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unusual facts about Dirty Water


The Bel-Airs

Original Bel-Airs drummer Dick Dodd joined Bertrand in Eddie & the Showmen, and later joined The Standells, playing drums and singing lead on their major 1966 hit, "Dirty Water".



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Dick Dodd

Dodd became a fan of the Boston Red Sox later in life, and learned that the team played the song "Dirty Water" at Fenway Park after that.

Water supply and sanitation in Ethiopia

For example, according to an article by Tina Rosenberg for National Geographic, in the mountain-top village Foro in the Konso special woreda of southwestern Ethiopia women make three to five round trips per day to fetch dirty water from the Koiro river.

Zhenwei Wang

He received it while chasing Jaden Smith (playing Dre Parker) after being splashed by the dirty water; Zhenwei hit his head on an oil pail.