On this day in movie history - If I Didn’t Care (2007):

If I Didn’t Care

aka Blue Blood,

directed and written by Benjamin Cummings and Orson Cummings,

was released in the United States on August 3, 2007.

Music by Michael Tremante.

Cast:

Bill Sage, Susan Misner, Roy Scheider, Noelle Beck, Ronald Guttman, Brian McQuillan, Phyllis Somerville, Nico Yektai, Darius Yekati, Alex Kilgore, Mirelly Taylor, Constance Barron, Jack Marks, Sam Riley, Holly Barron, Patrick Collins, Eddie Kassam, Michelle Kelly, Billie Jean Fellingham, Jordyn Meyers, Orson Cummings, Ben Cummings, Mellanie Hubert, Piras Sebastian, Casey Van Maanen.

On this day in music history:

Rubber Biscuit by The Chips (1956)

Emotional Rain by Lee Aaron (1994)

Spa by Hennie Bekker (1999)

Let There Be Light – Deluxe Edition by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer (2018)

Rubber Biscuit

Song by The Chips.

Recorded August 3, 1956.

 

Rubber Biscuit is a crazy song I love that gets stuck in my head for days when I rewatch the movie Mean Streets (1973), directed by Martin Scorsese. 

It’s on the soundtrack in the bar scene, with the camera focused and fixed on actor Harvey Keitel.

Now ... if only I could sing it ...

 

Lyrics:

Cow cow hoo-oo

Cow cow wanna dib-a-doo

Chicken hon-a-chick-a-chick hole-a-hubba

Hey fried chuck-a-lucka wanna jubba

Hi-low nay wanna dubba hubba

Day down sum wanna jigga-wah

Dell rown ay wanna lubba hubba

Mull an' a mound chicka lubba hubba

Fay down ah wanna dippa-zippa-dippa

Mm-mmn, do that again!

Doo doo doo boo

 

Cow cow lubba 'n a blubba lubba

How rown hibb'n 'n a hibba-lu

How low lubbin 'n a blubba-lubba

Hey ride ricky ticky hubba lubba

Dull ow de moun' chicky hubba lubba

Went down trucka lucka wanna do-uh

How low a zippin 'n a hubba-lu

Hey ride ricky ticky blubba-lu

How low duh woody woody pecker pecker

 

Mm-hmm, did you ever hear

Of a wish sandwich?

Well, that's the kind of a sandwich

That is supposed to take

Two pieces of bread

And wish you had some meat

Doo doo boo

 

Cow cow lubba 'n a blubba lubba

Hey ride hibbin' and zippin 'n

How luvva mail take a lubba hubba

Hey ride wanna take a recca recca

How low take a lubba hubba

Hey ride wanna 'n suppa suppa

How low a mail take a lubba hubba

Hey ride a hippin' and a hubbin' no

High low 'n sum a chicka wha

 

The other day

I ate a ricochet biscuit

Well, that's the kind of biscuit

That's supposed to

Bounce off the wall

Back in your mouth

If it don't bounce back

Shh-mmhh-mmhh

You go hungry

Doo doo boo

 

Cow cow lubba 'n a blubba lubba

Hey low a sum did a lubba goin'

Hey ride wanna take a-lubba do

How long long suppa dubba

How low a mail take a lubba hubba

Hey ride wanna take a lubba hubba

How low a mail take a lubba hubba

Hey down nothin' take a luvva do

Hey ride a sippin' and a hubba dubba

 

Mmm, the other day

I ate a cool water sandwich

And a Sunday-go-to-meeting bun

Doo doo boo

Cow cow lubba 'n a-blubba lubba

Hey ride ricky ticky hubba lubba

How low a wanna suppa do

Hey ride sippin' and hubba lubba

Hey ride a-hubbin' and wan' do

Hey ride a wanna an' recca recca

How low a mail take lubba hubba

Hey down a wanna suppa dubba

Please ride a hubbin' gonna do

 

What you owe for nothin'

Rubber biscuit

Doo doo doo boo

Cow cow ooooooooh

Emotional Rain

Album by Lee Aaron,

released August 3, 1994.

Track list: Odds of Love; Baby Go Round; Fire in Your Flame; Waterfall; Inside; Raggedy Jane; Soul in Motion; Emotional Rain; Judgement Day; Heaven; Cry; Had Enough.

Spa

Album by Hennie Bekker,

released August 3, 1999.

Track list: Comfort; Elusive Sensation; Euphoria; Inner Peace; Revitalized; A State of Bliss.

Let There Be Light – Deluxe Edition

Album by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer,

released August 3, 2018.

Track list: The Way of the White Clouds; First Light; Timeless Journey; Full Moon Night; A Celebration of Life; Sacred Ground; Waves of Light; Tides of Time; A Deeper Light; Dancing in the Light.

On this day in movie history - The New Centurions (1972):

The New Centurions

directed by Richard Fleischer,

written by Stirling Silliphant,

based on the novel by Joseph Wambaugh,

was released in the United States on August 3, 1972.
Music by Quincy Jones.

Cast:

George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson, Rosalind Cash, Erik Estrada, Clifton James, Richard E. Kalk, James Sikking, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Mittie Lawrence, Isabel Sanford, Carol Speed, Tracee Lyles, Burke Byrnes, William Atherton, Peter De Anda, Ed Lauter, Dolph Sweet, Stefan Gierasch, Debbie Fresh, Mike Lane, Roger E. Mosley, Charles H. Gray, Read Morgan, Michael DeLano, Adriana Shaw, Pepe Serna, Bea Thompkins, Hilly Hicks, Shaaron Claridge, Herbert Coley, Otis Day, Dick DeCoit, Lieux Dressler, Brent Dunsford, Raymond Guth, Kitten Natividad, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Anne Ramsey.

Born on this day – Jay North:

Jay North

Actor

August 3, 1951 – April 6, 2025

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1959); ABC World News Tonight (2025); About Faces (1961); Arabian Knights (1968–1969); Dennis the Menace (1959–1963); Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003); E! True Hollywood Story (2000); Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977); General Hospital (1982); GMA First Look (2025); Here Comes the Grump (1969–1970); Here's Hollywood (1960); It's Happening (1968); I've Got a Secret (1960); Jericho (1966); Lassie (1973); Lassie: Joyous Sound (1973); Living in TV Land (2006); Maya (1966–1968); My Three Sons (1966); Not Necessarily the News (1987); Our Time (1985); Pepe (1960); Rescue 8 (1959); Sally Jessy Raphael (1993); Scout's Honor (1980); Stu's Show (2011 / 2025); Sugarfoot (1959); The 36th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1962); The Actor's Journey (2011); The Actor's Journey for Kids (2011); The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968–1970); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Big Operator (1959); The Dating Game (1969); The Detectives (1959); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1960); The Donna Reed Show (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1960); The Fantastic Plastic Machine (1969); The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1967); The Linkletter Show (1961); The Lucy Show (1966); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1971); The Miracle of the Hills (1959); The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971–1972); The Red Skelton Hour (1960–1961); The Simpsons (1999); The Teacher (1974); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1959); Vicki! (1993); Wagon Train (1964); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Wild Wind (1985); Zebra in the Kitchen (1965).

Born on this day – Dick Pope:

Dick Pope

Cinematographer

August 3, 1947 – October 21, 2024

Credits:

13 Conversations About One Thing (2001); A Bigger Splash (1973); A Flock of Seagulls in A Flock of Seagulls: I Ran (So Far Away) (1982); A Promise of Bed (1969); A Running Jump (2012); A Sense of History (1992); AC/DC: Live at Donington (1992); AC/DC: No Bull (1996); Africa (1984); Alan Bush: A Life (1983); Alison Moyet: Invisible (Version 1) (1984); All or Nothing (2002); An Awfully Big Adventure (1995); Angelica (2015); Angels & Atom Bombs: The Making of the Reflecting Skin (2015); Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008); Another Year (2010); Behind the Wheel of Happy-Go-Lucky (2009); Bernie (2011); Blue Suede Shoes (1980); Bringing Balanchine Back (2006); Career Girls (1997); Coming Up Roses (1986); Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style (1983); Creating a Classic: The Making of 'Nicholas Nickleby' (2003); Cuban Fury (2014); Cutting Edge (1993); Dark City (1990); Disappearing World (1974); Erasure: Chorus (1991); Erasure: Ship of Fools (1988); Fallen Hero (1978); Fine Young Cannibals: Suspicious Minds (1985); Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery (1993); Forever Green (1989); Forty Minutes (1985); Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (1987); Freddie Mercury: Time (1986); Friday Night Shirt (2005); Fun Boy Three: The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum (1981); Great Performances (1998); Happy-Go-Lucky (2008); Happy-Go-Lucky: B-Roll (2008); Hard Truths (2024); Honeydripper (2007); Imagine (2014); Inseminoid (1981); Intercom (2008); INXS: Live Baby Live (1991); Iron Maiden: Women in Uniform (1980); It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010); Just for Today (1980); Kylie Minogue: Never Too Late (1989); Kylie Minogue: Wouldn't Change a Thing (1989); La danse (2009); Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001); Legend (2015); Life Is Sweet (1990); Lisa Stansfield: What Did I Do to You? (1990); Loving Feeling (1968); Mad in the Making: Little Scenes and Outtakes Around a Mad Video (1991); Madness: It Must Be Love (1981); Madness: Sweetest Girl (1986); Man of the Year (2006); Me and Orson Welles (2008); Motherless Brooklyn (2019); Mountain Dew Kickstart Super Bowl Commercial: Puppymonkeybaby (2016); Mountains of the Moon (1990); Movin' On (1993); Mr. Turner (2014); Mr. Turner: The Many Colours of Mr. Turner (2014); Naked (1993); Never Mind (1995); Nicholas Nickleby (2002); Nineteen Eighty-Four / aka 1984 (1984); Nothing Personal (1995); Peter Gabriel's Secret World (1994); Peterloo (2018); Phantoms (1998); Pleasure (1994); Porterhouse Blue (1987); Punk and Its Aftershocks (1980); Queen: Champions of the World (1995); Queen: I Want to Break Free (1984); Queen: I'm Going Slightly Mad (1991); Queen: No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young) (1998); Queen: These Are the Days of Our Lives (1991); Rick Astley: Cry for Help (1991); Rick Astley: Hold Me in Your Arms (1989); Rude Boy (1980); Screen Two (1996); Secrets & Lies (1996); Side by Side (2012); Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Love Missile F1-11 (1986); Six Days in Romandie (1983); Soft Cell: Sex Dwarf (Version 1) (1982); Soweto (1991); Supernova (2020); Supertramp: Live in Paris '79 (2012); Swept from the Sea (1997); TCM Remembers 2024 (2024); Team Deakins (2020); The Air Up There (1994); The Blackheath Poisonings (1992); The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019); The Christians (1977); The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005); The Cure in Orange (1987); The Debt Collector (1999); The Fruit Machine (1988); The Girl in the Picture (1985); The Great Kandinsky (1995); The Illusionist (2006); The London Weekend Show (1977 / 1978); The Mike Leigh Method (2011); The Oscars (2015); The Outfit (2022); The Planets (1985); The Pros (2015); The Reflecting Skin (1990); The Secret Garden (1993); The Shattered Dream: Employment in the Eighties (1981); The South Bank Show (1985); The Specials: Ghost Town (1981); The Swappers (1970); The Unlucky Australians (1973); The Way of the Gun (2000); The Women's Olamal: The Organization of a Maasai Fertility Ceremony (1984); The X Files (1998); Thin Ice (2011); Tina Turner: Private Dancer (1985); Topsy-Turvy (1999); Toyah: I Want to Be Free (1981); Urgh! A Music War (1981); Vera Drake (2004); Vera Drake: Cast and Crew Documentary (2005); Walking Away (2007); What's Good for the Goose (1969); Whoops Apocalypse (1982); Willie and the Poor Boys (1985); Women in Rock (1980); World in Action (1975–1978); Worlds Apart (1982); Yes, Honestly (1976); Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction: Prime Mover (1988).

Born on this day – Richard Foronjy:

Richard Foronjy

Actor

Writer

August 3, 1937 – May 19, 2024

Credits:

Book:

From the Mob to the Movies (2020).

Movies and television:

Prince of the City: The Real Story (2007); Hot Parts (2003); Boss of Bosses (2001); 18 Wheels of Justice (2001); Love Boat: The Next Wave (1999); Evasive Action (1998); Hoods (1998); Recoil (1998); Michael Hayes (1998); Dumb Luck in Vegas (1997); The Big Easy (1997); Under Suspicion (1994–1995); Man of the House (1995); Carlito's Way (1993); Da Vinci's War (1993); The Public Eye (1992); Fatal Instinct (1992); Oscar (1991); Get a Life (1991); Capital News (1990); Curiosity Kills (1990); Equal Justice (1990); Amen (1987–1990); Ghostbusters II (1989); Murphy's Law (1989); Midnight Run (1988); The Galucci Brothers (1987); Who's the Boss? (1987); The Morning After (1986); The Check Is in the Mail... (1986); Odd Jobs (1986); Hunter (1985); Streets of Justice (1985); Misfits of Science (1985); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985); Silver Spoons (1982); The Jeffersons (1985); City Heat (1984); Cagney & Lacey (1984); Once Upon a Time in America (1984); His & Hers (1984); Young Lust (1984); Repo Man (1984); Shannon (1982); Hill Street Blues (1982); The Gangster Chronicles (1981); Gangster Wars (1981); True Confessions (1981); Prince of the City (1981); The Two of Us (1981); Flying High (1979); The Jerk (1979); Hart to Hart (1979); Angie (1979); The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979); Fix-it City (1978); Taxi (1978); The One Man Jury (1978); Kojak (1975–1978); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1977); Fun with Dick and Jane (1977); The Streets of San Francisco (1977); Rhoda (1977); Serpico (1976–1977); Charlie's Angels (1976); M*A*S*H (1976); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Wonderbug (1976); The Krofft Supershow / Wonderbug (1976); Shark Kill (1976); Phyllis (1976); Baretta (1976); The Blue Knight (1975); Harry O (1975); That's My Mama (1975); The Rookies (1975); Police Story (1975); The Bob Newhart Show (1975); The Gambler (1974); Serpico (1973).

Born on this day – Cécile Aubry:

Cécile Aubry

Actress

Writer

Director

August 3, 1928 – July 19, 2010