It was as the leading character in such plays as the Game of Speculation, My Awful Dad, Cool as a Cucumber, Patter versus Clatter, and Little Toddlekins, that he especially excelled.

He learned exactly two songs – " Hiawatha " and " Pitter, Patter, Little Raindrops " – and would be asked to play " half or all my repertoire " when visitors came to the house.

Betty Van Patter ( c. 1932 – December 13, 1974 ) was a bookkeeper for the Black Panther Party who was beaten and murdered.

When Robert Orben wrote his first gag book, Encyclopedia of Patter, it proved very popular, and he started publishing more books of gags, complete with sketches, ad libs, bits of business and routines.

It was followed by The Patter-Another Blast in 1988, with The Complete Patter, an updated compendium of the first and second books, being published in 1996.

Horowitz alleges that Van Patter intended to go public with illegalities she had uncovered in the Black Panthers account books, and that Brown had Van Patter murdered because these allegations would have hindered Brown's city council bid.

Later that year, after a dispute with Brown allegedly over financial irregularities, Van Patter went missing on December 13, 1974.

A collection of Reed's patter songs, entitled " Gilbert & Sullivan: Great Patter Songs ", compiled to celebrate his 25-year anniversary with D ' Oyly Carte, was re-released on CD in 2007.

After serving as a bookkeeper for Ramparts magazine, Van Patter became an aide to Panther leader Elaine Brown in 1974, after being introduced to the Party by David Horowitz.

* Patter for a Soft Shoe Dance ( 1964 )-composer

The six episodes were " Skin ", " Heat ", " Lovely Days ", " Clues ", " Pitter Patter " and " Who Done It ".

He has said Brown believed Van Patter was about to " blow the whistle " on the misappropriation of funds by certain party members and according to Mother Jones magazine, the Black Panther Party is “ almost universally believed to be responsible ”.

After protests by the Van Patter family, these claims were removed from subsequent editions of the book as they turned out to be a fabrication by Elaine Brown.

They had met on the chorus line of Pitter Patter.

Titles included Patter Parade, Laugh Package, Sight Bits, and Screamline Comedy.

Glaswegian or The Glasgow Patter is a Scots dialect spoken in and around Glasgow, Scotland.

The Patter is used widely in everyday speech in Glasgow, and even occasionally in broadcasting and print.

Michael Munro wrote a guide to Glasgow Patter entitled The Patter, first published in 1985.

Popular Scottish television comedies such as Rab C. Nesbitt, Chewin ' the Fat, Still Game and Limmy's Show also provide reference material, and have themselves contributed popular new expressions to The Patter.

Writer David Horowitz has accused Brown of ordering the murder of Betty Van Patter, a former Black Panther Party accountant and mother of three, in 1973.

Brown's 1992 book A Taste of Power claimed that Van Patter had a criminal past and had been convicted of drug trafficking.

Patter can not only be entertaining because it is innovative and surprising, but it can also fill in the space between lengthy dance patterns, helping boost up the energy during potentially dull moments.

Patter calls, also known as hash calls, are based on a quick and fluid succession of spoken (" pattered ") or sing-song delivered calls, often to the accompaniment of an instrumental piece of music that it is not necessarily recognizable as a song.

He also made brief appearances in the music videos for A Little More For Little You by Swedish rockers The Hives and Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.

* Big Shoes, Little Feet

John de Brinzun 1240 Feet of Fines Essex ; Joan de Bryaunesoun, Bartholomew Brinsun 1274 RH ( Essex ) This family came from Briencun ( Normandy ) and left its name in Brimstone Hill in Little Wakering, ( Essex ) Breaunsons 1419, Brernsons, Bramsons 1553.

" Head over Feet " is a song written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, and produced by Ballard for Morissette's third album, Jagged Little Pill ( 1995 ).

A live version of " Head over Feet " is featured on the album Alanis Unplugged ( 1999 ), and an acoustic version of the song was recorded for the album Jagged Little Pill Acoustic ( 2005 ).

" Other Grooms films include: The Big Sneeze ( 1962 ), a hand-drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt ; Before an ' After ( 1964 ), a sadomastic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix / part healthclub operator ; Fat Feet ( 1966 ), a collaboration with Mimi Gross, Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends ; Tapping Toes ( 1968-70 ), which uses his first sculpto-pictorama City of Chicago ( 1967 ) as its set ; Conquest of Libya by Italy ( 1912-13 ) ( 1972-3 ), a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels ; Hippodrome Hardware ( 1973 ), based on Grooms ' 1972 live performance of the same name, whose main character Mr. Ruckus is played by Grooms ; Grow Great ( 1974 ), a live-action short that features Mimi Gross as the household consumer ; Little Red Riding Hood ( 1978 ), which features his daughter Saskia ; and Man Walking Up ( 1984 ).

In 2004, while recording her second solo album, she was commissioned to record a cover of a short nursery rhyme for the HBO television series, Six Feet Under, entitled " I'm A Lonely Little Petunia ( In An Onion Patch )".

A year later, the group signed up to CNR and released an EP called Las Paticas de la Abuela ( Grandma's Little Feet ), followed by the band's first album, Cuentos Para Adultos ( Tales for Adults ), in 1994.

* Four Feet From a Rat # 1-4: " The Little Guy " ( with Mother London, Mam Tor, 2008 )

" by Street Pete And His Little Feet

In 1969, the international artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude created the world ’ s largest sculpture at Little Bay called: “ Wrapped Coast – One Million Square Feet, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia ”.

Little work has been done on the Munda languages, which are not well documented ; with their demotion from a primary branch, Proto-Mon – Khmer becomes synonymous with Proto-Austro-Asiatic.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1938 – Booker Little, American jazz trumpeter ( d. 1961 )

* 1998 – Little Plastic Castle

* 1999 – Little Plastic Remixes ( limited distribution )

# Toad the Wet Sprocket – " Little Heaven "

* The third of composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann's 1929 – 30 composition Wachsfigurenkabinett: Fünf kleine Opern ( Waxworks: Five Little Operas ) is entitled ' Chaplin-Ford-Trot ', and features the character of Charlie Chaplin ( in a speaking rather than operatic role ).

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

* Blue's Big Treasure Hunt ( 1999 ) – Little Miss Muffet ( voice )

* 1863 – Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and chemical engineer ( d. 1935 )

* 1877 – Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting " Mary Had a Little Lamb ".

* 1932 – Little Richard, American singer and pianist

* The Little School: www. thelittleschool. org-A Progressive school for ages 3 – 12 in Bellevue, Washington, founded in 1959

* 1958 – Jake Burns, Irish singer ( Stiff Little Fingers )

* 1946 – Richie Hayward, American musician ( Little Feat ) ( d. 2010 )

* 1891 – Ann Little, American actress ( d. 1984 )

* 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

* 1948 – Paul Barrere, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Little Feat )

* 1942 – Floyd Little, American football player

* 1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.

* 1939 – Cleavon Little, American actor ( d. 1992 )

* 1950 – Wayne Nelson, American singer and musician ( Little River Band )

* 1930 – John Little, Scottish footballer

* 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.