Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2012 August 30

= August 30 =

Thinking about a cartoon
I'm thinking about a cartoon with had a character that was a green tyrannosaurus rex that I think wore a hat backwards. Does anybody know what this show is? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.85.199.242 (talk) 16:25, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Toy Story? -- Jayron  32  16:45, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * No, that's not it. It wasn't computer-animated. 143.85.199.242 (talk) 21:15, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Some of the Dinosaucers wore hats or headdresses. Can you give us any clue as to roughly when you saw the show?  -  Ka renjc 21:51, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * What about Dinosaurs (TV series)? It was puppets, and not a cartoon, but perhaps that was it?  -- Jayron  32  04:17, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * There's also Denver, the Last Dinosaur - sort of T.Rexish and with sunglasses, not a hat, but otherwise close enough I suppose. 164.71.1.222 (talk) 06:23, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * There were a few dinosaur-related cartoons kicking around in the 90s, another is The Adventures of T-Rex; intro on youtube - there's no baseball cap visible but it might be one of them's civvy-clothing. Also see the category Television series about dinosaurs for some other ideas. Someoneanother 18:21, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you maybe thinking Robbie from the American Sitcom Dinosaurs_(TV_series)?

Project G.e.e.K.e.R. is the show you are looking for, and if that isn't it, I don't know what is.

hot 100 chart
What artist was the oldest (in age) when they first debuted on the Hot 100 chart. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tommcw (talk • contribs) 17:02, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I can't find exactly how old they were, but I would be surprised if it wasn't Los del Río. -- Jayron  32  17:10, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * This page has a sentence, apparently dating from around the time "Macarena" was released, saying that the members of Los del Rio were "both in their fifties". Walter Brennan was 67 when "Old Rivers" was released in 1962, and it hit number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. I don't know that he's the oldest, though. Deor (talk) 17:21, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Was that his first entry, though? -- Jayron  32  17:25, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Well Walter Brennan seems to say that "Dutchman's Gold" reached #30 on the Hot 100 in 1960, when he still would have been 65 or 66. All his recordings date from the early 1960s, apparently (when he was starring in The Real McCoys on TV). Deor (talk) 18:05, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It also depends on how you handle groups or members of groups or contributors to a song. Train, Train (Blackfoot song) made the Hot 100 in 1979; playing harmonica and singing backing vocals on the song was Shorty Medlocke, who would have been 68 or 69 at the time.  -- Jayron  32  18:15, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * From List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones: "The previous record [for oldest living artist to chart on the Hot 100] was held by George Burns, who was 84 years, 62 days old when his "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again" ended its chart run on the week of March 22, 1980." I can't find that he had ever had a recording chart before that, whereas Tony Bennett (who now holds the record for oldest to ever chart) obviously had many recordings that charted on the Hot 100 and its predecessor charts when he was younger, beginning in 1951, when he was 25 years old. Deor (talk) 18:55, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Do spoken word or comedy bits qualify? It may have been his first song, but that doesn't mean it was his first recording on the chart.  Though, if it was, I would posit that you have found the winner.  -- Jayron  32  18:57, 30 August 2012 (UTC)