Hit tunes of the Baby Boomer era are being used (or overused) as advertising jingles. The tip of the pop-hit ice berg include Carly Simon's "Anticipation" for Heinz ketchup, Frank Sinatra's "My Way" for Kids' Cuisine, The Village People's "Macho Man" for Old El Paso, The Four Seasons' "Big Girls Don't Cry" for Johnson & Johnson hair detangler, The Temptations' "My Girl" for Sun Maid raisins, Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" for Tone Soap, The Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun" for Southwest Airlines, and Gene Chandler's "Duke of Earl" for Best Foods Dijonaisse. Burger King earns the dubious award for using more old rock tunes in TV ads than any other U.S. company to sell its hamburgers.
Hitchcock bought the rights to the novel Psycho anonymously from Bloch for just $9,000. He then bought up as many copies of the novel as he could to keep the ending a secret.
Television horse Mr. Ed was foaled in 1949 in El Monte, California. Mr. Ed's original name was Bamboo Harvester. Raised as a parade and show horse, he was once owned by the president of the California Palomino Society. He died in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on February 28, 1979, at 30 years old. Tahlequah was also the "home office" for Late Night with David Letterman's "Top Ten List" for several years
Television's "I Love Lucy" began as a radio show — My Favorite Husband, in which Lucy played the scheming, middle-class wife of a bank vice president. CBS wanted to move the show to television — but almost scrapped the idea because of Lucy's insistence that Desi Arnaz play her husband. Lucy got her way, and the rest is television history.
Television's Mr. Ed was played by a horse named Bamboo Harvester. The voice was supplied by Allan Lane.
Th exuberant film dance team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers was on the Box Office Top Ten List three times. Some critics feel that their Top Hat and Swing Time are the two best film musicals Hollywood ever produced. Astaire and Rogers' films are among the brightest musicals that MGM released during the 1930s. The duo made ten films together.
The 1947 World Series brought in television's first mass audience. It was carried in New York, Philadelphia, Schenectady, and Washington, D.C., and was seen by an estimated 3.9 million people — 3.5 million of them in were in pubs and bars.
The 1954 film The Wild One was banned in England until 1968 because of its violence.
The 1955 James Dean-Natalie Wood classic, Rebel Without a Cause, was banned in Britain and Spain upon its release, for fear that young people would become violent after seeing the film.
The 1988 blockbuster movie Titanic lasts 3 hours and 14 minutes. The actual ship took 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink after hitting an iceberg
The 1991 Truth or Dare documentary about Madonna's 1990 international concert tour was shown in Australia and New Zealand under the title of In Bed with Madonna.
The 1997 Jack Nicholson film As Good As It Gets is known in China as "Mr. Cat Poop."
he Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
The acronym "U.N.C.L.E." on the TV spy series stood for United Network Command for Law Enforcement.
The actual character name of the Skipper (played by actor Alan Hale) from the television show Gilligan's Island was Jonas Grumby
The Austrian conductor and composer Johann Strauss (1825-1899), son of the famous conductor and composer Johann Strauss (1804-1849), penned more than 400 waltzes. Some are popular to this day, such as "The Beautiful Blue Danube" of 1866, which was used brilliantly in the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and "Tales From the Vienna Woods" of 1868. He pursued his career against the wishes of his father.
The bards of the Irish royal houses composed countless songs which subsequently became part of the repertoire of the medieval troubadours. By these means, Celtic poetry dating back to the 8th century has survived.
The Beatles' first Number 1 hit song was the 1964 "Love Me Do."
The Beatles held the Top Five spots on the April 4th, 1964 Billboard singles chart. They're the only band that has ever done that.
The Beatles' last concert took place August 29, 1966, before a crowd of 25,000 people in the 45,000-seat capacity Candlestick Park (now called 3Com Park). Although the group recorded together until 1970, they did not play live in concert after 1966 because of the frenzy and noise of the crowds. The last song they played — Long Tall Sally.
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