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This Day in Music…January 5
1880 – Composer Nicolai Karlovich Medtner was born.
1957 – Pat Boone began filming the movie “Bernadine.”
1959 – “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore” backed by “Raining in My Heart” was released by Coral Records. It was the last release of Buddy Holly before his death.
1965 – The Supremes recorded “Stop! In the Name of Love.”
1976 – Mal Evans, a Beatle’s bodyguard and road manager, was killed in a confrontation with Los Angeles police.
1978 – The Sex Pistols’ U.S. concert debut took place.
1978 – Prince made his solo performance debut in Minneapolis, MN.
1975 – “The Wiz” opened on Broadway.
1984 – The Police, announced a farewell concert for March 2 in Australia. The group had been together for 9 years.
1998 – Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident.
http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/music/jan05.htm
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about 6 months ago
Well.
Someone has some time on their hands.
Or needs a new paint by numbers kit.
KIDDING.
about 6 months ago
Ok — I do not see where I can edit my own comment.
I have been waiting and waiting for the pop ups and ad banners, to no avail.
*thumping fingers on table*
about 6 months ago
If the only way to edit a comment is to go to the Dashboard or other Editor/Author or Admin function, what would a newly registered user do? Offhand it doesn’t sound like a good idea to have any and all registered users be passed through the dashboard function with all it’s accessibility just to be able to edit their comment.
If “newly registered user” is a banned entity here and it’s a read-only blog well, then, this works. you might want to take the “register” option off the main page though.
This is a very nice looking format, just wondering about the basics of comments and access to edit of comments for the ‘casual’ reader. It is an extra step to edit a comment and provides access to a bunch of shit (like email and ISP addys), and it is an extra step to return to the blog after a comment edit.
But it looks very nice.
about 6 months ago
Just to see, I went to register as a new user using the WordPress Screen/module and the process is, well, screwy. I’ve tried a couple of times and it doesn’t seem to work correctly. (Asking for a password 4 times was a hint to me, and hitting the enter key when you think you are through gets nada.)
I suspect the Admin “hard-register” option works, but a new reader who wants to “register” per the home page option will not know about that, i.e., they will just click on the “Register” option.
But it looks very nice.
about 6 months ago
Ah bugger, please don’t let there be too many problems, I like this new format a lot!
about 6 months ago
*banging head on wall*
about 6 months ago
If you really, really, really want these things, there are plenty to be found at mjsbigblog.com.
LOL
about 6 months ago
All 11 *** fans are partying today…she releases her sophomore album today.
about 6 months ago
Katharine McPhee – “Had It All” [Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien]
And the excuses are starting to fly…missed appearances, swimming pools and ice cream cones aren’t far off.
FYI Kat was performing on Conan w/ strep and a sinus infection.
Delusional *** fans weigh in…
I LOVE Kat! Always found it interesting that she arouses so many opinions about her voice, looks, and “way” in general. Is it just my perception or does anyone else sense this? She is versatile and able to perform(and has) as a singer with some of the greater artistic crowd-yet, appeal to the younger genre also with the passing contemporary “stuff” that we all soon forget as soon as a “new” hit comes out by another “artist”!….For some reason, seems Kat is taken so “personal” by many and that in both the negative and positive reaction….I believe it is the sign of her strong staying power. I believe after many “idols” have come and gone off the “hit charts” and popular love fest- Katharine Mcphee will have staying power as a singer and earn the respect she deserves….Just saying…..
about 6 months ago
I see that youtube videos with this new design will more than likely expand past the posting box size.
about 6 months ago
Hits Daily Double, with 68.46% reporting:
1 SUSAN BOYLE COLUMBIA 66,746 I DREAMED A DREAM
2 MARY J. BLIGE GEFFEN 37,430 STRONGER WITH EACH TEAR
3 ALICIA KEYS J RECORDS/RMG 35,273 ELEMENT OF FREEDOM
4 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 34,869 FEARLESS
5 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 31,617 FAME
6 JUSTIN BIEBER ISLAND/IDJMG 29,809 MY WORLD
7 ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS RHINO 28,566 THE SQUEAKQUEL
8 BLACK EYED PEAS INTERSCOPE 28,446 ENERGY NEVER DIES
9 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC SONY MUSIC 25,853 NOW 32
10 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 25,506 FAME MONSTER (EP)
11 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJ 21,954 RATED R
12 YOUNG MONEY CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN 19,611 WE ARE YOUNG MONEY
13 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 18,434 PLAY ON
14 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE 17,998 LADY ANTEBELLUM
15 EMINEM SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 17,874 RELAPSE
16 GLEE CAST COLUMBIA 17,493 GLEE, VOL. 2
17 OWL CITY UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 16,968 OCEAN EYES
18 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 15,376 CRAZY LOVE
19 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 13,803 WIDE OPEN
20 SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE HOLLYWOOD 13,667 KISS & TELL
21 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 13,584 THIS IS IT
22 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 13,436 FOUNDATION
23 ROBIN THICKE STAR TRAK/INTERSCOPE 13,434 SEX THERAPY
24 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 12,761 NUMBER ONES
25 GLEE CAST COLUMBIA 12,077 GLEE, VOL. 1
26 MIRANDA LAMBERT COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 11,317 REVOLUTION
27 JAY-Z ROC NATION/ATLANTIC 10,706 BLUEPRINT 3
28 JOHN MAYER COLUMBIA 10,587 BATTLE STUDIES
29 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 10,068 ESSENTIAL
30 DARIUS RUCKER CAPITOL NASHVILLE 10,027 LEARN TO LIVE
31 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 10,016 TAYLOR SWIFT
32 50 CENT SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 9,297 BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT
33 TREY SONGZ ATLANTIC 9,015 READY
34 PHOENIX GLASSNOTE 8,425 WOLFGANG AMADEUS PHOENIX
35 TIM MCGRAW CURB 8,346 SOUTHERN VOICE
36 CHRIS BROWN JIVE/JLG 8,299 GRAFFITI
37 SHAKIRA EPIC 8,221 SHE WOLF
38 GUCCI MANE WARNER BROS. 7,970 STATE VS. RADRIC DAVIS
39 ADAM LAMBERT 19/RCA/RMG 7,899 FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT
40 PARAMORE FUELED BY RAMEN 7,633 BRAND NEW EYES
41 THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS VIRGIN/EMI 7,585 THIS IS WAR
42 KINGS OF LEON RCA/RMG 7,495 ONLY BY THE NIGHT
43 BEYONCE COLUMBIA 7,361 I AM… SASHA FIERCE
44 NICKLEBACK ROADRUNNER 6,802 DARK HORSE
45 BREAKING BENJAMIN HOLLYWOOD 6,307 DEAR AGONY
46 TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON CHOP SHOP/ATLANTIC 6,004 SOUNDTRACK
47 SNOOP DOGG PRIORITY/EMI 5,944 MALICE ‘N WONDERLAND
48 BON JOVI ISLAND/IDJMG 5,341 THE CIRCLE
49 HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE WALT DISNEY 4,403 SOUNDTRACK
50 FOO FIGHTERS RCA/RMG 4,226 GREATEST HITS
Things are looking grim enough among the Top 50…I hate to think what the numbers will be for those nearer to the bottom of the SoundScan 200.
about 6 months ago
Sales are grim, indeed.
McPhantards are predicting that ***’s numbers next week will come in at a minimum of 15-20,000.
Bwahahahahaahaha
about 6 months ago
I wonder if it’s a sign of Katharine’s “strong staying power” that she’s essentially been off the radar for the last two & a half years?
about 6 months ago
Katharine McPhee ‘surprised’ by how bad she was on ‘Idol’
Kat McPhee is releasing her second album, Unbroken, tomorrow, and while she may be proud of that, she told The Los Angeles Times she’s not so happy when she watches her old American Idol performances.
“I mean, you’re not gonna have a great week every week, but honestly, I was surprised how bad some of them were. Maybe in the moment people didn’t think they were bad, but looking back at how much I’ve grown… I could see where I was uncomfortable, where I was pushing, where it wasn’t about the simple storytelling of the song, it was about trying to perform, and that really doesn’t work. It’s not about selling the song, it’s about telling the story. I really wasn’t a developed singer and didn’t have much performing skills.”
Now, she says, she’s “grown a lot” from traveling around “and doing gigs and little radio shows around the country – all that literally taught me how to be a recording artist.”
about 6 months ago
Here are the FINAL post-holiday sales estimates from Hits Daily Double:
1 SUSAN BOYLE COLUMBIA 131,330 I DREAMED A DREAM
2 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 84,458 FAME
3 ALICIA KEYS J RECORDS/RMG 70,671 ELEMENT OF FREEDOM
4 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 60,625 FEARLESS
5 MARY J. BLIGE GEFFEN 56,982 STRONGER WITH EACH TEAR
6 JUSTIN BIEBER ISLAND/IDJMG 52,546 MY WORLD
7 ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS RHINO 51,353 THE SQUEAKQUEL
8 BLACK EYED PEAS INTERSCOPE 47,705 ENERGY NEVER DIES
9 GLEE CAST COLUMBIA 45,626 GLEE, VOL. 2
10 OWL CITY UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 44,240 OCEAN EYES
11 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 42,828 FAME MONSTER (EP)
12 YOUNG MONEY CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN 40,261 WE ARE YOUNG MONEY
13 EMINEM SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 39,547 RELAPSE
14 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJ 38,358 RATED R
15 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 35,307 CRAZY LOVE
16 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC SONY MUSIC 34,622 NOW 32
17 GLEE CAST COLUMBIA 33,793 GLEE, VOL. 1
18 JOHN MAYER COLUMBIA 33,294 BATTLE STUDIES
19 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 32,933 PLAY ON
20 ROBIN THICKE STAR TRAK/INTERSCOPE 24,674 SEX THERAPY
21 JAY-Z ROC NATION/ATLANTIC 24,353 BLUEPRINT 3
22 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE 23,703 LADY ANTEBELLUM
23 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 23,686 THIS IS IT
24 KINGS OF LEON RCA/RMG 23,016 ONLY BY THE NIGHT
25 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 21,868 FOUNDATION
26 SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE HOLLYWOOD 21,065 KISS & TELL
27 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 19,970 HOLIDAY COLLECTION
28 TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON CHOP SHOP/ATLANTIC 19,915 SOUNDTRACK
29 PHOENIX GLASSNOTE 19,454 WOLFGANG AMADEUS PHOENIX
30 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 18,627 WIDE OPEN
31 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 17,453 NUMBER ONES
32 GUCCI MANE WARNER BROS. 17,232 STATE VS. RADRIC DAVIS
33 50 CENT SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 16,744 BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT
34 ADAM LAMBERT 19/RCA/RMG 16,469 FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT
35 MIRANDA LAMBERT COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 16,312 EVOLUTION
36 PARAMORE FUELED BY RAMEN 15,707 BRAND NEW EYES
37 TREY SONGZ ATLANTIC 15,605 READY
38 CHRIS BROWN JIVE/JLG 15,594 GRAFFITI
39 BEYONCE COLUMBIA 15,550 I AM… SASHA FIERCE
40 NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE/EMI 15,031 THE FALL
41 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 15,003 TAYLOR SWIFT
42 BREAKING BENJAMIN HOLLYWOOD 14,600 DEAR AGONY
43 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 14,540 TIME OF OUR LIVES
44 MUDVAYNE EPIC 14,421 MUDVAYNE
45 CASTING CROWNS PROVIDENT/REUNION 14,291 UNTIL THE WHOLE WORLD HEARS
46 NICKLEBACK ROADRUNNER 14,175 DARK HORSE
47 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 13,955 ESSENTIAL
48 SHAKIRA EPIC 13,905 SHE WOLF
49 FOO FIGHTERS RCA/RMG 13,696 GREATEST HITS
50 THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS VIRGIN/EMI 13,559 THIS IS WAR
Brutal.
about 6 months ago
In other news:
For the first time since 2002, U.S. consumers spent more to see Hollywood movies in theaters last year than buy them on DVD and Blu-ray discs, industry figures showed on Monday, and that trend is expected to continue.
In recent years, Hollywood has come to rely on the high profit margin from DVD sales to underwrite the large cost of producing and marketing films, but with DVD sales dwindling, the movie industry is reexamining its business models.
Reuters
about 6 months ago
Something else to ponder…
Susan Boyle‘s international hit album “I Dreamed a Dream” (Syco/Sony Music Entertainment) is also making an impact in Japan.
“I Dreamed a Dream” reached No. 6 in Billboard’s Japan Albums charts on Dec. 19, the highest ranked album by a non-Japanese artist that week and the only one in the top 10 apart from Michael Jackson’s “This Is It.”
Boyle’s debut has moved more than 106,000 units since its release in Japan according to SoundScan Japan, making it the top selling album for a non-Japanese artist in Japan from Nov. 25-Jan. 3.
Hollywood Reporter
about 6 months ago
OK all kidding aside is it really annoying to go through the dashboard to edit comments? For now I mean?
Other than Sue (sorry Sue) everyone who posts here is either an author or an admin so we all have access to the dashboard. It’s not as if anyone new is going to register. We have registered lurkers and unregistered lurkers but they’ve yet to make a comment and I seriously doubt they ever will. I wish they would. Why they lurk here I will never know but they do.
The old theme was just fine until I updated it. The update included shrinking the font to the size of little d and removing the “author” from a post, neither of which was in any way acceptable.
I looked through a gazillion themes and this one was the best I could come up with.
I’m sorry if it’s annoying. I will look again on the weekend.
about 6 months ago
Well, we are damn witty and quite entertaining.
about 6 months ago
LOL, I do not mind editing that way. It’s easy.
about 6 months ago
I’m something of an editing maniac, and I’m fine with this theme…
about 6 months ago
I use the editing feature very frequently and find the new way cumbersome, but better than having no editing feature. As for the new design, for me, it is just OK. I like the features in the sidebar, but the appearance, not so much. On my computer it looks like this and is hard to read.
about 6 months ago
Sometimes the screen is blue, beige, and white…but most of the time it appears as posted in the thumbnail above.
about 6 months ago
Really, Boulder? Mine is always beige. Weird.
about 6 months ago
Really!
Here is how it looks with the header: