50 Music Fun-Facts You Won't Believe!

this is just a fun little idea that I've wanted to do forever I love trivia I love music and in this video I'm gonna give you 50 rapid-fire music related fun facts next time you're out with friends at a barbeque whatever hit somebody with one of these factoids and they'll be super impressed I promise the only member of the rock band a ZZ Top that does not have a beard is named Frank beard Jason Mraz the guy that sang I'm yours is a very successful avocado farmer and he's a big supplier for Chipotle Mexican Grill Dexter Holland the lead singer of the pop punk band of The Offspring has a PhD in molecular biology Dolly Parton wrote Jolene and I will always love you on the same day although he's one of the most popular American musicians ever Bruce Springsteen has never had a number one hit song in the USA Bruno Mars's real name is Peter Hernandez he got Bruno because his dad would tell him that he looked like the pro wrestler Bruno Sammartino and he added Mars because girls would tell him that he was out of this world Freddie Mercury was born on the island of Zanzibar off the coast of Tanzania he was raised as a Zoroastrian which is one of the world's oldest religions and he had four extra teeth Elton John's candle in the wind spent three years on the Canadian top 20 It's Raining Men one of the most iconic songs of the 80s was written by Paul Shaffer the bandleader from The Late Show with David Letterman Donny the feral son who was raised by monkeys on The Wild Thornberrys was voiced by flea bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers Elvis Presley recorded well over 600 songs throughout his career and he didn't write a single one of them toto the group who sang Africa was the studio band on Michael Jackson's album Thriller when the emo pop punk band Jimmy Eat World first got signed their label didn't really know how to market them an early idea for their first tour was that they would play in 7-eleven parking lots right after kids got out of school the origin of Daft Punk's name came from a negative review of their previous band a 1993 review and Melody Maker called them Daft Punk II thrash the Elton John song Benny in the Jets isn't actually a live recording producers thought it sounded a little boring so they added crowd noise and clapping to make it more exciting that huge booming drum in the boxer by Simon & Garfunkel was created by setting up the drums in front of an elevator shaft which helped make that deep echo effect alright there's too much to even say about this group and my whole channel would probably get demonetised if I showed you any of it so if you're interested in some dark and creepy pieces of trivia just go down the Wikipedia page of the Norwegian black metal band may have a letter that Johnny Cash sent to his wife June was voted to be the most romantic love letter ever written hilary duff was the first musician under the age of 18 to have a number-one hit album in the 21st century she was only 15 when she dropped metamorphosis we're nearing the halfway mark so here's a quick lightning round on the Beatles around 2 minutes 57 seconds into Hey Jude you can hear one of the guys most likely John Lennon say [ __ ] ya because there was too much feedback in his headphones the Beatles did not play any of the instruments that you hear on Eleanor Rigby the Beatles released a hard day's night and Beatles for sale helped Rubber Soul revolver and Sargent peppers in under three years the Beatles and The Beach Boys had a famous rivalry slash inspiration loop Rubber Soul was the album that inspired the Beach Boys to make Pet Sounds and Pet Sounds was the album that inspired the Beatles to make sergeant pepper's all three of these are often described as some of the greatest albums ever made and John Lennon signed the paperwork that officially ended the Beatles at the Polynesian Resort at Walt Disney World Jesse McCartney the guy that sang the 2004 track beautiful soul and Ryan Tedder lead singer of One Republic co-wrote the number one hit song Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis Eminem slept through the 2003 Academy Awards on the night that lose yourself became the first rap song to win an Oscar he didn't think that he had a chance of winning so he fell asleep watching cartoons with his daughter at the height of michael jackson's career he sang backup on the classic 80s hit songs somebody's watching me by rockwell the near 10 minute long gothic rock song Bela Lugosi's dead was the first thing Bauhaus ever recorded together and they did it all in one tape Flavor Flav was a musical prodigy he's proficient in 15 instruments and oddly enough he also went to culinary school to Johnny Cash's iconic song a boy named Sue was written by popular children's author shel silverstein blur is one of the UK's most prolific bands ever but the only mainstream popularity they had in the US was song - a track that was making fun of American grunge music James Brown known for his electric live performances would have certain hand signals and noises that he would do that would signal his manager that one of the band members had made a mistake for every mistake the manager wrote down on his clipboard the musicians pay would get docked Jon Bon Jovi's first professional recording was for a 1980 Star Wars Christmas album on the song r2d2 we wish you a Merry Christmas Eric Clapton wrote the song wonderful tonight's in frustration of his girlfriend at the time who had made them late for a party because she was constantly changing her outfit Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive was originally meant to be a b-side and it's also the only recipients of the Grammy Award for Best disco song they only had that category one time and hey it went to one of the best ever Lana Del Rey has a degree in metaphysics the for Freddie Mercury passed away he got to see an early screening of the head-banging scene from Wayne's World Brian May said that Freddie loved it because that's actually what the guys in Queen would do themselves The Ramones were named after Paul McCartney's fake name that he would use to check into hotels Paul Ramone Van Halen's concert contract would require a bowl of M&Ms with quote absolutely no brown ones because that operation was so massive they needed the venues to come through perfectly and the M&Ms were an easy way to see if they actually did everything correctly arguably Black Sabbath's most iconic song ever paranoid was made in about 15 minutes because they needed three minutes of filler on the album the song in-a-gadda-da-vida by Iron Butterfly was supposed to be titled in the Garden of Eden but when Doug Ingle first sang it he was very intoxicated and it sounded like in the gada da vida Dimebag Darrell the guitarist for Pantera was buried with Eddie Van Halen's original black and yellow bumblebee guitar in a kiss casket donated by Gene Simmons after a friend of Kurt Cobain's graffiti'd Kurt smells like teen spirit which was a reference to a popular girl's deodorant that's how we got the title for their biggest song ever and then the first Foo Fighters album was made solely by Dave Grohl as a way to cope with Kurt's death the vocals bass guitars and drums everything was performed by Dave and he never expected it to make any kind of impact the songwriting royalties for walking on sunshine by Katrina and the waves are split evenly between the four members of the band because the song is still constantly played on the radio and it's always getting licensed for commercials movies and TV everyone in the band can still make a living off of their song from 37 years ago the Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini once had a dream where the devil played him the most beautiful piece of music he had ever heard he woke up tried to replicate it but couldn't remember it exactly his piece is known as devil's trill sonata and Tartini claimed that he would forever trade his ability to play violin if he could hear that song one more time Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath lost the tips of his middle and ring fingers in an industrial sheetmetal accident he didn't want to quit playing so he created homemade thimble tips for his fingers these thimble tips fingers would essentially create the genre of heavy metal the guerrilla song dare was originally named it's there but Shaun Ryder's accent made it sound like he was saying it's dare so they just decided to change it to dare British actor Neil Morrissey has had two number-one hit singles in the UK thanks to his work as the voice of Bob the Builder but Morrissey the lead singer of The Smiths never had a number one in the UK and the greatest fun fact of them all Tom was a songwriter mathematician and comedian that released a novelty song called of the old dope peddler in 1953 60 years later when someone representing 2 Chainz asked a then 84 year old Tom Lehrer if 2 Chainz could sample the song Tom responded with this has sole copyright owner of the old dope peddler I grant you [ __ ] permission to do this please give my regards to mr. Chainz or may I call him - I hope you enjoyed this video all of these pieces of trivia are true or pretty much true there are a few technicalities in there but who cares let me know which fun fact you enjoyed the most and thanks for watching hey thank you for watching that video if you want to support the channel feel free to like comment and subscribe you can follow me on social media at Renshaw HS you can buy my merch support my patreon and thank you again I'll see you soon you

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Length: 9min 58sec (598 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 07 2020