Trivia

Our Song of the Day, “Born to be Wild” by Steppenwolf, is the best-known song in the movie, "Easy Rider." This counter-culture film was released July 14, 1969.

On this last day of June, the Song of the Day remembers the events of June 30 when Adolph Hitler solidified his power as dictator of Germany. Scottish Singer songwriter Al Stewart read 40 books in order to write the history in "Last Day of June 1934."

On June 23, 2007, the Largest Guitar Ensemble , 1,802 guitar players, strummed our Song of the Day in Stutgart, Germany. That record has been broken many times over, but the opening guitar riff from "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is considered legendary.

Who knew that Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, singing "Soul Man" dressed as killer bees on Saturday Night Live, would become the cultural icons known as the Blues Brothers? It was evident after the movie premiered on June 16, 1980.

Horn and Hardart took a popular idea that was sweeping Europe and on June 9, 1902 opened their first coffee automat in Philadelphia. Mel Brooks loved them so much he wrote the Song of the Day as part of a documentary called, "The Automat."

The sleepy town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, developed the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and the hit-making sound for Aretha Franklin, especially for the Song of the Day, "I Never Loved a Man." The Muscle Shoals Sound Studio was added to the National Registry of Historic Places on June 2, 2006.

David Cassidy was every teenybopper's fantasy. Unfortunately, one of them was killed in a stampede at his May 26, 1974, London concert. The Song of the Day, "Could it Be Forever?" can be answered in one word: "no".

Marilyn Monroe stole the show when she sang the song of the day, "Happy Birthday," to President John F. Kennedy on May 19, 1963.

Tina Turner played her final concert on May 5, 2009 at the age of 69.

Our Song of the Day has nothing to do with vote totals in Pennsylvania. Nothing to do with the Keystone State. "Pennsylvania 6-5000" by Glen Miller was the phone number for the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City. The song was recorded on April 28, 1940.