Pianos have also been used in rock and roll by entertainers such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Elton John, and Billy Joel to name just a few.

In 2003, Michael Lewis published Moneyball about Billy Beane's use of a more quantitative approach.

Billy Curtis, Rawhides Paul Brinegar and Geoffrey Lewis.

On June 6 was a concert of jazz featuring Peter Cincotti, Herbie Hancock, Ahmad Jamal, Al Jarreau, Ramsey Lewis, Tisziji Muñoz, Chucho Valdés and Nancy Wilson, hosted by Billy Taylor.

After sessions with Ted Lewis ( 1930 ), Jack Teagarden ( 1931 ), and Billy Banks's Rhythmakers ( 1932 ), he began in May 1934 the voluminous series of recordings with a small band known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm.

He revealed on the BBC Radio 2 feature " Tracks of My Years " that his favourite songs are: " I Can Help " by Billy Swan, " Bleeding Love " by Leona Lewis, " Chasing Cars " by Snow Patrol, " Beautiful " by Christina Aguilera, " Unfinished Sympathy " by Massive Attack, " Tangled Up In Blue " by Bob Dylan, " Shoulda Woulda Coulda " by Beverley Knight, " This Woman's Work " by Maxwell, " He's So Fine " by The Chiffons and " Falling Slowly " by The Frames.

Major Lewis H. Brereton and his superior Brigadier General Billy Mitchell suggested dropping elements of the United States 1st Infantry Division behind German lines near Metz.

However, Mondt discovered a solution that would completely transform the industry, as he convinced Lewis and Sandow to implement a new form of wrestling that combined features of boxing, Greco-Roman, freestyle, lumber-camp fighting, and theater into what he deemed “ Slam Bang Western-Style Wrestling .” He then formed a promotion with wrestler Ed Lewis and his manager Billy Sandow.

Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane began applying sabermetric principles to running his low-budget team in the late 1990s, to notable effect, as chronicled in Michael Lewis ' book Moneyball.

* Cliff Lewis ( Daniel Roebuck ) – Ben's last partner and private investigator who graduated from law school, the son of Ben's childhood friend, Billy Lewis ( 1993 – 1995 )

Before the playoffs, Torrey made the difficult decision to trade longtime and popular veterans Billy Harris and defenseman Dave Lewis to the Los Angeles Kings for second line center Butch Goring.

The Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority eventually endorsed a group led by NBA Hall of Famer Billy Cunningham and former sports agent ( and lifelong friend of Cunningham's ) Lewis Schaffel, who received their financial backing from Carnival Cruise Lines founder Ted Arison, who would be majority owner.

Singers such as Sonny Burgess (" My Bucket's Got A Hole In It "), Charlie Rich, Junior Parker, and Billy Lee Riley recorded for Sun with some success, while others such as Jerry Lee Lewis, BB King, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins would become superstars.

The famous evangelist Billy Sunday called Lewis " Satan's cohort ".

The rights status to The Hardy Boys ( although it is presumable, but not confirmed, that these lie with CBS due to CBS owning Simon & Schuster, the current owners of the Hardy Boys copyright and book series on which this show was based ), Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down, and Sport Billy are unknown at this time, nor is it known whether or not they survive in any form.

* Billy Sandow, manager for World Champion Ed " Strangler " Lewis

King, Billy Joel, David Copperfield, Lewis Grizzard, Harry Connick, Jr., Gerald Levert, Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Phish, A Prairie Home Companion, and many others.

Artists signed to American Decca in the 1930s and 1940s included Louis Armstrong, Charlie Kunz, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Jane Froman, The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, The Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Billy Cotton, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Louis Jordan ( the No. 1 R & B artist of the 1940s ), Bob Crosby, Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Dorsey Brothers ( and subsequently Jimmy Dorsey after the brothers split ), Connee Boswell and Jack Hylton, Victor Young, Earl Hines, Claude Hopkins, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the original ' soul sister ' of recorded music.

Billy Joel, Boy George, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Tears for Fears, and Stevie Wonder, along with Huey Lewis and the News and Paul Simon, were all included in the initial promotional material for the Philadelphia concert, but failed to appear at the show itself.

* January 28 – Various artists, under the group name USA For Africa, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Steve Perry, Kenny Loggins, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Tina Turner, Sheila E., Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Kim Carnes, Dionne Warwick, Waylon Jennings, Bob Geldof and Stevie Wonder, record the song " We Are the World ".

Set in northern England, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older brother, and Julie Walters as his ballet teacher.

Billy lives with his widowed father, Jackie ( Gary Lewis ), and older brother, Tony ( Jamie Draven ), both coal miners out on strike, and also his invalid Nan ( Jean Heywood ), who once aspired to be a professional dancer in Durham.

* In 1950, Mel Blanc recorded " Daffy Duck's Rhapsody ", a comic song written by Warren Foster, Billy May, and Michael Maltese.

Former Poets: Kay Ryan, Charles Simic, Ted Kooser, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Karl Shapiro, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, Joseph Brodsky, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Hass, Donald Hall, Robert Pinsky ( three terms ), Mark Strand, Audre Lorde, and Maxine Kumin, among others.

Warren Frost also joined the cast in a recurring role as Cliff's father Billy, an old nemesis from Matlock's past as Ben had stood his sister up at the altar in order to pursue his law degree.

Contributing writers were Desmond Child, Christina Amphlett of Divinyls, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, Diane Warren, and Frank Previte.

Carrie Nation, William Jennings Bryan, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, and Billy Sunday were among the speakers here.

* " I Found A Million Dollar Baby ( In A Five And Ten Cent Store )" w. Billy Rose & Mort Dixon m. Harry Warren

* " Cheerful Little Earful " w. Ira Gershwin & Billy Rose m. Harry Warren

" w. Mort Dixon & Billy Rose m. Harry Warren

On these albums the rhythm section was Blue Note staples Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins.

By the mid 1970s and early 1980s, the original wave of singer-songwriters had largely been absorbed into a more general pop or soft rock format, but some new artists in the singer-songwriter tradition ( including Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Mark Heard, Lucinda Williams, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Cyndi Lauper, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Stevie Nicks, Cheryl Wheeler, Loudon Wainwright III, The Roches and Warren Zevon ) continued to emerge, and in other cases rock and even punk rock artists such as Peter Case, Paul Collins and Paul Westerberg transitioned to careers as solo singer-songwriters.

The Passion of the Christ received support and endorsement from most known evangelical leaders and representatives of USA's conservative church organizations: Billy Graham, James Dobson, Mission America Coalition, Salvation Army, Promise Keepers, National Association of Evangelicals, Campus Crusade for Christ, Focus on the Family, Pat Robertson, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Jerry Falwell, Max Lucado, Young Life, Tim LaHaye, Chuck Colson, Lee Strobel, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mothers of Pre-Schoolers ( MOPS ), Seventh-day Adventist Church.

by Fats Waller, Harry Link, and Billy Rose ; " I Love My Baby ( My Baby Loves Me )" by Harry Warren and Bud Green ; " A Sailboat in the Moonlight " by Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Loeb ; " Chicago ( That Toddlin ' Town )" by Fred Fisher ; and " Anchors Aweigh " by Charles A. Zimmerman and Alfred Hart Miles.

An initial but incomplete line-up comprised Leigh plus Chris Allen ( bass guitar ) and Stevie Shears ( guitar ), with Warren Cann ( drums ) and Billy Currie ( violin ) joining in May and October 1974 respectively.

Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie and Midge Ure reformed Ultravox again for a UK tour in April 2009, entitled " Return to Eden ".

Episode introductions by guest stars Warren Mitchell, Wanda Ventham, Prunella Gee, John Forgeham, Billy Murray, Tony Selby and Dudley Sutton.

Billy Graham, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Lt. Col. Oliver North, Steve Forbes, Leonard Davidson, former US Senator Jesse Helms, Sam Donaldson, John R. Rice, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, CEO William S. Simon, Elisabeth Elliot ( wife of the late missionary Jim Elliot ), Skip Erickson, Freddie Gage, Adrian Rogers, governor Tim Kaine, Sean Hannity, Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Pastors ; Mel White, Mark Driscoll, Josh Mcdowell, Miles McPherson, Rick Warren, Steven Furtick and Francis Chan, Entertainers / Athletes in pro-wrestler Lex Luger, Bobby Bowden, Lou Holtz, Carrie Prejean, Allan Houston, and Candace Cameron Bure, Douglas Gresham, Gianna Jessen, Clint Hubbard and 2008 Presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.

William Warren Bush ( born 1935 ) is an American actor, usually credited as Billy " Green " Bush and sometimes as Billy Greenbush.

In 1958, Rich became a regular session musician for Sun Records playing on records by Lewis, Johnny Cash, Bill Justis, Warren Smith, Billy Lee Riley, Carl Mann, and Ray Smith.

In addition to the cast, veteran character actors Billy Green Bush ( known for playing ill-fated police officers in Electra Glide in Blue and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday ), Gene Davis ( known for playing the naked psychopathic killer Warren Stacy in 10 to Midnight ), Armin Shimerman ( who would later be the voice of General Skarr in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy ) and Emmy-winner Henry Darrow make cameo appearances as police officers who pursue Jim Halsey.

*" I Found a Million Dollar Baby " ( Harry Warren, Billy Rose, Mort Dixon )

After firefighter Billy Warren dies in a fire, the city sends Laura Miles to replace him.

In addition to the above mentioned band members, the Bob Crosby Orchestra and the Bob-Cats also included ( at various times ) Yank Lawson, Billy Butterfield, Charlie Spivak, Muggsy Spanier, Irving Fazola, Nappy Lamare, Ward Silloway, Warren Smith, Joe Sullivan, Bob Zurke, Jess Stacy, Bob Haggart, Walt Yoder, Jack Sperling, and Ray Bauduc and many others who came and went.