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* 1926 – Original Sam ' n ' Henry aired on Chicago, Illinois radio later renamed Amos ' n ' Andy in 1928.
It is a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, Amos ' n ' Andy.
He also appeared in the Amos ' n ' Andy film Check and Double Check ( 1930 ).
The original 21 varieties of Campbell's condensed soup featured a " chicken soup with noodles ", but when it was advertised on the Amos ' n ' Andy radio show in the 1930s by a slip of the tongue the soup was referred to as " chicken noodle soup "; Campbell's was preparing to discontinue the soup due to low sales.
* " Kingfish " George Stevens, a character in the radio and television series Amos ' n ' Andy
He was invited by Freeman Gosden to join the cast of the Amos ' n ' Andy radio show as lawyer Gabby Gibson, whom he portrayed from 1944 to 1948.
More laughter was generated on such shows as Abbott and Costello, Amos ' n ' Andy, Burns and Allen, Easy Aces, Ethel and Albert, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Goldbergs, The Great Gildersleeve, The Halls of Ivy ( which featured screen star Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume ), Meet Corliss Archer, Meet Millie, and Our Miss Brooks.
Blackface featured prominently in film at least into the 1930s, and the " aural blackface " of the Amos ' n ' Andy radio show lasted into the 1950s.
The radio program Amos ' n ' Andy ( 1928 – 1960 ) constituted a type of " aural blackface ", in that the black characters were portrayed by whites and conformed to stage blackface stereotypes.
An example of the fascination in American culture with racial boundaries and the color line is demonstrated in the popular duo Amos ' n ' Andy, characters played by two white men who performed the show in blackface.
In the late 1970s, Stonehill would join forces with rock band Daniel Amos ( also known as DA ) for the Amos n ' Randy Tour.
Likewise in 1990 Stonehill teamed up with Daniel Amos once again for an " Amos n ' Randy " reunion concert at Cornerstone 90.
At these gatherings, Long and his group liked to listen to the popular radio show " Amos ' n ' Andy ".
Local businessman Frank Parker Sr. heard the future name on the Amos ' n ' Andy radio show during a skit involving the upscale real estate development of Weber City.
As had occurred with Amos ' n Andy on the radio in the early 1930s, and would happen with the annual telecasts of The Wizard of Oz in the 1960s and ' 70's, the family ritual of gathering around the television set to watch Ed Sullivan became almost a U. S. cultural universal.
The idea had been pioneered by Ralph Edwards on the game show Truth or Consequences, and had subsequently been used on Amos ' n ' Andy as a way to save money, though Amos n ' Andy did not use an audience.
The name was inspired by a fictional secret society on the Amos ' n ' Andy TV series called The Mystic Knights of the Ruby Begonia.
Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants, with the exception of Amos ' n ' Andy, which featured black characters in the roles of judges, businessmen, lawyers, and policemen.
Amos ' n ' Andy was the very first radio program to be distributed by recorded syndication and Marsh Laboratories played a role in this.

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Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.
* Andy Warhol had a pair of dachshunds, Archie and Amos, whom he depicted in his paintings and mentioned frequently in his diaries.
One day, while Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll were hard at work at NBC writing their venerable Amos and Andy show, a knock came on the door ; it was Paley himself, with an astonishing offer: " Whatever you are getting now I will give you twice as much.
One of Long's followers dubbed him " the Kingfish " after the master of the Mystic Knights of the Sea lodge to which the fictional Amos and Andy belonged.
Other recordings include Perry Como ( several times ), Andy Williams from The Andy Williams Christmas Album, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Jim Reeves from Twelve Songs of Christmas ( 1963 ), Elvis Presley from Elvis ' Christmas Album ( 1957 ), The Temptations ( 1968 ), Reba McEntire from Merry Christmas to You ( 1987 ); Mariah Carey from Merry Christmas ( 1994 ); Linda Ronstadt from A Merry Little Christmas ( 2000 ); Christina Aguilera from My Kind of Christmas ( 2000 ), Plus One from Christmas ( 2002 ), Josh Groban from Noël ( 2007 ); Tori Amos from Midwinter Graces ( 2009 ), Jackie Evancho from O Holy Night and Richard Marx from The Christmas EP ( 2011 ).

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* Guide to Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott at Houghton Library, Harvard University
* Guide to Amos Bronson Alcott papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University
Amos was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam ben Joash ( Jeroboam II ), ruler of Israel from 793 BC to 753 BC, and the reign of Uzziah, King of Judah, at a time when both kingdoms ( Israel in the North and Judah in the South ) were peaking in prosperity.
* A confrontation between Amos and his listeners at Bethel ( 7. 10-17 )
** Amos ( Judaica Press ) translation Rashi's commentary at Chabad. org
** Amos at Wikisource ( Authorised King James Version )
The next day he took part in Poetry And The Film, a recorded symposium at Cinema 16, with panellists Amos Vogel, Arthur Miller, Maya Deren, Parker Tyler, and Willard Maas.
Indeed, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be " no reasonable doubt " that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author, and Amos Wilder has said that, " Early Christian tradition and the great majority of modern scholars have agreed on the common authorship of these writings, even where the author has not been identified with the apostle John.
While this theory, first propounded by Ernst von Dobschütz and Rudolf Bultmann, is not universally accepted, Amos Wilder writes that, " it is at least clear that there are considerable and sometimes continuous elements in the epistle whose style distinguishes them from that of the author both with respect to poetic structure and syntactic usage.
After returning the opening kickoff 17 yards, San Francisco's Amos Lawrence was hit by Bengals linebacker Guy Frazier and fumbled at his own 26-yard line ( the first time in a Super Bowl that a turnover took place on the opening kick ), where John Simmons recovered for Cincinnati.
Amos originally served as the lead singer of 1980s synthpop group Y Kant Tori Read, and as a solo artist was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s.
As a senior at Richard Montgomery High School, she co-wrote " Baltimore " with her brother Mike Amos for a competition involving the Baltimore Orioles.
In 1986, Amos formed a music group, Y Kant Tori Read, the name of which was a reference to her days at the Peabody Conservatory, where she was able to play songs on her piano by ear, but was never successful at sight reading.
Although its producer, Joe Chiccarelli, has stated that Amos was very happy with the album at the time, it is now out of print and Amos has expressed no interest in reissuing it.
Amos would later hint in interviews that during the creation of her next album, those in charge at the label following the aforementioned merger were interested " only in making money ", the effects of which on the album have not been disclosed.
In September of the same year, Amos released a live album and DVD, Live at Montreux 1991 / 1992, through Eagle Rock Entertainment, of two performances she gave at the Montreux Jazz Festival very early on in her career while promoting her debut solo album, Little Earthquakes.
" Tori Amos: In the Studio " ( 2011 ) by Jake Brown features an in-depth look at Amos's career, discography and recording process.
Amos announced at a concert on this tour that she would never stop touring but would scale down the tours.
In 1907, Amos Kling married his second wife and soon after began an effort at rapprochement with daughter and son-in-law.
Amos Nur argues that earthquakes played a major role in the destruction of Mycenae and many other cities at the end of the Bronze Age.

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