* Willie Rushton

* December 11 – Willie Rushton, English comedian, actor, and cartoonist ( b. 1937 )

** Willie Rushton, English comedian and cartoonist ( d. 1996 )

In 1974 Bill Oddie was replaced by Willie Rushton, and the personnel remained constant from this point until Rushton's death in 1996.

A memorial plaque to the late Willie Rushton, one of the show's longest-serving panelists, was installed at the station in 2002.

In 1982, he wrote a West End farce Pass the Butler, starring Willie Rushton.

William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton ( 18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996 ) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine.

One of the first Private Eye-published book was Rushton ’ s first collection of cartoons, Willie Rushton ’ s Dirty Weekend Book ( banned in Ireland ).

* Willie Rushton's Pack Of Royals, 18 Caricature Playing Cards William Rushton ( 1995 )

* Adam And Eve Willie Rushton ; And The Artists Of The Portal Gallery ( Bell & Hyman, 1985.

* gallery of Willie Rushton cartoons

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A musical based-albeit loosely-on the novel was written by Willie Rushton and Berny Stringle, with music by Cliff Adams.

Howerd played a slave, Lurcio ( pronounced Lurk-io ); the other main characters were Lurcio's bumbling old master, Senator Ludicrus Sextus ( initially Max Adrian and then Wallas Eaton ), the senator's promiscuous wife Ammonia ( Elizabeth Larner ), his daughter Erotica ( Georgina Moon ) and his eternally virginal son Nausius ( Kerry Gardner ), along with the Cassandra-esque Senna the Soothsayer ( Jeanne Mockford ) and Plautus ( Willie Rushton ).

Cast members included cartoonist Timothy Birdsall, political commentator Bernard Levin, and actors Lance Percival, who sidelined in topical calypsos, many improvised to suggestions from the audience, Kenneth Cope, Roy Kinnear, Willie Rushton, Al Mancini, Robert Lang, Frankie Howerd, David Kernan and Millicent Martin.

The station was reopened on 27 April 1998 by the regular cast of the show ( Humphrey Lyttelton, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden ) and a memorial plaque to the late Willie Rushton, one of the longest-serving panelists, was installed at the station in 2002.

The commemorative blue plaque for satirist Willie Rushton is located at the station as a result.

* Willie Rushton

Sessions has taken the role of narrating the popular Asterix stories for audio book, since the death of Willie Rushton.

* Willie Rushton

Several performers from the 1987 show returned including: Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie, Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders, Lenny Henry, Rory Bremner, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Willie Rushton and the Spitting Image puppets.

Ingrams was educated at the independent preparatory school West Downs in Winchester, Hampshire, followed by Shrewsbury School, where he met Willie Rushton and edited the school magazine.

Blind Willie Johnson is not a true overtone singer, according to the National Geographic, but his ability to shift from guttural grunting noises to a soft lullaby is suggestive of the tonal timbres of overtone singing.

Enraged, Willie grabs them, places them inside a small jewellery box, with the golden harp, but Mickey manages to escape, and with the help of the singing harp who sings to put Willie to sleep, makes his way into Willie's shirt pocket and steals the key, accidentally landing in a small box of dust and pepper, making him, and Willie sneeze and almost alerting him to his presence in the process.

Hector LaVoe, who sang with Willie Colón for nearly a decade used typical Puerto Rican phrasing in his singing.

In the late 1940s, the eldest children, including Willie, formed a gospel singing group, and Willie also performed in talent shows, which brought him to the notice of Johnny Otis and, later, musician and producer Henry Glover.

With Willie Wynn still singing tenor and Herman Harper as bass, the group made another album for Skylite, one for United Artists, and then began recording on the Heart Warming label.

Willie Colón was responsible for producing, remixing, singing, arranging ( 7: 25 ), performing and engineering Grant's " Amor Verdadero " in 1980 during the release of Can't Stop the Music.

As teenagers, Williams, Kendricks, and their friends Kel Osbourne and Willie Waller performed in a secular singing group known as The Cavaliers, with dreams of making it big in the music industry.

Eddy provided all the singing and speaking voices for the touching final segment, " The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met ," later released as a short, Willie, the Operatic Whale, by RKO in 1954.

* Willie Rushton singing " The Laughing Policeman " to the tune of " As Time Goes By "

He was known for singing " Turn out the lights, the party's over " ( a line from a Willie Nelson song, " The Party's Over ") at garbage time.

She entered amateur singing contests as a child, and while at school worked as a back-up singer then band member with Willie Revillame.

The impact of La Sonora Matancera is far-reaching, so much so that New York-based Latin musicians of the caliber of Machito y Su Orquesta ( his sister Graciela on lead vocals ), Tito Puente and His Orchestra, Tito Rodríguez and His Orchestra, Alegre All Stars, Eddie Palmieri and His Conjunto La Perfecta, Pacheco y Su Viejo Tumbao ( later on succeeded by Pacheco y Su Tumbao Añejo ), Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe, Libre, Saoco ( Henry Fiol, co-founder of this particular conjunto, singing lead ), Ismael Miranda y Su Orquesta, Los Soneros de Oriente and Tito Allen have re-recorded some of its original musical numbers.

Guitarists Willie and Joe would find work as session men ; George went back to singing gospel music and would later become a deacon of his church.

While walking in the park, Groundskeeper Willie is seen singing a cover version of " Maniac " by Michael Sembello.

* In The Simpsons episode " Brawl in the Family ", Groundskeeper Willie was singing with an umbrella, but in acid rain.

Sal also enjoyed the title of Musical Director to Willie Colon's orquestra both during Willie's collaborations with famed Panamanian singer / songwriter / actor Rubén Blades, and Willie's solo singing ventures.

In December, Mix Master Mike provided scratches for a cover of Frank Zappa's " Willie the Pimp ", which appeared on the iTunes compilation The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAA Birthday Bundle 2010, featuring rappers Darryl McDaniels and Talib Kweli and singing by Zappa's son, Ahmet Zappa.

However recent studies by Professor Willie Ruff, a Black American ethno-musicologist at Yale University, concludes that African American Gospel singing was in fact introduced and encouraged by Scottish Gaelic speaking settlers from North Uist.