April 3-Good Friday, Marlon Brando, Wayne Newton, Tony Orlando, Alec Baldwin, Eddie Murphy, SKid Row, Unabomber

0:20 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Today's April third. Today is Good Friday, the day Jesus was tried, crucified, and died on Lacrosse. Now, most Christian denominations they celebrate Good Friday today. Now it's the only day of the year that the Catholics do not hold masks. Instead, they celebrate with a commemoration of the Lord's passing. So if you don't celebrate Good Fridaday, the only that's your only choice is National Find a Rainbow Day. All right, Lite's going on in entertainment on April third. Let's go back to twenty fourteen. Number one album was the Frozen movie soundtrack. Frel Williams out the number one song with happy Because some Happy. If you.

1:00 Root Custom. Giff, you field like, happiness is true, becaustom happiness you cusif you field like, That's what you want. Florida, Georgia, Lion and Luke Bryant. They had the number one country song with This is how we roll. This is how we roll. We hang luncling and down everything on. The rad We light it up with our ransom. This is how we roll.

1:40 This is how we do we murning down the lash and bull. It's at the Monday. This is how we rove. The Number one book was Missing You by Harlan Corbyn. Top movie was Captain America, Winter Soldier. Now Captain America and Black Widow. They need to team up to fight the White Soldier stars seven Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson. Alrighty, what happened on April thirty, seventeen seventy six Harvard University? They voted award General George Washington an Honorentory Doctorate of Law degree. That's pretty cool, Georgia. He never went to school, Nope, he went instead of going to college, he went to learn how to be a surveyor. Actually, ten US presidents never did go to college. The last one was Harry S. Truman eighteen sixty The Pony Express began.

2:26 His first rider left Saint Joseph, Missouri with a mail bag. Now it took ten days to that mail bag to get the Sacramento, California. Each rider would go between seventy five one hundred miles, change horses about every ten or fifteen miles. Regular mail would have taken over two months, so ten days that's not bad, but it was really expensive. Average person really couldn't afford it. Only lasted eighteen months before they telegraph replaced it. I wonder why this guy never took credit for his invention. Well, I guess I could have been a woman. Eighteen eighty two, the wood block alarm clock was invented. See when the alarm would ring, would drop twenty wooden blocks on you. I'm sure'd wake yep, but I think it would just piss me off. Now. When the United States was separated into time zones in eighteen eighty three, Ohio said no, they weren't going in the Eastern time zone, they were going into Central. Well today in nineteen twenty seven, government said no, you are now going into the Eastern time zone where you should have been all the time, and you're going to stay there.

3:19 Nippleile has been Eastern ever since nineteen thirty three. Scottish pilots Douglas Hamilton and David McIntyre now in two biplanes. Yeah, they were the first to fly over the top of Mount Everest. Yeah, they took some pictures. Now they were in open cockpit airplanes at over thirty thousand feet. Then they cleared the sum about one hundred feet or so. Now they did have oxygen, but they only had fifteen minutes they could turn on when they got up that high, so they couldn't dottle. They also had electrically heated suits gauges in their plane set. It was a negative forty degrees up there. Nineteen fifty three, the first issue of TV Guide went on sale cost fifteen cents. The cover of that first Yeah, with Lucille Ball's newborn son, Dizzy ar Andez Junior. Nineteen fifty five, Don Perry, he was able to climb a twenty foot rope in two point eight seconds. That record still stands. I don't know how you can break it. This record still stands too. Would you ride with her? In England in nineteen seventy Miriam Hargrove, she passed her driver's test on her fortieth try. Oh now she got insurance. Now this doesn't seem very Christian at all. In college baseball, in nineteen ninety six University of Saint Francis Saints, they beat Robert Morris College seventy one to one. Game was called after four innings. Saints scored twenty six runs in the first inning. Also in nineteen ninety six, the unibomber Ted Kazinski was caught after seventeen years. His brother turned him in. I had read Ted's manifesto and was published in the newspapers. He told the FBI right where Ted's cabin was up there in Idaho, two thousand and seven. Now, what kind of life do

4:49 you have living to even ever have to do this? Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, the guitarist, he had to come out and make a public denial that he had ever smoked his father's ashes. Joke, gop. Joke, joke, show dish Shivers Day, please gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We won't simple tag. He left this shivers day. And you know we don't do That's. Birthday, okay. This is born on April the third, after Marlon Brandall. He was born in Oma, Nebraska in nineteen twenty four. Started out doing theater. It was very successful on Broadway. Went into movies. Nominated froscars for a street car named Desire Viva Zapada, Julius Caesar, Sayonara, that Sting embarrassed Dry White, Season one, Oscars for On the Waterfront, and The Godfather. Now divorced three times. He had five kids between those three women. Then he had six other kids from six other women. Marlon. He died in two thousand and four from a respiratory elements eighty years old.

6:10 Jan Barry it was a Jan and Jan and Deine he usually sing lead. Was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty one. Him and Dean they became friends in high school. Started out singing doo wop, then they switched over to surf movesment that song Surf City. Yeah, it was the first surf song to go to number one. Some other Jan and Deine hats were a little old Lady from Pasadena, Drag City, Sidewalk Surf, and dead Man's Curf. No, dead Man's Curve is a real place in Beverly Hills. Jan actually cast it, crashed his car three blocks from it in nineteen sixty six. That was after they released the song. Jan he was so messed up he never recovered from it. Yeah, they did a little bit of tour, but yeah, they were pretty done. Jan. He got married in nineteen ninety one. He died from a seizar in two thousand and four at sixty two years old.

7:01 Sun Audience. Siety down in. The That was Billy Joe Royal. He was born in Valdosta, Georgia, in nineteen forty two. Billy Joe he started as a pop singer nineteen sixty five nineteen eighty switched over to country music. Some of his country hits were Love and No Regret, Tell it like it is, I'll put a note on your pillow. But it is pop hits he had I've got Someboddy Cherry Hill Park down in the Boondocks. Billy Joe divorced three times. He had one daughter that was from his third wife. He died in his sleep in twenty fifteen at seventy three years old.

7:43 Dogg shne Darling, Dogg shame. Thank you for all the joy and thing picture show set balcony. Mister Las Vegas. Wayne Newton, it's eighty four today. Born in Norfolk, Virginia in nineteen forty two. Now he started performing in Las Vegas with his brother when they were teenagers. Yeah, they started out at the Flamingo in the nineteen fifties. Now his brother moved on. Wayne, He's still there in Vegas. Over sixty years later. He played almost all the casinos up and down the strips. He's performed over thirty thousand shows.

8:25 But now he's back at the Flamingo. There you go see him. It costs about ninety bucks. Some of the songs you might know or Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Daddy, Don't Walk so Fast, donc Kaushane, donc Coshane, that's just German for thank you Wayne. He had a daughter from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen ninety four and they have a daughter. It's j. I don't see. Us about us. Ton Orlandos eighty two. He was born in New York City in nineteen forty four, when he was sixteen years old. He started out as a solo singer.

9:13 Nineteen seventy, the record company teamed him up with Thelma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent. They became Don Tony Orlando and Don now Don. They were named after the record producer's daughter. Some of their hits are Candida Not three Times, he Don't Love You, Lack I Love You, Ky, Yellow Ribbon around the Old Oak Tree. They had their own TV variety series in the seventies. They played their last show two years ago, So if you want to see him here two years too. Late. Tony had a son from his first wife and married a second wife in nineteen ninety and they have one child. Actor Alec Baldwin. He was born in Ambnityville, New York, in nineteen fifty eight. Sixty eight year old is the oldest of the acting Baldwin brothers. He started out on the soap opera The Doctors, and then he went prime time for nats Landing. First big movie was Beetlejuice, then The Hunt for Red October Malice, Ghost of Mississippi. Been in a one hundred movies. First wife was actress Kim Basinger.

10:03 They had a daughter. Married his second wife in twenty twelve. They have seven kids. Actor David I. Paris is sixty seven, born in Sarahtoga Springs, New York. In nineteen fifty nine. Played Dr Niles Crane on the TV show Fraser. It was Fraser's brother. He's done a lot of theater, one of Toni in two thousand and seven. Some of his movies were Nixon, Full Front All, The Exorcism. He married his husband in two thousand and eight. Actor comedian singer Eddie Murphy's sixty five. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen sixty one. Started out on Saturday Night Live from nineteen eighty to eighty four, then hit huge in movies Forty eight Hours, Trading Places, Coming to America, Beverly Hills, Cop Moves. People forget how big Eddie was as a stand up union. They actually made feature films of a stand up act. Eddie was nominated for an Oscar for dream Girls. He has ten kids. He had two sons from two different girlfriends, five kids from his first wife. Then he had a daughter from Scary Spice. Yeah, he knocked up a Spice girl. Eddie and his second wife, they have a son and a daughter. That was Sebastian

11:40 Bach singing lead for skid Row. Sebastian fifty eight. He was born in Freeport, Bahamas, nineteen sixty eight, grip in Canada. Now. He was singing at a wedding when John Bad Jovie's parents saw him there. They went up to him and said that, hey, their son's friend named Dave Sappo was looking for a lead singer for his band. You should give him a call. Well, he did and he joined skid Row. Some hits from skid Row that Sebastians saying eighteen in Live I remember you, monkey business. You've gone well, skin Roll. They fired him in nineteen ninety six, said Sebastian got a little too full of himself. It's been solo ever since. Now him and his band the Autox out onto her right now if you want to go check him out. He had three children from his first wife, married a second wife and twenty fifteen. Actress Jenny Garth is fifty four. She was born at Urbana, Illinois, in nineteen seventy two, but Kelly on Beverly Hills nine O two one zero. She did a lot of TV movies.

12:29 She lost a race car driver Helio kastronevis Son Dancing with the Stars Dany. She had three daughters from her second husband, and she's been married to her third husband since twenty fifteen. All Right, well, thank you all for joining us today. We appreciate you being here. Don't forget to follow us on who you listen to us on? Can I go to coolmedia dot com that's cool with three os and see what's going on everywhere else? Or you can just check the show notes. All right, Today's Country and a Grand Radio Artists today. Because I'm a Gavin out there in San Antonio. You got hear Donny Lee's song good One. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. She's gonna kiss you off. She's gonna drive you mad. She's gonna get you lost at lunch, she lost the matter that her head back laugh is gonna drive you crazy. She's gonna make you wait just cause you know she can. She's gonna say some things that you don't understand, but it won't matter when you hear.

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