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Did you know how Louis Armstrong inherited the name Satchmo?
The nickname Satchmo or Satch is short for Satchelmouth. Early on he was also known as Dippermouth. These are all references to his large mouth. Friends and fellow musicians usually called him Pops, which is also how Armstrong usually addressed his friends and fellow musicians.

If you watch the video below you'll see that they almost looked like twins, even though they are four years apart:

Did you know that the rough guitar sound on the Kinks hit "You Really Got Me" came from Dave Davies purposefully damaging their equipment? Here is his explanation:

(from "Kink" - An Autobiography by Dave Davies, copyright 1996)

The "Green Amp"

"I bought this in a radio spares shop in Muswell Hill in 1962. I couldn't afford a Watkins Dominator or a bigger posher amp! I went home and plugged the Elpico loudspeaker's output leads into the input of the AC 30, in effect using the smaller amp as kind of a pre-amp. It sounded great, but I wasn't satisfied.

The crowning glory of my simple yet effective experiment was to slash the speaker cone of the Elpico with a razor blade so that the material, although now shredded, still remained intact with the outer side of the cone. As it vibrated it produced a distorted and jagged roar. In fact, the original set-up was so crude that the main amp's hum was almost as loud as the sound I had created.

A sound was born, but I didn't know it at the time. Immediately I started using my set-up in live shows that I performed with Ray and our band, in the time leading up to the creation of the Kinks. Ironically, it was that sound, which we used on "You Really Got Me," that got the Kinks our first hit."

Did you know that Paul McCartney's younger brother, Michael formed a group of his own, known as "The Scaffold" and goes by the name "Mike McGear"?

He is mentioned in the lyric of "Let 'Em In" as "Brother Michael" (available on McCartney's "Wings At The Speed Of Sound" album).

You inspired me to do a bit of research, and it looks like he had taken a photo I love that was used for the album cover of the "Chaos and Creation In The Back Yard."

I can't imagine being the sibling of Paul Simon or Paul McCartney and trying to succeed in the field of music. Talk about standing in someone's shadow!

Did you know how the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd got its name?

While in high school in Jacksonville, FL, Ronnie Van Zant (vocals), Allen Collins (guitar), and Gary Rossington (guitar) formed 'My Backyard'. Within a few months, the group added bassist Leon Wilkeson and keyboardist Billy Powell, and changed their name to Lynyrd Skynyrd, a mocking tribute to their gym teacher Leonard Skinner, who was notorious for punishing students... with long hair.

Graham Nash was guest DJ on our local fave radio station today, and he was playing songs that had marked milestones in his life.

When he played Joni Mitchell's "Blue," he gave highest praise to her talent, saying the song held special significance to him because she wrote it right after the two of them broke up. I never knew that.

(ah, those peace-and-love hippies!) lol

I loved T Rex!!!

Did you know that...Tommy James was in a New York hotel looking at the Mutual of New York building�s neon sign flashing repeatedly: M-O-N-Y. He suddenly got the inspiration to write his #1 hit, which was, you guessed it: 'Mony Mony'.

The song with the longest title is 'I�m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin� Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues' written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1943. He later claimed the song title ended with "Yank" and the rest was a joke.The song with the longest title is 'I�m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin� Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues' written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1943. He later claimed the song title ended with "Yank" and the rest was a joke.

"Shakin' All Over" gained fame in North America after Chad Allan and the Expressions covered it in 1965, where it was a #1 hit in Canada. Several months later, concerned that the effect of the British Invasion might eclipse the potential for success in the US by a Canadian act, the record label issued the song to radio stations in the States on a white label, with the artist listed as Guess Who? This became the first hit for the group in the states, reaching #22 and leading Chad Allen and the Expressions to change the group's name to The Guess Who.

Here is a link to the magazine artwork:

Did y'all know that "Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for... Jim Morrison