March 11, 2026

March 12th-Ruth, Buckwheat, Agent 99, Al Jarreau, Liza Minnelli, James Taylor, Girl Scouts, Dennis the Menace

March 12th-Ruth, Buckwheat, Agent 99, Al Jarreau, Liza Minnelli, James Taylor, Girl Scouts, Dennis the Menace
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National Ruth day.  Entertainment from 1979.  Coca-Cola 1st sold in bottles, Girls Scounts founded, Dennis the Menace comic strip debuted.  Todays birthdays - William Thomas Jr., Barbara Feldon, Al Jarreau, Liza Minnelli, James Taylor, Holly Williams.  Charlie Parker died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran   https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Naomi gonna be with Ruth - AplagetiX
Livin on a prayer - Bon Jovi
Baby's got a new baby - S-K-O
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent   http://50cent.com/
Get Smart TV theme
We're in this love together - Al Jurreau
Caberet - Liza Minnelli
Fire & Rain - James Taylor
Keep the change - Holly Williams
Cool Blues - Charlie Parker 
Exit - Down at the bottom - Jason Sturgeon   https://www.jasonsturgeonmusic.com/ 

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Hey, hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History

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and Fact. Dude's about today visited by cool media. It

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is March the twelfth.

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Oh you just leave, coming on you and you are

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my family.

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On the letter.

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On your God too. Today is National Ruth Day. Yeah,

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my mom is named Roofs today it might mean a

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little more to me than most. Now we're not gonna

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talk about my mom. Nope, we're gonna go biblical. She

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is Hebrew. It means merciful friend. Now Ruth. She's the

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heroine and the eighth book of the Old Testament it's

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called the Book of Ruth. Now she has King David's

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grandmother in the late eighteen hundred has the name Ruth.

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It was the forty sixth most popular name for girls

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all around. Stayed that way until the nineteen seventies. Then

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it really just dropped off. But it's popularity has risen

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every single year since twenty twelve. Fans start liking to

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call their little girls Ruthie. All right, let's have fun

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with celebrating with all the Rooths today. If you don't

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know any Ruth, yeah, read all about her. It's an

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inspiring story. All right, this is going on in entertainment

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on March twelve. Let's back in nineteen seventy nine. No

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one album was Spirits, having Flown by the Beegies. Gloria

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Gaynor had the number one song with I Will Survive

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Trumble Dave and Sugar they had the number one country

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song with Golden Tears from the Crystal in David Sugar.

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Sugar was actually two women, kind of like Torne, Orlando

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and Don. Number one book was Overlord by Arthur Haley.

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The top movie was The China Syndrome. A reporter finds

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a cover up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant,

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stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemon, and Michael Douglas. All right,

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this is going on on March the twelfth. Now. When

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Coca Cola went on sale back in eighteen eighty six,

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it was only sold in glasses. Yeah, you get only

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from fountains. Well today, in eighteen ninety four, at a

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kidney store in Vicksburg, Mississippi, they started selling Coca colon bottles. Yeah,

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they were able to keep the fizz and the carbonation

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and everything. Nineteen twelve and Savannah Georgia Juliette Gordon Lowe.

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She founded the Girl Guides. She later changed that name

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to the Girl Scouts. Nineteen seventeen they started selling their cookies. Yeah,

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back then, they actually baked their cookies themselves. They had

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all the money he went to pay for Girl Scout activities.

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Nineteen fifty one, He'll catch Him. His comic strip, Dennis

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the Menace debut.

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Now.

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Dennis was based on his real life four year old son.

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I guess I have you a little tear running around

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the house. You might as well make some money off.

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It, doke co joked, joke shug thish shiverth day.

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Please gonna cause he left this shiverthday.

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We don't simple cage like this shibirthday.

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And you you don't do that's your birthday, all right.

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Let's see. He's born on March the twelfth. William Thomas Junior.

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Now he is born in Los Angeles in nineteen thirty one.

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Now he was known for playing Buckwheat and all those

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hour Gang and Little Rascals movies between nineteen thirty four

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nineteen forty four. Now he was the only kid who

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appeared in every single movie. Now after that ended, he

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joined the Army. After the Army, instead of going back

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into acting, he went in to work for as a

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film technician for Technicolor. He had a very successful career

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doing film editing and all that kind of stuff. William

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He died from a heart attack in nineteen eighty at

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forty nine years old. He had one son. Actors Barbara

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Felder and She's ninety two. She was one of Butler Pennsylvania,

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best known for playing Agent ninety nine on that TV

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and movies Get Smart. She was nominated two times for

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Emmys for Get Smart. But she did make history on TV. Yeah,

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on Get Smart, it was the first time in TV

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history that the female lead her was taller than the

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male lead Don Adams. Now, it's not like she was

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huge or anything. Mark she was a giant. She was

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only five to nine, but Don Adams he was maybe

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five sevens Now, she really had a distinctive voice, if

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you remember it, did a lot of voice work. She

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married once for nine years and she retired from acting

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in two thousand and six. Before she went into acting,

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she won the primetime game show sixty four thousand dollars

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question that was kind of like who Wants to be

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a Millionaire? Now? She won it for her knowledge of Shakespeare.

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Won ninety six grand for it. That'd be eight hundred

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and sixty thousand dollars today. Last that was Al Drew.

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He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in nineteen forty He

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was jazz, R and B popfusion. Some as big as

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hits were We're in This Love Together, Break It Away,

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Trouble in Paradise Now. He went to number one with

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the theme song for the TV show Moonlighting. Married his

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second wife in nineteen seventy seven and they had a son.

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Ali died from respiratory failure at seventy six years old

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in twenty seventeen.

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What good is Today?

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Alone in your room?

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Come here the music play?

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Life is Calay old Chum, Come to the cabal Rain

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seventy nine year old lizam and Nelly. She was born

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in Los Angeles. Her famous mom was Judy Garland Liza.

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She was three years old in her first movie. It

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was the last scene in one of her mom's movies, Liza.

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She's had her biggest success on Broadway. She's wasn't for

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Tony's Now. She did win an oscar and they took

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Cabaret from Broadway and made it into a movie. She's

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also in the movie as a matter of time. New York,

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New York. She did the Arthur movies. She's only eleven

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solo albums. Eliza, she has divorced four times.

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I've seen far and I've seen rain. I've seen sunny

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days that a thought would.

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Never be ran.

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I've seen the only times when I could not find

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a friend, but always loved that on See You Again.

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James Taylor, He's seventy seven. He's one of Boston solo

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are undred million records. You've got a friend in me?

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How sweet it is to be loved by you? Every day?

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Fire and Ring some of his biggest hits. Now he's

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at him and his All Star Man. They're actually going

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out on tour on May fifth. They're gonna tur all

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the way through September. If you want to check him out.

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Back in twenty twenty, he put out his last album

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Now went up to number seven. He is the only

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artist in any genre to have a top ten album

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in each of the last six decades. Hey he started

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in the seventies. Now. His first wife was singer Carly Simon.

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They had a son and a daughter. Married his third

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wife in two thousand and one and they have twin boys.

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Uz she is country singer Holly Williams born in Coleman, Alabama.

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She's forty four. Her dad is country singer Hank Williams

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Junior now Hank and her mom. They divorced when Holly

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was really really young, so when Holly actually started out performing,

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it was just her on stage with her guitar or keyboard.

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Her mom would actually drive her around playing shows. She's

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got a record deal in two thousand and three. Her

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hits are sometimes keep the Change, Mama Holly. She got

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married in two thousand and nine and they have three

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girls and one boy.

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Now.

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Besides singing, Holly she owns a bautique out there in

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Nashville that's really popular. Well, they've been highlighted in pretty

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much every magazine that you can possibly think of. Really

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quick one today, So well, thank you for being here.

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Don't forget to follow us whenever you listen to us

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on Now when I end with the or Country Underground

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Radio artists of the day, if you want to know

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more about them, all you have to do is go

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to Country Underground Radio dot com and it'll say artists

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we play. Click on that and it'll take you to

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their website, their social media contacts all that kind of stuff. Now,

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the musician who actually create to Bebop. His name was

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Charlie Parker. Charlie died today in nineteen fifty five and

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only thirty four years old. Charlie said, music is your

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own experience, It's your own thoughts, your own wisdom. Thank you, Charlie.

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Now today's Country Underground Radio Artists of the Day, we're

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going to Jason Sturgeon and his song down at the Bottom.

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You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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Hellow Mountain, craneware, loane hair again, Lord, I don't know which.

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Weed to go. Here's our party, our up till they

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answered out the lights. Seems like it's all part of

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the shoe with the king, the lock and knock back

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the last shot, trying to cure my thick here will

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it's four twenty five me, Thank god, I'm alive. I

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poured myself right in the bed. Well, I'm down out

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of the bottom, still looking up.

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Had not alone.

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You must see him and these ships ain't no phone

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tinging out and don't rather joe stringing and wee