May 2, 2026

May 3rd-Bing Crosby, James Brown, Frankie Valli, Christopher Cross, Eric Church, Alice from Brady Bunch

May 3rd-Bing Crosby, James Brown, Frankie Valli, Christopher Cross, Eric Church, Alice from Brady Bunch
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National Paranormal day. Entertainment from 1958. 1st US toll bridge, 3rd worst city fire in US history in Jacksonvile FL, Sears Tower now Willis Tower tallest building in the world at that time. Todays birthdays - Bing Crosby, George Gaynes, Ann B. Davis, Dave Dudley, James Brown, Frankie Valli, Christopher Cross, Eric Church. Jackie Cooper died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://diannacorcoran.com/
If I were a ghost - Super Simple Songs
Witch Doctor - David Seville
Oh, lonesome me - Don Gibson
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Pennies fro heaven - Bing Crosby
Six days on the road - Dave Dudley
Please Please Please - James Brown
My eyes adored you - Frankie Valli
Ride like the wind - Christopher Cross
Drink in my hand - Eric Church
Exit - Know me now - Kane Vincent https://kanevincent.com/

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Hi, and welcome to history and factory is about today?

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I am Jeff. Today's May third.

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If I were a ghost, I would say boom.

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If I were a ghost, I would say booo.

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If I were a ghost, you would hear me say.

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It is National Paranormal Day. Paranormal it means things that

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cannot be explained by regular science. It can mean ghost spirits, hauntings, clairvoyants,

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Poulter guys, and so on. Eighty percent of all Americans

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believe in ghosts. Now, I guess today you can celebrate

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it by visiting some scary places. You can binge, watch

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paranormal movies or TV show all I can do like

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Gus and just sit around and drink and tell ghost stories.

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All right, let's see what happened in entertainment on me.

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The third let's back to nineteen fifty eight, and one

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album was the music Man movie soundtrack. David Seville had

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the number one song with Witch Doctor. I told the

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witch Doctor I was in love with you. I told

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the witch Doctor.

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I was in love with you.

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And then the witch Doctor he told me what to do.

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He said that.

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Don Gibson had the number one country song with Oh Lonesome.

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Me everybody's going on and having fun. I'm just the

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food for staying home and having known.

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I can't get over how she sent me freend.

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Lonesome.

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The number one book was Anatomy Ever Murdered by Robert Traver.

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Top movie was The Young Lions. That's a story of

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one German and two Americans during World War Two stars

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Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff Dean Martin. What Happened in the World.

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On May third, sixteen fifty four, the first toll bridge

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in America opened up. Richard Thurlow. He opened a bridge

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over the Newberry River at Raley, Massachusetts. The toll was

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only for animals. Yeah, if you were a human, you

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could cross it for free, but you try and take

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your horse or pig across, and then he charged you.

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Seventeen sixty five, the first medical school in America opened up,

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the College of Philadelphia School of Medicine. Now it is

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the University of Pennsylvania School in Medicine. Jacksonville, Florida. In

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nineteen oh one, they had the third biggest city fire

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in US history. I sparked from some workers cooking their lines.

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Ignited a pile of Spanish moss that was drying in

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a mattress factory. That fire burnt one hundred and forty

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six city blocks over the next eight hours. You can

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see the smoke all the way In Savannah, Georgia, three

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hundred and sixty eight buildings burned. Seven people were killed,

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over ten thousand unless homeless only. Fire is bigger than

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that one where the Great Chicago Fire and the nineteen

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oh six San Francisco earthquake fire. Nineteen twenty three, the

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first non North American non stop trans continental flight was completed.

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Couple Army pilots flew from New York to San Diego

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nineteen forty seven. See Japan lost the war obviously, so

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we wrote their constitution for him. But now today Japan's

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post war constitution went into effect. Women made out pretty

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good though, see women got universal suffrage. The Emperor Hirohido,

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he was stripped of all his power except some symbolic stuff,

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and Japan they were outlined from ever making war. Nineteen

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seventy three, Chicago Serious Towers was topped off one thousand

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and four and fifty four feet I. It was the

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world's tallest building for twenty five years. Then the patronas

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Twin Towers and Kuala Lampire passed it by thirty feet.

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Now the Serious Tower is actually called the Willis Tower

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and it is a twenty fifth tallest building in the world.

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Co cot Co coat coat.

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Show this shimmery we gonna cause he left this shivery.

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We don't sit be cause he left.

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This shivers day.

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And you know we don't give up because the birthday, well,

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let's check out it.

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Born on May the third, a long time ago, a

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million years vc. The best things in life were absolutely free,

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but no one appreciate her sky that was always blue.

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That was Bing Crosby. He was born in Tacoma, Washington

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in nineteen Ohe three one of the biggest and most

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influential entertainers of all time, made over seventy movies, recorded

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over sixteen hundred songs. Now, this song White Christmas, it's

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the number one selling song of all time and sold

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there were fifty million. Number two song it was Elton

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John's Candle on the Wind and sold thirty three million.

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Remember he redid it for Princess Die Now being he

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won his oscar for going my Way. He was married

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to his first wife for twenty two years when she

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he died from cancer. They had four sons. Married his

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second wife in nineteen fifty seven and they had two

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sons and one daughter. That daughter is actress Mary Crosby.

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She's the one who shot Jr. In TV's Dallas Bing.

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He died from a heart attack in nineteen seventy seven.

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He just finished playing around at golf as he was

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walking off the eighteenth grain, just dropped dead at seventy

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four years old. Actor George Gaines. He was born in Helsinki, Finland,

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in nineteen seventeen. He fought for the British Navy in

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World War Two. Then he came to the United States

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and started on Broadway. You probably know him best lover

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playing coming Out in Lesarde in all those Police Academy movies.

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He was also in TITSI Fantastic four. My TV is

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Punky Brewsters. Adopted dad married nineteen fifty three and they

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had a son and a daughter. They were together until

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he died at ninety eight years old in twenty sixteen.

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My son my family became actress and b Davis. She

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was born in Schonnecticut, New York, in nineteen twenty six.

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Famous for playing Alice on TV The Brady Bunch and

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a Bunch of their reunion shows two and two Prime

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Time Emmies for the Bob Comings Show. Then she reprised

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Alice and she played her again in the movie Naked

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gunn thirty three and third. She died from a fall

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in her bathroom in twenty fourteen at eighty eight years old.

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Well, I'm pulled out up and sir, rolling out out

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of eastern seboard.

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I got my Nisa lound up and she's a running like.

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That before.

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LA's the steets on the head. All right, I don't

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see an coompidence. Sign six Hays.

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On the rolling gold on I get home.

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My country singer Dave Dudley. He was born in Spencer,

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Wisconsin in nineteen twenty eight. Now he got really popular

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singing a whole lot of truck driving songs in the

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sixties and seventies. Some of them are A truck driving

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son of a gun, Me and my CB six days

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on the road, then day drinking. That was with Tom Tehawk.

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He recorded over seventy albums. He performed and recorded right

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up until he in two thousand and three. It's seventy

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five years old from a heart attack. He was married

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at the time.

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No you go, please, please please, Please, Please, Please, was

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the first song ever released by James Brown.

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I Was Back in nineteen fifty six made it up

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to number six on the R and B chart. He

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was known as the hardest working man in show business

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and the godfather of soul. James Brown he was born

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in Barnwell, South Carolina in nineteen thirty three. Start out

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as a gospel singer, ended up being inducted in the

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first class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Made fifty nine albums, so there were fifty million records.

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Biggest ed I Feel good hed. His career lasted fifty

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two years. We just think how big a career would

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have been him. He could have stayed out of trouble

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with the law. Now he had a son from his

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first wife. He had two from his second wife. He's

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married to his third wife for twelve years when she died.

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Now outside of those water those wives on the side. Yeah,

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he had another nine kids, James. He died in two

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thousand and six from heart failure at seventy three years old.

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Mine George one ever laid hand on you, Mine Georges,

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like a million miles away from me, You couldn't.

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See how wild Georgi, So close, so close, and here

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so far.

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Frankie Valley, he's ninety two years old, still touring with

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the fourth season. Yeah, that sounds like this might be

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the last one. Frankie is born in Newark, New Jersey,

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in nineteen thirty four. Now they started back in nineteen sixty.

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They've sold over one hundred million records. Some of their

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heads that you'll know, Sherry, Big Girls don't cry, walk

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like I'm in December nineteen sixty three. Oh one to night.

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Now we took it not they didn't break up. But

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outside of the four seasons, Frankie did a couple of

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solo albums. On the side. He had to hit Grease

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from the movie Grease and My Eyes Adored You that

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we played. He had two daughters from his first wife.

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He's married to his third wife for twenty years when

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they divorced, and they had three sons. Oh, Frankie, he

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just got married to his fourth wife last June in

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Las Vegas, almost.

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Sleep long.

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That was Christopher Cross. He was born in San Antonio

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in nineteen fifty one. He's seventy five today. He might

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not know, but he's a really good guitar player. In

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the beginning. He then sat in with Deep Purple and

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played with him. Pleased his first album in nineteen seventy nine.

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Some of his biggest hits our ride like the Wind

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be the best that you can be, sailing the theme

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from Arthur and Think of Laura. Chris. He's out on

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tour in Europe right now, gets back to America on

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June fifth. Then he's gonna tour to the end of August.

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Is opening bands over here will be Toto and the Romantics.

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It'd be kind of a fun show. Yeah, it's gonna

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go check Chris out over this summer. He has two

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times Divorcedrinking.

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Down Simple Man an.

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Country singer Eric Church. He's forty nine, born in Granded Falls,

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North Carolina, in nineteen seventy seven. Granted Falls, It's about

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five thousand people. Sorry, that was a song writer for

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getting his shot in two thousand and six. Some of

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his ten number one hits are Drinking My Hand, Talladega

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record Year, Hello of You.

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Eric.

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He's gonna be doing a limited tour this summer, not

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a lot of shows, but he'll be around. I know

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he's doing a bunch of shows out here at Red Rocks.

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Eric you marry in two thousand and eight and they

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have two sons. All right, or one of the day.

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It comes from actor Jackie Cooper. He was the first

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child the actor to be nominated for an oscar. He

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died today in twenty eleven at eighty eight years old.

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He said, you have to ask yourself, do I want

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to be rich or I don't want to do good work? Well,

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thank you all for joining us today. No fore to

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follow us on whoever you listen to? This took out

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All right, our country and a ground radio artists today.

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It comes from Mell and Grand Junction. Go'a hear Kane

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Vincent song? Know me now? You guys have an awesome

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day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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Keep your head down, never stop.

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The only way your history won't that Joe, wait till sundown.

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He'll all be fine.

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Believe the memories whistle by you mine.

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I can't seem to get out of your own baby.

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Maybe you don't want me, he is, so I can't

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stay so tonight, don't go jump the fence and drive

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till the sun rise lines and hill.

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If you don't help me now, you never.

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Fars movie.

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You can't make me tencent That force gives me the chimps.

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If you don't know me now, you've never heard.

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You remember his treasure.

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And then chee, don't dolot your whiskey. Take me w offend.

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Shooting now.

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Spirits chasing ghosts down up the town.

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But I can't say to get out of my fway.

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There's nothing happen me, So I won't stay.

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So the night I'm gone and jump the fence and

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drive till the sunrise lasts. If you don't know me now,

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and we will