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12/01/2010 10:58 pm
Mags wrote:
Isn't that what the guy was doing in the Blues Brothers during the scene where they are escaping from the concert hall? I think the song was Minnie the Moocher.The stuff around 2:30, yes.
I've always hated that song.
Would what Carl Lewis did when he was supposed to be singing the National Anthem qualify as scat singing?
I'm not sure it even qualifies as singing.
12/01/2010 10:57 pm
You're warm. You have the right team in both instances, as long as the second reference is to the defensive back from the Cowboys, and not the running back from the Redskins.
O.K. I confess. I meant the latter. My next guess, thanks to your hint, would have to be Cliff Harris, who went to grade school with my sister and whose Mom remained good friends with my Mom, despite which I always pulled against him.
Actually, it was probably Charles Woodson but that was after I had pretty much quite watching super bowls.Well, my instincts were right. Of the super bowls that I've watched, the 1971 game was easily the most likely game but I would have guessed all day and not come up with Chuck Howley. Not because he wasn't that caliber of a player but because I have always thought of him as being underrated.
If there was such a thing as an underrated Cowboys' player from that era, Howley was it.
12/01/2010 9:48 pm
What is "scat singing"?
Isn't that what the guy was doing in the Blues Brothers during the scene where they are escaping from the concert hall? I think the song was Minnie the Moocher.
The stuff around 2:30, yes.
I've always hated that song.
Would what Carl Lewis did when he was supposed to be singing the National Anthem qualify as scat singing?
12/01/2010 8:25 pm
What is "scat singing"?
Isn't that what the guy was doing in the Blues Brothers during the scene where they are escaping from the concert hall? I think the song was Minnie the Moocher.
He should not be confused with Minnie Minoso
The stuff around 2:30, yes.
12/01/2010 6:52 pm
You're warm. You have the right team in both instances, as long as the second reference is to the defensive back from the Cowboys, and not the running back from the Redskins.
O.K. I confess. I meant the latter. My next guess, thanks to your hint, would have to be Cliff Harris, who went to grade school with my sister and whose Mom remained good friends with my Mom, despite which I always pulled against him.
Actually, it was probably Charles Woodson but that was after I had pretty much quite watching super bowls.
Well, my instincts were right. Of the super bowls that I've watched, the 1971 game was easily the most likely game but I would have guessed all day and not come up with Chuck Howley. Not because he wasn't that caliber of a player but because I have always thought of him as being underrated.
12/01/2010 6:31 pm
What is "scat singing"?
Isn't that what the guy was doing in the Blues Brothers during the scene where they are escaping from the concert hall? I think the song was Minnie the Moocher.
He should not be confused with Minnie Minoso
12/01/2010 5:09 pm
What is "scat singing"?
when the singer improvises a solo with nonsense syllables. it was supposedly invented by ella. the story she tells is that she was on stage one night and the band leader called for her to take a solo, she kind of thought he must be joking but he pushed her, so she decided she would try to sing what she thought one of the other soloists might play, and in the process a stream of syllables came out. mel torme also does it extremely well. sinatra was a good singer, but not in their league, and we all know what the 'scat singing' at the end of strangers in the night sounded like.
12/01/2010 4:21 pm
You're warm. You have the right team in both instances, as long as the second reference is to the defensive back from the Cowboys, and not the running back from the Redskins.
O.K. I confess. I meant the latter. My next guess, thanks to your hint, would have to be Cliff Harris, who went to grade school with my sister and whose Mom remained good friends with my Mom, despite which I always pulled against him.
Actually, it was probably Charles Woodson but that was after I had pretty much quite watching super bowls.
12/01/2010 4:10 pm
Today's question was "Who was the only player to be named MVP of a Super Bowl from a team that lost the game?"
Guess 1. Roger Staubach
Guess 2. Larry Brown
You're warm. You have the right team in both instances, as long as the second reference is to the defensive back from the Cowboys, and not the running back from the Redskins.
12/01/2010 3:43 pm
What is "scat singing"?
12/01/2010 3:41 pm
Today's question was "Who was the only player to be named MVP of a Super Bowl from a team that lost the game?"
Guess 1. Roger Staubach
Guess 2. Larry Brown
12/01/2010 1:09 pm
"I wasn't trying to play trivial pursuits with you."
Sorry. We do that a lot around here at work. Today's question was "Who was the only player to be named MVP of a Super Bowl from a team that lost the game?"
12/01/2010 12:08 pm
"Who was the person responsible for labeling Mel Torme's voice as "The Velvet Fog"?
I had to look it up, and it's a person I've never heard of.Damnit. I wasn't trying to play trivial pursuits with you. I can't recall and I'd really like to know. I think it was someone I remember from the days when I was a young and callow yute.
Addendum: Wrong. I realized I could do my own research and discovered it was a guy I had never heard of either, except in that context. But people always made it sound like Robinson was the Red Smith of the airways when they talked Torme's nickname.
My favorite story about that was how Mel hated the nickname and said it sounded like a euphemism for venereal disease.
I checked out a 4 CD retrospective of his career and am enjoying it immensely. He is an interesting case of a guy who pretty much stuck to his guns after burning through his youthful 15 minutes of fame. He could have moved on and become an insurance salesman, or something, but he kept doing his thing and came out of a period of obscurity to be a bigger deal at the end of his career than he was at pretty much any other time. Kudos to Mel. He did it his way.
Speaking of which, the CD includes a very funny version of "Strangers in the Night", which is almost identical to Sinatra's right up until the scat singing at the end. Mel, who is often rated up there with Ella as being among the very greatest scat singers, chooses to do an appallingly terrible scat at the end, and I am about 99% certain he was making fun of Sinatra's "do-be-do-be-do". I would love to know the circumstances, but I envision a situation where Mel, at a low point in his career, was told by a record exec to "sing this, and sing it like Sinatra", and he complied.
12/01/2010 11:32 am
"Who was the person responsible for labeling Mel Torme's voice as "The Velvet Fog"?
I had to look it up, and it's a person I've never heard of.
Damnit. I wasn't trying to play trivial pursuits with you. I can't recall and I'd really like to know. I think it was someone I remember from the days when I was a young and callow yute.
Addendum: Wrong. I realized I could do my own research and discovered it was a guy I had never heard of either, except in that context. But people always made it sound like Robinson was the Red Smith of the airways when they talked Torme's nickname.
12/01/2010 11:27 am
"Who was the person responsible for labeling Mel Torme's voice as "The Velvet Fog"?
I had to look it up, and it's a person I've never heard of.