Post an interesting fact people might not know

[matt1]

TC Talks: Madonna story from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna

[Bobbert]

In 2006, Taylor Swift played music in the parking lot at the P.F. Chang's in Northville.

Aug. 25, 2006: DTE Energy Music Theatre (opening for Phil Vassar)

Swift’s debut performance in Metro Detroit — if you don’t count the time in spring 2006 when, after a meeting with WYCD-FM (99.5) programmer Tim Roberts, she played him an impromptu private concert in his truck in the parking lot of the Northville P.F. Chang’s — was as an opening act for “Just Another Day in Paradise” singer Phil Vassar. Swift was listed fourth on a bill that also included Emerson Drive and Steve Azar, and the performance came two months before the release of her debut album. It was her only time at the current Pine Knob.

(Paywall-protected) https://www.detroitnews.com/story/enter ... 289450007/

[Bobbert]

Mick Jagger, who turned 80 this week, made this comment in 1975:

"I’d rather be dead than sing Satisfaction when I’m 45."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/08/1 ... isfaction/

In 2022, he was still singing it:

https://www.setlist.fm/stats/average-se ... ?year=2022

[kager]

Maybe this won't ciome as a surprise to anyone, but Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens is credited by former Oingo Boingo member Danny Elfman as playing a large part in Elfman's film composing career...

Paul was not only a friend but a H*** part of my life. He, along with Tim Burton, was responsible for bringing me into Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” Elfman said in a statement the weekend of the big, bittersweet show. “That opened the door to my 38-year composing career and but for them I’m quite sure never would have happened.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dan ... 25512.html

Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh's film scoring career also had origins in Reuben's movies and shows.

Strange birds of a feather...

[TC Talks]

Mark Mothersbaugh hit wide notarity with Rug Rats music.

[matt1]

Mark Mothersbaugh did the music for "Crash Bandicoot" for Playstation which debuted in July of 1996!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8TIYO4 ... Team-Topic

[kager]

The character design for the bespectacled Chuckie Finster on Rugrats was based on Mothersbaugh, according to wikipedia.

At least visually, it's easy to see the similarities.

[tc]

Merry Clayton, who is heard on The Rolling Stone's "Gimme Shelter" (“it’s just a shot away”...), was 4 months pregnant when she was summoned to the recording studio late one night (she went in her pajamas) to record her powerful vocals. The next day she suffered a miscarriage, and attributes it to pushing open the heavy doors at the studio, as well as straining to hit the high notes while recording.

[matt1]

I think that Australia's pop group The Little River Band (NOT sure if it was the original members OR the 2001 lineup since) was the 1st concert at "Little River Casino & Resort" in Manistee, Michigan. (Not sure which year or month)

[matt1]

Movie actress Amy Smart lives in Traverse City, MI with her husband Carter Oosterhouse & they own Bonobo Winery!! https://bonobowinery.com/about

[matt1]

Former MTV News anchor & reporter Tabitha Soren appeared in the Beastie Boys late 1986 music video "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)"!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8q ... ieBoysVEVO

[Ben Zonia]

The Beatles were Del Shannon's support act in England during his tour in 1963 and Del Shannon was the first American artist to cover a Lennon/McCartney song that same year with "From Me To You". It entered the Billboard Hot 100 on 29 June, becoming the first Lennon–McCartney composition to make the American charts. Del's version was a bigger hit than The Beatles.

Del Shannon, a native of Coopersville, MI, however, did not have the first song written by Lennon McCartney played on the air in the US. The recently late Dick Biondi at WLS played "Please Please Me" by the Beatles and reached #35 on the WLS chart three months before Del Shannon. This chart is from Week 4 of airplay, as acetates and promotional copies often were delivered to stations before the official release. In the 1970s, Rick Sklar's "World's Last Station" policy would not have allowed it to be played.



The US original version of "Please Please Me" on Vee Jay Records was pressed at the American Record Pressing plant in Owosso, MI. The record has the misspelling "Beattles" on the label.

[KeenerGold]

The Beatles were Del Shannon's support act in England during his tour in 1963 and Del Shannon was the first American artist to cover a Lennon/McCartney song that same year with "From Me To You". It entered the Billboard Hot 100 on 29 June, becoming the first Lennon–McCartney composition to make the American charts. Del's version was a bigger hit than The Beatles.

Del Shannon, a native of Coopersville, MI, however, did not have the first song written by Lennon McCartney played on the air in the US. The recently late Dick Biondi at WLS played "Please Please Me" by the Beatles and reached #35 on the WLS chart three months before Del Shannon. This chart is from Week 4 of airplay, as acetates and promotional copies often were delivered to stations before the official release. In the 1970s, Rick Sklar's "World's Last Station" policy would not have allowed it to be played.



The US original version of "Please Please Me" on Vee Jay Records was pressed at the American Record Pressing plant in Owosso, MI. The record has the misspelling "Beattles" on the label.

Here's an aircheck of Dick Biondi playing "Please Please Me" on February 23, 1963.

https://www.beatle.net/wp-content/uploa ... Biondi.mp3

[Ben Zonia]

The Beatles were Del Shannon's support act in England during his tour in 1963 and Del Shannon was the first American artist to cover a Lennon/McCartney song that same year with "From Me To You". It entered the Billboard Hot 100 on 29 June, becoming the first Lennon–McCartney composition to make the American charts. Del's version was a bigger hit than The Beatles.

Del Shannon, a native of Coopersville, MI, however, did not have the first song written by Lennon McCartney played on the air in the US. The recently late Dick Biondi at WLS played "Please Please Me" by the Beatles and reached #35 on the WLS chart three months before Del Shannon. This chart is from Week 4 of airplay, as acetates and promotional copies often were delivered to stations before the official release. In the 1970s, Rick Sklar's "World's Last Station" policy would not have allowed it to be played.

The US original version of "Please Please Me" on Vee Jay Records was pressed at the American Record Pressing plant in Owosso, MI. The record has the misspelling "Beattles" on the label.


Keener Gold wrote:

Here's an aircheck of Dick Biondi playing "Please Please Me" on February 23, 1963.

https://www.beatle.net/wp-content/uploa ... Biondi.mp3

Ben Zonia wrote:

That would be 20 days before the chart shown. So that would have been about the first week of airplay.

The WLS chart at that time is one of the few that showed the number of weeks it had been played. That is very useful in researching and confirming stories about airplay from acetates and early promo copies. Another story that no one believes is that Joey Reynolds brought acetates of "Dawn (Go Away)" in December, 1963 to WTRX and other stations. He had worked there briefly in early 1963, and was under contract to provide programming consulting for the next year there after getting the Big Gig at WKBW. It was kind of controversial, because the recording had been withheld from Vee Jay, which wasn't paying them full royalties due, also to The Beatles for early US releases. They both changed labels shortly thereafter. WKBW was playing "Dawn" by the next week after WTRX, and WLS showed the first entry as having been played for four weeks. Along with CKLW, the WLS and WKBW charts on ARSA reveal airplay as much as a month before the official release on the now ubiquitous PHILIPS label, the font part of the logo now being all over everything.

[KeenerGold]

The Beatles were Del Shannon's support act in England during his tour in 1963 and Del Shannon was the first American artist to cover a Lennon/McCartney song that same year with "From Me To You". It entered the Billboard Hot 100 on 29 June, becoming the first Lennon–McCartney composition to make the American charts. Del's version was a bigger hit than The Beatles.

Del Shannon, a native of Coopersville, MI, however, did not have the first song written by Lennon McCartney played on the air in the US. The recently late Dick Biondi at WLS played "Please Please Me" by the Beatles and reached #35 on the WLS chart three months before Del Shannon. This chart is from Week 4 of airplay, as acetates and promotional copies often were delivered to stations before the official release. In the 1970s, Rick Sklar's "World's Last Station" policy would not have allowed it to be played.

The US original version of "Please Please Me" on Vee Jay Records was pressed at the American Record Pressing plant in Owosso, MI. The record has the misspelling "Beattles" on the label.


Keener Gold wrote:

Here's an aircheck of Dick Biondi playing "Please Please Me" on February 23, 1963.

https://www.beatle.net/wp-content/uploa ... Biondi.mp3

Ben Zonia wrote:

That would be 20 days before the chart shown. So that would have been about the first week of airplay.

The WLS chart at that time is one of the few that showed the number of weeks it had been played. That is very useful in researching and confirming stories about airplay from acetates and early promo copies. Another story that no one believes is that Joey Reynolds brought acetates of "Dawn (Go Away)" in December, 1963 to WTRX and other stations. He had worked there briefly in early 1963, and was under contract to provide programming consulting for the next year there after getting the Big Gig at WKBW. It was kind of controversial, because the recording had been withheld from Vee Jay, which wasn't paying them full royalties due, also to The Beatles for early US releases. They both changed labels shortly thereafter. WKBW was playing "Dawn" by the next week after WTRX, and WLS showed the first entry as having been played for four weeks. Along with CKLW, the WLS and WKBW charts on ARSA reveal airplay as much as a month before the official release on the now ubiquitous PHILIPS label, the font part of the logo now being all over everything.

The timeline is correct. "Dawn (Go Away)" was cut at Atlantic Studios on November 20, 1963. Acetates could have been cut after it was mixed and into the hands of DJ's not long after.