to our Music Room album wall to discuss this prominent musician and her career. Promises, Promises was Anderson's sophomre studio album, released in 1967, the same year as its predecessor, Ride, Ride, Ride. It included the top ten hit "No Other Time," and helped pave the way for her regular appearances on the popular The Lawrence Welk Show that year which continued for two years, prior to her breaking out on her own as she became increasingly popular. 1970 marked the release of "Rose Garden," and she has continued to record her music ever since, most recently three years ago.
Question:
Which state celebrates Lynn Anderson day on June 15th?
a) North Dakota
b) Texas
c) North Carolina
d) Tennessee
e) New Mexico
Answer Below
Today in History
Deep in the throes of the Great Depression, one of the greatest advances in hydroelectric power was dedicated on this day in 1935. The Hoover Dam, named after the 31st President of the United States, was built on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona at great cost, with over one hundred deaths due to accidents out of a crew of over a thousand people. Considered a major technological marvel, the Dam has also become a major tourist attractions to visitors of the region, previously a forbidding desert, but with the dam's developing of Lake Mead, an attractive site for water activities.
Jump ahead fourteen years. The Great Depression ended only with the declaration of war between the Allied forces and the Axis powers. After the defeat of the Axis, relations deteriorated between former allies and the Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union. When Soviet dictator Josef Stalin declared that all land access between the Americans and occupied Berlin would be closed down, the western allies instituted the Berlin Airlift. With the endorsement of American President Harry Truman, supplies were flown into West Berlin, a bastion of democracy surrounded by Soviet forces in East Germany. The airlift began on June 24th, 1948 and continued until this date the next year, fifteen months later. Although the financial and human cost of the Airlift was substantial, it was considered a great moral victory for the western allies when the Soviets re-opened land access to West Berlin, never to make another challenge like that again. Of course, the Korean War would begin soon...
Births
Truman Capote was an American original. Born on this date in 1924, Capote began writing at a very young age. At eleven, he knew his career would be behind a typewriter, and he proceeded to write short stories,
plays and novels. His most famous short story was Breakfast at Tiffany's, which was adapted into a popular film by director Blake Edwards and starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, but he gained international fame with what is considered the first true crime novel to be published in the United States, In Cold Blood. Based on a 1959 murder case in the bucolic town of Holcomb, Kansas, the book describes the gruesome details of the crime and the murderers. Capote never published another complete book after In Cold Blood; however, he did remain in the public eye afterwards. One of his most memorable performances was in the delightful Neil Simon comedy Murder By Death, released in 1976. Although its poster is sadly not on the walls of the ATT Music Room wall, it is one of the blog's very favorite films.
The Bradys are getting older! Oldest brother Greg, aka Barry William Blenkhorn (aka Barry Williams), turns 54 today.
Quotes:
I don't think of myself as a role model. I try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion. -- Barry Williams
Answer: d)
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