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August 3, 1979 –The Talking Heads release their third album, Fear of Music, on this date. The album, produced by Brian Eno, was recorded in Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth’s New York City loft where the band often rehearsed. They parked a mobile recording unit outside to record the tracks as they played from theContinue reading “Why stay in college? Why go to night school?”

August 3, 1963 –Allan Sherman released Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp), in the US on this date. Sherman was a writer on The Steve Allen Show and created the game show I’ve Got a Secret. He went on to record comedy albums. The song won a 1964 Grammy Award for comedy. AndContinue reading “Ah, sweet mysteries of life.”

August 3, 1970 – Shelved for two years after a disastrous test screening at which audiences yelled at the screen and walked out of the theater, Warner Brothers finally released Performance, directed by Donald Cammell, and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and Michèle Breton, on this date in New YorkContinue reading “Performance finally premiered”

August 3, 1929 –Four famous vaudevillian performers took a chance on the new medium of ‘talking pictures‘ with the general release of the film, The Cocoanuts, starring the Four Marx Brothers — Chico, Groucho, Harpo and Zeppo, on this date. The film has the first use of the overhead camera shot (from the roof ofContinue reading “The first Marx Brothers Movie premiered”

August 2, 1998 –Beastie Boys‘ fifth studio album Hello Nasty started a three week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Album Charts, on this date. This would be the band’s third U.S. No. 1 album. Some of the pioneering hip-hop acts that emerged in the early ‘80s distorted their vocals in innovative ways, butContinue reading “Hello Nasty topped the charts”

August 2, 1939 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd, representing fellow physicists who have discovered that an atomic bomb could be built from Uranium, write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt explaining the dangers of Germany developing Atomic Bomb capabilities before the United States. The letter came just before the beginning of World War II.Continue reading “Einstein warned about Germany developing nuclear weapons”

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August 2, 1985 –Universal Pictures released the sci-fi comedy film Weird Science, directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith, on this date. In the scene where Bill Paxton is speaking to Kelly LeBrock while interrogating everyone over what had happened the previous night, in the background, Suzanne SnyderContinue reading “Weird Science premiered”

August 2, 1999 –M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological thriller, The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment and Toni Collette opened in the US on this date. Reportedly, Haley Joel Osment got the role of Cole Sear for one of three reasons. First, he was best for it. Second, he was the only boy atContinue reading “The Sixth Sense premiered”

August 2, 1967 –The crime drama In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, opened in New York on this date. Set in a hot Mississippi summer, but filmed during autumn in Illinois, many of the actors had to keep ice chips in their mouths (and spit them out before takes)Continue reading “In the Heat of the Night premiered”