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February 9, 1976 –Paul Simon’s song, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, hits number 1 on the Billboard Charts, on this date. Paul Simon has never gotten around to listing the other ways to leave but poking around the internet, I have discovered the other 45 ways: 6. Post her nude pics, Dick. Next upContinue reading “Multiple ways to end a relationship, according to Mr. Simon”

February 9, 1979 –Based on the 1974 independent film of the same name, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, starring Dan Haggerty and Ben the Bear (Bozo), first aired on NBC TV on this date. The series was shot in Northern Utah countryside locations. The production office was based in Park City, Utah. TheContinue reading “Grizzly Adams premiered”

February 9, 1990 –Proving that you can throw good money after bad, CBS TV tried with an hour-long Comedy-Drama(?) version of The Brady Bunch, The Bradys, starring the usual suspect, which debuted on this date. The show lasted six episodes. Once again Robert Reed fought with Sherwood Schwartz over script quality. When Schwartz refused toContinue reading “The beating of a dead horse, televised”

February 8, 1587 –After some 19 years in prison, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded on this date. She had spent the last hours of her life in prayer and also writing letters and her will. She expressed a request that her servants should be released. She also requested that she should be buried inContinue reading “The lesson today: Tip your executioner well”

Today is National Boy Scout Day. Boy Scout Day celebrates the birthday of Scouting in America. On this date in 1910, Chicago publisher William Dickson Boyce filed incorporation papers in the District of Columbia to create the Boy Scouts of America. Oh wait a minute, this may not be the right video for the anniversary.Continue reading “I guess you should still be courteous and kind”

February 8, 1968 –Planet of The Apes opened in NYC on this date, confirming Charlton Heston’s position as one of the greatest “One Note Actors” of his generation. At one of the first test screenings, a woman walked up to Charlton Heston and asked him how he was. Heston had no clue who she wasContinue reading “Planet of The Apes premiered”

February 8, 1974 –The spin-off from the sitcom Maude, that wasn’t quite a spin-off, Good Times, premiered on CBS-TV on this date. Norman Lear hired artist Ernie Barnes to paint the pictures which J.J. used in the show. Barnes’ work displays elongated African-American subjects in everyday scenes. Eddie Murphy owns the original The Sugar ShackContinue reading “We all learned that awful catch phrase”

February 8, 1975 –Ohio Players’ single Fire went to No. # 1 on the Billboard Charts on this date. Prior to Fire, the group’s highest-charting Hot 100 entry was Funky Worm, an influential novelty number led by keyboardist/vocalist Junie Morrison that hit #15 in 1973. When the band left the Detroit-based Westbound label for aContinue reading “The way you walk and talk …”

February 7, 1970 –The Dutch group the Shocking Blue’ single Venus goes to the No. 1 spot of the Billboard Charts, on this date. Sixteen years later, a cover version by Bananarama goes to the top of the charts as well. The group’s guitarist Robbie Van Leeuwen wrote this song. The group is from TheContinue reading “Venus topped the charts”

February 7, 1908 –Buster Crabbe, Olympic athlete, actor and swimming pool sales man, was born on this date. Crabbe is the only actor who played Tarzan, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers – the top three comic strip heroes of the 1930s