Debunked by Standup Maths. The halfway point of his life was a day earlier.
Does that take into account what time he was born and what time he died?
So, when his hair caught on fire, he was having a mid-life crisis?
I wouldn’t imagine he was relaxed about it
A fact I learned when reading about Tutankhamen’s treasure: the word “ankh” in ancient Egyptian meant both their well known ankh symbol, and a mirror. This came up because one of the artifacts was a hand mirror shaped like an ankh; a visual pun about an ankh ankh.
It was rather humanizing, actually.
Not exactly a dad joke. More of a mummy joke.
Ha! Good one.
You’ll probably like this, then
Egyptian writing often operated as a rebus, like the game show Concentration, where (for example in English) a picture of an eye would be a stand-in for the first-person pronoun “I”
It was a major conceptual development in writing, but also made for puns on an epic scale.
(The path to this topic was The Godfather → Luca Brasi → actor Lenny Montana → horror movie Blood Song which Montana co-produced and co-wrote → star in said film Frankie Avalon. Whew.)
I was surprised that Avalon is still alive and doing stuff. Per Wikipedia: “He is the earliest surviving singer to have scored a solo number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100.” In other words, anyone with a number one hit before him is dead.
Interesting. I’m assuming the other Frankie didn’t have solo hits that early. Both Frankie Avalon and Frankie Valli are still performing. The difference is as near as I can tell Frankie Avalon is really singing and sounding pretty good for his age. Frankie Valli is 90 and has been lip syncing poorly for years.
Valli’s first #1 hit was Sherry in 1962 but that wasn’t solo. His first solo #1 came in 1972 with My Eyes Adored You.
Avalon got to #1 solo with Venus in 1959. Avalon for the win.
Kudos to Frankie, but it’s sad to come to the realization that every single one of the giants of the first era of Rock n Roll are now dead. It seems like just yesterday that Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis were still among the living.
Looks like before his death last year Tony Bennett was the leader. He had a #1 in 1951.
Frankie Avalon made me think of other singers that had to hide their Italian names so I looked up Tony.
Valli’s last #1 hit was in 1975 (December 1963). I feel like I have mentioned this before but the Four Seasons and the Beachboys are the only two groups to have hits before, during and after Beatlemania.
Avalon’s last #1 hit was Why in 1959 which was also the last #1 hit of the 1950s.
Today I learned about politician Anne Armstrong, who was considered for the VP slot by Ford. Interesting to speculate how it might have changed history if she’d made it.
Pat Boone is still alive (at least - according to Wikipedia). He had three number ones in 1957: “Love Letters in the Sand”, “Don’t Forbid Me”, and “April Love”. “Billboard” had 4 or 5 different charts until the end of 1957, but “April Love” got to number one on all of them. In 1956 he had “I Almost Lost my Mind”, and in 1955 “Ain’t That a Shame” (which the Four Seasons recorded in 1963).
Paul Anka is still alive. He had a number one with "Diana: in 1957 (although not on all 4 or 5 charts).
Nitpick - Valli’s theme song to the film Grease hit #1 on the US Hot 100 Singles chart in 1978.
I was thinking of the Four Seasons and should have said so. You make a good point.
The pre-1959 #1s mentioned above for Bennett, Boone, and Anka all preceded the specific Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. That’s the technicality in Avalon’s favor — the Hot 100 debuted August 4, 1958.