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April 22, 1974 – Maude and Walter finally leave Tuckahoe, New York and moves to Washington D.C. when she was elected as a congresswoman during the last episode of Maude, Maude’s Big Move, aired on CBS TV on this date. The producers of Maude liked the idea of a show centered around a new CongressionalContinue reading “Maude finale”

April 22, 1973 –The Rolling Stones went to No. 1 on the UK album chart with Goat’s Head Soup, on this date. Due to tax exile, legal issues, and visa restrictions (nine countries had kicked out Keith Richards), the band recorded at Dynamic Sound Studios in Kingston, Jamaica.

April 22, 1944 – The Merrie Melodies short, Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips, directed by Friz Freleng and starring Bugs Bunny, debuted on this date. The following short is not longer in rotation on contemporary television for containing heavy wartime themes and outdated racial stereotypes. Due to pressure from Warner Bros., this cartoon was oneContinue reading “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips premiered”

April 22, 1950 – The Looney Tunes short, Big House Bunny directed by Friz Freleng and starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam, debuted on this date. This is the first cartoon where Yosemite Sam is portrayed as a henchman to an overarching antagonist, in this case the prison warden, as opposed to being the mainContinue reading “Big House Bunny premiered”

April 22, 1939 – The Looney Tunes short, Porky and Teabiscuit, directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton and starring Porky Pig, debuted on this date. The horse’s name, Teabiscuit, is a play on that of Seabiscuit, a real-life thoroughbred racehorse, ungainly and mistreated in his early life, who was rehabilitated by an empathetic trainerContinue reading “Porky and Teabiscuit premiered”

April 22, 1939 –The Merrie Melodies short, Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur, directed by Chuck Jones and starring Daffy Duck, debuted on this date. This is the first Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.

April 22, 1978 –The Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) make their debut on Saturday Night Live, on this date, later becoming the first characters from the show to get their own movie. Steve Martin performs King Tut on the same Saturday Night Live episode, popularizing goofy Egyptian dancing. The song, which portrays theContinue reading “A lot of music on SNL this day”

April 21, 1975 –Teenages everywhere have themselves a good cry when Eric Carmen’s song, (a mash-up of his own song, Let’s Pretend and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18,) All By Myself entered the charts on this date. When he wrote this, Carmen thought the Rachmaninoff music was in theContinue reading “When I was young …”

April 21, 1990 –Sinead O’Connor’s cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2U, went to No 1 on the Billboard Charts, on this date. The attention from the song hitting no. 1 had some deleterious effects on the singer. Sinead O’Connor claimed she hated the fame the song brought her, and she struggled with the commercialization ofContinue reading “I truly apologize for this ear worm”

April 21, 1981 –Weird Al Yankovic made his first national television appearance on The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. He never receives royalties from the single’s initial release because the record company has gone bankrupt.