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December 30, 1942 – Frank Sinatra opened at New York’s Paramount Theatre for what was scheduled to be a 4-week engagement (his shows turned out to be so popular, he was booked for an additional 4 weeks). An estimated 400 policemen were called out to help curb the excitement. It is said that some ofContinue reading “Sinatra first public appearance as a soloist”

December 30, 1949 –Stanley Donen/ Gene Kelly’s wonderful take on the Comden and Green musical, On the Town, starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, opened nationwide on this date. When On the Town premiered at Radio City Music Hall, the line to get in was the largest in that theater’s history.

Today is the Sixth Day of Christmas. Today’s gift count (56 gifts): you currently have Six geese a’ laying, 10 golden rings, 12 calling birds, 12 French hens, ten turtledoves and six partridges in their respective pear trees (begin thinking abut gardening tools and hiring an illegal immigrant.) According to the old ladies I knowContinue reading “Maybe you could just release them in the park”

December 29, 1946 –Baroness Sacher-Masoch (Marianne Evelyn Faithfull), English singer, songwriter, actress and inventor of the Mars bar tampon, was born on this date.

December 29, 1967 – Star Trek first aired The Trouble with Tribbles episode – arguably one of their most famous episodes – on this date. The scene in which Kirk is buried in an avalanche of tribbles took eight takes to get right. The tribbles were thrown into the hatch by members of the productionContinue reading “The iconic Trouble with Tribbles premiered”

December 29, 1967 –Sergio Leone’s iconic Spaghetti Western, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach, premiered in the US on this date. The term originated in the 1960s, when it was cheaper to make movies in Italy than the United States. Moviemakers made their westerns thereContinue reading “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly premiered”

December 29, 1933 –One of their best remembered films, Laurel and Hardy’s Sons of the Desert, premiered on this date. During the shooting, Stan Laurel was also seeing someone else, Virginia Ruth Rogers, even though his divorce from his first wife was not yet final. Rogers even filled in as a crowd scene extra andContinue reading “Sons of the Desert premiered”

You currently have five golden rings, eight calling birds, nine French hens, ten turtledoves and five partridges in their respective pear trees (begin thinking preserves.) (The fifth day of Christmas is also the Feast of St. Thomas Becket who was the Archbishop of Canterbury and martyred on this date in 1170 AD.) The five goldenContinue reading “The official gift tally total (37 gifts)”

December 28, 1968 –Marvin Gaye’s song I Heard It Through the Grapevine hit number #1 on this date. The song was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. Strong came up with the idea and asked Motown writers Holland-Dozier-Holland to work on it with him. They refused to credit another writer, so Strong took itContinue reading “I Heard It Through the Grapevine topped the charts”

It’s the Fourth day of Christmas and you’ve just received four calling bird, sometimes know as colly birds or collie birds (which are actually blackbirds). Today’s score: you currently have 22 gifts – four calling birds, six French hens, eight turtledoves and four partridges in their respective pear trees (when do these trees become aContinue reading “Allow the appropriate spacing in between the cages”