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May 28, 1966 –Ike and Tina Turner released the classic song River Deep, Mountain High, on this date. (Although this is credited to Ike and Tina Turner, Ike had no part in the recording process. Turner was paid $20,000 up front to made sure that he was not in the studio during the sessions.) ItContinue reading “When I was a little girl I had a rag doll ….”

May 28, 1953 –Walt Disney’s first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor, Melody, premiered on this date Originally there was going to be an entire series of Adventures in Music shorts but in fact, only one other was made: the Academy Award-winning Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom.

It’s the start of Manhattanhenge time again (today and tomorrow.) For all of you Illuminati conspiratorialists, ponder the fact that many of Hip Hops multi-millionaire performers are New Yorkers. Also consider that the two times of Manhattanhenge happens to correspond with Memorial Day and Baseball’s All Star break. Manhattan’s grid was originally proposed in 1811,Continue reading “Unfortunately, I think it’s going to rain”

May 28, 1999 –The definitive Rom Com, Notting Hill, directed by Roger Michell, and starring Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, and Hugh Bonneville, opened in the US on this date. During the birthday dinner scene, Anna Scott is asked how much she made on her last film, andContinue reading “Notting Hill debuted”

May 28, 1990 –The short-lived summer replacement, The Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV, on this date. There were only five episodes shot but the show had a lot of his friends and Second City pals on the show, with each show featuring a big name guest star. These were John Candy, Dan Ackroyd,Continue reading “It’s actually very funny”

May 27, 1957 –Buddy Holly and the Crickets released their first record, That’ll Be The Day, on this date Holly and his band The Three Tunes recorded this in Nashville in 1956, but Decca records didn’t like the result and refused to release it. A year later, Holly re-recorded it with The Crickets in aContinue reading “Well, that’ll be the day …”

May 27, 1933 –Walt Disney classic take on The Three Little Pigs, opened on this date. The commercial tie-in with Esposito’s pork sausages during the original screenings of the cartoon wasn’t such a big hit though.

May 27, 1964 –The second spy film in the James Bond series, From Russia with Love, was released in the US on this date. Hoping for an end to the Cold War, producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman didn’t want James Bond’s main enemy to be Russian, so for the movie version, his nemesisContinue reading “From Russia with Love opened”

May 27, 1982 – With the only known directorial effort by Robin Williams, the last episode of Mork and Mindy, aired on ABC TV on this date. This episode was filmed before the Gotta Run, trilogy and was originally scheduled as the 19th episode of the season (before the three-part series finale) instead it airedContinue reading “The day Mork went back to Ork”

May 26, 1979 –Blondie’s song Sunday Girl off the album Parallel Lines became the group’s second UK No.1 hit single on this date. Though never released as a single in the United States, the song became a #1 hit in the United Kingdom and in Australia. In Britain the sales were boosted by another previouslyContinue reading “Sunday Girl topped the charts”