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orinoco
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response 600 of 644:
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Apr 21 17:39 UTC 2001 |
Thanks for the reminder, raven. I'd forgotten I entered this. In case you've
forgotten, the clue was:
This popular musician, criticized a few years ago for performing a graphic
song about lynching, gets airplay mostly on "adult contemporary" and other
"light"-format radio stations.
Extra clues:
The song is a cover, not an original.
"Popular musician" may have been a bad phrase to use. The artist in question
is a real genre-bender, and is closer to other genres than to pop.
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bruin
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response 601 of 644:
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Apr 21 23:45 UTC 2001 |
Who is Richard Marx?
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eeyore
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response 602 of 644:
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Apr 22 07:13 UTC 2001 |
I already responded with that answer a couple of moonths ago!!!!
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orinoco
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response 603 of 644:
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Apr 23 21:08 UTC 2001 |
Hmm.
Okay. Richard Marx isn't who I had in mind. (In fact, I haven't the faintest
idea who Richard Marx _is_.) If you can point me to the song of his that
you're thinking of, though, I'll let that be the right answer.
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tpryan
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response 604 of 644:
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Apr 23 22:09 UTC 2001 |
Who is Groucho Marx?
(just to be silly)
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eeyore
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response 605 of 644:
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Apr 23 22:25 UTC 2001 |
There is a song by Richard Marx called "Hazard", that's about being put in
jail because they think he killed some chick named Mary. (He used to walk
with her down by the river, and one day they found her body in the river, and
everybody knows that he was the last person to seee here...etc.
On the other hand, if that's not what you are thinking of, how about a hint?
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orinoco
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response 606 of 644:
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Apr 23 23:56 UTC 2001 |
Ah. Not quite what I had in mind. The lynching in this song isn't 'just'
a murder. It's a lynching in the full historical sense of the word:
racial violence, presumably at the hands of an angry mob, hung by the neck
until dead, the whole nine yards.
Also, this isn't the first time this song has caused controversy (although
the first time it was also performed by someone who is widely considered
a 'polite' and classy musician).
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raven
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response 607 of 644:
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Apr 24 01:05 UTC 2001 |
The song must be strange fruit of which I know the Billy Holiday version.
No idea who would have sung the recent version though other than that annoying
guy (who I can't remeber his name) who covers Bing & Frank tunes.
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tpryan
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response 608 of 644:
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Apr 24 21:39 UTC 2001 |
Would you mean Harry Conick Jr.?
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raven
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response 609 of 644:
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Apr 25 03:20 UTC 2001 |
re #608 yeah that guy.
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orinoco
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response 610 of 644:
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Apr 26 01:35 UTC 2001 |
The song is indeed Strange Fruit, but I can't find any evidence that Harry
Connick's done a version of it.
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tpryan
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response 611 of 644:
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Apr 26 22:05 UTC 2001 |
Hey, raven would the other annoying guy be Buster Poindexter?
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blaise
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response 612 of 644:
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May 3 16:29 UTC 2001 |
Who is Cassandra Wilson?
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orinoco
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response 613 of 644:
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May 5 02:27 UTC 2001 |
Ding!
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blaise
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response 614 of 644:
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May 5 14:43 UTC 2001 |
Widely believed to be a folk song, this song actually came from Tin Pan
Alley.
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tpryan
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response 615 of 644:
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May 5 15:20 UTC 2001 |
What is "The Old Folks at home" by Steven Foster?
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bruin
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response 616 of 644:
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May 5 21:15 UTC 2001 |
What is "Blowin' In The Wind" by Bob Dylan?
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blaise
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response 617 of 644:
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May 6 14:35 UTC 2001 |
While it wasn't what I was thinking of, I'll accept tpryan's answer of "Old
Folks At Home". (I was thinking of Red River Valley, although now that I
think about it that's debatable. It originated as a Tin Pan Alley song but
the lyrics got modified later, which arguably makes it into a folk song.)
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tpryan
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response 618 of 644:
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May 6 23:00 UTC 2001 |
It's in the lyrics:
The work of *this* artist is refferenced by Camille West
in her song "Viagra In the Waters".
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tpryan
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response 619 of 644:
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Jun 14 00:04 UTC 2001 |
Another month long stump of the search engines.
-Tim
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blaise
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response 620 of 644:
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Jun 14 14:51 UTC 2001 |
Well, I'll try the closest thing I could find: Who is Scott Wodicka?
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tpryan
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response 621 of 644:
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Jun 15 03:16 UTC 2001 |
Not what I was looking for, try again.
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tpryan
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response 622 of 644:
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Jun 19 22:33 UTC 2001 |
Here's another to try. Question either one.
He's the guy with the blue fiddle.
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mcnally
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response 623 of 644:
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Jun 21 23:05 UTC 2001 |
No idea, but I do know who "The Man with the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented
Neo-Traditionalist Guitar" is..
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tpryan
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response 624 of 644:
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Jun 23 13:48 UTC 2001 |
I'm getting tired of finding this item in a sea of
items that should only be in oldmusic, so I'll dumb it down.
Question any of the three answers, including this one.
They are John, Paul, George and Ringo.
(it was a real question on Jeopardy once, most difficult in it's
catagory).
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