MUSIC & DANCES Trivia

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I thought we ought to have a thread…which cascades some interesting infos. on MUSIC & DANCES trivia…with regard to all the related subjects and their backgrounds.

This thread is expected to disseminate as much information on Western and Eastern Music and Dances having traditional values and historical as well as popular backgrounds.

I am not really bothered about how many participate…my mission on this forum would be, like I am currently also involved, in extricating and posting most cogent and interesting backgrounds on subject…on a degree of one or at best, two per day.

The thread will end when I will complete the excercise…irrespective of how many participate and how many view it.

Khush Rahein…

The first submission;

—CD STATS—

  • The theoretical lifespan of a CD-R is around 100 years.
  • The diameter of a CD is 12cm.
  • CDs were developed by PHILIPS & SONY and released in 1982.
  • The fist commercial CD album was Billy Joel’s 52nd Street , which was released in Japan in Oct-82.
  • Stretched out in a straight line, all the data stored in a CD would be over four miles long.
  • **The first CD single was Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms, manufactured in 1985 and released for promotional purposes in Germany to commemorate the band’s 1985 European tour.
  • A CD contains the equivalent of 7 zip disks of information, or 473 3.5" diskettes, or 400,000 pages of typed paper.
  • Around one third of recorded CDs are pirated.
  • The number of recorded CDs and blank Cds sold has been about equal till Dec-2004.
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Re: MUSIC & DANCES Trivia

----CAN CAN----

Reports of dances involving high-kicking have been
recorded since ancient times, but the style reached
a notorious peak in the shape of the can-can during
**the late 19th century. **

Ostensibly a hybrid of the *polka and the quadrille, ***
***the can-can (the word*
originally meant 'tittle-tattle of the scandalous
nature') was originally a group dance performed
by both; the males and the females, but it
**eventually came to be dominated by women **
who wore exuberant costumes and showed the
flesh above their stockings by kicking their legs
high in the air. The dance was deemed immoral
and indecent and was outlawed for a number of
years, though it still managed to become popular
through venues such as the Moulin Rouge-Paris,
gaining extra respctability via French operetta singers.

The 1960 MGM movie 'CAN CAN' ran packed houses in Karachi.