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April 27, 1969 –Joe Cocker made his first U.S. TV appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, on this date. Together with the Grease Band, Cocker performed a cover of Dave Mason’s Feelin’ Alright. The song would end up being a two-time charting hit for Cocker — in 1969 and again in 1972. Cocker included aContinue reading “Joe Cocker’s debut on the Sullivan Show”

April 27, 2001 –Something’s telling me I must go home … The Bee Gees performed audience and viewer requests for tunes from their long career in a concert at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on the A & E series, Live By Request, on this date.

April 27, 1971 – CBS executives finally sobered up and the last episode of Green Acres aired on this date. This was to have been the pilot for a proposed spin off featuring Elaine Joyce as Carol. Oliver and Lisa only appear briefly in the beginning as an excuse to introduce Carol and the pilot.Continue reading “The finale of Green Acres”

April 26, 1933 –When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had to take this acting class as a theater arts major. I had to do this scene in a one-act comedy. I just said this line, and then… this laughContinue reading “Carol Creighton Burnett”

April 26, 1975 –B. J. Thomas‘ song, (Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song, was No. 1 on the charts on this date. It is the longest-titled #1 charting song to date. (Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song was B. J. Thomas’ second #1 hit on the BillboardContinue reading “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song topped the charts”

April 26, 1978 – The concert billed as The Band’s “farewell concert appearance“, was held on November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The concert film, The Last Waltz, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring members of the band and many of their friends, premiered in the US on this date The Band’s managementContinue reading “The Last Waltz premiered”

April 26, 1988 – We were back in Nam (again) when the the pilot episode of China Beach, starring Dana Delaney, Nan Woods, Michael Boatman, and Marg Helgenberger, premiered on ABC TV on this date. (For some reason this series has almost faded into obscurity.) Several of the storylines, and even some of the dialogueContinue reading “China Beach premiered”

April 26, 1991 –For some reason ABC TV fulfilled Jim Henson dying wish of creating a TV series about puppet anthropomorphic dinosaurs when Dinosaurs aired on this date. Jim Henson originally got the idea of a live-action show featuring animatronic dinosaurs after he was impressed by the technology his Creature Shop was developing for TeenageContinue reading “Dinosaurs premiered”

April 25, 1974 –Steely Dan’s most successful single, (it charted at #4,) Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, was released on this date. The Rikki of the title is Rikki Ducornet, a New York writer and artist. Steely Dan co-front Donald Fagen met her while both were attending Bard College, a small liberal arts school locatedContinue reading “The first time Rikki was reminded to keep our contact info”

Today is Malaria Awareness Day. Malaria Awareness Day was designated on this date by President George W. Bush in 2007, to remind people that Malaria kills 3,000 children a day. He asked the world to join the fight to wipe out malaria on the African continent. So I encourage all Americans to begin heavily drinkingContinue reading “More people die from malaria than any specific cancer.”