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The Show with David Burrows # 216

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Published on Dec 22, 2021 Opening Segment: 2nd Annual Rock and Roll Christmas Concert a HUGE success! Special Thank you to Chris Sit Photography for sharing his magnificent photo's from the event. The Entertainment Scene: A re-visit and update with 'Markur'. A project 2 years in the making Markur is preparing to release his next playlist of music. A visit to 'Whiteboard Studio's' with Markur explaining the vision of his music and what to expect with the release coming in February. www.markurmusic.com In The Community: Michele Dionne is always sharing the positive good news in Sarnia-Lambton. Now she has invited several local positive influencer's to speak at The Positive Power Empowerment Series coming in January. A visit to Jordan's Country Cupboard with Michele reveals more of the details of this exciting positive event. www.sarniarocks.com Apps with Mark Russell: When you gotta go, you'll know where to go.

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Trivia Q & A # 1 - 2016

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Q.  In 1974, Terry Jacks released a song, which provided a source of inspiration for many other bands, like Nirvana and Kurt Cobain. What is the name of the song? A. "Seasons in the Sun" is an English-language adaptation of the song "Le Moribond" by Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel with lyrics by American singer-poet Rod McKuen. It became a worldwide hit in 1974 for Canadian singer Terry Jacks and became a Christmas Number 1 in 1999 for Westlife. Jacks's version is one of the fewer than forty all-time singles to have sold 10 million copies worldwide. The song is a dying protagonist's farewell to relatives and friends. The protagonist mentions how hard it will be to die now that the spring season has arrived (historically, spring is portrayed as the season of new life). The original French-language song is a sardonic ballad, in which the speaker gives backhanded farewells to his adulterous wife ...

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TRIVIA Q & A # 48 - 2015

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Q. This song is often called "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" but that's not it's real title. What is it? A. The Christmas Song (originally subtitled, "Merry Christmas to You") is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to "stay cool by thinking cool", the most-performed (according to BMI) Christmas song was born. "I saw a spiral pad on his (Wells') piano with four lines written in pencil", Tormé recalled. "They started, 'Chestnuts roasting..., Jack Frost nipping..., Yuletide carols..., Folks dressed up like Eskimos.' Bob didn't think he was writing a song lyric. He said he thought if he could immerse himself in winter he could cool off. Forty minutes later that song was written. I wrote all the music and some of the lyrics." The Nat King Cole ...

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Trivia Q & A # 47 - 2015

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Q.   "So this is Christmas" are the first words to which John Lennon song ? A.  "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir. It was the seventh single release by Lennon outside of his work with the Beatles. The song reached number 4 in the UK, where its release was delayed until November 1972, and has periodically reemerged on the UK Singles Chart, most notably after Lennon's death in 1980, at which point it peaked at number 2. Also a protest song against the Vietnam War, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" has since become a Christmas standard, frequently covered by other artists, appearing on compilation albums of seasonal music, and named in polls as a holiday favourite. "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" was the culmination of more than ...

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Trivia Q & A # 46 - 2015

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The teenage girls that went beserk about Frank Sinatra during the Sinatramania years were named after an article of clothing.   Q. What were those girls called ? A.  Bobbie Soxers Bobby soxers were usually teenage girls and young adult women from about 12 to 25. Fashionable adolescent girls wore poodle skirts and rolled down their socks to the ankle. In high schools and colleges, the gymnasium was often used as a dance floor; however, since street shoes and street detritus might damage the polished wood floors, the students were required to remove their shoes and dance in their bobby socks, hence the phrase "sock hop". The 1940s music that floated through the airwaves and into the minds of teenage bobby-soxers was that of big bands, such as the Glen Miller and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras. It was also the era of the heartthrob male crooners, who often transitioned from the stage to the screen, ...

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Trivia Q & A # 45 - 2015

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Q. Which group took its name from two characters in the Adventures of Tin Tin A.  Thompson Twins Thompson Twins were a British music group that formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. Initially a new wave group, they switched to a more mainstream pop sound and achieved considerable popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the United Kingdom, the United States, and around the globe. The band was named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in Hergé's comic strip The Adventures of Tintin. At various stages, the band had up to seven members though their best known incarnation was as a trio between 1982–86. They became a prominent act in the so-called Second British Invasion, and in 1985, the band performed at Live Aid where they were joined onstage by Madonna. The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic albums created by Belgian ...

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Trivia Q & A # 44 - 2015

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Q. Which solo artist also had UK top ten hits with Queen, Mick Jagger and Bing Crosby? A. David Bowie WITH QUEEN - UNDER PRESSURE: In the US, this was on Queen's Greatest Hits album and released as a single at the same time. It was not released on a UK album until 6 months later, when it was included on Hot Space. Brian May recalled to Mojo magazine October 2008. "It was hard, because you had four very precocious boys and David, who was precocious enough for all of us. David took over the song lyrically. Looking back, it's a great song but it should have been mixed differently. Freddie and David had a fierce battle over that." WITH MICK JAGGER - DANCING IN THE STREETS: This was originally a hit for Martha & the Vandellas in 1964. Bowie and Jagger covered it for the Live Aid charity at the insistence of Bob ...

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Trivia Q & A # 43 - 2015

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Q.  What 15 year old Rock-Icon-to-be was grounded for the whole summer after sneaking out to her first concert to see David Bowie? A.  Madonna Madonna Louise Ciccone  (born August 16, 2021) to Catholic parents Silvio Anthony "Tony" Ciccone and Madonna Louise Fortin (c. 1933 – December 1, 2021) in Bay City, Michigan, on August 16, 1958. Her father's parents were immigrants from Pacentro, Italy, while her mother was of French-Canadian ancestry. Tony worked as an engineer designer for Chrysler and General Motors. Since Madonna had the same name as her mother, family members called her "Little Nonni". She was raised in the Detroit suburbs of Pontiac and Avon Township (nowRochester Hills). Months before her mother died from breast cancer, Madonna noticed changes in her behavior and personality, although she did not understand the reason. Her mother was at a loss to explain her medical condition, and often began to cry when Madonna questioned her about it. ...

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Trivia Q & A # 42 - 2015

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Q.  What cowbell laden song is featured in several horror movies including Halloween, The Frighteners & Scream to name a few. A.  Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper From their 1976 album, Agents of Fortune. It was written and sung by the band's lead guitarist, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and was produced by David Lucas, Murray Krugman, and Sandy Pearlman. The song is built around Dharma's opening, repetitive guitar riff, while the lyrics deal with eternal love and the inevitability of death. Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself. Besides the movies mentioned above, it was also in  used in a very non-horror capacity in the party scene of the Disney movie Miracle, which is about the US Hockey team beating the USSR at the 1980 Olympic Games.  Stephen King quoted the lyrics to this song in his novel The Stand, in which 99.9% of the US population ...

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Trivia Q & A # 41 - 2015

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Q.  Which Beatles song was about John Lennon's mother? A.  Julia The track is the final song on side two (disc one on CD) of the band's 1968 album, The Beatles (often called the White Album) "Julia" was written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and features Lennon on vocals and acoustic guitar. It was written during the Beatles' 1968 visit to Rishikesh in northern India, where they were studying under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It was here where Lennon learned the song's finger-picking guitar style (known as 'Travis-picking') from the Scottish musician Donovan. No other Beatle sings or plays on the song. While Paul McCartney made several "solo" recordings attributed to the group, dating back to his famous song "Yesterday", this is the only time that Lennon played and sang unaccompanied on a Beatles track. "Julia" was written for John's mother, Julia Lennon (1914–1958), who was knocked down and killed by a car driven ...

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