The hellicopter bit at the end of Kate Bush’s “Experiment IV” came from the film The Wall. Permission for its use came from her buddy, Dave Gilmour, Pink Floyd’s guitarist and the guy who jump-started her career.
Vinal printings of Hounds of Love (at least those in the US) were not black but a sort of lavender marble patern. While being very pretty, it’s a bitch to cue up during a live radio show.
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He had something to do with “discovering” Stevie Ray Vaughn as well (or at least getting him a recording deal) I think. Of course, SRV was pretty well known in Austin, so its hard to say “discovered”.
You are correct. But it has already been covered: see ****Mr. Blue Sk**y’s ** post in this thread (#103) and my reply to #103 (#109). I believed this for a very long time. I am happy now, however, to know the truth. It amazes me that the average—you know—is less than 5cc. It just seems it would/should/could be more.
Are you sure it was Hello, Dolly? I know Armstrong kicked the Beatles down, but I thought it was with the song “What a Wonderful World”.
WRT: Jim Steinman - I’m always entertained by the variety of artists who have performed his songs, from Barry Manilow and Celine Dion to Pandora’s Box, Meat Loaf, Streisand, Bonnie Tyler and Air Supply. I PERSONALLY asked Meat Loaf what it was like working with Steinman, and he said, “Jimmy’s a genius. But he’s a nutcase.”
Trivia-wise, the Steinman song Holding Out For A Hero, recorded by Bonnie Tyler, has the same melody as his song Stark Raving Love. Bad For Good and Nowhere Fast were combined to be the song Nowhere Fast for the Streets of Fire Soundtrack, and the song Nowhere Fast (on its own) was recorded by Meat Loaf, while Bad For Good, Surf’s Up and a host of other songs that later appeared on Meat Loaf’s Back Into Hell were originally recorded by Steinman on a solo album while he was ticked off at Meat Loaf.
Indeed, gato; these days I’m a bit skittish about using the term “discovered” at all.
Jimmy Page plays acoustic guitar on **Jackie DeShannon’s ** song “Don’t Turn Your Back on Me.”
Madonna’s children are by Carlos Leon and Guy Ritchie. That’s certainly not to say that Ward wasn’t at least going through the motions.
Indeed it is, Exapno. “I gave my baby a lovin’ spoonful” is a common lyric in country blues.
RE: The Mothers of Invention - the Mother’s Day gig story may or may not be true, but it isn’t the origin of the name. They were named The Mothers of Invention out of necessity.
RE: Nothing Compares 2 U - since when has it been trivia that a song with a txtspk title was written by Squiggle? 
A couple of mine own:
The most covered song of all time is Yesterday. Over 4,000 recorded versions are known.
Echo (of Echo and the Bunnymen) wasn’t a member of the band. It was the drum machine they used in the early days before they signed Pete de Freitas.
Kool and the Gang were the only American artists to perform on the Live Aid charity single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
There’s a really good joke here, but damned if I can make it.
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In case you hadn’t noticed, he tends to go overboard with production.
Take Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” for example.
Her voice is pretty much shredded anyway, but she really tries to rupture her throat with this one.
Also, it made for one weird-ass video.
That book is, natch, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, by Fred Bronson. I have the 1985 edition.
The week was that of April 4, 1965. The songs were “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Twist and Shout,” “She Loves You,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” and “Please Please Me.” Only one cover. The next week the Beatles held an astounding 14 positions in the Top 100. No matter what happens in pop music today, it fades to insignificance compared to the effect the Beatles had on music and on America in 1964.
The Beatles had seven number ones, five other top tens, and eight other top forty songs chart in 1964. That’s a Hall of Fame career right there.
Correct. “What a Wonderful World” wasn’t released until 1967 and never charted at all then. It was such a minor song that the first time I ever remember hearing it was in the soundtrack of Good Morning Vietnam. That brought the song onto the charts for the first time for three weeks in 1988.
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1985, of course. I was remembering that it was early on during my marriage, but I should have remembered that I spent most of 1984 poking holes in the ocean aboard the USS Tautog, not buying large pop-culture lists.
Also, We Are the World was recorded in January of 1985. :o
Anthony Stewart Head.
Morbid? check these out:
Ben Raleigh, co-author of the song ‘Tell Laura I Love Her’, died at the age of 83. He was cooking himself breakfast, his robe caught fire, and he burned to death.
Graham Bond, who played with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker before they left to form Cream, commited suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming London Underground train.
The heroin that killed Sid Vicious was scored for him by his mother.
Declining sales? I would be stunned if their last album with Morrison, LA Woman, wasn’t their biggest seller or damn close to it. It has the hits Love Her Madly, LA Woman, and Riders on the Storm on it .
A fair bit of Googling didn’t find any actual sales figures to back my impression, but I’d be extremely surprised if your assertion was true. One site I found said “The album was a huge Top 10 hit and monster seller”, but itself quotes no authority to back that up.
According to Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Albums 1955-2001, it’s sold about 2 million copies as did their debut album. Two greatest hits compilations (one in 1980 and one in 1987) have sold 2 and 3 million copies respectively.
If memory serves, Rick Derringer sang lead vocal - and played guitar - on the song Hang On, Sloopy, and he was all of about 15 at the time.
I may be wrong on this, though.
That’s why I said, “I thought”. I quit watching SNL <jeez>…forever ago. Maybe the Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscapo era. Then Gilda met that crazy ass what’s his name right? The Willy Wonka guy, you know Richard Pryors shadow… damn, I hate it when I know something but :smack: probably a self induced mental block. The guy is just too much, think about being around him 24/7. He’d give anybody a f***in tumor.
Another piece of trivia… But first, a story. 
A man went into my da’s shop today trying to hustle that old 1978 SUN record “Elvis” supposedly did posthumously. The one that Shelby Singleton tried to scam the world with after Elvis died. Singleton had bought out the failing “SUN” records co. from Sam Phillips THE MAN in 1969. (Sam had his money by then and invested a lot of it into Holiday Inns) He took an old recording of Jerry Lee Lewis’s from 1961 and dubbed in an Elvis sound-alike Jimmy “Orion” Ellis into the mix. Singleton tried to pawn this off as being a legitimate recording of Elvis. An expert even supplied testimony to its authenticity. Adding fuel to the insane fires.
IIRC the original cover even had a casket with Orion sitting in it dressed like Elvis.
What was the name of the album?
No cheating…off the top O’ ya head. Anybody recall the Album.
*hint- It was in a cream colored jacket and the vinyl was colored gold.
(ie: another “gold” record for the KING and a fortune for SUN.)
“You guys must be into the Eurhythmics”
Ha! I have two copies of that.