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March 4th It’s the day that tells you to do something.

March 4, 1979 –Mary Tyler Moore’s second ill-conceived venture in a variety series, The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, co-starring Dody Goodman, Michael Keaton, Joyce Van Patten, Ron Rifkin, and Doris Roberts, premiered on CBS on this date. The show’s premise was to give the audience a fictionalized view into the life of the star ofContinue reading “You probably wish you hadn’t seen it”

March 4, 1982 – The David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker silliness, Police Squad, starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin, premiered on ABC-TV on this date. Each week featured a “Special Guest Star” who is killed off in the opening credits. Lorne Greene and William Conrad are knifed and tossed out of cars; GeorgContinue reading “Police Squad first aired”

March 4, 1967 –The Rolling Stones song, Ruby Tuesday, topped the charts on this date. Brian Jones played the recorder (it sounds like a flute) on this song. He was a founding member of the group and fancied himself their leader, which along with a debilitating drug habit, starting causing problems in the band aroundContinue reading “She would never say where she came from”

March 4, 1950 – One of the classic Chuck Jones Looney Tunes cartoons, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, was released on this date. This was another show I was not allowed to watch with my family because I laughed too loudly. By all means, please, stop eating or drinking while watching this cartoon, you may injury yourself.Continue reading “One of the funniest classic Looney Tunes cartoons”

March 3, 1933 –W.C. Fields classic short, The Fatal Glass of Beer, opened on this date. In Fields’ first sound film, The Golf Specialist there is a wanted poster of Fields which shows him in his Fatal Glass of Beer costume. It evidently was taken from an earlier stage presentation of the classic Fields sketch.

March 3, 1972 –Elton John released the song Rocket Man, (officially titled Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to Be a Long, Long Time), on this date. The song was produced by Gus Dudgeon, who worked with David Bowie on his 1969 song Space Oddity. Both songs have similar subject matter, and lots of peopleContinue reading “Rocket Man first blasted off”

March 2, 1965 –The movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, had its world premiere at New York’s Rivoli Theater on this date. When Maria is running through the courtyard to the Von Trapp house in I Have Confidence, she trips. This was an accident.Continue reading “Thank goodness it wasn’t called The Sound of Mucus”

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 “It as beauty that killed the beast”

March 1, 1973 –Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album, Dark Side Of The Moon, on this date. The album debuts at an inauspicious #95 on the US Albums chart, but has become the album with the most weeks on the Billboard charts, thanks in large part to a run from 1977-1988 when it neverContinue reading “Breathe, breathe in the air”