By the way, Gerry Thomas only made $200 a month as a salesman for Swanson. Thomas received a $1,000 bonus for coming with the idea of and the name TV dinner. Thomas's wife said that Gerry never ate a TV dinner. In 1987 the original TV dinner tray was placed in the Smithsonian Institution.
"The Beach Boys" in 1968 at Memorial Hall in Dayton, Ohio. It cost me nothing, a high school friend gave me the ticket. I remember Dennis Wilson tossed his drum sticks into the crowd after they performmed their last song of the evening.
"MacArthur Park" - sung by Richard Harris and composed by Jimmy Webb. The seven minute and twenty-one second record was released in April of 1968 and it peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart behind Herb Alphert's, "This Guy's in Love with You". The song was offerend to the...