Jerry's House of Everything

American folk singer Jean Ritchie (1922-2015) was often referred to as "The Mother of Folk."  The youngest of fourteen children wh...

Because December 7 is the Day That Will Go Down in Infamy, here's Kay Kyser & His Orchestra with a Frank Loesser song from 1942. htt...

This one has an interesting past.  Comic historian Don Markstein considers this to be "America's first on-going comic book series t...

Toffee Turns the Trick by Charles F. Myers  (first published in Fantastic Adventures , February 1949; issued as a chapbook, date uncertain; ...

One hundred fifty-three years ago today the brigantine Mary Celeste  was discovered abandoned off the Azores.  She was in seaworthy conditio...

Achmed Abdullah (1881-1945) was a popular novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter in the early and mid-twentieth century.  Today, he ...

 Rita Hayworth plays the goddess Terpsichore in this kinda-sorta sequel to 1941's  Here Comes Mr. Jordan , minus the Robert Montgomery c...