It’s a 9-day annual celebration when pilgrims knock at doors asking for pasada (shelter), commemorating the search by Joseph and Mary for shelter where the baby Jesus might be born. Pilgrims are invited in to celebrate and to break a pinata filled with gifts and goodies. Pasadas concludes on Dec. 24.
Today is National Eat What You Want Day.
History 101: December 16, 1773 The Boston Tea Party takes place as American colonists board a British ship and dump more than 300 chests of tea overboard to protest tea taxes.
Music History 101: 1965: A song was written for Peter & Gordon by a man who DID NOT want label credit so he could see whether it sold for its music alone and not his name. It was written by Paul McCartney (Woman)
Lots of songs are written about love affairs, but today’s 101 number one song of day was written about a love affair that was downright illicit. It was recorded by a Philadelphian by the name of Paul Williams who began his professional career at the age of 11 singing on WPEN radio in the City of Brotherly Love . He got that job thanks to some help from a talented young neighborhood comedian named Bill Cosby. As an adult, his style was more jazz oriented than pop and his early records met with limited success until he met up with songwriters Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. They began to influence him more toward the R&B sound that evolved into a song that was at number one on December 16, 1972. It was about a steamy extramarital affair – by this time he had reversed his first name with his last and was known as Billy Paul – “Me and Mrs. Jones.”
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