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Passover starts tonight – – please bone up on those four questions. Remember you will not be graded on a curve! While it’s not as bad as not finding the missing easter egg, by all means, please find the Afikoman, (no one wants to accidentally eat a piece of exceptionally stale cracker.)

April 22, 1966 –The Troggs‘ (who were originally called The Troglodytes) song, Wild Thing was released in the U.S. on this date. The song went on to reach No.1. Fronted by Reg Presley, Wild Thing became a major influence on garage rock and punk rock.

April 22, 1974 – Maude and Walter finally leave Tuckahoe, New York and moves to Washington D.C. when she was elected as a congresswoman during the last episode of Maude, Maude’s Big Move, aired on CBS TV on this date. The producers of Maude liked the idea of a show centered around a new CongressionalContinue reading “We got to say, ‘Right On Maude’ for the last time”

April 22, 1978 –The Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) make their debut on Saturday Night Live, on this date, later becoming the first characters from the show to get their own movie. Steve Martin performs King Tut on the same Saturday Night Live episode, popularizing goofy Egyptian dancing. The song, which portrays theContinue reading “Straight from Joliet to your living room”

April 22, 1946 –The rudest possible gift is a gift card. It means you think the person is stupid and has no interests. The only good gift card is Bitcoin. You practically have to be a hacker to know about it. John Waters, film director, actor, raconteur, and the owner of the world’s greatest pencil-thinContinue reading “John Samuel Waters Jr.”

On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Happy Earth Day! Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, rawContinue reading “The Earth is what we all have in common.”

April 21, 1975 –Teenages everywhere have themselves a good cry when Eric Carmen’s song, (a mash-up of his own song, Let’s Pretend and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18,) All By Myself entered the charts on this date. When he wrote this, Carmen thought the Rachmaninoff music was in theContinue reading “All By Myself started to climb the charts”

April 21, 1990 –Sinead O’Connor’s cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2U, went to No 1 on the Billboard Charts, on this date. The attention from the song hitting no. 1 had some deleterious effects on the singer. Sinead O’Connor claimed she hated the fame the song brought her, and she struggled with the commercialization ofContinue reading “Nothing Compares 2 U topped the charts”

April 21, 1982 – The DJs at WKRP spun their last platter when the final episode of the original WKRP in Cincinnati series, Up and Down the Dial aired on CBS TV on this date. The show was famous for playing music of up-and-coming bands. Many artists have said that their music being on theContinue reading “It was the last dance for WKRP”

April 21, 1974 –Julie and Dick In Covent Garden, a music and comedy special starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, with Carl Reiner, premieres on ABC-TV on this date. The program was directed by Blake Edwards, (Julie Andrews’ husband). Edwards also directed Andrews in The Tamarind Seed that year.