To get the project started, I did a nifty live club cover to get me motivated. Funnily enough, once I’d completed the music & moved onto the rest of the covers, I changed the club cover to something else. Next, I purposely mixed more tracks than I needed, then whittled them down to the 16 included here.
I also intentionally maintained a club theme in the music, with artists used being very new, or at least new-ish. After finishing the tunes, I felt confident for about three days, then felt nervous about the quality until I started the final mastering when I started to again feel confident.
I’ve made a lot of mashup albums overall, but this one has a unique musical identity that should be well recieved. I’ll find out soon, that’s for sure.
Meanwhile, take care of yourselves. We’ll all feel the benefit of your continued existense.
• Al Boasberg was a wonderful comedy writer, but he didn’t like to be rushed. Once, producer Irving Thalberg rushed him. Mr. Thalberg wanted a scene written for the Marx Brothers — now. Finally, Mr. Boasberg said that he had written the material that Mr. Thalberg wanted. Then he told Mr. Thalberg that he was leaving his office, but would leave the scene behind. The Marx Brothers and Mr. Thalberg rushed to Mr. Boasberg’s office to read the scene — and found it cut into many pieces and nailed to the ceiling. According to Groucho, “It took us about five hours to piece it together.” But the scene was worth all that work — Mr. Boasberg had written what eventually became the famous scene in A Night at the Opera in which many, many people crowd into a small room.
• Being a successful actress can be very difficult work. While filming the movie Scream 2, Sarah Michelle Gellar was also starring in TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For a while, she worked on the TV series Monday through Thursday, then worked on Scream 2 Friday through Sunday. Sometimes, she would work on Buffy until 2 a.m., then show up in three hours at 5 a.m. to start another workday. One morning, Sarah was driving to work with the controvertible top of her car down. She noticed people staring at her, then looked down and saw that she was only partially dressed — she was so tired that she had forgotten to put on a dress.
• Famous cartoonist Chuck Jones’ father failed time after time as a businessman, but this turned out to have an advantage for Chuck and his siblings. When his father started a new company, he would buy lots of business stationery with the company’s name and letterhead on it, and lots of pencils, also with the company’s name on them. When the business failed, Chuck and his siblings had lots of paper and pencils to draw with. Chuck said, “We Joneses were rolling in tons of lovely white bond paper.” As an adult, Mr. Jones worked on cartoons featuring Wile E. Coyote, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and other Looney Tunes characters.
• Charles Lederer became a famous screenwriter in Hollywood, but in early life he seldom worked. Instead, he slept until noon and spent a lot of time in swimming pools. This was something that his girlfriend didn’t like, so she took him out to eat at the Colony Restaurant, where she encouraged him to stop loafing and to find work, etc. Mr. Lederer listened to everything that his girlfriend had to say to him, then he stood up, took off his pants, and handed them to her, saying, “Here, you wear them.” Then he walked out of the restaurant.
• Comedian Joe E. Brown’s father was a house painter who took pride in his work. One day he was taking his son to a baseball game when they passed a house he had painted a few weeks before. However, as he looked at the house he noticed a spot on the porch that he had forgotten to paint, so the baseball game had to wait until he got some paint and finished the job. Mr. Brown writes, “I was a grown man before I realized examples such as this were the foundation of my desire to give my best in every job.”
• Tex Avery, the director of many classic Bugs Bunny cartoons and the man who gave Bugs his distinctive personality, was a perfectionist who worked long hours to make his cartoons funny. In fact, he once worked so hard that he delayed urinating for so long that he ended up in a hospital, where a catheter had to be used to empty his overfull bladder. Despite his hard work, he was insecure about his job, and when he was away from his desk he carried around a timing chart for cartoons so it always looked as if he were working.
This fictional rhythm and blues animated musical group, as well as advertising and merchandising characters, was composed of anthropomorphized fruit through claymation TV commercials and animated specials. As depicted by A.C. (vocals), Beebop (drums), Stretch (bass), and Red (guitar/piano), what was the name of this group?
The California Raisins were a fictional rhythm and blues animated musical group as well as advertising and merchandising characters composed of anthropomorphized raisins. Lead vocals were sung by musician Buddy Miles. The California Raisins were popular in the mid-to-late 1980s through claymation TV commercials and animated specials, winning an Emmy Award and one nomination.
The concept was originally created for a 1986 Sun-Maid commercial on behalf of the California Raisin Advisory Board when one of the writers, Seth Werner (at the time with the advertising firm Foote, Cone & Belding SF, and now with big) came up with an idea for the new raisin commercial, saying, "We have tried everything but dancing raisins singing 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine'" (the 1968 song popularized by Marvin Gaye). To their surprise, the commercial became wildly popular, paving the way for several future commercials and opportunities through other media. The commercials were produced by Vinton Studios using their claymation technique, with character designs by Michael Brunsfeld. The following year, the Raisins appeared in the Emmy Award-winning A Claymation Christmas Celebration, singing the Christmas carol "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".
The California Raisins released four studio albums on Priority Records between 1987 and 1988, and their signature song, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", landed on the Billboard Hot 100. However, the Raisins would continue to make their strongest impression through animated endeavors, and the characters proved popular enough that they were used to endorse Post Raisin Bran cereal.
On November 4, 1988, CBS aired a primetime television special called Meet the Raisins! The musical mockumentary was again created by Vinton Studios, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. It also gave the band members individual names and roles: A.C. (vocals), Beebop (drums), Stretch (bass), and Red (guitar/piano).
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
The California Raisins.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
The California Raisins
Randall wrote:
the California Raisins
Alan J answered:
The California Raisins.
Mac Mac replied:
California Raisins
zorch responded:
The California Raisins.
mj wrote:
It seemed so right that
"I Heard It Through the Grape Vine" was the theme for the California
Raisins.
Cal in Vermont said:
The California Raisins who sang "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". They sold many dried grapes and put out four albums and set a trend for other animated fruits and veggies for ad campaigns to come.
Dave responded:
The California Raisins. They used to be featured on our Post Cereal Raisin Bran packages. Kellogg’s sued Post because Post’s marketing campaign inferred our raisins were more heathy than Kellogg’s because Post stopped putting sugar on the raisins. Sugar was added, not for taste but to keep the raisins from sticking together at the Raisin Dump. But for a while Post started ordering their raisins coated with vegetable oil instead of sugar. Anyway Kellogg’s was always a chickenshit company.
Daniel in The City replied:
The California Raisins
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Do you mean the California Raisins? And they had specials? I only know them from the commercials. “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” indeed.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
The California Raisins
DJ Useo answered:
I call the "The California Raisins". I like them. Nice & chewy.
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The answer is The California Raisins.
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Album: LEGENDS OF JAZZ (PART I ~ THE QUEENS OF JAZZ VOCAL)
Artist: Shirley Horn
Record Company: Moochin’ About
Record Company Location: England, UK
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“Celebrating the achievements of 15 FEMALE JAZZ SINGERS of the 20th century: Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Anita O’Day, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Shirley Bassey, Sarah Vaughan, Blossom Dearie, Helen Merrill, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Nancy Wilson, Shirley Horn and Nina Simone.”
“The title says it all. This nostalgic collection looks at how female jazz singers were able to use their virtuosity and poise to transcend their turbulent times. A celebration of resilient womanhood.”
“Launched 2011 by Producer & DJ Jason Lee Lazell, the world/jazz buyer for the biggest record store in Europe, Tower Records, Piccadilly Circus, after 15 years as manager at Discovery Records — one of the biggest distributors for Jazz, world & music. The critically acclaimed label has gained admiration from Cerys Matthews, Huey Morgan, Giles Peterson, Jamie Cullum, Stuart Marcone, Johnny Trunk, Robert Elms.”
Price: €1 (EURO) for track; €8 (EUROS) for 176-track album
Only another week until the new stove gets here, so stocked up on more charcoal.
While I'm looking forward to not having to MacGyver cooking supper, it has kept it interesting.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Tough As Nails', followed by a FRESH'SEAL Team', then a FRESH'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Emmanuel Acho and Gina Yashere.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Trevor Noah and Grouplove.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Chicago Med', followed by a FRESH'Chicago Fire', then a FRESH'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Norman Reedus, Charli & Dixie D'Amelio, and Mike Vecchione.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Audra McDonald, Fruit Bats, and John Herndon.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Zach King.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'The Goldbergs', followed by a RERUN'American Housewife', then a RERUN'The Conners', followed by a RERUN'Call Your Mother', then a FRESH'The Con'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kevin Bacon, Travon Free, and Daya.
The CW offers a FRESH'Riverdale', followed by a FRESH'Nancy Drew'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Masked Singer', follwoed by a FRESH'Game Of Talents'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 2 hours of old 'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'Court Cam', then another FRESH'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'I Survived A Crime', then another FRESH'I Survived A Crime'.
AMC offers the movie 'Now You See Me', followed by the movie 'Law Abiding Citizen'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:00PM] A FEW GOOD MEN
[8:00PM] THE BOURNE IDENTITY
[10:30PM] THE BOURNE IDENTITY
[1:00AM] MORTAL KOMBAT
[3:15AM] MORTAL KOMBAT
[5:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - WHITHER CANADA?
[5:45AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - MAN'S CRISIS OF IDENTITY IN THE LATTER HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has 'South Park' (The Pandemic Special) repeating hourly for 4 hours.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Remotely Educational: Lessons that students will need in life.
FX has the movie 'World War Z', followed by the movie 'The Equalizer 2', then a FRESH'Snowfall'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and 'Assembly Required'.
IFC -
[8:00am] The LEGO Movie
[10:15am] Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
[12:45pm] Vacation
[3:00pm - 6:30pm] Scrubs
[7:00pm - 11:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[12:00am] Baroness Von Sketch Show -Women Love Breadcrumbs
[12:30am - 2:00am] Three's Company
[2:30am - 5:30am] Community (ALL TIMES ET)
[6:00am - 9:40am] the andy griffith show
[10:15am] men at work
[12:30pm] groundhog day
[3:00pm - 2:00am] criminal minds
[3:00am] perry mason
[4:00am] perry mason
[5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Transformers: The Last Knight', followed by a FRESH'Resident Alien'.
Late-night veteran The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is waking up a bit early.
The Comedy Central series is launching its first ever daytime special – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Remotely Educational.
The show, which will premiere on Wednesday March 10 at 8:30am and be repeated during The Daily Show’s normal 11pm slot, will feature Trevor Noah and team offer remote-learning classes that skip calculus and grammar in favor of lessons that students will actually need in life.
It will feature correspondents Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic, Dulcé Sloan and Roy Wood Jr. as well as contributors Jordan Klepper and Lewis Black as well as substitute teaching from Kpop band NCT 127.
It is The Daily Show’s latest special following The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Remembering RBG – A Nation Ugly Cries with Desi Lydic, which was recently nominated for a DGA Award.
Former President Jimmy Carter said in a Tuesday statement he was "disheartened, saddened, and angry" at many of the new voting restrictions being advanced by lawmakers in his home state of Georgia.
Republican legislators in the state are pushing for a slew of restrictions on voting in the state after Georgians voted to elect President Joe Biden in November and Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in January.
Monday was "Crossover Day," or the last day to determine which bills will be viable, in the Georgia legislative session set to end on March 31.
Georgia Public Broadcasting reported that about a dozen election-related bills, including two omnibus packages, one passed by each chamber, were still alive and could be passed and sent to the governor's desk this session. While not all the bills restrict voting access, many proposals have drawn scrutiny and criticism from voting advocates.
"Many of the proposed changes are reactions to allegations of fraud for which no evidence was produced - allegations that were, in fact, refuted through various audits, recounts, and other measures," Carter said in his statement. "The proposed changes appear to be rooted in partisan interests, not in the interests of all Georgia voters."
Patti Smith performed a mini-concert at the Brooklyn Museum on Tuesday to honor photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and add her voice to a series of pop-up events that represent New York City’s first baby steps toward the return of live indoor performances.
Smith performed six songs as well as read poetry and excerpts from her book “Just Kids” in the Beaux-Arts Court at the museum, her voice bouncing off the skylight 60 feet above. It was a concert to also honor museum workers and drew just under 50 people, all socially distanced in widely spaced chairs.
“I’m not nervous, but it’s been so long,” she told the crowd. An hour later, just before donning her mask and walking off after a standing ovation, she added: “Hope to see you soon.”
Dressed in black from her boots to her shirt with her gray hair flowing, Smith and an accompanist, Tony Shanahan, performed “Wing,” “My Blakean Year,” “Grateful” and “Dancing Barefoot,” as well as Tim Hardin’s “How Can We Hang On to a Dream?” and Neil Young’s “Helpless.” She ended the set with her biggest hit, “Because the Night,” written with Bruce Springsteen.
More than three years before the explosive Oprah Winfrey interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver predicted the controversy and emotional struggles that would surround with the newest royal couple.
As social media users live-tweeted and meme-d the Sunday’s bombshell CBS interview, an old clip of Oliver offering advice to the then-Suits star resurfaced and made the rounds.
“I would not blame her if she pulled out of this in the last minute. I don’t think you need to have just seen the pilot episode of ‘The Crown’ to get a basic sense of she might be marrying into a family that could cause her some emotional complications,” the British comedian told Stephen Colbert back in 2018, when The Late Show host asked for his opinions on the upcoming royal wedding.
Oliver’s comments found new relevance in wake of the Sunday night interview, in which Markle and the Prince revealed questionable treatment from the Royal family. In the interview with Oprah, Markle said that she endured harsh mental health troubles, including suicidal thoughts, and revealed that members of the Royal circle questioned how dark son Archie’s skin would be before his birth.
“I mean, they’re an emotionally stunted group of fundamentally flawed people doing a very silly pseudo job,” Oliver continued in the clip. “That’s what she’s marrying into. So I hope she likes it. It’s going to be weird for her.”
An Iowa journalist covering a protest for racial justice was temporarily blinded after a police officer shot pepper spray at her and then jailed despite telling him repeatedly that she was just doing her job, according to video played Tuesday at the reporter’s trial.
Body camera video captured by Des Moines Police Sgt. Natale Chiodo showed Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri in custody on May 31, 2020, her eyes burning from pepper spray. She said she was with the newspaper and asked Officer Luke Wilson why he was arresting her, adding that she was in pain and couldn’t see.
“This is my job,” Sahouri says on the video. “I’m just doing my job. I’m a journalist.”
Sahouri’s defense played the video for jurors on the second day of a trial in which Sahouri and her former boyfriend, Spenser Robnett, are charged with failure to disperse and interference with official acts. The prosecution has drawn widespread criticism from media and human rights advocates, who say that the charges are an attack on press freedom. The pair face fines and potentially even jail time if convicted.
Officer Wilson testified that he failed to record the arrest on his body camera and did not notify a supervisor as required by department policy. But Chiodo’s body camera captured the scene shortly after Wilson detained Sahouri.
Apple added period-tracking to the iOS Health app and launched a clinical study into women’s health back in 2019. Now, the Apple Women’s Health Study team has some preliminary data that affirms that, yes, there is an incredible variety of period symptoms suffered by menstruating people worldwide.
The findings were from the first 10,000 participants who enrolled in the study using the iPhone Research app and provided demographic data. Of that number, 6,141 participants recorded period symptoms and the most commonly tracked were abdominal cramps (83%), bloating (63%), and tiredness (61%). Or, basically, things anyone who’s ever had a period could tell doctors if they just asked. About half the participants also reported acne, headaches, mood swings, appetite changes, lower back pain, and breast tenderness. Some rarer symptoms included diarrhea, sleep changes, constipation, nausea, hot flashes, and ovulation pain.
One takeaway was that regardless of race, ethnicity, age, and geographic location, symptom frequency was nearly universal. The participants reported cramps, bloating, and tiredness as their most frequent symptoms, and in similar numbers. So, you know, hard evidence that these symptoms can affect any menstruating person.
These findings probably seem ridiculously obvious to anyone who is ever regularly visited by Aunt Flo. However, they also illustrate how current medical research is woefully inadequate when it comes to women’s health.
For example, if you search for “menstruation” in PubMed between 2001 and 2018, you only get some 8,400 studies on the subject. Conversely, a search during that same time period for cardiovascular disease turns up 1.3 million results. If you want to get into gender-specific conditions, prostate cancer gets 121,000 results and erectile dysfunction gets about 16,000 results. The problem gets worse when you consider that most researchers, historically speaking, have been men and excluded women from clinical research. In the U.S., Congress didn’t require women to be included in clinical trials until 1993. The result is a huge lack of foundational data and poorer medical care for women. Take polycystic ovary syndrome, which impacts an estimated 5 million women in the U.S., making it one of the most common hormonal disorders among women of childbearing age—and less than half are diagnosed correctly and 34% with PCOS say it took more than two years and three or more doctors to receive a diagnosis. The numbers are even worse for endometriosis, a painful condition that affects about 10% of women and often takes a decade to be diagnosed. Not helping matters is the general stigmatization of talking about menstrual cycles, vaginas, or uteruses at all.
Four French oaks that have been standing for hundreds of years in a once-royal forest now have a sacred destiny. Felled Tuesday in the Loire region’s Forest of Berce, they have been selected to reconstruct Notre Dame cathedral’s fallen spire.
The 93-metre-high spire, made of wood and clad in lead, became the most potent symbol of the April 2019 blaze when it was seen engulfed in flames, collapsing dramatically into the inferno.
Last July amid a public outcry, French President Emmanuel Macron ended speculation that the 19th century peak designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc could be rebuilt in a modern style. He announced it would be rebuilt exactly as it was before. And that began a nationwide tree hunt, culminating in a painstaking selection in January and February of this year.
Some 1,000 oaks in more than 200 French forests, both private and public, were chosen to make the frame of the cathedral transept and spire — destined to be admired on the Paris skyline for potentially hundreds of years.
Reconstruction of a 12th-century cathedral such as Notre Dame in wood is a daunting prospect. The inside was such a lattice of beams and supports that it was affectionately called the “forest.” Calls to reinforce it with fireproof concrete were dismissed, even after such material helped limit the fallout from a blaze in the Gothic Nantes Cathedral last year.
Scientists have identified the 19th form of water ice. The exotic, four-sided crystals of this rare ice variety, now dubbed ice XIX, form at ultra-low temperatures and ultra-high pressures.
It only exists in laboratory experiments, but researchers say it reveals more about other forms of ice, which can be found deep in the Earth’s mantle and on very cold planets and moons.
"To name a new ice form, one needs to elucidate exactly what the crystal structure is," said lead researcher Thomas Loerting, a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. That means figuring out the simplest repeating structure of the crystal, where all of the atoms are located within that structure, and what the symmetry of the crystal structure is, Loerting said.
Almost everyone is familiar with the beautiful six-sided variety of snowflakes, which mirrors the hexagonal arrangement of oxygen atoms in the crystals of water ice that make them.
But regular six-sided crystals of ice — ice I — are actually just one of its many forms, which are known as polymorphs. And until recently, 18 different polymorphs of water ice had been formally identified — although only six-sided ice is common on Earth.Although ice might seem simple, it is complicated stuff. For instance, only the oxygen atoms in the water molecules of six-sided ice crystals form a hexagonal shape, while their hydrogen atoms are randomly oriented around them. This makes ice I a "disordered" or "frustrated" ice in the terminology of ices. One of the properties of such disordered ices is that they can deform under pressure: "This is the reason why glaciers flow," Loerting said.
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