"lyrics were a deliberate attack on the slang and behavior of stereotypical valley girls. Zappa stressed that it was not a happy song, and that he hated the San Fernando Valley, calling it ""a most depressing place."" Moon supplied Frank with much of the content, speaking typical ""valley girl"" or ""Valspeak"" phrases she heard at ""parties, bar mitzvahs, and the Galleria."" Musically, the song is atypical for Zappa because of its conventional structure compared to his other compositions, and is played entirely in 4/4 with the exception of the 7/4 groove at the very end. ""Valley Girl"" was picked up"
"Valley Girl (film) Valley Girl is a 1983 American romantic comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge, and stars Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Meyrink, Elizabeth Daily, Cameron Dye and Michael Bowen. The American release of ""Valley Girl"" was April 29, 1983. The plot is loosely based on Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet."" Julie Richman is a Valley girl who seems to have it all: good looks, popularity, and a handsome Valley dude boyfriend, Tommy, but she is having second thoughts about her relationship with the arrogant and selfish Tommy. At the end of a shopping trip with her friends, Loryn, Stacey,"
"Valley Girl (song) ""Valley Girl"" is a song by the musician Frank Zappa and his then-14-year-old daughter, Moon Zappa. The song appeared on Zappa's 1982 album ""Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch"" and was released as a single, becoming a Top 40 hit. The track resulted from the combination of a guitar riff that Frank had composed and Moon's desire to work with her father. According to Zappa biographer Kelly Fisher Lowe, Frank woke Moon in the middle of the night and took her to a studio to recreate conversations that she had had with friends. The"
"Valley Girls ""Valley Girls"" is the twenty-fourth episode of the second season of The CW television series ""Gossip Girl"". The episode served as a backdoor pilot for a potential ""Gossip Girl"" spin-off series set in the 1980s, entitled ""Valley Girls"". The episode was directed by Mark Piznarski and written by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (this was the first episode of the series since ""Much 'I Do' About Nothing"" to be co-written by Schwartz). It was filmed on location in New York City, New York and in Los Angeles, California. References to elements of 1980s popular culture were heavily accentuated"
"Valleyspeak Valleyspeak or Valspeak is an American sociolect, originally of the San Fernando Valley in Southern California. This sociolect became an international fad for a certain period in the 1980s and 1990s, with a peak period from around 1981 to 1985. Many phrases and elements of Valleyspeak, along with surfer slang and skateboarding slang, have become staple elements of the California English dialect lexicon, and in some cases wider American English (such as the widespread use of ""like"" as a discourse marker). The term ""Valley Girl"" and the Valley manner of speech was given a wider circulation with the release"
"the recognizable characters with Valley Girl accents are Hillary Banks (Fresh Prince of Bel Air,) Cher Horowitz of ""Clueless"" and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Valleyspeak Valleyspeak or Valspeak is an American sociolect, originally of the San Fernando Valley in Southern California. This sociolect became an international fad for a certain period in the 1980s and 1990s, with a peak period from around 1981 to 1985. Many phrases and elements of Valleyspeak, along with surfer slang and skateboarding slang, have become staple elements of the California English dialect lexicon, and in some cases wider American English (such as the widespread"
"Sherman Oaks Galleria Sherman Oaks Galleria is a shopping mall and business center located in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, at the corner of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards in the San Fernando Valley. The teenage mall culture which formed around it and nearby malls formed the basis of the 1982 satirical song ""Valley Girl"" by Frank Zappa and daughter Moon Zappa. The mall has also been a shooting location for many films, most notably the seminal 1982 film ""Fast Times at Ridgemont High"" as well as the 1983 film ""Valley Girl"", both of which focused"
"intended to lampoon the image, but after the song's release there was a significant increase in the ""Valspeak"" slang usage, whether ironically spoken or not. The 1983 film ""Valley Girl"" starring Nicolas Cage centered on a group of ""Valley Girl"" characters and featured several characterizations associated with their lifestyle (such as going shopping at the mall or ""Galleria,"" suntanning at the beach, and going to parties). The protagonist of the 1995 film ""Clueless"" has been described as a caricature of 1990s Valley Girls, though she is actually from nearby Beverly Hills. In her 2015 memoir entitled ""Wildflower"", actress Drew Barrymore"
"of a hit 1982 single by Frank Zappa titled ""Valley Girl"", on which Moon Zappa, Frank's then fourteen-year-old daughter, delivered a monologue in ""Valleyspeak"" behind the music. This song popularized phrases such as ""grody to the max"" and ""gag me with a spoon"". An early appearance of Valleyspeak and the Valley Girl stereotype was through the character of Jennifer DiNuccio, played by Tracy Nelson in the 1982–1983 sitcom ""Square Pegs"". According to an interview with Nelson included on the 2008 DVD release of the series, she developed the character's Valleyspeak and personality prior to the Zappa recording becoming popular. Among"
"from Malibu (and therefore not a true Valley Girl) in order to cover this up; she later provided the singing voice of ""Two and a Half Men"" Jake Harper who splits his time between his parents' homes in Malibu and the Valley. Shout Factory released ""Valley Girl"" on Blu-ray on October 30, 2018. In November 2016, MGM announced that a remake of ""Valley Girl"" is being planned, to be directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg. Jessica Rothe will play Julie in the remake. In January 2017, it was announced that Josh Whitehouse will play Randy in the remake. In April 2017,"
"Valley Girl activities such as shopping at The Galleria, not wanting to do the dishes, and getting her toenails professionally pedicured. Guitarist John 5 made a song entitled ""18969 Ventura Blvd."" Ventura Boulevard was also the name of a band from Delhi, India. In the documentary ""Living with Michael Jackson"", it is revealed that Michael Jackson wrote the song Billie Jean while riding down Ventura Boulevard in his car. Haim's music video ""Want You Back"" is filmed on Ventura Boulevard. The boulevard is a prominent location in the movie ""The 40-Year-Old Virgin"". Much of the films ""Crash"" and ""Transformers"" were"
"Chloe Bennet, Ashleigh Murray, Jessie Ennis, and Logan Paul joined the cast. In May 2017, Mae Whitman also joined the cast. The film was scheduled for a June 29, 2018 release. On March 1, 2018, MGM announced that the film had been pulled from their schedule due to ongoing controversies surrounding Logan Paul. Valley Girl (film) Valley Girl is a 1983 American romantic comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge, and stars Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Meyrink, Elizabeth Daily, Cameron Dye and Michael Bowen. The American release of ""Valley Girl"" was April 29, 1983. The plot is loosely based on"
"a hill-slope, a dense forest or a closed forest. Another Tamil meaning for வல்லி (""Kodi"") is Valli, the honey collecting daughter of the chief of the Veddas mountain tribe. In ancient times the chief and his wife prayed to the Mountain God for a girl-child. Their prayers were answered when the chief found a new-born girl child during a hunting expedition. As she was found among creeper plants, they named the child Valli and she grew up as princess of the tribe ""Kurinji"" and became the consort of lord Murugan The romantic traditions of Murugan in Sangam literature are thus"
"to fulfill this purpose. In pop culture, such colloquial applications of ""like"" (especially in verbal excess) are commonly and often comedically associated with Valley girls, as made famous through the song ""Valley Girl"" by Frank Zappa, released in 1982, and the film of the same name, released in the following year. The stereotyped ""valley girl"" language is an exaggeration of the variants of California English spoken by younger generations. This non-traditional usage of the word has been around at least since the 1950s, introduced through beat and jazz culture. The beatnik character Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver) in the popular"
"artist because of songs like ""Valley Girl"" and ""Don't Eat the Yellow Snow."" At the time of the single's release, Moon said, ""I am not a valley girl, but I guess that is my claim to fame."" Mimi Pond created a comic book about the song, ""The Valley Girl's Guide to Life,"" which launched her career. Valley Girl (song) ""Valley Girl"" is a song by the musician Frank Zappa and his then-14-year-old daughter, Moon Zappa. The song appeared on Zappa's 1982 album ""Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch"" and was released as a single, becoming a Top"
"in the episode, which the producers hoped would bridge the generation gap between the characters and audience. ""Valley Girls"" aired on the CW in the United States on May 11, 2009 and was viewed live by an audience of 2.31 million Americans. Although the episode received generally positive reviews, the spin-off series was not picked up. ""Valley Girls"" provides insight on the mysterious past of character Lily van der Woodsen (played by Kelly Rutherford as an adult and Brittany Snow as a teenager) through a series of flashbacks to her life as a teenager in the 1980s. In the past,"
"in the morning. That track was the basis for the song. It was a riff that started off at a soundcheck about a year before, and I had been piddling with it for a long time. One night, we finally did it, saved the tape, and little by little we added all of this other stuff to it, and we got 'Valley Girl'."" Scott Thunes's bass line was spontaneous and played through a Vox amp, and was the final addition to the song, which originally ""didn't even have a bass part; it was [originally] just guitar and drums"". The pseudo-title"
"1982 satirical single ""Valley Girl"" from Zappa's album ""Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch"". Following on the popularity of the song, the TV show ""Real People"" hosted an Ultimate Valley Girl competition (referred to as ""a nightmare"" by contest judge Moon Zappa), at the Galleria. In 1993, Robinsons and May Company merged, forming Robinsons-May - both stores in the mall were converted to Robinsons-May, the north store becoming a Men's and Home store, and the south store becoming a Women's and Children's store. The next decade saw business at the Galleria decline. In January 1994, the mall"
"Lily of the valley Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis ), sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, is a sweetly scented, highly poisonous woodland flowering plant that is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere in Asia and Europe. Other names include May bells, Our Lady's tears, and Mary's tears. Its French name, muguet, sometimes appears in the names of perfumes imitating the flower's scent. It is possibly the only species in the genus ""Convallaria"" (depending on whether ""C. keiskei"" and ""C. transcaucasica"" are recognised as separate species). In the APG III system, the genus is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae"
"pilot. Such a pilot would allow the company to evaluate viewer interest in a spin-off while saving money. On January 14, 2009, CW green-lit a back-door pilot for an untitled spin-off series starring a young Lily van der Woodsen. The concept was based on an original idea by ""Gossip Girl"" producers Schwartz and Savage. The pilot episode, eventually named ""Valley Girls"", was written by Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz and directed by Mark Piznarski, all of whom had previously worked the same roles for the ""Gossip Girl"" pilot. ""Valley Girls"" was shot on location in New York City, New York"
"Valley' ""(thereby excluding the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges)"", and the Mojave ""(High)"" and Sonoran ""(Low)"" Deserts. i.e. the Pacific Border province. The same term is used informally in Canada to refer to the Coast Mountains and adjoining inland ranges such as the Hazelton Mountains, and sometimes also the Saint Elias Mountains. The character of the ranges varies considerably, from the record-setting tidewater glaciers in the ranges of Alaska, to the rugged Central and Southern California ranges, the Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges, in the chaparral and woodlands ecoregion with Oak Woodland, Chaparral shrub forest or Coastal sage scrub-covering them."
"Valley Inn in Apple Valley, California and in Oatman, Arizona. Filming ended in late August. A.H. Weiler of the ""New York Times"" said: ""Jeff Chandler, who wrote the lyrics of the title tune, and who, we are told, sings it, does well by the role of the brooding, brawny and handsome engineer. Although his problems appear to be bigger than they actually are, he makes a fine, romantic figure of a man. Miss Russell, if the appraisal isn't redundant by now, is a fine figure of a woman in a variety of revealing gowns and negligees. Her cheerfully sincere efforts"
"Girl"" became the first show that indicated that the way people watch television is changing. You can go on iTunes, every episode is No. 1, ahead of all these bigger shows. The streams are high, the DVR time-shifting number was something like 40%. There's a much bigger audience for the show than the (Nielsen) numbers might indicate."" Valley Girls ""Valley Girls"" is the twenty-fourth episode of the second season of The CW television series ""Gossip Girl"". The episode served as a backdoor pilot for a potential ""Gossip Girl"" spin-off series set in the 1980s, entitled ""Valley Girls"". The episode was"
"to the Future Part II"", Albert Brooks' ""Mother"", """", ""Walk Like a Man"" (1987), ""Innerspace"" and ""Chopping Mall"" were filmed at the Galleria, as were scenes for the 2011 release ""Crazy, Stupid, Love"". Sherman Oaks Galleria Sherman Oaks Galleria is a shopping mall and business center located in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, at the corner of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards in the San Fernando Valley. The teenage mall culture which formed around it and nearby malls formed the basis of the 1982 satirical song ""Valley Girl"" by Frank Zappa and daughter Moon Zappa. The"
"Valleri ""Valleri"" is a song written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart for The Monkees, who had a #3 on ""Billboard"" Hot 100 hit with it, also spending two weeks at #1 on ""Cash Box"" in early 1968. The song also rose to #1 in Canada, and #12 in the UK. Responding to Screen Gems president and music supervisor Don Kirshner's early-morning request for a ""girl's-name song"" to be used in the Monkees's television series, Boyce and Hart improvised ""Valleri"" on their way to Kirshner's office, after pretending over the telephone that the song was already finished. Nonetheless, Kirshner was"
"Valley of the Dolls (film) Valley of the Dolls is a 1967 American drama film based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Jacqueline Susann. It was directed by Mark Robson, produced by Robson and David Weisbart, and stars Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate, and Susan Hayward. Three young women meet when they embark on their careers. Neely O'Hara (Duke) is a plucky kid with undeniable talent who sings in a Broadway show, of which legendary actress Helen Lawson (Hayward) is the arrogant star, while Jennifer North (Tate), a beauty with limited talent, is in the chorus."
"The Little Girl ""The Little Girl"" is a song written by Harley Allen and recorded by American country music artist John Michael Montgomery. The song features harmony vocals by bluegrass musicians Alison Krauss and Dan Tyminski, both members of Alison Krauss and Union Station. It was released in August 2000 as the lead single from the album ""Brand New Me"". The song became Montgomery's seventh and last No. 1 hit to date on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, and his first chart-topper since 1995's ""Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)"". The song also reached No. 35 on"
"Valley as a home for World War I veterans to establish themselves, making claims of available irrigation water that never actually arrived. It is not known how many people this advertisement brought, but by 1924 there were enough children to establish a school, in a building provided by Etchebarne. The population reached its peak in 1925, and a post office was established in 1926 in George Mead's general store. He suggested the name ""Kiz"" in honor of the first woman settler in the valley, his sister Kiziah ""Aunt Kiz"" Dimick. Kiz did experience successful harvests some years, but water was"
"Valley of the Dolls Valley of the Dolls is the first novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann. Published in 1966, the book was the biggest selling novel of its year. To date, it has sold more than 31 million copies, making it one of the best-selling works in publishing history. The novel tells the story of three young women who become fast friends in the turbulent post-war worlds of Broadway and Hollywood: Anne Welles, a reserved New England beauty who sees New York as the romantic city of her dreams; Neely O'Hara, an ebullient vaudevillian with a talent she doesn't"
"album ""Roots"". Ventura Boulevard is mentioned in Tom Petty's song ""Free Fallin'"" (""All the vampires walkin' through the valley, Move west down Ventura Boulevard...""). When Petty died in 2017, what was intended as a walk by four fans turned into a public memorial as 10 times that many ‘Vampires’ walked west down the Boulevard in memory of the singer. The Boulevard is also mentioned in Frank Zappa's ""Valley Girl"" (""On Ventura, there she goes, she just bought some bitchin' clothes"") a song about a valley girl (voiced by his daughter Moon Zappa) who lives in Encino and participates in typical"
"Red River Valley (song) ""Red River Valley"" is a folk song and cowboy music standard of uncertain origins that has gone by different names (such as ""Cowboy Love Song"", ""Bright Sherman Valley"", ""Bright Laurel Valley"", ""In the Bright Mohawk Valley"", and ""Bright Little Valley""), depending on where it has been sung. It is listed as Roud Folk Song Index 756 and by Edith Fowke as FO 13. It is recognizable by its chorus (with several variations): Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time, ranked #10. Edith Fowke"
"In May 1982, Zappa released ""Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch"", which featured his biggest selling single ever, the Grammy Award-nominated song ""Valley Girl"" (topping out at No. 32 on the ""Billboard"" charts). In her improvised lyrics to the song, Zappa's daughter Moon Unit satirized the patois of teenage girls from the San Fernando Valley, which popularized many ""Valspeak"" expressions such as ""gag me with a spoon"", ""fer sure, fer sure"", ""grody to the max"", and ""barf out"". In 1983, two different projects were released, beginning with ""The Man from Utopia,"" a rock-oriented work. The album is"
"""Valley Girl."" Zappa himself explored the possibility of making a ""Valley Girl"" film and received inquiries from several studios, though nothing materialized. Zappa later unsuccessfully sued to stop production of the film, claiming it infringed on his trademark. Cage and Foreman found it difficult to do the breakup scene at Julie's front door because it was shot late in the filming, when Cage and Foreman were dating. It took a lot of takes and some counseling by Martha Coolidge. She told Foreman to think of another guy she had broken up with. ""Valley Girl"" was released on April 29, 1983"