And the most intriguing bit of music trivia I ever learned was ...

Not quite so...

*Dub
*Acid House
*Scratching

That's some sensitive microphone work.

Jimmy Saville!

You could also make a pretty reasoned argument for him being the first ever Hip hop Dj...think about it. Gold tracksuit, loads of bling, catchphrases, giant cigar...

(she is a good friend of my grandpa, who also wrote for the cleveland plain dealer for many years......she's pretty cool)

This is awesome if true.

It's just a great Spinal Tap-ish moment.

Yes. It's also an urban myth, though. Auditions for the Monkees were held in 1965, Manson was in prison between 1961 and 1967.

motorhead rule so much

-- RJG (RJ...), May 8th, 2005.

because its just fucking rock and roll!

Hugely!

I'll try again. The KLF once released a single (K Sera Sera) only in Israel.

2. His real name is John Voight. Jon Voight the actor (and father of Angelina Jolie) is his older brother.

Oh wait...no it wasn't. Sorry.

Actually I'm kidding. I HATE when they talk about this song on TV shows and they always show a clip of some dong going, "Did you know . . ." and then they recite the terrible first line. Ugh.

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II went to summer camp together when they were kids. They did not remember meeting there, but Rodgers' counselor introduced him to Lorenz Hart, who was the counselor's roommate at Columbia. And Hammerstein later hired the son of another camp friend, Herb Sondheim, as his secretary -- Stephen Sondheim.

Not all of these are necessarily true, mind you.

When Italian ultra-nationalist poet Gabriele D'Annunzio captured the city of Fiume and declared it a free state in 1920, he cited music as one of the ten founding "corporations." From http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Fiume:

In the Italian province of Carnaro, music is a social and religious institution. Once in a thousand or two thousand years music springs from the soul of a people and flows on for ever.
A noble race is not one that creates a God in its own image but one that creates also the song wherewith to do Him homage.
Every rebirth of a noble race is a lyric force, every sentiment that is common to the whole race, a potential lyric; music, the language of ritual, has power, above all else, to exalt the achievement and the life of man.
Does it not seem that great music has power to bring spiritual peace to the strained and anxious multitude?
The reign of the human spirit is not yet.
‘When matter acting on matter shall be able to replace man’s physical strength, then will the spirit of man begin to see the dawn of libertv’: so said a man of Dalmatia of our own Adriatic, the blind seer of Sebenico.
As cock-crow heralds the dawn, so music is the herald of the soul’s awakening.
Meanwhile, in the instruments of labour, of profit, and of sport, in the noisy machines which, even they, fall into a poetical rhythm, music can find her motives and her harmonies.
In the pauses of music is heard the silence of the tenth corporation.

In every commune of the province there will be a choral society and an orchestra subsidized by the State.
In the city of Fiume, the College of Aediles will be commissioned to erect a great concert hall, accommodating an audience of at least ten thousand with tiers of seats and ample space for choir and orchestra.
The great orchestral and choral~ celebrations will be entirely free — in the language of the Church — a gift of God.

Just started Trouble Boys, the Replacements bio. Paul Westerberg's first band, back in Catholic school, included John Zika and Dave Zilka--surely the only band ever where an unrelated half of the band had a Z-surname.

When the soul record “Funky Broadway” by Dyke & the Blazers was a hit on NYC’s Top 40 radio station WMCA in 1966, the DJs identified it as ‘“Broadway” by the Blazers’ because the words “funky” and “dyke” were considered too risqué at that time.

tutti fruitti on rooty == root beer float w/tutti frutti ice cream.