The KimW "I'm Gonna Kick Your Butt" Music Trivia Thread

I second that. Frank, you're priceless.

What musician's mom invented the product "White Out"?

Bands. English and German.

I've got a seat ready for you Steve.
I've been back here since this thread began.

LOL - I guess you knew these guys

Now - give Kim a chance to answer...

Twang?

Just a guess...

not too sure on these

country and western was once called hillbilly music
(Hills Bills as an old Cuban friend of mine used to say...lol )
(pc..mountain Williams)

The Midnight special
was either a train that passed by the prison or (the train noise) used as escape at midnight as a signal or cover.

curious about the Midnight Special because it was my first exposure to contemporary music and I LOVED it.

You mean like this John? Like I said in the other thread you had ..this is exactly what one of mine used to do.

And to keep it on topic...name the song this cat is chirping...:p

Mike is close enough to win the cookie!
I was going for their first album was produced by Paul Stanley of KISS

Yep, good guess Kurt.

Ray Charles...





I was just about to turn off the computer for Mothers day when I saw your post.

Got a her a bbq...lol, which means I will be doing most of the cooking this summer, which is fine by me.

Remember Elly-may's pancakes?...nuff said:p

have to build it now.

The 45 version of "Won't Get Fooled Again" was about 3:30. But it was so
cut to ribbons it was a shell of its former self.

Same thing with Roundabout by Yes. The 45 was about 3 minutes. The LP
version I think was somewhere around 8 or 9 minutes.

That was another common theme of the AM radio era...songs being cut to
shreds for 45 release. Light My Fire, by the Doors, was about a 3 minute
song on 45. The whole middle section was cut.

But back then, you didn't know about "long" versions because nobody
played them.

I remember the first time I heard the uncut "Light My Fire" I thought to
myself, "wow, this is so cool."

And ironically, even today, even with AM radio dead, some songs STILL
get cut for airplay.

Go figure.

Jon, it was a different era. So much has changed since then, not the least
of which is we, as a race, have lost our innocence. Back then, turn on the
TV and you didn't see people in bed together unless they each had one
foot on the floor.

Also, back then, music wasn't segmented. You could hear the Supremes
and the next minute hear the Dave Clark Five.

Today, you have one station each for:

Rock
Pop
Oldies
R&B
Hip Hop/Rap
Indies
Metal
Country

And on and on.

Hell, in 1971 Lynn Anderson had a number 1 "pop" hit with "Rose Garden",
which was a country song. You could hear it on your local AM radio station
immediately followed by "Temptation Eyes" by the Grass Roots, which
would be immediately followed by "Stoned Love" by the Supremes.

Those days are LONG gone.

As a result, pop "hits" are so segmented that there is no way in hell you're
going to get anything other than what the masses with the loudest voices
and deepest pockets want to hear, not even getting into what the big
record labels are pushing on us.

And yes, it went on to some degree years ago as well. But not to this
extent, which was evident by the huge cross section of music you could
hear on the top 40 stations.

Today, the Monkees would have never made it...period.

Along with a lot of other groups.

So yeah, the songs were great back then, the ones at the top of the
charts because greatness was allowed to happen.

Today, it's all about the bottom line.

Point is, you can't compare the two eras.

Truth is, there WAS less competition and there was MORE chance to make
it to the top than there is today, even with all the avenues open to people
today, such as the Internet.

It just makes the competition that much more insane.

I always said I was born 20 years too late.

Sure, you could say that.