Every week I send my Minutia Men Co-Host Dave Stern a list from our audio archives for this week's Studio Walls feature. These are the possibilities for this week. Which one will he choose?
*October 2, 1938, Dizzy Dean's last stand as a big leaguer. His final World Series game. The Cubs fight valiantly but lose to the Yankees (AUDIO)
*October 2nd is actor Eric Fellows birthday. He appeared as our guest a few years ago.
*October 3 is jazz great Von Freeman's brithday. Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling told us a great story about Von, and the advice he gave him about drinking.
*October 3, 1995, OJ Simpson was acquitted. The John Landecker show did a number of songs about that trial, including "YDNA", "Johnny Cochran" and "OJ Walked" (AUDIO)
*October 4, 2011, Siri debuted. We had the first voice of Siri on the show to discuss the unusual way they recorded her voice.
*October 4 is songwriter John Denicola's birthday. The Dirty Dancing songwriter appeared on our show to talk about the making of that movie.
*October 4, 1990 was the debut of the television show Beverly Hills 90210. The first theme song to that show was written by Stacey Widelitz, and he told us the unusual reason that theme song was dropped in favor of another.
*October 6 is the birthday of former MLB pitcher Valerio De Los Santos. His claim to fame was beaning Cubs batter Adam Greenberg in the only at bat of his career. Adam told us all about that.
*October 6, 1978, the film Midnight Express was released. We interviewed the author of that book, Billy Hayes.
*October 7 is John Mellencamp's birthday. He was friends with Essra Mohawk early in his career, and she told us about their early struggles and the way he repaid her friendship.
*October 7, 1981, Loverboy's biggest hit album Get Lucky was released. Loverboy's lead singer Mike Reno told us how that album changed his life.
*October 7, 1996, Fox News debuted. Journalist Judd Legum came on our show and we asked him how much Fox News is responsible for breaking our country.
