June 24-Jeff Beck, The Zombies, Fleetwood Mac, OMD, Tears for Fears, Mindy Kaling, Sherry Stringfield

0:10 Well, hi, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids about Today, presented by Cool Media. Today's June the twenty fourth. We're going today, So come on, it's always so much fun to so swimming again, jumpsy disnal blood. It is National Swimming Lap Day. Swimming. It was probably invented after not it's flood. You know. There are actually cape paintings depicting people swimming all over the world. Some of them date back seven thousand years. Now, if you think about it, this is the one exercise where you won't break a sweat. Now, today really isn't about you swimming laps. It's about getting you in the water, splashing, playing around cool enough. The thought is that if you do that, maybe you'll start swimming some laps later on. So just have fun swimming today, all right, this is going on in entertainment on June twenty fourth. It's back to nineteen ninety two. Number one album was Some Gave All What. Billy ray Cyrus Mariah Carey had the number one song with I'll Be There. Billy ray Cyrus had the number one country song with Aky Breaky Heart, Oh you Can Tell

1:41 Me TIBs, tail tips, still won't be reaching out for you, don't. I just don't think you don't understand it. You tell my Breggy. The number one book was Jewels by Danielle Steele. Top movie was Batman Returns. While Batman is dealing with the Penguin, Catwoman starts causing trouble, stars Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, and Michelle Pfeiffer. In nineteen eighty two, on the British show Top of the Pops, Jeffrey Daniel from the band Shallamar Remember Them Well? He did the moonwalk for the first time. No one had ever seen it before. Michael Jackson heard about it and had Jeffrey teach him what Jeffrey called the backslide. Then Michael did it on a huge TV American show called This Celebrating Motown, except he named it the moonwalk and got all the credit, all right. What Happened in the World on June the twenty fourth, thirteen seventy four is a force recruited outbreak of the Saint John's dance Yeah I was recorded at act in Germany. Now people they would just be walking down the street and they start dancing uncontrollably. They would jump twitch hallucinate. Yeah, they would literally dance until they collapsed from exhaustion. Now they couldn't stop themselves. You could see the agony in their faces. But they just kept twitching and furting and dancing and all that kind of stuff.

3:04 Yeah, and then finally they couldn't sleep, they couldn't eat, and then they just pass out. Now it spread from Auchen. Yeah, I just kept going up and down the Rhine River there in Germany. Then I spread all over Europe, and that outbreaks until the fifteen hundreds. Then they just stopped. Nobody knows what started and what ended it. Seventeen fifty Jesuit Prix so the first mass at the Little Chapel and Tatasac. It's in Quebec, Canada. Now it's the oldest surviving church in North America. Eighteen fifty three, United States President Franklin Pierce signed the check for the Godson purchase. United States bought twenty nine thousand, six center and seventy square miles of land from Mexico for ten million bucks. Now that land is southern Arizona and New Mexico. Yes, they needed the land in order to make it easier to build a railroad. In nineteen oh one, in Paris, the first exhibition of paintings by Pablo Picasso opened up. Picasso was nineteen nineteen oh two and Minneapolis, Minnesota, George Dayton he opened up his first stor called good Fellows drag Goods. You know what you probably shop there sometimes anyway, it's called Target.

4:04 Nineteen twenty two, the American Professional Football Association renamed hisself the National Football League, or NFL. Also at that meeting, George hallis the owner of the Chicago Football Club. He renamed his team from the Chicago Statelies to the Chicago Bears. Nineteen forty seven, the first official UFO report was filed by a pilot. His name was Ken Arnold. He said that he saw nine unidentified objects flying past Mount Rainier in Washington in a v formation, and he judged by their speed that they flew in one minute. In fifty forty two seconds, they must have been going about seventeen hundred and fifty miles an hour. He described them looking like saucers skipping across the water. That turned into the term flying susser. Now a lot of people actually saw that, but they weren't pilots, so they didn't really count. In twenty eighteen in Saudi Arabia, let me repeat that. In twenty eighteen, in Saudi Arabia, women were allowed to drive cars for the first time. They were the last country in the world to allow women to co co co cop goat show.

5:04 It's Shiver birthday. We're gonna cause he left. It's Shiver birthday. We don't simple calls. It's Shire birthday. And you know we don't give up because that's a birthday. Let's check out. He was born on June the twenty fourth. Well, we could have gone with Happy Days, but we chose The Odd Couple. Actor Al Melanaro. He was born in Kenosho, Wisconsin in nineteen nineteen. Most known for TV, played Officer Murray on The Odd Couple. Then he was al on Happy Days. He turned down a bunch of movie rolls. He would not do a movie if they said the four little words in it. He was married his first wife for thirty two years when they divorced, and they had one son. Married his second wife in nineteen eighty one. They were together until he died from a gallbladder infection in twenty fifteen at ninety six years old. Guitarist Jeff Beck was born in Wallington, England, in nineteen forty four. He usually ranks around fifth when they ranked the greatest guitarists of all time. He's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, once with the Yardbirds and once as a solo artist.

6:32 Nineteen sixty five he joins the Yardbirds. He replaced Eric Clapton. Now he's only with the band a couple of years, but he's with them when they had their biggest success. It didn't matter they fired him anyway, so he started with Jeff Beck group. He went and hired an unknown Lean singer named Rod Stewart. Now, after Rod left and went solo back, he just pretty much did instrumental albums. After that, did win eight Grammys. Married his second wife in two thousand and five. They were together, Jeff. He just died from bacterial meningitis in twenty twenty three, at seventy eight years old. He's don't bother trying to find her. She's not there. Let me tell you about the way she tell her, The way she had. The color Almas was soft and cold. Caroline Colin Blenstone is the lead singer for the Zombies. Yeah, still is they still to her. They have shows booked until twenty twenty five. Colin seventy nine. He's born in Hatfield, England in nineteen forty five. He joined the Zombies in nineteen sixty two. Some of their hits She's not there, tell her No, She's coming home time in season. Now they've taken a couple of breaks over the year, but obviously they're still performing. They're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Colin is married and they have a daughter, Techs Roney.

8:07 The Fleetwood Fleetwood MACA is Mick Fleetwood. He was born in red Ruth, England, in nineteen forty seven. He's seventy seven now. Mick and John McVie they formed Fleetwood back back in nineteen sixty seven. Mick was on drums and McVie was on bass guitar. They actually had quite a bit of success over in England. They even had a song called Albatrosse went to number one. They released nine albums, but by nineteen seventy four are they'd either fired or all the rest of the band members that quit, so they went to Los Angeles looking for people to fill out their band. They ran into a folk rock Duelka that had Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nixon it. They offered their lead singer gig to Lindsay. He said, hed only do it if they brought Stevie along. Since then they sold. There were one hundred and twenty million records. Now, when Christine McVie died in twenty twelve or twenty twenty two, Mick John and Stevie they decided they weren't going to tour anymore without her. Now, Mick, he had so much fun with her. He married his first wife twice, they had two daughters, and he married his third wife for twenty years. When they divorced, they had two daughters.

9:01 So I guess that'd been his fourth marriage. If you please don't see a Promasy Ses, the lead singer for OMD or orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark if you prefer is Andy McCluskey is born in Hesswal, England in nineteen fifty ninety sixty five. He is considered one of the top pioneers in electronic music. Help formed OMD in nineteen seventy eight. Now they've taken a couple of years off here and there, but they're still touring. They're actually a tour in the States in September and October if you want to check them out. Sold over forty million records. Some of their heads are so in love if you leave, live and die dreaming Andy. He married once and has his two children from it. That is Kurt Smith singing for Tears Affairs. He was born in Bath, England in nineteen sixty one. He's sixty three. Formed Tiers Affairs in nineteen eighty one with his childhood friend Rowan. Or is the ball Now they take turn singing lead songs that Kurt sings or Everybody Rule wants to rule the world, Mad World, Change the way you are. They

10:33 got the name Tears Affairs from a book they read. They describe Tears as a replacement for fear Curt. He's at least five solo albums on the side. He has been married to a second wife since nineteen ninety six and they have two daughters. American actress Sherry Stringfels. He's fifty seven. She's born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on nineteen sixty seven. Grew up in Texas. Most known for playing doctor Susan Lewis on TV's e R. She was on NYPD before that, done a lot of TV moves. She married once for seven years and has two children. From It Cool Me Now to Me? Now I Don't You want to? You can? Glenn Madars is fifty four. He was born in Lehi, Hawaii. In nineteen seventy, when he was sixteen years old, he want radio station talent contest in Hawaii.

11:35 The song he sang was that one, but it was George Benson's song Nothing's Going to Change My Love for You. The radio station record made a tape of him doing it, then they started playing it, and then purely by word of mouth, it ended up being a worldwide smash hit. He also had a number one song with Bobby Brown, she Ain't Worth It. Then he had the heads Under Any Moon. All I'm Missing is You. He retired from singing in two thousand and seven. Since twenty fifteen and he's been a high school principal back in Hawaii, been married since nineteen ninety six and they have a son and a daughter. Actress Mindy Kelling. She was born in nineteen seventy nine in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She's forty five. Started off in stand up comedy and then she had on the TV show at the Office. Then she did the Mindy Project. She does a lot of creating, writing and producing TV shows. Biggest movie was Ocean's Eight. She has one in Tony also and she has two children. All right, so how fast do you think that a message from your brain travels along your nerves? Two hundred miles an hour. Well, thanks for being here today. We sure appreciate you. If you haven't, make sure you follow us on in you listen to it as long. If you have it, come back coolmedia dot com. That's cool. Three others and see what's going on on the radio stations the podcast. Let's end with Jackie Gleeson. He died today in nineteen eighty seven. It is seventy one years old. Jackie said, then people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable. Guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.