashdance to DC Cab, City Heat, Certain Fury, All Dogs Go to Heaven and more! James Lott Jr is the host!
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Thing About Me! is a film from 1971 starring Dustin Hoffman! The dark comedy also stars Barbara Harris who was nominated for an Oscar for Her performance! Host James Lott Jr explains why he chose to spotlight this film!
James Lott Jr spotlights 1975's Book and Movie,Sheila Levine is dead and living in New York. Written by Gail Parent (Tracey Takes On,The Golden Girls) and Roy Scheider is the co star (Jaws). The book and the movie are sign of change times in the mid 70s and could be the precursor to single female movies and tv shows that came later!