Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Special Edition - His & Hers Fashion
His - Kole Royale
Watches
Monday, November 11, 2024
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz (1/8) Movie CLIP (1939) HD
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Set List Special Edition - In Memory
Janet Thompson-Hovis
April 8, 1925 - November 9, 2021
Social, Intelligent, Explorer, European Guest
- Pop Culture in 1925 -
Jazz Age
- Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington made first recordings
- "innovative, fun, and carefree"
- "people could dance to it"
Flapper Fashion
- "looser and lighter"
- Skirts to knee length & waistlines down to hips
Movies
- Tales of youth and sexual freedom
- The Phantom of the Opera opened in movie theaters
- Ben-Hur grossed $10,738,000 worldwide
Radio
- A popular new device
- In 40% of homes by 1930
Other
- The Charleston
- The Great Gatsby
- "Dinah" & "Sweet Georgia Brown" hit songs
Janet was a socialite wherever she traveled. The better majority of her life, at least in my lifetime, was spent in Southern California and Kauai, Hawaii. She did travel mainly abroad. She was close to the iconic fashion designer, Hubert de Givenchy and was a welcomed guest in his French mansion. They held a lasting bond built with friendship love. They were meant to be in each other's lives.
Janet was meant to be in mine. Janet was my Grammy. She married into Hovis. I was born into Hovis. The Hovis family fractured frequently but at the end of the day there had to be some positive light that kept us together.
She passed away in her bed, in her home, surrounded by loved ones. For so long I was angry because my grandma passed away alone in a lonely nursing home. Yet, the privilege Grammy knew through the whole of her life was comforting when her heart beat one last time and she took in one last breath.
Of our many opinionated differences, I still love you Grammy. You loved. You cared. We talked. We laughed.
I will always be your love duck.
Friday, November 8, 2024
Music History - November 1929
1929
Highlights
American Record Corporation founded in 1929 through merger of multi-record companies ... Later acquisition - Columbia Phonographic Company
Joseph Meyer (1894 - 1987) ... Lady Fingers (1929) ... ("California Here I Come" was Meyer's most well known song, In historic Hollywood, the song was performed by "Lucy and Ricky Ricardo" & "Ethel and Fred Mertz" during their drive from New York to Los Angeles in support of "Ricky's" Hollywood opportunity.)
- History in 20th Century Film -
The Broadway Melody (1929) ... First sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture ... One of the early musicals to have Technicolor ... Sparked trend in color that led to screens in 1929-1930 ... Dialogue written by Norman Houston & James Gleason/Directed by Harry Beaumont/Main Cast - Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love ... Academy Nominations - Best Director, Best Actress (Bessie Love)
- Highest-Grossing Films in 1929 -
The Broadway Melody - $2,808,000
The Cock-Eyed World - $2,700,000
Gold Diggers of Broadway - $2,540,000
Sunny Side Up - $2,190,000
Rio Rita - $1,775,000
On with the Show! - $1,741,000
Say It with Songs - $1,715,000
Show Boat - $1,643,000
(I attended a stage performance in Chicago in 1998.)
The Desert Song - $1,549,000
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 - $1,527,000
Thursday, November 7, 2024
21st Century Pop Culture - Taylor Swift
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Lonely in Your Nightmare (2001 Remaster)
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Set List Special - Remembering Quincy Jones
Monday, November 4, 2024
This Day in Musical History
November 4th
Billboard Hot 100 - 2023 ... Samples
"Thinkin' Bout Me" by Morgan Wallen...No. 1
"Last Night" No. 6
"Fast Car" No. 5
"Snooze" by SZA...No. 3
"Doja Cat" No. 2
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- 2006 -
"Far Away" by Nickelback...No. 1 on Billboard Mainstream Top 40
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- 1967 Samples on Billboard Hot 100 -
"Your Precious Love" by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
"Never My Love" by The Association
"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" by Aretha Franklin
"I'm Wondering" by Stevie Wonder
"People Are Strange" by The Doors
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Other notable events on November 4th
- Come on Over by Shania Twain...Released in 1997...Best selling country album of all time
- 21 Today by Cliff Richard...Released in 1961...Richard's first no. 1 album in the UK
- "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley...9th No. 1 hit in 1967
- Jackie Wilson solo debut with "Reet Petite" in 1957
- Bob Dylan made Carnegie Hall debut in 1961
Other sources include Rock 'n Roll History for November 4th, Billboard Hot 100, This Day In Music, etc.
Pop culture - Saturday Night Live, Season 23, Episode 4
November 4, 2017 ... Larry David Host/Miley Cyrus Guest
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Friday, November 1, 2024
Music History - November 1925
1925
Highlights
November 28 - The weekly country music radio program, Grand Ole Opry, is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville. "WSM Barn Dance"
November 1925 - "Remember" by the Isham Jones Orchestra ranked #13 in Top Popular Recordings (American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist, songwriter)
November 1925 Births to Passing
Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras - Australian conductor
November 17, 1925 - July 14, 2010
Gunther Alexander Schuller - American composer, conductor, French horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, jazz musician
November 22, 1925 - June 21, 2015