[Name This Person]

No, he was older than Paul Newman. There was some time overlap, but as far as I know they never appeared together in a movie.

[Name This Person]

30 minutes ago, PastaJoe said:

Is he American? Fred Astaire.

 

He is American, but he does not dance in his movies. He is especially well know for one specific movie genre.

[Name This Person]

1 hour ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

Bon Jovi?

 

Early in his career he actually played in one or two musicals, but his singing was dubbed.

[Name This Person]

Yes, dead.

[Name This Person]

12 minutes ago, T&C said:

Is this actor dead or alive?

Dead.

[Name This Person]

19 minutes ago, T&C said:

Gary Busey?

 

14 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

Was Babe Ruth an actor, too? 🤔

 

Not Gary, not Babe. Older than Gary, younger than Babe.

[Name This Person]

10 hours ago, PastaJoe said:

Was he an actor? Marlon Brando.

 

Actor yes, Brando no.

[Name This Person]

This thread appears to be on the verge of dying. As I enjoyed it very much, I will try to put it on life support.

Who is this young fellow?

 

 

[Share some music thread]

 

[Best Canadian Rock Bands/Artists]

1. The Band. It is amazing that a band doing "Americana" and Southern music/R&B so well is actually 80% Canadian.

2. Joni Mitchell (here with an all-star band: Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, Lyle Mays, Don Alias)

3. The Tragically Hip

All these had been mentioned before. Thus, to add my personal "obscure Canadian band":

 

[Favorite Album covers]

21 hours ago, T&C said:

 

The LP version available in Germany actually had your pic on the inside, while the parody of the Sgt. Pepper's cover was on the cover (as FZ had originally intended).

 

[Favorite Album covers]

Actually not the cover, but the inner sleeve of Traffic's "On The Road"...

 

 

[Have a Good Song That Clocks in Under 3:00 Long?]

23 hours ago, T&C said:

Here is a short pop tune that goes together like vinegar, pork rinds, and yogurt... FZ was amused, nice to hear him give a laugh. Children, stop your nursing... its the:

 

 

 

As a student in Germany in the mid-seventies, some friends and I sometimes brought Trout Mask Replica to parties. It certainly got the attention of the disco crowd.

[Share some music thread]

And now, for something completely different. A musical medley (mostly classical) played by a model train...

 

 

Miniatur Wunderland is Hamburg (Germany) is the largest model railroad layout in the World. As it is still closed because of the pandemic (they hope to reopen soon), they had to occupy their core employees otherwise. The video above is what they came up with.

 

[Have a Good Song That Clocks in Under 3:00 Long?]

Another gem less than 3 minutes long. While Kristin Hersh does not quite have the vocal abilities of Grace Slick, her hard-rock outfit, 50 ft wave, beats Jefferson Airplane on intensity.

 

[Have a Good Song That Clocks in Under 3:00 Long?]

4 hours ago, Nextmanup said:

Short and pop songs go together like salt and pepper, ham and eggs, cream and sugar....

 

There are about 10 million of them.

 

 

 

Yes, but the purpose of this thread is to show us those you think are the best. And I would not classify most songs in this thread as "pop". 

Here is one that clearly is "pop".

 

Here is a live version of it (to stay within the "under 3 minutes" rule, you have to start at around 2:30. Before that, the video shows the interaction of Hayley Williams with audience members).

 

[Name This Person]

42 minutes ago, T&C said:

Why doing google image searches? Takes away the whole spirit of the thread....

 

I am doing those only when I cannot come up with an answer. And I would never post the result of the search. Except in this case, where it was obviously incorrect but funny.

[Name This Person]

3 hours ago, ChevyVanMiller said:

Not Judy. Here’s a hint: she received death threats for a song that she wrote when she was just 15.

 

According to a Google Image Search, the correct answer is "Senior Citizen".

[Have a Good Song That Clocks in Under 3:00 Long?]

This one is even under two minutes...

 

Arguably even better (and also under three minutes) is how Ruth Underwood explains and plays her percussion part 30 years later...

 

[Name This Person]

On 4/12/2021 at 8:15 AM, PastaJoe said:

 

Jerry Lee Lewis?

[Have a Good Song That Clocks in Under 3:00 Long?]

Joni Mitchell rarely did covers. However, this one is outstanding...

 

But, perhaps, the original might still be better..

 

[Share some music thread]

After their big days were over... Jimmy Carl Black was the drummer and sometimes vocalist on some early Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention records ("Hi Boys and Girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black, and I'm the Indian of the group."). He spent the last decade of his life in Germany, specifically, in the state of Bavaria, as the leader of the European Zappa tribute band, the Muffin Men.

 

 

Black was the focus of the 2013 German documentary movie "Where's the Beer and When Do We Get Paid?".  Here is the trailer:

 

 

[Better than The Beatles]

This was one of their first songs where the Beatles really did not care any more if it could be played live. These guys pulled it off. 801 was a project by Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno.

 

[Better than The Beatles]

I had posted this previously in the "Share your music thread". "Eleanor Rigby", using Sugarcane Harris' violin in a very different way than the string octet in the Beatles' original. I especially like the bass by Victor Conte.

 

 

[Better than The Beatles]

John Lennon is supposed to have approved of this version.