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Good website to find info on musicians

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I'm looking for a website that databases musicians and their discographies which also lists the personnel (not necessarily producers or technicians, just musicians) on each record... Or is there any website which allows me to input two musicians' names and returns only the records on which they both appear? Inasilentway (talk) 00:15, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Discogs is pretty good for the first of these, not sure it can do the second though. --Viennese Waltz 01:13, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Movie Title Question

There's a movie I'm trying to remember the name of that has an explanation of a photograph, which if I recall correctly is of a street-level window looking into a basement factory. The explanation is of ice aircraft carriers in secret development. I thought it was in Shooting the Past, but just watched that again & didn't see it. Thanks!--Shandon (talk) 03:17, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Who's that

Hello fellows!

Can anybody identify this female singer? The image was taken on Aruba. Thanks. --High Contrast (talk) 10:42, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Don't Leave Me This Way

Who played bass on Thelma Houston's 1976 version of Don't Leave Me This Way? DuncanHill (talk) 13:32, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Henry Davis played bass on this song. I would like to take credit for answering, but the same question was asked on TalkBass.com. I confirmed the answer on AllMusic.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petitelibrarian (talk • contribs) 15:48, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks. DuncanHill (talk) 16:02, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

add a celeb to graduate list

WOULD LIKE TO ADD A CELEB TO THE FAMOUS GRADUATE LIST. HIS NAME IS GARY H. MILLER. MY YOUNGER BROTHER. GARY GRADUATED IN 1965 AND WENT ON TO GRADUATE BKLYN. COLL. IN 1969 HE HAS WRITTEN FOR NUMEROUS SITCOMS FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS. INCLUDED ARE.. LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY,BOSOM BUDDIES, A DIFFERENT WORLD, 1ST AND TEN, REBA AND ANGIE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.185.200.56 (talk) 14:56, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

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Please write your brother's biography first, making sure to follow the guidelines at WP:BIO, WP:BLP, WP:RS and WP:COI. Please don't add the name to a list of famous graduates if the article hasn't been written yet. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 23:19, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Cakes

Other than the obvious, what songs feature cake? Any kind I'm not that fussy. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 17:38, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Here's a few: Sugar Minott - "Slice of the Cake", Junior English - "Piece of the Cake", Mousefolk – "Grannies Cake Crisis", Crowded House - "Chocolate Cake", Razorcuts - "Big Pink Cake".--Michig (talk) 17:50, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

We have that Category:Cake songs but disappointly these are songs by a band called "Cake"...Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 18:16, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

And as a proper answer, here are thirty with more suggestions. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 18:17, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

• Also "Doll Parts" by Hole ("I want to be the girl with the most cake"). --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:53, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

I believe 21 Questions contains the line "I love you like a fat kid loves cake".  Card Zero  (talk) 21:48, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

• Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes, Simon and Garfunkel
• All the world's a birthday cake, The Beatles
• Too Many People Going Underground, too Many Reaching For A Piece Of Cake, Paul McCartney
• Soul Cake, Peter Paul and Mary, Sting
• Eating chocolate cake in a bag, John Lennon
• You can have your cake and eat it too, Bob Dylan

--NorwegianBlue ^talk 23:51, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

I assume you know there's a band called Cake, of Short Skirt Long Jacket fame. Vranak (talk) 00:04, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

And there's My Friend The Chocolate Cake too. HiLo48 (talk) 01:11, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

• "Someone left the cake out in the rain ..." - Richard Harris — Michael J 01:02, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

• You really should have checked that first Wikilink in the original question. HiLo48 (talk) 01:11, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

I am sorry. I didn't even recognize it as a Wikilink. (Sometimes the colors don't show up well on my monitor.) Throw a cake at me please/ — Michael J 01:23, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Is an American Pie a cake? HiLo48 (talk) 01:34, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

CBW said, "Any kind I'm not that fussy", so I'm assuming non-savoury baked goods, broadly construed, would be ok... tho Porcupine pie might be pushing it. --Shirt58 (talk) 08:41, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

The cake is a lie.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 01:44, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

This song is frequently accompanied by cake. Mitch Ames (talk) 01:56, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

It certainly was at my house last night.  :) -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 03:23, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Hot Cross Buns are sort of cakes HiLo48 (talk) 02:12, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

"Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man" - technically a nursery rhyme, but according to the article recorded as a song by several people. Mitch Ames (talk) 02:14, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

A Wikipedia search finds Chocolate Cake (song), If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake, Singing A Song In The Morning / Eleanor's Cake (Which Ate Her) ... Mitch Ames (talk) 02:19, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks everybody. I promise to use these all responsibly in my ongoing attempts to annoy the sister of my daughter-in-law. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 07:20, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

But wait. There's more.... Stereophonics recorded "Carrot Cake and Wine". HiLo48 (talk) 07:37, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Both Sting and Peter, Paul and Mary sang about Soul cake. HiLo48 (talk) 07:44, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

"Piece of Cake" by Jethro Tull. Dismas|^(talk) 07:46, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Connie Francis recorded "The Wedding Cake" HiLo48 (talk) 07:51, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

"Wedding Cake Island" by Midnight Oil?--Shirt58 (talk) 07:53, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, of course! Except that it wasn't quite a song. But I guess our Minister for School Education, etc still got to dance. HiLo48 (talk) 08:22, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Which is more embarrassing: his dancing when with the Oils, or his political career thus far? --Shirt58 (talk) 08:41, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Carly Simon's Hotcakes even tells us how to cook them. HiLo48 (talk) 08:27, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but Matthew and Son mentions a "cup of cold coffee and a piece of cake". Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 10:08, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

"What do you do when the moon shines bright and you're sitting alone in the flat? I pour a cup of tea and I gulp a slice of cake and see how quick I get fat." - Out with the Light by Ivor Cutler, on the album A Flat Man. See also the next track, I Ate a Lady's Bun.  Card Zero  (talk) 21:36, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Birthday Cake by Rihanna. 174.95.227.232 (talk) 07:44, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Wow. I never realised that there were so manu. Thanks all. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 17:10, 15 November 2011 (UTC)