| Thanks to Bill S. for the music!  Ever wonder what happened on this day? What songs were popular? What was invented on this day? Who was born on your birthday? When did a certain event take place? Well you've come to the right place. BGDayz will run daily and only contains facts & fun from the good old days. Maybe even some surprises along the way. Enjoy!   Friday, September 30th 1921-  Deborah Kerr- Actress 1931-  Angie Dickinson- Actress1935-  Johnny Mathis- Singer 1961-  Barry Williams- ActorHave a birthday, anniversary, graduation or birth you would like mentioned? Yours, friends, family, members in your group? Send me the name & birth date and I will add it! NO LIMIT!!!! If you want the city and/or state or country just include that information. A picture would be an added plus!    Mary Martin December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990  1930- First heard on the NBC Red radio network this day, "Death Valley Days" became one of radio's biggest hits. The 30-minute, Western-adventure series starred Tim Daniel Frawley as the Old Ranger, Harvey Hays as the Old Prospector, John White as the Lone Cowboy, Edwin Bruce as Bobby Keen, Robert Haag as Sheriff Mark Chase and Olyn Landick as Cassandra Drinkwater. "Death Valley Days" was renamed "Death Valley Sheriff" in 1944 and "The Sheriff" in 1945. And Ruth Woodman continued to write the scripts. She even wrote scripts when "Death Valley Days" became a TV show. Buy some 20-Mule-Team Borax in commemoration. ~~~~~~~~~~ 1933- The theme song was "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" and it opened the "National Barn Dance". The half-hour country music and comedy show, originally heard on WLS, Chicago since 1924, moved to the NBC Blue network this night. "National Barn Dance" was broadcast from the Eighth Street Theater in Chicago, where the stage was transformed into a hayloft every Saturday night. The host was Joe Kelly. Uncle Ezra was played by Pat Barrett who was known to say, "Give me a toot on the tooter, Tommy," as he started dancing. A few of the other "Barn Dance" characters were Arkie, the Arkansas Woodchopper; Pokey Martin; the Hoosier Hotshots; the Prairie Ramblers; cowgirl, Patsy Montana; Pat Buttram; Lulu Belle and the Cumberland Road Runners. Gene Autry and Red Foley were heard early in their careers on "National Barn Dance". Although there were plenty of sponsors (Alka Seltzer, One-A-Day vitamins, Phillips Milk of Magnesia), the "National Barn Dance" was one of the few radio shows to charge admission! ~~~~~~~~~~ 1935- "Calling all cars..." "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" came to radio for the first time -- on the Mutual Radio Network. Based on the comic strip created by Chester Gould, the 15-minute adventure show was heard Monday thru Friday at 5:45 p.m. The sponsors were Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice. ~~~~~~~~~~ 1951- "Thank you and may God bless." "The Red Skelton Show" debuted on NBC-TV (almost 10 years to the day after Red made his radio debut). America's 'Clown Prince of Comedy' was a hit for years on radio and an even bigger one on TV with characters like The Mean Wittle Kid ("I dood it!"), Clem Kadiddlehopper, Sheriff Deadeye, Cauliflower McPugg, Willie Lump-Lump, San Fernando Red, Bolivar Shagnasty and Freddie the Freeloader. Later, he would move to CBS-TV. Overall, "The Red Skelton Show" remained a fixture on U.S. television for 20 years. ~~~~~~~~~~ 1955- James Dean, the brooding film actor who won acclaim in "Giant", "East of Eden" and "Rebel Without a Cause", died from injuries suffered in a car crash at the intersection of routes 46 and 41, near Cholame, CA, a tiny farm town. Dean, who lived the life of James Stark (his character in "Rebel Without a Cause"), was killed when his Porsche Spyder ran into another car, head-on at 75 miles an hour. James Dean souvenirs are for sale at the Jack Ranch Cafe, a half-mile west of the crash scene. Located near the cafe is the Dean memorial, financed by Japanese fan Seita Ohnishi. Dean's mechanic, Rolf Wütherich, who was in the Porsche with Dean, was gravely injured, but gradually recovered. Ironically, Wütherich eventually returned to his native (West) Germany and died there in 1981 when his car skidded on a rain-slickened road and struck a tree. ~~~~~~~~~~ I don't write it, I just report it!  1964 "Pretty Woman" -Roy Orbison   "You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way."  ~Gregory Peck~     Gregory Peck & Alida Valli "The Paradine Case" 1947 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradine_Case   MARGE'S TUBBY No. 41, July-August 1960 Here's two stories from a Tubby comic from 1960. "Boy On The Moon" features Tubby nemisis, Wilbur Van Snobbe, and Tub's sidekick, Iggy. Iggy is just so . . . Iggy; and serves as a demonstration of simple, perfect character design . For those that may not know, the little spacemen in this second story, "Toothday," are little men from mars who first appeared in Marge's Tubby No. 9 and became reoccurring characters; helping Tub out of (or getting him into) fixes. |