Trivia

CoolBreeze · Post by **CoolBreeze** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:33 am

Who graduated from Marietta College (Marietta Ohio) in 1884,
and wrote the music to a hit rock record of the late 50s?

Oh... he also happened to be vice president of the United States.

What was the song?

(Is this too easy? Everything is if you Google)

Bob Campbell · Post by **Bob Campbell** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:44 am

Gomer Pyle?

amayo · Post by **amayo** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:03 am

Charles Dawes---I think the song was "It's All In The Game"

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CoolBreeze · Post by **CoolBreeze** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:03 am

Bingo! Good trivia for an oldies station contest.

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:56 am

In the Steely Dan hit "My Old School", who does "Gino and Daddy G" refer to?

CoolBreeze · Post by **CoolBreeze** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:14 am

Am I the only person on the face of the earth that didnt know how Steely Dan got their name?

fearpeddler · Post by **fearpeddler** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:15 am

CoolBreeze wrote:Am I the only person on the face of the earth that didnt know how Steely Dan got their name?

no, I don't know...

SPIKE NESMITH! · Post by **SPIKE NESMITH!** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:16 am

As a wise-but-odd man once quipped, "If you understand, that's fine. If you don't, that's fine too... But you should probably read more."

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:43 am

"It's a dildo! Steely Dan is a dildo! . They're making our Steely Dan out of dildos. ... You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!"

CoolBreeze · Post by **CoolBreeze** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:14 pm

Yep... Donald and Walter need a name for their group. Since both of them were avid readers of 1950's "Beat" literature, they decided to name the band "Steely Dan" after a dildo in William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch."

The book was banned in many regions of the United States. The book was banned by Boston courts in 1962 due to obscenity (notably child murder in pedophilic acts), but that decision was reversed in 1966 by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. This was the last major literary censorship battle in the U.S.