Music
What episode referenced Crosby, Stills and Nash as suprise guests and what was their rendition of America the Beautiful.
That would be episode 5:14 An Khe, Airdate 2/18/2004.
The song performed is actually America, also known as My Country, 'Tis of Thee, as opposed to America the Beautiful, which begins "O beautiful for spacious skies..."
The performance is actually by David Crosby, Graham Nash and Michael Hedges, probably from Crosby's 1989 CD Oh Yes I Can or its reissue of 2003.
The song is also included on Crosby Nash, released in 2008, and several other collections, such as Voyage (2006), The David Crosby Box (2006), and The California Hungerton Benefit (2015)
Crosby, Stills, and Nash actually did perform America on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 9/18/2001, following the 9/11 Attacks, though this appearance is not listed in the IMDB description of Season 9, Episode 156 show, or the Crosby, Stills and Nash IMDB listing. Recordings of this performance are readily available on YouTube.
@CLX_db This is the sort of post I'll miss when IMDb pulls the plug on February 20.
sharesmoko, thank you for your post, I had no idea! There are some at imdb on other boards that I want to contact and thank before we're shut down.
Dammit!!
I will also miss the exchange of thoughts and information facilitated by the Message Boards. Apparently the effort required for the maintenance and management of the boards has exceeded their value to the IMDB administration. However, there might be a glimmer of hope in a message from Colin "Col" Needham, the founder and CEO of IMDB, posted Friday, 3 February.
Boards discussions are an unmoderated mix of fact, fiction and outright trolling which is ephemeral in nature, and is only really available on our desktop site (our mobile site has limited boards features some of which in turn are accessed by our apps).
Just keeping the old boards software running and the time we spend dealing with the fallout from abuse on the boards is preventing us from creating better features that benefit all users and from adding permanent content to IMDb. We cannot be very specific at this point but from http://www.imdb.com/board/announcement:
"IMDb is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another. We will continue to enhance our current offerings and launch new features in 2017 and beyond that will help our customers communicate and express themselves in meaningful ways while leveraging emerging technologies and opportunities."
We have ideas and plans here, however, it is important that those be separate from the boards today so we deliberately have not built them for an instantaneous switch-over.
Col
This implies that some modernized version of information exchange might be in development.
IMDB itself started on Usenet as rec.arts.movies, "an unmoderated mix of fact, fiction and outright trolling" and was developed into the modern interface by Mr. Needham and some associates. Perhaps he has not forgotten the pleasures and usefulness of Usenet and will re-invent the message board as well. share