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12/05/2024

The shift happened Saturday at midnight

28/02/2024

Jackie Loughery: First Miss USA
May perpetual light shine upon her

https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/jackie-loughery-obituary-18691195.php

01/01/2024

Happy New Year kids!

25/12/2023

Merry mid mod Christmas!

31/10/2023

After Houdini died in 1926, his wife Bess began the tradition of holding a séance on Halloween, his death anniversary, to see whether Harry, could escape from death. In 1936, she made her last attempt but alas she never did receive the coded message he had promised. This halloween night, if you make contact with the great Houdini, remember to drink your Ovaltine.

13/10/2023

Major Don West may have been lost in space but now he soars with the angels. RIP Mark Goddard

07/06/2023

RIP Commander Tom 😢

01/05/2023

Happy Birthday Batman

20/04/2023

Today is another sad day to say goodby. April Stevens passed away this morning.

April Stevens (born Caroline Vincinette LoTempio; April 29, 1929) is an American singer best known for her collaborations with her younger brother, Nino Tempo.

April and Nino were born in Niagara Falls NY and moved to California when they were kids.

Stevens has recorded since she was twenty two years old. Her most popular solo recording was her RCA Victor recording of "I'm in Love Again" (music and lyrics by Cole Porter). Accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted bymHenri René, Stevens' recording peaked at No. 6 on the pop chart in 1951. Her follow-up, "Gimme Me a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?" made it to No. 10 later that year, and her next release, "And So to Sleep Again", hit #27
Stevens returned to the U.S. chart in 1959 with the song "Teach Me Tiger", which caused a minor uproar for its sexual suggestiveness and consequently did not receive airplay on many radio stations. The song peaked at No. 86 on the Billboard Hot 100
Stevens is best known for her 1963 Atco Records recording of "Deep Purple" with her brother Antonino LoTempio (singing under the stage name Nino Tempo). A standard song that Larry Clinton and His Orchestra and band vocalist Bea Wain had popularized in 1939, the Stevens and Tempo version reached No.1on the Hot 100 on November 16, 1963, and No.17 in the British charts. The song won the 1963 Grammy Award for Best Rock and Roll Recording. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a Gold disc.
The duo also enjoyed a 1964 follow-up hit in the U.S. with the standard song "Whispering The recording, which had an arrangement similar to their recording of "Deep Purple", reached No. 11 on the Hot 100 singles chart. They also had chart success with "All Strung Out", which reached No. 26 on the American Hot 100 in 1966. Later that year, the single "The Coldest Night of the Year" was released on Atlantic 584048 in the UK.[4] A solo single by Stevens was issued in December 1967, a double-sided single of "Wanting You" with "Falling in Love Again" on MGM 1366 in the UK and MGM K 13825 in the US. "Wanting You" became a Northern soul classic.
In the Netherlands, the duo enjoyed a No. 5 hit in early 1973 with their version of "(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story".
In her 2013 autobiography, Teach Me Tiger, Stevens said she was born in 1929. She admitted to taking years off her age, and her brother, Nino, going along with it This was supposedly due to their competition with acts in their late teens and early twenties that were dominating the record charts in the 1960s

25/12/2022

Hope your holidays are out of this world!

24/12/2022

https://www.transistortv.com/maxwell-s-movie-madness
Kooky Christmas Classics anyone?

01/12/2022

When most people hear the name Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, they envision the stop motion animation of the Rankin Bass TV special. But the story of the young reindeer being ostracized by his peers because of his 'blinkin beak' was legendary way before Burl Ives, as the snowman, told his version i...

18/11/2022

Stuck inside? Tune in Transistor TV.
It’s like taking a road trip without having to leave your couch (or tub)
Plus it’s free and it’s fun!
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18/11/2022

As long as you’re stuck inside waiting for the storm…may as well tune in and turn on transistortv.com

07/11/2022

https://youtu.be/gaj1wVNvSqk

The Outsiders Time Won´t Let Me (1966) El Tiempo no me lo Permite

09/09/2022

27/06/2022

222 episodes over 7 seasons would not have happened without 3 undergarments draped over 1 water tower. All aboard!!
Next stop Hooterville

08/06/2022

Happy Birthday Dino! Hope you're having fun with the Golddiggers

23/05/2022

Book em Danno

23/04/2022

60 years ago today, the final episode of Top Cat aired. An animated television series made by the Hanna-Barbera studios it ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network.
Originally broadcast on Wednesdays [8:30-9pm Eastern], Top Cat was co-sponsored by Kellogg's and Bristol-Myers (Bufferin). The central character, Top Cat—called T.C. by close friends, "pro-vid-ing it's with dignity" according to the lyrics of the theme song—is the leader of a gang of Manhattan alley cats: Fancy-Fancy, Spook, Benny the Ball, Brain, and Choo Choo living in Hoagy's Alley.
Top Cat and his gang were inspired by characters from the popular 1940s B movies, "The East Side Kids", but many suggest it derived from a later 1950s military comedy whose lead was a crafty con-man (The Phil Silvers Show). Maurice Gosfield, who played Private Duane Doberman on The Phil Silvers Show, also provided the voice for Benny the Ball in Top Cat (Benny's rotund appearance was based on Gosfield too).
Even Arnold Stang's voicing of Top Cat strongly resembled Phil Silvers' voice. Other possible sources cited have been Guys and Dolls where actor Stubby Kaye played a short, stout street-wise gambler and a virtual Benny the Ball prototype. Lastly, an unlikely contender (as it also came from Hanna Barbera) was the character Hokey Wolf, from a segment on The Huckleberry Hound Show, which also had parallels to The Phil Silvers Show.
A frequent plot-line revolved around the local beat cop Charles "Charlie" Dibble, NYPD, and his ineffective attempts to evict the gang from the alley due to them constantly attempting to earn a quick dollar — usually through an illegal scam. Dibble's appearance was modeled on Allen Jenkins, who voiced the part. The word dibble, previously used only for an implement for making holes to plant seeds, acquired a second meaning in the vernacular as slang for police officers.

19/03/2022

Aye, it’s a good time for a wearin o’ the green
Tune in and turn on
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