For the Michael McDonald song, see I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near). “I Keep Forgettin’” is a song by Chuck Jackson, written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and Garfield. It appears on his second studio album Any Day Now. It peaked at No. 55 on the Billboard Top 100…
Nevertheless, “Just as I Am” soon became Graham’s go-to hymn for his own crusades. In fact, the one time he didn’t use it, preferring instead to let the Holy Spirit move people out of their seats in silence at a 1966 crusade in London, there was a near mutiny from…
“Beyond the Sea” has been recorded by many artists, but Bobby Darin ’s version released in late 1959 is the best known by many, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 15 on the US R&B Chart, and No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart. in early 1960.…
Brothers in Arms was recorded from October 1984 to February 1985 at AIR Studios on the island of Montserrat, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean. The album was produced by songwriter Mark Knopfler and Neil Dorfsman , who had engineered Dire Straits 1982 album Love over Gold and Knopfler’s…
Nasa’s New Horizons mission made a close pass of Pluto this week. For more than 70 years, Pluto was one of nine planets recognised in our Solar System. But in 2006, it was relegated to the status of dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Pluto was found and…
The proverb out of sight, out of mind was first recorded in John Heywood’s 1546 work, A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue. What does the quote out of sight out of mind mean? Definition of out of sight, out of mind…
Charles Darwin is often credited with coining the phrase – “The survival of the fittest” – however, such attribution is not really correct. Darwin wrote about species being engaged in a competitive Struggle for Existence. The phrase “Survival of the Fittest” has become so attached to revolutionary Biologist Charles Darwin…
“The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. Quote by Martin Luther King Jr.: “The true measure of a man is not how he behaves…” “The…
[Comedian Phil] Silvers, incidentally, credits another burlesque comedian, Harry Steppe*, with introducing the phrase “top banana” into show business jargon in 1927 as a synonym for the top comic on the bill. It rose out of a routine, full of doubletalk, in which three comedians tried to share two bananas.…
The origin of the phrase two’s company, three’s a crowd is traced to a proverb quoted in John Ray’s 1678 collection of English Proverbs: “One’s too few, three too many.” By the 1800s three versions of the proverb were in use: “Two’s company but three are none”; “Two’s company but…