Baby Boomer Alert

It could not have been a more shocking story.  The 19-year old son of the  #1 name in show business, Frank Sinatra, was kidnapped at gunpoint and held for days for ransom. The date was December 8, 1963. The news grabbed headlines around the world as the Sinatra family waited for the news, good or bad, concerning young Frank...

Jerry Vale, one of the last of the great Italian-America crooners of the 1950s and 1960s, has died at 83. Vale recorded more than 50 albums, and although he never reached the popularity of Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett, he was considered to be one of the best of the genre...

The Rubik's Cube hit the market on this day back in 1974.  It was invented by Hungarian artist and educator Emo Rubik. The funny little multi-colored box has been maddeningly popular right from the get go.  So many cubes have been sold that Rubik's Cube has now been declared "the world's best selling toy into history...

Spaghetti O's first went on sale this day back in 1965. This staple for Mom's at dinner time when invented by Donald Goerke while tasked by Campbell Soups (and their labelmate Franco-American) to come up with a spaghetti that "didn't make a mess when kids ate it...

Ritchie Valens was born on this day in 1941.  He was an exciting new performer who was just on his way to super stardom when his life was cut short. His major hits included "Come, On, Let's Go," "Donna" and "La Bamba."  He was killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959 which also claimed the lives of rockers Buddy Holly and JP Richardson, The Bog Bopper...

Lee Marshall, the "voice" of cereal icon Tony the Tiger, has died of cancer at the age of 64. He was also one of the most celebrated ring announcers in the world of professional wrestling. While Marshall has been the voice of Tony since 2005 he had big shoes (or big vocal cords) to fill...

We were talking on my show the other day about the old TV westerns.  I made the comment that although I loved them all, my favorite was THE RIFLEMAN. I really don't know why, but I think it was the combination of toughness and tenderness that appealed to me...

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. had one of the longest show business careers in history.  from movies in the 1940s to more than four decades on television, he was a familiar face to three generations of Americans. Where did you jump on his career...

Petula Clark has been in show business for an astonishing seven decades! This British beauty began her career as a child entertainer during World War II.  In the 1960s she racked up more than a dozen top hits and sold nearly 70,000,000 records...

I love this.  It seems impossible, but can't you imagine your grandparents sitting down, watching this "training video" and taking notes!  Enjoy...