Popular Culture
"Something in the Air" appeared on the soundtracks of the films The Strawberry Statement (1969), Kingpin (1996), Almost Famous (2000), The Dish (2000), and The Girl Next Door (2004).
"Something In the Air" played at the end of the 26 March 2007 episode of The Riches on FX. An episode of the television sitcom, My Name is Earl also featured the song.
The band is mentioned in Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice (pg. 356).
The band is also featured in an episode of the NBC sitcom Friends
The song "Something in the Air" currently is used for opening and closing for Internet Talkhost Nicole Sandler's show "Radio or Not" found on ustream.
The song "Something in the Air" is featured in the 1969 movie The Magic Christian Featuring Peter Sellers And Ringo Starr
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“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)