Jan 21st-Mariachi music, Kojak, Wolfman Jack, Mac Davis, Billy Ocean, Geena Davis, Baby Spice

0:20 Welcome to history and facto. It's about today. I am Jeff Day's January, the twenty first spaside. Today is National Mariachi Day. Now, that song I played is el son di la Nigra. It is the number one mariachi song of all time. Marri giachi music. It began in western Mexico in the later eighteen hundreds. Now that's a blending of foreign and indigenous music. Start out as party music, yeah, just for weddings and birthdays at fiestas. But then after the Mexican Revolution in the early nineteen hinders, the upper class Mexicans and the government people, they declared that mariachi should be high class music. So band members they had to start dressing up and fitted or animated pants and jackets and embroidered belts, white bow ties, some burrows. Now there is no lead singer in a mariachi band. They're all supposed to take turns. Today should be easy to celebrate.

1:26 We can just go to a Mexican restaurant that plays mariachi music, listen to music, drink servases, take a couple of shots at tequila. Call in sick tomorrow. All right, this is going on Entertainment on January twenty first. Back in nineteen seventy four, number one album was Don't Mess Around with Jim by Jim Grocchi Al Wilson Now. The number one song was Show and Tells. The Soul See Young Ties, shou Around Shot, I Don't Want to Say I Don't Love. Tom t. Hall had the number one country song with I Love, I.

2:10 Love Little Baby, Dugs, Oh, Pick Up Troubs, Slow Moving Trains and Rains, Love Little Country Streams, Sleep Without Dreams, Sunday School. In May, the number one book was burd by Gorvidado. The top movie was The Exorcist, when a young girl has possessed her mom gets two Catholic priests to help her out. Stars Ellen Burston, Maximan Sidrow, and Linda Blir. What Happened On January the twenty first, seventeen eighty nine, the first American novel was published, The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown. That was the first novel written in Brintan here in America. So what's it about? Well, the main character she really struggles, but it warns women about giving into passions, warns them about the dangers of seduction and the importance of women's morality written by a guy seventeen ninety three. During the French Revolution, King Louis the sixteen he was guillotine. He was convicted of high trees.

3:15 And yeah, now his wife Marie Antoinette, Yeah, she won't lose her head in for nine more months. Now, this was really smart. In eighteen eighty in Memphis, Tennessee, they installed the first sewer system that was separate from the storm drains. So, yeah, he didn't have crap running down the streets. Nineteen oh eight, in New York City, the city council they passed the Sullivan Ordinance. It made it illegal for women to smoke in public. Now, the very next day, Katie McKay, she was popped for it. Now she wouldn't pay her five dollar ticket, so she was thrown into jail. Now that five dollar ticket be hundred seventy five bucks today. Now, Katie, she was the only woman ever arrested for it. The mayor even vetoed the bill after like two weeks. So why would they pass such a thing. Well, the men on the city council, they felt that women smoking was unseemly and immoral in US.

4:00 In nineteen thirty four Henry Littier. He was a baker and a student of medieval life. Now he was sentenced to three months in jail and find fifty francs for curlity to his wife. He forced his wife, Juliette, to wear a chastity belt after he cut her cheating on him. Now, the court said they would have kind of let him off, but he'd done the same thing two years earlier, so yeah, now they had to come down hard on him. Too bad. Henry didn't know the truth. The truth is that women never wore testy belts. Nope, they didn't even exist in the Middle Ages. Yeah, everything was all a myth. So actually, if you go to pretty much any museum, almost all chastity belts have been removed and they know they're all fake. Nineteen sixty eight, a fire started on a US Air Force B fifty two bomber. Now it was flying off of Greenland. The crew, six of them, parachute out safely.

4:42 One was skilled. But the bigger problem was there are four nuclear bombs on that plane. Now, the bomber had crashed in the c ice off of the coast, and obviously the bombs didn't explode. It. We had heard about that, but they did release measurable ounce of radiation, so that really pissed off the Walruses. It was today. In nineteen seventy two at the Statler Hilton Hotel in New York City, the first Star Trek Convention was held. Over three thousand truck he showed up. Nineteen seventy seven, President Jimmy Carton he Harder and pretty much all the Vietnam Draft dodgers from nineteen sixty four to nineteen seventy three, around five hundred thousand guys. Yeah, we'll call them guys. They dodged the draft. And if you diede the draft by going to Canada, yeah, your slate was white clean. Carver pardoned you.

5:26 You were good. But if you were in the military and you went a well, yeah, you were still in a whole lot of trouble. He didn't pardon them. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, gosh, are you telling me you built a time machine? Kind of a DeLorean. Nineteen eighty one up in Northern Ireland they started making the sports car. The DeLorean only made nine thousand of them before they went bankrupt. Now, despite the fact that the Laurien looks really cool. Yeah, it wasn't much of a sports car at all. It's engine wasn't very powerful, it wasn't fast. No, the spidam a on the Delarean only went up to eighty five miles an hour. I know what you're thinking, you have to get to eighty eight and order to time travel. But if you watch the movies, when they get up to eighty five miles or eighty eight miles an hour, it isn't on the sphedometer. No, it's always on the AD digital readout next to the sphenometer.

6:13 Because this Paedomera only went to eighty five. Now, the Delarean, it wasn't like a Porsche or Ferrari. It was more like a fourth Pinto that cost twenty five thousand dollars about eighty thousand a day. It was a cold day in the Carolina is in nineteen eighty five, Caesar said, South Carolina got down to negative nineteen Mount Mitchell in the North Carolina negative thirty to thirty four. Yeah, still both records. Nineteen eighty six, in Indiana, over one hundred participated in the New Olympics thirty eight degree weather. That would really suck if you lost by a hair now. In her trial in nineteen ninety four, the Orina Bobbitt, she was found temporarily insane when she cut off her sleeping husband's penis. So that made her night not guilty. Yeah, she got. Off coke, cokedjat shower.

6:56 This shimerday, we're gonna pu He left this ship. We won't sit batage. He was like this ship birthday and you don't get. Okay. He was born on January of the twenty first, after Telly Savalis. He was born in Grant Garden City, New Jersey, in nineteen twenty two. Famous for his bal dead and his deep voice, biggest TV role was when he start on Kojak. He was nominated for an oscar in bird Man of Alcatraz. He also starred in Battle of the Ball, The Dirty Dozen, Kelly's Heroes, Her Majesty's Secret Service. Yeah, he was the bad guy. Tilly shaved his head to play Pontus Pilot in the movie The Greatest Story Ever told nineteen sixty five, Well, he was losing his hair anyway, and he thought, what the hell. He just kind of shaved it. The rest of his life.

7:39 He had a daughter from his first wife, and two daughters from his second wife. Then he had a son from Nicolette Sheridan's mom. Then he married his third wife in nineteen eighty four and they had a son and a daughter. Kelly died in nineteen ninety four from prostate and bladder cancer, seventy two years old. Comedian Bitty Hill He was born in Southampton, England, in nineteen twenty four. Best known for his burlesque, slapstick double and Andre Humor Now. He was absolutely huge on British TV in the nineteen seventies. United States wouldn't have Am on air. No, they wouldn't near him. Nineteen eighties they kind of let their guard down and let us watch reruns of the Benny Hill Show. It shows her a lot raunchier than anything else that was on America at that time. Then he died from a blood clout nineteen ninety two, sixty eight years old.

8:20 We got to close it out. That's it for the Wolfman Jack Show. For the Night, be back again tomorrow night, Red Ad and Bushy Tailors go to Second to You Tomorrow Baby. The most famous radio DJ in history, Wolfman Jack. He was born in New York City in nineteen thirty eight. He's born Robert Smith. He changed his name to Wolfman Jack in nineteen sixty two. He was spinning records at a country station down in Louisiana. Nineteen sixty three, he went across the border to see your dad in Mexico started broadcasting from there. See in Mexico, you weren't controlled by the FCC, so you could broadcast whatever you want and at whatever power you wanted. So at night he would crank up that station's power. He could be heard all over North America. He became a legend for his howling and urging his listeners to get naked. He's in the movie American Graffiti. Nineteen seventy one. He came back from Mexico and went to Los Angeles and they syndicated this show. At his peak, he was on over two thousand radio station in fifty three countries. He was married, not two children. When he died in nineteen ninety five to fifty seven years old from a heart attack.

9:22 The minstrels came down from gaulf with scores and tales to tell someone them we fall. Yes from. That was Richie Havens. He's the guy who opened up the Woodstock Music Festival in nineteen sixty nine. Now with that song, yeah, he did minstrels from Galt. The band Sweetwater, they were supposed to open up Woodstock, but they got stuck in traffic. Richie was just hanging around backstage hoping that sometime during the three day festival they led him on to play his four songs. Well, once they realized Sweetwater wasn't gonna make it today, get the other on stage and play until we tell you to stop. Played for three hours. Richie is born in nineteen forty one in New York City, most known for opening Woodstock. People would go see him just because of that. Now he only had one song that had a little bit of success, Here Comes the Sun. But then the Beatles did it, and yeah they're better. Their version of so much better known.

10:21 Remember as Richie's Chie died from a heart attack in twenty thirteen at seventy two years old. He had a wife and three children. Solders country singer Matt Davis. He's born in Lubbock, Texas. In nineteen forty two. He started out writing songs for Elvis Presley. Yeah, some of the songs the rough for him were memories in the Ghetto, Don't Daddy. Mackley finally let him sing in nineteen seventy.

11:02 At least nineteen albums after that, some of us HiT's Sorry It's Hard to Be Humble, Texas in my rearview mirror, hooked on music, You're my bestest friend, Baby, don't get hooked on me. He did some acting. He's in the movies North Thoullast forty Cheapertty Keeper Beer from My Horses. Mack got a child from his first wife, married his third wife in nineteen eighty two, and they had teach other Mack died in twenty twenty following heart surgery, sixty eight years old. He said, almost time she wanted. No billy Ocean. He's seventy six, born in nineteen fifty and fried as a bad Trinidad Tobago. Moved to England when he was ten. Now he was one of the top songwriters over in Britain for about twenty years. They finally let him sing in the nineteen eighties Caribby and Queen Suddenly, when the going gets tough, the tough get going, Get out of my dreams, get into my car. Yeah, that was some of this, you know, He's gonna kick off a tour here on February twenty seventh down in Florida.

12:10 If you want to check Billy out. He got married in nineteen seventy eight and they have three children. You could swing jarlas. Tender any guesses it's Actress Geena Davis is in the movie Earth Girls Are Easy Gina seventy. She's gonna wear in Massachusetts in nineteen fifty six. Her acting debut is in Tutsi. Then The Fly Beetlejuice. She won an Oscar for Accidental Tourists, nominated for an Oscar for Thelmon Louise.

12:51 Her second husband was actor Jeff Goldboom. I married four years. She had three children from her fourth husband. They were married twenty years when they divorced in twenty twenty one. She was the youngest Spice Girl, thus she was Baby Spice Emma bunten. She's fifty today. She's born in Finchley, England, in nineteen seventy six, and then she's at least four albums solo albums over the years. She got married in twenty twenty one and now they have two sons. But they got had the son's like fifteen years before they ever gotten married.

13:36 All right. Quote of the day comes from writer George Orwell. He died today in nineteen fifty at forty six years old. George says those who detest violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf. Well, thank you all for listening. Don't forget to follow us and on you listen to Son, make sure you check out the show description for any links you want to follow. The cool media stuff our country atter gone radio artists today. It comes from Allen in San Angelo, Texas. He know is here, Tristan Romanson song Girl Laddin. Guys, have awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. I've seen so many faces underneath this k me all night. I lived so many he a king never worked out right, I'm saying it. I've lost coups because I never found one.

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