Non-musical history for today: 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launched United Artists. UA was a venture premised on allowing actors to control their own financial and artistic interests rather than being dependent upon commercial studios. It lasted a good while until 1967 when Transamerica (yep, the life insurance company) bought it. That’s why UA’s films had the Transamerica tower at the beginning. In 1981, MGM bought it. That went on until MGM kind of let it go “out on its own” a few years back when Amazon became the parent company of MGM and folded UA back into MGM. (deep breath) whew!

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for February 5.

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