April 2nd- Buddy Ebsen, Alec Guinness. Joe Friday, Marvin Gaye, Emmylou Harris, Bananarama, Billy Dean

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and Factoid's about today? Today's April a second nothing. Guns supposed to settle us. Will say something jury too. I will have a little vocal. We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces, singing whiskey for my man before my horse. Today is national ride your horse to a bar day. How if you're able to physically, you are supposed to ride your horse to a bar. Now. I was in Fort Pierce, South Dakota about ten years ago. A guy literally rode his horse into the bar. Now, the locals, they just kind of shook their head and smiled. Rest of us are wondering, what the hell they butting our beer?

1:01 Now. You shouldn't let your horse drink, though, because if your horse is sober, yeah, you won't get a ticket for riding it drunk, as long as it knows how to get you home. Well, in some states, yeah, you don't need a horse. You know, you can just saddle up an uber. I think the most important thing about today is, hey, go to a bar. It's also peanut butter and jelly sandwich day today too, so I guess you can enjoy that after you come back from the bars. All right, let's he's going on entertainment on April the second, It's back here in two thousand and four, then when album was Fills Like Home by Nora Jones. Uh sure, Little John Ludacris, they had the number one song with Yeah he had. Listen and she come cat me, Come Cat, I got she said, Baby, Let's go.

1:55 Kenny Chasney and Uncle Cracker had the number one country song when when the Sun goes down. Rest up for long long nut was when the sun goals down, will be grooving When the sun goals down. You're feeling all right. When the sun sax down over the waters. Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down. The number one book was Third Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Gross. Top movie was hell Boy. A demon is rescued from Nazis and becomes a defender against forces of darkness stars Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, and John Hurt.

2:37 Nineteen oh two in Los Angeles, the Electric Theater opened up, Yeah, the first full time movie theater in the United States. All let's see what happened On April the second, fifteen thirteen Punts Da Leone. He anchored off of what is now Saint Augustine, Florida claimed the whole thing for Spain. They were the first Europeans actually reached Forlida. Eighteen sixty six, United States President Andrew Johnson. He declared that the Civil War is officially over. Well lookscept for Texas. See Texas. They hadn't formed a new state government yet to replace their Confederate one. Eighteen seventy seven, in London, England, the first person ever was shot out of a cannon. She was fourteen year old Rosa Matilda Richter. She flew sixty feet over the head of the stunned crowd. Now the explosion was just for show. She was ejected by springs and tensioners and that kind of stuff. Now today they used compress eric, but the explosion is still off. Fake.

3:25 Nineteen seventy eight, the TV show Dallas premiered. That was just supposed to be a five week mini series, but the ratings were so high they turned it into a series. Yeah, it ran for thirteen years. Joke joke, joked, joke, shog dish shibirth day. Please don't tag he left this shiver birthday. We want simple tage. He like this shilbirth day. And you know we don't get birthday, Well, let's check out it was born on April. The second actor, Buddy Ebson. He was born in Belleville, Illinois, in nineteen oh eight. Now, he was originally cast to play the tin Man in the movie Wizard of Oz. Yeah, he recorded all the songs and the ten Man sang and everything. But then when they started filming it, he got really sick and ended up in a really long hospital stay. He had a really severe allergic reaction to that aluminum dust that they used for the ten Man's makeup. Yeah, he had to drop Battle of the movie. Well, we got to know mister Epsen when he started as Jed Klempett and the Beverly hill Billies. After that he did Barnaby Jones nineteen seventy three or nineteen ninety three, they did the movie The Beverly hill Billies. Yeah, he played Barnaby Jones on it. But he had two daughters from his first wife.

4:29 He was married to a second wife for thirty nine years when they divorced, and they had four daughters of one son married his third wife in nineteen eighty five. They were together until he died in two thousand and three, ninety five years old, from respiratory failure. Actor Sir Alec Guinness. He was born in Maldevale, England, in nineteen fourteen. Started out in theater when he was twenty years old. He was one of the best British Shakespearean actors of all time. After World War Two he started doing movies. Won an oscar for The Bridge Over the River Kwai. He was nominated for an oscar playing Obi Wan Kenobi in the very first Star Wars movie. Of course, he played Obi Wan and all three of those. He got married nineteen thirty eight and they had one son. He died in two thousand and eighty six years old from prostate and liver cancer.

5:16 The story you were about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Actor Jack Webb. He was born in Santa Monica, California. In nineteen twenty. He played Joe Friday in Dragnet Now. I started off on the radio, then they moved it to TV for like ten years now. After that, he was the executive producer for the TV show in the seventies called The Emergency. If you remember that, he wrote all one hundred and seventy four episodes. He had two daughters from his first wife, married his fourth wife two years before he died in nineteen eighty two from art attack. Sixty two years old. Marvin Gaye he was going to Washington, DC in nineteen thirty nine. Started out as a very successful songwriter once they let him sing. He tried at forty one top forty hits. How sweet it is to be loved by you? Ain't nothing like the real thing.

6:27 What's going on? Let's get it on? Heard it through the grape vine, though. There are some of Marvin's classic kids. He had wenchil from his first wife, two from his second wife. Now yesterday. Back in nineteen eighty four, Marvin he was breaking up a fight between his parents at their house. His dad pulled out a gun and shot and killed him. Yeah, his father never did do you any prison time after they took him in and everything and found out he had a brain tumor. So yeah. He died a couple of years after that. Marvin forty four years old. When he died, he. Beheld Let send the West Coastones tis all Mottles.

7:13 Smart country singer Emmy Lou Harris is seventy nine. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in nineteen forty seven. The Queen of country rock. She started out singing with Graham Parsons when he died unexpectedly in nineteen seventy three, As You Went to Solo. She has the last twenty five albums. Since then, she's won fourteen Grammys. She's had fifteen number one songs. Some of those are Together Again, Lost His Love on Our Last Date, Two More Bottles of Wine, Sweet Dreams. Now she still performed sung Yeah, she does some shows every year now. Hair actually has three times divorced. She had one child from her first husband and one child from her second husband. Actor Christopher Maloney. He was one of Washington d C in nineteen sixty one. He's sixty five today. Now he has played Detective Elliott Stabler on Law and Order Special Victims Unit since nineteen ninety nine.

7:57 Got married nineteen ninety five and they have a doctor and his son. Jesus. That was Karen Woodward singing for Banana Ramma. She's also sixty five. She's born in Bristol, England. She helped formed Bananaama in nineteen seventy nine. Now they took the name Banana Rama. It was from a Moxie music song called pie Jamarama. It's how they got their name. Hey, they started out as a trio, but they've been at duo since nineteen eight ninety one. Shy Boy Cirl Summer more than Physical. I heard a rumor venus some of their hits.

8:45 They do tour, but only in the UK and over in Europe and that kind of stuff. Karen, she had a son from a boyfriend. Then she lived with Andrew Ridgley, Yeah, the guy from Whim. Yeah. They lived together for seventeen years, broke up in twenty seventeen. Days got cause saults. I wanted to wear he. Billy the ky country singer Billy in sixty four. He's born in Quincy, Florida, in nineteen sixty two. Now he had a basketball scholarship to college. Then he quit after one season. Yeah, he wanted to go pursue music. That was his true love. Oh, he did win star starts and then he had some big HiT's only here for a little while. If there hadn't been you only the win Billy the kid. Billy had two children from his first wife, married a second wife in two thousand and five.

9:42 All right, our quote of the day today we're in and we had Pope John Paul the Second. He died today in two thousand and five, at eighty four years old. John Paul said, an excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie. An excuse is just a lie guarded. All right, well, you guys, thank you all for being here today and listening. We appreciate it. Don't forget to follow us. I know you listen to us on as we're always. We're gonna end with our country underground radio artist of the day. They're gonna end with Mark McKinney. We're gonna play his song, the River Song. You guys, have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. This sex Bouts gets me. It's been fifty six. Days over a hundred to grease and it's kind of gotten to my head.

10:27 My attitude's been lit lone years ago. Watch you say we get out of here, you know, talking about a river and a cool or beer, and I've been holding we need nothing else. Just you bring out good look itself. I'm going off on a cool river. Call a key portraying mine and I can't remember what it. Was that I couldn't get out. Well here we are. Well be a good time.

11:17 Last one hand's got a Barten, so grab me in the number one. I'm ready again. Girl. That bikini show looks nice. I really like the way it brings out. I have no little head giving me a kiss. I don't get no better than this. Sorry, been stressed the last few days, but thank god, the water just takes it away.