John Fred and His Playboy Band or the Lemon Pipers may not be household names, but their songs, “Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)” and “Green Tambourine’ sure ring a bell. Well this is their day, the day we celebrate NATIONAL ONE-HIT WONDER DAY! You know a bunch of them, you love their songs, and maybe even wonder …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 9/25/23 – ONE-HIT WONDER DAY! Read More »
Ken Dahl hasn’t been so lucky since the divorce, but his Ex and her new husband G.I. Joe remain household names in America, so today we celebrate NATIONAL BARBIE DOLL DAY! SInce 1959, Barbie has been our National Sweetheart, a true single-name American icon and a symbol of mindless consumerism. Barbie is a plastic woman …
Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first one on the Roof Theater called Jardin de Paris on Broadway on July 8, 1907, beginning a 30-year run and making today NATIONAL ZIEGFELD FOLLIES DAY! Inspired by Paris’ Follies Bergere, showman Florence Ziegfeld conceived and produced lavish revues featuring dozens of beautiful dancers and chorus girls (the legendary Ziegfeld …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/8/23 – ZIEGFELD FOLLIES DAY! Read More »
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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