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March 10, 1983 –Despite the production value and Michael Jackson’s star quality, MTV didn’t play the video Billie Jean until the song was already a #1 hit. MTV executives claim that they loved the video and played it as soon as they could, but interviews with executives at Jackson’s record company and with others familiarContinue reading “Before he was the King of Pop”

Yes, Raymond Burr’s Nipple Rouge would like to wish you all a very happy and healthy Joe Franklin Day. One of ACME’s most popular products would like to honor this great American – (And even though Shabbat Across America/ Canada was cancelled last Friday night because of Covid concerns, hopefully you didn’t forget to bringContinue reading “Happy Joe Franklin Day!”

March 9, 1966 –The Beach Boys began recording God Only Knows on this date. (Paul McCartney once called God Only Knows, “The greatest song ever written.“) Brian Wilson planned to sing the lead vocal himself, but decided that his brother Carl was better suited for the track. “I was looking for a tenderness and aContinue reading “I’ll make you so sure about it”

Today marks the observance of International Women’s Day, celebrating the achievements of inspiring women around the world. (This year, the theme of International Women’s Day is “choose to challenge”.) The earliest Women’s Day observance was held on February 28, 1909, in New York; it was organized by the Socialist Party of America in remembrance ofContinue reading “The best protection any woman can have is courage”

March 7, 1917 –Russia’s 1917 February Revolution began on March 7, which was then the middle of February, in the city of St. Petersburg, which was then Petrograd, in what was then Russia, but would soon be the Soviet Union. Tsar (or Czar) Nicholas II of the Romanov (or Romanoff) line had been away fromContinue reading “The Crazy Mixed-Up Russian Revolution”

March 6, 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society on this date in a presentation entitled “The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements.” He left gaps in his charts and predicted the addition of three more elements in the near future. Mendeleev’s predictionsContinue reading “you wouldn’t know where to put it”

March 6, 1970 – The Beatles released Let it Be in the UK on this date. Paul McCartney wrote this song supposedly after he had a dream about his mother who died when he was 14. Since Let It Be was The Beatles last album, it made an appropriate statement about leaving problems behind andContinue reading “… she is standing right in front of me”

On March 1, 1953, after an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Josif Stalin, truly Evil Bastard, did not emerge from his room the next day, having probably suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. Although his guards thought itContinue reading “Bizarre ironies of History –”

It’s that time again for Throwback Thursday featuring a favorite song, something about the song and a cover version of the song. Traveling along the dark shoals of the intraweb to bring you, dear bunkies, something interesting, somehow the 80s’ New Wave song Tainted Love came up, (don’t ask.) I’m guessing many of you don’tContinue reading “… I toss and turn I can’t sleep at night”

March 4, 1849 –This is the day America had no President. James K. Polk (whose cause of death was officially listed as “diarrhea“) officially stepped down as the 11th US president and President Zachary Taylor (who would die in office after eating cherries and milk at a July 4th celebration) refused to be sworn-in onContinue reading “This is a US secret you probably don’t know –”