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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: Gazoo on October 14, 2005, 07:35:40 PM
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Trivia rules my life.
Frank Farian (of Milli Vanilli) produced not only Boney M (which I knew) but Eruption's hit cover of "I Can't Stand the Rain" (which I SO didn't). He's had a bit more impact than I like to think.
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One of the acts on KPIG's Sunday morning playing-live-in-the-studio show performed a cover of Stevie's "Superstition", which they said was a favorite because "it's about inequality" -- and damned if it had never occured to me that "superstition" is a metaphor for prejudice. "if you believe in things you don't understand, then you suffer"... All these years I thought it was about ladders and black cats. Live and learn!
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Reviving this really old thread because I just learned from AMG (http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:83rv283c052a) that none other than Jann Wenner produced Boz's "Loan Me a Dime."
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Reviving this really old thread because I just learned from AMG (http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:83rv283c052a) that none other than Jann Wenner produced Boz's "Loan Me a Dime."
I wonder when AMG learned this?
:lol: :lol:
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Reviving this really old thread because I just learned from AMG (http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:83rv283c052a) that none other than Jann Wenner produced Boz's "Loan Me a Dime."
Of course Jann's original lyric was "Loan me a Brisket".
TANC: The guy who blogs at hollywood-elsewhere.com asked recently if anyone remembered what '80s movie Boz's "I'm Easy" (from the same LP; NOT the Keith Carradine hit) was used in . I've no idea.
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Just saw a promo for the new Sci-Fi Channel miniseries, The Lost Room. It stars Peter Krause, best known as Nate on Six Feet Under. The announcer pronounced his name "KRAU-zuh", rather than "Kraus", which I (and most of America, I'd wager) always assumed it was. Coulda knocked me over with a feather.
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Greg on CG just mentioned that Freda "Band of Gold" Payne is married to Gregory "Shake You Down" Abbott -- news to me!
after Googling I discovered they've been married since 1978 (long before his chart success), apparently they met when he wrote some songs she recorded. He's 11 years her junior -- you GO, Ms Payne!
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Greg on CG just mentioned that Freda "Band of Gold" Payne is married to Gregory "Shake You Down" Abbott -- news to me!
after Googling I discovered they've been married since 1978 (long before his chart success), apparently they met when he wrote some songs she recorded. He's 11 years her junior -- you GO, Ms Payne!
WOW!!! i did not know that!
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I can't believe I didn't know this, but...
"Can't Get Enough of You Baby', which I always knew as a ? & the Mysterians song (one of their follow-ups to "96 Tears"), which was later covered by The Colourfield and Smash Mouth, was actually originally recorded by... The Four Seasons. I've never heard their version; has anyone?
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So I brought the Buddah Records Box to work today (thanks, Gaz!) and it has Steve Goodman's orig version of "City of New Orleans" which contains the lines
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steam.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they dream.
And I thought, "isn't STEAM really STEEL and DREAM really FEEL?"
Well, it turns out numerous cover versions (Arlo's hit, Willie Nelson etc etc) did indeed change the lyrics. The entry on Top40 db even points out this oddity.
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So I brought the Buddah Records Box to work today (thanks, Gaz!) and it has Steve Goodman's orig version of "City of New Orleans" which contains the lines
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steam.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they dream.
And I thought, "isn't STEAM really STEEL and DREAM really FEEL?"
Well, it turns out numerous cover versions (Arlo's hit, Willie Nelson etc etc) did indeed change the lyrics. The entry on Top40 db even points out this oddity.
if you have iTunes at the office, just rip me an MP3!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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So I just got this from the Ken Jennings weekly trivia email that I subscribe to....and for all the articles I've read about him & all the talking about him that goes on here, this bit was still unknown to me.
Barry Zito has a Hollywood celebrity uncle. Who is he?
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So I brought the Buddah Records Box to work today (thanks, Gaz!) and it has Steve Goodman's orig version of "City of New Orleans" which contains the lines
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steam.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they dream.
And I thought, "isn't STEAM really STEEL and DREAM really FEEL?"
Well, it turns out numerous cover versions (Arlo's hit, Willie Nelson etc etc) did indeed change the lyrics. The entry on Top40 db even points out this oddity.
if you have iTunes at the office, just rip me an MP3!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Arlo's City is what has been getting the most play from a disc Gaz burned for me (Singers/Songwriters) and before I read all of your post I was thinking "Steam!?" I have been hearing and singing steel.
While on the subject, what is the meaning of "...and the steel rails still aint heard the news".
What news?
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So I brought the Buddah Records Box to work today (thanks, Gaz!) and it has Steve Goodman's orig version of "City of New Orleans" which contains the lines
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steam.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they dream.
And I thought, "isn't STEAM really STEEL and DREAM really FEEL?"
Well, it turns out numerous cover versions (Arlo's hit, Willie Nelson etc etc) did indeed change the lyrics. The entry on Top40 db even points out this oddity.
if you have iTunes at the office, just rip me an MP3!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Arlo's City is what has been getting the most play from a disc Gaz burned for me (Singers/Songwriters) and before I read all of your post I was thinking "Steam!?" I have been hearing and singing steel.
While on the subject, what is the meaning of "...and the steel rails still aint heard the news".
What news?
I've only heard Goodman's version once on KPIG. I seem to remember it was different. What news? Perhaps the news of the end of the railroad? Something like that?
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Arlo's City is what has been getting the most play from a disc Gaz burned for me (Singers/Songwriters) and before I read all of your post I was thinking "Steam!?" I have been hearing and singing steel.
While on the subject, what is the meaning of "...and the steel rails still aint heard the news".
What news?
The news that the railroads are an outdated mode of travel. The feeling back in the late '60s/early '70s was that they were going the way of the dinosaur.
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So I just got this from the Ken Jennings weekly trivia email that I subscribe to....and for all the articles I've read about him & all the talking about him that goes on here, this bit was still unknown to me.
Barry Zito has a Hollywood celebrity uncle. Who is he?
I had to Google this as I had no idea. Wow! Veddy interrrethtink.
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So I just got this from the Ken Jennings weekly trivia email that I subscribe to....and for all the articles I've read about him & all the talking about him that goes on here, this bit was still unknown to me.
Barry Zito has a Hollywood celebrity uncle. Who is he?
I had to Google this as I had no idea. Wow! Veddy interrrethtink.
So the answer is.....Patrick (Bobby (Man From Atlantis) Ewing) Duffy!
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So I just got this from the Ken Jennings weekly trivia email that I subscribe to....and for all the articles I've read about him & all the talking about him that goes on here, this bit was still unknown to me.
Barry Zito has a Hollywood celebrity uncle. Who is he?
I had to Google this as I had no idea. Wow! Veddy interrrethtink.
So the answer is.....Patrick (Bobby (Man From Atlantis) Ewing) Duffy!
Patrick (Bobby (Man From (Right Leg of Scuzzlebutt) Atlantis) Ewing) Duffy
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So I just got this from the Ken Jennings weekly trivia email that I subscribe to....and for all the articles I've read about him & all the talking about him that goes on here, this bit was still unknown to me.
Barry Zito has a Hollywood celebrity uncle. Who is he?
I had to Google this as I had no idea. Wow! Veddy interrrethtink.
So the answer is.....Patrick (Bobby (Man From Atlantis) Ewing) Duffy!
Patrick (Bobby (Man From (Right Leg of Scuzzlebutt) Atlantis) Ewing) Duffy
LOL! Does this mean Barry will go back to the A's next season and say that 2007 was "all a dream"?
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So I just got this from the Ken Jennings weekly trivia email that I subscribe to....and for all the articles I've read about him & all the talking about him that goes on here, this bit was still unknown to me.
Barry Zito has a Hollywood celebrity uncle. Who is he?
I had to Google this as I had no idea. Wow! Veddy interrrethtink.
So the answer is.....Patrick (Bobby (Man From Atlantis) Ewing) Duffy!
Patrick (Bobby (Man From (Right Leg of Scuzzlebutt) Atlantis) Ewing) Duffy
LOL! Does this mean Barry will go back to the A's next season and say that 2007 was "all a dream"?
We can only hope it looks something like the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNl0Pw8DMdA)!
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Tim Goodman just pronounced Aidin Vaiziri's first name as "eye-DEEN", rather than "AY-din". Can that be right? Is that the way Vaiziri's parents pronounced it, or is it an affectation he came up with himself?
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This is even scarier than Isaac Hayes being a Scientologist: apparently Gladys Knight is a convert to... Mormonism. Use your imagination indeed.
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This is even scarier than Isaac Hayes being a Scientologist: apparently Gladys Knight is a convert to... Mormonism. Use your imagination indeed.
but...but...but...i just don't get it.
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So I just got this from the Ken Jennings weekly trivia email that I subscribe to....and for all the articles I've read about him & all the talking about him that goes on here, this bit was still unknown to me.
Barry Zito has a Hollywood celebrity uncle. Who is he?
I had to Google this as I had no idea. Wow! Veddy interrrethtink.
So the answer is.....Patrick (Bobby (Man From Atlantis) Ewing) Duffy!
According to imdb.com, Duffy's wife is the sister of Zito's mother.
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This is even scarier than Isaac Hayes being a Scientologist: apparently Gladys Knight is a convert to... Mormonism. Use your imagination indeed.
Cue the obligatory "If I Were One Of Your Women" joke.
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This is even scarier than Isaac Hayes being a Scientologist: apparently Gladys Knight is a convert to... Mormonism. Use your imagination indeed.
Cue the obligatory "If I Were One Of Your Women" joke.
ROTFL!
This came up because I stumbled across a Gladys Knight special on the BYU channel on digital cable. Apparently her only complaint about Mormonism has been "the music" (the implication being it was a bit too white). And they interviewed this incredibly white woman who said to Gladys, "well then let's all get together and sing some gospel!" as if it were, y'know, the easiest thing in the world for white folks in Utah to do.
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This is even scarier than Isaac Hayes being a Scientologist: apparently Gladys Knight is a convert to... Mormonism. Use your imagination indeed.
Cue the obligatory "If I Were One Of Your Women" joke.
ROTFL!
This came up because I stumbled across a Gladys Knight special on the BYU channel on digital cable. Apparently her only complaint about Mormonism has been "the music" (the implication being it was a bit too white). And they interviewed this incredibly white woman who said to Gladys, "well then let's all get together and sing some gospel!" as if it were, y'know, the easiest thing in the world for white folks in Utah to do.
(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PHOTOFILE/AABP027~Utah-Jazz-Team-Logo-Photofile-Posters.jpg)
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This is even scarier than Isaac Hayes being a Scientologist: apparently Gladys Knight is a convert to... Mormonism. Use your imagination indeed.
Cue the obligatory "If I Were One Of Your Women" joke.
ROTFL!
This came up because I stumbled across a Gladys Knight special on the BYU channel on digital cable. Apparently her only complaint about Mormonism has been "the music" (the implication being it was a bit too white). And they interviewed this incredibly white woman who said to Gladys, "well then let's all get together and sing some gospel!" as if it were, y'know, the easiest thing in the world for white folks in Utah to do.
Utah-Jazz-Team-Logo-Photofile-Posters.jpg
But wait... there's more!
http://www.gladysandron.com/
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I've been listening to day to 2 Dusty Springfield double-CDS, Dusty in Memphis (the 2nd CD is bonus tracks) and Dusty in London. Listening to Memphis led me to do some googling -- I never knew that both "I Don't Want To Hear it Anymore" and "Just One Smile" (I know the latter from the first BS&T LP) are early Randy Newman compositions. Interesting web page detailing covers of his early stuff:
http://www.randynewman.info/biography/other.html
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I've been listening to day to 2 Dusty Springfield double-CDS, Dusty in Memphis (the 2nd CD is bonus tracks) and Dusty in London. Listening to Memphis led me to do some googling -- I never knew that both "I Don't Want To Hear it Anymore" and "Just One Smile" (I know the latter from the first BS&T LP) are early Randy Newman compositions. Interesting web page detailing covers of his early stuff:
http://www.randynewman.info/biography/other.html
I have those same comps, and yeah, Dusty "got" Randy in a way few others did. (TANC: I was watching Dusty vids on YouTube last night, and her post-"What Have I Done to Deserve This" efforts, um, lacked effort.) IDWTHIA is a major highlight that deserved more exposure. "And the walls ... are much too thin."
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I've been listening to day to 2 Dusty Springfield double-CDS, Dusty in Memphis (the 2nd CD is bonus tracks) and Dusty in London. Listening to Memphis led me to do some googling -- I never knew that both "I Don't Want To Hear it Anymore" and "Just One Smile" (I know the latter from the first BS&T LP) are early Randy Newman compositions. Interesting web page detailing covers of his early stuff:
http://www.randynewman.info/biography/other.html
I have those same comps, and yeah, Dusty "got" Randy in a way few others did. (TANC: I was watching Dusty vids on YouTube last night, and her post-"What Have I Done to Deserve This" efforts, um, lacked effort.) IDWTHIA is a major highlight that deserved more exposure. "And the walls ... are much too thin."
I remember a bizarre pairing on some '70s variety show: Peggy Lee and some actor (I wanna say Anthony Quinn) doing a duet of Randy's "Love Story" (We'll have a kid/Or maybe we'll rent one/He's gotta be straight/'Cause we don't want a bent one). Ms. Lee also did a cover of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" on an Ed Suliivan "salute to the Beatles" from around the same time. I'll have to go look for those on YouTube.
BTW, can I assume Dusty's "You've Got a Friend" pre-dates both Ms King's and JT's?
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BTW, can I assume Dusty's "You've Got a Friend" pre-dates both Ms King's and JT's?
Ooh, good question. I'll have to look into that. (What a great extended coda on Dusty's rendition.)
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wow, this was news to me -- I just heard Bob Shannon discuss this on CBS-FM. The Stylistics' "Betcha By Golly Wow" was orig recorded in 1970 as a comeback bid by Connie Stevens (!) as "Keep Going Strong", and the great Thom Bell produced both versions!
Gaz may have known this, I'll bet it's been dealt with on "Lost 45s", but "I did not know that!"
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wow, this was news to me -- I just heard Bob Shannon discuss this on CBS-FM. The Stylistics' "Betcha By Golly Wow" was orig recorded in 1970 as a comeback bid by Connie Stevens (!) as "Keep Going Strong", and the great Thom Bell produced both versions!
Gaz may have known this, I'll bet it's been dealt with on "Lost 45s", but "I did not know that!"
I had no idea about any of that! He didn't play the Stevens cut, did he? (Was it actually released?)
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wow, this was news to me -- I just heard Bob Shannon discuss this on CBS-FM. The Stylistics' "Betcha By Golly Wow" was orig recorded in 1970 as a comeback bid by Connie Stevens (!) as "Keep Going Strong", and the great Thom Bell produced both versions!
Gaz may have known this, I'll bet it's been dealt with on "Lost 45s", but "I did not know that!"
I had no idea about any of that! He didn't play the Stevens cut, did he? (Was it actually released?)
Apparently it was indeed released. E-mail Barry Scott, pronto!
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So, I was explaining an Easy Rider reference to one of my younger cow orkers (okay, they are all younger than me, but still), and went to the imdb so I could pass off the link. And Phil Spector was in the movie.
I did not know that.
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So WLNG just played Gladys/Pips, "Daddy Could Swear..." and I went looking for lyrics, only to discover that there's a cover version by... Pearl Jam? WTF?? Anyone ever hear this?
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From a "Hz So Good" newsletter:
that was Caron Wheeler, later of Soul II Soul, singing in the video for Elvis Costello’s 1983 hit "Everyday I Write the Book."
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From another "Hz So Good" newsletter, regarding Ray Stevens' "Ahab the Arab":
"Which, at the time on KEWB in Oakland, Casey Kasem, of Arabic heritage, pronounced “Ahab the AR-ab.” He wasn’t taking none of that."
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From another "Hz So Good" newsletter, regarding Ray Stevens' "Ahab the Arab":
"Which, at the time on KEWB in Oakland, Casey Kasem, of Arabic heritage, pronounced “Ahab the AR-ab.” He wasn’t taking none of that."
"I want a goddam concerted effort... I want someone to use their f---in' brain... and not come out of a f---in' uptempo record with a goddam racial slur!"
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Per a "stories behind the songs" feature on WLNG, The Animals hit "We Gotta Getb Out of This Place" was written (by Mann & Weil) for... the Righteous Bros, who turned it down.
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Earlier this morning Mike asked about Magical Mystery Tour on the Drive thread, and I looked it up on Wikipedia. On second glance I noticed something that definitely qualifies as an "I Didn't Know That":
Now I *did* know that Death Cab For Cutie took their name from a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (written by Neil Innes of Monty Python fame), and I've even heard the song. But what I *didn't* know was that they were featured performing this song in the film Magical Mystery Tour!!!
Wiki sez: The film is punctuated by musical interludes which include The Beatles performing "I Am the Walrus" wearing animal masks, George Harrison singing "Blue Jay Way" while waiting on Blue Jay Way Road and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing "Death Cab For Cutie".
Anyone else already know that?
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Earlier this morning Mike asked about Magical Mystery Tour on the Drive thread, and I looked it up on Wikipedia. On second glance I noticed something that definitely qualifies as an "I Didn't Know That":
Now I *did* know that Death Cab For Cutie took their name from a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (written by Neil Innes of Monty Python fame), and I've even heard the song. But what I *didn't* know was that they were featured performing this song in the film Magical Mystery Tour!!!
Wiki sez: The film is punctuated by musical interludes which include The Beatles performing "I Am the Walrus" wearing animal masks, George Harrison singing "Blue Jay Way" while waiting on Blue Jay Way Road and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing "Death Cab For Cutie".
Anyone else already know that?
yes, I did -- one of the reasons I'm dying to see MMT.
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Earlier this morning Mike asked about Magical Mystery Tour on the Drive thread, and I looked it up on Wikipedia. On second glance I noticed something that definitely qualifies as an "I Didn't Know That":
Now I *did* know that Death Cab For Cutie took their name from a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (written by Neil Innes of Monty Python fame), and I've even heard the song. But what I *didn't* know was that they were featured performing this song in the film Magical Mystery Tour!!!
Wiki sez: The film is punctuated by musical interludes which include The Beatles performing "I Am the Walrus" wearing animal masks, George Harrison singing "Blue Jay Way" while waiting on Blue Jay Way Road and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing "Death Cab For Cutie".
Anyone else already know that?
yes, I did -- one of the reasons I'm dying to see MMT.
Likewise, and I confess to having found it one of many dah-READ-ful moments in the show. By all means watch it, but you'll deem it unwatchable.
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Or, what the hell, I'll play SPOILER again:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Omc9lkSjYjc
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Turns out that White Plains of "My Baby Loves Lovin'" fame, had the UK hit with Bobby Sherman's "Julie Do ya Love Me". I've gotta track that down.
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Turns out that White Plains of "My Baby Loves Lovin'" fame, had the UK hit with Bobby Sherman's "Julie Do ya Love Me". I've gotta track that down.
and heeeeeeeere it is:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vvACHeD0wAA
almost identical -- not sure who was covering who; both versions charted in the UK at the same time.
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From the ILM message board, on Dionne Warwick's rendition of "I Say a Little Prayer":
Dionne once said that she imagined it was about a girl thinking about her guy who's stationed in Vietnam.
Wow, that really kicks the song up several notches for me, and I already loved it (and Aretha's even more). Can't believe I never thought of that.
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From the ILM message board, on Dionne Warwick's rendition of "I Say a Little Prayer":
Dionne once said that she imagined it was about a girl thinking about her guy who's stationed in Vietnam.
Wow, that really kicks the song up several notches for me, and I already loved it (and Aretha's even more). Can't believe I never thought of that.
Damn, that never occurred t me either, but it totally makes sense. Add it to "Galveston", "Last Train to Clarkesville", "Merry Xmas Darling" etc -- the Vietnam-as-subtext Set.
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Bart Simpson is a Scientologist!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=23858
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Carol Douglas' 1975 "Doctors Orders" was a cover of a British hit from the year before:
http://broyes.imeem.com/music/nRc3rnu8/sunny_doctors_orders/
The artist, Sunny, is a backup singer who worked with Joe Cocker (that's her on "With a Little Help...") and T.Rex...
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per a conversation on the KFOG Morning show, Sharks play-by-play guy Randy Hahn is married to Channel 5's Roberta Gonzalez! Live'n'Learn!
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per a conversation on the KFOG Morning show, Sharks play-by-play guy Randy Hahn is married to Channel 5's Roberta Gonzalez! Live'n'Learn!
I don't follow hockey and I knew this a couple years ago. That is why if you watched KPIX sports during the NHL lockout Randy Hahn do some fill in for sports, Gonzalez got him the job.
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You won't believe what is the biggest selling digital track:
http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/journeys-dont-stop-believin-is-top-selling-digital-catalog-track-180372?cpn=RSS&source=MRNEWS (http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/journeys-dont-stop-believin-is-top-selling-digital-catalog-track-180372?cpn=RSS&source=MRNEWS)
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You won't believe what is the biggest selling digital track:
http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/journeys-dont-stop-believin-is-top-selling-digital-catalog-track-180372?cpn=RSS&source=MRNEWS (http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/journeys-dont-stop-believin-is-top-selling-digital-catalog-track-180372?cpn=RSS&source=MRNEWS)
Gah!
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Bob Shannon's "Behind the Hits" on WLNG reveals that Spanky & Our Gang's "Sunday Will Never Be the Same" was arranged by the same guy who did the Cowsills' "The Rain, the Park, etc". Makes perfect sense.
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So I'm watching this fascinating show on SF Public Access, a photographer named Daniel Nicoletta sharing his photos of the Castro in the '70s in general and Harvey Milk in particular. Some amazing stuff. And then he gets into Harvey's pre-SF life and it turns out one of Harvey's early boyfriends in NYC, a guy named Andy who he lived with from 1956 to the early '60s, later moved to the Village and became part of the Warhol crowd and his nickname was "Sugar Plum Fairy" -- yes, Andy was *the* "Sugar Plum Fairy" from "Walk on the Wild Side"!
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Yesterday was reading a waiting room magazine profile on Billy Crudup, whom you'd know as the lead singer of fictional band Stillwater in Almost Famous, and who will be in the much anticipated Watchmen. Didn't know that he's won 2 Tony Awards, but I REALLY would never have guessed that he is guy behind the voice on the "Priceless" Master Card commercials.
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'LNG is doing a Buddy Holly tribute -- I never knew that's King Curtis playing sax on "True Love Ways".
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I'd always heard that a number of actresses had turned down the part of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but per Wiki it was turned down by (hold onto your hat, princess!) Anne Bancroft, Colleen Dewhurst, Geraldine Page, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Angela Lansbury!
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I'd always heard that a number of actresses had turned down the part of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but per Wiki it was turned down by (hold onto your hat, princess!) Anne Bancroft, Colleen Dewhurst, Geraldine Page, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Angela Lansbury!
TANC: I just bought that DVD on my lunch hour excursion to Costco, where it was only $8.99 for the 2-disc 30th anniversary ed.
fwiw, I can see most of them in that role, but not Fonda or Dewhurst. Lansbury would have been great!
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I'd always heard that a number of actresses had turned down the part of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but per Wiki it was turned down by (hold onto your hat, princess!) Anne Bancroft, Colleen Dewhurst, Geraldine Page, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Angela Lansbury!
TANC: I just bought that DVD on my lunch hour excursion to Costco, where it was only $8.99 for the 2-disc 30th anniversary ed.
fwiw, I can see most of them in that role, but not Fonda or Dewhurst. Lansbury would have been great!
Indeed, Fonda would've been totally wrong in '75 -- too young, certainly (tho' Fletcher was made up to look older than she was). I'm not sure what Dewhurst looked like in '75 -- picturing her in her late-'80s role as Murphy Brown's mom, tho'...
BTW Fonda is doing a B'way play next month (her first in 30 or 40 years). At 71, she'd be terrific as the venom-spewing, pill-popping matriarch in the film of August: Osage County, which I saw on stage last year. But odds are Streep'll get the part.
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News to me: Gwen Dickey of Rose Royce, on the CG retro-chart show, says that RR's hit "Wishing on a Star" was written for Barbra Streisand, who passed for whatever reason, and then it ended up in Norman Whitfield's hands and he had Gwen and RR record it. I can totally imagine the Babs version.
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Bob Shannon on 'LNG just played the Assembled Multitude's "Overture from Tommy" and I never knew that they were session guys from Philly! I always assumed they were Brits.
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wow, 2 "I Didn't Know That"s in one day: The O'Kaysions, whose "Girl Watcher" is a classic OHW, were WHITE!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raJWuz7qQVc
I've totally assumed they were black for 40 years. You KNOW this will be my "Wednesday One Hit Wonder" on FB tomorrow.
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wow, 2 "I Didn't Know That"s in one day: The O'Kaysions, whose "Girl Watcher" is a classic OHW, were WHITE!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raJWuz7qQVc
I've totally assumed they were black for 40 years. You KNOW this will be my "Wednesday One Hit Wonder" on FB tomorrow.
are they in that "Beach Music" genre from the East Coast?
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wow, 2 "I Didn't Know That"s in one day: The O'Kaysions, whose "Girl Watcher" is a classic OHW, were WHITE!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raJWuz7qQVc
I've totally assumed they were black for 40 years. You KNOW this will be my "Wednesday One Hit Wonder" on FB tomorrow.
are they in that "Beach Music" genre from the East Coast?
yes, absolutely.
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Dunno if you've ever seen the 1963 movie Take Her She's Mine -- Jimmy Stewart as an overprotective dad who follows his college-age daughter (Sandra Dee) to Paris. Hilarity ensues! It used to show up on TV quite often back in the day.
What i didn't know is: the screenplay (orig a hit B'way play) was written by Henry & Phoebe Ephron, a husband-and-wife team who based the Sandra Dee character on their teenage daughter... Nora Ephron, who grew up to be the writer of When Harry Met Sally and Heartburn and director of Sleepless and Seattle and most recently Julie & Julia!
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A FB friend posted a link to a vid of the Music Machine's Talk Talk, and something led me to check their Wikipedia bio, where I learned that the bass player in MM was one Keith Olsen, who went on to be a highly successful producer in the 70s (Fleetwood Mac's self-titled breakthrough album, the Dead's Terrapin Station, to name just two). Had no idea. From such humble beginnings...
From Wikipedia:
Over the years that followed, he worked with such top talent as the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir, Eddie Money, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Rick Springfield, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Heart, Joe Walsh, Starship, Santana, Kim Carnes, Jethro Tull, The Babys, Ozzy Osbourne, the Scorpions, .38 Special, Bad Company, Sammy Hagar, Russ Ballard, Whitesnake, Foreigner, Sheena Easton, Journey, Loverboy, and Lou Gramm, He also moved into film work during the 1980s, working on the soundtracks to the megahits Footloose and Flashdance, the Disney sci-f/adventure Tron, and the box office smash Top Gun.
Not exactly critical faves, but more than a few huge sellers in that list.
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I never thought about what the Rush instrumental song title "YYZ" meant. Just learned it's the airport identification code for the Toronto airport. Interesting.
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Listening to a recent (10/31) Vin Scelsa show on the 'FUV website. Yo La Tengo are live in studio, and one of the members of YLT is named Georgia Hubley -- turns out her parents were John & Faith Hubley, the famous animators. John Hubley, after working for Disney for many years created "Mr Magoo"! And was forced to leave UPA (the studio that made the Magoo cartoons) when he refused to name names to Joe McCarthy and HUAC. I did not know that!
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Listening to a recent (10/31) Vin Scelsa show on the 'FUV website. Yo La Tengo are live in studio, and one of the members of YLT is named Georgia Hubley -- turns out her parents were John & Faith Hubley, the famous animators. John Hubley, after working for Disney for many years created "Mr Magoo"! And was forced to leave UPA (the studio that made the Magoo cartoons) when he refused to name names to Joe McCarthy and HUAC. I did not know that!
I did.
(Except for the part about McCarthy and having to leave his job at UPA.)
Georgia's sister Emily is also an animator/filmmaker. She did the animated portions of the film version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
http://www.emilyhubley.com/index.html
Also, did you get to the second half of Vin's program? He played the Paul Williams version of You and Me Against The World, which I'm sure I hadn't heard in 30+ years. He said he is going on a Paul Williams kick, so would likely be playing more of his music in the coming weeks.
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How did I miss the fact that Joe Walsh and Ringo Starr are now in-laws? Joe married Ringo's sister-in-law Marjorie Bach last December.
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maybe I did know this and just forgot it long ago, but during his salute to Jackie DeShannon, Li'l Steven played a bit of Zep's "Tangerine" and said Jimmy Page wrote it about Ms DeS.
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How did I miss the fact that Joe Walsh and Ringo Starr are now in-laws? Joe married Ringo's sister-in-law Marjorie Bach last December.
Didn't Joe play in one or more editions of Ringo's All-Starr Band during the Eagles hiatus?
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How did I miss the fact that Joe Walsh and Ringo Starr are now in-laws? Joe married Ringo's sister-in-law Marjorie Bach last December.
Didn't Joe play in one or more editions of Ringo's All-Starr Band during the Eagles hiatus?
Yes he did, I think you could call him a mainstay of that ensemble.
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I just realized that Sean Parnell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Parnell), the guy who succeeded Sarah Palin as governor of Alaska, was a college classmate of mine! I don't remember much about him, but it was a small school, and I'm sure we had to know each other at least as acquaintances back in the day.
Pacific Lutheran University, class of 1984. Go Lutes!
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I'm reading the annual Top 77 Countdown (http://www.tunemagic.net/VoteTop77/), and just learned that the original recording of "(They Long to Be) Close to You" came from ... Richard Chamberlain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPdSYxhacY8)!
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I just realized that Sean Parnell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Parnell), the guy who succeeded Sarah Palin as governor of Alaska, was a college classmate of mine! I don't remember much about him, but it was a small school, and I'm sure we had to know each other at least as acquaintances back in the day.
At least they didn't have to replace the monogrammed items in the Capitol.
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Not sure where to put this, but I can guarantee that anyone attending will get more than their share of "I didn't know that!" moments. Gaz & I sure did when we attended Richie's Woodstock presentation last October. Highly recommended & hoping I can find a way to attend.
Rare Women Rock Clips
On Wednesday, February 3 from 7pm-9pm, Richie Unterberger will present rare film clips of women rock and soul performers from the 1950s to the 1980s at the Park Branch of the San Francisco Public Library at 1833 Page Street. Included will be clips by Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee, Francoise Hardy, the Ronettes, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Barbara Lynn, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick with the Jefferson Airplane, Nancy Sinatra, Joni Mitchell, Nico, Patti Smith, Shonen Knife, and others. Admission is free.
Also: On Thursday, February 11 from 7pm-9pm, he'll be discussing White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day at the Redwood City Public Library at 1044 Middlefield Road in Redwood City. Rare audiovisual material from throughout the Velvet Underground's career will be featured, and signed copies of the book will be available for purchase. Admission is free.
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Not sure where to put this, but I can guarantee that anyone attending will get more than their share of "I didn't know that!" moments. Gaz & I sure did when we attended Richie's Woodstock presentation last October. Highly recommended & hoping I can find a way to attend.
Rare Women Rock Clips
On Wednesday, February 3 from 7pm-9pm, Richie Unterberger will present rare film clips of women rock and soul performers from the 1950s to the 1980s at the Park Branch of the San Francisco Public Library at 1833 Page Street. Included will be clips by Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee, Francoise Hardy, the Ronettes, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Barbara Lynn, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick with the Jefferson Airplane, Nancy Sinatra, Joni Mitchell, Nico, Patti Smith, Shonen Knife, and others. Admission is free.
I'm seriously considering this -- how crowded do his presentations tend to get?
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Not sure where to put this, but I can guarantee that anyone attending will get more than their share of "I didn't know that!" moments. Gaz & I sure did when we attended Richie's Woodstock presentation last October. Highly recommended & hoping I can find a way to attend.
Rare Women Rock Clips
On Wednesday, February 3 from 7pm-9pm, Richie Unterberger will present rare film clips of women rock and soul performers from the 1950s to the 1980s at the Park Branch of the San Francisco Public Library at 1833 Page Street. Included will be clips by Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee, Francoise Hardy, the Ronettes, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Barbara Lynn, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick with the Jefferson Airplane, Nancy Sinatra, Joni Mitchell, Nico, Patti Smith, Shonen Knife, and others. Admission is free.
I'm seriously considering this -- how crowded do his presentations tend to get?
I went to one he did last month on the early days of Rock (clips from Bill Haley, Gene Vincent, Cliff Richard, etc). The room holds about 5-60, maybe? and it was a good size audeince, but not too crowded, and there were plenty of seats when I got there about 15 mins after the start time. You should have no problem finding a seat, but get there a little early if you want to sit close. Then again, not sure if that matters: for the presentation I saw he projected vid clips onto a screen, and it was not exactly hi-definition stuff.
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Caught part of Oprah today at the gym; she had the guy who started Chipotle, talking about how his food is fresh, his meat is free-range,etc. I wondered why there was no mention of McDonald's being part owner, and it turns out they no longer are! They divested themselves of Chipotle in 2006. How did I miss that?
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Caught part of Oprah today at the gym; she had the guy who started Chipotle, talking about how his food is fresh, his meat is free-range,etc. I wondered why there was no mention of McDonald's being part owner, and it turns out they no longer are! They divested themselves of Chipotle in 2006. How did I miss that?
I haven't eaten at Chipotle, but have noticed that they publish nutritional info on their food, which I found refreshing. Perhaps they all have to do it, but my local burrito shop doesn't have to!
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Caught part of Oprah today at the gym; she had the guy who started Chipotle, talking about how his food is fresh, his meat is free-range,etc. I wondered why there was no mention of McDonald's being part owner, and it turns out they no longer are! They divested themselves of Chipotle in 2006. How did I miss that?
I haven't eaten at Chipotle, but have noticed that they publish nutritional info on their food, which I found refreshing. Perhaps they all have to do it, but my local burrito shop doesn't have to!
I think all chains have to; I've seen such info posted at Mickey D's and BK.
I loved this factoid from the Wiki entry: when he started the first Chipotle in Denver (after attending chef school in SF) he figured out that he'd have to sell 107 burritos a day to break even. He worried if he would -- but within a month he was selling 1000 a day!
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Samuel L. Jackson was active in the Black Power movement in the late '60s, and he was a pallbearer for MLK. Ya learn something every day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abWNy-h9Tuo
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Samuel L. Jackson was active in the Black Power movement in the late '60s, and he was a pallbearer for MLK. Ya learn something every day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abWNy-h9Tuo
"Ahm tired of all these muthafuckin' racists in this muthafuckin' country!"
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I was visiting the music blog http://moistworks.com/ (aka "an MP3 Jukebox") and found that the most recent post was a nod to Karen Carpenter's birthday a few weeks ago. (Among other things, the writer posted Karen's cover of "Still Crazy After All These Years", which was NTM.) The post mentions that Karen dated the likes of Steve Martin and Tony Danza back in the day, and then says this:
The Michael Jackson hit "She's Out of My Life" was written by Tom Bahler about Karen Carpenter after she broke up with him.
I'll never hear that song the same way again.
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The A's are in Toronto this wknd and a viewer wrote in to ask why the BlueJays games all start at :07 past the hour, rather than :05. It's because they have to sing both the US and Canadian anthems before each game.
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wow, Billy "I Can Help" Swan, another bithday boy this week, produced TJW's "Polk Salad Annie"!
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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh4T07xoluE).
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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.
http://vimeo.com/6052334
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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.
http://vimeo.com/6052334
Well, he used to be Green on Red, but.... ;D ;D ;D
I always considered him the Tom Petty of alt rock.
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why didn't I know this? From the Wiki entry for Dusty in Memphis:
"in November 1968, Dusty suggested to the heads of Atlantic Records to sign the newly formed Led Zeppelin. She knew the band's bass player John Paul Jones, who had backed her in concerts before. Without having ever seen them and largely on Dusty's advice, the record company signed a deal of $200,000 with them. For the time being, that was the biggest deal of its kind for a new band."
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Wow -- can't believe I didn't know this, but "Love Me For a Reason", the sweet ballad that is one of the Osmonds' best 45s was written by... Johnny Bristol! And here's his orig version. Love the harpsichord flourishes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tUZpBMujmA
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In a weird TANC, Larry Grogan posted something on FB about how he was listening to Poco and suddenly realized how much Richie Furay had to do with the basic sound of Buf Spgfld. And of course we heard Souther/Hillman/Furay on Casey's '70s this wknd. So in the course of recommending that Larry check out SHF's stuff, I found this about the band on Wiki:
"The band had a substantial hit in 1974 with its self-titled first album, which was certified gold. However, during the recording of that album, and influenced by Al Perkins, Furay converted to evangelical Christianity. ...Tensions among the members increased, and Jim Gordon, who may have been experiencing the onset of schizophrenia, left the band and was replaced by Ron Grinel. Souther and Hillman formed the satiric Heathen Defense League in reaction to the efforts by Furay and Perkins to 'save' them. In the midst of this chaos, SHF's 1975 album Trouble in Paradise was not critically or commercially well received. Soon after, the group disbanded and its namesake members continued on their solo careers"
And Jim Gordon later murdered his own mother and is still in prison. Wow.
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A rock history item on today's SFGate, FYI:
Beatles refused to play for segregated crowds in Bay Area
http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2011/09/19/the-beatles-refused-to-play-to-segregated-crowds-in-bay-area/
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A rock history item on today's SFGate, FYI:
Beatles refused to play for segregated crowds in Bay Area
http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2011/09/19/the-beatles-refused-to-play-to-segregated-crowds-in-bay-area/
That's great!
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Was watching the orig Bill Cosby Show earlier, and the writing credit was "Written by Joseph and Betty Bonaduce" -- yup, Danny's mom & dad. A little research shows Joseph wrote for a bazillion TV shows, from Diver Dan (!) in 1961 to Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith to That Girl and Love American Style to Good Times and One day at a Time. Oddly, he never wrote for the Partridges...
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(as good a place as any for this post, I guess)
Mira, if you find yourself in the SF Main Public Library anytime soon, head up to the sixth floor and chk out the brief (but colorful) exhibit called "American Sabor: Latinos In U.S. Popular Music." They've got a couple doc film loops playing (NYC's Palladium club in its Mambo heyday) and some infotainment-style standup exhibits that give nice survey of Latinos (and Latinas) in pop music:
(http://sfpl.org/images/events/73451.jpg?t=1319585611)
(http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1007345101)
http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1007345101
When: through 11/13/2011
Where: Skylight Gallery, 6th floor
SFPL - Main Library
100 Larkin St.
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I just learned that the husband of Candi Staton is ... Former baseballer Otis Nixon!
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I just learned that the husband of Candi Staton is ... Former baseballer Otis Nixon!
I never would have guessed that.
Candi Staton: B 1940
Otis NIxon: B 1959
Megan Mullaley and Nick Offerman have nothing on that pair!
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I just learned that the husband of Candi Staton is ... Former baseballer Otis Nixon!
I never would have guessed that.
Candi Staton: B 1940
Otis NIxon: B 1959
Megan Mullaley and Nick Offerman have nothing on that pair!
or Freda Payne and Gregory Abbott.
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I just learned that the husband of Candi Staton is ... Former baseballer Otis Nixon!
I never would have guessed that.
Candi Staton: B 1940
Otis NIxon: B 1959
Megan Mullaley and Nick Offerman have nothing on that pair!
or Freda Payne and Gregory Abbott.
Well, shake me down...I didn't know that!
or Juliet Mills and Maxwell Caulfield.
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Geoff's link to Lord Buckley's bio on Wikipedia gave me an "I didn't know that" moment. Turns out Lord Buckley was born in Tuolumne, CA, a small town in the Mother Lode just outside of Sonora, and about 30 miles from where I went to high school. Who'd a thunk it?!?
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Geoff's link to Lord Buckley's bio on Wikipedia gave me an "I didn't know that" moment. Turns out Lord Buckley was born in Tuolumne, CA, a small town in the Mother Lode just outside of Sonora, and about 30 miles from where I went to high school. Who'd a thunk it?!?
The whole Lord Buckley routine about The Nazz was a classic in the old KMPX/KSAN days.
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Adele's "Someone Like You" was written by Mr. Closing Time himself, Dan Wilson of Semisonic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someone_Like_You_(Adele_song)
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Adele's "Someone Like You" was written by Mr. Closing Time himself, Dan Wilson of Semisonic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someone_Like_You_(Adele_song)
I still say he's ripping off a couple of Coldplay melodies in there
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Adele's "Someone Like You" was written by Mr. Closing Time himself, Dan Wilson of Semisonic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someone_Like_You_(Adele_song)
I still say he's ripping off a couple of Coldplay melodies in there
ripping off a ripoff!
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It's Tina Turner's 72nd Birthday... I posted this clip on FB of her doing "I Don't Wanna Fight" (one of the great forgotten pop singles of the '90s, IMHO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUG4v3wTo10
I knew that Lulu wrote the song, But I didn't know that (according to Wiki), she wrote it for Sade, who passed it on to Tina.
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Don McLean clears up origins of "American Pie"- http://bit.ly/s2VIMR
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Don McLean clears up origins of "American Pie"- http://bit.ly/s2VIMR
I vividly remember him doing an early draft of the song in the spring of '71 during one of WBAI's on-air fund-raising marathons. (they are the Pacifica affiliate; NYC's version of KPFA)
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New to me.
Van the Man joining Roger Waters in Berlin, 1990, Comfortably Numb. Interesting. Heard it for the first time today. Over the weekend heard Wish You Were Here and it was also new to me with great violin work. Had to wait for back announce to learn it was Stephane Grappelli. Very nice.
http://youtu.be/1LX3dhdDuhg
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For all I know this meme has been around forever, but it was NTM: just came across someone using the expression "population pudding", a slang term for, er... well another expression would be "pearl jam". LOL!
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For all I know this meme has been around forever, but it was NTM: just came across someone using the expression "population pudding", a slang term for, er... well another expression would be "pearl jam". LOL!
Haha!
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I was familiar with 3 diff versions of "Can't Get Enuf of You Baby": ? and the Mysterians (it was their follow-up to "96 Tears"); the Colourfield's mid-'80s version and of course SmashMouth's late-'90s take. The 4 Seasons did it too, I'm told. But I'd never heard the original until today -- the Toys, of "Lover's Concerto" fame, did it first. Very nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo0TqgAgIxI
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so the band's name is pronounced "the BLACK Keys", not "The Black KEYS". Got that?
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so the band's name is pronounced "the BLACK Keys", not "The Black KEYS". Got that?
Sez Mr. Gory.
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so the band's name is pronounced "the BLACK Keys", not "The Black KEYS". Got that?
Sez Mr. Gory.
maybe he's being very careful not to say "The Blackies"
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Listening to Barry Scott's "Lost 45s" and he plays BJ Thomas' "Just Can't Help Believin'", which I never knew was yet another Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil composition. Furthermore, Thomas said that M&W sent him 2 songs in 1970 -- that one and... "Here You Come Again" which he didn't record until years later and which of course Dolly Parton had a big hit with in 1977.
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Big Rick played "Suffragette City" yesterday and mentioned that Bowie had offered it to Mott the Hoople, as well as "All the Young Dudes", and they of course chose the latter.
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Barry Scott, on "lost 45s", just played Spanky & Our Gang's version of "Everybody's Talkin'" -- early 1968, they did it before Nilsson! It was the B-side of their hit "Sunday Morning".
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Barry Scott, on "lost 45s", just played Spanky & Our Gang's version of "Everybody's Talkin'" -- early 1968, they did it before Nilsson! It was the B-side of their hit "Sunday Morning".
I'd like that for my collection! Cap'n, do you have it already?
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Barry Scott, on "lost 45s", just played Spanky & Our Gang's version of "Everybody's Talkin'" -- early 1968, they did it before Nilsson! It was the B-side of their hit "Sunday Morning".
I'd like that for my collection! Cap'n, do you have it already?
FYI, it was shown on the label with the incorrect title "Echoes". It appears on most of S&OG's best-of collections.
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Barry Scott, on "lost 45s", just played Spanky & Our Gang's version of "Everybody's Talkin'" -- early 1968, they did it before Nilsson! It was the B-side of their hit "Sunday Morning".
Had to listen to Sunday Morning to see if it was a Velvet Underground cover -- it's not.
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Barry Scott, on "lost 45s", just played Spanky & Our Gang's version of "Everybody's Talkin'" -- early 1968, they did it before Nilsson! It was the B-side of their hit "Sunday Morning".
I'd like that for my collection! Cap'n, do you have it already?
FYI, it was shown on the label with the incorrect title "Echoes". It appears on most of S&OG's best-of collections.
I did a little iTunes sample tasting, and the old version is of course dated, in a perky sort of way. They did a remake in 2009, which is much more folk-like.
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Peter Gabriel offered the duet part on "Don't Give Up" to Dolly Parton. But she'd never heard of him.
http://justwilliam1959.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/though-i-saw-it-all-around-never-thought-i-could-be-affected/
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Peter Gabriel offered the duet part on "Don't Give Up" to Dolly Parton. But she'd never heard of him.
http://justwilliam1959.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/though-i-saw-it-all-around-never-thought-i-could-be-affected/
he just wanted to hug Dolly (see the video)
btw, what rhymes with hug me?
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Peter Gabriel offered the duet part on "Don't Give Up" to Dolly Parton. But she'd never heard of him.
http://justwilliam1959.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/though-i-saw-it-all-around-never-thought-i-could-be-affected/
he just wanted to hug Dolly (see the video)
btw, what rhymes with hug me?
rug glee
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Peter Gabriel offered the duet part on "Don't Give Up" to Dolly Parton. But she'd never heard of him.
http://justwilliam1959.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/though-i-saw-it-all-around-never-thought-i-could-be-affected/
he just wanted to hug Dolly (see the video)
btw, what rhymes with hug me?
rug glee
Doug E. (as in Fresh)
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Peter Gabriel offered the duet part on "Don't Give Up" to Dolly Parton. But she'd never heard of him.
http://justwilliam1959.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/though-i-saw-it-all-around-never-thought-i-could-be-affected/
he just wanted to hug Dolly (see the video)
btw, what rhymes with hug me?
rug glee
Doug E. (as in Fresh)
"fugly"
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Attention Big Fingers McGee: I just found out that Andrew Roachford of "Cuddly Toy" fame has been a member of Mike + the Mechanics since 2010.
I Didn't know that!
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I did not know this:
The father of the South African band Kongos ("Come With Me Now") had a US hit of his own back in 1971. Would this be a 10@10 bustout?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lm0N4YCkgk
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Attention Big Fingers McGee: I just found out that Andrew Roachford of "Cuddly Toy" fame has been a member of Mike + the Mechanics since 2010.
I Didn't know that!
I saw that someplace, and was like "what?" I'll have to check that out sometime.
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I did not know this:
The father of the South African band Kongos ("Come With Me Now") had a US hit of his own back in 1971. Would this be a 10@10 bustout?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lm0N4YCkgk
Alas, no. John Kongos' "He's Gonna Step On You Again" was played a half-dozen times within the parameters of the Shraytabase in the DM era, not sure if it's turned up since.
ETA: Just learned that the Shraytabase has his surname spelled wrong. Live and learn.
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I did not know this:
The father of the South African band Kongos ("Come With Me Now") had a US hit of his own back in 1971. Would this be a 10@10 bustout?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lm0N4YCkgk
Alas, no. John Kongos' "He's Gonna Step On You Again" was played a half-dozen times within the parameters of the Shraytabase in the DM era, not sure if it's turned up since.
ETA: Just learned that the Shraytabase has his surname spelled wrong. Live and learn.
ha -- I saw that. THREE different spellings (Congos, Kongos, Kongas). And we've heard the 1990 cover version by Happy Mondays a few times too.
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Just heard Ronnie Laws' cover of "Tell Me Something Good" (Rufus & Chaka Khan had the hit in '74) on WTF (which is back on the air, btw). In looking it up, because I couldn't ID who was covering it, I learned that the song was written by Stevie Wonder. I had no clue.
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Just heard Ronnie Laws' cover of "Tell Me Something Good" (Rufus & Chaka Khan had the hit in '74) on WTF (which is back on the air, btw). In looking it up, because I couldn't ID who was covering it, I learned that the song was written by Stevie Wonder. I had no clue.
I think the story was they were recording in adjoining studios and he heard Chaka's voice and wrote her a song on the spot -- which she rejected. So he wrote this one.
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Just heard Ronnie Laws' cover of "Tell Me Something Good" (Rufus & Chaka Khan had the hit in '74) on WTF (which is back on the air, btw). In looking it up, because I couldn't ID who was covering it, I learned that the song was written by Stevie Wonder. I had no clue.
I think the story was they were recording in adjoining studios and he heard Chaka's voice and wrote her a song on the spot -- which she rejected. So he wrote this one.
I'd believe that. Man, that dude just exuded great songs back then, pretty much like breathing. Wonder what the song was that she turned down?
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Just heard Ronnie Laws' cover of "Tell Me Something Good" (Rufus & Chaka Khan had the hit in '74) on WTF (which is back on the air, btw). In looking it up, because I couldn't ID who was covering it, I learned that the song was written by Stevie Wonder. I had no clue.
I think the story was they were recording in adjoining studios and he heard Chaka's voice and wrote her a song on the spot -- which she rejected. So he wrote this one.
I'd believe that. Man, that dude just exuded great songs back then, pretty much like breathing. Wonder what the song was that she turned down?
per Songfacts:
The story Chaka Khan tells is that Wonder was going to bring them a song in the studio, and when he dropped by and played her the song, she stunned her bandmates by telling the mighty Stevie Wonder she didn't like it; Chaka says she was 19 and pregnant, so she was a little prickly at the time. Wonder asked her astrological sign, and when she told him Aries, he delivered "Tell Me Something Good." According to Chaka, she loved it and they worked out the song together in the studio, although Stevie is the only credited writer on the song.