Today is Basking Day

It is a day to get outdoors and bask.  With today’s high expected to be around 63 it is entirely “baskable.”

Today is also National Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.

And it’s National Chili Day.

Congressman Steve Pearce is in Las Cruces today and, as usual, he stopped by the 101 Gold studios.

We talked about the chaos in the middle east, limiting motor vehicle access to the Gilas and the possible shut down of the Federal Government.

You can listen here: Steve Pearce

History 101: February 24, 1954 The first anti-polio inoculation of school children began in Pittsburgh. The serum developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, inoculated the first group.

Music History 101: February 24, 1998 Queen Elizabeth II bestows knighthood on Reginald Kenneth Dwight. Henceforth he will be known as Sir Elton John.

The 101 number one song of the day was written and recorded by one Lugee Geno Sacco. The name you know him by came as an unexpected and disappointing surprise.   He realized that he’d be going thru a name change once he recorded his first song and he was working on some possibilities when the label released the single with a new name he’d never considered. He said that it took him 20 years to get used to it. The public took to him though, along with his falsetto voice and on February 24, 1966 he owned the number one song in America – It’s Lou Christie (Lightnin’ Strikes)