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Jim Dandy (song) "Jim Dandy" (sometimes known as "Jim Dandy to the Rescue") is a song written by Lincoln Chase, and was first recorded by American R&B singer LaVern Baker in 1956. It reached the top of the R&B chart and #17 on the pop charts in the United States. It was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and was ranked #352 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song is about a man (Jim Dandy) who rescues women from improbable or impossible predicaments. It proved
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This version of the song was used in the 1993 film "Dazed and Confused". A version by the Wright Brothers Band was used in the 1987 film "Overboard". In the early-to-mid 2000s, a used car lot called J. D. Byrider produced a version replacing "Jim Dandy" with "JD" to advertise that they would "rescue" buyers with bad credit. Jim Dandy (song) "Jim Dandy" (sometimes known as "Jim Dandy to the Rescue") is a song written by Lincoln Chase, and was first recorded by American R&B singer LaVern Baker in 1956. It reached the top of the R&B chart and #17
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Jim Dandy (song) "Jim Dandy" (sometimes known as "Jim Dandy to the Rescue") is a song written by Lincoln Chase, and was first recorded by American R&B singer LaVern Baker in 1956. It reached the top of the R&B chart and #17 on the pop charts in the United States. It was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and was ranked #352 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song is about a man (Jim Dandy) who rescues women from improbable or impossible predicaments. It proved
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in the movie "Boarding House Blues" (1948), after which Hartman had become unreliable as a performer, and was replaced with Cromer. Harold Cromer was the M.C. for numerous Irvin Feld-produced rock and roll package tours in the late 1950s. He danced with LaVern Baker as she sang "Jim Dandy" and thus was billed as Harold "Jim Dandy" Cromer for most of these tours. Stump and Stumpy Stump and Stumpy were a dance/comedy/acting duo popular from the mid-1930s to the 1950s, consisting of James "Stump" Cross, and either Eddie Hartman or Harold J. Cromer as "Stumpy". Their act was mostly jazz
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"Get Back" in the 1970 rockumentary film "". The song would later be covered by such artists as Dwight Yoakam, Robert Plant, The Nighthawks, The Staggers, Pearl Jam, and Ry Cooder. Cooder's version was a number-one hit in New Zealand. The song lyric makes mention of "Jim Dandy" which was the title of a 1956 song "Jim Dandy" by LaVern Baker. An answer song to "Little Sister", with the same melody but different lyrics, was recorded and released under the title "Hey, Memphis" by Baker on Atlantic Records (Atlantic 2119-A) in September 1961. Recorded in RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee,
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and his group left Arkansas, and moved first to New Orleans, and then to Memphis, Tennessee. In 1970, they traveled to Los Angeles where they signed with Atco Records and released their self-titled first album with their new name "Black Oak Arkansas". In 1973, they released their most successful album, "High on the Hog", which reached number 52 in the charts. One of the songs from the album, "Jim Dandy", which was a cover of the 1957 LaVern Baker song, reached number 25 in the "Billboard" charts, and became their best known single and Mangrum's signature song. It also featured
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"Such a Night" was recorded by The Drifters, featuring Clyde McPhatter, in November 1953. The song reached #2 on the "Billboard" R&B chart in early 1954, and was covered by Johnnie Ray, whose version reached #1 on the UK singles chart. A version recorded by Elvis Presley in 1960 also became a hit in 1964, and the song has subsequently been recorded by many other musicians. Chase's next major success came with "Jim Dandy", recorded in 1956 by LaVern Baker and the Gliders. The song rose to #1 on the US R&B chart and #17 on the Hot 100 in
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up being the high point of BOA's career, peaking at number 52 on the Billboard albums chart. Vocalist Ruby Starr (future vocalist Grey Ghost) also toured intermittently with Black Oak during this period, and her raspy voice can be heard on the group's remake of LaVern Baker's 1957 hit "Jim Dandy," which reached number 25 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. Baker's song was recorded at the suggestion of Elvis Presley, when he invited them to Graceland. 'Hog' also included perennial favorite "Happy Hooker" and the instrumental "Moonshine Sonata", as well as edgier songs like "Red Hot Lovin'" and "Mad Man".
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popular enough that Chase wrote a second song for Baker entitled "Jim Dandy Got Married.". The American English term jim-dandy for an outstanding person or thing predates the song; first attested in 1844, it may itself come from the title of an old song, "Dandy Jim of Caroline". The tenor saxophone solo is by Sam "The Man" Taylor The drummer on the session was veteran Panama Francis. The backing vocals are provided by Atlantic's in-house backing group at the time, the Cues (credited as the Gliders), consisting of first tenor Abel da Costa, second tenor Ollie Jones (formerly of the
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Ravens), bass Edward Barnes, and baritone Winfield Scott. The song is the B-side to James Reyne's 1989 single, "One More River". The song was featured in the 1972 John Waters film "Pink Flamingos". In 1973 the song was covered by southern rock band Black Oak Arkansas. It hit #25 on the pop chart and featured Jim Mangrum (who had already been using "Jim Dandy" as a stage name before they covered the song) and female vocalist Ruby Starr trading off vocals. It was the first single from their 1973 album "High on the Hog", the band's most commercially successful album.
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instant grits are cooked and fed to the entire town of Saratoga, commonly referred to as the "Dandy feeding frenzy." The Jim Dandy Stakes is run on the first Saturday of the late July Saratoga racing season and is named in honor of the 3-year-old colt, Jim Dandy, who won the 1930 Travers Stakes beating Triple Crown winner, Gallant Fox. Jim Dandy went off at odds of 100 to 1; an upset for the ages. The Jim Dandy Stakes is typically used as a preparatory race for the Travers Stakes. The Jim Dandy was run for the 51st time in
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Jim Dandy Stakes The Jim Dandy Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race. The Grade II race has been held annually since 1964 at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The race is open to horses age three over one and one-eighth miles on the dirt. It currently carries a purse of $600,000. Prior to 1971, the race was 1 mile in length. For 1971 only, the distance was decreased to 7 furlongs. Tradition requires the winner of the Jim Dandy Stakes be presented with a trophy filled with 100 pounds of Jim Dandy's instant grits. Afterwards, the
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song was performed by James Cagney in the 1942 film "Yankee Doodle Dandy", in which he played Cohan. In 2004, the American Film Institute placed the song at No. 71 on its AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. A version of the song was recorded by Cohan's contemporary and fellow Irish-American Billy Murray, who sang it as indicated in the lyrics. Also a shortened lyric disco version of the song was sung by Paul Jabara on the 1977 album "Shut Out" and the 1983 album "Greatest Hits and Misses" on Casablanca Records. "Verse 1" "Verse 2" "Chorus" Footnotes: The Yankee Doodle Boy
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in the annuals. Jim Hansen was also drawing "Jak" and "P5" for "The Dandy", and "Buster" for his self-titled comic. When the strip returned in "Dandy Xtreme" 18 years later, it was drawn by Nigel Parkinson, who at the time was also drawing "Dennis the Menace", Bea and Ivy the Terrible for "The Beano", Dennis and Gnasher for "BeanoMAX", and Cuddles and Dimples for the "Dandy". It was dropped after "Dandy Xtreme" reverted to just "The Dandy", with Marvo taking his final bow in issue 3507, dated 9 October 2010 but he returned again later in issue 3515, dated 18
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2014. Speed record: Most wins by an owner: Most wins by a jockey: Most wins by a trainer: Jim Dandy Stakes The Jim Dandy Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race. The Grade II race has been held annually since 1964 at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The race is open to horses age three over one and one-eighth miles on the dirt. It currently carries a purse of $600,000. Prior to 1971, the race was 1 mile in length. For 1971 only, the distance was decreased to 7 furlongs. Tradition requires the winner of the Jim
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"Jim Dandy") dates back at least to minstrel shows in the nineteenth century, and double-entendre had been used in blues lyrics for decades before the song was written. A common reference was to "Dan, the Back Door Man" - the lover of a married woman who would leave her house by the back door - as in a song of that title recorded by Georgia White in 1937. Among the many precedents, but with a different perspective, is "One Hour Mama" by Ida Cox. "Sixty Minute Man" was banned by many radio stations and was seen as a novelty record
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Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" is a song by American rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released in 1997 as the second single from their second studio album, "...The Dandy Warhols Come Down". As documented in the film "Dig!", the song is dedicated to the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends/rivals of The Dandy Warhols at the time, who in turn dedicated their own track "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" to them. Frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor revealed in an interview that the song
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album "57th & 9th". The song is written for the film "Jim: The James Foley Story" which tells the life story of American photojournalist James "Jim" Foley who was kidnapped in Syria and subsequently beheaded by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Sting, who wrote the song with J. Ralph, discussed the inspiration behind "The Empty Chair" during an interview with "Billboard": Sting performed a solo acoustic guitar version of "The Empty Chair" during the 89th Academy Awards ceremony aired live on February 26, 2017. Sting also sang the song in November 2016 at Bataclan, a theatre in
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with Jim Vallance and Tony Joe White. The result is an invigorated Reyne, who seems to be having a great time winding his voice around gorgeous melodies and intense rants alike. Despite its nutty had-to-be-changed-for-America title, "Digger Dandy" finds a more introspective experimental Reyne, one content to play the music at a lower level and let his words and stiletto voice speak for itself.". Electric Digger Dandy Electric Digger Dandy is the third solo studio album by Australian singer/songwriter James Reyne released in June 1991. The album was released in America as Any Day Above Ground. The album peaked at
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the song once during their Dosage Tour at the House of Blues in the Las Vegas Valley on September 21, 1999. It was also performed live at the House of Blues in Chicago on April 21, 2001. Childress' group Starfish and Coffee performed the song live during their tenure as a band. Dandy Life "Dandy Life" is a song by the American rock band Collective Soul. It is the sixth track from their fourth studio album "Dosage". "Dandy Life" was written by lead guitarist Ross Childress, who provided lead vocals on the track. It was the first of two commercially
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"very hip". Robert Christgau, however, wrote that the song "suffer[s] from elephantiasis of the ambitions". In March 1967, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and journalist Jack Newfield met Ochs, who sang "Crucifixion" for them; when Kennedy realized the song was about his brother, tears came to his eyes. The first recording of "Crucifixion" was released in 1966 by Jim and Jean, a musical duo made up of Ochs's college friend Jim Glover and Glover's wife, Jean Ray. Ochs released a densely arranged version of the song on his 1967 album "Pleasures of the Harbor". Three acoustic versions of the song
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of the words... Back then, you didn’t stop while the tape was running, and I remembered from the church what to do if you forget the words. I sang, ‘Ummm, ummm, ummm,’ and it worked out just fine.” The information regarding accolades attributed to "Rescue Me" is adapted from acclaimedmusic.net. (*) designates lists that are unordered. "Rescue Me" was one of the songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Rescue Me (Fontella Bass song) "Rescue Me" is a rhythm and blues song first recorded and released as a single by Fontella Bass in 1965. The
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the 1970s. After building up a cult following, his fans have been naming themselves the 'Dandylions'. Jim "Dandy" Mangrum James Mangrum (born March 30, 1948), better known as Jim "Dandy" Mangrum, is the lead singer and frontman for the American Southern rock band Black Oak Arkansas. He is noted for his raspy voice, long hair, and wild, sexually-explicit stage antics which sometimes included miming sex with a washboard which he often uses to accompany his singing. Mangrum was born in the town of Benton Harbor, Michigan. He was raised a Southern Baptist in the town of Black Oak, Arkansas. Mangrum
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Jim "Dandy" Mangrum James Mangrum (born March 30, 1948), better known as Jim "Dandy" Mangrum, is the lead singer and frontman for the American Southern rock band Black Oak Arkansas. He is noted for his raspy voice, long hair, and wild, sexually-explicit stage antics which sometimes included miming sex with a washboard which he often uses to accompany his singing. Mangrum was born in the town of Benton Harbor, Michigan. He was raised a Southern Baptist in the town of Black Oak, Arkansas. Mangrum attended Monette High School, in Monette, Arkansas. While in high school, Mangrum and classmate Rickey Reynolds
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two songs from the band's 2010 album "All in Good Time", "On The Lookout" and "I Saw It", as well as a bonus track titled "She Turned Away". Creeggan wrote and sang a song for 2013's "Grinning Streak", titled "Who Knew?", that was left off the album and released as a bonus track. Creeggan wrote and sang a song titled "Narrow Streets" for the 2015 album "Silverball. In their first show since the 2009 departure of Steven Page from the band, Creeggan took over some of Page's harmony vocals, and his lead vocals on the song "Maybe Katie"; a song
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were adjusted to accommodate (a clip can be seen in "Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!"). Oscar sang this song in "Here Come the Puppets!", accompanied by Bruno the Trashman on rollerskates. Oscar also sang the song during an appearance on "The Bonnie Hunt Show". On September 26, 2013, Oscar and Big Bird sang this song on The Colbert Report. k.d. lang sang this song when she guest starred in "The Jim Henson Hour" episode about Garbage. Grover, Telly and Zoe each sing a verse of the song (with changed lyrics to suit their interests) in the
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of the Four Preps with Jim Pike of The Lettermen. In 1972, Somerville formed the group WW Fancy, which also included Keith Barbour and Gail Jensen as members. In the late 1980s, he again sang with original members of The Diamonds and also returned to The Four Preps with Bruce Belland, Ed Cobb and Jim Yester of The Association. In 1972, Somerville sang background vocals along with The Blossoms in B. J. Thomas' version of "Rock and Roll Lullaby". Somerville's song "The (Ballad of the) Unknown Stuntman," jointly written and composed with Jensen, inspired Glen Larson, who had been the
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slave, who often maintained the earlier name Jim Crow, and the dandy, known frequently as Zip Coon, from the song Zip Coon. "First performed by George Dixon in 1834, Zip Coon made a mockery of free blacks. An arrogant, ostentatious figure, he dressed in high style and spoke in a series of malaprops and puns that undermined his attempts to appear dignified." The white actors who portrayed these characters spoke an exaggerated form of Black Vernacular English. The blackface makeup and illustrations on programs and sheet music depicted them with huge eyeballs, very wide noses, and thick-lipped mouths that hung
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the Wood Memorial in New York. In the mile Kentucky Derby, he was ridden by Laffit Pincay, Jr. to a fourth-place finish behind War Emblem. Ridden by Jerry Bailey in the mile Preakness Stakes, he ran eighth behind War Emblem, then with Kent Desormeaux as his jockey, he finished second in the mile Belmont Stakes, beaten by long-shot Sarava. After a brief rest, Medaglia d'Oro returned in early August to win the Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga Race Course by lengths under jockey Jerry Bailey, who would ride him in all his subsequent starts. In the Jim Dandy, Medaglia d'Oro
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Dandy (song) "Dandy" is a 1966 song by The Kinks, appearing on their album "Face to Face". There is speculation that Davies wrote the song in reference to the wild lifestyle of his younger brother, Kinks guitarist Dave Davies. "Dandy" was only released in Britain and America on the "Face to Face" album. However, it was released as a single in Continental Europe, where it charted, reaching #1 in Germany, #2 in Belgium #3 in the Netherlands and #6 in Austria. In some countries, (such as Norway) "Dandy" was flipped with "Party Line" (also from "Face to Face") as the
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teen-humor comic "Jim Dandy" #3 (Sept. 1956), and the children's Western comedy "Shorty Shiner" #3 (Oct. 1956). Both were published under the imprint Dandy Magazines Inc., as A Dandy Comic. Beginning December 15, 1947, Lev Gleason Publications' advertising director was Gilbert G. Southwick, who had resigned as food advertising manager for "Seventeen" magazine. He left in September the following year to become vice president and general manager of the Roselle Park, New Jersey toy manufacturer Childhood Interests, Inc. In 1953, Gleason vice president E.A. Piller resigned to open his own office as a publishers' representative, with Gleason among his clients.
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Cathedral of light featured in many of the Nuremberg Rallies). Shadows cast onto the cliff evoke for a brief second monumental columns. This is modeled after footage from the Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda movie "Triumph of the Will". Though Jeremy Irons is credited for performing the lead vocals on the song, at the 2012 Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo Jim Cummings, who also played Ed, stated that he sang most of the song, and that Irons only did some of the talking. However, footage from the film's recording sessions available on the 2017 Blu-ray release reveals that Irons sang the
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debuted on "The Muppet Show", as each member of the congregation waved a brightly colored foam butterfly attached to a puppet performer's rod. Later, Caroll Spinney walked onto the stage dressed as Big Bird and sang Kermit the Frog's signature song "Bein' Green". Dave Goelz, Frank Oz, Kevin Clash, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, and Richard Hunt sang a medley of Jim Henson's favorite songs in their characters' voices, ending with a performance of "Just One Person". The funeral was described by "Life" as "an epic and almost unbearably moving event." The Jim Henson Company and the Jim Henson Foundation continued
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mate David Garrick included the song on his 1967 album "A Boy Named David", as well as a live version on the 1968 German release "David Garrick and the Dandys - Blow-Up Live". Dandy (song) "Dandy" is a 1966 song by The Kinks, appearing on their album "Face to Face". There is speculation that Davies wrote the song in reference to the wild lifestyle of his younger brother, Kinks guitarist Dave Davies. "Dandy" was only released in Britain and America on the "Face to Face" album. However, it was released as a single in Continental Europe, where it charted, reaching
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under the supervision of Ellis and Newman. It opened on 31 December at the King's Head Theatre and was transferred to the Fortune Theatre on 27 April 1983. Denis Lawson starred as Jim Lancaster, with Julia Josephs (later succeeded by Christina Matthews) as Jill, Diana Martin as Minerva, Graham Hoadly as Guy, and Philip Bird (succeeded by Steven Pacey) as Lumley. The hit song from the score, "Spread a Little Happiness", was given to Jim, rather than to Jill who sang it in the original version. The song "She's My Lovely" from Ellis's show "Hide and Seek" was interpolated, and
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Jim Crow (character) The Jim Crow persona was a theater character by Thomas D. Rice and an ethnic depiction in accordance with contemporary white ideas of African-Americans and their culture. The character was based on a folk trickster named Jim Crow that was long popular among black slaves. Rice also adapted and popularized a traditional slave song called "Jump Jim Crow" (1828). The character dressed in rags, battered hat and torn shoes. Rice blackened his face and hands using burnt cork and impersonated a very nimble and irreverently witty African American field hand who sang, ""Come listen all you galls
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Dandy Life "Dandy Life" is a song by the American rock band Collective Soul. It is the sixth track from their fourth studio album "Dosage". "Dandy Life" was written by lead guitarist Ross Childress, who provided lead vocals on the track. It was the first of two commercially released songs by Collective Soul that do not feature vocals from lead singer Ed Roland; the latter one is "I Don't Need Anymore Friends" from the album "Afterwords" (2007), which was written and sung by current lead guitarist Joel Kosche. Commenting on the creation of "Dandy Life," Roland said: Collective Soul performed
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and was put on a war film for Flynn, "Dive Bomber" (1941). Bucker had a huge success with his script for "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942) a biopic of George M Cohan. This resulted in Bucker being promoted to producer at Warners. Buckner's first film as producer was "Gentleman Jim" (1943) a biopic of Jim Corbett starring Flynn. He produced "Mission to Moscow" (1943) a biopic of Joseph E Davies and wrote and produced "The Desert Song" (1943). Bucker made another movie with Flynn, "Uncertain Glory" (1944). He made "God Is My Co-Pilot" (1945), and wrote and produced "Confidential Agent" (1945)
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and the vocals for "Super-Sonic". The latter song includes a sample of The Dandy Warhols' song "Be-In", the opening track from their "...The Dandy Warhols Come Down" album. The stand-out single on the album, "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth", is best known for being a sardonic reply to The Dandy Warhols' single "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth", which was itself directed at The Brian Jonestown Massacre. On the DVD commentary for "Dig!", Matt Hollywood claims that he wrote the song in a tongue-in-cheek manner towards The Dandy Warhols, and goes on to
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Mission Impazible (Unbridled's Song) He took the Jersey Shore Stakes and the Amsterdam Stakes, placed in the Jim Dandy Stakes, and won the 2010 King's Bishop Stakes. Discreetly Mine Discreetly Mine is an American thoroughbred race horse. Foaled in 2007, he won the Risen Star Stakes in February 2010, making him a contender for the 2010 Kentucky Derby. Bred in Kentucky by E. Paul Robsham, Discreetly Mine was sired by Mineshaft (by A.P. Indy), who was voted the 2003 American Horse of the Year. He is out of Pretty Discreet, a Grade I winner of the Alabama Stakes, herself a
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Jim King (saxophonist) Alec Woodburn (5 May 1942 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England – 6 February 2012 in Middlewich, England), known professionally as Jim King, was an original member of the British rock band Family. He played saxophone and harmonica, and sang occasional lead vocals on the band's first two albums, "Music in a Doll's House" and "Family Entertainment." King also sang the entire lead vocal on "Observations From a Hill", a song on the latter album. Jim, as he became known, formed James King and the Farinas (later just The Farinas), a blues based rock and roll group, with guitarist
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mostly classical sax with some jazz. In February 2012, he died while living in Cheshire Jim King (saxophonist) Alec Woodburn (5 May 1942 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England – 6 February 2012 in Middlewich, England), known professionally as Jim King, was an original member of the British rock band Family. He played saxophone and harmonica, and sang occasional lead vocals on the band's first two albums, "Music in a Doll's House" and "Family Entertainment." King also sang the entire lead vocal on "Observations From a Hill", a song on the latter album. Jim, as he became known, formed James King and
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the radio big knobs to spot a decent tune when it chews their fucking faces off?", in reference to The Dandy Warhols' relative obscurity prior to having their song "Bohemian Like You" featured in a Vodafone advert. All tracks written and composed by Courtney Taylor-Taylor, except where indicated. Get Off (The Dandy Warhols song) "Get Off" is a song by American rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released in 2000 as the first single from their third studio album, "Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia", and was re-released in 2002. "Get Off" peaked at No. 38 on the UK Singles
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Yankees once had a mascot. Dandy (mascot) Dandy was the mascot of the New York Yankees between 1979 and 1981. He was a large pinstriped bird that sported a Yankees hat. He had a mustache that gave him an appearance similar to that of former Yankee catcher Thurman Munson. His name was a play on the classic American folk song "Yankee Doodle Dandy". Eager to add a mascot, Yankees management contracted Wayde Harrison and Bonnie Erickson of Acme Mascots, who created the Phillie Phanatic in 1978, to develop a mascot for their franchise. After a meeting with Yankees owner George
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Dandy (mascot) Dandy was the mascot of the New York Yankees between 1979 and 1981. He was a large pinstriped bird that sported a Yankees hat. He had a mustache that gave him an appearance similar to that of former Yankee catcher Thurman Munson. His name was a play on the classic American folk song "Yankee Doodle Dandy". Eager to add a mascot, Yankees management contracted Wayde Harrison and Bonnie Erickson of Acme Mascots, who created the Phillie Phanatic in 1978, to develop a mascot for their franchise. After a meeting with Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, in which Steinbrenner and
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of the special, it is often mistakenly attributed to Boris Karloff, who served as narrator and the voice of the Grinch in the special but who himself could not sing. Until Ravenscroft was publicly credited, Tennessee Ernie Ford was also speculated to be the voice behind the song. Mainstream and pop acts have covered the song, usually for holiday-themed albums. Jim Carrey, as the Grinch, sang a slightly condensed version of the song in the 2000 live action film adaptation, "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas", with 1940s style big band music by James Horner. A version by Bob
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"Dino's Song" and played guitar. Gary Duncan sang but did not play guitar on that song as it was slung behind his back during the performance of the song. John Cippolina played guitar while David Freiberg accompanied Murray on vocals and played bass. Duncan played a tambourine during the last chorus. Jim Murray (musician) Jim Murray (May 30, 1942 – March 1, 2013) was a guitarist and harmonica player for the psychedelic blues rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. He also handled lead and background vocals on some songs. He left the band in late 1967 shortly before they recorded their
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Texas cowboy fiddler Jess Morris had composed it. Apparently Morris' arrangement had previously caught Thorp's eye. Morris never claimed to have written the song, saying that he learned it from a black cowboy named Charley Willis. Western writer and singer Jim Bob Tinsley has said that credit for saving "Goodbye Old Paint" from being forever lost "...belongs to three Texans: a black cowboy (Willis) who sang it on cattle drives, a cowboy who remembered it (Jess Morris) and a college professor (Lomax) who put it down on paper." Goodbye Old Paint Goodbye Old Paint is a traditional Western song that
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Neil Brewer Neil Brewer (born 1954) is a British musician who is best known for being a member of the 1970s rock band Druid and for presenting the last four series of "Rosie and Jim". Brewer played the role of a musical narrowboat owner, who while floating along the canals, would make up songs based on the experiences he had. He sang a song at the end of each episode, accompanying himself on the concertina, and sometimes played the harmonica during episodes while seeking inspiration. As of November 2018, he is the only surviving former presenter of Rosie and Jim;
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of the band's popular "hooks." Childress wrote, sang lead vocals, and performed guitar on the song "Dandy Life" on the 1999 release "Dosage". This was the first time that a member other than Ed Roland had sung lead on a studio recording. In 2004/2005 Ross returned to recording music as a studio musician for the Trevor Hurst project entitled "Hurst". Hurst is best known as the lead vocalist of the Canadian Rock Band Econoline Crush. Ross contributed in many ways, including co-writing & producing. The band recruited a few other musicians to join. The album has done moderately well in
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The Rose (song) "The Rose" is a classic pop song written by Amanda McBroom and made famous by Bette Midler who recorded it for the soundtrack of the 1979 film "The Rose" in which it plays during the closing credits. "The Rose" was first recorded by Bette Midler for the soundtrack of the 1979 film "The Rose" in which it plays under the closing credits. However the song was not written for the movie: Amanda McBroom recalls, "I wrote it in 1977 [or] 1978, and I sang it occasionally in clubs. ... Jim Nabors had a local talk show, and
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without being annoyed," they tore through black barbershops, car shops and bicycle shops, and churches, hurling things through windows, looting property, and establishments buildings down. There were bricks piled all along the street. They then went to the black saloons, starting with "Dandy Jim's,' where Joe James had played the piano before being accused of murder. As the mob tore into the building, "Dandy Jim," whose real name was James Smith, tried to protect his business and several black women who lived above his saloon, by firing at the crowd through his second floor window. However, when it was clear
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Invitational at Monmouth Park in New Jersey. However, he skipped the Haskell and instead raced in the Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga on July 27, 2008. In the Grade II Jim Dandy, Macho Again held off 3-2 favorite Pyro in the stretch to win by ½ length and earn $300,000, The colt also finished second in the Grade II Super Derby at Louisiana Downs in September 2008. At age four, Macho Again began his campaign in the Sunshine Millions Classic at Gulfstream Park in Florida. He failed to rally in that race. However, he rebounded from that effort with a
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Truck Drivin' Man "Truck Drivin' Man" is a popular country song written and recorded by Terry Fell in 1954. One of his band members, Buck Owens, sang harmony with him on the recording. In 1965, Owens recorded the song himself, omitting the fourth verse - "When I get my call up to glory, They will take me away from this land, I'll head this truck up to Heaven, 'Cause I'm a truck drivin' man." Others who have recorded the song include Ricky Nelson, Boxcar Willie, Charley Pride, Bill Anderson, Conway Twitty, Jimmy Martin, Dave Dudley, Red Simpson, Jim & Jesse,
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four restaurants by the time of Church's death in 1956. In the 1980s, the chain briefly operated a hamburger franchise called G. W. Jrs in Texas. During the mid-1960s the Jim Dandy Fried Chicken chain purchased the rights to use the Church's Chicken name where its stores were branded with the Jim Dandy "D" logo. From 1979 through 1986, Church's Chicken sponsored the "Grand Prix" series of chess tournaments under the auspices of the United States Chess Federation. Rapid expansion followed, and Church's became the second largest chicken restaurant chain in 1989, when it merged with Popeyes. The brands had
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first album, "Ruby Jones". Shortly after that album's release, Black Oak Arkansas lead vocalist Jim "Dandy" Mangrum was partying after a concert in Evansville, Indiana at a club called the Golden Record, where she was performing. He asked her on the spot to join the band. At this point she assumed the stage name of Ruby Starr. Starr toured with Black Oak Arkansas for several years at the height of their success. She was featured in their 1973 Top 30 single "Jim Dandy". In 1974, she began touring on her own again as Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost (members: Gary
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Tex Antoine used this as his theme music for many years. The tune is often associated with the magic act performed by Art Metrano, which consists of an inept magician performing inane tricks while chanting "duh-duh-da, duh-duh-DA DA!" over and over. Fine and Dandy (song) "Fine and Dandy" is a popular song from the 1930 Broadway musical of the same name when it was introduced by Joe Squibb and Nancy Ellis. The music was written by Kay Swift, the lyrics by Paul James (pseudonym for James Paul Warburg). The song was published in 1930. The song was introduced in the
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Fine and Dandy (song) "Fine and Dandy" is a popular song from the 1930 Broadway musical of the same name when it was introduced by Joe Squibb and Nancy Ellis. The music was written by Kay Swift, the lyrics by Paul James (pseudonym for James Paul Warburg). The song was published in 1930. The song was introduced in the musical of the same name in 1930, and has since become a pop and jazz standard. A take-off using the same chord structure but a different melodic line was recorded by Woody Herman and called "Keen and Peachy". New York weatherman
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story with Randy Smith. She also voiced Ava Johnson in "". She is set to reprise her role as SHODAN in the upcoming "System Shock 3". Terri Brosius Terri Brosius (née Barous) is an American musician, voice actress and game designer, arguably best known in gaming circles as the voice of SHODAN in the "System Shock" series. Terri was a member of the Boston band Tribe as a keyboardist and occasional vocalist. On Tribe's albums "Here at the Home" and "Abort", she sang the song "Rescue Me". On Tribe's album "Sleeper", she sang the song "Mr. Lieber". Following the band's
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"Dodsworth" (1936). Some of her other film credits are "Kitty Foyle" (1940), "Out of the Fog" (1941), "I Married an Angel" (1942), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), "The Palm Beach Story" (1942), "Uncertain Glory" (1944), "Devotion" (1946), "The Fighting Kentuckian" (1949), and as Madame Darville in Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951). She sang the title song on camera as herself in the 1954 film "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (1954) and again portrayed herself in her last film appearance in the film "Hot Pants Holiday" (1972). Myrtil resided in New Hope, Pennsylvania during most of her later life.
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both Emmet Otter and Robin the Frog) and Louise Gold at Henson's memorial service in New York on May 21, 1990. Robin, over 21 years later, (this time, being performed by Matt Vogel) sang this song with Jimmy Fallon and his Uncle Kermit (Steve Whitmire) on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. When the River Meets the Sea "When the River Meets the Sea" is a song written by composer and lyricist Paul Williams for Jim Henson's 1977 HBO special "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas". Emmet Otter, the title character, and his mother, Alice Otter sang this song together. The song was
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with Belinda in the video for "Mad About You". The guitar solo on the song was performed by Andy Taylor (of Duran Duran), who also appears in the video. Paula Jean Brown (who took Jane Wiedlin's spot in the band just before it broke up) co-wrote the song with Jim Whelan, and Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey sang back-up vocals. "Mad About You" was one of a few songs being considered for the fourth (unrecorded) Go-Go's album. The Go-Go's split, and "Mad About You" and two other songs co-written by Paula Jean Brown ended up on "Belinda". The single's B-side, "I
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photographer Jim Marshall, who were hired to document the album for the liner notes. Cash decided to hold two performances on January 13, one at 9:40 AM and one at 12:40 PM, in case the first performance was unsatisfactory. After an introduction by MC Hugh Cherry, who encouraged the prisoners to "respond" to Cash's performance, Carl Perkins took the stage and performed his hit song "Blue Suede Shoes". Following this song, the Statler Brothers sang their hit "Flowers on the Wall" and the country standard "This Old House". Cherry returned to the stage and instructed the inmates not to cheer
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Meeting Jim Heath (Reverend Horton Heat) was an important event in Gina's life. Jim had not intended to perform at the induction ceremony, as his band had not traveled with him, but decided to dedicate a Bill Haley song to Gina, a song that inspired him to become a musician. That song was "Rock the Joint". After years of contemplating making a rockabilly album, Gina had finally decided that it was time to carry on her father's legacy. A year later she sang "Rock the Joint" with Reverend Horton Heat at a concert in Dallas, TX. She is now preparing
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"Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" was generally the first episode that Garner mentioned in interviews. The episode is also the only one featuring brief appearances by all of the series' early semi-regular recurring characters, including Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Dandy Jim Buckley, Diane Brewster as Samantha Crawford, Leo Gordon as Big Mike McComb, Richard Long as Gentleman Jack Darby, and Arlene Howell as Cindy Lou Brown. It proved to be the final series appearance for both Samantha and Dandy Jim because they were each working full-time on new series, Zimbalist in "77 Sunset Strip" and Brewster as the schoolteacher in
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However, in the midst of their celebrations, they discover a remaining Minecrawler heading towards Edmonton. Kurt destroys it, but as he awaits to return to the "Jim Dandy" space station, he is taken prisoner by a massive alien. Meanwhile, on board the "Dandy", Hawkins discovers that communications with Kurt are being jammed by a nearby alien ship. Max heads to the other ship to free up the communications. However, upon doing so, he too is taken prisoner by the same alien. The alien then contacts Hawkins on the "Dandy", telling him his name is Shwang Shwing, and the invasion of
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film and was, according to the opening credits, also co-produced by the band's manager Jim Beach, who changed it in order to suit the album mood better. Mercury played piano and synths and wrote the lyrics after reading the quote in the book. "Hammer to Fall", the eighth song, is May's other rock song on the album. Live versions were considerably faster and he sang it in his solo tours as well. Synths are played by Mandel and most of vocal harmonies were recorded by May himself, particularly in the bridge (save for "oh no" which is Taylor). The song
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filling in the part of the choir. Madonna was dressed in a black Stella McCartney suit while backup vocalist Siedah Garrett sang the vocals during the intermediate verses; the backdrops displayed a series of Hebrew letters, indicating the 72 names of God. Jim Farber from "New York" magazine complimented Madonna's vocals during the song. The performance was included on the 2006 live album of the tour, titled "I'm Going to Tell You a Secret". Madonna sang a similar version of the song during the Live 8 benefit concert at Hyde Park, London in July 2005. She performed it alongside Birhan
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13, 2011 with actress Gwyneth Paltrow and several puppets provided by The Jim Henson Company. Two days later, he sang at the "2011 BRIT Awards" alongside UK singer Paloma Faith. On August 14, Cee Lo sang at WWE's 2011 Summerslam pay-per-view event in Los Angeles with the addition of WWE Divas dancing to "Fuck You" at the event's venue. Credits adapted from the liner notes of "The Lady Killer", Elektra Records Fuck You (CeeLo Green song) "Fuck You" (stylized as "Fuck You!" or "F**k You!"), also titled "Forget You" or "FU" for the clean versions, is a song by American
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sequels to "Treasure Island". One such example is R. F. Delderfield's "The Adventures of Ben Gunn", in which Ben tells Jim Hawkins that the song is a reference to "an island of the Leewards" which "was little more than a long, high rock, shaped like a coffin" which was nicknamed "Dead Man's Chest". In Delderfield's story, the song is about 15 pirates who shipwrecked there who had salvaged many barrels of rum but almost no food, and were "all raving drunk" upon their rescue. Dead Man's Chest "Dead Man's Chest" (also known as "Fifteen Men On The Dead Man's Chest"
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Terri Brosius Terri Brosius (née Barous) is an American musician, voice actress and game designer, arguably best known in gaming circles as the voice of SHODAN in the "System Shock" series. Terri was a member of the Boston band Tribe as a keyboardist and occasional vocalist. On Tribe's albums "Here at the Home" and "Abort", she sang the song "Rescue Me". On Tribe's album "Sleeper", she sang the song "Mr. Lieber". Following the band's separation, she and Tribe guitarist Eric Brosius married. Terri is currently a keyboardist and backup vocalist for the Boston-based band The Vivs. Brosius and her husband,
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Get Off (The Dandy Warhols song) "Get Off" is a song by American rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released in 2000 as the first single from their third studio album, "Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia", and was re-released in 2002. "Get Off" peaked at No. 38 on the UK Singles Chart in 2000 and No. 34 when it was re-released in 2002. "NME" wrote that the song sounds like "a thousand Sioux Indians invading the whorehouse at the High Chaparal for a bongs'n'blow jobs toga keg party", commenting "does it really take a major bastard ad campaign for
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She sang the theme song for "My Friends Tigger & Pooh", a half-hour Disney Channel TV show that premiered on Playhouse Disney on May 12, 2007 and "We Are Care Bears" from "" and "Care Bears to the Rescue". Hanley and longtime writing partner Michelle Lewis currently compose all original songs for the hit Disney series, "Doc McStuffins". On Thanksgiving Day 2007, Hanley sang a song called "Caring Changes The World" in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on the Care Bears float as self-accompanied with her same-themed electric guitar. In 2007-08, Hanley toured as a back-up singer with Miley Cyrus
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made an unsuccessful attempt to sue her and petitioned Congress to consider such covers copyright violations. Baker had a succession of hits on the R&B charts over the next couple of years with her backing group, the Gliders, including "Bop-Ting-a-Ling" (number 3 R&B), "Play It Fair" (number 2 R&B), and "Still" (number 4 R&B). At the end of 1956 she had another hit with "Jim Dandy" (number 1 R&B, number 17 pop), which sold over one million copies and was certified as a gold disc. Further hits followed for Atlantic, including the follow-up "Jim Dandy Got Married" (number 7 R&B),
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has a hospital, civic centre, swimming pool, park and showground. Balonne Shire Council operates a library on the Castlereagh Highway inside the Rural Transaction Centre. Dirranbandi State School is a co-educational government school (Prep-10) in Jane Street. In 2015, the school had 73 students with 12 teachers (11 full-time equivalent). The School was opened on 9 June 1902. Australian author Robert G Barrett's main character Les Norton hails from Dirranbandi. Slim Dusty sang about being the Dirranbandi Dandy in the song Cunnamulla Fella, which he co-wrote with Stan Coster. Actor Ray Meagher grew up near Dirranbandi. He is best known
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Dandy Warhols guitarist Peter Holmström has said, "I think it's the best song we've ever done." You Were the Last High "You Were the Last High" is a song by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released in July 2003 as the second single from their fourth studio album "Welcome to the Monkey House". The music video is a almost exact recreation of Duran Duran's "Planet Earth" video., which was directed by Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes, who had also produced "Welcome to the Monkey House". Released in July 2003 as the second single from "Welcome to the
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Rescue You Rescue You is the first solo album of Joe Lynn Turner, formerly of Rainbow and Fandango. This album is a collection of AOR and radio-friendly pop tracks from the rock heyday of the mid-80's. Produced by Roy Thomas Baker. There was a single and video release of the song, "Endlessly." The song received extensive airplay on radio and peaked at No. 19 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart. The accompanying video was directed by Jim Yukich, whose credits included Iron Maiden, Genesis, and Jeff Beck. The director described the video “like a dream in the life," combining conceptual and
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Kermit Unpigged Kermit Unpigged is a music and comedy record released by The Jim Henson Company through BMG Kidz in 1994, and the last album released by Jim Henson Records. The record’s title is a clear parody of the MTV series “MTV Unplugged”, and the cover is a parody of Eric Clapton's "Unplugged" album cover as well. The album consisted of Kermit and the other Muppets getting lost at a recording studio and encountering celebrities including Linda Ronstadt, with whom Kermit sang “All I Have to Do is Dream”, Vince Gill who sang “Daydream” with Kermit, Jimmy Buffett who sang
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Rock 'n' Roll to the Rescue "Rock 'n' Roll to the Rescue" is a single released by The Beach Boys on June 9, 1986. It was recorded for their 1986 greatest hits compilation "Made in U.S.A.". The single reached #68 on the U.S. Billboard pop singles chart. Brian Wilson sang most of the lead vocals, with Al Jardine, and Carl Wilson both having some lines. Mike Love and Bruce Johnston did backing vocals. The group did a live version during their 1985 Farm Aid concert appearance with Mike Love, Carl Wilson and Al Jardine sharing lead vocals. The song has
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Things", "Star T.Rex" and "Brian Damage". Song parodies and fake recipes also appeared in "The Dandy". On 19 March 2012 the Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history, which included "The Dandy" among many others. A follow-up to Waverly Book's "The History of The Beano: The Story So Far", called "The Art and History of The Dandy", was released in August 2012, the Dandy's 75th anniversary year. A Waverly book about "The Dandy" was originally to be released in 2007 for the comic's 70th birthday, but was cancelled with no explanation. The last
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Award in 1983. After relocating to Los Angeles, California, Morgan began appearing in films. He signed a contract with MGM as "Stanley Morner". Unbilled, he sang the Irving Berlin song, "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody", in "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936). He was billed as "Stanley Morner" in "Suzy" (1936) and could be seen in "Piccadilly Jim"(1936), and "Old Hutch" (1936). He was given a decent role in "Mama Steps Out" (1937) and "Song of the City" (1937) but went back to small parts in "Navy Blue and Gold" (1937). He signed with Paramount who billed him as "Richard
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2, 1979, Dandy was put on hiatus, as Dandy resembled Munson. Though Yankees organist Eddie Layton composed a song for Dandy, it was never played. Dandy was confined to the upper deck area of Yankee Stadium by Yankees management. After the lease expired, Harrison and Erickson declined the Yankees' request to sign another lease, as they felt the mascot did not receive the necessary support from management. Along with this experiment, the Yankees briefly had mascots resembling ballpark food (plus Yankees hats on top) during the mid-1990s. Outside these two occasions, the Yankees have not had an official mascot or
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music hall shuffle of 'Dandy'" as a "wonderful moment" from "Face to Face". 'Dandy' was a regular feature of The Kinks live act from 1966 to 1969 but was dropped thereafter. "Dandy" became a hit single in North America in 1966 as recorded by fellow UK group Herman's Hermits in that same time frame, reaching #1 in Canada on the "RPM" national singles chart and #5 in the US on the "Billboard" Hot 100. It also made #3 in New Zealand. This version was not released as a single in the UK. When comparing The Kinks' original version of "Dandy"
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Placido and a new version produced by Mousse T. featuring a re-recorded sample of "Bohemian Like You" with The Dandy Warhols providing the vocals and instrumentation. Horny '98 "Horny '98" is a house song by producer Mousse T., pop duo Hot 'n' Juicy, and vocalist Inaya Day. The song reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in June 1998 and stayed on the chart for 17 weeks. It also reached the top 10 in Ireland, Italy, and New Zealand. In 2006, a mash-up of the song with "Bohemian Like You" by The Dandy Warhols—titled "Horny as a Dandy"—reached number
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band featuring guitarist Jim Bobo. Settling in Montgomery, Alabama, Mizell sang on local radio, where one of the presenters nicknamed him 'Hank', after the country singer Hank Williams. Mizell recorded "Jungle Rock" in 1958 for Eko Records; the seemingly whimsical lyric tells of a narrator who happens upon a dance party in a jungle, with "a jungle drummer doing a knocked-out beat." The song did not chart but earned a positive review from "Billboard", which suggested the song "would make good swingin' dance fare." "Jungle Rock" was reissued by King Records in 1959, but again failed to find success. He
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song "Primary" for the charity album "", released in 2008 on Manimal Vinyl Records, with profits going to Invisible Children, Inc. The band also contributed to the Love and Rockets tribute album "No New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets" in the same year, covering the song "Inside the Outside". In 2008, The Dandy Warhols released their sixth studio album, "...Earth to The Dandy Warhols...". It was the first official release on Beat the World. Shortly thereafter, they put out an EP, "Earth to the Remix E.P. Volume One", consisting of electronic remixed versions of tracks from
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to Herman's Hermits' cover, Stewart Mason of "AllMusic" said, "Herman's Hermits would have the US hit with Ray Davies' 'Dandy,' but the Kinks' own version, from 1966's masterful "Face To Face", is far superior to Peter Noone's charming but gormless rendition." The Rockin' Vickers also released "Dandy" as the A side to a 1966 single. (Their main claim to fame was that Lemmy was a band member before his stint with Hawkwind and his formation of Motörhead.) British singer Clinton Ford also released a version of the song as a single in the same year. The Kinks' Pye Records label
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(bass). Hollywood was a member of The BJM for roughly seven years as mainly a bass guitar player, but was also known to play acoustically at times. Over this period, Hollywood contributed many musical ideas to the band. He composed and sang several of The BJM's songs, most notably "Oh Lord", "Maybe Tomorrow", "No Come Down" and "Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth"; the latter of which parodied The Dandy Warhols' single "Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth", and led many people to believe the 'Warhols and The BJM were fighting. Hollywood has said
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sang backing vocals with Clapton, his future bandmate in Derek and the Dominos. In his 2010 autobiography, Whitlock states that it was Preston who played the piano on "All Things Must Pass", while his own contribution was pump organ, or harmonium. Although Leng lists both Harrison and Clapton as having played acoustic guitar and Starr and Jim Gordon on drums, according to the personnel that Whitlock offers, neither Clapton nor Gordon played on the song. Among the overdubs on the track, Nashville session musician Pete Drake recorded a pedal-steel guitar part during a brief visit to London, to participate in
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In 2006 Night sang on Helloween's "Light the Universe" song from their "" album, and she also appeared In Helloween's music video for that track. She played the part of Oria in the rock opera "Story of Aina", with Sass Jordan and Glenn Hughes. She sang three songs on the Beto Vázquez album "Infinity" with Tarja Turunen from Nightwish and Sabine Edelsbacher from Edenbridge. The Blackmore's Night song "Old Mill Inn" was heard in Jim Carrey's December 2008 film "Yes Man". She also appears on interactive video screens throughout the USA and Japan in the theme park MagiQuest as both
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in September 1970. Moss is also credited with, among other things, creating the character of Cookie Monster, based on a puppet Jim Henson had created called "Boggle Eyes". Moss wrote the song "Nasty Dan", which Johnny Cash sang when he appeared on "Sesame Street"; it later appeared on the 1975 "The Johnny Cash Children's Album". In 1976, the song became a #1 hit in France for Claude François, who recorded it with French lyrics under the title "Sale Bonhomme". In 1984, Moss wrote the music and lyrics for "The Muppets Take Manhattan". In the late 1970s, Moss wrote "Double Feature",
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released ten years later. Barry Manilow's compilation album "Greatest Hits Vol. II" (1983) included the song "Read 'Em and Weep", written, composed, and produced by Steinman. It had appeared on Meat Loaf's "Dead Ringer" album in 1981, but with a slightly different lyric. The song stayed at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary Chart for eight consecutive weeks. In 1983, Ian Hunter released his album "All of the Good Ones Are Taken." On the title selection, "All of the Good Ones Are Taken", Steinman is credited with "assistance". Rory Dodd and Eric Troyer, two singers who often sang on Steinman's
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A-side. "AllMusic"'s Stewart Mason said of "Dandy" that "Davies delivers the lyrics, about a neighborhood lothario, with just the right mixture of disgust and admiration; his slyly witty vocals are truly what makes the song. Musically, the tune harks back to the music hall tradition of George Formby; Dave Davies' guitar is so trebly and clean that it sounds like a ukulele – or perhaps an electrified rubber band – and the gently swinging tune sounds like it could have been an old vaudeville hit. 'Dandy' is a charming, slightly subversive, gem." Stephen Thomas Erlewine, also from "AllMusic", noted "the
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and his father also worked at a sawmill. As small children, Jim and his sisters, Maxine and Bonnie, moved with their parents to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. As young adults, the three siblings sang together and individually. This changed in 1954 when Jim Ed and Maxine signed a recording contract as a duo. They earned national recognition and a guest spot on Ernest Tubb's radio show for their humorous song "Looking Back To See", which hit the top ten and stayed on the charts through the summer of 1954. Jim Ed and Maxine were joined in 1955 by 18-year-old Bonnie, and
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Bukovič, who stayed true to the English lyrics of the song and only translated it while keeping the rhyme. It was first sung by the band Fešáci in 1977 by their front man Michal Tučný. A Hebrew version was written by Israeli songwriter Dan Almagor and was recorded in 1961, sung by Yossi Banai and Yona Atari. In a 1966 episode of "The Dean Martin Show", Dean Martin and George Gobel sang a version of the song on television. . It was also performed by Jim Henson as Henry and Rita Moreno as Liza on Sesame Street. There's a Hole
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"", on the Music Masters label. In 1990 Baker was among the first eight recipients of the Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. In 1991, she became the second female solo artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, following Aretha Franklin in 1987. Her song "Jim Dandy" was named one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll and was ranked number 343 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Baker died of cardiovascular disease on March 10, 1997, at the age
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Lincoln Chase Lincoln R. Chase (June 29, 1926 – October 6, 1980) was an African-American songwriter and occasional recording artist. As a writer, his most notable songs were "Such a Night", "Jim Dandy", and several of Shirley Ellis' hits in the early 1960s including "The Name Game" and "The Clapping Song". Chase was born in New York City, the only child of West Indian immigrants. Lorenzo, his father, was born in Cuba and his mother, Edith (or Elizabeth), was a native of the British West Indies. He was raised in New York City. His wife was Monica D. Chase. His
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early 1957. Chase also wrote the follow-up record, "Jim Dandy Got Married". He released an album on Liberty Records in 1957, "The Explosive Lincoln Chase", recorded with the Spencer Hagen Orchestra. In 1959, he met singer Shirley Ellis, and worked as her manager for the next few years. Contrary to some reports, they were never married. After collaborating on several unsuccessful singles, he wrote the song "The Nitty Gritty" for her, and it rose to #8 on the Hot 100 in early 1964. Several follow-ups written (or co-written) by Chase - "(That's) What The Nitty Gritty Is", "The Name Game",
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new single, "Forever", to streaming services. The single is the first single off of their 10th studio record coming out in 2019 after their European tour titled "Why you so crazy". Ex-member Eric Hedford went on to front the new wave revival group Telephone. In 2009, Taylor-Taylor released a graphic novel entitled "One Model Nation", co-written by Jim Rugg. In 2010, drummer Brent DeBoer released his debut solo album, "The Farmer". A music video for the song "You Win" was released. DeBoer now fronts the folk music-based band Immigrant Union. Former member Eric Hedford has replaced drummer Brent DeBoer at
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Jim Murray (musician) Jim Murray (May 30, 1942 – March 1, 2013) was a guitarist and harmonica player for the psychedelic blues rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. He also handled lead and background vocals on some songs. He left the band in late 1967 shortly before they recorded their first album. The outtakes from the movie "Monterey Pop" have rare footage of Quicksilver from their early days as a quintet, performing "Dino's Song" on which Murray played rhythm guitar. After Murray left, the group remained a quartet until the lead vocalist slot was filled by Dino Valenti. Jim Murray sang
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Bravery, Repetition and Noise Bravery Repetition and Noise is the eighth full-length album by American psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, released in 2001. All the songs were written by Anton Newcombe, except the track "Sailor", originally by The Cryan' Shames. The album was produced by Anton Newcombe and Rob Campanella with additional mixing by Courtney Taylor. The front cover features American independent film director Jim Jarmusch. Incidentally, The Brian Jonestown Massacre's song "Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" appears on the soundtrack to his film "Broken Flowers". All songs written by Anton Newcombe, except the
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