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March 6, 1970 – The Beatles released Let it Be in the UK on this date. Paul McCartney wrote this song supposedly after he had a dream about his mother who died when he was 14. Since Let It Be was The Beatles last album, it made an appropriate statement about leaving problems behind andContinue reading “… she is standing right in front of me”

On March 1, 1953, after an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Josif Stalin, truly Evil Bastard, did not emerge from his room the next day, having probably suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. Although his guards thought itContinue reading “Bizarre ironies of History –”

It’s that time again for Throwback Thursday featuring a favorite song, something about the song and a cover version of the song. Traveling along the dark shoals of the intraweb to bring you, dear bunkies, something interesting, somehow the 80s’ New Wave song Tainted Love came up, (don’t ask.) I’m guessing many of you don’tContinue reading “… I toss and turn I can’t sleep at night”

March 4, 1849 –This is the day America had no President. James K. Polk (whose cause of death was officially listed as “diarrhea“) officially stepped down as the 11th US president and President Zachary Taylor (who would die in office after eating cherries and milk at a July 4th celebration) refused to be sworn-in onContinue reading “This is a US secret you probably don’t know –”

March 3, 1931 –An English beer drinking song became the National Anthem of the United States on this date. The lyrics to said drink song are – To Anacreon in heaven where he sat in full glee,A few sons of harmony sent a petition,That he their inspirer and patron would be,When this answer arrived fromContinue reading “Please rise”

Chumbawamba break the record for longest album title with their 160-word release The Boy Bands Have Won… Using efficient typography, the British band get the full title on the cover: The record of longest album title was established in 1999 with Fiona Apple’s 90-word title for her second album, When The Pawn… The Belgian groupContinue reading “March 3, 2008 –”

March 2, 1933 – RKO Studios, on the brink of bankruptcy, gambled the studio on a filmed puppet show for kids, releasing the film King Kong on this date. In the original film, the character’s name is Kong — a name given to him by the inhabitants of “Skull Island” in the Indian Ocean, whereContinue reading “Those chains are made of chrome steel.”

March 2, 1989 – Like A Prayer becomes the first hit song to debut in a commercial when it is used in a 2-minute Pepsi ad starring Madonna. The spot is called “Make A Wish,” and shows Madonna watching her 8-year-old self at her birthday party. The commercial airs in prime time around the world,Continue reading “NOT the choice of Pepsi (I guess)”

March comes in like a Pink Fairy Armadillo and goes out like a Rasberry Crazy Ant. The name of March comes from ancient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and called Martius after Mars, the Roman god of war. In Rome, where the climate is Mediterranean, March is the first monthContinue reading “Stirs the dancing daffodil”

Julia Gardiner met her future husband, President John Tyler, on this date. The USS Princeton departed Alexandria, Virginia on a pleasure and trial trip down the Potomac with President John Tyler, his Cabinet and approximately two hundred guests on board. Upon the final firing of Captain Robert F. Stockton’s Peacemaker (a newly designed cannon), theContinue reading “February 28, 1844 –”