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    It's absolutely stunning that no one in this huge comments section mentioned Coltrane's immense solo (the second one, after Tyner's) on "My Favorite Things".

    This is really odd, because a lot of churches have just started offering the gluten free ones.
    So what do you do know? Either just drink the wine (before the 60s, Catholics didn't get both the bread and the wine anyway) or put out hosts that have barely any wheat in them—the religious equivalent of O'Douls.

    I'm pretty surprised that Eno has that reputation; most of the stuff I've heard about him is those goofy "Oblique Strategies" cards and other unusual ways of being creative. Are there some good accounts of Eno being controlling in the studio?

    The best explanation I've heard about who qualifies for Best New Artist, Grammy or otherwise, is "artist new to making money to the industry".

    No love for "So Weird", Disney's attempt at a G-rated "X-Files"?

    Kind of like when there was a sting of "bikini baristas" in Everett (fairly close to Sammamish) eight years ago for undercover prostitution. It took nine months for the investigation to finish. Nine months.

    What was up with all the happy go lucky nun stuff in the late 60s/early 70s? Sound of Music, Singing Nun, Flying Nun, Where Angels Go Trouble Follows, etc. An Australian nun named Janet Mead actually had a top ten hit with a pop-rock version of the Lord's Prayer in 1974. But by then, the trend was all but done.

    Well it worked for Big Red—as late as 10 years ago it was near impossible to find outside of Texas, but most good sized corner stores have it these days. I wonder why Big Red could pull off something Cheerwine/SunDrop couldn't.

    For the ten thousandth time…
    It is not the "Rock" hall of fame, but the "Rock And Roll" hall of fame. And "rock and roll" originally referred to any music with strong youth appeal, which included tons of R&B artists.

    And even worse you can only buy it at grocery and discount/wholesaler stores. Dropping into your corner store or 7-11 for vodka, like you can do in California, still isn't an option.

    There's a great book about Dumont called "The Forgotten Network" that mentioned that women had a strong attraction to Sheen. They would mob him after his airings, and the producers feared putting youth groups in the audience because they didn't want him to become "an ecclesiastical Sinatra"

    Well all of Kovak's shows were sponsored by a cigar company, who both loved his comedy and saw surges in cigar sales when he ever had a show.

    It's interesting to note while we've all seen Cronkite's coverage of the assassination, NBC was by far the highest rated news network. That's usually explained by CBS being far more willing to license news footage from the 60s. I wonder, is it just a case of CBS just having more footage than NBC saved from that era?

    SCTV's gotta be up there too:
    Global (then strictly a regional Canadian network)
    CBC
    NBC
    Final season on Cinemax

    It got even more bizarre; Penny Marshall took some episodes off that season, so a number of shows have neither Laverne or Shirley.

    Main difference was that for most of the 80s/90s era WGN and WOR simply aired their local feeds, while TBS aired a national feed with no trace of Atlanta news or commercials. Does anyone know when TBS stopped airing its Atlanta feed?

    Well they actually sold pretty good portable radios up until their conversion into cell phone stores.

    Plus Billboard now counts downloads of individual songs in album totals, which makes the totals nearly useless. It's totally possible to have a No.1 album while barely selling any actual albums.
    Fun fact: Even counting digital albums, album sales are off 76% since 1999.

    But none of those people are primarily remembered for their film work. The Golden Globes doing a memorial for Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, but no one else, was far more inexcusable.