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August 6, 1960 –Chubby Checker performs his version of The Twist on American Bandstand starting a worldwide dance craze. The song soon reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart—and then, again, for a second time in 1962, making it the only song to hit No. 1 twice. Hank Ballard & The Midnighters tried toContinue reading “The start of a worldwide craze”

August 6, 1911 –Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. Lucille Ball, film and television executive, actress and comedian, was born on this date. A commentContinue reading “Lucille Désirée Ball”

A quick check of the calendar : It’s the half way point of summer today and there are 141 days until Christmas

Also known as the “Black Cow,” the root beer float got its start in Cripple Creek, Colorado, in a mining camp. Frank J. Wisner the owner of Cripple Creek Brewing, gets the credit for inventing the Black Cow in August of 1893. Which means – you know – we get to play that song. Callooh!Continue reading “Happy National Root Beer Float Day”

August 5, 1966 – The Beatles released their Revolver album in UK on this date. and they also released Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby as a double A single in UK. A lot of kids weekly allowance must have flown out the door on this date.

August 5, 1978 –The Rolling Stones had their eighth US No.1 hit with the single Miss You, on this date. The song was written by Mick Jagger after jamming with keyboardist Billy Preston during rehearsals for forthcoming club dates the Stones were playing.

August 5, 1955 –Alfred Hitchcock’s surprisingly light comedic touch is on full display in, To Catch A Thief, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, when it opened in NYC on this date. While working on this film in the French Riviera, Grace Kelly met Prince Rainier of Monaco. It wasn’t love at first sight forContinue reading “Diamonds… The only thing in the world you can’t resist.”

August 5, 1953 –Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr got busy in the surf and someone may have gotten a horse head telegram delivered to their bedroom – From Here to Eternity, also starring Montgomery Cliff, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, and Ernest Borgnine, premiered in NYC on this date. Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and author JamesContinue reading “I never knew it could be like this!”

August 5, 1998 – The American spin-off of the British series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, hosted by Drew Carey and starring Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and Wayne Brady, aired on ABC-TV, on this date. The Whose line crew was such a well-oiled machine that they could shoot 9 to 12 episodes on a singleContinue reading “The US Whose Line Is It Anyway? premiered”

August 4, 1958 –The Billboard Hot 100 was published for the first time on this date. The first number-one song of the Hot 100 was Poor Little Fool by Ricky Nelson. The song was written by 17-year-old Sharon Sheeley when she was still attending high school in Newport Beach, California. Female songwriters were rare atContinue reading “Poor Little Fool topped the charts”