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This week's Great Song, Wrong Title number is "Gonna Make You Sweat" by C + C Music Factory. Clearly it should be called "Everybody Dance Now." Do you know the story? The great Martha Wash recorded the song as a demo and they recorded the video with another woman lipsynching to Wash's vocals. Wash went to court! Here she is spilling the tea: One more funny story. I had a VCR back in the late 80s and early 90s but it wasn't fully functional. It was a discarded rental VCR from

My brother Howard alerted me to the death of costume and fashion designer Bob Mackie (age 87). I cried a few tears at my desk! He's best known for his costume designs for Carol Burnett and Cher on their variety shows. He designed an average of 60 costumes a week for Burnett's show, and eventually he was doing the Sonny and Cher show at the same time! Yeesh. His most famous creation was the curtain rod dress in Burnett's GWTW parody, Went With the Wind. It was HIS idea to add