Monthly Archives: March 2015

The Beach Boys complete ‘Help Me, Rhonda’ (single version) 50 years ago today (Mar 21 1965)


Video: 'Help Me, Rhonda [Single Version] - The Beach Boys (with lyrics)'

(Friday, January 15, 1965) — The Beach Boys overdubbed vocals to the Dec. 16, 1964, instrumental master of “Kiss Me, Baby” today at United Western Recorders studio in Los Angeles for the group’s album The Beach Boys Today!.

‘The Early Beatles’ album by The Beatles released in USA 50 years ago today (Mar 22 1965)


Video: 'The Beatles-Baby It's You off of The Early Beatles vinyl'

(Monday, March 22, 1965)The Early Beatles, the Beatles’ sixth release on Capitol Records and their eighth album for the American market, was relesed today.

The album resembles more of an early compilation because all of the tracks had previously been featured on the early 1964 Vee-Jay release Introducing… The Beatles.

First regular electronic TV service begins in Germany 80 years ago today (Mar 22 1935)


Video: 'First 2 Television Broadcasts of The Third Reich Nazi Germany (1935 & 1936)'

(Friday, March 22, 1935) — The first regular electronic television service in Germany began today in Berlin, as Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk.

Broadcasting from the Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, it used a 180-line system, and was on air for 90 minutes, three times a week. Very few receivers were ever privately owned, and viewers went instead to Fernsehstuben (television parlors).

100,000 refugees crowd Da Nang by 40 years ago today (Mar 21 1975)


Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Mar. 21, 1975, at 29:21)

(Friday, March 21, 1975; during the The Hue–Da Nang Campaign of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — 100,000 refugees, many of them troops and their families, had crowded into Da Nang by today as South Vietnam’s collapse intensified.

Freedom march begins at Selma, troops on guard 50 years ago today (Mar 21 1965)


Video: 'Eyes on the Prize (VI) — Bridge to Freedom, 1965 [with English subtitles]' (Mar. 21, 1965, at 45:24)

(Sunday, March 21, 1965, during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — Protected by federal and federalized troops, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their successful march out of Selma today. Continue reading Freedom march begins at Selma, troops on guard 50 years ago today (Mar 21 1965)