Hello from Rochester, NY

MUSICAL NOTES & SPORTS ITEMS:
Did You Know….  (2026 Edition)

▲ Former Red Wing Jeff Tackett, hit a home run in his last major
league at-bat.

▲ Lady Gaga got her stage name from the 1984 Queen song
"Radio Ga Ga."

▲ Metallica is the first and only band to have played on
all 7 Continents 

▲ Madonna worked at a Dunkin' Donuts in Times Square before
she got famous.

▲ Dolly Parton once entered a drag queen celebrity impersonator contest AS HERSELF and lost.

▲ In 1941, Gladys Gooding became baseball’s first organist as she played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

▲ Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer in a circus when he
was a teenager.

▲ In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only
person who has a speaking role.

▲ Bruno Mars was given his stage name because he looked like a wrestler named Bruno Sammartino as a baby.

▲ Jack Norworth, who wrote “Take Me Out To The Ballgame,” never attended a game.

▲ Denny McLain, the last 30 game winner in the major leagues,
was a featured performer in  Las Vegas as an organist.

▲ Elvis Presley played 636 consecutive shows in Las Vegas over an eight-year period (1969-1976). He played two shows per evening
every day of the week. Each show sold out.

▲ Barry Manilow didn’t write his hit song, “I Write The Songs.”

▲ Danny DeVito worked as a licensed hairdresser.

▲ The Carpenters signature song, “We’ve Only Just Begun,” was originally part of a television commercial for a California bank.

▲ On August 17, 1957, Richie Ashburn of the Philadelphia Phillies hit spectator Alice Roth with a foul ball, breaking her nose. As Alice was being carried off the field on a stretcher, Ashburn hit her with another foul ball, injuring her knee.

▲ One in five country music songs refer to alcohol, one in three to
tears and one in seven to “mama.”

▲ I have played the organ for 3,608 Red Wing’s baseball games
since 1977.

Bye for now…
Fred

▲ This page was last updated on 10/1/2026.

CALENDAR

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TO ORDER FRED’S CD or BOOK BY MAIL:                    Mail to: Costello Music P.O. Box 25176 Rochester, NY 14625
“Anthology” CD: $15.00 (includes shipping) “Blues Backstage” CD: $15.00 (includes shipping)	“A Lifetime Of Nightclubs & Ballparks” Book: $ 20.00 (includes shipping)

NOW AVAILABLE

"Fred Costello - Anthology" CD $15.00 (includes shipping)

"Blues Backstage" CD $15.00 (includes shipping)

"A Lifetime Of Nightclubs & Ballparks" Book $ 20.00 (includes shipping)