Video: 'Liberace On Batman'
(Wednesday, October 21, 1966, 7:30 p.m. EDT) — Concert pianist Chandell plans to obtain the Wayne fortune and pay off his blackmailing twin brother Harry by marrying Aunt Harriet as Liberace played the parts of both a good and evil pianist on tonight’s edition of the ABC-TV series Batman.
Video: 'I'm a Believer'
(Sunday, October 23, 1966) — The Monkees completed recording “I’m A Believer” and “Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)” today at RCA Victor Studio B in Hollywood. Continue reading The Monkees complete ‘I’m A Believer’ and ‘Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)’ 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 23 1966)
Video: 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe (Official Audio)'
(Sunday, October 23, 1966) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience began recording their first album Are You Experienced, recording the basic track for “Hey Joe” today at De Lane Lea Studios in London (Hendrix’s lead vocal and backing vocals by the Breakaways, a group of female session singers, were recorded later).
(Saturday, October 22, 1966) — “See See Rider” by The Animals peaked at #10 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.
(Saturday, October 22, 1966) — “Girl on a Swing” by Gerry and the Pacemakers peaked at #28 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week. It was the group’s 11th and final appearance on the chart (1964-1966).
Video: 'The beatles Cartoons Episode 33'
(Saturday, October 22, 1966, 10:30 a.m. EDT) — The Beatles are out for “a healthy tramp in the woods” when they encounter a hermit who “just wants to be left alone”; and later, Dot, Blot and Clot Publishers, decides to put a papberback book out about the Beatles and make a lot of money on this morning’s season two finale of The Beatles, a weekly cartoon television series on ABC. Continue reading ‘Nowhere Man/Paperback Writer’ episode airs on ‘The Beatles’ cartoon series 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 22 1966)
Video: 'Aberfan Disaster Documentary'
(Friday, October 21, 1966, 9:15 a.m. BST) — 116 children and 28 adults were killed this morning when an avalanche of two million tons of rain-soaked coal waste slipped 500 feet down a mountainside and engulfed a school and some 20 houses in Aberfan, Wales.
Video: '[I Prithee] Do Not Ask For Love'
(Tuesday, October 18, 1966, 4:00 p.m.-midnight PDT) — The Monkees recorded “(I Prithee) Do Not Ask for Love” (with Micky Dolenz on lead vocal) today at RCA Victor Studio C in Hollywood, but it is not released until 1990.
Video: 'Persona' (trailer)
(Tuesday, October 18, 1966) — Persona, a black and white Swedish film about an actress recovering from a breakdown who exercises a strange hold over her nurse, premiered today in Stockholm.
Directed by Ingmar Bergman, the film starred Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann.
Video: '12 Firemen Die In New York Fire (1966)'
(Monday, October 17, 1966, 9:36 p.m. EDT) — 12 New York City firefighters were killed tonight in a fire that raged uncontrolled through three buildings in lower Manhattan. Continue reading 12 New York City firefighters killed in lower Manhattan fire 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 17 1966)
