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.
We were doing a little research today and got very extremely ridiculously carried away.
We couldn’t stop until we came up with the definitive list of SEVENTIES “One Hit Wonders!!”
These were all National Top Ten Songs…by various one hit wonders…who were not ever heard from again “hit-wise” and never made it close to the top ten a second time…in a few instances, barely made it into the top 20 just one other time with a highly forgettable tune that quickly disappeared!
Some of these tunes even hit #1!! (denoted by **)
BTW: Established Country Music singers who only had one top ten song on the rock/pop charts weren’t included, since they were established artists in another genre.
So, here they are, ALL 70’s Top Ten Hits in no particular order…print and keep this list, if you wish 
It was one year ago today: Fans of the late Michael Jackson received some very good news. On March 5th, 2009, the “King of Pop” stood inside London’s O2 Arena and announced at a press conference that he would be kicking off a series of dates at the arena beginning in July.
Michael said, “This is it.”
I just happened upon this recently and wanted to share it with you…
It was the mid 1860’s…and on his way home to visit his parents, a Harvard student fell between two railroad cars at the train station in Jersey City, New Jersey, and was rescued by an actor on his way to visit a sister in Philadelphia.
The student was named…
