- published: 21 Oct 2008
- views: 1033215
- author: rockinkb
Vimeo results:
Youtube results:
Loading...
..." width="225" height="168" class="playvideo1 gotop" onClick="activateTab('playlist1'); return false" style="display: block;" />
Open Collage in a new Window
Email the Collage
- Loading...
Loading suggestions ...
- 1957 in film
- 1958 in film
- 1959 in film
- 1961 in film
- 1962 in film
- 1963 in film
- 1964 in film
- 1965 in film
- 1967 in film
- 1969 ABA Playoffs
- 1970 in film
- 1989 in film
- 2000 in film
- 2008 in film
- Actor
- Ain't That a Shame
- Al Martino
- AllRovi
- American Music Award
- Andy Williams
- April Love (film)
- Aretha Franklin
- Banjo
- Bank of America
- Barack Obama
- Bernardine (film)
- Bill Cosby
- Billboard (magazine)
- Blues ballad
- Branson, Missouri
- British Invasion
- Can't Buy Me Love
- Cancer
- Cengage Learning
- Charismatic Movement
- Cherry Boone
- Chevrolet Corvette
- Christian music
- Christmas
- Churches of Christ
- Cimarron Strip
- Cliff Richard
- Cord Cooper
- Corvette
- Country music
- Cousin
- Cover version
- Crazy Train
- Dallas Mavericks
- Dan Peek
- Daniel Boone
- David Lipscomb
- DC Comics
- Debby Boone
- DeGarmo & Key
- Denny Miller
- Diana (song)
- Dinah Shore
- Dixie Chicks
- Don Murray (actor)
- Don't Forbid Me
- Doris Day
- Dot Records
- Edie Adams
- Einstein
- El Dorados
- Elvis Presley
- Ernie Fletcher
- Exodus (1960 film)
- Fats Domino
- Florida
- Fontane Sisters
- Fox News
- Frank Ifield
- Frank Sinatra
- Frankie Laine
- Gardner McKay
- General Motors
- George W. Bush
- Glenn Ford
- GOD TV
- Goodbye Charlie
- Gospel music
- Heavy metal music
- Here in My Heart
- Hey Jude
- Hip-O Records
- I'll Be Home
- Illusionist
- Iraq War
- Ivory Joe Hunter
- Jack Hayford
- Joel Whitburn
- John Wayne Tucker
- Johnny Mathis
- Kappa Alpha Order
- Ken Dodd
- Latin honors
- LaVern Baker
- Leonia, New Jersey
- Lion & Lamb Records
- Lita Roza
- Little Richard
- Living Doll (song)
- Long Tall Sally
- Mardi Gras (film)
- Motivational speaker
- Mumbai
- Music genre
- NASCAR
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Nat King Cole
- NBC
- Neil Cavuto
- Nick Todd
- Nicolas Slonimsky
- NME
- Oakland Oaks (ABA)
- Oakland, California
- Ozark Jubilee
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Pat Boone
- Patriotic song
- Paul Anka
- Paul Crouch
- Paul McCartney
- Pearl Bailey
- Pop Chronicles
- Pop music
- Priscilla Presley
- R&B;
- R.R. Bowker
- Rafer Johnson
- Randy Boone
- Record label
- Red Foley
- Republic Records
- Rhythm and blues
- Richard Boone
- Ricky Nelson
- Rock and roll
- Roger & Me
- Ronald Reagan
- Rory Alec
- Rose Marie (song)
- Russ Carnahan
- Salon.com
- She Loves You
- Shirley Jones
- Singer
- Slim Whitman
- Songwriter
- Spokesman
- St. Martin's Press
- Stephen Hawking
- Steve Beshear
- Steven Hawking
- Sugar, Sugar
- Television series
- Tennessee
- The 700 Club
- The Archies
- The Beach Boys
- The Beatles
- The Boston Globe
- The Flamingos
- The Great Movie Ride
- The Horror of It All
- The Osbournes
- The Platters
- The Rolling Stones
- The Sun News
- The Yellow Canary
- Time (magazine)
- Tom Jones (singer)
- Tutti Frutti (song)
- UK
- Ukulele
- Variety show
- Vietnam War
- Vocals
- Walt Disney World
- Washington Caps
- Washington, D.C.
- West Nyack, NY
- Western (genre)
- Wikipedia Persondata
- WorldNetDaily
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
-
Branson, Missouri
Branson is a city in Taney County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It was named after Reuben Branson, postmaster and operator of a general store in the area in the 1880s.
Branson has long been a popular destination for vacationers from Missouri and neighboring areas. The construction of music theaters by nationally-known performers along Highway 76 has increased Branson's popularity as a tourist destination. Branson now draws visitors from all regions of the country, mostly by car or bus.
The population was 10,520 at the 2010 census. The Branson Micropolitan Statistical Area embraces Stone and Taney counties.
In 1882, Reuben Branson opened a general store and post office in the area. Branson was formally incorporated in 1912 and construction of the Powersite Dam nearby on the White River which would form Lake Taneycomo was completed.
In 1894 William Henry Lynch bought Marble Cave (renamed Marvel Cave) and began charging visitors to tour it. Hugo and Mary Herschend leased the cave for 99 years in 1950 and began hosting square dances in it. The Herschend Family modernized the cave with electricity and cement staircases, and in 1960, the Herschends opened Silver Dollar City which was a re-creation of a frontier town that featured five shops, a church and a log cabin with actors that played out the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys.
wn.com/Branson,_Missouri -
Florida
Florida (
i/ˈflɒrɪdə/) is a state in the southeastern United States, bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Florida is the 22nd most extensive, the 4th most populous, and the 8th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state capital is Tallahassee, its largest city is Jacksonville, and the South Florida metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in the southeastern U.S.
Much of Florida is situated on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Straits of Florida. Its geography is marked by a coastline, by the omnipresence of water and the threat of hurricanes. Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, encompassing approximately 1,350 miles (2,170 km), and is the only state to border both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Much of the state is at or near sea level and its terrain is characterized by sedimentary soils. The climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south. Its symbolic animals like the American alligator, Florida panther and the manatee, can be found in the Everglades, one of the most famous national parks in the world.
wn.com/Florida -
Leonia, New Jersey
Leonia is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,937. It is located near the western approach to the George Washington Bridge.
Leonia was formed as the result of a referendum passed on December 5, 1894, from portions of Ridgefield Township. Portions of Leonia were taken on February 19, 1895, to form the Township of Teaneck.
New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Leonia as its 31st best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.
Leonia is located at 40°51′48″N 73°59′18″W / 40.863391°N 73.988471°W / 40.863391; -73.988471 (40.863391,-73.988471). According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had a total area of 1.635 square miles (4.234 km2), of which, 1.536 square miles (3.977 km2) of it is land and 0.099 square miles (0.257 km2) of it (6.06%) is water.
While the borough center's elevation is 105 feet (32 m), the western part of the borough can reach 5 feet (1.5 m) and the eastern part of Leonia reaches 318 feet (97 m). Leonia is designated as a Tree City USA, receiving its 21st annual recognition in 2010 from the National Arbor Day Foundation.
wn.com/Leonia,_New_Jersey -
Mumbai
Mumbai /mʊmˈbaɪ/, also known as Bombay /bɒmˈbeɪ/, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million. Along with the neighbouring urban areas, including the cities of Navi Mumbai and Thane, it is one of the most populous urban regions in the world. Mumbai lies on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2009, Mumbai was named an Alpha world city. Mumbai is also the richest city in India, and has the highest GDP of any city in South, West or Central Asia.
The seven islands that came to constitute Mumbai were home to communities of fishing colonies. For centuries, the islands were under the control of successive indigenous empires before being ceded to the Portuguese and subsequently to the British East India Company. During the mid-18th century, Mumbai was reshaped by the Hornby Vellard project, which undertook the reclamation of the area between the seven constituent islands from the sea. Completed by 1845, the project along with construction of major roads and railways transformed Bombay into a major seaport on the Arabian Sea. Economic and educational development characterised the city during the 19th century. It became a strong base for the Indian independence movement during the early 20th century. When India became independent in 1947, the city was incorporated into Bombay State. In 1960, following the Samyukta Maharashtra movement, a new state of Maharashtra was created with Bombay as capital. The city was renamed Mumbai in 1996.
wn.com/Mumbai -
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities. It is most notably known as a center of the music industry, earning it the nickname "Music City".
Nashville has a consolidated city–county government which includes seven smaller municipalities in a two-tier system. As of the 2010 census the population of the city of Nashville, not including the semi-independent municipalities, stood at 601,222. The population of Davidson County as a whole, including all municipalities, was 626,681. Nashville is the second largest city in Tennessee, after Memphis, and the fourth largest city in the Southeastern United States. The 2010 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,589,934, making it the largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the state. The 2010 population of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 1,670,890.
wn.com/Nashville,_Tennessee -
Oakland, California
Oakland (
/ˈoʊklənd/) is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state and the 47th-largest in the U.S. with a population of 390,724 according to the 2010 census. Incorporated in 1852, Oakland is the county seat of Alameda County and is a central hub city for a region of the San Francisco Bay Area known as the East Bay. The city lies directly across the bay from San Francisco.
Oakland's territory covers what was once a mosaic of coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. Oakland served as a rich resource when its hillside oak and redwood timber were logged to build San Francisco, and Oakland's fertile flatland soils helped it become a prolific agricultural region. During the California Gold Rush, Oakland became the main staging post for passengers and cargo journeying between the Bay Area and the Sierra foothills. In the late 1860s, Oakland was selected as the western terminal of the Transcontinental Railroad. It continued to grow into the 20th century with its busy port, shipyards, and a thriving automobile industry. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many San Franciscans left that city's destruction, and a great number of Oakland's homes were built during the 1910s and 1920s. An extensive streetcar network connected most of Oakland's neighbourhoods to inter-city rail lines, most of whose routes continue as bus lines today. Ferry lines connected Oakland to San Francisco and other cities.
wn.com/Oakland,_California -
Tennessee
Tennessee (i/tɛnɨˈsiː/) (Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ) is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th most extensive and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border. Tennessee's capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 626,144.Memphis is the state's largest city, with a population of 670,902.
The state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796. Tennessee was the last state to leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War in 1861, and the first state to be readmitted to the Union at the end of the war.
wn.com/Tennessee -
The Great Movie Ride
The Great Movie Ride is an attraction at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park. It is a dark ride which takes guests through scenes from famous films throughout motion picture history.
The ride is located inside a recreation of the famous Hollywood landmark Grauman's Chinese Theatre. However, because The Walt Disney Company was denied permission to use the name "Grauman," the proper name of the building is simply "The Chinese Theatre." (Also, at the time the attraction was opened, the actual Grauman's Theater was officially known as "Mann's Chinese Theater" as it was owned by the Mann film theater group.) The façade was almost completely blocked from view in 2001 when a giant replica of The Sorcerer's Hat was built directly in front of the façade. Since then, the hat has served as the park's symbol.
Scenes from all major film studios are represented in the film montage with one notable exception; there is no reference to any motion pictures released by Universal Studios (whose parent company operates the rival Universal Orlando Resort nearby).
wn.com/The_Great_Movie_Ride -
UK
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.
wn.com/UK -
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a federal district to become the national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution. The District is therefore not a part of any U.S. state. It was formed from land along the Potomac River donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia; however, the Virginia portion was returned by Congress in 1846.
A new capital city named after George Washington was founded in 1791 to the east of the preexisting port of Georgetown. Congress consolidated the City of Washington, Georgetown, and the remaining unincorporated area within the District under a single municipal government in 1871. The city shares its name with the U.S. state of Washington, located on the country's Pacific coast.
Washington, D.C., had an estimated population of 617,996 in 2011. The city was the 24th most populous place in the United States as of 2010. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's population to over one million during the workweek. The Washington Metropolitan Area, of which the District is a part, has a population of nearly 5.6 million, the seventh-largest metropolitan area in the country.
wn.com/Washington,_D.C. -
West Nyack, NY
West Nyack is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Clarkstown, Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Central Nyack, east of Nanuet, south of Valley Cottage, and west of Upper Nyack. It is approximately 18 miles (29 km) north of New York City. The population was 3,439 at the 2010 census.
In 1847, the hamlet was named Clarksville, renamed MontMoor, and since 1891 has been known as West Nyack.
Jane Kannif, the widow of a Scottish physician, lived in a small house on Germonds Road in West Nyack. She devoted herself to the care of her only child, a son by a previous marriage, named Tobias Lowrie. She treated, with great results, neighbors that came to her, using herbs and methods she learned from her late husband. But "Naut Kannif", as she was called, seemed to have been exceedingly eccentric. According to the people at that time she dressed oddly with strange hairdos and was unsociable. She was regarded as insane, and - worse yet - a witch. It was decided to take "Naut" to Auert Polhemus's grist mill and using his great flour scales weigh her against the old Holland Dutch family Bible, iron bound, with wooden covers and iron chain to carry it by. If outweighed by the Bible, she must be a witch beyond any doubt, and must suffer accordingly. She was taken to the mill against her most earnest protest, put on the scales, and weighed. Weighing more than the Bible, she was released by the committee. This was the last witch trial in the state of New York.
wn.com/West_Nyack,_NY
-
Andy Williams
Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams (born December 3, 1927) is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri named after the song "Moon River", with which he is closely identified.
Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, the son of Jay Emerson and Florence (née Finley) Williams. He first performed in a children's choir at the local Presbyterian church. Williams and his three older brothers Bob, Don, and Dick formed the Williams Brothers quartet in late 1938, and they performed on radio in the Midwest, first at WHO in Des Moines, Iowa, and later at WLS in Chicago and WLW in Cincinnati. Williams graduated from Western Hills High School in Cincinnati and his brother was engaged to Gene Ingram's car-pool partner, Peggy. The Williams Brothers appeared with Bing Crosby on the hit record "Swinging on a Star" (1944). They appeared in 4 musical films: Janie (1944), Kansas City Kitty (1944), Something in the Wind (1947) and Ladies' Man (1947). This led to a nightclub act with entertainer Kay Thompson from 1947 to 1951.
wn.com/Andy_Williams -
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. In a recording career that has spanned over half a century, Franklin's repertoire has included gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Franklin is known as one of the most important popularizers of the soul music genre and is referred to as the Queen of Soul, a title she was given early in her career. Franklin, the daughter of prominent Baptist minister and activist C. L. Franklin, began her singing career singing in her father's church at the age of ten and started recording four years later. After several years in the gospel circuit and with her father's blessing, she formed a secular pop music career at the age of eighteen, signing with Columbia Records, where she was branded by its CEO John Hammond as his most important act since Billie Holiday. Franklin's Columbia period wasn't as successful as hoped and in late 1966, Franklin switched over to Atlantic Records, where she began recording a string of popular hits including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Think", "Chain of Fools" and what later became her signature song, "Respect".
wn.com/Aretha_Franklin -
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (
i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
wn.com/Barack_Obama -
Cherry Boone
Cheryl Lynn "Cherry" Boone (born July 7, 1954) also known as Cherry O'Neill, is an American writer, author, and singer. She was a member of the 1970s pop singing group, The Boones, which also featured her three sisters. Boone has spoken publicly about her experiences and recovery from anorexia nervosa.
Boone was born on July 7, 1954 in Denton, Texas. She is the eldest daughter of singer and 1950s icon Pat Boone and Shirley Lee Foley Boone. She is the granddaughter of country music star Red Foley and has three sisters: Debby, Lindy, and Laury. With her sisters, Cherry was a member of the 1970s vocal group The Boones, which was known for their successful cover of ABBA's "Hasta Mañana".
On October 4, 1975, Boone married writer, Dan O'Neill. The wedding was officiated by Jack Hayford, founding pastor of The Church On The Way, in Van Nuys, California. Her husband was also the co-founder of the relief organization, Mercy Corps. They have four daughters and one son, including Brittany (born 1981), Brendan (born 1983), Casey (born 1986), Kevyn (born 1989), and Kylie (born 1992). The family resides in Sammamish, Washington.[citation needed]
wn.com/Cherry_Boone -
Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist. With his backing group The Shadows, Richard, originally positioned as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Little Richard and Elvis Presley, dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s and early 1960s. His 1958 hit single "Move It" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song, and John Lennon once claimed that "before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music." A conversion to Christianity and subsequent softening of his music later led to a more middle of the road pop image, sometimes venturing into gospel music.
Over a 53-year career, Richard has become a fixture of the British entertainment world, amassing many gold and platinum discs and awards, including three Brit awards and two Ivor Novello awards. He has had more than 130 singles, albums and EPs make the UK Top 20, more than any other artist and holds the record (with Elvis Presley) as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He has achieved 14 UK No. 1 singles (or 18, depending on the counting methodology) and is the only singer to have had a No. 1 single in the UK in six consecutive decades: the 1950s through to the 2000s (discounting digital downloads and counting only CDs, he had a UK No. 1 single in the 2000s). Richard is the biggest selling singles artist of all time in the UK, with total sales of over 21 million and has reportedly sold an estimated 250 million records worldwide.
wn.com/Cliff_Richard -
Dan Peek
Daniel Milton "Dan" Peek (November 1, 1950 – July 24, 2011) was a musician best known as a member of the rock band America from 1970 to 1977, together with Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell. He was also a "pioneer in contemporary Christian music."
Peek contributed lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, and harmonica to their recordings during his tenure in the band. As a member of America, Peek wrote or co-wrote four Top 100 singles: "Don't Cross The River" (#35), "Lonely People" (#5), "Woman Tonight" (#44), and "Today's the Day" (#23), all of which he also sang lead on. "Lonely People" and "Today's the Day" also hit number 1 on the Billboard AC charts.
During this period Peek was "a spectrum drug abuser, alcoholic, you name it". In 2004 Peek released an autobiography about this era entitled An American Band: The America Story which was very difficult for him to write because of the bad memories it brought up.
Peek left the band shortly after the February 1977 release of the Harbor album. Years of life on the road had taken a toll on him. He renewed his Christian faith and had begun to seek a different artistic direction than Beckley or Bunnell. He went on to sign with Pat Boone's Lamb & Lion Records and found modest success as a pioneering artist in the emerging Christian pop music genre.
wn.com/Dan_Peek -
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the Kentucky, which was then part of Virginia but on the other side of the mountains from the settled areas. Despite some resistance from American Indian tribes such as the Shawnee, in 1775 Boone blazed his Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina and Tennessee into Kentucky. There he founded the village of Boonesborough, Kentucky, one of the first American settlements west of the Appalachians. Before the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 European people migrated to Kentucky/Virginia by following the route marked by Boone.
Boone was a militia officer during the Revolutionary War (1775–83), which in Kentucky was fought primarily between the American settlers and the British-aided Native Americans. Boone was captured by Shawnee warriors in 1778, who after a while adopted him into their tribe. Later, he left the Indians and returned to Boonesborough to help defend the European settlements in Kentucky/Virginia.
wn.com/Daniel_Boone -
David Lipscomb
David Lipscomb (1831–1917) was a minister, editor, and educator in the American Restoration Movement and one of the leaders of that movement, which, by 1906, had formalized a division into the Church of Christ (with which Lipscomb was affiliated) and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). James A. Harding and David Lipscomb founded the Nashville Bible School, which is now known as Lipscomb University in honor of the latter.
Lipscomb was born to Granville Lipscomb (born January 13, 1802 in Louisa County, Virginia, died November 16, 1853) and his second wife Ann E. Lipscomb (born January 25, 1799 in Louisa County, Virginia, died January 29, 1835 in Illinois) (called "Nancy" in some sources.) Granville had previously been married, on December 14, 1825 in Spotsylvania, Virginia, to the former Ellen Guerner.
Granville and his older brother William Lipscomb were active in the Bean's Creek Baptist Church, where they were listed as the church clerks for 1828-1831 (Granville Lipscomb) and 1844-1876 (William C. Lipscomb). Attempts to convert the Bean's Creek church to Restoration Movement theology was poorly received and Granville Lipscomb's family was expelled in 1831.David was born in Huntland, Tennessee.
wn.com/David_Lipscomb -
Debby Boone
Deborah ("Debby") Anne Boone (born September 22, 1956) is an American singer and stage actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life," which spent a then record ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year. Boone later focused her music career on country music resulting in the 1980 No. 1 country hit, "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again". In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top 10 Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys. Throughout her career, Boone has appeared in several musical theater productions and has co-authored many children's books with husband, Gabriel Ferrer.
Debby Boone was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the third of four daughters born to singer-actor Pat Boone and Shirley Foley Boone, daughter of country music star Red Foley. When Boone was 14 years old, she began touring with her parents and three sisters: Cherry, Lindy and Laury. The sisters first recorded with their parents as The Pat Boone Family and later as the Boones or Boone Girls. They primarily recorded gospel music, although the sisters also released singles for the Motown and Curb labels that were remakes of secular pop music featuring Debby as the lead vocalist.
wn.com/Debby_Boone -
Denny Miller
Denny Scott Miller (born April 25, 1934, in Bloomington, Indiana) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his regular role as Duke Shannon on Wagon Train and his guest-starring roles on Gilligan's Island and as Tarzan in the late 1950s.
Miller was a basketball star at UCLA, where his father was a physical education instructor. In his senior year, while working as a furniture mover to pay for school, he was discovered on Sunset Boulevard by a Hollywood agent who signed him with MGM. His screen test was directed by George Cukor.
He became the first blond Tarzan in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), a cheapie/quickie which lifted most of its footage from earlier Johnny Weissmuller movies. He was recommended by someone else considered for the role, William Smith. MGM had him under contract for 20 months; in that time, he worked eight weeks as Tarzan.
After that, he did guest spots on a number of television series, such as Northwest Passage, a 1958-1959 adventure program on NBC co-starring Keith Larsen and Buddy Ebsen and on NBC's western series, Overland Trail, starring William Bendix and Doug McClure, and Laramie, co-starring John Smith and Robert Fuller. He also appeared on Have Gun, Will Travel, starring Richard Boone. In 1960 he appeared in an episode of The Rifleman, as a dimwitted gunfighter named Reuben Miles.
wn.com/Denny_Miller -
Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She reached the height of her popularity as a recording artist during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s, but achieved even greater success a decade later, in television, mainly as hostess of a series of variety programs for Chevrolet.
After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She had a string of 80 charted popular hits, lasting from 1940 into the late '50s, and after appearing in a handful of films went on to a four-decade career in American television, starring in her own music and variety shows in the '50s and '60s and hosting two talk shows in the '70s. TV Guide magazine ranked her at #16 on their list of the top fifty television stars of all time. Stylistically, Dinah Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the mid-to-late '40s and early '50s, Doris Day and Patti Page.
wn.com/Dinah_Shore -
Don Murray (actor)
Donald Patrick "Don" Murray (born July 31, 1929) is an American actor.
Murray was born in Hollywood, California on July 31, 1929, the only child of Dennis Aloisius, a Broadway dance director and stage manager and Ethel Murray, a former Ziegfeld performer. He attended East Rockaway High School (class of 1947) in East Rockaway, New York where he played football and was on the track team. Murray was a member of the student government, glee club, and also joined the Alpha Phi Chapter of the Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity. Upon graduation from high school, he went on to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After graduating, he soon made his Broadway debut in the 1951 play The Rose Tattoo, as Jake Hunter. After taking a three-year break from acting, in order to assist orphans and war casualties during the Korean War, he returned from Europe to America in 1954 and to acting, by appearing alongside Mary Martin in the 1955 stage version of The Skin of Our Teeth. Upon seeing his performance in the play, director Joshua Logan decided to cast him in 20th Century Fox's film version of Bus Stop.
wn.com/Don_Murray_(actor) -
Doris Day
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, April 3, 1924) is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey", in 1945. After leaving the Les Brown & His Band of Renown to try a solo career, she started her long-lasting partnership with Columbia Records, which would remain her only recording label. The contract lasted from 1947 to 1967, and included more than 650 recordings, making Day one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century. In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast in the female lead role in Romance on the High Seas.
With a legendary Hollywood "girl next door" image, and capable of delivering comedy and romance as well as heavy drama, she appeared in 39 films, released 29 albums, spent 460 weeks in the Top 40 charts and eventually became one of America's most beloved entertainers. She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards (World Film Favorite), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
wn.com/Doris_Day -
Edie Adams
Edie Adams (April 16, 1927 – October 15, 2008) was an American singer, Broadway, television and film actress and comedienne. Adams, an Emmy Award and Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde." She was well known for her impersonations of female stars on stage and television, most particularly, Marilyn Monroe. She was the wife and frequent television partner of Ernie Kovacs until his death in a 1962 car accident.
Adams was born as Edith Elizabeth Enke in Kingston, Pennsylvania. The daughter of Sheldon and Ada (Adams) Enke, the family lived in Grove City for some years and spent a year in New York City before moving to Tenafly, New Jersey, where Edie finished high school. Edie's mother taught her how to sing and play the piano; mother and daughter were members of the Grove City Presbyterian church choir. Adams' grandmother, a seamstress, taught her how to sew. She made her own clothing beginning in the sixth grade and later had her own designer line of clothing, called Bonham, Inc.
wn.com/Edie_Adams -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954, working with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was the most important popularizer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for over two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", released in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial. In November 1956, he made his film debut in Love Me Tender.
wn.com/Elvis_Presley -
Ernie Fletcher
Ernest Lee "Ernie" Fletcher (born November 12, 1952) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. In 1999, he was elected to the first of three consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives; he resigned in 2003 after being elected the 60th governor of Kentucky and served in that office until 2007. Prior to his entry into politics, Fletcher was a family practice physician and a Baptist lay minister. He is only the second physician to be elected governor of Kentucky; the first was Luke P. Blackburn in 1879.
Fletcher graduated from the University of Kentucky and joined the United States Air Force to pursue his dream of becoming an astronaut. He left the Air Force after budget cuts reduced his squadron's flying time and earned a degree in medicine, hoping to earn a spot as a civilian on a space mission. Deteriorating eyesight eventually ended those hopes, and he entered private practice as a physician and conducted services as a Baptist lay minister. He became active in politics and was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1994. Two years later he ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, but lost to incumbent Scotty Baesler. When Baesler retired to run for a seat in the U.S. Senate, Fletcher again ran for the congressional seat and defeated Democratic state Senator Ernesto Scorsone. He soon became one of the House Republican caucus' top advisors regarding health care legislation, particularly the Patients' Bill of Rights.
wn.com/Ernie_Fletcher -
Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino Jr. (born February 26, 1928) is an American R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Domino was French Creole and Creole was his first language. Domino was delivered at home by his midwife grandmother who was born into enslavement in 1857. Like most families in the Lower Ninth Ward, Domino's family were new arrivals from the sugar and cotton plantations. His father was a well known violinist, and Domino was inspired to play himself. He eventually learned from his Uncle, jazz guitarist Harrison Verrett. Fats released five Gold (million selling) records before 1955. Domino also had 35 Top 40 American Hits and has a music style based on traditional R&B ensembles or Bass, Piano, Electric Guitar, Drums, and Saxophone.
Domino first attracted national attention with "The Fat Man" in 1949 on Imperial Records. This song is an early rock and roll record, featuring a rolling piano and Domino doing "wah-wah" vocalizing over a strong back beat. "The Fat Man" sold one million copies by 1953. Fats Domino released a series of hit songs with producer and co-writer Dave Bartholomew, saxophonists Herbert Hardesty and Alvin "Red" Tyler and drummer Earl Palmer. Other notable and long-standing musicians in Domino's band were saxophonists Reggie Houston, Lee Allen, and Fred Kemp, Domino's trusted bandleader. Domino finally crossed into the pop mainstream with "Ain't That A Shame" (1955), which hit the Top Ten, though Pat Boone characteristically hit #1 with a milder cover of the song that received wider radio airplay in a racially-segregated era. Domino eventually had 37 Top 40 singles.
wn.com/Fats_Domino -
Fontane Sisters
The Fontane Sisters were a trio (Bea, Geri and Marge Rosse) from New Milford, New Jersey.
Their mother, Louise Rosse, was both a soloist and the leader of the St. Joseph's Church choir in New Milford. Bea and Marge started out singing for local functions, doing so well, they were urged to audition in New York City. Originally they performed as a trio with their guitarist brother Frank, under the name the Ross Trio (Rosse with the "e" omitted). The group auditioned for NBC and was soon sent off to work in Cleveland. When they returned to New York in 1944, Frank was drafted into the Army; he was killed in action in World War II. Geri, who had just finished school, took her brother's place, making it an all-girl trio.
The now all-female group chose the name of Fontaine from a great-grandmother; they decided to drop the "i", making themselves the Fontane Sisters. The sisters worked on sustaining (non-sponsored) programs for NBC, meeting and working with Perry Como soon after he came to the network. Word reached the sisters, then in Chicago for NBC, that "Supper Club" would be making cast changes; they were eager for a chance to join Como's show, which also meant being closer to their home. Beginning in the summer of 1948, they were featured on his radio show and television show known as The Chesterfield Supper Club and later (1950–1954) as The Perry Como Show. The trio also did appearances on Chesterfield Sound Off Time when the program originated from New York; however, the television show lasted only one season. The street Fontane Dr in Cornwall, NY was named after the Fontane sisters
wn.com/Fontane_Sisters -
Frank Ifield
Francis Edward Ifield (born 30 November 1937) is an early Australian-English easy listening and country music singer. He achieved considerable success in the early 1960s, especially in the UK Singles Chart, where he had four Number 1 hits between 1962 and 1963.
Born in Coundon, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, Ifield moved with his Australian parents to Dural, 50 km (31 mi) from Sydney, about 1946. It was a rural district and he listened to hillbilly music (now called country) while milking the cows. He learned how to yodel in imitation of country stars like Hank Snow. At the age of thirteen he recorded "Did You See My Daddy Over There?", and by the age of 19 was the number one recording star in Australia and New Zealand.[citation needed] He returned to the UK in 1959.
His first record in the UK was "Lucky Devil" (1960) which got to number 22 in the UK charts. His next six records were less successful, but he finally broke through with "I Remember You" which topped the charts for seven weeks in 1962. Known for Ifield's falsetto and a slight yodel, it was the second highest-selling single of that year in the UK and became the seventh million-selling single.
wn.com/Frank_Ifield -
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra, /sɨˈnɑːtrə/, (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and film actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the "bobby soxers", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.
He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 (finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way".
wn.com/Frank_Sinatra -
Frankie Laine
Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio (March 30, 1913 - February 6, 2007), was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005. Often billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr. Rhythm, Old Leather Lungs, and Mr. Steel Tonsils. His hits included "That's My Desire," "That Lucky Old Sun," "Mule Train," "Cry of the Wild Goose," "Jezebel," "High Noon," "I Believe," "Hey Joe!," "The Kid's Last Fight," "Cool Water," "Moonlight Gambler," "Love is a Golden Ring," "Rawhide," and "Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain."
He sang well-known theme songs for many movie Western soundtracks, including 3:10 To Yuma, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and Blazing Saddles, although he was not a country & western singer. Laine sang an eclectic variety of song styles and genres, stretching from big band crooning to pop, western-themed songs, gospel, rock, folk, jazz, and blues. He did not sing the soundtrack song for High Noon, which was sung by Tex Ritter, but his own version (with somewhat altered lyrics, omitting the name of the antagonist, Frank Miller) was the one that became a bigger hit, nor did he sing the theme to another show he is commonly associated with—Champion the Wonder Horse (sung by Mike Stewart)—but released his own, subsequently more popular version.
wn.com/Frankie_Laine -
Gardner McKay
George Cadogan Gardner McKay (June 10, 1932 – November 21, 2001) was an American actor, artist, and author.
Born in New York City, McKay graduated from Cornell University, where he majored in art. He became a Hollywood heartthrob in the 1950s and 1960s. He landed the lead role in Adventures in Paradise, based loosely on the writings of James Michener. His character, Adam Troy, was a Korean War veteran who purchased the twin-masted 82-foot (25 m) schooner Tiki, and sailed the South Pacific.
McKay was under contract to MGM when he was spotted by Dominick Dunne, then a television producer for Twentieth Century Fox, who was searching for an actor to star in his planned Adventures in Paradise. Dunne put his business card on the table and said, "If you're interested in discussing a television series, call me." McKay competed in screen tests with nine other candidates, and won it because of his good looks and ability to sail. An accomplished sailor, he had made eight Atlantic crossings by the age of seventeen. Although previously unknown to the public, McKay appeared on the July 6, 1959, cover of Life Magazine just two months before the series premiered.
wn.com/Gardner_McKay -
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. The eldest son of Barbara Bush and George H. W. Bush, he was born in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush worked in oil businesses. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. In a close and controversial election, Bush was elected President in 2000 as the Republican candidate, defeating Vice President Al Gore in the Electoral College. Bush is the second American president to have been the son of a former president. He is also the brother of Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida.
Terrorist attacks occurred eight months into Bush's first term as president on September 11, 2001. In response, Bush announced the War on Terror, an international military campaign which included the war in Afghanistan launched in 2001 and the war in Iraq launched in 2003. In addition to national security issues, Bush promoted policies on the economy, health care, education, and social security reform. He signed into law broad tax cuts, the PATRIOT Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and Medicare prescription drug benefits for seniors. His tenure saw national debates on immigration, Social Security, electronic surveillance, and enhanced interrogation techniques. His administration also withdrew the U.S. from a some international treaty processes, including the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
wn.com/George_W._Bush -
Ivory Joe Hunter
Ivory Joe Hunter (October 10, 1914 – November 8, 1974) was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid 1940s, he became more widely known for his hit recording, "Since I Met You Baby" (1956). He was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also known as The Happiest Man Alive. His musical output transgressed from R&B to blues, boogie-woogie, and country, and Hunter made a name in all of those genres. Uniquely, he was honored at the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Grand Ole Opry.
Hunter was born in Kirbyville, Texas, United States. Ivory Joe Hunter was his birthname, not a nickname nor a stage name. As a youngster, Hunter developed an early interest in music from his father, Dave Hunter, who played guitar, and his gospel-singing mother. He was a talented pianist by the age of 13, and as a teenager, Hunter made his first recording for Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress in 1933.
In the early 1940s, Hunter had his own radio show in Beaumont, Texas, on KFDM, where he eventually became program manager, and in 1942 he moved to Los Angeles, joining Johnny Moore's Three Blazers in the mid 1940s. When he wrote and recorded his first song, "Blues At Sunrise", with the Three Blazers for his own label, Ivory Records, it became a nationwide hit on the R&B chart in 1945.
wn.com/Ivory_Joe_Hunter -
Jack Hayford
Jack Williams Hayford ( /ˈdʒæk ˈwɪljəmz ˈheɪfərd/; born June 25, 1934) is an American author, Pentecostal minister, and Chancellor of The King's University (formerly The King's College and Seminary). He is the founding pastor of The Church On The Way in Van Nuys and was the fourth President of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel from 2004 to 2008.
While working on his second bachelor's degree at Azusa Pacific University, Hayford, on a temporary basis, began pastoring a small congregation, the First Foursquare Church of Van Nuys, (the name later was changed to "The Church On The Way"), where he wound up serving as the senior pastor from 1969 to 1999. The church has subsequently become numbered among the largest churches in America, and particularly, the Foursquare denomination, reporting membership exceeding 10,000.
Hayford is a graduate of L.I.F.E. Bible College (now Life Pacific College), where he served as dean of students, and Azusa Pacific University. He is widely known for his past involvement in the Promise Keepers movement, his role as founder and chancellor of The King's University, initiator of the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem, and for being a prolific author and song-writer, with over 600 hymns and choruses in his catalog. He is the author of the popular 1978 hymn "Majesty", which is rated as one of the top 100 contemporary hymns, performed and sung in churches worldwide. In 1995, he recorded Men In Worship, under the Hosanna! Music label, with 1500 men.
wn.com/Jack_Hayford -
Joel Whitburn
Joel Carver Whitburn (born November 29, 1939; Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American author and music historian.
Whitburn founded Record Research Inc. in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, in 1970, and put together a team of researchers to examine in detail all of Billboard's music and video charts. Record Research publishes reference books based on data from the various popular music charts and to date has published over 200 books, 50 of which are currently in the Record Research catalog. His flagship publication is Top Pop Singles which covers the history of Billboard's popular music charts. Featuring each recording's peak position, date charted, weeks charted, label and information, and trivia on recordings and artists, Whitburn's books are used extensively by the entertainment industry (especially radio DJs) and music fans worldwide. His research extends from 1890 to the present and covers many genres. Whitburn is also the author of the Top 40 Hits series of books published by Billboard Books.
wn.com/Joel_Whitburn -
Ken Dodd
Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE (born Liverpool, 8 November 1927) is a British comedian and singer-songwriter, famous for his frizzy hair or "fluff dom" and buck teeth or "denchers", his favourite cleaner, the feather duster (or "tickling stick") and his greeting of "How tickled I am!", as well as his send-off "Lots and Lots of Happiness!". He works mainly in the music hall tradition, although, in the past, has occasionally appeared in drama, including as Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on stage in Liverpool in 1971; on television in the cameo role of 'The Tollmaster' in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen; and as Yorick (in silent flashback) in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1996. In the 1960s his fame was such that he rivalled The Beatles as a household name.
Dodd's stand-up comedy style is fast and relies on the rapid delivery of one-liner jokes. He has claimed that his comic influences include other Liverpool comedians like Arthur Askey, Robb Wilton, Tommy Handley and the "cheeky chappy" from Brighton Max Miller. He intersperses the comedy with occasional songs, both serious and humorous, in an incongruously fine light baritone voice.
wn.com/Ken_Dodd -
Lita Roza
Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was a British singer. Her 1953 number one hit record "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" afforded Roza the privilege of being the first British female singer to top the UK Singles Chart, and the first Liverpudlian to do so.
Born Lilian Patricia Lita Roza in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK, she was the eldest of seven children. and began work at an early age to support the family. She owed her sultry looks and Latin passion, to her Spanish father, an amateur accordionist who also played piano in several Liverpool nightclubs.
At the age of 12 she saw an advertisement in the local newspapers for juvenile dancers and passed the audition. She took to the stage at that age in a pantomime and by the time she was 15 was working with fellow Merseysider comedian, Ted Ray.
By 16 (at the height of the Nazi Blitz-bombing raids on Liverpool) she answered another advert, when she managed to secure a job as a singer in the "New Yorker" - a Southport, Lancashire club. She got that job at £5 a week, then shortly afterwards signed up with the Harry Roy Orchestra in London. She moved on from this to work with other bands of the era including that of Edmundo Ros.
wn.com/Lita_Roza -
Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the mid-1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and contributed significantly to the early development of soul music. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website entry on Penniman states that:
He claims to be "the architect of rock and roll", and history would seem to bear out Little Richard’s boast. More than any other performer – save, perhaps, Elvis Presley, Little Richard blew the lid off the Fifties, laying the foundation for rock and roll with his explosive music and charismatic persona. On record, he made spine-tingling rock and roll. His frantically charged piano playing and raspy, shouted vocals on such classics as "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" defined the dynamic sound of rock and roll.
wn.com/Little_Richard -
Neil Cavuto
Neil Patrick Cavuto (born September 22, 1958) is an American television anchor and commentator on the Fox Business Network and host of three television programs, Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, both on the Fox News Channel and Cavuto on sister channel Fox Business Network.
Cavuto also tapes a nightly wrap-up of business news which airs on local FOX affiliates during the late news and has a syndicated radio business news segment that airs on weekday afternoons. He is the senior vice president and managing editor of business news for the Fox Business Network, and oversees content and business coverage. He is the author of two books.
Cavuto was born in Westbury, New York, and raised in Danbury, Connecticut, where he attended Immaculate High School. He worked as a White House intern during U.S. president Jimmy Carter's administration, graduated from St. Bonaventure University, and earned a master's degree from American University.
Neil Cavuto became the managing editor of business news and television anchor of Your World with Neil Cavuto on Fox News Channel in July 1996, later becoming a vice president of business news in March 2006. He serves all three positions concurrently. Your World is Fox's main business news program.
wn.com/Neil_Cavuto -
Nick Todd
Nick Todd (born Cecil Altman Boone, June 1, 1935, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American pop singer. He is the younger brother of pop singer Pat Boone. He had two hit records called "Plaything" and "At The Hop", which reached #41 and #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Plaything" debuted in October 1957 and "At The Hop" debuted in December 1957, the same month Danny & the Juniors version reached #1 on the chart in December 1957.
The President of Dot Records, Randy Wood, did not want him using the same last name as his brother, so he made up "Todd", which is basically "Dot" (Records) spelled backwards. Both recordings were backed by Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra.
wn.com/Nick_Todd -
Nicolas Slonimsky
Nicolas Slonimsky (April 27 [O.S. April 15] 1894 – December 25, 1995) was a Russian born American composer, conductor, musician, music critic, lexicographer and author. He described himself as a "diaskeuast" (from Greek διασκευαστής); "a reviser or interpolator."
Slonimsky was born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy in Saint Petersburg. He was of Jewish origin, but his parents adopted the Orthodox faith after the birth of his older brother, and Nicolas was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church. His maternal aunt, Isabelle Vengerova, was his first piano teacher.
Slonimsky was brought to the United States in 1923 by Vladimir Rosing to work as an accompanist in the newly formed Opera Department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he continued his composition and conducting studies. He also accompanied Rosing at many of his vocal recitals, including a performance at Carnegie Hall in October 1924. After two years, Slonimsky moved to Boston to work as an assistant for Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Serge Koussevitzky, for whom he had earlier worked as a rehearsal pianist in Paris. During this time, Slonimsky taught music theory at Boston Conservatory and the Malkin Conservatory, and began to write music articles for The Boston Evening Transcript, The Christian Science Monitor and the magazine, The Etude.
wn.com/Nicolas_Slonimsky -
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English band Black Sabbath, whose dark and hard sound helped spawn the heavy metal genre. Due to Sabbath's dark style, Osbourne became known as the "Prince of Darkness". Osbourne is also known as the "Godfather of Heavy Metal".
In the early 2000s, Osbourne's career expanded when he became a star in his own reality show The Osbournes, alongside wife/manager Sharon and two of their three children, Kelly and Jack. A documentary about his life and career, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, premiered in April 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released on DVD in November 2011. Osbourne has achieved multi-platinum status as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath and has sold over 100 million albums worldwide.
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne was born in Aston, Birmingham, England, on 3 December 1948. His father Jack worked shifts as a toolmaker at GEC. His mother Lillian worked for the car components firm Lucas. John was the fourth of six children. Ozzy had two brothers (Paul and Tony) and three sisters (Jean, Iris and Gillian); they lived in a small two bedroom home at 14 Lodge Road in Aston. The nickname "Ozzy" was first used when he was in primary school. Although called "John" by his first wife Thelma, Osbourne states that it has been a long time since he's recognised himself when called by his formal name.
wn.com/Ozzy_Osbourne -
Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, OC (born July 30, 1941 Ottawa) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.
Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder". He went on to write such well-known music as the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and one of Tom Jones's biggest hits, "She's a Lady", and the English lyrics for Frank Sinatra's signature song, "My Way" (originally French song "Comme d'habitude").
In 1983, he co-wrote with Michael Jackson the song "I Never Heard", which was retitled and released in 2009 under the name "This Is It". An additional song that Jackson co-wrote with Anka from this 1983 session, "Love Never Felt So Good", has since been discovered, and will be released in the near future. The song was also released by Johnny Mathis in 1984.
Anka became a naturalized US citizen in 1990.
Anka was born in Ottawa, Ontario in Canada to Andy and Camelia Anka who owned a restaurant called The Locanda there. His parents are of Lebanese descent. He sang with the St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Church choir under the direction of Frederick Karam, with whom he studied music theory. He also studied piano with Winnifred Rees.
wn.com/Paul_Anka -
Paul Crouch
Paul Franklin Crouch (born March 30, 1934) is a religious broadcaster and, along with his wife Jan, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).
Crouch was born in St. Joseph, the son of Pentecostal missionaries. Crouch, whose father died when he was just seven years old, was mainly raised by his mother with the help of his grandparents. He soon became interested in amateur radio and announced he would use such technology to send the Gospel around the world. He graduated from the Central Bible Institute and Seminary in Springfield, Missouri in 1955 with a degree in theology.
He has also received three honorary doctorates: Doctor of Litterarum (D.Litt) on May 29, 1981, from the California Graduate School of Theology, Glendale, California; a Doctor of Divinity on May 29, 1983, from the American Christian Theological Seminary, Anaheim, California; and a Doctor of Laws degree on May 5, 1985, from Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Crouch and the former Janice Bethany (Crouch) met in 1957 and were married in Missouri. They have three sons, Paul Crouch Jr., and Matthew Crouch, and producer Andrew Crouch, who also have prominent positions with and also frequently appear on TBN.
wn.com/Paul_Crouch -
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After leaving the Beatles, he began a solo career and later formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.
According to the BBC, his Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists—more than any other song. Wings' 1977 release, "Mull of Kintyre", became one of the best-selling singles ever in the UK, and he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK chart history, according to Guinness. As a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one titles on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.
wn.com/Paul_McCartney -
Pearl Bailey
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952.
Bailey was born in Southampton County in southeastern Virginia, to the Reverend Joseph and Ella Mae Ricks Bailey. She was reared in the Bloodfields neighborhood of Newport News, Virginia.
She made her stage-singing debut when she was 15 years old. Her brother Bill Bailey was beginning his own career as a tap dancer, and suggested she enter an amateur contest at Philadelphia’s Pearl Theater. She entered, won first prize, later won a similar contest at Harlem’s famous Apollo Theater, and decided to pursue a career in entertainment.
wn.com/Pearl_Bailey -
Priscilla Presley
Priscilla Presley (born Priscilla Ann Wagner; May 24, 1945) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the ex-wife of singer Elvis Presley, and the mother of singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley.
Priscilla was chairwoman of the board of Elvis Presley Enterprises from 1982 to 1998, helping to turn Graceland into a multi-million dollar tourist attraction. As an actress, Priscilla is best known for co-starring with Leslie Nielsen in the three successful Naked Gun films between 1988 and 1994, and for her five-year run playing the character Jenna Wade on the television series Dallas.
Priscilla's grandfather, Albert Henry Iversen, emigrated from Egersund in Norway to the United States in the beginning of the 1900s. He married Lorraine Davis, who was of Scots-Irish and English descent. They had three children: Albert Jr. (March 1922), James Richard (March 1924) and Anna Lillian Iversen (March 1926). Later she was called, or her name was changed to, Ann. She was called Rooney (short for Annie Rooney) as a child. At the age of 19 she gave birth to Priscilla. They both still have cousins in Norway. In a letter to the City Hall of Egersund, Ann asked for information about their relatives, and wrote that Priscilla was interested in knowing about them; Priscilla's parents then visited family members in Norway in 1992.
wn.com/Priscilla_Presley -
Richard Boone
Richard Allen Boone (June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981) was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns and for starring in the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel.
Boone was born in Los Angeles, California, the middle child of Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone, a well-to-do corporate lawyer. His father was a descendant of Squire Boone, younger brother of frontiersman Daniel Boone. His mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Russia. Contrary to popular belief Boone was not related to Pat, Randy or Debbie Boone. Boone graduated from Hoover High School in Glendale, California. He attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, but left prior to graduation and tried his hand at oil-rigging, bartending, painting and writing before joining the United States Navy in 1941. He served on three ships in the Pacific during World War II, seeing combat as an aviation ordnanceman and gunner on TBM Avenger torpedo bombers.
After the war, he used the G.I. Bill to study acting at the Actors Studio in New York. Serious and methodical, Boone debuted on Broadway in 1947 in the play Medea and appeared in Macbeth (1948) and The Man (1950).
wn.com/Richard_Boone -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (
/ˈrɒnəld ˈwɪlsən ˈreɪɡən/; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989. Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and a radio, film and television actor.
Born in Tampico, Illinois and raised in Dixon, Reagan was educated at Eureka College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. After his graduation, Reagan moved first to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in to Los Angeles in 1937 where he began a career as an actor, first in films and later television. Some of his most notable films include Knute Rockne, All American, Kings Row, and Bedtime for Bonzo. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later as a spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, his positions began shifting rightward in the late 1950s, and he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and general election in 1980, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
wn.com/Ronald_Reagan -
Russ Carnahan
John Russell "Russ" Carnahan (pronounced /ˈkɑrnəhæn/; born July 10, 1958) is the U.S. Representative for Missouri's 3rd congressional district, serving since 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
The district includes the southern third of the city of St. Louis (known as South City) and most of the southern St. Louis suburbs including most of Jefferson County and all of Ste. Genevieve County. Some cities located in the district include: Webster Groves, Mehlville, Affton, and Oakville (as part of South St. Louis City), and the southern suburbs of Arnold, Herculaneum, Pevely, Crystal City, Barnhart, Imperial, and Festus, as well as Ste. Genevieve in the neighboring Ste. Genevieve County.
Dramatic losses in population in St. Louis in the 2010 Census contributed to Missouri losing a Congressional seat effective 2013. In the proposed Republican created remapping of the state, Carnahan's district is slated to be dismantled. The bulk of the district, including Carnahan's home, was drawn into Missouri's 1st congressional district. The move would place Carnahan and William Lacy Clay, Jr. in the same district.
wn.com/Russ_Carnahan -
Slim Whitman
Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr. (born January 20, 1924), known professionally as Slim Whitman, and early in his career as "The Smiling Starduster", is an American country music singer and songwriter, known for his yodelling abilities. He has sold in excess of 120 million albums in unit sales and has had numerous successful recordings. He is consistently more popular throughout Europe, and in particular Britain, than in his native America, particularly with his covers of pop standards and movie songs . His 1955 hit single "Rose Marie" held the Guinness World Record for the longest time at number 1 on the UK charts until Bryan Adams broke the record in 1991 after 36 years. In the U.S., his "Indian Love Call" (1952) and "Secret Love" (1953) reached number 2 on the Billboard country chart. Whitman had a string of hits from the mid 1960s and into the 1970s and became known to a new generation of fans through TV marketing in the 1980s. Throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century, he has continued to tour extensively around the world and release new material, and he was featured on the soundtrack of the 1996 film Mars Attacks!. In 2010 a new album, called Twilight on the Trail, was released featuring brand new material produced by his son Byron and featuring the single "Back in the Saddle Again."
wn.com/Slim_Whitman -
Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding gravitational singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein–Hawking radiation).
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009. Subsequently, he became research director at the university's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
Hawking has a motor neurone disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a condition that has progressed over the years. He is now almost completely paralysed and communicates through a speech generating device. He has been married twice and has three children. Hawking has achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
wn.com/Stephen_Hawking -
Steve Beshear
Steven Lynn "Steve" Beshear (born September 21, 1944) is an American politician who is the 61st Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. A Democrat, Beshear previously served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1974 to 1979, was the state's Attorney General from 1980 to 1983, and was the 49th Lieutenant Governor from 1983 to 1987.
After graduating from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1968, Beshear briefly practiced law in New York before returning to Kentucky and being elected to the state legislature, where he gained a reputation as a consumer advocate. He parlayed that reputation into a term as attorney general, serving under Governor John Y. Brown, Jr. As attorney general, Beshear issued an opinion that copies of the Ten Commandments would have to be removed from the walls of the state's classrooms in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Stone v. Graham. He also clashed with first lady Phyllis George Brown when he opposed the practice of charging an admission fee for visitors to view the renovated governor's mansion. In 1983, Beshear was elected lieutenant governor in the administration of Governor Martha Layne Collins. His most significant action in this capacity was the formation of the Kentucky Tomorrow Commission, a panel charged with making recommendations for the future of the state.
wn.com/Steve_Beshear -
Steven Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding gravitational singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein–Hawking radiation).
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009. Subsequently, he became research director at the university's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
Hawking has a motor neurone disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a condition that has progressed over the years. He is now almost completely paralysed and communicates through a speech generating device. He has been married twice and has three children. Hawking has achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
wn.com/Steven_Hawking -
Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward,OBE (born 7 June 1940), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records.
Jones has had thirty-six Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom and nineteen in the United States; some of his notable songs include "It's Not Unusual", "What's New Pussycat", "Delilah", "Green, Green Grass of Home", "She's a Lady" and "Kiss".
Having been awarded an OBE in 1999, Jones received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music" in 2006. Jones has received numerous other awards throughout his career, including the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1966, two Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 2000, and an MTV Video Music Award. Aside from his musical career, Jones is currently a coach and mentor on television show The Voice UK.
Tom Jones was born at 57 Kingsland Terrace, Treforest, Pontypridd in South Wales. His parents were Thomas Woodward (died 5 October 1981), a coal miner, and Freda Jones (died 7 February 2003). His family was mainly of English descent, both of his paternal grandparents having been born in England and his maternal grandmother, Ada Jones from Pontypridd, having English parents.
wn.com/Tom_Jones_(singer) -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries. The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), a lightly armed South Vietnamese communist-controlled common front, largely fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The Vietnam People's Army (North Vietnamese Army) engaged in a more conventional war, at times committing large units into battle. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, and airstrikes.
The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. The North Vietnamese government and Viet Cong viewed the conflict as a colonial war, fought initially against France, backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state. American military advisors arrived in what was then French Indochina beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations spanned international borders, with Laos and Cambodia heavily bombed. American involvement in the war peaked in 1968, at the time of the Tet Offensive. After this, U.S. ground forces were gradually withdrawn as part of a policy known as Vietnamization. Despite the Paris Peace Accords, signed by all parties in January 1973, fighting continued.
wn.com/Vietnam_War -
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Sári Gábor (born February 6, 1917), known as Zsa Zsa Gabor, is a Hungarian-born American actress, who acted in supporting roles in movies, on Broadway, and occasionally on television. Gabor was also a socialite.
She began her stage career in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 15, and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936. She emigrated to the United States in 1941 and became a sought-after actress with "European flair and style", with a personality that "exuded charm and grace". Her first movie role was as supporting actress in Lovely to Look At. She later acted in We're Not Married! and played one of her few leading roles in Moulin Rouge (1952), directed by John Huston, who described her as a "creditable" actress. Besides her film and television appearances, she is best known for having nine husbands, including hotel magnate Conrad Hilton and actor George Sanders. She once stated, "Men have always liked me and I have always liked men. But I like a mannish man, a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman—not just a man with muscles."
wn.com/Zsa_Zsa_Gabor
Boone, Pat Filmography
- The Mind of a Leader II Based on Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' (2011)
- Tiny Giant (2011)
- The Rooneys (2010)
- Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010)
- Love Letters in the Sands of Time (2010)
- Love Letters in the Sands of Time (2010)
- Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s (2009)
- 50th Annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration (2009)
- Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's (2009)
- Hollywood on Fire (2009)
- Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical (2009)
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009)
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009)
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008)
- For My Country (2008)
- The Nazareth Jesus Knew (2008)
- For My Country (2008)
- Revisiting the Gallery: A Look Back (2008)
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History (2008)
- Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)
- The Kingston Trio: 50 Years of Havin' Fun (2006)
- Thank You Billy Graham (2006)
- Thank You Billy Graham (2006)
- Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer (2006)
- Thanksgiving USA (2006)
- Harley Davidson: The Spirit of America (2005)
- Fuck (2005)
- The Life and the Passion of Christ (2005)
- The Original Amateur Hour (2005)
- The Christmas Special Christmas Special (2004)
- Magic Moments: The Best of 50's Pop (2004)
- 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection (2003)
- Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (2003)
- The 30th Annual American Music Awards (2003)
- Art of Darkness: A Night Gallery Retrospective (2002)
- Still Cher (2002)
- Pat Boone's American Glory (2001)
- Pat Boone's American Glory (2001)
- The Joke's on Thee (2001)
- Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970) (2000)
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)
- Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999)
- The 24th Annual American Music Awards (1997)
- A Hollywood Pilgrim (1997)
- In a Metal Mood (1996)
- Bad Hair Day: The Videos (1996)
- 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (1996)
- Advanced English: Interviews with the Famous (1995)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 1 (1995)
- American Bandstand's 40th Anniversary Special (1992)
- One Night in 20 Years (1990)
- Roger & Me (1989)
- Pat Boone USA (1986)
- Rock and Roll: The Early Days (1984)
- Hollywood's Private Home Movies (1983)
- The Breakfast Club (1983)
- Bob Hope Laughs with the Movie Awards (1982)
- Rock 'n' Roll: The First 25 Years (1982)
- The Anita Bryant Spectacular (1980)
- Superstars (1979)
- The 20th Annual Grammy Awards (1978)
- The Stars Salute Israel at 30 (1978)
- The Cross and the Switchblade (1970)
- The Pigeon (1969)
- 78th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade (1967)
- The Perils of Pauline (1967)
- The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
- Hollywood My Home Town (1965)
- Goodbye Charlie (1964)
- Never Put It in Writing (1964)
- The Horror of It All (1964)
- Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963)
- Grüsse aus Zürich (1963)
- The Yellow Canary (1963)
- State Fair (1962)
- The Main Attraction (1962)
- All Hands on Deck (1961)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
- 13th Annual Huntington Park Christmas Lane Parade (1959)
- Mardi Gras (1958)
- April Love (1957)
- General Motors 50th Anniversary Show (1957)
- Bernardine (1957)
- Atlantic City Holiday (1956)
- The Pied Piper of Cleveland: A Day in the Life of a Famous Disc Jockey (1955)
- Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (1949)
Boone, Pat Filmography
Boone, Pat Filmography
- Welcome New Lovers
- A Wonderful Time Up There
- Anastasia
- April Love
- At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)
- Bernardine
- Blue Moon
- Chains Of Love
- Crazy Train
- Dont Forbid Me
- Enter Sandman
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
- Holy Diver
- I Love To Tell The Story
- Ill Be Home
- I'm in Love With You
- Jingle Bells
- Memphis Tennessee
- Mona Lisa
- Moody River
- Mr Blue
- Nearer My God To Thee
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- Panama
- Paradise City
- Poetry In Motion
- Quando Quando Quando (Tell Me When)
- Remember Youre Mine
- Rock Around The Clock
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Smoke On The Water
- Speedy Gonzales
- Stairway To Heaven
- The first noel
- The Old Rugged Cross
- There's A Gold Mine In The Sky
- Two Hearts
- You've Got Another Thing Comin'
- Beyond The Sunset
- Blueberry Hill
- Corrine, Corrina
- Deep Purple
- Exodus (this Land Is Mine)
- ...In The Garden
- It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
- Jambalaya
- Joy To The World
- Long Tall Sally
- Love hurts
Famous quotes by Pat Boone:
"Sure, you've got Rod Stewart and Barry Manilow, but look at the top 10. Most of the songs are rap and hip-hop. I'm sure you're not going to be hearing those songs on an elevator 10 years from now."
"There's a big, vast baby boomer audience of people over 35 who feel they're being ignored by the record industry."
"If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles."
"The Original Amateur Hour"
"Everywhere I go, people ask, 'How's Ryan? How's he doing?' People have just taken a universal, personal interest in him,"
"He's 'Exhibit A' for the power of prayer, ... You can only attribute his recovery, in light of the medical prognosis, to God."
"There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up."
"When you hear my records today, you hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard."
"Don't trust anyone over 30"
"When you get married you forget about kissing other women."
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Love Letters in the Sand
- Moody River
- Speedy Gonzales
- April Love
- Bernadine
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- Friendly Persauasion (Thee I Love)
- She Fights That Lovin' Feeling
- Ain't That a Shame
- Mr. Blue
- Jambalaya
- Don't Forbid Me
- I'll Be Home
- A Wonderful Time Up There
- You Lay So Easy on My Mind
- Tutti Frutti
- I Believe in Music
- Where There's a Heartache
- I Love You More and More
- Poetry in Motion
- You've Got Another Thing Comin'
- Smoke on the Water
- It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Want to Rock 'n Roll)
- Panama
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- Love Hurts
- Enter Sandman
- Holy Diver
- Paradise City
- The Wind Cries Mary
- Crazy Train
- Stairway to Heaven
- White Christmas
- Jingle Bells
- Adeste Fideles
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Silver Bells
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Silent Night
- O Holy Night
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- First Noel
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- Joy to the World
- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Moody River
- I'll Be Home
- Love Letters in the Sand
- Ain't That a Shame
- April Love
- Don't Forbid Me
- Remember You're Mine
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- There's a Gold Mine in the Sky
- Friendly Persuasion
- Speedy Gonzalez
- It's Too Soon to Know
- The Main Attraction
- Sugar Moon
- Johnny Will
- Wonderful Time Up There (Gospel Boogie)
- Dreams Come True
- Chains of Love
- Bernadine
- Deep Purple
- Love Me
- Teddy Bear
- Hound Dog
- All Shook Up
- One Night
- Wear My Ring Around Your Neck
- Love Me Tender
- Don't Be Cruel
- Blue Suede Shoes
- My Baby Left Me
- Heartbreak Hotel
- It's Now or Never
- Moody River
- Angel on My Shoulder
- Great Pretender
- Love Makes the World Go Around
- Corrine Corrina
- Thousand Years
- Sleep
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow
- There's a Moon Out Tonight
- Georgia on My Mind
- Blue Moon
- I've Told You Ev'ry Little Star
- He Leadeth Me
- I Am Thine o Lord
- Blessed Assurance
- Take the Name of Jesus With You
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- Nearer My God to Thee
- Rock of Ages
- Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
- I Love to Tell the Story
- God Will Take Care of You
- Saviour Like Shepherd Leads Us
- God Will Be With You Till We Meet Again.
- Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love)
- Ain't That a Shame
- Tennessee Saturday Night
- You're Gonna Be Sorry
- At My Front Door
- Tutti Frutti
- Hoboken Baby
- Long Tall Sally
- Bingo
- Money Honey
- I'm in Love With You
- Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy
- Honey Hush
- Flip, Flop & Fly
- Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens
- I'm in Love Again
- Rock Around the Clock
- Shotgun Boogie
- Five, Ten, Fifteen Hours
- The Fat Man
- Great Googa Mooga
- That's How Much I Love You
- St. Louis Blues
- Havin' Fun Spo Dee-O-Dee
- For My Good Fortune
- Good Rockin' Tonight
- Well Then There Now (Boone's Rock and Roll)
- A Whole Lotta Water
- Stagger Lee
- Running Bear
- Personality
- Tweedle Dee
- I Don't Know Is It True
- Going to New York
- Speedy Gonzales
- Ain't That a Shame
- Love Letters In The Sand
- Hohnny Will
- April Love
- I'll Be Home
- Moody River
- Don't Forbid Me
- Remember You're Mine
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- Why Baby Why
- Wonderful Time Up There
- White Christmas
- Jingle Bells
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Adeste Fideles
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- O Holy Night
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
- Silent Night
- The Christmas Song
- The First Noel
- Joy to the World
- Beyond the Sunset
- It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
- My God Is Real (Yes, God Is Real)
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- The Old Rugged Cross
- In the Garden
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Rock of Ages
- Saviour Like a Sheperd Lead Us
- He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
- Love Letters in the Sand
- I Love You More and More Everyday
- I'll Be Home
- After You
- Don't Forbid Me
- Wanted
- Mr. Blue
- April Love
- Friendly Persuasion
- She Fights That Lovin' Feelin'
- A Wonderful Time Up There
- Good Things
- Speedy Gonzales
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- Remember You're Mine
- Bernadine
- Poetry in Motion
- Jambalaya
- Moody River
- You Lay So Easy on My Mind
- Tying the Pieces Together
- Ain't That a Shame
- Tutti Frutti
- Memphis Tennessee
- Ain't That a Shame
- Tutti Frutti
- Bernadine
- Love Letters in the Sand
- I'll Be Home
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- April Love
- Speedy Gonzales
- Johnny Will
- Long Tall Sally
- Mona Lisa
- Don't Forbid Me
- Friendly Persuasion
- Chains of Love
- Sugar Moon
- Two Hearts, Two Kisses
- Ain't That a Shame
- At My Front Door
- Gee Whittakers
- I'll Be Home
- Tutti Frutti
- Long Tall Sally
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- Friendly Persuasion
- Chains of Love
- Don't Forbid Me
- Why Baby Why
- Love Letters in the Sand
- Bernadine
- Rember You're Mine
- There's a Goldmine in the Sky
- April Love
- A Wonderful Time Up There
- It's Too Soon to Know
- Sugar Moon
- Love Letters in the Sand
- April Love
- Texas Women
- Indiana Girl
- It's Love
- Love Light Comes a Shining
- Oklahoma Sunshine
- Don't Want to Fall Away From You April
- Throw It Away
- Young Girl
- Won't Be Home
- Country Days and Country Nights
- There's a Gold Mine in the Sky
- For My Good Fortune
- Gee, but It's Lonely
- I'll Remember Tonight
- With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair
- For a Penny
- (Welcome) New Lovers
- Twixt Twelve and Twenty
- Fools Hall of Fame
- Walking the Floor Over You
- There's a Moon Out Tonight
- The Exodus Song (This Land Is Mine)
- I'll See You in My Dreams
- Big Cold Wind
- Johnny Will
- Ten Lonely Guys
- Beach Girl
- July, You're a Woman
- Two Hearts
- Ain't That a Shame
- I'll Be Home
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)
- Chains of Love
- Don't Forbid Me
- Why Baby Why
- Love Letters in the Sand
- Bernadine
- Remember You're Mine
- April Love
- A Wonderful Time Up There
- It's Too Soon to Know
- Sugar Moon
- If Dreams Came True
- Moody River
- Speedy Gonzales
- Love Letters in the Sand
- Moody Rivers
- April Love
- Don't Forbid Me
- Remember You're Mine
- Bernadine
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- Speedy Gonzales
- Friendly Persuasion
- Why Baby Why
- Ain't That a Shame
- I'll Be Home
- Tutti Frutti
- At My Front Door
- Chains of Love
- Two Hearts
- Flip, Flop and Fly
- Anastasia
- Hoboken Baby
- The Fat Man
- Shot Gun Boogie
- Deep Purpel
- Bingo
- Rock Around the Clock
- I'm in Love With You
- Money Honey
- There's a Gold Mine in the Sky
- Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens
- Long Tall Sally
- I'll Be Home
- Ain't That a Shame
- Speedy Gonzales
- April Love
- Love Letters in the Sand
- Gospel Boogie (Ev'rybody's Gonna Have a Wonderful Time Up There)
- Misty
- Yesterday
- Moody River
- I'll See You in My Dreams
- Johnny Will
- Words
- At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)
- The Exodus Song
- Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)
- By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Send this Playlist by SMS
Email this Page
pat boone - love letters in the sand
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:04
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
one of many hits for pat!
http://wn.com/pat_boone_love_letters_in_the_sand
Pat Boone - Speedy Gonzalez
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:38
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
Music and everything in this video does not belong to me! This music and everything in it is owned or licensed by Believe and UMG! Enjoy everyone,and if you want another song just let me know!
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_Speedy_Gonzalez
PAT BOONE - I'LL BE HOME
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:03
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
".....wait for me...." .
http://wn.com/PAT_BOONE_I'LL_BE_HOME
legendary singer Pat Boone - 1957 - April Love
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
April Love - 1957 - Pat Boone. video from the "Organization Pat Boone".
http://wn.com/legendary_singer_Pat_Boone_1957_April_Love
Pat Boone on CCS
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:37
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
Pat Boone on CCS
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_on_CCS
quando quando quando- pat boone
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 24 Nov 2012
tell me when will you be mine... softer version compared to engelbert's version
http://wn.com/quando_quando_quando_pat_boone
Pat Boone - Aint That A Shame
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:12
- Updated: 24 Nov 2012
Pat Boone - Aint That A Shame
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_Aint_That_A_Shame
PAT BOONE A WONDERFUL TIME UP THERE.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:13
- Updated: 10 Nov 2012
This was another hit for PAT BOONE.
http://wn.com/PAT_BOONE_A_WONDERFUL_TIME_UP_THERE
Pat Boone loses his toupee
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:26
- Updated: 23 Oct 2012
Pat Boone demonstrates his imitation of Will Rogers' rope tricks, and loses his toupee. I remember recording this back in the 1990s for my parents that didn't know how to work the VCR.
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_loses_his_toupee
Pat Boone - Friendly Persuasion
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:04
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Pat Boone - Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) The British invasion ended Boone's career as a hit maker, though he continued recording throughout the 1960s. In the 1970s, he switched to gospel and country, and he continued performing in other media as well. He is currently working as the disc jockey of a popular oldies radio show and runs his own record company which provides an outlet for new recordings by 1950s greats who can no longer find a place with the major labels. In 1997, Boone released 'In a Metal Mood' - ' No More Mr. Nice Guy', a collection of heavy metal covers. To promote the album, he appeared at the American Music Awards in black leather, shocking audiences and losing his respectability among his largest constituency, conservative Christians. In 2007 Pat Boone was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. Boone and his wife live in Los Angeles, California. They are members of The Church on the Way in the San Fernando Valley. His one-time neighbour was Ozzy Osbourne and his family. Boone's cover of Osbourne's song "Crazy Train" became the theme song for The Osbournes. (It appears on The Osbournes Soundtrack.) Sharon Osbourne once said that Boone "never complained once" about living next door to their less-than-traditional family. Pat Boone - Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) Thee I love, more than the meadow so green and still More than the mulberries on the hill More than the buds of a May apple tree, I love thee Arms have I, strong as the oak, for this ...
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_Friendly_Persuasion
PAT BOONE - I'LL BE HOME (UKNo1.1956)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
FORTY-SEVENTH UKNo1.JUNE/JULY 1956. PAT BOONE.
http://wn.com/PAT_BOONE_I'LL_BE_HOME_UKNo11956
Pat Boone - Friendly persuasion
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 24 Nov 2012
Tema musical de la película "Friendly persuasion" de 1956, que Pat Boon cantaba en los títulos de crédito. Una bella historia de conflicto familiar por cuestión de ideas acerca de la violencia.La música es de Dmitri Tionkin. Thee I love, more than the meadow so green and still More than the mulberries on the hill More than the buds on the May apple tree, I love thee Arms have I, strong as the oak, for this occasion Lips have I, to kiss thee, too, in friendly persuasion Thee is mine, though I don't know many words of praise Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove And come with me, for thee I love [Instrumental Interlude] Friendly persuasion Thee is mine, though I don't know many words of praise Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove And come with me, for thee I love
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_Friendly_persuasion
Pat Boone - Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) (1956)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 19 Nov 2012
Charted at #5 on Billboard Hot 100 in September 1956 and #3 on the UK Singles chart. Theme song of the movie of the same name which starred Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire and Anthony Perkins. Billboard reported there were almost a dozen competing versions of this song in 1956. The Four Aces charted at #45 on the Hot 100 with their version and #29 on the UK Singles chart. Written by Dimitri Tiomkin & Paul Francis Webster. B-side is "Chains of Love" which charted at #10 on the Hot 100.
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_Friendly_Persuasion_Thee_I_Love_1956
The Exodus Song (This Land Is Mine) by Pat Boone
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:23
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
Music by Ernst Gold Words by Pat Boone
http://wn.com/The_Exodus_Song_This_Land_Is_Mine_by_Pat_Boone
Are You Lonesome Tonight Pat Boone.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
Pat Boone
http://wn.com/Are_You_Lonesome_Tonight_Pat_Boonewmv
"Don't Forbid Me"- PAT BOONE
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
London no.HL1142
http://wn.com/Don't_Forbid_Me_PAT_BOONE
Pat Boone - Bernadine (from the movie, Bernadine - 1957)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classics. LINK: tinyurl.com In the years immediately prior to the British Invasion, only one performer rivaled the chart dominance of Elvis Presley, and that was Pat Boone. With his trademark white buck shoes, perfectly combed hair and gleaming smile, Boone was the very essence of wholesome American values, and at a time when the rise of rock & roll was viewed as a sign of the apocalypse, he made the music appear safe and non-threatening, earning some 38 Top 40 hits in the process. It's fitting that his achievements rank closest to those of Presley; after all, both claimed the sound of the black R&B; culture for their own, in the process straddling both sides of the color line and popularizing a form of music which otherwise might never have gained widespread acceptance. Of course, while Elvis -- with his flashy suits, swiveling hips and suggestive leer -- remained persona non grata throughout many corners of mainstream America, Boone was embraced by teens and parents alike; his music polished rock's rough edges away, making songs like "Tutti Frutti" and "Ain't That a Shame" palatable to white audiences raised on the soothing pop traditions of a vanishing era. Charles Eugene Patrick Boone was born June 1, 1934 in Jacksonville, Florida; a descendant of American frontier hero Daniel Boone; he attended high ...
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_Bernadine_from_the_movie,_Bernadine_1957
PAT BOONE: LOVE LETTERS IN THE SANDS OF TIME | Preview | PBS
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:58
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Preview of PAT BOONE: LOVE LETTERS IN THE SANDS OF TIME, a new PBS special featuring music from the TV series "The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom" (1957-61, ABC). Preview clip includes performances by Boone, Nat "King" Cole, Johnny Mathis, the Mills Brothers and Danny and the Juniors.Premiering March 2010 on most PBS stations (check your local listings at pbs.org). Support your local PBS station now -- you make it possible for your PBS station to offer amazing performances and the opportunity to discover something new every day, whether on TV or online. To donate to your local PBS station, visit www.pbs.org
http://wn.com/PAT_BOONE_LOVE_LETTERS_IN_THE_SANDS_OF_TIME_|_Preview_|_PBS
Pat Boone - Speedy Gonzales
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:28
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
This Was A Big Hit For Pat Boone
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_Speedy_Gonzales
Pat Boone - April Love
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:45
- Updated: 20 Nov 2012
Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed the song, and if you did feel free to go to www.myoldiesmusic.tk to listen to more great oldies tunes!
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_April_Love
Pat Boone - April Love/Clover In the Meadow
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:30
- Updated: 24 Nov 2012
From the 20th Century Movie Soundtrack of the Motion Picture "April Love" Starring Pat Boone & Shirley Jones
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_April_Love_Clover_In_the_Meadow
![[HQ] Pat Boone - For Those Tears I Died (Come to the Water)[Rare 1972]](http://web.archive.org./web/20121127030629im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qNWOaZC2WDw/default.jpg "[HQ] Pat Boone - For Those Tears I Died (Come to the Water)[Rare 1972]")
[HQ] Pat Boone - For Those Tears I Died (Come to the Water)[Rare 1972]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:23
- Updated: 22 Nov 2012
Pat Boone - "For Those Tears I Died" from the rare out of print 1972 LP "Pat Boone Sings the New Songs of the Jesus People." Lyrics below. Pat's daughters sing back-up. Switch to 720p for highest audio quality FOR THOSE TEARS I DIED You said You'd come and share all my sorrows You said You'd be there for all my tomorrows I came so close to sending You away But just like You promised You came there to stay I just had to pray Chorus: And Jesus said, "Come to the water, stand by My side I know you are thirsty, you won't be denied I felt ev'ry teardrop when in darkness you cried And I strove to remind you that for those tears I died." Your goodness so great I can't understand And, dear Lord, I know that all this was planned I know that You're here now, and always will be Your love loosed my chains and in You I'm free But Jesus, why me? Jesus, I give You my heart and my soul I know that without God I'd never be whole Savior, You opened all the right doors And I thank You and I praise You from earth's humble shores Take me, I'm Yours
http://wn.com/_HQ_Pat_Boone_For_Those_Tears_I_Died_Come_to_the_Water_Rare_1972_
Pat Boone - Smoke On The Water (Video 1997) (Ritchie Blackmore)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 24 Nov 2012
Yes this is the actual video from one of the most strangest albums in shall we say Rock music ! Pat Boone wanted to make an album with famous Rock hits in his very own style, which he did. The final outcome was a album called "In a Metal Mood No More Mr. Nice Guy" released in 1997. There were all sorts of Heavy Rock hits including one of THE rock hit, our very own Smoke.... And that's not all, on every version of every song there were guest musicians most of them were the original creators of those songs. For example here you can see and hear performance of Smoke... with guest star believe or not Ritchie Blackmore, he even appears on this video during his solo. If you pay attention you can also see late Ronnie Dio in the studio, he was a guest on a version of his anthem Holy Diver. Hope someone will like this strange fragment in Purple family...
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone_Smoke_On_The_Water_Video_1997_Ritchie_Blackmore
photo: AP / Jerome Delay
25 Nov 2012
Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has held direct talks with the leader of the M23 rebels in Uganda, hours after a regional summit called on them to end their offensive in the east of the country. Jean-Marie Runiga Lugerero, the political leader of the eastern DR Congo rebel group, said on Sunday he had an initial meeting with Kabila after the summit in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, ended on Saturday....(size: 20.0Kb)
photo: AP / Henry Griffin
26 Nov 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "In our opinion and from our experience," declared John Kerry in 1971, "there is nothing in South Vietnam which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom..is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy..." ... The U.S....(size: 6.4Kb)
photo: AP
26 Nov 2012
This town of 19,000 nestled in an idyllic mountain pass of impossibly green pastures and golden autumn trees is on the front lines of Turkey's rapidly escalating guerrilla war. In a struggle for autonomy as well as independent language and education rights, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has waged a low-grade conflict in Turkey for decades. ... 4 just as a Turkish army tank rolled by. ... "The violence is getting worse....(size: 8.8Kb)
photo: AP / Ahmed Gomaa
26 Nov 2012
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi is due to meet meet senior judges to try and ease a crisis over the extent of his powers. A decree giving him sweeping new powers was announced on Thursday, sparking violent nationwide protests and leading to a 9% drop in Egypt's stock market. Mr Mursi said on Sunday the decree was temporary and not intended to concentrate power in his hands. ... ....(size: 2.8Kb)
PR Newswire
23 Nov 2012
Pat Boone. ... The HolyLandDream has joined forces with Pat Boone, who dearly loves . Pat wrote the words "this land is mine, God gave this land to me" for the song "Exodus" years ago, and now, those words can become a reality for anyone to own. ... Pat Boone they have created a charitable fund that donates a generous portion of the proceeds....(size: 4.9Kb)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
23 Nov 2012
While the Obama campaign could draw upon an all-star roster of contemporary and classic musicians from Jay-Z to Bruce Springsteen, the Romney/Ryan ticket had to settle for endorsements from a motley crew (no, not the band) that included Pat Boone, Hank Williams Jr., Ted Nugent, Alabama, Meatloaf, the Oak Ridge Boys, Kid Rock and the surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd. ... Until Bruce Springsteen acknowledged New Jersey Gov. ... Mr. ... Rubio....(size: 4.7Kb)
StreetInsider
23 Nov 2012
CONTACT: Mechel OAO Pavel Taran Tel: + 7 495 221-88-88 pavel.taran@mechel.com Source: Mechel OAO You May Also Be Interested In Deutsche Bank Upgrades Mechel (MTL) to Hold The HolyLandDream and Pat Boone Offer to Purchase a Symbolic Piece of the Holy Land Mechel Announces Signing Contracts on Supplies of Extra-Size Tires With Japan's Marubeni ......(size: 5.2Kb)
Yahoo Music
21 Nov 2012
Rihanna has a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving holiday. Her current smash, "Diamonds," jumps to #1 on Billboard's Hot 100. It's her 12th #1 hit, a tally equaled by only 10 other individuals since 1955. And that counts the Beatles as four individuals. This dramatizes how rapidly Rihanna, who is still just 24, has scaled the list of all-time chart champs. ... He had 17 #1 hits, without one collabo. ... He was 58. ... Pat Boone, 6. ... ....(size: 6.5Kb)
Star Tribune
17 Nov 2012
Thirty-three. That's the number of times that the Republican-controlled U.S. ... Senate. It's long past time for this tired political theater to end. Voters and the U.S. ... On Nov. ... The board's mostly Republican critics -- including Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and singer Pat Boone, a recent spokesman for a conservative group targeting seniors -- have contended that the board will dictate treatments or deny care to senior citizens. ... ....(size: 3.9Kb)
Seattle Post
17 Nov 2012
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) — These days, he's Richard Vaculig. Retiree, homeowner, Casa Grande resident for five years. But a display of mementos from his rock 'n' roll band can be found in a bay at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. ... King Vac Productions eventually booked some of rock's all-stars including the Platters and Coasters, Ricky Nelson, the Kingsmen, Pat Boone, the Flamingos and even Tiny Tim. ... ....(size: 5.9Kb)
my SA
17 Nov 2012
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) — These days, he's Richard Vaculig. Retiree, homeowner, Casa Grande resident for five years. But a display of mementos from his rock 'n' roll band can be found in a bay at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. ... King Vac Productions eventually booked some of rock's all-stars including the Platters and Coasters, Ricky Nelson, the Kingsmen, Pat Boone, the Flamingos and even Tiny Tim. ... ....(size: 5.9Kb)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
11 Nov 2012
Kudos, America Republicans got out of bed Tuesday to vote against the minority and the 47 percent and found themselves going to bed being the minority and the 47 percent. ... I wasn't at all shocked at the outcome. ... It's time to move forward! LORETTA DISHONG West Mifflin Robo-employment You cannot believe how flattered I recently was having received personal phone calls from Mitt Romney and Pat Boone. ... Boone was still alive....(size: 2.7Kb)
Herald Tribune
08 Nov 2012
An almost eerie silence descended on our house Wednesday. I met the gaze of my wife, Karen, as we realized we were thinking the same thing. Something was different. Not wrong, just different. ... Far from it. ... At 8:19 p.m. last Friday, there was Pat Boone, "singing the praises of Mitt Romney," sponsored by the Sixty Plus Association. ... last Friday, there was Pat Boone, "singing the praises of Mitt Romney," sponsored by the Sixty Plus Association. ... ....(size: 10.5Kb)
Tampa Bay Online
06 Nov 2012
Thanks for calling, Pat Boone. It was so thoughtful to get that voicemail from you the other day, warning the FUTURE OF MEDICARE IS IN THE BALANCE if I vote the wrong way. Well, gosh. By the way, loved you in "State Fair." And I want everyone to know how much I appreciated the personal emails Mr. President and Gov. Romney – especially the ones asking for money. ... I'd ask Pat Boone for help, but he didn't leave a number to call him back....(size: 3.3Kb)
The Times of India
06 Nov 2012
The show will feature global legendary Rock 'n' Roll musicians Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, L'll Richards, Shakin Stevens, Pat Boone, Jean Vincent, Ricky Nelson, Everly Brothers, Cliff Richards, Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Englebert Humperdinchh, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Eric Clapton and others. ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
06 Nov 2012
Pat Boone
The 1950s singer, actor and author Pat Boone, 77, threw his support behind Rick Santorum, saying in a statement that Santorum is "experienced, honest and deeply principled," according to Politico. ... I've known Rick for many years, and Rick has been a consistent defender of conservatism and the values our great nation was founded upon," Boone said in a statement released by Santorum's campaign....(size: 55.4Kb)
ABC News
05 Nov 2012
Endorsed: Rick Santorum Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images Pat Boone
The 1950s singer, actor and author Pat Boone, 77, threw his support behind Rick Santorum, saying in a statement that Santorum is "experienced, honest and deeply principled," according to Politico. ... Boone, whose rendition of Little Richard's "Tutti Fruiti" sent him to the top of the Billboard charts, is an outspoken critic of President Obama....(size: 51.2Kb)
| Pat Boone | |
|---|---|
 Pat Boone in February 2011. |
|
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Charles Eugene Boone |
| Born | (1934-06-01) June 1, 1934 (age 78) Jacksonville, Florida, United States |
| Origin | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Genres | Christian, pop, country, rock and roll, patriotic |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter, actor, motivational speaker, spokesman |
| Instruments | Vocals, banjo, ukulele |
| Years active | 1954–present |
| Labels | Dot, Republic, Hip-O, The Gold Label, MCA |
| Associated acts | Debby Boone (daughter) |
| Website | http://www.patboone.com |
Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, actor and writer. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. Among his hit songs were cover versions of black R&B artists' songs (when parts of the country were segregated). He sold over 45 million albums, had 38 Top 40 hits and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood movies. Boone's talent as a singer and actor, combined with his old-fashioned values, contributed to his popularity in the early rock and roll era.
According to Billboard, Boone was the second biggest charting artist of the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley but ahead of Ricky Nelson and The Platters, and was ranked at No. 9—behind The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney but ahead of artists such as Aretha Franklin and The Beach Boys—in its listing of the Top 100 Top 40 Artists 1955–1995.[1] Boone still holds the Billboard record for spending 220 consecutive weeks on the charts with one or more songs each week.
At the age of twenty-three, he began hosting a half-hour ABC variety television series, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, which aired for 115 episodes (1957–1960). Many musical performers, including Edie Adams, Andy Williams, Pearl Bailey and Johnny Mathis made appearances on the show. His cover versions of rhythm and blues hits had a noticeable effect on the development of the broad popularity of rock and roll. During his tours in the 1950s, Elvis Presley was one of his opening acts.[2]
As a prolific author, Boone had a No. 1 bestseller in the 1950s (Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Prentice-Hall). In the 1960s, he focused on gospel music and is a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. He continues to perform, and speak as a motivational speaker, a television personality, and a conservative political commentator.
Contents |
Biography[link]
Early life[link]
Born Charles Eugene Boone[3] in Jacksonville, Florida, Boone was reared primarily in Nashville, Tennessee, a place he still visits. His family moved to Nashville from Florida when Boone was two years old. He attended and graduated from David Lipscomb High School in Nashville in 1952. His younger brother, Nick, was also a pop singer in the 1950s, and is now a church music leader.
File:Pat Boone's handprints, footprints, and signature in cement.JPG
The handprints of Pat Boone in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.
Boone has claimed to be a direct descendant of the American pioneer Daniel Boone.[4] He is a cousin of two stars of western television series: the late Richard Boone of CBS's Have Gun, Will Travel and Randy Boone, one of the co-stars of NBC's The Virginian and CBS's Cimarron Strip.
In college, he primarily attended David Lipscomb College, later Lipscomb University, in Nashville. He graduated from Columbia University School of General Studies magna cum laude in 1958[5] and also attended North Texas State University, now known as the University of North Texas. During his college career, he was a member of Kappa Alpha Order.[citation needed]
Career[link]
He began recording in 1954 for Republic Records. His 1955 version of Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" was a hit. (Domino complimented Boone's rendition.)[6] This set the stage for the early part of Boone's career, which focused on covering R&B songs by black artists for a white American market.[7] Randy Wood, the owner of Dot, had issued an R & B single by the Griffin Brothers in 1951 called "Tra La La-a"—a different song than the later LaVern Baker one—and he was keen to put out another version after the original had failed. This became the B side of the first Boone single "Two Hearts Two Kisses", originally by the Charms – whose "Hearts Of Stone" had been covered by the label's Fontane Sisters. Once the Boone version was in the shops, it spawned more covers by the Crewcuts, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra. In the UK the song was covered by Lita Roza, a band singer with Ted Heath, and her version was in the shops first.[citation needed]
A No. 1 single in 1956 by Boone was not so much a cover as a revival of a then-seven year old song "I Almost Lost My Mind", which had been covered at the time by another black star, Nat King Cole, from the original by Ivory Joe Hunter, who was to benefit from Boone's hit version not only in royalties but in status as he was back in the news.[citation needed]
According to an opinion poll of high school students in 1957, the singer was nearly the "two-to-one favorite over Elvis Presley among boys and preferred almost three-to-one by girls..."[8]
Boone's well-groomed, clean-cut, boyish image won him a long-term product endorsement contract from General Motors during the late 1950s, lasting through the 1960s. He succeeded Dinah Shore singing the praises of the GM product: "See the USA in your Chevrolet...drive your Chevrolet through the USA, America's the greatest land of all!" GM had also sponsored The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom. In the 1989 documentary Roger & Me, Boone stated that he first was given a Corvette from the Chevrolet product line, but after he and wife started having children, at one child a year, GM supplied him with a station wagon as well. Boone, who has endorsed an indeterminate number of products and services over the course of his career, said that more people identified him with Chevrolet than any other product.[citation needed]
Starting in the late 1950s, Boone and his family were residents of Leonia, New Jersey.[9]
Many of Boone's hit singles were R&B covers by Black artists. These included: "Ain't That a Shame" by Fats Domino; "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard;[6] "At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)" by the El Dorados; and the blues ballads "I Almost Lost My Mind" by Ivory Joe Hunter, "I'll be Home" by The Flamingos and "Don't Forbid Me" by Charles Singleton. Boone also wrote the lyrics for the instrumental theme song for the movie Exodus, which lyrics he titled "This Land Is Mine." (Ernest Gold had composed the music.)[10]
As a devout Christian, Boone refused songs and movie roles that he felt might compromise his standards—including a role with sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. In his first film, April Love, he refused to give co-star and love interest Shirley Jones an onscreen kiss, because the actress was married in real life.[11]
He appeared as a regular performer on Arthur Godfrey and his Friends from 1955 through 1957, later hosted his own The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, on Thursday evenings. In the early 1960s, he began writing a series of self-help books for adolescents, including Twixt Twelve and Twenty. The British Invasion ended Boone's career as a hitmaker, though he continued recording throughout the 1960s. In the 1970s, he switched to gospel and country, and he continued performing in other media as well. He is currently working as the disc jockey of a popular oldies radio show and runs his own record company which provides an outlet for new recordings by 1950s greats who can no longer find a place with the major labels.[citation needed]
In 1953, shortly before he turned 19, Boone married Shirley Lee Foley (b. April 24, 1934), daughter of country music great Red Foley and his wife, singer Judy Martin. They had four daughters: Cheryl Lynn, Linda Lee, Deborah Ann (better known as Debby), and Laura Gene. During the late 1950s, he made regular appearances on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee, hosted by his father-in-law. In the 1960s and 1970s the Boone family toured as gospel singers and made gospel albums, such as The Pat Boone Family and The Family Who Prays.[citation needed]
In 1959, Boone's likeness was licensed to DC Comics, first appearing in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #9 (May 1959) before starring in his own series from the publisher which lasted for five issues from September 1959 to May 1960.
In the early 1970s, Boone founded the record label Lion & Lamb Records. It featured artists such as Pat, The Pat Boone Family, Debby Boone, Dan Peek, DeGarmo & Key, and Dogwood.[12]
In 1978, Boone became the first target in the Federal Trade Commission's crackdown on false claim product endorsements by celebrities. He had appeared with his daughter Debby in a commercial to claim that all four of his daughters had found a preparation named Acne-Statin a "real help" in keeping their skin clear. The FTC filed a complaint against the manufacturer, contending that the product did not really keep skin free of blemishes. Boone eventually signed a consent order in which he promised not only to stop appearing in the ads but to pay about 2.5% of any money that the FTC or the courts might eventually order the manufacturer to refund to consumers. Boone said, through a lawyer, that his daughters actually did use Acne-Statin, and that he was "dismayed to learn that the product's efficacy had not been scientifically established as he believed."[13]
Later career[link]
In 1997, Boone released In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy, a collection of heavy metal covers. To promote the album, he appeared at the American Music Awards in black leather. He was then dismissed from Gospel America, a TV show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. After making a special appearance on TBN with the president of the network, Paul Crouch, and his pastor, Jack Hayford, many fans accepted his explanation of the leather outfit being a "parody of himself". Trinity Broadcasting then reinstated him, and Gospel America was brought back.[14]
In 2003, the Nashville Gospel Music Association recognized his gospel recording work by inducting him into its Gospel Music Hall of Fame. In September 2006, Boone released Pat Boone R&B Classics – We Are Family, featuring cover versions of 11 R&B hits, including the title track, plus "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag", "Soul Man", "Get Down Tonight", "A Woman Needs Love", and six other classics. In 2007, Boone was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame as well as the Christian Music Hall of Fame.[citation needed]
Boone and his wife, Shirley, live in Beverly Hills, a suburb of Los Angeles. His one-time neighbor was Ozzy Osbourne and his family. A sound-alike of Boone's cover of Osbourne's song "Crazy Train" became the theme song for The Osbournes (Though the original Boone version appears on The Osbournes soundtrack). Osbourne once said that Boone "was the nicest bloke you could ever have as a neighbour and never complained once" about living next door to their less-than-traditional family.[citation needed]
On December 30, 2010, Glenn W. Milligan of Liquid Metal Holdings said the Pat Boone Family Theater would open in May 2011 in the former NASCAR Cafe at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. With 600 seats, the Boone Theater will be smaller than many of the resort's attractions, but Milligan says this may be an advantage. Other performers were to include illusionist Morgan Strebler, the 2011 Merlin Award winner,[15] though in September 2011 it was announced he would be replaced.[16] The economic crisis has been one of the reasons for delays, but on May 25, 2011, the theater received the first of several needed permits from the city. The $1 million project was set to be complete in August 2011,[17] but the opening date was delayed twice.[18][19] At a news conference on June 2, which included a performance by Strebler, theater officials said Boone would attend the opening and perform 14 times each year. Other entertainment will include gospel music concerts and Christmas shows. The theater will have a Boone museum with the singer's memorabilia.[20]
Religious background[link]
Pat Boone grew up in the Church of Christ.[21]
In the 1960s, Boone's marriage nearly came to an end due to his use of alcohol and his preference for attending parties. After having a charismatic encounter, Shirley began to focus more on her religion and would eventually influence Pat and their daughters toward a similar religious focus. At this time, they attended the Inglewood Church of Christ in Inglewood, California.
In the early 1970s, the Boones hosted Bible studies for celebrities such as Doris Day, Glenn Ford, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Priscilla Presley at their Beverly Hills home. The family then began attending The Church On The Way in Van Nuys, California—a Foursquare Gospel congregation led by pastor Jack Hayford.[14]
Philanthropy[link]
Since 1977, Boone has hosted the annual Pat Boone Golf Tournament in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a celebrity event in May that benefits Bethel Bible Village, a faith-based home for children of families in crisis.[citation needed] He is known to play golf frequently in Branson, Missouri.
According to the Nashville Gospel Music & Entertainment Examiner, Boone partnered with GOD TV in 2010 to provide foundational funding for a community development center in East Africa. The Pat Boone Family Life Center in Loiborsoit, Tanzania provides much needed health services and clean water through a deep water well. GOD TV CEO, Rory Alec said "We are privileged to partner with Pat and Shirley Boone to impact the everyday lives of several thousand Masai people. Pat Boone is just as well known for his artistic talents as his Christian faith and the generosity of the Boone family has inspired us to reach further to help bring about transformation in Africa."[22]
"Clean water, and with it small medical clinics and even basic primary and secondary schools, are literally life-changing developments, offering healthy lives and unthought-of futures to countless thousands who otherwise would live and die with no chance even to participate in the 21st century," Boone wrote in an article about his trip to Africa, in WorldNetDaily.[23]
Politics[link]
Boone campaigned for Ronald Reagan to become Governor of California in 1966 and 1970, and actively supported Reagan's bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976. He was a vocal supporter of the Vietnam War. In 2006, Boone wrote an article for WorldNetDaily, in which he argued that Democrats and others who were against the president during the Iraq War could be questioned for their patriotism.[24] He was interviewed by Neil Cavuto on Fox News, where he expressed his outrage toward opponents of George W. Bush (in particular the Dixie Chicks). He said that their criticisms of the president showed they did not "respect their elders".[25]
In the 2007 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Boone campaigned for incumbent Republican Ernie Fletcher with a prerecorded automated telephone message stating that the Democratic Party candidate Steve Beshear would support "every homosexual cause." As part of the campaign, Boone asked, "Now do you want a governor who'd like Kentucky to be another San Francisco?"[26] More recently, he assisted the McCain 2008 presidential campaign by lending his voice to automated campaign phonecalls.
On December 6, 2008 Boone wrote an article for WorldNetDaily wherein he drew analogies between recent gay rights protests and recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. He reminded readers of hostage taking, exploding bombs, systematic murder and chaotic conditions of carnage. In it, he asserted that marriage is a biblically ordained institution, which the government has no part in defining. He then stated that equal rights for women and blacks were not "obtained by threats and violent demonstrations and civil disruption" but rather through due process. He concluded by warning that unless they're checked, the "hedonistic, irresponsible, blindly selfish goals and tactics of homegrown sexual jihadists will escalate into acts vile, violent and destructive".[27]
On August 29, 2009, Boone wrote an article comparing liberals to cancer, describing them as "black filthy cells".[28]
In December 2009, Boone agreed to endorse the conservative U.S. congressional candidate John Wayne Tucker (R) for his campaign in Missouri's 3rd Congressional District against incumbent Russ Carnahan (D) for the 2010 mid term elections.[29]
In 2009, Boone stated his belief that Barack Obama is not eligible to serve as the President of the United States.[30][31] Boone also has stated that Barack Obama is fluent in Arabic and read the Koran in Arabic as a boy.[30] He has also stated that President Obama "hasn’t celebrated any Christian holidays in the White House."[30]
Boone received a lifetime achievement award at the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference held in February 2011.[32]
Basketball interests[link]
Boone was a basketball fan and had ownership interests in two teams. He owned a team in the Hollywood Studio League called the "Cooga Moogas." The Cooga Moogas included Bill Cosby, Rafer Johnson, Gardner McKay, Don Murray, and Denny "Tarzan" Miller.[33]
With the founding of the American Basketball Association, Boone became the majority owner of the league's team in Oakland, California on February 2, 1967.[33] The team was first named the Oakland Americans but was later renamed as the Oakland Oaks, the name under which it played from 1967 to 1969.[33] The Oaks won the 1969 ABA championship.[34]
Despite the Oaks' success on the court, the team had severe financial problems. By August 1969 the Bank of America was threatening to foreclose on a $1.2 million loan to the Oaks,[35] and the team was sold to a group of businessmen in Washington, DC, and became the Washington Caps.[36]
In Terry Pluto's book about the ABA, Loose Balls, Boone recounted his days as an owner and claimed that he had had a chance to buy into the then-expansion Dallas Mavericks of the NBA in 1981, but declined.[citation needed]
Discography[link]
Main article: Pat Boone discography
Filmography[link]
- 1955 The Pied Piper of Cleveland (documentary)
- 1957 Bernardine
- 1957 April Love
- 1958 Mardi Gras
- 1959 Journey to the Center of the Earth
- 1961 All Hands on Deck
- 1962 State Fair
- 1962 The Main Attraction
- 1963 The Horror of It All
- 1963 The Yellow Canary
- 1964 Never Put It in Writing
- 1964 Goodbye Charlie
- 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told
- 1967 The Perils of Pauline
- 1970 The Cross and the Switchblade
- 1989 Roger & Me (documentary)
- 2000 The Eyes of Tammy Faye (documentary)
- 2008 Hollywood on Fire (documentary)[37]
Box-office ranking[link]
In his heyday exhibitors listed Boone among the most popular stars in the country:
Bibliography[link]
- Twixt Twelve and Twenty: Pat talks to Teenagers (1958) Prentice Hall
- The Solution to Crisis-America (1970) F. H. Revell Co, ISBN 0-8007-8081-7
- A Miracle Saved My Family (1971) Oliphants, ISBN 0-551-00640-4
- The Real Christmas (1972) F. H. Revell Co, ISBN 0-8007-0546-7
- Joy! (1973) Creation House, ISBN 0-88419-060-9
- My Brother's Keeper? (1975) Victory Press, ISBN 0-85476-237-X
- My Faith (1976) C. R. Gibson Co, ISBN 0-8378-1764-1
- To Be or Not to Be an SOB: A Reaffirmation of Business Ethics (1979) Wordware Publishing, Incorporated, ISBN 0-89015-737-5
- The Honeymoon Is Over (1980) Creation House, ISBN 0-88419-130-3
- Marrying for Life: A Handbook of Marriage Skills (1982) HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0-86683-674-8
- Pray to Win (1982) Putnam Pub Group, ISBN 0-399-12494-2
- Pat Boone's Favorite Bible Stories (1984) Creation House, ISBN 0-88419-245-8
- Pat Boone's Favorite Bible Stories for the Very Young (1984) Random House of Canada, Limited, ISBN 0-394-85891-3
- A Miracle a Day Keeps the Devil Away (1986) Revell, ISBN 0-8007-0693-5
- New Song (1988) Impact Books, ISBN 0-86608-003-1
- Miracle of Prayer (1989) Zondervan, ISBN 0-310-22131-5
- The Human Touch: The Story of the National Easter Seal (1990) Certification Review, ISBN 0-914373-22-6
- Jesus Is Alive (1990) Thomas Nelson Inc, ISBN 1-55894-219-X
- Double Agent (2002) Publish America, Incorporated, ISBN 1-59129-469-X
- Goodnight, Whatever You Are!: My Journey with Zacherley, the Cool Ghoul (2006) Tradeselect Limited, ISBN 1-933384-03-4
- Pat Boone's America: A Pop Culture Treasury of the Past Fifty Years (2006) B&H Publishing Group, ISBN 0-8054-4376-2
- Culture-Wise Family: Upholding Christian Values in A Mass-Media World (2007) Gospel Light Publications, ISBN 0-8307-4355-3
- The Marriage Game (2007) New Leaf Press, Inc., ISBN 0-89221-114-8
- Questions About God: And the Answers That Could Change Your Life (2008) Lighthouse Publishing, ISBN 1-935079-13-1
- Pat Boone Devotional Book (2009) G. K. Hall, ISBN 0-8161-6630-7
Boone wrote Questions About God with reporter Cord Cooper. He told The 700 Club in 2009, "The big question is there a God? Is God real? How do we know? Is there proof? So this fella, Cord Cooper, and I decided we needed to answer three basic questions in a very simple form, but I think substantively and really bares no rational refutation... We quote Einstein and Stephen Hawking, who is still living, the most brilliant man on the planet. As they say, it’s inconceivable that all this has happened without a plan, without a blueprint, without some designer who created the design. So this book is so simple, yet I think profound truth."[41] Boone's assertion that Stephen Hawking believes in God, however, is untrue.[42]
Quotation[link]
| “ | I have no special or extraordinary talent; it's just that I've had the right breaks at the right time. | ” |
| “ | I receive many queries from young people who want to get married. I spend my time discouraging them ! | ” |
NME – June 1960[44]
References[link]
General references
- University of North Texas Alumni Directory, Pat (Charles E.) Boone, (1994)</ref> OCLC 768191551
- ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, fourth edition, compiled for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, by Jaques Cattell Press, R.R. Bowker (1980) OCLC 7065938 ISBN 0-8352-1283-1 ISBN 9780835212830
- Biographical Dictionary of American Music, edited by Charles Eugene Claghorn (1911–2005), Parker Publishing Co., West Nyack, NY (1973) OCLC 609781 ISBN 0-13-076331-4 ISBN 9780130763310
- Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism, by Randall Herbert Balmer, Baylor University Press (2004) OCLC 191038717 ISBN 1-60258-038-3 ISBN 9781602580381
- The Encyclopedia of Folk, Country & Western Music, second edition, by Irwin Stambler (born 1924) and Grelun S. Landon (1923–2004), St. Martin's Press (1983) OCLC 8430828 ISBN 0-312-24818-0 ISBN 9780312248185
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, eighth edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, Macmillan Publishing Co. (1992) OCLC 24246972 ISBN 0-02-872415-1 ISBN 9780028724157
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, ninth edition, edited by Laura Kuhn, Schirmer Books (2001) OCLC 44972043 ISBN 0-02-865525-7 ISBN 9780028655253
Inline citations
- ^ Joel Whitburn,, Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, The, 1996, p.806, Billboard
- ^ "Pat Boone Remembers Elvis Presley : Elvis Articles : Official Elvis Presley Fan Club : Elvis Australia : Pat Boone". Elvis.com.au. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/pat_boone_elvis_presley.shtml/. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
- ^ Current Biography Yearbook. New York, New York: The H.W. Wilson Company. 1959.
- ^ Woodland, Shannon and Ross, Scott. "BETWEEN THE LINER NOTES: Pat Boone and the New American Revolution". Christian Broadcasting Network. http://www.cbn.com/cbnmusic/interviews/700club_patboone022007.aspx. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
- ^ Gerstenzang, Peter. "Pat 'n Leather." Columbia, Winter 2007–2008.
- ^ a b "Show 6 – Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway. [Part 2] : UNT Digital Library". Pop Chronicles. Digital.library.unt.edu. 1969-03-16. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19752/m1/. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
- ^ Karen Schoemer "More Mr. Nice Guy," American Heritage, Feb./March 2006.
- ^ See the statistics in Ennis, Philip H., The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll in American Popular Music (Wesleyan University Press, 1992), pp. 251–52
- ^ Staff. "Kings for A Day", The Boston Globe, June 16, 1958. Accessed March 30, 2011. "Singer Pat Boone and family leave Leonia, NJ home for church. Front, Cherry, 3 1/2; Debbie, 1 1/2, and Linda, 2 1/2."
- ^ "Soundtracks for Exodus (1960)". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053804/soundtrack. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ^ [http.www.hollywoodpolitics.us/pat-boone.html "Pat Boone"]. http.www.hollywoodpolitics.us/pat-boone.html. Retrieved 2011-08-29.
- ^ "Lamb & Lion Records". Mymusicway.com. http://www.mymusicway.com/labels/lamblion.html. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
- ^ "Let the Stellar Seller Beware". Time. 1978-05-22. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919667,00.html. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ^ a b Gilbreath, Edward. "Why Pat Boone Went 'Bad'". Christianity Today. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1999/october4/9tb056.html. Retrieved 10/04/1999.
- ^ Spring, Jake (2010-12-31). "Pat Boone Family Theater replaces NASCAR cafe in Myrtle Beach". The Sun News. http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/12/31/1895168/boone-boom-set-for-spring.html. Retrieved 2010-12-31.
- ^ "Gas prices rise 7.6 cents per gallon". The Sun News. 2011-09-06. http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/09/05/2371537/in-our-towns-gas-prices-rise-76.html. Retrieved 2011-09-06.
- ^ Bryant, Dawn (2011-05-27). "Work to start on Pat Boone theater in Myrtle Beach". The Sun News. http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/05/27/2185391/work-to-start-on-pat-boone-theater.html. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
- ^ "Exhibit extends run in Myrtle Beach". The Sun News. 2011-08-25. http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/08/24/2348901/coastal-business-exhibit-extends.html. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
- ^ Bryant, Dawn (2011-10-08). "Occupancy up slightly during height of fall bike rally". The Sun News. http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/10/07/2431107/tourism-talk-occupancy-up-slightly.html. Retrieved 2011-10-08.
- ^ Bryant, Dawn (2011-06-02). "Magician at planned Pat Boone Theater in Myrtle Beach shows tricks with help from mayor". The Sun News. http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/06/02/2196733/magician-at-planned-pat-boone.html. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
- ^ "The religion of Pat Boone, singer". adherents. http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/Pat_Boone.html. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ^ 'GOD TV & Pat Boone Work Together to Aid Africa', Faith News.
- ^ Boone, Pat 'Living What We Believe', WorldNetDaily, July 31, 2010.
- ^ Boone, Pat (2006-03-25). "As a matter of fact, sir, I do question your patriotism!". WorldNetDaily.com. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49437. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
- ^ "Pat Boone rips Dixie Chicks for Bush bash". WorldNetDaily.com. 2006-05-22. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50330. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
- ^ Kleefeld, Eric (2007-11-04). "Kentucky GOP Pushing Anti-Gay Message In Final Days Of Gov Race". TPM Election Central. TPM Media LLC. http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/11/kentucky_gop_pushing_antigay_message_in_final_days_of_gov_race.php. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ "Hate is hate, in India or America". WorldNetDaily.com. 2006-05-22. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=82830. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
- ^ "Found: Cure for the liberal virus". WorldNetDaily.com. 2009-08-29. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108290. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
- ^ "Pat Boone Endorses John Wayne Tucker for Congress". JohnWayneTucker.com. 2009-12-15. http://johnwaynetucker.com/congress/campaign_endorsements.html. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
- ^ a b c Marinucci, Carla (September 16, 2011). "50′s heartthrob Pat Boone revives golden oldie: Obama born in Kenya, a "photoshopping fraud"". San Francisco Chronicle. http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2011/09/16/pat-boones-blast-past-obamas-kenyan/.
- ^ Koppelman, Alex (June 29, 2009). "Pat Boone goes Birther". Salon.com. http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2009/06/29/boone_birther/index.html.
- ^ GXS http://gxs.net+(2011-02-09). "60 Plus Association | Boone Honored By CPAC Lifetime Achievement Award". 60plus.org. http://60plus.org/boone-honored-by-cpac-lifetime-achievement-award/. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
- ^ a b c "Oakland Oaks". Remember the ABA. http://www.remembertheaba.com/Oakland-Oaks.html. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
- ^ "1968–69 ABA Regular Season Standings". Remember the ABA. http://www.remembertheaba.com/PlayoffPages/1969Playoffs.html. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
- ^ "Oakland Oaks/Washington Caps/Virginia Squires Year-to-Year Franchise Notes". Remember the ABA. Archived from the original on 2007-06-14. http://web.archive.org/web/20070614055042/http://remembertheaba.com/VirginiaMaterial/OaksCapsSquiresYearly.html. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
- ^ "Oakland Oaks/Washington Caps/Virginia Squires Year-to-Year Rosters". Remember the ABA. Archived from the original on 2007-06-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20070626220240/http://www.remembertheaba.com/VirginiaMaterial/SquiresRosters2.html. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
- ^ Hollywood on Fire (2009) at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Film Data for 1957
- ^ Film Data for 1958
- ^ Film Data for 1959
- ^ "The 700 Club – Pat Boone: God's Hall of Fame". Cbn.com. http://www.cbn.com/700club/guests/interviews/Pat_Boone090809.aspx. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
- ^ Steven Hawking#Religious views
- ^ Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 33. CN 5585.
- ^ Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 83. CN 5585.
External links[link]
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Pat Boone |
- Pat Boone at the Internet Movie Database
- Pat Boone Interview at Archive of American Television
- Pat Boone at AllRovi
- Pat's Gold (Link to Pat Boone's Web Site/Label)
- Brief biography, by Tom Simon, December 25, 2002
|
||||||||
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Boone, Pat |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | American singer |
| Date of birth | June 1, 1934 |
| Place of birth | Jacksonville, Florida |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
http://wn.com/Pat_Boone
Related pages:
http://ru.wn.com/Бун, Пэт
http://fr.wn.com/Pat Boone
http://nl.wn.com/Pat Boone
http://pt.wn.com/Pat Boone
http://de.wn.com/Pat Boone
http://it.wn.com/Pat Boone
http://id.wn.com/Pat Boone
http://pl.wn.com/Pat Boone
http://es.wn.com/Pat Boone
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is about the cartoon character. For other uses, see Speedy Gonzales (disambiguation).
| Speedy Gonzales | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Prototype: Cat-Tails for Two (1953) Official: Speedy Gonzales (1955) |
| Last appearance | The Looney Tunes Show (2011) |
| Created by | Robert McKimson (original) Friz Freleng/Hawley Pratt (redesign) |
| Voiced by | Mel Blanc (1953–1989) Joe Alaskey (commercials, Tiny Toon Adventures, Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor) Eric Goldberg (Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)-present) Bob Bergen (Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas) Fred Armisen (The Looney Tunes Show) George Lopez (2014 film) |
| Information | |
| Species | Mouse |
| Gender | Male |
| Relatives | Slowpoke Rodriguez (cousin) |
| Nationality | Mexican |
Speedy Gonzales (also known as Speedy) is an animated caricature of a mouse in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast and speaking with an exaggerated Mexican accent. He usually wears an oversized yellow sombrero, white shirt and trousers, and a red kerchief, similar to that of a reveler in the San Fermin festival. To date there have been 46 cartoons made either starring or featuring this character.
Contents |
History[link]
Speedy debuted in 1953's Cat-Tails for Two, directed by Robert McKimson. This early Speedy was a meaner, skinnier, rattier-looking creation with a sizable gold front tooth. The cartoon featured him outwitting a smart-and-stupid pair of cats, George and Benny (parodies of George and Lenny), aboard a ship. Later on this original version of Speedy is used as an unnamed background character a couple of times. Though he was created by McKimson, the majority of the cartoons with him were directed by Friz Freleng.
File:Early-Speedy.jpg
A prototype version of Speedy Gonzales as designed by his creator, Robert McKimson, in the 1953 short Cat-Tails for Two
It would be two years before Friz Freleng and animator Hawley Pratt redesigned the character into his modern incarnation for the 1955 Freleng short, Speedy Gonzales. The cartoon features Sylvester the Cat menacing a group of rats while guarding a cheese factory at the Mexican border. The rats call in the plucky, excessively energetic Speedy to save them, and amid cries of "¡Ándele! ¡Ándele! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! Yeehaw!" (Spanish for "Go on! Go on! Up! Up!", although "Ándele arriba" may have been intended as meaning "hurry up") courtesy of Mel Blanc, Sylvester soon gets his comeuppance. The cartoon won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).
While Speedy's last name was given as Gonzalez in Cat-Tails (on a printed business card shown in the cartoon), it was spelled with an 's' from Speedy Gonzales onward. Today, the earlier spelling is occasionally used by accident. The correct form in Spanish is González and that is the form in which the last name of Speedy is spelled in Spanish-speaking countries[1].
Freleng and McKimson soon set Sylvester up as Speedy's regular nemesis in a series of cartoons, much in the same way Chuck Jones had paired Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner in his Road Runner cartoons. Sylvester (often called "El Gringo Pussygato" by Speedy) is constantly outsmarted and outrun by the Mouse, causing the cat to suffer all manner of pain and humiliation from mousetraps to accidentally consuming large amounts of hot sauce. Other cartoons pair the mouse with his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, the "slowest Mouse in all Mexico." Slowpoke regularly gets into all sorts of trouble that often require Speedy to save him—but one cat in Mexicali Schmoes says that as if to compensate for his slowness, "he pack a gun!"[2] In the mid 1960s, Speedy's main nemesis became Daffy Duck.
Censorship[link]
In 1999, the Cartoon Network ceased to air Speedy Gonzales. In an interview with Fox News on March 28, 2002, Cartoon Network spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg commented, "It hasn't been on the air for years because of its ethnic stereotypes." This is widely believed to refer to Speedy's fellow mice, who are all shown as being very slow and lazy, and sometimes even appear intoxicated.[3]
In Gonzales' Tamales, the town mice instigate a feud between Speedy and Sylvester the Cat because Speedy has been stealing the hearts of all the females. Much of the dialogue between Mexican characters is in English and the small amount of Spanish that peppers the dialogue consists of basic greetings, goodbyes, exclamations, and misplaced references to popular Mexican foods. This criticism prompted Cartoon Network to largely shelve Speedy's films when it gained exclusive rights to broadcast them in 1999. However, fan campaigns to put Speedy back on the air and lobbying by the League of United Latin American Citizens saw the shorts return to air from 2002.[4] Despite the controversy in the USA, Speedy Gonzales remains a very popular character in Latin America. In Mexico, the Speedy Gonzales show has been on and off part of the regular programing of Televisa's Canal 5 national channel ever since it was created.[citation needed] In 2010, a Looney Tunes New Year's Day marathon the Cartoon Network showed the episode "Mexican Boarders" having both Speedy and Slowpoke.[citation needed]
On the Looney Tunes Golden Collection the Speedy cartoons are prefaced by a disclaimer that states:
- The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the WB view of society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as to claim these prejudices never existed.
Other appearances[link]
 |
This unreferenced section requires citations to ensure verifiability. |
In 1983, he co-starred in Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island. In 1988, he made a cameo appearance in the ending scene of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He had one appearance in the Tiny Toons episode segment "The Acme Acres Summer Olympics", as the coach, and serving to be as the mentor of Lightning Rodriguez. In 1996, he made a short appearance in film Space Jam. In 2003, he made a cameo appearance alongside Porky Pig in the film Looney Tunes: Back in Action, making fun of his politically incorrect status. At around the same time, he made a non-speaking cameo in an episode of ¡Mucha Lucha! titled "Lucha, Rinse and Repeat". In 2009, he made a cameo appearance on Kid vs. Kat in "The Kat Whisperer".
Volume 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, released on November 14, 2006, has an entire disc of Speedy shorts, although some of his other shorts had previously been released on Volumes 1 and 3. Speedy is mentioned in one Duck Dodgers episode, after Cadet sits on Dodgers, prompting him to say, "I knew I should've chosen Speedy Gonzales as a sidekick!"
In May 2011 Speedy Gonzales appears in The Looney Tunes Show episodes "Best Friends", "Monster Talent", "Devil Dog", "That's My Baby", "Sunday Night Slice", "The DMV", "French Fries", "Beauty School", "The Shelf" and "The Muh-Muh-Muh-Murder" voiced by Fred Armisen. He is also in a Zorro parody Merrie Melodies segment called "Queso Bandito", and appeared in his other Merrie Melodies segment called "Pizzarriba", and another Merrie Melodies segment called "Table for One". The Looney Tunes Show features a deeper voiced Speedy Gonzales. He lives with Bugs and Daffy as their "mouse in the wall" and runs a pizza shop. He is shown to act as Daffy's "Jimmeny Cricket", which is a far cry from the antagonistic relationship they had from the old days. The episode "Sunday Night Slice" showed that Bugs bought his favorite restaurant to prevent it from being closed and hired Speedy to help him. When Bugs decides he doesn't want to own a restaurant anymore, he hands ownership of it to Speedy.
In other media[link]
In 1962, pop singer Pat Boone scored a top 10 hit in the United States with the song "Speedy Gonzales" which featured Mel Blanc spouting faux-Mexican phrases as Speedy. It was also sung by Manolo Muñoz and A.B. Quintanilla's Kumbia All Starz, whose music video featured Speedy.
Henry Mancini borrowed the character's name for the title of an instrumental composition, first featured on his 1961 album Mr. Lucky Goes Latin.[citation needed]
In a Family Guy episode, Peter made up his American version of Speedy called Rapid Dave after he decided that immigrants shouldn't be allowed into America.[citation needed]
In 2006, Volkswagen licensed Speedy Gonzales for a series of Spanish-language commercials for the Volkswagen Golf, using footage from the cartoon of the same name.[5]
In October 2010, Speedy Gonzales appeared alongside other Looney Tunes characters in a Virgin Media TV advert. Speedy also serves as current mascot for Virgin Media, a double reference to his own speed and to that of the company's fibre optic broadband.[citation needed]
Speedy briefly appears in a Robot Chicken episode: "Werewolf VS Unicorn" when he penetrates Sylvester's fence.[citation needed]
Speedy Gonzales appeared in the Drawn Together episode The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part II when he was one of the candidates who wanted to be the new housemates.
Film[link]
In February 2010, New Line Cinema and parent company Warner Bros. Pictures announced that they are planning a live-action/CG-animated combo feature film based on the Looney Tunes character.[6] Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, who adapted the comic Garfield into a similar-style live-action/CG hybrid family film, will pen the script for the coming-of-age story which is set in the present day. The story has Speedy, a young and misunderstood Mexican mouse, finding himself leaving his family to go out in the world and figure out what he's good at. He soon makes friends with a nervous race-car driver. George Lopez will voice the character and produce the film, which will also star Vanessa Hudgens as Speedy Gonzales' owner.
See also[link]
- List of Speedy Gonzales cartoons
- List of films based on cartoons
- List of Looney Tunes feature-length films
References[link]
- ^ http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_González
- ^ "Speedy Gonzales and Slowpoke Rodriguez in Mexicali Shmoes". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALe_bG4VFmU. Retrieved April 11, 2010.
- ^ Park, Michael Y. (March 28, 2002). "Speedy Gonzales Caged by Cartoon Network". FoxNews.com. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48872,00.html. Retrieved July 7, 2009.
- ^ Emling, Shelly (June 21, 2002). "Cartoon Network putting Mexican mouse back in the lineup". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=070aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lz8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6719,566640&dq=speedy+gonzalez+cartoon+network&hl=en. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
- ^ "Arriba! VW Turns to Speedy Gonzales To Push GTI". Indiacar.net. March 20, 2006. http://www.indiacar.net/news/n26151.htm. Retrieved July 7, 2009.
- ^ http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/02/speedy-gonzales-george-lopez-film-new-line-jerry-weintraub.html
Further reading[link]
- Nericcio, William Anthony (1996). “Autopsy of a Rat: Odd, Sundry Parables of Freddy Lopez, Speedy Gonzales, and Other Chicano/Latino Marionettes Prancing about Our First World Visual Emporium.” Camera Obscura 37 (January 1996): 189-237.
- Nericcio, William Anthony (2007). Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America. University of Texas Press.
- Schneider, Steve (1990). That's All Folks!: The Art of Warner Bros. Animation. Henry Holt & Co.
- Solomon, Charles (1994). The History of Animation: Enchanted Drawings. Random House Value Publishing.
External links[link]
|
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Speedy Gonzales |
- The Tex(t)-Mex Galleryblog an archive for the second edition of the University of Texas Press (2007) book on stereotypes.
|
|||||||||||||||||
http://wn.com/Speedy_Gonzales
Related pages:
http://ru.wn.com/Спиди Гонзалес
http://fr.wn.com/Speedy Gonzales
http://nl.wn.com/Speedy Gonzales
http://pt.wn.com/Speedy González
http://de.wn.com/Speedy Gonzales
http://it.wn.com/Speedy Gonzales
http://pl.wn.com/Speedy Gonzales
http://id.wn.com/Speedy Gonzales
http://es.wn.com/Speedy Gonzales
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
Not to be confused with Richie Blackmore (rugby league).
 |
This article may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling. You can assist by editing it. (May 2012) |
| Ritchie Blackmore | |
|---|---|
 With Rainbow in Norway, 1977 |
|
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Richard Hugh Blackmore |
| Born | (1945-04-14) 14 April 1945 (age 67) Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England |
| Genres | Hard rock, folk rock, heavy metal, New Age, blues rock, psychedelic rock |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, bass, cello, keyboards, hurdy gurdy, mandolin, mandola, drums, percussion |
| Years active | 1963–present |
| Labels | Polydor, BMG, Edel, SPV, Spinefarm |
| Associated acts | Rainbow, Blackmore's Night, Deep Purple, The Outlaws |
| Website | blackmoresnight.com |
| Notable instruments | |
|
Ritchie Blackmore Signature Stratocaster Gibson ES-335 |
|
Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is a British guitarist and songwriter, who is known as one of the first guitarists to fuse classical music elements with blues rock.[1] He began his professional career as a studio session musician and was subsequently a member of Deep Purple, after which Blackmore established a successful career fronting his own band Rainbow, and later progressed to the traditional folk rock project Blackmore's Night with his wife.
Contents |
Early life[link]
Blackmore was born at Allandale Nursing Home, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, South West England, but moved to Heston, Middlesex (now Greater London) at the age of two. Although the surname Blackmore is thought to be of English origin, his father was of Welsh ancestry and his mother of English.[2] He was 11 when he got his first guitar. His father bought it for him on certain conditions, including learning how to play properly, so he took classical guitar lessons for one year.[3]
While at school he did well at sports including the javelin. Blackmore left school at age 15 and started work as an apprentice radio mechanic at nearby Heathrow Airport. He was given guitar lessons by Big Jim Sullivan.
Career[link]
1960s[link]
In about 1960 or 1961 he played with minor local bands, including one called the Jaywalkers.[4] His playing improved and in 1963 he began to work as a session player for Joe Meek's music productions and performed in several bands. He was a member of the instrumental combo, The Outlaws, and backed Heinz (playing on his top ten hit "Just Like Eddie"), and Glenda Collins among others.
Blackmore joined the rock group Deep Purple in 1968 after receiving the invitation from organist Jon Lord. Purple's early sound leaned on psychedelia and progressive rock.[5] From his youth his guitar play was partly inspired by violin. This "Mark One" line-up featuring singer Rod Evans lasted until mid-1969 and produced three studio albums.
1970s[link]
The second line-up's first studio album, In Rock (1970), changed the band's style, turning it in a hard rock direction. This "Mark Two" line-up featuring singer Ian Gillan lasted until mid-1973, produced four studio albums.
The third line-up's new album was entitled Burn (1974), which featured blues singer, David Coverdale. This "Mark Three" line-up lasted until mid-1975 and produced two studio albums. Blackmore publicly disliked the funky soul influences that Coverdale and bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes injected into the band.[6] Following its conclusion, he abandoned the band to front a new group, Rainbow. During this period, Blackmore lost interest on the guitar in personal life,[7] so he received cello lessons by Hugh McDowell (ELO).[8]
Blackmore originally planned to make a solo album, but instead in 1975 formed his own band Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, later shortened to Rainbow. Featuring American vocalist Ronnie James Dio and his blues rock band Elf as studio session musicians, this first line-up never performed live. Rainbow's music was partly inspired by Baroque music since Blackmore started playing cello for songwriting.[7][9] Blackmore later explained that when I’m playing different musical instrument such as cello, I find that refreshing because it’s a sense of adventure not knowing exactly what chord I’m playing or what key I’m in.[9] The band's debut album, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, was released in 1975. Rainbow was originally thought to be a one-off collaboration, but has endured as an ongoing band project with a series of album releases and tours. Blackmore had been impressed by Dio's relatively flexible vocalist-style. Shortly after the first album was recorded, Blackmore recruited new backing musicians to record the second album Rising (1976), and the following live album, On Stage (1977). Rising was originally billed as Blackmore's Rainbow in the US. After the next studio album's release and supporting tour, Ronnie James Dio left Rainbow due to "creative differences" with Blackmore, who disliked Dio's signature 'Dungeons & Dragons' lyric style.
Blackmore continued with Rainbow and the band released a new album entitled Down To Earth (1979), which featured R&B singer Graham Bonnet. The album marked the commercialization of the band's sound, and contained Rainbow's first chart successes, as the single "Since You Been Gone" (a cover of the Russ Ballard penned tune) became a smash hit.[10] Bonnet left the band after this support tour.
1980s[link]
The next album, Difficult to Cure (1981), introduced American vocalist Joe Lynn Turner. The instrumental title track from this album was an arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with additional music. The album marked the further commercialization of the band's sound with Blackmore once describing at the time liking for the pop rock band, Foreigner.[11] Hard rock-based fans thought the vocal parts ended up being a bit too melodic than Rainbow's previous releases. The music was consciously radio-targeted, in a more AOR style,[12] resulting in some degree of alienation with many of their earlier fans.[13] Rainbow's next studio album was Straight Between the Eyes (1982) and included the hit single "Stone Cold." It would be followed by the album Bent Out of Shape (1983), which featured the single "Street Of Dreams". In 1983 Blackmore was also nominated for a Grammy Award for his work on an instrumental ballard track, "Anybody There".[14] Rainbow disbanded in 1984. A then-final Rainbow album, Finyl Vinyl, was patched together from live tracks and the "B" sides of various singles.
In 1984, Blackmore joined a reunion of the former Deep Purple "Mark Two" line-up and recorded new material. This reunion line-up lasted until 1989 and produced two studio albums.
1990s[link]
The next line-up recorded one album entitled Slaves & Masters (1990), which featured former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner. The album's style differed from the traditional Purple sound. Subsequently the "Mark Two" line-up reunited for a second time in late 1992 and produced one studio album. During its follow-up promotional tour, Blackmore again quit the band in November 1993.
Blackmore reformed Rainbow with new members in 1994. This Rainbow line-up, featuring Scottish singer Doogie White, lasted until 1997 and produced one album entitled Stranger in Us All in 1995. It was originally intended to be a solo album but due to the record company pressures the record was billed as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow.[15] Though White was not as distinctive as its previous singers, it had a sound dissimilar to any Rainbow of old.[12] Released in the post-grunge mid-1990s, a world tour including South America followed.[14] This is regarded as his last hard rock album. Rainbow was put on hold once again after playing its final concert in 1997.
Over the years Rainbow went through many personnel changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up: Blackmore was the sole constant band member.[10]
In 1997 Blackmore, with his girlfriend Candice Night as vocalist, formed the traditional folk rock duo Blackmore's Night. Around the same time as production of Rainbow's final album in 1995, they were already gearing up their debut album Shadow of the Moon (1997).[16] Though she lacked experience as a lead singer, Blackmore noticed Night's potential and encouraged her to become his creative partner. Blackmore once described at the time their artistic characteristics as "Mike Oldfield plus Enya".[17] Blackmore mostly utilised acoustic guitar,[18] to back Night's delicate vocals. They recorded a mixture of original and cover materials. The band's musical style is inspired by his personal favorite Renaissance music and blends with Night's lyrics about medieval themes and fantasy. The second release, entitled Under a Violet Moon (1999) continued in the same folk-rock style, with Night's vocals remaining a prominent feature of the band's style.
2000s-current[link]
In subsequent albums, particularly Fires at Midnight (2001), there was sometimes an increased incorporation of rock guitar into the music, whilst maintaining a folk rock direction. A live album, Past Times with Good Company was released in 2002. After the next studio album's release, a official compilation album Beyond the Sunset: The Romantic Collection was released in 2004, featuring music from the four studio albums. A Christmas-themed holiday album, Winter Carols was released in 2006. Through numerous personnel changes, the backing musicians have totalled about 25 persons.[19] Blackmore sometimes played drums in recording studio. Possibly to concentrate on album production,[20] they chose to avoid typically rock concert tour to perform, instead limiting their appearances in small theatre or 12th century castles.[21][22] During song composition, Blackmore directly writes her vocal melodies.[9] Night said, "When he sings, he sings only for me, in private".[23] As a result, his musical approach shifted to vocalist-centered sounds. Their music is generally categorised as belonging to New age music.
Equipment and musical style[link]
During the 1960s, Blackmore played a Gibson ES-335 but switched to a Fender Stratocaster in 1970. Since then, until formed Blackmore's Night in 1997, he used Stratocasters almost exclusively. The middle pickup is screwed down and not used. Blackmore has also occasionally used a Fender Telecaster Thinline during recording sessions.
From 1970 to 1997, Blackmore almost exclusively played a Fender Stratocaster. He is also one of the first rock guitarists to have used a "scalloped" fretboard where the wood is filed and carved out into a shallow "U" shape between the frets.
In his soloing, Blackmore combines blues scales and phrasing with dominant minor scales and ideas from European classical music. While playing he would often put the pick in his mouth, playing with his fingers. He occasionally uses the diatonic scale, with rapidly changing tonality.
In the 1970s, Blackmore used a number of different Stratocasters; his main guitar (until 1978) was a sunburst with a rosewood fingerboard that was scalloped.[24] Blackmore added a strap lock to the headstock of this guitar as a conversation piece to annoy and confuse people.[25]
His amplifers were originally 200W Marshall Major stacks which were modified by Marshall with an additional output stage (generated approximately 278W) to make them sound more like Blackmore's favourite Vox AC-30 amp, cranked to full volume. Since 1994, he has used Engl valve amps. One of the reasons he cited was that the Marshall heads did not sound as good as the Engls at low volume.
Effects he used from 1970 to 1997, besides his usual tape echo, included a Hornby Skewes Treble Booster in the early days. Around late-1973, he experimented with an EMS Synthi Hi Fli guitar synthesizer. He sometimes used a wah-wah pedal and a variable control treble-booster for sustain, and Moog Taurus bass pedals were used in solo parts during concerts. He also had a modified Aiwa TP-1011 tape machine built to supply echo and delay effects; the tape deck was also used as a pre-amp.[24] Other effects that Blackmore used were a Unicord Univibe, a Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face and an Octave Divider.
In the mid-1980s he experimented with Roland guitar synthesizers. A Roland GR-700 was seen on stage as late as 1995-96, later replaced with the GR-50.
His strings used from 1970 to 1997 were Picato brand (.010, .011, .014, .026, .038, .048).
Blackmore has experimented with many different pickups in his Strats. In the early Rainbow era, they were still stock Fenders, later Dawk installed overwound, dipped, Fender pickups. He has also used Schecter F-500-Ts, Velvet Hammer "Red Rhodes", DiMarzio "HS-2", OBL "Black Label", Bill Lawrence L-450, XL-250 (bridge), L-250 (neck). He used Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound Flat SSL-4 for several years and since the late 80s he has used Lace Sensor (Gold) "noiseless" pickups.
Personal life[link]
On 18 May 1964, Blackmore married Margit Volkmar (b. 3 Jan 1945) from Germany.[26] They lived in Hamburg during the late 1960s,[27] following divorce in 1969. Their son, Jürgen (b. 1964), played guitar in touring tribute band Over the Rainbow. Blackmore married former German dancer, Bärbel, in September 1969[28][29] until their divorce in early 1970s. As a result, he is a fluent German speaker.[27]
For tax reasons, he moved to the U.S.A. in 1974. Initially he lived in Oxnard, California, where he lived with American opera singer Shoshana (real name Judith Feinstein) for one year,[30] so she provided backing vocals on Rainbow's first album. Shortly after Blackmore met Amy Rothman in 1978,[31] he moved to Connecticut, New England. He married Rothman on 16 May 1981,[32] but with Blackmore's reluctance to have a child, they divorced in about 1983. Soon after, a relationship with Tammi Williams followed.[33] In early 1984 Blackmore met Williams in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she was working as hotel employee. In the same year, he purchased his first car because he finally learned to drive a car at 39 years old.[34]
Blackmore and then-fashion model Candice Night lived together from 1991. He moved on her native Long Island in 1993.[35] After being engaged for nearly fifteen years,[36] the couple finally married on October 2008.[37] Their daughter, Autumn was born on May 2010.[38][39] He is non-smoker, plays football once a week,[20] and always watches German language television on the satellite dish when he stays at his home.[27] Blackmore has a collection of approximately 2,000 CDs of Renaissance music.[38]
In popular culture[link]
Blackmore was ranked number 16 on Guitar World's "100 Greatest Metal Guitarists of All Time" in 2004,[40] and number 50 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2011.[1]
He is portrayed by Mathew Baynton in the 2009 film Telstar.
Discography[link]
Session recordings (1963–1968)[link]
|
Previously unreleased outtakes[link]
Compilation uses[link]
Guest appearances[link]
|
References[link]
- ^ a b "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Rolling Stone. Jann S. Wenner. 18 September 2011. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/ritchie-blackmore-19691231. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- ^ "The Swansea show (Interview with Ritchie Blackmore)". ITV Wales News. September 2001.
- ^ Alexis Korner (6 March 1983). "Interview with Ritchie Blackmore". BBC Radio One Guitar Greats series.
- ^ "Ritchie Blackmore Discography". Blackmore's Night. http://www.blackmoresnight.com/moon_castle_pages/blackmore_discography.htm. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
- ^ Browne, David. "Deep Purple early years: Seventy Seven Minutes In Prog Rock Heaven". http://www.deep-purple.net/review-files/earlyyears/earlyyears.htm. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
- ^ "History" track on the "Deep Purple: History and Hits" DVD.
- ^ a b MORDECHAI KLEIDERMACHER (FEBRUARY 1991). "When There's Smoke.. THERE'S FIRE!". Guitar World. http://www.thehighwaystar.com/interviews/blackmore/rb199102xx.html.
- ^ "RAINBOW: 1974-1976". The Ronnie James Dio Web Site. http://www.ronniejamesdiosite.com/NewsInterviews/RainbowTours/rainbow1.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
- ^ a b c Warnock, Matt (28 January 2011). "Ritchie Blackmore: The Autumn Sky Interview". Guitar International Magazine. http://guitarinternational.com/wpmu/2011/01/28/ritchie-blackmore-the-autumn-sky-interview/.
- ^ a b Frame, Pete (March 1997). "Rainbow Roots and Branches." The Very Best of Rainbow (liner notes).
- ^ In an interview in Sounds (July 25th 1981), a UK music paper
- ^ a b Adams, Bret. "Stranger in Us All". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r347818. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Rainbow". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p5219. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ^ a b "Ritchie's Bio". The Official Ritchie Blackmore and Blackmore's Night website. http://www.ritchieblackmore.com/ritchie_bio.html. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ Adams, Bret. "Blackmore's Night". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/blackmores-night-p289774. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
- ^ Adams, Bret (26 February 2011). "Stranger in Us All". allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r347818.
- ^ Adams, Bret. "Blackmores Night". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/blackmores-night-p289774/biography. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
- ^ Adams, Bret (26 February 2011). "Blackmore's Night". allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/blackmores-night-p289774.
- ^ "BLACKMORE'S NIGHT". MusicMight. http://www.musicmight.com/artist/united+kingdom/blackmore+27s+night. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
- ^ a b Mick DuRussel (October 28, 2009). "candice of blackmore’s night". SpotonLI. http://spotonli.com/2009/10/candice-of-blackmores-night/.
- ^ Gary Hill, Rick Damigella and Larry Toering. "Interview with Candice Night of Blackmore’s Night from 2010". MusicStreetJournal. http://www.musicstreetjournal.com/index_interview_display.cfm?id=100483.
- ^ Christian A. (January 7, 2011). "Blackmore’s Night – Candice Night (vocals)". SMNnews. http://www.smnnews.com/2011/01/07/blackmores-night-candice-night-vocals/.
- ^ Candice Night (2003-08). "Between Us August 2003". Candice Night Official Website. http://web.archive.org/web/20030807134700/http://candicenight.com/betweenus.htm.
- ^ a b Rainbow (2006). Live in Munich 1977 (DVD). Audio commentary.
- ^ "Ritchie Blackmore Gear Videos". Guitarheroesgear.com. http://www.guitarheroesgear.com/2009/06/ritchie-blackmore-gear-guitars.html. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ "BIO". Official Site of J.R.Blackmore. http://www.jrblackmore.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=2. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
- ^ a b c Candice, Night (2004-06). "Between Us June 2004". Candice Night Official Website. http://web.archive.org/web/20040605081811/http://candicenight.com/betweenus.htm.
- ^ "Events 1969". Sixties City. http://www.sixtiescity.com/Events/Events69.shtm. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
- ^ "A short story about Ritchie Blackmore and his long forgotten 1961 Gibson ES-335". guitarworld magazine & Christie’s auction site. 2011-04-10. http://meandguitar.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/hush-money/.
- ^ Jerry Bloom (2006). "Chapter 8: The Black Sheep of the Family (1973-1975)". Black Knight: Ritchie Blackmore. Omnibus press. http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=FcKcrWE8aWgC&pg=PT258&lpg=PT258&dq=blackmore+shoshana+ritchie+knight&source=bl&ots=eosQTAWxe8&sig=C7ZpXtp-y2dvxZkn4GH9-9-6v3g&hl=ja&sa=X&ei=wsSyT_SgO86uiQeX4OCLCQ&ved=0CHQQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=blackmore%20shoshana%20ritchie%20knight&f=false.
- ^ Jerry Bloom (2006). "Chapter 10: Down to Earth (1978-1980)". Black Knight: Ritchie Blackmore. Omnibus press. p. 240. http://www.google.co.jp/search?tbm=bks&hl=ja&q=blackmore+amy+rothman+1978&btnG=#hl=ja&tbm=bks&sclient=psy-ab&q=amy+rothman+met+1978&oq=amy+rothman+met+1978&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.3...9900l9900l8l10189l1l1l0l0l0l0l103l103l0j1l1l0.frgbld.&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=dd29574380de39c4&biw=1684&bih=800}.
- ^ "DPAS Magazine Archive. Darker Than Blue, 1981". http://www.deep-purple.net/DPASmags/stargazer25.htm. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
- ^ Jerry Bloom (2006). "Chapter 14: The Battele Rages On And On ... (1990-1993)". Black Knight: Ritchie Blackmore. Omnibus press. p. 291. http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=1f53kihTyRMC&pg=PA291&lpg=PA291&dq=ritchie+blackmore+tammi+williams&source=bl&ots=1ngOIbifGi&sig=VthwJksITcvyScbrzs6A5axmzrs&hl=ja&sa=X&ei=7WVuT8-pJIWUiAeInfCLBg&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ritchie%20blackmore%20tammi%20williams&f=false.
- ^ Jerry Bloom (2006). "Chapter 12: The End of the Rainbow (1980-84)". Black Knight: Ritchie Blackmore. Omnibus press. http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=FcKcrWE8aWgC&pg=PT400&lpg=PT400&dq=Shoshana+Mercedes+and+Denise&source=bl&ots=eosOXGVpc8&sig=52lYpClHqjLZ07fLoQvamlzlqx4&hl=ja&sa=X&ei=Bz6bT_6FEJGHmQXHr7yhDg&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Shoshana%20Mercedes%20and%20Denise&f=false.
- ^ Candice Night (2011-06). "Between Us June 2011". Candice Night Official Website. http://candicenight.com/betweenus.htm. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- ^ Candice Night (July 2006). "Between Us July 2006". Candice Night Official Website. http://candicenight.com/betweenus_archives/betweenus_07_2006.html. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
- ^ "RITCHIE BLACKMORE, Longtime Girlfriend CANDICE NIGHT Tie The Knot". Blabbermouth.net. 13 Oct. 2008. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=106777. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
- ^ a b Russell A. Trunk (February 2011). "Blackmore's Night". Exclusive Magazine. http://annecarlini.com/ex_interviews.php?id=1153.
- ^ "RITCHIE BLACKMORE And CANDICE NIGHT Announce Arrival Of First Child, Autumn Esmerelda". http://www.bravewords.com/news/143346. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
- ^ Olsen, Eric (2004-02-01). "Guitar World's "100 Greatest Metal Guitarists of All Time"". blogcritics. http://blogcritics.org/music/article/guitar-worlds-100-greatest-metal-guitarists/. Retrieved 2009-05-30.
Further reading[link]
- Davies, Roy (2002). Rainbow Rising. The Story of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. Helter Skelter.
- Popoff, Martin (2005). Rainbow - English Castle Magic. Metal Blade.
- Bloom, Jerry (2006). Black Knight - The Ritchie Blackmore Story. Omnibus Press.
External links[link]
|
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ritchie Blackmore |
- The Official Ritchie Blackmore and Blackmore's Night website
- Ritchie Blackmore at Allmusic
- Ritchie Blackmore at the Internet Movie Database
- The Outlaws - Law & Order (1963)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Blackmore, Ritchie |
| Alternative names | Blackmore, Ritchie Hugh |
| Short description | guitarist and songwriter |
| Date of birth | 14 April 1945 |
| Place of birth | Weston-super-Mare, England |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
http://wn.com/Ritchie_Blackmore
Related pages:
http://it.wn.com/Ritchie Blackmore
http://cs.wn.com/Ritchie Blackmore
http://id.wn.com/Ritchie Blackmore
http://es.wn.com/Ritchie Blackmore
http://ru.wn.com/Блэкмор, Ричи
http://nl.wn.com/Ritchie Blackmore
http://pl.wn.com/Ritchie Blackmore
http://fr.wn.com/Ritchie Blackmore
http://de.wn.com/Ritchie Blackmore
http://pt.wn.com/Ritchie Blackmore
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Blackmore
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
