Collection of Sundry Music Facts

• The song "One Way Out" was originally written and recorded by the King of the Slide Guitar, Elmore James, in 1960-61. Blues man Sonny Boy Williamson II, who is often credited with writing the song, released another version of it for Chess Records later in 1961. It was then popularized by The Allman Brothers Band and released as a live track on 1972's Eat a Peach.

• Folk singer/activist Pete Seeger, most well-known for writing "If I Had a Hammer" and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", was a banjo aficionado. In 1948, Seeger wrote the first version of How to Play the Five-String Banjo. He also invented the Long Neck or Seeger banjo, which is three frets longer than a typical banjo, and slightly longer than a bass guitar at 25 frets, and is tuned a minor third lower than the normal 5-string banjo.

• Metal band Quiet Riot's cover of the 1973 Slade hit "Cum On Feel the Noize" shot to No. 5 on the Billboard chart in late 1983 and spent two weeks there, making it the first heavy metal song to make the top 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. Subsequently, the group's album Metal Health was the first American heavy metal debut album to reach No. 1 in the United States. It was No. 1 on Nov. 26, 1983, making Quiet Riot the first heavy metal band to have a top 5 hit and a No. 1 album the same week.

• Music collective Elephant 6 Recording Company was founded in 1991 by Robert Schneider, who went on to form The Apples in Stereo; Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart of The Olivia Tremor Control; and Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel. The Apples in Stereo's 1993 Tidal Wave 7" EP was the first E6 release, and though the label has since disbanded, the Apples' 2007 New Magnetic Wonder also bears the E6 logo.