Saturday, September 11, 2010

He Died, You Win: Rich Cronin

Elliot played He Died, You Win for Rich Cronin, the lead singer and founder of the late-1990s pop trio LFO, who passed away after a long battle with leukemia. He was 35.

Interesting enough, while working at Z100 in New York City, Elliot played a hand in promoting LFO's popularity through promotion and airings of the song, "Summer Girls" before it hit big.

In case you missed He Died, You Win, here's how it went...

1.) In LFO's biggest hit...they liked girls who wore clothes from this famous clothing store? ANSWER: Abercrombie & Fitch

2.) As written in Tyler Gray's book about Lou Pearlman, what DJ, now working in Washington, DC, was credited with breaking LFO while he was working in New York? ANSWER: Elliot Segal

On page 165 in "The Hit Charade," Tyler Gray actually writes:
"A DJ at the massively popular Z100 pop music station in New York, started spinning an older LFO song, 'Summer Girls,' which got the attention of labels and for a brief stretch inspired Lou Pearlman to work his magic with LFO."
2.) This famous Boston-based boy band featured Joey, Jordan, Jonathan, Donnie, and Danny, who looked like a gorilla. ANSWER: New Kids On The Block

4.) This famous Philly-based boy band gave us "Motown Philly," "It's So Hard To Say Good-Bye Yesterday," and "I'll Make Love To You" while always dressing the same. ANSWER: Boyz II Men

5.) This famous boy band featured the Lachey brothers...one was married to Jessica Simpson and the other was a "Dancing With The Stars" champion. ANSWER: 98 Degrees

6.) This famous Orlando-based boy band gave us "I Want It That Way" and featured drug addict AJ McLean and Brian Littrell, who had a hole in his heart. ANSWER: Backstreet Boys

7.) This Boston-based boy band is credited with starting the boy band phenomenon and giving us Bobby Brown. ANSWER: New Edition

8.) This British boy band was famous for their song "Back For Good" and featured Robbie Williams, who is in Tyler’s gay 3-some. ANSWER: Take That

9.) This Florida-based boy band was perhaps the biggest of them all, consisting of Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake. ANSWER: *NSYNC

R.I.P. Rich Cronin...

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