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February 26 - March 3, 2016 Issue 00260

TIDBITS LISTENS TO SOME

ONE-HIT WONDERSby Kathy Wolfe

Most of us have a favorite singer or band from whom we eagerly await a new song or CD. But what about those groups who brought us a hit and were never heard from again? is week, Tidbits remembers some of those artists who hit the charts once and only once.

e term one-hit wonder usually refers to performers who had only one Billboard Top 40 hit single, or had one song that overshadowed all their other work.

A ctional band recorded one of pops most successful songs, Sugar, Sugar, in 1969. Ranked as the number one song of the year, it sold six million copies and records were even placed on the back of Post Super Sugar Crisp cereal boxes. e group e Archies was made up of cartoon characters Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones for an animated TV series, but the music was recorded by session musicians, featuring Ron Dante on vocals. Dante was also the co-producer of Barry Manilows rst nine albums and sang back-up on many of Manilows hits. Dante had another one-hit wonder as the sole singer in the pop group e Cu Links. In 1969, as Sugar, Sugar was sitting at the top of the charts, the million-copy seller Tracy was released by Dante, who used his voice in 16 dub-overs. Tracy spent 12 weeks on the U.S. chart.

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ONE-HIT WONDERS (continued): One of the most popular songs of the disco era,

e Hustle, was recorded by Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony in 1975, and was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, selling over a million copies. McCoys reason for achieving a one-hit wonder was a tragic one he died of a heart attack in 1979 at the age of 39.

e British pop group Edison Lighthouse was named for the Eddystone Lighthouse o the southwest coast of England. Best known for 1970s million-selling record Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes, the band was just a group of studio musicians that had been hurriedly put together. e tune enjoyed a brief revival when it was featured in the 2001 lm Shallow Hal, starring Jack Black, with Gwyneth Paltrow in the role of Rosemary.

Rolling Stone magazine has ranked 1970s Spirit in the Sky as number 333 on their list of the 500

Greatest Songs of All Time. Written, recorded, and released by Norman Greenbaum in late 1969, the song spent 15 weeks in the Top 100, with sales of over two million copies. Greenbaum never hit the charts again, but today, Major League Baseballs Los Angeles Angels use the song to introduce their starting lineup at their Anaheim stadium.

Singer Bobby McFerrin is a ten-time Grammy Award winner, but his chart-topper Dont Worry, Be Happy is probably the only song any of us remember. e song is entirely a cappella, using no instruments at all, the rst of its kind to reach Number One on the Billboard chart. e lyrics were inspired by the words of an Indian mystic Meher Baba, who encompassed his philosophy in those four words.

Back in 1968, John Fred and his Playboy Band released Judy in Disguise (With Glasses), a hit that sold over a million copies. e songs title was a parody of the Beatles Lucy in the Sky

PHOTO: Melissa McCarthy in her Gilmore Girls daysPhoto credit: Lance Staedler/Warner Bros.

HOLLYWOOD Net ixs latest reboot to get the Full House treatment will be e Gilmore Girls, which ran for sev-en seasons. Returning will be Lauren Graham, (Loralai), Alexis Bledel (Rory), Scott Patterson (Luke), Kelly Bishop

(Loralais mother, Emily), Sean Gunn (Kirk) and Keiko Agena (Lane). Not returning is Melissa McCarthy -- star of Molly & Me, Spy and the upcoming Ghost-busters -- who played Sookie St. James for all seven seasons. McCarthy, whose star has risen higher than anyone else from that show, confessed, No one has asked me or Sookie to come back to Stars Hollow. Wish them all the best. Could it be McCarthy has be-come such a big presence that producers were afraid shed overshadow the rest of the cast? ey couldnt have known if they could a ord to have her back if she wasnt even asked. Kind of like the way e Olsen Twins became so rich they wouldnt join the cast of Fuller House, but at least they were asked!

Current best actor Oscar-nominee Matt Damon is once again joining forces with best friend Ben Af-

eck, with whom he shared an Oscar for best original screenplay for Good Will Hunting, to co-produce a new SYFY series, Incorporated, which will star Sean Teale (of Reign) as a young executive who hides his true identity to in ltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.

e 200th episode of e Big Bang eory airs Feb. 25 with amazing cameos from Batman Adam West, e Good Wifes Christine Baranski, Roseannes Sara Gilbert and Star Trek: e Next Generations Wil Wheaton.

Grant Gustin, aka e Flash, will cross over from e CW to CBS for the March 28 episode of Super-girl. It took the combined cooperation of CBS, e CW, Warner Bros. and DC Comics to make it happen. e common denominator was producer Greg Ber-lanti, who produces both shows. e combination of e Flash, the CWs top-rated show, and Supergirl, CBSs top new show, ranking No. 6 among the 18-49 demographic, should send the ratings into the strato-sphere!

German TV is creating a new lm franchise based on e ree Stooges ... with 12-year-olds! e ree Little Stooges will be directed by Harris Goldberg, who gave us Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and be shot in Vancouver, British Columbia.

MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson), who foiled disastrous plots for seven seasons and 139 episodes on ABC in the 1980s, is being rebooted at CBS. Heres the fun part, the executive producer is Henry Winkler. Between e ree Stooges going Nongnongnong and e Fonz saying Aaaaay, maybe MacGyver can concoct a plan for us to speak English again!

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Billboards charts for seven weeks in 1958, has enjoyed popularity for decades. e novelty song e Purple People Eater told of a one-eyed, one-horned, ying purple eater, who comes to Earth because it wants to be in a rock and roll band. e defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings (whose uniforms were purple) adopted the term from the late 1960s through the 1970s. e song was used in cartoons, TV commercials, and lm soundtracks, as well as its own lm in 1988.

In 1968, Paul Leka co-wrote the one-hit wonder Green Tambourine, which was recorded by e Lemon Pipers. e following year, his one-hit composition for the studio group Steam (who broke up before they ever went on a tour) was Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.

Does the name Carlton Douglas ring a bell? He won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best-selling Single and retains his fame for one of the best-selling singles of all time. Kung Fu Fighting has had sales of upwards of 11 million records worldwide, but Carl Douglas went on the books as a one-hit wonder.

You might remember the wavy-haired ukulele player Tiny Tim, a singer with a high falsetto voice who recorded Tiptoe rough the Tulips in 1968. Born Herbert Khaury in 1932, this unusual artists performance of this old

1929 tune was nominated for a Grammy Award. His short-lived fame included performances on Rowan & Martins Laugh-In, many appearances in Las Vegas, and e Tonight Shows airing of Tims wedding to Miss Vicki in 1969 with 40 million viewers. Although Khaury released other albums, none enjoyed the success of his rst.

UNUSUAL ANIMALS:

POLAR BEARSJust in time for Polar Bear Day on February 27, Tidbits o ers information on this Arctic dweller.

If youre looking for polar bears, youll have to travel north of the Arctic Circle, the only place theyre found. About 60% of the worlds population (an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 bears) is found in Canada, with smaller subpopulations distributed throughout Alaska, Russia, Greenland, and Norway.

Although its scienti c name is Ursus maritimus, meaning sea bear, other languages have di erent names for the polar bear. In Greenland, it is known as Tomassuk, translating the master of helping spirits. e Inuit call the bear Nanuq, an animal worthy of great respect, or Phioqahiak, the ever-wandering one, an

with Diamonds. e number one hit which spoke of lemonade pies and cantaloupe eyes, actually knocked another Beatles hit, Hello, Good-bye out of the number one position for two weeks, but it was the one and only hit for the Playboy Band. e Starland Vocal Band was made up of two married couples who recorded one of 1976s biggest-selling singles. Afternoon Delight was nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning two, including Best New Artist. e Bands success resulted in a six-week summer variety TV show, which employed the talents of a young writer named David Letterman. e Bands follow-up album failed miserably, and the group broke up, as did the marriages.

e 2000 movie Rugrats in Paris featured the song Who Let the Dogs Out?, performed by the Baha Men, which won numerous awards, including the 1974 Grammy for Best Dance Recording, Billboards World Music Artist of the Year, and World Music Album of the Year, and Nickelodeons Kids Choice Award. Yet this popular tune has been ranked third on Rolling Stones 20 Most Annoying Songs, number one on Spinners Top 20 Worst Songs Ever, and number two on AOL Radios 100 Worst Songs Ever. Needless to say, the Baha Men havent hit the charts again.

Page 4 info@TidbitsVernon.com I Love that little paper! Call Today (250) 832-3361 fteen minutes, but can remain submerged for up to 45 minutes. With its very keen sense of smell, the polar bear can locate the breathing holes and then waits for the seals to surface. e bears long tapered neck enables it to shove its head into the holes. If seals are plentiful, the bear might eat just the blubber and skin, up to 100 pounds (45 kg) in one sitting. However, if prey is scarce, its diet is supplemented by vegetation, geese, and bird eggs, and the occasional walrus when available.

e polar bears sense of smell is so powerful the male can seek out a mate on the ice by following a scented trail left by the females footpads.

Polar bears plod along at a speed of about 3 to 4 miles per hour (5 to 6 km/hr), but if need be, can reach a top speed of 25 miles per hour (40 km/hr), although only for a short distance.

THE TOOTH FAIRY

February 28 is National Tooth Fairy Day, and what better time to look into the history of this fantasy gure!

Most of us grew up putting our baby teeth underneath our pillow or in a glass of water in hopes of being rewarded with payment for the lost tooth. Early European tradition was to bury the lost baby teeth. When the sixth tooth came out, the parents would slip money or a small gift under the childs pillow. Medieval Europeans believed that if a witch were to gain possession of ones tooth, she could gain total power over the individual, since having a piece of a person enabled the witch to cast dark spells on that person.

In England during the Middle Ages, the childrens teeth were burned as a means of saving the child from hardship in the afterlife. According to folklore, those who

appropriate term since the bears may travel thousands of miles every year in search of food. e Scandinavian name is Isbjorn, or ice bear.

As the worlds largest land carnivores, male polar bears measure up to 9 feet (2.75 m) nose to tail and can reach a weight of 1,760 lbs. (798 kg).

Although the bears appear to be white, their hair shafts are actually pigment-free and transparent. e shafts hollow core re ects visible light the same as ice and snow and appear white. e fur is a dense mixture of hairs of various lengths, thicker than any other bears, which prevents heat loss from the massive body. e skin underneath is actually black to absorb heat. Under the skin is an insulating layer of fat, or blubber, about 4.5 inches (11.5 cm) thick.

e paws of polar bears are about 12 inches 931 cm) across and help distribute their weight evenly as they move across thin ice. e paws also serve as large paddles when swimming through the Arctic waters. eir footpads are covered with small bumps called papillae that prevent the bears from slipping on ice. Two-inch (5.1 cm) claws also provide traction, in addition to seizing prey.

e primary prey is the ringed seal, the smallest and most common seal in the Arctic. e seal is able to stay beneath the ice by using its sharp claws to cut breathing holes, even in 6-ft.-deep (1.8-m) thick ice. e seals surface and catch a breath through the holes about every ve to

didnt burn their teeth spent the eternal afterlife searching for them.

e Norse Vikings hung the teeth and small articles from their children on a string around their necks when heading into battle, believing this practice would bring good luck.

Di erent countries have varying interpretations of what the tooth fairy looks like. North American images might be a pixie, a blue-winged mother gure, a ying ballerina, and even a ying man with a pot belly smoking a cigar. In Spanish and Hispanic cultures, the gure is known as Ratoncito Perez, or e Tooth Mouse. Italys character is also a small mouse, as it is in France and Belgium, where it is la petite souris, e Little Mouse. In Scotland, a white fairy rat purchases childrens teeth with coins.

e tradition in many Asian countries, including India, China, Japan, and Korea, is to throw the childs tooth onto the roof if it was from the lower jaw. Teeth from the upper jaw are placed into the space beneath the oor. It is the hope that the childs adult teeth will grow in strong and sturdy like a rodents, based on the fact that mices teeth grow for their entire lives.

One of the rst written records of the tooth fairy appeared in a Household Hints column in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1908. Columnist Lillian

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* It was Founding Father omas Paine who made the following sage observation: He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

* Most people prefer to kiss with their eyes closed; however, of those who do prefer to keep their eyes open, the vast majority are men.

* Its well-known that a certain segment of native Londoners speak in a dialect known as Cock-ney, which makes frequent use of rhyming slang -- some classic examples are dog and bone for phone and apples and pears for stairs. A more recent addition to the vocabulary is Don-ald Trump, which, for at least the past 15 years, has been used as an equivalent for going to the bathroom.

* If you watch TV or movies at all, youve probably seen some variation of the Humane Society dis-claimer No animals were harmed in the making of this program. You may not have considered that its also applicable to insects, but those who make the programs certainly do. In fact, if you see a bug being destroyed in a contemporary movie, its a safe bet that the bug was dead before the scene was shot. ere are even people who stu dead bugs with a sort of cream to ll it out -- and to ensure a satisfying squish for the camera.

* You may be surprised to learn that many people never even feel it when theyre bitten by a venom-ous snake. ( ey certainly experience the afteref-fects, though.)*** ought for the Day: In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler

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Brown wrote: Many a refractory child will allow a loose tooth to be removed if he knows about the Tooth Fairy. If he takes his little tooth and puts it under the pillow when he goes to bed, the tooth fairy will come in the night and take it away, and in its place will leave some little gift. It is a nice plan for mothers to visit the 5-cent counter and lay in a supply of supplies to be used on such occasions.

One American author, Vicki Lansky, advises parents to tell their children that the tooth fairy pays more for a perfect tooth than for a decayed one, which will encourage good dental hygiene.

Rosemary Wells, a professor at Chicagos Northwestern University Dental School, conducted extensive research into the tooth fairy myth. One of her studies concluded that 74% believed the tooth fairy is female, 12% believed the fairy was neither, while 8% believed the fairy could be either. Wells loved the subject so much, she opened a tooth fairy museum in her Deer eld, IL home, and was even interviewed on e Oprah Winfrey Show.

A recent survey indicated that the average American child these days receives an average of $3.70 per tooth.

1. MUSIC: What was the name of the record company founded by the Beatles?2. ASTRONOMY: Which planet in our solar system spins the fastest? 3. ANIMAL KINGDOM: Which insect can indicate the temperature with accuracy?4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the fastest k nown bird in the world?5. CHEMISTRY: What is the only metal thats liquid at room temperature? 6. MOVIES: What was Babys real name in Dirty Dancing?7. GEOGRAPHY: What country is bordered by the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?8. PSYCHOLOGY: What is the fear represented in the condition herpetophobia?9. MEDICAL: What is the common name for hypoglycemia?10. TELEVISION: Where does Homer Simpson work?

Answers1. Apple Records2. Jupiter, which rotates once in just less than 10 hours.3. Crickets4. Peregrin falcon5. Mercury6. Frances7. South Africa8. Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things9. Low blood sugar10. Spring eld Nuclear Power Plant(c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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1. In a medium bowl, combine mayonnaise, Splenda and vinegar. Add broccoli, apples and raisins. Mix well to combine. Stir in pecans.2. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Gently stir again just before serving. Makes 4 (1 cup) servings.

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* Being Southern, I make my own biscuits from a recipe thats been in my family forever. But heres a tip for people who like to bake: freeze and grate your butter when mixing it into your dry ingredi-ents. Less handling means more akiness and a more tender texture. Its just right for biscuits, and for pie crust and scones too. -- R.L. in Alabama

* Add some shaker pegs or a peg rack to your closet door. ey are great for scarves, necklaces, purses and other bags. You can store many items in places that might otherwise go unused.

* Use plastic food-storage containers to hold your accessory cords in a junk drawer. If you ip them bottoms up, you can see what cord is in the con-tainer to access it quickly. is way, you dont need to worry about family who dont put things away in the right box. Or is that just my family? -- A.L. in South Carolina

* I purchase big boxes of assorted greeting cards by mail order. ey include many generic cards, as well as birthday and other occasions. I donate them to my local nursing home, along with stamps. Many residents love to keep in touch by mail, but arent able to go out and choose greeting cards or station-ary on their own. -- M.A. in Texas

* Substitute 1/4 cup of applesauce or mashed ba-nana for an egg in baking recipes.

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Dog Flu Still a Threat

DEAR PAWS CORNER: My shorthaired terrier, Blazer, became very ill just before Christmas and was diagnosed with dog u. Hes doing much better now, but it was touch and go for a while. Can you let your readers know that theres a bad strain of the u going around and to take care of their dogs? -- Bill C., Tucson, Arizona

DEAR BILL: Im glad to hear that Blazer is on the mend! Last year, the spread of a particularly se-vere form of canine in uenza caught the atten-tion of the media and had dog owners nation-wide worrying. e illness has dropped from the headlines lately, but that doesnt mean its no longer a threat. In fact, by mid-January the in u-enza A H3N2 virus had spread to 18 states and is still spreading.Symptoms of the u virus may seem pretty be-nign at rst: A dog may have no symptoms, or may have a runny nose and cough. However, more serious symptoms, including a high fever, tend to develop. Dogs with the virus can become dehydrated very quickly, so prompt attention at the vets o ce is critical. ere isnt a cure for the u; pets need to be kept hydrated and get plenty of rest and supportive nutrition. Recovery time for most dogs is about two or three weeks, according to the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention. While a dog is ill, he or she should not be around other dogs, as the virus can be spread easily by a sneeze or cough. e mortality rate from H3N2 among dogs is about 10 percent, making it a risk no pet owner wants to take.(c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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