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3 unusual facts about Wow/Grape Jam


Wow/Grape Jam

The opening track "Never" is the best known song and has often been cited as a probable source for Led Zeppelin's song "Since I've Been Loving You": the opening lyrics, the bluesy arrangement and some melodic elements are almost identical.

Artwork of the Wow album (design and illustration) was done by Bob Cato.

Many of the songs from Wow also appear on the 2 CD collection Vintage: The Very Best of Moby Grape released in 1993.


Acoustic Live at the WOW

Acoustic Live at the WOW is a live recording of Floater from the WOW Hall based in Eugene, Oregon.

Adam and the Ants

On 26 January 1980, McLaren convinced the rest of the band – then comprising guitarist Matthew Ashman, bassist Leigh Gorman (who had replaced Warren in November 1979) and drummer Dave Barbe – to leave Adam and the Ants and form Bow Wow Wow, fronted by Annabella Lwin.

Autism Speaks

Since February 2009, Autism Speaks has used the Wubbzy character from Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! as a mascot.

Ballyhoo!

Tour highlights include: 311 Pow Wow Festival 2011, 311 Caribbean Cruise 2012 & 2013, California Roots 2013, The Bamboozle 2012, and the entire Vans Warped Tour 2012.

Barney Adams

Byron (Barney) H. Adams (born March 24, 1939 in Syracuse, New York), is an entrepreneur, the founder of Adams Golf, inventor of the Tight Lies fairway wood, holder of several patents on golf products, author of The WOW Factor, and proponent of growing the game of golf.

Born to Laugh at Tornadoes

This album boasted an impressive array of guest vocalists, ranging from hard rocker Mitch Ryder (on "Bow Wow Wow Wow"), heavy metal shock rocker Ozzy Osbourne ("Shake Your Head"), pop band The Knack's lead vocalist Doug Fieger (on "Betrayal" and "Smile"), Marshall Crenshaw ("The Party Broke Up"), and torch song vocalist/songwriter Mel Tormé (lead vocal on the closing song "Zaz Turned Blue").

Cozad Singers

Their most recent album, California Pow Wow, was released by SOAR Records in June, 2004, and won the 2005 Native American Music Award for Best Historical Recording.

Danbury, Wisconsin

St. Croix Chippewa Indians Band from the Lake Superior Chippewa holds it annual St. Croix Wild Rice Pow-wow hosting drums and singers from all over North America.

DMTN

Wonder Girls' Hye Rim tweeted about Dalmatian's Day Day saying "WOW! My rap teacher (Day Day) for "lip gloss" debuted ..... Dalmatian!! Congratulations......"

Ghetto Pledge

"Ghetto Pledge" is third single from the album Wow... The Story by Jamaican dancehall artist Baby Cham.

God's Counting on Me, God's Counting on You

Chorus – crew and passengers aboard the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater including Roland Mousaa and Princess Wow; Studio chorus: Janice Pendarvis, Candy John Carr, Jane Cole, Terre Roche, Emilie Cardinaux, Jeremy Rainer, Steve Holley, Deni Bonet, and The Outer Child Choir.

HTC Desire HD

The HTC Desire HD incorporates Dolby Mobile, Sound Retrieval System WOW Surround Sound, DLNA, Adobe Flash 10.2, and DivX/Xvid video playback support, however, not many audio codecs are supported and apps have to be downloaded in order to support more formats.

Joey Slotnick

He also does commercial work, including a series of ads promoting the NBA which were featured heavily during its 2008-2009 telecasts, Slotnick also plays the guy with the mustache in the coveralls that damages vehicles in the 21st Century Insurance commercials and has made appearances in ads for the office supply store Staples where he states, "WOW - that's a low price."

John George Hohman

He immigrated to the USA from Germany in 1802, settled in the area around Reading, Pennsylvania, in the Pennsylvania Dutch community, where he printed and sold broadsides, chapbooks and books and practised and instructed in the arts of folk magic and folk religion which became known as pow-wow.

Lloyd Hunter

By 1929, the band was heard on radio stations KGBZ in York, Nebraska; KFAB in Lincoln, Nebraska; and WOW in Omaha.

Love and Glamour

Melanie Dee of Yahoo! Voices gave Love and Glamour a mixed review, stating that while it "smells simply delicious", it was unoriginal in contrast to her previous fragrances and opined that "it will not wow perfume connoisseurs out there enough to become a mainstream must have fragrance like her original Glow".

Michael Spears

Spears is an accomplished hand drum player and singer, often performing at native American "pow-wow" gatherings and in non-tribal venues (he was the opening act for Rita Coolidge and Friends at her 2005 concert in Great Falls, Montana).

Na'ima B. Robert

Journey Through Islamic Arts was awarded the UK National Literacy Trust Association WOW!

Peshawbestown, Michigan

Other notable feature include the historic Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Church and the annual Peshawbestown Pow-Wow, which takes place each August with native foods, tribal art, and dancing.

Piccadilly Circus in popular culture

In Wayne's World 2, Paramount flies Wayne and Garth (or their body doubles) to London and they visit Piccadilly Circus; Garth comments, "Wow, what a s***ty circus," to which Wayne replies, "Good call. There's no animals or clowns! What a ripoff!"

Razer Switchblade

Since it runs on Windows 7, multiple games have been already played for demonstration such as Quake, WoW, and Defense of the Ancients.

Tennis Channel

On September 4, 2011 during the US Open, the Tennis Channel pulled its signal from Verizon FiOS, Cablevision, Suddenlink Communications, Mediacom, WOW!, Knology and GCI after the providers declined to accept a new agreement that the Tennis Channel made with the National Cable Television Cooperative of which they are members.

Volleyball spiking

Well known beach professionals such as Karch Kiraly used the volleyball spike to score devastating points on their opponents as well as wow the crowd with the Spike's air of theatricality.

WOW Magazine

In the summer of 2001, Kappa Publishing Group – who just happened to be the longtime publishers of PWI and thus Apter's and Anderson's former employers – assumed the rights to WOW Magazine from H&S Media and folded the publication.

WOW series

Released in late 1995, "WOW 1996" was the first in the WOW series and the first recording put together by the three major Christian record companies of the time: Word Records (now Word Entertainment), Sparrow Records (now part of EMI Christian Music Group), and Reunion Records (now part of Sony's Provident Label Group).

Wow-Wow sauce

It is parodied as a sauce of the same name in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett.

WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon

Among the participating artists were game designer Chris Metzen, Aram Bartholl, Jorg Dubin, UC Irvine professor Antoinette LaFarge, Eddo Stern; Tale of Tales developers Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn, and Chinese photographer Zeng Han.

Wow... The Story

The Story is a double album by Baby Cham, released on October 24, 2000, (see 2000 in music) and referred to by the Miami New Times as "the most anticipated album in years from any reggae artist.".


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