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October 24, 1971 –Don McLean’s second album, American Pie, is released by United Artists Records, on this date. The album reached number 1 within two weeks of release and was certified gold within six months, spending almost a year on the Billboard album charts.

October 23, 1972 –Al Green’s fifth studio album, I’m Still in Love with You (on the Hi Record Label) was released on this date. Al Green mentioned the I’m Still in Love with You album cover in his 2000 autobiography, Take Me to the River: “In my white turtleneck, white patent leather shoes with theContinue reading “Spending my day thinkin’ ’bout you girl …”

October 23, 1941 – Walt Disney studios release their fourth animated film, Dumbo on this date. Initially Walt Disney was uninterested in making this movie. To get him interested, story men Joe Grant and Dick Huemer wrote up the film as installments which they left on Walt’s desk every morning. Finally, he ran into theContinue reading “The first time you saw an elephant fly”

Today is TV Talk Show Host Day. We celebrate and honor all TV Talk Show hosts (many of them are just getting back on their feet after the writers strike.) This very special day is celebrated on the birth date of legendary night time talk show host Johnny Carson. Carson is considered the “King ofContinue reading “Down in the valley lives a former talk-show host …”

October 23, 1959 –Alfred Matthew Yankovic, Grammy Award winning singer, musician, actor, satirist, parodist, songwriter, music producer, accordionist, and television producer, was born on this date. And you just thought he was some nerdy guy who sang some funny songs.

I’m sure that you thought that all the excitement of the day was because it’s the anniversary of King Carlos I being crowned as German emperor Charles V, a Holy Roman Emperor, on this date, or the Feast day of St. John of Capistrano, patron saint of jurists, and that all of the swallows areContinue reading “Oh Happy Day!”

October 22, 1965 –The Rolling Stones released the single Get Off My Cloud on this date in the U.K. The B-side of this single was I’m Free, which remained obscure until it was revived by The Soup Dragons in 1990.

The Gare Montparnasse, one of the six large terminus train stations of Paris, became famous for a derailment on October 22, 1895 of the Granville-Paris Express that overran the buffer stop. The engine careened across almost 100 ft off the station concourse, crashed through a two foot thick wall, shot across a terrace and sailedContinue reading “This must have been a sight”

October 22, 1948 –Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger technicolor fever dream about the world of ballet, The Red Shoes, starring Moira Shearer and Anton Walbrook, opened in New York City on this date. Little girls and boys were forever ensnared in it’s magical, evil web. This is one of director Martin Scorsese’s favorite films andContinue reading “Take off the red shoes”

October 22, 1955 –Quatermass II, the sequel to The Quatermass Experiment, a British science fiction serial, first aired on BBC Television, on this date. Reginald Tate, from the original series, was cast again as Quatermass but died shortly before filming. André Morell was offered Quatermass but was attached to another project so John Robinson wasContinue reading “Quatermass II premiered”