June 2, 1973 –Paul McCartney and Wings‘ song My Love, from the album Red Rose Freeway, hit No. 1 on the US singles chart on this date. This is one of three songs of the same title to top the American singles chart. Petula Clark’s My Love, was # 1 in 1966 whilst Justin Timberlake’sContinue reading “My Love topped the charts”
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The theater of the mind
June 2, 1896 –The first radio patent was issued to Guglielmo Marconi in England for his wireless telegraphy apparatus, described as “Improvements in Transmitting Electrical Impulses and Signals, and in Apparatus Therefor.” (UK No. 12,039) I wonder what will become of that new fangled thing?
The act you’ve known for all these years
June 1, 1967 –It was 59 years ago today, The Beatles blew the collective world’s mind away. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in the UK on this date The album was quite complex to produced and took 129 days and about 700 hours to complete. The Beatles first album, Please Please Me,Continue reading “The act you’ve known for all these years”
People know the part I’m playing
June 1, 1985 –David Lee Roth’s cover of two Louis Prima songs – Just A Gigolo / I Ain’t Got Nobody peaks at No. 12 on the Billboard Charts on this date. Roth’s love of quirky songs from a bygone era stems from his childhood, when he would listen to the underground radio station KPPCContinue reading “People know the part I’m playing”
The Giant Claw premiered
June 1, 1957 –Another great drive in movie, The Giant Claw, directed by Fred F. Sears, and starring Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Robert Shayne, Morris Ankrum, and Dabbs Greer was released on this date. In an interview, Jeff Morrow said that no one in the cast saw the title monster until they went to theContinue reading “The Giant Claw premiered”
My life is my own.
June 1, 1968 –The British television series The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan, had its American premiere on CBS-TV, as a summer replacement for a Jackie Gleason series, on this date. At the end of the run of Secret Agent, there was a party, and some members of Parliament attended. Someone said to McGoohan, “So, whatContinue reading “My life is my own.”
A love song written by nature
June is the sixth month of the year and consists of thirty days. The ancient Romans gave it 29 days until 46 BC, when Julius Caesar added the thirtieth for reasons known only to himself. (Caesar’s hobbies seem to have been conquering the known world, sleeping with some very rich North African teenager, and makingContinue reading “A love song written by nature”
I was alone, I took a ride
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 “I was alone, I took a ride”
Ah, watch out you might get what you’re after
May 31, 1983 –After a break in which David Byrne and Jerry Harrison release solo albums and Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth form Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads return with their fifth album, Speaking In Tongues. It contains their biggest hit, Burning Down The House. Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz and bass player Tina Weymouth,Continue reading “Ah, watch out you might get what you’re after”
Now Hare This premiered
May 31, 1958 – The Looney Tunes short, Now Hare This, directed by Bob McKimson, starring Bugs Bunny, debuted on this date. The Big Bad Wolf and his nephew would later appear in False Hare the final Bugs Bunny short from the original theatrical era.
