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ONE-HIT WONDERS (continued): • One of the most popular songs of the disco era, “The Hustle,” was recorded by Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony in 1975, and was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, selling over a million copies. McCoy’s reason for achieving a one-hit wonder was a tragic one – he died of a heart attack in 1979 at the age of 39. • The British pop group Edison Lighthouse was named for the Eddystone Lighthouse off the southwest coast of England. Best known for 1970’s million-selling record “Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes,” the band was just a group of studio musicians that had been hurriedly put together. The tune enjoyed a brief revival when it was featured in the 2001 film Shallow Hal, starring Jack Black, with Gwyneth Paltrow in the role of Rosemary. •

Rolling Stone magazine has ranked 1970’s “Spirit in the Sky” as number 333 on their list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” Written, recorded, and released by Norman Greenbaum in late 1969, the song spent 15 weeks in the Top 100, with sales of over two million copies. Greenbaum never hit the charts again, but today, Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Angels use the song to introduce their starting lineup at their Anaheim stadium.

• Singer Bobby McFerrin is a ten-time Grammy Award winner, but his chart-topper “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” is probably the only song any of us remember. The song is entirely a cappella, using no instruments at all, the first of its kind to reach Number One on the Billboard chart. The lyrics were inspired by the words of an Indian mystic Meher Baba, who encompassed his philosophy in those four words.

A SPORTING VIEW By Mark Vasto

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I’ll never forget the first time I met Peyton Manning. He was on the phone, and I had just snapped a photo of him in the most annoying way possible: I had my trusty Minolta set on the anti-redeye flash setting, the kind where the flash pops over and over again until your subject gets annoyed and stops smiling. And I’ll never forget what he said to me: “Dude ... what are you doing?” That’s the same day I learned that photographers can’t just walk up to the Colts’ sideline and stick a camera in their quarterback’s face, even with the anti-redeye setting. What can I say? We were both rookies that season. I would later graduate to Kodak, Nikon and Cannon cameras, and Manning would go on to have a pretty decent career, too. The first time I really started paying attention to Manning’s career was during his tenure at Tennessee. It’s funny to hear people knock his arm-strength now, because while he was in college, he was a straight-up gunslinger of a quarterback. I remember Steve Spurrier taunting him before big games. Nowadays, we all know not to overly criticize college players, ostensibly for the reason that they are kids and amateurs. Over the years, at Indianapolis and Denver, we’ve had the distinct pleasure of watching Manning all but dominate the league. He wasn’t invincible, as his two Super Bowl losses proclaim, but he was the best in the game. He holds every record that matters: wins (200), yards from scrimmage, touchdowns and MVPs. He was the funniest athlete ever to host “Saturday Night Live”; he’s made “Omaha” the replacement term for “hike” in backyards across the country; and he gave the chicken parm sandwich its own, long-overdue jingle. That, right there, is worthy of considerable praise (and consideration for dinner tonight). After winning the Super Bowl, his gratuitous beer name-dropping aside (no, he wasn’t paid to say that, but he does own a share of the brand’s beer distributorship in Louisiana, and one surmises he made his money back), his not stating the obvious ... that he was retiring ... was a class move. In doing so (or by not doing so) he kept the focus, rightly, on his team’s victory. Should Manning retire? Of course he should. He is playing the most violent game in the world (next to fighting and hurling). He has nothing left to prove, and he leaves as the world recognized as the best ever at his position. Granted, I would still pick Joe Montana to lead my team if my life depended on it, but I think Manning catches my drift. You don’t get chances like this in life -- to leave on top -- you earn them. If he were to come back next year, rest assured, I’d break out the old Minolta. But this time I’d be the one asking what he was doing, dude. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey

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The Choice program, designed to get quicker medical appointments for veterans at civilian doctors, is a big mess. Changes were made recently to driving distances, delayed appointments at a Department of Veterans Affairs facility, difficulty in reaching appointments due to physical condition, and more, to make it easier for veterans to get care. But there is a snag: Health Net Federal Services. Health Net was hired to make appointments. A veteran can’t just call the doctor to make an appointment and have the VA pay the bill. No, this intermediary will make the appointment -- eventually. (In New England, there is only one person for the whole region to set up the provider network.) Health Net must make the appointments within the allotted period, but that doesn’t always happen. Health Net is required to call the correct type of doctor that the veteran needs, which doesn’t always happen either. Health Net processes the bills for the civilian medical providers -- eventually. One large medical provider in New England announced that not only was it owed a lot of money, but the burdens of being a Choice provider were just too much to deal with. Veterans are reporting that they’re receiving bills that should have been paid. Help, or at least disclosure, might be coming soon in the form of a Government Accounting Office audit, requested by some members of Congress. It seems that Congress can sometimes get things rolling, but only if it knows about the problem. This is a call for ... phone calls. Emails. Letters. Contact your state’s two U.S. senators. Ask for the aide who handles veterans issues. Tell your story in summary form, hitting the highlights: Inability to get a medical appointment. Long telephone wait times. Whatever the problem is, tell them. Go online to www.senate.gov and click Senators to find his or her contact information. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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ONE-HIT WONDERS (continued): • Back in 1968, John Fred and his Playboy Band released “Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)”, a hit that sold over a million copies. The song’s title was a parody of the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” The number one hit which spoke of “lemonade pies and cantaloupe eyes,” actually knocked another Beatles hit, “Hello, Good-bye” out of the number one position for two weeks, but it was the one and only hit for the Playboy Band. • The Starland Vocal Band was made up of two married couples who recorded one of 1976’s biggest-selling singles. “Afternoon Delight” was nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning two, including Best New Artist. The Band’s success resulted in a six-week summer variety TV show, which employed the talents of a young writer named David Letterman. The Band’s follow-up album failed miserably, and the group broke up, as did the marriages. • The 2000 movie Rugrats in Paris featured the song “Who Let the Dogs Out?”, performed by the Baha Men, which won numerous awards, including the 1974 Grammy for Best Dance Recording, Billboard’s World Music Artist of the Year, and World Music Album of the Year, and Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Award. Yet this popular tune has been ranked third on Rolling Stone’s “20 Most Annoying Songs, “ number one on Spinner’s “Top 20 Worst Songs Ever, and number two on AOL Radio’s “100 Worst Songs Ever.” Needless to say, the Baha Men haven’t hit the charts again.

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TOP TEN MOVIES 1. Kung Fu Panda 3 (PG) animated 2. Hail, Caesar! (PG-13) Josh Brolin, George Clooney 3. The Revenant (R) Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy 4. Star Wars: Episode VII -- The Force Awakens (PG-13) Daisy Ridley, John Boyega 5. The Choice (PG-13) Benjamin Walker, Teresa Palmer 6. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (PG-13) Lily James, Sam Riley 7. The Finest Hours (PG-13) Chris Pine, Casey Affleck 8. Ride Along 2 (PG-13) Ice Cube, Kevin Hart 9. The Boy (PG-13) Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans 10. Dirty Grandpa (R) Robert De Niro, Zac Efron

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ONE-HIT WONDERS (continued): • Sheb Wooley’s one big hit, which was #1 on the Billboards charts for seven weeks in 1958, has enjoyed popularity for decades. The novelty song “The Purple People Eater” told of a “one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple eater,” who comes to Earth because it wants to be in a rock and roll band. The defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings (whose uniforms were purple) adopted the term from the late 1960s through the 1970s. The song was used in cartoons, TV commercials, and film soundtracks, as well as its own film in 1988.

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* On March 5, 1929, David Dunbar Buick, founder of the Buick Motor Company, dies in The History Channel relative obscurity after years of working menial jobs. By 1906, Buick had lost control of the * On March 3, 1887, Anne Sullivan begins teach- business and sold his stock, which would later be ing 6-year-old Helen Keller, who lost her sight worth millions of dollars. and hearing after a severe illness at the age of 19 months. Under Sullivan’s tutelage, the previ- * On March 1, 1932, the 20-month-old son of ously uncontrollable Keller flourished, eventually aviator Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped from graduating from college and becoming a lecturer the family’s mansion in New Jersey. Although a ransom note demanding $50,000 was left in the and activist. nursery, the baby had been killed the night of the * On March 6, 1899, the patent office in Berlin kidnapping. registers Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsali* On Feb. 29, 1940, the film “Gone With the cylic acid, on behalf of Friedrich Bayer & Co. Acetylsalicylic acid was originally made from a Wind” is honored with eight Oscars. The most momentous award went to Hattie McDaniel for chemical found in the bark of willow trees. her portrayal of “Mammy,” a housemaid and former slave. McDaniel was the first black actor * On March 2, 1904, Theodor Geisel, better ever to win an Oscar. known as Dr. Seuss, the author and illustrator of such beloved children’s books as “The Cat in the Hat,” is born in Massachusetts. Geisel’s first * On March 4, 1962, a Trans-African DC-7 book, “And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry crashes on takeoff in Cameroon, its 111 passenStreet,” was rejected by over two dozen publish- gers and crew doomed by a mechanical failure. It was the first single-airplane disaster in history in ers before making it into print in 1937. which more than 100 people died.

Strong Legs Boost Brainpower A 10-year British study out of Kings College found an interesting correlation between leg strength and brainpower. In the first-of-its-kind study, strong legs equated to cognitive strength down the road. Female twins between the ages of 43 and 73 (average age 55) were recruited for baseline testing, with adjustments made for various parameters such as socioeconomic status, alcohol drinking, blood pressure, level of exercise and more. Memory and learning were measured at the start of the study, as were the strength of leg muscles of both twins. Brain scans also were taken. Ten years later the tests were repeated. Those who’d started and ended with more muscular legs showed the best results in memory and cognitive tests and more brain volume. The researchers still don’t know for certain why they saw these results. More studies need to be done, they said, to understand how aerobics, brain function and leg muscle power all come together, and whether muscle-building chemicals somehow make their way to the brain. While scientists didn’t predict the outcome, it was not surprising because they’ve long known that general exercise can help with cognitive function. Until they figure out the specifics, one thing is clear: adding more walking or doing exercises designed to increase leg strength can help with memory and thinking. We can run, take dance classes, lengthen our daily walk and spend time on a treadmill or rowing machine at the gym. Even yoga can help strengthen leg muscles. For those who aren’t mobile, seated rowing exercises with a resistance band can help, as can a recumbent bicycle. Consider asking your doctor for an exercise plan that concentrates on the leg muscles.

• In 1968, Paul Leka co-wrote the one-hit wonder “Green Tambourine,” which was recorded by The Lemon Pipers. The following year, his one-hit composition for the studio group Steam (who broke up before they ever went on a tour) was “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.” • Does the name Carlton Douglas ring a bell? He won the 1974 Grammy Award for Bestselling Single and retains his fame for one of the best-selling singles of all time. “Kung Fu Fighting” has had sales of upwards of 11 million records worldwide, but Carl Douglas went on the books as a one-hit wonder. • You might remember the wavy-haired ukulele player Tiny Tim, a singer with a high falsetto voice who recorded “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” in 1968. Born Herbert Khaury in 1932, this unusual artist’s performance of this old 1929 tune was nominated for a Grammy Award. His short-lived fame included performances on “Rowan & Martin’s LaughIn,” many appearances in Las Vegas, and “The Tonight Show’s” airing of Tim’s wedding to “Miss Vicki” in 1969 with 40 million viewers. Although Khaury released other albums, none enjoyed the success of his first.

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THE TOOTH FAIRY (continued): • The tradition in many Asian countries, including India, China, Japan, and Korea, is to throw the child’s tooth onto the roof if it was from the lower jaw. Teeth from the upper jaw are placed into the space beneath the floor. It is the hope that the child’s adult teeth will grow in strong and sturdy like a rodent’s, based on the fact that mice’s teeth grow for their entire lives. • One of the first written records of the tooth fairy appeared in a “Household Hints” column in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1908. Columnist Lillian Brown wrote: “Many a refractory child will allow a loose tooth to be removed if he knows about the Tooth Fairy. If he takes his little tooth and puts it under the pillow when he goes to bed, the tooth fairy will come in the night and take it away, and in its place will leave some little gift. It is a nice plan for mothers to visit the 5-cent counter and lay in a supply of supplies to be used on such occasions.” • One American author, Vicki Lansky, advises parents to tell their children that the tooth fairy pays more for a perfect tooth than for a decayed one, which will encourage good dental hygiene. •

Rosemary Wells, a professor at Chicago’s Northwestern University Dental School, conducted extensive research into the tooth fairy myth. One of her studies concluded that 74% believed the tooth fairy is female, 12% believed the fairy was neither, while 8% believed the fairy could be either. Wells loved the subject so much, she opened a tooth fairy museum in her Deerfield, IL home, and was even interviewed on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

• A recent survey indicated that the average American child these days receives an average of $3.70 per tooth.