During one of Fisher's extended vacations, Capp's Joe Palooka story arc introduced a stupid, coarse, oafish mountaineer named " Big Leviticus ," a crude prototype.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

Up to WW2, the OSS used the Big Joe 5 crossbows for assassinations.

Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz, Billy Branch, John Popper, Tom Ball, " Dirty " Patrick Walsh, Big Dave Perea, Joe Filisko, Miles Ryan and others are keeping the harmonica tradition alive.

Another version of the story was that the group had gotten inspiration for writing the song after hearing The Orioles ' rock ' n ' roll version of Big Joe Williams ' hit, " Baby Please Don't Go ", taking its melody from the song.

* 1911 – Big Joe Turner, American singer ( d. 1985 )

Formal tests were done on test pad at Langley and at Wallops Island using the Little Joe and Big Joe rockets.

*** Big Ticket Entertainment ( semi-in-name-only since 2006, only shows running are Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown )

Particularly prominent products of the scene were The Grateful Dead ( who had effectively become the house band of the Acid Tests ), Country Joe and the Fish, The Great Society, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Charlatans, Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane.

For example, Bill Haley's incompletely bowdlerized cover of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous and racy tale of adult love into an energetic teen dance number, while Georgia Gibbs replaced Etta James's tough, sarcastic vocal in " Roll With Me, Henry " ( covered as " Dance With Me, Henry ") with a perkier vocal more appropriate for an audience unfamiliar with the song to which James's song was an answer, Hank Ballard's " Work With Me, Annie ".

Big Joe Turner, Hamburg 1974 ( Heinrich Klaffs Collection 86 )

Jordan's cool music, along with that of Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Billy Wright, and Wynonie Harris, is now also referred to as jump blues.

Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, The Treniers, The Platters, The Flamingos, all made it onto the big screen.

The Giants, led by quarterback Phil Simms, running back Joe Morris and their " Big Blue Wrecking Crew " defense, advanced to their first Super Bowl after posting a 14-2 regular season record, and only allowing a combined total of 3 points in their two postseason wins.

* May 18 – Big Joe Turner, American singer ( d. 1985 )

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

As co-leader of the Dicey Ross Band with harmonica player Bill Dicey, Ross recorded with Big Joe Turner in 1976 for Spivey Records, a Brooklyn label owned by Victoria Spivey and Lenny Kunstadt.

* " I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter " with Big Joe Turner on Spivey Records 1978

From 1956 to 1975, Beginning with its inception in 2001, the RFD-TV Network aired " The Big Joe Show ", a television program which included polka music and dancing that was filmed on location in various venues throughout the United States from 1973 through 2009.

RFD-TV replaced The Big Joe Show with " The RFD-TV Polka Fest " in January, 2011.

In addition, it is sometimes erroneously stated that " Rock Around the Clock " is copied from a late-1940s Big Joe Turner recording, " Around the Clock Blues ".

Also significantly, " Rock Around The Clock " was recorded in the very same month that Atlantic Records issued Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ".

Much more impressive was " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", a somewhat bowdlerized cover version of the Big Joe Turner recording of earlier in 1954.

In 1966, the Comets ( without Bill Haley ) cut an album for Orfeon as session musicians for Big Joe Turner, who had always been an idol to Haley ; no joint performance of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " was recorded, however.

The final Big Dig plan, then, combined several projects — the depression and improvement of the Central Artery, the construction of a third Harbor tunnel ( now known as the Ted Williams Tunnel ), and massive interchange improvements to the Massachusetts Turnpike and several other major routes in the area.

Roy Williams, a staff artist at Disney, also appeared in the show as the Big Mooseketeer.

Despite the Doctor's claim not to give his screwdriver to anyone, he gives one to his own doppelgänger in " The Rebel Flesh ", and either gives or loans one to Rory Williams for use in " A Good Man Goes to War ", having previously loaned one to Rory in " The Big Bang ".

He would often appear as a character in a sketch ; in the second series, when Horne decides he wants to be a seaside end-of-the-pier-show impresario, one of the acts he auditions is Dentures as ' The Great Omipaloni, the world's fastest illusionist-and also the dampest '; in the third series he was Captain Ahab in the first part of The Admirable Loombucket ; also in the same series, in The Big Top, Luigi Omipaloni, the trapeze artist at Cuckpowder's Mammoth Circus, and Buffalo Sidney Goosecreature, the fearless desperado and adversary of The Palone Ranger ; in the fourth series in Apache Story, he is Rain In The Face-Kenneth Williams, as Billy Two Cheeks, exclaims " He speaks with forked tongue!

Jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole, country singer Hank Williams, blues singer Big Mama Thornton, Melvin Franklin of The Temptations, and guitarist Tommy Shaw of Styx are among the many musicians to get their start in Montgomery.

Basie favored blues, and he would showcase some of the most notable blues singers of the era after he went to New York: Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner, Helen Humes, and Joe Williams.

In the first season episode " Big Man on Little Stick " as the Professor is helping surfer Duke Williams with provisions before his trip back to Hawaii he mentions the location as, which would put it very close to Clipperton Island, an uninhabited atoll owned by France.

* Guinn ' Big Boy ' Williams as Tex Baird

Additionally, in one of his many drafts, in a footnote on Big Daddy's action in the third act, Williams deems Cat on a Hot Tin Roof a " play which says only one affirmative thing about ' Man's Fate ': that he has it still in his power not to squeal like a pig but to keep a tight mouth about it.

Williams was reportedly unhappy with the screenplay, which removed almost all of the homosexual themes and revised the third act section to include a lengthy scene of reconciliation between Brick and Big Daddy.

* Big Joe Williams, blues singer and guitarist.

On July 10-11, 1986, more than a thousand law enforcement officers responded to Big Sandy Chief of Police Richard Lingle's request for assistance after convicted murderer Jerry " the Animal " McFadden escaped from the Upshur County jail with jailer Rosalie Williams, the wife of a Department of Public Safety trooper, as hostage.

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In 1966, she had a stint in New York City's Greenwich Village where she opened every night at the Cafe Au Go Go, playing with a young Jimi Hendrix, and opening for Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, and Big Joe Williams.

*" William W. Williams ", the full name of " Big Billy " from the " Gangreen Gang " in The Powerpuff Girls

It features Martin's voice with Kevin Spacey, Shelby Lynne, Joss Stone, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Robbie Williams, McBride and others.

" Big " Jim Paterson ( trombone ), Geoff " JB " Blythe ( saxophone, previously of Geno Washington's Ram Jam Band ), Steve " Babyface " Spooner ( alto saxophone ), Pete Saunders ( keyboard ), Pete Williams ( bass ) and Bobby " Jnr " Ward ( drums ) formed the first line-up of the band to record a single, " Dance Stance " ( 1979 ).

Blues legends Lightnin ' Hopkins, Son House, Skip James, Bukka White, and Big Joe Williams performed at the club after being " rediscovered " in the ' 60s.

" ( recorded by both Anthony Newley and Andy Williams ), " Big Time " ( a 1961 cover by Jack Jones of his " Fings Ain't Wot They Used T ' Be " show tune ), " Easy Going Me " ( Adam Faith ) and " Always You And Me " ( with Russ Conway ).

Robert Wilkins was first recorded by Victor in Memphis in 1928, and Big Joe Williams and Garfield Akers also in Memphis ( 1929 ) by Brunswick / Vocalion.

Many Delta Blues artists moved to Detroit and Chicago such as Big Joe Williams creating a pop influenced city blues style, however, this was displaced by the new Chicago blues sound in the early 1950s pioneered by Delta Bluesmen, Muddy Waters, Howlin ' Wolf and Little Walter, harking back to a more delta influenced, yet electrified sound.

* Guinn ' Big Boy ' Williams as Jerry

Among the artists he recorded and brought to the world's attention were Joe " King " Oliver, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Memphis Minnie, Roosevelt Sykes, Lonnie Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Bukka White, Washboard Sam, Champion Jack Dupree, Jazz Gillum, Arthur Crudup, Victoria Spivey and Leroy Carr.