A Brief History On June 4, 2017, American singer and philanthropist Ariana Grande is performing in a concert with fellow celebrities to raise funds to help victims of the recent Islamist suicide bombing that occurred after her concert held in Manchester, England on May 22, 2017. Digging Deeper Twenty-three people (including the perpetrator) died in the disgusting attack and another 119 suffered non-fatal injuries. The concert to help those victims comes just one day after yet another Islamist terror attack occurred in England. Last night, June 3, 2017, in London, England, three Islamic extremists used a van and knives to…
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A Brief History On March 28, 2017, we celebrate the New Moon by bringing you 10 of our favorite idiotic, goofy, funny, or wacky and wonderful country songs. We do not claim these are the weirdest ever made, but they are the ones that tickly our country funny bones. (BTW, do you know what you get if you play a country song backwards? You get your car, your house, your dog, and your wife back, and the train takes you home in reverse.) Digging Deeper 10. “Bony Fingers”, Hoyt Axton, 1974. Seriously, what do people expect if they work their…
A Brief History On February 4, 1983, the World was shocked to hear that popular 32 year old singer Karen Carpenter had died, due to complications from anorexia nervosa. The public gaped at photos of an emaciated and shrunken singer they had known as a beautiful girl. Digging Deeper Carpenter, one half of the brother sister singing duo known as The Carpenters, had scored mega hit records with “Close to You,” “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Superstar,” “Hurting Each Other”, “Sing,” “Yesterday Once More,” and many others. Karen and her brother, Richard, were also popular overseas, ranking 3rd all-time in Japan…
A Brief History On October 28, 1956, Elvis Aron Presley (yes, only one “a” in Aron) made medical history by being inoculated with a Polio vaccine shot on national television, demonstrating to a dubious country that getting such a vaccine was safe. Digging Deeper This gesture by the most famous Rock and Roller of all time was instrumental in raising the number of American children inoculated against Polio from .6% to a whopping 80+% in only 6 months. The Polio family of disease had been devastating American (and world wide) children, including 4 term US President Franklin Roosevelt. Researchers had…
A Brief History On August 21, 1961, Motown Records of Detroit, Michigan released what became their first #1 hit song, “Please Mr. Postman” by the Marvelettes. Founded by record making genius Berry Gordy, Jr., Motown was an African-American oriented enterprise with a cross-racial appeal that helped bridge the musical gap between Black and White Americans in the turbulent 1960’s. Digging Deeper A relatively small company, Motown was now on its way to major success, owning the crossover soul to pop market. The 1960’s saw 79 Motown hits make the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. Gordy moved the record…