Old-school news, just in time
by Kevin Burton The 21-year-old pilot of the plane that crashed on this day in 1959, taking the lives of three famous young musicians was not qualified for the flight, according to published accounts. The crash, which took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) has been …
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by Kevin Burton Those color-coded national weather maps always showed the true snow calamity hitting other regions. We in Central Kansas were to be spared. But there were breathless local forecasts calling for eight inches of snow on Saturday. My “rule of half” said we would get about four. Sure enough, by …
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by Kevin Burton We don’t have Santa images at my house. For us, Christmas is about Jesus. But there is one Christmas song I have always loved that doesn’t fit that mode. Hundreds of artists have recorded it. Possibly the most famous version was made by Gene Autry in 1953. It was …
by Kevin Burton While at the Quiet Knight bar in Chicago, Steve Goodman saw fellow singer/songwriter Arlo Guthrie, and asked to be allowed to play a song for him, according to a story on Wikipedia. “Guthrie grudgingly agreed, on the condition that if Goodman bought him a beer, Guthrie would listen to him play …
by Kevin Burton Did you miss Bad Idea Day last week, April 23? Well it wasn’t actually named, per se. But New Coke was introduced on that day, in 1985. That’s good enough for me. What was the worst corporate idea of all time? Who’s to say? But New Coke is often …
by Kevin Burton There’s a new game, it’s a craze actually, called Wordle. You have heard of it no doubt. Two of my favorite bloggers wrote about Wordle on back to back days this week. That qualifies it as a craze for me, I don’t get out much. Here’s an explanation of …
by Kevin Burton Many of my blind friends have talked about getting a self-driving car. I have not been real interested…until now. Why the change? Monday I found out that in Slovakia, cars can fly. I don’t mean just go zoom-zoom fast. I mean literally take to the sky. This is …
by Kevin Burton It was 1978 when FM radio overtook AM. But the song that marked the occasion was sort of a medium-sized hit. We’re talking “FM” by Steely Dan. So what’s your definition of a hit song? Is it based on how much it sells? How high it gets on …
by Kevin Burton Apologies right up front here, because Garrison Keillor would do this story better than I. The US Census Bureau announced Nov. 16 that Hartville, Missouri, population 594, is the “center of population” for the United States. Here is what that means, according to the Census Bureau release: “If …
by Kevin Burton In 1981 Dolly Parton hit number one on both the country and pop charts with the song “9 to 5.” But which female solo artist was the first to hit those two heights, 13 years before that? Hint: It’s her birthday today. The song in question was country …
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