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Must be the lake. Cause down here in Niagara it is "stop-dead-in-your-tracks-and-start-melting-where-you-stand" hot.
Weather channel says 31, feels like 41:eek: Holy Schnikees (or for those of you who are metrically challenged, that is 88 feels like 106!):smartass:
1956
May 31
Buddy Holly sees the John Wayne movie The Searchers and gains some song writing inspiration when Wayne utters the line "that'll be the day."
See Time-Stamp at 5:20…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pGxVaHXBBE&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3o-mXwjIBM
1961
May 31
Chuck Berry opens an amusement park that he calls BerryPark, in Wentzville, Missouri near St. Louis. The 30-acre complex features a swimming pool, miniature golf course, Ferris wheel, a children's zoo and a picnic grove with barbecue pits.
1964
May 31
The Dave Clark Five appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first of 11 appearances.
Not sure which Show this is…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewEtIUyS6Yw
1974
May 31
Gordon Lightfoot is awarded a Gold record for his LP "Sundown" on the strength of the title tune, which went to #1, and "Carefree Highway" which climbed to #10.
I Picked these to show the Longevity of a Canadian Icon… after all… He “died” once already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asb1G7xZb0E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP9SDlcliTQ
1975
May 31
The Eagles release "One Of These Nights", which will become the second of their five US number one singles. It reached #23 in the UK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGr6mj5E90g
May 31
17 weeks after entering the Billboard Pop chart, Freddy Fender's "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" made it all the way to number one. The song was written in the late 1960s and had already been recorded more than two dozen times. Fender would later recall "The recording only took a few minutes. I was glad to get it over with and I thought that would be the last of it."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuQMMCGfIVE
1976
May 31
The Who appear at the Charlton Athletic Grounds in England and put their name into the Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest rock band ever when their set measures at 120 decibels. That record has since been surpassed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04l5ybd-Drs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RVFUOAOSeQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjr2xEynRIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m1s2Am24f0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofG7Ge0Ti0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDe9cjLnAcg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJQkxwmvpLM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS5qjHnL6_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrTvUAgBwJ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kWfdDjrXMs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TfLzRfqXEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06KezL4RNM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUE5WHjUF5E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yHz8UJjLJs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YaRV3lpSH8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrleDU7DtUk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bDsV9YqQ50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnCRoGMQDBA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOw0bALFHTc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_b4onmicoY
1977
May 31
Britain's BBC announced a ban on the Sex Pistols' anti-royalist song "God Save The Queen", saying it is 'in gross bad taste'. The cover of the single showed a picture of The Queen with a safety pin through her lip. Shops and pressing plant workers refused to handle the record, but it still managed to reach #2 on the UK chart.
1979
May 31
Supertramp perform at New York's MadisonSquareGarden, where they receive a Gold record for their million selling album "Breakfast In America".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5qyXJ1A-u0
1980
May 31
Although the Disco craze was running out of steam, a group from Minneapolis, Minnesota called Lipps, Inc., that featured Cynthia Johnson on vocals, reached the top of the US charts with a tune called "Funkytown". It was a UK #2 hit. The record would be certified Platinum, but the group's only other Hot 100 entry would stall at number 64.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CImrIKNmBo
May 31
The Theme From M*A*S*H* (Suicide Is Painless), was at the top of the UK singles chart, ten years after it was first recorded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVUXPjFWfX4
1999
May 31
Phil Kramer, who took Lee Dorman's place when Iron Butterfly re-formed in 1975, was found in a canyon in the Santa MonicaMountains, over four years after he called a police to say he was going to commit suicide. At the time of his death, he was 42.
2000
May 31
Johnnie Taylor, best remembered for 1968's "Who's Making Love" and 1976's "Disco Lady", died following a heart attack in a Texas hospital. He was 62 years old.
2010
May 31
Ali-Ollie Woodson, who led The Temptations in the 1980s and '90s and helped restore them to their hit-making glory with songs including "Treat Her Like A Lady", "Sail Away" and "Lady Soul", died of cancer at the age of 58.
Guess where this is???
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFi...6/81211947.gif
yup.. Viagra head office in Toronto..lol
I can't wait to go outside!!!! Bad Migraine is keeping me prisonor of the air conditioning.... At least hubbie cut he grass. Thats a bonus. Hoping my head will be back to normal tororrow...2 days straight of pain...Just mean... sigh, now that it got nice out... Back to sleep for me!!!!
See you all later and thanks soo much for the codes and trivia...
I can't wait to get out of this office and into the heat!!!!!!!!!!!
Today is the longest day ever!!!
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