Dec. 23, 2025

Dec 24 Christmas Eve-Top 10 Christmas songs all time, Why NORAD tracks Santa, Christmas survival story in Amazon Jungle

Dec 24 Christmas Eve-Top 10 Christmas songs all time, Why NORAD tracks Santa, Christmas survival story in Amazon Jungle

Dec 24th.  Our top 10 christmas songs all time.  Why NORAD tracks santa, Plane crash survival story in Amazon jungle, War of 1812 over, One of Columbus's ship sinks.  Todays birthdays - Ava Gardner, Lee Dorsey, Mary Higgins Clark, Deidrich Bader, Ricky Martin, Ryan Seacrest.  (2024)

Two step round the christmas tree - Suzy Bogguss
Have a holly jolly christmas - Burl Ives
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer - Gene Autry
Santa Claus is coming to town - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Most wonderful time of the year - Andy Williams
Blue christmas - Elvis Presley
Last christmas - Wham
Workin in a coal mine - Lee Dorsey
Jingle bell rock - Bobby Helms
Rockin around the christmas tree - Brenda Lee
Livin la vida loca - Ricky Martin
All I want for christmas is you - Mariah Carey
I'm dreaming of a white christmas - Bing Crosby
Christmas wrapping - The Waitresses

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Jalli Man and Redmans.

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Did you ever see as Hannah in Hambon News?

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James Mary?

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They sing those carols, Sulling Willow Michelle.

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No stand around, so too much time.

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It was a Western girl, Kidney skill and Silent Night

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and I'm movie.

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Just stand Brownstmas.

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Well, Hi everyone, I am Jeff, and thank you for

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joining us on history and factoids about today. It is

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December twenty fourth, so happy Christmas eve. Yeah, we're gonna

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do things different today. So throughout the show, we're gonna

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count down our top ten Christmas songs all time. Susie Boga.

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She didn't make the top ten, but she was my

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bonus pick.

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Okay.

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At number ten, we had Burl Eyes with have a

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holly Jolly Christmas.

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Have a holy jolly Christmas. It's the best time all

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the year. I don't know if they're over the snow,

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but have a club but here.

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Have a holy jolly Christmas.

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And when you walk down the scene.

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Say hello to friends and know and everyone you mean.

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Okay, let's see what happened on December twenty fourth throughout history.

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In fourteen ninety two, when Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue,

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do you remember the three ships that he was on,

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the Nina the Pin and the Santa Maria. Well, Columbus,

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he was on the Santa Maria. Now he went to

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bed one night and he left the steersman in charge. Now,

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while that steersman his job basically was just not to

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sink the ship, but during the night he did what

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Columbus had forbidden him to do. Yep, he went and

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took a nap and had a cabin boy steer the ship. Yep,

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cabin boy sink the sh it. Now he had a

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sandbar off of Haiti. So since that ship was just total,

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they took the wood from the ship and they built

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a fort there on that island and Haiti. Now I

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think we all knew who had to guard that for

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it when the other two ships sailed off, don't we?

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The song rout off the Red Nose Reindeer. It's been

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covered by over one hundred and thirty four different artists.

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Now the story of Rudolph It began in nineteen thirty

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nine when Robert may He was told by his bosses

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at Montgomery Wards to created a new Christmas character for

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their department store, came up with Rudolf the Red Nose

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reindeer to draw and shoppers during the holiday season. Then

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in nineteen forty nine his brother in law he wrote

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the song Roote off the Red Nose Danger Gin Notry

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recording it, and we have it as our number nine

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Christmas song all time.

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You know Dasher and Dancer and Francer and licks Common

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and Cupid and Donner and Blitz. What do you recall

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the most famous reindeer of all, Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer,

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had a very shining os and if you ever saw it,

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you would even say close. All of the other reindeers

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used to let them call him name. They never let

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poor Rudolph joining any reindeer game.

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Back in eighteen thirty two, a group of white townspeople

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in Savannah, Georgia, they got together and opened up the

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first hospital for black people. Now it was the first

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negro hospital in the United States that was formed by whites. Now,

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sure everybody should have been allowed to go to the

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same hospital, but it was Georgia in eighteen thirty two.

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At least they were trying to do some good, not

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like these nut jobs. In eighteen sixty five and Pulaski,

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Tennessee Confederate four soldiers. Yeah, they formed the klu Klux Klan.

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Yeah on Christmas Eve. Now, it actually kind of started

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out as a joke. The original bylaws stated that the

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purpose was to have ludicrous initiations and baffle public curiosity

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and when it engaged and fun and amusement for all

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the members. But that didn't last long. Other Confederate soldiers

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they joined and put a former Confederate General, Bedford Watson,

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while Bedford Nathan Forrest in charge. He was the first

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Grand Wizard of the Kluklux Clan. So yeah, they became

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a white supremacist group. No, I know, that's kind of

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a downer. Next song isn't though. The earliest version of

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Santa Claus is Coming to Town. It's recorded by a

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banjo player, Harry Resoner recorded it back in nineteen thirty four.

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Harry sold thirty thousand records and five hundred thousand copies

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of the sheet music. Since then, it's been recorded over

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two hundred times. Most popular version Bricks Springsteen in the East,

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deep band.

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You better watch shout, you better not try you bet.

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I'm telling you what.

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Say The closest comment Town say, closest comments in.

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Speaking Chicken is twice He's start to find out.

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In eighteen ninety five, after six years, construction was finally completed.

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George Vanderbilt he can move into his new house, the

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Biltmore Estate. It's in Nashville, North Carolina. At one hundred

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and seventy twenty six feet, it is still the largest

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privately owned house in the United States. It's actually sixty

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thousand feet bigger than the second biggest house. It's up

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in New York. Nineteen oh one, private companies were finally

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allowed to use the word postcard. That's right before today,

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they had to be called private mailing cards.

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Say.

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The trademark that the Post Office had on the term

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postcards it expires, so now everybody could use it. Andy

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Williams' song Most Wonderful Time of the Year is probably

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the song that embodies the Christmas season the best. It's

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kind of the unofficial thing for Christmas. That's kind of

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why you hear it played over and over in the

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stores when you're out there shopping. Now it's as popular

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today as it was when it came out in nineteen

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sixty three.

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It's the most wonderful Time.

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Lovely with the kids jingle beling and everyone telling you

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be a good cheese. It's the most wonderful timely.

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It's the hoppy season.

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With those hollowday greetings and gay after meetings when friends

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Nineteen fifty five, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a Sears store

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they run an ad in the newspaper asking kids to

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call Santa, but the newspaper printed the wrong phone number,

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so instead of calling SyRS, the kids were calling Norad.

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Now the soldiers at Norad there were good sports about it.

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They just kind of went with it and answered the

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calls and all that. But that's when the tradition of

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neuron tracking Santa Claus began. Now you can't have a

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top ten The best ever, lesson not include Elvis, Presley

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or my mom would be pretty upset. Ernest Tubbs. He

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made the song Blue Christmas a hit back in the

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nineteen forties. Then in nineteen sixty seven, Elvis made the

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Blue Christmas our number six Christmas song.

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Blue Christmas, We Love You, Love We so blue? Who

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don't thinking?

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WoT you? Jacko shuns over it on a green Christmas tree?

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Oh it would be the same, you know you.

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In nineteen seventy one, pruz Lonza Airlines fly five o eight.

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It was struck by lightning that caused the fuel tank

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in the right wing to catch fire, and that caused

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the whole plane to break into pieces, fell two miles

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into the Amazon jungle. Now passinger Julianne Kuepke she somehow

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survived that fall. She woke up on the jungle floor.

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She had a broken collar bone, torn acl on her knee,

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messed up neck, fractured chin, concussion, lost her glasses. When

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arrives was fulling shit. So she spent the rest of

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that day looking for her mom, who was sitting behind

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her on the plane. No luck, she didn't find any

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other survivors because there weren't he any. Yeah, she's the

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only one who survived that thing. Then she found a

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bag of candy and hit it out. She found a

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river and she followed it downstream for ten days, eating

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only the candy. Then she came into our logging camp.

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and the guys they tried to clean her up besticat.

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They were able to get her for medical health and

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she lived nineteen eighty four or wham They released their

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song Everything She Wants. It went to number one, and

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that was on the A side of that record. If

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you remember that when records at A and B sides, Yeah,

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the B side they threw a Christmas song on there.

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So when Christmas came, everybody just flipped it over. Never

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number five Christmas song of all time.

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Yes, Christmas gave you.

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Susystmas give you sush.

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Okay, let's see what's born on Christmas Eve? Actress Avid Gardner.

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She was born in Grafton, North Carolina, in nineteen twenty two. Now,

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when she was eighteen years old, she was visiting your

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sister in New York City. Her brother in law I

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was a photographer, so he took some pictures of her

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and put him in the front window of his phtography

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shop doing for some publicity. Well, someone from MGM. They

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saw him and they decided they wanted to make her

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a movie star. They had one problem though, Her Southern

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draw was so bad that no one could understand what

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she was saying. So they head MGM, who actually finalized

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the deal signing her. He put out a memo saying,

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she can't sing, she can't act, and she can't talk,

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but she is terrific, So they put her up with

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the speech cohast and by the nineteen fifties she was

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one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. She stated, Howard

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is off and on for about twenty years, and then

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she married Mickey Rooney for a year. Then she married

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band leader Artie Shaw for a year, and she married

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Frank Snatcha for six years. Ava She died in nineteen

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ninety pro pneumonia at sixty seven years old. I'm talking.

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That was Lee Darcy. He was born today in New

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Orleans in nineteen twenty four. He served in the Navy

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during World War Two. Then he came back and became

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a professional boxer. He fired his kid Chocolate Wow.

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He wasn't very good, so.

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We went into sing Some of his hits are Yeah Yah,

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Ride your Pony, Get Out of My Life, woman working

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in the coal Mine. He died in nineteen eighty six

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at sixty one years old from memphysena Bobby Elms. He

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recorded the song jingle Bell Rock Back in nineteen fifty seven.

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Now every year in the twenty twenties, it's gone up

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to number three on the pop chart.

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Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Round the jingle bells

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Wing and jingle Bells.

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Ring Snow one and boone bu Shoes of.

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The fun Now, the jingle Hop Plastic jingle bell, jingle

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bell jingle bell Rock There and jingle Bells, Time and

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jingle Bells, Time, Dancer and Prancer and jingle bell Swear

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in the Frosty.

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Author Mary Eiggins Clark was born in nineteen twenty seven

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in the Bronx, New York. She was widowed in nineteen

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sixty four after twenty five years of marriage. And during

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that marriage she done little writing of short stories to

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make a little extra money on the side, but after

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he died, she went all in and writing novels. Wrote

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fifty one of them sold over one hundred million. Now

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if you know know they were suspense novels. And she

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was married to her first husband and they had five children.

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Mary She died from natural causes in twenty twenty at

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ninety two years old.

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Rocking around Christmas Street at Christmasy listened home away you

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can't see with the mist. Stop rocking around Christmas tree

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lessen and Christmastly every week later We'll have some twelve

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and far and would.

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Do some cander Lady.

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She yes, little.

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Go with Moody.

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The Christmas Tree have had.

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That was thirteen year old Brenda Lee. She recorded Rocking

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Around the Christmas Tree in nineteen fifty eight, went to

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number one for the very first time just last year. Brandy.

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She pretty much had the perfect voice for the perfect song. Yeah,

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very few other singers they've actually tried to cover that one.

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I mean, she did such a good job of it.

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Now you're probably wondering why all these songs are going

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number one and in the top five and all that.

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It's because they do downloads. So it's not like they're

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selling records, but kids are downloading from the Basically, the

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young kids are downloading all the classics and that's how

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they're hitting big on the pop. Church actor g Dick Brader.

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He's fifty eight. He was born in Alexander, Virginia in

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nineteen sixty six. Best known for TV. First got known

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on That Drew Carey Show, then Veep American Housewife, but

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Jethro in the Beverly Hillbillies movie. Got married nineteen ninety

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seven and they have two children.

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Crazy.

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He was born Enriky Morales, but he's best known as

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Ricky Martin. He's born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in

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nineteen seventy one. It makes him fifty three today. When

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he was twelve, he started out in the boy band Menudo,

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leased his first solo album in nineteen ninety one. Now

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he's one of the best selling Latin artists of all time,

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sold over seventy million records. Now, he didn't want to

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go public about it for a long time that he

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was gay, so he dated a lot of women that

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cover it up, and he had twin boys from a

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Sarahgate women. Then in twenty ten he came out. He

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ended up marying his husband in twenty seventeen and they

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adopted two boys. Now they are currently separated. The number

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two Christmas Time song about time, Yeah, it shouldn't be

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any surprise for you.

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Christ The.

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Right Carrige released Oh I Want for Christmas is You

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in nineteen ninety four. That that song went number one

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on South America, all across Europe. Australia finally made it

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up to number one in the United States twenty nineteen.

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Ryan seacrast he's fifty years old. He was born in Atlanta,

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Georgia in nineteen seventy four. Start out as just a

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regular radio DJ. Then he got the gig hosting American

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Idol in two thousand and two that helped his career explode.

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He also hosts Dick get Clark's Rock in New Year's Eve.

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Since twenty four he's been hosting the radio show America's

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Top forty. Now he's the host of the TV game

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show Will Fortune. Okay, I guess it's time for the

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number one Christmas song of all time. Irving Berlin. He

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wrote the song White Christmas for the movie Holiday Inn

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in nineteen forty two. Yeah we're Irving. Yeah, he was

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Jewish being Crosby. He's saying it and they won an

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Academy Award for it. Then they re released it nineteen

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forty seven just as a single. Since then has sold

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over fifty million records. Now that is the biggest selling

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song in history. Not Christmas song, it's the biggest selling

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song in history.

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Agreement love what.

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Chris SMA.

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Live?

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Are you.

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Where the tree glisten? Children? Listen to here.

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Slabs in listener, Well, we sure want to thank you

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for spending summer here. Christmas. He is celebrating with us

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today and we really really want to thank you and

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wish you and your loved ones are very, very merry Christmas.

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A couple of years ago, I got a text from

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a young girl named Missy in Fort Worth, Texas. She

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had gotten dumped before Christmas and she was super depressed.

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All the Christmas songs were making her feel even worse.

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So I played her the song from the Waitresses. She

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texted me back a couple of days later saying thank you.

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That silly song was the first thing that made her

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smile all season. So now I wait every single Christmas. Yeah,

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for all those people are hurting and really not in

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the Christmas spirit out there, just remember if things will

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get better, it's okay to smile and have yourself a

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great Christmass.

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Be honest, hing through the snow because I'm buddled up

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to the ti basman. Have to do a few cards,

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a few colle are spee.

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No thanks, no party lines.

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It's Christmas Eve.

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You've got to relax.

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Turned out of all of mine, but ahead night's myself

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the same guy call them.

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Halloween party, wait.

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All of it for him in the show This time

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is the Star went in?

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Okay, it's called.

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It's getting late. Trudge on home and Salah pry in

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a quiet way online Christmas ride.

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This time.

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nice and Hong Kong.

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Damn, that's what I forgot.

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So I was a bit back out of the snow

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to be only yell and I gross, really, what what's

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my widdering one? I should appear in the lines I got.

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I haven't chased all here, this one alone, he said,

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grant these you has been crazy. I said me too,

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but why are you meaning? You've got there? Very soon,

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Sol was happening that Christmas magics brought the sale to

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