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* Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn ( 1958 )
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In chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.
These form an organizing principle and unifying theme for Asimov's robotic-based fiction, appearing in his Robot series, the stories linked to it, and his Lucky Starr series of young-adult fiction.
Fearing that his stories would be adapted into the " uniformly awful " programming he saw flooding the television channels Asimov decided to publish the Lucky Starr books under the pseudonym " Paul French ".
When plans for the television series fell through, Asimov decided to abandon the pretence ; he brought the Three Laws into Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter, noting that this " was a dead giveaway to Paul French's identity for even the most casual reader ".
His name is derived from Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr series and the " Lone Star State " of Texas, as well as being a parody on the last names of the two heroes of Star Wars, Solo ( Lone ) and Skywalker ( Star ).
In his Lucky Starr series of juvenile ( or in modern parlance, " young adult ") novels, Asimov describes the " Sirians " in terms which resemble those for the Spacers.
The lyrics of the Lucky Starr song I've Been Everywhere were changed so that, instead of listing a wide range of Australian towns, the song said " I've been to Wollongong, Wollongong, Wollongong, Wollongong, Wollongong, Dapto, Wollongong, Wollongong ( etc )".
While touring Australia in May 1960 with the Mouseketeers, Holdridge was involved in a sex scandal just before her 16th birthday with local teen singer " Lucky Starr ," who was 19.
David Starr, Space Ranger is the first novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French.
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It features: " The Demon ", " Thunderbolt ", " Dearth ", " Knuckles ", " Star Song ", " Firepower ", " New Waver ", " Space Jam ", " Zoom ", " So Very Sad About Us ", " Phang ", " Speed Racer ", " The Eternal E ", " Hairy Eyeball ", " The Groover ", " Hell Bent for Hell ", " Rachel ", " A Dog's Prayer ", " Blast ", " The Black Rider ", " Slurpee ", " Flipper ", " The Viper ", " Bitch ", " Fried ", " Harmonia ", " U. S. A .", " The Tracer ", " Envelope Woman ", " Plastic Guy ", " Glasgow 3am ", " The Road Is Long ", " Funkified ", " Rigamarole ", " Depresso ", " The Streets Are Hot Tonite ", " Dawn At 16 ", " Spazmatazz ", " Fucker ", " In the Arms of Sheep ", " Speed ", " 77 ", " Me Rock You Snow ", " Feelium ", " Is Alex Milton ", " Rubberman ", " Spacer ", " Rock Me ", " Weeping Willowly ", " Rings ", " So So Pretty ", " Lucky Lad ", " Jackboot ", " Milieu ", " Disconnected ", " Let Your Lazer Love Light Shine Down ", " Phreak ", " Porkbelly ", " Robot Lover ", " Jimmy James ", " America ", " Slinkeepie ", " Dummy Tum Tummy ", " Fakir ", " Jake ", " Camaro ", " Moonkids ", " Make It Fungus ", " V-8 ", and " Die ".
Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn is the final novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French.
Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn is set mostly within the Saturnian system, depicted as accurately as the knowledge of the late 1950s allowed.
Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn was written between December 1957 and February 1958, in the immediate aftermath of the launch of Sputnik I by the Soviet Union, and Asimov comments thereon in chapter 8, by having Starr talk about the superiority of Sirian robots:
Twice in the Lucky Starr series, in Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids and Rings of Saturn, Earth finds itself on the brink of war with the Sirians as the result of Sirian aggression.
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Manne frequently collaborated with Mancini in television as well, such as in the series Peter Gunn ( 1958 – 1961 ) and Mr. Lucky ( 1959 – 1960 ).
Lucky Ali (, ; born 19 September 1958 ), born as Maqsood Mehmood Ali (, ), is an Indian singer songwriter, composer and actor.
It aired on CBS from November 25, 1944 to September 28, 1958, it had a variety of sponsors ( including Lava Soap, Wildroot Cream-Oil, Lucky Strike, Nescafe and Wrigley's ) over the years.
Ian Carmichael in preceding years had made a name for himself playing the " innocent abroad " in films such as Lucky Jim ( 1958 ) and I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ) for the Boulting Brothers.
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