Aug 12-Sir Mix-A-Lot, Dire Straits, Buck Owens, Porter Wagoner, Casey Affleck, The 3 Bears, America the Beautiful

0:19 Hi everyone, I'm Jeff. Welcome to History and Factor. It's about today, Today's August the twelfth. I gotta dusty old pile of vinyl records sitting on my floor. I've played each one of them all over a dozen times more. All my guys beat up chair. A mattress of fork, another despair in that dusty old pile of records on my floor. It is National Vinyl Records Day. Those are your two young no vinyl records you missed out, You missed out in your music with popping, scratching, skipping, all that good stuff. They are making a comeback though. Since twenty twenty two, vinyl records have actually out sold CDs that hadn't happened since nineteen eighty seven. Don't know where they're getting the record players from. I guess you probably order them online or something. Now, if you have a record player, are you like a grandma or grandpa? Hasn't all the busted out today? As long as you have some records and yeah, go old school and rock in it. Today's Actually he gets you to go to a mam and pop record store. No, there are there are still some mama pop record stours out there yeah, if you get a chance to go hit that, if it's a lot cooler to hit them in person and see what's going on, and it is to order online. All right, let's see this happening in entertainment on August the twelfth, back year in nineteen eighty one, the number one album was Long Distance Voyager by The Moody Blues. Rick Springfield had the number one song with Jesse's Girl, Can she just watch him the windows eyes?

1:43 With that Bundy, I just knowl late at night. No one, we said Kenny Rogers at the number one country song with I don't need you. I don't need you, I don't need French, I don't need flowers in the spring, I don't need you. You surely don't know.

2:29 The number one book was Noble House from James Cleval. The top movie was Raiders of the Lost Arc in nineteen thirty six. An archaeologist. He has to find the Lost Arc of the Covenant before the Nazis do Sarrys Harrison, Fard Caroen Allen and John Rise Babies. All right, let's see what happened on August the twelfth, eighteen fifty one. America's Isaac Singer he invented the sowing machine. Isaac, You started as an actor, then a mechanic, and then he made a rock drilling device, and then he invented the sowy machine. Oh, basically he made improvement to what was already out there and then patent. It made a lot of a lot of money. Now the government went after him for big and me after he fathered his twenty six kid. So he just ran over to London. Yeah, by himself, one hundred and ten room mansion. Lived pretty good.

3:14 The name Singer, it's still pretty much. Whatever he thinks of it, they think of sewing machines. Eighteen sixty five a surgery named Joseph Lister. He performed a minor operation in Glasgow, Scotland. He was teaching over there and he fixed a compound lake fracture. It was the world's first anti septic surgery. See. He believed that when you sterilize the medical instruments before surgery, he would reduce infections, gain green and all the problems that happened with surgery. It was hard to believe, but at that time frame in the medical world, yeah, they didn't think it matter. So he created his own anti said optic he sterilized all the instruments he was going to use. Then he fixed the guy's leg. Well, the guy he was perfectly fine afterwards, and he have no problem all the rest of the medical society. Kind of huh.

3:55 But yes, listrain mouthwash that is named after him, But that's not what he used to on the guy's leg. Eighteen seventy seven, A's off Hall. He was just a burned out astronomer man. He wasn't finding anything up there. He said, I'm quitting. Told his wife. He said, I'm not doing I'm done. She said, well, just going one more time. You don't have anything else to do tonight, you might as well go to work. He didn't want to, but he dragged himself in there, ended up finding Demos. Yeah that's the moon. That's the moon of Mars. Well, now he was all jacked up. He couldn't believe it. Six days later he found Phobos. Yeah, Mars's second moon. Now, of course he didn't name you the one after his wife. He named him after the sons of Ares, the Greek counterpart to the Roman god of Mars. Nineteen thirty eight Claris Bird's Eye. He figured out how how quick freeze food. Yeah, that bird's eye that you see in the frozen food section.

4:42 You know the guy's real name. Now, it took a while to catch out the only eight percent of all the households had refrigeration at that time. Nineteen thirty six and Seymour, Texas, they got to one hundred and twenty degrees, still the state record in Texas for out his temp Well, Hannahs, though they tied it in nineteen ninety four, they gave it a shot. I would have thought text would be hotter. It seemed a lot hotter when I've been down there. Nineteen fifty three and Davidson. She sailed into Miami. She was on a twenty three foot boat called the Felicity NN. She was the first woman to sell solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Yeah, I'm going to celebrate her accomplishments for that. I'm not going to comment on women's drivers. See I did say she got there today in nineteen fifty three. Right, Well, she left Plymouth in England in May of nineteen fifty two, so she was fashionably one year late. Now there is this rock band called the Silver Beatles over there in London.

5:32 Their drummer was a guy named Tommy Moore now Tommy. He also worked as a forklift driver. Yeah, had help pay the bills and all that kind of stuff. Well today, in nineteen sixty he quit the band. The band was just playing too many gigs for him to be able to keep his forklift driving job. Honestly, yeah, his wife made him quick. So he went and told the guys in the band and his band MAT's Paul McCart and ay John Lennon and George Harrison. They were bummed out. They really liked Tommy and they didn't want to lose him as their drummer, so they went over to house to try him talk him out of Quinton. Were standing in front of his row house out there, and he was yelling. They were talking through a window, and as they were talking, they were saying, he a man, we can work this out. We can figure it out, man, don't worry about it. Meanwhile, the entire time his wife wife was yelling out another window, just telling those guys to piss off. So they finally left. Later on they changed their name just to the Beatles and their drummer ringo Star. He's worth three andre and fifty million dollars Compare that to the astronomer's wife.

6:24 Joke joke, joke, dish shibbert Day. We're gonna he left this shibday. We don't simple tag. He's like this shibirth day and you don't birthday. What's his part? On August the twelfth? Put Robert Southey. He was born in Bristol, England, in seventeen seventy four. Now, unless you're a big fan of eighteen hundred is British poetry, you probably don't know about Robert except for one poem, and we don't even really consider it a poem. He's one who wrote the original Three Bears. Now, in his original version, an ugly woman she goes into the three Bears's house and she breaks the chair, eats their porks, and sleeps in their bed. But when the Bears come home and find her, yeah, she just jumps out of a window and she's never heard from again. Well that was nineteen thirty seven. Twelve years later, this guy named Joseph Kundall, he wrote the Three Bears. So he took that olgly ugly woman. Yeah, he replaced her with Goldielucks.

7:18 But Southeastill gets credit for the Three Bears even with Goldie. He married twice and had eight kids between the two wives. They both died. He died in eighteen forty three at sixty eight years old. Catherine Lee Bates She was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, in eighteen fifty nine eighteen ninety three, As she was out here teaching at Colorado College Colorado Springs, and some of the other teachers they took wagons at the top of Pike's Peak. While she was on top admiring the view, she became so inspired that she wrote the poem Pike's Peak Yea. It became really popular. Then in nineteen ten it was set to music by Samuel Ward.

8:12 They decided to change the name to America the Beautiful Now. She didn't stay in Colorado very long. She spent most of her lifetime teaching up there in New England. She died in nineteen twenty nine and sixty four years old. Actress Jane White. She was born in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey in nineteen ten. She was a successful movie actress, but she really get big on TV. She was the mom and the TV show Father's Knows Best. She went three m's in a row for It Yeah Best. Actress in the comedy fifty eight, fifty nine and sixty. Then she was Spock's mom and star Trek. Yes, Spocky was that human on his mom's side. Don't know who she made it with though, but she did marry a human in nineteen thirty five and they had three human children, Jane. She died in two thousand and six at ninety six years old.

8:52 So break. Scared around here, Answer. Me, I just live my home, friend, I couldn't sleep. Country music legend Porter Wagner was born in West Plains, Missouri, in nineteen twenty seven. He was known as mister Grand Old Opry from nineteen fifty four to nineteen eighty three. He had eighty one hit songs, and he has his ow TV show. The Porter Wagner Show ran from nineteen sixty to nineteen eighty one. It was on there that he discovered Dolly Parton, Yeah Dolly. She was a regular on the show. Those two actually thirteen albums Singing Duets Together, had a whole bunch of everyone songs from him too, now Porter. He divorced twice and he had three kids from his second wife. He died in two thousand and seven at eighty years old from lung cancer. There gonna put me in the movies.

9:55 They're gonna make a big store around me. We make the film a mottle man. That's sadly. And all I gotta do is exactly natural. That was an even bigger country legend. Buck Gowins now his mom named Elvis owens Well, and he was four years old he announced that his name was Buck and it was for the rest of his life. He was born in Sherman, Texas, in nineteen twenty nine. He gets credited with creating the Baker's Field sound of country music. Now, if you don't know the difference in country music, basically, I'm sure you've heard Hank Williams Junior how hes country music is. Yeah, he gets creded for grading that. Well, if you hear Dwight yoakum, yeah, that's considered Baker's Field type.

10:38 I don't know if that helped I at want at all or not. Now, Bucky had twenty one number one songs him and his band. They played together for fifty years with Buck Gowins and his Bucker Roost. Some of the number one songs are act Naturally, Love's Gonna Live Here, My Heart skips a beat on TV. Bucky ghosted he Haw from nineteen sixty nine and nineteen eighty six. He married divorce four times. He had two sons from his first wife, if one son from his second wife, and three sons from his third wife. Two thousand and six, seventy six years old, Bucket did a show in Bakersfield, so he had a ranch near there. After the show, he went back to the ranch, went to bed, died in this sleep. Probably best known for his ten actor George Hamilton is eighty six. He's born in Memphis, Tennessee, in nineteen thirty nine. Some of his movies are By Love, Possessed, Love at First Bite Zero, the Gablade doc Hollywood. He married actress Alana Stewart for three years and they had their son, actor Ashley Hamilton, and George he had another son just from fooling around.

11:33 You your suss the way you sue it, you played money, working moneyway. That was Mark Knopfler singing for Dire Straits. Mark he was born in Glasgow, Scotland and nineteen forty nine seventy six years old today. Mark, his brother and two friends started dire Straits in nineteen seventy seven. They named a band after the financial situation they were in at the time. Now over in the UK dire Straits they had at least one album on the album chart for one thosy one hundred week straight. That makes some fourth all time to do that over there sold the one hundred and twenty million records. Some of the hits they've got in the United State, it's our money for nothing, walk Alive Sulting.

12:25 The Swing So Far Away broke up in nineteen ninety five. Marky's been solo ever since. He had two sons from his second wife, married his third wife nineteen ninety seven and they have two daughters. Sand to Hell Go Man, Sam Swing, when gotta going like a Turnbole bet on Ton of magazines Santasis the Thing and the average Man and asked him, look, she gotta pack munch bags. So fellows, fellos, the girlfriend's got the but help shake it shake shakeyh shake you shakes. Had a healthy but baby got ballet. The create is one hit wonder of all time. His mom named him Anthony Ray, but he is world famous as Sir mix a Lot. Sixty two years old today, born in Auburn, Washington, nineteen sixty three Baby Got Back.

13:11 That might be his only head but it is one of the most famous songs in music history. Yeah, it's one of the top five songs that basically everybody in the world knows he has. He does some collaborating with other artists, done a lot of radio up there in Seattle. He does some shows, but usually probably only around the like the Northwest area and that kind of stuff. Now, ladies, you know what he likes, so if you think you have it. He's never married yet. Actor Casey Affleck. He is fifty. He is born in nineteen seventy five in Foulmouth, Massachusetts. His older brother is Ben Affleck. But unlike Ben, Casey didn't cry in every movie. Casey he won an Oscar for Manchester by the say He's what I guess this first movie I guess. Nicole Kidman was in It Is to Die For. He's been in Ocean's eleven, twelve, and thirteen, Tower Highs, Triple nine. Now he's married to actress Summer Phoenix for eleven year. They had two sons when they divorced. Alright, here I quote of the day. It's gonna come from actress Lauren but call. She died today in twenty fourteen, at eighty nine years old. She said, I'm not a husband, I'm a wilbee. That's good advice. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't foret to follow us on you listen to us on. Come see a's at coolmedia dot com.

14:18 That's cool three us. Let's see what we're doing over there. And for those of your yes there, I've been quite a few new songs on country underground radio. I guess the end of summer so they'll started to releasing new singles again. So I'm glad you guys are listening. Well. Today's country underground radio artists today. It comes from Karen out in Fargo, North Dakota. She wants to hear Jenny Angel and her song Connecticut Cowboy. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. I had finished my sit down on Broadway, backing up on guitar when I heard him say, don't your songs that we're really good? A lot to buy your cold dearie fuck Coud.

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