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October 14, 1977 –Linda Ronstadt sang The National Anthem prior to World Series Game Three at Dodger Stadium, on this date. She was heavily criticized at the time, for casual attire – (Linda, the ever solid Dodger fan, only requested a Dodger jacket as her fee for singing the anthem.) Many consider her rendition ofContinue reading “Linda hits it out of the park”

October 14, 1978 – The gang finally got off the damn island (sort of) when the first TV movie from a TV series, Rescue from Gilligan’s Island, premiered on CBS-TV with all of the original cast except Tina Louise (who wanted too much money,) on this date. The scene in which the rescued castaways areContinue reading “They finally got home”

October 14, 1983 –Cyndi Lauper, formerly a member of the group Blue Angel, issues her first solo album, She’s So Unusual. With the MTV hits Girls Just Want To Have Fun and Time After Time, the album becomes an ‘80s touchstone. On the strength of her breakout solo album She’s So Unusual, Lauper won theContinue reading “She really was so unusual (in a good way)”

October 13, 1966 – The sixth episode of Star Trek, Mudd’s Women first aired on this date. In it, The Enterprise picks up a traveling con man, Harry Mudd, and his “beautiful” female cargo; the females seem to have a strange effect on the male crew. This is the first episode in which the Enterprise’sContinue reading “Mudd’s Women premiered”

October 13, 1957 – CBS-TV broadcasts The Edsel Show, a one-hour live special starring Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong, designed to promote the new, ill-fated Ford automobile, on this date. It is the first and currently the oldest surviving show on videotape. It was aired live on this date in primeContinue reading “All that star power couldn’t save the car”

October 13, 1978 –Queen released their double A sided single Fat Bottomed Girls/ Bicycle Race on this date. The songs ran together on the album, and were often played that way by radio stations. The year before, Queen released We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions as a double A-side. They are stillContinue reading “Everybody likes to ride their bicycle”

It’s Friday the 13th. In most large cities in the United States, many building don’t have 13th floors. In Japan, they don’t have 4th floors, because the word for four sounds similar to the word for DEATH! Some say that the modern basis for Friday the 13th phobia dates back to Friday, October 13, 1307.Continue reading “Try to remain calm”

October 12, 1966 –Sammy Davis, Jr. makes a cameo appearance on the ABC-TV series Batman – The Clock King’s Crazy Crimes, during one of their legendary Batclimbs, on this date.

October 12, 1950 – One of the first comedy series to make the successful transition from radio to television The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, premiered on CBS-TV on this date. George Burns is regarded as being the first entertainer to step out of character and “break the fourth wall” by directly addressing theContinue reading “The first time we could say ‘Goodnight Gracie’ on TV”

October 12, 1968 –The second studio album by Big Brother and the Holding Company, Cheap Thrills, reached number one on the charts for eight nonconsecutive weeks on this date. It was their last album with Janis Joplin as lead singer before she started a solo career.