Famous Quotes
| "When I was growing up there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar" Bruce Springsteen |
| "They wouldn't let me in the bars because I wouldn't play top 40" Bruce Springsteen |
| "Shave your legs, for christsakes" Chrissy Hynde, lead singer of the Pretenders advice to her fans |
| "Ever since I was a girl I wanted to be the girl that stole everybody's heart" Madonna |
| "I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those good old-fashioned values to rebel against" Madonna |
| "I don't want people to forget my name. I want everyone to know it. I want everything there is in life and love. I want to reach every one" Madonna |
| "Rap is like the polio vaccine. At first no one believed in it. Then once they knew it worked, everyone wanted it" Grandmaster Flash |
| "It's the music that kept us all intact... kept us from going crazy. You should have 2 radios in case one gets broken" Lou Reed |
| "Let's face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us" Pioneer dj Alan Freed |
| About Rock n Roll "We like this kind of music. Jazz is strictly for the stay at homes" Buddy Holly
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Did you know?
| Most people think nighttime is the time of day referred to most in songs? Actually, mornings lead, especially in the top 40 era with hits like Mule Skinner Blues (The Fendermen, Good Morning Good Morning (The Beatles), Early In The Morning (several different songs by Ray Charles, Bobby Darin and Vanity Fare), Morning Has Broken (Cat Stevens) Angel (Shaggy) The Morning After (Maureen Mac Govern) and on and on |
| Although New York is the du wop music capital cities like Detroit produced great du wop songs by groups like The Satin Tones, The Valadiers, Mike and the Modifers, The Equadfers, The Reflections, The Shades of Blue, The Volumes, the Twlights and many more? |
| You can visit the Relic Rack message board to write and ask us questions, find or hear a song or just let us know what you enjoy most about relic-rack.com |
| Warren Zevon contributed a lot to Rock n Roll before he was a solo performer? He wrote " Like The Seasons" the flip side (remember them?) of The Turtles "Happy Together"; sang back up with the Everly Brothers and REM; and was a member of the almost one hit wonder group Lyme & Cybelle on their 1966 tune "Follow Me" |
| The verb "to Twist" refers to the act of wringing a body or object in two directions at once? In the 1940's twist was also a slang word for a girl. Because of natural human body movements a dance was inevitable. It's first appearance was as a dancehall step "The Can Can" nicknamed "The French Twist" |
| The Fourth of July was first celebrated in Philadelphia just one year after the Declaration was adopted? Oh, the ONLY signer to actually sign the document on the 4th was John Hancock. All the others signed after August 2nd. (the beginning of Government red tape?) |
| Flashlight safety day is celebrated on the shortest day of the year. |
| It is considered bad luck to hang your new calendar before sunrise on New Year's day |
| If your first new visitor on New Year's day is a woman, it is believed you will have bad luck that year. However, if it's a man you will experience good fortune! |
| Tree crickets are a poor man's temperature gauge? Listen for a cricket, count the chirps for 15 seconds, add 37... the sum is the Fahrenheit temperature. |
Elvis Hip Shakers
| Elvis Presley won the Bing Crosby award at the 1971 Grammys for a lifetime of creative contributions of scientific significance. Strangely, he never earned an artistry grammy for his top 40 hits, only his gospel recordings "How Great Thou Art" and "He Touched Me" |
| Elvis "I get lonesome sometimes. I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd" |
| Elvis "Rhythm is something you either have or you don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over" |
| Elvis "I wanted to be a singer because I don't want to sweat" |
| Elvis "Rock and Roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but to move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it" |
| There were over 1 and 1/2 million advance orders for Elvis' first post army tour single "Stuck on You" a phenomenal record at the time. |
| Five days after recording "Fame and Fortune" Elvis sang it on a Frank Sinatra Timex special. |
| Elvis' last car was a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado with gold-plated hubcaps, a bar, telephone, CB radio, a TV and a sun roof. |
| The first car Elvis bought for his parents was a used 1954 Ford which he quickly had painted pink and white. A year later he borrowed it back from them when his 1954 Cadillac caught fire. |
| The Platters' producer Buck Ram was a co writer on I'll be home for Christmas which the King recorded for Christmas in 1957. |
Beatle Boots
| Yesterday was originally had the working title scrambled eggs was a "solo" singing effort by Beatle Paul sans his group. |
| If you listen carefully you'll hear Mick Jagger, Graham Nash, Keith moon, Keith Richard, Marianne Faithful, Jane Asher and Patti Boyd, singing along, of course with John, Paul, George and Ringo on their 1967 song All you Need is Love. |
| The Beatles Hey Jude at 7 minutes and 11 seconds was the longest running top 40 hit until it was topped by Don McLean's 8 and ½ minute slice of American Pie in 1972. |
| Baskins-Robbins, that ice cream place that served its first cone the day relic-rack.com writer and personality was born also celebrated the Beatles first American Tour in 1964 crating a tasty new ice cream flavor "Beatle-nut" |
| The largest advance order by record stores of a 45 RPM single ever occurred in 1964 after the Beatles recorded Can't Buy me Love for their A Hard Day's Night movie debut. Numerically speaking 2 million and 100 copies were rushed out to the Relic Rack store shelves. |
| As best we could find in the Relic Rack archives, there was only one black vocal group ever on the American charts that hailed from Liverpool, UK. They performed as the Chants on America's Cameo records and had reason to thank the Beatles for their one hit wonder status as the Beatles showcased their song on BBC TV's Juke Box Jury. |
| The Rolling Stones and the Beatles shared little in common. However they both had drummers with the same last name Chapman. In their early days kicking around in Liverpool the Beatles had Norman Chapman on the skins, while The Stones Charlie Watts replaced Tony Chapman on the drum sticks. |
| Come Together was originally entitled Come Join the Party when John Lennon wrote it as Timothy Leary's campaign song the year he ran for Governor of California. |
Rick's Picks
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Baby Boomer Brain Buster Quizes
Early in his career Elvis Presley dueled it out with this singer's 45 rpm recording of "Blue Suede Shoes"?
A. Johnny Cash
B. Bill Haley
C. Thom Mc Can
D. Carl Perkins
In the 1961 novelty saga by sausage man Jimmy Dean "Big Bad John" how did John die?
A. Shot by a policeman
B. Killed in a cave in of a mine
C. murdered by his girlfriend
D. perished in a boating accident
What color is the flower mentioned in 2 hit records during the top 40 era, "American Pie" Don McLean and "A White Sport Coat" Marty Robbins?
A. yellow
B. pink
C. white
D. red
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