Paid Members Surf Digby Posted February 17, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 17, 2023 Today I learned about the existence of Hazel Scott, and it baffles me that I've never heard or seen previous mention of her. I mean, she's amazing. That left hand is just incredible. Quote
wordsfromlee Posted February 17, 2023 Posted February 17, 2023 Not only is Natalie Imbruglia’s version of ‘Torn’ one of the best pop songs ever but today I learned that the guy who played the double bass on ‘Lovecats’ played bass on it, Katrina from Katrina & The Waves did backing vocals, Zero 7 did some drums and it was mixed by Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted February 17, 2023 Members Posted February 17, 2023 Jesse Eisenberg was the Dr Pepper ad kid. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted February 21, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 21, 2023 ...that the French pronunciation of "ChatGPT" sounds like "chat, j'ai pété" - "cat, I have farted". Quote
Paid Members hallicks Posted February 22, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 22, 2023 David Hasselhoff’s first wife, Catherine Hickland, went on to marry a man named Michael Knight. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted March 7, 2023 Members Posted March 7, 2023 Johnny Cash was the first person to learn of Stalins death. Quote
Paid Members gmoney Posted March 8, 2023 Paid Members Posted March 8, 2023 This isn't really a TIL per se, but I've not stopped thinking about it since it was pointed out to me. The very fine song December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons tells the story of a man reminiscing about a young courtship, but December 1963 is a month after JFK was shot and the US in disarray. Very amusing to me to think of this guy looking back at his knobbing exploits and no concern about anything else going on at the time. Oh what a night, Late October back in 2001, Get some fanny? Yes, I plowed a tonne Quote
cobra_gordo Posted March 8, 2023 Posted March 8, 2023 That "Sugar, Sugar" was written for and released by fictional band The Archies from the cartoon based on the Archie comics. Quote
RedRooster Posted March 8, 2023 Posted March 8, 2023 (edited) 12 hours ago, SuperBacon said: Johnny Cash was the first person to learn of Stalins death. Funnily enough, I knew this one, through (I think) his autobiography. I was wondering if it could possibly be true, or if it was embellished and after reading more into it, it seems it might be, but he’d have been transcribing Russian, which someone else would have translated. And to be fair on Cash, I’m fairly sure he says in his book that he ‘copied’ the news as opposed to learned. Hopefully that makes this more interesting rather than pours cold water on it… Edited March 8, 2023 by RedRooster Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted March 8, 2023 Members Posted March 8, 2023 9 minutes ago, RedRooster said: Funnily enough, I knew this one, through (I think) his autobiography. I was wondering if it could possibly be true, or if it was embellished and after reading more into it, it seems it might be, but he’s have been transcribing Russian, which someone else would have translated. And to be fair on Cash, I’m fairly sure he says in his book that he ‘copied’ the news as opposed to learned. Hopefully that makes this more interesting rather than pours cold water on it… Slightly off topic but that reminds me of one of my favourite bits in High Fidelity. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 8, 2023 Paid Members Posted March 8, 2023 I'm guessing it's something that went viral recently - I saw it somewhere on social only yesterday. Quote
Paid Members BomberPat Posted March 8, 2023 Paid Members Posted March 8, 2023 36 minutes ago, RedRooster said: Funnily enough, I knew this one, through (I think) his autobiography. I was wondering if it could possibly be true, or if it was embellished and after reading more into it, it seems it might be, but he’d have been transcribing Russian, which someone else would have translated. And to be fair on Cash, I’m fairly sure he says in his book that he ‘copied’ the news as opposed to learned. Hopefully that makes this more interesting rather than pours cold water on it… He was a morse code operator, so would have just been taking down the signal and presumably someone else interpreting it. It's likely just a tall story from his autobiography anyway, but it's one of those stories I'd prefer to be true than not, so am happy to leave it at that. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted March 8, 2023 Members Posted March 8, 2023 9 minutes ago, Carbomb said: I'm guessing it's something that went viral recently - I saw it somewhere on social only yesterday. It was the 70th anniversary of Stalin's death. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted March 8, 2023 Members Posted March 8, 2023 48 minutes ago, gmoney said: RIP! Wiv da Engels now. Quote
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