TODAY IS ... 25 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1985 - Perdita Weeks - a British actress. She portrays Mary Boleyn (King Henry VIII's sister-in-law) in the Showtime drama The Tudors (2007). In 2008 she appeared as Lydia Bennet in the ITV series Lost In Austen. She played a murdering teen in the Death and Dreams episode of Midsomer Murders in 2003.
1973 - Ewen Macintosh - an English actor, best known for the role of Keith the accountant in The Office (for which he is credited as Ewan Macintosh). He has also appeared in Little Britain, Lead Balloon and the Channel 4 series California Dreaming.
1971 – Dido – Singer whose Dido's first LP No Angel was released in 1999. The album blended her lonesome voice with a lush mix of guitars and electronics, drawing comparisons to Sinead O'Connor and Sarah McLachlan. The single "Here With Me" was chosen as the theme song for the aliens-among-us TV show Roswell and Dido got another boost when her song "Thank You" was sampled by rapper Eminem on his 2000 song "Stan."
1958 - Alannah Myles, Canadian singer, 1990 US No.1 and UK No.2 single 'Black Velvet.'
1954 - Annie Lennox - a Scottish musician and recording artist who began her recording career as a member of the British pop band The Tourists, and subsequently formed the synth pop duo Eurythmics with former bandmate David A. Stewart. The duo gained international prominence over the course of the 1980s with singles such as "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and "Here Comes the Rain Again".
1949 - Sissy Spacek - an American actress and singer whose screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman. In the 1970s, she began starring in critically-acclaimed films directed by Terrence Malick, Brian de Palma and Robert Altman. Her performance as the blood-spattered title character in de Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie made her famous. She is one of the very few actresses ever nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in a horror film (Carrie).
1948 - Barbara Mandrell - an American country music singer. She is best-known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows (1980-82) that helped her become one of country music's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s. She was the first performer and is currently the only female in country music history to win the Country Music Association's "Entertainer of the Year" award twice, and she has also won the Country Music Association's "Female Vocalist of the Year" twice.
1946 - Jimmy Buffett a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" (No. 234 on RIAA's list of "Songs of the Century"), and "Come Monday". He has a devoted base of fans known as "Parrotheads". His band is called the Coral Reefer Band.
1932 - Richard Penniman known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame web site entry on Richard states that: "More than any other performer - save, perhaps, Elvis Presley, Little Richard blew the lid off the Fifties, laying the foundation for rock and roll with his explosive music and charismatic persona. On record, he made spine-tingling rock and roll. His frantically charged piano playing and raspy, shouted vocals on such classics as "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" defined the dynamic sound of rock and roll."
OTHER EVENTS:
2005 – Shayne Ward, the winner of U.K. talent show X Factor, tops the British charts with his debut single “That’s My Goal.”
2003 - Beagle 2 is scheduled to land on Mars, but nothing is heard from the lander.
1995 - Mariah Carey was at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Daydream'.
1994 – Dangerous Game starring Madonna and Harvey Keitel starts screening in Australia. A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
1993 - Mariah Carey had the #1 single in the U.S., Hero, from the #1 album in the U.S., Music Box. The single topped the charts for four weeks. The album was up there for eight weeks.
1990 – The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
1982 - David Bowie and Bing Crosby's "Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth," an unlikely duet broadcast five years earlier on a TV special, becomes an even more unlikely hit, reaching #1 in the UK.
1976 - The Eagles started a eight-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Hotel California.'
1976 - American MOR singer Johnny Mathis was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'When A Child Is Born', the singers only UK No.1 and the Christmas hit of 1976.
1971 - "Brand New Key" by Melanie topped the charts and stayed there for 3 weeks.
1965 - The Dave Clark Five hit Number One on the U.S. pop chart with "Over and Over." Despite eight eight Top Ten records in their career, this is their only Number One.
1964 - Goldfinger opened in Hollywood U.S.A., three days after its premiere in New York City. Goldfinger was the third James Bond film, as well as the third to star Sean Connery as MI6 agent 007.
1958 - Hugely influential DJ Alan Freed puts on his first "Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular" at Loews State Theatre in Manhattan, featuring, among others, Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, The Moonglows, The Everly Brothers, Frankie Avalon and Johnnie Ray.
1957 – Queen Elizabeth make her first Televised Christmas message.
1953 - Disney releases the Goofy film How to Sleep to theaters.
1953 - Disney releases the Donald Duck film Canvas Back Duck to theaters. Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and Pete also appear.
1952 - Queen Elizabeth makes first Christmas speech - Millions of British and Commonwealth listeners have been listening to Queen Elizabeth's first Christmas broadcast of her reign. In a tradition that began in 1932, the Queen made her address on BBC radio from the study at Sandringham House at 1507 GMT
1952 – Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor and Cyd Charisse star in Singing in the Rain which commenced screening in Australia. A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
1950 - Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey & smuggled back to Scotland
1949 - Dick Tracy got married on Christmas Day. The comic strip hero married Tess Trueheart. The couple later became parents of a daughter. The little girl’s name was Bonnie Braids.
1940 – Gene Kelly and Van Johnson were in the cast of Pal Joey which opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and ran for 374 performances. It was the only Broadway musical in which Gene Kelly played a major role. The 1957 screen version starred Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak.
1939 - The Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, was read by Lionel Barrymore on The Campbell Playhouse on CBS radio. The reading of the tale became an annual radio event for years to come.
1927 - The Roxy Theatre in New York City premieres the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Empty Socks.
1973 - Ewen Macintosh - an English actor, best known for the role of Keith the accountant in The Office (for which he is credited as Ewan Macintosh). He has also appeared in Little Britain, Lead Balloon and the Channel 4 series California Dreaming.
1971 – Dido – Singer whose Dido's first LP No Angel was released in 1999. The album blended her lonesome voice with a lush mix of guitars and electronics, drawing comparisons to Sinead O'Connor and Sarah McLachlan. The single "Here With Me" was chosen as the theme song for the aliens-among-us TV show Roswell and Dido got another boost when her song "Thank You" was sampled by rapper Eminem on his 2000 song "Stan."
1958 - Alannah Myles, Canadian singer, 1990 US No.1 and UK No.2 single 'Black Velvet.'
1954 - Annie Lennox - a Scottish musician and recording artist who began her recording career as a member of the British pop band The Tourists, and subsequently formed the synth pop duo Eurythmics with former bandmate David A. Stewart. The duo gained international prominence over the course of the 1980s with singles such as "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and "Here Comes the Rain Again".
1949 - Sissy Spacek - an American actress and singer whose screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman. In the 1970s, she began starring in critically-acclaimed films directed by Terrence Malick, Brian de Palma and Robert Altman. Her performance as the blood-spattered title character in de Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie made her famous. She is one of the very few actresses ever nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in a horror film (Carrie).
1948 - Barbara Mandrell - an American country music singer. She is best-known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows (1980-82) that helped her become one of country music's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s. She was the first performer and is currently the only female in country music history to win the Country Music Association's "Entertainer of the Year" award twice, and she has also won the Country Music Association's "Female Vocalist of the Year" twice.
1946 - Jimmy Buffett a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" (No. 234 on RIAA's list of "Songs of the Century"), and "Come Monday". He has a devoted base of fans known as "Parrotheads". His band is called the Coral Reefer Band.
1932 - Richard Penniman known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame web site entry on Richard states that: "More than any other performer - save, perhaps, Elvis Presley, Little Richard blew the lid off the Fifties, laying the foundation for rock and roll with his explosive music and charismatic persona. On record, he made spine-tingling rock and roll. His frantically charged piano playing and raspy, shouted vocals on such classics as "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" defined the dynamic sound of rock and roll."
OTHER EVENTS:
2005 – Shayne Ward, the winner of U.K. talent show X Factor, tops the British charts with his debut single “That’s My Goal.”
2003 - Beagle 2 is scheduled to land on Mars, but nothing is heard from the lander.
1995 - Mariah Carey was at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Daydream'.
1994 – Dangerous Game starring Madonna and Harvey Keitel starts screening in Australia. A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
1993 - Mariah Carey had the #1 single in the U.S., Hero, from the #1 album in the U.S., Music Box. The single topped the charts for four weeks. The album was up there for eight weeks.
1990 – The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
1982 - David Bowie and Bing Crosby's "Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth," an unlikely duet broadcast five years earlier on a TV special, becomes an even more unlikely hit, reaching #1 in the UK.
1976 - The Eagles started a eight-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Hotel California.'
1976 - American MOR singer Johnny Mathis was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'When A Child Is Born', the singers only UK No.1 and the Christmas hit of 1976.
1971 - "Brand New Key" by Melanie topped the charts and stayed there for 3 weeks.
1965 - The Dave Clark Five hit Number One on the U.S. pop chart with "Over and Over." Despite eight eight Top Ten records in their career, this is their only Number One.
1964 - Goldfinger opened in Hollywood U.S.A., three days after its premiere in New York City. Goldfinger was the third James Bond film, as well as the third to star Sean Connery as MI6 agent 007.
1958 - Hugely influential DJ Alan Freed puts on his first "Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular" at Loews State Theatre in Manhattan, featuring, among others, Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, The Moonglows, The Everly Brothers, Frankie Avalon and Johnnie Ray.
1957 – Queen Elizabeth make her first Televised Christmas message.
1953 - Disney releases the Goofy film How to Sleep to theaters.
1953 - Disney releases the Donald Duck film Canvas Back Duck to theaters. Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and Pete also appear.
1952 - Queen Elizabeth makes first Christmas speech - Millions of British and Commonwealth listeners have been listening to Queen Elizabeth's first Christmas broadcast of her reign. In a tradition that began in 1932, the Queen made her address on BBC radio from the study at Sandringham House at 1507 GMT
1952 – Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor and Cyd Charisse star in Singing in the Rain which commenced screening in Australia. A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
1950 - Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey & smuggled back to Scotland
1949 - Dick Tracy got married on Christmas Day. The comic strip hero married Tess Trueheart. The couple later became parents of a daughter. The little girl’s name was Bonnie Braids.
1940 – Gene Kelly and Van Johnson were in the cast of Pal Joey which opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and ran for 374 performances. It was the only Broadway musical in which Gene Kelly played a major role. The 1957 screen version starred Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak.
1939 - The Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, was read by Lionel Barrymore on The Campbell Playhouse on CBS radio. The reading of the tale became an annual radio event for years to come.
1927 - The Roxy Theatre in New York City premieres the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Empty Socks.
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