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

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.