Aug 23rd - Cuban Sandwich, Barbara Eden, Gene Kelly, the Drifters, Keith Moon, Rick Springfield, Shelly Long

0:18 Hi, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today, today's August the twenty third. Give me a Cuban sandwich. It's got a twcastle pick meat I am, and no sports and a slice of wine cheese in the shop. So it's on a pickle. Picklep go say el comano. That's a Cubic sandwich. Today is national Cuban sandwich to day. Now you didn't get it from the song. A Cuban sandwich is ham roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickle, yellow mustard between two white pieces of bread. Now that's today. See the original Cuban sandwich. It goes way back to when the Tehanod were the ones who lived on an island at Cuba. Yeah, they wrote it down on rocks and stuff. They would have their sandwiches. They used fishing birds, but then the Europeans showed up, well, the Spanish and the fifteen hundreds. They brought pigs, so yeah, no more fishing birds they needed.

1:13 I don't know what they used for the pickle. Nineteen thirty four are the Cuban sandwich made it way up to Tampa, Florida. A couple of restaurants put it on their menus there and then they explode it all across Florida. Now there are a lot of deals going on today in Florida, not many anywhere else in the country now. But you can make them yourself. It's not that like they're that hard. But if you go to Cuba and you want a Cuban sandwich, yeah, I just order a sandwich. They'll know what you want, all right. This is going on entertainment In August twenty third, Let's About Your nineteen sixty two number one album was a West Side Story movie soundtrack. Neil Sedaka had the number one song with breaking Up. It's hard to do. Breaking Up is Hart Don't take your from me? Don't you leave the heart Lizzard?

1:58 Now if you go, oh, then Alvi Blues. Comes breaking up this heart to do. Claude King had the number one country song with Wolverton Mountain. They see don't go. All Wolverton Mountain. If you're looking. For a wife, calls cliff On Clowers has a pretty young daughter. He's mighty handy with the gun. Then, and the number one book was Ship of Fools by Katherine am Porter. Todd movie was Kid Galahad after this guy got out of the army. He got a job as a sparring partner in a gym. Wow, the owner realizes this kid has some potential to become a professional fighter star as Elvas Presley, gig Young and Lola Albright.

2:50 Charles Bronston was in it too, all right. What happened on August twenty third near fifteen hundred Francisco D. Babbadilla. That's pretty fun to say, bubbadiya, you're right take over as the governor of the West Indies Islands in the Caribbean. First order business. Well, he had to arrest the current governor, that's Christopher Columbus. Well he did. He put Columbus in chains and send him back to Spain. The myth is that Columbus he was being punished for how badly he treated the natives. No, Spain didn't care about that, yeah, the natives, yeah whatever. What he was actually being punished for was the way he actually treated the Spanish sellers. So when he got back to Spain, Columbus he did spend a couple months in jail, in prison that but then the king just let him go. He really didn't care what was going on over there seventeen eighty four are the people of East Tennessee. They declared their independence, yet they seceded from Tennessee. They didn't want anything to do with them West Tennessee's. They called themselves the state of Franklin. Yeah, they named themselves after Benjamin Franklin. Now it took a year, but the US Congress finally stepped in and said no. But you know what on all the kids who were born in that year, all their birth certificates read for state. Yeah, Franklin. Nineteen oh four, New York's Harry Weed. He invented the tire chain. You know that change that you put on your card when it snows. Yeah, somebody had well. See he saw drivers with rope around their tires were added grip. He figured, you know how the chain would work better. Nineteen forty three, in World War Two, the largest tank battle in history, and it's called the Battle of Kersk, who was fought in the Soviet Union. Lasted fifty days. Now, the Soviets and Germans. They went at it, and the Soviets did win that battle, but it was pretty much from attrition.

4:23 They had just so many more men in tanks than the Germans. Did Germany they lost one thousand tanks. Soviet Union they lost six thousand tanks. Soviets lost seven hundred thousand men. Germany lost two hundred thousand men. But that Soviet victory was huge. It kept Germany from advancing into the Soviet Union. Yeah, in Germany they never really did recover from it too. They just had too many losses. Is basically what turned the war on the Eastern Front. Nineteen fifty two, Kenny Well, she became the first woman to have a number one song on the Country and Western Music chart. Tss R say, it brings him reason when our crust.

5:05 It wasn't God made all talk. Game, dude, Yep, if God wanted, if God wasn't, It wasn't God that made honky tonk Angels, That's what. It wasn't God that made honky tonk Ages state number one for fifteen weeks on the country. Churt actually crossed over and was pretty good on the pop dirt too Africa. In nineteen sixty in Equatorial Guinea, they caught the largest frog ever, was twelve and a half inches long away seven point three pounds. Then they found out that there wasn't to only one there were the whole species of frogs just like it, so they named them the African goliath bullfrogs. Then in the nineteen eighties, this dude, he brought a bunch of them over the United States started an intermin frog jumping contests. Now the African glias they jumped ten feet the American bullfrog. Looky if we got out thirty five feet? Yeah, I really pissed off the frog jumping contest organizers and Pacific participants. What are you gonna do now? The South African sharp nose frog. It is actually the frog that can jump the farthest. It can jump eleven feet. That little guy's only three inches long, so that'd be like a human being jumping two hundred feet.

6:09 In two thousand and five, a topical depression formed over the Bahamas. It will develop into Hurricane Katrina. Two thousand and seven, Christmasina, he invented the hashtag that half tag song. He invented it to be able to be used on Twitter and other social media. It is literally technically called the octothorpe. In twenty seventeen, the driest place on Earth, that at a common desert over there in Chile got some unexpected rain the whole desert went into bloom. Say, now it rains there every five to seven years. Now this time it rained only after two years. So thank god for climate change. Joke, dope, joke, joked joke. Sharge Thish shivers day, we gonna he left this shiver day.

6:51 We got simple Carge. He's like this shive birth day and you don't give birthday. Let's check out who was born on August the twenty third. Thum Sen in the rain, just sing and in the rain, what a glorious feel. Fair again, I'm laughing at Clo. Singer, dancer, actor Jene Kelly. He was born in Pittsburgh in nineteen twelve. One of the biggest Hollywood stars of all time. Possibly the most famous dance scene in movie history was him singing in the ring. Now, not only was he went of Hollywood's top dancers, he was their top choreography. Yeah, a lot of his stuff influenced everything that still used today. Well, they don't do him any well.

7:41 They did make the musical La La Land that was all based on Gene Kelly. Some of his movies were on the Town an American in Paris, Cover Girl, Taking Me Out to the Ball, game. He had one child from his first wife, two children from his second five wife. Married his third wife when he was seventy seven years old. Yeah, she was thirty. That was eight years before Viagra came out. Jeanie died in nineteen ninety six from a stroke at eighty three years old. Now it ain't close it. I don't smoke himself, I don't reckon. They hinder your hell. I've smoked him all my life. I'm n ain't dead yet. Nicodeen slaves are all the same as a patent party or a poker game. Everything's got to stop while they have that cigarette. Smoke smoke, smoke cigarette.

8:24 I didn't you smoke yourself that? That was tex Williams. He was born in Ramsey, Illinois, in nineteen seventeen. Yeah, tex Williams never lived in Texas. Now, that song smoked, Smoke, Smoke. In nineteen forty seven, it was the number one song for Everything for sixteen weeks and it was the song of the year. Now, the rest of Texas hits, they were all country songs. The California Poka. What I like about the West. Never treat a woman bad, that's just someone. Now he is married when He died from pancreatic cancer in nineteen eighty five at sixty eight years old. Actors Barbara Eden. She's ninety four. She was born in Tucson, Arizona, in nineteen thirty one. Grew up in San Francisco. Most for starring on the TV show I Dream of Jeanie. She was Genie. Her first TV series before that, though, it's called How to Marry a Millionaire. Some of Barber's movies are She co starred with the Elpha Sin Flaming Star, and She's in The Voice to the Bottom of the Sea Chattanooga Chu Chuo.

9:13 Biggest movie was Harper Valley Pta. She had a son from her first thousand. She's been married to her third husband since nineteen ninety one. And let me tell you now, when I go entire, I go up with sweet. That was Rudy Lewis singing for that Drifters. He was born in Philadelphia in nineteen thirty six. He joined the Drifters in nineteen sixty. He replaces Bennie King as their lead singer. Some of the hits that he sang lead on were some kind of wonderful Up on the roof, Please Stay on Broadway nineteen sixty four. Everyone was waiting for him in the recording studio. Yeah, they were gonna record the song under the boardwalk. Then never showed up.

10:04 Finally they went out looking for him. Sadly they did find him. He was dead in a hotel room a couple of blocks away. Died from a hair of an overdose. Twenty seven years old. Leave Off Chin, put us to tund Jan Shit, just Charles, We get around, j Shay do the conf five dime betroll get old. The original drummer for the band Who. Yeah. Keith Moon is born in Wimbley, England in nineteen forty six. Now he was the first to make drums more than just a background instrument. Yeah, he wanted people to watch him drum, so he did all kinds of antics to get their attention, Like he'd set off fireworks that exploded and made deep pete downs and deaf in one ear.

10:50 He would trash his drum kits, all that kind of stuff, you know what. He did not like drum solos live in concert though now he thought seeing her drum solo live was actually boring. Now he had a lot of trouble with drugs and alcohol. Then the law. Then drugs and alcohol. So he got married from nineteen sixty six to nineteen seventy five and they had a daughter. Nineteen seventy eight. That drugs and alcohol got Keith. He was thirty two, thirty two years old. Yes, that body, I just Jesshold who is old? Later night, No what we said, Just see ses.

11:32 Rex Spring Fail. He's seventy six. He was born in Guildford, Australia in nineteen forty nine. Now he was having success in music over in Australia, but he decided it was time to go to the United States and hit big times. He came to the States recording an album. Record company wouldn't release it, so it needed some money. He took a job playing Noah Drake on the soap opera General Hospital. Then he became a big soap opera star, so the Yeah, the record company released his album So I'm a rex Head. Sorry Jesse's girl, don't talk to strangers. I've done everything for you love somebody. That's just summer. Now he's actually going out on tour in September through the beginning of November. I Feld and check recut. He's kind of like got a cult following of fans who actually follow him around. He got married nineteen eighty four and they have two sons.

12:15 Sometimes you want to go well, every and knows your name always match came you want to be with you, and see. You want to be with everybody knows your. Name after Sheilli Long is also seventy six. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Now she had big playing Diane Chambers on the sitcom Chairs, and she did go back to TV later on her life. She had a recurring role on Modern Family from two thousand and nine until twenty eighteen. Yeah, they killed her off. Some of her movies were night Shift, irreconcilable differences, The Money Pitch, She's Carol Brady on them Brady Bunch Moons. She is twice divorced. She had a daughter from her second husband.

13:11 To myself. That was Jimmy Jamison, singing lead for the Band's Survivor. He was born in dront, Mississippi, in nineteen fifty one. Now, he moved to Memphis when he was one day old, so he considered himself more of a Memphis guy. Now. He was kind of nicknamed the Voice all those years. He spent a lot of years in the studio collaborating and singing with other artists. But he did Joint Survivor in nineteen eighty four. Now he did not sing I had the Tiger. No, that was Dave Bickler. Jimmy, he's saying every hit they had after that though, Yeah, like I can't hold back high on you. That search is over, yeah, and the rest of them. Now he had a daughter from his first wife. He had a son and a daughter from his second wife, Jimmy. He died from a stroke sixty three years old in twenty fourteen. Three foot four inch Eddie Gale. He was born in Plainwell, Michigan, in nineteen sixty three. His first movie he played Howard the Duck. Then he was Dink and Spaceballs. Then he was Chucky. In the first three Child's Play or Chucky movies on TV, he played a dinosaur Land of the Lost.

14:21 Now he died in hospice care just a couple months ago in May, sixty one years old. Actor River Phoenix. He was born in Madres, Oregon, in nineteen seventy. Now he was the oldest of the acting Phoenix family. So I think his sisters are Rain, Liberty in Summer and of course. His brother was Joaquin now River. His first movie was The Explorers, and then Stand and Stand By Me Mosquito Coast. When he's eighteen, He's nominated for Best Actor Oscar for Running on Empty. Then after that I was a private Idaho and sneakers with him. Now he died from a drug overdose. Nineteen ninety three, twenty three years old. Actor comedian j mor He's fifty five years old. He was born in Verona, New Jersey, in nineteen seventy. Start out as a stand up comedian, still does it.

15:02 His first movie Pretty Good Jerry Maguire, then The Suicide Kings, Pay It Forward on TV, hosted Last Comics Standing. He did a lot of sports talk radio over there is just talking sports. Yeah, it pays off. We'll get to it here. Now he still does his stand up act. He's actually getting ready to go out on tour coming up and October he's doing what to dates now. He had a son from his first wife. His second wife was actors Nicky Cox, and they had a son. Twenty twenty three he married Genie Buss. Yeah, the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team. Don't know how he pulled that. One off. But get this. Her last two husbands were six five and six'. Eight he's five nine with his shoes on all. Right Actor scott ken is forty nine or con. Now he was born In Los angeles in nineteen seventy. Six his dad Was james Conn. Scott he started out as a roadie for the hip hop Group Cyprus hill And house Of. Payne, yeah he was a. Rapper he went by the Name Mad.

15:55 Skills he was in the rap Group. HOOLIGANS i wasn't doing so, good so we went into. Acting his first big roles in the movie Of Varsity. Blues he's been in all Those oceans movies, eleven, twelve and. Thirteen, yeah was in. Eight then ON tv he Played dano for ten years On. Hawaifi, Oh scott and his. Girlfriend they have a. Daughter alright here quote of the, day it's gonna come from Actor Rudolph. Valentino he died today in nineteen twenty six at thirty one years. Old he says a man should control his. Life mine is controlling. Me kind of. Sad, no he didn't commit. Suicide, well thank you all for listening, today and don't forget to follow us on who you're listening to us on because he's a coolmedia dot. Com, now if you want to make any requests for Our Country Underground Radio arts, today just go To Country Underground radio dot com and just there's a button there you can just leave a. Message you can either give it verbally or you can actually type it.

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