Dec 24th. Our top 10 christmas songs all time. Why NORAD tracks santa, Plane crash survival story in Amazon jungle, War of 1812 over, One of Columbus's ship sinks. Todays birthdays - Ava Gardner, Lee Dorsey, Mary Higgins Clark, Deidrich Bader, Ricky Martin, Ryan Seacrest. (2024)
Two step round the christmas tree - Suzy Bogguss
Have a holly jolly christmas - Burl Ives
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer - Gene Autry
Santa Claus is coming to town - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Most wonderful time of the year - Andy Williams
Blue christmas - Elvis Presley
Last christmas - Wham
Workin in a coal mine - Lee Dorsey
Jingle bell rock - Bobby Helms
Rockin around the christmas tree - Brenda Lee
Livin la vida loca - Ricky Martin
All I want for christmas is you - Mariah Carey
I'm dreaming of a white christmas - Bing Crosby
Christmas wrapping - The Waitresses
Two step round the christmas tree - Suzy Bogguss
Have a holly jolly christmas - Burl Ives
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer - Gene Autry
Santa Claus is coming to town - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Most wonderful time of the year - Andy Williams
Blue christmas - Elvis Presley
Last christmas - Wham
Workin in a coal mine - Lee Dorsey
Jingle bell rock - Bobby Helms
Rockin around the christmas tree - Brenda Lee
Livin la vida loca - Ricky Martin
All I want for christmas is you - Mariah Carey
I'm dreaming of a white christmas - Bing Crosby
Christmas wrapping - The Waitresses
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jalli Man and Redmans.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Did you ever see as Hannah in Hambon News?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
James Mary?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
They sing those carols, Sulling Willow Michelle.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
No stand around, so too much time.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
It was a Western girl, Kidney skill and Silent Night
and I'm movie.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Just stand Brownstmas.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
Well, Hi everyone, I am Jeff, and thank you for
joining us on history and factoids about today. It is
December twenty fourth, so happy Christmas eve. Yeah, we're gonna
do things different today. So throughout the show, we're gonna
count down our top ten Christmas songs all time. Susie Boga.
She didn't make the top ten, but she was my
bonus pick.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
At number ten, we had Burl Eyes with have a
holly Jolly Christmas.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Have a holy jolly Christmas. It's the best time all
the year. I don't know if they're over the snow,
but have a club but here.
Speaker 7 (01:18):
Have a holy jolly Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And when you walk down the scene.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Say hello to friends and know and everyone you mean.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Okay, let's see what happened on December twenty fourth throughout history.
In fourteen ninety two, when Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue,
do you remember the three ships that he was on,
the Nina the Pin and the Santa Maria. Well, Columbus,
he was on the Santa Maria. Now he went to
bed one night and he left the steersman in charge. Now,
while that steersman his job basically was just not to
sink the ship, but during the night he did what
(01:54):
Columbus had forbidden him to do. Yep, he went and
took a nap and had a cabin boy steer the ship. Yep,
cabin boy sink the sh it. Now he had a
sandbar off of Haiti. So since that ship was just total,
they took the wood from the ship and they built
a fort there on that island and Haiti. Now I
think we all knew who had to guard that for
it when the other two ships sailed off, don't we?
The song rout off the Red Nose Reindeer. It's been
(02:15):
covered by over one hundred and thirty four different artists.
Now the story of Rudolph It began in nineteen thirty
nine when Robert may He was told by his bosses
at Montgomery Wards to created a new Christmas character for
their department store, came up with Rudolf the Red Nose
reindeer to draw and shoppers during the holiday season. Then
in nineteen forty nine his brother in law he wrote
the song Roote off the Red Nose Danger Gin Notry
recording it, and we have it as our number nine
(02:37):
Christmas song all time.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
You know Dasher and Dancer and Francer and licks Common
and Cupid and Donner and Blitz. What do you recall
the most famous reindeer of all, Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer,
(03:00):
had a very shining os and if you ever saw it,
you would even say close. All of the other reindeers
used to let them call him name. They never let
poor Rudolph joining any reindeer game.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Back in eighteen thirty two, a group of white townspeople
in Savannah, Georgia, they got together and opened up the
first hospital for black people. Now it was the first
negro hospital in the United States that was formed by whites. Now,
sure everybody should have been allowed to go to the
same hospital, but it was Georgia in eighteen thirty two.
At least they were trying to do some good, not
like these nut jobs. In eighteen sixty five and Pulaski,
(03:44):
Tennessee Confederate four soldiers. Yeah, they formed the klu Klux Klan.
Yeah on Christmas Eve. Now, it actually kind of started
out as a joke. The original bylaws stated that the
purpose was to have ludicrous initiations and baffle public curiosity
and when it engaged and fun and amusement for all
the members. But that didn't last long. Other Confederate soldiers
they joined and put a former Confederate General, Bedford Watson,
(04:07):
while Bedford Nathan Forrest in charge. He was the first
Grand Wizard of the Kluklux Clan. So yeah, they became
a white supremacist group. No, I know, that's kind of
a downer. Next song isn't though. The earliest version of
Santa Claus is Coming to Town. It's recorded by a
banjo player, Harry Resoner recorded it back in nineteen thirty four.
Harry sold thirty thousand records and five hundred thousand copies
(04:29):
of the sheet music. Since then, it's been recorded over
two hundred times. Most popular version Bricks Springsteen in the East,
deep band.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You better watch shout, you better not try you bet.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
I'm telling you what.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Say The closest comment Town say, closest comments in.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Town senses coming.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Speaking Chicken is twice He's start to find out.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Town.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
In eighteen ninety five, after six years, construction was finally completed.
George Vanderbilt he can move into his new house, the
Biltmore Estate. It's in Nashville, North Carolina. At one hundred
and seventy twenty six feet, it is still the largest
privately owned house in the United States. It's actually sixty
thousand feet bigger than the second biggest house. It's up
in New York. Nineteen oh one, private companies were finally
(05:35):
allowed to use the word postcard. That's right before today,
they had to be called private mailing cards.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Say.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
The trademark that the Post Office had on the term
postcards it expires, so now everybody could use it. Andy
Williams' song Most Wonderful Time of the Year is probably
the song that embodies the Christmas season the best. It's
kind of the unofficial thing for Christmas. That's kind of
why you hear it played over and over in the
stores when you're out there shopping. Now it's as popular
today as it was when it came out in nineteen
(06:01):
sixty three.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's the most wonderful Time.
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Lovely with the kids jingle beling and everyone telling you
be a good cheese. It's the most wonderful timely.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
It's the hoppy season.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
With those hollowday greetings and gay after meetings when friends
come to call.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Nineteen fifty five, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a Sears store
they run an ad in the newspaper asking kids to
call Santa, but the newspaper printed the wrong phone number,
so instead of calling SyRS, the kids were calling Norad.
Now the soldiers at Norad there were good sports about it.
They just kind of went with it and answered the
calls and all that. But that's when the tradition of
neuron tracking Santa Claus began. Now you can't have a
(07:00):
top ten The best ever, lesson not include Elvis, Presley
or my mom would be pretty upset. Ernest Tubbs. He
made the song Blue Christmas a hit back in the
nineteen forties. Then in nineteen sixty seven, Elvis made the
Blue Christmas our number six Christmas song.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Blue Christmas, We Love You, Love We so blue? Who
don't thinking?
Speaker 8 (07:31):
WoT you? Jacko shuns over it on a green Christmas tree?
Oh it would be the same, you know you.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
In nineteen seventy one, pruz Lonza Airlines fly five o eight.
It was struck by lightning that caused the fuel tank
in the right wing to catch fire, and that caused
the whole plane to break into pieces, fell two miles
into the Amazon jungle. Now passinger Julianne Kuepke she somehow
survived that fall. She woke up on the jungle floor.
She had a broken collar bone, torn acl on her knee,
(08:19):
messed up neck, fractured chin, concussion, lost her glasses. When
arrives was fulling shit. So she spent the rest of
that day looking for her mom, who was sitting behind
her on the plane. No luck, she didn't find any
other survivors because there weren't he any. Yeah, she's the
only one who survived that thing. Then she found a
bag of candy and hit it out. She found a
river and she followed it downstream for ten days, eating
only the candy. Then she came into our logging camp.
(08:42):
Well her wounds they were all infected by maggots and everything,
and the guys they tried to clean her up besticat.
They were able to get her for medical health and
she lived nineteen eighty four or wham They released their
song Everything She Wants. It went to number one, and
that was on the A side of that record. If
you remember that when records at A and B sides, Yeah,
the B side they threw a Christmas song on there.
So when Christmas came, everybody just flipped it over. Never
(09:04):
number five Christmas song of all time.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yes, Christmas gave you.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Susystmas give you sush.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Okay, let's see what's born on Christmas Eve? Actress Avid Gardner.
She was born in Grafton, North Carolina, in nineteen twenty two. Now,
when she was eighteen years old, she was visiting your
sister in New York City. Her brother in law I
was a photographer, so he took some pictures of her
and put him in the front window of his phtography
shop doing for some publicity. Well, someone from MGM. They
saw him and they decided they wanted to make her
(10:05):
a movie star. They had one problem though, Her Southern
draw was so bad that no one could understand what
she was saying. So they head MGM, who actually finalized
the deal signing her. He put out a memo saying,
she can't sing, she can't act, and she can't talk,
but she is terrific, So they put her up with
the speech cohast and by the nineteen fifties she was
one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. She stated, Howard
(10:25):
is off and on for about twenty years, and then
she married Mickey Rooney for a year. Then she married
band leader Artie Shaw for a year, and she married
Frank Snatcha for six years. Ava She died in nineteen
ninety pro pneumonia at sixty seven years old. I'm talking.
(10:58):
That was Lee Darcy. He was born today in New
Orleans in nineteen twenty four. He served in the Navy
during World War Two. Then he came back and became
a professional boxer. He fired his kid Chocolate Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
He wasn't very good, so.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
We went into sing Some of his hits are Yeah Yah,
Ride your Pony, Get Out of My Life, woman working
in the coal Mine. He died in nineteen eighty six
at sixty one years old from memphysena Bobby Elms. He
recorded the song jingle Bell Rock Back in nineteen fifty seven.
Now every year in the twenty twenties, it's gone up
to number three on the pop chart.
Speaker 10 (11:30):
Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Round the jingle bells
Wing and jingle Bells.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Ring Snow one and boone bu Shoes of.
Speaker 10 (11:40):
The fun Now, the jingle Hop Plastic jingle bell, jingle
bell jingle bell Rock There and jingle Bells, Time and
jingle Bells, Time, Dancer and Prancer and jingle bell Swear
in the Frosty.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Author Mary Eiggins Clark was born in nineteen twenty seven
in the Bronx, New York. She was widowed in nineteen
sixty four after twenty five years of marriage. And during
that marriage she done little writing of short stories to
make a little extra money on the side, but after
he died, she went all in and writing novels. Wrote
fifty one of them sold over one hundred million. Now
if you know know they were suspense novels. And she
(12:22):
was married to her first husband and they had five children.
It was her third husband that she became a widow from.
Mary She died from natural causes in twenty twenty at
ninety two years old.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
Rocking around Christmas Street at Christmasy listened home away you
can't see with the mist. Stop rocking around Christmas tree
lessen and Christmastly every week later We'll have some twelve
(12:54):
and far and would.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Do some cander Lady.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
She yes, little.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
When you.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Go with Moody.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
The Christmas Tree have had.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
That was thirteen year old Brenda Lee. She recorded Rocking
Around the Christmas Tree in nineteen fifty eight, went to
number one for the very first time just last year. Brandy.
She pretty much had the perfect voice for the perfect song. Yeah,
very few other singers they've actually tried to cover that one.
I mean, she did such a good job of it.
Now you're probably wondering why all these songs are going
number one and in the top five and all that.
It's because they do downloads. So it's not like they're
(13:41):
selling records, but kids are downloading from the Basically, the
young kids are downloading all the classics and that's how
they're hitting big on the pop. Church actor g Dick Brader.
He's fifty eight. He was born in Alexander, Virginia in
nineteen sixty six. Best known for TV. First got known
on That Drew Carey Show, then Veep American Housewife, but
Jethro in the Beverly Hillbillies movie. Got married nineteen ninety
(14:03):
seven and they have two children.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Crazy.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
He was born Enriky Morales, but he's best known as
Ricky Martin. He's born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in
nineteen seventy one. It makes him fifty three today. When
he was twelve, he started out in the boy band Menudo,
leased his first solo album in nineteen ninety one. Now
he's one of the best selling Latin artists of all time,
sold over seventy million records. Now, he didn't want to
go public about it for a long time that he
(14:50):
was gay, so he dated a lot of women that
cover it up, and he had twin boys from a
Sarahgate women. Then in twenty ten he came out. He
ended up marying his husband in twenty seventeen and they
adopted two boys. Now they are currently separated. The number
two Christmas Time song about time, Yeah, it shouldn't be
any surprise for you.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Christ The.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Right Carrige released Oh I Want for Christmas is You
in nineteen ninety four. That that song went number one
on South America, all across Europe. Australia finally made it
up to number one in the United States twenty nineteen.
Ryan seacrast he's fifty years old. He was born in Atlanta,
Georgia in nineteen seventy four. Start out as just a
regular radio DJ. Then he got the gig hosting American
(16:11):
Idol in two thousand and two that helped his career explode.
He also hosts Dick get Clark's Rock in New Year's Eve.
Since twenty four he's been hosting the radio show America's
Top forty. Now he's the host of the TV game
show Will Fortune. Okay, I guess it's time for the
number one Christmas song of all time. Irving Berlin. He
wrote the song White Christmas for the movie Holiday Inn
(16:32):
in nineteen forty two. Yeah we're Irving. Yeah, he was
Jewish being Crosby. He's saying it and they won an
Academy Award for it. Then they re released it nineteen
forty seven just as a single. Since then has sold
over fifty million records. Now that is the biggest selling
song in history. Not Christmas song, it's the biggest selling
song in history.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Agreement love what.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Chris SMA.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
Live?
Speaker 10 (17:04):
Are you.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Where the tree glisten? Children? Listen to here.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Slabs in listener, Well, we sure want to thank you
for spending summer here. Christmas. He is celebrating with us
today and we really really want to thank you and
wish you and your loved ones are very, very merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Now.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
A couple of years ago, I got a text from
a young girl named Missy in Fort Worth, Texas. She
had gotten dumped before Christmas and she was super depressed.
All the Christmas songs were making her feel even worse.
So I played her the song from the Waitresses. She
texted me back a couple of days later saying thank you.
That silly song was the first thing that made her
smile all season. So now I wait every single Christmas. Yeah,
(18:02):
for all those people are hurting and really not in
the Christmas spirit out there, just remember if things will
get better, it's okay to smile and have yourself a
great Christmass.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Be honest, hing through the snow because I'm buddled up
to the ti basman. Have to do a few cards,
a few colle are spee.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
No thanks, no party lines.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
It's Christmas Eve.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
You've got to relax.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Turned out of all of mine, but ahead night's myself
the same guy call them.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Halloween party, wait.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
All of it for him in the show This time
is the Star went in?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Okay, it's called.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's getting late. Trudge on home and Salah pry in
a quiet way online Christmas ride.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
This time.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
He has broughted me smallst Turkey already in the up
nice and Hong Kong.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Damn, that's what I forgot.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So I was a bit back out of the snow
to be only yell and I gross, really, what what's
my widdering one? I should appear in the lines I got.
I haven't chased all here, this one alone, he said,
grant these you has been crazy. I said me too,
but why are you meaning? You've got there? Very soon,
Sol was happening that Christmas magics brought the sale to
(19:39):
Ava
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Sissage fish
Jalli Man and Redmans.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Did you ever see as Hannah in Hambon News?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
James Mary?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
They sing those carols, Sulling Willow Michelle.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
No stand around, so too much time.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
It was a Western girl, Kidney skill and Silent Night
and I'm movie.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Just stand Brownstmas.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
Well, Hi everyone, I am Jeff, and thank you for
joining us on history and factoids about today. It is
December twenty fourth, so happy Christmas eve. Yeah, we're gonna
do things different today. So throughout the show, we're gonna
count down our top ten Christmas songs all time. Susie Boga.
She didn't make the top ten, but she was my
bonus pick.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
At number ten, we had Burl Eyes with have a
holly Jolly Christmas.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Have a holy jolly Christmas. It's the best time all
the year. I don't know if they're over the snow,
but have a club but here.
Speaker 7 (01:18):
Have a holy jolly Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And when you walk down the scene.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Say hello to friends and know and everyone you mean.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Okay, let's see what happened on December twenty fourth throughout history.
In fourteen ninety two, when Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue,
do you remember the three ships that he was on,
the Nina the Pin and the Santa Maria. Well, Columbus,
he was on the Santa Maria. Now he went to
bed one night and he left the steersman in charge. Now,
while that steersman his job basically was just not to
sink the ship, but during the night he did what
(01:54):
Columbus had forbidden him to do. Yep, he went and
took a nap and had a cabin boy steer the ship. Yep,
cabin boy sink the sh it. Now he had a
sandbar off of Haiti. So since that ship was just total,
they took the wood from the ship and they built
a fort there on that island and Haiti. Now I
think we all knew who had to guard that for
it when the other two ships sailed off, don't we?
The song rout off the Red Nose Reindeer. It's been
(02:15):
covered by over one hundred and thirty four different artists.
Now the story of Rudolph It began in nineteen thirty
nine when Robert may He was told by his bosses
at Montgomery Wards to created a new Christmas character for
their department store, came up with Rudolf the Red Nose
reindeer to draw and shoppers during the holiday season. Then
in nineteen forty nine his brother in law he wrote
the song Roote off the Red Nose Danger Gin Notry
recording it, and we have it as our number nine
(02:37):
Christmas song all time.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
You know Dasher and Dancer and Francer and licks Common
and Cupid and Donner and Blitz. What do you recall
the most famous reindeer of all, Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer,
(03:00):
had a very shining os and if you ever saw it,
you would even say close. All of the other reindeers
used to let them call him name. They never let
poor Rudolph joining any reindeer game.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Back in eighteen thirty two, a group of white townspeople
in Savannah, Georgia, they got together and opened up the
first hospital for black people. Now it was the first
negro hospital in the United States that was formed by whites. Now,
sure everybody should have been allowed to go to the
same hospital, but it was Georgia in eighteen thirty two.
At least they were trying to do some good, not
like these nut jobs. In eighteen sixty five and Pulaski,
(03:44):
Tennessee Confederate four soldiers. Yeah, they formed the klu Klux Klan.
Yeah on Christmas Eve. Now, it actually kind of started
out as a joke. The original bylaws stated that the
purpose was to have ludicrous initiations and baffle public curiosity
and when it engaged and fun and amusement for all
the members. But that didn't last long. Other Confederate soldiers
they joined and put a former Confederate General, Bedford Watson,
(04:07):
while Bedford Nathan Forrest in charge. He was the first
Grand Wizard of the Kluklux Clan. So yeah, they became
a white supremacist group. No, I know, that's kind of
a downer. Next song isn't though. The earliest version of
Santa Claus is Coming to Town. It's recorded by a
banjo player, Harry Resoner recorded it back in nineteen thirty four.
Harry sold thirty thousand records and five hundred thousand copies
(04:29):
of the sheet music. Since then, it's been recorded over
two hundred times. Most popular version Bricks Springsteen in the East,
deep band.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You better watch shout, you better not try you bet.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
I'm telling you what.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Say The closest comment Town say, closest comments in.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Town senses coming.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Speaking Chicken is twice He's start to find out.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Town.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
In eighteen ninety five, after six years, construction was finally completed.
George Vanderbilt he can move into his new house, the
Biltmore Estate. It's in Nashville, North Carolina. At one hundred
and seventy twenty six feet, it is still the largest
privately owned house in the United States. It's actually sixty
thousand feet bigger than the second biggest house. It's up
in New York. Nineteen oh one, private companies were finally
(05:35):
allowed to use the word postcard. That's right before today,
they had to be called private mailing cards.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Say.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
The trademark that the Post Office had on the term
postcards it expires, so now everybody could use it. Andy
Williams' song Most Wonderful Time of the Year is probably
the song that embodies the Christmas season the best. It's
kind of the unofficial thing for Christmas. That's kind of
why you hear it played over and over in the
stores when you're out there shopping. Now it's as popular
today as it was when it came out in nineteen
(06:01):
sixty three.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's the most wonderful Time.
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Lovely with the kids jingle beling and everyone telling you
be a good cheese. It's the most wonderful timely.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
It's the hoppy season.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
With those hollowday greetings and gay after meetings when friends
come to call.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Nineteen fifty five, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a Sears store
they run an ad in the newspaper asking kids to
call Santa, but the newspaper printed the wrong phone number,
so instead of calling SyRS, the kids were calling Norad.
Now the soldiers at Norad there were good sports about it.
They just kind of went with it and answered the
calls and all that. But that's when the tradition of
neuron tracking Santa Claus began. Now you can't have a
(07:00):
top ten The best ever, lesson not include Elvis, Presley
or my mom would be pretty upset. Ernest Tubbs. He
made the song Blue Christmas a hit back in the
nineteen forties. Then in nineteen sixty seven, Elvis made the
Blue Christmas our number six Christmas song.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Blue Christmas, We Love You, Love We so blue? Who
don't thinking?
Speaker 8 (07:31):
WoT you? Jacko shuns over it on a green Christmas tree?
Oh it would be the same, you know you.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
In nineteen seventy one, pruz Lonza Airlines fly five o eight.
It was struck by lightning that caused the fuel tank
in the right wing to catch fire, and that caused
the whole plane to break into pieces, fell two miles
into the Amazon jungle. Now passinger Julianne Kuepke she somehow
survived that fall. She woke up on the jungle floor.
She had a broken collar bone, torn acl on her knee,
(08:19):
messed up neck, fractured chin, concussion, lost her glasses. When
arrives was fulling shit. So she spent the rest of
that day looking for her mom, who was sitting behind
her on the plane. No luck, she didn't find any
other survivors because there weren't he any. Yeah, she's the
only one who survived that thing. Then she found a
bag of candy and hit it out. She found a
river and she followed it downstream for ten days, eating
only the candy. Then she came into our logging camp.
(08:42):
Well her wounds they were all infected by maggots and everything,
and the guys they tried to clean her up besticat.
They were able to get her for medical health and
she lived nineteen eighty four or wham They released their
song Everything She Wants. It went to number one, and
that was on the A side of that record. If
you remember that when records at A and B sides, Yeah,
the B side they threw a Christmas song on there.
So when Christmas came, everybody just flipped it over. Never
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number five Christmas song of all time.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yes, Christmas gave you.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Susystmas give you sush.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Okay, let's see what's born on Christmas Eve? Actress Avid Gardner.
She was born in Grafton, North Carolina, in nineteen twenty two. Now,
when she was eighteen years old, she was visiting your
sister in New York City. Her brother in law I
was a photographer, so he took some pictures of her
and put him in the front window of his phtography
shop doing for some publicity. Well, someone from MGM. They
saw him and they decided they wanted to make her
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a movie star. They had one problem though, Her Southern
draw was so bad that no one could understand what
she was saying. So they head MGM, who actually finalized
the deal signing her. He put out a memo saying,
she can't sing, she can't act, and she can't talk,
but she is terrific, So they put her up with
the speech cohast and by the nineteen fifties she was
one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. She stated, Howard
(10:25):
is off and on for about twenty years, and then
she married Mickey Rooney for a year. Then she married
band leader Artie Shaw for a year, and she married
Frank Snatcha for six years. Ava She died in nineteen
ninety pro pneumonia at sixty seven years old. I'm talking.
(10:58):
That was Lee Darcy. He was born today in New
Orleans in nineteen twenty four. He served in the Navy
during World War Two. Then he came back and became
a professional boxer. He fired his kid Chocolate Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
He wasn't very good, so.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
We went into sing Some of his hits are Yeah Yah,
Ride your Pony, Get Out of My Life, woman working
in the coal Mine. He died in nineteen eighty six
at sixty one years old from memphysena Bobby Elms. He
recorded the song jingle Bell Rock Back in nineteen fifty seven.
Now every year in the twenty twenties, it's gone up
to number three on the pop chart.
Speaker 10 (11:30):
Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Round the jingle bells
Wing and jingle Bells.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Ring Snow one and boone bu Shoes of.
Speaker 10 (11:40):
The fun Now, the jingle Hop Plastic jingle bell, jingle
bell jingle bell Rock There and jingle Bells, Time and
jingle Bells, Time, Dancer and Prancer and jingle bell Swear
in the Frosty.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Author Mary Eiggins Clark was born in nineteen twenty seven
in the Bronx, New York. She was widowed in nineteen
sixty four after twenty five years of marriage. And during
that marriage she done little writing of short stories to
make a little extra money on the side, but after
he died, she went all in and writing novels. Wrote
fifty one of them sold over one hundred million. Now
if you know know they were suspense novels. And she
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was married to her first husband and they had five children.
It was her third husband that she became a widow from.
Mary She died from natural causes in twenty twenty at
ninety two years old.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
Rocking around Christmas Street at Christmasy listened home away you
can't see with the mist. Stop rocking around Christmas tree
lessen and Christmastly every week later We'll have some twelve
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and far and would.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Do some cander Lady.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
She yes, little.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
When you.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Go with Moody.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
The Christmas Tree have had.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
That was thirteen year old Brenda Lee. She recorded Rocking
Around the Christmas Tree in nineteen fifty eight, went to
number one for the very first time just last year. Brandy.
She pretty much had the perfect voice for the perfect song. Yeah,
very few other singers they've actually tried to cover that one.
I mean, she did such a good job of it.
Now you're probably wondering why all these songs are going
number one and in the top five and all that.
It's because they do downloads. So it's not like they're
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selling records, but kids are downloading from the Basically, the
young kids are downloading all the classics and that's how
they're hitting big on the pop. Church actor g Dick Brader.
He's fifty eight. He was born in Alexander, Virginia in
nineteen sixty six. Best known for TV. First got known
on That Drew Carey Show, then Veep American Housewife, but
Jethro in the Beverly Hillbillies movie. Got married nineteen ninety
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seven and they have two children.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Crazy.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
He was born Enriky Morales, but he's best known as
Ricky Martin. He's born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in
nineteen seventy one. It makes him fifty three today. When
he was twelve, he started out in the boy band Menudo,
leased his first solo album in nineteen ninety one. Now
he's one of the best selling Latin artists of all time,
sold over seventy million records. Now, he didn't want to
go public about it for a long time that he
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was gay, so he dated a lot of women that
cover it up, and he had twin boys from a
Sarahgate women. Then in twenty ten he came out. He
ended up marying his husband in twenty seventeen and they
adopted two boys. Now they are currently separated. The number
two Christmas Time song about time, Yeah, it shouldn't be
any surprise for you.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Christ The.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Right Carrige released Oh I Want for Christmas is You
in nineteen ninety four. That that song went number one
on South America, all across Europe. Australia finally made it
up to number one in the United States twenty nineteen.
Ryan seacrast he's fifty years old. He was born in Atlanta,
Georgia in nineteen seventy four. Start out as just a
regular radio DJ. Then he got the gig hosting American
(16:11):
Idol in two thousand and two that helped his career explode.
He also hosts Dick get Clark's Rock in New Year's Eve.
Since twenty four he's been hosting the radio show America's
Top forty. Now he's the host of the TV game
show Will Fortune. Okay, I guess it's time for the
number one Christmas song of all time. Irving Berlin. He
wrote the song White Christmas for the movie Holiday Inn
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in nineteen forty two. Yeah we're Irving. Yeah, he was
Jewish being Crosby. He's saying it and they won an
Academy Award for it. Then they re released it nineteen
forty seven just as a single. Since then has sold
over fifty million records. Now that is the biggest selling
song in history. Not Christmas song, it's the biggest selling
song in history.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Agreement love what.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Chris SMA.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
Live?
Speaker 10 (17:04):
Are you.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Where the tree glisten? Children? Listen to here.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Slabs in listener, Well, we sure want to thank you
for spending summer here. Christmas. He is celebrating with us
today and we really really want to thank you and
wish you and your loved ones are very, very merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Now.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
A couple of years ago, I got a text from
a young girl named Missy in Fort Worth, Texas. She
had gotten dumped before Christmas and she was super depressed.
All the Christmas songs were making her feel even worse.
So I played her the song from the Waitresses. She
texted me back a couple of days later saying thank you.
That silly song was the first thing that made her
smile all season. So now I wait every single Christmas. Yeah,
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for all those people are hurting and really not in
the Christmas spirit out there, just remember if things will
get better, it's okay to smile and have yourself a
great Christmass.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Be honest, hing through the snow because I'm buddled up
to the ti basman. Have to do a few cards,
a few colle are spee.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
No thanks, no party lines.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
It's Christmas Eve.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
You've got to relax.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Turned out of all of mine, but ahead night's myself
the same guy call them.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Halloween party, wait.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
All of it for him in the show This time
is the Star went in?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Okay, it's called.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's getting late. Trudge on home and Salah pry in
a quiet way online Christmas ride.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
This time.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
He has broughted me smallst Turkey already in the up
nice and Hong Kong.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Damn, that's what I forgot.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So I was a bit back out of the snow
to be only yell and I gross, really, what what's
my widdering one? I should appear in the lines I got.
I haven't chased all here, this one alone, he said,
grant these you has been crazy. I said me too,
but why are you meaning? You've got there? Very soon,
Sol was happening that Christmas magics brought the sale to
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Ava
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Sissage fish
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