After a very strong return to late-nights, it now appears that Jay Leno is going to be in for a battle with David Letterman for ”night owl” television supremacy.
Although ‘American Idol’ judge Simon Cowell joked recently on ‘The Tonight Show’ about getting married sometime “in the next 10 years,” quite possibly the wedding is going to be a lot sooner.
Add another popular music figure to the list of full scale productions based on their life.
“Dreamgirls” is loosely based on the Supremes.
Recession? Recession?? They don’t need no stinking recession…
Carlos Slim Helu takes the No. 1 spot on Forbes World’s Billionaires list.
For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man.
OK, so here’s yet another day of one of those fun, fun, fun lists to make you exclaim “I’m So Excited” as you begin reminiscing about the way were were all those years ago.
By the way, how many song titles were in that sentence?
The answer AND the list by clicking that red rectangular thing, bottom right…but don’t be in too much of a hurry. Study that FIRST sentence and see if you can come up with all of the names of the tunes!
It was THIS DATE in 1966 that the Beach Boys recorded their hit, “God Only Knows.” Here are some fascinating facts about that song, on the 44th anniversary of its recording…
Happy Birthday, March 8th, to former Monkee Mickey Dolenz (second from right).
Big fans of the Monkees may already know that Mickey was a TV star years BEFORE the Monkees.
Mickey starred in the TV series “Circus Boy” in the 50’s! He was just a little chimp at that time.
Mickey got picked to be a Monkee among 437 other applicants for the gig, including Paul Williams (songwriter), Danny Hutton (who, three years later, showed up with Three Dog Night!) and Stephen Stills (who got PICKED but dropped out when he heard he’d have to give up the publishing rights to his songs).
IF you are 30 or older, you may find this amusing, if not hilarious…..
(an open, anonymous rant from ones who were there!!) FUNNY!!!!!
When we were kids, adults used to bore us to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning…. Uphill… Barefoot… in the wind, in the cold…BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda
Sadly, two passings to tell you about this weekend….
Ron Banks, founding member of the Dramatics, who had two top ten hits in the early 70’s, “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get” and “In The Rain,” died unexpectedly on Thursday afternoon at his home in Detroit. It is believed Ron died of a heart attack. He was only 58.
