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There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio
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"There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio"
Single by Aaron Tippin
from the album Read Between the Lines
B-side
"I Miss Misbehavin'"
Released
February 10, 1992
Format
CD single
Genre
Country
Length
2:46
Label
RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Aaron Tippin, Buddy Brock
Producer(s)
Emory Gordy, Jr.
Aaron Tippin singles chronology
"She Made a Memory Out of Me"
(1991) "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio"
(1992) "I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way"
(1992)
"She Made a Memory Out of Me"
(1991) "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio"
(1992) "I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way"
(1992)
"There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Aaron Tippin. It was released in February 1992 as the first single from his album Read Between the Lines. The song is not only his first Number One hit on the country music charts but also his longest-lasting at three weeks.
Contents
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1 Content
2 Music video
3 Other versions
4 Chart positions
4.1 Year-end charts
5 References
Content[edit]
"There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" is a moderate up-tempo novelty song. In it, the male narrator describes how old and run-down his car is but explains that he continues to drive it because "there ain't nothin' wrong with the radio" — specifically, "there ain't a country station that [he] can't tune in". The song features electric guitar and fiddle accompaniments.
Music video[edit]
The music video was directed by John Lloyd Miller and premiered in early-1992. It shows Tippin performing at a concert sporting a mullet.
Other versions[edit]
Tippin performed the song with Alvin and the Chipmunks on their 1992 album Chipmunks in Low Places.[1] In this version, Simon repeatedly attempts to correct the song's grammar, singing "there isn't anything wrong with the radio". Tippin then explains that the song is supposed to have grammatical errors because it is country.
Chart positions[edit]
"There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" debuted at number 54 on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) for the chart week of February 15, 1992. On the chart week of April 18, 1992, it became Tippin's first Number One hit,[2] holding the position for three weeks and then falling to number 10. It was also his only Number One on the RPM Country Tracks charts in Canada.
Chart (1992)
Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[3] 1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4] 1
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1992)
Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[5] 29
US Country Songs (Billboard)[6] 31
Preceded by
"She Is His Only Need" by Wynonna Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number-one single
April 18-May 2, 1992 Succeeded by
"Neon Moon" by Brooks & Dunn
RPM Country Tracks number-one single
May 9, 1992 Succeeded by
"Past the Point of Rescue" by Hal Ketchum
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Chipmunks in Low Places". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
Jump up ^ Huey, Steve. "Aaron Tippin biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
Jump up ^ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2121." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. May 9, 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Aaron Tippin Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
Jump up ^ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1992". RPM. December 19, 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Best of 1992: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
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Greatest Hits… and Then Some
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"You've Got to Stand for Something"
"I Wonder How Far It Is Over You"
"There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio"
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"I Got It Honest"
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"Love Like There's No Tomorrow" (with Thea Tippin)
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You're So Vain
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"You're So Vain"
Single by Carly Simon
from the album No Secrets
B-side
"His Friends Are More Than Fond of Robin"
Released
November 1972
Format
7" single
Recorded
1972, Trident Studios
Genre
Pop, soft rock[1]
Length
4:19
Label
Elektra
Songwriter(s)
Carly Simon
Producer(s)
Richard Perry
Carly Simon singles chronology
"Legend in Your Own Time"
(1971) "You're So Vain"
(1972) "The Right Thing to Do"
(1973)
"Legend in Your Own Time"
(1971) "You're So Vain"
(1972) "The Right Thing to Do"
(1973)
"You're So Vain" is a song written and performed by Carly Simon and released in November 1972. The song is a critical profile of a self-absorbed lover about whom Simon asserts "You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you." The title subject's identity has long been a matter of speculation, with Simon stating that the song refers to three men, only one of whom she has named publicly, actor Warren Beatty.[2] The song is ranked at #82 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All-Time.[3] "You're So Vain" was voted #216 in RIAA's Songs of the Century, and in August 2014, the UK's Official Charts Company crowned it the ultimate song of the 1970s.[4]
The distinctive bass guitar intro is played by Klaus Voormann[5] and the strings were arranged by Simon and orchestrated by Paul Buckmaster. Simon plays piano on the track.
Contents
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1 Subject of the song
2 References in the song
3 Later versions and adaptations
4 Chart performance
4.1 Weekly charts
4.2 Year-end charts
5 Awards
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Subject of the song[edit]
Before the song became a hit single in 1972, Simon told an interviewer that the song was about "men," not a specific "man".[6]
In 1983, she said it is not about Mick Jagger,[7] who contributed uncredited backing vocals to the song.[8] In a 1993 book, Angie Bowie claimed to be the "wife of a close friend" mentioned in "You're So Vain", and that Jagger, for a time, had been "obsessed" with her.[9] Simon made another comment about the subject's identity as a guest artist on Janet Jackson's 2001 single, "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)", which sampled "You're So Vain". Simon said about the song, "The apricot scarf was worn by Nick (Delbanco). Nothing in the words referred to Mick."
In a 2007 interview Warren Beatty said, "Let's be honest. That song was about me."[10] Simon had said in 1983 that Beatty "certainly thought it was about him — he called me and said thanks for the song..."[7] In an interview for the 1978/1982 version of The History of Rock & Roll radio series, producer Richard Perry acknowledges that Simon was essentially referring to Beatty while also referencing other men in her life.
Over the years Simon has divulged "letter clues" and has claimed that the subject's name contains the letters A, E, and R.[11]
Shortly before the writing of the song, Simon was married to James Taylor; she has said that he was "definitely not" the subject of the song.[citation needed] David Bowie, David Cassidy and Cat Stevens have all been cited by the press as speculative candidates.[12][13][14]
In August 2003 Simon agreed to reveal the name of the song's subject to the highest bidder of the Martha's Vineyard Possible Dreams charity auction. With the top bid of $50,000, Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports and a friend of Simon, won the right to know the name of the subject of "You're So Vain". A condition of the prize was that Ebersol not reveal the name.[15] Ebersol said Simon allowed him to divulge a clue about the person's name: "Carly told me that I could offer up to the entire world a clue as to what she'll tell me when we have this night in about two weeks. And the clue is: The letter 'E' is in the person's name."[16]
In 2004 Simon told Regis Philbin, "If I tell it, it's going to come out in dribs and drabs. And I've given out two letters already, an 'A' and an 'E.' But I'm going to add one to it. I'm going to add an 'R,' in honor of you."[11]
In 2005 Simon's ex-husband Jim Hart said he was sure that the song was not about anyone famous.[17]
On June 19, 2008, Howard Stern stated that Simon had privately revealed to him about whom the song was written after her interview on his popular radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio. Stern commented, "There is an odd aspect to it... he's not that vain." On March 17, 2009, Stern stated that she had said it was a "composite of three people." Stern repeated this on May 5, 2014, stating, "She takes me aside, pulls me close, whispers in my ear... three names. She goes, it wasn't one person, it was three people."[18] Simon herself confirmed that Stern was among "a few people" that she had given the names to.[19]
In her 2008 book Girls Like Us, author Sheila Weller includes a detailed account of Simon's love affair with musician Dan Armstrong, and suggests that he was the inspiration for "You're So Vain." Her heartbreak over eventually losing him inspired the song "Dan, My Fling," which appears on her first album.[20] Armstrong's full name, Daniel Kent Armstrong, contains all three letters of Simon's clue.
On November 4, 2009, Simon said she had hidden the name of the subject in a certain version of the song. The next day, the program's crew revealed the name concealed in a back-played whisper:[21] David. Simon denied that the whisper was "David," saying she had spoken "Ovid" both forwards and backwards, and that sounded like David.[22] In February 2010, Simon reiterated that the name of the subject was whispered in a re-recording of "You're So Vain": "There's a little whisper—and it's the answer to the puzzle."[23] A representative for Simon confirmed that the name whispered during the song is "David".[23] Multiple media outlets then speculated that the subject was Simon's former boss at Elektra, David Geffen,[24] The following day Jim Hart, Simon's ex-husband and close friend, denied that the song was about Geffen.[6] Simon said that when she wrote the song in 1971, she had not yet met Geffen.[25] Simon's publicist also confirmed the song was not about Geffen, but that there was indeed "a David who is connected to the song in some way, shape, or form,"[6] Vanity Fair noted that in addition to "David", "Warren" and an unintelligible name are whispered during the recording.[26]
After her live performance of the song with Simon in July 2013, Taylor Swift stated that Simon had revealed the identity of the song's subject to her in confidence.[27]
In November 2015, Simon, promoting her about-to-be-published memoir, said, "I have confirmed that the second verse is Warren (Beatty)" and added that while "Warren thinks the whole thing is about him," he is the subject of that verse only, with the remainder of the song referring to two other, still unnamed men.[2]
References in the song[edit]
The line "I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won" refers to the Saratoga Race Course horse-racing season held in late July, August, and early September in Saratoga Springs, New York. The season is frequented by the rich and famous of New York and other East Coast cities.[28]
Two solar eclipses ("Then you flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun") were visible from Nova Scotia in the early 1970s, on March 7, 1970,[29] and July 10, 1972.[30] Simon said she wrote the song in 1971, but the 1972 eclipse (which could only be seen in Nova Scotia as opposed to the 1970 eclipse which traversed the entire East Coast, and also happened during the Saratoga racing season) better fits the narrative.
Simon said the line "clouds in my coffee" came "from an airplane flight that I took with Billy Mernit, who was my friend and piano player at the time. As I got my coffee, there were clouds outside the window of the airplane and you could see the reflection in the cup of coffee. Billy said to me, 'Look at the clouds in your coffee'."[31]
Later versions and adaptations[edit]
The song has been recorded by Chocolate Starfish, The Mountain Goats, David Axelrod, John Barrowman, Liza Minnelli, Jack Klugman and Tony Randall (as "The Odd Couple"), Chimira, Venice, The Feeling, Jann Arden, Janet Jackson (who sampled the song in "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)", with Simon providing featured vocals), Trey Songz (who sampled from Janet Jackson in his single "About You)," Anna Waronker, Faster Pussycat, Dres, Daryll-Ann, Smokie, Queens of the Stone Age, Sally Seltmann, Asaro and Wolcott, Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, Marilyn Manson (featuring Johnny Depp),[32] and Italian pop star Mina in her 1985 album Finalmente ho conosciuto il conte Dracula....
Foo Fighters performed the song live at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in 2008.
On July 27, 2013, Simon performed "You're So Vain" with Taylor Swift on her Red Tour.[33]
The song "Starfuckers, Inc." by Nine Inch Nails, released in 2000, references "You're So Vain", by quoting the chorus.
Supporters of English football team Everton F.C. sang the song to player Leighton Baines at the 2009 football matches.[34][35]
On their 2009 album Felony, New York City metalcore band Emmure had a song titled "R2Deepthroat" where vocalist Frankie says "You're so vain, I bet you think this song is about you, don't you?"
In the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election, Simon authorized the use of the song in an ad against Donald Trump.[36]
In a piece posted by BBC News on May 5, 2017, Simon sings a previously unreleased fourth verse to the song, which she states had been written on a pad some time ago but never made it into the song. It references a man, married multiple times, who "called her once to ask her things she couldn't quite divine".[37]
Chart performance[edit]
The song was a number-one hit in the US, Canada and Australia and reached number four in Ireland and South Africa.[38] Bowing at #99 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 2 December 1972, the song took only five more weeks to rocket to the top of the chart, where it stayed for the first three weeks of 1973, also spending two weeks at the top of the Easy Listening chart in early 1973, her first number one on either chart. "You're So Vain" was Simon's breakthrough hit in the United Kingdom, reaching number three on the UK chart on its original release in 1973. The song was re-released in the UK in 1991 to cash in on its inclusion in a commercial for Dunlop Tyres, peaking at number 41.
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1972–73)
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) 1
Canada (RPM Charts) 1
Ireland (IRE Charts)[39] 4
New Zealand (Listener)[40] 1
South Africa 4
UK Singles (Official Chart Company)[41] 3
US Billboard Hot 100 1
US Billboard Easy Listening 1
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1973)
Position
Australia [42] 3
Canada [43] 8
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [44] 9
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [45] 7
UK [46] 35
Preceded by
"Me and Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
January 6, 1973 (three weeks) Succeeded by
"Superstition" by Stevie Wonder
Preceded by
"Clair" by Gilbert O'Sullivan Canadian RPM number-one single
January 27, 1973 (1 week) Succeeded by
"Last Song" by Edward Bear
Awards[edit]
Year
Nominee/work
Award
Result
1974 "You're So Vain" Record of the Year Nominated
Song of the Year Nominated
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Nominated
2004 Grammy Hall of Fame Award Inducted
See also[edit]
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1973
List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1973 (U.S.)
List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s
List of RPM number-one singles of 1973
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Ed Wynn
Wynn in the film Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Born
Isaiah Edwin Leopold
(1886-11-09)November 9, 1886
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died
June 19, 1966(1966-06-19) (aged 79)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Cause of death
Esophageal cancer
Resting place
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale, California, U.S.
Occupation
Actor, comedian
Years active
1903–1966
Spouse(s)
Hilda Keenan (m. 1914; div. 1937)
Frieda Mierse (m. 1937; div. 1939)
Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt (m. 1946; div. 1955)
Children
Keenan Wynn
Isaiah Edwin Leopold (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966), better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor and comedian noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor.[1]
Contents
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1 Background
2 Early career
3 Radio
4 Television
5 Cartoons
6 Films
7 Disney
8 Death
9 Legacy
10 Broadway and films
11 Listen to
12 See also
13 References
14 External links
Background[edit]
Ed Wynn was an American comedian who was born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, who manufactured and sold women's hats, was born in Bohemia. His mother, of Romanian and Turkish ancestry, came from Istanbul.[2] Wynn attended Central High School in Philadelphia until age 15.[3] He ran away from home in his teens, worked as a hat salesman and as a utility boy,[3] and eventually adapted his middle name "Edwin" into his new stage name, "Ed Wynn", to save his family the embarrassment of having a lowly comedian as a relative.
Early career[edit]
Wynn began his career in vaudeville in 1903[4][5] and was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies starting in 1914. During The Follies of 1915, W. C. Fields allegedly caught Wynn mugging for the audience under the table during his "Pool Room" routine and knocked him unconscious with his cue.[6] Wynn wrote, directed, and produced many Broadway shows in the subsequent decades, and was known for his silly costumes and props as well as for the giggly, wavering voice he developed for the 1921 musical review, The Perfect Fool.
Radio[edit]
Ed Wynn as "Mr. Busybody" 1908
Although many gag writers later provided material for Wynn's performances in radio, television and movies, he was proud to boast that he had written every line he ever spoke during his early career as a stage performer.[citation needed]
In the early 1930s Wynn hosted the popular radio show The Fire Chief, heard in North America on Tuesday nights, sponsored by Texaco gasoline. Like many former vaudeville performers who turned to radio in the same decade, the stage-trained Wynn insisted on playing for a live studio audience, doing each program as an actual stage show, using visual bits to augment his written material, and in his case, wearing a colorful costume with a red fireman's helmet. He usually bounced his gags off announcer/straight man Graham McNamee; Wynn's customary opening, "Tonight, Graham, the show's gonna be different," became one of the most familiar tag-lines of its time; a sample joke: "Graham, my uncle just bought a new second-handed car... he calls it Baby! I don't know, it won't go anyplace without a rattle!"
Wynn reprised his Fire Chief radio character in two movies, Follow the Leader (1930) and The Chief (1933). Near the height of his radio fame (1933) he founded his own short-lived radio network the Amalgamated Broadcasting System, which lasted only five weeks, nearly destroying the comedian. According to radio historian Elizabeth McLeod, the failed venture left Wynn deep in debt, divorced and finally, suffering a nervous breakdown.[7]
Wynn was offered the title role in MGM's 1939 screen adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, but turned it down, as did his Ziegfeld contemporary W. C. Fields. The part went to Frank Morgan.
Television[edit]
Ed Wynn first appeared on television on July 7, 1936 in a brief, ad-libbed spot with Graham McNamee during an NBC experimental television broadcast. In the 1949–50 season, Ed Wynn hosted one of the first network, comedy-variety television shows, on CBS, and won both a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award in 1949. Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, and The Three Stooges all made guest appearances with Wynn. This was the first CBS variety television show to originate from Los Angeles, which was seen live on the west coast, but filmed via kinescope for distribution in the Midwest and East, as the national coaxial cable had yet to be completed.[8] Wynn was also a rotating host of NBC's Four Star Revue from 1950 through 1952.
After the end of Wynn's third television series, The Ed Wynn Show (a short-lived situation comedy on NBC's 1958–59 schedule), his son, actor Keenan Wynn, encouraged him to make a career change rather than retire. The comedian reluctantly began a career as a dramatic actor in television and movies. Father and son appeared in three productions, the first of which was the 1956 Playhouse 90 broadcast of Rod Serling's play Requiem for a Heavyweight. Ed was terrified of straight acting and kept goofing his lines in rehearsal. When the producers wanted to fire him, star Jack Palance said he would quit if they fired Ed. (However, unbeknownst to Wynn, supporting player Ned Glass was his secret understudy in case something did happen before air time.) On live broadcast night, Wynn surprised everyone with his pitch-perfect performance, and his quick ad libs to cover his mistakes. A dramatization of what happened during the production was later staged as an April 1960 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse episode, "The Man in the Funny Suit", starring both senior and junior Wynns, with key figures involved in the original production also portraying themselves. Ed and his son also worked together in the Jose Ferrer film The Great Man, with Ed again proving his unexpected skills in drama.
Wynn (left) and Richard Crenna (right) in Slattery's People, 1964.
Requiem established Wynn as a serious dramatic actor who could easily hold his own with the best. His role in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) won him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Also in 1959, Wynn appeared on Serling's TV series The Twilight Zone in "One for the Angels". Serling, a longtime admirer, had written that episode especially for him, and Wynn later in 1963 starred in the episode "Ninety Years Without Slumbering". For the rest of his life, Wynn skillfully moved between comic and dramatic roles. He appeared in feature films and anthology television, endearing himself to new generations of fans.
Cartoons[edit]
Wynn was caricatured in the Merrie Melodies cartoon shorts Shuffle Off to Buffalo (1933) and I've Got to Sing a Torch Song (1933), and as a pot of jam in the Betty Boop short Betty in Blunderland (1934).
Films[edit]
He appeared as the Fairy Godfather in Jerry Lewis' Cinderfella. His performance as Paul Beaseley in the 1958 film The Great Man earned him nominations for a Golden Globe Award for "Best Supporting Actor" and a BAFTA Award for "Best Foreign Actor". The following year he received his first (and only) nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Mr. Dussell in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). Six years later he appeared in the Bible epic The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Disney[edit]
Wynn provided the voice of the Mad Hatter in Walt Disney's film, Alice in Wonderland and played The Toymaker alongside Annette Funicello and Tommy Sands in Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland released in 1961.
Possibly his best-remembered film appearance was in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (1964), in which he played eccentric man Uncle Albert floating around just beneath the ceiling in uncontrollable mirth, singing "I Love to Laugh".
Re-teaming with the Disney team the following year, in That Darn Cat! (1965) featuring Dean Jones and Hayley Mills, Wynn filled out the character of Mr. Hofstedder, the watch jeweler with his bumbling charm. He also had brief roles in The Absent Minded Professor (as the fire chief, in a scene alongside his son Keenan Wynn, who played the film's antagonist) and Son of Flubber (as county agricultural agent A.J. Allen). His final performance, as Rufus in Walt Disney's The Gnome-Mobile, was released a few months after his death.
In addition to Disney films, Wynn was also an actor in the Disneyland production The Golden Horseshoe Revue.
Death[edit]
The niche of Ed Wynn, in the Great Mausoleum, Forest Lawn Glendale.
Wynn died June 19, 1966 in Beverly Hills, California of throat cancer,[3] aged 79. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, in The Great Mausoleum, Daffodil Corridor, Columbarium of the Dawn, alongside his son Keenan Wynn, his granddaughter Emily Wynn (February 13, 1960 – November 27, 1980), who died from lupus and his older sister Blanche Leopold (May 18, 1880 – December 26, 1973). His bronze grave marker reads "Dear God, Thanks... Ed Wynn". According to his granddaughter Hilda Levine, Walt Disney, who would die just a few months later, served as one of his casket bearers. Red Skelton, who was discovered by Wynn, stated: "His death is the first time he ever made anyone sad."[9]
Legacy[edit]
Wynn's distinct voice was deliberately emulated by Alan Tudyk for the character King Candy in Disney's animated film Wreck-It Ralph.[10]
Wynn was posthumously named a Disney Legend on August 10, 2013.[11]
Broadway and films[edit]
The Deacon and the Lady (1910) – musical – actor/performer
Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 (1914) – revue – actor/performer
Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 (1915) – revue – actor/performer
The Passing Show of 1916 (1916) – revue – actor/performer
Sometime (1918) – play – actor
Ed Wynn's Carnival (1920) – revue – composer, lyricist, book-writer and performer/actor
The All-Star Idlers of 1921 (1921) – revue – actor/performer
The Perfect Fool (1921) – revue – composer, lyricist, book-writer, director and actor/performer
The Grab Bag (1924) – revue – producer, composer, lyricist, book-writer and actor/performer
Manhattan Mary (1927) – musical – actor in the role of "Crickets"
Rubber Heels (1927) – actor (as Homer Thrush)
Simple Simon (1930) – musical – co-book-writer and actor
Revived in 1931 (was also producer in addition to above roles)
Follow the Leader (1930) – actor (as Crickets)
The Laugh Parade (1931) – revue – producer, co-book-writer, director, originator and star actor/performer
Turn Back the Clock (1933) – actor (as Cigar Store Customer), uncredited
The Chief (1933) – actor (as Henry Summers)
Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) – actor, uncredited
Alice Takat (1936) – play – producer
Hooray for What! (1937) – musical – actor in the role of "Chuckles"
Boys and Girls Together (1940) – revue – producer, co-book-writer, originator, director and actor/performer
Morose Thoughts (1941) – revue – producer, book co-author, and actor
Laugh, Town, Laugh! (1942) – revue – producer, book-writer and director
Stage Door Canteen (1943) – himself (Ed Wynn)
Alice in Wonderland (1951) – voice actor (as Mad Hatter)
The Great Man (1956) – actor (as Paul Beaseley)
Marjorie Morningstar (1958) – actor (as uncle Samson)
Wagon Train (1959) - Episode "The Cappy Darrin Story" - Actor (as Cappy Darrin)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) – actor (as Fritz Pfeffer)
The Twilight Zone episode "One for the Angels" (1959) – actor (as Lou Bookman)
Cinderfella (1960) – actor (as the fairy godfather)
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) – actor (as Fire Chief)
Babes in Toyland (1961) – actor (as The Toy Maker)
Rawhide TV (1961) – (Twenty Five Santa Clauses)
The Sound of Laughter (1962) – actor (as host and narrator)
The Twilight Zone episode "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" (1963) – actor (as Sam Forstmann)
Son of Flubber (1963 film) – actor (as Dept. of Agriculture agent)
The Patsy (1964) – actor (as Ed Wynn)
Mary Poppins (1964) – actor (as Uncle Albert)
Dear Brigitte (1965 film) – actor (as The Captain and Narrator)
Those Calloways (1965) – actor (as Ed Parker)
Bonanza episode "The Ponderosa Birdman" (1965) – actor (as Professor Phineas T. Klump)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965 film) – actor (as Old Aram)
That Darn Cat! (1965) – actor (as Mr. Hofstedder)
The Daydreamer (1966) – voice actor (as The Emperor)
The Gnome-Mobile (1967) – actor (as Rufus) – released after his death (final film role)
Listen to[edit]
Radio Journeys: Texaco Fire Chief (July 26, 1932)
See also[edit]
List of actors with Academy Award nominations
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Obituary Variety, June 22, 1966, page 71.
Jump up ^ Wilfred T. Neill (January 2, 1979). "Famed comedian Ed Wynn once owned theater in New Port Richey". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved September 19, 2008.
^ Jump up to: a b c Biography of Ed Wynn at Turner Classic Movies.
Jump up ^ "New York Hoorays for Ed Wynn" [1], LIFE, December 20, 1937, p. 46, accessed May 31, 2011.
Jump up ^ "August Clown" [2], LIFE, July 26, 1948, p. 74, accessed May 31, 2011.
Jump up ^ "August Clown" [3], LIFE, July 26, 1948, p. 70, accessed May 31, 2011.
Jump up ^ McLeod, Elizabeth. "Tonight The Program's Gonna Be Different!The Life and Times of Ed Wynn, The Fire Chief". Old Time Radio Researchers Group. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
Jump up ^ "The Ed Wynn Show, 1950". Internet Archive – Moving Image Archive. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ Time, July 1, 1966
Jump up ^ Cerabona, Ron (April 29, 2013). "Giving Voice to an Old-Timer". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
Jump up ^ Steve Jobs, Dick Clark, Billy Crystal, John Goodman among Disney Legends Awards recipients announced for 2013 D23 Expo
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The Ed Wynn Show at Classic TV Info.
Four Star Revue/All Star Revue at Classic TV Info.
Biography of Ed Wynn at Ed-Wynn.info
Ed Wynn papers at the Free Library of Philadelphia Theatre Collection
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Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers
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Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers
From left to right, Wayne Chaulk, Kevin Blackmore, and Ray Johnson, performing in typically offbeat garb.
Background information
Origin
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Genres
Newfoundland, folk, comedy
Years active
1983 (1983)–present
Website
www.buddywasisname.com
Members
Kevin Blackmore
Wayne Chaulk
Ray Johnson
Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers is a musical and comedy trio from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, which is composed of Kevin Blackmore ("Buddy Wasisname"), Wayne Chaulk and Ray Johnson ("The Other Fellers").[1] The group specializes in Newfoundland and folk music, as well as performing comedic skits and standup routines.
All three musicians sing and write songs which reflect their Newfoundland heritage; Johnson also arranges traditional accordion numbers for the band to perform. Their recordings range from serious reflections on Newfoundland culture (such as "Sarah" and "Saltwater Joys" to light-hearted tales that can border on the ridiculous (such as "Is You 'Appy?" and "Chainsaw Earle").[2]
Chaulk performs on bass or guitar, Johnson on accordion or fiddle, and Blackmore on mandolin, fiddle, guitar[1] and improvised percussion instruments including Tupperware lids and garbage bags.
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Band name
1.2 1980s
1.3 1990s
1.4 Recent
2 Discography
2.1 Albums
2.2 DVDs
3 References
4 External links
History[edit]
Band name[edit]
The group's name, and the names of many of their albums and songs, contain phonetic spellings of colloquial contractions and phrases native to Newfoundland, which would normally only be spoken aloud and in an informal setting. This reflects the group's focus on Newfoundland culture; most Newfoundlanders immediately recognize the intended meanings despite the atypical spelling. The band name plays on Newfoundlanders' habit of rapidly slurring words together in day to day speech; "wasisname" is a contraction of "what's his name?"; however, in Newfoundland "Buddy Wasisname" is simply a version of "I can't remember his name". "Fellers" is simply a dialectal form of "fellas" or "fellows".
1980s[edit]
Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers were formed in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada in 1983.[1] Two of the three group members (Johnson and Chaulk) were school teachers prior to forming their group. Their first album, Makin' For the Harbour was self-released in 1986.[1] The album relied heavily on Newfoundland standards and Blackmore's comedy numbers; Chaulk made one significant contribution with "Yesterday's Fishermen". "Gotta Get Me Moose B'y" would become their early career signature tune, and remains one of their more popular songs today. Next was the album Nods'N'Winks, mostly notable for Blackmore's "My Old Wooden Shack", which features Johnson on accordion and vocals. At this point in the group's history that they began to be known outside their local area.
1990s[edit]
The group's third album, Flatout, was released in 1990, and contains two of their best known songs. One, "Sarah", was an a cappella tune Johnson learned from his adoptive father Johnny. The other, "Saltwater Joys", written by Chaulk, is one of the band's most requested concert songs. Another song on the album, "Peein' in the Snow" also became a hit after being performed on several comedy programs. After Flatout came The Miracle Cure, which is their best selling album to date. The album contains the humorous song in "Chainsaw Earle"; two Chaulk songs "Goin' Up with Brudder" and "The Pits", the latter of which a music video was produced; and several Johnson traditional songs including "Put A Bit of Powder On A Doo" and "Peggy Gordon".
After the success of The Miracle Cure, the group put out 100% Pure, which sold well, but was not as popular as the previous one. The album's "Song for Newfoundland", an a cappella Chaulk anthem, has been covered often by Newfoundland vocal groups. Also, the album contains the well-known song "By The Glow Of The Kerosene Light", written by Wince Coles, which featured additional players in the form of cello, harp and piano, an arrangement not often seen in the group's catalogue. The album holds the first track from Blackmore's "454" series, called "The Vette". The rest of the 454 four barrel series is "Da' Yammie" (Salt Beef Junkie), "Da' Chopper" (D'Lard Liftin), and "Da' Mower" (The Big Tump).
The group's next album, Salt Beef Junkie, includes original songs of the same type, but the arrangements deviate from their usual style. The opening track features a full rock backing band in addition to Chaulk's guitar and Johnson's accordion; "He's A Part Of Me" features the same backing trio as "Kerosene Light"; and many of the tracks feature George Morgan's drum machines.
Recent[edit]
Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers have been performing and recording actively for over 30 years.[3] The group has produced nineteen albums, and in 2017 maintains an active touring schedule throughout the Atlantic provinces, and other Canadian cities.
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
Makin' for the Harbour (1986)
Nods 'N' Winks (1988)
Flatout (1990)
The Miracle Cure (1992)
100% Pure (1993)
Salt Beef Junkie (1995)
Pop the Rivets (1996)
Up on Bust (1996)
D'Lard Liftin' (1998)
Greatest Misses (1999)*
The Big Tump (2000)
The Serious Stuff* (2001)
Up Boot (2002)
i'm looney (2002)*
Whipper Snipper (2004)
The Shed (2005)
Take 'er Johnson* (2007)
The Big TwoFive (2009)
The Serious Stuff Volume 2 (2010)*
WRING' ER OUT (2014)
*Denotes a compilation of previously released songs.
DVDs[edit]
Up Boot (2006)
Pop the Rivets (2007)
Dirty Big tour (2008)
LaffYerArseOff (2013)
The Last Laff (2017)
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d Larry LeBlanc (30 July 1994). Newfoundland Folk Group Brings Fans Home. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 46–. ISSN 0006-2510.
Jump up ^ "Buddy Wasisname & The Other Fellers part of Barrie comedy festival". Barrie Examiner, By Susan Doolan, August 21, 2016
Jump up ^ "Thirty years of foolishness and tears: Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers “still kickin'”". The Independent, March 18, 2013
External links[edit]
Buddy Wasisname Official Band Homepage
Interview on Canoe.ca
Artist Listing Page at GEST Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador
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