Sept 1st-Burnt Ends, Conway Twitty, Lily Tomlin, Bee Gees, Gloria Estefan, Engelbert Humperdinck

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids About Today presented by Cool Media. Today's September the 1st. The counter's smiling back at me. She said, sonny boy. What can I do for you? And I said, you gotta give me the burnings. Give me the burnings. Give me the burnings. Cause it tastes like candy to me. Today is National Burnt Ends Day. Woo-hoo! Burnt ends, they come from the point of the brisket. Now, they were thought as trimmings and just throwaway meat, you know, stuff that nobody wanted to eat. They're the thinnest part of the brisket, so they really got charred. Well, Kansas City made that throwaway meat into Superstars. Now everybody sells it. Now, that's a good reason to go out to a barbecue restaurant today. Now, if you haven't tried some burnt ends, yeah, try some.

1:07 I think you'll probably like it. Quite a few of your local barbecue restaurants are having deals today. All right, it is September. Now, September is Latin for seven. Used to be the seventh month. Birthstone is sapphire. Your signs are Virgo until the 22nd and then Libra. The birth flowers for September are forget-me-nots and morning glory. And the September full moon is the harvest moon. Let's see what happened in entertainment on September the 1st. Let's go back to 1986. Number one album was True Blue by Madonna. Steve Winwood had the number one song with Higher Love.

1:58 Conway Twitty had it in one country song with Desperado Love. I don't see the wrong in stealing. So hold on, I'm gonna shoot for the heart. Like desperado's do. I got a desperate. The number one book was Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. Top movie was Stand By Me. Four boys, they go on a journey to see the dead body of a missing boy. Stars William Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell. All right, what happened on September the 1st? 1822, William Bucknell, he left Arrow Rock, Missouri. He was heading west. Now he arrived in Santa Fe around November the 16th. He was able to find a route that he could actually drive a wagon on. See, now people heading west, they didn't have to take that northern Oregon trail route. Yep, there's a southern route. It's called the Santa Fe Trail. Now, she took the northern route. 1836, Narcissa Whitman. She is what they think is the first woman ever to settle west of the Rocky Mountains. She settled in, what did it say? Walla Walla, Washington.

3:08 Yeah. Now, Walla Walla, if you're wondering, it's a Nez Perce Indian term. It means many waters. I guess there's a lot of creeks and streams up near Walla Walla. Now, somebody who lives in Walla Walla, Washington, they are called Walla Walla Lummons. Oh, God. 1873, after a month of testing, the first cable car in San Francisco we ran running went up and down Clay Street. 1878, Alexander Graham Bell, he needed to hire some telephone operators for his Boston Telephone Dispatch Center. Now, they would be the first telephone operators in world history. His job requirements were they had to be women, they had to be unmarried, they had to be between 17 and 26 years old, They had to be tall enough to reach the top of the switchboard.

3:49 No black or Jewish women were allowed to apply. Now, the world's first telephone operator, it was Emma Nutt. The second telephone operator was her sister, Stella Nutt. Now, Emma, she was actually a telephone operator for 30 years. Stella, no, she left to get married. 1905, both Alberta and Saskatchewan became Canadian provinces. Yeah, the 8th and 9th. So congratulations, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Now, the next time you're out with your friends or your family, just enjoying the outdoors, maybe going on a hike or something, and you see a bird, and nobody can identify what kind of bird it is, tell them all it's a passenger pigeon. See how many of them know that the last passenger pigeon died today in 1914 in a zoo in Cincinnati. It was a female that was named Martha. So, yep, that's when passenger pigeons became extinct. Japan in 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake hit, 7.9 on the Richter scale, destroyed the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama.

4:41 Over 142,000 people were killed. Two million people were left homeless. 1939. Now, they knew they were going to do it. They kept saying they wouldn't do it, but everybody thought they were going to do it. Then they wouldn't. Then they didn't. Germany invaded Poland. Now, that officially started World War II. Two days later, Great Britain and France will declare war on Germany. Germany will return the favor. Everybody else picked a side. From 1949 to 1957, Clayton Moore. Now, he played the Lone Ranger on the TV. 169 episodes of the Lone Ranger. Then in 1979, a Los Angeles court ordered Clayton to stop wearing the Lone Ranger costume. 65-year-old Clayton, he would dress as the Lone Ranger in his costume. Yeah, to go to like supermarket openings, bank openings, birthday parties, that kind of stuff. Well, the people who own the rights to the Lone Ranger, they didn't like that. So they sued him to stop. Well, of course they won.

5:27 But that really pissed off the general public when word got out about it. So much so that those people who own it were like, hey, Clayton, we were just kidding, man. You can go ahead and dress like the Lone Ranger. We don't care. Doesn't it be kind of embarrassing as a government official? 1992 in Jonasburg, Louisiana. They had to close their office for public health. Yeah, they had themselves a rat problem. Well, let's just see who was born on September the 1st. Now, if I tell you it's Inglebert Humperdinck's birthday, you probably expect me to play this song.

6:10 I just can't let you walk away. Forget the love. I had for you. Guess I could find somebody new. Well, that would be wrong. See, that was actually Arnold Dorsey. See, Arnold Dorsey changed his name to Engelbert Humperdinck in the 1960s to get some exposure. Now, this is the original Engelbert Humperdinck. composer Inkobert Hunkberdink was born in Germany today in 1854. Now he is most famous for his opera Hansel and Gretel. So unless you're into 1800s German composers, that's all you really need to know. Now, that's true.

7:13 Now he died from a heart attack while watching an opera in 1921, 67 years old. It's meant for me. That was actress Yvonne DiCarlo. Now, she was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1922. Now, in her biggest movie, she played Moses' wife. Yeah, it was an epic movie, The Ten Commandments. Well, people forget that she was a shepherd's daughter and that, but they do remember her for TV. She played Lily Munster on The Munsters. Yeah, they forget she was married to Moses, but they all remember that she was married to Herman. She married once for 20 years when they divorced and they had two sons. Yvonne, she died from heart failure in 2007, 84 years old. When Harold Jenkins released his very first song, it was back in 1958. Everybody, they thought it was Elvis Presley using a fake name.

8:05 My hopes and my dreams come true. Nope, that wasn't Elvis. That was Harold Jenkins. But Harold, he did go by the name Conway Twitty. Conway, he was born in Friars Point, Mississippi in 1933. Now, he wanted to be a country singer, but the record company made him a rock and roll singer. Now, he was a big rock star. But then in the 1960s, when the British invasion hit and music changed, they said, all right, Conway, you can go ahead and do your country stuff now.

8:51 So he started singing country in 1965. He was so happy he was able to sing what he wanted to sing all along. Sold over 50 million country records, which was huge back then. He had 55 number one songs. That is second all time to George Strait. Strait, he had 60 number one songs. Now Conway, he had one son from his first wife. Married his second wife for 28 years and they had two daughters and one son. Married his third wife in 1987. They were together until he died in 1993 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. 59 years old. Actress, comedian, Lily Tomlin. She's 87. She was born in Detroit in 1939. She's done a lot of Broadway over the years. She's even won two Tonys. She got famous for the TV show Laugh-In. And then later on, she was on Murphy Brown, The West Wing, Grace and Frankie. 1970, she was nominated for an Oscar for the movie Nashville.

9:36 Some of her other movies were in 9 to 5, The Incredible Shinking Roman, All of Me. Lily and her wife, they've been together since 1971. One little thing, do your time. Don't pay for me Maybe you'll remember when you Barry Gibb, he sang late for the Bee Gees. Barry's 80. He was born on the Isle of Man in 1946. It's a British colony. Now, he formed the Bee Gees with his twin brothers, Robin and Maurice, in 1958. Yeah, he was 12 when they were 10. Called themselves the Rattlesnakes. Well, now they've sold over 225 million records. Now, the very first song that actually hit the charts, it was called Three Kinds of Love. Yeah, it hit in Australia.

10:29 Kiss me once, oh yeah, baby. Kiss me twice, oh yeah, crazy. Kiss me three times, the three kisses are wild. Oh yeah. Yeah, got all the way up to 98 on Australia's pop chart in 1963. I'm betting, at least I would, I think the Bee Gees of disco, that's all you really kind of know about them. But get this, they actually started hitting in the United States and England in 1967. That's when they started having their hit songs. So that was way before disco. They didn't start doing disco until 1975. Now all three of Barry's brothers are dead, Maurice, Robin, and Andy. He's been married to a second wife since 1970, and they have five kids. Gloria Estefan. She was born Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo Garcia in Havana, Cuba, 1957. 69 today. Now, she moved to the United States when she was two.

11:44 Brought her whole family with her and everything. Now, in the mid-70s, she was studying at the University of Miami when she met this guy named Emilio Estefan. Now, he asked her if she wanted to join his band. They were called the Miami Latin Boys. She said she'd join the band, so then they had to change their name because there was a girl in the band, so they couldn't be the Latin Boys. They became Miami Sound Machine. Of course, they ended up just being Gloria Estefan. Gloria, she sold 100 million records. Yeah, I don't know how many are in English and how many in Spanish. They didn't break it down. I would think at least half and half, probably more Spanish. Get on your feet, conga, rhythm gonna get you. Anything for you? That's some of her hits y'all hear. She doesn't really tour. Now, Gloria Shim and her and Emilio, they actually did marry in 1978 and they have a son. And a daughter.

12:26 All righty, our quote of the day today, it comes from Jerry Reed. Jerry died today in 2008 at 71 years old. Jerry said, pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith, and pray you're going to need it. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. I know you listen to us on, so we come right to you. Don't forget about Cool Country on our own radio. Want to hear the best country music out there? This is like today. We got Josh from Wisconsin. He wants to hear a Bobby Cool song, Waffle House. You guys all have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

13:27 And I would not be lying But if there's anything we've learned We don't need much to. Get by. It's been a long time coming down the highway Heading north and south on Highway 65 on good dining now so baby come on let's go out cause I think things are looking up now down at the Waffle House well anytime the day is right for us to come.

14:11 On wild. Home among the night time cry you know everything is better when it's covered in strife so girl let's head on down. For a little slice of life. It's been a long time coming down the highway heading north and south on highway 65 You're no longer down in our sub, baby. Come on, let's go out. Cause I think things I look at now, now, now, I do want to go out.