Lola and I have began a new segment on our show. The new segment is called "The List". Each week, we'll take calls, e-mails, texts, Twitter messages, whatever on a particular subject and we will begin a list. Our first list is "Famous West Virginians". Check back here often as we will be updating the list daily.
FAMOUS WEST VIRGINIANS
1. Chris Sarandon (Actor)
2. Seth McClung (Major League Baseball Player)
3. Lil Jimmie Dickens (Country Music Hall of Famer)
4. Don Knotts (Actor)
5. Jerry West (Basketball Legend)
6. Jessco White (The Dancing Outlaw)
7. Jennifer Garner (Actress)
8. Morgan Spurlock (Filmmaker)
9. Cynthia Rylant (Childrens Book Author)
10. Homer Hickham (Author/Rocket Boy)
11. Robert C. Byrd (Politician)
12. Brad Paisley (Country Music Star)
13. Peter Marshall (Game Show Host)
14. John Corbett (Actor)
15. Henry O' Godwin (Pro Wrestler)
16. Dylan Summers (Pro Wrestler/Necro Butcher)
Join us on Wednesday and call us with your names for our list.
Until next time....what the heck have you done lately?
Rick out
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I've STRAINED my BRAIN and come up with this list!!!
ReplyDeletei LOVE trivia stuff like this!
Soupy Sales (graduated from Huntington High School)
Pearl S. Buck (author The Good Earth)
Michael W. Smith (born in Kenova)
Conchata Ferrell (born in Charleston and went to WVU - 2 1/2 men and Mystic Pizza!)
Biship T.D. Jakes (born in South Charleston)
Anna Jarvis (the lady who made Mothers Day a national holiday!)
Red Sovine (he sang that country song "Teddy Bear" about the trucker & little boy talking on the CB radio)
Russ McCubbin (I have an autographed picture of him when he did an appearance at Cowboy White Chrysler Plymouth Dodge)
Joyce Dewitt (Janet Wood on Three's Company)
Lou Holtz (football coach)
Booker T. Washington
Kathy Mattea (country singer)
Dreama Denver (Bob Denver's wife)
George Brett (Rick, did you not know this???)
Ann Magnuson (actress)
Bill Withers ("Lean On Me" He is from Slab Fork)
Kristan Cunningham (HGTV "Design on a Dime" host...she's from BOONE COUNTY!)
Lesli Kay (she plays Felicia Forester on The Bold and the Beautiful)
Mary Lou Retton (gymnanst)
Randy Moss
John Forbes Nash (mathmatical genius!)
Jack Canfield (author of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books)
Patsy Ramsey (Jon Benet Ramsey's mom)
Jessica Lynch (army girl captured in Iraq)