RIP Steve Landesberg–Also known “as the intellectual and sometimes annoying Detective Sgt. Arthur Dietrich on the long-running 1970s cop comedy ‘Barney Miller.’” (AP says it well)
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Just finished listening to The Digital Guy’s podcast of his Christmas Show…it’s smooth, it’s jazzy, it’s funky, it’s Christmas’y, and it’s 2 full hours that you can listen to again and again over the holiday season. Bruce Nazarian aka The Digital Guy, can be heard through several different avenues. Check ‘em out at www.thedigitalguy.net. I subscribed to his podcast on iTunes, so I can listen to all of them whenever I need to. The Christmas Show is #47 and you’d be amazed at what these artists can do with Christmas tunes!
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Coming at ya with Late Night Humor, and the usual Hodge-Podge of regular info for this date…Hey, Happy Winter!
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*Dave
~I don’t mind the inappropriate groping at airline security. At my age, I’m just glad to get the attention.
~After you go through security, how much are you supposed to tip?
*Fallon
~Police in the U.K. rented a bouncy castle to cushion the fall when a man threatened to jump off of a building. That must have been an interesting talk. “Sir, do not jump. But if you do, please take your shoes off, and no rough-housing once you’re in there.”
*Craig
~“Yogi Bear” is opening in theaters. You know what that means: It’s Oscar season.
~I think this movie is dangerously misleading because bears don’t walk on their hind legs, and they eat their food on all fours like David Hasselhoff.
~Yogi Bear” is just pro-bear propaganda. Bears are not our friends.
~Bears look very cuddly on TV, but in real life, they’re very dangerous and unpredictable, like Katie Couric.
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Smooth Jazz Internet Top 10 for week of 12/20/2010
(smoothjazzexpressions.com and Kerri D)
~1 Dave Koz
Put The Top Down
~2 Fourplay
3rd Degree
~3 Tim Bowman
Let It Shine
~4 Norman Brown
Sending My Love
~5 Euge Groove
All For You
~6 Blake Aaron
Encantadora
~7 Brian Culbertson
That’s Life
~8 Jack Prybylski
Down To It
~9 Nils
Jump Start
~10 Jackiem Joyner
Dance With Me
(Charts from Groove Jazz Music
Airplay monitor station for Radiowave)
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~2005, Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish became the first gay celebrities to register their relationship as a civil partnership. The 20 minute ceremony took place at The Guild Hall, Windsor, England, guest’s included Ringo Starr, Victoria Beckham, Joss Stone, Sting, Elvis Costello, Jamie Cullum, George Michael and The Osbournes – Ozzy, Sharon, Jack and Kelly.
~1998 Celine Dion, whose Oscar-winning single “My Heart Will Go On” powered record-breaking sales of the “Titanic” soundtrack, is named the top-selling artist of 1998 by the Recording Industry Association of America.
~1996 Tony Bennett is rushed to a hospital for an emergency operation for an erupted hernia. Bennett is just arriving at the White House for a holiday dinner with President and Mrs. Clinton when he falls ill.
~1996, The charity record Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’ went to No.1 on the UK singles chart. With the consent of Bob Dylan, musician Ted Christopher of Dunblane, Scotland wrote a new verse for the song in memory of the schoolchildren and teacher killed in the Dunblane massacre. The cover version of the song included brothers and sisters of the victims singing the chorus and Mark Knopfler on guitar.
~1985 Heart’s “Heart” album goes #1
~1985 Lionel Richie’s “Say You, Say Me,” moves into the No. 1 spot, giving the movie “White Nights” two soundtrack singles in the top 5. The other single, placing at No. 5, is Phil Collins’ and Marilyn Martin’s “Separate Lives.” “White Nights” is only the sixth motion picture of the rock era to produce more than one No. 1 single. The first five are: “Saturday Night Fever,” “Grease,” “Flashdance,” “Footloose,” and “Purple Rain.”
~1980 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “(Just Like) Starting Over,” John Lennon. The song reaches No. 1 18 days after Lennon is shot to death in New York City.
~1975 Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Capitals 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Capitals in 4:57
~1970, a stretch limousine carrying Elvis Presley pulled up outside the White House in Washington, D.C. The driver handed over a letter from Elvis addressed to President Nixon requesting a meeting to discuss how the King of Rock and Roll could help Nixon fight drugs. The President agreed to give Presley a Narcotics Bureau badge – but only after learning that the chief of the narcotics bureau had turned down the same request earlier that day and told Presley the only person who could overrule his decision was the President. At Elvis’ request, the meeting remained secret for more than a year, until the Washington Post broke the story on January 27th, 1972.
~1969 The Supremes make their last appearance on TV’s “Ed Sullivan Show.” They sing “Someday We’ll Be Together”, which also became their last #1 song.
~1957 Ray Romano born in Queens NY; best known for his roles on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond and in the Ice Age film series. He currently stars on the TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age.(a personal favorite)
~1952 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” Jimmy Boyd.
~1940 Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, Md. 1940; multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer. Recorded with The Mothers Of Invention and solo, 1969 album ‘Hot Rats’, 1974 album ‘Apostrophe’, featuring ‘Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow’. First band was The Blackouts, recorded one of the first concept albums ‘Freak Out’. Zappa died of prostate cancer on 4th December 1993.
~1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World
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*FACT OF THE DAY:
~”From 1850 to 1942, marijuana was listed in the United States Pharmacopoeia as a useful medicine for nausea, rheumatism, and labor pains and was easily obtained at the local general store or pharmacy.”-Provided by RandomHistory.com
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*Today in Strangeness:
~Light a torch for the long cold night- today is the Winter Solstice– the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It is said that as we enter the fourth station of the year, light is reborn within the womb of darkness.
~On this date in 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to the White House to suggest to Pres. Nixon that he be named “Federal Agent at Large” to help combat the drug problem.
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Meet Mr. Victor Fields…
