• Edwin McArthur served for many years as the accompanist to soprano Kirsten Flagstad. Both she and her husband, Henry Johansen, liked Mr. McArthur, and they decided to help get him started in a conducting career. Therefore, Mr. Johansen asked Mr. McArthur to type a letter of intent so that Ms. Flagstad and Mr. Johansen could sign it. Mr. McArthur protested, "But this is something I cannot do. Please get someone else." But Mr. Johansen replied, "Edwin, you are not the conductor yet. For the moment you are my secretary. Now get out your typewriter and do as I say."
• Musicians see a lot of ups and downs. Joe "Bean" Esposito was nominated for a Grammy with Brenda Russell for the song "Piano in the Dark" in the late 1980s. However, he was dropped from his label - Capitol Records - and needed money. A friend told him about a painting job that paid $17.50 an hour. Mr. Esposito took the job - it was at Capitol Records. Mr. Esposito remembers, "The day of the Grammys, I'm scraping the wallpaper off the wall and that night I go to the Grammys. Whatever doesn't kill you, my friend, makes you stronger."
• Early in their career, the Rolling Stones went to Chess Records to record at the legendary studio where so many of their music heroes had recorded - they were even able to meet Muddy Waters! But what shocked them was that their hero was working as a roadie because people weren't buying his records at the time. Stones bassist Bill Wyman said, "As kids we would have given our right arm to say hello to [him], and there's the great Muddy Waters helping carry my guitar into the studio …. It was unreal."
• In 1943, composer Samuel Barber joined the United States Army, then transferred to the Army Air Forces, where he was given his duty. No, he was not ordered to fight in the war; instead, he was ordered to write a symphony that honored the military. According to his friend and fellow composer Gian Carlo Menotti, "Barber was probably the only soldier in the United States who never learned to take a gun apart and put it together again."
• Jack White of White Stripes fame keeps busy, and he always has. For example, when he and the others started the White Stripes, he was in three different bands. He is married to the model Karen Elson, and in 2009 his children, Scarlett and Henry, were three years old and one year old, respectively. How does Mr. White stay so busy and have children, too? He jokes, "I've been told I have children. I'd really love to meet them one day."
• Benny Goodman was like Fred Astaire - both wanted to be great, not good, and both were willing to put in the necessary number of hours to avoid being merely good. (Being good enough is not good enough for truly gifted people.) Frank Sinatra - who also put in the necessary hours to be great - once asked Mr. Goodman why he was constantly playing the clarinet. Mr. Goodman replied, "Because if I'm not great, I'm good."
• Being a celebrity photographer has its privileges. Richard Young was so good at his job of shooting stars that ex-Beatle George Harrison invited him to his home to take some photographs of him. Mr. Young drove up to Mr. Harrison's gate and rang the bell. Seeing this, a couple of school kids said to him, "You'll never get in there, mate." With perfect timing, the gate opened and Mr. Young drove up the driveway.
• Some musicians can spend months recording an album, but back when folk singers Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston were in the Merchant Marines, they had two days off in New York City. They used the time well - they went to Moe Asch's studio, where they recorded 135 songs!
• Ignace Paderewski practiced many hours each day for several years to develop into a world-class pianist. After Queen Victoria heard one of his concerts, she told him that he was a genius. "Perhaps," Mr. Paderewski replied, "but before I was a genius, I was a drudge."
Filp Wilson was most famous for creating the role of Geraldine Jones, but he also created Reverend Leroy. What was the name of the good Rev's house of worship?
In 1965, Herman's Hermits second US no. 1 hit was a British music hall song from 1910 that paid tribute to a British monarch. What is the title of this song?
"I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am" (also "I'm Henery the VIII, I Am" or "I'm Henry VIII, I Am"; spelled "Henery" but pronounced "'Enery" in the Cockney style normally used to sing it) is a 1910 British music hall song by Fred Murray and R. P. Weston. It was a signature song of the music hall star Harry Champion.
Joe Brown included the song on his first album A Picture of You in 1962. But in 1965, it became the fastest-selling song in history to that point when it was revived by Herman's Hermits, becoming the group's second number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, dethroning "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". Despite that success, the single was not released in the UK. The song is one of the shortest (in length) number one singles in the US of all time.
The rock and roll styling of the song gave Herman's Hermits their second US No. 1 hit. In their short and fast take of the song, the guitar and bass are considered proto-punk and were a direct influence on the Ramones.
They performed the song on Hullabaloo as well as The Ed Sullivan Show. This version was also performed on the third season premiere of The Jimmy Dean Show with Jimmy Dean and Jim Henson's Rowlf the Dog wearing wigs, three months after Herman's performance on Sullivan.
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Billy in Cypress U$A was first, and correct, with:
I'm Henry The VIII, I Am
Mark. said:
I'm Henery the Eight, I Am.
Cal in Vermont answered:
I'm 'Enery The Eighth I Am.
Roy, still isolating in Gohmertstan (Tyler), TX wrote:
That would be "I'm Henry the 8th." I saw them in concert in 1968 in Colorado Springs, as the headliner act on Dick Clarks "Caravan of Stars" tour. The highlight of their set was when they all cracked up because Peter Noone forgot the words to "I'm Into Something Good." Aside from that little glitch, it was a good concert, but I'll be damned if I can remember even one of the other "Stars" on that stage that night! I'm old. I forget stuff.
Mac Mac responded:
I'm Henry The VIII, I Am
mj replied:
In the song, he got married to the widow next door
She'd been married seven times before, and every one was and 'Enery
(Henry), making him Henry the VIII.
Stephen F said:
I'm Henry the 8th
Randall wrote:
Henry Viii
Adam answered:
"Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"
zorch responded:
'Erman's 'Ermits song was Henry the Eighth. Remember NO SAM!
Dave replied:
Henry VIII. The name was very popular for English Kings after the Norman Conquest, but the Donald Trump type Henry VIII was the last one. Maybe the kings coming after didn't want to be associated with that faithless and murderous evil tyrant? I think the name Edward holds the record with 11 kings.
Herman's Hermits formed in 1964 during the British Invasion and was discovered and promoted as a sort of non-threatening Beatles clone. Besides I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am they also topped the US chart with Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter before fading into nostalgia band obscurity by 1973. Herman's Hermits are still active, although only one original member, (Barry Whitwam) is still with the band. Supposedly front man Peter Noone was Herman.
Jacqueline said:
Herman and the Hermits sang, "I'm Henry The Eighth, I Am", with a heavy Cockney accent.
David of Moon Valley wrote:
i'm a-guessin' on this one…a particularly heinous earworm if ever there was one, too…i'm Enaree the Eighth i am i am, Enaree the eighth i am i am...
Alan J answered:
I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am.
Kevin in Washington DC , replied:
"I'm Henry VIII, I Am".
It was on the radio a lot.
Micki responded:
Henry VIII
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
An annoying song called "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am"
Dave in Tucson wrote:
This one I know! "I'm Henry the Eighth I Am" is the song title.
Daniel in The City replied:
I'm Henry the 8th, I Am
DJ Useo responded:
"I'm Henry The Eighth, I Am". I like that song, although it's pretty kooky. I'm thinking I should obtain a greatest hits of them.
Did you realize if they were half-fish, they would'a been 'Merman's Hermits'?
John I from Hawai`i says,
Henry the VIII
Deborah, the Master Gardener, wrote:
I know this one: Henry VIII. Peter Noone, the Herman in Herman's Hermits, sang it as "En-er-ree" and it was funny.
Seasonal, with cool evenings and mornings, as it should be.
Rosemary in Columbus said:
Henry VIII
BttbBob answered:
Speaking of being a DJ, not too long ago I heard ol' 'Herman' (Peter Noone) doing a guest DJ spot on Sirius XM's 'Sixties on 6' channel... He was pretty good, actually, and sounded like he was enjoying himself. I recall him giving particular praise to the great Tommy James and the Shondells (who could not have possibly been more popular here in their native Michigan than they were)
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Music: "Highwire Surfing" from the album HIGHWIRE SURFING
Artist: Trabants
Artist Location: Los Angeles, California
Info: "Named after the diminutive and once ubiquitous Eastern European automobile, Trabants is a rotating line-up of musicians who find their muse in the dusty bins of 60's beat records.
"Fronted by composer Eric Penna, they play an all-instrumental mix of surf, garage, psych and soundtrack music from around the world."
Written by Eric Penna.
Featuring:
Mora Precarious - drums
Bryan Murphy - trumpet
Kevin Corzett - sax
Alec Spiegelman - flute
Joe Marrett - percussion
Price: $1 (USD) for track; $7 (USD) For 14-track album
Long day followed by computer issues - really running late.
Tonight, Thursday:
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'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are The Chicks.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 5/11/20) are Nicholas Hoult, Lior Suchard, and Sam Fischer.
NBC begins the night with the FRESH infomercial '30 Rock', followed by a RERUN'Superstore', then a RERUN'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jim Carrey, Jenny Slate, and Luke Combs.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Martin Short and Kiki Layne.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 1/14/20) are Francia Raisa and Debby Ryan.
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 Sebastian Maniscalco, is Alex Rodriguez.
The CW offers a FRESH'Killer Camp', followed by a (R) 'Masters Of Illusion', then another (R) 'Masters Of Illusion'.
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'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Court Cam', followed by another FRESH'Court Cam'.
AMC offers the movie 'Lethal Weapon', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups', then the movie 'Lethal Weapon 4'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Elementary, Dear Data
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Outrageous Okona
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Loud as a Whisper
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Schizoid Man
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Unnatural Selection
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A Matter of Honor
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Measure of a Man
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Dauphin
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Contagion
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Royale
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Time Squared
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Icarus Factor
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Pen Pals
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Q Who
[8:00PM] STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
[10:30PM] STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
[1:00AM] STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
[3:30AM] STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (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 'The Martian', followed by the movie 'The Martian', again.
History has 'Mountain Men', another 'Mountain Men', followed by a FRESH'Mountain Men', then a FRESH'Alone'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Men in Black
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - Mutts to You
[7:00A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Time Chasers
[9:15A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
[11:30A] Coneheads
[1:30P] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
[3:30P] Varsity Blues
[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
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men
[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] Coneheads
[3:00A] Homefront
[5:15A] The Three Stooges - Men in Black
[5:45A] The Three Stooges - Pardon My Scotch (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[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] the ghost and mr. chicken
[4:00am] the andy griffith show
[4:30am] the andy griffith show
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'RIPD', followed by the movie 'Underworld: Blood Wars'.
Tyra Banks will be showing off her moves as solo host of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."
The supermodel, actor and businesswoman who co-created "America's Next Top Model" will replace longtime host Tom Bergeron and take on the role of executive producer, ABC said late Tuesday.
Co-host Erin Andrews also is leaving the series, which is getting a "creative refresh" while honoring America's affection for it, ABC said. Andrews was not expected to be replaced.
When the show will get to unveil its new approach in season No. 29 remains clouded by the pandemic-caused production halt affecting the return of most TV series.
Survivor will no longer be part of CBS' fall schedule as a result of the COVID-19 production shutdown as S.W.A.T moves up from midseason as part of the network's rejig.
Producers had hoped to get Survivor up and running to hit the fall deadline, but will not make it in time. The network said that producers are continuing to work with officials in Fiji on the "appropriate time" to start production with health and safety matters its top priority.
The show, which is exec produced by Jeff Probst, Mark Burnett and Matt VanWagenen, was set to air in a 8pm slot on Wednesday. Instead, the upcoming season of The Amazing Race will move from 9pm to 8pm.
The fourth season of Seal Team will move up an hour to 9pm and the fourth season of S.W.A.T, which was planned for midseason will join the Wednesday lineup at 10pm.
The move marks the first broadcast network rejig as the Coronavirus continues to cause problems with production. Expect a few more before the year is out.
You can spend your golden years in the house that served as the home for TV's The Golden Girls - if you have a spare $2.999 million.
A piece of television history is on the market for the first time, part of an estate sale after the death of the original owners. The mid-century modern, built in 1955, is a 4-bedroom home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Its exterior was used in the first season, purportedly to show the home of the four seniors living together in Miami. The actual interior was never shown.
Betty White (Rose), Rue McClanahan (Blanche), Bea Arthur (Dorothy), and Estelle Getty (Sophia) starred in the NBC sitcom series, which ran from 1985 to 1992.After that first season, an exact replica of the home was built by Disney's Hollywood Studios for shoots. It was an attraction on backlot tours for years, but was demolished in 2003.
The 3,000-square-foot home has a wraparound porch, fireplace and beamed ceilings. It has a Japanese style interior separated by screens. Oak floors and floor-to-ceiling windows are highlights.
The famed Rose Parade in Pasadena held each New Year's Day has been canceled for 2021, with organizers the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association saying Wednesday that restrictions in California's now-paused phased reopening because of the coronavirus pandemic made it impossible to host the event, which would have been its 132nd edition.
It will mark only the fourth time the parade along the famed five-mile stretch of Colorado Boulevard will not take place since its inception in 1891 - World War II put a halt to it in 1942, 1943 and 1945.
The association also hosts college football's Rose Bowl Game each January 1. Planning for this year's game, scheduled to be a semifinal in the College Football Playoff, remains ongoing.
David Eads, the organization's executive director and CEO, said they are working with sponsors and broadcast partners on an alternative way to celebrate, saying details will come later. The parade is broadcast on several networks nationally including ABC, NBC, Univision and Hallmark Channel, its longtime home KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, and around the world.
Less than a month ago the world was shocked when the temperature in the Arctic Circle reached a record-breaking 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit. While remarkable in its own right, it was merely the exclamation point on an astonishing, prolonged and widespread heat event across all of the Siberian Arctic.
The extreme and unusual warmth in this region alarmed scientists worldwide, prompting a group of 14 scientists from six countries to collaborate in a study to figure how something this out-of-bounds could occur. On Wednesday, the researchers released their findings in a comprehensive climate attribution study, declaring, "This large-scale prolonged event would have been essentially impossible without climate change."
To put it into perspective, the team found that if, hypothetically, you lived in this region before around 1900, when human-caused climate change began to emerge, a heat event this widespread, prolonged and intense would only occur once every 80,000 years - or about once every 1,000 lifetimes.
The study determined the likelihood of experiencing a regional heat event of this magnitude today, as compared to 1900, is 600 times greater. And even in today's warmer climate, it would only be expected to happen once every 130 years.
It turns out the moon is a little younger than scientists previously thought - about 85 million years younger, to be precise.
In a new study, researchers at the German Aerospace Center found out that, not only did the moon once have a massive, fiery magma ocean, but our rocky satellite also formed later than scientists previously expected.
Billions of years ago, a Mars-size protoplanet smashed into the young Earth and, amid the debris and cosmic rubble, a new rocky body formed - our moon. In this new work, the researchers reconstructed the timeline of the moon's formation. While scientists have previously thought that this moon-forming collision happened 4.51 billion years ago, the new work pegged the moon's birth at only 4.425 billion years ago.
To determine this 85-million-year error in the moon's age, the team used mathematical models to calculate the composition of the moon over time. Based on the idea that the moon was host to a massive magma ocean, the researchers calculated how the minerals that formed as the magma cooled solidified changed over time. By following the timeline of the magma ocean, the scientists were able to trace their way back to the moon's formation.
These findings, which show that the moon formed 4.425 billion years ago (give or take 25 million years), agree with previous research that aligned the moon's formation with the formation of Earth's metallic core, according to the statement.
A Michigan jeweler is calling it quits after 23 years and taking prospective adventurers on a treasure hunt.
Johnny Perri, who owns J&M Jewelers in Washington Township, Michigan, had an "epiphany" after being forced to shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"Although I enjoyed being in business for myself and have been blessed serving our wonderful customers, I've discovered that I was never truly happy," Perri writes on the website set up for his "Treasure Quest."
Perri said he read the news one morning and learned about the man who discovered art dealer Forrest Fenn's $1 million treasure chest. He decided he wanted a piece of that magic himself.
He and his fianceé, Amy, embarked on their own adventure, burying the contents of his entire jewelry store - and "thousands upon thousands" of precious metals and antiques - throughout the state of Michigan.
For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our past can be found in piles of human poop, as an important new analysis shows.
From 2002 to 2010, archaeologists collected dozens of coprolites, or dried-out poop, from Oregon's Paisley Caves, the oldest of which were dated to 14,000 years ago. A genetic analysis of the coprolites suggested they came from humans, but some researchers questioned this result, citing possible contamination of the samples. The progeny of the poop remained unresolved for years, but new research is providing a fresh look at these stale but incredibly important piles of dung.
Humans first entered into North America around the end of the last ice age, sometime between 20,000 and 15,000 years ago. Further confirmation of exactly when and how this migration took place would be a big deal, even if the evidence in question is literally full of crap.
Coprolites, in order to last for so long, require an arid environment. Plenty of dry caves exist in western North America, but Paisley Caves are special in that they're the only ones known to harbor evidence of human activity dating back to the Pleistocene-Holocene transition.
That said, this evidence is not great. Aside from the supposed human coprolites, the only other evidence at Paisley Caves from this time period tend to be flakes left over from the manufacturing of stone tools (which can't be reliably dated) and butchery marks found on the bones of possible prey animals (which might actually be gnaw marks made by non-human animals). This is where ancient poop can help-when skeletal or other lines of evidence are either scarce or non-existent.
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