On this day in …
1976 - Olivia Newton-John was seen on ABC-TV in her first television special.
1970 - Elton John's live performance on New York radio station WABC-FM was recorded and later released as his 11-17-70 album.
1968 - Glen Campbell was awarded Gold Records for his recordings of By The Time I Get To Phoenix and Gentle On My Mind.
1967 - To Sir With Love by Lulu was the #1 song.
Celebrity Birthdays
Model/actress (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) Diane Neal, 33. Model/actress (Crossing Jordan, ER, Iron Man) Leslie Bibb, 34. Former defenseman (Penguins, Thrashers) Chris Tamer, 38. Actress (Braveheart, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Sophie Marceau, 42. Model/TV host (America's Funniest Home Videos)/actress Daisy Fuentes, 42. Actress (Scarface, The Abyss) Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, 50. Former forward (North Stars, Capitals) Dennis Maruk (Toronto), 53. Actor (NewsRadio, No Country For Old Men)/cartoon voicist (King Of The Hill) Stephen Root, 57. Basketball Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes, 63. Actor/producer/director Danny DeVito, 64. TV producer (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock)/Television Hall of Famer Lorne Michaels (Toronto), 64. Baseball Hall of Famer Tom Seaver, 64. Model/actress (Zorro The Gay Blade, American Gigolo)/commercial spokesperson Lauren Hutton, 65. Royal Teens, Four Seasons member/songwriter/keyboardist/producer/Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bob Gaudio, 66. Producer/director/screenwriter Martin Scorsese, 66. Singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot (Orillia, ON), 70.
Stephen Root
Greatest Music QuestionIt’s another theme week: Country Crossovers – Part Two. We’re looking for titles rather than artists this week. Of his three country hits that made the Top Ten on the pop chart, which Johnny Horton song was the only one to reach #1? The answer follows today's Heart & Soul.
Two blondes living in Oklahoma are sitting on a bench talking, and one blonde says to the other, “Which do you think is farther away, Florida or the moon?”
The other blonde turns and says “Helloooooooooo, can you SEE Florida???”
A blonde is playing Trivial Pursuit. It’s her turn. She rolls the dice and lands on Science & Nature. Her question is, “If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name, can you hear it?”
She thinks for a time and then asks, “Is it on or off?”
A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license.
She replies in a huff, “I wish you guys would get your act together. Just yesterday you took away my license and now today you expect me to show it to you!”
A blonde is out for a walk. She comes to a river and sees another blonde on the opposite bank.
“Yoo-hoo!' she shouts, “How can I get to the other side?”
The second blonde looks up the river then down the river and shouts back, “You’re ALREADY ON the other side.”
A Russian, an American, and a Blonde were talking one day.
The Russian says, “We were the first in space!”
The American says, “We were the first on the moon!”
The blonde says, “So what? We're going to be the first on the sun!”
The Russian and the American look at each other and shake their heads. “You can't land on the sun, you idiot! You'll burn up!' says the Russian.
To which the Blonde says, “We're not stupid, y’know. We're going at night!”
... as heard at 8:20 this morningMaybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
There are three signs of old age. The first is your loss of memory, the other two I forget.
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun a lot more work.
You know you're getting on in years when the girls at the office start confiding in you.
Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.
By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
Middle age is when you have stopped growing at both ends, and have begun to grow in the middle.
Billy Graham has described heaven as a family reunion that never ends. What could hell possibly be like? Home videos of the same reunion?
A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor instead of by the police.
Middle age is having a choice of two temptations and choosing the one that will get you home earlier.
You know you're into middle age when you realize that caution is the only thing you care to exercise.
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
You're getting old when you wake up with that morning-after feeling, and you didn't do anything the night before.
The cardiologist's diet: if it tastes good, spit it out.
Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you are not a hypochondriac.
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
Last Will and Testament: Being of sound mind, I spent all my money.
Greatest Music AnswerThe Battle Of New Orleans by Johnny Horton was #1 on the pop singles chart for six weeks in 1959.
