Here’s a guy who works (almost) naked everyday – Our friend, the Naked Cowboy, who stopped by Your Morning Show several years ago on his way to New York City to “become the most famous person in the world.” Today is actually dedicated to those who work at home and don’t have to worry about getting dressed before going out.
Today is also
and last but not least, Hula in the Coola Day
1920: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Mounties, were created.
The governor of Indiana declared a rock and roll song pornographic on February 1, 1964 -- an FCC investigation prompted by the declaration said “the record was unintelligible at any speed we played it.” The Kingsmen’s “Louie, Louie”
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was recorded by a group whose manager was told repeatedly by record company executives that they just wouldn’t make it in this country. He persisted and proved them wrong. Very wrong. They’d been selling lots of records in their own country for EMI. But their American subsidiary, Capitol Records just weren’t interested saying, “we don’t think they will do anything in this market, i.e., the U.S.” When the record that you’re about to hear was released in the U.K. it went to number one in a single week. Copies of it found their way here and news clips started circulating about their popularity back home. The record would go on to sell more than 15 million copies worldwide making it the biggest selling British single of all time. And it proved the experts here completely wrong when it arrived at the top of Billboards Hot 100 on February 1, 1964 – their first of many number one American hits for the Beatles – “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
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