May 23-Taffy, South Carolina Birthday, Bonnie & Clyde, Jewel, Drew Carey, Shelly West, Rosemary Clooney

0:19 Hello everybody, I am Jeff. Welcome to history and fact duds about today. It is made the twenty third. Shout out, I love that girl, shakeout, love that. Love that time. Then today is National Taffy Day. Taffy it stead out in the early eighteen hundreds. Now the pulling is stretching in taffy. That did it start till the eighteen seventies. Now there are so many flavors that taffy. You shouldn't have any trouble final one that you like. Now watching him make daffy's actually pretty cool.

1:00 So if there's some candy place close to you that does that, yeah, give it a shot of something to do today. Now, the stretching of pulling a taffy, it actually allows air bubbles to form, so it kind of makes the taste good and it's not so hard and it's a little more chewable, I guess you could say. So. Basically, taky taffy is pretty easy. It's basically boiled sugar, water, vegetabil and whatever added flavor you want. Whatever you do, enjoy today. Let's see what happened entertainment. I made the twenty third. It was back in nineteen sixty one number one album was the Gi Blues movie soundtrack for Pretty Much All Elvis. Ernie K. Doe had the number one song with mother in law the. Worst person, not no hother.

1:42 She worring me soft holler if she leave evil so long? A Fairy and Young had the number one country song with Hello Wall. Hello Walls. Hoddys school for you today. Don't you miss her? Said she? Then I was written by a really young Willie Nelson.

2:23 The number one book was The Agony in the Ecstasy by Irving Stone. The top movie was the Last Time I Saw Archie. Some soldiers who were played by Robert Mitcham and Jack Webb. Well, they bluffed their way through World War Two? All right, what happened on Me? The twenty third, seventeen eighty five, Benjamin Franklin announced his latest invention in the world by vocals. Yeah, he came up with them. Happy Birthday, South Carolina?

3:08 Who's Today? In seventeen eighty eight, South Carolina became the eighth state. It's named for England's King Charles. The first capital is Columbia. Highest point is Sassafras Mountain three thousand five and sixty feet high. South Carolina state bird is the Carolina wren. Flower is a yellow jasmine tree is a sable palmeatto, fish is a striped bass mammal, white tailed deer, fruit, peach snack, boiled peanuts. State vegetable is the color greens. Some well born in South Carolina James Brown, Yova Davis, Chris rock Bana White, Andy McDowell, Darius Rucker, Hall of Fame basketball player Alex the English are just some of the people born in the Palmetto State. All right, let's go to horse racing.

3:49 In eighteen seventy three at the Pimical Racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland, Yep ran that first Big Mistakes Survivor One with G. Barbie on board. Also in eighteen seventy three, Canada their north West Mounted Police form. Now they'll become the Royal mount of Police. In nineteen oh four, eighteen eighty two, six inches of snow fell in eastern Iowa. Nineteen oh eight, a dirgible or a blimp had exploded over San Francisco, said sixteen people crashing down to the ground. Somehow none of them are killed. Nineteen thirty four near Sales and Near Sales, Louisiana police Posse ambush. The famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde shot their car over one hundred and thirty times. Yeah, neither of them made it out of that car. Now they had killed nine police officers and a number of civilians. Now you can actually go see that car they got shot up in. Yeah, it's on display at the Whiskey Petz Casino in prim Nevada. It's about forty five minutes south of Las Vegas. Now, Bonnie, she was twenty three, Clyde was twenty four. Nineteen thirty nine, in the Gulf of Maine, the submarine the USS Squalis sank in two hundred and forty three feet of water. Twenty six sailors drowned, but divers they were able to rescue thirty three sailors. They used this brand new air system that it hadn't even been tested yet. Yeah, those divers, they all got medals of honor for it. Nineteen eighty the movie The Shining was released. Now that hotel that took place in The Shining to stay in the hotel in s s parcard Yeah, sold earlier this week for forty million bucks two thousand and one. Marcos Sefridi and Stephen Gatt. They became the first people to snowboard down Mount Everest. They used the Northeast klurej Dope Gop Gop show, dish shib Day.

5:25 We're gonna par he like thish Shiver. We want simple targe. He's like dish shivers Day. And you know we don't give up. That's a birthday, alright, let's check out it. It's born on May the twenty. Third band leader and clarinet is Ardishaw. He was born in New York City in nineteen One of the greatest clarinet players of all times in the nineteen thirties and forties is one of the top big band leaders now. He was famous for his quote I never stood why people would dance to my music. I made it good enough to listen to.

6:12 Now. He married eight times, Two were an old and six ended in divorce. Now his third wife she was actors Lana Turner. His fifth wife was Ava Gabor. Now he had kids from his fourth and seven wives. Already died from natural cousin in two thousand and four, ninety four years old. Behind h are Yo. Ghost Sriders in the Sky. Their brands were still finer and what made the steal. That was Scatman Crothers. He was born in terry Ote, Indiana, in nineteen ten. Now Scotman. He was mostly known for his line performances. Yeah, he was one of those artists that had a lot of big following there become seeing when he actually performed. Yeah. I never sold any records though they had more success. Probably as an actor, he's on the TV series What was It Cheek Going the Man where he played the garbage man Lewis He Actually he was in the movie The Shining We just talked about that. That was probably his biggest movie. Got married in nineteen thirty seven and they had one daughter, Scott me and he dad from lunk cancer nineteen eighty six at seventy six years old.

7:20 Come on to my house, to my house, I'm going to give for you can. Come on to my house and my house I'm going and give you apple plum money forgot to do it. Come on of my house, my house. Come on, Come on of my house, my house. A come on. She was Rosemary Colooney. She was born in Maysville, Kentucky, nineteen twenty eight. Now. She got her first record deal when she was only nineteen years old. She's sang big band music, and in nineteen fifties she went pop. Some of her number one songs that come on to my house half as much. Hey there this old house. Now she's who probably a dozen movies she was in, and she was actually on the TV series Er she got Older. Yeah, she was with her nephew, George Clooney. Now Rosemary, she had a really really bad drug problem for a long time. Her career pretty much at the toilet. It was over by the nineteen seventies. No one would work with her, and nobody wanted anything to.

8:13 Do with her, and nothing. In nineteen seventy five, Bing Crosby, he was celebrating his fiftieth anniversary in show business being decided that he wanted to do a TV special. He wanted to do a duet with Rosemary Clooney, but only if she was clean. Rosemary, she got herself clean, did the show, and then her career got going again. Yeah, she performed and stayed clean for the rest of her life. She died in two thousand and two at seventy four years old. She had lung cancer. She married her first thousand for nine years, then they divorced, Then they got back together and married for three more years, and then they divorced. Now they actually had five kids between those two marriages. Then she married her One of those sons is Gabriel. He's been married to a singer, Debbie Boone since nineteen seventy nine. Then she married her second husband five years before she died.

8:56 Actress Joan Collins is ninety two. She was born in Paddington, England. Her younger sister was the writer Jackie collins Well Jones. She did I'm Writing Too. She sold over fifty million books. Started acting when she's in nineteen forty five. Didn't pretty big over in England. She didn't even know in the United States until that classic horror film in nineteen seventy seven. Yeah, Empire. The ants not as big as she yet when she was on Dynasty when she played Alexis, though he was huge on that. She still does some acting, but I only only over in England. She divorced four times, had two children from her second husband and one from her third husband. Married a fifth husband in two thousand and two. Oh you are in I like to dream to a little little sold in.

9:39 Just saw the cowboys shoot out the last damn sol the bar did. I started five. Country singer Shelley West is sixty eight. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in nineteen fifty eight. Her mom country singer Dotty West now Shelley. She really hit big singing duets with David Frizzell, had some of their big hits where You're the Reason God made Oklahoma a Texas state of mind. I just came here to dance. Then after a few years, about eight years or something, she just did solo stuff like Fight three or nine in Tennessee. Another motel memory jose Querfel now Shelley. She was really close to her mom, So when Dottie died in nineteen ninety one, Shelley she just quit singing and performing.

10:21 She said she was done. She was married to Dennis David's brother, Alan Frizell for eight years, then she married her second husband for five years and they had twin sons, The. Senate or Collin Console. It's such a crudeude lot. Comedian actor game show hos Drew Carrey. He's also sixty eight. He was also born in Cleveland, OHI. Now, after serving in the Marines, he became a really popular stand up comedian. Then He started on that Drew Carey Show on TV for nine years. While he was doing that, though, he also created and hosted Whose Line Is It Anyway?

11:07 Now Drew. He has been hosting The Price Is Right since two thousand and seven. Now Drew. He hadn't married yet, but he's been engaged twice. But I guess his cool, Drew. He's actually a Buddhist. Jewel is fifty two today. She was born in pas In, Utah in nineteen seventy four. Grew up in Alaska now her dad and three brothers. They started on that Discovery Channel the Alaska The Last Frontier in nineteen ninety three.

11:52 Eight Joel, she was living in her car and singing in coffee houses in southern California, and she was discovered. She sold over thirty million albums and when Who Will Save Your Soul? You were meant for me? Foolish game Hands, Yeah, just some of her big songs. Now. I haven't asked, Joel, but I'm guessing probably one of the greatest moments of her life. Game in twenty twenty one, Yeah, she won season six of Masksing Her Now. She was with Pro Rodeo Cowboy Timer for sixteen years when they divorced, they had one son. All right, let's go to Our quote of the day comes to actor Roger Moore. Yeah, the guy who played James Bond. He died today in twenty seventeen at eighty nine years old. Roger said, some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. I was blessed with modesty. Thank you for joining us today, and no forget to follow us on whoever you listen to a song so we're easy to find and I don't freak to check out the show links. He can find the one to like our new puzzle book that's out, or the one to country Underground Radio. Country Underground Radio Artists Today comes from Trevor in Laurel, Mississippi. He wants to hear Anthony Price the song a Memory. I can't drown you guys. Have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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