Let's spread some musical misinformation

[Jay2U]

Leo invented metal strings, as catgut is too short for basses.

 

[1bassleft]

Hall and Oats used to be a well known budget Bed and Breakfast chain, primarily serving the unsigned travelling band market, offering (as the name suggested) frugal sleeping quarters and a basic meal for those trying to get their name known around the states without management/label backing.

In the early '80s, a duo going by the easily forgettable moniker of Daryl 'n' John stole the name to raise their profile. It worked, and soon other struggling musicians Googling a cheap place to stay on tour instead got images of mullets, dodgy perms and moustaches that put them right off the idea.

The BnB chain went bust, making franchisees bankrupt, hypothermia-related deaths of itinerant musicians skyrocketed and several bands with potential never got outside of their home cities. Yet, Daryl and John have nothing to say and get pretty narky if you bring it up. Go ahead and try it: bouncers now prevent me from getting in to their gigs and radio stations routinely block my number when they do phone-in promos. I'd say I've touched a nerve, wouldn't you?

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Leo invented metal strings, as catgut is too short for basses.

Thus also inventing the genre of metal in 1948, also partly because he worshipped Beelzebub, the god of industrial design. The reason why Fender hasn't really innovated much since the 1960s is due to the poor availability of virgins for sacrifice these days.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Hall and Oats used to be a well known budget Bed and Breakfast chain, primarily serving the unsigned travelling band market, offering (as the name suggested) frugal sleeping quarters and a basic meal for those trying to get their name known around the states without management/label backing.

In the early '80s, a duo going by the easily forgettable moniker of Daryl 'n' John stole the name to raise their profile. It worked, and soon other struggling musicians Googling a cheap place to stay on tour instead got images of mullets, dodgy perms and moustaches that put them right off the idea.

The BnB chain went bust, making franchisees bankrupt, hypothermia-related deaths of itinerant musicians skyrocketed and several bands with potential never got outside of their home cities. Yet, Daryl and John have nothing to say and get pretty narky if you bring it up. Go ahead and try it: bouncers now prevent me from getting in to their gigs and radio stations routinely block my number when they do phone-in promos. I'd say I've touched a nerve, wouldn't you?

'Spreading your Oats' comes from the period when Hall and Oats started just before WW2, and referred to bringing back 'friends of the band' back to the B&B. 1937 was the first summer of love. Not free love, but due to the rates at Hall and Oats at least reasonably inexpensive love with a basic breakfast. Especially with Glen Miller and his band. Trombonist - say no more. Of course Miller would be having ham and eggs for breakfast on his regular trips to Carolina (North or South).

 

[1bassleft]

All very true, and I was forgetting that the chain (for the benefit of any band that had done well from passing the pint pot round the audience) was the first to install coin-operated vending machines in the hall. British bands, who associated breakfast oats with men in tartan skirts lifting their balls up, were very keen on this American novelty. After a good pot session, The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger was partial to the twirly chocolate confection Satisfaction (in the 60s, before the Yanks insisted it had to be changed to Snickers, or was it Starburst?) but its shape was particularly prone to getting jammed in that slow moving coil and not dropping into the flap-receptacle thing. An enraged Mick not only wrote a song about it but, at that time now consumed with rage and the munchies, banged furiously on the machine.

Much to his disgust, an unloved Mars Bar dropped halfway down. Of no interest to him, but the racket woke up all the other artistes sleeping in the hall and one female singer had slim enough limbs to attempt to make a grab for the Mars Bar. Unfortunately, the noise alerted the local cops who burst in and unloaded several rounds into Brian Jones who was fast asleep having successfully retrieved a mug of cocoa. The story that the police came up with to cover their butts passed into urban legend.

Only slightly related to the BnB chain, but passing the pint pot around the audience usually got slim pickings until (kids always find a way) Musical Youth noticed that crowds were more generous tippers if the glass went anti-clockwise around the room. They wanted to spread the advice around for other bands and wrote a song about it. However, Pass the Pot on the Left Hand Side was obviously problematic: such young kids couldn't be associated with a beer glass. The Prince of Wales stepped in, suggesting (however bizarre it now made the lyrics) that they turn it into a song about sharing his wholesomely organic oat biscuits that he had recently marketed to the Hall and Oats chain. Pass the Duchy was a UK hit, but it was total nonsense to Americans and bombed. To their annoyance, the tune was overheard by The Mighty Diamonds, who changed it into a song about where they kept their stash.

 

[dougjwray]

"Loud" and "quiet" are illusions caused by a defect in the human ear.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

All very true, and I was forgetting that the chain (for the benefit of any band that had done well from passing the pint pot round the audience) was the first to install coin-operated vending machines in the hall. British bands, who associated breakfast oats with men in tartan skirts lifting their balls up, were very keen on this American novelty. After a good pot session, The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger was partial to the twirly chocolate confection Satisfaction (in the 60s, before the Yanks insisted it had to be changed to Snickers, or was it Starburst?) but its shape was particularly prone to getting jammed in that slow moving coil and not dropping into the flap-receptacle thing. An enraged Mick not only wrote a song about it but, at that time now consumed with rage and the munchies, banged furiously on the machine.

Much to his disgust, an unloved Mars Bar dropped halfway down. Of no interest to him, but the racket woke up all the other artistes sleeping in the hall and one female singer had slim enough limbs to attempt to make a grab for the Mars Bar. Unfortunately, the noise alerted the local cops who burst in and unloaded several rounds into Brian Jones who was fast asleep having successfully retrieved a mug of cocoa. The story that the police came up with to cover their butts passed into urban legend.

Only slightly related to the BnB chain, but passing the pint pot around the audience usually got slim pickings until (kids always find a way) Musical Youth noticed that crowds were more generous tippers if the glass went anti-clockwise around the room. They wanted to spread the advice around for other bands and wrote a song about it. However, Pass the Pot on the Left Hand Side was obviously problematic: such young kids couldn't be associated with a beer glass. The Prince of Wales stepped in, suggesting (however bizarre it now made the lyrics) that they turn it into a song about sharing his wholesomely organic oat biscuits that he had recently marketed to the Hall and Oats chain. Pass the Duchy was a UK hit, but it was total nonsense to Americans and bombed. To their annoyance, the tune was overheard by The Mighty Diamonds, who changed it into a song about where they kept their stash.

A version of Satisfaction was later introduced in the UK:

UK chocolate also featured some fine musical artists such as John Barry



and P.P. Arnold



the latter inspired a young Kate Bush to write Wuthering Chocolate, later renamed Wuthering Heights.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Kate Bush's other early songs included

'The Man With Chocolate in his Eyes' (EMI requested a rewrite as that sounded weird), and 'Them Heavy People (Eat Too Much Chocolate)'. By the time of her second album she'd at least moved on to sex.

 

[PillO]

A version of Satisfaction was later introduced in the UK:

UK chocolate also featured some fine musical artists such as John Barry



and P.P. Arnold



the latter inspired a young Kate Bush to write Wuthering Chocolate, later renamed Wuthering Heights.

Not misinformation - I love a flake stuck into an ice cream cone, with the heavenly vanilla you only get in Cornwall, made with cornish cream.

 

[1bassleft]

Not misinformation - I love a flake stuck into an ice cream cone, with the heavenly vanilla you only get in Cornwall, made with cornish cream.

You and Bryan Adams. He arranged his European tours around the British summer months when the ice cream vans play their jangling tunes. His record company blocked him covering The Teddy Bears' Picnic and were dubious about an original song he wrote called Stop Me and Buy One but they were oblivious to his sneaky trick. Listen very carefully to the fade-out of Summer of '69 and you can just hear him sing "Me and my baby had a 99", a reference to the Cadbury's Flake + ice cream cone combo. I thought he referred to another number until I found out about his fixation for a scoop of Roskilly's.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

You and Bryan Adams. He arranged his European tours around the British summer months when the ice cream vans play their jangling tunes. His record company blocked him covering The Teddy Bears' Picnic and were dubious about an original song he wrote called Stop Me and Buy One but they were oblivious to his sneaky trick. Listen very carefully to the fade-out of Summer of '69 and you can just hear him sing "Me and my baby had a 99", a reference to the Cadbury's Flake + ice cream cone combo. I thought he referred to another number until I found out about his fixation for a scoop of Roskilly's.

99 Red Balloons was a mistranslation from the German as 'Luft Ballon' obviously doesn't mean red and actually means 'Ice Cream Cone mit Flake' which is already a '99'. Computer automatic translation has improved since the 1980s, though.

 

[1bassleft]

Remember that overblown press story when Nena had only just packed in her part-time job on the ice-cream vans as her song became an unexpected UK hit?

"Nena's Armpit Hair was in my Raspberry Sauce" knocked Freddy Starr's hamster-munching off the front pages. It was quite a scoop (sorry) for the Daily Sport.

 

[Killing Floor]

That's just a coincidence. Prince used to play with Raspberry Sauce. They were OK.

 

[felonious69]

99 Red Balloons was a mistranslation from the German as 'Luft Ballon' obviously doesn't mean red and actually means 'Ice Cream Cone mit Flake' which is already a '99'. Computer automatic translation has improved since the 1980s, though.

Technically, Nina stole that song (not verbatim) from Tim Cavanaugh which was originally 99 Dead Baboons...Give it a listen...the melody and timing are exact!!!!

 

[PillO]

Technically, Nina stole that song (not verbatim) from Tim Cavanaugh which was originally 99 Dead Baboons...Give it a listen...the melody and timing are exact!!!!

I know Tim Cavanaugh and he never wrote any songs. He makes good pastries, but he can't sing, hasn't written any songs, and has skinny arms because he can't lift weights.

 

[felonious69]

I know Tim Cavanaugh and he never wrote any songs. He makes good pastries, but he can't sing, hasn't written any songs, and has skinny arms because he can't lift weights.

Tim even wrote his all time greatest hit "I never met that PillO guy".

 

[1bassleft]

Tim even wrote his all time greatest hit "I never met that PillO guy".

That was Doris Day. And it was Pill0 Talk. And that was a film. I can see the resemblance, though

Thinking about it, Cavanaugh is the Anglicized version of Kappelhoff, isn't it?

 

[felonious69]

That was Doris Day. And it was Pill0 Talk. And that was a film. I can see the resemblance, though
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Thinking about it, Cavanaugh is the Anglicized version of Kappelhoff, isn't it?

Wow! You really DO learn something new every day! Thanks!

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Also few realise the UK's "Black and White Minstrel Show" in the 1960s and 70s was actually a reference to the troupe's rider and not

Remember that overblown press story when Nena had only just packed in her part-time job on the ice-cream vans as her song became an unexpected UK hit?

"Nena's Armpit Hair was in my Raspberry Sauce" knocked Freddy Starr's hamster-munching off the front pages. It was quite a scoop (sorry) for the Daily Sport.

You can sell that hair on eBay now and get enough to fund just one Cornetto (give it to me, delicious ice cream from Italy).

 

[-Asdfgh-]

I know Tim Cavanaugh and he never wrote any songs. He makes good pastries.

I thought he wrote 'Song of a Baker' as performed by The Small Faces?