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Emerson Drive Achieve A Record 20 Top 10 Singles In Canada

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From the “I bet you didn’t know this” file – Emerson Drive have officially achieved their 20th Top 10 single with “Who We Are” at Canadian Country radio this week. The band now holds the record for the most Canadian Top 10’s in the modern music era. Who would have guessed them? I mean, they’re amazing guys, slightly superior over most country acts these days, and some of the finest lyrics on the radio, but…it would have taken me a few guesses to get to them. At least.

Emerson Drive’s extensive background in the country music landscape is undeniable. For well over a decade, the band has produced such hits as “I Should Be Sleeping,” “Moments,” “Fall Into Me” and their latest GOLD single – “She’s My Kind Of Crazy.” They have countless Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) award wins, including three for Group or Duo of the Year, and they’re one of the only Canadian country bands in history to hold nominations from the Academy of Country Music awards (ACMs), the Country Music Association awards (CMAs) and the Grammys in the U.S., solidifying them as one of the great bands of all time.

President of Invictus Entertainment Group, Jim Cressman says “Longevity isn’t ubiquitous in this industry. By evolving their sound and listening to their fans, these guys have stood the test of time and are more relevant than ever.”

Expect new music from Emerson Drive on June 16th when their new single “Till The Summer’s Gone” hits radio.

Upcoming Canadian dates:
June 27, Cider Fest – Winona, ON
June 28, CRIR Festival – Strathmore, AB
June 30, Abbotsford Centre – Abbotsford, BC
July 25, Spencerville Stampede – Spencerville, ON
July 30, Cedarcreek Winery – Kelowna, BC
August 14, Arnprior Fair – Arnprior, ON

J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield was one of the first to employ the phrase LMAO in Catcher In The Rye

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According to Mike Vuolo at Slate, J.D. Salinger was a bit ahead of his time when it came to social media. It looks like Holden Caulfield in Catcher In The Rye was one of the first to employ the phrase. In a scene describing a particular war movie Holden hates, Salinger writes:
It ends up with everybody at this long dinner table laughing their asses off because the great Dane comes in with a bunch of puppies. Everybody thought it was a male, I suppose, or some goddam thing. All I can say is, don’t see it if you don’t want to puke all over yourself.

 

You can now download Jim Rockford’s Answering Machine Messages

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The Rockford Files is an American television drama series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974, and January 10, 1980, and has remained in syndication to the present day. Garner portrays Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford with Noah Beery, Jr., in the supporting role of his father, a retired truck driver nicknamed “Rocky”. In 2002, The Rockford Files was ranked #39 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

Each episode began with the image of Rockford’s answering machine, and the opening title sequence was accompanied by someone leaving Rockford a message. The messages were unrelated to the episodes. They were a humorous device that invited the viewer to return to the quirky, down-on-his-luck world of Jim Rockford. The messages usually had to do with creditors, deadbeat clients, or were just oddball vignettes. Though a distinctive and clever entry device, the messages became difficult for the writers to create. Suggestions from staffers and crew were welcome and often used.

Jim Rockford’s Answering Machine lists every message aired during the series six seasons.

Jim, It’s Norma at the market. It bounced. You want us to tear it up, send it back, or put it with the others?

This is the Department Of The Army. Our records show that you are the “Rockford, James” who failed to turn in his service automatic in May 1953. Contact us at once.

Alice, Phil’s Plumbing. We’re still jammed up on a job, so we won’t be able to make your place. Use the bathroom at the restaurant one more night.

And now, you can download all the messages for your own use!

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The First Covers Of Famous Magazines

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Time, 1923

The New Yorker, 1925

Esquire, 1933

Newsweek, 1933

Seventeen, 1944

Ebony, 1945

TV Guide, 1953

Night Baseball in Milwaukee August 16, 1954 X 1388 Credit: Mark Kauffman
Night Baseball in Milwaukee
August 16, 1954
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Credit: Mark Kauffman

Rolling Stone, 1967

New York, 1968

Ms., 1972

People, 1974

Vanity Fair, 1983

Spin, 1985

Entertainment Weekly, 1990

Wired, 1993

Ed Sheeran Gives Great Speech on Stuttering: “Embrace Your Weirdness”

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Ed Sheeran gave a speech worth checking out this week. He was being honored at the American Institute for Stuttering’s Freeing Voices Changing Lives Benefit Gala on Monday. The musician was commended at the New York City fundraiser for his openness about overcoming his stutter.

“I was a very, very weird child. I had a port-wine stain birthmark on my face that I got lasered off when I was very young; one day, they forgot to put the anesthetic on, and ever since then, I had a stutter. I also had very big, blue NHS glasses — NHS is the National Health Service, one day I hope you’ll have the same! And I lacked an eardrum on one side of my ear, so stuttering was actually the least of my problems!”

“But it was still quite a difficult thing. The thing I found most difficult was knowing what to say but not really being able to express it the right way,” he continued. Though speech therapy and homeopathy didn’t work, rap music became an effective remedy. “My Uncle Jim told my dad that Eminem was the next Bob Dylan — it’s pretty similar, it’s all just storytelling — so my dad bought me The Marshall Mathers LP when I was nine years old, not knowing what was on it. I learned every word of it, back to front, by the time I was ten. He raps very fast and melodically and percussively, and it helped me get rid of the stutter.”

“Stuttering is not a thing you have to be worried about at all. Even if you have quirks and weirdness, you shouldn’t be worried about that,” he told the younger attendees. “The people I went to school with that were the most normal and were the coolest when we grew up — I was telling Emily earlier that one of the cool kids from school now does my plumbing! That’s a fact!”

“I wanted to not necessarily to shed light on stuttering or make it a thing, but stress to kids in general to just be yourself, because there’s no one in the world that can be a better you than you,” he continued onstage at the The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers. “If you try to be the cool kid in class, you’ll end up very boring and doing plumbing for someone who apparently wasn’t that cool. Be yourself. Embrace your quirks. Being weird is a wonderful thing.… I have a f—ing football team now, that’s pretty cool!”

“Embrace your weirdness. From a stuttering point of view, don’t treat it as an issue. Work through it and get the treatment you want to get, but don’t ever see it as a plight on your life. Carry on pushing forward.”

Via The Hollywood Reporter

Disney Released “Zootopia” Trailer. It’s like nothing you’ve seen be-fur

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Like nothing you’ve seen be-fur… Zootopia.

The modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest shrew, you can be anything. But when optimistic Officer Judy Hopps arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking, scam-artist fox, Nick Wilde, to solve the mystery. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Zootopia,” a comedy-adventure directed by Byron Howard (“Tangled,” “Bolt”) and Rich Moore (“Wreck-It Ralph,” “The Simpsons”) and co-directed by Jared Bush (“Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero”), opens in theaters on March 4, 2016.

A Deadly Adoption Trailer Starring Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig Is Here

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Inspired by a true story, “A Deadly Adoption” is a high-stakes dramatic thriller about a successful couple (Ferrell and Wiig) who house and care for a pregnant woman (Jessica Lowndes, “90210”) during the final months of her pregnancy with the hopes of adopting her unborn child. The Lifetime Original Movie starring comedians and former Saturday Night Live stars Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig.

https://youtu.be/luB3-1abCeo

Official Biggest Selling Albums of the decade in the UK revealed

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Adele’s 21 is the biggest selling album of the decade to date, the Official Charts Company can reveal. The singer-songwriter’s second studio album – which spent a massive 23 weeks at Number 1 – has sold just over 4,751,000 copies in the UK.

Take That’s Progress earns the Number 2 spot with sales of over 2,374,000 since its 2010 release. The former Official Albums Chart Number 1 shifted an impressive 519,000 copies in its opening week and spawned three Top 40 singles: The Flood, Kidz and Love Love.

In at Number 3 is Michael Buble’s festive album Christmas, which counts 2,216,000 sales this decade. The album spent three weeks at the Official Albums Chart summit and has entered the Top 10 every year since its 2011 release. To date, the LP has racked up 31 weeks in the Top 40.

The fourth best-selling album since 2010 is Emeli Sande’s debut Our Version Of Events. The record, which has sold 2,208,000 copies since its 2012 release, features six singles including Top 10 hits Heaven (Number 2), Next To Me (2), Read All About It Pt 3 (3) and Clown (4). The album also holds the title for the longest reign in the Top 10 of any debut album, surpassing The Beatles’ debut Please Please Me.

Rounding out the Top 5 is Ed Sheeran’s second album X. The chart-topping LP has now shifted 2,134,000copies since its release last July and was the biggest selling album of 2014. His 2011 debut, +, is just behind at 6 on sales of 1,958,000.

Notable additions further down the Top 40 list include Ellie Goulding, whose album Halcyon has passed one million sales and is the 23rd best-seller of the decade so far, while One Direction and Olly Murs each claim three of the decade’s 40 best sellers.

Meanwhile, Rihanna, Pink, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and Michael Buble each have two albums on the list.

The Official Biggest Selling Artist Albums of the decade so far are:

1 21 ADELE
2 PROGRESS TAKE THAT
3 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE
4 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE
5 X ED SHEERAN
6 + ED SHEERAN
7 LOUD RIHANNA
8 CRAZY LOVE MICHAEL BUBLE
9 IN THE LONELY HOUR SAM SMITH
10 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS BRUNO MARS
11 19 ADELE
12 THE FAME LADY GAGA
13 MYLO XYLOTO COLDPLAY
14 SIGH NO MORE MUMFORD & SONS
15 THE DEFAMATION OF STRICKLAND BANKS PLAN B
16 RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME OLLY MURS
17 WHO YOU ARE JESSIE J
18 TEENAGE DREAM KATY PERRY
19 LUNGS FLORENCE & THE MACHINE
20 UP ALL NIGHT ONE DIRECTION
21 IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW OLLY MURS
22 BABEL MUMFORD & SONS
23 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING
24 TALK THAT TALK RIHANNA
25 WANTED ON VOYAGE GEORGE EZRA
26 SUNNY SIDE UP PAOLO NUTINI
27 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY
28 TAKE ME HOME ONE DIRECTION
29 BORN THIS WAY LADY GAGA
30 UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX BRUNO MARS
31 GREATEST HITS BON JOVI
32 RECOVERY EMINEM
33 COME AROUND SUNDOWN KINGS OF LEON
34 THE ELEMENT OF FREEDOM ALICIA KEYS
35 GREATEST HITS – SO FAR PINK
36 MIDNIGHT MEMORIES ONE DIRECTION
37 THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE PINK
38 18 MONTHS CALVIN HARRIS
39 LIONESS – HIDDEN TREASURES AMY WINEHOUSE
40 OLLY MURS OLLY MURS

 

Via Official Charts Company