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March 2, 1991 –Chris Isaak’s single Wicked Game reached the #6 position on the US Billboard charts, on this date. Lee Chesnut, who was music director of an Atlanta radio station and a huge fan of David Lynch films, helped popularize this song when he added it to his playlist after watching Wild At Heart.Continue reading “This world is only gonna break your heart”

March 2, 1940 – The Looney Tunes short, Elmer’s Candid Camera, directed by Chuck Jones, and featuring the newly redesigned Elmer Fudd for the first time, premiered on this date. Elmer Fudd evolved from Egghead, a character created by Tex Avery in the mid-‘30s. In this cartoon, Elmer still wears the same attire (derby hat,Continue reading “Elmer’s Candid Camera opened”

March 2, 1935 – One of the earliest Technicolor Merrie Melodies cartoon, I Haven’t Got A Hat, directed by Friz Freleng and featuring the debut of Porky Pig and Beans the Cat (a minor Looney Tunes character from the ‘30s,) premiered on this date. Struggling against other animation studios, Warner Bros. were desperate to findContinue reading “I Haven’t Got A Hat debuted”

March 2, 1965 – The movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, had its world premiere at New York’s Rivoli Theater on this date. When Maria is running through the courtyard to the Von Trapp house in I Have Confidence, she trips. This was anContinue reading “The hills are alive with the sound of … money”

March 2, 1933 – RKO Studios, on the brink of bankruptcy, gambled the studio on a filmed puppet show for kids, releasing the film King Kong on this date. In the original film, the character’s name is Kong — a name given to him by the inhabitants of “Skull Island” in the Indian Ocean, whereContinue reading “The eighth wonder of the world!”

March 2, 1944 –Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. Lewis Allan Lou Reed singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist was born (on the wild side.)

Tomorrow is Lantern’s Day and it marks the end of the Lunar New Year holiday. This day is mostly spent devoting time and energy to the preparations of the Lantern festival the following day. The day before the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Display stages are built in the open square in the front of temples.Continue reading “One more day to go”

March 1, 1973 –Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album, Dark Side Of The Moon, on this date. The album debuts at an inauspicious #95 on the US Albums chart, but has become the album with the most weeks on the Billboard charts, thanks in large part to a run from 1977-1988 when it neverContinue reading “Breathe, breathe in the air …”

March 1, 1936 – The Warner Bros. Pictures horror film The Walking Dead, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Boris Karloff and Edmund Gwenn, opened in New York City, on this date. The “glass heart” machine used to revive Karloff’s dead character was said to be “nearly a prefect replica” of an actual perfusion pump-Continue reading “The Walking Dead premiered”

March 1, 1981 –NBC-TV aired the made-for-TV film Elvis and the Beauty Queen, starring Don Johnson and Stephanie Zimbalist on this date. Ronnie McDowell provided the vocals to all of Elvis‘ songs, including A Very Precious Love, which Don Johnson and Stephanie Zimbalist sang as a duet.