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Saturday
December 30, 2006
L00KING BACK IN LYRICLAND
12/30/98
It's Nice to be With You - The Monkees
12/30/99
New Song - Howard Jones
12/30/00
Auld Lang Syne - Bobby Watt
*Presented by LyricaLovers*
12/30/01
Awake - Godsmack
12/30/02
Distance Between - The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
12/30/03
Seasons of Love - The Cast of Rent
12/30/04
Marie Marie - The Blasters
12/30/05
Listen to the Music - The Doobie Brothers
Today in Music History
December 30th
1928 ~ Bo Diddley is born (Otha Ellas Bates McDaniel) in McComb, Miss. The influential R&B/rock musician is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
1931 ~ Skeeter Davis is born (Mary Frances Penick).
1936 ~ The famous feud between Jack Benny and Fred Allen is ignited. After a 10-year-old performer finished a violin solo on The Fred Allen Show, Mr. Allen said, "A certain alleged violinist should hide his head in shame for his poor fiddle playing." It didn’t take long for Mr. Benny to respond. The humorous feud lasted for years on both comedian’s radio shows.
1937 ~ Noel Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary) is born in Baltimore, MD.
1937 ~ John Hartford is born, Grammy Award-winning songwriter, banjo, fiddle, guitar on Glen Campbell's Good Time Comedy Hour.
1939 ~ Del Shannon is born (Charles Westover) in Coopersville, MI, singer/songwriter, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His biggest hit is "Runaway.'' He also writes "I Go to Pieces'' for Peter & Gordon.
1942 ~ Michael Nesmith is born in Houston, TX, guitarist with The Monkees, formed The First National Band, movie producer of the first Grammy-winning video. Nesmith is the only former Monkee who doesn't participate when the group re-forms in 1986.
1945 ~ Davy Jones is born (David Thomas Jones) in Manchester, England. He is a racehorse jockey and an actor before the Monkees are formed.
1946 ~ Patti Smith is born in Chicago.
1947 ~ Jeff Lynne is born in Birmingham, England. The singer-songwriter is a member of Electric Light Orchestra and the Traveling Wilburys.
1948 ~ Alfred Drake and Patricia Morrison stars in 'Kiss Me Kate' which opens at the New Century Theatre in New York City. Cole Porter composed the music for the classic play that was adapted from Shakespeare’s comedy 'The Taming of the Shrew.' The show ran for 1,077 performances on the Great White Way.
1942 ~ Frank Sinatra opens at New York’s Paramount Theatre for what was scheduled to be a 4-week engagement (his shows turned out to be so popular that he was booked for an additional 4 weeks). An estimated 400 policemen were called out to help curb the excitement. It is said that some of the teenage girls were hired to scream, but many more screamed for free. Sinatra was dubbed ‘The Sultan of Swoon’, ‘The Voice that Thrills Millions’, and just ‘The Voice’. Whatever he was, it was at this Paramount Theatre engagement that modern pop hysteria was born.
1954 ~ Pearl Bailey opens on Broadway in the play 'House of Flowers' about two madams with rival bordellos. Diahann Carroll is also cast in the play, written by Truman Capote. Harold Arlen provided the musical score.
1962 ~ Brenda Lee sustains minor injuries (though her dog perishes) in a fire that destroys her Nashville home.
1968 ~ Frank Sinatra records "My Way".
1969 ~ Peter, Paul and Mary receive a gold record for the single 'Leaving On a Jet Plane.' The song had hit #1 on December 20.
1970 ~ Paul McCartney sues the other three Beatles to dissolve the partnership and gain control of his interest. The suit touched off a bitter feud between McCartney and the others, especially his cowriter on many of the Beatles compositions, John Lennon. The partnership officially came to an end in 1974.
1976 ~ The Smothers Brothers, Tom and Dick, play their last show at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas and retire as a team from show business. Each continued as a solo artist. They reunited years later for another stab at TV (on NBC) plus concert appearances that proved very successful.
1978 ~ Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up.
1979 ~ Richard Rodgers passes away at age 77.
1991 ~ Bruce Springsteen's wife, backup singer Patty Scialfa, gives birth to their daughter, Jessica Rae. It is the couple's second child.
1998 ~ Johnny Moore, 64, a longtime member of the R&B vocal group the Drifters, dies in London of respiratory problems. Moore sang lead on the act's mid-'50s hit "Ruby Baby" and memorably stepped in after the sudden death of Rudy Lewis in 1964 to take the lead on the Drifter's last major pop hit, "Under The Boardwalk."
1989 ~ Krist Novoselic of Nirvana marries Shelli Dilley in Tacoma, WA.
1999 ~ Former Beatle George Harrison is stabbed four times in the chest during an attempted robbery early in the morning at his home at Henley-Upon-Thames, near London. The 56-year-old musician and his wife Olivia struggle with the intruder and are able to subdue him until the authorities arrive. The couple is then transported to a nearby hospital where both soon recover without incident.
2002 ~ Diana Ross is arrested for driving under the influence in Tucson, Arizona.
2004 ~ Artie Shaw (born Arthur Arschawsky), American jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer and arranger dies.
The Lyric
The end of 2006 rapidly approaches. We've lost some good people, and at least one very bad one. There may be hope for the world after all. We wanted to find a seasonal song that reflected that kind of spirit and this one seems to work very well. The artist has been featured before, and without digging too deeply, we can only find one instance of the lyrics online, but they are there.
And our Mystery Lyrics are:
Last Christmas Eve at the K-Mart store
A white family there, they was dirt poor
Father said, "Kids, pick one toy - no more
Even though we can ill-afford."
When you respond, with the lyric answer or not, we would like everyone to reflect back over the year and tell us what you will always remember the year 2006 for.
Good luck!
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