ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

You were buy yourself they had a bunch of help!
 
Also today, July 20 in 1963

Jan and Dean’s “Surf City” hits #1
  • California as a paradise of sun and sand and endless summers.

    To anyone with just a passing familiarity with 1960s pop music, “Surf City” might easily be mistaken for a Beach Boys record, though in fact, the Beach Boys had yet to have a #1 of their own when Jan and Dean scored theirs on this day in 1963. Still, “Surf City” owes its existence directly to the Beach Boys and their resident genius Brian Wilson.

    High-school classmates Jan Berry and Dean Torrence earned a pair of minor hits while still in their teens, including one — “Baby Talk” (#10 1959)— that Beach Boy Mike Love would later credit as an inspiration for his group’s 1961 debut single, “Surfin’.” But by 1962, the direction of influence between the two groups had shifted. Jan and Dean’s doo-wop flavored sound was passing out of fashion, and when the duo met the Beach Boys while appearing on the same bill at a Los Angeles record hop, they heard the sound that would reinvigorate their career. They became good friends with the Beach Boys and with Brian Wilson in particular, and when they asked Wilson if they could record one of his songs, he declined to give Jan and Dean their first choice, the then-unrecorded “Surfin’ Safari,” but he did give them the instrumental track and opening line to “Surf City.”
    In a year that also saw the debut of the Annette Funicello-Frankie Avalon Beach Party movie franchise, “Surf City” became the first chart-topping surf song ever. Jan and Dean would go on to have four more significant surf hits in their career:: “Honolulu Lulu” (#11, 1963); “Drag City” (#10, 1963); “Dead Man’s Curve” (#8, 1964); and “The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena)” (#3, 1964).


    And that's the way it is...
 
eman1200 said:
no kidding! and I didn't have this big giant bright white ball (or flat disc, if you're one of those types...) in the sky to aim for!
Click to expand...
Most people don’t know this. The earth is round but the moon is flat. The astronauts couldn’t tell us about it because they were out of radio contact on the back side of the moon.
 
iamtheari said:
Most people don’t know this. The earth is round but the moon is flat. The astronauts couldn’t tell us about it because they were out of radio contact on the back side of the moon.
Click to expand...
It wasn’t originally flat, but enough cheese was sliced off to make it that way.
 
eman1200 said:
July 20th, 2013 - eman flew an airplane solo for the first time.
Click to expand...
Interesting and COOL!

Coincidentally, on July 20, 2002 Timmy wrote the check for his first airplane...a pretty little '57 straight tail C172. He pulled his cigarettes out of his shirt pocket and made a no B.S. promise to himself that if he smoked one more grit, he'd sell his new toy. That's what it finally took for me to quit...I had tried countless times...most addictive thing I've ever done.

...and after he made that promise to himself he...

...scratched his nuts and mumbled "gee, I guess I oughta learn how to fly..."
 
Grum.Man said:
Allegedly landed on the moon. Bet they never had to do a go around.
Click to expand...

Isn't that what Michael Collins was doing, while waiting for those other two to finish their selfies & rock hounding and get back inside so they could get home in time for dinner?
 
Momentous day! I was kid watching the whole thing, and my Dad saved a copy of the paper.

Screen Shot 2020-07-20 at 8.29.00 PM.png
 

Attachments

  • image.png
    image.png
    768.8 KB · Views: 6
PeterNSteinmetz said:
You guys. I was so lucky to witness this in 69. Probably the greatest single technological achievement of all time.
Click to expand...

I was a 10 year old glued to the old Zenith black and white watching it all from lift off to splash down. Probably the only time I got to watch Tv all day and not be sick....

I still look at the moon and wonder what it was like to actually be there.
 
I bought my 182 3 years ago today :cool:
giphy.gif
 
Armstrong was a Prof at the U of Cincinnati while I was in Engineering Grad school. Met him a couple of times at Student Faculty events. Really nice guy.

Cheers
 
50 years ago today, I passed my checkride.
Well.
OK, probably not today. And probably not 50 years ago, but it was a long time ago.
Not quite as long ago as the moon landings - but a long time ago.
 
Zeldman said:
Dam kids.!! :lol::lol:
Click to expand...

Someone pointed out to me once that this was a very interesting age to have observed the moon landings. Just around that age you are transitioning from magical to more concrete thinking - and here are men walking on the moon . Almost magical - but in real life!
 
Ghery said:
No kidding. I was 17 that summer.
Click to expand...
Sheww-doggy! You is as old as me.

I was thinking about it, and if memory serves me correctly, summer 69 was when the old man bought me two Sunbeam Alpines - a '59 and a '60 and helped me tow them both home.
Nothing like a two seat English sports car with tail fins... They kept me off the streets for quite a while.
 
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
Sheww-doggy! You is as old as me.

I was thinking about it, and if memory serves me correctly, summer 69 was when the old man bought me two Sunbeam Alpines - a '59 and a '60 and helped me tow them both home.
Nothing like a two seat English sports car with tail fins... They kept me off the streets for quite a while.
Click to expand...

Just the Lucas electrics would have done that. :p

I had a 1976 MG Midget for a year (1983/84), so I know about "Dim/Flicker/Off" switches.
 
Ghery said:
Just the Lucas electrics would have done that. :p
Click to expand...
I restored and flipped Triumph TR3s, TR4s, 250s and TR6s back in the 70s and 80s. I'd typically put one of two bumper stickers on a finished car,

Lucas: The prince or darkness

or

Englishmen drink warm beer because they have Lucas refrigerators

The second was my favorite.

Years later I read that they got the contract with Boeing to supply all electrical components for their airline fleet. Scary.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top