• African-American blues musician Buddy Guy played with a white boy when he was a child, but eventually adults told the boys that they couldn't play together because of their racial differences. This puzzled the boys because at night they could shine a flashlight through their hands and their hands looked the same. Mr. Guy says, "We didn't have no lights or streetlights, so after it got dark, you could take a flashlight and shine it up to your hand and see red blood. Whether you were black or white, you could see that there. Me and him saw that, and I said, 'Somebody's lying.' Underneath, we're all the same."
• While in New Brunswick, conductor Pierre Monteux stopped at a group of cabins where he wanted to stay the night. However, a woman in the office told him, "Sorry, I have nothing!" Just then, a young girl went to the woman and whispered to her, telling her who Mr. Monteux was. The woman then said, "Excuse me, sir, I did not know that you were Someone. I think that I can accommodate you." Mr. Monteux bowed to the woman and said, "Madame, everyone is Someone. Au revoir."
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• Veteran singer-songwriter Jill Sobule keeps writing and singing, but record companies keep dying. What to do if you want to record a new album? She set up a Web site called (jillsnextrecord.com) and solicited donations from her fans so she could make her next album. She needed $75,000, and in less than two months, happily, she got $75,000. Of course, she worried that she would get much less: "It's one of those things I was never quite sure if it was ever going to work, and so far it has. The initial fear is that it would just be my mother and some cousins donating, and it could've been humiliating." To get the money, of course, she offered incentives. In the words of music writer Greg Kot: "$10 bought a free digital download of the album, $200 earned free admission to any Sobule show this year [2009], $500 ensured that the donor would be mentioned in a song at the end of the album, and $5,000 booked a Sobule concert in the donor's living room." Her idea worked, but it has a cost. The social networking she does takes time, and in a six-week period she wrote no songs. Still, she got her album recorded; it is titled California Years.
• Early in his career, tenor John L. Brecknock was determined to get himself out of his own jams - not always with good results. While singing a love duet on stage with Catherine Wilson, he had a mental blackout and could not remember the words. Ms. Wilson whispered the correct words to him, but he was so concentrating on getting himself out of the jam that he did not listen to her. She repeated the words, and this time he whispered back, "I know what I'm doing." After a few more seconds, he remembered the words and recovered. In his autobiography, Scaling the High Cs, Mr. Brecknock writes, "… if I had allowed myself to be guided by someone who knew better, the situation could have been resolved within a couple of bars of music, rather than a couple of pages - and without making the conductor pull his hair out in the pit."
Born Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz, this American entertainer first appeared on Captain Kangaroo in March 1956, won 12 Emmy Awards over the course of her career, and with her husband, co-wrote an episode of Star Trek (TOS), "The Lights of Zetar" (1969). By what name is she more famously known?
In March, 1964, Phil Spector produced her first single, the commercially unsuccessful "Ringo, I Love You", recorded under the name Bonnie Jo Mason. By what name is Bonnie Jo Mason more famously known?
Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian; May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress and television personality. Commonly referred to by the media as the Goddess of Pop, she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry. Cher is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances throughout her six-decade-long career.
At age 16, Cher dropped out of school, left her mother's house, and moved to Los Angeles with a friend. She took acting classes and worked to support herself, dancing in small clubs along Hollywood's Sunset Strip and introducing herself to performers, managers, and agents. According to Berman, "[Cher] did not hesitate to approach anyone she thought could help her get a break, make a new contact, or get an audition." Cher met performer Sonny Bono in November 1962 when he was working for record producer Phil Spector. Cher's friend moved out, and Cher accepted Sonny's offer to be his housekeeper. Sonny introduced Cher to Spector, who used her as a backup singer on many recordings, including the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". Spector produced her first single, the commercially unsuccessful "Ringo, I Love You", which Cher recorded under the name Bonnie Jo Mason.
On May 7, 2014, Cher confirmed a collaboration with American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan on their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Credited as Bonnie Jo Mason, she uses an alias of hers originated in 1964. Only one copy of the album has been produced, and it was sold by online auction in November 2015. It is the most expensive single album ever sold. After appearing as Marc Jacobs' guest at the 2015 Met Gala, Cher posed for his brand's fall/winter advertising campaign. The fashion designer stated, "This has been a dream of mine for a very, very long time."
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"Ringo, I Love You" is a rock song performed by American singer-actress Cher released under the pseudonym Bonnie Jo Mason, the name she used at the start of her career when based in Los Angeles. The song was released as a promotional single in 1964 during the height of Beatlemania. It was a tribute to The Beatles. The original vinyl is now a valuable rarity. In 1999 the song was covered by German electronic duo Stereo Total and released on their studio album My Melody.
"Ringo, I Love You" is the first solo song recorded by Cher. The single was released under the name of Bonnie Jo Mason because producer Phil Spector wanted American names for his singers, and Cherilyn La Piere was not a name he considered sufficiently American.
The single failed to chart nationally, and did not pick up much local radio play, although it was a minor hit in Buffalo, New York. It has been suggested that many radio stations would not consider playing the record because they thought Cher's extremely low vocals were a man's vocals, although the artist's female moniker and the fact that the singer explicitly identifies herself as a girl in the song makes this story open to question. Therefore, they believed it was a male homosexual singing a love song as a dedication to Ringo Starr (The Beatles).
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Billy in Cypress U$A was first, and correct, with:
Cher
Mark. wrote:
Cher!?!
Jacqueline said:
Cher
Alan J answered:
Cher.
Dave responded:
Cher. Born Cherilyn Sarkisian in 1946, the teenager was adopted by one of her many stepfathers and became Cheryl LaPiere for a while. The pseudonym Bonnie Jo Mason may have only lasted for that one unsuccessful single. By the summer of 1965 she and her new husband Sonny Bono had launched their pop music careers as Sonny and Cher with the international #1 hit I Got You Babe.
Kevin in Washington DC , replied:
Bonnie Jo Mason grew up to be Cher. Fun fact: the producer on the track was future gun-waving lunatic manslaughter practitioner Phil Spector, who later produced albums Ringo played drums on, including Let It Be and the first solo albums by John Lennon and George Harrison.
Mac Mac responded:
Cher
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
CHER
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame wrote:
The answer is Cher. I just listened to her recording of "Ringo, I Love You" on YouTube and I can understand why it wasn't commercially successful!
On another subject, here is a meme I thought you and your readers would enjoy.
Deborah, the Master Gardener, said:
Bonnie Jo Mason is better known as Cher. Talk about an icon.
David of Moon Valley answered:
Really?!
Cher?! no shit? Great…and now i have Gypsies Tramps and Thieves earwormed in…aieeeeeee
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Cher
Daniel in The City said:
Cher
DJ Useo wrote:
Cher. I like to think she'd be great to visit with.
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CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Young Sheldon', followed by a RERUN'The Unicorn', then a RERUN'Mom', followed by another RERUN'Mom', then a RERUN'NCIS: The Expendable One'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 6/11/20) are Wesley Lowery and Judd Apatow.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 5/18/20) are Terry Crews and Old Dominion.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Blindspot', followed by another FRESH'Blindspot', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 4/23/20) are Alex Rodriguez, Rhett & Link, and Tones and I.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 6/3/20) are Amanda Peet, Ramy Youssef, Patrisse Cullors, and Tim McGraw.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 4/9/20) are Abby Elliott and Adam Pally.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Holey Moley', followed by a FRESH'Don't', then a FRESH'To Tell The Truth'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Billy Eichner, are Billy Porter and Kim Petras.
The CW offers a FRESH'Burden Of Truth', followed by a FRESH'In The Dark'.
Faux has a FRESH'Celebrity Watch Party', followed by a FRESH'Labor Of Love'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
AMC offers 'Better Call Saul', another 'Better Call Saul', followed by the movie 'Point Break'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Bloodlines
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Emergence
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Preemptive Strike
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - All Good Things ...
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - All Good Things ...
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Encounter at Farpoint
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Encounter at Farpoint
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Naked Now
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Code of Honor
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Last Outpost
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Where No One Has Gone Before
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Lonely Among Us
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Justice
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Battle
[8:00PM] MAJOR LEAGUE
[10:30PM] MAJOR LEAGUE
[1:00AM] HITMAN
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Naked Now
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Code of Honor
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Last Outpost (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle', followed by the movie 'Jurassic World', then the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'.
History has 'Mountain Men', another 'Mountain Men', followed by a FRESH'Mountain Men', then a FRESH'Alone'.
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[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Heavenly Daze
[6:15A] The Three Stooges - Dizzy Detectives
[6:45A] The Three Stooges - Dizzy Pilots
[7:10A] The Three Stooges - Pardon My Scotch
[7:20A] The Three Stooges - Pop Goes the Easel
[7:30A] Black Mass
[10:30A] Homefront
[12:45P] Blow
[3:45P] The Warriors
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men
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[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] Blow
[4:00A] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (ALL TIMES ET)
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[6:00am] the andy griffith show
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[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
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[10:00am] perry mason
[11:00am] perry mason
[12:00pm] perry mason
[1:00pm] law & order
[2:00pm] law & order
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] exiled: a law & order movie
[4:00am] the mary tyler moore show
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SyFy has the movie 'GI Joe: Retaliation', followed by the movie 'Spider-Man 3'.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said Wednesday it will replace its annual live performance induction ceremony for this year's nominees with a broadcast special in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
The program -- whose honorees include rapper The Notorious B.I.G. and pop icon Whitney Houston -- will air on HBO on November 7, replacing the ceremony originally scheduled for May 2, which was postponed over the fast-spreading virus.
The late legends are joined in 2020's class by the synth-pop act Depeche Mode and the industrial experimental group Nine Inch Nails, along with the 1970s rockers The Doobie Brothers and English glam rock band T-Rex.
The 2021 induction ceremony is currently planned for the fall of that year in the Hall's home city, Cleveland.
Gary Larson - who has been out of the public eye for some 25 years after publishing his final daily comic in The Far Side series - is back. Larson, who ran a daily comic from 1980-1995 in a single panel format, ultimately left the satirical, absurd, and brilliant panel behind many years ago, but according to his website, he's back to playing around with the one-panel-wonders that defined his career.
On Tuesday, Larson posted new comic strips - including beautifully drawn, hilarious one-panels of a man hailing a taxidermist instead of a taxi; bears eating human Cub Scouts at a picnic table in the forest, and one of his all-too-famous cows bringing a mad scientist snacks and a steaming drink as a shadow of the scientist drawing on a canvas.
According to Larson, his return to showing off some of his new work was actually born out of frustration with his typical art form of pen to paper. He bought a digital tablet and felt amazed at how intuitive it was to work on the thing. "Within moments, I was having fun drawing again. I was stunned at all the tools the thing offered… I simply had no idea how far these things had evolved."
Still, even if he's only going to drop a few panels here or there, that's certainly better than what super fans have had to deal with for more than two decades: no Gary Larson at all.
Country group Lady A, which dropped the word "Antebellum" from their name because of the word's ties to slavery, has filed a lawsuit against a Black singer who has performed as Lady A for years.
The Grammy-winning vocal group filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in federal court after negotiations with Anita White broke down in recent weeks. According to the lawsuit, the band is seeking a ruling that their use of the trademark "Lady A" does not infringe on White's alleged trademark rights of the same name. The band is not seeking monetary damages.
The group made up Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood announced the name change last month, saying they were regretful for not taking into consideration the word antebellum's associations with slavery.
But White, who has been releasing blues and soul music for years as Lady A, complained publicly that the band never reached out to her before changing their name. Negotiations over the name failed to reach an agreement.
The North American Scrabble Players Association (NASPA) seems poised to remove hundreds of offensive slurs from tournament-level Scrabble play. The proposed move is part of an effort by the group to "support Black Lives Matter and bring justice to our world," as organization CEO John Chew put it in a recent newsletter.
Hasbro, which publishes Scrabble, told The New York Times that NASPA has "agreed to remove all slurs from their word list for Scrabble tournament play, which is managed solely by NASPA and available only to members." The company said it will also be updating the game's rules "to make clear that slurs are not permissible in any form of the game."
The argument over whether "offensive" words have a place in Scrabble is not a new one. In the mid-'90s, Hasbro faced outside pressure when the Anti-Defamation League publicly took issue with a number of words that are noted as offensive in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (which itself collected words published in other major dictionaries, including those marked as offensive in those source texts).
As a compromise, Hasbro and Merriam-Webster agreed to remove hundreds of offensive words from the game's official published dictionary in 1994. Club and tournament players, meanwhile, would continue to use an expanded word list that kept all offensive words as valid plays (this extremely NSFW list, which is more expansive than the list of slurs NASPA is considering, keeps track of all the tournament-playable words missing from the official dictionary).
Former White House aide Alexander Vindman, a key figure in the impeachment of President Donald Trump (R-Corrupt), said on Wednesday he was retiring from the Army after what his attorney described as a "campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation" by the president.
Vindman, an Army lieutenant colonel who had been due for a promotion to colonel, provided some of the most damaging testimony during an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives into Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
Vindman, then the White House National Security Council's top Ukraine expert, testified in November that Trump's request for an investigation into Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter during a July 2019 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was improper.
Vindman and his twin brother, Yevgeny, were escorted from the White House in February. Vindman, a decorated combat veteran, was wounded in Iraq in 2004 by an improvised explosive device and was held in high regard by defense officials who knew him.
By retiring, Vindman, 45, defuses what could have become a contentious political battle between Senate Democrats -- who were eager to shield his promotion from political interference -- and Trump's Republicans that could have dragged the military into a battle with the White House.
A peculiar "gel-like" substance the Chinese Yutu-2 rover discovered in a small impact crater on the far side of the Moon last year has now been identified. According to analysis of the images, and comparison with Apollo samples here on Earth, it's exactly what you'd expect to find on the Moon: rock.
More specifically, it's rock that was melted together - likely in the heat of a meteorite impact - to form a dark green, glossy, glassy mass.
"Chang'e-4 rover discovered a dark greenish and glistening impact melt breccia in a crater during its traverse on the floor of Von Kármán crater within the South Pole Aitken (SPA) basin on the lunar farside," the researchers wrote in their paper.
"It was formed by impact-generated welding, cementing, and agglutinating of lunar regolith and breccia."
California condors were recently seen soaring through Sequoia National Park for the first time in nearly 50 years. The giant endangered bird, the largest in North America, was known to nest inside massive sequoia trees before its near-extinction in the 1980s.
Officials from the Pacific Southwest Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) said at least six condors were observed near the Giant Forest and Moro Rock, a popular hiking destination in the park, in late May. Photos of the birds show two of them gliding through the air and resting on a metal railing.
"Condors were consistently seen throughout the parks until the late 1970s. Observations became increasingly rare throughout the latter portion of the century as the population declined," Tyler Coleman, a wildlife biologist with Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, said in a statement to CBS News on Wednesday.
The Santa Barbara Zoo, using GPS to track the condor population in California, confirmed the exciting find.
New genetic research shows that there was mingling between ancient native peoples from Polynesia and South America, revealing a single episode of interbreeding roughly 800 years ago after an epic transoceanic journey.
The question of such contact - long hypothesized in part based on the enduring presence in Polynesia of a staple food in the form of the sweet potato that originated in South and Central America - had been keenly debated among scientists.
Scientists said on Wednesday an examination of DNA from 807 people - from 14 Polynesian islands and Pacific coastal Native American populations from Mexico to Chile - definitively resolved the matter.
People from four island sites in French Polynesia - Mangareva and the Pallisers in the Tuamotu archipelago and Fatu Hiva and Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands - bore DNA indicative of interbreeding with South Americans most closely related to present-day indigenous Colombians at around 1200 AD.
People from Chile's Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, also had South American ancestry, some from modern Chilean immigrants and some from the same ancient intermingling as the other islands. Rapa Nui, located 2,300 miles (3,700 km) west of South America and known for its massive stone figures called moai, was settled some time after the interbreeding 800 years ago.
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