60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
8/1/64 – The Beatles' single "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 here in The States and holds that position for two weeks (It will be replaced on 8/15 by “Everybody Loves Somebody” by Dean Martin, an achievement that Dino predicted after he finished recording the song.)
Also on 8/1, the final Looney Tunes Cartoon is released. Shortly after the release of “Senorella and the Glass Huarache, Jack L. Warner will shut down The Warner Brothers Cartoon Division.
(Yep ... that was all, folks!)
Also on 8/1, a new group called Steam Packet opens for The Rolling Stones for two shows at The London Palladium. Steam Packet’s lead singer is some guy named Rod Stewart, who won’t really rise to fame for another seven years.
