People who have had a notable effect on popular culture whose names are not widely known - name and desribe yr fave e.g.s

FHM 100 Sexiest Women In The World 2008

Raymond Loewy.

http://www.drdemento.com/catalog/vnl_barnes_fishds_250.jpg

Henry Clay Work

Noted 19th century abolitionist and teetotal campaigner. Writer of the song "My Grandfather's Clock", and by so doing, responsible for the clocks formerly known as longcase clocks becoming known as grandfather clocks. Also writer of "Marching Through Georgia" and the anti-alcohol campaign song (whose name escapes me) which begins "Father dear father, come home with me now" which my mum's cousin hated incidentally, that it decsirbed an annoying little brat trying to lure home his dad who had gone for a few pints down his local to escape the attentions of his whinging family....

I don't think DJ Kool Herc's name is known widely outside hip hop enthusiasts, yet he is generally considered the first hip hop DJ, and thus has had a big influence on popular culture.

Also: King Tubby, who invented the remix, no matter what Puff Daddy says.

matthew arnold

not a 'favourite', just in terms of game-changers whose names probably aren't universally known.

Pipecock

eh king tubby is one of the absolutely most famous reggae people ever

And how many reggae people besides Bob Marley are widely known?

lots

of reggae people

Jimmy Cliff? Toots, maybe? No one knows who King Tubby is.

Okay, I dare you go to the nearest street corner, and start shouting "King Tubby was the king!" at people, and see how they react.

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yea 'widely known' has to mean 'beyond college grad online music fans' rly.

People like Dianne Warren?

Diane

yea 'widely known' has to mean 'beyond college grad online music fans' rly.

-- banriquit, Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:33 AM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

or the millions of other reggae fans wtf fools

Okay, I dare you go to the nearest street corner, and start shouting "King Tubby was the king!" at people, and see how they react.

-- Tuomas, Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:32 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lolwtf i dare you go to the nearest street corner and start shouting "i am completely fucking insane!" at people, and see how they react.

reggae producer well-known among reggae fans != widely known.

ok by yr guys definition of widely known theres like a hundred people who qualify so pretty much any influential person qualifies

u might want to consider that yr perceptions of the popularity of reggae is distorted by the fact that yr retarded europeans

Not I, said the cat.

u might want to consider that yr perceptions of the popularity of reggae is distorted by the fact that yr retarded europeans

-- jhøshea, Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:41 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

um waht. pretty sure reggae has a bigger fanbase (proportionately or whatever the fuck) in uk than us.

I'm from America, where reggae is only popular at the beach.

^^^no way, we have reggae themed taco stands here, does the uk have that????

where i live reggae gets played all the time on pop radio hippies love it high school kids do delightful dance routines to it on public access tv and no one knows who robbie williams is - that goes like 1mx for the caribbean

lol rastataco xposts

^^^no way, we have reggae themed taco stands here, does the uk have that????

-- Mr. Que, Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:45 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.itzcaribbean.com/images/levi_roots_reggae_reggae_sauce.jpg

I kind of hate reggae and don't know any names except B. Marley. :/ So I guess King Tubby qualifies from my point of view.

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that's taco sauce, not a taco stand

where i live reggae gets played all the time on pop radio hippies love it high school kids do delightful dance routines to it on public access tv and no one knows who robbie williams is - that goes like 1mx for the caribbean

-- jhøshea, Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

"that goes like 1mx for the caribbean" -- well no shit.

and that's JERK sauce, not taco sauce. i am talking about TACOS and BURRITOS

Stan Freberg.

waht do they not count? xp

that's taco sauce, not a taco stand

-- Mr. Que, Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:48 (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

It's jerk sauce, and it has its own top 200 song.

shit time to write a reggae soung extolling the virtues of tacos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jkGw5VIC-c

By the way Que, rastataco is at the beach.

rasta taco goes wherever its needed

waht do they not count? xp

-- jhøshea, Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

not in a US vs UK 'who loves reggae more?' fight, no.

you have misrepresented the vast nature of this battle silly brit

Being 83 and perhaps the oldest poster on ILX, I would nominate some names who might not be hugely known to younger generations, but who have had a big influence on elements of pop culture-- Jack Paar, Ernie Kovacs, Bob and Ray...

jhoshow I'm glad you could quickly turn this thread into an absolutely worthless dick parade before anybody but tuomas could respond to the question. cause when I clicked on it that's what I was praying for, I was seriously praying, please oh god please don't let me find out about some new and interesting facts and names and places that helped define and shape the canon as we know it, oh dear jesus don't let me learn anything from these people I spend most of the time being slightly annoyed with, jut please let it reaffirm my faith that this whole thing is a waste of time and people are all BORING BOORISH SNIDE TWITS so I can go back to looking at pron and drinking v8 and not leaving the house

thanks

Bob Wills - Roy Noble - Jack Hylton

oops that should be Ray Noble, not Roy Noble

I think a lot of people know of Link Wray thanks to Tarantino but they don't know of his real contribution to the sound of rock music after him, would that count?

link wray is a good one

also W.G. Peacock

haha sorry tom i knew when i saw this thread that it was my destiny to destroy it

lay off the v8 buddy - take a walk or something - its a beautiful day

Yuen Wo Ping

Joe Gibbs? Sorry.

anyway the answer is abraham lincoln i mean a lot of people know him from his signature beard & cane but also there are many other compelling facts!

stfu

u stfu

gertrude stein--she pushed hemingway to quit journalism, told him to go to spain and took him to bullfights

jimi hendrix invented the guitar

ooh but if we start to go down that path we could end up at the guy who kicked hitler out of art school real quick

gertrude stein is HUGELY WELL KNOWN among eng lit feministas you FOOL etc etc etc

lol i bet that guy is kicking himself now xp

jimi hendrix invented the ice cream cone

carl mayer -- austro-german screenwriter in the 1920s, did every fucking thing, maybe invented the 'film without intertitles', maybe invented the super-mobile camera (he wrote murnau's 'the last laugh' and 'sunrise'), cashed out when the nazis came in, moved to london, found it hard to adjust to sound film, got paid a small stipend for not doing much, worked on wartime propaganda, died poor and hungry in 1944.

alan j. pakula

lizz winstead and madeleine smithberg

don't forget to desribe

daily show creators

Dewey Phillips, the Memphis DJ who played country/hillbilly music and blues and r&b back to back as early as the late 40's (years before Alan Freed). His show aired for 3 hours a night, 6 nights a week in Memphis in the early 50's - his show popularized and influenced the architects of early rock n' roll & rockabilly, including Elvis - who he played on the radio for the first time.