The All Music Guide strives to chronicle the lives and creative output of every professional musician that ever lived. That's a tall order, but they're getting there! Here are a few nitpicks that I've submitted but haven't yet seen acted upon.
Fleetwood
Mac
The entry for
Fleetwood Mac's live album The Dance implies "Silver Springs" was a new
song for the album. In fact, "Silver Springs" was written and recorded during
the sessions for Rumours. The song didn't make it onto Rumours
due to lack of space on the record. However, the song did appear as the B-side
companion to the single "Go Your Own Way", preceding The Dance by 20
years.
Froggy
Mix
The entry for this
band and the entry for their album No Nagging say that the band achieved
popularity partly due to "No Nagging" being the theme song to the cartoon
"Sakura CardCaptor". That's not quite right.
First, the name of the show is "CardCaptor Sakura." Second, Froggy Mix's music
was not a part of the original Japanese production of the show, nor was it a
part of the version imported into the United States. Only when the show was
imported into Europe did Froggy Mix enter the picture.
There seems to be a little mystery about which of Froggy Mix's songs were
actually used in the show. Some sources say "Razzmatazz" became the theme song,
while others say "No Nagging." Both songs were apparently used in the European
dub of the show at one time or another, or at least, both songs have become
favorites of the show's fans. At any rate, "No Nagging" made it onto some
releases of the "CardCaptor Sakura" soundtrack album, and there is also a video
for "No Nagging" hidden on some DVD releases of the CardCaptor Sakura
movie.
Roger
Miller
Dear Folks, Sorry
I Haven't Written Lately is a lesser known title in the country star's
catalog, and its All Music Guide entry doesn't have much information. I
submitted production credits, and also some trivia: The song "Whistle Stop"
from this album is a different version of a song Miller recorded for Disney's
production of Robin Hood, in which he also voiced Alan-a-Dale, the rooster and narrator.
It's also worth mentioning that the Robin Hood version of "Whistle Stop",
sped up significantly, later became the original infamous "Hampster Dance" [sic]
song.
Mucky
Pup
The entries for this
band neglect to mention what was perhaps their crowning achievement. In 1985
Berke Breathed of Bloom County and Opus fame started a contest,
asking for songs that would become "hits" of the fictitious Billy and the
Boingers. Mucky Pup's submission of "U Stink But I Love U" was one of the
finalists, and in 1987 Bloom County fans were treated to a 7" flexidisk
containing special versions of "U Stink" and one other song when they bought the
comic strip compilation Billy and the Boingers: Bootleg. Mucky Pup would
later re-release the song under their own name on the album A Boy in a Man's
World.