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Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters
Hi, I recognized your name (and photo) from the Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters DVD. I think you explained the Carpenters' image very accurately. I think you said that Richard was wearing a cashmere jacket and Karen wears a lacey dress and it's just too cute. Was the "Close to You" LP you were holding never before opened? It looked like it. 24.25.250.158 07:13, 3 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes it was. DanielLevitin 20:38, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

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SP
Daniel, there are numerous factual errors in your artice on SP
 * 1) In fact, it was Pearlman who first coined the term "heavy metal" for music in his 1968 review of The Byrd's "Artificial Energy"in Crawdaddy magazine.
 * 2) * term does not appear in his 1968 article
 * 3) Steppenwolf picked up the phrase ("heavy metal thunder") in "Born To Be Wild" eight months later.
 * 4) * album was released Jan 1968 - same month as Byrds
 * 5) Around the same time, as a student at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he saw a campus group named The Soft White Underbelly, told them they were great, and named them Blue Öyster Cult, making them the first band to use an umlaut...
 * 6) * Pearlman was not a student at SUNY after June 1966. He was on campus from time to time
 * 7) * He named them "Soft White Underbelly" - a name he had already discussed aloud before June 1966
 * 8) * I don't think he takes credit for the umlaut

Wikipedia is not a fan site, nor a place for hagiography. If we are going to mention his claim re "heavy metal", WP:NPOV requires we mention that the claim is contested --JimWae (talk) 03:01, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

JimWae: Why do you call it my article? Yo'ure the one who created the SP entry on WP! I apologize for any factual errors I may have inadvertently contributed there or elsewhere. I obtained my information from interviews contemporaries of SP, such as Ricky Meltzer, Howie Klein, Paul Williams, Ben Fong-Torres, as well as bandmembers of BOC. I think this is simply a case where different people have memories that diverge from one another. When you say, for example, that SP had "discussed aloud" the name "Soft White Underbelly" prior to 1966, you're relying on someone's aural memory, as was I in my account of things. Without contemporary-to-the-time written documentation, it's hard to know what's true, isn't it? DanielLevitin (talk) 13:14, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I was referring to this article (which seems to be by you). Re SWU, I was pointing out that it was SP who gave them the SWU name - not that we include SP's earlier mention of it (Sep 67 at latest - I went to Calif then). --JimWae (talk) 17:33, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah, true, that article from the Billboard Encylopedia was written by me, and fact-check by the Billboard staff. I didn't know that there were errors in it, not sure how to evaluate the competing claims.  DanielLevitin (talk) 21:36, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I brought errors up only because you had introduced it as a source for the WP article - --JimWae (talk) 21:53, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Erdos Number
It's not that the number and phenomenon doesn't exist, it's just that I do not see any educational or encyclopedic value to listing it beyond mild trivia; the Wikipedia article your linked me to (which I had already visited) says as much: it was created as a sort of joke, and its propagation seems to be like a joke. I only watch a limited number of biographies at Wikipedia: yours is one of them. If the number showed up on Hildegard of Bingen's article (another one I watch), you can bet I'd support its removal there, too. Or do you expect me to single-handedly comb through each and every one of the tens of thousands of biographies at Wikipedia and remove it from all of them? The Jade Knight (talk) 01:34, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * You seem to be implying that it is somehow policy that such information be included. As this appears to be nothing more than an amusing bit of trivia which is entirely unrelated to your work or significance, I really don't see any reason to include it.  The Jade Knight (talk) 01:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Gian-Carlo Rota
Concerning this edit: How do you know he was reading when he died? Is there some indication somewhere of what he was reading? For that matter, I wonder how people know when he died? He was seen on campus Friday afternoon by many people, and Monday morning he was found dead in his residence. How does anyone know the exact date of death if he died alone there. Michael Hardy (talk) 07:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

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 * Duff, thanks for notifying me of this oversight. I've taken corrective action. DanielLevitin 15:23, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

New article about The Automatt
I wrote an article about The Automatt and I used a bit of material from an interview of you, and also a bit from your book. Please tell me if there are errors of commission or omission. Binksternet (talk) 14:50, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

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 * I uploaded that one in error; there is a replacement that is currently being used. This one should be deleted (but I don't know how). DanielLevitin (talk) 15:27, 20 September 2014 (UTC) 15:24, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks ... in a roundabout way
Hi Daniel, thanks for your edit to Joni Mitchell. I didn't know you edited Wikipedia! I'd recognized your name from various articles and videos and other things about the way the brain processes music. I went and googled Daniel Levitin+Joni Mitchell and found this article of yours about her. I found Mitchell's description of the genesis of her song "Furry Sings the Blues" (my very favourite song from my very favourite album!) so intriguing that I tried to add it to the article about the Hejira album where it's from which I did very badly ... which led me to spend several hours expanding the article to add notes about all the tracks on Hejira. So ... thanks for that, lol!

While I'm here, do you happen to know where I could find a better source for the claim that Jaco Pastorius' contributions were overdubbed to replace other bass parts? That idea seems intriguing to me. Graham 87 14:12, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Graham. I hadn't heard that claim and I'm not sure where you'd be able to confirm it. I'll let you know if I turn anything up. DanielLevitin (talk) 15:20, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

WP:V
I reverted your edit at Anne Treisman. We really need a citation to claim someone is dead. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 02:23, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

I heard it from her husband by email. I imagine there will be an obit tomorrow. If so, I'll cite it. Sorry about that. Does a FB post count as a citation? :)
 * Facebook fails WP:SPS. Let's wait for the obit. Thanks for your patience. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 02:30, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

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