Cool and useless musical trivia, eh? How’s this?
The theme song from The Flintstones shares the same chord changes as I Got Rhythm.
Musical? Check.
Trivial? Check.
Useless? High degree of pobability.
Cool? Check, and double check.
Sorry about the googling thing. When I googled it, I was lucky enough to choose a text-search only (since that’s what I’m used to).
As for Madonna trivia, anyone here will tell you that I bring the pain. Just ask Otto, he knows (To read the thread he posted in, click the link on the top right hand side, too bad I saw it too late to post).
My username is two Madonna references.
Much love,
kfl, SDMB Random Lesbian and Madonna Fanatic[sup]TM[/sup]
Back on topic, Madonna and William Orbit collaborated on the theme song for the short-lived tv series Wonderland. This was Madonna’s only foray into composing for television, which is fitting since she never watches any.
When she was invited to guest star on Will & Grace, she told the producers she’d never seen any episodes. They compiled some tapes for her, she watched them, then called them back and said; “I’ll do it, but only if all my scenes are with Karen.”
There was a Winnipeg band called Chad Allen and the Silvertones. Randy Bachman was the guitartist.
They morphed into Chad Allen and the Reflexions. There was a legal flap with the name, so they scrambled for a new one and came up with Chad Allen and The Expressions who released Shakin All Over. They put Guess Who? on the single (His Girl), as a promotional gimmick, and released it.
Infighting caused the departure of Bob Ashley and Chad Allen.
The survivors asked Burton Cummings of The Devrons to join.
Not having a name, they just kept Guess Who and added “The” .
They released His Girl, which was their first hit.
This site http://community-2.webtv.net/mmchadbourne/AHO/page3.html has a pretty good chronolgy.
We’ve had some discussion about 10 cc and The Loving Spoonful being (or not being) references to semen. Just for completeness, the other band name of which this has been said is Pearl Jam.
And now for the trivia…
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70s keyboard wizard Rick Wakemen is playing the piano on Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’.
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Nelson Riddle was the genius big band arranger usually remembered for his outstanding work with Frank Sinatra during the ‘Capitol’ years. Less well-known is the fact that he scored the music for the ‘Batman’ movie (the original one with Adam West and Burt Ward).
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novelty act Napolean XIV recorded a minor hit single called ‘They’re Coming To Take Me Away’. The B side was the exact same song played backwards.
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of the three members of ZZ Top, the only one who doesn’t have a beard is the one whose name is ‘Beard’.
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you could make an endless loop of Pink FLoyd’s ‘The Wall’. It starts and ends with a small section of speech, edited so that the end of the album (OK, double album) leaves off exactly where the start picks up.
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Queen used to proudly declare ‘No synthesisers!’ on the sleeve notes to their albums (e.g. ‘Night At The Opera’) to distance themselves from the rife over-use of synths in the 70s and 80s. They dropped the practice when they themselves started… um… using synths.
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‘Frankie Goes To Hollywood’ got their name from a Frank Sinatra LP
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you can still stay at the hotel where Janis Joplin died. It’s called the Highland Gardens hotel, in west Hollywood, and it’s open for business.
Nope. From a headline. In Variety, according to the first link. Sinatra never did an album of that name.
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/encyclopaedia/f/F78.HTM
http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/frankie_goes_to_hollywood/bio.jhtml
Google is just a click away, guys. :smack:
Anyway, let’s try these and you can smack me if I’m wrong.
The Chordettes were the first group to appear on American Bandstand, August 5, 1957.
The Miracles Greatest Hits from the Beginning was the first rock double album, preceding Blonde on Blonde by a year.
Most people know that Steely Dan is the name of a dildo in William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. Most people don’t remember that Soft Machine is the name of Burroughs’ third novel and gave that band its name.
David Bowie killed both Bing Crosby and Marc Bolan. Not really, but he did appear in their last tv programs and they each died within two months of singing with him.
Toni Basil, who should have be put to sleep for “Mickey,” was probably born in 1943, although she sometimes gives the date as 1950. The earlier date explains how she could have been the choreographer for such seminal 60s projects as Shindig, The T.A.M.I. Show,, Viva Las Vegas, and Pajama Party.
Rod Stewart played harmonica on Millie Small’s 1964 My Boy Lollipop, probably the first ska song to be a U.S. hit.
Geez! You are the fanatic, aren’t you! Here’s three questions:
What size dress does Madonna wear?
Who did she say was the love of her life?
What do you think her best movie was?
This turns out to be one of those urban legends. From this website:
Specifically:
First words: “we came in?”
Last words: “Isn’t this where”
The same music starts and ends the album as well, IIRC.
The song “Her Majesty” on Abbey Road was originally slotted in between “Mean Mr. Mustard” and “Polythene Pam”; that is why the beginning and ending are cut so abruptly. Apparently it was stuck at the end of the record at the last minute, but I’m too lazy to research a consensus on whose decision it was (although what I’ve seen so far says it was Paul).
Although Let it Be was the last album released by the Fab (before the breakup, that is), it was recorded before Abbey Road.
Nice catch. I checked two supposedly authoritative independent sources on that one, too.
But it’s not evidently an urban legend, but a should-be-trustable source who spread the mistake.
Paul instructed “Her Majesty” to be cut from the Abbey Road master reel and thrown away, but the Abbey Road tape op was under orders from EMI to never throw away anything the Beatles recorded, so he stuck the song on the end of the reel after a few seconds of leader tape. Paul supposedly liked the idea when he heard about it and the album was issued that way.
Well, I am mostly a lurker here, but I thought I had a few things to contribute that someone might find interesting.
The Boyd sisters are worth a mention. Patti Boyd was married to George Harrison and Eric Clapton fell hoplessly in love with her. She is supposedly the inspiration for “Wonderful Tonight” and “Layla”. When she and Eric finally got together, it didn’t last. Her sister Jenny was married to Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac. Jenny had an affiar with one of the post-Peter Green FM guitarists… I can’t recall if it was Danny Kirwan or Jeremy Spencer, but anyway, Mick fired the dude, which meant he needed another guitarist. Mick hired Lindsey Buckingham, who wouldn’t come into the group without his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks.
Mick agreed to take Stevie, on a trial basis, but made it clear if it didn’t work out she was out. Of course, Stevie became the star of the group, and later had an affair with Mick, so he obviously warmed up to her.
Mick and John Mcvie were once part of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. John and Mick also play bass and drums on Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London”.
Stevie sings backup and Lindsey plays guitar on Walter Egan’s “Magnet and Steel”, and John Stewart’s “Gold”.
Stevie had a romance with Don Henley and became pregnant. Stevie told him about the pregnancy, and Don was cold to her. She said she could have an abortion, all the while wanting Don to tell her not to, because she really wanted the baby very much. Don told her to go ahead and get rid of it, so she did. She wrote the song “Sara” about that chapter of her life.
As you can see I am the resident Fleetwood Mac expert. 
I don’t think there’s really any ‘supposedly’ to that. And she’s also the inspiration for Harrison’s song Something.
Well, yah, I just said that because I have never read anything that said for sure. Thanks!
Cite?
Spencer left in 1970 and Kirwan in 1972. There was also Bob Weston who came and went in 1972 and Bob Welch who was in from 1971-1974. Buckingham didn’t join until 1975.
I did find this story:
from here.
There’s also this:
Yeah, Mr. Blue Sky, it must have been Bob Welch. I have a documentary from the Bravo channel on Mick, but haven’t watched it in a while. It talks about all that stuff with Jenny on there. I couldn’t remember which guitarist it was. Lindsey has always maintained the the guitarist slot in FM is cursed, because they have all gone crazy in one way or another.
Poor Peter Green. To this day, John Mcvie says that if he ever gats his hands on the folks who gave him the bad acid he will kill them wit his bare hands.
Oh, and it couldn’t have been Jeremy Spencer, either anyway, because he ran off with the Hari Christnas or something like that, didn’t he?
I read a little closer from that site:
That would explain why Weston lasted less than a year!
Close enough:
I knew I remembered that from somewhere. Ha! Now you see why I am a fan of this band. They are crazy as hell, and this doesn’t even begin to get into the whole Stevie and Lindsey on-and-off thing for years that involved episodes like them fighting and smacking each other around, (Lindsey kicked Stevie on stage in New Zealand on the Tusk Tour) then snatching each others clothes off and having sex on top of amplifiers barely out of sight of roadies. Whew! And the music is pretty good, too. 
The only band with a better story than FM is Skynyrd, IMHO.