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Clarification:

    Not United Leasing in Indiana or Liberty Leasing in Florida

        "The Leasing industry is 90% thieves,"says Inspector Forash

    "Good-Bye, Zowie"

    by Kit Menkin

        This Day in American History

Clarification: Not United Leasing in Indiana or Liberty Leasing in Florida

“We to have a problem with your mailing/listings. Our name is United Leasing located out of Indiana and we are doing quite well - We have been in business for 36 years and are very well Capitalized with solid Liquidity. - Your listing says; United Leasing is out of Liquidity - You need to publish City, State, behind each Co. Please advise your thoughts, corrections, ASAP.”

Rick Schulz

RSCHULZ@unitedevv.com

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“Liberty Leasing (Florida) is still open.”

Dave Sullivan

Liberty Leasing & Investment, Inc.

866-515-5454 (toll free)

800-706-5450 (fax)

904-864-0005 (cell)

dave@libertyleasing.com

(Yesterday we printed the first “The List” we complied, June 20, 2000. We had

started it earlier, but we printed again where we started. “The List” has not

only grown to 166, but we learned we needed to identify the company

by city and state, and we began to add more information to make clear the

specific company and posting.

(In the current version, there are two Liberty Leaisng listed:

Liberty Leasing ( 6/1999 closed, California company , Redwood City)

Liberty Leasing, Des Moines, Iowa ( 10/2000 closed, selling portfolio, owned by Commercial Federal Bank, Omaha, Nebraska )

(I think the United Leasing turned out to be:

U.S. Capital, Santa Barbara, CA. (4/2001) Principal Ken Nelson commits suicide, cannot; handle loss of company and reputation, he tells relatives, the day after he turned 40.(3/2001) Many brokers, super brokers, discounters left holding the bag, rumor that U.S.Capital is filing bk.

  or it could have been:

USA Capital Leasing ( 5/2000 ) creditors force Chapter 7 ( 4,2000 ) file chapter 11bk

http://www.leasingnews.org/list_alpha_new.htm

(The List is three and a half years old, and to state for the record, it is not Liberty Leasing

and Investment of Florida or United Leasing in Indiana.

(Leasing News started informally among a group of friends, got passed around,

so we decided to formalize it, advertised in the Monitor, ELA Times, and

grew from a few hundred to a thousand and today we reach 7,500. We never

spammed. You have to ask to become a reader. We do encourage sending

an issue to a colleague and asking them to subscribe. We will continue our

“free subscription.”

(We will be discontinuing our html edition and returning in full the first of

the new year, the full subscription price to those who have paid for a subscription. In reality, we have received only 28 paid subscriptions and it has not been a financially

worthwhile venture. To those who enjoyed it, we are sorry, but it has not been profitable for us to service this. We will be returning your money in full. Editor)

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                       “The Leasing industry is 90% thieves, ” says Inspector Forash

“Just wanted to update you on the Federal case against EXCEL Investment Group. A Federal Inspector by the name of Sal Forash said this operation has now reached over $1.9 Million dollars in fraud. Peter Gonzales, the President of EXCEL Investment Group was arrested a few weeks ago. He got bailed out 24 hours later, but they are "watching" him.

“They are going to get this case tried within 90 days to 6 months and hopefully put him away for good. There are assets that they can seize and hopefully get some of the victims compensated. The Inspector, Sal Forash, can be reached at (954) 436-7228.

 “This inspector also told my lessee in a phone conversation something that was very disturbing to me. He warned my lessee that "the Leasing industry is 90% thieves". That is very unsettling to hear and perhaps we need to do something collectively to change that image.

“Kit - You have my permission to publish this.”

Rosanne Wilson, CLP, President

1st Independent Leasing, Inc.

Rosanne Wilson, President

rosanne@1stindependentleasing.com

1st Independent Leasing, Inc.

"Equipment Leasing Specialists"

(800) 926-0851

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“Good-Bye, Zowie”

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      by Kit Menkin

Well, to add to this day, on Monday they diagnosed our 15 year old female tabby cat

Zowie with cancer. She was getting thinner, not eating as much, drinking a lot

of water, and sleeping more than usual ( although, with a cat, you don’t know.)

I took her in Saturday to “the Cat Hospital” in Campbell, California; had tests

and blood work done.

Late Monday, I mean 6pm, they gave us the results. The white count was

very high, the prognosis was not good, and maybe chemotherapy and a

MRI would tell more.

Now this cat often drives me crazy. I start Leasing News at 11pm, when Sue

goes to bed, so the cat hangs around my office, wants me to let her in and then

goes outside, and then wants back in five minutes later or a half hour later

or an hour later (she is an outdoor cat,) brushes against wires on the computer, tries to walk on my keyboard, and thinks I am there to play with her. So we

play this game all night.

When we watch television in the family room, I get up often to open

the door for her to go outside. She comes and goes sometimes

that feels like every five minutes, which I think is just to get attention, as she wants to come and go. In the spring and summer, that's easy as the door is open.

But in late fall and winter, it means I get up and down often. She has

me trained.

And in the morning, if I don’t get up to give her treats that we give the dog

and cat while we watch the Today Show in bed, she pounces on me to wake me up.

Sometimes, she will purr against me while I am sleeping, or if I roll the wrong

way, she will walk on top of me, letting me know I had the nerve to wake

her up.

When I working in the yard, she follows me around, just like the dog. Sometimes

I think she thinks she is a dog. She smacks the dog around with her paw, if he does not behave, as if she is the boss.

She is independent and a great big pain. She often really bugs me. She wants

to be around me all the time. Sue feeds her and takes care of her, but somehow

this cat thinks I am special. I don't think she is very bright, if you want to

know the truth. I have no idea why she likes me so much and wants to sit

on my lap or brushes by my legs all the time as she is glad to see me. She

often "meow's" when I walk by, just to let me know she notices me.

It was a quality of life issue, so I took the cat into the Santa Clara Humane Society

to put her to sleep. They require you be in the room to sooth her as they give

her a tranquilizer and then the injection. She went to sleep very peaceably.

I cried, and as I write this, I cry again as I certainly will miss that stupid cat

who also wanted to be with me all the time. My computer desk is

right next to the two French doors to the back yard. I look around now, as normally

she would be here, wanting me to open the door and let her out. I know

she is not here, but I feel she is present, wanting me to pay her some attention.

I hate to admit this, but I really miss her.

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I hope you have a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and

Peace to All.

Kit Menkin, staff and family

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This Day in American History

     1784- the first Methodist bishop was Francis Asbury, who was appointed in 1784 by Thomas Coke, to whom the title really belonged. they were known as the joint bishops of the Church in North America. Bishop Asbury was elected by the first General Conference called the Christmas Conference, which met this date in 1984 in the Light Street church, Baltimore, MD.

     1809- Christopher “Kit” Carson birthday. American frontiersman, solider, trapper, guide and Indian agent best known as Kit Carson. Born at Madison County, KY. My father Lawrence Menkin was writing the “Kit Carson” radio series, so when I was born, I received this name. My parents always called me “Kit.”

    1818- In St. Nicholas Church at Oberndorf, Austria, church organist Franz Gruber, 31, composed a melody on guitar for the poem, "Stille Nacht," written earlier by pastor Joseph Mohr, 26. This evening the world heard "Silent Night" sung for the very first time.

Christmas Eve, traditionally one present is exchanged in the evening in many

Christian countries. Often all gift giving is done this evening with Church

service the next day; however, in the United States, many of the Christian faith attend late evening or midnight mass. Easter is considered the major event,

but the most popular of Christian observance is Christmas as a Feast of the Nativity, dating from the 4^th century. Although Jesus’ birth date is not known, the Western church selected December 25 for the feast, possible to counteract the non-

Christian festivals of that approximate date. Many customs from non-Christian festivals ( Roman Saturnalia, Mithraic sun’s birthday, Teutonic yule, Druidic and other winter solstic rites ) have been adopted as par of the Christmas celebration ( lights, mistletoe, holly and ivy, holiday tree, wassailing and gift-giving, for example ). Some Orthodox Churches, such as the first Christian church-The Greek Orthodox--- celebrate Christmas on January 7^th based on the “old calendar (Julian ). Theophany ( recognition of the divinity of Jesus) is observed on this date and also on January 6^th, especially by the Eastern Orthodox

Church, considered by history as the first organized Christian church.

http://ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/intro.html

http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/Orthodox-Faith/Doctrine/Revelation.html

    1784- the first Methodist bishop was Francis Asbury, who was appointed in 1784 by Thomas Coke, to whom the title really belonged. they were known as the joint bishops of the Church in North America. Bishop Asbury was elected by the first General Conference called the Christmas Conference, which met this date in 1984 in the Light Street church, Baltimore, MD.

    1822-Moore is thought to have composed the tale, now popularly known as "The Night Before Christmas," on December 24, 1822, while traveling home from Greenwich Village, where he had bought a turkey for his family's Christmas dinner. Inspired by the plump, bearded Dutchman who took him by sleigh on his errand through the snow-covered streets of New York City, Moore penned A Visit from St. Nicholas

 for the amusement of his six children, with whom he shared the poem that evening. His vision of St. Nicholas draws upon Dutch-American and Norwegian traditions of a magical, gift-giving figure who appears at Christmas time, as well as the German legend of a visitor who enters homes through chimneys. Clement Moore was born in 1779 into a prominent New York family. His father, Benjamin Moore, president of Columbia University, in his role as Episcopal Bishop of New York participated in the inauguration of George Washington as the nation's first president. The elder Moore also administered last rites to Alexander Hamilton after he was mortally wounded in a tragic duel with Aaron Burr. A graduate of Columbia, Clement Moore was a scholar of Hebrew and a professor of Oriental and Greek literature at the General Theological Seminary in Manhattan. He is said to have been embarrassed by the light-hearted verse, which was made public without his knowledge in December 1823. Moore did not publish it under his name until 1844.

. . But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"

Clement C. Moore, "A Visit from St. Nicholas"

1822-Moore is thought to have composed the tale, now popularly known as "The Night Before Christmas," on December 24, 1822, while traveling home from Greenwich Village, where he had bought a turkey for his family's Christmas dinner. Inspired by the plump, bearded Dutchman who took him by sleigh on his errand through the snow-covered streets of New York City, Moore penned A Visit from St. Nicholas

 for the amusement of his six children, with whom he shared the poem that evening. His vision of St. Nicholas draws upon Dutch-American and Norwegian traditions of a magical, gift-giving figure who appears at Christmas time, as well as the German legend of a visitor who enters homes through chimneys. Clement Moore was born in 1779 into a prominent New York family. His father, Benjamin Moore, president of Columbia University, in his role as Episcopal Bishop of New York participated in the inauguration of George Washington as the nation's first president. The elder Moore also administered last rites to Alexander Hamilton after he was mortally wounded in a tragic duel with Aaron Burr. A graduate of Columbia, Clement Moore was a scholar of Hebrew and a professor of Oriental and Greek literature at the General Theological Seminary in Manhattan. He is said to have been embarrassed by the light-hearted verse, which was made public without his knowledge in December 1823. Moore did not publish it under his name until 1844.

    1814-The Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812, was signed by representatives of the US and Great Britain. The Senate ratified the treaty in February 1815. The American negotiators were John Quincy Adams, James A. Bayard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Russell and Albert Gallatin. By terms of the treaty, all conquered territory was to be returned by both sides, and a commission was to settle the boundary between the U.S. and Canada from the St. Coris River west to Lake of the Woods. The British did not achieve their aim to set up an Indian buffer state to the Northwest. The emotional issues that helped cause the war---imprisonment of American seamen and the rights of neutral commerce---were not mentioned.

    1832-The first hospital and asylum of African-Americans founded by whites was chartered in Savannah, GA, as the Georgia Infirmary for the Relief and Protection of Aged and Afflicted Negroes. The organizational meeting was held at the Exchange on January 15, 1833, and the first president was Richard F. Williams.

http://www.savannahnow.com/cityguide/wondering/firsts.shtml

http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/021599/ACCblackhist.html

    1905-Birthday of Howard Hughes, wealthy American industrialist aviator and movie producer who spent his latter years as a recluse. Born at Houston, TX, he died in an airplane en route from Acapulco, Mexico, to Houston.

1851 - Fire destroyed two-thirds of the 55,000 volumes in the Library of Congress.

    1864-A Union fleet under Admiral David Dixon Porter begins a bombardment of Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Although an impressive display of firepower, the attack failed to destroy the fort; a ground attack the next day did not succeed either.

Fort Fisher guarded the mouth of the Cape Fear River, the approach to Wilmington. Throughout the war, Wilmington was one of the most important ports as the Confederates tried to break the Union blockade of its coasts. By late

    1864, Wilmington was one of the last ports open in the South. The massive wood and sand Fort Fisher was built in 1862 to withstand attack by the most powerful Federal cannon. Even though it was an important city, the Union leaders directed more attention to other targets, such as the capture of the Confederate capital of Richmond. Not until late 1864 did the Union turn attention to Fort Fisher. Now, 60 ships attacked the fort on Christmas Eve. Inside the stronghold, 500 Confederates hunkered down and withstood the siege. Although buildings in the fort caught fire, there were few casualties. The next day, a small Yankee force attacked on the ground, but reinforcing Confederates from Wilmington drove them away. The Union fleet sailed back to Hampton Roads, Virginia, with nothing to show for their efforts. The Union tried again to take Fort Fisher in January. After two days, a Union force overwhelmed the fort and the last major Confederate port was closed.

   1865 - The Ku Klux Klan white supremacy organization was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee.

 http://www.iupui.edu/~aao/kkk.html

http://www.shelbycountyhistory.org/schs/blackhistory/kukluxklan.htm

http://www.trincoll.edu/~mwade/kkk.html

   1867 - On Christmas Eve, R.H. Macy’s department store in New York City stayed open until midnight to get sales from last-minute shoppers. It was a Merry Christmas for Macy's which took in a record $6,000. Promotion and merchandizing made this department store the innovator of retail.

1893-Birthday of composer/writer Harry Warren, Brooklyn, NY

http://www.harrywarrenmusic.com/frameset.html

http://www.harrywarren.org/

   1893-Henry Ford completed his first successful gasoline engine. He and his wife tested the engine in their kitchen on Christmas Eve. Ford's first automobile took its inaugural drive on June 4, 1896.

    1898-Birthday of drummer Warren “Baby” Dodds

http://www.redhotjazz.com/baby.html http://www.rhythmweb.com/baby/index.html

   1903 – Birthday of artist Joseph Cornell lives in a crate, Nyack, NY.

http://mexplaza.udg.mx/wm/paint/auth/cornell/

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/cornell_ext.html

http://www.wwnorton.com/thamesandhudson/new/fall00/528243.htm

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/cornell_joseph.html

   1907 – Birthday of Activist journalist I. F. "Izzy" Stone, US journalist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813520088/inktomi-bkasin-20/104-3547695-1517507

   1908-Birthday of trumpeter Jabbo Smith, born Pembroke, GA.

http://www.riverwalk.org/proglist/showpromo/jabbo.htm

http://www.redhotjazz.com/rhythmAces.html

http://www.biograph.com/bin/findrecord.pl?index=BCD151

   1919-Birthday of trombone player Henry Coker, Dallas, Texas

http://ubl.artistdirect.com/music/artist/bio/0,,416126,00.html?artist=Henry+Coker

   1924 - Notre Dame's football coach, Knute Rockne, said he opposed eliminating the forward pass as it helped "to curb the brutality of football." Rockne's .881, record for the highest winning percentage in Division I-A football, stands today. It was decided not to do away with the forward pass.

   1926-Birthday of singer Lee Dorsey, New Orleans, LA. . His hits in the 1960's, most of them produced by Allen Toussaint, included "Ya Ya," "Working in the Coal Mine" and "Ride Your Pony." He died in 1986.

http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Lee%20Dorsey.html

   1931—Birthday of piano player Ray Bryant, Philadelphia, PA
http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/raybryant.html

http://www.cd-music-store.com/music/31507Ray-Bryant.html

   1941- Lionel Hampton cuts first big band session for Decca records.

   1943 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force preparing for the invasion of France.

   1944-Birthday of trumpet player Woody Shaw, Laurinberg, NC, Died May 10,1989 http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/shaw.html

http://www.shout.net/~jmh/articles/woody4.html

http://www.northwestern.edu/jazz/artists/shaw.woody/discog.html

   1944 - The Andrews Sisters starred in "The Andrews Sisters’ Eight-To-The-Bar-Ranch" as it debuted on ABC Radio. For the show, Patty, Maxene and LaVerne ran a fictional dude ranch. Until the show's run ended in 1946, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes was a regular guest along with Vic Schoen’s Orchestra.

   1945—Top Hits
It Might as Well Be Spring - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Billy Williams)
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
It’s Been a Long, Long Time - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Kitty Kallen)
Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight - Bob Wills

1946 Jimmy Buffett Birthday http://www.buffettnews.com/

   1948- “The Perry Como Show” premiers on TV. Singer Perry Como hosted “ The Chesterfield Supper Club:” when it came to TV from radio. Also featured were the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and the Fontane Sisters. When the show moved from NBC to CBS in 1950, announcer Frank Gallop was added. In 1955, Como

moved back to NBC, and the show was retiled, “ The Perry Como Show” during the 1955-59 and then “ The Kraft Music Hall” during 1959-63. The Ray Charles Singers and the Louis DaPron Danvers were featured. Como’s theme song was “Dream Along with Me.”

   1950- the Cleveland Browns defeated the Los Angeles Rams, 30-28, to win the NFL championship. The Browns claimed the title in the first year in the league after the demise of the All-American Football Conference. the Rams, incidentally, had been the Cleveland Rams before they left for the West Coast after the 9145 season.

   1952-The McCarren-Walter Act takes effect and revises America's immigration laws. The law was hailed by supporters as a necessary step in preventing communist subversion in the United States, while opponents decried the legislation as being xenophobic and discriminatory. The act, named after Senator Pat McCarren (Democrat-Nevada) (The Governor in “Godfather.”) and Representative Francis Walter (Democratic-Pennsylvania), did relatively little to alter the quota system for immigration into the United States that had been established in the Immigration Act of 1924. The skewed nature of the quotas was readily apparent. Immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany were allotted two-thirds of the 154,657 spots available each year. However, the act did specifically remove previously established racial barriers that had acted to exclude immigrants from nations such as Japan and China. These countries were now assigned very small quotas.

The changes that were of more concern for many critics centered on the act's provision of much more strenuous screening of potential immigrants. It banned admission to anyone declared a subversive by the attorney general and indicated that members of communist and "communist-front" organizations were subject to deportation. In defending the act, Senator McCarren declared, "If this oasis of the world should be overrun, perverted, contaminated, or destroyed, then the last flickering light of humanity will be extinguished." President Harry S. Truman took a very different view, calling the legislation "un-American" and inhumane. When the bill was passed in June 1952, Truman vetoed the bill. Congress overrode his veto, and the act took effect in December. The McCarren-Walter Act set America's immigration standards until new legislation was passed in 1965.

   1953---Top Hits
Ebb Tide - The Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Ricochet - Teresa Brewer
Let Me Be the One - Hank Locklin
1954 -- Johnny Ace, ballad singer, dies at 25 while playing Russian Roulette with himself while on tour ,backstage at the "City Auditorium" in Houston, Texas.

One of the more tragic 50s R&B heroes. Ace was a fixture on the Memphis Beale Street blues scene, playing with Bobby Bland and Roscoe Gordon in the fabled Beale Streeters. He struck out solo in the early 50s, recording the ballad "Pledging My Love" in 1954. He is mentioned in many rock and roll songs.

http://www.rockabilly.nl/artists/johnny_ace.htm

. 1955 - The Lennon Sisters debuted as "The Lawrence Welk Show"'s featured singers on ABC. In just a month they became regulars and remained on the show until 1968.

http://www.singers.com/jazz/vintage/lennonsisters.html

http://www.lennonfamily.net/

   1955- the Weavers played Carnegie Hall in New York, ending three years on Senator Joseph McCarthy's blacklist because of their support of left-wing causes. Many of the groups in the folk music revival of the following decade were inspired by the Weavers' topical songs and fervent style.
  1961- the Tokens reached the top of the U-S charts with "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." An adaptation of a South African folk song, it first reached the best-seller lists in 1951 in a recording by the Weavers under the title "Winoweh" (WIN'-OH-WAY). Singer Robert John also had a hit with the song, again under the title "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," in 1971.

   1961---Top Hits
The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
Run to Him - Bobby Vee
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke

   1964-Two Viet Cong agents disguised as South Vietnamese soldiers leave a car filled with explosives parked at the Brinks Hotel in Saigon. The hotel was housing U.S. officers. Two Americans were killed in the blast and 65 Americans and Vietnamese were injured. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor, Gen. William Westmoreland, and other senior U.S. officials tried to persuade President Lyndon B. Johnson to respond with retaliatory raids on North Vietnam, but Johnson refused. In his cable to Taylor explaining his decision, he indicated for the first time that he was considering a commitment of U.S. combat troops.
1968 - After their release from North Korea, the crew of the United States Navy ship, "Pueblo", walked across the Bridge of No Return between North and South Korea. The "Pueblo's" captain, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and 82 of his crew were held for 11 months after their ship was seized by North Korea as a suspected American spy vessel.

   1969—Top Hits
Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul & Mary
Someday We’ll Be Together - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Down on the Corner/Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
(I’m So) Afraid of Losing You Again - Charley Pride

   1971-Birthday of singer Ricky Martin, born Enrique Jose Martin, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

    1972-Comedian Bob Hope gives what he says is his last Christmas show to U.S. servicemen in Saigon. Hope was a comedian and star of stage, radio, television, and over 50 feature films. Hope was one of many Hollywood stars who followed the tradition of traveling overseas to entertain American troops stationed abroad. The 1972 show marked Hope's ninth consecutive Christmas appearance in Vietnam. Hope endorsed President Nixon's bombing of North Vietnam to force it to accept U.S. peace terms, and received South Vietnam's highest civilian medal for his "anti-communist zeal." Although some antiwar protesters criticized Hope for supporting government policies in Vietnam, the comedian said he believed it was his responsibility to lift spirits by entertaining the troops.

   1972- President Nixon suspends Operation Linebacker II for 36 hours to mark the Christmas holiday. The bombing campaign against North Vietnam had been operating since December 18, when Nixon initiated the campaign to force the North Vietnamese back to the Paris peace negotiations. On December 28, the North Vietnamese announced that they would return to Paris if Nixon ended the bombing. The bombing campaign was halted and the negotiators met during the first week of January. They quickly arrived at a settlement--the Paris Peace Accords were signed on January 23, and a cease-fire went into effect five days later.

   1977 - The Bee Gees' How Deep is Your Love became Number 1 on the music charts, and stayed there for 3 weeks.

   1977—Top Hits
How Deep is Your Love - Bee Gees
Blue Bayou - Linda Ronstadt
(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again - L.T.D.
Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton

   1981 - Reggie Jackson chose Christmas Eve to announce he was joining Gene Autry’s California Angels for the 1982 season.

1985
Say You, Say Me - Lionel Richie
Party All the Time - Eddie Murphy
Alive & Kicking - Simple Minds
The Chair - George Strait

   1988 - "Giving You the Best that I’ve Got", by Anita Baker, was #1 on U.S. album charts for four weeks. The other albums in the top five that week: "Rattle and Hum" by U2; The soundtrack from "Cocktail"; "Appetite for Destruction" by Guns N’ Roses; and Bon Jovi’s "New Jersey".

   1994 - Pearl Jam’s album "Vitalogy" hit #1 for one week in the U.S. The other top-five albums of the week were: "Miracles: The Holiday Album", by Kenny G; "Live at the BBC", by The Beatles; Mariah Carey’s "Merry Christmas"; and "II", by Boyz II Men.

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