TIL: Today I Learned... (4 Viewers)

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Got it

I’m all of our praise for certain SNL performances we’ve mentioned lately, I don’t think anyone mentioned Phil Hartman’s Sinatra- good stuff

I particularly enjoyed his duet with (Eddie Murphy i think ?) as Stevie Wonder, their version of Ebony & Ivory.. if memory serves, it went something like :



“You are black, and i am white
You are blind as a bat, and I have sight ..”

 

[Bill]

I particularly enjoyed his duet with (Eddie Murphy i think ?) as Stevie Wonder, their version of Ebony & Ivory.. if memory serves, it went something like :



“You are black, and i am white
You are blind as a bat, and I have sight ..”

Not Phil Hartman in that one. That was Joe Piscopo.

 

[Madmarsha]

I never thought it was recorded before the 70s because I never remember hearing it that long ago. But I must admit that if you would have asked me if I knew when Sinatra sang that song, I would have guessed that it was prior to the 80s. I did know that Liza Minnelli sang the song also, but I would have had to guess who recorded the original and who made the cover. After looking it up, I learned that it was the theme song of a Martin Scorsese musical flick by the same name. Of course you already know that I lack interest in movies.

I watched New York, New York a couple years ago.

You didn't miss anything

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Not Phil Hartman in that one. That was Joe Piscopo.

Oh, so you watch tv ?

 

[Paul]

TIL that the Frank Sinatra song New York, New York was released in … the 1980s (!).. Like, not a remake or whatever (though it was actually a cover of the original 1977 song New York, New York by Judy Garland’s daughter- which i also learned today) .. but the original Frank Sinatra version of the song was released in 1980… all my life i thought it was a standard from the 1940s or 1950s.. im kind of embarrassed , and im shook .


Im gonna need some of yall to either ridicule me, or to reassure me that im not the only one who thought this classic was released decades earlier .

No one deserves to be ridiculed for not knowing the release year of a song.

Now, that shirt you’re wearing is ridiculous. Terrible. 0/5 stars. Good day.

 

[Bill]

Oh, so you watch tv ?

As long as there isn't some fictional movie on my screen.

 

[Bill]

I particularly enjoyed his duet with (Eddie Murphy i think ?) as Stevie Wonder, their version of Ebony & Ivory.. if memory serves, it went something like :

“You are black, and i am white
You are blind as a bat, and I have sight ..”