With the help of Ziggy Elman, also in the band, he transformed a traditional Jewish melody into a popular song, `` And The Angels Sing ''.

* Trumpet: Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Billy Butterfield, Buck Clayton, Roy Eldridge, Ziggy Elman, Harry Edison, Harry James, Hot Lips Page, Louis Prima, Charlie Spivak, Cootie Williams

The band featured a number of future famous instrumentalists, singers and arrangers in the 1930s and ' 40s, including trumpeters Zeke Zarchy, Bunny Berigan, Ziggy Elman, Carl " Doc " Severinsen, and Charlie Shavers, pianists Milt Raskin, Jess Stacy, clarinetists Buddy DeFranco, Johnny Mince, and Peanuts Hucko.

* Ziggy Elman ( 1911 – 1968 ), big-band musician and composer

Their hits peaked from about 1916 to 1927, and included " Der shtiler Bulgar ", a 1926 song that was later recorded by Benny Goodman as " And the Angels Sing " and Ziggy Elman as " Fralich in Swing ".

A number of famous Jewish musicians, including those with their own bands have recorded with him including Manny Klein, Ziggy Elman and Si Zentner.

In the same year Bauhaus scored their biggest hit with a cover of David Bowie's " Ziggy Stardust ", which was recorded during a BBC session.

The band's label, EMI, wanted to market Ziggy as a solo act, and so the Melody Makers moved to Virgin Records, where they recorded Conscious Party ( 1988, produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth ).

* Irish folk music band The Chieftains recorded a cover with Bob Marley's son, Ziggy Marley, on their 2002 album The Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration.

Don Was has earned his recognition as a record producer and has recorded with an array of artists from The Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, John Mayer, Ziggy Marley, Bob Seger, Al Green, Lucinda Williams, Garth Brooks, Ringo Starr, Iggy Pop, Lyle Lovett, Kris Kristofferson, Joe Cocker, Hootie and The Blowfish, Amos Lee and Willie Nelson to Elton John, Stevie Nicks, George Clinton, Randy Newman, The Black Crowes, Carly Simon, Travis Tritt, Brian Wilson, Jackson Browne, The Barenaked Ladies, Old Crow Medicine Show, Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Richie Sambora, The Presidents of the United States of America, B. B.

One of the many famous albums recorded at Trident was Lou Reed's Transformer, produced by David Bowie, who in turn recorded many albums there including The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.

" The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ( 1972 ), combining the hard rock elements of The Man Who Sold the World with the lighter experimental rock and pop of Hunky Dory, was released in June.

Footage from the final show was released in 1983 for the film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

remastered Ziggy from the original master tapes for Rykodisc, who released it with five bonus tracks:

Ziggy Marley released a pro-marijuana song in support of California's Proposition 19 ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana.

The band's 2003 Independence Day concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheatre were released on the CD Live on the Rocks and the DVD Thinnest of Air, and include Ziggy Marley singing on his father's song " No Woman, No Cry ".

The group played several shows, covering Bowie's Ziggy Stardust-era songs and released one internet only album ( since deleted ).

Bowie released three more albums – Space Oddity ( 1969 ), The Man Who Sold the World ( 1970 ) and Hunky Dory ( 1971 ) – before he eventually made it on to the UK Albums Chart with The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ( 1972 ), which peaked at number five.

In the early-to-mid 1980s, prior to the creation of Searchlight, Fox previously released independent films under the banner of 20th Century-Fox International Classics ; the most notable of the releases under this banner include Bill Cosby: Himself, Reuben, Reuben, and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

The film was not released until 1983 and is now available on DVD as Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Ziggy attained a cult following in the Chicago area, and the elephant was finally released in 1970 amid much fanfare.

After the album was completed, but before it was even released, work began on his next album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, again with Scott as co-producer.

Two of the tracks, " Ziggy Stardust " and " Suffragette City ", had never been released as singles when Changesonebowie was issued, though the former had been the B-side of " The Jean Genie " in November 1972 and the latter would be released as an A-side in July 1976 to help promote the compilation.

After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single " Starman " and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

" The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention, musical innovation and striking visual presentation.

Described by Bowie as " Ziggy goes to America ", it contained songs he wrote while travelling to and across the United States during the earlier part of the Ziggy tour, which now continued to Japan to promote the new album.

Despite his by now well established superstardom, Bowie, in the words of biographer Christopher Sandford, " for all his record sales ( over a million copies of Ziggy Stardust alone ), existed essentially on loose change.

With his Ziggy Stardust persona, David Bowie made artifice and exaggeration central — elements, again, that were picked up by the Sex Pistols and certain other punk acts.

Al explains the situation to Sam, revealing that the only way for Sam to return is to correct something that went wrong in the past, according to the project's artificial intelligence " parallel hybrid computer ", Ziggy ( voiced by co-executive producer Deborah Pratt ).

" once he realized the situation ), Sam learns from Al what originally transpired in history, and what change is mostly likely going to allow him to leap as predicted by Ziggy, though in some cases, these have proven incorrect.

Ziggy ( voiced by co-executive producer Deborah Pratt ) is the artificial intelligence " parallel hybrid computer " that runs the project and attempts to deduce the purposes of Sam's leaps, appearing only in the fourth-season episode " The Leap Back.

Alter egos would later be used for entertainment value by glam-associated artists such as David Bowie ( as Ziggy Stardust and The Thin White Duke ) and KISS, and to exploit horror themes by shock rockers Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson.

The film follows the character of Arthur ( Bale ) an English journalist once enraptured by glam rock as a 1970s teenager, who returns a decade later to hunt down his former heroes: Brian Slade ( Rhys Meyers ), a feather boa-wearing androgyne with an alter ego, " Maxwell Demon ", who resembles Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust incarnation, and Curt Wild ( McGregor ), an Iggy Pop-style rocker.

Among the things they were known for was their " mascot " Ziggy, a prize-winning Brussels Griffon dog that was owned by original team owners Joe and Mamie Gregory.

* Four Chaplains mural, painted by Dean Fausett, at entrance to Joseph " Ziggy " Kahn Gymnasium, Jewish Community Center Irene Kaufman Building, Squirrel Hill, Pennsylvania.

He says his songs are inspired by a variety of rock icons from bygone eras-from David Bowie ( in his Ziggy Stardust era ) and Alice Cooper to The Beatles and Pink Floyd.

It focuses on manifestations of the African diaspora throughout the world and is supported by international artists such as Jamaican reggae musician Ziggy Marley and Senegalese mbalax musician Youssou N ' Dour.

With his Ziggy Stardust persona, David Bowie made artifice and exaggeration central — elements, again, that were picked up by the Sex Pistols and certain other punk acts.

The album version of " No Woman No Cry "-was completed with new lyrics from Copeland-was the first cover of a Bob Marley song ever to receive permission to be altered by the Marley family, as Ziggy liked it so much.

* Buzzie, Flaps, Dizzie, & Ziggy, voiced by Jim Cummings, Jeff Bennett, Baron Davis, and Jess Harnell

The song was the basis for the 1950 parody called " Please Say Goodnight to the Guy, Irene " by Ziggy Talent.

Ziggy was originally bought by theater empresario Florenz Ziegfeld as a birthday present for his daughter Patricia, but was given to the zoo when he outgrew his pen on the grounds of the Ziegfelds ' manor in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.