June 19, 1976 –The original emo boy, Eric Carmen’s single Never Gonna’ Fall in Love Again went to the top of The Billboard Charts on this date. Once again, Carmen uses (steals) a piece of classical music – this time, the melody line from Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 for this song. It comes from theContinue reading “No use pretending things can still be right”
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Devil May Hare premiered
June 19, 1954 – The Tasmanian Devil, Taz, made his debut in the Looney Tunes cartoon, Devil May Hare, (also starring Bugs Bunny,) on this date. This was the film that came up with the popular title motif “I Was a insert noun here.” Numerous films, songs, and books have paid homage to this filmContinue reading “Devil May Hare premiered”
Porky’s Building premiered
June 19, 1937 – The Looney Tunes short, Porky’s Building, directed by Frank Tashlin, and starring Porky Pig was released on this date. The City Building Commissioner’s name is Sandy C. Ment (Sandy Cement) – Sand and cement are basic materials used in commercial building construction.
Streamlined Greta Green premiered
June 19, 1937 – The Merrie Melodies short, Streamlined Greta Green, directed by Friz Freleng, was released on this date. Tex Avery would eventually rework this cartoon during his tenure at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1952 as One Cab’s Family, which shares a similar plot but involving taxicabs instead of cars.
The Aristo-cat premiered
June 19, 1941 – The Merrie Melodies short, The Aristo-cat, directed by Chuck Jones and starring Claude the Cat, and Hubie and Bertie, was released on this date. The author of the first book Claude reads is F.E. Line, a play on the word feline.
Jason and the Argonauts premiered
June 19, 1963 – Columbia Pictures’ classic Ray Harryhausen fantasy film Jason and the Argonauts, directed by Don Chaffey and starring Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, and Laurence Naismith, was released in the U.S. on this date. While filming footage of the Argo off the coast of Italy, a replica of the Golden HindContinue reading “Jason and the Argonauts premiered”
It’s not for man to interfere in the ways of God.
June 19, 1957 –The classic 50s teenage-horror film, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, starring Michael Landon, premiered on this date. American International Pictures released this on a double bill with Invasion of the Saucer Men with the tag line “We DARE You To See The Most Amazing Pictures of Our Time!“
You might as well believe
June 19, 1623 —Blaise Pascal was born in France on this date (which worked out extremely well for him, as he wanted to grow up to be French). At the age of 17, he wrote a paper entitled Essay on Conic Sections, which quickly became the best-selling paper on conic sections in European history andContinue reading “You might as well believe”
Can you hear those glasses chilling?
If you find yourself lost, begin to make a martini. Soon, someone will arrive to show you how to make it differently – the British Army Officers Survival Manual It may not make life’s problems disappear, but it’ll certainly reduce their size. – Frank Sinatra (or Dean Martin) The three-martini lunch is the epitome ofContinue reading “Can you hear those glasses chilling?”
Vinyl is the real deal
June 18, 1948 –Goodbye to our old 78’s A CBS employee named Edward Wallerstein walked into a room at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York with Goddard Lieberson, the president of Columbia Records and publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record, the 33 1/3, on this date. Unlike the standard 10-inch 78 rpm record, whichContinue reading “Vinyl is the real deal”
