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• The Sheik of R&B
  ...991 album ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_1_with_a_Bullet #1 with a Bullet]''. This wealthy member of the Saudi Arabian nobility (Abdul) discovers a love of Ray Charles, B.B. King, James Brown, and Bo Diddly. He learns to pl
  666 bytes (120 words) - 07:54, 4 October 2017
• Rock 'N R'Olsen
  ...pox and has to cancel concerts. Instead, Jimmy stands in and lip-syncs to a tape. [[Category:1958|Olsen, Rock 'N R]]
  527 bytes (78 words) - 21:34, 22 November 2017
• Jerusalem
  ...ords in the 2000 novel ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=D1BT7ray80UC A&R]'' by VH1 executive and music journalist Bill Flanagan about the music biz. [[Category:A&R]]
  362 bytes (56 words) - 06:35, 8 September 2017
• Black Beauty
  ...ians in the 2000 novel ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=D1BT7ray80UC A&R]'' by VH1 executive and music journalist Bill Flanagan about the music biz. [[Category:A&R]]
  388 bytes (57 words) - 06:48, 8 September 2017
• Lydya Hall
  ...rugs in the 2000 novel ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=D1BT7ray80UC A&R]'' by VH1 executive and music journalist Bill Flanagan about the music biz. [[Category:A&R|Hall, Lydya]]
  398 bytes (63 words) - 06:46, 8 September 2017
• Cokie Shea
  ...ords in the 2000 novel ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=D1BT7ray80UC A&R]'' by VH1 executive and music journalist Bill Flanagan about the music biz. [[Category:A&R|Shea, Cokie]]
  417 bytes (66 words) - 07:34, 20 July 2018
• Happy Monster Band
  ...itle/tt1073606/reference Happy Monster Band]'' featuring a monster band in a monster land. *Frred (yes, two R's), guitar
  616 bytes (87 words) - 06:46, 18 March 2019
• R
  ...omposer Richard Wagner. Nowadays, we'd call it Beethoven fan fiction with "R" as Wagner's self-insertion/Mary Sue character. R and Beethoven have some oh-so-deep talks about the importance of not sellin
  960 bytes (139 words) - 18:23, 21 March 2019
• Chevron and the Chevettes
  ...58552/reference Harvey Girls Forever!]''. Fronted by Chevron (Anna Camp), a snotty and annoyingly perfect and accomplished girl who has decided to take ...eir own, more democratic band [[The Harvey Girrrrrrrrls]] (yes, with eight r's), in response.
  643 bytes (96 words) - 07:59, 3 December 2019
• The Swanky Modes
  ...brothers Billy Diamond and Lester Diamond, members of a legendary sixties R&B duo fallen on hard, modern times. Main characters, music video makers, an
  569 bytes (86 words) - 10:05, 27 September 2017
• Horn of Winter
  ...horn in the A Song of Fire and Ice/Game of Thrones franchise by George R. R. Martin. It is also known as the Horn of Joramun or Joramun's horn. ...ree hundred miles long, about seven hundred feet tall, and wide enough for a dozen mounted knights to ride abreast.
  700 bytes (123 words) - 09:48, 8 October 2020
• Lila Cheney
  ...Her first appearance was in ''New Mutants Annual'' issue 1 (1984). She is a "celestial-scale teleporter." ...nce performed with [[Nazgûl]], the fake band that's the focus of George R. R. Martin's ''The Armageddon Rag''.
  822 bytes (110 words) - 07:13, 5 May 2022
• Lil' Hip Hop
  The figures each play a different short music clip (no vocals) when their arm is raised. ...ick Your Favorite From McDonald's(R) Line-Up of 'American Idol' Happy Meal(R) Toys!]
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• Art Smelly
  ...close enough version of "I Believe I Can Fly" by the real life R&B singer R. Kelly. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Art Smelly, 1932-2015. From the "Kimmy Meets a Drunk Lady!" episode (15 Apr. 2016) of the series ''[https://www.imdb.com/t
  917 bytes (147 words) - 10:08, 25 November 2019
• Punky Pete
  The figures each play a different short music clip (no vocals) when their arm is raised. MTV thinks Punky Pete may be a veiled version of real contestant Sanjaya Malakar.
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• Rockin' Riley
  ...urines of fictional genre singers including this female rocker singer with a leather jacket. The figures each play a different short music clip (no vocals) when their arm is raised.
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• Disco Dave
  The figures each play a different short music clip (no vocals) when their arm is raised. MTV thinks Disco Dave (#1 in the series) may be a veiled version of real contestant Sanjaya Malakar.
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• Soulful Selma
  The figures each play a different short music clip (no vocals) when their arm is raised. MTV thinks Soulful Selma may be a veiled version of real contestant Syesha Mercado.
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• Three Times One Minus One
  ...B duo from a skit on the "[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0652147/reference A Talking Junkie]" episode (22 Nov 1996) of ''[http://us.imdb.com/Title?01120 ...mage Award for most soulful single performed by a white duo, beating out [[R. U. da 1]] and [[2 Tru 4 U]].
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• Country Clay
  The figures each play a different short music clip (no vocals) when their arm is raised. ...eiled version of real contestant Bucky Covington, but the name is probably a nod to contestant Clay Aiken.
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• Scab Inferno
  ...the short-lived TV series ''Love Monkey'' (2006). Band that major label A&R man Tom Farrell (Tom Cavanagh) signed.
  162 bytes (23 words) - 06:35, 10 March 2019
• Violet Moon
  ...ies ''Love Monkey'' (2006). Or maybe Violent Moon. Band that major label A&R man Tom Farrell (Tom Cavanagh) signed.
  174 bytes (26 words) - 05:57, 19 October 2018
• Smokey
  R&B singer appearing in "Policin'," a short clip parodying Smokey Robinson's 2004 anti-gang song "Gang Banging" f
  303 bytes (43 words) - 15:06, 27 May 2022
• Funkalistics
  ...east With a Billion Backs]''. They look very Four Tops-y, but we only hear a snippet ("Talkin' 'bout the tentacle!"). Pity the cutaway gag bands. Pity t
  387 bytes (60 words) - 19:20, 6 August 2018
• Mace
  ...''. This Sweetback Entertainment label R&B singer gets into trouble when a recycled videotape shows him raping/having rough sex with an underage girl.
  382 bytes (53 words) - 12:48, 22 June 2017
• The Landmines
  ...Up the Academy]'' (1980). Military school a cappella group played by John R. Gallagher, Jack N. Stewart, John C. Ryberg, Charles Lloyd Kephart, and Jam [[Category:A cappella|Landmines]]
  328 bytes (49 words) - 05:29, 14 March 2019
• Starfire
  ...d "Hairy Krishna." Mentioned in ''Shadowbeat'', a rulebook written by Paul R. Hume for the first edition of ''Shadowrun''.
  380 bytes (53 words) - 15:58, 29 March 2015
• New Wave Nigel
  The figures each play a different short music clip (no vocals) when their arm is raised. ...f real contestant Blake Lewis. But one look at the hat will tell you, it's a Devo hat. There were reports that Devo sued over the figurine, and it was e
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• Ray the Face
  ...ir novel ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18463858 Music and Crime]'' by J. R. Creech. His partner is Lonnie, a bass player. He occasionally plays with '''Manny Mantoura and his Latin All
  546 bytes (74 words) - 14:19, 2 March 2023
• Siddhartha
  ...mentioned in the trashy 1971 novel ''The Bikers'' by Alex R. Stuart. It's a reference to real band Steppenwolf, since both names are the titles of Herm
  303 bytes (45 words) - 06:36, 26 June 2019
• Julie and the Cadillacs
  ...tures this struggling 1960s Liverpool band enticed to London by a sleazy A&R man. Fronted by Julie Carr (former pron actress Tina Russell).
  402 bytes (64 words) - 06:28, 26 September 2018
• Fiddlestick Forest
  ...lestick Forest by John R. Neill|Illustration of Fiddlestick Forest by John R. Neill]]Forest of violin playing trees in the land of Oz, from the 1923 you Bob nodded, and at this a little rustle went rippling through the forest as if the trees had actually
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• The Ravons
  ...k band from the 2010 novel ''Evening's Empire: A Novel'' by Bill Flanagan, a former MTV executive. Protagonist Jack Flynn manages them for four decades *[[:Category:A&R]]
  470 bytes (69 words) - 10:11, 5 March 2019
• Simon Eckstal
  ...il]]Aging guitar virtuoso and label head who hires a teenager to do A&R as a gimmick. Played by real rocker Mick Fleetwood!
  444 bytes (67 words) - 12:24, 30 December 2020
• Penny Pittman
  ...ny Pittman (Candice Rialson) one day discovers her vagina can talk and has a mind of its own. Worse, she then discovers it can sing. When she shows her
  413 bytes (63 words) - 07:00, 26 January 2018
• Stunted Growth
  ...int the seedy underbelly of the music world, as navigated by protagonist/A&R man Martin Mills.
  669 bytes (79 words) - 10:04, 4 March 2019
• Beth Adams
  ...kengost of New Bethel, Pennsylvania, USA, in the 1960 novel ''Girl Singer: A Two Part Invention'', by Deborah Ishlon. Adams is discovered and groomed for stardom by Sid Harper, A. & R. man at Manhattan's Blackwood Records.
  729 bytes (91 words) - 15:10, 28 February 2023
• De-Von-Tré
  ...Chance the Rapper, Kenan Thompson, and Chris Redd in "Come Back, Barack," a sketch on the 18 Nov. 2017 episode of ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt007256
  414 bytes (68 words) - 09:32, 20 November 2017
• Floyd Henderson
  ...Hooks' death inspires them to bury the hatchet and drive cross-country for a memorial concert.
  450 bytes (73 words) - 06:02, 20 July 2017
• R. U. da 1
  ...mdb.com/Title?0112084 Mr. Show]''. They're actually just a cutaway shot of a table of real live audience members while the MC, Nilla Ice (Jay Johnston),
  556 bytes (90 words) - 07:30, 15 February 2019
• Marcus Hooks
  ...the movie's protagonists, to bury the hatchet and drive cross-country for a memorial concert at the Apollo Theater.
  464 bytes (73 words) - 06:02, 20 July 2017
• Raz P. Berry
  ....com/title/tt0072562/ Saturday Night Live]''. The sketch takes the form of a video for Berry's "The Night (I Watched You)" from ''Razzberry''.
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• Louis Hinds
  ...Hooks' death inspires them to bury the hatchet and drive cross-country for a memorial concert.
  489 bytes (79 words) - 06:51, 11 April 2018
• 2 Tru 4 U
  ...mdb.com/Title?0112084 Mr. Show]''. They're actually just a cutaway shot of a table of real live audience members while the MC, Nilla Ice (Jay Johnston),
  612 bytes (96 words) - 07:30, 15 February 2019
• Emmett Gold
  ...Gold? : a solve-it-yourself rock music mystery'' by Erica Kohl and Herbert R. Kohl.
  345 bytes (47 words) - 05:56, 17 May 2019
• Desire
  ...Diva's Christmas Carol]'', a reworking of Charles Dickens' much reworked "A Christmas Carol" story. They sing "Heartquake."
  773 bytes (115 words) - 09:27, 15 September 2017
• Miles the Crocodile
  ...e Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated by Andrew Cunningham. Comes with a CD of music. A nod to real jazzman Miles Davis.
  636 bytes (95 words) - 07:30, 8 September 2017
• The Afrodisiacs
  ...ering Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder's "Ebony and Ivory." I knew there was a curse on that show!
  653 bytes (91 words) - 08:55, 5 March 2019
• Joe
  ...own_in_Mexico Down in Mexico]" by The Coasters. The song reached #8 on the R&B chart in 1956. The song was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. He "He wears a red bandana. <br>
  652 bytes (109 words) - 06:45, 8 May 2019
• Pervis Hawkins
  Lily Tomlin created this character, a bearded black male soul/R & B singer in the mold of oh, say, Marvin Gaye. She performed as him on an
  661 bytes (98 words) - 12:12, 11 February 2019

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