More music musings
I am not a very musical person. When I use my iPod, I am usually listening to geeky podcasts. In the car, I only realize that the radio/cassette player were turned off when I park the car. At the office, I am usually subjected to Ibarhim’s and Yasmeen’s music, but wouldn’t notice if I wasn’t.
But anyway, here are somethings that I thought were shocking:
1. The Scorpions are German. German! Hear that? GERMAN.
2. That Dalida is world-famous.
3. That Boney M, although its band members are South American, is also considered German.Yes, again.
4. That I have never ever heard of Bing Crosby who was one of among only FIVE musicians in the whole wide history of the world to have sold more than 500 million records, along with The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra. Bing who?
5. That Mariah Carey is one of only 17 people to have sold over 200 million records.
6. The AC/DC are Australian. Ah, so it’s not just Nicole Kidman and Kylie Minogue.
khalid jarrar
January 2, 2008 @ 2:08 am
Bing who?!!!
read more about him:
“One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses.[1] He is often considered to be among the most popular musical acts in history and is currently the most electronically recorded human voice in history…”
Its un-understandable how we dont know him!!
One important reason is that his peak year was 1948, we were sort of “occupied” while he was singing.
come on that was a good one!
Dave
January 2, 2008 @ 2:53 pm
Ok, so you’re a little behind. :) And don’t forget to add Mel Gibson to the list of Australians.
Hani Obaid
January 2, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
I heard a lot of Bing back when I lived in Canda, but only because he’s one of the favorites for classic christmas music (particularily in malls and such).
Mariah is the top musician of the 90s. Music box is among my favorite CDs even when the songs get a bit corny.
Dalida is probably more famous with French speakers than Americans, although my favorite song for her is in Arabic (Iskindiriya Ahsan Nas).
lol@ AC/DC
More Australians:
Mel Gibson (what women want)
Rupert Murdoch (he owns a lot of the most famous newspapers in the world)
I never understood the thing about German musicians singing in English, but then they probably don’t understand why a lot of us blog in English!
Simon Columbus
January 3, 2008 @ 3:25 am
Yeah, the Scorpions are German (but here people don’t know them as a world famous rock band, but only for their song “Wind of Change”.) And Boney M. too – the “singers” are from the Caribbean, but it’s Frank Farian, who really composed, sang and produced the songs. He just wasn’t cool enough in front of the audience :D (He had another famous project like this, Milli Vanilli – when he didn’t say that it was all fake…).
And 5) is really shocking. Who bought that crap?
3ammania
January 3, 2008 @ 1:02 pm
you didnt know scorpions are german??? :P
well I didnt know also until my friend told me, they always seemed americans for me.. donno why…
Don Cox
January 3, 2008 @ 9:36 pm
Bing Crosby was one of the first, if not the very first, to sing with his mouth really close to the microphone instead of standing well back. This gives an initimate quality to the sound, and has been imitated by almost every singer since.
mala
January 5, 2008 @ 5:27 pm
ou, u are so stupid, better don’t write this, i will spot reading your blog, it’s a part of modern culture, u must know this things
Farah
January 6, 2008 @ 12:47 am
i detest mariah carey
Carmen
January 6, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
Do you listen to “Radio Lab”? AWESOME podcast:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/