May 19th-Chewbacca, Pete Townshend, Grace Jones, ZZ Top, The Ramones, Lainey Wilson, Devil's Food Cake

0:19 Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Today is May the nineteenth. You haven't said no. Turked skirk skirk skirk there strong kirked the strong kirk skirked turk. Today is National Devil's Food Cake Day. So I was Devil's food cake different from regular chocolate cake? Well, Devil's food cake. It's chocolate eer if that's a word. Say, it's richer, darker, fluffyre It's made using boiling water instead of milk, and it has cocoa instead of chocolate squares, think chocolate cake on steroids. Is it healthy? Oh no, but it shure tastes good. So take a break from your diet today and enjoy some devil sweet cake. Let's see what's going on in entertainment on May nineteenth. Let's back to nineteen eighty one, and one album was High Infidelity by Irio O Speedwagon. Kim Carnes had the number one song with Betty Davis eyes He's you.

1:24 Just Please, She's coach Yes and she knows what it takes to her blush stand up song, She's Bad Today. Roseanne Cash had the number one country song was seven year Ach. You look so careless when they're shooting at balls. Don't you know howt egs all heroes. When the pockets off full? Tell me trying to kill the seven year me? See water hard? Continue? Boy, say what is he going to give us?

2:06 Some room? Becomes best. The number one book was Noble House by James Clovell Todd. Movie was The Four Seasons, Three Couples. They vacation together every season stars Alan Alda and Carol Burnette. Ah, what happened on May the nineteenth, sixteen forty three? The English colonies of Massachusetts, Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven they joined forces. Yep, they united. They're called the United Colonies of New England. They wanted to unite the Puritan colonies, and they wanted to defend themselves from the Indians and those Heathens and the Dutch colonies from the New Netherlands. Okay, around noon about seventeen eighty in New England that people began to panic. They thought the world was just about to end. It became completely dark, the sun was totally blocked out. In order to see you how to light candles last and for day and a half. Well, it turns out the smoke was from some huge forest fires up in Canada. Eighteen eighty three, Buffalo Bill Cody held his first Wild West show, held it in Oba, Nebraska.

3:06 I would have thought he would have gone further east. Nineteen twenty eight, Angels Camp, California held their first annual Frog Jumpin' Jubilee. Fifty one's frog that very first contest. Now it's held every year. See they started it to celebrate Mark Twain's story that celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County. Yeah, it's the largest frog jumping contest in the world. It's always heard the third weekend in May. If you want to go next year. Nineteen sixty five, Patricia Harris became the first black woman named as a US ambassador. We sent her to Luxembourg. Nineteen eighty one, Miss New York Debrean Fountain became the first Miss American contestant disqualified from the pangant Oh Debrean, she put padding in her swimsuit.

3:47 Bro nineteen ninety five, seventeen year old ballamer ale and Body He became the world's youngest doctor. Yep. He had graduated from Mount Sinai Medical School in California and got a ninety nine percent on his medical boards. His family had moved to the United States when he was three from India. Now what's he doing today, Well, he's an ophthalmologist. He's an eye doctor out there in Oregon. Joke gop, gop joke joke sharge dish shivers day. Please gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We won't simple target Thish shibirth day. And you know we don't do. Was check out. It's born on May the nineteenth. Actor Peter Mayhew. He was born in Barns, England in nineteen forty four. Now standing seven foot three inches doll He's kind of having trouble getting some acting jobs, but then he got the perfect role for him, the role of a lifetime. Got played Chewbacca in the Star Wars movie. Yeah, Peter played in in the played that Wookie in five different Star Wars movies. Got married in nineteen ninety nine.

5:04 He had three step children from his wife's previous marriage. In twenty nineteen from a heart attack at seventy four years old. Now, he didn't make the noise for Chebacca though no those are recorded See Chebacca's voice. It was a combination of sounds from Bears, Walrus's Lions and Badger's. Killed Him. But you can see Me get in to Ya. That was Pete Townsend's biggest song as a solo artist. He's eighty one today. He was born in Chiswick, England, in nineteen forty five. Of course, Pete's best known for playing guitar for the band The Who. Helped form The Who in nineteen sixty four. He's gone to school with John Intwistle and Roger Daltrey nineteen eighty two.

5:57 The Who. They wanted to retire while they were on top, so they Hell helped their farewell chore. Oh they're kicking off this year's farewell tour in July, if you want to go see him. Eighties, released six solo albums. Now on his solo albums he plays keyboard, banjo, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, violin. They won't let him play those on The Who albums hed. He has three kids from his first wife. I married a second wife in twenty sixteen. Take me out of ninety Meney Away some Time. Jule my dream.

6:40 Actress singer model Grace Jones. She's seventy eight and she was born in Spanish Down, Jamaica in nineteen forty eight. Spent her teen years in Syracuse, New York. Nineteen seventy she was one of the top models in the world. In nineteen seventy seven she quit yep I'd become a singer, start out doing disco, then nuweve believe or not. She actually had some hits too, well that song I Need a Man and pull up to the bumper, nipple of the bottle, shit a slave to the rhythm. Some of her movies are Conan The Destroyer of You Do a Kill, Becoming Our Boomerang, and then cyber Abandits Now. In the nineteen seventies she had a son from a boyfriend now Grace. She had a lot of public boyfriends over the year. There were rumors that she had married a couple of them, but according to Grace, she says, I only married one of my boyfriends and he was a Muslim from Turkey.

7:25 Shoes Crazy About a. Dusty Hill was the bass player for the band's zz Top. Dusty is born in Dallas, Texas, nineteen forty nine nineteen sixty nine. With Billy Gibbons on guitar and singing lead, Frank Beard on the drums and Dusty on bass. Yep, Zzy Top four they just the three of them for fifty one straight year solo were fifty million records. Tushe Noomstate Toobsteak, Boogie, give Me Ay You Love, and Sharp dret Man Cheap Sunglasses. They have some of their biggest hits nineteen seventy eight or nineteen seventy six. The guys, they took a couple of years off so their drummer and Frank, yeah, he could get sober and get off of drugs. So they didn't really communicate or anything. So when they got back after two years and they hadn't talked about it at all over the phone or anything, Dusty and Gibbons, Yep, they showed up and they'd both grown beards. Yeah, those beards. Z Eazy Top was famous for now. Dusty married his longtime girlfriend in twentousand and ten.

8:34 They already had a daughter. Dusty died in twenty twenty one, at seventy two years old. He had been sick for a little while and then he died in his sleep. Joey Ramone, He's sang lead for the Ramones. He was born Jeffrey Hyman in Queens, New York in nineteen fifty one, helped form the Ramones in nineteen seventy four. Why the Ramones. We'll see Paul McCartney. When he would check into hotels, he used his name Paul Ramone. The guys thought that was really cool, so they all picked the name, you know, like Joey or Frank or d D or something like that.

9:25 Then they followed it by Ramon and that's how they became the Ramones. Now the Ramones, they are considered the first true punk band of all time. I mean, some Stuges fans are gonna argue it, but it's true. Now Didy he was supposed to be the lead singer for the Ramones, but Dede couldn't sing and play the guitar at the same time, so Joey was a From nineteen seventy four to nineteen ninety six, they toured almost NonStop, did two thousand and two and a sixty three concert called The Quits in ninety six. See Joey. He had been diagnosed with limphoeman nineteen ninety five. Now I fought it until one month before his fiftieth birthday in two thousand and one. Some of their classic songs, I want to be Sedated? Do you remember rocking roll Radio? She is a punk rocker. Now they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There are a lot of tribute bands out there for the Romans. If you want to see live remone music, it's not too hard to find that tribute or tribute band form orr. I can just watch the movie Rock and Roll High School, I.

10:14 Gotta Ground for Waters came out, Boy, you need. I Gotta hard like. Spengel. Country singer Landy Wilson's thirty four. She's born in basket in Louisiana in nineteen ninety two. Basketing and has a population of two hundred and fifty people. Now. In high school, Landy she traveled all over the South performing his Hanna antenna and in concerts. Then after high school she just moved to Nashville to do it on her own. Now she's done some acting. She was on season five a Yellowstone. Some of her number one songs are things A Man out of Know, Watermelon, moonshine, Never Say Never with Coase Windell. If you want to go see Laney, there's actually a documentary of her on Netflix.

11:05 It's playing right now, and she'll be going down on tour on May twenty third, so throughout the whole summer. Felden here lady, she is engaged all right. Today's quote of the day, We're gonna go away, Jackie Kennedy on NASAs She got DA In nineteen ninety four, at sixty four years old, Jackieyel said, if you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do very much matters. Wow, thank you for listening to I don't forget to follow us. I you and listen to us on our cutry inderground radio artists today because from Kobe but Larrymie Wyoming he want to stay here Douglas Riley's song Home Bar. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Watching the door, they'll be waiting for me. Then will rim this about our days glovery, shoots some mad ball, and after that there's a corn hole tournament in the art out bag. Katis inside he's writing them tables.

12:01 I'm gonna make her mind if I'm ever able. We all need a home boster. Please we all go bar really too far just down the road, bar with the lights around me. Hum. We all agree that we're all friends here. As long as here's cold, beautiful. I need a home, sweet home, home, Ball