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| Don Diego | Sep 26 2014, 09:40 AM Post #121 |
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Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day (16 weeks) The longest best picture academy award winner? |
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| JazzGuyy | Sep 26 2014, 09:44 AM Post #122 |
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Gone With the Wind Let's get off the Oscars. Who created the term "rhythm & blues" and name one other thing he or she is famous for? |
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| The Batman | Sep 26 2014, 10:05 AM Post #123 |
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The longest, if you include musical overtures and intermissions, is GONE WITH THE WIND, at 234 minutes. Without musical overtures and intermissions, the longest is LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, at 222 minutes. Though that is only a minute longer than GWTW, which runs 221 minutes, when the musical overtures and intermissions are excluded. |
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| The Batman | Sep 26 2014, 10:05 AM Post #124 |
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Oops, I was typing this almost 30 minutes ago, but got distracted by work. Sorry, Jazzy, carry on. |
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| JazzGuyy | Sep 26 2014, 10:10 AM Post #125 |
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I've done that a time or two (or three or...). |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 26 2014, 10:24 AM Post #126 |
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Gosh, I can't BELIEVE none of us got the Boys II Men question. |
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| The Batman | Sep 26 2014, 10:46 AM Post #127 |
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*L* - that's because most of us around here are still in the "boy" stage. |
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| JazzGuyy | Sep 26 2014, 11:10 AM Post #128 |
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In my case it's more like the infant stage. |
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| Don Diego | Sep 26 2014, 01:41 PM Post #129 |
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Jerry Wexler replaced the term race music with rhythm and blues for Billboard. He was a record producer (Ray Charles) First woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 26 2014, 03:04 PM Post #130 |
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The first woman to be inducted as a solo artist is Aretha Franklin, and I think she was a Wexler discovery. Boris Karloff took only one break in the three 1/2 years he starred on Broadway in Arsenic and Old Lace. What film did he make on his break, and who replaced him in the play? |
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| JazzGuyy | Sep 26 2014, 03:05 PM Post #131 |
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Actually Ray Charles was usually either produced by Ahmet Ertegun, occasionally Quincy Jones or himself. I'm not sure Wexler ever produced him. He sure did produce Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Dusty Springfield, and many others. He was also a part owner of Atlantic Records. Wexler didn't discover Franklin. She had been recording for a number of years with some gospel records in her teens and then she recorded for Columbia for several years. Her career was going nowhere at Columbia and Wexler brought her over to Atlantic when her Columbia contract expired and then took her to Mussel Shoals to make the album and singles that made here famous.
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| Chandu | Sep 27 2014, 11:27 AM Post #132 |
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Way back when, I bought a Franklin album when I belonged to the old Columbia Record Club (didn't we all?) in the early '60s which contained the number I Surrender Dear on it, which I still love to this day. It showcases her blues talents and I wasn't surprised at all when she finally made it big, especially as on the Atlantic label. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Sep 28 2014, 05:55 PM Post #133 |
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She kept making great records after she left Atlantic, so it wasn't just Atlantic. She's still doing great stuff. Her problem at Columbia was that she was produced by John Hammond, who was too old fashioned to understand what she was and tried to turn her into some kind of gospelized Billie Holiday. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 29 2014, 09:17 AM Post #134 |
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I've stumped the house again. Go, me. Karloff took a brief break in the summer of 1942 because Columbia Pictures insisted he fulfill his "mad scientist" contract and give him the last film remaining; they'd written an Arsenic-type horror/comedy for him called The Boogie Man Will Get You. Erich Von Stroheim took his place during the break; interestingly, people in the play thought HE looked like Boris Karloff, too. Next question: Who played George Reeves' twin brother in Gone with the Wind, and what was odd about the credit he received in the film? |
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| The Batman | Sep 29 2014, 09:56 AM Post #135 |
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George Reeves played one of the Tarleton twins, Stuart, and had the opening dialogue of the film. He is incorrectly listed as his brother, Brent, on the cast list. And Fred Crane is incorrectly listed as Stuart. Sticking with GWTW, another actress was signed to play Carreen, Scarlett's younger sister, before the role was given to Ann Rutherford. Who was the actress? |
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