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November 15, 1980 –The Blondie single, a cover version of the 1967 song written by Jamaican reggae star John Holt for his group The Paragons, The Tide Is High, hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts on this date. Debbie Harry and Chris Stein were both fans of the British ska revival band The Specials.Continue reading “The Tide is High topped the charts”

November 15, 1928 –Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, the round chocolate cups filled with a creamy peanut butter filling were first introduced by H. B. Reese, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey on this date. Reese used Hershey’s chocolate for his confection. In 1956, his six sons took over the businessContinue reading “The first time they got their peanut butter and chocolate together”

November 15, 1986The Beastie Boys‘ debut studio album Licensed to Ill, released by Def Jam and Columbia Records, went on to become the first rap LP to top the Billboard album chart, was released on this date. With their debut album, Licensed To Ill, released in November, and over the next few months, the BeastieContinue reading “Licensed to Ill dropped”

Before you go – Boots UK, (think CVS or Walgreens) wants to bring Joy for All. I’m not sure that we’re supposed to think these are ‘rose coloured glasses‘ or the glasses are a new delivery system for psychotropic drugs. (For those of you in the know, it’s 60 days until someone’s birthday)

Its also known as national clean out the refrigerator day. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, today’s a good day to make some room in the frig (I should start looking through the freezer for a few ‘frozen corpse‘ meals in there for this week.). While the country may be torn apart by political divisions,Continue reading “Today is America Recycles Day.”

November 15, 1956 –Elvis Presley’s first movie, Love Me Tender, premiered at New York’s Paramount Theater on this date. Elvis Presley is credited as co-writer of the film’s four songs, but in fact had little to do with writing them; it was just for purposes of royalties. Elvis did reveal at a 1968 press conference,Continue reading “Love Me Tender Premiered”

November 15, 1935 –… Listen, Gottlieb, nix on the love making. Because, I saw Mrs. Claypool first. Of course, her mother really saw her first; but, there’s no point in bringing the Civil War into this. The Marx Brother’s first film made without Zeppo, A Night at the Opera, premiered on this date. In exasperationContinue reading “A Night at the Opera premiered”

November 14, 1851 –Harper and Brothers published Herman Melville’s most famous novel, on this date. Called Moby Dick, the tale is teeming with seamen, spermaceti, and rigid harpoons. Scholars continue to debate its symbolism. The British publisher accidentally left out the ending of the book, the epilogue. This confused a lot of British readers, becauseContinue reading “They definitely needed a bigger boat”

November 14, 1975 –Queen released its fourth album A Night at the Opera on this date (There actually were other songs on the album besides Bohemian Rhapsody you know.) As it appears on the album, the song Death on Two Legs had “Dedicated to…” written after it. It was dedicated to their ex-manager when heContinue reading “A Night at the Opera was dropped”

November 14, 1964 –The cult classic Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (the non-MST3K version), starring featuring the classically kitch Pia Zadora, premiered on this date. This film includes the first documented appearance of Mrs. Claus.