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June 6

The video to James The King Brown's version of Whole Lotta Rosie

James "The King" Brown came up with a great version of AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie" sung in the style of Elvis Presley. Its video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuBAqCBFNF8) is also among the best music videos I've seen. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any information about it (director, actors, location, synopsis, etc.).

Can any of you search engine wizzards do better? Not difficult since I've achieved about nothing.

In particular I'd like to know:

1. Who is the actress who plays the blonde woman?

2. Who/what is she supposed to be?

3. What's the underlying story? For example: Is the singer, James "The King" Brown, trying to pick her up, at the beginning of the video? Is she supposed to be as huge as the original Rosie? She looks more or less normal to me. Why isn't she happy when he asks the guitar player "Do you know Whole Lotta Rosie?"

4. What location was the video filmed in?

5. Who directed the video? 178.51.21.181 (talk) 09:35, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Londonbeat's I've Been Thinking About You

Does anyone know or can anyone find out who the model/actress who plays the "Cowgirl" in Londonbeat's original video to their song "I've Been Thinking About You" 178.51.21.181 (talk) 09:42, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Square colors on checkerboards

We know that a checkerboard has squares of 2 colors. But in chess we call them black and white; in checkers we call them black and red. Why this inconsistency?? Georgia guy (talk) 17:02, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

The boards can have various colors. [As illustrated in Checkerboard and Chessboard.] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:08, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Note also the long-standing red-and-white "checkerboard" logo of Ralston Purina. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:28, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Was it founded by a Croat? —Tamfang (talk) 19:59, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Are you sure? Here I read: "The most commonly used colors of the board are green and buff with dark squares. The colors of the pieces shall be of color contrast. Most used in tournament play are red for the dark and white for the light pieces." Elsewhere I see "a board of 64 squares (8x8) alternately colored white and black". And, "Most often these boards are black and red or black and white, though you can find custom boards made out of a vast array of colors and patterns." – which is not about how they are called, but about the actual colours. The European Draughts Confederation describes a checkerboard as "a board with alternating light and dark squares". In international draughts, played on a 10×10 board, the squares are typically also called black and white, regardless of their actual colours – just as in chess, where the "white" squares may be wheat while the "black" squares are chocolate.  --Lambiam 19:14, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Our article on Checkers mentions the color red twice. In both cases it's a description of the pieces on the board, not the squares. So your claim that "in checkers we call them black and red" doesn't seem true. That article also contains a lot of photos of boards. None of them have red squares. HiLo48 (talk) 00:14, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Every checker board I saw growing up was red and black. And we always referred to them the same way. This was in the US i the '70s and '80s. Maybe it's a US thing?--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 15:50, 8 June 2024 (UTC)