From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Collected Musical Factoids (was Re: Kirk vs. Picard)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 08:32:20 GMT

In article <7009@transfer.stratus.com> scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com (Scott Jeffrey) writes:

>
>ObUL:  The group Badfinger was really the Beatles incognito.

Not quite, however, they did record with George Harrison on the song "If you
want it here it is Come And Get It, but you better hurry 'cause it's going
fast" which was written by Paul McCartney and was the theme song from the
movie The Magic Christian starring Ringo Starr (and Peter Sellers).

They are always referred to as Tommy and Joey Badfinger.  Hopefully this
doesn't refer to their guitar skills.

On a related note:

It appears that Rhino Records has re-released the Rutles album on CD. There are
allegedly additional songs not used in All You Need is Cash, that excellent
parody (pre-dates This is Spinal Tap by a number of years) of the original
documentary All You Need is Love.

When AYNIC was released, some ignorant reviewers panned it because it too
much resembled a documentary, apparently ignorant of just how good a parody
of AYNIL is actually was; they didn't make the connection.  They just didn't
understand what was funny about the likes of Bill Murray the K', etc., and
this was after Eric Idle had guest-starred on SNL and played a clip of the
Rutles mimicing the famous Beatles' appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and
started the whole goof about the existence of this famous group from the
Rutland country in UK, etc., and totally underplaying the fact that he was
in the clip playing Dirk McQuigley, etc.

Even Steven Scheuer doesn't mention the AYNIL connection, althoug he rates it
***1/2 on its own.

BTW, George Harrison appears in AYNIC, and Mick Jagger is in both of them.

The songs, to anyone with a musical appreciation of the originals, are
masterpieces of parody; you swear you've heard them before, but they are
sort-of "inverted" versions of "mixtures" of the above, such as the infamous
"Ouch" that sort-of sounds like "Help" yet isn't, or Cheese and Onions which
you swear is an obscure John Lennon song you've heard before, and of course
the main songs from the mythical Hard Day's Rut:  I Must Be in Love and
Take My Hand (Yeah! Yeah! and I'll Take You Home).  While there isn't a
song names I am the Walrus, when you hear words like Hey Diddle-diddle, the
cat and the fiddle, and piggie in the middle, you'll be thinking it's
Deja-Vu all over again.  (Of course it isn't over until it's over.)

Anyone have a copy of the new CD version yet to add anything about the stuff
that never made it to the record album or film?

Another musical note:

Since the thread mentioning European Vacation and the porn movie of Ellen
Griswold, I have seen the movie again.  Briefly during the portion where
they go to Paris, there is a part of a song sung entirely in French which 
I believe was popular around 1980 by a group with a name like Plastic
Bertrand or somesuch.  I believe the title or most repeated line translates
to something like "I am the King of the divan".  Can someone give better
info on this, and perhaps a more accurate and complete English translation?

Also, I noticed that they replaced Anthony Michael Hall as the son; what
has happened to this former SNL cast member?

Yet another musical note:

Can anyone give a current summary of the Sinead O'Connor story relative to
the Pope protest on the recent SNL?  It is likely to become the second show
in the entire SNL history to be musical-guest excised on reruns.  The first
was back when Sun Ra appeared and was replaced in reruns with the appearance
by Leon Redbone (taken from another show).  When you see the very end of that
show, the members of Sun Ra are on stage waving along with the cast members,
and of course Leon Redbone isn't there.  Apparently, in the opinion of certain
NBC people, the performance of Sun Ra wasn't exactly musical, although I doubt
it was to be considered particularly offensive to anyone; the O'connor
performance is likely to be another story.  O'Connor protested Andew Dice
Clay's appearance on the show a few seasons back and failed to appear, also
Nora Dunn did the same. Dunn was fired, but O'Connor came back, although not
likely again.

Can someone name who was a regular on SNL and also In Living Color? (not at
the same time).

cjl

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