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June 27, 1964 –Peter & Gordon’s A World Without Love – written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney – goes to #1 in the US, on this date. This song found its way to Peter Asher when Paul McCartney was living in the Asher household at 57 Wimpole Street in London during his time datingContinue reading “A World Without Love topped the charts”

June 27, 1971 –After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closed the “Church of Rock and Roll“, the Fillmore East in New York (on Second Avenue near East 6th Street,) on this date. The final concert was billed as three acts (The Allman Brothers Band, The J. Geils Band, Albert King) andContinue reading “The Fillmore East closed”

June 27, 1966 – The first broadcast of Dark Shadows aired on ABC-TV on this date. For more than a year and a half the characters of Dark Shadows used almost every possible phrase to refer to Barnabas Collins (“He’s not alive!” “He’s one of the undead.” “He walks at night but he ain’t alive.“)Continue reading “Our first visit to Collingwood”

June 27, 1949 –Guardian of the Safety of the World, private citizen-scientist Captain Video and his Video Rangers, premiered on the Dumont Network on this date. Captain Video was an agent of, and worked for, the Solar Council of the Interplanetary Alliance.

June 26, 1987 –The truly silly yet likeable Mel Brooks film, Spaceballs, starring Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, and Joan Rivers went into general release on this date. The Millennium Falcon from the Star Wars saga makes a cameo appearance in this movie. Take a close lookContinue reading “Spaceballs opened”

June 26, 1964 –The Beatles third studio album, A Hard Day’s Night was first released in the United States by United Artists Records on this date and on July 10, 1964 in the UK by Parlophone. In contrast to the band’s first two albums, all thirteen tracks were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney,Continue reading “A Hard Day’s Night went on sale”

June 26, 1965 –The Byrds went to No.1 on the US singles chart with their version of Bob Dylan’s Mr Tambourine Man. (Only Roger McGuinn from the band played on the song, the drummer Hal Blaine who played on the track also played on Bridge Over Troubled Water.) This song changed the face of rockContinue reading “Mr Tambourine Man topped the charts, (but not for Dylan)”

June 26, 1925 –Charlie Chaplin’s classic comedy, The Gold Rush, opened at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, on this date. Location filming proved problematic, so Charles Chaplin shot the entire film on the backlot and stages of his Hollywood studio, including an elaborate reconstruction of the Klondike. His leisurely approach to film-making – and multipleContinue reading “Gold Rush premiered”

The Cyclone roller coaster opened on this date in 1927. The roller coaster opened in Coney Island and is still available to induce vomiting today, (it’s great to know that the ride is still open). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 and was made an historic New York CityContinue reading “We started to have to keep our hands in the car at all times”

It may not seem possible, But for about 1.1 million students (and their exhausted families) the 2023/ 2024 school year is finally over. (Enjoy what you can of summer – the 2024/ 2025 school year is scheduled to begin 71 days from today, on September 5, 2024. But who knows?)