On this day in music, April 3, 2011, British singer-songwriter Adele broke a UK chart record when her second album, 21, spent ten consecutive weeks at No.1. Featuring the hits “Rolling in the Deep” and “Set Fire to the Rain,” the album overtook the record for the longest chart-topping run by a female artist, as previously set by Madonna with her first greatest hits retrospective, 1990’s The Immaculate Collection. 21 went on to scoop multiple international awards including two Grammys – for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album.
In 2008, Mariah Carey surpassed Elvis Presley’s tally of 17 US No.1s when “Touch My Body” became her 18 chart-topping single. She was still two No.1s short of the record held by The Beatles, however, who topped the Billboard Hot 100 20 times.
In 1990, 66-year-old jazz singer Sarah Vaughan died from lung cancer. Nicknamed “Sassy” or “The Divine One,” Vaughan sang in Earl Hines’ big band in the early 1940s before going solo. She scored a Top 10 US hit in 1954 with “Make Yourself Comfortable,” but her best-known track is her indelible reworking of Erroll Garner’s jazz standard “Misty,” recorded four years later.
In 1979, singer-songwriter Kate Bush, then 20, kicked off her 28-date Tour Of Life at Liverpool’s Empire Theatre. Ticket holders were particularly lucky, given that it would be another 25 years before Bush committed herself to another extended run of concerts. In 2014, she returned to the stage for Before The Dawn, a series of performances that ran for 22 nights at London’s Hammersmith Apollo.
In 1965, Bob Dylan made his UK singles chart debut with “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” which rose to No.9. Interestingly, the much-covered title track of Dylan’s third album was never issued as a single in the US.
BORN ON APRIL 3
1924: Doris Day
1928: Don Gibson
1938: Jeff Barry (Songwriter)
1941: Jan Berry (Jan and Dean)
1944: Tony Orlando (Dawn)
1949: Richard Thompson
1962: Mike Ness (Social Distortion)
1962: Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins)
1968: Sebastian Bach (Skid Row)
1985: Leona Lewis
The Meeker County Museum and G.A.R. Hall has been hosting a scavenger and egg hunt the past couple of weeks. People – especially children are welcome to stop in to the museum at 308 North Marshall Avenue in Litchfield for a fun activity during spring break – leading up to Easter.
Museum Executive Director Danelle Erickson says there is no Civil War Roundtable this month at the G.A.R. Hall as the Civil War Symposium will be coming up on April 25th in Bloomington, but the Civil War Roundtable will resume the second Thursday in May at 1:30 p.m. She says the Sons of the Civil War are honoring the last Union veterans buried in each county in Minnesota and there will be a ceremony at Lake Ripley Cemetery at 3:30 p.m. on April 25th.
Erickson says the annual Memorial Day Picnic will be coming up on May 25th at the Litchfield Opera House and the Museum will also be open that day. She says the Meeker County Museum is usually open Tuesdays through Fridays from 10-to-4 and Saturdays from noon-to-4 and for more information, you can go to meekercomuseum.org.
The Minnesota State Patrol responded to a 2-vehicle crash on Thursday morning at 9:12 at the intersection of Highways 25 and 55 in Buffalo. A Toyota Corolla was southbound on Highway 25 and a Ford Edge was northbound on Highway 25 turning westbound on Highway 55 when the vehicles collided in the intersection.
The 2011 Ford Edge was driven by 31-year-old Jasmine Valdez Moore of Annandale. She was not injured. A passenger in her vehicle, 49-year-old Teresa Rose Muse of St. Paul, received non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the Buffalo Hospital. The 2004 Toyota Corolla was driven by 31-year-old Oscar Alejandro Aguilar of Howard Lake. He received non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the Buffalo Hospital. Also responding to the scene were Buffalo Police and Allina Ambulance.
Each day a business will be featured as “Business of the Day” and every time their commercial is aired be the 7th caller and win a chance to receive KLFD Bucks to be spent at our “Business of the Day” locations.
Monday thru Friday, at 4 pm we will draw out a winner to be put into our final drawing to be held sometime later in April. Once your name has been drawn out daily and put into the final drawing, you are no longer qualified to call in. Otherwise, you can keep calling in once a day to qualify.
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