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17th day of 2011 - 348 remaining
Monday, January 17, 2011
CABLE CAR DAY
Andrew Smith Hallidie of San Francisco, California received a patent for a cable car system on this day in 1871. The public transportation system was put into operation in the city by the bay in 1873, providing a fast, safe way to travel up and down San Francisco’s steep hills.
Now, Hallidie didn’t just wake up one day and invent his cable car system. This was one situation that proves the truth of the old adage, ‘necessity is the mother of invention.’ Hallidie realized the necessity for the cable car system when he saw a loaded horse-drawn San Francisco streetcar slide backwards on a slippery hill. It was a summer day in 1869, but the cobblestones were wet from the usual San Francisco dampness. The heavily weighted car dragged five of the horses to their deaths. The catastrophe prompted Andrew Hallidie and his partners to do something to prevent this from happening again.
Coincidentally, Hallidie already had the basic product needed to produce his cable car system. His father had filed the first patent in Great Britain for the manufacture of wire rope. Although Andrew was born in England, he had moved to the U.S. in 1852. As a young man, he was able to use his father’s new, tough rope when he designed and built a suspension bridge across Sacramento’s American River. He also had used the wire rope to pull heavy ore cars out of underground gold mines on tracks. The light bulb went on and his wire-rope manufacturing plant (that he had already moved to San Francisco) began the process of making the new cable car system.
A little known fact is that Mr. Hallidie didn’t call them cable cars at first. Originally, one took a trip on ‘the endless wire rope way.’ The cars ran on rails, pulled by an endless steel cable moving on a slot beneath the street surface. In fact, the San Francisco landmark and tourist attraction works the same way today.
Visitors and commuters alike still consider them a true San Francisco treat.
Events January 17
1795 - The Duddingston Curling Society, the oldest club of its kind, was organized in Edinburgh, Scotland. “What kind of a club is a curling club,” you ask? Easy. It’s where all straight-haired folks go to learn how to get the Shirley Temple look using hockey-type stones attached to sticks. Wrong, Goldilocks! Curling is an ice sport played in many areas. Curling is an olympic ice sport and it first came from Sctoland. It is played with skates and stones and brooms. More about curling.
1806 - James Madison Randolph, grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, was the first child born in the White House. The blessed event took place on this day in Washington, DC.
1876 - The saxophone was played by Etta Morgan at New York City’s Olympic Theatre. The instrument was little known at the time in the United States.
1893 - Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown as a group of white businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. President Sanford B. Dole declared the Kingdom of Hawaii a republic on July 4, 1894.
1905 - Punchboards were patented by Charles A. Brewer & C.G. Scannell of Chicago, Illinois.
1916 - The Professional Golfers’ Association was formed in New York City. The first PGA Champion was Jim Barnes.
1928 - The fully automatic, film-developing machine was patented by Anatol M. Josepho. Anatol called his gizmo Photomaton.
1938 - Francis X. Bushman was the star of the program, Stepmother, which debuted on CBS radio. The show continued on the air for the next four years.
1941 - Gene Krupa and his band recorded the standard, Drum Boogie, on Okeh Records. The lady singing with the boys in the band during the song’s chorus was Irene Daye.
1945 - The American record holder for the indoor one mile run, Gilbert Dodds, announced his retirement from competition to devote his time to running for a higher source. Dodds became a gospel preacher. He came out of retirement briefly, in hopes of competing in the 1948 Olympics. While training for the Olympics, he broke his own record by winning the Wanamaker Mile in 4:05.3. How’d Gilbert do in the Olympics? He didn’t. The mumps caught up to him before the trials and he permanently retired from running.
1949 - The Goldbergs came to CBS-TV this night. The program had been a radio standard for years, dating back to 1931. The TV version lasted for four years. Molly: “Close the window, Jake. It’s cold outside.” Jake: “Okay. The window’s Closed . Now it’s warm outside?” Molly Goldberg was played by Gertrude Berg, who won an Emmy for her performance in 1950.
1950 - Masked gunmen knocked off the Brink’s garage in Boston. It was later determined that the robbers carried away $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders and other securities. It was the biggest cash haul in history.
1955 - The submarine USS Nautilus made its first nuclear-powered test run from its berth in Groton, Connecticut. Commanding Officer Eugene P. Wilkinson signaled the historic message, “Underway on nuclear power.”
1961 - In his farewell speech, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
1966 - A U.S. Air Force B-52 carrying four unarmed hydrogen bombs crashed on the Spanish coast. Three of the bombs were quickly recovered, but the fourth wasn’t found until the following April.
1969 - Lady Samantha, one of the very first recordings by Reginald Kenneth Dwight (aka Elton John), was released in England on Philips Records. The song floundered, then bombed. The rock group, Three Dog Night, however, thought Elton’s tune was nifty and recorded it for an album.
1970 - Singer Billy Stewart and three members of his band died in a car crash in North Carolina. The new car that they were riding in struck a bridge abutment and plunged into a river. Stewart was 32 years old. He had eleven records that made the Billboard Hot 100. Billy Stewart’s biggest hit was Summertime, which made it to the top ten in 1966.
1971 - Super Bowl V (at Miami): Baltimore Colts 16, Dallas Cowboys 13. Kicker Jim O’Brien’s 32-yard field goal, with 59 seconds to go, won the game for the Colts. MVP: Cowboys’ LB Chuck Howley. Tickets: $15.00.
1973 - The new Philippine constitution named Ferdinand Marcos president for life. Ah, democracy at work...
1976 - Barry Manilow’s I Write the Songs rose to #1 on the Billboard pop chart. The sing-along favorite stayed at the top for one week.
1977 - Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer in Utah, got his wish, and became the first person in ten years to be executed in the U.S. He was shot by a firing squad. The story became the basis for Norman Mailer’s book and film, The Executioner’s Song.
1983 - Alabama Governor George C. Wallace became governor -- for a record fourth time.
1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Sony in ruling that the private use of home video cassette recorders to tape TV programs did not violate federal copyright laws.
1986 - This was D-Day for G-rated movies as four ‘Approved for All Audiences’ films were released. Among the characters featured were Yogi Bear and Heathcliff along with The Adventures of Mark Twain and The Adventures of the American Rabbit.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a secret order permitting the covert sale of arms to Iran.
1988 - The Washington Redskins won the NFC championship by defeating the Minnesota Vikings 17-10; the Denver Broncos beat the Cleveland Browns 38-33 to win the AFC title.
1989 - Five children were shot to death at the Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, CA by a drifter who then shot and killed himself.
1991 - Operation Desert Storm began. The U.S. and its United Nations allies went to war to drive Saddam Hussein’s army out of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait. U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf gave the go-ahead for bombing raids on Baghdad, followed a few weeks later by assaults with ground troops on Iraqi troops in southern Iraq and Kuwait. During the following six weeks Iraq fired its Scud missles at U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia and at the general population in Israel, but was routed soundly. Iraqi troops left Kuwait, retreating all the way to Baghdad and, in many cases, surrendering in the field.
1993 - The United States, accusing Iraq of a series of military provocations, fired Tomahawk missiles toward a military complex eight miles from downtown Baghdad.
1994 - Actors Donny Osmond and Danny Bonaduce slugged it out in a three-round charity boxing match in Chicago, Illinois. The winner: Bonaduce, who bloodied Osmond’s nose in the two-to-one decision. The match was set up after Osmond taunted Bonaduce at the gym where both men were working out.
1994 - A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck Northridge in Southern California. The quake killed at least 61 people and caused $40 billion worth of damage. At the time, it was the most expensive natural disaster in American history.
1995 - A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Kobe, Japan. The ‘Great Hanshin Earthquake’ happened at 5:46 a.m., killing at least 6,000 people and injured more than 26,000. The quake damaged or destroyed more than 56,000 buildings.
1995 - The Golf Channel began on some U.S. cable systems. Four years later, the world’s first 24-hour golf network was seen in over 30,000,000 homes.
1996 - Former U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan died in Austin, Texas. She was 59 years old.
1997 - These films opened in the U.S.: Albino Alligator (the directorial debut of Kevin Spacey), starring Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise, William Fichtner and Faye Dunaway; Beverly Hills Ninja (a baby is raised as one of their own by a clan of Ninja warriors), with Chris Farley, Nicollette Sheridan, Robin Shou, Nathaniel Parker, Soon-Tek Oh and Chris Rock; and Metro (a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist.), starring Eddie Murphy, Michael Rapaport, Michael Wincott and Carmen Ejogo.
1997 - The U.S. House of Representative Ethics Committee approved a $300,000 penalty against Speaker Newt Gingrich for ethics violations.
1998 - Savage Garden’s Truly, Madly, Deeply was the number-one single in the U.S. for the first of two weeks. “I want to stand with you on a mountain; I want to bathe with you in the sea; I want to lay like this forever; Until the sky falls down on me.”
1999 - The defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos defeated the New York Jets, 23-10, to win the American Football Conference title. The Atlanta Falcons upset the Minnesota Vikings, 30-27, to grab the National Football Conference trophy.
2000 - British pharmaceutical firms Glaxo Wellcome PLC and SmithKline Beecham PLC announced a merger to form the world’s largest drug maker (combined sales of £15.0 billion/$24.9 billion). Now, that’s a lot of pills...
2000 - Some 50,000 people marched in Columbia, SC to protest the flying of the continued Confederate battle flag over the state Capitol.
2001 - Faced with an electricity crisis, California used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people. Governor Gray Davis signed an emergency order authorizing the state to buy more power.
2001 - President Bill Clinton designated six new U.S. national monuments: The Carrizo Plain, between San Luis Obispo and Bakersfield CA; the Upper Missouri River Breaks, the Pompeys Pillar landmark in Montana; the Sonoran Desert monument in Arizona; the Minidoka Internment National Monument in Idaho; and the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks in New Mexico.
2002 - The Mount Nyiragongo volcano erupted near Goma in the Congo. Rivers of lava destroyed fourteen villages. Some 400,000 people fled their homes and at least 50 were killed.
2003 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: Kangaroo Jack, with Jerry O’Connell, Estella Warren, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken, Dyan Cannon, Michael Shannon, Marton Csokas and David Ngoombujarra; and National Security, starring Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Eric Roberts, Bill Duke, Timothy Busfield, Wayne Morse, Robinne Lee, Troy Gilbert, Kevin Beard, Brett Cullen and Mike Grasso.
2003 - Tom Ridge sailed through U.S. Senate confirmation hearings on his way to becoming the nation’s first Homeland Security Department chief.
2003 - Actor Richard Crenna died at 75 years of age. Crenna appeared on network radio while still a teenager as Ougy Pringle in A Date with Judy (1946). Old timers will also remember him as the crackly-voiced Walter Denton on Our Miss Brooks. Crenna went on to play Luke on The Real McCoys, but really came into his own as the dedicated state legislator in the long-running Slattery’s People. In 1985, Crenna won an Emmy for Best Performance by an Actor for The Rape of Richard Beck. Richard Crenna appeared in more than 70 major motion pictures.
2004 - Producer Ray Stark died at 88 years of age. Stark discovered Barbra Streisand at a New York nightclub and persuaded a reluctant Columbia Pictures to award the singer her Oscar-winning role in Funny Girl. His other films include The Way We Were, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl, Somewhere in Time, Steel Magnolias and Barbarians at the Gate.
2005 - Screen star Virginia Mayo died in Los Angeles. She was 84 years old. Her 50+ films include White Heat, The Princess and the Pirate, Best Years of Our Lives, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Along the Great Divide, and the TV soap Santa Barbara.
2005 - The 85-year-old former Chinese leader (1980-1987) Zhao Ziyang died after 15 years under house arrest. He was ousted as China’s Communist Party leader after sympathizing with the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests.
2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (6-3) in Gonzales v. Oregon that federal drug laws did not give the Bush administration power to squelch Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act.
2007 - A snow and ice storm was blamed for dozens of deaths in nine states: 20 deaths in Oklahoma, 9 in Missouri, 8 in Iowa, 4 in New York, 5 in Texas, 4 in Michigan, 3 in Arkansas, and 1 each in Maine and Indiana.
2007 - Columnist and author Art Buchwald died at 81 years of age. Buchwald wrote about the life and times of Washington DC for over four decades.
2008 - Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer died in Iceland at 64 years of age. Fischer had become a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion (Boris Spassky) in 1972.
2008 - The New York Stock Exchange decided to buy the American Stock Exchange for $260 million in stock.
2009 - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama arrived in Washington DC after pledging to help bring the nation “a new Declaration of Independence” and promising to rise to the stern challenges of the times. He kicked off a four-day inaugural celebration with a daylong rail trip, retracing the path Abraham Lincoln took in 1861.
2010 - The U.S. state of Arizona made $735 million by selling more than a dozen state-owned buildings, including the House and Senate buildings at the Capitol.
Birthdays January 17
1706 - Benjamin Franklin
statesman: oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution; printer, author, publisher [Richard Saunders]: Poor Richard’s Almanack; scientist, inventor: Franklin stove, bifocals, lightning rods; established University of Pennsylvania; died Apr 17, 1790
1880 - Mack Sennett (Mikall Sinnott)
silent movie director: Tillie’s Punctured Romance, Mack Sennett Comedies, Kid’s Auto Race, Mabel’s Married Life, Cannonball, Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts; died Nov 5, 1960
1882 - Noah Beery
actor: Mark of Zorro, Vanishing American, The Drifter; died Apr 1, 1946
1890 - Louis Santop
Baseball Hall of Famer [catcher]: Philadelphia Giants, New York Lincoln Giants, Brooklyn Royal Giants, Hilldale Daisies; died Jan 22, 1942
1891 - Marjorie Gateson
Broadway, film actress: Arizona Mahoney, Goin’ to Town; died Apr 17, 1977
1899 - Al Capone
‘Scarface’: gangster, head of crime empire during Prohibition; died Jan 25, 1947
1903 - Warren Hull
TV show host: Strike It Rich, You Are an Artist, Public Prosecutor, Cavalcade of Bands; actor: The Walking Dead, The Big Noise, Hawaii Calls, The Girl from Rio, The Green Hornet Strikes Again!, The Spider Returns; died Sep 14, 1974
1913 - Vido Musso
musician: reed instruments, played with Benny Goodman; bandleader: Stan Kenton was his pianist; died Jan 9, 1982
1916 - Joel Herron
arranger, conductor, composer, songwriter: I’m a Fool to Want You, Sierra Nevada, Take My Love, Destiny’s Darling, Closer, Closer, I Push My Heart Through a Horn, Too Many Times, Sh’lom bait, Across the Sea, Shocka-boom
1920 - George Handy (George Joseph Hendleman)
pianist, composer, arranger: Boyd Raeburn band, Alvino Rey band, Paramount Studios; died Jan 8, 1997
1922 - Betty White
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1974-1975, 1975-1976], The Golden Girls [1985-1986]; The Betty White Show, Ladies Man; singer
1926 - Moira Shearer
ballerina: appeared in ballet film: The Red Shoes; died Jan 31, 2006
1927 - Eartha Kitt
singer: C’est Si Bon, Santa Baby; actress: stage play: Faust, film: New Faces of 1952, Boomerang; note: Kitt’s birth certificate listing her actual birthdate as 1/17/27 was found in 1997. She has celebrated her birthday as Jan. 26 [1928] all of her life and says, “It’s been the 26th of January since the beginning of time and I’m not going to change it and confuse my fans.”; died Dec 25, 2008
1928 - Vidal Sassoon
cosmetologist, developer of hair care products
1929 - Jacques Plante
Hockey Hall of Fame goalie: NHL: Montreal Canadiens Vezina Trophy [1956-1960, 1962/Hart Trophy (NHL’s MVP): 1962]; first goalie to wear mask during games; NY Rangers, SL Blues, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins; died Feb 27, 1986
1931 - James Earl Jones
actor: Star Wars [Darth Vader], The Hunt for Red October, The Lion King, Sneakers, Roots, The Great White Hope; voice: “This... is CNN”
1932 - Sheree North (Dawn Bethel)
actress: Marilyn: The Untold Story, How to be Very Popular, Defenseless, Portrait of a Stripper; died Nov 4, 2005
1933 - Shari Lewis (Hurwitz)
puppeteer: The Shari Lewis Show [featuring Lamb Chop, the puppet]; died Aug 2, 1998
1939 - Maury Povich
TV talk show host: A Current Affair, The Maury Povich Show; Twenty One; married to newscaster Connie Chung
1942 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
boxer: heavyweight champion: [1964, 1974, 1978], the only man to have regained this title twice
1942 - Randy Boone
actor: The Wild Pair, Savages, Backtrack!, Country Boy, Dr. Minx, Terminal Island, Hondo and the Apaches
1943 - Chris Montez
singer: She’s My Rockin’ Baby, Call Me, There Will Never Be Another You, Some Kinda Fun, Let’s Dance
1944 - Denny (Robert Dennis) Doyle
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, California Angels, Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1975]
1945 - William ‘Poogie’ Hart
singer: group: The Delfonics: La-La Means I Love You, I'm Sorry, Break Your Promise, Ready or Not Here I Come [Can't Hide From Love], Somebody Loves You, Didn’t I [Blow Your Mind]
1945 - Preston Pearson
football: Baltimore Colts running back: Super Bowl III; Pittsburgh Steelers: Super Bowl IX; Dallas Cowboys: Super Bowls X, XII, XIII
1947 - Jane Elliot
actress: Days of Our Lives, Baby Boom, Some Kind of Wonderful, In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, Once an Eagle, One Is a Lonely Number
1949 - Andy Kaufman
actor: Taxi, The Midnight Special, Saturday Night Live, Andy’s Funhouse; died May 16, 1984
1949 - Mick Taylor
singer, musician: rhythm guitar: group: The Rolling Stones; worked with Mike Oldfield, Bob Dylan, The Gods
1952 - Pete (Ralph Pierre) LaCock
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals [World Series: 1980]; son of Hollywood Squares host, Peter Marshall
1955 - Steve Earle
songwriter, singer, musician: guitar: Guitar Town, Exit O
1956 - Mitch Vogel
actor: Bonanza, Texas Detour, Born Innocent, Yours, Mine and Ours
1956 - Paul Young
singer: Everytime You Go Away
1957 - John Crawford
singer, musician: bass: group: Berlin: Take My Breath Away
1959 - Susanna Hoffs
singer, musician: guitar: LP: Rainy Day, group: The Bangles: Walk Like an Egyptian, Manic Monday
1962 - Jim Carrey
actor, comedian: The Mask, Ace Ventura series, Dumb & Dumber, Batman Forever, The Cable Guy, The Truman Show, Me, Myself & Irene, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Majestic
1964 - Michelle Obama (Michelle LaVaughn Robinson)
U.S. First Lady: wife of 44th U.S. President Barack Obama
1964 - Andy Rourke
musician: guitar: group: The Smiths: Hand in Glove, The Charming Man, What Difference Does It Make?, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, William, It Was Really Nothing
1967 - Linda Kash
actress: Second City, Style & Substance, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Running Mates, The Altar Boy Gang, Man of the Year, Cinderella Man, The Bookfair Murders, Ernest Goes to Africa
1968 - Nici Sterling
actress: X-rated films: The Theory of Relativity, Buttman’s Bouncin’ British Babes, The Palace of Pleasure, Taboo 16, Sodomania, Nici’s Naked Hookers 2, KSEX 106.9, Shag, Gobble & Spunk: A History of British Porn Cinema
1969 - Selena Steele
exotic dancer, actress: X-rated films: Moms a Cheater, MILF Filth, Desperate Mothers & Wives, Cumming Clean, Sorority Sex Kittens, Nurse Steamy, Slick Honey, Hate to See You Go
1970 - Darnell Walker
football [defensive back]: Univ of Oklahoma; NFL: Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions
1971 - Tyler Houston
baseball: Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers, LA Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies
1971 - Derek Plante
hockey: Buffalo Sabres, Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers
1971 - Kid Rock (Robert James Ritchie)
singer/rapper: Black Chick, White Guy, Forever, Cool, Daddy Cool, Bawitdaba; actor: Any Given Sunday, Coyote Ugly, Stripperella
1972 - Benno Fürmann
actor: Joyeux Noel, Ring of the Nibelungs, The Order, My House in Umbria, Das Staatsgeheimnis, Kanak Attack, Wolfsburg
1974 - Derrick Mason
football: Michigan State Univ; NFL: Tennessee Oilers/Titans
1975 - Brad Fullmer
baseball: Montreal Expos, Toronto Blue Jays, Anaheim Angels, Texas Rangers
1977 - Rob Bell
baseball [pitcher]: Cincinnati Reds, Texas Rangers, TB Devil Rays
1979 - Dominic Rhodes
football [running back]: Indianapolis Colts, Oakland Raiders
1980 - Milan Kraft
hockey: Pittsburgh Penguins
1981 - Ray J
singer: Let It Go, Everything You Want, That’s Why I Lie, Wait a Minute, Formal Invite; actor: The Sinbad Show, Mars Attacks!, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Christmas at Water’s Edge
1982 - Melody Johnson
actress: Jason X, Ricky Nelson: Original Teen Idol, The Virgin Suicides, Butterbox Babies, J.F.K.: Reckless Youth, Liar’s Edge
1982 - Dwyane Wade
basketball [guard]: Marquette Univ; NBA: Miami Heat
1989 - Yvonne Zima
actress: ER, The Young and the Restless, You, Only Better..., Love Hurts, Storm Catcher, ’Til There Was You, Bed of Roses
1992 - Nate Hartley
actor: Hannah Montana, Dirty Girl, South Dakota, Drillbit Taylor, Swan Song, Zeke and Luther
Chart Toppers January 17
1947For Sentimental Reasons - Nat King Cole
Ole Buttermilk Sky - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Mike Douglas & The Campus Kids)
A Gal in Calico - Johnny Mercer
Rainbow at Midnight - Ernest Tubb
1956Memories are Made of This - Dean Martin
Band of Gold - Don Cherry
Rock and Roll Waltz - Kay Starr
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
1965Come See About Me - The Supremes
Love Potion Number Nine - The Searchers
Downtown - Petula Clark
Once a Day - Connie Smith
1974The Joker - Steve Miller Band
Show and Tell - Al Wilson
Smokin’ in the Boys Room - Brownsville Station
I Love - Tom T. Hall
1983Down Under - Men at Work
The Girl is Mine - Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney
Dirty Laundry - Don Henley
Going Where the Lonely Go - Merle Haggard
1992Black or White - Michael Jackson
All 4 Love - Color Me Badd
Can’t Let Go - Mariah Carey
Love, Me - Collin Raye
2001It Wasn’t Me - Shaggy featuring Ricardo ‘Rikrok’ Ducent
Independent Woman, Part 1 - Destiny’s Child
He Loves U Not - Dream
My Next Thirty Years - Tim McGraw
2010TiK ToK - Ke$ha
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Replay - Iyaz
Consider Me Gone - Reba McEntire
Chart Topper January 17th, 2001...My Next Thirty Years - Tim McGraw
17th day of 2011 - 348 remaining
Monday, January 17, 2011
CABLE CAR DAY
Andrew Smith Hallidie of San Francisco, California received a patent for a cable car system on this day in 1871. The public transportation system was put into operation in the city by the bay in 1873, providing a fast, safe way to travel up and down San Francisco’s steep hills.
Now, Hallidie didn’t just wake up one day and invent his cable car system. This was one situation that proves the truth of the old adage, ‘necessity is the mother of invention.’ Hallidie realized the necessity for the cable car system when he saw a loaded horse-drawn San Francisco streetcar slide backwards on a slippery hill. It was a summer day in 1869, but the cobblestones were wet from the usual San Francisco dampness. The heavily weighted car dragged five of the horses to their deaths. The catastrophe prompted Andrew Hallidie and his partners to do something to prevent this from happening again.
Coincidentally, Hallidie already had the basic product needed to produce his cable car system. His father had filed the first patent in Great Britain for the manufacture of wire rope. Although Andrew was born in England, he had moved to the U.S. in 1852. As a young man, he was able to use his father’s new, tough rope when he designed and built a suspension bridge across Sacramento’s American River. He also had used the wire rope to pull heavy ore cars out of underground gold mines on tracks. The light bulb went on and his wire-rope manufacturing plant (that he had already moved to San Francisco) began the process of making the new cable car system.
A little known fact is that Mr. Hallidie didn’t call them cable cars at first. Originally, one took a trip on ‘the endless wire rope way.’ The cars ran on rails, pulled by an endless steel cable moving on a slot beneath the street surface. In fact, the San Francisco landmark and tourist attraction works the same way today.
Visitors and commuters alike still consider them a true San Francisco treat.
Events January 17
1795 - The Duddingston Curling Society, the oldest club of its kind, was organized in Edinburgh, Scotland. “What kind of a club is a curling club,” you ask? Easy. It’s where all straight-haired folks go to learn how to get the Shirley Temple look using hockey-type stones attached to sticks. Wrong, Goldilocks! Curling is an ice sport played in many areas. Curling is an olympic ice sport and it first came from Sctoland. It is played with skates and stones and brooms. More about curling.
1806 - James Madison Randolph, grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, was the first child born in the White House. The blessed event took place on this day in Washington, DC.
1876 - The saxophone was played by Etta Morgan at New York City’s Olympic Theatre. The instrument was little known at the time in the United States.
1893 - Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown as a group of white businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. President Sanford B. Dole declared the Kingdom of Hawaii a republic on July 4, 1894.
1905 - Punchboards were patented by Charles A. Brewer & C.G. Scannell of Chicago, Illinois.
1916 - The Professional Golfers’ Association was formed in New York City. The first PGA Champion was Jim Barnes.
1928 - The fully automatic, film-developing machine was patented by Anatol M. Josepho. Anatol called his gizmo Photomaton.
1938 - Francis X. Bushman was the star of the program, Stepmother, which debuted on CBS radio. The show continued on the air for the next four years.
1941 - Gene Krupa and his band recorded the standard, Drum Boogie, on Okeh Records. The lady singing with the boys in the band during the song’s chorus was Irene Daye.
1945 - The American record holder for the indoor one mile run, Gilbert Dodds, announced his retirement from competition to devote his time to running for a higher source. Dodds became a gospel preacher. He came out of retirement briefly, in hopes of competing in the 1948 Olympics. While training for the Olympics, he broke his own record by winning the Wanamaker Mile in 4:05.3. How’d Gilbert do in the Olympics? He didn’t. The mumps caught up to him before the trials and he permanently retired from running.
1949 - The Goldbergs came to CBS-TV this night. The program had been a radio standard for years, dating back to 1931. The TV version lasted for four years. Molly: “Close the window, Jake. It’s cold outside.” Jake: “Okay. The window’s Closed . Now it’s warm outside?” Molly Goldberg was played by Gertrude Berg, who won an Emmy for her performance in 1950.
1950 - Masked gunmen knocked off the Brink’s garage in Boston. It was later determined that the robbers carried away $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders and other securities. It was the biggest cash haul in history.
1955 - The submarine USS Nautilus made its first nuclear-powered test run from its berth in Groton, Connecticut. Commanding Officer Eugene P. Wilkinson signaled the historic message, “Underway on nuclear power.”
1961 - In his farewell speech, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
1966 - A U.S. Air Force B-52 carrying four unarmed hydrogen bombs crashed on the Spanish coast. Three of the bombs were quickly recovered, but the fourth wasn’t found until the following April.
1969 - Lady Samantha, one of the very first recordings by Reginald Kenneth Dwight (aka Elton John), was released in England on Philips Records. The song floundered, then bombed. The rock group, Three Dog Night, however, thought Elton’s tune was nifty and recorded it for an album.
1970 - Singer Billy Stewart and three members of his band died in a car crash in North Carolina. The new car that they were riding in struck a bridge abutment and plunged into a river. Stewart was 32 years old. He had eleven records that made the Billboard Hot 100. Billy Stewart’s biggest hit was Summertime, which made it to the top ten in 1966.
1971 - Super Bowl V (at Miami): Baltimore Colts 16, Dallas Cowboys 13. Kicker Jim O’Brien’s 32-yard field goal, with 59 seconds to go, won the game for the Colts. MVP: Cowboys’ LB Chuck Howley. Tickets: $15.00.
1973 - The new Philippine constitution named Ferdinand Marcos president for life. Ah, democracy at work...
1976 - Barry Manilow’s I Write the Songs rose to #1 on the Billboard pop chart. The sing-along favorite stayed at the top for one week.
1977 - Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer in Utah, got his wish, and became the first person in ten years to be executed in the U.S. He was shot by a firing squad. The story became the basis for Norman Mailer’s book and film, The Executioner’s Song.
1983 - Alabama Governor George C. Wallace became governor -- for a record fourth time.
1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Sony in ruling that the private use of home video cassette recorders to tape TV programs did not violate federal copyright laws.
1986 - This was D-Day for G-rated movies as four ‘Approved for All Audiences’ films were released. Among the characters featured were Yogi Bear and Heathcliff along with The Adventures of Mark Twain and The Adventures of the American Rabbit.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a secret order permitting the covert sale of arms to Iran.
1988 - The Washington Redskins won the NFC championship by defeating the Minnesota Vikings 17-10; the Denver Broncos beat the Cleveland Browns 38-33 to win the AFC title.
1989 - Five children were shot to death at the Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, CA by a drifter who then shot and killed himself.
1991 - Operation Desert Storm began. The U.S. and its United Nations allies went to war to drive Saddam Hussein’s army out of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait. U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf gave the go-ahead for bombing raids on Baghdad, followed a few weeks later by assaults with ground troops on Iraqi troops in southern Iraq and Kuwait. During the following six weeks Iraq fired its Scud missles at U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia and at the general population in Israel, but was routed soundly. Iraqi troops left Kuwait, retreating all the way to Baghdad and, in many cases, surrendering in the field.
1993 - The United States, accusing Iraq of a series of military provocations, fired Tomahawk missiles toward a military complex eight miles from downtown Baghdad.
1994 - Actors Donny Osmond and Danny Bonaduce slugged it out in a three-round charity boxing match in Chicago, Illinois. The winner: Bonaduce, who bloodied Osmond’s nose in the two-to-one decision. The match was set up after Osmond taunted Bonaduce at the gym where both men were working out.
1994 - A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck Northridge in Southern California. The quake killed at least 61 people and caused $40 billion worth of damage. At the time, it was the most expensive natural disaster in American history.
1995 - A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Kobe, Japan. The ‘Great Hanshin Earthquake’ happened at 5:46 a.m., killing at least 6,000 people and injured more than 26,000. The quake damaged or destroyed more than 56,000 buildings.
1995 - The Golf Channel began on some U.S. cable systems. Four years later, the world’s first 24-hour golf network was seen in over 30,000,000 homes.
1996 - Former U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan died in Austin, Texas. She was 59 years old.
1997 - These films opened in the U.S.: Albino Alligator (the directorial debut of Kevin Spacey), starring Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise, William Fichtner and Faye Dunaway; Beverly Hills Ninja (a baby is raised as one of their own by a clan of Ninja warriors), with Chris Farley, Nicollette Sheridan, Robin Shou, Nathaniel Parker, Soon-Tek Oh and Chris Rock; and Metro (a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist.), starring Eddie Murphy, Michael Rapaport, Michael Wincott and Carmen Ejogo.
1997 - The U.S. House of Representative Ethics Committee approved a $300,000 penalty against Speaker Newt Gingrich for ethics violations.
1998 - Savage Garden’s Truly, Madly, Deeply was the number-one single in the U.S. for the first of two weeks. “I want to stand with you on a mountain; I want to bathe with you in the sea; I want to lay like this forever; Until the sky falls down on me.”
1999 - The defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos defeated the New York Jets, 23-10, to win the American Football Conference title. The Atlanta Falcons upset the Minnesota Vikings, 30-27, to grab the National Football Conference trophy.
2000 - British pharmaceutical firms Glaxo Wellcome PLC and SmithKline Beecham PLC announced a merger to form the world’s largest drug maker (combined sales of £15.0 billion/$24.9 billion). Now, that’s a lot of pills...
2000 - Some 50,000 people marched in Columbia, SC to protest the flying of the continued Confederate battle flag over the state Capitol.
2001 - Faced with an electricity crisis, California used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people. Governor Gray Davis signed an emergency order authorizing the state to buy more power.
2001 - President Bill Clinton designated six new U.S. national monuments: The Carrizo Plain, between San Luis Obispo and Bakersfield CA; the Upper Missouri River Breaks, the Pompeys Pillar landmark in Montana; the Sonoran Desert monument in Arizona; the Minidoka Internment National Monument in Idaho; and the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks in New Mexico.
2002 - The Mount Nyiragongo volcano erupted near Goma in the Congo. Rivers of lava destroyed fourteen villages. Some 400,000 people fled their homes and at least 50 were killed.
2003 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: Kangaroo Jack, with Jerry O’Connell, Estella Warren, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken, Dyan Cannon, Michael Shannon, Marton Csokas and David Ngoombujarra; and National Security, starring Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Eric Roberts, Bill Duke, Timothy Busfield, Wayne Morse, Robinne Lee, Troy Gilbert, Kevin Beard, Brett Cullen and Mike Grasso.
2003 - Tom Ridge sailed through U.S. Senate confirmation hearings on his way to becoming the nation’s first Homeland Security Department chief.
2003 - Actor Richard Crenna died at 75 years of age. Crenna appeared on network radio while still a teenager as Ougy Pringle in A Date with Judy (1946). Old timers will also remember him as the crackly-voiced Walter Denton on Our Miss Brooks. Crenna went on to play Luke on The Real McCoys, but really came into his own as the dedicated state legislator in the long-running Slattery’s People. In 1985, Crenna won an Emmy for Best Performance by an Actor for The Rape of Richard Beck. Richard Crenna appeared in more than 70 major motion pictures.
2004 - Producer Ray Stark died at 88 years of age. Stark discovered Barbra Streisand at a New York nightclub and persuaded a reluctant Columbia Pictures to award the singer her Oscar-winning role in Funny Girl. His other films include The Way We Were, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl, Somewhere in Time, Steel Magnolias and Barbarians at the Gate.
2005 - Screen star Virginia Mayo died in Los Angeles. She was 84 years old. Her 50+ films include White Heat, The Princess and the Pirate, Best Years of Our Lives, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Along the Great Divide, and the TV soap Santa Barbara.
2005 - The 85-year-old former Chinese leader (1980-1987) Zhao Ziyang died after 15 years under house arrest. He was ousted as China’s Communist Party leader after sympathizing with the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests.
2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (6-3) in Gonzales v. Oregon that federal drug laws did not give the Bush administration power to squelch Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act.
2007 - A snow and ice storm was blamed for dozens of deaths in nine states: 20 deaths in Oklahoma, 9 in Missouri, 8 in Iowa, 4 in New York, 5 in Texas, 4 in Michigan, 3 in Arkansas, and 1 each in Maine and Indiana.
2007 - Columnist and author Art Buchwald died at 81 years of age. Buchwald wrote about the life and times of Washington DC for over four decades.
2008 - Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer died in Iceland at 64 years of age. Fischer had become a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion (Boris Spassky) in 1972.
2008 - The New York Stock Exchange decided to buy the American Stock Exchange for $260 million in stock.
2009 - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama arrived in Washington DC after pledging to help bring the nation “a new Declaration of Independence” and promising to rise to the stern challenges of the times. He kicked off a four-day inaugural celebration with a daylong rail trip, retracing the path Abraham Lincoln took in 1861.
2010 - The U.S. state of Arizona made $735 million by selling more than a dozen state-owned buildings, including the House and Senate buildings at the Capitol.
Birthdays January 17
1706 - Benjamin Franklin
statesman: oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution; printer, author, publisher [Richard Saunders]: Poor Richard’s Almanack; scientist, inventor: Franklin stove, bifocals, lightning rods; established University of Pennsylvania; died Apr 17, 1790
1880 - Mack Sennett (Mikall Sinnott)
silent movie director: Tillie’s Punctured Romance, Mack Sennett Comedies, Kid’s Auto Race, Mabel’s Married Life, Cannonball, Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts; died Nov 5, 1960
1882 - Noah Beery
actor: Mark of Zorro, Vanishing American, The Drifter; died Apr 1, 1946
1890 - Louis Santop
Baseball Hall of Famer [catcher]: Philadelphia Giants, New York Lincoln Giants, Brooklyn Royal Giants, Hilldale Daisies; died Jan 22, 1942
1891 - Marjorie Gateson
Broadway, film actress: Arizona Mahoney, Goin’ to Town; died Apr 17, 1977
1899 - Al Capone
‘Scarface’: gangster, head of crime empire during Prohibition; died Jan 25, 1947
1903 - Warren Hull
TV show host: Strike It Rich, You Are an Artist, Public Prosecutor, Cavalcade of Bands; actor: The Walking Dead, The Big Noise, Hawaii Calls, The Girl from Rio, The Green Hornet Strikes Again!, The Spider Returns; died Sep 14, 1974
1913 - Vido Musso
musician: reed instruments, played with Benny Goodman; bandleader: Stan Kenton was his pianist; died Jan 9, 1982
1916 - Joel Herron
arranger, conductor, composer, songwriter: I’m a Fool to Want You, Sierra Nevada, Take My Love, Destiny’s Darling, Closer, Closer, I Push My Heart Through a Horn, Too Many Times, Sh’lom bait, Across the Sea, Shocka-boom
1920 - George Handy (George Joseph Hendleman)
pianist, composer, arranger: Boyd Raeburn band, Alvino Rey band, Paramount Studios; died Jan 8, 1997
1922 - Betty White
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1974-1975, 1975-1976], The Golden Girls [1985-1986]; The Betty White Show, Ladies Man; singer
1926 - Moira Shearer
ballerina: appeared in ballet film: The Red Shoes; died Jan 31, 2006
1927 - Eartha Kitt
singer: C’est Si Bon, Santa Baby; actress: stage play: Faust, film: New Faces of 1952, Boomerang; note: Kitt’s birth certificate listing her actual birthdate as 1/17/27 was found in 1997. She has celebrated her birthday as Jan. 26 [1928] all of her life and says, “It’s been the 26th of January since the beginning of time and I’m not going to change it and confuse my fans.”; died Dec 25, 2008
1928 - Vidal Sassoon
cosmetologist, developer of hair care products
1929 - Jacques Plante
Hockey Hall of Fame goalie: NHL: Montreal Canadiens Vezina Trophy [1956-1960, 1962/Hart Trophy (NHL’s MVP): 1962]; first goalie to wear mask during games; NY Rangers, SL Blues, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins; died Feb 27, 1986
1931 - James Earl Jones
actor: Star Wars [Darth Vader], The Hunt for Red October, The Lion King, Sneakers, Roots, The Great White Hope; voice: “This... is CNN”
1932 - Sheree North (Dawn Bethel)
actress: Marilyn: The Untold Story, How to be Very Popular, Defenseless, Portrait of a Stripper; died Nov 4, 2005
1933 - Shari Lewis (Hurwitz)
puppeteer: The Shari Lewis Show [featuring Lamb Chop, the puppet]; died Aug 2, 1998
1939 - Maury Povich
TV talk show host: A Current Affair, The Maury Povich Show; Twenty One; married to newscaster Connie Chung
1942 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
boxer: heavyweight champion: [1964, 1974, 1978], the only man to have regained this title twice
1942 - Randy Boone
actor: The Wild Pair, Savages, Backtrack!, Country Boy, Dr. Minx, Terminal Island, Hondo and the Apaches
1943 - Chris Montez
singer: She’s My Rockin’ Baby, Call Me, There Will Never Be Another You, Some Kinda Fun, Let’s Dance
1944 - Denny (Robert Dennis) Doyle
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, California Angels, Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1975]
1945 - William ‘Poogie’ Hart
singer: group: The Delfonics: La-La Means I Love You, I'm Sorry, Break Your Promise, Ready or Not Here I Come [Can't Hide From Love], Somebody Loves You, Didn’t I [Blow Your Mind]
1945 - Preston Pearson
football: Baltimore Colts running back: Super Bowl III; Pittsburgh Steelers: Super Bowl IX; Dallas Cowboys: Super Bowls X, XII, XIII
1947 - Jane Elliot
actress: Days of Our Lives, Baby Boom, Some Kind of Wonderful, In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, Once an Eagle, One Is a Lonely Number
1949 - Andy Kaufman
actor: Taxi, The Midnight Special, Saturday Night Live, Andy’s Funhouse; died May 16, 1984
1949 - Mick Taylor
singer, musician: rhythm guitar: group: The Rolling Stones; worked with Mike Oldfield, Bob Dylan, The Gods
1952 - Pete (Ralph Pierre) LaCock
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals [World Series: 1980]; son of Hollywood Squares host, Peter Marshall
1955 - Steve Earle
songwriter, singer, musician: guitar: Guitar Town, Exit O
1956 - Mitch Vogel
actor: Bonanza, Texas Detour, Born Innocent, Yours, Mine and Ours
1956 - Paul Young
singer: Everytime You Go Away
1957 - John Crawford
singer, musician: bass: group: Berlin: Take My Breath Away
1959 - Susanna Hoffs
singer, musician: guitar: LP: Rainy Day, group: The Bangles: Walk Like an Egyptian, Manic Monday
1962 - Jim Carrey
actor, comedian: The Mask, Ace Ventura series, Dumb & Dumber, Batman Forever, The Cable Guy, The Truman Show, Me, Myself & Irene, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Majestic
1964 - Michelle Obama (Michelle LaVaughn Robinson)
U.S. First Lady: wife of 44th U.S. President Barack Obama
1964 - Andy Rourke
musician: guitar: group: The Smiths: Hand in Glove, The Charming Man, What Difference Does It Make?, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, William, It Was Really Nothing
1967 - Linda Kash
actress: Second City, Style & Substance, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Running Mates, The Altar Boy Gang, Man of the Year, Cinderella Man, The Bookfair Murders, Ernest Goes to Africa
1968 - Nici Sterling
actress: X-rated films: The Theory of Relativity, Buttman’s Bouncin’ British Babes, The Palace of Pleasure, Taboo 16, Sodomania, Nici’s Naked Hookers 2, KSEX 106.9, Shag, Gobble & Spunk: A History of British Porn Cinema
1969 - Selena Steele
exotic dancer, actress: X-rated films: Moms a Cheater, MILF Filth, Desperate Mothers & Wives, Cumming Clean, Sorority Sex Kittens, Nurse Steamy, Slick Honey, Hate to See You Go
1970 - Darnell Walker
football [defensive back]: Univ of Oklahoma; NFL: Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions
1971 - Tyler Houston
baseball: Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers, LA Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies
1971 - Derek Plante
hockey: Buffalo Sabres, Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers
1971 - Kid Rock (Robert James Ritchie)
singer/rapper: Black Chick, White Guy, Forever, Cool, Daddy Cool, Bawitdaba; actor: Any Given Sunday, Coyote Ugly, Stripperella
1972 - Benno Fürmann
actor: Joyeux Noel, Ring of the Nibelungs, The Order, My House in Umbria, Das Staatsgeheimnis, Kanak Attack, Wolfsburg
1974 - Derrick Mason
football: Michigan State Univ; NFL: Tennessee Oilers/Titans
1975 - Brad Fullmer
baseball: Montreal Expos, Toronto Blue Jays, Anaheim Angels, Texas Rangers
1977 - Rob Bell
baseball [pitcher]: Cincinnati Reds, Texas Rangers, TB Devil Rays
1979 - Dominic Rhodes
football [running back]: Indianapolis Colts, Oakland Raiders
1980 - Milan Kraft
hockey: Pittsburgh Penguins
1981 - Ray J
singer: Let It Go, Everything You Want, That’s Why I Lie, Wait a Minute, Formal Invite; actor: The Sinbad Show, Mars Attacks!, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Christmas at Water’s Edge
1982 - Melody Johnson
actress: Jason X, Ricky Nelson: Original Teen Idol, The Virgin Suicides, Butterbox Babies, J.F.K.: Reckless Youth, Liar’s Edge
1982 - Dwyane Wade
basketball [guard]: Marquette Univ; NBA: Miami Heat
1989 - Yvonne Zima
actress: ER, The Young and the Restless, You, Only Better..., Love Hurts, Storm Catcher, ’Til There Was You, Bed of Roses
1992 - Nate Hartley
actor: Hannah Montana, Dirty Girl, South Dakota, Drillbit Taylor, Swan Song, Zeke and Luther
Chart Toppers January 17
1947For Sentimental Reasons - Nat King Cole
Ole Buttermilk Sky - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Mike Douglas & The Campus Kids)
A Gal in Calico - Johnny Mercer
Rainbow at Midnight - Ernest Tubb
1956Memories are Made of This - Dean Martin
Band of Gold - Don Cherry
Rock and Roll Waltz - Kay Starr
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
1965Come See About Me - The Supremes
Love Potion Number Nine - The Searchers
Downtown - Petula Clark
Once a Day - Connie Smith
1974The Joker - Steve Miller Band
Show and Tell - Al Wilson
Smokin’ in the Boys Room - Brownsville Station
I Love - Tom T. Hall
1983Down Under - Men at Work
The Girl is Mine - Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney
Dirty Laundry - Don Henley
Going Where the Lonely Go - Merle Haggard
1992Black or White - Michael Jackson
All 4 Love - Color Me Badd
Can’t Let Go - Mariah Carey
Love, Me - Collin Raye
2001It Wasn’t Me - Shaggy featuring Ricardo ‘Rikrok’ Ducent
Independent Woman, Part 1 - Destiny’s Child
He Loves U Not - Dream
My Next Thirty Years - Tim McGraw
2010TiK ToK - Ke$ha
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Replay - Iyaz
Consider Me Gone - Reba McEntire
Chart Topper January 17th, 2001...My Next Thirty Years - Tim McGraw
