Welcome to March! I’m a happy camper as spring is on the horizon, ditto for baseball which is only a month away. Having survived yet another dreadful winter (though it was mostly snow free), I’m ready for the warmer weather to come. Of course, a few months from now, I’ll be complaining about how hot it is outside. That’s just how I roll.

Since it’s March, I’d talking about Mie-san since it’s her birthday month, however, I have something more important to babble about, because it was 45 years ago on Saturday March 1, 1980 that Pink Lady & Jeff made it’s somewhat auspicious debut. At that time, I was in the U.S. Navy and stationed on a ship in Norfolk, Virginia when I discovered, quite by accident about a month earlier that Mie and Kei would co-star with a then (and now) unknown comedian in a short run comedy-variety show. To say I was surprised would be an understatement, it had only been about ten months or so since the Ladies guest starred on the Leif Garrett Special, and that was a surprise too, but, being stars on their own show? In a word….WHOA! Even almost five decades later, I still remember how excited I had been that weekend when I traveled home to watch PL & J in solitude in my bedroom, a cassette recorder at the ready to capture the show for posterity on audio tape, and boy, what an incredible treat it was, seeing Mie and Kei on American television!