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Welcome to Your Weekend Your Host Here Again Going Through Transition... I am digging through all the archives including books I have accumulated over the years with a 1937 Almanac published by the "Philadelphia Bulletin". Lots of details about Philadephia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. In the details of Delaware something got my attention. What Delaware's Legislature Was Like Before The Earl Warren Supreme Court Changed Things In The 1960's... The Next Round Of Vaxx Jabs The vaccines don't last forever so the next round needs to be planned for. That's what the British National Health Service was saying earlier...

Welcome to the weekend. He got the harshest prison sentence in connection with the 1972 burglary of the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic Party. G. Gordon Liddy passed away at the age of 90 this week. In 1978 around a year after his sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter, Liddy spoke to William F. Buckley Jr. on "Firing Line". Liddy says the feds wanted him to be a snitch and he wasn't... Newsdump Easter Weekend Alert: British Government Admitting Blood Clot Deaths Following COVID Vaccination With Astra Zeneca Vaccine But Denying Link For Now... Is The FBI Trying To...

Day 321 Of The Dictatorship Of COVID-19, Day 321 Of America And The World Held Hostage Back in 1979 Americans taken hostage in Iran and ABC News coining the phrase "America Held Hostage" as illustrated in this first of many late night special reports... And here we are in 2021 the Dictatorship of COVID-19 and Americans held hostage like Gayle Meyer... Don McLean's "American Pie" was all over the radio back in 1972 and many phrases in that song including "The Day The Music Died". It will be 62 years ago this Wednesday "The Day The Music Died" February 3,...

Ok, so the Left has been claiming Trump was a FRAUD and never made ANY money. So, then why would he OWE Income tax, if, according to them, he never made any, just lost it? Checkmake, MOFO!

Chubby missed his ride to the awards show and the Guild sends Gibbs to pick him up. Good cops, call in help. G.

PHILADELPHIA – Fifty years to the day after the release of the hip-swiveling tune "The Twist," the man who made it famous celebrated the occasion in his hometown. Chubby Checker performed Friday at a free noontime concert at Philadelphia City Hall. About 1,000 people joined in on the gyrations, some even invited onstage by the South Philadelphia-bred singer. "The Twist," released as a single on July 9, 1960, burst into the rock 'n' roll stratosphere after Checker performed it for Dick Clark on his Philadelphia-based "American Bandstand." Checker's 1960 cover version of the Hank Ballard and the Midnighters song —...

This is great ~~ nostalgia and lots of smiles, but the 60's were sure times of change and disruption. Take Me Back to the Sixties

It’s a special thing when artists who’ve achieved greatness in their own right join forces to create a new musical entity. We’ve been blessed with a number of these “supergroups”: Blind Faith, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Velvet Revolver and Golden Smog, to name just a few. When a supergroup clicks, it can be magical. But when they don’t work…look out. The Million Dollar Quintet It’s a little-known fact that the Million Dollar Quartet —Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins— was originally a quintet. The fifth member of this historic December 4, 1956, Sun Studios jam...

Posted on Thu, Jun. 19, 2003 Spurned, with a twist By Tom Infield Inquirer Staff Writer ATLANTIC CITY - Chubby Checker had the gray heads bopping in the aisles the other night during the first of four sold-out concerts at Caesars casino. If it were up to his audience, mostly children of the 1960s, there is no question that the King of the Twist (El Rey del Twist, to his Latino fans) would have taken his place long ago in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "Without a doubt, he belongs," said Mike Reichert, 51, of Pasadena, Md. "I...