Creem is back! Detroit’s legendary rock and roll magazine is reborn as a quarterly publication. But for Keener fans, the magic is in the archives. The magazine that was home to Susan Whitall, Lester Bangs, Dave Marsh, founder Barry Kramer and many other legendary rock writers has made it’s full 1969-1989 run available on line. Access starts at $5 bucks a month.

Celebrating a Queen: While we don’t ever like to encourage people to tune away from the Keener13.com audio stream, history is being made today in the UK, where Elizabeth II celebrates her Platinum Jubilee.Today in 1953, the young princess was crowned in Westminster Abbey. A year long celebration of that event begins today. The TV channels are filled with coverage of the festivities, many of which will feature her heirs. Here’s the Reuters live feed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A3xIYBmKZg

This Day in Detroit:

• Today in 1967, The Federal Communications Commission said that radio and TV stations which broadcast cigarette advertisements must also offer free broadcast time for anti-smoking messages. The ruling was based on The Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to make available a reasonable opportunity for conflicting points of view to be aired.
• Today in 1972, McDonalds was ordered to cut the prices of its Quarter Pounder hamburgers and cheeseburgers after the fast-food chain raised them without obtaining the required permission. McDonalds yearly sales in ’72 was over $193 million dollars. The commission, a Nixon era attempt to control inflation, did not specify what the base price should be or how much money should be refunded.
• Today in 1977, one week after its debut, “Star Wars” had dazzled over 38,000 Detroiters with theater lines stretching into the hundreds at some locations. The film grossed more than $2.9 million nationwide in its first week of release.
• Today in 1979, TV viewers in suburban Detroit could buy a Monarch TV antenna, advertised to bring in signals from as far away as Toledo for just $149.95. The setup included a rotator to point the antenna in the direction of the incoming signal.
• Today in 1982, a shortage of priests in the Roman Catholic Church would soon reach crisis proportions in the United States, according to researchers. Their statistics indicated that the American church will have 50 percent fewer active clergymen by the year 2000 than it had on June 2, 1982.
• Today in 1989, cellular phones were front and center in Highland Appliance advertising with a GE 3 Watt model featuring a 9 number memory offered for $349.00 Ameritech cellular service fees were not included in the price.

Keener Number Ones This Week In:

(1964) Memphis, Johnny Rivers
(1965) Mr Tambourine Man, Byrds
(1966) Little Girl, Syndicate of Sound
(1967) Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Frankie Valli
(1968) This Guy’s In Love With You, Herb Alpert
(1969) Get Back/Dont Let Me Down, Beatles
(1970) Ooh Child, Five Stairsteps
(1971) It’s Too Late, Carole King

What’s Happening via JJ Duling:

Taco Bell says it “underestimated” the popularity of Mexican Pizza. “7x more than we expected, to be exact,” the company tweeted. “We are working as fast as we can to restock Mexican Pizza ingredients. We’ll need some time to replenish our supplies, but when it comes back, we promise it’s here to stay.”

No more Elvis weddings in Vegas: Authentic Brands, the licensing company that controls Elvis’ name and image is ordering Las Vegas wedding chapel operators to stop using Elvis in themed ceremonies. The company has given no reason for the ban in the cease and desist letters it sent to multiple chapels. Elvis themed weddings account for a significant percentage of the city’s $2 billion dollar annual matrimony industry.

George Carlin’s social commentary comedy is more relevant than ever, according to Judd Apatow, director of a new HBO/MAX two part Carlin documentary. Apatow told Salon Magazine, “every time something happens in the country, he trends on Twitter because he has the best routine about almost every subject in modern political life.”

It’s going to be another “high risk” Covid summer for international travelers. The CDC added three island destinations to its “high” risk category for travelers. Anguilla, Jamaica and Turks and Caicos Islands were all moved to Level 3, or “high” risk for Covid-19. They join much of Europe, Brazil, Canada, South Korea and Thailand as high risk destinations. Level 3 now applies to countries that have had more than 100 cases per 100,000 residents in the past 28 days.

The Rolling Stones Workout: When the Stones opened their 2022 tour in Spain, the band had a yoga room where they could stretch before the show and a space to get mentally ready for their trademark high energy performances. Mick Jagger travels with a personal trainer and Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards have a special ‘tuning room’ where they can jam before the show to get in the concert groove.

Netflix’s attempt to crack down on password sharing a bumpy road: The streaming giant is telling customers they can no longer user their accounts outside of their household. Yet tests of the new policy in South America have lead to confusion and anger. Subscribers say the policy was poorly communicated and has had problems with execution. Netflix reported its first subscriber loss in over a decade, and said sharing the passwords was in part responsible.

Today in History:

1835 P. T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1875 Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
1883 1st night baseball under lights, Fort Wayne Indiana
1896 Italian engineer and inventor Guglielmo Marconi applies for the first ever patent for a system of wireless telegraphy in the United Kingdom
1928 Kraft, building on the original 1918 design, rolls out Velveeta cheese
1933 FDR authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England
1958 Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1962 Ray Charles’ cover of Don Gibson’s “I Can’t Stop Loving You“, from his influential crossover album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music” hits #1 on Billboard
1967 Capitol Records releases The Beatles’ album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” in the US; it is their first album with identical track listings in US and UK, and goes to number one for 15 weeks in US, 22 weeks in UK
1978 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen’s fourth studio album “Darkness on the Edge of Town”
1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
1989 “Dead Poets Society” film starring Robin Williams premieres
1992 Wilson Phillips release their second album “Shadows & Light“. (“You Won’t See Me Cry” #20, t”Give It Up” #30) The album is seen as a commercial failure.
2004 Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
2017 “Wonder Woman” directed by Patty Jenkins released, earns over $100 million in North American in its opening weekend – domestic record for a female director

Rock Birthdays: Via DrRock.com

1924 Maurice Kinn, Music promoter who launched The New Musical Express (NME) in 1952, started first UK singles chart, sold the weekly in 1963, died on 8/3/2000, age 76
1930 Vic Firth / (Everett Joseph Firth), Principal timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1956 to 2002 and founder (in his garage workshop in the early 60s) and former CEO of the Vic Firth Company, the world’s largest maker of drumsticks and percussion mallets, died at home from natural causes on 7/26/2015, age 85
1934 Johnny Carter / (John E. Carter), First tenor for sophisticated group harmony R&B/doo wop The Flamingos, “I Only Have Eyes For You”, (#11, R&B #3, 1959), in 1964 joined R&B/Chicago soul vocal group The Dells, “Oh, What A Night” (#10, R&B #1, 1969), died from lung cancer on 8/21/2009, age 75
1937 Jimmy Jones, African American country and pop singer/songwriter best known for his one hit wonder rock ‘n’ roll single “Handy Man” (#2, 1960)
1939 Janie Bradford, American songwriter for Motown (“Money (That’s What I Want)”), born in Charleston, Missouri
1939 Charles Miller, Saxophone and vocals for funk-blues-jazz-rock War, “Cisco Kid” (#2, 1973), murdered in L.A. on 6/14/1980, age 41
1941 Charlie Watts / (Charles Robert Watts), Unassuming, pop-icon-eschewing, jazz-rooted, dapper-dressed drummer for early British blues-rock Blues Incorporated and then, for over 50 years from 1963, the essential rhythm behind pop-rock’s greatest band ever, The Rolling Stones (“Honky Tonk Woman,” #1, 1969 and 11 other US and/or UK #1 hits), inarguably one of rock’s greatest drummers of all time, celebrated for his wide breadth of rhythms supporting superstar band leaders Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, over the years variously fronted boogie-woogie Rocket 88 and several incarnations of jazz-rock the Charlie Watts Band while breeding Arabian horses on his English farm, reported to have had a “successful” heart procedure but died three weeks later on 8/24/2021, age 80.
1941 William Guest, Backing vocals in R&B/soul-pop family quartet Gladys Knight & The Pips, “Midnight Train To Georgia” (#1, 1973)
1944 Marvin Hamlisch, Grammy-winning film, theater and pop music composer, arranger, “The Entertainer” (#3, 1973), co-wrote “The Way We Were” for Barbra Streisand (#1, 1974)
1946 Ian Hunter / (Ian Patterson), Founding member, songwriter, keyboards and lead singer for early Brit glam-rockers Mott The Hoople, “All The Young Dudes” (#37, 1972), then solo, “Cleveland Rocks” (1979), wrote the book Diary Of A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (1974)
1947 Steve Brookins, Founding member and original drummer for Southern arena rockers .38 Special, “Hold On Loosely” (Mainstream Rock #3, 1981)
1950 Chubby Tavares / (Antone Lee Tavares), Vocals for five brother R&B/funk-disco Tavares, “Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel” (#15, 1976)
1954 Michael Steele / (Susan Nancy Thomas), Bass and vocals for New Wave pop-rock The Bangles, “Manic Monday” (#2, 1986)
1956 Danny Wilde, Singer, songwriter and guitarist for legendary power pop bands The Quick, Great Buildings and The Rembrandts, “I’ll Be There For You” (#17, 1995), the theme song from the TV show Friends

Other Notable Birthdays: Via OnThisDay.com

1904 (Johann) Johnny Weissmuller, Romanian-American actor (Tarzan) and swimmer (5 Olympic gold 1924, 28), born in Freidorf, Austria-Hungary (now Romania) (d. 1984)
1930 Charles Pete Conrad Jr, USN/astro (Gem 5 11, Ap 12, Skylab 2), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1936 Sally Kellerman, American actress (M*A*S*H; Back to School; The Player), and singer, born in Long Beach, California (d. 2022)
1941 Stacy Keach, American actor (Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer), born in Savannah, Georgia
1943 Charles Haid, actor (Andy Renko-Hill St Blues, Altered States), born in San Francisco, California
1948 Jerry Mathers, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Beaver-Leave It To Beaver)
1955 Gary Grimes, American actor (Summer of ’42, Class of ’44), born in San Francisco, California
1955 Dana Carvey, American comedian and actor (SNL – “George Bush”; Wayne’s World – “Garth”), born in Missoula, Montana
1977 Zachary Quinto, American actor (Star Trek), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania