Saturday, June 8, 2024

Radio History: June 8


➦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 82
🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAYS:

  • Actor James Darren is 88. 
  • Singer Nancy Sinatra is 84. 
  • Singer Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) is 82. 
  • Singer Boz Scaggs is 80. 
  • Actor Kathy Baker (“Picket Fences”) is 74. 
  • Actor Sonia Braga is 74. 
  • Singer Bonnie Tyler is 73. 
  • Actor Griffin Dunne is 69. 
  • “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams is 67. 
  • Actor-director Keenan Ivory Wayans is 66. 
  • Singer Mick Hucknall of Simply Red is 64. 
  • Keyboardist Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran is 62. 
  • Singer Doris Pearson of Five Star is 58. 
  • Actor Julianna Margulies (“The Good Wife,” ″ER”) is 57. 
  • Actor Dan Futterman (“Judging Amy”) is 57. 
  • Actor David Sutcliffe (“Private Practice,” “Gilmore Girls”) is 55. 
  • Actor Kent Faulcon (“Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse”) is 54. 
  • Singer Nicci Gilbert of Brownstone is 54. 
  • Actor Kelli Williams (“The Practice”) is 54. 
  • Actor Mark Feuerstein (“West Wing,” ″Good Morning, Miami”) is 53. 
  • Guitarist Mike Scheuchzer of MercyMe is 49. 
  • Actor Eion Bailey (“Once Upon A Time”) is 48. 
  • Rapper Ye (formerly Kanye West) is 47. 
  • TV personality Maria Menounos is 46. 
  • Singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson is 46. 
  • Guitarist Derek Trucks (Allman Brother Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band) is 45. 
  • Singer Alex Band of The Calling is 43. 
  • Fiddler Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek is 43. 
  • Actor Torrey DeVitto (“Pretty Little Liars”) is 40.
✞REMEMBRANCES
  • In 1982..Satchel Paige, American Baseball HOF pitcher (6 x Negro League, 2 x MLB All Star; World Series 1948 Cleveland Indians), dies of a heart attack at 75
  • In 2001..Nathaniel Rochester, American computer scientist (chief architect of the IBM 701), dies at 82
  • In 2010..Crispian St. Peters [Robin Peter Smith], British pop singer (The Pied Piper; No No No), dies at 71
  • In 2020..2020 Bonnie Pointer, American pop and R&B singer (The Pointer Sisters - "Jump"; "I'm So Excited"), dies at 69
  • In 2023..Pat Robertson, American Baptist televangelist (700 Club), media mogul (CBN), and politician (Presidential candidate-R-1989), dies at 93

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