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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
What record album was the first to sell one million units?
As always, no Googling.
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Erwin New user 56 Posts |
Saturday Night Fever - Soundtrack?
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts |
I wanna take s shot in the dark and say it was a Beatles album.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts |
Or maybe Elvis Presly.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
I won't forget you Robert. |
balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
I would be surprised were anyone able to answer this one off the top of their heads. I'm curious to hear from landmark what his answer is.
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Stanyon Inner circle Landrum, S.C. by way of Chicago 3433 Posts |
It was something by Enricco Caruso? "Pagliacci" maybe?
FWIW
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2011-02-10 10:30, Stanyon wrote: I think you got it. World's First Million Selling Record : Caruso (1907) In 1907,"Vesti la giubba" (Victrola 88061) Was The Very First Recording In The World To Sell One Million Copies. This Is The Actual Record. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdzbZBbN5tY "Vesti la giubba (Put on the costume) is a famous tenor aria performed as part of the opera Pagliacci, written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo, and first performed in 1892. Vesti la giubba is the conclusion of the first act, when Canio discovers his wife's infidelity, but must nevertheless prepare for his performance as Pagliaccio the clown because 'the show must go on'." [It's possible that the year 1907 up above should actually be 1904. I'm not sure.]
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
Very interesting. Not what I was thinking; I should have put first LP to sell a million. Not Elvis or the Beatles, or Caruso.
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Stanyon Inner circle Landrum, S.C. by way of Chicago 3433 Posts |
That's easy...Harry Belafonte's "Calypso" w/"The Banana Boat Song". (1958?)
FWIW
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aka Steve Taylor "Every move a move!" "If you've enjoyed my performance half as much as I've enjoyed performing for you, then you've enjoyed it twice as much as me!" |
landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
You're the bees knees Stanyon!
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
The Caruso trivium is more interesting, IMHO.
Here's a new one. Where does the word "trivia" come from?
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HerbLarry Special user Poof! 731 Posts |
The lost colony of Triv?
You know why don't act naive.
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
Trivum?
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2011-02-10 15:17, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Forgot this one...I know(?) the etymology is "three roads," but I don't know how it ties into the contemporary meaning...various roads leading to Rome, and someone with each have his/her own little geocentric tidbits of information?
"Torture doesn't work" lol
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Stanyon Inner circle Landrum, S.C. by way of Chicago 3433 Posts |
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On 2011-02-10 17:36, kcg5 wrote: Actually spelled TRIVIUM (Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic)...the lesser of QUADRIVIUM (Artithmetic, Music, Geometry, Astronomy)...all seven combined made up the Liberal Arts of the Middle Ages. Man there's a lot of junk in the old brain pan!
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Lobo and Stanyon are both correct. In medieval Europe, a Liberal Arts education consisted of 7 subjects (7 being a particularly holy number). The first year, you studied three subjects--Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic. In the second year you studied the quadrivium, as Stanyon notes. Because the trivium were the "junior courses", it became a way of speaking to say that something was trivial if it was simple.
The names for the subjects came from Classical Latin, as Lobo points out. A trivium referred to an intersection of 3 roads. Metaphorically, the University Trivium was the meeting of three paths of knowledge. The word "trivia" is from the 20th century. While it is the grammatically correct plural of trivia, it wasn't used, since there was only one trivium to be studied and it would be a strange conversation to speak of two intersections of three roads. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
Elliott Hodges Veteran user England 324 Posts |
The First compact disc that sold over a million copes was Brothers in Arms.
Think that was just in the uk though |
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