Johnny Carson's New Year's Eve Monologue 12-31-1987

NY Times Bestseller List - NonFiction (12/29/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Nonfiction 

Week Ending December 29th 2013

10 - Si-Cology 1 - Si Robertson and Mark Schlabach
(15 weeks on list)

9  -  Let Me Off At The Top - Ron Burgundy
(4 weeks on list)
A "memoir" in the voice of Will Ferrell's anchorman character.

8  -  I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
(10 weeks on list)

7  -  Humans of New York - Brandon Stanton
(9 weeks on list)

6  -  Miracles and Massacres - Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe and Hannah Beck
(4 weeks on list)

5  -  The Bully Pulpit - Doris Kearns Goodwin
(6 weeks on list)

4  -  David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
(11 weeks on list)

3  -  George Washington's Secret Six - Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
(6 weeks on list)

2  -  Killing Jesus - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(12 weeks on list)

1  -  Things That Matter - Charles Krauthammer
(8 weeks on list)
Three decades worth of essays from the conservative columnist

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (12/29/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending December 29th 2013

10 - King and Maxwell - David Baldacci 
(4 weeks on list)

9  -  Innocence - Dean Koontz
(Debut)
A grotesque man living in exile beneath the city encounters a teenage girl hiding from dangerous enemies.

8  -  Takedown Twenty - Janet Evanovich
(4 weeks on list)

7  -  The Gods of Guilt - Michael Connelly
(2 weeks on list)
Mickey Haller, a.k.a. the Lincoln lawyer, defends a "digital pimp" accused of murder. Outside the courtroom, he confronts killers, crooked cops and an angry daughter.

6  -  Cross My Heart - James Patterson
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(12 weeks on list)

4  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tarrt
(8 weeks on list)

3  -  Command Authority - Tom Clancy w/Mark Greaney
(2 weeks on list)  (last weeks #1)
President Jack Ryan and his son, a covert intelligence expert, try to counter a Russian threat in Tom Clancy's last novel before his death.

2  -  The First Phone Call From Heaven - Mitch Albom
(5 week on list)

1  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(8 weeks on list)
A sequel, about race and inheritance, to "A Time To Kill". 

1963 SPG Awards

from left to right

Georgie Jessel, Rosalind  Russell, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Dean Martin 

and Danny Kaye

These legends gather around Irving Berlin at the piano in Beverly Hilton in 1963 at the Screen Producers Guild Awards.

Billboard Japan Hot 100: 2013 Year-End Chart

Billboard Japan

2013 Top 100 Songs

Golden Age of Radio - Christmas

Here are some selected Christmas episodes from the great radio classics, The Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, Jack Benny, Duffy's Tavern, Red Skelton, Bing Crosby, Dragnet, Martin and Lewis, Bob Hope and we finish it off with a version of "A Christmas Carol" from CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

Enjoy the fun and please visit my friend Buck Benny at his OTR podcast 

A Jack Benny Christmas

A few classic Christmas episodes from The Jack Benny Show on radio.  Some years Jack had 2 "Christmas episodes" I have included both from 1943.

Thank you to OTR Halloweenholidaze on Youtube and Buck Benny and his podcast

Goodbye Candlestick Park. Finally.

This is just funny and true.

The Parrot Sketch

Golden Age of Radio Christmas - Fibber McGee and Molly

Today we have 5 classic episodes of Fibber McGee and Molly Christmas shows from the War Years

We start off with the first episode after the Pearl Harbor attack that led to the US entry into WWII.  This is a good and sometimes poignant show with comments on the events that fateful December

These shows take us through the end of the war and back to peacetime as the country is trying to resume normal non wartime activities.

The Golden Age of Radio Christmas - Gunsmoke

From the first season of Gunsmoke 

thanks to Bob Camardella and his Boxcars 711 OTR Podcast

A Christmas Story

Season 1 episode 34

originally aired 12/20/1952

Japan Billboard Top 30 Singles (12/16/2013)

Billboard Japan

Top 30 Song

Week of December 16th 2013

NY Times Best Seller List - NonFiction 12/15/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback NonFiction

Week Ending December 15th 2013

10 - My Promised Land - Ari Shavit
(2 weeks on list)
An Israeli journalist expresses both solidarity with and criticism of his countrymen in this memoir and history.

9  -  Si-Cology 1 - Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach
(13 weeks on list)

8  -  I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
(8 weeks on list)

7  -  Humans of New York - Brandon Stanton
(7 weeks on list)

6  -  The Bully Pulpit - Doris Kearns Goodwin
(4 weeks on list)

5  -  Miracles and Massacres - Glenn Beck/Kevin Balfe/Hannah Beck
(2 weeks on list)
Little Known stories from American history

4 -  George Washington's Secret Six - Brian Kilmeade and Don Yeager
(4 weeks on list)

3  -  Killing Jesus - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(10 weeks on list)

2  -  David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
(9 weeks on list)

1  -  Things That Matter - Charles Krauthammer 
(6 weeks on list) (4th consecutive week at #1)
Three decades worth of essays from the conservative columnist.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (12/15/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending December 15th 2013

10 - The Supreme Macaroni Company - Adriana Trigiani
(Debut)
Tensions arise when Valentine Roncalli, a Greenwich Village shoe designer, marries a handsome Italian, and the two must balance careers, countries and families.  The final book in the Valentine trilogy.

9  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(11 weeks on list)

8 -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tart
(6 weeks on list)

7  -  S. - Doug Dorst 
(5 weeks list)

6  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(10 weeks on list)

5  -  King and Maxwell - David Baldacci
(2 wees on list)

4  -  The First Phone Call From Heaven - Mitch Albom
(3 weeks on list)

3  -  Takedown Twenty - Janet Evanovich
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)

2  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(6 weeks on list)

1  -  Cross My Heart - James Patterson
(DEBUT)
Alex Cross's family is threatened by a genius intent on proving that he is the greatest mind in the history of crime.

51st Academy Awards - Best Original Song

The Winner for Best Original Song at the 51st Academy Awards ceremony, held Monday April 9th 1979

Last Dance - Donna Summer

from the original motion picture soundtrack of "Thank God It's Friday"

Japan Billboard Hot 100 - Top 30 (12/09/2013)

Top 30 Songs

December 9th 2013

Billboard Korea K-POP Top 50 (12/04/2013)

Academy of Country Music Awards - 1981

George Jones with his ACM Awards for 1980

Song of the Year, Single of the Year and Top Male Vocalist 

The winning Song and Single of the Year has been called the ultimate country song and also won the Country Music Association Song of the Year for 1980 and 1981.  George also won the CMA Male Vocalist of the Year for 1980 and 1981.

He Stopped Loving Her Today
(Bobby Braddock and Curly Putnam)