Okay, I started it off. Add anything you or your groups have. :S
Most Top 40 Hits
# Name Total
1 Elvis Presley 114
2 Elton John 59
3 The Beatles 52
4 Madonna 49
5 Stevie Wonder 46
6 Aretha Franklin 45
7 James Brown 44
8 Rolling Stones 41
9 Marvin Gaye 41
10 Pat Boone 38
11 Temptations 38
12 Michael Jackson 38
13 Neil Diamond 38
14 Paul McCartney 37
15 Fats Domino 37
Most #1 Hits
# Name Total
1 The Beatles 20
2 Elvis Presley 18
3 Mariah Carey 15
4 Michael Jackson 13
5 The Supremes 12
6 Madonna 12
7 Whitney Houston 11
8 Stevie Wonder 10
9 Janet Jackson 10
10 George Michael 10
11 Elton John 9
12 Paul McCartney 9
13 Bee Gees 9
14 Rolling Stones 8
15 Phil Collins 7
Real Names
Adam Ant - Stuart Leslie Goddard
Louis Armstrong - Daniel Louis Armstrong
Ginger Baker - Peter Edward Baker
Pat Benatar - Patricia Andrejewski
Chuck Berry - Charles Edward Anderson Berry
Michael Bolton - Michael Bolotin
David Bowie - David Robert Jones
Jackson Browne - Clyde Jackson Browne
Ray Charles - Ray Charles Robinson
Chubby Checker - Ernest Evans
Cher - Cherilyn Sarkisian
David Crosby - David Van Cortland
Joe Cocker - John Robert Cocker
Commander Cody - George Frayne
Elvis Costello - Declan McManus
Christopher Cross - Christopher Geppert
Bobby Darin - Walden Waldo Robert Cassotto
Bo Diddley - Otha Ellas Bates McDaniel
Bob Dylan - Robert Zimmerman
Mama Cass Elliot - Ellen Naomi Cohen
Ace Frehley - Paul Daniel Frehley
Gary Glitter - Paul Gadd
Janis Ian - Janis Eddy Fink
Mick Jagger - Michael Phillip Jagger
Rick James - James Johnson
Dr. John - Malcolm John Rebennack
B.B. King - Riley B. King
Ben E. King - Benjamin Earl Nelson
Kris Kristofferson - Kris Carson
Manfred Mann - Manfred Lubowitz
Meatloaf - Marvin Lee Aday
Joni Mitchell - Roberta Joan Anderson
Eddie Money - Edward Mahoney
Van Morrison - George Ivan Morrison
Rick Nelson - Eric Hilliard Nelson
Billy Ocean - Leslie Sebastian Charles
Ozzy Osbourne - John Michael Osbourne
Robert Palmer - Alan Palmer
Les Paul - Lester William Polsfuss
Suzi Quatro - Suzi Quatrocchio
Paul Revere - Revere Dick
Johnny Rivers - John Ramistella
Axl Rose - William Bruce Rose
Diana Ross - Diane Ernestine Earle
Leon Russell - Claude Russell Bridges
Gene Simmons - Chaim Witz
Joe South - Joe Souter
Dusty Springfield - Mary O'Brien
Rick Springfield - Richard Springthorpe
Cat Stevens - Steve Georgiou
Ray Stevens - Harold Ray Ragsdale
Sting - Gordon Matthew Sumner
Tiny Tim - Herbert Buckingham Khaury
Sid Vicious - John Simon Ritchie
Muddy Waters - McKinley Morganfield
Stevie Wonder - Steveland Hardaway Judkins
Artist Trivia
BIZARRE ENDINGS - CELEBRITY DEATHS (I have not checked all these stories out for validity
Mamas and Papas star, Cass Elliot met with an untimely end when she choked to death on a sandwich in 1974.
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The frontman of the band Chigago, Terry Kath met the same fate as Johnny Ace by shooting and killing himself in a game of Russian Roulette in 1978. His last words were, 'Don't worry, it's not loaded
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Shortly after recording 'Three Steps to Heaven', Eddie Cochran was killed in a car crash in Wiltshire, England. The song became a posthumous number one single in the UK.
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The INXS frontman was found hanging in a Sydney Hotel room in 1997. There was some speculation that it was an ill-conceived sex game that went wrong rather than suicide.
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Buddy Holly, along with fellow musicians Richie Valens and the Big Bopper were all killed in the same plane crash in 1959. Apparently, they took the flight because Holly wanted to get a good nights sleep before their next gig.
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Cline's plane crashed in 1963 on her way back to Nashville, after performing a benefit concert for the widow of disc jockey Jack Call who'd recently died in a car crash. To add to the tradegy, Country star Jack Anglin was killed in a car crash on the way to her funeral.
Mamas and Papas star, Cass Elliot met with an untimely end when she choked to death on a sandwich in 1974.
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The frontman of the band Chigago, Terry Kath met the same fate as Johnny Ace by shooting and killing himself in a game of Russian Roulette in 1978. His last words were, 'Don't worry, it's not loaded
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Shortly after recording 'Three Steps to Heaven', Eddie Cochran was killed in a car crash in Wiltshire, England. The song became a posthumous number one single in the UK.
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The INXS frontman was found hanging in a Sydney Hotel room in 1997. There was some speculation that it was an ill-conceived sex game that went wrong rather than suicide.
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Buddy Holly, along with fellow musicians Richie Valens and the Big Bopper were all killed in the same plane crash in 1959. Apparently, they took the flight because Holly wanted to get a good nights sleep before their next gig.
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Cline's plane crashed in 1963 on her way back to Nashville, after performing a benefit concert for the widow of disc jockey Jack Call who'd recently died in a car crash. To add to the tradegy, Country star Jack Anglin was killed in a car crash on the way to her funeral.
Although some Eagles fans insist that the band's name is simply "Eagles",
guitarist Don Felder told TV's Night Talk in 2009, the band's name is
"The Eagles".
Roy Orbison's million selling, #2 hit, "Only The Lonely" was rejected by both
Elvis Presley and The Everly Brothers.
According to The Surfaris' rhythm guitarist Bob Berryhill, the cracking noise
at the start of "Wipeout" is supposed to represent a breaking surf board. The
sound was produced by splitting a piece of plywood near a microphone and
the laughing voice that went along with it was provided by their manager, Dick
Smallen.
On the January 4th, 1962 issue of Mersey Beat magazine, which shows The
Beatles as Liverpool's top band, Paul McCartney's last name is mis-spelled
"McArtrey". The group's names were provided to the publication by John Lennon,
who either didn't know how to spell Paul's last name.
The Doors' "Light My Fire" topped the Billboard chart for three weeks in the summer
of 1967, but Jim Morrison often indicated that he never liked the song and resented
having to sing it. Ironically, it was the last song he ever did with the band during their final public performance at The Warehouse in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 12, 1970.
Bill Black and Scotty Moore quit as Elvis Presley's back-up band in September, 1957
because they were so poorly paid. The pair made under $8,200 in 1956, while Elvis
pocketed over $1 million.
In 1968, Elvis called Scotty and asked him to play on his upcoming TV "Comeback
Special". Scotty agreed without an understanding of the wages he would receive. When
he was paid for the show, the amount didn't even cover his travel and lodging expenses.
The backup vocal group on Paul Simon’s "Slip Slidin’ Away" was The Oak Ridge Boys.
Chuck Berry originally wanted to be a professional photographer and started singing
and playing in a band to buy cameras and photography equipment.
Clay tablets relating to music, containing the cuneiform signs of the "Hurrian" language, were excavated in the early 1950s at the Syrian city of ancient Ugarit in what is now modern Ras Shamra. One text contained a complete hymn, both words and music and is the oldest known preserved music notation in the world.
Jimi Hendrix first UK gig took place in a pub in Newcastle and lasted about three minutes. He played so loud that he blew every fuse in the building and the show came to an end.
In the 1930s, Jazz musicians started calling gigs "apples" and New York city became "The Big Apple."
Despite having 17 number one singles in Britain, Elvis Presley never toured there. His manager, Col. Tom Parker was not a US citizen and had no assurance that he'd be allowed back in the country if he left.
Producer Phil Spector played guitar on The Rolling Stones' "Play With Fire".
B.B. King named his guitar Lucille after nearly losing it in a fire started by two men fighting over a woman with that name.
Misheard lyrics, such as "There's a bathroom on the right" instead of the correct "There's a bad moon on the rise" - is called a mondegreen.
Dave Clark turned down his initial appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show because he'd never heard of it. It was only after the band got to America and performed on the program, did he learn how big the Sullivan show was in the US.
Pat Benatar, who placed 15 songs in the Billboard Top 40, including "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" (#9 in 1980) and "We Belong" (#5 in 1984) trained at Julliard as an opera singer.
When they were both youngsters, future Eagles member Don Felder gave guitar lessons to Tom Petty.
Steely Dan founders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker first got together in a band known as The Bad Rock Group and later as The Leather Canary. Future comedy star Chevy Chase was their drummer.
The chords and structure of Tommy James' 1967 Billboard #10 single, "Mirage", were actually the chords to his previous hit, "I Think We're Alone Now" in reverse, created when it was accidentally played backwards during a writing session.
Jay And The Americans first learned the song "Cara Mia" in 1962 because it contained the only four chords they knew. When they finally recorded it in 1965, the tune rose to #4 on the Billboard chart.
CCR's John Fogerty had a notebook in which he jotted down words and names that he thought would make good song titles. At the top of his list was "Proud Mary", a phrase that brought images of a domestic washerwoman to John's mind. When he got around to putting it to music, the first few chords he used reminded him of a paddle-wheel going around. Instead of Proud Mary being a clean-up lady, she became a boat.
From clay tablets and other forms of pictures, historians have determined that stringed musical instruments were developed in ancient Egypt and Rome over 3,300 years ago. The first six string guitar, called a vihuela, was developed in Spain in the 17th century.
guitarist Don Felder told TV's Night Talk in 2009, the band's name is
"The Eagles".
Roy Orbison's million selling, #2 hit, "Only The Lonely" was rejected by both
Elvis Presley and The Everly Brothers.
According to The Surfaris' rhythm guitarist Bob Berryhill, the cracking noise
at the start of "Wipeout" is supposed to represent a breaking surf board. The
sound was produced by splitting a piece of plywood near a microphone and
the laughing voice that went along with it was provided by their manager, Dick
Smallen.
On the January 4th, 1962 issue of Mersey Beat magazine, which shows The
Beatles as Liverpool's top band, Paul McCartney's last name is mis-spelled
"McArtrey". The group's names were provided to the publication by John Lennon,
who either didn't know how to spell Paul's last name.
The Doors' "Light My Fire" topped the Billboard chart for three weeks in the summer
of 1967, but Jim Morrison often indicated that he never liked the song and resented
having to sing it. Ironically, it was the last song he ever did with the band during their final public performance at The Warehouse in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 12, 1970.
Bill Black and Scotty Moore quit as Elvis Presley's back-up band in September, 1957
because they were so poorly paid. The pair made under $8,200 in 1956, while Elvis
pocketed over $1 million.
In 1968, Elvis called Scotty and asked him to play on his upcoming TV "Comeback
Special". Scotty agreed without an understanding of the wages he would receive. When
he was paid for the show, the amount didn't even cover his travel and lodging expenses.
The backup vocal group on Paul Simon’s "Slip Slidin’ Away" was The Oak Ridge Boys.
Chuck Berry originally wanted to be a professional photographer and started singing
and playing in a band to buy cameras and photography equipment.
Clay tablets relating to music, containing the cuneiform signs of the "Hurrian" language, were excavated in the early 1950s at the Syrian city of ancient Ugarit in what is now modern Ras Shamra. One text contained a complete hymn, both words and music and is the oldest known preserved music notation in the world.
Jimi Hendrix first UK gig took place in a pub in Newcastle and lasted about three minutes. He played so loud that he blew every fuse in the building and the show came to an end.
In the 1930s, Jazz musicians started calling gigs "apples" and New York city became "The Big Apple."
Despite having 17 number one singles in Britain, Elvis Presley never toured there. His manager, Col. Tom Parker was not a US citizen and had no assurance that he'd be allowed back in the country if he left.
Producer Phil Spector played guitar on The Rolling Stones' "Play With Fire".
B.B. King named his guitar Lucille after nearly losing it in a fire started by two men fighting over a woman with that name.
Misheard lyrics, such as "There's a bathroom on the right" instead of the correct "There's a bad moon on the rise" - is called a mondegreen.
Dave Clark turned down his initial appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show because he'd never heard of it. It was only after the band got to America and performed on the program, did he learn how big the Sullivan show was in the US.
Pat Benatar, who placed 15 songs in the Billboard Top 40, including "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" (#9 in 1980) and "We Belong" (#5 in 1984) trained at Julliard as an opera singer.
When they were both youngsters, future Eagles member Don Felder gave guitar lessons to Tom Petty.
Steely Dan founders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker first got together in a band known as The Bad Rock Group and later as The Leather Canary. Future comedy star Chevy Chase was their drummer.
The chords and structure of Tommy James' 1967 Billboard #10 single, "Mirage", were actually the chords to his previous hit, "I Think We're Alone Now" in reverse, created when it was accidentally played backwards during a writing session.
Jay And The Americans first learned the song "Cara Mia" in 1962 because it contained the only four chords they knew. When they finally recorded it in 1965, the tune rose to #4 on the Billboard chart.
CCR's John Fogerty had a notebook in which he jotted down words and names that he thought would make good song titles. At the top of his list was "Proud Mary", a phrase that brought images of a domestic washerwoman to John's mind. When he got around to putting it to music, the first few chords he used reminded him of a paddle-wheel going around. Instead of Proud Mary being a clean-up lady, she became a boat.
From clay tablets and other forms of pictures, historians have determined that stringed musical instruments were developed in ancient Egypt and Rome over 3,300 years ago. The first six string guitar, called a vihuela, was developed in Spain in the 17th century.
Hmm after Haoli's effort is there much left lol,
How about Clapton trivia , although I guess Eric doesn't think it trivial at all:
Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, the son of 17-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton and Edward Walter Fryer, a 25-year-old soldier from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Fryer shipped off to war prior to Clapton's birth and then returned to Canada. Clapton grew up with his grandmother, Rose, and her second husband Jack, believing they were his parents and that his mother was his older sister. Their surname was Clapp, which has given rise to the widespread but erroneous belief that Clapton's real surname is Clapp (Reginald Cecil Clapton is the name of Rose's first husband, Eric Clapton's maternal grandfather). Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier, moved to Canada and left young Eric with his grandparents in distant Surrey. Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar, made in Germany, for his 13th birthday, but found learning the steel-stringed instrument very difficult and nearly gave up because the action of the guitar was horrible. Despite his frustrations, he was influenced by the blues from an early age and practiced long hours to learn chords and copy the music of blues artists that he listened to on his Grundig Cub tape recorder.
How about Clapton trivia , although I guess Eric doesn't think it trivial at all:
Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, the son of 17-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton and Edward Walter Fryer, a 25-year-old soldier from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Fryer shipped off to war prior to Clapton's birth and then returned to Canada. Clapton grew up with his grandmother, Rose, and her second husband Jack, believing they were his parents and that his mother was his older sister. Their surname was Clapp, which has given rise to the widespread but erroneous belief that Clapton's real surname is Clapp (Reginald Cecil Clapton is the name of Rose's first husband, Eric Clapton's maternal grandfather). Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier, moved to Canada and left young Eric with his grandparents in distant Surrey. Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar, made in Germany, for his 13th birthday, but found learning the steel-stringed instrument very difficult and nearly gave up because the action of the guitar was horrible. Despite his frustrations, he was influenced by the blues from an early age and practiced long hours to learn chords and copy the music of blues artists that he listened to on his Grundig Cub tape recorder.
Chasplaya wrote:
As for the Buddy Holly story, here's a bit more. P.J. Richardson (The Big Bopper) wasn't supposed to be on the plane. He was feeling ill and Holly's bass player gave up his seat on the plane and took the tour bus with everybody else instead. The bass player went on to some fame later in life. His name was Waylon Jennings.
The Cass story is just an urban legend. She died of a degenerative heart disease attributed to her size.BIZARRE ENDINGS - CELEBRITY DEATHS (I have not checked all these stories out for validity
Mamas and Papas star, Cass Elliot met with an untimely end when she choked to death on a sandwich in 1974.
•
Buddy Holly, along with fellow musicians Richie Valens and the Big Bopper were all killed in the same plane crash in 1959. Apparently, they took the flight because Holly wanted to get a good nights sleep before their next gig.
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As for the Buddy Holly story, here's a bit more. P.J. Richardson (The Big Bopper) wasn't supposed to be on the plane. He was feeling ill and Holly's bass player gave up his seat on the plane and took the tour bus with everybody else instead. The bass player went on to some fame later in life. His name was Waylon Jennings.
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cabro wrote:
Nice tidbits!
I had heard that before, what a fluke. Luck for him, and us (us that are fans of his anyway....).As for the Buddy Holly story, here's a bit more. P.J. Richardson (The Big Bopper) wasn't supposed to be on the plane. He was feeling ill and Holly's bass player gave up his seat on the plane and took the tour bus with everybody else instead. The bass player went on to some fame later in life. His name was Waylon Jennings.
Nice tidbits!
How about some questions and you supply the answer.
1.What rock'n'roll singer is memorialized by a eight-foot bronze statue in Lubbock, Texas?
2.Who was the top-selling album artist of the 1970's according to Billboard?
3.What's the only group to claim two of the top ten best-selling singles of the 1970's?
There's 3 for now. See how you do.
Ric
1.What rock'n'roll singer is memorialized by a eight-foot bronze statue in Lubbock, Texas?
2.Who was the top-selling album artist of the 1970's according to Billboard?
3.What's the only group to claim two of the top ten best-selling singles of the 1970's?
There's 3 for now. See how you do.
Ric