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

August 6, 1993 –Sheryl Crow releases her first album, Tuesday Night Music Club on this date. It takes about a year to catch on, but eventually sells over 7 million copies. Tuesday Night Music Club was Crow’s first album, released when she was 31. It took nearly a year for the album to catch onContinue reading “Tuesday Night Music Club dropped”

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, opened in NYC on this date. Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and author JamesContinue reading “From Here to Eternity premiered”

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 “Whose Line Is It Anyway? premiered”

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, 1967 –Pink Floyd released their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, on which most songs were penned by Syd Barrett, on this date. Two tracks on the album are credited to the band collectively and one track was written by Roger Waters. The studio album borrows its name from theContinue reading “Pink Floyd released their debut album”

National Mustard Day is observed on the first Saturday in August. In case you didn’t know, Mustard is a condiment made from the seeds of a mustard plant (white or yellow mustard, Sinapis hirta; brown or Indian mustard, Brassica juncea; or black mustard, B. nigra). So now you know, you may now go about yourContinue reading “So break out the hats and hooters!”

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”

August 4, 1954 –Douglas Sirk’s first Technicolor gift for film goers, Magnificent Obsession, was released on this date. Rock Hudson never knew that Jane Wyman had served as an FBI informer under the code name T-10, providing the names of actors within the motion picture industry whom they believed to be communist sympathizers.

August 4, 1942 –The Paramount Picture film, Holiday Inn, directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby was released in theaters on this date. Kemmons Wilson, who founded the Holiday Inn motel chain in 1952, named it after this movie. Strangely enough, White Christmas was not expected to be a hit song.Continue reading “Holiday Inn premiered”