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March 7, 1983 –New Order released their song Blue Monday, as a 12-inch on the Factory Records label on this date. The title is not mentioned in the lyrics, which is true of many New Order songs. The band took the song’s name from an illustration in the Kurt Vonnegut book Breakfast Of Champions, whichContinue reading “Blue Monday went on sale”

March 7, 1975 –Felix finally moves out of Oscar’s apartment at 1049 Park Ave. when The Odd Couple aired the final episode Felix Remarries, on this date. While this was the final first-run episode that aired, Your Mother Wears Army Boots was the last episode that was filmed.

Another episode of The Crazy Mixed-Up Russian RevolutionMarch 7, 1917 –Russia’s 1917 February Revolution began on March 7, which was then the middle of February, in the city of St. Petersburg, which was then Petrograd, in what was then Russia, but would soon be the Soviet Union. Tsar (or Czar) Nicholas II of the RomanovContinue reading “Oh, those wacky Bolsheviks”

Purim starts tonight – The festival of Purim is celebrated every year on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar (late winter/early spring). It commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from Haman’s plot “to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, young and old, infants and women, in a singleContinue reading “A dessert to build a holiday around”

March 6, 1965 –Script writers build up for a laugh, but they don’t allow any pause for it. That’s where I come in. I ad lib – it doesn’t matter what I say – just to kill a few seconds so you can enjoy the gag. I have to sense when the big laughs willContinue reading “Margaret Dumont”

March 6, 1998 –The Coen Bros. off-kilter take on a Raymond Chandler detective story, The Big Lebowski, opened on this date. In an early draft of the script, The Dude’s source of income was revealed. He was an heir to the inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, which would have also made him Hungarian in turn.Continue reading “The Big Lebowski premiered”

March 6, 1970 –The Beatles released Let it Be in the UK on this date. Paul McCartney wrote this song supposedly after he had a dream about his mother who died when he was 14. Since Let It Be was The Beatles last album, it made an appropriate statement about leaving problems behind and movingContinue reading “Let it Be went on sale”

March 5, 2006 – The nature documentary Planet Earth narrated by David Attenborough premieres on the BBC TV, on this date. The project took 40 camera teams shooting at over 200 different locations all over the world for more than five years.

March 5, 1959 – In The Twilight Zone episode The Last Flight, (which originally aired February 5, 1960,) British RFC Flt. Lt. Decker was lost over France on March 5, 1917, and he seemed to have returned on this date, 42 years later. The episode was filmed at Norton AFB, San Bernardino, California–playing the rollContinue reading “The last of the squadron returned”

March 5, 1956 –Frank Sinatra released his tenth studio album Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! on this date. Sinatra aficionados often rank it his best album and many music critics consider it one of the greatest albums of its era.