I hope y'all dig these far out mixes. I played only classic rock mashups to give you some basis for familiarity. I doubt you'll have any problems listening. I also speak a few times about the site. Good fun. Name dropping. Here's the complete playlist -
01 - DJ Useo - I Dig Psycho Mantis Rock & Roll Music
( Peter, Paul & Mary vs Matteo Poker )
02 - RRodd - Come Together to Nasicilia
( The Beatles vs Dark Providers ) (Ben Preston Remix)
The Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording was presented at the 22nd Grammy Awards in 1980, and discontinued the next year. What is the title of the only Best Disco Recording Grammy winner?
The Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording was an award presented at the 22nd Grammy Awards in 1980. The Grammy Awards, an annual ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, are presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".
Gloria Gaynor and producers Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren won the Best Disco Recording award for the song "I Will Survive". However, because of a backlash against disco, the Academy discontinued the category before the 23rd Grammy Awards. In 1998, a similar category, Best Dance Recording, began being awarded to honor vocal or instrumental dance tracks, though there were concerns that the genre would be short-lived much like the disco category.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
"I Will Survive" performed by Gloria Gaynor.
Randall wrote:
I Will Survive
I dislike disco, but that WAS a pretty good song . . .
zorch said:
'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor.
Alan J answered:
I Will Survive.
Dave replied:
I Will Survive. There was a backlash by rock music fans against the award given for the fading Disco style, which was a fad from the 1970s. Haters of Disco (the Disco Sucks movement) were quite vocal about their disdain for Disco music. At the 1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park in Chicago, 50,000 frenzied participants rioted and vandalized the baseball field grass to such an extent that the White Sox had to forfeit their next game to the Detroit Tigers over safety concerns expressed to umpires by Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson.
Photos: Disco Demolition Night mayhem | Gloria Gaynor posing with her Grammy
Deborah responded:
"I Will Survive," by Gloria Gaynor. A staple of lip-syncing drag queens for years.
Micki said:
"I Will Survive" sung by Gloria Gaynor.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, wrote:
It was Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive". She did, the Grammy category didn't.
David of Moon Valley responded:
Gloria Gaynor the wiki says…I Will Survive….Yes!
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But, sadly, dear old dad has no internet connection.
My cousin Joe gave him a computer about 10 years ago, but dad had no interest in it, considered it a dust collector, and finally gave it away.
• Geraldine Farrar and Enrico Caruso once performed together in the opera Carmen. Ms. Farrar had recently acted in a movie version of Carmen, and she incorporated a bit of business from the movie into the onstage opera - she slapped Mr. Caruso with her fan - not hard enough to hurt him - in the last act. Mr. Caruso was a good sport, and during the curtain call he rubbed his cheek as if he had been hurt. He had not been hurt, of course, but was merely joking. However, members of the audience were convinced that Ms. Farrar had really hit Mr. Caruso hard, and reporters were soon asking Ms. Farrar why she had struck Mr. Caruso. She knew that the reporters wanted a good story, and she gave them a good story - she denied nothing. Soon, Mr. Caruso called Mr. Farrar and said, "What is this? The reporters - the many reporters - say I am very angry because you slap. I not like. I worry." Ms. Farrar told him, "Stop worrying. Deny nothing. Do you know what's going to happen? Next week, when you and I repeat Carmen, everybody will want to see whether I slap you hard again. The house will be packed." Ms. Farrar remembered later, "That's just the way it was. The next week Enrico and I did Carmen again. The house was packed."
• Early in his career, American-born tenor Richard Tucker had to grow used to the customs of other countries. In Verona, Italy, he started to sing softly at a rehearsal, not aware that in Verona many people come to rehearsals. As he sang softly, he heard a commotion from the audience, and conductor Tullio Serafin explained that the people in the audience had not heard his records, which were not then available in Italy, and so they were wondering whether he could sing. Mr. Tucker then sang full voice, and the audience stormed the stage and kissed him. At the actual performance of the opera, Mr. Tucker did not know that audience members light candles to show their appreciation of exceptionally well-sung arias. Therefore, he was astonished to suddenly see hundreds of candles being lit in front of him. At the conclusion of the aria, the audience starting shouting, "Bis! Bis!" ("Bis!" means "Twice!" or "Encore!") He thought the audience was shouting "Beast!" at him. After the opera, he asked his wife, "Sara, what happened?" She explained to him that he had scored another huge success.
• Early in the history of opera, candles lit the theaters. Members of the audience bought librettos, which indicated when favorite arias would be sung, to read during performances. Frequently, instead of waiting for a favorite aria, members of the audience would go out for a bite to eat, then return later, in time for the aria - or they would visit with other members of the audience as they waited. It wasn't until the invention of the electric light that theaters became dark - and audiences became silent. In fact, early in the history of operas, the overture was written to alert the chattering audience that the performance was about to begin - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gioacchino Rossini often wrote overtures that began with a few loud chords to get the audience's attention.
• Critic Erica Jeal saw the famous Three Tenors in concert at Wembley Stadium on July 6, 1996, but she did run into a problem: "The gentleman in the seat behind me found, to his delight and my despair, that he could sing along to half of the numbers." This was especially a problem because listening to a concert of the Three Tenors - Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras - was very expensive although the Three Tenors concerts had a reputation of bringing opera to a non-elitist and non-exclusive audience. Ms. Jeal says pointedly, "For the price of my press ticket for Wembley [a British sports stadium] I could have seen at least 40 performances at the Coliseum [British opera house] - who's being exclusive now?"
• Hans Hotter made his operatic debut in Vienna, Austria, in the role of Jochanaan in Salome. After the debut, his mother, who had been present, overheard two teenagers - a male and a female - who had separately seen him perform and who were talking about him. The girl said, "Have you heard that man - the naked one [Jochanaan's costume was only a camel skin] with the huge voice?" The boy replied, "I don't know about the voice, but did you see those great arms which he stretched out when he was pronouncing the curse? My word, he would be the right member for our Danube rowing club!"
• Carlo Bergonzi, following the wishes of Giuseppe Verdi, sang softly the final B flat of "Celeste Aida" at the Teatro Regio, Parma, in December 1959. Unfortunately, the audience was displeased, not being used to hearing that note sung softly. After the opera, an audience member approached Mr. Bergonzi to ask why he had varied from tradition. Of course, Mr. Bergonzi explained that Verdi had written the note that way. Unfortunately, the audience member was still not satisfied, remarking, "So Verdi was wrong, too!"
• Audiences have various ways of showing disapproval. In Mexico, during a very poor performance of the opera Trovatore, a tenor mangled "Di quella pira." Following the song, the audience did not applaud, but instead made the sound "SHH!" In 1969, at a performance of Rigoletto in Edinburgh, Scotland, the singer playing the Duke of Mantua mangled "Parmi veder le lagrime." Following the song, the audience showed its displeasure by remaining absolutely silent and absolutely still.
• At the end of the Second World War, Galiano Masini was performing as Cavaradossi in Toscaat the Teatro Verdi. Unfortunately, he struggled vocally for the first two acts, and the audience loudly and persistently criticized him. However, Mr. Masini performed a marvelous "E' lucevan le stelle" in the final act, and the audience reversed itself and shouted for an encore. Mr. Masini strode to the footlights, glared at the audience, and then told them (presumably in Italian), "Up yours!"
• Baritone Antonio Tamburini was a versatile singer. During the carnival season in Palermo in 1822, the audience came armed with noise-makers such as drums and trumpets. The prima donna was frightened by the loudness and rowdiness of the crowd, so Mr. Tamburini performed and sang both his part and her part - for the duets, he sang his part with his normal baritone and he sang her part with a falsetto. The audience loved it.
• In the old opera house, members of the Metropolitan Opera Guild gathered in a box. A rule of silence was imposed in the box during performances, but the rule was ignored in the case of Guild member and retired Met tenor Giovanni Martinelli. While attending the opera, Mr. Martinelli was accustomed to hum throughout the performance - and occasionally to criticize it.
• Jean de Reszke sacrificed for his art. For example, while appearing as Siegfried to Nellie Melba's Brünnhilde (her sole appearance in that role), he sacrificed his mustache. However, his fans were outraged by its non-appearance, and Mr. de Reszke restored it when he sang Siegfried in London in future appearances.
Several bars here opening early here tomorrow! Serving Moscow Muellers and other drinks for Mueller Time also offering big screen TVs for testimony viewing:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Love Island', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a RERUN'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Chris Wallace and Jamie Bell.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Sutton Foster, Eddie Izzard, and Dave Ross.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Ellen's Game Of Games', followed by a RERUN'Songland', then a FRESH'The InBetween'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Naomi Watts, Mike Birbiglia, and Midland.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Billy Eichner, Danielle Brooks, and Hobo Johnson.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 2/27/19) are Eliza Coupe, Aurora, Anna Konkle, and Maya Erskine.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Press Your Luck', followed by a FRESH'Card Shark', then a FRESH'Match Game'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Danny McBride, Margaret Qualley, and Rascal Flatts.
The CW offers a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us', followed by a FRESH'Jane The Virgin'.
Faux has a FRESH'MasterChef', followed by a FRESH'First Responders Live'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 'Wahlburgers', another 'Wahlburgers', followed by a FRESH'Wahlburgers', then a FRESH'The Employables'.
AMC offers the movie 'Ender's Game', followed by the movie 'I Am Number Four', then the movie 'I Am Number Four', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 17-Unity
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 18-Darkling
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 19-Rise
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 20-Favorite Son
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 21-Before and After
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 22-Real Life
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 23-Distant Origin
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 24-Menage a Troi
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 25-Transfigurations
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 26-The Best of Both Worlds (Part 1)
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 1-The Best of Both Worlds (Part 2)
[5:00PM] MONEYBALL (2011)
[8:00PM] CAST AWAY (2000)
[11:00PM] CAST AWAY (2000) (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Southern Charm', another 'Southern Charm', followed by a FRESH'Southern Charm', 'Southern Charm New Orleans', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
FX has the movie 'Guardians Of The Galaxy', followed by the movie 'Get Out', then a FRESH'Snowfall'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Cutting Deeper', then a FRESH'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'The Strongest Men In History'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges-How High Is Up?
[6:25A] The Three Stooges-Idiots Deluxe
[6:50A] The Three Stooges-Idle Roomers
[7:15A] The Blues Brothers
[10:15A] Stripes
[12:45P] The Mist
[3:30P] Into the Storm
[5:30P] Contagion
[8:00P] I Am Legend
[10:15P] I Am Legend
[12:30A] Contagion
[3:00A] Rush
[5:45A] Night Flight-The Heartbreakers (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Right Stuff
[12:00pm] Space Cowboys
[3:00pm] Criminal Minds
[4:00pm] Criminal Minds
[5:00pm] Criminal Minds
[6:00pm] Criminal Minds
[7:00pm] Criminal Minds
[8:00pm] Criminal Minds
[9:00pm] Criminal Minds
[10:00pm] Criminal Minds
[11:00pm] Criminal Minds
[12:00am] Criminal Minds
[1:00am] Criminal Minds
[2:00am] Criminal Minds
[3:00am] The Bone Collector
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Blade: Trinity', followed by the movie 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters', then a FRESH'Krypton'.
Her name was "Lucille," and in B.B. King's hands she gave voice to the "King of the Blues."
Julien's Auctions announced Tuesday that King's black Gibson ES-345 prototype guitar is among the items from his estate that will go up for bid on Sept. 21.
Julien's says Gibson gave King the instrument for his 80th birthday. The headstock has "B.B. King 80" and a crown inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The guitar is estimated to be worth $80,000 to $100,000.
The guitar was not the first to bear the name. The story goes that King first used that moniker for a guitar he rescued from a fire while he was playing an Arkansas club in 1949. The blaze broke out as two men fought over a woman, and the musician narrowly escaped death after he went back into the club to save his guitar, the auction house said.
When King learned the woman's name was Lucille, he named his guitar after her "to remind himself to never fight over a woman or run into a burning building," the auction house said.
When Neil Armstrong died in a Cincinnati hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut's millions of admirers around the globe.
"Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty," they wrote, telling fans of the first man to walk on the moon that "the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."
But in private, the family's reaction to his death at 82 was far stormier. His two sons contended that incompetent post-surgical care at Mercy Health - Fairfield Hospital had cost Mr. Armstrong his life, and even one expert retained by the hospital would find serious problems with his treatment.
The hospital defended the care, but paid the family $6 million to settle the matter privately and avoid devastating publicity, documents show. The hospital insisted on keeping the complaints and the settlement secret.
The medical dispute and secret settlement, never before reported, comes to light days after the 50th anniversary of Mr. Armstrong's moon walk drew a flood of nostalgic coverage celebrating his feat. The New York Times received by mail from an unknown sender 93 pages of documents related to the astronaut's treatment and the legal case, including dueling reports by medical experts for the two sides. Some of the documents, though marked "filed under seal," are publicly available at the probate court's website, confirming that the documents received by The Times are authentic. An unsigned note included in the envelope said the sender hoped the information would save other lives.
Sylvester Stallone has said he doesn't have any equity in the Rocky franchise, despite the fact he created the characters for the original film.
The 73-year-old star, who was nominated for Oscars as both actor and writer for the 1976 film, told Variety he has "zero ownership" over the character and the series.
Stallone has earned millions of dollars from the Rocky franchise over the last four decades, reportedly earning more than $10m (£8m) for each of the Creed spin-off movies that have been released in the last couple of years.
"I said I'd like to have some ownership since I invented it," he said. "And that never happened. So I have zero ownership of Rocky."
Anonymous sources quoted in the Variety article were mystified to hear Stallone was upset, given how much money he still rakes in from Rocky as a property.
Lifetime is making a followup documentary to "Surviving R. Kelly," as well a new docuseries on Jeffrey Epstein called "Surviving Jeffrey Epstein."
"Surviving Jeffrey Epstein" will center on the billionaire New York financier, who was arrested earlier this month. He was charged with sex trafficking by federal prosecutors, who said that Epstein sexually abused dozens of underage girls and paid many of them to recruit others. He was denied bail last week.
Since Epstein's arrest, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigned after defending the plea deal he struck with Epstein as a federal prosecutor. Over a decade ago, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to soliciting a minor for prostitution. He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence and was released in 2009.
"Surviving Jeffrey Epstein" is being developed by Robert Friedman's Bungalow Media + Entertainment in association with filmmakers Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern, both of whom will direct. Journalist Christopher Mason, who has contributed to The New York Times, New York Magazine, Town & Country and Architectural Digest, is also attached to the project.
Vast swathes of the Arctic are suffering from "unprecedented" wildfires, new satellite images have revealed.
North of the Arctic circle, the high temperatures are facilitating enormous wildfires which are wreaking ecological destruction on a colossal scale.
It comes after the world's hottest June on record which has been followed by a devastating heatwave in the US, with Europe forecast for the same treatment later this week.
Satellite images reveal fires across Greenland, Siberia and Alaska, with warm dry conditions following ice melt on the enormous Greenland icesheet commencing a month earlier than average.
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has described the fires in the northern hemisphere as "unprecedented" and warned of the enormous impact they are having on CO2 levels contributing to the climate crisis.
Americans distrust the news media, but see government and political leaders as even more untrustworthy, a survey showed Monday.
The Pew Research Center found 69 percent of Americans say the federal government intentionally withholds important information from the public, while 61 percent say the news media intentionally ignores important stories.
Nearly two-thirds say it is hard to tell the difference between what is true and false when they hear elected officials, and almost half said the same about information they encounter on social media.
Researchers found 64 percent of US adults believe trust in each other has declined, and 58 percent say it is very important to reverse that.
Pew said at least part of reason for the lack of trust in government lies with President Don-Old Trump (R-Amoral), who has repeated at least 10,000 falsehoods since taking office, according to one count, and who has repeatedly attacked mainstream media reports about him as "fake news."
Unhatched bird embryos can not only hear the warning calls of adult birds - they can communicate that information to their unhatched brothers and sisters sharing the same nest, remaining safely tucked away in their shells until it is safe to hatch.
It is a finding that reveals how birds can adapt to their environment even before birth, since, unlike placental mammals, their physiology can no longer be influenced by changes in their mother's body after the egg is laid.
In particular, a team of researchers exposed unhatched yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) eggs to cues that indicated high predation risk. Not only did the unhatched embryos communicate these cues to unexposed nestmates, they emerged from their eggs exhibiting much more cautious behaviour than the control group.
The experiment itself is pretty elegant, actually. The team collected wild gull eggs from a breeding colony on Sálvora Island in Spain that experiences fluctuating levels of predation, especially from small carnivores such as minks.
Something peculiar has been found inside fossilised clams from the Tamiami Formation in Florida: dozens of tiny, silica-rich glass spheres, no more than a few millimetres in size. Such beads are forged by heat, and can be created by volcanic or industrial activity - but in this case, there's one big problem.
The Tamiami Formation contains no volcanic rock, nor is it near a volcanic source. And the fossils it contains date back to the Plio-Pleistocene, between 5 million and 12,000 years ago - a long time before industry arrived on the scene.
So, what forged these beads? According to researchers, it was most likely an ancient meteorite slamming into Earth, super-heating and ejecting debris into the atmosphere where it cools and hardens into tiny glass beads called microtektites, before falling back to the ground.
If they are indeed microtektites, as several lines of analysis suggest, these spheres would be the first ever found in Florida, and maybe even the first ever found anywhere inside shell fossils.
The beads were a delightful surprise, discovered by accident. Earth scientist Mike Meyer of Harrisburg University - then an undergraduate at the University of South Florida - was prising open the fossils in search of something else entirely, namely the shells of microscopic single-celled organisms called benthic foraminifera.
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