The Tijuana Brass was The Wrecking Crew until Alpert needed to start touring and making appearances, at which point he assembled the group. Disbanded several years later; HA had some ‘80s solo albums, then formed a new … Brass but called them the …TJB. Don’t know ‘bout you but I get confused.
Yes, oxtail has for at least the last decade or so become pricey. I love me some oxtail – ain’t nothing gross about it. It gives soups and stews a wonderfully full texture, and the meat itself, what little there is of it, is soft and rich in flavor. Somewhat like a short rib. But damn if I can’t find oxtail that isn’t nearly as expensive as steak (and actually more expensive than some steak cuts.) Around here, it usually runs 2-3x the price of chuck, and the stuff is like 80% bone. But, oh, is it good …
It’s funnier with Hernando’s Hideaway. I’ve sung Frost’s Stopping By Woods to it, to general acclaim.
President Herbert Hoover’s (1928 - 1932) vice president was Charles Curtis, who was (part-) Native American:
Some would say Herb Alpert had several number one hits…
He’s the A in A&M records, hence the trumpet in the logo. The label had 8 number one hits in the 1970s, 9 in the 1980s, 9 in the 1990s… List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1970s - Wikipedia
I keep meaning to read the book Tommy James wrote about the mob and Roulette records. Morris Levy was a bad dude—Hesh (in the Sopranos). For example:
I know a step-brother/step-sister marriage. I’m not precisely sure how long they have been quite happily married, but they have a daughter who is 62. It never bothered me. They did not, however, ever live in the same household before they were married. He grew up with his mother and she was raised by her father and they met as late teenagers.
I don’t say that Wikipedia is wrong, but that doesn’t make sense as stated. Linear programming doesn’t solve problems in permutations.
A guy I worked with was a shared half-brother to both sides of a relationship like that.
It didn’t bother him, but he couldn’t grok it.
Not only that: the birds were passenger pigeons.
And you thought they changed to clay targets out of moral compunction…
Thanks to Simon Whistler (Today I found out, Biographics, etc) on a bio about Attila the Hun, it was mentioned in passing 2 things about ancient Rome: one bit I knew already: that in 285 AD the Roman empire was split in 2.
What I did not know was that Rome did not remain the capital of the Western Roman empire, in 286 AD Emperor Diocletian’s made Milan (Mediolanum) the capital of the Western Roman Empire. I then did take a look and that was not the end of it. Before the Western Empire ended, the capital had moved yet again, this time to Ravena.
Why? Emperors decided that places like Ravena were easier to defend than Rome. It had been conquered before, but never mind because…
When The Visigoths came knocking, they bypassed Ravena and sacked Rome… Even in their decadence, Rome was considered more important than Ravena.
I was reminded today of an odd twofer concerning Danny Boy. Everybody knows that old tradition Irish ballad, yes? Well, the tune is old, traditional and Irish, but the lyric was written in 1913 by an Englishman, Frederick E. Weatherly. So - for the lyric at least - an old English ballad.
Weatherly gave the song to a female performer, so as originally composed “Danny Boy” was intended to be sung by a woman.
-which is a surprise but, you would have thought, conclusive. However the Wikipedia article continues:
The link is to a book, so the argument purporting to refute the author’s express instructions is not readily inspectable. But I’ll go with the author, 'cos I like the idea that every male performer of Danny Boy is singing the wrong damn lyric.
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I’d be curious to see the whole set of new lyrics. A dude crying while his girl goes of to fight in a war, seems a bit anachronistic.
What isn’t mentioned in Wikipedia is that the melody was a MASSIVE hit when it was released. MASSIVE. EVERYBODY knew the melody. In America, mostly as “Londonderry Air”, with lyrics “Irish Love Song” by Katherine Hinkson. Even after Danny Boy started to become popular 10 or 20 years later, most of America knew “Londonderry Air” until that generation died out.
I didn’t look at the Wikipedia page referenced, but you can use a permutation matrix to solve a set of linear equations.
Solving a set of linear equations by matrix methods is not ‘linear programming’, is not the ‘simplex method’, and is not a solution to ‘testing all permutations of 70 jobs and 70 people’
I don’t know that Wikipedia got it wrong, just that whatever they were trying to describe, they did so in terms that don’t make obvious sense.
Vice President Henry A Wallace can fairly be claimed to be the inventor of corn. A friend of George Washington Carver, in 1923 Wallace developed the Copper Cross hybrid, the basis of the corn we grow commercially now. His company Pioneer Hi-Bred is now a huge multinational.
He was Veep to FDR in the 1940s, after having been secretary of agriculture from 1933 to 1940. By the way, his dad was secretary of agriculture in the 1920s.
If you know a sports trivia person, this question will likely have him exhaust all of his guesses before eventually giving up:
Of the four major sports (baseball, football, basketball, & hockey), which professional North American sports franchise that is still in operation has been in existence the longest?
The Toronto Argonauts were founded in 1873 and continue to operate every year since.
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I’m listening to the podcast No Such Thing As a Fish, an odd facts podcast, and they just said that the 1967 film Doctor Doolittle had problems completing one scene. The parrot had learned to yell “Cut!” in a completely believable way. At first the director thought that Rex Harrison was stopping the scene.
I started reading another book about the origins of the song “The House of the Rising Sun” and found a similar mention of JPS taking a dim view of musical recordings. I had to return the book because I ran out of time to read it. JPS believed that people should make their own music, not rely on others.
IIRC the author mentioned that a low percentage of parents sing to their children nowadays. Turn on the stereo for them instead? C’mon, that’s sad.
So I think JPS was way ahead of his time on that issue.
94 piccolos, baby!
Great idea. I’m just gonna sit down and play a Beethoven string quartet now, all by myself.