July 1-Blondie, B-52's, Village People, Dan Aykroyd, Keith Whitley, Pamela Anderson, Missy Elliott, Liv Tyler

0:19 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Fact Toys about today. Today is the first of July. Now July. It's named for Julius Caesar. It's birth flowers are the water lily and the luxpur Now the burthstones for July is the ruby. The lifeful moon is called the buck moon. So are we starting off July? Oh yes, wildom lady, Hey, hey, whoa? Today is National Postal Workers Day. We are celebrating all the hard the postal employees put in, you know, ensuring that our mail gets delivered smoothly as possible. Now, if you still have a postal worker who actually delivers to your own house, yeah, you really need to show some appreciation. Yeah, most of us just have those community mailboxes. Hey, but postal workers. They're still out there though, So thank you postal workers. Let's see what happened in entertainment on July. First, let's go back to nineteen seventy seven. Number one album was Rumors by Fleetwood Mac Marvin Gay had the numb one song with got to Give It Up? So did that sound a lot like Robin Thick song blurred lines?

1:51 Well a court sure thought it did. Dick. He had to pay Marvin's estate five million dollars for copying his song. That's writing Farrell Williams, who sang on it the blurred lines version. Yeah, he had to pay three hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars and they have to give Gays Estate fifty percent of all their future royalties. Number one country song was from Donna Fargo is that was yesterday. No, we've never kissed and never touched each other, but our hearts say house, and our souls say Olf. And if we gave them. Half a chance to look out for I'll bet they could start a fire. Then nobody in the whole world could put out. But that was yesterday, wasn't it. That?

2:36 Number one book was The Thornbirds by Colleen mcculloff. The top movie was The Rescuers to Mice. They searched for a little girl who was kidnapped by treasure hunters, voiced by Bob Newhart, Ava Gardner and Geraldine Page. All right, let's see it happened on July the first. Now, the reason we are celebrating post workers today to day in eighteen forty seven in the United States Post Office is she did it. First stamps yep went on sale. Benjamin Franklin stamp was five cents, the George Washington stamp ten cents. Now before today, the people receiving the meal actually had to pay the postage. We're going to talk about this in a couple of days. But it was in eighteen sixty three the Battle of Gettysburg began. All right, to all my friends up north, Happy Canada day. Canada became a country today. Now it was part of the British Empire, so but it was self governing. It was called the Dominion of the Dominion of Canada, made up of four providences, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. Now they'll celebrate today like we will in a couple of days on July fourth.

3:55 So I have fun. Are you canuckts out there? Now? That national anthem I played today? It became their face anthem today. In nineteen eighty eighteen seventy four, the first public zoo opened up the United States. It was in Philadelphia. It cost twenty five cents. You'd go see a thousand animals, reptiles and birds. Eighteen ninety eight, in the Spanish American War, it was over in Cuba, that Teddy Roosevelt and his rough Riders they made their historic charge up San Juan Hill took out the Spanish biggest battle of the war in Spain. They really couldn't ever recover from it. Now, this might. Sound weird, but there was a time when people did not They weren't afraid of sharks. No, they weren't aware the sharks could actually attack human beings. Say yeah, I mean, granted, it was before scuba diving and surfing and all that kind of stuff. People really didn't go in the ocean much except to splash around.

4:40 That'll change today though. In nineteen sixteen, when twenty five year old Charles van Zendt, he was swimming in beach Haven, New Jersey, he was attacked by a shark. Yeah, they end up bleeding to death. Then over the next couple days, three other people were attacking killed by sharks all across all off of New Jersey. Well, word quickly spread that hey, sharks kill people on the other side of the Atlantic. In nineteen sixteen, the bloodiest battle World War One began. It was in France. It's called the Battle of Solme Britain. They had over nineteen thousand men killed in that first day. That's one man every five seconds. That battle. It's going to last until November. After the whole thing, they're going to have one point one million casualties on all sides. Ended up just a draw. He has a stalemate. Finally a general said, hey, this is stupid. This is color quips nineteen forty one. Boliva watches.

5:24 They paid nine dollars to New York TV station to air the first ever TV commercial. You know, it was during a Brooklyn Dodgers Philadelphi Phillies baseball game. Nineteen sixty three. The United States Post Office started using ZIP codes nineteen sixty six. Medic Medicare began nineteen seventy one in North Carolina. They ratified the twenty sixth Amendment. They voted it to pass, so that's all it took. They were the thirty eight stints to ratify that twenty six amendment, so it was law. What it did is at lower the voting age from twenty one to eighteen. Nineteen eighty two, Kyle Ripken Junior. He made his first start for the baltimoreo He played short up. Made two thousand and six and thirty two more consecutive starts after that. Yeah, of course that's the record.

6:05 Now for someone to break that record, they'd have to start every game for sixteen straight seasons. Some of someone started today, they take him until twenty forty three in order to break it. Joke, Doke co joked, joke, huge dish shivert day. We're gonna tag he left this shiverthday. We got simple tage like dish shibirth day. And you know you don't give birthday hard right. It was born on July the first, after Jamie Farr's ninety two. He was born in Toledo, Ohio. In nineteen thirty four. He played cross stressing Corporal Kleinger on the TV show Mash Now. Before Mash, he was a regular on The Red Skelton Show. So It's ninety eighteen eighty four. He has hosted a professional women's golf tournament in Toledo.

6:48 Yeah. Now, he was drafted into the army and he did go to craft, but it was well after the war ended. Married in nineteen sixty three and they have a son and a daughter. One way, I'm on it your one way. I'm I'm going one way. I'm gonna see major, major, major one day, maybe next chag. Blondie is the name of the band The girl who sings Yeah. Debbie Harry is eighty one and she was born in Miami, Florida in nineteen forty five. Grew up in New Jersey. She started working as a go go dancer. Then she's a playboy bunny Now. When her and the guys formed the band Blondie, they were originally call themselves Angel and the Snake Yeah. A year later they changed it to Blondie. So there were forty million records. Heart of Glass, one Way or another, call Me Ted his Eye, Yeah.

7:42 But some of their big hits now that song and There's Rapture. It is actually considered the first rap song to go to number one, which is funny because the number two song a rap song ever to go number one, Ize Baby. I just find it kind of humorous that if Beyonce can be a Best Country Artist in the Grammys, why can't Vanilla Ice and Blondie be the for rep body they're taking this summer touring off. Debbie Shand's released five albums over the years by herself Fred Schneider. He sings lead for the B fifty Twos B fifty twos they've had five farewell tours. This year they're calling it a farewell maybe tour. This one should be fun though.

8:33 The B fifty twos they're playing with Diva. Fred is seventy five. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen fifty one nineteen seventy six and a Chinese restaurant Nathan's George is the B fifty twos are formed. Yeah, they're all this sitting around drinking and said, hey, let's start a band now, B fifty two. That's the beehive hairstyle the girls used to wear at the beginning. Hey first to epathas on rob Rock, Lobster and Love Shack Rome, Dead Beats Club, Meet the Flintstones. Now, when Fred went to decide to tell his mom that he was gay, she just looked at him and said, I know. He went back to Vacuum plus Ahead Come. And showing you.

9:26 Victor Willis he's also seventy five. He was born in Dallas, Texas. Now he is the lead singer for Other Village. People say he dresses as a police officer or a Navy admiral. Now, Victor and this French disco producer they just put out an album called The Village People in nineteen seventy seven. They were shocked as hell when the thing blew up, Yeah, became a big hc get. Clark called him up and he wanted to put The Village People on an American bandstand. So now they had to scramble. They had to come up with a band, so they placed an ad in the New York City Trade paper saying, hey, they wanted macho singers who could dance and add mustaches. So that's other Village People. Now they've sold there one hundred million records. Now, Victor did leave to go solo in nineteen eighty two, but that was kind of a pretty big mistake.

10:07 He had a lot of trouble after that. Finally got back in the band in twenty seventeen, be their lead singer ever since. Now they are actually on a world tour yep, and they are going to be in the United States off and on throughout that tour. So if you go see The Village People, I'm sure you'll hear Ymca macho man in the Navy Go West. Victor's first wife was actress Felicia Rashad for four years. Married his second wife in two thousand and seven. Actor Dan Akroyd was born in Ottawa, Canada in nineteen fifty two. Happy Canada Day, Dan. He seventy four. He was originally hired to be a writer for Saturday Night Live. Well before the first show. Yeah, they put him on the actual cast. I was back in nineteen seventy five. Stayed for four years, and he went into movies. Let's talk about some movies that he actually wrote. The Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, Spies Like Us Conheads. He didn't write it, but he was nominated for an Oscar for driving him his daisy.

10:54 He married actress Donna Dixon in nineteen eighty three. They met while they were filming the movie Doctor Detroit. They have two daughters. They did separate in twenty twenty two, but they said they have no plans at all every divorce. But darting this. Time and your male ree. When you hold me too, don't close. Country singer Keith Whitley he was born in Aslan, Kentucky, in nineteen fifty four. Started singing in bars and he's sixteen years old now. He's only released two albums while he was alive. Two more were released after he died.

11:38 Seventeen hit songs off those four albums. Some of his number ones are Don't close your eyes when you say nothing at All, I'm no Stranger of the Rain, I wonder do you think about me? He married country singer Lorie Morgan. They had a son. They after three years they were married. Yeah, it was nineteen eighty nine, Keith. He drank himself to death. Yeah, he died from alcohol poisoning. Thirty four years old. Actor Alan Ruck is seventy. He's born in Cleveland, Ohio, in nineteen fifty six. He's best known for playing Fairris Bueller's best friend Cameron in the Farris Bueller's Day Off movie. He was also in Three Fugitives. Speed did a couple of Star Trek movies on TV is on Spence City for six years now. Alan had a son and a daughter from his first wife. Married a second wife in two thousand and eight and they have a son and a daughter. Prisss Diana. She would have been sixty four today. She was born in nineteen sixty one at the Sandringham estate in the UK. She was born Diana Spencer thirty six sho old. Thirty six years old and once she died in nineteen ninety seven.

12:36 Pamela Anderson's fifty nine. She's born in Lady Smith, Canada in nineteen sixty seven. Another Happy Canada Day, Pamada Now. She got discovered on the JumboTron at a BC Lions football game. Turned that into being a Playboy Playmate of the Month for February of nineteen ninety Then she's Playmate of the Year in nineteen ninety one, and she was the Tooltime girl on Home Improvement with Yeah with Tim Allen. The first two seas was on, then she went hit Big on Baywatch. She's in a lot of music videos, somewhere in Cinderella, Aerosmith, jay Z, Kid Rock, Kanye with Johnny cash Now. Her first husband was the drummer for Motley Crue, Tommy Lay. They had two sons. They divorced after three years of marriage. That was her longest marriage.

13:18 After that, she married Kid Rock for two years. Then she married another guy. She married him twice for one year each time. Then she married another guy for two years. Let me work kids, yes, kids, yes, let me search it. I gotta work sure, yes, yes, I like to. Get the rapper Missiello. It's fifty five. She was born in a naval hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia in nineteen seventy one, started rapping in Sista, then she went to Swing Mob, and then she went solo in nineteen ninety seven. Sold over forty million records now is huge for rap, especially a female rapper. Some of her hits are socket to me get your freak one, Work it hot boys. She's not touring this summer now. She had you know, she had a really bad fight with Graves as he's lessed five years. Forty nine year old actress Lyf Tyler was born in New York City in nineteen seventy seven. She was born or she was born live run Gren. See her mom was dating Todd Rudgren, but that she had a little fair with Stephen Tayler Erosmith on the side.

14:27 Took to live with ten and they figured out that yeah, Stephen Tayler was actually her dad run Gren. Though he was actually kind of cool about it. I mean he actually took care of Live like she was his own. Live started modeling at fourteen. First got known in the Aerosmith video for the song Crazy. Then her first head is an actress for the movie called The Things You Do. Then Armageddon. She did three Lord of the Rings movies. Incredible Holk. She married once for five years and has a son from it. And she was with a boyfriend for seven years and they had two children. All Right, today's quote of the day is gonna come from actor Marlon Brandow. He died today in two thousand and four, eighty years old. Marlin says, never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size. Of your talent. That's pretty good, all right, Thank you all for listening.

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