Trust Your Intuition Day

Intuition can be described as understanding without apparent effort.  Some call it a“gut feeling.”  Which reminds us of something we saw recently:

History 101: 1869: A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S.

May 10, 1982: an event occurred that was covered by all the major TV networks, major newspapers and news magazines.  Time Magazine’s article was published under the heading:  “The Day that Music Died.”  Mike McKay, who was a DJ there at the time was in the studio as WABC played its last song before going all talk.  It would be many years before “talk” on WABC rose in the ratings to match the lowest ratings that WABC ever garnered with music.  But it marked the transition of music from AM radio to FM.

More Music History: 1963: Decca Records signed a group which had been recommended by Beatle George Harrison. They were the Rolling Stones.

The 101 Number One Song of the Day is about a teacher who returned to the High School he attended as a teenager and the writer who was especially hired for the project found it to be a somewhat difficult challenge.

It was written for a TV series which would launch the career of a man who would become an international superstar. Since it was originally just a TV theme song it lasted less than 60 seconds. But it became so popular that a second verse was later added so it could be released as a single. The tough part about writing the song, however, revolved around the show’s name. The writer couldn’t find anything to rhyme with it so eventually just omitted the name of the character altogether. Well, actually, he could think of one word to rhyme with the name but couldn’t think of a way to include the word “otter” into the song. It was number one on May 10^th, 1976 for John Sebastian – the show’s name – “Welcome Back Kotter.”  The song was entitled simply, “Welcome Back.”