The Matys Brothers were an American lounge act made up of four singing comedians. They were born and raised in Chester , in the Philadelphia area . The quartet's first record, "Muskrat Ramble," released on the Essex Records label, was a big hit in 1954, and by 1956 the group was part of Bill Haley 's talent and booking stable and recording for Decca Records . The members of the band were Emil on saxophone, John on bass and violin, Gene on drums, and Walt on accordion.
19-535: On August 28, 1957, the Matys Brothers appeared on American Bandstand performing "Muskrat Ramble" and "Crazy Street". "Muskrat Ramble" was a 1954 chart entry in Cashbox and Variety. In 1958, the Matys Brothers made two records for Haley's Clymax record label, one of which, "Crazy Street," co written by Haley, later was considered a rockabilly classic. On this song and the three others recorded for Clymax,
38-806: The Diocletian era after AD 293 , and in the Byzantine Empire from AD 537, following a decree by Justinian . Prior to the Roman state's adoption of the Varronian chronology – created by Titus Pomponius Atticus and Marcus Terentius Varro – there were many different dates posited for when the city was founded. This state of confusion required, for one to use an AUC date, one to pick a date as canonical. The Varronian chronology, constructed from fragmentary sources and demonstrably about four years off of absolute events c. 340 BC , placed
57-488: The Julian calendar in 46 BC ( AUC 708), giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC, the month was renamed in honor of Emperor Augustus . According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius , he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt. Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match
76-820: The Northern Hemisphere . In the Northern Hemisphere, August falls in summer. In the Southern Hemisphere, the month falls during winter. In many European countries, August is the holiday month for most workers. Numerous religious holidays occurred during August in ancient Rome. Certain meteor showers take place in August. The Kappa Cygnids occur in August, with yearly dates varying. The Alpha Capricornids meteor shower occurs as early as July 10 and ends around August 10. The Southern Delta Aquariids occur from mid-July to mid-August, with
95-410: The Matys Brothers were backed by members of Bill Haley's band, The Comets (several of their recordings were also written by members of Haley's group). Later, the Matys Brothers grew to rely on their own instrumentation (Walt: the accordion, John: the bass and fiddle, Emil: the sax, and Gene: the drums). Gene and Emil could play any instrument (you put in their hands) and began recording polka music for
114-658: The Sunnyside and Select labels during the late 1950s and early 1960s. "Rummy Polka" was a hit for them in 1959, and the Matys Brothers scored their biggest hit in 1963, " Who Stole the Keeshka ?" In the 1960s and 1970s, the brothers, John, Walt, Emil and Gene, toured the west coast. They appeared in the 1960s at The Showboat in Las Vegas, The Holiday Hotel downtown Reno, Nevada, and The Commercial Hotel in Elko, Nevada . Some of
133-706: The brothers struggled, at times, to maintain normal family life due to the late hours and the demanding travel, that was a part of their profession. Emil has a daughter, Terri, who was born during his first marriage to Mertis. After a divorce, he then married the band's singer Maria Carmen and they have one son, Marc. Gene had two children with his first wife, Wanda, they were Tom and Diane, that ended in divorce. He then married Pearl and had two sons, including Gene Jr. After his second marriage, Gene married Donna and had two children Ross and Tanna. Emil lived in Elko, Nevada and died on May 5, 2008; Gene died 12 October 1993 in Elko. Emil
152-522: The celebrations. A coin by a contender for the imperial throne, Pacatianus , explicitly states "[y]ear one thousand and first", which is an indication that the citizens of the empire had a sense of the beginning of a new era, a Sæculum Novum . The Anno Domini (AD) year numbering was developed by a monk named Dionysius Exiguus in Rome in AD 525 (AUC 1278), as a result of his work on calculating
171-457: The date of Easter. Dionysius did not use the AUC convention, but instead based his calculations on the Diocletian era . This convention had been in use since AD 293, the year of the tetrarchy , as it became impractical to use regnal years of the current emperor. In his Easter table, the year AD 532 (AUC 1285) was equated with the 248th regnal year of Diocletian . The table counted
190-501: The founding of the city on 21 April 753 BC. This date, likely arrived at by mechanical calculation but accepted with a variance of one year by the Augustan-era fasti Capitolini , has become the traditional date. From the time of Claudius ( r. AD 41–51 ) onward, this calculation superseded other contemporary calculations. Celebrating the anniversary of the city became part of imperial propaganda . Claudius
209-505: The harvest festival held that month. The month was originally named Sextilis in Latin because it was the 6th month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, with March being the first month of the year. About 700 BC, it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius , who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created
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#1732793033852228-627: The length of Julius Caesar's July, but this is an invention of the 13th century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco . Sextilis had 31 days before it was renamed. It was not chosen for its length. August's birthstones are the peridot , sardonyx , and spinel . Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy , meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The Western zodiac signs are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onward). This list does not necessarily imply official status or general observance. (All Baha'i, Islamic, and Jewish observances begin at sundown before
247-467: The listed date and end at sundown on the date in question unless otherwise noted.) Ab urbe condita Ab urbe condita ( Latin: [ab ˈʊrbɛ ˈkɔndɪtaː] ; 'from the founding of the City '), or anno urbis conditae ( Latin: [ˈannoː ˈʊrbɪs ˈkɔndɪtae̯] ; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC , expresses a date in years since 753 BC ,
266-519: The peak usually around July 28–29. The Perseids , a major meteor shower, typically takes place between July 17 and August 24, with the peak days varying yearly. The star cluster of Messier 30 is best observed around August. Among the aborigines of the Canary Islands, especially among the Guanches of Tenerife , the month of August received the name of Beñesmer or Beñesmen , which was also
285-523: The term was more common during the Renaissance , when editors sometimes added AUC to Roman manuscripts they published, giving the false impression that the convention was commonly used in antiquity. In reality, the dominant method of identifying years in Roman times was to name the two consuls who held office that year. In late antiquity, regnal years were also in use, as in Roman Egypt during
304-568: The traditional founding of Rome. It is an expression used in antiquity and by classical historians to refer to a given year in Ancient Rome . In reference to the traditional year of the foundation of Rome, the year 1 BC would be written AUC 753, whereas AD 1 would be AUC 754. The foundation of the Roman Empire in 27 BC would be AUC 727. The current year AD 2024 would be AUC 2777. Usage of
323-433: The years starting from the presumed birth of Christ, rather than the accession of the emperor Diocletian on 20 November AD 284 or, as stated by Dionysius: "sed magis elegimus ab incarnatione Domini nostri Jesu Christi annorum tempora praenotare" ("but rather we choose to name the times of the years from the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ"). Blackburn and Holford-Strevens review interpretations of Dionysius which place
342-509: Was not only remembered for his years of entertaining with the Matys Brothers, but also for the time and efforts he spent voluntarily while working with high school musicians, during the last several years of his life in Elko. August August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars . Its length is 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere , August is the seasonal equivalent of February in
361-484: Was the first to hold magnificent celebrations in honor of the anniversary of the city, in AD 47, the eight hundredth year from the founding of the city. Hadrian , in AD 121, and Antoninus Pius , in AD 147 and AD 148, held similar celebrations respectively. In AD 248, Philip the Arab celebrated Rome's first millennium , together with Ludi saeculares for Rome's alleged tenth saeculum . Coins from his reign commemorate
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