On this day in Music History - August 5, 1978 Steve Martin's novelty tune "King Tut" peaks at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100, nearly three months after it was featured in a skit on TV's Saturday Night Live. Some of the backing musicians on the track, who called themselves the Toot Uncommons, were actually members of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The record, which paid homage to Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, would go on to sell over a million copies. "King Tut" is a novelty song by comedian and actor

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Did King Tuts tomb unleash a deadly curse or was it just media hype? #ancienthistory #archaeology #egypt | Ancienta