Aug 22nd-Tooth Fairy, Alice in Chains, Tears for Fears, the Archies, John Lee Hooker, Holly Dunn, Collin Raye

0:18 He Hello everybody, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and fact. Du it's about today days August the twenty second. Ah, think I. Saw the tooth Fairy. I'm so sure that it was her. Beautiful weddings and a necklisade of teath. Think of saw the tooth fairy week a wig a lan jiggle lean a wig a lana jiggle to say loud. Yesterday I was reading the Naples and all of a sudden im to fall out all the way. Today is National Tooth Fairy Day. Now, unlike Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, not a lot is known about the tooth Fairy. In the twelve hundreds, the Vikings they would give children money for their first baby teeth that fell out spread apart parts of Europe. Nineteen oh eight, in an article in the Chicago Tribune newspaper, they gave the first suggestion for kids to leave their baby teeth underneath their pillow, and the tooth fair would leave them five cents. Parents just kind of went along with it. Today, a tooth fair leaves about five bucks for a tooth.

1:15 That's actually down eighty cents from last year. Now today it's actually distressed the importance for kids to take care of their teeth and have, you know, proper hygiene and that kind of stuff. So try and make it fun for him if you can. Let's just look at what was going on and entertainment on August twenty second. Back in nineteen sixty four, number one album was A Hard Day's Night by the Beatles. The Supremes had the number one song with Where Did Our Love Go? I won't an Babies, you don't cheer? Womnum Miller had the number one country song with dang me.

2:04 Well here I said a high good ideas. Ain't nothing for the food to live like this? Not all right? Running wild woman sitting home with a month old child. Dang me, dang me, they all take a robe, Hang me high from the highest tree woman, what's. You weak for me? Boo? The number one book was The Spy Who Came In from the Colt by John Leacar. The toime movie was A Hard Day's Night. Now he just follows the Beatles for a couple of days, all right? It what happened on August the twenty second, the year five sixty five, Saint Columba, Well he wasn't a saint yet he was actually the abbot for a monastery over there in Scotland. Well, Columba.

2:46 He's the first person to report seeing the Lockedness monster. Seventeen eighty seven, John Fitch. Hechocked the first American made steamboat for us. Ben took her down the Delaware River, got it up to three miles an hour. Eighteen forty nine, the first air raid was held in world history. That's right, Austria. They launched some balloons with bombs tied to him. Yeah, sent him over Venice, Italy. Didn't really cosy damn experienced. The people in Venice were just looking up, going what's on them balloons? Nineteen o two, the United States President Teddy Roosevelt became the first president or world leader anywhere to ride in a car. Yeah, he rode down the streets in Hartford, Connecticut. It was actually an electric car. The nineteen fifty is America's Ralph Tavior. He invented the remote or the cruise control for cars. So didn't even take fifty years eight. Nineteen eighty six, the movie stand By Me was released in hit theaters. Have you didn't know that?

3:35 Stand by Me? It was written by Stephen King. Joke joke, joked, joke, shog dish, SHIVERBF day, were gonna he left this shiver birthday. We got simple tage like. This shibirth day. And you know we don't gay okay. It was born on August the twenty second, the. Dead Borne woman. And he got to come out. We not fail so good and I went home woman just the same. One of the greatest blues guitarists of all time, John Lee Hooker. He was born in Tullwell, Or, Mississippi, in nineteen seventeen. Now they that's what we're going with, okay.

4:24 John Lee, he didn't really know when he was born. You knew what day, but didn't know what year. Now he in nineteen forty eight and he was actually working as a janitor up in Detroit. He was found out that a demo tape that he had made had made it all the way to California and they released it as a single. Yeah, he didn't even know about it. Well, that song, it was the song I played. It's called Boogie Chilling, ended up being the number one song in nineteen forty nine. So Johnny put down the mop and just concentrated on music. Some of his all time classic songs were Crawling, Kingsnake, Dimples, Boom Boom, one Bourbon one Scotch one beer. You didn't think, George thorough Good wrote that, did you? Hooker. He's in the Blues and the Rock and Roll Hall, Fames Dwars three times, I went child from his second wife, six kids from his third wife, Looker.

5:05 He died from natural causes in two thousand and one at eighty three years old. Performed right up until he died. Actress Vali Harper. She was born in Suffering, New York in nineteen thirty nine. Started out as a dance arou on Broadway. She's most known for TV. She played Roda Morganstern first on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, then they spun her off to his own show, Rhoda. Now she won three em He's playing in Rhoda. Valerie. She married her second husband in nineteen eighty seven and they had one daughter, Valerie. She fought cancer for ten years before it got her in twenty nineteen at eighty years old. And he got me want.

5:48 Just chea believe love loveing. So that guy. He was born Carmen Grenado, but he goes by Ron Dante. He is the real life singer for the fictional band The Archies. So even though the Archies were fiction, Yeah, they were really successful. That song I played, Sugar Sugar, Yeah, I went away to number one. They also had the add Banng Shang Lang jingle Djangle Who's Your Baby now? Ron He worked a lot behind the scenes. He actually produced Barry Man of those first nine albums. Now he still performs. Yeah, he does some of the shows on the oldie circuit today. He's eighty one. He was born in Staten Island, New York, in nineteen forty five. Fine Chance.

6:46 Actor Sidney Williams. She was born in Van Nuys, California, in nineteen forty seven. She first got none of the movie American Graffiti, so that got her on a couple episodes of Happy Days. Then they spun her off into Lavern and Shirley. Yeah, she was Shirley. She got married Fro nineteen eighty two to two thousand, and they had a son and a daughter, Sinday. She died in twenty twenty three, seventy five years old, from following a short illness. And that's Samil Smallow House in Festoo Court. It's all made up, Yeah, it doesn't mean anything. Wegether hands. You really had me. Scream me love. You really had me going, damn gone. Country singer Holly Dunn.

7:32 She was born in San Antonio, Texas, in nineteen fifty seven. Now, from nineteen eighty five to nineteen ninety five, she was one of the top female country singers out there. Daddy's Hands Love, somebody like Me? Are you ever gonna love me? You really got me going. Yeah. There was summer refuge hit at the time. Then she tired in two thousand and three. Yep, she was done. She just wanted to concentrate on painting pictures, not houses. Now. When Holly died, she was married to her wife, Melissa. She had been fighting over ovarian cancer. She was fifty nine years old and sixteen you said you were. Raise fam the right yere you're talker and Martin Luther King second way he started would always be James j Hen.

8:14 We went to dinner. You want lose jeans with your. Winn knew who. You were my kind of girl. He was born Floyd Ray, but then he went by Bubba Ray. He finally hit ask Colin Ray. He's sixty six born in De Queen Arkansas in nineteen sixty. In the nineties, Calling at twenty two top ten hits and seven number one songs. Some of those number ones are love Me Every Second, If I Were You, One Boy, One Girl. He's actually on tour now if you're gonna go check calling Out. He married once and has a son and a daughter from it. Whoa Dudel.

9:09 The half of the duo Tears a Ferris that doesn't sing is Roland Narzabal. He was born in Portsmouth, England in nineteen sixty one sixty five. Today he does write all the songs though, so he gets credit now. Him and Kurt Smith they formed Tears for Fairs in nineteen eighty one. Now they've always been a lot lot bigger over in the UK than they are here. They had success, but they only had like four hit songs and they were just really huge. Shout. Everybody wants to rule the world head over hell. So in this season loft Roland He married nineteen eighty two and they have two sons. Then his wife died in twenty seventeen. Rolandie remarried in twenty twenty one. They just had a baby in June Nucky thirty two. She is sixty three year old Tory Amos.

10:05 She was born in Newton, North Carolina, in nineteen sixty three. Grew up in Maryland. Now. When she was five years old, she was the youngest one to get one. She got a full ride scholarship to John Hopkins University for piano. She stayed under scholarship until she was eleven years old, then eighteen years later. She released her first album in nineteen ninety two. Some of her biggest songs are sort of a fairy Tale, Crucify, Cornflake Girl, Professional Widow, one Thousand Oceans. She has married since nineteen ninety eight and they have a daughter. Actor Typerell. He was born in Grant's Pass, Oregon, in nineteen sixty seven. He's fifty nine, best known for playing Phil Dumphy on the sitcom Modern Family. He was nominated for eight years in a row f remies. He won it twice. He deserved it. He was really good on that. Now he did voice on Duncanville after that. Some movie is kind of surprising. Yeah, he was in quite a few of Some are Evolution, Black Hawk, Down Don and The Dead National Treasure Too. He married in two thousand and they have two Daughters. No, that was Lane Staley singing for the band Allison Chains. He was one in Bellevue, Washington, in nineteen sixty seven. He joined Alison Chains in nineteen eighty seven. Now, they hit in the early nineteen nineties when grunge exploded, sold over thirty million records. Now, when

11:36 you have the experts in music, you know, back then they thought Allison Change was actually gonna be bigger than Nirvana. Yeah, they were going that way. But Staley, Yeah, he pretty much ruined the whole thing. He had a really bad drug and alcohol problem. So, yeah, they had to cancel a bunch of gigs. They could never use him for policity because they didn't know if he'd show up and all that. Some of their big songs were a man in the box, no excuses, Heaven beside you. Now. Drugs finally did get Lane. Yeah, it got him. In two thousand and two, he had an overdose at thirty four years old. How you overdose the same day that Kurt Cobain had committed suicide at eight years earlier. Actress comedian Kristin Wig is fifty three. She was born in Canadian Ga, New York in nineteen seventy three Now. She started out on Saturday Live from two thousand and five to twenty twelve.

12:18 Some of her movies were Knocked Up Bridesmaids. She voiced in the I Sage, how to Train Your Dragon and to Spickle of Me franchises. Got married to her husband in twenty twenty. He's her second husband, but they have twins. They have a son and a daughter. Well, thank you all for listening today. Sure appreciate it. If you can't follow us on whoever you're listening to us so so you can always find us. Comes here as a country underground radio and have a good time. Now our country underground radio artists of the day. It's gonna come to us from a Kristen in Ohio. She wants to hear the Darryl Perry song Ninetiesville. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. I wish I haad a time machine. I'm him when country music was king. Load up my guitar and I split this scene in search Glory Dames long Off where it was a place called Niniesville. I'd ride like Gride in a match coop.

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