Today is Laugh and Get Rich Day

a day to recognize laughter's power to help workers be more effective, remember things better, and not change jobs as often.

A new study finds sitting through too many business meetings – can actually make you stupid. The researchers say the problem is…that one person that shows up prepared and gives a brilliant presentation. In terms of group-think, that can make everyone else in the room feel dumb. In fact – tests have proven the collective IQ of the rest of the participants goes down slightly. So the researchers say brain-storming sessions…may actually be brain-draining meetings.

-Of course to prevent that…we generally just fall asleep.

1960: Congress opened an investigation into widespread charges of "payola" that disc jockeys were being paid to play certain records. The accused included deejays Alan Freed and Dick Clark. Clark came through the scandal unscathed, but Freed never worked in radio again.

And on February 8, 1990: Charles Westover of Coopersville, Michigan was found shot to death in his home, the victim of an apparent suicide. It was he who brought Bob Seger into the recording studio for the first time and even footed the bill. He was known to his fans as Del Shannon.

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was written for a specific scene in a movie but it wasn’t at all what the producer had requested. The writers refused to change the song so the producer changed the movie.  Both would be huge hits. The movie producer wanted the song to last eight minutes to fit the scene he had in mind. He also wanted a nice dance tempo, then a romantic interlude, then “all hell would break loose at the end.” He also wanted the same phrase repeated over and over. The songwriters ignored the instructions and came up with something entirely different and refused to use the requested phrase because they thought it was 1) “corny” and 2) other songs had the same or similar title. The songwriters prevailed and went onto record their song the way they wanted it and even so it was used in the movie trailer. And that was enough to launch it to number one where it was on February 8^th, 1978. And the phrase they refused to use over and over was – Saturday Night, Saturday Night.  Instead the BeeGees came up with “Stayin’ Alive”