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It’s my sister’s birthday. She doesn’t usually make a big fuss about it but since she is the oldest relationship I have other than my parents, I will. It’s Oscar the Grouch’s birthday today. Remember to leave something nice out in the trash today. (Please note: when Oscar first moved into his trash can heContinue reading “Big celebrations”

World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world every year on May 31. The member states of the World Health Organization created World No Tobacco Day in 1987. It draws global attention to the tobacco epidemic and to the preventable death and disease it causes. It aims to reduce the 3.5 million yearly deathsContinue reading “The lungs you save may be your own”

May 31, 1819 –The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. A great New Yorker and even greater poet, Walt WhitmanContinue reading “Walt Whitman”

May 31, 1992 –The last episode of the original series, Night Court: The 1992 Boat Show aired on NBC-TV, on this date. This episode was actually aired out of order. The two parter, Opportunity Knocks, which aired before this episode, was the finale of the series. This episode never aired on its original air dateContinue reading “Night Court ended (for the first time)”

May 31, 1999 –The VH1 documentary series Behind the Music began airing nightly with their premiere episode The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Behind the Music. Anthony Kiedis and Flea (bass guitar) first met when they were both 15 and attending high school together. (20 years after the program, the band is still going strong.)

May 31, 1976 –Tom Waits begins a two-week stint performing at Ronnie Scott’s Club in Soho, London, England, run by Pete King, on this date. The experience inspired Waits to write The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)(An Evening with Pete King). Waits recorded this song, along with the rest of the album, Small Change,Continue reading “The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep …”

May 31, 1976 –Ten years after it appeared on The Beatles’ Revolver album, Capitol Records issues Got To Get You Into My Life as a single on this date. A British rock group called Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers released this song as a single around the same time it appeared on The BeatlesContinue reading “It took awhile but …”

May 30, 1964 –The Beatles first single, of their own material, Love Me Do, (the B side was P.S., I Love You,) released in England in 1962, hit # 1 on the Billboard 100 in the US on this date. The Beatles recorded versions of this song with three different drummers. At their first ParlophoneContinue reading “Love Me Do was released”

May 30, 1980 –Peter Gabriel released his third solo studio album, which is self-titled, on this date. It features the songs, Games Without Frontiers, Biko, and I Don’t Remember. The album is sometimes referred to as Melt, owing to its cover photograph by Hipgnosis. Some music streaming services refer to it as Peter Gabriel 3:Continue reading “Maybe he could be bothered to come up with a title”