One thing that came to mind to me right at this moment is from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the two-part class reunion episode. The quintet had been going through a lot of crap from their classmates and tried to make amends by staging a dance routine to George Michael's "Freedom". A few scenes earlier Sweet…

The same could be said about their year-end Christmas discs that were distributed to their fan club members. The first three (63-64-65) have the boys speaking directly to their fans, thanking them for their loyalty. The next two (66-67) have the boys turning their message into a sketchfest (a "pantomime" as they…

"The first word in this song is 'discorporate", it means to leave your body", which is the first line to the song "Absolutely Free", from the Mothers of Invention's third album We're Only In It For the Money, which followed Absolutely Free.

Hey, a gig's a gig.

The Rolling Stones' "Happy", always.
Pharrell Williams's "Happy", never.

And Mr. Steed's Avengers first appeared in 1961.

Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

The Avengers will forever be the recently departed Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, ensconced in leather, not that superhero collective.

Oh dear, was the police called? Did he lose anything?

Catchphrasers gonna catchphrase…

The answer, my friend, is blowing in their wind…

I had a cat named Frankie and I had his name signed to Columbia House. I also had another cat named Regina under BMG. Apparently the clubs would loan out my address to other companies and I could tell the source just by looking at the name. It was funny that I would get offers in the mail for gender specific…

As Tom Waits stated (in "Step Right Up"): The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Agreed. Dirty Work is much worse. The ceiling view of boys with annoyed looks strewn around a couch? Not interesting.

Yes, we know Klaus Voorman designed the Revolver cover (thanks for that unsolicited information).

For me, it's an album of great material but sporting a very uninteresting cover: Something Else by the Kinks. A close second would be Who Are You. My wife's all-time favorite elpee is The Beatles' Revolver, but always felt that the cover was way a bit creepy.

A few random Top-10(TM) memories:
Top 10 things that sound sexy when said by Barry White: "Big-Ass Ham", "Doohickey", "Jazzercise"
Top 10 things that sound great when shouted by a London Town Crier: "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!"
Top 10 things that sound great when sung by a Metropolitan Opera Soprano (Marilyn Horne did this one):…

Yes, I too saw that special (thanks anyway for pointing that out), but a real, lengthy enough "In memorium" segment.
Meanwhile, I have a feeling the legal suits at the National Broadcasting Company are still keeping the protective claws on material from the old show, hence a woefully low amount of clips (if any at all).

I hope that in the next few, last days Dave runs an extensive "memorial reel". He can get in Calvert DeForest (or Larry "Bud" Melman, if you will), Bill Wendell (his first announcer), Leonard Tepper, Warren Zevon, Robin Williams, and so on. No need for the sappy, maudlin, over-orchestrated background.

I'll add "The Song Remains the Same." I never could stand the version from Houses of the Holy because I thought Plant's voice was whiny and on helium.