Talk:Rickie Lee Jones
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Could use some references.
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 13:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Chuck E's in Love lyrics question
Can anyone tell me what "P.I.P." in the first line means?
- How come he don't come and p.i.p. with me
- Down at the meter no more?
-Rholton 16:48, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The letters are "PLP", but I don't know what they mean. I asked her backup singer Amy Barlow that question in 1979, and all she would say, with a smile, was that it was a "family secret".
PLP, can be short for either Public Leaning Post or Personal Leaning Post. When I was in high school in the '70s, we used this expression. Someone might come up to me and lean their arm across my shoulders, and I might say "what do I look like, a PLP?" - pmerriam St. Patrick's Day 2006
I have removed the claim that Jones was one of the few artists, if not the only, to be featured on the cover of Rolling Stone twice in two years. The list of artists who fit that claim is long, including the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, and Tina Turner — and those are just from the first three years of the magazine. — Walloon 06:37, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Someone appended, "rickie Lee did not appear on reading rainbow" (etc), which should probably either be verified or deleted; if correct, then fixed in the article proper (with correct capitalization, grammar, etc). Also, [Little Fluffy Clouds] makes this same claim. Should be simple enough to verify by whomever made the original claim, or by the one who confuted it? Michael 08:54, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
- "Chuck E's in Love" includes the line: "Christ, I think he's even combed his hair". Does anyone who remembers when this song was a hit know whether any radio stations bleeped out the word "Christ" or any other reports of people taking offense at this usage? Just wondering. --Metropolitan90 05:01, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
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- People may have taken offense, but it wasn't censored out & there wasn't a public outcry over it. If the song was released today then the word Christ would most likely be edited, most likely due to today's way too P.C. airwaves & radio stations censoring above & beyond what the FCC deems offensive. 15:47 18 January 2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.192.22.48 (talk) 20:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Moved here from article
[edit] Miscellanea
- Her song "Living It Up" was remixed for clubs by Junior Vasquez in 1997. The remix was a hit in New York City clubs, but was never released commercially.
- Her hit single "Chuck E.'s in Love" is about fellow musician Chuck E. Weiss, whom she lived alongside at the Tropicana Hotel in the early 1970s. She was in a romantic relationship with Weiss's friend Tom Waits around the same time.
- Her voice was sampled for The Orb's single Little Fluffy Clouds after she appeared with LeVar Burton on the US children's program Reading Rainbow. Because of this both Jones and Burton were involved in legal action, but Big Life (the music label which released "Little Fluffy Clouds") later settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. The original sample is featured on a promotional 2-CD edition (DIDX-005561) of Jones' album Flying Cowboys.
- The song "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963" was used in popular TV drama House, as the lead character Dr. Gregory House, played by Hugh Laurie, watches a lacrosse game.
- She is the voice of the "Have You Had Enough?" song which is featured in customized political ads on the internet and local radio and television stations. The series of ads impel voters to vote for Democratic candidates in specific races of the United States congressional midterm elections in 2006. They are an example of the growing importance of netroots bloggers, who organized the effort. She performs the song alongside three former members of the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
- She is made reference to in the dEUS song 'Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)', which contains the lyrics, "I'm in love/ With Ricky Lee Jones' voice".
[edit] Concern about additions made on April 28, 2008 by 75.213.120.70
Over 5,000 bytes of material was added to the article on April 28, 2008 by 75.213.120.70. I am concerned because of the amount of material added and the fact that there are no citations for any of the material. My concern is that some of the material may have been plagiarized and that it really an essay on Jones not cited facts. Here is the material that has been added. Would some other people take a look at this and give their opinion. This highlights a big problem with the article on Rickie Lee Jones - there is not a single citation in the entire article.
Best Regards,
Reservoirhill (talk) 14:42, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] changes made on 5/3/08
I made some changes to this article yesterday after coming across it casually. Much of the same material is available elsewhere on the web - either that was copied and pasted here, or vice versa (hard to know). In any case, it is a very poorly written entry. Many typos, bad sentence construction, and a lot of subjective editorializing, as well as some "facts" that are not (or are no longer) true. I fixed the most obvious grammatical errors and deleted some of the BS, but will leave it to someone else to round up all of the references needed to make it credible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nonseq (talk • contribs) 16:43, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
