The Daily Dose/April 13, 2023
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has the latest 3-hole punch drama from the hotel. Today’s Diary.
After the remodel it was placed on the shelf above the desk, very convenient, because we don’t have to get up for it; we can merely reach up and get it…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1873 – An indeterminate number of Blacks – estimated at between 60 and 150 – are murdered at the courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana by former Confederate soldiers and KKK members. The violence was part of large-scale rioting that gripped the state following a disputed gubernatorial election the previous year and the number of deaths is difficult to determine because some of the dead were thrown into either the river or a mass grave. History refers to the murders as the Colfax Massacre.
In 1940- Cornelius Warmerdam of the US becomes the first person to pole vault 15 feet at a meet at UC Berkeley. For reasons that History has declined to make clear, the vault was not ratified as a world record, which Warmerdam took care of on June 29, vaulting 15 feet, 1 inch and he would hold the world record at assorted heights until 1957. Armand Duplantis of Sweden has held the record since 2020, including a vault of 20 feet, 4.75 inches this past February.
In 1974 – Gladys Knight & the Pips are at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Soul Singles chart – for the second and final consecutive week with Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me. The song also peaked at #3 on the Hot 100, went #7 pop in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 4th-biggest soul song of the year. It was the seventh of ten #1 soul hits for the group in a chart career that spanned from 1958-88 and in 1973 a version by Ray Price hit #1 on Billboard’s country chart. The song remains one of the few to go Top 10 on all three major Billboard singles charts.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Who can ask more of a man/Than giving all within his span/Giving all, it seems to me/Is not so far from victory
George Moriarty
The Road Ahead of the Road Behind
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Elton John’s biggest hit on Billboard’s soul chart was That’s What Friends Are For as part of Dionne Warwick and Friends, which three weeks at #1 in 1986.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s #1 soul song of 1974? – Answer next time!
