Billboard Hot 100 - No. 1 Songs of 1982

Billboard Hot 100

No. 1 Songs of 1982

Physical - Olivia Newton-John

I Can't Go For That - Hall and Oates

Centerfold - The J. Geils Band

I Love Rock N Roll - Joan Jett and The Blackhearts

Chariots of Fire - Vangelis

Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder

Don't You Want Me - The Human League

Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band

Hard To Say I'm Sorry - Chicago

Jack and Diane - John Cougar

Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work

Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes

Truly - Lionel Richie

Mickey - Toni Basil

Maneater - Hall and Oates

Billboard Hot 100 - Top 10 Singles (03/30/2013)

Billboard Hot 100

Top 10 Singles

Week Ending 03/30/2013

Billboard Hot 100 - Top 100 Songs of 1996

The Top 100 Songs of 1996

Nielsen Top Prime Time Ratings March 11-17 2013

The Top 20 Prime Time shows (Network and Cable) for the week of March 11-17th 2013

1 -  The Big Bang Theory  (CBS)  15.9 million

2 -  Person of Interest   (CBS)   14.34

3 -  American Idol - Wednesday  (FOX)   13.44

4 -  NCIS   (CBS)   13.18

5 -  Two and a Half Men   (CBS)   12.18

6 -  NCIS: Los Angeles  (CBS)   11.95

7 -  American Idol - Thursday  (FOX)   11.93

8 -  Elementary   (CBS)   11.33

9 -  The Bible  (HISTORY)  10.87

10 - The Walking Dead  (AMC)   10.84

11 - The Bachelor: After the Final Rose  (ABC)   10.81

12 - The Bachelor  (ABC)   10.42

13 - Blue Bloods  (CBS)   10.41

14 - 60 Minutes  (CBS)   10.22

15 - The Mentalist   (CBS)  9.98

16 - Survivor : Caramoan  (CBS)  9.89

17 - The Good Wife  (CBS)   9.08

18 - Amazing Race 22   (CBS)   8.91

19 - Golden Boy   (CBS)    8.53

20 - Duck Dynasty  - Wednesday 1030pm  (A&E)  8.29

The Jack Benny Show 1952-53 Season

For the 1952-53 season, The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny was the #2 show in radio.  They were behind the show that followed them on Sunday nights, Amos N' Andy, which made a stirring run as the #1 show in the last years of the Golden Age of Radio.

Thanks to Buck Benny and his Jack Benny Podcast!

The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny
03/22/1953
"A Walk Through Beverly Hills"
CBS Radio

NY Times Bestseller List - NonFiction 03/24/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Non Fiction

Week Ending March 24th 2013

10 - Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
.(121 weeks on list)

9  -  Coolidge - Amity Shales
(4 weeks on list)

8  -  Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(76 weeks on list)

7  -  No Easy Day - Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer
(27 weeks on list)

6  -  The Soundtrack of My Life - Clive Davis
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  American Sniper - Chris Kyle
(27 weeks on list)

4  -  My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor
(8 weeks on list)

3  -  Killing Kennedy - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(23 weeks on list)

2  -  Salt Sugar Fat (How the Food Giants Hooked Us) - Michael Moss
(2 weeks on list) (last week's #1)
A New York Times reporter reveals how food companies use science to encourage us to continue to consume more of their products.

1  -  Sum It Up - Pat Summitt w/Sally Jenkins
(DEBUT)
A memoir by the longtime coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols, who recieved a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's disease.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction 03/24/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending March 24th 2013

(click on title of debut's and link to amazon.com)

10 - The Last Threshold - R.A. Salvatore
(Debut)
Book 4 of the fantasy Neverwinter Saga.

9  -  Calculated in Death - J.D. Robb
(2 weeks on list)
(last week's #1)

8  -  The Chance - Karen Kingsbury
(Debut)
Teenage friends, separated by a move, come together as adults to see whether they can find love.

7  -  Damascus Countdown - Joel Rosenberg
(Debut)
C.I.A. operative searches for two nuclear warheads that survived an Israeli attack on Iran.

6  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(40 weeks on list)

5  -  A Week in Winter - Maeve Binchy
(4 weeks on list)

4  -  Alex Cross, Run - James Patterson
(3 weeks on list)

3  -  The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
(2 weeks on list)

2  -  The Striker - Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
(Debut)
In 1902, the young detective Isaac Bell discovers that provocateurs, no the union members he was hired to investigate, are causing trouble in the coal mines.

1  -  Frost Burned - Patricia Briggs
(DEBUT)
The shape-shifter Mercy Thompson seeks assistance from an unlikely ally when her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam Hauptman, and the rest of his pack are abducted.

The 28th Academy Awards (1956)

March 21st 1956 was the date of the 28th annual Academy Awards celebration at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, California with Jerry Lewis as the host.

This would celebrate achievement in film for 1955 and the big winner of the night was "Marty", winner of the Best Picture, Best Director (Delbert Mann), Best Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky) and Best Actor (Ernest Borgnine)
Others winners included Best Actress (Anna Magnani, The Rose Tattoo), Best Supporting actor (Jack Lemmon, Mister Roberts) and Best Supporting Actress (Jo Van Fleet, East of Eden)

Here is the original radio broadcast of the award ceremonies
(thanks Buck Benny OTR Podcast)

Dean Martin and Johnny Carson

I found a couple of really fun clips of Dean Martin on the Tonight Show in the 1970s.  The first is from 1973 and the second is from 1977.  We see the well cultivated act of Dean the drunk and confused, but he was neither and still was brilliant at what he did, entertain.  These clips also show just how fast Johnny Carson was with his ad libs and when to sit back and enjoy the show himself.

Billboard Hot 100 - No. 1 Song of 1981

All the songs to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981

Bonanza - Season 6 - The Ballerina

The 1964-65 season of Bonanza was the first of 3 consecutive season it was the #1 show on network prime time television.

The Ballerina

Season 6

Episode 18

Originally aired January 24th 1965

NBC Television

(Adam and Little Joe do not appear in this episode)

A crippled former ballet dancer falls in love while teaching classical dance to the daughter of a traveling violinist, wants to help her audition for the San Francisco ballet but meets resistance from her father who wants her to keep performing with him.

New York Times Bestseller List (Fiction) March 17th 2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending March 17th 2013

10 - Tenth of December - George Sanders
(8 weeks on list)

9  -  Guilt - Jonathan Kellerman
(3 weeks on list)

8  -  The Dinner - Herman Koch
(3 weeks on list)

7  -  A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
(8 weeks on list)

6  -  Red Velvet Cupcake Murder - Joanne Fluke
(Debut)
Hannah Swensen becomes a suspect when her romantic rival turns up dead; recipes included

5  -  A Week in Winter - Maeve Binchy
(3 weeks on list)

4  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(39 weeks on list)

3  -  Alex Cross, Run - James Patterson
(2 weeks on list)

2  -  The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
(Debut)
A New Hampshire baker finds herself in the midst of two Holocaust stories: her grandmother's story of survival, and the confessions of an elderly German man, an SS officer.

1  -  Calculated in Death - J.D. Robb
(DEBUT)
Lt. Eve Dallas must crunch the numbers as she investigates the death of a successful accountant.

Top 20 Cable TV Shows (March 4-10 2013)

Nielsen Television (TV) Ratings for Cable

Top 20 Cable Series: March 4-10, 2013

Rank	Program Name	Net	Day	Time	Viewers
1	THE WALKING DEAD	AMC	Sun	9:00 PM	11,458,000
2	THE BIBLE	HIST	Sun	8:00 PM	10,824,000
3	DUCK DYNASTY	AEN	Wed	10:30 PM	8,212,000
4	DUCK DYNASTY	AEN	Wed	10:00 PM	8,158,000
5	WWE RAW	USA	Mon	9:00 PM	5,239,000
5	WWE RAW	USA	Mon	8:00 PM	4,968,000
7	WWE RAW	USA	Mon	10:00 PM	4,847,000
8	PAWN STARS	HIST	Mon	10:00 PM	4,814,000
9	PAWN STARS	HIST	Mon	10:31 PM	4,798,000
10	VIKINGS	HIST	Sun	10:00 PM	4,615,000
11	SWAMP PEOPLE	HIST	Thu	9:00 PM	4,460,000
12	AMERICAN PICKERS	HIST	Mon	9:00 PM	4,269,000
13	DUCK DYNASTY	AEN	Wed	9:30 PM	4,231,000
14	SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS	NICK	Sat	10:30 AM	4,041,000
15	NCIS	USA	Wed	8:00 PM	4,000,000
16	SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS	NICK	Sat	10:00 AM	3,921,000
17	NCIS	USA	Wed	9:00 PM	3,776,000
17	THE BIG BANG THEORY	TBSC	Sat	10:00 PM	3,761,000
19	THE BIG BANG THEORY	TBSC	Sat	10:30 PM	3,752,000
20	THE BIG BANG THEORY	TBSC	Sat	9:30 PM	3,644,000

The Jack Benny Show 1952-53 Season

Continuing our journey through the 1952-53 season of The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny.  This was the #2 rated radio show in the US for the season.

Thanks to Buck Benny and his podcast for allowing me to bring you this show every week.


The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Jack and the gang do their version of the 1952 movie starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner
originally aired 03/08/1953
CBS Radio

Nielsen TV Ratings Network Primetime March 4-10 2013

Nielsen Television Ratings

Primetime Network Series

Week of March 4th-10th 2013

1 - NCIS  (CBS)   20.812 million
2 - The Big Bang Theory (CBS)  17.627
3 - NCIS : Los Angeles  (CBS)  16.240
4 - Person of Interest  (CBS)      14.572
5 - Two and a Half Men   (CBS) 13.542
6 - American Idol - Thursday  (FOX)   13.121
7 - American Idol - Wednesday  (FOX)  12.836
8 - American Idol - Tuesday   (FOX)  11.724
9 - 60 Minutes   (CBS)   11.585
10 - Blue Bloods  (CBS)  10.722
11 - Survivor : Caramoan  (CBS)   9.582
12 - The Mentalist   (CBS)  9.524
13 - Golden Boy   (CBS)  9.402
14 - The Amazing Race  (CBS)  9.271
15 - The Good Wife   (CBS)  9.205
16 - The Following   (FOX)   8.812
17 - Elementary   (CBS)     8.695
18 - The Bachelor  (ABC)   8.532
19 - Bones    (FOX)    8.414
20 - Once Upon a Time  (ABC)   7.641

America's Top Ten (March 4th 1984)

America's Top Ten

Week Ending March 4th 1984

Jack Benny: Comedy in Bloom (1992)

The 1992 HBO documentary of the career of Jack Benny was called "Comedy in Bloom", a take on his "theme song"  Love in Bloom.
This was a good tribute to the comedy and legacy of Jack's told by his closest friends and daughter Joan.

Thanks to Youtube I have almost all of it...for some reason part 5 cannot be embedded, go figure.

click here to see part 5

New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction 03/10/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending March 10th 2013

10 - Touch and Go - Lisa Gardner
(3 weeks on list)

9  -  The Sound of Broken Glass - Deborah Crombie
(Debut)
Detectives Gemma Jones and her husband, Duncan Kincaid, investigate when a respected barrister is found dead in a seedy London hotel; the 15th book in a series

8  -  Private Berlin - James Patterson
(5 weeks on list)

7  -  The Dinner - Herman Koch
(2 weeks on list)

6  -  Tenth of December - George Saunders
(7 weeks on list)

5  -  Guilt - Jonathan Kellerman
(2 weeks on list)

4  -  A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
(7 weeks on list)

3  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(38 weeks on list)

2  -  A Week in Winter - Maeve Binchy
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)

1  -  Alex Cross, Run - James Patterson
(DEBUT)
While Alex Cross pursues a Washington serial killer (or killers?), someone is after him.

New York Times Bestseller List - NonFiction 03/10/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Non Fiction

Week Ending March 10th 2013

10 - Damn Few - Rorke Denver and Ellis Henican
(Debut)
An officer in the Nave SEALS describes the training program he runs.

9  -  No Easy Day - Mark Owen
(25 weeks on list)

8  -  America The Beautiful - Ben C. Carson And Candy Carson
(Debut)
A doctor explores what makes America great.

7  -  Francona - Terry Francona and Dan Shaughnessy
(5 weeks on list)

6  -  Coolidge - Amity Shlaes
(2nd week on list)
This biography reclaims the 30th Presidetn of the US as a conservative hero.

5  -  Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(74 weeks on list)

4  -  Killing Kennedy - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(21 weeks on list)

3  -  My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor
(6 weeks on list)

2  -  The Soundtrack of My Life - Clive Davis with Anthony DeCurtis
(Debut)
A memoir by the powerful music company executive.

1  -  American Sniper - Chris Kyle
(25 weeks on list)
A member of he Navy SEALs, recently shot to death in Texas, discusses his childhood, marriage and battlefield experiences.

Top 20 Cable TV Show (Feb 25-March 3 2013)

The Top 20 Cable TV Shows According to Nielsen

Week of Feb 25th to March 3rd 2013

The History Channel Dominates!

1 - The Bible  (History, Sunday)

2 - The Walking Dead  (AMC, Sunday)

3 - Duck Dynasty  (A&E, Wed 10pm)

4 - Duck Dynasty  (A&E, Wed 1030pm)

5 - Vikings  (History, Sunday)

5 - Pawn Stars  (History, Mon 1030pm)

7 - Pawn Stars  (History, Mon 10pm)

8 - WWE RAW  (USA,  Mon 8pm)

9 - Spongebob Squarepants  (Nick, Sat 1030am)

10 - WWE RAW  (USA,  Mon 9pm)

11 - Duck Dynasty  (A&E, Wed  11pm)

12 - WWE RAW  (USA,  Mon  10pm)

13 - American Pickers   (History, Mon 9pm)

14 - Swamp People  (History,  Thurs  9pm)

15 - Tangled (Movie: Disney, Sun 8pm)

16 - Spongebob Squarepants  (Nick, Sat 10am)

17 - The Big Bang Theory  (TBS, Sat  10pm)

17 - Duck Dynasty  (A&E,  Wed  930pm)

19 - The Big Bang Theory  (TBS,  Sat  1030pm)

20 - Spongebob Squarepants  (Nick,  Sat 9am)

Nielsen Prime TV Ratings (Feb 25-March 3 2013)

The Top 20 Network TV programs according to Nielsen 
Week of Feb 25th to March 3rd 2013

1 - NCIS  (CBS)
2 - NCIS: Los Angeles  (CBS)
3 - American Idol : Wednesday  (FOX)
4 - American Idol : Thursday (FOX)
5 - 60 Minutes   (CBS)
6 - Castle   (ABC)
7 - The Big Bang Theory  (CBS)
8 - Golden Boy  (CBS)
9 - Modern Family  (ABC)
10 - 2 Broke Girls  (CBS)
11 - Criminal Minds  (CBS)
12 - Mike and Molly  (CBS)
13 - Person of Interest   (CBS)
14 - CSI   (CBS)
15 - The Amazing Race  (CBS)
16 - The Mentalist   (CBS)
17 - The Bachelor  (ABC)
18 - Survivor : Caramoan  (CBS)
19 - The Good Wife  (CBS)
20 - Bones   (FOX)

Bonanza - Season 6 (Women of Fire)

We continue our look at the 6th season (1964-65) of the legendary western Bonanza.  This was the first of 3 consecutive seasons as the #1 show in prime time television.

Season 6

Episode 17

Women of Fire

originally aired 01/17/1965

NBC

Shakespeare inspired Adam tries to tame a shrewish senorita while she waits at the Ponderosa for her never-met husband to be.

The Jack Benny Show 1952-53 Radio Season

This week Jack is off to New York city on the Super Chief train.  

He is headed to the Friars celebration for Bob Hope.

(courtesy of Buck Benny OTR Podcast)

Off To New York City by Train

03/01/1953

CBS Radio

New York Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 03/03/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending March 3rd 2013

10 - The Night Ranger - Alex Berenson
(Debut)
The former C.I.A. operative John Wells pitches in when four young Americans who work at a refugee camp in Somalia are hijacked by bandits.

9  -  The Dinner - Herman Koch
(Debut)
Two couples meet on an Amersterdam restaurant to discuss their sons' criminal activities.

8  -  Touch and Go - Lisa Garnder
(2 weeks on list)

7  -  Suspect - Robert Crais
(4 weeks on list)

6  -  Private Berlin - James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
(4 weeks on list)

5  -  A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
(6 weeks on list)

4  -  Guilt - Jonathan Kellerman
(Debut)
The LA psychologist-detective Alex Delaware and the detective Milo Sturgis turn their sights six decades into the past to pursue the story of a beautiful nurse and her lover.

3  -  Tenth of December - George Saunders
(6 weeks on list)

2  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(37 weeks on list)

1  -  A Week in Winter - Maeve Binchy
(DEBUT)
Guests at an inn by the sea on Ireland's west coast;  the final book by Binchy, who died in 2012.

The Jack Benny Show 1952-53 Season

Continuing the 1952-53 radio season of The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny.

Tonight Jack goes to see the scout troop called The Beverly Hills Beavers do their version of his show.
This is a tremendous episode and the kids are great.  A member of "The Beavers" is a young Harry Shearer of Saturday Night Live and Simpsons fame.

This is brought to you through the courtesy of Buck Benny's Jack Benny OTR Podcast.  Please follow him and go to Itunes to download the podcast.  He is a great guy and a great friend of old time radio.


The Beavers Impersonate Jack's Show
02/22/1953
CBS Radio