April 1st April Fool Days, Debbie Reynolds, The Tokens, Jimmy Cliff, Susan Boyle, Kip Moore, Lady A

0:20 Welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am Jeff. Today's April, the first. April fuls April April fool stays here. You trick me, I trick you bothday. April Fools April Fools. There's none here, only tricks jokes I played on Francis. Here. Today is April Fools Day, April Fool's Day. It is celebrating countries all over the world. The consensus a is April Fool's Day began in fifteen eighty two in France. See, they had switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregarian calendar, so that meant that New Year's Day changed from April first to January first. Well, some people didn't get the news or they just didn't like to change, and celebrated New Year's on April first. They ever thought of as full as idiots and made fun of so it all started.

1:13 Now. There have been some pretty good pranks over the years on April falls today, but now everybody's so aware of it. Yeah if you get full, but yeah you're a fool if you get full of mon today. So I have fun today though, and enjoy the first day of April April. It is Latin for too open. It symbolizes the blooming of flowers. April's burststone is the diamond. Flowers are daisy and sweetbee, and Aprilful moon is the pink moon. All right, let's see it's going on in entertainment on April. The first it was back to nineteen seventy four. Number one album was John Denver's Greatest Hits by John Denver. John had the number one song with Shunshine on My Shoulders. Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy, Sunshine.

2:03 In my. Can make me cry. Charlie Rich had the number one country song with a very special love song, you Don't have. My loved And then will be. The symphony of all teams of me of. For sal. The number one book was bur by Gorvado. The top movie was The Sugarland Express. A woman she wants to reunited family, so she helps her husband break out of prison. Then they kidnapped their son. Yeah, the plan doesn't really work out so well. Stars Goldie On, Ben Johnson, and Michael Sacks. Now it was Steven Spielberg. Yeah, the first movie he had that went into theaters. Followed that up with Josh alrighty, what happened on April the first, and when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year seventy nine, the whole town of Pompeii was completely buried. Now we all know that, and people knew that at the time when it happened, but there wasn't anything they could do about it, so they just went on with their lives in Pompeii was eventually forgotten. Seventeen forty eight, Spins rope jocand Alcubierre. He discovered the ruins of Pumpeig and they've been escavating it ever since. So as of today they think they're about half done with the escavating the whole town.

3:23 So about two hundred and seven years of digging and they're half done. Seventeen seventy eight Oliver Pollock out there in New Orleans. He was a businessman. He created the dollar symbol, you know, the ass with the line thread. Yeah, well somebody had to come up with that. Eighteen twenty six Samuel Moray, he invented the internal combustion engine. Now that was a two cylinder. It ran on turpentine fumes see gasoline. It won't be used for internal combustions for almost eighty years. Eighteen fifty three, Cincinnati, Ohio. They became the first city to have full time in professional firefighters. Eighteen seventy three of the steamship The Atlantic had sank off in Nova Scotia. Five hundred and forty seven people were killed. It was owned by the White Star Lines. They had They're the ones who owned the Titanic later when it sank in nineteen twelve, eighteen ninety one. In Chicago, twenty nine year old William Wrigley Junior he founded the Wrigley Company. Yeah, it was out selling soap, and if you bought one of the soap, you'd give you a free stick of gum. Well, one year later he stopped selling the soap and started selling the gum. Today, Wrigglely it's the largest chewing gum company in the world. Nineteen forty five, in the Pacific, during World War two, the Battle of Okinawa began as US forces went on shore.

4:28 That was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific during the war. The battle lasted eighty two days. The United States won. Now it was one of the bloodiest battles of the entire war. Forty nine thousand American castle. These twelve thousand, five hundred and twenty were killed, one hundred and ten thousand Japanese soldiers were killed, and almost one hundred and fifty thousand Okinawan the civilians died. Nineteen seventy, President Richard Nixon, he signed a bill it made it illegal for cigarette commercials to be shown on TV. No cigarette career chew though. Yeah, you could have two commercials on TV until nineteen eighty six. Nineteen seventy six, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computers. Yeah, it was in the graduate jobs at his parents' house in Coopertino, California.

5:09 Two thousand and four, Google, they launched Gmail. Yeah, but because they did it on April first. Yeah, but he thought it was just a joke. Cope, Cope, Cope, cope shot this shiver oth day. Please don't part. He left this shiver birthday. We want simple target this shiver birthday. And you know we don't give up workday. Alright, Let's check out who was born on April the first? One? Scott one wonder Please mister Bond and listen here. I ain't give trouble and have no fear who won Scott One.

5:55 Wonder That was Amos Milburn Amos. He was recorded that song thirty years before George Throguod did it. Amos was born in Houston in nineteen twenty seven. Now. He was a very successful pianists and singer in the nineteen forties and fifties, especially in R and B. Now in the fifties, this song is pretty much we're all partying and alcohol songs. Yeah, it's just a fun loving guy and his song's actually had a lot of double entendre and humor in him. Some of them are chicken chack, boogie, bad bad whiskey, thinking and drinking. He even had a song about getting high, which was unheard of in the fifties. Amos He died in nineteen eighty at fifty two years old. Hey, he lived the life that he sang about. Yeah, it got him.

6:36 It's listening. Ten Taam June too. In nineteen fifty seven. That song Tammy ended up being Debbie reynolds only number one song. Debbie, she was one of help Pass with Texas in nineteen thirty two. Her career lasted almost seventy years. She was in over eighty movies, she was nominated for an oscar for The Unsinkable Molly Brown. She was also in Singing in the Rain, How the West was one she voiced Charlotte and Charlotte's Webb. Debbie's first husband was Eddie Fisher and they had daughter, actress Carrie Fischer Fisher and her brother. Then Eddie left Debbie for Elizabeth Taylor, so Debbie married another guy. That marriage lasted thirteen years. Then Debbie married a third husband for twelve years. In twenty sixteen, when Debbie's daughter, Carrie Fisher died, Debbie was so heartbroken she had a massive stroke and died two days later at eighty four years old. After Gordon Jump He is born in nineteen thirty two in Dayton, Ohio.

7:37 He played mister Carlson on TV show w Kerippy in Cincinnati. Gordony started acting when he was thirty two. Yeah, he did some local theater and then I shot from there. From nineteen eighty nine to two thousand and three, he was the may Tag repair man on her TV commercials. Gordon had one child from his first wife, three children from his second wife, and married his third wife in nineteen ninety three. Gordon died from respiratory failure two thousand and three at seventy one years old. Actress Alan Mgraz eighty seven. She was born in Manhattan, New York in nineteen thirty nine. She first got famous in the movie good Bye Columbus. Then she was nominated for an Oscar for the Love Story. Then she's in Convoy Players. She's starting the mini Serious Wins of War. She had a son from her second husband. Her third husband was actor Steve McQueen. They're made for five years, Joe.

8:22 Joe Sleeves. Now that song the Lion Sleeps Tonight. It was originally recorded in South Africa nineteen thirty nine. Now the chorus when they recorded it, it was I say umbabaweh mbabaweh yeah, which means it's Zulu for lion, which makes sense. Well. In nineteen sixty one, the Tokens when they recorded, they misheard it, so they went with Weema Wakawema. But since they screwed the song up so bad, they didn't have to pay royalties. Now the Tokens lead singer but Phil Margo.

9:11 He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen forty two. Later in life fell he quit singing. He just became a science fiction writer. He married in nineteen sixty six and they had three kids. Pill that in twenty twenty one from a stroke, seventy nine years old. Crazy. I can see clean now, Reay school. I can see lop stickles going off the time clubs. Reggae singer Jimmy Cliff. He was born James Chambers in Saint James, Paris, Jamaica, nineteen forty four. Started releasing music in nineteen sixty two. Some of us hits are mini rivers across the heart of they come wild World. I can see clearly now, of course. The regae singer. Yeah, he's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He had a daughter from had seven a fun Night and then him and his wife they had a daughter and a son. Jimmy just died in November from pneumonia. He was eighty one years old.

10:11 Why dream the dream and time long board high and life wasn't living? Why dream not. Long a door? Susan Boyle, She's sixty five. She was born in Dutchmont, Scotland in nineteen sixty one. Now she lived most of her life with everyone believing that she was autistic during her birth she had been deprived of oxygen. Well, then by two thousand and nine both her parents had died and Susan she delied to take a step, so she went on Britain's Got Talent. Well, they nearly laughed her off the stage when she came out. Then she started singing and won the whole damn thing. Now she sold her twenty five million records and she has been retested.

10:59 She is no artistic. She has an above average IQ and she has Osburgers. Somebody truck in a farmers steal a new trespass sign by time the cute, nobody's going to get hurt. Supposed to big deal. Somebody trouble in a. Farmer seal country. Singer Kip Moore was born in Tipton, Georgia, in nineteen eighty. It's forty six today. He's out there something about a truck, beer money. Hey, pretty girl, more girls like you. A Kippie's going out onto her April tenth through November, so you have plenty of times you can go see Kippy.

11:42 Why I'm really mean now he's unjuble, shine up, crowned. Jess i'sco holla kill im to members calling chill they coming off. Want to get a little lost A noise in the lies, Martin. That was Hillary Scott singing for the country band Lady A. Hillary's forty. She was born in Nashville in nineteen eighty six. Her mom is country singer Linda Davis Hilary. She auditioned for American Idol twice. She never made it to go sing in front of the judges. Yeah, they booted off. Early two thousand and six, she met Dave Haywood and Charles Kelly. They formed Lady Annabella. Some of their number one songs are I Run to You, Need You Now, just to Kiss, Champagne Night, Hey, Bart, Dinner Hilary. She married in twenty twelve and they have three daughters.

12:31 Alright here. Quote of the day. It comes from Marvin Gayole. Marvin's dad killed him today in nineteen eighty four when he was forty four years old. Marvin says, if you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. Well, thank you all for listening, and don't free to follow us and whoever you listen to this son, check out today's show the scripts take it out. Country Interground Radio Our Country Inderground Radio arts today comes from Bruce and Greeley, Colorado.

13:11 Sir Jason Lee Wilson, sons, Becky and the deacon. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. In the church pew sweating all this little betting, all the girls sitting up in the choir. The way she starts wages and sings five for wages, says it's heart all five. Back spirits, no need and period. He's over rolling Hi fil and celebrate. When the contgat tuning it up and stuff. Yet be the deacon in the bye on the Lincoln. Doing all right. You wait in the Sunday morning here going to the. Lord, thinking about Saturday night. I saw the preacher winking looking over at the deacon flood on a red big smile.

14:02 Been in and all week trying to get pig up. A woman rested up in wide. It is in a lot in the bank of the const gave to the church. Off time because I got a sweetie. If no long to. See it made me feel so fast. In the in the degon in the back of the lake. Afteron with what to do in all day he went to Sunday morning and flood to the Lord, thinking about Saturday nights,