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Purim starts tonight – The festival of Purim is celebrated every year on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar (late winter/early spring). It commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from Haman’s plot “to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, young and old, infants and women, in a singleContinue reading “Make a really loud noise”

March 22, 1984 –Queen filmed the video for I Want To Break Free at Limehouse Studio in London, England, on this date. Directed by David Mallet, it was a parody of the northern British soap opera Coronation Street with the band members dressed in drag. Guitarist Brian May later claimed that the video ruined theContinue reading “Oh, those wacky lads”

March 22, 1895 –Auguste and Louis Lumiere may have first demonstrated motion pictures in Paris using celluloid film. Unless it was March 19, 1895, or December 28, 1894, or cellulite instead of celluloid. And it may have been in Milan, or Warsaw, and it’s possible it wasn’t Louis and Auguste Lumiere, but Max and EmilContinue reading “Somebody saw a movie somewhere, on this date”

March 22, 1978 –The seminal mockumentary about The Pre-Fab Four, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, directed by Eric Idle and Gary Weis and starring some people from Monty Python and some other people from SNL, premiered on NBC-TV on this date. Neil Innes, Ricky Fataar and John Halsey regrouped in 1996 to recordContinue reading “Ouch!”

March 22, 1963 –The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, was dropped in the UK on this date. The album went to the top of the UK charts in two months and remained there for 30 weeks. Please Please Me has been ranked in the top 50 of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”Continue reading “Please Please Me was released”

March 22, 1947 – Another glimpse into the ‘early‘ pre-celebrity life of Bugs, A Hare Grows In Manhattan, opened on this date. The interviewer is meant to be Louella Parsons, a popular gossip columnist at the time. Bugs even calls her by her nickname “Lolly“.

March 21, 1964 –The Beatles‘ single She Loves You, went #1 and stayed #1 for two weeks on this date. The Beatles released a German version translated as Sie Liebt Dich in the US in 1964. They learned some German when they became the house band in Hamburg in 1962, but needed a German speakerContinue reading “Ya, Ya, Ya ….”

March 21, 1970 –Simon & Garfunkel release the single The Boxer, from their fifth and final studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water, on this date. This song took over 100 hours to record, with parts of it done at Columbia Records studios in both Nashville and New York City. The chorus vocals were recorded inContinue reading “The Boxer went on it’s first title fight”

March 21, 1990 –The short-lived CBS sitcom, Sydney, starring Valerie Bertinelli and a pre-Friends Matthew Perry, premiered on this date. The theme song for Sydney was Finish What Ya Started By Van Halen from their album OU812. Valerie was married to the guitarist Eddie Van Halen at the time.

March 21, 1995 –We all get to spend Dave Nelson’s first day at WNYX when NewsRadio, starring Dave Foley, Phil Hartman, Maura Tierney and Andy Dick aired on NBC-TV, on this date. Jon Lovitz appeared as three different characters in the series: 1. A guest appearance as a mental patient who befriends Bill McNeal,2. AContinue reading “We tuned in to NewsRadio for the first time”