Join the Eagle from Riverfest all weekend as we broadcast live from our beautiful travel trailer from FMB Trailers Sales in Holmen!
Today is Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day and International Joke Day.
THIS DAY IN ROCK!
1956: The Steve Allen Show presents Elvis dressed in a tuxedo and singing "Hound Dog" to an actual basset hound perched on a stool.
1956: An 11-year-old Brenda Lee signs her first recording contract with Decca Records.
1962: Gene Vincent plays the Cavern Club, opening for a house band called The Beatles.
1964: Michael Nesmith leaves home to make a name for himself as a folk singer in Los Angeles.
1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, along with his son Julian and her daughter Kyoko, are injured in a car crash near Golspie, Scotland.
1969: Sam Phillips sells his Sun Records Studio.
1970: Jimi Hendrix' Electric Ladyland Studios in New York are opened for the first time.
1970:Casey Kasem begins his weekly Billboard countdown, American Top 40.
1975: Ringo Starr divorces his first wife Maureen Cox after a decade of marriage.
1998: Barbra Streisand marries James Brolin.
NEW MOVIES IN THEATERS! Stuff to check out between your Riverfest-ing includes The Legend of Tarzan, The Purge: Election Year (R) Our Kind of Traitor (R) and Life, Animated (G). Click here for the rest of the new stuff.
A CAPITOL FOURTH! Smokey Robinson and Kenny Loggins are among the artists set to take part in the 2016 edition of the annual PBS Independence Day special, A Capitol Fourth, taking place on West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, and will be hosted by Tom Bergeron. Get the details.
WORST U.S. DRIVERS! Just in time for the holiday, Allstate Insurance has released its 12th annual Best Drivers Report and for the second year in a row, Boston came in dead last at 200th out of 200 cities rated. Meanwhile, America's safest city overall is Brownsville, Texas. Get the list.
PARALLEL PARKING! Watch a video of one guy's invention that makes parallel parking a breeze. Click here to watch it now.
