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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~

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FIRST BROADWAY PRODUCTION ON TV

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Producers_Showcase_Title

Peter-Pan

On March 7, 1955, NBC presented Peter Pan live as part of Producers’
Showcase
(with nearly all of the show’s original cast) as the first full-
length Broadway production on color TV. The show attracted a then
record audience of 65-million viewers, the highest ever up to that
time for a single television program.

 

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RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1958

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all i have to do is dream 45 

"All I Have To Do Is Dream" by The Everly Brothers and is ranked
#142 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s
list of The 500 Greatest
Songs of All Time
. It was recorded in just two takes and features
the guitar of the great Chet Atkins.

“All I Have To Do Is Dream” was the only single ever to be at #1 
on all of
Billboard’s singles charts simultaneously, on June 2, 1958.


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CAPRA’S GREAT POLITICAL FILM FROM 1939

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, winning
for Best Original Story. In 1989, the
Library of Congress added the movie to the 
United States National Film Registry.  

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TV COMMERCIAL FROM THE 1950s

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