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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“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 growling about running you through with a broadsword
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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 Products. Originally developed in 1956 as a compound
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Coupled with the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution remains the Gold Standard for political documents, 238 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 DAY! In 1787, America stood alone in the
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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 by H.L. Menken as “the haunting fear that
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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 “aw Rudy” at the insistence of his producer,
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It was September 13, 1848 when 25 year-old railroad blasting foreman Phineas Gage was packing an explosive charge into a hole drilled in the granite in Cavendish, Vermont, where Gage was removing a small mountain of stone from the path of the nroad when “something went wrong,” the understatement of the century, making today NATIONAL
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It’s been 24 years now, and it shouldn’t still sting so much, but it does sting on NATIONAL 9/11 REMEMBRANCE DAY We all remember where we were, what we were doing, and who we lost when the unthinkable happened in New York City, Washington, DC, and a lonely field in Pennsylvania. Today we promise to
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They are no one’s favorite food, but we all have our preferences among the shiny packages of frozen, ready-to-eat meals (or something like meals), especially on NATIONAL TV DINNER DAY! Introduced 70 years ago by C.A. Swanson & Sons, TV dinners are one of our guilty pleasures, a zero-effort meal complete with dessert, all together
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