My Valentine's Day 'Best' List...
Supreme's song: "Baby Love"...
DJ name: Walt "Baby" Love...
Beatles song: "All You Need Is Love"...
Baseball name: Bobby Valentine...
Boxing name: Sugar Ray Hart (a welterweight contender from Philadelphia in the 60's)...
Football name: (tie) Lovey Smith, Leon Hart...
Basketball name: Sweetwater Clifton (played for the Knicks in the 50's)...
Golf name: Davis Love III...
Celebrity name: Karen Valentine...
Group name: (tie) The Valentines, Sugar Ray...
Song: "My Funny Valentine" ...(Today's video link is Linda Ronstadt's version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgBY5B4YiOw )...
Wedding: (1952) Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller. They were married until Adams died in 1999 (47 years)...
Worst Wedding: (1984) Elton John and Renata Blauel (the marriage lasted for 4 years. Why so long you might wonder? - I did)...
Massacre: (1929) The St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago that killed 7, all rivals of Al Capone...
Debut: (1977) The B-52's debut at a Valentine's Day party in Athens (GA)...
Gift: (1989) Mike Tyson gives Robin Givens a divorce...
More Timeline Memories from Valentine's Day, February 14...
"Me Tarzan...you Jane": 1918] "Tarzan of the Apes" is released...
"What can Brown do for you?": 1919] United Parcel Service is formed...
"I Am Woman, hear me roar": 1920] The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago with Maude Wood Park named as the 1st president of the organization...
"Big Blue" is born: 1924] IBM is founded by Thomas Watson...
Winter Gold: 1932] The U.S. wins the 1st bobsled competition at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid...1984] Jayne Torvil and Christopher Dean of Britain win a gold medal at Saravejo for ice-dancing to Ravel's "Bolero"...
"I'm Jackie your tour guide": 1962] First lady Jacqueline Kennedy gives us a televised tour of the White House...
"Happy Trails": 2003] "Dolly" the cloned sheep is put to death at age 6 due to premature aging and disease. Dolly was the 1st mammal cloned...
Recorded on this date: 1967] "Respect" - Aretha Franklin...
#1 on this date: 1983] "Baby, Come To Me" - Patti Austin and James Ingram (the song was featured on "General Hospital")...
Valent-Ian Day: 1977] Janis Ian receives hundreds of Valentine Day cards after she reveals in the song "At Seventeen" that she never received any in her teens...
Wedding Bells: 1968] The Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central merge into Penn Central...1994] The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) marries Deborah Koons (marriage lasts until Garcia dies in '95)...1995] Roseanne Barr marries bodyguard Ben Thomas (they divorce in 2002)...1996] Prince and Mayte Garcia exchange vows (the marriage is annulled in 1999 but they partied like it was 1999 in '96, '97 and '98)...
"And that's the way it is": 1980] Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from the 'CBS Evening News'...
Death Sentence: 1989] Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini advises Salman Rushdie not to buy any green bananas as he calls on Muslims to kill the author of "The Satanic Verses". Salman Rushie still lives (as of 9am, February 14, 2007 anyway)...
"Sorry for all those deaths": 1989] Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the government of India for the devastating results of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak...
"Another opening, another show": 1972] "Grease" opens off-Broadway (in the East Village)...
[To ensure accuracy of dates and content, multiple reference sources are used in each timeline]...
Commentary...
Joe McCoy informs that he will be producing a Bruce Morrow oldies show on WOR (2-4pm) tomorrow, February 15th to raise money for 'Variety the Children's Charity'. The radiothon will air on 710AM from 5am to 6pm to help disabled children in the tri-state area. Special guests will include Danny Aiello, Neil Sedaka, Frankie Valli, Brenda Lee and Mary Wilson. Morrow and Joey Reynolds will preempt Bill O'Reilly and the Cuz will play oldies for the remainder of the day, taking requests and dedications in exchange for pledges to Variety. Kudos to Cousin Brucie, Joe and the staff of WOR for a most worthy cause...
"Happy Birthday...happy birthday":
Teller (the mute partner of Penn & Teller who apparently has no 1st name is 59), Pat O'Brien (who's not allowed to use a phone on Valentine's Day) (59), our very own mayor Mike Bloomberg (65), Florence Henderson (73), Phyllis (McGuire Sisters) McGuire (76) and Hugh Downs (86)...
Timeline Countdown: 1 day until all pitchers and catchers voluntarily report, 35 days until spring...
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