"Fountains of Wayne Fountains of Wayne was an American rock band that formed in New York City in 1995. The band consisted of Chris Collingwood, Adam Schlesinger, Jody Porter, and Brian Young. The band was best known for its 2003 Grammy-nominated single ""Stacy's Mom"". After Montclair-based Adam Schlesinger and Sellersville-based Chris Collingwood first met as freshmen at Williams College, they played music in various bands and eventually went their separate ways, with Collingwood forming the Mercy Buckets in Boston and Schlesinger forming Ivy in New York City. In the mid-1990s, they came together to form Fountains of Wayne, named after"
"Welcome Interstate Managers Welcome Interstate Managers is the third studio album by the American rock band Fountains of Wayne. It was released by S-Curve Records on June 10, 2003. ""Stacy's Mom"" was released to radio on May 20, 2003. The album was met with commercial success and favorable reviews. Review aggregating website Metacritic reports a weighted average score of 86 out of 100 based on 24 reviews, indicating ""universal acclaim"". In 2009, Katy Perry performed a cover of ""Hackensack"" on ""MTV Unplugged"". In 2011, the band The Wonder Years performed a cover of ""Hey Julie"" for the charity compilation album,"
"""Vs. The Earthquake"". Welcome Interstate Managers Welcome Interstate Managers is the third studio album by the American rock band Fountains of Wayne. It was released by S-Curve Records on June 10, 2003. ""Stacy's Mom"" was released to radio on May 20, 2003. The album was met with commercial success and favorable reviews. Review aggregating website Metacritic reports a weighted average score of 86 out of 100 based on 24 reviews, indicating ""universal acclaim"". In 2009, Katy Perry performed a cover of ""Hackensack"" on ""MTV Unplugged"". In 2011, the band The Wonder Years performed a cover of ""Hey Julie"" for the"
"the song during a stoppage of play with the fan sections continuing to sing through the chorus without accompaniment once gameplay begins again. Stacy's Mom ""Stacy's Mom"" is a pop rock song recorded by the American rock band Fountains of Wayne for their third studio album, ""Welcome Interstate Managers"". ""Stacy's Mom"" was released to radio on May 20, 2003. The song was released as the lead single from ""Welcome Interstate Managers"" on September 29, 2003 through S-Curve Records and Virgin Records. ""Stacy's Mom"" was written by bassist Adam Schlesinger and vocalist Chris Collingwood, both of whom produced the song alongside"
"plays the titular role. ""Stacy's Mom"" was the only mainstream hit by Fountains of Wayne. The song has been frequently misattributed to pop punk band Bowling for Soup, who in 2011 released their own cover version of the song. ""Stacy's Mom"" was written by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger. Stylistically it is power pop. Part of the song's inspiration was a friend Schlesinger had growing up who thought Schlesinger's grandmother was hot. ""One of my best friends, when we were maybe 11 or 12, came to me and announced that he thought my grandmother was hot. And I said, 'Hey,"
"Jody Porter Jody Porter (born May 25, 1969) is an American musician. He is the guitarist of Grammy Award-nominated power pop band Fountains of Wayne. The band has released four major label albums, including ""Welcome Interstate Managers"" on Virgin Records in 2003, an RIAA-certified Gold LP. The album spawned the hugely popular U.S. Top 40 hit and number 1 music video ""Stacy's Mom"". Known for his impressive virtuoso abilities and British guitar pop playing style, Jody first garnered attention fronting and writing the songs for London-based band The Belltower in the early 1990s. The band was credited as trailblazers in"
"songs to the band's fourth studio album, ""Traffic and Weather"". He has been sober since 2006. Chris Collingwood Chris Collingwood (born October 3, 1967) is a British-born American singer, songwriter, artist and founding member of the power pop band Fountains of Wayne. Collingwood was born in Britain but grew up in Sellersville, Pennsylvania. Collingwood's major influences are The Beatles, The Zombies, The Hollies, Aztec Camera, Squeeze, and Blue Öyster Cult. He graduated from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife in Northampton, Massachusetts. The couple married in 1996. Collingwood has admitted to having trouble with alcohol"
"Chris Collingwood Chris Collingwood (born October 3, 1967) is a British-born American singer, songwriter, artist and founding member of the power pop band Fountains of Wayne. Collingwood was born in Britain but grew up in Sellersville, Pennsylvania. Collingwood's major influences are The Beatles, The Zombies, The Hollies, Aztec Camera, Squeeze, and Blue Öyster Cult. He graduated from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife in Northampton, Massachusetts. The couple married in 1996. Collingwood has admitted to having trouble with alcohol in the past, even stating that his heavy drinking resulted in him having only contributed three"
"City"". Sink to the Bottom ""Sink to the Bottom"" was the second single by Fountains of Wayne, from their eponymous debut album.. It was released in 1997 and charted in the UK at No. 42 on May 10, 1997. It also reached No. 7 in Norway in 1998. The two other tracks on the single – ""Kid Gloves"" and the live version of ""Can't Get It Out of My Head"" – were unavailable on any Fountains of Wayne album until the release of ""Out-of-State Plates"" in 2005. The song was used on How I Met Your Mother, in the episode"
"vintage Gretsch models, and more recently a '57 Les Paul Junior that belonged to his father and a new signature guitar. His signature guitar is a SchoolHoused BeachBlaster which consists of a surf green finish and 3-Seymour Duncan Whole Lotta humbuckers. He has generally favored Vox amps. Jody Porter Jody Porter (born May 25, 1969) is an American musician. He is the guitarist of Grammy Award-nominated power pop band Fountains of Wayne. The band has released four major label albums, including ""Welcome Interstate Managers"" on Virgin Records in 2003, an RIAA-certified Gold LP. The album spawned the hugely popular U.S."
"2000s began, the group remained very much active and popular in the nostalgia concert circuit. Though the group had occasionally issued new material on minor labels, their offerings had been largely ignored by the greater commercial music industry and record-buying public. However, a fateful connection would provide a sudden and unexpected change in fortune for the group. Around 2005, Beckley began correspondence with Adam Schlesinger of the independent rock music group Fountains of Wayne. Beckley had been a fan of the 2003 Fountains of Wayne album ""Welcome Interstate Managers"", and Schlesinger turned out to be a fan of America's work."
"'Stacy's Mom' in a car. The video reached No. 1 on both MTV's ""TRL"" and VH1's ""VSpot Top 20 Countdown"". In 2011, pop punk band Bowling for Soup released a cover version of ""Stacy's Mom"" as a B-side to their single ""I've Never Done Anything Like This"". The cover version came about because the original Fountains of Wayne song was often misattributed to Bowling for Soup. The song was misidentified as a Bowling for Soup song on YouTube and other video sites. In multiple interviews, Bowling for Soup bandleader Jaret Reddick has said that he regularly encountered fans at their"
"Orleans, Louisiana. He formed a friendship with Dwayne Carter aka Lil Wayne at the age of eleven. He and Lil Wayne, along with rapper Curren$y and Cortez Bryant attended Eleanor McMain Secondary School during their youth and dated . In 2003, he placed 16th out of a thousand contestants in a freestyle battle hosted by MTV; this, combined with a backstage performance at the 2004 BET Awards with Cassidy, led him to becoming a founding member of Young Money Entertainment with Lil Wayne in 2005. In 2008, Mack Maine appeared on the official remix of Lil Wayne's third single from"
"Frances Bean Cobain Frances Bean Cobain (born August 18, 1992) is an American visual artist, model and the only child of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Hole frontwoman Courtney Love. Frances Cobain was born on August 18, 1992, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She was named after Frances McKee, the guitarist for the Scottish indie pop duo The Vaselines. Before Cobain's birth, there were rumors suggesting that her mother used heroin during the pregnancy. This scandal intensified when ""Vanity Fair"" published Lynn Hirschberg's article ""Strange Love"", which alleged that Love admitted to using heroin even after learning"
"release, ""Utopia Parkway"". However, after the band was dropped from Atlantic Records in 2001, Fountains of Wayne went on hiatus. In 2003, the band reformed and entered the studio to do a spate of demos which would eventually become ""Welcome Interstate Managers"" on Virgin records. The band received two Grammy nominations in 2004 and released ""Out of State Plates"", a collection of b sides and rarities the following year. They reassembled in 2007 for their next studio album ""Traffic and Weather"" which was said to have been recorded largely by Schlesinger and Porter. Jody Porter also once fronted the short-lived"
"Radiation Vibe ""Radiation Vibe"" was the first single by Fountains of Wayne, from their eponymous debut album. It was released in 1996 on Atlantic Records. ""Radiation Vibe"" was released as a vinyl single with ""Karpet King"" as the b-side. There was also a CD single which featured two other tracks, ""Janice's Party"" and ""Imperia"". All of these except ""Radiation Vibe"" were unavailable on any Fountains of Wayne album until the release of ""Out-of-State Plates"" in 2005. The single charted in the UK at No. 32 on March 22, 1997. It also reached No. 14 on the US ""Billboard"" Alternative Songs"
"Sink to the Bottom ""Sink to the Bottom"" was the second single by Fountains of Wayne, from their eponymous debut album.. It was released in 1997 and charted in the UK at No. 42 on May 10, 1997. It also reached No. 7 in Norway in 1998. The two other tracks on the single – ""Kid Gloves"" and the live version of ""Can't Get It Out of My Head"" – were unavailable on any Fountains of Wayne album until the release of ""Out-of-State Plates"" in 2005. The song was used on How I Met Your Mother, in the episode ""Atlantic"
"Son debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart with 176,000 copies sold in its first week.[1] Up to July 11, 2007, it had sold 761,958 copies in the United States. On October 2009, Birdman, Lil Wayne, Cash Money Records and various music distribution outlets were sued for copyright infringement by Thomas Marasciullo, who claimed his voice was used without permission. The rappers asked him to record some ""Italian-styled spoken word recordings"" in 2006. The lyrics were allegedly used on ""Respect"" and other tracks from ""Like Father, Like Son"" and Birdman's ""5 * Stunna"". Like Father, Like Son (Birdman"
"2003), he preserves the family legacy and is caretaker to the heritage of his musical ancestors. He was referenced numerous times in his parents' recordings. For several years after his birth, his father altered the conclusion of ""A Boy Named Sue"" to mention him by name; in 1972 his parents recorded the duet ""I Got a Boy (And His Name is John)"" about their son; and in 1975 a photograph of John Carter Cash frolicking with his father adorned the sleeve of the album ""Look at Them Beans"". John Carter Cash also dabbled in recording music, duetting with his father"
"of the 2000 film ""Ready to Rumble"". In 2003, the song was covered by American pop punk band Bowling for Soup for the soundtrack of the remake film ""Freaky Friday"" and commented that their version was ""really, really, dark and really rock, [..] not the kind of 'pop'-py stuff that we usually do."" In 2005, power pop band Fountains of Wayne covered the song for their compilation album ""Out-of-State Plates"". Robert Christgau of ""The Village Voice"" highlighted their rendition saying the song is ""as redolent and fetching as any of [Fountains of Wayne]'s peaks"". Japanese pop singer Shiori Takei covered"
"Teenage Superstars. Frances McKee Frances McKee is a singer and songwriter known best for her work in the Scottish indie band The Vaselines. The Vaselines formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1986. Following the release of two EPs, ""Son of a Gun"" and ""Dying for It"", and the first and only full-length album, ""Dum-Dum"", in 1989, the band split up. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was a big fan of the band, and covered three of their songs: ""Molly's Lips"", ""Son of a Gun"" and ""Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam"". He also named his daughter after McKee. Following a post-Vaselines break,"
"Fountains of Wayne discography The discography of Fountains of Wayne contains five studio albums, one compilation album, 16 singles, one DVD, six music videos and six other appearances. Fountains of Wayne were formed in 1995 by bassist Adam Schlesinger and guitarist Chris Collingwood. They were joined by Jody Porter and Brian Young and recorded a demo. The demo fell into the hands of Atlantic Records and in 1996, the band released their debut self-titled album. Two singles were released from it but it was the song ""That Thing You Do"", written by Schlesinger, that gained popularity through its use as"
"chart in January 1997. In Australia, the single peaked at No. 95 in March 1997. Radiation Vibe ""Radiation Vibe"" was the first single by Fountains of Wayne, from their eponymous debut album. It was released in 1996 on Atlantic Records. ""Radiation Vibe"" was released as a vinyl single with ""Karpet King"" as the b-side. There was also a CD single which featured two other tracks, ""Janice's Party"" and ""Imperia"". All of these except ""Radiation Vibe"" were unavailable on any Fountains of Wayne album until the release of ""Out-of-State Plates"" in 2005. The single charted in the UK at No. 32"
"Adam Schlesinger Adam Schlesinger (born October 31, 1976) is the bassist for the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and Tinted Windows. He is also a key songwriting contributor and producer for Brooklyn-based synth-pop duo Fever High. Schlesinger grew up in Manhattan and Montclair, New Jersey, where he attended Montclair High School. Schlesinger was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award in 1997 for writing the title track of the Tom Hanks-directed film ""That Thing You Do!"" as well as two other songs for the film. Fountains of Wayne was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 2003 for"
"Out-of-State Plates Out-of-State Plates is a double compilation album by the American rock band Fountains of Wayne. It was released on Virgin Records on June 28, 2005. The album, a two-disc compilation of non-album tracks and previously unreleased recordings spanning the group's entire career, contain two brand new songs, ""Maureen"" and ""The Girl I Can't Forget"", as well as the first official release of the group's 1999 version of Britney Spears's ""...Baby One More Time"". Also featured is a rare live version of the Electric Light Orchestra song, ""Can't Get It Out of My Head"". All songs written by Chris"
"Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, except where noted. Out-of-State Plates Out-of-State Plates is a double compilation album by the American rock band Fountains of Wayne. It was released on Virgin Records on June 28, 2005. The album, a two-disc compilation of non-album tracks and previously unreleased recordings spanning the group's entire career, contain two brand new songs, ""Maureen"" and ""The Girl I Can't Forget"", as well as the first official release of the group's 1999 version of Britney Spears's ""...Baby One More Time"". Also featured is a rare live version of the Electric Light Orchestra song, ""Can't Get It Out of"
"and Juvenile, reached number 65 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""Lights Out"" followed in December 2000 and produced the singles ""Get Off the Corner"", ""Everything"" and ""Shine"". ""Way of Life"", the lead single from Wayne's third studio album ""500 Degreez"", peaked at number 71 on the Hot 100 and became a top 20 hit on the Hot Rap Songs chart. In 2004, Wayne was featured on the single ""Soldier"" by American girl group Destiny's Child, which became his first top ten hit on the Hot 100 and enjoyed commercial success internationally. Lil Wayne's fourth studio album ""Tha Carter"" featured the"
"Collins, Jim Carroll, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Skyward, the Long Winters and Japanese superstar Junko Yagami. He is an endorser of Ludwig Drums and Sabian cymbals. Brian Young (drummer) Brian Young is the drummer for the Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain and formerly of the New York-based power pop band Fountains of Wayne, who had released five major-label albums and were awarded an RIAA-certified gold record for their single ""Stacy's Mom."" Prior to his work in Fountains of Wayne he spent the mid-1990s in the Bellingham, Washington-based band the Posies and appears on their 1996"
"new album was released called ""Traffic and Weather"". The track ""I-95"" from the album was named in ""Rolling Stone""s Top 50 Songs of 2007. The band's first DVD, ""No Better Place: Live in Chicago"" was released March 3, 2009. In 2011, the band released Sky Full of Holes under Yep Roc Records. Fountains of Wayne discography The discography of Fountains of Wayne contains five studio albums, one compilation album, 16 singles, one DVD, six music videos and six other appearances. Fountains of Wayne were formed in 1995 by bassist Adam Schlesinger and guitarist Chris Collingwood. They were joined by Jody"
"at number 14 in 2004. The following week, it reached a new peak of number 7 on the Hot 100. The single reached a new peak of number 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on April 17, 2008, making it his highest-charting single as both a lead artist or as a featured performer. (Lil Wayne was a featured artist for Destiny's Child's number 3 (Hot 100) hit, ""Soldier"".) For the week of May 3, 2008, ""Lollipop"" reached the number-one spot on the Hot 100, his first number one on the chart. It is also Wayne's first number one on the"
"music teacher in the past. She has directed choirs as a middle school teacher in the Eugene/Springfield area before recording her two albums. Her father, Jan Wyers, once ran for Attorney General for the state of Oregon. Juliet Wyers Juliet Wyers is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. She has recorded two albums, ""Clear"" (2003) and ""sunlit (summer:live)"" (2005). ""Clear"" ranked 22nd in CD Baby's 2003 Top 100 Sellers contest, out of 35,000 artists. ""Clear"" was also #27 Most Played Album on the FolkDJ charts, and the first track, ""Life, Love Me,"" was #24 Most Played Song (November 2003). In"
"from Chicago, Illinois. His father, Kenny Duckworth, was a member of street gang Gangster Disciples. His first name was given to him by his mother in honor of American singer-songwriter Eddie Kendricks of The Temptations. In 1995, at the age of eight in his hometown of Compton, Lamar witnessed his idols, Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre, film the music video for their hit single ""California Love"", which proved to be a very significant moment in his life. He grew up on welfare and in section 8 housing. As a child, Lamar attended McNair Elementary and Vanguard Learning Center in the"
"Hot 100 hits, including ""Genie in a Bottle"" in 1999. Here are some of the notable Pennsylvania musical acts of the new millennium: Alecia Moore, aka P!nk, hails from Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She has had 4 #1 Hot 100 hits, including ""Raise Your Glass"" in 2010. CKY is from West Chester. Critically acclaimed hard rock sensation Breaking Benjamin are based out of Wilkes-Barre. Country and pop sensation Taylor Swift hails from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. The Grammy-winning hard rock band Halestorm formed in Red Lion. The War on Drugs is an indie-rock band from Philadelphia. Singer-songwriter Christina Perri is also from Philadelphia. Her"