" He had brought Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Connie Smith, Bobby Bare, Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed and John Hartford to the label in the 1960s and inspired and helped countless others.

In 1967 a tribute song called " Chet's Tune " was produced for his birthday, with contributions by a long list of RCA / Victor artists including Eddy Arnold, Connie Smith, Jerry Reed, Willie Nelson, Hank Snow, and others.

* 1934 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor ( d. 2012 )

:* Best Spoken Word Or Non-Musical Recording ( 1986 ) with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Phillips, Rick Nelson and Chips Moman

* July 10 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer ( d. 2012 )

Muppet performers over the course of the show include Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Fran Brill, Eren Ozker, Steve Whitmire, Louise Gold, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Brian Muehl, Bob Payne, and John Lovelady.

The voice of the announcer was performed by Jerry Nelson.

In the first season the narrator was usually voiced by John Lovelady, but Jerry Nelson performed the role in both the Harvey Korman and Rita Moreno episodes, before taking over the role permanently from the Phyllis Diller episode.

* Gobo Fraggle ( performed by Jerry Nelson )-The " leader " of the five main Fraggles.

When it comes to the Outer Space segments, Gobo is operated by Mike Quinn with Jerry Nelson still voicing Gobo.

** Fishface Fraggle ( performed by Jerry Nelson )-The autocratic ruler of the Ancient Fraggles.

* Feenie Fraggle ( performed by Jerry Nelson )-A good-natured but rather slow-witted Fraggle.

** Archbanger Fraggle ( performed by Jerry Nelson )-The head of the Pipebangers, who have the job of refilling the Fraggle Pond with water when it runs low.

* Uncle Gobo ( performed by Jerry Nelson )-Uncle Traveling Matt's uncle, Gobo's great-uncle and greatest Fraggle explorer only seen in flashbacks as seen in " Born to Wander " and " The Riddle of Rhyming Rock.

* Architect Doozer ( performed by Jerry Nelson )-The designs all of the Doozers ' constructions.

The husband and wife of the family call themselves the King ( portrayed by Gord Robertson and voiced by Jerry Nelson ) and Queen ( portrayed by Trish Leeper and voiced by Myra Fried in 1983, Cheryl Wagner in 1984-1987 ) of the Universe, with their son Junior ( portrayed by Rob Mills in Season 1-4, Frank Meschkuleit in Season 5, and voiced by Richard Hunt ), as its Prince and their heir, but to all appearances working as simple farmers with a hut and garden patch.

Jerry Nelson voiced Marjory the Trash Heap.

** Mervin Merggle ( performed by Jerry Nelson )-Mervin sells hats.

William Thornton, Daniel Troutman and Daniel W. Wooliver were among the 1829 settlers, followed by William Blackwell, Elisha Nelson, Jerry Potts, Ephraim Bressie, Robert Leonard, Abner Wingfield, Lewis Dent, Wilson Craddock, Thomas Higginbotham, Jack Berry, Silas Hamby, Smith Wofford, Turkill McNeill, Dr. John Hyer, Samuel Hyer and David Lenox.

" The act featured a small ball of fur growing into the Rock and Roll Monster ( performed by Jim Henson, Jerry Nelson, and Frank Oz ) with three heads and six arms lip-syncing to the song " Rock It to Me " by The Bruthers.

* Octopus's Garden ( March 1, 1970 ) – An octopus ( performed by Frank Oz ) constantly interrupts the singing of " Octopus ' Garden " by a diver ( performed by Jim Henson ) by giving out a bunch of bad puns until he receives comeuppance from a giant clam ( performed by Jerry Nelson ).

* The Wild String Quartet ( January 17, 1971 ) – Mahna Mahna ( performed by Jim Henson ) fills in for a violinist named Beagleman but ends up playing the drums instead much to the dismay of Twill ( performed by Jerry Nelson ), Harrison ( performed by Richard Hunt ), and Grump ( performed by Frank Oz ).

Fozzie's mother Emily Bear ( performed by Jerry Nelson ) appeared in A Muppet Family Christmas special.

* Matt Vogel-Now voicing Uncle Deadly, Floyd Pepper, Lew Zealand, Crazy Harry, Camilla the Chicken and Robin the Frog, taken over from Jerry Nelson ; understudy for Big Bird.

* Tom and Jerry: The Movie ( 1993 )-Dr. J.

While with the Whiteman band Mercer met Jerry Arlen.

Hughes said that he had understood the party was to be in honour of Jerry O'Connor, the proprieter of a Loop gambling house.

Because his mind had been otherwise occupied for the past couple of hours, he did not think to look and see if Jerry Burton's car was still there.

In fact, he did not think about Jerry Burton at all until he entered his living room and closed the door behind him.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

As soon as he could think logically again he reached for the telephone directory and found Jerry Burton's home number.

Rookie southpaw George Stepanovich relieved Hyde at the start of the ninth and gave up the A's fifth tally on a walk to second baseman Dick Howser, a wild pitch, and Frank Cipriani's single under Shortstop Jerry Adair's glove into center.

John Powell, batting for Adair, fanned after fouling off two 2-and-2 pitches, and Buddy Barker, up for Stepanovich, bounced out sharply to Jerry Lumpe at second to end the 2-hour-and-27-minute contest.

Twenty-one-year-old Milt Pappas and Jerry Walker, 22, are scheduled to share the Oriole mound chores against the Bombers' Art Ditmar in Sunday's 2 P.M. encounter.

The appointment was announced at a news conference at which Skorich said he would retain two members of Shaw's staff -- Jerry Williams and Charlie Gauer.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Chase announce the birth of a daughter, Sheila, on Wednesday in Mercy Hospital.

Jerry McCauley of Sacramento, Calif., one of some twenty Air Force recruits on board, awoke from a nap in confusion.

The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

* 1934 – Jerry Lordan, English singer-songwriter and composer ( d. 1995 )

* 2012 – Jerry Lynch, American baseball player ( b. 1930 )

* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )

* Kuntz, Jerry.

* 1957 – Jerry D. Bailey, American jockey

In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.

Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.

Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.

* 1933 – Jerry Falwell, American pastor and evangelist ( d. 2007 )

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's novel Oath of Fealty features an arcology.

* In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's collaboration Oath of Fealty ( 1982 ), much of the action is set in and around Todos Santos, an arcology built in a burnt-out section of Los Angeles that has evolved a separate culture from the city around it.