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April 3, 1982 –I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts topped the charts on this date. The song was number 1 on the Billboard charts for two months after 23 major record labels refused to give her a deal. The video was directed by Arnold Levine, who also did many ofContinue reading “I Love Rock N Roll went to No. 1”

April 3,1956 –Elvis Presley performed on The Milton Berle Show. The show was broadcast live from the aircraft carrier USS Hancock. Elvis played the songs Heartbreak Hotel, Money, Honey, and Blue Suede Shoes. I would not suggest that you place you hand upon the screen – the power you feel emanating from the TV isContinue reading “More Elvis on TV”

April 3, 1953 –TV Guide was published for the first time on this date. The cover was a photo of Lucille Ball’s infant son Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV.

April 3, 1968 –… It really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountain top, and I don’t mind…. Less than 24 hours before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “mountaintop” speech to a rally of striking sanitation workers.

April 2, 1971 – The last episode of the Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC-TV, was shown on this date. Due to the grueling five-shows-a-week schedule, the expense and the difficulty of video editing in those days, most scenes were shot in a single take. Actors and actresses routinely flubbed their linesContinue reading “The finale of Dark Shadows”

April 2, 1968 – Stanley Kubrick’s influential science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, premiered in Washington D.C. on this date. The movie was not a financial success at first. MGM was planning to pull it back from theaters, but several theater owners persuaded them to keep showing the film. Many owners noticed increasing numbers ofContinue reading “2001: A Space Odyssey premiered”

April 2, 2006 –Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy makes history by becoming the UK’s first-ever #1 single to top the chart solely on download sales. Gnarls Barkley is producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and vocalist Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway). Danger Mouse produced The Gorillaz album Demon Days; Cee-Lo was in Goodie Mob. The name “Gnarls Barkley” isContinue reading “Crazy tops the charts”

Happy Palm Sunday The name Palm Sunday comes from the tradition for worshippers being given palm fronds which they use to participate in the reenactment of Christ’s arrival in Jerusalem. Once again, Our sponsor ACME will quote the great theologian, my mother: “I swear to God if you kids don’t cut that shit out, IContinue reading “The ash placed on your foreheads on Ash Wednesday comes from the palms on Palm Sunday.”

April 1, 2007 –Showing her very acute sense of irony, Alanis Morissette transforms the Black Eyed Peas’ song My Humps into a mournful piano ballad for an April Fools’ Day prank. The accompanying music video debuts on YouTube on this date and became a viral sensation, garnering millions of views.

When you woke up this morning, one of your first thoughts probably was probably, what day is it?. But take comfort, it’s April (again.) April is National Poetry Month It is a cruel month – usually mixing memory with tax payments (hopefully you’ve heard that you have to file your taxes by Monday, April 18,Continue reading “If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings”