Decades Binge.

[ThatsTheGuy]

This could be your life.

The Ed Sullivan Show. Today in history, 1968.
-Marilyn Chambers gets honorable mention and she can sing.

-The Jackson 5 wows the audience with their "ABCs". They could ROCK!. Little Michael stole the show! Came back for an encore performance that night!

-George Carlin and Sonny James were among the headliners.

 

[Tryharder62]

This was the number one song. I was 1 year and 8 months old.

http://www.birthdayjams.com/us/1968-04-25

 

[Hypoxia]

My sisters and I lay on the living room floor in front of the black-and-white TV to watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

April 26

Today in history, April 26, Studio 54 opened.

I heard so many stories about that place. A lot of the weird stuff we criticize today was done at Studio 54 all the time.

1968: U.S. - a 1.3 megaton nuclear device, AKA "Boxcar," was exploded beneath the Nevada desert

1964: Africa - the nations of Zanzibar and Tanganyika merged to form Tanzania.

1937 - Spanish Civil War - Nazi Germany tested its powerful new air force - the Luftwaffe - on the Basque town of Guernica in N. Spain.

1913: U.S. - Mary Phagan (13) was murdered in a pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia, where she worked ~ a disgraceful injustice followed

It's Carole Burnett's birthday - she's 85.

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1986: Soviet Union - the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Ukraine.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

This was the number one song. I was 1 year and 8 months old.

http://www.birthdayjams.com/us/1968-04-25

Great song! Always loved it and never knew Bobby Goldsboro sang it.

Thank you for that.

Also, were you the kid I "borrowed" the baby bottles from and shared them w/the puppies?

I wuz kind of a rebel even at that age.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

I been watching reruns of "The Ed Sullivan Show" lately as I do housework. Free TV.

The one I just watched had George Burns, Tony Bennett, Robert Klein, and the Carpenters.

Still miss you old George. They don't make'em like you any more.

Say goodnight Gracie.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

Annette Benning wuz born in 1951. I've crushed on her most my life.

Remember she's the only woman to tame Warren Beatty.

Of her many memorable performances, rarely do I hear of her roles with Harrison Ford.

Also, the banker dude from Gilligan's Island had his own show before becoming a castaway.

 

[Hypoxia]

Also, the banker dude from Gilligan's Island had his own show before becoming a castaway.

That banker dude was a legend long before GI. Does anyone here remember Mr Magoo? And he "was expelled from the Kentucky Military Institute for riding a horse through the mess hall." Cheeky bugger, hey?