In The Mood

Oh yes, it's going to be a fun-filled Today In Music! First up a song I can still listen to today, honestly would have loved to have grown up in the Big Band Era. On February 10,1940 Glenn Millers "In the Mood" tops the charts and stayed there for 13 weeks. Glenn Miller's "In The Mood", with "I Want to Be Happy" on the B-side, became the best-selling swing instrumental.

1942 Glenn Miller was awarded his 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo".

In 1968 Classic IV hits #3 on the pop charts with Spooky.

"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart slides its way into the top spot on this day in 1979! Something tells me I'm the only one that does not think Rod Stewart is sexy!

In 2001 Singer-comedian Weird Al Yankovic  weds Suzanne Krajewski

So there you go, gang, Happy Monday to you all!!

National Toothache Day!

So yeah today is everyone's favorite holiday National Toothache Day!! Yay, we all love a good toothache! Let's celebrate with some meme's shall we?

Good luck with the pain in your head today!!

The Twelve Foot Ape Befriended them On the Island of King Kong!

Son of Kong
1933 | NR | 1 Hr 10 Min | Adventure | RKO Pictures

Director: 

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Writer: 

Ruth Rose

Stars: 

Robert Armstrong

Helen Mack

Frank Reicher

After the disastrous results of his last expedition, Carl Denham leaves New York aboard a ship to escape all the trouble. After a mutiny, he and a few companions are left behind on Skull island, where they meet a smaller relative of King Kong and make friends with him.


“The Son of Kong” premieres on our MeTV show tonight at 8 pm eastern/pacific, 7 central- to confirm the time and channel where you are, please check your local listings, or go to www.metv.com.  Thousands of fans join in with the live Tweeting during the show using the hashtag #svengoolie. Those of you with WCIU get an encore of Don Knott’s “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken”  but, at a special EARLIER time on the U, due to sports programming. You can catch it starting at 9 am- making it a sort of breakfast with Ghost Toasties!

Goodbye Kirk!

I would love to live until I'm 103! The things this man has witnessed Kirk Douglas, known as one of the most beloved tough guys in Hollywood history on screen and a defender of blacklisted artists off screen, died Wednesday.

“To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to,” son Michael Douglas wrote on Instagram.

After cutting his teeth as a stage actor and scoring strong supporting roles in classic films like “Out of the Past,” Douglas would eventually emerge as a star in his own right with the 1949 boxing drama “Champion,” for which he earned the first of three Best Actor Academy Award nominations. (He would eventually take home a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1996).  And of course those action epics like “Spartacus” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” as well as more intimate character studies like “Lonely Are the Brave.”

The honorary Oscar recipient is survived by his wife, and three sons, Michael, Peter, and Joel Douglas. May you rest in peace good sir.

The Day The Music Died

Who wheres Short Shorts?

In 1958 a catchy little tune by "Short Shorts" enters the top 40 Chart and would peak at #3. Now tell me this song does not bring a smile to your face?

The Day The Music Died

My mom always talked about how the trio had been scheduled to play at Spring Valley’s Les-Buzz Ballroom as part of the “Winter Dance Party” on Feb. 7, 1959. Sadly they never made it, as four days earlier, an airplane carrying the three men crashed shortly after take-off in Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all three. This would become one of the saddest days in music history. My mom once told me she sat in her room crying for days even missing school. I still have a few of her Buddy Holly 45's.

The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson) was only 28, Holly was 22 and Valens was 17! A sad day indeed.

My personal favorite Ritchie Valens song, such great music taken from us way to early. I would have loved to have grown up during this era of music and I'm grateful that my parents always had records playing when we were growing up. The sweet sounds of the 50s and 60s filled our house and it was pure magic.

Touring the site.

My favorite YouTuber Adam The Woo has a nice video where he visits the sites and museums surrounding the events that took place.