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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 3/9/26 – JOE FRANKLIN DAY!

1 Comment / National Days / By Bob Crespo

For over 28,000 TV shows from 1951 to 2015, he interviewed hundreds of thousands of people, some of them household names, others bordering on anonymous, and his was the last of the Mom & Pop television shows, making today NATIONAL JOE FRANKLIN DAY! He invented the talk show, and rarely stopped talking long enough to […]

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 9/20/25 – RUNAROUND SUE DAY!

3 Comments / National Days / By Bob Crespo

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 & Roll, and on September 20 of that year

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