Unusual Rock Trivia?

[Richland123]

Ellen Foley has had a long career as a singer and actress. She has recorded solo albums as well as songs with Meatloaf ("Paradise By The Dashboard Light" and other songs on the Bat Out Of Hell album), The Clash, Blue Oyster Cult, The Iron City House Rockers, Ian Hunter, Pandora's Box. She has acted on Broadway and starred in the TV show Night Court and some movies. She also teaches voice at The Paul Green School of Rock Music in New York, NY.

Her connection to The Clash led to her singing backup on a number of songs and she had a personal relationship with Mick Jones. The Clash's hit song "Should I Stay Or Should I Go", written and sung by Jones, was about the turbulent relationship he shared with Foley at the time.

 

[Richland123]

 

[Richland123]

Fantasy Records, Inc. Vs. John Fogerty – Infamous Rock Lawsuit

John Fogerty came to feel that Creedence Clearwater Revival's deal with Fantasy Records was unfair and onerous, and he eventually agreed to cede an even larger percentage of the money from that catalog to extricate himself. On his 1985 solo album Centerfield, he included two songs that were thinly-veiled attacks on Fantasy Records President Saul Zaentz, who responded with a lawsuit that forced Fogerty to change the title of one song. He then sued Fogerty for copyright infringement, claiming that the hit "The Old Man Down the Road" was essentially the same as CCR's "Run Through the Jungle" -- to which Zaentz held the copyright. The jury ruled in Fogerty's favor after he demonstrated the differences by performing the two songs on guitar on the witness stand.

 

[roccobass]

There’s a David Crosby or a CSN interview somewhere. Maybe one if you can find it. He’s talking about Stephen Stills and how much he was of a bear when it came to the bass part and bassists. Guess Stills did a lot of the studio bass parts. According to Crosby, they got Leland Sklar to come into one of the CSN sessions. Crosby thinking no more bass issues now. Not sure if they got through the first song, but apparently Stills stops everything and takes the bass from Lee and says something like “play it this way”. Crosby says that was the last they saw of Lee.

 

[Richland123]

Levi Stubbs (real name Levi Stubbles), lead singer of The 4 Tops, was a cousin of R&B singer Jackie Wilson.

Levi Stubbs was also a voice actor. He provided the voice of the carnivorous plant Audrey II in the 1986 movie version of the musical Little Shop Of Horrors, where he sung the Oscar-nominated, "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space." He also was the voice of Mother Brain in the animated TV series Captain N: The Game Master (1989).

 

[Richland123]

At the time when Elvis Presley started to hit it big in 1956, the biggest recording star in rock ‘n’ roll had been Pat Boone. These two young stars matched each other record for record on the hit lists for the next year and a half—causing the media and the public to take a major interest in which one would ultimately become the genre’s true “King.” Although we now know just how incomparably successful Presley went on to be, critics at the time actually predicted that the more conventional singing style of Boone would be the one to outlast the new and innovative style of Presley.

Despite the public and critical interest in the narrative of the 1956 Pat Boone/Elvis Presley rivalry, two people who did not view the situation as such were none other than Pat and Elvis themselves. Neither of them had any hard feelings towards one another and at times even joked about the exaggeration of their relationship in the media. In fact, the two of them were actually friendly in real life and Elvis had even been the opening act at Pat Boone’s shows prior to his national success. You might even say that, at least in part, we have Pat Boone to thank for Elvis. Doesn’t sound like the most heated rivalry!

 

[RichardW]

John Fogerty came to feel that Creedence Clearwater Revival's deal with Fantasy Records was unfair and onerous, and he eventually agreed to cede an even larger percentage of the money from that catalog to extricate himself.

Fogerty told a great anecdote in his interview with Howard Stern about how CCR got caught in its terrible contract. They were naive kids when the band started, and their "manager" handed them a contract. The guys looked at one another and said "does anyone know a lawyer who could review this?" One of them said "yeah my uncle is a lawyer and I'll have him look at it." Except he never gave it to his uncle.

A few weeks go by and Fogerty asks his bandmate "did you uncle ever review that contract?" The guy is too embarrassed to say he didn't do anything with the contract, so he says "uh, yeah, he checked it out and says it's good." So they signed it.

Screwed Fogerty and CCR out of millions of dollars and it took 40 years before Fogerty owned his own music.

 

[Richland123]

Chuck Berry’s 1958 smash hit “Johnny B. Goode” was so popular and influential that it was selected as one of the songs featured on the “Golden Record” affixed to the Voyager space probe—a record designed to transmit the greatest cultural achievements of human history to any hypothetical alien civilizations that someday, millennia in the future, stumble upon the spacecraft floating around aimlessly long after completing its mission in our Solar System.

What are the contents of the Golden Record?


The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, et. al. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled Link Removed and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim.

Each record is encased in a protective aluminum jacket, together with a cartridge and a needle. Instructions, in symbolic language, explain the origin of the spacecraft and indicate how the record is to be played. The 115 images are encoded in analog form.

The remainder of the record is in audio, designed to be played at 16-2/3 revolutions per minute. It contains the spoken greeting, beginning with Akkadian, which was spoken in Sumer about six thousand years ago, and ending with Wu, a modern Chinese dialect. Following the section on the sounds of Earth, there is an eclectic 90-minute selection of music, including both Eastern and Western classics and a variety of ethnic music. Once the Voyager spacecraft leave the solar system (by 1990, both will be beyond the orbit of Pluto), they will find themselves in empty space. It will be forty thousand years before they make a close approach to any other planetary system. As Carl Sagan has noted, "The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet."

Making of the Golden Record

Many people were instrumental in the design, development and manufacturing of the golden record. Blank records were provided by the Pyral S.A. of Creteil, France. CBS Records contracted the JVC Cutting Center in Boulder, Colorado to cut the lacquer masters which were then sent to the James G. Lee Record Processing center in Gardena, California to cut and gold plate eight Voyager records. Gold plating took place on August 23, 1977; afterward, the records were mounted in aluminum containers and delivered to JPL. The record is constructed of gold-plated copper and is 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter. The record's cover is aluminum and electroplated upon it is an ultra-pure sample of the isotope uranium-238. Uranium-238 has a half-life of 4.468 billion years. The records also had the inscription "To the makers of music – all worlds, all times" hand-etched on its surface.

Golden Record
Music From Earth


The following music was included on the Voyager record.

• Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. First Movement, Munich Bach Orchestra, Karl Richter, conductor. 4:40
• Java, court gamelan, "Kinds of Flowers," recorded by Robert Brown. 4:43
• Senegal, percussion, recorded by Charles Duvelle. 2:08
• Zaire, Pygmy girls' initiation song, recorded by Colin Turnbull. 0:56
• Australia, Aborigine songs, "Morning Star" and "Devil Bird," recorded by Sandra LeBrun Holmes. 1:26
• Mexico, "El Cascabel," performed by Lorenzo Barcelata and the Mariachi México. 3:14
• "Johnny B. Goode," written and performed by Chuck Berry. 2:38
• New Guinea, men's house song, recorded by Robert MacLennan. 1:20
• Japan, shakuhachi, "Tsuru No Sugomori" ("Crane's Nest,") performed by Goro Yamaguchi. 4:51
• Bach, "Gavotte en rondeaux" from the Partita No. 3 in E major for Violin, performed by Arthur Grumiaux. 2:55
• Mozart, The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night aria, no. 14. Edda Moser, soprano. Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor. 2:55
• Georgian S.S.R., chorus, "Tchakrulo," collected by Radio Moscow. 2:18
• Peru, panpipes and drum, collected by Casa de la Cultura, Lima. 0:52
• "Melancholy Blues," performed by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven. 3:05
• Azerbaijan S.S.R., bagpipes, recorded by Radio Moscow. 2:30
• Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky, conductor. 4:35
• Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue in C, No.1. Glenn Gould, piano. 4:48
• Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, First Movement, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, conductor. 7:20
• Bulgaria, "Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin," sung by Valya Balkanska. 4:59
• Navajo Indians, Night Chant, recorded by Willard Rhodes. 0:57
• Holborne, Paueans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs, "The Fairie Round," performed by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London. 1:17
• Solomon Islands, panpipes, collected by the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service. 1:12
• Peru, wedding song, recorded by John Cohen. 0:38
• China, ch'in, "Flowing Streams," performed by Kuan P'ing-hu. 7:37
• India, raga, "Jaat Kahan Ho," sung by Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar. 3:30
• "Dark Was the Night," written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson. 3:15
• Beethoven, String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Opus 130, Cavatina, performed by Budapest String Quartet. 6:37

 

[fretter]

The Rolling Stones recorded a Kellogg's Rice Krispies jingle, with a rare Brian Jones co-writing credit.

 

[Richland123]

Bassist Chris Squire was the only member of the band Yes to be part of every one of the band's incarnations until his death in 2015, which left the band without any original members.

 

[MonetBass]

The last time my wife and I saw Foreigner, Mick Jones wasn't playing with them. Which meant that we were essentially watching a cover band (no original members) even though many of the band members had been in the band for two decades. It was still a great show, too.

 

[Richland123]

Ringo Starr was the first narrator for the Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends cartoon for the first two series and played Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station.

 

[howard in nyc]

Chuck Berry’s 1958 smash hit “Johnny B. Goode” was so popular and influential that it was selected as one of the songs featured on the “Golden Record” affixed to the Voyager space probe—a record designed to transmit the greatest cultural achievements of human history to any hypothetical alien civilizations that someday, millennia in the future, stumble upon the spacecraft floating around aimlessly long after completing its mission in our Solar System.

What are the contents of the Golden Record?


The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, et. al. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled Link Removed and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim.

Each record is encased in a protective aluminum jacket, together with a cartridge and a needle. Instructions, in symbolic language, explain the origin of the spacecraft and indicate how the record is to be played. The 115 images are encoded in analog form.

The remainder of the record is in audio, designed to be played at 16-2/3 revolutions per minute. It contains the spoken greeting, beginning with Akkadian, which was spoken in Sumer about six thousand years ago, and ending with Wu, a modern Chinese dialect. Following the section on the sounds of Earth, there is an eclectic 90-minute selection of music, including both Eastern and Western classics and a variety of ethnic music. Once the Voyager spacecraft leave the solar system (by 1990, both will be beyond the orbit of Pluto), they will find themselves in empty space. It will be forty thousand years before they make a close approach to any other planetary system. As Carl Sagan has noted, "The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet."

Making of the Golden Record

Many people were instrumental in the design, development and manufacturing of the golden record. Blank records were provided by the Pyral S.A. of Creteil, France. CBS Records contracted the JVC Cutting Center in Boulder, Colorado to cut the lacquer masters which were then sent to the James G. Lee Record Processing center in Gardena, California to cut and gold plate eight Voyager records. Gold plating took place on August 23, 1977; afterward, the records were mounted in aluminum containers and delivered to JPL. The record is constructed of gold-plated copper and is 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter. The record's cover is aluminum and electroplated upon it is an ultra-pure sample of the isotope uranium-238. Uranium-238 has a half-life of 4.468 billion years. The records also had the inscription "To the makers of music – all worlds, all times" hand-etched on its surface.

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Golden Record
Music From Earth


The following music was included on the Voyager record.

• Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. First Movement, Munich Bach Orchestra, Karl Richter, conductor. 4:40
• Java, court gamelan, "Kinds of Flowers," recorded by Robert Brown. 4:43
• Senegal, percussion, recorded by Charles Duvelle. 2:08
• Zaire, Pygmy girls' initiation song, recorded by Colin Turnbull. 0:56
• Australia, Aborigine songs, "Morning Star" and "Devil Bird," recorded by Sandra LeBrun Holmes. 1:26
• Mexico, "El Cascabel," performed by Lorenzo Barcelata and the Mariachi México. 3:14
• "Johnny B. Goode," written and performed by Chuck Berry. 2:38
• New Guinea, men's house song, recorded by Robert MacLennan. 1:20
• Japan, shakuhachi, "Tsuru No Sugomori" ("Crane's Nest,") performed by Goro Yamaguchi. 4:51
• Bach, "Gavotte en rondeaux" from the Partita No. 3 in E major for Violin, performed by Arthur Grumiaux. 2:55
• Mozart, The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night aria, no. 14. Edda Moser, soprano. Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor. 2:55
• Georgian S.S.R., chorus, "Tchakrulo," collected by Radio Moscow. 2:18
• Peru, panpipes and drum, collected by Casa de la Cultura, Lima. 0:52
• "Melancholy Blues," performed by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven. 3:05
• Azerbaijan S.S.R., bagpipes, recorded by Radio Moscow. 2:30
• Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky, conductor. 4:35
• Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue in C, No.1. Glenn Gould, piano. 4:48
• Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, First Movement, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, conductor. 7:20
• Bulgaria, "Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin," sung by Valya Balkanska. 4:59
• Navajo Indians, Night Chant, recorded by Willard Rhodes. 0:57
• Holborne, Paueans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs, "The Fairie Round," performed by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London. 1:17
• Solomon Islands, panpipes, collected by the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service. 1:12
• Peru, wedding song, recorded by John Cohen. 0:38
• China, ch'in, "Flowing Streams," performed by Kuan P'ing-hu. 7:37
• India, raga, "Jaat Kahan Ho," sung by Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar. 3:30
• "Dark Was the Night," written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson. 3:15
• Beethoven, String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Opus 130, Cavatina, performed by Budapest String Quartet. 6:37

Not long after Voyager was launched, and the Golden Record was in the news, Saturday Night Live had a skit with the premise that members of an advanced spacefaring civilization indeed had encountered the ship, were able to understand the contents of the golden record, and transmitted a four-word reply to Earth:

 

[Richland123]

Country music singers Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb April 14, 1932) and Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb January 9, 1951) are sisters. There were eight children in the Webb family from 1929 to 1951. Two other siblings, Willie "Jay" Lee Webb and Peggy Sue Wright, were also country music performers but did not reach the level of success that Loretta and Crystal have had.

Crystal had a string of songs that were also crossover hits. She signed her first recording contract with her sister's label, Decca Records, and the label insisted that Webb change her first name from "Brenda" to another name. The conflict was due to the fact that Brenda Lee was already signed to Decca at the time. Shortly thereafter, Lynn drove past a sign for the Krystal fast-food restaurant and said to Gayle, "That's your name. Crystals are bright and shiny, like you." It was then that she changed her name professionally to "Crystal Gayle", with "Gayle" taken from her middle name (Gail).

 

[roccobass]

The Lemon Pipers, who reached #1 in the US in 1968 with "Green Tambourine", first gained notoriety by reaching the finals in the Ohio Battle Of The Bands in 1967, losing out to The James Gang.

 

[RichardW]

The Ramones chose that name because in the early days of the Beatles touring, Paul McCartney would sign into hotels using the pseudonym "Paul Ramone."

 

[The Owl]

Blue Oyster Cult song subjects #1

1) The Red and The Black - Canadian Mounties

2) Before The Kiss(A Redcap) - All the strange goings on at Conry's Bar, a venue they used to play long before they were signed. One of them being the exchange of a "redcap" barbituate between two people via a kiss.

 

[roccobass]

The guitar intro to Roy Orbison's 1964 hit, "Oh! Pretty Woman", was played by Billy Sanford, a young man who had just arrived in Nashville and heard that Orbison was short a guitar player. With a borrowed guitar, he auditioned, got the gig and recorded one of Rock 'n' Roll's most recognizable guitar riffs.

 

[roccobass]

Gregg Ericco, (the original drummer for Sly and the Family Stone), was also the touring drummer for Weather Report (1973). Joe Zawinul said no one could play his song Boogie Woogie Waltz any better. Gregg was also cousins with Family Stone saxist Jerry Martini.

 

[buldog5151bass]

Chris Squire and John Entwistle both died on June 27th.