Am I supposed to know whom this is?
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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His name is Taco Ockerse. He did a cover of Puttin' on the Ritz in the 80s. That's it, that's the whole joke. sigh I'll never get those 5 minutes back.
Wow, according to Wikipedia it's the name his parents put on his birth certificate the day he was born
I’ll never get those 5 minutes back
You say that now, but some day you'll be at a social gathering with a bunch of GenX-ers and Boomers, and you'll need an anecdote that they will both relate to, in a way that won't infuriate either of them...and you'll have this particular musical trivia fact, in your back pocket.
You can go ahead and thank me, when that happens.
It's the guy with the name!
I never knew that was actually the guy's real name. I thought it was just a band name or something.
I just learned that recently, too, which led directly to making the meme. A cursory, surface level of Google research has left me unable to determine whether Taco is some kind of traditional name, on either his Dutch or his Indonesian side, or if his folks really decided to name him after the food.
If he is named after the food, I hope he decides on cremation, for his final disposal. That way, he would be a soft Taco for his whole life, then eventually become a crispy Taco.
EDIT: just a couple days later, I also learned that fellow one-hit-wonder Eagle-Eye Cherry is ALSO REALLY NAMED THAT NAME, ON HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE. He had a single big hit with that song "Save Tonight," back in the 90s. I always thought it was the name of the band, same as with ol' Taco.