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March 2, 1987 –The long-planned collaboration between Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton, The Trio album, was released on this date. The album sold over 4 million copies and won the Grammy Award for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.

March comes in like a the Pleasing Fungus Beetle and goes out like a Paradoxical Frog. The name of March comes from ancient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and called Martius after Mars, the Roman god of war. In Rome, where the climate is Mediterranean, March is the first monthContinue reading “March weather – savage and serene in one hour”

March 1, 1973 –Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album, Dark Side Of The Moon, on this date. The album debuts at an inauspicious #95 on the US Albums chart, but has become the album with the most weeks on the Billboard charts, thanks in large part to a run from 1977-1988 when it neverContinue reading “And then one day you find 50 years have got behind you”

March 1, 1981 –NBC-TV aired the made-for-TV film Elvis and the Beauty Queen, starring Don Johnson and Stephanie Zimbalist on this date. (Don’t worry, the movie’s there, after the mini doc.) Ronnie McDowell provided the vocals to all of Elvis‘ songs, including A Very Precious Love, which Don Johnson and Stephanie Zimbalist sang as aContinue reading “Elvis and the Beauty Queen premiered”

March 1, 1968 –The Star Trek episode The Omega Glory aired in this date. In it, the Enterprise comes across the derelict Federation ship Exeter, and the crew discovers that its entire crew has been killed by a plague. NBC announced that Star Trek would be renewed for a third season during the closing creditsContinue reading “The Omega Glory premiered”

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February 28, 1983 –The 256th and final episode of MAS*H, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, aired on CBS-TV on this date. It’s the second time the phrase “son-of-a-bitch” was said, uncensored, on the series. Both times it was said by Hawkeye. The first time was in Guerrilla My Dreams, which was also the first time theContinue reading “The last episode of M*A*S*H aired”

February 28, 1989 –America started following the goings on at with Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles football team when Coach, starring Craig T. Nelson, Shelley Fabares, Jerry Van Dyke, and Bill Fagerbakke premiered on ABC-TV on this date. The Coach theme song was performed by the Iowa State University Cyclone Football “Varsity” Marching Band. TheContinue reading “Coach premiered”

February 28, 1970 – Simon and Garfunkel’s song Bridge over Troubled Water reached number one on this date and stayed there for the next six weeks. (Sorry for the ear worm.) Simon wrote this song with just two verses, considering the song “a little hymn.” Garfunkel and producer Roy Halee heard it as more epic,Continue reading “Bridge over Troubled Water topped the charts”

February 27, 1971 –Janis Joplin’s album released three months after her drug overdose, Pearl hits #1 in the US, where it stays for nine weeks, on this date. Pearl was Janis Joplin’s most commercially successful album, yet it only reached #50 in the UK. Pearl was one of Joplin’s nicknames.