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Sept 17-Apple Dumplings, Country Music, Hank Williams, John Ritter, Anne Bancroft, Anastacia Kyle Chandler,

National apple dumplings day. International Country music day. Entertainment from 1984. Bacteria 1st discovered, 1st fatal airplane crash, Dead guy wins Democratic primary. Todays birthdays - Hank Williams, Roddy McDowall, Anne Bancroft, John Ritter, Rita Rudner, Kyle Chandler, Anastacia. Red Skelton died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http: //defleppard.com/
Apple dumpling gang - Saul Bass
Whiskey Talkin - Donnie Lee
Do you wanna go out - Emily Locket
Thank you for cheatin on me - Dianna Corcoran
Running from a smile - Paul Vink
Whats love got to do with it - Tina Turner
Lets chase each other around the room - Merle Haggard
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Hey good lookin' - Hank Williams
Three's company TV theme song
I'm out of love - Anastacia
Exit - It's not love - Dokken http ://dokken.net/

Duration:: 13m
Broadcast on:: 17 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

What's next? At Moss Adams, that question inspires us to help people and their businesses strategically define and claim their future. As one of America's leading, accounting, consulting, and wealth management firms, our collaborative approach creates solutions for your unique business needs. We leverage industry-focused insights with the collective technical resources of our firm to elevate your performance, uncover opportunity, and move upward at MossAtoms.com. Hey, hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factors About Today, today's September the 17th. Yeah, I know, but that is the only song we could find anywhere that mentions apple dumplings. Yeah, today's national apple dumpling day. A tasty little dessert. They go back to the 1740s. They were created in the New England States in the northeast part of the United States. Now, they're actually pretty easy to make. You just peel and pour some apples, sprinkle them with cinnamon and sugar, wrap them in little pastries and bake them. It's like eating a bunch of little apple pies. Good time of year to enjoy some apple dumplings. Today is also International Country Music Day. Yeah, I know country music is popular worldwide. It is global and international. It really wasn't until the 1990s. That's when Garth Brooks and Shania Twain and that whole crowd, they got the worldwide attention to it. It gets more popular every year. Now, as you've heard me talk about, we have an internet radio station called Country Underground Radio. We play independent and up-and-coming country radio, our country's artists. Now, we don't mention listeners, though. We have listeners from all over the world every month. We have over 80 countries that listen to us. Now, most popular in Europe and South America, yeah, we're really big in Brazil and don't know why, but for some reasons, we're like the number one internet country radio station over in Denmark. But we have listeners all over Africa, Russia, China, Japan, Australia. Yeah, pretty much all over the world. So, you want to celebrate International Country Music Day? We're a good place. We also play international artists, though, too. It's mostly American artists, but we, too, play some. We actually play quite a few country artists from Canada. I said I miss you, but that meant nothing. That was just the whiskey token. I said I want you back. Why would I meet that? You're only the best I've ever had. We haven't played some from England. ♪ And you don't even know my name ♪ ♪ It's okay ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm not looking for love ♪ ♪ And I'm frightened now ♪ ♪ Just a little bit of fun ♪ ♪ Don't marry us now ♪ Play quite a few country artists from Australia. ♪ Now I'm dancing on air ♪ ♪ I do crazy things ♪ ♪ And I don't get the care ♪ ♪ I'm happy and finally I'm runnin' free ♪ ♪ They keep reachin' on me ♪ We haven't played a guy from Ireland. ♪ And I know that men like me ♪ ♪ Are frowned upon today ♪ ♪ Might be a bit too nice ♪ ♪ And you're afraid that I might stay ♪ All right, let's see what's happening on Entertainment on September the 17th. Back to 1984, number one album was "Purple Rain" by Prince and the Revolution. Tina Turner had the number one song with "What's Love Got To Do With It?" ♪ Oh, what's love got to do ♪ ♪ Got to do with it ♪ ♪ What's love for the second hand emotion ♪ ♪ What's love got to do ♪ ♪ Got to do with it ♪ ♪ Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken ♪ Merle Haggard had the number one country song with "Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room." ♪ Let's chase each other around the room tonight ♪ ♪ Let's play the games we played on our wedding night ♪ ♪ To lock in both the door is only right ♪ All right, number one selling book was "The Fourth Protocol" by Friedrich Forsyth. Top movie was "All of Me," a dying millionaire. She has her soul transferred to that of a younger body. Body gets all screwed up and her soul ends up in her lawyer's body, and he's still in there with her. Stars Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin. All right, what happened on September the 17th? 1683, a Dutch scientist, Antonio van Leewenhoeken. He made his own little microscope, and he was looking at some pond water when he saw some little animals in there. He called them little animal keels. Now we know he discovered bacteria. The United States Constitution was written at the Constitutional Convention in May of 1787. Well, they got it back from the printers today in 1787. Yeah, so all the delegates signed it. Sent it off to the states to be ratified. Came back ratified two years later in 1789. 1908, Orville and Wilbur Wright, they were at a US Army base in Fort Myers, Virginia. The Army was interested in buying some of their airplanes. Now it was Orville's job to show the Army how safe and practical their plans would be. So he took a 26-year-old Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge up there with him. They demonstrated it on a fight above the crowd. Over 2,000 people had gathered at their playgrounds. They watched in tears and they flew over him and did all kinds of stuff. Then the propeller broke off. Yeah, they're about 150 feet high and went hitting those first into the ground. Orville and Thomas, they were both thrown from the airplane. Thomas hit his head and fractured a skull and died. Orville, he had to spend a month and a half in the hospital, broken leg, hips, ribs, all kinds of stuff. Now Thomas Selfridge, he was buried with honors at Arlington National Cemetery. He has the honor of being the first person ever killed an airplane crash. I guess it's kind of an honor. Now the Army, they did an autopsy on him. And it turned out that he had not hidden his head. He would have lived. Yeah, none of his other injuries were life-threatening. So the Army did go ahead and buy some of those airplanes. They just made other pilots wear helmets. Remember I told you a night too long ago about how Germany invaded Poland in 1939 from the west and that's what started the whole World War II? Well today, just a couple days later, the Soviet Union attacked Poland from the east. Now they weren't trying to help Poland out. You know, you think they might try and stop Germany? No, the Soviets, they wanted Eastern Poland and they didn't want Germany to get their first. 1967, both the doors and the who made their first appearances on American TV. See the doors, they went on Ed Sullivan. Now Jim Morrison, he didn't change the lyrics on a song like he promised to. So he has never went back on that network. Then over on the Smother Brothers Comedy Hour, when they were performing the My Generation, the Who's Drummer Keith Moon, yeah, blew up his drum kit. That deafened Pete Hounds. Yeah, they were never allowed back on that network either. 1992, an election primary for a New York City congressional state. Ted Wise won. Ted, he died three days earlier. Let's check out it. Born September the 17th. Contrelege in Hank Williams. He was born in Butler County, Alabama in 1923. Started singing professionally at 15 years old. Some of his classic hits are, "I'm so lonely I could cry. You're cheating hard. Ramblin' man. There's a tear in my beer, jambalaya." Now, Hank, he was born in Spunnidifida. So he had a whole bunch of back problems. He was sore. His back hurt his whole life. So he decided to self-medicate. Well, he over self-kitmedicated with alcohol. He became a major alcoholic. The Grand Ole Opry, they wouldn't even let him perform there anymore because of his unpredictability. He'd gotten married in 1944 and they had Hank Williams, Jr. They divorced in 1952. Then Hank, he had himself a little fling there. They resulted in a daughter. She was born five days after he died. It was New Year's Eve in 1952 and Hank had a college student driving him up to do a show that he was going to perform on New Year's Day in Canton, Ohio. Well, they had to drive all night in order to make the show. Kids stopped for gas during the night at Oak Hill, West Virginia. When he went and checked on Hank in the backseat, he realized he had died. Yeah, that alcoholic just shot in his heart. Yeah, that alcohol got him at 29 years old. After riding McDowell, he was born in Herney Hill, England in 1928. Some of his movies that you might know, "The Longest Day," "The Greatest Story Ever Told," "The Poseidon Adventure," "Clia Patra." He played Cornelius in all the Planet of the Eights movies, the original Planet of the Eights movies. Rod, he was gay and a confirmed lifelong bachelor. Actress Anne Bancroft, she was born in the Bronx, New York in 1931. She was a Triple Crown winner. She won two Tony Awards. She won an Oscar for the Miracle Worker. She was a two-time primetime whammy winner. For most famous role, it was probably playing Mrs. Robinson in the graduate. Now, she was nominated for an Oscar, but she lost to Katherine Hepburn. Anne, she was also in the kid from left field, the elephant man, and she was the voice of the queen in Anne's. Her second husband was Mel Brooks. They got married in 1964, had a son. They were married until Anne died in 2005 at 73 years old from uterine cancer. Actor John Ritter was born in Burbank, California in 1948. His dad was a singing cowboy text reader. John made a name for himself, though, on the TV sitcom Three's Company. Later on on TV, he voiced Cliff for the Big Red Dot, and then he was on eight simple roles. Some of his movies, "America Thon," "Did the Problem Child Movies," "Sling Blade," "Brided Chucky." Rittery is married to his first wife for 20 years when they divorced. They had three kids, married a second wife in 1999, and they had one child. In 2003, on the set of eight simple roles, he just dropped over dead. Yeah, he had an unknown heart condition. Yeah, no clue he had it. It's five days before his 55th birthday. Comedian Ritter Rudner, she's 71. She's born in Miami, Florida in 1953. Started as a Broadway dancer. So then she made the logical move and went into stand-up comedy. She's been done residencies in Las Vegas since about 2001. She does tour the country a little bit, still. She's written five best-selling books. She got married in 1988, and they have a daughter. Actor Kyle Chan, they're his 59. He's born in Buffalo, New York in 1965. First hit on the TV show "Homefront," "Best None" for Friday Night Lights, and then "Blue Line." Some of his movies that he was in were "Pure Country," "King Kong," "Zero Dark Thirty," "Wolfa Wallstein." They've been married since 1995, and they have two daughters. [music] She is big enough where she just goes by Anastasia. She's sold over 50 million albums all in Europe. Yeah, in the United States. Yeah, it hardly sold anything. Now, she was born Anastasia Newkirk in Chicago in 1968. 56 years old. She still lives here in the United States. And other than Europe, she's also very big in Australia. She even won the third season of mass singer over there. But she's never had to hit album here in the United States. Now, only one of her songs actually made the charts and only got up to number 92 in 2000. Can't figure it out. She's pretty, and she can sing, but no success in the United States. So she makes albums over here. They release them, then she goes and promotes them over in Europe. But yet, I guess, whatever works, right? Now, she is a tough, tough lady, though. That's right. At 13, she was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. When she was 34, she fought breast cancer. Then she fought it again at 39. She won, so that's cool. So she's been happy and healthy for over 15 years. She didn't marry ones for three years. You know what? Let's talk some apples. 25% of an apple's volume is just there. That's why they float. Thank you for listening today. We appreciate you. Now, if you get a chance and you want to celebrate International Country Music Day, don't forget about Country Underground Radio. Go to countryundergroundradio.com, coolmedia.com. Are you going to stipend Country Underground Radio? Yeah, pop up on all those people who play it. Let's end with comedian Rhett Scilton. He died today in 1997 and 84 years old. Rhett said, "All men make mistakes, but married men find them out about them sooner." You guys have a great day, and we'll talk tomorrow. [music] What's next? At Moss Adams, that question inspires us to help people and their businesses strategically define and claim their future. As one of America's leading accounting, consulting, and wealth management firms, our collaborative approach creates solutions for your unique business needs. We leverage industry-focused insights with the collective technical resources of our firm to elevate your performance, uncover opportunity, and move upward at mossadams.com.