Sept 7- Beer! Grandma Moses, Buddy Holly, Marge Simpson, The Pretenders, Easy E, Shannon Elizabeth, Corbin Benrsen

0:19 Hi, I'm Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today. Today's September the seventh. I like weird. It makes me a jolly good I like wear. It helps me on wine, and then sometimes it makes leave you. Today is National Beer Lover's Day, and it's on the weekend. Now the kids are back in school, summer is unofficially over. Winter's weather's ster really nice out, So why not just celebrate beer today? Now, if you love your beer, you know how to celebrate today. If you don't, let bear, yeah, you gotta be designated driver. All right, this is going on entertainment. I sept there in the seventh. Let's back here.

1:07 Twenty twenty four number one album was Short and Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter Shaboozie add the number one song a bar song or tipsy body? How do I wait so hard? Can'tber found? My problem? Can win one? Here comes two seven threes to the four, sell them, bring another out? We need to fit anymore. Two stepping on the table. She don't need it to dance for Oh mind? It's the number country song too. Sell I'm gonna come here the Devil shot of whiskey. They't on me and Jay Dam's got of History. There's a party downtown near par Street. Everybody had the barget everybody had the barking tips, everybody had the market.

2:01 The number one book was It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover. The top movie was Beetle Justice Beetlejuice. Three generations of their family returned to the home that's still haunted by Beetlejuice. Stars Michael Keaton Went on a Rider and Catherine O'Hara, Ah what happened On September the seventh, sixteen thirty Boston, Massachusetts was founded. Named it after the city of Boston and Lakeshire, England that was founded by English Puritans. Eighteen twelve. The Battle of Borodino. It was fought between Napoleon's French army and the Russian army outside of Moscow. Now it was the bloodiest battle that Napoleon fought. Yeah, over seventy thousand soldiers on both sides were killed in that one day of fighting. Now, the French did win, but the Russians were able to they didn't have to surrender.

2:42 They were able to make a kind of a oh, kind of a controlled retreat sort of thing. So Napoleon. He was able to occupy Moscow, but with all the Russian soldiers still around, Yeah, it wasn't a peaceful occupation. Eighteen eighty George Lagowski, he invented a device to throw clay pigeons for draps. So way to go, George trap shooting Cley pigeon thrower. Who would have thought. Eighteen eighty eight, a baby named Edith mcclan. She made history. She was the first baby to put into a baby incubator. Yeah. She was born premature in a New York hospital. They happened to have one of these new baby incubators there, so they put her in there. Yeah she lived. Nineteen oh two, there was a horrible drought hitting Australia hard, I mean the whole country or continent. Yeah. They were losing all their crops and livestock. So today they made it a day in national prayer. The entire nation prayed for rain, all at the exact same time. It rained three days later, on September tenth. Yep, no rain was in the forecast at all. Nineteen fifteen. Raggedy end doll was invented by Dude Johnny Grilly. World War two. In nineteen forty Germany, they started bombing London, England. Now they bombed London for fifty seven straight nights. Now that actually strengthened the Britain's resolve in order to fight Hitler. They ended up causing him to after cancel the invasion he was going to do on the island. Nineteen sixty eight, let ze They played their very first show. They weren't led Zeppelin yet, they called themselves the new Yardbirds. The show was in at Denmark College in front of about twelve hundred students. Nineteen seventy seven, US President Jamie Carter, he signed the Panama Canal Treaty. Now, the treaty read

4:14 that even though the United States paid for it, even though the United States built it, Panama, you could have it back in nineteen ninety nine. Then, when nineteen ninety nine rolled around, Bill Clinton said, hey, Jimmy said they can have it. What do you expect me to do? ESPN went on the air in nineteen seventy nine. Today stood for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Since nineteen eighty five, ESPN stands for just ESPN Now. The first show that they aired yeah Sports Center twenty twenty one and l Salvador. They began the first country to make bitcoin their official currency. Coke joked, joke, show dish Shibbert day. Please he left this shibf day.

4:55 We don't, simple Carge, he left this Shibbert day, and you don't dou. Okay who was born on September the seventh artists Grandma Moses. She was born Anna Robertson in Greenwich, New York, in eighteen sixty and when she was twenty seven years old, she married Thomas Moses. They lived on a farm. They had ten children, only five of them maxi'survived infancy, though Thomas he died in nineteen twenty seven. So Grandma Moses and one of her sons they ran the farm. Now, most of her life she would so embroidered pictures for her family and friends and that kind of stuff. Then when she got about seventy six years old, her arthritis in her hands were so bad she couldn't embroider anymore, so she started painting. Yeah, paint brushes are a lot thicker than needles. She painted landscapes and scenes of rural American life. She painted over fifteen hundred paintings. Then she died.

5:41 You better start selling them, so she sold their first paintings for three dollars and five dollars each. Later on she sold them for eight thousand and ten thousand dollars each. A couple of years ago, one of Grandma Moses painting sold for one point two million dollars. She died in nineteen sixty one at one hundred and one years old. Actor Peter lauferd He was born in London, England, in nineteen twenty three. He was in the original Ocean's Eleven The Longest Day. He's not a bunch of movies. He's part of the rat pack, you know, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and all those guys. Then Peter, he really got famous when he married Patricia Kennedy. That meant that John and Bobby Kennedy's were his brother in law's. They were married for twelve years. They had four kids together. Peter married his fourth wife just a couple months before he died in nineteen eighty four at sixty one years old. He had a lot of years of some really hard drinking.

6:23 He had got him both his kidney and liver of the out quit working. Now you might not recognize the name Don Messick, but you would recognize his voice. See. He was the voice of Scooby Doo Bam Bam, Rebel, Astro the Dog on the Jetsons, Yogi and Booboo Bear, Papa S. Murphy, Yeah, oh a lot more. He voiced from nineteen forty one to nineteen ninety six. He was born in Buffalo, New York, in nineteen twenty six. He got married nineteen forty nine. They were together until he died from a stroke in nineteen ninety seven at seventy one years old. You know it's the day.

7:09 Buddy all. He was one of Lubbock, Texas in nineteen thirty six. Started out as a country singer. Then in nineteen fifty five, this guy came to Lubbuck and he was going to do a show there, but he didn't have an opening band, but he said, yeah, I'll open for him. Well, after Buddy watched Elvis Presley perform, Yeah, he immediately switched from country to rock and roll. Now we all know how the Buddy Holly story ends with the plane crash. He's only twenty two years old when that happened. He still in that short time he released three albums. Yeah, that's that'll be the day, Peggy Sue Maybe Baby oh Boy. He'd been ried six months when he died. Drumble Disco queen Gloria Gaynor is eighty two.

8:04 She was born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen forty three. She still performs yeah some of her big hits. I never can say goodbye. I will survive. Let me know I am what I am Gloria. She was married from nineteen seventy nine to two thousand and five, divorced, he didn't die. Actors Julie Kavner. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifties, so she's seventy five today. She first got known on the TV sitcom Rota. She played Brenda Yoda's younger sister. Of course, She's best known, though, for being the voice of Marge Simpson on The Simpsons. She also voices Marge's mom and both of her sisters. Julie. She's been in six Woody Allen movies. If you want to see her act She lived with her boyfriend from nineteen seventy six until he died in twenty twenty two.

8:44 No one's sure if they ever actually married. I gotta Sun. Went out me. As long as you don't jack him, my babe, the kid to the vote, Come on now. Yeah, The Pretenders. They have a new album out and they just finished touring Latin America. Their lead singer, guitar player, and primary songwriter, Chrissy Hines, is seventy four. She's born in Akron, Ohio, in nineteen fifty one. She formed The Pretenders in nineteen seventy eight. Now Chrissy and the drummer Martin Chambers, they're the only original members still with the band.

9:28 Passing up Pocket Talk of the Town back on the chain Gang. Don't get me wrong, that's some Pretender's hits. Chrissy. She had a daughter from Ray Davies, remember him. He was the lead singer for the Kings. Then she married Jim Kerr, he was the lead singer for the band Simple Minds, and they had a daughter. Then she married a Columbian sculptor just for a couple of years. Actor Corbyn Benson, and he's born in nineteen fifty four in North Hollywood, makes him seventy one today. He first really got ann playing Arnie Becker on La Low. Then he was in Psych and The Resident. Some of his movies were the Major League movies, the dentist movies, Kis Kiss Ban Ban Corbin. He married his second wife in nineteen eighty eight and they have four sons. Get this, Corbyn. He is over nine thousand snow globes. It's one of the largest snow globe snow globe collections in the entire world.

10:33 That was Jermaine Stewart. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, in nineteen fifty seven. In the eighties he had the heads we don't have to take her clothes off. Say it again, Get lucky, Jody, now Jermaine. He was openly gay, and his family did not like that at all, so much so that when he died from AIDS in nineteen ninety seven at thirty nine years old, his grave did not have a tombstone or even a grave marker on it for seventeen years. Then in twenty fourteen, an anonymous fan finally paid to have a gravestone put on it. The damn welfs clearly bout out dawn put it coming on. Why do you take seven minutes on your neighborhood count down?

11:14 Because I damn song put them down? If I leave im one I'm coming out top. You have no idea how hard it is to find a clean version of that song or any n w A song. Actually, now that was rapper Easy E. He was born Eric Wright in Compton, California, in nineteen sixty four. Considered the godfather of Gangster rep help form nw A in nineteen eighty seven, surprisingly as popular as they are still today. They only released two albums straight out of Compton, Gangster, Gangster, Express Yourself f the Police. Now I changed that, but yeah, those are all n w A songs. Easy He released one solo album. Now. He had a son and a daughter with his wife, and then he had another nine kids from seven other women.

11:56 He died from a's in nineteen ninety five at thirty years old. Shannon and Elizabeth is fifty two. She was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen seventy three. She got fam Inflating Nadia and the American Pie movies. Then she did a couple of Jay and Silent Bob movies. Scary movie. She got killed in that, and she's named Tom Katz. She and her second husband, they're living in South Africa helping him with wildlife conservation, saving rhinos and elephants and stuff. Alrighty, our quote of the day is gonna come from the original drummer for the band The Who, Keith Moon. He died today in nineteen seventy eight at thirty two years old. Keith said, I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set of drums. See, I was a mental drummer. Keith died from a drug overduse. Well, thank you all for listening today. We sure appreciate it, and don't forget to follow us on who you listen to a song so you can always find us. It comes here as at coolmedia dot com. That's cool. Three ohs Our Country underground radio artists of the day. Well, in honor a bear day, we're gonna just go we buck Ford and his song cold Beer. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

12:53 It all started with a colder. Yeah you words whispered in enteryar and hand me get on now of here. And it was down some back road in the backseat, up close. We didn't get the wrong moost year. It all started with the colder. I remember that night, the plainest day I dropped the top on my Chevrolet and I picked her up. I'm sweet on her. She was leary of me and I was all arms. She was unpleased.

13:39 You not touch? I alled, how am I gone? And brave the eyes with the girl that's so purty and so nice. It all started with a cold beer and smoke. The atmosphere of your word, whispered the interview, Can we get on now here? They didn't, must bound some microbe in the backseat, up close, beginning together almost year. It all started to be in the cold