On December 4th, 1986, the album 'Fore!', by Huey Lewis & The News, featuring "Stuck With You" AND "Hip To Be Square", was certified Gold, Platinum and Double Platinum.
On this day in 1973 Jim Croce's album "You Don't Mess Around With Jim", featuring the amazing title track AND "Operator", "Time In A Bottle", "New York's Not My Home" and "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)", was certified Gold.
On this day in 1989 the Berlin Wall started to come down. East Germany opened its heavily guarded borders at 11:17 P.M., and Krazy Krauts celebrated by dancing atop the wall in lederhosen and chipping away at it with hammers
It was on November 9th 1973 that Billy Joel released 'Piano Man'...thus preordaining, more than 20 years in advance, that every karaoke night would include one 5-minute, 36-second period that a drunk sorority girl would belt out an off key version of the song.
Millions of listeners thought New Jersey was actually being invaded by aliens! One Pittsburgh woman was found with a bottle of poison saying she'd rather die that way. Click the link to hear the original broadcast in it's entirety!
On this day in 1985 the album 'Scarecrow', by John Mellencamp, featuring the smashes 'Lonely Ol' Night,'Small Town' and 'R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.', was certified Gold and Platinum.