Stories about Our Christmas Songs
White Christmas Everyone knows that the song was introduced in the movie Holiday Inn, but many don’t know that it was a song about being stuck in sunny and warm LA and dreaming of a White Christmas. The original first verse is: The sun is shining The grass is green The orange and palm trees [...]
Strange and Weird
1) Author J.R.R Tolkien died on September 2, 1973. When you reverse; Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne, It’s 1973. 2) On Jun 28, 2000 Oregon’s Columbian newspaper [...]
Two Geminis Become One
On its third attempt Gemini Mission 6A, with Command Pilot Walter M. (Wally) Schirra and Pilot Thomas (Tom) P. Stafford launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on December 15, 1965. On its fourth orbit Gemini 6A meet Gemini 7, with Command Pilot Frank F. Borman II and Pilot James A. Lowell Jr., which was already in [...]
The Death of Washington
George Washington lied dying in his bed at his Mount Vernon home on December 14, 1799 and at 10 PM he breathed his last breaths. The man who had lead the United States first through War as the Commanding General and later as the first President of the United States was dead at the age [...]
Top Songs of 1974
Billy Don’t Be a Hero was a big hit in Europe by the group that originally recorded it, Paper Lace. Bo Donalson and the Heywoods released it in the United States and reached the number 1 spot and the Number 6 Song of the year. Ironically the song by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods didn’t [...]
Santa Claus at the Movies
Silent Santa’s: SANTA CLAUS AND THE CHILDREN (1898) SANTA CLAUS (1899) SANTA CLAUS FILLING STOCKINGS (1897) SANTA CLAUS’ VISIT (1900) WAITING FOR SANTA CLAUS (1901) AN UNEXPECTED SANTA CLAUS (1908) A TRAP FOR SANTA CLAUS (1909) THE ADVENTURE OF THE WRONG SANTA CLAUS (1914) SANTA CLAUS VS. CUPID (1915) THE DETECTIVE’S SANTA CLAUS (1924) SANTA [...]
The Christmas Season
Many people are away from home or alone on Christmas. Many people will journey home during the holidays, but there are those who won’t be able to with family during the holidays. Some may not be able to afford the expenses to travel. There are others who can’t take the time off from work or [...]
Pan Am Flight 214
Pam Am flight 214, a Boeing 707-121, took off from Luis Munoz Marin International Airport at 4:10 p.m. EST on December 8, 1963 for a flight to Philadelphia Philadelphia. The 73 passengers and 8 crew on board had no idea that they would go down in history. The airplane was built in 1958 and was [...]
December 7th – More Than a Day of Infamy
December 7, 1941 will forever be remembered as an day of infamy. It was on that day that Japan attacked the military bases on the Hawaiian Island of O’ahu. Pearl Harbor Naval Base, where many of the United States Pacific fleet were docked on that day, and Hickham Field, which adjoins the Naval Base, were [...]
Christmas Music of 1958
1958 introduced many Christmas songs that we now consider classics. The thirteen year old Brenda Lee first released Rockin’ ’round the Christmas Tree in 1958, although it didn’t really become a big christmas hit until the 1960s. Johnny Marks, famous for Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer also wrote Rockin’ ’round the Christmas Tree as well as [...]
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