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April 4, 1964 –The Beatles set an all-time record on the Top 100 chart of Billboard magazine this day, holding an unprecedented twelve positions on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on this date. The Beatles accounted for 60 percent of the entire singles record business during the first three months of 1964. Those singles byContinue reading “The Beatles owns the Hot 100 singles chart this week”

April 4, 1975A television pilot, Black Bart, based on Andrew Bergman’s original story for Blazing Saddles, starring Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, premiered on CBS TV on this date. Many more episodes were filmed after this pilot, apparently four seasons worth, but never aired because, while the studioContinue reading “A very obscure TV pilot”

April 4, 1953 –While not quite in the same league as Plan 9 from Outer Space, and shot in just four days, the Ed Wood Jr. ‘classic‘, Glen or Glenda, premiered on this date (or maybe it didn’t, but does it really matter.) While the film had no sequel, Edward D. Wood Jr. used theContinue reading “Glen or Glenda”

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”