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It’s mystified me for years. I could never figure out what that appendage was.
― just1n3, Thursday, 23 May 2024 21:10 (four weeks ago) link
Dave and Ansell Collins, who recorded the great reggae single “Double Barrel,” are not related. Dave’s surname is Barker, actually born David Crooks.
― Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 23 May 2024 21:23 (four weeks ago) link
you could add to that the davis sisters and james & bobby purify (actually cousins)
― budo jeru, Thursday, 23 May 2024 22:31 (four weeks ago) link
Very much hoping James Purefoy has a cousin called Robert.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2024 22:35 (four weeks ago) link
I don't think it's Dave Collins & Ansell Collins - more like 'Dave, and Ansell Collins'. How confusing.
― h.p. lovecraft's backing singers (Matt #2), Thursday, 23 May 2024 22:49 (four weeks ago) link
Ansell Collins and Dave would have been more sensible.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2024 22:51 (four weeks ago) link
Which reminds me, when I was very young Tony Orlando & Dawn were always on TV and the name confused me because I couldn’t figure out which of the two ladies was Dawn. I finally got it at the shockingly old age of 8 or so.
― Josefa, Thursday, 23 May 2024 23:11 (four weeks ago) link
I never knew Dick Van Dyke played the old banker in Mary Poppins until a rewatch with my kids some 20+ years later.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 25 May 2024 08:14 (three weeks ago) link
deferred interest
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 25 May 2024 08:32 (three weeks ago) link
pull the other one, it's called Smith
― kinder, Saturday, 25 May 2024 15:32 (three weeks ago) link
As this is in the news, thought I’d look into its history. Anyway….
During the 1950s there was a prohibition on serving members of the armed forces standing for election to Parliament. A few National Servicemen stood for election in the 1951 and 1955 general elections in order to be dismissed from service.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 26 May 2024 21:16 (three weeks ago) link
Diana Ross has got a daughter called Chudney
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 27 May 2024 19:39 (three weeks ago) link
The icon you see when a page or graphic is loading, usually a spinning ball or wheel, is called a Throbber.
― nate woolls, Monday, 27 May 2024 21:28 (three weeks ago) link
medieval estonia was inhabited by a tribe called the chuds
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOlgpWcXEAAoxUN?format=jpg&name=medium
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 02:15 (three weeks ago) link
“punic” in punic wars just comes from the latin word for phoenician (punicus). also the place name “cartagena” is carthage tho it now seems sooo obvious. i knew ‘carthago delenda est,’ but never figgered cartagena.
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 01:18 (three weeks ago) link
Didn't know about Viking settlements in Sicily/southern Italy - although looking at the Wikipedia page, that map is a little disingenuous. It was the Normans who invaded Italy, around the same time as the Norman conquest of England. By that time, they were pretty much gallicised and spoke French.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 02:05 (three weeks ago) link
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:08 (three weeks ago) link
More from the fun fact department, but… there are 41 (or maybe 42) buildings in Manhattan that have their own Zip Code. And that’s not the +4 Zip Code extension, that’s the traditional 5-digit Zip Code.
― Josefa, Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:34 (three weeks ago) link
It's Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, not Bob Willis
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 30 May 2024 23:39 (three weeks ago) link
how did you not know that?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 30 May 2024 23:46 (three weeks ago) link
I have no idea! I guess the double Ls threw me off, and while I have been aware of both the man and his music for most of my life (thanks, Bob Dylan), I'm not sure I have ever heard his name spoken aloud. I'd have gone on believing that his last name was "Willis" if I didn't notice the spine of some Rhino comp I just found
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 31 May 2024 01:02 (two weeks ago) link
>>>Giorgio Moroder composed and produced "Danger Zone" and "Take My Breath Away"<<<
Perhaps everyone knows this; I didn't.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 31 May 2024 06:16 (two weeks ago) link
"I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow is a cover
― jaymc, Friday, 31 May 2024 06:46 (two weeks ago) link
yeah its by the Strangeloves 3 brothers from Australia
― Stevo, Friday, 31 May 2024 09:19 (two weeks ago) link
It was also a hit for the Count Bishops in 1978.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 31 May 2024 09:21 (two weeks ago) link
... well, not sure if it was a hit but they got on TOTP with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HntZDao0Tkg
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 31 May 2024 09:23 (two weeks ago) link
Singer had been with these guys before. They were from Australiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ZbENMWVzM
― Stevo, Friday, 31 May 2024 09:34 (two weeks ago) link
The Strangeloves were not 3 brothers from Australia. They were a fake studio band created by three NY songwriter/producers including Richard Gottehrer, who has one of the longest running careers in the music biz.
― dan selzer, Friday, 31 May 2024 10:27 (two weeks ago) link
Bert Berns too. Insane careers. And not based on some dancer but the Terry Southern novel Candy.
― dan selzer, Friday, 31 May 2024 10:29 (two weeks ago) link
that the count bishops had hits
― mark s, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:17 (two weeks ago) link
They didn't.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 31 May 2024 11:23 (two weeks ago) link
A surprising place to learn some of the history of I Want Candy is the Astral Weeks episode of The History of Rock-n-Roll in 500 songs, because co-songwriter Bert Berns was deeply involved in Van Morrison's early career, from Them to Brown Eyed Girl. You also learn a bunch about Neil Diamond. All before getting to Astral Weeks itself.
https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-170-astral-weeks-by-van-morrison/
― dan selzer, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:30 (two weeks ago) link
*eighteen minutes shockingly older* that the count bishops didn't have hits
― mark s, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:37 (two weeks ago) link
― dan selzer, Friday, May 31, 2024 11:27 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
whose press bio was that they were 3 brothers who grew up on a sheep farm in Australia. Apparently they couldn't do a good British accent convincingly.
― Stevo, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:48 (two weeks ago) link
Yup.
― dan selzer, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:53 (two weeks ago) link
wow, so many versions of I Want Candy! We can add Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, Melanie C, Aaron Carter and the Candy Girls.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:56 (two weeks ago) link
The Stray Cats are/were American.I'd folded them in with all the terrible Ted-revival Brit-rockers at the turn of the '80s.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 31 May 2024 12:16 (two weeks ago) link
Except the Stray Cats were great!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 May 2024 12:29 (two weeks ago) link
How do you feel about The Polecats?
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 May 2024 12:30 (two weeks ago) link
Brian Setzer (no relation) had previously been in an arty New York area new wave band called the Bloodless Pharoahs who played Maxs and similar clubs.
― dan selzer, Friday, 31 May 2024 12:34 (two weeks ago) link
They were strayt outta Massapequa iirc.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 31 May 2024 13:24 (two weeks ago) link
"Font" is related to 'foundry', where early type sets were cast in metal
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 31 May 2024 17:21 (two weeks ago) link
I listened to a History Hit podcast Gone Medieval talking about Whisky a few days ago that had various forms of spirits appearing as ersatz wines in the 11th or 12th century directly from attempts to market wine in areas that didn't have the main ingredients growing naturally and then introducing the distillation techniue due to similar local conditions.I had thought that variation in local forms of alcohol were more natural and based on what had been observed to ferment through chance observation. So things would have evolved much earlier.
― Stevo, Sunday, 2 June 2024 14:08 (two weeks ago) link
Fermentation definitely happened naturally lots of places, but distillation as we know it was an Arab invention that spread by trade and/or conquest: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/distillation-alcohol-invention-muslim
(Fun fact: "alcohol" is an Arabic word)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 2 June 2024 14:27 (two weeks ago) link
Tug McGraw started 39 games during his career--most of them his first two years (21), but then scattered around the rest of the way, including a start in 1983 for the Phillies. He wasn't very effective: 7-23, 4.81 (during a good era for pitchers; his lifetime ERA as a reliever was 2.86).
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2024 15:51 (two weeks ago) link
(Many people will die never having learned this.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2024 15:53 (two weeks ago) link
Apparently they couldn't do a good British accent convincingly.How convincing were their Australian accents?
― bae (sic), Sunday, 2 June 2024 16:47 (two weeks ago) link
i was just washing dishes and for whatever reason Will Smith's "Men in Black" came on and i realized it was pulled from Patrice Rushen's "Forget Me Nots"
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 3 June 2024 03:35 (two weeks ago) link
Despite being a regular cinema goer never spotted until tonight that Natasha Kaplinsky is president of the BBFC.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 3 June 2024 21:51 (two weeks ago) link
Diogenes was the original G.G. Allin
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 02:59 (two weeks ago) link