June 8 Radio History

➦In 1947...Lassie debuted on ABC radio. It was a 15-minute radio juvenile adventure program. It was broadcast on ABC from June 8, 1947 until May 30, 1948, and on NBC from June 5, 1948, until May 27, 1950.

➦In 1967...The Beatles thematic album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' quickly climbed to number one after being released just a week earlier. It was their 8th studio album and spent 15 weeks at number one in the U-S.  In the U-K,  the album went to #1 after just one week, where it remained for an incredible 27 weeks. It was the first album to print the lyrics on the sleeve.

It was lauded by critics for its innovations in production, songwriting and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for providing a musical representation of its generation and the contemporary counterculture. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honor.

➤In 1988...Billboard Blast From The Past....

➦In 2011…Former Detroit Tigers outfielder and broadcaster Jim Northrup died of complications from Alzheimer's disease at age 71.

Chuck Negron is 80

🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAYS:

• Actor James Darren is 86. 
• Singer Nancy Sinatra is 82. 
• Singer Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) is 80. 
• Singer Boz Scaggs is 78. 
• Actor Sonia Braga is 72. 

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  Julianna Marguiles is 55

  Actor Kathy Baker (“Picket Fences”) is 72. 
• Singer Bonnie Tyler is 71. 
• Actor Griffin Dunne is 67. 
• “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams is 65. 
• Actor-director Keenan Ivory Wayans is 64. 
• Singer Mick Hucknall of Simply Red is 62. 
• Keyboardist Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran is 60. 
• Singer Doris Pearson of Five Star is 56. 
• Actor Julianna Margulies (“The Good Wife,” ″ER”) is 55. 
• Actor Dan Futterman (“Judging Amy”) is 55. 
• Actor David Sutcliffe (“Private Practice,” “Gilmore Girls”) is 53. 
• Actor Kent Faulcon (“Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse”) is 52. 
• Singer Nicci Gilbert of Brownstone is 52. 
• Actor Kelli Williams (“The Practice”) is 52. 
• Actor Mark Feuerstein (“West Wing,” ″Good Morning, Miami”) is 51. 
• Guitarist Mike Scheuchzer of MercyMe is 47. 
• Actor Eion Bailey (“Once Upon a Time”) is 46. 
• Rapper Ye (formerly Kanye West) is 45. 
• Singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson is 44. 
• Guitarist Derek Trucks (Allman Brother Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band) is 43. 
• Singer Alex Band of The Calling is 41. 
• Fiddler Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek is 41. 
• Actor Torrey DeVitto (“Pretty Little Liars”) is 38

🕇DEATH ANNIVERSARIES 

• Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain died by suicide on this day in 2018. He was 61.
• America's seventh president, Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), died on this day in 1845. He was 78.
• Explorer and mountaineer George Mallory, the man who said he wanted to climb Mount Everest "because it's there," died while trying to reach the summit on this day in 1924. He was 37.
• Hall of Fame pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the Negro Leagues star who made it into newly-integrated Major League Baseball when he was 42, died on this day in 1982. He was 75.