Oct 5-Get Funky! Steve Miller, AC/DC, Karen Allen, Bernie Mac, Kate Winslet, Jesse Eisenberg, The Dalton Gang

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In Factor is about today, presented by Cool Media. Day's October the fifth. We funking from now punking from now home. I guess to be myself and do my thing a little soul and do no harm. Today is National get Funky Day. Today is all being yourself. You know. That's for our celebrating life and spreading love and laughter. Wherever you go, shout funky are by being unconventionally stylish, wear crazy and bright clothing. Do something crazy with your air, Crank up some funky music. Just have fun today, but do take a shower. It's not that kind of funk day, all right. This is going on entertainment in October fifth.

1:02 It was back to nineteen sixty six then when Alver was revolver By the Beatles Association had the number one song with Church. You tell me how many Jesus? You tell how many time John bushes you can? Don't you know how many turns? H Bush. I just someone who could cheerish me a small chess. Cherishes number one country song. But there goes My Everything by Jack Green, My rees, there go.

1:44 On, oh Myrea, there go. My the number one book was val the Dolls by Jack lind Suzan. The top movie was The Bible. In the beginning, it's about the Book of Genesis in the Bible, soars George C. Scott, Ava Gardner and Peter O'Toole. Nineteen seventy three, Elton John he released his album Yellow Brick Road. That is his best selling album, sold thirty million of them. Now, it took Bernie Topp and he wrote all the lyrics in two and a half weeks for that album, Elton took him three days to put music to all those lyrics. All right, What happened in October Third War of eighteen twelve and eighteen thirteen in Canada and near Chatham. The Battle of the Thames was fun. British soldiers and Native American and Indians. Yep, they had teamed up. They formed a pack together with a bunch of tribes and the soldiers and all that kind of stuff. They were gonna whoop the United States. But well, they were led by a Shawnee chief name to Kunza. Now the United States under General William Henry Harrison, they were able to kill catumsa Yeah, that took the fight right out of the Natives.

2:48 They all left, so the United States easily routed the remaining British troops In the United States, they were now in control of Ontario and their big prize was, yeah, they got Detroit. The Dalton Gang, they were made up of four Dalton brothers in a friend They were raising hell across the West, mainly California and Kansas, Oklahoma, the Indian Territory. They stole horses, they robbed trains, they robbed banks. In eighteen ninety two, they tried to rob two banks at the same time in Coffeeville, Kansas, ah. The citizens kind of saw it coming and they were onto. A big shootout took place. Four of the Dalton Gang members were killed. Emma Dalton he actually lived, and he had been shot twenty three times. When he was strong enough to stand trial, he was sending to life in prison. He was pardoned after fourteen years, so he moved to California and became a real estate agent, author and actor.

3:31 Nineteen fourteen, in World War One, over in France, the first airplane dog fight that resulted in the kill was fought. Now the French pilot and his tail gunner. They were able to gun down a German plane and they just became huge stars. Was in all the papers all this. But Russia they were mad. They said that one of their pilots had taken down a German plane three weeks earlier, so he shused to be getting accolades. Well, the German or the Russian pilot. He ram the other plane and killed them both, so every was like that didn't count. Nineteen forty seven and then President Harry Truman gave the first televised speech from the White House. Nineteen seventy. PBS went on there their first show. It was The French Chef by Julia Chold, so Bert Ernie and Big Bird. They had to wait.

4:13 Doke Co joked, Jake show dish shiberth day. We gonna he left dis shibthday. We got simple tage. He left dis shbirth day. And you know we don't give birthday. Let's see who was born October the fifth Chestra Arthur. He was born in Fairfield, Vermont, in eighteen twenty nine. He was a lawyer. Then he was a general for the Union in the Civil War. Eighteen eighty one. He was the vice president, served under Garfield, did it for six months and then Garfield was assassinated, so Arthur became the twenty first president, served one term from eighteen eighty one to eighteen eighty five. He married back in eighteen fifty nine. His wife died one year before he was vice president. They had three children together. He died one year after he was president in eighteen eighty six from a stroke. Fifty seven years old.

5:18 Steve Miller, he's eighty one. He's born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in nineteen forty three. He's just finishing up his current tour. I'm sure he will be out next year. He tours every year. He is the only original member of the Steve Miller Band that's still there, but he's kind of integral. Formed it in nineteen sixty six. They started out as a blues band, but by the mid nineteen seventies they'd become a rock band. Some of their biggest hits stars the Joker, take the Money and Run, Fly like an eagle, Jedairliner swinging down Now, the guy who invented the electric guitar, Les Paul. He taught Steve how to play guitar when Steve was five years old. Yeah, he was Steve's godfather. Now, Miller, he's been married to his fourth wife since twenty twelve.

6:15 Brian Johnson. He's the lead singer for ac DC. He was born in Dunston, England in nineteen forty seven seventy seven. Now, when their singer of ACDC, Bond Scott, had died back in nineteen eighty, the guys are trying to figure out how to replace him. But then they were married. Bond talking about the lead singer of a band called Georgie. The guy's name was Brian Johnson. Now, none of the guy who even knew anything about him, or they never even heard Georgia or nothing like that. They thought they'd go see what Bond liked about him, gave him a call, heard him sing. Been the lead singer every year since. Well, he did take a couple of years off he had health reasons, so actually Rose kind of filled in with him. But yeah, Brian's back and everything. He had two daughters from his first wife. He married a second wife, Brady, just a few years ago. Now. That first album that Brian sang on for a CDC, Back in Black, It is the number two album of all time only Michael Jack since Thriller album and sold more.

7:02 Actor Jeff Conway He was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen fifty. He first really got known on the TV sitcom Taxi and then the movie Grease. But before that, for two and a half years on Broadway he played Danny in Greece. But then when they made the movie, John Tuvolfta got to play Danny, so Jeff he had to play Kanicki Jesse. He really wasn't that mad. The only thing that kind of pissed him off was on Broadway Kinicky got to see the song Grease Lightning, but for the movie they got John Travolta singer. Now Jeff had a major drug problem, started getting really bad in the nineteen eighties. Finally killed him in twenty eleven, when he's only sixty years old. He was three times divorced. His second wife was Olivia Newton, John's older sister, Rona actress Kroen Allen's seventy three. She was born in Carrollton, Illinois, in nineteen fifty one. Her first movie was Animal House and then The Wanderers Raiders of the Lost Arc. I think her best acting was in Starman. She did Scrooge the Perfect Star two more Indiana Jones moves She's mairried once for ten years and has a son from it.

7:56 Comedian actor Bertie Mack. He was born in Chicago nineteen fifty seven. Started as a very popular stand up comedian, but then he had even bigger in the Kings of comedy. Had the Bernie Maxshew on TV for five years, did all those Danny Ocean movies, the Charlie Angels movies, Bad Santa Mister three thousand. Bernie married his high school sweetheart in nineteen seventy seven and they had a daughter for twenty years. Bernie he had to fight Sarah Coitia Sarah coitiosis. Now it's an inflammatory disease that affects all your tissues and stuff. It's pretty nasty, gets into your lungs. Bernie died in two thousand and eight at only fifty years old. Actress Kate Winsley. She's forty nine. She's born in Reading, England. In nineteen seventy five, she was nominated for Oscars for Sense and Sensibility Titanic Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children, Steve Jobs. She won an Oscar for a Reader, a movie that absolutely no one saw. She had a daughter from her first husband, a son from her second husband.

8:49 She married her third husband and twenty twelve and they have a son. Actor Jesse Eisenberg's forty one. He's one of Queen's New York but he grew up in New Jersey. His first movie was Roger Dodger and then Adventureland, done the Zombie Land movies and Now You See Me movies. Nominating for an oscar for Social Network. Jesse. He married twenty seventeen and they have a son. So's go back to funky now. The word funky, it comes from the Latin word for from McGrain that's out first started out and when they first started using it the sixteen hundreds. Yeah, it just originally meant stinky, but it's kind of evolved, I guess over the last four hundred verds, I mean a lot of different things. So have a funky day, and thank you for listening if you want to over the weekend and enjoy some good country music. For about Country Underground Radio here it everywhere that plays Internet country radio.

9:35 Steve Jobs he died to Dan twenty eleven at fifty six years old. Steve said, it's really clear the most precious resource we all have is time. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow