May 27-Grapes, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Split Enz, Don Williams, Todd Bridges, Peri Gilpin, Jennie Angel

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. It's May twenty seven. I love green grapes. You love green grapes. Where you love. Green grapes, green and greeny grapes, green and green and gret green and green and grapes, greeny, greeny grapes. Green grapes. I love green grapes. You love green grapes. We love green. Gras, green and greeny grapes, green and green and good. They don't have to be green. Today's just National Grape Day. Now, technically you can celebrate with wine, but you're coming off a three day weekend, and I think you can just enjoy grapes as a fruit today. Grapes they've been around for one hundred and thirty million years.

1:02 You have. They're one of the oldest plants on the Earth. They're about ten thousand species of grapes around the planet. But honestly, we only eat like five types. Now, the grapes used for wine, they're smaller and don't taste as good as the grapes that you munch on for fruit. Now, raisins they think they probably came about by accident, but they were making them on purpose since around two thousand BC. Now, grapes, they are really good for you, but they're also high in sugar, so keep that in mind as you're munching on some grapes today. Let's see what up in entertainment on May twenty seventh. Let's back to nineteen seventy two. Then when album was first take by ROBERTA. Flak. The Chilights had the number one song with Oh Girl, I'd be. In trouble if you left now.

1:45 Cause I don't know where toll. I just don't know how. We can do you. Conway had the number one country song with On Our Last Date, her Sweet. Love never more outshed. Now she's gone. I'm alone. I was wrong, shot alone too. After our last day.

2:25 The number one book was The Word by Irving Wallace. The top movie was The Godfather, the patriarch of Mafia family. He's getting old, so he puts his son in charge. Stars Marlon Brando, al Pacino and James Kahn. Now I won the Oscar for Best Pitcher and Brando won his Oscar for Best Actor. All Right, what happened on May the twenty seventh. Now in past naval warfare battles they were. The battleships were basically the key to him. They would just go out at one on one until one of them sank, and that can work out so good ones they all went to steal. Yeah, they have found each other, but they couldn't sink the other ship. Well, that was until eighteen oh five was the Battle of Shushima is in the East c Japanese and Russian battleships. They really went at it and for some reason, I don't know how, Japanese just destroyed the Russian battleships. It's the only time in history where there was a decisive victory and still battleships fighting each other. See, that's why they started using planes.

3:18 Nineteen thirty in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Richard Drew He invented masking tape. Nineteen thirty three, Walt Disney released a short film Three Little Pigs. Yeah, I won the Best Animated Film Oscar that year. Twenty twenty one in Argentina, that TV news Chasing twenty six. They let off their evening news with the story of that England's playwright William Shakespeare had died after receiving a COVID nineteen vaccination. Yeah, Shakespeare actually died in sixteen sixteen. Joke joke, dish shiverf day. We gonna he left this shiver day. We got simple tage. He left this shivers day. And you don't up the birthday.

4:00 Let's check out it was born on May the twenty seventh. See the goods from. Every toos clo to see you yours, you to stay alive. Your bossy starts to your. Ship Moto. Foreign. That was Vincent Price. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen eleven. Now, when he started out acting, he was in every kind of movie. He loves stores actions, some Spence comedy, and in nineteen fifty three he started in the movie The House of Wax. Yeah, I kind of got stereotype there or yeah. He didn't do anything pretty much but horror movies after that made over one hundred movies total. Now he did a lot of theater, which might surprising. Last movie he was in Ezra Edwards Scissorhans.

4:58 Now he had a sogn from a first wife, and then he had a daughter from his second wife. His third wife, they were married seventeen years when she died and he died in nineteen ninety three at eighty two years old from lung cancer. Another horror movie guy actor Christopher Lee. He was born in Belgravia, England, in nineteen twenty two. Now. He played Count Dracula in nine different movies. He was a bad guy in the Bond movie Man with the Golden Grun. He was in a lot all the Lord of the Rings movies, the Hovet movies, he was in a couple of Star Wars movies now Ley He actually was in two hundred movies total, actually about two eighteen or something like that. He got married nineteen sixty one and they had a daughter. Christopher died in twenty fifteen from heart failure, ninety three years old. Now a couple of years earlier. To celebrate his ninetieth birthday, he put out a heavy middle album That's Right, and the Christmas song off of that album, it's called Jingle Hell made it all the way up to number eighteen in the UK.

5:50 We're not saying as we go and heard some news way he spake slow crime. Straits, Whitcombs, who. Like doctors six Tomorrow Price. He is the oldest person to have a Top twenty head. He was ninety one years old when that song peaked. Actress Lee Merriweather, She's ninety one. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen thirty five. Lee. She won Miss America nineteen fifty five, but she really became cool in nineteen sixty six. Yeah. She played Catwoman in the movie Batman. Biggest acting on TV.

6:31 She was on the series Barnaby Jones for whatever eight ten years like that. Now if you play the video game what is it? Metal Gear Solid for Guns of the Patriots. She's big mama. She had two daughters from her first thousand. She married her second husband in nineteen eighty six. Lee, she still goes into comic cons. Yeah. For her roles in Batman, Star Trek and Time Tunnel. Actor Lewis Cossa Junior. He was born in Cony Island in Brooklyn, New in nineteen thirty six. When an Oscar for the Officer and a Gentlemen, When an Emmy playing the Fiddler on the TV miniseries Roots. Some of his other movies Bouve Seen, Where the Iron Eagle, Movies, Firewalker, The Perfect Game, Now Goosiity. Divorced three times. He had a son from his second wife and a son from his third wife Now. He just died last year at eighty seven years old from lung and heart disease.

7:21 First I get cold and hot, think I'm on fire, but I'm not over a pain I've got. It must be love. There's nothing I can do. All that I won't is you. Look what I'm going through. It must be love. It must be love, Love, It must be love. Country singer Don Williams was born in Floyd out of Texas in nineteen thirty nine. One of the biggest and top best selling country artists in the seventies and the eighties, had seventeen number one songs. Lord, I hope this day is good and good old boys like me back in my younger days. That's the thing about love. I believe in you.

8:02 That's the moment. John. He married nineteen sixty in the eighty two children. He died from emphysema in twenty seventeen at seventy eight years old. Tweet That's no problem, song time. The same. That was Neil Fans singing for the band Split Ends Neil sixty eight. He was born in the North Island of New Zealand. In nineteen fifty eight, he co found his Split Ends in nineteen seventy seven. Was their lead singer songwriter till they broke up in nineteen eighty four.

8:44 Didn't waste any time. In nineteen eighty five they co founded The Bad Crowded House. Now, of course, their biggest head was Don't Dream It's Over Now. They have taken a couple of breaks over the years, but they're kind of still together. They actually just released a new song and a new album now. Neil he was in Fleewood, Mac the last four years. They were together from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two. Got married in nineteen eighty two and they have two sons. Actors Perry Gilpin is sixty five. She's born in Waco, Texas, in nineteen sixty one. Most known for playing Ros on the TV sitcom Fraser. She's done a lot of voice work and a lot of TV appearances. She got married nineteen ninety nine and they have twin sons. Actor Todd Bridge is a sixty one. He's born in San Francisco in nineteen sixty five. Now, Todd hit big when he's thirteen years old, playing Willis on the sitcom Different Strokes. You know, he's the only actor from different strokes, that's still alive and reality. He actually beat Vanilla Ice in a celebrity boxing match in two thousand and two. Done in a lot of reality TV over the years. He had a daughter from a girlfriend.

9:40 He had a daughter from his first wife, married a second wife in twenty twenty two. Okay. Quote of the day we're gonna go from Robert Ripley. He's the guy from Ripley's Believing or Not. He died today in nineteen forty nine, at fifty nine years old. Ripley said, a man will work en slave in obscurity for ten years, then he becomes famous in ten minutes. Thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on our country underground radio artist the Day. It comes from Shelley and for Collins. She wants to hear Jenny Angels song Heartfelt. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. On paper. We need sense even all of our friends says we were meant to be together. A Barbie we can picture perfect in my head. No, we wanna last forever?

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