$16,764.00 – Wow!

The Coats for Kids Campaign continued this morning at six in the Box That Rocks with Mike & KC at Sonic on North Main, Las Cruces.

There was a special drawing for another finalist to win the 101 Gold Special 2010 Chevy Camaro for contributors

and Mike Gilman was named our next finalist.  Some very lucky 101 Gold listener will win it on December 18th at Bravo Chevrolet.

Thanks to generous donations from listeners and local businesses, it was a very successful morning.

In the picture above, Mike speaks with Sonic Senior Marketing Director Donna Volz who dropped off a check for $2500.  EMI Technologies matched that with another check for $2500 and owners Joe and Brenda Alvarez kicked in a personal check for $1000.  The morning’s total came to $8382.  But wait, there’s more – Sandy Zane and Ned Bennett, Chairwoman and President of Bravo Mic Communications pledged to match every donation dollar for dollar through the Zane Bennett Foundation.  That brought the morning’s total to: $16764!

History 101:  November 4th, 1979: The Iranian hostage crisis begins as militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. For some of the hostages, it was the start of 444 days of captivity.

Music History 101: November 4th, 1961: This singer earned $20.00 for his first concert at Carnegie Hall. Only 50 showed up. ---Bob Dylan

No one ever expected Richard Chamberlain who played Dr. Kildaire to perform heart surgery, or William Shatner as Captain of the Enterprise to actually pilot an Apollo mission. But the entire world was appalled when it discovered the artist’s responsible for today’s 101 number one song of the day didn’t play their own instruments.   The distinction between R-E-E-L life and R-E-A-L was blurred because this made-for-TV group was competing in the marketplace with non fictional groups like the Beatles, The Beach Boys, and the Rolling Stones. They spent 12 hours a day on a soundstage filming their series, leaving little time for recording. That, and the producers’ doubts about their musical talent, led to studio musicians such as Glen Campbell and Leon Russell to work on their material. Today’s featured song was released a mere 3 weeks before their series debuted and a few weeks after it became a television hit, they had their first hit record – and this week in 1966 it was number one in America – The Monkees and Last Train to Clarksville.

---that song was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart and Bobby picked his favorite town in Arizona as his inspiration thus making clarksvill the fourth American city to be mentioned in the title of a number one song (Kansas city, New Orleans, El Paso)