Play That Funky Music II

   In every show Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) wrote, there was at least one song about rain.
   Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.
   Andy Warhol created The Rolling Stones' emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the Sticky Fingers album.
   "Happy Birthday to You" is the most often sung song in America.
   The band Steely Dan got its name from a sexual device depicted in the book Naked Lunch.
   Al Kooper played keyboards for Bob Dylan before he was famous.
   Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying that rock 'n' roll was only played by "cretinous goons."
   Jim Morrison of the Doors was the first rock star to be arrested onstage.
   Mr. Mojo Risin is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
   Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all twenty-seven years old when they died.
   Karen Carpenter's doorbell chimed the first six notes of "We've Only Just Begun."
   Madonna once did a commercial for Pepsi.
   Mick Jagger attended the London School of Economics for two years.
   Shannon Hoon, the late lead singer of the group Blind Melon, was a backup singer for Guns N' Roses on their Use Your Illusion I album.
   Sheryl Crow's two front teeth are fake. She knocked them out when she tripped onstage earlier in her career.
   Michael Jackson is black.
Long Live The King of Rock
   Elvis Presley had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth. Elvis's middle name was spelled Aron in honor of his brother.
   Elvis loved to eat meatloaf and peanut butter and banana sandwiches. He weighed 230 pounds at the time of his death.
   Elvis failed music class in school.
   Elvis never gave an encore.
   Elvis was once appointed Special Agent of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. According to Elvis's autopsy, he had ten different drugs in his body at the time of his death.

Play That Funky Music I

   At age forty-seven, The Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with thirteen-year-old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's thirty- year-old son, Stephen, married Mandy's mother, age forty-six. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandfather.
   The music hall entertainer Nosmo King derived his stage name from a NO SMOKING sign.
   Jonathan Houseman Davis, lead singer of Korn, was born a Presbyterian but converted to Catholicism because his mother wanted to marry his stepfather in a Catholic church.
   Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all the band's albums.
   The naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album Nevermind is named Spencer Eldon.
   The 1980s song "Rosanna" was written about Rosanna Arquette.
   The B-52s were named after a 1950s hairdo.
   The band Duran Duran got their name from a character in the 1968 movie Barbarella.
   The Beach Boys formed in 1961.
   The bestselling Christmas single of all time is Bing Crosby's "White Christmas."
   The first CD pressed in the United States was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
   The Grateful Dead were once called The Mugwumps.
   The only member of the band ZZ Top to not have a beard has the last name Beard.
   There is a band named "A Life-Threatening Buttocks Condition."
   The song with the longest title is " I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with My Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-O-Beat-O Flat-On-My- Seat-O, Hirohito Blues," written by Hoagy Carmichael. He later claimed the song title ended with "Yank" and the rest was a joke.
   Tommy James got the inspiration to write his number-one hit "Mony Mony" while he was in a New York hotel looking at the Mutual of New York buildings neon sign flashing repeatedly: M-O-N-Y.
   ABBA got its name by taking the first letter from each of the band members' names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, and Anni-frid).
   The opera singer Enrico Caruso practiced in the bath, while accompanied by a pianist in a nearby room.
   Enrico Caruso and Roy Orbison were the only tenors in the twentieth century capable of hitting the note E over high C.