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TIDBITS® LISTENS TO SOME
ONE-HIT WONDERS
by Kathy Wolfe Most of us have a favorite singer or band from whom we eagerly await a new song or CD. But what about those groups who brought us a hit and were never heard from again? This week, Tidbits remembers some of those artists who hit the charts once and only once. • The term “one-hit wonder” usually refers to performers who had only one Billboard Top 40 hit single, or had one song that overshadowed all their other work. • A fictional band recorded one of pop’s most successful songs, “Sugar, Sugar,” in 1969. Ranked as the number one song of the year, it sold six million copies and records were even placed on the back of Post Super Sugar Crisp cereal boxes. The group The Archies was made up of cartoon characters Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones for an animated TV series, but the music was recorded by session musicians, featuring Ron Dante on vocals. Dante was also the co-producer of Barry Manilow’s first nine albums and sang back-up on many of Manilow’s hits. Dante had another one-hit wonder as the sole singer in the pop group The Cuff Links. In 1969, as “Sugar, Sugar” was sitting at the top of the charts, the million-copy seller “Tracy” was released by Dante, who used his voice in 16 dub-overs. “Tracy” spent 12 weeks on the U.S. chart.
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ONE-HIT WONDERS (continued): • One of the most popular songs of the disco era, “The Hustle,” was recorded by Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony in 1975, and was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, selling over a million copies. McCoy’s reason for achieving a one-hit wonder was a tragic one – he died of a heart attack in 1979 at the age of 39.
HOLLYWOOD Netflix’s latest reboot to get the “Full House” treatment will be “The Gilmore Girls,” which ran for seven seasons. Returning will be Lauren Graham, (Loralai), Alexis Bledel (Rory), Scott Patterson (Luke), Kelly Bishop (Loralai’s mother, Emily), Sean Gunn (Kirk) and Keiko Agena (Lane). Not returning is Melissa McCarthy -star of “Molly & Me,” “Spy” and the upcoming “Ghostbusters” -- who played Sookie St. James for all seven seasons. McCarthy, whose star has risen higher than anyone else from that show, confessed, “No one has asked me or Sookie to come back to Stars Hollow. Wish them all the best.” Could it be McCarthy has become such a big presence that producers were afraid she’d overshadow the rest of the cast? They couldn’t have known if they could afford to have her back if she wasn’t even asked. Kind of like the way The Olsen Twins became so rich they wouldn’t join the cast of “Fuller House,” but at least they were asked! Current best actor Oscar-nominee Matt Damon is once again joining forces with best friend Ben Af-
Call Today (250) 832-3361 fleck, with whom he shared an Oscar for best original screenplay for “Good Will Hunting,” to co-produce a new SYFY series, “Incorporated,” which will star Sean Teale (of “Reign”) as a young executive who hides his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves. The 200th episode of “The Big Bang Theory” airs Feb. 25 with amazing cameos from “Batman” Adam West, “The Good Wife’s” Christine Baranski, “Roseanne’s” Sara Gilbert and “Star Trek: The Next Generation’s” Wil Wheaton. Grant Gustin, aka “The Flash,” will cross over from The CW to CBS for the March 28 episode of “Supergirl.” It took the combined cooperation of CBS, The CW, Warner Bros. and DC Comics to make it happen. The common denominator was producer Greg Berlanti, who produces both shows. The combination of “The Flash,” the CW’s top-rated show, and “Supergirl,” CBS’s top new show, ranking No. 6 among the 18-49 demographic, should send the ratings into the stratosphere! German TV is creating a new film franchise based on “The Three Stooges” ... with 12-year-olds! “The Three Little Stooges” will be directed by Harris Goldberg, who gave us “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,” and be shot in Vancouver, British Columbia. “MacGyver” (Richard Dean Anderson), who foiled disastrous plots for seven seasons and 139 episodes on ABC in the 1980s, is being rebooted at CBS. Here’s the fun part, the executive producer is Henry Winkler. Between The Three Stooges going “Nongnongnong” and The Fonz saying “Aaaaay,” maybe MacGyver can concoct a plan for us to speak English again!
• The British pop group Edison Lighthouse was named for the Eddystone Lighthouse off the southwest coast of England. Best known for 1970’s million-selling record “Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes,” the band was just a group of studio musicians that had been hurriedly put together. The tune enjoyed a brief revival when it was featured in the 2001 film Shallow Hal, starring Jack Black, with Gwyneth Paltrow in the role of Rosemary. • Rolling Stone magazine has ranked 1970’s “Spirit in the Sky” as number 333 on their list of the “500
Greatest Songs of All Time.” Written, recorded, and released by Norman Greenbaum in late 1969, the song spent 15 weeks in the Top 100, with sales of over two million copies. Greenbaum never hit the charts again, but today, Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Angels use the song to introduce their starting lineup at their Anaheim stadium. • Singer Bobby McFerrin is a ten-time Grammy Award winner, but his chart-topper “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” is probably the only song any of us remember. The song is entirely a cappella, using no instruments at all, the first of its kind to reach Number One on the Billboard chart. The lyrics were inspired by the words of an Indian mystic Meher Baba, who encompassed his philosophy in those four words. • Back in 1968, John Fred and his Playboy Band released “Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)”, a hit that sold over a million copies. The song’s title was a parody of the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky
info@TidbitsVernon.com The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read® Call Today (250) 832-3361 • Sheb Wooley’s one big hit, which was #1 on the Billboards charts for seven weeks in 1958, has enjoyed popularity for decades. The novelty song “The Purple People Eater” told of a “one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple eater,” who comes to Earth because it wants to be in a rock and roll band. The defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings (whose uniforms were purple) adopted the term from the late 1960s through the 1970s. The song was used in cartoons, TV commercials, and film soundtracks, as well as its own film in 1988. • In 1968, Paul Leka co-wrote the one-hit wonder “Green Tambourine,” which was recorded by The Lemon Pipers. The following year, his onehit composition for the studio group Steam (who broke up before they ever went on a tour) was “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.” • Does the name Carlton Douglas ring a bell? He won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best-selling Single and retains his fame for one of the bestselling singles of all time. “Kung Fu Fighting” has had sales of upwards of 11 million records worldwide, but Carl Douglas went on the books as a one-hit wonder. • You might remember the wavy-haired ukulele player Tiny Tim, a singer with a high falsetto voice who recorded “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” in 1968. Born Herbert Khaury in 1932, this unusual artist’s performance of this old with Diamonds.” The number one hit which spoke of “lemonade pies and cantaloupe eyes,” actually knocked another Beatles hit, “Hello, Good-bye” out of the number one position for two weeks, but it was the one and only hit for the Playboy Band. • The Starland Vocal Band was made up of two married couples who recorded one of 1976’s biggest-selling singles. “Afternoon Delight” was nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning two, including Best New Artist. The Band’s success resulted in a six-week summer variety TV show, which employed the talents of a young writer named David Letterman. The Band’s follow-up album failed miserably, and the group broke up, as did the marriages. • The 2000 movie Rugrats in Paris featured the song “Who Let the Dogs Out?”, performed by the Baha Men, which won numerous awards, including the 1974 Grammy for Best Dance Recording, Billboard’s World Music Artist of the Year, and World Music Album of the Year, and Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Award. Yet this popular tune has been ranked third on Rolling Stone’s “20 Most Annoying Songs, “ number one on Spinner’s “Top 20 Worst Songs Ever, and number two on AOL Radio’s “100 Worst Songs Ever.” Needless to say, the Baha Men haven’t hit the charts again.
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POLAR BEARS
Just in time for Polar Bear Day on February 27, Tidbits offers information on this Arctic dweller. • If you’re looking for polar bears, you’ll have to travel north of the Arctic Circle, the only place they’re found. About 60% of the world’s population (an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 bears) is found in Canada, with smaller subpopulations distributed throughout Alaska, Russia, Greenland, and Norway. • Although its scientific name is Ursus maritimus, meaning “sea bear,” other languages have different names for the polar bear. In Greenland, it is known as Tomassuk, translating “the master of helping spirits.” The Inuit call the bear Nanuq, “an animal worthy of great respect,” or Phioqahiak, “the ever-wandering one,” an
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fifteen minutes, but can remain submerged for up to 45 minutes. With its very keen sense of smell, the polar bear can locate the breathing holes and then waits for the seals to surface. The bear’s long tapered neck enables it to shove its head into the holes. If seals are plentiful, the bear might eat just the blubber and skin, up to 100 pounds (45 kg) in one sitting. However, if prey is scarce, its diet is supplemented by vegetation, geese, and bird eggs, and the occasional walrus when available. • The polar bear’s sense of smell is so powerful the male can seek out a mate on the ice by following a scented trail left by the female’s footpads. appropriate term since the bears may travel • Polar bears plod along at a speed of about 3 to 4 miles per hour (5 to 6 km/hr), but if need thousands of miles every year in search of food. didn’t burn their teeth spent the eternal afterlife be, can reach a top speed of 25 miles per The Scandinavian name is Isbjorn, or “ice bear.” searching for them. hour (40 km/hr), although only for a short As the world’s largest land carnivores, male polar • Th e Norse Vikings hung the teeth and small articles distance. bears measure up to 9 feet (2.75 m) nose to tail from their children on a string around their necks and can reach a weight of 1,760 lbs. (798 kg). when heading into battle, believing this practice Although the bears appear to be white, their hair would bring good luck. shafts are actually pigment-free and transparent. • Different countries have varying interpretations of The shaft’s hollow core reflects visible light what the tooth fairy looks like. North American the same as ice and snow and appear white. images might be a pixie, a blue-winged mother The fur is a dense mixture of hairs of various figure, a flying ballerina, and even a flying man lengths, thicker than any other bears’, which with a pot belly smoking a cigar. In Spanish and prevents heat loss from the massive body. The Hispanic cultures, the figure is known as Ratoncito skin underneath is actually black to absorb heat. Perez, or “The Tooth Mouse.” Italy’s character is Under the skin is an insulating layer of fat, or also a small mouse, as it is in France and Belgium, blubber, about 4.5 inches (11.5 cm) thick. where it is la petite souris, “The Little Mouse.” In The paws of polar bears are about 12 inches 931 Scotland, a white fairy rat purchases children’s cm) across and help distribute their weight teeth with coins. evenly as they move across thin ice. The paws • The tradition in many Asian countries, including also serve as large paddles when swimming India, China, Japan, and Korea, is to throw the through the Arctic waters. Their footpads are child’s tooth onto the roof if it was from the lower covered with small bumps called papillae that jaw. Teeth from the upper jaw are placed into the prevent the bears from slipping on ice. Two-inch space beneath the floor. It is the hope that the (5.1 cm) claws also provide traction, in addition child’s adult teeth will grow in strong and sturdy THE TOOTH FAIRY to seizing prey. like a rodent’s, based on the fact that mice’s teeth The primary prey is the ringed seal, the smallest grow for their entire lives. and most common seal in the Arctic. The seal February 28 is National Tooth Fairy Day, and is able to stay beneath the ice by using its sharp what better time to look into the history of this • One of the first written records of the tooth fairy appeared in a “Household Hints” column in the claws to cut breathing holes, even in 6-ft.-deep fantasy figure! Chicago Daily Tribune in 1908. Columnist Lillian (1.8-m) thick ice. The seals surface and catch • Most of us grew up putting our baby teeth a breath through the holes about every five to underneath our pillow or in a glass of water in hopes of being rewarded with payment for the lost tooth. Early European tradition was to bury the lost baby teeth. When the sixth tooth came out, the parents would slip money or a small gift under the child’s pillow. Medieval Europeans believed that if a witch were to gain possession of one’s tooth, she could gain total power over the individual, since having a piece of a person enabled the witch to cast dark spells on that person. • In England during the Middle Ages, the children’s teeth were burned as a means of saving the child from hardship in the afterlife. According to folklore, those who
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by Samantha Weaver * It was Founding Father Thomas Paine who made the following sage observation: “He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” * Most people prefer to kiss with their eyes closed; however, of those who do prefer to keep their eyes open, the vast majority are men. * It’s well-known that a certain segment of native Londoners speak in a dialect known as Cockney, which makes frequent use of rhyming slang -- some classic examples are “dog and bone” for “phone” and “apples and pears” for “stairs.” A more recent addition to the vocabulary is “Donald Trump,” which, for at least the past 15 years, has been used as an equivalent for going to the bathroom. * If you watch TV or movies at all, you’ve probably seen some variation of the Humane Society disclaimer “No animals were harmed in the making of this program.” You may not have considered that it’s also applicable to insects, but those who make the programs certainly do. In fact, if you see a bug being destroyed in a contemporary movie, it’s a safe bet that the bug was dead before the scene was shot. There are even people who stuff dead bugs with a sort of cream to fill it out -- and to ensure a satisfying squish for the camera. * You may be surprised to learn that many people never even feel it when they’re bitten by a venomous snake. (They certainly experience the aftereffects, though.) *** Thought for the Day: “In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” -- Mortimer J. Adler (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc
Brown wrote: “Many a refractory child will allow a loose tooth to be removed if he knows about the Tooth Fairy. If he takes his little tooth and puts it under the pillow when he goes to bed, the tooth fairy will come in the night and take it away, and in its place will leave some little gift. It is a nice plan for mothers to visit the 5-cent counter and lay in a supply of supplies to be used on such occasions.” • One American author, Vicki Lansky, advises parents to tell their children that the tooth fairy pays more for a perfect tooth than for a decayed one, which will encourage good dental hygiene. • Rosemary Wells, a professor at Chicago’s Northwestern University Dental School, conducted extensive research into the tooth fairy myth. One of her studies concluded that 74% believed the tooth fairy is female, 12% believed the fairy was neither, while 8% believed the fairy could be either. Wells loved the subject so much, she opened a tooth fairy museum in her Deerfield, IL home, and was even interviewed on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” • A recent survey indicated that the average American child these days receives an average of $3.70 per tooth.
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1. MUSIC: What was the name of the record company founded by the Beatles? 2. ASTRONOMY: Which planet in our solar system spins the fastest? 3. ANIMAL KINGDOM: Which insect can indicate the temperature with accuracy? 4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the fastest k nown bird in the world? 5. CHEMISTRY: What is the only metal that’s liquid at room temperature? 6. MOVIES: What was Baby’s real name in “Dirty Dancing”? 7. GEOGRAPHY: What country is bordered by the Atlantic and Indian Oceans? 8. PSYCHOLOGY: What is the fear represented in the condition “herpetophobia”? 9. MEDICAL: What is the common name for hypoglycemia? 10. TELEVISION: Where does Homer Simpson work? Answers 1. Apple Records 2. Jupiter, which rotates once in just less than 10 hours. 3. Crickets 4. Peregrin falcon 5. Mercury 6. Frances 7. South Africa 8. Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things 9. Low blood sugar 10. Springfield Nuclear Power Plant (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Broccoli Waldorf Salad Raisins ... the overlooked fruit! 1/2 cup Kraft fat-free mayonnaise 2 tablespoons Splenda Granular 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar 3 cups chopped fresh broccoli 1 cup (2 small) cored, unpeeled and diced Red Delicious apples 1/4 cup seedless raisins 1/4 cup chopped pecans
* “When you’re slicing flank steak or chicken breasts (anything that needs to be cut thin and has a lot of skin or fat that makes it hard to trim), try partially freezing the meat beforehand. It makes it much easier to cut, and it defrosts quickly when it’s sliced thin.” -- C.O. in Indiana * “Being Southern, I make my own biscuits from a recipe that’s been in my family forever. But here’s a tip for people who like to bake: freeze and grate your butter when mixing it into your dry ingredients. Less handling means more flakiness and a more tender texture. It’s just right for biscuits, and for pie crust and scones too.” -- R.L. in Alabama * Add some shaker pegs or a peg rack to your closet door. They are great for scarves, necklaces, purses and other bags. You can store many items in places that might otherwise go unused. * “Use plastic food-storage containers to hold your accessory cords in a ‘junk’ drawer. If you flip them bottoms up, you can see what cord is in the container to access it quickly. This way, you don’t need to worry about family who don’t put things away in the right box. Or is that just my family?” -- A.L. in South Carolina * “I purchase big boxes of assorted greeting cards by mail order. They include many generic cards, as well as birthday and other occasions. I donate them to my local nursing home, along with stamps. Many residents love to keep in touch by mail, but aren’t able to go out and choose greeting cards or stationary on their own.” -- M.A. in Texas * Substitute 1/4 cup of applesauce or mashed banana for an egg in baking recipes. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.
Dog Flu Still a Threat DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My shorthaired terrier, “Blazer,” became very ill just before Christmas and was diagnosed with dog flu. He’s doing much better now, but it was touch and go for a while. Can you let your readers know that there’s a bad strain of the flu going around and to take care of their dogs? -- Bill C., Tucson, Arizona DEAR BILL: I’m glad to hear that Blazer is on the mend! Last year, the spread of a particularly severe form of canine influenza caught the attention of the media and had dog owners nationwide worrying. The illness has dropped from the headlines lately, but that doesn’t mean it’s no longer a threat. In fact, by mid-January the influenza A H3N2 virus had spread to 18 states and is still spreading. Symptoms of the flu virus may seem pretty benign at first: A dog may have no symptoms, or may have a runny nose and cough. However, more serious symptoms, including a high fever, tend to develop. Dogs with the virus can become dehydrated very quickly, so prompt attention at the vet’s office is critical. There isn’t a cure for the flu; pets need to be kept hydrated and get plenty of rest and supportive nutrition. Recovery time for most dogs is about two or three weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While a dog is ill, he or she should not be around other dogs, as the virus can be spread easily by a sneeze or cough. The mortality rate from H3N2 among dogs is about 10 percent, making it a risk no pet owner wants to take. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.
1. In a medium bowl, combine mayonnaise, Splenda and vinegar. Add broccoli, apples and raisins. Mix well to combine. Stir in pecans. 2. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Gently stir again just before serving. Makes 4 (1 cup) servings. HINT: To plump raisins without “cooking,” place in a glass measuring cup and microwave on HIGH for 20 seconds. * Each serving equals: 146 calories, 6g fat, 3g protein, 20g carb., 260mg sodium, 45mg calcium, 3g fiber. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 Vegetable, 1 Fruit, 1/2 Fat. Carb Choices: 1. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.
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