” I hollered, "Don't look, Ethel!"
But it was too late
She'd already been mooned
Flashed her right there in front of the shock absorbers!”
But it was too late
She'd already been mooned
Flashed her right there in front of the shock absorbers!”
”The Streak” Ray Stevens 1974
As we turn another page on the calendar, let’s journey back to May of 1974, as the Watergate saga continues to grind on, a novelty song dominates the radio, and Harlem bid farewell to a jazz legend, while in the four color world, DC brought us the final Kaluta Shadow and a rare Alex Toth super-hero tale!
News of the Month:
9th - US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
12th - NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee, 4 games to 3
16th - Helmut Schmidt becomes West German Chancellor
17th - In Compton, California, a shootout between members of the Los Angeles Police Department and the Symbionese Liberation Army results in the death of six SLA members, including their leader
18th - India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb
19th - Stanley Cup Final, The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA: Goaltender Bernie Parent and the Flyers shut out the Boston Bruins, 1-0, to win series 4-2
20th - U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica ordered President Nixon to surrender 64 tape recordings of White House conversations that had been subpoenaed by the special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski.
22nd - "Julie and Jackie: How Sweet It Is" music and comedy variety special starring Julie Andrews and Jackie Gleason airs on ABC-TV
24th - Edward "Duke" Ellington, American bandleader, composer and pianist dies of cancer at 75
28th - 6th Emmy Awards: M*A*S*H, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win
Newsreel of the Month: Duke Ellington’s funeral (May 27, 1974)
Magazine Cover of the Month: Patty Hearst (Newsweek, May 27, 1974)
Music of the Month: An American comedian rode the latest fad to the top of the US charts, while a Swedish supergroup exploded onto the UK music scene with a #1 hit of their own
US Top Singles:
1. The Streak - Ray Stevens
2. Dancing Machine - Jackson 5
3. The Locomotion - Grand Funk
4. The Entertainer - Marvin Hamlisch
5. The Show Must Go On - Three Dog Night
UK Top Singles:
1. Waterloo – Abba
2. Don't Stay Away Too Long - Peters and Lee
3. Shang-A-Lang - Bay City Rollers
4. Sugar Baby Love - Rubettes
5. Remember You’re A Womble - The Wombles
Further Down the Charts:
A Scottish singer named Maggie Bell just barely cracked the Hot 100 with a charming cover of “After Midnight”, peaking at #97
Movie of the Month: “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges & George Kennedy (premiered May 22, 1974)
TV Clip of the Month: In the special “Julie and Jackie”, Julie Andrews displays her comedic talents filling in as Ed Norton opposite Jackie Gleason in a Honeymooners skit (May 22, 1974)
Sports Moment of the Month: In a classic Game 7, John Havlicek’s Boston Celtics prevail over Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Milwaukee Bucks 102-87 (May 12, 1974)
Top 10 DC Comics of the Month (as selected by Osgood Peabody, listed in order of their publication):
Our Army at War #271: Easy Company races the clock to prevent the Germans from blowing up a dam in “Brittle Harvest”! (Cover by Joe Kubert)
Wonder Woman #213: The Flash monitors the second of Wonder Woman’s trials in “The War-No-More Machine”! (Cover by Bob Oksner)
House of Mystery #226: Eight macabre tales highlighted by Alfredo Alcala’s “Garden of Evil” plus a 3 page tour of the House of Mystery! (Cover by Luis Dominguez)
Kamandi #20: The Last Boy on Earth concludes his adventure in “Chicago-Land” in “The Electric Chair”! (Cover by Jack Kirby & D. Bruce Berry)
Rima the Jungle Girl #3: Rima’s origin tale continues in “Rio Lama” plus the Space Voyagers confront “The Hot Spot”! (Cover by Joe Kubert)
Shadow #6: Mike Kaluta concludes his brilliant run on the book with “Night of the Ninja”! (Cover by Mike Kaluta)
Brave & the Bold #114: The Batman and Aquaman team up to avert a nuclear holocaust in “Last Jet to Gotham”! (Cover by Jim Aparo)
Superman #278: Terra-Man returns in “Super-Showdown at Buzzard Gulch” plus other classic Superman family tales! (Cover by Nick Cardy)
Detective Comics #442: Alex Toth illustrates Batman in “Death Flies the Haunted Sky”, plus Manhunter confronts his mentor in “To Duel the Master”, plus other classic tales featuring the Newsboy Legion, Doctor Fate, Hawkman, and Black Canary! (Cover by Jim Aparo)
Tarzan #232: Tarzan races to save two women from the clutches of talking apes in the second installment of the adaptation of “Tarzan and the Lion Man”, plus other vintage stories of Congo Bill, Detective Chimp, and Rex the Wonder Dog! (Cover by Joe Kubert)
You can find all DC comics published this month right here courtesy of Mike Voiles’ Time Machine!
You can also find a lot of other publishers’ output this month courtesy of Mike’s site right here.
.
statistics: Posted by Osgood Peabody — 7:13 AM - Today — Replies 5 — Views 96