Week of September 5, 1970
Arab commandos hijack a British Overseas Airways jetliner with 113 persons
aboard to an airstrip in Jordan and raise their total number of hostages to almost
300. Earlier in the week, Arab guerillas blew up a hijacked Boeing 747 Jumbo jet
at the Cairo airport. The 171 persons aboard that craft were led to safety before
the blast ripped the plane.
Lightening strikes football players in a huddle at Gibbs High School in St
Petersburg, Fla - killing two and injuring 20 others. Coach Al Campbell said “I
heard a loud clapping nose and everybody was knocked down - players, coaches
and everybody on the field.”
President Nixon calls for an international boycott of airline services against
nations that refuse to take action against hijackers.
South Korea’s five years of fighting in Vietnam has cost America $1 billion.
Timothy Leary - high LSD priest -
escapes from the California Men’s
Colony. He was serving time for
marijuana possession. All all-points
bulletin has been issued.
The manufacturer of Oh Henry candy
bars moves to take is products off the
shelf following disclosure by the FDA that
about a million bars might be
contaminated with salmonella.
The nation’s first religious denomination
for homosexuals is formed. It’s called the
Universal fellow-ship of Metropolitan
Community Churches has its main
church in Hollywood, but just increased from two to four congregations with
churches in San Fran and Chicago.
The Interior Department lists the phosphate content of 48
popular laundry detergents and affirms that phosphates pollute
lakes and asks housewives to draw their own conclusions when
they go shopping. The department issued the following list (we’ll
list the top 5) and their percentage of phosphates as STPP:
Laundry detergents - Blue Rain Drops - 63.2%
Week of September 5, 1970
Salvo - 56.6%
Tide - 49.8%
Amway SA-8 - 49.3%
Cold Water Surf - 48.2%
Passing - Vince Lombardi (57) - the most famous
and successful professional football coach of his
time. Though in robust health as recently as last
spring, he had undergone two operations for
cancer during the summer. Lombardi came to
national attention in 1959 - his first season as
head coach of the Green Pay Packers. In his nine
seasons as general manager and coach - his
Green Bay teams won six championships of the
dominant Western Division plus five NFL
championships as well as the first two Super Bowl titles.
Detroit Tiger pitcher Denny McLain is suspended for the
remainder of the 1970 baseball season by commissioner
Bowie Kuhn for carrying a gun and breaking probation. He
did not elaborate on the allegations but said they did not
involve McLain’s recent suspension by the Tigers on Aug
28 for throwing ice water on two Detroit sports writers.
John Dunbar sues
actress/singer
Marianne Faithful for divorce. Dunbar is an
author and former art dealer. Marianne
Faithfull is the daughter of an English
University lecturer and an Austrian
baroness. Mick Jagger is named a
correspondent in the divorce by Dunbar.
The Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy telethon goes national beginning this week.
Originating from the Americana Hotel in New York City, fifty minutes of each hour
will be devoted to activities based in New York and the other 10 minutes will
cover activities in Las Vegas. Beginning in 1965 and up until this week, the
annual telethon could only be seen in New York City on WNEW-TV (channel 5).
Passing - Actor Chester Morris (69).
Radio news - it’s official - WMCA in New York City hires Los Angeles talk host
Bob Grant to do a daily show beginning September 22. The station recently
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announced it was going full-time (two-way) talk radio ending a long run of playing
popular music. The station was the most popular “pop” music station in the
country from 1963 through 1967.
Playing in Las Vegas -
Sergio Mendes - Caesars Palace
Jimmy Durante, Abbe Lane - Desert inn
Sergio Franchi - Flamingo
Supremes - Frontier
Pearl Bailey, Louis Armstrong - International
Bobby Darin - Landmark
Ed Ames, Joan Rivers - Riviera
Dionne Warwick - Sands
Sanford Waterman an executive at Caesar’s Palace
in Las Vegas is arrested after he allegedly drew a
gun on Frank Sinatra during a squabble about
betting the limit in a baccarat game. Waterman said
he drew the gun out of self defense. “He was coming
right at me.” Witnesses said the argument began
when Sinatra was playing baccarat for $8,000 a
hand at a table where the usual limit is $2,000. They
said the singer was losing and wanted to raise the
limit to $16,000 per hand. Waterman was called and
Sinatra asked to accept his “marker” for chips to add
to $10,000 worth in front of him on the table.
Waterman refused to raise the limit or to accept the
singer’s marker. After the trouble, Sinatra abruptly broke off a two-week singing
engagement at the hotel and flew back to his Palm Springs home. Police want to
talk to him. Said Sheriff Ralph Lamb: “If Sinatra comes back to town, he’s coming
downtown to get a work card. And if he gives me any trouble, he’s going to jail.”
Sinatra has never been issued a work card - like most entertainers in Las Vegas,
benefiting from a “gentleman’s agreement” exempting him. Sheriff Lamb
continued: “I’m tired of him intimidating waiters, waitresses,
starting fires and throwing pies. He gets away with too much.
He’s through picking on little people in this town. Why the
owners of the hotels put up with this is what I plan to find out.”
Late night talk - The Merv Griffin Show - seen on CBS, moves
to Hollywood this week from New York. Griffin says “We moved
our base of operations to Hollywood because we think it will
improve the show. Out here, we’ll have a fresh supply of talent
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to draw from. People who wouldn’t or couldn’t come to New York to be on the
nighttime show.” Griffin says in New York - four shows competed for all the
guests available. “That’s a hundred guests a week. There just weren’t any more
new faces.” “We want to develop a new family of bread and butter guests on the
show. Similar to the ones Jack Paar had on his show - Dody Goodman,
Alexander King, Charlie Weaver and Peggy Cass. Not the same ones of course.
We’ll be auditioning a whole new group of younger performers.”
In a Gallup Poll - the miniskirt is preferred by adults under 30 over all other dress
styles including the midi and the maxi. Older adults showed more of a preference
for the compromise or “at the knee length” over the miniskirt. Midi is defined as
well below the knee and maxi is at floor length.
The Edwin Hawkins Singers have been
appearing at numerous concerts since
their huge hit last year “Oh Happy Day.”
According to Hawkins - the leader-
arranger-pianist for the group, logistics
for the 56-member choir were becoming
staggering “We almost filled a plane by
ourselves. We were always having
trouble getting everybody to the right
place on time.” Because of the problems
- including the high cost of traveling and
fitting everyone on club stages, the group
has now been trimmed down to 12
singes and five musicians.
Linda Ronstadt is back on the charts - this time solo. Her
“Long Long Time” is moving up the charts. She had a hit with
the Stone Poneys two years ago with Mike Nesmith’s “Different
Drum” but now she’s on her own. “I’m not much of an
innovator, I don’t write songs. But I do try to reflect as honestly
as I can the best material I can find.” About the Stone Poneys -
she says, “It’s hard for a chick to lead a band. Most girls are
rather passive. They aren’t assertive enough to boss people
around. I just hate doing things like auditioning musicians. Even
after we get musicians, it is often hard to keep them. Some are
interested informing their own band and leave because of that.
Other guys feel uncomfortable playing behind a girl. They feel it
threatens their masculinity or something.”
Week of September 5, 1970
It looks like Rock festivals will be a thing of
the past after this summer. Of the 50 or so
announced to take place in North America
since Woodstock last year, only a few of
come through. A large part of it is coming
from local law-makers who grind-out
ordinances, mandates and rulings. The other
part is the huge cost and gate crashers.
Appearance costs for main acts are going up.
Jimi Hendrix now demands $100,000 for a
set. The establishment doesn’t like them for
these reasons - Kids take drugs at them ...
There’s nudity ... Traffic problems ... Land
around the area gets messed and damaged.
Mick Jagger says he wishes England was as swinging as it
is reputed to be. “England’s totally apathetic. That’s why
everything goes off peacefully. Nothing happens man. I don’t
want any blood baths here, but America’s a very vibrant
society. You get all kinds of extremes. That’s why people hate
America or love it or why things come out of it, which are good
and bad. That’s not true here.” “You have such extremes in
America that you’re going to get clashes between them ...
America is more extreme and it’s more vociferous and it’s
more violent and it’s more physical and it’s more explosive.
It’s all those things. It’s fantastically more varied. Here, you
don’t get peace. You get apathy. It drives me crazy.”
Actor Tony Franciosa has his contract terminated by
Universal Studios and he will no longer appear on “The
Name of the Game” on NBC Friday Nights. The studio
fired the actor for allegedly repeated persistent acts of
default under the terms of his contract. Franciosa had
been suspended some months
ago when he failed to report to
work.
At Toys R Us - back to school
School lunch kits - your choice of H.R. Pufnstuf or
Peanuts versions ... Each lunch kit complete with box
and thermos bottle - your choice - $1.84 each ... Flash
Cards - the fun way to learn reading, writing and
arithmetic - .68 ... New World Dictionary - ^4.97.
Week of September 5, 1970
Television news -
On the season premiere of “ Here’s Lucy”
on CBS-TV this week - Liz Taylor and
Richard Burton and their $1.5 million
diamond ring! Don’t miss it.
Tuesday Night Television
CBS - Movie, Special-“Day In The Life of
the United States”
NBC - Debut-Civilization: A Preview, Julia,
Movie
ABC - Mod Squad, TVMovie, Marcus Welby, MD
NET - NET Festival, Speculation
CBS Special - Day in the Life of the United States - looks across American the
day man first landed on the moon - July 20, 1969. Forty-three camera crews at
33 locations across the country - from eastern Maine to the western Hawaiian
Islands recorded scenes of life on that day. Charles Kuralt reports.
The David Frost Show (syndicated) - guests - Victor Buono, Frank Mankaiewicz,
Oral Roberts and Oscar Brown Jr.
Tom Kennedy Show - (Syndicated) - gameshow
host makes his wish come true with this talk/variety
hour - guests David Canary, Jackie Kahane, Ann
Francis.
Late night talk -
Merv Griffin Show (CBS) - Now from Hollywood ...
George Jessel, Joey Heatherton
NBC - The Tonight Show w/Johnny Carson - Pete
Carlesimon
ABC - Dick Cavett - Yvette Mimieux, Arlo Guthrie,
Dick Clark, Albert Burke
Monday night television (Sept. 14) -
CBS - Gunsmoke, Here’s Lucy, Mayberry RFD, Doris Day, Carol Burnett, Merv
Griffin
NBC - (debut) Red Skelton, Laugh-In, NBC Tuesday Night at the movies,
Tonight
ABC - It Takes a Thief, Movie of the Week, Dick Cavett
NET - Net Journal
Week of September 5, 1970
Red Skelton debuts on NBC-TV.
Tonight Show - David Steinberg guest hosts.
Debbie Drake is guest.
Dick Cavett - Orson Welles.
Bestsellers -
Love Story - Erich Segal
The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles
The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart
Bech: A Book - John Updike
Great Lion of God - Taylor Caldwell
Such Good Friends - Lois Gould
Deliverance - James Dickey
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About
Sex - David R. Reuben
Zelda: A Biography - Nancy Milford
Up The Organization - Robert Townsend
The Sensuous Woman - “J”
Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues -
Jim Bouton
Aretha Franklin is named top female Rhythm ‘n’ blues
vocalist in an annual survey by Cash Box magazine. Other R
& B winners include James Brown for top male vocalist, the
Temptations for vocal group and the Temptations again for
best record “I Can’t Get Next to You.”
Pop music this week in 1970 -
War - Edwin Starr
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon & War
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours - Stevie
Wonder
Patches - Clarence Carter
Julie Do You Love Me - Bobby Sherman
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5,
1970
I (Who Have Nothing) - Tom Jones
(They Long to Be) Close to You -
The Carpenters
Lookin' Out My Back Door -
Creedence Clearwater Revival
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
Don't Play That Song - Aretha
Franklin
Everybody's Got the Right to Love
- The Supremes
I (Who Have Nothing) - Tom Jones
It's a Shame - The Spinners
Long Long Time - Linda Ronstadt
Peace Will Come (According to
Plan) - Melanie
Candida - Dawn
Snowbird - Anne Murray
Hi-Di-Ho - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Make It With You - Bread
Lay a Little Lovin' On Me - Robin
McNamara
Tighter, Tighter - Alive & Kicking
If You Let Me Make Love to You
Then) Why Can't I Touch You-
Ronnie Dyson
Groovy Situation - Gene Chandler
Overture From Tommy - Assembled Multitude
Hand Me Down World - The Guess Who
Only You Know and I Know - Dave Mason
Rainbow - The Marmalade
Top Albums -
Cosmos Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Live at Leeds - The Who
Chicago - Chicago
Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Woodstock - original soundtrack
Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Joe Cocker
John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic
Absolutely Live - The Doors
Close To Home - Grand Funk Railroad
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5,
1970
Tommy - The Who
Stage Fright - The Band
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon &
Garfunkle
5th Dimension’s Greatest Hits - 5th
Dimension
McCartney - Paul McCartney
Let It Be - The Beatles
On the Water - Bread
A Question of Balance - The Moody Blues
Elton John - Elton John
I’ll Never Fall In Love Again - Dionne
Warwick
Make It Easy On Yourself - Burt Bacharach
Gold - Neil Diamond
With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe
Cocker
More albums -
Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton
Band of Gold - Freda Payne
It Ain’t Easy - Three Dog Night
Rides Again - James Gang
Reflections of My Life - Marmalade
Silver Bird - Mark Lindsay
Deep Purple In Rock - Deep Purple
Snow Bird - Ann Murray
United We Stand - Brotherhood of Man
Melanie - Melanie
At the movies
Angel Unchained - Don Stroud, Luke
Askew, Larry Bishop, Tyne Daly, Aldo Ray
Michael Wadleigh’s Woodstock - Joan
Baez, Joe Cocker, Country Joe & The Fish,
Crosby, Stills & Nash, Arlo Guthrie, Richie
Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, John
Sebastian, Sly & The Family Stone, Ten
Years After, The Who, Sha-na-na
Something For Everyone - Angela
Lansbury, Michael York
Kelly’s Heroes - Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O’Connor,
Week of September 5, 1970
Donald Sutherland
The Landlord - Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey
Hotel - Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard
Conte, Michael Rennie, Kevin McCarthy, Merle Oberon
The Hawaiians - Charlton Heston
Bird With The Crystal Plumage - Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall
Colussus - The Forbin Project - Eric Braedin, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent
Airport - Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin
Myra Breckinridge - Mae West, John Huston
Soldier Blue - Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John
Anderson, Dana Elcar
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