Talk:Ricky Nelson

Credible?

I altered a sentence about Ricky being a "credible" performer before he sold his soul and became a teen idol. It struck me as POV, and representative of a view that particularly annoys me. Fabian and Frankie Avalon get a bad reputation for their schmaltziness, but as someone interested in arranging and producing music I find their recordings vastly more interesting than those of "legitimate" singers like our Ricky. 75.49.251.170 (talk) 11:44, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Possible organisation of future work on this article

As, a first start, I think, those who choose, to brush this article up, should start, by removing, the COMMAS.

And mention Sam Nelson, the article makes it sound like he's a third sex. There's a little about him at IMDB Bio

Crash

Is it true that the plane crash was drug-related?

No, it is not true. The fire was started by a faulty connection of the fuel line leading into the heater. The aerosol cans found afterwards were hair spray cans and FingerEase, a lubricant sprayed by guitarists onto guitar necks.

Don't be too hasty blaming the fuel line. I've seen an article in Flying that suggests the cabin heater in the tail overheated, caused magnesium in the ex-military bird to ignite, and filled the cabin with smoke. (A similar cause is blamed for the wreck that killed Buddy Holly & Rick Valens.) This is the first I've heard of freebasing being blamed; I don't believe it. --fourthina3, 16/11/05

Garden

For general informative purposes, Nelson's last hit song, "Garden Party," the 'garden" referred to is Madison Square Garden where, during one of his performances, many in the crowd boo'd (booed?) his playing newer music. Seems the masses wanted to hear the old songs from the 1950s and early 1960s. Nelson referenced the situation in Garden Party's lyrics. Now, aintcha' glad yah' opened this page? You betcha'.

JLU

Uh, What does Batman singing "Am I Blue" in an episode of Justice League Unlimited have to do with Ricky Nelson?--UltimatePyro 07:21, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

I removed the JLU information on the article since it has no reason to be there. For the record, here is the paragraph:

In the Justice League Unlimited episode "This Little Piggy," Batman, voiced by Kevin Conroy, sings the song "Am I Blue" in order to keep his end of a bargain he makes with Circe--UltimatePyro 07:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Organization

I think this article needs better organization. Information is mentioned twice, and I think there are two many wikifications, with links basically put in random words. I was going to reorganize it but I know little about the topic and the problems with the structure are so subtle that it is hard to know what changes exactly to make. Any input? Academic Challenger 03:24, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

• I've done some editing to avoid having information being duplicated. --Metropolitan90 08:29, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

1980 one night stand

He paid 400 a month for a child resulting from a one nightstand. On biography. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.206.165.25 (talk) 06:34, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

Photo

I think the photo in the top (right) is not a Ricky`s photo. The man in the photo is John Fogerty. Thank you.

You did know he had a comic book?

Four Color Comics that tried to cash in on his wholesome image. -Sparky 20:46, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Basic spelling and grammar issues

It shouldn't even have to said. Have an American dictionary open when contributing to Wikipedia. The editing page even highlights unknown words with red lines, so there is no excuse.

Ricky Nelson Discography: Poor Little Fool

I noticed that you have listed the highest position on the Billboard charts for Ricky Nelson's 1958 record, "Poor Little Fool" as #7. That is actually incorrect. "Poor Little Fool" was Ricky Nelson's first #1 single on the Billboard charts. In fact, it was the first single to be listed as #1 on the newly re-constructed Hot 100 in 1958. Rick's only other #1 single was "Travelin'Man" in 1961.

Ricky Nelson actually rivaled Elvis between April, 1957 and February 1959, and charted more Top 40 hits than Elvis. Ricky purportedly sold 100 million records, mostly singles as he was recording in the era when singles (45s) far out-sold albums (33s). Nsperanzo (talk) 23:39, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Rick Nelson and The Four Preps

I note there is no reference to The Four Preps. Reference http://dartmansworldofwonder.blogspot.com/2008/04/singles-collection-episode-38-four_09.html for more details of how they joined him on their first tour together.

Citations & references

See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 04:44, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Garden Party

Re Garden Party: Now, whom do you think the line "I'd rather drive a truck" is referring to? ;-) Jmacwiki (talk) 05:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC) Elvis drove a truck before he broke through. Missaeagle —Preceding unsigned comment added by Missaeagle (talk • contribs) 04:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Crash site?

The plane crashed near De Kalb, Texas, a town about 32 miles west of Texarkana. Where exactly was the plane crash? Google Earth has removed the placemarker feature from the program so unless somebody posted it as a 'Geographic web' marker (which it appears they have not), its not marked. Anybody know where this happened? --Ragemanchoo (talk) 05:10, 15 June 2008 (UTC)