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2 unusual facts about Ball 'n' Chain


Ball 'n' Chain

With Big Brother and the Holding Company, she performed the song at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 to an enthusiastic audience and critical reception.

Trudy Lynn

Her debut, Trudy Sings the Blues, included her cover version of "Ball 'n' Chain".


Ants on a log

During the song "Mama", on the album Turtleneck & Chain by The Lonely Island, the mother of one of the singers is heard to say that she made them "ants on a log".

Engineering House

Engineering House has several traditional events for its members throughout the year, including an annual winter skiing trip to Mont Tremblant Resort, an annual spring camping trip to Letchworth State Park, and the end-of-the-year Engineering House Formal.

Love Not Riots

It is officially endorsed by festival organisers Festival Republic, and supported by numerous celebrities and bands including ¡Forward, Russia!, The Automatic, The Subways, The Cribs, Goldie Lookin' Chain, McDonalds and Giant Drag.

Order of Saint Barbara

Saint Barbara day falls on December 4 and is traditionally recognized by a formal Dining-In or military ball, often involving presentations of the Order of Saint Barbara.

Vitali covering lemma

Finite version: Let B {1}, \ldots, B {n} be any finite collection of balls contained in d-dimensional Euclidean space Rd (or, more generally, in an arbitrary metric space).


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Roxx Gang

In 2006, two of its songs off of the Things You've Never Done Before album, "Ball 'N Chain" and "No Easy Way Out" were featured in the THQ action-adventury video game Saints Row.