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March 22, 1963 –The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, was dropped in the UK on this date. The album went to the top of the UK charts in two months and remained there for 30 weeks. Please Please Me has been ranked in the top 50 of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”Continue reading “Please Please Me was released”

March 22, 1947 – Another glimpse into the ‘early‘ pre-celebrity life of Bugs, A Hare Grows In Manhattan, opened on this date. The interviewer is meant to be Louella Parsons, a popular gossip columnist at the time. Bugs even calls her by her nickname “Lolly“.

March 21, 1964 –The Beatles‘ single She Loves You, went #1 and stayed #1 for two weeks on this date. The Beatles released a German version translated as Sie Liebt Dich in the US in 1964. They learned some German when they became the house band in Hamburg in 1962, but needed a German speakerContinue reading “Ya, Ya, Ya ….”

March 21, 1970 –Simon & Garfunkel release the single The Boxer, from their fifth and final studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water, on this date. This song took over 100 hours to record, with parts of it done at Columbia Records studios in both Nashville and New York City. The chorus vocals were recorded inContinue reading “The Boxer went on it’s first title fight”

March 21, 1990 –The short-lived CBS sitcom, Sydney, starring Valerie Bertinelli and a pre-Friends Matthew Perry, premiered on this date. The theme song for Sydney was Finish What Ya Started By Van Halen from their album OU812. Valerie was married to the guitarist Eddie Van Halen at the time.

March 21, 1995 –We all get to spend Dave Nelson’s first day at WNYX when NewsRadio, starring Dave Foley, Phil Hartman, Maura Tierney and Andy Dick aired on NBC-TV, on this date. Jon Lovitz appeared as three different characters in the series: 1. A guest appearance as a mental patient who befriends Bill McNeal,2. AContinue reading “We tuned in to NewsRadio for the first time”

March 21, 1947 –In honor of the start of Spring, let us seriously consider spring cleaning and the unhappy ending of the Collyer brothers. Homer and Langley Collyer were well-to-do New Yorkers who grew up in a fashionable brownstone in Harlem with their mother and father, just before the turn of the previous century. UnfortunatelyContinue reading “People complain your room if dirty …”

Today is World Poetry Day. It’s a time to appreciate and support poets and poetry around the world. It is held on March 21 each year and is an initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). If You Forget Me – Pablo Neruda

March 20, 1928 –Remarkably, Fred Rogers was born today in Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, and not some other place.

March 20, 1990 –Chrysalis Records released Sinead O’Connor’s second album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, on this date. The single Nothing Compares 2 U, off the album (written by Prince,) propelled her to stardom. The title is a good representation of Sinéad’s ethos; the album made her very famous thanks to theContinue reading “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got went on sale”