The Harlem Globetrotters teamed up with students from Georgia Tech’s colleges of Industrial Design and Music to bring this trick shot machine to life. They built this entire machine from scratch AND produced the soundtrack that goes along with it.
Rubert Holmes On Being A Household Name For The Piña Colada Song
Rupert Holmes, the singer-songwriter, musician, dramatist and author is widely known for the hit singles “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” and “Him”. He is also known for his musicals Drood, which earned him two Tony Awards, and Curtains, and for his television series Remember WENN.
After its release as a single, the song became immediately popular, though initial sales were slow due to the song’s actual title, “Escape”, going unnoticed in the place of the oft-repeated cocktail. Holmes reluctantly agreed to rename the song “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”. The song shot up through the charts, becoming the last number-one Billboard Hot 100 hit of 1979 (and the last number one song of the 1970s). “Escape” returned to number one again on the Billboard Hot 100 charts during the second week of 1980, having been displaced for a week by KC and the Sunshine Band’s “Please Don’t Go”. Thus it is the only pop song to ascend to #1 on the Billboard pop charts in two different decades.
“Two days before Christmas, I opted to come home from Chicago in a sleeping compartment on the train. I just want to be somewhere for 24 hours where I don’t have to smile. One day I flew from Holland to England, gaining an hour by doing so. I then flew Concorde to New York, landing three hours earlier than I’d departed. I took a cab from JFK to my apartment, where I had 20-minutes to change my clothes, then went to my dentist for a temporary cap, took a taxi back to JFK and flew to L.A. to do a TV interview that evening, and finish the charts I’d written for the Tonight Show band to be copied the next morning for rehearsal the following afternoon. Someone said, “Isn’t it great how you keep gaining all this time by flying toward the west.” I replied, “No, my watch is gaining the time, I’m living all of it.
“It was a privilege to have two genuine hit records and a few contenders and it continues to mean a great deal to me. As for the “household name” of it, the star of the record were the words “piña coladas” and I was the piña colada guy. I did have my 15 months of fame, and there were delirious thrills and honors that went with that. But my manager viewed my income as half his, and so he kept me working more than was necessary or helpful to developing my career, often in circumstances that were profitable but embarrassing: shopping malls and amusement parks and tacky bars where I’d be singing and someone would ask me to sing “New York State of Mind”. One club was so cavernous and unsuitable for the low key evening I’d prepared that I ended up playing Chuck Berry songs all night. They loved me!
“One day, I was getting out of a taxi in Manhattan, and the driver recognized me from seeing me on the Merv Griffin Show the night before. As I left the cab, he said, “Wow, you’re the first semi-celebrity I’ve ever driven!” I said in mock chagrin, “Did you have to find the precise wording? You couldn’t let me have ‘celebrity’ unmodified?”
Top 10 Hardest Instruments to Learn
Playing an instrument isn’t easy to begin with, but these instruments will really test your patience! From Harp, Guitar, Piano, Accordion and Drums to Oboe, Violin, French Horn, theremin and bagpipes, these instruments are all incredible musical tools – but only if you know how to use them.
How Artists Can Learn To Create Better Middle Eights From Tylor Swift
In music theory, “middle eight” (a common type of bridge) refers to a section of a song with a significantly different melody and lyrics, which helps the song develop itself in a natural way by creating a contrast to the previously played, usually placed after the second chorus in a song.
And nobody does it better in modern music than Taylor Swift. Check out the theory here.
That Time In 1999 When Freddie Mercury Was On A Stamp
In 1999, Freddie Mercury, who passed away in 1991, was honored with a stamp as part of the Royal Mail’s millennium series recognizing some of the most famous Britons of the last 1000 years.
Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland Contains Some Cool Backwards Messages
Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland has been featured on many greatest album lists, including a number 10 ranking on Classic Rock magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Rock Albums Ever, and number 37 on The Times’ 100 Best Albums of All Time. In 2003, Q magazine included it on its list of the 100 greatest albums ever, while Rolling Stone ranked it 54th on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
It kicks off with And the Gods Made Love, a track that intentionally incorporated backmasking. Play the song backward, and you hear Hendrix say, “Yes, yes, yes, I get it. Okay, one, okay, one more time.”
Here it is forward:
And backwards:
https://youtu.be/W58JdkoJeOw
Wiz Khalifa Breaks Down His Most Iconic Songs |
Wiz Khalifa reflects on his most iconic songs, including “Pittsburgh Sound,” “This Plane,” “We’re Done,” “Black and Yellow,” “Young, Wild, and Free,” “Payphone,” “We Dem Boyz,” “See You Again,” and “Something New.” Wiz Khalifa’s new album Rolling Papers 2 comes out July 13.
73 Questions With Saoirse Ronan
While packing for an Ireland-bound flight, Oscar-nominated actress Saoirse Ronan answers 73 questions from Vogue. Saoirse talks about her famously difficult first name, the causes closest to her heart, and best advice she’s ever received. Also, according to Saoirse, the Irish goodbye is NOT a thing…
That time the Royal Mail created awesome Pink Floyd stamps to mark 50 years of the band.
The Royal Mail released commemorative stamps in 1996 to mark 50 years of one of the greatest bands, Pink Floyd.
Did The Beatles Put A Message To Fans When They Played “I’m So Tired” Backwards?
At the very end of The Beatles’song I’m So Tired, what seems to be nonsensical mumbling can be heard in the background. The mumbling, if played backwards can be imagined as something along the lines of “Paul is a dead man. Miss him. Miss him. Miss him.” This only adds to the many supposed references to the “Paul is dead” conspiracy scattered throughout the White album. Mark Lewisohn has said that the nonsensical mumbling is actually Lennon muttering, “Monsieur, monsieur, how about another one?”