{"id":1550,"date":"2011-08-09T01:28:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T05:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2011-08-09T01:28:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T05:28:04","slug":"tuesday-tunes-a-sweet-trip-through-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/09\/tuesday-tunes-a-sweet-trip-through-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tunes &#8211; A sweet trip through time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-951\" title=\"Ryan Fleacrest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Fleacrest\" width=\"144\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/a>Something a little different for this weeks Tuesday Tunes, as we trace a simple yet successful phrase through the annals of music history and touch on some of the entomological connections associated with it!<\/p>\n<p>Our phrase of the week is &#8220;A Taste of Honey&#8221;, and it&#8217;s pretty obvious why it&#8217;s being featured as a Tuesday Tune. If we dig a little deeper however (and go on a tangent or two), we&#8217;ll uncover some rather interesting ties between some big names and entomology! Lets start at the beginning shall we?<\/p>\n<p><em>A Taste of Honey<\/em> was written by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Taste_of_Honey_%28song%29\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Scott &amp; Ric Marlow<\/a> in 1960 for the Broadway adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Taste_of_Honey\" target=\"_blank\">a British play of the same name<\/a>. This original version went on to win a Grammy for Best Instrumental Theme at the 1963 Grammy Awards. The instrumental version was soon covered by a band already featured on Tuesday Tunes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/tuesday-tunes-spanish-flea-herb-alpert\/\" target=\"_blank\">Herb Alpert &amp; the Tijuana Brass<\/a>, who made the song a commercial hit on their album <em>Whipped Cream &amp; Other Delights<\/em> in 1965, and the song was subsequently awarded 3 more Grammy Awards (Record of the Year, Best Instrumental Arrangement, and Best Instrumental Performance).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2aeQxKdphPc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There was another big name who was taking the 1966 Grammy Awards by storm &#8211; Barbra Streisand, who&#8217;s debut album <em>My Name is Barbra<\/em> (which won the Grammy for Best Vocal Performance, Female that year) featured a vocal rendition of a familiar song&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SZgdRHQBR90?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ButterFly_%28Barbra_Streisand_album%29\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Barbra Streisand - Butterfly 1974\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/f\/f3\/Uploadbutterfly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>Strangely enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbra_Streisand\" target=\"_blank\">Barbra Streisand<\/a> wasn&#8217;t even nominated for Best New Artist that year, with the Grammy going to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Jones_%28singer%29\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Jones<\/a>, who would cover <em>A Taste of Honey<\/em> the very next year. Time for Tangent #1 &#8211; Barbra Streisand would release an album titled <em>ButterFly <\/em>in 1974, with the cover art featuring a fly on a stick of butter. I must say I like this kind of ButterFly more than the traditional Lepidoptera&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before we leave the red carpet, there&#8217;s one more link between the Grammy Awards and A Taste of Honey. This time the award goes to the band <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Taste_of_Honey_%28band%29\" target=\"_blank\">A Taste of Honey<\/a>, who won the award for Best New Artist in 1978, largely on the success of their smash disco hit <em>Boogie Oogie Oogie<\/em>. It seems that the members of the band were such <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funtrivia.com\/en\/subtopics\/A-Taste-of-Honey---Sweet-Memories-174668.html\" target=\"_blank\">fans of Herb Alpert&#8217;s rendition of <em>A Taste of Honey<\/em><\/a> that they adopted it as their band name!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RrRxC-0F4z8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one more big name who enjoyed <em>A Taste of Honey<\/em> in a big way; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Beatles\" target=\"_blank\">The Beatles<\/a>! The Fab 4 included a version on their debut album <em>Please Please Me<\/em> in 1963, an album which shot to number 1 on the UK charts and which would ultimately pave the way for Beatlemania and the British Invasion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CgZpgh4XNB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tangent #2 &#8211; the entomological Beatles is pretty obvious, but did you know that the origin of the band name is also entomological? The Beatles chose their name as a tribute to Buddy Holly and his band The Crickets for their influence over their music. This of course leads us to Tangent #3 (wait, can you have a tangent off of a tangent? Hmmm, geometry never was my strong suit) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buddy_holly\" target=\"_blank\">Buddy Holly<\/a> (along with J.P. &#8220;The Big Bopper&#8221; Richardson and Ritchie Valens) was tragically killed in a plane crash on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Day_the_Music_Died\" target=\"_blank\">The Day The Music Died<\/a>, which just so happened to be 25 years to the day before a familiar entomologist was born &#8211; me!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tr-BYVeCv6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To wrap things up, Tangent #4 (geometry be damned) is going to take us back to our original theme of <em>A Taste of Honey<\/em>. Also paying tribute to Buddy Holly, fellow British Invaders and recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hollies\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollies<\/a> covered our song of the week in 1966 on their US album <em>Beat Group!<\/em> (which also featured <em>Fifi the Flea<\/em> on the B-side).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iuxRCE8D74Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So there you go, a full round trip through musical history on the back of a simple phrase! I hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed this little web of insect-associated music, and remember to come back next week to find an all new song!<\/p>\n<p>These songs are available on iTunes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/a-taste-of-honey\/id159351647?i=159351661&#038;uo=4\" target=\"itunes_store\">A Taste of Honey &#8211; Whipped Cream &#038; Other Delights<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/a-taste-of-honey\/id157324718?i=157324926&#038;uo=4\" target=\"itunes_store\">A Taste of Honey &#8211; The Barbra Streisand Album<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/boogie-oogie-oogie-re-recorded\/id355226779?i=355229870&#038;uo=4\" target=\"itunes_store\">Boogie Oogie Oogie (Re-Recorded \/ Remastered) &#8211; 100 Hits &#8211; &#8217;60s &#038; &#8217;70s (Re-Recorded \/ Remastered Versions)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/a-taste-of-honey\/id402060584?i=402060762&#038;uo=4\" target=\"itunes_store\">A Taste of Honey &#8211; Please Please Me<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/american-pie\/id320118254?i=320118305&#038;uo=4\" target=\"itunes_store\">American Pie &#8211; American Pie &#8211; Single<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/a-taste-of-honey\/id432692251?i=432693041&#038;uo=4\" target=\"itunes_store\">A Taste of Honey &#8211; The Clarke, Hicks &#038; Nash Years &#8211; The Complete Hollies April 1963 &#8211; October 1968 (Remastered)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something a little different for this weeks Tuesday Tunes, as we trace a simple yet successful phrase through the annals of music history and touch on some of the entomological connections associated with it! Our phrase of the week is &#8220;A Taste of Honey&#8221;, and it&#8217;s pretty obvious why it&#8217;s being featured as a Tuesday <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/09\/tuesday-tunes-a-sweet-trip-through-time\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,23,16,199],"tags":[598,298,278,249],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-insects","category-pop-culture","category-tuesday-tunes","tag-diptera","tag-history","tag-honey","tag-music","category-151-id","category-23-id","category-16-id","category-199-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}