Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for April 3rd

Today you got more proof that Elvis was King, and a couple of classic rockers get into it with the law!!!

4/03/1956 (59 years ago today) - Tonight's broadcast of ABC-TV's "The Milton Berle Show" is live from the flight deck of the USS Hancock in San Diego and there's much feverish anticipation in the air as Elvis Presley is the special guest. Elvis performs three songs: "Heartbreak Hotel", "Shake, Rattle And Roll" and "Blue Suede Shoes"; teenage girls all over the U.S. go absolutely ballistic -- it's estimated that one out of every four Americans saw the show!!! That's really beyond amazing when you think about it...

4/03/1969 (46 years ago today) - He knows what's coming, what else could he do? In Los Angeles, The Doors' Jim Morrison turns himself in to the local F.B.I., the unavoidable follow-up to the Miami concert brouhaha where he was nailed with six charges of "lewd behavior and public exposure" the month before. Hours later, Jim is released on $2,000 bail; whether or not the incident ever really did happen remains unclear, its status now is one of those classic rock stories where the truth lay somewhere between urban legend and (for Jim personally) "The Twilight Zone"!

4/03/1975 (40 years ago today) - "Gangster Of Love", indeed: Steve Miller is charged with setting fire to the clothes of a female companion by the name of Benita Diorio. As the cops arrive at "Maurice's" house, she is actually putting out the flames! Steve gets into a fight with some of the policemen, of course, and is charged with resisting arrest.

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"...I'm a smoker/I'm a midnight toker/I sure don't want to hurt no one...", xoxo!