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

0:19 Hey, hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Fact. Dude's about today visited by cool media. It is March the twelfth. Oh you just leave, coming on you and you are my family. On the letter. On your God too. Today is National Ruth Day. Yeah, my mom is named Roofs today it might mean a little more to me than most. Now we're not gonna talk about my mom. Nope, we're gonna go biblical. She is Hebrew. It means merciful friend. Now Ruth. She's the heroine and the eighth book of the Old Testament it's called the Book of Ruth. Now she has King David's grandmother in the late eighteen hundred has the name Ruth.

1:11 It was the forty sixth most popular name for girls all around. Stayed that way until the nineteen seventies. Then it really just dropped off. But it's popularity has risen every single year since twenty twelve. Fans start liking to call their little girls Ruthie. All right, let's have fun with celebrating with all the Rooths today. If you don't know any Ruth, yeah, read all about her. It's an inspiring story. All right, this is going on in entertainment on March twelve. Let's back in nineteen seventy nine. No one album was Spirits, having Flown by the Beegies. Gloria Gaynor had the number one song with I Will Survive Trumble Dave and Sugar they had the number one country song with Golden Tears from the Crystal in David Sugar.

2:30 Sugar was actually two women, kind of like Torne, Orlando and Don. Number one book was Overlord by Arthur Haley. The top movie was The China Syndrome. A reporter finds a cover up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant, stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemon, and Michael Douglas. All right, this is going on on March the twelfth. Now. When Coca Cola went on sale back in eighteen eighty six, it was only sold in glasses. Yeah, you get only from fountains. Well today, in eighteen ninety four, at a kidney store in Vicksburg, Mississippi, they started selling Coca colon bottles. Yeah, they were able to keep the fizz and the carbonation and everything. Nineteen twelve and Savannah Georgia Juliette Gordon Lowe. She founded the Girl Guides. She later changed that name to the Girl Scouts. Nineteen seventeen they started selling their cookies. Yeah, back then, they actually baked their cookies themselves. They had all the money he went to pay for Girl Scout activities.

3:18 Nineteen fifty one, He'll catch Him. His comic strip, Dennis the Menace debut. Now. Dennis was based on his real life four year old son. I guess I have you a little tear running around the house. You might as well make some money off. It, doke co joked, joke shug thish shiverth day. Please gonna cause he left this shiverthday. We don't simple cage like this shibirthday. And you you don't do that's your birthday, all right. Let's see. He's born on March the twelfth. William Thomas Junior. Now he is born in Los Angeles in nineteen thirty one. Now he was known for playing Buckwheat and all those hour Gang and Little Rascals movies between nineteen thirty four nineteen forty four. Now he was the only kid who appeared in every single movie. Now after that ended, he joined the Army. After the Army, instead of going back into acting, he went in to work for as a film technician for Technicolor. He had a very successful career doing film editing and all that kind of stuff. William He died from a heart attack in nineteen eighty at forty nine years old. He had one son. Actors Barbara Felder and She's ninety two. She was one of Butler Pennsylvania, best known for playing Agent ninety nine on that TV and movies Get Smart. She was nominated two times for Emmys for Get Smart. But she did make history on TV. Yeah, on Get Smart, it was the first time in TV history that the female lead her was taller than the male lead Don Adams. Now, it's not like she was

4:49 huge or anything. Mark she was a giant. She was only five to nine, but Don Adams he was maybe five sevens Now, she really had a distinctive voice, if you remember it, did a lot of voice work. She married once for nine years and she retired from acting in two thousand and six. Before she went into acting, she won the primetime game show sixty four thousand dollars question that was kind of like who Wants to be a Millionaire? Now? She won it for her knowledge of Shakespeare. Won ninety six grand for it. That'd be eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars today. Last that was Al Drew.

5:37 He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in nineteen forty He was jazz, R and B popfusion. Some as big as hits were We're in This Love Together, Break It Away, Trouble in Paradise Now. He went to number one with the theme song for the TV show Moonlighting. Married his second wife in nineteen seventy seven and they had a son. Ali died from respiratory failure at seventy six years old in twenty seventeen. What good is Today? Alone in your room? Come here the music play? Life is Calay old Chum, Come to the cabal Rain seventy nine year old lizam and Nelly. She was born in Los Angeles. Her famous mom was Judy Garland Liza.

6:21 She was three years old in her first movie. It was the last scene in one of her mom's movies, Liza. She's had her biggest success on Broadway. She's wasn't for Tony's Now. She did win an oscar and they took Cabaret from Broadway and made it into a movie. She's also in the movie as a matter of time. New York, New York. She did the Arthur movies. She's only eleven solo albums. Eliza, she has divorced four times. I've seen far and I've seen rain. I've seen sunny days that a thought would. Never be ran. I've seen the only times when I could not find a friend, but always loved that on See You Again.

7:04 James Taylor, He's seventy seven. He's one of Boston solo are undred million records. You've got a friend in me? How sweet it is to be loved by you? Every day? Fire and Ring some of his biggest hits. Now he's at him and his All Star Man. They're actually going out on tour on May fifth. They're gonna tur all the way through September. If you want to check him out. Back in twenty twenty, he put out his last album Now went up to number seven. He is the only artist in any genre to have a top ten album in each of the last six decades. Hey he started in the seventies. Now. His first wife was singer Carly Simon. They had a son and a daughter. Married his third wife in two thousand and one and they have twin boys.

7:52 Uz she is country singer Holly Williams born in Coleman, Alabama. She's forty four. Her dad is country singer Hank Williams Junior now Hank and her mom. They divorced when Holly was really really young, so when Holly actually started out performing, it was just her on stage with her guitar or keyboard. Her mom would actually drive her around playing shows. She's got a record deal in two thousand and three. Her hits are sometimes keep the Change, Mama Holly. She got married in two thousand and nine and they have three girls and one boy. Now. Besides singing, Holly she owns a bautique out there in Nashville that's really popular. Well, they've been highlighted in pretty much every magazine that you can possibly think of. Really quick one today, So well, thank you for being here.

8:41 Don't forget to follow us whenever you listen to us on Now when I end with the or Country Underground Radio artists of the day, if you want to know more about them, all you have to do is go to Country Underground Radio dot com and it'll say artists we play. Click on that and it'll take you to their website, their social media contacts all that kind of stuff. Now, the musician who actually create to Bebop. His name was Charlie Parker. Charlie died today in nineteen fifty five and only thirty four years old. Charlie said, music is your own experience, It's your own thoughts, your own wisdom. Thank you, Charlie.

9:28 Now today's Country Underground Radio Artists of the Day, we're going to Jason Sturgeon and his song down at the Bottom. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Hellow Mountain, craneware, loane hair again, Lord, I don't know which. Weed to go. Here's our party, our up till they answered out the lights. Seems like it's all part of the shoe with the king, the lock and knock back the last shot, trying to cure my thick here will it's four twenty five me, Thank god, I'm alive. I poured myself right in the bed. Well, I'm down out of the bottom, still looking up.

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