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

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, doid's about today, presented by Cool Meetiing. Today is August the twelfth. I gotta dusty old pile of vinyl records sitting on my floor. I've played each one of them all and over a dozen times more all our guys beat up chair, a mattress of fork, another despair in that dusty old pile of records on my floor. Today is National Vinyl Records Day. Now. I know a lot of you are too young to remember vinyl records, so, yeah, you missed out when your music would pop and scratch and skip all that kind of cool stuff. They are making a comeback starting in twenty two. Yeah, vinyl records. Actually I sold CDs for the first time. This is nineteen eighty seven most music, though, Yeah, it's still streamed or sold thee now if you have the capability in gold school today, Yeah, I did whip out the vinyl records and just have fun. But today is actually to get you to go to a mom and pop record store. Yeah there's still some around, so kind of enjoyed the experience of actually shopping for music in person and not online. All right, Let's see what happened in entertainment on August twelfth. Let's go back to nineteen ninety nine. Number one album was Millennium by the Backstreet Boys. Christina Aguilera had the number one song with Jeanie in a Bottle. Lone Star had the number one

1:50 country song with Amazed. At the Rest Whever every Little du Maybe I'm Mains by You. The number one book was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK. Rowling. Top movie was The Sixth Sense, A child psychologist treats the Little Boys his Dead People stars Bruce Williams and Hayley Joe Osman. All Right, what happened on October the twelfth, eighteen fifty one America and Isaac Singer. He invented the sewing machine In eighteen sixty five. Sergeon Joseph Lister, he performed a minor operation over in Glasgow, Scotland. He was teaching over there and he fixed a compound leg fracture. Yeah, made history when he did that little surgery though. It was the world's first anti septic surgery. See, he believed that when you sterilize surgical instruments before surgery, it would greatly help reduce infections and gang green and all that kind of stuff. But pretty much the medical establishment day that Iowa didn't matter. So he created his own antiseptic he uses to sterilize all the instruments that he would use.

3:04 Fixed up the guy's leg, worked out great, and the guy had no problems afterward. Yes, Listine mouthwash is named after him. Eighteen seventy seven asoph All, he was really bumbering. He was a burned out astronomer man. He wasn't finding anything up there. He decided he was quitting, told his wife, and his wife said, well, just go out one more time. You know, you have nothing else to do tonight, might as well go to work. He didn't want to, but he dragged his butt to work, ended up discovering Demos. That was a moon that circles Mars. Couldn't believe they'd found something, so now he was all fired up. Six days later he found Phobos. It was a second moon that actually circled Mars. So he named him after Greek mythological characters. I think he should at least na him one after his wife. Nineteen thirty Clars Bird's Eye. He got a patent for quick freezing food. Yeah that bird's Eye fruit. Yeah, that was a guy's real name, Bird's Eye.

3:51 Nineteen thirty eight and nineteen thirty six and Seymour, Texas, they set their state record at one hundred and twenty degrees. But see Texas, they're different. They had a younger generation actually stepped up and was able to tie it. Monhannas, Texas. They were able to get to under in twenty in nineteen ninety four. Also in nineteen thirty six and the Berlin Olympics, a demonstration game of baseball was played. Two Americans teams played. America beat America six to five. I guess the French can't play baseball because they weren't in these Olympics. But they'll be back in twenty twenty eight when they moved to Los Angeles. Nineteen fifty three and Davidson. She arrived in Miami in a twenty three foot boat. It was called the Pelistian. Now she was the first woman in the sales solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Now, due to sensitivity training, I was advised to attend. I will not make any comments about women drivers, but I did say she got there in nineteen fifty three.

4:40 Right. She left Plymouth, England on May of nineteen fifty two. Yeah, and with all due sensitivity, I'm not going to blame it on her bad driving. I'm just gonna say she was fashionably one year late. So you can tell I took notes and everything. Huh. In England and there was a rock band called the Silver Beatles. Their drummer was a guy named Tommy Moore, now Tommy. He also worked as a a fork left driver to help pay his bills. Today. In nineteen sixty he quit the band. See, the band was playing too many gigs for him to be able to keep his job as a fork lift driver, so he told his wife. His wife basically made him quit. So he told his bandmates. Well, his bandmates Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison, they really liked him. They didn't want to lose him as their drummer, so they went to his house to try and talk him out of it. As they were standing out front, you know, selling hey, we can figure this out. You know, we can work things out. You know, the whole time his wife was yelling at him out the window to piss off. Oh, they were bummed out, but they did leave.

5:30 Later on they changed their name just to the Beatles. Yeah, their drummers worth three hundred and fifty million bucks. Go goat coat, coat coat, goat shot. This shiverf day, we gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We don't sit with cars. He was like, this shibf day. And you know we don't get birthday. All right, let's see it. Born on August the twelfth put Robert Southey. He was born in Bristol, England, in seventeen seventy four. Now, unless you're a fan of eight he is British poetry. You probably don't know about Robert except for one poem. He wrote the original Three Bears. But in his original version, a fat, old, ugly woman goes into the three bear's house. She sets and breaks a chair, eats all the bear's porge, sleeps in one of the bear's beds. The bears come home and find her.

6:15 She jumps out the windows, never seen again. Well, twelve years later, a guy named Joseph Kundall. He wrote the Three Bears in that he took the ugly, fat old woman and turned her into goldilocks. Now that's the version that we all love today. Right, But if you google it southey, he still gets credit for the Three Bears. He actually did a lot of writing over the years of when there's not gonna. Talk about it. He married twice and they both his wife died. He had eight kids between him. He died in eighteen forty three and sixty eight years old. Catherine Lee Bates she was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, in eighteen fifty nine. In eighteen ninety three, she was teaching at Colorado College down there in Colorado Springs. Her and some of the other teachers they wrote the Wagons up to the Top of Pike's Peak while she was up there admiring the view.

7:17 She became so inspired she wrote the poem Pike's Peak Now that became really popular in the nineteen ten It was set to music by Samuel Ward and they called it America the Beautiful. She actually spent most of the rest of her life actually teaching back east at Weddellesley College. She died in nineteen twenty nine at sixty nine years old. See, with all that sensiti training, I didn't even mention that she was a lesbian actress. Jane Wyatt she was born in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. In nineteen ten. She was having success in movies that she hit really big on TV. She was the Mom and Housewives and Father Knows Best. She actually won three Emmys in a row for it. Yeah. She went for Best Actress in a Comedy in fifty eight, fifty nine, and sixty. Then she was Spock's mom on Star trek Yeh. Spock was half human on his mom's side, Jane.

7:59 She married to human husband in nineteen thirty five and they had three human children. Husband died in two thousand. She died in two thousand and six at ninety six years old. Sub break Out the Bottle. Braang on the Cround Scared around here. I just lived my home friends where I couldn't sleep. Country music ledger Porter Wagner. He was born in West Plains, Missouri, in nineteen twenty seven. He was known as mister grand Ole Opry from nineteen fifty four to nineteen eighty three, had eighty one hit songs, release fifty three albums, even had his own TV show, The Porter Wagner Show ran from nineteen sixty to nineteen eighty one. That's where he discovered Dolly Parton yeah. She was a regular on the show.

8:50 They released thirteen albums singing duet and they had a whole bunch of number one songs singing their duets. Porter He divorced twife, had three kids from his second wife. He died in two thousand and seven and eighty years old from lung cancer. They're gonna put me in the movies. They're gonna make the big score around me. We will make the film A bottle man that's said lowly, and all I gotta do is exactly natural. An even bigger country legend, Buck Owens. His mom named him Alvis Owens. When he is four years old, he announced of the world that his name was Buck and it was for the rest of his life. He was born in Sherman, Texas, in nineteen twenty nine. Now he is credited with creating the Baker's Field sound in music, So if you don't know what that is, kind of perspective wise, Hey Williams Junior. He was credited with outlaw music, though Dwight yoakum he'd be considered Bakersfield if that helps out at all. Buck had twenty one number one songs and his band played together for fifty years. They were buck Goings and then the Buckeroos. Some of their number one hits were act Naturally, Love's Gonna Live Here, My Heart Skips a bait Now on TV. He coasted he Haw Yeah from nineteen sixty nine to nineteen eighty six. He married and divorced four times. They had two He had two sons from his first wife, one son from his second, and three sons from his third wife. In two thousand and six, seventy six years old, Buck did a show in Bakersfield, See. He had a ranch near there. Now.

10:16 After the show, he went home to his ranch, Yeah, and died in his sleep. Probably best known for his tan. Actor George Hamilton is fifth eighty five Yeah. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in nineteen thirty nine. Some of his movies were By Love, Possessed, Love at First, Bite, Zoro, the Gay Blade doc Hollywood. He was married to actress Alana Stewart for a couple of years and they had actor Ashley Hamilton. George. He also has another son from just a Girl he had who Yeah, kind of a fling with then. Your sus The way you do it, you played a. Money You were good swaying money.

10:58 That's a way. That was Mark Knoppler singing for the Dire Straits. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in nineteen forty nine, seventy five years old to day now. Him and his brother and two friends. They started Dire Straits in nineteen seventy seven. They named their band after the financial situation that they were in. Now in the UK, they had at least one album and the album charts for one thy one hundred weeks over the years. That makes them fourth all time for doing that. Over there. They did sell one hundred and twenty million records around the world, though some of their hits on this side of the pond Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, Sultan a Swing, What was the other one? So far away? They broke up in nineteen ninety five. The Mark has been solo ever since.

11:42 He had two sons from his second wife, married his third wife in nineteen ninety seven and they have two daughters left. Hell I roll Man Sandy Swist Swen got it going like a turnbole fit, tied the magazine Santasie, what's all the things the average slotman? And ask him she gotta pack much bags? So Fellows, Fellows a girlfriend's doctor. But hell shake it, shake and shake you, shake and shakes that healthy. But baby got Sally? Hell yeah. His mom named him Anthony Ray. But he has famous worldwises, Sir mix a lot durned sixty one today. He's born in Auburn, Washington in nineteen sixty three. Sure, he might have only had that one hit song, Baby Got Back, but it's one of the most famous songs in music history. When they poll people, it's in the top five songs that every pretty much everybody knows. Now. Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallam they're not even on that list. He's done some collaborating with other artists over the years, got a lot of radio up there in Seattle. Still performs now and then. Now ladies, if you think you got what, you know that he likes.

12:43 He hasn't married yet. Actor Casey Affleck. He was born in nineteen seventy five and Foulmouth, Massachusetts. He's forty nine. He's been been Affleck's younger brother. But I don't like Ben. Yeah, Casey, he doesn't cry in every movie. Casey did win an oscar for Manchester by the Sea. His first movie Us to Die For. Then he did the Oceans movies Ocean eleven, twelve and thirteen. He was in Tower Highs Triple nine. He was married to actress Summer Phoenix for eleven years and they had two sons. Let's go back to acting now. The most expensive vinyl record ever. Can you imagine what would possibly be well? It sold in twenty fifteen for a two million dollars. It was Wu Tang Clan song Once upon a Time in Shiloh. Yeah, that's the only print they ever made. Wow, thanks for being here today. We appreciate you. If you can follow us on whoever you're listening to us on, it comes to us at coolmedia dot com. Let's end with actress Loren Pcall. She died today in twenty fourteen at eighties nine years old. She said, I'm not a husband, I'm a Wilby. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow