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Today is the feast of St. Lawrence. St. Lawrence was said to have been martyred on an iron outdoor stove on this date in 258 AD. During his torture, Lawrence cried out “I’ m already done on this side and it is time to turn me over.” He is, of course, the patron saint ofContinue reading “Fear not these pains, for they do not last long”

August 8, 1987 –U2 scored their second US No.1 single from their Joshua Tree album with I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For on this date. This was influenced by gospel music. Bono wanted The Joshua Tree to explore various forms of American music they had encountered while touring there. The album’s co-producer DanielContinue reading “I have climbed highest mountains”

August 9, 1969 –Three Dog Night released a cover version of the song Easy To Be Hard, on this date. The song was from the 1967 rock musical Hair. It was written by Galt MacDermot, James Rado, and Gerome Ragni, who put the musical together in the mid-1960s.

August 09, 1952 – The Looney Tunes short, Hoppy Go Lucky, directed by Bob McKimson, and starring Sylvester and Hippety Hopper, was released on this date.< A homage to the character’s George and Lenny from George Steinbeck’s 1937 book Of Mice and Men, they also appeared in an episode a year later, Cat-Tails for Two.

August 09, 1937 –The Looney Tunes short, We, the Animals – Squeak!, directed by Bob Clampett, and starring Pork Pig, was released on this date. “Kansas City Kitty” was the name given to a P-51D Mustang during World War II.

August 08, 1953 – The Looney Tunes short, Bully for Bugs, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Bugs Bunny, was released on this date. The conception of this cartoon came about when Eddie Selzer, the head of Warner Bros. Cartoons at the time, randomly appeared in the writer’s office to announce that there were toContinue reading “Bully for Bugs premiered”

August 08, 1942 – The Merrie Melodies short, The Squawkin’ Hawk, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Henery Hawk (in his first appearance,) was released on this date. Henery is known as “Junior” in this short. It is not until Walky Talky Hawky that he is given an actual name.

August 08, 1936 – One of the “Censored 11” banned from T.V. syndication by United Artists in 1968, the Merrie Melodies short, Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time, directed by Friz Freleng, was released on this date. The plot of this cartoon is similar to the earlier Goin’ to Heaven on a Mule and the laterContinue reading “Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time premiered”

August 7, 1971 –The Bee Gees early hit How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? topped the charts on this date. It became their first US #1 hit. This was written during the same afternoon as The Bee Gees‘ previous American hit, Lonely Days in Barry Gibb’s basement flat at Addison Road, Holland Park, London.

August 07, 1954 – The Looney Tunes short, Satan’s Waitin’, directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Tweety Bird and Sylvester the Cat, was released on this date. Some TV broadcasts omits the entire ending, in which Sylvester moves into a bank safe and soon loses his ninth and final life..