Mar 312011
I had no idea this John Lennon television appearance with Dudley Moore and Peter Cook existed. With all the Beatles stuff I’ve absorbed since childhood I would have thought I’d at least heard of this. I did not know that!
What’s the latest piece of rock knowledge you’ve learned that you were shocked to stumble across?
“French Kissing in the USA” — a minor hit for Debbie Harry in the mid-’80s — was written by Chuck Lorre, creator of Two and a Half Men and other shows I don’t watch.
I did not know that! Speaking of Debbie Harry, until last night, while poking around for a certain Pere Ubu video and footage of my original baseball hero, Willie Montanez, I did not know that the band she was in covered the following song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2bAj0UaxDU
Weird.
Cool. I’d seen the Lennon bit of the clip but not the LS Bumblebee part. I believe that song was released as a single (or on an lp, perhaps) as well. I’d never even heard it, only read about it: as I recall, at one time it circulated as an alleged Beatle outtake, interestingly enough.
Having heard of the band at the time they were around but not actually having heard them till after the fact, I didn’t know that Kerri Kenney of The State, Viva Variety, and Reno 911 was the lead singer for Cake Like. I still probably wouldn’t have known had I not stumbled onto the fact just by chance. Afterwards, I picked up their three albums on the cheap and found they were OK.
Don’t judge me too harshly, but I did not know until relatively recently (in the last decade, anyway) that (Jim) Seals of Seals and Crofts and England Dan (Seals) of England Dan and John Ford Coley, were (are?) brothers. I mean, how did I miss that nugget of info back in the 70s? Why didn’t Casey Kasem tell me? This helped me understand, in retrospect, why I could never keep straight which duo did which song.
Nor did I – until Dan died almost 2 years to this day (spooooky!):
https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/index.php/england-dan-dead/
In that video, the gent shown playing the opening guitar riff is long-time Rolling Stones touring sideman & background vocalist, BLONDIE Chaplin.
Did you know that?
I knew he looked familiar, and I knew he WASN’T Garland Jeffreys or the “OJ Simpson” guitarist in Stop Making Sense! Thanks for clearing that up. As you know, he was also a Beach Boy and a member of former Mystery Date dreamboats Flame!
Also, Seals & Crofts worked together early on (along with guitarists Glen Campbell & Jerry Cole) in a latter lineup of The Champs, of “Tequila” fame.
Thanks to newcomer BrettSounds in the ongoing Last Man Standing competition I just learned that the Mersey is a river! I guess I read that fact in one of the 28,873 Beatles pieces I’ve read, but it didn’t stick. I did know, however, that it was a body of water. I thought it was a bay, or something along those lines.