Remember Ozzie and Harriet?

Ricky would go on to have Billboard Magazine’s first number one song on the Hot 100 “Poor Little Fool” which we played just before our conversation with his son Gunnar.

He talked about his dad and his famous grandparents, Ozzie and Harriet.  What many don’t know is that his maternal grandfather, Tom Harmon, who was a Heisman trophy winner from Michigan and  so famous that they made a movie about him, “Harmon of Michigan.”

"Old 98" literally blazed across the football skies in 1939 and 1940 after a fast start in 1938. He was one of the country's greatest backs of his era. He became Michigan's first Heisman Trophy winner following the 1940 season and also received the Chicago Tribune's Silver Football as the Big Ten's MVP. During the three seasons he rushed for 2,134 yards, scored 33 touchdown and kicked the same number of point-after-touchdown, and booted two field goals for 237 career points. He also threw sixteen touchdown passes. After a thrilling career as a pilot in WW II, he married film star Elyse Knox and became one of the nations top sports broadcasters and directors.

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If you missed the conversation click: Gunnar

He and his twin brother, Matthew of the band Nelson will be performing a tribute concert to their dad, Rick Nelson at the Spencer Theater in Alto, NM this Saturday night (11/20/10)

for more info go to: www.spencertheater.com

History 101: November 16^th, 1971, Intel Corporation unveiled a single microchip that contained an entire CPU (central processing unit) -- that breakthrough led to the advent of personal computers.

Music History 101: 1988: Stan Love was sentenced to five years probation for embezzling $900,000 from the group he managed – the Beach Boys…He is Mike Love’s brother.

The 101 number one song of the day was written and performed by the first Beatle to record a solo single but he was the last to have a number one hit on his own.  Actually, he wasn’t completely on his own because Elton John played piano and organ and sang backing vocals on the record. Elton was sure it was going to be a number one song but the former Beatle was convinced otherwise, saying, “It would be nice but I’m out of favor here.” He was referring to the U.S. Elton bet him it would get to the top saying if it got to the top, he’d have to appear in concert with him. It arrived at number one on November 16, 1974 and within two weeks he walked on stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden to keep his end of the bargain. Today’s 101 number one song of the day is from John Lennon – “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night”