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Music Mount Rushmores by state

Pitney had 16 top 40 hits.
Al Anderson/ NRBQ/Wildweeds belongs .

Love the way this goes:
1at yarder: I think x is good
2nd yarder: they suck and I would rather go deaf than hear them again.

So cool.
 
ihatepants said:
Gotta rep WA State:

Jimi Hendrix
Bing Crosby
Kenny Loggins
Quincy Jones
Kenny G
Heart (Ann and Nancy Wilson)
Grunge bands (Nivana - Cobain, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam - Vedder, Alice in Chains - Staley, Soundgarden - Cornell)
Alt Rock (Modest Mouse, ODESZA, Death Cab for Cutie)
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Vedder grew up in Illinois, California, but joined forces w rest of band to form Pearl Jam in Seattle, so still counts. Washington state is solid as hell. Cornell w Soundgarden and Audioslave, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Jimi Hendrix. Foo Fighters, Death Cab.
 
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cohenzone said:
Pitney counts. Sold a ton of records, with a long career in Europe after he faded in the US. But I believe he maintained a home in the Enfield area.

Funny you mention Totie Fields. She graduated from my hs, Hartford Weaver, and my hs senior prom date’s mother was Totie’s best friend. On top of that, family lore has it that Sophie Tucker was married in the same synagogue on the same day as my grandmother, but not to each other.
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Totie used to mention her high school boyfriend in her act - Moe Budkofsky, who lived 2 houses away from me when I was growing up and friends with his kid Alan.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
Totie used to mention her high school boyfriend in her act - Moe Budkofsky, who lived 2 houses away from me when I was growing up and friends with his kid Alan.
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I hadn’t heard of her and the first time I ever saw Totie Fields was on the Ed Sullivan Show. She pulled out a Weaver High pennant as part of her act. Total surprise and she cracked me up.
 
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cohenzone said:
I hadn’t heard of her and the first time I ever saw Totie Fields was on the Ed Sullivan Show. She pulled out a Weaver High pennant as part of her act. Total surprise and she cracked me up.
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My dad's cousin Eddie Simmons was Norman Lear's writing partner for Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis.
 
John said:
Toto is a decent CT band from Rocky Hill
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Who likes the Doobie Brothers? We’ve got one!

My grandmother used to play bridge with the mother of the guy from Dire Straits.
 
Who Ha said:
Does Keith Richards count?
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Of course Keith Richards counts! He has lived in Weston for years. He alone, might make Connecticut the greatest rock and roll state. (Although he may be cancelled out by Michael Bolton).
 
zepfan said:
Of course Keith Richards counts! ... (Although he may be cancelled out by Michael Bolton).
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Not cancelled, yin and yang. One dropped a letter from their given name, the other added one.
 
Waquoit said:
CT:
Carpenters
John Mayer
Liz Phair
Michael Bolton

I'd rather listen to Michael Bolton than Jon Bon Jovi.
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Gene Pitney, "The Rockville Rocket", has to be on that rock.


EDIT, I see Madman mentioned him earlier.
 
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whaler11 said:
Who likes the Doobie Brothers? We’ve got one!

My grandmother used to play bridge with the mother of the guy from Dire Straits.
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Mark Knopfler? Seeing him later this summer.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
Mark Knopfler? Seeing him later this summer.
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Sonni I think?

There is only a certain age group that hears Mark Knopfler and thinks Jerky Boys.

MARK KNOPFLER
 
Walker11 said:
Chris Webby is a D list rapper from Norwalk and Greens Farms Academy who sold me weed in HS and somehow dated Halle Berry.
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superjohn said:
Wait, what? Chris Webby dated Halle Berry???

I always thought he was whack but gained respect for him when he did Five Dingers of Death on Sway's show, don't like his songs but he freestyles better than like 98% of dudes. Halle Berry? Now I have a whole new level of respect for him.
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Wouldn't call it dating Halle Berry. As his record exec put it he was a side piece of hers when he was out that way. Still cool but dating might be overstating it
 
sledog said:
You forgot the Remains, Beacon Street Union, and the Barbarians for starters.
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Never heard of them. I did leave off New Kids, Til Tuesday and others
 
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So if we are really talking about Mount Rushmore, then we need individual musical stars (whether in a band or not). Should be born or at least raised in the place. Not just a current resident.

@Guapo the top of the GA list would have to be Johnny Mercer. You've also got Ray Charles, Little Richard, James Brown, Alan Jackson and a few others. Michael Stipe is best known from REM. None of the B52s are well known individually.
 
HuskyHawk said:
So if we are really talking about Mount Rushmore, then we need individual musical stars (whether in a band or not). Should be born or at least raised in the place. Not just a current resident.

@Guapo the top of the GA list would have to be Johnny Mercer. You've also got Ray Charles, Little Richard, James Brown, Alan Jackson and a few others. Michael Stipe is best known from REM. None of the B52s are well known individually.
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How could I have forgotten James Brown??
 
Excalibur said:
The irony of an insufferable writer spouting off about the insufferable musician . . .
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Yeah Billy Joel stinks - he just sells out the Garden at huge prices anytime he wants to take a chopper into the city.

Anyone who has been to one of those shows and didn’t have a great time has something very wrong with them.
 
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