Music On A Different Scale Part 2

1. Music and trivia...two of my favourite things! Chumbawumba may be known for their 1997 song "Tubthumping", but the British band actually released 14 albums. And they are in the Guinness Book of Records for the album with the longest title for their 13th album, "The Boy Bands Have Won, All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether From Lack of Ideas or Exaggerated Respect. It would help if you Never tried to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won". Officially clocking in at 156 words (865 characters). Whew!! Although it's not on that album, do you remember the song "Tubthumping"?

2. Have you ever wondered who "Annie" is who Michael Jackson asks her if she's OK with his massive 1987 hit, "Smooth Criminal"? Annie is not a real person but refers to Resusci Anne, a dummy used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training. Trainees are taught to ask "Annie, are you OK?" to determine a person's consciousness and practice administering CPR on the dummy. Michael Jackson reportedly had a Resusci Anne doll in his studio and would practice the CPR phrase on it. Did you know this interesting music trivia?

3. Music must run in the family. Most of us know these famous singers and their children -- Bob and Jakob Dylan, Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus, Naomi and Wynonna Judd, and countless others. But the lead singer of Toto, Joseph Williams just may have them all beat. His father is none other than John Williams, who has composed many of the best known scores in film history, including Star Wars, Jaws, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, E.T., and the list goes on -- winning 26 Grammy Awards, five Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. Did you know that the lead singer of Toto had such a famous father?