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Rock 'n' Roll Arithmetic

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  • debbiemuz
    debbiemuz Posts: 194 Member
    Had to use Google, but, Michael McDonald sang on both songs.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    debbiemuz wrote: »
    Had to use Google, but, Michael McDonald sang on both songs.
    That's what I was thinking with the first song but didn't quite connect all the dots with the second song.
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    deckerp wrote: »
    1. Kenny Loggins -- This Is It.
    debbiemuz wrote: »
    Got #2 I think - Christopher Cross - Ride Like the Wind?
    debbiemuz wrote: »
    Had to use Google, but, Michael McDonald sang on both songs.
    Correct.
    D-Muze, you're up!
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,386 Member
    RunTimer wrote: »
    Had to use Google, but, Michael McDonald sang on both songs.

    Doh! I knew that too! "Outside From The Redwoods" is a great concert DVD/VHS tape I have from Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald came out to the Redwoods to sing with Kenny. I also saw Christopher Cross in concert and have three of his CDs (Window is a later CD that is really good of you like him), but didn't put that together. There were lots of big name artists that performed with him on his first and second CDs.
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    Thanks, @deckerp
    While we're awaiting a new one, hope you and enjoy this (from SNL I think) :smiley:
    https://youtu.be/b0HzWMqLeiE
  • debbiemuz
    debbiemuz Posts: 194 Member
    Not coming up with much tonight. Anyone who has something can go ahead...
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,386 Member
    Here's a link for this crowd.

    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/milli-vanilli-win-the-best-new-artist-grammy

    1990/02/22 - Milli Vanilli win the Best New Artist Grammy

    With the benefit of hindsight, there might be Grammy awards that members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences wish they could take back, but there is only one that they actually did: the Best New Artist Grammy that was awarded to the famously fraudulent dance act Milli Vanilli on February 22, 1990.

    The competition that night for the Best New Artist award included Neneh Cherry, whose album Raw Like Sushi had spawned the dance hit “Buffalo Stance”; Indigo Girls, whose eponymous debut included “Closer to Fine”; Soul II Soul, the group that absolutely dominated the British House Music scene; and Tone Lōc, whose novelty rap records “Wild Thing” and “Funky Cold Medina” were both crossover pop smashes. But then there was Milli Vanilli, whose debut album Girl You Know It‘s True had sold 14 million units behind the success of five Top 5 singles that sold a cumulative total of 8 million units, including the #1 hits “Baby, Don’t Forget My Number,” “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You,” and “Blame It On The Rain.”

    That level of commercial success is not the kind of thing that Grammy voters—a notoriously industry-focused bunch—take lightly. Yes, there had been an Ashlee Simpson-like incident involving a jammed tape machine at a “live” concert the previous July, but it is fair to wonder whether those Grammy voters who hadn’t heard the murmured doubts about Milli Vanilli’s legitimacy would have cared one bit if they had. Academy members had, after all, nominated the Partridge Family for the very same award back in 1971. It was an open secret in the music industry that many hit records were made by musicians other than those whose faces graced album covers, but the Milli Vanilli deception crossed that hard-to-define line separating “standard industry practice” from “ethically outrageous behavior.”

    Or perhaps it was merely the very public way in which that deception came to light that forced the Academy to act. At a press conference on November 14, 1990, German record producer Frank Farian revealed that he had fraudulently put the names and faces of the gorgeous but talent-free Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan on the dance records he was creating in his studio using less esthetically gifted real musicians. Four days later, Milli Vanilli’s Grammy award was withdrawn, and Pilatus and Morvan began a well-documented descent into drug abuse and failed comebacks.
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,386 Member
    edited February 2017
    debbiemuz wrote: »
    Not coming up with much tonight. Anyone who has something can go ahead...

    I always come up with something amazing when it's not my turn and by the time it is my turn I've forgotten.

    With some liberties on the spelling of the female country/crossover singer.

    Barbie + apology / 9 + 2 + 5 = [artist/song]
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    edited February 2017
    Dolly Parton, Nine to Five
    https://youtu.be/WPQRMeU4Co0

    "Ima change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot" :smiley:
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,386 Member
    Correct.
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    edited February 2017
    This one was inspred by 'TODAY IN MUSIC HISTORY'

    Okay,...let's mash em up

    1. Whisky request from this Laker Girl and Justice
    2. The address of this famous Piano player and Starter of Fires girlfriend
    3. "Hey lady, Rob & Fab wouldn't lie"

    M. Answer the Songs and artist(s) then combine the songs (in order) to complete the Mashup
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,386 Member
    Some guesses.

    1. Straight Up - Paula Abdul
    2. 52nd Street - Billy Joel
    3. Where Do We Go From Here? - Rob & Fab (Honestly never heard of these guys before)

    Straight up 52nd street, where do we go from here? Times Square maybe.
  • let_me_clip_dirty_wings
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings Posts: 2,910 Member
    1. Straight Up - Paula Abdul
    2. Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
    3. Girl You Know it's True - Milli Vanilli
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    edited February 2017
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings wrote: »
    1. Straight Up - Paula Abdul
    2. Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
    3. Girl You Know it's True - Milli Vanilli

    Straight Uptown Girl You Know It's True


    btw, it's in the day that Milli Vanili won (and would later be stripped of) a Grammy Award
  • let_me_clip_dirty_wings
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings Posts: 2,910 Member
    Thematic Equation (cubed) Game -
    1. I provide: 3 artists and/or groups
    2. You provide: The song for each artist/group that are connected by a theme. FYI - I listed them in chronological order.
    #ThinkOutsideTheRhombus
    #GoodLuckAndNoWagering

    1. Eddie Cochran
    2. Mungo Jerry
    3. Jane's Addiction
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    I think i have 2 out of three here..
    so I'll sit this one out
    Summertime blues
    Hot time in the summer time..


    ..and something else?
  • let_me_clip_dirty_wings
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings Posts: 2,910 Member
    RunTimer wrote: »
    I think i have 2 out of three here..
    so I'll sit this one out
    Summertime blues
    Hot time in the summer time..


    ..and something else?

    Number 1 is correct - Summertime Blues
    Still waiting for 2 and 3...
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,386 Member
    RunTimer wrote: »
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings wrote: »
    1. Straight Up - Paula Abdul
    2. Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
    3. Girl You Know it's True - Milli Vanilli

    Straight Uptown Girl You Know It's True


    btw, it's in the day that Milli Vanili won (and would later be stripped of) a Grammy Award

    Ha! I knew that! I check http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history every day.
  • let_me_clip_dirty_wings
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings Posts: 2,910 Member
    RunTimer wrote: »
    I think i have 2 out of three here..
    so I'll sit this one out
    Summertime blues
    Hot time in the summer time..


    ..and something else?

    You are correct on the 1st song and the theme of "Summertime"...
    I'll wait a bit more before I reveal #2 and #3
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,386 Member
    I had to do some research. I didn't know that was Eddie Cochran (duh) and am clueless on Jane's Addiction
    1. Eddie Cochran -- Summertime Blues
    2. Mungo Jerry -- In The Summertime
    3. Jane's Addiction -- Summertime Rolls

    If someone else had them without research you can take it away.

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