Mike fondly remembers celebrating this holiday as in kid in Brooklyn when each family would carve a face on a watermelon and put it outside on the stoop.
Neighborhood children would dress up as their favorite watermelon and go house to house begging for treats.
Ahhh. Those were the days!
History 101: 1492 - Christopher Columbus set sail on the Santa Maria. He was accompanied by a crew of 90 and two more ships, the Nina and the Pinta. They left Spain half to search for a water passage to Cathay. Instead, Columbus and company landed on October 12 in the Bahamas ... not India but the New World of the Americas.
Music History 101: August 3rd, 1963 - Allan Sherman released a song that would soon become a summertime classic: "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadda."
“Hello Muddah, Hello Fadda and today’s 101 number one song of the day have something distinctly in common in addition to the fact they were from the same year.
Two of the founding members of today’s featured group actually met in summer camp seven years earlier. A few months later they formed a quartet called the Latineers. In April 1963 they appeared on a talent show sponsored by a Philadelphia radio station. A label executive heard the group and signed them to Parkway records, the same label that featured Chubby Checker. They wrote and recorded a song but something was missing. When the sounds of birds chirping and waves rolling in were added to some finger snapping they knew they had a hit record – It became number one on August 3, 1963 for the now renamed, “The Tymes” – So Much in Love.
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