Jammingest, indeed (and terribly, horribly, awfully ripped off by Mariah Sca, er, uh, Carey) but it’s actually Genius of Love. Whatcha gonna do when you get outta jail?
Indeed, and hear hear! Cass died while sitting in bed reading, the cause of death was massive heart failure. Some reports indicated that there was a sandwich on the bedside table which is the origin of the hoary tale – no doubt prompted by her size – that she died from piggish eating practices.
Paul Shaffer, in addition to his work in with the Blues Brothers, as the bandleader on Saturday Night Live and with David Letterman, co-wrote the disco anthem It’s Raining Men.
The Not Ready for Primetime Players is the ensemble of actors on SNL. (Always was, still is.) The band has always just been called The Saturday Night Live Band. In addition to Paul Shaffer and Howard Shore, another former leader of the SNL Band is G.E. Smith (who also played lead guitar in the backing band for Daryl Hall & John Oates) who was married – at one time – to SNL star Gilda Radner. They were married during the period after Gilda left SNL and before G.E. joined the band.
Bill and Taffy Danoff (Starland Vocal Band—“Afternoon Delight”) cowrote “Take me home, country roads.”
Mike Nesmith wrote “Different Drum”----Stone Poneys.
John Gay wrote a song accompaniment to his “Beggar’s Opera” in 1728 which later morphed to Bertolt Brecht’s “Three Penny Opera” (music by Kurt Weill) in early 50’s which led to Bobby Darin’s famous “Mac the Knife” (1959). John Gay’s original balad was of Macheath…a modern day Robin Hood (at the time).
Graham Nash founded The Hollies with Allan Clarke.
The band 10cc named themselves after the average volume of male ejaculate.
The band Wild Cherry named themselves after the Luden’s cough drops.
“Funky Town”----Lipps, Inc.-----Lip synch.
“Rapture”—Blondie—the first universally recognized “rap” song.
Reginald Kenneth Dwight took the name, Elton Hercules John, from former band members.
EJ’s “Someone saved my life tonight” was written after a BT saved him from a loose suicide attempt.
Nope. Only the first one to hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100. The first recognized rap song of that era was either “Rappers Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang or “General Hospitale” by The Afternoon Delights. Don’t recall which came first.
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However, The Four Seasons did record a cover of Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice” under the name “The Wonder Who.” (Don’t recall why, though. . . .)
Pick me! Pick me! I know this one! Four Seasons lead singer Frankie Valli has a distinctive falsetto. When this song was recorded was the first time Valli recorded with the falsetto.
Or it’s the other way 'round and it was the first time he recorded WITHOUT the falsetto…
At any rate, the band wanted to see if the song would get airplay without the benefit of audience loyalty to Valli’s voice.
(PS: Whoever it was back there who corrected me about Bon Scott vs. Keith Moon, thanks. For a second after I posted about Scott, I thought I meant John Bonham.)
Thank you. At first I wasn’t sure which obscure website to believe (yours or mine). But a cursory google search revealed several websites that fortify the claim from the website you linked. I have been disallusioned about this for quite some time. I can no longer even locate the website from which I obtained the erratum two years ago.
The moment I heard of it for the first time. Limited use of the www precludes my having knowledge of a great many of the 99999k million accessible web sites. If it’s overly popular, I’ll take your word on it.
Zep’s first tour in the states, they opened for the Butterfly. The first night went fairly smoothly. The second day, a Butterfly roadie found Bonham sitting at Bushy’s drums, checking them out. The roadie verbally lashed Bonham, “Nobody messes with Bushy’s drums.” Zep manager Peter Grant heard of this, and told the boys to “Blow them off the stage.” Needless to say, the Butterfly did not play the second night. Or any other night of that tour. IIRC, Zep finished the tour as a single act.
And, interestingly, both band names are made up of heavy/light words. I often wondered if LZ borrowed this concept unattributed from IB, as they did so many of their songs from old bluesmen.
It’s possible, but the “Official” story is a few of the band members were in a pub discussing what name to use. I don’t remember who said what, but one of them suggested “The New Yardbirds”, and someone else replied"That will go over like a lead zepplin". Someone shouted “Band Name!”, much like is done on this board. Well, not really, but they decided to spell it Led so us Yanks wouldn’t try to pronounce it “leed”.
http://www.fact-index.com/l/le/led_zeppelin.html
After those concerts the band’s name was changed to Led Zeppelin after Keith Moon,
drummer with The Who, suggested they would "go over like a lead balloon
Although…I bet you could find as many cites saying “Zeppelin” instead of balloon. But I’ve got a recording in which Page or Plant (I don’t recall which offhand) confirms the balloon version. That’s the only reason I even brought it up.
That’s Kate Bush singing “jeux sans frontieres” on the Peter Gabriel song “Games without frontiers” (which is English for jeux sans frontieres")
On the Holly Cole album Don’t Smoke in Bed, she covers a Mary Margaret O’Hara song. Mary Margaret wrote it in bits and pieces, and left it, in bits and pieces, on Holly’s answering machine.
Mary Margaret O’Hara is Catherine O’Hara’s sister.
Before Kate Bush was discovered, when her brother sent a tape to David Gilmore, she was in the K.T. Bush band; hence her logo, a chimera of K and T.
Kate’s brother Paddy (throb) makes albums under the group name Bushtucker.
Holly Cole sings backup on the greates album ever recorded, Jane Siberry’s When I Was a Boy.
James White wrote a song for Holly Cole.
Victoria Williams has sung backup on James White’s albums.
Also on Syd Straw’s albums.
Syd Straw’s husband, Tony Margherita, manages Wilco.
Victoria Williams is married to Marc Olson, who quit the Jayhawks to manage her career.
Jane Siberry stole Lyle Lovett’s pianist, whose style inspired a creative shift for Jane.
Mysteriously (sorry), there’s no mention in that link to the fact that ? and the Mysterians at one time featured Mel Schacher on bass. Mel subsequently went on to much greater fame and fortune in Grand Funk Railroad.
