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Bo Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006 with the fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson Band, featuring Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums, and Gus Thornton on bass.
* 1924 – Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter ( d. 2005 )
* March 9 – John Edgar " Johnnie " Johnson, English pilot ( d. 2001 )
' Dutch ' Hugo, C. W. A. Scott ( winner of the MacRobertson Air Race ) who served there with No. 32 Squadron RAF from 1923 to 1926, and the British ace JE " Johnnie " Johnson, later Air Vice-Marshal, who took over the Canadian wing at Kenley in 1943.
Johnnie Johnson ( July 8, 1924 – April 13, 2005 ) was an American pianist and blues musician.
He was born Johnnie Clyde Johnson in Fairmont, West Virginia and began playing piano in 1928.
In 1999, Johnson's biography was released, Father of Rock and Roll: The Story of Johnnie B. Goode Johnson by 23-year-old Travis Fitzpatrick.
In late 2004, Johnson recorded his final project, " Johnnie Be Eighty.
His last band still performs today as The Johnnie Johnson Band.
Johnson was the subject of a Homespun Tapes piano instructional video entitled The Blues / Rock Piano of Johnnie Johnson – Sessions with a Keyboard Legend.
A documentary about Johnson, Johnnie Be Good, by St. Louis newsman and filmmaker, Art Holliday, is currently in production.
The Johnnie Johnson Blues & Jazz Festival is held annually in Fairmont West Virginia, only a few blocks from where Johnson was born.
* 1999: Father of Rock and Roll ( Father of Rock and Roll Music ) – Accompanying CD with the book Father of Rock and Roll: The Story of Johnnie B. Goode Johnson, featuring all new recordings of Johnson and Berry songs.
* Inductee: Johnnie Johnson from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website
* Johnnie Johnson Blues & Jazz Society in Fairmont, West Virginia
* The 4th Annual Johnnie Johnson Blues & Jazz Festival
* Johnnie Johnson: The Father of Rock & Roll
* Johnnie Johnson on Find-A-Grave
* Johnnie Johnson: The Movie website for documentary Johnnie Be Good

Johnnie and Dies
Hong Kong director Johnnie To borrows from The Killers gunfighting style, oppositional character pairing, and parody in his films A Hero Never Dies, Running Out of Time, and Fulltime Killer.

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Contributing artists and writers worked on the strip over the years, including Stephen Slesinger who scripted and approved all of the stories until his death in 1953 ; Jim Gary, Edmund Good, John Wade (" Johnnie ") Hampton, Robert MacLeod and Bill Lignanti ( of The Palm Restaurant fame ).
His biggest hits were made during the 1920s and early 1930s ; they included popular phonograph records of " Frankie and Johnnie ", " Abdul Abulbul Amir ", " A Gay Caballero " ( he even recorded a sequel, " The Return of A Gay Caballero "), " The Prune Song ", " There's No-one With Endurance Like The Man Who Sells Insurance ", " Down In De Canebrake ", " I Wish That I'd Been Born in Borneo ", " What Kind of a Noise Annoys an Oyster?
Artists like the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, The Swan Silvertones, Clara Ward Singers and Sensational Nightingales became stars across the country ; other early artists like Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Johnnie Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett began their career in gospel quartets during this period, only to achieve even greater fame in the ' 60s as the pioneers of soul music, itself a secularized, R & B-influenced form of gospel.
Presenters included Johnnie Walker, Tony Blackburn, Dave Cash & Keith Skues as well as the stations presenters: Steve Scruton ; Ian Wyatt & Ray Clark.
The dancers often dressed in elegant clothing, which could cause amusing problems at times ; In one surviving episode, the well-dressed female dancers are heard squealing with teenage-like excitement at guest star Johnnie Ray.
; Brum and the Airport Adventure ( with Johnnie Fiori as The Celebrity )- Ragdoll Productions for HIT Entertainment.
Chiles is a parody of famed attorney Johnnie Cochran ; both are bespectacled, mustachioed, well-dressed, African American lawyers with the same initials and penchants for grandiose vocabulary.
John Allen Guillot, for example, became Johnnie Allan ; Robert Charles Guidry became Bobby Charles ; Joe Barrios became Joe Barry ; Elwood Dugas became Bobby Page ; and Terry Gene DeRouen became Gene Terry.
There are several recent additions to the memorials at the Pier Head ; they include one to the Second World War convoy escort group commander Captain Johnnie Walker, and one remembering the Chinese merchant seamen who served and died for Britain in both World Wars, unveiled on 23 January 2006.
Advertising poster by Frederick Charles Herrick for subway transportation to an exhibition at White City, London, showing an assemblage of characters representing various advertising trademarks and emblems, including Bibendum, the Michelin Man ; Johnnie Walker ; and the Kodak | Kodak Girl, in a subway station displaying advertising posters
The side road to Aguereberry Point successively traverses the shaly Johnnie Formation, the white Stirling Quartzite, and dark quartzites of the Wood Canyon Formation ; at the Point itself is the great light-colored band of Zabriskie Quartzite dipping away toward Death Valley.
Despite this, Phillips was able to keep his business afloat by recording several other acts, including The Prisonaires ; a black quartet who were given permission to leave prison in June 1953 to record their single, " Just Walkin ' in the Rain ", later a hit for Johnnie Ray in 1956.
It is cited as the most popular course in Asia ; it has held many international golf tournaments, such as Johnnie Walker Classics, and has been visited by former US President Bill Clinton.
He began his professional life at age three ; in his TV debut, he won second place on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour singing Johnnie Ray's " Cry ".
Wells sang with Wright and his sister Louise Wright ; the three toured as Johnnie Right and the Harmony Girls.
The chairman was Seán Keenan, an Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) veteran ; the vice-chairman was Paddy Doherty, a popular local man sometimes known as " Paddy Bogside " and the secretary was Johnnie White, another leading republican and leader of the James Connolly Republican Club.
In Derry, residents came out onto the streets to resist the arrests, and fewer people were taken there than elsewhere ; nevertheless leading figures including Seán Keenan and Johnnie White were interned.
As originally written, the character list included Floyd Collins, Homer Collins, Nellie Collins, and Johnnie Gerald ; as rewritten the role of Johnnie Gerald was merged with that of Homer Collins.
; Johnnie Moyes

Johnnie and Johnny
John Williams, Johnnie Williams, or Johnny Williams may also refer to:
# " You're Mine " Written by Robert Carr and Johnnie Mitchell, Performed by Robert and Johnny
Foyt, Mario Andretti, Johnny Rutherford, Parnelli Jones, Johnnie Parsons, and Al Unser Jr., as well as NASCAR Sprint Cup champions Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart.
King, Bill Doggett, Golden " Big " Wheeler, Billy Branch, Bo Diddley, Bobby " Blue " Bland, Bobby Rush, Buckwheat Zydeco, Buddy Guy, Calvin Jones, Carey Bell, Carl Perkins, Chicago Blues Museum All Stars, Barrelhouse Chuck, Chuck Berry, Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown, Dave Myers, Dion Payton, Dr. John, Eddie Boyd, Eddie C. Campbell, Eddie Vinson, Eddy Clearwater, Etta James, Fenton Robinson, Floyd Jones, Fontella Bass, Hank Ballard, Henry Townsend, Homesick James, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Jerry Portnoy, Jimmy Johnson, Jimmy Rogers, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Jody Williams, John Lee Hooker, Johnnie Taylor, John Brim, Johnny Shines, Johnny Winter, Junior Wells, Keith Richards, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Little Willie Littlefield, Lonnie Brooks, Lowell Fulson, Louisiana Red, Luther Allison, Lurrie Bell, Magic Slim, Matt Murphy, Memphis Slim, Mick Taylor, The Neville Brothers, The Ice Cream Men, Otis Rush, Pee Wee Crayton, Pinetop Perkins, Ray Charles, Robert Cray Band, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Sam Lay, Otis " Big Smokey " Smothers, Snooky Pryor, Son Seals, Lacy Gibson, Staple Singers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sugar Blue, Sunnyland Slim, Taildragger, Taj Mahal, Willie Buck, Willie Dixon, Yank Rachell, Lil ' Ed Williams and the Blues Imperials, and Johnny B. Moore.
Silversmiths carved " Johnny " instead of " Johnnie.
Other famous owners included Dick Martin ( 1971 ), Lucille Ball ( who got her 1971 Blackhawk as a gift from her husband Gary Morton with a dash plaque saying I Love Lucy-Gary ), Sammy Davis Jr. ( who owned two 1972, one for himself and one for his wife ), Dean Martin ( who owned three and crashed his 1972 Blackhawk with vanity plate DRUNKY ), Robert Goulet ( 1972 ), Evel Knievel ( 1974 ), Wilson Pickett ( 1974 ), Luigi Colani ( 1974 ), Johnnie Taylor ( 1975 ), Johnny Cash ( 1975 ), Curd Jürgens ( 1977 ), Larry Holmes ( 1982 ), as well as Jerry Lewis, Liberace, Willie Nelson, Lou Brock, Isaac Hayes, Muhammed Ali, George Foreman, Tom Jones, Billy Joel, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Al Pacino, Wayne Newton and H. B.
Johnny and Johnnie refer to:
Otis Leavill, Tony Diamond, Johnnie Mae Matthews, Little Rose Little, Big Tim & The Empires, Janeen Henry, Big Frank & The Essences, Johnny Moore, Kenny Carlton, Bobby Hutton, The Commotions, Brothers Of Love, Johnny & Jake, Shirley Wahls & Spouse, Renaldo Domino and Dizzy Jones were also on the roster.
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly: 10 October 1923-Issue 1602 ( under the title The Kidnapping of Johnny Waverly ).
Johnny Jones-a native of Atlanta who had briefly replaced Sam Cooke in the Soul Stirrers before Johnnie Taylor joined the group-reached # 49 R & B in 1968 with his deep soul rendition of " Tennessee Waltz " cut for producer Bobby Robinson's Fury Records.
" Red River Valley " has also been recorded by Roy Acuff, Arlo Guthrie, Lynn Anderson, the Andrews Sisters, Eddy Arnold, Gene Autry, Moe Bandy, Johnny Bond, Boxcar Willie, Elton Britt, Josephine Cameron, John Darnielle, Foster & Allen, Larry Groce, the McGuire Sisters, the Mills Brothers, Michael Martin Murphey, Johnnie Ray, Riders in the Sky, Riders of the Purple Sage, Marty Robbins, Jimmie Rodgers, Roy Rogers, Pete Seeger, the Sons of the Pioneers, Billy Walker, Roger Whittaker, Cassandra Wilson and Glenn Yarbrough.

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