April 13 1964 Bobby Darin is nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar at the 36th Academy Awards in Santa Monica, California. It’s for his role as the traumatized war hero,…

March 31 1958 “Johnny B. Goode” is released on this date, but not before some tinkering.  Chuck Berry’s original lyrics reference Johnny as a “colored boy”, but it was changed…

March 302011Men at Work, the famed Australian band, lost a Federal Court appeal of a ruling thatfound their 1983 hit “Down Under” was partly copied from a Folk song called“Kookaburra…