Jordan's cool music, along with that of Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Billy Wright, and Wynonie Harris, is now also referred to as jump blues.

Also in 1948, Wynonie Harris ' remake of Roy Brown's 1947 recording " Good Rockin ' Tonight " hit the charts in the # 2 spot, following band leader Sonny Thompson's " Long Gone " at # 1.

Rock and roll pioneer Wynonie Harris ; jazz great Preston Love ; drummer Buddy Miles ; and Luigi Waites are among the city's homegrown talent.

Wynonie Harris ( August 24, 1915 – June 14, 1969 ), born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics.

In 1940, Wynonie and Ollie Harris moved to Los Angeles, California, leaving Pattie with Mallie in Omaha.

The first cover was by Lionel Hampton featuring Sonny Parker, then Wynonie Harris, and lastly, Loy Gordon & His Pleasant Valley Boys with their hillbilly-bop rendition.

By the end of the 1940s, he had had several hits, and helped pave the way for contemporaries like Wynonie Harris and John Lee Hooker.

Jump was especially popular in the late 1940s and early 1950s, through artists such as Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Charles Brown, T-Bone Walker, Roy Milton, Billy Wright and Wynonie Harris.

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His band included Wynonie Harris and Charles Brown.

He began singing when required to stand in for Wynonie Harris at a show in Texas.

In 1944 Millinder recruited singer Wynonie Harris, and their recording together of " Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well " became the group ’ s biggest hit in 1945, staying at No. 1 on the R & B chart for eight weeks and also crossing over to reach No. 7 on the US pop chart.

He is best known for his tracks, " Honky Tonk " and " Hippy Dippy ", and variously working with The Ink Spots, Johnny Otis, Wynonie Harris, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Jordan.

Blues singer Wynonie Harris was born and raised in Omaha.

Omaha-born Wynonie Harris, one of the founders of rock and roll, got his start at the North Omaha clubs and for a time lived in the now demolished Logan Fontennelle projects at 2213 Charles Street.

African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s were developing an outgrowth of rhythm and blues into a genre called rock and roll, which featured a very strong backbeat and whose prominent exponents included Louis Jordan and Wynonie Harris.

One of his first credited recordings as bandleader was with Wynonie Harris on " Drinkin ' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee ".

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*" Good Rocking Tonight ", in separate versions by Roy Brown ( 1947 ) and Wynonie Harris ( 1948 ) led to a craze for blues with " rocking " in the title.

*" Good Rockin ' Tonight " by Roy Brown ( 1947 ), as covered by Wynonie Harris

Wynonie Harris ' 1947 cover of Roy Brown's " Good Rocking Tonight " is also a claimant for the title of first rock and roll record, as the popularity of this record led to many answer songs, mostly by black artists, with the same rocking beat, during the late 40s and early 50s.

His band backed the singer Wynonie Harris on the session that produced the hit " Good Rocking Tonight " though Page was never credited as the leader.

Artists and groups that were important to the formative years of this genre include: Clifford Curry, Artie Shaw, Wynonie Harris, Ruth Brown, Little Willie John, Earl Bostic, The Drifters, Jimmy Cavallo, Wilbert Harrison, Clyde McPhatter, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, Hank Ballard, James & Bobby Purify, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, The Tams, Bob and Earl, The Tymes, The 5 Royales, The Coasters, Fats Domino, Jimmy McCracklin, Brenton Wood, Solomon Burke, Sam Cooke, Jimmy James, The Platters, The Four Tops, Louis Prima, Arthur Alexander, Stick McGhee, Jackie Brenston, Wilbert Harrison, Tyrone Davis, Big Joe Turner, Bruce Channel, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter, Dinah Washington, Billy Stewart, The Temptations, The Impressions, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, The O ' Jays, The Spinners, Eddie Floyd, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Etta James, The Checkers, The Clovers, Barbara Lewis, Don Covay, Mary Wells, Garnet Mimms and The Enchanters, Ben E. King, Major Lance, Willie Tee and Ernie K-Doe.

Teddy Edwards played with many jazz notables, including his personal friend Charlie Parker, Roy Milton, Wynonie Harris, Vince Guaraldi, Joe Castro and Ernie Andrews.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

* The Complete Films of Alfred Hitchcock, Michael S. Lasky and Robert A. Harris, Citadel Press, ISBN 0-8065-2427-8

The Complete Journal of Townsend Harris First American Consul General and Minister to Japan.

In 1963, Grove published My Life and Loves: Five Volumes in One / Complete and Unexpurgated, with annotations, collecting Frank Harris ' work in one volume for the first time.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

Last year Robert Harris, a leading Junior Handler entered the Dog Judging Contest ( Junior ) at the International KC of Chicago show and had the highest score in judging of any Junior since the Class' inception.

The Bears are set to play at Harris Teachers College at 3:30 tomorrow and have a doubleheader at Quincy, Ill., Saturday.

Mrs. Lola M. Harris, a native of Atlanta, died Sunday at her home in Garland, Tex..

-- `` The present recovery movement will gather steady momentum to lift the economy to a new historic peak by this autumn '', Beryl W. Sprinkel, economist of Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago, predicted at the closing session here Tuesday of Investment Bankers Assn., California group, conference.

" Johnston glanced down at his leg wound, then faced Harris and replied with his last words: " Yes, and I fear seriously.

It was not presented in the United States until 1970, when a short-lived April production at the Phyllis Anderson Theatre off Broadway starred Barbara Harris as Jenny and Estelle Parsons as Begbick.

A new translation by Zinnie Harris at the Donmar Warehouse, starring Gillian Anderson, Toby Stephens, Anton Lesser, Tara FitzGerald and Christopher Eccleston opened in May 2009.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

In 1996, it was mentioned that Mumy was also reunited with Harris, again, at a Walt Disney convention in Orlando, Florida.

Mumy read the eulogy at Harris ' funeral and was asked to narrate his longtime friend's life on A & E Biography that same year.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

It was a hushed affair conducted at a registry office ; Harris had revealed she was pregnant, and the star was eager to avoid controversy.

Adams told Morris that he had been framed, and that David Harris, who was present at the time of the murder and was the principal witness for the prosecution, had in fact killed Wood.

After reading the transcripts of the trial and meeting David Harris at a bar, however, Morris was no longer so sure.

He returned to the US for a one-off concert with the Burritos, and at Hillman's instigation went to hear Emmylou Harris sing in a small club in Washington, D. C.

* John Harris: One of the first programmers hired at On-Line Systems ( which later became Sierra Entertainment )

* Actor Richard Harris lived at the Savoy Hotel while in London.