Talk:Village People

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1 Background vocals?
2 Clean up the history section
3 Sources for In The Navy "protests"
4 Photo not of the village people
5 It's a fair cop...
6 We've omitted a major detail
7 Isn't it the 7th inning?

[edit] Background vocals?

"An interesting fact about Village People recordings is that all of the background vocals for their best known recordings were provided by two session musicians who went on to front notable bands; Bill Champlin from Chicago, and Richard Page from Mr. Mister."

Give a source. Their album credits state that vocals were sung only by the members of the Village People.

First, a good portion of sessions are not listed in album credits when the record company pays the session musician to remain anonymous.

Links to prove the vocals:

[1] [2]

Answers.com is typically a mirror site to wikipedia, so beware. Wahkeenah 00:16, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clean up the history section

I think the history section should be rewritten to be in better chronological order. Bombofin 16:19, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sources for In The Navy "protests"

I was trying to find newspaper sources to illustrate the scandal, but haven't been able to find anything so far. I was wondering what sources you used for this article and where I might be able to find more information. I would appreciate any contributions. You can email me at gishii@usc.edu.

On Victor Willis' homepage he says that he was the only straight member. However other sources inform that at least the original Cowboy and Indian were gay. Not sure about the 3 remaining.

I'd like to know who's gay and who's straight in the group. I know the rumor is that the AA guy is supposedly straight but has had some substand abuse problems in San Francisco.

Didn't they once refuse to say, for fear of losing half their fans? (Both of them?) ;) And they've claimed to have a 12" "Macho Man". (Do your own joke.) Trekphiler 22:21, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I heard that only one of them was gay.. dunno which one though

The articile says they wrote a song called "Vincent" but I can find no reference to it on the net, could someone check this up?

http://www.allmusic.com/ does not list a song "Vincent" under the Village People. I'll remove it from the article. —Wrathchild ^(talk) 14:51, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

The Ray Simpson link goes to some polititian.

[edit] Photo not of the village people

That photo is not the real village people. Looks more like impersonators.

I agree, that needs to be replaced with a photo of the real band. Midusunknown 10:15, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

You mean a photo of the band during their earlier years, which has the more commonly know line-up. It might be worth having both a photo of the current band, and another of the band during their most quintessential era. - 81.179.97.0 16:20, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Quote from article "and "YMCA". More than twenty years later, a dance that involves forming the latter four letters with the dancer's arms and legs is " Doesnt the dance form the letters only using arms? The YMCA link details it only using the arms. -Osic 11 April 2006

[edit] It's a fair cop...

Victor Willis has recently had a fair few drug-related run-ins with the law, and at one point over the last few months he was a fugitive. Ironic, given he played the 'Cop'. Would it be worth mentioning this in the article?

[edit] We've omitted a major detail

I know it will be hard finding specific sources to cite, but I find it amazing that the article doesn't mention that in the 1970s, much of the U.S. audience was oblivious to the gay references and subtexts of the group. The ignorance is implied, of course, in the Navy's having featured them in an ad campaign, but we need to add this to the article in some credible way. Lawikitejana 16:34, 23 August 2006 (UTC)