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April 23, 1967 –The USSR launched Soyuz One on this date. The next day, forced to return to earth, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first casualty of space flight when his capsule’s parachute opened improperly. Oops. And so it goes

April 23 –We appear back on track, so once again record stores on six continents are set to celebrate Record Store Day, an annual event honoring independently owned and operated music shops. Click here to see which albums are being released exclusively for Record Store Day. Demand Euphoria!

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 “The Blues Brothers appeared for the first time on SNL.”

April 22, 1964 –President Johnson opened the New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, New York, on this date. The Fair also is remembered as the vehicle Walt Disney utilized to design and perfect the system of “audio-animatronics,” in which a combination of sound and computers control the movement of life-like robots toContinue reading “The opening of the 1964 World’s Fair”

April 22, 1970 – 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Happy Earth Day! Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, rawContinue reading “Together, we must Invest In Our Planet”

The following people were born on this day: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (1926), James Newell Osterberg (1947), Patti Ann LuPone (1949), Anthony Salvatore Iadanza (1951), and Robert Smith (1959) Make of this coincidence what you will Demand Euphoria!

April 21, 1990 –Sinead O’Connor topped the charts with a cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2U on this date. The video was the first time most people saw what O’Connor looked like and were surprised that she was bald. She shaved her head when she first started recording because she wanted to make a statementContinue reading “Nothing Compares 2U released”

April 21, 1975 –Teenagers 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 “All By Myself released”

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.

We seem to be on the other side of the pandemic, so if you or your kid cut school or work today, once again, lock up the snacks. They may come home with a case of the munchies, after taking advantage of all the sales at your local CBD store. Be thankful though, they’re notContinue reading “There’s a bumper crop of things to celebrate today”