What's your favorite piece of absurd music trivia?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by BroJB, Jun 6, 2016.

  1. Adkchaz

    Adkchaz Forum Resident

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    Do we know if they ever played anything off of rubber soul when they toured; don’t remember any singles being released from the album.
     
  2. cwitt1980

    cwitt1980 Senior Member

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    "Nowhere Man " and "If I Needed Someone."
     
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  3. rodentdog

    rodentdog Senior Member

    Who's Joe Brown?
     
  4. jimtek

    jimtek Forum Resident

    After Love's first album the group moved into the"Castle" which had been formerly owned by Bela Lugosi.
     
  5. jimtek

    jimtek Forum Resident

    After Eddie Cochran's fatal automobile accident the taxi and the belongings were impounded at the local police station. Dave Dee who would later become a member of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich a police cadet played Eddie's Gretsch guitar.
     
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  6. dave9199

    dave9199 Forum Resident

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    It's interesting that If I Needed Someone was the only Harrison original The Beatles ever played live.
     
  7. Timmy84

    Timmy84 Forum Resident

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    Smokey Robinson's nickname for Marvin Gaye was "Dad" because he walked and danced like an old man in his eyes. :laugh:
     
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  8. cwitt1980

    cwitt1980 Senior Member

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    Even then, he seemed bashful about singing his own lyrics. At least, it seems that way in some footage I've seen (Japan comes to mind).
     
  9. MPLRecords

    MPLRecords Owner of eleven copies of Tug of War

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    It's worth noting that "Live and Let Die" was #1 in Record World and Cash Box, and #2 in Billboard.
     
  10. Binni

    Binni Forum Resident

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  11. Fastnbulbous

    Fastnbulbous Doubleplus Ungood

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    The first song ever performed in space was Yuri Gagarin whistling "The Motherland Hears" by Shostakovich. Seven years later he died in a still-unexplained jet crash.

     
  12. InStepWithTheStars

    InStepWithTheStars It's a miracle, let it alter you

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    Steve Kilbey of the Church was on his high school debate team, who only lost to future Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.

    Incidentally, Kilbey writes in his autobiography, published in 2014:

    "My mother declared that one day, he'd be the prime minister of Australia - and my mother was always right, and she's still waiting to see her prediction fulfilled [...] but you never know what fate will roll into your life, and politics is just like rock and roll, with its winning and losing streaks."

    I think someone read that and decided to uphold Mrs. Kilbey's track record the year after!
     
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  13. uzn007

    uzn007 Watcher of the Skis

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    I'm not sure what's supposed to be absurd here. He's a singer, and he was hired for the session, and he did it. He's pretty far from the most obscure individual to have a page on Wikipedia.
     
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  14. Solitaire1

    Solitaire1 Carpenters Fan

    I agree about someone singing backup not being absurd. A similar issue is with one of my favorites songs, "When You Walking The Room" by Paul Carrack. The song features a great female lead singer, and I later found out that her name is Jackie Rawe and checking her webpage she has appeared on a number of other songs as a singer.

    Jackie Rawe
     
  15. R. Totale

    R. Totale The Voice of Reason

    Kim Carnes, later famous for "Bette Davis Eyes", sang on the Sugar Bears songs found on flexi-discs on Post cereal boxes.
     
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  16. Rufus McDufus

    Rufus McDufus Forum Resident

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  17. RexKramer

    RexKramer Senior Member

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    The Fab Four alphabetize the in the same order, regardless of their first or last names:
    George John Paul Ringo
    Harrison Lennon McCartney Starr
     
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  18. Cheepnik

    Cheepnik Overfed long-haired leaping gnome

    The iconic photos on the front and back covers of The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East were shot not in New York, but in Macon, Ga.
     
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  19. uzn007

    uzn007 Watcher of the Skis

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    Now that you mention it, that alley certainly looks a lot too clean (not to mention wide) for the East Village.
     
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  20. big sciota

    big sciota Forum Resident

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    Dylan proposed to Mavis in the 60's.
     
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  21. Fastnbulbous

    Fastnbulbous Doubleplus Ungood

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    :mind blown:
     
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  22. Farmer Mike

    Farmer Mike Forum Resident

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  23. Rufus McDufus

    Rufus McDufus Forum Resident

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    It had me going for a minute too!
     
  24. uzn007

    uzn007 Watcher of the Skis

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    Wait, Plastic Bertrand doesn't have his own brand of vodka?
     
  25. drad dog

    drad dog A Listener

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    You mean James Paul? ;0
     
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