Tell 'em about the Hendrix and cigarette wrapper dealio ...

...yes, of course. The sound heard overdubbed over Hendrix's main riff in Cross Town traffic is actually the sound of somebody blowing on the cellophane from a cigarette pack to produce a kazoo like sound.

Sometime in the mid 90's Johnny Depp played guitar in a musical side project called P which featured members of The Butthole Surfers.

When a jazz trumpeter blares on in the 'High C' registry, it is known as playin' in the mode of the Maynard Ferguson method ...

And? ... ...

I like it very much ... ... LOVE jazz!!! ...

Many jazz musicians refer to the clarinet as "the misery stick".

Why? ... Because it relays the pain, da blues??? ...

Yanno my daughter plays it, jazz fans say she has jazz 'it' ...

It's ALL about the un-definable IT factor, huh?

Tag! ... You're 'It' ...

Technically, that's not quite true.

It is true that at the time the "DESPERADO" album was released,
only "Tequila Sunrise" & "Outlaw Man" were released as singles.

But years later, in the '80s, when most major record labels were
reissuing past hit songs on "back-to-back hit gold 45's".....

Elektra / Asylum paired "Desperado" with one of Eagles' hit singles.
I want to say it was "Hotel California" or "New Kid In Town".
But I'm not positive of that.

During that time period, that same thing happened with a few more
popular album tracks that had not been released as singles before.

Four others that the same thing happened to that I recall having
were Jim Croce's "Lover's Cross" & "Age" (both from "I GOT A NAME"),
Bee Gees' "More Than A Woman" (from "SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER") &
AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap".

On the 1978 Top-20 novelty single, "King Tut", by Steve Martin & The Toot Uncommons..........

The Toot Uncommons were actually The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

(Although that was the brief time period when they were calling themselves only The Dirt Band).

From 1968 thru 1995. there were 14 completely different songs titled "Hold On"
that were released as singles & all 14 charted.


01) "Hold On" ~ The Radiants (#68 in 1968)

02) "Hold On" ~ The Rascals (#51 in 1970)

03) "Hold On" ~ Sons of Champlin (#47 in 1976)

04) "Hold On" ~ Wild Cherry (#61 in 1977)

05) "Hold On" ~ Triumph (#38 in 1979)

06) "Hold On" ~ Ian Gomm (#18 in 1979)

07) "Hold On" ~ Kansas (#40 in 1980)

08) "Hold On" ~ Badfinger (#56 in 1981)

09) "Hold On" ~ Santana (#15 in 1982)

10) "Hold On" ~ Rosanne Cash (#5 C&W in 1986)

11) "Hold On" ~ Donny Osmond (#73 in 1989)

12) "Hold On" ~ Wilson Phillips (#1 in 1990)

13) "Hold On" ~ En Vogue (#2 in 1990)

14) "Hold On" ~ Jamie Walters (#16 in 1995)

"Seasons In the Sun", the 1974 #1 single by Terry Jacks,
was first recorded in 1963 by The Kingston Trio.