One Bad Apple

[MASCARO at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU]

Hey, thanks davemarc for setting me straight.  But when I hear that song in my head, it 
seems there's no way the voice could be Donny O's.  Yet clearly your historical grasp is 
firm, a-and books don't lie, do they?  Man, Firesign Theater had it right:  Everything You 
(well, I) Know is Wrong.

Funny that the encyclopedia connects the O's and the J's.  Those savvy Osmonds went for 
the deliberate resemblance. And further messed up my cross-wired memory.

johnny tone deaf

davemarc sets the record aright:
>
>The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll sez "One Bad Apple" was a
>"Jackson 5-style" hit for the Osmonds.  I agree that the tune sounds like a
>Jackson 5 number, but I'm not sure that it is one.
>
>As for who ripped off whom, the Osmonds formed in 1957; the Jackson 5
>coalesced in 1964.  The Osmonds appeared on national television throughout
>the Sixties, but the Jackson 5 were the first to hit record biz in 1969-70
>with I Want You Back.  The Osmonds went gold in 1971 with One Bad Apple.
>
>Obviously, both groups "ripped off" countless family singing groups that
>preceded them.
>
>davemarc
>