Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand’s Second TV Special, "Color Me Barbra” Coincided with
the release of her new album by the same name. It was filmed largely at
the Philadelphia Museum of Art over one weekend during off-hours. A big
difference from the first special was that this one was in color.
Ross Simpson
Eric Patrick Clapton is 70 today.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by The
Beatles and was released on June 1, 1967.
The cover of the album was designed by the pop artists Peter Blake and Jann
Haworth from an ink drawing by McCartney. It was art-directed by Robert Fraser
and photographed by Michael Cooper. Haworth and Blake won the Grammy
Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts in 1967 for their work on the cover
which is called by many as the most famous rock album cover of all time.
On the set of the album cover photo session.
Michael Cooper
Sir Peter Blake
Jann Haworth
Original run on NBC-TV: July 29, 1957 – March 30, 1962.
The talk show Tonight Starring Jack Paar (in later seasons The
Jack Paar Tonight Show) was broadcast, during most of it’s run,
from Studio 6B (formerly the home of Milton Berle‘s Texaco Star
Theater series) inside the RCA Building, now called the GE
Building, in New York City. The shows announcer was Hugh
Downs who stayed with Paar to the end.
Jack Paar left the show citing the fact that he could no longer
handle the load of putting on a show that (at the time) lasted
105 minutes a night, five nights a week.To fulfill the rest of his
NBC contract, Paar hosted a prime-time variety series, The
Jack Paar Program that aired weekly, on Friday nights, through
1965. As for Tonight Show, Johnny Carson was chosen as Paar’s
successor.
