Sept 29-Coffee! Jerry Lee Lewis, Grand Funk Railroad, Andrew Dice Clay, Halsey, Lacy Underall, Heaviest Person

0:10 Hello everybody, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factu. It's about today, presented by Cool Media Today, September the twenty ninth. Way down among Brazilians, coffee fiends drove fives of Asians, so they've forgotten to find. Those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil. It is National Coffee Day. That makes sense following Drink Beer Day that was yesterday. Sixty three percent of Americans drink coffee daily, average about two and a half cups apiece coffee. It was discovered by a goat farmer in Yemen in the fourteen hundreds. Now when the Brady has started taxing the hell out of the tea in the American colonies in the seventeen hundreds, yeah, colonists just switched over to coffee. America has never switched back. There are deals everywhere today pretty much. If they so coffe, they're giving them away today. Well most places anyway. Now Krispy Kreme, you'll actually even get a free donut if you get some coffee there. Some of the other free coffee is our circle k I'm dunkin donut. It's white Castle Starbucks Perkins.

1:12 You know, if you go on the websites to Carrick and Coffee Mate, they'll even send you some free stuff. Get this though, It's International Coffee Day is October the first, so a lot of these places that are giving away free coffee there is extending it all the way until the first. So enjoy some coffee. She's going on in entertainment on September the twenty ninth, let's back to nineteen fifty five. Number one album was Love Me or Leave Me by doors Day. Mitch Miller had the number one song with the Yellow Rose of Texas. As they got a low rolls in Texas. Nobody I'll.

1:58 Web Bears had the number one country song, I Don't Care, I don't. Care fim Lot the first love you long Gosh Solby the last No, I don't Care if. Fin Lot the first one you Kid. The top book was Marjorie Morning Star by Herman Walk. Top movie was to Helen Back. It's the true story of the most decorated soldier in US history. Audie Murphy. Yeah, it was during World War Two. Stars Audie Murphy, he played himself, then Marshall Thompson and Charles Drake nineteen sixty three, the Rolling Stones. They went out on the Verse Tour.

2:42 They were the opening act for Bo Diddley and the Everly Brothers. Okay, let's see what happened. On September the twenty ninth, eighteen twenty nine, the world's first modern police force hit the streets and in London, England. Now, you would have thought they'd have given him a cool name or a really intimidating name. No, they just call them bobbies. Named him after their boss, Robert Peel. Nineteen sixteen, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller gave the world's first billionaire. Today there are currently two thousand and seven and eighty one billionaires throughout the world. Nineteen twenty three, in Britain, they took over control of Palestine. Now that was the peak of the geographical British Empire. The British Empire had covered fourteen million square miles, which is one fourth of the entire globe. Nineteen sixty six, Chevy started selling the Camaro.

3:25 Well actually they started out selling it, called it the Panther. Yeah, they quickly switched the name to Camaro though. And we'll talk about this guy later on. But nineteen seventy six Jerry Lee Lewis. He got really drunk celebrating his birthday, pulled out a gun and started shooting at a whole bunch of empty bottles. Missed every one of them. Bottles hit his bass player Norman, almost twice in the chest, though owns he did live nineteen ninety. It took eighty three years, but construction for the Washington Cathedral was finally completed. Joke joke, joke, show shimmer Oday. We gonna pause. He left this shivery. We want simple cause he left this Shubursday, and you know we don't do because that's.

4:07 Worth to you. Let's check out who was born on September the twenty ninth. I'm back in the saddle again. We're a friend. There's a friend. Were along one cattle feed on the little a gymption weed. I'm back in the saddle again. The singing cowboy Genatry. He was born in Toyoga, Texas, in nineteen oh seven. Between nineteen thirty four and nineteen fifty three, started ninety three movies, usually played a straight shooting hero. Is also a big country music star, recorded over six hundred songs now between his records and movies. He's the one who really helped make country music more mainstream. Unless he'll build gene, you know him, I have asks me. Best known for his Christmas songs, though he's the one who originally recorded Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman. Here comes Santa Claus Now. He is the only person to have five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He's got one for film, television, music, radio, and live performance. Married his first wife in nineteen thirty two. They were together until she died in nineteen eighty married again in nineteen eighty one, and they were together until he died nineteen ninety eight at ninety one years old from lymphoma.

5:17 You shake my right, the man singing you wrote My Women for you. Great great ball, the. Killer Jerley Lewis. He was born in Faraday, Louisiana, in nineteen thirty five. Rock and Rolls, First wild Man, First bad Boy. He's one of the greatest piano players of all time too. Some of his classic kids are a whole lot of shaking going on, Great Balls of Fire, Breathless, High School Confidential nineteen fifty seven, nineteen fifty eight, Biggest Star in the world. Then he married his thirteen year old cousin. Yep, crashed and burned big time late sixties through the mid seventies, he had a fairly successful run in country music. Now his cousin, she wasn't his first wife.

6:08 Now again it's kind of complicated, so we'll start off with this. He married his seventh wife in twenty twelve. Now they were married until he died in twenty twenty two at eighty seven years old. His funeral was actually performed by his cousin Billy or Jimmy Swagger. So now it gets complicated. So he had six kids spread out between his six previous wives. But where it gets complicated is he was married to some of those women at the same time. Yeah, he didn't always let so the the divorce didn't take place. So he was married and then it was an old then was married. Oh whatever it was. But anyway, we knew to his first wife. He married her when he was sixteen. Then when he was twenty two, that's when he married his cousin. Yeah, he was thirteen year old cousin, Yep, he was. That was she was his third wife. Actually actor larr Linville.

7:07 He was born in oj, California in nineteen thirty nine. Best known for playing Major Frank Burns on the TV show Match Now. He left mash after five seasons. He wanted to pursue other acting projects. Yeah, it was a really bad mood. They're wornting. He's still known as Frank Burns from the TV series match He had a daughter from his for his first wife, married his fifth wife in nineteen ninety three. They're together until he died in two thousand from complications from cancer surgery. Sixty years old. John Maynoch He was born in Seattle, Washington in nineteen forty one. He's the heaviest recorded human in history. At his peak, he ateh fourteen hundred pounds. When he was twelve, he weigh two hundred ninety four pounds. He had five hundred pounds of twenty two stood sixty one. If that helps you kind of guess now once he actually did go from fourteen hundred pounds to four and seventy six pounds in two years. That nine hundred and twenty four pounds that he lost, that's the most weight any humans ever lost. He got back up to seven and ninety eight when he died. In nineteen eighty three, at forty one years old. He was married and had two children.

8:05 Actress comedian Madvin Con She was born in Boston. In nineteen forty two, she was nominated for Oscars for Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles. Some of her other movies Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part One, Betsy's Wedding. She was a really good singer. Yeah, she even did some Broadway. She was married when she died from ovarian cancer in nineteen ninety nine at fifty seven years old.

8:46 That was the original lead singer for a Grand Funk Railroad. Mark Farner, Mark seventy six. He was born in Flint, Michigan, in nineteen forty eight. Now, when the guys were forming their band back there in Flint, they had the Grand Western Railroad that ran through town. Looking for a band name and they say, hey, they just changed it to Grand Funk Roilroad and they were off and running. That was nineteen sixty nine. Mark. He left in nineteen seventy six to go solo. Now he's gone back a couple times and done some reunion shows with him. Biggest hits with Mark singing where We're an American band The Locomotion some kind of wonderful bad time Now. Mark, he's just getting really ready to release his seventh solo album in November. He does some touring over the years. Mark. He's been married for over forty years. Actors Cindy Morgan. She was born in Chicago in nineteen fifty four. Best known for playing Lacy under All in the movie Caddy Shack. She was also in the original Tron movie Now in Caddy Shack in the scene where she walks around the pool and then she climbs the ladder to the high dive and then makes that perfect dive. Yeah, and all those guys areing around the swimming pool are sucking in their guts and stuff. Well, see once they completed that scene, when she did the dive and everything, everyone on the set had a huge sigh of relief. See, she was technically blind. She really couldn't see what she was doing, so everyone was afraid that she was going to hurt herself falling into the poll or taking a header off the high dive or something. But nope, she pulled it off flawlessly. She had one daughter, Cindy. She just died from natural causes last year at sixty nine years old.

10:09 Comedian actor Andrew Dice Clay's sixty seven. He's born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty seven, late nineteen eighties, early nineteen nineties. Dice he was as popular as any comedian possibly could be. But that's when political correctness came in and yeah, kind of ruined his stick. But he's still off the touring if you want to see him. Some of his movie is Our Private Resort Casual Sack Adventures of forfair Lane. Recently he's gotten a lot of critical acclaim for his acting in Blue Jasmine and the Stars Born. The critics just loved him. He has three times divorced and has two sons from his second wife. Of the coupe and Beef. Mufty of Trusting Hices and tested. Rolled it down and brought myself back together again in mirror and punched it to shot us, connected the pieces and picked down and of being skin in the scene things because in Ostock could cut some parts off with some sisters.

11:04 Ashley Fingerpang. She is world famous simply as Halsey's thirty years old the day she was born at Edison, New Jersey in nineteen ninety four. She's been streamed six billion times and sold over fifty million records. Some of her hits without Me east Side, Bad at Love, Biggest It might have been with the Chainsmokers when they did that Sound Closer. She has a son from an accident. She just annow a couple of weeks ago that she is engaged. Let's go back to coffee. You know coffee is actually a fruit. Well, thank you for being here today. If he gets chance, follow us whenever you listen to a song and come see us at coolmedia dot com. That's cool. Three ers, Let's end today with Helen. Ready, my woman who. Here here rollers in number's two big two wign and too much to go back to containing I was offered all the photos up and down there on the floor.

11:58 No one is ever Helen. She died today in twenty twenty, at seventy eight years old. She says, hindsight is wonderful. It's always easy to second guess after the fact. You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.