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In 1967, Leonard Nimoy debuted his song “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” on the TV show Malibu U. A year later, the song was included on his album The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, which also featured his versions of “If I Was A Carpenter ” and “Gentle on My Mind.”
“The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” music video:
Since early 2006, Apple has been paying Justin Long to lie about Macintosh and Windows computers in its commercials. He’s also an actor and is starring in the upcoming movie Live Free or Die Hard (2007) with Bruce Willis and Kevin Smith.
Many moons ago…..episode 18 to be exact, we recounted a tale of elementary school, where we kept saying the word “Razzmatazz.” It eventually became our own little catchphrase, such as other 1980s words as dude, rad, gnarley, etc. Well, with a little research, we think we’ve narrowed down the most widely used instances of “Razzmatazz.” But which one was where we got it from????
A) The song Razzmatazz by the English rock band Pulp in 1993?
B) A disco club in Barcelona, Spain (www.salarazzmatazz.com)?
C) A painting by Roy Lichtenstein?
D) 1977-1982 children’s program hosted by Brian Tochi from Revenge of the Nerds?
E) Raspberry flavored Schnapps, made by DeKuyper Co?
F) Crayola crayon color, chosen in 1993 as a part of the Name The New Colors Contest?
G) British 1981-1987 music television show, hosted by Alistair Pirrie and Lisa Stansfield?
H) A Barbershop Quartet singing group (www.razzmatazz.org)?
Instead of moving on and making new movies, George Lucas continually tinkers with the original Star Wars trilogy and re-releases them on home video and in theaters every few years.
Dr. Phil McGraw is a clinical psychologist and hosts his own TV talk show. He also has his own line of weight-loss shakes and energy bars called Shape Up, which is interesting because he is nowhere near being in good physical shape.
Check out a photo of the dueling Dr. Phils and listen to episode 100 for clips from their new album!