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I posted this in the Jethro Tull thread re: the prog-flamenco band Carmen:

David Clark Allen continued to pursue a music career after Carmen disbanded. He played guitar on Michelle Phillip's solo album produced by Jack Nitzsche and was managed by Herb Cohen during the late 70s. He wrote two songs (Shame and Stay) for Agnetha's solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me - produced by Mike Chapman and a single release by Swedish band Katz - Heart Beats Stronger. David was diagnosed with thyroid/throat cancer in the early 80s. After a successful operation and radioactive therapy, he changed his name to Housk Randall - and became a sexual anthropologist/photographer. As Housk he had 5 books published in 4 languages: Revelations, Rituals of Love, The Customised Body, Piercing, Radical Desire and Bizarre Rubber - a photographic fantasy catalogue for fetish designers DeMask. In 1996 he married, changed his name to David Randall-Goddard and established a successful family photographic studio Family Portraits.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 March 2021 13:32 (three years ago) link

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, (Jackie) Gleason enjoyed a prominent secondary music career, producing a series of best-selling "mood music" albums. His first album, Music for Lovers Only, still holds the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks), and his first 10 albums sold over a million copies each.

Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link

Didn’t he help break some color line by hiring jazz musicians?

The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link

I actually had no previous knowledge of his (apparently extensive) musical career, let alone the fact that he still holds a Billboard longevity record.

Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link

he has a track on some christmas lounge comp i own, i always assumed 'surely its not THAT jackie gleason'

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link

Yeah, I came across one of his songs and thought first that it must've been some ill-advised one-off single of an actor trying his hand at crooning and then there was no crooning to speak of and assumed that some other dude with the same name must've been a band leader back in the day. And then the wiki research commenced.

You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link

Eurgh

Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link

Apparently the origin of the idiom "the whole nine yards" is one of "the most prominent etymological riddle of our time"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_whole_nine_yards

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 March 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link

"There once was a man from Nantucket" is the opening line for many limericks, in which the name of the island of Nantucket creates often ribald rhymes and puns. The protagonist in the obscene versions is typically portrayed as well-endowed and hypersexualized."

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 2 April 2021 01:36 (three years ago) link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawn

https://i.imgur.com/wbsNZFy.png

jmm, Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:32 (three years ago) link

Waddell's career wound through a number of teams. He was notably unpredictable; early in his career, he would often leave in the middle of a game to go fishing.[2] He also had a longstanding fascination with fire trucks, and had run off the field to chase after them during games on multiple occasions.[3] He would disappear for months at a time during the offseason, and it was not known where he went until it was discovered that he was wrestling alligators in a circus.[4] He was easily distracted by opposing fans who held up puppies, which caused him to run over to play with them, and shiny objects, which seemed to put him in a trance.[5]

mookieproof, Saturday, 3 April 2021 02:02 (three years ago) link

That can't be real.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 April 2021 08:30 (three years ago) link

In July 2017, Onitsuka Tiger launched the what it publicized as the first augmented reality sneakers, but was merely an app animating the shoe's logo on a phone screen.[9]

Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link

hahahahha

this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link

Image caption: "Lee Ho Fook in London—the werewolf goes here to get beef chow mein."

sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link

Sanders had grown increasingly reclusive and depressed due to a string of tragedies including the deaths of his third wife, his mother, and his brother Tom in the space of a year, followed by a failed sausage investment, which cost him millions

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Friday, 9 April 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link

The singles "Guérilla" and "Dalida" were certified Platinum :)

Bignefs Proportionable (seandalai), Sunday, 11 April 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link

In the fall of 1976, vandals opened and desecrated 12 coffins and 10 urns. One crypt was completely opened and the coffin removed. The vandals opened the coffin, and placed a copy of Circus (a heavy metal music magazine) on the chest of the skeleton. The vandals also broke into a funeral niche, poured the human ashes on the floor, and drew a smiley face in them.

Would really like to know which issue of Circus that was.

pplains, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link

In 1978 he released an album, titled 2870, equivalent to an album of Pink Floyd. Which never happened in France and will never happen again.

Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link

Sisyphus was hired to provide accompaniment for Galt MacDermot's new play, Who the Murderer Was, at the Mercury Theatre in Notting Hill Gate, serving as the pit band.

It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 April 2021 00:31 (three years ago) link

The wikipedia page for the 1904 Olympics Men’s Marathon might be my favourite Wikipedia page ever pic.twitter.com/4s6zJYqk1U

— Sophia (@0ldoini) April 14, 2021

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 16 April 2021 12:12 (three years ago) link

our office is about 20 metres from the end point of the 1908 marathon. there's a metal line embedded in the pavement outside.

koogs, Friday, 16 April 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link

For many years, Everett co-hosted the Labor Day Jerry Lewis Telethon, which raises money and awareness for and about the affliction of muscular dystrophy.

Bewlay Brothers & Sister Rrose (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 April 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link

"In 2004, Wakeman revealed that he had had an extramarital affair with American-born designer Denise Gandrup, who first met Wakeman in 1972 and made several of his capes."

mark s, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/z1H7OHU.jpg

Wouldn't surprise me to learn that the cape was a third partner in the relationship as well.

pplains, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link

That was before marriage-advice columns warned people to be suspicious if their spouse seemed to be spending an unusual amount of time with their cape-designer.

Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link

Till death do you hem

Ezra Kleina Nachtmusik (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 April 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_(filmmaking)#ADR/post-sync

Other examples include:
"Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, dubbed for Hercules in New York"

oh, THAT Arnold Schwarzenegger. Thanks.

StanM, Monday, 3 May 2021 08:10 (two years ago) link

non-English-speaking and non-actor seem like helpful and relevant details in context there tbf, especially for the 80% of the world's population born after those stopped being biographical details about him. applause to that editor.

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 3 May 2021 08:47 (two years ago) link

it felt weird to me but ok

StanM, Monday, 3 May 2021 09:31 (two years ago) link

Dave Coulier dubbed replacement of swear words for Richard Pryor in multiple TV versions of his movies

This is Pryor's "Peckerhead" routine come to life.

pplains, Monday, 3 May 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link

I'm tired of these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane.

Frumious Cumberbatch (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 3 May 2021 13:33 (two years ago) link

He was virtually retired from the entertainment world and was treated like he never existed. From here on, the media would refer to him as the "former entertainer", and all the recordings and pictures taken when he was a Chanels/Rats & Star member were almost never broadcast anymore, and if they were, Tashiro's voice would be lowered to a hush or removed entirely, and no part of his body would show. Newspapers and magazines tacitly agreed not to talk about him at all.

From earlier in the wiki page:

Tashiro made his debut as a member of the group in 1980 and they came to be widely known for adopting rhythm and blues style. 4 members of the front singers including Tashiro wore blackface using shoe polish and they became famous and popular

Those crazy Japanese racists!

Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 May 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link

In 2015, Fuji TV canceled a Music Fair segment featuring Rats & Star and Momoiro Clover Z, after a photograph was circulated showing the groups in blackface.[1]

visiting, Saturday, 8 May 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link

Weirdly *not* in his wiki entry, but:

Over the next 60 years, the moka pot would conquer the world. As of 2016, the New York Times notes that over 90 percent of Italian homes had one. It became so iconic that Renato Bialetti, when he died in early 2016, was actually buried in a large replica of the moka pot.

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160218151356-moka-urn-exlarge-169.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link

baller

Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link

In 2015, Fred Durst stated his interest in obtaining a Russian passport and spending half of the year in Crimea. He wrote a letter in which he stated that Vladimir Putin is "a great guy with clear moral principles and a nice person." Following that, Durst was banned by the Security Service of Ukraine from entering Ukraine for five years "in the interests of guaranteeing the security" of the country. Soon thereafter, all Limp Bizkit sales on the territory of Ukraine were prohibited.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 May 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link

Soon thereafter, all Limp Bizkit sales on the territory of Ukraine were prohibited.

Wow, I bet that hurt

balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:08 (two years ago) link

my guy fred has always been passionate about clear moral principles

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link

I did it all for the Putin

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:18 (two years ago) link

It's all about the he-said, Kyiv.

pplains, Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link

The song "Allentown", which brought attention to the plight of America's declining steel industry, spent an unprecedented six weeks at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1983.

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 28 May 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link

no easy task - already by week three or four, it was getting very hard to stay.

Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 28 May 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link

Well played Dr.

I just wonder who held the record for most consecutive weeks at #17 prior, and exactly what their emotional process was when they found out they’d been usurped by Allentown

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 28 May 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link

Don't know about #17 but around that time "Jack and Diane" held on to #16 as long as it could

Josefa, Friday, 28 May 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link

Casey Kasem must've been like "this is a mistake, right? this is another god damn mistake again, isn't it?"

pplains, Saturday, 29 May 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link

Been listening to the Big Boys a bunch in the past week and just went to read up on some band history on the old wiki page and found this nugget as amazing.

"Horn player Tim Kopra became an astronaut and commander of the International Space Station. "

Mind blown...

earlnash, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link

That can't be real? If it is that's wild.

earlnash, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 00:33 (two years ago) link

There's an archived Drowned in Sound article about him being a big fan of Echo & the Bunnymen, not totally surprising I guess!

heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link


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