May 10th- Fred Astaire, The Spinners, Danny & the Juniors, Donovan, Bono, Young MC, Kenan Thompson

0:10 Hello everybody. I am Jeff, and we welcome to History and Facto. It's about today, presented by Cool Media. Well you made it. It is Friday, well unless you have to work weekends. If you work weekends, and I guess Friday is actually kind of it's humpy. So whether you have to work or you can enjoy it, I hope you all have a great weekend. Now it's supposed to be cold and rainy here in Colorado all weekend, so it's kind of funny about people's perception. It kind of changes throughout the years. Just three months ago, everybody hoped and prayed for days this warm. Now today's every y all bummed out because it's not going to get over sixty degrees. I guess that's just a reminder to enjoy every day for what it is. All right, to our listeners down south in Mexico, Felice Day lost Madres is happy Mother's Day down in Mexico. Yeah, they celebrate that today. Now, we actually have quite a few listeners down there in Mexico, so thanks for listening, not as many as most of them listening to r inderground Radio. That's really popular down south. All Right, it may tenth. It sounds like a good day to have a cold drink and enjoy some seafood. Good Bye, Mamma shrimp, shake my head, you comly shrimp for to take me losey. I had no idea.

1:30 Elvis had a song about shrimp. Well, today is National Shrimp Day in the United States. Shrimp it's the most eating of all seafood. Shrimp that are high in protein and low enclories, good source of zinc and bee vitamins. So when you're eating your shrimp, you're eating healthy. Now, if you don't know how you should eat your shrimp, Yeah, I watched for his gum Bubba He'll tell you. There are actually forty Bubba gum Bubba gump restaurants across the country. So whether you decide to dip them, grill them, fryum, however, just enjoy your shrimp today. This is going on entertainment. On May tenth, let's back to year twenty fifteen. Number one album was Sound in Color by Alabama Shakes with Khalifa and Charlie Birth. They had the number one song with see You Again, We not talk about family with Family's on who We Got Everything out with Julia was standing there Bama side, and now you're gonna be with me, going the last line, mam a loday without you, my friend, And I'll tell you all about and when to see you. Yes, little big Town. They had the number one country song with girl Crush all on her long blood hair, all on her man chuch your cousin, ma me you won't me just stand much.

2:51 I gott uncol Crush. The number one book was Gathering Prey by John Stanford. The top movie was The Avengers Age of Ultron. The Avengers They have to stop Ultron from enacting a villainous plot on Earth stars Robert Downey Jr. Chris Evans and Mark Rufflu All Right, what happened to the world? On May the tenth, fifteen oh eight, Michelangelo he started painting the ceiling of Thes Sisteine Chapel. They'll finish it in fifteen twelve. Seventeen seventy five, the Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen, with a little help from Bennedict Donold, they were able to capture Fort Tech, Conderoga and Upper New York. Yeah, it was a British fort. It's one of the first fights the Americans actually won. Eighteen sixty five, Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

3:32 He was captured by Union troops in Irwinville, Georgia. Now he was held in jail for two years, but he never went to trial. No, he was released before then. See, the United States they didn't want to put Jefferson Davis on trail. See if they did, it would have come out that he and the South really didn't do anything illegal. See, there was nothing in the Constitution that said the States couldn't succeed. So with the Union and they went to trial, it could come out and the Union could be blamed actually for starting the war, for letting this out. To see, they didn't want to open that can of worb, so they just told Jefferson Davis just go away and shut up. Now this is actually fake news. Eighteen sixty nine, the trans Continental Railroad was completed. It had a big ceremony where they drove in that golden spike, you know, the last spike that completed the coast to coast railroad out Promontory Point in Utah. Then they took the spike out and it's in a museum now. But it's all a lie. Everyone thought. Now you could take one train from one coast to the other. Not so. There was not a bridge over the Missouri River in Nebraska, so passengers still had to get off the train, grab all their bags, take it onto a ferry, and then get on another train. Now, it wasn't until August of eighteen seventy when the final spike was actually driven in Strasburg, Colorado. Then you could actually ride from coast to coast on one train. You know what. Let's talk about boxing.

4:50 It was eighteen seventy Britain's Jim Mace He was defending his heavyweight championship title against an Irish champion named Joe Corburn. The fight lasted one hour and seven ten minutes and they called it a draw. Neither fighter landed a punch. Eighteen seventy seven, President Rutther B. B. Hayes he installed the first telephone in the White House. Nineteen twenty four, j Edgar Hoover took over as head of the FBI. He stayed ahead of the FBI until nineteen seventy two. Nineteen forty. In World War two Germany, they invaded France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg now France. They held out for almost a month. But the others, yeah, just a couple of days. Nineteen ninety four, Nelson Mandela was worn in as South Africa's first black president, or were they African African President? Go coke co coke goat sharge this shiverbf Day.

5:41 We're gonna pause. He left this shiver birthday. We're gonna sit ple caage. He's like this shiver birthday and you know we don't give up. That's your birthday, all right, check out. It's born on May the tenth, fall a wonderful time. Now we're filing blue and you don't know where to go to? Why don't you go where fashions put the fruit types of wearing a day coat, pants with stripes and colored the waitcoat perfect fits put Fitz That was singer, dancer, actor choreographer Fred Astaire, considered one of the greatest popular music dancers of all time. He's born in Omaha, nebrask In eighteen ninety nine. He's also considered one of the top class of Hollywood actors. He performed for seventy six years. He did Broadway a whole bunch of movies. Thirty one of his movies were musicals, and ten of those were with Ginger Rogers. That was the famous Fred and Ginger routines. Freddy has married to his first wife for twenty one years when she died of cancer, and they had a son and daughter. He married a second wife in nineteen eighty when he was eighty one years old. She was a thirty six year old horse Chuckie. Freddy died from pneumonia in nineteen eighty seven at eighty eight years old. Actress Nancy Walker. She was born in Philadelphia in nineteen twenty two. She acted for fifty five years. Most known for TV, She's on Mary Tyler Morrishaw McMillan and Wife. She was rote as Mom on Rhoda Now. During the nineteen seventies and eighties, everybody knew her as Rosie the Waititrus. She did a whole bunch of Bounty paper towel commercials. She married her second husband in nineteen fifty one and they had a daughter, Nancy.

7:11 She died in nineteen ninety two at sixty nine years old from lung cancer. Because I'm slipping there, I'm sliding wheel long tall salad and then I had him, don'ting vacuum out, don't own a rip. Don't her dance with Fanner. I got a brand new love and name is some sharp fat fan. One day when I was visiting at heart ridletel this way, I'm there, fans Salo smell. That was Larry Williams. He was born in New Orleans in nineteen thirty five. He was discovered by Little Richard. Yeah. Some of Larry's biggest hits short Fat Fanny, Bonie Maroney, Dizzey, Miss Lizzie, you bug me Now. After his music career of Stall the Act was in the mid sixties, he went to work for a Little Richard. He did some producing on some of his albums, and he directed some of his concerts and stuff. It really didn't work out well, Yeah, Richard, he had to fire and when Williams took after him with a gun.

8:00 Say Williams, he was a major drug addict, and no one knows for sure, but he either committed suicide or his murdered. He just had a gunshot wounded the head. That was in nineteen eighty when he was forty four years old. Leave me understand the vision of your mind. But I'm so afraid the girl you find may not need a man. Like me, I Don't I Love You? That was Henry Framburrow. He was singing lead for the Spinners. He was born in Detroit nineteen thirty eight nineteen fifty four. Henry and four of his buddies they founded the Dominoes. Then they changed their name to the Spinners. Henry he really didn't sing lead very often though, he was more of their baritone singer. He did see ling on that song I Don't want to Lose You, and then he sang it and a little love and a little less laughing. He did a duet with Dion Warwick just as Long as We Love Now. He performed at in her sixty nine years. He was actually the last Spinner that was still alive. Then he died just a couple months ago in February eighty five years old. One Your Chicken. The Danny of Danny and the Juniors was Danny Rapp. He was

9:31 born in Philadelphia in nineteen forty one. Now that song Let's Go to the Hop, it was originally do the Bop, but Dick Clark subjects as they changed it to at the Hop when they were on American Bandstand. While they changed it in nineteen fifty seven became a worldwide number one song. Some of their other hits were Rock and Roll, is Here to Stay, Twist in USA, Back to the hop Ula La Limbo Now the nineteen seventies, the band broke up. Two of the guys went one way and two of the guys went the other, and they both toured the oldie circuits, says Danny and the Junior Dandy. He was forty one years old in nineteen eighty three. Yeah, he shot himself. He was married and had two sons. South Frons me from She's just mandabam ll Try. He was born Donovan Lech.

10:30 He just goes by Donovan. He's seventy eight today. He's born in Maryhill, Scotland in nineteen forty six. Started out as a British folk singer. Then he went in a pop, then psychedelic and then clipso music. First big hit was the song Sunshine Superman. That was his only number one song. He had the Other Head's Mellow Yellow Hurdy Gurdiman Atlantis. He hasn't performan this year. Next year he's really celebrating his sixtieth anniversary as a singer. So if you want to see Donovan live, yeah, I'm gonna have to wait till next year. He had two children from a girlfriend. One of those as actresses I own Sky. He married nineteen seventy and they have two children. In nineteen eighty, the band You Too released their very first song, hip that one Another Day. You know what. It didn't even chart anywhere in the world, but that's okay. They've sold one hundred and seventy five million record since. Of course, their elite singer as Bono.

11:43 He was born Paul Houston in Dublin Island in nineteen sixty sixty four. Today you got the name Bono when he's about fourteen or fifteen. He didn't give it to himself. The boys on the street gave it to him. It's Latin for good voice now at Bono. He was going to school. He responded to a flyer that he saw on a billboard or a bulletin. It asked for guys who wanted to start a band. Valley went and they met and they started their band. They called themselves the Hype. Then they switched it to YouTube. Now Bono. He actually started out as a guitar player, but he sucks so bad with playing the guitar that they've made him sing so he wouldn't play guitar. Well, I'll talk about dumb luck. That worked out really well. Bono. He has written the lyrics PREI much every song they have. He got married in nineteen eighty two and they have two sons and two donners. Now. The main reason you never see Bono not wearing tinted glasses or sunglasses. He's got glaucoma. Wolves by you wish he could sect up for standing on the wall that you was pointing dextu. Next day's function, high class luncheon. The food is serf in your stole cold muncheon. Used to come stall. People start to dance, but then they ate so much neatly split chapans. How girls starts walking, God start walking Since down next to you and starts talking. Says she want to dance because he likes the groups to come off fast. So and just bust the moon Rapper Young MC he's fifty seven. He's one of London, England in nineteen sixty seven. You grew up in New York City. He signed his first record deal in his room when he was going to the University of Southern California USC. Some of his hits our Principal's office. I come off, Madam Butterfly, bust a move. Yes, he did end up finishing and he got his degree in economics from US. Actor Keenan Thompson. He's forty six.

13:15 He's born in Columbus, Ohio, in nineteen seventy eight. Nineteen ninety four. Is on the TV show All That. Then he went to Nickelooney d and start on Keenan and Kel. Then he went on to Saturday Night Live. Yeah, he's been on Saturday Night Live since two thousand and three. Now that twenty one year run. That's the longest any Saturday Night Live cast member has ever been on. His first movie was D two The Mighty Ducks. His next movie was D three The Mighty Ducks. Then he was Fat Album, he was Snakes on a Plane, done a lot of voice work. He married once for eleven years and they have two daughters from it. All Right, today's factod That'll win you a bear. Shrimp's heart is in his head. Well, thank you for being here today. Get a chance to have at Comedia dot com. That's cool three of and see what's going on on the podcast cool Cast the radio station all that good stuff.

14:00 That's the end Today with actress Joan Crawford. She died in nineteen seventy seven and seventy one years old. Jones said love is a fire, but whether it's going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you never can tell. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no no no no no no no no no no no