June 24th-Jeff Beck, The Zombies, Fleetwood Mac, OMD, Tears for Fears, Glenn Medeiros, Mindy Kaling

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today. Today is June twenty fourth. I'm swimming. We're going day, so come on, that's all. It's always so much fun too, swimming again, so jumpsy day the woods not ti. Today is National swimm a lap day swimming. It's probably invented after notes Flick. Actually, there are cape paintings of people swimming all over the world. They some of them date back seven thousand years. Now, if you think about it, this is the one exercise you won't break a sweat. Now. Today isn't really to get you swim laps. What today is it's about getting you in the water, splashing around playing.

1:04 He is having fun, but there he is that if you start out doing that, yeah, later on you'll start swimming some laps. Swimming is one of the most healthy things you can actually do for your no low impact too. So have fun swimming today and it'll keep you cool. All right, this is going on entertainment on you in the twenty fourth let's go back to nineteen eighty four. Number one album was the Footloose movie soundtrack. Dran Dran had the numb one song with the Reflex Fern Gods didn't have the number one country song with I can tell by the way you dance you.

1:54 Don't care about those guys without birds. You made me on the stand much you lurr in love and bodyst. I tear my way. Lets you Call On. The number one book was Full Circle by Danielle Steele. The top movie was Ghostbusters three parapsychologists. They're out of work, so they start a ghost removal business. Stars Bill Murray, dan Aker, Eyden Hill Maims. Nineteen eighty two, on the British TV show Top of the Pops, Jeff Daniel from the group Shallamar You Remember them Now? He did what everybody knows is the moonwalk for the very first time.

2:36 No one had ever seen it before. He did it on that Top of the Pop show. Michael Jackson heard all about it, so he had Jeffrey come and teaching him about how to do that dance. See Jeffrey called it the backslide. Well, Michael Jackson, he did it on this huge American TV show celebrating Motown. Then he renamed it the Moonwalk. Yeah, Michael got all the credit, all right. What happened on June twenty fourth thirteen seventy four are over in Europe. The first outbreak of Saint John's Dance was it was in ac in Germany. Now people they would just be walking down the street. Then they started dancing uncontrollably. Yeah, they would jump and twitch and juke, could jive and jiggle. They'd even have hallucinations. Yeah, they literally danced until they collapsed from exhaustion. Now they couldn't stop themselves from doing it. There was nothing they could do. I mean they apparently you could see the agony in their faces. They just kept dancing, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep.

3:21 Finally they just passed out. Now that Saint John's Dance had spread all the way up from akaing up and down the Rhine River to other towns in Germany. Then it went past Germany and spread all over England. Then and early the fifteen hundreds just stopped. So nobody knows why or how it started. No one knows why it ended. Eighteen fifty three, United States President and Franklin Paris. He agreed on ten million dollars, so they had Gatson purchase. Say it was good, but the United States they bought twenty nine thousand, six hundred and seventy square miles of land from Mexico. It's southern Arizona and New Mexico today now the United States. They wanted the land to build a southern railroad through it. But let's be honest, the United States actually took that land from Ago in the Mexican American War, and the Mexico kept winding about having to give it back, so they just paid him the money for it. So they set up. Nineteen oh one in Paris, the first exhibition of paintings by Pablo Picasso was opened up. Pasto was only nineteen Minneapolis in nineteen oh two, George Dayton he opened up the store good Fellows Dry Goods well out. Today you've probably shopped there, he said. Now it's called Target, and there's more than just one store. Nineteen twenty two, the American Professional Football Association changed their name the National Football League, or NFL.

4:31 Also at that same meeting, George Hallis he renamed his team from the Chicago Stanleys to the Chicago Bears. Nineteen forty seven, the first official UFO report was factually filed. This pilot named Ken Arnold. He said that he saw nine under done and invite flying objects as they flew past Mount Rainier in Washington. Now they were in a V formation. Now he judged their speed by how far they flew in one minute forty two seconds, So we had they had to be traveling at least seventeen hundred and fifty miles an hour. Now, he described them looking like saucers who were skipping the c of water. That's why we got the term flying saucers. Actually a lot of people saw that whole incident right there, but they weren't pilots, so they didn't count. Twenty eighteen, that's right, twenty eighteen, in Saudi Arabia women were allowed to drive for the very first time. They were the last country in the world allowed women to drive. Coke coke cojoke, joke, sharge, this Shivers day.

5:23 We're gonna part he left this shuver day. We want simple targe like this Shivers Day. And you know we don't do that. Bay all right, check out. It was born on June the twenty fourth. I guess I could have gone with happy Days, but odd couple of works after how Ow, Mail and Narrow. He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in nineteen nineteen. It's most known for TV but off of Sir Murray on The Odd Couple. Then he was ol on Happy Days he replaced Arnold. Now he turned down a lot of movie roles over the years. See he would not do a movie if it had those four little words in it. Now he was married to 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 gallbladder infection in twenty fifteen. Ninety six years old. Guitarist Jeff Beck.

6:40 He was born in Wallington, England, in nineteen forty four. Now he years it comes in around fifth when they ranked the greatest guitarists of all time. He's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice for the Yardbirds and then solo. He joined the Yardbirds in nineteen sixty five. He replaced Eric Clapton. Now he was only in the band for a few years, but it was when they had the most success. They still fired him anyway. Then after they fired I mean he started the Jeff Beck group. I needed a singer, so you hired this unknown guy called Rod Stewart, then went Rod Stewart the guy to go. So yeah, Beck, he pretty much just did instrumental albums after that. He did win eight Grammys. Married his second wife in two thousand and five. Jeff died from bacterial meningitis in twenty twenty three, seventy eight years old. He's don't ball them, trying to find them. She's not.

7:25 Let me tell you why she? Why she? The co. Bom Bash was soft and cool clear. Colin Bunstone. He is the lead singer for the Zombies. Yes, still is. Colin's eighty years old. He's won in Hatfield, England. Joined the Zombies in nineteen sixty two. Some of their heads, she's not there, tell her no, she's coming home. Time in season. Now they have tour every summer, but they're taking this summer off. So they made a documentary of themselves and they're actually going on tour in the United States in July, but all over the world. What they did is they watched the documentary of him, then afterward they have a Q and A with the audience. Colin.

8:05 He is married and they have a daughter. Drummy the Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac is Mick Fleetwood. He was born at Red Ruth, England. He's seventy eight today. Mick and John McVie they formed Fleetwood mac in nineteen sixty seven. Nick Mickey was on drums, John he played bass guitar. Now they had quite a bit of success over there in England. They even had a song go to number one. It was called Albatross. They released nine albums, but by nineteen seventy four they had either fired him or the rest of the band members. I all quit.

8:55 So they came to Los Angeles looking for people to fill out their band. Well, they met this folk rockder'd had Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nixon. After the lead singing gig to Lindsay, he said he had come, but only Stevie could come too. They said okay. Then they added Christine McVie since then sold over Runner twenty million records. Now, when Christine died in twenty twenty two, Mick and John and Stevie they said enough, they weren't going to go on without her. Mackey married his first wife twice in an over eight years period. They had two daughters along the way. Married his third wife for twenty years when they divorced, and they had two daughters. Please don't seems.

9:46 The lead singer for orchestra Maneuver is in the Dark or OMD. His name is Andy McCleskey. He was born in Heswell, England, sixty six. Today it is considered a true pioneer in the electronic music form. He'll formed Home in nineteen seventy eight. Now they're kicking an off an American tour here on June twenty sixth in just a couple of days. Some of their hits that you'll hear if you go see him are so in love if you leave, live and die dreaming now And he's married. He married one time and they divorced. They had two children from it. Whoa We Will?

10:37 That was Kurt Smith singing for Tears Affairs. Kurti's sixty four. He's born in Bath, England. Co formed Tiers of Affairs in nineteen eighty one with his childhood friend Roland Orzabal. Now they take turn singing some of the songs that Kurt sings or Everybody wants to Rule the World, Mad World, Change the way you arded me. They took the name Tears for Fears from a book described tears as a replacement for so Okay, now this September. In October, they're gonna be doing shoos outre in Las Vegas if you want to go see Tears for Fears Kurt. He married his second wife in nineteen ninety six and they have two daughters. Hey, we've got an American actor. Sherry Stringfield was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Grew up in Spring, Texas.

11:17 It's fifty eight today. That's known for playing Doctor Susan Lewis on Er for that. She was then NYPD. She retired in twenty seventeen. Yeah, just quit acting. She's married once and has a son and a daughter from it. Coo me now me now't. Mother? You wanna wal you can. Glenn Maderis was born in Elaihu, Hawaii. He's fifty five today now. When he was sixteen, he won a radio station talent contest. Yeah. That song he won with was that one that I just played, Nothing's going to change My love for you. George Benson did it originally, So the radio station when they did it, they actually recorded him singing it. They started playing the tape of it on the radio station. Now purely by word of mouth, no radio companies, nothing. Yeah, it became a worldwide number one song.

12:19 Now. He had another number one song with Bobby Brown, she Ain't Worth It. He had a couple of minor hits with a solo It's called All I Am is Missing You and under a Bad Moon. Now. He retired from singing in two thousand and seven. That says twenty fifteen Clint. He has been a high school principal back there in Hawaii. Got married in nineteen ninety six and they have a son and a daughter. Actress comedian Minnie Colling is forty six. She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Started out as the stand up comedian hit on the TV show The Office. Then she had the Mindy Project. She does a lot of creating, writing and producing TV shows. Biggest movie she was in was Ocean's Eight. She's wanted Tony on the side too. She has two daughters and one son. Quote of the day it's gonna come from Jackie Gleeson. He died today in nineteen eighty seven at seventy one years old.

13:05 Jackie said, then people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable. Well, thank you all for listening, and don't read to follow us. I know you listen to us. On. Come see it's at coolmedia dot Com. That's called a three years. I'm Country Underground Radio, our Country Underground Radio artists of the day. It's coming from Tammy and Pennsylvania. I don't think we want to know her story, but she wants to hear Christy Lamb's song Wish you were a cowboy. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. I wish this was a Western taln you head on, Testy. Boots, somebody who warn't me along before you came passing through. Then I never see your face, never would have hurt name.

13:49 I wouldn't be a pond right now. See in this way show you prought of her Sauce said for your restless soul and angress, you'd be so easy too a games when he said to love me, I know it's just a love. You'd hold me all that long, the live and no goodbye, our sure capble, our sure cable.