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). National Mustard Day is observed on the first Saturday in August.
So break out the hats and hooters!
August 3, 1926 -
My whole premise has been, right from the beginning, that it would take me a lifetime to learn to explain myself as an artist. As you grow older, you learn what to do and what to leave out. You kind of simplify your work and get the same thing done with fewer strokes. It's pretty interesting to me.
The slacker that Tony Bennett is, still performs over 150 gigs on the road a year.
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 --
During the "Why a duck?" sequence, it seems that Groucho Marx almost calls Chico Marx "Ravelli", which is Chico's character in Animal Crackers. Since they were shooting The Cocoanuts in the morning and acting in Animal Crackers at night, this mix up is understandable.
August 3, 1941 -
Martha Kostyra, business magnate, television host, author, magazine publisher and ex-con was born on this date.
Remember folks, please don't piss off Martha - she's a woman of a certain age, who can create a magnificent floral arrangements, hold her hard liquor, hangs out with rappers, and kill you with a home made prison shank.
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.
And somehow in the same universe, The Beach Boys’ Surfer Girl was released on this date as well. (This is the first song Brian Wilson ever wrote and the first one he produced.)
Ah, sweet mysteries of life. (The B-side of the single was Little Deuce Coupe.)
August 3, 1968 -
Hello, I Love You, from the Doors' album Waiting for the Sun, reach No. 1 on The Billboard charts on this date.
The Doors first recorded this song in 1965 when they put it on a six-song demo before Robby Krieger joined the band. They didn't put it on an album until 1968, when they needed material for their third LP Waiting for the Sun.
August 3, 1985 -
Tears For Fears found themselves again on the Billboard charts when Shout hit No.1 on this date, (Everybody Wants To Rule The World was their first hit.)
Tears for Fears were followers of American psychologist Arthur Janov's school of Primal Therapy. This song was inspired by his primal therapy treatment, which worked by getting people to confront their fears by shouting and screaming. The name of the group came from Janov's book Prisoners Of Pain.
August 3, 1991 –
Pearl Jam plays the club RKCNDY in Seattle. The show is filmed and used to create their first video for the song Alive. The audio from the show was used in the video, as the band hated the idea of lip-synching.
The instrumental demo of this song was titled Dollar Short. Vedder's lyrics went in a direction the band didn't expect, but they loved what they heard and quickly agreed that he should be their lead singer - only one other guy had been auditioned. Reflecting on how everything came together so quickly, the band credited timing and fate for Vedder's arrival. Eddie said that it took him 12 hours to write and record the songs for the demo, and he could have easily blown it off.
August 3, 1996 -
The Macarena by Los Del Rio appeared as #1 on the pop charts on this date. (For God sake, please don't listen. Save yourself from the ensuing madness.)
This song stayed in the US Top 100 for 60 weeks, the one-time record for the longest run on the singles chart.
Don't forget to tune into The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour today
Today in History:
August 3, 1492 -
File this under: more lies my teacher told me.
Christopher Columbus famously sailed from the port of Palos de la Frontera, in southern Spain across the ocean blue in a fleet of three ships: the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula. (Every thing else you think you know about Columbus is a lie.)
August 3, 1921 –
Under the direction of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Lt. John A. Macready, a U.S. Army pilot, made the first application of 175 pounds of lead arsenate pesticide with a modified Curtiss JN-6 "Super Jenny.", thus creating crop dusting.
August 3, 1943 (I have seen this event posted as happening on August 30th)-
Gen George Patton bitch slapped shell-shocked private Charles Kuhl, in the hospital accusing him of cowardice, on this date.
The incident nearly ended Patton's career; he was ordered by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to apologize for this and a second, similar episode. It seemed to help Francis Ford Coppola's career though.
On August 3, 1958, the U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplished the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole.
The world's first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus dove at Point Barrow, Alaska, and traveled nearly 1,000 miles under the Arctic ice cap to reach the top of the world.
August 3, 1966 -
Comedian and social critic Lenny Bruce died of a morphine overdose in his Hollywood Hills home on this date, two years after his original obituary was published in The Realist.
At the time of his death, Bruce was being maliciously harassed by police and districts attorney in various states for his groundbreaking standup performances, causing great difficulty in finding venues at which to perform. After his death, he became a cult hero, many other comics, like George Carlin and Richard Pryor, considering him a martyr to the cause of free speech.
August 3, 1977 –
Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world’s first mass-produced personal computers.
The basic model originally shipped with 4 KB of RAM.
And so it goes
Before you go - another video I uncovered during my wading through the backwaters of the internet - a blooper reel from the Mr. Roger's Neighborhood show.
Come on you little deviants, you were hoping that Mr. Rogers cursed, didn't you. But shockingly enough, here is the video tape evidence of Lady Elaine's notorious habit of 'spanking the squeeze box' that got her suspended briefly from the show.
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