Rock Trivia - Amaze Your Friends!
July 23rd 2008 22:30
Was Brown Sugar responsible for the Sticky Fingers Album?
* The oldest artist to hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 is Louis Armstrong in 1964 with "Hello, Dolly!" at the age of 62.
* Elvis Presley's former home, Graceland is the second most-visited house in America after the White House.
* Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills and Nash, originally tried out to be a Monkee, but producers thought his hair was getting too thin and that his teeth were too bad.
* The only Beatles song not to have any of the fab four play some form of instrument – was Elenor Rigby.
* The Ramones and AC/DC both have composed music for writer Steven King's movies.
* Paul Stanley is almost entirely deaf in his right ear, although he can hear when he presses his ear against a speaker, or similar audible equipment.
*John Lennon reportedly wrote “Good Morning, Good Morning” after hearing a TV commercial jingle for Corn Flakes cereal.
* While searching for a name, the Bay City Rollers -blindly stuck a pin on a map. It landed on Bay City, Michigan.
* The song "Happy Birthday To You" is not a public-domain composition. The publishing rights are owned by a subsidiary of Warner Communications
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Comment by Two Guys Sports
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You worked in a KISS mention! You also got in AC/DC doing the soundtrack for Maximum Overdrive which is one of my favorite movies.
I bet the stats for Graceland visits vs. White House visits has shifted a bit over the past eight years during Bush's reign of stupidity.
Gene
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Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Thought you might appreciate a little KISS - so to speak.
Cheers Buddy
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Thanks mate.
Does that mean I've answered my own question from an earlier post about "You Know You're Getting Old When . . . . . . you know who Stephen Stills is?
Cheers
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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So history writes.
BTW - folklore tells us that Lola by the Kinks was written in much the same time as they needed an additional song before they went on stage one night.
Go figure.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Alot of very scary things come to mind don't they?
Guess only the fruit loop that took Lennon away from us is as close as we'll ever come to that though.
Stay sane
Comment by D. Armenta
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-The only actual musician in the Monkees was Mike Nesmith, whose mother (by the way) had invented "Liquid Paper". Mickey Dolenz and Davy Jones were singers, but played no instruments. Peter Tork was a dentist by trade.
-Sid Vicious was not a musician; he was hired by the Sex Pistols' manager for his "look". Onstage, his bass guitar was turned off while the guitarist carried the bass line.
-The Beatles' "Yesterday" was originally titled "Scrambled Egg".
-James Brown's way of warning a bandmember to straighten up was to import another musician to sit next to the culprit onstage, set up and ready to play, for an entire show. The 'imported" musician would be paid and sent home at the end of the show without ever having played at all.
-Katey Sagal, voice of "Leela" on "Futurama" and "Peg Bundy" on the series "Married..with children" was a backup singer for Bette Midler for several of her tours (The Harlettes).
And on and on and on...good post, MNG!
Sorry to wax all nerdy!
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Comment by Morgan Bell
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D,
that Sid Vicious fact has boggled my mind and altered my perceptions of reality! thanks for sharing!
Comment by D. Armenta
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Hey, almost forgot one more about Katey Sagal--she also sang backup on KISS single "Calling Dr. Love"--her first big break in music, thanks to Gene Simmons.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I bow to your intimate rock knowledge.
Mickey Dolenz was actually an actor to boot - well before being any kind of muso - for us old enough to remember and young enough to still look back fondly on it - he played the youngster in a TV series called 'Circus Boy'.
Wanna get a table at a trivia night . . . I'll bring the edible stuff - you bring the brain food.
Nice!
LYW
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I'm wounded.
And to think I liked you.
I guess you'll just have to love me for something other than my mind.
Do feminists do that?
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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You should do the quiz show circuit - even that show . . . what's it called . . . the Singing Bee.
Fame and more importantly fortune probably awaits.
Cheers
Comment by D. Armenta
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However, I can't do the game show circuit--I'm deathly afraid of buzzers.
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Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Insightful, polite, saluatory mixed with a little flattery and fun - you've got it all.
Best I bring the beers.
Comment by Morgan Bell
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hmmm love you for something other than your mind . . .
how much money have you got?
i guess its possible i admire your street fighting prowess? feminists are into that kind of shit! haha
Comment by Miswanderlust
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HAHAHA! The girls comments cracked me up! Anyhoo I enjoyed this post!
Mis