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...make you realize what a great singer Frank Sinatra is within that genre. Ringo's singing is a good standard by which you can learn to appreciate almost any singer, even whoever is the second worst. Sentimental Journey is so ludicrous that it will be worth buying for a goof, once they start selling the overstock...
...cross between "Keep on Runnin" by the Spencer Davis Group and any number of Paul Revere and the Raiders songs. "My Sweet Lord," a Top 40 hit, is musically a direct steal from the Chiffons' great "He's So Fine," and must have been done as a deliberate goof. There is something genuinely funny about substituting "hare krishna" for "dulang dulang dulang." "If Not For You," a Dylan song, is done slower than the original version on the New Morning LP and sounds better. The lyrics to most of the songs are about God and Jesus and sound best...
Demographic skew: A goof by the market researchers that makes a new product all but unsalable...
...third race by 1 min. 18 sec. as Intrepid capitalized on two tactical blunders. The first occurred when Gretel II crossed the starting line 30 sec. before the gun; she had to turn back to cross again, allowing Intrepid to breeze off to a 100-yd. lead. The second goof came on the fifth leg when Gretel II, closing hard on the defender, failed to follow Picker's starboard jibe and went in search of a better breeze on a port jibe. She did not find it. The fourth race saw Intrepid leading at all five marks, but with...
...King Cole and Fats Domino. "I was the first one to say," he claims, that "the big bands were going to die and be replaced by rhythm and blues." Feld's talent discoveries included Errol Garner and Paul Anka. But, in what may be the monumental show-biz goof of all times, he decided not to sign on the Beatles when he saw them...