On September 23, 1952, a 29 year-old Country music star from Alabama booked time in Castle Studio in Nashville’s Tulane Hotel and recorded 3 songs; “Kaw-Liga,” “Take These Chains From My Heart” and one of the most iconic Country songs of all time, which is why we […]
Read more →September 22 is not always the end of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but when it is… we call it NATIONAL AUTUMNAL EQUINOX DAY! Today’s holiday didn’t actually commence until 3:20 PM, but once it starts, Summer officially ends. We knew this was coming. The kids have […]
Read more →Today is when the entire world celebrates International Day of Peace, but screw that, that’s just not happening. Instead, let’s talk about the time I repelled an alien invasion with a dozen bottle rockets and a switch blade on NATIONAL BIG WHOPPER LIAR DAY! As Secretary of Defense Vin Diesel […]
Read more →Words and music by Dion Di Mucci and Earnest Maresca, arrangement by Jeff Funk. Who, you say? What song you talking about? Talking about Dion, of course, formerly of Dion & The Belmonts, who went solo in 1961 to pursue a more edgy brand of Rock & […]
Read more →“Give us ten million dollars or we will sell your oil tanker to black marketeers with whom we are already in negotiations via satellite phone!” Sorry, Somalian dudes, but that just doesn’t have the cachet of Wallace Beery swilling grog, hobbling around on a peg leg, and […]
Read more →We all played with it as kids, and if memory serves, it didn’t taste too bad at all, so today we reminisce and celebrate NATIONAL PLAY-DOH DAY! Officially called a “modeling compound,” Play-Doh was the invention of Noah McVicker while working for the Cincinnati-based soap manufacturer Kutol […]
Read more →Coupled with the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution remains the Gold Standard for political documents, 234 years after its official adoption on September 17, 1787, and so We The People, in order to form a more perfect union, on this day do celebrate NATIONAL CONSTITUTION […]
Read more →On September 16, 1620, a ship set sail from Plymouth, England. On board were 102 men, women and children, pilgrims to an unknown New World, mostly English Separatists and Puritans, which makes today NATIONAL MAYFLOWER DAY! We can thank the Mayflower for America’s Puritan streak, best described […]
Read more →“Of all the felt I ever felt, I never felt a piece of felt which felt as fine as that felt felt, when first I felt that felt hat’s felt.” Got it? Good, because it’s NATIONAL FELT HAT DAY! What are felt hats and what do they […]
Read more →It was the last 15 minutes of a New Orleans recording session on September 14, 1955, and Little Richard had one more song up his sleeve. He had just spent an hour rewriting the lyrics with Dorothy La Bostrie, changing the original “dirty” lyrics from “good booty” to […]
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