Grammy Awards – Did You Know?
Elvis Presley was nominated for 14 Grammy’s. He won three times, all for gospel recordings. The Albums How Great Thou Art (1967), and He Touched Me (1972) and his live Memphis concert recording of the song How Great Thou Art (1974). In 1971 at the age of 36 he was also given the Lifetime Achievement [...]
A Day for Adolf
It’s not unusual for a day of the year to become a focal point in one’s life. For some it’s their birthday or another day the person decides is their Lucky Day. Others it’s a date where something always seems to happen. For Adolf Hitler that day could have been January 30th. It was on [...]
Serendipity
Serendipity is defined as a discovery of something fortunate while looking for something else. The word was first used by Horace Walpole in a letter dated January 28, 1754 to Horace Mann, an Englishman living at the time in Florence. This is not the Horace Mann who was a American educator. Walpole had read a [...]
Died in Space
The American Space mission that is known as Apollo 1 ended tragically with the death of three men; Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. During a test and training exercise a fire ignited in the command module on top a Saturn IB rocket. Without an escape hatch on the capsule the three men never [...]
Facts Relating to Coffee
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the United States with an average American adult estimated to consumes 26.7 gallons of coffee per year. Even with this it is only 20% of the world’s consumption. After petroleum, coffee is the second largest commodity in the world. With the exception of Hawaii, no coffee [...]
40 Years Gone
Here we are coming to the close of the first month of 2010 and for some odd reason I just realized that the 1960s are now all 40 years gone. To some the 1960s was a golden age, to others it’s little more than history. To me it was my childhood. But it was only [...]
The Six Three Stooges
Moe Howard Moe was the leader of the Three Stooges. He was born Moses Harry Horwitz on June 19, 1897 and died May 4, 1975. Shemp Howard Moe’s older brother, Samuel Horwitz born March 4, 1895, was one of the original stooges of Ted Healy. Shortly after they arrived in Hollywood he left the stooges, [...]
The Rock Hall
The first Rock and Roll induction occurred on January 23, 1986. The first group inducted were Performers: Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and the Everly Brothers. Early Influence: Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmy Yancey and Robert Johnson. Non-Performer: Alan Freed and Sam Phillips. [...]
Bloody Sunday
When speaking of Bloody Sunday it all depends on what part of the world you are standing, since there has been a couple of events for which that term has been used, on when it occurred. During the United States Civil Rights movement, Bloody Sunday occurred on March 7, 1965. To bring attention to the [...]
Burns and Allen
George Burns and Gracie Allen began in Vaudeville in the 1920s. They first met in 1922, but didn’t marry until 1927. At first it was George Burns who was the comic, but after having Gracie’s straight lines get more laughs, he became the straight man to her. From Vaudeville they did radio. After a few [...]
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