Category: Monday Motivator
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Highlights from the 1/21 Rock and Roll Revisited
Highlights: How safe is our power grid? More Twitter talk about Internet Security. Big Jim Edwards’ famous Flirtations intro on CKLW. Rep. John Lewis and director Ava Duerbay on MLK Day. Cannabis as intellectual property? And much more music from Petula Clark, Edwin Starr, Richie Havens and Boz Scaggs.It’s a tale right out of the…
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Highlights from the 1/18 Rock and Roll Revisited
Hello Americans! It’s Friday! Today’s highlights include Fred Jacobs on the life lessons learned from the Stephen Colbert Show, super short Hollywood marriages, 97 year old Prince Phillip totals his ride. Do we take away his keys? A name we heard often but never really knew, a Dick Van Dyke anniversary and the youngest performer to…
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Highlights from the 1/10 Rock and Roll Revisited
From today’s morning show, sing along with Queen, we miss David Bowie, “Baby Shark” breaks into the Hot 100, The Sopranos at 20, The Beatle’s rare first US LP, Don Knotts pre-Mayberry ventriloquism, remembering Super Mario Brothers, a Summer of Love birthday and “much more music” videos.If you are from my generation, you probably remember…
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Resolutions I’ll try to keep
Sydney J. Harris wrote for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He also authored 11 books and a syndicated column, Strictly Personal, that was regular reading for me when I was growing up.In 1980, he penned a New Year’s message focusing on those resolutions we love to make and so easily break.…
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Highlights from the 12/28 Rock and Roll Revisited
Today’s highlights from the morning show include: Creative news headlines from 2018. Instant Pot hacks. Can “holding a grudge can be good for you”? Backstory on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a 25th anniversary, “where are they now” catch up with the stars of Mrs. Doubtfire, and what happens in “an Internet Minute”. Heard yesterday at our…
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Highlights from the 12/27 Rock and Roll Revisited
Highlights from today’s morning show include some back story on Radio City Music Hall, two pivotal dates in John Lennon’s timeline, the four women who played “Dolly” on Broadway (plus one on film), Sonny & Cher get a show, sprinting across Antarctica and the third longest running prime time soap opera in history debuts.The iconic…
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Rupert Holmes’ Only #1
One of the most underrated talents of the 70s was Rupert Holmes. He first came to my attention when I got a hold of his 1974 album “Widescreen”, a collection of musical stories that had great lyrics and even better music. That one never got traction and it wasn’t until this week in 1979 that…
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Goldfinger: The Best Bond Film?
Two perennial questions for James Bond fans: Who is your favorite Bond and what is your favorite Bond movie? On December 22, 1964, the third film in the long running series, “Goldfinger,” starring Sean Connery, Shirley Eaton, Gert Fröbe, and Honor Blackman, had its North American premiere in New York City.Some Bond trivia: Gert Fröbe’s English…
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Born In The USA Outruns Thriller
On December 21st, 1985, Bruce Springsteen‘s album, “Born in the USA” passed Michael Jackson‘s “Thriller” to become the second-longest lasting album in the Billboard Top 10. It remained there for 79 weeks, a tenure surpassed only by the original Broadway cast album of “The Sound of Music” at 109 weeks.What LP holds the distinction of…
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Who was Irene Hervey?
This week’s edition of “Remembering a Forgotten Star” features prolific actress Irene Hervey, who died on December 20, 1998. She was born Beulah Irene Herwick on July 11, 1909. Under the stage name Irene Hervey, she was a ubiquitous face on screen, appearing in more than fifty films and numerous television series over a career spanning five…