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June 24, 1994 –Weezer release the song Undone – The Sweater Song, from their debut album, Weezer (aka The Blue Album) on this date. Rivers Cuomo told Rolling Stone: “I was trying to write a Velvet Underground-type song because I was super into them, and I came up with that guitar riff. I just pickedContinue reading “You could start enjoying that sweater today”

June 23, 1980 –The unsuspecting American public got their first taste of Letterman when his morning talk show, The David Letterman Show, first aired on NBC TV on this date. The David Letterman Show lasted nineteen weeks on the air . Letters poured into NBC condemning the cancellation. College kids hitched across the country withContinue reading “Dave’s first TV show”

June 23, 1994 –Life may or may not be a box of chocolate but Forrest Gump opened in Los Angeles, on this date. The line, “My name is Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump,” was ad libbed by Tom Hanks while filming the scene, and director Robert Zemeckis liked it so much that heContinue reading “Forrest Gump premiered”

June 23, 1984 –Duran Duran started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with The Reflex, the group’s first US No.1, was taken from their third album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger. Instead of staying on brand by shooting in an exotic locale, the music video was shot at a DuranContinue reading “You’ve gone too far this time”

June 22, 1971 –Reprise Records released the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, Blue, on this date. The album is considered Mitchell’s most personal album, considering her situation and lifestyle choices at the time. She’s always been an artist who allows her audience to live her life vicariously through her music, and in noContinue reading “Blue came out”

June 22, 1946 – Another of the classic 40s Daffy Duck cartoons, Hollywood Daffy, was released on this date. The director of the cartoon was an uncredited effort by Friz Freleng.

Today is the anniversary of the Cleveland, Ohio’s Cuyahoga River catching fire in 1969. If that is too disturbing a holiday to commemorate, it’s also National Chocolate Eclair Day. While the eclair is a delicious dessert, their charms escape me. Maybe it’s the fake vanilla pudding most bakeries use rather than Bavarian cream.

June 22, 1965 –The first screenplay of Woody Allen that was produced, What’s New Pussycat?, starring Peter O’Toole, Peter Sellers (and co-starring Woody Allen) opened in the US on this date. Groucho Marx was to have played Dr. Fassbender when Warren Beatty was attached to the project.

June 22, 1984 –The atmospheric black-comedy, The Pope of Greenwich Village, starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, and Geraldine Page, opened on this date. Rickie Lee Jones had originally written and recorded an instrumental demo as a theme, but it was rejected in favor of Frank Sinatra’s Summer Wind. The demo, which retained theContinue reading “The Pope of Greenwich Village premiered”

June 21, 1982 –Paul McCartney released the single Take It Away from his album Tug of War, on this date. The video looks like it’s about the discovery of McCartney’s group Wings, although they had broken up by then. The song is Paul McCartney’s most successful as a solo artist in the early ‘80s.