Week of January 23, 1970

Vietnam news - U.S. planes attack an antiaircraft missile site inside North

Vietnam after an enemy missile battery fired on an unarmed American

reconnaissance plane. In the ensuing action - a North Vietnamese MIG-21 jet

shoots down an American F-105 fighter-bomber and a rescue helicopter. All

crewman aboard both crafts are listed as missing in action.

In a Gallup Poll - an average family of four now needs $120 a week to make

ends meet - up from $101 in 1967 and $72 in 1957.

Two deaf mutes die in a hotel fire at the

world-famous Conrad Hilton Hotel in

Chicago. They were part of a group of 41

deaf students who were in the city to attend

a basketball game. Twelve of the youngsters

were injured. Fire officials say the youths

apparently did not hear hotel employees who

rapped on the doors and evacuated hotel

patrons. Manager William Smith and fire

officials say the blaze was confined to an

elevator shaft at the ninth floor, but the

smoke rose to the top floor of the 25-story building. Damage estimate is

$150,000. The youngsters were from the Jacksonville, Ill School For Deaf Mutes.

Charles Manson (without his beard) refuses to enter a plea to a murder and

conspiracy indictment in the Tate and La Bianca slayings proclaiming, “I object to

further proceedings in this case. I object to the grand jury (which returned the

indictment). I object to the methods used to get the indictment. And, I object to

the heinous relationship of the Establishment to the indictment.” Because the

defendant refused to plea, a plea of non-guilty must be entered by the court.

In A Gallup Poll - 65% approve of the way President Nixon is handling the

situation in Vietnam.

65% approve

24% disapprove

11% no opinion

Dr Gian Gessa - a pharmacologist who came from Italy to the United States,

says he believes a U.S. government sponsored research team has discovered a

true aphrodisiac. The drug, PCPA - was found by accident with his team noting a

tremendous increase in the sexual appetite of rats, rabbits and cats coated with

Week of January 23, 1970

the drug. Dr Gesa says he believes PCPA (P-chlorophenylalanine) works by

blocking production of a brain hormone that curbs sexual desire.

American Telephone & Telegraph applies to the FCC to permission to employ

space satellites as part of its nationwide communications network. The company

says it hopes to integrate landlines with satellite technology.

Sports - Vince Gibson, Kansas State football coach, loses the middle finger of his

right hand in a freak accident. He was conferring with his staff in a meeting room

and inadvertently placed the finger in a hole in the table. He rocked back in his

chair and the chair slipped, throwing him to the floor. His finger, severed, was still

stuck in the hole.

At a $200,000 Tennis tournament in Madison

win the $10 thousand inaugural winner-take-all

match.

In a special poll taken by the Associated Press -

Former Dodger pitcher Sandy Koufax is named

Baseball Athlete of the Decade with 225 1/2 votes

from sports writers and sportscasters participating

in the poll. Mickey Mantle of the Yankees finished second with 154 1/2 votes.

In another A.P. Poll - Arnold Palmer is the choice as Golfer of the Decade. Jack

Nicklaus was voted second with Bill Casper and Gary Player tied for third.

More sports - The Buffalo Bills draft O.J.

Cowlings will strengthen the Bills’ pass rush.

Preliminary tests conducted by the new series

“Sesame Street” show that poor preschoolers who

watched the show regularly during its first six

weeks of programs, made educational gains 2 1/2 times greater than those who

did not. Tests showed that regular viewers could answer 10% more of 217

questions asked of them than before watching. Kids did particularly well

recognizing the sounds of letters. “Sesame Street” - a 26-week, 130 program

series began November 10 and will end on May 29 and will cost $8 million to

produce. The Children’s Television Workshop, producer of the show, says it’s

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designed to improve language, numerical and reading skills of preschoolers,

particularly from poor families. (Sesame Street did so well and became so

popular for educational television - it is still produced decades later). It’s

characters including Big Bird, are known by millions).

Bestsellers -

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

The French Lieutenant’s Women - John Fowles

The Seven Minutes - Irving Wallace

The Inheritors - Harold Robbins

Fire From Heaven - Mary Renault

The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier

The Shivering Sands - Victoria Holt

Puppet on a Chain - Alistair MacLean

The Selling of the President 1968 - Joe McGinniss

The Peter Principle - Laurence J. Peter/Raymond

Hull

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State

Department - Dean Acheson

The American Dictionary of the English Language -

William Morris

Mary Queen of Scots - Antonia Fraser

Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow - Alexander Kendrick

The Graham Kerr Cookbook - The Galloping Gourmet

Motown pop group “The Temptations” meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury in

London to talk about race relationships. They spent about a half-hour in the

archbishop’s study asking him about race issues in Britain. The group is winding-

up an engagement at London’s “Talk of the Town” cabaret. Paul Williams, Dennis

Edwards, Melvin Franklin, Otis Williams and Eddie Kendrick make up the popular

group.

press conference for their new movie “The Magic

Christian.” One reporter did ask Ringo about the

Beatles. Said Ringo: “We’ll be getting together

again (squelching rumors about their break-up).

“It’s crazy, these rumors, John said we would all

be appearing in Toronto this summer, but we

haven’t even talked about it yet. On breaks, the Beatles do their own thing, and

my thing is acting. I like it because it’s easy and fun.”

Week of January 23, 1970

manager of the Kingston Trio), saying he came to like him only after

Werber began taking marijuana. Smothers said they smoked pot

several times at their homes and each time it was a religious

experience. Werber is on trial on charges of growing and possessing

marijuana.

Dean Martin returns to the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas for a three-week

engagement. Elvis returns to the International Hotel in Vegas this Monday. Also

appearing on the strip - Paul Anka at the Sands, Liberace at the Palace and

comedian Frank Gorshin at the Hotel Sahara.

Hugh Hefner’s “Playboy After Dark” variety show - is now seen on 50 TV

stations. You can count on seeing stars like Jack Jones, James Brown and Norm

Crosby in upcoming shows.

Week of January 23, 1970

“The Flying Nun” with Sally Field resumes production after 4 months for the birth

of her baby boy (Peter Joshua).

Music news -

Came Bronson” has released a new

album on MGM records. On it - two

songs from the series: “Mountain High”

and “Long Lonesome Highway.”

Beatles producer George Martin says he

may order the revolutionary Bolin upright

piano for his London Recording studio.

Martin tried the piano in Stockholm and

declared that it produced a sound as

good as most baby grands.

Pop group “The 5th Dimension” is signed

to make its dramatic television debut in

ABC’s “It Takes A Thief.” The episode is entitled “Sing a Song of Murder.”

On the Sunset Strip in Hollywood - The Allman Brothers appear at the Whiskey

A-Go-Go. The group hails from Georgia and received favorable reviews.

Bill Graham’s Fillmore Corp. expands into publishing. “Fillmore Music” represents

more than 40 San Francisco area groups.

John Lennon plans what could be the biggest pop music festival in Toronto - Jul

3-5. 25% of the gross is going to a newly formed Peace Fund, to be administered

by a newly formed Peace Council, which already includes John and Yoko, Dick

Gregory, Rabbi Abraham, Feinberg and Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records.

their first album is due soon. Eric Clapton will produce.

Synthesizer inventor Robert Moog plans to unveil a min-

Moog within 3 to 6 months. Cost should be around

$2000.00.

Week of January 23, 1970

The Mike Douglas TV talk show is taping a weeklong series of specials

concerning country music. Among those stars scheduled to appear are Bobby

Goldsboro, The Nashville Brass, Peggy Little, Loretta Lynn, Junior Samples, Del

Reeves and Archie Campbell.

In Carbondale, Ill - A “permanent” rock festival facility called the “People’s Park”

is being built here, much to the dismay of local residents.

literally shatters its Chicago audience. Playing at the

end of a 14-hour concert at Chicago’s Aragon

Ballroom, the leader, Cooper himself, ripped open

two feather pillows with a sword and threw them into

the audience. Two large cardboard boxes were also

thrown. Other acts on the bill were the Stooges,

Mason Profit and Pacific, Gas & Electric.

Tex Ritter - country singer and actor announces that he would be giving up

movies and music and would seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator

from Tennessee.

Lesley Gore joins Crewe Records and her first single is “Why Doesn’t Love Make

Me Happy.”

Appearing at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village -

Doug Kershaw.

New single by a new group - Kool and the Gang - “The

Gang’s Back Again” on De-Lite Records.

Radio news - Former top-40 DJ Johnny Holliday is

toning it down at WWDC - a middle of the road station in

Washington DC. “I was tired of being tied down by a strict format. I also felt that

the kids could not relate to me any more. I was talking fast and saying nothing.

What can I say. I outgrew it.”

WMCA (New York) music director Joe Bogart is honored at a music industry

luncheon. Tickets are $25.00.

Week of January 23, 1970

Nielsen top 20 shows

Bob Hope Christmas Special - 46.6

Dean Martin Show - 33.5

Mayberry RFD - 30.3

Gunsmoke - 29.4

Laugh-In - 29.2

Rowan and Martin Special - 29.0

Doris Day Show - 28.8

Here’s Lucy - 26.4

Red Skelton - 26.0

Wonderful World Of Disney - 25.6

Hee Haw - 25.2

Carol Burnet Show - 25.1

Bonanza - 25.0

Bill Cosby - 24.9

Mannix - 24.8

Hawaii Five-O - 24.7

My Three Sons - 24.4

Family Affair - 24.1

Marcus Welby - 23.9

Ed Sullivan - 23.3

TV News - Industry insiders still call ABC “the

Almost Broadcasting Company” because it is

always #3. But making waves is WABC-TV’s

“Eyewitness News” which has doubled in the

ratings since its debut November/1968. The

formula is the brainchild of news director Al

Primo (35). The concept presents a team of on-

camera reporters, each of whom introduces and

comments about the film clips of the story he

covered that day. The object is to give the impression that the

station has a virtual army of newsmen in the field. Primo began

the concept in 1965 at KYW-TV. The Eyewitness news team

English teach. He reviews plays, movies and the leisure life.

Primo is getting the on-air crew to loosen up a bit. At the end of

each newscast, they all gather around anchor Roger Grimbsy

as the credits roll. (Primo will soon take this to the next step,

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instilling “happy talk” among the on-air news staff).

Thursday Night Television -

CBS - Family Affair, Jim Nabors Show, CBS Thursday Night Movie

NBC - Special Lowell Thomas In New Guinea, Ironside, Dragnet-1970, Dean

Martin Show

ABC - Pat Paulsen show, That Girl, Bewitched, Tom Jones Show, Paris 7000

Public Television - Washington Week In Review, NET Playhouse, The Advocates

Pat Paulsen - Angie Dickenson guests. In a skit, she plays a girl who has trouble

with her television and fixer Pat comes to the rescue.

Jim Nabors - Vikki Carr guests.

Tom Jones Show - Don Ho, Dusty Springfield, The Ace Trucking Co and Lonnie

Donnegan guest.

George Hamilton

Late Night Talk -

Merv Griffin (CBS) - From Hollywood - Jane Wyman, Tim

Conway, Dick Shawn, Fay McKay, Louis Walden

Johnny Carson (NBC) - Lana Cantrell, June Allyson, George C. Scott

Dick Cavett (ABC) - Dr Benjamin Spock

Pop Music this week in 1970 -

I Want You Back - The Jackson 5

Venus - Shocking Blue

Don’t Cry Daddy - Elvis Presley

Without Love (There’s Nothing) - Tom Jones

Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

Someday, We’ll Be Together - Diana Ross &

The Supremes

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - Sly &

The Family Stone

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head - B.J.

Thomas

Everybody Is A Star - Sly and the Family Stone

Walk A Mile In My Shoes - Joe South

Week of January 23, 1970

I’ll Never Fall In Love Again - Dionne Warwick

Jam Up And Jelly Tight - Tommy

Roe

Here There Lonely Girl - Eddie

Holman

Midnight Cowboy - Ferrante &

Teicher

Winter World Of Love - Engelbert

Humperdinck

Early In The Morning - Vanity

Fare

Walkin’ In The Rain - Jay & The

Americans

The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King

Wonderful World, Beautiful People - Jimmy Cliff

Cold Turkey - Plastic Ono Band

She Belongs To Me - Rick Nelson

Traces/Memories medley - The Lettermen

Hello It’s Me - Nazz

The Court of Crimson King - King Crimson

Ain’t It Funky Now (Part 1) - James Brown

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

Baby, Baby (K Know You’re A Lady) - David

Houston

Wish I Didn’t Have To Mess You - Jack

Greene & Jeannie Seeley

It It’s All the Same To You - Bill Anderson &

Jan Howard

Six White Horses - Tommy Cash

(I’m So) Afraid Of Losing You - Charley Pride

She’s Mine/No Blues Is Good News - George

Jones

Big In Vegas - Buck Owens & His Buckaroos

Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Waylon

Jennings

Week of January 23, 1970

Top Soul -

Someday, We’ll Be Together - Supremes

Ain’t It Funky Now - James Brown

These Eyes - Jr. Walker & The All-Stars

Friendship Train - Gladys Knight & The Pips

Love Bones - Johnny Taylor

To Be Young, Gifted and Black - Nina

Simone

I Want You Back - Jackson 5

What You Gave Me - Marvin Gaye

Eleanor Rigby - Aretha Franklin

Yester Me, Yester You, Yesterday - Stevie

Wonder

Is It Because I’m Black - Syl Johnson

Top hits in Britain -

Two Little Boys - Rolf Harris

Melting Pot - Blue Mink

Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town -

Kenny Rogers

Good Old Rock ‘N’ Roll - Dave Clark Five

All I Have To Do Is Dream - Bobby

Gentry/Glen Campbell

Tracy - Cuff Links

Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley

The Liquidator - Harry J All Stars

Yester Me… Steve Wonder

Sugar Sugar - Archies

Top Albums -

Led Zeppelin

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones

Willy and the Poor Boys - Creedence

Clearwater Revival

Captured Live a the Forum - Three Dog

Night

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Joe Cocker

Tom Jones In Las Vegas

Englebert Humperdinck

Easy Rider - soundtrack

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Santana

Puzzle People - The Temptations

Other Albums

The Best of Bill Cosby

Johnny Cash At San Quentin

I Got Dem Ol Kozmic Blues Again

Mama! - Janis Joplin

16 of Their Greatest Hits - The

Mamas & The Papas

I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am -

Dean Martin

Get Together With Andy Williams

The Best Of Tommy James and the

Shondells

Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane

Touching You, Touching Me - Neil

Diamond

The Supremes and Temptations on

Broadway

Tracy - The Cuff Links

The New Gary Puckett & The Union

Gap Album

A Group Called Smith - Smith

Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes

Marrakesh Express - Crosby, Stills & Nash

Smash Hits - Jimi Hedrix Experience

Paint Your Wagon - Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg

Yesterday When I Was Young - Roy Clark

Ball - Iron Butterfly

Switched-On Bach - Trans-Electronic Music Productions

At the movies -

Leonard Frey, Laurence Harvey, Christopher Lee, Spike Milligan, Raquel Welch,

Wilfrid Hyde White

Wynn, Harry Morgan, Alice Ghostley, Kenneth Mars

Week of January 23, 1970

O’Brien, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson

Katharine Ross