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...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

...pox and has to cancel concerts. Instead, Jimmy stands in and lip-syncs to a tape. [[Category:1958|Olsen, Rock 'N R]]

...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]]

...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]]

...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]]

...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]]

...itle/tt1073606/reference Happy Monster Band]'' featuring a monster band in a monster land. *Frred (yes, two R's), guitar

...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

...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.

...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

...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.

...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''.

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!]

...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

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.

...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.

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.

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.

...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]].

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.

...the short-lived TV series ''Love Monkey'' (2006). Band that major label A&R man Tom Farrell (Tom Cavanagh) signed.

...ies ''Love Monkey'' (2006). Or maybe Violent Moon. Band that major label A&R man Tom Farrell (Tom Cavanagh) signed.

R&B singer appearing in "Policin'," a short clip parodying Smokey Robinson's 2004 anti-gang song "Gang Banging" f

...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

...''. This Sweetback Entertainment label R&B singer gets into trouble when a recycled videotape shows him raping/having rough sex with an underage girl.

...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]]

...d "Hairy Krishna." Mentioned in ''Shadowbeat'', a rulebook written by Paul R. Hume for the first edition of ''Shadowrun''.

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

...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

...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

...tures this struggling 1960s Liverpool band enticed to London by a sleazy A&R man. Fronted by Julie Carr (former pron actress Tina Russell).

...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

...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]]

...il]]Aging guitar virtuoso and label head who hires a teenager to do A&R as a gimmick. Played by real rocker Mick Fleetwood!

...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

...int the seedy underbelly of the music world, as navigated by protagonist/A&R man Martin Mills.

...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.

...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

...Hooks' death inspires them to bury the hatchet and drive cross-country for a memorial concert.

...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),

...the movie's protagonists, to bury the hatchet and drive cross-country for a memorial concert at the Apollo Theater.

....com/title/tt0072562/ Saturday Night Live]''. The sketch takes the form of a video for Berry's "The Night (I Watched You)" from ''Razzberry''.

...Hooks' death inspires them to bury the hatchet and drive cross-country for a memorial concert.

...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),

...Gold? : a solve-it-yourself rock music mystery'' by Erica Kohl and Herbert R. Kohl.

...Diva's Christmas Carol]'', a reworking of Charles Dickens' much reworked "A Christmas Carol" story. They sing "Heartquake."

...e Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated by Andrew Cunningham. Comes with a CD of music. A nod to real jazzman Miles Davis.

...ering Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder's "Ebony and Ivory." I knew there was a curse on that show!

...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>

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

...lla Elephant Scats Like That'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real singer Ella Fitzgerald.

...out. Then Lisa Hartman went on to play a lookalike character who was ALSO a singer, [[Cathy Geary]]!

...'Louis Lion Sings Good Night'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real singer Louis Armstrong.

...arlie Bird Count to the Beat'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real jazzman Charlie Byrd.

...use Plays Christmastime Jazz'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real musician Charlie Mingus.

R&B guitar picker from the song "PFC Rhythm and Blues Jones" by Ray Stevens f ...a nasty little bit of racism, portrays an African-American army soldier as a coward who only wants to get out of the jungle and go home and play his gui

.../tt0602203/combined The Legendary Billy B.]" episode (03/31/1987) of HBO's R-rated ''[[:Category:The Twilight Zone|Twilight Zone]]'' ripoff, ''The Hitch ...!''' Andy Summers of real band The Police composed the music, and also had a role as Hodie the photographer.

Trumpeter and one of the "old time jazz greats" from a [[Progress Hornsby]] sketch comedy television series ''[http://imdb.com/tit ...id he hit the C above high C, he hit an M, and when he tried to hit a high R above S he accidentally blew himself into orbit.

...ngton Swings Through the Zoo'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real musician Duke Ellington.

...set in 1963. Shag is a dance done to "beach music," a style of laid-back R&B popular with drunk white tourists for decades on the East Coast. Imagine

...ly Joe Giraffe's Jungle Jazz'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real jazz drummer Philly Joe Jones.

...6 May 2013). Cherry first became famous as the star of teen sitcom ''Pop-a-R O.T.C.'' before recording the platinum single "Practice Kisses." After his

...ar. From ''X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl'' #3.]]A deceased superhero who is a master guitarist. Ha! Nope. Actually, he has the superhuman power of conjuring up a piano keyboard in front of him. His only appearances have been in three iss

...inerva), and Girl Number Three. They are hired to sing at The Meatgrinder, a casino in the basement the kids create, but end up breaking up on the cusp

...2 novel ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/334_(novel) 334]'' ). The name is a reference to Dorothy and Lilian Gish’s starring roles in the 1921 silent ...t, its genre was contested. Novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany published a book-length essay, ''The American Shore'' in 1978 arguing for its categoriz

...imes'' (Vol. 122, No. 1656, February 1981). Mother Brown is the subject of a bawdy song "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knees_Up_Mother_Brown Knees Up M ...as a performer is questionable, and she would now be forgotten but for A. R. Lowse's identification of her as Shakespeare's

Amy Hunter guest stars as this R & B diva in the "We Don't Need Another Hero" episode (4/21/1996) of the WB ...ia Peterson (Reagan Gomez-Preston) and her friends are picked to appear in a Sashay music video, but her dad, Robert (Robert Townsend, formerly of [[The

...mance novel ''You Really Got Me'' by Erika Kelly. She helps them rise from a popular local band to opening for star [[Piper Lee]]. Emmie's brother Derek ...'s original opening act, [[Devil's Den]], "fell apart" before the start of a national tour.

Bald, sweaty, overweight R&B singer in the Homestar Runner animated cartoon universe. He first appeare **"A Sweaty, Overweight Jam"

Wind instrument (a free aerophone), which is usually-sideblown, worn in the ear and audible o ...t is played mainly by solitary people in exposed locations, but it enjoyed a brief vogue in the 1960s among roller-skaters in America. The Faroese ''ør

...s a "best of" compilation. Their back up band was a veritable who's who of R&B session men. Then, a scant 18 years later, Dan Ackroyd said to himself, "You know, I suck. But I

...are charting ("Doggy Dance" is number 5, "In the Pound" is number 37), and R. Kelly wants to sing with them. ...rns out Todd completely plagiarized the "Doggy Bounce" song and video from a song/video put out by an unnamed Polish band 13 years earlier, leading to l

...is. Thanks to his mother's influence, his debut in Rome when he was 17 was a glittering occasion; 'Bolognese Macaroni'; and his habit of sticking a feather in his cap was copied across the Atlantic.

...nd former U.S. Representative (R, CA from 1994 'till his untimely death in a 1998 skiing accident) [http://us.imdb.com/Name?Bono,+Sonny Sonny Bono] port Dark falls in love with a deaf girl and sings her a sappy love song, "Now That I Found Sarah." Sellout! Booo! Hisss!

.... Angel and the rest of The Weirdos joined Coldplay singer Chris Martin on a performance of that song on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tonight_Show [[Image:The_Weirdos.jpg|600px|thumb|left|The Weirdos, l-r: The Wizard, Donk, Angel Moon, Sparkman]]

...andle, now, gets around") perfectly captures all the best elements of good R&B: the Shatner-esque spoken-word delivery, the early disco-y horns, the age ...to do just what director Michael Sarne did: have Rusty yell "I still think a guy should ball chicks!" and then cut away.

...band from the 1970s, from the 2001 mystery novel ''Ruby Tuesday'' by Baron R. Birtcher. Someone stole the tapes of their last album, ''Lifeline'', seemi Possibly the band's name is a combination of real band names Stone Roses and Gin Blossoms.

...d Max gets his life back. In true demonic tradition, one of his targets is a struggling singer. ...treisand/Karen Carpenter treatment. Audience member and Blizzard Records A&R man Jerry Nadler (Charles Shamata) is suitably wowed, and soon her new self

...er who's a straight-up loser and f*ck-up. She's a druggie, a drunkard, and a flake so brain-fried she thinks raccoon eye mascara looks good. She steals ...ther day, man, I couldn't find the door." Wow. Her highlight singing is at a Northwest AIDS Foundation benefit gig, when Georgia lets Sadie on stage to

...& Co.).-It must be some twenty years since Mr. Plimmer began the series of a cappella works that has was in a parlous state before his advent. The sickly inanities of R. L. de Pearsall, Stanford, Parry, and their

Jeff R. Charles Wendt is a university music professor and composer from the short novel ''[https://boo ...old Pretty-mount, Igor the Penman, my dear Webern (the musical laser) plus a bit of Elliot C. and Pierre B.; the hooker will swim in every love song, ea

..."The Music-Monsters" by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_R._Jones Neil R. Jones], published in the April 1938 issue of ''Amazing Stories''. ...some forty million years later, and they resurrected his brain and put in a robot body. So now he hangs out with them, exploring strange planets and st

...that the ''[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0076759 Star Wars]'' cantina band had a name? No? Then you have severely [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bith under ...their original name. They were later joined by Figrin's brother, Barquin, a kloo horn player of no small talent himself. Apparently, the soundtrack cut

...968 novel ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1452 Nova]'' by Samuel R. Delany. It produces not just sounds, but images and smells as well, like t ...short drones as on a sitar. On the other were the extended bass drones of a guitarina. Parts were carved from rosewood. Parts were cast from stainless

...Roman god of music, [[Apollo]], was entry #6000, added December 31, 2020. A much overlooked entry in the pantheon (pun intended) of fake bands and etc. ==Hey I Did A Podcast==

...or-suspense novel ''The Five'' by Robert McCammon. The band are stalked by a pyscho who's offended by one of their videos. ...lopsided little grin and came up with the familiar question: “Are ya’ll in a <i>band</i>?”</p>