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RGMike

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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #90 on: May 11, 2010, 02:09:25 PM »
damn, today is my day to learn cool stuff!

Just mentioned on Li'l Steven's show -- Suzi Quatro's sister Arlene is the mother of actress Sherilynn Fenn of Twin Peaks fame. Imagine calling Suzi Quatro  "Auntie Suze"!
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« Reply #91 on: July 02, 2010, 01:43:40 PM »
I wish I were making this up but sadly, no: Luther Vandross' middle name was... Ronzoni. Damn, his mama LURVED her some pasta!
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #92 on: July 02, 2010, 06:58:36 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on July 02, 2010, 01:43:40 PM
I wish I were making this up but sadly, no: Luther Vandross' middle name was... Ronzoni. Damn, his mama LURVED her some pasta!

Dance With My Father, Cook With My Ronzoni
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #93 on: July 06, 2010, 11:14:48 AM »
OMGWTF-of-the-week: Freddie Weller, a onetime member of Paul Revere & the Raiders had a country hit in the summer of '71 with a down-home version of the Cowsills' "Indian Lake".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb7y78iefto
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #94 on: July 19, 2010, 12:28:40 PM »
Noticed that Johnny Bristol's fab "Hang on in There baby" is on this week's 1974 AT40 chart and looked him up on Wiki -- I seemed to remember a Harvey Fuqua connection. What I did NOT know was that Bristol (as part of "Johnny & Jackey") had the original version of the Supes' "Someday We'll Be Together" -- in 1961!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU_sFZWUK_g

and it was on Fuqua's Tri-Phi label.
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #95 on: July 25, 2010, 12:10:36 PM »
"Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom)", one of my fave Staples Singers hits (and a Morey Soul Patrol, er, staple as well) was co-written by Bobby "Montego Bay" Bloom!
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #96 on: August 15, 2010, 11:28:04 AM »
caught the tail end of Peter Bogdonavich's ill-fated Henry James adaptation, Daisy Miller (1974) with Cybill Shepherd, and her brother was played by a child actor named... James McMurtry! Yes, the singer-songwriter.
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #97 on: December 02, 2010, 01:38:44 PM »
It was pointed out today that Rufus Wainwright sounds quite like Harry Nilsson. I'd never considered it but damn... he really kinda does.
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #98 on: December 02, 2010, 04:22:18 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on December 02, 2010, 01:38:44 PM
It was pointed out today that Rufus Wainwright sounds quite like Harry Nilsson. I'd never considered it but damn... he really kinda does.

Not to my ears.  Rufus' voice grates.  Harry's soothes.   
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #99 on: December 02, 2010, 08:12:33 PM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on December 02, 2010, 04:22:18 PM
Quote from: RGMike on December 02, 2010, 01:38:44 PM
It was pointed out today that Rufus Wainwright sounds quite like Harry Nilsson. I'd never considered it but damn... he really kinda does.

Not to my ears.  Rufus' voice grates.  Harry's soothes.   

the example that was given me was Rufus' cover of "KIng of the Road":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTeaxCwBudk
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #100 on: January 07, 2011, 11:52:17 AM »
super-secret probation indeed: someone just posted on AL's FB page that the role of Dean Wormer was orig offered to Jack Webb, who turned it down.
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #101 on: January 07, 2011, 03:53:09 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on January 07, 2011, 11:52:17 AM
super-secret probation indeed: someone just posted on AL's FB page that the role of Dean Wormer was orig offered to Jack Webb, who turned it down.

That was not mentioned in the Biography documentary I recently viewed.  That seemed to indicate is was a Landis inspiration.
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #102 on: April 10, 2011, 07:35:32 PM »
News to me: Ke$ha's name is pronounced "KEH-shuh", not "KEE-shuh". WTF? I am beyond gobsmacked (but then I'm esaily gobsmacked).
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #103 on: April 16, 2011, 04:11:28 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on April 10, 2011, 07:35:32 PM
News to me: Ke$ha's name is pronounced "KEH-shuh", not "KEE-shuh". WTF? I am beyond gobsmacked (but then I'm esaily gobsmacked).

No, it's pronounced Ke-dollar-sign-ha.
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Re: I didn't know that!
« Reply #104 on: May 30, 2011, 05:00:07 PM »
forgive me for being WAY late to the party but I *swear* I didn't know Chuck Prophet is white. Gobsmacked doesn't cover it.

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