[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
I heard Howard Stern had all his fans vote for Noone as a goof.
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That was 2001. Sanjaya was 11. They had to vote for somebody, so… long as it wasn’t Mellencamp as sexiest.
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow]
Voting on Idol is not as simple as making one phone call. Lines are often busy and it takes a while to get through.
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This is maybe a bit off topic, but can anyone who’s voted on AI tell me how often the line is busy when you call? I’ve heard this mentioned before, and it strikes me that it makes the voting pretty inaccurate. If the lines are always busy, then the system is at its capacity to record votes, right? If one contestant has ( 2 * capacity ) votes coming in to their line, and another has ( 3 * capacity ) on their line, they’ll still both get recorded as ( capacity ).
I remember the result of the final show when Reuben won was something like 50.08% to 49.92%. I wondered then if the voting lines were overwhelmed, and the .08% was just statistical noise.
[QUOTE=Billdo]
I don’t know anything about what is expected on the McCartney night, but I am reliably informed that Mr. McCartney has had at least a blip of musical success following the breakup of his original group.
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So, we’ll have to endure eight warbled versions of “Ebony and Ivory.”
[QUOTE=JonScribe]
So, we’ll have to endure eight warbled versions of “Ebony and Ivory.”
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The worst part- it’s a duet between Chris Sligh and Phil.
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
Speaking of really skewed voting, I thought Chris S. was joking when he said Peter Noone was voted “sexiest male artist” back in 2001, but he was (VH1 Sexiest Artist of the Year Award). Was that a gag? (He’s certainly not ugly and he seems a nice guy- married to the same woman for almost 40 years, no drug scandals, didn’t wind up broke and hawking crap on infomercials, etc.- but “sexiest?” In a year when Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias were touring and… what’s that about?)
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Well, I don’t know if he’s broke but I think I have seen him hawking some music collection on an infomercial.
My sister had a huge crush on him back in the day, I was too young for crushes but I did end up listening to his music a lot, thanks to my sister. We kidded my sister when she got married, became Mrs. Brown and had a lovely* daughter.
*except for that teenage goth period she went through.
I’m sure there’s a cite out there but I’m too lazy to look for it. I heard Noone tell the stories of his two biggest hits and both were throwaways.
When he was a teen in (the UK equivalent of a) garage band he played a lot of batmitzvahs and teen-girl birthday parties and would always personalize the closing song- “Mrs. ______ you’ve got a lovely daughter”. (He said one Jewish family had an impossible to pronounce very long Eastern European name- one of those Cborgngzegrabinskya type of things- so after trying to pronounce it several times he finally sang “Mrs. Brown You’ve…” and got a huge ovation.) Short one song for an album the Hermits threw this one in as a “why not?” and were astonished when it became a hit.
The other was a pub song he remembered his grandpa singing- it was silly and light and he loved it as a kid and again, short a song for an album, threw it on, and “I"m Henry the eighth I am” became another huge unexpected hit.
Apropos to nothing but I just thought it was interesting: he talked on one show about the version of “Something Good” that appeared in The Naked Gun movie. The producers had received his permission to use the song and shot the video for it, but Allen Klein (considered the biggest bastard of the music business by some, but one who knows how to wring every nickel out of the songs whose publishing rights he manages) wanted $1 million or some similarly absurd amount to let them use the original recording. The producers balked, Noone balked, and so Noone (who’s the songs writer) simply recorded a new version of it for a tiny fraction of that and was rewarded when the song became a hit again following the movie.
If Sanjaya wins the program will undergo huge changes. He could sell no records yet they would be committed to putting one out. Hung will be have a better career.
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
Speaking of really skewed voting, I thought Chris S. was joking when he said Peter Noone was voted “sexiest male artist” back in 2001, but he was (VH1 Sexiest Artist of the Year Award). Was that a gag? (He’s certainly not ugly and he seems a nice guy…)
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Cite? :dubious:
Yes, he seems like a nice guy, but physically? At least to me he definitely is ugly.
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
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Apropos to nothing but I just thought it was interesting: he talked on one show about the version of “Something Good” that appeared in The Naked Gun movie. The producers had received his permission to use the song and shot the video for it, but Allen Klein (considered the biggest bastard of the music business by some, but one who knows how to wring every nickel out of the songs whose publishing rights he manages) wanted $1 million or some similarly absurd amount to let them use the original recording. The producers balked, Noone balked, and so Noone (who’s the songs writer) simply recorded a new version of it for a tiny fraction of that and was rewarded when the song became a hit again following the movie.
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That story makes me like him even more.
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
The worst part- it’s a duet between Chris Sligh and Phil.
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:eek: My head is spinning.
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow]
It’s a whoosh. There wasn’t a G.G. Allin theme night. Ol’ G.G. was known for crapping himself during concert and occasionally eating it - yum! Sampiro ran with the joke upthread, suggesting that if Ruben Studdard did a G.G. Allin-inspired show, it would be pretty messy.
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I read the Wikipedia article, but I am still, even now, not sure if it is real or not. Real? An exercise in creative writing? I’m still unable to completely believe it.
[QUOTE=Savannah]
I read the Wikipedia article, but I am still, even now, not sure if it is real or not. Real? An exercise in creative writing? I’m still unable to completely believe it.
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It’s all true! As a teenager in Boston in the early 1980s, I was already aware of the infamy of G.G. Allin and the Scumfucs.
G.G. Allin was all too real.