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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 in 1943. He later claimed
the song title ended with "Yank" and the rest was
a joke. |
Michael Jackson won the most grammy's ever with a total of
eight. |
The longest piano piece of any kind is 'Vexations' by Erik
Satie. It consists of a 180-note composition which, on the
composer's orders, must be repeated 840 times so that the whole
performance is 18 hours 40 minutes. Its first reported public
performance in September 1963, in the Pocket Theater, New York
City, required a relay team of 10 pianists. The New York Times
critic fell asleep at 4 a.m. and the audience dwindled to 6
masochists. At the conclusion, one sado-masochist shouted 'Encore!' |
Everyone knows that the Buggles 'Video Killed the Radio Star'
was the first video to premire on MTV on August 1, 1981. The
millionth video to air on MTV was 'Video Killed the Radio Star',
aired on MTV February 27, 2000. It's also the 3rd most aired
video in MTV history. Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer' is #1. |
The longest rendering of a national anthem was 'God Save the
King,' performed by a German military band on the platform
of Rathenau railway station in Brandenburg, on February 9,
1909. King Edward VII was struggling inside the train to get
into his German Field-Marshall uniform, so the band had to
play the anthem 17 consecutive times. |
'Billie Jean' by Michael Jackson was the first video to air
on MTV by a black artist. Initially, the channel did not want
to air any music by black artists. |
3-Day advance purchase tickets for the first Woodstock (1969),
were $18.00. The price at the gate, $24. |
Jim Morrison (of the 60's rock group The Doors) was the first
rock star to be arrested on stage. |
In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct the
Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
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