Aug. 31, 2026

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

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National Burnt ends day. Entertainment from 1986. 1st female telephone operators hired, Germany started WW2 by invading Poland, 1st San Francisco cable car began running. Todays birthdays - Engelbert Humperdinck (composer), Yvonne De Carlo, Conway Twitty, Lily Tomlin, Barry Gibb, Gloria Estefan. Jerry Reed died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Burnt Ends - Starlings TN
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Desperadio Love - Conway Twitty
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Ami I that easy to forget - Engelbert Humperdinck
Opera of Hanzel and Gretel - Engelbert Humperdinck
I'll follow you - Yvonne De Carlo
It's only make believe - Conway Twitty
Stayin alive - Bee Gees
3 kisses of love - Bee Gees
Get on your feet - Gloria Estefan
East bound & down - Jerry Reed
Exit - Waffle House - Bobby Cool Bobby Cool

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Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and

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Factoids About Today presented by Cool Media. Today's September the 1st.

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The counter's smiling back at me. She said, sonny boy.

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What can I do for you? And I said, you

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gotta give me the burnings.

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Give me the burnings. Give me the burnings.

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Cause it tastes like candy to me. Today is National

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Burnt Ends Day. Woo-hoo! Burnt ends, they come from the

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point of the brisket. Now, they were thought as trimmings

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and just throwaway meat, you know, stuff that nobody wanted

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to eat. They're the thinnest part of the brisket, so

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they really got charred. Well, Kansas City made that throwaway

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meat into Superstars. Now everybody sells it. Now, that's a

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good reason to go out to a barbecue restaurant today. Now,

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if you haven't tried some burnt ends, yeah, try some.

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I think you'll probably like it. Quite a few of

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your local barbecue restaurants are having deals today. All right,

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it is September. Now, September is Latin for seven. Used

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to be the seventh month. Birthstone is sapphire. Your signs

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are Virgo until the 22nd and then Libra. The birth

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flowers for September are forget-me-nots and morning glory. And the

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September full moon is the harvest moon. Let's see what

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happened in entertainment on September the 1st. Let's go back

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to 1986. Number one album was True Blue by Madonna.

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Steve Winwood had the number one song with Higher Love.

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Conway Twitty had it in one country song with Desperado Love.

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I don't see the wrong in stealing. So hold on,

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I'm gonna shoot for the heart. Like desperado's do.

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I got a desperate.

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The number one book was Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy.

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Top movie was Stand By Me. Four boys, they go

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on a journey to see the dead body of a

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missing boy. Stars William Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell.

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All right, what happened on September the 1st? 1822, William Bucknell,

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he left Arrow Rock, Missouri. He was heading west. Now

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he arrived in Santa Fe around November the 16th. He

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was able to find a route that he could actually

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drive a wagon on. See, now people heading west, they

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didn't have to take that northern Oregon trail route. Yep,

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there's a southern route. It's called the Santa Fe Trail. Now,

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she took the northern route. 1836, Narcissa Whitman. She is

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what they think is the first woman ever to settle

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west of the Rocky Mountains. She settled in, what did

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it say? Walla Walla, Washington.

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Yeah.

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Now, Walla Walla, if you're wondering, it's a Nez Perce

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Indian term. It means many waters. I guess there's a

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lot of creeks and streams up near Walla Walla. Now,

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somebody who lives in Walla Walla, Washington, they are called

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Walla Walla Lummons. Oh, God. 1873, after a month of testing,

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the first cable car in San Francisco we ran running

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went up and down Clay Street. 1878, Alexander Graham Bell,

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he needed to hire some telephone operators for his Boston

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Telephone Dispatch Center. Now, they would be the first telephone

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operators in world history. His job requirements were they had

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to be women, they had to be unmarried, they had

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to be between 17 and 26 years old, They had

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to be tall enough to reach the top of the switchboard.

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No black or Jewish women were allowed to apply. Now,

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the world's first telephone operator, it was Emma Nutt. The

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second telephone operator was her sister, Stella Nutt. Now, Emma,

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she was actually a telephone operator for 30 years. Stella, no,

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she left to get married. 1905, both Alberta and Saskatchewan

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became Canadian provinces. Yeah, the 8th and 9th. So congratulations,

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Alberta and Saskatchewan. Now, the next time you're out with

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your friends or your family, just enjoying the outdoors, maybe

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going on a hike or something, and you see a bird,

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and nobody can identify what kind of bird it is,

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tell them all it's a passenger pigeon. See how many

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of them know that the last passenger pigeon died today

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in 1914 in a zoo in Cincinnati. It was a

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female that was named Martha. So, yep, that's when passenger

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pigeons became extinct. Japan in 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake hit, 7.9

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on the Richter scale, destroyed the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama.

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Over 142,000 people were killed. Two million people were left homeless. 1939. Now,

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they knew they were going to do it. They kept

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saying they wouldn't do it, but everybody thought they were

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going to do it. Then they wouldn't. Then they didn't.

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Germany invaded Poland. Now, that officially started World War II.

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Two days later, Great Britain and France will declare war

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on Germany. Germany will return the favor. Everybody else picked

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a side. From 1949 to 1957, Clayton Moore. Now, he

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played the Lone Ranger on the TV. 169 episodes of

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the Lone Ranger. Then in 1979, a Los Angeles court

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ordered Clayton to stop wearing the Lone Ranger costume. 65-year-old Clayton,

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he would dress as the Lone Ranger in his costume. Yeah,

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to go to like supermarket openings, bank openings, birthday parties,

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that kind of stuff. Well, the people who own the

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rights to the Lone Ranger, they didn't like that. So

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they sued him to stop. Well, of course they won.

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But that really pissed off the general public when word

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got out about it. So much so that those people

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who own it were like, hey, Clayton, we were just kidding, man.

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You can go ahead and dress like the Lone Ranger.

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We don't care. Doesn't it be kind of embarrassing as

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a government official? 1992 in Jonasburg, Louisiana. They had to

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close their office for public health. Yeah, they had themselves

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a rat problem. Well, let's just see who was born

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on September the 1st. Now, if I tell you it's

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Inglebert Humperdinck's birthday, you probably expect me to play this song.

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I just can't let you walk away.

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Forget the love.

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I had for you. Guess I could find somebody new.

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Well, that would be wrong. See, that was actually Arnold Dorsey. See,

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Arnold Dorsey changed his name to Engelbert Humperdinck in the

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1960s to get some exposure. Now, this is the original

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Engelbert Humperdinck. composer Inkobert Hunkberdink was born in Germany today

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in 1854. Now he is most famous for his opera

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Hansel and Gretel. So unless you're into 1800s German composers,

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that's all you really need to know. Now, that's true.

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Now he died from a heart attack while watching an

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opera in 1921, 67 years old. It's meant for me.

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That was actress Yvonne DiCarlo. Now, she was born in Vancouver,

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Canada in 1922. Now, in her biggest movie, she played

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Moses' wife. Yeah, it was an epic movie, The Ten Commandments. Well,

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people forget that she was a shepherd's daughter and that,

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but they do remember her for TV. She played Lily

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Munster on The Munsters. Yeah, they forget she was married

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to Moses, but they all remember that she was married

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to Herman. She married once for 20 years when they

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divorced and they had two sons. Yvonne, she died from

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heart failure in 2007, 84 years old. When Harold Jenkins

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released his very first song, it was back in 1958. Everybody,

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they thought it was Elvis Presley using a fake name.

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My hopes and my dreams come true.

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Nope, that wasn't Elvis. That was Harold Jenkins. But Harold,

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he did go by the name Conway Twitty. Conway, he

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was born in Friars Point, Mississippi in 1933. Now, he

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wanted to be a country singer, but the record company

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made him a rock and roll singer. Now, he was

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a big rock star. But then in the 1960s, when

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the British invasion hit and music changed, they said, all right, Conway,

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you can go ahead and do your country stuff now.

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So he started singing country in 1965. He was so

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happy he was able to sing what he wanted to

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sing all along. Sold over 50 million country records, which

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was huge back then. He had 55 number one songs.

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That is second all time to George Strait. Strait, he

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had 60 number one songs. Now Conway, he had one

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son from his first wife. Married his second wife for

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28 years and they had two daughters and one son.

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Married his third wife in 1987. They were together until

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he died in 1993 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. 59

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years old. Actress, comedian, Lily Tomlin. She's 87. She was

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born in Detroit in 1939. She's done a lot of

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Broadway over the years. She's even won two Tonys. She

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got famous for the TV show Laugh-In. And then later on,

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she was on Murphy Brown, The West Wing, Grace and Frankie. 1970,

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she was nominated for an Oscar for the movie Nashville.

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Some of her other movies were in 9 to 5,

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The Incredible Shinking Roman, All of Me. Lily and her wife,

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they've been together since 1971.

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One little thing, do your time.

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Don't pay for me Maybe you'll remember when you Barry Gibb,

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he sang late for the Bee Gees. Barry's 80. He

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was born on the Isle of Man in 1946. It's

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a British colony. Now, he formed the Bee Gees with

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his twin brothers, Robin and Maurice, in 1958. Yeah, he

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was 12 when they were 10. Called themselves the Rattlesnakes. Well,

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now they've sold over 225 million records. Now, the very

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first song that actually hit the charts, it was called

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Three Kinds of Love. Yeah, it hit in Australia.

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Kiss me once, oh yeah, baby. Kiss me twice, oh yeah, crazy.

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Kiss me three times, the three kisses are wild.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah, got all the way up to 98 on Australia's

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pop chart in 1963. I'm betting, at least I would,

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I think the Bee Gees of disco, that's all you

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really kind of know about them. But get this, they

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actually started hitting in the United States and England in 1967.

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That's when they started having their hit songs. So that

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was way before disco. They didn't start doing disco until 1975.

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Now all three of Barry's brothers are dead, Maurice, Robin,

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and Andy. He's been married to a second wife since 1970,

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and they have five kids. Gloria Estefan. She was born

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Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo Garcia in Havana, Cuba, 1957. 69 today. Now,

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she moved to the United States when she was two.

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Brought her whole family with her and everything. Now, in

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the mid-70s, she was studying at the University of Miami

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when she met this guy named Emilio Estefan. Now, he

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asked her if she wanted to join his band. They

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were called the Miami Latin Boys. She said she'd join

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the band, so then they had to change their name

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because there was a girl in the band, so they

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couldn't be the Latin Boys. They became Miami Sound Machine.

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Of course, they ended up just being Gloria Estefan. Gloria,

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she sold 100 million records. Yeah, I don't know how

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many are in English and how many in Spanish. They

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didn't break it down. I would think at least half

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and half, probably more Spanish. Get on your feet, conga,

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rhythm gonna get you. Anything for you? That's some of

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her hits y'all hear. She doesn't really tour. Now, Gloria

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Shim and her and Emilio, they actually did marry in

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1978 and they have a son.

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And a daughter.

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All righty, our quote of the day today, it comes

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from Jerry Reed. Jerry died today in 2008 at 71

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years old. Jerry said, pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard,

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and keep the faith, and pray you're going to need it. Well,

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thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us.

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I know you listen to us on, so we come

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right to you. Don't forget about Cool Country on our

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own radio. Want to hear the best country music out there?

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This is like today. We got Josh from Wisconsin. He

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wants to hear a Bobby Cool song, Waffle House. You

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guys all have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

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And I would not be lying But if there's anything

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we've learned We don't need much to.

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Get by.

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It's been a long time coming down the highway Heading

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north and south on Highway 65 on good dining now

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so baby come on let's go out cause I think

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things are looking up now down at the Waffle House

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well anytime the day is right for us to come.

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On wild.

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Home among the night time cry you know everything is

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better when it's covered in strife so girl let's head

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on down.

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For a little slice of life.

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It's been a long time coming down the highway heading

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north and south on highway 65 You're no longer down

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in our sub, baby.

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Come on, let's go out.

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Cause I think things I look at now, now, now,

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I do want to go out.

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

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