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May 20 Information
Seeking a "brothers" band
Hi. I was listening to a rerun of
American Top 40 today; I don't know what year it was from, but doubtless from the 1970s. Among the songs on the roster was one by a band called the "[Something] Brothers", which consisted, Kasem (the DJ) said, of two brothers (with the surname [Something]). One of their earlier songs (not the one he played) had been covered more than a hundred times over the years, and had made them loads of money. The song he played though, was their own (not a cover). I'm seeking their last name; alas, all I remember of it is that it ended in a vowel sound (probably a non-silent e; the name Anende sounds about right (but isn't right)). Any ideas? (I know this isn't much to go on.)—
msh210℠20:00, 20 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Nope, but thanks for trying. It was none of those. I should mention also that the show I heard today aired on
KZQZ-AM (in case that helps anyone figure out what year it was from) and that I think Kasem said the earlier song (the one
covered so many times) had been from 1950s (but I'm not sure).—
msh210℠20:15, 20 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Oh, I've remembered something else. Whatever song Kasem played (i.e., not the heavily covered one from the '50s) had a long title, long enough to make me wonder if it had parentheses in it.—
msh210℠20:44, 20 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Thanks. The name sounds right, but the dates don't (they were too late), and they don't seem to have such a heavily covered song.—
msh210℠21:55, 20 May 2012 (UTC)reply
From what I can tell through various searches, there are two AT40 programs featuring Casey Kasem that are being broadcast - reruns of shows from the 70s and reruns of shows from the 80s.
This website list the songs played on each. For this past weekend, the only "brothers" act appears on the 70s playlist, the
Addrisi Brothers, who our article tells us wrote "
Never My Love", which has been covered dozens of times and "was the second most-played song on radio and television of the 20th century." --
LarryMac | Talk13:08, 21 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Although the song title in that link (now corrected, incidentally) is just "Slow Dancin'", according to allmusic.com the full title is "Slow Dancin' Don't Turn Me On", which is not particularly long, but to my ears sounds like it could be partially parenthetical. Their other minor hit of the early 70's was "We've Got to Get it on Again". You can find performances of both songs on YouTube. --
LarryMac | Talk21:00, 21 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Thank you very much!! Yes, "Never My Love" was the song Kasem mentioned (he said it'd been covered more than a hundred times, I believe), and "Slow Dancin' Don't Turn Me On" was indeed the song I heard (great song, incidentally, and one I'd never AFAIK heard before).—
msh210℠03:55, 22 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Many of the films created by the legendary French filmmaker
Georges Méliès have a number in something called a Star Films catalogue. I know that Star Films was Melies' film studio, and that
Playing Cards, which is listed as number 1 in the catalogue - See here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IKvSErVidQ - was apparently Melies' first film. This leads me to believe that the order of the Star Films catalogue denotes the release order of Melies' films, however I do not know this for sure. One point that confuses me is that some films have multiple numbers in the Star Films Catalogue. For example
The Haunted Castle is number 78-80. If the number denotes the order of release, then it wouldn't make any sense for The Haunted Castle to be the 78th, 79th, and 80th film to be released. Its only one film!
Star Film (in English) was the name of Méliès's production company. The catalogue is simply the list of films he produced in his studios, reconstituted by historians from various written sources after the fact (many of the actual films have been lost); there was never an actual publication called the "Star Film Catalogue", with numbered items. The numbers are an attempt to give some chronological order to his vast production. It seems that the "Haunted Castle" (aka "The Devil's Castle") has three numbers because it's in three 20-metre reels, rather than the usual one reel. In the on-line list here
[1], all films on more than one reel have multiple numbers. --
Xuxl (
talk)
10:34, 24 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Thanks for responding! I was worried that my question was too obscure for anyone to answer. So just to be clear; you are saying that when the Star Films catalogue was created, an attempt was made to order the films as closely as possible to their release order, but that the ordering probably isn't exact?-
Jpcase (
talk)
15:21, 24 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Exactly. Let's not forget that the whole cinema business was very different in those days, more akin to producing comedy sketches for county fairs than to today's studio blockbusters, so there is scant documentation available on many of the lost films. --
Xuxl (
talk)
07:38, 25 May 2012 (UTC)reply