I didn’t know that! Now I have to go listen to it.
After I first bought the record, I thought that it sounded like two different vocalists on verses 1 and 3. I don’t know with absolute certainty that the studio recording has three different vocalists, but they always did it with three when performing. Very hard to tell them apart.
It tickled me to think of the song as three different love-struck (horny) schoolboys singing to the same girl.
And that girl was Marianne Faithful, who seems to have inspired a ton of 1960s love ballads.
RIP Charles - the 52-year old gorilla rescued from poachers in Gabon (some sources say Benin) in 1974 - becoming the then just-opened Toronto Zoo (one of the first) residents. Father to 11 and grandfather to many. ‘Deeply missed’: 52-year-old gorilla at Toronto Zoo dies from natural causes | Globalnews.ca
Yes!
Which leads me into a couple random facts that I trot out to passengers when listening to 60s oldies in the car.
“Needles and Pins” by Jackie DeShannon and then The Searchers? Co-written by Sonny Bono.
“He’s In Town” by the Rockin’ Berries? Co-written by Carole King.
Sonny’s Needles and Pins cowriter was Jack Nitzsche. Great song maker but his assault on Carrie Snodgrass is problematic to say the least. I have a audio clip of Sonny working with a young singer on a demo of the song. I wonder whatever happened to Cherilyn Sarkisian?
Lots of great covers. Tom Petty with Stevie Nicks, etc. My favorite is the Ramones. A Ramones tribute band the Ramondos did a cover of their cover … in Spanish.
Okay, how about this one:
Marianne Faithfull’s uncle was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose novel “Venus in Furs” inspired the word “masochism” as well a song by the Velvet Underground.
The entire nation of India is in a single half-time zone (UTC +5:30). I’m told the Indian government wanted the entire country to be in one time zone, so they basically split the difference between the eastern and western halves of the country rather than splitting the country into two traditional time zones one hour apart.
Nepal, maybe to differentiate from India, is UTC +5:45
However Dolenz was primarily a singer who played some keyboards. The band on the show needed a drummer since Jones was already the guy standing in front. He did work on learning how to drum but most of the in show performances showed him vaguely waving at the drums with his sticks or they showed him from the chest up.
Playing drums to prerecorded music isn’t easy for even the best drummers; let alone doing it while also lip syncing. The misperception that the Monkees were musically inadequate compared to other LA Rock bands of the time is a persistent one.
He was a musician. He certainly wasn’t a drummer. He didn’t start until he was picked for the show. It’s very hard to play to prerecorded music while lip syncing when you first picked up sticks a couple months before.
Interesting random fact, Mickey Dolenz bought the 3rd Moog synthesizer ever sold.
I’m quite certain that the (one of the?) first rock songs with a Moog was released by the Monkees. I just don’t remember the song at the moment.
ETA: ah, I found it. It was “Daily Nightly” on the album “Headquarters”, their first album on which they almost played all the instruments themselves.
Holy cow ! That was the first record I ever bought with my own money too. Fifth or maybe sixth grade. Thinking about it really takes me back. I’m wondering now what the flip side was. I think it was “Signs That Will Never Change.”
Google says you’re right! I wonder if I still have the 45… I don’t remember listening to the B-side.
I knew this and remembered this clip but had no idea what the actual song title was. I’d always assumed it was “Questions But No Answers”.
In the OED, Bill Murray is credited with the first recorded proleptic usage of the word “toast”. From the OED:
The lines in quot. 1983 do not in fact appear in the U.S. film Ghostbusters as released in 1985, since a considerable amount of the dialogue is ad-libbed. The actual words spoken by Venkman (played by Bill Murray) as he prepares to fire a laser-type weapon, are, ‘This chick is toast’; this is probably the origin of the proleptic construction which has gained particular currency.
- 1983 > Venkman…: “Okay. That’s it! I’m gonna turn this guy into toast.”
D. Aykroyd & H. Ramis, Ghostbusters (film script, third draft) 123
I just learned from the Public Radio program Radiolab that it’s theoretically possible for a US presidential candidate to win the Electoral Collage with only 23% of the popular vote. It’s extremely unlikely, but technically someone could win with such a small percentage by winning exactly 50%+1 of the vote in all the least populous states and 0% in the rest.
Majority means more than 50% NOT (as many people say) 50% + 1. For example: you have 99 voters and 50 votes is a majority but according to your definition the person would need 50.5 (in reality 51) votes to win.