*** music trivia ***

[Ky Fried Redleg]

Heresy indeed. I’m a huge McCartney fan but Wings had their moments but it’s like comparing Mozart to Wham!

I’m sure I’ve told this story before, but Mrs. Tucker #1 and I went to the Riverfront Coliseum in 1976(ish) to see McCartney and Wings. It was a pretty good show but heavy on Wings and light on Beatles.

But, because we knew we’d get loaded to the gills on cheap ass beer at the show, some bad mescaline, and firing up some fat doobies, we stayed at a downtown hotel (I forget which). But, at the hotel room, I went to get some ice and met a pretty good looker in the elevator. Between floors 1 and 10, we talked and she asked me if I wanted some company. I realized I wasn’t dazzling her with my charms and that she was a working girl looking for some $$$ for a fast bj. My midwestern manners kicked in ano I said no thank you.

Roy is about 10 or so years older than Ky Fried, so about the only Beatles song I remember really listening to as a 6 or 7 y.o. kid was "Hey Jude," which I really liked. I think we all kinda have special feelings for songs and music we grew up with. I was a 70's child. Seventies music is my passion fruit. It's when I was a teen, starting liking girls, played Little League, first starting following the Reds. That's why I love that music so much. The Beatles were before my time. "Wings" came along when I really started loving music. I listened to it everyday on my little radio(until the Reds game started).

Give me "Band on the Run" over any Beatles' song..

[Roy Tucker]

Roy is about 10 or so years older than Ky Fried, so about the only Beatles song I remember really listening to as a 6 or 7 y.o. kid was "Hey Jude," which I really liked. I think we all kinda have special feelings for songs and music we grew up with. I was a 70's child. Seventies music is my passion fruit. It's when I was a teen, starting liking girls, played Little League, first starting following the Reds. That's why I love that music so much. The Beatles were before my time. "Wings" came along when I really started loving music. I listened to it everyday on my little radio(until the Reds game started).

Give me "Band on the Run" over any Beatles' song..

That’s cool. I loved Band on the Run. It felt like a Beatles album and I was a big fan of it.

We’re all just a product of where and when we were born. I can listen to various Beatles albums and get instantly transported to a time and a place and the emotions of that time. Mostly good but some tough times as well. Probably the same feelings that anyone had going through their teens and 20’s and beyond no matter what the era.

Coda: I saw McCartney at the same Riverfront Coliseum with Mrs Tucker #2 in 2016 and it was probably the best show I’ve ever been to. He played Beatles songs and Wings songs over decades worth of music and it was just fantastic. After the show, I told my wife “I can die now”.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

Heresy indeed. I’m a huge McCartney fan but Wings had their moments but it’s like comparing Mozart to Wham!

I’m sure I’ve told this story before, but Mrs. Tucker #1 and I went to the Riverfront Coliseum in 1976(ish) to see McCartney and Wings. It was a pretty good show but heavy on Wings and light on Beatles.

But, because we knew we’d get loaded to the gills on cheap ass beer at the show, some bad mescaline, and firing up some fat doobies, we stayed at a downtown hotel (I forget which). But, at the hotel room, I went to get some ice and met a pretty good looker in the elevator. Between floors 1 and 10, we talked and she asked me if I wanted some company. I realized I wasn’t dazzling her with my charms and that she was a working girl looking for some $$$ for a fast bj. My midwestern manners kicked in ano I said no thank you.

I could listen to your stories all night long.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

46. One of my favorite songs closing out the decade of the seventies. Very undervalued song by an undervalued band, imo. Very romantic love song about New Orleans, inspired by the songwriter's deep love and lust for New Orleans, capturing the city's unique nightlife and natural beauty and reflecting his strong attraction to the South after living in Chicago. It includes a short, but memorable alto sax solo by Phil Kenzie, who met the band while he was on tour with Al Stewart(Remember "In the Year of the Cat"?)

The song was released at the end of my junior year of high school. I loved it then, but I love it even more now. Only around twenty years ago did the song present me with a very poignant moment. The lyrics now are not only beautiful and romantic, they are haunting. The words eerily seem to foreshadow the catastrophic natural disaster that befell the city in August of 2005 :

... In the cool southern rain
There's a full moon in sight
Shining down on the Pontchartrain
And the river she rises
Just like she used to do
She's so full of surprises
She reminds me of you


True story...

I was watching on TV, as the horrific events were unfolding in real time. I was just kinda numb at what I was seeing - people perched on the top of houses, desperately hoping to be rescued. Others were being washed away. It was shocking to actually be witness to the drowning of a major American city. Anyway, I had a mix of some 70's music playing while I was watching TV of the disaster going on in New Orleans... and the above song came on. The images of what I was seeing on TV, together with the heartfelt words of love for the city in this song, hit me pretty hard. Tears starting streaming down my face . It was pretty emotional and overwhelming. I like the song even more today than I did as a junior in high school.

The song peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 but, in my mind, it should have been an even bigger hit. The band had two other top 20 hits, one in '79 and one in '89. The one in '79 spend seven weeks at #1 on the AC chart and was the #1 song of the year on the AC. They also had a top 40 hit in '89, as well.

What is the name of this love song about New Orleans and what band made it a hit?

[texasdave]

My folks lived in New Orleans for about 18 months, my dad being transferred there by his company. They liked living there, but my dad could not wait to move. He said if a hurricane hit and the levees gave way that the city would turn into one giant swimming pool. They lived in Metairie which was one of the hardest hit areas. Luckily, they had moved to Houston years before.

[Roy Tucker]

I could listen to your stories all night long.

We're going to Party, Karamu, Fiesta, forever

[Ky Fried Redleg]

My folks lived in New Orleans for about 18 months, my dad being transferred there by his company. They liked living there, but my dad could not wait to move. He said if a hurricane hit and the levees gave way that the city would turn into one giant swimming pool. They lived in Metairie which was one of the hardest hit areas. Luckily, they had moved to Houston years before.

Your dad was Nostradamus. I'm glad he followed his instincts out of town. That disaster was inevitable.


Written and sung by the late, Paul Cotton:




In the heart of the night, oh, oh
Down in New Orleans
And I'm so glad to be back in New Orleans
Please don't wake me, don't shake me
If it's only, if it's only just a dream
'Cause it's the only place I can face that makes me feel so right
Below that Dixie moon and loving you
In the heart of the night

[Ky Fried Redleg]

We're going to Party, Karamu, Fiesta, forever

Maybe back in the 80's but now that I'm older, with aching bones and limp libido, it's more "Easy, like Sunday morning."

[Ky Fried Redleg]

47. Remember Terry Melcher , the guy who drew the ire of Charlie Manson after Melcher told him his music wasn't good enough for a record deal? Well, Terry Melcher was a co-writer of this #1 hit from the 1988 Tom Cruise movie, Cocktail. Melcher wrote the song's bridge, while "Papa" John Phillips and Scott McKenzie("San Francisco") wrote the other verses. One of the founding members of the band who recorded the song added the catchy chorus. The band had not had had a #1 song for over two decades until this song topped the charts late in 1988. At the time, the 22 year gap between #1 songs was a record.

While the lyrics describe a fictional island paradise, the song's title was chosen partly because it is the name of a real city in north central Indiana that was known in blues history as a waypoint for bluesmen travelling from Chicago to St. Louis. One such blues musician(real name, Joseph Harvey), was well known in the blues circuit in the Indiana city. So, the song was a homage to him, as well.


Do you remember the song and the band whose career it revitalized ? As a bonus question, can you name the band's last #1 hit , 22 years prior to the one described above?

[texasdave]

Maybe back in the 80's but now that I'm older, with aching bones and limp libido, it's more "Easy, like Sunday morning."

Once, twice, three times hit the snooze bar.

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It has to be the Beach Boys, Kokomo. What the prior #1 was I have no earthly idea.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

48. This song has been called the worst rock song of all time. In 2004, Blender Magazine called it the worst song ever, writing “It purports to be anti-commercial but reeks of ‘80s corporate-rock commercialism. It’s a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the ‘80s.” Further, in a 2011 poll of its online readers, Rolling Stone not only named the song the worst of the ‘80s, but revealed that it was “the biggest blow-out victory in the history of the Rolling Stone Readers Poll.”

The song's lyricist, better known as being one half of a Hall of Fame writing tandem alongside a rock icon, said the song started out as “a very dark song about how club life in L.A. was being killed off and live acts had no place to go.” What it turned into, thanks to Australian producer Peter Wolf(remember Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"?) , however, was a more upbeat and hopeful (and infectious ) synth-heavy dish of earworm candy.

When the song came out in late summer 1985, Billboard called it an “unusual rock ‘n’ roll anthem ... as wise as it is rebellious.” The Grammys liked it well enough too, nominating it for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group in 1986(it lost the award to Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" ) . It was the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in November of '85, no doubt much to the chagrin of Paul Kantner.

Listen, this song has been streamed on Spotify almost 700,000,000 times. That's a helluva lot of hate-listens. The fact is, the public doesn't hate this song, at all. I've been to this band's shows multiple times. No song gets a bigger ovation when it begins playing than this one. It's not a great song, by any stretch. But, the worse song ever??? NO WAY! Not even close. Just the fact of who wrote the song and who sings the song makes it impossible to be the worst ever. I'll bet everyone here on RZ, at one time or another , has sung along to this song(although you may not want to admit it).

"Marconi plays the mamba... " WHAT THE HELL ?!?!!!!


What's the song and who's the famous lyricist who penned the words?

[Ky Fried Redleg]

Once, twice, three times hit the snooze bar.

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It has to be the Beach Boys, Kokomo. What the prior #1 was I have no earthly idea.

[Revering4Blue]

48. This song has been called the worst rock song of all time. In 2004, Blender Magazine called it the worst song ever, writing “It purports to be anti-commercial but reeks of ‘80s corporate-rock commercialism. It’s a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the ‘80s.” Further, in a 2011 poll of its online readers, Rolling Stone not only named the song the worst of the ‘80s, but revealed that it was “the biggest blow-out victory in the history of the Rolling Stone Readers Poll.”

The song's lyricist, better known as being one half of a Hall of Fame writing tandem alongside a rock icon, said the song started out as “a very dark song about how club life in L.A. was being killed off and live acts had no place to go.” What it turned into, thanks to Australian producer Peter Wolf(remember Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"?) , however, was a more upbeat and hopeful (and infectious ) synth-heavy dish of earworm candy.

When the song came out in late summer 1985, Billboard called it an “unusual rock ‘n’ roll anthem ... as wise as it is rebellious.” The Grammys liked it well enough too, nominating it for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group in 1986(it lost the award to Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" ) . It was the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in November of '85, no doubt much to the chagrin of Paul Kantner.

Listen, this song has been streamed on Spotify almost 700,000,000 times. That's a helluva lot of hate-listens. The fact is, the public doesn't hate this song, at all. I've been to this band's shows multiple times. No song gets a bigger ovation when it begins playing than this one. It's not a great song, by any stretch. But, the worse song ever??? NO WAY! Not even close. Just the fact of who wrote the song and who sings the song makes it impossible to be the worst ever. I'll bet everyone here on RZ, at one time or another , has sung along to this song(although you may not want to admit it).

"Marconi plays the mamba... " WHAT THE HELL ?!?!!!!


What's the song and who's the famous lyricist who penned the words?

The song: Starship’s We Built This City.
The Lyricist - if I am not mistaken: Bernie Taupin.


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[Ky Fried Redleg]

The song: Starship’s We Built This City.
The Lyricist - if I am not mistaken: Bernie Taupin.


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Correct!

Grace Slick hated this song but agreed to sing it because she felt like she had been a bad bandmate in previous years(like getting drunk at a show in Germany and insulting the German audience about being on losing end of WWII... lol) God. I love Grace.

[texasdave]

45. Speaking of John Lennon. An album was released n 1972 by a band that basically was a duo along with session musicians. It was their first album and on it was a song that reportedly mocked John Lennon and his greatest solo hit, Imagine. Obviously, this duo did not think much of it. Anyhow, name the band and the song.

Band - Steely Dan
Album - Can't Buy a Thrill
Song - Only A Fool Would Say That