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'Don't a WAIT till your a behind' famous quote from Italian guitarist, Som a Moore a!
Lawrence welk played music whose measures were six count. He started up the Opus one & a two & a three. Add it up and it's a six.
counting to start the music was invented by Count Basie.
...and brought to perfection by Dee Dee Ramone. "Wuh, tuh, tuh, fuh!"...counting to start the music was invented by Count Basie.
I always thought it was because he had trouble counting, and that he was actually saying, "One and, uh, two and, uh, three". A little known fact - counting to start the music was invented by Count Basie.
ThePaul Tutmarc:
In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, who was manufacturing lap steel guitars, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be played horizontally.
Paul Tutmarc:
In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, who was manufacturing lap steel guitars, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be played horizontally.

I believe that was Mr. Misinformation,and I call henanigans!!!!!! I say,bit of bad play there on some blokes part!Hey! Who posted the mis-misinformation?!?! I call shenanigans!
I call shenanigans!
This was jarring.
Shhhh Keep a lid on it. I thought it was top-shelf stuff, but... Sorry, in retrospect, I know, I crossed the Mason Line... I'm in a pickle what to do about it, might contact the Vatican...
Yeah, I can see how you'd be in a jam there. At least you're on the Ball, right? It's kinda spooky, though - paraffinormal? OK, the last one was weak, saints preserve us from any more! I was gonna use funny jokes but these got pectin stead.
