Tortured Man

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Howard Stern Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and television personality, comedian, and author. He is best known for his radio show, '' The Howard Stern Show'', which gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terr ...

and The Dust Brothers , album = Private Parts

Soundtrack A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrac ...

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Jackie Martling John Coger "Jackie" Martling, Jr. (born February 14, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, radio personality, author, actor, and musician also known as Jackie the Joke Man. He is best known as a former writer and in-studio comedian fo ...

, Eric Fred Norris,

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with The Dust Brothers that originally featured on the soundtrack for Stern's 1997 film '' Private Parts''. The song has been used as the closing theme song for '' The Howard Stern Show'' since January 1999. The song feature
Marc Hutner
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Josh Blum
from the rock group Sugartooth on guitar and bass. The song's lyrics, written with help from ''Stern Show'' writers

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Fred Norris Eric Fred Norris (born Fred Leo Nukis; July 9, 1955) is an American radio personality and the longest-tenured staff member of ''The Howard Stern Show'', aside from Stern himself. He first met Howard Stern while working at WCCC-FM, a radio stat ...

, detail the frustration Stern felt for years as a married man with many beautiful women as guests on his radio show. This mirrors one of the central themes of ''Private Parts'' - Stern's devotion to his wife and family. When Stern and his first wife, Alison, separated in 2000 and divorced in 2001 it gave Stern the opportunity to date glamorous celebrities such as

Angie Everhart Angela Kay Everhart (born September 7, 1969) is an American actress and former model who appeared in several ''Sports Illustrated'' Swimsuit Issues in the 1990s and posed nude for ''Playboy'' in 2000. Early life Everhart was born on September 7 ...

and Robin Givens before settling down and marrying model Beth Ostrosky in 2008. The song also features a number of regularly used sounds clips from the radio show featuring Martling, show producer

Gary Dell'Abate Gary Patrick Angelo Dell'Abate (born March 14, 1961), also known by the nickname Baba Booey, is an American radio producer who has been the executive producer of ''The Howard Stern Show'' since 1984. His autobiography, '' They Call Me Baba Booey'' ...

, and Stern's parents Ben and Rae. 1997 singles Radio theme songs 1997 songs Warner Records singles Songs written by John King (record producer) Songs written by Michael Simpson (producer)