Make This A Birthday To Remember.......

[144man]

Moe & 144man.....if you've not already done so, try Google....there's a fair amount of information about it on there.....

I still have all the episodes on tape. Of course I have nothing to play them on.

[144man]

May 19th:

Remembering, on her Birthday: -

Nancy Astor [Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor; 1879-1964; politician; first woman in the House Of Commons] -

...but not the first woman to be elected to serve there.

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May 20th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Busta Rhymes [Trevor George Smith, Jr; hip hop recording artist, actor, record producer and record company executive; 'Woo-Hah! Got You All In Check'] -

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May 20th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Jane Wiedlin [Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin; punk and pop rock musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress, rhythm guitarist and background vocalist with The Go-Go's; 'Rush Hour']

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May 20th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Ted Allen [Edward Allen; author and television personality, food and wine connoisseur on 'Queer Eye'] -

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May 20th:

Happy Birthday, to:

John Billingsley [actor; Dr. Phlox on 'Star Trek: Enterprise'] -

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May 20th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Dean Butler [actor and producer; Almanzo Wilder on 'Little House On The Prairie'] -

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May 20th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Matt McCoy [actor; Michael Bartel in 'The Hand That Rocks The Cradle'; Sgt. Nick Lassard in 'Police Academy' 5 & 6, and Lloyd Braun on 'Seinfeld'] -

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May 20th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

James Stewart [James Maitland Stewart; 1908-1997; actor; 'Mr. Smith Goes To Washington'; 'The Philadelphia Story'; 'It's A Wonderful Life'] -

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May 20th:

Remembering, on her Birthday: -

Margery Allingham [Margery Louise Allingham; 1904-1966; mystery and crime fiction novelist; The Albert Campion detective novels] -

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May 20th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Stanley Fields [Walter L. Agnew; 1883-1941; actor; Sam Vettori in 'Little Caesar'; Muspratt in 'Mutiny On The Bounty'; The Sheriff in 'Way Out West'] -

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May 20th:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Honore de Balzac [Honore Balzac; 1799-1850; novelist and playwright; 'La Comedie humaine'] -

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May 20th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Nick Heyward [Nicholas Heyward; pop, rock and new wave singer-songwriter and guitarist; Haircut 100] -

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May 20th:

Happy Birthday, to:

Timothy Olyphant [actor; Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens on 'Justified', 2010-2015] -

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May 21st:

Quote for the Day:

"We did a lot of records there [Motown], and a lot of people were jealous of our success and complained to Berry Gordy that we were getting all the better songs.

He took the records off us, and gave them to other people.

I first did the record 'Grapevine' that Marvin did. He took it off me, and gave it to Smokey, and he didn't do it that well.

Then Gladys Knight came along, and she did a different version of it.

Later on, Marvin did the same version that I had done.

The same thing happened with the Four Tops. One of the records they were doing was 'Reach Out'. We had it first. That was one of the reasons we were angry enough to say "hey man, we don't want to be doing this any more. We want to be doing our own thing."

Then we came out with 'This Old Heart Of Mine', and that hit right away".

- Ron Isley, Blues and Soul Interview, 2013.

Happy Birthday, to:

Ron Isley [Ronald Isley; R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actor; lead singer and original founding member of The Isley Brothers] -

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May 21st:

Happy Birthday, to:

Blinky [Sondra Williams; R&B and soul singer-songwriter; 'I Wouldn't Change The Man He Is'; 'Oh How Happy' with Edwin Starr; theme from television series 'Good Times' with Jim Gilstrap]

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May 21st:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Fats Waller [Thomas Wright Waller; 1904-1943; jazz pianist and singer; 'Ain't Misbehavin'; 'Honeysuckle Rose'] -

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May 21st:

Remembering, on his Birthday:

Hilton Valentine [Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine; skiffle, and rock and roll guitarist; founding member of The Animals] -

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May 21st:

Happy Birthday, to:

Bill Champlin [William Bradford Champlin; rock, blues and R&B singer, songwriter, keyboard player, guitarist, arranger and producer; with Chicago 1981-2009] -

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May 21st:

Happy Birthday, to:

Rachelle Ferrell [R&B, pop and jazz singer; pianist] -

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May 21st:

Happy Birthday, to:

Leo Sayer [Gerard Hugh Sayer; soft rock and disco singer, songwriter; 'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing'] -

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May 21st:

Happy Birthday, to:

Mr. T [Lawrence Tureaud; actor and retired professional wrestler; B. A. Baracus on 'The A-Team'; Clubber Lang in 'Rocky III'] -

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May 21st:

Happy Birthday, to:

Fairuza Balk; [Fairuza Alejandra Feldthouse; actress; Vicki Vallencourt in 'The Waterboy'] -

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May 21st:

Happy Birthday, to:

Nick Cassavetes [film maker and actor; Wayne-O in 'The Assault of The Killer Bimbos'] -

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May 21st:

Happy Birthday, to:

Judge Reinhold [Edward Ernest Reinhold. Jr; actor; Brad Hamilton in 'Fast Time At Ridgemont High'] -

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May 21st:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher George Latore Wallace; 1972-1997; rapper; 'Hypnotised'; 'Mo Money Mo Problems' [featuring Mase and Puff Daddy] -

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May 21st:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Vincent Crane [Vincent Rodney Cheeseman; 1943-1989; keyboardist with Atomic Rooster and Arthur Brown] -

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May 21st:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Raymond Burr [Raymond William Stacy Burr; 1917-1973; actor; 'Perry Mason'; 'Ironside'] -

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May 21st:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

David Groh [David Lawrence Groh; 1939-2008; actor; Joe Gerard on 'Rhoda'] -

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May 21st:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Anthony Steel [Anthony Maitland Steel; 1920-2001; actor and singer; Bob Payton in 'Where No Vultures Fly'] -

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May 21st:

Remembering, on her Birthday: -

Peggy Cass [Mary Margaret Cass; 1924-1999; actress; Agnes Gooch in 'Auntie Mame'] -

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May 21st:

Remembering, on her Birthday: -

Kay Kendall [Justine Kay Kendall McCarthy; 1927-1959; actress; Sybil Wren in 'Les Girls'; Rosalind Peters in 'Genevieve'] -

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May 21st:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Robert Montgomery [Henry Montgomery, Jr; 1904-1981; actor; David Smith in 'Mr and Mrs Smith'] -

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May 21st:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Harold Robbins [Harold Rubin; 1916-1997; novelist; 'The Carpetbaggers'] -

[moe]

Westgrand, I just loved Kay Kendall. She was hysterical in "The Reluctant Debutante."
Tragic end [leukemia].

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Westgrand, I just loved Kay Kendall. She was hysterical in "The Reluctant Debutante."
Tragic end [leukemia].

You might already know, Moe, but Kay Kendall was never told of her illness.

Golden Globe Best Actress award for 'Les Girls', 1957, but seems to be most remembered for 'Genevieve', 1953.

Kay was both beautiful and funny...in a world where most people, female or male, are not both...

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May 22nd:

Quote for the Day:

"I'd rather produce art, than become art."

- Morrissey. -

Happy Birthday, to:

Morrissey [Steven Patrick Morrissey; alternative rock and indie pop singer, and songwriter; frontman of The Smiths; 'Suedehead';' The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get'; 'Irish Blood, English Heart'; 'You Have Killed Me'] -

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May 22nd:

Happy Birthday, to:

Johnny Gill [R&B, soul and pop singer, songwriter and actor; New Edition; LSG; Heads Of State; 'Rub You Up The Wrong Way'; 'My, My,My'] -

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May 22nd:

Happy Birthday, to:

Bernie Taupin [Bernard John Taupin; rock, pop and country song lyricist, poet and singer; long time collaboration with Elton John, including 'Rocket Man'; 'Crocodile Rock'; 'Candle In The Wind'; 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'] -

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May 22nd:

Happy Birthday, to:

Faye Adams [Fanny/Fannie Tuell; R&B and gospel singer] -

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May 22nd:

Happy Birthday, to:

Vivian Green [Vivian Sakiyyah Green; R&B, soul and neo soul singer, songwriter and record producer; 'U Know What's Up' - featuring Lisa Lopes] -

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May 22nd:

Happy Birthday, to:

Shirley Murdock [R&B singer and songwriter; 'As We Lay'; 'Computer Love' - with Zapp and Roger] -

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May 22nd:

Happy Birthday, to:

Peter Nero [Bernard Nierow; pianist and pops conductor; The Philly Pops] -

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May 22nd:

Happy Birthday, to:

Ian Underwood [Ian Robertson Underwood; jazz and avant garde woodwind and keyboard player with Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention] -

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May 22nd:

Happy Birthday, to:

Barbara Parkins [former actress, singer and dancer; 'Peyton Place'; 'Valley Of The Dolls'] -

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May 22nd:

Happy Birthday, to:

Rustie Lee [television chef and personality, cookery writer, actress and singer] -

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May 22nd:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Sun Ra [Herman Poole Blount; Le Sony'r Ra; 1914-1993; jazz musician, composer and bandleader] -

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May​ 22nd:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Harvey Milk [Harvey Bernard Milk; 1930-1978; politician, San Francisco City Supervisor and gay civil rights leader] -

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May 22nd:

Remembering, on his Birthday: -

Laurence Olivier [Laurence Kerr Olivier; 1907-1989; actor] -

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May 22nd:

Remembering, on his Birthday:

Charles Aznavour [Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian; 1924-2018; singer and songwriter; 'She'; 'Dance In The Old-Fashioned Way'; 'Yesterday When I Was Young'] -