The Daily Dose/June 8, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading off remains in time-out. It will return, though we are not sure when.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a group in the lobby for a while. Today’s Diary.
After a while they started having multiple, simultaneous conversations, which was pretty funny because A was talking with B, C was talking with D, and D – a woman, of course – was also carrying one with both A and B and it was pretty loud there for a while…
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On This Date
History’s long march.
In 1968 – James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport. Ray had killed King on April 4 in Memphis before fleeing to Canada and living there under an assumed name and was arrested after the assumed name turned up on a watchlist. Ray pled guilty the following year and was sentenced to 99-years in prison, with an extra year added after a 1977 escape. Ray died of complications from Hepatitis C in 1998.
In 1968 – Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers establishes a new major league record for most consecutive scoreless innings pitched in a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. In the second inning, Drysdale broke the record of 55 that had been established by Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators in 1913 and extended the mark to 58 before the Phillies scored a run in the fifth. The mark is now held by Orel Hershiser, also of the Dodgers, who pitched 59 consecutive scoreless innings in 1988.
In 2019 – Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the ninth of a Hot 100 record 19 consecutive weeks with Old Town Road. The song was also in its eighth of a record 20 consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, peaked at #19 on Billboard’s country chart, was their biggest song of the year, and their seventh-biggest of the decade. It was Lil Nas X’s first chart single and first of three #1 songs and remains Cyrus’ only #1 pop song and he joined Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, and Ray Charles as acts who have #1 pop, soul, and country songs in the Hot 100 era.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
When a noble person accords with their times, they fly as if in a carriage; when they are out of accord, their movements are disordered and exhausted.
Lao Tzu
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Billboard Hot 100 record for most self-replacements at #1 is two, done by the Beatles in 1964 when I Want To Hold Your Hand was followed at #1 by She Loves You and Can’t Buy Me Love.
Editor’s Note: In 2021, BTS replaced themselves twice at #1, however, it was with two songs. Butter was replaced at #1 with Permission to Dance, with Butter returning to the top the following week. It remains the only time in Hot 100 history an act replaced themselves at #1 in consecutive weeks.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Because you’ve been good lately, we have two trivia questions for you today:
- Who led the major leagues in shutouts in 1968?
- Who was the first act in the pre-Hot 100 era to have #1 songs on Billboard pop, soul, and country charts? – Answers next time!
