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May 31, 1983 –After a break in which David Byrne and Jerry Harrison release solo albums and Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth form Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads return with their fifth album, Speaking In Tongues. It contains their biggest hit, Burning Down The House. Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz and bass player Tina Weymouth,Continue reading “Ah, watch out you might get what you’re after”

May 31, 1958 – The Looney Tunes short, Now Hare This, directed by Bob McKimson, starring Bugs Bunny, debuted on this date. The Big Bad Wolf and his nephew would later appear in False Hare the final Bugs Bunny short from the original theatrical era.

May 31, 1999 –The VH1 documentary series Behind the Music began airing nightly with their premiere episode The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Behind the Music. Anthony Kiedis and Flea (bass guitar) first met when they were both 15 and attending high school together. (20 years after the program, the band is still going strong.)

May 31, 1992 –The last episode of the original series, Night Court: The 1992 Boat Show aired on NBC-TV, on this date. This episode was actually aired out of order. The two parter, Opportunity Knocks, which aired before this episode, was the finale of the series. This episode never aired on its original air dateContinue reading “The finale of Night Court”

World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world every year on May 31. The member states of the World Health Organization created World No Tobacco Day in 1987. It draws global attention to the tobacco epidemic and to the preventable death and disease it causes. It aims to reduce the 3.5 million yearly deathsContinue reading “Please DON’T smoke em if you got em”

May 30, 1964 –The Beatles first single, of their own material, Love Me Do, (the B side was P.S., I Love You,) released in England in 1962, hit # 1 on the Billboard 100 in the US on this date. The Beatles recorded versions of this song with three different drummers. At their first ParlophoneContinue reading “… You know I love you, …”

May 30, 1980 –Peter Gabriel released his third solo studio album, which is self-titled, on this date. It features the songs, Games Without Frontiers, Biko, and I Don’t Remember. The album is sometimes referred to as Melt, owing to its cover photograph by Hipgnosis. Some music streaming services refer to it as Peter Gabriel 3:Continue reading “I know something about opening windows and doors”

Today is Mint Julip Day – the Kentucky Derby would seem like a perfectly fine day to honor this drink. Perhaps gamblers finally sobered up after their losses that day and decided to celebrate the beverage. The American word ‘julep‘ can be traced to French julep, which comes from the Arabic julab, which is fromContinue reading “You would be forgiven if you were slightly confused”

May 30th, 1963 –A classic drive-in movie from Roger Corman, The Terror, starring Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, and Sandra Knight, opened on this date. Roger Corman shot the bulk of the film in four days, but the second-unit work was filmed over a nine month period by five directors, Francis Ford Coppola, Dennis Jakob, MonteContinue reading “The Terror premiered”

May 30, 1957 –Another earlier version of Brokeback Mountain, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, opened on this date Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster had worked together in I Walk Alone, and often saw each other at various Hollywood functions. But, as Douglas recounted inContinue reading “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral premiered”