Not every TED talk sees the light of day, and that’s wrong. Fortunately, Stephen Colbert has unearthed some heretofore hidden gems.
Music Icon Pat Boone Joins With Cleopatra Records To Release R&B Album Laden With Superstar Duets
With a career that has spanned over sixty years, Pat Boone has achieved an amazing number of accomplishments. He has been a successful singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman. He is one of rock & roll’s best-selling artists and has sold over 45 million albums, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films. He still holds the Billboard record for charting consecutive weeks by spending 220 consecutive weeks on the charts with one or more song each week. He has hosted his own TV show and has written a number of books including 2 million – plus sellers that have been translated into many languages. Currently, he continues to perform for an audience of millions on both TV and radio, has just completed 2 films and is still recording.
“This classic, ultimate party record fulfills a career long desire to record with many of my most favorite artists, bringing me back full circle to my first R&B million sellers,” say an enthusiastic Boone.
Not one to rest on his laurels, Pat Boone decided to expand his horizons by recording his first ever R&B album. And not one to do things in a small way, he was thrilled to work with some of the genre’s biggest superstars of all time! He has powerful duets with James Brown, Smokey Robinson, Earth Wind & Fire, The Four Tops, and KC & The Sunshine Band plus members of Kool & the Gang, and Sister Sledge and even Hip Hop legend Kool Moe Dee. By joining with Cleopatra Records, this stunning album now has national distribution is available to his legion of fans worldwide.
Pat Boone R&B Duet Hits Track Listing
- Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag with James Brown
- Soul Man with Sam Moore
- Get Down Tonight with KC & The Sunshine Band
- Tears of a Clown with Smokey Robinson
- Celebration with Robert “Kool” Bell of Kool & The Gang
- I Can’t Help Myself with The Four Tops
- A Woman Needs Love with Ray Parker Jr.
- We are Family with Joni Sledge of Sister Sledge
- Shotgun with Geraldo Albright
- That’s The Way Of The World with Earth, Wind & Fire
- Backbone with Kool Moe Dee
There Were 3,000 Albums Uploaded To Spotify Last Week. Read That Again.
I’m really tired of people complaining there’s nothing good coming out in the music industry. No real artists anymore. Well, you’re not looking hard enough.
Every week, music makers unleash thousands of new recordings on the world, most of which has yet to be reviewed, blogged about, analyzed, or even heard beyond their inner circle. If you’re excited by the freshest sounds the world has to offer, you’ve already found out how hard that is, especially if you’re looking for a particular kind of music. Named for the hat in the Harry Potter books and films, Spotify’s New Release Sorting Hat can help.
This week, there were over 3,000 albums uploaded to Spotify. 3,000! And Spotify is helping you sift through them all.
This “experimental attempt at an algorithmic organization of the week’s new releases,” as it’s described by creator and Spotify data alchemist Glenn McDonald, takes a fresh approach to the problem, with powerful implications for music fans who want to explore brand new music each week, delight their ears, and impress their friends by always seeming to be first to the party — in just about any genre.
To hear each week’s new releases sorted by genre, bookmark, share, and repeatedly visit Spotify’s New Release Sorting Hat, which updates each Friday (the new global release date) with the latest music to appear on the service.
Look at just a small portion of this week.
Now tell me there’s nothing new to check out.
Watch Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic and Fox News’ Kennedy Talk Citizens United and Bernie Sanders
My parents-in-law are big Fox News fans. They’re incredibly interested in the development of politics in America, from the network’s perspective, and although I’m rarely on the channel, this interview was definitely worth watching. Ex-MTVer Kennedy is now one of the popular hosts on Fox, and here’s a cool interview she recently completed with Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, who talked about proportional representation, Citizens United and Bernie Sanders.
What Happens When You Pour Motor Oil Over Speakers? This.
Those of you who enjoy science will dig this. Those that enjoy watching gooey stuff being pour over objects will dig it even more. Cymatics is a subset of modal vibrational phenomena. The term was coined by Hans Jenny (1904-1972), a Swiss follower of the pseudoscience known as anthroposophy. Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in a thin coating of particles, paste or liquid. Different patterns emerge in the excitatory medium depending on the geometry of the plate and the driving frequency. So, take some motor oil over a booming speaker, and voila! Instant video viralness!
The Greatest Bowling Trick Shot I’ve Ever Seen
Never, ever, bowl with Michael Long. Actually, you should. It’ll be a lot of fun. Wait for it, as they say.
Remember Robin Williams This Way. Outtakes From Disney’s Aladdin
In Robin Williams’ honour, I’ll post these bonus outtakes from Robin Williams as Genie from Disney’s “Aladdin”.
Hunter S. Thompson on the lessons he learned from the Hell’s Angels
“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” – Hunter S. Thompson in 1967
In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson spent more than a year living and drinking with members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club, riding up and down the California coast. What he saw alongside this group of renegades on Harleys, these hairy outlaws who rampaged and faced charges of attempted murder, assault and battery, and destruction of property along the way – all of this became the heart of Thompson’s first book: Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. Shortly after the book came out, Thompson sat down for a radio interview with the one and only Studs Terkel.
Google Translate Tests Their New App Using Classic Richie Valens Song ‘La Bamba’
The Google Translate team tests their new app in 27 languages through one song, Richie Valens and his classic song La Bamba.
This ABC News Report Introducing Rap Music In 1981 Is Inspiring
Underachievers and proud of it, the makers of rap were introduced to American general public in 1981, thanks to the ABC News Report. A true genre of the people, and for the people, it’s a retro look at the mild contempt held in regard to rappers, determined to play inside the gates of the big music industry.