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April 26, 1978 – The concert billed as The Band’s “farewell concert appearance“, was held on November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The concert film, The Last Waltz, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring members of the band and many of their friends, opened in the US on this date. The Band’s managementContinue reading “The Last Waltz premiered”

April 26, 1956 –Godzilla debuted in America on this date. (Gojira premiered in Japan on November 3, 1954.) The American version of the film had 40 minutes of the original excised (mostly the content dealing with World War II or the anti-nuclear message,) and had 20 minutes of the masterful deadpan stylings of Raymond Burr.Continue reading “It’s clearly a red letter day at our house”

April 26, 1988 – The pilot episode of China Beach, starring Dana Delaney, Nan Woods, Michael Boatman, and Marg Helgenberger, premiered on ABC TV on this date. (For some reason this series has almost faded into obscurity.) Several of the storylines, and even some of the dialogue were taken directly from the experiences and recollectionsContinue reading “We were back in Nam (again)”

April 26, 1967 –CBS broadcast the documentary, Inside Pop – The Rock Revolution, with the host Leonard Bernstein, on this date. The program marked the first time that television presented pop music as a legitimate art form.

April 26, 1933 –I’m glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a weekContinue reading “Carol Burnett”

April 25, 1955 –Captiol Records released the ninth studio album by American vocalist Frank Sinatra, In the Wee Small Hours, on this date. The album is a collection of melancholy ballads, with arrangements by Nelson Riddle, was an early example of a concept album and helped popularize the 12-inch format for non-classical recordings.

April 25, 1974 –Steely Dan’s most successful single, (it charted at #4,) Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, was released on this date. The Rikki of the title is Rikki Ducornet, a New York writer and artist. Steely Dan co-front Donald Fagen met her while both were attending Bard College, a small liberal arts school locatedContinue reading “What was that number again?”

April 25, 1992 – The final episodes of Who’s the Boss, aired on this date on ABC-TV. The original ending for the series, as proposed by the writers, was for Angela and Tony to get married. ABC executives, however, balked at this ending and were supported by Tony Danza, who was against having Tony andContinue reading “Tony and Angela were together one last time”

April 25, 1978 –We all got to hang out on the strip with Dan Tanna, when the pilot of Vega$, starring Robert Urich, aired on ABC TV on this date. Robert Urich was 31 when the series premiered, but since he looked a decade younger than he was, they wanted to make the character ofContinue reading “Vega$ premiered”

Today is Malaria Awareness Day. Malaria Awareness Day was designated on this date by President George W. Bush in 2007, to remind people that Malaria kills 3,000 children a day. He asked the world to join the fight to wipe out malaria on the African continent. So I encourage all Americans to begin heavily drinkingContinue reading “Baseball and malaria keep coming back.”