I didn't know that!

[RGMike]

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

[ggould]

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!

[RGMike]

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.

[Wayback]

Don McLean clears up origins of "American Pie"- http://bit.ly/s2VIMR

[RGMike]

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)

[Alicat]

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

[RGMike]

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!

[princessofcairo]

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!

[RGMike]

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

[RGMike]

so the band's name is pronounced "the BLACK Keys", not "The Black KEYS". Got that?

[urth]

so the band's name is pronounced "the BLACK Keys", not "The Black KEYS". Got that?

Sez Mr. Gory.

[Tinka Cat]

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"

[RGMike]

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. 

[RGMike]

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.

[RGMike]

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".