Dec 30th-Bacon, Bo Diddley, The Monkees, ELO, Suzy Bogguss, Tracey Ullman, Tyrese Gibson, Del Shannon

0:09 Hello everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to History in Factor. It is about today, presented by Cool Media. Today's December the thirtieth. I could eat twenty strips of bacon all in one city and I would still be hungry. For more yummy bacon. Oh. I love bacon so much. It's one of my favorite things to eat in the morning. Today is National Bacon Day. What an awesome day. Now, screw the diet. There's only two days left this year, so let's celebrate like hell with bacon. Fernando de Soto, he brought the first pigs to America in fifteen thirty nine.

0:50 Let them lose around Tampa Bay, Florida. Today. Now, let's try and see how many ways we can eat bacon today. You know, we can start off with having bacon on the side for breakfast. Then we can have a blt with lunch and have some bacon bits on a salad. We could put some bacon in our bloody married happy hour. Then we could have bacon on a burger or a pizza or with whatever. You know, there are a lot of deals today. Burger King and Jack in the Box are both giving away free bacon cheeseburgers. Wendy's, They're bacon cheeseburgers one cent. Now. All the breakfast places they're having bacon deals today, so enjoy them. Bacon. This is going on and entertainment nine December thirtieth. Let's go back to nineteen ninety nine. Number one album was Born Again by the notorious Big Santana and Rob Thomas had. The number one song was Smooth Change They Fell.

1:53 I had the number one country song with Breathe Who Just Fads? Leasing is the Beating of Your Second. The number one book was Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Oscarbon by JK. Rowling. Top movie was Stuart Little Now When the Littles adopt a mouse, their son and Kat aren't too happy about it. Stars Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, and Hugh Lord. All Right, what happened on December the thirtieth, nineteen oh three at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago? An electric arc lamp caught fire, Bernthal Theater to the ground. Six hundred and two people were killed.

2:41 It's one of the deadliest single building fires in US history. Nineteen seventeen, Mountain City, Tennessee got down in negative thirty two degrees. Newisburg, West Virginia. They had negative thirty seven still both state records. Nineteen twenty two, the Soviet Union was officially formed the original USSR. It contained Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerba Khan. Yeah, they were just getting started. They ended up with fifteen countries. Nah, most of those countries didn't want to be a part of it. Nineteen twenty four astronomer Edward Hubble, he shocked the world. He said the Milky Way wasn't throwing the galaxy. No, He's able to prove there were lots more. Nineteen thirty three, Bloomfield, Vermont, they said their stet record a negative fifty nineteen fifty two. Now, this is really morbid, but I guess it's good news in a way. The Tuskegee Institute, they reported that nineteen fifty two, for the first time in seventy one years, there were no lynchings in the United States. Nineteen fifty three, RCA put the first color TV He's on Sale, caused and seventy five bucks about thirteen thousand dollars today. Now that only a couple of shows were even broadcast on Color TV for about the next five years. Two thousand and five, tropicals ORM Zeta it formed out in the Atlantic Ocean. It tied the record for latest tropical storm ever a form in the Atlantic Ocean. Now Zeta had waited two days, it would have been the earliest tropical storm ever to form in Atlantic Ocean.

4:02 Joked, joked, joke, sharge, thish shiver birth day. We're gonna pause. He left this shuverday. We want simple tars. He like this shive birth day. And you know we don't get God's birthday. Alright, Just check out who was born on December the thirtieth. I'm making Brudy baby on Sundays. I'm making body baby on Sunday. Head Bo Diddley. He was born in mcco, Mississippi, in nineteen twenty eight. Now because the way he merged the blues with rock and roll mix him one of the most influential guitarists of all time. Bow He started releasing his records in nineteen fifty five. Some of his z's were Bo Diddley, Diddley's Dadley, Hey, Bo Diddley, and Pretty Think Bo. He performed up to two thousand and seven, when he suffered a stroke. He had six kids from four wives. Bowie died in two thousand and eight at seventy nine years old from heart failure.

5:04 Wow she went Away Where. Run Away? Del Shannon. He was born in Coopersville, Michigan, in nineteen thirty four. Hit with the Big Hats, Runaway Hats Off, Larry Little Town, flirt Hey Little Girl. He started out in nineteen sixty one, but by nineteen seventy his career was in shambles. Yeah, as due to the fact he was just a major alcoholic. But by the eighties he had started to get himself sober and his career really started to take off again. Then, when Roy Orbison died, he was singing for the supergroup The Traveling Wheelbearers. Yeah, the Traveling Wheelbearers. They named Del Shannon to take Roy spot as their lead singer.

5:55 Now. In a couple of weeks before they went in to record their first album, Del, he decided to use a rifle of commit suicide. It's fifty five years old. He was married to his second wife. He had three children from his first wife. Mist. And with the Monkeys were Too Business. Singing the lead guitarist for the Monkeys was Michael Natesmith. He was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen forty two. Now he could play the guitar when he got the gig with the monkey. See, none of the other monkeys could play their instruments when they started out. Nate Smith is the one who wore the wool hat. Yeah, I see.

6:41 When he was going to audition for the monkeys, he rode his motorcycle and so he put the wool hat on to keep the hair, his hair out of his eyes. Then he forgot to take it off during the audition. Well work, the producers liked it. When he was thirteen years old, his mom she inmitted liquid paper, started a company, sold a forty eight million dollars. So Michael, yeah, he wasn't a struggling artis. He had three children from his first wife, then he had a child from a flame divorce two more times. Died from heart failure in twenty twenty one at seventy one years old. You know what, let's keep monkeying around. Cheer bje.

7:29 That was Davy Jones singing for the monkeys. Davy he was born in Manchester, England, in nineteen forty five. Now sometimes timing is everything now. Shortly after the Monkeys hit another British singer named Davy Jones. He started to hit also, but since the Monkeys hit first, David he got to keep his name. The other Davy Jones he had to change his He changed it to David Bowie. Monkeys they sold over seventy five million records. Some songs that Davy sang lead on where Daydream Believer, I Want to Be Free Valerie, if you have the time, Yeah, Mickey Dolan's he easily sing lead the Monkeys. Davy. He had two. Children from his first wife, two children from his second wife. Married his third wife in two thousand and nine. Then in twenty twelve, at sixty six years old, he died from a heart attack. Mister, no, that was Jeff Lynn singing lid for Electric Orchestra or Yello.

8:38 If you before. Jeff seventy seven. He was born in Birmingham, England, in nineteen forty seven. Help formed Yellow in nineteen seventy so there were fifty million records. Can't Get You out of My Head Shine and Little Love, Don't Bring Me Down, Sweet Talking Woman. Just some of their heads. Yellow. They're still out there, but now they're Jeff Lynn's Yello. Yeah, I was off there a whole bunch of court cases, Jeff He's the only member in the band. He had two daughters from a second wife, married his third wife in twenty seventeen. You ever stop, You ever just want to say, Cilorella, what's the story?

9:21 Not Onzel? We miss the pay to so. Country singer Susie Bogas the sixty eight. She was born in Aldo, Illinois in nineteen fifty six. She had a lot of success in the late eighties throughout the nineties. She starts her twenty twenty five tour and steam Mot Springs, Colorado on January sixth. Some of her hits if you see her this summer some day soon Outbound playing asas letting Go Drive South Susie she had married in nineteen eighty six and they have one son. Rec Crazy Joe still A.

10:11 That was actress, comedian singer Tracy Omen. She was born in Slough, England, in nineteen fifty nine. She's sixty five. She had a brief singing career overing, then she had a lot bigger on British TV. Took that success and came to the United States. Now the Tracy Omens Show. Yeah, that's the show where the Simpsons started. She's done a lot of TV over the years. She had a bunch of versions of Tracy Takes On This and Tracy Takes On That, did a bunch of HBO and Cinemax specials. She married nineteen eighty three and they had a son and a daughter. Her husband died in twenty thirteen. Tracy, she's a big knitter. Yeah, she loves to knit. She's written a few books on knitting. Well and tearing it up.

11:09 That was Tyrese Gibson. He's forty six. He's born in Watts, California, in nineteen seventy eight. Start out singing, but he's got a lot bigger success as an actor. Some of his movies Isn't That Too Fast? Too Furious? For movie Franchise? He plays Roman Pierce, played Robert Epsen some Transformer movies and four Brothers right along to Tyresea is twice divorced. He had a daughter with each wife. Let's go back to bacon. Now you've all heard the phrase bringing home the bacon well started in England in the twelfth century. See churches. They would award a whole side of bacon to any man who would swear to God that he and his wife had not argued in the past year. So if a guy brought home the bacon, he was considered a great husband and an outstanding citizen. Well, thank you for listening to They don't read to follow us. I whoever you listen to us on and Country Underground Radio the best independent country music there is anywhere is Google it or go to Country Underground Radio dot com. Let's end with actress Don Wells.

12:04 She played Marianne on Gilligan's Island. Don died to day in twenty twenty at eighty two years old. She said, I have faith in a God who is much much bigger than this. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.