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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Established: 1960
Motel 6 Motel 6 was founded in 1960 in Santa Barbara, California by building contractors, William Becker and Paul Greene. Their plan was to build motels that could offer rooms a a bargain price. After calculating the all cost it was decided that a room would have a nightly cost of $6, hence the company [...]
Rodgers and Hart
Richard Rodgers is perhaps the greatest American musical composer. His greatest fame came with his work with Oscar Hammerstein II and the many musicals they were involved with in the mid 20th Century. The Sound Of Music, Oklahoma, South Pacific and many more. But Rodgers had been a successful composer long before his work with [...]
Do You Think You’re What They Say You Are?
The story of the last seven days of Jesus was turned into a musical by the team Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The soundtrack, sometimes called a Rock Opera, appeared on an album originally, in part because the producers were afraid to take a chance on producing in on stage due to the subject [...]
The Original Dixieland Jass Band
Have you been wondering who released the first Dixieland Jazz record? You don’t have to look any farther. The answer to that would be the Original Dixieland Jass Band. They recorded the song Livery Stable Blues and Dixie Jass Band One Step on February 26, 1917 for the Victor Talking Machine Company. The Original Dixieland [...]
Ghost Riders in The Sky
The song Ghost Riders in The Sky was written in 1948 by Stan Jones (1914-1963) while he was working in Death Valley for the National Park Service. During that summer he was assigned to the movie crew that was filming The Walking Hills as a technical adviser. He would play his songs for them while [...]
Heavy Metal is Born
It was on Friday the 13th, February 1970 that the album that many consider the first Heavy Metal album was released. It was released in the United Kingdom. The debut album of a band from Birmingham England. The band and the album shared the name Black Sabbath. The album had seven tracks. Five were original [...]
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