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Weekly Feature: Musical Records
This week we highlight a different category of random musical records each day. Tuesday: "The longest..."
| The longest music video was released in November 2013 when Pharrell Williams published the "world's first 24-hour music video", for his single "Happy", on the website 24hoursofhappy.com. The star-studded video features people dancing and miming to the four-minute track, which is played on a loop 360 times. |  |
I do not recommend listening to any song for 24 hours straight ... but if you really want to watch "24 Hours of Happy," you can do so here.
The longest continuous vocal note is 2 min 1.07 sec, and was achieved by Richard Fink IV in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on November 17, 2019.
The longest vocal note whilst holding a person aloft (why?) is 28.52 seconds and was achieved by Donovan Jones (USA) holding Rebecca Peache (UK) on the set of Officially Amazing at the Greentop Circus, Sheffield, UK, on August 7, 2015.
The longest title of a music album is 156 words long, achieved by Chumbawamba (UK) with the album "The Boy Bands Have Won", released March 3, 2008.
The full title of the album, pictured above:
"The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won."
"The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won."
Recommended Resource: Jazz 24/7 Live
Jazz 24/7 presents
The Shana Tucker Quartet: "A Live Informance"
Tuesday, April 28 at 7pm
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Join host Tessil Collins for a live musical “Informance” with the Shana Tucker Quartet as they entertain and inform us about Tucker’s ChamberSoul Arts Collective and how it merges/intersects with jazz, improvisation and songwriting. Through live and pre-recorded performances, Tucker and the ensemble will explore the creative process broadly and how it is affected by stay-at-home orders. Tucker (cello, vocals), Christian Tamburr (piano, MD), Will Ledbetter (bass, guitar) and Al Sergel, IV (drums) will be interviewed by Collins. The audience will have the opportunity to interact with Tucker and the other performers.
Shana Tucker is a vocalist, cellist, and songwriter. Her unique style blends jazz, soul, folk, pop, and R&B:
The Shana Tucker Quartet: "A Live Informance"
Tuesday, April 28 at 7pm
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the WGBH Jazz 24/7 Live webpage
Join host Tessil Collins for a live musical “Informance” with the Shana Tucker Quartet as they entertain and inform us about Tucker’s ChamberSoul Arts Collective and how it merges/intersects with jazz, improvisation and songwriting. Through live and pre-recorded performances, Tucker and the ensemble will explore the creative process broadly and how it is affected by stay-at-home orders. Tucker (cello, vocals), Christian Tamburr (piano, MD), Will Ledbetter (bass, guitar) and Al Sergel, IV (drums) will be interviewed by Collins. The audience will have the opportunity to interact with Tucker and the other performers.
Shana Tucker is a vocalist, cellist, and songwriter. Her unique style blends jazz, soul, folk, pop, and R&B:
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