Hello from Rochester, NY

Did You Know….  (2023 Edition):

♦ Former Red Wing Jeff Tackett, hit a home run in his last major
    league at-bat.

♦ Billie Holiday Was Billy Crystal's Babysitter.

♦ Metallica is the first and only band to have played on all seven
    continents.

♦ The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in
     four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

♦ Dolly Parton once entered a drag queen celebrity impersonator
     contest AS HERSELF and lost.

♦ In 1941, Gladys Gooding became baseball's first organist as she
     played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

♦ In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person
     who has a speaking role.

♦ Canada is south of Detroit (just look at a map).

♦ Jack Norworth, who wrote "Take Me Out To The Ballgame," never
     attended a game.

♦ Denny McLain, the last 30 game winner in the major leagues, was a
     featured performer in Las Vegas as an organist.

♦ Elvis Presley played 636 consecutive shows in Las Vegas over an
    eight-year period (1969-1976). He played two shows per evening
    every day of the week. Each show sold out.

♦ Barry Manilow didn't write his hit song, "I Write The Songs."

♦ Taylor Swift was actually named after legendary singer-songwriter
    James Taylor.

♦ Ralph Kiner of the Pirates won the home run championship seven
    years in a row.

♦ On August 17, 1957, Richie Ashburn of the Philadelphia Phillies hit
    spectator Alice Roth with a foul ball, breaking her nose. As Alice was
    being carried off the field on a stretcher, Ashburn hit her with another
    foul ball, injuring her knee.

♦ One in five country music songs refer to alcohol, one in three to tears
    and one in seven to "mama."

♦ I have played the organ for 3,311 Red Wing's baseball games since
    1977.

Quote Of The Month:  “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something."-- Jackie Mason

Bye for now...
Fred

CALENDAR

This page was last updated on 2/4/2023.

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TO ORDER FRED’S CD or BOOK BY MAIL:                    Mail to: Costello Music P.O. Box 25176 Rochester, NY 14625
“Anthology” CD: $15.00 (includes shipping) “Blues Backstage” CD: $15.00 (includes shipping)	“A Lifetime Of Nightclubs & Ballparks” Book: $ 20.00 (includes shipping)

 

NOW AVAILABLE

"Fred Costello - Anthology" CD $15.00 (includes shipping)

"Blues Backstage" CD $15.00 (includes shipping)

"A Lifetime Of Nightclubs & Ballparks" Book $ 20.00 (includes shipping)