San Francisco Songs
Golden Gate Written by Al Jolson, Dave Dreyer, Joseph Meyer & Billy Rose and recorded 1928 Rose and Dreyer. San Francisco This song was introduced in the 1936 movie San Francisco. The motion picture’s title song was written by Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurman, with lyrics by Gus Kahn. I Left My Heart in San [...]
A Keystone Girl
One of the many silent film stars who appeared in films made by Mack Sennett and Keystone Pictures was Louise Fazenda. Fazenda was born in Lafayette Indiana on June 17, 1895 to a merchant broker named Joseph Fazenda. He moved his family to Los Angeles when she was a young girl. Louise Fazenda got her [...]
The Long and Winding Road
40 years ago on June 13, 1970 the Long and Winding Road by the Beatles hit number one of the Billboard Charts. It was their last Number One. The single stayed at the top spot for two weeks. The song was credited to the writing team of Lennon/McCartney, but it was nearly completely Paul McCartney’s [...]
Evers is Killed
On June 12, 1963, civil rights activist and NAACP leader Medgar Evers was on his way to his home in Jackson Mississippi when he was struck down by an assassin’s bullet. Earlier in the day, President John F. Kennedy had delivered a speech supporting civil rights on national television. Evers was born on July 2, [...]
The Committee is Formed
How much do you actually know about what happened on and around July 4, 1776? We all know that July 4th is the birthday of the United States, but is it really.Events that lead up to the birth of the United States started with a Resolution by Richard Henry Lee, a representative to the [...]
Happy Birthday Miss Gumm
On June 10, 1922, the youngest child of former vaudevillians Frank Gumm and Ethel Milne was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Frances Ethel Gumm, also called Baby, had her first stage performance at the age of two and a half when she appeared with her sisters Mary Jane and Dorothy Virginia singing Jiggle Bells at [...]
Quick Amendments
It didn’t take long for Congress to start debate on Amendments to the United States Constitution. Congress first convened on March 4, 1789 and on June 8th of the same year James Madison read his thoughts regarding a Bill of Rights. During the course of debates though the ratification process of the Constitution many states [...]
Edwin Booth – An American Hamlet
If it wasn’t for the fact that John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the most famous Booth would perhaps be his brother Edwin, an American Actor, who was born on November 13, 1833 near Bel Air, Maryland. Booth was the son of another actor, Junius Brutus Booth, who was also a famous actor of the [...]
Bloody Babs
She may have wanted to live, but on June 3, 1955 Barbara Graham, who was nicknamed “Bloody Babs” by the press, was executed in the California gas chamber. On that same day the accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins were also executed. They had been convicted of the murder of Mabel Monohan. Graham was the [...]
Other Beatles
It was on June 1960 that John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stu Sutcliffe and Tommy Moore performed for the first time under the name The Beatles. Actually it was the Silver Beetles. They dropped the Silver and changed the second “e” to an “a” a couple of months later. Thomas (Tommy) Moore played drums [...]
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