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Almost done here in Houston, only two more days!! I can't wait to be together with family again. Only a four more days until we take off for Swaziland. Whoo hoo!
I am learning how BlogIt and Facebook work with Vox. Let's see if this worked....
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See if you can guess these songs and artists from what Casey tells us about them...
#39. This song broke the record for longest span of time between a single's first chart appearance and its most recent appearance. This single first reached the charts in 1964 and hit #2, and recently it's been heard in the hit movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. "____________" by ____________.
#36. Van Halen's 3rd hit with their new singer, _____________, "Love Walks In".
#35. From Houston, Texas, here's ______________ with the 4th hit from their album Afterburner, "Velcro Fly".
#29. This artist, ____________, was on the tour recently to benefit human rights organization ______________, along with acts like Sting, U2, and Bryan Adams, and wrote a song recently about a political prisoner in Africa. The song at #29 was a recent #1 (dance and pop): "_______________".
#25. "_____________" is the first hit for singer _______________, whose real name is Stacey Swain. She took her name from a character in James Bond books.
#23. Here's the voice we first heard on the charts in 1976 with "Sara Smile". Now, ____________ has his first solo hit, "Dream Time".
#22. Bonus question: Who is the most successful black recording artist from the UK (as of 1986)? (He had a #1 hit in 1984.) His song "Love Zone" is at #22: ______________.
#17. The duo, _______, George Michael and _______________, falling 7 notches with "The Edge of Heaven".
#15. The biggest charting rap group yet, the trio _____________, with their biggest pop hit, a rap remake of a 1977 top ten hit, "_______________".
#12. A recent #1 hit ballad from the movie Karate Kid 2: "_____________" by _____________.
#10. Her first solo hit from her first solo album: "_______________" by _________________ from the album Belinda.
#6. The hit by 2 singer-actors, Carl Anderson and Gloria Loring. Together they sing "______________".
#5. The latest hit by Lionel Richie, "_________________", something we obviously can't do, but Fred Astaire did it in the movie Royal Wedding.
#4. The biggest hit of the 7 songs from movies this week. The love theme from the movie Top Gun: "___________________" by __________.
#2. It's Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward, and Sara Dallin, the group from London, ____________ with "________".
#1. The first #1 solo hit by a man who 20 years ago was being called a Boy Genius. He was only 17 when he sang lead for the Spencer Davis Group. Then he joined Traffic and Blind Faith. The new #1 is "______________" by ___________.
Answers are in the comments...
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The soulful Ray Lamontagne has a new album, called "Gossip in the Grain", coming out in a couple months.
One listen to new song "Let It Be Me", available for streaming here, makes clear that Ray's still got it. It's really good, and I'm sure the new album's going to be one of the best of the year. You can pre-order it directly from Ray now.
Ray's also touring the US in the fall. I was impressed enough with Lamontagne when I saw him at the Newport Folk Festival to go out and buy his music, but I was underwhelmed when I saw him touring for his 2nd record. So this year's Paramount show in Oakland will be the decider, since I just got my tickets.
]]>The Y Combinator team does all sorts of great stuff with their startups. I learned about a new one last night. Apparently when you join Y Combinator you are given a gray t-shirt that says "Make Something People Want." There are a relatively small number of those t-shirts in the universe. But the far rarer t-shirt is the one that you get when you sell your company (I assume you'll get one if your company goes public as well -- it just hasn't been long enough for any of them to get there yet). When you sell your company, the Y Combinator folks give you a black t-shirt that reads "I Made Something People Want." There are something like 30 of those t-shirts in existence today (which is pretty impressive in and of itself given how long the program has been around). I was chatting last night with Ryan Junee, the founder and CEO of Omnisio, which was just bought by YouTube this week. He was proudly sporting his "I Made Something People Want" t-shirt at the Startup2Startup dinner last night and enjoying the fact that at that dinner he was a rock star. That's what I love about the startup culture -- it is creative and smart and energetic and makes geeks rock stars. Congrats Ryan. Congrats Y Combinator.
I wonder what the guys who made it are doing now? :)
Julian has been rehearsing upstairs from a big Vespa dealer in San Francisco. If I have to pass this room too many more times, I may come home with one.