Sept. 29, 2026

Sept 30-Chewing Gum, Johnny Mathis, Greg Brady, Marty Stuart, Jenna Elfman, T-Pain, Howdy Doody, The Flintstones

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National chewing gum day. Entertainment from 1970. Howdy Doodiy went off the air- Flintstones debuted, 1st time Ether was used, 1st execution by the Pilgrams. Todays birthdays - Buddy Rich, Angie Dickinson, Johnny Mathis, Frankie Lymon, Deborah Allen, Barry Williams, Fran Drescher, Marty Stuart, Jenna Elfman, T Pain. James dean died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://diannacorcoran.com/
Choo'n gum - Teresa Brewer
Aint no mountain high enough - Diana Ross
There must be more to love than this - Jerry Lee Lewis
Howdy Doody Tv theme
Flintstones TV theme
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Drum solo by Buddy Rich
Chances are - Johnny Mathis
Why do fools fall in love - Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
Baby I lied - Deborah Allen
Time to change - Brady kids
Hillbilly rock - Marty Stuart
I'm in love with a stripper - T Pain
Exit - This love is a fire - Jangle Wave On Spotify

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Well, hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and

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Fact Toys About Today, presented by Cool Media. Today's September

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the 30th. Today is National Chewing Gum Day.

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Woo-hoo!

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In 2007, archaeologists found the oldest piece of chewing gum

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that they knew of. Found it near Karakiki, Finland. Dates

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back 5,000 years. It even had teeth marks in it. Now,

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it was made from bark tar. So that means that

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people have been chewing gum for a long time. Now,

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the chewing gum that we know, it started in about

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the mid-1800s. Now, originally, chewing gum, it started out, it

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was all natural. Yeah, today, there's nothing natural about chewing gum.

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But it is good for reducing stress, helps you lose weight,

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quit tobacco, good for cleaning your teeth and freshening your breath. Now,

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I'm not saying you need it, but hey, choose some

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gum today. Four out of five kids recommend it. So,

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what happened in entertainment on September 30th back in 1970? Well,

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the number one album was Cosmos Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

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Diana Ross had the number one song with Ain't No

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Mountain High Enough. The killer Jerry Lee Lewis had the

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number one country song. There must be more to love

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than this.

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And on my lips I can taste your goodnight.

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Kiss In my room the fragrance of your perfume.

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Lingers And I know there must be more to love than.

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This That number one selling book was Love Story by

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Eric Segal. Top movie was Tora Tora Tora. It's all

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about Japan bombing Pearl Harbor. Stars Jason Robards, Sue Yamamura,

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and Martin Balsam. All right, what happened on September the 30th? Well,

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I think we all know that in every community they

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have that one family. Yeah, I think you know what

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I'm talking about. Well, in 1630 in Plymouth, that one

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family was the Billington. John Billington, he had come over

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on the Mayflower, and his whole family was constantly doing

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something to piss off the pilgrims. Now, his wife, she

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was even sentenced to the stocks and had to be

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whipped for slander. Well, the pilgrims, they finally had enough today. Yep,

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they hung John. Yeah, he was the first criminal executed

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here by Europeans in America. So what'd he do? He

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murdered his neighbor. 1659 in New Netherlands. Now that colony,

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it covered what today is New York, Delaware, New Jersey,

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parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Connecticut. So New Netherlands, they

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outlawed playing tennis during religious services. 1841, Samuel Slocum, he

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invented the stapler. 1946, American dentist William Morton, he became

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the first to use the anesthetic ether. Yeah, he used

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it to pull a guy's tooth. It went so well

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that every dentist started using ether. Then, of course, it

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spread to other operations. 1941, at the Babi Yar ravine

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over there near Kiev in the Ukraine. Over two days,

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Nazis shot to death or buried alive 33,771 Jews. 1942, U.S.

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Admiral Chester Nimitz, he was on a B-17 airplane being

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taken to the Battle of Guadalcanal. Well, the pilots got lost,

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but not just lost. They got hopelessly lost. Well, the

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tail gunner, he was in the back. He was reading

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a magazine. He gave the pilots that magazine. Yep, allowed

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them to find out where they were, and they took

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them straight to Guadalcanal. How was that? Oh, they just

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followed the maps that were printed in the National Geographic magazine.

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Hey kids, what time is it?

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It was a very sad day today in 1960. Howdy

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Doody aired his very last episodes.

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Yeah, that kid's show had been on the air since 1947. 2,554 episodes.

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But....

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That night, the Flintstones made their TV debut. First animated

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primetime TV show ever. Now, I'll take the Flintstones over

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Howdy Doody.

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All right, let's check out who was born on.

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September the 30th. That was drummer Buddy Rich. He was

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born in New York City in 1917. He's considered possibly

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the best drummer of all time. Never took a lesson,

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started drumming at two years old. 1930s, he was the

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second highest paid child entertainer in the world. Yep, he

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was behind Shirley Temple. 1937, got a jazz band, and

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then he went into the big orchestras and all that

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kind of stuff. He married a showgirl in 1953. They

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had a daughter. Buddy, he was on tour in 1987

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when he died from a brain tumor at 69 years old.

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Actress Angie Dickinson is 95. She was born in Combe,

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North Dakota in 1931. Acted from 1954 to 2009. Made

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over 50 movies. Some were Gun the Man Down, Real Bravo,

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Ocean's Eleven, The Killers. Now, she really hit big on TV.

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She starred in Police Woman. Her second husband was songwriter

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Burt Baccarat. They were married for 15 years. When they divorced,

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they had a daughter.

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Chances are Chances are you think that I'm in love

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with you.

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Johnny Mathis is 91 years old today. He was born

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in Gilmer, Texas in 1935. He still tours. He's released

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73 albums. 60 of them have gone either gold or platinum.

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Sold over 360 million records. That puts him third all

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time behind Elvis and Michael Jackson. He's sung pop, Spanish, soul,

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R & B, show tunes, blues, country, soft rock. Some

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of his hits are Not For Me To Say, Chances Are,

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Certain Kind of Smile, Twelfth and New. Johnny, he hasn't

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married yet. That's probably because he's gay.

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Why do fools fall in love?

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Why do birds sing so gay?

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Love is my way to save the day.

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Why do they fall in love? Why?

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That was Frankie Lyman singing. He was born in Harlem,

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New York in 1942. He sang lead for the Teenagers. Now,

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they were the first integrated group. Yeah, when they formed

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in 1954, they had three black members and two Puerto Ricans.

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That's integration. Now, once they hit, though, they got so huge,

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they changed the name, though. Then it was Frankie Lyman

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and the Teenagers. Now, 14-year-old Frankie, he was singing that song,

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Why Do Fools Fall in Love, on the TV show

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Big Beat. He danced with a white girl from the audience.

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People went bat crap crazy. That show ended up getting

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canceled for that. Some of their other hits are I

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Want You to Be My Girl, ABC's Love, Goody Goody. Now, Frankie,

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he started getting so hot, he ditched the teenagers. He

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went solo. Yeah, bad call. That didn't work out at all.

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Frankie died from a heroin overdose in 1968 at 25

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years old. Country singer Debra Allen, 73. She was born

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in Memphis, Tennessee. Started out as a teenage beauty queen,

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and she went into country music. Some of her hits

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are Oh, How I Miss You Tonight, Baby, I Lied,

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I've Been Wrong Before. She's had a lot of success

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as a songwriter, too. She's written her own hit songs,

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and she wrote hits for Janie Frankie, and John Coley,

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Patti Loveless, Tanya Tucker. Just some of them. She still performs.

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She's been married to her second husband for over 20 years.

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Rocker Barry Williams is 72. He was born in Santa Monica, California.

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Of course, he's best known for playing Greg Brady on

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the Brady Bunch. Really got himself typecast there. But they

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did a lot of specials. That kind of worked out.

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You know, in some of the last specials they did,

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he was Dr. Greg Breen. Now, Barry, yeah. two children

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from his second wife married his third wife in 2017

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now back in 2002 in britain i think y'all know

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who singer peter gabriel is he wrote a song called

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barry williams show now after his album was released they

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were told hey there's an american actor named barry williams

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well peter he was a good sport he flew barry

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over to england and had him star in the video

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Actress Fran Drescher. She was born in Queens, New York.

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She's 69. Most known for starring on the sitcom The Nanny.

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She had small roles in Saturday Night Fever, Dr. Detroit.

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This is Spinal Tap. She voiced Eunice in all those

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Hotel Transylvania movies. Now, she started dating her future husband

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back in high school. Yep, they were 15 years old.

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They were so in love, they married at 21 years old.

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Then they divorced at 42. Turns out the guy was gay. Fran,

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she's a 20-year cancer survivor, though, so that's really cool.

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Come from Mississippi and down in Alabama Creeping like a

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fever all across the land From deep in the Delta

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on the Louisiana shore The people got to have it,

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they want to.

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Hear some forest So he'll give it rock, beat it

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with a drum Playing guitars like shooting.

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From a gun Country singer Marty Stewart is 68. He

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was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Started out in a band

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for Lester Flats, and then he went into Johnny Cash's band.

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Got his own record deal in the 1980s. Started over

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30 songs. Some of his big ones are Hillbilly Rock,

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Western Girls, Cry, Cry, Cry, Tempted. His first wife was

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Johnny Cash's sister, or his daughter, Cindy. Now, they were

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married for five years. Then in 1997, he married country

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singer Connie Smith. Actress Jenna Elfman. She was born in

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Los Angeles. She's 55 today. She really hit starring on

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TV's Dharma and Greg. Yeah, she was Dharma. She was

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on Fear of the Walking Dead from 2018 to 2023.

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Some of her movies are Ed TV, Keeping the Faith,

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Friends with Benefits. She married in 1995, and they have

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two children. That'd be rapper T-Pain. T-Pain is 42 years old.

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He was born in Tallahassee, Florida. A few of his

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big hits are Buy You a Drink, Can't Believe It,

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I'm in Love with the Stripper, 5 O'Clock. He's had

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12 number one songs. He's probably greatest success in his

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whole career, though. Yeah, he won the first season of

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The Masked Singer. He got married in 2003, and they

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have three children. Let's end with actor James Dean. He

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was killed today in a car crash in 1955 at

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24 years old. James says, dream as if you'll live forever,

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live as if you'll die today. Thank you all for

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joining us today. We sure appreciate you listening. Don't make

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to like Country Underground Radio, Grace and Grit Radio, coolmedia.com. Now,

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today's Country Underground Radio Artist of the Day. Our friends

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over there at Django Wave, they got a hold of

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me and they said, hey, we wrote a country song.

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You can put it on country grand radio. So you guys,

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this whole sound is based on a 12-string guitar. I

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don't know how it's going to be country. Ah, trust us,

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you'll put it on there. All right, sure. What do

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you guys think? Have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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Sunrise through the windowpane Coffee brewing my sweet refrain But

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something new Buzz a little dead My heart's a drum

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Steady beat Tapping at a rhythm So sweet.

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All this love's a fire Burning higher and higher Could

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warm my soul Could torch my home I don't know

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if our love will roam Your smile would spark a

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tiny flame.

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Whispering my secret name. My world, it spins a dizzy whirl.

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Will you be.

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My forever girl? My heart's a drum, a steady beat,

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tapping out a rhythm so sweet.

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Oh, this.

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I don't know if our love will roam Before I

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even knew your name I wondered

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If it would go up in flames It started strong

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with lots of heat Posted in fruit

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