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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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Town senses coming.
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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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come to call.
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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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Well her wounds they were all infected by maggots and everything,
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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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It was her third husband that she became a widow from.
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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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When you.
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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