Monday, December 29, 2014

Sunday, December 28, 2014

#1 Albums - 1969

December 27th 1969

Led Zeppelin II

Starting its 7 non consecutive week run as Billboard's #1 album.  This was Led Zeppelin's first album to reach #1 in the US and the UK.  In 1999 the RIAA certified it 12x Platinum, over 12 million copies sold.  The single "Whole Lotta Love" reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #21 in the UK.



Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Whole Lotta Love"  John Bonham/Willie Dixon/John Paul Jones/Jimmy Page/Robert Plant5:34
2."What Is and What Should Never Be"  Page/Plant4:46
3."The Lemon Song"  Bonham/Chester Burnett/Jones/Page/Plant6:19
4."Thank You"  Page/Plant4:49
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Heartbreaker"  Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant4:14
6."Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)"  Page/Plant2:39
7."Ramble On"  Page/Plant4:34
8."Moby Dick"  Bonham/Jones/Page4:20
9."Bring It On Home"  Dixon4:19

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

DRAGNET

"New Years Eve"

March 8th 1951

Dragnet premiered on June 3rd 1949 on NBC radio starring Jack Webb and Sgt Joe Friday and ran until February 26th 1957.   Reruns were broadcast from the end of September 1955 to February 1957.


Saturday, December 27, 2014

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Jimmy Fallon and One Direction Christmas

Jimmy's annual Christmas song with toy instruments.  This year he duets with the biggest group in music today, One Direction and they sing "Santa Claus is Coming To Town".



Monday, December 15, 2014

Old Time Radio Show of the Week


Crime Classics
"The Terrible Deed of John White Webster"

July 13th 1953


A vastly underrated radio show from the waning days of radio, it aired on CBS from June 1953 to June 1954.  Created, written and directed by radio legend Elliot Lewis, this show examined true crime stories and murders of the past.

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Top Ten Clint Eastwood Movies



Saturday, December 13, 2014

Top 30 of Japan Billboard Hot 100 (2014/12/15)

Top 30 of Japan Billboard Hot 100 (2014/12/15)


NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 12/14/2014

New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction
Week Ending December 14th 2014

10 - Blue Labyrinth - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
(3 weeks on list)

9  -  Flesh and Blood - Patricia Cornwell
(3 weeks on list)

8  -  Leaving Time - Jodi Picoult
(7 weeks on list)

7  -  Prince Lestat - Anne Rice

(5 weeks on list)

6  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(30 weeks on list)

5  -  The Burning Room - Michael Connelly
(4 weeks on list)

4  -  Revival - Stephen King 
(3 weeks on list)

3  -  Gray Mountain - John Grisham

(6 weeks on list)

2  -  The Escape - David Baldacci

(2 weeks on list)

1  -  Hope To Die - James Patterson 
(DEBUT)
Detective Alex Cross's family is kidnapped by a madman who wants to turn Cross into a perfect killer.

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) December 7th 2014

New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction
Week Ending December 7th 2014

10 - Prince Lestat - Anne Rice
(4 weeks on list)

9  -  The Job - Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
(Debut)
The F.B.I. special agent Kate O'Hare works with Nicolas Fox, a handsome con man, to pursue a drug kingpin.

8  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(29 weeks on list)

7  -  Flesh and Blood - Patricia Cornwell
(2 weeks on list)

6  -  The Cinderella Murder - Mary Higgins Clark
(Debut)
A TV producer plans a show about a cold case - the murder of a UCLA student who was found with one shoe missing.

5  -  The Burning Room - Michael Connelly
(3 weeks on list)

4  -  The Mistletoe Promise - Richard Paul Evans
(Debut)
A divorced woman enters into a contract with a strange man to pretend to be a couple until Christmas.

3  -  Gray Mountain - John Grisham
(5 weeks on list)

2  -  Revival - Stephen King
(2 weeks on list)

1  -  The Escape - David Baldacci
(DEBUT)
John Puller, a special agent with the Army, hunts for his brother, who was convicted of treason and has escaped from prison.


Saturday, December 6, 2014

WE LOVE RANDOM PICTURES

Prince Charles and Mike Farrell talking on the set of M*A*S*H  October 1977